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  1. Re:Was there any ACARS data? on 20 Freescale Semiconductor Employees On Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight · · Score: 2

    ACARS is a network service. ADS is an application.

  2. Re:Was there any ACARS data? on 20 Freescale Semiconductor Employees On Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight · · Score: 4, Informative

    ADS/CPDLC runs over ACARS and definitely sends position data. Believe me, I used to code this stuff for a living.

  3. Re:Was there any ACARS data? on 20 Freescale Semiconductor Employees On Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight · · Score: 3, Funny

    Aren't they the same guys who make Steve Guttenberg a star?

  4. Re:Two people with stolen passports? on 20 Freescale Semiconductor Employees On Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight · · Score: 1

    I think it was the second Flying High! (Airplane) movie where an old lady gets grilled while dudes with guns walk through the scanners.

  5. Re:And this means...? on 20 Freescale Semiconductor Employees On Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight · · Score: 1

    The entire company could be killed next year by a disease transmitted by a dirty telephone.

  6. Re:Was there any ACARS data? on 20 Freescale Semiconductor Employees On Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight · · Score: 2

    So far there is no debris at all. Thats pretty amazing considered where it was last seen. It either didn't crash, or didn't crash where the search is.

  7. Re:Microsoft just doesn't get it. on Steve Ballmer Blew Up At the Microsoft Board Before Retiring · · Score: 1

    - Palm tried to piggy back on iPod infrastructure and went out of business.

  8. Moisture inside the dam wall on Damming News From Washington State · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe the biggest problem with cracked dam walls is that moisture gets into the interior of the wall and softens the material which is keeping it strong. Then the crack opens a little bit more, more water gets in and you have a nice exponential curve happening.

    There was a rumour about this happening to the hume reservoir in Australia about 20 years ago.

  9. Then TLD . and we will be truly fucked.

  10. Re:IPv6 should have been entrenched before TLD pro on ICANN Considers Using '127.0.53.53' To Tackle DNS Namespace Collisions · · Score: 1

    Having new TLDs beside .com should be better for the internet. Multiple name spaces should facilitate load sharing between DNS servers.

  11. DNS server or equivalent should be in place, and forward the unknown domains to external (Internet) DNS - again, their local config should contain an entry for the ".home" zone, preventing an external resolution.

    Yeah but legitimate queries for the external linux.home won't work.

  12. Re:Or haptic cycling clothes on Lechal Haptic Footwear Guides You By Buzzing Your Feet · · Score: 1

    There are networked sex toys right now.

  13. Or haptic cycling clothes on Lechal Haptic Footwear Guides You By Buzzing Your Feet · · Score: 1

    Linked to a lidar system so I can feel what is behind me.

  14. Re:... and today I stopped using the New Tab scree on Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page · · Score: 0

    Let's show Google that we won't automatically eat everything they feed us. Screws up some more and bye-bye Chrome browser.

    Wow you are really serious about not trusting google.

  15. Re:CHROME is turning APE! on Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page · · Score: 1

    Its a google project and it exists to benefit them.

    (posting from firefox).

  16. Re:Whoops! on Spectacular New Martian Impact Crater Spotted From Orbit · · Score: 3, Funny

    Soulskill is lucky the wrong link was so benign.

  17. Strong types on The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On · · Score: 1

    Please give this language strong types. When you have megabytes of code and thousands of functions you can not rely on run time type checking. Its just too dangerous to do that.

  18. Re:Its across the board... on The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer · · Score: 2

    When I was out of work recently I had to do dozens of IQ tests as a part of job applications. Eventually I got good enough at the tests to land a job. I must have a really impressive IQ now!

  19. Re:BSkyB didn't even have a SkyDrive on OneDrive Is Microsoft's Rebranded Name For SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    You can't take the sky from me....

  20. Re:It'll be fun to watch. on OneDrive Is Microsoft's Rebranded Name For SkyDrive · · Score: 4, Funny

    D Drive.

  21. Re:The more things change the more they... change? on Apple Macintosh Turns 30 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The mac wasn't aimed at your typical vim user in the same way a Toyota Corolla isn’t aimed at professional drivers.

    Come on. We all know this. Its a 30 year old argument.

  22. Re:The more things change the more they... change? on Apple Macintosh Turns 30 · · Score: 2

    When this firts Macintosh came out my dad's friend, an academic, bought one. We went to his place to remonstrate to him. We pointed out the limitations of the little screen and the little keyboard but I noticed that the keyboard had none of the keys-which-do-nothing which I had on my CP/M machine at the time. The mouse made text edting simple and intuitive.

    It was the way of the future, and it only needed a short look to convince me of that.

  23. Re:wind on More Details About Mars Mystery Rock · · Score: 1

    Wind on Mars is not believed to be strong enough to move a rock of that size. The atmosphere of mars has a low density and wind speeds strong enough to move large rocks have not been recorded.

    The water in that guy's pressure suit was not a mystery. The cooling system of the suit uses water to move heat around, much like the cooling system of a car. When you spring a leak, you get wet.

  24. Re:Obvious on More Details About Mars Mystery Rock · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Can't be Curiosity debris on More Details About Mars Mystery Rock · · Score: 1

    I suppose there could be bits of the bus and heat shield of Opportunity lying around the place, but that doesn't explain the sudden appearance. My other thought is that this is a bit of crud which the rover picked up during the landing and dropped during a manoevour. We have pictures of the top deck of the rover, but they can't show the whole vehicle.