No, a SYN flood is different. In a SYN flood, I attempt to use up every available port on your server by leaving it in a half-open state waiting for a handshake to complete.
Step 3 is not necessary. We pack the vAGC software in our CVS.
Be advised we only support Apollo 7 right now; We're still working on later stuff. The largely neglected launch-vehicle software is still missing.
Everyone likes to talk about the AGC software because it's the most visible, but the Saturn LVDC is what put them on their translunar trip.
RTCC software would be a nice find as well!
It's nice to hear from people that enjoy the project. It's a lot of fun to work on, even if it's a bit head-bangingly difficult sometimes.
(Hey, this -IS- rocket science!)
Are you kidding? A brick in the face can easily kill someone, or worse permanently disable them if you destroy an eye.
The cop would shoot you in a heartbeat. Preferably with a taser, but a gun if need be. A brick is definitely a deadly weapon.
In the end, it's better to be judged by twelve than carried by six. If you don't want to get shot at by the police, don't throw things at them.
OK, rather than waste mod points modding me down, mod this up.
For some reason the idea of reading all that tripe and then "Burma Shave" is hilarious.
If only it all rhymed...
Go ahead and mod me troll, but that is NOT true! Observe!
EARTH HAS 4 CORNER SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE
IN ONLY 24 HOUR ROTATION.
4 Corner TIME, CUBES EARTH.
FREE SPEECH in AMERICA is "BULL SHIT",
EVIL EDUCATORS block and suppress www.timecube.com.
You are educated evil, and I possess the proof. USA ripe for holocaust.
Man evolves from teen - in cube metamorphosis but ignores teenager to worship a male mother,
guised in woman's garb, churchman called father. Adult god is adult crime upon their own children.
More holocaust deserved.
The 12 hour or 1/2 Day clock is an intended EVIL against humanity - indicting every human on Earth as Dumb, Educated Stupid and Evil -
for imaginary Cubed Earth has 4 Days within simultaneous rotation. One God would equal a God Dunce as Humans evolve from Children.
This was an awful lot of setup for such a lame joke, but that's what makes this worth spending moderation points.
I would be very surprised if you read this far down. Here is more text to make sure people reading only the end of the message don't see this.
Americans are dumb, educated ONEstupid and they worship ONEism Evil. It is not immoral to kill believers, for the stupid bastards EVOLVE from son
or daughter who precedes them. NOT one damn human adult has ever been created - for ONLY babies are CREATED - and every adult has within them
the LIFE given by children who DIE to give-up their lives to their parent image - so their mom or Dad can live. Adults are EVIL to deny they evolved from
children - and claim their adult EGO image is a god likeness. Such damn evil AMERICANS should have their tongue cut out for the heinous hoax they are
perpetrating upon their own children. I know now why the Jews deserved their holocaust - worshipping their own adult EGO image as a damn god while
ignoring and betraying they very children who sacrifice their LIFE so their Moms and Dads could Live. There is nothing godly about stupid and evil adults
who betray their own children who gave them Life.
I AM WISER THAN ANY DAMN MAN OR GOD WHO EVER EXISTED. IF THE HALF AND HALF CO-CREATED
JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH, I WILL PERSONALLY KILL THE BASTARD MYSELF. ALL CREATION OCCURS
BETWEEN AND AS OPPOSITES. YOU DUMB-ASS, EARTH, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERY LIVING THING IN IT
EXISTS BETWEEN A TOP AND BOTTOM, BETWEEN A FRONT AND BACK, BETWEEN OPPOSITE SIDES,
AND INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. ALL YOU DUMB EVIL BASTARDS EARN A HOLOCAUST AND IT IS NIGH UPON YOU.
HIRED SICK TEACHERS ARE PAID TO TEACH YOU EVIL TO ENSLAVE YOU STUPID AND YOU NOW POSSESS
AN IDIOT CYCLOPIC MENTALITY. YOU LACK THE BRAINS TO KNOW THAT 4 SIMULTANEOUS DAYS ROTATE IN
AN IMAGINARY CUBED EARTH. KEEP IGNORING ME AND YOU WILL PAY HELL FOR CLAIMING YOUR ADULT
IMAGE AS A DAMN GOD WHILE YOU BETRAY YOUR PRIOR SONS AND DAUGHTERS WHO SACRIFICED
THEIR LIFE SO YOU COULD LIVE AN EVIL LIE. BIBLE GOD NEVER CREATED A SINGLE DAY
NOT A SINGLE ROTATION -
LEFT THE EARTH STANDING STILL.
