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Web Enabled Spacecraft
gilgsn writes "Yahoo has an article from space.com about a satellite which will be operated by FTP over TCP/IP on the Internet! The CHIP (Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer) spacecraft will examine the stuff between stars, the so-called void of space that is actually rich with hot gas. The choice of protocol was dictated by economics. I wonder what OS it will run and if communications will be encrypted?"
Though they may have anticpated the slashdot effect.
Watch out: the RIAA will shut down the first Mp3 pirate server in space!
Windows SPACE! Service Pack 12.
In other news, a satellite was taken over by a 5 year old...
help me i've cloned myself and can't remember which one I am
It wont take long for someone to crack the satellite. They will download images thinking to collect nice data about deep space but instead will find that some h@X0R has redirected their satellite to take a good close look at Natalie Portman.
Or...the first DDoS initiated from space will soon be in the headlines.
FTP? C'mon!
In Bushworld, they struggle to keep church and state separate in Iraq as they increasingly merge the two in America.
What? No security through obscurity? I can hear the 5kr1p7 k1dd13z rejoicing...
J. |_337 H4x0r: D00d$$$ I took control of da satelite man! See hoe |337 I am!!!
J. |_3373r H4x0r: L00se, sux0r! I can make her spin round! Wheee! Wheeee!
J. |_337 H4x0r: What are you doing idiot you're taking her down!!!
J. |_3373r H4x0r: No way man. I'm much to |337 for that!! DAMMIT Windows crashed again! sux0rzzz!!!###
[Sattelite falls down to Earth]
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Ok, satellite running windows, yada yada, service pack yada yada, hacked by 12 year old, yada yada, Microsoft Windows for Space yada yada.
Ok, now I've gotten all the blindingly predictable jokes out of the way, can we move to something more interesting?
Read reviews of shopping cart software
In the first week after it goes online some kid will manage get a root shell, install Apache and leave a page stating that "IN SOVIET RUSSIA, DEEP SPACE PROBES YOU"...
SSH is the protocol they kept using to open and close the doors on the moon base. :-D
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
They'll need the 30+ mile long poles to hit Ctrl+Alt+Del...
On the Unix side -
That "No route to host" error becomes more meaningful.
"Uptime" will relate to orbit, not system.
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
When I worked in the MIT AI lab, the coke machine used FTP as a `control protocol'.
You'd ftp to the machine, log in (you had to have a coke account), and type:
get coke
The thing is, most people just use a normal FTP client, and the above command will actually transfer a file called `coke,' so I suppose it's better to type "get coke -".
But I always forgot about that, and as it happens, I usually drank Dr. Pepper, so to this day, in random directories on that system, I'll find little files called `drpepper'...
We live, as we dream -- alone....
...And I have a shell account, haha! Email me and I'll ask the admin about getting you one, too: spacejunk@satellite.nasa.gov
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Don't be silly. You can't run Cat5 into space, it's too long of a run. This is definitely a job for single-mode fiber