Posted by
michael
on from the promising-news dept.
TheSync writes: "The BBC reports in an article that the Mars Odyssey spacecraft has detected large deposits of hydrogen at high latitudes using its neutron spectrometer. This may indicate significant water ice on the surface of Mars!"
History of Mars life specimens
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: -1, Troll
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
+MONDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+MONDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*
+TUESDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+TUESDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*
+WEDNESDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+WEDNESDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*
+THURSDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+THURSDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*
+FRIDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+FRIDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*
+SATURDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+SATURDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*
+SUNDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: Today is the Lord's day.
+SUNDAY AFTERNOON+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*
With all that Hydrogen
by
Renraku
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With all that hydrogen, that must be the reason why Mars is so high up...
-- Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
Where theres water, theres life
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HanzoSan
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How much proof do we need that theres life on Mars?
Rock with bacteria from Mars.
Pyramids on Mars, Face, and now Ice?
If theres water, theres life.
I think its time we drill under the surface to check for life, alot of life on earth lives below the surface.
-- If you use Linux, please help development ofAutopac
Carbon still needed for analysis...
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: -1, Troll
Death to Allah. Islam creeps closer to eradication. More people have turned against the sand niggers since September 11 than in the last eleven years. Fuck all Muslim scum. The Qur'an is suitable only as shitpaper. Death to Muhammed's mother's cunt. Let's roll.
When till Nasa budget review?
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Anonymous Coward
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So, their budget review must be really close. Wonder what they'll come up with next time.
"Canals...., no had that already....bacteria.....also done...., wait, I've got it! Let's just say that there are intelligent Martians there, who are begging us for operating systems....should get some funding then...."
More Linux truths..
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: -1, Troll
Let's have a close look at the costs involved when running a Linux system.
An important factor in Linux' cost is its maintenance. Linux requires a *lot* of maintenance, work doable only by the relatively few high-paid Linux administrators that put themselves - of course willingly - at a great place in the market. Linux seems to be needing maintenance continuously, to keep it from breaking down.
Add to this the cost of loss of data. Linux' native file system, EXT2FS, is known to lose data like a firehose spouts water when the file system isn't unmounted properly. Other unix file systems are much more tolerant towards unexpected crashes. An example is the FreeBSD file system, which with soft updates enabled, performance-wise blows EXT2FS out of the water, and doesn't have the negative drawback of extreme data loss in case of a system breakdown.
According to Linux advocates, an alternative to EXT2FS would be ReiserFS. Unfortunately, ReiserFS is still in beta stage. This means it is not intended for production use (although according to many Linux advocates this shouldn't be a problem, which makes me wonder how (little) valuable they find your data).
The other proposed 'solution', EXT3FS, is nothing more than an ugly hack to put journaling into the file system. All the drawbacks of the ancient EXT2FS file system remain in EXT3FS, for the sake of 'forward- and backward compatibility'. This is interesting, considering that the DOS heritage in the Windows 9x/ME series was considered a very bad thing by the Linux community, even though it provided what could be called one of the best examples of compatibility, ever. When it's about Linux, compatibility constraints don't seem to be that much of a problem for Linux advocates.
Back to Linux' cost. Factor in also the fact that crashes happen much more often on Linux than on other unices. On other unices, crashes usually are caused by external sources like power outages. Crashes in Linux are a regular thing, and nobody seems to know what causes them, internally. Linux advocates try to hide this fact by denying crashes ever happen. Instead, they have frequent "hardware problems".
The steep learning curve compared to about any other operating system out there is a major factor in Linux' cost. The system is a mix of features from all kinds of unices, but not one of them is implemented right. A Linux user has to live with badly coded tools which have low performance, mangle data seemingly at random and are not in line with their specification. On top of that a lot of them spit out the most childish and unprofessional messages, indicating that they were created by 14-year olds with too much time, no talent and a bad attitude.
I could go on and on and on, but the conclusion is clear. Linux is not an option for any one who seeks a professional OS with high performance, scalability, stability, adherence to standards, etc.
Re:verified by watching the movie "total recall"
by
The+Kenneth
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· Score: -1, Troll
WOW!~!! I crapped my pants! AMAZING!
Who cares? What are you guys on?
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: -1, Troll
Wow, for a community of geeks, you guys always surprise me, you crow and fsck around stuff on the moon when non of you realise that space travel should have become the norm in 1970.
Sure, we send atronauts and millonaires into space every so often, why is it always so much of a suprise when we find this shit out?
We should be able to propagate our shit worldwide, oh shit sorry, we do. There is no one in space to hear us scream, or the tag line for alien goes.
Get real people, there is no reason why we aren't all contemplating a move to mars, save for all you fcsks who pay £5.00 a gallon for petrol *in the uk at least*
I don't drive, but the amount of development and investment in *THE SAME* fuel types that power cars and bikes/shuttles into orbit is ages old.
Everyone should immediately get a life and begin to campaign for free movement in the solar system, a facility that is grandeured and made elitist most of all by the americans.
Its shitty to say so, but we should have all been looking to live on the moon, mars e.t.c as soon as we were able.
Its only greed and warfare that can kill the planet we live on, i'm no greenie but the whole situ sucks.
Its time people who read this began to stop taking the shitty wages we do to make it happen for rich kids to get into space.
Stop buying their products and begin to realise yourselves that the solar system can be enjoyed and used by us all, and that no organistation has any right to affiliate itself and set its self up to profit from space exploratation.
Once this worlds fscked, can you imagine what the bastards will try to charge us to leave it?
Lets all think, and more importantly fuck these guys up. Carrot on a string anyone?
