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Mining corporation Rio Tinto says that an autonomous rail system called AutoHaul that it's been developing in the remote Pilbara region of Australia for several years is now entirely operational.

And it has a built-in autonomous washing system called AutoWash, though the engineers refer to it as "Leeloominaï Lekatariba Lamina-Tchaï Ekbat De Sebat" for some reason.

AKA Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat.

I checked news.google.com and didn't see those grey boxes with "facts check". I was hoping to get some insight from the comments on slashdot, instead I see a political sebate between the supporters of Hillary Clinton and Donalt Trump (not really useful here). So, can anyone confirm that the so-called "fact check" is working? There are lots and lots of news unrelated to the USA election campaign and I was really curious how the system works and wether it's effective of not...

If it were "easy" to contain, you sure as hell wouldn't have those kinds of insanely expensive precautions being taken to store it in a jar.

We recently saw evidence of protocols being breached when pathogens way worse than Ebola were found in freezers and open labs that weren't properly stored. No one was infected by these pathogens for the decades (in some cases) they were stored this way. I am not saying that this was a good thing, nor that it wasn't just lucky, but the point is the protocols are almost always double or triple overkill simply to make sure that if a mishandling happens the chances of the pathogen escaping are mitigated.

And I sure as hell hope you're not eating those "easy to contain" words 6 months from now.

And the head of the CDC is like any other elected official. They are not there to start a panic during a crisis, so regardless of the seriousness of it, they are going to downplay it to a level just below widespread speculation and panic, even if the concerns are actually far greater.

The head of the CDC is NOT an elected official and has no reason to lie to the public in order to get reappointed to his job. I am getting sick of people spouting this lie! Most heads are distinguished researchers on sebatical during their appointment and would give nothing more than to return to their research and not have to be head of the CDC and deal with idiotic public panics like we're seeing with Ebola. Stop clutching your pearls and unclench your ass cheeks. You currently have a higher statistical chance of being hit by a vehicle while crossing a street than catching Ebola in the U.S. That ain't gonna change much between now and the end of January.

That's even worse than Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat.

It depends on the industry, type of employment, and the person. In general do not bother with counter offers as per GP. It will probably backfire 99% of the time. However there are people who are so good that they can demand higher pay greater job flexibility. Some industries and locations are also more accomodateing. At one point big tech companies expected high value employees to take a "sebatical" and work one or two years with a competitor. There are also a number of jobs where people are hired based on the person, not the skills. People as actors, some senior management, certain professionals (doctors, lawyers, engineers, architechs), and some coporate sales. Not a lot of people fit into that category. Most programmers would not fit into that category, but someone such as Linus Torvalds would.

1. Never quit without another job lined up or enough money saved up to take a 'sebatical'.

2. Never put your employer in a situation where they have to let you go, e.g. 'let me do this or i'll leave' - just put up with the crap while you look around for another job.

3. Never post your mobile phone number on your CV on Jobsite - unless you're really, really desperate for work.

Where could this technology lead in a 100 years I wonder?

If the movies are any guide, it will be used to replicate the Perfect Being (aka "hot naked chick") from a DNA blueprint, and somehow preserving her memory in the process. I'll sign up as the cab driver.

Try working a job like construction, back breaking physical labor, dangerous work enviroment, and you can wake up one day and find out the company went bust and you don't get paid, or the construction industry is slowing down, and theres no work period.

Nice troll, but during two of the last four years of national economic prosperity, I did work construction to pay the bills between sweet IT contracting jobs (short and paid well, but you can't get by with $5k/6mos).

"Backbreaking" work gets far easier after two weeks of it, and you look about a million times better than you ever have in your life (except for the ragged bleeding hands and forearms).

Job security? The entire duration of my "prolonged sebatical", I saw a few dozen newspaper ads per week for skilled carpenters, tileworkers, and just about every construction related job you could think of (not even counting the ones that require guild membership like plumbers and electricians). At the same time, I responded to all (up-to-)three IT jobs posted per week, each of which had several hundred applicant against whom this 10-year firmware engineer got to compete for the honor of maintaining a cheesy corporate webpage.

Pay? Okay, I get paid a little more per hour than I did doing construction, assuming a 40-hour work week. And any IT guy knows how often we put in 40 hour weeks.


Shit. Why the hell did I get back into IT?

Did you mean seibert?

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Sun and John have switched bodies.

I'm pretty sure John's essence was in Aeryn's body and Aeryn's essence was in Rygel's body. Rygel's essence was in John's body and there was a humorous bit where Rygel in John's body needs to take a whiz but doesn't know how to do it.

If Aeryn were in John's body she would have probably known, or could figure out, how to take a whiz given that Sebations and Humans are similar physically.

Commander John Crichton, astronaut in the employ of the International Aeronautics Space Agency - IASA.

His module - incidentally a copy of the X-38 CRV NASA designed for the ISS, src. Designs on Space by Richard Wagner - was attempting an interesting maneuver - using earth's gravity and it's atmosphere to propel a space vessel at high speed by "skipping it" like a stone - when he encountered an Ion storm, rode a magnetic wave and got sucked through a wormhole through space.

Ends up in another place - probably a distant galaxy by the storyline - accidentally kills a peace-keeper pilot in a near-miss collision, meets Dargo, Rygel, Zhan, and Pilot, get's injected with "translator microbes" and finds out he's on a living ship called Moya and for a little while everyone thinks he's Sebation.

I thought you guys were geeks? :)

Who is this Lilu what you speak of? Is it the same Lilu from The Fifthe Element? If so, her name is spelled Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat, although we would have also accepted Leeloo Dallas or Leeloo Dallas Multipass.

Actually, it was "Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat" :)

Tandem's claim to fame was nonStop. No single point of failure. I believe they were one of the first fault-tolart parallel system for commercial use. They had dual everything.

You wrote your programs in a language called TAL (Transaction Application Language) where you would specify checkpoints. These checkpoints synced the memory between a mirrored process running on a seperate CPU. This way, if one CPU crached, the mirrored one would take over.

Tandem's are (were) used at banks (ATM controlers) and other places needing 100% up time.

Tandem was bought by Compaq, which then was bought by HP. I do not know too many people who still work fot Tandem.

The field engineers I knew said they got a 1 month mandatory paid sebatical every five years. This was in addition to thier normal vacation. A few of the guys I knew would rent an RV and travel the US for a month before returning to work. ...don't know if they still do that.

I think that you are missing what's being said.

Medford is an employee of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. He's taken a sabatical to work with DEKA on product safety. It does not clearly limit which products he's working on. There may be other products that he's giving feedback on. So that it can't be said he is biased or has been bribed he continues to be paid only by the US government. This way someone can't come back down the line and say "DEKA paid you to say that". Additionally when he returns to his normal job he will make no further product decisions in regards to DEKA or the Segway. I think that's pretty clear to say that he will have no involvement in approving the product to the consumer.

I think this is a very good honest move by all parties involved and there doesn't appear to be any conflict of interests that I can see. While some might scoff at $138,200 a year the government pays while the gentleman is on sebatical I think that it is better in the long run to help retain a good employee, reduce the risk for outside lawsuits or costly inquiries or bad press relations.

The shortened version of her name was "Leeloo."
Full name "Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat." Got that from www.imdb.com.

I want a printer like the one in the 5th Element that printed out Leeloo Mina Lekatariba Laminatcha Ekbat D Sebat =)