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kladner 2014-04-10 12:30

Navy powers model plane with fuel derived from sea water
 
[url]http://www.gizmag.com/seawater-hydrocarbon-fuel-airplane/31569/[/url]
[QUOTE]Although no one is saying that aircraft carriers will soon be able to fuel their jet fighters using water from the ocean, such a scenario [I]has[/I] recently come a step closer to reality. Scientists from the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have successfully flown a radio-controlled airplane that was running purely on fuel derived from sea water.[/QUOTE]

Xyzzy 2014-04-10 17:43

[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/09/wwi-photos_n_5118292.html[/url]

cheesehead 2014-04-12 01:45

[QUOTE=tServo;370640][QUOTE=LaurV;370605][URL="http://news.yahoo.com/passwords-vulnerable-security-flaw-found-222708914.html"]Heartbleed[/URL]
(Not very well documented, but it makes you say hmm..., better you search the web for more details, the noise is on the raising now)[/QUOTE]

LaurV is right and perhaps understated it a bit.
This looks VERY VERY bad, indeed! It affects servers, the estimate I just saw
said about 500,00 of them. For instance, every Apache server has this vulnerability ! Since it is on the server side, there is no protection on your client
machine to avoid this. CNET has a pretty good article as does heartbleed.com.
I'm sure there will be plenty of others.
The hell of it is: you can't try to fix this until the company that owns the servers
has done their part. only then can you change your passwords.
Also, if the hackers have saved intercepted data, they now have the means
to use it.[/QUOTE]I've started a new thread:
"[URL="http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=19272"]Heartbleed: Changing your passwords[/URL]"
by quoting from a good article at the Yahoo! Tech section.

cheesehead 2014-04-12 02:00

[QUOTE=tServo;370649]Where I agree with retina is that the Open Source crowd has always claimed that they are the most secure and have NO vulnerabilities and don't bother them with any security concerns because OPEN SOURCE IS PERFECT.[/QUOTE]It seems that the Open Source crowd where you work is inexperienced. (I'll guess that they're young.)

"[URL="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/?ref_=tt_trv_qu"][/URL]A man's GOT to know his limitations."
Clint Eastwood's character Harry Callahan, in [i]Magnum Force[/i]

ewmayer 2014-04-12 21:13

[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26999823]Pakistan baby case withdrawn[/url]: [i]A Pakistani court withdraws the case against a nine-month-old baby who was accused of attempted murder along with 12 family members.[/i]

Insufficient evidence tying the toddler to the crime", I'm guessing - but we all know it was the mastermind, he's a cunning little type that one, don't let the drool, googoo babble and pacifier fool you..

Xyzzy 2014-04-15 21:16

[YOUTUBE]DFo7ztlMlmg[/YOUTUBE]

kladner 2014-04-15 22:47

Does it cut grass? That is, is it really a mower? Just guessing, but the blade would have to be spinning in the thousands instead of the hundreds of rpm. Even then, the cut would be pretty strange, given the differences in ground speed of the two ends of the blade.

retina 2014-04-16 01:48

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;371305][YOUTUBE]DFo7ztlMlmg[/YOUTUBE][/QUOTE]Actually the funny thing about that link is the human desire for recognition and how they only got excited when some official from some beer company read out a speech to say they recognise an achievement. Perhaps the days of doing things for our own enjoyment have gone? Unless we get X likes and Y views and a beer company watching us then whatever we do is regarded as a failure?

kladner 2014-04-16 03:10

Then, too, it is pretty unusual to see a lawnmower red-lining at 9500 rpm.

I vote this as being more funny car than lawnmower. It is a lawn tractor shell with some really exotic guts.

bsquared 2014-04-16 03:30

[QUOTE=kladner;371335]Then, too, it is pretty unusual to see a lawnmower red-lining at 9500 rpm.
[/QUOTE]

Heh. It is pretty unusual to see a tach, at all, on a lawnmower.

Batalov 2014-04-16 03:43

I can attest to that!

{ I've just fixed one: by replacing [I]the[/I] spark plug [sic! not plural, singular], blowing the fuel filter [while children looked at me in awe and disbelief; they probably expected me to croak shortly after, like Vizzini did] and yanking the starter chain until I got a blister, ... but this whole procedure worked, it took off. }


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