Nasa has probably built a nifty model that will tell them the best launch times and dates. And I highly doubt that this model is as simple as 2 bodies. Everything out there has gravity, hell even the moon could be a problem.
I'm willing to bet what ever they use has a TON of factors build into it.
I hope not also. I once (several times) had spammers send email from my domain (faked obviously). I didnt recive any complaints, but I did recive hundreds of bounced message notifications - and let me tell you thats REALLY FREAKIN ANNOYING.
Its intresting to read about technologies involvement in stealing, and a lite overview of how these people do it. Though in the end its the same old story with a slightly new twist. As with everything the criminals and cops(or "good guys") are playing a game of constant evolution
I think the net of this article is that if you are Target Inc and track each recipt in a giant database - you'll be less likely to get ripped off.
Yes there is space rad. And it sucks, alot. But I'd like to belive that we have enough common sense to figure out how to bring this to a minimum. I'm preety sure NASA knows about this magical radiation - and took it into account when making their plans to go take a sunday stroll to the moon or mars.
Besides - the two best sources of technological improvement: war & space travel. Maybe they'll invent the anti-cancer pill finally.
I'm all for slashdoting of intresting stuff, but simply because they put out an all in one module doesnt make this very exciting. Why is there front page cover of a post that is basically trying to sell these items?
I for one, dont welcome our new corporate overlords.
That may be true. But code maintainability isnt the fault of the language, its the fault of the programmers. I'm not trying to speak bad against Taco or anyone that has worked on slashcode, I'm just saying that it isnt the language.
So slashdot has issues from time to time, what sites dont? (Minus Google). If you start from the begining designing for scalability, you should have less issues latter on. Its when you start with a "small" project that grows and becomes something it was never designed to handle that you start to have big issues.
Yea - Computers getting the change is going to suck - but thats a very easy fix. By that I mean its going to require a patch - but patching is common place so thats nothing new.
What about embeded devices? I have a clock on my wall that automatically adjusts for DST - but if they change when thats going to happen I have to turn off this "feature" and manually adjust my clock. Granted one little clock isnt a big deal - but this is just a small example. Think about all the small devices you have around that tracks time & date (home entertainment?). Most of these items _cant_ be patched.
Dont get me wrong - I think this is a fine idea (screw the children - its population control) - but they need to decide about it now for maybe next year. That way the consumer electonics area has time to sell us new devices with updated clocks (and I'm sure the retail industry will love that).
Its nice to see ZDnet publishing something useful from time to time. I, along with much of the/. community, have been on the Mozilla/Firefox bandwagon for a long time. Its a nice brief (relative) overview of this history, a nice bit for remanising.
Though I dont think the covered the split very well at all. Just that one mention of it and it was "seperate" for the rest of the time.
I dunno - but thats really scary. "NSA isn't autorized to take legal action" - thats bull#$@$ to hire a group to come in and just "scare" people. Along with that automated reneal bit.
I think everyone should write them and complain. In fact their magazine subscripion email is: subscriptions@wiredmag.com
Flood them.
Which of course I removed - thanks to everyone that replied. I also tried out the auto-linking. It does work as advertised. The spell check is rather nifty too. You can spell check even as little as what you type into the box on google.com (one line) or this entire post. (This Post spellchecked thanks to Google!)
Get a el'cheapo boxen - put it between your servers and the rest of the idiots - and install iptables (or smoothwall, or any of 100 other linux based firewalls that are free).
Either that or see if you can find someone to donate a real product (not that there is anything wrong w/ Linux based solutions - you just need to know what your doing) like a PIX.
Ok - We have a HUGE island that we're on - We call it the United States. Flying makes the most sense to get from one side to another - But trains make alot of sense for smaller distances.
Why cant there be a train from SF to Tahoe/Reno? I'd take it in a heart beat instead of driving. Why can't there be a train from SF to LA? Why cant there be a train from SF to Portland? What about... LA-Vegas, LA-Phoenix. Yea - you can fly all these routes - but it doesnt make much sense.
Now you can fly the long distances but if you have a "Short" hop - you can take a train. Rairly do people (other than business people) fly long distances alot. But I can tell you that thousands of people drive from SF to Tahoe almost every weekend - If there we train that were making this route (and doing 100MPH+ instead of 25MPH on I80), I know that the train would be full to the brim every Thursday to Monday - and then some.
You could also put train stations near airports... GENIOUS
If your data is really that important theres a few things you should do. First your desktop that you are using should be a RAID 1 or a RAID 5. That eliminates HD failure from being a problem (unless your dumb and dont pay attention to that flashing message on screen saying "harddrive failed - oh #$$%").
