Posts by Bounty

Which coverups?

These documents have been public for a while now and I haven't heard of any huge military cover up. So, other than outing locals who will now get killed and prevent any other locals from assisting us, how does this help?

whatever

reminds me of the donation plates that go around in church. Any paid for exorcisms... diet pills ohh and taxes, cuz I'm pretty damn sure I'm getting scammed there too.

Stingers we gave to the mujahadeen.....

Lets see, 15,000 feet range + 10,000 foot mountain = that thing may be about 5,000 foot too low.

"He was found 23 days later with a core body temperature of just 22°C*. "

I'm sorry, but 70 Fahrenheit or 22 Celsius is very very very very far from "frozen." That's about the same (core) temperature as most of the bodies burried in the ground, and I don't see anybody reviving them any time soon.

At least the other story attempts to seem plausible. That Japanese story is more like a fabrication, broken insturments and a few shots of whiskey for my friends the paramedics.

Daser

Dark Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation?

question

Can you siphon ice?

They already know and we're too far away for it to matter.

http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm . . . . We can already detect planets around other stars down to 2x the size of earth (probably smaller as the data comes in this year/next.) We can also detect the gases of some exoplanets. Gases like CFCs (these don't happen naturally,) oxygen, which doesn't stick around unless something is making it etc. Translation, any civilization that's anywhere nearby that's as advanced as us or more, probably already know we're here. We'll know they're there regardless of their silent radios. In the next 50 years we're going to have a massive database of planets and their vitals. We can already detect planets 20,000 light years away in the center of our galaxy using chance opportunities with gravitational lensing. Imagine the database of planets aliens have. One day someone is going to do a facepalm when they look at SETI data slighty differently or in a different range etc.

" They'd do it so that we could never pose a threat to them..." I agree, which is why I go around killing children, dogs, monkeys, immigrants and lizards.

"However, intergalactic travellers might be dangerous religious fanatics who view our population as a large group of infidels who need converting and/or exterminating. It may be that our primitive way of life is an abomination to them." . . . . That is about the only feasable doomsday scenario, and the way I see it, is we're stranded on a tropical island. Sure there may be pirates, but I'm gonna go ahead and signal any boats I see. The don't talk to strangers strategy is counter productive, they're going to see us first anyways.

p.s. I'm 25% American Indian and thank FSM Columbus brought civilization, otherwise I'd have a life expectancy of 40 years and squirrel for lunch.

nipple blocker?

Personally I find it annoying to see 8 year olds with nipples poking through their tops at the pool, I'd much prefer they put some modest padding in. When they start making C cup sized padding for 8 year olds, then you can bitch. Or are these C cup sized tops we're talking about?

Actually

"Flying around the world is flying around the world, no matter how many stops you make. Are you saying I didn't fly from Florida to Arizona because Delta made a connecting stop in Colorado?"

Correct, you flew from Florida to Colorado, then from Colorado to Arizona, not from Florida to Arizona. It probably doesn't make a big difference when going on vacation, but when you're trying to brag about your awsomeness it does make a difference. What this guy is doing is hard, but I'll be even more impressed by the guy who does it nonstop.

-Bounty "I've gone 10,000 hours without eating" (just not consecutively) Hunter

instead

What if the bad guy installed a backdoor and downloaded the porn in the evening when the dad was home, remotely?

Would the cops have asked for the ISP data and forensically parsed the HDD for a deleted backdoor? Also, would a deleted backdoor and an encrypted IP connection to ... uhhh Bob (the bad guy @ internet cafe) among others constitute a defense of any kind? If so, download a backdoor and connect to someone before you download questionable things next time.

(Also, instead of taking HDD and sending it to cops, Bob the bad guy just posts the pics he downloaded to/from the internet somewhere and/or posts links in forums etc. All remotely from Starbucks of course.)

Seems like Just another trojan

You open a PDF and a bunch of stuff you care about is screwed up, I'm not sure how this makes it a worm? I understood that worms spread w/o human interaction, say by exploiting a vunerability in a network service etc. This seems like trojan activity unless I'm missing something.

Back in school

we used to get 5 people inside the cab of a small pickup truck. That was about 4 feet by 3 feet. The real question is how deep is the cargo area?

RTG underperforming?

I'll laugh if the Opportunity rover is still truckin when this thing keels over.

Come see the ice caves of lunua

where the Chinese and Indians set up the first permanent settlements on the moon.

..... and

after Discovery's final launch, will NASA astronauts be wearing Russian suits when they go up to the RSS (Russian Space Station?) At that point the US will have a manned space capability = to Mexico.

