The claim that Trump made "campaign content" at Arlington National Cemetery is simply false. None of the pictures with the family have been used in ads or placed in a political context by the Trump campaign. He was there at the behest of the Gold Star families. Given their children died defending this country, I think they have a right to snap a few pictures if they'd like.

This game has long been played left and the federal bureaucracy. When John McCain took some video of him walking among the gravestones, the press attacked him for it. When Barack Obama and Joe Biden did the same thing (including Biden being pictured in Section 60), no one said a word. No ANC official came running out telling them to put the cameras away while accusing them of breaking the rules. Let a Republican show up to honor the fallen though, and suddenly it's a scandal. The entire thing is so transparent.

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llanitedave said:
I hadn't thought about the space sickness angle. Yeah, NASA made the reasonable choice, but it does suck. And YES, Boeing is to blame here.
The quote in the article is pretty low key:

A non-trivial percentage of professional astronauts succumb to space sickness during the initial hours of their spaceflights.

The figure is 60-80% of all professional astronauts.

Non-trivial indeed.
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2024/02/29/space-travel-comes-motion-sickness-these-engineers-want-help

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faffod said:
The question I have from the article, that I haven't seen an answer for is :

• Are experienced astronauts less susceptible to space sickness?

I assume that is the case, which would explain changing the pilot assignment, but if it is not then what does the change gain?

They probably take extra Dramamine.

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wagnerrp said:
They probably take extra Dramamine.

Sadly, I have some experience with this...

Zero-G and unfamiliar motion present two different causes for so-called 'motion sickness. Without gravity to provide a steady downward tug to internal organs, the feeling of them floating around in your body cavity is horrid, initially. This is in addition to the lack of weight on the fluids in the inner ear, which is a bit different than the stimulus provided by irregular motion. Same result, however, puke your guts out. While motion stimulus is usually short-lived, weightlessness is with you All The Freaking Time in space.

According to the Wikipedia page on space adaptation syndrome (nice term for it), they tend not to medicate it for newbies, the preference being to have them accommodate it over time. They do however use Dramamine dermal patches for spacewalks, because vomiting in a spacesuit is quite egregious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_adaptation_syndrome

I got motion-sick as a kid, probably a stupid idea to try pilot training. While there, however, got to push the stick over a few times to make stuff float around the cabin, horrid feeling the first time, but you could just stop pushing and it would go away, go figure. They did send me to 'sick school' at Brooks AFB, where they were doing research on the causes, came back with some tools that helped me get through T-37s. However, it really was just becoming familiar with the environment that did the trick. Moving to Colorado, flights to and from the Front Range were fraught with turbulent motion, again, got used to it over time. Worst feeling on an airplane ever was riding in a E/RC-135 during refueling as receiver, keeping the boom connected required maneuver that, in the rear of the airplane, felt absolutely horrible, worse than the zero-g stunts.

Spent 4 days on the USS LaSalle in the Med, flat-bottomed hull and worst-riding ship in 6th Fleet, collecting data from an exercise, staring at a screen all day in the TIC. Speed-ate Dramamine for the entire time, kept things down, but I was a nervous wreck for about a week after. So, medicating not such a great idea...

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alisonken1 said:
Every time my ship pulled out of port, I would be feeling really dragged for about a week (or until I puked), then I was fine the rest of the voyage.

Unfortunately, it happened every time we left port. Seems like my body reset itself whenever we hit dry land.

And Dramamine didn't help. BTW - I was a cruiser sailor (think Belknap-class CG's type).
I had a pattern too; typical training flight was to trundle over to the aux field, do some touch-and-goes, then climb up to the areas for aerobatic work. The place I'd get sick was on climb-out from the aux field, go figure. Got good at handling it, I'd ask the instructor to take the airplane, and in about 10 seconds pull out the bag, ralph into it, close and stow it, and take back the airplane. Didn't want to give 'em the idea it was a problem... :biggreen:

We'd heard of SwissDisk here at rsync.net, but they rarely showed up on our radar screen.  We were reminded of their existence a few days ago when their entire infrastructure failed.  It's unclear how much data, if any, was eventually lost ... but my reading of their announcement makes me think "a lot".
I'm commenting on this because I believe their failure was due to an unnecessarily complex infrastructure. Of course, this requires a lot of conjecture on my part about an organization I know little about ... but I'm pretty comfortable making some guesses.

