Only if it triggers the video camera and informs you it is ready for review and upload..

Oh and a pair of slippers too. Proper grandfather slippers, round-toed, flat sole, with a heel, and furry wool inside. Greatest indoor comfortable foot coverings ever. When I'm wearing them, I know I can relax!

I wasn't sure until I went through all of the footwear for all of my sports as well, but it's obvious I need more than a shoe-rack..

A pair of Merrill trainers.
A pair of Asics trainers.
A pair of Quechua hiking books, due for replacement next season due to splitting leather (4 years old).
A pair of Teva sandal (best footwear I own, pity the weather doesn't allow them to be worn that much!)

A pair of no-name-brand trainers for generic exercise/gym work.
A pair of dress shoes, black brogues.

A pair of Shimano MTB SPD shoes for the cycling.
A pair of Palm rivershoe bootees for the kayaking.
A few pairs of generic flip-flops for summer wear around the place whe it gets warm enough.

EULA? What's that?
Seriously - given that EULAs are nothing more than a wishlist for a software supplier and are *not* legally enforceable, the content of said EULA is non-relevant. If I purchase (with language like "buy" "Sale" or "yours for €x a month") an appliance I consider myself to have complete rights to use and break anything in or on said device. I can uninstall the OS and run my own. I can break through the security restrictions and mess with the innards as I see fit. I can root or jailbreak as I see fit. I can't redistribute that OS as that is covered under copyright law.

Now, as for my contract with the carrier - that is a different story altogether - I have paid for that, and I have entered into an agreement there with another legal entity, and as such I will agree to be constrained by that contract and its terms and conditions. If I have bought and I own an iPhone, as far as I am concerened that includes a copy of the OS to allow that hardware to be used, and I can do whatever I like with that OS copy without distributing it.

If your local laws are different, get on to you local representative and get them changed..

As far as I can see the majority of the rest of the world has already lost faith in the US as a country, and are watching in horror as that which was considered the epitome of western civilisation in the 60's and 70's has degenerated into something similar to that which was considered the nemesis during that time (the Soviet Union). At least the USSR managed to give almost everyone a purpose, even if they couldn't provide enough food...
But seriously - this whole TSA situation is making a mockery of everything the US used to stand for, and it's certain at this point that the terrorists have easily won, and it's going to take a proper revolution to fix it. God help us all..

Certainly. I have an archive of mpeg-4 movies and tv series on an external drive plugged into a USB hub that hangs off the back of our Wii, that I use mplayer to play on the widescreen tv. Great media player, pretty good interface, and it is real handy to use to pull shows from our torrentserver for new tv shows that we legally download (having paid our TV license fee and Sky subscription) with a low effort and short learning curve. With the Wii I can even plug in a mouse and keyboard and use any of the browsers.

I'll never buy a new Sony product after the rootkit debacle, and the treatment of GeoHotz. Pity that the average sheep can't see past their shiny games to see the slime underneath.

EULAs are not contracts. They are a wishlist by the software writers, and such are part of an honour system. They are not legally binding in sane jurisdictions.

Misread the book title as "Securing the Chicks" and thought - ooh using nerd skills in the dating game....
Was a little disappointed.

This sounds interesting - I wonder if these coatings are the same as the coatings that are regularly applied to premium telescope eyepieces and refractor objectives? I know that there are very expensive multilayer coatings that can guarantee 99.9% transmission across the visible wavelengths when applied to an air-glass surface. It's very cool to see a lens with these coatings as from and angle it will be almost black and rotating to face-on it will effectively disappear.

Is there any idea as to the cost of these coatings?

Oh this is scary.

Excluding the modem:
Firewall (piii running smoothwall
Torrentserver (piii running debian stable) Wireless bridge endpoint 1 (wrt-54g)
Wireless bridge endpoint 2 (wrt-54g)
802-11n access point
802-11g access point dd-wrt
PS2 networked.
Wii homebrewed and networked, running as a media centre playing files from the torrentserver.
Sky+HD network-connected
Security videorecorder (piii with tv card, running ubuntu and Motion)
My iphone 4
My work laptop.
My netbook.(eeepc 1000h)
My desktop
My old phone (HTC Wizard)
My old PDA (Dell axim), web browser on the sofa.
GF's iphone4
GF's work laptop
GF's laptop
GF's desktop.
Housemate's PS3
Housemate's desktop
Housemate's laptop.
Other housemate's phone.
Networked multifunction printer/scanner

Total: 24, not including devices used by visitors.
This doesn't include the ~10 other pcs and servers that are switched off in the spare room awaiting rebuild.
And I'm planning the purchase of a 2nd-hand ps3 for myself..
And maybe another gaming desktop..

Actually they don't. One of the basic tenets of the system is that the orbits are known to the receivers, as well as the distance to the receiver. This is the method that allows the triangulation. Moving the satellites out of the current stable orbits would just make a mess of things, and would render the 4-hour ephemeris that the satellite transmits inaccurate during the time of movement. Given the number of satellites in orbit in the GPS constellation, and given the number of satellites in view at any given time (6-12 generally) there is absolutely no advantage in moving a satellite. It's simply not done for the GPS satellites. You may have been confusing GPS with the likes of the optical spy satellites, that certainly can have the orbits altered.

Actually it's TDI referring to "Turbocharged Direct Injection" as a reference to improvements over the IDI (In Direct Injection) diesel engine.

IIRC SN1987A had about 26 neutrinos detected, as seen after the event in the recorded data. This small number of detections implies that extra-galactic supernovae are extremely unlikely to be picked up outside of statistical noise, simply because we don't detect enough of the neutrinos output. We are very unlikely to be able to have a neutrino early warning system to alert us to a supernova being seen in the next few hours after the alert from the early warning.

To my knowledge, the amount of fuel remaining was used to guarantee that it would re-enter sooner rather than later (a 25kg of fuel burn was executed at the end of 2005). There were plans mooted to recover the UARS using the Shuttle, but this fell by the wayside with various budget cuts and safety concerns. It appears that there was no need to have de-orbit fuel kept when the shuttle was the recovery vehicle, and when the plans fell through there wasn't enough fuel left to de-orbit in a known manner. The advantage of using the fuel in hte meantime allowed a few more years of data gathering. The working altitude for UARS was never going to have a safe parking orbit, and the orbit of the ISS was close enough in 2010 that an avoidance manouevre was needed to reduce the possibility of an impact. The spacecraft was left in a known stable attitude, but as the tumbling has shown, there has been an outside influence to cause this level of rotation. Maybe a pebble-sized item collided, and this is what's causing the tens-of-seconds wobble.

Thierry Legault has done some wonderful captures of satellites as they've gone overhead. It's interesting to see the slow tumble of this particular satellite, which confirms that it's pretty much out of action (even though we already know that). Apparently the satellite had a possible minor collision with debris in 2007 (see page 15 of 52 of http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nwgs/securing-the-skies-full-report-1.pdf ) which is the likely reason that this satellite is tumbling.