I support health care reform, and Obama's plan. Re-read my statement, its a joke and partly ironic. I called NASA communist when it was used in part of an anti-communist movement in getting American to the moon after the launch of Sputnik. NASA has been everything but a failure. The amount of space probes and satellites and science produced by NASA that 99% of the population has no clue about numbers up in the, I dunno, very high numbers. NASA is probably the greatest scientific agency every on the face of this earth, and has expanded our view of science more than any other institution. If this can be so successful, why can't government health care. That is what I was actually saying, but by saying the inverse!

I am really just upset my comment isn't +5 Funny, Christ, slashdot. What do you gotta do around here, suck a moderator off (kidding, kidding :) )

This move by NASA is just another great example that government run health care would be a bad idea. NASA finally realized its history of supporting communism/socialism doomed man kinds' dream's of walking on other worlds and instead opts for the fix everything will of the free market! Obama, please look the complete failure of what NASA is, and realize too, that your Health Care package would probably do the same.

OK, I found it.

Right now, only the 3rd party Application GV Mobile is available on Cydia. Download away and thumb your nose at ATT.

Is it coming to Cydia or are you saying it is already there, because I cannot find it when I search? Also the repository appulo.us doesn't exist. I just created my Google phone number a few days ago and I was wondering when I could use it on my iPhone. This is really, really messed up of Apple/ATT. I am really sick of them making the most retarded decisions regarding what applications I can install on MY device (thank God for Cydia).

Really though, this should be added to Cydia and thrown up on torrents for everyone to download and install (if you jailbroke). Does anyone have a copy of the Google Voice Apps that they can share for everyone on a torrent somewhere?

Microsoft did exactly this when they created iPOD support for the XBOX 360. Apple never gave them the permission or ability to do it, but they reverse engineered the way music is stored on the iPOD and such. It was actually something they were advertising when the 360 came out -- iPOD support.

Of course, M$ is too easy to ridicule.

You guys will be glad we have these bad boys when WWIII starts in 2012. You know, the Mayan's predicted it.

Little do you sad people know but the attacks of 9/11 were actually perpetrated by the Chinese (they got plastic surgery to *look* like Arabs) to sink our economy, thereby causing the US to default on any future repayment to China, thereby giving the Chinese the excuse to invade America! Two things happened in the interim, most notably was the release of classified Chinese documents that mentioned the threats of "Team America World Police", which was so realistic in its portrayal of our counter-enemy operatives (you could hardly notice the strings) that they decided to wait until 2012, the fabled and shared Chinese/Mayan prophecy!

They also realized BASEketball wasn't a real sport and thought they could win a "cultural war" by beating us at the Olympics. God, you people are f**king ignorant. Get off your ass and read!

Is it just me, but I thought the actual stock (inventory count) of our jet fighters was classified... Now it's being blasted out all over the world that we only have 187 F-22s? In addition they state how many of the new planes we are ordering next year (100 F-35's I believe).

Is there something wrong here?

The real culprit, as the title suggests, is the composition of the diet, not the absolute calories it contains. It's a fascinating read, well researched, and worth the trip to the library.

Mod the parent up. This is absolutely true. You can eat as much as you want and lost weight or maintain your weight. Stop eating high fructose corn syrup, fatty foods, processed foods, and white processed grains. Eat as much as you want of everything else and stay active, and you should have no problem with weight.

Soda tastes better in Europe.

Pepsi and Coke use High Fructose Syrup to sweeten their drinks in the US, but in Europe & Mexico, they use cane sugar. It's due to some stupid (and perhaps outdated) restriction on how much cane sugar can be imported or something like that. Not to mention that diet drinks contain aspartame which is a dangerous and once banned chemical that has clearly (in many, many many scientific studies) been linked to brain tumors and other issues. The United States Air force forbids it's pilots to drink diet drinks 2 hours before a flight due to risk of dizziness and seizure. In fact, between 78% and 85% of all FDA complaints were about aspartame ( http://www.janethull.com/askdrhull/article.php?id=043 ).