Actually NASA should focus on LEO for a bit

NASA doesn't have a way to even get into LEO economically, so why should we expect them to go farther? Private industry is not going to build anything fancier than existing rockets, but NASA could. They could build a launch loop, space teher/elevator, space fountain etc. Once getting into LEO is easy, then going further will be possible.

all food

products that could possibly be consumed by children should be pre-chewed or molded into small pellets. Looking at the 127 deaths by falls # all children should wear helmets anytime they are not laying on the floor. We could probably stop the poisioning by forcing them to wear scuba gear at all time, which will also prevent the drownings. To prevent the huge escalation in child deaths due to improper scuba maintenance and use, we could assign a government worker for every 2 children to monitor their scuba gear. They could also assure proper usage of fire retardant clothing and do fire inspections daily at residences. To prevent firearm deaths we should arm the government assistants so they can gun down anyone (else) who brings a gun near the children. Then we'll keep the children at school 24/7 to prevent transportation deaths, which will cut down on the costs of the government assigned assistant.

When those children reach 15 they graduate to the real world where they will probably get themselves killed immediately since they have no experience and no fear.

Suit

Then why don't they just put better insulation in the suit? If they need a longer range, more robust sub, then deploy a real mini-sub from a nearby boat. Don't compromise our real subs please.

swam vs integrated

I could see that if 1 portion of a swarm went down, that's better than a portion of a large integrated satellite. However you would need each mini sat to have it's own navigation and propulsion etc to keep it in the proper orbit etc. That all adds to complexity and increases failure rates. Seems like a mixed bag. A better approach might be removeable/ejectable/turn-off-able modules on an integrated satellite that could be replaced by a follow up satellite. Either wirelessly nearby, or by a robotic replacement of the failed module.

now we can say

There's an app for that.

on pots and kettles

I'm just glad to see all the Google supporters not buying anything from China anymore.

hack me, block you

Google, if you want to get serious about this, then block all IP's from China on all of your servers/services. Then if you get attacked by proxy through some other place, threaten them that you'll pull out unless they also fully block China. Eventually everyone will get what they want, no more Chinese hackers and no more Western meddling.

We'll keep sending you 'money' if you keep sending us stuff. Everyone is happy, except some unknownable % of the Chinese public, who if they really cared would take care of business.

(p.s. China if you're also serious, please also block all western IP's except those you deem non-imperial. Otherwise everyone should shut the hell up and go back to sleep.)

pilot light?

Do they absolutely need a pilot light that continuously uses fuel? I'm guessing flint and steel would still make a spark, or they could use electric ignition?

title

Just make sure they test it first in a sand trap, and then in the Atacama Desert to verify it can find signs of life in rough places before you send it to Mars.

is 80 Gb enough?

For SSD's you want to leave at least 30% unused, so now you're down to 56 GB. Windows 7 will eat up 15 of that. Set aside another 4 for swap file. 10 Gb for apps, 10 Gb for misc media and you're only left with 17 GB for games. That's like 3 games. I regularly switch between more than 3 games so I would need to spend at least another hundred bucks on a separate 'data' drive. Which would still load games at the regular speed. I guess windows would still boot faster, but web browsing and opening .PDF's isn't exactly slow on modern drives anyways. SSD price/size ratio still need to come down.

Comedy "Loophole"?

So does this make Lisa Simpson porn ok again if it's funny?

5850's

Well the 5850's are the new kids on the block, so yeah, they're fast. Nvidia still has other wins on the cracking front probably because of the ease of programming. Now that the ATI SDK is out of beta I want to see some real GP-GPU competition and benchmarks.

http://project-rainbowcrack.com

http://cryptohaze.com

http://elcomsoft.com/distributed_password_recovery.html

etc.

identify the picture techniques

How long would it take the bots to download the 20,000 images, hand them off to 100 chinese (or porn downloaders to identify for you), and 4 hours later your system is totally broken by a DB of matches made by humans? Now introduce some random transforms/noise/artifacts to the images and the bots can't do perfect matches, they're back to educated guesses. Maybe make it a series of pictures to increase your odds... Paris, Coat, Joke Alert.

PS, does this mean I can screw up old Times articles by always putting "jackass" as the second word?

wow Martin 6 of WISE infamy....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Field_Infrared_Explorer ...you were not kidding. I especially like this part:

""The influx of power into the telescope caused the solid hydrogen cryostat to boil off all of its cryogen. As a result, the cryostat vent, now expelling gas at rates orders of magnitude higher than designed, acted as a tiny thruster rocket overwhelming the attitude control system and ultimately spinning the spacecraft up as high as 60 rpm."

re Matt Bryant

You realize of course, that Intels onboard graphics penetration is why PC gamming is floundering. I hardly call GMA950 a product. It is the worst grphics card, reinforcing the point that they have zero ability to develop graphics cards. Of course leveraging their monopoly in CPUs is helping their IGP sales. However, I'm not sure you can call shafting someone with your CPU monopoly a product.

It doesn't matter how good your system is

Give us the password.

I don't have a password

Give us the password or else.

What password? What the hell are you talkking about.

OK buddy, it's off to jail with you.

@ David W

We're talking about a glove. I don't think Joe 1 was refering to every possible achievement of mankind. Now where did I put my brick, I've got a pyramid to build.

(p.s. NASA, please keeping moving towards $ effeciency.)

nah

I'm waiting for the hinged heatpipe, then the whole top behind the screen can be a heatsink.