As I understand it, the pressure vessels surrounding nuclear reactors are strong enough to contain a severe meltdown within- this also makes them supposedly strong enough to withstand an airliner impact.
Yes, it leaked fuel. Like other have said, because the heat expanded the plane in flight, sealing it up.
Maintenace nightmare? Perhaps. Reliability? Maybe.
But I'd like to point out a few things.
The plane is thirty years old. There are still no production planes that can challenge it's speed or altitude records. Nothing on the horizon, either (That's been admitted to) It was engineered with slide rules, and it can't be shot down to this day- we've never lost one to enemy fire.
At MACH 3, (3000 ft/s!!!!) It's faster than bullets. It's faster than any other plane out there. It's faster than missiles. Oh yeah, it goes higher than all of them, too. Do you know of a plane that can engage at 80,000 to 100 000 feet in the sky?
Survelliance? It can survey a 35 mile wide strip of the USSR in two hours. And if it passes over a golf course, they can tell you what brand of balls they're playing with.
The engines? They're unlike any others, past or present. ramjets. Any other similar engines are on test aircraft.
I'm just saying, don't knock it.
It's an incredible marvel of engineering for it's time, and it did exactly what it was supposed to do. Any problems related to it stemmed from the fact that the entire design was uncharted territory.
Incidentally, the only russian plane out there to hit Mach 3 destroyed itself in the process- the pilot had to eject, the entire plane was wasted.
Many others have pointed out that the planes have been upgraded- The F-14 is going on 25-30 years now- but one thing to be noted is the different stresses that the different types of planes encounter.
Choice A: Big, Heavy Bomber.
Slow Turns
No sharp, sudden manuvers
No carrier landings
Pulls 2G's tops, if that.
Choice B: Fighter Plane
sharp manuvers in dog fights (practice/real)
pulls up to 9G's
Carrier landings
The fighters are subject to alot more shock loads and stresses on their structural members than a big heavy bird. While you can design for this to an extent, the reality is that the airframes of fighter aircraft will always age faster than a big plane.
Not quite. The first plane's heavily modified fuselage is almost done being assembled at Boeing. They still need to integrate the laser into the platform and check it out. It's still early in that program- but we might have a fleet a few years from now.
Install a pirated non-spyware version of XP on my computer. (Yes, they exist)
Buy a licence- and leave it in the box.
Then I get to satisfy my conscience and my paranoia.
Seems like this sets a legal precendence for locking down an entire business, organization, or corporation involved in a legal situation. I was under the impression that the DoI did more than maintain a website, and this shutdown likely has little effect on most of it's missions. I know this is a nerd community, but lets keep things in perspective, ok?
It seems to me that when the judge made the distinction between Felten and Skylarov, he violated one of the tenets of the constitution- equal protection under the law. Laws and punishment should be based on action, not intent. Basically, he ruled that it's legal to give away what is illegal to sell... kinda reminds me of prostitution, incidentally....
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Although I can see the EFF's point, the publication of Proffessor Feltens work was no longer at contest. They where asking the Judge to step in when he wasn't needed to allow publication, so it could have easily been seen as frivilous.
I think it's probable there would have been a different outcome if the RIAA hadn't back tracked, and they where attempting to supress academic research.
Just wait until some RIAA-like organization decides to dig in against a proffessor like felten.
Then you'll see the sparks fly.
As for 2600, they're still seen as subversive hackers, and hence are easy targets. Is it right? Nope. We'll see if and when it gets to the supreme court, maybe they can rectify things. Cross your fingers.
anyhow.... cars kill how many people each day ??? Fix what we got first.... and figure out the social impact before going ahead with this one..
Actually, thats why I'm hopefull this might work. With existing automobiles, you have trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure that might need to be upgraded for any new system to work well. If you change the travel surface- or rather, remove it- you can design it from the start for safety and vehicle management, based on what we already know.
That being said, your other points are good, and hopefully any sky car system would travel in delinated flight zones- highways in the sky, as it were (see Back to the future 2). At least the routes would be straighter, because you wouldn't have to be at the mercy of terrain.