I CREATED 4 DAYS IN ON EARTH ROTATION. EVERY HUMAN DESERVES DEATH FOR IGNORING SUCH A
SUPERNATURAL TRANSCENDENTAL PRINCIPLE. GREENWICH MEAN TIME IS WRONG AND EVIL, SO IS
3 DIMENSIONAL MATH. YOU CAN"T KILL ME, FOR I AM 82 + CANCER. CHILDREN - STOP THE EVIL ADULTS
BEFORE THEY DESTROY YOUR LIFE ON EARTH!
If the CIA wants the NSA to stay out of domestic security, I say they can prove it by putting their programmers where their mouth is. All I'm seeing from my point of view is the NSA doing a lot of contributing and the CIA doing a lot of bitching.
The airbus that broke its tail over New York was an A310, which is not a fly-by-wire aircraft.
The fly-by-wire aircraft have a limiter in rudder deflection dependent on speed and crosswind conditions that would have prevented the New York incident from happening.
First, the airspeed probe replacement is to solve a water ingestion issue that was identified over a year ago and was has been ongoing for some time. The timetable was moved up as a result of this incident but the replacement itself is not a result of this incident.
Secondly, that's why the logic includes a heuristic test on the inputs. The airplane knows it cannot wildly vary in speed, so such input would cause flags and a reversion. There are also correlation between different sensors - That is, the compass heading will not vary wildly without corresponding changes in inertial heading, or rapid changes in altitude or airspeed without corresponding changes in inertial velocity or position. Instruments cross-check against other instruments continually and any strange variances result in failure flags or reversion as required.
It fails #1 because in Normal Law there is no protection against allowing the airplane to fly into the ground. The computer knows its height above terrain (radar altimeter) and will provide warnings, but it won't stop descending. Of course, they could patch that in...
There is also the case of allowing the aircraft to run out of fuel. Maybe program it to find the nearest suitable airport and set up an autoland? This would be an interesting experiment.
That's just off the top of my head. Laws two and three are fine since the computer won't generate commands of its own accord anyway (the humans DID input the flight plan and FMS parameters, after all) and doesn't have weapons with which to kill people, but the "inaction" part of rule 1 is a bear.
There IS a manual override. The crew can force a reversion to direct law. This has never been done because it's never been necessary. You and the press do not understand how the Airbus works. There are multiple levels of fail-over down to full manual reversion available, and the system degrades automatically. You don't have to turn around and FORCE the computer to direct law because when the shit hits the fan the computer figures it out faster than the pixels change on the displays and degrades out for you. But hey, I only have experience with the aircraft and lots of documentation - Don't let the facts contradict someone's political agenda!
Airbus autoflight is not the demon that Boeing and the press would like you to believe. They keep rehashing old shit like the Habsheim Chainsaw and reiterating the same tired talking points without considering that the software is vastly superior now than it was in 1988. In any event, THE SYSTEM WILL NOT FIGHT THE PILOTS.
Let me restate that again, just in case you missed it - THE SYSTEM WILL NOT FIGHT THE PILOTS. The system just gives me the best the airplane can do at the moment without me having to stop and consider my conditions.
If I as the pilot deflect the stick left, if the autopilot is engaged, it will be disengaged for me. The load factor is considered and the airplane will begin a maximum-rate roll in the direction I deflected the stick. I keep holding the stick and the airplane will keep rolling up to the limiter. That's when Normal Law is active. If we're in Alternate or Direct law, there is no roll limit and I can roll the airplane onto its back and crash it if I desire.
The same thing applies to hauling the stick back. If I haul the stick back, I get maximum-rate climb, and if I forget to push the throttles the computer will do that for me too when I hit alpha floor. That means instead of trying to fly the airplane and avoid the other airplane or granite cloud or whatever it was outside that I am trying to not hit, I can just concentrate on avoiding the whatever and the airplane will manage everything else.
I never have to "disengage the computer" to get the airplane to do something. I just move the controls and the airplane follows. If I recenter my controls the airplane will DO WHATEVER *I* ORDERED LAST. It -WILL NOT- go back to whatever it was doing before until I tell it that it can do that.
