Francois

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• Commented on Minor hiccup
  It needn't be current imperial superpowers, either. France is still involved with skullduggery, mostly covered up except in the case of a monumental balls-up such as its operatives being caught after sinking the Rainbow Warrior. Locally it's well known the...
• Commented on Press Release: Stross Uncloaks Secret Media Project
  I've always wanted to exercise my inner Ben Burtt. Tell me when & where and you'll have Wasposaurus Rex sound effects to curdle your blood....
• Commented on The ticking clock
  "I was hoping to see in the comments someone proposing that, at the limit of their lifespan, they would start a project that would actually change the world for the better in some way, but mostly you just see career...
• Commented on 2512
  I know *precisely* what the word means, and used it with malice aforethought as a retort to the imputation of intellectual dishonesty. Greenwashing indeed. Pfaugh....
• Commented on 2512
  If a dispassionate presentation of facts is what you call greenwash, then I plead guilty, sirrah....
• Commented on 2512
  30 years? My erstwhile neighbourhood was built fifty years ago and everything still stands quite nicely thank you very much, even despite Canadian winters, and the older (yes, I know, bloody UKers) parts of town are doing well after eighty...
• Commented on 2512
  Transmission losses will happen either from an internal combustion engine or a power plant, but the power plant is _much_ more efficient, with some well over 50% [1] as compared with 25% for an automobile engine -- and accumulated losses...
• Commented on 2512
  GM will sell you a very nice car featuring something very much like that, except the engine isn't on a trailer. It's called a Volt stateside, Ampera on your side of the pond. As to Daniel.duffy20's notion that electric cars...
• Commented on 2512
  Just a heads-up: Byron Dorgan, one of the few Senators who voted against the repeal of Glass-Steagall, is actually a liberal Democrat rather than a Republican, who voted en bloc for repeal. As for blaming Clinton, there was no way...
• Commented on 2512
  Funny you should mention machine translation. Microsoft yesterday demoed real-time English to Chinese speech: http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/must-see_video_real-time_english-to-mandarin_speech_translation_via_microsoft_research_23815.asp...