Design Flaw: Webservers are not unable to handle the millions of pageviews required when a story is posted to slashdot. This results in whining users that complain when others are unable to Read The Freezedup Article when they were one of the lucky few.
Example: A story about persistent design flaws involving computers.
First Noticed: About 1998 after Slashdot got its 100,000 user.
Proposed Solution: Require a valid phone number for Slashdot signup and ability for those mods who are known not to use crack the power to delete offending whine before it gets modded up. The whining user's mother can be called and she can go down to the basement and duct tape her son's arm to his chair. Hopefully before he can get free and repost someone will post article text or a coral link.
Wouldn't it then make more sense to spend the cash and resources on improving/fixing/replacing the shuttles, so that we can safely send humans to do the job?
I really think that NASA has a lot of dirty little secrets that no one on the outside knows about, and after this last accident they probably looked close and hard and realized that the number of places the shuttle could catastrophically fail is more than they originally thought.
If there was another shuttle failure (even if it did not result in the loss of life) I suspect that there would be a noticeable chorus to dismantle the agency, that cannot produce very much more than kitsch science and photo ops with school children on the ground.
Though unspoken, I think the three strikes and you're out rule may be in place here. NASA since apollo has always been an agency with self-survival first in mind, so I would not be surprised if they find a way to retire the shuttles to museums.
So much as replacing the shuttles - I do not think that this will even be considered for the next decade as the cost is too steep. It was hard to justify the shuttles when they were first built (and the reason that the space station was built) in the seventies.
But as can be seen, the space station can work with cheap Russian rockets that are more reliable than the shuttle.
The Hubble was designed so it could be serviced by the shuttle (the other justification for the shuttle). But if the Hubble was designed so that parts could be replaced by dockable unmanned rockets, we would not be in this position we are today with it. For an instant, if the power supply and gyros were on a small module that could dock using conventional rockets. But it is not.
When O'Keefe said that a repair mission to Hubble was "too dangerous," people should have recognized that that was code words for "we need to ground the shuttle permanently now."
The fact is that there are earth based telescopes that are catching up in performance to the Hubble. Add to that the fact that the Hubble is old technology, it's pretty obvious that it's time to move on.
It truly would be a better decision to take the many lessons learned from Hubble design and repair and put those in a new telescope, and send it to orbit on a unmanned rocket.
Our comets are now under attack. Please join the Society for the Preservation of Comets, before it's too late.
Hopefully together we can make a difference. It's time to stop these bigoted scientists from damaging comets with bathtub size copper slugs, just "to see what will happen."
Without comets, there would be no space snowballs. This must stop.
You have a phone line, don't you? The honest truth is that it is an unjustified subsidy for telephone companies. I think that when the fund was first established, it may have been justified (if there was oversight, which there isn't). But hasn't technology advanced to the point where the cost is dramatically lower than when the fund was first established in 1983?
In the olden days when there was an operator behind the switchboard this may have been an issue. But now everything is computerized, especially the switching centers. And if there is a line break in your town some lowly tech in Atlanta (or whever your baby bell is headquartered, maybe even India now) can tell within feet where the line break is. And when you call the operator for assistance, do you really think that the operator is down the street?
I'm really sure the companies really love this bit of pork thrown to them, and have a whole line of lobbyists to whine to congress to change nothing.
If the Universal Service Fund were killed you would still have phone service (and at the same cost). Don't be fooled by greedy companies shouting about the sky falling.
local and state governments are going to lose more and more funding for important services like 911 and Universal Service
I would agree 911 is an important phone service and should be provided.
But all the other taxes?? I don't think so.
The universl service fund was established to provide phone to rural areas. The question I have is "aren't rural areas wired already?". About internet for schools -- I say let the people who go to those schools pay for their own internet like I do. Libraries? I pay through the teeth through property taxes (Utah) already for library facilities.
So much as the federal taxes go -- the federal tax was placed on the phone to pay for the war of 1812 -- isn't that war over and paid for yet? I know it has been used to pay for all the other wars since then, maybe I don't like to see war financed through my phone use.
I know this is an oversimplification, but this represents a deep resentment of the government as it stands today, and I'm not to sure if I care if it crashes and burns. I'm sure others feel the same way -- that Washington (and many local governments) have lost touch with reality, as have the voters who keep "liars" in office on the basis of "moral" grounds.
Yes I'm mad. Phone service can go away. I'll start to use carrier pigeon if necessary.
I don't know if socialized medicine (a la 'Hillary') is the answer, but certainly our current medical/insurance industry is a problem
It's amazing how Hillary was belittled and her ideas dissed about healthcare.
