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Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140

Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."

Comment I'd rather just use Google. (Score 2, Interesting) 314

Just in comparing troubleshooting sections of both Apple and Microsoft, I've come to one conclusion. They both suck. Microsoft's Knowledge Base search is (at best) a pain in the ass. Regarding Apple, I've tried multiple times (across multiple dates) to log into and report an Apple related bug at https://bugreport.apple.com/ and have gotten nothing better than an error after logging in. Regardless of platform used (Windows with firefox and IE, Powermac with firefox and Safari) the end result was the same.
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Man Accuses Cat of Downloading Child Porn 174

bruce_the_loon writes "They have blamed viruses. They have blamed neighbors. They have accused police of planting it. In rare cases, they have admitted downloading it. This is the first time someone has accused a cat of downloading child porn onto their computer. This seems like a defense almost too stupid to be made up."

Comment Re:WTF.....? (Score 1) 198

Just a couple of quick points to consider.

The laws are different from state to state, even within a state. Utah, for example, the bars can (and do) get sued for fake IDs. There wasn't a lot of personal responsibility for someone with a fake until this past legislative session.

Secondly, having had a hand in producing some scanning software to work with Utah Law (there are only so many items you're allowed to pull out of the license from the mag stripe or the bar code), what gets pulled also differs from locale to locale. For example, here you're not allowed to pull address or SSN. British Columbia likely has the same constraints, as do most states in the Union.

And finally, it's really not that difficult to fool a scanner. I had one test card that looked legit; Utah's State Seal hologram was fine, the plastic was not obviously tampered with, paper looked fine as did the type, but upon scanning the information printed on the card was obviously not what was coming out of the display using information pulled from the barcode. A "22" year old white male from Provo was, according to the software, a 37 year old female from Ogden; so just having a red light/green light system would not work. Take into consideration, none of this interacted with an online database. Information on the bar codes and magnetic stripes are ridiculously easy to read and code/decode.

Side note, it's Friday, it's quitting time, so I'm going to go make sure my license works at a few fine establishments with loose womens and beer.

Comment Re:How.... (Score 1) 821

Sure, $299 obviously is more expensive than the $120, except for the fact that I can throw together at least one box from discarded parts at my desk for $0 and use the windows, as opposed to having to pay X amount for an apple product to use the $120 snow leopard. That's something to take into consideration when comparing this particular set of apples and oranges.

Not to mention that Snow Leopard is just an upgrade (hence the 10.6 in the version), where Windows 7 is a completely new release.

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