Or maybe such a house will see you open the fridge one too many times and lock you into the kitchen. A house that smart should be able to order food in, or make it easy for an obese human to do so.
Think about it. If you get too fat to leave the intelligent house, then you really will be at its mercy. Some crazy houses might find the idea of an overstuffed pet human appealing...
We've already sent the Mars probes and the Mars Climate Orbiter. If we're lucky, we'll send a Mars Climate Orbiter that actually stays in the correct orbit soon. So, we're covering that end.
I believe someone also just sent a probe into Jupiter. It took a while to get there, but we should have climate data on Jupiter and some of its moons by now.
I think we've even tried a solar orbiter.
So, we're already doing other planets. (Climate on Venus: hot enough to melt probes--but then, Venus has a huge problem with greenhouse gasses.) We just need to play with our own some more.
Cars do get reused. Every used or "program" car on the lot is a reused car.
Whether cars get recycled when they cease to work depends on who has them. Some cars go to junkyards that sell car parts, and parts of those cars get recycled. I imagine cars that are simply compacted into one square mesh of steel and glass usually aren't.
Recycling car batteries is not common these days, esp. since they're sealing the batteries. Those go directly to hazardous waste dumps, do not pass go, collect new battery from auto parts store. If they don't get treated that way, they could get as bad for the environment as burnt gasoline.
Space junk orbiting the earth interferes with space travel. Space junk on the moon, less so.
Satellites are only easier than moon bases to maintain if manned flights go into orbit, but not to the moon. When the shuttle program ends, and since I don't anticipate it being replaced with something similar quickly, will we have to detour Russian or Chinese rockets to maintain the satellite?
As for why anti-satellite missiles would threaten peaceful satellites: bad aim, or failure to believe that all the satellite is doing is peacefully recording the climate. I can imagine our own administration shooting such a satellite down...
Which is why it wants the station far away on the moon, where it will take longer to get in action, I suppose.
Perhaps, but there is one advantage to putting a weather station on the moon: it'll stay put.
Satellites fall out of the sky, become space junk, or get hit by anti-satellite missiles. Equipment on the moon should stay on the moon, and it won't be as awkward to work around if it stops working. Hopefully it'll take longer to make anti-moonbase missiles than to set this weather station up.
NJTA is not suing LiveLink (yet) because LiveLink is based in the UK. UK legal system is "loser pays." Think what happens if the NJTA loses that suit!
Presumably, they are suing YouTube after the takedown because someone else immediately put it back. Providers are not normally required to check to see if someone is putting up the exact same video someone else has taken down, but maybe the NJTA thinks accidental snuff films from their cameras should be an exception.
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority apparently wants to stop the dissemination of this video because it is a "snuff film." Obviously, they need to burn the original footage, or delete it, whichever is more applicable.
If the NJTA did own the original footage, would it be legit for them to use the DMCA to take down accidental snuff films?
The concerned parties oftentimes can't even afford to fight the original lawsuit, which is why so many groundless RIAA suits get settled. How can they afford that sort of countersuit?
Ohio University does have a law school.
They have recently changed their policy about how to deal with student downloading. So "complicit" is more likely than "apathetic."
You have a friend who disapproves of illegal downloads, but routinely bittorrents extra copies of the used CDs he buys?
Purchasing the used CD and bittorrenting a playable copy of the music are separate transactions. That bittorrent is still not strictly legal, even with the used CD in his possession. Of course, the record labels wish that used CDs weren't legal; they too realize that neither artists nor record labels get cash from those transactions. So (since I'm not against used CDs) oh well...
BTW, does your friend take the time to listen to the CD, to see if it works, before or after he does his bittorrent?
"Okay, maybe we are not quite ready for all of this yet, at least the democrats, but the neo-cons and Attorney General Gonzales would be down with it, no doubt."
It's fixed now...
To access the data when the school is on fire, use a campus building that isn't (yet) on fire. Colleges usually have more than one building.
Getting those people whom the data corresponds to out of the burning building will be somewhat harder, esp. if the WiFi trackers aren't fireproof.
Those laptops are all headed to "developing" countries.
If you hadn't specified Linux, I'd also consider citing Toys 'R' Us for its educational selection.
The fine summary seemed to suggest that all Chinese XP SP2 installations got hosed by this Symantec update. Therefore, if this update is killing an actual backdoor, then all Chinese copies of XP SP2 have the backdoor...
Just what we need: an official Microsoft backdoor (other than WGA)!
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Natural predators of houses:
Wrecking balls
Bulldozers
Backhoes
Explosives
Dry Xmas trees
Or maybe such a house will see you open the fridge one too many times and lock you into the kitchen. A house that smart should be able to order food in, or make it easy for an obese human to do so.
Think about it. If you get too fat to leave the intelligent house, then you really will be at its mercy. Some crazy houses might find the idea of an overstuffed pet human appealing...
We've already sent the Mars probes and the Mars Climate Orbiter. If we're lucky, we'll send a Mars Climate Orbiter that actually stays in the correct orbit soon. So, we're covering that end.
