Nasa isnt about setting $clue=1...unfortunately the bias of NASA against open source isn't NASA's fault. It's the public's. The reason a SUN server or an Ubuntu laptop isnt on flight is that the software may be well coded, but if it breaks and someone gets hurt or killed, the main contracting companies of U.S.A. and it's parent companies Lockheed-Martin and Boeing want someone to sue if **** goes south. FOSS will always take a backseat to COSS (Commercial Off Shelf Software) as long as that mentality is in place. NASA brass wants FOSS software, contractors however, won't touch it. Hey...if the TSA can request money for full body x rays, why can't NASA request funding for a project?
Hey, Join my grassroots campaign. We could cyberpanhandle for NASA. Raise a million or so for the betterment of the space program. I'll poke around at NASA and see if they can take private donations.
nice, but the Orion's computers are going to be run by an open source or Xenix like OS. Off the shelf windows won't do. Nasa has a version of Windows 2000 modified for space travel, also a version of XP was in the works when I was out there often. Hardened space rated hardware is usually not powerful enough for the latest and greatest OS. Even the lappys that the ISS crew uses arent running XP. More like 2000 SP4+
Copies of the manuals and the designs for the Saturn V still exist. And we've got one of the best examples out there. We still have original Saturn V rockets out at the space centers. Dust that damn thing off, REVERSE ENGINEER it. If NASA can't do it, HIRE MICROSOFT ENGINEERS! They've been doing it for YEARS.
Which is exactly why we need to resurrect interest in the Space program. No one cares? Has anyone ever thought about what life would be like if we DIDN'T have the space program?! Slashdot would be out of business...we'd still be in the dark ages of tech if we didnt have a space program. No high availiability servers, no hybrid cars, no amazingy resilient memory metals, no high heat plastics or ceramics... ALL these things have peices that came from the space program research or otherwise.
Kids nowdays learn basic science in schools...taught to a test, taught to look into the box of ideas and take from it, imitate, never innovate. Rarely will you ever see a child look up and wonder about what makes the world tick, what makes the sun shine, why is the sky blue...etc. Nowadays, Brittany Spears getting in a car wreck is more in tune with their attention spans. I worked with these people, these people are dedicated to getting another man to the moon with as much safety as money can buy.
We DO need a space program, it needs more money, and the Patriots in congress don't seem to understand that. We're in a recession, soon to head into a depression...why not divert some government bailout money to the space program and only bail out half of Fannie MAe or Freddie Mac? Its time we had an administration that hearkened back to the days of Reganomics, where failure was NOT an option. Nowdays, the american public is too engrossed in American Idol to realize that the same people that are running the country into the ground financially with pork barrel spending and side goals are also starving a potential venue of economic revitaliazation with thier short sighted, anti-innovative laws and associated security theatre. We've lost so much in the past 7 years, let's not add the space program and the gifts of knowledge and research benefits to the casualty list. We need the space program, Congress will probably understand that the day that they wake up and realize that China has already colonized Mars and Japan is on the way to Europa. Kubrick said it best, "All of these words are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them wisely, use them in peace."
The universe is at our door step, let our shortsightedness not rob us of that. Save NASA.
Hey, the post office is only over budget because of the grevious overspending in the management section. I've seen the Reqs...new desks every 6 months in hardwoods, hardwood paneling for offices..Granted, they're complaining that email is killing thier business..but the Post Office is far from "run by penny pinching PHBs." Their POS system is still run on a celeron 300!
Okay....I can see the ideal laptop recovery solution.. When flagged stolen, the laptop automatically connects to the National Reconnissance office, files a request for priority targetting and reconnissance with Joint Chief's auth, an orbital bird is retargetted to the live GPS tracker, once eyes are on the target, a predator Q is dispatched, then whamm-o, the thief gets eradicated while driving/walking down the street by the hellfire missile.
Extreme...yes.. Effective, yes... But man, think of the drop in crime the first time!:)
umm...you do realize we're talking about Best Buy and the Freak Squad...right? This is a company that to this day will sell you a 30.00 US package when you buy an Xbox360 to "check your games for backward compatability". (when all they do is print out a list and download a 2MB iso image, something you can get for FREE from XBL.)
