"The U.S. knew, on the basis of intercepted communications, that Japan was ready to sue for peace"
Complete BS. There were no such intercepts.
Just look at the battle for Okinawa. To pacify one half of an island that was 60 miles long and 2 miles wide at the widest point required on the order of 40,000 U.S. wounded and 12,000 U.S. forces killed.
The casulities on the Japanese side were 10x the American numbers.
Even after the second atomic bomb was dropped there was a coup attempt to prevent broadcast of the surrender message.
The Japananese were willing to fight to the last woman and child as long they were taking Americans with them.
Only when faced with the possiblity of the destruction of their population with few Amercian loses did they relucantly surrender.
Aviation Week says that the new NASA administrator likes the idea of putting a manned capsule on top of a single space shuttle solid booster. The booster is already man-rated and (by rocket standards) in mass production, so the idea does make some sense.
Re:How does this relate to the America's Space Pri
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White Knight Testing X-37
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Rutan has done a lot of DoD work for years. He started by making composite models of various low observable aircraft for radar cross-section testing, hence the name "Scaled Composites".
He has made an ultra-low cost ground attack fighter and an experimental flying scale model of a tactical transport airplane.
White Knights sister ship, Proteous, has been dropping various smart bombs as a "UAV Surrogate" for DoD testing for the last year.
What happened in Texas was that two Vontage subscribers were shot during a home invasion in March, 2005. They called 911, but since they hadn't registered their call didn't go through.
make sure the person you are dealing with is knowledgeable and understands how much risk you are willing to take.
Excellent advice.
Four years ago I bought a Jackson Hewitt tax franchise as a hedge against the day when I'm too old to program. I'm 52, work full time as a C++ programmer, and haven't been laid off yet!
I'm not sure about H&R, but as part of our basic price we promise to pay any interest and penalities that occur if we make a mistake. In addition, for a small charge the client can extend that coverage to include up to $5000 in additional taxes that might be levied.
Tax filings are the taxpayers responsiblity even if God himself prepared the return. I'm sure a CPA prepared Al Capone's return, but Big Al is the one who went to jail.
You will notice that H&RB (and Hewitt, et al.) will call themselves "Certified Tax Preparers" or some such nonsense.
I pass a difficult exam (based on the tax portion of the CPA exam)in order to qualify as an Enrolled Agent which gives me the right to represent clients in audits and in tax court on identical basis as attorneys and CPAs. Of course EA have identical responsibilities with our attorney and CPA friends. See IRS circular 230.
Most Jackson Hewitts have an EA or CPA available to represent client in audits.
All you folks doing the free returns, when you get the letter from the IRS this summer let me help you get amend your return to get you out of trouble.
I've heard Bert Rutan. He says he carefully studied the X-15 program and points out the similarities between the X-15 and SS-1.
Rutan points out that for less than US$30 million he produced:
1) A suborbital space craft
2) A "B-52" carrier aircraft, the White Knight
3) A flight simulator
4) Various chase aircraft with trained crews.
5) An astronaut training program.
WRT the White Knight it was announced last week that it will replace the B-52 for use in drop tests of a prototype NASA/DoD space plan (X-?, the number escapes me).
The X-15 had a much larger flight envolope than SS1. SS1 could only go straight up.
You could go somewhere in an X-15, and you go there at Mach 5. The X-15 was much closer to a ship that could fly up into orbit than SS-1.
That's not to take anything away from SS-1 at all.
On another note, as he does every year Rutan will be speaking several times at the EAA Oshkosh airshow, I think on July 30 and 31. His presentations are mind blowing and fun.
Rutan is the only person I've ever met who is clearly an actual wizard. He doesn't just think outside the box, it has never occured to him that there ever was a box.
I'm not at all certain that he's not from outer space and just living among us like some kind of ET Jane Goodall.
Isn't running a seperate executable and parsing the output the Unix Way??
I'm a windows programmer, but a while back I started using seperate processes more and threads less. Joel (citing RMS) made the same suggestion a few weeks ago on his blog.
The University of Idaho has a very similar program, I took some graduate courses there, they were tapes of the "real" classes, the work was identcial.
British Film misrepresents the history of Engima
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The currently showing British movie, "Enigma" (reviewed recently on/.) also misrepresents history.
In this movie the Brits invent the "bombe" decryption machine and crack the Enigma. In reality however, the importance of Engima was first discovered by the Polish intelligence service, who were the first to crack it. Poland provided England with full specifications for Engima and the design of the "bombe". Engima started as a commerical product, so it's basic design was not a secret. The Brits did excellent work in building on this treasure, but this Brit movie was as unfair to Poland as U571 was to Brittian.
