In the late 1960's, Israel shot down a Jordanian airliner. In the 90s, Georgia shot down an Israeli airliner after an SAM launched during an exercise got carried away with itself. However the USS Vincennes was not under attack when it decided to shoot down a civilian Iranian airliner, killing 300 men women and children.
The video shot on the bridge of the vessel, showing sailors whooping and hollering like Homer at a monster truck rally also went down rather poorly, not least with real naval officers in allied navies.
that's $133 million per life saved. I agree with you completely, except that you have failed to take into account the economic costs caused by a loss of confidence in commercial air travel. Shoot down one jet per year for a couple of years and pretty soon you're losing large amounts of customer revenue. Humans are very bad at tuit-powered probability and risk assessment.
Single Transferable Vote (STV) is in use in Scottish and Ulster electoral systems (to the respective devolved assemblies. (The geographical British Isles is now moving towards a much looser confederation of mini-states with varying degrees of independence from London; thanks to the Peace Process, Northern Ireland now has full devolved control of it's own governance, as do Scotland and Wales (there are differences between each of these, don't get me started); the Republic of Ireland has had full independence since 1922 of course.) Some form of PR, a party-list based system IIRC, is also used in the UK for elections to the European Parliament.
When all software out there is Open Source, leaks will be found and closed.
Right, because of course Free software never has security bugs. Look, I'm a paid-up card-carrying member of the FSF, which makes me about as much of a swivel-eyed zealot as they come, but even we don't make silly claims like that.
You're confusing data collection with theorizing. What we've "learned" is gigabytes of photographs, measurements, and so forth, which will, in the coming years, be used to sort through the various theories about the formation and evolution of Mars, and (more indirectly) about the possibility of life on it. As a matter of fact, several major discoveries and have been made by the rovers. Silica Valley, Tyrone, blueberries, festoon cross-bedding, 3D bedform cross-sections at Victoria Crater, the first ever surface-based observations of a global dust storm, of high atmospheric clouds, first meteorites on the surface of another planet, movies of dust devils, oh the list just goes on and on...
Spirit is in a bad way; unlike Opportunity, which has had several recent cleaning events and is still generating 650Whr/day, Spirit's solar panels have been steadily acculumulating dust ever since it left the crest of Husband Hill and descended into the dust-trap valley containing Home Plate. It's just been parked an over-wintering site right on the northern rim of Home Plate, which was picked because it allows up to a 25 degree northward tilt, turning the solar panels perpendicular to the sun and wringing every last watt from it's light. Spirit may survive the winter, but it's by no means certain. We do now know that the rovers can survive on less than half the official "rover death" power levels, because both made it through the global dust storm. Spirit's power levels should bottom out around 125Whr in (I think) about four months' time. It's going to be touch and go. With luck we may get another two earth years from her. Oppy, on the other hand, is still going strong. If some major mechanical failure turned it into a stationary weather-station vehicle, rather like Viking, it could conceivably last another five years - until the batteries finally lose capacity.
For those wondering about the "firstofthegangtodie" tag, it's a reference to this song... can't believe that's a popular tag, though, are the displayed values not the most popular tags? *puzzled
The uncertainty is because the object's orbit has only been loosely constrained. IIRC there have only been two or three "prediscovery" images and a similar number afterwards. Google up the equations of orbital motion and bend your brain a little with the level of postitional uncertainty over an orbit that goes out to Neptune when you only have positions for the object covering a few weeks.
...if you're expecting to do more than the basics (aka go online, chat, email, office stuff) then this isn't a PC for you -- you'll need something edging $1K because the graphics won't cut it.
What else is there, apart from games? If you're a 12 year old living in a trailer with the spark to learn programming I'm sure gcc will compile "helloworld.c" fast enough, too.
For the first time since 2000 I'd say we are really approaching a tipping point.
Woa..! You're new round here, aincha? I STR the 18 months before the launch of Windows 2000 as being the time some wild-eyed Slashdot-crazies (yes... hand up... guilty as charged) thought MS had finally gone so far with teh evilness that mass market rejection and the take-up of Linux was virtually inevitable. Hmmmm.
One way: in 5-10 years' time, some damn good hackers will come out of Australia. (Assuming it takes some effort to work around and becomes a whack-a-mole arms race thing...)
(I'm not an Apple customer but) I'm sure Apple do sensible things to make sure a disk never goes back out without being scrubbed; it's the principle. (a) they could make a mistake. (b) an attacker with physical access to old disks at some point in the process finds a way to copy the data off. (c) all the other attacks I haven't thought of.
The insidious principle which is being violated here is the notion that you don't actually own your hardware, you're renting it from Apple. They can take it back and give you an equal replacement at their discretion. Kind of like Microsoft et al not selling you Windows, just licensing it... or Sony, et al, with music...
