They are saying that only a VHS tape of the landing is left, and that all the original tapes were erased/lost/destroyed. But this new tape is FROM one of those original tapes, albeit from the Sydney archives who relayed the data since they were part of the line-of-sight network to communicate with the astronauts.
I think that is what the scientists are thinking as well. However, given that methane freezes at -182.15C and the average temperatures on Mars are -63C with the lowest recorded temperature of -140C and the highest temperature of 20C, I doubt that it is from methane freezing and thawing. It is possible that the methane is trapped in some other medium which allows it to escape with the temperatures are warmer in the summer.
Sony, now 5 months after you killed linux on the system, there have been 4 different hacks, whereas for the 3 years you had left liunx being available to your customers, there where no hacks. I think we can now successfully say, "We told you so", when you decided to unilaterally removed an advertised feature from the PS3. The people with the knowledge to hack the system were finally given the reason to do so, because they wanted their linux back, but in doing so, that also released the floodgates of the tools used/developed to the people who simply want free games. Real smart move Sony.
Considering I work in such an environment, and we have been hit with extremely few viruses, it really isn't that big a deal. 80-90% of the viruses and worms out there require internet connectivity anyway to do what they do anymore, from updating themselves to delivering the actual payload, to controlling the system. All of those things go away when you are air-gapped. If and when you do get a virus, it is much easier to deal with as many of the methods used to maintain the infection no longer exist because it doesn't have access to an internet address(es) to re-infect the system if it was not fully erased by the software. It also helps to run unix, linux, or BSD at the site, and log all media through designated scan systems. Again, almost all infections can be caught at the gatekeepers.
If it is in charge of a critical resource in which people's lives and safety is at risk, it should not be connected to the internet. I can be on its own, internal private network with no actual physical connection externally. It can be a pain at first, but really it is not that bad. Even if you need to download patches, etc, you simply download them to a box that is on the internet, put it on removable media, scan the media for viruses, remove it and connect to the stand-alone network. Really not that big a deal.
At least here in the USA if you have proof that the dog was lost/stolen (as in newpaper articles, or an original police report), you get your dog back if you have proof it is your dog (like a microchip implant). There are no questions asked, you get the dog (or you can do whatever you want, like officially give the dog to the current owners or sell him to them).
Personally, I am of the Large, Quite, HD camp. You can make a very quiet system if you get the right case. I have a Antec Fusion Remote Max (not to be confused with the Fusion Remote). The Max edition has a 140mm side exhaust fan, a front/bottom 120mm intake, and a rear 120mm exhaust fan. So you can use extremely large slow rotating fans which make very little noise in this case and still move plenty of air. There is enough room to suspend 1 hard drive using bungie cords without much problem (or you can fit 4 or 5 in the case if you want max hdd space). Better, yet, buy a small 60gb solid state drive. Get a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P, an Intel Core i5-750, a Thermalright HR-02 PASSIVE CPU cooler, 4GB+ RAM, and a Powercolor HD-5750 Go Green (passive GPU). Only need to run the rear 120mm exhaust fan and the power supply fan. System will be extremely silent (under 16db if you replace the stock fan).
As stated by the previous response, even if there is an ISP in between, if you are using your own server and have encryption running, the only thing the ISP has is the encrypted content that flowed through their lines, and even then, most likely do not even have that since it would be an enormous expense to log every packet that goes across the network to every endpoint on the system. So, all that means is the ISP only has a name, and possibly a fake name at that (or the name of someone else in the area who was paid well setup an internet connection). And again, if there is any internet cafe where uses are able to connect their own computer/laptop online for an hour or two, there is nothing that would stop them from having a secure/encrypted email service running on the laptop to send/receive messages, even with changing IP addresses, it would not be difficult especially if they used a dynamic DNS service like I mentioned previously. Then all they need to do is a little coordination with other people to setup timeframes when the email server would be online and accessible. Again, not too difficult, especially with a dynamic DNS, where they could have other people simply periodically ping the name to see if it is alive, and when it is know that they can send an email, or do an encrypted vpn tunnel to the system and put the message directly on the computer, or connect to a website run on that computer using secure sockets, and drop a message on a "forum" run on the system, or any of another hundred ways....
