Don't we have a space station for just this purpose? Have the return capsule dock with a specially designed laboratory, that has a sterilizer, and a system for inserting experiments/devices, and no human EVER has to be exposed to contaminants, you get the benefits of using space to sterilize your instruments, and you can keep your containment vessel clean of earth based contaminants.
And if some evil martian growth starts growing, you can simply detach the module, and eject it into the sun.
Am I the only person in the world NOT running the Frontpage extensions on IIS?
I have to admit that IIS isn't perfect when it comes to security matters, but come on, installing frontpage is just BEGGING to have your shit hacked.
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What I REALLY fear is the networks using the invisible logo technology (Like Fox does, that little Fox logo in the bottom right corner) or some such to do advertisements directly IN the program. If I only had access to cable...
Imagine for a minute where a studios make programming with blue-screened areas for individual networks to put advertising, IN PROGRAM. Each affiliate gets to put its own unique advertising for its region, the studios get paid, and viewers get familiarity.
Kinda scary, because this would necessarily transition to cable, unless there were TWO versions of the programming, commercial, and commercial free.
Then again, what is to stop a studio from embedding their own commercials (done now routinely with movies, slightly less blatantly with TV..
Does anyone here REALLY want to compare Tito, who has been training practically non-stop for 4 years with a select crew to Glenn, who got fast-tracked through the shuttle training, and was basically a back-seat driver the entire time?
Please. Tito is INFINITELY more qualified to fly than Glenn ever was, and this stonewalling by NASA is more of a kick in the head to Russia saying simply, we don't want tourists up there yet. We're not even sure we can keep the damn thing flying yet!!! Oh, and since we are practically PAYING for your parts of the station, you have no say.
Sometimes I'm ashamed to be an American.
Glenn was lucky he could walk off the shuttle when it landed.
"The CD is the root of all of our problems with the Net," says Jay Samit, senior vice president of new media at EMI, which is testing various copy-protection technologies. "If CDs were as hard to copy as DVDs or VHS tapes or even books, we would not be going through anything like what we're going through now with Napster or Gnutella."
Apparently this guy hasn't heard of DeCSS?
"Nobody wants to make things difficult for legitimate purchasers," says Cary Sherman, general counsel of the Recording Industry Association of America, which is helping the labels examine the new techniques. "But if piracy continues to spiral out of control, (copy-protecting CDs) will become more and more attractive an option -- even if it has some negative impact on some listeners."
What they don't get is that if you have a negative impact on legitimate listeners, you're going to automatically increase piracy. Cause and affect, kiddies. Some people just can't afford to buy new CD players because the damn labels thing you should. They'll see a drop off 3 percent drop off in sales, and a 300% increase in piracy. Good for them!!
Don't confuse energy efficiency with pollution efficiency. The chart you mentioned was comparing unit energy efficiency, not amount of pollution.
This car is definitely cleaner than ANY gas powered car.
Seriously! Someone in a back room can alter electronic votes. With card ballots, someone has to slip out with a stack of ballots in front of the other election workers. It can happen, but the electronic fraud is easier to get away with.
Depends. I'm presuming that in most cases VERY few people actually have access to the ballots. In the case of the central VOTING computer, I would presume even FEWER people would have access to it. In this case, getting away with Fraud would be tougher, because flat out, there's only so many people touching it.
Throw in security systems where you need a PIN or a PGP private key to retrieve the data, and your accountability goes up. One person to turn it on, one person to submit results via 56K dialup, one person to unencrypt the results, I can't imagine a more accountable system that isn't surrounded by boys in green with M16A2's.
At 3 (generally observed atlantic expansion, or "What I was taught throughout high-school") inches per year, I doubt we'll have to worry about plate tectonics destroying these cables. No, I'd be more worried about undersea lava eruptions, deep core oil drilling, or sinking ships severing the cable.
Relative to a human, take a 10 pound book, and hold your arms out straight for 10 minutes.
Now hold your arms up and out, not straight up.
Which can you hold longer? It's all about leverage. A dinosaur would find it NEARLY impossible to hold it's long neck out straight for hours on end.
Can a SNAKE stand straight out for hours? No. For short periods of time, yes, but mostly, it'll shoot it's head up in the air.
This study is bunk.
Reminder: Since we don't have a sauropod heart to examine, we have NO idea how good it's circulatory system was. We're extrapolating from elephants and giraffes.
Any activity, no matter how useful, must be tightly controlled if it has the potential to cause great harm to others. Thousands of employees paychecks and hundreds of thousands of shareholders may well depend on some trade secret or copyrighted function. I'm sorry, but you have no "right" to steal that from them in the name of OSS or whatever golden idol you worship.
