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Comment Re:Taking out capital ships? (Score 1) 618

by slashddot on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @11:47AM (#32000368) Attached to: New Russian Weapon Hides In Shipping Container

Here's a more recent article by the War Nerd on the same topic: http://exiledonline.com/the-war-nerd-this-is-how-the-carriers-will-die/ Seems the fact that aircraft carriers are elaborate floating targets that cannot be effectively defended is a well-known fact even to the Navy.

Comment Hammer Storage MyShare (Score 1) 802

by slashddot on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @02:36PM (#21438037) Attached to: Best Home Network NAS

If you're looking for a small RAID-ready NAS box for your home network, this is a good bet.

MyShare is basically a 2-hard drive NAS bay that can be bought with pre-installed hard drives (mine is the 1TB version with 2x500GB drives). I've been really happy with this thing: it supports both NFS and SMB/CIFS, so it works great with heterogenous/non-Windows environments, has a bunch of RAID config options: level 0, 1 and JBOD, and has a quiet fan. In fact, the fan is off during light usage, unlike most other NAS boxes.

I payed around $400 for mine.

ESA's Cluster Spacecraft Makes Shocking Discovery 137

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 14, 2007 @04:45PM from the celestial-shocker dept.

A recent observation by the ESA's Cluster Spacecraft was able to finally prove a 20-year-old theory. "On 24 January 2001, the four Cluster spacecraft were flying at an approximate altitude of 105 000 kilometres, in tetrahedron formation. Each spacecraft was separated from the others by a distance of about 600 kilometres. With such a distance between them, as they approached the bow shock, scientists expected that every spacecraft would record a similar signature of the passage through this region. Instead, the readings they got were highly contradictory. They showed large fluctuations in the magnetic and electric field surrounding each spacecraft. They also revealed marked variations in the number of solar wind protons that were reflected by the shock and streaming back to Sun."

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