Oh, and, could NASA at least define plastic Wikipedia makes mention of 'synthetic or semi synthetic'. If it's just bits of the backshell / parachute / cover or whatnot - that's not terribly interesting. If it belongs to K'beel - that's an entirely different matter.
Yes. You glanced right past the "2.5 pounds heavier" part. In portables, less weight means more money. Been that way for years. Harder and more expensive to shave off ounces. You may find that trade off not worth the money but apparently lots of people do.
If yopu sell windows laptops, and someone calls with a problem, support staff has to make the call as to whether this is a defect or not, and may have to help the user fix it, depending on the details.
From Dell? Do something different? I doubt it. Channeling a very old post -
- User calls up Dell Linux support --
SUPPORT: "Hi, I'm Bob, from Wheatfield, Kansas". USER: "What?" SUPPORT: "My name is Bob, from Dell Support here in Kansas" USER: "OK, I'm having a problem with my Linux laptop" SUPPORT: "Is it plugged in?" USER: "Yes, it's plugged in, the battery reads 90% charge." SUPPORT: "Can you look at the plug in the wall and verify it is plugged in firmly to the wall socket?" USER: "I've already done that." SUPPORT: "Please to look at the connectors on the power brick and make sure they are firmly attached." USER: "I've already done that." SUPPORT: "Please recheck those connections as we cannot proceed until you have afirmated that they are connected." USER: (Sighs) "OK, Don't you want to know what problem I'm having?" SUPPORT: "We will be happy to get to that issue in a moment. For now can you please reboot your computer." USER: (Sighs) "OK." SUPPORT: "Excellent! Now please re install the operating system" USER: -- Click ---
Don't see how it's any different from the current support script.
Or just get a little FM radio dongle for your phone. I have a genuine Chinese cheapo that slaps on the the bottom of the iPhone which is attached to the dash with some Velcro. Find a blank FM station, run it through the radio (fortunately, FM radio has been standardized for quite some time). Not exactly hi fidelity but neither is a 12 year old pickup truck.
You definition of either Quality Control or fanatic differs from mine. In particular, Apple has NEVER been about QC. You don't buy Rev 1 of anything Apple unless you are a dyed in wool fanboy. You don't load x.x.0 of any Apple OS unless you are a dyed in wool masochist.
Yeah, Apple eventually gets it right, mostly. But they've never adhered to the 'fix it before it ships' mentality.
There are men in the pictures, assembling a structure to trundle over the top of the reactor in the background. They no doubt have exposure limits and suitable apparatus but the fact remains that they are standing around it. There's a 19 mile exclusion zone. That's about equivalent to the zones put around nuclear testing sites anyway (and there are even tourist trips into that exclusion zone on a regular basis).
They are not building the arch and truss over the reactor, TFA states they are assembling it elsewhere and will later go through the arduous process of moving it in place...
Look at the pictures again. The reactor is in the background. The truss is in the foreground. When completed, it will be moved over the remains of the reactor / concrete sarcophagus. Probably on a bunch of train rails. Russians like train rails for moving heavy things (works well, is cheap). Given that it is paid for and overseen by an International agency, they likely are keeping close track of everybody's exposure.
Chernobyl was a horrific design even by the standards of the time.
Yes, nobody is or will be using uncontained reactors like Chernobyl. Only the Russians...
Modern designs are immune to the kinds of accidents which happened at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and even Fukushima.
Here is the little problem. Those moderately safe Gen I reactors - they're still in use.
If commercial nuclear power managed to keep up with the original decommissioning of older plants and built new plants on a production line basis so each one wasn't a special (very expensive) snowflake AND we came up with the political will to store the high level waste somewhere (my vote is New Jersey) then nuclear power would be a reasonable choice. Since the industry and government haven't managed to do any of those, it looks to be not such a good idea.
There is nothing inherently wrong with fission power, but the way it's set up is a guaranteed failure.
Because there is a requirement to maintain a certain amount of capability (so if a spy satellite fails, they need to have a spare to launch to replace it in short order), and the long lead times (say 5 to 10 years) to build these satellites, the DoD orders a number of satellites, and some of them may possibly never actually end up being flight vehicles.
These two satellite 'cores' are just such spares. They weren't launched because a new generation of spy satellites were put into operation before these were needed. There are probably no other examples of these things still in orbit, though the model was probably used for a decade or more.
Remember, NASA wasn't given two completed satellites, they were given two mirror assembly's and the associated bus and structure. It is up to NASA to design and build a useful science satellite with them.
As to the DoD having something better, they probably do, but it isn't the mirror that is better, it's that the bus and structure will be of a different design. Optically, the limitation on a downward looking spy satellite will be the atmosphere, not the mirror or other associated optical components.
The sad part is that you are exactly correct. There must be a bunch of warehouses with all sorts of 'fun' stuff. Too bad we'll never see it.
That might have been an OK excuse 5 years ago, but it's been rather a long time (in Internet time) since SCADA started getting hooked into the Internet. We've had a bunch of discussions about this exact issue for quite awhile. The industry has a set of best practices (air gap, data diodes, etc). The manufacturers of SCADA gear have had plenty of time to revamp their designs.
