Don't tell me I am the only one that noticed how oddly worded that is? I mean, if you are just going to md5 something, why word it so poorly? Why the double meaning of 'domains'?
Well, no, it's not poorly worded - it's pretty straightforward DoD bureaucratese. And since md5 is nothing but a checksum, it doesn't care how things are worded. It could be a zip file of porn or a PDF of the Declaration Of Independence... The md5 algorithm will slurp the bytes of anything you feed it and produce a checksum thereof. And lastly, what double meaning of domains? Again, standard DoD bureaucratese.
Maybe I am reading too much into it, but my experience show that this would be typical double meaning often used by covert operations.
I suspect you've been reading too much Clancy. ('In my experience'? Really? Exactly what is that experience?)
It's like Google has completely forgotten about the project.
Which really shouldn't surprise anyone. Google has, as far as I can tell, a short attention span and a tendency to easily be distracted by shiny things.
The asshole in this scenario is the grandparent who seems to believe that he's so important he trumps everyone else and shouldn't have to interact with them. After he's important. And in a hurry.
It looks like Comcast is trying to make the tradition "boxless cable option" disappear.
That would require 'boxless cable' to have been a tradition in the first place. It wasn't. Cable ready TV's appear fairly late in the grand scheme of things.
Why does a city government need cable TV in the first place?
Well, if they're like my small town, it's very handy to have the regional (and cable only) news network available to the police, fire, and other emergency during severe weather conditions. This lets them both learn about conditions across the region, but what other cities in the region are doing. During winter severe weather, it's handy to make sure school closures and shelter openings information is going out properly (on local news providers). I.E. as a backup and supplement to the official channels.
Plus, he specified it's in the fire stations, where it will also provide entertainment during off-times.
Save the tax payers some money and get rid of it.
If you actually bother to read TFA, they get it for free. (I wish my town had been so far sighted.)
All failed Soyuz flights have happened more than 30 years ago, due to some bad design mistakes that were corrected, and there were no human casualties since then.
That's true - but only important if you're ignorant enough to believe that a problem can be ignored until it kills someone. On the other hand, if you aren't so ignorant, you'll note that Soyuz has an ongoing pattern of failures and problems.
OTOH Shuttles still tend to blow up and take all those 5+ crews with them even in 21st century.
But at a rate no worse and no better than any other space vehicle - thus 'tend to' is an ignorant exaggeration as no intelligent person would call a 1-2% rate a trend.
Now any scientist could have told you that, the radiation is non-ionizing, hell the waves are millions of meters long from 60Hz power. The nuts weren't doing science, they were just being nuts.
Just because it's non-ionizing doesn't mean it's not harmful - ask the (millions of?) folks with skin cancers from UV, or someone who got burned by exposure to UV or blinded by a laser. There's probably nobody alive whose been exposed to high levels of microwaves, but examining the results next time you nuke some leftovers might prove instructive.
What you will want to do, if you wish to make this a useful "OSS" project, is build it out of a bunch of documented modular components that fit in your environment; but could, possibly with some adaptation; be used in all sorts of other contexts. "Design for platform with sliding wall-mounted pivots that can be unfolded as either a sleeping surface or a table" is useful for anybody who has a flat wall and not much space. Various things of that nature will add up to the solution to your specific problem; but will also be generally applicable.
But it's not something I'd expect, or even trust a n00b to do. The modules will fit his scheme well, but he lacks the experience to design the framework.
Coming back to code, and general applicability, and legality, you might also wish to explore minimizing your dependence on things like gas lines and mains electricity in your design. These are the most dangerous if a n00b fucks them up
The worst part about gas and electric, especially electric, it that it is very possible to install something that *looks* right - but which will kill you five, ten, twenty years down the road.
It has pretty much the same track record as Soyuz and the Shuttle at about 98-99% reliable.
Except Soyuz made three times less casualties while transporting 6-7 times more humans.
