I know.... I was just in a daft mood due to extreme boredom at work.
But as to your point... bear in mind we don't know how many asteriods have a 1:45,000 or better (worse for us, better for the rock) chance of hitting us so the realistic odds of getting a rock in the kisser are unknown.
I'm a software/systems engineer by profession and I don't need some marketing type to tell me that embedding a logic bomb to deal with pirates is a Bad Ideatm. (Unless of course the zapping of home directories is down to sloppy programming then you might want to say, oh - sorry it's deliberate - don't use a pirated key rather than we don't know what we're doing and trashed your PC sorry.)
If you don't want pirates to run your software just either shut it down or get the program to send a log back to you etc.
Given most hacking these days involves botnets etc to hide the point of origin any attempt to 'map' the source of the attack is likely to show every country with anything more than a piece of wet string as a potential source of the attack - should make for an interesting target review:
Airforce General: Where is the target Mr President? President: The world AG: What? P: You heard me. Target the world now. AG: Yes Sir P: And don't forget Canada or California AG: Yes Sir
WTF is this a story? Company launches product and starts work on next product. No shit sherlock.... I would suspect that while the new OS moves from the blue-sky phase to getting actual code cut the R&D dept will be work on its replacement....
Mozilla Firefox the most used browser??? While I'd love it if that was the case IE still leads... on a few websites I can pull the stat's from IE is still around 74% with Firefox around 15%.
Netscape lost the browser battle along time ago, Opera and then the Mozilla project putting the remaining nails in its coffin finishing off the work IE did.
*Note* I'm not saying IE is a better browser, just when it is bundled as part of the OS its got a rather captive audience - those who know better switch to FF but those poor buggers who work for companies which force IE on their staff have no choice.
Adapted from military technology, Guardian is designed to detect a missile launch and then direct a laser to the seeker system on the head of the missile and disrupt its guidance signals. The laser is not visible and is eye-safe, the company said.
RPG's are unguided so not much need to disrupt the guidance signals.
The use of the word experiment is a bad choice of words.... the 2.6.16.y releases are all stable releases but instead of batching up fixes and implementing them maybe weeks or months after discovery 2.6.16 was used to test the idea of rapid fixing of the kernel. The experiment was in the process of kernel fixes rather than experimental code.
I know of one or two military based comm's systems which send pressel indication over the voice stream as either in-band or out of band signals. Some of these signals can depending on the network topology be sent in IP based datastreams.
Despite good intentions most electricity production still kicks out a load of CO2 and other gasses. I would imagine the energy demands on the magnets to launch the payloads over 10 years would consume a fair bit of electricity consumption so increasing the problem the shield is trying to solve in the fist place.
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I know.... I was just in a daft mood due to extreme boredom at work.
But as to your point... bear in mind we don't know how many asteriods have a 1:45,000 or better (worse for us, better for the rock) chance of hitting us so the realistic odds of getting a rock in the kisser are unknown.
1:45,000 is still better odds than winning the lottery - yet people do...
Cleaner mistakes the bacteria store for some mold and sprays it with a disinfectant....
There is a difference between a tin and a faraday cage...
Don't faraday cages have to be earthed somehow? (Just a minor point.... ;) )
Or just an ounce of (un?)common sense...
I'm a software/systems engineer by profession and I don't need some marketing type to tell me that embedding a logic bomb to deal with pirates is a Bad Ideatm. (Unless of course the zapping of home directories is down to sloppy programming then you might want to say, oh - sorry it's deliberate - don't use a pirated key rather than we don't know what we're doing and trashed your PC sorry.)
If you don't want pirates to run your software just either shut it down or get the program to send a log back to you etc.
It is. My Aspire 5612 runs Ubuntu without a glitch... even the wireless works (after the usual amount of prodding and cursing ndiswrapper etc).
Only problem is that to the general public the web == the internet ergo web security == security :(
Given most hacking these days involves botnets etc to hide the point of origin any attempt to 'map' the source of the attack is likely to show every country with anything more than a piece of wet string as a potential source of the attack - should make for an interesting target review:
Airforce General: Where is the target Mr President?
President: The world
AG: What?
P: You heard me. Target the world now.
AG: Yes Sir
P: And don't forget Canada or California
AG: Yes Sir
Thirty minutes later.... bang.
WTF is this a story? Company launches product and starts work on next product. No shit sherlock.... I would suspect that while the new OS moves from the blue-sky phase to getting actual code cut the R&D dept will be work on its replacement....
Or with vista, just stand by the cockpit and shout stop stop stop or eject eject eject ;)
Just so long as the pilot doesn't have to crash at the end :)
Ah, I misread the parent - not a good idea to read /. before the first mug of coffee is drunk.
Mozilla Firefox the most used browser??? While I'd love it if that was the case IE still leads... on a few websites I can pull the stat's from IE is still around 74% with Firefox around 15%.
Netscape lost the browser battle along time ago, Opera and then the Mozilla project putting the remaining nails in its coffin finishing off the work IE did.
*Note* I'm not saying IE is a better browser, just when it is bundled as part of the OS its got a rather captive audience - those who know better switch to FF but those poor buggers who work for companies which force IE on their staff have no choice.
RPG's are unguided so not much need to disrupt the guidance signals.
Also won't work against radar or wire guided.
Can the editors please consider actually RTFA before approving posts and headlines?
The satellite weapon referred to in the article is a kinetic kill vehicle which is clearly not a laser...
The use of the word experiment is a bad choice of words.... the 2.6.16.y releases are all stable releases but instead of batching up fixes and implementing them maybe weeks or months after discovery 2.6.16 was used to test the idea of rapid fixing of the kernel. The experiment was in the process of kernel fixes rather than experimental code.
Last time I checked Alan Cox works for Redhat.
Redhat != Novell
it's stories like this that keep slashdot sane
Slashdot sane???
That's an oxymoron which is up there alongside political accountability, military intelligence
And to be honest anything not part of the kernel should be in userland.... and device drivers are not part of the kernel.
You turn it off if you have a static ip address...
Other than the small issue of my code repository being online together with all the design docs and the test/build servers...
Our company has, in my opinion, sensibly decided that where possible users will not be given bigger and bigger monitors but instead two 17" tft's.
I'm using that setup and find I can work alot more effectively with two monitors than one...
I know of one or two military based comm's systems which send pressel indication over the voice stream as either in-band or out of band signals. Some of these signals can depending on the network topology be sent in IP based datastreams.
Electromagnets surprisingly enough require.... Electricity.
Despite good intentions most electricity production still kicks out a load of CO2 and other gasses. I would imagine the energy demands on the magnets to launch the payloads over 10 years would consume a fair bit of electricity consumption so increasing the problem the shield is trying to solve in the fist place.