The most important item in the economic equation of a nuclear plant are the capital costs.
Well, capital costs have to be seen in the context of timelines. Insanely long approval times between the financing and the confirmation of ROI are the real problem. Who wants their money tied up for years before they know they'll get something back?
It's actually the Mars elevator that'll be the real enabler. Once you've built that, fuel, reaction mass, shielding (water) can all be bot-mined on Mars so the cost in LEO will plummet. And of course the Mars elevator is a much easier materials challenge than the Earth elevator, once you figure out how to get bots to build it all. But by then of course, our new robotic overlords won't want us escaping Earth...
I'm no potty expert, but I thought that water that is output from a toilet is called black water, water collected from the bathtub, and kitchen are called grey water, and what they are actually using is called treated water.
Right. And the connection coming from the toilet is. . . .
. . .
. . .
the potty line.
Actually, making them at all is a felony, unless you copy it at least 150% of the original size or at most 75% of the original size and only in black and white.
Right. So if we copy them on extra-large bits it's legal?
...every few years anyhow. Last time I looked, they don't often cause mass casualties. Of course we might have a minor problem with slashdotters emerging from mom's basement, but that's happended before too.
What FSF is worried about is (I think) that we could end up having standards we must pay for when using them
That's not even the half of it. The big worry is standards that must be used by law, are not open for all to develop (spelled F-I-X), and which force the use of someone's proprietary IP, thus shoehorning defective (and obscured) backdoors into every "compliant" product.
One optimization problem I work on, Basis Pursuit Denoising , has had on the order of a 10-fold increase in real-world speed on constant hardware every year for the past 5 years
Great, so how about making OCR on noisy scans work next? The archive.org desperately needs something that works....
Don't blame the US courts, or even the cloud providers.
Blame the lazy sods who thought outsourcing security to a single cloud provider sounded like less work than doing it inhouse.
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The most important item in the economic equation of a nuclear plant are the capital costs.
Well, capital costs have to be seen in the context of timelines. Insanely long approval times between the financing and the confirmation of ROI are the real problem. Who wants their money tied up for years before they know they'll get something back?
It's actually the Mars elevator that'll be the real enabler. Once you've built that, fuel, reaction mass, shielding (water) can all be bot-mined on Mars so the cost in LEO will plummet. And of course the Mars elevator is a much easier materials challenge than the Earth elevator, once you figure out how to get bots to build it all. But by then of course, our new robotic overlords won't want us escaping Earth...
See what the Colbert Report has to say about this tonight...
I'm no potty expert, but I thought that water that is output from a toilet is called black water, water collected from the bathtub, and kitchen are called grey water, and what they are actually using is called treated water.
Right. And the connection coming from the toilet is. . . . . . . . . . the potty line.
Actually, making them at all is a felony, unless you copy it at least 150% of the original size or at most 75% of the original size and only in black and white.
Right. So if we copy them on extra-large bits it's legal?
is Foxconn shipping them yet?
...when I damn well say so. Pass the brains.
...can it make roads that don't self destruct every winter?
If you warp a drive to destroy data, isn't it just easier to wipe it with thermite?
If you'd properly encrypted the drive to begin with, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Now shut up and pass the ammunition.
...every few years anyhow. Last time I looked, they don't often cause mass casualties. Of course we might have a minor problem with slashdotters emerging from mom's basement, but that's happended before too.
Who would say? A white hat wants it contained until a countermeasure is available. A black hat wants the competitive advantage.
So that's who stole my cheese!
What FSF is worried about is (I think) that we could end up having standards we must pay for when using them
That's not even the half of it. The big worry is standards that must be used by law, are not open for all to develop (spelled F-I-X), and which force the use of someone's proprietary IP, thus shoehorning defective (and obscured) backdoors into every "compliant" product.
"Caution, lasers in mirror are closer than they appear."
I suppose. I just wish /. would clarify WTF they're looking for in a "good" post
Ok, I filed the story on /. way earlier than this version and it got ignored. http://slashdot.org/submission/1937273/global-ice-loss-quantified-from-grace-sat-data
So what did I do wrong?
Coming soon to a newsfeed near you: "A nano-island is one one-billionth of an island."
I'll bite. Just what is the terminal velocity of a steel I-beam?
How did that bug get introduced into Firefox 9 anyway?
Someone on the interwebs typed it?
that science is failing us? Define success...?
Sure, right after you define "is".
One optimization problem I work on, Basis Pursuit Denoising , has had on the order of a 10-fold increase in real-world speed on constant hardware every year for the past 5 years
Great, so how about making OCR on noisy scans work next? The archive.org desperately needs something that works....
Arrogance kills. That's hardly news. See http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15436462W/The_checklist_manifesto for discussion.
Don't blame the US courts, or even the cloud providers. Blame the lazy sods who thought outsourcing security to a single cloud provider sounded like less work than doing it inhouse.
Someone mod parent up. That site's amazing!
Well obviously decency and a willingness to risk your own life to make the world a better place can skip a few generations.
It's pretty obvious why that gene would be recessive. Oh, wait, ... did MLK believe in evolution?