Do you want to use Nuclear Power? That would quickly make a toxic, radioactive mess.
Actually coal power releases more radioactivity than Nuclear power in the united states. Coal has trace amounts of uranium and other radioactive elements in it, and when it gets burned it goes right into the atmosphere in a nice breathable aerosol form. If you live next door to a nuclear power plant at sea level, you are exposed to the same amount of radiation as the people of Denver (denver has less atmosphere to block out solar radiation, cosmic rays etc.) I dont see the people of denver keeling over from radiation sickness. All the 'waste' from all the reactors in the united states that have ever run would fill a football feild about 3 feet deep with waste. Worst of all, this so called waste could be reprocessed for use in a fast breeder reactor and used over and over again until everything is converted into energy and elements that have a half life of weeks instead of tens of thousands of years. The only reason we dont do this is because Nuclear power is unpopular, and if we do it, the logic goes, then nuclear weapons will proliferate, beccause an intermediate form of fuel in a fast breeder is plutonium. People can be so stupid when theres a beautiful and elegant engineering solution right in front of their noses, like fuel cells. ok enough ranting, we now return you to your regularly scheduled program, already over.....
Fuel cells are plenty eifficient, between 40 and 60% depending on the type, Your IC engine is lucky if it can get 30% eifficiency, but you are right, they arent space efficient. Your IC engine may be less efficient, but it takes up a lot less space, and its fuel has a high energy density ( especially compared to a gas like hydrogen or natural gas)
I think a bigger worry would be say China doing this, in fact theyre probably doing it right now. I would wager Dollars to donuts that if there ever were a serious uprising in china the internet would suddently have an "outage" througout China
This is why they are so afraid of geeks - they know we have it within our power to end this form of tyranny for good. We are in control of the ultimate modern day press. Literally, with the click of a mouse button, we can go public with thousands of pages of information, blow the lids off back-office politics, and empower the average citizen to take back their democracy and demand their rights.
When I first read this passage, I thought, right, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, who do you think invented carnivore? It certainly wasnt Cletus the slack jawed pollititian. Not all Geeks are good, there is a dark side.(darth vader breathing sound)But, this form of power is highly distributed, so the most power one individal has is at most very limited, buthas the power to become immense if everyone else with tiny amounts of power happens to agree. Any idiot with an internet connection can put up an AOL homepage or Geocities homepage, that doesnt mean that every homepage will change the world, the large majority of personal home pages suck. But if your page is unique and interesting, say it exposes that a certain president has been playing hide the cigar with a certain intern *COUGH* Drudge*COUGH* it can blow up to major proportions in relatively no time. Carnivore is an attempt by the old gaurd to hold onto their power, and to do it they needed to back a dump truck of money up to some Geeks front door, and being red blooded americans, they sold out. Its up to us to put together our tiny bits of power to shut it down.
Would you buy a wrench that said "Works only on Ford"?
Thats more like saying would you buy a HTML editor that works only with IE, a more appropriate analogy would be "Would you drive on a road that was 'Ford cars only'" If you owned a Ford, damn right you would. Dont blame consumers for falling for microsofts tricks, since for consumers that use IE it is to their advantage to continue to use it. Its just the rest of us that have problems. Lets have three cheers for David Boies!
People have a lot less free will than most people would like to believe. Socially, people have a bit of a Herd mentality, or "mob rule" as it were. Peer pressure brought to bear can make even obiously bad decisions nearly impossible to resist. Humans have an inherent urge to conform with the group even if the group you conform to is nonconformist to society as a whole (i.e. geeks, drug users, etc) This behavior pattern stems from the fact that those who strayed away from the family group in antiquity tended to get eaten by bears, and didnt have much chance to pass on their genes. Ultimately something is wrong because people say its wrong, not due to any immutable law of nature that says thou shalt not do such and such. most hard drugs were available over the counter at the turn of the 19th century, Hell, coca-cola had cocaine in it, talk about a jolt;-) Could use some of that on long programming weekends. But now the Government, or society, or both says that "drugs" are evil and those that use them are outcasts. X-men says that society ultimately defines who and what are outcasts, be they mutants or drug users, and this is the message that needs to be heard in america.
Which will then force NASA to make missions cheaper and more cost effective - which takes *REAL* engineering, not just budget-flyboy science.
And just how will you pay the engineers to work if NASA doesnt have any budget? With less funds corners get cut, lower quality parts get used, some things dont get tested that maybe should be. In the long run, spacecraft fail because of this, resulting in a total loss.
