Ya, there definitely isn't an ejectable cabin now. The article that I read mentioned that its a good idea to implement one, however, it would be very difficult. Some googling did reveal another article that discusses an ejectable cabin idea, its found here.
#1 - I read somewhere about a plan that may have saved Columbia had they known. It involved Columbia shutting down almost every key system they had, and having the crew relax. The goal is to conserve as much oxygen as possible...stretch out their reserves. During this time, supply rockets with more Oxygen reserves and some CO2 filters would be rushed to Columbia and quickly as possible. Of course, this would be difficult, but I believe the European Space Agency's Aryan 5 (if I spelled that right) was ready to lift off...so that would have been the first to be used for an oxygen shipment. More would follow, allowing Columbia's crew to be sustained in orbit while they figure out some kind of solution.
#2 - There has been some talk recently of making the cabin be able to eject. If a problem is discovered, they can simply eject the cabin. As for how it gets back to earth, I would assume they just come back via Apollo mission capsule style, with a heat shield and parachute.
Disclaimer: I couldn't find the news articles for both these links...so what you heard was from my memory. If anyone wants to comment on them, go ahead.
What a completely pathetic excuse to restrict a game. "It portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts." What a load of crap. Violence is reasonable excuse, mature content is reasonable excuse...but this left-slanted, ideological, and inaccurate viewpoint is NOT a valid reason.
I find it ironic that Germany claims to have a perfect knowledge of war, and because of that, they've concluded that they will never EVER go back to the ways of Nazism. Yet what are they doing? Forcing a politcal mindset upon a population!
If Germany wanted to enforce this liberal viewpoint, they could have found far better things to restrict. I mean, a computer game? Everyone knows computer games are a fantasy world. Kids are smart enough to know that gaming foreign policy ("napalm those guys standing there...I want to want that hilarious burning stick figure animation again") is completely opposite to real world foreign policy ("Killing people really really sucks, lets try to talk it out first.") This whole idea seems less to do with German idealism, and much more like an opportunity to appear smarter and more mature than America.
Going after computer games...German leaders may think they are philisophical gurus, but they sure don't have any common sense.
People want to follow their own rules. But if they feel they can't do it by themselves, they bring along a friend to help them.
As a Mormon myself, the joke is of course satirical. But I have seen our church use this accountibility idea many times...and it works. Recommending that teens double date, holding group activities as an alternative to being alone and lazy, etc. It works very well. It's much easier to follow your own rules when others are around you than by having some authoritarian leader yell at you.
A porn accountability idea would work just as well. Some porn addicts want to break their addiction problem so badly that they will gladly trade in their privacy to their deep dark secrets for the extra help they need.
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But doesn't it [Ceres] have a satellite? -- and -- What would we qualifty that as, because a satellite must orbit a planet.
It doesn't appear that Ceres has any satellites. But, there are 31 asteroids that do! That doesn't make them planets though...they're just small asteroids with really small moons.
Can anyone remind me what that sequence of numbers is called that vaguely predicts the distances of planets from the Sun?
Yep, its the Titius-Bode Law. Ceres does fit into this. But the reason we don't have a planet in between Mars and Jupiter is because "many astronomers think the asteroid belt is where a planet tried to form, but was pulled apart before it could solidify, caught between the strong opposing tugs of Jupiter and the sun's gravity." Quote taken from here.
Why does a planet _have_ to be a shpere...How perfect a sphere?
Why do we always assume that differering conditions from our planet are unsuitable to sustain life?
They're not saying its unsuitable for any life...they're just saying it's less suitable than they thought. And they're right. Chances of life are most definitely decreased due to Europa getting more more radiation than previously thought.
Since radiation has the ability to mess up molecular bonds, that means that some possible forms of life cannot happen.
But like you, scientists admit they have no clue what other life forms may be like. Thus chances of finding life of Europa simply have less chance, but not zero chance.
