Shanghai's new express can reach a top speed of 430kph (267mph) in just under two minutes.
For the physics-minded amongst us, or at least those who haven't already gone reaching for their calculators, that's just about 1 m/s^2 acceleration, or around 1/10 gee. (If you want to get technical, you could add the vector of holding it up against gravity, and get about 9.86 m/s^2 total acceleration, or about 1.005 gee. Guess we know where all the real work is going into on this one!)
P.S. And just why can't we use ² type character coding on/., anyway?
I first noticed these jack-o'-lantern faces on the propellant tanks of the cruise stage while taking a look at the craft with Celestia, and at first I was thinking it was just some humour on the part of the person creating the skin for Celestia. But then I saw the picture linked to above, and obviously it wasn't just the programmer having a lark. I haven't been able to find anything on the Web about who came up with the idea, and why, though. I've developed a pet theory of my own, which would be that they needed a certain amount of dark surface on the gold-foil-wrapped tanks to maintain the proper thermal balance, and decided to do something more catchy than just a big bulls-eye dot on them or something like that.
Anyway, anybody know just what the real story is, and whodunnit?
Thanks for reminding me. I'd remembered the quote as best I could at first, then I lost my old login for a while, during which time I was reminded that it was "guy", and meant to update that; then I finally managed to get my old login back, but forgot to fix that. I'll get that fixed now.
Is "photo from her web page" really that hard to understand?
Also, though the newspaper is Norwegian, it's quite clear, in something as obvious as the titles of both the Slashdot and Aftenposten articles, that she's Swedish, not Norwegian.
Hmmm... with all these military articles lately, looks like these two might become regular characters:
Private Jones: Sir, the enemy has just brought up a web server revealing the truth about the motivations for our war. Permission to prosecute? Sergeant Smith: Go ahead... give 'em hell! PJ: OK... submitting enemy URL to Slashdot now.
Five minutes later... PJ: Target eliminated, sir. Total DOS. SS: Good work, son. There's a medal in this for you.
Woo hoo! Looks like with this one, I can use my new joystick with Linux now! The Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3D wasn't in 2.2.13, although the same minus the 3D was, but I didn't notice the different name when I bought it. And just when I'd bought a book on device drivers so I could fix it myself, they go and pop this in!
And get this--if you follow that 'Free CD!' link from the first page, the page about the free CD's has, amongst its VERY sparse content, three links: One to the IP number used by the rest of the site, an e-mail address using joymail.com this time, and a 'Our Company' link to a domain name 'super-telecom.com' that NSI says doesn't exist yet. Now, I may not have the greatest faith in NSI, and sometimes mixups happen, like with Microsoft's password.com oversight around XMas, but this doesn't strike me as one of those times. And, for that matter, the page title is "DiDa HTML Editor - www.faico.net/cdida/"--doesn't look like anyone put much thought or work into this one before they rushed it out so they could pretend to be a real company that was independently interested in LinuxOne's offerings!
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I wouldn't agree that analogies always suck, sometimes I find a well-crafted one rather useful, but I think you missed a big weakness of the actual point of the analogy. VH1 playing good videos or not is purely a matter of opinion, whereas, except in the minds of a few HTML-slinging (or maybe it was in Java or something like that, I don't know) script kiddies, we can pretty much agree that allowing a stranger to send mail in a user's name, or view their mail, is a Bad Thing(tm). Responsibility for a matter of taste and responsibility for a security hole don't compare well in this context; the responsibilty for why VH1 sucks so much (yes, I agree, but then so does MTV suck, and just about as hard) is a non-issue. Sue WebTV or M$ about this security hole, and you might get somewhere, and have to delve into the question of which of the companies is responsible; sue MTV or VH1 because VH1 sucks and doesn't play good videos, and you'll just get laughed out of court and mocked on/. for bringing frivolous lawsuits.
It is important because it may be the first case of a real security issue arising from a non-PC device.
