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  1. Re:This happens quite often in many devices by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Trojan Kill Switches In Military Technology

    This switch ?!?

  2. Re:Putting this idea into good use on Earth by Cryogenic+Specter · · Score: 1 · on Warming a Tiny Piece of Mars For Terraforming

    Russians already tried this

  3. Solution by Deliveranc3 · · Score: 1 · on 2005 Was the Hottest Year on Record

    http://www.livingstonmontana.com/access/dan/107rus sianspacemirror.html

    Geosync above the ocean? Just stop the sun!

    Simple, this whole global warming thing is alarmism, there is a solution and not a particularly difficult one.

    Pollution is a much more pressing concern.

  4. Re:Sun reflecting mirrors in space by vidarh · · Score: 1 · on Austrian Town Sees the Light

    You might be thinking about this. It was launched I believe, but the mirror supposedly never folded out, and so the project was abandoned.

  5. Favorite bug story: by bobv-pillars-net · · Score: 1 · on Anniversary of the First Computer Bug
    Wish I could find the original reference, but here's a decent retelling of the Magic/More Magic story.

  6. Re:In other news by Shimmer · · Score: 1 · on Slashback: Compromise, Bugs, Slag

    Copland? I'm still waiting for Teligent to release their new OS.

    -- Brian

  7. Re:Alternatives by extrasolar · · Score: 2 · on Slashback: IEEE, Liquid, Swings

    If the "eMexico" package is merely a cut-down on license fees, then free software has them beat.

    In a Wired Story we get the following quote.

    "We agree with the philosophy of free software," said Valencia Garcia. "We'll use the money we save in the city's social programs. The slogan of our mayor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is 'for the good of all, the poor must come first.'"

    I'd suggest you read the entire short article for more information. Also according to another article, " The Mexican government is installing the free Linux operating system in 140,000 computer labs of elementary and middle schools."

    ``We decided to go with Linux because it would have been too expensive for all the proprietary software licenses,'' said Arturo Espinosa Aldama, the project's leader from the University of Mexico in Mexico City. The popularity of Linux, as an option to Microsoft Windows, is internationally expanding, while many of its former problems are disappearing.

    Frankly, there's no need for Red Hat or Calderal or any business to do anything. You see, to get Free Software, you have get out of the iron triangle of technology, business, and money. You have to include other rather foriegn concepts like community and freedom. So whats my bid? Linux User Groups.

    From this page I count eleven LUGs that mexicans can contact to help get their schools and organizations technologically up to par. Of course they'll need plenty of other things but the software is all right their ready to download of the internet, to share on CD's, and to modify to their needs. Of course Microsoft won't have for any of that sharing software thing--how can they compete?

    Now...all this information I gathered from google, a brilliant search engine that even you can use to answer your own questions.

    I'm dead serious too.

  8. Re:What's world record for amateur rocket height? by gr0ngb0t · · Score: 2 · on Slashback: Shooters, Ire, Boldness

    http://www.livingstonmontana.com/access/dan/207vau ltintospace.html - 8 paragraphs down

    On October 14, the High-Altitude Research Corporation of Hunstville will fly their hybrid-motor powered rocket from a barge in the Gulf of Mexico. HARC flew it's amateur rocket 36 miles in 1997, a Guinness Book World Record.

    dont know if its still current though. Theres other pages there that talk about people launching from high altitude balloons, and getting considerably higher... here's some