I think India needs to understand that for a service like RIM's if the people purchasing it can't trust it to carry their own private thoughts/conversations, then people won't pay for the service anyway. It isn't a matter of security or not, it is a matter of privacy vs big brother government. I can respect that India has issues with terrorist acts and is in a geo-political volatile area with respect to their neighbor nations. But shutting down RIM's business because India doesn't have cart-blanc access to any email sent over the devices doesn't really do anything in terms of actual security as there are thousands of other ways to send the same information securely, including but not limited to free internet email systems, to even setting up their own private email server (which takes all of 1 hour to do) and running it out of a home or even a laptop, using any of the dozens of free dynamic dns systems available.
If they ever get a nuclear weapon, then Israel will have to treat them as a military equal.
Actually, given Iran's position that the state of Israel does not even exist, that the holocaust did not happen, and that the Jews are invaders in the Holy Land, that if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, or even gets close to getting one, there will be full blown war between Israel and Iran (or at least immediate action to destroy the weapon and/or the capability to produce them in Iran).
Since the 5x00 series cards also included built in audio for the HDMI connection, did ATI also make drivers which support the full functionality? Or is this just video only?
The only way this will ever take off and work will be for all the connected cities on the high speed railway to have extremely good local public transportation systems. Right now, there are maybe three or four cities in the country which can be said to have that. If people can not get on/off the local public transportation network within 2-3 blocks of their destination(s), this will be a failure. If people can not get onto the local public transportation network within 5-10 minutes of arriving at one of the stations/stops, this will be a failure. If people have to make more than 2 changes at local transportation hubs to get to their destination, this will be a failure. If it takes more than 30 minutes ride time to reach their destination, this will be a failure.
Again, all those things are just for the local city public transit required for a nation-wide high-speed rail system to work. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see this added. I have used the European Eurorail system many times, and have loved it. It is a much more relaxed way to travel between cities than by air or car (especially with all the current air issues with long security lines, lost luggage, delays on the tarmak, etc). For traveling within 500-800 miles, a high-speed train system would really be the best choice. I just don't see cities having the needed infrastructure for this to happen.
Hahaha! I didn't even look at the killboard until that. It is great that she got podded as well:P Serves them right. I mean, really, IF, I was to even think of moving a PLEX, I would make DAM sure I was in at a minimum a freighter, jump freighter, dreadnought, or similar and had plenty of escort.
No odd design. It was user idiocy that caused this. Everyone who plays the game knows that you don't need to move PLEX to use or sell them. CCP (the EVE developers) didn't want to continue to have the stress on their servers for constantly checking a ship's cargo when it left station to see if there was a PLEX card contained in the hold and keep the ship from departing from station. They put up HUGE WARNINGS all over the place that the game rules were no longer restricting PLEX to only stay in station and were going to treat them like any other item in the game, asside from the fact that you could still convert them to game play time from anywhere in the game (i.e. you didn't need to be at the same location as the item, like you would with anything else).
The rules changed recently, and is/was wrong to begin with. You can not, nor could you ever convert a time card into PLEX outside of a station. However, the rules recently changed so that you can now put a PLEX into a cargohold and leave the station with it, but you are an idiot if you do, as this guy just found out. You can still activate a PLEX that you own FROM ANYWHERE IN GAME. You do NOT need to be in the same station as the item! You can also create a sale/auction contract on a PLEX FROM ANYWHERE IN THE GAME (not from the station you are located), so again, no reason to ever move a PLEX. Keep it in a permanent station. I can't see any reason at all to move them. Maybe if you are dedicated to playing in Wormhole space where there are not space stations (unless you built one), and don't want to spend the whole 5 minutes it takes to scan down a wormhole exit (not like you don't already have 5 or 10 already known to you since you are living in there to begin with), and don't want to exit/re-enter for some stupid reason...