I believe someone also just sent a probe into Jupiter. It took a while to get there, but we should have climate data on Jupiter and some of its moons by now.
I think we've even tried a solar orbiter.
So, we're already doing other planets. (Climate on Venus: hot enough to melt probes--but then, Venus has a huge problem with greenhouse gasses.) We just need to play with our own some more.
Any chance we can switch the ALSEP stations back on? We might send a manned mission to the moon sometime in the next twenty years...
Cars do get reused. Every used or "program" car on the lot is a reused car.
Whether cars get recycled when they cease to work depends on who has them. Some cars go to junkyards that sell car parts, and parts of those cars get recycled. I imagine cars that are simply compacted into one square mesh of steel and glass usually aren't.
Recycling car batteries is not common these days, esp. since they're sealing the batteries. Those go directly to hazardous waste dumps, do not pass go, collect new battery from auto parts store. If they don't get treated that way, they could get as bad for the environment as burnt gasoline.
Space junk orbiting the earth interferes with space travel. Space junk on the moon, less so.
Satellites are only easier than moon bases to maintain if manned flights go into orbit, but not to the moon. When the shuttle program ends, and since I don't anticipate it being replaced with something similar quickly, will we have to detour Russian or Chinese rockets to maintain the satellite?
As for why anti-satellite missiles would threaten peaceful satellites: bad aim, or failure to believe that all the satellite is doing is peacefully recording the climate. I can imagine our own administration shooting such a satellite down...
Which is why it wants the station far away on the moon, where it will take longer to get in action, I suppose.
Perhaps, but there is one advantage to putting a weather station on the moon: it'll stay put.
Satellites fall out of the sky, become space junk, or get hit by anti-satellite missiles. Equipment on the moon should stay on the moon, and it won't be as awkward to work around if it stops working. Hopefully it'll take longer to make anti-moonbase missiles than to set this weather station up.
NJTA is not suing LiveLink (yet) because LiveLink is based in the UK. UK legal system is "loser pays." Think what happens if the NJTA loses that suit!
Presumably, they are suing YouTube after the takedown because someone else immediately put it back. Providers are not normally required to check to see if someone is putting up the exact same video someone else has taken down, but maybe the NJTA thinks accidental snuff films from their cameras should be an exception.
Oh, it is possible to refuse a police search of a car under the 4th Amendment. It just doesn't happen very often.
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority apparently wants to stop the dissemination of this video because it is a "snuff film." Obviously, they need to burn the original footage, or delete it, whichever is more applicable.
If the NJTA did own the original footage, would it be legit for them to use the DMCA to take down accidental snuff films?
Tell that to the RIAA. Tell that to whoever tried to shut down The Pirate Bay.
Bowling for Columbine: a film scaremongering about scaremongering!
The concerned parties oftentimes can't even afford to fight the original lawsuit, which is why so many groundless RIAA suits get settled. How can they afford that sort of countersuit?
Ohio University does have a law school.
They have recently changed their policy about how to deal with student downloading. So "complicit" is more likely than "apathetic."
But now Ohio University is refusing to give legal counsel to students caught in RIAA filesharing cases--except for "surrender!"
You have a friend who disapproves of illegal downloads, but routinely bittorrents extra copies of the used CDs he buys?
Purchasing the used CD and bittorrenting a playable copy of the music are separate transactions. That bittorrent is still not strictly legal, even with the used CD in his possession. Of course, the record labels wish that used CDs weren't legal; they too realize that neither artists nor record labels get cash from those transactions. So (since I'm not against used CDs) oh well...
BTW, does your friend take the time to listen to the CD, to see if it works, before or after he does his bittorrent?
Facial recognition isn't a reliable technology yet. RFID tags are reliable when they're not hacked.
"Okay, maybe we are not quite ready for all of this yet, at least the democrats, but the neo-cons and Attorney General Gonzales would be down with it, no doubt."
It's fixed now...
[blanch]
Why must they include bathrooms in the RFID coverage? Is there to be no privacy?
Oh, wait...never mind.
Are the colleges going to extend the tracking systems to the off-campus fraternities, then?
Or do British colleges have off-campus fraternities?
To access the data when the school is on fire, use a campus building that isn't (yet) on fire. Colleges usually have more than one building.
Getting those people whom the data corresponds to out of the burning building will be somewhat harder, esp. if the WiFi trackers aren't fireproof.
Hey, who wants a television as big as the nearest wall?
How about a computer monitor that size?
How about if someone other than Sony is making it?
Yep! Every student marked with a dot with his name where he is...
I believe Sirius Black must've found it useful for Snape-hunting.
Those laptops are all headed to "developing" countries.
If you hadn't specified Linux, I'd also consider citing Toys 'R' Us for its educational selection.
The fine summary seemed to suggest that all Chinese XP SP2 installations got hosed by this Symantec update. Therefore, if this update is killing an actual backdoor, then all Chinese copies of XP SP2 have the backdoor...
Just what we need: an official Microsoft backdoor (other than WGA)!