Comment Re:32 kilowatt!!! (Score 1) 482
If I remember correctly, Enterprise,CVN-65 not NCC-1701, has six reactors on board.
Comment Re:Bluff City is south of Bristol Motor Speedway (Score 1) 680
Silly rabbit, get a ham license! No problem having a mobile beacon. The receivers on radar guns are as wide as well, barn doors.
Can you say Gunnplexer?
Submission + - Spanish Judges Liken File Sharing to Lending Books (torrentfreak.com)
Dan Fuhry writes: "A judicial panel in the Provincial Court of Madrid has closed a case that has been running since 2005, ruling that the accused are not guilty of any copyright infringement on the grounds that their BitTorrent tracker did not distribute any copyrighted material, and they did not generate any profit from their site. The article notes, "[t]he judges noted that all this takes places between many users all at once without any of them receiving any financial reward." This implies that the judges are sympathetic to file sharers. The ruling essentially says that file sharing is the digital equivalent of lending, selling or sharing books or other media. Maybe it's time for all of them rowdy pirates to move to Spain?"
Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain 680
Brian McCrary just bought a website to complain about a $90 speeding ticket he received from the Bluff City PD — the Bluff City Police Department site. The department let its domain expire and McCrary was quick to pick it up. From the article: "Brian McCrary found the perfect venue to gripe about a $90 speeding ticket when he went to the Bluff City Police Department's website, saw that its domain name was about to expire, and bought it right out from under the city's nose. Now that McCrary is the proud owner of the site, bluffcitypd.com, the Gray, Tenn., computer network designer has been using it to post links about speed cameras — like the one on US Highway 11E that caught him — and how people don't like them."
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 513
In the rail industry, we are not allowed to get closer than four feet of the nearest rail on the right-of-way. Perhaps DOT's should explore a similar requirement.
Submission + - Secure Programming: the Seven Pernicious Kingdoms (earthweb.com)
jammag writes: "This chapter-length excerpt from a new book, Secure Programming With Static Analysis talks about what the authors call "The Seven Pernicious Kingdoms" (the term comes from biology). The "kingdoms" are both generic and context-specific defects in programming, ranging from API abuse to Encapsulation. The authors' thesis is summed up by a quote from Henry Petroski: "Success is foreseeing failure.""
Submission + - Copyright piracy can help small cultures (p2pnet.net)
Bodo Balazs writes: "It is hard to find anyone who does not condemn the illegal swapping of digital cultural goods in the public discourse on file sharing networks. Copying is killing the music, the music industry, it hurts national economies and the global economy and terrorist organizations are financed through piracy. But this vision of the Intellectual Property Armageddon is only one way of looking at the impact of file-sharers on the flow of cultural goods. When it comes to small and secluded linguistic cultural communities beyond the global English language universe, file-sharing might have a surprisingly significant impact on the accessibility of cultural goods."