The U.S. did by far the most spectacular reverse engineering job of the war when it reverse engineered Japan's "Purple" machine without ever seeing the real thing.
I was once a navigator/electronic warfare officer in F-4 and F/EF-111A aircraft. I saw the movie the movie tonight. First, everything Phanatic1a says is correct. In particular I'm sure this film will be shown at survival schools all over the world as an example of someone doing all the wrong things.
The rank structure of the "boat" was strange. There were no ranks lower than Rear Admiral and higher than USMC Captain. Of course, it's not the job of an Admiral to supervise individual line pilots. I'll allow this under the artistic license.
Another thing that bothered me a lot is the way the blonde haired backseater was sometimes a "navigator" and sometimes a pilot. A pilot is not the same thing as a navigator, and the navy doesn't have "navigators" on fighters. They do have "Naval Flight Officers", and I am pretty sure there really are two seat F-18s with NFOs in the back. But NFOs are not pilots and if they separate from the service they are not qualified to "fly the friendly skies". That's why Goose asked Maverick for the number to the truck driving school. I can only think the hero was made a backseater so as to avoid making this movie even more like "Top Gun".
Having said all that, I did enjoy the movie, especially the first 20 minutes are so. Fighter pilots and WSOs/NFOs/Navigators act a lot like the smart ass characters that were portrayed. In particular, once a guy "puts in his papers" he often becomes a little bit of a problem child.
Enjoy the movie, but leave your disbelief at the door.
1) The netlawyers here are correct. You sign a contract to pay extra based on the output of a random number generator attached to your rental car, then you have to pay. It's nothing to do with your rights to due process in criminal law.
2) I'm very surprised that no one has noted that unless the rental car company is using a very expensive aviation or military GPS unit, which includes a pressure alitude input, then the speed reading is subject to huge changes. Cheap GPS units used in ground vehicles are subject to huge errors. They will correct themselves, but momentary readings of 100mph should be expected.
Authortarian types are always touting some infailable machine that will make it easy to finger wrong doers./. readers ought to be the first to poke technical holes in the idea machine generated punishments. The idea that indivduals in Europe or North America have "rights" is a quant holdover from a simpler time.
I'm the submitter of this story. I received the following mail from Chappell Aldridge, the former Freerepublic user mentioned in this story. In the interests of balance, I'll post it here:
QUOTE
Jim Howard writes:
The controversial conservative political
web site Free Republic has won a permanent injunction
against one of its users who was alleged to have conducted
a campaign of disruption against the site.
This is not true. No injunction was won. I agreed to a stipulated injunction as part of a settlement to dismiss all outstanding claims
The decision was
rendered by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of
Virginia.
There was no "decision." There was no "opinion." There was no "judgment." The judge signed off on an out of court agreement between the parties. There is no precedent, there is no finding of liability, there is no admission of wrongdoing, there is no apology. There is only agreement to do what I had already done, which was to lose interest in the site after they had agreed to a million dollar judgment
Free Republic's allegations against the user are online as well. (note from Jim, this sentance was added by slashdot)
Why not put my Answer to their Allegations online as well? I enclose it as an attachment.
END QUOTE
I replied to Mr. Aldridge and tried to explain that I can't control what stories slashdot chooses to list, but that I would offer his side of the story here in the comments. I also offered to post a link here in the story comments to the document he sent me, if he wants to put it on the web somewhere.
Compusa lost my business when they NEVER had rebate slips for advertised rebates.
The Austin Best Buy's print the rebate slips at the register, you just fill them out and mail them in. This system has worked well for me, I use it a lot.
Bailout now. The company would replace you in a heartbeat if it were in their interest to do so. Give them two weeks notice and part friends. Your coworkers are adults and can handle responsibility for their own lives.
Frankly, if the CTO has created an organization that can't survive the replacement of the CTO, then that company hasn't had a good CTO and a change might in fact be beneficial for all concerned.
'It's not easy to make a living off of writing, but if you do you view yourself not as a paper-manufacturer but as a story-writer or an idea-creator. The ideas and the stories are what you sell; the physical medium is immaterial to you. Why should an author only be paid once when two people gain the ideas or learn the stories?'
Did you wrap your book in plastic with a shrink wrap license telling me that you retained ownership of the physical book? I didn't think so.
If you feel that your writing is so good that it will burn itself into my head to the extent I'd never need the physical book again, then you need to find a medium that supports your desired economic model.
Books have been physical property since Guttenberg.