Every Spaccraft is basically a one of a kind prototype, hundreds of thousands of hours of work go into building and basically hand crafting each spacecraft. If you built automobiles like you do spacecraft, it would be tens of millions of dollars for each one. In fact, concept cars and new model protoypes do cost millions of dollars, but that cost is spread out over hundreds of thousands of automobile sales. The cost of spacecraft prtotypes are spread out over 1 craft resulting in huge costs. Second, NASA's budget is about 15-18 Billion Dollars a year, the total US budget is about 1.9 Trillion Dollars. Much more money is spent just to pay intrest on the debt than is spent on nasa. Multiple studies have shown that every dollar spent on NASA generates between 7 and 9 dollars in the private sector due to the exploitation by private companies of NASA innovations.
As an aerospace Engineer, it really frustrates me that the Government doesnt do more to encourage bqasic science in this country. Why the heck do they think were the most prosperous nation on earth? Coincidentally, its because were also the most innovative. Unfortunately, congresses short sightedness will lead to the eventual downfall of American innovation. We can already see that Asia is beginning to take up the slack in the consumer end of the spectrum ( Anyone want to buy a playstation 2?) Either the Government will wake up and realize that basic science will and can keep us as prosperous as we are, or were in trouble. Maybe I should learn Japanese.
Why dont I just sample the watermark (reverse engineer the ROM), and then loop it into the DSP so that it thinks that the sound Im playing is watermarked? And why couldnt I keep my computer for music? people keep their windows boxes for games dont they? Second, most computer dsp's can only sample the range of human hearing, from 20-20khz ( I know this because i was thinking about using a plain old PC DSP for radio telescope work that i'm doing, but it isnt very good when youre trying to sample a Ghz of different "sounds") and that means that any SMDI watermarks would have to be out of that range, otherwis you could hear them. This means you can just plop a SMDI noncompliant dsp into your box, and youre just fine.
I'm thinking about putting the Mona Lisa in my living room. Except instead of buying it, I'm going to make a photocopy of it and put the copy on my wall
How about a photo quality copy that you can only tell is copied with a loupe? With a nice frame, id put that over my mantle any day. Also, were assuming that with any encryption scheme, the quality will go up, since because were paying for the music they can afford to up the quality ( or so the RIAA says, ha ha). Regardless I can still go out and buy a cd and rip an mp3 off of it if i have to.
I'm assuming that any of the hardware used for playing back the sound is tamper proof, i.e all the hacks around encryption at the hardware and software level have been eliminated (an impossibility im sure, but for the sake of argument)
sooner or later a successful crypto-system to prevent all non-permitted use of materials will be developed, complete with tamper-proof hardware in your PC, and then where will we be?
We'll be in the same place we are now, very simple, just take audio out from your computer, use a double male line to the audio in port, and record onto mp3 or whatever replaces it, encryption scheme bypassed. if you can _LISTEN_ to music, you can get around any and all encryption of it.
If you dont like the corporate republic, go vote for Ralph Nader he seems to be as virulently anti corporate as you are, you two should get along nicely
um Clemetine? Lunar Prospector? Even barring those two missions to the moon, various missions to mars, venus and the outer planets are ample evidence to show that the US is capable of lunar flight.
Hey, Uranus is a very interesting planet, it has a brown ring around it, is full of methane, and the pressures are so high that diamonds are formed. Who says it isnt an appropriate name?
I dont know this for certain, but the reason probably is that the site with the MP3's is out of the country and (supposedly) outside of the RIAA's grasp. Therefore, do the next best thing, and not allow anyone from the US to link to the site. This has further implications for DeCSS, because if you cant link to it from the US, its pretty hard to get to (gnutella notwithstanding)
I am an engineer, and the reason its easier to put a base on mars is delta V, which translates into energy, which translates into fuel. Launching from mars at one third the gravity of earth requres one ninth the amount of fuel. Launching from the moon is even cheaper energy wise. Compare the launch of a saturn V to get to the moon, vs the tiny puff needed to get back off of it. So energy wise, its actually cheaper to launch from the moon, except, the moon is dead, there is very little on it to support life (polar water notwithstanding) It would be very hard to grow food on the moon, since it has 2 weeks of blistering day, followed by 2 weeks of frozen night, not to mention unmoderated ultraviolet, gamma, and cosmic radiation. Plants dislike this a lot, even greenhouses would need massive panes of glass or some other shielding material during the day, and massive amounts of power at night. The average cornfield gets more solar energy than the electtric output of the US. Mars on the other hand, has an atmosphere, full of CO2, which plants love, and the atmosphere, thin as it is, moderates the radiation. Also mars has nearly a 24 hour day, which plants like. So, you can eather launch your food (miners gotta eat) from mars, which is nearby and a low energy lift, or you can launch from earth, which is high energy and takes months to get to the belt. It is all outlined in the case for mars, which I suggest everyone read, great book, and stellar engineering (no pun intended).
