The naming for this is getting a little ridiculous. HD I could understand. But then to go to ultra high definition seemed a little silly. Super ultra high definition is a whole lot of silly. I suppose they have to give it some sort of name as most TV's that are being sold as 4K truly aren't. I'm going to stick with my 1080p HD for now. At least until the Extra big ass double plus good venti glorious super ultra high definition televisions are released with 8 billion K resolution. At that point, I'll need to wear a pair of 16 inch telescopes with 750X magnification to truly appreciate the resolution while sitting 10 feet away from it on my couch. Except there won't be any content and everything will have to be unconverted from 1080p blurays that were remastered in 4K.
I watched the three episodes of Trek continues a while back. There were only three back then.I haven't had a chance to watch the latest two. Some of the actors could have been better, and it takes a little bit of getting used to them not being the same people as were in TOS. But the stories were pretty good, and the sets, wardrobe and effects were spot on. While you could make better special effects on most home PC's, they kept all of the CGI looking pretty damn close to the original series. I enjoyed it enough that I re-watched the original series again afterward.
Seriously, isn't it about time to rethink the war on drugs? It should be pretty damn obvious, to even a politician, that casual drug users are not an infinitesimally small minority of the population. How about plowing all of that money into education and actual rehabilitation. Besides, we always have the war on terror as an excuse to violate the Constitution when needed.
Fox says the shorter ads, which require viewers to engage with them online, are more effective because they guarantee the audience's full attention."
Just like they read every EULA? Or how they read the notifications in Windows? They'll quickly learn the pattern they need to click to get back to watching their show. I couldn't tell you how many times I've seen people install malware because they reflexively clicked some pop up window from their web browser. I've caught myself almost doing it because I was in a hurry. This will be no different.
As I have pointed out here before I have accidentally brought banned items through security without any real effort in concealing them, they were left in coat pockets, and the TSA never once found them. Yet every time I bring my camera through I get to play 20 questions with the otherwise unemployable.
I was traveling with a colleague a few years back and he discovered that he had left an entire box of ammo for his.357 in his jacket pocket when we got to the gate. Since we didn't have a lot of time, he decided to throw it in the trash rather than go through the hassle of dealing with the TSA. The way they act when you forget a tube of toothpaste in your luggage, we probably would have been banned from flying for life. At least that was his fear.
I remember flying through Amsterdam sometime around 2005 with an external hard drive. They weren't as common then. I got detained for a couple of hours over it. I'm still not sure what they thought it was.
Indeed they have. I'm not sure if they could have asked for a better outcome from 9-11 actually. It seems like quite the victory to me.
Anyone flying has lost a sizable percentage of their personal freedoms going forward, and the bad guys don't have to lift a finger. It's also a huge drain on the economy. Not only in the amount of money spent, but on the amount of time lost by everyone standing around (TSA-Thousands Standing Around). At least the TSA has stopped irradiating us though. That's a baby step in the right direction.
I've said it before, but I still don't think they even want a successful attack going forward, on the US at least. The failed attempts have been much more costly for everyone. All they have to do is give a complete bomb to some patsy and be sure it is configured to malfunction. One idiot gets caught and everyone in the US goes bonkers over it. After the 9-11-01 attacks, everyone in the US was more united than any time I can remember in my adult life. 95%+ of the population was ready to attack anyone over it. The failed attempts seem to remove the threat of retaliation and unifying the population. In fact they tend to keep everyone arguing and wasting more money on prevention of something that will never happen again.
did you actually think about what you were saying? the fact that anyone can easily purchase a missile now for such a low price is a huge fucking deal.
Weaponized drones are/could become a big deal, but to compare it to a cruise missile is over inflating things a bit. A Tomahawk cruises at around 550 mph, and has a 1500 mile range. You aren't going to purchase a drone at your local Hobby Hut that comes anywhere close to that. A Tomahawk also carries a 1000 lb conventional warhead, or cluster bombs. There is also the retired 150 kt nuclear warhead. The US still has them, just not attached to any deployed missiles at the moment. A tomahawk can also fly in any weather. Most drones will not fly in moderate winds or rain.
If it hasn't happened already, I'm sure Phalanx CIWS will start to be deployed on land soon too. They can probably be loaded with plastic rounds that won't cause much collateral damage, but sure as hell will knock a drone out of the sky.
