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  1. Re:that is god awful by Netsnipe · · Score: 1 · on ATI's Radeon Linux drivers no longer supported?

    Log and config posted at:
    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~alau/slashdot/

  2. Re:The web? by Thorgal · · Score: 1 · on Red Hat Plans Open Source Java

    Some nice non-game applets I found recently: here and here.

  3. Re:Doom 3: Playing it by trashyspaceman · · Score: 1 · on Doom III Trailer Debuts At E3

    You don't need a fast pc at all to play!
    Fortunately the amazing shadowing effects can be turned right up so even a TNT1 can play it smoothly (60FPS)
    Here's a screenshot of the first part of the demo
    Here's a hallway, look at that detailed rendering!

  4. Re:Doom 3: Playing it by trashyspaceman · · Score: 1 · on Doom III Trailer Debuts At E3

    You don't need a fast pc at all to play!
    Fortunately the amazing shadowing effects can be turned right up so even a TNT1 can play it smoothly (60FPS)
    Here's a screenshot of the first part of the demo
    Here's a hallway, look at that detailed rendering!

  5. NUMA by TheRealRamone · · Score: 5, Informative · on Remote Direct Memory Access Over IP

    This article defines NUMA as

    "an acronym for Non-Uniform Memory Access. As its name implies, it describes a class of multiprocessors where the memory latency to different sections of memory are visible to the programmer or operating system, and the placement of pages are controlled by software. This is in contrast to shared memory systems where the memory latency is uniform or appears to be uniform. ...may be further subdivided into subtypes. For example, local/remote and local/global/remote architectures. Local/remote machines have two types of memory: local (fast) and remote (slow). Local/global/remote machines add one more type of memory, global, which is between the local and remote memories in speed."
    which seems to cover all of this.
  6. nfs isnt responsible for authentication by Paul+Jakma · · Score: 1 · on Tridgell Taking Samba Beyond POSIX

    ok... you're completely wrong about NFS and security.

    It does not rely on hostnames for security, it does not rely on trusting the client to authenticate the user. NFS in fact relies solely on /RPC/ to provide the security. The mechanics of authentication or securing the RPC transport just are plain not in the remit of NFS.

    Sun RPC in fact can be quite secure. There are various security mechanisms it can employ, and the problems you're just describing are all with one specific mechanism: auth_unix. It just happens to be the most commonly used one, and the only one supported on linux. However, if you use Solaris or OpenBSD there are other mechanisms available, eg auth_dh (public key based i think), auth_kerb (kerberosv4 - was secure, but flaws are known) or auth_gss (Most recent mechanism: Generic Security API / Kerberos V5 typically - which can be quite secure.).

    The problem is that auth_unix is the easy option, and the only one that is guaranteed to be implemented by RPC. However, thankfully, with NFSv4 this will change as it makes support for AUTH_GSS and /mandatory/, which linux 2.5 has support for (not sure though whether all the userspace support is there yet). So 2.6 will hopefully at last support high-strength secure authentication for RPC (and hence for NFS v2,3 and 4) via the AUTH_GSS rpc_sec auth mechanism.

    See:

    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/conf/lca2002/lca -nfsd-auth/paper/node2.html

    and the rpc and rpc_secure (if your system supports it) man pages for more info on RPC security.

    Anyway, stop blaming NFS for things that are /not/ its fault.

  7. Re:GLONASS and the EU system by Will242 · · Score: 1 · on Slashback: Security, Telephony, Solicitude

    Likely most GPS receiver manufacturers are waiting for the new civilian signals to become active on L2 (~1.2Ghz) and L5 (~1.1Ghz) to introduce dual-frequency systems. Here's a good paper about the new GPS signals: Modernization of GPS

    Starting this year, all new GPS satellites launched are broadcasting the civilian code on L2, so it'll only be a few years until dual-frequency accuracy is available to everyone (assuming the manufacturers get the new receivers out the door).
    Like you said, GLONASS receivers are a bit hard to come by...

  8. Impossible:Re:You angle the sail, and/or you tack. by Foosinho · · Score: 1 · on Highlift Systems' Space Elevator In The News Again

    Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.

