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I do like American government acts. I always picture the governor in Mel Brook's Blazing Saddles: "Patriotism is good isn't it?" "Yes Governor" "So I should sign this PATRIOT act w…

You don't trust your local bank to store your $10 bill - but you still trust the central bank not to print a billion of them tomorrow?

I doubt that anybody 'doubled up' and now pays for both the DVD and streaming option. The reason for the DVD service to exist at all is to do with Hollywood accounting and the way …

Quick economics lesson. The money on Wall St doesn't belong to the guys in red braces - it is the pensions of ordinary Americans and the savings of little old ladies. Letting Wall …

To misquote Clinton - "It's the software stupid" You can buy an MSP430 dev board form TI for $5 with more features but the thing about the Arduino is that somebody with NO knowledg…

Comparing it to the installed Sarnia plant at roughly the same latitude. That is 96.6 ha (239acres of cells) 80MW capacity and (estimated) 120,000 MWh over a year. So this plant sh…

Ever visited an Arabic country? Whatever an American might think, this is THE major problem - not terrorism - but being 'hospitalitied' to death!

Filing a patent just to have a patent is a few $100 - even less if you only file provisionally and hope the new employer doesn't understand the difference! But if you want a patent…

Remember. A lot of his talks are likely to be to universities/user groups who have never organised a talk before - so 'remember a microphone' is useful! And a lot of talks maybe in…

I have a list of patents I have 'invented' and were filed by previous employers and this has got me jobs - but on the basis that I 'understand about patents', not because they spec…

Really who would have guessed !

The largest percentage of cell phone users in the world will never have used a landline and never will. It's a big mistake thinking that every new emerging economy has to go throug…

That software patents don't work can be shown from the simple fact that no software "inventor" tries to sell his patented idea to a big company. If I invent intermittent windscreen…

There was a similar documentary featuring the memories of the remaining people a coupe of years ago - called "Station X" ? IIRC

It has do with paranoia and a government and civil services that have managed very nicely for 200years by automatically keeping all successes and failures secret. GCHQ invented pub…

The parts are pretty standard and the government can potentially buy them by million plus they can easily line up cheap manufacturing. The OLPC was a unique and novel design with n…

He didn't say it did - but it is an issue with converting and indexing old documents. Google's ngrams for instance regularly transcribes them as 'f' so you have to search for both …

Pity the Sony Bono copyright law didn't apply or Franklin's decedents would still have the copyright on electricity! And Trinity College would be collecting a royalty everytime an …

It's $60 retail, there are $75 retail Chinese Android 2.3 tablets - they didn't change the world, why would this one? Is the government going to create online courses in English an…

Given that it's specs aren't much more than $100 chinese Android 2.3 tablets I doubt they are losing anything. Especially since they don't have a retailer taking 30% Their policy f…

Hey the new 2012 Oldsmobiles are in! And not only are they new and improved in ways you can't actually detect - but they are guaranteed compatible with your current gas.

Crazy moves like "heavy spending on warehouses, data centers and digital-content offerings" An online store buying stock and building infrastructure !!!!! Crazy , they should be bo…

B.R.I.C.K. my new robot flying aircraft can fly with no power. (as long as it's only downwards)

So 10years of R+D from the foremost manufacturer of PC operating systems has produced ...... Hardware accelerated transparency effects on the desktop (if you're lucky and not on an…