If you believe TFA, they haven't done a particularly good job of the latter.
Not the same. The Ars article is a generic piece about some implications in terms of herd immunity of 'self boosting' vaccines. The current Fine Article is about a specific type of vaccine that would be long lived (if it lives up to what the researchers have found in lab animals). This flu virus would fit the definition of a 'self boosting' virus but it's not really what the first article was discussing.
Sometimes subtle things make a difference.
I'm surprised they managed to get the RNA into cells to the point where the proteins were transcribed. This technique may have many more uses than just vaccines. Interesting stuff.
Oh come on. Wouldn't you rather meet the 'giant electronic bra' than the usual humorless, overworked and hung over system rep? If (he / she / it) could only get past security (or the TSA for that matter) it might well liven up your day.
You seem to think that the 'brainstorming' part hasn't typically been done. For most diseases that are reasonably common, all sorts of stuff has typically been tried and abandoned. Are there possible real cures in abandoned therapies? Sure. How do you go about screening them for plausibility? Real science takes time and care to set up. You just don't lump a couple of dozen people with 'cancer' together and try to figure out what to do.
It's certainly possible that in a couple of software generations, electronic health records will create enough data to start mining it for data about interralationships between diseases and other aspects of human health and the environment. Certainly by doing limited genetic analysis of lots of patients and correlating the genome / proteosome / whateverosome with health and disease one can expect to find some useful correlates. But asking people for random advice and calling it 'open source' is just flat out useless except as a warm-and-fuzzy exercise.
Slashdot Mirror
But I trust NASA. I would never trust Bank of America.
Goddammit. We've been had!
Nice work, whomever.
And if you don't believe me, go to the home page.
Sigh.
Whois:
Whois query for nasaupdatecenter.us...
Results returned from whois.nic.us:
Domain Name: NASAUPDATECENTER.US
Sponsoring Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Registrant Name: Xavier Jenks,
Registrant Organization: NASA,
Registrant Address1:PO Box 791633
Registrant City: Cape Carnival
Registrant State/Province: FL
Registrant Postal Code: 666666
Cape Carnival?
Oh, and, could NASA at least define plastic Wikipedia makes mention of 'synthetic or semi synthetic'. If it's just bits of the backshell / parachute / cover or whatnot - that's not terribly interesting. If it belongs to K'beel - that's an entirely different matter.
Apparently not 3 mm beads unless somebody's niece left their junk jewelry on the rover.
How come only one low res picture, guys? I briefly looked at the MSL website and didn't see a higher res image. Anybody seen one?
Well, hell, according to everything I see downtown, it's already Christmas...
How about we get our asses to Mars first? Then worry about the really difficult places.
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Am I missing something?
Yes. You glanced right past the "2.5 pounds heavier" part. In portables, less weight means more money. Been that way for years. Harder and more expensive to shave off ounces. You may find that trade off not worth the money but apparently lots of people do.
Nah, Boatware works pretty well actually - everything on a boat is more expensive. A little known fact is that the word 'boat' is really an acronym.
It stood for "Bring On Another Thousand".
If yopu sell windows laptops, and someone calls with a problem, support staff has to make the call as to whether this is a defect or not, and may have to help the user fix it, depending on the details.
From Dell? Do something different? I doubt it. Channeling a very old post -
- User calls up Dell Linux support --
SUPPORT: "Hi, I'm Bob, from Wheatfield, Kansas".
USER: "What?"
SUPPORT: "My name is Bob, from Dell Support here in Kansas"
USER: "OK, I'm having a problem with my Linux laptop"
SUPPORT: "Is it plugged in?"
USER: "Yes, it's plugged in, the battery reads 90% charge."
SUPPORT: "Can you look at the plug in the wall and verify it is plugged in firmly to the wall socket?"
USER: "I've already done that."
SUPPORT: "Please to look at the connectors on the power brick and make sure they are firmly attached."
USER: "I've already done that."
SUPPORT: "Please recheck those connections as we cannot proceed until you have afirmated that they are connected."
USER: (Sighs) "OK, Don't you want to know what problem I'm having?"
SUPPORT: "We will be happy to get to that issue in a moment. For now can you please reboot your computer."
USER: (Sighs) "OK."
SUPPORT: "Excellent! Now please re install the operating system"
USER: -- Click ---
Don't see how it's any different from the current support script.
Or just get a little FM radio dongle for your phone. I have a genuine Chinese cheapo that slaps on the the bottom of the iPhone which is attached to the dash with some Velcro. Find a blank FM station, run it through the radio (fortunately, FM radio has been standardized for quite some time). Not exactly hi fidelity but neither is a 12 year old pickup truck.
Do you have to get new tin foil every year or is the old stuff better?
Jobs was a QC /fanatic/ ... .
