Comment Re:Social Engineering (Score 2) 213
Last 4 digits and issuer are printed on most receipts. Sometimes even the name and expiration date are printed.
Last 4 digits and issuer are printed on most receipts. Sometimes even the name and expiration date are printed.
They have a reason. Its not a good one. I'm not aware of any GOOD reason for a 6 day outage.
The recent outage of Kernel.org had good reason. It was hacked, so they shut it down to re-build the systems.
You either rearrange the keys, buy stickers to go on the keys, or find a new keyboard. My Inspiron 1501 I rearranged the keys, but on my EEE I had to get stickers because not all the keys can be rearranged.
Tell that to the passengers on a bus or the other people in the car. And putting WiFi on buses would not help, since the bus would still need a way to get internet.
Fiber == 1Gbps possible
Fixed wireless == 1Gbps possible, but very expensive
Cellular wireless with LTE Advanced == ~100Mbps possible
Cellular wireless with USA 4G == upto ~50Mbps possible
So NO, FTTH is not pointless
How well does it perform when moving at 30mph and 60mph? So what if it works good an a stationary device on a network with very few users, that does not mean that it will work good with more users or while moving.
My Inspiron 1501 is still working, of course I have opened it to clean the heat-sink, replaced the HDD, added RAM, and replaced the wireless card.
For less than 3% of the current US defense budget, you could FULLY FUND NASA!!
Why the HELL is NASA always the FIRST thing talked about when cutting, and Defense always the LAST.
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What is even worse is that since 1958-2010 NASA only spent $471.23 billion and the defense budget in 2010 was $685.1 billion.
Now someone needs to make one with a volume of 3*3*3 KM
On a desktop I would get a 8GB to 32GB SSD for the OS/boot partition and a large, 500GB+, HDD for the programs and everything else.
On a laptop a setup similar to above would be nice, but is not practical on most machines.
Power source
The Curiosity rover will be powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), as used by the successful Mars landers Viking 1 and Viking 2 in 1976. Radioisotope power systems are generators that produce electricity from the natural decay of plutonium-238, which is a non-fissile isotope of plutonium used in power systems for NASA spacecraft. Heat given off by the natural decay of this isotope is converted into electricity, providing constant power during all seasons and through the day and night, and waste heat can be used via pipes to warm systems, freeing electrical power for the operation of the vehicle and instruments.
The Curiosity power source will use the latest RTG generation built by Boeing, called the "Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator" or MMRTG. Based on classical RTG technology, it represents a more flexible and compact development step, and is designed to produce 125 watts of electrical power at the start of the mission and 100 watts after its minimum lifetime of 14 years. The MSL will generate 2.5 kilowatt hours per day compared to the Mars Exploration Rovers which can generate about 0.6 kilowatt hours per day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory#Power_source
As the group explains on its Web site, www.americanselect.org: “Americans Elect is the first-ever open nominating process. We’re using the Internet to give every single voter — Democrat, Republican or independent — the power to nominate a presidential ticket in 2012. The people will choose the issues. The people will choose the candidates. And in a secure, online convention next June, the people will make history by putting their choice on the ballot in every state.”
I just checked my FON router, and the entire captive portal is via https.
I tried to connect to one of these.
1. They wanted 3.00 GBP for 24hrs surfing
2. They wanted 10.00 GBP for a week.
3. And this is a big three: They wanted CC information. There was no HTTPS; I knew the router was sat in someone's living room; alarm bells rang loud.
4. They want you to have a Fon router for free unlimited surfing
I just go to the local hackersace and play with the Apple 2e or AT&T Unix PC (3b1)
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
