It's not such a big risk if you were going to throw it away anyway. Airliners already have the technology to autoland, why not let the shuttle use it if the alternative is just giving up and letting it burn up.
Apparently word gets out quickly. Either Fox News or CNN (just channel flipping, wasn't sure which it was) is reporting that the registry is receiving 108 entries per second.
If there was a concern about having to restrict this to pilots only for bandwidth or any other reason, it probably would have been integraded into duats or something like that. Oh, wait, I'm assuming common sense from the FAA or any other part of the government. Nevermind, continue with discussion.
While going through college I also worked at a retailer using these cards. When they first came out, we had a problem with good ole social engineering being used to get store associates to add money to gift cards. Several schemes were used for example.
1) Gift card is legitimately purchased for a small amount.
2) Purchaser Calls the store
Store Service Desk) How can I help You?
Thief) This is So and so at the home office. We had an upset customer call because she bought a widget at your location which injured her (didn't work whatever) and we told her we would refund the value on her gift card. Please add $150 to card 6004 4300 1357 9246
I wonder what percentage of people who were security conscious enough to use cryptic passwords were also security conscious enough to give them a false password. How many people reading/. now have another idea for a method of social engineering? "I'm doing a survey. What's your password?"
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umm the post was about magnetic reversal, not increased radiation.
Any maybe it leads to slowed mutations and changes in the human genome. Skin cancer is bad today, imagine dividing it by a factor of 10,000.
This should prove to Michael Moore that a documentary can be both successful and non-fiction. Who would have guessed?
It's not such a big risk if you were going to throw it away anyway. Airliners already have the technology to autoland, why not let the shuttle use it if the alternative is just giving up and letting it burn up.
Apparently word gets out quickly. Either Fox News or CNN (just channel flipping, wasn't sure which it was) is reporting that the registry is receiving 108 entries per second.
If there was a concern about having to restrict this to pilots only for bandwidth or any other reason, it probably would have been integraded into duats or something like that. Oh, wait, I'm assuming common sense from the FAA or any other part of the government. Nevermind, continue with discussion.
While going through college I also worked at a retailer using these cards. When they first came out, we had a problem with good ole social engineering being used to get store associates to add money to gift cards. Several schemes were used for example.
1) Gift card is legitimately purchased for a small amount.
2) Purchaser Calls the store
Store Service Desk) How can I help You?
Thief) This is So and so at the home office. We had an upset customer call because she bought a widget at your location which injured her (didn't work whatever) and we told her we would refund the value on her gift card. Please add $150 to card 6004 4300 1357 9246
Spend dough, wash, rinse, repeat at another store
I wonder what percentage of people who were security conscious enough to use cryptic passwords were also security conscious enough to give them a false password. How many people reading /. now have another idea for a method of social engineering? "I'm doing a survey. What's your password?"