Black and white tiger stripes. maybe? IR overprint? UV?
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Posts by cortland
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'Bet Lynch' types BANNED from zoo for upsetting not-so-wildlife
WHY do phone cams turn me into a clumsy twat with dexterity of an elephant?
How I hacked SIM cards with a single text - and the networks DON'T CARE
UK.gov's e-Borders zombie still lurks under the English Channel
Steve Jobs' boyhood home may become protected historical shrine
Tuesday 24th September 2013 09:34 GMT
Hey!
My 1956 Livermore "childhood home" should be one too; that's where (at age 12) I built an electronic projectile launcher , a "rail gun," in popular usage, in the bedroom.
Except when I drove by there in 1997 the house was gone and there was a tree stump 70 cm across where it once stood. Tempus omnia vincit. And Dad conspired with the landlord to thwart my aim for fame.
Life … moves … in … slow … motion … for … little … critters … like … flies
Douglas Adams was RIGHT! TINY ALIENS are invading Earth, say boffins
Deep Impact succumbs to 'HAL bug' as glitch messes with antenna
I, for one, welcome our robotic communist jobless future
DARPA: You didn't think we could make a Mach 6 spaceplane, so let us have this MACH TEN job
THE TRUTH about beaver arse milk in your cakes: There's nothing vanilla about vanilla
Exploring our way to the source of EMC's mighty VNX Nile
No scientific consensus' on sea-level rise?
David Attenborough warns that humans have stopped evolving
Monday 16th September 2013 03:26 GMT
Re: Who TF is David Attenborough?
I'd nominate Tom Welsh for winner, but I'm biased; I've been working as an electrical engineer some 30 years even though I ran off to the Army at 17, technically a High School dropout, never studied engineering and never got a degree.
And while I can't legally teach for pay at a publicly run school anywhere in the Credentialed States of America without one, my last employer had no problem with my teaching something of electromagnetic compatibility to engineers who _had_ earned degrees -- except they said one question I wanted them to answer was too difficult. It required using arithmetic.
Off-tangent and back on topic, what is the rising number of children with Autism and food allergies doing to us if it is not evolution?
Cold-blooded, INHUMAN visitor hitches ride on NASA moon rocket
Lip-wobbling boffins: Eating Chinese food is like kissing a vibrator
Massively leaked iFail 5S POUNDS pundits, EXCITES chavs
US plaintiffs can seek damages over Street View data slurp - court
Startup claims 1W wireless charging at 10 metres
Vote NOW to name LOHAN doomsday box
First rigid airship since the Hindenburg cleared for outdoor flight trials
Verizon finally drags FCC into court fisticuffs to end one-speed internet for all
Canadian comet impact fingered for triggering prehistoric climate shift
US gov preps sale of TOP SECRET disease research island
'WTF! MORONS!' Yahoo! Groups! redesign! traumatises! users!
Ebook judge: Guilty Apple must hire anti-antitrust watchdog to probe itself
Boffins force Skype to look you in the eye
Pulsars: the GPS beacons of the cosmos
Monday 2nd September 2013 05:06 GMT
Re: Will an alternative to USA's GPS be allowed?
The soonest they could be served is 552 years at lightspeed; a reply will come back no faster, so we will become aware of their intent to appeal to the Intergalactic Court (if they even GET our puny radio wave signals) in the Andromeda galaxy in not less than 114 years. Our personal appearance at that court will be required , and since the loser pays court costs . . .
Boffin snatches control of colleague's body with remote control brain hat
Behind the candelabra: Power cut sends Britain’s boxes back to the '70s
Friday 30th August 2013 16:29 GMT
The writer
Though a child of the 70's the writer seems not to have grokked the Tao of Tech.
Feel the Force, grasshopper (or something like that); there are things one can do only if he does not think bout them. The first kata. waltzes, tying shoes -- and setting a digital watch with four buttons and no instruction book.
Assembly of Japanese bicycle take great peace of mind -- Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (page 164 in my copy)
FWIW, if you have what he calls "the mechanic's feel" you will astound your co-workers and disturb your managers, who will have NO idea how you fix things, or how to handle you.. But that is another thread.
Osama Bin Pwned: Al Qaeda mocked in Twitter counter-jihad
Wednesday 28th August 2013 12:08 GMT
Re: There's guns and guns.
The M16's appearance, which seems to provoke an almost atavistic fear, is largely due to a change that would improve accuracy in any rifle; instead of requiring the shooter to place his cheek low on an angled stock to sight along the weapon, the AR-15 and successors raised the sight path to allow for a straight stock and recoil path, which does not pull a weapon upwards during recoil. ANY rifle may be improved in this manner, and if one uses an optical sight, an angled stock is no longer needed.
It's my opinion that the crazies who get hold of an AR 15 or the like and go on a killing spree are (thank God) not usually SNIPERS, and are (usually) crazy enough to not kill coolly and deliberately: were Adam Lanza less disturbed,he might have killed as many with a much less controversial rifle, even without 20 or 30-round magazines.
There have been snipers; we even had one near where I live -- *he* didn't use a rifle. (http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2013/08/trial_date_set_for_suspected_i.html ), However, the Beltway snipers did; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks
These are far more frightening than the occasional spray and pray shooter.
The Beltway snipers used a military style weapon, but they would not have needed one for their killings and attacks. They are, however, in my opinion symptomatic of the breakdown of a culture and of the mental health of its people, one I believe related to the adversarial "I got mine; get lost" attitude so many even in government seem to endorse. However, that is another thread. What is pertinent here is that those unable or unwilling to exercise their rights responsibly may lose them -- and if today it is guns, how long can it be until speech and conscience are regulated?
A British acquaintance on the Net years ago derided governments' approach to terror; he said he was going to produce a bumper sticker reading,
"I'll worry about terrorists, when I can stop worrying about motorists."
Look for it.
UK micro pioneer Chris Shelton: The mind behind the Nascom 1
Tuesday 27th August 2013 11:02 GMT 
Considering
Considering I'll be 70 myself in a year, that's cool. VERY COOL!
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams
Go for it!
Xerox begins rolling out patches for jumbled-numbers copier glitch
'You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back'
Portuguese chicken invades Spanish airspace
Screw you, Brits, says Google: We are ABOVE UK privacy law
Tuesday 20th August 2013 05:56 GMT
It's true, however, that if I decide to cross the border into Tijuana to get real Mexican food, I cannot expect the same kitchen sanitary practices I might in San Diego, where a stricter set of government rules is in place.
Shall we see every State (or union) applying its laws worldwide when the "cloud" is in another country? Or several?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
