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  1. Right crowd? on Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship? · · Score: 4, Funny

    You want to ask a bunch of people who live in their mother's basement what you need to sail around the world? Good luck with that.

  2. Re:How about just an iPhone and save even more? on FAA Permits American Airlines To Use iPads In Cockpit "In All Phases of Flight" · · Score: 2

    I imagine there would be copies of the emergency related stuff. The savings mostly would come from all the flight charts that are used. Airport charts, sectionals, airways...

  3. Re:Freaking incredible. on NASA Releases HiRISE Images of Curiosity's Descent · · Score: 1

    If you count that - Australia is always involved as it is part of the Deep Space Network. It just happened to be pointing to it. Madrid would also be mentioned if that was the direction http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/

  4. Same as always on Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like? · · Score: 2

    Well, first come out of your mother's basement and check out what we like to call "daylight". Then go back and roll for damage...

  5. Bitcoin whore on Study Says E-prescription Systems Would Save At Least 50k Lives a Year · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thank you for your bitcoin advertisement. Now to return back to reality.

  6. Not the best hobby on Steve Appleton, Micron CEO, Dies In Plane Crash · · Score: 1

    Apparently this was the second crash he was involved in. He crashed in 2004 as well.

  7. You know what they say... on Researchers Create Glass Just 3 Atoms Thick · · Score: 2

    Those people in atomic glass houses really shouldn't throw anything!

  8. Re:Another security theater excess... on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    I don't think that you can say that it works out just fine... The fatality rate is higher then western countries. How you get that they are much better drivers is beyond me...

  9. Re:Taco and the iPod on Paywalled NYT Now Has 300,000 Online Subscribers · · Score: 1

    Most of the content is accessible, but they count how many articles you read in a month. If you go over you need to be a subscriber.

  10. Product Pushing. on How Windows Gets Infected With Malware · · Score: 2
    Of course this study was done to showcase a product... And it is a Danish company CSIS...

    "With this study CSIS has received confirmation that our security program Heimdal is addressing a market not adequately covered by a proper patch routine or policy for this area. "

  11. Re:I wonder if they have a working fsck yet? on Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default · · Score: 2

    Well, ZFS has scrub which goes through and verifies all checksums, for mirror or raidz it repairs and discrepancies so it is fsck like.

  12. Apple needs to stand on it's own feet on Steve Jobs Health Worries Escalate · · Score: 1

    Any company that requires a specific individual to inspire confidence is, by default, in trouble. Few companies are in the position that Apple is in. How many CEO's could you name? Apple needs to get beyond the cult of leadership that currently surrounds them. I am sure that we still see similar product advances whether he is there as the pitchman or not.

  13. Re:Never Upgrade, Never Surrender! on IE6 Addiction Inhibits Windows 7 Migrations · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand the scope of the problem. Not even a little.

    Companies and governments have massive amounts of custom code which runs only on IE6. The time, money, and effort to rewrite this would be absolutely huge.

    Are you seriously suggesting that organizations just toss out a mission-critical bit of software either because it's old or proprietary? If so, then I think you have absolutely no understanding of what IT works like on a corporate scale.

    I believe the entire Government of Canada has to use IE6 because they have apps that tie them to it. I suspect many really large organizations have this issue as well.

    The entire Government of Canada has to use IE6 WTF?! I take it you don't work for the Government of Canada, nor do you have a clue. I can't think of many of our corporate systems that span the entire government that require IE let alone IE6. Our standard is now Win7/IE8 but you are free to use the browser of your choice.

  14. Re:Firefox is playing catch-up on Firefox 4.0 Beta Candidate Available · · Score: 1

    Ok, so you can customize the UI. Show me the equivalent tool of about:config in Opera, it just doesn't exist. And because it isn't open source you don't have that customization either.

    Never tried opera:config? It even puts it into categories for you...

  15. Re:Wait a minute on US Sues Oracle Over Alleged Overcharging · · Score: 2, Informative

    Other way around... They were giving better discounts to other clients, without offering the Govt the same deal. They don't want others to pay more, but as a preferred customer they should be getting equivalent discounts.

