I'll see what I can dig up, it's been a while since I've done much with antennas.
However being a guided rocket, you should have a relatively good idea of where it is, ya? Especially if you can launch near a wind profiler which updates with 5 minute upper-atmosphere wind data, you should be able to compute a pretty close trajectory from the ground even with wind correction. If it's a guided rocket and you have two way communication with it, you might even be able to update it mid-flight with current wind data and let it correct it's own flight - would be an interesting way to test your navigation algorithms actually.
Anyway my point is (hey I'm into this stuff too, my mind tends to wander on cool tangents sometimes) you should have a pretty good idea of where this thing is going to end up as it moves. Assuming you don't need +/- 1-2 degree accuracy (which you won't, your antennas will be wider than that) you should be able to track it with your ground station very easily. Unless something goes catastrophically wrong there won't be super-rapid changes in it's ground relative position so just put a lightweight ground antenna on a semi-quick motorized base, tie it up to what should be a simple tracking app (hell I can make a perl script to do that), and you're set...
If you really want to get cool, have it measure signal strength as it moves and adjust for the peak... But that's a lot more work.:)
Can fit on a few CD-sized discs, instead of several dozen! Maybe I can make a non-live backup of the damn collection now instead of needing 2 drives in case one cooks...
Open relay problems aside, why not just limit the amount of mail a server will allow to be sent in a set period of time by a user?
Imagine what would happen if the most popular mail server applications (i.e. Sendmail, Postfix, Exchange, Groupwise, etc) simply all agreed to implement a throttle control into their code. Allow it to be configurable, where something like an email list can send as much as it needs (trusted accounts), but untrusted accounts are limited to maybe 100 or 200 emails an hour. Spammers work by sending emails in the thousands or millions, as fast as they can. Ignore the from: header since it can be forged... track them by IP address. It would be very hard for someone to come up with a new IP address every couple hundred emails and re-establish the connection to the server from a time perspective.
I think eventually the spammers would have nowhere else to go; if a version of sendmail came out with this feature, I would install it in a second, even though I'm not an open relay. Legitimate users cause these problems too.
I would even go so far as to say the ISP's need to take some action here, if it's really such a problem for their precious bandwidth. Monitor the SMTP volume coming through their network - set limits. Test their client systems periodically for open relays, block or severely limit the ones who do not comply after giving them time to work it out. A lot of admins, sadly, simply do not know better, or are very lazy until prodded. Tell them their server won't pass traffic until the relay is closed and watch them comply real quick. If it's a signed user agreement, they can't do much about it.
I require this of my Co-Lo customers; if they have a server, I *require* them to keep it patched, email relays closed, etc. I do check from time to time, and it's in their agreement with me that I reserve the right to disable any access to their server I deem necessary to preserve the integrity of the rest of the network. Not a single one has complained about that, and in fact all were pleasantly surprised to see a provider take such a pro-active approach to service integrity. Is it more overhead for me? I have found that it may seem like it initially, however by enforcing this it is actually less work than dealing with constant cleanup. Think about it. It's a shift in the paradigm of "customer can do no wrong", to "customer sometimes just needs to be shown the way".
Just adding a throttle control to email servers... That's all it would take. Just getting providers to tell their customers to stop causing the problems, is all it would take. Doesn't this seem like a hell of a lot less work than taxing email or any of the other mess of solutions presented?
My guess is, they figured a bunch of ignorant college kids (ignorant... computer science students... at research schools with grad programs) would not have the mental prowess to defeat their uber secure system.
Imagine their surprise when learning that higher education sometimes has the tendency to attract smart people! *gasp*
I can't tell if you're:
1. 13 years old.
2. 45 years old and never been laid.
3. Just some pissed off Windows admin who's never been laid.
Your preoccupation with cum and sucking cocks, is rather disturbing as well. Seek help.
Way to post 'AC' too... Don't let anyone know who you really are and what you really stand for, god forbid you expose yourself even the teensiest bit.
Oh, news flash Mr Wizard, I never said "the world was going to BSD." I did however back up my point to the original poster who said that BSD was not used in any serious environment, or placed in any company over 1000 users. Feel free to check up on what I said, I don't think you will find anything inaccurate about it. However you really ought to work on your communication skills, as I don't believe calling Nokia "a bunch of Linux-hating BSD monger cock-sucking cum guzzlers" will get you much past the receptionist.
With people like you propogating technology, it's a wonder we're not still using DOS 3.1. Thanks for representing the average intelligence of the Internet user at large however... Thanks to people like you, I am still employed.
Oh and Juniper, the fastest routers on the planet, use BSD as the core OS. I think some Foundry devices might as well but I'm not 100% on that. I believe F5 products also use BSD.
Actually, Nokia's security appliances (arguably the most popular firewall platform out there) run on a highly stripped/secured version of BSD on which Checkpoint sits.
Apple's OS/X Darwin kernel is a direct derivative of BSD.
The US Government just gave $2M USD to further the development of OpenBSD, because the government uses it extensively in places where Linux would not be secure enough.
Qwest uses it as a server platform in various places. I worked there, I saw it. They have a few more than 1000 people. I guess you could classify them as "an enterprise" type of company...
