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2004-01-23 Arabia

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Posted by Gasse Katze 2004-01-23 12:13:04 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If you need to link back to yesterday's article, this should do it.

Posted by Gasse Katze 2004-1-23 12:33:37 AM|| 2004-1-23 12:33:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Shazaam!", very cool! High fives all around!

Posted by Lucky 2004-1-23 1:58:15 AM|| 2004-1-23 1:58:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 interesting - thanks!

Posted by B 2004-1-23 10:08:41 AM|| 2004-1-23 10:08:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 GK, that sounds simular to how Sadaam had public utilities installed in Iraq. For a despot control of services or even food distribution is critical to control. Western culture demands redundacy to prevent interuption of services(with the exception of the North American power grid - we do systems design in a direction that is 180 degrees in the opposite direction from how a despot would have the system design.

It's interesting to note that we installed a capability to program an offset into GPS during times of war in order to prevent enemies from using the system for targetting. Only problem is we can't use the offset function without screwing up commercial enterprises. We are hampered by our openness.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-1-23 10:23:54 AM|| 2004-1-23 10:23:54 AM|| Front Page Top

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