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Comment Not location but time (Score 1) 109

I think I saw this on the Discovery channel a couple of years ago.

An AC grid does not keep perfect time. It will vary by a few hundredths of a HZ when certain things happen, like increased load during commercials, dropped load as people go to work and even when wind speed suddenly increases making the wind turbines contribute more.
All these things make a unique time signature for that mains hum on any given power grid. If you have a nationwide grid, as found in most developed countries, this is the same everywhere but if you are on just a regional one, that will narrow it down for the spooks and they will know you are in that particular region too.

Comment Re:Ocean garbage patches? (Score 1) 139

Which, if you've never heard of it, is a place in the Atlantic where a bunch of ocean currents sort of cancel each other out...

I've not heard of one there but I understand that there is a huge one in the Pacific.

Now if it became worth money can we expect various countries round there to be rubbleized to make them free to give away all their resources?

Comment Re:HALLELUJAH! :D :D :D (Score 1) 649

There is rather strong evidence that it is a personality-defect instead, one that comes from inability to master one's fears.

Feasible but not the problem I am referring to. To have a proper discussion, we need more than one viewpoint.

I understand that the RC Church has what they call a "Devils Advocate" when discussing possible saints. Their job is to put forward a different opinion. The advantage(!) of having conservatives around is that some of them really believe what they say. This can/should lead to a better consideration of problems.

Comment Re:IQ? Please! (Score 1) 174

IQ doesnt impress me - accident of birth like big tits.

Even if it does not impress you. it should not convince you that the holder of that IQ has nothing to say.

As for the other accident of birth you referred to, some owners of those are extremely smart too.

Comment I suspect (Score 4, Insightful) 174

The chronically uninformed and uninformable* will find some way to deny this is happening.

* - people who feel that their ignorance outweighs the knowledge of any scientist and so nobody with an IQ over 125 has anything to tell them.

Comment How about this (Score 1) 138

There have been several tools to search multiple search engines at once and aggregate the results.

How about a multiple search over different countries Googles and just show the differences?
That would immediately show specifically what someone wants to hide.

For instance, I could do a search on somneone in Spain and would immediately see what financial instabilities do not show up here.
Someone in China could look Chinese historical events and immediately have them pointed out.

Comment Patchy? (Score 1) 259

I suspect that it depends on where you go. My family is from Orkney and I find it pretty well covered when I'm back.

As far as London and Edinburgh seem to feel, we are somewhere around the North pole and have a population of about 25. If its up here, it may be even better covered down south where (self) important people live...

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