The 460th Space Wing, with headquarters at Buckley Air Force Base, Colo., has units that operate DSP satellites and report warning information, via communications links, to the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Strategic Command early warning centers within Cheyenne Mountain, located near Colorado Springs, Colorado. These centers immediately forward data to various agencies and areas of operations around the world. Air Force Space Command's SBIRS Wing [2] at the Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, California, is responsible for development and acquisition of the satellites.
units = people. People sit there and monitor terminals looking at blips and determining if they are launches by following procedures. They then get on "communications links", aka "phones" and call NORAD. It's all done manually. War Games was science fiction, not just then, but also now.
If I built a rocket ship and blasted myself into space (ala The Astronaut Farmer), none of these people would even notice. More likely someone would see a blip on a radar monitoring station and report that to NORAD.. again, via a telephone, and NORAD would write it off as an operator error. Maybe a few months later a satellite monitoring system would spot me in orbit, if I maintained one for that long, but that information would only be delivered to NORAD as part of a space debris avoidance report.. and most like amateur astronomers would spot it first.
There's no Michael Bay movie style realtime monitoring of satellites and missile launches. Those big screens in the war room are updated by technicians entering data into terminals, by hand. This isn't to say that it could not be done. It could be. But it would require a lot more hardware and the continual updating of that hardware, and that's the kind of thing the private sector does, and only if there's actual customers who will take their money elsewhere if the systems stop working. Governments continue to reward contractors for failing to do their jobs, so any system like this would likely become outdated in a few years (as in, unable to keep up with changing conditions) and, although that is exactly the situation we have now, that is considered too much of a risk.
North American Aerospace Defense.. always laughed at the way the military has no respect for acronym formation. They often take the letters from where-ever they can get em and sometimes they just throw in a letter from no-where. It used to be North American Air Defense.. but then they had to deal with ballistic missiles, which are clearly out of the air when you want to detect them, so they upgraded to "Aerospace". Personally, I thought they should have upgraded to "North American Orbital and Air Defence".. of course that still leaves the R being borrowed from ORbital, but hey, it's an improvement. Having the R stand for "Realtime" would be good, if only NORAD did realtime tracking, which they don't. The oldies among us may remember when NORAD announced that civil defense training was pointless, as no-one would have time to get to a bunker.. because they just can't detect launches, and the target of launches, fast enough. This hasn't changed in 30 years. There's still an airman sitting at a terminal doing this monitoring. There's no Googlesque computer doing search for launch indicators and tracking flight trajectories. The only reason they're not still using slide rules is because pocket calculators are government subsidized.
Uh huh. If you're an executive in a company and the suitor making the offer won't agree to a golden parachute then it doesn't matter to you how much they are offering per share.
I'm a software engineer and I've used a spreadsheet maybe 5 times in my life. I hate to sound like Bender here, but most everything in life is a degenerative form of programming, especially spreadsheets.
In reality, I think that it's always appropriate to tell somebody that what they're doing bothers you and that you'd like them to stop. They're not obligated by any law or moral compulsion to do as you ask, but sometimes, I think it would be the optimal choice anyway.
Yeah, we were talking about mobbing someone and "running them out of town." Clearly, letting someone know that something annoys them is fine. Declaring that they have to stop or you'll use physical violence to stop them is not (although at times it is clearly hilarious).
I'd kindly point out to them that I am breaking no law.
I suppose you are just assuming that you wouldn't be breaking the law, but you don't quite write like it.
Reading comprehension FAIL.
Let's take a realistic example: whistling.
"Hey, can you stop whistling, it's annoying me." "Umm.. I like whistling, and we're in public, why don't you just move out of earshot, or, ya know, go home."
How so? In a civilized world people don't ask other people in public to stop doing things they don't like.. they tolerate other people. If someone asked me to stop doing something I liked in public, I'd kindly point out to them that I am breaking no law. "It's a free country."
What you want? Is that how you measure the regulation of public space? Ya know, there's people in this world who don't want womens' faces to be visible in public. Should we accommodate their wants too? The thing about public spaces is that they are public. This means that everyone is allowed to go there and exercise freedom. Freedoms like taking pictures, and putting them on the Internet, if that's what they want to do.
Yup, but the supreme court has never said "you can't try to find out who that anonymous person is".. if you want to remain anonymous it's your responsibility to protect your identity.. you have no legal right to that. You can't contact the police and say "hey, someone is trying to find out who I am, stop them!"
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I think this makes absolute proof that none of these "editors" actually exist. They're all scripts.
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Slashdot, editors, not have.
Completely wrong. There are no automatic systems. But hey, don't let the truth get you down, it's not like I can prove a negative.
Not the first go, but yes.
What part of this don't you understand?
The 460th Space Wing, with headquarters at Buckley Air Force Base, Colo., has units that operate DSP satellites and report warning information, via communications links, to the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Strategic Command early warning centers within Cheyenne Mountain, located near Colorado Springs, Colorado. These centers immediately forward data to various agencies and areas of operations around the world. Air Force Space Command's SBIRS Wing [2] at the Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, California, is responsible for development and acquisition of the satellites.
units = people. People sit there and monitor terminals looking at blips and determining if they are launches by following procedures. They then get on "communications links", aka "phones" and call NORAD. It's all done manually. War Games was science fiction, not just then, but also now.