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Actually coal power releases more radioactivity than Nuclear power in the united states. Coal has trace amounts of uranium and other radioactive elements in it, and when it gets burned it goes right into the atmosphere in a nice breathable aerosol form. If you live next door to a nuclear power plant at sea level, you are exposed to the same amount of radiation as the people of Denver (denver has less atmosphere to block out solar radiation, cosmic rays etc.) I dont see the people of denver keeling over from radiation sickness. All the 'waste' from all the reactors in the united states that have ever run would fill a football feild about 3 feet deep with waste. Worst of all, this so called waste could be reprocessed for use in a fast breeder reactor and used over and over again until everything is converted into energy and elements that have a half life of weeks instead of tens of thousands of years. The only reason we dont do this is because Nuclear power is unpopular, and if we do it, the logic goes, then nuclear weapons will proliferate, beccause an intermediate form of fuel in a fast breeder is plutonium. People can be so stupid when theres a beautiful and elegant engineering solution right in front of their noses, like fuel cells. ok enough ranting, we now return you to your regularly scheduled program, already over.....
Other than people trying to drink the fuel. Thats also the main reson we dont have alchohol fuel. One for my homies, one for me, and one for my car ;-)
When I first read this passage, I thought, right, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, who do you think invented carnivore? It certainly wasnt Cletus the slack jawed pollititian. Not all Geeks are good, there is a dark side.(darth vader breathing sound)But, this form of power is highly distributed, so the most power one individal has is at most very limited, buthas the power to become immense if everyone else with tiny amounts of power happens to agree. Any idiot with an internet connection can put up an AOL homepage or Geocities homepage, that doesnt mean that every homepage will change the world, the large majority of personal home pages suck. But if your page is unique and interesting, say it exposes that a certain president has been playing hide the cigar with a certain intern *COUGH* Drudge*COUGH* it can blow up to major proportions in relatively no time. Carnivore is an attempt by the old gaurd to hold onto their power, and to do it they needed to back a dump truck of money up to some Geeks front door, and being red blooded americans, they sold out. Its up to us to put together our tiny bits of power to shut it down.
Thats more like saying would you buy a HTML editor that works only with IE, a more appropriate analogy would be "Would you drive on a road that was 'Ford cars only'" If you owned a Ford, damn right you would. Dont blame consumers for falling for microsofts tricks, since for consumers that use IE it is to their advantage to continue to use it. Its just the rest of us that have problems. Lets have three cheers for David Boies!
Ummmm NO, most cocaine comes from Columbia and other central american nations, not China, maybe you were thinking of Opium.
And just how will you pay the engineers to work if NASA doesnt have any budget? With less funds corners get cut, lower quality parts get used, some things dont get tested that maybe should be. In the long run, spacecraft fail because of this, resulting in a total loss.
*STOP WASTING OUR GODAMN TAX PAYERS MONEY ON OVERBUDGETED, OVERPRICED CRAP*.
Every Spaccraft is basically a one of a kind prototype, hundreds of thousands of hours of work go into building and basically hand crafting each spacecraft. If you built automobiles like you do spacecraft, it would be tens of millions of dollars for each one. In fact, concept cars and new model protoypes do cost millions of dollars, but that cost is spread out over hundreds of thousands of automobile sales. The cost of spacecraft prtotypes are spread out over 1 craft resulting in huge costs. Second, NASA's budget is about 15-18 Billion Dollars a year, the total US budget is about 1.9 Trillion Dollars. Much more money is spent just to pay intrest on the debt than is spent on nasa. Multiple studies have shown that every dollar spent on NASA generates between 7 and 9 dollars in the private sector due to the exploitation by private companies of NASA innovations.
Follow your own advice guys ;-)
How about a photo quality copy that you can only tell is copied with a loupe? With a nice frame, id put that over my mantle any day. Also, were assuming that with any encryption scheme, the quality will go up, since because were paying for the music they can afford to up the quality ( or so the RIAA says, ha ha). Regardless I can still go out and buy a cd and rip an mp3 off of it if i have to.
I'm assuming that any of the hardware used for playing back the sound is tamper proof, i.e all the hacks around encryption at the hardware and software level have been eliminated (an impossibility im sure, but for the sake of argument)
We'll be in the same place we are now, very simple, just take audio out from your computer, use a double male line to the audio in port, and record onto mp3 or whatever replaces it, encryption scheme bypassed. if you can _LISTEN_ to music, you can get around any and all encryption of it.
If you dont like the corporate republic, go vote for Ralph Nader he seems to be as virulently anti corporate as you are, you two should get along nicely
Hey, Uranus is a very interesting planet, it has a brown ring around it, is full of methane, and the pressures are so high that diamonds are formed. Who says it isnt an appropriate name?
-H. Simpson
its the same principle with MS