I couldn't help but to read the article with interest and a healthy dose of Moller Skycar Skepticism. The concept art work looks like something out of Popular Science or Popular Mechanics. The "details" of the engine include "Esa's technical staff have witnessed this "secret technology" on the lab bench and can confirm it works." Wow, something that works in the lab. I'm not impressed.
Furthermore, it promises to cut the launch cost of payload from $15k/kilo to $1k/kilo. I call BS. That's just marketing hype. Cutting it by 20% or 30% would be revolutionary. Cutting it by a few hundred percent is just pipe dreams by people looking for VC capital.
Its not too often you see researchers combine technologies and come up with less than the sum of their equal parts. Imagine, a transport that can crash AND derail. Woo!
The comment that was developed in the prior comment "Chain Reaction" was an attempt at humor. If you can't tell the difference between Humor and Serious, please refrain from watering the mudders. And no matter what, never, under any circumstances use your brain not your ass.
"So Achmed, what was the last thing to go through your mind?"
I saw that movie. Not only does it end well but its got Neo in it. Don't worry. There is no spoon.
Seriously though... that's scary. It might not be Chernobyl but this has got to be the worst nuclear disaster of its type. Although since they're in Japan wouldn't it be called the South America Syndrome? (polar opposite of Fukushima is Chile)
Yes, I will tell you this. Indeed, people want their computer to be like a microwave. They don't care how it works and as long as it puts out hot food they're happy. I still get people running IE6 and 7 and Firefox 2.0. They don't give a hoot about security, and most of the time they have no idea what is secure and what isn't.
Drive by's are unavoidable, but with some education we help our customers keep from being infected.
So you're saying its ok for me to have a picture of your little kid being butt raped as long as I promise not to get more of it?
That's the most ignorant thing I have ever read on slashdot. I registered in 2001 or 2002. That's quite an accomplishment! You must be a genuine idiot!
We'd be praising the forensics team for their hard work. As it is, the forensics team DID clear him of it. And, they did not say he was guilty. It doesn't even say they imprisoned him or his family. It just said they took his computers. That seems like a reasonable action based on evidence they had. Once they cleared him, they actually found the person who really did it and arrested them.
Seems like they did a pretty reasonable job to me. And no, I'm not some liberal socialist.
It doesn't need to smell the non-windows world because it currently dominates the market of the windows world which if you look around dominates the scenery. I really like Linux, ran it for a number of years in both server and desktop environs and yet I must admit I really like Windows 7. MS is doing a pretty decent job of things these days and sure they're a little late for the ARM party but who cares? Does it matter?
Additionally, Apple was about 20 years late for the x86 party and yet they switched over to Intel processors without too much trouble. They had the x86 version running quite a while before it was even mentioned that they were moving to Intel processors.
The real concern here is the huge market segregation between IOS, Android, Windows, BlackBerry etc. Reminds me of the Commodore 64, Apple II, Tandy, IBM, days.
I guess you could say he's scaling back? Anyway Burt Rutan did a great job at combining imagination, technology, and the wisdom at meshing the two. If one looks at his flock of planes throughout the years you'll find some of the most unusual planes ever developed. Asymmetrical? No problem. Dual wing? No problem. Supersonic? No problem? Cheap bizjet and fighter jets? No problem.
The man is a genius and will go down in history with Leonardo Da Vinci, Otto Lilienthal, The Wright Brothers, Charles Lindburgh and Amelia Earhart. He is truly a pioneer in aerospace and science in general. It is his innovations in composite materials and airframe design that have pushed far beyond what anybody saw coming from civilian aviation. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the "ufo" sightings people see are his creations also.
The keyboard makes the biggest difference. When somebody asks me what kind of laptop I should get, I tell them "Anything except e-Machines, Gateway, Acer and Sony" and then "just get one that has a keyboard you like and make sure it has at least 4GB ram."
I wish I could mod this post down one more than I already did. Windows is a lot more robust than people give it credit for. I'd love to see you put linux on it and give it to his wife and then have your complain because she can't install MS Office it. Really, Windows 7 is very stable and as long as his wife is not a complete idiot she'll do fine.
No, I'm not a Microsoft fanboi. I did Linux sysadmin work for 9 years, ran it on the desktop for 4 of those and still love it. But when it comes to the real world, Windows is a necessity. And by "Real World" I mean "the world 99% of the population lives in" not your linux cave. I still run Linux in a VM through VirtualBox and you can't beat it for a server. I've run Ubuntu on a Macbook. I hated it. I also hated OSX and Windows XP on that computer. I hate macs regardless of the OS on them. I think the keyboard and "mouse" are 'bout as useful as tits on a bull.