Slashdot Mirror
"The U.S. knew, on the basis of intercepted communications, that Japan was ready to sue for peace"
Complete BS. There were no such intercepts.
Just look at the battle for Okinawa. To pacify one half of an island that was 60 miles long and 2 miles wide at the widest point required on the order of 40,000 U.S. wounded and 12,000 U.S. forces killed.
The casulities on the Japanese side were 10x the American numbers.
Even after the second atomic bomb was dropped there was a coup attempt to prevent broadcast of the surrender message.
The Japananese were willing to fight to the last woman and child as long they were taking Americans with them.
Only when faced with the possiblity of the destruction of their population with few Amercian loses did they relucantly surrender.
Aviation Week says that the new NASA administrator likes the idea of putting a manned capsule on top of a single space shuttle solid booster. The booster is already man-rated and (by rocket standards) in mass production, so the idea does make some sense.
Rutan has done a lot of DoD work for years. He started by making composite models of various low observable aircraft for radar cross-section testing, hence the name "Scaled Composites".
He has made an ultra-low cost ground attack fighter and an experimental flying scale model of a tactical transport airplane.
White Knights sister ship, Proteous, has been dropping various smart bombs as a "UAV Surrogate" for DoD testing for the last year.
What happened in Texas was that two Vontage subscribers were shot during a home invasion in March, 2005. They called 911, but since they hadn't registered their call didn't go through.
5 98-2005Mar22.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58
They should have used MFC for their GUI, they'd have got alt-space-move for free.
" I searched for Firefox to test it, and it spit out as the first (sponsored) hit: "Download Secure IE Web Browser and Save.""
To be fair, a google search for Firefox has the identical sponsered link as the first one on the sidebar.
Four years ago I bought a Jackson Hewitt tax franchise as a hedge against the day when I'm too old to program. I'm 52, work full time as a C++ programmer, and haven't been laid off yet!
I'm not sure about H&R, but as part of our basic price we promise to pay any interest and penalities that occur if we make a mistake. In addition, for a small charge the client can extend that coverage to include up to $5000 in additional taxes that might be levied.
Tax filings are the taxpayers responsiblity even if God himself prepared the return. I'm sure a CPA prepared Al Capone's return, but Big Al is the one who went to jail.
You will notice that H&RB (and Hewitt, et al.) will call themselves "Certified Tax Preparers" or some such nonsense.
I pass a difficult exam (based on the tax portion of the CPA exam)in order to qualify as an Enrolled Agent which gives me the right to represent clients in audits and in tax court on identical basis as attorneys and CPAs. Of course EA have identical responsibilities with our attorney and CPA friends. See IRS circular 230.
Most Jackson Hewitts have an EA or CPA available to represent client in audits.
All you folks doing the free returns, when you get the letter from the IRS this summer let me help you get amend your return to get you out of trouble.
25 years is way too much unless the goverment can show intent to harm the people on the airplane. A lot of people get much less for murder.
On the other hand, this is serious business.
Just suppose that you were driving down the interstate at 70mph and some dolt on an overpass shined a green laser into your eyes.
Would it be an act of tyranny to charge the laser operator with a crime, even it was "just a prank"?
Well, figure 3 crewmembers per flight, something like 1500 flights per day, cancel most flights for one snow and ice day near the end of the month.
Maybe not so crazy.
I've heard Bert Rutan. He says he carefully studied the X-15 program and points out the similarities between the X-15 and SS-1.
Rutan points out that for less than US$30 million he produced:
1) A suborbital space craft
2) A "B-52" carrier aircraft, the White Knight
3) A flight simulator
4) Various chase aircraft with trained crews.
5) An astronaut training program.
WRT the White Knight it was announced last week that it will replace the B-52 for use in drop tests of a prototype NASA/DoD space plan (X-?, the number escapes me).
The X-15 had a much larger flight envolope than SS1. SS1 could only go straight up.
You could go somewhere in an X-15, and you go there at Mach 5. The X-15 was much closer to a ship that could fly up into orbit than SS-1.
That's not to take anything away from SS-1 at all.
On another note, as he does every year Rutan will be speaking several times at the EAA Oshkosh airshow, I think on July 30 and 31. His presentations are mind blowing and fun.
Rutan is the only person I've ever met who is clearly an actual wizard. He doesn't just think outside the box, it has never occured to him that there ever was a box.
I'm not at all certain that he's not from outer space and just living among us like some kind of ET Jane Goodall.
"The FCC led by dyed-in-whool "deregulate everything right now! Big business knows best!" Republican Michael Powell? ..."