And IBM uses BSD, whether they openly sell it on their 'e-server' systems or not. I'm working here now, looking over at my BSD server... Hi, IBM BSD server!:)
Check your facts dude, you sound like an idiot. Just because Linux has permeated the Windows-weary waving the flag with "look at me, something new!" messages and all that, doesn't mean BSD has lost functionality or purpose.
I also own a small local ISP on the side. We are 100% *BSD based, and except for large patches/upgrades, my systems are rock solid and have never had a security incident. We colo a windows box for another small company there, I keep it firewalled off on it's own physical network because I don't trust it. Same goes for the Linux box we also colo.
Part of why Solaris is so popular as an enterprise system, is the lack of cruft. It doesn't hurt that the hardware is ridiculously fast too, but Solaris doesn't have directory trees 5 levels deep or all of the annoying shit I see in Linux now. BSD is the same way - everything is just "cleaner" IMO. The documentation is *great* compared to Linux, and the message lists are extremely responsive if you can't find it somewhere else.
BSD may not have the home user appeal, because it's not all fluffy and cute. It's designed to be fast, efficient, and reliable, without being everything to everyone. It takes a little more knowledge than how to navigate a GUI to get it going, but the rewards are worth it if you're a seasoned admin worth a sh!t.
In an effort to create market appeal, Linux has become bloated. It has added everything for everyone, and though it's easier to use, the intelligence required to admin it has dropped significantly, so that when an "experienced linux admin" comes across something hard, they're stuck. I see it traversing more into the user market, but it's moving into the arena of a "windows-like server that doesn't crash as much". For true hardcore servers, I do think there are better things you can use.
"Plus (if you're careful) you won't damage components because you're not heating them with several-hundred-degree heat like a soldering iron does."
Yeah but where's the CHALLENGE? That just takes all the fun out of garage tinkering, trying to solder components onto perfboards without burning up a) the components and b) your fingers.
Having a company not make additional money off me DOES NOT equal "costing them money".
If they're not making money off of you they they think they should, right or wrong, it's affecting their bottom line.
Capitalism doesn't mean the right to MAKE money. It is the right to EARN money.
Perhaps in some fluffy happy-time version of reality, yes. In this world, capitalism = Corporate America, where making money is the name of the game. How you define "earning it" is highly subjective as well.
Following your/their logic, members of the RIAA should go ahead and tax me for not buying their music, since by my LEGALLY not listening and/or purchasing to their stuff I'm "costing" them money.
First off, it isn't MY logic. However as someone who has spent far too much time in telecommunications and the "capitalist Corporate America" way of life as a cube-farm lackie, I understand very well how the game is actually played. I never said I agree with it, just that this is how it works.
Second, there is no residual income after you buy a CD from a store. This is why they're bitching so much about mp3 downloads, even if it's really a bunch of clouded issues that go both ways. Believe me, if there were a way for record companies to gather up information about you and sell it, they would - and you would be paying to get your name off of that list too.
Telco's have very cleverly devised a way to make more money after the fact, and they do it, like it or not. Your name in a directory listing, vs licensing your purchase of music, are not even close to the same thing. In fact I'm not sure what your point even was. It's your CHOICE to get phone service, however if you do, you agree to their terms. It's also your CHOICE to buy CD's, and you agree to those terms as well - which just happen to be less intrusive.
I do realize that technically the telephone company does own the phone number which has been assigned to me. However, publishing my name in relation to that number is a privacy and right to use issue, since its MY name.
Had you not agreed to let them use it when you signed up for your service, that would be true...
The rights of individuals should always go before the profits of corporations. Private or otherwise.
And again, this is a happy-time vision. Until individuals can put together the resources to fight for their rights, the corporations will just throw money at protecting what they have since it means a lot more money in the end. This is the way it is, shitty as it may be. Welcome to reality.
Phone companies sell your numbers en masse. They get put into a big CD and sent out for a fee - this is no big secret. However *they can only charge for numbers that are on the CD!*
By being unlisted, you are costing them money. They will get it back one way or another. Believe it or not, telephone service among other things is a private enterprise! You don't own your number, you just purchase the right to use it for a time. The phone company actually owns the rights to that number and can do with it as they please.
I am interested to see what happens when telemarketers call however, since it's true about them not being able to call a number where the called party pays. Either the telemarketers won't buy a shitload of useless numbers, or cell phone providers will start shelling out free incoming calls to everyone since they can sell the number that way. Of course then a telemarketer would know which calling plan you're on which has to be some kind of invasion of privacy... Hmm, very tricky. Watch and see what promo's they come out with...
In other world news I'm going to copyright my phone number! Unless someone can prove prior art, given the complete idiocy of our patent system I should be able to get away with it. Then under the DMCA, I can sue anyone attempting to use my number by calling it since they would be entering copyrighted material without my permission. Brilliant I tell you... =)
I own a small local ISP and hosting provider, and we do a little bit of colocation though it's not our prime function. Here is how I see it:
If a site hosted within our systems suddenly spikes because of slashdot or whatever, I will administratively throttle it down a bit to prevent it from consuming all available bandwidth. If it's caused by a vulnerability in our systems (all BSD-based), we will eat it, as we should.
