Apparently the 737-900 (the longest 737) is at it's max possible length. What's the constraint, you might ask?
Well, the fuselages are made in Kansas then shipped via rail to Washington for final assembly. At one point, there's a tunnel through the Rocky Mountains whose curvature limits the length of rail cars that can pass through.
It's amazing what factors affect the engineering of various products that you'd never, ever realize...
Under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space), nations retain "jurisdiction and control" over their spacecraft even when they are inoperable.
Sorry, no salvage. It's a shame really.
That being said, the US Gov't could make a deal with SpaceX who could then operate under their aegis, but I don't think that's particularly likely.
What? A country developing a space program decides to use a technology that would allow them to interoperate with the various other countries who are already in space? Thus making it easier for them to join international coalitions, which have been shown to be the most effective way to carry out actitvities in space? Imagine that....
And here I thought slashdot was for open standards...
The plan you're thinking about became STS-135. They had to prep the shuttle, etc as a rescue backup for STS-134 which was the last scheduled mission. There was a lot of talk about converting it to a full mission if they could get funding. They eventually did, and it flew with a crew of only 4, so that they didn't need a shuttle backup (they could stay on the station and return via Soyuz capsules).
There is pretty much no way to resurrect the shuttle fleet at this point. The orbiters are being dismantled and converted to museum pieces, and the infrastructure needed to launch them is gone.
Ok, I know I'm going to get modded way the hell down for this, but why does everyone going nuts over these bonuses?
First, most of these banks paid back the bailout money early, with interest. It's not like the money went into a black hole. Second, it's not like they were like "Hey, free money!" and started handing out huge bonuses on top of huge salaries. The entire compensation structure of these companies is based on structured performance-based bonuses, and most of them are baked into the contracts.
These people are paid a much smaller salary than the market value of their work. The difference is made up by performance-based compensation. So, instead of giving them a $150,000 salary, they'll get a $70,000 salary and then get a "bonus" between $50,000-100,000 based on how well they do. Most of the bonuses are given out based on a mathematical model tied to their performance (and for bankers, most of the performance is measured based on some quantified and objective standards).
Bonuses are just a good way for merit to be rewarded. If you do good work, you get paid more, if you do crap, you get paid less. Aren't most slashdotters in favor of meritocracies? They are also a part of the compensation package that's negotiated as part of the employment contract - the banks weren't paying them out of the blue, they were paying them as part of their normal compensation proccess. You might as well say "and a lot of it went to pay salaries to those guys at the CDO and mortgage securities departments" - which I'm sure, much of it did, just like any other company would do if it took out a loan to help it meet payroll during a rough time.
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also completed the control implementation and successfully passed the independent security testing and evaluation
required to operate at the FISMA-Moderate level. AWS is currently pursuing a certification and accreditation to operate
at the FISMA-Moderate level from government agencies.
Well, lets see, 2010 was the year of Linux on the cellphone (android, webos, maemo), a year of Linux on the tv (boxee box, google tv, all the embedded TV experiences), yet another year of Linux on the server, yet another year of Linux for embedded devices...
On my TV box (Atom D510 with NVidia GT218 (ION)), mplayer or xbmc can play 720p and even 1080p content on fullscreen to my 1080p tv over HDMI without breaking a sweat).
The new flash can render hulu in the tiny window no problem, but is incredibly jerky and flickery in full screen mode. There are noticible segments that are out of sync with each other, the overlays (hulu logo, player controls, etc) are flashing on and off and drawing incorrectly.
Sadly, that's a HUGE improvement over the v10 release which couldn't even draw in windowed mode and fullscreen was about 0.5 fps.
(For those who aren't aware, Advanced Circuits always throws in a free bag of microwave popcorn with every order, as a hook/customer appreciation measure).
Yes. You always launch spacecraft towards the east so that you get a velocity boost from the earth's rotation. This is a suborbital flight so it's basically a giant parabolic arc. If you're launching from Europe, it's not going to have time to go almost all the way around the world on an eastward path to hit the atlantic, so that leaves the Pacific.
How about "Your Honor, my client has information on significant police corruption. He will be happy to share that information in exchange for transactional immunity and a reduced sentence."?
Are you sure that isn't flash? I've seen this happen but it's VERY consistent that it's flash that's actually causing it (but the plugin runs in the firefox process space). Actually, I see my CPU automatically jump from around 10% to 75% (out of 200%) as soon as I open a page with flash in it, up to around 100% (one core) when I play a flash video, then back down to 10% as soon as I close that tab.
...That if I use a random computer, it can't copy the entire token the second I plug it in?
...That the user can't clone it because it's a physically secured device?
...That there exist robust services and integration with corporate networks to manage them and various enterprise-level software is already set up to interface with them?
