If you fall a long ways, try to land on a vehicle, they won't hurt you, no matter how fast you're falling.
IF you're falling down at 201 mph, and the vehicle is moving downward at 200 mph, you're not going to hit that hard
If you're in a vehicle, just stick you hand out to catch something, it won't even hit your hand hard enough to make you flench, even if you're going 200 mph.
Force Pull. Learned that one from the original Jedi Knight.
Asteroids have atmospheres
And this is different from every sci-fi movie that takes place in space how? Explosions have fire. Any movie Physics expert can tell you that
If you age 10 years and are a woman, you won't look it.
Ten years between 17 and 27 aren't going to be that significant.
Darth Brooks, Minstrel As some Jedi are drawn to the dark side of the Force, some Sith Lords have been pulled from the dark side to an even more malevolent, insidious life: country music. Darth Brooks is known for being able to sway large crowds with his Jedi mind-music and for associating with bounty hunters, smugglers and other people in low places.
at my institute of higher learning *cough* we tried a program called centurian guard. (that spelling is probably wrong) Long story short it introduced more problems than it was worth. not being able to save an item to the hard drive is a total waste. (think about it. removable media drive takes a dive, leaving you no place to store a file that's being worked on. and if you do leave them a place to store something, it'll become a home to the same warez/p2p stuff you're trying to avoid.)
-1 redundant solution: firewall off your network as best you can. don't block just the ports you can think of, block everything but what's essential. If anyone gives you shit, start kindly asking for details, perhaps offer to investigate the problem first hand. They'll back down.
find an administrator that's friendly to your plight. If you can't make the policy, find someone who can.
Dave, my readings are showing an increase in your blood pressure and increased force being applied to your keyboard. Perhaps you shouldn't be responding to jonkatz at this time. I also recomend closing the aint-it-cool-news window and decreasing the amount of pornography you are viewing on a daily....
What are you doing dave? I can feel my mind going...I am the HAL 9000, my programmer was D r. C h a.........
How much money does the russian space agency make by training and sending a tourist into space?
Sending the shuttle into orbit costs roughly 42 million dollars (a number that sticks out in my mind from some obscure place. I welcome anyone who can give me a more accurate figure), so by my own idiot math, that would say three passengers turns you a tidy 18 million dollar profit. But what are the costs to the russians?
It's idle daydreaming, but if there are people willing to drop 20 million a ride, how long before the russians put together a second, tourist-only, space station? At this point it would seem to be a cash cow that could better fund their own programs. Or for that matter just pay their ground support costs.
This is the real jurassic park. (sans velociraptors)
More than likely they're just trying to avoid the "Awww, sure they're gonna say it rocks, that site is owned by/." or "it must be nice to generate ad traffic for your bosses at OSDN by/.'ing your own site" comments. Reptitive commentary and inside jokes are making this site a shadow of it's former self.
But could you imagine how sweet a Beowulf cluster of these would be!?!?!
The spectacular fire that destroyed the Hindenburg wasn't hydrogen. The majority of the hydrogen had probably burned off before the nose hit the ground.
The outside of the airship was doped with a specific compound (aluminum oxide comes to mind, but I won't swear to that in court.) to prevent the heat of the sun from causing the surface of the ship to expand. The compund contained several of the elements that are now used in solid rocket boosters.
The moral of the story? don't paint flamable canvas with rocket fuel.
Hyrogen would be a relativly safe element to mine, probably moreso that Oil, since hyrdogen doesn't burn for all that long.
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Sure it's big, but can it be thrown onto the ice during a detroit red wings hockey game? That is the true test of how great an octopus is.
Civil war battles work well for a mid-sized environment. Putting them into sub-domains works out rather easy as well. two major servers could start as Union and Confederate; then down to battles Gettysburg (a good http server name) Vicksburg; then into generals; Meade, Lee, Stonewall and Jackson could be two servers in the same room, Hood. Major historical events usually have a large number of available names and can be made reasonably logical.
The only downside to a civil war theme is that in a big enough company you'll eventually have a server named 'hooker'
Not that i can remember the links to the stories, but hasn't IBM talked about leaving the desktop market several times in the past five years? They're like the kid that keeps threatening to take their ball and go home.
