You bring up a good point. The perception of one or a few people dying in the name of exploration is different than the millions dying for pretty stupid shit everyday. I would gladly take the chance at earning a darwin for strapping into a massive chemical rocket built by the best minds we have though, so I guess the whole 'value of life' issue really becomes moot. One of the many things that makes the astronauts heroes is the fact that they are willing to put thier life on the line to do it for all of us.
the Shuttle has an escape system - ejection seats The shuttle has very limited escape mechanisms. Escape is only really possible under 'ideal' ditch conditions (overshot runways, etc.) A sad fact of the Challenger trajedy is that the crew module was found partially intact on the bottom of the Atlantic. Read this for an excellent report.
1. Email the RIAA at thier home page. 2. Call you local radio stations and let them know you won't be listening. 3. Call your college radio stations and let them know you will only be listening to the unsigned acts shows. The only way to hurt them is in thier pockets and not buying CD's wont hurt them anywhere near as bad as Radio Stations calling and saying thier market is not listening because of this.
Chris, Man you need to get off your ass and contact the folks at Napster. Your argument here is cogent and I am sure they need testimony from artists in EXACTLY your situation. MP3's and thier distro in the method you are using is what its all about. Back in the early 80's artists like you would use 'Rag' magazines to get thier demo's out. I remember ordering a few and they sucked but there was one that turned out to be pretty good from a band of high school kids. They sold a whole bunch of them and eventually landed a good major label deal... thier name is Queensryche. I still have that 3 song demo it is one of my prized recordings (though eventually they released the original demo on CD). Don't give up the fight by not being in it. Make whatever calls you have to make or thumb a ride to NYC... This is too important for the little guys out there not to try to voice thier side of this situation.
You almost made your point... While I agree that the declining morals/values issue needs to be addressed its not the fault of RPG's. It is almost entirely the parent of said childrens fault. These games are not for children. Period. Teenagers, well ok, depending on the values you have successfully instilled in them. If you let a television set raise your child then you will get what we as a society are seeing in the rise of violence amongst minors. Our generation had D&D and we didn't go around killing classmates and teachers yet D&D was more of a fantasy world than these games create because you have to visualize the deaths of your oppenents etc. On the flipside if you teach young minds the strategies that games teach (for arguments sake even checkers does this) they will have learned skills that puts them several steps ahead of most folks in business school. And wait a minute... is baseball(or other little league sports for the matter) better for your kids when parents are beating up (recently killing) other parents/coaches/umpires because they disagree with the calls? Many of the little league systems could even be blamed for the rise in the use of steroids because the children are being taught to win at all costs. I think not. I would say the best activity for children to participate in is martial arts training (don't even bother with the 'thats violence' retort) as long as your not a 'little league' small minded parent who puts thier kids in tournament karate events(see above note on parental behaviour) for selfish reasons like pressuring your kids to perform.We are bringing up children in a society where they are encouraged (in school none the less) to turn thier parents in if the parents use corporal punishment and children can divorce themselves from thier parents etc. The problem goes much deeper than the proverbial scratch in the surface mentioned here though, 'Blame Shifting' is on the rise. People can't believe that its thier own fault thier kids are the way they are so they need scapegoats to blame for thier inaddequate parenting. Parents sued Judas Priest and Ozzy Osborne for this kind of lunacy in the 80's becuase thier kids committed suicide. Hence, it is much easier to say its so and so's fault rather then thier own. Disagree? Read your own post and then take that magnifiying glass of self-righteousness and point it back at yourself. Like I said the blame is on the parents, a lack of parenting combined with a lack of discipline for innappropriate actions not society, not rpg's, not even music or television.
I would have to say the type of pron would make a huge difference: ie is the person surfing mostly 'normal' stuff or does the person surf exclusively for pedophilia content. The difference being quite obvious. So I would have to say yes I would trust myself with kids. I know that I would go to extremes to hunt a person down if they did something to a child that I know or am related to. Maybe, pron surfing habits was a bad example. I was just being hypothetical and trying to imply that if a person is not willing to share information in certain scenarios then that should automatically exclude them for consideration. In the context of a transparent society this information would be easy to aquire, in an ultra secretive society you would not have a chance to ever find it. Like I said the issue gets interesting as I personally see the value of both approaches to 'free data' and have not made up my mind as to which is better or if either is better.
