I think it is time that we ask both major Presidential candidates to submit code samples. Bonus points will be awarded if they submit the code in Perl, Assembly, or FORTRAN.
Lets be fair to both candidates. Switch settings for a bombe should be acceptable.
Sorry for the offtopic post but I wonder if anybody has seen this behaviour:
On several linux workstations at work we noticed several other nodes on our LAN had been trying to get in via rsh, telnet and ssh. Typically the remote node tried several protocols over a second or so, too fast for a user to be doing it.
I called our IT people. They identified the windows boxes which generated the connections, pretty much as expected so far.
Then the weird bit. They claim that their virus scanner was the application trying to log on to the linux boxes. All very strange. Has anybody else seen anything similar?
Microsoft couldn't write a decent API if their lives depended on it. They manage to take simple concept, and bury under layer upon layer of useless complexity.
I think they may have caught that one from Digital.
Cops gave her a polygraph test, but refused to release the results. Hmm, like maybe a "she's telling the truth" result, that would very publicly demonstrate what a piece of useless crap polygraphs are?
Since her own internal model of the B event was obviously screwed up the polygraph could only tell you whether she believed her own story.
Despite what people will say about the environmental side-effects, I still feel that Project Orion is the best possible way for us to get back to space fast, and actually travel useful distances with a live crew.
Well I am glad we are launching "old bang bang" from your country...
Man-rate a Delta vehicle and use that to lift our astronauts, and we need to purchase Soyuz spacecraft from Russia. Luckily, Congress has recently authorized the latter.
We also need to do something like what Von Braun did - inflate the specs by 20% and build the rocket for that target instead of what the payload engineers say they need. The payload is going to weigh a lot more than what they think, even if they don't know it yet.
Chair vibrating too much? simple.. just look at your compass floating away, undo your straps and let your chair crunch into the ceiling while you float for the rest of the trip.
One huge difference between the Apollo/Saturn design and the Space Shuttle was multiple methods of abort that would separate the manned portion from the rest of the rocket. Things like the launch escape rocket (the little pointy thing on the top of the command module) and the ability to fire subsequent stages to at least get the astronauts way the hell away from a problem stage would have saved the astronauts in the event that the Saturn V had problems.
I heard of a design not too long ago for a capsule which could use RCS thrusters both for normal landings and for launch escape. The Apollo LES had to be very powerful to get the CM high enough to deploy parachutes. Take them out of the equation and you have a might lighter vehicle.
Only computer with a decent startup (under a second) that I have experienced was a computer with a ROM Basic interpreter, but then, that's a completely different animal.
If it took long enough for you to notice then something must have been wrong.
"One of the more unusual innovations is a pair of slip-on space suits attached to the back of the pressurized cabin. Rather than taking up room with a full-size airlock, a "plainclothes" astronaut simply slides into an empty suit, pulls a lever to close the hatch and detach, and walks away. The process can then be done in reverse to re-enter the cabin."
What about the dust? Everything I've read about lunar mission states lunar dust is super powdery and could be a real bitch in a pressurized environment...
This way is actually much better. During the apollo missions the dust came into the LM with the suits. If the suits actually stay outside the inside of the rover will be very clean. The suits will need maintenance but this could be done outside in vacuum.
And if they can grow new neurons it will be all for the better. If the heart and brain can be kept in good working order into old age, other tissues should be in better shape too.
The company I work for used to give us two separate security cards. One with the company logo and employee photo etc, the other a blank RFID card to get into the building. Now the cards have been combined into one so that if a card is lost the finder can go directly to our office and walk in.
So I explained the problem to our head of security. he agreed that I was right and that absolutely nothing would be done about it. The new cards are a global policy and 60000 people are using them now and it is too late to change.
Chances are they have got themselves some proper communications infrastructure. Come to think of it thats a bit of a worry. They might have an operation on the go.
Posting this from an eeePC by the way. It is very portable, and easy to keep secure. I wonder if openbsd runs on it?
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I think it is time that we ask both major Presidential candidates to submit code samples. Bonus points will be awarded if they submit the code in Perl, Assembly, or FORTRAN.
Lets be fair to both candidates. Switch settings for a bombe should be acceptable.
I bet they can't even accurately predict what the odds are of successfully navigating through this asteroid belt.
Easy. Just stay out of plane.
Vulcans could have come from humanoid-like *settlers*
Just another failed Pak colony.
(sorry about crossing the streams, though Niven did write one animated Star Trek episode).
