Ramblings

They found some very interesting results when trying to solder in space.

People complain when our troops are around, but when it’s stated that we are going to move a bunch of them around some still complain. It seems the Germans are concerned what affect removing many of our troops will do to their economy. I think overall, from what I’ve read, that this is a good idea. It’s about time to really reconsider all our major permanent and semi-permanent bases across the globe. Like the article says, many of the placements are just hang-overs from WWII and the Cold War.

Police ticket church after noise grips

Humor is good for you. Make sure you read this understanding that it is satire.

And here we have it, the real reason McDonald’s started taking credit/debit cards. I don’t think the one here in Longview takes plastic yet, but I know I would eat there a bit more often if they took something other than cash as I almost never carry cash.

One of the worms running around the Internet right now (MyDoom) has attacked our beloved search engine, Google. I checked in on the Google Blog this morning, like I do most mornings, and noticed they have an entry on the whole affair. I found the second paragraph really funny as they took a swipe at the news agencies writing about “Google’s downtime”.

Killer Waves

I ran across this article on Stephen Hawking and black holes a few days ago, but didn’t think to post it here. This could completely change many assumptions and theories running around right now. It looks interesting.

Well, not anymore. He’s been detained by the Japanese and is awaiting extradition to the US.

If you can trust the numbers presented in this, then I think it is time for people to realize that lower software prices would make a big difference. Personally I don’t have any software installed that is ‘pirated’, as I use OSS entirely, but I used to and totally understand how price affects people’s atitudes towards software piracy.