According to my Astronomy professor (who also doubles as a english professor, so take this with a huge grain of salt), almost none of the large telescoped have glass mirrors. They spin molten aluminum and, as you say, spray a thin layer of polishable metal on the surface. This metal is them polished into its final shape.
The main reason they use aluminum is that glass is so heavy, it sags under its own weight.
I have heard of some telescopes using many small reflectors vice one large reflector. Most modern 'scopes are built using this new design. Not sure if they are spun aluminum or glass though.
I have also been told that the grinding and polishing tolerances are very small. The largest defects are measured by how many stray atoms are built up in a single point.
Yeah, I'm waiting till I can see the source. Maybe after he GPLs his code, it can be submitted to a third party for a security review and standards evaluation./sarcasm
You should have photoshopped hundreds of pictures of everything from students smoking bongs to teachers accepting oral sex. Basicly, you should have saturated the dorms with all these pics and then let "the man" get so backlogged that they don't have time to look for actual criminals.
You could have also used a set off campus made to look exactly like a dorm room. Video yourself setting it up and then take lots of incriminating pics. If the pics were ever exposed, just claim that they have no proof that it happened in the dorms. Once it had gone as far as you felt nescessary, expose the videos of the pics being taken on the set you made. Look smug as "the man" gets mad for being taken.
If MS bundled Norton Utilities, Star Office, Apache Server, MySQL, and Galactic Civ, no one would care. The problem is that MS finds the programs people need to make a PC productive and then buys those programs. If the copyright owner refuses to sell, then MS creates a clone. Then no one buys the original program.
If RedHat bundled RH web server, RH desktop, RH e-mail, and RH web browser, then people would be pissed. Hell, people got pissed when RH tried to bundle a KDE/Gnome theme.
As is stands, a minimal RedHat install is about 500MB. My Windows directory alone consumes 1.6GB of disk space.
When you install from the single WinXP disk, you get an OS, a bootloader, a browser, a graphics viewer, an e-mail client, and a file manager. Maybe some games, a calculator, and a text editor.
RedHat, OTOH, comes with all of the above, in about 7 flavors of each. You get Evolution, The Gimp, Mozilla, 2 full desktop environments, tons of games (some quite good like FreeCiv and BZFlag), several media players/rippers, DVD and CD recording software, and a full featured Office package.
WinXP out of the box can't serve anything other than as a minor file server for other windows clients.
RedHat out of the box is ready for enterprise level file and print sharing, web/ftp server, mail server, firewall, database applications, and more.
And that's just the first 3 CDs. The last two are for source code! The value of the last two CDs is beyond comparison in the WinXP world.
More than likely these would have been used after the inital nuclear strike. It's probably more cost-effective to have a disease spread over the mid-west US, western Canada, Mexico, and other places any remaining Americans would have fled to.
I don't know how much you know about DNS, but here goes:
When you request a URL, you make a request to your ISPs DNS server. It, in turn, makes a request back to (eventually) the rood DNS servers. Those point you to the DNS server of the domain you are trying to reach.
Are all resolved to IP addresses by the DNS server sitting in the winamp campus.
So, when someone made the entries in their DNS, www.winamp.com and winamp.com were pointed to different IP addresses. One should have been an a-record (I think) and the other should have been an alias (or cname) to the first. But that didn't happen.
At some point, someone changed the IP address of the http server and only one DNS entry was updated.
winamp.com resolves to 205.188.245.120 www.winamp.com resolves to 205.188.244.138
So it looks as if Winamp has two servers sitting on two seperate class C address spaces in their NOC.
In short, bad DNS management and oversight lead to two DNS entries for two webservers on seperate address spaces.
OK, but a virtual avitar raping (or having consentual sex with) another virtual avitar is not a crime. Anything that happens in-game needs to stay in-game, any good role-player knows that.
I can see a day when VR may be ruled by some sort of rights as the real world. But, until then, it's just RPing.
One minor flaw in your argument is that no one is likely to threaten with a bat...they will just hit you. Guns are used to intimidate and kill, bats and knives are used to inflict pain. Someone who wouldn't quite shoot you is still close enough to the line to pull a sneak attack with a bat or a shiv.