Although the story's linked article doesn't mention the possibility of the gas cloud harming chances of life, (it appears the slashot poster of the story was referring to this article)....the key sentence about life in doubt is where radiation is mentioned as the reason:
"They conclude that the gas cloud both generates and attracts charged radiation particles and thus helps to maintain Jupiter's magnetosphere - the region influenced by the planet's magnetic field."
As for the Google news link which doesn't work, try this
If I were the spammer, and these S L O W tarpits really mess me up...my first instinct would be configure my program to keep track of the transmission rates of every outgoing email. If one started off fast, but slowed down, I'd cut the connection immediately, log that address away in some "do not spam again...he's a tarpitter" list, and move on to the next victim.
Would that work? Or would trying to keep track of 20,000 outgoing email's transmission rates simultaneousy cause more problems than its worth?
Everytime I read comments for a story, there you are $$$$exyGal, posting right at the beginning for attention.
Is fan whoring your meaning of life? Do you sit and individually count the 800+ fans you have? Or are you pathetic enough to have written a script to count it for you?
I swear, Slashdot really needs a option called "Ignore every trace of this user...forever!"
Symantec has a bad history of not telling current customers about their viruses. When they discover a virus, they first take a few days to figure out a fix, and when they find a fix...THEN they announce it as "Discovered". Sure makes them look good when they claim to discover and fix most viruses the same day
I saw this first hand. When Opaserv variants were coming out almost weekly last fall, Symantec was very slow to acknowledge their existance. A few people I know sent them executables of a new variant on October 19. Finally, on October 23, they announced they "Discovered" it...4 DAYS AFTER WE SENT IT TO THEM! Those Symantec liars didn't even tell us that they discovered it, but they're working on a fix. No, they sat on the virus for 4 days! (Want proof? Check out Symantec's Oct 23 discover day for brasil.pif, here, and compare that with the Oct 19 date that many of us first noticed that virus on this discussion sire here.) And of course, following true to Symantec policy, they claimed to have released a fix either the day of discovery or the the next day...to show they're working hard for their customers.
Microsoft Hot Patch End-User License Agreement for MS Toilet XP.
This EULA grants you the following limited use rights...
....you are allowed only one instance of Microsoft Toilet XP in your home.
....any attempts to disassemble, reverse engineer, etc., this toilet are illegal. ....If you suspect this toilet is pirated, please call 1-800-PIRACY. ....You may not rent, lease or lend this toilet to other users. ....Microsoft reserves the right to update this toilet at any time. ....Do not taunt Microsoft Toilet. ....Microsoft reserves the right to terminate this EULA. In such an event, you must destroy all traces of this toilet and its component parts.
I'm guessing this study was funded by the company who will produce these cards
Yep, as quoted in the article:
"UK citizens support ID cards, according to a report commissioned by the world's biggest smart card maker."
I wouldn't be surprised if their survey questions included "Do you support the use of foolproof iris scans to protect your security and stop hackers from stealing your identity?" It's very easy to manipulate survey results in this manner.
and anyone supporting their fascist ideas.
I doubt this company holds secret business meetings where they ask, "Gentlemen, we believe in fascism. How can we force it on the world?" This company just made a very smart business move by conducting their own study, and having other people (ZDNet) who are desperate for stories publish it. Free advertising!
It has absolutely nothing to do with water. (H20).
I think what the poster to this article, WannabePhysicist, was thinking about heavy water, which is 2 deuteriums + 1 Oxygen. I've never heard about a 2 Tritium + 1 Oxygen though? Has anyone else heard about it? Do they call it super heavy water? Or do they just not give it a name?
Dangit! Both of you beat me to those. But here's another classic. =)
Kent Brockman: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but,
uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft
has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master
race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this
vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men
or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no
stopping them; the ants will soon be here.
And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to
remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful
in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
There's the faked 2x4 crop circles, and then there are others with much more curious evidence.
