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  1. Re:I just hope on Unix Guru Evi Nemeth Missing, Feared Lost At Sea · · Score: 1

    It is possible to die really fast when crossing the ditch.

  2. Re:Laws of Physics on NASA's NEXT Ion Thruster Runs Five and a Half Years Nonstop To Set New Record · · Score: 1

    Oh no it might just be a question of scale. How about a vehicle roughly the size of Discovery in 2001. Fission reactors for power and iion drives for propulsion. Plan on a ten year cruise to Saturn.

  3. Re:Perfect analogy for NASA on NASA's NEXT Ion Thruster Runs Five and a Half Years Nonstop To Set New Record · · Score: 1

    Its more the long turn around time between observations, new instruments and different observations.

  4. Re:GNU/Linux is made in the USA on Richard Stallman Speaks About Back Doors After NSA Documents Leak · · Score: 1

    Should be called Finux.

  5. Re:Didn't need to be the NSA on US Charges Edward Snowden With Espionage · · Score: 2

    indifferent to spying on foreigners.

    The hypocrisy is strong with this one.

  6. Lets go to Titan. Build a habitat like Skylab. Fit it out with a bunch of fission reactors and a big array of ion drives. Plan for a ten year cruise and aerobrake the cruise stage into orbit around Saturn. Then send down manned landers derived from the Dragon capsule. The difficulty of a Titan mission is roughly the same as the difficulty of a Lunar mission in the 1960s. Nothing will get done unless a hard target is chosen.

  7. Also telex on India To Send World's Last Telegram · · Score: 1

    In 1997 I has at the US consulate in Melbourne organising visas for myself and my then partner. It got complicated and the consulate had to send a telex to the US to deal with the issue. Obviously we used email for organising the rest of the trip.

  8. Re:Security begins with Linux on Confirmed: CBS News Reporter's Computer Compromised · · Score: 1

    Some organisations will audit their code, and when they do so it will be better to start from a small, clean codebase.

  9. Re:Of course. on Snowden Is Lying, Say House Intelligence Committee Leaders · · Score: 1

    OTH maybe she is the only woman who can turn him straight...

  10. Its a cgi script on Ask Slashdot: Self-Hosting Git Repositories? · · Score: 1

    Use gitweb.cgi

    Stick it in your cgi-bin directory and point it to your repos.

  11. Re:Become a NSA agent today! on Google Glass Teardown · · Score: 2

    Join the Central Intelligence Corporation, become a gargoyle.

  12. Re:The coin ... on Google Glass Teardown · · Score: 4, Informative

    Scale? Is not the price.

  13. Re:And where have they put the power button on the on Apple Updates MacBooks and Mac Pro Desktop With Haswell, "Unified Thermal Core" · · Score: 2

    I have a copy of VMware Fusion for her mac but she found it very slow running revit, and the display provided by vmware does not provide all the features required by revit.

  14. Re:And where have they put the power button on the on Apple Updates MacBooks and Mac Pro Desktop With Haswell, "Unified Thermal Core" · · Score: 1

    My wife is an architect and she likes the mac desktop, but she needs to run windows only cad software.

  15. Re:RIP VMS on HP Discontinue OpenVMS · · Score: 1

    I recall on that 730 it was so easy to work out where in SYSUAF.DAT my account was located by the delay between Username: and Password: when logging in.

  16. Re:RIP VMS on HP Discontinue OpenVMS · · Score: 1

    I remember in 1986 this scientist I worked with had a data reduction procedure he did by hand with a pocket calculator. Took about a week. So I wrote him a fortran program to do the lot on a VAX 11/730 (the slowest computer in the world). It still took three hours to run.

  17. Re:How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX? on HP Discontinue OpenVMS · · Score: 2

    Beautiful women would throw themselves at VMS programmers and admins until you finally had to say enough, enough!

    Never happened to us RSX11M guys.

  18. Re:Never hacked? on HP Discontinue OpenVMS · · Score: 1

    Mitnick was notorious for hacking into VMS.

  19. Re:Open source it... on HP Discontinue OpenVMS · · Score: 2

    It will be in Harvey Normans for 130 bucks in a few weeks time.

  20. Re:Never hacked? on HP Discontinue OpenVMS · · Score: 2

    When I worked on it the main reason was that it didn't support most of the normal ways to remotely log in to systems. You couldn't telnet to it by default for example. Early versions were hopelessly insecure. For example it was easy to tell when logging in whether the username you entered was in SYSUAF.DAT by waiting for the login process to read the file to the end.

  21. I will be used against facebook obsessed 20 somethings. Most of the time it will stay in place and they will drive with one hand stuck out the drivers side window, holding their phone.

  22. Re:Double-speak on Intelligence Director Claims NSA Surveillance Reports Inaccurate · · Score: 1

    Forget how cheap it should be, consider the value of the data. Of course the government would throw a couple of billion dollars at it, and find a way to spend the money.

  23. I take your point. I ride a bike myself and my phone stays in my back pack. Currently I almost zero enforcement for the use of mobile phones so additional ways to penalise their use may be helpful.

  24. Re: First on NHTSA and DOT Want Your Car To Be Able To Disable Your Cellphone Functions · · Score: 3, Informative

    Its clear, even from the summary, that the authorities want to disable specific functions on the phone so that calls to emergency services will still work.

  25. Maybe this could be used as punishment for drivers who are caught using phones? There have been proposals for breath testing systems to be fitted to cars which are owned by people convicted of DUI offences. Similarly, if you get caught with a phone, phones will no longer work in your car.