It also gets them from scraping web sites in the browser cache. If someone visited the Singing Sergeants web site, then the address could have come from there, so the warning is still pretty g-d useless. I've long since disabled it on our e-mail gateway.
Receiving several hundred copies of a false alarm strikes me as a form of DDOS, not a helpful feature. Some folks still get their e-mail over dialup, you know.
I got into the office this morning to find 550 unread messages, mostly copies of this, or messages saying that copies I had supposedly sent hadn't been delivered.
Preach on, brother. I wish some sysadmins would get a clue and realize that with viruses spoofing the From: address, there is no fscking point in sending the "you sent me a virus" panic mail. All it does is bother the wrong people.
The application is the same for all of the candidates, plus usually includes the release for a background check. By having this form, the firm is both protected from some discrimination claims, and can check your criminal and financial background. In this overly litigous age, it's pretty much a requirement.
The problem, of course, is that politics is intimately entwined with space program, and has been from the begining. One of the reasons that Apollo was not advocated very strongly after the first moon landing was that Nixon saw it as a Kennedy project, and he didn't like Kennedy. He instead started the Space Shuttle, and made sure the contract went to a vendor in his home state that had already killed three astronauts and nearly killed three more. Grumman was a finalist in the Shuttle bidding, but lost primarily due to the fact that it was in Democrat country on Long Island.
Add to that the current Administration's utter lack of tact or guile when paying off their political sponsors (see no-bid contracts for Iraq and Homeland Security), and you have yourself an image problem. Many people (myself included) are even doubtful that the President is even serious about any of this, since it's woefully underfunded and the completion date is conveniently set well after his second term would end, leaving the blame for failure on somebody else.
I couldn't watch the show after that. ST:TOS was a drama that tackled big issues b/c being in space, the metaphores were there but not in your face.
I think you may be letting nostalgia cloud your memory here. Remember the original series episode with the aliens who are half white and half black? If that had been any more obvious even George Wallace would have figured it out. I seem to remember more, but I've not watched much Star Trek since the original series.
Space technology will represent the next arms race.
This is not a new thing. One of the early purposes of Gemini was to develop a US Air Force presence in space ("Blue Gemini" and the Manned Orbiting Laboratory) and the Shuttle is a pretty direct descendant of the DynaSoar vehicle which was the Air Force's attempt to build a military space vehicle without NASA's help.
Well, I hope you are all for banning air flights, because you're more likely to get clobbered by waste from a malfunctioning air toilet than having a reactor dropped on your precious noggin. Hell, you're more likely to have a religious fanatic drive an airplane into your workspace than to get hit with one. It's about keeping the risk in perspective, instead of running for mommy's skirts at the first sign of danger.
The only point they have is on the top of their heads. The reactor was engineered to survive a launch failure intact. The risk had been mitigated to acceptable levels. The protesters claim there is no acceptable level, which is stupid.
The problem is that there is a certain herd of people who here the word noo-cleer and want to go hide in a hole. It's so fricking ridiculous that GE had to drop the "N" from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging because slackjawed patients wouldn't get in a noo-cleer machine.
It all depends on whether or not TiVo can make a product clearly superior to the cable offerings. Not all purchase decisions are driven by price. By your logic Porsche and BMW are also dying businesses since Hyundais are much cheaper. TiVo will lose customers to the cable giants, and may even become a niche player like some computer makers I can think of, but it stands a pretty good chance of still being around and profitable.
I'll bet I pay $30 bucks for that pen anyway. What I don't pay in wages, I pay in taxes to pay for the welfare or incarceration of those who could be making those $30 dollar pens. It's easy to say something is cheap when you pass on part of the real expense to someone else.
Indeed. If the US Government had a requirement to only purchase goods and services from US owned companies who hire only US citizens, this problem would be greatly reduced. I believe the government of India has a similar requirement. Exemptions can be made as required.
Um, are you sure you understand what direct descent means? None of those craft entered a parking orbit prior to entering the Earth's atmosphere. They did orbit the Moon, but once they started the TEI burn, they were on the same return course as Apollo 13, with the same parameters. The only real difference is that they had a stable platform and an engine actually designed for corrections.
What the previous poster is referring to is the idea of parking the lander in Martian orbit for a few spins before landing. All of the manned lunar landings were handled this way, but their returns weren't.
How many Deltas or Atlases were just sitting around? The things are built to order. There wasn't a rocket (other than Atlantis, which had the same safety problems as Columbia) available. You seem to be acting as if a resupply mission was a sure thing. In all likelihood, it would have failed and the results would have been the same, or worse if Atlantis was also lost.
The basic problem is that NASA never planned for an orbital rescue. If they had, and procedures and equipment had already been in place, then success was a possibility. A voyage to LEO coupled with an untested rendezvous scenario is not a trip to the Quick-E-Mart. You wouldn't want to bring a booster anyplace near the Shuttle, so a container with manuvering capabilities would need to be designed. Right now, NASA doesn't have one.