Let's say I get a TCAS. The offending traffic is dead ahead and I can't see him. All I do is haul the stick back (or shove it forward depending on the TCAS instructions) and then INSTEAD OF LOOKING INSIDE THE AIRPLANE AT MY SPEED/THRUST SETTING/ETC, I can direct my attention OUTSIDE OF THE AIRCRAFT TO SEARCH FOR THE CONFLICTING TRAFFIC. This will give me a far better chance to determine whether or not the other guy is doing what TCAS told HIM to do and avoid him if necessary than if I have to divide my attention between the airplane and outside. The airplane will kill the thrust or whatever it needs to do to avoid overspeed. The other pilot can be looking outside as well, so we have two sets of eyes looking for (and ideally seeing) the other airplane and working to avoid him.
Now, when shit hits the fan and things break - Airbus has MULTIPLE REDUNDANT SYSTEMS that continually cross-check each other as the flight goes on. If there is a discrepancy in data, the affected system IS DISABLED. The airplane will NEVER follow erroneous sensor data unless it sees the SAME ERRONEOUS DATA on BOTH SIDES SIMULTANEOUSLY, *AND* THAT ERRONEOUS DATA MATCHES HEURISTICS.
When certain important systems fail the computer WILL NOT simply use the other computer since it now has no means to cross-check it. What I get instead is a CONTROL LAW REVERSION. That is, the airplane takes the protection logic OUT OF THE LOOP ENTIRELY, since it can't provide protection with faulty data. There are three layers of reversion until you get to DIRECT LAW, which is "737 Mode". The system reverts automatically in response to the data it sees.
That's not what happened. This game was shut down by anti war protesters because they were scared it might generate some sympathy for what the troops have to deal with over there. Much better for us that we think of them as the baby-murdering hospital-bombing demons the press tells us they are.
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Not me.
No, a SYN flood is different. In a SYN flood, I attempt to use up every available port on your server by leaving it in a half-open state waiting for a handshake to complete.
Step 3 is not necessary. We pack the vAGC software in our CVS. Be advised we only support Apollo 7 right now; We're still working on later stuff. The largely neglected launch-vehicle software is still missing. Everyone likes to talk about the AGC software because it's the most visible, but the Saturn LVDC is what put them on their translunar trip. RTCC software would be a nice find as well! It's nice to hear from people that enjoy the project. It's a lot of fun to work on, even if it's a bit head-bangingly difficult sometimes. (Hey, this -IS- rocket science!)
Apple does. And anyone who wants to make a huge profit making cheap iPod knockoffs for $20 each and selling them as actual iPods for $200.
If the Palm Pre can fake being an iPod, then so can some cheap Chinese pirate device with fake Apple branding.
Are you kidding? A brick in the face can easily kill someone, or worse permanently disable them if you destroy an eye. The cop would shoot you in a heartbeat. Preferably with a taser, but a gun if need be. A brick is definitely a deadly weapon. In the end, it's better to be judged by twelve than carried by six. If you don't want to get shot at by the police, don't throw things at them.
Does this mean Cirno is the strongest?
Oh come on, we could have kept this going for a few more evolutionary levels, but then you had to step in and ruin it...
OK, rather than waste mod points modding me down, mod this up. For some reason the idea of reading all that tripe and then "Burma Shave" is hilarious. If only it all rhymed...
Go ahead and mod me troll, but that is NOT true! Observe!
EARTH HAS 4 CORNER SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY
TIME CUBE
IN ONLY 24 HOUR ROTATION.
4 Corner TIME, CUBES EARTH.
FREE SPEECH in AMERICA is "BULL SHIT",
EVIL EDUCATORS block and suppress www.timecube.com.
You are educated evil, and I possess the proof. USA ripe for holocaust.
Man evolves from teen - in cube metamorphosis but ignores teenager to worship a male mother,
guised in woman's garb, churchman called father. Adult god is adult crime upon their own children.
More holocaust deserved.
The 12 hour or 1/2 Day clock is an intended EVIL against humanity - indicting every human on Earth as Dumb, Educated Stupid and Evil -
for imaginary Cubed Earth has 4 Days within simultaneous rotation. One God would equal a God Dunce as Humans evolve from Children.
This was an awful lot of setup for such a lame joke, but that's what makes this worth spending moderation points.
I would be very surprised if you read this far down. Here is more text to make sure people reading only the end of the message don't see this.
