Comment Re:I'm sure it didn't help. (Score 1) 1040
and from the same BAA site - if you fly from Heathrow you can have as many pieces of carry-on as your airline allows. How can you have a policy that varies from airport to airport?
Comment Re:I'm not looking forward to going to the US (Score 1) 1040
Not to mention you'll pay $5 a minute to phone a US embassy. And don't think about visiting with out paying the $250 fee and getting an appointment (at $5 a minute).
Comment Old News (Score 2, Informative) 215
Cambridge University and some UK high school (US Middle school) kids did this in 2008 - http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2008120401
Comment Re:Heart of the global nature of the internet (Score 1) 526
And yet the US is trying to extract a UK citizen to stand trial for hacking US sites while he was in the UK. You can't have it both ways.
Comment Museum Photography (Score 1) 526
Actually a lot of US museums ban photography too, I assumed it was to protect the souls of the pictures.
Submission + - Build your own multi-touch display (instructables.com)
turkey+tek writes: "Between the Jazzmutant LEMUR,
Jeff Han's beautiful demos
Microsoft's interactive table, and the Apple iPhone, multi-touch displays are all the rage these days.
For the home hardware hacker, the question is "How can I build one myself on the cheap?" [e.g. this ask slashdot].
This instructable will show you how to turn your lcd projector and webcam into an interactive multi-touch display table using a few cheap components readily available from the hardware store by leveraging an existing open source software library touchlib."
This instructable will show you how to turn your lcd projector and webcam into an interactive multi-touch display table using a few cheap components readily available from the hardware store by leveraging an existing open source software library touchlib."
Submission + - British Bomb Scare Prompts U.S. Camera Call (thehill.com)
mattnyc99 writes: Senator Joseph Lieberman is riding the successful capture of several terror suspects by British authorities in an alleged car bomb plot this weekend as ammunition to call for wider use of surveillance cameras in the U.S. It turns out the U.K. is already testing new flying police drones equipped with closed-circuit TV cameras. So is constant urban surveillance on the horizon? Or is Britain just ready to foil the next threat even faster, with better tech than we have back in the States?
Submission + - Death rates will rise because of global warming (medicalnewstoday.com)
brian0918 writes: Harvard researchers analyzing city-specific weather data related to the deaths of more than 6.5 million people in 50 US cities between 1989 and 2000 have concluded that while global warming will cause more deaths in summer because of higher temperatures, these will not be offset by fewer deaths in milder winters. According to them, 'central heating, which constitutes an important adaptive mechanism against cold, is almost universal in the US, and this may explain why the US population seemed fully acclimatised to cold. Making air conditioning universally available may reduce heat-related mortality but would, on the other hand, have a perverse effect by enhancing global warming through carbon dioxide emissions from electricity consumption.'
