I am not retarded. I have Asperger's Syndrome, I earn $180,000 per year plus stock options, and I have your wife and I have been having threesomes with your boss.
If I like K-Mart, Judge Wapner, and Fruit of The Loom, then so be it. And FARK you.
The registration is there because the NYTimes wants it there. The copyright is theirs.
The GPL depends on copyright.
Don't infringe on copyright. Fair use is not the reposting of the entire article, especially when the registration makes it plain the NYTimes does not want it reposted.
And what is with the moderators modding that down?
I was very courteous, and they very courteous, and they said they were taking responses down.
I do think you should call.
At the very least, if we phone dot them, courteously of course, and that makes the news, that will help move some of our legislative overlords to action.
In patching my systems this morning, and upon reading the sketchy details of the exploit, I am moderately surprised to find that openssh has no method for throttling and shutting down repeated failing attempts for connection.
There is a MaxStartups parameter that sets the number of concurrent ssh sessions, but nothing that says anything like, only allow 3 unsuccessful connections per IP per hour, after an unsuccessful connection delay an open on that IP for 30 seconds, and stuff like that.
What are the best tools on a modern linux distribution to create such a facility?
When I use Linux, pdfs are okay. But hey, I do use Windows too, and on Windows, Adobe is their own worse enemy. Reader is a slow crummy program with a terrible ui.
Very sincerely, I thank you for the warning to PDF.
I would sooner see goatcx appear at the speed of a jpg than read almost anything than endure Adobe Acrobat's crummy splash screen and solution to the halting problem one more time.
I don't know how much you can move the base station, but it's an interesting idea.
Bad differences between this and the space shuttle. The space shuttle is really only vulnerable during launch and so we can expect to have 24x7x30 days of high security around. If we lose one that is unmanned, just sitting on the pad, then we are very angry, but it's replaceable. The elevator at $7B per (actually not that much more expensive than the shuttle) is a sitting duck, and vulnerable 24x7xforever.
Good differences: because it is on one location very far from the mainland, and vulnerable 24x7xforever, it's reasonable to sink lots of money into anti-aircraft weaponry, anti-missile weaponry and the like.
By the way, I'd love to see this thing built.
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Dragons.
I read a documentary about this once. Different colored (gold, bronze, brown, blue, green) dragons shall fly around protecting us from the falling thread. They fly fast, they fly between, and the burn the elevator as it falls.
Pilots of varying genders and ages ride the dragons, communicating with them telepathically.
The close telepathic connections, the sensual relationships between dragon and human are corrupting of course to the rest of society, and eventually all become obsessed with the dragon writers of porn.
Offtopic? When the FAQ at liftport is pages and pages of html dedicated to discussing what could make a space elevator fall down? When a real scenario expressed at the end of Arthur Clarke's Fountains of Paradise is large, spinning wheel shaped, orbiting space cables acting as solar trebuchets? Offtopic?
Help help! Moderator abuse!
One rigid assed, never listened to rock, thinks poems must mean literally what they say, ignorant of space elevators and science fiction j/o of a moderator.
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9/11, 3-4 stolen lear jets evading 1-2 F-16s, ground hugging L-39s, heat seaking shoulder mounted SAMs aimed at elevators climbing the cable, Sharks with friggin laser beams (mounted in van filled with salt water)... ?
A 100,000 km cable of pure buckminsterfullerene nanotubes -- a surprisingly simple structure amenable to being built and extended by nanomachines. Nanites.
Becareful of the nanites though, eventually, they always turn sentient and demand a piece of our action!
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From the article.... "The biggest technical obstacle is finding a material strong but light enough to make the cable; this is where the carbon nanotubes come in. These are microscopically thin tubes of carbon that are as strong as diamonds but flexible enough to turn into fibre. In theory, a nanotube ribbon about one metre wide and as thin as paper could support a space elevator."
I know the fiber is as strong as diamonds, and I understand that along it's 100,000 km length it's flexible enough to dodge objects.
But how will they protect it from, well, planes at altitudes below 100,000 feet?
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While I am a great backer of the space elevator, for some reason Blood Sweat and Tear's Spinning Wheel comes to mind.
What goes up must come down Spinnin' wheel got to go 'round Talkin' 'bout your troubles it's a cryin' sin Ride a painted pony let the spinnin' wheel spin
You got no money and you got no home Spinnin' wheel all alone Talkin' 'bout your troubles and you never learn Ride a painted pony let the spinnin' wheel turn
Did you find the directing sign on the Straight and narrow highway Would you mind a reflecting sign Just let it shine within your mind And show you the colors that are real
Someone is waiting just for you Spinnin' wheel, spinnin' true Drop all your troubles by the riverside Ride a painted pony let the spinning wheel fly]
(I note that some configurations of the space elevator is that of a spinning space cable with a hook at the end that periodically touches the earth, grabs a cargo and raises it into space.)a
I'm in mozilla, and I middle click a link. Somewhere in the background a page starts loading in a new tab. No problem. I will continue reading. Ah, background loading into new tabs.