Seriously, he is an idiot for taking them out of station. EVE only a few weeks ago made the change to allow players to physically move the PLEX between stations, because previously they were treated as a special item, where-in you could only convert a ETC (Extended Time Card), into PLEX (extended pilot license or something like that) in permanent station (i.e. not player controlled, or destroyable by players or other actions), and you could not leave the station if you had the PLEX in your cargo hold. But, EVE really didn't want to have to have all that extra checks to inforce these things, and let everyone know they were taking away the checks against moving of PLEX between stations, but it was at the players own risk.
No one even needs to move the PLEX, you can use them from ANYWHERE (i.e. you do not have to be in the same station as the item, or even in the same region of space, to convert the PLEX into play time on your account). The person moving them was an idiot for doing so. The only reason to move them is so that they are closer to you so you can more easily sell them in the game for in-game money (which is also the main reason to convert them from an ETC to PLEX in the first place).
Yeah, that will sure be sustainable. At the 1 in 70 households being able to have 1 car like this, I don't see this as an ultimate solution, but it might be a start at least. The bigger problem will need a better solution though, since, at least in the USA, most households have 2-3 cars/vehicles, so at 1 for every 70 households, it will only be about 0.5% of total household vehicles (not to mention corporate fleet vehicles, like commercial trucks, transit, and rentals).
Solar is great. I personally love it. Yet, it still can not be considered for base load power (i.e. the power needed to keep the grid from collapsing since solar is dependent on how sunny it is (or in many cases, isn't), and the time of day/night cycle for how much power it can still provide). That still doesn't help the grid at 5 or 6am when a lot of buildings turn on the AC/heat in preparation for occupancy by the daily workers...
I love how video+audio = "wiretapping", which is by definition, tapping into the wires of a phone or communications system to record the conversation. So have the politicians been jailed for taking video of their child at school and happened to video someone else? Have people been arrested for using a digital recorder at the local college lectures? What about the new crew?
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They are saying that only a VHS tape of the landing is left, and that all the original tapes were erased/lost/destroyed. But this new tape is FROM one of those original tapes, albeit from the Sydney archives who relayed the data since they were part of the line-of-sight network to communicate with the astronauts.
I think that is what the scientists are thinking as well. However, given that methane freezes at -182.15C and the average temperatures on Mars are -63C with the lowest recorded temperature of -140C and the highest temperature of 20C, I doubt that it is from methane freezing and thawing. It is possible that the methane is trapped in some other medium which allows it to escape with the temperatures are warmer in the summer.
Sony, now 5 months after you killed linux on the system, there have been 4 different hacks, whereas for the 3 years you had left liunx being available to your customers, there where no hacks. I think we can now successfully say, "We told you so", when you decided to unilaterally removed an advertised feature from the PS3. The people with the knowledge to hack the system were finally given the reason to do so, because they wanted their linux back, but in doing so, that also released the floodgates of the tools used/developed to the people who simply want free games. Real smart move Sony.
Considering I work in such an environment, and we have been hit with extremely few viruses, it really isn't that big a deal. 80-90% of the viruses and worms out there require internet connectivity anyway to do what they do anymore, from updating themselves to delivering the actual payload, to controlling the system. All of those things go away when you are air-gapped. If and when you do get a virus, it is much easier to deal with as many of the methods used to maintain the infection no longer exist because it doesn't have access to an internet address(es) to re-infect the system if it was not fully erased by the software. It also helps to run unix, linux, or BSD at the site, and log all media through designated scan systems. Again, almost all infections can be caught at the gatekeepers.
If it is in charge of a critical resource in which people's lives and safety is at risk, it should not be connected to the internet. I can be on its own, internal private network with no actual physical connection externally. It can be a pain at first, but really it is not that bad. Even if you need to download patches, etc, you simply download them to a box that is on the internet, put it on removable media, scan the media for viruses, remove it and connect to the stand-alone network. Really not that big a deal.
At least here in the USA if you have proof that the dog was lost/stolen (as in newpaper articles, or an original police report), you get your dog back if you have proof it is your dog (like a microchip implant). There are no questions asked, you get the dog (or you can do whatever you want, like officially give the dog to the current owners or sell him to them).
