Couldn't they prepare better for this or did I miss something?
Both Rovers were designed to work for 90 days anything more than this is a bonus,
they were not even designed to last till winter. If they can survive it thats a bigger bonus!
Thanks! I have the (disgusting) documentary recorded, I was just plucking up courage
to listen to it again (there is such a thing as knowing too much !)
But here's what i've always been curious about - what they invented a STD that made your penis longer, or one that made your breasts larger (depending on gender). This really could be the wave of the future - certain people becoming sexually appealing due to designer viruses they carry.
There are parasites that change the behaviour of the host, The one I recall
(sorry no names, no references just a dimly recalled radio program) caused the host
(an ant) to sit at the top of grass stalks during the day to make it more likely that
it would get eaten by a bird completing the parasites life cycle. They did mention
parasites that affected human behaviour but my memory gives out at this point.
weren't they called JAMMERS back in the nice radio-sharks times? Jam the 11 802.11 band frequencies and you have a "DoS" attack...
A jammer is pumping out a lot of power to swamp the radio frequences and would be
trivial to trace (all you need is a directional antenna). This is more akin to poisoning
a lake, you know something is wrong (all the dead fish are a clue), but tracking down
the source of the poison is hard it could be anywhere in the lake. I one way
to find the DoS would be to switching off the AP's but this would not work well in a public place
with lots of people packing WiFi devices (say a university)
Re:WEP (in)security assumptions
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This is true; WEP is known to be insecure. However, for the average joe, it is good enough - its the whole target of oppurtunity thing - would you as a hacker, spend a night in your car outside some dudes house in the hopes that they might compplete an online transaction with a CC?
To the average Joe the risk to household WiFi is not some blackhat hiding in a van outside
the house, its the neighbourhood teens, they have weeks to gather packets and a pringles can and
WiFi card don't cost that much.
Oh yes Mum and Dad may only have dial-up or have the home network sewn up as tight
as a drum, but poor Joe down the road, his AP is a Fast Font Of All Free Pr0n, a handy
proxy for the RIAA to bust, a neat storage place for thoes pics, and... hey woudln't it
be fun to use his IP to.....
Slash folk are able to secure there WiFi, but if its not really secure out
of the box selling WiFi to Joe is neglegent
Re:Some classic Christian D&D FUD
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The problem Christians have with some RPGs is not so much the potential for evil within the environment, but the gaining of supernatural powers for the sake of self-exaltation. The dividing line for Christians is whether the actions taken by the player glorify himself or glorify God. It becomes a problem when the fantasy realm drifts into the desires of the player to have powers that would make him/her feel more powerful, as opposed to the grace of God, which is perfected in weakness.
That, and D&D gives stats to Gods and if you give stats to something, some PC somewhere will kill it
They make metalized "solar filters" for many telescopes, which keep most of the energy out of the scope body while preserving the aperature so you can still have good resolution at high magnification.
These solar filters are not to be relied on and have been known to break without warning!
Its a better bet to use your telescope to project
a solar image
On page 179 of the open source directory is the Swedish company "Kalle Anka AB" of Ankeborg. Or in English: Donald Duck Inc. of Duckburg.
Seems like a reliable source of information...
I can well beleve a small company handing out that sort name location....
right up to the point DisneyCorp comes down on them like a ton of tons. If the exist they soon won't
I've toyed with the idea of creating a 'Maths Fleet battles' minatures wargame game using semi-realistic physics (ie vectored movement with momentum, I came up with a neat string and circle
system for in game use, the string represents your current vector the circle the places you can
be at the end of your turn given your ships delta-v). The idea was to set up game mechanics that can be minmaxed but only if you apply the right maths (the hard bit would be to ensure that
there was lots of near optimal configurations it would be very dull if there were only one
true ship!)
An example problem could be "Which is the better weapon system Quantum cannon,
Probability bomb or Matrix destabiliser?" (average damage of one could be calculated
via calculus and the second is a subtle probability problem
and the last a quadratic equation).
Basically the idea is to show how the dry maths learned in class has a 'real
world' application.... I learned to solve quadratic equasions and do matrices
to this day I still don't know what they are actually used for
I rased the idea (in rather more depth here in rec.games.design
... its polluting Earth. Most of the rockets mass is going to be
spread in Earths atmosphere and the solid waste will be end up dropping into our 'back yard'
or worse in orbit where it can damage real space craft.
On top of that there is the waste producing the rocket, not just rubbish going to the
corporate dustbins and drains, but energy needed to refine and machine the materials
has a cost in pollution.
Its not the kilograms on the Moon, the kiloton's on the Earth that are the real issue
If that wasn't bad enough, I think marketers actually inflate the problem on purpose, making it seem that there is more choice than there actually is - since that boosts the chances that a consumer will buy your product.
