Still very much Nuclear Free here in NZ. It's law, and it's basically political suicide for a politician to try and change it.

Really very strongly supported by the NZ population.

NB: The US Navy is more than welcome to stop by New Zealand with it's conventional powered ships, as long as they confirm that there are no nuclear weapons on board. Unfortunately the US Navy isn't so keen on confirming that.

It does not work. Last I heard the answer was "use VNC" or some such nonsense.

Replacing X is one thing, replacing it with an inferior product however is ludicrous. Ludicrous is unfortunately something that Ubuntu is quite adept at :-(

Yeah!

How's Firefox's Gopher support?

So, like this...

http://filabot.com/
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:24583

Work in progress obviously, but people are working on it.

Living Cell Technology is basically doing this in a way with the porcine implantations, the piggy cells are encapsulated in a permeable coating that allows them to function but disguises them to the human body.

Also saw mysql go bonkers on two systems, both Ubuntu 12.04, one server, one desktop. Used 100% of a core. Restarting mysql didn't help but rebooting fixed it.

I saw 100% spikes on other servers at the time, but they sorted themselves out.

Apparantly Mozilla saw it also with MySQL and Java.
http://blog.mozilla.org/it/2012/06/30/mysql-and-the-leap-second-high-cpu-and-the-fix/

More specifically, they said "please don't look under the shelf IF YOU ARE A ROBOT"

Because there will come a time when you are away from home and will think
"if only I had made SSH accessible I could fix the server right now using my mobile to ssh in, instead of having to go home"

RTFM, if you want to avoid the dynamic typing, then you can...
http://php.net/manual/en/function.in-array.php

$a = array('7.1');
var_dump(in_array('7.10', $a, $STRICT=TRUE)); // false

I won't say PHP doesn't have it's faults, but dynamic typing is more feature than fault IMHO. Just use it properly.

I think you need to take another look at the Chrome Developer Tools, there is a hell of a lot more there than "futzing with css".

It was a demo flight, they are (were) shopping the aircraft around various airlines looking for buyers. The pilots would not be "familiar" with the terrain. This was not a public transport flight, it was a private flight.

These demo flights operate in, lets say, a manner designed to impress the passengers.

A flight down low up an incredibly scenic valley, is one way of impressing your passengers. Miss judging the space needed to get out of that valley, that's not quite so impressive :(

Really now, Business Intelligence is News for Nerds? No. No it's not. Next thing you'll be making SlashMarketing and filling the site with... MARKETERS, and if that's not a nightmare scenario for 99% of your present users, I don't know what is.

There is still a Hurricane down at Wanaka - but it's not being flown due to costs, and for sale if you have the dosh. It looked sad at the last airshow, sitting idle on the apron :-(

Agree 100%.

In my considerable experience, when somebody asks you to sign an NDA, or won't give you any information without some arbitrary contract signing, it's dollars to donuts, an idea just like this, "you know existing site that makes billions of dollars, yeah, like that, actually, can you just copy that", and not only that, they are the FRUIT LOOPS, the biggest PITA clients you will ever get, they have no idea what they want, except that it's not what you've shown them, or it was when you showed them the concept, and then wasn't when you did it.

They never have any money. They will want you to work for a share of the non-existant (but sure to be billions of dollars worth, because look at how much those other sites are worth) profits.

If somebody contacts me and they either say:

      a) "I need you to sign ......." (with not even some high level overview)
      b) "please call me on ........" (with nothing to say what about)
      c) "I need some work done on my website" (with no hint of what the website is)
      d) "can you add this to my website, but I won't give you any server information, you will have to send all your work to me in a zip file"

I send them to the round filing system in the corner. They all spell TROUBLE.

And how do you know which ones ARE credible?

Who is to say this isn't a program of desensitisation, imagine the headlines "Bomb threat ignored, 300 dead"