Three Texas surgeons were playing golf together and bragging about surgeries they had performed.
One of them said, "Hellyeah, I'm the best surgeon in Texas. A concert pianist lost 7 fingers in an accident, I reattached them, and 8 months later he performed a private concert for the Queen of England."
One of the others said. "Y'all, that's nothing. A young man lost both arms and legs in an accident, I reattached them, and 2 years later he won a gold medal in field events in the Olympics."
The third surgeon said, "You old boys are amateurs. Several years ago a cowboy who was high on cocaine and alcohol rode a horse head-on into a train traveling 80 miles an hour. All I had left to work with was the horse's ass and a cowboy hat. Now he's President of the United States!"
Inexplicably, AD seems to interoperate with other Kerberoses. In my current contract a Generic Huge Financial Services Company we authenticate our Apache servers (internal, htaccess-type auth) running on Linux against AD. No reason why we could not add our Solaris and Linux login authentication to that.
I do not administer the AD boxes, those guys are on a different continent, so I don't know what kind of kludges those guys had to go through to get this to work. But in view of the recent Scott McNealy - Steve Ballmer kiss-fest over Solaris-Microsoft interoperability, yes it isn't much of a stretch anymore.
This is On Topic because I agree with the original poster - any SSO has got to work with AD to be successful.
Considering the trade embargo in place, Microsoft can't sell them Windows legally anyway, at least directly.
Considering the number of Cuban radio hams I hear (and work) using PSK31, a computer-based ham radio mode, grassroots computing is alive and well there.
I guess those old Soviet diesel-powered IBM 360 clones are starting to wear out?
Yeah, what was I thinking? I am not a chemistry expert, just speculating "where would I go if I were a hydrogen atom". For the record, here is a semmingly authoritative article that describes what happens to hydrogen in the environment, besides being dissolved in the ocean and naturally oxidized in the atmosphere:
A few BPL trials have been dropped because the technology just cannot compete. But the threat is still real. Once fixed wireless is available everywhere, BPL technology's only hope of success is through open graft and bribery.
My hope would be that Texans would give their much-abused highway signs a break from using them for target practice and begin utilizing the numerous BPL devices that will be available. But old habits die hard.
Not necessarily. We Americans may know it's bollocks, but to much of the the rest of the world, it may appear for all intents and purposes that the US is being run by paranoid crackpot leftovers. Look the this week's Newsweek/Koran debacle.
When you are trying to convert the faithful, appearances are everything.
I think I read somewhere that buried down in the fine print of FAR 103 is the weight limit for ultralight baloon is less, like 135 lb - that would be the total gross weight AFAIK, precluding the use of lawn chair balloons as a vehicle except for really small people.
When I say zero percent, I am not rounding off - I really have not seen a legit email in my spam folder in a couple months. I don't get any legit foreign language email.
I could very well be a special case for which gmail's system works particularly well. There was a discussion of this last couple days on./ - almost all of my mail is from people I already know. But I am job-hunting right now and the occasional "offers" are not being rejected as spam; they have all been from SPF neutral rated sites.
>> Just make sure you document what you do, but not how you do it.
Humorous intent appreciated, but unfortunately in real life that will guarantee that I tell every one I know and hopefully all your prospective employers what an asshole that person was.
I can live with co-workers that are fuckups, I've done it for years (isn't that one of the core competencies of a sysadmin?), but co-workers who deliberately obfuscate their fuck-up-ed-ness, or even their competence, have a special place on my enemies list.
