Here's something to think about. If a civilization did exist on mars tens of millions of years ago (or even a billion), would there likely be anything left today detectable by these rovers?
Consider the oldest artifacts indicating anything remotely human are only a few tens of thousands of years old.
i see no reason why i am obligated under the cry of "censorship" to accept 200mbit/sec of ssh dictionary attacks from chinese IPs, as recently happened.
nope, sorry. those packets go right into/dev/null.
japan used to be bad. they got widely blocked and eventually realized there was a problem -- so they largely cleaned up. mainly due to the efforts of gaijin network operators living there who managed to convince japanese operators that they needed to get their shit together.
china, korea, etc. are totally rogue. they become more widely blocked each day. both china and korea are hellbent on becoming LANs. which they will be until they realize there's a problem and start dealing with all their criminal operators.
cracking attempts account for a significant portion of traffic. this costs money as it degrades legitimate traffic.
upwards of 99.999% of smtp traffic is spam. a growing % of ssh traffic is bruteforce attacks. recently had to fend off a 200mbit/sec ssh bruteforce -- not fun. most of the traffic was from china. so, into the bit bucket the packets went.
the only way to get these rogue networks to unrogue is to block them. they are open sewers, and i see no reason to deal with them until they clean up their act.
yes, there are open sewers in the USA too, but its far easier to get them to take action and clean up. in china, rogue is official state policy -- no chance in hell buddy.
newtonian physics are a good enough approximation to get space probes to neptune. even at space probe speeds, time dilation has negligible effect on their calculated trajectories.
How did you get cable reception working? Most cable providers encrypt or use some whackjob proprietary encoding. Or does yours have unencrypted channels?
eg charter uses the Motorola DCT2000 which requires a whacko 2-way authentication system to the central office, with authentication keys and such. If you leave your tuner unplugged for a few days, they shut you off remotely from the CO by revoking your authentication key and your box stops working.
aluminum corrodes very fast when in contact with other metals. it also corrodes under normal environmental conditions.
you might have heard of "CD rot" and "LD rot" and to a lesser extent, "DVD rot". That's when the aluminum reflective layer corrodes, degrading the CD/LD/DVD to the point where it's unplayable. Modern manufacturing techniques have gotten better, but it can still happen.
If I were to trust my life to something, i'd rather pick titanium over aluminum.
he was also unmasked and publically embarassed/shamed for having posted "iraq war intelligence intercepts" that turned out to have been entirely fabricated by him.
Mylar for example is extensively used as reflective material. You might recall the apollo lunar landers were wrapped in it, as shielding.
Spacesuits are extensively made of plastic. Nylon, teflon, kevlar and dacron are used.
As others have pointed out, temperature in space is not as severe as one might think (otherwise, the earth would be a giant oven or freezer -- the sun's heat has to go _somewhere_ after all, and it doesnt just vanish into another dimension after reaching the earth.) While you wouldnt want to use plastic as a reentry shield, its just fine for lots of other stuff.
if i was him i would have demanded the phone plus $500 to avoid a prison term. make it his most expensive theft ever.
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A short email exchange followed, where Cocky had the cheek to question if he could trust me not to go to the Police (I told him I am a man of my word, and he really wasn't in a position to question my integrity).
My reply would have been: ok, now its $600 plus my phone back, or its prison time for you. any more questions?
they destroyed usability. they ditched 20 years of very well researched and established UI guidelines in favor of stupid eye candy. it's funny that apple criticized windows for favoring eye candy over usability for so long, then apple went ahead and did the exact same thing themselves. hypocrisy anyone?
the fact apple is charging for every osx upgrade and that they derive significant revenue from it proves 100% that apple is a software company. no amount of hand waving and doublespeak will change that. if the growth continues as it currently is, apple will end up being primarily a software company with the majority of their revenue from purely software.
yeah, there is a big difference -- apple took all the good bits of nextstep out and replaced it with crap:-(
apple removed the best parts of the file browsers.
the apple dock sucks.
expose wouldnt be needed if they had a decent window manager to begin with. virtual desktops anyone?
apple paid $400 million because it was the only thing that didnt completely suck. beos was heavily threaded for extra cuteness but was missing major os features like multiuser/permissions. in terms of completeness, nextstep was far more complete.
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yes. i was specifically speaking about intelligent civilizations.
finding fossils inside rocks is somewhat different from archaeology.
what kind of traces of intelligent civilizations would be left after a hundred million years? after a billion?
we can recall life _billions_ of years back on earth. recalling _intelligent civilizations_ is much harder.
Here's something to think about. If a civilization did exist on mars tens of millions of years ago (or even a billion), would there likely be anything left today detectable by these rovers?
Consider the oldest artifacts indicating anything remotely human are only a few tens of thousands of years old.
whoever is better at threatening jurors, or bribing judges.
i see no reason why i am obligated under the cry of "censorship" to accept 200mbit/sec of ssh dictionary attacks from chinese IPs, as recently happened.
