(I know it had a timer set to "wake it up" for the descent).
Not a problem for batteries. Toys like BQ4852Y can live off its own on-chip battery for 10 years, wake your hardware up anytime inbetween, then provide several essential functionalities to microcontrollers (watchdog, Power On Reset), store data just like RAM except retaining it when external power is missing, and they weight a few grams. So the "main" batteries won't lose any more than their internal leakage until the system wakes up.
If you watched the launch, there's much more than tracks left. Something like half of the lander is left - everything that was necessary during landing but not needed during liftoff was left behind - the whole "landing gear" construction, empty fuel tanks, a lot of scientific and other equipment, etc. The bottom half of the lander served as a launch pad for the top half which separated and flew back to the orbit. So actually the site is much more than some tracks (which were mostly blown away by the jet engines during launch anyway, at least in vicinity - you may be sure you won't find "the first footprint".)
One thing I can't forgive: That they let MIR fall instead of getting it on a higher orbit, somewhere where it could stay for next 100-200 years until somebody would move it to an orbital museum by the "space rope"...
1) How big are the antennas it uses to send (do they fold out?)
Probably quite small. It only needs to reach the orbiter so the antenna may be no bigger than in normal "satellite phone". On the other hand, the orbiter may have quite a bit of antennas.
2) Clouds of Titan, distance from Sun, most probably it runs from batteries, though solar cells may be used to recharge them. Certainly not nearly as much energy as Mars Rovers have.
3) SETI "steals" time (or more, uses data collected while doing other stuff) from normal "radio-observatories" worldwide. Now antennas all over the world are directed at Saturn. Once a firm link is estabilished, things will get to norm and only a few ESA antennas will be used to keep the connection.
4) The probe just broadcasts. The satellite "knows".
...and bombing all that oil refineries, factories, airports, sea ports and generally everything of financial value was of essence to winning the war. You can't make an omlete without breaking a few wagons of eggs?
But of course! Iraq owns the oil! US only rebuilds several $bln worth of destroyed country's infrastructure (which they have destroyed themselves), and they will have the operation of rebuilding the country paid in oil. A perfectly legal transaction. Like a doctor breaks your leg and then charges you for putting it back together...
I read the title and thought "wow, a wise thing". Only the summary+article changed that.
Just think: A laser illumination reporting/warning system. Using the kind of lasers that are used at disco to display stuff on the sky to project warnings on the clouds - hurricane, earthquake, flood, contamination, whatever disaster. These things are broadcast through the radio and TV, but people who aren't listening to a radio/watch tv at the moment may peek through the window to identify the "lights on the sky" - and the lights are saying "Chemical alert! Everyone in South-eastern district please move west, out of the way of the poisonous chlorine cloud,"
These things could be put to much better use than "cool pics on the clouds". Of course it would work only at night, but... why not?
Unfortunately "laser illumination reporting" means not reporting by use of laser but having use of laser reported. Stupid.
1) Screen surface. Find a 40" computer monitor. Computer monitors squeeze a lot on rather small surface. 2) THE tuner. Wireless live broadcast of data at bandwidth high enough to provide 60FPS in fullscreen of maximum resolution.
This exploit would be hardly interesting to a cracker. Suer it is a nasty bug, but it's too unpredictable to be useful. I mean, you can read -someone's- email, but not email of someone you're stalking or something like that. You may find a random piece of information, but there's no way you know what you find. With enough luck you can take over an account... of a stranger. The info could be sometimes used for malicious purposes, but it will in no way be profitable.
One day with three other friends we were making a webpage. Being 4th in a row of subcontractors for some large governmental contract, work going gradually down from huge "pro" companies to 4 amateurs like us, with enough time wasted by the others in the meantime that no pro would agree to do the project with deadline as we accepted. But that meant about 15 hours of work a day for 3 days (that was the deadline). On the second day we were nearing the end and we know we will do it and even have some spare time. So my 3 ingenious friends decided that since we're wired over a LAN we "built" for that purpose, we can play a few quick deathmatches of Q3A.
Next day I said "Sorry, friends. Coding, okay. Gaming, no. It was still acceptable when I was placing HTML tags in my dream. But when I was trying to shoot them and they wouldn't die, that was too much."
