I'd post this as a story but it would probably go front-page on the 2nd.
Actually, comet Catalina is expected to be brightest next week, when it is closest to Earth. And it could have a gas outburst at any time, which will make it much brighter no matter when that occurs.
There was way too much slovenly fan service in that movie. As I expected with a Disney movie, it played it totally safe and took no chances. It looked test-marketed to within an inch of its life.
A real filmmaker would have made his own film, not just remade someone else's.
Took no chances? No implied interracial love triangle? No "female persona" for the robot? No killing off of main characters?
I actually agree that half the movie was lifted from IV-VI, but I happened to like that. I wanted to see a Star Wars movie, not an action film that used the Star Wars name and character names (like the same director did with Star Trek).
MSSE was great, but the catch rate has really fallen off in the past 2 years. For a free AV bitdefender or avira are where it is at. Avira tends to be spammy, while bitdefender is quiet, so there in is my current top of the heap.
Add in a free MalWareBytes scan every 2 weeks, a good adblocker, and non-ISP DNS and you can't get much better.
If you think you are infected, MalwareBytes anti-root kit, hitman pro, and malwarebytes, and adwcleaner are a good combot to get most stuff out.
Source, I manage a shop that does lots of residential repairs (ie 80% viruses).
Reading this, I had no idea how much I enjoy Ubuntu. Thank you for reminding me.
I'm sure that this is how the Tesla owners feel when they hear about somebody replacing a water pump, or a leaky valve cover, or fouled plugs, or a muffler, or a fuel pump, or an ignition coil, or a cam bearing, or an O2 sensor, or a fuel injector, or even doing regular oil changes and yearly smog tests.
And after a while of not using that password...you've completely forgotten it.
You should never have known it to begin with. Your password should be like the line to get into an Insane Clowns Posse concert: random, long, and difficult. Use lastpass to manage them.
So politics is a better direction to put your time in money than unions, although I guess the later is a useful stopgap measure and can be an organizing force for politics.
Your post was a terrificly concise summary of the first half of Mein Kampf. Seriously, go read it.
Who gives candy to children at school? What are they training these kids for?
Better yet is the implicit "we let the children eat all the candy they wanted until they stopped of their own accord". I'm very glad that my children do not go to that school.
Second the recommendation for Claws Mail. If I leave my Thunderbird open and exercise it for several days it grows to 6 GB RAM use and beyond.
You already knew that somebody would say this, but it's likely that one of your plugins is bad. Would you mind mentioning the plugins that you use? I use Conversations and Virtual Identity plugins, and I'll have Thunderbird open for _weeks_ at a time with no issue. And I'm a rather heavy user.
Like you I have a script that locally encrypts with my own private key before upload. That private key I keep in my Owncloud.
I would love to see your script, if you don't mind sharing. Mine is "in development" i.e. I still prefer to do it all manually which means that backups do not happen as often as they should.
And of course I encrypt the files locally before uploading them. My private key remains private, and I have it backed up as well on physical media in disparate locations, not online.
Each warhead is manufactured differently and as a result, the timing of the operations needed to set it off differ. If the right key isn't present, then the timing parameters are decrypted wrong and the warhead doesn't go off.
I'm not sure of the specifics of this case, but nuclear warheads in general will explode with inaccurately timed lens explosives. It will have much less mass go critical before the reactions start, and thus will go BOOM instead of BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, but it will most likely attain some level of criticality and react.
That doesn't seem very private to me. In fact, when you want to restore your data, the data is decrypted on the BackBlaze server, then zipped and the zip file is sent with the unencrypted files. You can add a passphrase to the private key, but again this passphrase needs to be entered into the BackBlaze website so that the files can be decrypted on the server. They promise not to store the passphrase. I love promises.
I dread to think what could happen to some of the information about those kids and who might use it to target youngsters if he's sold it. VTech have been criminally negligent here too so one would hope some heads role, but this little turd really deserves the book thrown at him.
My daughter just this week received a VTech tablet as a gift. We could not connect it to the network due to this hack, and it took me a few minutes to put one and one together to realize that _this_toy_ was the one whose network was hacked. Of course, I had just warned her a few minutes beforehand about entering personal information into the device.
