Get the job skills and you might have a chance. Of course, you will have to be fluent in whatever non-English language the government running or who chartered the space station or planetary base likes best. Chinese? Indian? Japanese? Maybe even French or German if the EU ESA gets its shit together.
Take all of the above if you want to cover all the basis. While there might be too many CS or other science/technology degrees for the job market, resumes of multi-lingual Americans might get you into a lot more interviews while you want for somebody to get it together in terms of space industrialization.
Finally, we can get rid of all those terrorists, child porn mongers, spammers, communists, hate groups, spyware writers, homosexuals, political dissentors, darwinists, gamblers, sex-ed supporters, atheists, blue-staters, teenagers, abortionists, people who confuse decent Americans by engaging in satire and especially those people who question electronic voting. Finally we'll fix the internet and make it safe for all the little children and honest hard-working Americans out there. Heck, we've already got an FCC all set up, we can just put Michael Powell in charge.
Personally, that's a Red State dream I'd like to see come to pass.
From a safe distance. [note: there may not be one for residents of this planet]
WMDs would be overzealous, since most spam hosts are physically surrounded by companies who not only don't do soam, but are spam victims like the rest of us.
If your site shares a network with a spammer, time to complain to your feed site. Anyone who puts their customers at risk by tolerating known spammers on their network deserves to lose business or to get sued by their customers. (something along the lines of tolerating a public nuisance which is interfering with your business, I suppose)
SSL is encryption, too. Forbid encryption and that lock icon gets broken on every site in compliance with the law.
But there are plenty of outcomes short of that which can interfere with our civil liberties. And more importantly, our ability to do business. You want to send NDA information in plain text over the Net, you go right ahead.
"Mummy," that is pounded ancient Egyptian, is, I believe, a pigment much used by artists, and especially by those of them who direct their talents to the reproduction of the works of the old masters.--Editor.
and/or we are going to need consumers for the output of all those robotic / nanotech assembly lines. Most automated assembly systems need a certain minimum output volume to work economically. Perhaps the people who aren't capable of acquiring academic skills will suffice.
and/or we run out of oil, we discover that the alternatives to oil never got funded to the usable point, and dumb or smart, we all go into the shitter together and someday, our bodies become the cheap fossil fuel oil for the next intelligent species a few megayears from now. A scenario for those who like happy endings.
Diesel fuel has an energy density of 1,058 kBtu/cu.ft. Biodiesel has an energy density of 950 kBtu/cu.ft, and hydrogen stored at 3,626 psi (250 times atmospheric pressure) only has an energy density of 68 kBtu/cu.ft.4 So, highly pressurized to 250 atmospheres, hydrogen's volumetric energy density is only 7.2% of that of biodiesel. The result being that with similar efficiencies of converting that stored chemical energy into motion (as diesel engines and fuel cells have), a hydrogen vehicle would need a fuel tank roughly 14 times as large to yield the same driving range as a biodiesel powered vehicle. To get a 1,000 mile range, a tractor trailer running on diesel needs to store 168 gallons of diesel fuel. When biodiesel's slightly lower energy density and the greater efficiency of the engine running on biodiesel are taken into account, it would need roughly 175 gallons of biodiesel for the same range. But, to run on hydrogen stored at 250 atmospheres, to get the same range would require 2,360 gallons of hydrogen. Dedicating that much space to fuel storage would drastically reduce how much cargo trucks could carry. Additionally, the cost of the high pressure, corrosion resistant storage tanks to carry that much fuel is astronomical.
For information on better energy alternatives, check the above URL or the one in my sig.
It's already usable in FC2, with issues. I'd very much like o find that FC3 makes them go away. The following is in case it doesn't.
I've got a Lexmark printer, USB mass storage camera, and LIDE30 scanner running. I have to unplog and replug my scanner (hotplug problem) so I can run xsane as an ordinery user. Once I've done that, the scanner is recognized immediately. Start xsane and it comes right up. A camera whose name and model is in gphoto or something like that should be picked up immediately.
To get the generic mass storage camera connected (I've got an Aiptex DV3100 supertoy), go http://cyberelk.net/tim/usb-storage.html. You can probably start at Step 4 if you know your camera is doing something (e.g. showing memory access) when plugged into the USB bus.
In the presence of superior technology, of which the blimp-to-orbit project is an example, building an Earth Space Elevator as an example of dangerous novelty doesn't make any sense.
