I say it was a Tesla. According to this here slashdot thingy Tesla is responsible for everything that ever was and will be invented. All Hail Nikola Tesla!
That would not have been possible. The ISS is on a hightly inclined orbit. There is no way that a shuttle not launched in an intercept orbit could ever catch up to the ISS. The delta-V is way to high and the shutlle just doesn't have the thrust to make that kind of radical orbit change.
Even if that were possible, the Columbia was the one shuttle not equiped with a docking collar for the ISS.
Seriously, I don't know about him being anyone's shill. But I do know that I can't stand the "Crichton formula". Every book of his (that I've read anyway) pulls the same crap where introducs something (cloned dinosaurs, alien viruses, preditory nanotech, etc) that would have a profound effect on the world. But his story's hero will always find some way to put the genie back in the bottle so that he doesn't have to deal with any consequences outside of his main characters.
More to the point, the Joint Program Office in charge of the GPS has known about cheap, readily available jammers since at least 1995. There's been an ongoing program since then called
NAVWAR (NAVigation WARfare) researching ways to harden military GPS receivers against jamming
GPS can never be overloaded like that. The SVs are broadcast only, they don't give a rat's arse how many things are using them.
And, GPS would never be the sole means of guidance for all weapons, by virtue of the fact that it only really works well against targets at known positions. Only laser and TV guidance work well against moving targets.
Server: You are number six.
Me: I am not a number, I am a free man!
Server: Haven't read/. lately, huh? You are number six.
Me: Fine, number six it is. Who's number 1?
Server: That would be telling. You, however, are number six...
NT and Windows 2000 do not support HT and never will. NT will not becuase it's been end-of-lifed, and Windows 2000 will not because of Microsft policy. On a 2-CPU system with HyperThreading, NT and Windows 2000 will think they have real 4 CPUs (unsurprisingly, this is what a pre-HT version of Linux will see as well). HT support means the OS knows that it has, in this example, 2 real CPUS and 2 fakes, and the scheduler will weight the real CPUs accordingly.
XPPro SP1 is the first, and only shipping version of Windows to support HT.
Nah. Since there are no hydrogen wells, or really any natural source of hydrogen in quantity, it's going to have to be artificially produced. Which requires power. Lots of it, in fact. Which will likely come mostly from the usual suspects: oil, NG, coal, etc.
The conversions from fuel -> power -> hydrogen and hydrogen -> power are hideously inefficient, I'd say the oil companies are going to love this.
The hook is already there. The chattr can set a "secure delete" extented attribute on a file or directory which will make a subsequent normal rm perform a secure delete. However the man page says it's not implemented yet, but said man page hasn't been updated since kernel version 2.2.
I think you missed the point. If you jam the GPS signals from the satellites, the Mr. Happy-GPS-Track-You-And-Tax-You-Box can't tell whether driving on Oregon's precious roads or not. Of course there's no need to resort to anything as brutish as active jaming when something as simple as a piece of aluminum foil over the antenna will acomplish the same goal.
While NCP can also mean Netware Core Protcol, in this case it means "Network Control Protocol", a much older protocol that dates back to the beginning of the ARPAnet circa 1970, and has squat to do with Netware.
NCP is documented in RFCs 55, 60, 215 and several others.
There's more to it than that. One of my machines has 3 hard drives and 1 CD-RW/DVD drive. One of the hard drives has to share a channel with the CD, and runs at less than half speed because of it. SATA should address that, with every drive being on it's own channel and all, and that will be a major improvement.
How about these for killer features: Drives that don't have share bandwidth with another device? Or even drives that don't have to slow down to match the speed of the other device on the chain? Add-in cards that can host 16 or more drives on a single IRQ? Externally? At IDE-drive prices?
Well, to be fair it was a 17-year-old medium-format, professsionally archived head shot photo. That is why there was enough information preserved in the negative to make an iris match. That won't work with just any old 35mm pic.
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I say it was a Tesla. According to this here slashdot thingy Tesla is responsible for everything that ever was and will be invented. All Hail Nikola Tesla!
That would not have been possible. The ISS is on a hightly inclined orbit. There is no way that a shuttle not launched in an intercept orbit could ever catch up to the ISS. The delta-V is way to high and the shutlle just doesn't have the thrust to make that kind of radical orbit change.
Even if that were possible, the Columbia was the one shuttle not equiped with a docking collar for the ISS.
It's all Amish propagana, damnit!
