There's no propeller visible in the Google Earth imagery. All you can see is that there's what might be a sub; it's quite blurry. The Windows Live imagery shows a blurry whirly instrument of death; looks like a bunch of boomerangs.
Honestly, it's stupid. Half the shit that's classified, is just classified to impress. For example, the top speed of various US air craft carriers. Like that can't be figured out by a foreign government...? Like our *propeller technology* is that much more advanced, and other nation's subs haven't figured out what it sounds like? C'mon.
Pretty funny to then read, further down in the thread:
Theo didn't make the initial post about the BSD violation. Theo could have chosen to respond quite publicly, but instead he chose to respond on the OpenBSD mailing list. He did not go nuclear. He is not openly attacking anyone. He isn't even making a big fuss out of this, users on both sides are. Neither did he claim the Linux developers of being thieves.
Alluding that Linux kernel developers "must have failed gradeschool because you can't read" (paraphrasing only slightly) on a public website isn't "publicly attacking someone"?
The man doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut or how to be civil. It looks like (thankfully) people in the OpenBSD project are telling him to shut the fuck up and let them handle things:
I stopped making public statements in the recent controversy because
Eben Moglen started working behind the scenes to 'improve' what Linux
people are doing wrong with licensing, and he asked me to give him
pause, so his team could work.
Note that these do NOT apply only to 3Ware controllers. And the differences in performance can be massive.
Funny; 3ware controllers are slow as shit. Buy an Areca, and enjoy performance that is TENFOLD that.
I've seen twelve drive arrays on 3ware cards struggle to do better than 25MB/sec. Areca cards easily hit well over 200MB/sec from just a handful of drives (ie, take single drive speed, multiply by # of drives, subtract a little.)
Rural US residents don't have the same kind of access to broadband services as those who live in urban or suburban areas.
Uh...in Boston, we can't get Verizon FiOS. They've been cherry-picking the suburbs and towns while refusing to do anything in Boston or the poorer towns; they want to run fiber and get people who have HDTVs and will go for all the expensive cable packages, and not load down the network. They're not interested in high density areas that will suck up bandwidth and have customers that will be stingier. Urban users are also more likely to share; an entire block could work very happily off a single FiOS connection and a 802.11G access point, and that scares the hell out of them.
If you google around, you can find a color-coded map showing where it is actively offered, where they are deploying, and where they're sitting on their hands. Supposedly, Boston is "in progress", but something tells me the Verizon trucks are only on Beacon, Newbury, etc.
My folks can't get DSL in their home town; one town over has their choice of DSL providers and bitrates. Verizon never bothered to provide anything more than their shitty 1.5mbit/128kbit (yes, 128kbit!) service and sDSL at insanely expensive prices. The ONLY choice is Comcast, and thanks to the "cable access committee", they decided that because Comcast has thrown a few dollars at a local community television station (which mostly broadcasts a perpetual powerpoint presentation), they should get exclusive access to the town (in MA, each town licenses cable TV providers.)
The difference is that Taxi drivers don't work for the government. Mini-rant: taxi drivers are basically indentured servants. The cabs have "medallions"; rather than let the free market decide how many cabs are enough, (many) cities tightly control the number. When they add them, or old medallions are given up by their owners, they go for sale in the quarter-million-dollar-plus range. There was an auction in Boston recently where they hit seven figures for a SINGLE MEDALLION; instead of doing a lottery (the old system was simply "if you know people"), they did an auction, and claimed it would "help the little guys". Bullshit- the little guys don't have that kind of cash. The big cab companies do.
So, the driver is "leasing" a 2-inch square piece of metal and the cab it is attached to, because he/she could never afford to buy one themselves.
The rates cabs can charge are set by the Boston Police department. The per-shift charge owners can charge to lease the cab? Ding ding! You guessed it, set by the city.
It's modern-day sharecropping.
I know when I work that the system administrators are watching what I am doing: checking which ports I have open, which websites I visit and maybe even sometimes reading my mail.
No they're NOT reading your damn mail. I hate these claims. 99.9% of the sysadmins out there a)are horrified by such a suggestion and b)don't have time to do it anyway.
