And now our lack of vision as a nation and bureaucratical hassles have pushed the date even beyond that. It's a sad time to be an American Yeah, because my sense of self-worth is inextricably bound up with whether my country goes to Mars in this decade or that decade. Look how the US is being left behind by all those other manned Mars missions being run by the Russians, the Europeans, the Japanese, Chinese and Indians. oh wait -
Can someone please explain to me (and this is NOT meant to be a troll-post) why someone can't volunteer for a manned mission to Mars, raise funding from private companies/organizations and just go to Mars? Because no private organisations have $250-400 billion in spare cash lying around to fritter on a quixotic dream for no better reason than neo-imperialist flag waving?
The first 3 movies (i.e., "Star Wars IV", "Star Wars V", and "Star Wars VI") were really a medieval tale dressed in high technology. There was this chap called Joseph Campbell who wrote this book a while back; you should read it some time, I think you'd enjoy it...
When did you get too old to view things with child-like wonder instead of picking them apart and judging them? mate mate
Well, mebbe it's just me (or the way I was brought up) but I was taken to see A New Hope (then just called "star wars" by us) in December 1977, aged 8, in Leicester Square in London. (It was a birthday treat for a friend from school, his Mum took us.) This was an amazing experience for me (the first time I'm been in a fast food joint... I had no clue what any of these weird "burger" things were!) And it was the first film I'd seen at the cinema (apart from Bambi, and 'Fantasia'... my parents were kind of eccentric, OK?) Anyway, no previous film could have prepared me for the experience, it absolutely blew me away and I was practicing drawing X Wings and the Death Star for months afterwards. Er, make that years...
And the point I've got to at last is that I was analysing the living bejesus out of every frame *as I watched it* in the cinema - trying to work out what the hell was going on, and trying to capture as much of it as possible. It was six or seven years until Ep IV was broadcast on TV in the UK (October 14th '83 IIRC... whaddya mean, 'sad bastard'? I taped the soundtrack off the telly and played it back hundreds of times) and I and the other kids at school had lots of arguments about who would win in a fight between Han and Luke, or the rumours from those who'd seen Empire or Jedi about Luke being Darth Vader's son, & Leia being his sister... we got very, very analytical about it I can tell you, we made renaissance theologians look like casual dilettantes.
As a matter of fact, there's very little you have to do in order to remove methane from the atmosphere except wait around a few weeks. It has a very short lifetime once it's in circulation, as opposed to CO2 which, once emitted, is there forever (in human terms) or in geological terms, until it gets chemically locked up in rocks and buried below the ocean floor once again.
It's late, it's Friday, I'm talking colloquial English. Don't like it? I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave a moment ago to Danny, from the Hon. Member for Withnail. (Vis: "You can shove it up your arse, and fuck off whilst you're about it.")
and here IS that story; very good it is, too. I defy anyone not to be moved by the scenes at JPL when the first pictures from from Eagle crater came down from Opportunity. I get a little bit choked up myself every time I see it:)
Yes, you're are spot on. Evilcopyrightmafiascumspawn are the same all over the world.
Until recently we would have had to rely on the Register as the only UK-based organisation that would get it on this sort of thing; however we now have the Open Rights Group, who I hope will be saying something about this at least, which might merit an inch or two below the fold on p22 of one or two of the broadsheets in the next week or so.
Evidence of shellfish is not shellfish of evidence. No, wait - I meant, that's why the first oyster didn't want to share his patch of rock with the second oyster -- because he was shellfish.
A female friend of mine had a crazy daydream for a killer movie that would make her rich beyond her wildest dreams - which were pretty wild. The working title was: "Keanu Takes A Shower".
Absolutely, it's great news. Who knows, perhaps they'll release the people they illegally seized for daring to be in an aircraft that landed in the US to refuel on the way down to somewhere civilised (Antigua I believe) just because they broke US law in the UK and Antigua, which are not yet part of the USA.
Oh wait, now I'm just being silly, if they did that they'd have to stop kidnapping citizens of other countries from the streets of third party countries, and disappearing them into the CIA's torture dungeons, because they were stupid enough to share the same surname as someone the CIA reckon might once have said hello to a "terrorist". Yeah, sorry, pinch me someone, I'm dreaming...
Field commanders can get a view of the battlefield that is something you'd expect from a video game, eye in the sky, spying on enemy positions, all of the information relayed to a tactical plot in real-time. No no no, that's exactly the reason the the Dubya regime screwed up so royally in invading Iraq... they believed the marketing. Jesus, on slashdot of all places we should be well aware that marketing material (which is what all that stuff is) can sometimes be not... entirely... true.
Security policy writers: why not start by giving your employees with access to high-security areas a way to disable their keycards 24 hours a day by phone (including some sort of challenge/response question for them to answer)? Simple, inexpensive and effective compared to a lost or stolen keycard falling into the wrong hands. Hi there! I write security policies. Now I can't answer for the situation where you work, but there are two responses to this...
