They did repair several satellites that their upper stages failed to ignite, and were stranded in low earth orbit (~300 miles). This article is mostly talking about refurbishing satellites in geosynchronous orbit which is about 23,600 miles up. That's WAY above the ability of any current manned spacecraft any nation has at the moment.
Under IOS 6, you no longer have to enter your password to update apps that are already on your phone. An attack vector? Perhaps, but at least you still have to initiate the download yourself..there isn't any automatic updating feature. I'm personally glad to see this...it's not like the average user really has any idea what the update will do other than "bug fixes".
It actually has a port on the back for an external GPS antenna...I ran a cheapo from e-bay outside, and have the microcell in my basement where I needed the signal the most.
You have some errors with your capitalization. FTFY.
The catch is the going rate for a judge to decide things "your way".
The way "we" want things decided The law is saying that Torrent , HyperCast, Tor and whatever CAN NOT BE BLOCKED at the service level.
The way ISPs want things decided any service not specifically stated to be unblockable (streaming media and VOIP) can and should be blocked if it causes the TOP TEN PERCENT USERS to increase or stay the same in useage.
Sorry, that's incorrect. I'm at the South Pole right now, and I promise you that we do indeed have two saunas. The club is actually the 300 degree club. The rules state that you crank the sauna up to 200 degrees F (you have to trick the sauna's thermostat by putting it into a glass of ice water), and then you run outside around the geographic pole when the temperature is at least -100 degrees.
Not currently. Under the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000, NASA is prohibited from paying the Russians for anything -- even for extra Progress vehicles. President Bush would either have to certify that Russia was no longer providing missile technology to Iran or grant NASA a waiver because of a threat to the station's safe operation.
Those of us on the other side of the dateline won't get our blue moon till the end of August. The full moon didn't officially happen until our August 1st (your July 31st), but luckily it all washes out in the end.
You wouldn't believe how proud Mongolians are of this guy. I was in Ulaan Baator last summer for a work project, and stopped by the Mongolian Museum of Natural History. They've got an entire room dedicated to this guy, including his flight suit, and the parachute that landed his Soyuz.
Sure, it may have been a political payback for the Mongol's support of the Soviet Union, but for a nation of mostly nomadic herders, it was quite an accomplishment.
As a bit more information, the satellite link we used to communicate with the doctors stateside is the exact same link we use for all our day to day internet access. I suppose it all depends on how far down a pipe you're willing to to extend your defination of "Internet" to. We did shut down HTTP and FTP traffic in order to have maximum bandwidth available to the operation. Changing the protocol from IP to anything else would have been technically impossible in the time we had available to us.
We did try to use a basic 'net connection to the doctors in Boston at first, but found the delay and quality was unacceptable, thus the conversion to ISDN on that link.
Is it kiddie day on Slashdot today? I can't believe that the previous post which was so completely devoid of any logic or rational though was modded up to insightful.
The ironic thing is that at the South Pole, our service isn't all that great. We get lots of dropped calls, and lots of low signal levels. I've heard that they shut off the transceivers on some of the satellites as they pass over us to save power, but I don't know for sure.
We've also experimeted with data transfers over the irridium constellation, but so far nothing more than 1200 baud.
The seismograph is about to get even more sensitive in the next year or so. The current one is slowly being crushed by the ice, and is susceptible to local interference from all the local vehicle traffic. (We are in the process of building a new station after all....) The new seismograph is part of a project called SPRESO, and is located about 5 miles out from the station. I had the privilege of setting up a wireless lan out to the site about six months ago. There's nothing like the feeling of driving a snowmobile across the polar platau at 50 mph in -45 degree temps.:)
I think I'm going to start wearing a hardhat just in case...these stranglets seem to like us for some reason.
Not just people in poor countries, but what about people who just can't get to a theater. At the South Pole research station, we just finally saw a pirated copy of Lord of the Rings last week, and I'm looking all over for a way to get Spider-Man and AOTC before we get out of here in October.
It makes it even tougher when IRC and gnutella are blocked.:(
Actually, it's the 300 degree club. When the temp drops to = -100 F, we heat the sauna up to 200 F, and sit in there as long as we can stand it. Then, we run out the dome, around the pole, and back to the dome wearing only boots for foot protection, and a neck gaiter to prevent your lungs from getting frostbitten. I haven't done it yet, but it usually happens around June or July.
Let me give you a first person perspective on the ice movement at the pole. I'm currently the Network Engineer for the US South Pole station for the next 12 months. The ice sheet that the entire station is on is slowing moving towards grid NW at about 10 meters per year which works out to about 1 inch per day. In fact every year on Jan 1st, we hold a ceremony where the correct location of the pole is calculated, and we place a new marker. Looking out from the current pole you can see a line of markers from previous years which track the movment of the station nicely. The thing is that the entire sheet is moving at the same pace, so we're remarkably stable from a seismic point of view.
The IceCube array is one of the more exciting projects we're looking at, but the logistics to support it are enormous. It won't happen for a few years yet, untill the new station has finished construction. Check out www.polar.org for more details.
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They're just hoping to get back to the old Apple II glory days where they kept the same Apple //e on sale for 10 years!
They did repair several satellites that their upper stages failed to ignite, and were stranded in low earth orbit (~300 miles). This article is mostly talking about refurbishing satellites in geosynchronous orbit which is about 23,600 miles up. That's WAY above the ability of any current manned spacecraft any nation has at the moment.
