Could you explain what you mean by "Local" please? It seems to belong to an long disused set of words, also featuring such dinosaurs as "private data"....

The point is, the incidents which do occur rarely if ever get reported back to the cabin. The effects however are still there, and happen on a regular basis. Spurious instrument readings, interference on radio signals etc...these all happen due to passengers not shutting down their equipment, and its largely thanks to the multiple redundant designs of the aircraft that these effects don't lead to more serious consequences other than a pissed off pilot who had to manually intervene into what would normally be an automated process. The fact that you havn't died because of it has nothing to do with your haughty behaviour, and everything to do with pilot skill and robust airline system design.

And the fact that half the German kids were taught one way and the other half another way, and the ruling was reviewed a few years later resulting in utter confusion for everyone involved. Only since a few years are people relatively certain as to which spelling is now correct. The whole business was actually an entire fiasco. The anti-nuclear movement in Germany in however historically very strong, it's one of the few things which Germans actually get quite emotional about, and that also explains the populistic politics going on right now. The consequences of these decisions have not been properly thought out, but I wouldn't be suprised if they still go ahead with the process, and leave the next generations to work out how to resolve higher energy prices and lack of energy sources. I live near Hamburg, and believe it or not, most people actually prefer a planned coal powerstation.... People also push wind power as the ultimate solution, totally ignoring actual studies regarding output rates and miserable ROI, but hey, it's green!

Those efficiency losses go the other way though...

Oh Great, So now they'll be planting those bloody windmills all over the place, as if the existing ones are not inefficient enough to start with. I hate this German anti-nuclear panic, and I live in Germany! And by the way, it has *nothing* to do with the fact that the previous german chancellor is a great big buddy of Gasprom, that's pure foresight^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H coincidence....

It's actually particularly applicable to face reconstruction, but always on the premise of known parameters - In the area of facial reconstruction, the known parameters are the basic bone and muscle layouts and their effects on our physionomy. Once you couple the underlying skeleton with other surface parameters which can be extracted from the visible parts, it actually IS possible to reconstruct missing features. What I was mainly talking about however, is the zooming in effect. There is a lot more information available in an image than that which we see with the naked eye, which is why I mentioned the use of wavelets as extremely effective analysis "tools". These allow a much deeper analysis capable of either concentrating on or removing certain features. I have actually worked (and written my doctorate) in that field , so I do know what I'm talking about. If you're really curious, just look up"Wavelets" in your favourite search engine and be prepared to learn some interesting new facts.

Methods for retrieving information from pixelised images already exist, by no means black magic, they involve the use of wavelet analysis in combination with neural processing and recombination to refine an image. Examples of this kind of work are found in practical applications such as number plate recognition, where often a bad photograph is the starting point. This allows elements to be reconstructed even when information is partially missing. It's not an infinite super zoom as you see on CSI, that's just populist and totally unrealistic Ooh Aah effects, but it does work, given certain basic rules and parameters are respected.These methods are generally aiming at extracting information from the image, filling in the missing parts is from the image point of view just a little bonus, but the approach of vectorisation taken here is actually very closely related. Kudos to the guys for actually implementing it.

hmm, and silly me thought that Hitler successfully invaded Poland as soon as 1939, with other countries following soon (Belgium, Holland, France (yes, even if it was split in 2, it was still invaded), most macedonian countries, greece, as well as large chunks of Northern Africa. If you mean "establish a non-military government", then OK, but they sure as heck were invaded!

Will that make them religious reports?

Why can't they just make good new films instead of doing re-hashes constantly! There are stacks of good books out there that are just screaming to be filmed, but nope.... On another note, I'm really pissed off at the recent filming of Rosemary Sutcliff's "Eagle of the Ninth", it's just been crammed into the now traditional and boring CG battles format.

You mean, their 55" LED Samsung is an outdated computer monitor with a resolution from the early 1990s.......

Vet School?

When will people stop thinking it's cool to find new ways of wasting food? Whilst Carbon Fibre may be expensive, at least it's not using up food (that is sorely needed in many parts of the world) to be made.

Blast my cursory Reading! I thought taking Fingerprints could slow down earthquakes. **rumble**rumble*** hey, we need some more ink over here!!

I wish that would work Then all I would need to do is buy two small solar panels, give them the right environment and...whoah, at it babies, come on, show me your silicon :-) Hmm, what with using viruses to make batteries, maybe it isn't so far fetched!