Thank you for looking it up and posting it. I know most people think NASA just does airplanes and spaceships, but that'd be a sad and narrow scope for an agency that is charged with not only doing missions one we're in space, but with getting through the atmosphere in the first place.
Problem is, those airplanes and spaceships gotta get off the earth. And to do that, they often fly through weather - so yes, it's part of NASA's purview. In fact, the Marshall Space Flight Center often provides imagery of the mid-Atlantic and Caribbean regions to NOAA and other U.S. Government agencies.
NASA has also been active in trying to discover the causes of and ways to predict clear air turbulence, which can be some scary shit.
"microcellular WAN" anyway? Fucking Wi-Max or some shit?
If you're using 3G, you are using a microcellular WAN of sorts. Of course, it's not a peer-peer network, as previous high speed wireless data WANs have been.
Your little 3G dongle was going to "revolutionize the industry in 2-3 years" back in 1999, and that is (along with the most horrible marketing team in history and an executive team that was no better) one of the reasons that networks like Metricom's Ricochet (technology made right here in the USA, for you xenophones out there too cowardly to post under your own ID) never took off in this country.
The CellCos at the time were selling 3G as if it were literally just around the corner in 1999, while fast data networks like Ricochet were actually covering millions of people with 256kbps microcellular networks at the time. No one knew because the marketing sucked. And no big investors were going to bet with a company that was abut to get into competition with the deep-pocketed CellCos. "the cell companies are just going to come around with 3G in a couple of years and kill them".
So, despite good Ricochet coverage in most major cities in 2001 and modems that got 8-12 hours on a charge while doing 200kbps down and 50-80kbps up, we now have dongles that are much faster, 3G "do it all" phones that are pretty fast...for about 3-4 hours of use. We also got a further-entrenched and consolidated telecommunications business in this country.
I remember reading about the imminent introduction of wildly fast new 3G cellular phone technology...in 1999. In fact, it scared a lot of investors off of other, faster microcellular wireless WANs under development.
I suggest, instead of calling your legislators to ask them for more laws and restrictions, I suggest that you use your freedom of choice, and stop doing business with PayPal.
I think the point of this article is that eBay is rapidly removing payment options in order to force people to use their unregulated banking service.
If you'll recall, un- or under-regulated banking practices led to the current mess.
I think a little scrutiny is warranted. And if warranted upon scrutiny, action. Us little guys don't get much of a voice anymore if government doesn't do the shouting.
I suggest calling your legislators, writing them, etc, to ask for tougher regulation and better regulatory oversight for the operations of companies like PayPal.
Meg's got half of them in her pocket by party affiliation, and the other half is a little busy anyway.
Fucking "Whitman Campus"...is that the height of arrogance, or what?
Thanks for saying all that - I agree completely. It's sad that this election is, like the 2000 election, going to come down to exactly one thing: who puts up a better identity.
I really used to like this country. And I blame most of the reasons I don't on the GOP.
So, all those cities you mentioned are isolated from their suburbs and exurbs by 2500 miles of foreign soil? San Francisco is smaller than San Jose, but the mayor of San Francisco (at least before Willie Brown and Gavin the Model-Boy) is considered to be a far more difficult position.
TFA indicated that the information on the disk was not encrypted; it was being used as kiosk sign-up machine, and someone used it to pull down the 33,000 enrollees from the server.
They had physical blood evidence that Nina bled in his car. Doesn't mean she died there, nor that Hans killed her.
No, it doesn't, but look at it like a juror might....
I've had women, including my wife, ride in various cars of mine for over twenty years now. None of them have bled in any significant amounts inside any of the cars I've owned during that period. Also, no bleeding episodes in my car were followed up by the removal of half the seats in the car or the washing of the inside of my car.
Of course, no one who has ever ridden in my car has ever disappeared without a trace after obtaining a restraining order against me, either. Sure, it is circumstantial evidence - but people are convicted on less everyday for lesser crimes.
If I were separated from my wife and bound by a restraining order, and she was having sex with her new lover IN MY HOUSE, I would probably kill her, too.
And if you admitted as much to the cops, and testified to such in court, the district attorney would likely seek no more than manslaughter.
Crimes committed in the heat of passion, when the murderer is truthful with the police and penitent, aren't always prosecuted as a capital crime. To do so costs the state much more.
Hans Reiser insisted on lying about every aspect of the disappearance of Nina Reiser from the moment he was questioned by police. The DA had no choice but to prosecute it as a murder case - and given the facts in evidence, he was convicted because he made a lot of stupid mistakes - typical for someone who commits a crime of passion and then thinks they can cover it up because they're so much smarter than the 'average bear'.
If Reiser had even pled guilty and recanted his story after lying to the police and being arraigned for murder, he might have gotten off with a much lighter sentence for murder. But he waited until the sentencing phase, after he'd lied to the court.