Americans are dumb, educated ONEstupid and they worship ONEism Evil. It is not immoral to kill believers, for the stupid bastards EVOLVE from son
or daughter who precedes them. NOT one damn human adult has ever been created - for ONLY babies are CREATED - and every adult has within them
the LIFE given by children who DIE to give-up their lives to their parent image - so their mom or Dad can live. Adults are EVIL to deny they evolved from
children - and claim their adult EGO image is a god likeness. Such damn evil AMERICANS should have their tongue cut out for the heinous hoax they are
perpetrating upon their own children. I know now why the Jews deserved their holocaust - worshipping their own adult EGO image as a damn god while
ignoring and betraying they very children who sacrifice their LIFE so their Moms and Dads could Live. There is nothing godly about stupid and evil adults
who betray their own children who gave them Life.
I AM WISER THAN ANY DAMN MAN OR GOD WHO EVER EXISTED. IF THE HALF AND HALF CO-CREATED
JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH, I WILL PERSONALLY KILL THE BASTARD MYSELF. ALL CREATION OCCURS
BETWEEN AND AS OPPOSITES. YOU DUMB-ASS, EARTH, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERY LIVING THING IN IT
EXISTS BETWEEN A TOP AND BOTTOM, BETWEEN A FRONT AND BACK, BETWEEN OPPOSITE SIDES,
AND INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. ALL YOU DUMB EVIL BASTARDS EARN A HOLOCAUST AND IT IS NIGH UPON YOU.
HIRED SICK TEACHERS ARE PAID TO TEACH YOU EVIL TO ENSLAVE YOU STUPID AND YOU NOW POSSESS
AN IDIOT CYCLOPIC MENTALITY. YOU LACK THE BRAINS TO KNOW THAT 4 SIMULTANEOUS DAYS ROTATE IN
AN IMAGINARY CUBED EARTH. KEEP IGNORING ME AND YOU WILL PAY HELL FOR CLAIMING YOUR ADULT
IMAGE AS A DAMN GOD WHILE YOU BETRAY YOUR PRIOR SONS AND DAUGHTERS WHO SACRIFICED
THEIR LIFE SO YOU COULD LIVE AN EVIL LIE. BIBLE GOD NEVER CREATED A SINGLE DAY
NOT A SINGLE ROTATION -
LEFT THE EARTH STANDING STILL.
I CREATED 4 DAYS IN ON EARTH ROTATION. EVERY HUMAN DESERVES DEATH FOR IGNORING SUCH A
SUPERNATURAL TRANSCENDENTAL PRINCIPLE. GREENWICH MEAN TIME IS WRONG AND EVIL, SO IS
3 DIMENSIONAL MATH. YOU CAN"T KILL ME, FOR I AM 82 + CANCER. CHILDREN - STOP THE EVIL ADULTS
BEFORE THEY DESTROY YOUR LIFE ON EARTH!
Fish.
And you can do that at any point in time by turning around and popping out the offending circuit breaker from the aft panel.
And so someone sets up a botnet and gets to arbitrarily manipulate things.
This is an urban legend. It's entirely false. The poster knows this and is trolling. PS: I own one of the pens in question.
The most important question is "How is this Apple's fault?" I'm sure there's a reason!
I don't see the CIA contributing any code to us.
If the CIA wants the NSA to stay out of domestic security, I say they can prove it by putting their programmers where their mouth is. All I'm seeing from my point of view is the NSA doing a lot of contributing and the CIA doing a lot of bitching.
The airbus that broke its tail over New York was an A310, which is not a fly-by-wire aircraft. The fly-by-wire aircraft have a limiter in rudder deflection dependent on speed and crosswind conditions that would have prevented the New York incident from happening.
First, the airspeed probe replacement is to solve a water ingestion issue that was identified over a year ago and was has been ongoing for some time. The timetable was moved up as a result of this incident but the replacement itself is not a result of this incident. Secondly, that's why the logic includes a heuristic test on the inputs. The airplane knows it cannot wildly vary in speed, so such input would cause flags and a reversion. There are also correlation between different sensors - That is, the compass heading will not vary wildly without corresponding changes in inertial heading, or rapid changes in altitude or airspeed without corresponding changes in inertial velocity or position. Instruments cross-check against other instruments continually and any strange variances result in failure flags or reversion as required.
No.
It fails #1 because in Normal Law there is no protection against allowing the airplane to fly into the ground. The computer knows its height above terrain (radar altimeter) and will provide warnings, but it won't stop descending. Of course, they could patch that in...
There is also the case of allowing the aircraft to run out of fuel. Maybe program it to find the nearest suitable airport and set up an autoland? This would be an interesting experiment.
