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  1. Old Mo had it right.... on Tesco To Use Face Detection Technology For In-Store Advertising · · Score: 5, Funny

    And they wonder why people wear Burquas.
    Mohammed, at the cutting edge of the consumer fight back

  2. Re:We call them "Cannonball Run" on What Employee Lock-In Means At Facebook · · Score: 1

    Are you US based, out of interest ?

  3. Re:Nothing ever comes of these "child geniuses" on The Boy Genius of Ulan Bator · · Score: 2

    Some kill themselves.
    Like Aaron Schwarz

  4. Re:Wow this is the best handwaving I've seen in a on Spatial Ability a Predictor of Creativity In Science · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And who brings on the brighter kid, handicapped by his dull team-member ?

  5. Re:Peltier effect? on New Thermocell Could Turn 'Waste Heat' Into Electricity · · Score: 2

    Peltiers manage around 5% conversion efficiency.

  6. Re:When I first started in this industry... on 65 Years Ago, Manchester's 'Baby' Ran Electronically Stored Program · · Score: 1

    He, some of MY friends were students when Tom Kilburn was head of CS at Manchester. We went to a lot of the Manchester 50 events, with our baby son. I doubt he remembers.

  7. Re:Opportunity missed on 65 Years Ago, Manchester's 'Baby' Ran Electronically Stored Program · · Score: 1

    Not true. The greater decline in manufacturing came under Blair and Brown. At the end of Mrs Thatcher's time as PM, manufacturing fell from 25.8 per cent to 22.5 per cent, under Blair/Brown, manufacturing accounted for more than 20 per cent of the economy in 1997, the year Labour came to power, by 2007, that share declined to 12.4 per cent.

    That ONS figures

  8. Re:And then it still hits on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Yeah right, like you'll be able to tell the effects of 1Mt of bomb in 100Mt of impact damage

  9. Re:Shotgun on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 2

    So instead on on object hitting the earth, we'll have many fragments that are radioactive,!

    Nukes can be designed to have a lot of residue, or not a lot of residue. I'll take mildly radioactive rocks than a wiped out city.

  10. Hal Clements on Ask Slashdot: Science Books For Middle School Enrichment? · · Score: 1

    Hal Clements wrote "Mission of Gravity" and "Iceworld" where physics and chemistry is extrapolated into wonderful new types of world - the Ellipsoidal "Mesklin" in Mission of Gravity for example.

    Also, Robert D Forward's "Dragon's Egg" about life on a Neutron star's surface is an exploration of nuclear chemistry.

  11. Re:They were just doing their jobs.... on Aaron Swartz Prosecution Team Claims Online Harassment · · Score: 2

    Bullshit. See: My Lai massacre. The Nuremburg defence was accepted.

  12. Re:Dammit, editors! on Bezos Expeditions Recovers Pieces of Apollo 11 Rockets · · Score: 1

    Find yourself an F-1 engine primer.... The turbines were powered by a BIG generator based ( I think) on hypergolic fuels. 170 pounds of gas a second pushing a , pumping around 500 gallons a second of kerosene into the combustion chamber by a turbine powered pump.

    First designed in 1957 !!!

    Steve

  13. "comparable sensor" on Canon Shows the Most Sensitive Camera Sensor In the World · · Score: 1

    ....and all CMOS sensors are inferior to CCDs for noise at low light levels, so this is just a good CMOS sensor. CCD noise, when cooled, is measured in electrons per hour.

  14. Re:Video games/violence on Senior Game Designer Talks About Game Violence, Real Violence, and Lead (Video) · · Score: 1

    I just sent a copy of your comments to a whole bunch of my friends who say the same thing.
    Absolutely right.

  15. Re:Spark notes on BEST Study Finds Temperature Changes Explained by GHG Emissions and Volcanoes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This same research has been rejected by every other climate and atmospheric research journal, by the peer review process.
    Key researchers are omitted from the paper - like Judith Curry, who I suspect will have something to say, since she was a key member of the BEST project.
    Go figure.

  16. Re:Must be nice on Wayback Machine Trumps FOI Tribunal · · Score: 1

    Last I counted we have nearly 200 channels of TV content, of which 5 are the BBC. We do not get a "controlled view" in any exclusive way.

  17. Re:I do not understand on Apple Suit Against Motorola Over FRAND Licensing Rates Dismissed · · Score: 1

    This is not a community much frequented by the ACV

  18. Well done ! on Climbing 103 Floors On a 'Bionic' Leg · · Score: 1

    Like many others, I'd like tosay what a fantastic effort you have put into your own recovery. A great example to us all. Well done Sir !

  19. Re:I can easily Halve the space needed. on Nuclear Powered LEDs For Space Farming · · Score: 1

    In fact current hydroponic systems reduce that space needed by 1/4

    Hi,
    Can you find a cite for that ? - I've looked for ages to find an "official figure"

  20. Re:Overlooking a bigger problem? on Nuclear Powered LEDs For Space Farming · · Score: 1

    We grow hydroponic herbs and veggies, and they are the tastiest fruit you can imagine. The dutch greenhouse brands are bred for transportability, sphericity and redness, not taste.

    Our hydroponic basil has to be tasted to be believed.

  21. Re:Well, if they're going to generalize, I am too on Are Porn and Video Games Ruining a Generation? · · Score: 1

    I have to say, from direct experience, I agree with everything you say.

  22. Re:It's all interesting on Squadron of Lost WWII Spitfires To Be Exhumed In Burma · · Score: 1

    God, I wish I had mod points.

    Because we fucking CAN !

    Yes !

  23. Re:Of course you don't. on Obama: 'We Don't Have Enough Engineers' · · Score: 1

    Is that just in mining processes, or in general ?

  24. Re:Cost:Benefit? on London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Cost:Benefit? on London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day · · Score: 1

    but AIUI, he has no contact WITH his children.