Posts by BristolBachelor 2200 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jan 2009
The other goal is to look just under the surface, so this also avoids having to take a 2m drill with you. It's a happy win-win.
However 24,000G is a bit more than any of my stuff will currently survive, so I've got a bit more work to do - oh and that's on top of surviving 400krads!
"Neither WD, nor its subsidiary HGST, nor Toshiba, have 4TB drives spinning in the 5.900rpm area in their product ranges."Isn't there a 4TB WD Red? Those crawl in the 5900rpm range as I can attest. Am currently swapping a NAS to use them and the re-build time is horrific. Intellispeed really means "Stoopidslow" :(
If you mean that you want a TB to USB3 adaptor, then they exist. However you will pay for it and it's cable until you bleed (think about the same price as a top-end Epson flat-bed scanner).
Also you will really struggle to find one with an onwards port so that you can still plug in an external monitor - and for me that is the killer. Having to unplug the monitor to use a docking station is just fscking stupid.
Typically you steer a spacecraft by changing it's orientation so that the nozzle is now pointing in a different drection. In a traditional plasma driven spacecraft, there are a series of nozzles. You can vary the force from the different nozzles to generate a torque to change your orientation. Modern spacecraft also tend to be internally stabilised using reaction wheels or control momentum gyros. By changing wheel speed and/or rotating the wheel axis, you generate a torque that reorients the spacecraft.
I don't suppose they'll have the space/mass to do that on their cubesat, but thought I'd share it with you. I tried to read the kickstarter page, but only in text on a mobile connection it didn't tell me much.
Now in a ruling vs a private company, you could assume that the board/shareholders would be pissed at having to pay a fine and would internally "punish" those responsible*
However, it this case, what happens? Do those responsible receive anything at all? It is time that the act makes people directly responsible for the actions (and in the case where those people have so much money that fines are not important to them, lock them up!)
*OK in the real world, there are probably some boards where they are more than happy to pay the fine, knowing that it was cheaper than doing things right in the first case (In which case I again recommend locking them up).
It doesn't have to be someone in Yahoo. I mean, everyone knows that companies can be hacked. What happens if someone now hacks into Yahoo, steals the document and shows it to the public? I mean it wouldn't be Yahoo's fault; even the NSA, DoD, CIA, FBI, etc. have seen people steal their docs, and secrecy is their business.
Just for Charles Calthrop, I've gathered all the plings here:
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"Design issue - if something is only meant to fit in one orientation, you design so it can only fit in one orientation. This was undergrad stuff 20+ years ago."That is fine, but normally wires come in standard sizes, and the article says that a part was wired up with incorrect polarity. If someone swaps two wires in a connector or on a component, then it is the fault of the wireman, and later the inspector, and tester (possibly a design error if the designer has not allowed a mechanism to test for this failure.)
More relevant is that it doesn't matter what the password is, or how complex, if is the same on every box!.
I have a file somewhere of "standard passwords" for the default admin accounts on all sorts of hardware; once your device is on this list, it is not secure, regardless of howmany %$º{Ç in the password.
That's true, but I think that the line you are refering to is talking about launchers for humans/deep space, not those projects per se.
I suspect that A6 will kill A5 ECA / A5 ME. A5 seems to have logistics problems finding a pair of medium heavy+medium light birds to fly together and ATV is finished. There probably aren't enough heavy loads launched each year to keep it going.
However the agency has already decided that they won't launch Solo - Nasa will do it - what could ever go wrong there; I mean they don't change their priorities every year and suddenly drop projects, do they (shhh don't mention Exo Mars)
Juice is due to be launched by A5, but Juice should arrive at the same time as A6. Depending on the timing, it should be OK for an A5, but the next heavy mission after Juice may not be so lucky.
We could always use the Proton M for heavy luanches of stuff like Exomars and new projects though.
I seem to remember reading about the ability to partly throttle a solid, but can't remember where, and can't remember what the trade-offs are (there are always trade-off when you add a feature!). I'm not directly involved in that side of things, it's only a passing interest.
On the subject of being able to shut-down a solid, they tend to be much, much more reliable, so you don't have to light them up and check all the telemetries to decide to launch or not, like you do with a liquid. Also it is possible to shut one down by firing a cutting cord around the top; the sudden pressure release in the opposite direction stops the acceleration and allows you to contain where the mess ends up a little (although you've still lost the launcher). In this scenario, I don't know if there is any benefit in trying to get the 3rd stage to separate to save the payload, but the 3rd stage is optimised for working in vacuum and with less mass (no cover over the payload), so not sure if the thrust/control would be enough in the atmosphere.