On my gmail account, the service intercepts better than 99% of my spam (1 or 2 out of several hundred per week) with what has recently been a 0 percent false positive rate. So the technology exists and works.
on the way up that dune, not to mention. Remember, if you're not having fun, it's not worth doing. Time to sit back and have a few beers and figure out what to do next.
was very careful to follow the regulations. Not sure if the UT guys knew what they were doing in that regards. Basically, you do not necessarily need FAA permission if the balloon is small enough, just so one does not end with one's payload smashing through an airplane windscreen or blowing up a turbine. To quote above link, one generally doesn't need to file a flight plan unless the balloon:
(i) Carries a payload package that weighs more than four pounds and has a weight/size ratio of more than three ounces per square inch on any surface of the package, determined by dividing the total weight in ounces of the payload package by the area in square inches of its smallest surface; (ii) Carries a payload package that weighs more than six pounds; (iii) Carries a payload, of two or more packages, that weighs more than 12 pounds; or (iv) Uses a rope or other device for suspension of the payload that requires an impact force of more than 50 pounds to separate the suspended payload from the balloon.
If you carry enough ballast, wait for the right weather, stay below 10,000 feet (hypoxia), do your math (re. ballast), and get the FCC to certify your lawn chair as an experiental aircraft, the lawn chair approach is perfectly safe.
The only trouble the lawn chair guys got in was for 1) operating an uncertified aircraft and 2) busting the LA class B (highly controlled but still VFR) airspace.
Getting to a high altitude (over 35,000 feet) in a manned balloon would not be a trivial undertaking. Or else lots of people would be doing it already.
- You have to choose between popping the baloon at altitude and parachuting back, or taking a huge amount of ballast to keep you from plummeting back to earth once your balloon envelope begins to shrink alarmingly on the way back down. If you don't drop ballast, you will die.
- Above 55,000 feet or so you need a full-fledged pressurized space suit. If your suit depressurizes, you die.
- Parachuting from extremely high altitudes is difficult, tricky, and very hazardous. You can break the sound barrier in freefall. If you don't get everything right, your parachute will rip to shreds, and you will die.
That being said, I wonder if you could take a group of people up to 100,000 feet or so in a rigid, dirigible sort of thing. Heck, around the world at 50,000 feet woudl be pretty darn cool.
Still, I think Rutan's approach is probably safer.
Sure, the beta radiation doesn't do much harm. Neither does the beta radiation from radium. Unless it somehow gets into your body.
OTOH Tritium's half life is only 12.26 years. So once it gets into the environment - and it will what with millions of these "tritium duracells" being tossed into landfills - I would it would be a problem worth investigating. I would expect tritium would behave more or less like hydrogen once in the environment, form salts, etc. Operating a 50W laptop will take SLIGHTLY more tritium than illuminating a watch dial or exit sign.
Nevertheless this is a good innovation - the security risks associated with current TIGs - each with several Kg of cesium, or something equally nasty.
floating around inside it, it would suck to reach in for a victim and get tangled up in the wreckage of the batteries (NiMh, I believe.)
Handling crashed electric vehicles is not a trivial problem for first responders. Not any more dangerous than 100 liters of gasoline, but different. More info here (first thing that popped up on Google):
This method is known as "giving all your sales guys the same key". Once, I was kidnapped, held at gunpoint in a basement dungeon, and beaten until I agreed to so this.
In the last few months, as gmail's customer base has grown, their spam capturing capabilities have reached about 99.5% with a 0% false positive rate. And I get about 100 spams per day. It has been weeks since Gmail last falsely identified an incoming spam for me.
This type of searching (i.e efficiently searching through a long-tailed distribution) my contacts and archived mail is probbaly just one part of the equation - only about 25% of my email is from other gmail users. But nearly all of my legit email is from people I have emailed to or from before. I am a perfect candidate for this kind of protection.
The Wall Street Journal had an article on this a couple weeks ago - apparently the way for meetup sites to make money is to make membership quite exclusive. Not the hoi polloi you find on Friendster. Membership must be approved by N other members, you can be kicked off the service by not being cool enough, not making enough money, not having hot enough dates, etc. Then the service can sell ultrapremium ads.
To paraphrase a great American, I would never join a club that would have me as a member.
And he is talking about a constitutional amendment, not a bill.
Congress controls the "purse strings", everybody is supposed to learn that in elementary school. There are a few exceptions: Article III essentially says Congress can't cut off the judiciary. Congress can even close down federal courts, viz. the current attempts to shut down the Ninth District and move it from San Francisco to a more backward, rednecky place that meets with Congress's approval.