    Physics of Sailing

    You can't tack in a solar wind because there is nothing to provide sideslip resistance like water does for a sailboat.

    Unless you use chemical engines, but then I'm pretty sure you'd be better off dropping the sails if you wanted to to head towards a star.

  9. Necessary to whom? by LinuxGeek · · Score: 1 · on South Pole to Get Highway
    Your 'is this necessary' question is without context. Given more information about the intended purpose:
    An initial purpose for the highway will be to help lay a $250-million fibre-optic cable to the Scott-Amundsen base. The cable, which should be completed within five years, will revolutionise communications at the Pole.

    Then, yes, the road is necessary. If you understand the research and observations that take place there, then you know that very useful environmental research is part of what they do. If you want to learn more, then try the links here , here, here, here and here.

    Your question actually prompted me to find out more about the south pole research. Thanks!
  10. Crackers? They should jail whoever wrote this.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Appropriate Punishment For Crackers?

    My eyes! The goggles do nothing!

  11. o! the humanity! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on KOffice 1.2.1 Supported by DRT Design Recovery Too

    My eyes! The goggles do nothing!

  12. Round of applause. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on KOffice 1.2.1 Supported by DRT Design Recovery Too
    Everyone, please put your hands together for:



    Congratulations, may your future career in the confines of Randwick Asylum be long and fruity.

  13. Round of applause. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on KOffice 1.2.1 Supported by DRT Design Recovery Too
    Everyone, please put your hands together for:



    Congratulations, may your future career in the confines of Randwick Asylum be long and fruity.

  14. Round of applause. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on KOffice 1.2.1 Supported by DRT Design Recovery Too
    Everyone, please put your hands together for:



    Congratulations, may your future career in the confines of Randwick Asylum be long and fruity.

  15. Round of applause. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on KOffice 1.2.1 Supported by DRT Design Recovery Too
    Everyone, please put your hands together for:



    Congratulations, may your future career in the confines of Randwick Asylum be long and fruity.

  16. Round of applause. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on KOffice 1.2.1 Supported by DRT Design Recovery Too
    Everyone, please put your hands together for:



    Congratulations, may your future career in the confines of Randwick Asylum be long and fruity.

  17. Round of applause. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on KOffice 1.2.1 Supported by DRT Design Recovery Too
    Everyone, please put your hands together for:



    Congratulations, may your future career in the confines of Randwick Asylum be long and fruity.

  18. Re:it is sad-Frozen dreams. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Alpha Lives! But Who Will Market It?

    For those engineers who like to reminess here's some Alpha documentation to wander through.

  19. 7-17% for PV? More like 24-25%. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Where are the 70% Efficient Solar Cells?

    I'm not sure where you got the 7-17% figures. According to the UNSW Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering (who have held the best efficiencies for as long as I can remember) 24% was acheived in 1994.

  20. Martin Green and the World Efficiency Record by omle · · Score: 1 · on Where are the 70% Efficient Solar Cells?

    I'm amazed nobody has mentioned the work of Martin Green at the University of NSW in Australia. For many years, Martin has held the world record for solar cell efficiency for more than a decade, continually pushing the upper bound. I believe the current record is around 30%, as described here. Martin was the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, aka the "alternative Nobel Prize" in 2002, and the Australia Prize in 1999. He appears to be the Nakamura (world leader in the development of LEDs) of the solar cell world.

  21. Re:Linux kernel did not need GCC/GNU/RMS by njchick · · Score: 3, Informative · on Linus Is A Hero

    Two other free compilers:
    lcc
    TenDRA
    If not gcc, there would be even more free compilers. Writing a compiler is not as simple as writing another ICQ client, but it's still not rocket science.

  22. Re:UNSW (Computer Science and Engineering) by Chilli · · Score: 1 · on Aussie Uni Dumps Dual-Boot In Favor of Linux
    Now they have (or are) moving to Intel Linux.
    All our student computer labs, except two, are running a customised version of Debian GNU/Linux. One exception is a Windows lab used for a course that depends on some Windows software. The second non-Linux lab is a Mac-based HCI lab. Overall, there are 20 Linux labs; see this overview for details. In addition, almost all of our servers run on GNU/Linux.

