"The logic that we should wait and 'do space travel right' is the same logic that would have demanded the Wright brothers not bother with their stupid, cheaply made, not-able-to-carry-150-passengers Flyer, while waiting for someone to come up with the idea AND engineering for the DC-10."
There were other aviation pioneers before the Wright Bros. who experimented with inadequate technology. Langley actually flew a steam powered model airplane for 3/4 mile in 1896, but he later switched to gasoline power on his manned airplane. I think it's fair to say anyone thinking about a steam powered plane would have been better off waiting for internal combustion.
So the question now is, are chemical rockets adequate technology for manned space exploration? I would say barely. Sure, there are pie in the sky technologies like space elevator and fusion, and ion engines might be good for small, lightweight probes, but the only realistic propulsion breakthrough we have is nuclear fission rockets. They make me as nervous as anyone else, but for a Mars mission it's actually safer for the astronauts because of the shorter travel time and hence less radiation exposure while in space.
The G forces come from accleration, not the speed. The upper limit for trained fighter pilots is 9G for brief periods. Without the pilot, accleration is only limited by thrust and the strength of materials. We've had unmanned vehicles since the 50's that could out-maneuver piloted planes. They're called air-to-air missiles. For instance, a Sidewinder can accelerate at up to 28G.
Tape can be bad, but it can be very good too. Since it's analog, it depends a lot more on the quality of the recording equipment. I wouldn't say 128K digital is always better than tape. Personally I find the analog noise of a bad tape less annoying than the compression artifacts in a low bitrate file. Still, I agree either one is good enough for portable use.
I think they're counting on after-the-fact enforcement more than any strong authentication. Impersonating a police officer is a more serious offence than fraud, and if anything else, it's enforced more strictly since police don't take kindly to challenges to their authority.
They sure did complain through the 80s, but the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 settled that. Home taping is legal. The RIAA collects a royalty on blank tapes and audio CD-Rs. SCMS copy protection is mandatory on DAT and audio CD recorders.
That's what the cable guy did when he had to get the cable modem from the hallway to the living room (BTW a very stupid place to put a cable jack). Stapled it along the baseboard and over the doorway. Pretty clean job too. If it's good enough for him, then good enough for me.
He's not even talking about Linux driver support. Some companies have a long history of crappy support for even Windows drivers. Things like BSOD hell and nonexistant Windows 2000/XP drivers for relatively recent products like from 1999. If you want to name names, ATI (TV tuners, Rage Fury MAXX), Creative (DVD decoders, Nomad MP3 player), Epson scanners.
In this I have to give props to NVIDIA for their Unified Driver architecture. One download that even works with an ancient TNT2 M64.
Where have you been? Yahoo and MSN are way past AIM in features. AIM has the installed user base and that's about it. The big reason for that is the settlement with the FTC for them to approve the AOL/Time Warner merger. AOL has to open the AIM network to competitors when they add advanced features like video chat, and we have still no video in AIM. Gee I wonder why...
Definitely not perfect so you need to plan for false positives. Sendmail can specify recipient addresses as spamfriends so their mail isn't blocked by RBLs. We make postmaster a spamfriend so it can receive mail from blocked IPs, and we promptly whitelist any nonspam senders. SPEWS, Osirusoft and DSBL are very effective, but I definitely would not use them without a whitelisting mechanism.
Isn't that $29.99 plan only good for T-Mobile Wifi hotspots like at Starbucks? The $5/MB he's talking about is on their GSM/GPRS network which is deathly slow but works anywhere there's a cellular signal.
I'm as concerned about privacy as the next/.er, but count me in on the "what's the big deal?" side. These tags are meant for inventory control up to the point of retail sale. They'll most likely be attached to the packaging which gets thrown away, not the product itself. If you walked through a mall in clothes full of active RFID tags, you'd be setting off all kinds of inventory scanners, cash register scanners, shoplifting sensors, etc. Assuming they didn't zap the tags at the cash register when you paid, there would be some small privacy leak between the time you bought the stuff and threw away the packaging at home if someone wanted to stalk you at short range with an RFID scanner to see what you bought. Someone could also theoretically dumpster dive through your garbage without getting their hands dirty if they wanted to find out your shopping habits.
