Main Entry: America Pronunciation: &-'mer-&-k& Usage: geographical name 1 either continent (N. America or S. America) of the western hemisphere 2 or the Americas/-k&z/ the lands of the western hemisphere including N., Central, & S. America & the W. Indies
IP owners will perpetuate their hold on copyrights forever. How would one keep track of when a copyright expires? With compulsory licensing, the media companies would keep charging this tax forever.
The Brazilian government plans to migrate from Windows to Linux 80% of all computers in state institutions and state-owned businesses, informed the daily newspaper "Valor". This will be a gradual migration, that will begin with a pilot project in one ministry and which will be completed over a period of three years, according to official sources cited by the financial daily.
The goal of the migration is to save money by finding alternatives to expensive proprietary licenses. Highlighting the gradual phase-in approach that the Brazilian government has adopted, Sergio Amadeu de Silveira, the president of the National Institute of Information Technology, stated that "We are not just going to do a hasty migration". He proceeded to say that "our main concern is the security and the trust of our citizens. The biggest resistance to any change comes from the existing cultural inertia".
The government, De Silveira explained, created two weeks ago the "Chamber for the Implementation of Software Libre" to pave the way for the upcoming migration.
A small part of the 2,095 million reals (about USD $700 million) that the Brazilian government budgeted for information technology spending goes to Microsoft, owner of the Windows OS. The government's decision to adopt Linux, according to De Silveira, will boost the popularity of the operating system among businesses and consumers. Moreover, it will foster the production of local software and "democratize access to knowledge", said De Silveira.
IEEE P2200 will build on NIST and ISO Common Criteria documents, but will be an independent standard.
Anyways the IEEE has a track record of working on security-related standards includnig the popular P1363 (Standard Specifications for Public Key Cryptography) standard. P1363 defines standard implementations of public key crypto ciphers based on Integer Factorization, Discrete Log, Elliptic Curve, and Lattice algorithms.
Apart from the supersonic Concorde, the fastest commercial way to fly is in a Boeing 747 at around 885 kph - about 85% of the speed of sound. Supersonic flight would get you there very much faster. But everybody thinks that destructive sonic booms are an essential part of supersonic travel. However, there are many factors that influence the loudness of the sonic boom down on the ground. They include the weight, shape and size of the aircraft, as well the plane's altitude, attitude (nose-up or nose-down), flight path and the local weather conditions. Fooling around with some of these could make a supersonic plane acceptably quiet.
For example, back in the 1970s, Richard Seebass from the University of Colorado in Boulder, worked out that you could virtually eliminate the sonic boom by making the nose of the plane blunt. This blunt nose would heat up the air in front of the plane, and would also stretch the bow shock wave out a long way in front of the plane. So there wouldn't be a sudden jump in pressure, that would give the offensive shock wave down on the ground. But H. K Cheng, a retired Aeronautical Engineer formerly with the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Southern California, has a modern Star Wars version of this - it uses a laser to heat up the air in front of the plane.
In 2001, the United States Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency allotted some $70 million to three manufacturers to work out how to make supersonic planes more quiet. The companies (Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman) are each trying different approaches.
John Morgenstern, an Aeronautical Engineer and expert in sonic booms from the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in California, has come up with a very neat way of effectively blunting the nose of a plane. His design has a little flap that pushes forward from the nose of the aeroplane. Not only does it stretch out the shock wave coming from the nose, it also creates an extra bit of lift, which cuts the fuel consumption. In 1999, he published a patent with an even more daring design, which has a longer nose and a V-shaped tail.
Domenic Maglieri from Eagle Aerospace in Hampton Virginia has an even wilder design - a supersonic biplane. This would spread the lift over more surface area of wing, and so reduce the sonic boom. Heinz Gerhardt, an aeronautical engineer from Northrop Grumman in Los Angeles likes this idea so much that he has designed a family of supersonic biplanes.
At this stage, all the big companies are keeping quiet. But Gulfstream (which is funding its own research) reckons its supersonic business jet will be flying in around six years time, while the Russian Sukhoi Company reckons their supersonic bizjet will fly in 2010.
And of course, in the backs of their minds, the companies are all thinking of big supersonic jets that can carry a big number of people a big distance, and so generate big bucks. You see, for all of its speed, the Concorde has only a short range, which is fine for flying across the Atlantic, but hopeless for flying across the Pacific or around the Pacific Rim.