Funny thing about that... We went to go get oil? Amazing how we now control an Opec "swing state" and have pledged numerous times to get the infastructure working again...yet Oil is 130+ a barrel and none of the refineries in Iraq have begun production. set var woolovereyes=0 and look again.:)
We need to start a write in campaign for President..
CmdrTaco for President? CowboyNeal perhaps?
As far as a vast conspiracy about 9/11, go back, review the evidence from non AP sources, ask the questions that no one is asking.
#1. We do not need to spend more money to fund a grossly bloated system..
#2. We simply need to outsource Congress!
#3. For a paltry 17.25 Million a year, we can outsource congress to China or India and have the govt run our way.
#4 Vote for the civil Rights Act of 20XX.
So...since the market did such a good job of getting us charged more than a first class stamp for sending a 140byte package of data across this wonderful 3G system, let's congratulate them...Maybe we need to let the Market elect our next president....or better yet, set governmental guidelines and policies..
I say we elect the "market" into Congress...they'll do a MUCH better job of screwing the country out of money than Congress.
one small thing..you dont have to worry about punching a hole in Manhattan if you punch the right hole.
its all about one thing: Location, location location.
ummm....heres one for the jet crowd....don;'t jet engines have to be started in some fashion? Remote starter disable for jets....hell, if laptops and cars can be prevented from starting by companies like Lojack...is it too much of a stretch to expand that to Jetliners?
I dunno, I still think taking the crippled new orleans ISP offline by slashdotting was hilarious...that resulted in the total blackout of all internet in the NOLA area when someone linked a video hosted by DirectNic directly to slashdot's front page.:) How to spike a T1 in two easy steps: 1. Post video for NOLA residents on front page of NOLA website. 2. link video to slashdot's front page. Optional step 3. Sit back and sip caffinated bev of choice.
Well, if they used the same UPS batteries that ATT Uverse did, I find it quite easy to see an explosion like this. ATT's streetside boxes in Houston had faulty batteries that weren't up to thermal stress in them. One of the boxes exploded and threw the steel door from the box across a 4 lane street and severely damaged a car parked on the other side in the path of the flying door. This prompted ATT to replace all the UPS batteries in the boxes, a project that is still under way in our area. The explosion bowed the wall in the bunker, so it must have been pretty big. Man...I wonder if the seismographs at the universities around the DC picked up the explosion...:)
LOL...Good job man. Tech haves vs Tech have nots....Fight!
My first job involved me doing laundry at my apartment complex's washateria for chemical plants. I was paid a dollar a pair for washing industurial overalls. This led me to starting my consulting company... IT support at reasonable rates for River Oaks.
There was a great slashdot article back a couple of months...and one poster was absolutely hilarious...he built up a case that it wasnt faulty steel that sank the titanic....but faulty Ice.:) As far as Indiana Jones...I'm going tonight at Midnight. Slashdot reader meetup at Movies 20 in Pasadena, TX!
Really easy....
Remember those truck mounted xray things that we paid 20 billion for at the ports? scale is a bit more and slap linux on it, then make a larger one that can xray across the bottom of a gantry crane.
I need a patent attorney....
Wow...lots of 5 and 6 digit Uids here today....As far as the oldest code in existence...I'm gonna have to say that some of the stuff in the older refineries will top the mainframes and old school stuff out there...older refineries use the modicon system...and usually don't have the money in the budgets to upgrade from the old versions that use microbus cards to the latest PCI or other types of adapters. Though as far as candidates for the oldest code running...IBM's surepos code that runs the postal service POS systems. the system is "based" off windows 2000, but the code is more along the lines of win3.11 or DOS. I suggested a few improvements to the system back when I worked there...all of which were shot down simply because they'd have to train the users.
Give me an office in a modular building next to a stockyard full of volatile chemicals any day! (Yes, my office is next to a stockyard of volatile chemicals that explode at room temperature....in Texas.)
feature request: dual thermostats so I can freeze out the cold natured people around me.)
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cue the wetworks snipers in 5....4..
Anyone else see this as odd? He's found dead, no questions, no nothing? Anyone else think this could have been a pro hit?
