The problem with it is, its the only common identification number an American has. Driver's License number formats vary from state to state, with some using SSN, some using all numbers, some using numbers and letters. Its a mess.
Its primary purpose is to track individuals for taxation purpose, until 1986 you didn't get one until you were 14, I got mine in 1986 when I was 13, because of the new law then. The military phased it in as a replacement for the service number too I think.
Some religious groups opt out of getting them entirely. Its one of the schizoid things about the US, invasive privacy attacks by the government, but no uniform database of citizens or national ID.
"I've recently gotten AT&T U-Verse, who, according to their privacy statement, will be monitoring my TV watching habits for advertisement purposes. I'm extremely annoyed by that, yet I love the service so much and I don't think I can cancel it."
There wasn't a war to lose, you surrendered before it even started. You are Czechoslovakia in 1938. You sound paranoid about your online privacy but yet you remain online, a system that wasn't designed with privacy in mind, all the things you are doing still leave traces, server logs, etc.
Theres talk about a big fibre project up here to connect the villages and hubs (Nome, Bethel, etc) fibre, cool weather and alot of NG for power would make for good data centers.
When will an AI be small enough to weigh 1.5kg and take up 1260 cc? Now take that form factor and have it drive across the United States in three or four days.
Then I'll be impressed.
Honestly, I don't think an AI will equal human intelligence for at least 200 years and when they do, it'll be like the Minds in the Culture, huge things that use extra-dimensional storage.* Human made AIs probably will be vast things, like the size of the current super computers.
* - I know a Mind during the Idiran-Culture War, were an "ellipsoid of several dozen cubic meters" and weighed kilotons
"Guinness won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1957 for his role in The Bridge on the River Kwai. He was nominated in 1958 for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, for his screenplay adapted from Joyce Cary's novel The Horse's Mouth. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars in 1977. He received an Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1980. In 1988, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Little Dorrit."
On the other hand, the only Stargate I've been able to watch has been Universe.
Firefly, humorous fun? They had humor but the plots were never humorous fun, unless Mal and Wash being tortured, cannibalistic space madness, organ smuggling/harvesting and killing prostitutes are your idea of "fun".
The engines, fuel pumps and materials used in the Shuttle are all state of the art.
Just because the tech is from the 60s and 70s doesn't mean its outdated.
The best heavy bombers in the world, the B-52 are 1950s and early 60s tech, the B-1B are 1970s and 80s tech, the Tu-95/142 are 1950s and 60s tech. The SR-71 was designed and built in the 1960s and nothing has matched it yet.
The engines, pumps, metals, solid rocket boosters are all technologies the PRC doesn't have or is lacking in.
In theory, but actually, if Hubble had been launched the same way KH satellites are, once the optical flaw was found Congress would have never budgeted the money to NASA to build one that worked. So we'd be stuck with the joke that Hubble couldn't see and no one would have floated another space telescope.
Hubble isn't an excuse for the Shuttle, the Shuttle was an excuse to upgrade the only astronomy space telescope.
No on a couple accounts. DARPA doesn't have "endless" amounts of taxpayer money nor does it kill people or destroy property, and alot of what DARPA looks into is "off-topic".
"DARPA is independent from other more conventional military R&D and reports directly to senior Department of Defense management. DARPA has around 240 personnel (about 140 technical) directly managing a $3.2 billion budget. These figures are "on average" since DARPA focuses on short-term (two to four-year) projects run by small, purpose-built teams."
DARPA is really a think-tank about what might be needed for future warfare, while groups like RAND think about the future world and future warfare.
From the link you posted -
"DARPA is a Defense Agency with a unique role within DoD. DARPA is not tied to a specific operational mission: DARPA supplies technological options for the entire Department, and is designed to be the “technological engine” for transforming DoD."
If one looks through the list of projects on Wikipedia, or looks through/. posts about DARPA, you won't find many pure "killing, destroying" DARPA projects.
Slashdot Mirror
A tiny segment of the population.
Exodus 20:13
Deuteronomy 5:17
"You shall not murder."
That outweighs Leviticus.
The prices will never drop, DeBeers has it locked down.
Get the GF a synthetic diamond, she'll never know the difference.
The problem with it is, its the only common identification number an American has. Driver's License number formats vary from state to state, with some using SSN, some using all numbers, some using numbers and letters. Its a mess.
Its primary purpose is to track individuals for taxation purpose, until 1986 you didn't get one until you were 14, I got mine in 1986 when I was 13, because of the new law then. The military phased it in as a replacement for the service number too I think.
Some religious groups opt out of getting them entirely. Its one of the schizoid things about the US, invasive privacy attacks by the government, but no uniform database of citizens or national ID.
I worked at Comcast and they wanted SSN, but didn't mind if people didn't give it.
