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For instance, the layout of nuclear facilities, the locations and materiel of defensive bases, or the site layouts and security measures of critical but vulnerable civilian infrastructure (dams, nuclear plants, hazardous waste facilities, fuel refineries, chemical plants, etc). It used to be that taking high-resolution pictures of such installations, systematically mapping the civilian and military infrastructure, and giving them out to foreign governments was considered treason.

NGIA is the map-making part of what used to be the National Reconnaissance Organisation, the consumers of vast amounts of black-budget money.

There are all sorts of censorships in Google Earth, from the glaring (there are no roads or cities in Israel!) to the moderately glaring (you can count planes at Beirut airport, not so at Ben Gurion) to the subtle; I had a friend out at the RAF base in Basra a few months ago, and was a little alarmed that there was one-metre georeferenced imagery of the camp available - though since the camp's still there and the impacts on it seemed fairly random, it would appear that the local insurgents didn't have GPS-guided mortar rounds. Or possibly GPS was jammed over the camp -- after all, the airmen in the camp know where it is already -- though maintaining the navigation hardware in planes when you can't test it in-base would not be fun.

That made the British news, and maps.google.co.uk now has no GIS information for Iraq at all (in fact, no GIS from the Egyptian border to the Indian border), though it still has sub-metre imagery of central Basra

( http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&ll=30.5 20642,47.844225&spn=0.005093,0.00824&z=17 ) - I don't know whether the bridge is still a pontoon-bridge.

Basra International Airport, which I was only able to find after doing a Google search and finding a Soviet map of the area

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asi a/basra_1990.jpg

now shows suspiciously devoid of planes and buildings:

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&ll=30.5 494,47.669935&spn=0.040728,0.065918&z=14

My favorite Google Earth oddity is the Mondrianised patch of the Netherlands here

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.248443,4.4 4&spn=0.007239,0.016479&t=k&z=16&om=1

Noordwijk is the home to ESA Mission Control, but that shows up on the map without trouble. I'm by a long way not interested enough to spend a hundred Euros getting myself to Holland, walking down Albert Verweystraat taking photos of the buildings, and seeing which one belies the fact that it's labelled National Marine Conservancy by the platoon of marines outside.

NGIA is the map-making part of what used to be the National Reconnaissance Organisation, the consumers of vast amounts of black-budget money.

There are all sorts of censorships in Google Earth, from the glaring (there are no roads or cities in Israel!) to the moderately glaring (you can count planes at Beirut airport, not so at Ben Gurion) to the subtle; I had a friend out at the RAF base in Basra a few months ago, and was a little alarmed that there was one-metre georeferenced imagery of the camp available - though since the camp's still there and the impacts on it seemed fairly random, it would appear that the local insurgents didn't have GPS-guided mortar rounds. Or possibly GPS was jammed over the camp -- after all, the airmen in the camp know where it is already -- though maintaining the navigation hardware in planes when you can't test it in-base would not be fun.

That made the British news, and maps.google.co.uk now has no GIS information for Iraq at all (in fact, no GIS from the Egyptian border to the Indian border), though it still has sub-metre imagery of central Basra

( http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&ll=30.5 20642,47.844225&spn=0.005093,0.00824&z=17 ) - I don't know whether the bridge is still a pontoon-bridge.

Basra International Airport, which I was only able to find after doing a Google search and finding a Soviet map of the area

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asi a/basra_1990.jpg

now shows suspiciously devoid of planes and buildings:

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&ll=30.5 494,47.669935&spn=0.040728,0.065918&z=14

My favorite Google Earth oddity is the Mondrianised patch of the Netherlands here

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.248443,4.4 4&spn=0.007239,0.016479&t=k&z=16&om=1

Noordwijk is the home to ESA Mission Control, but that shows up on the map without trouble. I'm by a long way not interested enough to spend a hundred Euros getting myself to Holland, walking down Albert Verweystraat taking photos of the buildings, and seeing which one belies the fact that it's labelled National Marine Conservancy by the platoon of marines outside.

NGIA is the map-making part of what used to be the National Reconnaissance Organisation, the consumers of vast amounts of black-budget money.

There are all sorts of censorships in Google Earth, from the glaring (there are no roads or cities in Israel!) to the moderately glaring (you can count planes at Beirut airport, not so at Ben Gurion) to the subtle; I had a friend out at the RAF base in Basra a few months ago, and was a little alarmed that there was one-metre georeferenced imagery of the camp available - though since the camp's still there and the impacts on it seemed fairly random, it would appear that the local insurgents didn't have GPS-guided mortar rounds. Or possibly GPS was jammed over the camp -- after all, the airmen in the camp know where it is already -- though maintaining the navigation hardware in planes when you can't test it in-base would not be fun.

