1) Fine, in your madmax future world, the level of tech might be lower... *shrugs*
2) I doubt they're going to hate a 14 year old girl with cancer. Some billionaire shithead who led a company that actively harmed the environment... Just imagine if the Koch brothers were frozen... We might want to wake those fuckers up just so we could use them as pinatas.
3) Do some research on the inviability of cryo.. At last check they're doing stuff like at the moment of death, pumping out all the blood and replacing it with antifreeze and using other techniques to prevent cell damage. Private labs have also been doing experiments on animals with limited success.
I also agree with your last point. However, I think we can do both. We can focus on cures now and work on the technology for later.
On a somewhat serious note, when it comes to deep space travel, cryo storing people might be the most sensible way to say colonize a distant planet where the ship is going to take 1,000 years to get there. Yes, yes, I know there's a WHOLE shitload of technical hurdles, but if we got the cryo stuff right it would give us that option.
You do know there are many people in the world who have a phone but who don't have a desktop. They'll never plug their knockoff phone in to know. It'll make phone calls and mostly work until it doesn't.
A coworker of mine went to China on vacation and bought one of these knockoff phones and holy crap, I had a hard time telling it apart from the real thing. The thing that really surprised me was the cut of Android on it that had been skinned to look just like iOS. There was some serious work put into the product. Clearly there's a huge market for these knockoffs.
When your ethernet disappears... buy a dongle! Need to connect your iphone... buy a dongle! Want to read your SD card... buy a dongle! Want to use headphones on your iphone? buy a dongle!
I'm surprised they don't sell a usb3 dongle that's just an 'esc' key at this point.
So what are the technical hurdles that would need to be overcome for there to be actual mining with robots? Doing some quick googling I see that Komatsu and CAT and a few others offer fully autonomous mining solutions. Are those just bullshit and don't work as advertised?
Once again religion demonstrates it's worthlessness.
Let me be clearer... FUCK Saudi Arabia and their stupid pointless shitty laws that were created because some twat rocket got their head wrapped around the drive shaft of religiosity.
Risk is definitely part of the game. Even after the Nth one of these things takes off headed towards Mars and there's a thriving self sustained colony on Mars, something is still going to go wrong. Despite how safe we make airline travel, planes are still going to crash. Even if you cower in your basement there's a non zero chance you're going to die of CO2 poisoning.
My expectation is by the time the first colonists land on Mars, there will have been numerous autonomous missions that have setup methane and oxygen plants as well as metric tons of MRE's. That still doesn't mitigate the danger of half way to Mars your ship gets zorched by a CME. Or upon decent unbenounced to the crew a micrometeor has cracked the PICA heat shield and everybody on the surface is treated to a brilliant light show as a 100t of cargo and 100 people get sprayed across the martian sky. Without shielding in the MCT or on the colony on Mars what's your daily radiation exposure going to be? What number of people after spending 80 days weightless will land on Mars only to have their hearts give out, or that slight embolism that got stressed during take off finally pops?
I'm completely fine with risk, the question that needs to be asked is what the risk factor is going to be. Unfortunately, we can model this problem all we want, but people will still have to go do it and see what happens. I know before I'm too old of a man, they'll be a monument to the brave pioneers of colonization who gave their lives.
No. The helium is used to pressurize the liquid oxygen tank and provide back pressure to the engines. Basically it's the gas that's used to shove the LOX down the fuel lines to the engines as fast as possible.
Also when you're listening to the com loop when you hear "Engine chilldown has begun, they're pumping through the engine.
The prior mishap was caused by one of the struts that holds these tanks to the inner walls failing. This failure was caused by the tank itself bursting.
I'm suspecting they're going to have to reengineer the COPV helium tanks to be a bit tougher.
