The game can't be bought by "young minds" hince the M rating. Whice fits well.this is no differnt than if I write a plugin for firefox that pops up porno when you open it. Its not mozila's fault. so it shouldn't be rockstars fault ether.
If a user is stupid enough to miss spell google than they earn any spyware/popups/other web nastys that they get as a result. How hard is it to sound out a word. I was thought that in pre-K. Govenments need to stop protecting idiots.
This has to be the first article I have seen in which advocates more overhead and fewer levels of security. If anything way make a network LESS security. A firewall makes a machine less visible to the outside (thats a good think), and MORE likely for a script kiddie to skip over in favor of an easier target.
4. LIMITATIONS ON REVERSE ENGINEERING, DECOMPILATION, AND DISASSEMBLY. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation.
Its going down, here is the article text:
The innovative carrier plane used to air-launch SpaceShipOne has a new mission. At its inland spaceport in Mojave, Calif., the White Knight mothership has been involved in fit and high-speed taxi checks with a new passenger: the X-37, an unpiloted, reusable space plane.
The White Knight/X-37 combination has undergone a set of recent ground evaluations, including high-speed taxi testing this week.
Designed by Scaled Composites of Mojave, the White Knight hauled SpaceShipOne to altitude and then released the piloted rocket plane for its record-setting suborbital treks, including the snagging of the high-stakes $10 million Ansari X Prize last year.
In its new role, the White Knight is being readied to carry the X-37, a vehicle supported by the Boeing Co., NASA and the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. No official word yet on when the twosome will take to the air, or on the time frame for the first drop test of the X-37 using the White Knight.
Technology testbed
The X-37 has been billed as an unpiloted, autonomously operated vehicle designed to conduct on-orbit operations and collect test data in the Mach 25 (re-entry) region of flight.
The Boeing-built X-37 is geared to be a test bed for airframe, propulsion and operation technologies designed to make space transportation and operations significantly more affordable.
According to a Boeing fact sheet on the craft, the X-37 project is exploring potential new commercial and military reusable space vehicle market applications, be they on-orbit satellite repair to the next-generation of totally reusable launch vehicles.
Late last year, NASA transferred its X-37 technology demonstration program to DARPA.
The Approach and Landing Test Vehicle, or ALTV, has been at the Mojave airport since mid-April, explained Jan Walker, a DARPA spokesperson. "The first taxi test occurred earlier this month. In addition to the taxi tests, the ALTV also plans captive-carry flights and drop tests. The tests will continue through this summer, but we've not announced any specific dates," Walker told Space.com.
Checkered history
NASA's involvement in the X-37 dates back to 1998, when the project was selected as the first of a planned series of flight demonstrators dubbed Future X. At the time, NASA agreed to share the X-37's projected $173 million cost with Boeing and the U.S. Air Force. After the Air Force announced in 2001 that it would stop funding the project, NASA told Boeing that the company would have to submit a new proposal for the X-37 to be eligible for additional funding.
GUIDE NASA's experimental flight projects
X-37
X-40A
X-43A
OSP/CEV
DCX
X-37
NASA
A reusable launch vehicle, the X-37 would operate at speeds of up to 25 times the speed of sound. It could be carried into orbit by a space shuttle or expendable launch vehicles. Designers are hoping to improve the thermal protection system by making it less fragile and less expensive. The X-37 could orbit for up to 21 days and land on a conventional runway. A test model is known as the X-40A.
Specifications
Length: 27.5 feet
Wingspan: 15 feet
Source: NASA Print this
After persistent prodding from U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.), NASA in 2002 awarded Boeing a $301 million contract for two X-37 vehicles instead of one. One of those vehicles would conduct a series of drop tests within the atmosphere, paving the way for the flight of the orbit and re-entry vehicle in 2006.
But NASA advised Boeing in late 2003 to throttle back on development of the orbit and re-entry vehicle, and directed Boeing to stop work on that part of the program altogether. The X-37 was dealt a further setback last year when a NASA review concluded that the program was not a good fit with the agency's new space exploration agenda.