    CSE.UNSW has a long Unix tradition, part of which has been publicised by the Salon article about John Lions.

    Chilli

  23. Re:UNSW (Computer Science and Engineering) by Chilli · · Score: 1 · on Aussie Uni Dumps Dual-Boot In Favor of Linux
    Now they have (or are) moving to Intel Linux.
    All our student computer labs, except two, are running a customised version of Debian GNU/Linux. One exception is a Windows lab used for a course that depends on some Windows software. The second non-Linux lab is a Mac-based HCI lab. Overall, there are 20 Linux labs; see this overview for details. In addition, almost all of our servers run on GNU/Linux.

    CSE.UNSW has a long Unix tradition, part of which has been publicised by the Salon article about John Lions.

    Chilli

  24. Re:For contrast, move to Kennesaw by x1048576 · · Score: 1 · on An Unbiased Analysis of Gun Crime vs. Gun Control?
    If you look at official FBI statistics for Kennesaw you find that crime did not decrease following their law requiring gun ownership. The only statistics that show this appear to have been made up.

    More details are here.

  25. Re:More Guns, Less Crime by John Lott by x1048576 · · Score: 1 · on An Unbiased Analysis of Gun Crime vs. Gun Control?
    Lott did not set out to show that gun control reduced crime. If you look at his previous work you'll see that it pretty strongly libertarian.

    If you want to find out what is wrong with Lott's claims, please read my critique of his work. (Also available from the first page of your google search).

  26. Foucault Pendulum + Topology, a point of suspicion by wilgamesh · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Theoretical Physics Breakthrough or Hoax?

    I bet most nonphysics /. readers will find the original Bogdanov papers quite difficult to read, and perhaps the theses even more so since they are in French. But I can show here some very simple things that will make nonphysics reader very suspicious about the Bogdanov twin's work.

    As some /. readers have pointed out already, John Baez, the UCI physics prof, criticizes a very specific passage from one thesis, involving the Foucault pendulum part. You don't have to read everything, just see that Bogdanov mentions the pendulum and topology in one breath! here I quote from Baez's webpage:

    "It goes on to discuss the supposed connection between N = 2 supergravity, Donaldson theory, KMS states and the Foucault pendulum experiment, which he claims "cannot be explained satisfactorily in either classical or relativistic mechanics". If you know some physics you'll find this statement slightly odd.

    After several pages he concludes: We draw from the above that whatever the orientation, the plane of oscillation of Foucault's pendulum is necessarily aligned with the initial singularity marking the origin of physical space S3, that of Euclidean space E4 (described by the family of instantons Ibeta of whatever radius beta), and, finally, that of Lorentzian space-time M4.

    Zounds! He took that pendulum and rode it right off into hyperspace..."

    And this Foucault pendulum quote you can obtain directly from one Bogdanov thesis.

    The Foucault pendulum bit is on page 49/162 of the thesis, in French. It's easy to read and probably will parse in babelfish.

    So what's the big hoopla about Foucault's pendulum and the supergravity stuff? Well, Foucault's pendulum, contrary to the Bogdanov thesis that it's not understood in classical mechanics, is really well understood, at least the regular ole' Foucault pendulum. It's basically a free-swinging pendulum, that over time, rotates its plane of swinging because of the Coriolis force. You can check it out in any decent undergrad mechanics text, such as my dusty copy of Marion/Thornton classical dynamics, page 399, where the solution is quietly sitting. Or you can read this little web tidbit.

    That a PHD physics candidate would be trying to tell us there is some connection between the very earthly, understood Foucault pendulum, and the big bang (initial singularity) really stretches the imagination! But again, this just makes one suspicious, and doesn't prove anything.

  27. Didjeridus by jukal · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Scientists Create Lullabies From Brain Waves

    I quess australian aboriginals have knewn this for long. Have you ever heard someone really good play a didjeridu (didgeridoo)? Have sleeping problems? Our first son had some, then one day, we put the didjeridu cassette in the player, and not just our boy, but rest of the family felt asleep in a matter of minutes. If you have never heard with it sounds like, here is some samples. If brain waves don't sound like that, I am amazed ;))

  28. I'm the researcher by waleedk · · Score: 1 · on Speech For The Deaf
    Hi everyone,

    Thanks for everyone's comments. I'm the one who did the work. If you want to find out more, there's more info at my PhD web page.