in the early 90's there were a few companies do things like this. I seem to remember seeing stories in mags (i belive they were CAD zines) and online about multiple 486 (was the rage at the time) proc's on addin boards. I wonder what ever happenned to these companies. In theory this idea would have been great and probably have made a big impact on highend graphics workstations and servers. A card like this with 6 200mhz PPro chips (just an example could be whatever for the actual chips) would still make for a great add in board to offload distrubuted or prallel proc jobs.I think that this type of board is long overdue but something about the whole site seems fishy and the fact that the flash updates page is p/w protected brings (me and a few others who already noticed this) the potential liscense violations regarding the linux kernel.
I gotta say this... If surfing a pron site or subscribing to one causes a real problem for you and your significant other then you probably have the wrong spouse for you as there is not a 100% compatability there...It has been my experience that the sites usually use a pretty innocuous name that doesn't indicate that they are a pron site when it shows up on your bill so embarrassment should not be an issue (if you really fear your other half). Besides there is plenty of free pron out there and if you subscribe to one of the age validation services there are thousands of sites that are free for you to use for using thier service. May I suggest to those that are in this situation that you use the old standards: buy some magazines or dvd's and get busy the old fashioned way... for a quick change in your sex lives use the other hand (j/k).
Here is something to consider: As a business they have already made lots of money off of the box in question and yearly I am sure like all good businesses they have depreciated the value of this hardware. I agree with your posts that FSF may not be able to utilize it. I was using FSF purely as an example as there are many other not for profit organisations/schools/etc. that it could possibly be donated to and they would still be able to make an additional tax deduction for the value of the box. My wife and I each own businesses and used equipment always gets donated like this. Besides the obvious tax benefits it makes the companies look good to the local community (there is also the feels good to do the right thing factor). Personally, I like to help out the Food Banks (specifically Daily Bread Food Bank) as they are totally dependant on donations for equipment.
Interesting points. David Brin has an interesting interview where he discusses the pro's and cons of this Openness (ala Transparent Society). Go read it if you haven't already. Privacy advocates should read the interview too. Both models 'ultra secrecy' and 'openness' could potentially support a free data concept of sorts but personally I think that the 'openness' model would be an incredible failure. The potential for abuse is just too great. People are having identity theft occur already at increasing rates. (btw here is a great link with a lot of info on it) Either perspective is troubling, so I won't say I have made up my mind 100% on the issue because the data is something we paradoxically want and don't want. I would hate for insurance companies to be able to get all sort of personal data and medical history on me and family members and tie it genetically linked homosapiens, but its more or less to late because they already have the beginings of that. On the flipside: I would really like it to be painless to find out more about a potential babysitter for my kids/nephews etc. and at present it is needlessly expensive to do so. I could see being a babysitter who wouldn't want to share private info or info about thier pr0n surfing habits for example too (but I don't think I would entrust that person with children if that were the case). Its all very circular... Here is my thought: The ideology of The Bill of Rights is that freedom is pretty much the right/desire of men/women to be left alone, especially by the government. Basically this means freedom=privacy. I wish the founding fathers of the US had gone into more detail about privacy though because the whole idea of interpretation imho is crap (insert jab at antigun folk...:politicians don't fear unarmed peasants) Where does all this lead? I am not sure , but it will be an interesting ride...
I could have sworn reading a.plan file that carmack posted saying something about those NeXT boxes to the effect of 'first four people to get down here will go home with one NeXT box'. That was a real cool thing of them to do. I wonder why id feels they need to sell that puppy. You would figure John to donate that or something. A box like that would make a great donation to FSF for example and I would guess that the donation would be tax deductable to boot.
in an unprecedented move the management at Andover.net appears to have kidnapped the real cmdrTaco, malda, hemos, emmet and jonkatz on or about July 10th. Millions of/.'ers didn't notice for approximatly 10 days until the truth leaked out: they were strapped to the base of a PH rocket and singed to a crisp as Pizza Hut tried to make good on its promise to be able to deliver a pizza anywhere upto an altitude of approx 280 or less miles. Katz was seen holding a columbine pennant as the supercool liquid propelants oozed down the sides of the rocket as they awaited the launch. Malda was heard saying 'guys it says light fuse and get away' but was moderated down by cmdrTaco to a -2 as his this was surely off topic. yeah..go ahead moderators and troll me out... but todays news on/. was just bad. this article (much as i love rockets/space stories) and a few others, just simply wasn't news.
actually...if a huge security but were found in Apache it would probably make the news just the same as this exploit did, especially considering Apache's huge inroads into the market share in the last two years. Fortunately the folks at Apache have a great product that isn't trying to cover a zillion bases at once like the MS office apps try to do.
