Mod parent up. This shit is just ridiculous. Hey, retards. Maybe it might make a little more sense to explore "the moon, Mars, and beyond" with an actual goddamn spaceship?!?! You know, one that isn't going to take a goddamn year just to get to another planet that's practically right next door, considering just how big "space" is. Instead of wasting what little money they have building ridiculous stupid shit like this maybe Nasa should spend it all on research on a new form of propulsion. Even if it takes 200 years to figure it out. That'd be a lot better than them stuffing 6 people in this retarded ass sardine can for a year just so they can say we got to Mars a little earlier. But they'll probably do it anyway.
Yeah, I'm sure we'll be zipping around the Milky Way in our Apollo rockets any day now. Talk about jumping the gun.
NASA, the Amtrak of space exploration.
you insensitive clod! I have a lazy eye!...and astigmatism...and nystagmus...and a Blackberry, not an iPhone...and I'm drunk as shit...and I'll shut up now and pass out
Thanks. I'll be here all week. Try the fish.
My bank, who I also happen to work for, has this problem still. You can login to their "Internet Banking" to look at your accounts from their main page (plain old HTTP). I did find that if you click on enough "Internet Banking" links from that page instead of logging in, you will eventually get to an HTTPS page where you can login to the same "Internet Banking" services. They should just only have a login link on their main non-SSL page to the HTTPS page but, then again, I'm not too surprised, being an employee of the company. Unfortunately, I work on the back end (mainframe) where security *is* tight as a drum. I couldn't possibly have any say or even make any suggestions to an area of the company like web development though. And you wouldn't believe the b.s. we go through at this company when it comes to change management *shudders*. Yeah, they make a big stink on that main non-SSL page about how your ID and password are protected with SSL "the second that you click Login" but would it be so hard to just replace that main page login with a link to the real SSL-enabled login page. Oh, and their login, of course, doesn't work with password management like Keychain or Firefox or anything since it's some chunk of JavaScript code. Just another annoyance.
They could get super-fly rich. First, sue Jobs and Apple. Then the people who invented the game Jacks. Or maybe that singer from the '70s, Terry Jacks. Uh oh, he's a Canadian so maybe that won't fly in court. OK, how about anyone famous with the name Jack. That's close enough for the purposes of suing. Jack Daniels, Jack Nicholson, Jack Palance (oops, he's dead), Jack Lemmon (is he dead?), and so on. You get the picture.
I wish I had something to sue for so I could get rich too:(
It's a company specfic VPN client based on Cisco's unfortunately so no Linux support. I just boot Win2k in QEMU and run it and all my work apps in there. When I need to do some work in Linux, I hit Ctrl and Alt to ungrab the mouse and I'm back in KDE. The games are actually the only thing that don't run in Win2k in QEMU and the only reason I still dual boot.
I was just evaluating Cedega 5.x the last 2 or 3 days with Battlefield 1942 and it worked pretty good but there's still plenty of issues with Punkbuster unfortunately. After a day or two of messing with manually updating Punkbuster (I think) I may have actually successfully updated it and was able to get on a few Punkbuster servers without getting the annoying O/S privileges messages. A good tip is to change your profile to WinME or Win98 if you have it as WinXP or Win2K. I'm still debating if I want to actually subscribe or not though. I would almost be able to run Slackware full time now that I have Windows 2000 running satisfactorily in QEMU. A Cisco VPN client and about 5 or 6 games are all that's keeping me dual-booting these days.
It'll never happen by 2020 to 2030. Why? Because first humans have to design a real spaceship, not some skinny ass 1960's style rocket or some slightly modified space shuttle with the heat shielding falling off every third takeoff. I'm talking at least on a level with something like the ships in the original Alien movie or something on that level. It's a lot farther to Mars than to our moon. Sure we've come a long when since then but I don't think people realize there's a hell of a long way to go before we're zipping around our solar system much less our galaxy in a real spaceship. A whole new type of propulsion system needs to be designed at the very least. Also, I don't recall hearing about anyone solving the problem of astronauts being bombarded with cosmic radiation both on the way to Mars as well as once they're on the surface of Mars. I'd love to watch people strolling around on the surface of Mars as much or more than anyone else but let's face it. It's a long ways off and thinking we'll be there in 2020 or 2030 is kind of ridiculous. Just because this is the 21st century doesn't mean we're living like the fscking Jetsons yet.