Maybe if you work at a large company someone is spot-checking outgoing email or they're running filters with certain keywords (looking for sexual harassment and such), but...gaaaaah.
Just FYI- Beloit is the armpit school of the midwest. When I went there in the late 90's:
An entire dorm left mid-term. Something like 1/4 of the freshman class was "asked to take a semester off" (I was one of them, and I suspect it had more to do with them grossly overbooking dorm rooms and classes.)
My physics class was taught using a self-published physics textbook developed by a nearby university. The previous year's physics 101 class sent in FORTY pages of corrections, and ours were wrong in all sorts of new and exciting ways. The class was useless, because the professor had to have the entire class go over the homework together, and you never knew if you were doing the problem set wrong, or if the problemset itself was wrong.
the facilities were a mess (we couldn't even get lightbulbs for common areas)
students were crammed into every available space; there were 6 and 7 people in some converted lounges. I was shoved into a double with three people, and it was a fight with res life to get furniture for the third guy; they gave us two desks, TWO BEDS, and two dressers.
They don't serve anything except brunch on Sundays. This sucks more than you could possibly believe when you're in the middle of nowhere. It's not like you can walk a block or two into town and get something tasty and cheap. Your choices: pizza and...pizza.
The town is full of really bigoted, angry, poor people. My roommate, who was seeing another student who had come from Indonesia, had a run in with a guy who said: "Yeeer girlll-friend Chaneeeeese?" "Uh, no, she's Indonesian." "She LOOKS Chaaaaaneeeeeeese". The guy then followed them back to campus in his pickup truck.
The only exciting thing to do in Beloit...is to drive to Madison. YEEEHAA. Sucks if you don't know anyone with a car!
The nearest transportation to Chicago (where you will be flying in/out of) is several MILES off campus. Do you know how much that sucks any time from fall to late spring, ie, the academic season?
My dorm freshman year was infested with cockroaches- the basement lounge was full of them, and our room had them as well, despite it being the start of the year and the room being very clean.
By 4-5PM people are drinking and smoking pot, and every Friday/Saturday night, the lounges would turn into what a nightclub looks like after it closes; full of broken glass, beer cans/bottles everywhere, beer coating *everything* (the furniture was never cleaned, so...yeah) and recycling bins and trashcans filled to the brim with beer.
We had wonderful militant feminists and lesbians who all strong-armed the campus into giving them the nicest dorms on campus and making them women only. One was called "The Womyn's Center". Their favorite activity was scrolling sexual slurs like "DYKE!" on the walkways to get a rise out of people.
Relations are so good with the town that the Beloit police department spends all night "patrolling" "town property" (aka the one public road that goes through the residential section) and ticketing people for anything they possibly can. I was never ticketed, but half my dorm had been ticketed for "open container of alcohol" because they crossed the street from one dorm to another with a can of beer.
The local canned food plant (the only real place for people to work- General Dynamics shut down its plant and is mostly why the town was/is a hell-hole) regularly belches forth clouds of artificial cheese smell or baked beans. The student-run "Coughy Haus" is named for the cough people make when they smell the "cheese breeze."
There's a freight train line nearby that blows its horn at every crossing....at about 5AM. EVERY MORNING.
Thefts on campus were rampant. I repeatedly had stuff stolen off my bike by townies who considered campus an convenient automatic teller machine.
It's the fucking armpit of the midwestern liberal arts schools. Give it a WIDE BERTH. If you're stupid enough to go, don't even think of staying in "810", or its nearby dorm (I forget the number...6-something?)
Nichole R. Nason, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, put a new rule into effect that NHTSA officials, including scientists and engineers, are no longer allowed to be quoted by reporters
Wouldn't it be a shame if the next time NHTSA or Nason has something they'd like to brag about, they call a press conference...
...and nobody shows up?
Political big-wigs thrive off of getting press for their stupid pet projects. The press could kill her career in a heartbeat simply by not covering her and the department.
IANAL, but I think this would be a good time for Foster to hit 'em with Contempt of Court... Is that possible?
Kind of. However, you damn well shouldn't be using email:
According to Ms. Foster's motion papers (pdf), her attorneys received no response to their email inquiry about payment. Perhaps the RIAA should ask their lawyers for a loan?"
