I read "Plane Hits World Trade Center" on Saloon probably a couple seconds after they posted it. No link or nothing. Then everything went down...Except Slashdot. Everyone in my office was trying to get some info, so I decided to just watch someone else's screen for a moment. But they couldn't bring anything up. I went to my machine, tried slashdot first, and got the news.
The same site now has images from the Space Station. I wonder what it must feel like to be orbiting our world at such a time.
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That is interesting.
To those who think the intelligence agencies are doing nothing: I would be suprised if the FBI poseted every fact they had about their investigation on the internet and told CNN correspondents everything they have found our or knew.
If ?Laden? did warn us in any way about the details of the attack, it would have been very easy to thwart this particular attack.
I imagine the FBI has quite a bit of information, and they are already acting on much of it. I'd love to know the details, but I don't need to know so I'm glad I don't.
Has a passenger ever landed a heavy jet? I don't ever remember hearing about this.
In these cases, would the pilot incapacitation have been prevented with isolation?
All airlines have at least one peson other than the primary pilot in the cockpit who is capeable of landing the plane. Many planes have 2 other landing capeable pilots.
My "Cockpit/Cargo Isolation" would involve 2 doors to the airplane, and no possibility of travelling from the back to the cockpit... under the threat of killing passengers or not.
Yes they could still force the plane to land by being on a cell phone to the air traffic controllers or something like that, but they would have no hope of compromising the control of the aircraft.
My initial response to how they took over the planes did not involve weapons. A highly trained in-duh-vidual could be far more dangerous than a freak with a gun. 3-4 trained assains would not need weapons to kill a few people, then hold someone as a hostage threatening to kill them as well.
How the HELL are we gonna ensure THIS cannot happen on any domestic flight?
I am much in support of the cockpit/cargo isolation idea.
Xerox officials held an emergency press conference Wedensday to announce a
total recall of all Reprotron 5000 Three-Dimensional Copy Machines.
Xerox stock has plummeted to a new all-time low since the release of the
innovative device. Xerox hailed the Reprotron 5000 as a "new revolution in
copying" when it introduced the machine just two weeks ago, and market
insiders were certain that the copier would send Xerox stock through the
roof.
At a demonstration of the Reprotron in August, Xerox staffers made full
three-dimensional copies of an Oriental vase, a bowl of fruit, and a perfect
red rose. Reporters were invited to sample apples and oranges copied from
the original fruit, though Xerox technicians did warn that the copied fruit
might taste slightly of toner. John Thompson (inventor of the Reprotron)
stepped forward to make a copy of a Manhattan phone book, but accidentally
copied his hand and forearm. He quickly disposed of the highly detailed,
frantically wiggling half-limb as it slid out of the copier's delivery slot.
But Xerox wasn't ready for what happened next. "We assumed that people would
behave as responsible, thinking human beings with this copier, and obviously
we were wrong," Thompson states. From all across the USA, reports have been
filing in of the copier being used in what Thompson calls "sick, greedy
ways."
At a Copy Center in Austin, Texas, a couple was arrested for making 15
copies of their three-year-old son, Jeremy, and then refusing to pay for the
copies, claiming that some of the new children were "smudged." Local
authorities were uncertain as to which charges should be pressed.
In Union City, Arizona, Treasury Department officials are investigating
reports of a secretary who allegedly copied a single bar of gold bullion 150
times. A task force investigator stated, "Granted, it takes money to make
money, but we're almost certain that this action is in violation of some
laws."
Xerox officials are also under fire from consumers, due to rumors that the
three-dimensional copying technology is imperfect. Harold Butz of Peoria,
Pennsylvania, made a copy of a common cement brick spray-painted gold. Butz
claims he was "shocked and dismayed" when he discovered that the
machine-made copy was 22-karat solid gold. "All I wanted was a really good
copy of a cement brick spray-painted gold'" Butz stated. "What the hell am I
going to do with this thing?"
Xerox plans to scrap all the machines they are able to recall, but Thompson
expressed concern over the so-called "black market Reprotrons."
"Apparently some sick and greedy people discovered that if they had two
machines, they could use one to make a working copy of the other," Thompson
revealed. "To tell the truth, we only sold two machines in all - to the
Cappelli family, a New Jersey based Meat packing firm. These copy pirates
should be aware that as with anything that is copied from a copy and so on,
there are bound to be defects in the copies produced. We have no idea what
kind of stuff will pop out of the slot when a person copies something on a
fourth- or fifth-generation machine." Thompson declined to comment on
reports that hundreds of the pirated machines have a human thumb attached to
the coin slot which constantly wiggles - the result of a person's thumb
getting in the way during one of the original copier-to-copier copies.
"Ultimately, we're not too worried," Thompson stated. "People owning the
copiers will eventually run out of the fluid that make the machine work, and
we've taken all the fluid off the market. A machine can only last two weeks
or so without a fluid refill, and there won't be any fluid refills." When
asked why people with copiers couldn't simply make copies of the fluid
cannisters they already have, Xerox officials hastily ended the press
conference, stating that they "need to reconsider a few things."