Interesting bit of information... in highly secure faclitys, all the CAT-5 wires have a white coating. Thats right, no colors to differentiate them. So if you did gain physical access to a cable, it would be difficult to tap.
It's a bitch to wire up, of course, they have to put resistors across one end so they can differentiate the pairs, and screw around with it for a while, but it's worth it for the extra security.
Also, some of the security systems are so sensitive that you've can't even put 1M-ohm across the wires (i.e. an DMM or O-scope) without setting off the alarm.
The government, when properly motivated, can make things very secure. The above examples are from my friends father, who was an electrician at Raytheons Labs for the patriot missle system. Now that the system is public knowledge, he can talk about it a bit. Though this was several years ago....
If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right. This doesn't mean you should stick in CS, just that you should find a career you enjoy, or you'll be miserable for all time.
And It was a sucky job. The company I worked for, MBNA america, knew this, and paid us oddles of cash (for work your average highschooler could be trained to do in a week), trained us incredibly well about the credit industry, credit laws, telemarketing laws, and how to sell- it's always fun when I get called by a telemarketer, cause most of them suck in comparison to the standards MBNA held us to (very, very high)- they don't follow laws, stumble over little things like leaving their company phone number (which is absolutely required), making statements contrary to the fair credit act, and various telemarketing acts-
Remember, nobody would telemarket if it wasn't profitable, the people on the other end are just trying to earn a living. Be nice to them, even if you tell them, "Put me on your do not call list."
I'm sure your occupation offends someone, so be nice to them. I don't work their anymore, cause it's a tough job, and I had my fill after a year- but it was a great company to work for- unparralleled coporate culture, I think they've ranked in Forbes top ten places to work for the past several years.
Omaha Steaks also had a credit card program- maybe this is what you meant- administered by MBNA America, a company that runs credit cards programs for small banks and various organizations.
Anyway, I used to work for them. I was a telemarketer, and I think I called about Omaha steaks a few times.
But what you've read up and down this thread is true, all companies must keep a company-specific "Do Not call list", and must honor your request to be put on it....
However, the law allows up to six weeks for this process to occur, because the original legislators realized databases can be unwieldy sometimes- so it's only after a certain period you can collect the money.
They have connections to the internet already- what you'll see is the same kind of setup you see in the military and CIA offices- several computers on each desk- each one plugged into a physically seperate network.
Expect Dell stock to rise, as well, to make the extra computers they'll need.
Every program tries to steal extensions. Screw those who don't know how to change them, they won't miss what they don't know about, and if they're motivated enough, they'll learn.
Also, I'm not terribly concerned with Media Player taking file extensions from RealPlayer, because, quite frankly, real player blows. They load up the window with all sorts of useless crap, (the channels) and you can't fast forward or go back in the videos.
How the hell am I supposed to find my favorite parts in all the pr0n clips I have?
I seem to recall reading a few places that the United States engaged the USSR in an Arms race (tanks, nukes, bombers) because we knew they couldn't keep up with, but they'd do their damnest- and head straight into economic meltdown. If that was our plan, it certainley worked.
I went there, and found their page disgusting. So I penned the following response:
First,
Let me say that I am pro-life. If you can't handle the responsibility of raising a child, then don't have sex, or use one of the many effective forms of birth control out there.
That being said, you people are sick. You press for the murder of your brothers and sisters. May I remind you that Jesus also said, "Hate the sin, but love the sinner?" and that God alone will be our Judge? It is blasphemy that you claim to be on God's side. Crimes against society are punishable by society, -by the government, the just representative of the people. Crimes against God are punishible by God only. And before you lambast our government, I'd like to point out yet another quote of our Lord Jesus: "Render unto Ceaser what is Ceaser's" In simpler terms, let the government do it's job.
If you wish to see those involved in abortion punished in the here and now, then your only just course is to press for abortion to be banned.
Until then, Keep your venom to yourself. You are no better than the islamic fanatics who ran airplanes into the world trade center, and I hope you have Christian brothers and sisters who can teach you the true meaning of "Love thy neighbor." Your extreme tactics only cause you to be dismissed (and rightly so) by all as sociopaths (unable to distinguish from right and wrong. i.e. murder == wrong. pretending to act for God == wrong). You are terrorists, and as you've seen lately, nothing disgusts our great nation more than those who try to enact change by terror.