Sure, you can outrun a knife or a bat. If he gives you a chance. But all three devices are equally deadly in capible hands.
Are you really less afraid of a lunatic holding a bat or a knife than one holding a gun? At least if the guy with the gun decides to take you out, it'll be quick.
Well, if someone has my PIN, that is easy to reproduce. It will take quite a bit more to reproduce my fingerprint. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it just increaces the level of difficulty.
When you start seeing biometrics like facial recognition, voice pattern matching, and retnal scanning, then someone having your card would be useless. In fact, at that point, just drop the card. Use your face as the card and your voice as the PIN.
My fav option is the "persistant online worlds". Kinda like a MMO, but most communities are smaller. I won't name the server I play on, but if you are looking for a great, free MMO, check them out.
There is a US Public law called "Title X" that you need to look into.
Basicly, you cannot monitor communications between your users and a server. It is considered the same as wiretapping.
I don't have a good explanation of what you can and cannot do, but my company does not review logs unless another problem brings it to our attention. Even then, our rules of conduct make it difficult to take action agianst an employee.
It seems like crap, but if we have a URL causing excessive resource usage, our only recourse is to block it. Confronting the user would be the same as confessing to a "Title X" violation and open us to prosocution under Federal law.
You need to use "dynamic disks" (whatever the hell that is) in order to run a software RAID1 array under Windows. This isn't a prob for 90% of the people out there, but if you dual boot, it could cause problems.
If you do dual-boot, use DD as suggested in another post.
I work in a Network Control Center. We use Cisco, Dell, Compaq, etc... Our cabling is either fabbed in-house or purchaces from Black-Box.
The only place that whole mil-spec thing comes into play is on the weapons systems. Even then, in places where comprable items are avalible to the public, the mil-spec item is either identical, or sub-standard. Like chrome-plated chambers for firearms. The civilian world had those since the '50s. The military didn't untill the '70s
I don't understand why Google would even want an IPO. I mean, isn't the point of going public to get money to spend on advertisement in order to drive revinue?
Google doesn't really need that. Why go public unless you absolutely have to?
Send them a doodle of an octopus giving them the finger 8 times.
I'd suggest that we all break into record stores and destroy the CDs, but insurance would cover it and we gain nothing.
No, it's easier to settle than to fight. If I got the letter, the one condition of my settlement would be that I get an invoice of who gets what ammount of the payment. Then I'd call up all the artists on the list and let them know that I'm glad my 35 cents contributed to their new Ferarri.
Maybe it's time to start selling a dead-man switch for our PCs. Just use an open WAP as your switch and you will be covered. When they sue you, thermite your hard-drives and then claim that someone else used your WAP to download that stuff...
Oh God! You mean we have to listen to this crap for another 18 months? And that's just before the trial starts! There will be delays and continuances and all manner of legal games just to drag it out.
BTW, I don't think IBM will get any of that $50 mil. It will all be gone...taken by lawyers and CEOs cars/vacation homes.
On a side note, I wasn't really in the industry when the whole BSD/Unix lawsuit took place. I do know that the reason we have Microsoft Server today is that the lawsuit scared companies into abandoning BSD. Are there any paralells between the BSD suit and the Linux suit?
I'm not trying to be an asshole or a troll; just hear me out.
I love Reiser. I also love Gentoo and adore Debian. Myself and another guy, Joe, are the main "linux geeks" in our computer group (cugy.net). When it came time to decide what to support at our group, we had to choose RedHat.
If I'm in a message board or IRC channel, I need to know some things about the guy I'm helping. We reccomend RedHat because that is the biggest US company behind Linux (IBM and SUN notwithstanding). If I am teaching people about Linux, then it is to both our advantages to teach/learn about what we will see "in the field". Therefore, we only support RedHat.
What does this have to do with anything? Well, RedHat 9 and Severn do not allow the creation of Reiser by default. I could probably boot from a Gentoo disk and format a partition to Reiser, then install RedHat to it. But, by default, only ext* is allowed.
