Would NASA, or other countries space agencies be allowed to enter competition for the X Cup?
No, certainly not. The whole point ofthe X-Prize was to provide incentive for private organizations to design and build space-capable craft, because we all know that stiff competition can drive down price, and better the design of such craft.
While it's true that SpaceShipOne in it's current form isn't useful for much except flying to the edge of space and landing again, think of all that has been learned, not about accomplishing said feat, but accomplishing it for cheap, cheap, cheap. This is what will drive the space industry into the affordable price range, which could have vast implications on all sorts of other industries.
Polution produces greenhouse gasses and puts holes in the ozone layer. Atmosphere allows more radiation in and traps more of it as heat.
Planet warms up.
Ocean tempatures rise.
Tropical storms, including hurricanes and typhoons become more severe.
Increased lightning activity means more ozone is generated, patching the ozone hole.
Wetter inland weather means more plant life is active to use some greenhouse gasses, thus reducing their atmospheric amounts
Things cool off a bit and then the cycle starts again, leaving the world not a whole lot different than it started.
It could run deeper and somehow the warming of the earth is what is starting volcanos to trigger again, producing carbon monoxide which in turn eventually helps form ozone, but I can't think of a way those two events could be directly related.
I doubt if you could get a new LP of either Beethoven or Britney.
Wrong. Vinyl is alive and well, mostly for the hands of DJs, but anything released as a single still gets about 1000-5000 presses of the ol' vinyl stamper, especially hip-hop and electronic. I could get you a Britney 12", but I dunno why I'd want too. Try sites like DanceRecords.com and NRGMusic.com and you'll see plenty of stuff you've never heard of being released on vinyl everyday.
That being said, vinyl isn't COMMON anymore, and in fact is becomming more and more expensive as big labels try to push DJs into that same hole as consumers by attempting to force us all onto CD-based turntables. They already have a model that plays DVDs, touting "scratch with video!"...yea, and then I can't import dance music from the UK because it's a different region and I'll have to wait and pay extra for the American release.
Greed will kill both music and technology unless the world decides to wake the hell up.
While I'm not sure it's 100% as cut and dried as what the/. title suggests, it does say that some security releases may not make it back down to the old OSes
Think that might be because they're specific fixes intended for SP2 and are irrelevant when it comes to older/different OSes? Yea, probably.
Look out for the second book, "Metaprogramming GPUs with bash", and a third and final "Metaprogramming GPUs with X11", comming soon to all fine book retailers.
Hopefully the more eyes looking at the source code will mean that more of the security problems will be fixed earlier and that the overall quality of the product will be improved.
Yeah, but do you really think Microsoft is going to let anyone modify and compile their own version of Office? I'm sure it's "look but don't touch" only.
Passwords can simply be stored by using a simple encryption method and encrypting the password, using the password itself as the key. That way, the only way to read the password to verify it is if you have the password. Works pretty well in the passwd/shadow file...
There isn't much excuse for this other than "we never thought anyone would try that", but then if that's the thinking, why do we even need security products or encryption?
So maybe you'll kill a few "innocent" people by accident. No problem, the American courts will let you off no trouble, and besides nobody "innocent" would be out walking anyway, would they.
What the crap are you talking about? The American courts would never let you off for that! Shit, they'd arrest you before you even shot anyone and then everyone who might have walked thought that neighborhood someday would sue your for a million dollars for mental anguish over the possibility they they might have gotten shot on the off chance that someday they might have walked by your yard at night while you where being robbed.
A good way to make sure no one messes with your own stuff on your computer is a guest account. Make sure you log yourself out when you walk away. Windows and Mac OS X both allow you to leave programs running and pop the login screen back up, and I'm sure Linux can do it too.
It might also be a good idea to log activity in case you need an alibi. Point being thouogh, if people are going to mess with yuor machine, they're going to mess with your machine. If you want that to happen in your account, be my guest, but this can save a few headaches.
