So instead of an attaboy he gets a slap. Great way to be notified in the future if anything is wrong with their security.
If it was my system the person would definitely get a pat on the back and a thank you.
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Using a jet engine off the shelf isn't the hard part, btw the rocket is a HTP hyrbid rocket that is developed for this project.
The real brain cruncher is how you design a vehicle that can survive an environment where supersonic shock waves are being reflected off of a desert floor back onto the body of the craft and so on. Remember the wheels are travelling on the ground at mach 1.4, if they were uncovered the top of the wheel would be travelling at mach 2.8 with regards to the local airflow. That's up there with the SR71 in terms of velocity.
How many land speed record attempts do you know that were done by vehicles intended for commercial production and sale?
Part of this project is to inspire the younger generation whilst at school that engineering and science isn't dull and boring and something worth getting fired up about. The UK has a shortage of home grown talent when it comes to engineering and this is helping change that for the future.
Totally agree, would rather have the money spent on shutting down the source.
Not like 5 mins after the content filtering goes live that a technical solution will be devised to work around it. Then the job of tracking the source down becomes a lot more harder to follow, then again the government now have a filtering system in place to shut off anything they deem illegal or subversive. So I guess it's a win for the politicians.
Also, the petitions website is a waste of time because it doesn't change anything. I suppose you could use it if you like receiving one of those super persuasive emails from them afterwards where they try to explain how and why you were wrong to take whatever resolution was proposed in the petition.
It's a way of indicating your opinion directly to the government. Doesn't mean it replaces other methods such as writing to your MP etc but it is better than doing nothing or complaining elsewhere where those in power won't hear ones voice.
Totally agree, how can this solution come from the country that designed the Atlas. A rocket that used fuel pressure in the tanks to keep structural integrity in order to maximise its fuel fraction.
Thank god other people than NASA are designing rockets.
So people that shoot at others in EVE are sociopaths, but if they do it in Counter Strike then they are not?
There are ways to be almost perfectly safe in eve, of course with next to zero risk the rewards are pretty rubbish. By going for the good rewards a person is prepared to take a risk and sometimes the odds don't work out in their favour. It's a bit silly to blame other people rather than accept responsibility for taking the risk oneself.
EVE allows escapism like many other games and over the course of my career I've been industrialist, anti pirate, pirate, member of a 0.0 alliance, president of that same alliance that grew to over 1500 members, conqueror, mercenary and many other things. During all this time it is the player generated content that has absolutely shined.
When generating wealth in game becomes a resource to be used rather than a goal in itself the game transforms as it is the experiences that make one rich and not a figure in ones wallet.
EVE is a game about people interaction, the NPCs are secondary.
It is a sandbox where players determine who owns what on the map and where epic wars can be fought over precious resources. There are too many MMOs where players can't really change the outcome of their world, eve is refreshing in that it takes away the training wheels when you want to.
On a personal scale loss means something and you have to develop situational awareness to survive and thrive. Now because loss hurts it means victory actually means something too and thus so much sweeter. This is the only game I've played where I've come out of a fight with such an adrenalin rush that my hands shake and I'm not alone, the 'shakes' is a well know EVE phenomena.
Counter Strike is a different type of PVP and neither defines if you're a real man or not.
If you keep thinking of the other players as 'intruding on _YOUR_ game', you'll never understand EVE. The players are the game, not the brainless rats.
I think this probably sums up what EVE is about perfectly. When I used to be president of a 0.0 Alliance (Huzzah) it used to feel like real life politics but just set in a computer game.
'MacKinnon warned: "Without significant intervention higher education cannot meet growth targets [for the IT industry]." He called on the government to provide tax breaks and partner-with-industry to encourage internships and graduate entry schemes to get young talent into IT and help others transfer across from different industries.
The offshoring of entry level IT jobs has exacerbated the skills shortage by making it increasingly difficult for IT workers to gain the necessary experience to boost their skill level, he added. "Because we are not employing at entry level offshoring will kill our industry stone dead," he warned.'
and from the article itself:
"Because the US economy is depressed it's cheaper to develop there and people are looking at other places - everyone's setting up studios in Shanghai and Eastern Europe at the moment."
