Though the smaller pieces are more likely to burn up completely on entry, so all we need to do is make sure the pieces are below a certain mass/volume ratio and thermal resistance value. Then we only need to worry about a small percentage of unknown, burnt up cosmic material in the upper atmosphere, but that is no different from any other "falling star" you'll see on almost any given clear desert night.
Sounds to me like it will be travelling in parallel with the asteroid, but being that it is using gravity, it will lose "altitute" relative to the object and need to regain it by thrusting away from the object without pushing the object or damaging it, thus bending the orbital arc toward the craft ever so slightly.
I love how Anonymous Cowards like to slander and ridicule Slashdot, fully forgetting the fact that Slashdot is a free community service provided at a cost to those providing it, with little to no recompense. I also love how they attack the entire community for something one person writes in an article. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside watching them make fools of themselves in their ignorance. Keep posting cowards, because THAT's how I make myself "feel bigger".
"For once, realize that not all of the worlds problems are caused by Microsoft." You know, you are right, the rest of them are caused by people who complain about free services.
From YOUR LINK: I'm a windows admin and noticed something really funny. When a virus comes out on e of the first pieces of information you get is which platforms are vulnerable and under what conditions. Look at the difference between a Linux worm and a windows one.
Linux:
Linux running webservers, *IF* the target server is running one of the vulnerable scripts, and *IF* it has a specific url, and *IF* it is configured to permit external shell commands, and *IF* it is set to remote file download in the PHP/CGI environment, *THEN MAYBE* a copy of the worm could be downloaded and executed.
Funny, none of my production webservers were even vulnerable, though I did go and check, and none of my desktop Linux machines were vulnerable, as they aren't running webservers. WindowsNT thru XP are continually vulnerable to attacks because they rely heavily on RPC which cannot be shut off. This is an unacceptable, flawed concept, and security damaging practice, but I should stop bashing M$ for it? Tired is manually removing malware, spyware, Sony rootkits, and viruses. Windows bashing is necessary until they listen.
Um, IIRC "common words" cannot be trademarked (except that the M$ legal team and/or lobbying team pushed it through anyway), so his use of "Windows Defender" SHOULDN'T have been an issue. The phrase "Microsoft Windows" can clearly be trademarked, as can the word "Microsoft", but not the word "Windows".
For Examples: I have windows in my house. Windows keep the bugs out and my AC in. I have to clean my windows regularly so I can see out of them. I run Microsoft Windows(tm) as little as possible. See the difference? I could write an application, say, "Windows Business Tracker", and they might bitch about trademark, but the purpose of the software when seen is clearly in support of a window repair and replacement business. That trademark is ridiculous and invalid.
Also, the article clearly shows how M$ actively and forcefully defends their trademarks but blatantly ignores the trademarks of other companies.
FTA: Redmond startup Vista.com raised similar questions when Microsoft announced plans to call the next version of its operating system Windows Vista. Microsoft defended the choice by saying the combination of "Windows" and "Vista" would avoid confusion. It will not, it will weaken the validity of the name Vista as used by that company, and make it appear that Vista.com is attempting to "tag along" with a widely used Microsoft name that Vista.com had first. To be fair, it is still a dictionary word, but used much less commonly than "windows".
Finally, from the sounds of it, they did not leave any question as to the validity of their claim, the letters likely had a threatening tone, and were likely not even remotely polite, even though they were making legal threats internationally. Does their (invalid, IMHO) trademark actually hold in Australia?
Makes me wonder, from a purely PR standpoint, how they even manage to stay in business.
Personally, I don't see any logic in taking a stable, fast, robust, stylish piece of hardware and ruining it with bloated, insecure, unstable software like Windows.
<OffTopic level="slight">Sure, real-estate agents will be better supported, but personally I think MLS has been quite negligent in their support of their customers. I've been to many real-estate offices to run anitvirus and antispyware sweeps, and invariably there is a computer or two that are so infested there is little to do but reformat. If I were an MLS higher-up, I would have long ago at least made code policy to support ease of porting and called for research of possible OS alternatives.</OffTopic>
The real battle (IMHO) will be OSX available for installations on those Dells and nearly any other generic PC. Watch the better OS begin to dominate, and watch Mr. Gates and Mr. Ballmer struggle to actually innovate up some stability, functionality, and security without the bloat before that monopoly crumbles.