As a parent of a child with this tablet, I am _happy_ that this guy broke in. The VTech company is completely negligent, and I'm furious that they would not encrypt the communications and have such egregious flaws. I'm a software developer and I know that all software has bugs, but this isn't a bug. This was a choice by VTech to use unencrypted communications and to not use best practices in their DB communications (prepared queries). If this Brit hadn't broken in, somebody with worse intentions would have.
I don't personally verify that my bank has good locks, and I don't personally verify that my health care provider's employees have each received proper certification. I have to trust many entities in my life, VTech was one, but when the bank doesn't even bother to lock the safe, or the health care provider slaps a Dr badge on anybody with a white coat, then we have justified reason to be angry not with those who opened the safe but rather with those who left it unguarded.
The FAA estimates that in calendar year 2014, 200,000 small unmanned aircraft were operated in the NAS in model aircraft operations. During this period, the FAA received 238 reports of potentially unsafe UAS operations.
Your numbers show a ratio greater than 1:1000 for incidents:vehicles. I think that is a pretty good indication that regulation is needed. The goal is not to stop terrorists from using drones, but rather to find the idiot who slammed his drone into a crowd of people while filming in a stadium.
See, I learned to shut the hell up and get out of the way. Now, I suspect there's no "Shut the fuck up and listen to smart people" mode of development but I can tell you that it is quite successful.
In my entire professional life, I've only worked with one boss like that, actually recently. He got a great product, myself and the other devs had a blast and learned a lot, and the code is some of the most maintainable, feature-complete and bug-free code that I've seen outside of popular open-source projects (where code quality matters).
Orbital is developing a new launch vehicle (Antares 200) to replace the Antares 100 which should fly next year. The two Atlas launches are a temporary measure to allow it to meet the requirements of the contract after the loss of CRS-3. It's like United Airlines having a contract with NASA to fly employees between field sites. If after a crash, United decides to stand down its A320 fleet for a few weeks while it fixes the problem and continues to deliver service with the 737. The whole point of CRS is to enable a more Commercial delivery model, which means far less oversight and direction from NASA, in exchange for lower costs by giving the commercial providers the flexibility to choose their approach
I must admit that I have not been keeping up with Antares development and I did not see that the -200 launches have been moved forward. So long as the development of alternative launch vehicles (we will ignore the elephant in the room, i.e. the engines) progresses that I would agree that the implied goals of CRS are being fulfilled.
Right, because anybody other that CISSPs understand what SSL is, or how to check which root cert is being used, or that it even needs to be checked. But you did use the word "fucking" when addressing me, so you must be right.
I bet that there, the government has the legal authority to do this, so what's the big deal? Here we have that pesky thing called the constitution, and the government still does the same even though they knew it was sketchy at best, but probably illegal.
Peter.
Oops, the NSA already has their cert installed in Firefox, IE, Chrome, and other web browsers as well by default: http://security.stackexchange....
So this is an issue of Kazakhstan just catching up to the US.
The USA's continued cooperation with Russia on the ISS mission has been one of the many things that keeps me assured that we're not going to just completely devolve into war, because nobody wants to come to blows over that particular asset. And now we're trying to get out of ISS involvement "as quickly as we can."
Cooperation with Russia on the ISS is quickly being replaced by confrontation with Russia on ISIS.
Because its a service provider contract. SpaceX and Orbital have been contracted to provide a service, not a product. You don't cancel your flight when an A319 shows up at the gate rather than a 737.
I'm aware of the issues behind the CRS program. I'm pointing out though, in terms of your analogy, that in fact it was fully expected and desired that the A320 would be designed and produced more affordably than the 737, and that defaulting to having the Airbus development team charter a 737 as a backup is not only a waste of a launch that could have gone towards developing the A320, but rather further entrenches us in the dependence on Boeing's product.
"The whole idea of the CRS missions was to encourage the development of new technologies"
Not really, the idea was to bring down launch costs using contractors on a fixed contract cost. NASA doesn't really care how they achieve this, they can use a rocket design from the 60's as long as it is reliable and cheap. It is pushing contractors towards newer methodologies (UAL Vulcan, SpaceX Falcon reusable) but doesn't necessarily require new technology.
