Comment Loss (Score 3, Insightful) 406
It's a nice demo of pigeon power, but did they think about pigeon packet loss ? I'm sure it'll be a little more important than cable packet loss
Comment Re:I probably shouldn't have kids... (Score 3, Informative) 503
Actually, lolkidz already exists : http://lolkids.com/ . It has a S instead of a Z, but it's the same thing. Looking at it for a moment and it doesn't even come close to been funny...
Comment Re:1% ! (Score 1) 519
Yeah, but what if you don't want children right now, maybe in a few years ?
Sure you could get replugged, but I don't know the success rate for that.
Comment Re:1% ! (Score 5, Insightful) 519
Maybe they just wanted to have childs...
2.5 years is a long time and they probably changed their mind
Comment 1% ! (Score 5, Informative) 519
1% got pregnant, that seems pretty high for contraceptive. It would have to be used with other means
I stand corrected, the pill is 92-99.7% effective, about 5% of couples will get pregnant. So it seems this way is pretty darn effective.
Comment Re:meh (Score 1) 290
Except that Colbanet is Bell in the background, wich throttles users...
Comment Re:meh (Score 1) 290
Yeah, we have the Videotron option wich will ban users or the Bell option that throttles the bandwith... Great choices...
Comment Re:How does a cube... (Score 1) 265
From TFA : "and occupies a space that's roughly 2in square"
The summary got it wrong, the base is base of the cube is 2 sq inches.
IE and Firefox Share a Vulnerability 207
hcmtnbiker writes with news of a logic flaw shared by IE 7 and Firefox 2.0. IE 5.01, IE 6, and Firefox 1.5.0.9 are also affected. The flaw was discovered by Michal Zalewski, and is easily demonstrated on IE7 and Firefox. The vulnerability is not platform-specific, but these demonstrations are — they work only on Windows systems. (Microsoft says that IE7 on Vista is not vulnerable.) From the vulnerability description: "In all modern browsers, form fields (used to upload user-specified files to a remote server) enjoy some added protection meant to prevent scripts from arbitrarily choosing local files to be sent, and automatically submitting the form without user knowledge. For example, '.value' parameter cannot be set or changed, and any changes to .type reset the contents of the field... [in this attack] the keyboard input in unrelated locations can be selectively geared toward input fields by the attacker."
Submission + - A five-gear space rocket engine
Roland Piquepaille writes: "Georgia Tech researchers have had a brilliant idea. Rocket engines used today to launch satellites run at maximum exhaust velocity until they reach orbit. For a car, this would be analog to stay all the time in first gear. So they have designed a new space rocket which works as it has a five-gear transmission system. This space engine uses 40 percent less fuel than current ones by running on solar power while in space and by fine-tuning exhaust velocity. But as it was designed with funds from the U.S. Air Force, military applications will be ready before civilian ones. Here is how this new rocket engine works."
