I would imagine it loads some item as an option ROM, reads more code from disk at a fixed offset location, loads into a modified bootloader that loads the actual payload then steps back to the real MBR to bring up the host OS. The BIOS code can be fairly trivial at that point, but hides that the MBR has been compromised by leaving the original MBR intact. -nB
True, but if you wanted to land a cluster of say 10 at one location and have them set off in 8 compass point directions (+ two spares) I think you could get all that on one Delta V heavy.
And, that is only the start of the problems. Seriously, having grown up in the aerospace business (Grandfather was a CMS at US AFLC base, grandmother worked in the tube shop, father was an aeronautical engineer for McDonnell Aircraft and later Douglas, and later yet the combined company, still later, at US AFLC as civilian, grandfather -in law was a QA inspector for maintenance hangers after retiring from the marines.
People don't understand the complexity in making things that do what is needed in extreme environments, especially when the production run is measured in single digits up to maybe 1000 units total. Cost is high because of NRE costs. Whether you make one or one million of something, you have to design it. If you only make 1 then it is the full engineering cost + fab cost. If you make 1,000,000 of them then the cost is fab cost + 1/1000000 of the engineering cost.
Thus, why I strongly suggest to NASA that they contract for 500 or so of the mars rovers and send them to the moon and mars en-masse. They are proven to be durable little buggers, and all the engineering work is done. They will be positively cheap compared to new designs and could really capture the public's interest. -nB
I backup onto 500 gig 2.5inch drives. They are fairly cheap/gig and take less physical space than an equivalent stack of DVDs. Important stuff is on a RAID1 of three 300 gig drives, and two 2TB drives (also backed up) less important stuff is backed up, but only on one disk in a JBOD collection. If a JBOD drive fails, inconvenient, but that's all. -nB
I think you are bang on. Control. Though to test driverless cars you need cars with drivers at some point for the driverless cars to avoid. Also, Google already runs autopilot cars in cities. They are not driverless, but the driver is only there in case the autopilot fails, otherwise he's just another passenger. -nB
That was a long post... Many points you bring up are either "sacred cows" or taboo, or both I suppose (depending on whom's side you are on).
I think you are right, a world pop of 8B is not going to happen (without severe conflict). I think it may not happen at all. Given the 1918 Flu pandemic &&|| "The Great War"'s effects on global population and scale either event to the current population... The thought is... ugly.
Also, you said the first world nations have not stabilized their populations because they erupt at the drop of a hat. I think you and the GP had a different thought in mind. I think the GP meant absolute numbers are relatively stable, you appear to mean socially stable.
Loathing && hatred... yes. I really can not find fault with your statement (I think there is more/different aspects but I can't put my finger on it).
World aid: (WARNING: U.S. Centric View) [damn it's a sorry state of affairs I even have to say that] I think many are tired of handing out aid, especially when we have enough money problems at home, and that is compounded by the stories of the aid not getting to the people who need it, but being held by those in power (Somalia, sp?). The final straw for many, myself included, is that we are seen as meddling and are rebuked by one hand, while the other hand of the same country/government/militia/etc. takes the aid. Now, while I do not agree with all my government does, I refuse to be an apologist either. Some of us are trying to effect a change, but non violent revolution takes at least one generation to really take hold, in reality it will take a minimum of two. I can only hope to set the stage for my children to finish the change that my peers and I try to start, and to provide enough familial security that they can continue that change without being fearful that the handouts will cease as a result.
I spent all my mod points already, so you got this reply instead. Otherwise I may have taken the easy way out and given you a +1.
Yes, but once it is a war zone we call them terrorists because their hobby *may* help the bad guys. If we can't pin terrorist on them we call them a sympathizer or some other tag that makes it ok to at least harass them. </whishful sarcasm>
I think he was German... Might not like the prefix "Monsieur";) On another note: Other fuels that have been tried, but failed included Acetone and something that "smelled of almonds" (that's all I found). Fuels that have been used in place of gasoline: syngas (from re-formed coal, WWII Germany), Wood gas, Ethanol. There is a rough standard about fuels, but there are certainly other fuels out there. The very first cars were steam engines, fueled on oil, coal, wood, and anything else that would burn. -nB
If they can't all agree on a single charging standard, then they will never agree on a battery pack geometry, let alone chemistry. And speaking off the summary:
or even on a single electrical connector.'"
