"I remember how startled I was when it came to me that, for more than a hundred flights, nobody ever inspected the underside of an in-orbit shuttle for tile damage"
I can't remember quite where I read this, but it wasn't from Al Gore. The primary reason NASA didn't bother to inspect simply because there was nothing to do of there were damange - no rescue plan. And telling the crew they have a big gaping hole and were going to die on the way back stinks. And mounting a rescue would probably have meant weeks in space on minimal rations, counting O2 molecules, jettisoning equipment, filling up the toilets, etc. Only after Challenger did NASA finish the Shuttle program with repair kits, inspection, staging a rescue Shuttle, sleepovers at the ISS, etc. Before that, it was the Spam-in-a-can philosophy. The crew knew what they were getting into.
Only they didn't. The hardcore 'nauts both knew the danger and relied on the engineeers. Shuttle crews were thinking this was somewhat more dangerous than the Beltway in a rush-hour hurricane. They didn't know the engineers were no longer in charge...
On both the women's and men's sides, there is corruption and manipulation. It is only more obvious in the Olympics, where the whole world watches with more interest.
The current head of FIG is an Italian. Perhaps this scandal will force them to be more diligent in their recordkeeping. In fact, perhaps a solution is to agree to accept the 'current' information about age, but to them require the national governing bodies to backdate previous results. This might have the effect of rendering some gymnasts ineligible for qualifying events, and then render them ineligible for their Olympic team, and there goes the medal... And the 'blame' if there is any, could fall on the national authorities. the IOC sure doesn't want to address this, for to do so is to admit failure.
But fixing this is as impossible as fixing figure skating.
I like the idea of a 'blanket' license, kinda like an all-you-can-eat plan. But it won't satisfy me on one important count: Duration. I like having an essentially perpetual license to the music I purchase. I have scads of CDs, and they are, so far as I can tell, perpetually mine to listen to.
A subscription via my ISP doesn't do much for me at all, since changing ISPs could leave me with a whole new 'library' of licensed music. What if I want something my 'old' ISP had but my 'new' ISP doesn't?
What if I want to take my music to the gym? Can I copy it to my player? Why does it matter what sort of player it is? I can rip CDs to my player just fine now.
Not interested. I can see where the RIAA would be interested, though. Geting paid for nothing is nice work if you can get it, and getting paid for the unpopular as well as the popular is their bread and butter.
Keep at it, gangsters. You'll get it right, right after we ditch your product completely.
Thanks for nothing. My spam volume went up 20% from 7/9 - 7/11 and stayed at that level. My missed spam want from about 5% of total to about 10% of total. I now get about 600 messages a day, with about 450-500 trapped as spam, and about 40 as ham. I used to get about 25 spam a day that leaked through, most the same thing I'm too lazy to write a rule for. Now I get 50-60 missed spam a day, somewhat annoying. A bad hit rate.
I also get a lot of newsletters marked as spam via DCC. Don't get me started on the l@m0rs who forget they subscribed to something and mark it spam in their inbox... Sheesh.
ps- Don't let the government get too involved in this. They make it worse.
My first puter (a VIC-20) gave me rainbow on black. On the TV it was pretty much unreadable. Since I knew what I was typing, I could always figure it out. Of course, since I couldn't program worth a crap back then, I never could read what the puter typed back.
Now, typing this with random graffitti all over the input box, that's more like it. Who said/. should be easy?
Not going to happen to my blogs. They can pound sand. Mandating balanace and fairness in opinion is nearly the height of futility. Might as well mandate intelligence and tolerance while yer at it, Bucko.
And used to know what Conservative meant, but the meaning has been distorted terribly. So much so that most of the people indulge in political discussion keep trying to call me a 'Neocon', and the Republican Party as well. They may be right about the party, though I find good reason to discredit that, but this from wikipedia:
"The term neoconservative was originally used as a criticism against liberals who had "moved to the right".[3][4] Michael Harrington, a democratic socialist, coined the usage of neoconservative in a 1973 Dissent magazine article concerning welfare policy.[5]"
So the term 'Neocon' was first used to refer to liberals changing their policies. Kinda makes 'Neocon' another word for 'Centrist Liberal'. Or, to put it bluntly, NOT A CONSERVATIVE.
