And I always thought that it was the porjectionist that was supposed to bootleg movies. He's let the whole profession down...;)
Not necessarily. He might just be reducing competition. The same principle applies in many extralegal trades--fink your competitor out to the cops and you're saved the trouble and expense of filling him with lead and dumping him into a sausage grinder. And that's not to mention that most projectionists are probably less than comfortable ventilating someone.
Anyone else think this sounds a little unlikely? It seems like you would get--you should excuse the expression--much more bang for your buck by using a low-tech dispersal mechanism (e.g., losers with aerosol cans in bus stations and airports) than by using a costly mechanism that allows the target to tell exactly who infected them.
Plus, you're probably going to get a launch at one of your cities for each of your launches before the target finds out that you aren't using nuclear warheads.
This isn't to say it's impossible--it sounds technically doable--but under what cases would it make any sense? The referenced article had as much techical detail as the Slashdot article--one sentence. A Google search for "aerosol warhead" suprisingly produces only a single reference. I didn't know there was and query that would produce a single response, unless you just copied the whole document into the search box . . . .
I've got a VW Jetta TDI and I consistantly get > 50 MPG (average about 52 MPG) in mostly highway driving.
I've got a TDI and I get around 44, except when I have the rack
on top. Then I get 41. The highest I've ever seen was around
50. And it isn't a driving style issue--if I drive like a bastard,
I get 43, and if I drive like a granny I get 44. Must be a per-vehicle
difference.
If you're a writer for a technical magazine, shouldn't you at least have the intelligence to spot a scam/hoax email like that within about two seconds? Who ever saw an email even remotely like that and took it seriously for even one fucking moment?
Insightful?
If you're an Anonymous Coward on slashdot and you don't have the intelligence to spot a rhetorical device used by an author who . . . oh . . . never mind. Don't know what I was thinking . . . .
"Unlike the whole "keep your cell-phone number" jiberjoo, this is unneeded..."
How is "keep your phone number" any more needed than this?
I mean, you go tell people who need to get in contact with you what your new phone number is, and update your online info. It's not that hard!
Everyone gives people their phone number. Everyone gives people their email address. No one gives anyone their IP address (unless they're a numb-nuts).
I bet you've been saving that joke for the right occasion for a loooooooong time.
Probably since 708 B.C., hmm?
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I don't know. Spammers' circumvention of certain email filters seems pretty creative to me. It's still vandalism, when all is said and done though, just like graffiti.
I guess I'm just getting old, but I'm feeling a little tired of the argument that "X is nothing but Y" when it clearly isn't. Vandalism is busting stuff for no reason. It's clear that while graffiti ignores property rights, it isn't just busting stuff. And it isn't the same as spam, for God's sake--spammers are trying to sell you somthing.
That's why they should all be lethally gassed.
Please, let's have a little nuance, people.... Except for the spammers, who can be fired out the blowhole of history for all that I care.
... unless the policy is that they don't allow it because they can't put their BigBrotherWare on it.
It seems like a reasonable alternative would be to give people the option of maintaining their own PC. If they get a virus or become a spam bot or something, then they give up that right and have to allow the school to essentially administer their system.
A question: what happens if someone has an old PC that's running 98 or something? Is the school going to give them a copy of something more modern so they can run their stuff? Can their machine even handle a newer OS?
Of course, students are probably new and cool enough that they all have better PCs than me--mine is a 500 MHz K6. Since it runs Linux, it's actually plenty snappy....
I guess vi and some other editors have caught up in the visiting-many-files-at-once game, but I really only have to leave when I want to use a browser. And I don't even have to do that--it's just easier.
Why paint anything anymore, I have a nice Picasso right here.
I'm guessing that there are not a lot of other slashdot readers that can say they have "a nice Picasso right here." In fact, this should almost be moderated "-1 excessive bragging," except of course there is no such category.
Anyone else think that it would be nice to be able to create your own moderation categories on the fly? The only problem would be that readers couldn't add or subtract a custom amount for them (at least until they became popular enough to make it to the preferences page). It would probably be impractical to have a widget for each moderation any of the 1e9 posters created each day....
You have to have three people IN the thing to qualify for the X-Prize.