Now, as for a constitutional amendment to have spending bills only be spending bills, cool. You approve the amendment in Congress, and remember it has to be approved by two thirds of the states and the Prez.
What's pissing off the governors about this bill is not the privacy concerns but that it's another "unfunded mandate". Congress is potentially telling the states to redo all their drivers licensing procedures, and is probably not providing any funds to do so. Just like health care, education, etc these days Congress is telling people what do to and mot giving them any means to do so.
I've sent a credit card number unencypted over the Internet and - nothing bad happened!
It's just a matter of probability - if you have a 1 in 1000000000000000 chance of having a number stolen because of a problem with SSL, you probably have a 1 in 1000000000 chance of having THE packet with your credit card number stolen in transit because some baddie is snooping on the connection.
Of course, once your CC number arrives on the destination server, whether it arrives via SSL or plain-text HTTP, it is logged in world-readable log files and you are doomed.
Because I.D. is a crutch for religious zealots to skip the hard parts of science. A good old fashioned Jesuit would probably like the Picard quote, but they have been both religious and asking the hard philspohical questions for a long time.
I.D. just lets you dumb down the difficulties and contradictions inherent in science to the level of the hicks and retards in your constituency. They've got a statue of a caveman riding a dinosaur in their museum, FFS!
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Three Texas surgeons were playing golf together and bragging about surgeries they had performed.
One of them said, "Hellyeah, I'm the best surgeon in Texas. A concert pianist lost 7 fingers in an accident, I reattached them, and 8 months later
he performed a private concert for the Queen of England."
One of the others said. "Y'all, that's nothing. A young man lost both arms and legs in an accident, I reattached them, and 2 years later he won a
gold medal in field events in the Olympics."
The third surgeon said, "You old boys are amateurs. Several years ago a cowboy who was high on cocaine and alcohol rode a horse head-on into a
train traveling 80 miles an hour. All I had left to work with was the horse's ass and a cowboy hat. Now he's President of the United States!"
Inexplicably, AD seems to interoperate with other Kerberoses. In my current contract a Generic Huge Financial Services Company we authenticate our Apache servers (internal, htaccess-type auth) running on Linux against AD. No reason why we could not add our Solaris and Linux login authentication to that.
I do not administer the AD boxes, those guys are on a different continent, so I don't know what kind of kludges those guys had to go through to get this to work. But in view of the recent Scott McNealy - Steve Ballmer kiss-fest over Solaris-Microsoft interoperability, yes it isn't much of a stretch anymore.
This is On Topic because I agree with the original poster - any SSO has got to work with AD to be successful.
Considering the trade embargo in place, Microsoft can't sell them Windows legally anyway, at least directly.
Considering the number of Cuban radio hams I hear (and work) using PSK31, a computer-based ham radio mode, grassroots computing is alive and well there.
I guess those old Soviet diesel-powered IBM 360 clones are starting to wear out?
Yeah, what was I thinking? I am not a chemistry expert, just speculating "where would I go if I were a hydrogen atom". For the record, here is a semmingly authoritative article that describes what happens to hydrogen in the environment, besides being dissolved in the ocean and naturally oxidized in the atmosphere:
f -asg082003.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-08/ns
Never underestimate the power of corrupt legislatures and utility companies to force adoption of bad technologies:
r .asp?ppa=8knpp%5EZltmlupoXUnj!6%3C%22bfek%5C!
http://powermarketers.netcontentinc.net/newsreade
A few BPL trials have been dropped because the technology just cannot compete. But the threat is still real. Once fixed wireless is available everywhere, BPL
technology's only hope of success is through open graft and bribery.
My hope would be that Texans would give their much-abused highway signs a break from using them for target practice and begin utilizing the numerous BPL devices that will be
available. But old habits die hard.
>> It's complete bollocks.
Not necessarily. We Americans may know it's bollocks, but to much of the the rest of the world, it may appear for all intents and purposes that the US is being run by paranoid crackpot leftovers. Look the this week's Newsweek/Koran debacle.
