Funny, a different article on wikipedia (Space Shuttle Abort Modes) claims that: "The SRBs cannot be turned off once ignited, and afterwards the shuttle is committed to take off. "
Wikipedia is contradicting itself? Noooooooooo!! *headasplode*
He sent threats and child porn (etc) to his neighbours co-workers. His neighbours hired an "investigator" who then discovered buddy was jacking their wireless.
So where does one draw the line between hitting F5 repeatedly, getting a drinking bird to do it for you, or running LOIC? Is the drinking bird illegal? Can you even prove LOIC was in use?
The backends of Visa and MC were never targeted for the exact same reason. Their corporate sites (largely symbolic, mostly useless) were taken down instead. Paypal is a bit of an exception, but they were too big for Anon to completely drag down. But they did manage to slow it and make their presence heard - Paypal released the remaining funds in Wikileaks' account.
Does this mean that we'll have radicals from major religions rowing around the indian ocean in dinghies, firing mortars at eachother while screaming "GET OFF MY HOLY WATER, INFIDEL!" ?
Not authorized to publish? Wikileaks does not need the U.S. government's permission to publish anything. They have no official presence in the US. And even if they were an American company, there is a little thing called freedom of speech and the freedom of the presses which would protect them. Also, they have not yet been designated a terrorist group (or similar), so the only thing here that is illegal (aside from the private who initially leaked the cables - but he's in jail) is the US State Department trying to intimidate American businesses into not interacting with Wikileaks. THAT is illegal. The response from Anonymous is probably also (technically) illegal, but when the government misbehaves, law goes out the window.
The sites themselves are hypocritical. Mastercard and Visa both stopped accepting payments for Wikileaks for policy breach (or some shit like that) yet you can still make donations to the goddamn KKK through them. Paypal admitted that the US state department forced them to drop their Wikileaks account. Amazon was just peachy fine with hosting Wikileaks and then mysteriously they kicked them out. Same with the swiss bank that was happy to hold an account for them up until recently, and also the random reappearance of "sexual assault" charges which were dismissed earlier.
Essentially this is the US gubberment on one side pressuring businesses to "do what we want, regardless of weather or not our threats are legal" and the public (Anonymous) on the other side saying "don't give in to the gubberment or we'll attack you, regardless of weather or not that's legal"
It's NOT hacking, but Joe Public doesn't understand the difference between a "hacker" and a DDOS. I had to explain it to my parents last night with the following example: A Hacker is to a DDOS'er as a Burgler is to a guy who repeatedly rings your doorbell and then hides in the bushes. The other explanation is that "hacker" is a sexy headline, so the major news outlets prefer to use the sensationalized label over the accurate one.
I think my favorite was hearing Anonymous called a "darkside hacker group." I'm not quite sure when Anonymous joined the Sith... maybe they should be called Darth Anonymous now?
Thanks. Here's the money quote that explains it (to me at least):
...the amount of damage to the O-rings was directly related to the time it took for extrusion [sealing] to occur, and that cold weather, by causing the O-rings to harden, lengthened the time of extrusion.
Now it makes sense why ground temperature is important. The boosters have to re-seal themselves after the stress of ignition, and colder temperatures lengthen this process. Too long (too cold) and catastrophic damage occurs. Nifty.
IANARS (rocket scientist), but why won't they launch under 53 degrees when the thing is going to freaking space? I hear that hurtling through the upper atmosphere and into space tends to be quite a bit colder than 53F.
BMW has something sorta like this on a lot of their cars. It's only front/rear and it's only normally active when you're parking (hence why it's called Park Distance Control), but essentially it's a visual representation of object distance and shape (accompanied by an audio tone). When I was a mechanic, parking BMWs and other cars with similar features was always fun because you could stack cars an inch or two off the next one's bumper.
When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion. No contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you! He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!
If you follow enough links, it shows a snippit of the C&D email they received:
Unauthorized use of a person’s name and/or likeness constitutes a violation of California Civil Code Section 3344, which prohibits the use of any person’s name, photograph or likeness in a product without that person’s prior consent
Perhaps you're thinking of the XM29 OICW? That's where I first saw this concept, back in the 90s. Apparently they scrapped the dual weapon concept (rifle + grenade launcher) and just kept the interesting bit that goes boom.
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Funny, a different article on wikipedia (Space Shuttle Abort Modes) claims that: "The SRBs cannot be turned off once ignited, and afterwards the shuttle is committed to take off. "
Wikipedia is contradicting itself? Noooooooooo!! *headasplode*
He sent threats and child porn (etc) to his neighbours co-workers. His neighbours hired an "investigator" who then discovered buddy was jacking their wireless.