This isn't so much as a YRO item as a "Why didn't you ask for your disk back when you handed over the machine" item? Shouldn't Slashdot have a Bozo Alert category? If you refer to the fine article you'll see that that's exactly what he did. The vast majority of Apple owners who take their machines to a service centre when it breaks are, by definition, paying for an expert to fix it; they're very very likely to nod smile sign and not really see a problem (so long as they have backups, of course.) To be fair this is just one specific example of a problem with media disposal when so much personal data is on end-user computers of all sorts. The stuff happening in the UK in the last month about loss of child benefit, drivers' license and now NHS medical records is, hopefully, going to kick the ball rolling in the private sector too. I'm sure this sort of thing happens all the time, everywhere. Public sector orgs are not uniquely inept, they're just obliged to start reporting it. (I've no idea *why* they've just started publicising it... there's no new law. Perhaps they're just enforcing the DPA now, under the new Brownite Politburo.
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The video shot on the bridge of the vessel, showing sailors whooping and hollering like Homer at a monster truck rally also went down rather poorly, not least with real naval officers in allied navies.
...will the passengers on these airlines be told that SAMs will be launched at them in order to test the anti-missile defences?
..Brockian Ultra-Cricket!
Single Transferable Vote (STV) is in use in Scottish and Ulster electoral systems (to the respective devolved assemblies. (The geographical British Isles is now moving towards a much looser confederation of mini-states with varying degrees of independence from London; thanks to the Peace Process, Northern Ireland now has full devolved control of it's own governance, as do Scotland and Wales (there are differences between each of these, don't get me started); the Republic of Ireland has had full independence since 1922 of course.) Some form of PR, a party-list based system IIRC, is also used in the UK for elections to the European Parliament.
McAfee already sell plenty of products that run on Linux.
Right, because of course Free software never has security bugs. Look, I'm a paid-up card-carrying member of the FSF, which makes me about as much of a swivel-eyed zealot as they come, but even we don't make silly claims like that.
I don't get this. They do use GPL'd code, and they do respect the license.
bu - th - I - d'oh!! Curses! Foiled again!!! *fingers recurse Victorian villain's moustache *
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Spirit is in a bad way; unlike Opportunity, which has had several recent cleaning events and is still generating 650Whr/day, Spirit's solar panels have been steadily acculumulating dust ever since it left the crest of Husband Hill and descended into the dust-trap valley containing Home Plate. It's just been parked an over-wintering site right on the northern rim of Home Plate, which was picked because it allows up to a 25 degree northward tilt, turning the solar panels perpendicular to the sun and wringing every last watt from it's light. Spirit may survive the winter, but it's by no means certain. We do now know that the rovers can survive on less than half the official "rover death" power levels, because both made it through the global dust storm. Spirit's power levels should bottom out around 125Whr in (I think) about four months' time. It's going to be touch and go. With luck we may get another two earth years from her. Oppy, on the other hand, is still going strong. If some major mechanical failure turned it into a stationary weather-station vehicle, rather like Viking, it could conceivably last another five years - until the batteries finally lose capacity.
For those wondering about the "firstofthegangtodie" tag, it's a reference to this song... can't believe that's a popular tag, though, are the displayed values not the most popular tags? *puzzled
The uncertainty is because the object's orbit has only been loosely constrained. IIRC there have only been two or three "prediscovery" images and a similar number afterwards. Google up the equations of orbital motion and bend your brain a little with the level of postitional uncertainty over an orbit that goes out to Neptune when you only have positions for the object covering a few weeks.
...if you're expecting to do more than the basics (aka go online, chat, email, office stuff) then this isn't a PC for you -- you'll need something edging $1K because the graphics won't cut it.What else is there, apart from games? If you're a 12 year old living in a trailer with the spark to learn programming I'm sure gcc will compile "helloworld.c" fast enough, too.
Woa..! You're new round here, aincha? I STR the 18 months before the launch of Windows 2000 as being the time some wild-eyed Slashdot-crazies (yes... hand up... guilty as charged) thought MS had finally gone so far with teh evilness that mass market rejection and the take-up of Linux was virtually inevitable. Hmmmm.
What's wrong with this picture?
Management already do those things.
A different kind of flat rate.
One way: in 5-10 years' time, some damn good hackers will come out of Australia. (Assuming it takes some effort to work around and becomes a whack-a-mole arms race thing...)
(I'm not an Apple customer but) I'm sure Apple do sensible things to make sure a disk never goes back out without being scrubbed; it's the principle. (a) they could make a mistake. (b) an attacker with physical access to old disks at some point in the process finds a way to copy the data off. (c) all the other attacks I haven't thought of.
The insidious principle which is being violated here is the notion that you don't actually own your hardware, you're renting it from Apple. They can take it back and give you an equal replacement at their discretion. Kind of like Microsoft et al not selling you Windows, just licensing it... or Sony, et al, with music...