And what is wrong with this? Laws are ideally a representation of the values that a society has at large, things that a majority of us agree on. These values are based directly on our morals. The debates arise when we have a disagreement- you brought up that abortion is much debated- what is not debated is that it's against the law to murder someone.
This is because we all agree it's wrong kill someone, republican, democrat, liberal, independant, green, labor- it's morally wrong, so we have declared it illegal to give us a mechanism to punish those in our society who have morals the majority of us would find apalling.
That being said, I do believe we are a bit over- legislated.
There will never again be a good day....
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to hijack a plane. The passengers and crew undoubtably cooperated to the extent they did because they thought it was some ransom bullshit.
Now that planes have been used themselves as weapons, and the passengers with them, I doubt there will be a high-jacking where they're aren't people like Glick and Barret, who are among the few passangers who apparently made sure that flight 93 crashed in PA woods, and not a national landmark.
The sentiment has been repeated over and over these past two days: "If I fall, the guy behind me will get him."
I hope that if such a day ever comes for me, I can get over my imminent death fast enough to do some good.
Nothing is more dangerous than someone who thinks they have nothing to lose.
Some incredible footage can be found in the video section of www.consumptionjunction.com . They also harbor all sorts of objectionable material, so click carefully.
There will never again be a good day....
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to hijack a plane. The passengers and crew undoubtably cooperated to the extent they did because they thought it was some ransom bullshit.
Now that planes have been used themselves as weapons, and the passengers with them, I doubt there will be a high-jacking where they're aren't people like Glick and Barret. The sentiment has been repeated over and over these past two days: "If I fall, the guy behind me will get him."
I hope that if such a day ever comes for me, I can get over my imminent death fast enough to do some good.
Nothing is more dangerous than someone who thinks they have nothing to lose.
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You know, I think thats a wonderful word. Just in case my nick didn't tell you.
As I understand it, the pressure vessels surrounding nuclear reactors are strong enough to contain a severe meltdown within- this also makes them supposedly strong enough to withstand an airliner impact.
Yes, it leaked fuel. Like other have said, because the heat expanded the plane in flight, sealing it up.
Maintenace nightmare? Perhaps. Reliability? Maybe.
But I'd like to point out a few things.
The plane is thirty years old. There are still no production planes that can challenge it's speed or altitude records. Nothing on the horizon, either (That's been admitted to) It was engineered with slide rules, and it can't be shot down to this day- we've never lost one to enemy fire.
At MACH 3, (3000 ft/s!!!!) It's faster than bullets. It's faster than any other plane out there. It's faster than missiles. Oh yeah, it goes higher than all of them, too. Do you know of a plane that can engage at 80,000 to 100 000 feet in the sky?
Survelliance? It can survey a 35 mile wide strip of the USSR in two hours. And if it passes over a golf course, they can tell you what brand of balls they're playing with.
The engines? They're unlike any others, past or present. ramjets. Any other similar engines are on test aircraft.
I'm just saying, don't knock it.
It's an incredible marvel of engineering for it's time, and it did exactly what it was supposed to do. Any problems related to it stemmed from the fact that the entire design was uncharted territory.
Incidentally, the only russian plane out there to hit Mach 3 destroyed itself in the process- the pilot had to eject, the entire plane was wasted.
Many others have pointed out that the planes have been upgraded- The F-14 is going on 25-30 years now- but one thing to be noted is the different stresses that the different types of planes encounter.
Choice A: Big, Heavy Bomber.
Slow Turns
No sharp, sudden manuvers
No carrier landings
Pulls 2G's tops, if that.
Choice B: Fighter Plane
sharp manuvers in dog fights (practice/real)
pulls up to 9G's
Carrier landings
The fighters are subject to alot more shock loads and stresses on their structural members than a big heavy bird. While you can design for this to an extent, the reality is that the airframes of fighter aircraft will always age faster than a big plane.
End of story
Not quite. The first plane's heavily modified fuselage is almost done being assembled at Boeing. They still need to integrate the laser into the platform and check it out. It's still early in that program- but we might have a fleet a few years from now.
