would need an oversized plot and a piano crate to bury. Cremation's not an option because it would require too much firefighting resources.
And then there are those undead projects that keep clawing their way out of the ground and back into production...summoned from the beyond by teh most unspeakable of evils...clueless luser managers...
You can always find One Idiot willing to do just about anything. Several people at a corporation conspiring to do so as a matter of business policy is different.
Yes. It's Enron. Or HealthSouth. Or Arthur Andersen. Or Adelphia Communications. Or Global Crossing.
I have to agree with grandparent. That you can't imagine a successful antivirus company risking legal ramifications to ramp up business says less about corporate wisdom and more about your defective imagination.
I can recall at least one model rocket which used a "tumble" recovery without streamer or parachute by separating the body tube into two halves (front half, back half) still connected by shock cord. And an even fuzzier recollection is of a model rocket that did tumble recovery by using the recovery ejection charge to kick the engine casing out of the rocket itself, changing the model's CG enough to make it tumble.
But this was long ago. Maybe someone still in the model rocketry scene might verify that I'm not hallucinating?
It's not surprising to see the Air Force funding further study on this subject.
What is surprising is the reason the Air Force is so interested in this subject. Nothing related to aeronautical engineering or operational missions... They're looking to improve their staffing and paperwork flow. Because right now, throwing your Staff Summary package out the window at HQ appears to work better than walking the damn thing around directorate admin offices.
I think the "human error" in question was their mommies and daddies deciding to feed them when they were little. No end of the crap that came out of that stupendous bad decision.
Entire story is (apparently) paid advocacy of product in support of Microsoft technology.
Banner ad is for Newsforge's "The Futility of Arguing with Paid Advocates" article.
Quoting: Robin "Roblimo" Miller writes: I had exactly one question for Brown: "How much would it cost to have you stop putting our Microsoft party line and start advocating Linux instead?"
So I put that same question to the editors! How much did it cost to have you start putting out the Microsoft party line?
I've wondered about this myself. There are a lot of teams, full of talented folks and brilliant ideas. The spur of competition (and a big purse) has been excellent, but what happens when that goes away? Are the other efforts going to dry up, or will they perhaps find other funding in the attempt to survive as a commercially-viable endeavor?
It's kind of a shame, isn't it, that money keeps coming into it. But this rocket science stuff gets expensive. I just hope some of the really cool technology being looked at now finds whatever it takes to keep going. I really don't want to get stuck with just one type of commercial spacecraft, the same way we (in the US) has been stuck with only one type of government manned spacecraft. (Which has been the case, with the recent exception of buying flight time from the Russians.)
The old plot vehicle: The Man Who Knew Too Much, making arrangements for the Incriminating Evidence to escape into the press or to the police if The Man disappears or dies.
Now we can do it via e-mail. Huh. What a century we live in.
Not entirely different machines. 4800's ability to do hardward domains is largely matched by pSeries logical partitioning, something a Sun V-series can't do.
What apps are availablle on Linxu for the pSeries that justify buying a pSeries? If it's OSS stuff, you'd run
I'm also a bit unconvinced about Linux on IBM's architecture, but if you can only buy ONE LARGE BOX to run both unix and linux environments (think server consolidation with minimum porting), it's an option. (Of course, theoretically you could just the linux apps within AIX without repartitioning, and Solaris 10 will have that too, so that's an argument of rapidly-diminishing value.)
Re:goatse (Score:2)
by MustardMan (52102) on Thursday September 23, @11:21AM (#10330108) I've come up with the ultimate computer exploit, ever. You make a jpg of goatse, with this exploited code in it. The exploit code runs an application which activates any webcams, if present, and starts taking pictures, which it then sends back to the 31337 h4x0r.
Think of it, an entire gallery of horrified faces, kinda like in The Ring when people's faces went all nasty after watching the video.
-- I'll take anal bum cover for 500, Alex... That's "an album cover!"
OMG, do you realize how sickeningly appropriate your.sig is just now!?!?
A goal for SIP was to provide a superset of the call processing functions and features present in the public switched telephone network (PSTN). As such, features that permit familiar telephone-like operations are present: dialing a number, causing a phone to ring, hearing ringback tones or a busy signal. Implementation and terminology are different.