If you have some older hardware about, check this out: NASLite
A customized Linux bootable floppy specifically designed to turn an older machine into NAS (in 5 minutes they claim), even bypassing the BIOS to support larger hard drives on motherboards that couldn't otherwise see them. Unfortunately, it does not support RAID.
Sadly, shifting in storage destroyed the motherboard I was planning to use for my own NAS system, so I can't currently give any personal experience comments.
The last Hitachi drive I bought not only was DOA, but killed the brand new motherboard it came with, and an older replacement motherboard I had, before I narrowed it to the drive.
So, yeah, not even if it's free... in fact, not even if they paid me.
Prove (or disprove) the Theory of Evolution, or prove (or disprove) the Theory of Intelligent Design, make one a scientific Law (like the Law of Gravity), or get off your high horse and treat the theories equally, as they both completely adequately explain existence.
[-500 years]Maybe, just maybe, the Earth really does revolve around the Sun, and not the other way around like everyone believes.[/-500 years] Nobody would accept that until it was fully proven, why are you accepting evolution before it is fully proven?
While I would love to have a stereolithography 3d rapid prototyping system, and would love for them to be common, the photopolymer plastic these operate on is quite difficult to produce and therefore rather expensive (~$800/gallon). The non-leaking X/Y/Z table is relatively easy to come across or build if you have a good garage machine shop, and though ultraviolet lasers are easy to find online, the prices are not ( Photonics Industries Intl., Inc., Market Tech, Inc. ) which typically means "quite pricey".
That being said, I can imagine a paper-fiber-reinforced-plastic system using standard hobby epoxy and normal printing paper, where the layers are cut out on an X/Y table and assembled in a stack, then manually soaked in epoxy... that could provide a similar result (minus the nice transparent effect) with much less cost. It would have caveats and problems like alignment and structure of the paper version before epoxy, and it would have a shearing weakness tendancy parallel to the layers, but even stereolithography isn't intended for final product.
Great, now I have to build one of these... so much for my free time.
Carpeted tiles still seem a bit low on the longevity scale, and practicality scale to me, but then I bought a house that the previous occupants had tile carpet put into the kitchen and bathrooms, which just totally boggled my mind and I am in the process of tearing it out and replacing it with nice, easy-to-clean vinyl flooring.
There are things we can see that can affect us, and there are things we can see that cannot affect us. Don't get me wrong, those pursuits are just fine, as long as they are prioritized. I personally would like to see our own neighborhood mapped properly before attempting to map the whole galaxy (or universe). If my tax dollars are being used for astronomical research, I'd prefer them to be portioned more locally and less "universally". Gallileo was self funded and self published (IIRC), so his groundbreaking work was not made at the expense of the taxpayers.
But if you want to get personal, Mr (or Ms) Coward, if people were listening to me for most of my life, we would have an alternative to bullet-style aerospace, and many wonderful glittery things like orbital hydroponic farms with year-round growing seasons to feed the hungry, orbital forges and Lunar mines making alloys that are impossible at the bottom of a gravity well for better structures, etc. But, obviously, people haven't. I guess if you want it done right...
Extend the range of the telescopes so that we can see further into areas we can't get to... this is valid research for what exactly? Will it help us with our power concerns? Will it help us with lower cost housing? Will it help us prepare to defend our planet from an astonomical event? A full survey of our own Solar system to identify as many Earth threats as possible would be more worthwhile, and would not take extended range. It just would take more current-power-level telescopes with extra-atmospheric positioning and a nice networked database.
But that won't happen because all the astronomy research money is spent trying to figure out how old the universe is (like that matters) and other equally purposeless adgendas.
"That asteroid is in an orbit that might hit us, but boy that nebula 20,000 lightyears away is pretty."
The one thing I did not like about the raised floors was when some dumbass moron (who did NOT work within a NOC) decided to replace our nice, white, easy to buff tiles, with carpeted tiles. 10 years later and I can't still figure out why the hell would he approve that switch, since our NOC with its white tiles looked fricking gorgeous just by running a buffer and a clean mop thru it. The tiles with carpeting were gray so they darkened our pristine NOC.
Very odd. In the (brief) time I worked in a raised floor NOC in the Marines, the only access we had below the raised floor was with suction based handles that you pumped with your thumb to lift a tile. I can't quite imagine a more functional and efficient method that could be used for carpeted tiles. I doubt velcro or an equivalent would be much use for any extended period of time.
