nobody31

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by nobody31 15y ago
Don't you just want to see this painted on a ship due to a small email screw-up
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by nobody31 15y ago
I suspect that skype's motivation is more that it charges for calls out to a landline and for calls in. It uses these profits to pay for the free skype-skype service. If I could access the skype protocol I could route all my phone calls ove
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by nobody31 15y ago
And there is more than one of these in every hospital radiotherapy machine, in every machine for sterilizing surgical instruments or medical supplies and even in machines for preserving seeds. Amazing this sort of thing doesn't happen more
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by nobody31 15y ago
200 million container movements across 100 countries - all computerized, all labelled with a fixed format ID. And you don't see the problem with expanding a serial number field in the middle of the code?
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by nobody31 15y ago
No - spec calls for 6 digits.
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by nobody31 15y ago
Because if it's sensitive enough to detect a bomb it will be set off by marble, bananas or a dozen other things. So the port only checks containers likely to have radioactive contamination, like scrap metal, which they did and they found th
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by nobody31 15y ago
You only strictly need to use code for transhipping containers on another carrier - if you own the container and the ship you don't need to label it - although it causes no end of problems if you don't! What tends to happen is that an 'owne
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by nobody31 15y ago
Very sound engineering attitude. This container is emitting X, as long as we put Y tons of shielding around it and stay Z meters away it's safe. Or we could just immediately rip it open and see what happens.