Planeshift is a free 3D MMORPG following the idea "Free engine, proprietary (though gratis) art." AFAIK it's the only free 3D MMORPG out there. The system recently reached another milestone, though it will probably remain in development for quite some time... Maybe some Slashdot hackers will help?:)
I don't think you'd profit from the info as the bank is located in Poland (vwbankdirect.pl) but just google for opinions about different banks, sooner or later you'll find a discussion on some forum where many people confront their opinions and the best solution goes afloat. You will find a bank that suits your needs. (i.e. sometimes it pays to pay $1/month or so and have some extra service instead of going with $0/month and some limitations...) Also before you decide, make a websearch for opinions about that bank on the net. Like, I was just about to pick one bank with really great offer, but "just to be sure" I looked and found that the offer looks great on paper but the bank notoriously ignores customers' requests, cheats on them and generally is something to be avoided. Stuff like that surfaces on the net quickly and you easily find Millennium is great for maintaining your account but sucks at loans, Lucas rips you off in hidden costs, EuroBank is just "bare bones" and can't provide anything except simplest service (no network access), mBank is generally okay but takes ages to perform anything beyond standard, Intelligo gets rapidly very expensive if you want anything but the most basic stuff, etc.
how hard would it be to put -everything- on chip? I mean, yeah, stuff remains modular. One module, one chip. A motherboard consisting of a central "motherboard chip" (containing both bridges, IDE circuitry, bus drivers, all the "integrated hardware" etc), plus slots for all the rest of the hardware, single-chip graphics card, single-chip RAM dice, etc. Just reduce the role of PCB to a board where slots are being located and connected to the central chip, no more batteries of capacitors, network of resistors, hundreds of small chips... Just load everything into one (even big) IC, add some radiator/cooler, and get rid of space and soldering problems.
Even better. SP2 was your usual "upgrade" (fix 1000 old bugs, introduce 2000 new ones.) The exploit affects only patched systems. Those running without Service Packs (1&2) are unaffected.
Switch to providers who don't lock you in with crappy service. And tell them clearly "Supporting only insecure Microsoft products you don't meet our security standards. Good Bye!"
I'm not a big company, I'm just a private user. I very recently switched banks I use for personal finances. I left a "common" bank with its units in in several thousands of locations, and introducing new fees and increasing old ones now and then to maintain them all, and with quite crappy and really expensive Internet service, that was supposed to work in Mozilla/Firefox but it more often didn't than did, and I signed up for an Internet bank. Reduced costs of maintenance resulting in zero fees on all operations and account maintenance, no other fees, (except of withdrawal from ATM, very cheap too), and as they are an Internet bank, finally a REALLY professional Internet service. Working flawlessly in any browser, probably including Lynx:)
I don't know how it works for big companies but I strongly encourage you to leave your old-fashioned banks and move to "Internet banking". Reducing number of channels where money flows lets them focus on keeping the channels they maintain highest quality.
Why are people so histerical and scared of using free software ?
Cause some people are very hysterical about writing software that runs on free browsers. I mean there's quite a few pieces of the Windows system and quite a few external programs that are just HTML+Javascript, running in Explorer "kiosk", but of course being dependent on IE bugs they can't be written portably without significant effort... which the authors aren't willing to provide. So you're stuck with some silly application like some "network manager" which looks and feels like a Windows application but is in fact just a webpage running locally, pulling some content from hosts it "manages" and getting your whole system vulnerable to exploits installed on the remote systems.
We keep hearing of new exploits, of new security vulnerablities in XP at least twice a week and at least 10 times more often than we hear about Linux. But I just haven't seen a single vulnerablity report about Windows Server 2003. Maybe I missed them. Maybe the system is so little known that people don't use it and don't find bugs. Maybe the cases are swept under the carpet too fast... and maybe the system is just secure?
Bounce from place to place, set up "time bombs" everywhere, then resign, and then hell breaks lose, and they come begging you to come back and fix stuff.
3. Encrypt every email, instant message, and web transaction that deals with your activities. Don't assume anything is safe unless you're actively doing something to ensure its security or you can verify it easily (SSL, for instance)....unless you know the monkeys from the IT dept. and know they couldn't sniff a plaintext password over unswitched net.
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(I know it had a timer set to "wake it up" for the descent).
Not a problem for batteries.
Toys like BQ4852Y can live off its own on-chip battery for 10 years, wake your hardware up anytime inbetween, then provide several essential functionalities to microcontrollers (watchdog, Power On Reset), store data just like RAM except retaining it when external power is missing, and they weight a few grams. So the "main" batteries won't lose any more than their internal leakage until the system wakes up.