No, Hans was so much smarter than everyone else. Now he's going to go to prison for 15-to-life - and lying to the court as Reiser did means his parole hearings aren't going to go well for him, if he even survives 15 years in prison.
Instead, NASA decided to compete against the private sector and create a new family of Ares boosters, basically from scratch.
Seriously, this is so naive as to be laughable. You do realize that NASA, in the vast majority of items and processes in Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Shuttle and Constellation, contracted with defense and space contractors, right?
there were a LOT of these "people" you speak of that were in it for the cash, and had absolutely no skills (IT/managerial/sales/whatever) that they should have had for the position. Oh, you worked in the marketing department at Metricom?
Ironic, isn't it, that the people who "declined to cash out"(read: take investors money and run) are unemployed Yeah, I think I saw a guy living in a webvan down by the river!
The PowerPC is nothing without the AltiVec vector unit, which is a decidely CISC concept. I beg to differ. The G3 with 1MB backside cache absolutely spanked the PIII at the same clock speeds - the G3 had no vector unit. If you have evidence that a vector unit was all that made PPC competitive, please provide it - but Apple regularly kicked Intel's butt from 1994 through 1999 without vector units - of course Motorola and IBM were still interested in making general purpose CPUs back then, too.
Although they require multiple instructions to do things, these are almost always 1 or 2 cycles each. That means that although it may have to execute 3 instructions to do the same as 1 CISC instruction, it's often done it in half the clock cycles. Unfortunately, marketing rules the day in the mind of consumers, so AltiVec/VMX and Apple's PowerPC ISA advantages were lost on consumers looking for the "fastest" machines in the consumer space.
Until recently, there were still speed advantages to using a four core multi-processor G5 for some operations over the 3.0GHz eight-core Xeon Mac Pros because of VMX.
It is somewhat ironic that the Core architecture chips now used by Apple in all but the Mac Pros are all below the 3GHz clock "wall" that was never overcome by the G5, but the Intel name seems to have gone a long way in assuaging consumer doubts about buying a Mac.
Not in disagreement, but Apple didn't ditch PowerPC because RISC offered no performance advantage; indeed, the G5 at lower clock speeds marginally outperformed the first Intel-based Macs at the same price points.
Apple got rid of PowerPC because Motorola and IBM had no incentive to innovate and develop competitive processors in the mid-range; RISC was most worthwhile in the high-end big iron IBM machines using POWER and the low end embedded market served by Motorola/Freescale.
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Thank you for looking it up and posting it. I know most people think NASA just does airplanes and spaceships, but that'd be a sad and narrow scope for an agency that is charged with not only doing missions one we're in space, but with getting through the atmosphere in the first place.
Problem is, those airplanes and spaceships gotta get off the earth. And to do that, they often fly through weather - so yes, it's part of NASA's purview. In fact, the Marshall Space Flight Center often provides imagery of the mid-Atlantic and Caribbean regions to NOAA and other U.S. Government agencies.
NASA has also been active in trying to discover the causes of and ways to predict clear air turbulence, which can be some scary shit.
If you're using 3G, you are using a microcellular WAN of sorts. Of course, it's not a peer-peer network, as previous high speed wireless data WANs have been.
Your little 3G dongle was going to "revolutionize the industry in 2-3 years" back in 1999, and that is (along with the most horrible marketing team in history and an executive team that was no better) one of the reasons that networks like Metricom's Ricochet (technology made right here in the USA, for you xenophones out there too cowardly to post under your own ID) never took off in this country.
The CellCos at the time were selling 3G as if it were literally just around the corner in 1999, while fast data networks like Ricochet were actually covering millions of people with 256kbps microcellular networks at the time. No one knew because the marketing sucked. And no big investors were going to bet with a company that was abut to get into competition with the deep-pocketed CellCos. "the cell companies are just going to come around with 3G in a couple of years and kill them".
So, despite good Ricochet coverage in most major cities in 2001 and modems that got 8-12 hours on a charge while doing 200kbps down and 50-80kbps up, we now have dongles that are much faster, 3G "do it all" phones that are pretty fast...for about 3-4 hours of use. We also got a further-entrenched and consolidated telecommunications business in this country.
Xenophobic prick.
Ten years, hunh?
I remember reading about the imminent introduction of wildly fast new 3G cellular phone technology...in 1999. In fact, it scared a lot of investors off of other, faster microcellular wireless WANs under development.
Excuse me? How do you get fired for shorting out a fucking power strip? During an emergency?
What bullshit.
I think the point of this article is that eBay is rapidly removing payment options in order to force people to use their unregulated banking service.
If you'll recall, un- or under-regulated banking practices led to the current mess.
I think a little scrutiny is warranted. And if warranted upon scrutiny, action. Us little guys don't get much of a voice anymore if government doesn't do the shouting.
