The Space Shuttle Columbia delivered Chandra to a low Earth orbit. Then, the Inertial Upper Stage rocket boosted Chandra up to a higher altitude where a built-in propulsion system took Chandra to its final orbit.
I'm wondering whether there's some juice still left in Chandra's propulsion systems. If so, we can still launch a repair shuttle mission, have Chandra go to the shuttle with whatever's left in it's rockets, and get a repair done. Then, boost it back out. IANARS (I Am Not A Rocket Scientist) but usually NASA leaves some rocket fuel in it's satellites and stuff so they can reorientate themselves if necessary, etc.
What about $100,000 for me, for having to find this stuff out on/., emotional distress, etc. That should easily reach $100,000 - tax;-)
Oh, I almost forgot:
Belkin (verb) - To surreptitiously alter a product in such a fashion that legitimate use is hijacked to the benefit of the manufacturer or associated beneficiaries, usually in a crass self-promoting fashion.
Example: "That Eric Deming really belkined his company's product."
No, it's time. Each email spam takes like what, a millisecond to send? But with VoIP, you have to deal with bandwidth (takes a lot more to send voice than text) and the time it takes to go through any obstacles. The caller has to navigate any menu system, listen to any "please leave a message at the tone" messages, etc.
The problem is, you do accept it so willingly. You shouldn't have to deal with this. Nobody should have to.
Advertising shouldn't be on a product that is paid for. The router should do only one thing: route packets. Anything else, if it drops packets, rewrites packets (which it does), etc, then it doesn't work properly, and a complaint to Belkin is in order, along with a request for an RMA#. If the router is designed not to work properly (as it seems), then we need to file a report with the FTC.
Forget it. I'm not using a Belkin product unless they can prove there's no hidden "features" in the firmware. Either they open their source code, or they pay an independent review agency to completely review the firmware, hardware, etc. Every single chip in that router should be examined for any hidden "features". This was a monumental clusterfuck. And now you tell me they actually had the stupidity to attempt to defend their actions? Morons.
Anyone want to do some testing on the new firmware to make sure it's clean?
"It is clear that Microsoft wants to get a lot of their DNA into it," said Richard Doherty, director of research company The Envisioneering Group. One reason for that involves hacking incidents. "They sure don't want to have a situation where an Xbox can be turned into a PC," Doherty said.
No more Beowulf clusters, running Linux via the MechWarrior game, etc. Too bad.
Don't start slapping IBM and putting on your tinfoil hats people. If IBM doesn't patent this, chances are someone else will, and then sue IBM. Yes, it might be the most obvious thing in the world, and I hate myself for not applying for this patent myself, but in the hands of IBM, it's more or less safe. IBM's not going to sue anyone unless they start spewing FUD like SCO. Hell, I'd prefer this patent in the hands of MS than in anybody SCO-like. Say what you want about MS, but they have tons of patents as well, but they're very lax about enforcing them. Better a patent with IBM/MS than with someone like SCO or Eolas.
99% of the people in the world DO NOT know what a permission based file system is. Hell, they probably don't even know what a file system is and does ("Doh, I think I know what a file system is, is it when you arrange office files alphabetically?"). Who do you think the average Joe is going to blame for viruses... MS or the viruswriters? It's not going to be MS, that's for certain.
For your average email virus, slap on a SMTP engine, a searcher to grab email addresses, and a semi-interesting email so people will run the program, and bam, you're got yourself an email virus, preying upon people's stupidity.
On the other hand, things that attack vulnerabilities such as buffer overruns, etc are harder because you actually have to do some research.
A question for/. lawyers and people who play one: virus writing is illegal, I know, but is writing a trojan illegal? And if it is, how do you define a trojan?
Before SCO shut down it's download site, I downloaded the SCO Linux kernel files from the ftp site (ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/scolinux/server/4.0/updates/SRPMS). (At least I think it's the kernel files, they all start with kernel-source[stuff here].rpm) 10 files, totaling 123 MB. Are these things the SCO kernel? Would anyone benefit from having them available on a mirror site? If they are, I'd like to make them available for download.
Before SCO shut down it's download site, I downloaded the SCO Linux kernel files from the ftp site (ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/scolinux/server/4.0/updates/SRPMS). (At least I think it's the kernel files, they all start with kernel-source[stuff here].rpm) 10 files, totaling 123 MB. Are these things the SCO kernel? Would anyone benefit from having them available on a mirror site? If they are, I'd like to make them available for download.
