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  • Commented on Review: A few hours with Motorola's Tundra
    There's a difference between "my phone survived being rained on once" and "this phone is guaranteed to survive being rained on, repeatedly". That's what the Milspec standard means. I'm currently packaging some electronic monitoring equipment (I'm in a water supply...
  • Commented on Artists buying cheap houses in Detroit
    @Guernican: sadly, it's the museum that's called "Van Abbemuseum", not the director. It's in Eindhoven in the Netherlands and well worth a visit. http://vanabbemuseum.nl/en/...
  • Commented on Spectrum ZX81 case-modded into Ubuntu PC
    Minor nitpick from one who cut his programming teeth on one of these back in '81. Its a Sinclair ZX81. The Spectrum was a later Sinclair with more memory, colour, and a squishy rubber keyboard....
  • Commented on Racist cop uses UK Terrorism Act to detain mixed-race family and take away their disabled child
    @8 Takuan: New Labour may have got the largest share of the vote, but since the UK has more than two major political parties they didn't get a majority of the total vote. Just over a third of people voted...
  • Commented on UK man hassled by cop for not having a "camera license"
    @31: Police Community Support Office (PCSO) != Special Constable (SC). SCs have the same powers of arrest and training as normal police officers but are generally volunteers and so don't get paid. PCSOs have no more powers than any other...
  • Commented on Difference Engine unboxed at Silicon Valley Computer Museum
    Babbage made a few bits of the Analytical Engine but it remained even more unfinished than the Difference Engine. There are (Java) emulators available from Fourmilab's excellent pages so that you can get an idea (minus the steam engine) of...
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