And you probably like getting your TV without violence, or pandering humor. I'm sorry, but once you put your ass on the line, you essentially lose all rights to control what people do to it.
Do you think that Ford motor company can prevent me from printing a free repair manual for their car if I purchase it, completely disassemble it, and distribute instructions for doing so? I don't think so one bit. Even if I charge for it. If Ford wants a piece of the pie, it should release it's own manuals.
Reverse engineering DEMANDS to be a right. Why can't I take apart my latest laptop, and figure out how the Northbridge chipset works? Hmm? Even if I have to shave the processor package with a laser scalpel?
You're the same kind of person who likes random locker searches, metal detectors in schools, and dress codes.
Or another REALLY good argument you could use: Only POLICE should be able to have guns. Us ruthless masses are unable to take care of ourselves. And, um, corporate rights take a backseat to the rights of Individuals and the masses. Never forget that corporations are granted their powers by governments who get their powers from people.
You didn't read where the original author suggested moving the station 1AU away from earth. That amounts to 93 millions Miles.
1. The odds of a piece of Mir getting back to earth to destroy a shuttle are just as good as a random micrometeriod slicing an astronauts head off.
2. Figure out a way to mate it up with the ISS.:) Get rid of the Spekter module, since it's
1. Useless
2. Got a big hole in it! And you'd have some nice living laboratories.
Now would it really? Or does it just make really big holes?
I mean, impact craters are CRATERS simply because a tiny object, is hitting a MUCH bigger object with
1. Probably greater structural integrity
2. Much more mass.
With a screw hitting a shuttle or MIR, isn't it more likely to act like a REALLY fast bullet, and
1. Punch a really big hole through a wall
2. Continue through the astronaut sitting on the console on the other side of the wall
3. Punch itself outside the other wall on the opposite side of the crap
Assuming
1. There isn't some REALLY massive object in it's way like a packed Nuclear reactor.
2. There's no fuel for the thing to detonate.
I seem to recall a NASA brief a LONG time ago ('99 maybe), that stated that while the Shuttle had the ability to use the Internet, that it was only the workstation laptops. I.E., NONE of the critical systems were connected in any way shape or form to the Internet.
What people seem to forget, is that MOST musicians don't do it for the money. It's the fame, prestige, and the simple fact, that someday, they could be opening for Ozzy, or Tori, or the Dumb Ass Back Street Boys.
Digital music is only going to take money out of the hands of those who depend on CD sales. If you go to MP3.com, how many musicians put their music online with NO remuneration? Someday, one of those musicians are going to be the next Metallica, or Ozzy, or Britney Spear (ick..)
The artists have to embrace it, or they are going to get left behind. I for one, am sick of paying an extra 5 dollars to get a fricking CD, when a CD is cheaper to manufacture than a tape. I'm through. I haven't bought a CD since my.mp3.com went to trial. Why subsidize an industry's lawyers, when I disagree with them 100%.
I used my.mp3.com with pleasure. the RIAA ruined that for me. I owned every CD I put up there, about 150 or so, some I don't really listen to anymore. Screw them, and screw their artists. I'll just make copies off the radio, MP3 em, and listen to em off of my webserver somewhere.
I imagine this is only true if your router is IP Addressable. I do believe IOS 9+ has the option to NOT have the router addressable (pass-through).
While this surely doesn't obviate the need for the router to keep track of packets, I doubt that in this situation that you could deliberately attack a router, since it's not the one doing final setup.
To tell the truth, unless you have packet filtering turned on, the router shouldn't even be able to KNOW that it's a TCP connection incoming.
So if these outsourcers are so good, who are they? I figured you might like to share with the world, make them some money maybe, indebt them to you?!
I don't disagree that code quality and project quality can be good with outsourcers, I've seen it from many a co-worker who went into consulting.
But what I also see a lot of with 3rd party consultants time and time again: rat's nest.
But, I'm just reiterating the past 30 posts. I just want the name of your outsourcer!
In hindsight to the problems galileo had before it even GOT to jupiter, yes, it was a mistake. But at the same time, I applaud NASA for it's efforts with galileo. They took a project that could have failed miserably to a wonderful storied history with much excellent research, many impressive photographs, and exciting prospects for the future regarding Europa.
If there were two galileo's, imagine the kinds of things we might be learning.:)
Yeah, it's called a 268 billion dollar defense budget.
Please put onus where onus belongs. Do you think japan or china spend half as much as we do on defense? No? Why not?? Because they are not policing half the freaking world with aircraft carriers. They don't have forward deployed troops in 30 countries.
