yeah, but they're not just complaining about run-of-the-mill spam, they claim (according to the story)that this was an intentional, malicious attack. They didn't just get lots 'o spam, they think were targeted specifically to disrupt service.
it may very well be they are claiming that as a cover for just poorly admined mail servers. They don't say exactly how many messages they got over what period, so it is hard to say what is just a lot of 'legit' UCE vs. someone deliberately trying to flood their servers to disrupt service.
I guess I thought it was much longer than that. I was thinking it took hours for it to reach Jupiter and the probe was much much farther than that now.
>It might be an interesting experiment to turn the instruments back on and check how well they still work
Yeah, except I wonder if Pioneer can _receive_ at that distance?
They used a 70 meter dish to pick up an 8w transmission from 133 million kilometers. So, guessing that the receiver on the spacecraft isn't much larger than a meter in diameter, how much power would you have to blast into space to be heard that far away? And is it listening? And what is the round-trip delay? Sheesh, talk about serious lag!
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Is this saying only Microsoft can report bugs, or that only Microsoft can publish Microsoft's own bug reports? I gathered that bugtraq can only publish links to Microsoft's bulletins, not publish the full text on their own site anymore.
I didn't see anything that said bugtraq can't publish bug reports on Microsoft products at all anymore?
Here's hoping that bill brings the kind of energy to Atreides that he brought to the role of George Washington on A&E's thing about the crossing of the Deleware.
hmmm... except (as someone else pointed out) the French are clicking their way into Yahoo! and coming across these scary images from which they want protection. Not like they are being bombarded with them in some public place like a railway station. Kinda like sending for a mail-order catalog (from overseas) and then complaining that some of the pages have offensive pictures/words on them that are not allowed in the country in which you live.
>"You're not an Internet provider? Sorry, you can't have.net.
That damned 'making a profit' thing getting in the way of logic and ideals, again.
Seriously, what real business incentive would NSI have for enforcing TLD guidelines?
>Instead, we get crap like "Register your domain in ALL these different TLD's so nobody can steal it!"
Wow, they really messed up, huh? Instead of having the overhead of reviewing and rejecting applicants that don't qualify for a particular TLD, they simply get 3x the revenue from many customers.
Seriously (again), I agree from a logical POV that we'd be better off (the users of the internet, that is) had NSI been required to strictly enforce the distinctions between com, org and net - but it's unrealistic to criticize them for having not done so seeing as how their reason for existance is to make a profit (maximize revenue, control costs, generate a return for investors, etc).
This thing weighs how much? Even though it is in orbit, you still have to apply a pretty large amount of thrust to snap it out of orbit and propel it toward the sun.
Remember those big-ass 3-stage Saturn V boosters they used to get Apollo into space? Think the first two were to get into orbit, the third to actually break out of earth orbit and head for the moon. You probably need quite a bit of a booster to reach a high enough speed to break the gravitational pull of the earth. I know the positioning thrusters won't do it and I doubt the Progress ship they will probably use to nudge it out of orbit has enough either.
No, I think you have only few options - just one makes sense:
a) do nothing and hope it falls to earth somewhere uninhabited.
b) demolish it in orbit - send a progress cargo ship up loaded with explosives and hope it breaks it up into small enough pieces that everything burns up?
c) controlled de-orbit - use a progress supply vessel to remotely dock with it and slow it down at the right point so it re-enters the atmosphere over the pacific.
understood. having ie treated the same as network neighborhood, my computer and recycle bin falls under the whole browser/os integration, I know. it's just not as insurmountable as it is made out to be.
>If you can't figure out the ballot (and the Florida ballot was NOT hard) then quite frankly, I don't WANT your vote to count.
Sounds familiar, didn't they have literacy tests in the south at one point? Thinly veiled attempts to screen out black voters.
You shouldn't have to pass someone else's standard of intelligence to be able to exercise your rights under law to participate in an election.
So, the ballot wasn't hard to figure out, eh? From the way I've seen this ballot, no it isn't hard to figure out. But then, I've only seen an example as it was waved around on CNN.
In a perfect world where your eyesight is perfect and you have taken the time to read about the ballot design in the paper beforehand, etc, etc... yeah. But the problem is that 19,000 people were confused enough to screw it up.
I don't think it is too much to ask for a ballot to be simple and clear. I'm not suggesting they should change the result of the election based on this, I'm just responding to the comment that people who are too dumb to figure out a ballot should be disqualifies from voting.
Reminds me of that SNL skit I saw last week where Bush and Gore agreed to undergo a DNA splicing to 'produce a candidate so middle of the road, the election would be assured!'
With the election this close, as you say, does it really matter which one wins at this point?
a constitutional crisis if Bush takes Florida's electoral votes while Gore 'wins' the popular vote [and everyone goes apeshit about how the electoral college works.]