Sorry for the offtopic post but I wonder if anybody has seen this behaviour:
On several linux workstations at work we noticed several other nodes on our LAN had been trying to get in via rsh, telnet and ssh. Typically the remote node tried several protocols over a second or so, too fast for a user to be doing it.
I called our IT people. They identified the windows boxes which generated the connections, pretty much as expected so far.
Then the weird bit. They claim that their virus scanner was the application trying to log on to the linux boxes. All very strange. Has anybody else seen anything similar?
Nintendo will not only be exceeding the record set by the PS2, they will shatter it to pieces.
Several reasons have been proposed for this:
Microsoft couldn't write a decent API if their lives depended on it. They manage to take simple concept, and bury under layer upon layer of useless complexity.
I think they may have caught that one from Digital.
Cops gave her a polygraph test, but refused to release the results. Hmm, like maybe a "she's telling the truth" result, that would very publicly demonstrate what a piece of useless crap polygraphs are?
Since her own internal model of the B event was obviously screwed up the polygraph could only tell you whether she believed her own story.
It is possible to tab into the Post Anonymously component and fire it with the return key. In some browsers anyway.
Despite what people will say about the environmental side-effects, I still feel that Project Orion is the best possible way for us to get back to space fast, and actually travel useful distances with a live crew.
Well I am glad we are launching "old bang bang" from your country...
Man-rate a Delta vehicle and use that to lift our astronauts, and we need to purchase Soyuz spacecraft from Russia. Luckily, Congress has recently authorized the latter.
We also need to do something like what Von Braun did - inflate the specs by 20% and build the rocket for that target instead of what the payload engineers say they need. The payload is going to weigh a lot more than what they think, even if they don't know it yet.
Better to design for a Falcon 9
Chair vibrating too much? simple.. just look at your compass floating away, undo your straps and let your chair crunch into the ceiling while you float for the rest of the trip.
Only works with ships designed by aliens.
Why is the parent modded funny?
Maybe somebody thinks it is a Lost In Space joke.
One huge difference between the Apollo/Saturn design and the Space Shuttle was multiple methods of abort that would separate the manned portion from the rest of the rocket. Things like the launch escape rocket (the little pointy thing on the top of the command module) and the ability to fire subsequent stages to at least get the astronauts way the hell away from a problem stage would have saved the astronauts in the event that the Saturn V had problems.
I heard of a design not too long ago for a capsule which could use RCS thrusters both for normal landings and for launch escape. The Apollo LES had to be very powerful to get the CM high enough to deploy parachutes. Take them out of the equation and you have a might lighter vehicle.
Only computer with a decent startup (under a second) that I have experienced was a computer with a ROM Basic interpreter, but then, that's a completely different animal.
If it took long enough for you to notice then something must have been wrong.
In Arizona? Or on the moon?
It's all cool and dandy, but from TFA:
"One of the more unusual innovations is a pair of slip-on space suits attached to the back of the pressurized cabin. Rather than taking up room with a full-size airlock, a "plainclothes" astronaut simply slides into an empty suit, pulls a lever to close the hatch and detach, and walks away. The process can then be done in reverse to re-enter the cabin."
What about the dust? Everything I've read about lunar mission states lunar dust is super powdery and could be a real bitch in a pressurized environment...
This way is actually much better. During the apollo missions the dust came into the LM with the suits. If the suits actually stay outside the inside of the rover will be very clean. The suits will need maintenance but this could be done outside in vacuum.
And if they can grow new neurons it will be all for the better. If the heart and brain can be kept in good working order into old age, other tissues should be in better shape too.
In principle, the government can nationalize the trademark and after that, enforce against "unauthorized use" by the bikers
Don't they then have to defend the trade mark? Show that they are using it? It might have to appear on Government stationary ;)
Since it is mostly irrelevant where a data center physically is
Actually I think latency is a major issue for both Microsoft and Google as they chase the market for online applications.
Oh no not again!
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The company I work for used to give us two separate security cards. One with the company logo and employee photo etc, the other a blank RFID card to get into the building. Now the cards have been combined into one so that if a card is lost the finder can go directly to our office and walk in.
So I explained the problem to our head of security. he agreed that I was right and that absolutely nothing would be done about it. The new cards are a global policy and 60000 people are using them now and it is too late to change.
If he can't remove it on his own he could find a naive farm body with a pair of pliers and distract him with a video of his hot sister.
Chances are they have got themselves some proper communications infrastructure. Come to think of it thats a bit of a worry. They might have an operation on the go.
Posting this from an eeePC by the way. It is very portable, and easy to keep secure. I wonder if openbsd runs on it?
Make spaceship hulls. Sell it through my company General Products.