I submitted this story yesterday. It was extremely critical of M$ (...well for a cnet story). Here is an article by SANS regarding the problem and a $500 reward for the first person to come up with an automated fix in the form of a virus to innoculate against the security problem. It seems like a novel approach to the problem I wonder if anyone actually figures out how to do this.
"choice of a new generation"? Interesting take on this. Just for kicks consider this scenario:Linux as Coca-Cola and M$ as Pepsi. Now this isn't because of any slogan but more of similar business practices. CocaCola is a big company with many products in its line but Pepsi as a real corporate monster (ala MS). So much so that in the 70's and 80's the major fast food chains were flipping back and forth on the Pepsi/Coke as beverage lines because Pepsi was buying up TacoBell and other companies. The thinking was that Pepsi on thier menus meant a threat to them in the sense of giving money to a direct competitor.inmho Coke is better anyway... 'Linux adds Life' rolls off the tongue more eleganly than 'choice of a new generation'
actually, the CIA and NSA take the rights of American citizens very seriously. Many times they have to immediately interrupt thier investigations and taps due to the realization that the persons involved are Americans. I have heard this a few times from people who worked in those circles and there were quite a few/. posts stating this the other day. I can't remember the specifics but there is a Presidential Order (or someother high order) that explicitly prohibits them from doing so. if you know which order it is please post it as i am interested in reading through the specs of it - thanks:)
Hi all, Here is some info that you may find interesting. I have worked in and out of the architectural/design/building industry for the better part of the last 14 years. In that time I have worked on the design and build of many telcom centers and ISP's. For this work security is stringent and done on a per project, eyes only basis.Most of these places (I am generalizing due to very real security issues in the telcom industry) are designed with very highly secure areas where the main switch/com centers and computer rooms setup with the following (very generalized and non specific) criteria: 1. switch/control centers have to be on an 'open' wall so that they may be visually inspected for bugs and taps. 2. computer centers and the racks they mount to have to have 100% visible access as well. 3. walls of secure areas usually have leadlined wallboard and welded wire mesh installed from deck to deck behind the leadlined wallboard. 4. these installations usually use the box within a box within a box scenario (ie secure areas within secure areas within even more secure areas built just as above.) 5. highly secure and mostly invisible CSTV systems monitor every square inch of the space inside and out of these installs, capable of doing so in complete darkness(i have done quite a few casinos that use very similar CSTV systems which can see every player and dealer at any given time) These are not the only security measures involved in building a telcom but this is as far as i can go without having to post as an AC. The folks working inside these areas have to have all sorts of additional clearances/citizenship requirements etc. Building these installations is not easy due to the fact that even the staff of contractors doing the build out typically have to pass security checks and sign nondisclosure agreements as to what they have seen and built. Telcoms are not the only types of businesses that have to follow these stringent security measures. There are a great many 'local companies' all over that are really offices for other agencies. You may or may not be aware of this but many times when these places are built they use names of 'private' corporations etc. to hide thier real ownership. Ironically, the ISP's that I worked on didn't have such security in thier design criteria (usually they are mostly concerned with disaster proofing and service interruption proofing) but if things keep going as they are it would not surprise me if they had to implement these types of upgrades due to the *ivor boxes being located within thier facilities. If that happens we will see a lot of ISP's go under as this type of construction, whether new build or retrofit is really very expensive. To sum it up, let me say this: the freedom of information act is really an obscene joke. I have seen documents released for the purposes of building these installations where as much as 90% of the actual design criteria is totally blacked out, 5% is readable but 'classified' (and usually printed in nonreproducable photo blue) and the remaining 5% is as generalized as this post is. Even if *ivor information is released to us via FOI act it will be mostly useless and not yield any clues as to the level that security is going to be compromised by it. Hopefully, there are some IT folks out there who work in these facilities that can provide us some insight to the systems without compromising themselves and thier positions. After all, matters of National Security are not a joke and in the big picture a little loss of personal privacy may seem trivial compared to whats really at stake (read:I am not in agreemnet with them doing this but I do understandwhy they are doing this). If you want privacy in your email the answer is very simple: use strong encryption and exercise due diligence in deleting/scrubbing your email after reading it. If enough people use highly encrypted email bigbrother will not have the time to decrypt all of it enmasse.
