Just a little nitpick, but Loki was not the last company doing commercial Linux ports. The new standard-bearer is Linux Game Publishing, though they've taken a low-and-slow approach and haven't done many big-name games yet.
This whole this is being blown way out of proportion, from what I can tell. After looking at the article, it looks like some guy at KSC took ITAR a bit too literally and started going around telling people to take stuff down. And yes, he got the local security guard to help him out when people started reacting with the obvious incredulity.
Of course, people can believe all they want about the origins of this going way up the line and the downfall of America, but all this story seems to be about is a NASA manager in Florida with a stick up his ass.
That's the fundamental flaw with passwords: people have to either remember them or store them somewhere, which leads to weak, easy-to-remember passwords or insecure storage systems.
When's biometric security coming for the web? Scan my fingerprint to log into Slashdot?
I think Ubuntu would be much better off by giving its users a menu of options when it pops up a "This may be illegal!" warning. For example, for playing an MP3, there are 3 options:
This kind of thing would be a lot less scary to users, and would give them somewhere to go after they've been warned. They could even integrate the Fluendo shop into their repositories somehow to make it as easy as possible.
That's why congresspeople have trusted staffers that study these issues and go through the relevant bills. I sincerely doubt that any one person could read, much less study and understand, every bill that comes before the Congress.
As far as I know (and I've read a few things about this), the ISS is pretty much useless as a mid-way point between Earth and the moon. Sure, you could launch things to it slowly, then launch from it to the Moon, but the problem is getting back.
Normally, you'd launch when the plane of the ISS orbit is in line with the plane of the moon. Due to the precession of its orbit though, this only happens for the ISS once in a while, and only for a short period, which unless you were aiming for it specifically and could afford to wait it out, becomes impractical for docking on the way back.
Of course, you could launch from the ISS and land back on Earth, but at that point there's not much benefit.
A question about Bittorrent... if a given torrent has 1 seed and 1 peer, does it simplify to the exact same as a direct HTTP download (given that neither are throttled, etc.)?
I tried this for a while and got completely slammed in the end. I was backing up my Linux files from my Windows partition, using the Windows ReiserFS tools. Except apparently they don't allow maildir-style file names, and don't care to warn you of this when you try to copy them. So, all my mail was lost. Such is life, I suppose.
That article seems to indicate that zero had its roots in the Mayan civilization, and perhaps the Olmecs before them.
Anyway, quoting from thisi book, Babylonians used something like a placeholder zero in 600 BC, the Indians got it fully in the first few centuries AD, and Mayans used it (recorded) in 357 AD and possibly well before (no actual recorded zeros, but records of numerical systems that require zero).
The Wikipedia article linked above seems to indicate that the Mayans were the first to use zero positionally, not as a mathematical quantity. Their Long Count dates included zeros as placeholders.
I'm planning on putting Vista Business on my laptop with a Pentium 4 3.06 GHz, 1GB RAM, and 20GB drive space. Does anyone have any experience with Vista on this kind of system? Note that I don't care if I get to use Aero or not.
Games usually start out easy and get harder as they progress, right?
What about starting you out as an uber-warlock who can destroy everything, but with some strange illness that makes you weaker and weaker as the game goes on. At the end, you finish as a feeble level-1 equivalent who needs to use some wit to get by.
There's a certain kind of person/company who relies solely on technical accuracy without regard to reality: an asshole.
Yes, a professor may be technically correct to hold a test without so much as a mention other than a small entry on a little-used syllabus, and yes, Lycos may be technically within its right to delete the user's email after 30 days without any warning or sympathy, but by doing so, they both deserve the despise they get.
Has Amendment X ever been interpreted by the Supreme Court? I always thought it was a pretty natural amendment to try to challenge, but I've never seen it mentioned in any Supreme Court docs.
The Federal law doesn't technically force states to implement the ID stuff, it just says that if they don't, they won't get their federal highway money.
Every social animal protects its weak, and the more intelligent species do it more and more. The herd surrounds the sick and feeble, usually until it's too late and they find out they'd better save themselves. We just have the ability to do it to the next level and actually remove threats from our environment.
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Just a little nitpick, but Loki was not the last company doing commercial Linux ports. The new standard-bearer is Linux Game Publishing, though they've taken a low-and-slow approach and haven't done many big-name games yet.
This whole this is being blown way out of proportion, from what I can tell. After looking at the article, it looks like some guy at KSC took ITAR a bit too literally and started going around telling people to take stuff down. And yes, he got the local security guard to help him out when people started reacting with the obvious incredulity.