Gee, ever heard of a little thing called the Great Internet Worm? Ah, how quickly the young ones forget.... Especially considering there were at least two articles here on/. the past couple of days about security issues with the Mac OS 9. Of course, that would depend on whither you meant PC-the-generic-term, or PC-the-IBM-compatible. But either way, the Internet Worm was definitely a non-PC, very real security issue--much more of an issue than a little spam and some faked e-mail.
If you'd bothered to RTFArticle, the fix is supposed to be implemented in the WebTV servers--not the end-users' TVBoxen. So no recall, and they might even have it done sometime this century... a phrase which means a whole different thing now than it did five days ago.;)
Lots of people have already mentioned the 'Making of The Matrix' on the DVD, but I just thought it would be worth pointing out that it's also on the videotape version. You don't have to go get a DVD player to see it, you just can't skip right to it by choosing chapter 19/22/whatever. I don't know whether there might be some stuff on the DVD that isn't on the tape, but it seemed pretty complete to me.
I have been to a few sites that basically have similar urls to a major company (plus or minus a few letters) and they have a little message saying that basically "are you looking for blah.com? well go there) and such with a link in bold.
So, then, how long should Etoy.com hold its collective breath waiting for EToys.com to do a similar courtesy and put up a "Are you looking for Etoy.com, the purveyors of filth and profanity? Then click here!". Like they'd ever do such a thing for "the little guys" that they'd sooner squash like a bug.
A lot of people seem to be assuming that Chaney expects some sort of monetary reward for this act, apparently because of this from the end of the cnet.com article:
... Chaney suggested that his Christmas charity is arguably worth more than a simple thanks.
"In a perfect world, I wish they'd take that into account," he said. "But I'm not relying on it. It's their choice."
Now, personally, first time through reading that, I was thinking he'd like a job at M$, maybe. Yeah, I know working for the Evil Overlord(tm) may not be your cup of tea or mine, but elsewhere in the article, it describes him as having started "in Unix and Microsoft Windows", and "he only got serious about it with the emergence of commercial Linux provider Red Hat", so he doesn't sound like a hard-core penguin-mascot-toting Linux coder to me. He just might go for such a thing.
Umm... yes there is a "yuma-emh1.army.mil". Just because it's a mail-only address hardly invalidates it, since it was being used *as an e-mail address*. Pings and traceroutes are not the be-all and end-all of being on the internet.
Think that's bad? Until a few months ago, the base where I work (OK, so it's just the Air National Guard) was running Banyan Vines for networking--ugh!! At least we got out of that. Still, I find it ironic that at the same time the DOJ is prosecuting M$ for monopoly abuse, most government agencies are supporting that monopoly by running all Win9x on desktops, NT for networking, and lots of info from gov't web sites available only as MSWord or (if you're lucky) Adobe PDF documents, or even Powerpoint. If they're putting it on the web, isn't it kind of the point of being on the web that it should be readable from any web-capable platform? And not supporting that evil monopoly would be an added bonus.
But seriously, while I'm a RedHat fan, I wonder if the request would have been more appropriate if they were looking for *general* Linux advice.
Private Jones: Hey, has anyone seen General Linuck around? We need some of his advice. Sergeant Smith: Yeah, I think he was just over on Slashdot a moment ago.... Something about configuring some box.
It would be nice to know what webservers most companies/individuals/elves/onions choose. Well, I don't know about the elves, and don't have time to take a statistically significant sample of companies or individuals, but I can tell you about onions:
earth:~# telnet www.theonion.com 80 Trying 209.83.2.145... Connected to www.theonion.com. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:12:32 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html
Connection closed by foreign host.
And that's the only onion on the web that I know of, at least.
In most cases, yes, but wouldn't it be silly to say that he was crucified 88 years Before Christ, since that is what 'BC' stands for, you know. Not just politically correct, but also logically. Pay attention to the context next time, not just your flame-trigger keywords.
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Isn't that what the Lawbot 0.92 is for?
For the physics-minded amongst us, or at least those who haven't already gone reaching for their calculators, that's just about 1 m/s^2 acceleration, or around 1/10 gee. (If you want to get technical, you could add the vector of holding it up against gravity, and get about 9.86 m/s^2 total acceleration, or about 1.005 gee. Guess we know where all the real work is going into on this one!)