I was looking all over trying to find a really good link that i had read about flywheel stored energy systems. I am sorry I couldn't find it. To sumarize it was about some engineer who was out to make stored energy systems for cars based upon the use of a bunch of flywheels. I am really surprised that nobody else mentioned flywheels as the/. community is usually so up on science and new tech. for the curious here is an article at NASA's site about thier research on it. And here is some really good info on a hideously designed site. If someone finds the link i was talking about with the slick looking cars on flywheel systems please post it! Thanks:)
Hardly. The basis of this technology is to keep things in perspective. If I have to pay $9 a ticket to go to the movies, or $125 for a seat to a hockey game I don't want to have a million cellphones ringing the whole time. Same if you paid 20-30,000 for you kids wedding and people disrespect you by having thier cells ring the whole time. You can say this is censorship but I say its more an issue of forced politeness. It has become painfully obvious that no matter how many times people are asked to shut off thier phones for this and that they get irate and this could keep that from happening. With people becoming enraged for stupid shit like being asked to turn off thier cellphone why should anyone have to endanger themselves and ask you to turn off your phone when common decency should have told you to do so ahead of time. If a you are expecting a call that makes you so important that you have to have it no matter where you are well you should obviously not be in a place like a theater or arena where your 'important' call is going to inconvenience everyone else.
"Townshend is one of the few rockers who avidly supports bootlegging. "I'd like to see it proliferate unchecked," he says. "If we don't, we may allow something wonderful to be nipped in the bud." That has got to be among the first sane quotes and stances of someone in the music industry I have heard in a very long time. I think many of us out there should thank and recognise Pete for taking this postition on this contreversial issue. There are many musicians out there who probably feel this way or similiarly to PT. I remember reading articles in magazines in the early 90's about some musicians who actively (and proudly) were collecting bootlegs of thier shows and even a few who gave permission (like RUSH) for limited edition liscensed bootlegs of thier shows to be sold. Does anyone out there remember a Metallica (think before Master of Puppets) that was proud of the fact that thier fanbase was making bootleg audios and videos of thier shows and spreading thier music? Wasn't Cliif'em All produced this way?
P.T. Barnum - There is a sucker born every minute...Seriously though, its about f'n time they made them post the real price. This practice has got to stop. You can't even pick up a mail order catalog that doesn't have this bs pricing in it anymore and they print the real price so small that you can barely read it. Maybe the FTC should force them to compensate everyone who bought a 'free' or 'cheap' pc by kicking out the cash and really make the pc's free, with a free OS and free net access to boot... oh nevermind... if you say free three times and click your heels...
You bring up a good point. Any reasons other than Indias own sense of nationalism would really be moot in the face of the global political ramifications that this will have. In the US we don't hear much about some portions of the world because they are not 'super powers'. If India can put a wad of gum up to the moon proves to the world that they are indeed a major world power. They have the bomb and neighboring enemies who also have the bomb. They have high tech/space age capabilities. By pulling off a stunt like this they will have proven they understand the value of global media as well. They wouldn't get the same attention to thier newfound worldpower status if they were to participate in the Space Station Freedom project and i don't think they want to wait it out for a Mars mission (with thier current tech they probably could do this but they would have to take the long route i.e. gravitational slingshot). I think this is totally a 'we need some respect' issue for India. Pretty scary stuff...
many people laughed at the inventions of Goddard (the father of modern rocketry in the US) and yet the Guggenheim family still funded his projects and research. Goddard had many catastrophic failures in the begining. I didn't see anything on Walkers website about testing the thing before launch so maybe Darwin will prevail. I did find this article where Walker states:
"I've failed and failed and failed" Until six or seven years ago, Walker was destitute. "The one thing I've done more in life than anything is failed," he said. "I've failed and failed and failed and failed and failed and failed."