When you are trying to convert the faithful, appearances are everything.
I think I read somewhere that buried down in the fine print of FAR 103 is the weight limit for ultralight baloon is less, like 135 lb - that would be the total gross weight AFAIK, precluding the use of lawn chair balloons as a vehicle except for really small people.
When I say zero percent, I am not rounding off - I really have not seen a legit email in my spam folder in a couple months. I don't get any legit foreign language email.
./ - almost all of my mail is from people I already know. But I am job-hunting right now and the occasional "offers" are not being rejected as spam; they have all been from SPF neutral rated sites.
I could very well be a special case for which gmail's system works particularly well. There was a discussion of this last couple days on
>> Just make sure you document what you do, but not how you do it.
Humorous intent appreciated, but unfortunately in real life that will guarantee that I tell every one I know and hopefully all your prospective employers what an asshole that person was.
I can live with co-workers that are fuckups, I've done it for years (isn't that one of the core competencies of a sysadmin?), but co-workers who deliberately obfuscate their fuck-up-ed-ness, or even their competence, have a special place on my enemies list.
On my gmail account, the service intercepts better than 99% of my spam (1 or 2 out of several hundred per week) with what has recently been a 0 percent false positive rate. So the technology exists and works.
on the way up that dune, not to mention. Remember, if you're not having fun, it's not worth doing. Time to sit back and have a few beers and figure out what to do next.
p ortunity/20050506b.html
http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/op
This guy who did a similar project:
http://vpizza.org/~jmeehan/balloon/
was very careful to follow the regulations. Not sure if the UT guys knew what they were doing in that regards. Basically, you do not necessarily need FAA permission if the balloon is small enough, just so one does not end with one's payload smashing through an airplane windscreen or blowing up a turbine. To quote above link, one generally doesn't need to file a flight plan unless the balloon:
(i) Carries a payload package that weighs more than four pounds and has a weight/size ratio of more than three ounces per square inch on any surface of the package, determined by dividing the total weight in ounces of the payload package by the area in square inches of its smallest surface;
(ii) Carries a payload package that weighs more than six pounds;
(iii) Carries a payload, of two or more packages, that weighs more than 12 pounds; or
(iv) Uses a rope or other device for suspension of the payload that requires an impact force of more than 50 pounds to separate the suspended payload from the balloon.
If you carry enough ballast, wait for the right weather, stay below 10,000 feet (hypoxia), do your math (re. ballast), and get the FCC to certify your lawn chair as an experiental aircraft, the lawn chair approach is perfectly safe.
The only trouble the lawn chair guys got in was for 1) operating an uncertified aircraft and 2) busting the LA class B (highly controlled but still VFR) airspace.
Getting to a high altitude (over 35,000 feet) in a manned balloon would not be a trivial undertaking. Or else lots of people would be doing it already.
- You have to choose between popping the baloon at altitude and parachuting back, or taking a huge amount of ballast to keep you from plummeting back to earth once your balloon envelope begins to shrink alarmingly on the way back down. If you don't drop ballast, you will die.
- Above 55,000 feet or so you need a full-fledged pressurized space suit. If your suit depressurizes, you die.
- Parachuting from extremely high altitudes is difficult, tricky, and very hazardous. You can break the sound barrier in freefall. If you don't get everything right, your parachute will rip to shreds, and you will die.
That being said, I wonder if you could take a group of people up to 100,000 feet or so in a rigid, dirigible sort of thing. Heck, around the world at 50,000 feet woudl be pretty darn cool.
Still, I think Rutan's approach is probably safer.
you insensitive clod!
Of course I got mine for free (Plam Zire), thrown in with a Dell Poweredge server.
Perfectly suitable for me, and I didn't have to go out and risk a few hundred on something I didn't like and would end up giving to the nephew.