If you want to drink soda, go to Whole Foods or Trader Joe's and buy the more expensive (and a lot more tasty) Cola made with sugar cane. they're great as mixers too! :)

This was one of the first PC RPG's that I played. I was amazed at how expansive everything was, how you could climb anything, and how you could make your character a variety of classes. The day and night effects were great too, as well as how you could kill anyone. I never played Oblivion, but thinking of all the great Dagger Fall memories, maybe I should go buy it?

What do you old school Dagger Falls fans think of the newer Elder scrolls?

Have they ever become unhireable?

Not at all. Instead, they move on to become development leads or even project managers, ruining even more projects and companies!

(my ex was in HR, and basically, US law forbids your old job from saying anything negative to your new employer)

I have looked at Cacti, Nagios, and a few others, but I think rolling your own is easy enough and gives you the best flexibility. You could also use Nagios, or others, for example, and simply pull the results into your own system.

I built and managed a software system for me previous employer called the SMS (Server Management System). It basically tracked 50 of our web servers, database servers, and Endeca (full text search) farms at data centers spread around the country. It was pretty simple.

The system did push and pull operations. First, the system was built in PHP.
In order to push commands to the servers I used PEAR SSH2 class for communication when it became stable. Another option (and what I did back in 2003) was to use exec and other command line functions in PHP in conjunction with a SETUID script (written in C) -- which gave the command line output from PHP "true" rootly powers. The problem was I had to enter a password for each server I wanted to connect to, and the PHP functions couldn't handle real time input/output, so I designed the system to work by creating an SSH2 key pair on my master monitoring server and put it's public key on each of our external servers for passwordless SSH.

The pull part of the system simply had a PHP script running on a cron per server, that would deliver information about the health of the server, its running processes, etc, to the main SMS server every 5 minutes. All load activity for all servers was logged as well to MySQL. The push operations were used to update those scripts, as well as restart Daemons on command, clear cache (such as after we did a database update), etc. It was a pretty robust system and really automated the functions of our company, to where we could perform a FULL Database Update to our 30 web servers simultaneously (using PHP and fork()), clear all cache, etc, in under an hour. We would the monitor the servers using the SMS's main screen which showed real time server stats (updated every 5 minutes, or you could "force" a push operation to get the status). If we needed to rollback the update, that was a simple mouse click away too.

I also had a hidden screen that let me run any series of commands as root on any number of servers. Everyone objected to it but I convinced my boss to let me put it in. All of our servers were a mouse click away from being "rm -rf *" 'ed. ROFL. Anyway, I hope my little story about my system helps you out, in either avoiding what I did (LOL) or by giving you ideas.

Umm, those feelings are my opinion. And yes, elegance in design is something pretty big in computer science. There is an entire field devoted to UI and design of interfaces. Apples scores a lot in this area, and it make using the device a pleasure.

See, I think you dislike Apple as much as I do, and are upset to see a non-fanboy like myself actually admin, hey, Apple created a really nice device. These fanboys are right. Yes it has lots of issues. No device is perfect. But in my opinion, this is the best device that is currently out on the market. Period. End of story.

This is why I believe you to be a fanboy. Well, that kind of destroys your entire argument because you 100% incorrect. Since I just got the iPhone, did a ton of research, talked to a bunch of people who owned all the different devices, and, as a matter of fact, I despise Apple.

The fact of the matter is, the web browser on the iPhone 3GS is the fastest from what I have read and from my own experience, and the majority of the features are simply better than anything that is out. The new android phone isn't even out in the US.

Will the iPhone be dethroned. Of course. And I hope it is HTC/Android, and then I will buy that.

But I am sorry, but try getting 30 hours of music out of HTC coupled with the same interface as the iPod app in the iPhone. I really want to see that.