Maybe he realizes Darwin and Goddard knew better...Seeing this type of attempt is both exhilerating (takes a lot of balls to strap yourself on top of that much h202 IMHO)and scary. I can't help wondering if there is someone out there who is going to look at this and try to build themself one of Bull's orbital guns. maybe this is just a suicide in the making. After all its better to burn out then fade away:)
after viewing the pictures I am worried that Paramount and the MPAA are going to sue him for the striking similarity to the rocket flown by Zephram Cochran in First Contact...
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You bring up a good point. The perception of one or a few people dying in the name of exploration is different than the millions dying for pretty stupid shit everyday. I would gladly take the chance at earning a darwin for strapping into a massive chemical rocket built by the best minds we have though, so I guess the whole 'value of life' issue really becomes moot. One of the many things that makes the astronauts heroes is the fact that they are willing to put thier life on the line to do it for all of us.
the Shuttle has an escape system - ejection seats The shuttle has very limited escape mechanisms. Escape is only really possible under 'ideal' ditch conditions (overshot runways, etc.) A sad fact of the Challenger trajedy is that the crew module was found partially intact on the bottom of the Atlantic. Read this for an excellent report.
1. Email the RIAA at thier home page. 2. Call you local radio stations and let them know you won't be listening. 3. Call your college radio stations and let them know you will only be listening to the unsigned acts shows. The only way to hurt them is in thier pockets and not buying CD's wont hurt them anywhere near as bad as Radio Stations calling and saying thier market is not listening because of this.
Chris, Man you need to get off your ass and contact the folks at Napster. Your argument here is cogent and I am sure they need testimony from artists in EXACTLY your situation. MP3's and thier distro in the method you are using is what its all about. Back in the early 80's artists like you would use 'Rag' magazines to get thier demo's out. I remember ordering a few and they sucked but there was one that turned out to be pretty good from a band of high school kids. They sold a whole bunch of them and eventually landed a good major label deal... thier name is Queensryche. I still have that 3 song demo it is one of my prized recordings (though eventually they released the original demo on CD). Don't give up the fight by not being in it. Make whatever calls you have to make or thumb a ride to NYC... This is too important for the little guys out there not to try to voice thier side of this situation.
You almost made your point... While I agree that the declining morals/values issue needs to be addressed its not the fault of RPG's. It is almost entirely the parent of said childrens fault. These games are not for children. Period. Teenagers, well ok, depending on the values you have successfully instilled in them. If you let a television set raise your child then you will get what we as a society are seeing in the rise of violence amongst minors. Our generation had D&D and we didn't go around killing classmates and teachers yet D&D was more of a fantasy world than these games create because you have to visualize the deaths of your oppenents etc. On the flipside if you teach young minds the strategies that games teach (for arguments sake even checkers does this) they will have learned skills that puts them several steps ahead of most folks in business school. And wait a minute... is baseball(or other little league sports for the matter) better for your kids when parents are beating up (recently killing) other parents/coaches/umpires because they disagree with the calls? Many of the little league systems could even be blamed for the rise in the use of steroids because the children are being taught to win at all costs. I think not. I would say the best activity for children to participate in is martial arts training (don't even bother with the 'thats violence' retort) as long as your not a 'little league' small minded parent who puts thier kids in tournament karate events(see above note on parental behaviour) for selfish reasons like pressuring your kids to perform.We are bringing up children in a society where they are encouraged (in school none the less) to turn thier parents in if the parents use corporal punishment and children can divorce themselves from thier parents etc. The problem goes much deeper than the proverbial scratch in the surface mentioned here though, 'Blame Shifting' is on the rise. People can't believe that its thier own fault thier kids are the way they are so they need scapegoats to blame for thier inaddequate parenting. Parents sued Judas Priest and Ozzy Osborne for this kind of lunacy in the 80's becuase thier kids committed suicide. Hence, it is much easier to say its so and so's fault rather then thier own. Disagree? Read your own post and then take that magnifiying glass of self-righteousness and point it back at yourself. Like I said the blame is on the parents, a lack of parenting combined with a lack of discipline for innappropriate actions not society, not rpg's, not even music or television.
