It's not as though the tourists would have anywhere else to go--where are you going to send them, the moon? And as others have pointed out, the more money rich folks pour into space programs, the less of your tax dollars are taken out for them.
As far as "possibly jeopardizing the lives of astronauts", RTFA: This "extra mission" would fly two paying passengers that will have undergone months of training for the trip to the orbiting outpost. (emphasis added) Even Russia isn't stupid enough to send people into space without adequate training.
The point here is this would provide a fix to the issue of standardized postal codes in the long term. Just because it's not status-quo doesn't mean it isn't a good idea.
Okay . . . so what is this "issue of standardized postal codes"? Why is it necessary for every country in the world to use the same system of postal codes (or addresses, for that matter--I've already seen several comments on the Japanese addressing system, but if you get out of your Western hole in the wall it actually makes sense)?
This sounds to me a lot like a solution looking for a problem.
Am I the only one who recently started getting spam with a subject of "Windows Update Notification" saying that "a virus has been detected on [my] computer" and that I need to "visit http://www.windowsupdatenow.com/ [note the "now" in the domain name] to apply security patches"?
I got two over the span of two days before I killfiled the domain; the message said I would keep receiving copies every day until I updated.
(Warning: do not visit the URL above, especially if you're using Windows! It appears to contain a virus.)
As a Linux user it was obvious to me the mail was a fake, but aside from its content being in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, I can easily see Windows users believing it, especially with all the heat Microsoft's taken for its stance on security lately.
Three cheers for social engineering, or something.
...online games which invalidate your CD key when you create an account, so that if you ever want to play again after quitting once you have to buy a new copy. (Yes, I'm talking about you, FFXI.)
For what it's worth, this isn't a new phenomenon. When I was in HS, one of the soda machines had a feature which would occasionally drop two or three cans instead of one if you repeatedly pushed the button really, really fast.
[Drinking instead of eating] is the KEY to losing weight, and no one I find focuses on this enough.
Would you please tell that to my body? It seems utterly convinced that it's not going to slim down no matter how little food I throw at it.
On a serious note: can you drink too much water? Lately I've been taking it at the rate of 4-5 liters a day--I have a 2-liter bottle of (tap) water I keep on my desk , and I generally have to refill it twice a day or so. Is this a bad thing?
Maybe my company purchased a version of VC++ with source code, I don't know, but I have fclose.c installed in \Program Files\DevStudio\VC98\CRT\SRC. At any rate, here are debugger screenshots of a dummy program before and at the beginning of the fclose() call. From the #ifdef's nearby, it looks like somebody screwed up when they were adding multithreading support.
Obviously the whole thing wouldn't fit in the sig, so I just posted the interesting part, which I discovered while debugging an app of my own. (I tried to add a "..." to show there was more in the function, but the/. lameness filter wouldn't let me.) Hint: look at the order of the pointer access and the check for NULL.
I didn't pull that quote out so much to criticize Microsoft as simply because I thought it amusing when I came across it (it's obviously a typo, because the entry right next to it is a similar constant for a set of three buttons, I don't recall which). Maybe I'll finally go change it one of these days.
It's interesting seeing them confuse state operations and business...
Actually, the Microsoft rep was probably referring to the developers not being able to sustain themselves on open-source, which (correct or not) does make sense. Their "rhetorical" question, on the other hand, is a no-brainer.
"It's a very popular technology today, but ultimately it's not a sustainable business model. What happens when the developers who find it exciting today move on to something which will pay the bills?"
Well, that's an easy one: the high school and college kids who were watching the developers will take their places. Duh.
Anyway, how do I retrieve the data on the disk? Can I send it somewhere?
Yes, there are a number of companies that specialize in this (google for "data recovery" or the like)--but it's not cheap: data recovery for an entire drive can easily run into the thousands of dollars.
Can I do it myself? How?
Yes, if you have the technical knowledge and a lot of time on your hands. You'll essentially be searching for a needle (your data) in a gigantic haystack (the disk), and since files are often scattered across several parts of the disk you may not be able to recover them completely. The actual procedure varies depending on the filesystem type, but in general you have to search the raw disk image for phrases or strings of bytes that were in a particular file you're looking for, and then look before and after that location to see how much of your file is stored there. As searching an entire hard disk takes time, and you have to go through this process (possibly multiple times) for each file, this isn't really practical for recovering more than a few important files.
One other thing you should investigate is how much of your data you can reconstruct from another source. As always, backups are the number one option, but even if you don't have a full backup of your disk, some of your data might still be saved in other locations. For example, did you save any of your schoolwork on floppy disks to take to school? If so, you can restore that data without having to search the hard disk for it. Did you save any data on the school computers? Might your instructors have copies of your work? Alternatively, how much of the lost data did you actually write, and how much is automatically generated by a program? For example, if you have the source code to a program, you don't need to try and recover the executable as well--you can just recompile it.
As an anecdote, a bug in a script I wrote recently ended up doing an "rm -rf/" on my server at home. The only backup I had was 10 months old, but since it was a server system, it was fairly simple to just reinstall Linux and restore the few actual data files (logs, etc.) from the backup. In the end, all I ended up losing was 10 months' worth of logs and about half a day's worth of spooled mail.