You wouldn't have to do it all from a single node. If you had, say, 10 "willing" participants on seperate pipes you could send them each 1/10th of the work and they could utilize their bandwidth seperatly to get the packets processed.
And if your talking about 4 million packets, you'd probably want at least a thousand "willing" participants.
So that adds about 2 bucks to the next computer you buy... or the next internet enabled fridge.
These kinds of monetary esimates tend to misconstrue the actual cost per person. Getting a flat tire in the city during rush hour on a buzy road can cost the world "Millions" in man hours.
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You sound like a true Redsox fan.
It's not enough that the Redsox (linux) win, the Yankees(M$) have to loose too.
He makes a lot of great comparisons, but fails to follow them through with predictions on how they predict what lies in our near future.
So what happened to the airline stock boom? Or the early 19th century English economy? I don't want to have to actually REMEMBER these things! Isn't that what the internet is for?
SP's let you delgate a lot of the processing that should be done on the database (performance/encapsulation being good reasons to do this) to the database. And your biz layer doesn't have to do it and deal with the interface overhead. Things like complex sorting, or reference other tables.
Given that ideal: Most stored procedures are just very complex select statements anyway.
Our town (Merrimack, NH) got a TON of flack for having the grand list online. Basically, if you knew someone's name or address you could get a picture of their house and property.
Mucho complaining, and they shut down the website. You can still go down to the town hall and get all this info though. Is that better? I don't know.
The chair's are a BAROMETER.
That's like blaming the weather on the BAROMETER. The article is pointing to these chairs as a useful guide to how much a company is wasting the venture capital they get.
i.e. a BAROMETER
Boy it's hot in here, stupid thermometer.
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I read "Plane Hits World Trade Center" on Saloon probably a couple seconds after they posted it. No link or nothing. Then everything went down...Except Slashdot. Everyone in my office was trying to get some info, so I decided to just watch someone else's screen for a moment. But they couldn't bring anything up. I went to my machine, tried slashdot first, and got the news.
The same site now has images from the Space Station. I wonder what it must feel like to be orbiting our world at such a time.
That is interesting.
To those who think the intelligence agencies are doing nothing: I would be suprised if the FBI poseted every fact they had about their investigation on the internet and told CNN correspondents everything they have found our or knew.
If ?Laden? did warn us in any way about the details of the attack, it would have been very easy to thwart this particular attack.
I imagine the FBI has quite a bit of information, and they are already acting on much of it. I'd love to know the details, but I don't need to know so I'm glad I don't.
Has a passenger ever landed a heavy jet? I don't ever remember hearing about this.
In these cases, would the pilot incapacitation have been prevented with isolation?
All airlines have at least one peson other than the primary pilot in the cockpit who is capeable of landing the plane. Many planes have 2 other landing capeable pilots.
My "Cockpit/Cargo Isolation" would involve 2 doors to the airplane, and no possibility of travelling from the back to the cockpit... under the threat of killing passengers or not.
Yes they could still force the plane to land by being on a cell phone to the air traffic controllers or something like that, but they would have no hope of compromising the control of the aircraft.
My initial response to how they took over the planes did not involve weapons. A highly trained in-duh-vidual could be far more dangerous than a freak with a gun. 3-4 trained assains would not need weapons to kill a few people, then hold someone as a hostage threatening to kill them as well.
How the HELL are we gonna ensure THIS cannot happen on any domestic flight?
I am much in support of the cockpit/cargo isolation idea.
Check here for Nasa images of the smoke plume from MODIS.
In this article USA today kinda lays it out. (this was over 2 months ago) Bad news for encryption.
1. Pay back is a bitch
2. Get on with your life, tommorow is another day
3. Pay back is a bitch
Xerox officials held an emergency press conference Wedensday to announce a
total recall of all Reprotron 5000 Three-Dimensional Copy Machines.
Xerox stock has plummeted to a new all-time low since the release of the
innovative device. Xerox hailed the Reprotron 5000 as a "new revolution in
copying" when it introduced the machine just two weeks ago, and market
insiders were certain that the copier would send Xerox stock through the
roof.
At a demonstration of the Reprotron in August, Xerox staffers made full
three-dimensional copies of an Oriental vase, a bowl of fruit, and a perfect
red rose. Reporters were invited to sample apples and oranges copied from
the original fruit, though Xerox technicians did warn that the copied fruit
might taste slightly of toner. John Thompson (inventor of the Reprotron)
stepped forward to make a copy of a Manhattan phone book, but accidentally
copied his hand and forearm. He quickly disposed of the highly detailed,
frantically wiggling half-limb as it slid out of the copier's delivery slot.
But Xerox wasn't ready for what happened next. "We assumed that people would
behave as responsible, thinking human beings with this copier, and obviously
we were wrong," Thompson states. From all across the USA, reports have been
filing in of the copier being used in what Thompson calls "sick, greedy
ways."