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Though the smaller pieces are more likely to burn up completely on entry, so all we need to do is make sure the pieces are below a certain mass/volume ratio and thermal resistance value. Then we only need to worry about a small percentage of unknown, burnt up cosmic material in the upper atmosphere, but that is no different from any other "falling star" you'll see on almost any given clear desert night.
You mean "waste"?
Sounds to me like it will be travelling in parallel with the asteroid, but being that it is using gravity, it will lose "altitute" relative to the object and need to regain it by thrusting away from the object without pushing the object or damaging it, thus bending the orbital arc toward the craft ever so slightly.
I love how Anonymous Cowards like to slander and ridicule Slashdot, fully forgetting the fact that Slashdot is a free community service provided at a cost to those providing it, with little to no recompense. I also love how they attack the entire community for something one person writes in an article. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside watching them make fools of themselves in their ignorance. Keep posting cowards, because THAT's how I make myself "feel bigger".
"For once, realize that not all of the worlds problems are caused by Microsoft."
You know, you are right, the rest of them are caused by people who complain about free services.
I'll stop when they fix it.
From YOUR LINK:
I'm a windows admin and noticed something really funny. When a virus comes out on e of the first pieces of information you get is which platforms are vulnerable and under what conditions. Look at the difference between a Linux worm and a windows one.
Linux:
Linux running webservers, *IF* the target server is running one of the vulnerable scripts, and *IF* it has a specific url, and *IF* it is configured to permit external shell commands, and *IF* it is set to remote file download in the PHP/CGI environment, *THEN MAYBE* a copy of the worm could be downloaded and executed.
Windows:
This virus affects Win 3.1, Win95A, Win95B, Win95C, Win98, Win98SE, Win2000.....
Funny, none of my production webservers were even vulnerable, though I did go and check, and none of my desktop Linux machines were vulnerable, as they aren't running webservers. WindowsNT thru XP are continually vulnerable to attacks because they rely heavily on RPC which cannot be shut off. This is an unacceptable, flawed concept, and security damaging practice, but I should stop bashing M$ for it? Tired is manually removing malware, spyware, Sony rootkits, and viruses. Windows bashing is necessary until they listen.
Um, IIRC "common words" cannot be trademarked (except that the M$ legal team and/or lobbying team pushed it through anyway), so his use of "Windows Defender" SHOULDN'T have been an issue. The phrase "Microsoft Windows" can clearly be trademarked, as can the word "Microsoft", but not the word "Windows".
For Examples: I have windows in my house. Windows keep the bugs out and my AC in. I have to clean my windows regularly so I can see out of them. I run Microsoft Windows(tm) as little as possible. See the difference? I could write an application, say, "Windows Business Tracker", and they might bitch about trademark, but the purpose of the software when seen is clearly in support of a window repair and replacement business. That trademark is ridiculous and invalid.
Also, the article clearly shows how M$ actively and forcefully defends their trademarks but blatantly ignores the trademarks of other companies.
FTA: Redmond startup Vista.com raised similar questions when Microsoft announced plans to call the next version of its operating system Windows Vista. Microsoft defended the choice by saying the combination of "Windows" and "Vista" would avoid confusion. It will not, it will weaken the validity of the name Vista as used by that company, and make it appear that Vista.com is attempting to "tag along" with a widely used Microsoft name that Vista.com had first. To be fair, it is still a dictionary word, but used much less commonly than "windows".
Finally, from the sounds of it, they did not leave any question as to the validity of their claim, the letters likely had a threatening tone, and were likely not even remotely polite, even though they were making legal threats internationally. Does their (invalid, IMHO) trademark actually hold in Australia?
Makes me wonder, from a purely PR standpoint, how they even manage to stay in business.
Personally, I don't see any logic in taking a stable, fast, robust, stylish piece of hardware and ruining it with bloated, insecure, unstable software like Windows.
<OffTopic level="slight">Sure, real-estate agents will be better supported, but personally I think MLS has been quite negligent in their support of their customers. I've been to many real-estate offices to run anitvirus and antispyware sweeps, and invariably there is a computer or two that are so infested there is little to do but reformat. If I were an MLS higher-up, I would have long ago at least made code policy to support ease of porting and called for research of possible OS alternatives.</OffTopic>
The real battle (IMHO) will be OSX available for installations on those Dells and nearly any other generic PC. Watch the better OS begin to dominate, and watch Mr. Gates and Mr. Ballmer struggle to actually innovate up some stability, functionality, and security without the bloat before that monopoly crumbles.
