Granted, our freedoms are in need of attention, but even so, the rights we have here are greater than the rights I have seen in just about any other place.
From what I can see, other countries make a policy of selective enforcement of their laws, often resulting in relative freedom for a particular set of folks. This could be good for you now, but come the revolution (or election...) you might end up of the receiving end:(.
Also, it seems that the US tax structure is one of the more fair ones in the world. Compared to to others, at least you get a CHANCE of saving your money. If you think it is bad here, check out Canada, Sweden, or New Zealand. And these were the good spots.
1. Create large file of random numbers.
2. Create random file name.
3. Upload into distributed storage space.
4. Repeat from number one.
Why? First, simply to see what the system will do, and how long it will go. Second, they think it gives them reason to call themselves "31337".
If they don't have enough net bandwidth to do this, then they will wrapper it in virus code and drop it out as a bunch of emails. Letting other folks do this will leave their connection fast enough for T4C.
On the face of it, This would be a better way to do it. However, reality intrudes:
1. Ice makes ferry and barge service impossible during some seasons.
2. The Bering sea is the home of the worst weather in the Pacific. And that's on a good day. Enough barges and cargo are lost in that area that the media doesn't even report them anymore. You just expect it. There is a Coast Guard vessel that does nothing but cruise back and forth whacking seventy millimeter shells through floating cargo containers so that they won't become nav hazards. People travel by air, and the only thing that goes on the barge is stuff that can be replaced.
On the other hand, If we really want to get to Siberia, we can fly out to Diomede and walk the rest of the way during the winter.
Unless it drops right on top of you, most EMP effect is going to be strictly transitory. There is a great deal of difference between EMP power that can destroy circuitry and that which interrupts its proper workings. The first requires power densities on the order of tens of thousands of watts per meter cubed (sorry, don't know the industry sanctioned term). This is going to required massive power input to cover a decent sized area. Can you say nuke?
On the other hand, interruption takes far less power, and can be useful to deny the enemy immediate use of comms and fire control. It is not going to take out hardened facilities, however.
EMP hardening of equipment is not nearly as difficult as it might seem, especially if you don't have other engineering constraints to worry about (portability, weight, time to field repair, etc.) Just remember that electrical ground is king, mu metal foil is your friend, and fiber optic links are the preferred way of getting in and out of the cage. Testing is, of course, the difficult part 8)
And all you folks out there who are burying lead-foil-wrapped PC parts in the woods, stop it. If there is enough radiation or EMP around to make an integrated circuit stop working, then you had better start worrying about the operator as well.
Use one of these around me and I will whomp you.
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The spark gap transmitter is a holdover from the last century, and does not represent the latest in EMP creation. Use something like this, and all you will do is bring the wrath of the broadcasting community down upon your head, along with attendant Federeal Communications Commissions lawyers, etc.
Plus, you don't get enough range to sneeze at.
If you want to do it correctly, look up magnet pulse creation by explosive realignment. Anybody with half a smidgeon of physics should be able to convert this into a reasonable EMP device. Obtaining the materials to build one, however, is left as an exercise for the reader. Good luck and when they come knocking on your door, I don't know you...
A few years ago I had the idea of wiring a dog with a few of these things and running the resultant video onto the web. At the time, I lacked two things: a dog, and a cheap source of video transmission. As I now own a basset hound, both problems have apparently been solved.
One of the things I was trying to accomplish with this get-up was to take two cameras and mount them in doggie-eye-configuration, and them transmit two signals back to the computer, so the images could be massaged into one picture that would more correctly represent what the dog viewed. Has anyone tried two of these camera/transmitters near each other or otherwise tested for interference?
Cool as this is, think about physics and politics
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As anybody working in the fields of mechanics and material science can tell you, this is a lot farther off than it looks, folks. Just the logistics of flying the orbiting mass (yes, flying, you maybe though satellites stayed up there without guidance and thrust?) twenty-four by seven FOREVER (with what this puppy has to mass, believe me, you don't want this thing's orbit to degrade, ever.). Using a little thought and imagination, the list of "safety related" items goes on and on.