I would have to say the type of pron would make a huge difference: ie is the person surfing mostly 'normal' stuff or does the person surf exclusively for pedophilia content. The difference being quite obvious. So I would have to say yes I would trust myself with kids. I know that I would go to extremes to hunt a person down if they did something to a child that I know or am related to. Maybe, pron surfing habits was a bad example. I was just being hypothetical and trying to imply that if a person is not willing to share information in certain scenarios then that should automatically exclude them for consideration. In the context of a transparent society this information would be easy to aquire, in an ultra secretive society you would not have a chance to ever find it. Like I said the issue gets interesting as I personally see the value of both approaches to 'free data' and have not made up my mind as to which is better or if either is better.
in the early 90's there were a few companies do things like this. I seem to remember seeing stories in mags (i belive they were CAD zines) and online about multiple 486 (was the rage at the time) proc's on addin boards. I wonder what ever happenned to these companies. In theory this idea would have been great and probably have made a big impact on highend graphics workstations and servers. A card like this with 6 200mhz PPro chips (just an example could be whatever for the actual chips) would still make for a great add in board to offload distrubuted or prallel proc jobs.I think that this type of board is long overdue but something about the whole site seems fishy and the fact that the flash updates page is p/w protected brings (me and a few others who already noticed this) the potential liscense violations regarding the linux kernel.
I gotta say this... If surfing a pron site or subscribing to one causes a real problem for you and your significant other then you probably have the wrong spouse for you as there is not a 100% compatability there...It has been my experience that the sites usually use a pretty innocuous name that doesn't indicate that they are a pron site when it shows up on your bill so embarrassment should not be an issue (if you really fear your other half). Besides there is plenty of free pron out there and if you subscribe to one of the age validation services there are thousands of sites that are free for you to use for using thier service. May I suggest to those that are in this situation that you use the old standards: buy some magazines or dvd's and get busy the old fashioned way... for a quick change in your sex lives use the other hand (j/k).
Here is something to consider: As a business they have already made lots of money off of the box in question and yearly I am sure like all good businesses they have depreciated the value of this hardware. I agree with your posts that FSF may not be able to utilize it. I was using FSF purely as an example as there are many other not for profit organisations/schools/etc. that it could possibly be donated to and they would still be able to make an additional tax deduction for the value of the box. My wife and I each own businesses and used equipment always gets donated like this. Besides the obvious tax benefits it makes the companies look good to the local community (there is also the feels good to do the right thing factor). Personally, I like to help out the Food Banks (specifically Daily Bread Food Bank) as they are totally dependant on donations for equipment.
Interesting points. David Brin has an interesting interview where he discusses the pro's and cons of this Openness (ala Transparent Society). Go read it if you haven't already. Privacy advocates should read the interview too. Both models 'ultra secrecy' and 'openness' could potentially support a free data concept of sorts but personally I think that the 'openness' model would be an incredible failure. The potential for abuse is just too great. People are having identity theft occur already at increasing rates. (btw here is a great link with a lot of info on it) Either perspective is troubling, so I won't say I have made up my mind 100% on the issue because the data is something we paradoxically want and don't want. I would hate for insurance companies to be able to get all sort of personal data and medical history on me and family members and tie it genetically linked homosapiens, but its more or less to late because they already have the beginings of that. On the flipside: I would really like it to be painless to find out more about a potential babysitter for my kids/nephews etc. and at present it is needlessly expensive to do so. I could see being a babysitter who wouldn't want to share private info or info about thier pr0n surfing habits for example too (but I don't think I would entrust that person with children if that were the case). Its all very circular... Here is my thought: The ideology of The Bill of Rights is that freedom is pretty much the right/desire of men/women to be left alone, especially by the government. Basically this means freedom=privacy. I wish the founding fathers of the US had gone into more detail about privacy though because the whole idea of interpretation imho is crap (insert jab at antigun folk...:politicians don't fear unarmed peasants) Where does all this lead? I am not sure , but it will be an interesting ride...
