the article specifies that if the defective actuators had been installed on the bottom rudder, there would have been total loss of breaking power. the bottom rudder takes the brunt of the breaking force during re-entry; thankfully, they were installed in the top rudder and were *probably* within tolerable safety limits.
they still have to replace them due to possible corrosion; they are pretty old.
tesla coils are really cool. a friend and i once took a 30,000 volt capacitor bank, a homemade tesla coil and a homemade spark gap and liquified my deodorant.
his garage smelled great for a few months.
also, any time we'd point the tesla coil towards his neighbors house, they'd lose TV reception.
You can always get a better piece of technology by waiting just a little longer--the only real reason to wait then is if the standard is going to change. If you buy this current chip, it'll be the best you can get right now. When they change to socket 939, however, you'll be stuck with what you've got--no upgrade for you!
It's always best to buy right when the standard changes, so that you have the ability to upgrade later if you want to. If you buy right before the change, you guarantee having to purchase a whole bunch of new stuff for the next upgrade.
you can easily use a free program like zone alarm to control all program access to the internet.
and i'm not saying that only idiots get viruses; my 2k machine has picked up a few, too. the second it hits my system, norton zaps it. the likelihood of being infected by a virus for which no virus scanner update has been made is next to nil.
windows users shouldn't be surprised at new viruses; it's not like they're getting worse, or like users are getting any smarter. generally speaking, if you're not an idiot, you won't get a virus. if you're not an idiot and you do, you can get rid of it easily--they really only seem to hurt people who are already pretty ignorant.
It depends--I was recently in the dorms at the University of Washington, and there was a huge amount of P2P activity. I still got
Their rules for residence hall use even state that bandwidth off campus is limited to 100 megabits/sec, while P2P is limited to 20 megabits/sec in and 1 megabit/sec out.
Those are the limitations placed on student computing; the strain was always at the other end of the line.
Yeah, I really can't see it going anywhere--there's not enough day-by-day action to keep people watching, unless they twist the books a lot. Of course, if we got Peter Jackson to do it, it might turn out okay...
Well, in one sense security like this is helpful to the car owner--many cars can't be hotwired anymore, because the starter is controlled by an onboard computer and will only work when the driver's key is in the ignition. On the other hand, it sucks, because losing your key can be upwards of $70 to replace. Also, smaller companies get the shaft.
Maybe they need to separate the systems--not locking up the things small shops need access to for repairs could allow anti-theft measures to remain in place.
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the article specifies that if the defective actuators had been installed on the bottom rudder, there would have been total loss of breaking power. the bottom rudder takes the brunt of the breaking force during re-entry; thankfully, they were installed in the top rudder and were *probably* within tolerable safety limits.
they still have to replace them due to possible corrosion; they are pretty old.
this is why we just can't give all nasa's money to the russians.
they need it all to fix their own mistakes already.
<sarcasm>
because they're obviously commies.
and everyone knows america is the bestest, smartest, and coolest place around.
</sarcasm>
the distance we're talking about is like 15 feet. we watched it happen.
yeah, pretty soon we'll drive to mcdonald's and they'll put us on a flight to india so we can pick up our outsourced burgers.
tesla coils are really cool. a friend and i once took a 30,000 volt capacitor bank, a homemade tesla coil and a homemade spark gap and liquified my deodorant.
his garage smelled great for a few months.
also, any time we'd point the tesla coil towards his neighbors house, they'd lose TV reception.
aw shit, this reminds me of highschool. :(
and if you're buying a bleeding edge upgrade, you probably won't be getting the mb for $100
maybe they'll start breeding... it could lower the cost of technology significantly!
You can always get a better piece of technology by waiting just a little longer--the only real reason to wait then is if the standard is going to change. If you buy this current chip, it'll be the best you can get right now. When they change to socket 939, however, you'll be stuck with what you've got--no upgrade for you!
It's always best to buy right when the standard changes, so that you have the ability to upgrade later if you want to. If you buy right before the change, you guarantee having to purchase a whole bunch of new stuff for the next upgrade.
I can just see it now:
Hurdy hur, the paper-clipping 3-D!
Clicken de Starterbutton to begin.
etc.
Yeah, or think about test taking--it would take cheating to a whole new (although probably expensive) level.
sounds like a good opportunity for some mistranslations, too
>:D
yeah, or we could all just sit outside huge corporations with home-made antennas and leech bandwidth off of them.
you can easily use a free program like zone alarm to control all program access to the internet.
and i'm not saying that only idiots get viruses; my 2k machine has picked up a few, too. the second it hits my system, norton zaps it. the likelihood of being infected by a virus for which no virus scanner update has been made is next to nil.
...nothing.
windows users shouldn't be surprised at new viruses; it's not like they're getting worse, or like users are getting any smarter. generally speaking, if you're not an idiot, you won't get a virus. if you're not an idiot and you do, you can get rid of it easily--they really only seem to hurt people who are already pretty ignorant.
It depends--I was recently in the dorms at the University of Washington, and there was a huge amount of P2P activity. I still got
Their rules for residence hall use even state that bandwidth off campus is limited to 100 megabits/sec, while P2P is limited to 20 megabits/sec in and 1 megabit/sec out.
Those are the limitations placed on student computing; the strain was always at the other end of the line.
Yeah, I really can't see it going anywhere--there's not enough day-by-day action to keep people watching, unless they twist the books a lot. Of course, if we got Peter Jackson to do it, it might turn out okay...
And who would want to read an eBook, anyway? Printing the damn thing would take waaay too much paper, and we all know that .pdf files suck for everything except printing.
Who would pay for a markedly poor reading experience?
Well, in one sense security like this is helpful to the car owner--many cars can't be hotwired anymore, because the starter is controlled by an onboard computer and will only work when the driver's key is in the ignition. On the other hand, it sucks, because losing your key can be upwards of $70 to replace. Also, smaller companies get the shaft. Maybe they need to separate the systems--not locking up the things small shops need access to for repairs could allow anti-theft measures to remain in place.
What's the legality of An Anti-DoS Tool That Returns Fire? It sounds pretty vigilante to me, but what sort of laws would be applicable to it?