From here to NYC is about 400 mi. If I leave my house at 6:30 AM, drive to the airport, board a 737, fly to LGA, take a taxi to Midtown, I *might* get there by noon. That's an average of about 60-70 mph, so if the logistics could be handled well, there is plenty of opportunity for airships to be competitive with jets.
The site does not mention top speed of this
airship, but I doubt it would be much faster
than highway speed.
Highway speed in LA is about 20 mph average. Zeps are very quiet VTOL aircraft, basically. Needing only a ground crew of three, and being quite cheap to take off and land, they could be practical for short-hop trips into places that would not permit or could not justify a full-blown airport.
Most cities have strict limits on the number of medivac helicopter flights that can be performed, because the residents balk at helicopters flying over all day and night. A quiet 60-70 mph airship beats hell out of an ambulance ride in from the boonies, and is politically feasible where a medivac service might not be.
How many ways can you be wrong? Acadame built ARPANET (with public funds, yes) in an environment of complete benign neglect. Count the RFCs and see how many had politicans or political appointees as authors. How many even had civil servants as authors? It's a bad example of how government tends to run ongoing affairs. And that was just the ARPANET! The Internet came later and government was even less involved.
If you want to avoid liability, you can always publish anonymously.
Under traditional law (pre-EULA BS) products are sold have an implicit warranty of fitness. Gifts and "found objects" do not necessarily.
I've been programming for a couple of decades know, and this has been an issue for the entire time. But on balance, I think it would be a good thing.
Well, if they notify you upon receipt of employment
Except that NOBODY notifies employees of policy concurrently with the offer. The policy notification only happens *after* you have started the new job, when they have you over a barrel. And they change policies freely during your employment, leaving you no choice but to accept or walk out. This is a significant power differential, and it suggests that these are not "contracts freely entered into", but that there is some measure of coercion involved.
For further proof, imagine asking for a copy of the employee handbook in an interview. Do you think you'll get that offer? I'll bet it wouldn't help your chances. That says volumes about the coercive nature of this so-called "contract".
Worse... Adobe approached the virus-checking companies first, before releasing this technology. That's what tipped Zulu off that there might be something there to be exploited. So -- Symantec were way ahead of Zulu on this one.
I'm presently working at a high-tech startup. I'm paid well, by startup standards. But we're sitting in cubes. I get about two solid hours of distraction-free time each day, and the rest of the time is full of the verdammt laserprinter starting up, or one of the nearest ten phones ringing, or somebody starting a conversation with my neighbor while walking up from fifteen yards away, or my other neighbor fighting with his wife on the phone, or...
Now, what good is that big paycheck doing? I can't go out and *buy* better working conditions.
Thanks, I'd rather have a pleasant work environment than a big paycheck.
I'm pretty sure that was an accident -- it was an old BSD bug that they inherited, and their million-monkey QA process would never find a minor performance regression, would it?
Btw, it wasn't just HTTP requests that were slow, it was any TCP connection establishment.
The bee in Gibson's bonnet (and therefore Cringely's, cuz we know where he gets his material) is IP source address spoofing. He thinks that Windows XP will somehow make this much easier.
He's right.
But it doesn't matter.
There are already several easy technical fixes to prevent source spoofing, and if Gibson and Cringely's phantasy comes true, they will all be deployed in various Internet routers in a matter of weeks. Some of them already are implemented in Cisco routers, but are not enabled by default. Long before things can come to sufficient head to justify Microsoft's appearance as an off-white knight to ostensibly save the day.
You can't accurately predict the curve if you don't know the size of the vulnerable population.
It will tail off at some point, I expect quite a bit lower than the 359,000 infected hosts previously. If we're starting a pool, sign me up for 178,901 infected hosts.
The problem was that there were just enough Cisco routers running down-rev software that crashed when you send "GET ?" to port 80. Fix those, and the Internet will be fine. The traffic is a non-issue.
