The graphs that are linked to in the/. story simply illustrate that SCO's shxt keeps on crashing - which is not really suprising after Darl had to fire the network admin to feed his Lawyer habit.
It's also entirely possible some dumbasses figured they could get the boot in (so to speak) and take this opportunity to attack SCO on their own.
If they're getting DoSed from everywhere at once, how are they going to catch the little guys who *mean* it?
Well, if the little guys who mean it didn't realise the main DoS was due to start for a few days, then they may very well have shot themselves in the foot... Internet Darwin awards anybody?:D
I got a copy of this virus before I left for work this morning, saw the mail and thought "ok, I don't know them and it's got an attachment, it's a virus", opened up the zip for a look though and saw the payload.
"Fair enough, a new virus, I gotta go to work."
Flash forward 7 hours to now and I can't *believe* what a great opportunity this virus has afforded me and no doubt countless others reading.
The mailbox it was delivered to was a spamtrap, chances are spamtraps all over the world are being sent the real, legitimate IP addresses of spammers dumb enough to click malicious attachments.
Viruses are bad, DoSing SCO is bad, but god damn, all this time we've been bitching and moaning about viruses when we could have been using them on spamtrap addresses to track down spammers to their *own* internet connection.
Yeah, and what's the point in dual-booting to Linux, I can do everything in Windows I can do in Linux and more! While we're at it, what's the point in having an mp3 player? I can just listen on my stereo! DVD's, why should I buy them if I can just *imagine things happening*?!?
Personally, I like the idea of being able to do development work on the target system. So what was your post, funny? or flamebait?:D
Hmm, if what you're saying is true then that works in my favor (I get to take pretty pictures of the sky:) but I'm not convinced, I've used a tripod-mounted Canon Powershot G2 3mp camera and taken 8 second exposures in pitch black when the stars are at their absolute best, all I've seen in the resulting images is the brightest of the stars and some CCD artifacts (that admittedly look like stars, but aren't).
As for my color camera having the same effective resolution equivalent to 1 mp, I just don't see how you figure that out, the highest resolution images I can take are somewhere above 2000x1600 (I forget the exact resolution) which equates to around 3 million pixels in the image, I would notice if the resulting shot was 1/3rd the resolution it was supposed to be, I was under the impression they use a B&W CCD with the filters largely because there's less to break, and less weight/space is taken up. Correct me if I'm wrong:)
I could be wrong, but I think you're probably in for a long wait - I've tried snapping the sky from here with a 3 megapixel camera and it's a waste of time, even with very long exposures, the resolution of the cameras they've got up there sucks even more so if you want to see the sky as spirit sees it just open paint, and do a pure black flood-fill:D
If you haven't seen it already, here's a picture of the Earth and Jupiter taken by the MOC, it's a *bit* of a cheat, but still a beautiful picture, and probably the closest thing humanity has to your dream of a alien starscape (which I agree would be a fantastic, but slightly bland picture:)
It was GOOD for it's time period, but not built to last, not like Video Disk or DVD does.
Let's see if you're still saying that in a few years... Speaking as someone who has recently gone through some old (between a year and two years) CDRs and found about 1 in ten to be unreadable I'd hold off on saying DVDRs are "built to last".
$200 in VAT means you're spending something of the order of $1200 a week. After food, which is VAT free.
Well, no, that is factoring in cigarettes and alcohol as well as odds and ends I buy through the week.
Which gives you a pre-tax income of about two grand a week, or a cool $100,000 a year.
With the dollar the way it is today that number is probably a little on the low side, but close enough.
What, are we supposed to feel sorry for you?
That would be nice, yes.
And would it kill you to tell me I look good once in a while?:D
Yeah, because the artists get every penny from a gig. By the time the promoters, roadies, ticket agents, venue, hotels, transport, etc. have all had a bite of the pie most artists get very little from gigs. Only time most artists get money is when someone buys a t-shirt.
Sad really.
Very, and admittedly I'm just spouting off what I've heard - "support the artists by going to their concerts!", the reality is I don't know how much more (or less) they get for a live appearance as opposed to through CD sales, I'll still go to the concerts either way though, if nothing else it's a good way of showing your [non-financial] support - just being there when you could be somewhere else and enjoying the beauty of what they've created.
We really do get bent over by everybody when it comes to our cash.
