Comment Good old days (Score 1) 104
So we're getting back to the good old days where you needed to wipe the first couple of megs of the disk with a MS debug trick and re-partition to get rid of some of the viruses.
Comment Re:Vaseline glass. (Score 3, Informative) 277
After rereading this a couple of times I really have to ask for confirmation
So :
* "by convention", 1 mSv/year is considered "safe"
* the location you live in outputs about 3 times that value (natural source)
But, because we "know" where it comes from, and because it's "natural" radiation, it doesn't count as being harmfull and the safety limit is upped to those 3 mSv/year PLUS the "by convention" 1 mSv/year ??
??? What kind of logic is that ???
Shouldn't they just put the limit to 3 mSv/year for all people living in that area ? (it's kind of non-practical to remove all background radiation) + pay extra attention to potential effects due to already having 3 times the 'conventional' limit to live with ?
So nobody who lives in that area qualifies for X-rays, scans etc?
I know the following is XKCD but it's still quite informative:
http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/19/radiation-chart/
Comment Re:New Record for Slashdot Being Current (Score 1) 194
Wait for the dupe to be submitted in 2 years...
Comment Wow (Score 4, Insightful) 185
That would have been a pretty emotional moment I would think.
Comment Re:Tested this just recently (Score 0) 328
Modpoints!!! - I wish I had Modpoints!
Comment Re:So how is a 16 year old report news? (Score 1) 473
...Nearly!
The bullets are loaded into the breach from the magazine, so they come from the breach not the mag
Submission + - Speed camera glitch hits drivers with false fines (zdnet.com.au)
lukehopewell1 writes: Another blow for average speed cameras today , with Australian police in Victoria shutting down five point-to-point speed cameras after they malfunctioned and started slugging drivers with fines for no reason.
Victoria Police said in a statement today that the fault related to an out-of-sync clock on one of the five cameras which led to nine drivers being issued incorrect fines.
Traffic camera management company Redflex intends to rectify the issue in the coming days, but at this time has declined to comment further on the nature of the fix, or if the issue is affecting other point-to-point cameras around the country.
Ken Lay, Victoria's deputy commissioner of roads policing, said that the faults were disappointing.
"I will not be reinstating them until I am personally convinced that the fault has been 100 per cent eradicated and that measures have been put in place to ensure that this can never happen again," he said.
"Statistically, these faults have been extremely rare — nine out of approximately 68,000 penalties issued since January 2008. But that is nine too many. People must have confidence in the road safety camera system. We cannot afford for that confidence to be eroded by errors such as these," Lay added.
Victoria Police said in a statement today that the fault related to an out-of-sync clock on one of the five cameras which led to nine drivers being issued incorrect fines.
Traffic camera management company Redflex intends to rectify the issue in the coming days, but at this time has declined to comment further on the nature of the fix, or if the issue is affecting other point-to-point cameras around the country.
Ken Lay, Victoria's deputy commissioner of roads policing, said that the faults were disappointing.
"I will not be reinstating them until I am personally convinced that the fault has been 100 per cent eradicated and that measures have been put in place to ensure that this can never happen again," he said.
"Statistically, these faults have been extremely rare — nine out of approximately 68,000 penalties issued since January 2008. But that is nine too many. People must have confidence in the road safety camera system. We cannot afford for that confidence to be eroded by errors such as these," Lay added.
Submission + - Difficulty for noob posting...
Kernel Krumpit writes: Wow.
This is the most difficult bulletin board/forum in the world to post on, reply to and achieve accuracy for precision threading (for me, of course). I have read the help, I have tried to instigate and also reply to intelligent posts and, when I make mistakes, to edit accordingly. Very very difficult for a noob!
Why am I finding it sooo difficult?
I am technically savvy and have interesting things to say. But..... I will get there.
This is the most difficult bulletin board/forum in the world to post on, reply to and achieve accuracy for precision threading (for me, of course). I have read the help, I have tried to instigate and also reply to intelligent posts and, when I make mistakes, to edit accordingly. Very very difficult for a noob!
Why am I finding it sooo difficult?
I am technically savvy and have interesting things to say. But..... I will get there.
Submission + - Why Microsoft?
theodp writes: Before a large crowd of students at the University of Washington computer science department, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was asked why students should care about Microsoft enough to want to work there. Aside from the ending, which begs for an if-you're-happy-and-you-know-it-clap-your-hands remix, Ballmer seemed to handle the question adequately for an MBA-type, although TechCrunch has a different opinion, suggesting 'maybe it's time for the great salesman to hang it up.' Oddly enough, a recent resignation letter from a Microsoft developer en route to Facebook ("Microsoft has been an awesome place to work over the past twelve years. In college, I never thought I'd work for Microsoft. Then I interned in 1997 and fell in love.") may be more what the skeptical CS student was looking for in terms of a Microsoft endorsement.
Submission + - Oracle plans MySQL license fee hikes (infoworld.com) 1
sauge writes: Already eliminating the basic and silver level licensing options, Oracle sales has been warning of price hikes on other licensing options.
Obama's "ZuneGate" 608
theodp writes "Barack Obama supporters were left shaking their heads after a report surfaced that the president-elect was using a Zune at the gym instead of an iPod. So why would Mac-user Obama be Zune-ing out? Could be one of those special-edition preloaded Zunes that Microsoft bestowed on Democratic National Convention attendees, suggests TechFlash, nixing the idea that the soon-to-be Leader of the Free World would waste time loading Parallels or Boot Camp in OS X just to use a Zune."
