Comment Re:Choice works both ways (Score 1) 1025
Umm Yea. This already happens. Schools often ask for immunization records before allowing students in.
Comment Re:Submitter writes weirdly headlines (Score 1) 67
A mere imposter if that is the case. Yoda would say something like "Offline cyber attack knocks Saudi Armaco hmmmmmm"
State of Virginia Technology Centers Down 190
bswooden writes "Some rather important departments (DMV, Social Services, Taxation) in the state of Virginia are currently without access to documents and information as a technology meltdown has caused much of their infrastructure to be offline for over 24 hours now. State CIO Sam Nixon said, 'A failure occurred in one memory card in what is known as a "storage area network," or SAN, at Virginia's Information Technologies Agency (VITA) suburban Richmond computing center, one of several data storage systems across Virginia.' How does the IT for some of the largest departments in a state come to a screeching halt over a single memory card? Oh, and also, the state is paying Northrup Grumman $2.4 billion over 10 years to manage the state's IT infrastructure."
Reader miller60 adds, "Virginia's IT systems drew scrutiny last fall when state agencies reported rolling outages due to the lack of network redundancy."
Comment False advertising with the Rolling Stones... (Score 1) 461
The commercials were the best.
If you start me up!
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This was called from 0323:C2378D7 in VxD voltrack(04) * 00000000. It may be
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Comment Re:The sound of bubble sort (Score 1, Funny) 118
That's strange. When I listen to the sound of bubble sort all I hear is one of my college professors threatening to hunt me down and kill me in my sleep if I ever use it.
I just hear my bong.
Comment Solar Sail Durability (Score 1) 104
"One of the most difficult challenges solar sails face is trying to deploy enormous but fragile spacecraft from extremely small and compact structures. We can't just attach a giant, fully spread sail to a rocket and launch it into space. The journey would shred the sail to pieces," said Dean Alhorn, NanoSail-D principal investigator and aerospace engineer at the Marshall Center."
Space is always described as "hostile" - since solar sails are believed by some to be the only feasible option for interstellar space travel, which will require them being in space for a long time, what are the plans for improving their durability? It seems over time they would be shredded.
Comment Used improperly? (Score 1) 338
Is RFID being used when it shouldn't? Is it really that much more difficult to swipe your card than wave it? My US passport really should not be broadcasting anything, it should be swiped since there is no need to read my information from afar. If we limit the use of RFID to tolls and package tracking etc where it makes sense to read information without any human interaction, many of the privacy issues can be prevented.
Comment He tweeted... (Score 5, Funny) 158
'The cat is out of the bag, this issue affects about 40 different apps, including the Windows shell,'
That sounds really bad!
'The cat is out of the bag, this issue affects about 40 different apps, including the Windows shell,' he tweeted
Oh, doesn't seem so bad now...
Comment Geek Version of 20 questions ruined... (Score 3, Funny) 222
I chose SSD for my "thing" in 20 questions all the time, now Sandisk has ruined it!
It's a thing.
Q1: Is it smaller than a breadbox?
Yes
Q2: Is it around the size of a postage stamp?
yes
Q3: does it weigh less than a paperclip?
yes
Is it a SSD?
Yes! Damn you Sandisk! You'll rue the day!
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