When the last ATC project failed disastrously, people were already playing online games over phone modems. Now we have massively multiplayer games, with gigahertz hardware dedicated to each user (your PC, that is), and ATC is still being done on single mainframes. Quick scan suggests six thousand planes in the air at a time over the US; let's call it ten thousand. Dedicate a CPU to each plus some hierarchy of busy areas and regional control; allow $1000 per CPU/system (and its share of comm bandwidth); call it $10 million. Sounds like an interesting project. :-)

Yes, it is operator error that missed the reading. What I suggest is and independent mechanism to confirm dosage. Around my lab, we do x-ray on materials samples (non-medical equipment, mind you). The machine operator is required to wear a film badge. It seems to me, that when you are intentionally dosing humans with radiation, an independent mechanism should be in place to confirm exposure, and tests should be done prior to using new programs or techniques that are out of normal operating parameters.

You cannot sense radiation until it is too late. Therefore, give the patient a dosimeter (film badge or something of like functionality) to confirm exposure. To me this should be basic radiation safety.

I believe that routine operation of the equipment leads to complacency and a cavalier attitude. I handle chemicals on a routine basis, and I know when I'm being cavalier with them, but I'm usually the only one in immediate danger.

We could very easily overcome the tragedy of the slashes if only we would agree to lose the totally usless www. that most websites still advertise. What's wrong with encouraging users to enter a simple http://example.com/ rather than insisting on http://www.example.com/ ?

Not only that, but the first time a trader can't make a trade because the device tells them to chill out, that sucker is flying through a window.

When I (from the dutch site) look it up, its 369 EUR for the Linux version with a 1024x600 display, and 359 EUR for the windows version (with a 1366x768 display). So, at least on the dutch HP site the linux version is not cheaper.

But can you really rely on snopes.com for the true answer?

Lets write laws now because the technology might be there in the future!
This is brilliant, I can't find any flaws in this logic at all!

A good friend of mine was using OpenDNS on Comcast and one day, without warning, his internet service was cut off.
When he called the phone rep said that Comcast had disabled his internet because he was not using their DNS server and that if he wanted to have Comcast as a provider he had no choice but to use DNS servers provided by DHCP!

would be snakes bitten to death by poisonous chickens

The RIAA better discredit Dr. Akester before this gets pickup by a major news source.
Actually I take that back. Everybody knows that there is now room for science and research when it comes to lobbying!
What was I thinking?

This was just a partial look at the ATC's systems and these are the kinds of numbers that come up?

"Our test identified a total of 763 high-risk, 504 medium-risk, and
2,590 low-risk vulnerabilities, such as weak passwords and unprotected critical
file folders."

This is just unacceptable, and I bet this get little to no mainstream media attention.

If this is a closed system inside the polymer, how does it stop?

My physics knowledge says that this can not perpetuate indefinitely.
My chemistry knowledge says that is this chemical reaction is oscillating now, it will be oscillating forever.

My head hurts!

Why is Time Warner all of a sudden "listening" to the complaints of its customers?
Does anyone else think that there has to be a catch?

On the one side we have a better source of "green" energy
On the other side we are going to have to kill a hell of a lot of living creatures to get this performance boost.

This should be fun!