If I built a rocket ship and blasted myself into space (ala The Astronaut Farmer), none of these people would even notice. More likely someone would see a blip on a radar monitoring station and report that to NORAD.. again, via a telephone, and NORAD would write it off as an operator error. Maybe a few months later a satellite monitoring system would spot me in orbit, if I maintained one for that long, but that information would only be delivered to NORAD as part of a space debris avoidance report.. and most like amateur astronomers would spot it first.
There's no Michael Bay movie style realtime monitoring of satellites and missile launches. Those big screens in the war room are updated by technicians entering data into terminals, by hand. This isn't to say that it could not be done. It could be. But it would require a lot more hardware and the continual updating of that hardware, and that's the kind of thing the private sector does, and only if there's actual customers who will take their money elsewhere if the systems stop working. Governments continue to reward contractors for failing to do their jobs, so any system like this would likely become outdated in a few years (as in, unable to keep up with changing conditions) and, although that is exactly the situation we have now, that is considered too much of a risk.
, probably found in your beloved *BSD* as well..
bwahaha.. dude, I just dissed BSD.
"Your car goes slower than a snail.."
"Well, my car is green too, much like your beloved snails.."
WTF?
Hehe, you sound like Elon Musk.
That's 4 you've named.. for the last 25 years..
OpenBSD has a longer changelog (and that's saying something).
North American Aerospace Defense .. always laughed at the way the military has no respect for acronym formation. They often take the letters from where-ever they can get em and sometimes they just throw in a letter from no-where. It used to be North American Air Defense.. but then they had to deal with ballistic missiles, which are clearly out of the air when you want to detect them, so they upgraded to "Aerospace". Personally, I thought they should have upgraded to "North American Orbital and Air Defence" .. of course that still leaves the R being borrowed from ORbital, but hey, it's an improvement. Having the R stand for "Realtime" would be good, if only NORAD did realtime tracking, which they don't. The oldies among us may remember when NORAD announced that civil defense training was pointless, as no-one would have time to get to a bunker.. because they just can't detect launches, and the target of launches, fast enough. This hasn't changed in 30 years. There's still an airman sitting at a terminal doing this monitoring. There's no Googlesque computer doing search for launch indicators and tracking flight trajectories. The only reason they're not still using slide rules is because pocket calculators are government subsidized.
Solaris is more stable than Linux.
stable. n. resistant to change of position or condition.
Indeed.
Uh huh. If you're an executive in a company and the suitor making the offer won't agree to a golden parachute then it doesn't matter to you how much they are offering per share.
Oh, I guess you mean that same kind of "support" that is offered to Debian users using the Linux kernel ;)
So, err, Darwin doesn't count? Mach + BSD .. sounds like 2 kernels to me.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/newtonai.html
I'm a software engineer and I've used a spreadsheet maybe 5 times in my life. I hate to sound like Bender here, but most everything in life is a degenerative form of programming, especially spreadsheets.
In reality, I think that it's always appropriate to tell somebody that what they're doing bothers you and that you'd like them to stop. They're not obligated by any law or moral compulsion to do as you ask, but sometimes, I think it would be the optimal choice anyway.
Yeah, we were talking about mobbing someone and "running them out of town." Clearly, letting someone know that something annoys them is fine. Declaring that they have to stop or you'll use physical violence to stop them is not (although at times it is clearly hilarious).
The first step is admitting you have a problem.
Your friends and family. You know, the ones who roll their eyes every time you open your mouth?
Riiight. Or you're just being a typical nitpicking slashtard. This is why people don't want to talk to you.
I'd kindly point out to them that I am breaking no law.
I suppose you are just assuming that you wouldn't be breaking the law, but you don't quite write like it.
Reading comprehension FAIL.
Let's take a realistic example: whistling.
"Hey, can you stop whistling, it's annoying me."
"Umm.. I like whistling, and we're in public, why don't you just move out of earshot, or, ya know, go home."
How so? In a civilized world people don't ask other people in public to stop doing things they don't like.. they tolerate other people. If someone asked me to stop doing something I liked in public, I'd kindly point out to them that I am breaking no law. "It's a free country."
What you want? Is that how you measure the regulation of public space? Ya know, there's people in this world who don't want womens' faces to be visible in public. Should we accommodate their wants too? The thing about public spaces is that they are public. This means that everyone is allowed to go there and exercise freedom. Freedoms like taking pictures, and putting them on the Internet, if that's what they want to do.
I'd fire that driver for turning tail. Lock the windows and keep driving. They can blur the faces of the mob later.
As for calling the police, go right ahead, I'm sure Google is breaking no laws.
I knew what the fuck "Tethering" is. Presumably it doesn't involve ropes you use in space.
This is why the idea of income tax was considered abhorrent by the founding fathers. Unfortunately they never codified it.
Yup, but the supreme court has never said "you can't try to find out who that anonymous person is".. if you want to remain anonymous it's your responsibility to protect your identity.. you have no legal right to that. You can't contact the police and say "hey, someone is trying to find out who I am, stop them!"