Though techinically you are correct that the contracts do not state the technologies required, it is pretty much implied that new technologies would be developed in order to meet costs. Nobody was expecting that a simple restructuring of the paperwork involved, including the addition of a middleman between NASA / DOD and ULA, would lower launch costs.
Each launch using the legacy technologies is another launch opportunity for testing new technologies lost.
Why didn't NASA just buy station resupply flights from ULA instead of making a bad deal with the incompetent SpaceX or ATK the having to buy backup them as well?
Though worded as a troll, this is a very good question if it would be reworded as such:
Why is NASA letting the Orbital CRS-4 mission ride on a ULA rocket through a third-party contractor?
The whole idea of the CRS missions was to encourage the development of new technologies to free us from the use of the Altas and Titan rockets. Sure, the rocket is pushing a Cygnus capsule to the station, but the rocket used is no less important (in my personal opinion the rocket is more important for the CRS objectives) and this is a completely wasted chance to refine the Antares design, even if it would have taken considerably more time to get the cargo to the station. From the launch on an Atlas, it looks like Antares development is over and thus Orbital should lose their CRS contract.
If Orbital cannot produce a suitable rocket, then the mission should have been scrubbed and the cargo launch contracted to either ULA or SpaceX. Letting a CRS launch "default" to an Atlas rocket when the independently-designed (ha! not even that, Antares uses Russian engines) rockets is unavailable or unreliable is completely contrary to the goals of the CRS program, and rather entrenches NASA into the Atlas.
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In case you haven't seen it yet: See Comet Catalina tomorrow morning before dawn
I'd post this as a story but it would probably go front-page on the 2nd.
Actually, comet Catalina is expected to be brightest next week, when it is closest to Earth. And it could have a gas outburst at any time, which will make it much brighter no matter when that occurs.
I agree with him.
There was way too much slovenly fan service in that movie. As I expected with a Disney movie, it played it totally safe and took no chances. It looked test-marketed to within an inch of its life.
A real filmmaker would have made his own film, not just remade someone else's.
Took no chances? No implied interracial love triangle? No "female persona" for the robot? No killing off of main characters?
I actually agree that half the movie was lifted from IV-VI, but I happened to like that. I wanted to see a Star Wars movie, not an action film that used the Star Wars name and character names (like the same director did with Star Trek).
MSSE was great, but the catch rate has really fallen off in the past 2 years. For a free AV bitdefender or avira are where it is at. Avira tends to be spammy, while bitdefender is quiet, so there in is my current top of the heap. Add in a free MalWareBytes scan every 2 weeks, a good adblocker, and non-ISP DNS and you can't get much better. If you think you are infected, MalwareBytes anti-root kit, hitman pro, and malwarebytes, and adwcleaner are a good combot to get most stuff out. Source, I manage a shop that does lots of residential repairs (ie 80% viruses).
Reading this, I had no idea how much I enjoy Ubuntu. Thank you for reminding me.
I'm sure that this is how the Tesla owners feel when they hear about somebody replacing a water pump, or a leaky valve cover, or fouled plugs, or a muffler, or a fuel pump, or an ignition coil, or a cam bearing, or an O2 sensor, or a fuel injector, or even doing regular oil changes and yearly smog tests.
And after a while of not using that password...you've completely forgotten it.
You should never have known it to begin with. Your password should be like the line to get into an Insane Clowns Posse concert: random, long, and difficult. Use lastpass to manage them.
So politics is a better direction to put your time in money than unions, although I guess the later is a useful stopgap measure and can be an organizing force for politics.
Your post was a terrificly concise summary of the first half of Mein Kampf. Seriously, go read it.
Or my 2001 ranger with 312,000 miles and the only thing I have changed on the engine other than regular maintenance is the water pump.
I see, the motor's fine but how's the rest of the vehicle? Four Old Rusty Doors?
Who gives candy to children at school? What are they training these kids for?
Better yet is the implicit "we let the children eat all the candy they wanted until they stopped of their own accord". I'm very glad that my children do not go to that school.