All you people bragging about how safe tritium is, eat some stuff contaminated with it and let's see how well you do. MSDS (best I could do):
e w.asp?pd=ca&pf=cbsbm
http://www.emedco.com/emed2/resource/msds/msds_vi
Sure, the beta radiation doesn't do much harm. Neither does the beta radiation from radium. Unless it somehow gets into your body.
OTOH Tritium's half life is only 12.26 years. So once it gets into the environment - and it will what with millions of these "tritium duracells" being tossed into landfills - I would it would be a problem worth investigating. I would expect tritium would behave more or less like hydrogen once in the environment, form salts, etc. Operating a 50W laptop will take SLIGHTLY more tritium than illuminating a watch dial or exit sign.
Nevertheless this is a good innovation - the security risks associated with current TIGs - each with several Kg of cesium, or something equally nasty.
Real soon now, disks will be listed in TB, are you will have to relive all your years of anguish. Sorry, bub.
floating around inside it, it would suck to reach in for a victim and get tangled up in the wreckage of the batteries (NiMh, I believe.)
Handling crashed electric vehicles is not a trivial problem for first responders. Not any more dangerous than 100 liters of gasoline, but different. More info here (first thing that popped up on Google):
http://www.extrication.com/ERG.htm
This method is known as "giving all your sales guys the same key". Once, I was kidnapped, held at gunpoint in a basement dungeon, and beaten until I agreed to so this.
In the last few months, as gmail's customer base has grown, their spam capturing capabilities have reached about 99.5% with a 0% false positive rate. And I get about 100 spams per day. It has been weeks since Gmail last falsely identified an incoming spam for me.
This type of searching (i.e efficiently searching through a long-tailed distribution) my contacts and archived mail is probbaly just one part of the equation - only about 25% of my email is from other gmail users. But nearly all of my legit email is from people I have emailed to or from before. I am a perfect candidate for this kind of protection.
The Wall Street Journal had an article on this a couple weeks ago - apparently the way for meetup sites to make money is to make membership quite exclusive. Not the hoi polloi you find on Friendster. Membership must be approved by N other members, you can be kicked off the service by not being cool enough, not making enough money, not having hot enough dates, etc. Then the service can sell ultrapremium ads.
To paraphrase a great American, I would never join a club that would have me as a member.
What's next -
- PC kept lifted to tropopause to take advantage of constant -55C temperatures
- Armies of hamsters enslaved to turn multi-stage centrifugal fans
- PC strapped onto hood of 67 Camaro driven down freeway to maximize airflow
And he is talking about a constitutional amendment, not a bill.
Congress controls the "purse strings", everybody is supposed to learn that in elementary school. There are a few exceptions: Article III essentially says Congress can't cut off the judiciary. Congress can even close down federal courts, viz. the current attempts to shut down the Ninth District and move it from San Francisco to a more backward, rednecky place that meets with Congress's approval.
Now, as for a constitutional amendment to have spending bills only be spending bills, cool. You approve the amendment in Congress, and remember it has to be approved by two thirds of the states and the Prez.
What's pissing off the governors about this bill is not the privacy concerns but that it's another "unfunded mandate". Congress is potentially telling the states to redo all their drivers licensing procedures, and is probably not providing any funds to do so. Just like health care, education, etc these days Congress is telling people what do to and mot giving them any means to do so.
I've sent a credit card number unencypted over the Internet and - nothing bad happened!
It's just a matter of probability - if you have a 1 in 1000000000000000 chance of having a number stolen because of a problem with SSL, you probably have a 1 in 1000000000 chance of having THE packet with your credit card number stolen in transit because some baddie is snooping on the connection.
Of course, once your CC number arrives on the destination server, whether it arrives via SSL or plain-text HTTP, it is logged in world-readable log files and you are doomed.
Because I.D. is a crutch for religious zealots to skip the hard parts of science. A good old fashioned Jesuit would probably like the Picard quote, but they have been both religious and asking the hard philspohical questions for a long time.
I.D. just lets you dumb down the difficulties and contradictions inherent in science to the level of the hicks and retards in your constituency. They've got a statue of a caveman riding a dinosaur in their museum, FFS!