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  1. Re:Westminster Council on Surveillance Cameras in Britain Not Effective? · · Score: 1

    I built the video switching matrix for this system, also many of the other CCTV systems installed in various places around the UK and rest of world.

    I no longer work for the company but heres a link to their website.

    www.synectics.co.uk

    (Most of the stuff pictured was built by moi :-) )

  2. Re:And then you say you live in Belgium! on Surveillance Cameras in Britain Not Effective? · · Score: 1

    10 famous Belgians .... Challenge!

    Tintin
    Audrey Hepburn
    Hercule Poirot
    Plastic Bertrand

    OK I give up :)

  3. Re:Article Text on The World of Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    Iron Maiden fan has neatly made bed *and* a girlfriend.

    Am I the only one who finds this hard to believe?

  4. Re:Why wouldn't math be known across the universe? on The Golden Ratio · · Score: 1

    The thing to remember about mathematics as a tool.

    Quantum mechanics is just a mathematical model that we humans have constructed to describe and predict stuff about the universe we appear to inhabit and make observations about.

    There is no guarantee that it is ultimately correct. The human mind may be physically incapable of *truly* comprehending life the universe and everything.

  5. Re:Restrictive? on Stallman Goes to India · · Score: 1

    I very much doubt that people who use the BSD license would consider their work to have been 'leached'. They are content that their efforts have been recognised and used by someone. All they ask is that they are given *credit* for use of their work in said users application.

    For some people, the recognition of their work is all the payment they want.

  6. Re:what sealed the deal.. on Stallman Goes to India · · Score: 1

    Indian PM to RMS.

    So GNUs they're a kinda cow right?

  7. Re:Playing Dice with the Universe on It's All About the Ununpentium · · Score: 4, Funny

    1000000 BC: Ug, rock rock *BAM* *BAM* ug!

    2004 AD: Ug, nucleon nucleon *BAM* *BAM* ug!

  8. Bah on Microsoft Violates Human Rights in China · · Score: 1

    Ahh the *great* firewall of China, doncha just love it. :D

    IP goes in SPAM comes out.

    Heck.
    There's probably only *ONE* licensed copy of Windows(tm) in the whole of China.

    What about our human rights for all the fecking SPAM that originates there?

  9. Re:Open source: competing for new users? on Introducing Linux to Joe Average · · Score: 2, Funny

    GIMP: Dont want no leather clad prevert gettin medeival on my ass.

  10. Re:Wasted time! on What's The Actual Cost of A Virus? · · Score: 1

    or freecell

    freeciv

    nethack

    etc etc etc :D

  11. what i would like to see on Mars Landers - Opportunity, Bedrock, Aerosmith? · · Score: 1

    A joint ESA/NASA Martian lander/rover mission.

    The Beagles science payload could be modified to work
    with a NASA designed lander/rover. It would be a pity
    to waste all the R&D that went into the design of the
    Beagle instrumentation and NASA would probably have a
    better chance of safely landing the kit on Mars.

  12. Re:Don't ask me.. on Confessions of a Mac OS X User · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A Mac zealot admitting guilt about *gasp* using a Mac.

    *WOW* whooop de do dah !!!!!

    It's official. Hell has frozen over.
    Pigs are preforming aerial acrobatics.
    Darl McBride has stopped smokin crack.

    What next? RMS admits to using Vi when nobodys looking.

  13. Re:Jesus! on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Come on he's the son of god for christs sake.

    He uses the command line. ;)

  14. Mad SCO Darls on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Especially the alledged copied source folder :)

  15. Is it in a crater on A First Look At Meridiani Planum · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Could the outcrop be part of a craters rim. The pictures seem to show that Opportunity is in some kind of shallow depression?

  16. Re:flip side on Mars Rover Opportunity Lands Safely · · Score: 1

    2004 "The landing procedures achieved a best-case scenario"

    Whew. What happened to plain old ....

    1969 "Eagle has landed"

    Not one of the engineers on the Spirit/Opportunity teams sported a pocket protector. How times change *sigh* :)

    Is it just me, but looking at the pictures Opportunity sent back. Has it landed in some sort of shallow depression or small crater? That outcrop could be part of a craters rim.

  17. Re:Commander or Grand Cross? on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 1

    Order of the greasy chicken bucket. (KFC)

  18. Hmmm on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I wonder how much $$$$ he bunged the
    Windsors for this dubious accolade?

  19. Re:bah! on Man Page Project Can Now Use Official POSIX Docs · · Score: 1

    One word ...

    Emacs ;)

  20. Re:bah on Is Your Silver-based Thermal Paste Really Silver? · · Score: 5, Funny

    You had loose clouds of interstellar gas. *LUXURY*

    In my day we had nothing but the vacuum and had to wait for a universe to pop into existence before we could even begin to think about the existence of energy and matter.

    Kids today ....

  21. Hmmm ... on Do Plants Practice Grid Computing? · · Score: 1

    ... the old bush telegraph. I heard it on the grapevine.

    Whispering grass
    dont tell the trees
    cos the trees dont
    need to know

  22. Big deal on UK Mobile Providers Introduce WAP Censorship · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hardly anyone uses WAP anyway.

  23. Re:Swiss Metro on China Abandons Long-Distance Maglev Effort · · Score: 1

    Thinks. Obviously you build in short modular sections and evacuate and seal each section as you go along. The modular aspect would also be a safety requirement in that you would have to seal sections off in the event of accidents. Also I suppose it depends on how hard a vacuum is required for this application. Still quite a challenge though.

    Of course all this applied engineering talent is locally available at CERN, basicly the thing is a scaled up particle accelerator. :)

  24. Re:Progress that should be supported by the world? on China Abandons Long-Distance Maglev Effort · · Score: 1

    That should of course read ..

    between Shanghai and Beijing

    Spelling mistakes. Natures way of saying log-off and get some sleep :)

  25. Re:Progress that should be supported by the world? on China Abandons Long-Distance Maglev Effort · · Score: 1

    Looking at my wall map. There seem to be a lot of major river systems betwees Shangi and Beijing. For an engineering project as ambitious as this maglev route a hydro-electric power scheme could be used and included in the cost. This would also be used to supply power to cities along the route and would be of long term economic importance/benefit to the regions involved.

    But as the things been cancelled the point is moot.