Is there another browser that can be configured like FF with the Tree-Style tabs add-on? I've gotten so used to having the tabs along the left side of the browser, that I can't stand using a browser with them across the top. I tend to have a lot of windows open, 14 at the moment. And currently have 7 to 22 tabs open in each window. If I'm researching something, that number can go up more. When the number of tabs gets past 8 or so, it's too difficult to figure out what's in them if they are across the top. I can resize them to be wider if they are along the side.
I've looked at PaleMoon, but it won't work with that add-on, and I couldn't find one that worked. Chrome also doesn't seem to allow for it, or at least the last time I looked. Nor do any of the other dozen or so browsers I've tried.
Amped Attacks, who has now distanced himself from Anonymous, stating "i am not apart
I'm assuming that he is claiming to not be a member of anonymous, but a missing space sure makes a difference in that statement.
I can't say I've really followed this topic. However, it's a shame that we're so bombarded with crap these days that the default conclusion is that everything is BS unless it's unequivocally shown to not be. Even so, this is an independent organization (NASA) reporting on this and it appears that there may be something more to it than just being a hoax.
Great idea! lets have all the vehicles on our road running at different speeds! because it would be too easy to drive if they were all running the same speed.
In many states that I've driven in the speed limit on the interstate is 65 to 70 mph. But it's 55 for tractor-trailers. On the highways with three or more lanes they are also restricted to the two right lanes, or even the right most lane unless passing. Cars are considerably more maneuverable than a truck. Especially when the truck is confined to the right most lane
A passenger car (on average) can go from 70 to 0 in 233 feet. An 80,000 lb. loaded eighteen wheeler can go from 70 to 0 in 333 feet. At 55 it's stopping distance is 206 feet. But that doesn't take the 1/4 to 1/2 second of brake lag time on air brake systems into account. That adds and additional 20 to 40 feet at 55 mph and 25 to 50 feet at 70 mph. Since an eighteen wheeler is designed for hauling, the stopping distance actually increases when they are empty or not hauling a trailer.
A 4000 lb. car traveling at 55 mph has 334,290 lbf of kinetic energy. An 80,000 lb. truck has 6,685,900 lbf. At 70 mph the car has 655,210 lbf of and the truck has 13,104,000 lbf. A car traveling at 70 mph has a little under 10% of the kinetic energy of a truck traveling at 55 mph.
I know in California the highways are reinforced in the drive lanes to be able to hold up better to the additional weight of tractor-trailers, but the passing lanes are not. This was to save money. But it's another reason that commercial vehicles are supposed to stay in the right lane except when passing. They are also limited to 55 mph to decrease the amount of down-force these vehicle place on the road.
Their corporate x86 server support was really good in the 1990s.
Indeed it was. And the hardware from that period was solid as well. In fact I retired one of their servers from the mid nineties a year or two ago that I re-purposed for a firewall. While it was low power compared to a modern system, it took up too much space and was power hungry compared to a firewall in a box.Even so, I had 12 years up-time on it at one point. The only reason I powered it down was to replace a fan with a loud bearing. I also cleaned the inch or so of dust that had accumulated on all of the horizontal surfaces too.
The interesting question is, "Where is it going . . . ?"
Unless they turn things around, they're going down the shitter. It's really a shame too. There was a time when I wouldn't hesitate to purchase their products. For a very long time, I wouldn't think of purchasing a printer from another company. But that time is long past.
So why is it inevitable that America and China be adversaries? I think the main reason is that Russia is not longer a big threat, and we need a boogey man to justify the MIC
That's it. Granted, Russia is a bigger threat than is admitted. But that would mean that the US somehow failed in keeping them weak, thereby being weak itself. So it's time for a new boogeyman to to scare the children and keep the adults willing to spend ridiculous amounts of money on the F35 and other crap we "need" to defend the American way of life. Besides, 1.5 billion Chinese makes for a better spooky story.
The funny thing is, is that most of the Chinese nationals and former Chinese nationals that I know aren't really much different than Americans that I know. Although most Chinese people that I know are more pragmatic than a lot of Americans are these days. And they are more family oriented than Americans have become. Basically like most folks in America were a few decades back. Otherwise they believe their government is just as full of crap as we do in the US.
Wouldn't it be great if we could turn China into a ally instead of an adversary?
