Here in northern Italy such traffic lights exist since at least 10 years and they are extremely common (there are at least 5 of them along my typical daily commute). What's more important is that we actually try not to trigger them and stop when we do: doing otherwise would be suicidal because you're extremely likely to find a law enforcement guy hiding a few meters down the road. If you go south, things are a bit different.;)
The rationale for these "new" traffic lights is that if they stop someone because it looks like he was speeding they will have a hard time proving he really was, but ignoring a red light is obvious and by the way it's also a stronger offense here.
Sorry for being unclear: I don't doubt that serious impacts happened in the past and will happen again if we wait long enough; it was the "mass extinction" part that I was questioning, but I understand that currently there is some solid evidence for that too, which I couldn't find the last time I checked (some years ago).
We also know that major impacts, the sort that changes the climate over the entire globe and causes mass extinction of species has happened atleast on a few occasions.
No we don't. The "few occasions" is just one time about 65 million years ago and it's still pretty much a theory and not a proven fact, AFAIK.
This makes me wonder, couldn't a telescope such as Hubble, or even Hubble itself, be put in an orbit that is close enough to the ISS that a mission could visit both?
Why? Just attach a comparably-sized telescope to the ISS. I always wonder why they didn't do it already. Hubble is a pretty big chunk of metal for a stand-alone satellite, but it's no match for the ISS. And you wouldn't need separate positioning and attitude control, power generation and what else. And you could actually have astronomers go there and look through the damn thing it they wanted to.
I also understand that optical interferometry is all the rage in optical astronomy these days. Well, put two linked scopes on opposite sides of the ISS and enjoy.
How do I go about disassembling a Windows virus on Linux? Which tools do I use? I was once skilled in the art of disassembly, but that was on the Amiga. My knowledge of the Intel assembly language is a bit lacking, but with a little help (mainly, which tools? as said above) I should be able to pick it apart.
As for the virus itself, I have a copy thanks to Earthlink's email virus scanner that forwarded me a full copy of a mail sent in my name...
Isn't the little rover surprisingly similar to number 5? I don't think there are thunderstorms on Mars, but if they can't get Spirit to behave properly maybe they just need to promise they won't reprogram it...
the simplest example is meter: take the part of meridian between equator and pole and divine [sic] it by 10000
I don't know about you, but I find it easier to measure the distance between my nose and my thumb than to take a looong walk from the Equator to the North Pole. Not to mention how many times you'll have to stop along the way and get more clothes.
(Yes I know someone measured it two thousand years ago with a deep well, a stick and some simple logic)
It's common in English-speaking countries where you are accustomed to using "mph", but here in Europe it's always "km/h". However, the RPM indicator is usually labeled "rpm", with "turns/min" (appropriately localized, as in "giri/min" in Italy) being quite common, but I've seen the occasional "r * m^-1" which is going to confuse all but the engineers and geeks out there.
Not at all. In fact, devfs has been declared obsolete in 2.6; on those machines where I'm testing 2.6, I'm using a plain old/dev until I have time to figure out how sysfs and udev are supposed to work.
Now, if you want to use devfs, all you have to do is: 1) install devfsd, 2) compile a new kernel with devfs enabled and set to mount on boot, 3) install said kernel, 4) reboot. Doing 1 before 2 is the tricky stuff for me, I always forget that. You may also have to adjust some permissions and/or create some nonstandard devices you made yourself, but I've been using devfs on all my machines with 2.4 and it's working perfectly.
I, for one, look forward to playing Stephen Hawking in Unreal Tournament 2004.
I'd think twice before confronting one of the best physicists around. Picture this: Stephen gets tired of being fragged, sits back at his desk for a while and gets back to the action with a new relativistic time-and-space-warping weapon that makes a BFG10K look as dangerous as a water pistol. Scary.
Sorry, but what source? The exploit's (which he presumably wrote himself) or EartStation 5's (which he doesn't have, or at least he doesn't say he does)?
Maybe you're under the mistaken impression that someone needs source code to find bugs and/or backdoors in an application. Never heard of reverse engineering? 8-)
And I can tell you, SCO is going to get even more big problems with the assertion that SCO will license Linux to companies. Since SCO doesn't own the complete copyright to Linux [...]
I have contributed code to the Linux kernel, and I suppose many other people here did. Can I sue them? This is a serious question.
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Here in northern Italy such traffic lights exist since at least 10 years and they are extremely common (there are at least 5 of them along my typical daily commute). What's more important is that we actually try not to trigger them and stop when we do: doing otherwise would be suicidal because you're extremely likely to find a law enforcement guy hiding a few meters down the road. If you go south, things are a bit different. ;)
The rationale for these "new" traffic lights is that if they stop someone because it looks like he was speeding they will have a hard time proving he really was, but ignoring a red light is obvious and by the way it's also a stronger offense here.
Sorry for being unclear: I don't doubt that serious impacts happened in the past and will happen again if we wait long enough; it was the "mass extinction" part that I was questioning, but I understand that currently there is some solid evidence for that too, which I couldn't find the last time I checked (some years ago).
