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I worked on TDD. That is how the military does all thier designs, and it creates horrible weapon systems. The Abrams tank was a gas guzzler that had a horrible impact on tank battalions since they had to not only have new specialists to work only on the tank engines, but also more fuel trucks. There was a movie on how bad the Bradley was. Now look at the new F-35 (should change the name of the Lockheed to Junkers {original company was absorbed into Messerschmitt}). The one of the most significant problems with TDD is that there is no feedback loop. The government will tell you that if you do not meet the specification you are not meeting the contract. Costs just keep going up to try to meet requirements that should be dumped. The American planes and tanks of WWII were not built this way. Almost every truely successful project was agile. Software is no different.
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On the Abrams: I was once told that when they fired the big gun that they often had a full power outage and the onboard computers got restarted. Is that true?
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TTFN - Kent
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Another interesting thing is that the Leopard, which was being considered as the next American tank had a smoothbore 120mm gun. I believe the new development was partially justified because it stayed with the old 105, but the first upgrade had the german 120. I also heard that the Leopard option was discarded because it was considered too wide. It took a while to figure out where the justification came from: There was some obscure requirement for the size limit, something like transport on a particular ship. Both tanks are really too wide for a lot of transport. Also the highly regarded turbine engine still is costing the US taxpayer and the Army: http://www.g2mil.com/abramsdiesel.htm[^]
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A fundraiser is underway to save scientist Nikola Tesla's old laboratory, named Wardenclyffe, and to turn the site into a museum. The fundraising is spearheaded by Matthew Inman, creator of the webcomic site The Oatmeal. The property has been embattled for years between its owner, the Agfa Corporation, and the nonprofit organization that wants to save it and enter it in the National Register of Historic Places. ...because he's the greatest geek who ever lived (Tesla, that is)
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Certainly Tesla has aquired a lot more respect in recent years, respect he should have had a long time ago, except Edison was a better politian.
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Rob Pike, now a Distinguished Engineer at Google, worked at Bell Labs as a member of the Unix Team and co-created Plan 9 and Inferno. He was central to the creation of the Go and Limbo programming languages. Rob shares an experience at Bell Labs that changed his approach to debugging. Think twice, debug once
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Shouldn't this be in the Soapbox? 
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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True, but in the Soapbox it is news that can go in potentially "interesting" ways 
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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What ever happened to 'What happens in Sweden stays in Sweden?'
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Thats vegas... but they have people here, who will take your picture and put it up on craigslist doing bad things. 
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Usually nothing happens in Sweden so nothing stays in sweden 
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Perhaps because it's not breaking Software or IT news.
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There's a lot of people that believe that Assange is being targeted because of the Wikileaks site, so it's not completely out of the realm of technology. So it's probably as relevant as a lot of the law suits going back and forth between companies or the post above that says Ebay banned spells from being sold.
...now for the important task at hand... where to sell my spells from now on...
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They should get a helicopter with a rope hanging outside the window. Have Assange dress up with an anonymous mask and black cape, it would make for a great escape.
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That's a nice thought, but:
Article states: But even with his asylum granted now, UK police can stop the vehicle or helicopter he would be travelling in to get him out of the country.
I'm thinking they should sneak in a rocket that can have a human as cargo, then have Assange parachute when he's over Ecuador. 
Actually, they'd probably gun that rocket down pretty fast.
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How about they dig up the building and move the whole building 
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On Wednesday, a court of appeals ruled that because we all know cell phones have GPS transponders that can broadcast our locations at any time, we have no reasonable expectation of privacy when we carry them. This means that law enforcement can legally trace the location of your cell phone on public roads -- no warrant required. [ITworld]
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That is the best way to articulate this argument, that if it's not something that would be expected to be public knowledge, then the cops should need a warrant to get it. Period. If they had reason to suspect a drug smuggler, they should have enough to get a warrant.
It really pisses me off.
Look at me still talking when there's science to do
When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you
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David Kentley wrote: they should have enough to get a warrant.
they received authority from a federal judge to get the cell phones' ping info from the cell phone company, which is apparently enough to get a phone's location, on demand.
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: The 4th ammendment protects us by saying there is no line. Your securities (that being your data as well) are only searchable if a judge so orders it and the executive branch deems it necessary for some criminal pursuit.
from the judge's decision:
Believing that Big Foot was carrying the 6447 phone, authorities obtained an order from
a federal magistrate judge on July 12, 2006, authorizing the phone company to release
subscriber information, cell site information, GPS real-time location, and “ping” data for
the 6447 phone in order to learn Big Foot’s location while he was en route to deliver the
drugs.
That same day, agents “pinged” the 6447 phone and discovered that it was
currently located in Candler, North Carolina, the location of West’s primary residence.
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Authorities then obtained a second order from
the magistrate judge authorizing release of the same information for the 6820 phone,
which revealed that the phone was located near Flagstaff, Arizona.
By continuously “pinging” the 6820 phone, authorities learned that Big Foot left
Tucson, Arizona on Friday, July 14, 2006, and was traveling on Interstate 40 across
Texas.
they got two court orders allowing them to ping the phones. the phones respond to these pings with their GPS data.
what more do you want?
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