If the law refuses to step in and do justice, then it falls to the people to pick up the slack.
Just because the government wants to play the role of Chamberlain does not mean Hitler should not be opposed.
Scientology is a patently evil organization and should be opposed by any and all means.
I do not see Anonymous as heroes, I see them as ordinary people doing what needs to be done.
No, but it's present on most linux server installations, and therefore relevant to linux. I don't see how it's irrelevant. If it bothers you, maybe we should have a "unix" super-section that covers OS X, Linux, BSD, etc. that stuff that affects everyone can go under.
My guess is you didn't read it far enough to see the joke, or you saw it and didn't think it was funny. It happens. Different people have different ideas of what is funny, and that's just fine. It'd be boring if everyone was the same.
Prison rape is a serious problem and should not be taken lightly. I am appalled and disgusted by your suggestion that some poor criminal should be forced to have sex with Sanford Wallace. There is no law on earth that can sentence a man to such an awful fate. Our constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment and it would do you well to never forget it!
The inside of the safe will easily reach temperatures that will destroy your media, but not destroy paper records. Some types of fire safe also contain ablative material on the inside of the safe that is designed to melt onto the papers contained inside to encase and protect them during a fire, which is also extremely bad for digital media. Unless your safe is specifically rated to handle digital storage media in a fire, it most likely will let you down.
It's a little bit closer to working than on ice - I have a hacked salvager/dumper pair that can read from a SCSI tape drive and write to a SCSI disk. The controller is a Viking UDT. I run it in SCSI pass-thru mode, I didn't want to bother with MSCP. I haven't done a timesharing driver yet, so I can't bring a system up. But the machine runs about once every two months or so when I power it up for a test run. I need to write a newer smarter means of loading the RAM over the console port to continue.
And no, none of it wasn't on purpose, but it was a (series of) stupid enough mistake(s) that it may as well have been.
Waitaminute, John Wilson?
No offense, but I already destroyed two of your drives by being stupid, I'm not willing to risk doing it again.
I still owe the world something for getting the machine in the first place.
(You should know who I am now.)
It would be a much better idea to fix your KS than risk more hardware on me. (What's wrong with them?)
Not true! I have a KS10 that can run the ITS. I've been (very slowly) hacking a SCSI driver for it because my '10 lacks disks.
The project was put on stasis so I could focus more on my Project Apollo work, but I will eventually get it running on the internet again.
There are other people who run the ITS on physical hardware as well. The AI KS is still operable and in safe hands.
I don't know how you could seriously think that, given how many people observed the launches and how many pictures were taken.
The rockets WERE documented to the Nth degree, and that documentation was kept extremely safe. The problem is, once the budget was slashed and the project shut down, all of that extreme safety became extremely expensive, and with no incentive to do otherwise, most people stopped giving a crap.
I must say that the amount of documentation we do have is quite extensive; More than enough to make hoax claims more than a little hollow. Nobody would generate this much documentation to support a hoax because a single error in it would unravel the whole thing. It would be a HUGE liability. The CSM is very well documented, the LM is somewhat less documented. The Saturn and ground control equipment however...
You also have to consider that this work was done under security classification, so that figures into things as well.
We've had some success asking surviving astronauts for their recollections on things they actually had hands in (Instrument panels, the behavior and use of tools, crew procedures, things like that) but it's hard to find them - we have to track them down through friends. They don't know us and they're afraid of assholes like Bart Sibrel who want to get them to misremember something so they can use it as ammunition against them.
While I'm on the subject: Sibrel and his kind are responsible for 99% of our problems in getting in touch with people and asking them questions. That man has caused us more damage than anyone else. He makes people unwilling to tell us anything. They'd rather take their knowledge to the grave than have it used against them, and since Sibrel is well known for using false pretenses to get people to say things, we are "Guilty until proven innocent". Sibrel and his kind are stealing history from us to further their own ego. He isn't on a "hunt for the truth" or some other such bullshit, he's just bullying people for his own personal gain. He's out to grow his ego and nothing more.
A lot of the IU stuff seems to have gotten genuinely physically lost as opposed to deliberately destroyed, which is why we have some hope it might be found. Some of it was lost even before the monopoly divesture and even before Apollo ended - IBM had to do major reconstructive work to make the flight load for one or more of the later Apollo flights. (We believe Apollo 17) When IBM was broken up as a monopoly their stuff went to Lockheed Martin, and LM has no idea what happened to it when it got there. Then LM got bought by Loral, Loral was split and parts went back to LM, and other parts went on to become Loral Space & Communications. Somewhere in the shuffle the SV material was physically lost. Since this work was subcontracted out, NASA does not have copies of the tools or source code, they were only given the final product (and we can't find that either).