I mean, they sold out the first printing, which means there is plenty of demand :D
Thought I read about this yesterday.... Oh, yeah, I did... Tractor Beams
...what they don't tell you on that site is that in Pennsylvania, you go through Intercourse to get to Paradise
However, Small, Quite, HD, Cheap : Choose three.
Personally, I am of the Large, Quite, HD camp. You can make a very quiet system if you get the right case. I have a Antec Fusion Remote Max (not to be confused with the Fusion Remote). The Max edition has a 140mm side exhaust fan, a front/bottom 120mm intake, and a rear 120mm exhaust fan. So you can use extremely large slow rotating fans which make very little noise in this case and still move plenty of air. There is enough room to suspend 1 hard drive using bungie cords without much problem (or you can fit 4 or 5 in the case if you want max hdd space). Better, yet, buy a small 60gb solid state drive. Get a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P, an Intel Core i5-750, a Thermalright HR-02 PASSIVE CPU cooler, 4GB+ RAM, and a Powercolor HD-5750 Go Green (passive GPU). Only need to run the rear 120mm exhaust fan and the power supply fan. System will be extremely silent (under 16db if you replace the stock fan).
As stated by the previous response, even if there is an ISP in between, if you are using your own server and have encryption running, the only thing the ISP has is the encrypted content that flowed through their lines, and even then, most likely do not even have that since it would be an enormous expense to log every packet that goes across the network to every endpoint on the system. So, all that means is the ISP only has a name, and possibly a fake name at that (or the name of someone else in the area who was paid well setup an internet connection). And again, if there is any internet cafe where uses are able to connect their own computer/laptop online for an hour or two, there is nothing that would stop them from having a secure/encrypted email service running on the laptop to send/receive messages, even with changing IP addresses, it would not be difficult especially if they used a dynamic DNS service like I mentioned previously. Then all they need to do is a little coordination with other people to setup timeframes when the email server would be online and accessible. Again, not too difficult, especially with a dynamic DNS, where they could have other people simply periodically ping the name to see if it is alive, and when it is know that they can send an email, or do an encrypted vpn tunnel to the system and put the message directly on the computer, or connect to a website run on that computer using secure sockets, and drop a message on a "forum" run on the system, or any of another hundred ways....
I think India needs to understand that for a service like RIM's if the people purchasing it can't trust it to carry their own private thoughts/conversations, then people won't pay for the service anyway. It isn't a matter of security or not, it is a matter of privacy vs big brother government. I can respect that India has issues with terrorist acts and is in a geo-political volatile area with respect to their neighbor nations. But shutting down RIM's business because India doesn't have cart-blanc access to any email sent over the devices doesn't really do anything in terms of actual security as there are thousands of other ways to send the same information securely, including but not limited to free internet email systems, to even setting up their own private email server (which takes all of 1 hour to do) and running it out of a home or even a laptop, using any of the dozens of free dynamic dns systems available.
If they ever get a nuclear weapon, then Israel will have to treat them as a military equal.
Actually, given Iran's position that the state of Israel does not even exist, that the holocaust did not happen, and that the Jews are invaders in the Holy Land, that if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, or even gets close to getting one, there will be full blown war between Israel and Iran (or at least immediate action to destroy the weapon and/or the capability to produce them in Iran).
Since the 5x00 series cards also included built in audio for the HDMI connection, did ATI also make drivers which support the full functionality? Or is this just video only?
[sarcasm]I spent about 20,000 hours there over the last 5 years, and it is cripeling my social life.[/sarcasm]
Dude, if you want to stop playing the game, just start playing something else, like WoW, or Eve, or this thing called life....
The only way this will ever take off and work will be for all the connected cities on the high speed railway to have extremely good local public transportation systems. Right now, there are maybe three or four cities in the country which can be said to have that. If people can not get on/off the local public transportation network within 2-3 blocks of their destination(s), this will be a failure. If people can not get onto the local public transportation network within 5-10 minutes of arriving at one of the stations/stops, this will be a failure. If people have to make more than 2 changes at local transportation hubs to get to their destination, this will be a failure. If it takes more than 30 minutes ride time to reach their destination, this will be a failure.