Looking at my own economic situation (I'll convert prices to dollars:), I smoke and drink alcohol, both of which are heavily taxed so I probably wind up paying about $100 a week on the tax on those, then I've got road tax, council tax, x tay, y tax and z tax, and to top it all off I pay V.A.T on everything I buy - that's 17.5 percent added on *after* taxes, shit we even pay VAT on delivery when we buy our [overpriced] stuff.
In a regular week with no cash spent on toys, I probably pay about $200 on sales taxes, my wages are even better, with upward of $700 getting taken off my wages every week.
that's close to $1000 a week I pay the government, I'm really curious as to what the fuck the government does with all that money.
Now I'm going to be taxed up the ass for, uhh... well, going by the article, *nothing at all* - it's just some greedy assholes who want money for doing zero.
I used to buy CDs, not any more, I refuse to piss away any more money on money-grabbing fucking middlemen without the skills or talent to produce something worthwhile on their own. I'll support the artists I like by going to their concerts, buying stuff off their sites, or even just *giving them cash* ffs. The music industry is a total farce and I think I've been a total dumbass for continuing to support it financially all this time.
No more CDs for me, not until the industry is fixed.
And seriously, would it kill the government to *not* take so much money from us?:D
I think you can safely ditch the "thus" from that sentence to get a more accurate description. I think the poster was a bit confused - the presence of Olivine on Mars is quite widely discussed, it's volcanic in origin and reacts with water such that any traces of olivine on the surface implies there has been no (recent) liquid water - Mars was probably volcanically active more recently than it was wet.
You know... I have a theory, looking at our sun with its orbiting bodies, and the moons orbiting *those*, we can work out the average number of satellites a given body (over a certain size) has - in this case it works out to about 10 for our solar system, an average of 10 moons per planet (I think? I worked this out a long time ago, maybe more moons have been discovered since then) - from that I made the small leap that "any celestial body over a certain size" (i.e. large enough to be classed as a planet or bigger) or more accurately "any body with a great enough gravitational pull" will have an average of 10 orbiting moons.
trying it out on the only star we really know enough about - Sol, we see we have 9 planets which is close to average. Some stars I'm sure will have zero, and some may have 40, but if I'm right, we'll find all stars have an average of 10 planets in tow.
Outside of that (and back to your point), it doesn't really matter how many of those planets are hostile to life, with a hundred stars we clock in at somewhere around 1000 planets - some of those have got to be a pretty close match to Earth, right? Now do the maths for a billion stars:D
Now that's what I call some damn fine karma-whoring. Way to shuffle the paragraphs of the article around and not actually add any of your own thoughts to the comment.
Yeah, but if you call large-scale bombing "Shock and Awe!" instead of "Terrorism" (n : the systematic use of violence as a means to intimidate or coerce societies or governments) it sounds downright... friendly.
If you don't like MS's products DON'T USE THEM. No one is forcing you. And for you whiney companies out there who are suing Microsoft, change platforms. If your product is viable it will sell just as well on Apple...or...*gasp* an open source platform.
This kind of behavior is great with a TV show, or a movie release, or games or hey, coke/pepsi (as you mentioned), the problem in this instance however, is that people *are* forced to use MS products, not by MS themselves but by the mass of developers who release Windows-only stuff.
Take a home user who uses MS Office for work, IE for some (MS Java developed) work extranet site, plays Max Payne 2, Halo and Call of Duty, and uses Photoshop, Outlook (it's compatible with his work mail after all), IIS for some ASP development stuff and uses a brand-spanking-new TV card and his brand-spanking new DVD drive to burn what he records onto DVD-Rs.
You're suggesting he buys a Mac, Office, Photoshop a new TV card and DVD burner (say, $3000 all-in to replace his stuff) and just forgets about playing his games...
Or hey, maybe he could install Linux, lose his ability to work on Office docs (I know about OpenOffice.org and use it exclusively btw, but it's not 100% yet), loses his ability to work in Outlook (including his calendar, contacts etc - stored on the office Exchange server), can forget aaalll about getting his TV card set up without a bunch of kernel patching *at best*, and may as well sell his DVD burner too for that matter. As for his games, well, Transgaming is pretty good, but no DX9 pixel shader support, so Halo and Max Payne 2 are going to be butt-ugly (if they work at all) and all three will be substantially slower than if they were running natively on Windows.