Now utilize your brain the size of a planet to tell me what the graphical, performance-based, non-bloat email client of today is. Like the man asked.
Thunderbird.
Second the recommendation for Claws Mail. If I leave my Thunderbird open and exercise it for several days it grows to 6 GB RAM use and beyond.
You already knew that somebody would say this, but it's likely that one of your plugins is bad. Would you mind mentioning the plugins that you use? I use Conversations and Virtual Identity plugins, and I'll have Thunderbird open for _weeks_ at a time with no issue. And I'm a rather heavy user.
Like you I have a script that locally encrypts with my own private key before upload. That private key I keep in my Owncloud.
I would love to see your script, if you don't mind sharing. Mine is "in development" i.e. I still prefer to do it all manually which means that backups do not happen as often as they should.
https://aws.amazon.com/glacier...
Let me quote something from that page:
$0.007 per GB
And of course I encrypt the files locally before uploading them. My private key remains private, and I have it backed up as well on physical media in disparate locations, not online.
Each warhead is manufactured differently and as a result, the timing of the operations needed to set it off differ. If the right key isn't present, then the timing parameters are decrypted wrong and the warhead doesn't go off.
I'm not sure of the specifics of this case, but nuclear warheads in general will explode with inaccurately timed lens explosives. It will have much less mass go critical before the reactions start, and thus will go BOOM instead of BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, but it will most likely attain some level of criticality and react.
I currently use BackBlaze, and it's soooooo damned stable, light-weight and easy to use... I wonder if there's self hosted alternative?
BackBlaze stores your private key on their servers:
https://www.backblaze.com/back...
That doesn't seem very private to me. In fact, when you want to restore your data, the data is decrypted on the BackBlaze server, then zipped and the zip file is sent with the unencrypted files. You can add a passphrase to the private key, but again this passphrase needs to be entered into the BackBlaze website so that the files can be decrypted on the server. They promise not to store the passphrase. I love promises.
I dread to think what could happen to some of the information about those kids and who might use it to target youngsters if he's sold it. VTech have been criminally negligent here too so one would hope some heads role, but this little turd really deserves the book thrown at him.
My daughter just this week received a VTech tablet as a gift. We could not connect it to the network due to this hack, and it took me a few minutes to put one and one together to realize that _this_toy_ was the one whose network was hacked. Of course, I had just warned her a few minutes beforehand about entering personal information into the device.
As a parent of a child with this tablet, I am _happy_ that this guy broke in. The VTech company is completely negligent, and I'm furious that they would not encrypt the communications and have such egregious flaws. I'm a software developer and I know that all software has bugs, but this isn't a bug. This was a choice by VTech to use unencrypted communications and to not use best practices in their DB communications (prepared queries). If this Brit hadn't broken in, somebody with worse intentions would have.
I don't personally verify that my bank has good locks, and I don't personally verify that my health care provider's employees have each received proper certification. I have to trust many entities in my life, VTech was one, but when the bank doesn't even bother to lock the safe, or the health care provider slaps a Dr badge on anybody with a white coat, then we have justified reason to be angry not with those who opened the safe but rather with those who left it unguarded.
The FAA estimates that in calendar year 2014, 200,000 small unmanned aircraft were operated in the NAS in model aircraft operations. During this period, the FAA received 238 reports of potentially unsafe UAS operations.
Your numbers show a ratio greater than 1:1000 for incidents:vehicles. I think that is a pretty good indication that regulation is needed. The goal is not to stop terrorists from using drones, but rather to find the idiot who slammed his drone into a crowd of people while filming in a stadium.
Well as long as the regulation specifies the weight as manufactured, and not when carrying cargo, you should be good.
They should refer then to mass, not weight.
See, I learned to shut the hell up and get out of the way. Now, I suspect there's no "Shut the fuck up and listen to smart people" mode of development but I can tell you that it is quite successful.
In my entire professional life, I've only worked with one boss like that, actually recently. He got a great product, myself and the other devs had a blast and learned a lot, and the code is some of the most maintainable, feature-complete and bug-free code that I've seen outside of popular open-source projects (where code quality matters).
I'd love to work for you.
