> Even if the orbiters were damaged, or the launch platforms damaged, they can always be re-built, repaired, or whatever. Sure, they can, but not without a huge expenditure that NASA really can't afford right now, especially when many politicians (and pundits, and some scientists) are already calling for the end to Human Spaceflight altogether.
> Even if it looks like the eye will hit KSC dead-on, they've still got enough time to stick an orbiter on the 747 and get one of them out of there... It's looked like that for several days now, and they haven't done this. A good reason is that the shuttles are being retrofitted with safety improvements, and aren't really in a state to be put on a 747, let alone flown hundreds of miles away.
> Besides, the launch structures withstand regular beatings from the shuttle launches, and they've survived for years... Sure, the launch structures, maybe. But the hangars that the Space Shuttles are housed in are only rated for a Category 3 hurricane. They might also survive a Category 4 or 5 Frances, but then again, they might not.
>...it's going to take more than a hurricane to destroy KSC & the shuttle program completely. I love the shuttle, but KSC doesn't need to be entirely destroyed for NASA to decide that the program is too expensive to salvage.
Stealth.c, I would mod you up if I had the points. Steam was _extremely_ buggy at first, but it's been a fantastic idea from the beginning. In the past six months or so, it's become a fine piece of software and it's a great way to serve data. When the time comes, I plan on buying HL2 through it, and I know other people who have purchased Counter-Strike: Condition Zero through it and are planning on doing the same thing for HL2.
The beauty is that Steam recognizes what parts of the game data will be needed first, so you don't even need to download tens or hundreds of megs before you can play the game. It's truly amazing.
I'd love to see other companies do the same sort of thing. I don't need cardboard boxes or even discs in the world of Big Pipes.
This definition works extremely well with gaseous planets -- especially in our solar system -- because they're so ridiculously large (and all gasous planets tend to be huge). Even the Earth would be considered a moon if it were orbiting Neptune.
To date? You expect them to release an episode of Deep Space Nine sometime in the near future that is better than that one? That might be hard, considering that the series ended years ago.
Ditto what the other respondants said. Security through obscurity is better than no security. It gives the coders a chance to fix the problem _right_, not just plug it with a blacklist or something. Once the problem is fixed (or after the next release after the fix), security bugs are opened up.
This was a good idea until you mentioned iPhoto. Picasa is iPhoto times a hundred. Seriously, I didn't believe it until I tried it, but even Apple could learn a thing or two. It's beautiful like iPhoto, but more importantly, it's _blazing fast_ even with thousands of pictures on five-year-old hardware.
This is actually a big issue in the development "community". Although the organization itself has resolved its position -- that non-compliant feature support is a slippery slope -- marking bugs as "WONTFIX" or "INVALID" in Bugzilla ends in dozens of duplicate bugs. The fourth most-reported bug (bug 25537) is in fact requests for a non-compliant (and MSIE-originating) feature -- alt tags as tooltips.
This isn't the only one, either. Backslashes in URLs (bug 93197) is another one that comes to mind where Mozilla is between a rock and a hard place. Either Mozilla looks broken if you try to visit a moderately complex page created by Word, or it will effectively send the message that "buggy HTML is okay". Arguably, Mozilla's voice is still a small one in the fight, but say they become big. Do they keep doing things The Wrong Way? Or do they fix it, and then all of the developers who learned coding on Microsoft products and thought it was the right way file bugs?
I support them sticking to their principles. Poor HTML markup (and non-standard DHTML) should be scorned. That's what "Tech Evangelism" bugs are for.
This is news to me -- not because I thought JFK was a "space visionary", but because I have a hard time believing that anyone would have the misconception that JFK was behind it for scientific reasons. I didn't live through that time (by about a decade) and the space race has always seemed like an obvious Cold War battleground to me. Is the "space visionary" view really that popular?
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Moderated funny by people who obviously don't have Gmail accounts. Gmail could be 5MB and I'd still love it. It isn't about the space, it's about the classic Google minimalism. The space is just a nice bonus.