Install a pirated non-spyware version of XP on my computer. (Yes, they exist)
Buy a licence- and leave it in the box.
Then I get to satisfy my conscience and my paranoia.
Seems like this sets a legal precendence for locking down an entire business, organization, or corporation involved in a legal situation.
I was under the impression that the DoI did more than maintain a website, and this shutdown likely has little effect on most of it's missions. I know this is a nerd community, but lets keep things in perspective, ok?
It seems to me that when the judge made the distinction between Felten and Skylarov, he violated one of the tenets of the constitution- equal protection under the law. Laws and punishment should be based on action, not intent. Basically, he ruled that it's legal to give away what is illegal to sell... kinda reminds me of prostitution, incidentally....
Although I can see the EFF's point, the publication of Proffessor Feltens work was no longer at contest. They where asking the Judge to step in when he wasn't needed to allow publication, so it could have easily been seen as frivilous.
I think it's probable there would have been a different outcome if the RIAA hadn't back tracked, and they where attempting to supress academic research.
Just wait until some RIAA-like organization decides to dig in against a proffessor like felten.
Then you'll see the sparks fly.
As for 2600, they're still seen as subversive hackers, and hence are easy targets. Is it right? Nope. We'll see if and when it gets to the supreme court, maybe they can rectify things. Cross your fingers.
anyhow.... cars kill how many people each day ??? Fix what we got first.... and figure out the social impact before going ahead with this one..
Actually, thats why I'm hopefull this might work. With existing automobiles, you have trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure that might need to be upgraded for any new system to work well. If you change the travel surface- or rather, remove it- you can design it from the start for safety and vehicle management, based on what we already know.
That being said, your other points are good, and hopefully any sky car system would travel in delinated flight zones- highways in the sky, as it were (see Back to the future 2). At least the routes would be straighter, because you wouldn't have to be at the mercy of terrain.
Interesting bit of information... in highly secure faclitys, all the CAT-5 wires have a white coating. Thats right, no colors to differentiate them. So if you did gain physical access to a cable, it would be difficult to tap.
It's a bitch to wire up, of course, they have to put resistors across one end so they can differentiate the pairs, and screw around with it for a while, but it's worth it for the extra security.
Also, some of the security systems are so sensitive that you've can't even put 1M-ohm across the wires (i.e. an DMM or O-scope) without setting off the alarm.
The government, when properly motivated, can make things very secure. The above examples are from my friends father, who was an electrician at Raytheons Labs for the patriot missle system. Now that the system is public knowledge, he can talk about it a bit. Though this was several years ago....
If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right. This doesn't mean you should stick in CS, just that you should find a career you enjoy, or you'll be miserable for all time.
All the industries and services you listed are heavily regulated.
E-mail is not, at least currently.
Bear that in mind.
And It was a sucky job. The company I worked for, MBNA america, knew this, and paid us oddles of cash (for work your average highschooler could be trained to do in a week), trained us incredibly well about the credit industry, credit laws, telemarketing laws, and how to sell- it's always fun when I get called by a telemarketer, cause most of them suck in comparison to the standards MBNA held us to (very, very high)- they don't follow laws, stumble over little things like leaving their company phone number (which is absolutely required), making statements contrary to the fair credit act, and various telemarketing acts-
Remember, nobody would telemarket if it wasn't profitable, the people on the other end are just trying to earn a living. Be nice to them, even if you tell them, "Put me on your do not call list."
I'm sure your occupation offends someone, so be nice to them. I don't work their anymore, cause it's a tough job, and I had my fill after a year- but it was a great company to work for- unparralleled coporate culture, I think they've ranked in Forbes top ten places to work for the past several years.
Omaha Steaks also had a credit card program- maybe this is what you meant- administered by MBNA America, a company that runs credit cards programs for small banks and various organizations.
Anyway, I used to work for them. I was a telemarketer, and I think I called about Omaha steaks a few times.
But what you've read up and down this thread is true, all companies must keep a company-specific "Do Not call list", and must honor your request to be put on it....
