Noooo...but they would still haul your a** to jail until they got their proof...

You mean the Tantalus Field machine...

This doesn't appear to be an issue about taxes...it is about someone receiving govt assistance while making undeclared money on the side and not reporting that income, therefore possibly making them ineligible for further govt. assistance. That would be like someone here in the States drawing unemployment compensation, but making $50,000 a year selling stuff on the side. If that is the case for that person, they shouldn't be drawing govt. assistance since they have an income..

Here's a pretty Heavy BBQ for 'ya - size matters when it comes to grilling! ;-)

Tough viewing conditions in the Republic of Boulder, Colorado as lots of clouds - check out this image showing a lotta crud between me and the sun.

I was hoping to catch a time-lapse of the partially eclipsed sun setting over Longs Peak and it re-appeared literally at the last minute ... if I had been just a little bit farther South, I probably would have been totally skunked. Plus we weren't in totality, so never got the ring-o-fire. But still very cool to watch and here's my time-lapse video.

BTW, since I didn't have an ND filter, mine was total makeshift ... cut out one of the "eyepieces" from my Son's Eclipse Glasses and wedged that into the 2xTC teleconvertor! ;-)

246 mm die size! That sucker's big! Ivy bridge was big already at 166mm.... Wonder what the pricing will be....

Sounds nice down there....crazy thing about our student loan system is now there are instances of colleges WITHHOLDING http://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/universities-hold-students-t.html/ your college transcript until your debts are paid off. That means you cannot get a job to REPAY those debts, which basically is indentured servitude. The thing is that the schools are the ones that are not owed the money. The loans are from the government...and they are making the schools into collection agencies. HTF are you supposed to pay your bill off if you cannot GET A JOB WITHOUT YOUR TRANSCRIPT?!?!

Yea, but X10 is cheap & simple plus works "most" of the time ... which presumably is adequate for this application. The bigger issue Derek will have is other people deciding to take control of his room since there aren't that many house/unit codes.

But hats off to him for a most excellent job!

You can get a wireless router for around $50 and hook it into your DSL modem.

Glad to see this finally announced/released and while I'd love to exchange for my iPad2, I don't see a compelling reason to upgrade. Without Steve Jobs doing the dramatics, watching the Live Blog was almost as exciting as Watching Grass Grow.

Nifty pinball place in Lyons Colorado - some pictures from a recent visit.

Ditto that - salient point here is a much larger sensor which has a big effect on reducing noise. It's still not anywhere near the size of a DSLR, and at least in the pics I saw (all taken in daylight), there was a lot of "smearing" at 100% ... so diffraction is coming into play here.

Note also that the samples were all "wide-angle" - the "telephoto" is not optical - basically just using a subset of the sensor to do it electronically. So makes the device much simpler (no moving parts), but in essence is digital zoom, so image quality is going to suffer as you zoom in.

Nifty idea though.

As the person who has Ultraviolet vision after Cataract Surgery, a reminder that many IOL's (Intra-Ocular-Lens) actually do filter UV light - this is also mentioned in TFA. I've read quite a bit of Mainster & Turner's work and while I'm a wanna-be-eye-doctor at best, believe they are "right" in that you should not filter UV with an IOL.

LOL on the "engineering masterpiece and marketing nightmare" - shame this type of stuff happens. I actually spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to find flashlights that don't bleed into the visible spectrum - it's really hard to find spectral power distribution ... plus if you have flaws in the glass/plastic covering (or "wrong" material), it will fluoresce into the visible.

So give me a holler if you have an extra one of those lights around - "Captain UV" would love to take it for a spin! ;-)

P.S. Your description of how other people would see it as black and I see it as violet is exactly correct - I tried to show that on the first picture of my webpage - note the poly carbonate glasses and UV filter, both of which dramatically change the look for me ... but not for others.