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  1. Re:On a practical note. . . on DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    I don't think your typical airliner will survive a stunt like those. It's not a fighter plane... Once it was done in a cargo plane to subdue a gone-crazy crewmember, and the plane barely kept flying after that. I think it had to be scrapped afterwards.

  2. Re:This helps terrorists if implemented on DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    No need to change it. Slashdot substituted it by ******. Try posting your credit card number, you'll find it work for it too

  3. Orography problem. on Montreal's Public Bikes To Use Web, RFID, Solar · · Score: 1

    Here at Barcelona the "bicing" system is quite succesful, but we have a little problem: our city is lower at the seafront and higher when you go away from the sea. Consequence: it's very difficult to find a bike in the "high" districts, because people uses them to go "downwards" and ther returns using the underground or the bus, The bikes end in the "lower" part of the city! There is a service to "balance" and redistribute the bicicles all around the city, but it's unefficient, understaffed and slow. Any town which is going to implement a similar system should take into account this aparently stupid problem!

  4. Re:natural selection on Creationism Museum Opening in Kentucky · · Score: 1

    Darwin believed that animials behaviour some how directly influenced genetic changes, as this is no longer thought to be true Hmmm I thought it was Lamarck who believed that the evolution was directed by behaviour, not Darwin...

  5. Re:Could someone please patent code comments? on Breakpoints have now been patented · · Score: 2, Interesting

    OMG! I've doing that on the mainframe since the eighties...

    CALL PLITEST;

    Or more recently:

    CALL CEETEST;

  6. Re:say what? on Spain Outlaws P2P File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected, sir :)

    BTW, ERC is a left-wing catalan nationalist (pro-independence) party.

    Another thing to take into account is that most of the "progresist" (pseudo)artists who are part of SGAE are pro-PSOE. So the two factions of the anti-P2P/pro-copyright mob are pro-PSOE (SGAE) or pro-PP (industry associations).

  7. Re:say what? on Spain Outlaws P2P File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    The law passed in the Congress with the votes of:

    - PSOE (Socialist, ruling party).
    - PP (Conservative, main opposition party).
    - CiU (Conservative catalan nationalist).
    - Other minor parties

    The groups that voted NO were:

    - IU (Communist-green).
    - PNV (Conservative basque nationalist).

    So there is nothing to argue about "socialism". Their conservative colleagues are as much keen to bow to the SGAE and media companies.

  8. Re:Possible Google lawsuit? on Windows Longhorn and Internet Explorer 7 · · Score: 1

    This has been explained a zillion times before, but here we go again.

    A normal company can do anything it wants to its products. But Microsoft is not a normal company. It's a convicted monopolyst. And a monopoly has restrictions in respect to what can it do, specially when what it does is to use its monopoly in a certain product line (for instance, desktop operating system) to extend it to another product line (for instance, web searches).

  9. Re:needs some VMS stuff on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 1

    Delete attribute? I'd prefer to have true logical names (environment variables are NOT the same thing) and a versioning file system.

  10. Re:Cringe-ly on Cringely: Wi-Fi in the Sky · · Score: 1

    Unless they are flying IFR in IMC conditions.

  11. Re:What if people start using it? on Traffic Sim Predicts Jams Before They Happen · · Score: 1

    Actually, this is happening (people uses it) and the effect is the opposite: more traffic jams. Read the article: people who uses the predictions modifies their planned route... unfortunately this somehow breaks the model and leads to new, unforecasted jams.

  12. Re:Old TV screens on RHIC Computing Facility Crosses the 1 PB Mark · · Score: 1

    The TV screens are connected to cameras in the tape silo arms.

  13. Re:Best part of VMS? on First OpenVMS Boot On IA64 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The logical names, of course!

    $ define thefile test:thefile.dat
    $ run myprogram
    $ ! Do some testing
    $ define thefile production:thefile.dat
    $ run myprogram
    $ ! Do some work...

    I really miss that...