Comment Re:Left In a Lurch (Score 1) 329
WDTV Live. It will play whatever you throw at it.
Comment Re:Those of us who live along coastal cities... (Score 1) 769
yeah, i have been to galveston, and like i said earlier, it's only the seawall that is raised. you may get the impression that it is the whole island, since the wall is at places 50-100 feet wide...but it is a very small part of the island that is raised.
Comment Re:Those of us who live along coastal cities... (Score 1) 769
Whoops! I think you mean the seawall is raised, not the entire island. For a performance review of how impregnable the seawall in Galveston is...see "Hurricane Ike"
Submission + - MoD's error leaks secrets of UK nuclear submarine (dailystar.co.uk)
Tasha26 writes: UK's Ministry of Defence admitted that secret information about its nuclear powered submarines was leaked on the internet by mistake. A "technical error" (i.e. turning the background colour of certain text to black) meant that sensitive blacked-out parts of the online MoD report could be read by anyone who copy-pasted it into another document. This accidental leak reveals amongst many things, how easy it would be to cause a Fukushima-style reactor meltdown in a sub and details of measures used by the US Navy to protect its own nuclear submarines.
Comment Re:Looks more like a toy (Score 1) 95
"Chains are slightly more efficient than shafts, which makes a big difference for bicycles (rather than motorcycles, where small inefficiencies are negligible)."
Spot on with the bicycle side...but way off on the motorcycle side. If you think small efficiencies are not valued in motorcycles, you haven't been watching the evolution of sportbikes for the past, ahh, 20 years.
TwIP - An IP Stack In a Tweet 81
Adam Dunkels writes "Inspired by the Twitter-sized program that crashes Mac OS X, I just wrote a really, really rudimentary IP stack called twIP, small enough to fit in a Twitter tweet. Although
twIP is very far away from a real IP stack,
it can do the first task of any IP stack: respond to
pings. The entire source code can be found in this 128-character-long tweet. For those who are interested in low-level network programming, a code walkthrough with instructions on how to run the code under FreeBSD is available here. The FAQ: Q: why? A: for fun."
Comment Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars (Score 1) 1320
You must not mean
this mercedes
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"Mr. Spock succumbs to a powerful mating urge and nearly kills Captain Kirk." -- TV Guide, describing the Star Trek episode _Amok_Time_