Orbital is developing a new launch vehicle (Antares 200) to replace the Antares 100 which should fly next year. The two Atlas launches are a temporary measure to allow it to meet the requirements of the contract after the loss of CRS-3. It's like United Airlines having a contract with NASA to fly employees between field sites. If after a crash, United decides to stand down its A320 fleet for a few weeks while it fixes the problem and continues to deliver service with the 737. The whole point of CRS is to enable a more Commercial delivery model, which means far less oversight and direction from NASA, in exchange for lower costs by giving the commercial providers the flexibility to choose their approach
I must admit that I have not been keeping up with Antares development and I did not see that the -200 launches have been moved forward. So long as the development of alternative launch vehicles (we will ignore the elephant in the room, i.e. the engines) progresses that I would agree that the implied goals of CRS are being fulfilled.
Right, because anybody other that CISSPs understand what SSL is, or how to check which root cert is being used, or that it even needs to be checked. But you did use the word "fucking" when addressing me, so you must be right.
I bet that there, the government has the legal authority to do this, so what's the big deal? Here we have that pesky thing called the constitution, and the government still does the same even though they knew it was sketchy at best, but probably illegal.
Peter.
Oops, the NSA already has their cert installed in Firefox, IE, Chrome, and other web browsers as well by default:
http://security.stackexchange....
So this is an issue of Kazakhstan just catching up to the US.
The USA's continued cooperation with Russia on the ISS mission has been one of the many things that keeps me assured that we're not going to just completely devolve into war, because nobody wants to come to blows over that particular asset. And now we're trying to get out of ISS involvement "as quickly as we can."
Cooperation with Russia on the ISS is quickly being replaced by confrontation with Russia on ISIS.
Fiber isn't that useful on a boat in the middle of the ocean.
Propulsion.
Oh, I thought that you were talking about that other fiber.
Because its a service provider contract. SpaceX and Orbital have been contracted to provide a service, not a product. You don't cancel your flight when an A319 shows up at the gate rather than a 737.
I'm aware of the issues behind the CRS program. I'm pointing out though, in terms of your analogy, that in fact it was fully expected and desired that the A320 would be designed and produced more affordably than the 737, and that defaulting to having the Airbus development team charter a 737 as a backup is not only a waste of a launch that could have gone towards developing the A320, but rather further entrenches us in the dependence on Boeing's product.
"The whole idea of the CRS missions was to encourage the development of new technologies"
Not really, the idea was to bring down launch costs using contractors on a fixed contract cost. NASA doesn't really care how they achieve this, they can use a rocket design from the 60's as long as it is reliable and cheap. It is pushing contractors towards newer methodologies (UAL Vulcan, SpaceX Falcon reusable) but doesn't necessarily require new technology.
Though techinically you are correct that the contracts do not state the technologies required, it is pretty much implied that new technologies would be developed in order to meet costs. Nobody was expecting that a simple restructuring of the paperwork involved, including the addition of a middleman between NASA / DOD and ULA, would lower launch costs.
Each launch using the legacy technologies is another launch opportunity for testing new technologies lost.
Why didn't NASA just buy station resupply flights from ULA instead of making a bad deal with the incompetent SpaceX or ATK the having to buy backup them as well?
Though worded as a troll, this is a very good question if it would be reworded as such:
Why is NASA letting the Orbital CRS-4 mission ride on a ULA rocket through a third-party contractor?
The whole idea of the CRS missions was to encourage the development of new technologies to free us from the use of the Altas and Titan rockets. Sure, the rocket is pushing a Cygnus capsule to the station, but the rocket used is no less important (in my personal opinion the rocket is more important for the CRS objectives) and this is a completely wasted chance to refine the Antares design, even if it would have taken considerably more time to get the cargo to the station. From the launch on an Atlas, it looks like Antares development is over and thus Orbital should lose their CRS contract.
If Orbital cannot produce a suitable rocket, then the mission should have been scrubbed and the cargo launch contracted to either ULA or SpaceX. Letting a CRS launch "default" to an Atlas rocket when the independently-designed (ha! not even that, Antares uses Russian engines) rockets is unavailable or unreliable is completely contrary to the goals of the CRS program, and rather entrenches NASA into the Atlas.