The last person to the whole 266-page report had to spend 3 weeks before they finally.

Can't they add HomePlug (ethernet over electrical wiring) functionality to it as well? It may not be as fast as gigabit ethernet, but it would mean that you don't have to have Cat5 run to it, or have it sitting directly next to a router / wifi access point.

I believe it does, when Captain Pike first walks on to the bridge, he talks about having to delay the christening of the fleets flagship, and that it would be their reward for completing the mission.

You mean this O2 store? The one with the "iPhone" link in the "Phones" menu on the left hand side?

Sadly, when you take into account incubation time, it can be very difficult to contain something like the 'flu. The virus is out in the world, not just mexico. Anyone an infected person comes in to contact with between them contracting the virus and being diagnosed could potentially pick up the virus themselves.

Even if you totally closed off Mexico right now, there are sill infected people that have already left the country, and are in contact with the general population of whatever country they are in right now. The WHO have already said that this is past the point that it can be contained. We just have to hope that this doesn't turn out to be the super-deadly virus the media claim it is.

Rich people are clean?! I assume you take "rich" to mean "not 3rd-world", in which case;

Have you SEEN the number of people that are willing to cough and sneeze into their hands and then wipe it all over a door handle, or other shared item? In terms of general cleanliness, the number of people that can't stop on the way out of the toilet to wash their hands is shocking.

You could also say "So, out of 6,000,000,000+ people, this 'flu has killed 8?"

This strain of 'flu hasn't infected 300,000,000+ Americans yet, it has only been confirmed in a very small number of cases. Currently it has killed roughly 4% of confirmed cases. Spanish 'Flu killed somewhere between 2.5% and 5%, normal 'flu normally kills much much less than 1% of all cases.

What do you mean by died from 'this in the past 30 years'? From what? The strain of 'flu that had never been seen before a couple of weeks ago?

The problem with this strain of 'flu is that there isn't any historical data on it; it is brand new. Which means that we don't have any vaccines against it, and will take the best part of a year to develop a safe one.

The Computer Science department at my uni routinely scans final year dissertations using automated software. Mine was flagged up as "possibly plagiarised"; a significant amount of content could be found elsewhere on the web (can't remember the exact percentage).

My project supervisor said when he got the email from the system saying it came back positive he was very surprised - given the small amount of research in the area (there are only 5 or 6 papers on the same topic that I am aware of), and no other research on that exact method of solving the problem .

When I found this out I was more than a little worried - I wasn't aware of copying any other work . It turns out that it had picked up on stupid stuff, like the boilerplate at the beginning of the dissertation, or phrases like "In conclusion,", and nothing longer than 3 or 4 words in any paragraph.

This sort of plagiarism detection that detects word shuffling is fine for people that REALLY don't have a clue (i.e. the ones that forget to change the @author javadoc tag when copying their friends Java coursework), but it would still be relatively trivial to change enough words in a sentence to fool the system.

Every time you put the cup down between gulps?

You just posted that to get the achievement!

If it is recognising facial gestures, you probably will get caught

http://xkcd.com/552/

The technology to do some of this already exists.

There are "Constant Glucose Monitoring Systems" (CGMS) on the market right now. A sensor is inserted just under the skin, attached to a wireless transmitter. These sensors must be replaced every 3 days or so. A separate device receives these signals and displays glucose levels every minute or so, along with a graph showing a slightly longer-term trend. While these readings are not guaranteed to be 100% accurate (they recommend doing a blood sugar check with a standard glucose meter before taking any action), they provide valuable data about what your blood sugar is doing; It can help catch low blood sugar before full blown hypoglycaemia and identify spikes in your blood sugar.

Sadly, these products seem to be relatively rare in the US, and almost unheard of in the UK (apart from short 3 week trials) as the NHS doesn't like funding high-tech treatments until severe complications have set in (~0.4% of diabetics in the UK have an insulin pump, compared to ~15% in the US or Europe)

Maybe Apple should patent providing old tech en-masse to a large install base then. Patents are meant to protect innovative solutions so that the people in question get a chance to make some money from their invention before everyone else does. From what I have seen on the patent, most of its key claims involve gestures which are (imo) the obvious solution to the problem.