Curiosity has 2GB of onboard radiation-hardened Flash storage - not enough to fit both the Flight software and the Rover software at the same time. So they devised a system where they would fly the rover to Mars with the Flight software, and considering they wouldn't be performing a return trip, decided that they could remote-wipe the flight data and install rover software in its place.
So... the rover was responsible for the flight systems of its own delivery mechanism?
If that's the case (which I cannot confirm nor deny, lacking NASA's rover specs), then it's stupid. Having the inter-planetary firmware update ability as a fallback is a good idea, but making it your default, especially knowing all the shit that could very easily go wrong and turn Curiosity into a multi-billion dollar brick? Stupid.
Due to Curiosity's nature, the onboard electronic systems need to be radiation-hardened. Not jjust "tin-foil cover" hardened. I'm talking engineered from the ground-up to resist data corruption from external radiation sources.
No shit, thanks Captain Obvious. Hard to recognize you without the mask and cape.
And of course, the people working at NASA are incapable of making mistakes or poor decisions, right?
This comes at extreme cost, both financially and physically. Every little bit of extra RAM or Flash storage adds weight to the rover unit, and by extent, tons (literally) of extra fuel to carry it that full 225,000,000km.
looks at identical 2GB and 8GB flash drives sitting on desk
... Citation needed.
It's not as easy as plugging in a thumb drive or popping an extra disk in there. If it really were, do you think the rocket scientists at NASA would have thought about that before they shot a billion-dollar robot into the sky?
"rocket scientist" != infallible, omniscient deity. I know this is probably a tough pill to swallow, but just because someone has a particular title next to their name, does not, in any way, indicate their ability to complete every task sans mistakes and oversights.
I know you think you're being all geeky and clever, but seriously.
Actually, I was making a joke (figured the PS3 reference was a dead giveaway). You know, one of those little sentences or short stories that are made with the intent of causing the audience's corner mouth muscles to pull up slightly, and encourage a repetitive "ha ha" sound to be emitted from the throat?
Of course, you may be one of those poor, sad, creatures who are apparently incapable of anything resembling happiness or humor. If so, please disregard (and get a damn sense of humor)
If you aspire to second-guess every engineering decision that NASA makes, perhaps you should apply for a management position there.
Maybe I should. That way, NASA would have at least one employee who isn't completely infatuated with themselves purely because they have a certain piece of paper hanging on the wall. Everyone needs a hacker, right?
Fun Fact: The airplane was invented by a couple of hillbillies, in a bike shed. Education can be overrated.
Why the hell are they doing a firmware update from ~225,000,000 km away??? One would think they would have, I dunno, tested this shit before flinging it at another fucking planet.
Seriously, is Sony/EA running NASA's software department now?
There is a new update for this rover; you will be unable to continue using online features without installing the update.
Except what you're describing is not a false flag operation.
False flag (also known as black flag) operations are covert operations designed to deceive in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities.
This may be a disinformation campaign but unless the DOJ is posing as someone else, it's not a false flag.
DOJ will have covert access to the information, under the guise of Apple having overt access to the information.
Maybe not the typical false flag operation, but the term still fits.
When this is so clearly a form of misdirection, I can't help but wonder the purpose of a DOJ statement like his being made public
Setup for a false flag operation:
- DOJ publicly claims Device X is secure from their snooping
- Suckers fall for the ploy and migrate to Device X, assuming it's safe from prying gov't eyes
- DOJ forces Device X's manufacturer, via NSL or similar devious means, to turn over user information.
- Device X's user has no idea what's going on, thanks to draconian EULA and ToS, until jackbooted thugs kick in the door.
It's quite brilliant, really. Or, would be, if not so obvious.
Yup, that's exactly what those interested in maintaining the status quo want you to think.
In reality, were a majority of a state's population to vote for a third party, and the electoral candidates for said districts voted otherwise, they would not maintain their positions long.
>>>there's no requirement for ID (nor should there be)..
I agree 100%! I want to be able to vote for Mitt Romney at least 5 times, and these damn voter-ID laws are making that difficult. Curses. Foiled again.
The only way you would be able to do such a thing, would be through absentee balloting...
Most all states that I know of that require ID for voting, offer said IDs free of charge.
There is no such thing. The ID itself may not have a cost (outside the tax dollars used to fund the program), but the process of acquisition is definitely not cost-free.
