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Front-row seats. zer0vector writes "The previously mentioned camera that was attached to the external fuel tank on Atlantis gave some great shots of launch this afternoon on NASA TV. During the feed, it looked like the ejection of the solid rocket boosters damaged or obscured the camera, leading to a fuzzy image during the fuel tank separation stage."
SkyNet has not yet achieved consciousness. DrEnter writes "According to this Yahoo article, Vladimir Kramnik has defeated 'Deep Fritz' (apparently the world's most powerful chess computer) to take the lead, 2.5-0.5 (the first game was a draw). You can find out more details at the contest site."
Damned if you do, but also if you don't. cybaea writes "A recent article in InfoWorld argues that the latest Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Packs may be illegal for health care providers under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. To make matters worse, not installing the Service Packs may also be illegal. Damned if you do, damned if you don't ..."
Dad, please switch to a real operating system. It's still spreading. deego writes " An e-mail-borne computer virus that lets crackers control infected Windoze machines remotely continues to spread and constitutes the most severe attack this year. The worm, known as W32.Bugbear, or I-Worm.Tanatos, infects computers that use Microsoft's Windows operating systems. It was first spotted a week ago and has spread to dozens of countries. Article here."
Please sit down first. calib0r writes "CNN.com is running an article on the most recent events dealing with the nissan.com lawsuit. Salon.com ran an article about this a few months ago. More information can also be found here."
It's laughable to say that Deep Fritz is the strongest computer programme - Deep Blue (that defeated Kasparov) evaluated 200 million positions per second compared to Deep Fritz's 3-4 million. Deep Blue was running on an IBM-made supercomputer. Fritz isn't.
Grr! Arg!
- Bugbear actually uses one of forty different subject lines. It also sometimes throws in some random data, just for fun.
- Bugbear is a descendant of Badtrans, a nasty but not particularly widespread virus from earlier this year. The keystroke logger seems to have been borrowed bit-for-bit (at least in the copy I isolated and analysed).
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Interesting. I wonder if they'll be requiring Uzi Nissan to change his last name as well... after all, Nissan owns it...
Also, it bear mentioning that Uzi has spent well in excess of one million dollars defending his own last name from these assholes who didn't even use the name "Nissan" in the States until well after Uzi had registerred the domain and used it for his own business.
The corporate swines have also been using dirty tricks like filing suit across the county from where Uzi lives, in an attempt to sap his finances so he can't defend himself. (These are things Uzi himself talked about at H2K2, if you're curious about my sources)
... is NOT a computer. It's just a software program than can run on your local pc, and if you know where to look, you can get it.
Deep Blue was a real computer, much more powerful than the 8 cpu Compaq that is running Deep Fritz, although the chess algorithms were less efficient.
Btw, i don't think computers will conquer the world as much ppl think it. Remember, computers are made by humans. Until computers can think on their own (no, computers don't think, they just execute instructions, they can emulate thinking but it's not really that) human race will always win.
Now, the end of the world will be probably when the viruses exterminate the human race, but that's another topic...
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I know he didn't do all those things, just the second one. But I may as well clear that up before 50 people post on my inaccuracies in delineating the situation at hand.
According to a small video piece run on the canadian "Space" channel (www.spacecast.com) the camera was sprayed with fuel when the solid rocket boosters disengaged. Maybe that's something in the SRB ejection system (beats me how that works)
Wrong. I've purchased computers from Uzi for years. I live in Raleigh and I can honestly say that Uzi owns a respectable business. He had a homepage for Nissan Computers YEARS before Nissan motor ever decided to hop on the Internet bandwagon. Oh yeah, Uzi also started his own ISP years before Nissan tried to grab the domain name.
Nissan is his name. He registered it first. It's his.
Maybe that's something in the SRB ejection system (beats me how that works)
Small rocket motors in the boosters - "separation motors".
We reply: Nissan Motors' official, Mr. Merril Davis, who initiated contact with us and traveled to North Carolina in October 1999 and MR. Nissan told him then that the domain name is not for sale. He contacted Mr. Nissan and traveled again to NC on December 10th 1999, at this time he was prompted by their lawyers (Mr. Nissan did not know it then but after Mr. Merril Davis's deposition was taken it was known) to entrap Mr. Nissan to give him a price for the domain. After more then 2 hours Mr. Nissan got tired of him asking for a price, and said "$15 MILLION, DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW THAT I DO NOT WANT TO SELL?". That was it, he went outside and made a phone call, 5 minutes later, an 86 pages of lawsuit papers started printing on our fax, it takes weeks to prepare an 86 Pages complaint. So NO, we did not demand $15 million, Mr. Nissan's stand was and is, "The domain name is not for sale.
That's from a Q&A at this page. Personally that sounds like a big old pile of bullshit. I'm sure this guy was rubbing his hands ready to make a windfall off of nissan.com. To say that "$15 million" was just some random number is ludicrous, and I'm sure it was the plan all along. As I mentioned in another email: The overwhelmingly majority of people typing nissan.com into their browser are looking for Nissan Motors, not some dinky little computer store in nowheresville.
Now it's not the same word as that used on other products to mean "Made in Japan" (that word is kokusan, "made in our nation") but it is definitely somewhat generic.
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Actually, they should have just stuck with DATSUN!
nissan can mean "daily output" or "daily visit" or, and this may be a stretch "2, 3" I searched for it here: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/ wwwjdic?1C
Just the tank camera, no cutaways, all the way from launch to SRB seperation.
Play it fast (hold the frame advance button down) for another cool view of the whole launch in about 15 seconds.
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The camera did not fail, up to SRB separation the footage is amazing, go look at it on NASA's site. I may not have clarified this, but after separation, there is still footage and the camera is still running, but it seems to be severely fogged over. It was probably just a miscalculation about how much debris would be ejected by the SRB separation motors.
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This is probably posted already buy you can view this video on Space.com Here.
It's pretty sweet.
I've only taken Japanese for five weeks, but that's enough to know that your analysis of "Datsun" is BS. You may not have made it up, but someone obviously did.
"Datsun" is three characters in hiragana: da tsu n. "Dat" is not a well-formed Japanese word. "sun" is not pronounced like English "sun", and does not mean "son". Amazingly enough, you seem to be correct that "son" means something like "to lose money" (WWWJDIC has it as "loss; disadvantage"), but if the name were "Datson" it would break up as "da tso n", and there's no such syllable as "tso".
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The DAT part comes from the names of the original backers: Kenjiro Den, Rokuro Aoyama and Meitaro Takeuchi when the company was formed in 1911. The son part was the name of their 2nd car (1918) the Datson which was an amalgam of DAT and the English word son so the 2nd car was named "Son of DAT." And dat, according to the business press at the time, can mean either "very fast" or "fast rabbit." The problems with the name stemmed from this mixture of Japanese and English. This was very well reported in the US car mags and business newspapers at the time of the name switch from Datsun to Nissan as would be expected. A car like the Datsun Z having its makers name change is a very big deal in automotive circles. One reason why they sold under the original Datsun name in the US was that they did not know how the US market would react to their cars and did not want to risk the Nissan mark if their cars had been a failure. But they had a very savvy exec (Yutaka Katayamain) in the US who understood US consumers and had the Z series designed from the ground up for the US market. Katayamain had earlier started Nissan's racing program. I'll stand by my earlier post.
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