When I was in the USAF, I worked at a unit that flew simmiliar collection flights. My guess is, the Chinese pilot was attempting to cut in front of the Orion to "scare" him into leaving his track. The closer, the better. It's not unheard of.
My guess is, the Chinese pilot made a mistake, misjudging the forward speed of the Orion, and clipped it.
No apologies necessary, it's the way the game is played.
So is the "Can we have our plane back now?" part of the game. "Sure! In crates after we dismantle it!"
Actually, the point is, there would not be an ISS without EVERYONE WORKING TOGETHER. Going off and making unilateral decisions without working with your allies is a bad thing.
It almost got killed on capital hill because it seemed at the time that the US was going to be putting MOST of the cash into the project. The point was to build an International station. We REQUIRED Russian support. We did not want to go forward without it. It does not make it Russia's show, to do as they will.
I want Russia to succeed in it's space efforts. But if it wants to do a commercial endeavor, it'll have to go on it's own. For now, anyway. I'm sure once the cash starts rolling in, heads will turn. Personally, I can't wait. MIR-2, please do it! Thumbs up!
A little off topic, the fact our president is pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol makes me ill. It flies in the face of the spirit of things like the space station.
The Russians can't really run their own space program. They can't afford it.
I think it is extremely wrong of them to assume just because they built a portion of the station they can put whoever they want on it. The ISS is an international effort, after all. But I don't think they're doing this out of any sort of ego trip.
They're just cash poor, and really, it's more like a survival tatic. If they can't do this sort of thing, sending tourists, they won't be able to keep their space exploration efforts going and will have to join the ESA or something. Talk about a morale blow for a one-time superpower.
They are really going to push the commercial side of space exploration in the comming years. It might be a good thing for everyone...
How often was your average farmer in the year 1810 exposed to new ideas? Once a month? Once a year? Did our system of government collapse?
How often do you sling opionions on issues you do NOT care about? Ever? Ever skip over a newspaper article about something you didn't care about? Everyday?
I don't think it matters what FORM the media takes, we all do the same thing. Scan for what we care about, junk the rest. A farmer from 1810 did the same thing while cruising the conversation at the Chruch Social. My grandfather did it with his newspapers, my father did it with a TV remote control, and I do it on slashdot.org.
Hey all. Not to go WAY off topic, but does anyone know of any efforts to create an encrypted peer to peer filesharing app? I can think of a coupla uses:
1. Small networks, like in my house, where no one computer is bigger than the others, peer to peer would be handy. I could share files with JUST my friends on the net if I could add a little client side authentication, and still protect from prying eyes.
2. For general, non-client authenticated peers, the FBI would have a harder time finding pr0n, the RIAA would have a harder time finding m34talica... etc.
How would you move THAT thing around a circuit board? It's f--in' HUGE!
I think if quantum computing is going to work, it's going to be first done with electrons. They're just easier to deal with. We have more practice with them, anyway. (Maybe photons.)
I would say, realizing you've been duped into giving away $99 for information you could have had for free is a very valuble and legitimate lesson.
And what would bring that lesson home more than a mirror that says sucker? I suppose, a mirror with a link to the free stuff.
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NO! Never!
I would never be first in that line. After all, the rule says, never buy version 1.0! All those poor suckers are going to GPF into oblivion! Wait for 1.2 at least.:)
"Step right up! Step right up! See the latest in WEB SCAMS! Don't walk around unprepared to deal with the latest threats! Warn your friends! Warn your family! Just ninety-nine bucks! A small price to pay when you could lose thousands!!!"
"Okay, mister, I'll look. Here's $99."
"Thank you, son, you won't regret it. Step right through that door."
Inside is a mirror with a sign above it that says: "SUCKER!"
I read that article. Seems to be just be whining to me. Elected officials giving lip-service? Unheard of! Probably couldn't buy beer before his Sunday football game. I feel his pain, but geez.
I think there's something wrong with recruiting in the tech industry. My wife just graduated with a 3.65 GPA in Computer Science, but she can't seem to land a job. Everyone she talks to was looking for marketing or sales or something less "geek" like, despite the admitted need for IT workers.
It seemed to me, they were looking for change in the parking lot, but stepping over five dollar bills, "Sorry, only looking for spare change."
Its really frustrating for her.
Hmmm... how do *I* get in on this product review gig? Most of my, uh... STUFF comes from rich friends who generate lots of hardware castoffs.
"Hey! You want my _________?"
"Uh, sure."
No fan, that might be a feature...
yeah, i know what you mean. I would *NEVER EVER EVRE* run a server on my cable modem. I certainly wouldn't accidentally leave gnapster running for a few days.
Are you smoking crack again?
The most power, influential company in America? Maybe if you work on computers all day... I think GE, GM, AT&T, IBM, AOL Time Warner, just to name a few, have far more sway than Microsoft....but JonKatz is still a Troll.