Does SIP reproduce the "Doot-doot-doot-We're sorry, the file you are downloading has been disconncted."?
And, given the inevitable but accurate comparisons between lockpicking and system/network hacking, how long before basic possession of network-hacking tools (unsanctioned non-"trusted"/non-DRM computers, etc.) and skills is also inherently illegal, intent be damned?
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(Programs like "kill", of course.)
And then there are those undead projects that keep clawing their way out of the ground and back into production...summoned from the beyond by teh most unspeakable of evils...clueless luser managers...
Yes. It's Enron. Or HealthSouth. Or Arthur Andersen. Or Adelphia Communications. Or Global Crossing.
I have to agree with grandparent. That you can't imagine a successful antivirus company risking legal ramifications to ramp up business says less about corporate wisdom and more about your defective imagination.
But this was long ago. Maybe someone still in the model rocketry scene might verify that I'm not hallucinating?
What is surprising is the reason the Air Force is so interested in this subject. Nothing related to aeronautical engineering or operational missions... They're looking to improve their staffing and paperwork flow. Because right now, throwing your Staff Summary package out the window at HQ appears to work better than walking the damn thing around directorate admin offices.
idontgno, unrepentant TRS-80 Model I owner
Jacob's Ladders, Vandegraaff generators, spark-gap devices. All sorts of 30's Sci Fi movie special effects.
Just you wait.
That sets up some really confusing "overheard in a geek party" sound bites, like "I wrote a java program. I wrote it in C#."
I think the "human error" in question was their mommies and daddies deciding to feed them when they were little. No end of the crap that came out of that stupendous bad decision.
Isn't that a patent application too? Or is it a Jeopardy answer?
Entire story is (apparently) paid advocacy of product in support of Microsoft technology.
Banner ad is for Newsforge's "The Futility of Arguing with Paid Advocates" article.
Quoting:
Robin "Roblimo" Miller writes: I had exactly one question for Brown: "How much would it cost to have you stop putting our Microsoft party line and start advocating Linux instead?"
So I put that same question to the editors! How much did it cost to have you start putting out the Microsoft party line?
/me ducks incoming...
Where's my +1 anti-overrated moderation?
How many megatons yield per aircraft?
OK, now I'm scared.
It's kind of a shame, isn't it, that money keeps coming into it. But this rocket science stuff gets expensive. I just hope some of the really cool technology being looked at now finds whatever it takes to keep going. I really don't want to get stuck with just one type of commercial spacecraft, the same way we (in the US) has been stuck with only one type of government manned spacecraft. (Which has been the case, with the recent exception of buying flight time from the Russians.)
Now we can do it via e-mail. Huh. What a century we live in.
Oh, I don't know, requiring an impossible task as a qualification is not very reasonable, don't you think?
Specifications.
*By weight. The Hughes HK-1 was taller and had greater wingspan, but max takeoff weight was less than 1/3 of the AN-225's 1.3 million pounds.
How about the B-1B and the TU-160?
What apps are availablle on Linxu for the pSeries that justify buying a pSeries? If it's OSS stuff, you'd run
I'm also a bit unconvinced about Linux on IBM's architecture, but if you can only buy ONE LARGE BOX to run both unix and linux environments (think server consolidation with minimum porting), it's an option. (Of course, theoretically you could just the linux apps within AIX without repartitioning, and Solaris 10 will have that too, so that's an argument of rapidly-diminishing value.)
Uhhh... it flew?
OK, not under its own power. But it had to be flown, right? So that's how.
I've come up with the ultimate computer exploit, ever. You make a jpg of goatse, with this exploited code in it. The exploit code runs an application which activates any webcams, if present, and starts taking pictures, which it then sends back to the 31337 h4x0r.
Think of it, an entire gallery of horrified faces, kinda like in The Ring when people's faces went all nasty after watching the video.
--
I'll take anal bum cover for 500, Alex... That's "an album cover!"
OMG, do you realize how sickeningly appropriate your .sig is just now!?!?
Does SIP reproduce the "Doot-doot-doot-We're sorry, the file you are downloading has been disconncted."?
Sigh. How far from cyberpunk dystopia are we now?
I said that.
superposition
Hmm...Beyond the index page, Natalie Portman exists in a superposition of having and not having hot grits in her pants...until you click "ENTER"...