Indeed it would. Unfortunately it's about as likely as solving global warming by switching power generation to clean abundant fairy dust. It's always nice to wish for it though.
fiigure out how to repair the damage she wrought almost single-handedly." ? just put a colt 45 on her temple and shirly temple the trigger so that there is no tampering of evidence when it comes to "whose brains are these"
There's a big difference between revenge/punishment for the responsible person and making things right for all of the people that may have been convicted who were innocent. It's not like you can give them their time back. Nor can you repair the emotional and psychological damage done. Prison isn't summer camp. Spending any significant time there is going to change most people, and not for the best. Most convicted criminals come out as better criminals. I can't imagine what being in that environment would do to someone who knows they shouldn't be there to begin with.
You have chosen to interpret the question in a way that favors your mockery of the OP.
No, I simply read plain English.
First of all, there's no such thing. English is not a dead language like Latin, it evolves. Do you read modern "plain English"? American "plain English"? Shakespearean? You never specified. Second, this was a question posted on/. and not a description in a technical manual. There's a difference.
Which is not what the submission says. You added that qualification.
While you are correct, from the context of the submission, it's rather obvious that commercial "consomer" OS is what they meant. But please do continue to keep posting how incorrect this is, technically, rather than posting anything helpful.
I still have a 20k user license of AIX from that time period sitting in my closet. But it sure as hell wasn't something that yoru typical home user was going to have. I don't recall what all I had at home at that time, but Slackware was the first Linux distro I had.
Yes, that. And in addition, it was a "prototype" and as such may have been just frame and wheels, which could be mistaken for just about anything. The first picture in the article looks nothing like the actual lunar rover other than having a stupid looking antenna on top. It looks like 1000s of other homemade dunebuggies.
If it looked like the picture in the article, I'd probably agree with you. However, FTA: The rover was apparently massive: NASA notes that the Local Scientific Survey Module, as it was called, "weighs more than 8,000 pounds, is 21-feet long, 15-feet wide and has 6 wheels with 5-foot diameters."
I don't know of too many people who would build something like that at all, let alone for a homemade dune buggy.
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The naming for this is getting a little ridiculous. HD I could understand. But then to go to ultra high definition seemed a little silly. Super ultra high definition is a whole lot of silly. I suppose they have to give it some sort of name as most TV's that are being sold as 4K truly aren't. I'm going to stick with my 1080p HD for now. At least until the Extra big ass double plus good venti glorious super ultra high definition televisions are released with 8 billion K resolution. At that point, I'll need to wear a pair of 16 inch telescopes with 750X magnification to truly appreciate the resolution while sitting 10 feet away from it on my couch. Except there won't be any content and everything will have to be unconverted from 1080p blurays that were remastered in 4K.
Aaand, the OED just jumped the shark.
You're living in the last century. "jumped the shark" has been replaced by "nuked the fridge".
I watched the three episodes of Trek continues a while back. There were only three back then.I haven't had a chance to watch the latest two. Some of the actors could have been better, and it takes a little bit of getting used to them not being the same people as were in TOS. But the stories were pretty good, and the sets, wardrobe and effects were spot on. While you could make better special effects on most home PC's, they kept all of the CGI looking pretty damn close to the original series. I enjoyed it enough that I re-watched the original series again afterward.
Seriously, isn't it about time to rethink the war on drugs? It should be pretty damn obvious, to even a politician, that casual drug users are not an infinitesimally small minority of the population. How about plowing all of that money into education and actual rehabilitation. Besides, we always have the war on terror as an excuse to violate the Constitution when needed.
Fox says the shorter ads, which require viewers to engage with them online, are more effective because they guarantee the audience's full attention."
Just like they read every EULA? Or how they read the notifications in Windows? They'll quickly learn the pattern they need to click to get back to watching their show. I couldn't tell you how many times I've seen people install malware because they reflexively clicked some pop up window from their web browser. I've caught myself almost doing it because I was in a hurry. This will be no different.
As I have pointed out here before I have accidentally brought banned items through security without any real effort in concealing them, they were left in coat pockets, and the TSA never once found them. Yet every time I bring my camera through I get to play 20 questions with the otherwise unemployable.
I was traveling with a colleague a few years back and he discovered that he had left an entire box of ammo for his .357 in his jacket pocket when we got to the gate. Since we didn't have a lot of time, he decided to throw it in the trash rather than go through the hassle of dealing with the TSA. The way they act when you forget a tube of toothpaste in your luggage, we probably would have been banned from flying for life. At least that was his fear.
I remember flying through Amsterdam sometime around 2005 with an external hard drive. They weren't as common then. I got detained for a couple of hours over it. I'm still not sure what they thought it was.