That's the whole point! If SCO/Caldera distributed GPL code, they can't discriminate between different groups who received that code from Caldera and they can't place further restrictions of the distribution of GPL code. i.e. not sue paying customers, but sue freeloaders who downloaded a free iso of Openlinux. What gets confusing is, can they sue Linux users who received the GPL code from another distributor? See article 6 of the GPL below. If a Redhat user received his kernel from Redhat, it seems like SCO has no obligations under article 6 to him because there is no distributor/recipient relationship. However, if a SCO user took SCO kernel source and diff'ed and patched it with vanilla Linus kernel source to undo all the Openlinux patches, he could then get "clean" kernel source that could be recompiled into any other distro.
6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License.
That's hilarious! The best part of it is that's it's not illegal to decode digital satellite signals in Canada. Directv is not licensed to sell satellite TV service in Canada so it's impossible to "steal" a service that doesn't exist. There's no problem using hacked access cards and receivers there.
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If they can afford to give away 3000 of them, that should tell you something about their cost to Apple. My God! It's just a 640x480 Firewire webcam in a cool looking package. Admittedly it's nicer than the crappy $40 webcams you'd find on a PC. With Apple's clientele there's probably enough people who'd pay the premium price for the quality and design.
It's true, the primary purpose is to reduce traffic congestion. That only works if the HOV lanes are moving faster than the regular lanes. I suppose the HOV lanes in Seattle are underutilized enough that they can sell some number of passes while not slowing them down too much. In LA, there's lots of places where the carpool lanes are just as slow as the regular lanes, which makes letting more cars use them a bad idea here.
In California, alternative fuel vehicles get a clean air sticker that lets them use the HOV. That's natural gas, electric, and methanol, but not gasoline hybrids.
That's roadworthy in the sense of durability. You can easily make the casing strong enough to not fall apart, but if the membrane is delicate you might be stranded with no power if you hit a few potholes or railroad crossings the wrong way.
Yup, it's called a yaw string, and people have made FS sailplane models that have them (here).
Now if you want to simulate G forces, that's when it gets expensive, with hydraulic rigs and all. You think the power and noise of 9 AMD PC's is bad, try running some hydraulic pumps.
Securityfocus mailing lists is definitely one place to go. You'd probably want to post on the Incidents list. They also have a Focus on Incident Handling list which is more about discussing incident handling procedures.
In any case, once it's posted in a big enough public forum, it becomes a problem for their Public Affairs/Public Relations dept and not just tech support. Don't know if Slashdot qualifies as big enough, but you might as well try Cnet/Wired since they've reported these kinds of large scale hacks before.
Actually, it's the Secret Service that investigates credit card fraud, but still, I'd bet they wouldn't do more than take a report for anything under $20,000.
An extra $10/mo for unlimited is a pretty good deal. AT&T's data plans go from $7.99/mo for 1MB transfer to $99.99/mo for 100MB transfer. Speed is a little faster than 56K dialup. Forget that.
If you can deal with the 14.4K speed, even old school 2G CDMA phones can do dialup with a data cable. It uses your airtime minutes though, so I hope you have free night and weekends.
Company uses a couple PRI's from AT&T for local phone service. They provide the service, but the local loop still belongs to SBC. We got a pretty good rate due to our volume. Install support when we switched over was incompetent to say the least, but no problems since then.
No matter who you use, they'll still end up reselling the local loop from the baby bell. Only exceptions I know are if you get phone service over digital cable TV or VoIP like Vonage.
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"The logic that we should wait and 'do space travel right' is the same logic that would have demanded the Wright brothers not bother with their stupid, cheaply made, not-able-to-carry-150-passengers Flyer, while waiting for someone to come up with the idea AND engineering for the DC-10."
