I've read it too. It's a pretty fluffy overview "for managers and developers", and pretty useless for anything serious. The definitive book is/was, of course, Brockschmidt, but no one ever reads all of that. If you want to good free guide look here (By Brockschmidt, of course.:^) COM can actually be a lot of fun. (In Delphi. In VC++, it's a chore.)
OMG! You're right, I hadn't noticed!:^P (You mean the 100 Phlegm Park) I'd settle for a pedestrian button that actually speeds up the traffic light cycle. (Rather than just controlling if the Walk light ever lights up.)
There's nothing more aggravating than standing on the wrong side of Don Mills at St. Dennis Dr, watching while the 25 slowly comes down from Eglinton, passes St. Dennis, and cruises on south before the light changes.
There are various traffic light override systems for emergency vehicles. Gotta build me one!
promptly returned to the State of registry of their space vehicle
(Caffeine level rising.)
I wonder how you register a space vehicle? I can just see a Motor Vehicle type line-up of astronauts and cosmonauts waiting to hand in their forms.
"But-but our launch window is coming up, can't you speed this up?" "I could slow it down. *stamp* Go to that line over there to get your picture taken. Next!"
After rereading part of the book, it does cover the Outer Space Treaty. The problem is that the treaty covers returning astronauts and vechicles, it doesn't cover going and picking them up. Since Chile wouldn't be able to shift the shuttle off the island, the US would have to go get it. And that means landing military aircraft, including C5 transports (equipment to lift the shuttle onto the 747 shuttle carrier). At the time, the US didn't have an agreement with Chile to permit that.
Since then, I understand that an agreement was worked out and extra turn-arounds added to the runway to permit landing a C5 and getting it off again. (As well as updating the landing guidance equipment there.) And all because a science/science-fiction writer said "whoops!":^)
I forget who NASA was going to have write the Moon landing fake debunking book, it might have been G. Harry Stine. (Can't search, no caffine, waaah!)
It's not Slashdot that's asking anything. They have (last time I looked) an ActiveX control on their web page. I set IE to ask before downloading any signed ActiveX control (unsigned disabled). So each time I loaded a page, I was prompted for the load again. That got old pretty fast, so I set Slashdot as a Trusted site and it doesn't ask me before loading a signed ActiveX control.
I filter it by the email which sent it to me. This way, I don't get false positives
I'm not sure what you mean by that.
You do realize that most spammers forge the From address (and frequently use someone else's actual email address)?
It really depends on volume. If you have the bad luck to get added to a number of "millions" CDs, or if you use it on a web page or Usenet posts, you'll get a LOT of spam. (I use a sacificial hotmail mailbox for that, and forward the occasional non-spam to my real mailbox.)
I am not an electrician! Dont do this unless you know what you're doing!
Hmm. I don't really have spare phone lines, but I do run thin ethernet to the burglar alarm (Linux) PC in the front hall. Maybe I'll whip up one for that. Most of the time the 25 Don Mills is often enough that it doesn't matter, but the 25D to Markham doesn't run as often, and only during rush times. And there's a trade off with the 100.
Hmm. What I really need is an estimated trip time to x, and the text-to-speech card nagging me with a "You're going to be late!" alarm.
From my Coherent manual: "It emulates a rotor-encryption machine, such as the Enigma or Hagelin C-48 cipher machine. Unlike these machines, crypt only uses one rotor, with a 256-character alphabet and a keying sequence of period 2^32."
Coherent was based on older Unix tech. By that time (1990) most were using a better algorithm, I think. (One rotor, eek!)
But with passwd, it didn't matter how good the encryption was, trap-door or not. Giving public read access to it meant that anyone could stroll off with the passwords and use whatever computing power they had available (or could steal) to break them with dictionary or brute-force.
People were lulled into a false sense of security by the encryption and the desire to run "open" systems.
If anyone wants a good read about what happens when space exploration and international law/politics clash, Shuttle Down by "Lee Correy" (G. Harry Stine) is a good read. You'll have to dig it up from a used SF book store (it was a serial in Analog as well).