Unfortunately, rebuttals are lacking for the tougher evidence that supporters put forth (biological changes to the plants, higher radiation, a microwaved like effect, etc.)
Can anyone help me out with some rebuttals on these issues? I for one, still believe that they are all a hoax, but I'm looking for some good explanations to these somewhat scientific sounding evidences. Its one thing to be laugh and say "Ha, its just a bunch of pranksters." and another to ask "So, can anyone fake these evidence? Are they natural? Are these evidences a bunch of crap?"
You'd think with such a low slashdot ID number, that you'd know what you're talking about.
You're new here, aren't you?...Thought so
I've been here over a year, (in case you haven't been keeping track of slashdot #'s)...I have excellent karma, receive 5 mod points every week, etc.
The wording Funny, Informative, etc only reflects the LAST moderation done to the post, which is how you can have "Score:4, Troll"
No, the score reflects the last moderation, but the wording reflects the most popular moderation you've received so far. So in your example, the article would become Score:4 Informative.
I thought a slashdot user as old and wise as you would have known these things, but then again, you're still making
first posts.
Ya, we're Offtopic, but what could be more fun that Slashdot bashing?
The latest moderating annoyance to me has been Slashdot math. If your article is modded +5 Insightful, +5 Interesting, +5 Informative, +5 Funny, and +5 Underrated, you stand at a total score of 5. Nothing wrong about that...but if some jerk comes along, and gives you -1 Troll, then you're score becomes +4.
This bill is sponsered almost entirely by Democrats. Kind of goes against the grain of the perceived view that Democrats would never sponser such a radical bill restricting violence in the media.
Corporations with rights are a very necessary evil.
They're not human, they have no consciensce. Money flows in their veins instead of blood. Instead of neurons they have CEOs and VCs.
You're right. And yet the capitalist system still works really well. Citizens in capitalist nations are the wealthiest in the world. Isn't that crazy?
Corporations are brutual, vicious, business machines. They follow profit and nothing else. Idealism rarely plays any factors in corporate decisions. What does this mean? That in order for this brutal business machine to work, they have to hire employees at competitive wages.
Take away copyrights, patents, property, etc. from these brutal business machines, and it becomes much more difficult for corporations to make a profit. This means unemployment would rise dramatically, remaining job wages would decrease, etc.
You can hate corporations all you want for their lack of indifference. But because of corporations (and the rights they get)...peoples lives are better off. People in America, Western Europe, Japan, etc. are generally much richer and have more opportunities than countries with different economic models.
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Ya, there definitely isn't an ejectable cabin now. The article that I read mentioned that its a good idea to implement one, however, it would be very difficult. Some googling did reveal another article that discusses an ejectable cabin idea, its found here.
I've heard two good ways this would help
#1 - I read somewhere about a plan that may have saved Columbia had they known. It involved Columbia shutting down almost every key system they had, and having the crew relax. The goal is to conserve as much oxygen as possible...stretch out their reserves. During this time, supply rockets with more Oxygen reserves and some CO2 filters would be rushed to Columbia and quickly as possible. Of course, this would be difficult, but I believe the European Space Agency's Aryan 5 (if I spelled that right) was ready to lift off...so that would have been the first to be used for an oxygen shipment. More would follow, allowing Columbia's crew to be sustained in orbit while they figure out some kind of solution.
#2 - There has been some talk recently of making the cabin be able to eject. If a problem is discovered, they can simply eject the cabin. As for how it gets back to earth, I would assume they just come back via Apollo mission capsule style, with a heat shield and parachute.
Disclaimer: I couldn't find the news articles for both these links...so what you heard was from my memory. If anyone wants to comment on them, go ahead.
I find it ironic that Germany claims to have a perfect knowledge of war, and because of that, they've concluded that they will never EVER go back to the ways of Nazism. Yet what are they doing? Forcing a politcal mindset upon a population!