First, that data would get around, if only at the single agency that *might* be running this supposed domestic spying project. Try as they might, it won't be hidden from an incoming Administration. There will be at least ONE staffer that is either not completely loyal to the offending Administration, or one that knows that data is data, and needs to be preserved.
Second, what gives you the idea that an incoming administration of ANY political persuasion won't use any information it has or can get to further its mission, whatever that is...? Don't be naive here, folks. Power is power. Not using it is to let others use it to your peril.
Third, if this all seems new to you, consult history. J. Edgar Hoover wasn't the first to do a bit of domestic spying.
Sheesh. As if this is about dems v reps. It's 'us' v 'them', and the only way to tell the difference is with an election. If the party in power changes, they become 'Them'. We the People are always 'Us'.
Yeah, I think the MM (or 'crasher' as we called them back then) is close to the most complex mechanical calculator ever, save the Difference Engine. Which isn't fair, since the DE is the size of a room.
When I actually serviced these machines, the engineers in the paper mills called them 'coffee makers'. Input a problem, start, go have a cuppa coffee. Maybe a cigarette. Maybe two. It might be done by then.
A room of 60 of these going steady from 8 to 5 was deafening.
Then we delivered Sharp CS-21s or 21As, I forget. Square root key. No more coffee breaks. These things suffered repeated breakdowns^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^sabotage, the favorite being coffee in the keyboard. "Gee, the old Monroes were never bothered by coffee". Having to actually work for a day changed the engineering staff in a big way - they got laid off and engineering moved to New York. *sigh*.
Fixing early calculators was some fun, let me tell you. But that's another story. Just think of cheap PCBs, traces thinner than John Edward's excuses, and desoldering FPGAs by hand. Ick.
"Perhaps we'll see nvidia entering the CPU business some time soon... "
Nvidia *IS* in the CPU business. We call their products GPUs, and we try to limit their use to display adapters, but GPUs are really slightly specialized CPUs. Go on, split the hairs, but it's way more true than false. There is even clustering and app s/w for GPUs.
Not at all a shocker if Nvidia starts marketing a specialized 'C'PU. Something either low power, graphics-enhanced or graphics-embedded, or maybe a one-chip solution. Not that far out of their core competency, though uptake will be harder without a track record.
But Nvidia was not, to me, a mainstream winner in m/b chipsets. SiS has had some good sets, and of course Intel has to be able to make a competitive chipset if for no other reason than to be able to demonstrate their CPUs, ditto AMD.
Perhaps Nvidia is spread a little thin? Now their threat may be that of the one-trick pony. Going into a specialized CPU business may make more sense. They have the GPU->CPU smarts, I bet. Add the chipset knowledge and you get a one-chip ability fairly quickly. Now to find a market. Oh. Sub-notebooks. Or maxi-PDA, or whatever is between an iPhone and a minitablet.
"A possible explanation for its removal: A screen shot of an App Store review that has been circulating around the Web recently, showing a user's complaint that he purchased it accidentally. "I saw this app with a few friends and we jokingly clicked 'buy' thinking it was a joke, to see what would happen.... THIS IS NO JOKE...DO NOT BUY THIS APP AND APPLE PLEASE REMOVE THIS FROM THE APP STORE," it read."
Well, three things come to mind.
1. A refund for these boneheads would be ok, but pulling the app 'cause people don't believe IT COSTS THAT MUCHOMGWTF!!! Dumb. By that measure, half the store is pulled, maybe more.
"Mr Silva at VeriSign said even though patches have been put in place, this doesn't mean users can sit back and relax.
"The biggest gap in security rests between the keyboard and the back of the chair," he said.
"The look and feel of a website is not what a consumer should trust. They should trust the security behind that website and do simple things like use more secure passwords and change their password regularly." "
Absolutely. Changing your password often on the faked site will go a long ways to ensuring your trust in the Internet is not betrayed.
Dan really does get this. Nothing is safe. DNS affects pretty much everything on the Internet, and it's a big mess waiting to be *further* exploited.
And the PR flaks ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Senior Vice Presidents and Chief Technology Officers at various Internet security firms do not get it. Or their direct reports do not get it, whoever gave them the statement to read that so clearly is so wrong.
Trust No One. Not your ISP, not your bank, not your favorite search engine, not your software vendors. Makes me want to get a regular landline phone again and call people...