"One of the reasons that I am so damned good at what I do in IT is that computers don’t talk."
I always said that English was my 2nd language. The thing is that no-one else speaks what would be my first language. I particularly remember a programmer who explained that software engineers don't eat Quiche because you can't buy it from a vending machine. (that would mean interacting with someone!)
I think that a lot of people who excel at what they do, do so because they are slightly differently wired to "the rest". I've worked with a few people who were at various points on the autism spectrum. I remember one who could tell you the frequency of an audio signal to within about 10Hz up to about 10kHz and within 100Hz upto about 20k. That included picking out 3 or 4 from a really horrible screaming noise source at the same time.
Then there are people who can't filter out anything at all, and therefore can spot patterns and potential problems that others miss (possibly somewhere on the physchotic scale).
The biggest problem is people who have predjudices against anyone that isn't "like they are" and therefore cause problems for those of us who have problems interacting socially. I had to physically train myself to act a bit more "normally". To show facial expressions when people look at me, things like that. A friends sister used to call me "the axe murderer" because I never showed any reactions; charming girl!
Well if I wanted to access all the servers of everyone, I'd make sure that I controlled the infrastructure in the country where they are located (especially the main links into/out of it). Then I could inject and removed packets from that infrastructure to my heart's content. I could use any IP addressses I wanted, knowing that since I control the infrastructure I control the routing, and the "geo-location" of the IP address means nothing.
An alternative is that I hack major telcos or universities in a 3rd country, and route all my misdeeds through their networks. They then get all the flak and I quietly watch and smile to myself.
I'm not a genius. I didn't come up with this by myself; I got the idea from the daily paper.
"For close range high precision location assisted GPS should be fine, as the approach speeds should be well within the allowed civilian specs."
But don't forget that this is a rocket, and even given the recent talk about loosening the ITAR regs, the rocket still counts as a munition, and there is nothing officially "civilian" about it. If they want to use GPS, they can.
I am curious about what they are using though. Traditional inertial sensors I have come across would have the required accuracy to find the home location, or the required range of acceleration to control attitude, but I haven't worked with one that has both. However, since they control both the rocket design, and the landing location, I would have thought that dead rekoning of some kind would be OK for the location, and then they only need inertials for attitude control.
Don't forget that LEO orbit is something like 27,000kph and when you hit the wispy air at 100km up at that speed, your spaceship tends to burn-up, or at least glow red-hot as the ceramic tiles start stress because of the plasma generated by pushing the air that hard.
Now you want to be going faster than that at ground level, where the air is thicker? I think that approx 2 seconds after being turned into tomato paste, you would also be burned to a crisp. I await the youtube video clip of your attempt however.
I'm not sure why. There is a very well known company called Sky, and it has TV, phone and internet services. Then there is a new internet service call SkyDrive; and people associate it with the internet provider Sky?
Now if it was called MicrosoftDrive and people thought it had something to do with Sky, I could understand you, but given only that it's called SkyDrive, I fail to see why you would assume it was from Microsoft.
"Europeans "should look first and find out what their own governments are doing" before becoming outraged"
The thing is, everything I have read just says "GCHQ does not carry out illegal activities. There is no mention of spying or not, or what any spying might involve.
Similarly, when all this rukus started, NSA only seemed to say that the system could not be used for blanket spying on Americans in America (which would be illegal), but further than that, there is not much.
There are lots of allegations from USA about spying by China. Presumably, if this is not against the illegal in China, then it is OK too?
I think that we <bold>can</bold> assume that basic chemistry works at a planetary level, the problem is that we just don't know what all of it is. e.g. what processes in the atmosphere convert wheich compounds into what; and does that lead to clouds and higher albedo, or does it reduce clouds? Another is if there is higher CO2 and higher temperatures, what do the different plants do?
Another problem is that we just can't process that many datapoints, so we have simplifications to significantly reduce the number of datapoints. Hence there being at least 90 different climate models.
Where the 500 year cycle idea comes from, no idea, but possibly it's orbital. Possibly it's inferred from digging up stuff (e.g. ice cores).
"While we will still continue to offer CS6 on a perpetual basis..."Could the honerable gentleman please point me in the right direction. We belatedly decided to upgrade CS5.5 to CS6, but couldn't find it. We checked with Adobe themselves who just repointed us to creativeRent. We asked various resellers who said no longer available. Heck at this point we'd even consider download (but with 1GB/ month cap would have to drive to the city & find an internet cafe). I want to buy a box of CS6 as an upgrade to our CS5.5. Adobe are you listening?