Likewise, there have been times when I've wanted to start my own business. One glance at the tax forms for the self-employed, and I'm disabused of that fucking notion with a quickness.
As someone who's run his own business before, I can tell you that the additional four or five pages you have to fill out once a year require such an insignificant amount of your time that you might as well call it zero. If you keep proper records (and of course you'd keep proper records, wouldn't you?) it takes only an hour or so.
By comparision, a five-minute shower every morning takes over 30 hours out of your year. (Or do you reject bathing too as taking too much of your precious time?)
What about, say, a weightlifter who's been designed from before birth to be the world's best weightlifter ever? What if the genetic modification was done under the sponsorship of a corporation? What if that corporation later asserted "property rights" to the modified person?
That's easy--the modified person picks up the corporation's office building and throws it away somewhere. Problem solved.
(Where does an 800-pound gorilla sit? -- Anywhere he wants to . ..)
I would much prefer the devices be in the SEATS and controlled by a consensus of people in the theater.
That works until the obnoxious people become the majority. Then you have situations like
Obnoxious Person: BLAH BLAH BLAH. BLAH BLAH? BLAH!!
You: Could you please keep your voice down?
Obnoxious Person: BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!!
You: I said BE QUIET, IT'S--
Everyone in theater:*click* Your seat:*zap*
Especially since all they wanted was the logo removed and it was Jim that decided to take down the site in protest.
From the C&D (emphasis mine):
It has recently come to our client's attention that you are using the PCI(R)
name and logo . . . Your use of PCI-SIG's trademark name and logo on your website is likely to cause consumer confusion . . . We therefore request that you immediately discontinue all use of the name PCI and the accompanying logo . . .
I doubt you could get 95% of people on the Internet to agree on anything, much less taste in music, and even if this worm/virus infected every MP3 on a computer, 95% infestation seems really, really unlikely.
On the other hand, this (worming P2P clients) has been talked about a lot in the past--and there are already viruses spreading via P2P, though the community seems to detect them pretty quickly--so I wouldn't put it past the RIAA to do something like this. Much less this Gobbles character; he's pretty infamous on the Bugtraq mailing list for trying to make fun of / piss off as many people as he can. (Incidentally, Gobbles is also known for overstatement, and as he was the one who stated the 95% figure in the article . . . well, you decide.) And it would of course be trivial to "phone home" to the RIAA with information about shared files on the computer.
So while I could believe the existence of the worm, I seriously doubt the 95% infestation figure.
Or better still.... print a more sophisticated printer on my existing printer. Repeat.
Of course, by the tenth generation or so they've gotten so complicated you can't figure out why it keeps spitting dust out at you. And by the twentieth generation, the printers print more sophisticated printers on you.
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It's not as though the tourists would have anywhere else to go--where are you going to send them, the moon? And as others have pointed out, the more money rich folks pour into space programs, the less of your tax dollars are taken out for them.
As far as "possibly jeopardizing the lives of astronauts", RTFA: This "extra mission" would fly two paying passengers that will have undergone months of training for the trip to the orbiting outpost. (emphasis added) Even Russia isn't stupid enough to send people into space without adequate training.
The point here is this would provide a fix to the issue of standardized postal codes in the long term. Just because it's not status-quo doesn't mean it isn't a good idea.
Okay . . . so what is this "issue of standardized postal codes"? Why is it necessary for every country in the world to use the same system of postal codes (or addresses, for that matter--I've already seen several comments on the Japanese addressing system, but if you get out of your Western hole in the wall it actually makes sense)?
This sounds to me a lot like a solution looking for a problem.
(Warning: do not visit the URL above, especially if you're using Windows! It appears to contain a virus.)
As a Linux user it was obvious to me the mail was a fake, but aside from its content being in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, I can easily see Windows users believing it, especially with all the heat Microsoft's taken for its stance on security lately.
Three cheers for social engineering, or something.
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest...
But don't tell Big Brother I said that.
[Drinking instead of eating] is the KEY to losing weight, and no one I find focuses on this enough.
Would you please tell that to my body? It seems utterly convinced that it's not going to slim down no matter how little food I throw at it.
On a serious note: can you drink too much water? Lately I've been taking it at the rate of 4-5 liters a day--I have a 2-liter bottle of (tap) water I keep on my desk , and I generally have to refill it twice a day or so. Is this a bad thing?
Maybe my company purchased a version of VC++ with source code, I don't know, but I have fclose.c installed in \Program Files\DevStudio\VC98\CRT\SRC. At any rate, here are debugger screenshots of a dummy program before and at the beginning of the fclose() call. From the #ifdef's nearby, it looks like somebody screwed up when they were adding multithreading support.
Obviously the whole thing wouldn't fit in the sig, so I just posted the interesting part, which I discovered while debugging an app of my own. (I tried to add a "..." to show there was more in the function, but the /. lameness filter wouldn't let me.) Hint: look at the order of the pointer access and the check for NULL.
It took me all day to finally figure out why that quote is funny. Somebody hit me now please.
So? What if Microsoft decided that they want to move on an abandon a product? You're screwed there.