Also, the thought of having one doorway to outer space, under the control of some political force or another, does not strike me as safe. Considering the kinds of mass destruction that can be wreaked on the rest of the work from orbital heights means that this would not only be the space elevator, it would also be a major weapon. Lets face it, once something is in orbit, landing it in a particular spot is not that difficult. For those who do not believe, go get a copy of Navigation for Space Flight, by Prentiss Hall, I think (it's been a while). At the kind of energy levels we are talking about here, you don't have to be precise.
Besides, I want my OWN fricking orbital shuttle. I've got places to go besides Clarke orbit.
on an old mainframe. Since there was nothing else to do whilst waiting for shift-end after all the production run had been taken care of, I made up the following for entertainment's sake:
1. Select dataset at random.
2. Stuff into input of PL/I compiler, with all warnings turned off.
3. Link, load, run, and view output, if any.
4. Use reverse compile option to produce source code from above module.
As I said, I was bored. What came out the bottom of this process bears an amazing similarity to the obfuscated programs presented on the contest web site.
Nady Systems has been the standard of the wireless mike and monitor industry for stage and broadcast for some time. Their products eat batteries and cost a fortune, but they work when you need them.
Alternatively, a couple of short range fm transmitters (thirty bucks), some empty FM spectrum, wire and electrical tape, and a complete and utter disregard for privacy will also work. To my mind too much of a pain in the rump.
There is a guy in an admittedly rural community about a hundred miles south of here. He used to be a broadcast engineer. When he moved there, he decided to be one again.
Built a tower, got a license, hacked together an automation system, transmitter, and console. Apparently paid for it out of pocket. Went live, and practically owned the listening audience in the surrounding area in just six months, in the face of fairly heavy competition.
How? Simple. He was local program, local talent, local issues, with more music and less commercials. He went out into the community and asked people what they wanted to hear. Then he gave it to them. Instant hit.
Believe me, bloated NPR and PRI affiliates who have been sucking off the "non-profit listener-supported" tit to an annoying degree, while at the same time writing all the federal, state and local grants they can get to cover equipment, do not want the word to get around that any couple of stone-broke music freaks capable of signing a license application could do a better job than they. Even if it's true.
Radio needs this. Local is where radio had its start, and where it seems to work best. Micropower licenses would have legitimised the process of backlash already present in most good-sized communities. You need a translation? Yo Ho Ho! Just tune your FM radio to the far ends of the band any time after midnight, and see what you find. "License? We don't need no stinking license" Avast ye swabs, prepare to board...
and designer sunglasses made to be worn inside. Not to mention differently patterned contact lenses.
Given biological variability, effects of some drugs on pupillary reactions (there are drugs that slow pupil contractions, but do not affect concentration or reaction times), different corneal shapes, etc. this sort of technology will have a stack of false positives and negatives plenty high. Is someone going to be arrested for DWI because they take high blood pressure medicine?
Even the effects of race will have to be taken into account. I can tell you that most "face parts isolator" software will not recognise most oriental's eyes.
As far as marketing goes, Yeah, I looked at it. What was my total reaction, though? Did I look at it because I liked it, or because cognitive dissonance told me that it didn't belong here, or because the packaging was so ugly I hated it? All the marketer gets is an eye time. Hope they have ESP to figure out what I was thinking during that period.
On the whole, though, I think you can pass me that pair of mirrored Serengettis.
This ought to be viewed as a triumph for the space program in general. Rather than "parts are broken, we are all dieing now" we have "parts are broken. Send more on the next boat, would you?".
Those of us who really want to see the space program go should note that this is one of the major differences between occasionally shooting men off in a ballistic orbit and running a flight service. Events that were previously life threatening and required massive engineering/bravery/effort, are now being dealt with in more or less routine fashion, by a supply chain, transport, and on-site service.
I want to see the day when I can book a ticket off this rock through any travel agent.
If you thread the CDs onto a shaft with a thin washer in between, and tighten them down with a nut at each end, and put this assembly on a set of pillow bearings blocks, it makes a really neat boundary layer turbine when you run water through one side of it.
Don't make the washers too thin or surface tension will hold onto the water between the discs.
You can also use the aluminum evaporated ones as a variable capacitor by scraping a hunk of the labelling plastic off, clamping to the aluminum,and then placing two of these back to back. Change the overlap and fasten together when you reach the right value. Note: Given the coating thicknesses, I might be leary about how much voltage I would put down this.