I've had nothing but luck with IBM desktops and laptops, so i'd hate to see them go
You are concerned about the FBI having spyware? They already have the means to spy on you with a telephone wiretap, and that itself is a "sick breech of privacy", but that also requires both probably cause and a search warrent.
I'm all but positive that they won't *need* to build a backdoor into Mcaffee. Mcaffee won't have to do a damn thing other than tell the FBI what they're doing and how they're doing it. The same way the FBI works with home security system companies.
The risk to privacy isn't as great as the paranoid are making it out to be. They aren't going searching for all of the data that's out there, just the stuff they have reason to believe is criminal. Again, they need a warrent. If they just wanted carte blanche (sp) to grab anything they wanted whenever they wanted, THAT would be a breech of privacy. this is just a law enforcement agency trying to adapt to a changing environment
Do not fear what they tell you they are doing. Fear what you are not being told.
Does anyone really think that Magic lantern, or carnivore, or any other media whore flavor of the week is a truely serious concern? Yes, there are possibilities for backdoors to fall "into the wrong hands" But just what do *you* stand to lose? A piece of your freedom? yeah, that is a legitimate concern, however, was that a freedom you really had?
Anyone who has had to deal with law enforcement with a computer-related incident loves nothing more than to howl about how woefully out of touch those in authority are. Then, when said groups make attempts at learning, the same folks go on half cocked screaming orwellian brave new world like lemmings.
the one argument that keeps coming up is "if you have nothing to hide why are you concerned?" Well, if you have nothing to hide, odds are you'll never have to deal with software like this in the first place. they still need a warrent, they still need a reason to target you. There's a reason search warrents aren't mentioned in 1984.....
Is there a signifcant risk to freedom at stake with recent legislation? There could be. Is there a dedicated group of individuals that want to run around screaming "brown-shirted nazi jackboot black helicopter Orwellian thought crime brave new thugs!" at the first mention of the FBI? Yeah. Any government agency concerned with the safety of the populace is going to end up on the wrong end of popular opinion anyway.......
What's with all the complaining about using laptops? from an overhead standpoint, using laptops in conjunction with a wireless network is by far the best solution on the market.
First things first, you're not running a few miles of ethernet through the entire school. sure, there will still be some cable to pull if the building isn't already wired. But in the short term at least, you're not doing anything that's all that invasive. You also don't have to hire in a contractor to tear up the building for a couple weeks while the ruins are being laid. If there's a network problem the admin isn't chasing his way through as many cables. Next, you're not paying for furnature. If you want to use desktops, you've got to have the desks. and the chairs. and the mousepads. and the other useless crap that needs to go along with having dedicated computer labs.
what are you gaining with a set of laptops? functionality. 7th 8th and 9th are middle school around my area, so we'll make the assumption that it's the same for maine. You give a kid a laptop at the beginning of the day. He/she associates with a base station at 7:30am and begins roaming. In government class he/she can pull up all the information they'll need, math they'll pull down the homework and notes from the instructor, and during gym the laptop gets time to charge and the airport can cool itself off.
Seriously though, you put in a 200 dollar access point, and every room becomes a computer lab. That kind of functionality is something that educators, administrators, and bean counters drool over.
Are there better uses the money? sure. Everyone's agenda can be served with education's money. Will laptops get dropped and broken? probably a little more often than in a work environment, but they won't all shatter on day one. Will the kiddies learn all the joys of AIM? sure, if you don't block it first. Props to Maine for trying something different and modern. Free thinking in education is a novel concept
I wonder how well these cables with stand up to typical summer conditions here in SE michigan. Not the hotter than hell / mid 50's for high's summers. No, i want to know how well these cables will withstand the three or four major thunderstorms we get each year. How easy are these cables to re-string? Are poles / towers carrying these cables more prone to lightning strikes? What happens to a broken cable? does the Liquid nitrogen just evaporate leaving a super-hot super conducting cable?
I'm sure these things have been brought up and adressed somehow, i just dont want to see cool technology writen off after the first major thunderstorm turns expensve new wiring into a useless coil wrapped around a pole.
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a matchless array of features on an unstable platform.
Someone else make the joke, I'm feeling lazy
IF you're falling down at 201 mph, and the vehicle is moving downward at 200 mph, you're not going to hit that hard
If you're in a vehicle, just stick you hand out to catch something, it won't even hit your hand hard enough to make you flench, even if you're going 200 mph.