If you watched the launch, there's much more than tracks left. Something like half of the lander is left - everything that was necessary during landing but not needed during liftoff was left behind - the whole "landing gear" construction, empty fuel tanks, a lot of scientific and other equipment, etc. The bottom half of the lander served as a launch pad for the top half which separated and flew back to the orbit. So actually the site is much more than some tracks (which were mostly blown away by the jet engines during launch anyway, at least in vicinity - you may be sure you won't find "the first footprint".)
One thing I can't forgive: That they let MIR fall instead of getting it on a higher orbit, somewhere where it could stay for next 100-200 years until somebody would move it to an orbital museum by the "space rope"...
1) How big are the antennas it uses to send (do they fold out?)
Probably quite small. It only needs to reach the orbiter so the antenna may be no bigger than in normal "satellite phone". On the other hand, the orbiter may have quite a bit of antennas.
2) Clouds of Titan, distance from Sun, most probably it runs from batteries, though solar cells may be used to recharge them. Certainly not nearly as much energy as Mars Rovers have.
3) SETI "steals" time (or more, uses data collected while doing other stuff) from normal "radio-observatories" worldwide. Now antennas all over the world are directed at Saturn. Once a firm link is estabilished, things will get to norm and only a few ESA antennas will be used to keep the connection.
4) The probe just broadcasts. The satellite "knows".
...and bombing all that oil refineries, factories, airports, sea ports and generally everything of financial value was of essence to winning the war.
You can't make an omlete without breaking a few wagons of eggs?
But of course! Iraq owns the oil! US only rebuilds several $bln worth of destroyed country's infrastructure (which they have destroyed themselves), and they will have the operation of rebuilding the country paid in oil.
A perfectly legal transaction. Like a doctor breaks your leg and then charges you for putting it back together...
I read the title and thought "wow, a wise thing". Only the summary+article changed that.
Just think: A laser illumination reporting/warning system. Using the kind of lasers that are used at disco to display stuff on the sky to project warnings on the clouds - hurricane, earthquake, flood, contamination, whatever disaster. These things are broadcast through the radio and TV, but people who aren't listening to a radio/watch tv at the moment may peek through the window to identify the "lights on the sky" - and the lights are saying "Chemical alert! Everyone in South-eastern district please move west, out of the way of the poisonous chlorine cloud,"
These things could be put to much better use than "cool pics on the clouds". Of course it would work only at night, but... why not?
Unfortunately "laser illumination reporting" means not reporting by use of laser but having use of laser reported. Stupid.
1) Screen surface. Find a 40" computer monitor. Computer monitors squeeze a lot on rather small surface.
2) THE tuner. Wireless live broadcast of data at bandwidth high enough to provide 60FPS in fullscreen of maximum resolution.
This exploit would be hardly interesting to a cracker. Suer it is a nasty bug, but it's too unpredictable to be useful. I mean, you can read -someone's- email, but not email of someone you're stalking or something like that. You may find a random piece of information, but there's no way you know what you find. With enough luck you can take over an account... of a stranger. The info could be sometimes used for malicious purposes, but it will in no way be profitable.
One day with three other friends we were making a webpage. Being 4th in a row of subcontractors for some large governmental contract, work going gradually down from huge "pro" companies to 4 amateurs like us, with enough time wasted by the others in the meantime that no pro would agree to do the project with deadline as we accepted. But that meant about 15 hours of work a day for 3 days (that was the deadline). On the second day we were nearing the end and we know we will do it and even have some spare time. So my 3 ingenious friends decided that since we're wired over a LAN we "built" for that purpose, we can play a few quick deathmatches of Q3A.
Next day I said "Sorry, friends. Coding, okay. Gaming, no. It was still acceptable when I was placing HTML tags in my dream. But when I was trying to shoot them and they wouldn't die, that was too much."
Planeshift is a free 3D MMORPG following the idea "Free engine, proprietary (though gratis) art." AFAIK it's the only free 3D MMORPG out there. :)
The system recently reached another milestone, though it will probably remain in development for quite some time... Maybe some Slashdot hackers will help?