  29. I am linus' karma ho by philam3nt · · Score: 3, Informative · on Speech For The Deaf

    A much more informative page that explains the technology (called GRASP - Glove-based Recognition of Auslan using Simple Processing) briefed in the CNN article can be found on Waleed Kadous's website:

    GRASP Site:
    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~waleed/thesis.htm l

    More generalized Gesture & Sign Language Recognition Research:
    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~waleed/gsl-rec/

    Also see the self-proclaimed Gesture Recognition Home Page (good resource, tons of links)
    http://www.cybernet.com/~ccohen/

    Or just search google like I did for 'Machine Gesture Sign Language' and get a wealth of links.
    </whoring>

  30. I am linus' karma ho by philam3nt · · Score: 3, Informative · on Speech For The Deaf

    A much more informative page that explains the technology (called GRASP - Glove-based Recognition of Auslan using Simple Processing) briefed in the CNN article can be found on Waleed Kadous's website:

    GRASP Site:
    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~waleed/thesis.htm l

    More generalized Gesture & Sign Language Recognition Research:
    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~waleed/gsl-rec/

    Also see the self-proclaimed Gesture Recognition Home Page (good resource, tons of links)
    http://www.cybernet.com/~ccohen/

    Or just search google like I did for 'Machine Gesture Sign Language' and get a wealth of links.
    </whoring>

  31. First year by bertok · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Memorable Programming Assignments?
    I studied Computer Science at the University of New South Wales. The introductory computer course in first year was "Comp 1A". Instead of C, C++ or Java, we started with a language called Haskell, a pure functional language. Everything has to be an input to a function, or an output - no local variables, no assignment, no loops. The only available form of high level flow control is recursion. After a few weeks, we could write functions to solve simple problems like: Write a function that has an integer input 'n' that returns a square character array representing the image of a square with side-length 'n'. Trivial stuff, even for beginner programmers.

    Sometime in the fourth week, our lecturer announced the eagerly anticipated first Assignment. I couldn't wait, because I expected to ace it, after all, I had years of programming experience, a huge advantage over my peers. Not so: We had to write an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program. I was stunned. I had never done anything that complex in my life, in any language, and now I was being asked to do it in a functional language! However, many people achieved recognition rates over 80%, and some people rates as high as 98%, even though most students were first-time programmers. It just goes to show what people are capable of when pushed.

    The same lecturer (Andrew Taylor) later came up with a whole series of Evil assignments -- his students tell stories about them to this day. For example, our second assignment in Comp 1A was to write an AI for the card game Hearts. To mark the assignment, he wrote a system that ran submissions in randomly chosen four-player games automatically, and ranked them by total score after some number of games. Half the marks were based on the performance of your AI! He even made the ranking software available beforehand so that students could test their algorithms against each other in mini-tournaments.

  32. First year by bertok · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Memorable Programming Assignments?
    I studied Computer Science at the University of New South Wales. The introductory computer course in first year was "Comp 1A". Instead of C, C++ or Java, we started with a language called Haskell, a pure functional language. Everything has to be an input to a function, or an output - no local variables, no assignment, no loops. The only available form of high level flow control is recursion. After a few weeks, we could write functions to solve simple problems like: Write a function that has an integer input 'n' that returns a square character array representing the image of a square with side-length 'n'. Trivial stuff, even for beginner programmers.

    Sometime in the fourth week, our lecturer announced the eagerly anticipated first Assignment. I couldn't wait, because I expected to ace it, after all, I had years of programming experience, a huge advantage over my peers. Not so: We had to write an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program. I was stunned. I had never done anything that complex in my life, in any language, and now I was being asked to do it in a functional language! However, many people achieved recognition rates over 80%, and some people rates as high as 98%, even though most students were first-time programmers. It just goes to show what people are capable of when pushed.

