This is intesting on several levels:

1. In the UK NOTAMs ( Notice to airmen) are issued on a regular basis for GPS jamming trials. They take place over several weeks, and are, I believe, carried out by the army. I am not sure if their intention is to remove the possibility of soldiers on exercise using GPS rather than other means to navigate, or for some other reason.

I fly gliders and have a GPS unit on board which is used as a navigation aid. I also carry a chart (as required by air law) which serves as primary aid for navigation.

2. I would be pretty confident that all airliners currently in service have GPS capability

3. Radar is useful for seeing where everyone else is, GPS is for finding yourself. While transmitting location/vector information from an airbourne GPS to a ground station would enable collision avoidance, this feature is currently available through transponders. These are a requirement for any aircraft wanting to transit class A airspace.

I loaded the QuakeLive plugin on Linux under firefox. Works great - no issues with latency or display fps. Very playable, IMHO.

...and people still ignore it!

Lets see - Nuclear Power - no CO2. I understand that for each tonne of nuclear fuel, 100000 tonnes of rock have to be dug up and refined. That requires some big oil powered machines, and significant amounts of energy. To feed a reactor, you need 100 tonnes of refined fuel. I am not a physicist, and don't know the balance of energy required to mine 10000000 tonnes of rock compared with the energy released from 100 tonnes of refined fuel, but it doesn't look to environmentally friendly to me! Anyone here know the figures?

If I understand the activity carried out correctly, he is working to grasp where to work on the site to improve its impact and delivery. Deciding to prioritise one aspect over another based on hunch would be difficult, but by carrying out some trials the data collected can support the decision. I'm no Microsoft fan, but that doesn't mean everything that comes out of Redmond needs te be wrong :-).

The claim to be able to withstand blast furnace temperatures may be over stated. The process of producing iron from a blast furnace generates temperatures in the range of 900C to 1300 C, well in excess of those in which this chip is claimed to survive. See wikipedia for more information.