While with open source, there'll always be a way to continue it, right? That's pretty much what I was saying. RTFLink before replying, please.
I didn't pull that quote out so much to criticize Microsoft as simply because I thought it amusing when I came across it (it's obviously a typo, because the entry right next to it is a similar constant for a set of three buttons, I don't recall which). Maybe I'll finally go change it one of these days.
I think what it sounds like is "oh shit we're in it really deep now, better throw everything we've got at 'em". ;)
It's interesting seeing them confuse state operations and business...
Actually, the Microsoft rep was probably referring to the developers not being able to sustain themselves on open-source, which (correct or not) does make sense. Their "rhetorical" question, on the other hand, is a no-brainer.
Well, that's an easy one: the high school and college kids who were watching the developers will take their places. Duh.
Anyway, how do I retrieve the data on the disk? Can I send it somewhere?
Yes, there are a number of companies that specialize in this (google for "data recovery" or the like)--but it's not cheap: data recovery for an entire drive can easily run into the thousands of dollars.
Can I do it myself? How?
Yes, if you have the technical knowledge and a lot of time on your hands. You'll essentially be searching for a needle (your data) in a gigantic haystack (the disk), and since files are often scattered across several parts of the disk you may not be able to recover them completely. The actual procedure varies depending on the filesystem type, but in general you have to search the raw disk image for phrases or strings of bytes that were in a particular file you're looking for, and then look before and after that location to see how much of your file is stored there. As searching an entire hard disk takes time, and you have to go through this process (possibly multiple times) for each file, this isn't really practical for recovering more than a few important files.
One other thing you should investigate is how much of your data you can reconstruct from another source. As always, backups are the number one option, but even if you don't have a full backup of your disk, some of your data might still be saved in other locations. For example, did you save any of your schoolwork on floppy disks to take to school? If so, you can restore that data without having to search the hard disk for it. Did you save any data on the school computers? Might your instructors have copies of your work? Alternatively, how much of the lost data did you actually write, and how much is automatically generated by a program? For example, if you have the source code to a program, you don't need to try and recover the executable as well--you can just recompile it.
As an anecdote, a bug in a script I wrote recently ended up doing an "rm -rf /" on my server at home. The only backup I had was 10 months old, but since it was a server system, it was fairly simple to just reinstall Linux and restore the few actual data files (logs, etc.) from the backup. In the end, all I ended up losing was 10 months' worth of logs and about half a day's worth of spooled mail.
Likewise, there have been times when I've wanted to start my own business. One glance at the tax forms for the self-employed, and I'm disabused of that fucking notion with a quickness.
As someone who's run his own business before, I can tell you that the additional four or five pages you have to fill out once a year require such an insignificant amount of your time that you might as well call it zero. If you keep proper records (and of course you'd keep proper records, wouldn't you?) it takes only an hour or so.
By comparision, a five-minute shower every morning takes over 30 hours out of your year. (Or do you reject bathing too as taking too much of your precious time?)
What about, say, a weightlifter who's been designed from before birth to be the world's best weightlifter ever? What if the genetic modification was done under the sponsorship of a corporation? What if that corporation later asserted "property rights" to the modified person?
That's easy--the modified person picks up the corporation's office building and throws it away somewhere. Problem solved.
(Where does an 800-pound gorilla sit? -- Anywhere he wants to . . .)
I would much prefer the devices be in the SEATS and controlled by a consensus of people in the theater.
That works until the obnoxious people become the majority. Then you have situations like
Obnoxious Person: BLAH BLAH BLAH. BLAH BLAH? BLAH!!
You: Could you please keep your voice down?
Obnoxious Person: BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!!
You: I said BE QUIET, IT'S--
Everyone in theater: *click*
Your seat: *zap*
Especially since all they wanted was the logo removed and it was Jim that decided to take down the site in protest.
From the C&D (emphasis mine):
"Out Of Order".
I doubt you could get 95% of people on the Internet to agree on anything, much less taste in music, and even if this worm/virus infected every MP3 on a computer, 95% infestation seems really, really unlikely.
On the other hand, this (worming P2P clients) has been talked about a lot in the past--and there are already viruses spreading via P2P, though the community seems to detect them pretty quickly--so I wouldn't put it past the RIAA to do something like this. Much less this Gobbles character; he's pretty infamous on the Bugtraq mailing list for trying to make fun of / piss off as many people as he can. (Incidentally, Gobbles is also known for overstatement, and as he was the one who stated the 95% figure in the article . . . well, you decide.) And it would of course be trivial to "phone home" to the RIAA with information about shared files on the computer.
So while I could believe the existence of the worm, I seriously doubt the 95% infestation figure.
Or better still.... print a more sophisticated printer on my existing printer. Repeat.
Of course, by the tenth generation or so they've gotten so complicated you can't figure out why it keeps spitting dust out at you. And by the twentieth generation, the printers print more sophisticated printers on you.
Fix the technology (or lack thereof), and you've fixed the problem.
Right up until someone comes up with new technology to get around your technology.
Am I the only one who filled in the end of this as "belong to us"?
Houston, we fart in your general direction!