While not exactly a DDoS, it certainly would flood the everliving crap out of their servers, worse than pointing Slashdot and Fark at someone's cablemodem at the same time.
While this is an inconvinience ( a "service" according to VeriSign, heh), this wasn't the major problem that a fundemental change to the top level DNS hierarchy was causing.
According to RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1), each response to an HTTP request is responded too with first a status code, then content. Therefore, all VeriSign had to do to fix the 404/502 problem would be to return all SiteFinder pages as status code 404. (Disclaimer: I am not aware if they actually did or not). If that was implemented, browsers could easily ignore SiteFinder while still displaying proper error codes.
The big problem is that DNS is not used just for HTTP, but also for most FTP, telnet, email, you name it. If it works over the Internet, chances are it locates a server to establish a TCP connection to using DNS. Now, realize that your Telnet client doesn't know or care what an HTTP error code 404 is because, hey, it's a telnet client, not a browser, coupled with the fact that the actual DNS system would never return an error code but would instead re-route all bogus queries to the SiteFinder webserver, which has no ports open except 80, and you can quickly see how "mistyped URL" went from "simple mistake" to "hundreds of 'Connection timed out: 500 seconds' " messages quickly.
Any mistyped e-mail address would make a mail server keep retrying to find "user@yhaoo.com" over and over, thinking the server was down, as opposed to it not existing.
Think of it as if instead of a busy signal, telephones would ring 8 times and connect you to directory assistance if you dialed a disconnected number by accident, with no way to tell until the operator answered. IF you where as dumb as a computer, you'd just keep trying, thinking it would eventually have to work.
I would imagine that with the stringent standards put forth for safety guidelines in automobile manufacturing this day in age, there would have to be come kind of fail-safe before the system went into production for the public. Perhaps this prototype is without, but proving the principal at hand seems to have been the focus of the research. Step 2 is to create a practical implementation. (Step 3 will definitley be "Profit!!!")
I imagine that the most obvious saftey solution is to build such a control system into existing suspension designs. That way, if the system fails it can simply halt and allow the suspension to perform as it would standard. An inconvinience, but hardly deadly.
I can't wait to see the trends this is going to bring: Hook your stereo into your suspension and rumble the road, you'll be heard for miles! (Althought that would be really awsome to see, yes I'd be annoyed too. Loud stereos don't really bother me, but that would be seriously ridiculous.)
It's also worth repeating that the reason that GPLed code cannot be linked with code under the new XFree86 license is not in the XFree86 license, but in the fact that the GPL specifically disallows this.
After reading over the GPL, I still don't understand this issue. Surely linking does not create a derrivative work?
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WTF is OSDL? Wait, I thought Andover.net owns Slashdot?;-)
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While it's true that SpaceShipOne in it's current form isn't useful for much except flying to the edge of space and landing again, think of all that has been learned, not about accomplishing said feat, but accomplishing it for cheap, cheap, cheap. This is what will drive the space industry into the affordable price range, which could have vast implications on all sorts of other industries.
- Polution produces greenhouse gasses and puts holes in the ozone layer. Atmosphere allows more radiation in and traps more of it as heat.
- Planet warms up.
- Ocean tempatures rise.
- Tropical storms, including hurricanes and typhoons become more severe.
- Increased lightning activity means more ozone is generated, patching the ozone hole.
- Wetter inland weather means more plant life is active to use some greenhouse gasses, thus reducing their atmospheric amounts
- Things cool off a bit and then the cycle starts again, leaving the world not a whole lot different than it started.
It could run deeper and somehow the warming of the earth is what is starting volcanos to trigger again, producing carbon monoxide which in turn eventually helps form ozone, but I can't think of a way those two events could be directly related.That being said, vinyl isn't COMMON anymore, and in fact is becomming more and more expensive as big labels try to push DJs into that same hole as consumers by attempting to force us all onto CD-based turntables. They already have a model that plays DVDs, touting "scratch with video!"...yea, and then I can't import dance music from the UK because it's a different region and I'll have to wait and pay extra for the American release.