As for "arhive". Get a machine w/ good quality parts - Install a RAID 10 (yes, Raid 1+0) and install linux on it w/ Samba and a gigabit nic. Its a NAS.
And if your really really parinoid - Get a Removable HD Hotswap drive bay (like SATA kind) and a couple 500gig HD's (or what ever size you need). Ever so often (like every month) back up everything on to one of thoes drives and bring it off premisis - you can re-use the drives every few months.
My friend and I are huge fans, and that is by far my favorite line in the series. That was just awesome. Mad props - or what ever the proper hip term is now.
Same thing here. Being the IT person I downloaded it once and put it on the local file server for the entire company (granted we arent that big as 1500 machines, but same concept).
I think the real question is the number of people activly using Firefox. When firefox hits "10%" or "25%" of all net traffic - that should be a huge celebration. The kind where we shut down slashdot for the day so people can't flame about the statistics being faked.
I really do, I look forward to their yearly aprilfools gags, which everyyear are very good (last year I got a free t-shirt out of it). But, some on, the same thing three times? Please... I'm giving up reading/. today. We all enjoy aprilfools, but whats CT's Aprilfools gag - Driving away readers.
I am sure at least a good percentage of/.'rs installed MS-AntiSpyware just so they could have more reasons to bitch about it. Me included.
And I'm sure that most of them are using firefox or mozilla.... So why didnt we hear about this earlier? Because its faked. Unless M$ just updated the Spyware defs to include Firefox (which I doubt), then whats a mother to do?
I dont think the job is socially isolating at all. In fact programmers are much more isolated, at least in my view. Its the IT people (of course depending on exactly what you do) that get to wander around the office, talking to people, fixing things, etc. Someone ALWAYS wants to talk to the IT people, because someone ALWAYS has a problem.
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Nasa has probably built a nifty model that will tell them the best launch times and dates. And I highly doubt that this model is as simple as 2 bodies. Everything out there has gravity, hell even the moon could be a problem.
I'm willing to bet what ever they use has a TON of factors build into it.
I hope not also. I once (several times) had spammers send email from my domain (faked obviously). I didnt recive any complaints, but I did recive hundreds of bounced message notifications - and let me tell you thats REALLY FREAKIN ANNOYING.
I'm confused. What does this blue frog inituative do thats so magical to get rid of spammers. "Look we're getting rid of spammers"... Well HOW?
Its great and all yes? But what are they doing?
Its intresting to read about technologies involvement in stealing, and a lite overview of how these people do it. Though in the end its the same old story with a slightly new twist. As with everything the criminals and cops(or "good guys") are playing a game of constant evolution
I think the net of this article is that if you are Target Inc and track each recipt in a giant database - you'll be less likely to get ripped off.
Yes there is space rad. And it sucks, alot. But I'd like to belive that we have enough common sense to figure out how to bring this to a minimum. I'm preety sure NASA knows about this magical radiation - and took it into account when making their plans to go take a sunday stroll to the moon or mars.
Besides - the two best sources of technological improvement: war & space travel. Maybe they'll invent the anti-cancer pill finally.
I'm all for slashdoting of intresting stuff, but simply because they put out an all in one module doesnt make this very exciting. Why is there front page cover of a post that is basically trying to sell these items?
I for one, dont welcome our new corporate overlords.
Ya - Basically. "Slashdot, home of programmers and nerds and other opinionated people, which is best?"
Doesnt matter what they ask - its going to be a huge flamewar. I'm going to go for cover now.
Slashdot uses perl! Regardless, If I were to choose any web language I would use Perl. Lib's? Free! Tons of dev's out there too.
I'm not sure why this is comming across the headlines again but, I'll say it again.
Embeded devices. Clocks, DVD players, etc. Anything thats not network accessable that can be patched - is going to be screwed.
Yea - Computers getting the change is going to suck - but thats a very easy fix. By that I mean its going to require a patch - but patching is common place so thats nothing new.
What about embeded devices? I have a clock on my wall that automatically adjusts for DST - but if they change when thats going to happen I have to turn off this "feature" and manually adjust my clock. Granted one little clock isnt a big deal - but this is just a small example. Think about all the small devices you have around that tracks time & date (home entertainment?). Most of these items _cant_ be patched.
Dont get me wrong - I think this is a fine idea (screw the children - its population control) - but they need to decide about it now for maybe next year. That way the consumer electonics area has time to sell us new devices with updated clocks (and I'm sure the retail industry will love that).