Space-going blimps can't get closer to any planet without at least a thin atmosphere than a parking orbit.
Cheap bidirectional traffic to the Moon is the key to industrialization and colonization of the Moon. Which is the only way we're likely to be able to get jobs or live there.
Safety considerations aren't as hard to deal with where the population dessity that can be affected by chunks of an Elevator and its payload landing on their heads is vanishingly close to zero. Earlier generations of nanotube technology will produce the less strong cables required to build these initial efforts.
This is worth doing, and using the launch techology mentioned above to deliver it to lunar parking orbit, perhaps a lot less expensive than previous cost estimates based on heavy-lift booster rocket launches from Earth.
Why yes, I know that! It's exactly my point! Windows handles it better. Sorry, but it's true. Have a nice day.
Having the installer barf if it needs a.DLL that isn't already installed and isn't bundled in the package is better? Than what?
I prefer something that'll search repository sites for the right library parts like apt-get and yum.
The only thing wrong with the automated installers is that only a limited number of apps, mostly system updates are available this way. If the last step of any Open Source development team in a release after making binaries was to get the required info onto apt-get/yum/etc. installer repositories, the only people who would be unhappy with Linux installation would all be working for Microsoft.
While the upgrade to support W2000 is either already out or should be out Real Soon Now, I'm pretty unmotivated about upgrading my Windows window to W2000, and the capability of running iTunes isn't enough to change my mind. I've already paid MS tax more times than I really wanted to.
From my POV, I'm running Windows on my Linux box to give me an early start on running Linux full time, and I'm trying to reduce the number of Linux apps I run as time goes on, not increase them.
Hopefully, the Open Source Community or proprietary Linux vendors will assist me in doing so by providing the Linux apps I need.
I agree completely. However, I was comparing functionality, not technology. By and large, Win4Lin Just Works. WINE/Codeweavers runs on the apps it's tuned for and that's about it. I understand WINE/Codeweavers work well on the apps they're tuned for... but the ones I need most don't run in it so when I looked for a Windows Linux environment, I decided to go on looking right after I found this out at the Codeweavers supported apps list.
disclaimer: I am not an employee of Netraverse or any of its contractors. Just a satisfied customer, though I did sell an article on how to convert a Windows workstation to a Linux workstation with no loss in fuctionality running legacy Win apps in Win4Lin a few months ago.
An RFID is simply a passive transponder on a chip attached to an antenna printed on the tag which uses the RF energy from a reader to activate a low-powered microtransmitter which is modulated by a fixed numeric value from factory-programmed ROM, which is demodulated by the reader. Everything else is database stuff based on the numeric string on the tags.
Why not simply build a low-power transponder capable of returning any value or set of values desired to allow spoofing school RFID readers? It doesn't *have* to be on a single chip, this is something that can be assembled from Radio Shack parts. You don't know electronics? LEARN. If your school has electronics classes, perhaps you should sign up for some and actually show up for them.
For entertainment value, a programmable transponder can be placed near one of the school readers. It might be possible to override signals from real cards, inject signals from tags that only exist virtually within the unofficial programmable transponder. Of course, similar effects can be achieved by playing with the database. In some places, you might access the database. In others where there's no data access, the transponder is a better solution.
The specs for RFID and description of how RFID tags work are publically available. Google and your favorite PDF reader are your friends. Anyone who knows RF and digital electronics should be up to building the transponder, but somebody may be way ahead of me and already have done this and published the plans.
If you're a student, don't bother protesting. There's no point on getting on a "subversives" list this early in life. Your school authorities don't care what you think and they don't care what your parents think unless they've got a lawyer or a political organization behind them. Welcome to the surveillance society.
"Codeweaver's Crossover 4.0 Adds iTunes Support", I'm very, very glad that I'm running Win4Lin instead as a Windows environment for Linux. (in my case, FC2)
In Win4Lin, it's a surprise when applications don't run.
I think I'll go download iTunes for Windows something soon.
Although the problems you listed are important the environment is the biggest problem the entire world is facing right now. I don't need to go over
I'd say that the energy crisis is, with the environment being a subset of it with world terrorism being another subset.
If we start growing oil (carbon-neutral) instead of buying it from the Middle East, the oil monarchies/theocracies suddenly run out of money to finance the schools that condition kids to provide the cannon fodder for terrorism in order to distract them from asking questions like "where are all these hundreds of billions the West is paying for oil going?" as they look around their Third World shitholes. We also stop dumping excess CO2 into the atmosphere as the CO2 is taken from the atmosphere.
