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  1. Re:For all the /. whining about camera's on London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day · · Score: 1

    As far as I can see, the reason "no one complains" is that the existtence of so-called private networks is concatenated into the whole problem of cameras in general.

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

    The "right to a family" has allowed a failed asylum seeker, who murdered a little girl by dragging her along a road under the car he was druving without a licence, tax or insurance, to claim that deporting him would be such an infringement of his human rights, it can't happen - and the judges agreed.

    This is despite the fact he is no longer in a relationship with the childrens mother.

    Steve

  3. Re:AMAZING!! on US Trials Off Track Over Juror Internet Misconduct · · Score: 1

    What is amazing is the situation doesn't change, and there appear to be no signs of improvement. Jury secrecy is a very important part of the process in English law-based court rooms, which includes the US

  4. Re:Dr house on Americans Less Healthy, But Outlive Brits · · Score: 1

    And he's English !

  5. Re:Rationing is what we need. on Americans Less Healthy, But Outlive Brits · · Score: 1

    What is "health insurance" if it isn't paying your bill before the service.

    Steve

  6. Re:Harold Shipman ethnically cleansed 250. on Americans Less Healthy, But Outlive Brits · · Score: 2, Informative

    Shipman didn't "ethnically cleanse" He almost exclusively murdered old ladies who "wouldn't be missed", including the mother of one of my friends.

  7. Re:Ok, this film sucked on Creative Commons Video Challenges Hollywood's Best · · Score: 1

    Lame why ? It was a pretty universal story, and not one with a "hollywood ending".

  8. Re:Should of refused to cooperate from the start. on British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law · · Score: 1

    Yes, afaik Zen internet refused to be buggered.

  9. Re:Fast enough to reach orbit is... on NASA Looks At Railgun-Like Rocket Launcher · · Score: 1

    SPEED doesn't kill you, acceleration might. Bear in mind you are currently moving at at least 1000 MPH.

  10. GIGO not GOTO on The Value of BASIC As a First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Admittedly, it may take some application, but you can write crap in any programming language, and you can write structured BASIC programs. You need to have been introduced to the technique that's all.

    There seem to be VERY few assembly language programmers here pointing out that underpinning ALL our oh-so-elegant programming languages is one of JMP $ LCALL and RET.

    Steve

  11. Re:There's more to this story on Our Low-Tech Tax Code · · Score: 1

    Remember that all of the countries you listed are smaller than many of our states.

    I was referring to that comment in your original piece, the statement is wrong.

    Steve

  12. Re:There's more to this story on Our Low-Tech Tax Code · · Score: 1

    The countries listed are larger by FAR than the population of individual states. The population of the UK is 61 Million +

    The largest US state (Ca.) has a population of 35 million.

    Germany alone has 82 million people, France 65
    The Netherlands has a population similar to California.

    In aggregate terms, Europe is bigger than the USA in total population.

  13. Re:There's more to this story on Our Low-Tech Tax Code · · Score: 1

    I must admit, I was astonished to see how BAD US health care actually is, on an independent international comparison.

  14. Re:There's more to this story on Our Low-Tech Tax Code · · Score: 4, Informative

    Aggregate infant mortality rate 6.3 per 1000 - 33rd in the world, same as Brunei, slightly beating Poland.

    You're good at cancer survival - 9th, but not as good as the amount of money thrown at it would indicate. And the evil nationalised socialised medical systems of Netherlands, Italy, Hungary,Luxembourg,Slovakia,Ireland, Czech Republic and New Zealand, beat you.

    Your national system spends more than 7000 USD per year per head - nearly 3 times more than in the UK, and a third more than the second on the list.

    Your life expectancy is then the 11th best in the world.

  15. Book to read on What Objects To Focus On For School Astronomy? · · Score: 4, Informative

    A great book for beginners is Turn Left at Orion, by Guy Consolmagno
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Turn-Left-Orion-Hundred-Telescope/dp/0521781906

  16. Re:Problems on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 1

    I think part of the idea is to be able to "crack" water to hydrogen, with a catalyst and using the heat.

  17. Problems on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I am working on the very periphery of the problem, designing equipment to measure the properties of hot radioactive molten fluorides - in the region between 900-1700 C, for European nuclear researchers. Clearly one of the problems which should be obvious is that we are looking at cutting edge material technology to work at these temperatures and neutron fluxes !

  18. Re:Make them citizens already. on Court Orders Shutdown of H-1B Critics' Websites · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think, in this context the OP is referring to Great Britain, not George Bush Jr.

  19. Re:Dear DARPA - Find a way to scan and stop terror on What DARPA's Been Up To, At Length · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think the tech we DO have was funded by DARPA at some point in the development of quite a bit of it. And how WITHOUT "exotic experimental stuff" will we find something that can ?

  20. Re:Plasma tweeters. on Musical Tesla Coils Perform Zelda · · Score: 1

    There's a guy on instructables has done a sort-of little one with a flyback transformer.

    http://www.instructables.com/id/Build_A_Plasma_Speaker/

    Steve

  21. Re:My case on The US's Reverse Brain Drain · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...born in Spain, moved to Germany as a child and capable of writing pretty damned well in English.

    How is YOUR German and Spanish ? And you could do with learning to check your spelling before posting about someone's grammar.

    Steve

  22. Re:Yes at Carnegie Mellon on Does Your College Or University Support Linux? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...... in the process of finishing a new Gates building, in which all the labs will be linux..

    Oh the irony.

  23. Re:The n900 cometh... on Apple Pulls C64 Emulator From the App Store · · Score: 1

    ...dead easy to get root on the Android, and access some lovely work on it by enthusiasts.

    Steve

  24. Re:Partly health care, partly lifestyle on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1

    And though you spend VASTLY more on health care, it doesn't buy you an equivalent improvement in outcome.

  25. Re:Discworld anyone! on Hydraulic Analog Computer From 1949 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You'll actually see TP give due acknowledgement to the Phillips Economic computer, Moniac, at the front of the book.

    As a result of reading Making Money, I tracked down the prototype, which is in the foyer of the school of management at Leeds University in the UK, and now have the job of rebuilding Phillips very first machine.

    Steve