Nerds like toys. ISS is a uber billion dollar toy. QED.
I wonder how many pictures of geologic formations, seismic indicators, temperature sensors, or other (strictly scientific of course)instrument packages have been pointed at the east side of the Black sea from the ISS lately...
It would seem to me, not that I understand this being a layman, but, it would seem, that the effect of the year of burning oil fires in Kuwait after Sadaam's people torched them at the end of Gulf 1 would have been the single greatest contributor to global warming, carbon footprint, or whatever the term du jours is. How does Bejing rank compared to that massive injection?
Ever thought what would happen if EVERYONE had that attitude about stupidity? Free Markets might spring up and people would get things done cheaper! Oh the Humanity!
pictures of dead presidnets. -these seem to work no matter what. I realize powers that be claim that paying cash for all debts public and private is so 19th century but, it works...
Who would want a Comma-bore or a Trash-80? Apple II forever dood! actually the 6502 family of CPU is a good basis for a learnign machien and the Apple II was the ultimate learning machine. Most of the Uber-geeks today started their PEEKs and POKES on a Apple II. CALL -151 really meant something back in the day. (3D0G)
Woz created the first true personal computer.
Nuff said.
Keyhole was the code name of the KH series of spy satellites.
As to the concept itself: what of the Enviornmental Impact statement (if it hits)? What of its carbon footprint (If it hits)?
Also, as I recall, the last body that could have posed an issue was discovered on its way AWAY from Earth after its close encounter. There are so many of these in orbits never before tracked that our first clue of a problem may be after a rock lands where India used to be...
There is a legend that, as the Guillotine blade descended on the neck of Louis XVI the last Borbon King, and a direct descendent of Philip IV, an old man in the crowd yelled out: " Jacques de Molay THOU ART AVENGED!" THUNK!
One day long ago, a company, as part of a traveling promotion for their product, had a display of one of the original 13 copies of the Bill of Rights. In 1789, Congress had authorized hand made copies of these to be created for each of the States. This copy was in an inert Nitrogen box, inside a steel case, in a steel display kiosk built inside their semi trailer traveling display. Accompanying this display was some fellows in dark suits, ear pieces, and a distinct bulge in the under arm area. I assumed they were Secret Service.
To enter this display it was required that each citizen must pass through a metal detector. I happen to always wear Redwing Boots. Redwings are very well built steel toe boots. Of course the alarm went off and I had to remove my shoes to enter the structure. I should mention this was in the early 1980s long before Homeland Scrutiny and the need to strip search 80 year old Irish Nuns at the airport to insure they are not Arab anarchists in disguise..
I dutifully, and meekly removed my boots so I could enter the display. To this day, I recall standing in my stoking feet, looking down at the original document that stated:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. It made me feel warm...right down to my (cold) toes....
I read it; well written story that hauntingly reminds me of Arthur Clarke's "The 9 Billion Names of God"... One question: Such analog occilations in the data stream....aren't REALLY there are they? Are they?
Nupperime de Gallia huc volavi! Mehercule, bracchia mea defatiga sunt! -I just flew in from Gaul, and boy, are my arms tired!
Seriously, I have been learning Latin on my own as a hobby. Being somewhat older and less systematic though equally determined, it takes me somewhat longer. As is. I can legit far more then I can loquit...but I can speak Esperanto like a native...
This has happened before. in 64 AD the Great Fire in Rome melted roof tiles of lead which flowed into the treasury reducing the gold content of any coin with Nero's face on it to about 1/2 that of his predecessor...that was Nero's stoyy and he is sticking to it!
Identity theft is making peopel mistrust the banking system. Given what a shady thing it really is, this is a bad thing?
BBC did a documentary on biometrics a year or so back. Iris ID has been used in Dubai for soem time it said. Also it pointed out that a way to defeat this is any drug that dialates the pupils. So; smoke a bong and smile;)
far simpler, far cheaper, and far more true: Buy Scott Adams Dilbert DVD. This publication will lead you through a project and describe most of the pointy haired problems you will encounter along the way...right to the final release of a less then marketable product designed by committee.
Old but timeless.
Would that a sequel were published...
in case no one else has posted this, please any parent. see this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI WELL worth it and it shows where you can buy Singapore printed math texts so your kid MIGHT be able to play on a world stage one day...
Sir this is not the venue for this discussion but let me assure you, I AM aware, more then you know of the circumstance and nature of what is required of you. and I still Stand by what I said. it is lax to use this tech if the "tech" is not sufficent to the security then: do not use it. we hear of breeches often, and this forum is quite qualified to see the danger. if you cannot trust what you have, do not point fingers at tools, or tool makers; fix your process.
Anyone who keeps med records on a phone..... do you have a similar attitude in other endeavors? Seriously, I find that reprehensibly lax. I trust you are not my med provider... You state: "The thing is that the tech seems to need a fix before we can go about blaming the users." then keep data there ANYWAY?
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I draw the line at androids! no athlete should have less then 40% natural body parts! THEIR body parts!
Nerds like toys. ISS is a uber billion dollar toy. QED.
I wonder how many pictures of geologic formations, seismic indicators, temperature sensors, or other (strictly scientific of course)instrument packages have been pointed at the east side of the Black sea from the ISS lately...