If a co-lo'd customer, or someone paying for bandwdth, starts to spike we will examine the cause. ALL of my customers are required to go through a firewall managed by us. They do not have access to it. If a new virus comes out, it goes in the blacklist rule and those inbound connections are not allowed. We will also block certain outbound (all netbios ports by default, plus virus ports, and those which things like rootkits would use) connections unless explicitly requested by the customer - in that case, they are made to understand that they are using a port which is known to be related to security risks, and it's on them if they get hacked/infected and spike their usage.
We don't shut people off. And if it's a small overage I'll usually let it slide. However part of their contract includes an agreement by them to keep their systems virus free and patched to current security levels. If they triple their usage because they were lazy, they will pay. As a security engineer I simply cannot accept the "we didn't know" excuse - there are multitudes of notification email lists you can get on to find out if your systems are vulnerable. This also forces people to take a more proactive stance on security, and prevent these things from happening in the first place.
Everyone is saying "you can't go put a 100-foot dish in orbit on a satellite"... Ok maybe not. But, what about attaching something like that to the ISS, a piece at a time? Send a bit of dish up on subsequent supply missions, let the guys there bolt it on with some sort of highly accurate positioning system (solar powered or something, doesn't take a lot of force to move a dish in zero-grav).
Then use this dish to communicate with probes like Pioneer 10, or others we might launch with much faster propulsion systems, where the Earth's atmosphere would just muddle the signal too much. Utilize a nearby relay station like ISS to rebroadcast the signal.
Even if the ISS couldn't be used, for what I'm sure are a multitude of reasons (I'm not an astrophysicist and don't claim to be), all a dish or array of dishes really need are a big base to attach to, with some corrective thrust ability and control systems, and a power source. Wouldn't really even need to be manned, though it should be accessable by a shuttle or the transport of choice that year.
This could just be a pipe dream... but look at what the Hubble did for space imagery, by taking the interference of the atmosphere out of the equation. I suspect a space-borne orbiting deep-space communications platform would benefit us immensely, and probably allow much more complex probe missions in the future.
What about attaching a big DSN, i.e. an array of antennas, at various points around the moon? That's a nice big base already in Earth orbit, far enough away to be relatively clean of our interference, easy to find for location purposes and handily made of rock - good stuff to attach say radio tower pieces to.
Why is it you feel the need to defend stupid people by an AC post? Is it because you're stupid yourself?
See, stupidity is a choice. People can decide to look at the world around them, beyond what the TV feeds them. They can choose to read a book, *do* things, even surf the web for more than p0rn. Or they can choose to coexist with all of the other suffering sacks of human waste that thrive on ABC specials, lattes, cell phones, and the latest fashion trends; these people will do nothing for the world around them except consume, and consume, and consume until all the rich men can be no richer and the world can give no more.
And then we will put them all into California and blow it up, since it's mostly peopled with such idiocy anyway, and the rest of us with half a brain and a drive to grow, expand, and experience, will live much better than we do now. The world will be a better place. I wouldn't even get pissed when someone drives like a moron on the way to work in the morning, because I know it would be because of an honest mistake they might learn from, instead of being a chronic sign of the minivan-driving excuse for a human condition it is now.
YOU need to pull your head out of your ass for 3 seconds, blink a few times, and stare in amazement at the world around you. Then go do something productive with your time, learn, and grow, and then once you have taken your intellect to levels never before thought possible by your Mom (who was great last night, by the way), come back and comment on stupid people.
Could english have been this guy's second language? Of course. Could he have in all probabability been a moron? Sure thing! Do people who have put the time and effort into not being stupid, deserve the right to shit talk the ones who have not? YOU BETCHA. That's a privelage of being enlightened - we get to smack around those less motivated, because it's their own damn fault they are that way.
In that scenario, yes I can see that helping the cops by providing information is a good thing. However they have no VERIFICATION of who is sending the request!
I have no problem that they disclose the information to law enforcement - eBay is so frought with scammers anymore that drastic steps need to be taken or online auctioning will cease to be. However anyone with a good printer and MS Word can fake a document. Just make yourself out to be "deputy Joe Schmoe" from some podunk police department no one would care about or even think twice about - what's the harm in that anyway?
The problem is, if people have a dispute then there is a reason the cops should be involved. Otherwise it makes it a lot easier for someone who got screwed out of $100 to figure out who did it, and take illegal means to solve their problem.
SHOULD eBay give out information to actual Law Enforcement Officers? You bet. I'm all for it. If the government wants to spy on me they have easier ways I'm sure. However even though they do not require a warrant, eBay absolutely needs to verify the authenticity of the official requesting the information - even just cross checking that (a) the police department or office exists (a quick check on one of the many online phone directories could tell you that) and (b) that the official requesting the information actually works there. I am sure that the half dozen investigators eBay has in pocket could handle a two minute phone call each for the 200 or so requests a month they get. That's less than 5 minutes a day per person and would aleviate this whole issue.
C'mon eBay, live up to the reputation you claim to have and protect the good guys!
Ok, so maybe their "acceptable use policy" or whatever concoction they have this week, prevents them from using the hotmail accounts themselves as spam addresses they can profit from. Guess what, the rest of us on the Internet are screwed!
Microsoft gathers the email addresses of anyone who *sends to* a hotmail account, and distributes them. It has been documented, and proven. This is just a PR move to pull that from the spotlight, because people are figuring it out now. Don't buy into the hype - if MS can find a loophole to profit from you, THEY WILL.
