Comment And the electricity? (Score 1) 283
I hope they don't also want us to put a mains lead into our pockets to power that beast.
Submission + - Finnish Fighter Jet Not Damaged By Volcanic Cloud (www.hs.fi)
wizzor writes: Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reports that contrary to previous reports, the Hornet jet engines were not damaged by flight in the volcanic cloud after all. Some build up of ash was however found in parts of the engine and the Air Force has opted to swap out parts with residue build up and analyse them to determine weather they can still be used. No results are in from the samples gathered from the planes themselves are in, but air samples taken in test flights have contained substances typical to volcanic material, such as aluminium, silicon, magnesium, sulphur and iron.
Google Translate not available (for it was beyond horrible).
Google Translate not available (for it was beyond horrible).
Submission + - When moderating, my primary goal is to:
VRisaMetaphor writes: When moderating, my primary goal is to:
* help the best comments float to the top
* make the worst comments sink to the bottom
* up-mod comments I agree with
* down-mod comments I don't agree with
* seek and destroy trolls
* slap moderation critics offtopic
* make metamods go WTF?
* annoy CowboyNeal
* help the best comments float to the top
* make the worst comments sink to the bottom
* up-mod comments I agree with
* down-mod comments I don't agree with
* seek and destroy trolls
* slap moderation critics offtopic
* make metamods go WTF?
* annoy CowboyNeal
Submission + - New Coalition to Promote OSS to Feds (linux.com)
LinuxScribe writes: Red Hat, Mozilla, Novell, Oracle, and Sun are among the 50-plus member Open Source for America coalition that will be officially announced today by Tim O'Reilly at OSCON. The OSFA will be a strong advocate for free and open source software, and plans to boost US Federal government support and adoption of FOSS.
Submission + - Yelling At Telemarketers Is A "Terroristic Thr (stltoday.com)
BotScout writes: "An Ohio man, fed up with deceptive junk mail, made the mistake of losing his temper while on the phone with a St. Louis company pitching an extended auto-service contract. Now he finds himself behind bars, where he is charged with making a terrorist threat and is being held on $45,000 bond. According to court documents, Charles W. Papenfus, 43, allegedly told a sales representative during a May 18 telephone call that he would burn down the building and kill the employees and their families. He was indicted for making a terrorist threat, a Class D felony; and he could be sentenced to up to four years in prison if convicted. I get a lot of this kind of junk mail too, but I usually just call their 800 number and waste as much of their time as possible."
Comment Re:2% were lost... (Score 1) 114
The system required the user to insert an electronic ID card, input the candidate number and select OK. After this the system would display candidate information again, and to confirm the vote, the user would have to hit OK again.
Apparently what happened was, some users instead removed the ID card prematurely, thus causing their votes not to be cast.
So I disagree on your point about the system potentially casting the vote to the wrong candidate, but of course we can't be quite sure, as the internal workings of the system were declared a "trade secret".
Submission + - Finnish court dismisses e-voting result (mbnet.fi)
wizzor writes: "The Supreme Administrative Court of Finland rejected a (previously discussed) municipal election result. Previously, The Helsinki Administrative Court found the result acceptable, even though 2% of votes where lost due to a fault in the voting system.
Here is a Google translation of the news item.
Apparently 98% of the votes isn't enough to determine how the remaining 2% voted after all."
Here is a Google translation of the news item.
Apparently 98% of the votes isn't enough to determine how the remaining 2% voted after all."
Comment Creativity+math? (Score 1) 564
Upon reading the original post there was a one strong association in my mind: Architecture.
In the design of structures sciences and math is of extremely high importance (so the buildings won't collapse) but it's also a creative field that involves much more than just hard science.