I love to do things that improve performance. I love testing new things on my laptop or on a offline box in our test lab. But unless RedHat offers it, it will remain in the shadows of the linux world, which is, in turn, in the shadows of the user enclave. Hell, of every important box on my network, they are either RedHat or Win2k.
More on topic, Joe got a lot of recognition when the "internet got a lot faster". Did he upgrade the firewall? Did he install another OC-3? Maybe he reconfigured services on the proxy?
Nope, he installed a hard drive, formatted it to Reiser, and moved the proxy cache to the reiser disk. I couldn't belive it. Just changing the filesystem caused an increase that was noticable across our network. At no cost!
You can deny a solicitor access to your property. You could place a "No Trespass" sign to prevent someone from physically encroaching on your property.
I'm not really sure what country you are from, but in the US, your mailbox belongs to the USPS. It is not your property. It is part of a public network. You cannot prevent anyone from sending you a letter. You can, however, throw away the letter before you read it. Otherwise, there is no recourse.
The phone network is similar. It is a public network. Connecting an end-device to the public network opens you to the perils of that network. Just as going to a park opens you to people exercising their rights, being on a public network does the same.
You could argue that:
a. Judges issue restraining orders to prevent harrasing phone calls from ex-whatevers. I do not know the details, but I belive these are intended as short-term measures to allow the parties a "cooling down" period.
b. Me causing your phone to ring is no different from me causing your computer to reboot. One is considered "hacking" and the other is normal use. The difference is that a telephone can only ring if the user specifically allows such action to take place. Just like me opening a http request on a web server.
So, I hope you can see the difference between being on a public network and being on your private property.
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According to my Astronomy professor (who also doubles as a english professor, so take this with a huge grain of salt), almost none of the large telescoped have glass mirrors. They spin molten aluminum and, as you say, spray a thin layer of polishable metal on the surface. This metal is them polished into its final shape.
The main reason they use aluminum is that glass is so heavy, it sags under its own weight.
I have heard of some telescopes using many small reflectors vice one large reflector. Most modern 'scopes are built using this new design. Not sure if they are spun aluminum or glass though.
I have also been told that the grinding and polishing tolerances are very small. The largest defects are measured by how many stray atoms are built up in a single point.
Yeah, I'm waiting till I can see the source. Maybe after he GPLs his code, it can be submitted to a third party for a security review and standards evaluation. /sarcasm
You guys really missed the boat on that one.
You should have photoshopped hundreds of pictures of everything from students smoking bongs to teachers accepting oral sex. Basicly, you should have saturated the dorms with all these pics and then let "the man" get so backlogged that they don't have time to look for actual criminals.
You could have also used a set off campus made to look exactly like a dorm room. Video yourself setting it up and then take lots of incriminating pics. If the pics were ever exposed, just claim that they have no proof that it happened in the dorms. Once it had gone as far as you felt nescessary, expose the videos of the pics being taken on the set you made. Look smug as "the man" gets mad for being taken.
She should have posted a click-through agreement stating that the pics cannot be used as evidince.
No, wait! I don't really want to know, do I?
If MS bundled Norton Utilities, Star Office, Apache Server, MySQL, and Galactic Civ, no one would care. The problem is that MS finds the programs people need to make a PC productive and then buys those programs. If the copyright owner refuses to sell, then MS creates a clone. Then no one buys the original program.
If RedHat bundled RH web server, RH desktop, RH e-mail, and RH web browser, then people would be pissed. Hell, people got pissed when RH tried to bundle a KDE/Gnome theme.
As is stands, a minimal RedHat install is about 500MB. My Windows directory alone consumes 1.6GB of disk space.
When you install from the single WinXP disk, you get an OS, a bootloader, a browser, a graphics viewer, an e-mail client, and a file manager. Maybe some games, a calculator, and a text editor.
RedHat, OTOH, comes with all of the above, in about 7 flavors of each. You get Evolution, The Gimp, Mozilla, 2 full desktop environments, tons of games (some quite good like FreeCiv and BZFlag), several media players/rippers, DVD and CD recording software, and a full featured Office package.
