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  1. Re:Good thing we dont have Electric Cars yet on NASA Warns of Potential "Huge Space Storm" In 2013 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Example of high power broadcast transmitters surrounded by dead cars:

    http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/empire.state.building.2.641521.html

    The good news is that they tow them a few blocks and it works again.

    -molo

  2. Re:there is a problem on When Will the Automotive Internet Arrive? · · Score: 1

    So if I drive an old(er) car, these stupid sheep cars will give me a wide berth and move out of my way? Awesome!

    -molo

  3. This is the crux, from the PDF: on Google Releases Wi-Fi Sniffing Audit · · Score: 1

    5. While gslite parses the header information from all wireless networks, it does not attempt
    to parse the body of any wireless data packets. The body of wireless data packets is where user-
    created content, such as e-mails or file transfers, or evidence of user activity, such as Internet
    browsing, may be found. While running in memory, gslite permanently drops the bodies of all
    data traffic transmitted over encrypted wireless networks. The gslite program does write to a hard
    drive the bodies of wireless data packets from unencrypted networks. However, it does not
    attempt to analyze or parse that data.

    Doesn't seem illegal to me, but maybe Germany is stupid about radio signals?

    -molo

  4. Re:Something like that happened to us... on Water Main Break Floods Dallas Data Center · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you mean WAN.

    -molo

  5. Re:Video? on SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 9 Rocket · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link. I was hoping for one without the "buffering.. ", but it was good enough to get the idea. Thanks.

    -molo

  6. Video? on SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 9 Rocket · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have a link to launch video? Thanks.

    -molo

  7. Re:Google FTW. on iPad Bait and Switch — No More Unlimited Data Plan · · Score: 1

    I thought the Nexus 1 was only usable on T-Mobile frequency bands in the US? Can you clarify?

    -molo

  8. Re:Downloadable font demo of these fonts on STIX Project Releases v1.0 of Its Scientific Fonts Set · · Score: 1

    I tried looking at this page in FF3.6, Chrome 5, Opera 10, and IE 8. It looks like only Chrome 5 displays the appropriate font. The others look like standard windows unicode font. None of them displayed the arrows.

    -molo

  9. Re:boys drag girls down until they finally say NO on Decency Group Says "$#*!" Is Indecent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What, girls can never be devious or sexually adventurous without the prodding of a boy? Are you living in 1955?

    -molo

  10. License to hack! on MS To Share Early Flaw Data With Governments · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is insanity! So the government of US, UK, Israel, China, etc. will get information on vulnerabilities before the general public? The obvious outcome isn't a more secure government server, it is that the intelligence agencies will get a headstart on exploiting public and private systems the world over. It is a license to hack, for either industrial espionage or government espionage purposes.

    What is a system administrator to do? There is no way to prepare for this kind of thing, the attack vectors will be unknowable by the general public. My only thought is to switch as many systems away from Microsoft as fast as possible. This is a total security nightmare.

    -molo

  11. Gnome on Shall We Call It "Curated Computing?" · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who thought of the removal of Gnome UI customization when reading the description?

    -molo

  12. Opera MathML support on NIST Releases Updated Handbook of Math Functions · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Opera has had MathML support since 9.5, but it looks like this page serves up PNGs for equations to Opera unless the user-agent is changed. When the user-agent is changed, MathML is served up, but the rendering is off, with little blank boxes dotted around (see this page for example: http://dlmf.nist.gov/2.7 ). Anyone else getting similar results?

    -molo

  13. NOT BBC NEWS! on Wikipedia Is Not Amused By Entry For xkcd-Coined Word · · Score: 5, Informative

    The link in TFA: http://www.bbcnewsamerica.com/malamanteau-wikipedia.html

    This site does not appear to be related to BBC News, it is actually registered to a guy in Pakistan:


    Domain Name: BBCNEWSAMERICA.COM

    Registrant:
            Digghost.net
            Shahbaz Ali (info@digghost.net)
            DHA Lahore
            Lahore
            Punjab,54000
            PK
            Tel. +092.3218830642

    Creation Date: 16-Feb-2010

    For reference, BBC World News America has this website:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/default.stm

    -molo

  14. Re:Photo of water on mars. on Martian Gullies Explained By ... Sand · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mars Phoenix Lander dug some up and it sublimated away: http://spaceweather.com/swpod2008/22jun08/ice_gone_blink1.gif

    -molo

  15. Photo of water on mars. on Martian Gullies Explained By ... Sand · · Score: 3, Informative

    The ESA already has a picture of water ice in a martian crater. Maybe they are talking about different types of craters in different regions, but this photo clearly shows that it is possible.

    http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMGKA808BE_0.html

    -molo

  16. Re:We should hide from Sterilizer civilizations on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    Orson Scott Card, is that you?

    -molo

  17. Re:Crazy Australians. on Oz Pirate Party Tells the Elderly How To Bypass the Net Filter · · Score: 1

    I believe so, but they would not be able to end democracy on their own, they would have to amend the State and Federal constitutions to do so.

    -molo

  18. Re:I have no problem with longer copyright terms.. on The Economist Weighs In For Shorter Copyright Terms · · Score: 1

    So it would be okay for them to offer for sale at $1000 per copy a DVD of a movie? That won't work.

    -molo

  19. Re:Cold war is over! on Obama Unveils New Nuclear Doctrine · · Score: 1

    I think you're forgetting about Grenada, Kosovo, Somalia, etc. etc. etc. etc.

    -molo

  20. Re:Absolutely incorrect. on Obama Unveils New Nuclear Doctrine · · Score: 1

    Tell that to Pakistan.

    -molo

  21. Still supported on real OSes like Linux and HPUX. on Microsoft Announces End of the Line For Itanium Support · · Score: 1

    Itanium has not been worth it in terms of price/performance for a while, this just confirms the inevitable. However, people will still be running this hardware for some time, and I expect HPUX and Linux to continue to support this hardware for the forseeable future. Hell, Debian supports the Alpha, and the M68k was removed from official support in just the previous revision of Debian (etch), but then only because it took too long to compile and would slow down the updates of the archives.

    -molo

  22. Re:What's going on? on Garage Startup Develops "Personal Computer" · · Score: 1

    You must be new here. Its been this way since the '90s. :)

    -molo

  23. Release announcement and changelog on OpenSSL 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 4, Informative
  24. Do MIRVs count as 1 warhead? on US and Russia Conclude Arms-Control Treaty · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For those that don't know, one ICBM or SLBM rocket can launch multiple hydrogen bombs. This is known as MIRV (multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles). Each one can be aimed at different target. Does such a system count as one warhead, or do each of the bombs count separately?

    Thanks.
    -molo

  25. Re:4 to 20 minutes for data to travel ? on NASA Gives Mars Rover Extra Smarts · · Score: 1

    Try quantum entanglement. But it is not able to transfer information faster than light (FTL). A classical channel is required to tell the other side what your findings are if you decohere the state.

    -molo