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Semi automated driving. A way forward?

It seems that the platoon car testing system (SARTRE) is to enter road trials before the end of the year with plans(?) to finish in 2011/12 with a goal to going live in a decade.

Personally, I’m all for things like this which makes life easier all around for drivers. Drive yourself or [...]

Lack of control

It seems that if you are powerful enough you can ‘nudge’ firms into doing the right thing. Even if the right thing is actually wrong. Cameron is watching carefully.

Wikileaks had one big problem in that it was hosted in the Cloud under Amazons watchful eye. Then all of a sudden it was discovered [...]

Over engineering the solution

When my guys develop a system I always find that they want to put in lots of sexy technical bits to make it look good. I just want them to do what they are asked, no more no less. It takes a lot to make keep them on track. Engineers are always looking for [...]

Government mandated lethargy

For those of us that are impacted with government mandates on a daily basis, about 100% of us, it should come as no surprise that the rules and regulations they put in place cause delays and additional costs for manufacturers.

This article actually explains how much the FDA puts on anyone who is required [...]

Weaning ourselves off oil

A few days ago I read an article where someone was arguing that we would never manage to wean ourselves off oil and we were 90 years away from developing replacements. 90 years?

It isn’t a very positive view as we have only really had oil for just over a century. OK it [...]

Back door action

A hacker has identified a hack for every AMD chip that has been released in the last decade. The debugger hack is explained in the article here.

Now I always have concerns when I read of back doors like this. Back doors are always claimed to be for positive purposes and undoubtedly used for [...]

Science and facts vs feeling good

One is where we use logic and facts to form conclusions and the other is where we form conclusions from what we know is right without those troublesome pesky facts.

I’d always been interested in science since school and used to play about at home. I carried on from school playing with science, electronics [...]

What a surprise another promise broken by UK Gov

It seems that despite being concerned about labours intrusive surveillance state our useless leader Cameron now thinks it is a good idea now he has reviewed the requirements. So they are still keeping the bit where our phone and IS providers are picking up the tab, which will be passed to us and still [...]

Progress awaits no man

It seems that app developers are making progress on bringing medical applications to smart devices whilst the medical area makes progress at a much slower rate.

Apps like this ECG (Electrocardiogram) can allow users to monitor their own heart and record the information to pass to their doctor. Already apps are available to [...]

Sharing a big pot for wind farms

There is still money to be made chasing after the global warming scam. Our government, and others, have commited a fortune and the future of our electricity supply on wind farms. I suspect they measured the hot air in Westminister and assumed that was replicated all over the country. If so that would certainly [...]