Is there any evidence that Google actually does this? I would think that would be terribly non-transparent. Auto-deleting email that it's "really sure" is spam is still dangerous. Even the best-trained Bayesian filters will have false positives sometimes. Is this just random theorizing, or does GMail really fail to deliver some emails it thinks is spam?
The entire theme manager was rewritten from scratch, and there were several different modifications to the theme "architecture" because of that. Most themes will need only small changes, and hopefully the release of an RC will convince most theme creators that now is the time to do that.
It's difficult to decide what Apple really means in this case. Although I agree that in practice, a 3db noise difference is virtually unnoticeable, Apple says "...the Power Mac G5 runs two times quieter...", not "...the Power Mac G5 is perceived as running two times quieter...".
(And is "two times quieter" even a valid comparison? It seems a backwards way of saying "half as loud.")
> >...the Power Mac G5 runs two times quieter... >...half as many decibels...
Noise level (bels, often referred to in tenths of bels, or decibels) is a logarithmic measurement, similar to the Richter scale. The number of bels for a given ratio of power levels is calculated by taking the logarithm, to the base 10, of the ratio.
b = log10(P1/P2) b = log10(1/2) b ~ -0.3010299956
So this is actually a reduction of just over three decibels. Doesn't sound like much, but it really is twice as quiet. Gives you more respect for the 20db case fans, eh?
Except for the fact that essentially, you're still using a single password that encrypts a single file, which happens to be sitting on the desktop of your laptop. How easy is it to change the password on that file, and how often do you change it? How many people have physical access to your laptop, and could email or ftp the encrypted file to themselves for later brute-forcing?
> IBM was *NEVER* actually convicted of being a monopolist, the DOJ dropped the case in the 80s.
IIRC, Microsoft has never been convicted of being a monopolist either.
IBM has had two DoJ consent decrees against them, compared to one for MS, if we're just comparing statistics: the first in 1937 in regards to their punch card monopoly, and the second in 1969 in regards to software bundling (ow, the irony!).
Both of these are bad analogies. I don't go into a bar because I think "hm, I'd like some peanuts". Neither do I go to the restaurant that serves me free bread. Maybe they're good analogies, actually. Who's going to buy a hundred-thousand-dollar server just because the OS happens to be free?
Another thing to remember is that rules like this just make brute-forcing simpler. There are 2.18*10^14 mixed-case alphanumeric 8-character passwords, but only 3.11*10^10 mixed-case consonant-vowel passwords (1/7000th as many possibilities), and only 1.2*10^8 single-case C-V passwords.
Forcing 8-char passwords is just as inadvisable. There are 6.16*10^15 possibilities for 6-8 character passwords made up of all typeable characters (ACII 33-126). That'll take 195 days to search the whole keyspace at 1M tests per second. And hopefully your password rotation is more often than that.
> To get the 1GB account you will need to cough up 3.49GBP a month.
Don't forget also, that Lycos has to send the plaintext of every email you send or receive through several actual closed-source programs! This is a terrible privacy invasion! I will only use mail providers (and send email to others who use mail providers) who guarantee that my email will go through NO programs whatsoever!
> "Blogs," "moblogs," and "plogs" are not words. They are ill-conceived marketing creations, no better than "information superhighway" and "top-speed technology." They exist to perpetuate the myth that personal publishing is going to reinvent the web as a means of communication.
This is ridiculous. Just because they are trendy and some blowhards make some outlandish claims about them, doesn't mean that they aren't concepts or words. In fact, the use of the words "weblog" and "blog" in the popular press has increased dramatically in the past four years. Standing in the way of contractions just makes you look like a liguistic luddite.
You've been out of the PC market for about a decade then, if you've never heard of PCI-Express. It's been proposed and talked about and raved about for years, but it's just now finally coming to market. The best thing is that it's not limited to a single slot per board! That's why this parallel thing is even possible.
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> Even if the orbiters were damaged, or the launch platforms damaged, they can always be re-built, repaired, or whatever.