IF the original flaw indeed appeared at launch, causing a breach in the wing structure large enough to induce severe drag on liftoff, would that not have been noticed and corrected for in the launch as well by the flight computers?
It may be a minor correction, but it's easy to figure out what the weather conditions were that day, so any deviation from the norm (no matter how small) would have been recorded and should be analyzed IMO.
If the foam broke the wing and caused an edge to appear with sufficient drag so as to require thrusters to correct on re-entry, it should have caused a left yaw on launch which would need some sort of corrective action, yes? If that action took place, it would certainly indicate that the problem appeared there initially.
I don't believe the wing was damaged by space debris, since the crew would have heard or noticed an impact like that, and the course correction would have been absolutely necessary in space where there would not have been wind drag to keep it in line. So it either happened at launch, or was broken/substandard before it ever left the ground...
"In northern Boston today, a massive bar brawl broke out at a known hardcore biker hangout. The cause was determined to be a couple of 3l33t h4x0r5 denial-of-servicing the bartender from a local payphone..."
"I accept everyone as they are, but don't expect me to keep my mouth shut and not proclaim the truth."
Note the subtle but important difference between proclaiming the truth, and what you believe to be the truth. Especially in the topic of religion, it is important to note that what you believe - no matter how strongly - can be refuted by someone else with equally strong beliefs - making each person's concept of "truth" false in the other's eyes. So I would argue that you are not proclaiming truth, so much as a belief or idea in which you hold strong ties. Faith is not truth. Truth is something undeniable. God, or any religious sect, can be denied at will, without anything to refute that denial aside from your own opinions.
As for your other comments (I won't quote them here to save space)... Before it became the state religion in Rome, people worshipping Jesus/God and thereby denying the current polytheistic views were persecuted and killed at will. The views of Jesus were held within a relatively small group (considered a cult at the time) under fear of death, until some generations went by and it could be documented. Now, given that the Roman government at the time had say over all religions, don't you think there was considerable pressure (i.e. mandated) to document the Bible in certain ways? I really do feel this is why there is the hatred towards women and gays, and other people, in the Bible today. I also have to wonder about the portrayal of Jesus himself given the political pressure.
Of course these topics are what some people spend their lives studying - to think either you or I have total knowledge on it is folly. What you and I post here is merely what we've been told, potentially by biased minds that will only believe a certain thing.
"My point is that people who have used religion for power were not following Jesus. In reality the Bible (and Christianity) continues to endure because it is in fact what it claims to be, the Word of God."
OK I will quote this much... Umm, then explain to me the several hundred years of English history which were so closely tied into the forced spread of Christanity that these years of man's time would not exist without it? People were burned at the stake if they did not acknowledge God in the Christian sense. How is this not using religion for power? Entire wars were fought over the desire to make others believe in God, whether they liked it or not. This is absolutely the use of power to force religion.
Whether it's the word of God or not, it has endured for a number of reasons, including fear of denial by one's own peers even today. (Yes, I am speaking truth here, not something I pulled from my ass.) It has propogated for more cheerful reasons too of course, but to say that every person who follows it does so completely of free will and not by an underlying desire to be liked by everyone else is ignorance. I've seen it. I know.
I believe for the embedded apps you want something more like PicoBSD. I think there are even small embedded systems being sold with that, but I'm not 100% sure. Their site should have a list of compatible hardware however.
"but just because you don't believe it doesn't mean it isn't true!"
And just because you do believe it doesn't make it so. But thanks for postulating your beliefs down our throats.
According to your own religion, humans can never attain the status of God. If your religion is "right" (thusly negating all other religions in the world with people who believe in them as strongly as you do in yours) I think there is a very good reason for this - Humans can never achieve the same level of unbiased objective judgement as God. This is illustrated quite constantly by self-righteous people such as yourself. You of all people should know that judgement is not your job, you are to be but a follower. Do not try and play God little one, or I fear on your judgement day you may be surprised. I think your time here on Earth (you know, that planet we're on? Welcome to it!) might be a lot more enjoyable if you simply learned to accept others no matter what their belief.
I think, and believe, that the world needs a good set of moral guidelines. I think the world has that. I also think there are those who are immoral and unjust, who are infectious like a virus to the rest of civilization. However to blindly state that all we need to do is accept God or we'll burn when the shit really hits the fan (by the way wasn't that supposed to have happened by now? hmm) is a completely ignorant viewpoint by an increasingly naieve and complacent belief structure, and I will not be surprised in the least when your beautiful world comes crashing down around you.
Personally, I DO believe in the existence of something much greater than ourselves. I do not think we will ever 100% explain why we're here, for to do so would be the end of all exploration and innovation. You can call this "greater power" God, Allah, or whatever else you want. I don't follow the Judeo-Christian beliefs (i.e. the bible) because I feel it misses the mark on many areas; it's existence was forced on people for hundreds of years, which IMO is why it was allowed to endure - this is published fact. The writings in the bible itself are somewhat the result of political pressure - this is fact as well. Open your eyes and believe what you will, but stop trying to force your personal choices down on the rest of us. It is because of closed-minded views like yours that the wars of this world endure.
"can you imagine what our economy would be like if all of our professionals dropped their careers to follow their dreams? we'd be a nation of ballerinas and astronauts."
