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  1. Re:Lost inertial reference on Computer Error Caused Qantas Jet Mishap · · Score: 1

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/16/2392534.htm

    "Air safety investigators say they will look into claims signals from a naval communications base near Exmouth in Western Australia's north may have caused last week's Qantas mid-air emergency."

    "The communications base was originally used by the US Navy."

  2. Re:I have never been more proud to be a republican on US House Limits Constituent Emails · · Score: 1

    This is nothing - look at some of the vitriol hurled in the journals. Not so much modding - but the only hug you might get is death grip.

    A lot of the other journal stuff is fine & funny but the political side is rough.

  3. Re:What about? on Tsunami Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 1

    "poor bastards sitting right behind"
    poor is what i thought of too - I was imagining a chain of these until you got to a poor peoples region who couldn't afford them. Waves dodging everywhere until they get to the poor people.

    Engineering 1, Humanity 0

  4. Re:Dual head on Getting Away With a Cheap Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    Thanks

    Sounds like the voice of experience - I hope there wasn't too much pain in the learning

  5. Re:Dual head on Getting Away With a Cheap Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    Thanks - will have a deeper look now I know it is possible

  6. Re:Dual head on Getting Away With a Cheap Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    Thanks - will keep looking - need a PCIX because the PCI slots (2) are full

  7. Dual head on Getting Away With a Cheap Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    I want to run 2 monitors.

    I currently just use the onboard (intel) graphics chip & no I don't play games and yes I run linux.

    Options a) a dual head video card
                    b) can I cheap out and use a cheap ass card to drive the 2nd monitor & still use the onboard chip?

  8. Re:Cobol defeated da Terminator on Don't Count Cobol Out · · Score: 1

    I think this is the link i am looking for (can't get there from work)
    http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/09/javascript-space-invaders-emulator.html
    the stuff referenced is about emulating assembler with js

  9. Re:GYachI on Cross-Platform Video Chat For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Development is active
    https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=533966
        GyachI 1.1.48 ghosler 17 2008-09-09

  10. Re:Funny? on LHC Fully Documented Online · · Score: 1

    Expect a lot of email, your comment was on the front page of Groklaw in the News Picks

  11. Re:2012 will be the year of the Desktop Linux! on What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road? · · Score: 1

    You want a year of Desktop linux - make a porn distro

    You can get knoppix, security live cd , puppy and firewall distros.

    Where is the porn distro on a stick?

    Sell in porn shops - "Your wife will never know if you use Good Times Linux" at $30 a disc.

    Include preset up torrent, chat, spam filter and firewall software.

  12. mononono on Miguel De Icaza On Mono, Moonlight, and Gnome · · Score: 1

    As seen on groklaw
    http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20080709044510241&title=Mono-no-no&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=710941

    http://tim.thechases.com/mononono/

    "Description
    Introduces an intentional conflict with Mono packages

    By creating an intentional conflict with mono packages, this package can be installed to prevent Mono from being installed (or at least force you to address the conflict)

    "

  13. Re:Anonymous Coward on Scotty's Final Mission · · Score: 1

    "How many blowups before we are allowed to say that his stated goal of ten-times the existing reliability has failed?"
    It is rocket science and a lot needs to be blown up before it works reliably.
    Almost every piece of equipment is going to fail in new and unexpected ways. So expect a lot more explosions.
    Then we will have a reliable known good system.

  14. Re:Found an interesting link on NOAA Requires License For Photos of the Earth · · Score: 1

    The US and the Law Of The Sea do not mix well.

    There is a vast amount of material (apply Sturgeon's Law liberaly) on this.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea#United_States_non-ratification
    "Part XI of the Convention provides for a regime relating to minerals on the seabed outside any state's territorial waters or EEZ. ...
    Due to Part XI, the US refused to ratify the UNCLOS, although it expressed agreement with the remaining provisions of the Convention. Even though the United States is not a party to the treaty, it considers many of the remaining provisions as binding as customary international law."

    There is a long history on this - part of the reason the Treaty of Versailles was initally rejected had to do with Law Of The Sea articles (specifically potential restrictions on the US in pursuit of its interests).

  15. Use the source Luke on Book Recommendations For Maths To Astrophysics? · · Score: 1

    Quantum Mechanics by PAM Dirac if you can get hold of a copy

    Old but still good. as one of my lecturers said - most books have too many words between the formulas. This one doesn't.

  16. Re:Open, but perhaps not Free on Linux Alternatives To Apple's Aperture · · Score: 1
  17. I will read the article on NSFnet — 20 Years of Internet Obscurity and Insight · · Score: 1

    when networkworld fix their crappy website

  18. Re:This may be true. May be. on Harvard Study Questions "Long Tail" Theory · · Score: 1
  19. The idiots amongst us on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast · · Score: 2, Informative

    test this stuff for the rest of you

    I haven't had any real problems and flash and gmail work well for me and more importantly my wife who if she can't get her jokes and animations gets cranky with me.

    Those of a DBA bent or with frequent bookmarking habits may want to look at the SQLite extension to manage the SQLlite db.

    When FF3 is released - am upgrading to 3.1 to make life hell for myself for a month or two.

    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008060222 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre ID:2008060222

  20. Re:not err on Coding Flaws Caused Moody's Debt Rating Errors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Coder? More like junior messed up a spreadsheet and higher ups had no way to know if it was right or wrong other than the issuers who pay Moody's & S&P (and others) big time for ratings kept coming back for more.

    Now if the users paid for ratings the customers would be whining pretty hard - to some extent the users of ratings do pay in deciding what effective interest rate they will pay to hold a bond.

  21. Try this one on Coding Flaws Caused Moody's Debt Rating Errors · · Score: 1
  22. Saw this a few days ago on NSA Releases Historical Documents on TEMPEST · · Score: 4, Interesting



    http://cryptome.org/
    nsa-spectrum.zip + Zipped NSA Cryptologic Spectrum Articles 1969-81 April 24, 2008 (31MB)
    nsa-tempest.pdf + TEMPEST: A Signal Problem (NSA History) April 24, 2008

    No direct link to save JY's bandwidth.

    I love the simple solution
    "Instead of buying this monster, the Signal Corps resorted to the only other solution they could think of. They went out and warned commanders of the problem, advised them to control a zone about 100 feet in diameter around their communications center to prevent covert interception, and let it go at that."

    I am trying to get some time to get into the Spectrum articles.

  23. Re:Considering my general hatred of the Pidgin UI on Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork · · Score: 1

    I gave up on gaim/pidgin when it became evident they were never going to put yahoo webcam support back in - as per the gaim-vv track.

    As I only really use yahoo im - I now use gyachi for that and Chatzilla in seamonkey for IRC if I really need some help with my mozilla setup.

  24. Re:The real problem here... on Amazon Insists Publishers Use Their On-Demand Printer · · Score: 1

    It is called 3rd line forcing

    It is illegal in Australia and most other places with anti-trust laws.

    In the US? Who knows. How much have they contributed to whose campaign?

  25. Re:Douglas Adams spells it all out, in various pla on Hitchhiker's Guide Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    but where do work, home & sleep return you to? Could be one of a number (42?) different places