On April 16, Russia announced that it would henceforth launch military satellites at the Pletsnesk cosmodrome in northern Russia, ending the practice of launching satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This shift will deprive Kazakh children of the chance to watch some satellites take off, though Baikonur will remain the launchpad for commercial "birds" and manned missions. As these photos show, it will also spare Kazakhs the fallout, literal and otherwise, that occurs in a launch's wake.
All space-bound rockets consist largely of fuel tanks and booster stages that fall back to earth when spent, never reaching orbit. In landlocked Baikonur, Russia's primary launching complex in Kazakhstan, these spaceships crash to earth. This photo essay visits the areas where the supporting rockets land, and shows the people living under the flight paths who contend with flaming spaceship wrecks several times each month.
Apart from the fear of having a spaceship crash through their roofs, residents in the area complain of the ill effects of leftover toxic rocket fuel. With the relocation of Russian military launches, more than half of which currently take off from Baikonur, these people may get some relief. However, one group of people is probably sorry to see Baikonur lose business; the region's scrap metal dealers are getting rich trading metal from the rockets' titanium alloy hulls.
As Linus once said, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." If board makers would GPL there drivers or even send one free of charge to a kernel developer, we would not have this problem.
Go to a fishing store and buy 50 of the smallest hooks you can find, and some small fishing line, ties hooks to line, hang lines from roof. If someone trys to take your stuff, they will get a face lift.
Slashdot Mirror
Thermite!! Problem solved.
Just like Bush, The FBI says alot of things, that doesn't make them true.
Or as in the past, A dead person
Wow, slashdot sure it great at stating the obvious. Next slashdot story "Incressed poverty rated amoung poeple living in the projects"
Wasn't this exact same story on hackaday TWO whole days ago?
Starts nmap
The game can't be bought by "young minds" hince the M rating. Whice fits well.this is no differnt than if I write a plugin for firefox that pops up porno when you open it. Its not mozila's fault. so it shouldn't be rockstars fault ether.
-Joey
There was a story JUST like this 2 days ago
Good job timothy
WTF is iraq then, if a northern city is hit in the USA Canada will be effected
-Joey
I will get mod'ed down for this but:
If a user is stupid enough to miss spell google than they earn any spyware/popups/other web nastys that they get as a result. How hard is it to sound out a word. I was thought that in pre-K. Govenments need to stop protecting idiots.
-Joey
This has to be the first article I have seen in which advocates more overhead and fewer levels of security. If anything way make a network LESS security. A firewall makes a machine less visible to the outside (thats a good think), and MORE likely for a script kiddie to skip over in favor of an easier target.
-Joey
Or /mnt/fuji & mount /dev/fugi /dev/null
umount
Why does linux need a virus scanner? There are about 6 linux viruses. Wow. 6, thats a huge threat.
-Joey
CO2 becomes toxic at about 4%. Thats why there are scrubbers.
-Joey
4. LIMITATIONS ON REVERSE ENGINEERING, DECOMPILATION, AND DISASSEMBLY. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/eula.mspx
But microsoft said, windows servers are safe: http://www.microsoft.com/getthefacts
Mod parent up
We all need Unobtainium cells. They last longer than a galaxy, and can dig into the earths core.