If you have some older hardware about, check this out:
NASLite
A customized Linux bootable floppy specifically designed to turn an older machine into NAS (in 5 minutes they claim), even bypassing the BIOS to support larger hard drives on motherboards that couldn't otherwise see them. Unfortunately, it does not support RAID.
Sadly, shifting in storage destroyed the motherboard I was planning to use for my own NAS system, so I can't currently give any personal experience comments.
The last Hitachi drive I bought not only was DOA, but killed the brand new motherboard it came with, and an older replacement motherboard I had, before I narrowed it to the drive.
So, yeah, not even if it's free... in fact, not even if they paid me.
Prove (or disprove) the Theory of Evolution, or prove (or disprove) the Theory of Intelligent Design, make one a scientific Law (like the Law of Gravity), or get off your high horse and treat the theories equally, as they both completely adequately explain existence.
[-500 years]Maybe, just maybe, the Earth really does revolve around the Sun, and not the other way around like everyone believes.[/-500 years] Nobody would accept that until it was fully proven, why are you accepting evolution before it is fully proven?
While I would love to have a stereolithography 3d rapid prototyping system, and would love for them to be common, the photopolymer plastic these operate on is quite difficult to produce and therefore rather expensive (~$800/gallon). The non-leaking X/Y/Z table is relatively easy to come across or build if you have a good garage machine shop, and though ultraviolet lasers are easy to find online, the prices are not ( Photonics Industries Intl., Inc., Market Tech, Inc. ) which typically means "quite pricey".
That being said, I can imagine a paper-fiber-reinforced-plastic system using standard hobby epoxy and normal printing paper, where the layers are cut out on an X/Y table and assembled in a stack, then manually soaked in epoxy... that could provide a similar result (minus the nice transparent effect) with much less cost. It would have caveats and problems like alignment and structure of the paper version before epoxy, and it would have a shearing weakness tendancy parallel to the layers, but even stereolithography isn't intended for final product.
Great, now I have to build one of these... so much for my free time.
Carpeted tiles still seem a bit low on the longevity scale, and practicality scale to me, but then I bought a house that the previous occupants had tile carpet put into the kitchen and bathrooms, which just totally boggled my mind and I am in the process of tearing it out and replacing it with nice, easy-to-clean vinyl flooring.
Wall-to-wall carpeted bathrooms... egad!
There are things we can see that can affect us, and there are things we can see that cannot affect us. Don't get me wrong, those pursuits are just fine, as long as they are prioritized. I personally would like to see our own neighborhood mapped properly before attempting to map the whole galaxy (or universe). If my tax dollars are being used for astronomical research, I'd prefer them to be portioned more locally and less "universally". Gallileo was self funded and self published (IIRC), so his groundbreaking work was not made at the expense of the taxpayers.
But if you want to get personal, Mr (or Ms) Coward, if people were listening to me for most of my life, we would have an alternative to bullet-style aerospace, and many wonderful glittery things like orbital hydroponic farms with year-round growing seasons to feed the hungry, orbital forges and Lunar mines making alloys that are impossible at the bottom of a gravity well for better structures, etc. But, obviously, people haven't. I guess if you want it done right...
Extend the range of the telescopes so that we can see further into areas we can't get to... this is valid research for what exactly? Will it help us with our power concerns? Will it help us with lower cost housing? Will it help us prepare to defend our planet from an astonomical event? A full survey of our own Solar system to identify as many Earth threats as possible would be more worthwhile, and would not take extended range. It just would take more current-power-level telescopes with extra-atmospheric positioning and a nice networked database. But that won't happen because all the astronomy research money is spent trying to figure out how old the universe is (like that matters) and other equally purposeless adgendas. "That asteroid is in an orbit that might hit us, but boy that nebula 20,000 lightyears away is pretty."
The one thing I did not like about the raised floors was when some dumbass moron (who did NOT work within a NOC) decided to replace our nice, white, easy to buff tiles, with carpeted tiles. 10 years later and I can't still figure out why the hell would he approve that switch, since our NOC with its white tiles looked fricking gorgeous just by running a buffer and a clean mop thru it. The tiles with carpeting were gray so they darkened our pristine NOC.
Very odd. In the (brief) time I worked in a raised floor NOC in the Marines, the only access we had below the raised floor was with suction based handles that you pumped with your thumb to lift a tile. I can't quite imagine a more functional and efficient method that could be used for carpeted tiles. I doubt velcro or an equivalent would be much use for any extended period of time.