It's actually not a bad little town to live in. Yeah, they've had DSL for several years now. Yeah, they've had cable TV for a looong time. It's not as bad as you'd think. There's little traffic but not no traffic. Just enough to keep you on your toes when trying to cross the street at midnight after a night at the municipal liquor store on Main St. There's people there that I went to high school with that got a better job, because of that company, than anything else available around there. That's a bunch of less jobs that got shipped off to India. Everyone thought it wouldn't last either but they have so something must be going right there.
They've even got a *gasp* website. http://www.sebeka.com./ Yee haw!
And, no, I'm not anti-Iranian or anti-Middle Eastern or anti-other nationality period. I'm simply anti-religion and I'm sick and fucking tired of hearing about all the death and destruction caused by religion every single fucking morning when I read the news. Just plain sick of it. Human beings are not going to make it on this fucking rock we live on if we get more religion. All I can do as a decent human being is help other people see that religion is bullshit and that believing in themselves is a hell of lot healthier for them. All I ever hear is about how so and so has so much faith in the "Lord" or whatever. Does anyone have any faith in themselves anymore?... Fucking sheep.
Fucking religion. A pox on this world. A fucking mental illlness. And don't think I'm just talking about Islam. Christianity, holy fuck, what a huge stifling pile of fucking bullshit. Praise Jesus! | God! | Allah! | Muhammad! | Mork from Ork! | George Burns! | an F5 tornado! | what the fuck ever! And don't forget to murder some human beings while you're praising your "Lord" O faithful religion follower and brainwashed idiot. Hey, even people who *ack* worship make believe motherfuckers like Allah and Jee-zuz need to be able to blog, read Slashdot, and surf for free pr0n too, right? Gimme an amen!!! Halla fucking looyah!!!
How about designing faster and yet more fuel efficient propulsion systems so the trip to somewhere even as close as Mars doesn't take so damn long in the first place. I mean, it may sound like science fiction but maybe we need to actually design space travel vehicles more like the ones you see in sci-fi movies like Aliens before we start planning to fly all over the solar system, galaxy, universe, etc. Sure, it'd be way cool to watch footage of people walking around on Mars but it'd be even cooler if it didn't take them forever to get there and they weren't flying there in some ship designed with our current technology that's prone to blowing up due to things like O rings or broken fuel lines. I think maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves. That's all.
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Mod parent up. This shit is just ridiculous. Hey, retards. Maybe it might make a little more sense to explore "the moon, Mars, and beyond" with an actual goddamn spaceship?!?! You know, one that isn't going to take a goddamn year just to get to another planet that's practically right next door, considering just how big "space" is. Instead of wasting what little money they have building ridiculous stupid shit like this maybe Nasa should spend it all on research on a new form of propulsion. Even if it takes 200 years to figure it out. That'd be a lot better than them stuffing 6 people in this retarded ass sardine can for a year just so they can say we got to Mars a little earlier. But they'll probably do it anyway. Yeah, I'm sure we'll be zipping around the Milky Way in our Apollo rockets any day now. Talk about jumping the gun. NASA, the Amtrak of space exploration.
you insensitive clod! I have a lazy eye! ...and astigmatism ...and nystagmus ...and a Blackberry, not an iPhone ...and I'm drunk as shit ...and I'll shut up now and pass out
Thanks. I'll be here all week. Try the fish.
My bank, who I also happen to work for, has this problem still. You can login to their "Internet Banking" to look at your accounts from their main page (plain old HTTP). I did find that if you click on enough "Internet Banking" links from that page instead of logging in, you will eventually get to an HTTPS page where you can login to the same "Internet Banking" services. They should just only have a login link on their main non-SSL page to the HTTPS page but, then again, I'm not too surprised, being an employee of the company. Unfortunately, I work on the back end (mainframe) where security *is* tight as a drum. I couldn't possibly have any say or even make any suggestions to an area of the company like web development though. And you wouldn't believe the b.s. we go through at this company when it comes to change management *shudders*. Yeah, they make a big stink on that main non-SSL page about how your ID and password are protected with SSL "the second that you click Login" but would it be so hard to just replace that main page login with a link to the real SSL-enabled login page. Oh, and their login, of course, doesn't work with password management like Keychain or Firefox or anything since it's some chunk of JavaScript code. Just another annoyance.
They could get super-fly rich. First, sue Jobs and Apple. Then the people who invented the game Jacks. Or maybe that singer from the '70s, Terry Jacks. Uh oh, he's a Canadian so maybe that won't fly in court. OK, how about anyone famous with the name Jack. That's close enough for the purposes of suing. Jack Daniels, Jack Nicholson, Jack Palance (oops, he's dead), Jack Lemmon (is he dead?), and so on. You get the picture. I wish I had something to sue for so I could get rich too :(
Blogging will become America(n) Online (tm) blogging...