If Germany wanted to enforce this liberal viewpoint, they could have found far better things to restrict. I mean, a computer game? Everyone knows computer games are a fantasy world. Kids are smart enough to know that gaming foreign policy ("napalm those guys standing there...I want to want that hilarious burning stick figure animation again") is completely opposite to real world foreign policy ("Killing people really really sucks, lets try to talk it out first.") This whole idea seems less to do with German idealism, and much more like an opportunity to appear smarter and more mature than America.
Going after computer games...German leaders may think they are philisophical gurus, but they sure don't have any common sense.
Because nobody's emailed Cmdr Taco about the error in the last 2 hours.
People in Iraq can't say "we are ashamed to call ourselves Iraqis." Soon they will have that freedom.
This joke does fit the porn accountability idea.
People want to follow their own rules. But if they feel they can't do it by themselves, they bring along a friend to help them.
As a Mormon myself, the joke is of course satirical. But I have seen our church use this accountibility idea many times...and it works. Recommending that teens double date, holding group activities as an alternative to being alone and lazy, etc. It works very well. It's much easier to follow your own rules when others are around you than by having some authoritarian leader yell at you.
A porn accountability idea would work just as well. Some porn addicts want to break their addiction problem so badly that they will gladly trade in their privacy to their deep dark secrets for the extra help they need.
But doesn't it [Ceres] have a satellite? -- and -- What would we qualifty that as, because a satellite must orbit a planet.
It doesn't appear that Ceres has any satellites. But, there are 31 asteroids that do! That doesn't make them planets though...they're just small asteroids with really small moons.
Can anyone remind me what that sequence of numbers is called that vaguely predicts the distances of planets from the Sun?
Yep, its the Titius-Bode Law. Ceres does fit into this. But the reason we don't have a planet in between Mars and Jupiter is because "many astronomers think the asteroid belt is where a planet tried to form, but was pulled apart before it could solidify, caught between the strong opposing tugs of Jupiter and the sun's gravity." Quote taken from here.
Why does a planet _have_ to be a shpere...How perfect a sphere?
Well.... Ceres's shape is too distorted. Its shape is not spherical enough to be like regular planets. And, to get really technical, no planet is really a sphere. Due to rotation, all planets have a slightly distorted shape.
They're not saying its unsuitable for any life...they're just saying it's less suitable than they thought. And they're right. Chances of life are most definitely decreased due to Europa getting more more radiation than previously thought.
Since radiation has the ability to mess up molecular bonds, that means that some possible forms of life cannot happen.
But like you, scientists admit they have no clue what other life forms may be like. Thus chances of finding life of Europa simply have less chance, but not zero chance.
"They conclude that the gas cloud both generates and attracts charged radiation particles and thus helps to maintain Jupiter's magnetosphere - the region influenced by the planet's magnetic field."
As for the Google news link which doesn't work, try this
Would that work? Or would trying to keep track of 20,000 outgoing email's transmission rates simultaneousy cause more problems than its worth?
"This would transform the server into a sort of dynamic tarpit, in which the spamminess of the incoming message affects the viscosity of the tar"
Its quotes like this why I love Open Source projects. =)
Everytime I read comments for a story, there you are $$$$exyGal, posting right at the beginning for attention.
Is fan whoring your meaning of life? Do you sit and individually count the 800+ fans you have? Or are you pathetic enough to have written a script to count it for you?
I swear, Slashdot really needs a option called "Ignore every trace of this user...forever!"
I saw this first hand. When Opaserv variants were coming out almost weekly last fall, Symantec was very slow to acknowledge their existance. A few people I know sent them executables of a new variant on October 19. Finally, on October 23, they announced they "Discovered" it...4 DAYS AFTER WE SENT IT TO THEM! Those Symantec liars didn't even tell us that they discovered it, but they're working on a fix. No, they sat on the virus for 4 days! (Want proof? Check out Symantec's Oct 23 discover day for brasil.pif, here, and compare that with the Oct 19 date that many of us first noticed that virus on this discussion sire here.) And of course, following true to Symantec policy, they claimed to have released a fix either the day of discovery or the the next day...to show they're working hard for their customers.