As opposed to what we have now, which is a nation of ignorant, lazy, selfish bastards run by a core group of smarter, ruthless, selfish bastards who convince everyone else that this is "the way"?
Would having a nation comprised of people who aren't afraid to dream a little as opposed to the opressed "you work until you die" mentality be such a bad thing, really? Anytime a person, a group, or a nation advances in society, it's because someone dreamed up something new and went for it. This country is headed for a dead stop simply because those in charge will fight for the status quo so hard that those with new ideas are stopped in their tracks; we are no longer a country of innovation, except where it makes rich men richer.
"Work isn't supposed to be fun, that's why it's called work."
Case in point. You've been programmed to believe that apparently. Shame on your parents and friends, as you must be one pissed off fellow most of the time. Now go resign from your job and find something that makes you smile from time to time, before you piss off everyone else around you too!
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However being a guided rocket, you should have a relatively good idea of where it is, ya? Especially if you can launch near a wind profiler which updates with 5 minute upper-atmosphere wind data, you should be able to compute a pretty close trajectory from the ground even with wind correction. If it's a guided rocket and you have two way communication with it, you might even be able to update it mid-flight with current wind data and let it correct it's own flight - would be an interesting way to test your navigation algorithms actually.
Anyway my point is (hey I'm into this stuff too, my mind tends to wander on cool tangents sometimes) you should have a pretty good idea of where this thing is going to end up as it moves. Assuming you don't need +/- 1-2 degree accuracy (which you won't, your antennas will be wider than that) you should be able to track it with your ground station very easily. Unless something goes catastrophically wrong there won't be super-rapid changes in it's ground relative position so just put a lightweight ground antenna on a semi-quick motorized base, tie it up to what should be a simple tracking app (hell I can make a perl script to do that), and you're set...
If you really want to get cool, have it measure signal strength as it moves and adjust for the peak... But that's a lot more work. :)
No no, he's not kidding. I remember seeing that on the news a while back. Nothing I can cite specifically, but this did actually happen.
Can fit on a few CD-sized discs, instead of several dozen! Maybe I can make a non-live backup of the damn collection now instead of needing 2 drives in case one cooks...
Imagine what would happen if the most popular mail server applications (i.e. Sendmail, Postfix, Exchange, Groupwise, etc) simply all agreed to implement a throttle control into their code. Allow it to be configurable, where something like an email list can send as much as it needs (trusted accounts), but untrusted accounts are limited to maybe 100 or 200 emails an hour. Spammers work by sending emails in the thousands or millions, as fast as they can. Ignore the from: header since it can be forged ... track them by IP address. It would be very hard for someone to come up with a new IP address every couple hundred emails and re-establish the connection to the server from a time perspective.
I think eventually the spammers would have nowhere else to go; if a version of sendmail came out with this feature, I would install it in a second, even though I'm not an open relay. Legitimate users cause these problems too.
I would even go so far as to say the ISP's need to take some action here, if it's really such a problem for their precious bandwidth. Monitor the SMTP volume coming through their network - set limits. Test their client systems periodically for open relays, block or severely limit the ones who do not comply after giving them time to work it out. A lot of admins, sadly, simply do not know better, or are very lazy until prodded. Tell them their server won't pass traffic until the relay is closed and watch them comply real quick. If it's a signed user agreement, they can't do much about it.
I require this of my Co-Lo customers; if they have a server, I *require* them to keep it patched, email relays closed, etc. I do check from time to time, and it's in their agreement with me that I reserve the right to disable any access to their server I deem necessary to preserve the integrity of the rest of the network. Not a single one has complained about that, and in fact all were pleasantly surprised to see a provider take such a pro-active approach to service integrity. Is it more overhead for me? I have found that it may seem like it initially, however by enforcing this it is actually less work than dealing with constant cleanup. Think about it. It's a shift in the paradigm of "customer can do no wrong", to "customer sometimes just needs to be shown the way".
Just adding a throttle control to email servers... That's all it would take. Just getting providers to tell their customers to stop causing the problems, is all it would take. Doesn't this seem like a hell of a lot less work than taxing email or any of the other mess of solutions presented?
Imagine their surprise when learning that higher education sometimes has the tendency to attract smart people! *gasp*
That narrowed it down... Definitely a windows admin.
1. 13 years old.
2. 45 years old and never been laid.
3. Just some pissed off Windows admin who's never been laid.
Your preoccupation with cum and sucking cocks, is rather disturbing as well. Seek help.
Way to post 'AC' too... Don't let anyone know who you really are and what you really stand for, god forbid you expose yourself even the teensiest bit.
Oh, news flash Mr Wizard, I never said "the world was going to BSD." I did however back up my point to the original poster who said that BSD was not used in any serious environment, or placed in any company over 1000 users. Feel free to check up on what I said, I don't think you will find anything inaccurate about it. However you really ought to work on your communication skills, as I don't believe calling Nokia "a bunch of Linux-hating BSD monger cock-sucking cum guzzlers" will get you much past the receptionist.
With people like you propogating technology, it's a wonder we're not still using DOS 3.1. Thanks for representing the average intelligence of the Internet user at large however... Thanks to people like you, I am still employed.
Oh and Juniper, the fastest routers on the planet, use BSD as the core OS. I think some Foundry devices might as well but I'm not 100% on that. I believe F5 products also use BSD.
