Unless it offers remote access to the attacker, I don't see how it would be any more isolated than any other worm. And even then, the remote access would need to be capable of punching a hole in firewalls, which is no small feat for a self-spreading worm.
I still say we would have heard about it from other channels.
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But what of the logistics of bringing processable regolith to the base? I don't know that they've developed large dump trucks for moon use yet.
The more oxygen per kilo of regolith, the longer it will take to deplete the nearby regolith. The less you have to travel to get processable ore, the more man-hours you can devote to other tasks.
You wouldn't need an explosive device. (It'd probably be pretty ineffective, anyway.)
Instead, throw up a bunch of heavy masses connected by strong cables. If they're in the right place at the right time--which isn't really all that hard, from a mathematical standpoint--the satellite will be shredded by the cables.
That assumes, of course, that the satellite consists of a fabric made slightly rigid. It wouldn't have to be all that strong. But hitting a stationary steel cottonball (our projectile) at 20,000 mph would quickly cut it to pieces.
Unfortunately, that would turn a mile-wide (0.9 miles, actually) bedsheet into a anti-satellite shotgun blast.
Space-based ads seem more likely than the "chimera" genetic engineering debate I keep hearing about.
But then, so does subsequent private development of anti-orbital-advertising technology. I wonder how much gunpowder it would take to lob a lead slug to orbital altitude. Doesn't actually need to go into orbit. In fact, it's more likely to do damage if you let the satellite billboard come to it.
Of course, one slug wouldn't do it. You'd need the equivalent of grape shot to have a significant effect.
I don't remember the details you mentioned. (So I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.)
What was interesting was the way Harriman went about getting control of the moon...he bought every piece of land that the Moon passed directly over.
I can see how that could be considered to give him property rights, but he'd still have to contend with the laws of the nations and municipalities he passed over.
I had to call 911 after hitting a deer a couple months ago. The 911 operator had no clue where I was. (And, frankly, I didn't either. It was in the middle of the sticks, and the nearest identifying landmarks were at least a quarter of a mile away.)
I'd like to see them try, though. Encrypting the image data adds entropy to it, reducing compression. So while it can still be lossless, you'd lose the compression benefits.
The other option would be to scramble the palette of a palettized PNG image, and require a key to get the colors right. But that's not very strong encryption, and could most likely be broken with an algorithm that searches for palettes leading to images with the fewest sharp edges, plus some by-hand HSV tuning.)
Such laws are usually--but not always--designed around, "What would have prevented this specific event?" and then marketed as, "This will keep this from happening again."
When sound seems to come from the middle of my skull, it's either unusually poor headphones or a mono sound source. And I haven't used a pair of headphones that bad since the 90s.
This I figured out before I was a teenager. I'm sure even your average grandparent recognizes the difference between mono and stereo.
What are you talking about? Your nervous system uses electricity.
Not in the sense that electrical engineers deal with. Your nervous system works by moving charge by moving ions. Electricity in the electronics sense moves charge by moving electrons.
Introducing extra fluids to a neuron might distrupt it, but not in any way resembling a short circuit.
Running unapproved software on college machines can get you into enough trouble. Running an unapproved OS (like Knoppix) outside of a sandbox environment (like VMWare) is gauranteed to get your network access terminated.
That said, I used to run a Debian installation on one of the machines in the computer lab before they locked down the VMWare settings. They didn't mind, so long as I was really careful. (It was very possible to take down the campus network...all you had to do was accidentally spawn a second DHCP server. Never did it, though.)
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Unless it offers remote access to the attacker, I don't see how it would be any more isolated than any other worm. And even then, the remote access would need to be capable of punching a hole in firewalls, which is no small feat for a self-spreading worm.
I still say we would have heard about it from other channels.
It's OSS. I think you mean a ".org" bubble burst.
If it were real, we would have heard it from Symantec or McAffee long before a third-world news website.
No, that would be these: 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998,/a>.
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Doesn't look like there are any hoaxes in the 1998 issue. But go ahead and take a trip down memory lane.
If I let a Roomba loose in the same area as the cats, you can bet they'd be doing their business all over the place.
Dang...you make artificially-maintained wormholes sound plausible.