"I've recently gotten AT&T U-Verse, who, according to their privacy statement, will be monitoring my TV watching habits for advertisement purposes. I'm extremely annoyed by that, yet I love the service so much and I don't think I can cancel it."
There wasn't a war to lose, you surrendered before it even started. You are Czechoslovakia in 1938. You sound paranoid about your online privacy but yet you remain online, a system that wasn't designed with privacy in mind, all the things you are doing still leave traces, server logs, etc.
Alaska will be before the Himalayas.
Theres talk about a big fibre project up here to connect the villages and hubs (Nome, Bethel, etc) fibre, cool weather and alot of NG for power would make for good data centers.
Testing aviation systems and technologies, then passing on the information and systems to commercial and military applications
10,000 BC(E) and the 1997 Godzilla.
Doesn't take much electricity either.
When will an AI be small enough to weigh 1.5kg and take up 1260 cc? Now take that form factor and have it drive across the United States in three or four days.
Then I'll be impressed.
Honestly, I don't think an AI will equal human intelligence for at least 200 years and when they do, it'll be like the Minds in the Culture, huge things that use extra-dimensional storage.* Human made AIs probably will be vast things, like the size of the current super computers.
* - I know a Mind during the Idiran-Culture War, were an "ellipsoid of several dozen cubic meters" and weighed kilotons
"Guinness won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1957 for his role in The Bridge on the River Kwai. He was nominated in 1958 for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, for his screenplay adapted from Joyce Cary's novel The Horse's Mouth. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars in 1977. He received an Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1980. In 1988, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Little Dorrit."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Guinness#Awards_and_honours
On the other hand, the only Stargate I've been able to watch has been Universe.
Firefly, humorous fun? They had humor but the plots were never humorous fun, unless Mal and Wash being tortured, cannibalistic space madness, organ smuggling/harvesting and killing prostitutes are your idea of "fun".
In that article, I couldn't find any information on what network it will be on in the US. Is it going to be syndicated?
And its not going to be out till 2011 or 2012, so why are we talking about it before it's been cast?
No, most of the world doesn't have broadband. Yea, small countries generally do have better broadband than the US.
I'll bet they are just going to roll it out around their data centers.
Thats assuming Google isn't run by dick-wads. They are going to make money buy learning everything they can about us and marketing that data.
What can shoot Shuttle, or ISS, out of the sky?
Other than an ICBM or theatre nuclear missile.
No, but it would have made a good FOBS platform.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOBS
The Soviet FOBS platform, an SS-9, couldn't steer orbits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-36_(missile)#R-36orb
Of course that was an option, just like how Mir had a military origin and Salyut had military models.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir#Origins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz
Not all of it is.
The engines, fuel pumps and materials used in the Shuttle are all state of the art.
Just because the tech is from the 60s and 70s doesn't mean its outdated.
The best heavy bombers in the world, the B-52 are 1950s and early 60s tech, the B-1B are 1970s and 80s tech, the Tu-95/142 are 1950s and 60s tech. The SR-71 was designed and built in the 1960s and nothing has matched it yet.
The engines, pumps, metals, solid rocket boosters are all technologies the PRC doesn't have or is lacking in.
I know all about gang tagging.
If the graffiti is on public property, or private property, its damage and violation.
Its a pretty good school
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byu#Rankings
I wouldn't go there, but its got some high points academically.
One can't deface graffiti anymore than one can trash garbage.
In theory, but actually, if Hubble had been launched the same way KH satellites are, once the optical flaw was found Congress would have never budgeted the money to NASA to build one that worked. So we'd be stuck with the joke that Hubble couldn't see and no one would have floated another space telescope.
Hubble isn't an excuse for the Shuttle, the Shuttle was an excuse to upgrade the only astronomy space telescope.
No on a couple accounts. DARPA doesn't have "endless" amounts of taxpayer money nor does it kill people or destroy property, and alot of what DARPA looks into is "off-topic".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darpa
"DARPA is independent from other more conventional military R&D and reports directly to senior Department of Defense management. DARPA has around 240 personnel (about 140 technical) directly managing a $3.2 billion budget. These figures are "on average" since DARPA focuses on short-term (two to four-year) projects run by small, purpose-built teams."
DARPA is really a think-tank about what might be needed for future warfare, while groups like RAND think about the future world and future warfare.
From the link you posted -
"DARPA is a Defense Agency with a unique role within DoD. DARPA is not tied to a specific operational mission: DARPA supplies technological options for the entire Department, and is designed to be the “technological engine” for transforming DoD."
When I mentioned "without DARPA", I didn't just mean the ARPANet or Internet, how about Mutitasking - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MAC
Oh and they invented Tor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing
If one looks through the list of projects on Wikipedia, or looks through /. posts about DARPA, you won't find many pure "killing, destroying" DARPA projects.