This implies that ESA scientists have already run out of ideas of things to do in space. Which in turn implies that they think they've already done everything...
Although... it's a good excuse to use tax money to buy some enjoyable reading...;-)
I have to agree with a previous poster that it does seem inviting to have an "arms race" on the Internet. Three things bother me about this, though:
1) the feds are doing precisely what they are supposedly employed to protect us from. Lately we have been having a lot of examples of government which isn't really for the people. Some of the measures going on, I can understand and possibly even support in the name of national security, but others are way over the line.
2) it seems a very ineffective tactic, since it's already a widely-known plan (it's on MSNBC, isn't it?), and I'm sure terrorists or whoever don't just confine their readings to terror weekly or whatever online periodical. (but even if they did, don't you think it would have the article?
3) as the article points out, "The best snooping technology that the FBI currently uses, the controversial software called Carnivore, has been useless against suspects clever enough to encrypt their files.", so you really think a terrorist isn't clever enough to avoid running a trojan e-mail? They learned how to fly planes... training in the tools of their destruction. If a computer is involved, they will certainly know how to protect it from intrustion.
This seems exceptionally pointless, and the only people who have things to lose are precisely those who probably aren't doing anything wrong.
You're going to have a whole lot of dreams come true, last night.
I ran out of wishes about a minute in.:-(
Watched in Massachussetts from about 4:30am to 5:20 EST, saw a really stunning show in the southwestern part of the sky. It was great!
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Actually I get the impression that the second pilot was not that great at all. Both planes left from Boston Logan within 5 minutes. Looking at the flight paths on the cnn web site (can't seem to find the link now), that plane goes all over the place (almost to Atlantic City) before turning around to come up the coast and into WTC. It even looks at one point in the radar tracking as if the two hijacked planes were going to hit each other. I suspect that the intent was to hit both buildings within a much shorter timespan. The twenty minutes between the crashes has probably saved untold numbers of lives. Not to mention the fact that you were able to hit the buildings fairly easily with a flight simulator.
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Actually the rescue efforts are doing exactly this. AT&T at least is setting up some sort of cell site at the base of the carnage to try and pick up signals. This effort is only slightly hampered by the fact that there is no electricity in the area, so probably they've brought in a portable generator as well.
This being 48+ hours following the collapses, I have to wonder how many phone batteries have lasted this long...
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There's a reasonably good diagram of the affected areas here. (Requires shockwave) For NYC specifically, click on the NYC link on this map. The buildings down or in danger are in red. Manhattan island has been almost completely shut down from 14th Street south. That's about 1/6th of the island.
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This implies that ESA scientists have already run out of ideas of things to do in space. Which in turn implies that they think they've already done everything...
;-)
Although... it's a good excuse to use tax money to buy some enjoyable reading...
I have to agree with a previous poster that it does seem inviting to have an "arms race" on the Internet. Three things bother me about this, though: 1) the feds are doing precisely what they are supposedly employed to protect us from. Lately we have been having a lot of examples of government which isn't really for the people. Some of the measures going on, I can understand and possibly even support in the name of national security, but others are way over the line. 2) it seems a very ineffective tactic, since it's already a widely-known plan (it's on MSNBC, isn't it?), and I'm sure terrorists or whoever don't just confine their readings to terror weekly or whatever online periodical. (but even if they did, don't you think it would have the article? 3) as the article points out, "The best snooping technology that the FBI currently uses, the controversial software called Carnivore, has been useless against suspects clever enough to encrypt their files.", so you really think a terrorist isn't clever enough to avoid running a trojan e-mail? They learned how to fly planes... training in the tools of their destruction. If a computer is involved, they will certainly know how to protect it from intrustion. This seems exceptionally pointless, and the only people who have things to lose are precisely those who probably aren't doing anything wrong.
You're going to have a whole lot of dreams come true, last night.
:-(
I ran out of wishes about a minute in.
Watched in Massachussetts from about 4:30am to 5:20 EST, saw a really stunning show in the southwestern part of the sky. It was great!
Actually I get the impression that the second pilot was not that great at all.
Both planes left from Boston Logan within 5 minutes. Looking at the flight paths on the cnn web site (can't seem to find the link now), that plane goes all over the place (almost to Atlantic City) before turning around to come up the coast and into WTC. It even looks at one point in the radar tracking as if the two hijacked planes were going to hit each other. I suspect that the intent was to hit both buildings within a much shorter timespan. The twenty minutes between the crashes has probably saved untold numbers of lives.
Not to mention the fact that you were able to hit the buildings fairly easily with a flight simulator.
Actually the rescue efforts are doing exactly this. AT&T at least is setting up some sort of cell site at the base of the carnage to try and pick up signals. This effort is only slightly hampered by the fact that there is no electricity in the area, so probably they've brought in a portable generator as well. This being 48+ hours following the collapses, I have to wonder how many phone batteries have lasted this long...
There's a reasonably good diagram of the affected areas here. (Requires shockwave) For NYC specifically, click on the NYC link on this map. The buildings down or in danger are in red. Manhattan island has been almost completely shut down from 14th Street south. That's about 1/6th of the island.