I sure as shit hope they don't agree on the same connector if they are going to disagree on things like voltage and current. Same connector: one at 96 volts, the other at 144 volts. Plug the 144volt car into the 96 volt port and likely nothing happens (or at best you charge very slowly up to a partial charge). Plug the 144 volt charge circuit into the 96 volt car and *boom*. -nB
Failing that you take the Screwed less test: Will disclosing the key screw me more or less than keeping it secret? If the answer is less, well, give up the key. If it is more give up the key with a typo or two. (Ollie North style) "I'm sorry sir I don't recall"
That appears to be the judge's take on it as well. I particularly like where he says "the breadth of the prohibition is staggering". I think that says it all. -nB
Fine with me, where do I sign up for that job? You are paying me for any and all hours that you dictate my actions correct?
How is the overtime law in Missouri written? Here in California anything over 12 hours in one shift is double time, anything over 60 hours in a work week is double time, (and my personal fave) the seventh day worked in a work week is double time (and the counter on the double time clock does not reset until you get a day off). That last bit is something my boss and I learned when I worked 30 days straight @ about 10-12 hours per day. Day 7-30 (about 253 hours) were double time. -nB
Yes,
And banks make more off accidental overages than they lose on scams that exploit this. Think about the complexity to actually pull off the scam. The principal of this scam is simple, execution is not. -nB
Still untested for all practical purposes, but... The fifth amendment here in the US *should* protect you from being compelled to give up passwords that are not written down, including punishment via contempt of court. -nB
no then you claim they caused the second thing and make them fix it, while eating the cost of the first repair because now you're out a camera for two months. (hmmmm ethics?)
Slashdot Mirror
I would imagine it loads some item as an option ROM, reads more code from disk at a fixed offset location, loads into a modified bootloader that loads the actual payload then steps back to the real MBR to bring up the host OS. The BIOS code can be fairly trivial at that point, but hides that the MBR has been compromised by leaving the original MBR intact.
-nB
And DDR2/3/4
And PCIe/16 Graphics
All timings & lane skews handled by BIOS
-nB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Maloney_(technology)
The answer was stroke...
However, he's back at work now.
For two, if you want them to OSS their internal research, you can pay for it.
True, but if you wanted to land a cluster of say 10 at one location and have them set off in 8 compass point directions (+ two spares) I think you could get all that on one Delta V heavy.
And, that is only the start of the problems.
Seriously, having grown up in the aerospace business (Grandfather was a CMS at US AFLC base, grandmother worked in the tube shop, father was an aeronautical engineer for McDonnell Aircraft and later Douglas, and later yet the combined company, still later, at US AFLC as civilian, grandfather -in law was a QA inspector for maintenance hangers after retiring from the marines.
People don't understand the complexity in making things that do what is needed in extreme environments, especially when the production run is measured in single digits up to maybe 1000 units total. Cost is high because of NRE costs. Whether you make one or one million of something, you have to design it. If you only make 1 then it is the full engineering cost + fab cost. If you make 1,000,000 of them then the cost is fab cost + 1/1000000 of the engineering cost.
Thus, why I strongly suggest to NASA that they contract for 500 or so of the mars rovers and send them to the moon and mars en-masse. They are proven to be durable little buggers, and all the engineering work is done. They will be positively cheap compared to new designs and could really capture the public's interest.
-nB
I make a fruitcake. It is used as a carrier for the rum,
no, it is not.
Honey is a resource that is waiting to be turned into must and fermented.
*Then* it is food.
Anyone else see the horrible irony in that statement?
</sad>
I backup onto 500 gig 2.5inch drives.
They are fairly cheap/gig and take less physical space than an equivalent stack of DVDs.
Important stuff is on a RAID1 of three 300 gig drives, and two 2TB drives (also backed up) less important stuff is backed up, but only on one disk in a JBOD collection.
If a JBOD drive fails, inconvenient, but that's all.
-nB
I think you are bang on. Control.
Though to test driverless cars you need cars with drivers at some point for the driverless cars to avoid.
Also, Google already runs autopilot cars in cities. They are not driverless, but the driver is only there in case the autopilot fails, otherwise he's just another passenger.
-nB
That was a long post...
Many points you bring up are either "sacred cows" or taboo, or both I suppose (depending on whom's side you are on).