Apple's OS/X Darwin kernel is a direct derivative of BSD.
The US Government just gave $2M USD to further the development of OpenBSD, because the government uses it extensively in places where Linux would not be secure enough.
Qwest uses it as a server platform in various places. I worked there, I saw it. They have a few more than 1000 people. I guess you could classify them as "an enterprise" type of company...
And IBM uses BSD, whether they openly sell it on their 'e-server' systems or not. I'm working here now, looking over at my BSD server... Hi, IBM BSD server! :)
Check your facts dude, you sound like an idiot. Just because Linux has permeated the Windows-weary waving the flag with "look at me, something new!" messages and all that, doesn't mean BSD has lost functionality or purpose.
I also own a small local ISP on the side. We are 100% *BSD based, and except for large patches/upgrades, my systems are rock solid and have never had a security incident. We colo a windows box for another small company there, I keep it firewalled off on it's own physical network because I don't trust it. Same goes for the Linux box we also colo.
Part of why Solaris is so popular as an enterprise system, is the lack of cruft. It doesn't hurt that the hardware is ridiculously fast too, but Solaris doesn't have directory trees 5 levels deep or all of the annoying shit I see in Linux now. BSD is the same way - everything is just "cleaner" IMO. The documentation is *great* compared to Linux, and the message lists are extremely responsive if you can't find it somewhere else.
BSD may not have the home user appeal, because it's not all fluffy and cute. It's designed to be fast, efficient, and reliable, without being everything to everyone. It takes a little more knowledge than how to navigate a GUI to get it going, but the rewards are worth it if you're a seasoned admin worth a sh!t.
In an effort to create market appeal, Linux has become bloated. It has added everything for everyone, and though it's easier to use, the intelligence required to admin it has dropped significantly, so that when an "experienced linux admin" comes across something hard, they're stuck. I see it traversing more into the user market, but it's moving into the arena of a "windows-like server that doesn't crash as much". For true hardcore servers, I do think there are better things you can use.
Yeah but where's the CHALLENGE? That just takes all the fun out of garage tinkering, trying to solder components onto perfboards without burning up a) the components and b) your fingers.
SMD may be the future, but it's for weenies...
If they're not making money off of you they they think they should, right or wrong, it's affecting their bottom line.
Capitalism doesn't mean the right to MAKE money. It is the right to EARN money.
Perhaps in some fluffy happy-time version of reality, yes. In this world, capitalism = Corporate America, where making money is the name of the game. How you define "earning it" is highly subjective as well.
Following your/their logic, members of the RIAA should go ahead and tax me for not buying their music, since by my LEGALLY not listening and/or purchasing to their stuff I'm "costing" them money.
First off, it isn't MY logic. However as someone who has spent far too much time in telecommunications and the "capitalist Corporate America" way of life as a cube-farm lackie, I understand very well how the game is actually played. I never said I agree with it, just that this is how it works.
Second, there is no residual income after you buy a CD from a store. This is why they're bitching so much about mp3 downloads, even if it's really a bunch of clouded issues that go both ways. Believe me, if there were a way for record companies to gather up information about you and sell it, they would - and you would be paying to get your name off of that list too.
Telco's have very cleverly devised a way to make more money after the fact, and they do it, like it or not. Your name in a directory listing, vs licensing your purchase of music, are not even close to the same thing. In fact I'm not sure what your point even was. It's your CHOICE to get phone service, however if you do, you agree to their terms. It's also your CHOICE to buy CD's, and you agree to those terms as well - which just happen to be less intrusive.
I do realize that technically the telephone company does own the phone number which has been assigned to me. However, publishing my name in relation to that number is a privacy and right to use issue, since its MY name.
Had you not agreed to let them use it when you signed up for your service, that would be true...
The rights of individuals should always go before the profits of corporations. Private or otherwise.
And again, this is a happy-time vision. Until individuals can put together the resources to fight for their rights, the corporations will just throw money at protecting what they have since it means a lot more money in the end. This is the way it is, shitty as it may be. Welcome to reality.
By being unlisted, you are costing them money. They will get it back one way or another. Believe it or not, telephone service among other things is a private enterprise! You don't own your number, you just purchase the right to use it for a time. The phone company actually owns the rights to that number and can do with it as they please.
I am interested to see what happens when telemarketers call however, since it's true about them not being able to call a number where the called party pays. Either the telemarketers won't buy a shitload of useless numbers, or cell phone providers will start shelling out free incoming calls to everyone since they can sell the number that way. Of course then a telemarketer would know which calling plan you're on which has to be some kind of invasion of privacy... Hmm, very tricky. Watch and see what promo's they come out with...
In other world news I'm going to copyright my phone number! Unless someone can prove prior art, given the complete idiocy of our patent system I should be able to get away with it. Then under the DMCA, I can sue anyone attempting to use my number by calling it since they would be entering copyrighted material without my permission. Brilliant I tell you... =)
If a site hosted within our systems suddenly spikes because of slashdot or whatever, I will administratively throttle it down a bit to prevent it from consuming all available bandwidth. If it's caused by a vulnerability in our systems (all BSD-based), we will eat it, as we should.
