Interesting snippet from the Register at the bottom of a piece about lie-detectors:
According to Paul Marks writing in the 7 January 2006 New Scientist, the US Department of Defense plans to develop a lie detector that can be used without the subject knowing they are being assessed.
The Remote Personnel Assessment (RPA) device will also be [...]
One of the major advantages of the “Chip and Pin” card system recently introduced in the UK was supposed to be the elimination of the problem of “cloned” cards. It turns out that the system may, in fact, not succeed in delivering this benefit. Coverage from the Daily Mail and from someone engaged in [...]
While I have always felt that the intellectual case in favour of St Hilda’s College admitting men was extremely strong, I did not think that I would see that day come nearly so soon. Now that it has, I find the traditionalist in me is fighting my intellect!
More coverage (and a better headline) here.
An interesting interview with Al Gore (ABC News Video), discussing his film about climate change. I think the film itself opens in the UK in September. “Reality has a way of intruding on illusion,” he says.
Inevitably, he is asked about Iraq. “Truth is a career decision” for military officers and other officials [11:30] [...]
Where’s the line between a cup of coffee to wake yourself up, and using drugs to make yourself cleverer?
After an exploding can of deodorant removed the roof from a family home, it is clear that it takes more than “a freak series of mishaps” to move some people to anger or shake their trust.
I can’t really blame him for what happened. I would be happy to leave him again when we [...]