Think about the fact that Intel currently runs entire batches of CPUs customized for Amazon EC2. Yeah, for some small scale cluster Oracle's got some blisteringly fast cluster with kick ass interconnects and fast storage. However unless they're ready to invest the billions Amazon has already invested in AWS/EC2, they'll never be able to compete with amazon at scale.
Also, no matter what oracle does it's still trapped in Amazon's paradigm. Whatever they make for a cluster still has to adhere to amazon's standards so customers can migrate their data over...
Oracle may have built a one off super car, but it still has to drive on amazon roads... Good luck!
My thoughts exactly. I would have been more shocked if they'd said "After 6 months barely any porn use!" I can't understand how this got into the deployment stage without someone with a clue going "You know, we're just putting porn kiosks out everywhere."
With North Korea's nascent industrial capacity, I'm oddly of the opinion that he should test until he's out of bombs and should test missiles until he runs out of missiles.
Fire the gun into the ground until the clips empty...
As a group categorically refuse to train their replacements. If one person says they're going to do it, the administration can single that person out and make an example out of them. When the entire staff locks arms and says "no". What can they do then?
1. Proceed with firing them... That's great except for the problem where all the knowledge goes out the doors. 2. Lock them out... Except they only manage the physical access, so they're not sysadmins, nor know how to close accounts, etc. 3. Lawyer up and sue them for breach of contract or terms of employment?
I suspect the last option would likely be what they'd do, but if that happened what then? If my companies suing me for refusing to train my replacement, I don't see any incentive to train my replacement.
The whole thing seems like a fluster cluck from top to bottom.
Sorry I got my sources wrong... This was a brand new booster. I'm sure like everything else SpaceX does there was voluminous amounts of data being recorded and they'll quickly understand the issue.
It sucks they lost the vehicle and the payload, but more so that the pad is likely heavily damaged.
One of the reasons that SpaceX had to go on the K street offensive is because ULA specifically managed to score a 36 launch billet that was a no-bid contract worth billions. This was one of the reasons that SpaceX sued the federal government. It was to force them to open up and competitively bid. As an citizen, do you want to pay 100M a launch of 400M a launch? I'd argue it's the other way around. ULA has a long and storied history (with executives going to jail, etc) of paying to play with congressmen, etc.
To echo what I've seen quickly, RAID is not backups. If something (like cryptolocker) suddenly encrypts all your files... you're still completely utterly FUCKED. If your domicile burns to the group, you're fucked. You need something that'll keep your data consistent, and keep it safe from theft/fire/destruction.
I'm going to ignore any cost considerations... whatever.
Build two identical boxes. The first box is going to sit in your place of residence, the second is going to sit elsewhere (like your parents house, or a buddies) Each box is running your OS dejour that naively supports ZFS, a pair of 4TB drives, setup as a ZFS mirror volume. Use whatever software you use to copy data to the local box, rsync, crashplan, whatever, once that task is completed, you'll drop a snapshot of all the pertinent file systems you care about. You now, remotely drop a snapshot on our offsite box and then kick off an rsync that catch any changes.
1. If something has drastically gone wrong with your data locally, you can always revert (in this case promote) your latest snapshot (or whatever snapshot you like best). Plus you can thumb through all your snapshots and see what you like...
2. Even if something hasn't gone wrong, but you liked an old version of something, you have that too... though you'll have to decide on a strategy for how many snapshots you're willing to keep. zfs snapshots are now scm but sometimes you realize you don't have something under control and then you wish you did.
3. You've got a full duplicate of this elsewhere in case fire/flood/theft/etc.
4. Monthly do scrubs of your file system just to make sure everything is healthy. Want to expand your volume? Add two more disks and you can tack on another mirror. Yeah, it won't be balanced but you'll suddenly have more space.
Is there a SINGLE instance where a company that was given one of these government contracts actually delivered what was asked for and it wasn't a screeching shitshow?!? Maybe it's simply that the failures are all that get reported and there are companies doing a bang up job without any fanfare...
