I believe his fear of using gas was possibly due to his experiences in the first world war, not because of any moral revulsion in using the weapon against others, but simply his fear of being affected if a retalitory gas attack hit berlin. I can imagine his paranoia of thinking 'is this bunker really gas-proof? Is there a tiny gap it could leak in through?'
What's interesting about this is the craft went in different directions out of the solar system, which rules out something like the mass of an unknown body in the outer solar system affecting their flight.
First artificial satellite
First man in space
First (unmanned) landing on the moon
First spacewalk
Best out of nine maybe?
But seriously,
Putting a man on the moon dwarfed all of those achievements previously, and the achievement of getting the Apollo 13 crew back safely possibly even more so.
What was interesting is that it was the British, not the Germans, who were closer to using chemical weapons during the second world war, which would have been a tremendous mistake as at the time British chemical weaponry relied primarily on WW1 vintage mustard gas, whereas the germans had perfected and produced stocks of nerve gas agents.
Churchill wanted to drop chemical weapons on German cities in retaliation for the V1/V2 raids, but fortunately was persuaded against it. If the Germans had used chemical munitions against the Normandy landings, it is highly likely they would have failed.
You have a good point, and my original post should have been clearer. I was certainly refering to the Nazi leadership (and that whole concept of a 'nazi ethos'), and not directly to the german scientists - many of whom did plan and dream for peaceful uses of their technology, but it was not until the Nazis were defeated that they were able to work directly to achieve this (although of course even after the war their initial work was to help develop the first ICBMs).
While the A4/V2 information may be of limited use to countries that don't already have a ballistic program, North Korea already has an advanced ballistic missile program, and builds missles based on Russian SCUD technology, itself loosely evolved from the original A4/V2 designs.
Further information on North Korean missile programs here
The only thing Nazi Germany wanted to do was build new technical devices to kill people - the fact that their ballistic missies had peaceful applications is space flight was noted by the scientists at the time, and much theoretical work was done by German scientists in the war (eg Sanger), but it remained in their minds and on paper. All the Nazis wanted were devices capable of killing more people at a greater distance. That was their ethos.
File transfers to the player are very slow (less than 100 KB/Sec). What do
I do?
You may be transferring files that may be configured for other devices and formats, or your computer's CPU does not meet the recommended system
requirements. Windows Media Player 10 changes or transcodes files before transferring them to your player.
Files that exceed the following specifications may require more time to change or transcode:
This should be less than or equal to
Bitrate - 800 kbps
Video or image resolution - 320 x 240
Frames Per Second (FPS) - 30
WMA Profile - Simple (SP)
Bluetooth is only 64kbit, so you wouldn't want to use that to connect your EV-DO service on phone to laptop. Better off finding a PC Card that works on your linux laptop or sticking to WiFi hotspots.
I've really gone off Nokia kit, their build quality has fallen dramatically. The painted-on numbers wear off the phone buttons after a few months. It's all driven by cost now...
I was originally offered a free ticket to see this as an advance promotion by Warners UK. About a week before the screening I was told it had been cancelled due to "unforseen circumstances". Ie they hadn't forseen that the movie was total crap.
Sadly, I did not take advantage of this opportunity to skip the movie, and went to see it with some others a little while later. It is the ONLY movie I have ever wanted to walk out halfway through.
The harder a password is to remember, and the more frequently it is changed, the more likely people are going to forget it, and resort to insecure tricks such as writing it on a post-it note stuck to their monitor.
I can't see any good reason to change passwords frequently, other than to limit the damage done from a succesful intrusion. And then, is one month any worse than three months? All your data is 0wned regardless.
Haven't we got to the point where these kinds of stories aren't news any more?
Surely we don't need to have any more "another company using linux" news flashes.
Lots of people use linux. Lots more companies use it every day.
In order for the Linux community to accept the level of success that we have achieved already, it's time to realise that we don't need to bash out these stories all the time.
I do this already using Terminal Services to log into my laptop at the office - whether I'm at home (in the UK), or at my parents-in-law in Canada. And yes, I leave stuff running on my machine, editors open, and go home, log in and I'm working exactly where I left off.
Also amusing to find, that when I'm in Canada, log into my VPN and browse the network, it shows my work PC under "Computers Near Me". I wouldn't call 3,500 miles near!
There's no such thing as 100% safe data backup - there will always be a chance, however small, that your data will be lost regardless of how well or how many backups you make - if you think you've found a way to make your backups 100% safe, I'll just throw the tiny probability of 'black hole eats earth' back at you:)
All we can do is do our best to put that probabilty as close to 100% as we can. And just like reaching the speed of light, we can never do it, but the more effort and energy you expend, the nearer to 100% you can get.
But problems can still happen, will still happen, and when you have millions of customers, it's suprising it doesn't happen more often.
I recently had to restore some data from CD-Rs I wrote a long time ago. One was labelled Sep 23rd 1993. Back when you got a 63minute CD-R for 25 ($40) a piece.
Everything restored perfectly. Now, I wonder whether todays discs at less than 1/100 of that price will even last remotely as long as those discs did.
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I believe his fear of using gas was possibly due to his experiences in the first world war, not because of any moral revulsion in using the weapon against others, but simply his fear of being affected if a retalitory gas attack hit berlin. I can imagine his paranoia of thinking 'is this bunker really gas-proof? Is there a tiny gap it could leak in through?'
What's interesting about this is the craft went in different directions out of the solar system, which rules out something like the mass of an unknown body in the outer solar system affecting their flight.
