Posts by phuzz 6738 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Feb 2010
When they build these new launchpads, they should build some specially hardened camera silos round the edges, and one right in the middle pointing straight up.
Imagine the footage as each booster comes in to land!
Of course, it won't matter in a few years because Elon will have his volcano lair with a hidden landing pad ala Thunderbirds.
It turns out the standard has it's own website, http://www.internationaldockingstandard.com/, with a pdf to download. Handy for those of you building spaceships in your shed.
Although it might have been agreed in 2010, it's clearly based on the Apollo/Soyuz docking adaptor, as developed by NASA and the USSR in partnership back in 1975. That's right kids, even in the middle of a Cold War, and a space race, engineers don't care about your petty politics, they just wanna SPACE.
They have already run the pre-cooler at ground level (four years ago), so some testing has been done already. (Note that they heated the incoming air up to the temperatures they're expecting at Mach 5).
To my mind this shows that they have demonstrated a working model at working speeds and simulated altitudes, and given that ESA have signed off on the testing so far, they agree. And they, after all, are rocket scientists.
SLS isn't using upgraded Apollo technology, it's using upgraded Shuttle technology.
Which is a shame, because the modernised F-1B engine looked pretty good.
You know a lot of the early work on Tor was funded by the US government?
Check out their Sponsors page.
"Okay, great. So they can make your bones go soft right here on Terra Firma. What good is that?"
To make a cure, you need to have something you can test on. Of course there can test on the astro/cosmo-nauts themselves, but if they can come up with a good analogue on the ground, it becomes much easier and cheaper than testing on the handful of people in space each year.
So, now that they've created something they can test, they want to check that it does accurately lose bone density in the same way as in space.
I'm pretty sure the biggest difference is not how the police are armed, it's that most witnesses carry a mobile phone that can record video with them now.
People have been getting shot by the US police for a long time, but now there's video of it happening so that's it's not just the word of a member of the public verses that of a cop.
Here, this might help.
Paris, because I'm pretty sure she's a savvier business person than ¡Bong! >>>>>>>>>>>>
I've been in plenty of meetings where every time certain people are asked for their input ("hey, X, last week you said you'd have those VPN details ready for us...") they startle like you've just woken them up, have to have everything explained to them again, and then turn out to have no input ("er, I've not done that yet").
So yeah, you could totally replace those people with a recording that just says "er, sorry, what was the question again?", although to make it more realistic, the recording shouldn't play until their name has been shouted at least three times.
(Names withheld to protect the guilty)
I can kind of see the original idea. Giving scientists access to the medical records of an entire population would surely lead to advances in medical knowledge (that new drug you're taking for $disease, you'll be lucky if it's been tested on more than 100 people). However, there's really obvious privacy implications.
How can people's data be anonymised enough that they can stay private, but still be useful for research?
I sympathise with your cat. We have a couple of HP blade enclosures here, and one of them sits at just under a critical temperature most of the time.
This means, sometimes I'm in the server room, working on something else, when suddenly all the fans go full pelt without warning as a temperature sensor notches up one degree over its threshold.
Not only is it a big surprise, it's almost deafening.
Can anyone explain to me why Hillary seems to be hated so much by half the US?
Yes, I've heard "she lies all the time", "she's corrupt" and so on, but from this side of the Atlantic she doesn't seem to be any better or worse than the average politician.
Is there some specific reason that she's so much worse than any other politician? Or is it just partisanship getting more heated than normal?
Genuinely curious.
I can't find the article now, but based on some guesses, someone thought that the Remain campaign had lost about 16,000 votes to people who were at Glastonbury without a postal/proxy vote.
Mind you, when everyone says "if the youth don't like it, it's their fault for not turning out to vote", they are forgetting that the turnout for young people has been low for at least twenty years now, so there's a good chance that you (yes you!) were once a young person who didn't bother to vote.
"I guess if ever wanted to do porridge time, I'd go the UK to do the crime."
Sorry to put a dampener on your plans, but given the differences in the size of the prison population of the UK (~150 prisoners per 100,000) and the US (~700 per 100,000), you're much less likely to be sent to prison in the UK. Sucks eh?
I do wonder what sort of person sits down at their computer, opens up google, and searches for "porn".
Nothing specific, just plain old porn. They apparently don't care what they see as long as there's nekkid people somehow involved.
Mines the one with the "highly specialised literature" in the pocket >>>>>>>>>>
"How would I ever know the camera had been hijacked?"
This could be tricky. Packet sniffing (ie looking at the network traffic to/from it) might help, especially if your camera seems to be trying to access a jewellery website.
Without a fair bit of expertise though your best bet is to make sure that the firmware is as up to date as possible. Check online to see if there's any vulnerability reported for that particular camera (or whatever it's software is based on). Finally, limit the internet access of the camera to the absolute bare minimum necessary through your modem/router. If you don't need to access it over the internet, then remove all it's access.
"Is there code I could run?"
Not really, sorry.
"Would BT (sigh) be able to spot 'a signature' of naughtiness?"
They could, but they almost certainly wouldn't.
What's the make and model of the camera? People might be able to advise you if it's got know problems or not.
Wouldn't a file consisting of /dev/zero compress right down to practically nothing?
Better would be something that's more random, but has a hint of a pattern to it. Something the Yanks will never comprehend, but will spend time trying to decipher anyway.
Maybe several years worth of cricket commentaries?
The petition was originally set up before the referendum, ironically by a leave campaigner.
Maybe we could turn the endless series of referendums into a tourist attraction somehow. Truly it would be a wonder of the world, on par with Swindon's magic roundabout.
Trevor couldn't hardware RAID them because the drives were on individual PCIe cards.
So unless someone builds a RAID controller that has PCIe slots on it then software RAID is the only way.
(Software RAID is less of an issue than normal, because the CPU has a decent amount of bandwidth to the storage, and plenty of oomph)
V-bomber pilots were issued with eye patches for a similar reason, although it was expected that the detonation of a nuke nearby would make them more than just temporarily blind, but in theory they'd have a good eye to try and land with.
Although, as their missions would have involved bombing the Soviet Union at the same time as the US was nuking it with ICBMs, they'd probably see a lot of nuclear explosions in one day.
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