Not to mention, foreigners I've met were like why don't you speak MY language? Well, I can do Russian and get by in German... Sorry I didn't pick French or Japanese. Doesn't mean I don't luv ya!
It's easy for non-English speakers to pick which second language to learn.
Okay, is it just me or was there a little something missing from that last installment. I was really looking forward to people blowing the crap out of things with there little voicebox contraptions! Was that NOT in the book or something? Why would they leave something so cool out?!?!?!? AAHHGGGHHH!!!
Still, I loved it, and I'd watch it again, and again, and again... especially when you consider the caliber of the rest of the crap on TV.
Has anyone enough resources to start mirroring the homepages of geeks who have passed on? It could contain short bios of what the geeks did, then link on to a mirror of their homepages they kept while alive.
Just an idea.
(I used to work at ARL and met Mike once. Seemed like a nice guy.)
Really, if you look at it, it doesn't really matter whether Microsoft wins or loses that case.
Active Directory isn't going to go away. It might land with the OS people, or the Applications people, or whatever, but it will still be out there, and I think they're right: Microsoft's saturation will make it rather difficult for Novell to compete against them. They're DOOMED!
I think though, with LDAP being as solid as it is, and considering its openness, it's really only a matter of time before speciallized commercial directory services shrivel up and die. They just won't be worth paying for.
In my informed opinion, the system is broken. It does not work. Worse still, thinking that using the broken system to fix itself seems rather insane, doesn't it? What if I voted communist? Vote? Communism?
Somebody please explain to me how voting for Snoopy is going to eventually lead to a better system? I don't see it.
Until I "see the light", I'm just going to ignore the whole thing. The alternative is revolution.
Yeah... but...
these files aren't encrypted. they're just watermarked. if they do it right, you will (barely) notice its presence when listening, but easily tell them apart (at the binary level).
if you superimposed two songs, the watermarks would (might) interfere, possibly giving you an invalid watermark?
Read this for pics or this for mp3.
Uh, yeah, I guess. The only time I ever did anything like this was to "subtract" one image from another, where one was supposed to have information hidden in it. The value of every pixel varied in each channel (RG+B) by only a few bits, so the "subtracted" image looked "black" but had values of like Red=2, Green=1, Blue=2.
If you cranked up the contrast, it looked kinda cool, because you could still make out the original image, since truely black areas remained dark, etc.
I imagine that "subtracting" two music files would result in a very quiet "noise" which would be the watermark (or two watermarks interacting). It might even sound cool, if it retains some aspects of the original work (like the pictures did).
(I guess if you can't spin your LP backwards, this is what geeks of the 21st century will be left with!:)
Comparing three, superposition? I guess. Never did go to college. No siryee.;)
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BWAA HA HAA! You might have a point there... :)
My guess is, the Chinese pilot made a mistake, misjudging the forward speed of the Orion, and clipped it.
No apologies necessary, it's the way the game is played.
So is the "Can we have our plane back now?" part of the game. "Sure! In crates after we dismantle it!"
It almost got killed on capital hill because it seemed at the time that the US was going to be putting MOST of the cash into the project. The point was to build an International station. We REQUIRED Russian support. We did not want to go forward without it. It does not make it Russia's show, to do as they will.
I want Russia to succeed in it's space efforts. But if it wants to do a commercial endeavor, it'll have to go on it's own. For now, anyway. I'm sure once the cash starts rolling in, heads will turn. Personally, I can't wait. MIR-2, please do it! Thumbs up!
A little off topic, the fact our president is pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol makes me ill. It flies in the face of the spirit of things like the space station.
Zhelayu vam uspex.
I think it is extremely wrong of them to assume just because they built a portion of the station they can put whoever they want on it. The ISS is an international effort, after all. But I don't think they're doing this out of any sort of ego trip.
They're just cash poor, and really, it's more like a survival tatic. If they can't do this sort of thing, sending tourists, they won't be able to keep their space exploration efforts going and will have to join the ESA or something. Talk about a morale blow for a one-time superpower.
They are really going to push the commercial side of space exploration in the comming years. It might be a good thing for everyone...
How often was your average farmer in the year 1810 exposed to new ideas? Once a month? Once a year? Did our system of government collapse?
How often do you sling opionions on issues you do NOT care about? Ever? Ever skip over a newspaper article about something you didn't care about? Everyday?
I don't think it matters what FORM the media takes, we all do the same thing. Scan for what we care about, junk the rest. A farmer from 1810 did the same thing while cruising the conversation at the Chruch Social. My grandfather did it with his newspapers, my father did it with a TV remote control, and I do it on slashdot.org.
And still, no anarchy.
1. Small networks, like in my house, where no one computer is bigger than the others, peer to peer would be handy. I could share files with JUST my friends on the net if I could add a little client side authentication, and still protect from prying eyes.
2. For general, non-client authenticated peers, the FBI would have a harder time finding pr0n, the RIAA would have a harder time finding m34talica... etc.
It's the sysadmin in me wantin' to know.
and fingerprints.
