No I haven't RTFA'd but is this to do with the East Anglia University mail leak which is turn just shows that in order to make pretty graphs to justify your existence for large funding boards, you have to merge data from different data sets. IIRC there is anomalous tree ring data from the 1960s onwards, so it's more accurate to use actual temperature measurements but these don't match up perfectly with the pre 1960 tree ring data, so a small amount of "fudging" is required. Remember this was to create a graph of temperature over 4000 years for a high level overview - it is not part of the actual analysis.

That's right - put your heads back in the sand. The world is not getting warmer, and at least if it is, God would make sure that it didn't get too hot so as not to harm us. Damn those pesky scientists.

Anybody who is familiar with Red Dwarf will get this "genius pairing of references", let alone those with a modicum of education.

I may be wrong, but I think you're referring to the Intercept Modernisation Program or the "Snooping charter" here in the UK rather than Europe as a whole.

For a country that is apparently crippled with deficit, it's amazing that after having been abandoned by the previous Labour government, it's crept back in, sneekily being announced by the Tories in the spending review a couple of weeks ago. Bear in mind that one of the reasons the previous government abandoned it because it was likely to cost far more than the original £2 billion estimate.

Seriously... it's amazing what you can find on there. We met up, got on, had similar interests and the rest is history. So just keep on looking, and make sure you meet your mentor/supervisor and see if you click. If you don't, forget about doing a PhD with them - you need all the help you can get.

I'd like to put a cap in their ass.

... delete an account from facebook!

Well done you! Seriously. Have you posted how you did it anywhere on the web or could you point us in the direction of a guide? I would be very interested to see how much work is involved.

I wonder what the default action might be if I made my O-face as in... "If things go well I might be showing her my O-face"

I was thinking of an entirely different type of tranny, you old time talker you.

I was under the impression that for any serious application of a biometric (as in "for security reasons"), that the system should check that the subject is alive, to help deter people from chopping off fingers or poking out eyes. eg a fingerprint scanner would check for sub-surface bloodflow.

The fact that this system is fooled by a static image of the person therefore deems it not fit for purpose IMHO, and this finding should be gratefully received by the manufacturers who can now work on improving the system.