I could come up with others, but hopefully I made my point. Yes, RSA screwed up. Yes, they never should have had the keys. But, they really have put a lot of time, effort and money into these. Random ad-hoc solutions like yours may be fine for your home network, but they don't scale to the scale that large enterprises and corporations (RSA's main customers) act at. They also don't come close to solving the problems that these tokens do.
approach to [controlling your inbox]. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work.
(One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money (x) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it (x) Microsoft will not put up with it (x) Google will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it (x) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (x) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes (x) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam (x) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers (x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves (x) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering (x) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free (x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? (x) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome (x) I don't want the [university] reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
That's interesting. According to your logic, that would mean the murder of any active duty CIA personnel (remember, not part of the military) by foreign military personal, if he were to be declared a terrorist/enemy of a foreign state, would be 100% legal around the world.
Murder? No. Execution? Yes.
The Geneva Convention states:
Notwithstanding any other provision of the Conventions or of this Protocol, any member of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict who falls into the power of an adverse Party while engaging in espionage shall not have the right to the status of prisoner of war and may be treated as a spy.
A spy is:
[A person] acting clandestinely or on false pretences, he obtains or endeavours to obtain information in the zone of operations of a belligerent, with the intention of communicating it to the hostile party.
Spies are not protected by international law and are subject to the laws of the jurisdiction in which they are caught. Many of these jurisdictions, including the US, treat espionage as a capital offense. CIA operatives are treated no differently. That's why it's a dangerous job.
Terrorists wouldn't attack just a single mall or restaurant, they'd attack several simultaneously. That would spark a "You're not safe anywhere!" fear in the public.
Easy. You terminate your custom cable at the wall jack with your existing tools and only use the new connector for the last few feet to the device - and you purchase that cable.
Even if that's the case (and I have no idea if it is, but I'd bet they'd find a way around it), it's basically an interest-free loan to groupon for two years which is still a pretty good deal for them.
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Apparently the 737-900 (the longest 737) is at it's max possible length. What's the constraint, you might ask?
Well, the fuselages are made in Kansas then shipped via rail to Washington for final assembly. At one point, there's a tunnel through the Rocky Mountains whose curvature limits the length of rail cars that can pass through.
It's amazing what factors affect the engineering of various products that you'd never, ever realize...
Under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space), nations retain "jurisdiction and control" over their spacecraft even when they are inoperable.
Sorry, no salvage. It's a shame really.
That being said, the US Gov't could make a deal with SpaceX who could then operate under their aegis, but I don't think that's particularly likely.
What? A country developing a space program decides to use a technology that would allow them to interoperate with the various other countries who are already in space? Thus making it easier for them to join international coalitions, which have been shown to be the most effective way to carry out actitvities in space? Imagine that....
And here I thought slashdot was for open standards...
The plan you're thinking about became STS-135. They had to prep the shuttle, etc as a rescue backup for STS-134 which was the last scheduled mission. There was a lot of talk about converting it to a full mission if they could get funding. They eventually did, and it flew with a crew of only 4, so that they didn't need a shuttle backup (they could stay on the station and return via Soyuz capsules).
There is pretty much no way to resurrect the shuttle fleet at this point. The orbiters are being dismantled and converted to museum pieces, and the infrastructure needed to launch them is gone.
Ok, I know I'm going to get modded way the hell down for this, but why does everyone going nuts over these bonuses?
First, most of these banks paid back the bailout money early, with interest. It's not like the money went into a black hole. Second, it's not like they were like "Hey, free money!" and started handing out huge bonuses on top of huge salaries. The entire compensation structure of these companies is based on structured performance-based bonuses, and most of them are baked into the contracts.
These people are paid a much smaller salary than the market value of their work. The difference is made up by performance-based compensation. So, instead of giving them a $150,000 salary, they'll get a $70,000 salary and then get a "bonus" between $50,000-100,000 based on how well they do. Most of the bonuses are given out based on a mathematical model tied to their performance (and for bankers, most of the performance is measured based on some quantified and objective standards).
Bonuses are just a good way for merit to be rewarded. If you do good work, you get paid more, if you do crap, you get paid less. Aren't most slashdotters in favor of meritocracies? They are also a part of the compensation package that's negotiated as part of the employment contract - the banks weren't paying them out of the blue, they were paying them as part of their normal compensation proccess. You might as well say "and a lot of it went to pay salaries to those guys at the CDO and mortgage securities departments" - which I'm sure, much of it did, just like any other company would do if it took out a loan to help it meet payroll during a rough time.
