There are people who say that Claude Shannon, of 'Shannon's Equation' fame, made more money by winning lotteries using his statistical knowledge that in his day job as inventor of information theories. Maybe the key is to keeping it quiet?

You think the power at James Bay is expensive then? Only problem is you have to speak French!

Well, why stop at Buffalo? We have lots of cheap land in Northern Canada where you would need no cooling for most of the year!!!!

"boon to composers who can now hear their work as they write — and software allowing " Where have you been? This functionality was created by David McLey with the McLevier 25 years ago on an LSI-11/23! I know because I was there!

FINALLY !!! AN APPLICATION FOR THE WOM!!!! http://www.national.com/rap/files/datasheet.pdf Bob Pease sure was fore-sighted, since this memory chip was invented back in the seventies!

One principle of computer forensics is that if a computer is manipulated in any way, the evidence may be corrupted by such operation, and this could be used by defence attornies. Real computer forensics involves getting the computer powered down, removing the disk, setting it up in a test jig with write protect enabled, and reading the complete image from the disk onto a sterile environment for analysis. I don't think Mr. Plod will meet the test of admissibility into evidence! How is he going to prove to the court that the suspected data were not on the USB key to start with? If he has interfered with the computer in any way by plugging in a USB key, then the evidence is contaminated.

This reminds me of another idiot device they gave to the British bobby: back in the 70's and 80's, there was a glut of illegal CB sets in England. They never legalised the use of 27MHz AM/SSB CBs and all the units sold were marked 'for export only' When they legalised CB, units that were approved could only transmit FM. Instead of overworking the radio inspectors, they gave bobbies on the beat a box that detected if a close transmitter was AM or FM, with two LEDs. The only problem was amateur radio operators can legally use AM and SSB (after all, they invented it!). One beat p.c. stopped a ham and asked him to talk in the mike, and, you guessed it, the illegal CB light lit up! Only when the amateur radio operator started cursing and swearing at the p.c. and getting red in the face did he consult another p.c. over the police radio who was a ham. This being the appropriate behaviour for a ham accused of being a CB'er, he let him go with an apology.

Will this replace the duck/cat method of instrument flying then? You know, if you lose your horizon you throw the cat in the air, it will always have its feet pointing down, and if you lose your compass you throw the duck out of the window, it will fly South in the winter and North in the summer

I already knew this. Why do we spend such money on research? Think about it, have you ever had a chimp ask you for directions?

Sorry, I was trying to lower myself to the level of others. Entertainers are all that a lot of people now about! I am using the same argument for claiming that some are Canadians as Americans do to claim them for their own, what's wrong with that? Of course I could also add Reginald Fessenden and many others. The recursive paradox re Hollywood is totally appropriate for people who say GNU's not Unix and use the PHP Hypertext Protocol! And who said I was trying to make a rational argument? Perhaps I should explain that I am an Englishman who now calls himself Canadian and, as such, I have never been able to break myself of the habit of saying the opposite to what I mean!