As much as the MCT will be what gets us to Mars, just as likely it will be because NASA will be hobbled by bureaucracy, bad tools and lack of vision.
Thank you for creating a such an awesome and useful little computer.
I've used Pi's to do everything from automatically watering my xmas tree to teaching a fourth grade class basic electronics to doing remote backups of my data (with a pi in my house and one far away at my buddies.)
That last operation suffers greatly from the lack of ram resources on a raspberry pi. My "pi" in the sky remote backup node has an SO-DIMM slot on the back I could stick a 8 or 16GB so-dimm in. 1-4 SATA ports so I write faster and a gigE ethernet interface.
I understand that you're under financial pressures to keep the cost down, but I see a real market for a Pi 3+.
Also, follow slashdotters... if there's a platform out there that accomplishes this that's not a proprietary NAS let me know. I've also investigated several microST motherboards but I don't want to have to deal with a "real" power supply, etc.
Considering some of the passwords that I give and still manage to get a "Strong" rating I'm not surprised. It's a silly piece of javascript code that tries to measure complexity... quick and dirty.
What sucks is this obviously lulls people into thinking they've got a great password when a password like "1PaR0fSt1nkYS0cks!" while it'll get a strong rating... isn't strong...
I'm still not convinced this isn't some sort of odd false flag operation.
Imagine you're the NSA and you've been unable to get inside of some other countries likely air gapped cyber security operation... putting some juicy tools out there they're likely to snatch up and play with at least get you to see who the players are and maybe these tools work maybe they blow up... As for the vulnerabilities, with so many people playing this game, any vulnerability not found by the NSA is likely to be found by some other organization.
Even the vulnerabilities could be snares... I'm suspect of all of this and think it's just part of a big ruse.
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1) Fine, in your madmax future world, the level of tech might be lower... *shrugs*
2) I doubt they're going to hate a 14 year old girl with cancer. Some billionaire shithead who led a company that actively harmed the environment... Just imagine if the Koch brothers were frozen... We might want to wake those fuckers up just so we could use them as pinatas.
3) Do some research on the inviability of cryo.. At last check they're doing stuff like at the moment of death, pumping out all the blood and replacing it with antifreeze and using other techniques to prevent cell damage. Private labs have also been doing experiments on animals with limited success.
I also agree with your last point. However, I think we can do both. We can focus on cures now and work on the technology for later.
On a somewhat serious note, when it comes to deep space travel, cryo storing people might be the most sensible way to say colonize a distant planet where the ship is going to take 1,000 years to get there. Yes, yes, I know there's a WHOLE shitload of technical hurdles, but if we got the cryo stuff right it would give us that option.
You do know there are many people in the world who have a phone but who don't have a desktop. They'll never plug their knockoff phone in to know. It'll make phone calls and mostly work until it doesn't.
A coworker of mine went to China on vacation and bought one of these knockoff phones and holy crap, I had a hard time telling it apart from the real thing.
The thing that really surprised me was the cut of Android on it that had been skinned to look just like iOS. There was some serious work put into the product.
Clearly there's a huge market for these knockoffs.
This sounds very arbitrary. Who decides what's hate speech and what's one person calling another person out?
That seems to be Apple's new theme song...
When your ethernet disappears... buy a dongle!
Need to connect your iphone... buy a dongle!
Want to read your SD card... buy a dongle!
Want to use headphones on your iphone? buy a dongle!
I'm surprised they don't sell a usb3 dongle that's just an 'esc' key at this point.
I suspect the results will be shocking. *rim shot*
So what are the technical hurdles that would need to be overcome for there to be actual mining with robots? Doing some quick googling I see that Komatsu and CAT and a few others offer fully autonomous mining solutions. Are those just bullshit and don't work as advertised?
I'm sure it got to the surface... now... functional or in a jumble of pieces... that's yet to be seen.
Between the honor killings, forced marriage and FGM happening in Saudi Arabia I can understand why their teen pregnancy rate is so low!