It's a company specfic VPN client based on Cisco's unfortunately so no Linux support. I just boot Win2k in QEMU and run it and all my work apps in there. When I need to do some work in Linux, I hit Ctrl and Alt to ungrab the mouse and I'm back in KDE. The games are actually the only thing that don't run in Win2k in QEMU and the only reason I still dual boot.
I was just evaluating Cedega 5.x the last 2 or 3 days with Battlefield 1942 and it worked pretty good but there's still plenty of issues with Punkbuster unfortunately. After a day or two of messing with manually updating Punkbuster (I think) I may have actually successfully updated it and was able to get on a few Punkbuster servers without getting the annoying O/S privileges messages. A good tip is to change your profile to WinME or Win98 if you have it as WinXP or Win2K. I'm still debating if I want to actually subscribe or not though. I would almost be able to run Slackware full time now that I have Windows 2000 running satisfactorily in QEMU. A Cisco VPN client and about 5 or 6 games are all that's keeping me dual-booting these days.
It'll never happen by 2020 to 2030. Why? Because first humans have to design a real spaceship, not some skinny ass 1960's style rocket or some slightly modified space shuttle with the heat shielding falling off every third takeoff. I'm talking at least on a level with something like the ships in the original Alien movie or something on that level. It's a lot farther to Mars than to our moon. Sure we've come a long when since then but I don't think people realize there's a hell of a long way to go before we're zipping around our solar system much less our galaxy in a real spaceship. A whole new type of propulsion system needs to be designed at the very least. Also, I don't recall hearing about anyone solving the problem of astronauts being bombarded with cosmic radiation both on the way to Mars as well as once they're on the surface of Mars. I'd love to watch people strolling around on the surface of Mars as much or more than anyone else but let's face it. It's a long ways off and thinking we'll be there in 2020 or 2030 is kind of ridiculous. Just because this is the 21st century doesn't mean we're living like the fscking Jetsons yet.
www.sebeka.com
It's actually not a bad little town to live in. Yeah, they've had DSL for several years now. Yeah, they've had cable TV for a looong time. It's not as bad as you'd think. There's little traffic but not no traffic. Just enough to keep you on your toes when trying to cross the street at midnight after a night at the municipal liquor store on Main St. There's people there that I went to high school with that got a better job, because of that company, than anything else available around there. That's a bunch of less jobs that got shipped off to India. Everyone thought it wouldn't last either but they have so something must be going right there. They've even got a *gasp* website. http://www.sebeka.com./ Yee haw!
And, no, I'm not anti-Iranian or anti-Middle Eastern or anti-other nationality period. I'm simply anti-religion and I'm sick and fucking tired of hearing about all the death and destruction caused by religion every single fucking morning when I read the news. Just plain sick of it. Human beings are not going to make it on this fucking rock we live on if we get more religion. All I can do as a decent human being is help other people see that religion is bullshit and that believing in themselves is a hell of lot healthier for them. All I ever hear is about how so and so has so much faith in the "Lord" or whatever. Does anyone have any faith in themselves anymore?... Fucking sheep.
Fucking religion. A pox on this world. A fucking mental illlness. And don't think I'm just talking about Islam. Christianity, holy fuck, what a huge stifling pile of fucking bullshit. Praise Jesus! | God! | Allah! | Muhammad! | Mork from Ork! | George Burns! | an F5 tornado! | what the fuck ever! And don't forget to murder some human beings while you're praising your "Lord" O faithful religion follower and brainwashed idiot. Hey, even people who *ack* worship make believe motherfuckers like Allah and Jee-zuz need to be able to blog, read Slashdot, and surf for free pr0n too, right? Gimme an amen!!! Halla fucking looyah!!!
...ICEOWS . It just plain rocks.
How about designing faster and yet more fuel efficient propulsion systems so the trip to somewhere even as close as Mars doesn't take so damn long in the first place. I mean, it may sound like science fiction but maybe we need to actually design space travel vehicles more like the ones you see in sci-fi movies like Aliens before we start planning to fly all over the solar system, galaxy, universe, etc. Sure, it'd be way cool to watch footage of people walking around on Mars but it'd be even cooler if it didn't take them forever to get there and they weren't flying there in some ship designed with our current technology that's prone to blowing up due to things like O rings or broken fuel lines. I think maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves. That's all.