Cool! Can I come watch? That's probably exactly what will happen. Man, talk about a constitutional crisis if Bush takes Florida's electoral votes while Gore 'wins' the popular vote (although I wouldn't consider 48.8 million to 48.6 million exactly winning the popular vote - more like a virtual tie, if I'm doing my match right that is like.4% -- maybe they should settle it with fists)
>All you need to know to find speed of sound is the static temperature of the air.
So you are saying that speed of sound is not influenced by altitude? Of course, as altitude increases, temperature would tend to decrease... but the posters above said something about the density of air at different altitudes having an affect on the speed at which sound waves travel at a given altitude.
I guess the question is this: If the concorde travels at speeds greater than Mach 2 and the SR-71 > Mach 4, is the SR-71 actually more than twice as fast as the concorde because it operates at much higher altitudes?
If Mach 1 = speed of sound at sea level, does it really follow that the MPH speed of Mach 1 changes with altitude? Sure, the speed of sound varies with altitude, but isn't Mach 1 just a reference number for velocity?
I guess not since in 'The right stuff' Yeager produced a sonic boom as he passed M1 in the desert and was obviously not at sea level. So, how does that work? He had a M indicator in his X-1 cockpit that I guess was an airspeed indicator that had to adjust for his altitude in determining where the plane was relative to M1?
But then again, this speed of sound calculator only asks for temperature and humidity, not altitude in determining the speed of sound.
That'll never happen for a lot of reasons, probably the most obvious of which should be that not every household in the US is served by a cable operator. So, in addition to free cable for everyone who is within an area served by cable, free DBS to all the farmers (well, and others in rural areas not served by cable)?
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yeah, but they're not just complaining about run-of-the-mill spam, they claim (according to the story)that this was an intentional, malicious attack. They didn't just get lots 'o spam, they think were targeted specifically to disrupt service.
it may very well be they are claiming that as a cover for just poorly admined mail servers. They don't say exactly how many messages they got over what period, so it is hard to say what is just a lot of 'legit' UCE vs. someone deliberately trying to flood their servers to disrupt service.
I guess I thought it was much longer than that. I was thinking it took hours for it to reach Jupiter and the probe was much much farther than that now.
I don't know what I was thinking.
>It might be an interesting experiment to turn the instruments back on and check how well they still work
Yeah, except I wonder if Pioneer can _receive_ at that distance?
They used a 70 meter dish to pick up an 8w transmission from 133 million kilometers. So, guessing that the receiver on the spacecraft isn't much larger than a meter in diameter, how much power would you have to blast into space to be heard that far away? And is it listening? And what is the round-trip delay? Sheesh, talk about serious lag!
like if I took this one...
Is this saying only Microsoft can report bugs, or that only Microsoft can publish Microsoft's own bug reports? I gathered that bugtraq can only publish links to Microsoft's bulletins, not publish the full text on their own site anymore.
I didn't see anything that said bugtraq can't publish bug reports on Microsoft products at all anymore?
Yes you're right... get those two confused. Hurt dissapointed me in several movies, Lost in Space being the most painful.
Daniels has sucked ever since Dumb and Dumber and 101 Dalmations.
Here's hoping that bill brings the kind of energy to Atreides that he brought to the role of George Washington on A&E's thing about the crossing of the Deleware.
(ducks)
hmmm... except (as someone else pointed out) the French are clicking their way into Yahoo! and coming across these scary images from which they want protection. Not like they are being bombarded with them in some public place like a railway station. Kinda like sending for a mail-order catalog (from overseas) and then complaining that some of the pages have offensive pictures/words on them that are not allowed in the country in which you live.
Bill just figured out how to karma whore himself up enough points to get mod points today (well, it looks that way anyway.)
>"You're not an Internet provider? Sorry, you can't have .net.
That damned 'making a profit' thing getting in the way of logic and ideals, again.
Seriously, what real business incentive would NSI have for enforcing TLD guidelines?
>Instead, we get crap like "Register your domain in ALL these different TLD's so nobody can steal it!"
Wow, they really messed up, huh? Instead of having the overhead of reviewing and rejecting applicants that don't qualify for a particular TLD, they simply get 3x the revenue from many customers.
Seriously (again), I agree from a logical POV that we'd be better off (the users of the internet, that is) had NSI been required to strictly enforce the distinctions between com, org and net - but it's unrealistic to criticize them for having not done so seeing as how their reason for existance is to make a profit (maximize revenue, control costs, generate a return for investors, etc).
This thing weighs how much? Even though it is in orbit, you still have to apply a pretty large amount of thrust to snap it out of orbit and propel it toward the sun.
