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  1. Re:What does RFID add to this? on RFID Tags for Digital Rights Management · · Score: 1

    I think that basically, yes, it is easier. DVDs and CDs are not written or burned, they are stamped in a press.

  2. Re:Project Prometheus on NASA's Plans for the Future · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be Daedalus? Icarus was the one who had technical problems and crashed back to Earth.

  3. Re:George Lucas's wealth on The Star Wars Money Machine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    George, when's the next Star Wars movie coming out?
    George, when's the next Star Wars movie coming out?
    George, when's the next Star Wars movie coming out?
    George, when's the next Star Wars movie coming out?
    George, when's the next Star Wars movie coming out?
    George, when's the next Star Wars movie coming out?
    George, when's the next Star Wars movie coming out?

    Here you filthy ingrates! Now leave me alone!

    I think that's what he meant by "earned the right".

  4. Re:George Lucas on The Star Wars Money Machine · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... of course, it doesn't say WHERE he sat down to write it.

  5. Re:Overseas on Nuclear Battery That Runs 10 Years · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the nuke doesn't have to be in a cargo container. It can be in a yacht or a sailboat. It could be flown in. It could be driven in in the trunk of a car. Heck, it could even be manufactured in the States to begin with, and not have to cross any borders. Good luck stopping that one.

  6. Stay tuned folks... on Mars Express Successfully Deploys First Boom · · Score: 2, Funny

    At 1530 BST on Wednesday, a command was sent to release the boom, which forms one half of Marsis' primary antenna.

    The primary antenna's second boom is now due to be deployed on Sunday.


    Stay tuned folks. We'll find out late next week whether today's boom deployment will have been successful.

  7. Re:Failsafes on Vacuum-Controlled Elevator Developed · · Score: 1

    True. I hadn't thought of that.

    Now, if I could suck back my previous comment...

  8. Re:It sounds like... on Aviation Instruments Encrypt Engine-Monitor Data · · Score: 2, Insightful
    A few points:
    1. Military aircraft are maintained by military personnel.
    2. Data encryption, if needed, should be end user selectable, not locked in by the equipment vendor against end user wishes.
    3. I seriously doubt that you could determine anything more than altitude from the engine performance data. You would need data feeds from the navigation system to determine where the plane was.
  9. Re:There's no practical reason? on Aviation Instruments Encrypt Engine-Monitor Data · · Score: 1

    Fine, then turn the loggers off and scrub the data before the aircraft gets into hostile territory. Or, if the data may be needed, then scrub it if the plane crashes or the pilot punches out.

  10. Re:ACARS telemetery data on Aviation Instruments Encrypt Engine-Monitor Data · · Score: 1

    Umm... ACARS is irrelevant to today's topic. We are talking about an engine monitoring system. ACARS is a digital data link system, which MAY get some of its data from the equipment we're talking about.

  11. Re:Failsafes on Vacuum-Controlled Elevator Developed · · Score: 1

    If it is airtight, then you have a problem. The passengers would be sealed in the capsule. Any safety system on this type of elevator MUST bring the car to an exit point in a timely manner or the passengers will suffocate.

  12. It sounds like... on Aviation Instruments Encrypt Engine-Monitor Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It sounds like propriety lock-in to me. There is no other reason to encrypt diagnostic data.

  13. Re:Failsafes on Vacuum-Controlled Elevator Developed · · Score: 1

    There are dozens of ways to do it. They could use a diverter valve, or a solenoid valve, or...

  14. Re:firefox??? on Vacuum-Controlled Elevator Developed · · Score: 1

    Tristan, you're not going to get any usable help here, unless you give us usable information. Are you getting an error message of some sort?

    Initially, I had trouble as well. I was getting a page that said "SERVICE UNAVAILABLE". It was not a problem on my machine, however. There were so many people trying to see the same video that the server could not keep up (Google for "slashdot effect"). I tried the mirror link that was posted elsewhere, and it worked fine. I am running Firefox on a Fedora core 3 machine and I am using mplayer to view the file. It works, no problems.

  15. Re:developed by microsoft? on Vacuum-Controlled Elevator Developed · · Score: 1

    I had a fantastic Microsoft vacuum cleaner once. It didn't suck at all!

  16. Re:Failsafes on Vacuum-Controlled Elevator Developed · · Score: 1
    The tube-shaped transporter carries a person upwards at a steady speed of 15 centimetres per second using turbines to suck air out of a pressurised chamber above the passenger capsule. The capsule is lowered when the pressure in the upper section is returned to normal.
    The passenger capsule is lowered by turning off the vacuum turbine and allowing normal air pressure to return to the upper section of the tube. Thus, if the power fails, the passenger capsule will simply travel to the bottom floor in a normal fashion.
  17. Re:American viruses on Mathematicians Become Hollywood Consultants · · Score: 1

    I hadn't noticed that one. I'll have to keep an eye out for it next time Independance Day hits the airwaves

  18. MacGyver on Mathematicians Become Hollywood Consultants · · Score: 1

    The Phoenix foundation got folded into the Air Force's Stargate program.

  19. American viruses on Mathematicians Become Hollywood Consultants · · Score: 1

    Speaking of bad bioscience, in the movie Outbreak, they project the spread of the Motaba virus. I was very pleased to see that it was unable to cross the American border and spread into Canada and Mexico. Those border guards sure know what they're doing.

  20. Re:Well, in any case on Lockheed Martin unveils Space Shuttle replacement · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see them use a parawing. This gives them the glide-ability, and steerability with only a fraction of the weight of solid wings.

  21. Re:Probably doomed on Open Document Format Approved · · Score: 1

    In the past (before microsoft was even a gleam in Billy-boy's eye) teletypes ruled, and the only way to create certain characters (underlined ones and bolded ones, for example) was to print a line, return the carriage to the start of the line (0x0D), and print another bunch of characters. To move to the start of a new line, one would issue a carriage return, line feed sequence (0x0D 0x0A). It is the way ANSI has always worked, and has nothing to do with Microsoft.

  22. Re:nice but not exactly hardware on Open Document Format Approved · · Score: 1

    Some people cannot stand the color scheme used in this category.

  23. Re:Wow on No Need For Trek Anymore · · Score: 1

    I remember jokes about the "Rocky" series of movies from back in the day. (I believe they were the first series of movies to make a part III). Star Trek has certainly taken the art of sequel making to new levels - at least in modern terms.

  24. The thermodynamic motivation on Liquid Metal CPU Cooling · · Score: 1

    It's to keep the computer cool, as in "radical, awesome" cool rather than "frigid, arctic" cool.

  25. And that folks...! on Lawsuit Says GPL is a Price-Fixing Scheme · · Score: 1

    ...and that folks is why I ain't a lawyer!