Great idea! Or he could just stay on Windows and not click the "buy music" button if he wants to shop in Firebird.
Linux will dominate Windows over the next few years and will become *the* desktop OS, of this I am sure but in the interim there still isn't enough hardware/software support for people to take the plunge. Until the apps (or a worthy replacement) that people NEED and WANT are avaliable for alternative systems, it's utterly unreasonable to suggest people just "stop using windows".
My PC is an expensive, state-of-the-art piece of kit, and I want to get the most out of it... for that I need to use Windows. Do I like it? No, but I don't have the breadth of choice you seem to think I do, neither does anyone else right now.
Oh, and the imaginary home user above is shit outta luck for doing ASP work locally on Mac or Linux too.
Actually, that's not too bad an idea. Well, TBH it *is* a pretty bad idea, but you're on the right track.
Destroying peoples data is the bad part of the idea, the code would probably be buggy and exploitable to remote-destroy any XP machine you wanted, granted I could say the same about "format", but then format isn't that complicated. Basically, it could all go horribly wrong, isn't such a good move PR-wise, and when you're destroying people's data you have to think of the worth, you're basically insta-destroying billions of dollars worth of data and work, some of which could be extremely beneficial to humanity for all we know.
No, a better idea would be to irreperably destroy the networking side of things and pop up an error message, "Hi there! We realise you're using a piraetd copy of XP and we don't like it! If you buy a legit copy and insert the CD you will be asked for your legitimate activation key and your network will work again, until then... you're shit outta luck kid!".
It's a real dilemma to be sure, and as I said I do not envy their situation, it costs them to patch these machines running pirated copies of their products (the windows update site's bandwidth usage must be insane) so they're right to do something about it, what they did however was fix it in the dumbest way possible. Hell, I prefer your "blow up their PCs" approach to having countless virus/trojan infested open proxies sitting on the internet.
If Microsoft were really taking security seriously
Because they're not taking security seriously, they're trying to put their customer's minds at rest and stop them jumping ship.
If they were taking security seriously, they wouldn't prevent pirated copies of XP from downloading critical updates, this is perhaps a poor analogy but it's the first one that springs to mind, let's look at the automotive industry...
Imagine 95% of the cars on the road are Fords, and every time a problem is found with a Ford, your car is upgraded at the nearest garage for no cost... Now imagine that Ford made a big design oversight and didn't provide headlights for any of their cars - big problems, lots of people crash their cars at night and have to get it fixed at a great personal expense... Of course, even the vigilant are at risk as their cars can be hit by less vigilant drivers at any time of night, even while parked.
So Ford says "oops, ok guys, take your cars to the garage and we'll fit headlights", problem solved, right? Wrong, because they then follow it up with "if you can provide proof of purchase". Fair enough, right? Well, yes and no, yes the people driving stolen cars shouldn't deserve any special favours at cost to Ford, but then there are people who just plain don't have proof of purchase who are made to suffer too, other than that though, it's all good, right?
No, because now we have legitimate Ford owners getting smashed into by all those cars that (for whatever reason) don't have headlights, these people are punished for (assumed) theft of the vehicle in a rather extreme manner - they are punished with insecurity and far greater risks. Risks which also put all drivers, pedestrians and buildings at risk by extension - people who crash have got to crash into something... right?
We have the same problem here, I sympathise with Microsoft and am in no way advocating piracy here, but to suggest that they are focussed on security while quite literally making it impossible for a vast number of machines on the net to be made secure is a fallacy, and it puts the rest of us at risk as a direct result.
What percentage of your daily spam intake comes from XP boxes that have fallen prey to a trojan remailer for the simple reason that the owner *cannot* patch his machine? Sure, he's a theif, but for fuck's sake, his machine is a direct threat to the entirety of the internet as a direct result of Microsoft's anti-piracy actions.
Don't be fooled, that line on the profits chart means infinitely more to Microsoft than security *ever* will.
The tiny end-user market pentetration of OSS despite its free-as-in-beerness suggests that the moon is not yet close to being colonized by hobbyists.
Actually, the "hobbyist moon mission/widely accepted linux desktop" analogy is quite a good one, we can probably do it, we just need better hardware support:D
I'd imagine it's more to do with radiation hardening, they could have, for a paltry sum, put a top-of the range con/prosumer camera up there and if it broke, no big deal, but it wouldn't survive outside the protection of Earth's atmosphere, the smaller alectronics would be fried by radiation from the sun in no time. Radiation hardening is great, but a difficult, complicated, "fiddly" procedure, so basically all the tech on the shuttles are a lot less advanced than the stuff we take for granted here on Earth. They wouldn't survive space if they weren't.
