I currently work for a company that provides web based applications for medical fields, and I can attest to the dinosaurs that many hospitals and medical providers use as their main computer systems. The standard seems to be WinXP (many with just SP2) and IE7. IE8 is a rarity, and IE6 pops up way too often. So many…

Look up what the phrase "to beg the question" means.

One way to be proven wrong is to assume that things are not crazier than you think in North Korea.

And enough money to voluntarily build massive electric structures that won't fall down immediately and aren't cutting into someone's monthly food allowance budget.

Most are not, however Christians are the largest individual religious group at a little over 29%. 22% are Buddhist, and 46% are "no preference." So yeah, most religious South Koreans are, in fact, Christian.

Howard Hughes is giggling with giddiness in his grave right now... I'd love to be in a chase plane when this thing takes off and slings that rocket!

Uhm...thanks?

Stealth satellites could exist, I don't know really. Not sure how useful they would be. As for the Hubble looking at distant galaxies, that's a lot different than deriving useful information from 30,000 miles on the ground. You couldn't just turn it around and see a similar magnification. Radar mapping isn't…

Geosynch orbit is much too high to gather any useful visual intelligence. Spy satellites have fairly high orbit rates due to their low orbit altitudes.

I continue to use the blog.gizmodo.com link. I'm supremely annoyed that it won't save my preference for the blog format though.

With the great brews produced by Belgium, it is physically impossible for it to be considered boring. Ergo, your entire article is FALSE.

Meh, I've got a $10 canvas German Army surplus mountain rucksack that holds everything I need, is nigh on impossible to break, and is a heck of a lot comfortable.

I'll never fail to be mesmerized by the fact that not only are we still regularly communicating with Voyager, we're still continuing to learn new things about our universe through it. Voyager had to be one of the single most well planned missions our space program every produced. I'll be greatly saddened the day…

See, crap like this is why I get so twitchy every time I see the junk that Verizon has stuck on my phone and won't let me uninstall, especially after they have admitted, verbatim, that it's bloatware and is not necessary to the phone's operation. I don't know what the heck it's actually doing in the background. …

Wow, this may actually make the King of Prussia Mall useful!

There are a LOT of bridges in the United States that were built 70, 80, 90 or 100 years ago (or more). For instance, the Ben Franklin Bridge here in Philadelphia, one of the busiest bridges in the country, was built 85 years ago. Seems to be working fine so far. But then again, that was prior to the "slap it…

So...our water pipes are basically in the same state as our roads, rails, airports, sewers, public buildings, and basically every other public work? The problem in the United States with our water pipes is only a small part of the underlying problems that have been compounding over the years: poor initial…

In the anecdotal evidence versus laboratory experimentation regarding natural phenomena, the former always trumps the later. I really hope this post was a joke.

They have started stealing power cables... Do a news search and you'll find a number of instances where Darwin's theories of evolutionary progress have come into play with people yanking copper from substations.

I like the secondary possibility, with an added notation: Perhaps automated terrain identification utilizing known maps. Satellite algorithm takes publicly available maps and overlays terrain images with them automatically. Could be useful for developing new navigation techniques that don't rely on satellites, but…