Comment Re:Preaching to the church (Score 1) 183
If this becomes standard practice I predict the new common password will be "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".
Comment AAA has been great (Score 1) 11
My wife and I have had AAA for a few years, and we love it. I have used it for a dead battery, a tow when my transmission died, and a flat tire with lug nuts so tight I couldn't get them off. My wife also used it when her car started to overheat. It has been well worth it. We recently went to Disney and stayed off site. Because we were AAA members we were able to get "diamond" parking right up front at every park. I can't say enough nice things about AAA.
Submission + - Combined hovercraft and helicopter
An anonymous reader writes: Have British engineer Geoff Hatton brought us the best of two worlds with his UFO-looking machine? The US military thinks so and are investing in it.
The design is sturdy (as opposed to a helicopter) and can fly high (as opposed to a hovercraft). It is based on the "Coanda Effect" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coanda_Effect ).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/tec hnology/technology.html?in_article_id=447317
The design is sturdy (as opposed to a helicopter) and can fly high (as opposed to a hovercraft). It is based on the "Coanda Effect" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coanda_Effect ).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/te
Submission + - Hacker's Case May Add to Students' Privacy Rights
An anonymous reader writes: Article in Inside Higher Ed says the legal loss of a hacker in federal appeals court may result in students at public universities having MORE privacy rights. The hacker lost, but federal appeals court also said he had (generally) a right to privacy on computer in his dorm room:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/09/heck enkamp
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/09/hec
Submission + - Embedded Appliance-Specific Platforms?
HaloZero writes: "Having just recently discovered pfSense, I am now looking for a platform to run it on. It's running currently on a 2.2GHz P4 with a gig of RAM, and that seems to be way, way too overkill for this type of application. The box itself is also huge in comparison to what I'm used to having as my 'firewall' appliance. I've done some looking into MiniITX stuff like the VIA EPIA offerings (and those seem to be the most promising), but the cases are still very large. I'd prefer a device that offers me a small case, compact flash (or an IDE port) fanless, and atleast three ethernet ports. Has anyone out there had any success with any of these small, embedded platforms? Form factors, hardware, their cases, loading media onto the device — what else should I be wary of?; that sort of thing. For the sake of argument, pfSense's hardware requirements are pretty basic; a 233MHz CPU and 128MB of RAM will do you just fine."
Submission + - MIT Professor: Who Cares About Global Warming?
Jomama writes: Noted climate expert Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, writes in a recent Newsweek article that the global warming debate is irrelevant because global warming is actually a good thing that has naturally occured throughout the Earth's history. From the article:
Looking back on the earth's climate history, it's apparent that there's no such thing as an optimal temperature — a climate at which everything is just right. The current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman's forecast for next week.
Submission + - Global Warning - Live With It
belligerent0001 writes: From Newsweek via http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17997788/site/newsweek / we discover that alot of the Global Warming Indicators may not be what they seem. FTA "There is no compelling evidence that the warming trend we've seen will amount to anything close to catastrophe. What most commentators — and many scientists — seem to miss is that the only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes. The earth is always warming or cooling by as much as a few tenths of a degree a year; periods of constant average temperatures are rare". So Greenland was once green, warmer regions produce more foods, and its the middle of April in Cleveland and there is 12 Inches of snow on the ground. 'F' the F-ing climate.
Submission + - Boston Bomb-Squad Strikes Again
Brian writes: Boston Police discover (and destroy) the latest pseudo-threat. This time it's not an animated LED sign, but something far, far more nasty — A Traffic Counter. You know, the little boxes that the city (!) places on a roadside to measure the number of cars that pass in a given amount of time. Wow.
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Journal SPAM: Immigration Follow Up
Here's another msnbc article. This one is about identity theft and what they have pieced together about one person who had her identity stolen and it has been used by various illegal aliens, in order for them to gain employment.
Submission + - Your Swiss Army Knife is Inadaqate, and so are You
An anonymous reader writes: These are sold out for Xmas, but here is a review of the Utimate Swiss Army Knife: it has every blade and tool ever put in a knife. It weighs over 2lbs, and costs over 500 British pounds. And you though you were bad because you got a PS3 and a Wii for Xmas...
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/consumer/story /0,,1965050,00.html
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/consumer/stor
Submission + - Life without a pulse: Quebec man receives mechanic
mikegross9 writes: Surgeons in Montreal have implanted a long-term mechanical heart in a 65-year-old man , the first Canadian to receive the HeartMate II device. The turbine heart provides a constant blood flow, making Gérard Langevin of Coteau-du-Lac, Que., the only living Canadian with no pulse. On Wednesday, doctors announced he is going home from hospital.
Submission + - Can I retract a dumb question?
kattphud writes: "Is it possible to retract a stupid question because I misunderstood the problem?"