I think if quantum computing is going to work, it's going to be first done with electrons. They're just easier to deal with. We have more practice with them, anyway. (Maybe photons.)
And what would bring that lesson home more than a mirror that says sucker? I suppose, a mirror with a link to the free stuff.
I would never be first in that line. After all, the rule says, never buy version 1.0! All those poor suckers are going to GPF into oblivion! Wait for 1.2 at least. :)
"Okay, mister, I'll look. Here's $99."
"Thank you, son, you won't regret it. Step right through that door."
Inside is a mirror with a sign above it that says: "SUCKER!"
I read that article. Seems to be just be whining to me. Elected officials giving lip-service? Unheard of! Probably couldn't buy beer before his Sunday football game. I feel his pain, but geez. I think there's something wrong with recruiting in the tech industry. My wife just graduated with a 3.65 GPA in Computer Science, but she can't seem to land a job. Everyone she talks to was looking for marketing or sales or something less "geek" like, despite the admitted need for IT workers. It seemed to me, they were looking for change in the parking lot, but stepping over five dollar bills, "Sorry, only looking for spare change." Its really frustrating for her.
I was checking out Dr Touretzky's testimony and in one section, he refers to the "new compiler":
;)
Section 1088...
8 So, when you feed the C source code to a C compiler,
9 let's say GCC, the new C compiler, it's a very commonly-used C
10 compiler.
Anyone know where I can get that?
Hmmm... how do *I* get in on this product review gig? Most of my, uh... STUFF comes from rich friends who generate lots of hardware castoffs. "Hey! You want my _________?" "Uh, sure." No fan, that might be a feature...
yeah, i know what you mean. I would *NEVER EVER EVRE* run a server on my cable modem. I certainly wouldn't accidentally leave gnapster running for a few days.
You bought a NAT? I dusted off a PentiumPro 200.
Are you smoking crack again? The most power, influential company in America? Maybe if you work on computers all day... I think GE, GM, AT&T, IBM, AOL Time Warner, just to name a few, have far more sway than Microsoft. ...but JonKatz is still a Troll.
Not to mention, foreigners I've met were like why don't you speak MY language? Well, I can do Russian and get by in German... Sorry I didn't pick French or Japanese. Doesn't mean I don't luv ya!
It's easy for non-English speakers to pick which second language to learn.
Do svidanya!
Okay, is it just me or was there a little something missing from that last installment. I was really looking forward to people blowing the crap out of things with there little voicebox contraptions! Was that NOT in the book or something? Why would they leave something so cool out?!?!?!? AAHHGGGHHH!!! Still, I loved it, and I'd watch it again, and again, and again... especially when you consider the caliber of the rest of the crap on TV.
Has anyone enough resources to start mirroring the homepages of geeks who have passed on? It could contain short bios of what the geeks did, then link on to a mirror of their homepages they kept while alive. Just an idea. (I used to work at ARL and met Mike once. Seemed like a nice guy.)
You forgot: c) steal transponders out of killed [tanks] and put on your own [tanks]. Heh, heh, heh.
Really, if you look at it, it doesn't really matter whether Microsoft wins or loses that case.
:)
Active Directory isn't going to go away. It might land with the OS people, or the Applications people, or whatever, but it will still be out there, and I think they're right: Microsoft's saturation will make it rather difficult for Novell to compete against them. They're DOOMED!
I think though, with LDAP being as solid as it is, and considering its openness, it's really only a matter of time before speciallized commercial directory services shrivel up and die. They just won't be worth paying for.
Eh, that's worth at least $0.02
Not voting is more than "I don't care."
In my informed opinion, the system is broken. It does not work. Worse still, thinking that using the broken system to fix itself seems rather insane, doesn't it? What if I voted communist? Vote? Communism?
Somebody please explain to me how voting for Snoopy is going to eventually lead to a better system? I don't see it.
Until I "see the light", I'm just going to ignore the whole thing. The alternative is revolution.
- ave
Yeah... but... these files aren't encrypted. they're just watermarked. if they do it right, you will (barely) notice its presence when listening, but easily tell them apart (at the binary level). if you superimposed two songs, the watermarks would (might) interfere, possibly giving you an invalid watermark? Read this for pics or this for mp3.
Uh, yeah, I guess. The only time I ever did anything like this was to "subtract" one image from another, where one was supposed to have information hidden in it. The value of every pixel varied in each channel (RG+B) by only a few bits, so the "subtracted" image looked "black" but had values of like Red=2, Green=1, Blue=2. If you cranked up the contrast, it looked kinda cool, because you could still make out the original image, since truely black areas remained dark, etc. I imagine that "subtracting" two music files would result in a very quiet "noise" which would be the watermark (or two watermarks interacting). It might even sound cool, if it retains some aspects of the original work (like the pictures did). (I guess if you can't spin your LP backwards, this is what geeks of the 21st century will be left with! :)
Comparing three, superposition? I guess. Never did go to college. No siryee. ;)