In stories, sure. But when was the last time you didn't see a comment ridiculing Slashdotters as virgins in their parents' basement?
The last time your cable connection cut out? Thought so...
But what of the logistics of bringing processable regolith to the base? I don't know that they've developed large dump trucks for moon use yet.
The more oxygen per kilo of regolith, the longer it will take to deplete the nearby regolith. The less you have to travel to get processable ore, the more man-hours you can devote to other tasks.
She'd lose a finger. Who knows? She may even give it to you. ;-)
Where'd you get simulated regolith?
You wouldn't need an explosive device. (It'd probably be pretty ineffective, anyway.)
Instead, throw up a bunch of heavy masses connected by strong cables. If they're in the right place at the right time--which isn't really all that hard, from a mathematical standpoint--the satellite will be shredded by the cables.
That assumes, of course, that the satellite consists of a fabric made slightly rigid. It wouldn't have to be all that strong. But hitting a stationary steel cottonball (our projectile) at 20,000 mph would quickly cut it to pieces.
Unfortunately, that would turn a mile-wide (0.9 miles, actually) bedsheet into a anti-satellite shotgun blast.
Space-based ads seem more likely than the "chimera" genetic engineering debate I keep hearing about.
But then, so does subsequent private development of anti-orbital-advertising technology. I wonder how much gunpowder it would take to lob a lead slug to orbital altitude. Doesn't actually need to go into orbit. In fact, it's more likely to do damage if you let the satellite billboard come to it.
Of course, one slug wouldn't do it. You'd need the equivalent of grape shot to have a significant effect.
I don't remember the details you mentioned. (So I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.)
What was interesting was the way Harriman went about getting control of the moon...he bought every piece of land that the Moon passed directly over.
I can see how that could be considered to give him property rights, but he'd still have to contend with the laws of the nations and municipalities he passed over.
Cellphones working with 911? Don't expect it.
I had to call 911 after hitting a deer a couple months ago. The 911 operator had no clue where I was. (And, frankly, I didn't either. It was in the middle of the sticks, and the nearest identifying landmarks were at least a quarter of a mile away.)
I'd like to see them try, though. Encrypting the image data adds entropy to it, reducing compression. So while it can still be lossless, you'd lose the compression benefits.
The other option would be to scramble the palette of a palettized PNG image, and require a key to get the colors right. But that's not very strong encryption, and could most likely be broken with an algorithm that searches for palettes leading to images with the fewest sharp edges, plus some by-hand HSV tuning.)
Yes, PNG is extensible.
Such laws are usually--but not always--designed around, "What would have prevented this specific event?" and then marketed as, "This will keep this from happening again."
When sound seems to come from the middle of my skull, it's either unusually poor headphones or a mono sound source. And I haven't used a pair of headphones that bad since the 90s.
This I figured out before I was a teenager. I'm sure even your average grandparent recognizes the difference between mono and stereo.
What are you talking about? Your nervous system uses electricity.
Not in the sense that electrical engineers deal with. Your nervous system works by moving charge by moving ions. Electricity in the electronics sense moves charge by moving electrons.
Introducing extra fluids to a neuron might distrupt it, but not in any way resembling a short circuit.
I'm going to have to mention this to some of my family and coworkers, and see whether or not I get slapped.
Damnit. I'm going to have a hard time falling asleep tonight...
It would only take them a minute or so of "feeling" before they determined I'm not attractively shaped. Mental image kicks in, modem kicks off.
At least I know mine doesn't.
Running unapproved software on college machines can get you into enough trouble. Running an unapproved OS (like Knoppix) outside of a sandbox environment (like VMWare) is gauranteed to get your network access terminated.
That said, I used to run a Debian installation on one of the machines in the computer lab before they locked down the VMWare settings. They didn't mind, so long as I was really careful. (It was very possible to take down the campus network...all you had to do was accidentally spawn a second DHCP server. Never did it, though.)
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The post contains a link to an article, which contains a link to the Puppy Linux page on Distrowatch, which then contains a link to the Puppy Linux home page.
So I figured I'd give you a shortcut straight to the home page...
I hope they don't improve too much on the graphics of the old DOS versions. Pixel counting could be so important...