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  1. Yeah I remember that on Current Radio Rules Mean Sinclair ZX Spectrum Wouldn't Fly Today · · Score: 1

    I tried a spectrum in a shop. Every time I pressed a key on the keyboard the TV monitor lost its vertical sync.

  2. Re:WAC on Julian Assange Runs For Office In Australia · · Score: 1

    Thats what she said right before she called the cops.

  3. Re:From outside Australia...? on Julian Assange Runs For Office In Australia · · Score: 1

    Our senators do actually do stuff but I wonder if he can join if he doesn't turn up for the first day.

  4. Re:From outside Australia...? on Julian Assange Runs For Office In Australia · · Score: 2

    Makes me wonder if being a federal senator gives him some status which enables him to avoid arrest in the UK.

  5. Re:Books? on Australian Uni's Underground, Robot-Staffed Library · · Score: 1

    Printouts. But I suppose for some classes of books you need to see the actual physical object, including whatever has been added since it was printed.

  6. Re:Darwin awards on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    Thats true but if you don't know the way and the map directs you off the highway then you can get lost very quickly.

  7. Re:Funny on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    The old Calder highway parallels the new one through Hattah Kulkyne national park and it is a dirt track.

  8. Re:Darwin awards on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you are trying to get to a residential area, and instead take a dirt road into a wilderness area, while blindly following your GPS, and you get eaten by a crocodile, you deserve the Darwin award you're about to get.

    The problem is that in Australia you sometimes do have to take dirt roads through wildnerness areas to get to residential areas. Sometimes for hundreds of kilometres.

  9. Re:What a nonsense on Researchers Find Crippling Flaws In Global GPS · · Score: 2

    Pretty much here in Australia. I have taken to hanging out beside runway 16/34 at Tullamarine in Melbourne, recording MODE-S data. Anything medium or heavy with a normal turbine engine has ADS-B. Many turboprops do and some rotorcraft. But I also found out that tulla is a great place to pick up garbage data, probably from the maintenance facilities. I got one track with lat=0.0,lon=0.0

  10. Re:What a nonsense on Researchers Find Crippling Flaws In Global GPS · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well okay but I work in air traffic control and there is a high level of relience on positonal information from GPS.

  11. Re:Why is this a problem? on Ubuntu 13.04 Will Allow Instant Purchasing, Right From the Dash · · Score: 1

    Why do you use it then? If you don't, why is it so important to you? The following ten thousand lines are the things which I think suck....

  12. Re:Automation and Unemployment on A US Apple Factory May Be Robot City · · Score: 1

    I think it has to be asked what would happen if some people never want to be creative and their jobs are automated away.

  13. Re:Automation and Unemployment on A US Apple Factory May Be Robot City · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But there is a hypothetical case where everything we need can be made by robots, even the robots. In that case we would need a new economic system to distribute wealth.

  14. Going nowhere on Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? · · Score: 1

    Claws kept losing its configuration on ubuntu so I went back to sylpheed but that integrated badly with unity so now I am using thunderbird but it is full of bugs even after however many years of development. So yeah, pretty crap.

  15. Re:Use Vacuum instead of Helium on Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion · · Score: 1

    Yeah I wonder what you could do with a perfect sphere of carbon fibre.

  16. Re:Funny idea... He He He... on Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion · · Score: 1

    The root cause of the Hindenburg disaster seems to have been a loss of structural integrity when the aircraft made a sudden turn before landing. The turn ruptured a gas bag and released hydrogen into the atmosphere, Other airship designs are vulnerable to this as well. But I have an idea: lets fill it with vacuum.

  17. Re:Every decade event on Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion · · Score: 1

    Orders of magnitude better than a balloon.

  18. Re:FedEx on Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion · · Score: 1

    I remember when a blimp got away during a storm over Melbourne. The TV crew got some great footage of the horizon swinging around by 180 degrees every few seconds.

  19. Re:FedEx on Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion · · Score: 1

    At 120 knots, they're not fast, but if the cost works out that you can take a longer, more comfortable flight, more like traveling by large boat, some might prefer it over a traditional flight for vacation destinations and such.

    Fast air travel is cheap because you don't have to pay high labor costs for more than a few hours. Slow air travel would be as expensive as living in a hotel for the duration of the flight, as is sea travel.

  20. Re:End-to-end encryption on ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You terrorist you.

  21. Re:That's only one of the problems on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 1

    It's also illegal to show that design to any person of Chinese citizenship

    And perfectly legal if they have changed their citizenship, regardless of who they might be feeding information to.

  22. Re:For those of us alive when this was launched, on Voyager 1, So Close To Interstellar Space That We Can Taste It! · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well there is New Horizons.

  23. Re:Is it writable on First Direct Image of DNA Double Helix · · Score: 1

    Yes, probably.

  24. Re:I'm still trying to wrap my brain around... on FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn · · Score: 1

    I once bought a computer from a small shop which I intended to use as a linux server

    Wouldn't it have been more cost effective to use the computer as a linux server? :P

    I don't get you. Thats what I did.

  25. Is it writable on First Direct Image of DNA Double Helix · · Score: 1

    Brings to mind the teams which were using an instrument like the SEM to deposit atoms on to a surface. Could the same be done with DNA, ie, use the needle to modify the molecule?