Just for the record, Powell was appointed to the FCC by President Clinton.
Isn't running a seperate executable and parsing the output the Unix Way??
I'm a windows programmer, but a while back I started using seperate processes more and threads less. Joel (citing RMS) made the same suggestion a few weeks ago on his blog.
"I polled with ftp.exe the Command prompt window would appear and dissapear. "
Next time, ask a windows programmer how to execute command lines without showing the command window.
If the President is riding in a civilian plane, it uses the callsign "Executive One".
The University of Idaho has a very similar program, I took some graduate courses there, they were tapes of the "real" classes, the work was identcial.
The currently showing British movie, "Enigma" (reviewed recently on /.) also misrepresents history.
.
In this movie the Brits invent the "bombe" decryption machine and crack the Enigma. In reality however, the importance of Engima was first discovered by the Polish intelligence service, who were the first to crack it. Poland provided England with full specifications for Engima and the design of the "bombe". Engima started as a commerical product, so it's basic design was not a secret. The Brits did excellent work in building on this treasure, but this Brit movie was as unfair to Poland as U571 was to Brittian.
The U.S. did by far the most spectacular reverse engineering job of the war when it reverse engineered Japan's "Purple" machine without ever seeing the real thing.
If you are interested in this subject, you must visit the NSA's National Cryptologic Museum
Jim
The rank structure of the "boat" was strange. There were no ranks lower than Rear Admiral and higher than USMC Captain. Of course, it's not the job of an Admiral to supervise individual line pilots. I'll allow this under the artistic license.
Another thing that bothered me a lot is the way the blonde haired backseater was sometimes a "navigator" and sometimes a pilot. A pilot is not the same thing as a navigator, and the navy doesn't have "navigators" on fighters. They do have "Naval Flight Officers", and I am pretty sure there really are two seat F-18s with NFOs in the back. But NFOs are not pilots and if they separate from the service they are not qualified to "fly the friendly skies". That's why Goose asked Maverick for the number to the truck driving school. I can only think the hero was made a backseater so as to avoid making this movie even more like "Top Gun".
Having said all that, I did enjoy the movie, especially the first 20 minutes are so. Fighter pilots and WSOs/NFOs/Navigators act a lot like the smart ass characters that were portrayed. In particular, once a guy "puts in his papers" he often becomes a little bit of a problem child.
Enjoy the movie, but leave your disbelief at the door.
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
Jim
Why we paid even a dime for Al's dream screen saver is beyond me.
1) The netlawyers here are correct. You sign a contract to pay extra based on the output of a random number generator attached to your rental car, then you have to pay. It's nothing to do with your rights to due process in criminal law.
2) I'm very surprised that no one has noted that unless the rental car company is using a very expensive aviation or military GPS unit, which includes a pressure alitude input, then the speed reading is subject to huge changes. Cheap GPS units used in ground vehicles are subject to huge errors. They will correct themselves, but momentary readings of 100mph should be expected.
Authortarian types are always touting some infailable machine that will make it easy to finger wrong doers. /. readers ought to be the first to poke technical holes in the idea machine generated punishments. The idea that indivduals in Europe or North America have "rights" is a quant holdover from a simpler time.
Jim
QUOTE
Jim Howard writes:
This is not true. No injunction was won. I agreed to a stipulated injunction as part of a settlement to dismiss all outstanding claims
There was no "decision." There was no "opinion." There was no "judgment." The judge signed off on an out of court agreement between the parties. There is no precedent, there is no finding of liability, there is no admission of wrongdoing, there is no apology. There is only agreement to do what I had already done, which was to lose interest in the site after they had agreed to a million dollar judgment
Why not put my Answer to their Allegations online as well? I enclose it as an attachment.
END QUOTE
I replied to Mr. Aldridge and tried to explain that I can't control what stories slashdot chooses to list, but that I would offer his side of the story here in the comments. I also offered to post a link here in the story comments to the document he sent me, if he wants to put it on the web somewhere.
Jim Howard
The Austin Best Buy's print the rebate slips at the register, you just fill them out and mail them in. This system has worked well for me, I use it a lot.
Frankly, if the CTO has created an organization that can't survive the replacement of the CTO, then that company hasn't had a good CTO and a change might in fact be beneficial for all concerned.
Did you wrap your book in plastic with a shrink wrap license telling me that you retained ownership of the physical book? I didn't think so.
If you feel that your writing is so good that it will burn itself into my head to the extent I'd never need the physical book again, then you need to find a medium that supports your desired economic model.
Books have been physical property since Guttenberg.