I am part of a research project that is reconstructing the Apollo project, and I can say authoritatively that large parts of the Saturn V knowledge are indeed missing. Only some of the booster physical structure blueprints are on file at MSFC. That does not include the wiring diagrams, the internal diagrams of the Instrument Unit, or the software that actually flew the booster. That was designed by IBM Federal Systems, and when IBM was broken up as a monopoly the documentation and software were lost. We have been chasing after this stuff for YEARS. If it existed we would have found it. We have taken to searching out and contacting former programmers and engineers to see if they took anything home with them that we might be able to scan. We have even gone so far as to take apart one of the remaining Saturn LVDCs to try to read the core memory out and see if the software is present. (This is a potentially destructive effort and is still ongoing. It will be at least a year before we know anything.)
Also missing are the procedures by which the software was used, the prelaunch checkout procedures, we have almost NO documentation of the software, tools, and procedures that the ground controllers used, and so on. There's a lot of missing pieces.
I know. It's a really great example because it works so very well. It kills the parent argument absolutely. If it were an RPG weapon it would do 9999 damage. It's like comparing someone's argument to the Nazis and having it be a legitimate, totally justified comparison. It's so awesomely correct it's almost cruel to the OP to point it out.
Because the local cable monopoly has proprietary data on the wire requiring the use of a proprietary set-top box. This makes it impossible to use Myth, since you cannot plug the cable line into a capture card. You can plug the output of the STB into Myth and record it, but the remote protocol is proprietary as well so Myth cannot change channels, in addition to analog degradation of the digital signal.
Tivo suffers from the same issues. The moral of the story is that you use Comcast's DVR or none.
Sounds like (witch) terrorist talk to me!
Are you denying us our (God-given right) national security requirement to (conduct a witch hunt?) investigate this event for evidence of child molestation?
If they have nothing to hide they should not be ashamed of having their pictures published! This is a public venue and there is no such thing as privacy at a public venue!
You have to think about the children! You should (let my self-righteous ego and moral outrage govern your actions) do less thinking and more FEELING!
PS: I wanted the text in (parens) to be formatted strikethrough but slash won't let me do it. Read it as such.
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If the law refuses to step in and do justice, then it falls to the people to pick up the slack.
Just because the government wants to play the role of Chamberlain does not mean Hitler should not be opposed.
Scientology is a patently evil organization and should be opposed by any and all means.
I do not see Anonymous as heroes, I see them as ordinary people doing what needs to be done.
Spamming didn't murder Lisa McPherson.
You have my condolences.
Jailbreaking DOES NOT install ssh by default. You have to install openssh yourself after jailbreaking.
No, but it's present on most linux server installations, and therefore relevant to linux. I don't see how it's irrelevant. If it bothers you, maybe we should have a "unix" super-section that covers OS X, Linux, BSD, etc. that stuff that affects everyone can go under.
Because it's trying to guess SSH passwords?
My guess is you didn't read it far enough to see the joke, or you saw it and didn't think it was funny. It happens. Different people have different ideas of what is funny, and that's just fine. It'd be boring if everyone was the same.
Prison rape is a serious problem and should not be taken lightly. I am appalled and disgusted by your suggestion that some poor criminal should be forced to have sex with Sanford Wallace. There is no law on earth that can sentence a man to such an awful fate. Our constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment and it would do you well to never forget it!
We're all missing the most important question: How is this Apple's fault? It has to be Apple's fault! Everything is Apple's fault!
The inside of the safe will easily reach temperatures that will destroy your media, but not destroy paper records. Some types of fire safe also contain ablative material on the inside of the safe that is designed to melt onto the papers contained inside to encase and protect them during a fire, which is also extremely bad for digital media. Unless your safe is specifically rated to handle digital storage media in a fire, it most likely will let you down.
So don't cheat.
They'll fine him $20 and make him delete all the documents while out in the snow, but that's not what we came to read about...
Guilty as charged.
It's a little bit closer to working than on ice - I have a hacked salvager/dumper pair that can read from a SCSI tape drive and write to a SCSI disk. The controller is a Viking UDT. I run it in SCSI pass-thru mode, I didn't want to bother with MSCP. I haven't done a timesharing driver yet, so I can't bring a system up. But the machine runs about once every two months or so when I power it up for a test run. I need to write a newer smarter means of loading the RAM over the console port to continue.
And no, none of it wasn't on purpose, but it was a (series of) stupid enough mistake(s) that it may as well have been.
Waitaminute, John Wilson?
No offense, but I already destroyed two of your drives by being stupid, I'm not willing to risk doing it again.
I still owe the world something for getting the machine in the first place.
(You should know who I am now.)
It would be a much better idea to fix your KS than risk more hardware on me. (What's wrong with them?)
Would you be willing to part with the RM80?
