After all, what maker of baby food or children's movies, for example, would want to have sites such as gerber.xxx or disney.xxx floating around the Internet?
They could spin it advantageously in the end...somehow.
They accepted the risks when they engaged in the covert operations to begin with. People who uncover secrets are not responsible for deaths -- killers are.
This sounds promising for backhauls. I don't see it improving last-mile thoroughput, however, since practically nobody has optical fiber going to their house.
That depends on your definition of "not too bad". The blowout has likely already killed more organisms than all nuclear power accidents combined, and I bet the press will still give it lukewarm coverage, if any at all.
From my cursory understanding of space elevators, the section in geostationary orbit will have the most tension (and subsequently the most cross-sectional area for handling that tension), and the center of mass will be at geostationary orbit, which possibly involves a tether going down to Earth and something else of equal mass in high Earth orbit. Presumably, the weight of the lower end will be canceled by the centrifugal force of the upper end.
Armed revolt is messy, indiscriminate, and has a pitifully high probability of installing authoritarian regimes. I am under no illusion that it would lead to a "better" way of living if I manage to survive it. Contrary to what fearmongers would have you think, the United States still has a bit of democracy left, and it is easier to make the public politically active than it is to fight a civil war with no end in sight.
I'm curious what it would take to lead to another revolution. Are the same people who get pissed off about corporate control of government, the same people who would take up arms to stop it? And would a revolution even change anything, if most citizens' eyes just glaze over on any topic like this?
Count me out of an armed revolt. Too much bloodshed, and it creates more problems than it solves.
Let's put it this way: if you were going to spend a few hundred million of your own dollars, wouldn't you want some protection against some yahoo coming along, copying your work, and selling it for less?
If you're looking for protection, several other mechanisms exist. The purpose of patents is to expand public knowledge of inventions.
Since you haven't actually invented anything, it's easy for you to say that patents are crap...Mechanical patents can seem just as ridiculous as software patents, if you bother to read them. Does the patent regime make sense?
If, by ridiculous, you mean an unreadable and useless template for the public to recreate the invention (several software patents are deliberately vague), then it directly contradicts the purpose of a patent in the first place, and it only hurts the public to file one.
Everything on the internet is public data unless you make sure your own data is secured. While I don't feel the need to post anything and everything to social media sites, I certainly wouldn't trust any sensitive information in the hands of others under the guise of "privacy settings".
Take an inductor and run a current through it. Then turn off the current. The voltage across the inductor will increase to whatever voltage is necessary to discharge the magnetic flux. see Lenz's law...
Uninhibited inductive kickback is the last thing I would want hooked up to a computer.
For non-commercial, unencrypted torrents, packet-radio is a (slow) solution. Encrypting and/or distributing commercial information is specifically banned by the FCC on the amateur spectrum.
TFA says that 1-2% of cesium 137 is likely to escape the core in the event of a containment breach, unlike 60% in previous estimates (Most of it dissolves in stagnant water or is deposited on the containment vessel surface). People living in a 10-mile radius would have enough time to evacuate, and cancer estimates within 10 miles went from 1 in 167 previously to 1 in 4348. A rainstorm happening during the meltdown can cause a higher dose to accumulate in small areas.
Taking the long-term view of the treasury and calling it a "crisis", we seem to have a revenue crisis, where all income brackets in this country are being taxed at historic lows (especially, and most significantly the wealthy). It doesn't take an economics course to realize that if a country keeps on reducing its income, it will eventually have trouble paying for its obligations.
These programs, these unconstitutional, Socialist redistributions of wealth...Social Security...
Selective reading of the Constitution at its finest. "Promote the general welfare" is spelled out plain as day, in the same sentence as "provide for the common defense". Social Security has nothing to do with our deficit, and saying so is a malicious lie. Social Security has been running a surplus the whole time its been in operation. Now, the other programs that have nothing to do with Social Security, but borrow from the fund anyway, are making it so it won't be running a surplus in the distant future...
...true American patriots who assembled as the Tea Party...
Most people in this country would disagree with you.
Calling for people who disagree with you to be "flogged" is archaic and whiny, and it doesn't contribute to the discussion in any meaningful way.
I seriously doubt that the Republicans in particular have chosen this particular debt ceiling bill (remaining mostly silent on hundreds before it) to advocate for fiscal responsibility. There is an ulterior motive, and we'll find out what it is afterwards.
It's depressing how the debt ceiling is such a matter of contention right now, when it's been increased without much hullabaloo every six months or so since WWII. The reason for any artificial crisis is for politicians to threaten the public with doom and gloom in order to sneak something past them that the public normally would not accept. With Democrats and Republicans both playing along, what do both parties want to sneak by us? My guess is deep cuts to vital social programs, since the Obama administration started calling them "entitlement programs" at the start of the debate.
The FCC bans encryption over amateur radio frequencies and it's worked out fine. Of course, the FCC also bans commercial traffic over said frequencies, so any argument about "online commerce" is moot in that scenario.
The mascons on the Moon make its gravitational field very "lumpy", which makes it hard to keep anything in lunar orbit for more than a few months. Earth orbit is the most viable option for microgravity research.
It is very depressing that we've practically forgotten how to go back to the Moon, though...
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After all, what maker of baby food or children's movies, for example, would want to have sites such as gerber.xxx or disney.xxx floating around the Internet?
They could spin it advantageously in the end...somehow.
The cat's out of the bag. People will still read these, despite your baseless FUD.
They accepted the risks when they engaged in the covert operations to begin with. People who uncover secrets are not responsible for deaths -- killers are.