ROTFLMAO, you couldn't be more wrong if you tried. Hint: Shuttle, 120 odd flights with an average crew of 5+. Soyuz, 90 odd flights with an average crew of 3. You do the math.
On top of which, the number of people killed is roughly as relevant as the number of times someone has flown into space wearing orange underwear. (For the terminally clueless like yourself that means "not fucking relevant at all".)
" can't see anyone else who's provided a detailed step-by-step account of the build, complete with plans and the rest"
For the same reason you don't see much of that for more conventional houses. There's just too much that's unique and individual to a given climate, microclimate, regulatory environment, local customs, materials availability, individual preference, zoning, building lot, etc... etc...
A house properly designed for Miami will have to deal with heat and hurricanes. A house properly designed for Seattle will have to deal with cold and earthquakes. (And yes, dealing with heat and cold require different strategies - it's more than just insulation.) And that's just the big items... Here around Seattle there will be considerable detail differences depending on whether you're on a slope in the hills or down in the flats of the valleys. Get up into the mountain passes and you have a different environment, cross the mountains into the dry side of the state and you have something much closer to Miami than Seattle climatically speaking,
It's the extremely precise trajectory that had to be flown in order to "park" next to the asteroid, and the fact that it actually had to stop, and then form a new extremely precise trajectory all of it's own accord to return back to earth.
This is all totally unprecedented, and yes, it really is that amazing.
It's unprecedented in the same way that you learning to parallel park was unprecedented. Sure, you had never 'driven a precise trajectory' before - but many, many others have.
You're right, it's silly. It should have been a quarter of a mile or more - because this has nothing to do with photography and everything to do with safety. Boats towing booms have roughly the turning radius of a continental plate, and the boom being towed is a threat to small craft for hundreds of feet behind the towing vessel. Sixty five feet, even three hundred feet, is barely enough for a trained professional seaman - but more than close enough for an amateur to get himself hurt or killed.
The whole world isn't neatly chunked into convenient web pages ready for Google or a wiki to make available. Sometimes you actually have to work, read, and research rather than relying on someone else to do the work for you and make it available.
This goes triply for someone who is ready to start PhD work and making 'original contributions to knowledge'.
If you aren't already familiar with the papers, journals, conferences, etc.. in your purported field of interest and who is regularly publishing, presenting, and being cited - you aren't ready to do PhD level work.
I work in respiratory care. We administer a 70%/30% mix of helium and oxygen, called Heliox. It is a low-density gas, making it easier to breathe for people with airway obstructions (such as asthma, throat cancer, etc.).
The rising cost of helium may make Heliox prohibitively expensive.
Are you already using rebreathers? That's one way of holding down costs. Another way is to find another light gas to form your low density mix.
These things have been supplying stations in LEO since 1978, but to hear the media tell it this is a flaky, experimental piece of equipment just waiting to go wrong, and the failure of just a single docking attempt might put the whole ISS program in danger.
The Space Shuttle has been flying since 1982 - but according to the media it's a flaky experimental piece of equipment just waiting to go wrong.
Progress, like any spacecraft, is a complex system. Things won't always go to plan - that said it has, like a lot of the old Russian hardware, a decent track record.
It has pretty much the same track record as Soyuz and the Shuttle at about 98-99% reliable.
The space tug was one of the first things that was cancelled in the space station program
Mostly because it was realized that using a tug to recover cargo was an expensive, difficult, and dangerous process. It was much simpler to deliver the cargo directly.
The other reason is that the station is in LEO, and thus is subject to significant atmospheric drag via the attenuated atmostphere. It's not a permanent orbit. Within a few years at most, without periodic reboosts (which cost fuel), the station would reenter the atmosphere and burn up. The primary reason that the station is in such a low orbit relates to the quality of the launchers we had to launch it. Without a Saturn V class, we had no real capability to project more mass than a telecom satellite to a significantly higher orbit.
