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Comment Re:30 Percent! (Score 1) 472

by Shaddow0001 on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @02:58PM (#28364697) Attached to: Gold Sold From Vending Machines In Germany

Probably for exclusive use in the sex trade industry for 'anonymity'.....

"Honey, I hold on while I pick up some gold for use while here in Germany on our trip"

'WHAM'..... wakes up in hosipital..... wondering what happened.....

Ideal, and Actual, IT Performance Metrics? 321

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @01:00PM from the spin-the-dial-shake-the-8-ball dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Recently it was revealed that our company measures IT performance by the time it takes to close trouble tickets. I consider IT's primary goal to be as transparent to the user as possible, thus this metric was rather troubling to me. Shouldn't we be focused on reducing calls, rather than simply closing them quickly? My question is: How is your IT performance measured, and how do you think it should be measured?"

NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice 376

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @12:13PM from the smashing-darling-smashing dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "NASA is preparing to launch the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, which will fly a Centaur rocket booster into the moon, triggering a six-mile-high explosion that scientists hope will confirm whether water is frozen in the perpetual darkness of craters near the moon's south pole. If the spacecraft launches on schedule at 12:51 p.m. Wednesday, it will hit the moon in the early morning hours of October 8 after an 86-day Lunar Gravity-Assist, Lunar Return Orbit that will allow the spacecraft time to complete its two-month commissioning phase and conduct nearly a month of science data collection of polar crater measurements before colliding with the moon just 10 minutes behind the Centaur." (Continues, below.)

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