Even in the company I work for we don't have any entry level jobs any more in house and in the UK. I don't agree with it as it's causing problems such as lack of knowledge retention and the wool being pulled over managements eyes. But the IT director came in singing the offshoring song and so we'll continue despite indications it's actually more expensive than say agile onshore methods.
In the past I'd have recommended IT as a career but now I'd say go into building trades as at least your competition has to come here to the UK and you've got the same cost of living.
As with many changes in technology the law is far behind. In this case they would foul of the same laws that would convict the original criminals. The law needs to be adapted to allow legally sanctioned actions like the one proposed to happen to fix the problem.
Botnets also span more than one country so maybe this needs to be international law.
The 1st world is increasingly giving up the ability to self sustain in the possibility of a cold or conventional war with the 2nd or 3rd world.
For example a conflict with china over Taiwan needs only a boycott from China to the USA and a few undersea data cable severances to wreck the US economy. With manufacturing and back office functionality moved overseas the ability of a large military to protect borders becomes irrelevant when economic vulnerable points lie outside of those borders.
Will be interesting to see who voted for what and what made them change if they did. Potentially there could be a lot of fallout for those involved as the facts come to light.
Personally I have lost faith in ISO because it seems the worlds largest computer software manufacturer can just buy their own standards from this organisation.
Like the MPAA, RIAA and other businesses built up around forming monopolies of information distribution the world is changing around them and they are failing to adapt, just like many a buggy whip manufacturer of old. When distributing one's information had a significant cost (printing, transport etc) and bandwidth was low i.e. a monthly journal then these models of doing business made sense. In the 21st Century information distribution costs are effectively reaching zero and so monopolies based on reproduction and distribution increasingly don't make sense, unless of course your living is making money from this monopoly at the expense of everyone else.
The APS should be embracing this lowering cost trend in keeping with their mission statement, "In the firm belief that an understanding of the nature of the physical universe will be of benefit to all humanity, the Society shall have as its objective the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics." don't you think. Even if there is value in a physical journal being printed and distributed then a licence from the author granting non revocable usage rights is sufficient.
It wouldn't be an extensive P2P network if they didn't distribute their client.:)
Anyway after digging around they rebranded their own client they use for their other networks thus didn't violate the GPL at all. Maybe the open source guys can register the name as a trademark and go after them that way.
Exactly if Discordia took the source, modified it and do not provide access to it as has been implied then they are far game for a copyright infringement lawsuit. If the original authors don't want to do it then maybe give the copyright to the EFF who WILL go after them. Also maybe drum up some press about the copyright infringement and their link to the French RIAA as that will surely stink PR wise.
EVE, once you get out of high security space becomes more and more of a sandbox and this to me is it's appeal. The physics are just right for a game of this type although in the future something along the lines of I-WAR would be better. It isn't game for instant gratification but if you want to carve your own path and have an oppertunity to make somehting of yourself in a non sarded wourld with over 20,000 people in it at any one time then this is the game for you.
This might be a game but the politics are real and to me that is one of the major attractions, being ablt to fight warfare using a combination of violence, politics and negotiation provided hours of fun as I led an alliance from being a small NPC hunting alliance in poor space to one of the ten argest in game occupying multiple stations that had been conqured from once of the oldest in the game. Seriously, fir it up, get into a corp and you'll find your other games won't get much of a look in.
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President Huzzah Federation PS: Big hello to all the other EVE players in here.
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So instead of an attaboy he gets a slap. Great way to be notified in the future if anything is wrong with their security.
If it was my system the person would definitely get a pat on the back and a thank you.
Using a jet engine off the shelf isn't the hard part, btw the rocket is a HTP hyrbid rocket that is developed for this project.
The real brain cruncher is how you design a vehicle that can survive an environment where supersonic shock waves are being reflected off of a desert floor back onto the body of the craft and so on. Remember the wheels are travelling on the ground at mach 1.4, if they were uncovered the top of the wheel would be travelling at mach 2.8 with regards to the local airflow. That's up there with the SR71 in terms of velocity.