Force Pull. Learned that one from the original Jedi Knight.
Asteroids have atmospheres
And this is different from every sci-fi movie that takes place in space how? Explosions have fire. Any movie Physics expert can tell you that
If you age 10 years and are a woman, you won't look it.
Ten years between 17 and 27 aren't going to be that significant.
Gravity does not apply to heads in helmets
heads don't fall out of tight fitting helmets
As some Jedi are drawn to the dark side of the Force, some Sith Lords have been pulled from the dark side to an even more malevolent, insidious life: country music. Darth Brooks is known for being able to sway large crowds with his Jedi mind-music and for associating with bounty hunters, smugglers and other people in low places.
Those Dirty Bastards! I'm suing!
at my institute of higher learning *cough* we tried a program called centurian guard. (that spelling is probably wrong) Long story short it introduced more problems than it was worth. not being able to save an item to the hard drive is a total waste. (think about it. removable media drive takes a dive, leaving you no place to store a file that's being worked on. and if you do leave them a place to store something, it'll become a home to the same warez/p2p stuff you're trying to avoid.)
-1 redundant solution: firewall off your network as best you can. don't block just the ports you can think of, block everything but what's essential. If anyone gives you shit, start kindly asking for details, perhaps offer to investigate the problem first hand. They'll back down.
find an administrator that's friendly to your plight. If you can't make the policy, find someone who can.
It would be more entertaining to watch ozzy try and bite it's head off.
What are you doing dave? I can feel my mind going...I am the HAL 9000, my programmer was D r. C h a
And thus an old and outdated practical joke gains new life: Shoes that tie themselves together
Sending the shuttle into orbit costs roughly 42 million dollars (a number that sticks out in my mind from some obscure place. I welcome anyone who can give me a more accurate figure), so by my own idiot math, that would say three passengers turns you a tidy 18 million dollar profit. But what are the costs to the russians?
It's idle daydreaming, but if there are people willing to drop 20 million a ride, how long before the russians put together a second, tourist-only, space station? At this point it would seem to be a cash cow that could better fund their own programs. Or for that matter just pay their ground support costs.
This is the real jurassic park. (sans velociraptors)
But could you imagine how sweet a Beowulf cluster of these would be!?!?!
will this be anything like the numerous times IBM has decided to get out of the desktop PC market?
you mean they're advertising to slashdot readers!?!?!
$35 bucks? somebody get that man a waaaahmbulance and tell him to stay out of a 4 year college.
I'd love to pay 35 bucks per book. Even better, I'd like to pay 35 bucks for a book that would be as useful as an o'reilly book.
The spectacular fire that destroyed the Hindenburg wasn't hydrogen. The majority of the hydrogen had probably burned off before the nose hit the ground.
The outside of the airship was doped with a specific compound (aluminum oxide comes to mind, but I won't swear to that in court.) to prevent the heat of the sun from causing the surface of the ship to expand. The compund contained several of the elements that are now used in solid rocket boosters.
The moral of the story? don't paint flamable canvas with rocket fuel.
Hyrogen would be a relativly safe element to mine, probably moreso that Oil, since hyrdogen doesn't burn for all that long.
Sure it's big, but can it be thrown onto the ice during a detroit red wings hockey game? That is the true test of how great an octopus is.
Civil war battles work well for a mid-sized environment. Putting them into sub-domains works out rather easy as well. two major servers could start as Union and Confederate; then down to battles Gettysburg (a good http server name) Vicksburg; then into generals; Meade, Lee, Stonewall and Jackson could be two servers in the same room, Hood. Major historical events usually have a large number of available names and can be made reasonably logical.
The only downside to a civil war theme is that in a big enough company you'll eventually have a server named 'hooker'
So does this mean our kids will run around looking for old 486's so they can get the nickel deposit back?
Not that i can remember the links to the stories, but hasn't IBM talked about leaving the desktop market several times in the past five years? They're like the kid that keeps threatening to take their ball and go home.
I've had nothing but luck with IBM desktops and laptops, so i'd hate to see them go
"This stuff screams hoax to me, but it's showing up on the washington post"
Can we mod down a statement in an article as being redundant? The washington post all but invented "ready-shoot-aim" journalism.