What, a letter via registered mail was too expensive? Gimme a break, guys. This crowd should know, email is easy to lose (on purpose or completely accidentally) or never get in the first place. Registered mail, someone has to SIGN for and accept. Then they have no wiggle-room...the other party is holding on to a piece of paper with your (or your representative's) signature.
So how do they get past the fact that e.Coli dies in gasoline? how did they change the bug to have a higher tolerance to their new unnatural excretions?
I haven't seen much in this area. I use Retrospect for all my computers at work, but laptops are kind of come-and-go. I have 2 backups scheduled every day, and the laptops are lucky if they catch one or two of those per week. And quite honestly, I don't find Retrospect very dependable for that matter,
That's because you don't have it set up correctly. Retrospect is fully capable of doing opportunistic backups. Has been for a little shy of ten years. You set a policy for the max age of the backup, pick which clients you use the mode for, and as soon as the client appears on the network, it gets backed up. If you have that set up, then you don't have them on a fast enough network connection. Wireless, at 3MB/sec, ain't gonna cut it. The number of files also has a large effect on completion time; Retrospect chokes on its catalog file.
Not that I'm defending it, don't get me wrong. It's a dying dinosaur. There are numerous alternatives these days. BRU and Atempo are the big boys...
The pressurized helium/oxygen mixture allows the fuel cells to generate more power than ambient air because of its higher oxygen content, and high-pressure storage eliminates the need for an air compressor
Nice. I expect the common press to make that kind of mistake, but you'd think that Popular Mechanics would get it right.
Frankly, I don't consider this "details". "NASCAR style brakes, suspension and steering" doesn't say much, unless they're literally identical to the NASCAR stuff Ford uses in their "Fusion."
FYI, that car is no more a "Fusion" than a NASCAR "Fusion" is; they're both entirely tube-frame chassis cars with shells that are approximately the same shape, and then overlaid with graphics to fool the eye into thinking they're shaped more like the car they're claiming it is.
There isn't a single component in the car in common with the production Ford Fusion. Hasn't been true in over a decade or more in NASCAR.
...considering that most of the antivirus programs were tricked when a new "variant" of one of the worms back around '99 or so. So kids- just insert random whitespace into your worms!
The change? The line endings in the VBS script changed. It probably wasn't even intentional- some broken mail server probably modified CR's into CRLF's. It sailed right past Trend Micro's email scanner and infected several dozen systems.
I was the first person to notice why it slipped by, and brought it to the attention of a big-name "security expert" who ran a mailing list which shall go unnamed. He thanked us for the research, passed along my findings to the list, and then promptly went around doing interviews with the press using the first person voice. "I discovered that...", blah blah was what I read the next day.
Uh...who told you it's clean to get? The only "clean" method is electrolysis, and that requires massive amounts of electricity, which over 1/3rd in the US comes from coal. Pretty much ALL of it comes from coal in China.
The only other source is natural gas. Guess what? Gotta strip the carbon off the hydrogen somehow, and the catalysts are not exactly eco-friendly or reuseable. It's a great way to sell more natural gas, though- which is why Bush is so thrilled with it.
Hydrogen has another problem: it's a pain to store. Because H2 is molecularly very small, it leaks very easily past/through seals (remember how fast the helium escaped from party balloons?)
Maybe J&J's backlash is because they're disgusted at how commercial and "profit" the Red Cross has become.
The Red Cross is no saint. If they were, they wouldn't be charging insane amounts of money for *donated* blood (which has an astoundingly poor rate of screening for HIV and other communicable diseases), refusing donations of material (Red Cross only accepts money) for disasters, and using any disaster as an excuse for a recruitment drive, even when they're not really needed.
In the months after September 11th, the ads were almost non-stop. Almost two billion dollars flowed in. Do you really think September 11th victims needed places to sleep, clothing, etc? And do you realize how much clothing and basic human needs $2BN takes care of?
And guess how much they did in Louisiana? Next to nothing, just like the feds...http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july- dec05/redcross_12-14.html
Basic problems, like not training their volunteers. I wonder where the money goes?
Eh. I'm inclined to believe that, given how datacenter space ain't free and user data is a bit of a liability, they're happy to dump your data after a month or two. If they haven't aggregated it and sold it off to another company by then, they probably never will.