...it's going to take more than a hurricane to destroy KSC & the shuttle program completely.
Sure, they can, but not without a huge expenditure that NASA really can't afford right now, especially when many politicians (and pundits, and some scientists) are already calling for the end to Human Spaceflight altogether.
> Even if it looks like the eye will hit KSC dead-on, they've still got enough time to stick an orbiter on the 747 and get one of them out of there...
It's looked like that for several days now, and they haven't done this. A good reason is that the shuttles are being retrofitted with safety improvements, and aren't really in a state to be put on a 747, let alone flown hundreds of miles away.
> Besides, the launch structures withstand regular beatings from the shuttle launches, and they've survived for years...
Sure, the launch structures, maybe. But the hangars that the Space Shuttles are housed in are only rated for a Category 3 hurricane. They might also survive a Category 4 or 5 Frances, but then again, they might not.
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I love the shuttle, but KSC doesn't need to be entirely destroyed for NASA to decide that the program is too expensive to salvage.
Stealth.c, I would mod you up if I had the points. Steam was _extremely_ buggy at first, but it's been a fantastic idea from the beginning. In the past six months or so, it's become a fine piece of software and it's a great way to serve data. When the time comes, I plan on buying HL2 through it, and I know other people who have purchased Counter-Strike: Condition Zero through it and are planning on doing the same thing for HL2.
The beauty is that Steam recognizes what parts of the game data will be needed first, so you don't even need to download tens or hundreds of megs before you can play the game. It's truly amazing.
I'd love to see other companies do the same sort of thing. I don't need cardboard boxes or even discs in the world of Big Pipes.
This definition works extremely well with gaseous planets -- especially in our solar system -- because they're so ridiculously large (and all gasous planets tend to be huge). Even the Earth would be considered a moon if it were orbiting Neptune.
To date? You expect them to release an episode of Deep Space Nine sometime in the near future that is better than that one? That might be hard, considering that the series ended years ago.
Ditto what the other respondants said. Security through obscurity is better than no security. It gives the coders a chance to fix the problem _right_, not just plug it with a blacklist or something. Once the problem is fixed (or after the next release after the fix), security bugs are opened up.
This was a good idea until you mentioned iPhoto. Picasa is iPhoto times a hundred. Seriously, I didn't believe it until I tried it, but even Apple could learn a thing or two. It's beautiful like iPhoto, but more importantly, it's _blazing fast_ even with thousands of pictures on five-year-old hardware.
You're right, I shoulda caught that. My mistake.
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This is actually a big issue in the development "community". Although the organization itself has resolved its position -- that non-compliant feature support is a slippery slope -- marking bugs as "WONTFIX" or "INVALID" in Bugzilla ends in dozens of duplicate bugs. The fourth most-reported bug (bug 25537) is in fact requests for a non-compliant (and MSIE-originating) feature -- alt tags as tooltips.
This isn't the only one, either. Backslashes in URLs (bug 93197) is another one that comes to mind where Mozilla is between a rock and a hard place. Either Mozilla looks broken if you try to visit a moderately complex page created by Word, or it will effectively send the message that "buggy HTML is okay". Arguably, Mozilla's voice is still a small one in the fight, but say they become big. Do they keep doing things The Wrong Way? Or do they fix it, and then all of the developers who learned coding on Microsoft products and thought it was the right way file bugs?
I support them sticking to their principles. Poor HTML markup (and non-standard DHTML) should be scorned. That's what "Tech Evangelism" bugs are for.
This is news to me -- not because I thought JFK was a "space visionary", but because I have a hard time believing that anyone would have the misconception that JFK was behind it for scientific reasons. I didn't live through that time (by about a decade) and the space race has always seemed like an obvious Cold War battleground to me. Is the "space visionary" view really that popular?
Moderated funny by people who obviously don't have Gmail accounts. Gmail could be 5MB and I'd still love it. It isn't about the space, it's about the classic Google minimalism. The space is just a nice bonus.