I looked at this technology in my last job, for running broadband networking around a remote oilfield. Two things came to light:
One was that Nortel had stopped R+D on their bid to do this, mainly because the bandwidth available did not stand up economically to future requirements. Too little too late, and optical fiber had more promise.
Two, because of the planning and engineering needed to install the basic tranceivers, and the lack of mass manufacturing of same, it was cheaper to install optical fiber. Not to mention the lowered insurance and labor costs of installing away from substations and transmission lines.
Satellite imagery is a wonderful thing, but like all digital data, it lends itself to (ahem) "changes".
Certain parts of sat images of way out in the Neveda desert are often blurred. "Must have been an anomaly", quoth the vendor, "we'll get it next time". Curiously enough, they never did.
Image tapes of the middle of nowhere in Alaska sometimes have large groups of pixels with exactly the same values in exactly the same relative positions. Yes, it probably was a processing artifact. The question is whether it was intentional.
So even with half-meter data, I still wouldn't worry that anybody will see anything secret, or that privacy is being invaded from above. Even if a sat catches you having sex on the back lawn, you will only show up as four or five pixels anyways.
Didn't know that. I had though that first working device was around seventy-two or three.
I wasn't really thinking of resistive heating, rather inductive heating of dialectrics and substrates surrounding the conductors. I honestly haven't taken the time to find out if this is a problem with superconducting circuitry.
After the invention of the Josephson junction in the seventies, most of what was known about this either died from complexity (too many subsystems) or was taken black and never heard from again.
I suspect that advances in insulating materials, most of which have been recently declassified, will make cryogenic circuitry usable in smaller, possibly even desktop-sized machinery.
Consider that the entire integrated circuit set could be built onto a substrate (standard thick-film assembly modded for low temperature) and then the entire package surrounded with aerogel or foamed silica insulation. A heat pump or chiller (Peltier devices, sterling cycle fridge, whatever) is attached through a window, and then the heat removed from the device. Given the kind of heat transfer rates you can get now, the heat pump section would only have to be slightly larger than the max power consumption of the circuitry.
Okay, so it will take ten minutes to cool down to the point where the main processor works. This would be any different from waiting for Windoze to boot?
I once called a company in Quebec for technical support and knew I was sunk when they answered the phone with "Bon soir"(sp?). The only thing that saved me was an English-French dictionary, email, and patience.
Re:There's already a cure for spam. Noone uses it
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I like the idea.
The email rules I have set up are the following:
1. Allow email from my friends list.
2. All other email goes to spam list.
3. An automated reply is sent to emails in spam list.
4. Replies to my automated reply are allowed through.
5. Delete spam list once a week.
This is not as good as blocking at the source, however. I still have to pay to transport the spam.
But only if the project/operation is structured in an engineered way. Allow me to explain:
There are two basic kinds of software operations, which may be departments within a larger effort, or stand-alone groups: engineered/designed programming efforts, or creative/customer service programming efforts. Both have their places in industry.
With the engineered group, software and changes are designed and planned (hopefully) before reaching the coding stage. Analysis and planning allows the programming time to become a factor of the amount of code versus the programmers' productivity, and typically there are numbers kept to track this. Estimates and schedules are usually well kept in this type of operation, however, the limiting resources are time and money. There has to be people time to design, plan, and track. This results in longer times to product.
The creative programming group is typically in charge of maintenance and customization. With some exception, work is typically one or two off, with a great pressure to reduce the time needed for same. These operations typically have programmers who are known for expertise in very specialized areas, and management applies these folks in a triage fashion, in order to cover the greatest portion of customer needs. Little tracking is done, sometimes not even billing, and the software that exits this process is a creative work by an individual. Like all such works, the production cost is highly variable, and depends on a huge number of factors, most of which are untrackable. The software does, however, come out of the process in record time (if done right) and usually fits a single situation as well as possible.
The trick is determining which kind of organisation to use for a given project. Long and short term goals need to be evaluated to decide this.
Be sure to use appropriate measures, as well. Estimates and schedules are approriate measures for the designed type, but don't work for the creative type. Consider using alternate measurements, such as differing timescale/costs depending on the individuals that handle the project, or internal bidding.
What I do know for certain is: Communicate everything to everybody, even if it means reduced revenues. I hate to say it, but I have seen a lot more marketing types ruin projects by giving customers unrealistic expectations than engineers and programmers. Marketers must know what is possible and what is not, and have the common decency to stand up in front of the customer and say "our product doesn't do that. Let me check if it's possible..." even if it means losing the sale.