Pre-Challenger, it deals with an abort from a polar launch at Vandenberg. The only piece of land under them was Easter Island. They manage to land safely, then the real problems start!:^)
The amusing part was that no one at NASA had considered a number of problems in the book up to that point. (Apparently there was much cursing and swearing in NASA, then they bought more copies to dissect.) For example: Passports. A ladder to get out/in without ground equipment. Easter Island is about the only place to abort to during one phase of a polar launch. The shuttle transporter wasn't rigged for mid-air refueling. (Easter Island is about the most remote place on Earth.) Political problems with Chile and the (1982) Soviets nosing in. Etc.
And that was just Space vs Law on the ground. I'm sure that we're eventually going to see much more interesting Space vs Law fights in space.
If I wanted to install something on a public Win machine that was "locked down", I'd hit my own web site on another machine. Load page, load custom ActiveX control = One 0wn3d machine. If the machine wouldn't load unsigned ActiveX, I'd have to work a little harder (or smarter).
BTW, I normally have IE prompt for *any* ActiveX load, and usually say no. (Some sites require it, argh.) I was kind of annoyed when Slashdot put an ActiveX on their page. I eventually made Slashdot a trusted site, but perhaps I should have made it an UNtrustworthy site to kill the prompts?
Back in the old days on the high school Teletype, we had a few successes capturing passwords by leaning on the paper tape punch on button. One time, someone spotted the moving tape after he'd logged in, stopped the tape, ripped it off, crumpled it and tossed the tape in the garbage. After he left the room, everyone dived for the garbage can. (A number of us could read paper tape manually.)
*ahem* but of course I haven't done that sort of thing in decades...;^)
I tire of all these conspiracy theories. Relax and watch more TV instead.
*SPLORF*! And you think that'll help? How many shows are currently running (or in repeats) about the secret them that are out to get us, and the government keeping a lid on it?
I can't see doing it that way. You'd have to be feeding cable at 11 KPS or so. And your rocket isn't just going to go straight up to GeoSync and hang there, it's going to take a "circle the earth" or few relative to your ground station before you could stablize it relative to the ground.
Slashdot Mirror
Funny you should say "bucketload". Now where did I put that log-pulper..?
And then there's TWAIN (which doesn't stand for Technology Without An Interesting Name).
I've read it too. It's a pretty fluffy overview "for managers and developers", and pretty useless for anything serious. The definitive book is/was, of course, Brockschmidt, but no one ever reads all of that. If you want to good free guide look here (By Brockschmidt, of course. :^) COM can actually be a lot of fun. (In Delphi. In VC++, it's a chore.)
Odd, when I'm reading news sites Pre-Caffeine, I keep looking for the Reply button and bitching that I never have mod points. :^)
OMG! You're right, I hadn't noticed! :^P (You mean the 100 Phlegm Park) I'd settle for a pedestrian button that actually speeds up the traffic light cycle. (Rather than just controlling if the Walk light ever lights up.)
There's nothing more aggravating than standing on the wrong side of Don Mills at St. Dennis Dr, watching while the 25 slowly comes down from Eglinton, passes St. Dennis, and cruises on south before the light changes.
There are various traffic light override systems for emergency vehicles. Gotta build me one!
Perhaps it was one of the banner ads? When I get time (ha!) I'll take a look and see what's going on.
Someone somewhere is working on or has completed COBOL.Net. These people must be hunted down and killed. (Think of the children!)
(Caffeine level rising.)
I wonder how you register a space vehicle? I can just see a Motor Vehicle type line-up of astronauts and cosmonauts waiting to hand in their forms.
"But-but our launch window is coming up, can't you speed this up?"
"I could slow it down. *stamp* Go to that line over there to get your picture taken. Next!"
Since then, I understand that an agreement was worked out and extra turn-arounds added to the runway to permit landing a C5 and getting it off again. (As well as updating the landing guidance equipment there.) And all because a science/science-fiction writer said "whoops!" :^)
I forget who NASA was going to have write the Moon landing fake debunking book, it might have been G. Harry Stine. (Can't search, no caffine, waaah!)
