You can look through this list, but I do not believe there is a single incident of a large aircraft performing a survivable mid-ocean water landing. It looks like they've always gone in with no survivors.

Two things. It seems unlikely that we'll ever reach the stage that where we can be confident that a large-scale war will never happen again. Countries constantly jostle for power and economies rise and fall, creating instability, power vacuums, and changes in dominance. These are potential triggers for war. Secondly, we don't know that this is "here we go again." Russia may well quit with Crimea. Perhaps it'll push into Eastern Ukraine then quit at that. Perhaps it'll push into all of Ukraine, then quit at that. We don't know what'll happen yet. Right now, nothing too much has happened. Given that most people in Crimea do consider themselves Russian and that Crimea has changed hands constantly over the last few hundred years, it seems quite plausible that that things will end here and the whole exercise just serves to increase Putin's stature back home.

They've narrowed it down a fair bit, but there's a still a huge area of ocean to search and time is ticking. They only have another 15 to 45 days (IIRC) until the black boxes stop transmitting their sonar signal. When the Air France plane crashed into the Atlantic the location of the black boxes was eventually (it took about a year) pinned down to a 3 mile by 3 mile area, but it took yet another year before they were found. So even in that tiny 3x3 mile area it can be very hard to locate something. The current search area must still be thousands of square miles, since it was 2.25 million sq miles before these new satellite results. It's even conceivable the black boxes will never be found.

Then either: A) get a USB battery pack and charge as needed. B) get an older-style phone with longer battery life.

What's the point in complaining that a product doesn't match your specific use-case. It's up to you to choose one that does.

Perhaps you're right, but there are a LOT of DMMs out there with a yellow case. It's not just Sparkfun who're copying Fluke's look.

I read up about this a while ago and I recall that the sort of voltage and current provided by a 9V batter would be sufficient for the technique. I just searched again and found this. They're using about 14V to 18V and 1.5mA. So it looks pretty safe to me.

Indeed. I'm British and living in the UK right now. Next I'm moving to the middle of Europe. If it's nice I'll stay there. No need to go back to the UK.

There's little to be gained by getting rid of the Queen. For starters it won't solve inequality, which is somehow what the idiot below (who doesn't even deserve a direct reply) seems to think. Most of the sovereign grant (which does not come from tax payer's money) goes towards paying the salaries of the people in the Queen's employ. Furthermore, the royals make very good ambassadors for the UK, as they're generally well thought of abroad, and they genuinely work hard at that role. They know they have to because it's the one thing they do well. So if you get rid of them, you lose all that. Yes, they have no direct power now but that doesn't mean they may not again in the future and we may even be grateful for it.

Yes, we don't choose the monarch or the house of lords but so what? You also don't choose who's in the vast civil service and that persists across elections and is involved in policy making. You don't choose what goes on in GCHQ. There's a lot of stuff we have no say in at all. The form our democracy takes means that the people get little or no direct say even in what the elected government does. The vast protests that took place when Blair decided to follow Bush into Iraq meant nothing at all to his government. They ploughed on regardless and that, of course, is natural because we chose them to make decisions for us. That's how it works: you choose the people who are the least dickish and hope they don't fuck up. If they did, you try not to re-elect them (and even there you don't always succeed). So with that crap going on in the background, why get rid of the Queen? What will actually become better? How will Joe Bloggs benefit? Or is the reason for getting rid of her simply to satisfy a short-sighted republican wet-dream?

That's pretty much the definition of a Troll.

1984 was published in 1949. Orwell was a forward thinking kinda guy but he didn't know about 21st century CCTV cameras.

Hopefully not quite yet, but this is one reason why we need a constitutional monarchy. It constitues a potential concentration of power that's outside the government and may help provide balance in the event of the country's democracy being undermined by elected officials. The way any country is governed is never static, but changes over time. Even in the recent past the UK saw a change, as Blair's government concentrated power in the cabinet to a greater degree than did previous governments. For these reasons I see the monarchy as having a useful latent power that is worth preserving. They're also pretty good value for money as the so-called sovereign grant that is paid to them comes from the Crown estate, that is independently managed. Plus, the tourists love them.

You word you post as though it's the fault of the NIH. I isn't. The NIH don't have the budget to fund all the good research proposals they get. After they've thrown out the chaff applications, they have a bunch of excellent stuff remaining and not enough money to fund it all.

Check out this guy: completely blind but can cycle by making clicking noises. i.e. he's a bat.

3D TV is different to VR, IMO. 3D is a little like the jump from 720p to 1080p. You notice it, sure, but soon merges into the background. The VR headsets, by many accounts, offer a very different and more immersive experience and they're better suited to their medium. VR headsets are pitched at games because in a game you're interacting with a virtual world. Up until now, your window into that world is a fixed screen that you control with your fingers. With a VR headset you're stepping into that world. Many beta testers have reported that the experience is quite startling.

My local shop has this stuff too, but the selection of mics is poor and the component section is rather bare.