If a co-lo'd customer, or someone paying for bandwdth, starts to spike we will examine the cause. ALL of my customers are required to go through a firewall managed by us. They do not have access to it. If a new virus comes out, it goes in the blacklist rule and those inbound connections are not allowed. We will also block certain outbound (all netbios ports by default, plus virus ports, and those which things like rootkits would use) connections unless explicitly requested by the customer - in that case, they are made to understand that they are using a port which is known to be related to security risks, and it's on them if they get hacked/infected and spike their usage.
We don't shut people off. And if it's a small overage I'll usually let it slide. However part of their contract includes an agreement by them to keep their systems virus free and patched to current security levels. If they triple their usage because they were lazy, they will pay. As a security engineer I simply cannot accept the "we didn't know" excuse - there are multitudes of notification email lists you can get on to find out if your systems are vulnerable. This also forces people to take a more proactive stance on security, and prevent these things from happening in the first place.
Then use this dish to communicate with probes like Pioneer 10, or others we might launch with much faster propulsion systems, where the Earth's atmosphere would just muddle the signal too much. Utilize a nearby relay station like ISS to rebroadcast the signal.
Even if the ISS couldn't be used, for what I'm sure are a multitude of reasons (I'm not an astrophysicist and don't claim to be), all a dish or array of dishes really need are a big base to attach to, with some corrective thrust ability and control systems, and a power source. Wouldn't really even need to be manned, though it should be accessable by a shuttle or the transport of choice that year.
This could just be a pipe dream ... but look at what the Hubble did for space imagery, by taking the interference of the atmosphere out of the equation. I suspect a space-borne orbiting deep-space communications platform would benefit us immensely, and probably allow much more complex probe missions in the future.
What about attaching a big DSN, i.e. an array of antennas, at various points around the moon? That's a nice big base already in Earth orbit, far enough away to be relatively clean of our interference, easy to find for location purposes and handily made of rock - good stuff to attach say radio tower pieces to.
See, stupidity is a choice. People can decide to look at the world around them, beyond what the TV feeds them. They can choose to read a book, *do* things, even surf the web for more than p0rn. Or they can choose to coexist with all of the other suffering sacks of human waste that thrive on ABC specials, lattes, cell phones, and the latest fashion trends; these people will do nothing for the world around them except consume, and consume, and consume until all the rich men can be no richer and the world can give no more.
And then we will put them all into California and blow it up, since it's mostly peopled with such idiocy anyway, and the rest of us with half a brain and a drive to grow, expand, and experience, will live much better than we do now. The world will be a better place. I wouldn't even get pissed when someone drives like a moron on the way to work in the morning, because I know it would be because of an honest mistake they might learn from, instead of being a chronic sign of the minivan-driving excuse for a human condition it is now.
YOU need to pull your head out of your ass for 3 seconds, blink a few times, and stare in amazement at the world around you. Then go do something productive with your time, learn, and grow, and then once you have taken your intellect to levels never before thought possible by your Mom (who was great last night, by the way), come back and comment on stupid people.
Could english have been this guy's second language? Of course. Could he have in all probabability been a moron? Sure thing! Do people who have put the time and effort into not being stupid, deserve the right to shit talk the ones who have not? YOU BETCHA. That's a privelage of being enlightened - we get to smack around those less motivated, because it's their own damn fault they are that way.
Idiot.
I have no problem that they disclose the information to law enforcement - eBay is so frought with scammers anymore that drastic steps need to be taken or online auctioning will cease to be. However anyone with a good printer and MS Word can fake a document. Just make yourself out to be "deputy Joe Schmoe" from some podunk police department no one would care about or even think twice about - what's the harm in that anyway?
The problem is, if people have a dispute then there is a reason the cops should be involved. Otherwise it makes it a lot easier for someone who got screwed out of $100 to figure out who did it, and take illegal means to solve their problem.
SHOULD eBay give out information to actual Law Enforcement Officers? You bet. I'm all for it. If the government wants to spy on me they have easier ways I'm sure. However even though they do not require a warrant, eBay absolutely needs to verify the authenticity of the official requesting the information - even just cross checking that (a) the police department or office exists (a quick check on one of the many online phone directories could tell you that) and (b) that the official requesting the information actually works there. I am sure that the half dozen investigators eBay has in pocket could handle a two minute phone call each for the 200 or so requests a month they get. That's less than 5 minutes a day per person and would aleviate this whole issue.
C'mon eBay, live up to the reputation you claim to have and protect the good guys!
Microsoft gathers the email addresses of anyone who *sends to* a hotmail account, and distributes them. It has been documented, and proven. This is just a PR move to pull that from the spotlight, because people are figuring it out now. Don't buy into the hype - if MS can find a loophole to profit from you, THEY WILL.
Absolutely beautiful choice of wording...
It may be a minor correction, but it's easy to figure out what the weather conditions were that day, so any deviation from the norm (no matter how small) would have been recorded and should be analyzed IMO.
If the foam broke the wing and caused an edge to appear with sufficient drag so as to require thrusters to correct on re-entry, it should have caused a left yaw on launch which would need some sort of corrective action, yes? If that action took place, it would certainly indicate that the problem appeared there initially.
I don't believe the wing was damaged by space debris, since the crew would have heard or noticed an impact like that, and the course correction would have been absolutely necessary in space where there would not have been wind drag to keep it in line. So it either happened at launch, or was broken/substandard before it ever left the ground...