The secondary NIC on most of the clusters I built would be named 02:DE:AD:BE:EF:20. My partner was more creative, but one of his ideas for a MAC was sorta sick.
I wouldn't be fired if this happened to my laptop. I would be charged, sued, and ostracized, and find a new line of work. Probably with the phrase 'biggie-size' involved.
Self-signed certificates are both valid and common with internal Web apps.
We use several where I work, and there is even an internal CA that mints certs for several apps.
And Firefox works fine with these internal apps. I know where I'm going, my antivirus and such are still working, and I trust my internal developers. After all, if they screw my machine up, I'm off the hook. It's an approved app, sir. See, I don't even need an exception.
So there is this one good reason to permit self-signed certificates without undue hassle.
Sheesh. Firefox being stupid? What's next, Google exploiting our data for... wait, nevermind.
This isn't broken. Let Scrabulous redesign, re-engineer, um, dare we say it, 'improve' on the game.
I hope they copyright their work. Let Hasbro compete, if they can.
Sheesh. The best part of this is the apparent poor knowledge of history amongst Facebook users. Wonder if they know where Facebook came from, or where the term 'Facebook' originated... Hypocrisy...
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"I remember how startled I was when it came to me that, for more than a hundred flights, nobody ever inspected the underside of an in-orbit shuttle for tile damage"
I can't remember quite where I read this, but it wasn't from Al Gore. The primary reason NASA didn't bother to inspect simply because there was nothing to do of there were damange - no rescue plan. And telling the crew they have a big gaping hole and were going to die on the way back stinks. And mounting a rescue would probably have meant weeks in space on minimal rations, counting O2 molecules, jettisoning equipment, filling up the toilets, etc. Only after Challenger did NASA finish the Shuttle program with repair kits, inspection, staging a rescue Shuttle, sleepovers at the ISS, etc. Before that, it was the Spam-in-a-can philosophy. The crew knew what they were getting into.
Only they didn't. The hardcore 'nauts both knew the danger and relied on the engineeers. Shuttle crews were thinking this was somewhat more dangerous than the Beltway in a rush-hour hurricane. They didn't know the engineers were no longer in charge...
On both the women's and men's sides, there is corruption and manipulation. It is only more obvious in the Olympics, where the whole world watches with more interest.
The current head of FIG is an Italian. Perhaps this scandal will force them to be more diligent in their recordkeeping. In fact, perhaps a solution is to agree to accept the 'current' information about age, but to them require the national governing bodies to backdate previous results. This might have the effect of rendering some gymnasts ineligible for qualifying events, and then render them ineligible for their Olympic team, and there goes the medal... And the 'blame' if there is any, could fall on the national authorities. the IOC sure doesn't want to address this, for to do so is to admit failure.
But fixing this is as impossible as fixing figure skating.
...to know that I won't be participating in this.
I like the idea of a 'blanket' license, kinda like an all-you-can-eat plan. But it won't satisfy me on one important count: Duration. I like having an essentially perpetual license to the music I purchase. I have scads of CDs, and they are, so far as I can tell, perpetually mine to listen to.
A subscription via my ISP doesn't do much for me at all, since changing ISPs could leave me with a whole new 'library' of licensed music. What if I want something my 'old' ISP had but my 'new' ISP doesn't?
What if I want to take my music to the gym? Can I copy it to my player? Why does it matter what sort of player it is? I can rip CDs to my player just fine now.
Not interested. I can see where the RIAA would be interested, though. Geting paid for nothing is nice work if you can get it, and getting paid for the unpopular as well as the popular is their bread and butter.
Keep at it, gangsters. You'll get it right, right after we ditch your product completely.
I found here of an earlier prototype. Video was released sometime in February 08.
It does not look substantially different, saved for being black instead of white.
I'm getting it all. Please stop.
WTF did you do?
Thanks for nothing. My spam volume went up 20% from 7/9 - 7/11 and stayed at that level. My missed spam want from about 5% of total to about 10% of total. I now get about 600 messages a day, with about 450-500 trapped as spam, and about 40 as ham. I used to get about 25 spam a day that leaked through, most the same thing I'm too lazy to write a rule for. Now I get 50-60 missed spam a day, somewhat annoying. A bad hit rate.
I also get a lot of newsletters marked as spam via DCC. Don't get me started on the l@m0rs who forget they subscribed to something and mark it spam in their inbox... Sheesh.
ps- Don't let the government get too involved in this. They make it worse.