Not true! I have a KS10 that can run the ITS. I've been (very slowly) hacking a SCSI driver for it because my '10 lacks disks. The project was put on stasis so I could focus more on my Project Apollo work, but I will eventually get it running on the internet again. There are other people who run the ITS on physical hardware as well. The AI KS is still operable and in safe hands.
I don't know how you could seriously think that, given how many people observed the launches and how many pictures were taken.
The rockets WERE documented to the Nth degree, and that documentation was kept extremely safe. The problem is, once the budget was slashed and the project shut down, all of that extreme safety became extremely expensive, and with no incentive to do otherwise, most people stopped giving a crap.
I must say that the amount of documentation we do have is quite extensive; More than enough to make hoax claims more than a little hollow. Nobody would generate this much documentation to support a hoax because a single error in it would unravel the whole thing. It would be a HUGE liability. The CSM is very well documented, the LM is somewhat less documented. The Saturn and ground control equipment however...
You also have to consider that this work was done under security classification, so that figures into things as well.
We've had some success asking surviving astronauts for their recollections on things they actually had hands in (Instrument panels, the behavior and use of tools, crew procedures, things like that) but it's hard to find them - we have to track them down through friends. They don't know us and they're afraid of assholes like Bart Sibrel who want to get them to misremember something so they can use it as ammunition against them.
While I'm on the subject: Sibrel and his kind are responsible for 99% of our problems in getting in touch with people and asking them questions. That man has caused us more damage than anyone else. He makes people unwilling to tell us anything. They'd rather take their knowledge to the grave than have it used against them, and since Sibrel is well known for using false pretenses to get people to say things, we are "Guilty until proven innocent". Sibrel and his kind are stealing history from us to further their own ego. He isn't on a "hunt for the truth" or some other such bullshit, he's just bullying people for his own personal gain. He's out to grow his ego and nothing more.
A lot of the IU stuff seems to have gotten genuinely physically lost as opposed to deliberately destroyed, which is why we have some hope it might be found. Some of it was lost even before the monopoly divesture and even before Apollo ended - IBM had to do major reconstructive work to make the flight load for one or more of the later Apollo flights. (We believe Apollo 17) When IBM was broken up as a monopoly their stuff went to Lockheed Martin, and LM has no idea what happened to it when it got there. Then LM got bought by Loral, Loral was split and parts went back to LM, and other parts went on to become Loral Space & Communications. Somewhere in the shuffle the SV material was physically lost. Since this work was subcontracted out, NASA does not have copies of the tools or source code, they were only given the final product (and we can't find that either).
That is not entirely true.
I am part of a research project that is reconstructing the Apollo project, and I can say authoritatively that large parts of the Saturn V knowledge are indeed missing. Only some of the booster physical structure blueprints are on file at MSFC. That does not include the wiring diagrams, the internal diagrams of the Instrument Unit, or the software that actually flew the booster. That was designed by IBM Federal Systems, and when IBM was broken up as a monopoly the documentation and software were lost. We have been chasing after this stuff for YEARS. If it existed we would have found it. We have taken to searching out and contacting former programmers and engineers to see if they took anything home with them that we might be able to scan. We have even gone so far as to take apart one of the remaining Saturn LVDCs to try to read the core memory out and see if the software is present. (This is a potentially destructive effort and is still ongoing. It will be at least a year before we know anything.)
Also missing are the procedures by which the software was used, the prelaunch checkout procedures, we have almost NO documentation of the software, tools, and procedures that the ground controllers used, and so on. There's a lot of missing pieces.
I know. It's a really great example because it works so very well. It kills the parent argument absolutely. If it were an RPG weapon it would do 9999 damage. It's like comparing someone's argument to the Nazis and having it be a legitimate, totally justified comparison. It's so awesomely correct it's almost cruel to the OP to point it out.
Because the local cable monopoly has proprietary data on the wire requiring the use of a proprietary set-top box. This makes it impossible to use Myth, since you cannot plug the cable line into a capture card. You can plug the output of the STB into Myth and record it, but the remote protocol is proprietary as well so Myth cannot change channels, in addition to analog degradation of the digital signal. Tivo suffers from the same issues. The moral of the story is that you use Comcast's DVR or none.
That's just cruel.
"But if the public can attend, then it's a public event, right?"
PS: How can I delete it when the authorities haven't planted it yet?
Sounds like (witch) terrorist talk to me!
Are you denying us our (God-given right) national security requirement to (conduct a witch hunt?) investigate this event for evidence of child molestation?
If they have nothing to hide they should not be ashamed of having their pictures published! This is a public venue and there is no such thing as privacy at a public venue!
You have to think about the children! You should (let my self-righteous ego and moral outrage govern your actions) do less thinking and more FEELING!
PS: I wanted the text in (parens) to be formatted strikethrough but slash won't let me do it. Read it as such.