This morning Wired published an article titled Car flying, we (the U.S.) where it was announced that U.S. authorities have approved the free movement of Transition , a flying car produced by the U.S. Terrafugia .
I think I have read glowing reports about this project at least 10 years ago - correct me if I'm wrong - and now, as then, I just can not feel any enthusiasm for a product so blatantly far from the idea of flying car that decades of science fiction we have used .
Apart from the price not really popular - which hardly allow the Transition to take off, at least in terms of sales - one that leaves me more puzzled is the overall feeling of awkwardness that this project forward.
The very idea of having to go around the streets of a big city with two long wings folded I think Cozzi heavily with the main purpose for which these aircraft should be designed, which is to give us all the opportunity to disengage from all the fly those countless everyday obstacles that make impossible our streets.
But here we are quite far away from the objective: to make the flight, the Transition requires a runway of 520 meters, which suggests that the device can take off and land only in areas dedicated to the ultralight flying - but why not reach this point these areas easily by car and then take off with a conventional aircraft, much more promiscuous and less tested?
Wired in mind the whole issue in glowing terms, but I think it's because we're in the middle of summer and there are no big news around.
Of course seeing a break in this way the most fascinating myths of our imagination is not very summer.
I wonder that Wired has no ads equally enthusiastic tone early with the production of a new range of elevators guise of teleportation. D'oh!
There are days when I walk between one thing and another 3 or 4Cento km - does not happen every day activities otherwise I would have already changed, but it happens at least once a week.
To keep me company are almost always the transmissions of Radio 24 : I hate to hear things when I'm driving record - no matter what medium - I prefer to be joined by the sounds and words that travel in my own direction, with me at that exact time.
The beauty of direct.
Or even taking direct.
This morning was aired a piece dedicated to "Quiet Chaos" and assembly have included a couple of sequences from the film, including the delicate dialogue between father and daughter before bedtime, one in which the child explains the concept of reversibility by repeating the a palindrome that the father taught at school: the mice had no grandchildren.
Apart from the fact that this is one of the best moments of the story, I have been distracted by trying to formulate at least one other palindrome barely decent and - obviously - did not succeed.
What else could I do, sent in mid-2011, if not look online the result of the effort of others?
And so here's a site completely devoted to this logical exercise that has all the appearance of bring you into something magical and deeply symbolic http://plgrs.lacab.it/palindromi/?o=lunghezza .
Enjoy!
We just received a message around: this is the Garda Choir Festival organized by Verona Summer, an event that takes place on Lake Garda and in the provinces of Verona, Brescia, Mantua, Vicenza, places rich in history, culture and natural beauty - and I literally!
The event is non-competitive in order to encourage as much as possible the approach of distant musical cultures, and different from each other.
Born in 2007, the Festival has had three editions in just suffered an immediate bonding with the participation of more than 40 choirs from Europe, the United States, Canada, and the Middle East and Italy, of course, all with a substantial degree art that allowed high qualification of the event.
Riroduco here a rare document of madness - read for yourself - when I stumbled randomly browsing the prestigious online magazine http://www.focus.it :
In 1955 or so, I went to school in a wasp.
One morning, in winter, flakes and the great cold I had to stop with the hair caked with snow and the wasp could not go for the ice road.
Standing under a tree, I met my fellow teachers who were returning to their homes since the lessons, to the great cold, they were suspended.
I also Tornani home, but arrived there seriously cool.
The red skin.
In particular, because my nose was hurting inside and outside the ice to the point that I could not breathe.
Under these conditions, with my eyes watering and a powerful inflammation, felt a sharp pain in my nose because my nose hairs plucked having the same ice.
I decided to cut someone with scissors.
As I cut the hair that I felt much better, so that they cut all of them, all those who could.
Given my very curious nature, I decided to test if it was a coincidence or a reliable information, that I feel so good.
So I went on a Vespa at high speed all night, despite the cold, to experience occurred when I sensed some freezing problem.
So I tried to remove the hair from the nose with tweezers, and I have also deleted all crecsevano As to the point that I have never grown back.
Since then I have never had a cold and my breathing is much improved: now breathe freely, without any obstacle to the respiratory tract.
I have concluded that completely eliminate the hairs from the nose is a solution possible preventive against respiratory diseases and even improves breathing capacity, without any feeling of fatigue or hindrance.
In fact, I have 94 years and about 60 years I have not had a cold or cough or other respiratory diseases. Read the rest ...
I report here the beginning of a italic published a couple of days ago on http://saperi.forumpa.it Marelli signed by Titian, hoping to tickle your curiosity.
It is news of a few days ago that on the negative opinion of the State Council on the use of electronic means for submission of questions coming from a university professor.
The dispute concerns the contests that should start in the fall.
This is an monster: at least 25 thousand applicants (researchers, professors and scholars of different expertise currently employed outside the university) to be selected by committees made up of 900 judges 180.
A "race" that still is not giving away chairs immediately, but simply serves to re-enter the lists for approval national ones against which the Italian universities can draw and then "call" ordinary and associate professors of all subjects.
In front of an army marching on the University of its kind, the Ministry of Education - Ministry of Education, University and Research - is believed to focus on Pec, the certified mail, with a view to make it easier to die candidates and streamline the selection to those who were in charge.
In this way, the "questions, accompanied by certificates and scientific publications" should be "submitted electronically", and so would have been enough certified mail with a lot of pdf attached to fulfill the request.
But the Council of State the problem is, however, proved insurmountable because, paradoxically, "the transmission computer may become too costly and time-packaging and reading longer", because would be "too difficult to read emails with attachments" .
A few words of a praiseworthy attempt epitaph of modernization and innovation methodologies in place in the Public Administration, with the result that now all the candidates will spend money on useless (and even a few) to fill the commissions of paper pre-examiners (only publications to be considered valid are twelve, and five copies, many are the components of each college) and clog the postal service of parcels that will then accumulate at the Ministry of Education to be screened. ... Read more
Let's see if this way is clear to everyone that it's much better to put your business data in the hands of a trusted partner rather than throw them in the bucket of wet ... A special thanks to Luke who reported it to me!
Who uses Postgrey as part of anti-SPAM complex must periodically reset the database that the application has generated.
This time the server because many spammers are able to maintain longer operating time with nothing and no one capable of stopping them - making them end up in a blacklist of reference, for example.
The result is that more and more servers spammers end up in some big database of the combinations considered by our trustable Postgrey, effectively invalidating the effectiveness.
To avoid scenarios like this there is a brutal but effective method: Postgery completely reset the database and its lock file, bringing it back to the original situation.
Here's how:
stop the daemon Postgrey
delete the directory / var / lib / postgrey (I highly recommend renaming)
These instructions are for Debian GNU / Linux - my reference distribution - but it works for almost all other available distributions.
Contraindications?
None, except that the reset will be reconsidered on all new messages, even those from the actual server trustable - that already had their triplets in db Postgrey - causing slight delays in the delivery of mail.
For this council to reset only a couple of times a year.
This morning Wired published an article titled Car flying, we (the U.S.) where it was announced that U.S. authorities have approved the free movement of Transition , a flying car produced by the U.S. Terrafugia .
I think I have read glowing reports about this project at least 10 years ago - correct me if I'm wrong - and now, as then, I just can not feel any enthusiasm for a product so blatantly far from the idea of flying car that decades of science fiction we have used . 