Right answer, wrong problem.
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This limits messages over time, not spam. Two things:
1. This works only as long as the spammers are technically deficient. Email could start arriving from lots of different IP addresses and still be part of the same UCE stream.
2. Spam programs just get slower in order to match the rate. This increases the expense of the spam by requiring multiple connections and machines, etc., but not by much.
The good part of this is that spam is stopped near its point of origin, as opposed to being ignored after transmission and cost.
I still think the best solution is to simply hang a few of the fellows who spam, and we shall probably hear nothing more about it.
I wonder if the MIR station can be reinforced to take small amounts of directed thrust? Could it's orbit be changed enough to break away from Earth?
Strap some thrusters on it, some simple reinforcement, redirect most electrical to thrust, and send the sucker off. Skip life support. Guidance not strictly required. Maybe we fill it with cultural memorabilia first, just so the folks that find it will know what we taste like.
OTOH, maybe we could load the puppy up with biologics, frozen bacteria and algae ice cubes, and set Mir's course for the slow orbit to Mars, or Venus, or somewhere that life might stand a chance. Sure, it may take US another hundred years to get there, but it might be nice to have some kind of biosphere waiting.
Maybe we should load it with radioactive waste and drop it in a crater on the Moon.
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Granted, our freedoms are in need of attention, but even so, the rights we have here are greater than the rights I have seen in just about any other place.
From what I can see, other countries make a policy of selective enforcement of their laws, often resulting in relative freedom for a particular set of folks. This could be good for you now, but come the revolution (or election...) you might end up of the receiving end :(.
Also, it seems that the US tax structure is one of the more fair ones in the world. Compared to to others, at least you get a CHANCE of saving your money. If you think it is bad here, check out Canada, Sweden, or New Zealand. And these were the good spots.
1. Create large file of random numbers.
2. Create random file name.
3. Upload into distributed storage space.
4. Repeat from number one.
Why? First, simply to see what the system will do, and how long it will go. Second, they think it gives them reason to call themselves "31337".
If they don't have enough net bandwidth to do this, then they will wrapper it in virus code and drop it out as a bunch of emails. Letting other folks do this will leave their connection fast enough for T4C.
1. Ice makes ferry and barge service impossible during some seasons.
2. The Bering sea is the home of the worst weather in the Pacific. And that's on a good day. Enough barges and cargo are lost in that area that the media doesn't even report them anymore. You just expect it. There is a Coast Guard vessel that does nothing but cruise back and forth whacking seventy millimeter shells through floating cargo containers so that they won't become nav hazards. People travel by air, and the only thing that goes on the barge is stuff that can be replaced.
On the other hand, If we really want to get to Siberia, we can fly out to Diomede and walk the rest of the way during the winter.
After all, what other state gives you a check every year after you fill out your tax form?
On the other hand, interruption takes far less power, and can be useful to deny the enemy immediate use of comms and fire control. It is not going to take out hardened facilities, however.
EMP hardening of equipment is not nearly as difficult as it might seem, especially if you don't have other engineering constraints to worry about (portability, weight, time to field repair, etc.) Just remember that electrical ground is king, mu metal foil is your friend, and fiber optic links are the preferred way of getting in and out of the cage. Testing is, of course, the difficult part 8)
And all you folks out there who are burying lead-foil-wrapped PC parts in the woods, stop it. If there is enough radiation or EMP around to make an integrated circuit stop working, then you had better start worrying about the operator as well.
Plus, you don't get enough range to sneeze at.
If you want to do it correctly, look up magnet pulse creation by explosive realignment. Anybody with half a smidgeon of physics should be able to convert this into a reasonable EMP device. Obtaining the materials to build one, however, is left as an exercise for the reader. Good luck and when they come knocking on your door, I don't know you...
One of the things I was trying to accomplish with this get-up was to take two cameras and mount them in doggie-eye-configuration, and them transmit two signals back to the computer, so the images could be massaged into one picture that would more correctly represent what the dog viewed. Has anyone tried two of these camera/transmitters near each other or otherwise tested for interference?
at the end of the semester?
