99% of the time HPR rockets come in kits, although you an custom build them. Also, the rocket motors themselves are commercially made, whereas our motor was completely designed from the bottom up and works in a completely different way - we niject Nitrous oxide through basically a long cylinder of plastic, which has been drilled through to make a hole - when this is ignited the NOx decomposes into Nitrogen and Oxygen, supplying the required Oxygen necessary to burn the plastic, hence creating the high speed, high pressure gas needed to create thrust - basically one mean mutha of a rocket motor:)
Yes, this group is called MARS - Middlesex Advanced Rocketry Society, of which I am one of the Flight Crew.
Bennet is basically a big joke in the UK, he has got all rocketry groups banned from using military bases to test rockets from, and one of his earlier rocket escapades burned a substantial part of moorland in Dartmoor.
Bennets rocket is nothing more than a scaled-up HPR (High Power Rocket) vehicle, and is nothing more exciting than is flown by many HPR enthusiasts here in the UK and the US.
Our most recent success flew last weekend - it's a true and proper amateur rocket utilising our new Hybrid rocket motor, quite possibly the most powerfull amateur hybrid motor flown anywhere in the world:)
Ah, young Grasshopper, but anyone worth thier salt would use that precaution the _second_ they started using PGP in the first place:)... and keep using it:) That way if there is no Fed interference then there is no problem - only a little extra effort - but if the Feds DID indeed plant thier little eavesdropping device in then you would be safer anyway:)
Bash only records commands you have typed in, as a history
file, it does not record passphrases you have entered. This is
because the programmers of bash were smart, after all, you
woulnd't wish your passphrases recorded in.bash-history now,
would you?:)
Couldn't you have your serial keyboard plugged in, then
when you go to use your pc, go to another room, take out your
nice USB keyboard, then plug that in and use that instead?
Wouldn't it be funny seeing the feds puzzled faces - you've been
sending all sorts of PGP'd email in the last month, and all thier logger has registered is "haha MOFO's!!!!" - LOL!!!!
Well, time to use up my free weekend internet and download this version:)
Must admit though, I've been using version 0.9 for a few months now,
on Mandrake 8, and I've never suffered a crash or bug with that version...
perhaps I've just been lucky?
Well, as someone who is into Model/Amateur Rocketry, I can recommend the Sony DCR-PC100E, which is a DV HandyCam, which also comes with the Memory Stick thingy.
With this camera, you can record your stuff "live" onto the DV tape, then at your leisure, you can create jpeg's by having the camera pause the picture at the shot you desire. The camera then takes that particular frame, and copies it as a jpeg to the memory stick. Since you can advance the video by a tenth of a second, it is absolutely brilliant for those action shots of rockets taking off:)
In my opinion, this sort of DV/memory stick/camera combination is the way to go - a bit more expensive than yer average digital camera, admittedly, and perhaps a bit more fiddly to use than Joe Average could cope with, but hey, it works forme, it could work for you too:)
You said : "Most of the more stable governments(ie US, western europe, canada) that i can think of have made it a point to keep there citizens educated and involved in the political process."
I say : Hogwash.
Try living here in the UK, where the Government, at this very moment as I type, is now into the second reading of the Regulation of Ivestigatory Powers Bill (RIP - a very appropriate acronym), and I can gaurantee you that the vast majority of the citizens here basically have NO Clue as to what it means to _every_ user of the internet, done - of course - in the name of protecting the people against kiddy-pr0ner's, master criminals blah blah bling.
Basically what will happen if this becomes Law, is that MI5 / the Police will have a Black Box installed at every ISP in the UK, and will be able to monitor what every person is reading/downloading, or sending.
I was watching the BBC news this morning, and there was a debate about this bill, one person - claiming to be a "professional IT consultant", was extolling the virtues of the Bill, and was citing all the usual excuses for taking away people's rights to anonymity on the Internet - yep, you've guessed it - the usual "High-tech criminals, kiddy-pr0nsters blah bling".
The other thing this Bill will do, is give the Police powers to force you to give up your encryption passwords/keys under an _instant_ penalty of up to TWO years in jail if you don't:(
Come and live in the UK - the most draconian country in the world:(
Saw it last night (London, UK Time)
on
G3 Solar Storm
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First of all, there was the spectacular show when the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were visible in a group together just an hour after sunset - marvelous:)
Then imagine my surprise when at about 12:30 am (BST) I walked out of my house in North London, and said to myself "It's awfully light looking out here, but the moon has set!?!"
I slowly looked up, and there was a most spectacular light show going on in the heavens!