Hardly off the shelf.
How many land speed record attempts do you know that were done by vehicles intended for commercial production and sale?
Part of this project is to inspire the younger generation whilst at school that engineering and science isn't dull and boring and something worth getting fired up about. The UK has a shortage of home grown talent when it comes to engineering and this is helping change that for the future.
Totally agree, would rather have the money spent on shutting down the source.
Not like 5 mins after the content filtering goes live that a technical solution will be devised to work around it. Then the job of tracking the source down becomes a lot more harder to follow, then again the government now have a filtering system in place to shut off anything they deem illegal or subversive. So I guess it's a win for the politicians.
Doesn't this count as wire fraud?
Mind you this practice will get attention when the numbers used are not those of citizens but those used by government lobbying corporations.
Also, the petitions website is a waste of time because it doesn't change anything. I suppose you could use it if you like receiving one of those super persuasive emails from them afterwards where they try to explain how and why you were wrong to take whatever resolution was proposed in the petition.
It's a way of indicating your opinion directly to the government. Doesn't mean it replaces other methods such as writing to your MP etc but it is better than doing nothing or complaining elsewhere where those in power won't hear ones voice.
A petition has already been started on the downing street website (http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/no-to-1984/).
Feel free to express your views against this.
Totally agree, how can this solution come from the country that designed the Atlas. A rocket that used fuel pressure in the tanks to keep structural integrity in order to maximise its fuel fraction.
Thank god other people than NASA are designing rockets.
So people that shoot at others in EVE are sociopaths, but if they do it in Counter Strike then they are not?
There are ways to be almost perfectly safe in eve, of course with next to zero risk the rewards are pretty rubbish. By going for the good rewards a person is prepared to take a risk and sometimes the odds don't work out in their favour. It's a bit silly to blame other people rather than accept responsibility for taking the risk oneself.
EVE allows escapism like many other games and over the course of my career I've been industrialist, anti pirate, pirate, member of a 0.0 alliance, president of that same alliance that grew to over 1500 members, conqueror, mercenary and many other things. During all this time it is the player generated content that has absolutely shined.
When generating wealth in game becomes a resource to be used rather than a goal in itself the game transforms as it is the experiences that make one rich and not a figure in ones wallet.
Hans Roaming
Body Count Incorporated
The Requiem
EVE is a game about people interaction, the NPCs are secondary.
It is a sandbox where players determine who owns what on the map and where epic wars can be fought over precious resources. There are too many MMOs where players can't really change the outcome of their world, eve is refreshing in that it takes away the training wheels when you want to.
On a personal scale loss means something and you have to develop situational awareness to survive and thrive. Now because loss hurts it means victory actually means something too and thus so much sweeter. This is the only game I've played where I've come out of a fight with such an adrenalin rush that my hands shake and I'm not alone, the 'shakes' is a well know EVE phenomena.
Counter Strike is a different type of PVP and neither defines if you're a real man or not.
Hans Roaming
Body Count Incorporated
The Requiem
If you keep thinking of the other players as 'intruding on _YOUR_ game', you'll never understand EVE. The players are the game, not the brainless rats.
I think this probably sums up what EVE is about perfectly. When I used to be president of a 0.0 Alliance (Huzzah) it used to feel like real life politics but just set in a computer game.
Hans Roaming
Body Count Incorporated
The Requiem
You sure don't if you've never heard of Verone and Veto.
Hans Roaming
Body Count Incorporated
The Requiem
Once the GPL version is out there it's out there, having a closed source licence version won't stop that.
From an article linked by the one of those above:
'MacKinnon warned: "Without significant intervention higher education cannot meet growth targets [for the IT industry]." He called on the government to provide tax breaks and partner-with-industry to encourage internships and graduate entry schemes to get young talent into IT and help others transfer across from different industries.