I think that Bush should just sign an executive order making it legal to take out any machine trying to infect you with CodeRed, on the grounds that it's self-defense (of other innocent standers-by, obviously). Just like if I see a rapist attacking a lady at the bus-stop, I can probably legally kill him. We should be able to do the same thing re: CodeRed.
Oh, no no no... Third world countries don't really exist. Same with sweatshops. Those are just liberal fantasies. You don't see them on FOX, do you? See? They're just figments of the left-wing media.
That one is easy. (\w\W){5,99} Or something like that, depending on what you use for filtering news and email. For me, it's got to be GNUS Score files and Procmail.
No, the DMCA applies to "access control mechanisms" which this scheme is. This scheme is flawed in a different way -- it's not for controlling access to materials copyrighted by the party in question. In other words, you can't argue that you're controlling access to material whose copyright you don't own.
He said "article", not software. The article is written by a usan, published on usan servers. He might be sketchy about the applicability of 1992-era ITAR to web pages, but I wouldn't bet on it.
These aren't the domininant thoughts in society -- they're the dominant searches on Gnutella! Christ's balls on a biscuit, man, what part didn't you understand?
Slowly, now. Mainstream tastes are served via mainstream channels. Fringe tastes are served via fringe channels. Gnutella is a fringe channel. Nobody needs to bother with Gnutella when they're looking for pictures of sailboats or flowers, they can find them with Altavista.
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There's not much air pressure at 100000 feet.
They probably won't replace helicopters, but in the right cases, this will allow much easier transportation of heavy equipment to remote areas.
...and prefab houses.
From here to NYC is about 400 mi. If I leave my house at 6:30 AM, drive to the airport, board a 737, fly to LGA, take a taxi to Midtown, I *might* get there by noon. That's an average of about 60-70 mph, so if the logistics could be handled well, there is plenty of opportunity for airships to be competitive with jets.
It just boils down to operating costs.
The site does not mention top speed of this airship, but I doubt it would be much faster than highway speed.
Highway speed in LA is about 20 mph average. Zeps are very quiet VTOL aircraft, basically. Needing only a ground crew of three, and being quite cheap to take off and land, they could be practical for short-hop trips into places that would not permit or could not justify a full-blown airport.
Most cities have strict limits on the number of medivac helicopter flights that can be performed, because the residents balk at helicopters flying over all day and night. A quiet 60-70 mph airship beats hell out of an ambulance ride in from the boonies, and is politically feasible where a medivac service might not be.
How many ways can you be wrong? Acadame built ARPANET (with public funds, yes) in an environment of complete benign neglect. Count the RFCs and see how many had politicans or political appointees as authors. How many even had civil servants as authors? It's a bad example of how government tends to run ongoing affairs. And that was just the ARPANET! The Internet came later and government was even less involved.
Wouldn't you be just as far ahead to evacuate the wing? Vacuum is lighter than helium.
If you want to avoid liability, you can always publish anonymously.
Under traditional law (pre-EULA BS) products are sold have an implicit warranty of fitness. Gifts and "found objects" do not necessarily.
I've been programming for a couple of decades know, and this has been an issue for the entire time. But on balance, I think it would be a good thing.
Nobody's going to sue Microsoft over this, because the majority of the infected W2K systems are not using legally purchased software.
They're home systems running a duplicate copy of somebody's work installation.
I'll bet you a quarter.
The Spanish judge did not accuse Pinochet of violations of Spanish law, but of violations ofinternational law. Big difference.
Well, if they notify you upon receipt of employment
Except that NOBODY notifies employees of policy concurrently with the offer. The policy notification only happens *after* you have started the new job, when they have you over a barrel. And they change policies freely during your employment, leaving you no choice but to accept or walk out. This is a significant power differential, and it suggests that these are not "contracts freely entered into", but that there is some measure of coercion involved.
For further proof, imagine asking for a copy of the employee handbook in an interview. Do you think you'll get that offer? I'll bet it wouldn't help your chances. That says volumes about the coercive nature of this so-called "contract".