That made the British news, and maps.google.co.uk now has no GIS information for Iraq at all (in fact, no GIS from the Egyptian border to the Indian border), though it still has sub-metre imagery of central Basra

( http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&ll=30.5 20642,47.844225&spn=0.005093,0.00824&z=17 ) - I don't know whether the bridge is still a pontoon-bridge.

Basra International Airport, which I was only able to find after doing a Google search and finding a Soviet map of the area

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asi a/basra_1990.jpg

now shows suspiciously devoid of planes and buildings:

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&ll=30.5 494,47.669935&spn=0.040728,0.065918&z=14

My favorite Google Earth oddity is the Mondrianised patch of the Netherlands here

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.248443,4.4 4&spn=0.007239,0.016479&t=k&z=16&om=1

Noordwijk is the home to ESA Mission Control, but that shows up on the map without trouble. I'm by a long way not interested enough to spend a hundred Euros getting myself to Holland, walking down Albert Verweystraat taking photos of the buildings, and seeing which one belies the fact that it's labelled National Marine Conservancy by the platoon of marines outside.

I'm not so sure about that..

Google search for "extradited from the US": http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22extradited+fro m+the+US%22 (12,400 results)
US-UK extradition treaty: http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/USExtradition_21 0503.pdf (PDF)

Google Maps is handy as a quick reference, but as a mapping application it's not the best. It's designed as a road map, and misses out a lot of important information for walkers, cyclists and horse riders.

MultiMap does a bit better as it uses Ordnance Survey maps at certain scales, but I ended up going back to paper OS maps because MM is soooo slow, and you can take a paper map with you.

Credit to Google though, they modified the route planning algorithms fairly recently (a few weeks ago I think). It used to give heavy preference to major roads at the expense of 'minor' ones, with some hilarious consequences. Campbeltown to Glasgow used to recommend two ferry trips, one of which only operates during the summer, instead of the three to four hour drive it recommends now.

Well

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=09+F9+11+02 +9D+74+E3+5B+D8+41+56+C5+63+56+88+C0&btnG=Google+S earch&meta=

has 322,000 hits. Up from 295,000 when I posted this a few hours ago.

From the video : There's no a lot of... screen-fulls of 'Go to Hell'

In 1994, Discworld author & Sinclair ZX81 owner, Terry Pratchett on being asked whether he was a sellotape or blutack man with regard to preventing wobble said "Real Men soldered their rampacks on."

That is indeed a point. Google Clive Peachey for an example of what happens when someone's (IMHO, entirely reasonable) concern about being mistaken for a nonce takes over from their instinct to help their neighbour.

...for telling me there was an exploitable overflow in MSMQ.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=allchin+message+q ueueing&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a &rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

    He didn't say exactly what or where; he didn't need to. I'd been thinking of looking at it anyway because it looked interesting, and because I'd been studying MSRPC, and because my local bookstore had had a book on MQ and MSMQ on sale cheap for a fiver, and I'd bought it and taken a look at the kinds of APIs and operations it involved.

    It took *30 minutes* to find. It was pretty much the first thing anyone would have thought of trying if they'd chosen to look at that protocol. It didn't make any difference whether he'd mentioned it or not, because I still would have found it that quickly the minute I'd looked.

    So frankly, there's nothing they (MS) could even say at all, no matter how small, that wouldn't give a clue to someone who's looking; and likewise, someone who's looking doesn't need any clue at all, no matter how big.

    Therefore I feel that there are only benefits in being open with this information, for those who need to know what is dangerous so that they can take steps to protect themselves. I don't believe hushing it up in any way impairs the ability of people to discover and exploit a hole.

But Nvidia's drivers don't work, at least not on Vista. Google confirms it.

Have you seen all those "Get Firefox with Google Toolbar" adds!

Interesting. Search for 'browser' on Google and the top paid ad offers an upgrade to *IE7 with Google toolbar*, not Firefox.

There is a thriving Egyptian Linux user community out there.
We don't hear as much as we should do, but that's likely to be a language barrier rather than technological.
Its much like knowing there is a great Chinese internet population, but a totally different (and relatively rare) thing to speak to 'native' folks without much Western custom imparted.

I hope Googles auto-translation thing hits the spot.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=egypt+linux +users

I think you have the obligation here.

The subset-difference algorithm takes some effort to explain properly, and I will not go into that just because somebody on the internet is too lazy to look up the references themselves. I can, however, supply the required Google search:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=subset-difference &start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

As for the reverse engineering you're talking about the first device.

Re-read my reply, where I specifically addressed that already. The reverse engineering part applies mostly to the first device. The actual physical work of stripping and scanning a circuit applies to every subsequent attempt too.