There were other aviation pioneers before the Wright Bros. who experimented with inadequate technology. Langley actually flew a steam powered model airplane for 3/4 mile in 1896, but he later switched to gasoline power on his manned airplane. I think it's fair to say anyone thinking about a steam powered plane would have been better off waiting for internal combustion.
So the question now is, are chemical rockets adequate technology for manned space exploration? I would say barely. Sure, there are pie in the sky technologies like space elevator and fusion, and ion engines might be good for small, lightweight probes, but the only realistic propulsion breakthrough we have is nuclear fission rockets. They make me as nervous as anyone else, but for a Mars mission it's actually safer for the astronauts because of the shorter travel time and hence less radiation exposure while in space.
When you're talking about hardware it's called "carding".
The G forces come from accleration, not the speed. The upper limit for trained fighter pilots is 9G for brief periods. Without the pilot, accleration is only limited by thrust and the strength of materials. We've had unmanned vehicles since the 50's that could out-maneuver piloted planes. They're called air-to-air missiles. For instance, a Sidewinder can accelerate at up to 28G.
Tape can be bad, but it can be very good too. Since it's analog, it depends a lot more on the quality of the recording equipment. I wouldn't say 128K digital is always better than tape. Personally I find the analog noise of a bad tape less annoying than the compression artifacts in a low bitrate file. Still, I agree either one is good enough for portable use.
I think they're counting on after-the-fact enforcement more than any strong authentication. Impersonating a police officer is a more serious offence than fraud, and if anything else, it's enforced more strictly since police don't take kindly to challenges to their authority.
Can't be that hard... Wonder if they'll fall for Roscoe P. Coltrane, Sheriff of Hazzard Country?
They sure did complain through the 80s, but the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 settled that. Home taping is legal. The RIAA collects a royalty on blank tapes and audio CD-Rs. SCMS copy protection is mandatory on DAT and audio CD recorders.
That's what the cable guy did when he had to get the cable modem from the hallway to the living room (BTW a very stupid place to put a cable jack). Stapled it along the baseboard and over the doorway. Pretty clean job too. If it's good enough for him, then good enough for me.
He's not even talking about Linux driver support. Some companies have a long history of crappy support for even Windows drivers. Things like BSOD hell and nonexistant Windows 2000/XP drivers for relatively recent products like from 1999. If you want to name names, ATI (TV tuners, Rage Fury MAXX), Creative (DVD decoders, Nomad MP3 player), Epson scanners.
In this I have to give props to NVIDIA for their Unified Driver architecture. One download that even works with an ancient TNT2 M64.
Where have you been? Yahoo and MSN are way past AIM in features. AIM has the installed user base and that's about it. The big reason for that is the settlement with the FTC for them to approve the AOL/Time Warner merger. AOL has to open the AIM network to competitors when they add advanced features like video chat, and we have still no video in AIM. Gee I wonder why...
Definitely not perfect so you need to plan for false positives. Sendmail can specify recipient addresses as spamfriends so their mail isn't blocked by RBLs. We make postmaster a spamfriend so it can receive mail from blocked IPs, and we promptly whitelist any nonspam senders. SPEWS, Osirusoft and DSBL are very effective, but I definitely would not use them without a whitelisting mechanism.
Isn't that $29.99 plan only good for T-Mobile Wifi hotspots like at Starbucks? The $5/MB he's talking about is on their GSM/GPRS network which is deathly slow but works anywhere there's a cellular signal.
I'm as concerned about privacy as the next /.er, but count me in on the "what's the big deal?" side. These tags are meant for inventory control up to the point of retail sale. They'll most likely be attached to the packaging which gets thrown away, not the product itself. If you walked through a mall in clothes full of active RFID tags, you'd be setting off all kinds of inventory scanners, cash register scanners, shoplifting sensors, etc. Assuming they didn't zap the tags at the cash register when you paid, there would be some small privacy leak between the time you bought the stuff and threw away the packaging at home if someone wanted to stalk you at short range with an RFID scanner to see what you bought. Someone could also theoretically dumpster dive through your garbage without getting their hands dirty if they wanted to find out your shopping habits.