The best site for Spirit pictures (and Opportunity when it lands too, I'm sure) is JPL's MER site, it's the official site, so first with the pictures (and if you click one of the dated releases and change the date in the URL manually you can sometimes get a sneak peek at the days release half an hour earlier than the rest of the world - about 4:30pm GMT or thereabouts:)
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A "reward of up to a total of $250,000" eh? Well, that gets the award for "Most Ambiguous Reward Ever".
Relating this to today's events, my dictionary defines "terrorism" as
:)
"the systematic use of violence as a means to intimidate or coerce societies or governments"
One man's terrorism is another man's "shock and awe"... It sounds almost friendly in comparison, doesn't it?
You have to stop thinking of it as "war on terror" - a ludicrous, made-up, sensationalistic term at best
Swap "terror" for "murder" and re-read your post with a different, de-centralized group of reprehensible people in mind.
"War on terror" is just a marketing term.
If they're getting DoSed from everywhere at once, how are they going to catch the little guys who *mean* it?
Well, if the little guys who mean it didn't realise the main DoS was due to start for a few days, then they may very well have shot themselves in the foot... Internet Darwin awards anybody?
I got a copy of this virus before I left for work this morning, saw the mail and thought "ok, I don't know them and it's got an attachment, it's a virus", opened up the zip for a look though and saw the payload.
"Fair enough, a new virus, I gotta go to work."
Flash forward 7 hours to now and I can't *believe* what a great opportunity this virus has afforded me and no doubt countless others reading.
The mailbox it was delivered to was a spamtrap, chances are spamtraps all over the world are being sent the real, legitimate IP addresses of spammers dumb enough to click malicious attachments.
Viruses are bad, DoSing SCO is bad, but god damn, all this time we've been bitching and moaning about viruses when we could have been using them on spamtrap addresses to track down spammers to their *own* internet connection.
Yeah, and what's the point in dual-booting to Linux, I can do everything in Windows I can do in Linux and more! While we're at it, what's the point in having an mp3 player? I can just listen on my stereo! DVD's, why should I buy them if I can just *imagine things happening*?!?
:D
Personally, I like the idea of being able to do development work on the target system. So what was your post, funny? or flamebait?
Hmm, if what you're saying is true then that works in my favor (I get to take pretty pictures of the sky :) but I'm not convinced, I've used a tripod-mounted Canon Powershot G2 3mp camera and taken 8 second exposures in pitch black when the stars are at their absolute best, all I've seen in the resulting images is the brightest of the stars and some CCD artifacts (that admittedly look like stars, but aren't).
:)
As for my color camera having the same effective resolution equivalent to 1 mp, I just don't see how you figure that out, the highest resolution images I can take are somewhere above 2000x1600 (I forget the exact resolution) which equates to around 3 million pixels in the image, I would notice if the resulting shot was 1/3rd the resolution it was supposed to be, I was under the impression they use a B&W CCD with the filters largely because there's less to break, and less weight/space is taken up. Correct me if I'm wrong
I could be wrong, but I think you're probably in for a long wait - I've tried snapping the sky from here with a 3 megapixel camera and it's a waste of time, even with very long exposures, the resolution of the cameras they've got up there sucks even more so if you want to see the sky as spirit sees it just open paint, and do a pure black flood-fill :D
:)
If you haven't seen it already, here's a picture of the Earth and Jupiter taken by the MOC, it's a *bit* of a cheat, but still a beautiful picture, and probably the closest thing humanity has to your dream of a alien starscape (which I agree would be a fantastic, but slightly bland picture
Very, and admittedly I'm just spouting off what I've heard - "support the artists by going to their concerts!", the reality is I don't know how much more (or less) they get for a live appearance as opposed to through CD sales, I'll still go to the concerts either way though, if nothing else it's a good way of showing your [non-financial] support - just being there when you could be somewhere else and enjoying the beauty of what they've created.
We really do get bent over by everybody when it comes to our cash.