It's en vogue these days to build filesystems across a SAN and build an application layer on top of that SAN platform that deals with data as "objects" in a database, or something resembling a database. All kinds of advantages are then presented by this infrastructure, from survivability and fault tolerance to speed and latency. And cost. That is, when you look out to the great green future and the billions of transactions you handle every day from your millions of customers are all realized, the per unit cost is strikingly low.

It is my contention that, in the context of offsite storage, these models are too complex, and present risks that the end user is incapable of evaluating. I can say this with some certainty, since we have seen that the model presented risks that even the people running it were incapable of evaluating.

This is indeed an indictment of "cloud storage", which may seem odd coming from the proprietor of what seems to be "cloud storage". It makes sense, however, when you consider the very broad range of infrastructure that can be used to deliver "online backup". When you don't have stars in your eyes, and aren't preparing for your IPO filing and the "hockey sticking" of your business model, you can do sensible things like keep regular files on UFS2 filesystems on standalone FreeBSD systems.

This is, of course, laughable in the "real world". You couldn't possibly support thousands and thousands of customers around the globe, for nearly a decade, using such an infrastructure. Certainly not without regular interruption and failure.

Except when you can, I guess:

 # uptime
 12:48PM  up 350 days, 21:34, 2 users, load averages: 0.14, 0.14, 0.16

(a live storage system, with about a thousand users, that I picked at random)

 # uptime
  2:02PM  up 922 days, 18:38, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

(another system on the same network)

"The Manchurian Candidate," a 1959 novel by Richard Condon, posits the son of a prominent American political dynasty who is captured by a Soviet Union commando unit during the Korean War and brainwashed into becoming a Soviet sleeper agent, an assassin who is triggered into action by, of all things, a card game. The goal of the Soviet Union in this exercise? To have their sleeper agent kill a presidential candidate to install his running mate, who is secretly controlled by his wife, a secret KGB operator. //

Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
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DUFFY: Walz taught in China, he visited China 30 times, he honeymooned in China, and he promoted Chinese communism to his American students as a teacher. Is Tim Walz a national security risk?

@KristiNoem: Absolutely. I am 100% convinced he's a national security risk. Show more

10:51 AM · Sep 1, 2024 //

When I was on a general staff, working for the Command Surgeon, U.S. Army, Europe (USAEUR), I had to have a Top Secret clearance. It was quite the process; the FBI talked to my parents, they talked to my in-laws, they talked to old friends; they even talked to my first wife, who later mentioned to me that she told them that while she and I had our differences, I was as solid an American patriot as one was likely to find. I give her full honesty points for that.

But had I had Tim Walz's China background, I doubt I would have received my clearance. //

Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
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.@KristiNoem on Tim Walz: He's a bully, and he pushes mandates down on his people. He's got ties to companies in China. You don't go to China 30 times to be a tourist. You go because you have an affiliation with their government. Show more

10:35 AM · Sep 1, 2024. //

In summary: Tim Walz is a national security risk. Governor Noem points out that Tim Walz wants America to become more like China. China, I remind you, is entering into an economic crisis because of all their years of economic fakery. They are entering into a demographic collapse because of decades of the idiotic "one-child policy." China, I remind you, tightly controls every aspect of the lives of Chinese subjects; I will not call those poor people citizens, as they are not. One cannot own a home in China; land and apartments are leased from the Chinese Communist Party. China is on a dark road into an uncertain future, including very possibly a complete collapse.

"China Tim" Walz wants to take us down that same road.

“President Trump has called. President Trump shows up. President Trump takes the time to hear our loved ones’ stories, why won’t you do the same?”

Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris
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As Vice President, I have had the privilege of visiting Arlington National Cemetery several times. It is a solemn place; a place where we come together to honor American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service of this nation.

It is not a place for politics.

