Had a close call once near Albuquerque in a small single engine aircraft. 6000 ft elevation, about 105, early afternoon, barely took off. Possibly due to engine performance issues. Took forever to climb, really scary!
Check my numbers, please, but that seems a little high to be caused by braking due to air resistance.
This seems even more innacurate, taking into account that at this point the shuttle was in "near vacuum" (according to the same article)
Granted, it was climbing fast. But my guess is that the 531 mph number comes from their experiment and is not related to the real incident.
We have a 3MBit ADSL at the office here in Montreal. It's about 4-5 times faster upstream than my home Cable connection with Videotron, but it's slower downstream and goes down way more often. Last month, we've been down 3 times for more than 1 hour, one of which it took more than 24 hours to get the service back. But hey, it's part of our contract, we had to agree that this could happen (it's a cheap connection after all...)
When we bought the connection last year I told the technical guy that I would be replacing the ISDN router we had with a linux firewallgateway. He told me I wouldn't have any problem doing my routing if I was running xinetd instead of inetd. WTF??
At least they are becoming aware of non-Microsoftish operating systems but there's still a lot to learn!
P.S.: for users of xDSL/Cable modems take a look at the linux QoS support and TC tutorials (look in the Advanced Routing HOWTO), it will make your broadband experiance mucho bettah!
I had the cable guy come to my house to install the NIC/junkware too. When he arrived, I shut my linux firewall down, open the case, he gives me the network card that I put in and boot. Then he gives me his drivers floppy, asking me which OS I ran. I tell him I run linux and I don't need the drivers. The card is an old SMC 10mbit so I just compiled the ne2k-pci module, insmodded it and ifuped eth1 which I configured to use dhcp.
The best part was the look on his face when he saw the internet connection working right away without rebooting. (At the time they were supporting only win9x machines)
I would like a water cooling system which could cool down HD, Power Supply, Video GPU etc. and be able to put the pump/radiator/fan far away.
Or don't use radiator/fan, just pump the water from the swimming pool and put it back in so that we start crunching numbers and get an heated swimming pool;-)
After associating Benham's test-page IP with www.amazon.com in my hosts file I found that in Konqueror, following a link to https://www.amazon.com brought me immediately to the 'you've been hacked' page
It seems normal to me that after associationg the IP with the amazon domain name in your hosts file, the malicious IP gets precedence over the autoritative association from the DNS. So he dosen't get to the real amazon.com, obviously. If this attack requires a domain spoof it's quite unlikely to happen IMHO.
Since they don't have kids, they don't pass on any genes (even your hypothetical "gay" gene), so it ends.
That's the point;-)
And I think you are right about the non-genetic nature. So are we forced to conclude that homosexuality (true ones, not Greece virgins) is a disease? If it is true we should try to cure them instead. Same thing as for paedophiles then I guess. A kind of disorder?
Some people claim that evolution has stopped in humans
I think that it hasen't stopped. For example, more and more are becoming homosexual. I don't know the natural reason but I guess it's just because it's now cool/accepted to be gay.
Will be an interresting population to look at to verify if natural selection still exists for humans
An anti-gravity technology patent has already been filed
by Microsoft for creating cool WindowsXP advertisements. Along with the EULA now XP comes with a private pilot license and ELT equipped stress ball.
yeah that would be nice. Heres how to do it. We develop a time machine and send amounts of
stuff in the past for a few minutes. Easy! But make sure there isnt too much planes flying and basketball games going on during the gravity increase. Not to talk about bunjee jumpers!!
I agree with you. Furthermore, the Linux text-driven command set, being unix tools, is much more easier to learn because there is and there has been a lot of unices out there, long before DOS came alive with it's basic/not-very-powerful commands.
BTW my favorite DOS command was REN!! What a useful command!!
But I can't take no more comparison between shells and DOS, they are so different... the author is indeed very ignorant and it is obvious that he dosen't know what he's talking about and therefore his biased opinion must be laught at.