:), I smoke and drink alcohol, both of which are heavily taxed so I probably wind up paying about $100 a week on the tax on those, then I've got road tax, council tax, x tay, y tax and z tax, and to top it all off I pay V.A.T on everything I buy - that's 17.5 percent added on *after* taxes, shit we even pay VAT on delivery when we buy our [overpriced] stuff.
:D
Looking at my own economic situation (I'll convert prices to dollars
In a regular week with no cash spent on toys, I probably pay about $200 on sales taxes, my wages are even better, with upward of $700 getting taken off my wages every week.
that's close to $1000 a week I pay the government, I'm really curious as to what the fuck the government does with all that money.
Now I'm going to be taxed up the ass for, uhh... well, going by the article, *nothing at all* - it's just some greedy assholes who want money for doing zero.
I used to buy CDs, not any more, I refuse to piss away any more money on money-grabbing fucking middlemen without the skills or talent to produce something worthwhile on their own. I'll support the artists I like by going to their concerts, buying stuff off their sites, or even just *giving them cash* ffs. The music industry is a total farce and I think I've been a total dumbass for continuing to support it financially all this time.
No more CDs for me, not until the industry is fixed.
And seriously, would it kill the government to *not* take so much money from us?
I think you can safely ditch the "thus" from that sentence to get a more accurate description. I think the poster was a bit confused - the presence of Olivine on Mars is quite widely discussed, it's volcanic in origin and reacts with water such that any traces of olivine on the surface implies there has been no (recent) liquid water - Mars was probably volcanically active more recently than it was wet.
You know... I have a theory, looking at our sun with its orbiting bodies, and the moons orbiting *those*, we can work out the average number of satellites a given body (over a certain size) has - in this case it works out to about 10 for our solar system, an average of 10 moons per planet (I think? I worked this out a long time ago, maybe more moons have been discovered since then) - from that I made the small leap that "any celestial body over a certain size" (i.e. large enough to be classed as a planet or bigger) or more accurately "any body with a great enough gravitational pull" will have an average of 10 orbiting moons.
:D
trying it out on the only star we really know enough about - Sol, we see we have 9 planets which is close to average. Some stars I'm sure will have zero, and some may have 40, but if I'm right, we'll find all stars have an average of 10 planets in tow.
Outside of that (and back to your point), it doesn't really matter how many of those planets are hostile to life, with a hundred stars we clock in at somewhere around 1000 planets - some of those have got to be a pretty close match to Earth, right? Now do the maths for a billion stars
How about "near the tank" instead. I don't want to get wet hands every time I change the CD.
Your way would be fantastic for noise reduction though, I'll give you that much.
It's also practically *covered* in biological matter.
:D
Not a very hospitable place for life, I'll grant you, but all it would take is a nuke
Now that's what I call some damn fine karma-whoring. Way to shuffle the paragraphs of the article around and not actually add any of your own thoughts to the comment.
Yeah, but if you call large-scale bombing "Shock and Awe!" instead of "Terrorism" (n : the systematic use of violence as a means to intimidate or coerce societies or governments) it sounds downright... friendly.
Take a home user who uses MS Office for work, IE for some (MS Java developed) work extranet site, plays Max Payne 2, Halo and Call of Duty, and uses Photoshop, Outlook (it's compatible with his work mail after all), IIS for some ASP development stuff and uses a brand-spanking-new TV card and his brand-spanking new DVD drive to burn what he records onto DVD-Rs.
You're suggesting he buys a Mac, Office, Photoshop a new TV card and DVD burner (say, $3000 all-in to replace his stuff) and just forgets about playing his games...
Or hey, maybe he could install Linux, lose his ability to work on Office docs (I know about OpenOffice.org and use it exclusively btw, but it's not 100% yet), loses his ability to work in Outlook (including his calendar, contacts etc - stored on the office Exchange server), can forget aaalll about getting his TV card set up without a bunch of kernel patching *at best*, and may as well sell his DVD burner too for that matter. As for his games, well, Transgaming is pretty good, but no DX9 pixel shader support, so Halo and Max Payne 2 are going to be butt-ugly (if they work at all) and all three will be substantially slower than if they were running natively on Windows.
Great idea! Or he could just stay on Windows and not click the "buy music" button if he wants to shop in Firebird.
Linux will dominate Windows over the next few years and will become *the* desktop OS, of this I am sure but in the interim there still isn't enough hardware/software support for people to take the plunge. Until the apps (or a worthy replacement) that people NEED and WANT are avaliable for alternative systems, it's utterly unreasonable to suggest people just "stop using windows".