AT LEAST she was willing to do something about healthcare, where it is not even on the radar of the current administration. Don't tell me that it is either, as my insurance rates are so high I have to drop out like countless other americans.
I swear, the only people who voted for Bush were people who were not feeling sick.
How about a subscription service for TV shows, for a season, priced the same as a magazine subscription.
I do not think that a TV show gets more ad revenue than that per show for my eyes.
The only time I downloaded a show is because my VCR missed it, and I think that others download for the same reason or unable to get the broadcast where they are at.
This is way overblown, and like the RIAA, looking for an excuse to deploy stormtroopers.
I have yet to see a service where you can just simply buy time anonymously, upload your program, crunch the data, download the results.
I know some might say that this might be invitation for someone to unleash zombies, but the grid does not need a connection to the internet for this kind of work, and besides that outgoing traffic can be monitored.
I did not notice what the process was for buying computing time on the SE3D website, nor sepcifications of the grid. Am I missing something? Is this a fluff/vaporware story?
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In other news, 'laying' discovered to have the same effect.
Thankfully, slashdotters do not need to worry about getting laid, thus freeing up countless brain cells to develope important open source projects.
You're in the wrong place.
Yeah, he's fallen off the wagon. He probably has his screwdrivers out right now and is caressing the RAM upgrade he is about to put into his computer.
Design Flaw: Webservers are not unable to handle the millions of pageviews required when a story is posted to slashdot. This results in whining users that complain when others are unable to Read The Freezedup Article when they were one of the lucky few.
Example: A story about persistent design flaws involving computers.
First Noticed: About 1998 after Slashdot got its 100,000 user.
Proposed Solution: Require a valid phone number for Slashdot signup and ability for those mods who are known not to use crack the power to delete offending whine before it gets modded up. The whining user's mother can be called and she can go down to the basement and duct tape her son's arm to his chair. Hopefully before he can get free and repost someone will post article text or a coral link.
uh - no, that's Rice-a-Roni isn't it?
I forgot rice doesn't explode. Sorry.
Here's my conspiracy theory of the day; "drop everything: We're going to Mars" is just a distraction to screw those atheist astrophycists...
The problem with that is that it implies intelligence. I think that pure stupidity is to blame here.
Wouldn't it then make more sense to spend the cash and resources on improving/fixing/replacing the shuttles, so that we can safely send humans to do the job?
I really think that NASA has a lot of dirty little secrets that no one on the outside knows about, and after this last accident they probably looked close and hard and realized that the number of places the shuttle could catastrophically fail is more than they originally thought.
If there was another shuttle failure (even if it did not result in the loss of life) I suspect that there would be a noticeable chorus to dismantle the agency, that cannot produce very much more than kitsch science and photo ops with school children on the ground.
Though unspoken, I think the three strikes and you're out rule may be in place here. NASA since apollo has always been an agency with self-survival first in mind, so I would not be surprised if they find a way to retire the shuttles to museums.
So much as replacing the shuttles - I do not think that this will even be considered for the next decade as the cost is too steep. It was hard to justify the shuttles when they were first built (and the reason that the space station was built) in the seventies.
But as can be seen, the space station can work with cheap Russian rockets that are more reliable than the shuttle.
The Hubble was designed so it could be serviced by the shuttle (the other justification for the shuttle). But if the Hubble was designed so that parts could be replaced by dockable unmanned rockets, we would not be in this position we are today with it. For an instant, if the power supply and gyros were on a small module that could dock using conventional rockets. But it is not.
When O'Keefe said that a repair mission to Hubble was "too dangerous," people should have recognized that that was code words for "we need to ground the shuttle permanently now."
The fact is that there are earth based telescopes that are catching up in performance to the Hubble. Add to that the fact that the Hubble is old technology, it's pretty obvious that it's time to move on.
It truly would be a better decision to take the many lessons learned from Hubble design and repair and put those in a new telescope, and send it to orbit on a unmanned rocket.
Our comets are now under attack. Please join the Society for the Preservation of Comets, before it's too late.
Hopefully together we can make a difference. It's time to stop these bigoted scientists from damaging comets with bathtub size copper slugs, just "to see what will happen."
Without comets, there would be no space snowballs. This must stop.
I say we unplug the Universal Service Fraud
You have a phone line, don't you? The honest truth is that it is an unjustified subsidy for telephone companies. I think that when the fund was first established, it may have been justified (if there was oversight, which there isn't). But hasn't technology advanced to the point where the cost is dramatically lower than when the fund was first established in 1983?
In the olden days when there was an operator behind the switchboard this may have been an issue. But now everything is computerized, especially the switching centers. And if there is a line break in your town some lowly tech in Atlanta (or whever your baby bell is headquartered, maybe even India now) can tell within feet where the line break is. And when you call the operator for assistance, do you really think that the operator is down the street?