-Joey
Its going down, here is the article text: The innovative carrier plane used to air-launch SpaceShipOne has a new mission. At its inland spaceport in Mojave, Calif., the White Knight mothership has been involved in fit and high-speed taxi checks with a new passenger: the X-37, an unpiloted, reusable space plane. The White Knight/X-37 combination has undergone a set of recent ground evaluations, including high-speed taxi testing this week. Designed by Scaled Composites of Mojave, the White Knight hauled SpaceShipOne to altitude and then released the piloted rocket plane for its record-setting suborbital treks, including the snagging of the high-stakes $10 million Ansari X Prize last year. In its new role, the White Knight is being readied to carry the X-37, a vehicle supported by the Boeing Co., NASA and the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. No official word yet on when the twosome will take to the air, or on the time frame for the first drop test of the X-37 using the White Knight. Technology testbed The X-37 has been billed as an unpiloted, autonomously operated vehicle designed to conduct on-orbit operations and collect test data in the Mach 25 (re-entry) region of flight. The Boeing-built X-37 is geared to be a test bed for airframe, propulsion and operation technologies designed to make space transportation and operations significantly more affordable. According to a Boeing fact sheet on the craft, the X-37 project is exploring potential new commercial and military reusable space vehicle market applications, be they on-orbit satellite repair to the next-generation of totally reusable launch vehicles. Late last year, NASA transferred its X-37 technology demonstration program to DARPA. The Approach and Landing Test Vehicle, or ALTV, has been at the Mojave airport since mid-April, explained Jan Walker, a DARPA spokesperson. "The first taxi test occurred earlier this month. In addition to the taxi tests, the ALTV also plans captive-carry flights and drop tests. The tests will continue through this summer, but we've not announced any specific dates," Walker told Space.com. Checkered history NASA's involvement in the X-37 dates back to 1998, when the project was selected as the first of a planned series of flight demonstrators dubbed Future X. At the time, NASA agreed to share the X-37's projected $173 million cost with Boeing and the U.S. Air Force. After the Air Force announced in 2001 that it would stop funding the project, NASA told Boeing that the company would have to submit a new proposal for the X-37 to be eligible for additional funding. GUIDE NASA's experimental flight projects X-37 X-40A X-43A OSP/CEV DCX X-37 NASA A reusable launch vehicle, the X-37 would operate at speeds of up to 25 times the speed of sound. It could be carried into orbit by a space shuttle or expendable launch vehicles. Designers are hoping to improve the thermal protection system by making it less fragile and less expensive. The X-37 could orbit for up to 21 days and land on a conventional runway. A test model is known as the X-40A. Specifications Length: 27.5 feet Wingspan: 15 feet Source: NASA Print this After persistent prodding from U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.), NASA in 2002 awarded Boeing a $301 million contract for two X-37 vehicles instead of one. One of those vehicles would conduct a series of drop tests within the atmosphere, paving the way for the flight of the orbit and re-entry vehicle in 2006. But NASA advised Boeing in late 2003 to throttle back on development of the orbit and re-entry vehicle, and directed Boeing to stop work on that part of the program altogether. The X-37 was dealt a further setback last year when a NASA review concluded that the program was not a good fit with the agency's new space exploration agenda.
On April 16, Russia announced that it would henceforth launch military satellites at the Pletsnesk cosmodrome in northern Russia, ending the practice of launching satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This shift will deprive Kazakh children of the chance to watch some satellites take off, though Baikonur will remain the launchpad for commercial "birds" and manned missions. As these photos show, it will also spare Kazakhs the fallout, literal and otherwise, that occurs in a launch's wake.
All space-bound rockets consist largely of fuel tanks and booster stages that fall back to earth when spent, never reaching orbit. In landlocked Baikonur, Russia's primary launching complex in Kazakhstan, these spaceships crash to earth. This photo essay visits the areas where the supporting rockets land, and shows the people living under the flight paths who contend with flaming spaceship wrecks several times each month.
Apart from the fear of having a spaceship crash through their roofs, residents in the area complain of the ill effects of leftover toxic rocket fuel. With the relocation of Russian military launches, more than half of which currently take off from Baikonur, these people may get some relief. However, one group of people is probably sorry to see Baikonur lose business; the region's scrap metal dealers are getting rich trading metal from the rockets' titanium alloy hulls.
Microsoft's browser wars game plan:
1. Take Gun
2. Shoot self in foot
-Joey
As Linus once said, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." If board makers would GPL there drivers or even send one free of charge to a kernel developer, we would not have this problem.
-Joey
Why can't Intel/HP make the mutipule cores seen as a single cpu to the os. Like hardware SMP. -Joey
Just another way to keep people using IE and windows, and for them to make more $$$.
Go to a fishing store and buy 50 of the smallest hooks you can find, and some small fishing line, ties hooks to line, hang lines from roof. If someone trys to take your stuff, they will get a face lift.
-Joey