It's very, _very_ rare to see such a phenomenon this far south!! As I'm originally fromn Scotland, I felt pleased and privilaged to see the magnificent and awesome power of the Universe in motion:)
There is a difference between "predatory pricing", and free software, and I think you are falling into the trap of being confused about this.
Linux is free as in freedom of speech (and free as in price). Linux is not owned by a monolithic company that has tried it's damndest over the last decade or so to foist it's garbage onto the world as THE one and only True Standard. The Linux community is not bullying the IBM's, Compaq's, Dell's, etc. by threatening them with OEM sales price increases. The Linux community is offering these companies liberation from that Redmond company's stranglehold. We aren't forcing IBM to adopt Linux - the IBM's etc. of this world are doing this - yes, for commercial reasons (they are a company after all) - but also because they have been given this/choice/ .
No one - be they governor, lawyer, or any other official in power could in their wildest imaginations be able to justify a statement to the effect that Linux is introducing "predatory pricing" to cut off all other competition - how could they?
Wouldn't it be better...
on
Bionic Rats
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· Score: 2
...to find ways of repairing/reconnecting the spinal cord/nerves?
[/analogy] It seems to me that if I cut the wire to my telephone, it's better to reconnect that cut wire, rather than to find some expensively convoluted way of connecting my telephone to a radio transceiver, then connecting the other wire to a similar device to get the telephone working again. [end analogy]
I can see the research justified if the aim is to find a thought interface to a computer etc. But I feel the money would be better spent inventing methods of reconnecting the severed "wires" from the brain to [whatever limb(s) etc.].
....it begins to have fully working features such as full USB support, for example.
And even then I'll deliberately keep back a few revisions - which will allow me to see if there are any serious gotchas in any particular release (like filesystem corruption).
And even then, I'll be running it in a nice separate partition, and keep my main partition with a 2.2.xx kernel!
I submitted an argument such as this many moons ago.
Why can't it be possible to link in the NNTP server to the articles database on the Web version of slashdot?
e.g. Replies to article posted to "news.slashdot.org" gets copied to "slashdot.org".
Replies to articles on "slashdot.org" get posted to the relevant forum in "news.slashodt.org".
OR... what about making the Slashdot web page a front-end to the real article/replies repository - "news.slashdot.org", a la Dejanews ?!?!?
Some clever jiggery-pokery and you could probably maintain the look 'n feel of Slashdot, but with the added advantage of people being able to use an NNTP server to read/post articles. Otherwise your always going to be battling with ever-increasing demand fot HTTP downloads.
Look, all this heart-rending stuff is all very well. We in the Slashdot forum know already that the knee-jerk reactions from Media, and Joe Public, are _wrong_ and also dangerous.
What I'd like to know is, what can we DO about it, apart from discussing this here - the very place that "non-confirmists, geeks etc" are likely to be anyway?
How can Joe Public and the Media be made to realise what the problems _really_ are - namely themselves?
The answer, I'm afraid to say, is - not a lot.
The Media deliberately sensationalises this type of story to the point of frenzied scandal - not because it's outraged at what happens - but because scandal and hype _sells_!
Joe Public doesn't want to hear that they're to blame, because Joe Public knows deep in it's heart that this is the TRUTH, and Joe Public doesn't want to take responsibility for it, hence the "witch-hunts".
I fear that getting the message through to them is going to take decades, if not forever. *SIGH*
It would, IMO, not be a good idea to get Mindcraft to do another test.
It would be a far better idea to get a truly _impartial_ party to re-do these tests, with proper help from the Linux community. Then we'll see the results!
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99% of the time HPR rockets come in kits, although you an custom build them. Also, the rocket motors themselves are commercially made, whereas our motor was completely designed from the bottom up and works in a completely different way - we niject Nitrous oxide through basically a long cylinder of plastic, which has been drilled through to make a hole - when this is ignited the NOx decomposes into Nitrogen and Oxygen, supplying the required Oxygen necessary to burn the plastic, hence creating the high speed, high pressure gas needed to create thrust - basically one mean mutha of a rocket motor :)
:)
Hope this helps
Kev.
Yes, this group is called MARS - Middlesex Advanced Rocketry Society, of which I am one of the Flight Crew.
:)
Bennet is basically a big joke in the UK, he has got all rocketry groups banned from using military bases to test rockets from, and one of his earlier rocket escapades burned a substantial part of moorland in Dartmoor.
Bennets rocket is nothing more than a scaled-up HPR (High Power Rocket) vehicle, and is nothing more exciting than is flown by many HPR enthusiasts here in the UK and the US.