I'm amazed at how many people seem to believe this. You do NOT need to carry three people. You need to be able to carry three people. You must carry enough weight to simulate three people.
Here's an excerpt from the rules, copied from this page. The italics are mine:
3. The flight vehicle must be flown twice within a 14-day period. Each flight must carry at least one person, to minimum altitude of 100 km (62 miles). The flight vehicle must be built with the capacity (weight and volume) to carry a minimum of 3 adults of height 188 cm (6 feet 2 inches) and weight 90 kg (198 pounds) each. Three people of this size or larger must be able to enter, occupy, and be fastened into the flight vehicle on Earth's surface prior to take-off, and equivalent ballast must be carried in-flight if the number of persons on-board during flight is less than 3 persons.
SpaceShipOne just seems like a bit of a hack to me.
I agree. What you seem to have forgotten is that a "hack" is a elegant solution to a problem. I think you meant "kludge." If so, I must disagree.
SS1 does what it needs to to meet its goal--winning the X Prize. If Rutan gets a contract to build a reusable orbital launch vehicle (with substantially more bucks backing it up), I expect to see one within five years.
One of the quotes direct from that little presentation: "Using the Altair 8800, Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop the first programming language, and begin an extraordinary, history-making journey."
Damn, that sounds like fun, but I've decided I'm never viewing anything again that uses Flash animation. There's just *way* too much annoying stuff it enables....
That is a great quote, though. I wonder if they did that before or after they invented the automobile and the airplane?
The M1A2 is fortunately for US forces, one of the most protected tanks, especially against HEAT charges like the one employed by the RPG.
As near as I can tell "HEAT" == "shaped charge". I mention this because initially I assumed they were different things. The RPG-7, according to this link, can penetrate 330 mm of armor. That's plenty to take out an M1A2, depending on where you hit it. IThat's why you have infantry and armored vehicles.
Also, it appears that what is usually called an RPG in today's news is pretty much what would've been called a bazooka or LAW in earlier times. It's probably precise terminology for the military folks, but confusing for the rest of us.... and I'm pretty sure the news media don't have the faintest foggy idea what it is. Something like the "assault rifles" that always figure prominently whenever someone busts a cap anywhere.
Hell, most laymen can't even name the nine "accepted" planets and know Pluto only as an animated movie star with a lisp.
A "movie star with a lisp?" I guess my cultural literacy is low, because I though Pluto was an animated dog that didn't talk at all.
As support for your contention, I found that a friend that is a computer science prof didn't know the order of the planets, though he did know their names.
I'll leave it up to you to find the one for the rover program, dud. I'm sure you can manage that.
In other words, you can't find anything. Good ad hominem attack on my gag handle, though--I'm devasted because I was sure it would make me sound like a serious genius.
As another poster noted, you always insure commercial ventures. But, again as noted, the Mars Rovers aren't commercial ventures. Or did you think they were sponsered by Warner Brothers? I'd say "sorry for the sarcasm," but I'd be insincere.
I like this idea. This could be a great replacement for the feeling you get when a physical customer walks into your store.
Hmmm. Except you can't greet them, assist them, or try to sell them anything. Other than that, it's exactly the same.
I guess I don't see how this is anything but eye candy for people with websites. Maybe that's the point.... I don't always understand the point behind everything. For instance, those segway things....
I'm talking about the insurance policy which NASA took out on the rover program, to cover any losses, damages, etc. Yes, there is one, no I don't know if its Lloyds of London or what, but I'm sure you can find out with a little google...
No way. We can find out with a little google? You hallucinated something (NASA taking insurance on the Rovers) and your "proof" is we can find the proof? Nice try.
There are giant albino alligators in the sewers of New York. You can find out with a little google.
Rather than make a few tens of dollars selling an old drive, take it apart, and burn the platters until they're nothing more than dust.
"Burn the platters?" What, do you live in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber? They're aluminum, aren't they?
I was looking for a link for oxygen chambers and happened across this link on underwater blast injuries. I figured it was interesting and it kind of goes with the typo in the title....
At least, it seems more interesting than a second article that says "there's data on used hard drives."