It's not like there's anything better. What, should we buy a Nomad or one of those Napster branded ones? Forget it. The iPod might not be perfect, but it's a damn sight better than anything else on the market. I'd get an iPod, if only I had any money......
We definitely need a moonbase. It's going to get very expensive if we keep on launching probes from Earth. Imagine how much fuel you're wasting just to get something up to escape velocity. If we build a moonbase, and use that as an assembly/construction point, then we can dedicate that much more money to better sensor arrays, cameras, etc.
Not to mention, a moonbase is better than a space station because a space station has to correct it's orbit every so often, there's so much garbage in the space close to Earth, etc. At least the moon is a stable platform where we can build stuff on. Hell, perhaps we can find a cave or something and build laboratories inside that. That way, even if a rogue object hits the moon, the labs will be relatively safe.
We can also build better telescopes. Imagine a telescope on the moon. A scope on Earth has to contend with the irregularities of the atmosphere, etc. But a moon telescope, forget it. Clear view all the way to Andromeda.
What happened to all the dreams back in the 1970's? Wasn't there all sorts of notions about how soon man was going to have massive bases on the moon, etc? Now fast forward to 2003, oops sorry, no go.
7. As of the date of this submission, IBM has provided over one hundred thousand pages of production documents to SCO. IBM intends to continue rolling its production to SCO, despite the inadequate supplemental responses we have received from SCO.
Well, damn. Imagine having to review 100,000 pages for maybe a few lines that *could* be important.
SCO also argues that IBM's motion was filed prematurely. That is false. This case has been pending nearly seven months. IBM served its first set of discovery requests more than four months ago. IBM filed this motion only after giving SCO more than 3 months to meet is obligations.
Well, Darl's on his way to a full year of profitability. If SCO has been able to drag it out for 7 months already, another 5 won't hurt them... much
Anyway, SCO's going down. Hard. I wonder if they'll sell me the copyrights to UNIX in bankruptcy court... I wouldn't mind having them for their historical value.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Dow Jones)--McDonald's Corp. (NYSE:MCD - News) characterized a published report that it plans a massive digital song giveaway promotion as "pure speculation."
It's "pure speculation". Notice they didn't say anything against/for it. Speculation is a very neutral term. Merriam Webster says:
And speculating means: to meditate on or ponder a subject
McD is still WORKING ON IT! Doesn't mean they've decided one way or another, it's just that they're thinking about IT! Before/. issues a retraction, try RTFD (Reading the F**king Dictionary). Can we set up some kind of dictionary fund for/. editors? Like this or this?
When Pokemon Colosseum comes out. I'm also going to grab the GBA game adapter for the GameCube, along with Rebel Strike and Zelda. But I won't even consider getting a GameCube without Colosseum. Anyone at Nintendo listening?
Whenever I see "is this the beginning of the end" I know the submitter is full of it. First it was that Java DB, Prevaylor or something. Now it's this, next it'll be that. Face it people, it's not the beginning of the end. It's not even the end to the beginning.
Chances are, Macromedia and MS will fight it out, MS will win (hopefully. It's a pain to tell computer incompetent people to go download the Flash plugin. They go "doh, what's a plugin"), or MS might buy out Macromedia (they do make that Dreamweaver site builder - nice piece of software) or MS's software might fall into a totally different niche than what Flash does. It's going to take at least another 5 -6 years for this saga to start unrolling, so keep your hats on, people.
If someone deletes their music files, then they're probably not going to go out and buy music, are they? Yeah, it's awesome from the RIAA's perspective, fewer illegal music files, but wait, now people will NOT be listening to RIAA music everyday. How does the RIAA expect to get new customers if the customers throw away their RIAA purchases? The RIAA is just shooting themselves in the foot. Multiple times. The RIAA is going to find it hard to get customers to replace those that it has lost.
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The Space Shuttle Columbia delivered Chandra to a low Earth orbit. Then, the Inertial Upper Stage rocket boosted Chandra up to a higher altitude where a built-in propulsion system took Chandra to its final orbit.
I'm wondering whether there's some juice still left in Chandra's propulsion systems. If so, we can still launch a repair shuttle mission, have Chandra go to the shuttle with whatever's left in it's rockets, and get a repair done. Then, boost it back out. IANARS (I Am Not A Rocket Scientist) but usually NASA leaves some rocket fuel in it's satellites and stuff so they can reorientate themselves if necessary, etc.