I disagree. Being a Debian user, I can't really talk for RPMs, but I find Debian package management so much easier than the setup.exe way of doing things. With windows apps installs often you get srewed without knowing. Instead of not wanting to install due to dependencies problem, some application installers dont even care, install themselves anyway, and break other applications by overwriting libraries with an older/newer/other version they came with.
This means that:
Installing a windows application may silently break some others. And believe me they often do on windows terminal servers.
Application setup programs are huge because they carry many shared libraries often not needed, or even worse, apps are statically linked. This is not a problem if you got the cdrom but for downloads on the net it wastes bandwidth.
With linux package management systems at least you get warned for dependencies problem. It is up to you to decide if you install it anyway, and some tools like apt will help you a lot.
A forgotten curly bracket or semicolon won't affect your grade if you're going to any decent college... Where I am in CS anyways we're asked to write specific language code only on few introductory courses, some not even credited.
The real courses talk about algorithms and general ideas hence you can write down your algorithms in pseudocode, english, or any way you feel that the TA is gonna get your idea.
For myself, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, I'm happy when we get a question about programming syntax or such in an exam because usually those are the easiest questions so I don't really understand why you're complaining...
For example, let say you are asked to write a Dynamic Programming algorithm to multiply matrices in O(n^2) and your algorithm is correct but won't compile, and you loose some marks, then the college you're going to does not deserve you're money anymore!
Now my CS major is almost finished and I never saw an exam where I had to write more than say 100 lines of code. The 500 lines your talking about are for a single exam question or the whole exam?? Would be more reasonable to make programming assignments or projects because thats why they're there for.
Haven't read the article yet (/.ed) but here are the simplest shell security concerns you may have: Do you have "." in your path? If it is, have you specifically aliased ls to be/bin/ls?
Think about untarring a package that has a malicious "ls" script. You cd into the newly created directory and issue ls. You're screwed if the shell picks up the malicious ls instead of the ls in/usr/bin
Sorry you felt that offended I was just kidding...
Thanks for the numbers and corrections, but I still think it would hurt a bit like
a big football player aiming at us (full?) speed, if you like the image.
It's true that it can be much worse with bicycle, but usually they are not allowed
on the sidewalk.
Getting hit by one of those things is no worse then getting hit by someone who weighs 75 pounds more then you do.
Haha LOL ROTF Mwaheaheahea!!!
I can't stop making fun of engineers!!!
We learn in HIGHSCHOOL that force is proportional to the square of the speed. It's the first thing we learn in physics!
So it's not only that the guy is gonna be weighing 75 pounds more than you, butt he'll be travelling fast!!
Here are the number I got:
Segway: 80 pounds
Top speed: 12.5 mph
Cargo capacity: 250 pounds driver + 75 pounds of laugages.
So there can be a 250+75+80 = 405 pounds thing going at 12.5 mph along with us on the sidewalks???
I'll sure be among the firsts to own an electric car.
Electric cars can be very performant. Some can beat Ferraries on 1/4 miles runs.
Imagine having independent motors at each wheel, be able to control them as you wish, by computer. You hate steering? Well, drive your car with a joystick!
I would finally be able to have a decent sound system in my car
that would be supplied with all the amps it desires!!
Imagine quietly driving next to a Tommy Hilfiger outfitted rice-boy driving
it's neon-covered dance-music-playing Honda, and earing his car screem and complain
in agony while you see him disappear in your mirror.... what a nice image;-)
That said, the problem with electric cars today is definitely not performance, it is autonomy. With fuel cells, this autonomy problem may disappear. It would be possible to
refuel those cars as we do now. I hope they can use non-dangerous
substance to get Hydrogen from because I don't like the idea of carrying
tanks of compressed hydrogen under my seat (zepplin anyone?)
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Had a close call once near Albuquerque in a small single engine aircraft. 6000 ft elevation, about 105, early afternoon, barely took off. Possibly due to engine performance issues. Took forever to climb, really scary!
accessing it through the home page works fine http://stupidco.com/
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Check my numbers, please, but that seems a little high to be caused by braking due to air resistance.