With a Saturn V class launcher, we'd have a station at... roughly the same altitude and would still require regular reboosts. (E.G. Skylab.) A Saturn V could place a space station at an altitude that would (for all intents and purposes) not require any reboost... but that 'station' would be roughly the size of a single ISS module. (I.E. essentially useless.) Such a station would also be horrendously expensive, not only because of the vast expense of the launch but also because of the vast expense of keeping the Saturn V infrastructure alive during the years between launches.
The Clarke orbit is filled with junk from dead comsats, so it's unsuitable for permanent habitation even if we could reach it with so much mass.
Yeah, that's why we keep losing comsats to collisions with space junk. Oh, wait - we don't.
And the area between LEO and GEO is mostly unreachable by the supply and personnel rockets we had with significant payload.
Most of the area between LEO and GEO is also a high radiation area.
It looks to me like the code was never broken mostly due to the lack of sufficient ciphered material to analyze, not due to any significant property of the machine. To break polyalphabetic systems like this, you need a lot of ciphered material to analyze.
Never forget NASA's greatest disasters were predicated upon management overruling their own engineers.
Well, no, not exactly.
"Too cold to launch? Don't be Silly."
Actually - it went more like this: "Too cold to launch? Bad O-rings? You've been telling us for nearly a decade that the O-rings were safe. Why should we believe you now?" [Sound of crickets chirping while the engineers fade into the woodwork rather than try to explain the sudden change in their position.]
"We had a meeting and decided that that big chunk of ice didn't cause any damage, so why should we ask the military to photograph it?"
Actually - it went more like this: "You want photographs from the military? Provide us with an engineering rationale to do so." [Sound of crickets chirping while the engineers fade into the woodwork rather than try to explain the sudden change in their position.]
If we fired 80% of NASA's management, we might have a Space Agency back. You know, people who do jaw dropping things
Yeah, real jaw dropping things - like approving a method of emptying an oxygen tank without studying the operating parameters of the tank. That ended really well.
And then, sometimes these ideas are completely and totally brilliant. "Hey, Joe, what if we take this soggy wheat, grind it up, and bake it into loaves?"
You end up with something roughly resembling a loaf shaped lump of concrete - back to the drawing board, eh?
Is there no vehicle for the people on the space station to use so that they can nip out and catch the errant missile?
Tell you what, take a bicycle and from a standing start try and 'nip out' and grab something being held out the window of a car that blasted past you at 60MPH half an hour ago. Then ponder why they didn't provide such a vehicle because then you'll understand the scale of the problem.
It's not clear to me why we're doing this whole space station thing in such a half-assed manner. Why not think in terms of a permanent space station, and all that entails?
It clear to me why you'd think any permanent station even remotely within our technological capability would never need any additional supplies boosted to it. (Or, IOW, see the example above - because again you haven't the foggiest of the scale of what you are proposing.)
The love-wave that came back from those guys felt almost as good as actual sales.
Take the 'love-wave' down to your local mega mart and try and buy next weeks groceries. Then get back to us.
In the end I decided to give the students my blessing as long as they didn't come seeking support... no lost sale, no money changing hands, no big deal and a potential for future sales.
Yeah, anecdotal I know but this composer chappy has got the wrong end of the equation and 'elenor' is on the right track... I for one will be telling my musical friends how much of an a-hole this guy is and hopefully he will have more lost real sales.
Not only anecdotal - but hypocritical. You want the right to make the choice between giving your work away for free or to charge for it - but you want to force him into giving his work away for free.
Having a job is not the same as earning an income. You can leave university and become self employed, working for companies anywhere in the world, and being given a wide variety of interesting problems to work on. Or you can complain that there are no jobs (there certainly aren't many around here, although there are a couple of interesting startups). Most people pick option 2, and most of them do it because no one tells them that option 1 exists.