At a Copy Center in Austin, Texas, a couple was arrested for making 15
copies of their three-year-old son, Jeremy, and then refusing to pay for the
copies, claiming that some of the new children were "smudged." Local
authorities were uncertain as to which charges should be pressed.
In Union City, Arizona, Treasury Department officials are investigating
reports of a secretary who allegedly copied a single bar of gold bullion 150
times. A task force investigator stated, "Granted, it takes money to make
money, but we're almost certain that this action is in violation of some
laws."
Xerox officials are also under fire from consumers, due to rumors that the
three-dimensional copying technology is imperfect. Harold Butz of Peoria,
Pennsylvania, made a copy of a common cement brick spray-painted gold. Butz
claims he was "shocked and dismayed" when he discovered that the
machine-made copy was 22-karat solid gold. "All I wanted was a really good
copy of a cement brick spray-painted gold'" Butz stated. "What the hell am I
going to do with this thing?"
Xerox plans to scrap all the machines they are able to recall, but Thompson
expressed concern over the so-called "black market Reprotrons."
"Apparently some sick and greedy people discovered that if they had two
machines, they could use one to make a working copy of the other," Thompson
revealed. "To tell the truth, we only sold two machines in all - to the
Cappelli family, a New Jersey based Meat packing firm. These copy pirates
should be aware that as with anything that is copied from a copy and so on,
there are bound to be defects in the copies produced. We have no idea what
kind of stuff will pop out of the slot when a person copies something on a
fourth- or fifth-generation machine." Thompson declined to comment on
reports that hundreds of the pirated machines have a human thumb attached to
the coin slot which constantly wiggles - the result of a person's thumb
getting in the way during one of the original copier-to-copier copies.
"Ultimately, we're not too worried," Thompson stated. "People owning the
copiers will eventually run out of the fluid that make the machine work, and
we've taken all the fluid off the market. A machine can only last two weeks
or so without a fluid refill, and there won't be any fluid refills." When
asked why people with copiers couldn't simply make copies of the fluid
cannisters they already have, Xerox officials hastily ended the press
conference, stating that they "need to reconsider a few things."
If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Scientific American pointed me to this website on the topic, looks like the source:
http://www.nd.edu/~parasite/
You wouldn't have to do it all from a single node. If you had, say, 10 "willing" participants on seperate pipes you could send them each 1/10th of the work and they could utilize their bandwidth seperatly to get the packets processed.
And if your talking about 4 million packets, you'd probably want at least a thousand "willing" participants.
could cost billions of dollars worldwide
So that adds about 2 bucks to the next computer you buy... or the next internet enabled fridge.
These kinds of monetary esimates tend to misconstrue the actual cost per person. Getting a flat tire in the city during rush hour on a buzy road can cost the world "Millions" in man hours.
You sound like a true Redsox fan.
It's not enough that the Redsox (linux) win, the Yankees(M$) have to loose too.
He makes a lot of great comparisons, but fails to follow them through with predictions on how they predict what lies in our near future.
So what happened to the airline stock boom? Or the early 19th century English economy? I don't want to have to actually REMEMBER these things! Isn't that what the internet is for?
EMPEROR PENGUIN: Aptenodytes forsteri
Distribution: Antarctica.
Habitat: Lives only on pack ice and in the surrounding oceans.
Size: Emperor penguins measure around112cm. in length and they weigh anything from 20 - 40kg.
Lifespan: Roughly 20 years.
SP's let you delgate a lot of the processing that should be done on the database (performance/encapsulation being good reasons to do this) to the database. And your biz layer doesn't have to do it and deal with the interface overhead. Things like complex sorting, or reference other tables.
Given that ideal: Most stored procedures are just very complex select statements anyway.
Our town (Merrimack, NH) got a TON of flack for having the grand list online. Basically, if you knew someone's name or address you could get a picture of their house and property.
Mucho complaining, and they shut down the website. You can still go down to the town hall and get all this info though.
Is that better? I don't know.
(c)
This picture pretty much sums it up.
http://movieweb.com/movie/toystory2/co9.jpg
The Star Trek computer voice was done by Gene Roddenberry's (S.T. Creator) wife Majel Roddenberry... and I don't know WHAT she got paid for it.
(She also played Lwaxana Troi in STTNG)
I think it's funny how close the indexed page counts are on on Wisenut vs. Google
WiseNut: 1,495,332,308 Web pages and counting!
Google: Search 1,387,529,000 web pages
I also think Wisenut is trying to leverage Google's simplicity... the VERY simple front page with no additional advertising.
This is a clever ploy to have an open source (and open-hardware!) replacement for the canada-arm.
The chair's are a BAROMETER.
That's like blaming the weather on the BAROMETER.
The article is pointing to these chairs as a useful guide to how much a company is wasting the venture capital they get.
i.e. a BAROMETER
Boy it's hot in here, stupid thermometer.