"WINDOWS HAS EXPERIENCED A GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT AT LOCATION 0x545455:546543FEE:FU, YOUR GENETIC CLONE HAS BEEN HALTED. PLEASE RESET."
"In northern Boston today, a massive bar brawl broke out at a known hardcore biker hangout. The cause was determined to be a couple of 3l33t h4x0r5 denial-of-servicing the bartender from a local payphone..."
Note the subtle but important difference between proclaiming the truth, and what you believe to be the truth. Especially in the topic of religion, it is important to note that what you believe - no matter how strongly - can be refuted by someone else with equally strong beliefs - making each person's concept of "truth" false in the other's eyes. So I would argue that you are not proclaiming truth, so much as a belief or idea in which you hold strong ties. Faith is not truth. Truth is something undeniable. God, or any religious sect, can be denied at will, without anything to refute that denial aside from your own opinions.
As for your other comments (I won't quote them here to save space) ... Before it became the state religion in Rome, people worshipping Jesus/God and thereby denying the current polytheistic views were persecuted and killed at will. The views of Jesus were held within a relatively small group (considered a cult at the time) under fear of death, until some generations went by and it could be documented. Now, given that the Roman government at the time had say over all religions, don't you think there was considerable pressure (i.e. mandated) to document the Bible in certain ways? I really do feel this is why there is the hatred towards women and gays, and other people, in the Bible today. I also have to wonder about the portrayal of Jesus himself given the political pressure.
Of course these topics are what some people spend their lives studying - to think either you or I have total knowledge on it is folly. What you and I post here is merely what we've been told, potentially by biased minds that will only believe a certain thing.
"My point is that people who have used religion for power were not following Jesus. In reality the Bible (and Christianity) continues to endure because it is in fact what it claims to be, the Word of God."
OK I will quote this much ... Umm, then explain to me the several hundred years of English history which were so closely tied into the forced spread of Christanity that these years of man's time would not exist without it? People were burned at the stake if they did not acknowledge God in the Christian sense. How is this not using religion for power? Entire wars were fought over the desire to make others believe in God, whether they liked it or not. This is absolutely the use of power to force religion.
Whether it's the word of God or not, it has endured for a number of reasons, including fear of denial by one's own peers even today. (Yes, I am speaking truth here, not something I pulled from my ass.) It has propogated for more cheerful reasons too of course, but to say that every person who follows it does so completely of free will and not by an underlying desire to be liked by everyone else is ignorance. I've seen it. I know.
I believe for the embedded apps you want something more like PicoBSD. I think there are even small embedded systems being sold with that, but I'm not 100% sure. Their site should have a list of compatible hardware however.
And just because you do believe it doesn't make it so. But thanks for postulating your beliefs down our throats.
According to your own religion, humans can never attain the status of God. If your religion is "right" (thusly negating all other religions in the world with people who believe in them as strongly as you do in yours) I think there is a very good reason for this - Humans can never achieve the same level of unbiased objective judgement as God. This is illustrated quite constantly by self-righteous people such as yourself. You of all people should know that judgement is not your job, you are to be but a follower. Do not try and play God little one, or I fear on your judgement day you may be surprised. I think your time here on Earth (you know, that planet we're on? Welcome to it!) might be a lot more enjoyable if you simply learned to accept others no matter what their belief.
I think, and believe, that the world needs a good set of moral guidelines. I think the world has that. I also think there are those who are immoral and unjust, who are infectious like a virus to the rest of civilization. However to blindly state that all we need to do is accept God or we'll burn when the shit really hits the fan (by the way wasn't that supposed to have happened by now? hmm) is a completely ignorant viewpoint by an increasingly naieve and complacent belief structure, and I will not be surprised in the least when your beautiful world comes crashing down around you.
Personally, I DO believe in the existence of something much greater than ourselves. I do not think we will ever 100% explain why we're here, for to do so would be the end of all exploration and innovation. You can call this "greater power" God, Allah, or whatever else you want. I don't follow the Judeo-Christian beliefs (i.e. the bible) because I feel it misses the mark on many areas; it's existence was forced on people for hundreds of years, which IMO is why it was allowed to endure - this is published fact. The writings in the bible itself are somewhat the result of political pressure - this is fact as well. Open your eyes and believe what you will, but stop trying to force your personal choices down on the rest of us. It is because of closed-minded views like yours that the wars of this world endure.
As opposed to what we have now, which is a nation of ignorant, lazy, selfish bastards run by a core group of smarter, ruthless, selfish bastards who convince everyone else that this is "the way"?
Would having a nation comprised of people who aren't afraid to dream a little as opposed to the opressed "you work until you die" mentality be such a bad thing, really? Anytime a person, a group, or a nation advances in society, it's because someone dreamed up something new and went for it. This country is headed for a dead stop simply because those in charge will fight for the status quo so hard that those with new ideas are stopped in their tracks; we are no longer a country of innovation, except where it makes rich men richer.
"Work isn't supposed to be fun, that's why it's called work."
Case in point. You've been programmed to believe that apparently. Shame on your parents and friends, as you must be one pissed off fellow most of the time. Now go resign from your job and find something that makes you smile from time to time, before you piss off everyone else around you too!