FISMA AWS enables U.S. government agency customers to achieve and sustain compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). AWS has been certified and accredited to operate at the FISMA-Low level. AWS has also completed the control implementation and successfully passed the independent security testing and evaluation required to operate at the FISMA-Moderate level. AWS is currently pursuing a certification and accreditation to operate at the FISMA-Moderate level from government agencies.
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Well, lets see, 2010 was the year of Linux on the cellphone (android, webos, maemo), a year of Linux on the tv (boxee box, google tv, all the embedded TV experiences), yet another year of Linux on the server, yet another year of Linux for embedded devices...
Really, the desktop's all that's left for 2011.
If that person was acquitted, it is not correct to use the term "criminal".
I did,do you really think MESA can get 1080p decoding and rendering on an ATOM CPU?
On my TV box (Atom D510 with NVidia GT218 (ION)), mplayer or xbmc can play 720p and even 1080p content on fullscreen to my 1080p tv over HDMI without breaking a sweat).
The new flash can render hulu in the tiny window no problem, but is incredibly jerky and flickery in full screen mode. There are noticible segments that are out of sync with each other, the overlays (hulu logo, player controls, etc) are flashing on and off and drawing incorrectly.
Sadly, that's a HUGE improvement over the v10 release which couldn't even draw in windowed mode and fullscreen was about 0.5 fps.
Uhhh...you can for linux? You said you're on debian, just sudo apt-get remove libbluetooth2 libbluetooth3.
Nice photos, but where's the popcorn?
(For those who aren't aware, Advanced Circuits always throws in a free bag of microwave popcorn with every order, as a hook/customer appreciation measure).
I was going to mod you up, but you're already at +5, so let me just say THANK YOU. *THIS* is what I was expecting from TFA, sadly it was lacking.
Yes. You always launch spacecraft towards the east so that you get a velocity boost from the earth's rotation. This is a suborbital flight so it's basically a giant parabolic arc. If you're launching from Europe, it's not going to have time to go almost all the way around the world on an eastward path to hit the atlantic, so that leaves the Pacific.
How about "Your Honor, my client has information on significant police corruption. He will be happy to share that information in exchange for transactional immunity and a reduced sentence."?
Are you sure that isn't flash? I've seen this happen but it's VERY consistent that it's flash that's actually causing it (but the plugin runs in the firefox process space). Actually, I see my CPU automatically jump from around 10% to 75% (out of 200%) as soon as I open a page with flash in it, up to around 100% (one core) when I play a flash video, then back down to 10% as soon as I close that tab.
...That if I use a random computer, it can't copy the entire token the second I plug it in?
...That the user can't clone it because it's a physically secured device?
...That there exist robust services and integration with corporate networks to manage them and various enterprise-level software is already set up to interface with them?
I could come up with others, but hopefully I made my point. Yes, RSA screwed up. Yes, they never should have had the keys. But, they really have put a lot of time, effort and money into these. Random ad-hoc solutions like yours may be fine for your home network, but they don't scale to the scale that large enterprises and corporations (RSA's main customers) act at. They also don't come close to solving the problems that these tokens do.
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante (x) social
approach to [controlling your inbox]. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work.
(One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may
have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal
law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
(x) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
(x) Microsoft will not put up with it
(x) Google will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(x) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(x) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
(x) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
(x) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
(x) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
(x) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
(x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
(x) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
(x) I don't want the [university] reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
...by xkcd.
NASA OIG Special Agent badges have a striking appearance, for at the center of each badge is the blue NASA logo.
That's interesting. According to your logic, that would mean the murder of any active duty CIA personnel (remember, not part of the military) by foreign military personal, if he were to be declared a terrorist/enemy of a foreign state, would be 100% legal around the world.
Murder? No. Execution? Yes.
The Geneva Convention states:
Notwithstanding any other provision of the Conventions or of this Protocol, any member of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict who falls into the power of an adverse Party while engaging in espionage shall not have the right to the status of prisoner of war and may be treated as a spy.
A spy is:
[A person] acting clandestinely or on false pretences, he obtains or endeavours to obtain information in the zone of operations of a belligerent, with the intention of communicating it to the hostile party.
Spies are not protected by international law and are subject to the laws of the jurisdiction in which they are caught. Many of these jurisdictions, including the US, treat espionage as a capital offense. CIA operatives are treated no differently. That's why it's a dangerous job.
Terrorists wouldn't attack just a single mall or restaurant, they'd attack several simultaneously. That would spark a "You're not safe anywhere!" fear in the public.
It's actually the entire business model of the gift card industry as well as those pre-paid credit card things.
Easy. You terminate your custom cable at the wall jack with your existing tools and only use the new connector for the last few feet to the device - and you purchase that cable.
Even if that's the case (and I have no idea if it is, but I'd bet they'd find a way around it), it's basically an interest-free loan to groupon for two years which is still a pretty good deal for them.