Can I have some more?
Please, sir, can I have some more?
Please?
My first puter (a VIC-20) gave me rainbow on black. On the TV it was pretty much unreadable. Since I knew what I was typing, I could always figure it out. Of course, since I couldn't program worth a crap back then, I never could read what the puter typed back.
Now, typing this with random graffitti all over the input box, that's more like it. Who said /. should be easy?
They won't find my blogs to be balanced and fair.
Just honest opinions.
Not going to happen to my blogs. They can pound sand. Mandating balanace and fairness in opinion is nearly the height of futility. Might as well mandate intelligence and tolerance while yer at it, Bucko.
And used to know what Conservative meant, but the meaning has been distorted terribly. So much so that most of the people indulge in political discussion keep trying to call me a 'Neocon', and the Republican Party as well. They may be right about the party, though I find good reason to discredit that, but this from wikipedia:
"The term neoconservative was originally used as a criticism against liberals who had "moved to the right".[3][4] Michael Harrington, a democratic socialist, coined the usage of neoconservative in a 1973 Dissent magazine article concerning welfare policy.[5]"
So the term 'Neocon' was first used to refer to liberals changing their policies. Kinda makes 'Neocon' another word for 'Centrist Liberal'. Or, to put it bluntly, NOT A CONSERVATIVE.
*phew*. Lemme calm down here... ok...
Interesting theory, but weak.
First, that data would get around, if only at the single agency that *might* be running this supposed domestic spying project. Try as they might, it won't be hidden from an incoming Administration. There will be at least ONE staffer that is either not completely loyal to the offending Administration, or one that knows that data is data, and needs to be preserved.
Second, what gives you the idea that an incoming administration of ANY political persuasion won't use any information it has or can get to further its mission, whatever that is...? Don't be naive here, folks. Power is power. Not using it is to let others use it to your peril.
Third, if this all seems new to you, consult history. J. Edgar Hoover wasn't the first to do a bit of domestic spying.
Sheesh. As if this is about dems v reps. It's 'us' v 'them', and the only way to tell the difference is with an election. If the party in power changes, they become 'Them'. We the People are always 'Us'.
Yeah, I think the MM (or 'crasher' as we called them back then) is close to the most complex mechanical calculator ever, save the Difference Engine. Which isn't fair, since the DE is the size of a room.
When I actually serviced these machines, the engineers in the paper mills called them 'coffee makers'. Input a problem, start, go have a cuppa coffee. Maybe a cigarette. Maybe two. It might be done by then.
A room of 60 of these going steady from 8 to 5 was deafening.
Then we delivered Sharp CS-21s or 21As, I forget. Square root key. No more coffee breaks. These things suffered repeated breakdowns^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^sabotage, the favorite being coffee in the keyboard. "Gee, the old Monroes were never bothered by coffee". Having to actually work for a day changed the engineering staff in a big way - they got laid off and engineering moved to New York. *sigh*.
Fixing early calculators was some fun, let me tell you. But that's another story. Just think of cheap PCBs, traces thinner than John Edward's excuses, and desoldering FPGAs by hand. Ick.
"Perhaps we'll see nvidia entering the CPU business some time soon... "
Nvidia *IS* in the CPU business. We call their products GPUs, and we try to limit their use to display adapters, but GPUs are really slightly specialized CPUs. Go on, split the hairs, but it's way more true than false. There is even clustering and app s/w for GPUs.
Not at all a shocker if Nvidia starts marketing a specialized 'C'PU. Something either low power, graphics-enhanced or graphics-embedded, or maybe a one-chip solution. Not that far out of their core competency, though uptake will be harder without a track record.
But Nvidia was not, to me, a mainstream winner in m/b chipsets. SiS has had some good sets, and of course Intel has to be able to make a competitive chipset if for no other reason than to be able to demonstrate their CPUs, ditto AMD.
Perhaps Nvidia is spread a little thin? Now their threat may be that of the one-trick pony. Going into a specialized CPU business may make more sense. They have the GPU->CPU smarts, I bet. Add the chipset knowledge and you get a one-chip ability fairly quickly. Now to find a market. Oh. Sub-notebooks. Or maxi-PDA, or whatever is between an iPhone and a minitablet.