> Actually, for paying customers they have removed the adverts as well.
The operative word being paying.
Is there any evidence that Google actually does this? I would think that would be terribly non-transparent. Auto-deleting email that it's "really sure" is spam is still dangerous. Even the best-trained Bayesian filters will have false positives sometimes. Is this just random theorizing, or does GMail really fail to deliver some emails it thinks is spam?
The entire theme manager was rewritten from scratch, and there were several different modifications to the theme "architecture" because of that. Most themes will need only small changes, and hopefully the release of an RC will convince most theme creators that now is the time to do that.
That's bug 240527, filed 14 April 2004. It's marked as "blocking 1.0", but not "blocking 0.9".
It's difficult to decide what Apple really means in this case. Although I agree that in practice, a 3db noise difference is virtually unnoticeable, Apple says "...the Power Mac G5 runs two times quieter...", not "...the Power Mac G5 is perceived as running two times quieter...".
(And is "two times quieter" even a valid comparison? It seems a backwards way of saying "half as loud.")
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Noise level (bels, often referred to in tenths of bels, or decibels) is a logarithmic measurement, similar to the Richter scale. The number of bels for a given ratio of power levels is calculated by taking the logarithm, to the base 10, of the ratio.So this is actually a reduction of just over three decibels. Doesn't sound like much, but it really is twice as quiet. Gives you more respect for the 20db case fans, eh?
> ...absolutely no risk of security...
Except for the fact that essentially, you're still using a single password that encrypts a single file, which happens to be sitting on the desktop of your laptop. How easy is it to change the password on that file, and how often do you change it? How many people have physical access to your laptop, and could email or ftp the encrypted file to themselves for later brute-forcing?
> IBM was *NEVER* actually convicted of being a monopolist, the DOJ dropped the case in the 80s.
IIRC, Microsoft has never been convicted of being a monopolist either.
IBM has had two DoJ consent decrees against them, compared to one for MS, if we're just comparing statistics: the first in 1937 in regards to their punch card monopoly, and the second in 1969 in regards to software bundling (ow, the irony!).
Both of these are bad analogies. I don't go into a bar because I think "hm, I'd like some peanuts". Neither do I go to the restaurant that serves me free bread.
Maybe they're good analogies, actually. Who's going to buy a hundred-thousand-dollar server just because the OS happens to be free?
Another thing to remember is that rules like this just make brute-forcing simpler. There are 2.18*10^14 mixed-case alphanumeric 8-character passwords, but only 3.11*10^10 mixed-case consonant-vowel passwords (1/7000th as many possibilities), and only 1.2*10^8 single-case C-V passwords.
Forcing 8-char passwords is just as inadvisable. There are 6.16*10^15 possibilities for 6-8 character passwords made up of all typeable characters (ACII 33-126). That'll take 195 days to search the whole keyspace at 1M tests per second. And hopefully your password rotation is more often than that.
> To get the 1GB account you will need to cough up 3.49GBP a month.
Don't forget also, that Lycos has to send the plaintext of every email you send or receive through several actual closed-source programs! This is a terrible privacy invasion! I will only use mail providers (and send email to others who use mail providers) who guarantee that my email will go through NO programs whatsoever!
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> "Blogs," "moblogs," and "plogs" are not words. They are ill-conceived marketing creations, no better than "information superhighway" and "top-speed technology." They exist to perpetuate the myth that personal publishing is going to reinvent the web as a means of communication.
This is ridiculous. Just because they are trendy and some blowhards make some outlandish claims about them, doesn't mean that they aren't concepts or words. In fact, the use of the words "weblog" and "blog" in the popular press has increased dramatically in the past four years. Standing in the way of contractions just makes you look like a liguistic luddite.
You've been out of the PC market for about a decade then, if you've never heard of PCI-Express. It's been proposed and talked about and raved about for years, but it's just now finally coming to market. The best thing is that it's not limited to a single slot per board! That's why this parallel thing is even possible.