Remember those big-ass 3-stage Saturn V boosters they used to get Apollo into space? Think the first two were to get into orbit, the third to actually break out of earth orbit and head for the moon. You probably need quite a bit of a booster to reach a high enough speed to break the gravitational pull of the earth. I know the positioning thrusters won't do it and I doubt the Progress ship they will probably use to nudge it out of orbit has enough either.
No, I think you have only few options - just one makes sense:
a) do nothing and hope it falls to earth somewhere uninhabited.
b) demolish it in orbit - send a progress cargo ship up loaded with explosives and hope it breaks it up into small enough pieces that everything burns up?
c) controlled de-orbit - use a progress supply vessel to remotely dock with it and slow it down at the right point so it re-enters the atmosphere over the pacific.
Give him a break, already.
international domain names
understood. having ie treated the same as network neighborhood, my computer and recycle bin falls under the whole browser/os integration, I know. it's just not as insurmountable as it is made out to be.
tools/internet options/advanced/browsing
uncheck the little box that says 'show internet explorer on the desktop'
It seems to be proxy aware (has a button for entering the proxy settings) but seems to fail to connect through mine here at work.
>I have not proposed screening out anyone by any criteria other than basic knowledge required to make an informed decision.
... then you have no business voting.
And the point is, who makes that determination?
How do you make sure that the criteria does not unfairly discriminate? It's a whole can of worms.
>if you don't have a basic knowledge of the Constitution and U.S. Government
Fortunately, that's not the law. You have to be a citizen and be 18, that's it.
>If you can't figure out the ballot (and the Florida ballot was NOT hard) then quite frankly, I don't WANT your vote to count.
Sounds familiar, didn't they have literacy tests in the south at one point? Thinly veiled attempts to screen out black voters.
You shouldn't have to pass someone else's standard of intelligence to be able to exercise your rights under law to participate in an election.
So, the ballot wasn't hard to figure out, eh? From the way I've seen this ballot, no it isn't hard to figure out. But then, I've only seen an example as it was waved around on CNN.
In a perfect world where your eyesight is perfect and you have taken the time to read about the ballot design in the paper beforehand, etc, etc... yeah. But the problem is that 19,000 people were confused enough to screw it up.
I don't think it is too much to ask for a ballot to be simple and clear. I'm not suggesting they should change the result of the election based on this, I'm just responding to the comment that people who are too dumb to figure out a ballot should be disqualifies from voting.
Reminds me of that SNL skit I saw last week where Bush and Gore agreed to undergo a DNA splicing to 'produce a candidate so middle of the road, the election would be assured!'
With the election this close, as you say, does it really matter which one wins at this point?
urgh, preview,preview,preview
meant to say...
a constitutional crisis if Bush takes Florida's electoral votes while Gore 'wins' the popular vote [and everyone goes apeshit about how the electoral college works.]
>I'm going to throw a fit
.4% -- maybe they should settle it with fists)
Cool! Can I come watch? That's probably exactly what will happen. Man, talk about a constitutional crisis if Bush takes Florida's electoral votes while Gore 'wins' the popular vote (although I wouldn't consider 48.8 million to 48.6 million exactly winning the popular vote - more like a virtual tie, if I'm doing my match right that is like
>All you need to know to find speed of sound is the static temperature of the air.
So you are saying that speed of sound is not influenced by altitude? Of course, as altitude increases, temperature would tend to decrease... but the posters above said something about the density of air at different altitudes having an affect on the speed at which sound waves travel at a given altitude.
I guess the question is this: If the concorde travels at speeds greater than Mach 2 and the SR-71 > Mach 4, is the SR-71 actually more than twice as fast as the concorde because it operates at much higher altitudes?
If Mach 1 = speed of sound at sea level, does it really follow that the MPH speed of Mach 1 changes with altitude? Sure, the speed of sound varies with altitude, but isn't Mach 1 just a reference number for velocity?
I guess not since in 'The right stuff' Yeager produced a sonic boom as he passed M1 in the desert and was obviously not at sea level. So, how does that work? He had a M indicator in his X-1 cockpit that I guess was an airspeed indicator that had to adjust for his altitude in determining where the plane was relative to M1?
But then again, this speed of sound calculator only asks for temperature and humidity, not altitude in determining the speed of sound.
OOOOh! A new karma whoring game! Look for posts on k5 or /. that are good and cut/past them to the other. Brilliant!
Is this the one where they sold little cameras and microphones disguised as common objects, or am I thinking of another case?
That'll never happen for a lot of reasons, probably the most obvious of which should be that not every household in the US is served by a cable operator. So, in addition to free cable for everyone who is within an area served by cable, free DBS to all the farmers (well, and others in rural areas not served by cable)?