  16. Re:let's follow the money on Digital Fundraising Booms For Haiti Relief · · Score: 1

    I call Bull Shit... If you take a look at one example it details the administration expenses as 6% of fundraising. True that is one chapter, but saying 50% of donated money goes to administration is totally unfounded.

  17. Re:How misleading! on HD Video From the Edge of Space, On the Cheap · · Score: 3, Informative

    When we find God, maybe we can get him to stop the Slashdot editors from posting so many dupes?

    I mean honestly. I logged in, looked down the page, and had to check the date thinking I'd somehow slipped back into last week.

    The last one was a team from MIT, with normal digital stills which is getting fairly routine, this one has hi-def video... Same Idea, different beast...

  18. Re:legal? safe? ATC? on HD Video From the Edge of Space, On the Cheap · · Score: 1
    It is legal and not controlled. You can/should file a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) to warn of the activity. The FAA has restrictions but devices like this falls beneath the weight/size that are limited and controlled by the FAA.

    A friend of mine did a project like this as well with a a regular digital camera, no video. It flew from Vulcan, AB to Hanna AB.

  19. Re:On top of that on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 5, Informative

    What you claim, is I think in extreme doubt. The airbus is 100% fly-by-wire. When everything is working correctly The airbus allows a pilot an envelope of operation. But it will not allow a pilot to stray outside that envelope. When sensor data is erroneous the envelope is erroneous.

    If you read any of the ACARS data that has been released you would see that you claim is false. The autopilot disengaged, and when the ADIRU faulted, the plain went into ALTERNATE law which does not offer the same envelope protection as normal, because the computer knows that its own inputs can't be trusted. Fly by wire has got nothing to do with it. When it knows the envelope data is erroneous it downgrades its protection. This has got nothing to do with what a Boeing plane will let you do versus Airbus.

    Anyway it will take the black boxes to confirm what happened. Anything before that is pure speculation.

  20. Re:Liquify what? on US Trustee Asks To Send SCO Into Chapter 7 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Everything! Furniture, chairs, computers, bookcases. You name it, it goes. This is not so anyone can reorganize it into anything meaningful, this is so creditors get every last stinking dime out of them.

    If you have ever been to a liquidation of a store, after they sell you what is left on the racks, they sell you the racks,display cases, lights, left over toilet paper...

  21. Re:There's wind in them thar.... oceans? on Offshore Windpower To Potentially Exceed US Demand · · Score: 1

    And a country's Exclusive Economic Zone ends 200 nautical miles from shore (with some exceptions).

    Like when the USA either wants to drill for oil or sail the Navy around in another country's waters. Then the 200 mile limit suddenly becomes more of a guideline.

    No, the 200 mile limit is an Economic Zone it has nothing to do with where they sail. That is determined by international routes and waterways. If a route is an international waterway anyone has the right to sail and overfly.

    There are few places where the economic zone is currently disputed.

  22. Unheard? on Are Windows 7 Testers Going Unheard? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I suspect there is a big difference between unheard and ignored!

  23. Re:That would explain the surge in DDoS spray pack on Network Solutions Under Large-Scale DDoS Attack · · Score: 1
    I saw a whole bunch of requests that my DNS server was rejecting. I think for your computer to have been part of the problem it needed to allow recursive DNS queries for the public. I was watching my logs and banned the IP's when I saw them.

    I was getting a lot of messages that looked like named[2476]: client xx.xx.xx.xx#22707: view external: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied

  24. Re:What about "The Source" in Canada? on Circuit City Closes Its Doors For Good · · Score: 1

    They are staying open. They are run by an subsidiary that has already filed for creditor protection in Canada. However they said that holiday sales were strong. They are not part of the US liquidation.

  25. Re:Predicted probe results: on NASA Plans Probe to the Sun · · Score: 1

    • 1) The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
    • 2) A gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.
    • 3) The sun is hot - the sun it not a place where we can live, but here on Earth there'd be no life without the light it gives.
    Poomba - Everything is a big ball of gas to you!