It's time for us to pick our battles. One carrier battle group off of Iraq, one off of Taiwan (I want my Crusoe's dammit, and I don't want Taiwan semiconductor to get sacked!) and bring everybody else home.
I don't see how you can call a revolutionary new product that isn't yet available, and from many quarters is seen as being much less than promised is the superior offering?!
While I'm not judging merced,mckinley until I get real silicon to fold,crumple,spindle and mutilate, I'm not counting out AMD from the battle. Intel is trying something VERY new that they've never done before, and hence, can slip up fairly easily. Especially if the cost puts it out of reach of the home user, small business.
Well then, how about the fact that big-business will drive the successful processor into the home?!
I don't see that happening anymore. Intel will just end up with the Merced line, and the Pentium V line which will have to play catch-up to Sledgehammer, or roll it's own proprietary x86-64 extensions. Or copy AMD's into the merced line.
Don't count out the underdog before the race get's underway...
Yes, but you are comparing a pretty niche market and the fact that there is practically no vendor support for Linux/GCC on alpha, to the mega-behemoth called Intel who's betting on Linux/GCC to push it's new hardware.
So tell me, how you would apply this to a copy of say.. Norton Utilities for DOS 3.0? (If such a thing EVER existed), on a computer you NEED to keep running, or simply WANT to keep running and don't want to upgrade?
Or something equally similar and stupid to many, but vital to someone? I guarantee you'll never a see a "Best System Admin Tools of the Early DOS Years" CD. At least, not for 70 years, when it'll be a vintage virtual tour through a cyber implant and 100000baseT.
Or quarterdeck's memory management tools, or DeskView, or Xtree?!?
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Don't we have a space station for just this purpose? Have the return capsule dock with a specially designed laboratory, that has a sterilizer, and a system for inserting experiments/devices, and no human EVER has to be exposed to contaminants, you get the benefits of using space to sterilize your instruments, and you can keep your containment vessel clean of earth based contaminants.
And if some evil martian growth starts growing, you can simply detach the module, and eject it into the sun.
Closed environments are good things, sometimes.
Am I the only person in the world NOT running the Frontpage extensions on IIS? I have to admit that IIS isn't perfect when it comes to security matters, but come on, installing frontpage is just BEGGING to have your shit hacked.
What I REALLY fear is the networks using the invisible logo technology (Like Fox does, that little Fox logo in the bottom right corner) or some such to do advertisements directly IN the program. If I only had access to cable...
Imagine for a minute where a studios make programming with blue-screened areas for individual networks to put advertising, IN PROGRAM. Each affiliate gets to put its own unique advertising for its region, the studios get paid, and viewers get familiarity.
Kinda scary, because this would necessarily transition to cable, unless there were TWO versions of the programming, commercial, and commercial free.
Then again, what is to stop a studio from embedding their own commercials (done now routinely with movies, slightly less blatantly with TV..
Ah well.
-Chris
Does anyone here REALLY want to compare Tito, who has been training practically non-stop for 4 years with a select crew to Glenn, who got fast-tracked through the shuttle training, and was basically a back-seat driver the entire time?
Please. Tito is INFINITELY more qualified to fly than Glenn ever was, and this stonewalling by NASA is more of a kick in the head to Russia saying simply, we don't want tourists up there yet. We're not even sure we can keep the damn thing flying yet!!! Oh, and since we are practically PAYING for your parts of the station, you have no say.
Sometimes I'm ashamed to be an American.
Glenn was lucky he could walk off the shuttle when it landed.
And I quote:
"The CD is the root of all of our problems with the Net," says Jay Samit, senior vice president of new media at EMI, which is testing various copy-protection technologies. "If CDs were as hard to copy as DVDs or VHS tapes or even books, we would not be going through anything like what we're going through now with Napster or Gnutella."
Apparently this guy hasn't heard of DeCSS?
"Nobody wants to make things difficult for legitimate purchasers," says Cary Sherman, general counsel of the Recording Industry Association of America, which is helping the labels examine the new techniques. "But if piracy continues to spiral out of control, (copy-protecting CDs) will become more and more attractive an option -- even if it has some negative impact on some listeners."
What they don't get is that if you have a negative impact on legitimate listeners, you're going to automatically increase piracy. Cause and affect, kiddies. Some people just can't afford to buy new CD players because the damn labels thing you should. They'll see a drop off 3 percent drop off in sales, and a 300% increase in piracy. Good for them!!