1. Checkout would be drastically shortened. These rockets normally go through months of pre-flight checks.
2. The Shuttle's orbital inclination is not the same as military satellites'. The guidance software would need to be tuned.
3. Yeah. Tell that the folks who were on Mir when the Progress collided. They lost part of the station to that collision. The Shuttle isn't sub-divided like Mir was.
4. There wouldn't be time.
The astronauts have never rehearsed a free spacewalk to an unknown, propellant laden, jury-rigged rescue rocket. You do realize that most spacewalks are highly choreographed affairs? You don't just get out and walk over to your target. Also, Columbia wasn't carring the MMU, so how are they getting over there in the first place?
This isn't the movies. Sometimes there isn't anything that you can do. All the evidence suggests that this was one of those times. We are not at the stage at which we can get to orbit within a week or two. Ironically, it was the Shuttle that was supposed to enable us to do just that.
Bull. Something might have worked out, but consider that we have never had an unmanned supply vehicle mate with a shuttle and that all of the procedures would have had to be worked out in a matter of days. In all likelihood, the supply vessel would have failed in any of a large number of ways. Here's just a few:
Blows up on launch.
Fails to make matching orbit due to errors in hastily written flight control software.
Collides with shuttle do to human error or bad software.
Hasty packing leads to the omission of critical consumable.
I do not hold NASA blameless in this, since some of these scenarios could have been developed well prior to the accident, if they were truly serious about crew survival. The idea that something could be cobbled together in the time available for this kind of failure is nearly nil.
To contrast this with the Apollo 13 failure, some planning had already been done for a LM lifeboat scenario. Even then it was a very near thing, and things were missed. The Lithium Hydroxide canister problem was the most obvious of these, but there were others.
If the CM heatshield had been damaged, there was nothing NASA could have done to save the crew. That would be a similar accident to Columbia, and it would have had similar results.
All the FCC needs to do is classify it as "interference" which the user of the radio is required to correct, by law. Read the Class B electronic device statement on any radio (or other electronics).
Again, this would probably only be enforced if one advertiser parked a radio near one of these BBs to make sure that their ads got a better rotation, which I believe was the original poster's point.
Yep, right until the FCC caught you. I'm pretty sure that could be construed as operating a jamming device, which is a felony. Even if it isn't, it's operating an unlicensed transmitter, which still gets you nailed.
If you do this in your car, they might not care. Mess with advertising dollars, and they will.
I'd be careful here. Some of the accusations you throw out about Bush-Saddam ties have about as much evidence for them as Bush had for Iraq's WMD program. It is equally likely that neither Putin or Chirac want a fair trial either, since the two major oil companies in Iraq are based in their countries and there was a fair amount of oil smuggling going on, in spite of UN sanctions.
I think it's safe to say that most "important" people would rather that he had gone out in a blaze of glory. It would provide a real martyr and leave sleeping dogs lie for all concerned. I think Saddam may know this too, which is why I think my scenario isn't that farfetched. All the Bushies have to do is offer him life imprisonment in the US in return for cooperation. The US doesn't recognize the World Court, so an extradition order from them might as well be written on Charmin.
This actually could go either way at this point. Saddam could be a martyr, but considering that many of these people were fighting to maintain their priviledges under Saddam's rule, it could also weaken the resistance considerably. We don't know what will happen at this time, and I would guess that an awful lot of it will have to do with how Saddam is handled from here on out.
For example, Saddam is very concerned with preserving his own skin. What if he were to admit to everything Bush has accused him of in return for a nice safe cell in the US instead of firing squad in Iraq? Maybe he and Noriega can start playing Pinochle? I have no illusions that Saddam wouldn't sell his buddies down the river. This is a man who actually ordered his oldest son assasinated at one point and only relented after he'd been seriously injured in the attempt.
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Receiving several hundred copies of a false alarm strikes me as a form of DDOS, not a helpful feature. Some folks still get their e-mail over dialup, you know.
Preach on, brother. I wish some sysadmins would get a clue and realize that with viruses spoofing the From: address, there is no fscking point in sending the "you sent me a virus" panic mail. All it does is bother the wrong people.
The application is the same for all of the candidates, plus usually includes the release for a background check. By having this form, the firm is both protected from some discrimination claims, and can check your criminal and financial background. In this overly litigous age, it's pretty much a requirement.
Add to that the current Administration's utter lack of tact or guile when paying off their political sponsors (see no-bid contracts for Iraq and Homeland Security), and you have yourself an image problem. Many people (myself included) are even doubtful that the President is even serious about any of this, since it's woefully underfunded and the completion date is conveniently set well after his second term would end, leaving the blame for failure on somebody else.
I think you may be letting nostalgia cloud your memory here. Remember the original series episode with the aliens who are half white and half black? If that had been any more obvious even George Wallace would have figured it out. I seem to remember more, but I've not watched much Star Trek since the original series.
This is not a new thing. One of the early purposes of Gemini was to develop a US Air Force presence in space ("Blue Gemini" and the Manned Orbiting Laboratory) and the Shuttle is a pretty direct descendant of the DynaSoar vehicle which was the Air Force's attempt to build a military space vehicle without NASA's help.