Its nice to see ZDnet publishing something useful from time to time. I, along with much of the /. community, have been on the Mozilla/Firefox bandwagon for a long time. Its a nice brief (relative) overview of this history, a nice bit for remanising.
Though I dont think the covered the split very well at all. Just that one mention of it and it was "seperate" for the rest of the time.
I dunno - but thats really scary. "NSA isn't autorized to take legal action" - thats bull#$@$ to hire a group to come in and just "scare" people. Along with that automated reneal bit.
I think everyone should write them and complain. In fact their magazine subscripion email is: subscriptions@wiredmag.com
Flood them.
Which of course I removed - thanks to everyone that replied. I also tried out the auto-linking. It does work as advertised. The spell check is rather nifty too. You can spell check even as little as what you type into the box on google.com (one line) or this entire post. (This Post spellchecked thanks to Google!)
The only problem I have with it is the doube google search box.
Get a el'cheapo boxen - put it between your servers and the rest of the idiots - and install iptables (or smoothwall, or any of 100 other linux based firewalls that are free).
Either that or see if you can find someone to donate a real product (not that there is anything wrong w/ Linux based solutions - you just need to know what your doing) like a PIX.
Ok - We have a HUGE island that we're on - We call it the United States. Flying makes the most sense to get from one side to another - But trains make alot of sense for smaller distances.
Why cant there be a train from SF to Tahoe/Reno? I'd take it in a heart beat instead of driving. Why can't there be a train from SF to LA? Why cant there be a train from SF to Portland? What about... LA-Vegas, LA-Phoenix. Yea - you can fly all these routes - but it doesnt make much sense.
Now you can fly the long distances but if you have a "Short" hop - you can take a train. Rairly do people (other than business people) fly long distances alot. But I can tell you that thousands of people drive from SF to Tahoe almost every weekend - If there we train that were making this route (and doing 100MPH+ instead of 25MPH on I80), I know that the train would be full to the brim every Thursday to Monday - and then some.
You could also put train stations near airports... GENIOUS
If your data is really that important theres a few things you should do. First your desktop that you are using should be a RAID 1 or a RAID 5. That eliminates HD failure from being a problem (unless your dumb and dont pay attention to that flashing message on screen saying "harddrive failed - oh #$$%").
As for "arhive". Get a machine w/ good quality parts - Install a RAID 10 (yes, Raid 1+0) and install linux on it w/ Samba and a gigabit nic. Its a NAS.
And if your really really parinoid - Get a Removable HD Hotswap drive bay (like SATA kind) and a couple 500gig HD's (or what ever size you need). Ever so often (like every month) back up everything on to one of thoes drives and bring it off premisis - you can re-use the drives every few months.
I feel safer knowing I wasnt the only one that when they first read "ISN" though "Interstellar Network News" from Bab5.
I'd be really intrested in finding out if it was purposeful or not - Someone at ATT involved with this project is bound to be a B5 fan.
My friend and I are huge fans, and that is by far my favorite line in the series. That was just awesome. Mad props - or what ever the proper hip term is now.
Same thing here. Being the IT person I downloaded it once and put it on the local file server for the entire company (granted we arent that big as 1500 machines, but same concept).
I think the real question is the number of people activly using Firefox. When firefox hits "10%" or "25%" of all net traffic - that should be a huge celebration. The kind where we shut down slashdot for the day so people can't flame about the statistics being faked.
I really do, I look forward to their yearly aprilfools gags, which everyyear are very good (last year I got a free t-shirt out of it). But, some on, the same thing three times? Please... I'm giving up reading /. today. We all enjoy aprilfools, but whats CT's Aprilfools gag - Driving away readers.
Jesus ed's. Come on its April 1st and you still managed to dupe. THERES NOTHING GOING ON AND THE ARTICLES WERE A FEW HOURS APART.
Sheesh.
I am sure at least a good percentage of /.'rs installed MS-AntiSpyware just so they could have more reasons to bitch about it. Me included.
And I'm sure that most of them are using firefox or mozilla.... So why didnt we hear about this earlier? Because its faked. Unless M$ just updated the Spyware defs to include Firefox (which I doubt), then whats a mother to do?
I dont think the job is socially isolating at all. In fact programmers are much more isolated, at least in my view. Its the IT people (of course depending on exactly what you do) that get to wander around the office, talking to people, fixing things, etc. Someone ALWAYS wants to talk to the IT people, because someone ALWAYS has a problem.