Basically someone looked at their router logs.
Three branches ought to be enough for anybody!
So where does one draw the line between hitting F5 repeatedly, getting a drinking bird to do it for you, or running LOIC? Is the drinking bird illegal? Can you even prove LOIC was in use?
The backends of Visa and MC were never targeted for the exact same reason. Their corporate sites (largely symbolic, mostly useless) were taken down instead. Paypal is a bit of an exception, but they were too big for Anon to completely drag down. But they did manage to slow it and make their presence heard - Paypal released the remaining funds in Wikileaks' account.
Does this mean that we'll have radicals from major religions rowing around the indian ocean in dinghies, firing mortars at eachother while screaming "GET OFF MY HOLY WATER, INFIDEL!"
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'Cuz its honestly not a bad idea.
No, Amazon was intimidated into not to doing business with Wikileaks by the US State Department. They did not block Wikileaks actions in any way.
Wikileaks is free to find someone else to perform what Amazon's former function, who will then also be intimidated by the US State Department.
FTFY
Not authorized to publish? Wikileaks does not need the U.S. government's permission to publish anything. They have no official presence in the US. And even if they were an American company, there is a little thing called freedom of speech and the freedom of the presses which would protect them. Also, they have not yet been designated a terrorist group (or similar), so the only thing here that is illegal (aside from the private who initially leaked the cables - but he's in jail) is the US State Department trying to intimidate American businesses into not interacting with Wikileaks. THAT is illegal. The response from Anonymous is probably also (technically) illegal, but when the government misbehaves, law goes out the window.
The sites themselves are hypocritical. Mastercard and Visa both stopped accepting payments for Wikileaks for policy breach (or some shit like that) yet you can still make donations to the goddamn KKK through them. Paypal admitted that the US state department forced them to drop their Wikileaks account. Amazon was just peachy fine with hosting Wikileaks and then mysteriously they kicked them out. Same with the swiss bank that was happy to hold an account for them up until recently, and also the random reappearance of "sexual assault" charges which were dismissed earlier.
Essentially this is the US gubberment on one side pressuring businesses to "do what we want, regardless of weather or not our threats are legal" and the public (Anonymous) on the other side saying "don't give in to the gubberment or we'll attack you, regardless of weather or not that's legal"
Who's right? No one.
It's NOT hacking, but Joe Public doesn't understand the difference between a "hacker" and a DDOS. I had to explain it to my parents last night with the following example: A Hacker is to a DDOS'er as a Burgler is to a guy who repeatedly rings your doorbell and then hides in the bushes.
The other explanation is that "hacker" is a sexy headline, so the major news outlets prefer to use the sensationalized label over the accurate one.
I think my favorite was hearing Anonymous called a "darkside hacker group." I'm not quite sure when Anonymous joined the Sith... maybe they should be called Darth Anonymous now?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hivemindloic/files/Source/
Yeah, he's in jail awaiting court-martial.
Thanks. Here's the money quote that explains it (to me at least):
Now it makes sense why ground temperature is important. The boosters have to re-seal themselves after the stress of ignition, and colder temperatures lengthen this process. Too long (too cold) and catastrophic damage occurs. Nifty.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend?
IANARS (rocket scientist), but why won't they launch under 53 degrees when the thing is going to freaking space? I hear that hurtling through the upper atmosphere and into space tends to be quite a bit colder than 53F.
Better yet - use seven!
BMW has something sorta like this on a lot of their cars. It's only front/rear and it's only normally active when you're parking (hence why it's called Park Distance Control), but essentially it's a visual representation of object distance and shape (accompanied by an audio tone). When I was a mechanic, parking BMWs and other cars with similar features was always fun because you could stack cars an inch or two off the next one's bumper.
When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion. No contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you! He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!
Yes, lets BURN the internets. That will solve everything!
Canada will buy it and put it in a mall as an amusement ride. Gotta have something to replace the subs in WEM.
-A proud Canadian not afraid to take shots at my own country.
And in today's world, "yes" means "sure, but I might change my mind later and there's fuck all you can do about it!"
Let it burn to the ground and start fresh. IPv256! Decentralized DNS! All the good stuff. Oh well.
If you follow enough links, it shows a snippit of the C&D email they received:
Perhaps you're thinking of the XM29 OICW? That's where I first saw this concept, back in the 90s. Apparently they scrapped the dual weapon concept (rifle + grenade launcher) and just kept the interesting bit that goes boom.