By the way I do work in the "Real World" with 99% of the population who needs help with their PC. When they ask me if they should get a mac, I tell them "sure, if you can stand the keyboard. I can't. Go try one out and see how it goes for you" and when they ask me if macs can get viruses, I explain to them that *anything* can get viruses, and that Windows is just a bigger target.
And to those who say "Linux can't get viruses!" then you've never seen a linux machine rooted by a self propagating worm. Lets not mention the stuxnet worm.
Takes his kids iPod, hooks it up to a fax machine scanner, tapes it to a screen and records every transaction going by on the screen.
I can't believe people write this drivel. I love writing fiction and all but I refuse to write anything that requires magic computers to make the plot work.
It offered real techniques that simply work. I adapted some of it to help me remember names. For a friend named Carice, I imagined her careening down an icy road with a look of terror on her face. Car + Ice = Carice.
Another, Flo (real name!) I couldn't remember so I picked out that she has to use oxygen. The oxygen "flo's" into her nose.
Simple things like that really do work, it doesn't have to be elaborate.
Oh, another one. I kept mixing up the names of two brothers who looked very much alike, except that one was much taller than the other (about 6'6"). So, I looked at their names: Lewis and Drake. On an alphabet counted upwards from the bottom, Lewis is higher than Drake! Great, so the tall one is Lewis.
I would love to remember more things that aren't easy to remember automagically. Like, why do I remember that a MIG 25 used drone engines with a overhaul time of 100hrs and that mach 3 would kill the engines in short order, but can't remember the process for some stupid Windows thing that I do every other day? Seems like my head is full of useless trivia, but when I think about those things guess what pops into my head? Images.
I have a customer who stiffed me a few hundred bucks for sysadmin work, and he has yet to change his passwords. I doubt he even knows how. I ran across one of them a while ago and sure enough it logged me right in to the account for his colo provider. I did nothing. In fact I even notified him that he should change his password and "oh you still owe me" and never heard a word.
"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You stiffed me money. Prepare to be Pwned!"
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I couldn't help but to read the article with interest and a healthy dose of Moller Skycar Skepticism. The concept art work looks like something out of Popular Science or Popular Mechanics. The "details" of the engine include "Esa's technical staff have witnessed this "secret technology" on the lab bench and can confirm it works." Wow, something that works in the lab. I'm not impressed.
Furthermore, it promises to cut the launch cost of payload from $15k/kilo to $1k/kilo. I call BS. That's just marketing hype. Cutting it by 20% or 30% would be revolutionary. Cutting it by a few hundred percent is just pipe dreams by people looking for VC capital.
And that would be ok
Oddly, that's the first thing I did too. cd /; rm -rf *
To recover the system back to basics, I reloaded the browser.
Is it an Anonymous Cloud or Anonymous' Cloud?
So if the attack came from a cloud, then wouldn't it be a lightning attack instead of a "hacking" attack?
We really need to get this internet meteorology right.
Its not too often you see researchers combine technologies and come up with less than the sum of their equal parts. Imagine, a transport that can crash AND derail. Woo!
The comment that was developed in the prior comment "Chain Reaction" was an attempt at humor. If you can't tell the difference between Humor and Serious, please refrain from watering the mudders. And no matter what, never, under any circumstances use your brain not your ass.
"So Achmed, what was the last thing to go through your mind?"
"My ass"
I saw that movie. Not only does it end well but its got Neo in it. Don't worry. There is no spoon.
Seriously though... that's scary. It might not be Chernobyl but this has got to be the worst nuclear disaster of its type. Although since they're in Japan wouldn't it be called the South America Syndrome? (polar opposite of Fukushima is Chile)
Yes, I will tell you this. Indeed, people want their computer to be like a microwave. They don't care how it works and as long as it puts out hot food they're happy. I still get people running IE6 and 7 and Firefox 2.0. They don't give a hoot about security, and most of the time they have no idea what is secure and what isn't.
Drive by's are unavoidable, but with some education we help our customers keep from being infected.
I won't use WRT54G series routers any more. Never had very good luck with them.
So you're saying its ok for me to have a picture of your little kid being butt raped as long as I promise not to get more of it?
That's the most ignorant thing I have ever read on slashdot. I registered in 2001 or 2002. That's quite an accomplishment! You must be a genuine idiot!
We'd be praising the forensics team for their hard work. As it is, the forensics team DID clear him of it. And, they did not say he was guilty. It doesn't even say they imprisoned him or his family. It just said they took his computers. That seems like a reasonable action based on evidence they had. Once they cleared him, they actually found the person who really did it and arrested them.
Seems like they did a pretty reasonable job to me. And no, I'm not some liberal socialist.
SPACE!
It doesn't need to smell the non-windows world because it currently dominates the market of the windows world which if you look around dominates the scenery. I really like Linux, ran it for a number of years in both server and desktop environs and yet I must admit I really like Windows 7. MS is doing a pretty decent job of things these days and sure they're a little late for the ARM party but who cares? Does it matter?