This sounds promising for backhauls. I don't see it improving last-mile thoroughput, however, since practically nobody has optical fiber going to their house.
Is there a cheap way to contain hydrogen yet?
That depends on your definition of "not too bad". The blowout has likely already killed more organisms than all nuclear power accidents combined, and I bet the press will still give it lukewarm coverage, if any at all.
These planets are a diamond dozen.
If you want privacy, don't broadcast wireless information over public land. Try turning off your cell phone, it really works.
From my cursory understanding of space elevators, the section in geostationary orbit will have the most tension (and subsequently the most cross-sectional area for handling that tension), and the center of mass will be at geostationary orbit, which possibly involves a tether going down to Earth and something else of equal mass in high Earth orbit. Presumably, the weight of the lower end will be canceled by the centrifugal force of the upper end.
Armed revolt is messy, indiscriminate, and has a pitifully high probability of installing authoritarian regimes. I am under no illusion that it would lead to a "better" way of living if I manage to survive it. Contrary to what fearmongers would have you think, the United States still has a bit of democracy left, and it is easier to make the public politically active than it is to fight a civil war with no end in sight.
I'm curious what it would take to lead to another revolution. Are the same people who get pissed off about corporate control of government, the same people who would take up arms to stop it? And would a revolution even change anything, if most citizens' eyes just glaze over on any topic like this?
Count me out of an armed revolt. Too much bloodshed, and it creates more problems than it solves.
Let's put it this way: if you were going to spend a few hundred million of your own dollars, wouldn't you want some protection against some yahoo coming along, copying your work, and selling it for less?
If you're looking for protection, several other mechanisms exist. The purpose of patents is to expand public knowledge of inventions.
Since you haven't actually invented anything, it's easy for you to say that patents are crap...Mechanical patents can seem just as ridiculous as software patents, if you bother to read them. Does the patent regime make sense?
If, by ridiculous, you mean an unreadable and useless template for the public to recreate the invention (several software patents are deliberately vague), then it directly contradicts the purpose of a patent in the first place, and it only hurts the public to file one.
A regular on Slashdot too, I see ;)
Everything on the internet is public data unless you make sure your own data is secured. While I don't feel the need to post anything and everything to social media sites, I certainly wouldn't trust any sensitive information in the hands of others under the guise of "privacy settings".
Take an inductor and run a current through it. Then turn off the current. The voltage across the inductor will increase to whatever voltage is necessary to discharge the magnetic flux. see Lenz's law...
Uninhibited inductive kickback is the last thing I would want hooked up to a computer.
Fortunately, charged particles (the stuff you worry about in a solar flare) travel slower than the speed of light.
For non-commercial, unencrypted torrents, packet-radio is a (slow) solution. Encrypting and/or distributing commercial information is specifically banned by the FCC on the amateur spectrum.
google car that crashed the other day
A person was driving that when it crashed. No robot apocalypse here, move along.
A vulnerability we should have to deal with no longer!
Sincerely,
The Year of Linux on the residential exterior
TFA says that 1-2% of cesium 137 is likely to escape the core in the event of a containment breach, unlike 60% in previous estimates (Most of it dissolves in stagnant water or is deposited on the containment vessel surface). People living in a 10-mile radius would have enough time to evacuate, and cancer estimates within 10 miles went from 1 in 167 previously to 1 in 4348. A rainstorm happening during the meltdown can cause a higher dose to accumulate in small areas.
Where to start...
We have spending crisis
Taking the long-term view of the treasury and calling it a "crisis", we seem to have a revenue crisis, where all income brackets in this country are being taxed at historic lows (especially, and most significantly the wealthy). It doesn't take an economics course to realize that if a country keeps on reducing its income, it will eventually have trouble paying for its obligations.
These programs, these unconstitutional, Socialist redistributions of wealth...Social Security...
Selective reading of the Constitution at its finest. "Promote the general welfare" is spelled out plain as day, in the same sentence as "provide for the common defense". Social Security has nothing to do with our deficit, and saying so is a malicious lie. Social Security has been running a surplus the whole time its been in operation. Now, the other programs that have nothing to do with Social Security, but borrow from the fund anyway, are making it so it won't be running a surplus in the distant future...
...true American patriots who assembled as the Tea Party...
Most people in this country would disagree with you.
Calling for people who disagree with you to be "flogged" is archaic and whiny, and it doesn't contribute to the discussion in any meaningful way.
I seriously doubt that the Republicans in particular have chosen this particular debt ceiling bill (remaining mostly silent on hundreds before it) to advocate for fiscal responsibility. There is an ulterior motive, and we'll find out what it is afterwards.
It's depressing how the debt ceiling is such a matter of contention right now, when it's been increased without much hullabaloo every six months or so since WWII. The reason for any artificial crisis is for politicians to threaten the public with doom and gloom in order to sneak something past them that the public normally would not accept. With Democrats and Republicans both playing along, what do both parties want to sneak by us? My guess is deep cuts to vital social programs, since the Obama administration started calling them "entitlement programs" at the start of the debate.
The FCC bans encryption over amateur radio frequencies and it's worked out fine. Of course, the FCC also bans commercial traffic over said frequencies, so any argument about "online commerce" is moot in that scenario.
The mascons on the Moon make its gravitational field very "lumpy", which makes it hard to keep anything in lunar orbit for more than a few months. Earth orbit is the most viable option for microgravity research.
It is very depressing that we've practically forgotten how to go back to the Moon, though...