Please consider that the oil warning light is actually a low oil pressure warning, which can have a wide variety of causes, low oil levels being a common one.

If your car doesn't have an oil contents sensor in the oil pan, only newer cars tend to have one AFAIK, your engine is operating in damaging/dangerous conditions whenever the light comes on
Of all the lights on the dashboard it's the worst one to ignore.

A loss of lubrication will sooner or later result in a piston seizure, which is pretty dangerous. It will block the power wheels...

Please note that I am not a car mechanic.

According to some stats found via google, australia has about 15 million computer users.

According to some aussie goverment site a drivers licence costs about 100$ in fees, and 100$ each year for renewal.

OTOH it only buys you 1% of a Bank of America, so maybe we should make up some other fees too, how about a CPU Fan rotation speed based environmental preservation fee or stuff....

This being slashdot i think along the lines of:
Chicks dig the airforce boys and! we got dark basements you can work in.

No it doesn't!

You are pressuming that everyone charged is guilty. Thats a pretty bad attitude!

Wait until someone cracks your network or computer to do something illegal and you'll think twice about statements like that.

This beeing slashdot you should know what the current state of computer and network security (especially wireless networks) is.

Maybe because they tend to get worn off quite quickly? I only recently changed them on both my cars, they were in really bad shape, the good news is, the cost about 6-12$ each, so if you are comfortable fixing it yourself thats even better news. Just saying.

Because that kind of "compass simulation" is a major PITA.

It doesn't even work that good in a car, where you travel at far higher speeds, so the system will get way better datapoints for a far better projection.
When you are on foot it will take quite a distance until you pick up enough good datapoints so that it is meaningfull.

And it would be most usefull if the map on your mobile is just oriented correctly, and when you turn hold your mobile the map is now correclty oriented again. Thats completely impossible using GPS.

What came to mind when I read the name:

Bing sucks - Because Its Not Google ;)

One has to wonder how the creators of the name feel about it *g*. I mean didn't anybody think of it or what?

The problem with package inserts (at least here in europe) is that if there is even a small chance of a rather uninteresting and non-dangerous drug interaction it will end up in the package insert, why? liability!
And at least here the package insert usually doesn't specifiy which interaction has been encountered, and the same goes for the doctors version of "package inserts".

Same goes for side effects, I'd say anything you do, eat, take or otherwise endulge in can have effects on your body that are undisirable.

In my opinion the pill (well there are differenct kinds, i think we are talking oestrogen based) is a very save medication which has been tested for decades, and I often have to wonder how high the correlation (not even speaking of causality) between pill and sideffects realy is.

Another interesting read btw.:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7915--most-scientific-papers-are-probably-wrong.html

Depends what you mean by 'metric' system.

If you are talking about the SI units, then the correct unit for an angle would actually be radian.

It is the arc length on the unit circle. So it ranges from 0 to 2pi.

And to nitpick the unit of time is seconds ;). But volts are volts :)

Still in this case, the humans would also get the wrong data and act accordingly.

Speed indicator failure is one of the worst instrument failures that can happen to you.

I suggest this self experiment: drive on a long borring highway and don't look at your speedometer for lets say 30 minutes.

Now imagine the same thing without any windows and your car rocking in all directions.

GPS won't help anyways because it gives you your speed relative to the ground, which is pretty useless for actually flying the airplane. It's like swimming in one of those counterflow swimmingpools, you know that your speed relative to the groud is 0, yet you will have to swimm at a certain speed or crash against the back wall.

Main problems for AF296 (IMO):

-) Not pressing TOGA early enough (Take Off / Go Around reduces the engine stress limitations and thereby powers the engines up quicker)
-) The citing of "OEB 06/2: Baro-Setting Cross Check" at Wikipedia is a real WTF, why would you look at the baro altimeter at this altitude when you got a radio altimeter which is way more precise when you are this close to the ground.

And the answer will be: zzaappp!

Pro: Someone will finaly stand up to the MPAA/RIAA

Con: Earth will be in ashes, well maybe it's not that much of a con ;).

I guess that depends upon your choice of axioms.

If you build an algebraic structure with just one element 1==0...

okay I am offtopic now :/

... it tries to come up with a technical solution for a social problem

No I'm not talking about the porn ;)

And of course its also violates the human rights...