Another point is that if you upgrade, like we do, you "trade-in " the d version anyway. You cannot legally "sell" the old version, and that is what the OP referred to. Adobe has always allowed this trade-in, so tbey kind of control the 2nd-hand market.
Also please take into account that 90% of the "new version" is actually still the old version anyway, so the vast majority of what they "sell you" you already "own".
It's nothing like the car analogy.
Yes, but you might get in trouble for that. They may have admitted Stuxnet, but I don't think that they have admitted this one yet.
Mind you, maybe they are just planning an announcement. You know; tell everyone that China has been spying on them, and then announce that they have done this in retaliation.
And be careful; as Chris T Almighty said, they have hundreds of nukes, and even demonstrated to Japan & rest of world that they are happy to use them.
"However, I thought it was established that breaking a law to reveal or prevent a greater crime was acceptable? Surely, whatever he did is covered under that?"Yes, and also the "whistle-blower defence. But what you are forgetting is that the people who were embarrased and shown-up by this are also those who pull the strings of justice.
I thought that the VASIMIR test they wanted to do needed 250kW. IIRC that is about the total power of the ISS*, and means that after running it for half an orbit, you might have a few test results, but all the occupants will be dead from lack of life support and the comms resources to send the results back may also be fried.
*ISTR 400kW peak, but you have to stash roughly half that to cover the eclipse time.
Cylons seem to be very advanced, and more designed to work in environments designed for humans.
Much better to work on flexible self-assembling robots built from a number of basic blocks. Depending on the requirements, they build a different configuration. Maybe they could even build new blocks from materials where they land. We could call them "relicators".
I think that the magnetic field protects us mainly from protons etc. from the sun. The glactic stuff seems to have a fair amount of neutrals that go straight through the mag field (they are also going very fast). The atmosphere really stops most of it (and as a consequence helps make the ozone layer).
Where the magnetic field of the Earth don't tend to help (e.g the poles), the stuff that gets through tends to get stopped by the atmosphere and make pretty patterns for a lucky few to watch.
I was sure that I saw a remote that did this. Of course, it also had to include NFC (bonk to pair?) technology so that the remote in the livingroom doesn't change the volume of the TV in the bedroom by mistake, since the BT will go through walls. Sorry, I can't remember the manufacturer, and with the limited connection I have here, I cannot search for it (would you believe that Google and Bing are blocked?)
A fair number of newer Panasonic and similar TVs / Blueray recorders have Android apps for remote control, but I cannot vouch for how good it is, because mine was manufactured the week before they added that to the firmware :( I also don't know, but I suspect it uses WiFi for the comms link.
Normally, it starts as an isolated internal only control network. Then some bright spark shows how sharing data between one tiny piece of the control system with the accountancy package on the non-control network can increase annual profits by 0.000000001%, and BANG the networks are connected together.
I am not condoning this, just recounting what I was told at a former place of enslavement. It is slightly possible that the percentage claimed above is not accurate, and that the "bright spark" may have actually been a spotty oik.
I seem to remember reading something about FB operating in Europe (They wouldn't make much money selling targeted ad-space in Europe if they couldn't sell in Europe!)
Last time I heard, everything was routed through Ireland, so that's the place to look when you do your "DPA". Remember that the "DPA" comes from a European initiative, and while it might not be called "DPA" where they register their company, the rules will be very similar.
Is it different to the last version? I installed it and on first running it presented a list of things I must give up to run the software (first born etc.) After about page 20 I just uninstalled it.
Seriously? It is designed to be run on a mobile and has an EULA with 100000000 lines?
More like WARNING needed. Do NOT buy drives from Amazon.
I bought a whole batch of drives from Amazon.co.uk (they weren't available locally anywhere at the time), and they just dropped them in the bottom of a huge box that HP would be proud of, with no packaging. By the time they reached me, one had hit the metal case of another occupant of the box so hard it was dented. 2 disks were DOA and 2 more failed initial format, another died during a DOS based test. They all went back. Bought the same discs from a German retailer, and each came in its own padded box.
I'd suggest it's a bit like buying a beer, looking forward to drinking it; half way through it suddenly disappears, and you exclaim
"But I paid for that, I want to enjoy it"and the barman saying
"no you only paid for 2 minutes; if you want to continue enjoying it, pay again"
I got the impression that they don't actually store all your stuff for you, but just allow your portable device to work on the files that you have on your fixed device? I assume that the local app has a server component that connects to an Adobe C&C server to receive commands to upload your files so you can use them on your mobile device?