However, the law allows up to six weeks for this process to occur, because the original legislators realized databases can be unwieldy sometimes- so it's only after a certain period you can collect the money.
just an FYI
They have connections to the internet already- what you'll see is the same kind of setup you see in the military and CIA offices- several computers on each desk- each one plugged into a physically seperate network.
Expect Dell stock to rise, as well, to make the extra computers they'll need.
Every program tries to steal extensions. Screw those who don't know how to change them, they won't miss what they don't know about, and if they're motivated enough, they'll learn.
Also, I'm not terribly concerned with Media Player taking file extensions from RealPlayer, because, quite frankly, real player blows. They load up the window with all sorts of useless crap, (the channels) and you can't fast forward or go back in the videos.
How the hell am I supposed to find my favorite parts in all the pr0n clips I have?
I seem to recall reading a few places that the United States engaged the USSR in an Arms race (tanks, nukes, bombers) because we knew they couldn't keep up with, but they'd do their damnest- and head straight into economic meltdown. If that was our plan, it certainley worked.
I went there, and found their page disgusting. So I penned the following response:
First,
Let me say that I am pro-life. If you can't handle the responsibility of raising a child, then don't have sex, or use one of the many effective forms of birth control out there.
That being said, you people are sick. You press for the murder of your brothers and sisters. May I remind you that Jesus also said, "Hate the sin, but love the sinner?" and that God alone will be our Judge? It is blasphemy that you claim to be on God's side. Crimes against society are punishable by society, -by the government, the just representative of the people. Crimes against God are punishible by God only. And before you lambast our government, I'd like to point out yet another quote of our Lord Jesus: "Render unto Ceaser what is Ceaser's" In simpler terms, let the government do it's job.
If you wish to see those involved in abortion punished in the here and now, then your only just course is to press for abortion to be banned.
Until then, Keep your venom to yourself. You are no better than the islamic fanatics who ran airplanes into the world trade center, and I hope you have Christian brothers and sisters who can teach you the true meaning of "Love thy neighbor." Your extreme tactics only cause you to be dismissed (and rightly so) by all as sociopaths (unable to distinguish from right and wrong. i.e. murder == wrong. pretending to act for God == wrong). You are terrorists, and as you've seen lately, nothing disgusts our great nation more than those who try to enact change by terror.
May you find peace and love,
Michael Gregory
How about knifing and bludgeoning deaths? and how many of those gun deaths where self defense? what are the rates of violent crime overall?
I hear that in great britain, houses get robbed in broad daylight, with the people there, cause crooks don't have to worry about getting shot.
On the other hand, in the United states, most homes get robbed when folks are asleep or away, lessening the chance of getting shot....
And what is wrong with this? Laws are ideally a representation of the values that a society has at large, things that a majority of us agree on. These values are based directly on our morals. The debates arise when we have a disagreement- you brought up that abortion is much debated- what is not debated is that it's against the law to murder someone.
This is because we all agree it's wrong kill someone, republican, democrat, liberal, independant, green, labor- it's morally wrong, so we have declared it illegal to give us a mechanism to punish those in our society who have morals the majority of us would find apalling.
That being said, I do believe we are a bit over- legislated.
Now that planes have been used themselves as weapons, and the passengers with them, I doubt there will be a high-jacking where they're aren't people like Glick and Barret, who are among the few passangers who apparently made sure that flight 93 crashed in PA woods, and not a national landmark.
The sentiment has been repeated over and over these past two days: "If I fall, the guy behind me will get him."
I hope that if such a day ever comes for me, I can get over my imminent death fast enough to do some good.
Nothing is more dangerous than someone who thinks they have nothing to lose.
Some incredible footage can be found in the video section of www.consumptionjunction.com . They also harbor all sorts of objectionable material, so click carefully.
Now that planes have been used themselves as weapons, and the passengers with them, I doubt there will be a high-jacking where they're aren't people like Glick and Barret. The sentiment has been repeated over and over these past two days: "If I fall, the guy behind me will get him."
I hope that if such a day ever comes for me, I can get over my imminent death fast enough to do some good.
Nothing is more dangerous than someone who thinks they have nothing to lose.
They're in Japanese.