    The same lecturer (Andrew Taylor) later came up with a whole series of Evil assignments -- his students tell stories about them to this day. For example, our second assignment in Comp 1A was to write an AI for the card game Hearts. To mark the assignment, he wrote a system that ran submissions in randomly chosen four-player games automatically, and ranked them by total score after some number of games. Half the marks were based on the performance of your AI! He even made the ranking software available beforehand so that students could test their algorithms against each other in mini-tournaments.

  33. Re:Reminds me a lot of... by MartinB · · Score: 2 · on Techno Teddy

    Waving hands to create music? Sounds a bit theraminish to me.

  34. Come party with me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll · on George Lucas May Be Completely Evil

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  35. Perpetual Motion Machine by syn3rg · · Score: 0 · on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests

    Some links to other (failed) perpetual motion machines.

    http://manor.york.ac.uk/htdocs/perpetual/torus.htm l

    http://manor.york.ac.uk/htdocs/perpetual/mtl.html

    http://manor.york.ac.uk/htdocs/perpetual/mtl.html

    http://manor.york.ac.uk/htdocs/perpetual/cyl.html

    More Perpetual motion plus the Laws of Thermodynamics

    http://www.chem.unsw.edu.au/staff/hibbert/perpetua l/default.html



  36. Re:Plan 9 is old hat by naasking · · Score: 1 · on Bell-Labs Releases New Version Of Plan 9

    That's all well and good, but we aren't running symbolic lisp machines. The architecture you are suggesting is what Linux and most other operating systems use, but with a differen flavour: a monolithic kernel implementing whatever services an application may need or find useful. This is a development nightmare when it reaches a certain size. The proper way to build a reliable, maintainable operating system is to have as small a trusted core as possible, then graft functionality onto it via extensions. Not kernel linked modules, but protected memory applications.

    See: L4 and EROS for examples. They both componentize the operating system (which you seem to like), but communication is via message which are byte streams. In the end, the fundamental communication is still the byte stream, but using it you can build an object oriented operating system.

  37. Favorites and team info by SnowZero · · Score: 5, Informative · on Robocup 2002 World Robot Soccer Championships

    (Note: I'm sitting in a RoboCup lab right now, so IMNSHO:)

    I don't think the favorite is going to be Iran this year, but more likely the Phillips professional team, which won the German Open this year. That said, I wish people would realize there are 4 leagues, not just the middle size league, with different robots and different favorites in each. In the Sony Legged league, UNSW has dominated, though we came in second :) There are a lot of strong teams in the league though so we'll have to see...

    In the small size, I'd say the favorites are last year's winner LuckyStar II from Singapore, and Big Red from Cornell University. FU-Fighters is also a pretty strong team. Our team (CMU) hopes to do a lot better this year in the small size league. We won in '97 and '98, but haven't done too well since then.

    I don't know to much about the simulation league so I won't bother to comment. Finally, a personal plug: See a video from the vision system of a Sony legged robot here. It'll give you more respect for how hard a problem this is :) It sure did that for me, even though I've been programming them for several years.

  38. Re:Dell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Comparative Laptop Reviews?
    Dell laptops are sucky as hell - this is beeing written on one.

    I have a latitude c400. Avoid it. Many, many problems with it.

    Furthermore, due to a dell bug in the BIOS, you can't really use it under linux and freebsd. See here for details. And please, send an email to Dell telling them that you avoided thier laptop due to their lack of support. (I already sent them a problem report, they basically told me they did not care).

  39. Re:Support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on How Much Are You Paying For A Nameplate?

    Supporting them in the office is pretty simple

    Support for our c400's would be pretty simple *if they worked*. The internal wireless don't work (W2k says: "cable disconnected"), the video is shitty (it spread scrambled pixels all over the screen in 16bits), the video BIOS is fucked) so linux is ugly on it, the machine fails to hibernate most of the time, the cdrw/dvd can't be dezoned, etc, etc.

  40. Re:intel 830M chipsets by smoondog · · Score: 2 · on Mandrake 8.2 Available

    (Slightly OT) The problem with the i830M often lies in the vendor bios. A good summary of a potential solution (and further problems) is the linux w/ the dell c400:

    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/c400.html

    Hope this helps.

