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  1. Fly For 5 Years Straight on Boeing Gets $89M To Build Drone That Can Fly For 5 Years Straight · · Score: 1

    That's one helluva non-stop flight.

  2. Delivery Mechanism on A New Way to Grow Bones · · Score: 1

    And this new molecule will be administered in a potion form.

  3. I've realised something over the past few years on Militants Planned Attack On Indian Software Firms · · Score: 1

    Terrorism isn't terrorsim until the WTC is attacked. And only then is it terrorism and only *that* is terrorism. If you have had 20+ years of attacks on innocent people by a band of murderers based in and funded by some other country, it is just a local conflict largely of *your* making, so fix it.

    And the way to fight terrorism is the way the US fights terrorism and every one else should drop their problem and come join the US. If you disagree the *US* may soon become your problem.

  4. phpwebhostting.com has been good to me. on What Are the Best Web and Email Hosts? · · Score: 1

    http://phpwebhosting.com/. They're quite reliable - i've had to ask for support only once or twice and they were pretty responsive. They don't do phone support though. For $9.95 per month per domain, I'm pretty happy.

  5. India's space activities, a short summary on Third World Research, Development & Innovation · · Score: 4, Informative

    It appears to me that atleast a section of the slashdot crowd seems to think that satellite launches in India are a recent phenomenon. At the risk of repeating the obvious, let me say that India launched her first satellite back in 1976. And has been launching satellites regularly since. The largest number of them are weather and communication satellites (the INSAT series). There are also remote sensing satellites (the IRS). The INSAT series satisfies all of India's communication transponder needs and some transponders have been leased to other entities, bringing in money. INSATs were largely responsible for the communication revolution India experiences in the mid-80s.

    India also launches satellites meant for polar orbits (the IRS series, for instance) from her own soil, has been for some years now.

    The latest news in India's space program is the launch of a geo-synchronous satellite (Edusat) that seems to have gotten attention at /.

    But that's just the latest news; as I said, India's been in space for nearly 30 years now.

  6. Linux reboot rates - my experience on Windows Fails 8% of the Time · · Score: 2

    My RH 7.1 box at work seemingly lives forever; I've rebooted the machine for "therapeutic" reasons after 180 days' uptime.

    My RH WS3 box on the other hand wants a reboot every few weeks. It doesn't crash, it doesn't lock out but it slowly becomes sluggish (99+ % idle time, ever increasing load, ...)

    I power down my other linux boxen when I'm done, so I never clock an uptime longer than a few hours.

    OTOH, the laptop running XP has never crashed on me yet.

  7. I have a lot to say about this .. on Critical Mozilla, Thunderbird Vulnerabilities · · Score: 2, Funny

    but I have to rush; I need to upgrade to Mozilla 1.7.3. Excuse me.

  8. Re:Not a bad start...but a couple of things on IPv on An Introduction to IPv6 · · Score: 1

    The author probably means that more (IPv6) addresses means less pressure to "conserve" them, so no need for DHCP - every host can get a statically assigned address.

    There's no denying though, the other things DHCP can help with.

  9. Re:Is (was) it my imagination ... on The Death of the Floppy Disk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    decennium??? You do mean decade, don't you?

  10. Re:Anomaly in Gravity During Sun Eclipses? on Gravitation Anomaly Measured · · Score: 1

    If you mean that might explain why the pendulum goes faster, no, it won't; it's the *earth* that's pulling the pendulum, not either the sun or the moon.

  11. It's happened before on Purple Weed vs. Beetle · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Parthenium weed (Parthenium hysterophorus) came to India along with PL480 grain from the US in the mid 60s and created quite a mess. It was brought under control, somewhat, using an "imported" beetle, Zygogramma bicolorata. . That was not without its scare though. The momentum didn't sustain though and parthenium is making a slow comeback.

  12. Re:I wonder. on California Grills Diebold Over E-Voting Foul-Ups · · Score: 2, Informative

    Electronic Voting Machines in India were developed by the government owned Bharat Electronics many years ago (before outsourcing, before the IT boom). The Government of India put off their deployment until the Election Commission, the constitutional body charged with carrying out elections, ordered they be dusted off, upgraded and deployed. This is the first national election to use EVMs, but they have been used in state and local elections in the past few years.