Greed will kill both music and technology unless the world decides to wake the hell up.
File sharing never killed anyone.
Look out for the second book, "Metaprogramming GPUs with bash", and a third and final "Metaprogramming GPUs with X11", comming soon to all fine book retailers.
I'd say yes. Why wouldn't you at least have real people double checking for false positives?
Based on personal experience, that must mean that I know 8% of all Windows users! Wow!
Passwords can simply be stored by using a simple encryption method and encrypting the password, using the password itself as the key. That way, the only way to read the password to verify it is if you have the password. Works pretty well in the passwd/shadow file...
There isn't much excuse for this other than "we never thought anyone would try that", but then if that's the thinking, why do we even need security products or encryption?
The only thing SCO has that isn't going to be executed is their code...
I was just going to say myself; that looks a hell of a lot like Springfield MA, to me
Wait....Apple COMPUTER runs the iTunes Music Store? Oh, damn...
You'd still need to solve the disk access problem. Imagine having your camera die because you moved it too quickly?
A good way to make sure no one messes with your own stuff on your computer is a guest account. Make sure you log yourself out when you walk away. Windows and Mac OS X both allow you to leave programs running and pop the login screen back up, and I'm sure Linux can do it too.
It might also be a good idea to log activity in case you need an alibi. Point being thouogh, if people are going to mess with yuor machine, they're going to mess with your machine. If you want that to happen in your account, be my guest, but this can save a few headaches.
While not exactly a DDoS, it certainly would flood the everliving crap out of their servers, worse than pointing Slashdot and Fark at someone's cablemodem at the same time.
While this is an inconvinience ( a "service" according to VeriSign, heh), this wasn't the major problem that a fundemental change to the top level DNS hierarchy was causing.
According to RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1), each response to an HTTP request is responded too with first a status code, then content. Therefore, all VeriSign had to do to fix the 404/502 problem would be to return all SiteFinder pages as status code 404. (Disclaimer: I am not aware if they actually did or not). If that was implemented, browsers could easily ignore SiteFinder while still displaying proper error codes.
The big problem is that DNS is not used just for HTTP, but also for most FTP, telnet, email, you name it. If it works over the Internet, chances are it locates a server to establish a TCP connection to using DNS. Now, realize that your Telnet client doesn't know or care what an HTTP error code 404 is because, hey, it's a telnet client, not a browser, coupled with the fact that the actual DNS system would never return an error code but would instead re-route all bogus queries to the SiteFinder webserver, which has no ports open except 80, and you can quickly see how "mistyped URL" went from "simple mistake" to "hundreds of 'Connection timed out: 500 seconds' " messages quickly.
Any mistyped e-mail address would make a mail server keep retrying to find "user@yhaoo.com" over and over, thinking the server was down, as opposed to it not existing.
Think of it as if instead of a busy signal, telephones would ring 8 times and connect you to directory assistance if you dialed a disconnected number by accident, with no way to tell until the operator answered. IF you where as dumb as a computer, you'd just keep trying, thinking it would eventually have to work.
I would imagine that with the stringent standards put forth for safety guidelines in automobile manufacturing this day in age, there would have to be come kind of fail-safe before the system went into production for the public. Perhaps this prototype is without, but proving the principal at hand seems to have been the focus of the research. Step 2 is to create a practical implementation. (Step 3 will definitley be "Profit!!!")
I imagine that the most obvious saftey solution is to build such a control system into existing suspension designs. That way, if the system fails it can simply halt and allow the suspension to perform as it would standard. An inconvinience, but hardly deadly.
I can't wait to see the trends this is going to bring: Hook your stereo into your suspension and rumble the road, you'll be heard for miles! (Althought that would be really awsome to see, yes I'd be annoyed too. Loud stereos don't really bother me, but that would be seriously ridiculous.)
WTF is OSDL? Wait, I thought Andover.net owns Slashdot?
I should upgrade. Mice are chewing my punchcards and causing data corruption.
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