The telecom companys do this, since all they can compete on is price, they obfuscate their pirce
structure so it is very hard to to a like with like comparison between companys
When it all comes down to it (MS or OO), I just end up entering the error message into Google anyway.
Demonstrating that a Google search has failed to come up with the goods makes
said experienced, yet socially inept user, much more inclined to be helpful.
The trouble is that when said newbie got to the man page (by whatever path)
it would be written in a style too terse and technical to be much help to a
newbie computer user. IMHO the moment you can make sense of a man page
you stopped being a newbie long ago.
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Both Rovers were designed to work for 90 days anything more than this is a bonus, they were not even designed to last till winter. If they can survive it thats a bigger bonus!
on top of the pyro fun, old hard disks are a handy source of ultra strong fridge mangets
>Hast thou learned nothing from the x-files?...
What I learned for the X-files... its all true... no it isn't... its true again .... everything you know is a lie ... Lather, Rinse, Repeat
Thanks! I have the (disgusting) documentary recorded, I was just plucking up courage to listen to it again (there is such a thing as knowing too much !)
There are parasites that change the behaviour of the host, The one I recall (sorry no names, no references just a dimly recalled radio program) caused the host (an ant) to sit at the top of grass stalks during the day to make it more likely that it would get eaten by a bird completing the parasites life cycle. They did mention parasites that affected human behaviour but my memory gives out at this point.
A jammer is pumping out a lot of power to swamp the radio frequences and would be trivial to trace (all you need is a directional antenna). This is more akin to poisoning a lake, you know something is wrong (all the dead fish are a clue), but tracking down the source of the poison is hard it could be anywhere in the lake. I one way to find the DoS would be to switching off the AP's but this would not work well in a public place with lots of people packing WiFi devices (say a university)
bit of a moot point with services like tinyurl
>>doesn't everything? seems to me that it get stretched more than a rubber band.
>Why do you hate freedom?
Its nice to see Newspeak is still alive an well
To the average Joe the risk to household WiFi is not some blackhat hiding in a van outside the house, its the neighbourhood teens, they have weeks to gather packets and a pringles can and WiFi card don't cost that much. Oh yes Mum and Dad may only have dial-up or have the home network sewn up as tight as a drum, but poor Joe down the road, his AP is a Fast Font Of All Free Pr0n, a handy proxy for the RIAA to bust, a neat storage place for thoes pics, and ... hey woudln't it
be fun to use his IP to .....
Slash folk are able to secure there WiFi, but if its not really secure out of the box selling WiFi to Joe is neglegent
That, and D&D gives stats to Gods and if you give stats to something, some PC somewhere will kill it
These solar filters are not to be relied on and have been known to break without warning! Its a better bet to use your telescope to project a solar image
Seems like a reliable source of information
I can well beleve a small company handing out that sort name location.... right up to the point DisneyCorp comes down on them like a ton of tons. If the exist they soon won't
There talking about passwords not safewords
Your worried its going to be another Fleisch in the Pon ?
I've toyed with the idea of creating a 'Maths Fleet battles' minatures wargame game using semi-realistic physics (ie vectored movement with momentum, I came up with a neat string and circle system for in game use, the string represents your current vector the circle the places you can be at the end of your turn given your ships delta-v). The idea was to set up game mechanics that can be minmaxed but only if you apply the right maths (the hard bit would be to ensure that there was lots of near optimal configurations it would be very dull if there were only one true ship!)
An example problem could be "Which is the better weapon system Quantum cannon, Probability bomb or Matrix destabiliser?" (average damage of one could be calculated via calculus and the second is a subtle probability problem and the last a quadratic equation).
Basically the idea is to show how the dry maths learned in class has a 'real world' application.... I learned to solve quadratic equasions and do matrices to this day I still don't know what they are actually used for
I rased the idea (in rather more depth here in rec.games.design
Fight between man with club and man with sword requires 8 tables
All these tables are A4 written in 6 point font
On top of that there is the waste producing the rocket, not just rubbish going to the corporate dustbins and drains, but energy needed to refine and machine the materials has a cost in pollution.
Its not the kilograms on the Moon, the kiloton's on the Earth that are the real issue
Hmmm pictures of old computers mildly interesting
Archive.org full text search very very interesting, having to know the URL in advance was a real limitation on the service!
and the bettings good that the cracking program will be called Hugh allowing one to Hugh .....
The telecom companys do this, since all they can compete on is price, they obfuscate their pirce structure so it is very hard to to a like with like comparison between companys
Demonstrating that a Google search has failed to come up with the goods makes said experienced, yet socially inept user, much more inclined to be helpful.
No sweat... There Microsoft words
On Earth the rednecks probe YOU as well
Yeah great, a house with complex curving walls for which you can't buy COTS furniture
The trouble is that when said newbie got to the man page (by whatever path) it would be written in a style too terse and technical to be much help to a newbie computer user. IMHO the moment you can make sense of a man page you stopped being a newbie long ago.