The shuttle can barely lift things to LEO, and you expect it to carry payloads that can get out of earth orbit and to saturn? It doesn't add up, makes the guy sound like a whacko.
That only works when traffic lights are synchronized so that they turn green when you approach at the speed limit. There are far far more intersections where the lights are independent, and you have a reasonable chance of squeeking by on a green or yellow if you speed.
I signed my gmail account up for some mailing lists. The other day, I had 12 messages marked as spam. 8 of them were legitimate messages. That gives a 66% false positive rate. There have also been a bunch of false negatives (but I don't have numbers for that). So, gmail's spam filters need a lot of work.
A bunch of stuff is also filtered at the SMTP level. Anything with an executable attachment is dropped before you ever see it.. this is not so good for some of the security mailing lists like full-disclosure and others discussing trojans and worms.
Notice also that the distance to geosynchonous orbit from sea level is 22240 miles. This means that the cable will go well beyond geosynchonous and will essentially act as its own counterweight, with the center of gravity at the geosynchonous orbit. No asteroid required.. but the cable has to be much much stronger since it would be three times longer and must support its own weight.
So, the statement of "nothing new has to be discovered" I think is incorrect. There is no carbon nanotube that can withstand that tensile force yet. There is also no way of manufacturing carbon nanotubes of this scale.. let along lifting it to orbit intact (or reassembling the different spools in orbit). 15 years is wishful thinking.
The counterweight isn't for the car, its for the elevator itself. The *center of gravity* of the elevator must be at geosynchronous. If the elevator only consisted of the cabling, it would have to be 2x longer than the distance to geosynchonous orbit. Capturing an asteroid to use as a counterweight would mean that the cable would only have to go a couple hundred miles past geosynchonous - depending on the mass of the cable and the asteroid. (remember geosynchronous is 35790 km (22240 miles) above sea level)
Caps lock was created for backwars-compatible to all-caps-only machines. Think the Apple//e versus the Apple ][+. It actually served a useful purpose in its day. Now, it just takes space up on the keyboard. Remap it to CTRL.
Sounds like a standard HoneyPot, except the only machine on the nextwork segement is a packet sniffer, so the address doesn't have any real destinations.. Not a big deal. I'm sure the honeynet people have done similar.
There are open drivers in XFree86 for the Radeon series of cards. The newer cards are 2D-only, and some older cards (Radeon 9200, 9000) have 3D support as well.
The 3D accel isn't supposed to be nearly as fast as ATI's closed drivers, but its supposed to be functional.
It seems that Cliff has been in charge of Ask Slashdot for a while. The questions he selects are rediculously horrible. This is nothing new. I think I'm going to add him to my list of filtered editors. Previously only JonKatz has had that honor. This is getting rediulous.
Oh, and most times that someone complains about it, they are modded down to -1 Redundant.. I mean, wtf. Someone needs to fix this.
The problem with the USPS is that they use their government-granted monopoly on US domestic mail to subsidize their international shipping division. It makes it hard for companies like DHL, FedEx and UPS to compete internationally.
But they still make sure that they run the whole thing at a loss, that way they can go to congress to get more funding whenever they want. They can also increase domestic postage whenever they want. The whole thing is a big scam.
This could be helpful for developers looking to test their open source code on Mac OS X.
Does anyone have any OS X machines available for open source developers to use? Something ssh-able with apple's developer tools (make and gcc) would be sufficient.
If no one knows of any services like this, would any OS X people be willing to open up user accounts on their boxen? (PearPC or real hardware, either would be fine) email me: molotov1134@hotmail.com
We're talking about cars of the same generation here. A standard gasoline Civic versus a Civic hybrid, for example. They have the same internal combustion tech available to them - catalytic converters, fuel injection, electronic valve timing, etc.
Lets compare apples and apples please. In the above situation, MPG ~= emissions.
Besides, what's to stop them from subpoenaing your private PGP key?
Your PGP passphrase is used to encrypt and decrypt your private key. Keep it secret and change it occasionally. Don't write it down. Even if they force you to turn over your private key, it would take a keylogger to get your passphrase.
Record the demo on the server, and you'll have all the information. You don't want the clients to have this ability, because then it can be used for cheating (sending everyone's positions instead of just the people that are visible).
If you want to edit your demos and change perspective, use KeyGrip.
As for not having to buy the game.. the Quake engine is GPLed.. but you still have to buy the games to get the maps. Any demo playback engine will also have to have the maps, since the demo data doesn't contain rendering information.
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The shuttle can barely lift things to LEO, and you expect it to carry payloads that can get out of earth orbit and to saturn? It doesn't add up, makes the guy sound like a whacko.
-molo
OpenSSL is not gcc-dedpendant. Pretty much any C compiler will work. I'm sure there are compilers out there that are already proven for DoD use.
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I'd like one of these players. Can you point me to some resources about them? Thanks.
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That only works when traffic lights are synchronized so that they turn green when you approach at the speed limit. There are far far more intersections where the lights are independent, and you have a reasonable chance of squeeking by on a green or yellow if you speed.
-molo
Wikipedia on BART:
The trains are computer-controlled and arrive on-time with regular accuracy. Drivers are present in case of unforeseen difficulties.