Nasa isnt about setting $clue=1...unfortunately the bias of NASA against open source isn't NASA's fault. It's the public's. The reason a SUN server or an Ubuntu laptop isnt on flight is that the software may be well coded, but if it breaks and someone gets hurt or killed, the main contracting companies of U.S.A. and it's parent companies Lockheed-Martin and Boeing want someone to sue if **** goes south. FOSS will always take a backseat to COSS (Commercial Off Shelf Software) as long as that mentality is in place. NASA brass wants FOSS software, contractors however, won't touch it. Hey...if the TSA can request money for full body x rays, why can't NASA request funding for a project? Hey, Join my grassroots campaign. We could cyberpanhandle for NASA. Raise a million or so for the betterment of the space program. I'll poke around at NASA and see if they can take private donations.
nice, but the Orion's computers are going to be run by an open source or Xenix like OS. Off the shelf windows won't do. Nasa has a version of Windows 2000 modified for space travel, also a version of XP was in the works when I was out there often. Hardened space rated hardware is usually not powerful enough for the latest and greatest OS. Even the lappys that the ISS crew uses arent running XP. More like 2000 SP4+
Copies of the manuals and the designs for the Saturn V still exist. And we've got one of the best examples out there. We still have original Saturn V rockets out at the space centers. Dust that damn thing off, REVERSE ENGINEER it. If NASA can't do it, HIRE MICROSOFT ENGINEERS! They've been doing it for YEARS.
Which is exactly why we need to resurrect interest in the Space program. No one cares? Has anyone ever thought about what life would be like if we DIDN'T have the space program?! Slashdot would be out of business...we'd still be in the dark ages of tech if we didnt have a space program. No high availiability servers, no hybrid cars, no amazingy resilient memory metals, no high heat plastics or ceramics... ALL these things have peices that came from the space program research or otherwise. Kids nowdays learn basic science in schools...taught to a test, taught to look into the box of ideas and take from it, imitate, never innovate. Rarely will you ever see a child look up and wonder about what makes the world tick, what makes the sun shine, why is the sky blue...etc. Nowadays, Brittany Spears getting in a car wreck is more in tune with their attention spans. I worked with these people, these people are dedicated to getting another man to the moon with as much safety as money can buy. We DO need a space program, it needs more money, and the Patriots in congress don't seem to understand that. We're in a recession, soon to head into a depression...why not divert some government bailout money to the space program and only bail out half of Fannie MAe or Freddie Mac? Its time we had an administration that hearkened back to the days of Reganomics, where failure was NOT an option. Nowdays, the american public is too engrossed in American Idol to realize that the same people that are running the country into the ground financially with pork barrel spending and side goals are also starving a potential venue of economic revitaliazation with thier short sighted, anti-innovative laws and associated security theatre. We've lost so much in the past 7 years, let's not add the space program and the gifts of knowledge and research benefits to the casualty list. We need the space program, Congress will probably understand that the day that they wake up and realize that China has already colonized Mars and Japan is on the way to Europa. Kubrick said it best, "All of these words are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them wisely, use them in peace." The universe is at our door step, let our shortsightedness not rob us of that. Save NASA.
Hey, the post office is only over budget because of the grevious overspending in the management section. I've seen the Reqs...new desks every 6 months in hardwoods, hardwood paneling for offices..Granted, they're complaining that email is killing thier business..but the Post Office is far from "run by penny pinching PHBs." Their POS system is still run on a celeron 300!
Okay....I can see the ideal laptop recovery solution.. When flagged stolen, the laptop automatically connects to the National Reconnissance office, files a request for priority targetting and reconnissance with Joint Chief's auth, an orbital bird is retargetted to the live GPS tracker, once eyes are on the target, a predator Q is dispatched, then whamm-o, the thief gets eradicated while driving/walking down the street by the hellfire missile. Extreme...yes.. Effective, yes... But man, think of the drop in crime the first time! :)
itll probably be on TPB.org by sundown.
umm...you do realize we're talking about Best Buy and the Freak Squad...right? This is a company that to this day will sell you a 30.00 US package when you buy an Xbox360 to "check your games for backward compatability". (when all they do is print out a list and download a 2MB iso image, something you can get for FREE from XBL.)