Most are aware of option 1, but it takes time, a large helping of luck, and great deal of work (much of it while getting your degree when you're already swamped) to have any kind of success at it.
You pretend like it's easy because you managed it, when the truth is that it's anything but.
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Well, no, it's not poorly worded - it's pretty straightforward DoD bureaucratese. And since md5 is nothing but a checksum, it doesn't care how things are worded. It could be a zip file of porn or a PDF of the Declaration Of Independence... The md5 algorithm will slurp the bytes of anything you feed it and produce a checksum thereof. And lastly, what double meaning of domains? Again, standard DoD bureaucratese.
I suspect you've been reading too much Clancy. ('In my experience'? Really? Exactly what is that experience?)
Which really shouldn't surprise anyone. Google has, as far as I can tell, a short attention span and a tendency to easily be distracted by shiny things.
ROTFLMAO.
Works in Chicago too...
The asshole in this scenario is the grandparent who seems to believe that he's so important he trumps everyone else and shouldn't have to interact with them. After he's important. And in a hurry.
That would require 'boxless cable' to have been a tradition in the first place. It wasn't. Cable ready TV's appear fairly late in the grand scheme of things.
Well, if they're like my small town, it's very handy to have the regional (and cable only) news network available to the police, fire, and other emergency during severe weather conditions. This lets them both learn about conditions across the region, but what other cities in the region are doing. During winter severe weather, it's handy to make sure school closures and shelter openings information is going out properly (on local news providers). I.E. as a backup and supplement to the official channels.
Plus, he specified it's in the fire stations, where it will also provide entertainment during off-times.
If you actually bother to read TFA, they get it for free. (I wish my town had been so far sighted.)
Social engineering works - who knew?
That's true - but only important if you're ignorant enough to believe that a problem can be ignored until it kills someone. On the other hand, if you aren't so ignorant, you'll note that Soyuz has an ongoing pattern of failures and problems.
But at a rate no worse and no better than any other space vehicle - thus 'tend to' is an ignorant exaggeration as no intelligent person would call a 1-2% rate a trend.
Just because it's non-ionizing doesn't mean it's not harmful - ask the (millions of?) folks with skin cancers from UV, or someone who got burned by exposure to UV or blinded by a laser. There's probably nobody alive whose been exposed to high levels of microwaves, but examining the results next time you nuke some leftovers might prove instructive.
But it's not something I'd expect, or even trust a n00b to do. The modules will fit his scheme well, but he lacks the experience to design the framework.
The worst part about gas and electric, especially electric, it that it is very possible to install something that *looks* right - but which will kill you five, ten, twenty years down the road.
ROTFLMAO, you couldn't be more wrong if you tried. Hint: Shuttle, 120 odd flights with an average crew of 5+. Soyuz, 90 odd flights with an average crew of 3. You do the math.
On top of which, the number of people killed is roughly as relevant as the number of times someone has flown into space wearing orange underwear. (For the terminally clueless like yourself that means "not fucking relevant at all".)
They weren't in bikini's, but there were babes jet skiing on the Snoqualmie river this past weekend.
" can't see anyone else who's provided a detailed step-by-step account of the build, complete with plans and the rest"
For the same reason you don't see much of that for more conventional houses. There's just too much that's unique and individual to a given climate, microclimate, regulatory environment, local customs, materials availability, individual preference, zoning, building lot, etc... etc...
A house properly designed for Miami will have to deal with heat and hurricanes. A house properly designed for Seattle will have to deal with cold and earthquakes. (And yes, dealing with heat and cold require different strategies - it's more than just insulation.) And that's just the big items... Here around Seattle there will be considerable detail differences depending on whether you're on a slope in the hills or down in the flats of the valleys. Get up into the mountain passes and you have a different environment, cross the mountains into the dry side of the state and you have something much closer to Miami than Seattle climatically speaking,
It's unprecedented in the same way that you learning to parallel park was unprecedented. Sure, you had never 'driven a precise trajectory' before - but many, many others have.