Well, I hope you are all for banning air flights, because you're more likely to get clobbered by waste from a malfunctioning air toilet than having a reactor dropped on your precious noggin. Hell, you're more likely to have a religious fanatic drive an airplane into your workspace than to get hit with one. It's about keeping the risk in perspective, instead of running for mommy's skirts at the first sign of danger.
The problem is that there is a certain herd of people who here the word noo-cleer and want to go hide in a hole. It's so fricking ridiculous that GE had to drop the "N" from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging because slackjawed patients wouldn't get in a noo-cleer machine.
Yeah, because you don't want to do anything until it is 100% safe, right? Life is dangerous. Wear a frickin' helmet and get on with it.
It all depends on whether or not TiVo can make a product clearly superior to the cable offerings. Not all purchase decisions are driven by price. By your logic Porsche and BMW are also dying businesses since Hyundais are much cheaper. TiVo will lose customers to the cable giants, and may even become a niche player like some computer makers I can think of, but it stands a pretty good chance of still being around and profitable.
I'll bet I pay $30 bucks for that pen anyway. What I don't pay in wages, I pay in taxes to pay for the welfare or incarceration of those who could be making those $30 dollar pens. It's easy to say something is cheap when you pass on part of the real expense to someone else.
Indeed. If the US Government had a requirement to only purchase goods and services from US owned companies who hire only US citizens, this problem would be greatly reduced. I believe the government of India has a similar requirement. Exemptions can be made as required.
Cruel and unusual would be a continuous loop of They Live.
What the previous poster is referring to is the idea of parking the lander in Martian orbit for a few spins before landing. All of the manned lunar landings were handled this way, but their returns weren't.
The basic problem is that NASA never planned for an orbital rescue. If they had, and procedures and equipment had already been in place, then success was a possibility. A voyage to LEO coupled with an untested rendezvous scenario is not a trip to the Quick-E-Mart. You wouldn't want to bring a booster anyplace near the Shuttle, so a container with manuvering capabilities would need to be designed. Right now, NASA doesn't have one.
2. The Shuttle's orbital inclination is not the same as military satellites'. The guidance software would need to be tuned.
3. Yeah. Tell that the folks who were on Mir when the Progress collided. They lost part of the station to that collision. The Shuttle isn't sub-divided like Mir was.
4. There wouldn't be time.
The astronauts have never rehearsed a free spacewalk to an unknown, propellant laden, jury-rigged rescue rocket. You do realize that most spacewalks are highly choreographed affairs? You don't just get out and walk over to your target. Also, Columbia wasn't carring the MMU, so how are they getting over there in the first place?
This isn't the movies. Sometimes there isn't anything that you can do. All the evidence suggests that this was one of those times. We are not at the stage at which we can get to orbit within a week or two. Ironically, it was the Shuttle that was supposed to enable us to do just that.
I do not hold NASA blameless in this, since some of these scenarios could have been developed well prior to the accident, if they were truly serious about crew survival. The idea that something could be cobbled together in the time available for this kind of failure is nearly nil.
To contrast this with the Apollo 13 failure, some planning had already been done for a LM lifeboat scenario. Even then it was a very near thing, and things were missed. The Lithium Hydroxide canister problem was the most obvious of these, but there were others.
If the CM heatshield had been damaged, there was nothing NASA could have done to save the crew. That would be a similar accident to Columbia, and it would have had similar results.
Senator Orrin Hatch has proposed just such an amendment.
Actually, odds are it's the company that the CEO's nephew's daughter-in-law's cousin works for and you'll just be ignored.
With trojaned machines doing most of the spamming, about the only effective block is to pull the wire connecting you to the net.
Again, this would probably only be enforced if one advertiser parked a radio near one of these BBs to make sure that their ads got a better rotation, which I believe was the original poster's point.
I understand that fluffers, like proprietary software, have a serious virus problem. Make sure you take the appropriate countermeasures.
Yep, right until the FCC caught you. I'm pretty sure that could be construed as operating a jamming device, which is a felony. Even if it isn't, it's operating an unlicensed transmitter, which still gets you nailed.
If you do this in your car, they might not care. Mess with advertising dollars, and they will.
I think it's safe to say that most "important" people would rather that he had gone out in a blaze of glory. It would provide a real martyr and leave sleeping dogs lie for all concerned. I think Saddam may know this too, which is why I think my scenario isn't that farfetched. All the Bushies have to do is offer him life imprisonment in the US in return for cooperation. The US doesn't recognize the World Court, so an extradition order from them might as well be written on Charmin.
For example, Saddam is very concerned with preserving his own skin. What if he were to admit to everything Bush has accused him of in return for a nice safe cell in the US instead of firing squad in Iraq? Maybe he and Noriega can start playing Pinochle? I have no illusions that Saddam wouldn't sell his buddies down the river. This is a man who actually ordered his oldest son assasinated at one point and only relented after he'd been seriously injured in the attempt.