That's just off the top of my head. Laws two and three are fine since the computer won't generate commands of its own accord anyway (the humans DID input the flight plan and FMS parameters, after all) and doesn't have weapons with which to kill people, but the "inaction" part of rule 1 is a bear.
There IS a manual override. The crew can force a reversion to direct law. This has never been done because it's never been necessary. You and the press do not understand how the Airbus works. There are multiple levels of fail-over down to full manual reversion available, and the system degrades automatically. You don't have to turn around and FORCE the computer to direct law because when the shit hits the fan the computer figures it out faster than the pixels change on the displays and degrades out for you. But hey, I only have experience with the aircraft and lots of documentation - Don't let the facts contradict someone's political agenda!
Airbus autoflight is not the demon that Boeing and the press would like you to believe. They keep rehashing old shit like the Habsheim Chainsaw and reiterating the same tired talking points without considering that the software is vastly superior now than it was in 1988. In any event, THE SYSTEM WILL NOT FIGHT THE PILOTS.
Let me restate that again, just in case you missed it - THE SYSTEM WILL NOT FIGHT THE PILOTS. The system just gives me the best the airplane can do at the moment without me having to stop and consider my conditions.
If I as the pilot deflect the stick left, if the autopilot is engaged, it will be disengaged for me. The load factor is considered and the airplane will begin a maximum-rate roll in the direction I deflected the stick. I keep holding the stick and the airplane will keep rolling up to the limiter. That's when Normal Law is active. If we're in Alternate or Direct law, there is no roll limit and I can roll the airplane onto its back and crash it if I desire.
The same thing applies to hauling the stick back. If I haul the stick back, I get maximum-rate climb, and if I forget to push the throttles the computer will do that for me too when I hit alpha floor. That means instead of trying to fly the airplane and avoid the other airplane or granite cloud or whatever it was outside that I am trying to not hit, I can just concentrate on avoiding the whatever and the airplane will manage everything else.
I never have to "disengage the computer" to get the airplane to do something. I just move the controls and the airplane follows. If I recenter my controls the airplane will DO WHATEVER *I* ORDERED LAST. It -WILL NOT- go back to whatever it was doing before until I tell it that it can do that.
Let's say I get a TCAS. The offending traffic is dead ahead and I can't see him. All I do is haul the stick back (or shove it forward depending on the TCAS instructions) and then INSTEAD OF LOOKING INSIDE THE AIRPLANE AT MY SPEED/THRUST SETTING/ETC, I can direct my attention OUTSIDE OF THE AIRCRAFT TO SEARCH FOR THE CONFLICTING TRAFFIC. This will give me a far better chance to determine whether or not the other guy is doing what TCAS told HIM to do and avoid him if necessary than if I have to divide my attention between the airplane and outside. The airplane will kill the thrust or whatever it needs to do to avoid overspeed. The other pilot can be looking outside as well, so we have two sets of eyes looking for (and ideally seeing) the other airplane and working to avoid him.
Now, when shit hits the fan and things break - Airbus has MULTIPLE REDUNDANT SYSTEMS that continually cross-check each other as the flight goes on. If there is a discrepancy in data, the affected system IS DISABLED. The airplane will NEVER follow erroneous sensor data unless it sees the SAME ERRONEOUS DATA on BOTH SIDES SIMULTANEOUSLY, *AND* THAT ERRONEOUS DATA MATCHES HEURISTICS.
When certain important systems fail the computer WILL NOT simply use the other computer since it now has no means to cross-check it. What I get instead is a CONTROL LAW REVERSION. That is, the airplane takes the protection logic OUT OF THE LOOP ENTIRELY, since it can't provide protection with faulty data. There are three layers of reversion until you get to DIRECT LAW, which is "737 Mode". The system reverts automatically in response to the data it sees.
That's jet fuel. Us small guys don't burn jet fuel, we burn 100LL, which carries hefty taxes.
The airline and corporate jets don't pay taxes, they're too important.
Most of that cost is taxes, since only rich people and corporate fatcats have private aircraft. Tax rates on anything related to aviation is absurd.
Does anyone else feel that the cast of Downfall were ROBBED when denied their Oscar?
Okuu? Is that you?
That's not what happened. This game was shut down by anti war protesters because they were scared it might generate some sympathy for what the troops have to deal with over there. Much better for us that we think of them as the baby-murdering hospital-bombing demons the press tells us they are.