What is even more insane is if it *IS* PGP, then they've given you a private key, and probably the passphrase.
:-) How stupid of them Earthlink....
Some ambitious hacker could then figure out the passphrase, and impersonate Earthlink.
-Chris
Don't confuse energy efficiency with pollution efficiency. The chart you mentioned was comparing unit energy efficiency, not amount of pollution. This car is definitely cleaner than ANY gas powered car.
I seem to remember this factoid that we've NEVER made our money back on the Panama Canal (Currently operating at a loss).
I'm potentially wrong.
I wish people would care as much about electing senators and representatives as they are about electing a president.
You *DO* know who MAKES law in this country, right? You *DO* know who has the power to enter treaties with other countries right???
Seriously! Someone in a back room can alter electronic votes. With card ballots, someone has to slip out with a stack of ballots in front of the other election workers. It can happen, but the electronic fraud is easier to get away with. Depends. I'm presuming that in most cases VERY few people actually have access to the ballots. In the case of the central VOTING computer, I would presume even FEWER people would have access to it. In this case, getting away with Fraud would be tougher, because flat out, there's only so many people touching it. Throw in security systems where you need a PIN or a PGP private key to retrieve the data, and your accountability goes up. One person to turn it on, one person to submit results via 56K dialup, one person to unencrypt the results, I can't imagine a more accountable system that isn't surrounded by boys in green with M16A2's.
At 3 (generally observed atlantic expansion, or "What I was taught throughout high-school") inches per year, I doubt we'll have to worry about plate tectonics destroying these cables. No, I'd be more worried about undersea lava eruptions, deep core oil drilling, or sinking ships severing the cable.
Relative to a human, take a 10 pound book, and hold your arms out straight for 10 minutes.
Now hold your arms up and out, not straight up.
Which can you hold longer? It's all about leverage. A dinosaur would find it NEARLY impossible to hold it's long neck out straight for hours on end.
Can a SNAKE stand straight out for hours? No. For short periods of time, yes, but mostly, it'll shoot it's head up in the air.
This study is bunk.
Reminder: Since we don't have a sauropod heart to examine, we have NO idea how good it's circulatory system was. We're extrapolating from elephants and giraffes.
Do you think I should be able to choose how to educate my child?
Do you think I should be able to choose how to plan for my retirement?
Do you think I should be able to eat/ingest WHATEVER I want, even arsenic?
If not, I ask again, do you think I'm stupid, so only YOU are qualified to decide these things for me?
Any activity, no matter how useful, must be tightly controlled if it has the potential to cause great harm to others. Thousands of employees paychecks and hundreds of thousands of shareholders may well depend on some trade secret or copyrighted function. I'm sorry, but you have no "right" to steal that from them in the name of OSS or whatever golden idol you worship.
And you probably like getting your TV without violence, or pandering humor. I'm sorry, but once you put your ass on the line, you essentially lose all rights to control what people do to it.
Do you think that Ford motor company can prevent me from printing a free repair manual for their car if I purchase it, completely disassemble it, and distribute instructions for doing so? I don't think so one bit. Even if I charge for it. If Ford wants a piece of the pie, it should release it's own manuals.
Reverse engineering DEMANDS to be a right. Why can't I take apart my latest laptop, and figure out how the Northbridge chipset works? Hmm? Even if I have to shave the processor package with a laser scalpel?
You're the same kind of person who likes random locker searches, metal detectors in schools, and dress codes.
Or another REALLY good argument you could use: Only POLICE should be able to have guns. Us ruthless masses are unable to take care of ourselves. And, um, corporate rights take a backseat to the rights of Individuals and the masses. Never forget that corporations are granted their powers by governments who get their powers from people.
Cheers!
You didn't read where the original author suggested moving the station 1AU away from earth. That amounts to 93 millions Miles.
:) Get rid of the Spekter module, since it's
1. The odds of a piece of Mir getting back to earth to destroy a shuttle are just as good as a random micrometeriod slicing an astronauts head off.
2. Figure out a way to mate it up with the ISS.
1. Useless
2. Got a big hole in it! And you'd have some nice living laboratories.
-Chris
Now would it really? Or does it just make really big holes?
I mean, impact craters are CRATERS simply because a tiny object, is hitting a MUCH bigger object with
1. Probably greater structural integrity
2. Much more mass.
With a screw hitting a shuttle or MIR, isn't it more likely to act like a REALLY fast bullet, and
1. Punch a really big hole through a wall
2. Continue through the astronaut sitting on the console on the other side of the wall
3. Punch itself outside the other wall on the opposite side of the crap
Assuming
1. There isn't some REALLY massive object in it's way like a packed Nuclear reactor.
2. There's no fuel for the thing to detonate.
-Chris
I seem to recall a NASA brief a LONG time ago ('99 maybe), that stated that while the Shuttle had the ability to use the Internet, that it was only the workstation laptops. I.E., NONE of the critical systems were connected in any way shape or form to the Internet.