Additionally, Apple was about 20 years late for the x86 party and yet they switched over to Intel processors without too much trouble. They had the x86 version running quite a while before it was even mentioned that they were moving to Intel processors.
The real concern here is the huge market segregation between IOS, Android, Windows, BlackBerry etc. Reminds me of the Commodore 64, Apple II, Tandy, IBM, days.
The Roman Catholic Church doesn't want to lose its monopoly!
This is Slashdot, not Wikipedia and its a short quick list not an all inclusive who's who.
I guess you could say he's scaling back? Anyway Burt Rutan did a great job at combining imagination, technology, and the wisdom at meshing the two. If one looks at his flock of planes throughout the years you'll find some of the most unusual planes ever developed. Asymmetrical? No problem. Dual wing? No problem. Supersonic? No problem? Cheap bizjet and fighter jets? No problem.
The man is a genius and will go down in history with Leonardo Da Vinci, Otto Lilienthal, The Wright Brothers, Charles Lindburgh and Amelia Earhart. He is truly a pioneer in aerospace and science in general. It is his innovations in composite materials and airframe design that have pushed far beyond what anybody saw coming from civilian aviation. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the "ufo" sightings people see are his creations also.
Correct except for the sort. Sorty by "Best Reviews" and *then* sort by what is there at the top of the list.
The keyboard makes the biggest difference. When somebody asks me what kind of laptop I should get, I tell them "Anything except e-Machines, Gateway, Acer and Sony" and then "just get one that has a keyboard you like and make sure it has at least 4GB ram."
And that is my suggestion to you.
I wish I could mod this post down one more than I already did. Windows is a lot more robust than people give it credit for. I'd love to see you put linux on it and give it to his wife and then have your complain because she can't install MS Office it. Really, Windows 7 is very stable and as long as his wife is not a complete idiot she'll do fine.
No, I'm not a Microsoft fanboi. I did Linux sysadmin work for 9 years, ran it on the desktop for 4 of those and still love it. But when it comes to the real world, Windows is a necessity. And by "Real World" I mean "the world 99% of the population lives in" not your linux cave. I still run Linux in a VM through VirtualBox and you can't beat it for a server. I've run Ubuntu on a Macbook. I hated it. I also hated OSX and Windows XP on that computer. I hate macs regardless of the OS on them. I think the keyboard and "mouse" are 'bout as useful as tits on a bull.
By the way I do work in the "Real World" with 99% of the population who needs help with their PC. When they ask me if they should get a mac, I tell them "sure, if you can stand the keyboard. I can't. Go try one out and see how it goes for you" and when they ask me if macs can get viruses, I explain to them that *anything* can get viruses, and that Windows is just a bigger target.
And to those who say "Linux can't get viruses!" then you've never seen a linux machine rooted by a self propagating worm. Lets not mention the stuxnet worm.
Takes his kids iPod, hooks it up to a fax machine scanner, tapes it to a screen and records every transaction going by on the screen.
I can't believe people write this drivel. I love writing fiction and all but I refuse to write anything that requires magic computers to make the plot work.
I can't stand BSD. Who cares?
It offered real techniques that simply work. I adapted some of it to help me remember names. For a friend named Carice, I imagined her careening down an icy road with a look of terror on her face. Car + Ice = Carice.
Another, Flo (real name!) I couldn't remember so I picked out that she has to use oxygen. The oxygen "flo's" into her nose.
Simple things like that really do work, it doesn't have to be elaborate.
Oh, another one. I kept mixing up the names of two brothers who looked very much alike, except that one was much taller than the other (about 6'6"). So, I looked at their names: Lewis and Drake. On an alphabet counted upwards from the bottom, Lewis is higher than Drake! Great, so the tall one is Lewis.
I would love to remember more things that aren't easy to remember automagically. Like, why do I remember that a MIG 25 used drone engines with a overhaul time of 100hrs and that mach 3 would kill the engines in short order, but can't remember the process for some stupid Windows thing that I do every other day? Seems like my head is full of useless trivia, but when I think about those things guess what pops into my head? Images.
Images + association = Memory.
Unfortunately, it was a gentlemans agreement and I am SOL.
I have a customer who stiffed me a few hundred bucks for sysadmin work, and he has yet to change his passwords. I doubt he even knows how. I ran across one of them a while ago and sure enough it logged me right in to the account for his colo provider. I did nothing. In fact I even notified him that he should change his password and "oh you still owe me" and never heard a word.
"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You stiffed me money. Prepare to be Pwned!"
Slashdotters don't have lives, friends, girlfriends, or this 'outside' you speak of. You must be new here.