I'm wondering because I've heard much of military (not sure if entire DoD) prohibits USB sticks. Also many companies warn their employees to not insert USB sticks into company computers including personal because don't know if the stick contains bugs. Maybe get rid of USB and be done with that problem. What bugs me are many systems not on the internet and also optical media is being phased out.
Yes, the old story of a bank that had security seminar of scammers that dump USB sticks in parking lots, tempting employees to pick them up and insert into computers. Then the next day bank IT security people do a test by dumping sticks in parking lots, and find that half the seminar attendees took and inserted the stick into their computers!
Yes, people can make decisions that robots cannot but it's all moot. Right now and for next many years robots are the ***only*** option for Mars exploration.
For very long time all presidents were all white men, now we have a black man. We may have a woman for next president. I wonder if future presidents can be someone who is single (not married), someone with different religion than Christian, or with facial hair (I think Teddy Roosevelt was the last with facial hair), or someone that is paraplegic (other than FDR).
Wow! About time someone says physicians do not go to movies or other such places when on call. Mod this guy to 10. So irritating when people say "OMG you just never know when someone has to respond to an emergency" so certain venues have to allow people to use their phone and/or jump from their seat on a Code 3 call (ummm, ya know that responding to an emergency from a theatre takes a really long time, i.e. lots of luck getting out of the SHN theatre on Market St. to your car in SF in less than one hour).
how many people here old enough to know what a Pinto is? or when they had the fire problem? Or wonder how did horses become involved in this discussion?
of a G7 user that just sat down on the seat but before plane is pushed off, and reading this article (unless TSA has a "amber alert" system to send out notices of newly banned items). I'm curious of kind of expression on their face.
from a previous Samsung slashdot article and someone quoted that in their comment. Considering flaming Galaxy 7 phones and exploding washing machines, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I looked around to see any footage of exploding washing machines, found this Hotpoint that seemed quite formidable as it kept going instead of just abruptly stopping after first breakage, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yes, but if you talk about the Moon then that means you got to get funding and start building a transfer vehicle, lander, EVA suits, etc. now. Mars is set as a goal because you can defer having to do that stuff into the far future (same old story of we will have humans on Mars in 20 years, controlled fusion in 10 years, flying cars, etc.). A recent discussion at http://www.spudislunarresource... has some interesting insights. While everyone likes to discuss the BFR (SLS vs. Falcon Heavy), "Joe" wrote in the comments of Paul Spudis blog:
As an additional note, the Portable Life Support System (PLSS) for the Lunar EVA Pressure Suits was intended to do double duty for the American Suits used on the ISS. When the program was cancelled this work also got shelved. So far NASA has succeeded in keeping the current PLSSs operating. But the hardware design and even the components date back to the Shuttle Programs beginnings in the 1970’s. As a consequence they will eventually (the heroic work being done to keep them operating not withstanding) have to cease use. Then, I suppose, we can start paying our Russian friends for EVA maintenance services as well.
[snip]
After the cancellation of Constellation Systems there was an (underfunded) effort to work on a new PLSS, but even that was cancelled (I know because a guy I used to work with was on it and he lost his job when it was defunded).
There is still some work going on for a new pressure suit (as opposed to PLSS (because that effort is cheaper). Even then they can only do sea level pressure testing because they do not have the money for altitude chamber runs.
The irony (if you like that sort of thing) is that the new PLSS is the more urgent need, but they can only work on what they have the funding to pursue.
Yes, going OT but for me I'm thinking there's a lot of stuff that is being deferred or ignored. Oh, one big solar flare and crew is dead. Yes, lots of shielding will help but that's a lot of mass that has to be launched from earth. Yes we can get resources from the Moon but that's off limits because nobody except Paul Spudis and Dennis Wingo talks about the Moon.
First there was 1/2 billion accounts compromised (later raise to a full billion), then spying on messages for the guvmint, and now this. OK so there's some of us smucks with yahoo accounts but we also have many useful yahoogroups for various non-profits and hobbyist groups. Ugh, I hate to abandon all these (probably these might go way of Geocities). There is google groups but seems like they have their share of "baggage." There was usenet....
on 271.000 MHz, callword for NORAD Western Area Defense Sector. Rambled off a bunch of numbers, probably where a Air Guard F16 to meet for refueling. Getting back to the big scary monster, this is some interesting footage but hope it is not a plant to get BF hunters all excited. I pretty much dismiss all this BF stuff because such hunters do lots of emotional drama and promotional buildup but never deliver the goods. Incredible footage by wildlife from photogs and videographers good for nature programs comes at very high cost. These people have to be very rugged, spend months in the wilderness, very good equipment and broadcast quality technique, and at best get 10 minutes of footage good enough to show on PBS Nature. i.e, the snow leopard where one of them suffered illness that after he is no longer strong enough to go back out into the wilderness. However the Big Foot hunters would never put up with this endurance like what SEALs put up with, but they sure know how to deliver emotional drama!