You're right... though I don't limit it to Islam. I hate all religions.
Once again religion demonstrates it's worthlessness.
Let me be clearer... FUCK Saudi Arabia and their stupid pointless shitty laws that were created because some twat rocket got their head wrapped around the drive shaft of religiosity.
Risk is definitely part of the game. Even after the Nth one of these things takes off headed towards Mars and there's a thriving self sustained colony on Mars, something is still going to go wrong. Despite how safe we make airline travel, planes are still going to crash. Even if you cower in your basement there's a non zero chance you're going to die of CO2 poisoning.
My expectation is by the time the first colonists land on Mars, there will have been numerous autonomous missions that have setup methane and oxygen plants as well as metric tons of MRE's. That still doesn't mitigate the danger of half way to Mars your ship gets zorched by a CME. Or upon decent unbenounced to the crew a micrometeor has cracked the PICA heat shield and everybody on the surface is treated to a brilliant light show as a 100t of cargo and 100 people get sprayed across the martian sky. Without shielding in the MCT or on the colony on Mars what's your daily radiation exposure going to be? What number of people after spending 80 days weightless will land on Mars only to have their hearts give out, or that slight embolism that got stressed during take off finally pops?
I'm completely fine with risk, the question that needs to be asked is what the risk factor is going to be. Unfortunately, we can model this problem all we want, but people will still have to go do it and see what happens. I know before I'm too old of a man, they'll be a monument to the brave pioneers of colonization who gave their lives.
No. The helium is used to pressurize the liquid oxygen tank and provide back pressure to the engines. Basically it's the gas that's used to shove the LOX down the fuel lines to the engines as fast as possible.
Also when you're listening to the com loop when you hear "Engine chilldown has begun, they're pumping through the engine.
The prior mishap was caused by one of the struts that holds these tanks to the inner walls failing.
This failure was caused by the tank itself bursting.
I'm suspecting they're going to have to reengineer the COPV helium tanks to be a bit tougher.
Think about the fact that Intel currently runs entire batches of CPUs customized for Amazon EC2. Yeah, for some small scale cluster Oracle's got some blisteringly fast cluster with kick ass interconnects and fast storage. However unless they're ready to invest the billions Amazon has already invested in AWS/EC2, they'll never be able to compete with amazon at scale.
Also, no matter what oracle does it's still trapped in Amazon's paradigm. Whatever they make for a cluster still has to adhere to amazon's standards so customers can migrate their data over...
Oracle may have built a one off super car, but it still has to drive on amazon roads... Good luck!
My thoughts exactly. I would have been more shocked if they'd said "After 6 months barely any porn use!" I can't understand how this got into the deployment stage without someone with a clue going "You know, we're just putting porn kiosks out everywhere."
With North Korea's nascent industrial capacity, I'm oddly of the opinion that he should test until he's out of bombs and should test missiles until he runs out of missiles.
Fire the gun into the ground until the clips empty...
As a group categorically refuse to train their replacements. If one person says they're going to do it, the administration can single that person out and make an example out of them. When the entire staff locks arms and says "no". What can they do then?
1. Proceed with firing them... That's great except for the problem where all the knowledge goes out the doors.
2. Lock them out... Except they only manage the physical access, so they're not sysadmins, nor know how to close accounts, etc.
3. Lawyer up and sue them for breach of contract or terms of employment?
I suspect the last option would likely be what they'd do, but if that happened what then? If my companies suing me for refusing to train my replacement, I don't see any incentive to train my replacement.
The whole thing seems like a fluster cluck from top to bottom.
Sorry I got my sources wrong... This was a brand new booster. I'm sure like everything else SpaceX does there was voluminous amounts of data being recorded and they'll quickly understand the issue.
It sucks they lost the vehicle and the payload, but more so that the pad is likely heavily damaged.
