Wouldn't these new battlefield wireless networks give off a radio signal? Couldn't someone with the right equipment then deduce the position of any force using such equipment for a tactical advantage?
Comcast getting fined is the kind of thing that needs to happen. Normally I'm against FCC fines, Howard Stern gets fined for saying the same thing Oprah does. Here, like Oprah I doubt the FCC will pursue this.
"The Tsar Bomba qualifies as the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity." Except for, say, the aforementioned sun, which human beings have been regularly "utilizing" ever since we first decided it might be a good idea for our bodies to process some Vitamin D.
Well that, and I like to be above absolute zero...
Man this thing might cheer you up for a little while, but the novelty will quickly wear off, especially after you realize how much money you spent on your robot co-pilot.
Maybe there is merit in tagging all children. Millions of children go missing every year around the world, around 800000 do so in the US alone (http://www.usd.edu/~mcarroll/missing_children_statistics.htm).
From your source " 876,213 missing persons (adults and juveniles) were entered into the FBI's NCIC during the year 2000."
Most of the kids who are reported missing are found obviously, and tagging them would help find them faster. But, out of all those missing children very few are taken by strangers every year in the USA, 115 child abductions in 1999.
You're forgetting economies of scale. The cost of a wiretap is determined by the cost of the program divided by the number of wiretaps. If the cost grows marginally while the number of taps grows exponentially, it can be affordable to tap everyone. The more we wiretap, the cheaper it becomes. It's a win-win!
I think I detected some sarcasm there, but just in case, that $750/month for each tap is what comcast charges for wiretaps.
Comcast, which is among the nation's largest telecommunication companies, charges $1,000 to install a FISA wiretap and $750 for each additional month http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/22/129207
Meh. By then parents will be so busy doing their own stuff and generally neglecting their children that there won't be anyone to watch the monitors, so it all cancels out in the end.
Oh, wait, that already happened, you say?
Well then by all means tag the little bastards. And someone make me a device that yells "Get off my lawn!" whenever kids get close...I'm far too busy doing my own stuff and neglecting real life to be bothered...
A friend of mine has kids, hes in his mid 20s. We were talking about censorship and he said TV should be censored because his kids watch it. Use the V-chip I said. Whats a V-chip he asked. I don't even have kids, and I had to tell him what it was. I bet he still doesn't use it...
In a few years its going to be a lot harder for kids to get away with stuff. No more jumping out your bedroom window, etc. Get ready for a generation of sheltered kids. We can call them Generation S, or maybe Generation P.
Generation S & Generation P - Copyright mastershake_phd 2007
Its McCarthyism all over again, report your friends, family, and neighbors to the Un-American Activities Committee if you see anything suspicious!
And I'm sure this is just as effective as McCarthyism was. We don't have the man power or money to monitor roughly.25% of the population. At $750 per month for a wiretap thats $566 million per month if we were to wiretap all these people.
Logical error. The government does not pass laws that violate the commerce clause if the Supreme court says they don't. That's how our government works.
Growing pot in your backyard is interstate commerce? When the federal government tells your state it needs to change a law or they will withhold federal funding, thats interstate commerce?
Sure their interpretation of the constitution is the law, but I suspect that those lap dogs are intentionally and knowingly subverting the constitution. Politics should be no consideration of the supreme court. The constitution is the law, it is not a list of suggestions.
While the federal government routinely, and with the blessing of the Supreme court, passes laws that blatantly violate the commerce clause I would think CO2 emissions are clearly interstate commerce making this suit baseless.
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No one wants to work with -- or work on -- some shambling, bloated monster of a program.
Then how do they find people to work on Windows?
I think SETI is really a waste for a completely different reason. And it's basically this: what should we do if we actually did find life out there?
Watch alien TV?
But...but...think of the Children! As Stephen Colbert said "Live Free or Do Whatever It Takes So I Don't Die"
Back onto the radio front, we have Voyager 1 which is 15 billion miles away, proven with radio, that would seem good enough for me.
Yeah, but what's the data rate?
14.4?
Isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black?
Ya but does it run Vista?
(no worries about battery memory)
I thought battery memory was a myth.