Our most recent success flew last weekend - it's a true and proper amateur rocket utilising our new Hybrid rocket motor, quite possibly the most powerfull amateur hybrid motor flown anywhere in the world
Go to http://www.mars.org.uk for more details.
Regards
Kevin Cave.
Looks that way - pity Bin Laden has got interests in quite a few companies dotted around the world...
Thawte : "What, really?"
Person : "Yeah, really!"
Thawte : " Oh my GAWD! Can't even trust companies now!!!"
Thawte : "We've close dofr business. Goodbye!"
Ah, young Grasshopper, but anyone worth thier salt would use that precaution the _second_ they started using PGP in the first place :) ... and keep using it :) That way if there is no Fed interference then there is no problem - only a little extra effort - but if the Feds DID indeed plant thier little eavesdropping device in then you would be safer anyway :)
;)
Another fine ripost brought to you by NeoTron
Indeed - if any agency openly published their methods, then eheh, well, isn't that like giving criminals a "how NOT to get caught" manual? :)
Bash only records commands you have typed in, as a history .bash-history now,
:)
file, it does not record passphrases you have entered. This is
because the programmers of bash were smart, after all, you
woulnd't wish your passphrases recorded in
would you?
"....and as the FBI replayed the tape recording of the crim...."
Couldn't you have your serial keyboard plugged in, then
when you go to use your pc, go to another room, take out your
nice USB keyboard, then plug that in and use that instead?
Wouldn't it be funny seeing the feds puzzled faces - you've been
sending all sorts of PGP'd email in the last month, and all thier logger has registered is "haha MOFO's!!!!" - LOL!!!!
[Letter No.1 ...]
...
...]
...
...]
"Dear attorney General, Microsoft is great!! Resistance is Futile. Joe Bloggs."
[Letter No.2
"To the Attorney General, Microsoft is the best!! Resistance is Futile. Mary Jane."
[Letter No.3
"FTAO: Attorney General : I wish people would stop picking on Microsoft, it's a wonderfull company!! Resistance is Futile. A Borg."...
[Letter No.4....ad nasuem...
*snigger*
Just Evolution :)
rgds.
Well, time to use up my free weekend internet and download this version :)
:)
Must admit though, I've been using version 0.9 for a few months now,
on Mandrake 8, and I've never suffered a crash or bug with that version...
perhaps I've just been lucky?
Anyhoo, download time for me
rgds.
Well, as someone who is into Model/Amateur Rocketry, I can recommend the Sony DCR-PC100E, which is a DV HandyCam, which also comes with the Memory Stick thingy.
:)
:)
With this camera, you can record your stuff "live" onto the DV tape, then at your leisure, you can create jpeg's by having the camera pause the picture at the shot you desire. The camera then takes that particular frame, and copies it as a jpeg to the memory stick. Since you can advance the video by a tenth of a second, it is absolutely brilliant for those action shots of rockets taking off
In my opinion, this sort of DV/memory stick/camera combination is the way to go - a bit more expensive than yer average digital camera, admittedly, and perhaps a bit more fiddly to use than Joe Average could cope with, but hey, it works forme, it could work for you too
I recently saw Ghost in the Shell in Japan a coupla weeks ago, and thouroughly enjoyed it.
Isn't that the one where the Watchowski Brothers got some ideas for some of the scenes in The Matrix from?
You said : "Most of the more stable governments(ie US, western europe, canada) that i can think of have made it a point to keep there citizens educated and involved in the political process."
:(
:(
I say : Hogwash.
Try living here in the UK, where the Government, at this very moment as I type, is now into the second reading of the Regulation of Ivestigatory Powers Bill (RIP - a very appropriate acronym), and I can gaurantee you that the vast majority of the citizens here basically have NO Clue as to what it means to _every_ user of the internet, done - of course - in the name of protecting the people against kiddy-pr0ner's, master criminals blah blah bling.
Basically what will happen if this becomes Law, is that MI5 / the Police will have a Black Box installed at every ISP in the UK, and will be able to monitor what every person is reading/downloading, or sending.
I was watching the BBC news this morning, and there was a debate about this bill, one person - claiming to be a "professional IT consultant", was extolling the virtues of the Bill, and was citing all the usual excuses for taking away people's rights to anonymity on the Internet - yep, you've guessed it - the usual "High-tech criminals, kiddy-pr0nsters blah bling".