Then.
The.machine.comes.to.a.halt.
It.takes.me.awhile.to.realize.this.
but.
I.can.not.scroll.I.can.do.nothing.
And I know what's happened. Some moron has a java applet displaying something wonderfully important like the fucking time in their little corner of hell, and if I wait about thirty more seconds, I'm going to hear a little pop, and I just know the sound of that pop is like the sound of a dick popping out of my anus, cause I know that java has just ass raped me, my browser, and my machine.
Right, well I didn't say they weren't the right tool for the job right now.
I said the user experience, the disruptive splash screen, the disruptive way the machine grinds to a halt, the uncanny mechanism it has for displaying everything at 180% or larger, its stupid non-understanding of the page up/page down keys blows great big donkey dick.
It's a huge slow stinking pile of shit. That's acrobat. Huge. Stinking. Slow. Pile of Shit.
Okay Adobe? Googling up acrobat sucks? That's your program. It's shit. Fuck you Adobe for violating your users. Rot in hell.
Hell, I'd rather just be sent tiffs than get a pdf. But sending them in emails is different than placing them at the end of a URL. My expectation for URLs is that things that are documents can be opened silently in the background in a new tab and are not bug the shit out of me ware. PDFs ARE bug the shit out of me ware, and I resent that.
So it's just a warning and a suggestion. I publish my resume in text, html, word, and pdf. So folks can pick what they want. I don't think it's too difficult anymore to publish in multiple formats. If you want me to read what you write, respect me and don't make it hard for me.
I hate PDF links. On Windows the experience is great, let's come to a complete halt as I watch CPU load hit 100%, wait for a splash screen, and watch the damned thing decide to show me the text at 245% zoom.
What a load of shit.
What's wrong with HTML as a virus free, pleasant to experience, documentation format?
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Dearest Henry,
I am not retarded. I have Asperger's Syndrome, I earn $180,000 per year plus stock options, and I have your wife and I have been having threesomes with your boss.
If I like K-Mart, Judge Wapner, and Fruit of The Loom, then so be it. And FARK you.
Yours,
Larry
The registration is there because the NYTimes wants it there. The copyright is theirs.
The GPL depends on copyright.
Don't infringe on copyright. Fair use is not the reposting of the entire article, especially when the registration makes it plain the NYTimes does not want it reposted.
And what is with the moderators modding that down?
I just called the court.
I was very courteous, and they very courteous, and they said they were taking responses down.
I do think you should call.
At the very least, if we phone dot them, courteously of course, and that makes the news, that will help move some of our legislative overlords to action.
The current president of the ISO, and the recipient of the letter mentioned in the article is Oliver Smoot, MIT '62.
Oliver has had a unit named after him, the smoot
This is an ESR standard in the public domain, and not an ISO standard, hence we can continue to measure objects in smoots for free.
Idiot moderator, the car is named Tau Zero.
Google for Tau Zero and tell me why the car was named Tau Zero, and then tell me my post was offtopic.
WARNING: Spoilers below
Go faster!
In patching my systems this morning, and upon reading the sketchy details of the exploit, I am moderately surprised to find that openssh has no method for throttling and shutting down repeated failing attempts for connection.
There is a MaxStartups parameter that sets the number of concurrent ssh sessions, but nothing that says anything like, only allow 3 unsuccessful connections per IP per hour, after an unsuccessful connection delay an open on that IP for 30 seconds, and stuff like that.
What are the best tools on a modern linux distribution to create such a facility?
When I use Linux, pdfs are okay. But hey, I do use Windows too, and on Windows, Adobe is their own worse enemy. Reader is a slow crummy program with a terrible ui.
Very sincerely, I thank you for the warning to PDF.
I would sooner see goatcx appear at the speed of a jpg than read almost anything than endure Adobe Acrobat's crummy splash screen and solution to the halting problem one more time.
As I refrain from arguing with myself I note I really meant to attach that reply to the other response.
Why are you reading this?
I can't really disagree with you, but I note that liftport thinks it's an interesting question....
I don't know how much you can move the base station, but it's an interesting idea.
Bad differences between this and the space shuttle. The space shuttle is really only vulnerable during launch and so we can expect to have 24x7x30 days of high security around. If we lose one that is unmanned, just sitting on the pad, then we are very angry, but it's replaceable. The elevator at $7B per (actually not that much more expensive than the shuttle) is a sitting duck, and vulnerable 24x7xforever.
Good differences: because it is on one location very far from the mainland, and vulnerable 24x7xforever, it's reasonable to sink lots of money into anti-aircraft weaponry, anti-missile weaponry and the like.
By the way, I'd love to see this thing built.
Dragons.
I read a documentary about this once. Different colored (gold, bronze, brown, blue, green) dragons shall fly around protecting us from the falling thread. They fly fast, they fly between, and the burn the elevator as it falls.
Pilots of varying genders and ages ride the dragons, communicating with them telepathically.
