Griffin's predecessor, Sean O'Keefe, cancelled a planned Hubble mission in January 2004. O'Keefe cited safety concerns in the wake of the shuttle Columbia disaster.
There have been several successful shuttle missions that have serviced the Hubble in the past so there's no reason to think that this particular type of mission is more dangerous than any other.
I think anyone stating that a shuttle mission to service the Hubble is not safe has an agenda beyond safety.
Says you. I can see how an entity might be on firmer legal ground if they adopt the procedure you've outlined. However, to say that legal reverse engineering "requires" two teams is a total fabrication.
"We are very optimistic that we'll be able to get out of here, but we're really going to take our time doing it."
It sounds like NASA is going to use a technique I discovered playing video games as a child. If you're stuck somewhere, just wiggle the joystick back and forth for a few hours to see if you can work your way out of it. Too bad they can't reload a saved game. I found that technique helpful too.
Now that I've seen Tiger, I can't wait until Longhorn is released. Just think of all those juicy features that Microsoft will see and innovate into their latest product!
Most articles start with a legitimate premise and then try to put a spin on it to make it more alluring.
Dvorak consistently starts with the, "What information is going to rile up the most people?" and then writes an article based on that no matter how false or illegitimate the premise is.
Dvorak does this all the time to increase page impressions. Don't even bother reading the article.
It's obvious to me that the opposite is occurring. It appears that people are becoming more and more addicted (or "drawn to" if you prefer a less inflamatory term) to video games as they become more interactive and realistic.
I think now I'll write a P2P application that runs on top of Triton called Tritonster. When AOL inevitably sues me for trademark infringement I'll claim that my daughter's nickname has been Tritonee for some time.
The thing I'm really looking forward to on Slashdot 2015 are all the posts:
"Why would anyone need that much power? I remember 9 years ago when we only had 10 qubits to work with! Quantum programmers sure are spoiled and lazy today."
The buggy file slowed down computer performance substantially by making CPUs run at almost full capacity, the software company said.
Sounds like every interactively-scanning antivirus program I've ever installed. I wonder, when Microsoft releases server benchmarks, if they run them with antivirus software running in the background? I think this would give a 10%-15% edge to operating systems that don't require such measures of protection.
What I find surprising is the spike in Biological Science. Since that includes medical professions, is everyone attempting to capitalize on the aging baby boomer population?
What exactly were social security numbers doing on that computer?
I'm still amazed at what companies ask me for my social security number and their casual attitude about what they do with it. My health insurance company uses it as my ID number. My dentist thinks nothing of asking for it and scribbling it on a post-it note along with my name while they enter a claim form into their computer and then they throw the post-it note away.
I always make an attempt to refuse to give my SSN. The shocked, negative reaction I get is absolutely amazing to me. It is apparently so ingrained to U.S. culture to give that number up to anyone that asks regardless of the totally insecure way they handle that number.
Let's start with the unsensational headline of "Linux Can't Kill Windows", follow through the article to no rational arguments as to why this is, and ending with a "Stay tuned; I'll tell you all about it."
Seems like a well-thought out article that certainly wasn't created for the purpose of increasing impressions or generating clicks to advertisers on the site.
Nothing they do makes sense to me. It seems like they're just creating new TLDs willy-nilly and giving control of them to new companies apparently without the ability to enforce any of the controls they've created. What exactly is the purpose of all these new TLDs?
Another said: "I am having problems loading Web pages, I get the 404 [page not found] error. I have to retry five to 10 times to get some places."
I may be daft but I don't understand how a DNS or network capacity problem could cause a web server to respond with an explicit "404 File Not Found" HTML error. I could see a timeout, DNS error, or any number of other errors, but a 404 would mean literally that you contacted the web server, it was unable to find the specific file you requested, and it successfully reported that back to you.
Hopefully the forum poster that is quoted in the article just thinks every HTML error is a 404.
