I'm at a loss to understand why the release of pictures is so important. Everyone with a grain of common sense *knows* it's been happening, and probably a lot worse at various worldwide CIA invisible detainment facilities.
Seems like just another media quest for ratings, "now with *exclusive" 1.3 megapix cellphone pictures of some brown person hung upside down".
What bothers me is more the fact that they took the pictures in the first place ? Official records of illegal activities ? Mementoes for someone's military service scrapbook ?
Surely the whole point of doing something illegal is NOT to get caught doing it ?
Any fool can fix that chameleon circuit if you just try hotwiring the fragment links and superseding the binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary
Yes well when the increase in cardiac arrests leads to increases in defibrillator usage, at least you'll have saved plenty of watts to power them won't you, you lemon.
While it might seem like a good idea to save a Watt here and there now, without considering the future consequences, you might end up using more later. It's called False Economy, just like goverments who always go with the lowest bidder to save pennies now, and then end up paying thousands of dollars extra in the long run through crappy workmanship, substandard materials etc.
That's the problem with most "green" solutions is that they are too much like carbon credits. You see the operative word is "credit"... borrow now, and pay later.
In any case, saving a watt here and there on a personal level doesn't make the tinyest scratch in the big picture. 2005 average global energy consumption was about 1.5 Terrawatts i.e. 15 followed by 12 zeros.
I might not be an expert, but at least I don't spout bullshit under the pretense of widsom.
The fuel required for the shuttle to change orbits would weigh too much for it to get off the ground in the first place
Correct me if I'm wrong (you probably will), but the shuttle (or any other rocket for that matter), does not just go straight up and then stop... it spirals away from the earth and then levels out gradually at whatever oribital plane is desired.
Likewise, when they want to "come down" again, after a brief thrust, it gradually spirals back down to earth.
So obviously changing the orbit isn't the issue, the issue actually being able to stop the bloody thing so it doesn't smack into the ISS at thousands of miles per hour.
But it's not that NASA scientists "haven't thought about it". It's about beancounters deciding that their table of risk factors doesn't warrant the extra cost, and leaving no margin for error.
The fact this is the second shuttle to suffer tile damage close to the joint of the wing and the main body should tell somebody something ? Like perhaps, it MIGHT be a good idea to design safety factors i.e. extra fuel for contingencies, back into the next generation of space vehicles.
But hell, why let common sense get in the way of ad hominem attacks... this is/. after all.
So they managed to get Apollo 13 back from the moon 384,000 km away, but they didn't consider it "feasible" or even "sensible" to carry enough spare fuel on the shuttle to effect an orbit change to hook up with the ISS, a mere couple of hundred km away ?
Someone want's their balls kicked at NASA, seems like every mission is a suicide mission these days.
Off topic, but I really have to ask this of the Parent poster.
The whole lot of everybody involved need a good boot to the head. (naah naah!)
Where did that come from ? I remember seeing it donkey's years ago on TV, and it's been a mental trigger ever since... everytime I see "boot to the head", I subconciously fill in the "naah naah".
Yes, but I don't think someone buying their cheapest coffee and sitting abusing the wi-fi for 3 hours compensates for the lost sales in all the other stuff.
Sure, at 3am, it might fill in some slack spots in their business, but at peak time, they want a regular rotation of clients to maximize peak-hour sales.
Ever tried getting into a Starbucks after about 7pm ? Absolutely jam packed, and invariably everyone is hogging the comfy seats with a laptop and a coffee cup with about 5mm of cold, 3 hour old coffee in the bottom. Starbys can get away with it by selling their coffee at crazy prices, but McDo coffee is dirt cheap (not to mention it also tastes like dirt).
They can't afford malingerers, and in most cases, I'll bet the franchise holders would dump it like a shot if head office would allow them to.
Well if you really wanted to try, you could compare the access logs of your webserver with that of the advertiser, and correlate pages served and advertisements served to particular IP addresses, and then blacklist those IPs from future access.
Yes, because the **IA would NEVER think of signing up up for a private tracker and simply downloading the files themselves, thus exposing ALL the IP addresses of other downloaders.
Slashdot Mirror
So a Mozilla fanzine website sees a growing trend of users of Firefox ... well who'd of thunk it ?
I wonder if we can also infer Safari usage is at 100% by using the stats from www.apple.com ?
Endor ? That does not make sense !
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I'm at a loss to understand why the release of pictures is so important. Everyone with a grain of common sense *knows* it's been happening, and probably a lot worse at various worldwide CIA invisible detainment facilities.
Seems like just another media quest for ratings, "now with *exclusive" 1.3 megapix cellphone pictures of some brown person hung upside down".
What bothers me is more the fact that they took the pictures in the first place ? Official records of illegal activities ? Mementoes for someone's military service scrapbook ?
Surely the whole point of doing something illegal is NOT to get caught doing it ?
It was an Underpants Gnomes franchise, but someone misread the instructions.
Just because they didn't show you photos
Of an invisibility cloak ?