The new supersonic designs aim for a maximum overpressure of just 0.3 pounds per square foot.
But as well as new shapes, the new supersonic planes will need radically new engines. The Concorde engine is fine at Mach 2.2, but it's very thirsty and noisy on take-off and landing.
Rolls Royce, on the other hand, has decided to modify the existing giant engine that powers the Boeing 777 with 95,000 pounds of thrust. This enormous engine is bigger in diameter than the body of a Boeing 737. Rolls Royce want to remove the huge fan off the front, and in this form, it should just meet take-off and landing noise requirements.
These supersonic bizjets will still burn up a lot of fuel. But if you can afford a$160 million plane, the cost of a few extra tonnes of fuel will be no worry at all.
So once the supersonic flight industry loses the boom, business should start to bloom.
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The crowd. I was expecting Linux zealots. It was mostly a room full of SCO resellers.
:)
We, Mac zealots, are more zealous
to many old movies?
3 - ???
4 - profit!
Computer, show me pr0n!
Half Life 2 Source
I'll be fraggin soon
use *somebody elses* gateway >:)
Patched to spawn a root shell? I would not turst my servers with a source like that.
Is there any other more trusty place to d/l from?
"dot cc" and "dot cx" & maybe others...
postfix, you insensitive clod!
Ok, this is not a poll but anyways... *why* ppl still uses sendmail?
I just have an infinity number of monkeys using binary typewriters.
Main Entry: America /-k&z/ the lands of the western hemisphere including N., Central, & S. America & the W. Indies
Pronunciation: &-'mer-&-k&
Usage: geographical name
1 either continent (N. America or S. America) of the western hemisphere
2 or the Americas
... distribution finally take hold:
IP owners will perpetuate their hold on copyrights forever. How would one keep track of when a copyright expires? With compulsory licensing, the media companies would keep charging this tax forever.
this
The Brazilian government plans to migrate from
Windows to Linux 80% of all computers in state institutions and state-owned
businesses, informed the daily newspaper "Valor". This will be a gradual
migration, that will begin with a pilot project in one ministry and which will
be completed over a period of three years, according to official sources cited
by the financial daily.
The goal of the migration is to save money by finding alternatives to
expensive proprietary licenses. Highlighting the gradual phase-in approach
that the Brazilian government has adopted, Sergio Amadeu de Silveira, the
president of the National Institute of Information Technology, stated that "We
are not just going to do a hasty migration". He proceeded to say that "our
main concern is the security and the trust of our citizens. The biggest
resistance to any change comes from the existing cultural inertia".
The government, De Silveira explained, created two weeks ago the "Chamber for
the Implementation of Software Libre" to pave the way for the upcoming
migration.
A small part of the 2,095 million reals (about USD $700 million) that the
Brazilian government budgeted for information technology spending goes to
Microsoft, owner of the Windows OS. The government's decision to adopt Linux,
according to De Silveira, will boost the popularity of the operating system
among businesses and consumers. Moreover, it will foster the production of
local software and "democratize access to knowledge", said De Silveira.
IEEE P2200 will build on NIST and ISO Common Criteria documents, but will be an independent standard.
Anyways the IEEE has a track record of working on security-related standards includnig the popular P1363 (Standard Specifications for Public Key Cryptography) standard. P1363 defines standard implementations of public key crypto ciphers based on Integer Factorization, Discrete Log, Elliptic Curve, and Lattice algorithms.
Ill be waiting to see this P2200 come arround.
another standart for M$ break without giving a shit.
Last 6 hours on snort timeframe...
.ida attempt #20
MS-SQL Worm propagation attempt #30
WEB-IIS ISAPI
WEB-IIS cmd.exe access #4
WEB-IIS nsiislog.dll access #12
Oh come'on, i must be an exemption uh?
Payload (Hex):
/scripts/nsiislog.dll....
4745 5420 2F73 6372 6970 7473 2F6E 7369 6973 6C6F
672E 646C 6C0D 0A0D 0A
Payload (ASCII):
GET
This headlines are getting boring. I have some sugestions:
SCO to Sue God
Darl McBride Caught in Bizarre Love Triangle With Bill Gates, Penguin
Darl McBride to Rename Self Darth McBride, Builds Death Star
SCO Accidentally Sues Self For 10 Billion
Local Man Wonders What Is This SCO Shit
SCO Enters Partnership With Gorzo the Mighty (subtitle: New Corporate Motto: "Seize Him!")