    -Sean

  41. Re:How to Google Whack... by phyxeld · · Score: 1 · on Google Juice

    "google whacking" has been around since long before google.
    it used to be called finding a "one hit wonder" on altavista.
    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~andrewm/misc/segames/o nehit.html

  42. Idiot on the internet by kenneth_martens · · Score: 1 · on News Media Scammed by 'Free Energy' Hoax

    It's hard to believe so many respectable publications ran the perpetual motion story, but we shouldn't be surprised; there have always been gullible people.

    In fact, check out this guy's website: he's selling a book he wrote that explains the secrets of a true perpetual motion machine!

    Fortunately, there are some sane people in the world too. Check out Professor Hibbert's Perpetual Motion Page, as well as Eric's History of Perpetual Motion and Free Energy Machines and Prof. R.P. Feynman's Perpetual Motion Page

  43. Re:LaTeX vs WYSIWYG by Dekel · · Score: 1 · on Writing Documentation
    LaTeX does have some disadvantages, however:

    1.No unicode support.

    Omega is an extension of TeX that supports unicode.
    Even standard TeX can have unicode support: See the CJK and unicode packages (for LaTeX).

  44. Re:Solar cell by Sobrique · · Score: 1 · on Orbiting Lasers for Hydrogen Power

    Laser efficiency
    Apparantly a 'really efficient' laser is 30%, of course this may be a little out of date.
    For solar cell efficiency
    Looking at the tables 30% ish is about the maximum on a solar cell too.
    I was a bit out.
    I think an AC also responded to the fact that my post wasn't a reply to the main article either, so I'll leave that one.
    Have a nice day.

  45. Re:ionization? orbitals? by lucius · · Score: 1 · on Light Stopped, Held And Re-emitted By A Crystal

    I don't have any details either, but my guess is that the "quantum" information (phase, polarisation, etc) is spread out over a number of atoms (analogous to a hologram). The second pulse required to extract the information, I presume, uses it's own phase information to get at the information of the stored pulse.


    Or something.


    Anyway, I haven't had time to read it yet, but you can get all ther details you want from the nature paper (mirrored).

  46. A magnificent view of the Hamersley Ranges... by leonbrooks · · Score: 2 · on Apartments for Techies?
    ...from a scaled-down version of Bucky Fuller's Old Man River city [pictures RH column bottom, Google or Babelfish will translate for you], probably sans the canopy. Heaps of bandwidth, regular supply trucks, an airstrip not too far away, copious silent pole-free solar power (but some wind gennies tucked away somewhere for the few low-sun days).

    Other sites you may consider include near Broome, with it's fabulous beaches, or Denmark, much colder and more crowded but with many lovely large trees, or perhaps somewhere along the scenic vehicle-destroying Gibb River Road.

    (some Hamersely views included here, mostly from Transmission Hill (AKA Wireless Hill or Radio Hill depending on sobriety levels) at Paraburdoo, Western Australia, some Broome views in the earlier sessions).

  47. Re:My chinese labmates use Windows because by Yokaze · · Score: 2, Insightful · on The Ongoing Saga of Linux in China

    Well, getting Java to use unicode shouldn't be a problem :)
    >One thing I'd really like to see is something for latex that would allow me to do typesetting and printing of characters.

    What about CJK-Latex? Or the TeX extension Omega?

    SuSE has some good information about its support of the CJK languages.
    And there is always the Linux Chinese HOWTO, which you've probably already read, but could be helpful to other people, who are reading this post.

  48. Re:Caltech seems to be into this sort of thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Linking Hardware To Wetware


    hahahaha i don't think you silly person

    perhaps you should be looking much further afield to find the leaders in this area.

  49. Sunswift by danjerdanjel · · Score: 1 · on World Solar Challenge Set To Begin

    I used to be with Sunswift (and now work for CPVE at UNSW, where I'll be helping to cover the race). From what I've heard from the guys still with the team, they've got a very nice car put together. While I won't say who my money would be on, Sunswift is a strong contender..

  50. Yo, Americans! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Senator Backs Down On Crypto Backdoors

    Yo, USA! Forget about this crypto backdoor and other crap.

    Use the holy weapon of peace and resolve this situation. NOW!