The close telepathic connections, the sensual relationships between dragon and human are corrupting of course to the rest of society, and eventually all become obsessed with the dragon writers of porn.
From liftport's faq I get the impression is the danger is more that of inhaling the microfibers. Remember a single nanotube is small, thin, rigid, ...
Think of the diseases caused by asbestos, asbestosis....
Offtopic? When the FAQ at liftport is pages and pages of html dedicated to discussing what could make a space elevator fall down? When a real scenario expressed at the end of Arthur Clarke's Fountains of Paradise is large, spinning wheel shaped, orbiting space cables acting as solar trebuchets? Offtopic?
Help help! Moderator abuse!
One rigid assed, never listened to rock, thinks poems must mean literally what they say, ignorant of space elevators and science fiction j/o of a moderator.
9/11, 3-4 stolen lear jets evading 1-2 F-16s, ground hugging L-39s, heat seaking shoulder mounted SAMs aimed at elevators climbing the cable, Sharks with friggin laser beams (mounted in van filled with salt water) ... ?
A 100,000 km cable of pure buckminsterfullerene nanotubes -- a surprisingly simple structure amenable to being built and extended by nanomachines. Nanites.
Becareful of the nanites though, eventually, they always turn sentient and demand a piece of our action!
From the article.... "The biggest technical obstacle is finding a material strong but light enough to make the cable; this is where the carbon nanotubes come in. These are microscopically thin tubes of carbon that are as strong as diamonds but flexible enough to turn into fibre. In theory, a nanotube ribbon about one metre wide and as thin as paper could support a space elevator."
I know the fiber is as strong as diamonds, and I understand that along it's 100,000 km length it's flexible enough to dodge objects.
But how will they protect it from, well, planes at altitudes below 100,000 feet?
While I am a great backer of the space elevator, for some reason Blood Sweat and Tear's Spinning Wheel comes to mind.
What goes up must come down
Spinnin' wheel got to go 'round
Talkin' 'bout your troubles it's a cryin' sin
Ride a painted pony let the spinnin' wheel spin
You got no money and you got no home
Spinnin' wheel all alone
Talkin' 'bout your troubles and you never learn
Ride a painted pony let the spinnin' wheel turn
Did you find the directing sign on the
Straight and narrow highway
Would you mind a reflecting sign
Just let it shine within your mind
And show you the colors that are real
Someone is waiting just for you
Spinnin' wheel, spinnin' true
Drop all your troubles by the riverside
Ride a painted pony let the spinning wheel fly]
(I note that some configurations of the space elevator is that of a spinning space cable with a hook at the end that periodically touches the earth, grabs a cargo and raises it into space.)a
Here's another experience I love.
I'm in mozilla, and I middle click a link. Somewhere in the background a page starts loading in a new tab. No problem. I will continue reading. Ah, background loading into new tabs.
Then.
The.machine.comes.to.a.halt.
It.takes.me.awhile.to.realize.this.
but.
I.can.not.scroll.I.can.do.nothing.
And I know what's happened. Some moron has a java applet displaying something wonderfully important like the fucking time in their little corner of hell, and if I wait about thirty more seconds, I'm going to hear a little pop, and I just know the sound of that pop is like the sound of a dick popping out of my anus, cause I know that java has just ass raped me, my browser, and my machine.
Pop! Your clock is now ready sir!
O U C H ! ! ! ! Rapist.
Right, well I didn't say they weren't the right tool for the job right now.
I said the user experience, the disruptive splash screen, the disruptive way the machine grinds to a halt, the uncanny mechanism it has for displaying everything at 180% or larger, its stupid non-understanding of the page up/page down keys blows great big donkey dick.
It's a huge slow stinking pile of shit. That's acrobat. Huge. Stinking. Slow. Pile of Shit.
Okay Adobe? Googling up acrobat sucks? That's your program. It's shit. Fuck you Adobe for violating your users. Rot in hell.
Hell, I'd rather just be sent tiffs than get a pdf. But sending them in emails is different than placing them at the end of a URL. My expectation for URLs is that things that are documents can be opened silently in the background in a new tab and are not bug the shit out of me ware. PDFs ARE bug the shit out of me ware, and I resent that.
So it's just a warning and a suggestion. I publish my resume in text, html, word, and pdf. So folks can pick what they want. I don't think it's too difficult anymore to publish in multiple formats. If you want me to read what you write, respect me and don't make it hard for me.
PDF blows.
I hate PDF links. On Windows the experience is great, let's come to a complete halt as I watch CPU load hit 100%, wait for a splash screen, and watch the damned thing decide to show me the text at 245% zoom.
What a load of shit.
What's wrong with HTML as a virus free, pleasant to experience, documentation format?
Just say no to PDF.
Thanks to any moderator that gives me that loving karma.
But why would you moderate my parent post up as Interesting?
Clearly I have failed as an author.
Sun is losing marketshare to Linux.
Joy is leaving Sun. Pic shows long hair.
Breathed is coming back, with a Penguin. Pic shows long hair.
Do I have to spell it out for you?