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In terms of being a target - less so than the industrial cities of North-West Germany. It's a lot further away, so more dangerous to mount a raid and you can put a smaller payload …

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It's useless in a fissile device, perfectly usable as a nuclear battery. Waste Pu238 it's a bit dirty if it explodes because of all the other stuff that's mixed in with it - but it…

Great win for IBM/MSFT/Google/Apple etc. I am trying to defend myself against them stealing my ideas - but if I lose I have to pay their legal bill. All they have to do is to threa…

If you were an active practioner in the field you wouldn't need a patent, you would have trade secrets. Suppose I'm a consultancy and i invent an improvement to an MRI machine. I c…

These pictures weren't really meant as strict engineering predictions - so much as a commentary on life and the uses of new technology of the time. It's as if theOnion or Mad magaz…

No one in 19C France could possibly imagine huge numbers of French soldiers dying on the march back from defeat in a war across Europe? I suspect that what no one in 1900 could ima…

Same with engineering - just read any sunday paper home section article. Somebody will be saying that they can never assemble some piece of Ikea furniture. This stuff is designed s…

Does non-maths higher education have a place? Non-technical degrees are now worthless in the job market because everyone has one. So their purpose, showing the best/brightest candi…

Which would you prefer: a properly formatted data file or a kitten ?

Good job the next olympics will be held in a convenient time zone in Brazil. After that I expect all future olympics to be held wherever the biggest TV audience is, so an eternal B…

A license is required in the UK to watch "LIVE" TV - this distinction was made (and has been upheld in court) when VCRs were introduced. But has been regarded as applying to the BB…

It wasn't - the actual construction was under budget. The problem is that "the budget" figures that get quoted are mostly pulled out of the air. When a politician at the bid stage …

I think the point was that if this as an ideal world then CERN would have used the most revolutionary personal computer available in the 80s - the archimedes - rather than just a 6…

Or presumably they could just make a movie version where the opening ceremony is in New York and they win all the medals?

Remember the golden rule: The country with the army, the nukes and the worlds reserve currency gets to make the rules

Plus that includes a dozen or so radio stations, with permanent access to almost all of their program archives online. And an online PVR to watch all shows from the last week and a…

I've been there! We have trouble hiring Linux talent - and all they have to do is go to our website (IE only) and register for an account to submit a CV (Word only) and fill in a f…

Me too - I'm buying ex-lease high end Dell 1600x1200 IPS screens because using 3x24" 16:9 is like watching a tennis match - you are constantly twisting your neck from left to right…

See also "time value of money" - if you don't have to buy the spares until they fail, all that extra money is worth something to you. There is a reason Toyota and co don't have 6mo…

Probably signals a market collapse in the last 2years. Dell and co either ordered, or suppliers thought they would order lots of new big screen monitors, so fab lines were setup, c…

Well I will feel very disappointed if we don't see all the athletes eating there every day

I'd buy that - except I live in a city with 1:4 hills! Here even the outdoor gear coop charges >$900 for a single speed and says it's ideal for "urban life' - which tells you every…

CISCO got the contract for most of the network infrastructure based on the kit being donated to education afterwards. Apparently it will be donated to $$$$ CISCO certification cour…