A person has to go register to vote....getting an ID isn't any more difficult.
Voter registrations, at least in my area, require nothing more than printing the form and mailing it to the city clerk, postage paid. Getting a photo ID made requires a trip to the DMV/equivalant gov't office, which then involves scheduling, transportation costs, et. al.
If someone can't put forth a little effort to vote, then they're probably not interested enough to research, listen and made an informed vote either.
Many of those who do vote, don't do research nor make an informed decision: Just look at the sheer volume of folks who vote for Democrats or Republicans, thinking that if they continue to vote for the same two parties something will magically change.
Forcing people to pay for an ID (a.k.a. a poll tax, which BTW is illegal) will do nothing to change that.
At some point...you have to decide if it is important enough to you to put forth the effort. It isn't convenient to me either, but on voting day, if a weekday...I get up earlier than normal, so that I have plenty of time to get to the polls (usually early there isn't much a line) and wait in line if need be...vote and still get to work on time.
What does accusing the poor of being lazy, which is what you've done here, have to do with voter ID requirements?
Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with ID requirements if they serve some sort of useful and obvious purpose, but considering that the biggest proponents of these new voter ID laws can't seem to muster a single scrap of evidence to show there is a need (I think the latest numbers show fraudulent votes make up less than.03% of the total vote, but I'll admit that's here-say at this point), this crap seems like an expensive solution looking for a problem.
That's the designer/manufacturer/operator's fault. I.e. people.
And?.
And, you can't sue an inanimate object, but you can sue the idiot that designed/made/used it improperly.
Which is but one reason why blaming inanimate objects for the mistakes of those who design/create/use them is just blatant stupidity, no matter how you try and justify it.
After watching the video of how the Slidefire works I would have to imagine it will be made illegal or put under the same restrictions as any automatic weapon within a few years. It's really just another way to arrive at an automatic rifle and get around the ban on buying them.
The Slidefire and similar stocks have been around for a few years now, but I haven't found any evidence that their legality has been brought into question yet (won't stop the busy-bodies from trying, I know...).
2012 jeep review in sweden the vehicle is consistently blowing tyres and nearly rolled over once. Most of the video is trying to figure out why it nearly rolled over once but not on subsequent attempts. But the tyres blowing at 70-80Km/h is uh... bad. Really really bad.
That's the designer/manufacturer/operator's fault. I.e. people.
Bugs fixed in Visual studio 2012 some of this stuff goes back years and has to be compared against the c++ STL precisely because the way it does work, and the way it should work are not the same.
That's the designer/manufacturer/operator's fault. I.e. people.
Don't get me started on years of various nVIDIA and AMD tools not playing nice with OpenGl or Directx.
That's the designer/manufacturer's fault. I.e. people.
Wiki on accidental discharge lists two scenarios, where a weapon is dropped, or when a weapon overheats that it can accidentally fire if it was improperly designed (e.g. a poor choice of materials).
That's the designer/manufacturer/operator's fault. I.e. people.
So yes, cars themselves can cause accidents, guns do kill people, and IDE's can cause bugs in your code.
You know that and I know that but journalists don't seem to know that.
Using that term to refer to the booger-blasters who pump out poorly researched and written blog posts is giving them entirely too much credit, you know.
Yes, I am aware the same complaint applies to many, many of the 'articles' posted on 'legitimate' network news sites - the complaint remains valid nonetheless.
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For those (who are, apparently, many) having trouble getting this:
IT
IS
A
JOKE.
Seriously, some of you guys need to grow a sense of humor.
Curiosity has 2GB of onboard radiation-hardened Flash storage - not enough to fit both the Flight software and the Rover software at the same time. So they devised a system where they would fly the rover to Mars with the Flight software, and considering they wouldn't be performing a return trip, decided that they could remote-wipe the flight data and install rover software in its place.
So... the rover was responsible for the flight systems of its own delivery mechanism? If that's the case (which I cannot confirm nor deny, lacking NASA's rover specs), then it's stupid. Having the inter-planetary firmware update ability as a fallback is a good idea, but making it your default, especially knowing all the shit that could very easily go wrong and turn Curiosity into a multi-billion dollar brick? Stupid.