The offshoring of entry level IT jobs has exacerbated the skills shortage by making it increasingly difficult for IT workers to gain the necessary experience to boost their skill level, he added. "Because we are not employing at entry level offshoring will kill our industry stone dead," he warned.'
and from the article itself:
"Because the US economy is depressed it's cheaper to develop there and people are looking at other places - everyone's setting up studios in Shanghai and Eastern Europe at the moment."
Even in the company I work for we don't have any entry level jobs any more in house and in the UK. I don't agree with it as it's causing problems such as lack of knowledge retention and the wool being pulled over managements eyes. But the IT director came in singing the offshoring song and so we'll continue despite indications it's actually more expensive than say agile onshore methods.
In the past I'd have recommended IT as a career but now I'd say go into building trades as at least your competition has to come here to the UK and you've got the same cost of living.
Basically we're turning ourselves into Eloi.
They remembered who their customers were perhaps?
"If the enemy is using civilian computers in his country so as to cause us harm, then we may attack them"
It might be found that the enemy botnet just doesn't respect political borders and will be using machines within ones own country. What happens then?
As with many changes in technology the law is far behind. In this case they would foul of the same laws that would convict the original criminals. The law needs to be adapted to allow legally sanctioned actions like the one proposed to happen to fix the problem.
Botnets also span more than one country so maybe this needs to be international law.
The 1st world is increasingly giving up the ability to self sustain in the possibility of a cold or conventional war with the 2nd or 3rd world.
For example a conflict with china over Taiwan needs only a boycott from China to the USA and a few undersea data cable severances to wreck the US economy. With manufacturing and back office functionality moved overseas the ability of a large military to protect borders becomes irrelevant when economic vulnerable points lie outside of those borders.
Will be interesting to see who voted for what and what made them change if they did. Potentially there could be a lot of fallout for those involved as the facts come to light.
Personally I have lost faith in ISO because it seems the worlds largest computer software manufacturer can just buy their own standards from this organisation.
Like the MPAA, RIAA and other businesses built up around forming monopolies of information distribution the world is changing around them and they are failing to adapt, just like many a buggy whip manufacturer of old. When distributing one's information had a significant cost (printing, transport etc) and bandwidth was low i.e. a monthly journal then these models of doing business made sense. In the 21st Century information distribution costs are effectively reaching zero and so monopolies based on reproduction and distribution increasingly don't make sense, unless of course your living is making money from this monopoly at the expense of everyone else.
The APS should be embracing this lowering cost trend in keeping with their mission statement, "In the firm belief that an understanding of the nature of the physical universe will be of benefit to all humanity, the Society shall have as its objective the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics." don't you think. Even if there is value in a physical journal being printed and distributed then a licence from the author granting non revocable usage rights is sufficient.
Which nation?
It wouldn't be an extensive P2P network if they didn't distribute their client. :)
Anyway after digging around they rebranded their own client they use for their other networks thus didn't violate the GPL at all. Maybe the open source guys can register the name as a trademark and go after them that way.
Exactly if Discordia took the source, modified it and do not provide access to it as has been implied then they are far game for a copyright infringement lawsuit. If the original authors don't want to do it then maybe give the copyright to the EFF who WILL go after them. Also maybe drum up some press about the copyright infringement and their link to the French RIAA as that will surely stink PR wise.
Yes but MC are going to take the prize!
Hans Roaming
Body Count Inc
Mercenary Coalition
EVE, once you get out of high security space becomes more and more of a sandbox and this to me is it's appeal. The physics are just right for a game of this type although in the future something along the lines of I-WAR would be better. It isn't game for instant gratification but if you want to carve your own path and have an oppertunity to make somehting of yourself in a non sarded wourld with over 20,000 people in it at any one time then this is the game for you.
This might be a game but the politics are real and to me that is one of the major attractions, being ablt to fight warfare using a combination of violence, politics and negotiation provided hours of fun as I led an alliance from being a small NPC hunting alliance in poor space to one of the ten argest in game occupying multiple stations that had been conqured from once of the oldest in the game. Seriously, fir it up, get into a corp and you'll find your other games won't get much of a look in.
Hans Roaming
President
Huzzah Federation
PS: Big hello to all the other EVE players in here.