Yes, I use them frequently as many interesting and informative websites (and yes including those Geocities sites where someone diligently documented of a particular subject, or a business had a informative reference page). Many websites are gone usually where the person became more involved with something else, a business went out of business, forgot to pay the bills, domain name taken over, or they decided to totally revamp their site with "new" features (where it is difficult to browse or the links are in mysterious places).
Phone is good for specific people to call you when needed. i.e. alarm tech, plumber, physician, EMT on standby. Or when calling ARES/RACES hams when needed. Weather alert, there are those radios that activate to NOAA alert transmission. Amber alerts, BOL for stolen vehicle, robbers, etc. the phone is something at first glance might be useful but everyone will suffer alarm fatigue and eventually will ignore further alerts. Probably news media more effective, or those that monitor police on their scanners might be useful.
Few years ago I had my phone on county alert system, one late night it makes the most horrible loud sound for a missing child in some town far away from where I live. I then signed off from that system. There was a story where 2 million New Yorkers were awaken at 2 am when stolen car alert was sent to everyone's phone.
Impression is almost all companies and govt agencies suffered security breaches and lost information even after spending tons of money and resources to only get their system hacked anyway.
thinks he'll be able to wring out some amazingly fat government subsidies
Exactly.
“SpaceX no doubt has some brilliant ideas about Mars. But who will pay?”
From the Ars Technica article:
“He’s made a lot of money from NASA over the years, and now he may be about to effectively tell NASA that they’ve had their head up their ass for a long time about how to go to Mars, that this is how we’re going to do it, and you’re going to pay. I don’t know how well that is going to be received.” http://arstechnica.com/science...
My personal take is humans to Mars is a fantasy, perpetuated by an old dated Manifest Destiny. I see no huge landrush to the Gobi Desert even though it’s a thousand times easier to settle. Reason it is barren, inhospitable (except for a few hardened individuals). We romanticized about Mars because it is so far away (and will always be 20 years away from putting a man on Mars like fusion power is always 10 years away).
I'm thinking of back in the days they had civilian Chinook helicopters providing service to and from the Pan Am building, at least what I remember seeing in the 1960s Clint Eastwood movie "Coogan's Bluff." I always thought that would be cool to take off and land on top of that building. Maybe it just doesn't financially work out (Pan Am no longer exists, and I've not seen that model of helicopter used for passenger service). I was in NYC in 1990s, landed at JFK, got on shuttle bus to downtown hotel and accepted that this will be a very long ride (about 2 hours!). While poking along at avg 2 mph, I see a police station and thinking how do these guys get anywhere quickly Code 3?
Back in 1970s there was helicopter air service from and to LAX, helo was a variation of the Bell 47 (pilot in front, three passenger seats behind). It was featured in Flying magazine as "The fastest way around Los Angeles is in the slowest thing flying."
I was thinking the same. Moller Corp. did make some ducted fan UAVs, also mufflers from what I read had excellent sound suppression but minimal blockage (I think the muffler sales provided some money along with investors). Paul Moller, also UC Davis staff, published a paper showing the mathematics of why the Avro "flying saucer" car would never get out of ground effect. I found it in microfiche in 1980s and printed a hardcopy. I cannot find it and have search AIAA with no success. In this paper the math was based on fan area required for vertical lift. Helicopters are the most efficient because of the very large area, disadvantage is highly complex and not efficient in horizontal flight. His multi ducted van vehicle that can rotate the fans make it efficient for vertical and horizontal flight. I met him when he had a mockup at Yolo County airport, a little mini show of sorts though airport mostly had skydivers (Skydance Skydiving). I asked why his sale price (when it will eventually fly) be so low cost compared to let's say something by Lockheed? Moller's answer was anything by Lockheed and other aerospace companies will be very expensive because they have only one customer, the government, which is not concerned about cost. Although the physics is valid, maybe the engineering cannot scale up. It would be a cool flying machine but maybe only as a dream like controlled nuclear fusion.
Yes, someone posted on youtube, "stop complaining, it worked for me." I asked if a 2.5mm drill bit will work as I have 2.5mm earphone, someone replied he doesn't see why it would not. However, I can't really check if these internet posts are true because I don't have an iPhone7.
Speaking of fables, I would like to see what happens if someone tried charging their phone in microwave oven.
This along with the huge Yahoo email hack, maybe repurpose IBM-360s? I don't think those beasts were ever hacked. Yeah, just being sarcastic as only way for me to vent about all these hacks.
