Posts by Sleepalot

Samsung issues 'deep apology' to cancer-hit semiconductor workers

I remember the Leukemia cluster around Selafield that turned out to be ;

not in Nuclear worker's families, not around Selafield, and not significant.

EMF notches up another health-scare

Alternatively...

"F" could be for "flux" or "field".

Google: Go public on Profiles or we'll delete you

For example

Battered wives would be a good example of people who need both privacy and a social network.

El Reg wouldn't do that, would they?

Of course, El Reg requires you create an account before you can make comments, and what information do they ask for? First name, surname, country, job, etc,...

Give the Met Office £10m, says Transport Committee

"Severe winter forecast"?

This is the "severe winter forecast" the Met Office supplied to the Cabinet Office.

Mild -0.1 to +1.3 Probability 30%

Average -0.5 to +0.6 Probability 30%

Cold -1.5 to +0.4 Probability 40%

You'll notice that it only barely favours a cold winter, and that the categories overlap: 0C is considered "mild" and "average" and "cold".

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/1/31/everyones-a-winner.html

Passenger cleared after TSA checkpoint stare-down

Slippery slope?

"There is no God given right to fly. In the U.S. you are required to present a proper I.D. If that's unacceptable then take the bus."

Is there a right to ride on the bus?

Leslie Nielsen dead at 84

In hospital, of pneumonia?

That's no way for a man to die. Being beaten to death by an angry mob, that's the way to go out: being shot by a jealous husband or gay lover - that's the way I want to go.

Child porn victims seek multimillion-dollar payouts

Governments are the greatest threat to children

"Think of the famous photo of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, the Vietnam girl who was naplmed by the Americans. Don't you think that she is traumatised every time she sees the photos, yet the photographer Trang Bang, received the Pulitzer Prize."

Iirc,... she works in the UN, lobbying governments against the use of such weapons, using those images of herself - and therein lies the danger of suppressing such images: in the Viet Nam war, the civilian death toll was in the order of 2.5 - 4 million, the majority of whom were probably children.

I don't want to take anything away from "Amy" or the thousands of other victims of sexual abuse, but in protecting the few, we must not forsake the many.