December 2011
Fingerprint evidence 'based on opinion rather than... →
So much for all the CSI I’ve been watching:
‘The report also said the misidentification of that print and another known as “Q12” which allegedly belonged to the victim Marion Ross, did “expose weaknesses in the methodology of fingerprint comparison and in particular where it involves complex marks”.
The report also contained 86 recommendations, including a...
UK tests "non-blinding" police lasers | Boing... →
‘My friend Sulka, who brought this to my attention, has some informed speculation about what “non-blinding” might mean. He notes that the UK is a signatory on the Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (I didn’t know this existed, and I’m both glad and sad that it does), whose definition of blindness “is where your eyesight goes worse than 20/200, meaning you...
“If the government doesn’t trust the people, why doesn’t it dissolve...”
– — /usr/games/fortune
Lost Doctor Who Episodes From Space | The Mary Sue →
Dr Venn, of the Arecibo Observatory:
“I realised the signal was in the VHF Band and slap bang in the middle of 41-68 MHz. It was obviously old terrestrial television broadcasts, but they seemed to be originating from deep space. …
“They are signals that left the Earth about 50 years ago and have bounced off an object or more likely a field of objects some 25 light years away.”
“We now...
17-Year-Old Girl Won Science Competition With... →