It just seems insane to attempt such a high-energy feat in such a harsh climate with the limited gear apparent in the photographs.

that's why I'm very interested in finding out what her dietary regime was for the trip... Low-carb, high-fat fuelling herself from proper pemmican? Not the crap dietary "balanced" formula pemmican that caused the Scott expedition to fail.

From some quick googling, you only need one pound of proper pemmican per day (that's pemmican made the old fashioned way with just pounded dried meat mixed with rendered tallow)

If these secrets are really that damaging than Snowden should be given full immunity for past acts and the right to testify to congress behind closed doors.

there would be an "accident" happen to him before he ever got behind those closed doors...

16 gigs of fast RAM as well would be a good boost... but with really big databases, you go parallel... with multiple machines running against small subsets of the data at the same time...

I'm surprised we haven't seen FPGAs being deployed instead of GPUs...

How well does this work on touchscreens like mobile phones and tablets?

the problem HERE lies with the National Security Act which allows them to get this data from Google without having to jump through the hoops of having to provide due cause and a proper warrant. National Security Letters should be outlawed...

by their definition, ROT13 is an "effective" DRM scheme...

you have to clamp down on this or else people with these cars would be charging their vehicles for "free" wherever they can find an outlet... I would also include recharging electric bicyles here but not include recharging items such as the light sets for bicycles as they're a safety item.

1 volt differential across 250 nano metres is a very high gradient in volts per metre... 4,000,000 V/m

there are narrow trailers that hitch to the seat tube available http://www.amazon.co.uk/Veelar-Bicycle-Trailer-Shopping-Capacity-20315/dp/B006JRR1HS/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Name-Bicycle-Trailer-With-Adapter/dp/B000YWOG9K/

those double as a hand cart

supermarket I shop at has CCTV cameras covering the parking lot and the cycle racks.

I have a trailer that couples to my bike for when I do my shopping (and also when I go cycle camping/touring). What does annoy me though are the stupid barriers in some cycle paths that block my trailer...

and we've already got perfectly bio-degradable carrier bags in use. Tesco ones turn into small fragments after a few months, even with no exposure to light...

those caught texting while driving are dragged out of their vehicles and summarily executed at the roadside and left there with a warning to others sign...

Kidding, but they'll only start behaving when their personal risk is high...

It doesn't help that Hollywood still has people using hand held units while driving and they don't show the consequences (ie that driver having a crash)

that's probably because the compiler used to compile the application has got the code to check for benchmark tests and optimisation for it. This is old hat...

Not exactly hard to deduce either considering Amazon employees are striking right now in Germany (soon other places in Europe) for higher pay.

Best time to strike, right before the Christmass rush... such a pity that the neighbouring Amazon units are picking up the German demand though...