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  1. Re:Google are kings at this on The Typo Millionaires · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Try www.466453.com
    This is Google spelled out on a touch tone phone.

  2. Re:Let the. on The Crawlspace Tankcam · · Score: 1

    Israel made some remote controlled caterpillar bulldozers to trash Palestinian houses after their dozer operators kept getting shot at.

  3. Re:Holy crap, that's my site on The Crawlspace Tankcam · · Score: 1

    I take it you have not crawled under a lot of houses. It gets realy hot under there, even in winter, and especialy if they have fiberglass insulation. You sweatyour ass off in about 10 minutes. When I was working as a cable monkey, it was a joke to "just think of it as a realy dirty sauna".

  4. Re:check out lowkee's YAHOO profile on LokiTorrent Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Well, not exactly. I don't go to Loki or any other Torrent site for linux, I go straight to the source. When I wanted Slackware ISOs the other day, I went here,
    Slackware Torrents Page.
    Not loki.

  5. Re:Old info on Mapping Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Probably from Keyhole.com, which they acquired not too long ago.

  6. Re:Lighthouses will never be replaced on How GPS Is Killing Lighthouses · · Score: 1

    How do you get ~1m resolution with triangulation? laser alignment? I dont belive optical alignment would get you ~1m resolution.

  7. Re:The Lighthouse Joke on How GPS Is Killing Lighthouses · · Score: 1

    Do you have trouble understanding/reading simple posts?


    Believe it or not...this is the transcript of an actual radio conversation between a US naval ship and Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October 1995. The Radio conversation was released by the Chief of Naval Operations on Oct. 10, 1995.

  8. Re:That is until we shut them off... on How GPS Is Killing Lighthouses · · Score: 1

    The 3 meters is the low version currently, it used to be 100 meters until ~2002. Some ships will use DGPS, as do land surveyers, but this equipment is a little on the high side, a little higher than joe blow wants to spend when his Etrex is only ~$100.

  9. Re:The Lighthouse Joke on How GPS Is Killing Lighthouses · · Score: 1

    It is an urban legend, but still funny. The Navy even denies this event.

    Snopes

  10. Re:That is until we shut them off... on How GPS Is Killing Lighthouses · · Score: 1

    There are two main services PPS ( precision positioning system) and SPS ( standard positioning system).
    The military can turn off SPS, or cause it to deviate to the point that its not very accurate as they did before selective avalibility was turned off in 2002.

  11. Re:Old news on How GPS Is Killing Lighthouses · · Score: 1

    Think navigation buoys.

  12. Beacons of warning on How GPS Is Killing Lighthouses · · Score: 1
    critics question whether the new system is reliable and safe enough to warrant the closure of these historical beacons of safety.


    I thought light houses usualy signaled hazards such as rocks, currents, and most inportantly, land.
  13. Re:Scientific payoff on NASA Announces De-Orbit Mission For Hubble · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think you are refering to one of these two articles

    Lunar Space Elevator Instead?

    Space Elevator Prototype Climbs MIT Building

  14. Gravitation on NASA Proposes Warming Mars · · Score: 1

    Now, I have always wondered about something like
    this. If you take a gas, lets say CO2, and spray
    it into another planets atmosphere, you are
    taking mass from our planet, and putting it on
    the target planet. Will this cause our orbit to
    enlarge, while the target planet's orbit decays?
    Its very small amounts of mass, but the balance
    we sit on as far as gravity and orbit around the
    sun are quite small I would assume.
    This is just me thinking out loud

  15. Re:well ... on NASA Proposes Warming Mars · · Score: 1

    Please take into account, this guy/girl does not speak for EVERYONE in the United States. There are a few people that could care less about the rest of the world, but there are some of us that DO care about the rest of the world, and relise that they can make or break us.

  16. Re:For parents? on Round Two for MPAA Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Cool, now I can find all of those misplaced movies.

  17. Re:Just Like That? on Taking My Freedom With Me to China? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, from 1984-89, several U.S. Companies and the CDC, with the approval of the U.S. Department of Commerce, sold several chemicals to Iraq, who at the time, was at war with Iran. Here is a short list of goodies we sold them.

    Bacillus Anthracis
    Clostridium Botulinum
    Histoplasma Capsulatam
    Brucella Melitensis
    Clostridium Perfringens
    Clostridium tetani
    Escherichia coli

    This was confirmed By CDC records, Senate Banking Commision records, and U.N. weapons inspectors.

  18. Re:Obligatory on Lexus Computers Infected Via Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    Not usually Most will intercept the signal from the sensor, then modify it, and then pass it on to the ECU. Most of them ( Hyper Tech especially) fit into the ECU socket, and you plug the wiring harness into the mod chip. No damming evidence when you go for a warranty repair, just remove the chip, and re-attach the wiring harness.

  19. Re:Physical access! on Just How Paranoid Are You? · · Score: 1

    It will drop ANY ip address on the adaptor, DHCP or not.

  20. Re:All this google good news on Firefox Lead Now Working For Google · · Score: 1
    Investors are not COMPLETE idiots. After the initial hype, people will settle down, and at $200 a share, few other than institutional investors would consider GOOG.
    He never said it was out of the range of the average Joe, he said few of them would consider the stock. He pretty much said what you said in your last post. He DID NOT say it was inaccessible.
  21. Re:Physical access! on Just How Paranoid Are You? · · Score: 1

    Your math is a little flawed. there are not 9 positions, but 10.
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
    so it should be 10^4(10,000), not 9^4(6,561).

  22. Re:Physical access! on Just How Paranoid Are You? · · Score: 1

    c:\>ipconfig release 'connection'

  23. Re:Physical access! on Just How Paranoid Are You? · · Score: 2, Informative

    c:\>ipconfig /release 'connection'

  24. Re:Not at all on No More Players for World of Warcraft - For Now · · Score: 1

    Well, as a rule of thumb, they should make sure there servers will be enough for each boxed copy they Produce, not sale. This will give you some headroom, and make damn sure you dont oversale your predictions, because you cant. If a box is sold, the server should ALREADY be able to support that user. If its downloadable, thats another story, but since they stated Christmas sales, and parents are leary of using a credit card on the internet, its pretty easy to assume these WERE boxed copys.

  25. Re:Ping Times on US Air Force Building Space Router · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt TCP/IP transmitted from the ground station, to the satellite.
    This will almost defiantly be encrypted and encapsulated on the ground, and the same at the satellite for the downlink. Although I do not see the need in this, unless they are going to build a constellation of router satellites, and relay from ground to sat, sat to ground, and also sat to sat.
    If not relaying sat to sat, I see no need for the on board router, as this would just be a repeater that the ground based receivers could pass on to a ground based router.