Only if a large stone obelisk moves into the neighborhood at the same time...
It would seem to me, not that I understand this being a layman, but, it would seem, that the effect of the year of burning oil fires in Kuwait after Sadaam's people torched them at the end of Gulf 1 would have been the single greatest contributor to global warming, carbon footprint, or whatever the term du jours is. How does Bejing rank compared to that massive injection?
Wasting taxpayer money, Fanning ego, puffing out nationalist chest, and generally being seen as barbarians had nothing to do with it?
Ever thought what would happen if EVERYONE had that attitude about stupidity? Free Markets might spring up and people would get things done cheaper! Oh the Humanity!
far harder to tax. How do you inflate a chicken?
NO! don't say it.
pictures of dead presidnets. -these seem to work no matter what. I realize powers that be claim that paying cash for all debts public and private is so 19th century but, it works...
Who would want a Comma-bore or a Trash-80? Apple II forever dood!
actually the 6502 family of CPU is a good basis for a learnign machien and the Apple II was the ultimate learning machine. Most of the Uber-geeks today started their PEEKs and POKES on a Apple II. CALL -151 really meant something back in the day. (3D0G)
Woz created the first true personal computer.
Nuff said.
Keyhole was the code name of the KH series of spy satellites.
As to the concept itself: what of the Enviornmental Impact statement (if it hits)? What of its carbon footprint (If it hits)?
Also, as I recall, the last body that could have posed an issue was discovered on its way AWAY from Earth after its close encounter. There are so many of these in orbits never before tracked that our first clue of a problem may be after a rock lands where India used to be...
There is a legend that, as the Guillotine blade descended on the neck of Louis XVI the last Borbon King, and a direct descendent of Philip IV, an old man in the crowd yelled out: " Jacques de Molay THOU ART AVENGED!" THUNK!
One day long ago, a company, as part of a traveling promotion for their product, had a display of one of the original 13 copies of the Bill of Rights. In 1789, Congress had authorized hand made copies of these to be created for each of the States. This copy was in an inert Nitrogen box, inside a steel case, in a steel display kiosk built inside their semi trailer traveling display. Accompanying this display was some fellows in dark suits, ear pieces, and a distinct bulge in the under arm area. I assumed they were Secret Service.
To enter this display it was required that each citizen must pass through a metal detector. I happen to always wear Redwing Boots. Redwings are very well built steel toe boots. Of course the alarm went off and I had to remove my shoes to enter the structure. I should mention this was in the early 1980s long before Homeland Scrutiny and the need to strip search 80 year old Irish Nuns at the airport to insure they are not Arab anarchists in disguise..
I dutifully, and meekly removed my boots so I could enter the display. To this day, I recall standing in my stoking feet, looking down at the original document that stated:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
It made me feel warm...right down to my (cold) toes....
I read it; well written story that hauntingly reminds me of Arthur Clarke's "The 9 Billion Names of God"...
One question: Such analog occilations in the data stream....aren't REALLY there are they? Are they?
Text mail is easier to sort from spam; simply route Everything to trash. Problem solved.
why does this remind me of Ice 9 in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle? "And now I destroy the world!"
Nupperime de Gallia huc volavi! Mehercule, bracchia mea defatiga sunt! -I just flew in from Gaul, and boy, are my arms tired!
Seriously, I have been learning Latin on my own as a hobby. Being somewhat older and less systematic though equally determined, it takes me somewhat longer. As is. I can legit far more then I can loquit...but I can speak Esperanto like a native...
This has happened before. in 64 AD the Great Fire in Rome melted roof tiles of lead which flowed into the treasury reducing the gold content of any coin with Nero's face on it to about 1/2 that of his predecessor...that was Nero's stoyy and he is sticking to it!
Identity theft is making peopel mistrust the banking system. Given what a shady thing it really is, this is a bad thing?
BBC did a documentary on biometrics a year or so back. Iris ID has been used in Dubai for soem time it said. Also it pointed out that a way to defeat this is any drug that dialates the pupils. So; smoke a bong and smile ;)
far simpler, far cheaper, and far more true: Buy Scott Adams Dilbert DVD. This publication will lead you through a project and describe most of the pointy haired problems you will encounter along the way...right to the final release of a less then marketable product designed by committee.
Old but timeless.
Would that a sequel were published...
Tut Tut! is that any way to speak around Thomas the Tank Engine?
We will miss you Mr Conductor...
in case no one else has posted this, please any parent. see this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI WELL worth it and it shows where you can buy Singapore printed math texts so your kid MIGHT be able to play on a world stage one day...
Sir this is not the venue for this discussion but let me assure you, I AM aware, more then you know of the circumstance and nature of what is required of you. and I still Stand by what I said. it is lax to use this tech if the "tech" is not sufficent to the security then: do not use it. we hear of breeches often, and this forum is quite qualified to see the danger. if you cannot trust what you have, do not point fingers at tools, or tool makers; fix your process.
Anyone who keeps med records on a phone..... do you have a similar attitude in other endeavors? Seriously, I find that reprehensibly lax. I trust you are not my med provider...
You state: "The thing is that the tech seems to need a fix before we can go about blaming the users." then keep data there ANYWAY?
and ANSI art scripts?
Bill didn't mention getting his picture taken in Albuquerque? http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2007-12/34454506.jpg