I think this is simply marketing spin on a sensible business decision: namely, someone realized they were getting everything they needed within hours or days.
The Linux Community was quite capable of indulging in ridiculously petty schisms, flamewars, arguments and
bickering before Microsoft got involved.
Agreed- and after skimming the entire article, I couldn't find any assertions as to what the supposed split is (does he really think that *anyone* cares except some gullible executives?), what projects it has negatively affected, and so on. No claims about X% of corporations going back to Windows/Solaris/MacOS X, nothing.
It's Shuttleworth simply running off at the mouth, and his comments help lead credence to Microsoft's trolling. Seriously, people. Stop giving MS all this press and attention. The more people hysterically waving their arms, the more people that will actually start to believe it.
The article summary makes it sound like the kernel is superbly documented but nobody reads the documentation. That's a nice little myth.
Hey Linus, do us all a favor: mandate that nobody can put an entry/option into the kernel configure system unless they write a help file entry for it, so that we can tell what the hell it does.
It's incredibly annoying that a number of kernel config parameters have absolutely zero documentation aside from (if you're lucky) a semi-descriptive name...
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Coordinates are +47 43' 39.58", -122 42' 55.83" for the base (this can be plugged into Google Earth.)
The location of the snapshot is of the dry-dock at 4744'36.08"N, 12243'48.51"W.
This link may or may not work: http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=ryqjnb4s5 7d5&style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=1 0352732&encType=1
There's no propeller visible in the Google Earth imagery. All you can see is that there's what might be a sub; it's quite blurry. The Windows Live imagery shows a blurry whirly instrument of death; looks like a bunch of boomerangs.
Honestly, it's stupid. Half the shit that's classified, is just classified to impress. For example, the top speed of various US air craft carriers. Like that can't be figured out by a foreign government...? Like our *propeller technology* is that much more advanced, and other nation's subs haven't figured out what it sounds like? C'mon.
Try, "publicly, he's an asshole and routinely uses ad hominem."
From discussion of the very issue, Slightly more annoyed, Pièce de résistance, FLAME ON!
Pretty funny to then read, further down in the thread:
Theo didn't make the initial post about the BSD violation. Theo could have chosen to respond quite publicly, but instead he chose to respond on the OpenBSD mailing list. He did not go nuclear. He is not openly attacking anyone. He isn't even making a big fuss out of this, users on both sides are. Neither did he claim the Linux developers of being thieves.
Alluding that Linux kernel developers "must have failed gradeschool because you can't read" (paraphrasing only slightly) on a public website isn't "publicly attacking someone"?
The man doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut or how to be civil. It looks like (thankfully) people in the OpenBSD project are telling him to shut the fuck up and let them handle things:
I stopped making public statements in the recent controversy because Eben Moglen started working behind the scenes to 'improve' what Linux people are doing wrong with licensing, and he asked me to give him pause, so his team could work.
Note that these do NOT apply only to 3Ware controllers. And the differences in performance can be massive.
Funny; 3ware controllers are slow as shit. Buy an Areca, and enjoy performance that is TENFOLD that.
I've seen twelve drive arrays on 3ware cards struggle to do better than 25MB/sec. Areca cards easily hit well over 200MB/sec from just a handful of drives (ie, take single drive speed, multiply by # of drives, subtract a little.)
Rural US residents don't have the same kind of access to broadband services as those who live in urban or suburban areas.
Uh...in Boston, we can't get Verizon FiOS. They've been cherry-picking the suburbs and towns while refusing to do anything in Boston or the poorer towns; they want to run fiber and get people who have HDTVs and will go for all the expensive cable packages, and not load down the network. They're not interested in high density areas that will suck up bandwidth and have customers that will be stingier. Urban users are also more likely to share; an entire block could work very happily off a single FiOS connection and a 802.11G access point, and that scares the hell out of them.
If you google around, you can find a color-coded map showing where it is actively offered, where they are deploying, and where they're sitting on their hands. Supposedly, Boston is "in progress", but something tells me the Verizon trucks are only on Beacon, Newbury, etc.
