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Then hope that the senator for doesn't block the purchase unless you agree to build it in their state. There is a reason that Nasa has facilities in 50states and it's not just for …

I'm sure the FBI monitors CEO for purchases of large quantities of piranhas and white cats with diamond collars.

And yet their competitor, the Atlas rocket - uses a Russian engine ? So it's apparently OK for strategic US rockets used to launch military payloads, to use Russian engines but not…

And if a rather more brilliant and more important code breaker, Bill Tutte, had been recognised by Canada they would have a silicon valley now.

Actually I think Nasa's approach is to design as best they can - then have layers of management each add a a factor of 10 to the assumed level of safety until it's sufficiently saf…

Perhaps if they designed it so that when a single joint on a single booster failed it didn't explode they might have had a better image

If you were asked to bid on a contract to build the space shuttle, with conflicting and changing requirements from the NSA, Air Force and Nasa, with no guarantee on how many they w…

Especially if nobody ever gets to see your finished product in one piece - people generally don't file patents on bombs for example. Although ironically the Germans did file a pate…

In other words it's the sort of testing a commercial aircraft engine maker would do - not what nasa would do. The engines on your 777 are designed so that a 6ft long fan blade movi…

123? That's the same password I have on my luggage

Is it perhaps because you aren't allowed to read eBooks to your children ? http://www.lessig.org/content/standard/0,1902,22914,00.html

There was the company that sold the US a system to find hidden messages in Al Jazera videos - I think that got a few people a trip to the orange suited holiday camp before everybod…

Haven't used the iphone/android versions but I use this http://www.3cx.com/VOIP/sip-phone.html on my office PC instead of a 'real' voip phone.

And nobody in Victoria drives at more than 30km/h !

Data costs in canada are even higher than voice costs! skype is only available on some androids and charges calls against your voice minutes.

I think the difference is that if a US law maker said "but wont this have a bad effect on the poor?" everybody else in congress bursts out laughing! Technically insurance isn't man…

Even worse in canada - all incoming firms have to be Canadian owned and financed. Try raising the money for a nation wide set of phone masts if you aren't allowed overseas investor…

They did it because they made motor insurance mandatory and it would be unfair to force someone to have something that the market didn't have to provide. In europe it's essentially…

In other news - bears discovered to shit in the woods and pope a catholic shock discovery.

Footnotes moved to the end of the book. Illustrations missing or put together in a block in the middle of the book. Tables converted into justified text,equations missing, source c…

Synchronizing two clocks in different positions is very difficult since relativity always comes in as you are moving a third clock between them. It's essentially impossible if you …

Well known among geeks - is it well known among the public? I'm not talking paranoid - the government are spying on me - public, but what about doctors, lawyers, pharmacy, social s…

GPS onboard clock is corrected for relativity due to it's orbit height and speed so it's clock time is approximately correct But measuring the simultaneity of an event between two …

LEO wasn't mechanical it was electronic (Lyons Electronic Office), as was Colossus(Bletchley park) Babbage's computer was mechanical, but it was in 1832 - before even the 8008 was …

Humour seems to track with sun position. When the sun is above GMT votes for humour go up, once it reaches GMT-5 to GMT-8 humour get's downvoted.