Posts by gollux 413 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2007
It's darn simple to hit your target if you're Al Queda. You walk up to it or drive up to it and push the button. Wetware missile guidance is pretty accurate unless there is an attentive soldier there that shoots the target acquisition and guidance unit and leaves a nice bloody spatter all over as it tumbles to the ground.
We've been putting out enough radio hash for a while here. Depends on how many light years away the deadly aliens with killbots reside. When you figure that out, you'll know how many years the mad monkeys on this planet have left to rule.
Personally, Zed Zed Alpha is such a backwater, intelligent aliens probably have no interest, except for the "Teasers". We know they've already been here.
I remember reading one science fiction author's works where this whole generation on earth is decried as being the stupidest population in the universe for burning up a universally scarce resource. Raw materials in the order of metal ores and ices are universally available from any asteroid, planet or comet you come across, but there are few planets with vast hydrocarbon chemical pools that are more useful as building blocks for organic chemistry than for being burnt as fuel.
In two states to the north since the 1960's. It's used to described the wishes of people in that state who move to the other two states to immediately start trying to convert the culture, government and social services of their adopted state to the ****ed up nature of their state of origin. First they will tell you how much better the state is that they've moved to and almost in the same breath tell you how something was done so much better in California. Of course they don't mention the tax rate they were paying to almost get that done in California. And they definitely do not want to pay anything to get their new state of residence converted to be equivalent to the mess they supposedly moved from.
Oh really
By George Flecknell
Posted Saturday 27th October 2007 12:51 GMT
IT Angle
"Caused by associating with Intel Chips? "
- Do you know what a computer is? Are you from past?
It's official, you have no sense of humor!
Being involved with catalog publishing, I definitely am from the past, having worked on Macs with Motorola, Power PC and currently Intel chips and from OS 6 thru OS X. The whole blue screen thing is something I expect from the Intel Powered, Windows XP running computer sitting on the desktop next to it, SO I find it kind of humorous. I'd think that Apple could choose some fancier color scheme to be displayed by the boot process so they'd not get laughed off the planet since Wintel owns BSOD by the majority.
Since I'm from the past, I've also worked on everything from DOS/PC XT forward to a current Xeon processor powered workstation.
So, I definitely do not know what a computer is.
BTW, anyone who tells you that Macs don't crash has never used one to do actual work. I've cursed them roundly through each OS that Apple has released. Since I've had to put up with reality, and expect a little "Truth In Advertising", I think I can poke a little fun at a tool I use every day.
I've had kernel panics on OS X before, but where does the Blue Screen Of Death come from, shouldn't it be a gray screen with a transparency window in the center or something? This doesn't sound like any Mac I know? Someone take a photo of it and post it so we can see if it's the Microsoft Standard Blue or some more artistic shade of blue that would fit more to the Apple styling conventions.
So, what we had here was the equivalent of a two joystick RC aircraft controller and the one joystick controlled Elevator/Aileron and the other controlled Throttle/Rudder function and switchover changes it to to camera Azimuth/Elevation and Iris/Zoom?
Why did the turkeys designing the interface completely circumvent decades of pilot control conventions? Under pressure, anything that can be done wrong will be done wrong and the increased frustration only causes a further tightening of the death spiral that ultimately leads to the loss of the mission.
KISS says that you keep flight controls completely separate from secondary mission operations. There should be no switchover, the controls for each function should be separate and distinct and in standard, familiar positions so that muscle memory takes over in a panic and allows you to do the right thing. You don't want to drop the airplane to fly the mike.
Microsoft is actually going to close another infection vector? Amazing! As usual they blow off admitting that there is a two ton pink elephant sitting in the room and then suddenly decide that it is a problem after it has become a way of compromising systems. How many denial of service errors have started out being claimed to be only an inconvenience, and then two months later, we find we have in reality a full blown exploitable buffer overflow.
Now if we can go after everyone that trusted output from the IE7 infection proxy and didn't sanitize it before accepting it as input (Mozilla, Skype, etc.) and make them admit that they were the other 50% of the problem.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23412867-details/Tens+of+thousands+of+CCTV+cameras%2C+yet+80%25+of+crime+unsolved/article.do
It's just that BoingBoing will probably spend us into a hole far quicker. They've got to get the flying laser pointer working first to help extra terrestrials find earth. If its capable of shooting down missiles, that will be an added perk.
Then I do not want to visit your website. Period. Got Lopped in the good old days, it probably has caused me to not really feel too sorry about people who complain about Adblock and any other method of blocking ads ever since. Served ads need to be filtered for quality, and if you as a website owner don't do this or cannot do this, then your website will be rightfully flagged as spreading harmful content. And it's not only small mom and pops that have been flagged for this. Life's not fair, it may be unfair you get flagged, it's doubly unfair that I visit your site and get my computer compromised.
1) 121.5 MHz ELT's are generally know as hard landing detectors. The time spent hunting down which hangar contains the beaconing ELT has been an amusing way to spend an afternoon for many a CAP patrol. In mountainous terrain, the signal bounces too efficiently causing hotspots that are highly misleading. They also depend on external antennas that may not survive being scrubbed off the airframe. If the airplane burns, you might only have minutes before the unit is incinerated.
2) Rattling on about using hight technology that is capable of detecting "airplane shaped objects" is pretty telling, You've never had to search for a Cessna tinfoil ball in mountainous terrain. A tube frame Aeronca or Bellanca just might have enough of the "airplane shaped object" left over if it lands just right but controlled flight into terrain also says that it probably won't survive in much of its original shape either. You might be better off looking for burned, dark sooty areas that contrast against a lighter background.
3) Depending on where this thing landed, it may be covered by overgrowth. Two of the searches I was involved with were not solved by ELT direction finding or aerial searches. One was solved because a sheriff's deputy had an aha moment and drove directly to the crash site where he found the burned pine tree and undergrowth that the plane landed in after clipping a tree 60 feet off the ground. The other where the ELT actually activated was found because someone noticed a churned patch of brush above a road with upon closer inspection, the remains of a Mooney that had flown under full power into the hillside. ELT signal was being wave guided to a major hotspot 5 miles from where the person totally uninvolved with the search found the plane.
4) Its the small, familiar things that do us in. Steve flew around the world after much planning in known dangerous conditions. He knew the life threatening risks involved and took precautions. And a short jaunt in the back yard scouting around proved to be much more dangerous than all that had passed before. He didn't file a flight plan that day because it was simple, routine flight which, barring mechanical failure, seemingly held little more risk than flying from one airport to another only 30 miles away. Just like you don't plan on dieing just from a simple drive down to the supermarket.
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