Any fool can fix that chameleon circuit if you just try hotwiring the fragment links and superseding the binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary
You mean like if you lose at Russian Roulette, the solution is to have more chambers on the gun ?
Security through obscurity is not real security. More IP space just means they'll probably hack your toaster oven or yur fridge instead of your PC.
Yes well when the increase in cardiac arrests leads to increases in defibrillator usage, at least you'll have saved plenty of watts to power them won't you, you lemon.
While it might seem like a good idea to save a Watt here and there now, without considering the future consequences, you might end up using more later. It's called False Economy, just like goverments who always go with the lowest bidder to save pennies now, and then end up paying thousands of dollars extra in the long run through crappy workmanship, substandard materials etc.
That's the problem with most "green" solutions is that they are too much like carbon credits. You see the operative word is "credit" ... borrow now, and pay later.
In any case, saving a watt here and there on a personal level doesn't make the tinyest scratch in the big picture. 2005 average global energy consumption was about 1.5 Terrawatts i.e. 15 followed by 12 zeros.
I might not be an expert, but at least I don't spout bullshit under the pretense of widsom.
The fuel required for the shuttle to change orbits would weigh too much for it to get off the ground in the first place
Correct me if I'm wrong (you probably will), but the shuttle (or any other rocket for that matter), does not just go straight up and then stop ... it spirals away from the earth and then levels out gradually at whatever oribital plane is desired.
Likewise, when they want to "come down" again, after a brief thrust, it gradually spirals back down to earth.
So obviously changing the orbit isn't the issue, the issue actually being able to stop the bloody thing so it doesn't smack into the ISS at thousands of miles per hour.
But it's not that NASA scientists "haven't thought about it". It's about beancounters deciding that their table of risk factors doesn't warrant the extra cost, and leaving no margin for error.
The fact this is the second shuttle to suffer tile damage close to the joint of the wing and the main body should tell somebody something ? Like perhaps, it MIGHT be a good idea to design safety factors i.e. extra fuel for contingencies, back into the next generation of space vehicles.
But hell, why let common sense get in the way of ad hominem attacks ... this is /. after all.
Failure is not an option, gentlemen.
So they managed to get Apollo 13 back from the moon 384,000 km away, but they didn't consider it "feasible" or even "sensible" to carry enough spare fuel on the shuttle to effect an orbit change to hook up with the ISS, a mere couple of hundred km away ?
Someone want's their balls kicked at NASA, seems like every mission is a suicide mission these days.
That's the one ! Not sure how old that is, or if it's the original, as it must be 20 years since I heard that.
But a big thanks anyway :-)
Yes, but most of us work at places where your are not required to wear a name tag that says "My name is Billy".
How is that promotion to the salad bar working out, by the way ?
Off topic, but I really have to ask this of the Parent poster.
The whole lot of everybody involved need a good boot to the head. (naah naah!)
Where did that come from ? I remember seeing it donkey's years ago on TV, and it's been a mental trigger ever since ... everytime I see "boot to the head", I subconciously fill in the "naah naah".
You want McHussein fries and a McKimJongIl shake to go with your McBinLaden ?
Yes, but I don't think someone buying their cheapest coffee and sitting abusing the wi-fi for 3 hours compensates for the lost sales in all the other stuff.
Sure, at 3am, it might fill in some slack spots in their business, but at peak time, they want a regular rotation of clients to maximize peak-hour sales.
Ever tried getting into a Starbucks after about 7pm ? Absolutely jam packed, and invariably everyone is hogging the comfy seats with a laptop and a coffee cup with about 5mm of cold, 3 hour old coffee in the bottom. Starbys can get away with it by selling their coffee at crazy prices, but McDo coffee is dirt cheap (not to mention it also tastes like dirt).
They can't afford malingerers, and in most cases, I'll bet the franchise holders would dump it like a shot if head office would allow them to.
Baldrick ?
I've done three bottles !
(very oblique Blackadder reference)
I'm ... sure that ... even ... William ... Shatner ... can use ... a spellchecker.
Punctionation ... indeed ... !!!
Usually, subscription only services have a login on the homepage ?
Well if you really wanted to try, you could compare the access logs of your webserver with that of the advertiser, and correlate pages served and advertisements served to particular IP addresses, and then blacklist those IPs from future access.
Crude and hardly real-time, but it COULD be done.
Which ones ? The 97 year old granny with no computer, the 8 year old girl, or the man who'd been dead for two years ?
Yes, because the **IA would NEVER think of signing up up for a private tracker and simply downloading the files themselves, thus exposing ALL the IP addresses of other downloaders.
They'll only have to collect another $10 million in ransoms, then they can pay the RIAA fine for that Britney Album they STOLE !!!
Marking bills for security purposes is one thing.
Leaving the bank door wide open with a big sign saying "steal these marked bills" is quite a different thing.
In the same way as police cannot stand on a street corner offering to sell drugs. It's called entrapment.
"Yes, I'm on the plane now".
"Well no shit Sherlock, I just dropped you at the airport. You'd hardly be likely to be on the elephant now, would you ?".