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Comment Re:Verizon (Score 1) 121

by acwork2 on Thursday January 22, 2009 @01:51AM (#26556835) Attached to: Cellphone Networks Survive Inauguration, Mostly

The good news is in the case of T-Mobile we do not require you to sign a contract to make use of MyFaves. If you are using an unlocked phone that is not "supported" by T-Mobile the MyFaves client will not show up on the phone but you can go online to My.T-Mobile and set your MyFaves. The calls to and from those contacts will then be billed airtime free. They keep their network as open as possible to any unlocked GSM phone and will provide any help they can to setup unlocked phones.

Obama Transition Team Examining Space Solar Power 275

Posted by kdawson on Saturday December 20, 2008 @05:54PM from the gerry-o'neill-smiles-down dept.

DynaSoar writes "President-elect Obama's transition team has published for public comment a white paper entitled Space Solar Power (SSP) — A Solution for Energy Independence & Climate Change. The paper was prepared and submitted by the Space Frontier Foundation and other citizen space advocates, and calls for the new Administration to make development of Space Solar Power a national priority. The SSP white paper was among the first ten released by the Obama transition team. It is the first and only space-related white paper released by the team to date. With 145 comments thus far, it is already among the top five most-discussed of the 20-some white papers on Change.gov."

100 Years Ago, No Free Broadband Pneumatic Tubes 293

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @03:38PM from the when-brooklyn-was-a-considerable-city dept.

TheSync writes "The Division of Labour blog spotlights a report written 100 years ago by a commission appointed by the Postmaster General, that came to the conclusion: 'That it is not feasible and desirable at the present time for the Government to purchase, to install, or to operate pneumatic tubes.' Here is a scan of the original NYTimes article. If only we had gotten the free government Intertubes in 1908!"

Comment Re:Oldbie looking to get back into the game... (Score 1) 110

by acwork2 on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @06:11PM (#21663411) Attached to: Team Fortress 2 Stats Confirm Every Suspicion

Check out 72.5.86.56:27015 for a fun pub TF2 server. It is ran by True Grit the server is PG rated (No cussing, porn sprays, or disrespect) It is a fun server and any of the TG or tgt regulars will be happy to help you out getting used to TF2. Check out http://www.monsterserveronline.com/Forums/ for more info about TG and that server and TF2 specific stuff.

Robotic Cannon Loses Control, Kills 9 580

Posted by Zonk on Thursday October 18, 2007 @07:34PM from the keep-quiet-on-the-terminator-jokes dept.

TJ_Phazerhacki writes "A new high tech weapon system demonstrated one of the prime concerns circling smarter and smarter methods of defense last week — an Oerlikon GDF-005 cannon went wildly out of control during live fire test exercises in South Africa, killing 9. Scarily enough, this is far from the first instance of a smart weapon 'turning' on its handlers. 'Electronics engineer and defence company CEO Richard Young says he can't believe the incident was purely a mechanical fault. He says his company, C2I2, in the mid 1990s, was involved in two air defence artillery upgrade programmes, dubbed Projects Catchy and Dart. During the shooting trials at Armscor's Alkantpan shooting range, "I personally saw a gun go out of control several times," Young says. "They made a temporary rig consisting of two steel poles on each side of the weapon, with a rope in between to keep the weapon from swinging. The weapon eventually knocked the pol[e]s down."' The biggest concern seems to be finding the glitches in the system instead of reconsidering automated arms altogether."

Submission + - A five-gear space rocket engine

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Friday February 23, 2007 @01:30PM

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."

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