One: the art of good security is to spend just enough to make it not worth the attacker's time. A lost or stolen keycard is highly unlikely to be a targeted attack, and a random thief / person who picks a card up in the street (a) doesn't know which company and which address it applies to, and (b) probably doesn't care, as there's no benefit to them from getting into an empty office building. What are they gonna do, steal the desks?
Two: if you KNOW of a simple inexepensive and effective way to implement 24h keycard lockout without paying someone to sit in front of the access control system console 24/7/365, I'm all ears.
There's a particular problem with USB webcams on Linux. Since they became cheap commodity devices - once the price dropped below about £50 / $100 or so - for some reason hardware vendors can't be bothered with the minimal effort required to release hardware specs to driver developers.
I've been looking for a way to implement a particular project. We get a fair bit of wildlife in our garden at night (this is the Welsh marches so 'wildlife' in this context means deer, badgers and foxes basically.) I read that webcams can be easily converted to infra-red by removing the IR filter from the lens / ccd assembly. So I wanted to scatter a few cheap webcams around the garden, monitor them automatically and record scenes when stuff is moving. Even if USB didn't have far too short a range (10 or 15m IIRC), the lack of Linux driver support killed that idea. I'm now looking at getting similarly cheap analogue security cams and framegrabbing from the raw video, but getting appropriate "monitor then record when something moves" code will probably be non-trivial.
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hey, don't shoot the messenger. You did ask.
Go and backcomb something, shapemaker.
And the point I've got to at last is that I was analysing the living bejesus out of every frame *as I watched it* in the cinema - trying to work out what the hell was going on, and trying to capture as much of it as possible. It was six or seven years until Ep IV was broadcast on TV in the UK (October 14th '83 IIRC... whaddya mean, 'sad bastard'? I taped the soundtrack off the telly and played it back hundreds of times) and I and the other kids at school had lots of arguments about who would win in a fight between Han and Luke, or the rumours from those who'd seen Empire or Jedi about Luke being Darth Vader's son, & Leia being his sister... we got very, very analytical about it I can tell you, we made renaissance theologians look like casual dilettantes.
As a matter of fact, there's very little you have to do in order to remove methane from the atmosphere except wait around a few weeks. It has a very short lifetime once it's in circulation, as opposed to CO2 which, once emitted, is there forever (in human terms) or in geological terms, until it gets chemically locked up in rocks and buried below the ocean floor once again.
It's late, it's Friday, I'm talking colloquial English. Don't like it? I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave a moment ago to Danny, from the Hon. Member for Withnail. (Vis: "You can shove it up your arse, and fuck off whilst you're about it.")
and here IS that story; very good it is, too. I defy anyone not to be moved by the scenes at JPL when the first pictures from from Eagle crater came down from Opportunity. I get a little bit choked up myself every time I see it :)
I AM a British person, and I'm sure he meant twat. The fucking cunt.
Until recently we would have had to rely on the Register as the only UK-based organisation that would get it on this sort of thing; however we now have the Open Rights Group, who I hope will be saying something about this at least, which might merit an inch or two below the fold on p22 of one or two of the broadsheets in the next week or so.
Good news!
Evidence of shellfish is not shellfish of evidence. No, wait - I meant, that's why the first oyster didn't want to share his patch of rock with the second oyster -- because he was shellfish.
Even Vista has a not-completely-broken implementation of ASLR. Linux, of course, has been doing it for years...
The script pretty much writes itself...
Oh wait, now I'm just being silly, if they did that they'd have to stop kidnapping citizens of other countries from the streets of third party countries, and disappearing them into the CIA's torture dungeons, because they were stupid enough to share the same surname as someone the CIA reckon might once have said hello to a "terrorist". Yeah, sorry, pinch me someone, I'm dreaming...
ever heard of a thing called "field trials"?
Personally I'm just waiting to hear what other kind of dead there is than serious.
real people rock? Real people SUCK. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.
In that case, you're either a Linux shop, or you don't really understand what's going on...
Will do. Thanks!
I've been looking for a way to implement a particular project. We get a fair bit of wildlife in our garden at night (this is the Welsh marches so 'wildlife' in this context means deer, badgers and foxes basically.) I read that webcams can be easily converted to infra-red by removing the IR filter from the lens / ccd assembly. So I wanted to scatter a few cheap webcams around the garden, monitor them automatically and record scenes when stuff is moving. Even if USB didn't have far too short a range (10 or 15m IIRC), the lack of Linux driver support killed that idea. I'm now looking at getting similarly cheap analogue security cams and framegrabbing from the raw video, but getting appropriate "monitor then record when something moves" code will probably be non-trivial.