Don't worry, they've been aware of this for YEARS
Indeed they have. I'm not sure if they could have asked for a better outcome from 9-11 actually. It seems like quite the victory to me.
Anyone flying has lost a sizable percentage of their personal freedoms going forward, and the bad guys don't have to lift a finger. It's also a huge drain on the economy. Not only in the amount of money spent, but on the amount of time lost by everyone standing around (TSA-Thousands Standing Around). At least the TSA has stopped irradiating us though. That's a baby step in the right direction.
I've said it before, but I still don't think they even want a successful attack going forward, on the US at least. The failed attempts have been much more costly for everyone. All they have to do is give a complete bomb to some patsy and be sure it is configured to malfunction. One idiot gets caught and everyone in the US goes bonkers over it. After the 9-11-01 attacks, everyone in the US was more united than any time I can remember in my adult life. 95%+ of the population was ready to attack anyone over it. The failed attempts seem to remove the threat of retaliation and unifying the population. In fact they tend to keep everyone arguing and wasting more money on prevention of something that will never happen again.
did you actually think about what you were saying? the fact that anyone can easily purchase a missile now for such a low price is a huge fucking deal.
Weaponized drones are/could become a big deal, but to compare it to a cruise missile is over inflating things a bit. A Tomahawk cruises at around 550 mph, and has a 1500 mile range. You aren't going to purchase a drone at your local Hobby Hut that comes anywhere close to that. A Tomahawk also carries a 1000 lb conventional warhead, or cluster bombs. There is also the retired 150 kt nuclear warhead. The US still has them, just not attached to any deployed missiles at the moment. A tomahawk can also fly in any weather. Most drones will not fly in moderate winds or rain.
If it hasn't happened already, I'm sure Phalanx CIWS will start to be deployed on land soon too. They can probably be loaded with plastic rounds that won't cause much collateral damage, but sure as hell will knock a drone out of the sky.
Is there another browser that can be configured like FF with the Tree-Style tabs add-on? I've gotten so used to having the tabs along the left side of the browser, that I can't stand using a browser with them across the top. I tend to have a lot of windows open, 14 at the moment. And currently have 7 to 22 tabs open in each window. If I'm researching something, that number can go up more. When the number of tabs gets past 8 or so, it's too difficult to figure out what's in them if they are across the top. I can resize them to be wider if they are along the side.
I've looked at PaleMoon, but it won't work with that add-on, and I couldn't find one that worked. Chrome also doesn't seem to allow for it, or at least the last time I looked. Nor do any of the other dozen or so browsers I've tried.
Thanks in advance.
Only OS/2 diehards...
I believe they prefer to be called "Team OS/2" ;-)
Amped Attacks, who has now distanced himself from Anonymous, stating "i am not apart I'm assuming that he is claiming to not be a member of anonymous, but a missing space sure makes a difference in that statement.
I can't say I've really followed this topic. However, it's a shame that we're so bombarded with crap these days that the default conclusion is that everything is BS unless it's unequivocally shown to not be. Even so, this is an independent organization (NASA) reporting on this and it appears that there may be something more to it than just being a hoax.
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Great idea! lets have all the vehicles on our road running at different speeds! because it would be too easy to drive if they were all running the same speed.
In many states that I've driven in the speed limit on the interstate is 65 to 70 mph. But it's 55 for tractor-trailers. On the highways with three or more lanes they are also restricted to the two right lanes, or even the right most lane unless passing. Cars are considerably more maneuverable than a truck. Especially when the truck is confined to the right most lane
A passenger car (on average) can go from 70 to 0 in 233 feet. An 80,000 lb. loaded eighteen wheeler can go from 70 to 0 in 333 feet. At 55 it's stopping distance is 206 feet. But that doesn't take the 1/4 to 1/2 second of brake lag time on air brake systems into account. That adds and additional 20 to 40 feet at 55 mph and 25 to 50 feet at 70 mph. Since an eighteen wheeler is designed for hauling, the stopping distance actually increases when they are empty or not hauling a trailer.
A 4000 lb. car traveling at 55 mph has 334,290 lbf of kinetic energy. An 80,000 lb. truck has 6,685,900 lbf. At 70 mph the car has 655,210 lbf of and the truck has 13,104,000 lbf. A car traveling at 70 mph has a little under 10% of the kinetic energy of a truck traveling at 55 mph.