This seems even more innacurate, taking into account that at this point the shuttle was in "near vacuum" (according to the same article) Granted, it was climbing fast. But my guess is that the 531 mph number comes from their experiment and is not related to the real incident.
And Justice For All was also a breakthrough in Heavy Metal Sound Quality at the time (1988 IIRC), in my opinion.
We have a 3MBit ADSL at the office here in Montreal. It's about 4-5 times faster upstream than my home Cable connection with Videotron, but it's slower downstream and goes down way more often. Last month, we've been down 3 times for more than 1 hour, one of which it took more than 24 hours to get the service back. But hey, it's part of our contract, we had to agree that this could happen (it's a cheap connection after all...)
When we bought the connection last year I told the technical guy that I would be replacing the ISDN router we had with a linux firewallgateway. He told me I wouldn't have any problem doing my routing if I was running xinetd instead of inetd. WTF??
At least they are becoming aware of non-Microsoftish operating systems but there's still a lot to learn!
P.S.: for users of xDSL/Cable modems take a look at the linux QoS support and TC tutorials (look in the Advanced Routing HOWTO), it will make your broadband experiance mucho bettah!
I had the cable guy come to my house to install the NIC/junkware too. When he arrived, I shut my linux firewall down, open the case, he gives me the network card that I put in and boot. Then he gives me his drivers floppy, asking me which OS I ran. I tell him I run linux and I don't need the drivers. The card is an old SMC 10mbit so I just compiled the ne2k-pci module, insmodded it and ifuped eth1 which I configured to use dhcp.
The best part was the look on his face when he saw the internet connection working right away without rebooting. (At the time they were supporting only win9x machines)
I would like a water cooling system which could cool down HD, Power Supply, Video GPU etc. and be able to put the pump/radiator/fan far away. ;-)
Or don't use radiator/fan, just pump the water from the swimming pool and put it back in so that we start crunching numbers and get an heated swimming pool
They use this product to manage the show and they are hosted there right now, it seems.
After associating Benham's test-page IP with www.amazon.com in my hosts file I found that in Konqueror, following a link to https://www.amazon.com brought me immediately to the 'you've been hacked' page
It seems normal to me that after associationg the IP with the amazon domain name in your hosts file, the malicious IP gets precedence over the autoritative association from the DNS.
So he dosen't get to the real amazon.com, obviously. If this attack requires a domain spoof it's quite unlikely to happen IMHO.
Since they don't have kids, they don't pass on any genes (even your hypothetical "gay" gene), so it ends. ;-)
That's the point
And I think you are right about the non-genetic nature. So are we forced to conclude that homosexuality (true ones, not Greece virgins) is a disease? If it is true we should try to cure them instead. Same thing as for paedophiles then I guess. A kind of disorder?
Some people claim that evolution has stopped in humans
I think that it hasen't stopped. For example, more and more are becoming homosexual. I don't know the natural reason but I guess it's just because it's now cool/accepted to be gay.
Will be an interresting population to look at to verify if natural selection still exists for humans
If the only thing you hate in Matlab is the price, give octave a try!
An anti-gravity technology patent has already been filed by Microsoft for creating cool WindowsXP advertisements.
Along with the EULA now XP comes with a private pilot license and ELT equipped stress ball.
Coming out of the 80's I think was the best thing - 80's cars sucked so bad in every way possible
I disagree. I want a DeLorean
yeah that would be nice. Heres how to do it. We develop a time machine and send amounts of stuff in the past for a few minutes. Easy! But make sure there isnt too much planes flying and basketball games going on during the gravity increase. Not to talk about bunjee jumpers!!
I agree with you. Furthermore, the Linux text-driven command set, being unix tools, is much more easier to learn because there is and there has been a lot of unices out there, long before DOS came alive with it's basic/not-very-powerful commands.
BTW my favorite DOS command was REN!! What a useful command!!
