It's not exactly an O'Reilly-invented buzzword. It's Engrish, really. The concept of a mook as a nice hobby magazine-book has been around in Japan since before I started watching anime ('93 or so) and probably a lot longer than that.
But it certainly rather see this posted than a nother article about the guy who made a working death star out of old shampoo bottles and ber cans in his parents basement:)
If some guy has built a working death star in his parent's basement, I'd certainly rather hear about that.
Y'know, I used to think that, and that it would never work.
After I don't know how many times I've thought, "That's ridiculous, that would only work if they ([Got Congress to outlaw software that broke DRM]|[Got congress to mandate all A/D converters respect watermarks]|[Got Congress to outlaw general purpose computers]), only to see a member of Congress propose the very same thing a few months later, I'm convinced that it still will never work, but that our lives could sure become screwy as a consequence...
In addition to tweaking window size, one key to fixing this issue will be to have unpredictable source ports, which OpenBSD does an excellent job of, but which for other OSes are fairly predictable (Linux source ports increment, IIRC).
If you have to guess source ports in addition to sequence number, you've upped the difficulty by 2^16 over what it was.
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The sun will go nova eventually, sure, but as you point out, that's not expected for quite some time. That's just a hard limit, though. There are plenty of things that could end civilization before then. Meteorite strikes, runaway biowarfare, nuclear war, pick your favorite.
Each of those is unlikely in the near term, but the odds are not zero. Many of those threats would be mitigated by having an off-planet branch of civilization.
Space activists want to go now because we can go now, at a price society can easily absorb for this insurance. Are you so certain that we'll still have the capability for manned spaceflight in a hundred years?
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It's not exactly an O'Reilly-invented buzzword. It's Engrish, really. The concept of a mook as a nice hobby magazine-book has been around in Japan since before I started watching anime ('93 or so) and probably a lot longer than that.
But it certainly rather see this posted than a nother article about the guy who made a working death star out of old shampoo bottles and ber cans in his parents basement :)
If some guy has built a working death star in his parent's basement, I'd certainly rather hear about that.
I probably shouldn't mention that 610 trillion neutrinos are passing right through your body in the second it takes to read this line, then.
http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw13.html
"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."
-Wernher von Braun
I put together the footage I took at the last launch attempt into a video on my homepage.
The music is from the very cool band ZIA. The lead singer/songwriter was at the launch this morning. (Lucky woman!)
I believe the first exoplanet was discovered in 1996, by Marcy and Butler, around 70 Virginis
The up to date list (minus these recent 100) can be found at exoplanets.org
There is an existing IETF internet draft on this very subject. Located here.
(This would probably violate 2.12.9, "No default passwords").
Y'know, I used to think that, and that it would never work.
After I don't know how many times I've thought, "That's ridiculous, that would only work if they ([Got Congress to outlaw software that broke DRM]|[Got congress to mandate all A/D converters respect watermarks]|[Got Congress to outlaw general purpose computers]), only to see a member of Congress propose the very same thing a few months later, I'm convinced that it still will never work, but that our lives could sure become screwy as a consequence...
In addition to tweaking window size, one key to fixing this issue will be to have unpredictable source ports, which OpenBSD does an excellent job of, but which for other OSes are fairly predictable (Linux source ports increment, IIRC).
If you have to guess source ports in addition to sequence number, you've upped the difficulty by 2^16 over what it was.
More room for covert network channels, too...
The sun will go nova eventually, sure, but as you point out, that's not expected for quite some time. That's just a hard limit, though. There are plenty of things that could end civilization before then. Meteorite strikes, runaway biowarfare, nuclear war, pick your favorite.
Each of those is unlikely in the near term, but the odds are not zero. Many of those threats would be mitigated by having an off-planet branch of civilization.
Space activists want to go now because we can go now, at a price society can easily absorb for this insurance. Are you so certain that we'll still have the capability for manned spaceflight in a hundred years?
(I think we probably will, but why gamble?)