Nah, he probably mean the Morris worm of 1988 which exploited sendmail.
That's the whole point! If SCO/Caldera distributed GPL code, they can't discriminate between different groups who received that code from Caldera and they can't place further restrictions of the distribution of GPL code. i.e. not sue paying customers, but sue freeloaders who downloaded a free iso of Openlinux. What gets confusing is, can they sue Linux users who received the GPL code from another distributor? See article 6 of the GPL below. If a Redhat user received his kernel from Redhat, it seems like SCO has no obligations under article 6 to him because there is no distributor/recipient relationship. However, if a SCO user took SCO kernel source and diff'ed and patched it with vanilla Linus kernel source to undo all the Openlinux patches, he could then get "clean" kernel source that could be recompiled into any other distro.
6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License.
Thanks for the correction. Ah well, that's the way the cookie crumbles.
That's hilarious! The best part of it is that's it's not illegal to decode digital satellite signals in Canada. Directv is not licensed to sell satellite TV service in Canada so it's impossible to "steal" a service that doesn't exist. There's no problem using hacked access cards and receivers there.
If they can afford to give away 3000 of them, that should tell you something about their cost to Apple. My God! It's just a 640x480 Firewire webcam in a cool looking package. Admittedly it's nicer than the crappy $40 webcams you'd find on a PC. With Apple's clientele there's probably enough people who'd pay the premium price for the quality and design.
It's true, the primary purpose is to reduce traffic congestion. That only works if the HOV lanes are moving faster than the regular lanes. I suppose the HOV lanes in Seattle are underutilized enough that they can sell some number of passes while not slowing them down too much. In LA, there's lots of places where the carpool lanes are just as slow as the regular lanes, which makes letting more cars use them a bad idea here.
In California, alternative fuel vehicles get a clean air sticker that lets them use the HOV. That's natural gas, electric, and methanol, but not gasoline hybrids.
That's roadworthy in the sense of durability. You can easily make the casing strong enough to not fall apart, but if the membrane is delicate you might be stranded with no power if you hit a few potholes or railroad crossings the wrong way.
Yup, it's called a yaw string, and people have made FS sailplane models that have them (here).
Now if you want to simulate G forces, that's when it gets expensive, with hydraulic rigs and all. You think the power and noise of 9 AMD PC's is bad, try running some hydraulic pumps.
Securityfocus mailing lists is definitely one place to go. You'd probably want to post on the Incidents list. They also have a Focus on Incident Handling list which is more about discussing incident handling procedures.
In any case, once it's posted in a big enough public forum, it becomes a problem for their Public Affairs/Public Relations dept and not just tech support. Don't know if Slashdot qualifies as big enough, but you might as well try Cnet/Wired since they've reported these kinds of large scale hacks before.
Actually, it's the Secret Service that investigates credit card fraud, but still, I'd bet they wouldn't do more than take a report for anything under $20,000.
An extra $10/mo for unlimited is a pretty good deal. AT&T's data plans go from $7.99/mo for 1MB transfer to $99.99/mo for 100MB transfer. Speed is a little faster than 56K dialup. Forget that.
If you can deal with the 14.4K speed, even old school 2G CDMA phones can do dialup with a data cable. It uses your airtime minutes though, so I hope you have free night and weekends.
Company uses a couple PRI's from AT&T for local phone service. They provide the service, but the local loop still belongs to SBC. We got a pretty good rate due to our volume. Install support when we switched over was incompetent to say the least, but no problems since then.
No matter who you use, they'll still end up reselling the local loop from the baby bell. Only exceptions I know are if you get phone service over digital cable TV or VoIP like Vonage.