If the topic under discussion was the photography ban on the shorelines, that would be a valid question. But that isn't the topic under discussion.
You're right, it's silly. It should have been a quarter of a mile or more - because this has nothing to do with photography and everything to do with safety. Boats towing booms have roughly the turning radius of a continental plate, and the boom being towed is a threat to small craft for hundreds of feet behind the towing vessel. Sixty five feet, even three hundred feet, is barely enough for a trained professional seaman - but more than close enough for an amateur to get himself hurt or killed.
The whole world isn't neatly chunked into convenient web pages ready for Google or a wiki to make available. Sometimes you actually have to work, read, and research rather than relying on someone else to do the work for you and make it available.
This goes triply for someone who is ready to start PhD work and making 'original contributions to knowledge'.
If you aren't already familiar with the papers, journals, conferences, etc.. in your purported field of interest and who is regularly publishing, presenting, and being cited - you aren't ready to do PhD level work.
Are you already using rebreathers? That's one way of holding down costs. Another way is to find another light gas to form your low density mix.
The Space Shuttle has been flying since 1982 - but according to the media it's a flaky experimental piece of equipment just waiting to go wrong.
And you might ask the crew of Mir what a single docking attempt can result in.
It has pretty much the same track record as Soyuz and the Shuttle at about 98-99% reliable.
Mostly because it was realized that using a tug to recover cargo was an expensive, difficult, and dangerous process. It was much simpler to deliver the cargo directly.
With a Saturn V class launcher, we'd have a station at... roughly the same altitude and would still require regular reboosts. (E.G. Skylab.) A Saturn V could place a space station at an altitude that would (for all intents and purposes) not require any reboost... but that 'station' would be roughly the size of a single ISS module. (I.E. essentially useless.) Such a station would also be horrendously expensive, not only because of the vast expense of the launch but also because of the vast expense of keeping the Saturn V infrastructure alive during the years between launches.
Yeah, that's why we keep losing comsats to collisions with space junk. Oh, wait - we don't.
Most of the area between LEO and GEO is also a high radiation area.
It looks to me like the code was never broken mostly due to the lack of sufficient ciphered material to analyze, not due to any significant property of the machine. To break polyalphabetic systems like this, you need a lot of ciphered material to analyze.
Well, no, not exactly.
Actually - it went more like this: "Too cold to launch? Bad O-rings? You've been telling us for nearly a decade that the O-rings were safe. Why should we believe you now?" [Sound of crickets chirping while the engineers fade into the woodwork rather than try to explain the sudden change in their position.]
Actually - it went more like this: "You want photographs from the military? Provide us with an engineering rationale to do so." [Sound of crickets chirping while the engineers fade into the woodwork rather than try to explain the sudden change in their position.]
Yeah, real jaw dropping things - like approving a method of emptying an oxygen tank without studying the operating parameters of the tank. That ended really well.
You end up with something roughly resembling a loaf shaped lump of concrete - back to the drawing board, eh?
Tell you what, take a bicycle and from a standing start try and 'nip out' and grab something being held out the window of a car that blasted past you at 60MPH half an hour ago. Then ponder why they didn't provide such a vehicle because then you'll understand the scale of the problem.
It clear to me why you'd think any permanent station even remotely within our technological capability would never need any additional supplies boosted to it. (Or, IOW, see the example above - because again you haven't the foggiest of the scale of what you are proposing.)
Take the 'love-wave' down to your local mega mart and try and buy next weeks groceries. Then get back to us.
Not only anecdotal - but hypocritical. You want the right to make the choice between giving your work away for free or to charge for it - but you want to force him into giving his work away for free.
Most are aware of option 1, but it takes time, a large helping of luck, and great deal of work (much of it while getting your degree when you're already swamped) to have any kind of success at it.
You pretend like it's easy because you managed it, when the truth is that it's anything but.