I think throwing their support behind bloggers accomplishes two goals for the mainstream press:
1. It shows they're not "old media" looking to kill "new media" with any chance they're given.
2. It keeps one source of their information coming
Many news stories in the last few years never would have happened were it not for bloggers. The mainstream media made a killing reporting on things that were originally posted on blogs (the Dan Rather document comes to mind as a big example).
Regardless of the legality or morality of the blogger's actions, I see this as a win-win situation for mainstream media.
My aim was certainly not to give the impression that I distrust people outside the United States but rather to discuss the idea of the purported plan for an "ownership society" within the U.S. of:
1. US Workers do menial labor
2. US outsources menial labor
3. US Workers do skilled labor
4. US outsources skilled labor
5. US Workers own everything and do no labor
6. US outsources all labor
What do we expect will happen? Why will we "own" everything? Because a piece of paper says we own it. What happens when the people that actually do the work tear up the piece of paper?
I think incidents like this are tiny examples of what's to come.
This is one of the biggest problems that I see with our apparently inevitable slide toward an ownership society.
The plan as I read it is to offshore everything with the thought that we'll still own the capital and intellectual property that people who do the actual work will be dependent on. I think incidents like this shine a spotlight on why this kind of thing won't work in the long term. What happens when the people who do the actual work (and that you're throwing the equivalent of scraps to) decide they don't like your arrangement? They change the rules (example: steal people's identities) and you have little recourse since you don't actually do anything and are wholly dependent on them.
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Griffin's predecessor, Sean O'Keefe, cancelled a planned Hubble mission in January 2004. O'Keefe cited safety concerns in the wake of the shuttle Columbia disaster.
There have been several successful shuttle missions that have serviced the Hubble in the past so there's no reason to think that this particular type of mission is more dangerous than any other.
I think anyone stating that a shuttle mission to service the Hubble is not safe has an agenda beyond safety.
Software reverse engineering requires two teams
Says you. I can see how an entity might be on firmer legal ground if they adopt the procedure you've outlined. However, to say that legal reverse engineering "requires" two teams is a total fabrication.
What a troll article.
"We are very optimistic that we'll be able to get out of here, but we're really going to take our time doing it."
It sounds like NASA is going to use a technique I discovered playing video games as a child. If you're stuck somewhere, just wiggle the joystick back and forth for a few hours to see if you can work your way out of it. Too bad they can't reload a saved game. I found that technique helpful too.
Now that I've seen Tiger, I can't wait until Longhorn is released. Just think of all those juicy features that Microsoft will see and innovate into their latest product!
Most articles start with a legitimate premise and then try to put a spin on it to make it more alluring.
Dvorak consistently starts with the, "What information is going to rile up the most people?" and then writes an article based on that no matter how false or illegitimate the premise is.
Dvorak does this all the time to increase page impressions. Don't even bother reading the article.
It's obvious to me that the opposite is occurring. It appears that people are becoming more and more addicted (or "drawn to" if you prefer a less inflamatory term) to video games as they become more interactive and realistic.
It looks like WalMart imports more than just cheap goods created by virtual slave labor from China.
Now they're further hurting our trade deficit by importing clamp-down tactics from the Chinese communist government!
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Wait a second... They're all ME! Don't attack those addresses. Please make sure to not even ping them.
I think now I'll write a P2P application that runs on top of Triton called Tritonster. When AOL inevitably sues me for trademark infringement I'll claim that my daughter's nickname has been Tritonee for some time.
Sounds like a winning business plan to me!
Is there any truth to the rumor that having a picture of Bill Gates on your site makes you #1 in your category?
The thing I'm really looking forward to on Slashdot 2015 are all the posts:
"Why would anyone need that much power? I remember 9 years ago when we only had 10 qubits to work with! Quantum programmers sure are spoiled and lazy today."
The buggy file slowed down computer performance substantially by making CPUs run at almost full capacity, the software company said.
Sounds like every interactively-scanning antivirus program I've ever installed. I wonder, when Microsoft releases server benchmarks, if they run them with antivirus software running in the background? I think this would give a 10%-15% edge to operating systems that don't require such measures of protection.