Infinite Number of Monkeys Write UNIX, Sued by SCO
Apart from the supersonic Concorde, the fastest commercial way to fly is in a Boeing 747 at around 885 kph - about 85% of the speed of sound. Supersonic flight would get you there very much faster. But everybody thinks that destructive sonic booms are an essential part of supersonic travel. However, there are many factors that influence the loudness of the sonic boom down on the ground. They include the weight, shape and size of the aircraft, as well the plane's altitude, attitude (nose-up or nose-down), flight path and the local weather conditions. Fooling around with some of these could make a supersonic plane acceptably quiet.
For example, back in the 1970s, Richard Seebass from the University of Colorado in Boulder, worked out that you could virtually eliminate the sonic boom by making the nose of the plane blunt. This blunt nose would heat up the air in front of the plane, and would also stretch the bow shock wave out a long way in front of the plane. So there wouldn't be a sudden jump in pressure, that would give the offensive shock wave down on the ground. But H. K Cheng, a retired Aeronautical Engineer formerly with the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Southern California, has a modern Star Wars version of this - it uses a laser to heat up the air in front of the plane.
In 2001, the United States Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency allotted some $70 million to three manufacturers to work out how to make supersonic planes more quiet. The companies (Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman) are each trying different approaches.
John Morgenstern, an Aeronautical Engineer and expert in sonic booms from the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in California, has come up with a very neat way of effectively blunting the nose of a plane. His design has a little flap that pushes forward from the nose of the aeroplane. Not only does it stretch out the shock wave coming from the nose, it also creates an extra bit of lift, which cuts the fuel consumption. In 1999, he published a patent with an even more daring design, which has a longer nose and a V-shaped tail.
Domenic Maglieri from Eagle Aerospace in Hampton Virginia has an even wilder design - a supersonic biplane. This would spread the lift over more surface area of wing, and so reduce the sonic boom. Heinz Gerhardt, an aeronautical engineer from Northrop Grumman in Los Angeles likes this idea so much that he has designed a family of supersonic biplanes.
At this stage, all the big companies are keeping quiet. But Gulfstream (which is funding its own research) reckons its supersonic business jet will be flying in around six years time, while the Russian Sukhoi Company reckons their supersonic bizjet will fly in 2010.
And of course, in the backs of their minds, the companies are all thinking of big supersonic jets that can carry a big number of people a big distance, and so generate big bucks. You see, for all of its speed, the Concorde has only a short range, which is fine for flying across the Atlantic, but hopeless for flying across the Pacific or around the Pacific Rim.
The new supersonic designs aim for a maximum overpressure of just 0.3 pounds per square foot.
But as well as new shapes, the new supersonic planes will need radically new engines. The Concorde engine is fine at Mach 2.2, but it's very thirsty and noisy on take-off and landing.
Rolls Royce, on the other hand, has decided to modify the existing giant engine that powers the Boeing 777 with 95,000 pounds of thrust. This enormous engine is bigger in diameter than the body of a Boeing 737. Rolls Royce want to remove the huge fan off the front, and in this form, it should just meet take-off and landing noise requirements.
These supersonic bizjets will still burn up a lot of fuel. But if you can afford a$160 million plane, the cost of a few extra tonnes of fuel will be no worry at all.
So once the supersonic flight industry loses the boom, business should start to bloom.
how loud is a sonic boom? And how much less with this new tech?
This headlines are getting boring. I have some sugestions:
SCO to Sue God
Darl McBride Caught in Bizarre Love Triangle With Bill Gates, Penguin
Darl McBride to Rename Self Darth McBride, Builds Death Star
SCO Accidentally Sues Self For 10 Billion
Local Man Wonders What Is This SCO Shit
SCO Enters Partnership With Gorzo the Mighty (subtitle: New Corporate Motto: "Seize Him!")
Infinite Number of Monkeys Write UNIX, Sued by SCO
...on Slashdot? You are new arround here right?
Well maybe the DDOSers have a newgroup where the blacklist manteiners can post asking for it to stop and be either a) ignored or b) ridiculed. :P
You can use a modem to post a slashdot article with a link to the target computer...