My PC is an expensive, state-of-the-art piece of kit, and I want to get the most out of it... for that I need to use Windows. Do I like it? No, but I don't have the breadth of choice you seem to think I do, neither does anyone else right now.
Oh, and the imaginary home user above is shit outta luck for doing ASP work locally on Mac or Linux too.
Actually, that's not too bad an idea. Well, TBH it *is* a pretty bad idea, but you're on the right track.
Destroying peoples data is the bad part of the idea, the code would probably be buggy and exploitable to remote-destroy any XP machine you wanted, granted I could say the same about "format", but then format isn't that complicated. Basically, it could all go horribly wrong, isn't such a good move PR-wise, and when you're destroying people's data you have to think of the worth, you're basically insta-destroying billions of dollars worth of data and work, some of which could be extremely beneficial to humanity for all we know.
No, a better idea would be to irreperably destroy the networking side of things and pop up an error message, "Hi there! We realise you're using a piraetd copy of XP and we don't like it! If you buy a legit copy and insert the CD you will be asked for your legitimate activation key and your network will work again, until then... you're shit outta luck kid!".
It's a real dilemma to be sure, and as I said I do not envy their situation, it costs them to patch these machines running pirated copies of their products (the windows update site's bandwidth usage must be insane) so they're right to do something about it, what they did however was fix it in the dumbest way possible. Hell, I prefer your "blow up their PCs" approach to having countless virus/trojan infested open proxies sitting on the internet.
If they were taking security seriously, they wouldn't prevent pirated copies of XP from downloading critical updates, this is perhaps a poor analogy but it's the first one that springs to mind, let's look at the automotive industry...
Imagine 95% of the cars on the road are Fords, and every time a problem is found with a Ford, your car is upgraded at the nearest garage for no cost... Now imagine that Ford made a big design oversight and didn't provide headlights for any of their cars - big problems, lots of people crash their cars at night and have to get it fixed at a great personal expense... Of course, even the vigilant are at risk as their cars can be hit by less vigilant drivers at any time of night, even while parked.
So Ford says "oops, ok guys, take your cars to the garage and we'll fit headlights", problem solved, right? Wrong, because they then follow it up with "if you can provide proof of purchase". Fair enough, right? Well, yes and no, yes the people driving stolen cars shouldn't deserve any special favours at cost to Ford, but then there are people who just plain don't have proof of purchase who are made to suffer too, other than that though, it's all good, right?
No, because now we have legitimate Ford owners getting smashed into by all those cars that (for whatever reason) don't have headlights, these people are punished for (assumed) theft of the vehicle in a rather extreme manner - they are punished with insecurity and far greater risks. Risks which also put all drivers, pedestrians and buildings at risk by extension - people who crash have got to crash into something... right?
We have the same problem here, I sympathise with Microsoft and am in no way advocating piracy here, but to suggest that they are focussed on security while quite literally making it impossible for a vast number of machines on the net to be made secure is a fallacy, and it puts the rest of us at risk as a direct result.
What percentage of your daily spam intake comes from XP boxes that have fallen prey to a trojan remailer for the simple reason that the owner *cannot* patch his machine? Sure, he's a theif, but for fuck's sake, his machine is a direct threat to the entirety of the internet as a direct result of Microsoft's anti-piracy actions.
Don't be fooled, that line on the profits chart means infinitely more to Microsoft than security *ever* will.
I'd imagine it's more to do with radiation hardening, they could have, for a paltry sum, put a top-of the range con/prosumer camera up there and if it broke, no big deal, but it wouldn't survive outside the protection of Earth's atmosphere, the smaller alectronics would be fried by radiation from the sun in no time. Radiation hardening is great, but a difficult, complicated, "fiddly" procedure, so basically all the tech on the shuttles are a lot less advanced than the stuff we take for granted here on Earth. They wouldn't survive space if they weren't.
Dear USA,
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I send this to you in order to have your advice!
Hugs and kisses,
Gretta Britaine.
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The best site for Spirit pictures (and Opportunity when it lands too, I'm sure) is JPL's MER site, it's the official site, so first with the pictures (and if you click one of the dated releases and change the date in the URL manually you can sometimes get a sneak peek at the days release half an hour earlier than the rest of the world - about 4:30pm GMT or thereabouts :)