My folks can't get DSL in their home town; one town over has their choice of DSL providers and bitrates. Verizon never bothered to provide anything more than their shitty 1.5mbit/128kbit (yes, 128kbit!) service and sDSL at insanely expensive prices. The ONLY choice is Comcast, and thanks to the "cable access committee", they decided that because Comcast has thrown a few dollars at a local community television station (which mostly broadcasts a perpetual powerpoint presentation), they should get exclusive access to the town (in MA, each town licenses cable TV providers.)
Thanks for linking to the post!
So, the driver is "leasing" a 2-inch square piece of metal and the cab it is attached to, because he/she could never afford to buy one themselves.
The rates cabs can charge are set by the Boston Police department. The per-shift charge owners can charge to lease the cab? Ding ding! You guessed it, set by the city.
It's modern-day sharecropping.
I know when I work that the system administrators are watching what I am doing: checking which ports I have open, which websites I visit and maybe even sometimes reading my mail.
No they're NOT reading your damn mail. I hate these claims. 99.9% of the sysadmins out there a)are horrified by such a suggestion and b)don't have time to do it anyway.
Maybe if you work at a large company someone is spot-checking outgoing email or they're running filters with certain keywords (looking for sexual harassment and such), but...gaaaaah.
It's the fucking armpit of the midwestern liberal arts schools. Give it a WIDE BERTH. If you're stupid enough to go, don't even think of staying in "810", or its nearby dorm (I forget the number...6-something?)
Nichole R. Nason, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, put a new rule into effect that NHTSA officials, including scientists and engineers, are no longer allowed to be quoted by reporters
Wouldn't it be a shame if the next time NHTSA or Nason has something they'd like to brag about, they call a press conference...
...and nobody shows up?
Political big-wigs thrive off of getting press for their stupid pet projects. The press could kill her career in a heartbeat simply by not covering her and the department.
you can define your cel [sic] phone's email address, and get notifications sent to it.
Does anyone actually care about their messages beyond "those things I let expire or occasionally delete"?
look at the "3D Video of Endeavour Tile Damage" video on this page [of nasa's website]
Or on Neptec's own website.
Why can't slashdot accept stories that directly link to the content, instead of forcing us to go through Roland's inane commentary?
IANAL, but I think this would be a good time for Foster to hit 'em with Contempt of Court... Is that possible?
Kind of. However, you damn well shouldn't be using email:
According to Ms. Foster's motion papers (pdf), her attorneys received no response to their email inquiry about payment. Perhaps the RIAA should ask their lawyers for a loan?"
What, a letter via registered mail was too expensive? Gimme a break, guys. This crowd should know, email is easy to lose (on purpose or completely accidentally) or never get in the first place. Registered mail, someone has to SIGN for and accept. Then they have no wiggle-room...the other party is holding on to a piece of paper with your (or your representative's) signature.
So how do they get past the fact that e.Coli dies in gasoline? how did they change the bug to have a higher tolerance to their new unnatural excretions?
Science.
No, I want someone to not be a pussy and show their name. Is that unreasonable?
What's your name?
I haven't seen much in this area. I use Retrospect for all my computers at work, but laptops are kind of come-and-go. I have 2 backups scheduled every day, and the laptops are lucky if they catch one or two of those per week. And quite honestly, I don't find Retrospect very dependable for that matter,
That's because you don't have it set up correctly. Retrospect is fully capable of doing opportunistic backups. Has been for a little shy of ten years. You set a policy for the max age of the backup, pick which clients you use the mode for, and as soon as the client appears on the network, it gets backed up. If you have that set up, then you don't have them on a fast enough network connection. Wireless, at 3MB/sec, ain't gonna cut it. The number of files also has a large effect on completion time; Retrospect chokes on its catalog file.
Not that I'm defending it, don't get me wrong. It's a dying dinosaur. There are numerous alternatives these days. BRU and Atempo are the big boys...
From TFA:
The pressurized helium/oxygen mixture allows the fuel cells to generate more power than ambient air because of its higher oxygen content, and high-pressure storage eliminates the need for an air compressor
Nice. I expect the common press to make that kind of mistake, but you'd think that Popular Mechanics would get it right.
Frankly, I don't consider this "details". "NASCAR style brakes, suspension and steering" doesn't say much, unless they're literally identical to the NASCAR stuff Ford uses in their "Fusion."