You definition of either Quality Control or fanatic differs from mine. In particular, Apple has NEVER been about QC. You don't buy Rev 1 of anything Apple unless you are a dyed in wool fanboy. You don't load x.x.0 of any Apple OS unless you are a dyed in wool masochist.
Yeah, Apple eventually gets it right, mostly. But they've never adhered to the 'fix it before it ships' mentality.
African or European?
There are men in the pictures, assembling a structure to trundle over the top of the reactor in the background. They no doubt have exposure limits and suitable apparatus but the fact remains that they are standing around it. There's a 19 mile exclusion zone. That's about equivalent to the zones put around nuclear testing sites anyway (and there are even tourist trips into that exclusion zone on a regular basis).
They are not building the arch and truss over the reactor, TFA states they are assembling it elsewhere and will later go through the arduous process of moving it in place...
Look at the pictures again. The reactor is in the background. The truss is in the foreground. When completed, it will be moved over the remains of the reactor / concrete sarcophagus. Probably on a bunch of train rails. Russians like train rails for moving heavy things (works well, is cheap). Given that it is paid for and overseen by an International agency, they likely are keeping close track of everybody's exposure.
Chernobyl was a horrific design even by the standards of the time.
Yes, nobody is or will be using uncontained reactors like Chernobyl. Only the Russians...
Modern designs are immune to the kinds of accidents which happened at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and even Fukushima.
Here is the little problem. Those moderately safe Gen I reactors - they're still in use.
If commercial nuclear power managed to keep up with the original decommissioning of older plants and built new plants on a production line basis so each one wasn't a special (very expensive) snowflake AND we came up with the political will to store the high level waste somewhere (my vote is New Jersey) then nuclear power would be a reasonable choice. Since the industry and government haven't managed to do any of those, it looks to be not such a good idea.
There is nothing inherently wrong with fission power, but the way it's set up is a guaranteed failure.
Hopefully, he's filling the recycle bin with managers.
Not likely, but one can dream.
OK, you win. Weirdest comment on Slashdot today.
I don't think it's a coincidence that one of the 'related' stories is entitled "Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers?".
The answer in your case is obvious. Put the funny cigarette down.
Do. Not. Want...
Because there is a requirement to maintain a certain amount of capability (so if a spy satellite fails, they need to have a spare to launch to replace it in short order), and the long lead times (say 5 to 10 years) to build these satellites, the DoD orders a number of satellites, and some of them may possibly never actually end up being flight vehicles.
These two satellite 'cores' are just such spares. They weren't launched because a new generation of spy satellites were put into operation before these were needed. There are probably no other examples of these things still in orbit, though the model was probably used for a decade or more.
Remember, NASA wasn't given two completed satellites, they were given two mirror assembly's and the associated bus and structure. It is up to NASA to design and build a useful science satellite with them.
As to the DoD having something better, they probably do, but it isn't the mirror that is better, it's that the bus and structure will be of a different design. Optically, the limitation on a downward looking spy satellite will be the atmosphere, not the mirror or other associated optical components.
The sad part is that you are exactly correct. There must be a bunch of warehouses with all sorts of 'fun' stuff. Too bad we'll never see it.
You don't need two telescopes to do 'stereo'. You can use the fact that the telescope is moving in space.
That might have been an OK excuse 5 years ago, but it's been rather a long time (in Internet time) since SCADA started getting hooked into the Internet. We've had a bunch of discussions about this exact issue for quite awhile. The industry has a set of best practices (air gap, data diodes, etc). The manufacturers of SCADA gear have had plenty of time to revamp their designs.
If you believe TFA, they haven't done a particularly good job of the latter.
So, what you're saying is that it is a self boosting story?
Not the same. The Ars article is a generic piece about some implications in terms of herd immunity of 'self boosting' vaccines. The current Fine Article is about a specific type of vaccine that would be long lived (if it lives up to what the researchers have found in lab animals). This flu virus would fit the definition of a 'self boosting' virus but it's not really what the first article was discussing.
Sometimes subtle things make a difference.
I'm surprised they managed to get the RNA into cells to the point where the proteins were transcribed. This technique may have many more uses than just vaccines. Interesting stuff.
Oh come on. Wouldn't you rather meet the 'giant electronic bra' than the usual humorless, overworked and hung over system rep? If (he / she / it) could only get past security (or the TSA for that matter) it might well liven up your day.
Expand your horizons!
You seem to think that the 'brainstorming' part hasn't typically been done. For most diseases that are reasonably common, all sorts of stuff has typically been tried and abandoned. Are there possible real cures in abandoned therapies? Sure. How do you go about screening them for plausibility? Real science takes time and care to set up. You just don't lump a couple of dozen people with 'cancer' together and try to figure out what to do.
It's certainly possible that in a couple of software generations, electronic health records will create enough data to start mining it for data about interralationships between diseases and other aspects of human health and the environment. Certainly by doing limited genetic analysis of lots of patients and correlating the genome / proteosome / whateverosome with health and disease one can expect to find some useful correlates. But asking people for random advice and calling it 'open source' is just flat out useless except as a warm-and-fuzzy exercise.