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  1. Re:blah on Panic Over Failing QuikSCAT Satellite Overblown · · Score: 1

    The traffic signal system I worked on was called Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System.

  2. Thats management for you on Panic Over Failing QuikSCAT Satellite Overblown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...and Bill Proenza is right. You won't get the resources if you don't scream for them. It makes you look bad, but the sad fact is that there is only one way to get the attention of Government and it is closely related to the thinkofthechildren meme.

    Make a case, exaggerate if you have to. Get the resources when you are able to make the argument. Don't wait until it is too late.

  3. Re:Would it even work? on Pentagon Developed 'Laughing Bullets' · · Score: 1

    some will be quite accustomed to whatever drug you throw at them

    By brother in law invited me to a BBQ run by his church group. This was a Malaysian BBQ with lots of hot (spicy) ingredients in the wok being tossed around at high temperature. I could hardly breathe with all the particles in the air. My host inhaled the mixture and exclaimed Mmmmm, capsicum spray.

  4. Re:Not the first time. on Some 7-11s Become Kwik-E-Marts · · Score: 1

    Although this time is sanctioned, its not the first time Simpsons products have made it into real life

    A restaurant chain in Australia also goes by the name Lazy Moes. They use signage which definitely appears to be in a similar style to that on the Simpsons. At least to the same extent as the popular culture references used in the show.

  5. Re:Which one are we? on Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator · · Score: 1

    How do we know we're not the one's being simulated?

    Look for optimisations in the model.

  6. Re:If they're doing Norway... on Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator · · Score: 1

    I wonder why the US Military wants to know the question to the ultimate answer?

  7. Re:Not so Definitely on Autism Reversed in Mice at MIT Lab · · Score: 1

    I know that some people in the deaf community choose not to get cochlear implants

    I don't have a disability, but if it was possible for me to get an implant which would radically improve the functioning of my body (not just hearing), then I would consider it.

    Some kind of generic computer-brain interface would definitely be a goer for me. Perhaps more cochlear implants would be used if they were not marketed so directly as a treatment for a problem.

  8. Re:Well... on Boeing's New 787 Wings — Amazingly Flexible · · Score: 1

    My first job was working on a thing called MD&SLMS for Hawker He Havilland here in Melbourne when the RAAF were buying FA/18's. In the same office there were a bunch of engineers building a crack growth model of an older RAAF aircraft, probably the F111.

    I was told that they had sent an airframe to the USA where it was cooled to a low temperature and put under stress. That was the source of their crack growth data.

    This makes we wonder what composite materials do under low temperatures. Would you want to land one in Antarctica, so that the airframe got really cold? If so, what would happen?

  9. Re:September is the 10th anniversary... on Slashdot: Podcasts, IM, Improved Discussions · · Score: 1

    Will there be any funstuff going on to celebrate?

    Maybe they could revert to the original version of the software for a day. Sort of an Antique /.

  10. Re:AIM is Top Dog? on Slashdot: Podcasts, IM, Improved Discussions · · Score: 1

    those weren't really teenage girls

    No Kidding

  11. Re:55 Fiction on Tunguska Impact Crater Found? · · Score: 1

    If you get a chance, read Storming the Cosmos by Bruce Sterling

  12. Re:Google Maps on Tunguska Impact Crater Found? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't seem 'natural' to me for an inlet and outlet to be positioned so close together on a lake

    It looks like a billabong. Very common here in Australia.

    Imagine that the river used to go around the edge of the lake, then a channel opened between the entry and exit point. Over time the inside of the old loop of water filled up to make a lake.

  13. Re:This Mouse is not good it made my problem worse on Review of Ergonomic Evoluent VerticalMouse 3 · · Score: 1

    Try changing to a left handed configuration. Worked for me.

  14. Re:But Is Deckard A Replicant? Or Not? on Blade Runner at 25, Why the F/X Still Matter · · Score: 1

    Deckard was an older, presumably more reliable, model.

    But then he would have known what he was, like Pris, Leon, etc. To have false memories implanted he would have had to be a new model, like Rachel. Perhaps Tyrell was obligated to help the police kill the escaped replicants and he proposed using the experimental new models to do the job.

    The opening scene in the market, where Deckard thinks he has this past in the police force, is in reality the beginning of his life.

  15. Re:Yes, but... on Giant Penguins Once Roamed Peru · · Score: 1

    No they ran in HURDS

  16. Re:indeed on Experts Oppose Classifying Gaming Addiction As Mental Disorder · · Score: 1

    the stigma attached to being weak in character. such as "sex addiction"

    I can stop whenever I want.

  17. Re:Gambling? on Experts Oppose Classifying Gaming Addiction As Mental Disorder · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If the uncontrollable desire to play games of chance (gambling) is classified as an addiction, how is an uncontrollable desire to play games of any other sort not? Can online gambling be considered an addiction?

    The summary talks about comparison with alcoholism, not gambling. Games and Gambling may actually be similar but neither is the same as being addicted to alcohol, heroin or tobacco.

  18. Re:It will never work on Robots To Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers · · Score: 1

    It will never work - those robots are huge, they will never make it across the border undetected.

    They much be pretty bullet proof. Who is going to stop them?

  19. Re:$0.02 says that it melts on Robots To Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers · · Score: 1

    If the vast majority of electronics say in TFM that they should not be "operated in temperatures exceeding 104 F (40 C)," or a similar number

    Microprocessors which will function at 60-70C are common. They are used in traffic signal controllers for example. The fruit picking environment is pretty benign compared to the environment for mining machinery deep underground.

  20. Re:R&D at Texas Instruments on Pros/Cons of Working at Big R&D Consulting Firm? · · Score: 1

    helium and oxygen faucets

    Hydrogen and oxygen faucets would have been cooler.

  21. Re:MS distributing a Linux distro? on Microsoft Was Distributing Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    Australia?

    Antarctica

  22. Re:It does help, but... on Does SPF Really Help Curtail Forged Email Headers? · · Score: 1

    just have to worry about telling SPF which servers you send mail through.

    Yes. I have been through the wizard and I got my SPF records set up. I will start looking for ways to integrate it with qmail now.

  23. Re:It does help, but... on Does SPF Really Help Curtail Forged Email Headers? · · Score: 1

    Why is this a problem? Does your cable provider not provide an SPF record? If they do, one of the variations on the SPF record ("include:") for your domain is basically a pointer to theirs.

    Yeah I just found that in the wizard. The only problem is that the spam can still be sent from my cable providers domain, but reading the other replies it looks like this is really going to put a dent in my problem.

  24. Re:It does help, but... on Does SPF Really Help Curtail Forged Email Headers? · · Score: 1

    I am going to have a look at this because I get about 50 bounces per day from spam sent with my domain name as the sender. Yesterday I got 500 bounces. There must be a push on somewhere.

    The main problem for me is that my outgoing mail currently goes through a server operated by my cable provider. I wonder, though, if I can get around this by setting From: to be from a different domain I have and Reply-To: to the the domain with the SPF records.

  25. Re:Cool a mincomputer on Corporate IT Hanging Up on Apple's iPhone · · Score: 1

    Cant wait till my phone evolves into a PDP-11

    EMail in dk0:[300,310] Web pages in dk0:[300,320]

    Uptime would be fantastic.

    I wonder if there are any software emulators out there?