First artificial satellite First man in space First (unmanned) landing on the moon First spacewalk Best out of nine maybe? But seriously, Putting a man on the moon dwarfed all of those achievements previously, and the achievement of getting the Apollo 13 crew back safely possibly even more so.
What was interesting is that it was the British, not the Germans, who were closer to using chemical weapons during the second world war, which would have been a tremendous mistake as at the time British chemical weaponry relied primarily on WW1 vintage mustard gas, whereas the germans had perfected and produced stocks of nerve gas agents.
Churchill wanted to drop chemical weapons on German cities in retaliation for the V1/V2 raids, but fortunately was persuaded against it. If the Germans had used chemical munitions against the Normandy landings, it is highly likely they would have failed.
Ref: History of Chemical Warfare(2)
You have a good point, and my original post should have been clearer. I was certainly refering to the Nazi leadership (and that whole concept of a 'nazi ethos'), and not directly to the german scientists - many of whom did plan and dream for peaceful uses of their technology, but it was not until the Nazis were defeated that they were able to work directly to achieve this (although of course even after the war their initial work was to help develop the first ICBMs).
While the A4/V2 information may be of limited use to countries that don't already have a ballistic program, North Korea already has an advanced ballistic missile program, and builds missles based on Russian SCUD technology, itself loosely evolved from the original A4/V2 designs.
Further information on North Korean missile programs here
The only thing Nazi Germany wanted to do was build new technical devices to kill people - the fact that their ballistic missies had peaceful applications is space flight was noted by the scientists at the time, and much theoretical work was done by German scientists in the war (eg Sanger), but it remained in their minds and on paper. All the Nazis wanted were devices capable of killing more people at a greater distance. That was their ethos.
Imagine if Newton had patented gravity. We'd all float off into space!
Probably indicates that someone has read-only access to the data, or is somehow sniffing the data on the wire.
Jolyon
This from the Creative FAQ:
File transfers to the player are very slow (less than 100 KB/Sec). What do I do?
You may be transferring files that may be configured for other devices and formats, or your computer's CPU does not meet the recommended system requirements. Windows Media Player 10 changes or transcodes files before transferring them to your player.
Files that exceed the following specifications may require more time to change or transcode:
This should be less than or equal to Bitrate - 800 kbps Video or image resolution - 320 x 240 Frames Per Second (FPS) - 30 WMA Profile - Simple (SP)
Bluetooth is only 64kbit, so you wouldn't want to use that to connect your EV-DO service on phone to laptop. Better off finding a PC Card that works on your linux laptop or sticking to WiFi hotspots.
Or use a cable.
Actually, artificial rubies have been around since 1902 when Auguste Verneuil developed the flame-fusion process that now carries his name.
Not when it's a solid. That's why this magical 'Transparent Hydrogen' stuff I speak about is so important!
Alumina (aluminium oxide) is not the same as aluminium, that's like saying that water ice(hydrogen oxide) is 'Transparent Hydrogen'.
Alumina or corundum as the natural material is known, is found in nature as a clear mineral - different colour variations give you Ruby and Sapphire.
Jolyon
Hah! That'll teach you for using a non-nokia battery!
I've really gone off Nokia kit, their build quality has fallen dramatically. The painted-on numbers wear off the phone buttons after a few months. It's all driven by cost now...
I was originally offered a free ticket to see this as an advance promotion by Warners UK. About a week before the screening I was told it had been cancelled due to "unforseen circumstances". Ie they hadn't forseen that the movie was total crap.
Sadly, I did not take advantage of this opportunity to skip the movie, and went to see it with some others a little while later. It is the ONLY movie I have ever wanted to walk out halfway through.
Jolyon
Wouldn't it be more fun if instead of shredding them, you swap them around? Ideally even more confusing if you change the passwords to match.
Jolyon
The harder a password is to remember, and the more frequently it is changed, the more likely people are going to forget it, and resort to insecure tricks such as writing it on a post-it note stuck to their monitor.
I can't see any good reason to change passwords frequently, other than to limit the damage done from a succesful intrusion. And then, is one month any worse than three months? All your data is 0wned regardless.
Haven't we got to the point where these kinds of stories aren't news any more?
Surely we don't need to have any more "another company using linux" news flashes.
Lots of people use linux. Lots more companies use it every day.
In order for the Linux community to accept the level of success that we have achieved already, it's time to realise that we don't need to bash out these stories all the time.
Jolyon
I do this already using Terminal Services to log into my laptop at the office - whether I'm at home (in the UK), or at my parents-in-law in Canada. And yes, I leave stuff running on my machine, editors open, and go home, log in and I'm working exactly where I left off.
Also amusing to find, that when I'm in Canada, log into my VPN and browse the network, it shows my work PC under "Computers Near Me". I wouldn't call 3,500 miles near!
Jolyon
There's no such thing as 100% safe data backup - there will always be a chance, however small, that your data will be lost regardless of how well or how many backups you make - if you think you've found a way to make your backups 100% safe, I'll just throw the tiny probability of 'black hole eats earth' back at you :)
All we can do is do our best to put that probabilty as close to 100% as we can. And just like reaching the speed of light, we can never do it, but the more effort and energy you expend, the nearer to 100% you can get.
But problems can still happen, will still happen, and when you have millions of customers, it's suprising it doesn't happen more often.
Jolyon
Great story, but unfortunately it's a hoax.
Jolyon
I recently had to restore some data from CD-Rs I wrote a long time ago. One was labelled Sep 23rd 1993. Back when you got a 63minute CD-R for 25 ($40) a piece.
Everything restored perfectly. Now, I wonder whether todays discs at less than 1/100 of that price will even last remotely as long as those discs did.
Jolyon
they start firing things back at us?
Jolyon