Worse... Adobe approached the virus-checking companies first, before releasing this technology. That's what tipped Zulu off that there might be something there to be exploited. So -- Symantec were way ahead of Zulu on this one.
I'm presently working at a high-tech startup. I'm paid well, by startup standards. But we're sitting in cubes. I get about two solid hours of distraction-free time each day, and the rest of the time is full of the verdammt laserprinter starting up, or one of the nearest ten phones ringing, or somebody starting a conversation with my neighbor while walking up from fifteen yards away, or my other neighbor fighting with his wife on the phone, or...
Now, what good is that big paycheck doing? I can't go out and *buy* better working conditions.
Thanks, I'd rather have a pleasant work environment than a big paycheck.
All (or most) of the searches go to all (or most) of the participating nodes. So you can make a pretty good guess at what the top searches are.
I'm pretty sure that was an accident -- it was an old BSD bug that they inherited, and their million-monkey QA process would never find a minor performance regression, would it?
Btw, it wasn't just HTTP requests that were slow, it was any TCP connection establishment.
The bee in Gibson's bonnet (and therefore Cringely's, cuz we know where he gets his material) is IP source address spoofing. He thinks that Windows XP will somehow make this much easier.
He's right.
But it doesn't matter.
There are already several easy technical fixes to prevent source spoofing, and if Gibson and Cringely's phantasy comes true, they will all be deployed in various Internet routers in a matter of weeks. Some of them already are implemented in Cisco routers, but are not enabled by default. Long before things can come to sufficient head to justify Microsoft's appearance as an off-white knight to ostensibly save the day.
See also this article from Network Magazine.
$ telnet 65.24.228.11 80 /x.ida?AAAAAAAAAA
Trying 65.24.228.11...
Connected to 65.24.228.11.
Escape character is '^]'.
get
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=english"><title>HELLO!</title& gt;</head><bady><hr size=5><font color="red"><p align="center">Welcome to http://www.worm.com !<br><br>Hacked By Chinese!</font></hr></bady></ html> Connection closed by foreign host.
You can't accurately predict the curve if you don't know the size of the vulnerable population. It will tail off at some point, I expect quite a bit lower than the 359,000 infected hosts previously. If we're starting a pool, sign me up for 178,901 infected hosts.
Some high-end Cisco hardware is NT based, and runs IIS, and had this flaw -- not just the 675 and its ilk.
The problem was that there were just enough Cisco routers running down-rev software that crashed when you send "GET ?" to port 80. Fix those, and the Internet will be fine. The traffic is a non-issue.
I think that Bush should just sign an executive order making it legal to take out any machine trying to infect you with CodeRed, on the grounds that it's self-defense (of other innocent standers-by, obviously). Just like if I see a rapist attacking a lady at the bus-stop, I can probably legally kill him. We should be able to do the same thing re: CodeRed.
It wouldn't last too long, in that case.
Oh, no no no... Third world countries don't really exist. Same with sweatshops. Those are just liberal fantasies. You don't see them on FOX, do you? See? They're just figments of the left-wing media.
That one is easy. (\w\W){5,99}
Or something like that, depending on what you use for filtering news and email. For me, it's got to be GNUS Score files and Procmail.
No, the DMCA applies to "access control mechanisms" which this scheme is. This scheme is flawed in a different way -- it's not for controlling access to materials copyrighted by the party in question. In other words, you can't argue that you're controlling access to material whose copyright you don't own.
He said "article", not software. The article is written by a usan, published on usan servers. He might be sketchy about the applicability of 1992-era ITAR to web pages, but I wouldn't bet on it.
These aren't the domininant thoughts in society -- they're the dominant searches on Gnutella! Christ's balls on a biscuit, man, what part didn't you understand?
Slowly, now.
Mainstream tastes are served via mainstream channels.
Fringe tastes are served via fringe channels.
Gnutella is a fringe channel.
Nobody needs to bother with Gnutella when they're looking for pictures of sailboats or flowers, they can find them with Altavista.
Hope that makes things clearer for you.