P.S. And just why can't we use ² type character coding on /., anyway?
What, you mean like tanning? Yeah, those carcinomas are a pain.
I first noticed these jack-o'-lantern faces on the propellant tanks of the cruise stage while taking a look at the craft with Celestia, and at first I was thinking it was just some humour on the part of the person creating the skin for Celestia. But then I saw the picture linked to above, and obviously it wasn't just the programmer having a lark. I haven't been able to find anything on the Web about who came up with the idea, and why, though. I've developed a pet theory of my own, which would be that they needed a certain amount of dark surface on the gold-foil-wrapped tanks to maintain the proper thermal balance, and decided to do something more catchy than just a big bulls-eye dot on them or something like that.
Anyway, anybody know just what the real story is, and whodunnit?
Thanks for reminding me. I'd remembered the quote as best I could at first, then I lost my old login for a while, during which time I was reminded that it was "guy", and meant to update that; then I finally managed to get my old login back, but forgot to fix that. I'll get that fixed now.
What, nothing about it violating the Ten Commandments to boot?
Is "photo from her web page" really that hard to understand?
Also, though the newspaper is Norwegian, it's quite clear, in something as obvious as the titles of both the Slashdot and Aftenposten articles, that she's Swedish, not Norwegian.
Hmmm... with all these military articles lately, looks like these two might become regular characters:
Private Jones: Sir, the enemy has just brought up a web server revealing the truth about the motivations for our war. Permission to prosecute?
Sergeant Smith: Go ahead... give 'em hell!
PJ: OK... submitting enemy URL to Slashdot now.
Five minutes later...
PJ: Target eliminated, sir. Total DOS.
SS: Good work, son. There's a medal in this for you.
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
Tip #2: buy a cheap machine, format the proprietary software right off the drive, and install your favorite Linux distro.
:-)
And don't forget to collect your Windows rebate afterwards, too!
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Woo hoo! Looks like with this one, I can use my new joystick with Linux now! The Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3D wasn't in 2.2.13, although the same minus the 3D was, but I didn't notice the different name when I bought it. And just when I'd bought a book on device drivers so I could fix it myself, they go and pop this in!
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
And get this--if you follow that 'Free CD!' link from the first page, the page about the free CD's has, amongst its VERY sparse content, three links: One to the IP number used by the rest of the site, an e-mail address using joymail.com this time, and a 'Our Company' link to a domain name 'super-telecom.com' that NSI says doesn't exist yet. Now, I may not have the greatest faith in NSI, and sometimes mixups happen, like with Microsoft's password.com oversight around XMas, but this doesn't strike me as one of those times.
And, for that matter, the page title is "DiDa HTML Editor - www.faico.net/cdida/"--doesn't look like anyone put much thought or work into this one before they rushed it out so they could pretend to be a real company that was independently interested in LinuxOne's offerings!
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
I wouldn't agree that analogies always suck, sometimes I find a well-crafted one rather useful, but I think you missed a big weakness of the actual point of the analogy. VH1 playing good videos or not is purely a matter of opinion, whereas, except in the minds of a few HTML-slinging (or maybe it was in Java or something like that, I don't know) script kiddies, we can pretty much agree that allowing a stranger to send mail in a user's name, or view their mail, is a Bad Thing(tm). /. for bringing frivolous lawsuits.
Responsibility for a matter of taste and responsibility for a security hole don't compare well in this context; the responsibilty for why VH1 sucks so much (yes, I agree, but then so does MTV suck, and just about as hard) is a non-issue. Sue WebTV or M$ about this security hole, and you might get somewhere, and have to delve into the question of which of the companies is responsible; sue MTV or VH1 because VH1 sucks and doesn't play good videos, and you'll just get laughed out of court and mocked on
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It is important because it may be the first case of a real security issue arising from a non-PC device.
/. the past couple of days about security issues with the Mac OS 9. Of course, that would depend on whither you meant PC-the-generic-term, or PC-the-IBM-compatible.
Gee, ever heard of a little thing called the Great Internet Worm? Ah, how quickly the young ones forget....