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I'm wondering because I've heard much of military (not sure if entire DoD) prohibits USB sticks. Also many companies warn their employees to not insert USB sticks into company computers including personal because don't know if the stick contains bugs. Maybe get rid of USB and be done with that problem. What bugs me are many systems not on the internet and also optical media is being phased out.
Yes, the old story of a bank that had security seminar of scammers that dump USB sticks in parking lots, tempting employees to pick them up and insert into computers. Then the next day bank IT security people do a test by dumping sticks in parking lots, and find that half the seminar attendees took and inserted the stick into their computers!
Yes, people can make decisions that robots cannot but it's all moot. Right now and for next many years robots are the ***only*** option for Mars exploration.
For very long time all presidents were all white men, now we have a black man. We may have a woman for next president. I wonder if future presidents can be someone who is single (not married), someone with different religion than Christian, or with facial hair (I think Teddy Roosevelt was the last with facial hair), or someone that is paraplegic (other than FDR).
one thing for sure it made a good plot for one of my favorite movies (I admit I love watching Zsa Zsa), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
Wow! About time someone says physicians do not go to movies or other such places when on call. Mod this guy to 10. So irritating when people say "OMG you just never know when someone has to respond to an emergency" so certain venues have to allow people to use their phone and/or jump from their seat on a Code 3 call (ummm, ya know that responding to an emergency from a theatre takes a really long time, i.e. lots of luck getting out of the SHN theatre on Market St. to your car in SF in less than one hour).
how many people here old enough to know what a Pinto is? or when they had the fire problem? Or wonder how did horses become involved in this discussion?
of a G7 user that just sat down on the seat but before plane is pushed off, and reading this article (unless TSA has a "amber alert" system to send out notices of newly banned items). I'm curious of kind of expression on their face.
who the F@#$ is going to eat something from a company called Soylent.
someone who didn't see the movie that was made decades before most of you were born.
I looked around to see any footage of exploding washing machines, found this Hotpoint that seemed quite formidable as it kept going instead of just abruptly stopping after first breakage, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yep, here's more reasons why. http://www.spudislunarresource...
As an additional note, the Portable Life Support System (PLSS) for the Lunar EVA Pressure Suits was intended to do double duty for the American Suits used on the ISS. When the program was cancelled this work also got shelved. So far NASA has succeeded in keeping the current PLSSs operating. But the hardware design and even the components date back to the Shuttle Programs beginnings in the 1970’s. As a consequence they will eventually (the heroic work being done to keep them operating not withstanding) have to cease use. Then, I suppose, we can start paying our Russian friends for EVA maintenance services as well.
[snip]
After the cancellation of Constellation Systems there was an (underfunded) effort to work on a new PLSS, but even that was cancelled (I know because a guy I used to work with was on it and he lost his job when it was defunded).
There is still some work going on for a new pressure suit (as opposed to PLSS (because that effort is cheaper). Even then they can only do sea level pressure testing because they do not have the money for altitude chamber runs.
The irony (if you like that sort of thing) is that the new PLSS is the more urgent need, but they can only work on what they have the funding to pursue.
Yes, going OT but for me I'm thinking there's a lot of stuff that is being deferred or ignored. Oh, one big solar flare and crew is dead. Yes, lots of shielding will help but that's a lot of mass that has to be launched from earth. Yes we can get resources from the Moon but that's off limits because nobody except Paul Spudis and Dennis Wingo talks about the Moon.
First there was 1/2 billion accounts compromised (later raise to a full billion), then spying on messages for the guvmint, and now this. OK so there's some of us smucks with yahoo accounts but we also have many useful yahoogroups for various non-profits and hobbyist groups. Ugh, I hate to abandon all these (probably these might go way of Geocities). There is google groups but seems like they have their share of "baggage." There was usenet....
This is CarbonTV trying to drive traffic with a man in a hairy suit.
you may be on to something, I never heard of CarbonTV until now (and thousand other slashdotters that clicked the link).
on 271.000 MHz, callword for NORAD Western Area Defense Sector. Rambled off a bunch of numbers, probably where a Air Guard F16 to meet for refueling. Getting back to the big scary monster, this is some interesting footage but hope it is not a plant to get BF hunters all excited. I pretty much dismiss all this BF stuff because such hunters do lots of emotional drama and promotional buildup but never deliver the goods. Incredible footage by wildlife from photogs and videographers good for nature programs comes at very high cost. These people have to be very rugged, spend months in the wilderness, very good equipment and broadcast quality technique, and at best get 10 minutes of footage good enough to show on PBS Nature. i.e, the snow leopard where one of them suffered illness that after he is no longer strong enough to go back out into the wilderness. However the Big Foot hunters would never put up with this endurance like what SEALs put up with, but they sure know how to deliver emotional drama!
you mean intelligence in form of brain smarts or in form of unscrupulous activities?