Simply to reduce terrorist risk.
-Chris
What people seem to forget, is that MOST musicians don't do it for the money. It's the fame, prestige, and the simple fact, that someday, they could be opening for Ozzy, or Tori, or the Dumb Ass Back Street Boys.
Digital music is only going to take money out of the hands of those who depend on CD sales. If you go to MP3.com, how many musicians put their music online with NO remuneration? Someday, one of those musicians are going to be the next Metallica, or Ozzy, or Britney Spear (ick..)
The artists have to embrace it, or they are going to get left behind. I for one, am sick of paying an extra 5 dollars to get a fricking CD, when a CD is cheaper to manufacture than a tape. I'm through. I haven't bought a CD since my.mp3.com went to trial. Why subsidize an industry's lawyers, when I disagree with them 100%.
I used my.mp3.com with pleasure. the RIAA ruined that for me. I owned every CD I put up there, about 150 or so, some I don't really listen to anymore. Screw them, and screw their artists. I'll just make copies off the radio, MP3 em, and listen to em off of my webserver somewhere.
FUCK THE RIAA AND MPAA.
Grrr....
I imagine this is only true if your router is IP Addressable. I do believe IOS 9+ has the option to NOT have the router addressable (pass-through).
While this surely doesn't obviate the need for the router to keep track of packets, I doubt that in this situation that you could deliberately attack a router, since it's not the one doing final setup.
To tell the truth, unless you have packet filtering turned on, the router shouldn't even be able to KNOW that it's a TCP connection incoming.
So if these outsourcers are so good, who are they? I figured you might like to share with the world, make them some money maybe, indebt them to you?!
I don't disagree that code quality and project quality can be good with outsourcers, I've seen it from many a co-worker who went into consulting.
But what I also see a lot of with 3rd party consultants time and time again: rat's nest.
But, I'm just reiterating the past 30 posts. I just want the name of your outsourcer!
-Chris
In hindsight to the problems galileo had before it even GOT to jupiter, yes, it was a mistake. But at the same time, I applaud NASA for it's efforts with galileo. They took a project that could have failed miserably to a wonderful storied history with much excellent research, many impressive photographs, and exciting prospects for the future regarding Europa.
:)
If there were two galileo's, imagine the kinds of things we might be learning.
Yeah, it's called a 268 billion dollar defense budget.
Please put onus where onus belongs. Do you think japan or china spend half as much as we do on defense? No? Why not?? Because they are not policing half the freaking world with aircraft carriers. They don't have forward deployed troops in 30 countries.
It's time for us to pick our battles. One carrier battle group off of Iraq, one off of Taiwan (I want my Crusoe's dammit, and I don't want Taiwan semiconductor to get sacked!) and bring everybody else home.
I don't see how you can call a revolutionary new product that isn't yet available, and from many quarters is seen as being much less than promised is the superior offering?!
While I'm not judging merced,mckinley until I get real silicon to fold,crumple,spindle and mutilate, I'm not counting out AMD from the battle. Intel is trying something VERY new that they've never done before, and hence, can slip up fairly easily. Especially if the cost puts it out of reach of the home user, small business.
Well then, how about the fact that big-business will drive the successful processor into the home?!
I don't see that happening anymore. Intel will just end up with the Merced line, and the Pentium V line which will have to play catch-up to Sledgehammer, or roll it's own proprietary x86-64 extensions. Or copy AMD's into the merced line.
Don't count out the underdog before the race get's underway...
Yes, but you are comparing a pretty niche market and the fact that there is practically no vendor support for Linux/GCC on alpha, to the mega-behemoth called Intel who's betting on Linux/GCC to push it's new hardware.
Apples and oranges.
So tell me, how you would apply this to a copy of say.. Norton Utilities for DOS 3.0? (If such a thing EVER existed), on a computer you NEED to keep running, or simply WANT to keep running and don't want to upgrade?
Or something equally similar and stupid to many, but vital to someone? I guarantee you'll never a see a "Best System Admin Tools of the Early DOS Years" CD. At least, not for 70 years, when it'll be a vintage virtual tour through a cyber implant and 100000baseT.
Or quarterdeck's memory management tools, or DeskView, or Xtree?!?
-Cfk