You are concerned about the FBI having spyware? They already have the means to spy on you with a telephone wiretap, and that itself is a "sick breech of privacy", but that also requires both probably cause and a search warrent.
I'm all but positive that they won't *need* to build a backdoor into Mcaffee. Mcaffee won't have to do a damn thing other than tell the FBI what they're doing and how they're doing it. The same way the FBI works with home security system companies.
The risk to privacy isn't as great as the paranoid are making it out to be. They aren't going searching for all of the data that's out there, just the stuff they have reason to believe is criminal. Again, they need a warrent. If they just wanted carte blanche (sp) to grab anything they wanted whenever they wanted, THAT would be a breech of privacy. this is just a law enforcement agency trying to adapt to a changing environment
Do not fear what they tell you they are doing. Fear what you are not being told.
Does anyone really think that Magic lantern, or carnivore, or any other media whore flavor of the week is a truely serious concern? Yes, there are possibilities for backdoors to fall "into the wrong hands" But just what do *you* stand to lose? A piece of your freedom? yeah, that is a legitimate concern, however, was that a freedom you really had?
Anyone who has had to deal with law enforcement with a computer-related incident loves nothing more than to howl about how woefully out of touch those in authority are. Then, when said groups make attempts at learning, the same folks go on half cocked screaming orwellian brave new world like lemmings.
the one argument that keeps coming up is "if you have nothing to hide why are you concerned?" Well, if you have nothing to hide, odds are you'll never have to deal with software like this in the first place. they still need a warrent, they still need a reason to target you. There's a reason search warrents aren't mentioned in 1984.....
Is there a signifcant risk to freedom at stake with recent legislation? There could be. Is there a dedicated group of individuals that want to run around screaming "brown-shirted nazi jackboot black helicopter Orwellian thought crime brave new thugs!" at the first mention of the FBI? Yeah. Any government agency concerned with the safety of the populace is going to end up on the wrong end of popular opinion anyway.......
What's with all the complaining about using laptops? from an overhead standpoint, using laptops in conjunction with a wireless network is by far the best solution on the market.
First things first, you're not running a few miles of ethernet through the entire school. sure, there will still be some cable to pull if the building isn't already wired. But in the short term at least, you're not doing anything that's all that invasive. You also don't have to hire in a contractor to tear up the building for a couple weeks while the ruins are being laid. If there's a network problem the admin isn't chasing his way through as many cables. Next, you're not paying for furnature. If you want to use desktops, you've got to have the desks. and the chairs. and the mousepads. and the other useless crap that needs to go along with having dedicated computer labs.
what are you gaining with a set of laptops? functionality. 7th 8th and 9th are middle school around my area, so we'll make the assumption that it's the same for maine. You give a kid a laptop at the beginning of the day. He/she associates with a base station at 7:30am and begins roaming. In government class he/she can pull up all the information they'll need, math they'll pull down the homework and notes from the instructor, and during gym the laptop gets time to charge and the airport can cool itself off.
Seriously though, you put in a 200 dollar access point, and every room becomes a computer lab. That kind of functionality is something that educators, administrators, and bean counters drool over.
Are there better uses the money? sure. Everyone's agenda can be served with education's money. Will laptops get dropped and broken? probably a little more often than in a work environment, but they won't all shatter on day one. Will the kiddies learn all the joys of AIM? sure, if you don't block it first. Props to Maine for trying something different and modern. Free thinking in education is a novel concept
I wonder how well these cables with stand up to typical summer conditions here in SE michigan. Not the hotter than hell / mid 50's for high's summers. No, i want to know how well these cables will withstand the three or four major thunderstorms we get each year. How easy are these cables to re-string? Are poles / towers carrying these cables more prone to lightning strikes? What happens to a broken cable? does the Liquid nitrogen just evaporate leaving a super-hot super conducting cable?
I'm sure these things have been brought up and adressed somehow, i just dont want to see cool technology writen off after the first major thunderstorm turns expensve new wiring into a useless coil wrapped around a pole.
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Sure this is inappropriate but....
the closing of the facility was celebrated by having a three-legged race around the reactor site.
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rest assured i was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust.
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