That blimp to orbit project discussed here earlier suggests strongly that it wouldn't take a whole lot of money (relatively speaking) to make shipping the components to orbit for the Space Power Satellite the Bush Administration killed. (Remember the scramjet demo in the news? That's the last flight, Bush defunded it, too.) While there's plenty of coal, IMHO, "clean coal" is an oxymoron. Even if the ordinary pollutants can be scrubbed, the CO2 is a far more intractable problem. I've seen proposals to pump the CO2 from power plants into the seabed.
For more info on answers to the problem, click here
Needless to say Kerry would have been much better then Bush when it comes to the environment.
Only in that he wouldn't be actively trying to make things worse. Anybody who uses the words "HYDROGEN ECONOMY" with a straight face is automatically proclaiming his cluelessness. I read the Kerry and Democratic Party web pages and white papers on energy. Depressing.
When I installed FC2, I first backed up my Windows drive to a mirror Windows drive, installed Linux to a separate drive, after unplugging the Windows drive first.
Paranoid, perhaps, but it paid off when my FC2 install got hosed and again when I installed Win4Lin/Windows in the Linux filesystem. I use an rsync script to back up to a mirror Linux drive.
It's hard for me to sympathise with anybody who dual-boots to partitions on the same hard drive, meaning that it should be obvious that a screwup on either partition can hose the whole HD and nuke any unbacked up information. One's last few years of work, for instance.
Slashdot Mirror
And it's relatively easy to check, too. ,p>If the checksums don't match, Q.E.D.
You should be able to get all or most of them out of here. Javascript conversions, just fill in the blank and push the button.
Are you one of them Red Staters?
Take all of the above if you want to cover all the basis. While there might be too many CS or other science/technology degrees for the job market, resumes of multi-lingual Americans might get you into a lot more interviews while you want for somebody to get it together in terms of space industrialization.
Yes. Look into the history of the Roman Games for examples.
Personally, that's a Red State dream I'd like to see come to pass.
From a safe distance. [note: there may not be one for residents of this planet]
If your site shares a network with a spammer, time to complain to your feed site. Anyone who puts their customers at risk by tolerating known spammers on their network deserves to lose business or to get sued by their customers. (something along the lines of tolerating a public nuisance which is interfering with your business, I suppose)
SSL is encryption, too. Forbid encryption and that lock icon gets broken on every site in compliance with the law.
But there are plenty of outcomes short of that which can interfere with our civil liberties. And more importantly, our ability to do business. You want to send NDA information in plain text over the Net, you go right ahead.
From "She", by H. Rider Haggard
and/or we are going to need consumers for the output of all those robotic / nanotech assembly lines. Most automated assembly systems need a certain minimum output volume to work economically. Perhaps the people who aren't capable of acquiring academic skills will suffice.
and/or we run out of oil, we discover that the alternatives to oil never got funded to the usable point, and dumb or smart, we all go into the shitter together and someday, our bodies become the cheap fossil fuel oil for the next intelligent species a few megayears from now. A scenario for those who like happy endings.
What's controversial about killing vermin who have forfeited the right to be considered human by their actions?
That's all killing spammers means.
From the biodiesel page at the University of New Hampshire:
For information on better energy alternatives, check the above URL or the one in my sig.
I've got a Lexmark printer, USB mass storage camera, and LIDE30 scanner running. I have to unplog and replug my scanner (hotplug problem) so I can run xsane as an ordinery user. Once I've done that, the scanner is recognized immediately. Start xsane and it comes right up. A camera whose name and model is in gphoto or something like that should be picked up immediately.
To get the generic mass storage camera connected (I've got an Aiptex DV3100 supertoy), go http://cyberelk.net/tim/usb-storage.html. You can probably start at Step 4 if you know your camera is doing something (e.g. showing memory access) when plugged into the USB bus.
Space-going blimps can't get closer to any planet without at least a thin atmosphere than a parking orbit.
Cheap bidirectional traffic to the Moon is the key to industrialization and colonization of the Moon. Which is the only way we're likely to be able to get jobs or live there.
Safety considerations aren't as hard to deal with where the population dessity that can be affected by chunks of an Elevator and its payload landing on their heads is vanishingly close to zero. Earlier generations of nanotube technology will produce the less strong cables required to build these initial efforts.