What about $100,000 for me, for having to find this stuff out on /., emotional distress, etc. That should easily reach $100,000 - tax ;-)
Oh, I almost forgot:
Belkin (verb) - To surreptitiously alter a product in such a fashion that legitimate use is hijacked to the benefit of the manufacturer or associated beneficiaries, usually in a crass self-promoting fashion.
Example:
"That Eric Deming really belkined his company's product."
No, it's time. Each email spam takes like what, a millisecond to send? But with VoIP, you have to deal with bandwidth (takes a lot more to send voice than text) and the time it takes to go through any obstacles. The caller has to navigate any menu system, listen to any "please leave a message at the tone" messages, etc.
The problem is, you do accept it so willingly. You shouldn't have to deal with this. Nobody should have to.
Advertising shouldn't be on a product that is paid for. The router should do only one thing: route packets. Anything else, if it drops packets, rewrites packets (which it does), etc, then it doesn't work properly, and a complaint to Belkin is in order, along with a request for an RMA#. If the router is designed not to work properly (as it seems), then we need to file a report with the FTC.
Forget it. I'm not using a Belkin product unless they can prove there's no hidden "features" in the firmware. Either they open their source code, or they pay an independent review agency to completely review the firmware, hardware, etc. Every single chip in that router should be examined for any hidden "features". This was a monumental clusterfuck. And now you tell me they actually had the stupidity to attempt to defend their actions? Morons.
Anyone want to do some testing on the new firmware to make sure it's clean?
"It is clear that Microsoft wants to get a lot of their DNA into it," said Richard Doherty, director of research company The Envisioneering Group. One reason for that involves hacking incidents. "They sure don't want to have a situation where an Xbox can be turned into a PC," Doherty said.
No more Beowulf clusters, running Linux via the MechWarrior game, etc. Too bad.
Don't start slapping IBM and putting on your tinfoil hats people. If IBM doesn't patent this, chances are someone else will, and then sue IBM. Yes, it might be the most obvious thing in the world, and I hate myself for not applying for this patent myself, but in the hands of IBM, it's more or less safe. IBM's not going to sue anyone unless they start spewing FUD like SCO. Hell, I'd prefer this patent in the hands of MS than in anybody SCO-like. Say what you want about MS, but they have tons of patents as well, but they're very lax about enforcing them. Better a patent with IBM/MS than with someone like SCO or Eolas.
99% of the people in the world DO NOT know what a permission based file system is. Hell, they probably don't even know what a file system is and does ("Doh, I think I know what a file system is, is it when you arrange office files alphabetically?"). Who do you think the average Joe is going to blame for viruses... MS or the viruswriters? It's not going to be MS, that's for certain.
Oh, I forgot:
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(begin spelling nazi rant)
mystery - spelled as mistery
(end spelling nazi rant)
Sorry, when I see mistery I keep on thinking mistress or Myst
If I had some mod points, you'd get Insightful easy.
(start rant)
Fact is, people, most users are idiots. People run attachments and expect geeks to fix it, all the time blaming someone else for their stupidity.. Seriously, you will not believe the number of times I have been called over by a computer illiterate person, asking whether the Windows prompt boxes on their screens are real (it's really the web page ads that masquerade as prompt boxes). I wish there was some kind of mandatory license to use the Internet; if you know what the hell you're doing, fine, you get to use the internet with no restrictions. But if you fail, a Special Ops Geek Force will invade your home, and lockdown your computers (e.g. firewall, popup blockers, antivirus, etc, that all work automatically). And maybe we can have some fun educating some chicks about computers.
For your average email virus, slap on a SMTP engine, a searcher to grab email addresses, and a semi-interesting email so people will run the program, and bam, you're got yourself an email virus, preying upon people's stupidity.
/. lawyers and people who play one: virus writing is illegal, I know, but is writing a trojan illegal? And if it is, how do you define a trojan?
On the other hand, things that attack vulnerabilities such as buffer overruns, etc are harder because you actually have to do some research.
A question for
Before SCO shut down it's download site, I downloaded the SCO Linux kernel files from the ftp site (ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/scolinux/server/4.0/updates /SRPMS). (At least I think it's the kernel files, they all start with kernel-source[stuff here].rpm) 10 files, totaling 123 MB. Are these things the SCO kernel? Would anyone benefit from having them available on a mirror site? If they are, I'd like to make them available for download.
Before SCO shut down it's download site, I downloaded the SCO Linux kernel files from the ftp site (ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/scolinux/server/4.0/updates /SRPMS). (At least I think it's the kernel files, they all start with kernel-source[stuff here].rpm) 10 files, totaling 123 MB. Are these things the SCO kernel? Would anyone benefit from having them available on a mirror site? If they are, I'd like to make them available for download.