I could have sworn reading a .plan file that carmack posted saying something about those NeXT boxes to the effect of 'first four people to get down here will go home with one NeXT box'. That was a real cool thing of them to do. I wonder why id feels they need to sell that puppy. You would figure John to donate that or something. A box like that would make a great donation to FSF for example and I would guess that the donation would be tax deductable to boot.
only if you did the math on an old trusty pentium :)
in an unprecedented move the management at Andover.net appears to have kidnapped the real cmdrTaco, malda, hemos, emmet and jonkatz on or about July 10th. Millions of /.'ers didn't notice for approximatly 10 days until the truth leaked out: they were strapped to the base of a PH rocket and singed to a crisp as Pizza Hut tried to make good on its promise to be able to deliver a pizza anywhere upto an altitude of approx 280 or less miles. Katz was seen holding a columbine pennant as the supercool liquid propelants oozed down the sides of the rocket as they awaited the launch. Malda was heard saying 'guys it says light fuse and get away' but was moderated down by cmdrTaco to a -2 as his this was surely off topic. yeah..go ahead moderators and troll me out... but todays news on /. was just bad. this article (much as i love rockets/space stories) and a few others, just simply wasn't news.
actually...if a huge security but were found in Apache it would probably make the news just the same as this exploit did, especially considering Apache's huge inroads into the market share in the last two years. Fortunately the folks at Apache have a great product that isn't trying to cover a zillion bases at once like the MS office apps try to do.
I submitted this story yesterday. It was extremely critical of M$ (...well for a cnet story). Here is an article by SANS regarding the problem and a $500 reward for the first person to come up with an automated fix in the form of a virus to innoculate against the security problem. It seems like a novel approach to the problem I wonder if anyone actually figures out how to do this.
"choice of a new generation"? Interesting take on this. Just for kicks consider this scenario :Linux as Coca-Cola and M$ as Pepsi. Now this isn't because of any slogan but more of similar business practices. CocaCola is a big company with many products in its line but Pepsi as a real corporate monster (ala MS). So much so that in the 70's and 80's the major fast food chains were flipping back and forth on the Pepsi/Coke as beverage lines because Pepsi was buying up TacoBell and other companies. The thinking was that Pepsi on thier menus meant a threat to them in the sense of giving money to a direct competitor.inmho Coke is better anyway... 'Linux adds Life' rolls off the tongue more eleganly than 'choice of a new generation'
actually, the CIA and NSA take the rights of American citizens very seriously. Many times they have to immediately interrupt thier investigations and taps due to the realization that the persons involved are Americans. I have heard this a few times from people who worked in those circles and there were quite a few /. posts stating this the other day. I can't remember the specifics but there is a Presidential Order (or someother high order) that explicitly prohibits them from doing so. if you know which order it is please post it as i am interested in reading through the specs of it - thanks :)
Hi all, Here is some info that you may find interesting. I have worked in and out of the architectural/design/building industry for the better part of the last 14 years. In that time I have worked on the design and build of many telcom centers and ISP's. For this work security is stringent and done on a per project, eyes only basis.Most of these places (I am generalizing due to very real security issues in the telcom industry) are designed with very highly secure areas where the main switch/com centers and computer rooms setup with the following (very generalized and non specific) criteria: 1. switch/control centers have to be on an 'open' wall so that they may be visually inspected for bugs and taps. 2. computer centers and the racks they mount to have to have 100% visible access as well. 3. walls of secure areas usually have leadlined wallboard and welded wire mesh installed from deck to deck behind the leadlined wallboard. 4. these installations usually use the box within a box within a box scenario (ie secure areas within secure areas within even more secure areas built just as above.) 5. highly secure and mostly invisible CSTV systems monitor every square inch of the space inside and out of these installs, capable of doing so in complete darkness(i have done quite a few casinos that use very similar CSTV systems which can see every player and dealer at any given time) These are not the only security measures involved in building a telcom but this is as far as i can go without having to post as an AC. The folks working inside these areas have to have all sorts of additional clearances/citizenship requirements etc. Building these installations is not easy due to the fact that even the staff of contractors doing the build out typically have to pass security checks and sign nondisclosure agreements as to what they have seen and built. Telcoms are not the only types of businesses that have to follow these stringent security measures. There are a great many 'local companies' all over that are really offices for other agencies. You may or may not be aware of this but many times when these places are built they use names of 'private' corporations etc. to hide thier real ownership. Ironically, the ISP's that I worked on didn't have such security in thier design criteria (usually they are mostly concerned with disaster proofing and service interruption proofing) but if things keep going as they are it would not surprise me if they had to implement these types of upgrades due to the *ivor boxes being located within thier facilities. If that happens we will see a lot of ISP's go under as this type of construction, whether new build or retrofit is really very expensive. To sum it up, let me say this: the freedom of information act is really an obscene joke. I have seen documents released for the purposes of building these installations where as much as 90% of the actual design criteria is totally blacked out, 5% is readable but 'classified' (and usually printed in nonreproducable photo blue) and the remaining 5% is as generalized as this post is. Even if *ivor information is released to us via FOI act it will be mostly useless and not yield any clues as to the level that security is going to be compromised by it. Hopefully, there are some IT folks out there who work in these facilities that can provide us some insight to the systems without compromising themselves and thier positions. After all, matters of National Security are not a joke and in the big picture a little loss of personal privacy may seem trivial compared to whats really at stake (read:I am not in agreemnet with them doing this but I do understandwhy they are doing this). If you want privacy in your email the answer is very simple: use strong encryption and exercise due diligence in deleting/scrubbing your email after reading it. If enough people use highly encrypted email bigbrother will not have the time to decrypt all of it enmasse.