When someone stands up and declares, "I will never be evil!" you shouldn't be surprised when people start looking for the irony of them being evil.
People love irony.
I believe that Google is generally good but even I have a hard time believing that Google is not evil when I read this one.
What about ads that most will find offensive?
Search for negroes on Google.com and see what ads show up on the right hand side.
What I find surprising is the spike in Biological Science. Since that includes medical professions, is everyone attempting to capitalize on the aging baby boomer population?
What exactly were social security numbers doing on that computer?
I'm still amazed at what companies ask me for my social security number and their casual attitude about what they do with it. My health insurance company uses it as my ID number. My dentist thinks nothing of asking for it and scribbling it on a post-it note along with my name while they enter a claim form into their computer and then they throw the post-it note away.
I always make an attempt to refuse to give my SSN. The shocked, negative reaction I get is absolutely amazing to me. It is apparently so ingrained to U.S. culture to give that number up to anyone that asks regardless of the totally insecure way they handle that number.
To start with, it's faster than any previous Solaris implementation, with a slick new IP stack just one of many performance enhancements.
What's it like to have a new release of your server operating system that isn't slower?
Do you have to have an unusually funny name in order to work for MSN search?
I'm slow so it took me a while to determine that Oshoma Momoh wasn't a palindromic joke. Adding "Doctor Flake" to the lineup is icing on the cake.
Let's start with the unsensational headline of "Linux Can't Kill Windows", follow through the article to no rational arguments as to why this is, and ending with a "Stay tuned; I'll tell you all about it."
Seems like a well-thought out article that certainly wasn't created for the purpose of increasing impressions or generating clicks to advertisers on the site.
Now Linux users can share in shoddy intrusive software that causes all sorts of incessant errors!
Hurray for version 7!
Nothing they do makes sense to me. It seems like they're just creating new TLDs willy-nilly and giving control of them to new companies apparently without the ability to enforce any of the controls they've created. What exactly is the purpose of all these new TLDs?
I agree with your post completely, but from TFA:
Another said: "I am having problems loading Web pages, I get the 404 [page not found] error. I have to retry five to 10 times to get some places."
I may be daft but I don't understand how a DNS or network capacity problem could cause a web server to respond with an explicit "404 File Not Found" HTML error. I could see a timeout, DNS error, or any number of other errors, but a 404 would mean literally that you contacted the web server, it was unable to find the specific file you requested, and it successfully reported that back to you.
Hopefully the forum poster that is quoted in the article just thinks every HTML error is a 404.
I think throwing their support behind bloggers accomplishes two goals for the mainstream press:
1. It shows they're not "old media" looking to kill "new media" with any chance they're given.
2. It keeps one source of their information coming
Many news stories in the last few years never would have happened were it not for bloggers. The mainstream media made a killing reporting on things that were originally posted on blogs (the Dan Rather document comes to mind as a big example).
Regardless of the legality or morality of the blogger's actions, I see this as a win-win situation for mainstream media.
My aim was certainly not to give the impression that I distrust people outside the United States but rather to discuss the idea of the purported plan for an "ownership society" within the U.S. of:
1. US Workers do menial labor
2. US outsources menial labor
3. US Workers do skilled labor
4. US outsources skilled labor
5. US Workers own everything and do no labor
6. US outsources all labor
What do we expect will happen? Why will we "own" everything? Because a piece of paper says we own it. What happens when the people that actually do the work tear up the piece of paper?
I think incidents like this are tiny examples of what's to come.
This is one of the biggest problems that I see with our apparently inevitable slide toward an ownership society.
The plan as I read it is to offshore everything with the thought that we'll still own the capital and intellectual property that people who do the actual work will be dependent on. I think incidents like this shine a spotlight on why this kind of thing won't work in the long term. What happens when the people who do the actual work (and that you're throwing the equivalent of scraps to) decide they don't like your arrangement? They change the rules (example: steal people's identities) and you have little recourse since you don't actually do anything and are wholly dependent on them.