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  1. Re:Rupert Murdoch can die in a hole already. on Rupert Murdoch Wants To Destroy Australia's National Broadband Network · · Score: 1

    Yeah fairfax lost me when they started trolling for page views in The Age. I don't feel comfortable going there now. I reckon the collapse of news papers will be second only to the collapse of 35mm film.

  2. Re:Rupert Murdoch can die in a hole already. on Rupert Murdoch Wants To Destroy Australia's National Broadband Network · · Score: 1

    I agree, and I am not sure if you are an Aussie but around here in Melbourne, newspaper sales have absolutely died. My local news agency has about 25% of the papers it used to stock. I hardly see papers home delivered now, and each paper is a fraction of the size it used to be. Paper delivery of news has pretty much gone, right now, and news companies are still trying to make pay walls work.

    So this is Murdoch chucking a wobbly after he got the last quarter's sales figures. Fucking google, fucking facebook, etc.

  3. just like a real-life pilot on Man Builds Fully-Functional Boeing 737 Flight Simulator In His Son's Bedroom · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Tail first, into the ground I assume.

  4. Re:Complete idiocy on More Encryption Is Not the Solution · · Score: 1

    Popular mailers like Thunderbird really do make it that easy.

  5. Re:TV on Android Tablet Gives Rare Glimpse At North Korean Tech · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've never heard of an integrated TV tuner in a tablet.

    Thats quite common with mobile phones in South Korea.

  6. Re:Perhaps - From the Pros on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 1

    with the autothrottles “armed” but turned off

    The 777 has too many modes.

  7. Re:600ft above the water? on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Structural issue with Asian Airlines on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 1

    however are unable to "Fly"

    What about that French aircrew who stalled into the Atlantic?

  9. Re:This is not "Computer Aided" issue on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 1

    But are they doing parallel approaches at the moment? I saw a video of a parallel approach at SFO, but I wonder if there is a problem with infrastructure, forcing them to use only one of the runways, and putting pressure on longitudinal separation.

  10. Now its a real OS on "Feline Herd" Offers Easier Package Management For Emacs · · Score: 1

    Previously the lack of a package manager was the only thing holding it up. All it needs is a good editor now.

  11. Re:Foreshadowing on The Last GUADEC? · · Score: 1

    It just needs to support non-maximised windows, and that is on the way for tablets anyway. I can imagine Android being used now for a server appliance. One which needs a simple control panel.

  12. Re:Foreshadowing on The Last GUADEC? · · Score: 1

    If anything the growth of Android makes its shell the predominant UI for Linux.

  13. I think they may be short of that sort of Rhino.

  14. Re:we didn't had submarines in ancient Greece on Sunken WWI U-Boats a Bonanza For Historians · · Score: 1

    we?

  15. Re:the Knack? on Spatial Ability a Predictor of Creativity In Science · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Thats interesting on NSA Admits Searching "3 Hops" From Suspects · · Score: 1

    My pleasure!

  17. Re:Let's try a different approach.... on NSA Admits Searching "3 Hops" From Suspects · · Score: 1

    planets

    Did I miss a memo?

  18. Thats interesting on NSA Admits Searching "3 Hops" From Suspects · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine worked on APANA with Julian Assange, and even had the honour of having his server hacked by the Great Man, so I guess that puts me inside the three hop limit.

  19. On Apollo 15 too on Spacewalk Aborted When Water Fills Astronaut's Helmet · · Score: 1

    The crew broke their water nozzle when re-entering the LM and flooded the floor of the space craft with water. Some of it had to be dumped overboard in cans the next time they decompressed.

  20. Re:What about new talent? on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 2

    Take it from me. I have 25 years industry experience. After your first few months in a particular job you should know everything about it. Years of experience count for nothing.

  21. Re:what dot dash on In India, the Dot Dash Is Done · · Score: 2

    This wasn't using Morse, in fact outside amateur radio, Morse hasn't really been used for several decades now.

    I am pretty sure it is still used in aviation to identify beacons.

  22. Re:Cellphones killed the Telegram on In India, the Dot Dash Is Done · · Score: 2

    Landline penetration was low because it is expensive to run cables. In the 1990s I visited a company who were making fixed phones for houses in Chile. These were big analogue mobiles and dirt cheap compared to stringing cables through the mountains.

  23. Re:Why is water better than Xe? on Tiny Ion Engine Runs On Water · · Score: 2

    Say I want to fly to Saturn and land on Titan. I could build a big vehicle (think Discovery from 2001) and fit it out with a number of fission reactors and a huge array of ion engines. It would have water tanks surrounding the crew compartments for radiation shielding. The mission would include a visit to a small Saturn moon with a known source of water ice so that more reaction mass could be collected. The article doesn't have numbers for the specific impulse of these ion engines but it would certainly be interesting to do the calculations.

  24. Automatic controls on Gladwell's Culture & Air Crashes Analysis Badly Flawed · · Score: 1

    My wife bought a VW Jetta a few years ago and it was our first car with automatic headlights. The problem with this feature of the car is that the headlights are almost always on. Clearly the car can't be faulted on safety that way, so the light controls are biased that way. So on days with bright sunlight I occasionally set the lights to automatic off but because the lights are normally set to auto, both of us forget to turn them back on. It would actually be better for safety if the lights were entirely manual and we had to think all the time about whether we needed them or not.

    I think the same thing happened with the auto-throttle on this 777. The crew were so used to it just doing its job that they got out of the habit of watching the airspeed and didn't notice when the automatic controls were either disabled or faulty.

  25. Re:Suggested name of the planet on First Exoplanet To Be Seen In Color Is Blue · · Score: 1

    I think Uranus is blue because of methane in its atmosphere.