I was looking all over trying to find a really good link that i had read about flywheel stored energy systems. I am sorry I couldn't find it. To sumarize it was about some engineer who was out to make stored energy systems for cars based upon the use of a bunch of flywheels. I am really surprised that nobody else mentioned flywheels as the /. community is usually so up on science and new tech. for the curious here is an article at NASA's site about thier research on it. And here is some really good info on a hideously designed site. If someone finds the link i was talking about with the slick looking cars on flywheel systems please post it! Thanks :)
Hardly. The basis of this technology is to keep things in perspective. If I have to pay $9 a ticket to go to the movies, or $125 for a seat to a hockey game I don't want to have a million cellphones ringing the whole time. Same if you paid 20-30,000 for you kids wedding and people disrespect you by having thier cells ring the whole time. You can say this is censorship but I say its more an issue of forced politeness. It has become painfully obvious that no matter how many times people are asked to shut off thier phones for this and that they get irate and this could keep that from happening. With people becoming enraged for stupid shit like being asked to turn off thier cellphone why should anyone have to endanger themselves and ask you to turn off your phone when common decency should have told you to do so ahead of time. If a you are expecting a call that makes you so important that you have to have it no matter where you are well you should obviously not be in a place like a theater or arena where your 'important' call is going to inconvenience everyone else.
"Townshend is one of the few rockers who avidly supports bootlegging. "I'd like to see it proliferate unchecked," he says. "If we don't, we may allow something wonderful to be nipped in the bud." That has got to be among the first sane quotes and stances of someone in the music industry I have heard in a very long time. I think many of us out there should thank and recognise Pete for taking this postition on this contreversial issue. There are many musicians out there who probably feel this way or similiarly to PT. I remember reading articles in magazines in the early 90's about some musicians who actively (and proudly) were collecting bootlegs of thier shows and even a few who gave permission (like RUSH) for limited edition liscensed bootlegs of thier shows to be sold. Does anyone out there remember a Metallica (think before Master of Puppets) that was proud of the fact that thier fanbase was making bootleg audios and videos of thier shows and spreading thier music? Wasn't Cliif'em All produced this way?
P.T. Barnum - There is a sucker born every minute...Seriously though, its about f'n time they made them post the real price. This practice has got to stop. You can't even pick up a mail order catalog that doesn't have this bs pricing in it anymore and they print the real price so small that you can barely read it. Maybe the FTC should force them to compensate everyone who bought a 'free' or 'cheap' pc by kicking out the cash and really make the pc's free, with a free OS and free net access to boot... oh nevermind... if you say free three times and click your heels...
You bring up a good point. Any reasons other than Indias own sense of nationalism would really be moot in the face of the global political ramifications that this will have. In the US we don't hear much about some portions of the world because they are not 'super powers'. If India can put a wad of gum up to the moon proves to the world that they are indeed a major world power. They have the bomb and neighboring enemies who also have the bomb. They have high tech/space age capabilities. By pulling off a stunt like this they will have proven they understand the value of global media as well. They wouldn't get the same attention to thier newfound worldpower status if they were to participate in the Space Station Freedom project and i don't think they want to wait it out for a Mars mission (with thier current tech they probably could do this but they would have to take the long route i.e. gravitational slingshot). I think this is totally a 'we need some respect' issue for India. Pretty scary stuff...
after viewing the pictures I am worried that Paramount and the MPAA are going to sue him for the striking similarity to the rocket flown by Zephram Cochran in First Contact...