WinXP out of the box can't serve anything other than as a minor file server for other windows clients.
RedHat out of the box is ready for enterprise level file and print sharing, web/ftp server, mail server, firewall, database applications, and more.
And that's just the first 3 CDs. The last two are for source code! The value of the last two CDs is beyond comparison in the WinXP world.
Can you imagine the size of the Pringles can needed to get 802.11 from Mars to here?
More than likely these would have been used after the inital nuclear strike. It's probably more cost-effective to have a disease spread over the mid-west US, western Canada, Mexico, and other places any remaining Americans would have fled to.
I don't know how much you know about DNS, but here goes:
When you request a URL, you make a request to your ISPs DNS server. It, in turn, makes a request back to (eventually) the rood DNS servers. Those point you to the DNS server of the domain you are trying to reach.
ftp.winamp.com
www.winamp.com
mail.winamp.com
download.winamp.com
Are all resolved to IP addresses by the DNS server sitting in the winamp campus.
So, when someone made the entries in their DNS, www.winamp.com and winamp.com were pointed to different IP addresses. One should have been an a-record (I think) and the other should have been an alias (or cname) to the first. But that didn't happen.
At some point, someone changed the IP address of the http server and only one DNS entry was updated.
winamp.com resolves to 205.188.245.120
www.winamp.com resolves to 205.188.244.138
So it looks as if Winamp has two servers sitting on two seperate class C address spaces in their NOC.
In short, bad DNS management and oversight lead to two DNS entries for two webservers on seperate address spaces.
OK, but a virtual avitar raping (or having consentual sex with) another virtual avitar is not a crime. Anything that happens in-game needs to stay in-game, any good role-player knows that.
I can see a day when VR may be ruled by some sort of rights as the real world. But, until then, it's just RPing.
One minor flaw in your argument is that no one is likely to threaten with a bat...they will just hit you. Guns are used to intimidate and kill, bats and knives are used to inflict pain. Someone who wouldn't quite shoot you is still close enough to the line to pull a sneak attack with a bat or a shiv.
Sure, you can outrun a knife or a bat. If he gives you a chance. But all three devices are equally deadly in capible hands.
Are you really less afraid of a lunatic holding a bat or a knife than one holding a gun? At least if the guy with the gun decides to take you out, it'll be quick.
Well, if someone has my PIN, that is easy to reproduce. It will take quite a bit more to reproduce my fingerprint. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it just increaces the level of difficulty.
When you start seeing biometrics like facial recognition, voice pattern matching, and retnal scanning, then someone having your card would be useless. In fact, at that point, just drop the card. Use your face as the card and your voice as the PIN.
Here is some more info for you on different ammunition...
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Read the comments and take it all with a grain (no pun intended) of salt.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/23/175329/
My fav option is the "persistant online worlds". Kinda like a MMO, but most communities are smaller. I won't name the server I play on, but if you are looking for a great, free MMO, check them out.
There is a US Public law called "Title X" that you need to look into.
Basicly, you cannot monitor communications between your users and a server. It is considered the same as wiretapping.
I don't have a good explanation of what you can and cannot do, but my company does not review logs unless another problem brings it to our attention. Even then, our rules of conduct make it difficult to take action agianst an employee.
It seems like crap, but if we have a URL causing excessive resource usage, our only recourse is to block it. Confronting the user would be the same as confessing to a "Title X" violation and open us to prosocution under Federal law.
Beware...
You need to use "dynamic disks" (whatever the hell that is) in order to run a software RAID1 array under Windows. This isn't a prob for 90% of the people out there, but if you dual boot, it could cause problems.
If you do dual-boot, use DD as suggested in another post.
Uuh, That may hold true for some aspects.
I work in a Network Control Center. We use Cisco, Dell, Compaq, etc... Our cabling is either fabbed in-house or purchaces from Black-Box.
