Right at the pound bend tunnel

The yarra is pretty sedate down that stretch until it suddenly goes underground at the Pound Bend Tunnel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_Bend_Tunnel

You can try the tunnel on a kayak when the river is low but its pretty dangerous. Flooding would have pushed the river level right up to the roof of the tunnel, leaving little room for dolls and passengers.

Whats a jailbrid?

Is that a lesbian jailbird?

Operations

I have long been impressed with the ability of SpaceX to safely abort engine burns. In situations where other operators would continue with the burn and lose the vehicle, SpaceX recover, collect data, and retest.

Eight weeks (suspended) in prison?

For having loud sex and upsetting the (presumably sexless) neighbours? What do you poms do to people who commit real crimes like taking pictures in Trafalgar square?

Headline

At one point I saw a headline in the media which said "2000 people stuck under the English channel"

In this day and age that's not as bad a thing as it could be...

Now a quick thought about software. Maybe there is something each train has to do when the temperature changes. Maybe it looks up a table (0-9:0, 10-19:1, ..., 50-59:4 (oops, array only goes to 3)) or something similarly systematic. I have seen it happen in a different, and supposedly safety focused industry.

Deniability

My hobby is creating files full of random numbers. I have written a little C program for the purpose. The police are welcome to play with it and the useless files it has generated.

Really automatic?

I recall a bus getting booked for driving at 153 km/h on the Hume Freeway here in Victoria, Australia a couple of years ago. After it was pointed out that this was an impossibility for that vehicle, operators checked back and found that its registration was identical to that of another vehicle on the same road, except for two transposed characters.

Nobody explained how their automatic rego plate system had become dyslexic. Normally its human beings who have that problem.

Looks more like a squid to me

Maybe we have been wrong about the monster all along?

@Jet Set Willy

I think that quote was from Isaac Asimov.

Ejector seat instructions

(printed on canopy of jet fighter)

1. Eject canopy

2. Umm...

Thats from Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins. A great read. I recommend it.

And from Tori Amos: Where's Neil when you need him?

@Jason Yau

My computer has both male and female interfaces.

385 kilometres

Is about the range I get from my 1994 Townace van in city traffic. That is easily enough to get me to a nice spot in the country. If I had a tesla might have to charge it to get home though but even now I can think of easy ways to do that.

Threat goes beyond the West Coast of the USA

"The Taepodong-2 design is assessed as potentially being able to deliver a payload as far as the western coast of the USA, or alternatively to put one into low orbit."

If this vehicle can put a payload into orbit, it can deliver that same payload to any point on the Earth.

/etc/services

p0rn 81/tcp

You know that looks quiet convenient to me.

PermitRootLogin no

...should be in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on any SSH server which has an internet connection.