That doesn't necessarily stop someone from getting the C&C to upload all your work though.
They aren't locking you out of the files, per sé, insomuch as not letting you open them using a prgram that you used to rent. For example, Lightroom can be told to create "side-car" files next to your RAW files, and you are at liberty to use another program to read those. Also PS nowadays stores everything in a heavyweight .TIF file, and again you can use software from someone else to open those files.
However for me, the question is mute, because I will be keeping boxed and paid for LR/PS and so will always be able to open the files in LR/PS.
Punchline: 3 holes in the ground.
I don't remember seeing the original instalment, but this is what I've got just north of Madrid: 2 official wells; both built from brick; the type with 6 round, through holes instead of a frog on top. These are laid side-on to allow the water through. The wells are 4 m deep; one is 2m in diameter, the other is approx 4m x 10m rectangular. The lowest I've ever seen the water table is 2m below ground; the highest is just above ground. God knows how they built them, or how many people died in the progress. I have a 2hp pump from the wells, and the water level in the wells doesn't even change after pumping out 40m³ of water.
The 3rd "well" is the original plant room for the swimming pool. It is half underground, and in the winter it fills up to the level of the water table due to small pin-holes in the concrete.
On the subject of H&S, you should've seen how they emptied the propane tank of 800L this week to take it away. Admitedly, they did manage to get most of it in the lorry; some just made the nieghbourhood smell funny, and the rest created the largest flame and loudest roar I've ever experienced.
One thing about those stats. From the moment you leave your front door, until you get back to it, any accidents you have in Spain are "Work related" (if it wasn't for work you'd still be in the house, watching "fisica o quimica"!)
Also bare in mind that each weekend they publish how many lemmings were killed on the roads that week, and for things like bank holidays, they celebrate afterwards that there were 10,000 less deaths on the roads this weekend, compared to last year's mad rush to celebrate the extra day of weekend.
Try to ensure that the bride always looks up slightly; it tends to make the double-chin disappear.
However, the stupid *^*$%·s that think that photoshop just does exposure and colour balance know as much about real-life usage as my gardener knows about the pros and cons of string theory vs. loop quantum gravity.
The other problem with solar sails in LEO is that the atmospheric drag from the sail would probably do more than you hoped to get from sunlight. Nope; for now orbital corrections are likely to use thrusters. Ion drives are ok, and most new comms sats use them, but you are talking about at least a kilowatt of power, which is more than a lot of LEO sats have, and you are talking about it being fired up for maybe hours at a time.
I think that it is generally accepted that "space" starts at 100km. This is about the point where you can't gain enough aerodynamic lift from the atmosphere to fly, but it all depends on the weather, temperatures sun activity, etc.
However, I remember them trying to sell me a ticket, saying that I could ride their plane out of the atmosphere. I said I would be very keen; it would be cool to look down on the ISS which orbits in the atmosphere, but alas no, it doesn't go that high.
I assume that what you call "disintegrators" are what I know as plasma cutters, which just melt the metal where you point the torch, allowing you to cut things out (and of very think metal too!) If so, yes, cool.
However, if you melt the metal in space, it's still there, just as molten metal, still travelling in the same direction with the same speed. Then it re-solidifies, so it's still there. Maybe instead on a big piece (that you can esily track), it becomes a rain-shower of thousands of smaller pieces. Think about a system that turns 1 ton of car into 1 ton of little bullets to protect pedestrians...
As I understand it, what the BBC does is already illegal/unlawful (I think illegal), under the terms of some new digital copyright something act (think DMCA watered down a bit). ISTR that there is specific language in the act making it illegal/unlawful to strip out the ownership details from a file.
The BBC says that they can't help it; it's their systems that do it, however the EXIF ownership info comes from the system that was put in place for photographic pictures for journalism, about the time that fax was invented. The BBC’s systems must just be a bit behind :/
Someone with a proper internet connection could probably find the relevant deatils on the UK Gov copyright pages.
The Chip-n-pin certainly gives up the same details on the card (number, name, etc.), but not the CVC. As for the NFC, don't know. If the NFC is the same, all it takes is a shoulder surfer / cam near an ATM and and NFC reader and you could clone the mag-stripe on the card, with no suspicious add-on bulges on the machine.
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