I visit many of the same sites that you do. Freshmeat is essential for keeping up with the OSS community. As a professional programmer, I also need to know what's new when it comes to Python, Ruby and Mono, since those are the languages or platforms I use most often. Sites like the Ruby Forum [http://www.ruby-forum.com/], Planet Python [http://planet.python.org/], and Monologue [http://www.go-mono.com/monologue/] make doing that very easy. And for future language developments, I'm always sure to read Lambda the Ultimate [http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/] and PLnews [http://plnews.org/]. And the comp.lang.misc newsgroup [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.misc/] is also a good place for information, too.

Here are assorted images of Thailand's king. Here's Thailand's government website. (english)

Let's show them what we and the Gimp think of them throwing people in prison for 10 years for vandalism.

Modded down?
But Google says so!
Only on Slashdot does one actually look the answer up...

I live a couple of miles away from the factory where, to the best of my knowledge, the entire world supply of Ribena comes from. If everyone stops buying it, the whole area will be plunged into poverty and despair, and I might be able to afford to buy a small hovel in the corner of a field somewhere.

No - wait! They're in the room with us!! Registrant Contact:

henry smith (HENRYSMITH.1@GMAIL.COM)
+44.7913934896
Fax: +44.7913934896
flat 23
liverpool, merseyside l7 3la
GB

And does it look anything anything like this? Hmmm, looks like a lot of university accomodation around there. Perhaps I'll give you a ring and ask if you're a student...

(No, of course I won't really, I'm just trying to make the point.)

No - wait! They're in the room with us!! Registrant Contact:

henry smith (HENRYSMITH.1@GMAIL.COM)
+44.7913934896
Fax: +44.7913934896
flat 23
liverpool, merseyside l7 3la
GB

And does it look anything anything like this? Hmmm, looks like a lot of university accomodation around there. Perhaps I'll give you a ring and ask if you're a student...

(No, of course I won't really, I'm just trying to make the point.)

Look here

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.sys.ibm.as40 0.misc/msg/205bb134a5ab9982

What I describe, doccumented on the usenet, Is a multple linked list. I dont claim that I invented this method by any means - I'm sure someone must have come up with this b4 me as it is the next logical progression from a single linked list. BUT, At least I posted the method on the internet way back then, so prior art can definatly be proven.

Deja-vu, anyone?

I'm familiar with how the Bay Area works. I used to live in the Tenderloin and walked about 25 minutes each day to work in SOMA. One day, my company sold to another company in Sh*t-bag S*nnyvale, so I bought a car, drove every day and started getting more and more angry with my life each day. I didn't like that, changed things, and now I live in the center of a major city in another country. I walk to work (35 minutes) each day, and I'm happy about a lot of things again.

I don't have any constructive suggestions. I think life is pretty hard, and I feel lucky that I managed to switcheroo mine around so that I like it now. Certainly getting rid of a car seems like it would be a great step, but how practical is that, for most Americans? Not very.

Anyway. My only real point a few posts back was in answer to:

"My fossil fuel consumption is a direct function of my commute."

• You've ditched your BTR-70 for a Toyota Matrix | Prius. Reduction.
  
• You probably drive in the carpool lane, running your motor near peak efficiency. Reduction.
  
• You carpool when possible. Huge reduction per head.

See yourself as the intellectual type with sports being beneath you?

Choose a sport that exercises both body and mind. You could try *cough* fencing for instance.

Have a glance at http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=14786239 14238877457&q=sabre to see how it is done at the top level.

Without teens on myspace where will I get my anti-emo rage from? We should encourage them to whine and mop about how life is sooooo tough in middle-class suburbia.

Which brings us nicely to my favourite google search

Simon

Look at the full text from Merriam Webster

2 : to act as a spokesperson or promoter

That still implies payment. Look at every definition returned from a Google define query - each one implies payment.

...that's Adam Laurie! The godlike genius of Shepherd's Bush! Seriously though... he's something of a geek hero to me. Dunno why (apart from respect for a fellow-survivor of Bush) -- lots of other people write code and do research, but he just seems like such a nice chap with it.

Do you know what CGI is ? It is not a specific language, so stating that PHP is "more widespread on servers" is bollocks.
Common Gateway Interface.
PHP is just another language that can be used for a CGI script.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=leaky+coaxi al&btnG=Search&meta= Does exactly what it says on the tin. Used in tunnels in Europe for cell phone coverage.

68 million British pounds = 133.17800 million U.S. dollars

google is your friend!

Only me, (apol. "Loadsamoney" Enfield)

See also this post for the C ode I posted a while ago....

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.test.d/browse _thread/thread/a7474fff8b9e4738/daa319a1a385fedf?l nk=st&q=P%3DNP+alt+test&rnum=16#daa319a1a385fedf

Love again,

The Sorter

2^0.=0.

Google is your friend. See also this: "a common example of this is fluorescent lights which many individuals with Asperger's find extremely disturbing."

Digital Divide? I think you meant to say uncanny valley.