/dev/null.
nope, sorry. those packets go right into
japan used to be bad. they got widely blocked and eventually realized there was a problem -- so they largely cleaned up. mainly due to the efforts of gaijin network operators living there who managed to convince japanese operators that they needed to get their shit together.
china, korea, etc. are totally rogue. they become more widely blocked each day. both china and korea are hellbent on becoming LANs. which they will be until they realize there's a problem and start dealing with all their criminal operators.
cracking attempts account for a significant portion of traffic. this costs money as it degrades legitimate traffic.
upwards of 99.999% of smtp traffic is spam. a growing % of ssh traffic is bruteforce attacks. recently had to fend off a 200mbit/sec ssh bruteforce -- not fun. most of the traffic was from china. so, into the bit bucket the packets went.
the only way to get these rogue networks to unrogue is to block them. they are open sewers, and i see no reason to deal with them until they clean up their act.
yes, there are open sewers in the USA too, but its far easier to get them to take action and clean up. in china, rogue is official state policy -- no chance in hell buddy.
they arent lax. its official state policy.
the only way to get action by chinese ISPs is to file a complaint with the chinese embassy that so-and-so ISP is sending you falun gong material etc.
/8 = 16m addresses
/16 = 65k addresses
/24 = 256 addresses
:)
hope you aren't in charge of any important networks if you are making those kind of fundamental errors
the difference is that you can usually get USA ISPs to respond to complaints.
no chance with china, where rogue networks are official state policy. hence they get blocked.
if it makes you feel better I can make a post on my forums verifying the authenticity of this slashdot id.
/. buddies to mod all my posts down in retaliation. heh.
though if I were an impostor you'd think word would have got round to the "real" bani and there should have been a rebuttal by the "real" bani by now.
i do think its quite funny that mnemonic_ has called upon his
you must be new around here.
build concrete bunkers.
newtonian physics are a good enough approximation to get space probes to neptune. even at space probe speeds, time dilation has negligible effect on their calculated trajectories.
sco unix is excluded, yay.
the locals are all analogue on charter.
How did you get cable reception working? Most cable providers encrypt or use some whackjob proprietary encoding. Or does yours have unencrypted channels?
eg charter uses the Motorola DCT2000 which requires a whacko 2-way authentication system to the central office, with authentication keys and such. If you leave your tuner unplugged for a few days, they shut you off remotely from the CO by revoking your authentication key and your box stops working.
I wouldn't be so quick to trust my life to aluminum.
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aluminum does corrode. astonishingly easily too.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how2/article/0,20967
aluminum corrodes very fast when in contact with other metals. it also corrodes under normal environmental conditions.
you might have heard of "CD rot" and "LD rot" and to a lesser extent, "DVD rot". That's when the aluminum reflective layer corrodes, degrading the CD/LD/DVD to the point where it's unplayable. Modern manufacturing techniques have gotten better, but it can still happen.
If I were to trust my life to something, i'd rather pick titanium over aluminum.
he was also unmasked and publically embarassed/shamed for having posted "iraq war intelligence intercepts" that turned out to have been entirely fabricated by him.
Lots of plastic is used in space.
Mylar for example is extensively used as reflective material. You might recall the apollo lunar landers were wrapped in it, as shielding.
Spacesuits are extensively made of plastic. Nylon, teflon, kevlar and dacron are used.
As others have pointed out, temperature in space is not as severe as one might think (otherwise, the earth would be a giant oven or freezer -- the sun's heat has to go _somewhere_ after all, and it doesnt just vanish into another dimension after reaching the earth.) While you wouldnt want to use plastic as a reentry shield, its just fine for lots of other stuff.
afaik rotation is the easiest way, which is why the apollo spacecraft used it.
excerpt:
My reply would have been:
ok, now its $600 plus my phone back, or its prison time for you. any more questions?
I liked DS9 more than TNG. The first few seasons of TNG are really bad, especially the pilot episode.
The last two seasons or so of DS9 are good space opera. Too bad you had to slog through 4 years of drivel to get there.
they destroyed usability. they ditched 20 years of very well researched and established UI guidelines in favor of stupid eye candy. it's funny that apple criticized windows for favoring eye candy over usability for so long, then apple went ahead and did the exact same thing themselves. hypocrisy anyone?
the fact apple is charging for every osx upgrade and that they derive significant revenue from it proves 100% that apple is a software company. no amount of hand waving and doublespeak will change that. if the growth continues as it currently is, apple will end up being primarily a software company with the majority of their revenue from purely software.
yeah, there is a big difference -- apple took all the good bits of nextstep out and replaced it with crap :-(
apple removed the best parts of the file browsers.
the apple dock sucks.
expose wouldnt be needed if they had a decent window manager to begin with. virtual desktops anyone?
apple paid $400 million because it was the only thing that didnt completely suck. beos was heavily threaded for extra cuteness but was missing major os features like multiuser/permissions. in terms of completeness, nextstep was far more complete.
much easier to just block anyone who posts a url which resolves to an IP in china.