Due to Curiosity's nature, the onboard electronic systems need to be radiation-hardened. Not jjust "tin-foil cover" hardened. I'm talking engineered from the ground-up to resist data corruption from external radiation sources.
No shit, thanks Captain Obvious. Hard to recognize you without the mask and cape.
And of course, the people working at NASA are incapable of making mistakes or poor decisions, right?
This comes at extreme cost, both financially and physically. Every little bit of extra RAM or Flash storage adds weight to the rover unit, and by extent, tons (literally) of extra fuel to carry it that full 225,000,000km.
looks at identical 2GB and 8GB flash drives sitting on desk
...
Citation needed.
It's not as easy as plugging in a thumb drive or popping an extra disk in there. If it really were, do you think the rocket scientists at NASA would have thought about that before they shot a billion-dollar robot into the sky?
"rocket scientist" != infallible, omniscient deity. I know this is probably a tough pill to swallow, but just because someone has a particular title next to their name, does not, in any way, indicate their ability to complete every task sans mistakes and oversights.
I know you think you're being all geeky and clever, but seriously.
Actually, I was making a joke (figured the PS3 reference was a dead giveaway). You know, one of those little sentences or short stories that are made with the intent of causing the audience's corner mouth muscles to pull up slightly, and encourage a repetitive "ha ha" sound to be emitted from the throat?
Of course, you may be one of those poor, sad, creatures who are apparently incapable of anything resembling happiness or humor. If so, please disregard (and get a damn sense of humor)
If you aspire to second-guess every engineering decision that NASA makes, perhaps you should apply for a management position there.
Maybe I should. That way, NASA would have at least one employee who isn't completely infatuated with themselves purely because they have a certain piece of paper hanging on the wall. Everyone needs a hacker, right?
Fun Fact: The airplane was invented by a couple of hillbillies, in a bike shed. Education can be overrated.
Seriously, is Sony/EA running NASA's software department now?
Except what you're describing is not a false flag operation.
False flag (also known as black flag) operations are covert operations designed to deceive in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities.
This may be a disinformation campaign but unless the DOJ is posing as someone else, it's not a false flag.
DOJ will have covert access to the information, under the guise of Apple having overt access to the information.
Maybe not the typical false flag operation, but the term still fits.
OH NO! There goes Tokyo!
FTFY.
Go, go Godzilla! Yea...
When this is so clearly a form of misdirection, I can't help but wonder the purpose of a DOJ statement like his being made public
Setup for a false flag operation:
- DOJ publicly claims Device X is secure from their snooping
- Suckers fall for the ploy and migrate to Device X, assuming it's safe from prying gov't eyes
- DOJ forces Device X's manufacturer, via NSL or similar devious means, to turn over user information.
- Device X's user has no idea what's going on, thanks to draconian EULA and ToS, until jackbooted thugs kick in the door.
It's quite brilliant, really. Or, would be, if not so obvious.
Yup, that's exactly what those interested in maintaining the status quo want you to think.
In reality, were a majority of a state's population to vote for a third party, and the electoral candidates for said districts voted otherwise, they would not maintain their positions long.
>>>there's no requirement for ID (nor should there be)..
I agree 100%! I want to be able to vote for Mitt Romney at least 5 times, and these damn voter-ID laws are making that difficult. Curses. Foiled again.
The only way you would be able to do such a thing, would be through absentee balloting...
Which photo ID requirements do nothing to stop.
Most all states that I know of that require ID for voting, offer said IDs free of charge.
There is no such thing. The ID itself may not have a cost (outside the tax dollars used to fund the program), but the process of acquisition is definitely not cost-free.
A person has to go register to vote....getting an ID isn't any more difficult.
Voter registrations, at least in my area, require nothing more than printing the form and mailing it to the city clerk, postage paid. Getting a photo ID made requires a trip to the DMV/equivalant gov't office, which then involves scheduling, transportation costs, et. al.
If someone can't put forth a little effort to vote, then they're probably not interested enough to research, listen and made an informed vote either.
Many of those who do vote, don't do research nor make an informed decision: Just look at the sheer volume of folks who vote for Democrats or Republicans, thinking that if they continue to vote for the same two parties something will magically change.
Forcing people to pay for an ID (a.k.a. a poll tax, which BTW is illegal) will do nothing to change that.