Meg's got half of them in her pocket by party affiliation, and the other half is a little busy anyway.
Fucking "Whitman Campus"...is that the height of arrogance, or what?
You have them all wrong. This is just part of the Whitman Plan (TM) of customer alienation.
Making it easier and easier to unload containers full of junk for ten years - that's eBay!
I can see the moon from my house. Obviously*, I'm qualified to make policy for the space program.
*In bizarro Republican "Palin is qualified" upside-down land, that is.
Thanks for saying all that - I agree completely. It's sad that this election is, like the 2000 election, going to come down to exactly one thing: who puts up a better identity.
I really used to like this country. And I blame most of the reasons I don't on the GOP.
So, all those cities you mentioned are isolated from their suburbs and exurbs by 2500 miles of foreign soil? San Francisco is smaller than San Jose, but the mayor of San Francisco (at least before Willie Brown and Gavin the Model-Boy) is considered to be a far more difficult position.
If you work in an office all day like me, you quickly come to realize that the "two levels of passowrds" are:
1. Windows logon
2. Office Protected Document Password
I'm guessing the "two levels" were:
1. WIndows logon.
2. Office "Protected Document" password.
In other words, five minutes of trouble - four of which are removing the disk and attaching it to another machine.
And that five minutes would net you the SSN, personally verifiable information, and other juicy bits on 33,000 people! Cool!
TFA indicated that the information on the disk was not encrypted; it was being used as kiosk sign-up machine, and someone used it to pull down the 33,000 enrollees from the server.
Super Stupid.
OK, guys. I was talking about wounds, not menses. Ha ha.
So he's the white-and-nerdy OJ?
That is ridiculously funny.
Given that Reiser didn't get away with anything, I don't think a comparison to O.J. is all that apt.
They had physical blood evidence that Nina bled in his car. Doesn't mean she died there, nor that Hans killed her.
No, it doesn't, but look at it like a juror might....
I've had women, including my wife, ride in various cars of mine for over twenty years now. None of them have bled in any significant amounts inside any of the cars I've owned during that period. Also, no bleeding episodes in my car were followed up by the removal of half the seats in the car or the washing of the inside of my car.
Of course, no one who has ever ridden in my car has ever disappeared without a trace after obtaining a restraining order against me, either. Sure, it is circumstantial evidence - but people are convicted on less everyday for lesser crimes.
If I were separated from my wife and bound by a restraining order, and she was having sex with her new lover IN MY HOUSE, I would probably kill her, too.
And if you admitted as much to the cops, and testified to such in court, the district attorney would likely seek no more than manslaughter.
Crimes committed in the heat of passion, when the murderer is truthful with the police and penitent, aren't always prosecuted as a capital crime. To do so costs the state much more.
Hans Reiser insisted on lying about every aspect of the disappearance of Nina Reiser from the moment he was questioned by police. The DA had no choice but to prosecute it as a murder case - and given the facts in evidence, he was convicted because he made a lot of stupid mistakes - typical for someone who commits a crime of passion and then thinks they can cover it up because they're so much smarter than the 'average bear'.
If Reiser had even pled guilty and recanted his story after lying to the police and being arraigned for murder, he might have gotten off with a much lighter sentence for murder. But he waited until the sentencing phase, after he'd lied to the court.
No, Hans was so much smarter than everyone else. Now he's going to go to prison for 15-to-life - and lying to the court as Reiser did means his parole hearings aren't going to go well for him, if he even survives 15 years in prison.
Instead, NASA decided to compete against the private sector and create a new family of Ares boosters, basically from scratch.
Seriously, this is so naive as to be laughable. You do realize that NASA, in the vast majority of items and processes in Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Shuttle and Constellation, contracted with defense and space contractors, right?
Neither one of them has a website as incredibly crappy as InfoWorld, so I think I'll read the story when it appears elsewhere.
Seriously, the InfoWorld web design team must consist of a myopic monkey and...another monkey.
Until recently, there were still speed advantages to using a four core multi-processor G5 for some operations over the 3.0GHz eight-core Xeon Mac Pros because of VMX.
It is somewhat ironic that the Core architecture chips now used by Apple in all but the Mac Pros are all below the 3GHz clock "wall" that was never overcome by the G5, but the Intel name seems to have gone a long way in assuaging consumer doubts about buying a Mac.
Not in disagreement, but Apple didn't ditch PowerPC because RISC offered no performance advantage; indeed, the G5 at lower clock speeds marginally outperformed the first Intel-based Macs at the same price points.
Apple got rid of PowerPC because Motorola and IBM had no incentive to innovate and develop competitive processors in the mid-range; RISC was most worthwhile in the high-end big iron IBM machines using POWER and the low end embedded market served by Motorola/Freescale.