I remember when one airline got this idea of charging for check-in baggage, then immediately all airlines did the same.
Yes, I use them frequently as many interesting and informative websites (and yes including those Geocities sites where someone diligently documented of a particular subject, or a business had a informative reference page). Many websites are gone usually where the person became more involved with something else, a business went out of business, forgot to pay the bills, domain name taken over, or they decided to totally revamp their site with "new" features (where it is difficult to browse or the links are in mysterious places).
Phone is good for specific people to call you when needed. i.e. alarm tech, plumber, physician, EMT on standby. Or when calling ARES/RACES hams when needed. Weather alert, there are those radios that activate to NOAA alert transmission. Amber alerts, BOL for stolen vehicle, robbers, etc. the phone is something at first glance might be useful but everyone will suffer alarm fatigue and eventually will ignore further alerts. Probably news media more effective, or those that monitor police on their scanners might be useful.
Few years ago I had my phone on county alert system, one late night it makes the most horrible loud sound for a missing child in some town far away from where I live. I then signed off from that system. There was a story where 2 million New Yorkers were awaken at 2 am when stolen car alert was sent to everyone's phone.
Impression is almost all companies and govt agencies suffered security breaches and lost information even after spending tons of money and resources to only get their system hacked anyway.
if you are going to do it cheesy 50s-esque then do it right, http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KdaW...
thinks he'll be able to wring out some amazingly fat government subsidies
Exactly.
“SpaceX no doubt has some brilliant ideas about Mars. But who will pay?”
From the Ars Technica article:
“He’s made a lot of money from NASA over the years, and now he may be about to effectively tell NASA that they’ve had their head up their ass for a long time about how to go to Mars, that this is how we’re going to do it, and you’re going to pay. I don’t know how well that is going to be received.”
http://arstechnica.com/science...
My personal take is humans to Mars is a fantasy, perpetuated by an old dated Manifest Destiny. I see no huge landrush to the Gobi Desert even though it’s a thousand times easier to settle. Reason it is barren, inhospitable (except for a few hardened individuals). We romanticized about Mars because it is so far away (and will always be 20 years away from putting a man on Mars like fusion power is always 10 years away).
three main airports around NYC to Manhattan.
I'm thinking of back in the days they had civilian Chinook helicopters providing service to and from the Pan Am building, at least what I remember seeing in the 1960s Clint Eastwood movie "Coogan's Bluff." I always thought that would be cool to take off and land on top of that building. Maybe it just doesn't financially work out (Pan Am no longer exists, and I've not seen that model of helicopter used for passenger service). I was in NYC in 1990s, landed at JFK, got on shuttle bus to downtown hotel and accepted that this will be a very long ride (about 2 hours!). While poking along at avg 2 mph, I see a police station and thinking how do these guys get anywhere quickly Code 3?
Back in 1970s there was helicopter air service from and to LAX, helo was a variation of the Bell 47 (pilot in front, three passenger seats behind). It was featured in Flying magazine as "The fastest way around Los Angeles is in the slowest thing flying."
I was thinking the same. Moller Corp. did make some ducted fan UAVs, also mufflers from what I read had excellent sound suppression but minimal blockage (I think the muffler sales provided some money along with investors). Paul Moller, also UC Davis staff, published a paper showing the mathematics of why the Avro "flying saucer" car would never get out of ground effect. I found it in microfiche in 1980s and printed a hardcopy. I cannot find it and have search AIAA with no success. In this paper the math was based on fan area required for vertical lift. Helicopters are the most efficient because of the very large area, disadvantage is highly complex and not efficient in horizontal flight. His multi ducted van vehicle that can rotate the fans make it efficient for vertical and horizontal flight. I met him when he had a mockup at Yolo County airport, a little mini show of sorts though airport mostly had skydivers (Skydance Skydiving). I asked why his sale price (when it will eventually fly) be so low cost compared to let's say something by Lockheed? Moller's answer was anything by Lockheed and other aerospace companies will be very expensive because they have only one customer, the government, which is not concerned about cost. Although the physics is valid, maybe the engineering cannot scale up. It would be a cool flying machine but maybe only as a dream like controlled nuclear fusion.
Yes, someone posted on youtube, "stop complaining, it worked for me." I asked if a 2.5mm drill bit will work as I have 2.5mm earphone, someone replied he doesn't see why it would not. However, I can't really check if these internet posts are true because I don't have an iPhone7.
Speaking of fables, I would like to see what happens if someone tried charging their phone in microwave oven.
This along with the huge Yahoo email hack, maybe repurpose IBM-360s? I don't think those beasts were ever hacked. Yeah, just being sarcastic as only way for me to vent about all these hacks.