I'm really sure the companies really love this bit of pork thrown to them, and have a whole line of lobbyists to whine to congress to change nothing.
If the Universal Service Fund were killed you would still have phone service (and at the same cost). Don't be fooled by greedy companies shouting about the sky falling.
I meant the Spanish American war of 1898
Any case, for as long as phones have been in existance, and war has been the justification for the tax.
The cost of maintaining and upgrading the wiring in rural areas has not been paid for already.
Damm, I wonder why
local and state governments are going to lose more and more funding for important services like 911 and Universal Service
I would agree 911 is an important phone service and should be provided.
But all the other taxes?? I don't think so.
The universl service fund was established to provide phone to rural areas. The question I have is "aren't rural areas wired already?". About internet for schools -- I say let the people who go to those schools pay for their own internet like I do. Libraries? I pay through the teeth through property taxes (Utah) already for library facilities.
So much as the federal taxes go -- the federal tax was placed on the phone to pay for the war of 1812 -- isn't that war over and paid for yet? I know it has been used to pay for all the other wars since then, maybe I don't like to see war financed through my phone use.
I know this is an oversimplification, but this represents a deep resentment of the government as it stands today, and I'm not to sure if I care if it crashes and burns. I'm sure others feel the same way -- that Washington (and many local governments) have lost touch with reality, as have the voters who keep "liars" in office on the basis of "moral" grounds.
Yes I'm mad. Phone service can go away. I'll start to use carrier pigeon if necessary.
I don't know if socialized medicine (a la 'Hillary') is the answer, but certainly our current medical/insurance industry is a problem
It's amazing how Hillary was belittled and her ideas dissed about healthcare.
AT LEAST she was willing to do something about healthcare, where it is not even on the radar of the current administration. Don't tell me that it is either, as my insurance rates are so high I have to drop out like countless other americans.
I swear, the only people who voted for Bush were people who were not feeling sick.
It is a very rare infection that initially...
The problem is that the bacteria that causes this infection is in fact very common.
For example it resides in the Gulf of Mexico waters. If someone gets cut while swimming there should have cause for concern.
highly efficient code could be generated...
I have a feeling that open office would bring not only bring it to its knees, but its grave.
Just my humble opinion.
As for this happening to the Apple IIe series, talk to Steve Jobs about it
This won't happen because Steve knows that it would compete with OS X.
He worked very hard to get all those old Apple IIs into a landfill near you.
I may get modded down, but this is just a personal opinion.
250,000 units... imagine a... humm no. won't work
Sorry. Any post with the word "imagine" is bound to get modded back down these days. Imagination is overused and overrated here on slashdot.
Nice try though.
How about a subscription service for TV shows, for a season, priced the same as a magazine subscription.
I do not think that a TV show gets more ad revenue than that per show for my eyes.
The only time I downloaded a show is because my VCR missed it, and I think that others download for the same reason or unable to get the broadcast where they are at.
This is way overblown, and like the RIAA, looking for an excuse to deploy stormtroopers.
What's interesting is that the probe was indeed headed to failure,
But it looks like it was averted by an engineer who applied some critical thinking.
But you can't help but wonder if there isn't another "hidden issue."
If I follow the instructions of the parent I come up with
"whey - guns", as in milk whey
follwing yours it would be "why - guns"
I'm sure that we will see countless newscasters massacre it in the next few weeks, not that I'm any better.
that one can never have too many AOL discs.
Hopefully they will fix the kernel panic issue...
You know what would be better -- telling everyone that they need to take a shower once a month if they want to use GPL software.
I have yet to see a service where you can just simply buy time anonymously, upload your program, crunch the data, download the results.
I know some might say that this might be invitation for someone to unleash zombies, but the grid does not need a connection to the internet for this kind of work, and besides that outgoing traffic can be monitored.
I did not notice what the process was for buying computing time on the SE3D website, nor sepcifications of the grid. Am I missing something? Is this a fluff/vaporware story?
I think we can all agree here.
Less James Cameron and more Ripley
I feel hair growing on my palms-err knuckles already.
We should be actually living on the moon by now.
I completely disagree. The only reason I would consider going to the moon is if Dr. Helena Russell was there on Moonbase Alpha.
Needless to say she is not. Ergo, there is absolutely no reason to go to the moon, as all the hot chics are here on earth.
BTW the only thing I wish is that I saved all my toy Star Trek/Space1999 sci-fi toy crap because I could have sold it on ebay now and retired.
Everyone agrees humans got here not long ago, so obviously this study is wrong. We won't let reality interfere with history.
Agreed. The only date that matters is the date whitey got here.