Stupid liars.
The earth is only roughly 4.55 billion years old.
But that would just mean the asteroid in your example would only have to hit...say...2 billion years ago.
This EULA grants you the following limited use rights...
Yep, as quoted in the article:
"UK citizens support ID cards, according to a report commissioned by the world's biggest smart card maker."
I wouldn't be surprised if their survey questions included "Do you support the use of foolproof iris scans to protect your security and stop hackers from stealing your identity?" It's very easy to manipulate survey results in this manner.
and anyone supporting their fascist ideas.
I doubt this company holds secret business meetings where they ask, "Gentlemen, we believe in fascism. How can we force it on the world?" This company just made a very smart business move by conducting their own study, and having other people (ZDNet) who are desperate for stories publish it. Free advertising!
It has absolutely nothing to do with water. (H20).
I think what the poster to this article, WannabePhysicist, was thinking about heavy water, which is 2 deuteriums + 1 Oxygen. I've never heard about a 2 Tritium + 1 Oxygen though? Has anyone else heard about it? Do they call it super heavy water? Or do they just not give it a name?
Kent Brockman: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
Courtesy of The Simpsons Archive
There's the faked 2x4 crop circles, and then there are others with much more curious evidence.
Unfortunately, rebuttals are lacking for the tougher evidence that supporters put forth (biological changes to the plants, higher radiation, a microwaved like effect, etc.)
Can anyone help me out with some rebuttals on these issues? I for one, still believe that they are all a hoax, but I'm looking for some good explanations to these somewhat scientific sounding evidences. Its one thing to be laugh and say "Ha, its just a bunch of pranksters." and another to ask "So, can anyone fake these evidence? Are they natural? Are these evidences a bunch of crap?"
You're new here, aren't you?...Thought so
I've been here over a year, (in case you haven't been keeping track of slashdot #'s)...I have excellent karma, receive 5 mod points every week, etc.
The wording Funny, Informative, etc only reflects the LAST moderation done to the post, which is how you can have "Score:4, Troll"
No, the score reflects the last moderation, but the wording reflects the most popular moderation you've received so far. So in your example, the article would become Score:4 Informative.
I thought a slashdot user as old and wise as you would have known these things, but then again, you're still making first posts.
The latest moderating annoyance to me has been Slashdot math. If your article is modded +5 Insightful, +5 Interesting, +5 Informative, +5 Funny, and +5 Underrated, you stand at a total score of 5. Nothing wrong about that...but if some jerk comes along, and gives you -1 Troll, then you're score becomes +4.
5+5+5+5+5-1 = 4
Heh...only on slashdot.
This bill is sponsered almost entirely by Democrats. Kind of goes against the grain of the perceived view that Democrats would never sponser such a radical bill restricting violence in the media.
Take them outside, and throw them as high into the air as possible. Then watch them land on concrete.
I think that render the drive useless. =)
They're not human, they have no consciensce. Money flows in their veins instead of blood. Instead of neurons they have CEOs and VCs.
You're right. And yet the capitalist system still works really well. Citizens in capitalist nations are the wealthiest in the world. Isn't that crazy?
Corporations are brutual, vicious, business machines. They follow profit and nothing else. Idealism rarely plays any factors in corporate decisions. What does this mean? That in order for this brutal business machine to work, they have to hire employees at competitive wages.
Take away copyrights, patents, property, etc. from these brutal business machines, and it becomes much more difficult for corporations to make a profit. This means unemployment would rise dramatically, remaining job wages would decrease, etc.
You can hate corporations all you want for their lack of indifference. But because of corporations (and the rights they get)...peoples lives are better off. People in America, Western Europe, Japan, etc. are generally much richer and have more opportunities than countries with different economic models.