I think you are right, a world pop of 8B is not going to happen (without severe conflict). I think it may not happen at all. Given the 1918 Flu pandemic &&|| "The Great War"'s effects on global population and scale either event to the current population... The thought is... ugly.
Also, you said the first world nations have not stabilized their populations because they erupt at the drop of a hat. I think you and the GP had a different thought in mind. I think the GP meant absolute numbers are relatively stable, you appear to mean socially stable.
Loathing && hatred... yes. I really can not find fault with your statement (I think there is more/different aspects but I can't put my finger on it).
World aid:
(WARNING: U.S. Centric View) [damn it's a sorry state of affairs I even have to say that] I think many are tired of handing out aid, especially when we have enough money problems at home, and that is compounded by the stories of the aid not getting to the people who need it, but being held by those in power (Somalia, sp?). The final straw for many, myself included, is that we are seen as meddling and are rebuked by one hand, while the other hand of the same country/government/militia/etc. takes the aid. Now, while I do not agree with all my government does, I refuse to be an apologist either. Some of us are trying to effect a change, but non violent revolution takes at least one generation to really take hold, in reality it will take a minimum of two. I can only hope to set the stage for my children to finish the change that my peers and I try to start, and to provide enough familial security that they can continue that change without being fearful that the handouts will cease as a result.
I spent all my mod points already, so you got this reply instead. Otherwise I may have taken the easy way out and given you a +1.
There's no air on the moon, of course he's dead (no woosh required).
Seriously, this will do *nothing* for the nutters that honestly don't think we've been to the moon.
-nB
Yes, but once it is a war zone we call them terrorists because their hobby *may* help the bad guys. If we can't pin terrorist on them we call them a sympathizer or some other tag that makes it ok to at least harass them.
</whishful sarcasm>
Sadly, it is true...
> [ 71.610908] ModPointEnabledAccount[4485]: segfault at 7f51210dfaa8 ip 000000000040c544 sp 00007fffdadb5970 error 6 in .logicParser[400000+15000]
I think he was German... Might not like the prefix "Monsieur" ;)
On another note:
Other fuels that have been tried, but failed included Acetone and something that "smelled of almonds" (that's all I found).
Fuels that have been used in place of gasoline: syngas (from re-formed coal, WWII Germany), Wood gas, Ethanol.
There is a rough standard about fuels, but there are certainly other fuels out there.
The very first cars were steam engines, fueled on oil, coal, wood, and anything else that would burn.
-nB
If they can't all agree on a single charging standard, then they will never agree on a battery pack geometry, let alone chemistry.
And speaking off the summary:
or even on a single electrical connector.'"
I sure as shit hope they don't agree on the same connector if they are going to disagree on things like voltage and current.
Same connector: one at 96 volts, the other at 144 volts. Plug the 144volt car into the 96 volt port and likely nothing happens (or at best you charge very slowly up to a partial charge). Plug the 144 volt charge circuit into the 96 volt car and *boom*.
-nB
Failing that you take the Screwed less test:
Will disclosing the key screw me more or less than keeping it secret?
If the answer is less, well, give up the key.
If it is more give up the key with a typo or two.
(Ollie North style)
"I'm sorry sir I don't recall"
That appears to be the judge's take on it as well.
I particularly like where he says "the breadth of the prohibition is staggering".
I think that says it all.
-nB
Fine with me, where do I sign up for that job? You are paying me for any and all hours that you dictate my actions correct?
How is the overtime law in Missouri written? Here in California anything over 12 hours in one shift is double time, anything over 60 hours in a work week is double time, (and my personal fave) the seventh day worked in a work week is double time (and the counter on the double time clock does not reset until you get a day off). That last bit is something my boss and I learned when I worked 30 days straight @ about 10-12 hours per day. Day 7-30 (about 253 hours) were double time.
-nB
Yes,
And banks make more off accidental overages than they lose on scams that exploit this. Think about the complexity to actually pull off the scam. The principal of this scam is simple, execution is not.
-nB
Really?
Where was this?
Still untested for all practical purposes, but...
The fifth amendment here in the US *should* protect you from being compelled to give up passwords that are not written down, including punishment via contempt of court.
-nB
no then you claim they caused the second thing and make them fix it, while eating the cost of the first repair because now you're out a camera for two months. (hmmmm ethics?)