Again, all those things are just for the local city public transit required for a nation-wide high-speed rail system to work. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see this added. I have used the European Eurorail system many times, and have loved it. It is a much more relaxed way to travel between cities than by air or car (especially with all the current air issues with long security lines, lost luggage, delays on the tarmak, etc). For traveling within 500-800 miles, a high-speed train system would really be the best choice. I just don't see cities having the needed infrastructure for this to happen.
I would, but I stopped buying DVD's a long time ago and am exclusively Blu-Ray now.
As I won't be purchasing this until that happens.
Hahaha! I didn't even look at the killboard until that. It is great that she got podded as well :P Serves them right. I mean, really, IF, I was to even think of moving a PLEX, I would make DAM sure I was in at a minimum a freighter, jump freighter, dreadnought, or similar and had plenty of escort.
No odd design. It was user idiocy that caused this. Everyone who plays the game knows that you don't need to move PLEX to use or sell them. CCP (the EVE developers) didn't want to continue to have the stress on their servers for constantly checking a ship's cargo when it left station to see if there was a PLEX card contained in the hold and keep the ship from departing from station. They put up HUGE WARNINGS all over the place that the game rules were no longer restricting PLEX to only stay in station and were going to treat them like any other item in the game, asside from the fact that you could still convert them to game play time from anywhere in the game (i.e. you didn't need to be at the same location as the item, like you would with anything else).
The rules changed recently, and is/was wrong to begin with. You can not, nor could you ever convert a time card into PLEX outside of a station. However, the rules recently changed so that you can now put a PLEX into a cargohold and leave the station with it, but you are an idiot if you do, as this guy just found out. You can still activate a PLEX that you own FROM ANYWHERE IN GAME. You do NOT need to be in the same station as the item! You can also create a sale/auction contract on a PLEX FROM ANYWHERE IN THE GAME (not from the station you are located), so again, no reason to ever move a PLEX. Keep it in a permanent station. I can't see any reason at all to move them. Maybe if you are dedicated to playing in Wormhole space where there are not space stations (unless you built one), and don't want to spend the whole 5 minutes it takes to scan down a wormhole exit (not like you don't already have 5 or 10 already known to you since you are living in there to begin with), and don't want to exit/re-enter for some stupid reason...
Seriously, he is an idiot for taking them out of station. EVE only a few weeks ago made the change to allow players to physically move the PLEX between stations, because previously they were treated as a special item, where-in you could only convert a ETC (Extended Time Card), into PLEX (extended pilot license or something like that) in permanent station (i.e. not player controlled, or destroyable by players or other actions), and you could not leave the station if you had the PLEX in your cargo hold. But, EVE really didn't want to have to have all that extra checks to inforce these things, and let everyone know they were taking away the checks against moving of PLEX between stations, but it was at the players own risk.
No one even needs to move the PLEX, you can use them from ANYWHERE (i.e. you do not have to be in the same station as the item, or even in the same region of space, to convert the PLEX into play time on your account). The person moving them was an idiot for doing so. The only reason to move them is so that they are closer to you so you can more easily sell them in the game for in-game money (which is also the main reason to convert them from an ETC to PLEX in the first place).
Yeah, that will sure be sustainable. At the 1 in 70 households being able to have 1 car like this, I don't see this as an ultimate solution, but it might be a start at least. The bigger problem will need a better solution though, since, at least in the USA, most households have 2-3 cars/vehicles, so at 1 for every 70 households, it will only be about 0.5% of total household vehicles (not to mention corporate fleet vehicles, like commercial trucks, transit, and rentals).
Solar is great. I personally love it. Yet, it still can not be considered for base load power (i.e. the power needed to keep the grid from collapsing since solar is dependent on how sunny it is (or in many cases, isn't), and the time of day/night cycle for how much power it can still provide). That still doesn't help the grid at 5 or 6am when a lot of buildings turn on the AC/heat in preparation for occupancy by the daily workers...
I love how video+audio = "wiretapping", which is by definition, tapping into the wires of a phone or communications system to record the conversation. So have the politicians been jailed for taking video of their child at school and happened to video someone else? Have people been arrested for using a digital recorder at the local college lectures? What about the new crew?