But I can't take no more comparison between shells and DOS, they are so different... the author is indeed very ignorant and it is obvious that he dosen't know what he's talking about and therefore his biased opinion must be laught at.
I disagree. Being a Debian user, I can't really talk for RPMs, but I find Debian package management so much easier than the setup.exe way of doing things. With windows apps installs often you get srewed without knowing. Instead of not wanting to install due to dependencies problem, some application installers dont even care, install themselves anyway, and break other applications by overwriting libraries with an older/newer/other version they came with.
This means that:
Installing a windows application may silently break some others. And believe me they often do on windows terminal servers.
Application setup programs are huge because they carry many shared libraries often not needed, or even worse, apps are statically linked. This is not a problem if you got the cdrom but for downloads on the net it wastes bandwidth.
With linux package management systems at least you get warned for dependencies problem. It is up to you to decide if you install it anyway, and some tools like apt will help you a lot.
A forgotten curly bracket or semicolon won't affect your grade if you're going to any decent college... Where I am in CS anyways we're asked to write specific language code only on few introductory courses, some not even credited.
The real courses talk about algorithms and general ideas hence you can write down your algorithms in pseudocode, english, or any way you feel that the TA is gonna get your idea.
For myself, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, I'm happy when we get a question about programming syntax or such in an exam because usually those are the easiest questions so I don't really understand why you're complaining...
For example, let say you are asked to write a Dynamic Programming algorithm to multiply matrices in O(n^2) and your algorithm is correct but won't compile, and you loose some marks, then the college you're going to does not deserve you're money anymore!
Now my CS major is almost finished and I never saw an exam where I had to write more than say 100 lines of code. The 500 lines your talking about are for a single exam question or the whole exam?? Would be more reasonable to make programming assignments or projects because thats why they're there for.
Haven't read the article yet (/.ed) but here are the simplest shell security concerns you may have: Do you have "." in your path? If it is, have you specifically aliased ls to be /bin/ls? /usr/bin
Think about untarring a package that has a malicious "ls" script. You cd into the newly created directory and issue ls. You're screwed if the shell picks up the malicious ls instead of the ls in
Sorry you felt that offended I was just kidding...
Thanks for the numbers and corrections, but I still think it would hurt a bit like a big football player aiming at us (full?) speed, if you like the image.
It's true that it can be much worse with bicycle, but usually they are not allowed on the sidewalk.
Getting hit by one of those things is no worse then getting hit by someone who weighs 75 pounds more then you do.
Haha LOL ROTF Mwaheaheahea!!!
I can't stop making fun of engineers!!!
We learn in HIGHSCHOOL that force is proportional to the square of the speed. It's the first thing we learn in physics!
So it's not only that the guy is gonna be weighing 75 pounds more than you, butt he'll be travelling fast!!
Here are the number I got:
Segway: 80 pounds
Top speed: 12.5 mph
Cargo capacity: 250 pounds driver + 75 pounds of laugages.
So there can be a 250+75+80 = 405 pounds thing going at 12.5 mph along with us on the sidewalks???
I'll sure be among the firsts to own an electric car. ;-)
Electric cars can be very performant. Some can beat Ferraries on 1/4 miles runs. Imagine having independent motors at each wheel, be able to control them as you wish, by computer. You hate steering? Well, drive your car with a joystick!
I would finally be able to have a decent sound system in my car that would be supplied with all the amps it desires!!
Imagine quietly driving next to a Tommy Hilfiger outfitted rice-boy driving it's neon-covered dance-music-playing Honda, and earing his car screem and complain in agony while you see him disappear in your mirror.... what a nice image
That said, the problem with electric cars today is definitely not performance, it is autonomy. With fuel cells, this autonomy problem may disappear. It would be possible to refuel those cars as we do now. I hope they can use non-dangerous substance to get Hydrogen from because I don't like the idea of carrying tanks of compressed hydrogen under my seat (zepplin anyone?)
because you serve static content
Provide them a QNX boot floppy with GUI and browser and support that ;-)