These guys also have a GPS project: Stalkers now using global positioning satellite devices to track victims (Might make a good Slashdot submission, but I'm just not inspired at the moment.)
It's not Slashdot that's asking anything. They have (last time I looked) an ActiveX control on their web page. I set IE to ask before downloading any signed ActiveX control (unsigned disabled). So each time I loaded a page, I was prompted for the load again. That got old pretty fast, so I set Slashdot as a Trusted site and it doesn't ask me before loading a signed ActiveX control.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. You do realize that most spammers forge the From address (and frequently use someone else's actual email address)?
It really depends on volume. If you have the bad luck to get added to a number of "millions" CDs, or if you use it on a web page or Usenet posts, you'll get a LOT of spam. (I use a sacificial hotmail mailbox for that, and forward the occasional non-spam to my real mailbox.)
Hmm. I don't really have spare phone lines, but I do run thin ethernet to the burglar alarm (Linux) PC in the front hall. Maybe I'll whip up one for that. Most of the time the 25 Don Mills is often enough that it doesn't matter, but the 25D to Markham doesn't run as often, and only during rush times. And there's a trade off with the 100.
Hmm. What I really need is an estimated trip time to x, and the text-to-speech card nagging me with a "You're going to be late!" alarm.
I'd like to know why an engineering student expects the buses to be running within spec.
Sounds like Slashdot. Mod that spammer down! :^)
Coherent was based on older Unix tech. By that time (1990) most were using a better algorithm, I think. (One rotor, eek!)
But with passwd, it didn't matter how good the encryption was, trap-door or not. Giving public read access to it meant that anyone could stroll off with the passwords and use whatever computing power they had available (or could steal) to break them with dictionary or brute-force.
People were lulled into a false sense of security by the encryption and the desire to run "open" systems.
Pre-Challenger, it deals with an abort from a polar launch at Vandenberg. The only piece of land under them was Easter Island. They manage to land safely, then the real problems start! :^)
The amusing part was that no one at NASA had considered a number of problems in the book up to that point. (Apparently there was much cursing and swearing in NASA, then they bought more copies to dissect.) For example: Passports. A ladder to get out/in without ground equipment. Easter Island is about the only place to abort to during one phase of a polar launch. The shuttle transporter wasn't rigged for mid-air refueling. (Easter Island is about the most remote place on Earth.) Political problems with Chile and the (1982) Soviets nosing in. Etc.
And that was just Space vs Law on the ground. I'm sure that we're eventually going to see much more interesting Space vs Law fights in space.
BTW, I normally have IE prompt for *any* ActiveX load, and usually say no. (Some sites require it, argh.) I was kind of annoyed when Slashdot put an ActiveX on their page. I eventually made Slashdot a trusted site, but perhaps I should have made it an UNtrustworthy site to kill the prompts?
*ahem* but of course I haven't done that sort of thing in decades... ;^)
*SPLORF*! And you think that'll help? How many shows are currently running (or in repeats) about the secret them that are out to get us, and the government keeping a lid on it?
I hear you. "It's a one way trap-door algorithm and can't be reversed." After 1992 and dictionary attacks on passwd, they finally STFU.
I dunno, they're parked in a pretty bad neighbourhood. They might come back to find the ISS stripped and up on blocks.
And what if the Chinese invoke international (sea) laws about salvage? (Damned unlikely, but eventually we're going to see a lot more law in space.)
They did use the shuttles to launch military satellites. (Not lately, but I expect they kept all the gear for that.)
Such claims are worth the paper they're printed on, and no more. (And the paper is important too. Man prosecuted over selling land on moon)
As for the TLD, I thought it was the national governments that set the country TLDs. Thwate is just being silly.
I can't see doing it that way. You'd have to be feeding cable at 11 KPS or so. And your rocket isn't just going to go straight up to GeoSync and hang there, it's going to take a "circle the earth" or few relative to your ground station before you could stablize it relative to the ground.