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Researchers have now focused their efforts at a new way of controlling an aircraft's control surfaces - wireless networks. Modern aircraft are often "fly-by-wire," where control commands are sent by computer link, and the new technology takes it to a higher level, with no cables involved altogether. It may sound crazy, but there are potential uses, such as backup control systems (in case a control cable is cut) or to reduce complexity and weight of larger aircraft by moving some systems to wireless control. http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9176-flybywireless-plane-takes-to-the-air.html

That's what we thought too, but it appears some people need to use free addresses.

.mov is QuickTime's native format, I believe.

We already have WiSci, and modifying it to serve that purpose would be trivial. We just have to see if that's the direction we'd like to go with it.

I doubt many buildings in history have caught fire and had a very large, heavy aircraft crash into them at several hundred miles per hour.

Is it not opening in Linux only? Sometimes Linux distributions prefer that you open it up via the file/device manager.

You can't change your email address to @msn.com, @hotmail.com, and so on. Only addresses from non-free providers. We're hoping it will cut down on incarnations of revprez and such. If you really need the address changed, you should talk to an administrator. We'll need to reconsider this anyways.

They had anywhere from 4 to 64 megabytes of capacity. There are "sport" Flash drives with small rubber protectors built in to protect against shock, and some are also made of metal for durability. Most people don't need that much strength in a storage medium, though. Let me explain this. A video game cartridge is simply a repackaged Flash memory (or some other, similar storage device) card stuck in a plastic case. If I was to make a Flash stick out of titanium, it would be stronger than any cartridge you could ever find. And some Flash sticks do come in metal cases with rubber shock protectors. If you want protection, find one of those.

Having two letters will lessen their impact and will confuse those who decide to endorse one or the other. You complained to me when I nearly screwed it all up, and now you're doing the same. Take some time to think about everything that has happened over the past few days, and reconsider.

WiSci is currently developing a peer-review policy to use for accuracy concerns, although we only have about 200 articles at the moment.

Ouch. XP can barely run on a 700mhz computer I have, and you're running pretty much on the bare minimum requirements. I'd suggest you find a Linux distribution that's fairly minimalistic and install that instead. It'll be an experience, and probably hard to get used to at first, but you'll probably be able to get used to it and it'll work much better than XP.

You can get cheap WiFi antennas in computer stores that replace the existing antenna (many routers let you just unscrew the existing antenna and add a new one) on your router or computer wireless card. I use one and it works fairly well to boost the signal on my desktop.

SFN is using MySQL, as that is the only engine that vBulletin supports.

SQL is a language. The database engines themselves, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, use SQL as their interface and are web-enabled.

Sure. I'll just stick a multiple-choice IQ test out in the rain and count those answers that the raindrops fell on as nature's choices. No, seriously, how do you propose it could be measured?

I'm not sure that a chat robot would be suitable for a science forum. Do you also have an encyclopedia lookup feature?

No, you need to find someone that suits you properly, rather than trying to make yourself fit to them.

After reading an article stating that most parents do not actually monitor their childrens' internet use, I decided to ask a simple question: Do you think that children (well, minors) should be carefully monitored when on the internet, or they should be given a good measure of freedom? Personally, I think children need to be monitored regularly when they're on the internet. This may seem like an invasion of privacy, but think of it this way: the child has to earn trust from their parents, and if they prove that they can use the internet in responsible ways, then the parental "watching" can stop. If it is then found that the child has done something to break this trust (sneak off in the middle of the night, visit sites agreed to be "outlawed", etc) then the parental controls can be reapplied, now that the trust has been lost. I often hear of parents who are incredibly overprotective of their children, monitoring them 24/7 (and causing incredible resentment), while others do absolutely nothing to monitor them and end up with kids that are stalked and kidnapped. If it's a trust-based system, then those kids that do as their parents say are rewarded, and the rest end up carefully watched until they prove themselves responsible. Seems like a good system to me. Thoughts?

It would be nice if you could actually try to spark more discussion rather than just posting essays on various topics.

This thread is going in circles. Franklin is hardly responding to anything others say, just providing more links and quotes, and nothing is coming out of it all. Lockinated.

And she's your friend? A friend wouldn't hang up on you.