Seriously, I don't know about him being anyone's shill. But I do know that I can't stand the "Crichton formula". Every book of his (that I've read anyway) pulls the same crap where introducs something (cloned dinosaurs, alien viruses, preditory nanotech, etc) that would have a profound effect on the world. But his story's hero will always find some way to put the genie back in the bottle so that he doesn't have to deal with any consequences outside of his main characters.
More to the point, the Joint Program Office in charge of the GPS has known about cheap, readily available jammers since at least 1995. There's been an ongoing program since then called NAVWAR (NAVigation WARfare) researching ways to harden military GPS receivers against jamming
GPS can never be overloaded like that. The SVs are broadcast only, they don't give a rat's arse how many things are using them.
And, GPS would never be the sole means of guidance for all weapons, by virtue of the fact that it only really works well against targets at known positions. Only laser and TV guidance work well against moving targets.
Just what I need - software to tell me who I am.
Server: You are number six. /. lately, huh? You are number six. ...
Me: I am not a number, I am a free man!
Server: Haven't read
Me: Fine, number six it is. Who's number 1?
Server: That would be telling. You, however, are number six
I'm pretty sure the words "this week" got left off of that title.
Holy intellectual dishonesty, Batman!
NT and Windows 2000 do not support HT and never will. NT will not becuase it's been end-of-lifed, and Windows 2000 will not because of Microsft policy. On a 2-CPU system with HyperThreading, NT and Windows 2000 will think they have real 4 CPUs (unsurprisingly, this is what a pre-HT version of Linux will see as well). HT support means the OS knows that it has, in this example, 2 real CPUS and 2 fakes, and the scheduler will weight the real CPUs accordingly.
XPPro SP1 is the first, and only shipping version of Windows to support HT.
You want to bet?
Jet-A fuel is basically kerosene. Kerosene when mixed with an oxidizer is a rather commonly used rocket fuel. Guess what fueled the Saturn V.
Of course this story is talking about solid rocket fuel, which makes the headline just as incorrrect as your comment.
And sometimes the simple solutions are the ones that leave you drenched in coke.
Nah. Since there are no hydrogen wells, or really any natural source of hydrogen in quantity, it's going to have to be artificially produced. Which requires power. Lots of it, in fact. Which will likely come mostly from the usual suspects: oil, NG, coal, etc.
The conversions from fuel -> power -> hydrogen and hydrogen -> power are hideously inefficient, I'd say the oil companies are going to love this.
Though the name isn't similar, the book you describe sounds a lot like Expedition by Wanye Douglas Barlowe.
The hook is already there. The chattr can set a "secure delete" extented attribute on a file or directory which will make a subsequent normal rm perform a secure delete. However the man page says it's not implemented yet, but said man page hasn't been updated since kernel version 2.2.
Wow, a whole year. They're very generous. In California you have 60 days to register any car you bring into the state, as well as get a CA license.
I think you missed the point. If you jam the GPS signals from the satellites, the Mr. Happy-GPS-Track-You-And-Tax-You-Box can't tell whether driving on Oregon's precious roads or not. Of course there's no need to resort to anything as brutish as active jaming when something as simple as a piece of aluminum foil over the antenna will acomplish the same goal.
Ummm, no.
While NCP can also mean Netware Core Protcol, in this case it means "Network Control Protocol", a much older protocol that dates back to the beginning of the ARPAnet circa 1970, and has squat to do with Netware.
NCP is documented in RFCs 55, 60, 215 and several others.
There's more to it than that. One of my machines has 3 hard drives and 1 CD-RW/DVD drive. One of the hard drives has to share a channel with the CD, and runs at less than half speed because of it. SATA should address that, with every drive being on it's own channel and all, and that will be a major improvement.
How about these for killer features: Drives that don't have share bandwidth with another device? Or even drives that don't have to slow down to match the speed of the other device on the chain? Add-in cards that can host 16 or more drives on a single IRQ? Externally? At IDE-drive prices?
Router crash kills 8, film at 11.
Don't be silly. You can't run Cat5 into space, it's too long of a run. This is definitely a job for single-mode fiber
Well, to be fair it was a 17-year-old medium-format, professsionally archived head shot photo. That is why there was enough information preserved in the negative to make an iris match. That won't work with just any old 35mm pic.
So, what they're saying is that the toilet was more a collabortaive effort, but for some reason Mr. Crapper has floated to the top.
I wonder if this will extend to the next version of Trusted Solaris. It would be very nice to get rid of CDE there, too.
Until I can mount some sort of energy weapon on its head and have it rampage about shouting "Exterminate! Exterminate!", I'm not interested.
-- Davros
More options:
PPPoE w/encryption
PPP over SSL (via stunnel or simmilar)
CIPE