Also, the thought of having one doorway to outer space, under the control of some political force or another, does not strike me as safe. Considering the kinds of mass destruction that can be wreaked on the rest of the work from orbital heights means that this would not only be the space elevator, it would also be a major weapon. Lets face it, once something is in orbit, landing it in a particular spot is not that difficult. For those who do not believe, go get a copy of Navigation for Space Flight, by Prentiss Hall, I think (it's been a while). At the kind of energy levels we are talking about here, you don't have to be precise.
Besides, I want my OWN fricking orbital shuttle. I've got places to go besides Clarke orbit.
1. Select dataset at random.
2. Stuff into input of PL/I compiler, with all warnings turned off.
3. Link, load, run, and view output, if any.
4. Use reverse compile option to produce source code from above module.
As I said, I was bored. What came out the bottom of this process bears an amazing similarity to the obfuscated programs presented on the contest web site.
Has anyone tried compiling web pages at random?
Alternatively, a couple of short range fm transmitters (thirty bucks), some empty FM spectrum, wire and electrical tape, and a complete and utter disregard for privacy will also work. To my mind too much of a pain in the rump.
Built a tower, got a license, hacked together an automation system, transmitter, and console. Apparently paid for it out of pocket. Went live, and practically owned the listening audience in the surrounding area in just six months, in the face of fairly heavy competition.
How? Simple. He was local program, local talent, local issues, with more music and less commercials. He went out into the community and asked people what they wanted to hear. Then he gave it to them. Instant hit.
Believe me, bloated NPR and PRI affiliates who have been sucking off the "non-profit listener-supported" tit to an annoying degree, while at the same time writing all the federal, state and local grants they can get to cover equipment, do not want the word to get around that any couple of stone-broke music freaks capable of signing a license application could do a better job than they. Even if it's true.
Radio needs this. Local is where radio had its start, and where it seems to work best. Micropower licenses would have legitimised the process of backlash already present in most good-sized communities. You need a translation? Yo Ho Ho! Just tune your FM radio to the far ends of the band any time after midnight, and see what you find. "License? We don't need no stinking license" Avast ye swabs, prepare to board...
Given biological variability, effects of some drugs on pupillary reactions (there are drugs that slow pupil contractions, but do not affect concentration or reaction times), different corneal shapes, etc. this sort of technology will have a stack of false positives and negatives plenty high. Is someone going to be arrested for DWI because they take high blood pressure medicine?
Even the effects of race will have to be taken into account. I can tell you that most "face parts isolator" software will not recognise most oriental's eyes.
As far as marketing goes, Yeah, I looked at it. What was my total reaction, though? Did I look at it because I liked it, or because cognitive dissonance told me that it didn't belong here, or because the packaging was so ugly I hated it? All the marketer gets is an eye time. Hope they have ESP to figure out what I was thinking during that period.
On the whole, though, I think you can pass me that pair of mirrored Serengettis.
Those of us who really want to see the space program go should note that this is one of the major differences between occasionally shooting men off in a ballistic orbit and running a flight service. Events that were previously life threatening and required massive engineering/bravery/effort, are now being dealt with in more or less routine fashion, by a supply chain, transport, and on-site service.
I want to see the day when I can book a ticket off this rock through any travel agent.
Don't make the washers too thin or surface tension will hold onto the water between the discs.
You can also use the aluminum evaporated ones as a variable capacitor by scraping a hunk of the labelling plastic off, clamping to the aluminum,and then placing two of these back to back. Change the overlap and fasten together when you reach the right value. Note: Given the coating thicknesses, I might be leary about how much voltage I would put down this.
One was that Nortel had stopped R+D on their bid to do this, mainly because the bandwidth available did not stand up economically to future requirements. Too little too late, and optical fiber had more promise.
Two, because of the planning and engineering needed to install the basic tranceivers, and the lack of mass manufacturing of same, it was cheaper to install optical fiber. Not to mention the lowered insurance and labor costs of installing away from substations and transmission lines.
Certain parts of sat images of way out in the Neveda desert are often blurred. "Must have been an anomaly", quoth the vendor, "we'll get it next time". Curiously enough, they never did.
Image tapes of the middle of nowhere in Alaska sometimes have large groups of pixels with exactly the same values in exactly the same relative positions. Yes, it probably was a processing artifact. The question is whether it was intentional.
So even with half-meter data, I still wouldn't worry that anybody will see anything secret, or that privacy is being invaded from above. Even if a sat catches you having sex on the back lawn, you will only show up as four or five pixels anyways.
