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"Tube Map" Created For the Milky Way 142

astroengine writes "Assuming you had an interstellar spaceship, how would you navigate around the galaxy? For starters, you'd probably need a map. But there's billions of stars out there — how complex would that map need to be? Actually, Samuel Arbesman, a research fellow from Harvard, has come up with a fun solution. He created the 'Milky Way Transit Authority (MWTA),' a simple transit system in the style of the iconic London Underground 'Tube Map.' (Travel Tip: Don't spend too much time loitering around the station at Carina, there's some demolition work underway.)"

Comment 75% of apps? Shaa, right! (Score 4, Interesting) 277

"It also runs about 75 per cent of the world's business applications"

Gee, I didn't know Windows Apps were coded in COBOL.

Come on, 75% is a HIGHLY dubious claim. Where's the source / proof / evidence? Where I work, we have nearly 200 business apps and I'm pretty sure less than 2% of business apps were made in COBOL - possibly even 0%.

Adeptus

Comment Top 10 why IPv4 will be around for decades... (Score 0) 169

10. Who the fcsk wants to ping 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 on a daily basis ?!?
9. As *some* organizations migrate to IPv6, their IPv4 addresses will be released for use by other organizations!
8. IPv6 is a waste of bandwidth with its huge headers. PPS (packets per second) router ratings go way down - so you shorten your network hardware life-cycle + pay much more bandwidth while payload throughput is the same is less - this is very wasteful.
7. Re-training your entire IT staff on IPv6 is going to be a huge pain in the *** and will drive costs up, not only in training but the extra downtime caused in the first couple of years due to human error.
6. Initially you'll likely have to increase your IT budget just to purchase IPv4 to IPv6 gateways, as few large organizations are going to attempt a big-bang flip.
5. The probability of errors in troubleshooting & configuration increases 4 fold as the addresses are 4 times as long, nevermind they are Hex to boot.
4. 95% of the features of IPv6 can and area already being done in IPv4 years ago.
3. There's tonnes of free $$ to be made in renting out IPv4 space in Asia. Just ask the Telcos!
2. Organizations running critical propriatary software (i.e. not off the shelf) (i.e. banks, hospitals, military, etc) are going to have to spend BILLIONS in software re-writes, QA & testing... for what visible gains. Where's the IPv6 ROI case ?!??
1. And lastly, don;t forget KISS and If it ain't broke... DONT FIX IT!

Wake me up when * I * run out of IPv4 addresses.
Adeptus

Comment Using GM based Soy is bad for us (Score 2, Interesting) 389

Have your managers watch "The Future of Food" (google it), and how thousands of North American farms are forced to grow genetically modified Soy crops instead of natural and varied food/plant species and they may realize that while it's greener, it's not necessarily the most moral or genetically diverse thing to be doing.

Comment $14.3Million USD in 2 years = 1 Euro (Score 3, Funny) 723

The timing is priceless!I can only see this as a heads I win, tails I win for the Pirate Bay....

1) If they win, they win.
2) If they lose and have to pay $150,000 in 2 years or god forbid $14.3 Million USD, it's ok, in 2 years the USD will be as worthless as Zimbabwae dollars, so really $14.3 Million USD will be less than pocket change.

GO PIRATE BAY!

Comment Good Luck with that! (Score 4, Insightful) 134

Newsflash: Mumbai has 17 MILLION people. Granted at most 500,000 have computers.

But still the level of computer literacy in Mumbai in police force is complete joke. Hey, their government offices don't even have computers.

I think the most ridiculous thing is that there's countless MILLIONS starving on the streets and now they are going to equip police with laptops to chase after unprotected WiFi signals?

Didn't they get the memo a few months ago that even WPA2 was cracked with Nvidia CPU/GPUs?

What are they going to do, enforce people to implement breakable security? Where's the sense in that.

Indian stock market is down over 60%, I think the police should be focusing their efforts on preventing civil unrest. And government spending their money far more wisely. People are starving everywhere you look in Mumbai, not to say the same thing in just about every other Indian city.

But that's just my 2 cents.

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