And… Show more
12:14 PM · Aug 31, 2024

The statement was disgusting on its face. While claiming to "never politicize" the deaths of American soldiers, she quite literally politicized them by using their families to attack Donald Trump for the grave sin of actually showing up to honor the fallen. That was something Harris herself couldn't be bothered to do, and to this day, she has never spoken to any of the Gold Star families involved. //

As of this writing, eight different families have released video responses criticizing Kamala Harris for both her behavior and her failures while in office.

WAGO lever nuts are typically used for household electrical - often in place of wire nuts.

They can also be used for splicing or splitting audio lines.

Here is a simple distribution box with WAGO components mounted on a DIN rail:

The WAGO 221-413 lever nuts are mounted on a 221-500 mounting carrier which is mounted in turn on a 222-510 angled DIN-rail adapter.

The end stops on the DIN rail are "DIN Rail Terminal Blocks End Stopper Bracket" (Amazon).

John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com

On the morning of September 11, I was awakened by my alarm clock telling me of an airplane flying into one of the towers of the world trade center. Although I had been to New York City many times, I had never visited those twin towers, but I had an idea of what they looked like. I imagined the scene of a private plane - some propellor driven machine whose pilot had suffered a heart attack. Perhaps a publicity stunt gone horribly wrong.
I thought to myself what a mess it would be, and pondered the nightmare of looking up from the sidewalk and seeing fallen wreckage falling onto the New York City streets.

As I finished dressing I heard the words "commercial jet liner". Then the crash of the second plane into the other tower was reported. I ate a small breakfast as the president addressed the nation from a public school he was speaking at. I had to get to work.

At long last, git is supported at rsync.net.
We wrestled with the decision to add it for some time, as we place a very, very high value on the simplicity of our systems. We have no intention of turning rsync.net into a development platform, running a single additional network service, or opening a single additional TCP port.

At the same time, there are a number of very straightforward synchronization and archival functions inherent to subversion and git that lend themselves very well to our offsite filesystem.

Once we engineered a selective shutdown switch into the Internet, and implemented a way to do what Internet engineers have spent decades making sure never happens, we would have created an enormous security vulnerability. We would make the job of any would-be terrorist intent on bringing down the Internet much easier.

Computer and network security is hard, and every Internet system we’ve ever created has security vulnerabilities. It would be folly to think this one wouldn’t as well. And given how unlikely the risk is, any actual shutdown would be far more likely to be a result of an unfortunate error or a malicious hacker than of a presidential order.

But the main problem with an Internet kill switch is that it’s too coarse a hammer.

Yes, the bad guys use the Internet to communicate, and they can use it to attack us. But the good guys use it, too, and the good guys far outnumber the bad guys.

Shutting the Internet down, either the whole thing or just a part of it, even in the face of a foreign military attack would do far more damage than it could possibly prevent. And it would hurt others whom we don’t want to hurt.

For years we’ve been bombarded with scare stories about terrorists wanting to shut the Internet down. They’re mostly fairy tales, but they’re scary precisely because the Internet is so critical to so many things.

Why would we want to terrorize our own population by doing exactly what we don’t want anyone else to do? And a national emergency is precisely the worst time to do it.

Just implementing the capability would be very expensive; I would rather see that money going toward securing our nation’s critical infrastructure from attack.

Israel must be returned to a reasonable routine... We must reach a deal. A deal is more important than anything else. We are getting body bags instead of a deal. //

Shoo
2 hours ago
What deal do they think could be made?

JCsGIRL70 Shoo
2 hours ago
That Hamas would keep? //

JCsGIRL70
2 hours ago
Even the Israeli's don't understand Hamas - they are without honor & any deal would be broken as soon as they had rebuilt their terrorist ranks.

Ed in North Texas JCsGIRL70
an hour ago
Honorable people are usually "taken in" by evil people with no conscience. The honorable people think a deal can be made with the Devil. //

Samuel Ross
2 hours ago
I cry for the dead, but to trade a nation's safety for one life is not wise. Gilad Shalit was traded for 1000+ Hamas terrorists, one of whom was Yahya Sin War, who killed 1200 Jews after he was unwisely freed. //

anon-7iuo
2 hours ago
Mike, be clear: This agitation comes from the suspiciously funded left in Israel. It is not what most Israelis think.