What about encrypting swap space? This will not a) solve the problem completely, and b) may waste CPU cycles, but should be within easy reach of OS implementors
If it has to be decrypted by the OS when it gets swapped in, it can be decrypted to fish for passwords. Of course, if it doesn't have to be decrypted on swap-in, an obvious optimization is to just throw it away and replace it with a block of zeroes on-demand.
Rumor has it that XP SP3 includes this optimization.
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Plus, you're probably going to get a launch at one of your cities for each of your launches before the target finds out that you aren't using nuclear warheads.
This isn't to say it's impossible--it sounds technically doable--but under what cases would it make any sense? The referenced article had as much techical detail as the Slashdot article--one sentence. A Google search for "aerosol warhead" suprisingly produces only a single reference. I didn't know there was and query that would produce a single response, unless you just copied the whole document into the search box . . . .
If you're an Anonymous Coward on slashdot and you don't have the intelligence to spot a rhetorical device used by an author who . . . oh . . . never mind. Don't know what I was thinking . . . .
That's how.
I agree with the poster's sentiment, though. There are few of the pioneers of the field left.
That's why they should all be lethally gassed.
Please, let's have a little nuance, people.... Except for the spammers, who can be fired out the blowhole of history for all that I care.
It seems like a reasonable alternative would be to give people the option of maintaining their own PC. If they get a virus or become a spam bot or something, then they give up that right and have to allow the school to essentially administer their system.
A question: what happens if someone has an old PC that's running 98 or something? Is the school going to give them a copy of something more modern so they can run their stuff? Can their machine even handle a newer OS?
Of course, students are probably new and cool enough that they all have better PCs than me--mine is a 500 MHz K6. Since it runs Linux, it's actually plenty snappy....
I guess vi and some other editors have caught up in the visiting-many-files-at-once game, but I really only have to leave when I want to use a browser. And I don't even have to do that--it's just easier.
I'm guessing that there are not a lot of other slashdot readers that can say they have "a nice Picasso right here." In fact, this should almost be moderated "-1 excessive bragging," except of course there is no such category.
Anyone else think that it would be nice to be able to create your own moderation categories on the fly? The only problem would be that readers couldn't add or subtract a custom amount for them (at least until they became popular enough to make it to the preferences page). It would probably be impractical to have a widget for each moderation any of the 1e9 posters created each day....
SS1 does what it needs to to meet its goal--winning the X Prize. If Rutan gets a contract to build a reusable orbital launch vehicle (with substantially more bucks backing it up), I expect to see one within five years.
I never thought I'd say it, but "first post!"*
That is a great quote, though. I wonder if they did that before or after they invented the automobile and the airplane?
As near as I can tell "HEAT" == "shaped charge". I mention this because initially I assumed they were different things. The RPG-7, according to this link, can penetrate 330 mm of armor. That's plenty to take out an M1A2, depending on where you hit it. IThat's why you have infantry and armored vehicles.
Also, it appears that what is usually called an RPG in today's news is pretty much what would've been called a bazooka or LAW in earlier times. It's probably precise terminology for the military folks, but confusing for the rest of us.... and I'm pretty sure the news media don't have the faintest foggy idea what it is. Something like the "assault rifles" that always figure prominently whenever someone busts a cap anywhere.
A "movie star with a lisp?" I guess my cultural literacy is low, because I though Pluto was an animated dog that didn't talk at all.
As support for your contention, I found that a friend that is a computer science prof didn't know the order of the planets, though he did know their names.
As another poster noted, you always insure commercial ventures. But, again as noted, the Mars Rovers aren't commercial ventures. Or did you think they were sponsered by Warner Brothers? I'd say "sorry for the sarcasm," but I'd be insincere.
I guess I don't see how this is anything but eye candy for people with websites. Maybe that's the point.... I don't always understand the point behind everything. For instance, those segway things....
There are giant albino alligators in the sewers of New York. You can find out with a little google.
I was looking for a link for oxygen chambers and happened across this link on underwater blast injuries. I figured it was interesting and it kind of goes with the typo in the title.... At least, it seems more interesting than a second article that says "there's data on used hard drives."
Rumor has it that XP SP3 includes this optimization.