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  1. Whorekarming by danila · · Score: 1 · on Can Software Kill?

    Slashdot had a discussion about Programming Gone Wrong in the past.

    It mentioned, among others, the Ariane 5 Failure, the infamous Therac-25 accidents, loss of Mars Orbiter, Hi-tech toilet swallowing woman, AT&T Switch failure, a bunch of things literally crashing, etc. And here is yet another article on miserable Patriot failure.

    For professional assessment of risks, there is a Usenet group for RISKS Digest (Google groups) that describes all kinds of situations where technology has gone wrong.

  2. Re:Swedish suburbs? by matoh · · Score: 1 · on Swedish Flight Simulator Adds G Forces


    History of dispersed basing in the Swedish airforce

  3. Re:Looks like an F-16 by ctid · · Score: 1 · on Swedish Flight Simulator Adds G Forces

    It means "thunderbolt", specifically a thunderbolt from Thor's Hammer. I'd love to claim that I keep such knowledge in my head, but I read it only five minutes ago in the link which is included in the article!

  4. Re:Looks like an F-16 by ctid · · Score: 1 · on Swedish Flight Simulator Adds G Forces

    You don't even need to RTFA. There's a very useful link in the article summary. It also explains why they rejected the F16 (essentially, at the time they were drawing up the specs, the F16 had a 3-minute start-up time whereas they wanted a maximum delay of 1 minute).

  5. Re:Enlighten me... by matoh · · Score: 1 · on Swedish Flight Simulator Adds G Forces

    According to the Swedish Military's web pages, Swedish military personnel is currently participating in peacekeeping missions in:

    Afganistan (ISAF)
    Bosnia (SFOR)
    Ethiopia (UNMEE)
    Georgia (UNOMIG)
    India/Pakistan (UNMOGIP)
    Kongo (MONUC)
    Korea (NNSC)
    Kosovo (KFOR)
    Liberia (UNMIL)
    Macedonia (EUFOR)
    Middle-East (UNTSO)
    Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL)
    Sudan (JMC)
    East Timor (UNMISET)

    However, the only time the Swedish Royal Airforce really went abroad was during the Congo crisis in the beginning of the 1960:s.
    See: http://www.canit.se/~griffon/aviation/text/29kongo .htm

  6. Sweedish suburbs? by halo8 · · Score: 4, Funny · on Swedish Flight Simulator Adds G Forces

    From the link about the plane.. scroll down
    is it just me or is that not a house in the background

  7. Re:A Great Story by florescent_beige · · Score: 4, Informative · on Examples of Programming Gone Wrong?

    Speaking of aviation: This SAAB Gripen crash was attributed to the coding of the control laws in the flight control computer. So was this one. And this F-22. And lets all remember the Apollo 11 incident.

  8. Swedish stealth craft by trynis · · Score: 1 · on Russia Declassifies "Stealth" Warship

    Sweden has a stealth ship as well. Here and here are some articles with a lot of technical details. This article has a few not-rendered pictures of it, and this article has even more info.

  9. Re:Some suggestions.. by gwyrdd+benyw · · Score: 1 · on Improving Web Design Without Losing Accessibility?
    Here are some links to using style sheets effectively:

    Writing style sheets
    Web Design Group's CSS Guide
    ZDNet's CSS primer
    W3C's CSS Guide
    A full list of CSS properties (cheat sheet!)

    The cool thing about CSS is it lets the author specify fancy layouts, colours etc, but older browsers etc do not rely on them at all - the heirarchical nature of the document remains intact.