I don't think you'd profit from the info as the bank is located in Poland (vwbankdirect.pl) but just google for opinions about different banks, sooner or later you'll find a discussion on some forum where many people confront their opinions and the best solution goes afloat. You will find a bank that suits your needs. (i.e. sometimes it pays to pay $1/month or so and have some extra service instead of going with $0/month and some limitations...) Also before you decide, make a websearch for opinions about that bank on the net. Like, I was just about to pick one bank with really great offer, but "just to be sure" I looked and found that the offer looks great on paper but the bank notoriously ignores customers' requests, cheats on them and generally is something to be avoided. Stuff like that surfaces on the net quickly and you easily find Millennium is great for maintaining your account but sucks at loans, Lucas rips you off in hidden costs, EuroBank is just "bare bones" and can't provide anything except simplest service (no network access), mBank is generally okay but takes ages to perform anything beyond standard, Intelligo gets rapidly very expensive if you want anything but the most basic stuff, etc.
ALL that is necessary is to set IE's Internet zone to high security.
Unplugging the ethernet plug from the computer has a similar impact on usablity of IE, while improving your security much better.
And to so many others, my banking, financial and work software, etc, work just fine with this setting.
Your...
Whiskers are a problem with really tiny chips. If you get enough free board space you can make the pins relatively big and far apart.
how hard would it be to put -everything- on chip?
I mean, yeah, stuff remains modular. One module, one chip. A motherboard consisting of a central "motherboard chip" (containing both bridges, IDE circuitry, bus drivers, all the "integrated hardware" etc), plus slots for all the rest of the hardware, single-chip graphics card, single-chip RAM dice, etc. Just reduce the role of PCB to a board where slots are being located and connected to the central chip, no more batteries of capacitors, network of resistors, hundreds of small chips... Just load everything into one (even big) IC, add some radiator/cooler, and get rid of space and soldering problems.
http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/archives/2 0041230_windows_help_vulnerability_target_of_newly _released_trojan.phtml
Even better. SP2 was your usual "upgrade" (fix 1000 old bugs, introduce 2000 new ones.) The exploit affects only patched systems. Those running without Service Packs (1&2) are unaffected.
Switch to providers who don't lock you in with crappy service. And tell them clearly "Supporting only insecure Microsoft products you don't meet our security standards. Good Bye!"
:)
I'm not a big company, I'm just a private user. I very recently switched banks I use for personal finances. I left a "common" bank with its units in in several thousands of locations, and introducing new fees and increasing old ones now and then to maintain them all, and with quite crappy and really expensive Internet service, that was supposed to work in Mozilla/Firefox but it more often didn't than did, and I signed up for an Internet bank. Reduced costs of maintenance resulting in zero fees on all operations and account maintenance, no other fees, (except of withdrawal from ATM, very cheap too), and as they are an Internet bank, finally a REALLY professional Internet service. Working flawlessly in any browser, probably including Lynx
I don't know how it works for big companies but I strongly encourage you to leave your old-fashioned banks and move to "Internet banking". Reducing number of channels where money flows lets them focus on keeping the channels they maintain highest quality.
(and Intel, for that matter - I was offered free hardware if I would make our company website slower, to encourage upgrading of machines),
:P~~~~~
Where do I sign in for this program?!
Why are people so histerical and scared of using free software ?
Cause some people are very hysterical about writing software that runs on free browsers. I mean there's quite a few pieces of the Windows system and quite a few external programs that are just HTML+Javascript, running in Explorer "kiosk", but of course being dependent on IE bugs they can't be written portably without significant effort... which the authors aren't willing to provide. So you're stuck with some silly application like some "network manager" which looks and feels like a Windows application but is in fact just a webpage running locally, pulling some content from hosts it "manages" and getting your whole system vulnerable to exploits installed on the remote systems.
We keep hearing of new exploits, of new security vulnerablities in XP at least twice a week and at least 10 times more often than we hear about Linux.
But I just haven't seen a single vulnerablity report about Windows Server 2003. Maybe I missed them. Maybe the system is so little known that people don't use it and don't find bugs. Maybe the cases are swept under the carpet too fast... and maybe the system is just secure?
IE the page doesnt change much
A small request. Use i.e. or ie or alike. Not all-caps IE. Especially in HTML-related texts. It's confusing.
Bounce from place to place, set up "time bombs" everywhere, then resign, and then hell breaks lose, and they come begging you to come back and fix stuff.
3. Encrypt every email, instant message, and web transaction that deals with your activities. Don't assume anything is safe unless you're actively doing something to ensure its security or you can verify it easily (SSL, for instance).
Of course, Poland had fortunately solved this problem over the past 15 years
:)
Optimist...
Sorry but we're nowhere near to solving this problem.