Bibi Derangement Syndrome is a close variant of TDS. Don't fall for it.

The USDA recorded 69 violations in a year. So far, 9 people have died in the outbreak. //

While it's always lurking, L. monocytogenes especially plagues the food industry because it has the notable ability to reproduce at refrigerator temperatures—a condition that typically limits the growth of other nasty germs. //

According to USDA documents, the agency has not taken enforcement actions against Boar's Head, and there is no data available on swab testing for Listeria at the Virginia facility. The plant has been shut down since late July after health investigators found the outbreak strain of L. monocytogenes in unopened containers of Boar's Head liverwurst.

Rocky debris caused by a NASA mission could create the first human-made meteor shower.

In Sept. 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroids Redirect Test (DART) intentionally collided with a tiny moonlet named Dimorphos, which orbited the asteroid Didymos, to test its asteroid deflection technology.

Scientists believe the crash produced over 2 million pounds of rocks and dust — and a new study suggests fragments of Dimorphos could land around Earth and Mars in 10 to 30 years, and the meteor showers could last for up to a century.

Kamala is taking what was a solemn remembrance for the families and is now making it a political issue herself. She's doing what she's accusing Trump of doing.

That's just vile and disgusting. She truly has no shame; she's effectively attacking the families. But it's all about trying to wreck the fact that Trump was doing the job that she and Biden were supposed to be doing here. And it's right in line with how badly the Biden-Harris team has treated the families for years. //

JD Vance @JDVance
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President Trump was there at the invitation of families whose loved ones died because of your incompetence.

Why don’t you get off social media and go launch an investigation into their unnecessary deaths?

Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris
As Vice President, I have had the privilege of visiting Arlington National Cemetery several times. It is a solemn place; a place where we come together to honor American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service of this nation.

It is not a place for politics.

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A 2FA Mule is a mobile phone configured to forward SMS 2FA codes via email.

This divorces 2FA from the mobile phone you carry with you and makes it possible to perform 2FA without your phone, after having your phone lost or stolen, while on an airplane, or while roaming in a foreign place with an alternate SIM card.

In my case, the 2FA mule sits in my office lab connected to mains power.

It is an unlocked Google Pixel phone with no google account and no apps installed except for "SMS Forwarder".

It is configured to forward all SMS to an email address via encrypted SMTP.

One of the most common pre-sales questions we get at rsync.net is:

"Why should I pay a per gigabyte rate for storage when these other providers are offering unlimited storage for a low flat rate?"

The short answer is: paying a flat rate for unlimited storage, or transfer, pits you against your provider in an antagonistic relationship. This is not the kind of relationship you want to have with someone providing critical functions.

Now for the long answer...

JCI now offers FreeBSD 11 Cloud Servers that provide significant enhancements over previous versions of FreeBSD. Under FreeBSD 11 you will be running a true virtual cloud server and not the more limited "jail" VPS. This allows complete independent server instances with on-the fly expandability, secure root access and custom backup capability.

Choose the server from our standard FreeBSD server plans below with the memory, disk, IPs, bandwidth and backup required to support your application.

John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com

In the very recent past, the world has crossed a threshold, beyond which anonymous free speech can only be limited by completely removing the basic infrastructure of commerce.

The union of cryptography, ubiquitous portable computers and low-cost-standards-based wireless networking does not guarantee free speech, but it does guarantee that such restrictions imply an inability to conduct modern business and a dramatically lowered standard of living.

In this environment freedom of speech is atomic - it cannot be partially limited. It can be both global and instantaneous. Most importantly, it is not dependent on centralized public networks like the Internet.

It will be shown that tools available to anyone in a society that takes part in modern commerce are all that is required for anonymous free speech. It will further be shown that such tools must be available for such a society to continue participating in modern commerce, and that their availability is an all or nothing proposition. Finally, it will be shown that a high value should be placed on open standards and interoperability as well as peer-centric attitudes towards communication and networks.

Taken as a whole, the FSOSA concept should be used to encourage free speech and to discourage policymakers from pursuing policies that are destined either to fail, or to relegate them to the "stone age".