Funny thing about that... We went to go get oil? Amazing how we now control an Opec "swing state" and have pledged numerous times to get the infastructure working again...yet Oil is 130+ a barrel and none of the refineries in Iraq have begun production. set var woolovereyes=0 and look again. :)
We need to start a write in campaign for President.. CmdrTaco for President? CowboyNeal perhaps? As far as a vast conspiracy about 9/11, go back, review the evidence from non AP sources, ask the questions that no one is asking.
#1. We do not need to spend more money to fund a grossly bloated system.. #2. We simply need to outsource Congress! #3. For a paltry 17.25 Million a year, we can outsource congress to China or India and have the govt run our way. #4 Vote for the civil Rights Act of 20XX.
So...since the market did such a good job of getting us charged more than a first class stamp for sending a 140byte package of data across this wonderful 3G system, let's congratulate them...Maybe we need to let the Market elect our next president....or better yet, set governmental guidelines and policies.. I say we elect the "market" into Congress...they'll do a MUCH better job of screwing the country out of money than Congress.
helpful tip for the Finnish crowd...if your coffee can double as brick mortar, you're doing it wrong. :)
one small thing..you dont have to worry about punching a hole in Manhattan if you punch the right hole. its all about one thing: Location, location location.
ummm....heres one for the jet crowd....don;'t jet engines have to be started in some fashion? Remote starter disable for jets....hell, if laptops and cars can be prevented from starting by companies like Lojack...is it too much of a stretch to expand that to Jetliners?
I dunno, I still think taking the crippled new orleans ISP offline by slashdotting was hilarious...that resulted in the total blackout of all internet in the NOLA area when someone linked a video hosted by DirectNic directly to slashdot's front page. :) How to spike a T1 in two easy steps: 1. Post video for NOLA residents on front page of NOLA website. 2. link video to slashdot's front page. Optional step 3. Sit back and sip caffinated bev of choice.
Well, if they used the same UPS batteries that ATT Uverse did, I find it quite easy to see an explosion like this. ATT's streetside boxes in Houston had faulty batteries that weren't up to thermal stress in them. One of the boxes exploded and threw the steel door from the box across a 4 lane street and severely damaged a car parked on the other side in the path of the flying door. This prompted ATT to replace all the UPS batteries in the boxes, a project that is still under way in our area. The explosion bowed the wall in the bunker, so it must have been pretty big. Man...I wonder if the seismographs at the universities around the DC picked up the explosion... :)
LOL...Good job man. Tech haves vs Tech have nots....Fight! My first job involved me doing laundry at my apartment complex's washateria for chemical plants. I was paid a dollar a pair for washing industurial overalls. This led me to starting my consulting company... IT support at reasonable rates for River Oaks.
There was a great slashdot article back a couple of months...and one poster was absolutely hilarious...he built up a case that it wasnt faulty steel that sank the titanic....but faulty Ice. :) As far as Indiana Jones...I'm going tonight at Midnight. Slashdot reader meetup at Movies 20 in Pasadena, TX!
so...youre proposing shooting the tourists?
Really easy.... Remember those truck mounted xray things that we paid 20 billion for at the ports? scale is a bit more and slap linux on it, then make a larger one that can xray across the bottom of a gantry crane. I need a patent attorney....
Wow...lots of 5 and 6 digit Uids here today....As far as the oldest code in existence...I'm gonna have to say that some of the stuff in the older refineries will top the mainframes and old school stuff out there...older refineries use the modicon system...and usually don't have the money in the budgets to upgrade from the old versions that use microbus cards to the latest PCI or other types of adapters. Though as far as candidates for the oldest code running...IBM's surepos code that runs the postal service POS systems. the system is "based" off windows 2000, but the code is more along the lines of win3.11 or DOS. I suggested a few improvements to the system back when I worked there...all of which were shot down simply because they'd have to train the users.
Give me an office in a modular building next to a stockyard full of volatile chemicals any day! (Yes, my office is next to a stockyard of volatile chemicals that explode at room temperature....in Texas.) feature request: dual thermostats so I can freeze out the cold natured people around me.)