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  1. More likely... on Budget Issues Force Spy Satellites Into The Open · · Score: 1

    How do you know that that 6-ton communications satellite is just a communications satellite?

  2. Re:Appropriations disclosure on Budget Issues Force Spy Satellites Into The Open · · Score: 4, Insightful
    According as circumstances are favorable, one should modify one's plans.

    All warfare is based on deception.
    Sun Tzu
  3. Re:But the real question is... on More Linux Portable Media Players On The Way · · Score: 1

    Why do you think USB is hell?

  4. Close... on Introducing Children to Computers? · · Score: 1

    I first started to tinker with computers on my step-brother's zx80 at about 6 years of age. Then used an Apple IIe at school a few years later, then a Coleco Adam. After abandoning the Coleco as useless I was computerless untill learning LOGO in school in 1989, then didn't have one again untill I got a used XT in 1991. A couple years later (after mastering Turbo Pascal), I was learning C in DJGPP on a 386 with 2MB RAM, while doing my assignments on a VAX.

  5. Also on Time Sharing Cars · · Score: 1

    Co-operative Auto Network, in Vancouver, Nanaimo, Tofino, Courtenay, and Cortes Island (in BC, Canada).

  6. Re:Questioning this... on FBI Investigating Laser Beams Pointed at Aircraft · · Score: 1
    now tell me where I can get a very light 1 watt laser with military grade collimation...

    Here you go. There's plans in that book for a pulsed CO2 laser that'll cut steel. It's probably more than 1 watt and the capacitor bank isn't very light, but the quartz tube should be light enough to mount on your telescope mount if you've got one heavy enough to stabilize that telescope.

  7. Re:Couldn't they on FBI Investigating Laser Beams Pointed at Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Sure! Which frequency?

  8. Re:Why green? on FBI Investigating Laser Beams Pointed at Aircraft · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I don't think 16 bit DACs would give enough accuracy with glavos.
    You can get quite a lot of precision with 4 16 bit DACs micro-stepping a stepper motor, especially if you also use a reduction gear.
  9. "That just gives the MozBoys a year head start." on Microsoft Not Worried about FireFox · · Score: 1

    But what will they do with it? Look how long SVG's been in CVS, but not in the official release.

  10. Re:yourname(misspelled) CH3ap Softw4res on Vioxx Replaces Porn as Spam King · · Score: 2, Interesting
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  11. Yeah, on Vioxx Replaces Porn as Spam King · · Score: 1
    And I've stopped receiving spam for a satelite TV shop in Soeul, but I still receive 2
    I apologize if the contents hereunder are contrary to your moral ethics. But please treat with absolute secrecy and personal. I am an employee of a commercial bank...
    every day.
  12. There goes on US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33 Million · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Another Canadian icon to the US attack-lawyers.

  13. Re:Soooo... on The Super Superhighway · · Score: 1

    Try driving from Banff to Saskatoon, sometime.

  14. Re:Weaponized Tsunamis? on The Coming Atlantic Mega-Tsunami · · Score: 1

    If by "in the same ballpark" you mean within 6 orders of magnitude (base 10).

  15. Re:advice on Feds Convict Warez Dealer · · Score: 1

    We do have an extradition treaty.

  16. Re:Go BSD on The Semantics of Free Software vs. Open Source · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With a license like BSD if your product hits the big time, your competitor can grab it, change some things to break compatability, and force you out of the market, while keeping their customers and yours from ever making the changes they need to their systems.

    With a license like the GPL, you can never be forced out of the market by your competitor stealing your product and breaking compatibility. Conversely, both your customers benefit from any improvements either of you make, and you can still make lots of money on support, installation, customization, etc.

  17. Re:what about the best clasic game ever... on Whippersnappers Bad-Mouth Old Games · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You haven't lived until you've saved the world from thermonuclear destruction in Missile Command.

  18. Re:Perhaps they should have played Wolf3D! on Whippersnappers Bad-Mouth Old Games · · Score: 1

    One of the many reasons I don't bother with Nintendo... too much censorship. It's also one of the reasons I'd have only nintendo if I had little kids (7 year olds don't need to learn about camping with a sniper rifle, fraging people with crowbars, or chopping off heads).

  19. Re:Nothing new but.... on High Speed Steam Powered Car · · Score: 1
    For a take on this take a Hot Water heater, it is actually (gas or electric) the MOST Dangerous item in you hous a blocked T&P (Temperature and Pressure relief valve) with a tank in ovverun condition can catapult a Hot water tank through a 3 story house to a height of 100 ft, yup thats right, just like those little red plastic water rockets you had as a kid.

    I'm not sure if the hot water heaters where you worked are the same as the ones here, but this scenario is very doubtful here, for several reasons. Our residential hot water heaters are not designed to hold any more pressure than the pipe pressure. They are thermostatically controlled to stay at about 86C, which is too cool for steam to form. They have no valves between the intake and the outlet, but they do have a pressure relief valve on the overflow.

    So for a residential waterheater to "catapult a Hot water tank through a 3 story house to a height of 100 ft" you'd need several unlikely events to happen simultaneously:

    1. Jammed Thermostat
    2. Blocked (water tight!) inlet pipe
    3. Jammed overflow valve
    4. Unusually strong drain valve
    5. Unusually strong household pipes (PVC is not designed for pressurized steam)
    6. Unusually strong water tank, so it doesn't rupture prematurely

    A much more likely scenario is for the water tank to leak, causing a short circuit which will either trip the breaker or start a fire.

    Non-ancient residential hot water heaters are nothing like the boilers of the early 1900's.

    Much more likely domestic disasters are a fire from an electric malfunction or gas leak, or carbon-monoxide poisoning from a gas appliance.

  20. Re:King William's College is NOT in the UK on The King William's College 2004 Quiz · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those not in the UK, "public school" means what "private school" means everywhere else.

  21. Re:Nothing to worry about? on Introducing Asteroid 2004 MN4 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If we start now, we have 24 years to figgure out how to deflect it's orbit. If it's not on a collision course after all, then we still have learned how to deflect a large asteroid.

  22. Re:The real top 10 on 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist · · Score: 1

    Great... a picture of some naked hairy guy with wet clay all over himself...

  23. How about... on PostgreSQL Gets New Website, 8.0 Release Candidate · · Score: 0

    A list of new features as compared to 7.x? I can't find one on the PostgreSQL website.

  24. Re:Oblig. on Is Apache 2.0 Worth the Switch for PHP? · · Score: 1

    In China, Worker-MPM race condition is always positive.

  25. What you say!! on Setting up a High-Tech Language School? · · Score: 1

    move 'zig'
    for great justice.