Domain: taniwha.com
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Re:What the hell?
You don't see the extenuating circumstances here?
If someone pisses you off, you're within your rights to complain or perhaps to litigate, but not to throw things at them. If you don't understand that, then you're not equipped to function in society.
I wouldn't want to work for you,
Well, that's certainly something I can be thankful for today.
Are you a scientologist or something?
As it happens, the clams put me in their black list. Scientologits aren't even allowed to load web pages where my name appears.
-jcr
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Re:Yikes! Pagan rituals!
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Rockets ....
an open source flight computer
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Re:Reasons why I'm not impressed:
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Re:Was it really impressive?we've flown similar rockets to 100k ft at Blackrock in the US - the Canadian rocket looks big and heavy to me - similar to this one that flew to a similar height on larger motors.
100k ft is REALLY hard to reach - motors are extremely expensive and the technology is not wonderfully reliable. Mind you the US govt just banned all our motors due to the 'Patriot' act. On the other hand flying a light weight rocket to 6k is easy, people do it all the time - on cardboard and plywood - 100k requires lightweight composite materials that can stand flying thru mach 3
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Open Source rocket software ...before "open source" was a well known name I ran an open source rocketry hardware/software project basicly you send me $33 and I sent you a baggy full of bits and a circuit board plus all the docs and software were freely available on the web site.
Having done that I known that writing flight code is HARD - not because the basic flight profile code is hard - for high power rockets it's not - it's hard because 95% of your code is error handling code that's hard to test - you don't even need a chunky cpu unless you're going to be doing real-time guidance sort of stuff - we used 8051s - the sort of thing that goes into toasters (but then 'cheap' was important to us - Murphy loves rockets - flight computers have to be easy to replace)
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I don't think you understand the nature of trolls
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Re:pretty obvious, don't you think?
like this one?
.... (this also answers Timothy's "who uses engines larger than these?" question) -
Re:Great work!Distributed.net is good for everybodys privacy.
While I mostly agree I also beleive that anyone with $1M can build an RC5-64 cracker - I'm sure that the NSA would/will/has/could build one if they want to (a paper design I did a few years back is here) - roll on RC5-96
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Don't forget that other well known protestor...
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Re:Backfired!
alleria wrote:
Do they already know about _all_ of these links?
Pretty sure they do. There's a list of sites and words banned by the Church of Scientology's version of Cybersitter.
For more links, see the Open Directory Project's Opposing Views: Scientology section.
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Re:Hmmmm...yeah that's about it - he'll have to get more than the FAA permission he's asking for there's a portion of the DOT who's job it is to make sure that stuff doesn't fall on other countries and cause diplomatic incidents etc
.... they have to get involved for flights over 100k ft (~20 miles)I fly (not quite that big) rockets for fun out in the NV desert - friends of mine made an attempt at over 100kft a while back (officially a sub-orbital flight) - the paper work is amazing - you have to do a lot of faiilure analysis, all this population density downrange statistics etc etc finally resulting in a final number estimate of the fraction of a person you will kill (statistically) during your flight
....Personally I think he's crazy - I've seen a LOT of rockets go wrong (Murphy LOVES rockets they're his favorite thing
:-) - I'd want at least a half dozen successfull unmanned flights under my belt brfore I strapped my skin into something like that -
An RC5 cracker ....
In a similar vein check out the (somewhat tounge-in-cheek - but realistic) paper on building an RC5-64 cracker I wrote a year or so ago at http://www.taniwha.com:80/~paul/rc5.html