FYI, that car is no more a "Fusion" than a NASCAR "Fusion" is; they're both entirely tube-frame chassis cars with shells that are approximately the same shape, and then overlaid with graphics to fool the eye into thinking they're shaped more like the car they're claiming it is.
There isn't a single component in the car in common with the production Ford Fusion. Hasn't been true in over a decade or more in NASCAR.
NASA: the new Star Trek.
...considering that most of the antivirus programs were tricked when a new "variant" of one of the worms back around '99 or so. So kids- just insert random whitespace into your worms!
The change? The line endings in the VBS script changed. It probably wasn't even intentional- some broken mail server probably modified CR's into CRLF's. It sailed right past Trend Micro's email scanner and infected several dozen systems.
I was the first person to notice why it slipped by, and brought it to the attention of a big-name "security expert" who ran a mailing list which shall go unnamed. He thanked us for the research, passed along my findings to the list, and then promptly went around doing interviews with the press using the first person voice. "I discovered that...", blah blah was what I read the next day.
Hydrogen may be clean to use and get
Uh...who told you it's clean to get? The only "clean" method is electrolysis, and that requires massive amounts of electricity, which over 1/3rd in the US comes from coal. Pretty much ALL of it comes from coal in China.
The only other source is natural gas. Guess what? Gotta strip the carbon off the hydrogen somehow, and the catalysts are not exactly eco-friendly or reuseable. It's a great way to sell more natural gas, though- which is why Bush is so thrilled with it.
Hydrogen has another problem: it's a pain to store. Because H2 is molecularly very small, it leaks very easily past/through seals (remember how fast the helium escaped from party balloons?)
hard-to-win-a-pissing-match-with-a-saint dept
Maybe J&J's backlash is because they're disgusted at how commercial and "profit" the Red Cross has become.
The Red Cross is no saint. If they were, they wouldn't be charging insane amounts of money for *donated* blood (which has an astoundingly poor rate of screening for HIV and other communicable diseases), refusing donations of material (Red Cross only accepts money) for disasters, and using any disaster as an excuse for a recruitment drive, even when they're not really needed.
In the months after September 11th, the ads were almost non-stop. Almost two billion dollars flowed in. Do you really think September 11th victims needed places to sleep, clothing, etc? And do you realize how much clothing and basic human needs $2BN takes care of?
And guess how much they did in Louisiana? Next to nothing, just like the feds...http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july- dec05/redcross_12-14.html
Basic problems, like not training their volunteers. I wonder where the money goes?
1. We'll delete your personal information.
Eh. I'm inclined to believe that, given how datacenter space ain't free and user data is a bit of a liability, they're happy to dump your data after a month or two. If they haven't aggregated it and sold it off to another company by then, they probably never will.
I think this is simply marketing spin on a sensible business decision: namely, someone realized they were getting everything they needed within hours or days.
"TrES-4 is way bigger than it's supposed to be,"
Like, and it's totally dating Pluto, ewwwww!
What's with the valley-girl talk? "Way bigger"?
The Linux Community was quite capable of indulging in ridiculously petty schisms, flamewars, arguments and bickering before Microsoft got involved.
Agreed- and after skimming the entire article, I couldn't find any assertions as to what the supposed split is (does he really think that *anyone* cares except some gullible executives?), what projects it has negatively affected, and so on. No claims about X% of corporations going back to Windows/Solaris/MacOS X, nothing.
It's Shuttleworth simply running off at the mouth, and his comments help lead credence to Microsoft's trolling. Seriously, people. Stop giving MS all this press and attention. The more people hysterically waving their arms, the more people that will actually start to believe it.
It's a Web 2.0 app now
No it's not, because there's no such thing as a "version" of the Internet OR the World Wide Web.
Just because O'Reilly and a bunch of bloggers like it, doesn't mean you should use it.
Or tinfoil hats, for that matter. (or mirrored sunglasses!)
Hey Linus, do us all a favor: mandate that nobody can put an entry/option into the kernel configure system unless they write a help file entry for it, so that we can tell what the hell it does.
It's incredibly annoying that a number of kernel config parameters have absolutely zero documentation aside from (if you're lucky) a semi-descriptive name...