Of course, people can believe all they want about the origins of this going way up the line and the downfall of America, but all this story seems to be about is a NASA manager in Florida with a stick up his ass.
That's the fundamental flaw with passwords: people have to either remember them or store them somewhere, which leads to weak, easy-to-remember passwords or insecure storage systems.
When's biometric security coming for the web? Scan my fingerprint to log into Slashdot?
I think Ubuntu would be much better off by giving its users a menu of options when it pops up a "This may be illegal!" warning. For example, for playing an MP3, there are 3 options:
* Download free legal MP3 codec from http://shop.fluendo.com/
* Download legally-questionable open-source codec
* Quit
This kind of thing would be a lot less scary to users, and would give them somewhere to go after they've been warned. They could even integrate the Fluendo shop into their repositories somehow to make it as easy as possible.
That's why congresspeople have trusted staffers that study these issues and go through the relevant bills. I sincerely doubt that any one person could read, much less study and understand, every bill that comes before the Congress.
No, just visited :-)
As far as I know (and I've read a few things about this), the ISS is pretty much useless as a mid-way point between Earth and the moon. Sure, you could launch things to it slowly, then launch from it to the Moon, but the problem is getting back.
Normally, you'd launch when the plane of the ISS orbit is in line with the plane of the moon. Due to the precession of its orbit though, this only happens for the ISS once in a while, and only for a short period, which unless you were aiming for it specifically and could afford to wait it out, becomes impractical for docking on the way back.
Of course, you could launch from the ISS and land back on Earth, but at that point there's not much benefit.
Also, the mission control computers (at least in Huntsville, the payload control center) are most definitely running Windows.
A question about Bittorrent... if a given torrent has 1 seed and 1 peer, does it simplify to the exact same as a direct HTTP download (given that neither are throttled, etc.)?
I tried this for a while and got completely slammed in the end. I was backing up my Linux files from my Windows partition, using the Windows ReiserFS tools. Except apparently they don't allow maildir-style file names, and don't care to warn you of this when you try to copy them. So, all my mail was lost. Such is life, I suppose.
Seconded. To the layman, every other page is a revelation about the history of pre-European American cultures.
That article seems to indicate that zero had its roots in the Mayan civilization, and perhaps the Olmecs before them.
Anyway, quoting from thisi book, Babylonians used something like a placeholder zero in 600 BC, the Indians got it fully in the first few centuries AD, and Mayans used it (recorded) in 357 AD and possibly well before (no actual recorded zeros, but records of numerical systems that require zero).
The Wikipedia article linked above seems to indicate that the Mayans were the first to use zero positionally, not as a mathematical quantity. Their Long Count dates included zeros as placeholders.
Don't forget APL. They're on their way to Mercury (further distance than Mars and with a harsher climate as well).
What the hell? I go to Mississippi State, and I'm wondering why we have an entire subdomain dedicated to giant squid.
I'm planning on putting Vista Business on my laptop with a Pentium 4 3.06 GHz, 1GB RAM, and 20GB drive space. Does anyone have any experience with Vista on this kind of system? Note that I don't care if I get to use Aero or not.
Games usually start out easy and get harder as they progress, right?
What about starting you out as an uber-warlock who can destroy everything, but with some strange illness that makes you weaker and weaker as the game goes on. At the end, you finish as a feeble level-1 equivalent who needs to use some wit to get by.
What about OpenNIC? They're an entirely separate root DNS system that still resolves all the standard ICANN stuff as well.
In the article, they define "full" as some critical concentration at which junk starts hitting junk and creating more junk pieces by itself.
There's a certain kind of person/company who relies solely on technical accuracy without regard to reality: an asshole.
Yes, a professor may be technically correct to hold a test without so much as a mention other than a small entry on a little-used syllabus, and yes, Lycos may be technically within its right to delete the user's email after 30 days without any warning or sympathy, but by doing so, they both deserve the despise they get.
Good advice (I like GE and MaxLite the best), but that article is 8 years old now. A lot has happened in 8 years.
"Challenged" as in "invoked in a challenge to something else". Sorry for the confusion.
Has Amendment X ever been interpreted by the Supreme Court? I always thought it was a pretty natural amendment to try to challenge, but I've never seen it mentioned in any Supreme Court docs.
The Federal law doesn't technically force states to implement the ID stuff, it just says that if they don't, they won't get their federal highway money.
Every social animal protects its weak, and the more intelligent species do it more and more. The herd surrounds the sick and feeble, usually until it's too late and they find out they'd better save themselves. We just have the ability to do it to the next level and actually remove threats from our environment.