If you have other information, please correct the wikipedia entry.
-molo
I signed my gmail account up for some mailing lists. The other day, I had 12 messages marked as spam. 8 of them were legitimate messages. That gives a 66% false positive rate. There have also been a bunch of false negatives (but I don't have numbers for that). So, gmail's spam filters need a lot of work.
A bunch of stuff is also filtered at the SMTP level. Anything with an executable attachment is dropped before you ever see it.. this is not so good for some of the security mailing lists like full-disclosure and others discussing trojans and worms.
-molo
Yes, i think you are right. Thanks for the correction.
-molo
Notice the length of the cable in the article:
"62,000 miles into space"
Notice also that the distance to geosynchonous orbit from sea level is 22240 miles. This means that the cable will go well beyond geosynchonous and will essentially act as its own counterweight, with the center of gravity at the geosynchonous orbit. No asteroid required.. but the cable has to be much much stronger since it would be three times longer and must support its own weight.
So, the statement of "nothing new has to be discovered" I think is incorrect. There is no carbon nanotube that can withstand that tensile force yet. There is also no way of manufacturing carbon nanotubes of this scale.. let along lifting it to orbit intact (or reassembling the different spools in orbit). 15 years is wishful thinking.
-molo
The counterweight isn't for the car, its for the elevator itself. The *center of gravity* of the elevator must be at geosynchronous. If the elevator only consisted of the cabling, it would have to be 2x longer than the distance to geosynchonous orbit. Capturing an asteroid to use as a counterweight would mean that the cable would only have to go a couple hundred miles past geosynchonous - depending on the mass of the cable and the asteroid. (remember geosynchronous is 35790 km (22240 miles) above sea level)
-molo
Caps lock was created for backwars-compatible to all-caps-only machines. Think the Apple //e versus the Apple ][+. It actually served a useful purpose in its day. Now, it just takes space up on the keyboard. Remap it to CTRL.
-molo
Sounds like a standard HoneyPot, except the only machine on the nextwork segement is a packet sniffer, so the address doesn't have any real destinations.. Not a big deal. I'm sure the honeynet people have done similar.
-molo
There are open drivers in XFree86 for the Radeon series of cards. The newer cards are 2D-only, and some older cards (Radeon 9200, 9000) have 3D support as well.
The 3D accel isn't supposed to be nearly as fast as ATI's closed drivers, but its supposed to be functional.
Details about specific cards and chipsets are on the XFree86 Radeon driver page
Hope this helps.
-molo
It seems that Cliff has been in charge of Ask Slashdot for a while. The questions he selects are rediculously horrible. This is nothing new. I think I'm going to add him to my list of filtered editors. Previously only JonKatz has had that honor. This is getting rediulous.
Oh, and most times that someone complains about it, they are modded down to -1 Redundant.. I mean, wtf. Someone needs to fix this.
-molo
He's a Chinese national, but resides in Australia, reportedly.
In Linux 2.6, you want to set the 'swapiness' value to 0. This will prevent the system from swapping out process memory for disk cache.
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NT = no text
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Google search on "usps funding congress":
m 38 16/is_13_18/ai_80715581
http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_
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I've seen a bunch of stories on it over the years.. here's one from a quick google search on "usps funding congress":
m 38 16/is_13_18/ai_80715581
http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_
-molo
The problem with the USPS is that they use their government-granted monopoly on US domestic mail to subsidize their international shipping division. It makes it hard for companies like DHL, FedEx and UPS to compete internationally.
But they still make sure that they run the whole thing at a loss, that way they can go to congress to get more funding whenever they want. They can also increase domestic postage whenever they want. The whole thing is a big scam.
-molo
NT=no text
This could be helpful for developers looking to test their open source code on Mac OS X.
Does anyone have any OS X machines available for open source developers to use? Something ssh-able with apple's developer tools (make and gcc) would be sufficient.
If no one knows of any services like this, would any OS X people be willing to open up user accounts on their boxen? (PearPC or real hardware, either would be fine) email me: molotov1134@hotmail.com
Thanks,
-molo
We're talking about cars of the same generation here. A standard gasoline Civic versus a Civic hybrid, for example. They have the same internal combustion tech available to them - catalytic converters, fuel injection, electronic valve timing, etc.
Lets compare apples and apples please. In the above situation, MPG ~= emissions.
-molo
Finally, the main goal of the hybrid is reduced emissions; increased MPG is a byproduct.
They are generally the same thing. How would you reduce emissions but to use less gasoline?
-molo
Besides, what's to stop them from subpoenaing your private PGP key?
Your PGP passphrase is used to encrypt and decrypt your private key. Keep it secret and change it occasionally. Don't write it down. Even if they force you to turn over your private key, it would take a keylogger to get your passphrase.
-molo
You can do that in Quake too.
Record the demo on the server, and you'll have all the information. You don't want the clients to have this ability, because then it can be used for cheating (sending everyone's positions instead of just the people that are visible).
If you want to edit your demos and change perspective, use KeyGrip.
As for not having to buy the game.. the Quake engine is GPLed.. but you still have to buy the games to get the maps. Any demo playback engine will also have to have the maps, since the demo data doesn't contain rendering information.
-molo