One of the reasons that SpaceX had to go on the K street offensive is because ULA specifically managed to score a 36 launch billet that was a no-bid contract worth billions. This was one of the reasons that SpaceX sued the federal government. It was to force them to open up and competitively bid. As an citizen, do you want to pay 100M a launch of 400M a launch? I'd argue it's the other way around. ULA has a long and storied history (with executives going to jail, etc) of paying to play with congressmen, etc.
To echo what I've seen quickly, RAID is not backups. If something (like cryptolocker) suddenly encrypts all your files... you're still completely utterly FUCKED.
If your domicile burns to the group, you're fucked. You need something that'll keep your data consistent, and keep it safe from theft/fire/destruction.
I'm going to ignore any cost considerations... whatever.
Build two identical boxes. The first box is going to sit in your place of residence, the second is going to sit elsewhere (like your parents house, or a buddies)
Each box is running your OS dejour that naively supports ZFS, a pair of 4TB drives, setup as a ZFS mirror volume. Use whatever software you use to copy data to the local box, rsync, crashplan, whatever, once that task is completed, you'll drop a snapshot of all the pertinent file systems you care about. You now, remotely drop a snapshot on our offsite box and then kick off an rsync that catch any changes.
1. If something has drastically gone wrong with your data locally, you can always revert (in this case promote) your latest snapshot (or whatever snapshot you like best). Plus you can thumb through all your snapshots and see what you like...
2. Even if something hasn't gone wrong, but you liked an old version of something, you have that too... though you'll have to decide on a strategy for how many snapshots you're willing to keep. zfs snapshots are now scm but sometimes you realize you don't have something under control and then you wish you did.
3. You've got a full duplicate of this elsewhere in case fire/flood/theft/etc.
4. Monthly do scrubs of your file system just to make sure everything is healthy. Want to expand your volume? Add two more disks and you can tack on another mirror. Yeah, it won't be balanced but you'll suddenly have more space.
Thanks! I'll look into the buffalo station stuff!
Is there a SINGLE instance where a company that was given one of these government contracts actually delivered what was asked for and it wasn't a screeching shitshow?!? Maybe it's simply that the failures are all that get reported and there are companies doing a bang up job without any fanfare...
As much as the MCT will be what gets us to Mars, just as likely it will be because NASA will be hobbled by bureaucracy, bad tools and lack of vision.
Thank you for creating a such an awesome and useful little computer.
I've used Pi's to do everything from automatically watering my xmas tree to teaching a fourth grade class basic electronics to doing remote backups of my data (with a pi in my house and one far away at my buddies.)
That last operation suffers greatly from the lack of ram resources on a raspberry pi. My "pi" in the sky remote backup node has an SO-DIMM slot on the back I could stick a 8 or 16GB so-dimm in. 1-4 SATA ports so I write faster and a gigE ethernet interface.
I understand that you're under financial pressures to keep the cost down, but I see a real market for a Pi 3+.
Also, follow slashdotters... if there's a platform out there that accomplishes this that's not a proprietary NAS let me know. I've also investigated several microST motherboards but I don't want to have to deal with a "real" power supply, etc.
Considering some of the passwords that I give and still manage to get a "Strong" rating I'm not surprised. It's a silly piece of javascript code that tries to measure complexity... quick and dirty.
What sucks is this obviously lulls people into thinking they've got a great password when a password like "1PaR0fSt1nkYS0cks!" while it'll get a strong rating... isn't strong...
I'm still not convinced this isn't some sort of odd false flag operation.
Imagine you're the NSA and you've been unable to get inside of some other countries likely air gapped cyber security operation... putting some juicy tools out there they're likely to snatch up and play with at least get you to see who the players are and maybe these tools work maybe they blow up... As for the vulnerabilities, with so many people playing this game, any vulnerability not found by the NSA is likely to be found by some other organization.
Even the vulnerabilities could be snares... I'm suspect of all of this and think it's just part of a big ruse.