This is worth doing, and using the launch techology mentioned above to deliver it to lunar parking orbit, perhaps a lot less expensive than previous cost estimates based on heavy-lift booster rocket launches from Earth.
look for djvu .
Having the installer barf if it needs a .DLL that isn't already installed and isn't bundled in the package is better? Than what?
I prefer something that'll search repository sites for the right library parts like apt-get and yum.
The only thing wrong with the automated installers is that only a limited number of apps, mostly system updates are available this way. If the last step of any Open Source development team in a release after making binaries was to get the required info onto apt-get/yum/etc. installer repositories, the only people who would be unhappy with Linux installation would all be working for Microsoft.
From my POV, I'm running Windows on my Linux box to give me an early start on running Linux full time, and I'm trying to reduce the number of Linux apps I run as time goes on, not increase them.
Hopefully, the Open Source Community or proprietary Linux vendors will assist me in doing so by providing the Linux apps I need.
disclaimer: I am not an employee of Netraverse or any of its contractors. Just a satisfied customer, though I did sell an article on how to convert a Windows workstation to a Linux workstation with no loss in fuctionality running legacy Win apps in Win4Lin a few months ago.
Why not simply build a low-power transponder capable of returning any value or set of values desired to allow spoofing school RFID readers? It doesn't *have* to be on a single chip, this is something that can be assembled from Radio Shack parts. You don't know electronics? LEARN. If your school has electronics classes, perhaps you should sign up for some and actually show up for them.
For entertainment value, a programmable transponder can be placed near one of the school readers. It might be possible to override signals from real cards, inject signals from tags that only exist virtually within the unofficial programmable transponder. Of course, similar effects can be achieved by playing with the database. In some places, you might access the database. In others where there's no data access, the transponder is a better solution.
The specs for RFID and description of how RFID tags work are publically available. Google and your favorite PDF reader are your friends. Anyone who knows RF and digital electronics should be up to building the transponder, but somebody may be way ahead of me and already have done this and published the plans.
If you're a student, don't bother protesting. There's no point on getting on a "subversives" list this early in life. Your school authorities don't care what you think and they don't care what your parents think unless they've got a lawyer or a political organization behind them. Welcome to the surveillance society.
In Win4Lin, it's a surprise when applications don't run.
I think I'll go download iTunes for Windows something soon.
Anybody tried iTunes/Win on VMWare yet?
I'd say that the energy crisis is, with the environment being a subset of it with world terrorism being another subset.
If we start growing oil (carbon-neutral) instead of buying it from the Middle East, the oil monarchies/theocracies suddenly run out of money to finance the schools that condition kids to provide the cannon fodder for terrorism in order to distract them from asking questions like "where are all these hundreds of billions the West is paying for oil going?" as they look around their Third World shitholes. We also stop dumping excess CO2 into the atmosphere as the CO2 is taken from the atmosphere.
That blimp to orbit project discussed here earlier suggests strongly that it wouldn't take a whole lot of money (relatively speaking) to make shipping the components to orbit for the Space Power Satellite the Bush Administration killed. (Remember the scramjet demo in the news? That's the last flight, Bush defunded it, too.) While there's plenty of coal, IMHO, "clean coal" is an oxymoron. Even if the ordinary pollutants can be scrubbed, the CO2 is a far more intractable problem. I've seen proposals to pump the CO2 from power plants into the seabed.
For more info on answers to the problem, click here
Needless to say Kerry would have been much better then Bush when it comes to the environment.
Only in that he wouldn't be actively trying to make things worse. Anybody who uses the words "HYDROGEN ECONOMY" with a straight face is automatically proclaiming his cluelessness. I read the Kerry and Democratic Party web pages and white papers on energy. Depressing.
I've got 22 sub-windows open in Opera 7.54 (Linux) right now and a UI which I customized via drag-and-drop.
Going back to Mozilla would be like trading in a hot motorcycle to a horse and buggy.
Not if you're running it on Linux. Works great. (Fedora Core 2).
Paranoid, perhaps, but it paid off when my FC2 install got hosed and again when I installed Win4Lin/Windows in the Linux filesystem. I use an rsync script to back up to a mirror Linux drive.
It's hard for me to sympathise with anybody who dual-boots to partitions on the same hard drive, meaning that it should be obvious that a screwup on either partition can hose the whole HD and nuke any unbacked up information. One's last few years of work, for instance.
are the reason most software sucks. Proud ot that?