We also know that major impacts, the sort that changes the climate over the entire globe and causes mass extinction of species has happened atleast on a few occasions.
No we don't. The "few occasions" is just one time about 65 million years ago and it's still pretty much a theory and not a proven fact, AFAIK.
As in "high-quality porn"?
This makes me wonder, couldn't a telescope such as Hubble, or even Hubble itself, be put in an orbit that is close enough to the ISS that a mission could visit both?
Why? Just attach a comparably-sized telescope to the ISS. I always wonder why they didn't do it already. Hubble is a pretty big chunk of metal for a stand-alone satellite, but it's no match for the ISS. And you wouldn't need separate positioning and attitude control, power generation and what else. And you could actually have astronomers go there and look through the damn thing it they wanted to.
I also understand that optical interferometry is all the rage in optical astronomy these days. Well, put two linked scopes on opposite sides of the ISS and enjoy.
This should be an "Ask Slashdot", I suppose...
How do I go about disassembling a Windows virus on Linux? Which tools do I use? I was once skilled in the art of disassembly, but that was on the Amiga. My knowledge of the Intel assembly language is a bit lacking, but with a little help (mainly, which tools? as said above) I should be able to pick it apart.
As for the virus itself, I have a copy thanks to Earthlink's email virus scanner that forwarded me a full copy of a mail sent in my name...
...or a Beowulf cluster of maglev trains (all running Linux, of course).
Isn't the little rover surprisingly similar to number 5? I don't think there are thunderstorms on Mars, but if they can't get Spirit to behave properly maybe they just need to promise they won't reprogram it...
I cant spel, you insensitiv claud.
They wanted to scare the Martians so that they would leave the craft alone this time. Apparently, they were successful.
I'm not sure how it was said in English, but here it is:
"We don't know who started, but it was us that obscured the sky."
(I hope I'm not being redundant either.)
I saw articles about planned rollouts of high speed network connectivity on planes, but I din't think they meant this!
the simplest example is meter: take the part of meridian between equator and pole and divine [sic] it by 10000
I don't know about you, but I find it easier to measure the distance between my nose and my thumb than to take a looong walk from the Equator to the North Pole. Not to mention how many times you'll have to stop along the way and get more clothes.
(Yes I know someone measured it two thousand years ago with a deep well, a stick and some simple logic)
It's common in English-speaking countries where you are accustomed to using "mph", but here in Europe it's always "km/h". However, the RPM indicator is usually labeled "rpm", with "turns/min" (appropriately localized, as in "giri/min" in Italy) being quite common, but I've seen the occasional "r * m^-1" which is going to confuse all but the engineers and geeks out there.
Now it's fun to think about it as "the final 2.6.0 stable kernel". I would rather call it the *initial* 2.6.0 stable kernel.
test9 is already available (in sid, mind you), so I guess test10 could make it into Debian within the year.
Not at all. In fact, devfs has been declared obsolete in 2.6; on those machines where I'm testing 2.6, I'm using a plain old /dev until I have time to figure out how sysfs and udev are supposed to work.
Now, if you want to use devfs, all you have to do is: 1) install devfsd, 2) compile a new kernel with devfs enabled and set to mount on boot, 3) install said kernel, 4) reboot. Doing 1 before 2 is the tricky stuff for me, I always forget that. You may also have to adjust some permissions and/or create some nonstandard devices you made yourself, but I've been using devfs on all my machines with 2.4 and it's working perfectly.
I think you are a bit humor-impaired. It was a joke. I have the greatest respect for Stephen, having a bit of training in physics myself.
(however, I do in fact enjoy playing first-person shooters -- a lot)
I, for one, look forward to playing Stephen Hawking in Unreal Tournament 2004.
I'd think twice before confronting one of the best physicists around. Picture this: Stephen gets tired of being fragged, sits back at his desk for a while and gets back to the action with a new relativistic time-and-space-warping weapon that makes a BFG10K look as dangerous as a water pistol. Scary.
Sorry, but what source? The exploit's (which he presumably wrote himself) or EartStation 5's (which he doesn't have, or at least he doesn't say he does)?
Maybe you're under the mistaken impression that someone needs source code to find bugs and/or backdoors in an application. Never heard of reverse engineering? 8-)
You can have my one-button mouse when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
That would be "You can have my one-button mouse when you pry it from my cold, dead finger." No plural.
(sorry for being an insensitive clod to those who really have only one finger)Now would someone please do the same to SCO?
It's fun how they had to skip the "adaptive" and put "Intelligent" in there, otherwise the MTTLA would have become "TRAPS"...
And I can tell you, SCO is going to get even more big problems with the assertion that SCO will license Linux to companies. Since SCO doesn't own the complete copyright to Linux [...]
I have contributed code to the Linux kernel, and I suppose many other people here did. Can I sue them? This is a serious question.
Not exactly. Some see it and know that many other don't.