Posting pseudo anonymously to avoid repercussion. I work unwittingly for you fat arsed, shitty breathed motherfuckers who stay on earth and "wow" at shite like this
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My latest journal entries!
as long as they don't find giant worms too, we're probably a-ok.
My latest journal entries, including a Q&A session with ESR!
Hope their are some really hot alien babes there. I've been saving my sperm for them...
Hmm... maybe it's just me, but in my high school science class, the equation went something like:
2H + 0 = H20
But then again, humans have never had problems breathing on alien planets in Star Trek!
Kurdt
I'm not anti-social. Just pro-technology.
Its true! Slashdot blows donkeys!
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
+MONDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+MONDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*
+TUESDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+TUESDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*
+WEDNESDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+WEDNESDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*
+THURSDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+THURSDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*
+FRIDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+FRIDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*
+SATURDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+SATURDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*
+SUNDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: Today is the Lord's day.
+SUNDAY AFTERNOON+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*
With all that hydrogen, that must be the reason why Mars is so high up...
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
How much proof do we need that theres life on Mars?
Rock with bacteria from Mars.
Pyramids on Mars, Face, and now Ice?
If theres water, theres life.
I think its time we drill under the surface to check for life, alot of life on earth lives below the surface.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
Death to Allah. Islam creeps closer to eradication. More people have turned against the sand niggers since September 11 than in the last eleven years. Fuck all Muslim scum. The Qur'an is suitable only as shitpaper. Death to Muhammed's mother's cunt. Let's roll.
So, their budget review must be really close. Wonder what they'll come up with next time.
"Canals...., no had that already....bacteria.....also done...., wait, I've got it! Let's just say that there are intelligent Martians there, who are begging us for operating systems....should get some funding then...."
Let's have a close look at the costs involved when running a Linux system.
An important factor in Linux' cost is its maintenance. Linux requires a *lot* of maintenance, work doable only by the relatively few high-paid Linux administrators that put themselves - of course willingly - at a great place in the market. Linux seems to be needing maintenance continuously, to keep it from breaking down.
Add to this the cost of loss of data. Linux' native file system, EXT2FS, is known to lose data like a firehose spouts water when the file system isn't unmounted properly. Other unix file systems are much more tolerant towards unexpected crashes. An example is the FreeBSD file system, which with soft updates enabled, performance-wise blows EXT2FS out of the water, and doesn't have the negative drawback of extreme data loss in case of a system breakdown.
According to Linux advocates, an alternative to EXT2FS would be ReiserFS. Unfortunately, ReiserFS is still in beta stage. This means it is not intended for production use (although according to many Linux advocates this shouldn't be a problem, which makes me wonder how (little) valuable they find your data).
The other proposed 'solution', EXT3FS, is nothing more than an ugly hack to put journaling into the file system. All the drawbacks of the ancient EXT2FS file system remain in EXT3FS, for the sake of 'forward- and backward compatibility'. This is interesting, considering that the DOS heritage in the Windows 9x/ME series was considered a very bad thing by the Linux community, even though it provided what could be called one of the best examples of compatibility, ever. When it's about Linux, compatibility constraints don't seem to be that much of a problem for Linux advocates.
Back to Linux' cost. Factor in also the fact that crashes happen much more often on Linux than on other unices. On other unices, crashes usually are caused by external sources like power outages. Crashes in Linux are a regular thing, and nobody seems to know what causes them, internally. Linux advocates try to hide this fact by denying crashes ever happen. Instead, they have frequent "hardware problems".
The steep learning curve compared to about any other operating system out there is a major factor in Linux' cost. The system is a mix of features from all kinds of unices, but not one of them is implemented right. A Linux user has to live with badly coded tools which have low performance, mangle data seemingly at random and are not in line with their specification. On top of that a lot of them spit out the most childish and unprofessional messages, indicating that they were created by 14-year olds with too much time, no talent and a bad attitude.
I could go on and on and on, but the conclusion is clear. Linux is not an option for any one who seeks a professional OS with high performance, scalability, stability, adherence to standards, etc.
WOW!~!! I crapped my pants! AMAZING!
Wow, for a community of geeks, you guys always surprise me, you crow and fsck around stuff on the moon when non of you realise that space travel should have become the norm in 1970.
Sure, we send atronauts and millonaires into space every so often, why is it always so much of a suprise when we find this shit out?
We should be able to propagate our shit worldwide, oh shit sorry, we do. There is no one in space to hear us scream, or the tag line for alien goes.
Get real people, there is no reason why we aren't all contemplating a move to mars, save for all you fcsks who pay £5.00 a gallon for petrol *in the uk at least*
I don't drive, but the amount of development and investment in *THE SAME* fuel types that power cars and bikes/shuttles into orbit is ages old.
Everyone should immediately get a life and begin to campaign for free movement in the solar system, a facility that is grandeured and made elitist most of all by the americans.
Its shitty to say so, but we should have all been looking to live on the moon, mars e.t.c as soon as we were able.
Its only greed and warfare that can kill the planet we live on, i'm no greenie but the whole situ sucks.
Its time people who read this began to stop taking the shitty wages we do to make it happen for rich kids to get into space.
Stop buying their products and begin to realise yourselves that the solar system can be enjoyed and used by us all, and that no organistation has any right to affiliate itself and set its self up to profit from space exploratation.
Once this worlds fscked, can you imagine what the bastards will try to charge us to leave it?
Lets all think, and more importantly fuck these guys up. Carrot on a string anyone?
Posting pseudo anonymously to avoid repercussion. I work unwittingly for you fat arsed, shitty breathed motherfuckers who stay on earth and "wow" at shite like this