Then just write the French translation onto the boxes, or better yet, print up a bunch of stickers and slap them on.
It's not like there's anything better. What, should we buy a Nomad or one of those Napster branded ones? Forget it. The iPod might not be perfect, but it's a damn sight better than anything else on the market. I'd get an iPod, if only I had any money......
Well, either way, the GPL is going to get validated, whether SCO is acting like Darth Maul or (heart attack) Robin Hood.
We definitely need a moonbase. It's going to get very expensive if we keep on launching probes from Earth. Imagine how much fuel you're wasting just to get something up to escape velocity. If we build a moonbase, and use that as an assembly/construction point, then we can dedicate that much more money to better sensor arrays, cameras, etc.
Not to mention, a moonbase is better than a space station because a space station has to correct it's orbit every so often, there's so much garbage in the space close to Earth, etc. At least the moon is a stable platform where we can build stuff on. Hell, perhaps we can find a cave or something and build laboratories inside that. That way, even if a rogue object hits the moon, the labs will be relatively safe.
We can also build better telescopes. Imagine a telescope on the moon. A scope on Earth has to contend with the irregularities of the atmosphere, etc. But a moon telescope, forget it. Clear view all the way to Andromeda.
What happened to all the dreams back in the 1970's? Wasn't there all sorts of notions about how soon man was going to have massive bases on the moon, etc? Now fast forward to 2003, oops sorry, no go.
7. As of the date of this submission, IBM has provided over one hundred thousand pages of production documents to SCO. IBM intends to continue rolling its production to SCO, despite the inadequate supplemental responses we have received from SCO.
Well, damn. Imagine having to review 100,000 pages for maybe a few lines that *could* be important.
SCO also argues that IBM's motion was filed prematurely. That is false. This case has been pending nearly seven months. IBM served its first set of discovery requests more than four months ago. IBM filed this motion only after giving SCO more than 3 months to meet is obligations.
Well, Darl's on his way to a full year of profitability. If SCO has been able to drag it out for 7 months already, another 5 won't hurt them... much
Anyway, SCO's going down. Hard. I wonder if they'll sell me the copyrights to UNIX in bankruptcy court... I wouldn't mind having them for their historical value.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Dow Jones)--McDonald's Corp. (NYSE:MCD - News) characterized a published report that it plans a massive digital song giveaway promotion as "pure speculation."
/. issues a retraction, try RTFD (Reading the F**king Dictionary). Can we set up some kind of dictionary fund for /. editors? Like this or this?
It's "pure speculation". Notice they didn't say anything against/for it. Speculation is a very neutral term. Merriam Webster says:
Speculation: an act or instance of speculating
And speculating means: to meditate on or ponder a subject
McD is still WORKING ON IT! Doesn't mean they've decided one way or another, it's just that they're thinking about IT! Before
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency funded the work.
I wonder how many people they can kill using this chip?
When Pokemon Colosseum comes out. I'm also going to grab the GBA game adapter for the GameCube, along with Rebel Strike and Zelda. But I won't even consider getting a GameCube without Colosseum. Anyone at Nintendo listening?
Whenever I see "is this the beginning of the end" I know the submitter is full of it. First it was that Java DB, Prevaylor or something. Now it's this, next it'll be that. Face it people, it's not the beginning of the end. It's not even the end to the beginning. Chances are, Macromedia and MS will fight it out, MS will win (hopefully. It's a pain to tell computer incompetent people to go download the Flash plugin. They go "doh, what's a plugin"), or MS might buy out Macromedia (they do make that Dreamweaver site builder - nice piece of software) or MS's software might fall into a totally different niche than what Flash does. It's going to take at least another 5 -6 years for this saga to start unrolling, so keep your hats on, people.
If someone deletes their music files, then they're probably not going to go out and buy music, are they? Yeah, it's awesome from the RIAA's perspective, fewer illegal music files, but wait, now people will NOT be listening to RIAA music everyday. How does the RIAA expect to get new customers if the customers throw away their RIAA purchases? The RIAA is just shooting themselves in the foot. Multiple times. The RIAA is going to find it hard to get customers to replace those that it has lost.
For those too lazy to get the joke, the bolded letters spell out sendmemoneysco
Then what prevents someone from installing 5-6 devices on one car and skewing the requests the light gets?