Especially considering there were at least two articles here on
But either way, the Internet Worm was definitely a non-PC, very real security issue--much more of an issue than a little spam and some faked e-mail.
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
If you'd bothered to RTFArticle, the fix is supposed to be implemented in the WebTV servers--not the end-users' TVBoxen. ;)
So no recall, and they might even have it done sometime this century... a phrase which means a whole different thing now than it did five days ago.
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Lots of people have already mentioned the 'Making of The Matrix' on the DVD, but I just thought it would be worth pointing out that it's also on the videotape version. You don't have to go get a DVD player to see it, you just can't skip right to it by choosing chapter 19/22/whatever. I don't know whether there might be some stuff on the DVD that isn't on the tape, but it seemed pretty complete to me.
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Read my .sig... 'nuff said!
And BTW, I believe you mean to say... "BOOMstick!"
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I have been to a few sites that basically have similar urls to a major company (plus or minus a few letters) and they have a little message saying that basically "are you looking for blah.com? well go there) and such with a link in bold.
So, then, how long should Etoy.com hold its collective breath waiting for EToys.com to do a similar courtesy and put up a "Are you looking for Etoy.com, the purveyors of filth and profanity? Then click here!". Like they'd ever do such a thing for "the little guys" that they'd sooner squash like a bug.
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
A lot of people seem to be assuming that Chaney expects some sort of monetary reward for this act, apparently because of this from the end of the cnet.com article:
... Chaney suggested that his Christmas charity is arguably worth more than a simple thanks.
"In a perfect world, I wish they'd take that into account," he said. "But I'm not relying on it. It's their choice."
Now, personally, first time through reading that, I was thinking he'd like a job at M$, maybe. Yeah, I know working for the Evil Overlord(tm) may not be your cup of tea or mine, but elsewhere in the article, it describes him as having started "in Unix and Microsoft Windows", and "he only got serious about it with the emergence of commercial Linux provider Red Hat", so he doesn't sound like a hard-core penguin-mascot-toting Linux coder to me. He just might go for such a thing.
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
Umm... yes there is a "yuma-emh1.army.mil". Just because it's a mail-only address hardly invalidates it, since it was being used *as an e-mail address*. Pings and traceroutes are not the be-all and end-all of being on the internet.
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
Think that's bad? Until a few months ago, the base where I work (OK, so it's just the Air National Guard) was running Banyan Vines for networking--ugh!! At least we got out of that.
Still, I find it ironic that at the same time the DOJ is prosecuting M$ for monopoly abuse, most government agencies are supporting that monopoly by running all Win9x on desktops, NT for networking, and lots of info from gov't web sites available only as MSWord or (if you're lucky) Adobe PDF documents, or even Powerpoint. If they're putting it on the web, isn't it kind of the point of being on the web that it should be readable from any web-capable platform? And not supporting that evil monopoly would be an added bonus.
Good... bad... I'm the one with the gun.
But seriously, while I'm a RedHat fan, I wonder if the request would have been more appropriate if they were looking for *general* Linux advice.
Private Jones: Hey, has anyone seen General Linuck around? We need some of his advice.
Sergeant Smith: Yeah, I think he was just over on Slashdot a moment ago.... Something about configuring some box.
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8.To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
I believe the affect-preferring AC was doing affect(8).
Or perhaps it just comes naturally.
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It would be nice to know what webservers most companies/individuals/elves/onions choose.
Well, I don't know about the elves, and don't have time to take a statistically significant sample of companies or individuals, but I can tell you about onions:
earth:~# telnet www.theonion.com 80
Trying 209.83.2.145...
Connected to www.theonion.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:12:32 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Connection closed by foreign host.
And that's the only onion on the web that I know of, at least.
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In most cases, yes, but wouldn't it be silly to say that he was crucified 88 years Before Christ, since that is what 'BC' stands for, you know. Not just politically correct, but also logically.
Pay attention to the context next time, not just your flame-trigger keywords.
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Well, to be fair, it did come from PC Magazine, so that could certainly justify leaving MacOS out. As for the rest, though, screw 'em.
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