Under IOS 6, you no longer have to enter your password to update apps that are already on your phone. An attack vector? Perhaps, but at least you still have to initiate the download yourself..there isn't any automatic updating feature. I'm personally glad to see this...it's not like the average user really has any idea what the update will do other than "bug fixes".
It actually has a port on the back for an external GPS antenna...I ran a cheapo from e-bay outside, and have the microcell in my basement where I needed the signal the most.
You have some errors with your capitalization. FTFY.
The catch is the going rate for a judge to decide things "your way".
The way "we" want things decided
The law is saying that Torrent , HyperCast, Tor and whatever CAN NOT BE BLOCKED at the service level.
The way ISPs want things decided
any service not specifically stated to be unblockable (streaming media and VOIP) can and should be blocked if it causes the TOP TEN PERCENT USERS to increase or stay the same in useage.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. You have a gift for exaggeration, but a winter at the South Pole isn't nearly as dramatic as you make it.
http://theglobalguy.com/world-travels/antarctica/the-300-club
Why so hostile to "TwenCen"? It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Yep, I know...I'm just going with the parent posters supposition that no one died, and not addressing the legitimacy of the election itself.
Ask a bunch of Iraqi families if no one died due to the election failure of 2000.
Sorry, that's incorrect. I'm at the South Pole right now, and I promise you that we do indeed have two saunas. The club is actually the 300 degree club. The rules state that you crank the sauna up to 200 degrees F (you have to trick the sauna's thermostat by putting it into a glass of ice water), and then you run outside around the geographic pole when the temperature is at least -100 degrees.
0 0-club/ theglobalguy.com
http://www.theglobalguy.com/antarctica-2004/the-3
Not currently. Under the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000, NASA is prohibited from paying the Russians for anything -- even for extra Progress vehicles. President Bush would either have to certify that Russia was no longer providing missile technology to Iran or grant NASA a waiver because of a threat to the station's safe operation.
Those of us on the other side of the dateline won't get our blue moon till the end of August. The full moon didn't officially happen until our August 1st (your July 31st), but luckily it all washes out in the end.
You wouldn't believe how proud Mongolians are of this guy. I was in Ulaan Baator last summer for a work project, and stopped by the Mongolian Museum of Natural History. They've got an entire room dedicated to this guy, including his flight suit, and the parachute that landed his Soyuz.
Sure, it may have been a political payback for the Mongol's support of the Soviet Union, but for a nation of mostly nomadic herders, it was quite an accomplishment.
As a bit more information, the satellite link we used to communicate with the doctors stateside is the exact same link we use for all our day to day internet access. I suppose it all depends on how far down a pipe you're willing to to extend your defination of "Internet" to. We did shut down HTTP and FTP traffic in order to have maximum bandwidth available to the operation. Changing the protocol from IP to anything else would have been technically impossible in the time we had available to us.
We did try to use a basic 'net connection to the doctors in Boston at first, but found the delay and quality was unacceptable, thus the conversion to ISDN on that link.
Depending on the particular satellite we're using, round trip latency turns out to be between 650 and 1200 ms.
Is it kiddie day on Slashdot today? I can't believe that the previous post which was so completely devoid of any logic or rational though was modded up to insightful.
You don't...you only use them in heated buildings. Luckily, the antennas and feedlines have no problems.
The ironic thing is that at the South Pole, our service isn't all that great. We get lots of dropped calls, and lots of low signal levels. I've heard that they shut off the transceivers on some of the satellites as they pass over us to save power, but I don't know for sure.
We've also experimeted with data transfers over the irridium constellation, but so far nothing more than 1200 baud.
By the way, the previous comment is a complete fabrication. We'd never really do anything illegal here...we just like to fantasize.
arggh.
The seismograph is about to get even more sensitive in the next year or so. The current one is slowly being crushed by the ice, and is susceptible to local interference from all the local vehicle traffic. (We are in the process of building a new station after all....) The new seismograph is part of a project called SPRESO, and is located about 5 miles out from the station. I had the privilege of setting up a wireless lan out to the site about six months ago. There's nothing like the feeling of driving a snowmobile across the polar platau at 50 mph in -45 degree temps. :)
I think I'm going to start wearing a hardhat just in case...these stranglets seem to like us for some reason.
Not just people in poor countries, but what about people who just can't get to a theater. At the South Pole research station, we just finally saw a pirated copy of Lord of the Rings last week, and I'm looking all over for a way to get Spider-Man and AOTC before we get out of here in October.
:(
It makes it even tougher when IRC and gnutella are blocked.
Actually, it's the 300 degree club. When the temp drops to = -100 F, we heat the sauna up to 200 F, and sit in there as long as we can stand it. Then, we run out the dome, around the pole, and back to the dome wearing only boots for foot protection, and a neck gaiter to prevent your lungs from getting frostbitten. I haven't done it yet, but it usually happens around June or July.
Let me give you a first person perspective on the ice movement at the pole. I'm currently the Network Engineer for the US South Pole station for the next 12 months. The ice sheet that the entire station is on is slowing moving towards grid NW at about 10 meters per year which works out to about 1 inch per day. In fact every year on Jan 1st, we hold a ceremony where the correct location of the pole is calculated, and we place a new marker. Looking out from the current pole you can see a line of markers from previous years which track the movment of the station nicely. The thing is that the entire sheet is moving at the same pace, so we're remarkably stable from a seismic point of view.
The IceCube array is one of the more exciting projects we're looking at, but the logistics to support it are enormous. It won't happen for a few years yet, untill the new station has finished construction. Check out www.polar.org for more details.