Competition? If only.
Divisumma was the first thing that came to mind for me, though the MonroeMatic could be a contender. You should see the inside of those...
Though some cash registers give those a run for their money... So to speak.
Finally, someone gets it.
sheesh. /. used to be quicker than this...
"A possible explanation for its removal: A screen shot of an App Store review that has been circulating around the Web recently, showing a user's complaint that he purchased it accidentally. "I saw this app with a few friends and we jokingly clicked 'buy' thinking it was a joke, to see what would happen. ... THIS IS NO JOKE...DO NOT BUY THIS APP AND APPLE PLEASE REMOVE THIS FROM THE APP STORE," it read."
Well, three things come to mind.
1. A refund for these boneheads would be ok, but pulling the app 'cause people don't believe IT COSTS THAT MUCHOMGWTF!!! Dumb. By that measure, half the store is pulled, maybe more.
2. This explains why *these* morons aren't rich.
3. Clicking is in fact dangerous.
"Are party supporters allowed to have their own opinion these days? Anecodatal evidence suggests that there is a hive mind forming."
Oh yeah. we're 'allowed' to have our own opinions. We're also expected to keep them quiet, or at least remain silent during meetings.
Which explains why I've stopped going tomeetings for now. After this election cycle, I might go back. Right now it's just too painful.
From one of the referenced articles:
"Mr Silva at VeriSign said even though patches have been put in place, this doesn't mean users can sit back and relax.
"The biggest gap in security rests between the keyboard and the back of the chair," he said.
"The look and feel of a website is not what a consumer should trust. They should trust the security behind that website and do simple things like use more secure passwords and change their password regularly." "
Absolutely. Changing your password often on the faked site will go a long ways to ensuring your trust in the Internet is not betrayed.
Dan really does get this. Nothing is safe. DNS affects pretty much everything on the Internet, and it's a big mess waiting to be *further* exploited.
And the PR flaks ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Senior Vice Presidents and Chief Technology Officers at various Internet security firms do not get it. Or their direct reports do not get it, whoever gave them the statement to read that so clearly is so wrong.
Trust No One. Not your ISP, not your bank, not your favorite search engine, not your software vendors. Makes me want to get a regular landline phone again and call people...
"let's make people conform to our value system and worldview"?
No, you meant Conservatives.
No, Liberals...
No, Libertarians....
No, Socialists.....
No, Communists......
OMG, they're ALL THE SAME! WTF?!?!?!
Damn. I've got to stop with the decaf...
Saw it.
Figured it out in 12 seconds.
Deleted it.
Blacklisted it.
As if CNN got me subscribed somehow, and is using some podunk server in East Gish.
pity da fools that got sucked in.
...you can't make THIS shit up either.
Bet he didn't lose his $tarbucks card.
The secondary NIC on most of the clusters I built would be named 02:DE:AD:BE:EF:20. My partner was more creative, but one of his ideas for a MAC was sorta sick.
"That had more to do with the PC not being able to multitask well rather than lack of a CPU in the floppy drive"
Oh yeah. That worked really well.
So soon we forget. Actually, so few of us actually knew.
You can NOT make this shit up.
I wouldn't be fired if this happened to my laptop. I would be charged, sued, and ostracized, and find a new line of work. Probably with the phrase 'biggie-size' involved.
Almost as ludicrous as electonic voting...
Self-signed certificates are both valid and common with internal Web apps.
We use several where I work, and there is even an internal CA that mints certs for several apps.
And Firefox works fine with these internal apps. I know where I'm going, my antivirus and such are still working, and I trust my internal developers. After all, if they screw my machine up, I'm off the hook. It's an approved app, sir. See, I don't even need an exception.
So there is this one good reason to permit self-signed certificates without undue hassle.
Sheesh. Firefox being stupid? What's next, Google exploiting our data for... wait, nevermind.
"This is really about protecting the Scrabble copyright..."
"None of this has anything to do with copyright."
Which is it, exactly?
Absolutely!
This isn't broken. Let Scrabulous redesign, re-engineer, um, dare we say it, 'improve' on the game.
I hope they copyright their work. Let Hasbro compete, if they can.
Sheesh. The best part of this is the apparent poor knowledge of history amongst Facebook users. Wonder if they know where Facebook came from, or where the term 'Facebook' originated... Hypocrisy...