How reliable is the source? No pages link to the blog, and the blog isn't listed on Google.

I smell something, and for one it isn't MAFIAA. Free advertising for ForrestBlog anyone!?

How reliable is the source? No pages link to the blog, and the blog isn't listed on Google.

I smell something, and for one it isn't MAFIAA. Free advertising for ForrestBlog anyone!?

Mmm! Hayabusa!

If you love bikes, and you haven't seen these, you should.
Is it wrong that I want one of these?

The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!

Jesus, you should start looking for a fuel leak.

America: some information to help you live in it. Texas is a special case of course; here are some other examples of major problems with the US road system.

America: some information to help you live in it. Texas is a special case of course; here are some other examples of major problems with the US road system.

pamela

She clearly does exist, as you can see from this link. Also note that she has a variety of disguises, very suspicious indeed!

This has been implemented near Cape Town in South Africa. During the evenings, hen demand for electricity is low, they pump water from a resevoir on the cape flats (i.e. nearly at sea level)(google maps link) up to the top of a nearby mountain (link to it on google maps. Then during the day, when the electricity is needed, they let the water flow back down and power a turbine generating surplus for the grid. I think this was implemented since pretty much all of cape town's electricity is supplied by Koeberg nuclear power station (when the turbines aren't breaking down), and from what i can gather, the electrical output from a nuclear plant is pretty constant and would otherwise be wasted if there was not some way to temporarily store it during quiet times for use in peak times.

Actually, I was once speaking to a farmer who owns the farm that the upper resevoir is located next to, and he pointed out a large many-story high concrete pillar (you can see it in the google maps link to the upper resevoir i inserted earlier in this post, to the lower right hand corner of the dam). He reckons, and i have no reason to doubt him, that its there to absorb the backward wave of water that is created when the downward flow is shut off each night. The way he explained it was its almost like a super large tidal bore flows back up the pipeline that was drilled through the mountain to the lower reservoir. Supposedly it would spout a column of water about 50 meters into the air otherwise. Anyway,thats totally irrelevant to the article, just thought it would make the links a bit more interesting.

This has been implemented near Cape Town in South Africa. During the evenings, hen demand for electricity is low, they pump water from a resevoir on the cape flats (i.e. nearly at sea level)(google maps link) up to the top of a nearby mountain (link to it on google maps. Then during the day, when the electricity is needed, they let the water flow back down and power a turbine generating surplus for the grid. I think this was implemented since pretty much all of cape town's electricity is supplied by Koeberg nuclear power station (when the turbines aren't breaking down), and from what i can gather, the electrical output from a nuclear plant is pretty constant and would otherwise be wasted if there was not some way to temporarily store it during quiet times for use in peak times.

Actually, I was once speaking to a farmer who owns the farm that the upper resevoir is located next to, and he pointed out a large many-story high concrete pillar (you can see it in the google maps link to the upper resevoir i inserted earlier in this post, to the lower right hand corner of the dam). He reckons, and i have no reason to doubt him, that its there to absorb the backward wave of water that is created when the downward flow is shut off each night. The way he explained it was its almost like a super large tidal bore flows back up the pipeline that was drilled through the mountain to the lower reservoir. Supposedly it would spout a column of water about 50 meters into the air otherwise. Anyway,thats totally irrelevant to the article, just thought it would make the links a bit more interesting.

The thing about autism is that we must not just look upon the negative sides of it. Sure, I may not be able to naturally empathise with people, but I have talents in other places.
But there are positive sides for people with downs and more severe autism too. The people I have met with downs are some of the most caring and patient people I know, and teach the family and people they know an awful lot about love and compassion. Autistics, although it used to be said that they have no imagination, can create some of the most amazing pieces of art. Even those who just sit infront of a mural all day do not see the evil of the world, and only see the beauty. Maybe it is us that are flawed.
I am also sad to tell you that there are people with the same severity of autism being almost "programmed" with electro shocks (while AWAKE) when they do "inappropriate" things such as switch a light on and off 3 times before going to bed. Nothing that would cause harm, but its not "normal" (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firef ox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&hs=tes&sa=X&oi =spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=judge+rotenberg+c enter&spell=1/).This is what they do to us now. Can you see why we wouldn't trust people with this power?
With genetics, everything that has a negative also has a positive. Take sickle cell anemia for example, have a natural resistance to malaria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease# Genetics). This is not an area we should be messing with. Understanding and mapping is OK, as are looking at a child's DNA (born or unborn) to look at their future and prepare for it, but messing with the genetic codes for humans or animals is both WAY beyond our understanding and at this point Immoral.
BTW, I didn't state that it was similar, I just stated that it is what a majority of people with Autism believe.

I'm not the GP, but My house is much larger than a 2x2 image.

Well, it's not actually my house, but another in the same city, but you get the point.