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Comment Re:From XKCD to life?? (Score 1) 277

by nothajan on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @06:04PM (#38207600) Attached to: iPhone Auto-Combusts On Australian Airplane

High voltage is of course a completely different scenario, luckily one most wont have to deal with... Like a water cooling system next to a 132kV transformer... ugh...

Actually, HV transformers CAN be water cooled: http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1221697.htm (In this case, it was a 33kV/11kV transformer)

Submission + - Legal threats over company's Facebook URL (techworld.com.au) 1

Submitted by

angry tapir

on Sunday November 27, 2011 @11:35PM

angry tapir writes: "Germany's Merck KGaA has threatened legal action after it said it lost its Facebook page apparently to rival Merck & Co. in the U.S., though it has yet to identify defendants in the case. In a filing before the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Merck said it intends to initiate an action based on the apparent takeover of its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/merck by its similarly-named but unrelated competitor, Merck & Co."

Submission + - Coding Under the Influence? 2

Submitted by theodp on Sunday November 27, 2011 @09:34PM

theodp writes: I've tried coding drunk,' writes Alex Muir in Code Sober, Get Things Done Drunk. 'It was a disaster — even a couple of beers had me really struggling to produce anything worthwhile. I decided coding was like driving — you need all your faculties to work.' But back in the heyday of three-martini-lunches, coding under the influence at work — at least occasionally — was the rule, not the exception that it is today in big corporations. However, a CUI while working on personal projects is still no crime — have you found that downing a few beers or other libations while programming helps or hinders you?

Submission + - Largest Tesla Coils Ever Will Recreate Natural Lig (techzwn.com)

Submitted by jjp9999 on Sunday November 27, 2011 @03:58PM

jjp9999 writes: In order to study the nature of lighting, the team at Lightning on Demand (LOD) plans to build two, ten-story-tall Tesla coils—the largest ever—that will blast arcs of lightning hundreds of feet in length. LOD founder Greg Leyh said the project aims to reveal details on the initiation process of natural lightning, an area that remains a mystery since smaller generated arcs have more trouble breaking through the air. It is believed that ‘laboratory-scale electric arcs start to gain lightning-like abilities once they grow past about 200ft in length,’ according to the LOD website, and so the team hopes to build Tesla coils large enough to do this. According to Leyh, ‘Understanding how lightning forms [and grows] is the first step towards being able to control where lightning strikes or being able to suppress it completely in certain areas,’

Submission + - iPhone 4S security hole uncovered (theage.com.au)

Submitted by beaverdownunder on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @10:18PM

beaverdownunder writes: FROM THE AGE: "The executive love affair with the iPhone and the iPad may be dealt a bucket of cold water if Apple does not address a security loophole introduced by the new personal assistant application Siri.

An IT manager for a large Australian corporation with 1000 users, responsible for a fleet of 200 smartphones and BYO devices, has pinpointed what he says is a shortcoming that will prevent his company from allowing the new iPhone 4S and eventually iPads with Siri on to its network."

Submission + - French court orders ISP to block police misconduct (volokh.com)

Submitted by Freddybear on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @08:37PM

Freddybear writes: A French court has ordered ISPs to block access to Copwatch Nord Paris I-D-F, a website designed to allow civilians to post videos of alleged police misconduct. French police unions applauded the decision.

Submission + - Was Ham radio the first true social network? (londoncalling.co)

Submitted by L4wNd4rt on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @06:32PM

L4wNd4rt writes: I found an interesting post on London Calling, a social media blog. That asserts that Amateur (Ham) Radio was actually the first social network long before the Facebook or even the internet ever existed. Being a ham myself I think that's it's both insightful, cool and true!

Submission + - Galileo To Be Europe's Answer To US GPS (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by

judgecorp

on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @04:48PM

judgecorp writes: "Two Galileo satellites that will signify the start of the European Union’s answer to the American Global Positioning System (GPS) will be launched into orbit on Thursday aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. It's using Soyuz as it is cheaper than the French Ariane — and the satellite system is supposed to free Europe from dependence on a US-controlled positioning system."

Comment Last Post (Score 1) 1613

by nothajan on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @08:04PM (#37619546) Attached to: Steve Jobs Dead At 56

... RIP. Not a fanboi, but a great contribution.

Comment 3 DST (Score 1) 359

by nothajan on Friday September 09, 2011 @01:06AM (#37348484) Attached to: Regarding timezones: I would rather live ...

I don't know why everyone seems to hate DST. I love it. It's awesome. I get light until 9pm in summer (Sydney, AU), and this means lots of time for awesome outdoorsy stuff. I wish we had year-round DST. I can't stand winter, when it gets dark at 4:53pm.

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