At some point...you have to decide if it is important enough to you to put forth the effort. It isn't convenient to me either, but on voting day, if a weekday...I get up earlier than normal, so that I have plenty of time to get to the polls (usually early there isn't much a line) and wait in line if need be...vote and still get to work on time.
What does accusing the poor of being lazy, which is what you've done here, have to do with voter ID requirements?
.03% of the total vote, but I'll admit that's here-say at this point), this crap seems like an expensive solution looking for a problem.
Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with ID requirements if they serve some sort of useful and obvious purpose, but considering that the biggest proponents of these new voter ID laws can't seem to muster a single scrap of evidence to show there is a need (I think the latest numbers show fraudulent votes make up less than
Google... an honest broker of information.
Thanks for the chuckle!
Actually be the government, that's the best way to steal.
Proof: US Senators are allowed to commit insider trading.
Also worth noting, the Federal Reserve Bank is a privately owned company, not a government institution.
That's the designer/manufacturer/operator's fault. I.e. people.
And?.
And, you can't sue an inanimate object, but you can sue the idiot that designed/made/used it improperly.
Which is but one reason why blaming inanimate objects for the mistakes of those who design/create/use them is just blatant stupidity, no matter how you try and justify it.
Clandestine operation have plenty of use for unofficially raised funds. Remember Iran-Contra?
Here's a refresher for those who don't.
yes but when you use it you are a threat to national security/terrorist....
Unless you run a bank like HSBC.
Then you get a slap on the wrist and stern talkin' to.
Gitmo is reserved for the proles; Party members need not concern themselves.
*rimshot*
while I like your comment otherwise, "exponantially more" is just meaningless.
"Exponentially" does not necessarily imply an increase, but rather that the figure in question has or is related to an exponent.
Also, you misspelled it.
After watching the video of how the Slidefire works I would have to imagine it will be made illegal or put under the same restrictions as any automatic weapon within a few years. It's really just another way to arrive at an automatic rifle and get around the ban on buying them.
The Slidefire and similar stocks have been around for a few years now, but I haven't found any evidence that their legality has been brought into question yet (won't stop the busy-bodies from trying, I know...).
As for making it illegal, well... might as well criminalize physics.
2012 jeep review in sweden the vehicle is consistently blowing tyres and nearly rolled over once. Most of the video is trying to figure out why it nearly rolled over once but not on subsequent attempts. But the tyres blowing at 70-80Km/h is uh... bad. Really really bad.
That's the designer/manufacturer/operator's fault. I.e. people.
Bugs fixed in Visual studio 2012 some of this stuff goes back years and has to be compared against the c++ STL precisely because the way it does work, and the way it should work are not the same.
That's the designer/manufacturer/operator's fault. I.e. people.
Don't get me started on years of various nVIDIA and AMD tools not playing nice with OpenGl or Directx.
That's the designer/manufacturer's fault. I.e. people.
Wiki on accidental discharge lists two scenarios, where a weapon is dropped, or when a weapon overheats that it can accidentally fire if it was improperly designed (e.g. a poor choice of materials).
That's the designer/manufacturer/operator's fault. I.e. people.
So yes, cars themselves can cause accidents, guns do kill people, and IDE's can cause bugs in your code.
Hyperbole troll is hyperbolic...
MyCleanPC.
Sounds like guy places order on Amazon for TV, carrier delivers wrong package to his apartment, douchebag blogger tags Amazon for screw-up.
FTFY
You know that and I know that but journalists don't seem to know that.
Using that term to refer to the booger-blasters who pump out poorly researched and written blog posts is giving them entirely too much credit, you know.
Yes, I am aware the same complaint applies to many, many of the 'articles' posted on 'legitimate' network news sites - the complaint remains valid nonetheless.
Your laws are funny in the USA. Isn't that a simple mechanical modification to make ?
Mechanical modification, yes.
Simple? Far from it.
Also, highly illegal.
It would be far cheaper, easier, and safer to just install one of these.
I want to know what kind of retailer carries HDTVs and assault rifles?
Damn near every pawn shop in the nation.
The best use of security question is to answer them dishonestly/humorously with responses you will remember, or can write down.
This, a million times over.
It's not the questions that are the problem, it's the idiots giving them obvious, straight answers.
I'm now turning my iPod up to 11 to drown out the filthy lies of the naysayers. Jobs be praised.
Didn't they remove that function, in order to protect you from yourself?