    So, no, they were not outsourced.

  13. I used to ... on How Many Readers Speak Esperanto? · · Score: 1

    years ago. It's fairly easy to "learn" Esperanto -
    I learnt the basic grammar in a few days' time, along with elementary vocabulary and plodded thro' a word list for a week or so and got to a point where I could hold a meaningful, short, conversation in the language. But there were very few people I could speak it to, so I sort of forgot how to; If I had the book and some one to practice it with, I'm sure I can be back at full speed in a very short time.

  14. Re:Why o why.. on Scientist Picks a Gem of a Star · · Score: 1
    "And if alien life is anywhere, it's likely to be there"



    says the article. It's not that alien life *must* be like earth's life, but alien life like earth's like will likely be on a star like earth's star. And since we don't know anything about how alien like unlike earth's is like, we don't know what kind of star to look for.

  15. Re:Telephone answering machine on Ultimate Caller ID Screeners? · · Score: 1

    Where are your moderator points when you need them?

    Moderators, mod the parent up.

  16. Re:This is hardly surprising... on Motorola To Spin Off Chip Division · · Score: 1

    Sloth is right; and Wasteful too. They did a whole new chip a few years ago, did the tools alongside the chip (I was part of the tools team) so the tools and chip would go out together. The chip was late, and riddled with fabrication problems. Then they dropped the whole program. About an years work of over a hundred people down the drain. That was about when they started to lose money.

  17. Re:Capping on ISPs Experiment With Broadband Download Capping · · Score: 1

    Someone must have thought "640 KiBit/s ought to be enough for anybody".

  18. Re:How about CD-R ? on Might Flash Memory be a Viable Backup Medium? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Except that after a few days, the data on a full CD-R will be invalid and the CD-R unusable. So you'll soon have a pile of plastic to deal with!

  19. Re:That makes me wonder on Say Goodbye To Your CD-Rs In Two Years? · · Score: 1

    Did you read the user guide?

    http://www.e68.com.tw/circle-user.htm

  20. Ah, the memories... on BBC to Put Entire Radio & TV Archive Online · · Score: 1

    We don't get TV these days, but I used to watch a lot of BBC back when I was in India.

    Good to be able to watch those comedies again (Yes, Minister, 'Allo 'Allo, AYBS, ...). And documentaries; I've seen some really good BBC documentaries; And "Travel Show" with Jill Dando ...

    Really enjoyable and informative TV.

    But the article doesn't mention any dates. Wonder when it wil happen!

  21. Re:$400? on Sony Launches PlayStation 2 In India · · Score: 1

    I'm an Indian, so I should know; able? yes; willing? not really.

  22. Re:Better site on Best Practices for Programming in C · · Score: 1

    I like this one better!!

  23. Re:Legal Beagle on Opera Releases "Bork" Edition · · Score: 1

    > Won't they (i.e. MS) sue?

    How do I get opera out of the market??? I got it!! Let's get them to violate copyright! But they won't do it. They won't? Let's make them!!! Then we can sue their b***s off them!!

    It's said that Germany so wanted to go to war with Poland in 1939 that they had German soldiers dress up as Polish ones, and cross into Germany and get shot, just so Germany could claim retaliation and not be blamed for starting it. Everyone saw thro' it of course.

  24. Re:Wrong term on Fatal WeaknessWith High-Capacity MMC/SD Cards? · · Score: 1

    I believe there's internal fragmentation - which is what you refer to as slackspace - as well as external fragmentation which you call just fragmentation.

  25. That's not nice. on Bacteria @ 41km · · Score: 1

    I find some comments on the report particularly derisive. Consider: It's a *newspaper* report on an *informal* talk; there's a good deal of context missing; It's been processed by a science reporter who had a few column inches to fill. So, the report should be treated with the respect that IMO it deserves: take it with huge doses of salt and wait to see a proper publication before you judge anyone.

    As for Mr. Narlikar, Jayant V. Narlikar worked with Hoyle on the Steady State theory of the universe. Legendary? Maybe not. Try Subrahmaniam Chandrashekar.