The other thing this Bill will do, is give the Police powers to force you to give up your encryption passwords/keys under an _instant_ penalty of up to TWO years in jail if you don't
Come and live in the UK - the most draconian country in the world
First of all, there was the spectacular show when the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were visible in a group together just an hour after sunset - marvelous :)
:)
Then imagine my surprise when at about 12:30 am (BST) I walked out of my house in North London, and said to myself "It's awfully light looking out here, but the moon has set!?!"
I slowly looked up, and there was a most spectacular light show going on in the heavens!
It's very, _very_ rare to see such a phenomenon this far south!! As I'm originally fromn Scotland, I felt pleased and privilaged to see the magnificent and awesome power of the Universe in motion
...the similarity of the look between the WebPad and the PADD's from the sci-fi series...
"Captain's Log, Star........"
(A ramble, I know, but I'm on early shift, and it's only 20 mins to go home )...
Also, you could use CFS (Cryptographic FileSystem) to store your private email...
Haven't used it myself (mainly because I don't have anything to hide), but it doesn't look difficult to set up. I don't know how secure it is, though.
There is a difference between "predatory pricing", and free software, and I think you are falling into the trap of being confused about this.
/choice/ .
Linux is free as in freedom of speech (and free as in price). Linux is not owned by a monolithic company that has tried it's damndest over the last decade or so to foist it's garbage onto the world as THE one and only True Standard. The Linux community is not bullying the IBM's, Compaq's, Dell's, etc. by threatening them with OEM sales price increases. The Linux community is offering these companies liberation from that Redmond company's stranglehold. We aren't forcing IBM to adopt Linux - the IBM's etc. of this world are doing this - yes, for commercial reasons (they are a company after all) - but also because they have been given this
No one - be they governor, lawyer, or any other official in power could in their wildest imaginations be able to justify a statement to the effect that Linux is introducing "predatory pricing" to cut off all other competition - how could they?
...to find ways of repairing/reconnecting the spinal cord/nerves?
[/analogy]
It seems to me that if I cut the wire to my telephone, it's better to reconnect that cut wire, rather than to find some expensively convoluted way of connecting my telephone to a radio transceiver, then connecting the other wire to a similar device to get the telephone working again.
[end analogy]
I can see the research justified if the aim is to find a thought interface to a computer etc. But I feel the money would be better spent inventing methods of reconnecting the severed "wires" from the brain to [whatever limb(s) etc.].
Just my 2p worth.
rgds.
Hmmmm.... let's see....
:)
Oh Goody! I've just passed that damn netiquette test!
Now where's that spamming program got to?
....it begins to have fully working features such as full USB support, for example.
And even then I'll deliberately keep back a few revisions - which will allow me to see if there are any serious gotchas in any particular release (like filesystem corruption).
And even then, I'll be running it in a nice separate partition, and keep my main partition with a 2.2.xx kernel!
...should Slashdot use an NNTP server for posting/replying articles, in addition to having it's original web based appearance?
[ ] Yes
[ ] Nah!
I submitted an argument such as this many moons ago.
Why can't it be possible to link in the NNTP server to the articles database on the Web version of slashdot?
e.g. Replies to article posted to "news.slashdot.org" gets copied to "slashdot.org".
Replies to articles on "slashdot.org" get posted to the relevant forum in "news.slashodt.org".
OR... what about making the Slashdot web page a front-end to the real article/replies repository - "news.slashdot.org", a la Dejanews ?!?!?
Some clever jiggery-pokery and you could probably maintain the look 'n feel of Slashdot, but with the added advantage of people being able to use an NNTP server to read/post articles. Otherwise your always going to be battling with ever-increasing demand fot HTTP downloads.
Look, all this heart-rending stuff is all very well. We in the Slashdot forum know already that the knee-jerk reactions from Media, and Joe Public, are _wrong_ and also dangerous.
What I'd like to know is, what can we DO about it, apart from discussing this here - the very place that "non-confirmists, geeks etc" are likely to be anyway?
How can Joe Public and the Media be made to realise what the problems _really_ are - namely themselves?
The answer, I'm afraid to say, is - not a lot.
The Media deliberately sensationalises this type of story to the point of frenzied scandal - not because it's outraged at what happens - but because scandal and hype _sells_!
Joe Public doesn't want to hear that they're to blame, because Joe Public knows deep in it's heart that this is the TRUTH, and Joe Public doesn't want to take responsibility for it, hence the "witch-hunts".
I fear that getting the message through to them is going to take decades, if not forever. *SIGH*
It would, IMO, not be a good idea to get Mindcraft to do another test.
It would be a far better idea to get a truly _impartial_ party to re-do these tests, with proper help from the Linux community. Then we'll see the results!
I simply don't _trust_ MindCru^Haft.