The only place that whole mil-spec thing comes into play is on the weapons systems. Even then, in places where comprable items are avalible to the public, the mil-spec item is either identical, or sub-standard. Like chrome-plated chambers for firearms. The civilian world had those since the '50s. The military didn't untill the '70s
Psst, let me let you in on a little secret...
90% of the military tech is commercial off the shelf (COTS).
It's cheaper and more reliable to use COTS vice a propritary tech.
I don't understand why Google would even want an IPO. I mean, isn't the point of going public to get money to spend on advertisement in order to drive revinue?
Google doesn't really need that. Why go public unless you absolutely have to?
Be beligerent...
Send them a doodle of an octopus giving them the finger 8 times.
I'd suggest that we all break into record stores and destroy the CDs, but insurance would cover it and we gain nothing.
No, it's easier to settle than to fight. If I got the letter, the one condition of my settlement would be that I get an invoice of who gets what ammount of the payment. Then I'd call up all the artists on the list and let them know that I'm glad my 35 cents contributed to their new Ferarri.
Maybe it's time to start selling a dead-man switch for our PCs. Just use an open WAP as your switch and you will be covered. When they sue you, thermite your hard-drives and then claim that someone else used your WAP to download that stuff...
Oh God! You mean we have to listen to this crap for another 18 months? And that's just before the trial starts! There will be delays and continuances and all manner of legal games just to drag it out.
BTW, I don't think IBM will get any of that $50 mil. It will all be gone...taken by lawyers and CEOs cars/vacation homes.
On a side note, I wasn't really in the industry when the whole BSD/Unix lawsuit took place. I do know that the reason we have Microsoft Server today is that the lawsuit scared companies into abandoning BSD. Are there any paralells between the BSD suit and the Linux suit?
I'm not trying to be an asshole or a troll; just hear me out.
I love Reiser. I also love Gentoo and adore Debian. Myself and another guy, Joe, are the main "linux geeks" in our computer group (cugy.net). When it came time to decide what to support at our group, we had to choose RedHat.
If I'm in a message board or IRC channel, I need to know some things about the guy I'm helping. We reccomend RedHat because that is the biggest US company behind Linux (IBM and SUN notwithstanding). If I am teaching people about Linux, then it is to both our advantages to teach/learn about what we will see "in the field". Therefore, we only support RedHat.
What does this have to do with anything? Well, RedHat 9 and Severn do not allow the creation of Reiser by default. I could probably boot from a Gentoo disk and format a partition to Reiser, then install RedHat to it. But, by default, only ext* is allowed.
I love to do things that improve performance. I love testing new things on my laptop or on a offline box in our test lab. But unless RedHat offers it, it will remain in the shadows of the linux world, which is, in turn, in the shadows of the user enclave. Hell, of every important box on my network, they are either RedHat or Win2k.
More on topic, Joe got a lot of recognition when the "internet got a lot faster". Did he upgrade the firewall? Did he install another OC-3? Maybe he reconfigured services on the proxy?
Nope, he installed a hard drive, formatted it to Reiser, and moved the proxy cache to the reiser disk. I couldn't belive it. Just changing the filesystem caused an increase that was noticable across our network. At no cost!
Good work, Joe.
You can deny a solicitor access to your property. You could place a "No Trespass" sign to prevent someone from physically encroaching on your property.
I'm not really sure what country you are from, but in the US, your mailbox belongs to the USPS. It is not your property. It is part of a public network. You cannot prevent anyone from sending you a letter. You can, however, throw away the letter before you read it. Otherwise, there is no recourse.
The phone network is similar. It is a public network. Connecting an end-device to the public network opens you to the perils of that network. Just as going to a park opens you to people exercising their rights, being on a public network does the same.
You could argue that:
a. Judges issue restraining orders to prevent harrasing phone calls from ex-whatevers. I do not know the details, but I belive these are intended as short-term measures to allow the parties a "cooling down" period.
b. Me causing your phone to ring is no different from me causing your computer to reboot. One is considered "hacking" and the other is normal use. The difference is that a telephone can only ring if the user specifically allows such action to take place. Just like me opening a http request on a web server.
So, I hope you can see the difference between being on a public network and being on your private property.