Comment And we're reading about it here why? (Score 2, Insightful) 229
News for Nerds? Really?
News for Nerds? Really?
Yea, we'll get used to having beurecrats make decisions regarding our famililies heathcare. I mean, having the IRS target the businesses of political opponents is nothing compared to denying Grandma her hip replacement because you voted for the wrong candidate.
Conveniently after the mid-term elections, where frustration with this trainwreck might reflect badly on those in power... One Turkish professor said "He talks like the president of the ACLU, and governs like Dick Cheney."
How does this help? On all systems you can connect to the IPMI if you have root on the box. Then some have a built in telnet/ssh client. So not so hard to get into another IPMI instance on another box.
On shared chassis servers (blades, etc...) you may have common I2C sensor busses, and IPMB... This often includes the ability to send commands to the other blades in the chassis. You can do this even if there's no management networking configured.
Again, you must be running with a different crowd than I am. Even my technically-minded friends, while not incensed when discussing this subject, don't feel it's a big problem. They usually want the faster processor or better graphics in a few years anyway. I do have a couple of friends who like to make their tech buys last as long as possible, and it's that type of personality that cares about this, by and large. It's been my experience that the general population gets it, but has bigger things to worry about.
Those of us with mortgages & kids have to keep budgets, etc... Apple maintains a 5 year cycle on supporting products. Let's put a figure on it:
Apple laptop $1500
Apple Desktop $1200
iPad $600
iPhone $130 (contract) *2 (3yr cycle)
I freely admit I pulled these numbers out of my head. The desktop & laptops figures are amalgams of the product lines, and the iPad & iPhone include some accessories you ALWAYS end up walking out of the store with. Screen protectors, cases, etc...
Total: $3560 / 5 years... $712/yr to live the Apple life. Those 5 year update/support cycles and the corresponding lack of freedom they include become remarkably sharply defined after you've lived thru a few of them. My wife and I love Apple products, and they do tend to last, but we're getting ready to leave the orchard, at least for desktop/laptops. The coupling between expensive closed phones/tablets and "partially closed and getting worse rapidly" desktops/laptops is simply too expensive. I can sync my phone/pad to Windows running in a VBox VM on Linux.
Cluster munitions are remarkably effective against small wooden and fiberglass boats, as are 20mm CWIS / F-18 gun rounds. But as someone mentioned... the USS Stark provides a pretty good look at the survivability of the US Navy's smaller ships. The bigger ones are even more formidable. You're not going to put a hole in a cruiser or capital ship with something carried by a Donzi. You need a 500lb shaped warhead just to scratch the paint, and then all you're going to do is make the crew really really mad.
Another vote for Linode. I've been with them for years. Highly recommended.
Temkin
The Apollo J-2 was designed to restarted way back in 1967, as was the Aerojet AJ-10 from the late 1950's.
AJ-10 variants were used for both the Apollo SM engine, and the Shuttle OMS pods. They were designed to remain fueled for long periods of time and be re-ignightable. This is a solvable problem.
Sure, try to download from ther SVN.
More than 20Gbytes, their server has a _crappy_ connection, it could last weeks...
So you're saying their QoS really works?
Salvage 1 was actually a TV series... I remember its cancellation being one of my first introductions to the stupid inner workings of network TV as a pre-teen... The funny thing is... Completely out of the blue, I remembered that show today, but I was trying to remember it's name, and here you brought it up of Slashdot... Thanks!
It doesn't seem to be available on Hulu or Netflix, so I can't go back and see how corny it probably was...
Which is why I don't buy games that use Steam...
I got the opportunity to buy one back in the 80's, and couldn't pass it up. But I hate to disappoint you, it was just a linear power supply and a Q-bus backplane kit. The PDP-11/03 board, memory card, and serial interface were all straight from the DEC plant.
That said... It ate TRS-80 model 1's for breakfast!
It sounds like they are assuming that they just happened to grab one of the oldest pieces of rock on the moon, or that the moon solidified all at once and there were never any later events (volcanoes, large body collisions). If you happened to grab the wrong piece of rock on Earth, say from a recently-erupted volcano, you would determine that the earth was only about a week old...
True. The problem is actually a bit more complex. The system needs to remain "closed". Each radiometric dating method has a different set of circumstances under which it will remain "closed. K-Ar begins getting reset by heating to temp achievable in your kitchen. Rb/Sr requires a much more substantial heating event. The minerals in a single specimen can yield different dates. This can happen when for example a zircon in a granite gets "recycled" via subduction and re-erupted.
Earth is rife with examples. Kistler found that Lamoille canyon region of the Ruby Mts. had been partially "reset" by a post formation heating event, with K/Ar and Nd/Sm and Rb/Sr yielding different dates. Fleck examined some Siderites from the Idaho region that yielded Rb/Sr dates several multiples of the age of the universe. They had been "washed" by hydrothermal fluids, profoundly altering the ratio. In each case the geochronologist used the geologic principals to reconstruct the history and deduce the correct age, and appropriateness of the method to the sample.
On the Moon, we lack such history. With only one exception, the astronauts were not geologists. They did not have the time to explore in enough detail to gather the needed info. They mostly wandered around and collected stuff on the surface. These samples could have been ejecta from a late arriving meteorite, or partially reset by some similar means.
Has to run as a privileged user... That's the show stopper for me. Clearly, someone hasn't done their homework. So I'm afraid I will not be joining.
Does anyone have a problem with governments spending money trying to model ways to "nudge" our personal behavior? I'm all for sound city planning, etc... But this seems to dive headlong in to limiting freedoms. I'm not comfortable with any government getting this up close and personal with me. I already have a wife that nags me about exercise...
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
