March 30, 2004

March 30, 2004 by yorksranter 0 comments

BBC NEWS Terror suspects held in raids

BBC NEWS link Police have seized half a ton of ammonium nitrate fertiliser, in a self-storage warehouse near Heathrow Airport. Further action resulted in eight arrests. Those arrested are apparently all British. (What was that about fighting a war on terrorism in Iraq?) The stuff in question is a old favourite in the terrorist kitchen.…

March 30, 2004 by yorksranter 0 comments

Juan Cole – how the Israelis got it wrong and helped us do likewise

Juan Cole’s Informed Comment link “A subcommittee of the Israeli Parliament has issued a report sharply critical of Israeli intelligence failures concerning weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It notes that Mossad thought Iraq’s programs and stockpiles were a threat, which they were not, and yet seemed unaware of how much progress Libya had made…

A simple theory of cancel culture - by Joseph Heath
As the institution of the charivari makes clear, people in medieval European societies took a keen interest in one another’s domestic affairs. Private life, as most of us understand it, is an 18th century innovation. The important point is not that society is reverting to an older set of norms, but that the scale of […]
Intel 2Q24 guidance disappoints, Gaudi 3 sales expected to reach US$500 million in 2024
Intel said that it expects a meaningful Gaudi ramp in the second half of the year and forecasts more than US$500 million in revenue from the accelerator.
As capital expenditures become focus for CSPs, Taiwan-based server suppliers eye opportunities
In terms of Nvidia's upcoming Blackwell-powered chips, CEO and founder Jensen Huang hinted at a price point of US$30,000–40,000 during the recent GTC 2024. Based upon this figure, industry analysts predict a price tag of US$300,000–400,000 for the GB200 NVL72 rack system, more than double the price of current H100-based systems.
David Keynes Hill - Wikipedia
yes, Keynes like *that* Keynes - AV Hill's son and Maynard's nephew.
GL Mk. I radar - Wikipedia
Blackett formed a study group known as the Anti-Aircraft Command Research Group, but universally referred to as "Blackett's Circus". Blackett deliberately chose members from different backgrounds, including physiologists David Keynes Hill, Andrew Huxley and L. Bayliss, mathematical physicists A. Porter and F. Nabarro, astrophysicist H. Butler, surveyor G. Raybould, physicist I. Evans and mathematicians A.J. […]
GL Mk. III radar - Wikipedia
The Mk. 2/1 version added automatic tracking that allowed the operator to lock onto to a target and then have the electronics automatically follow it with no further manual intervention
AI Mark VIII radar - Wikipedia
Although the precise origins of the concept are unknown, on 8 March 1941 Bernard Lovell recorded the concept of lock-follow in his notes for the first time...The system worked by having two dipole antennas instead of one, slightly offset on either side of the mounting mast projecting through the middle of the parabolic dish. Being […]
Radar, Anti-Aircraft No. 3 Mk. 7 - Wikipedia
In 1941, an engineer at BTH, L.C. Ludbrook, began development of a lock-follow system for the SLC. This used simple electronics that were fed the paired signals and output a current whose magnitude depended on the amount of difference between the two. This signal was then sent into amplidynes that amplified the signal and drove […]
Bird flu virus has been spreading among US cows for months, RNA reveals
Gangavarapu says that dates and geographic information for 152 of the 239 samples have been extracted from a USDA presentation posted on YouTube on 26 April.
Patriot air defenses to be mothballed after decades of mostly gathering dust | The Times of Israel
give them to Ukraine!