Wouldn't these new battlefield wireless networks give off a radio signal? Couldn't someone with the right equipment then deduce the position of any force using such equipment for a tactical advantage?
Comcast getting fined is the kind of thing that needs to happen. Normally I'm against FCC fines, Howard Stern gets fined for saying the same thing Oprah does. Here, like Oprah I doubt the FCC will pursue this.
"The Tsar Bomba qualifies as the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity." Except for, say, the aforementioned sun, which human beings have been regularly "utilizing" ever since we first decided it might be a good idea for our bodies to process some Vitamin D.
Well that, and I like to be above absolute zero...
The Senate is going concerned about bitorrent? Im surprised they understand the implications, or care about them..
Man this thing might cheer you up for a little while, but the novelty will quickly wear off, especially after you realize how much money you spent on your robot co-pilot.
Maybe there is merit in tagging all children. Millions of children go missing every year around the world, around 800000 do so in the US alone (http://www.usd.edu/~mcarroll/missing_children_statistics.htm).
From your source " 876,213 missing persons (adults and juveniles) were entered into the FBI's NCIC during the year 2000."
Most of the kids who are reported missing are found obviously, and tagging them would help find them faster. But, out of all those missing children very few are taken by strangers every year in the USA, 115 child abductions in 1999.
PDF Warning: http://www.missingkids.com/en_US/documents/nismart2_nonfamily.pdf
You're forgetting economies of scale. The cost of a wiretap is determined by the cost of the program divided by the number of wiretaps. If the cost grows marginally while the number of taps grows exponentially, it can be affordable to tap everyone. The more we wiretap, the cheaper it becomes. It's a win-win!
I think I detected some sarcasm there, but just in case, that $750/month for each tap is what comcast charges for wiretaps.
Comcast, which is among the nation's largest telecommunication companies, charges $1,000 to install a FISA wiretap and $750 for each additional month
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/22/129207
Meh. By then parents will be so busy doing their own stuff and generally neglecting their children that there won't be anyone to watch the monitors, so it all cancels out in the end.
Oh, wait, that already happened, you say?
Well then by all means tag the little bastards. And someone make me a device that yells "Get off my lawn!" whenever kids get close...I'm far too busy doing my own stuff and neglecting real life to be bothered...
A friend of mine has kids, hes in his mid 20s. We were talking about censorship and he said TV should be censored because his kids watch it. Use the V-chip I said. Whats a V-chip he asked. I don't even have kids, and I had to tell him what it was. I bet he still doesn't use it...
In a few years its going to be a lot harder for kids to get away with stuff. No more jumping out your bedroom window, etc. Get ready for a generation of sheltered kids. We can call them Generation S, or maybe Generation P.
Generation S & Generation P - Copyright mastershake_phd 2007
Its McCarthyism all over again, report your friends, family, and neighbors to the Un-American Activities Committee if you see anything suspicious! And I'm sure this is just as effective as McCarthyism was. We don't have the man power or money to monitor roughly .25% of the population. At $750 per month for a wiretap thats $566 million per month if we were to wiretap all these people.
Theres a sucker born every minute. Actually with 6 billion people in the world these days its probably 10 suckers every minute.
Why won't the rings coalesce into a moon? Isn't that how they say moons and planets form?
The thing I always wondered about these kinds of contests, like the x prize, is doesn't it cost more to build your craft than you win?
Logical error. The government does not pass laws that violate the commerce clause if the Supreme court says they don't. That's how our government works.
Growing pot in your backyard is interstate commerce? When the federal government tells your state it needs to change a law or they will withhold federal funding, thats interstate commerce?
Sure their interpretation of the constitution is the law, but I suspect that those lap dogs are intentionally and knowingly subverting the constitution. Politics should be no consideration of the supreme court. The constitution is the law, it is not a list of suggestions.
While the federal government routinely, and with the blessing of the Supreme court, passes laws that blatantly violate the commerce clause I would think CO2 emissions are clearly interstate commerce making this suit baseless.
can it compete with fiber?
we all remember the iraki embargo in the 90's
I always wondered where that game took place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikari_Warriors
Wouldn't an anti-electron beam crossed with a particle beam create energy?
Not more than was put into it.