I know in California the highways are reinforced in the drive lanes to be able to hold up better to the additional weight of tractor-trailers, but the passing lanes are not. This was to save money. But it's another reason that commercial vehicles are supposed to stay in the right lane except when passing. They are also limited to 55 mph to decrease the amount of down-force these vehicle place on the road.
Their corporate x86 server support was really good in the 1990s.
Indeed it was. And the hardware from that period was solid as well. In fact I retired one of their servers from the mid nineties a year or two ago that I re-purposed for a firewall. While it was low power compared to a modern system, it took up too much space and was power hungry compared to a firewall in a box.Even so, I had 12 years up-time on it at one point. The only reason I powered it down was to replace a fan with a loud bearing. I also cleaned the inch or so of dust that had accumulated on all of the horizontal surfaces too.
The interesting question is, "Where is it going . . . ?"
Unless they turn things around, they're going down the shitter. It's really a shame too. There was a time when I wouldn't hesitate to purchase their products. For a very long time, I wouldn't think of purchasing a printer from another company. But that time is long past.
So why is it inevitable that America and China be adversaries? I think the main reason is that Russia is not longer a big threat, and we need a boogey man to justify the MIC
That's it. Granted, Russia is a bigger threat than is admitted. But that would mean that the US somehow failed in keeping them weak, thereby being weak itself. So it's time for a new boogeyman to to scare the children and keep the adults willing to spend ridiculous amounts of money on the F35 and other crap we "need" to defend the American way of life. Besides, 1.5 billion Chinese makes for a better spooky story.
The funny thing is, is that most of the Chinese nationals and former Chinese nationals that I know aren't really much different than Americans that I know. Although most Chinese people that I know are more pragmatic than a lot of Americans are these days. And they are more family oriented than Americans have become. Basically like most folks in America were a few decades back. Otherwise they believe their government is just as full of crap as we do in the US.
They are a Republic. It says so right in the name!
Not just any republic, the "People's Republic".
Wouldn't it be great if we could turn China into a ally instead of an adversary?
Indeed it would. Unfortunately it's about as likely as solving global warming by switching power generation to clean abundant fairy dust. It's always nice to wish for it though.
Red Dwarf CSI spoof.
fiigure out how to repair the damage she wrought almost single-handedly." ? just put a colt 45 on her temple and shirly temple the trigger so that there is no tampering of evidence when it comes to "whose brains are these"
There's a big difference between revenge/punishment for the responsible person and making things right for all of the people that may have been convicted who were innocent. It's not like you can give them their time back. Nor can you repair the emotional and psychological damage done. Prison isn't summer camp. Spending any significant time there is going to change most people, and not for the best. Most convicted criminals come out as better criminals. I can't imagine what being in that environment would do to someone who knows they shouldn't be there to begin with.
You have chosen to interpret the question in a way that favors your mockery of the OP.
No, I simply read plain English.
First of all, there's no such thing. English is not a dead language like Latin, it evolves. Do you read modern "plain English"? American "plain English"? Shakespearean? You never specified. Second, this was a question posted on /. and not a description in a technical manual. There's a difference.
Hint: "commercial CONSUMER operating systems"
Which is not what the submission says. You added that qualification.
While you are correct, from the context of the submission, it's rather obvious that commercial "consomer" OS is what they meant. But please do continue to keep posting how incorrect this is, technically, rather than posting anything helpful.
I still have a 20k user license of AIX from that time period sitting in my closet. But it sure as hell wasn't something that yoru typical home user was going to have. I don't recall what all I had at home at that time, but Slackware was the first Linux distro I had.
Yes, that. And in addition, it was a "prototype" and as such may have been just frame and wheels, which could be mistaken for just about anything. The first picture in the article looks nothing like the actual lunar rover other than having a stupid looking antenna on top. It looks like 1000s of other homemade dunebuggies.
If it looked like the picture in the article, I'd probably agree with you. However, FTA: The rover was apparently massive: NASA notes that the Local Scientific Survey Module, as it was called, "weighs more than 8,000 pounds, is 21-feet long, 15-feet wide and has 6 wheels with 5-foot diameters."
I don't know of too many people who would build something like that at all, let alone for a homemade dune buggy.
Nah. Much easier just to use a radio jammer and let the drone land or crash on its own.
I can't speak for you, but I have a shotgun, I don't have a radio jammer. So, no, it would not be easier.
Additionally, you'd need to know what frequency to jam and using such a device would be illegal. To make matters worse, it's a federal crime.