After you breed, evolution just considers you a walking refugee from the protein pool.
I wasn't really thinking of resistive heating, rather inductive heating of dialectrics and substrates surrounding the conductors. I honestly haven't taken the time to find out if this is a problem with superconducting circuitry.
I suspect that advances in insulating materials, most of which have been recently declassified, will make cryogenic circuitry usable in smaller, possibly even desktop-sized machinery.
Consider that the entire integrated circuit set could be built onto a substrate (standard thick-film assembly modded for low temperature) and then the entire package surrounded with aerogel or foamed silica insulation. A heat pump or chiller (Peltier devices, sterling cycle fridge, whatever) is attached through a window, and then the heat removed from the device. Given the kind of heat transfer rates you can get now, the heat pump section would only have to be slightly larger than the max power consumption of the circuitry.
Okay, so it will take ten minutes to cool down to the point where the main processor works. This would be any different from waiting for Windoze to boot?
I once called a company in Quebec for technical support and knew I was sunk when they answered the phone with "Bon soir"(sp?). The only thing that saved me was an English-French dictionary, email, and patience.
The email rules I have set up are the following:
1. Allow email from my friends list.
2. All other email goes to spam list.
3. An automated reply is sent to emails in spam list.
4. Replies to my automated reply are allowed through.
5. Delete spam list once a week.
This is not as good as blocking at the source, however. I still have to pay to transport the spam.
There are two basic kinds of software operations, which may be departments within a larger effort, or stand-alone groups: engineered/designed programming efforts, or creative/customer service programming efforts. Both have their places in industry.
With the engineered group, software and changes are designed and planned (hopefully) before reaching the coding stage. Analysis and planning allows the programming time to become a factor of the amount of code versus the programmers' productivity, and typically there are numbers kept to track this. Estimates and schedules are usually well kept in this type of operation, however, the limiting resources are time and money. There has to be people time to design, plan, and track. This results in longer times to product.
The creative programming group is typically in charge of maintenance and customization. With some exception, work is typically one or two off, with a great pressure to reduce the time needed for same. These operations typically have programmers who are known for expertise in very specialized areas, and management applies these folks in a triage fashion, in order to cover the greatest portion of customer needs. Little tracking is done, sometimes not even billing, and the software that exits this process is a creative work by an individual. Like all such works, the production cost is highly variable, and depends on a huge number of factors, most of which are untrackable. The software does, however, come out of the process in record time (if done right) and usually fits a single situation as well as possible.
The trick is determining which kind of organisation to use for a given project. Long and short term goals need to be evaluated to decide this.
Be sure to use appropriate measures, as well. Estimates and schedules are approriate measures for the designed type, but don't work for the creative type. Consider using alternate measurements, such as differing timescale/costs depending on the individuals that handle the project, or internal bidding.
What I do know for certain is: Communicate everything to everybody, even if it means reduced revenues. I hate to say it, but I have seen a lot more marketing types ruin projects by giving customers unrealistic expectations than engineers and programmers. Marketers must know what is possible and what is not, and have the common decency to stand up in front of the customer and say "our product doesn't do that. Let me check if it's possible..." even if it means losing the sale.
1. This works only as long as the spammers are technically deficient. Email could start arriving from lots of different IP addresses and still be part of the same UCE stream.
2. Spam programs just get slower in order to match the rate. This increases the expense of the spam by requiring multiple connections and machines, etc., but not by much.
The good part of this is that spam is stopped near its point of origin, as opposed to being ignored after transmission and cost.
I still think the best solution is to simply hang a few of the fellows who spam, and we shall probably hear nothing more about it.
Strap some thrusters on it, some simple reinforcement, redirect most electrical to thrust, and send the sucker off. Skip life support. Guidance not strictly required. Maybe we fill it with cultural memorabilia first, just so the folks that find it will know what we taste like.
OTOH, maybe we could load the puppy up with biologics, frozen bacteria and algae ice cubes, and set Mir's course for the slow orbit to Mars, or Venus, or somewhere that life might stand a chance. Sure, it may take US another hundred years to get there, but it might be nice to have some kind of biosphere waiting.
Maybe we should load it with radioactive waste and drop it in a crater on the Moon.
I know, I know, I just hate to see waste...