Quite a large population "guesses that the government does an adequate job"... and anyway, it can't be changed. The government "guesses that the advisors do a good job", and anyway, it can't all be checked, and we're better off with than without them. I guess that my boss is doing a good job, but anyway, I cannot do his job, and I am clueless what he actually does all day. I guess that the news agencies are telling the truth, but anyway, I can't go out to check it all myself. And apparently, the UK government guesses that the IWF's blacklist is a good thing... and anyway, it's already there and its use can't be checked (easily by PM's themselves).
We're all guessing, and the system is easy to hijack. And we're all convinced that it cannot be changed, and therefore we're stuck.
Why is that ironic? Big projects are a direct result from a centralized bureaucracy with a billion people that can do the work. Their space project is nothing compared to other infrastructure projects they have.
Specialist tasks are, pretty much by default, more expensive in our current capitalist system with companies having more power than the governments. The chinese work cheaper and are faster at taking decisions. And their government does have the power to tell a company that "they will do this-and-this task for this budget, with NO option to spend more money" (whereas NASA and ESA always seem to exceed the budget).
Face it, the Chinese will rule space if Western countries don't step it up.
The problem isn't the British politicians. The EU is much too big for them to be threatening us with their paranoid laws.
The problem is that in the EU, you're not sure that they won't listen. There are other idiots, from other countries, who might think the same. The model of the police state might be more wide spread than you think. This is the issue. We do not know what the program of the European Government is.
Why is this cute and interesting when done by a group of European amateurs and a global threat when done in North Korea?
Inexplicably, the European amateurs don't have a nuclear warhead development programme.
That's because European governments already have had nuclear programmes and indeed warheads for the last 50 years.
We DO have *several* nuclear programmes in Europe... who else made those two nuclear submarines carrying ballistic missiles that collided in the Atlantic a couple of weeks ago? (Perhaps the Americans did, I'm not sure).
The reason why this is cute is that the Danish army doesn't need these rockets, since they probably already have decent rockets that can do the job, and if not, then surely the French, English, Italian (etc) allies.
You can bet that the moment that these rockets become better than anything the army has, the "cuteness" is gone, and it will be classified, forbidden and of interest to the generals.
The issue seems: 1. that the system can possibly be tricked, meaning you'll have conflicting data 2. Possible dangers (you walk into the building, but forget to register - a fire breaks out and nobody comes to search for you because the system says you're not there) 3. that it might not be necessary to have the system in the first place - people are pretty good at face recognition last time I checked
There is no privacy in school anyway, with teachers watching you all the time... so this is no concern at all.
Even with 1000 students, teachers will personally know the pupils soon enough.
When I was still in school, and you didn't show up, the teachers found out soon enough. The system seemed unbeatable.
You might be able to fool a computer, but people (teachers) are very good at finding out who is in class, and who is not. Also, people are better at face recognition than any computer.
ESP, in my field, is an Electrostatic precipitator. I'm pretty sure that Microsoft isn't working on cleaning up exhaust gases though. I guess it is the "Microsoft ESP - A visual simulation package produced by Microsoft", as found at the bottom of the 3rd (!) list of ESP-abbreviations on wikipedia.
Thanks. It takes only a few characters to actually spell it out, and explain it, but it takes a minute to google it.
Do you think we can get sued for that? *starts looking for a lawyer and holds on to his dead skin cells for a while longer*
Though I'm no expert, I do believe that worlds can pollute each other. Life is so incredibly contagious. Only one cell, or one bio molecule needs to survive. All kinds of events might blow some into the atmosphere and higher. Crashing asteroids and volcanoes might blast stuff into orbit.
A source (link to scientific article?) would still be nice though.
And if you're not so awesome, you pay for the game, and also for the popular guys subscription as well. Awesome lol. The only one getting better from this is the guy owning the big server (and possibly the researchers who might sell this investigation for quite a bit of money, if they ever figure it out).
I'd be more worried about such massive amounts of data being shared for commercial purposes. Hopefully still anonymous, but the word "privacy" or "anonymous" isn't even mentioned in the article.
One big satellite has relatively little drag-to-weight ratio. Many small pieces have a much larger drag-to-weight ratio because the surface area has greatly increased, but the total mass is still the same.
therefore, it will come down faster than when there was no crash. In any case, within the foreseeable future.
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Well... that's then my question: Does such a network use the same plugs, and systems so that anyone who actually is able to break into the building can also access the network? Are such important networks using wifi, or normal utp cable networks, so that anyone who can break in can access the network? (I'm ignoring the whole encryption here, just wondering if it's physically possible to even send one byte of data to such a network without having to use a megaton EMP device)?
I mean, breaking into a building isn't hard, you just have to steal the keys... which is also what hacking comes down to.
The first youtube comment that I saw was: "can she download porn?"...which seems like a totally normal youtube comment to me (sadly).
And then the next few were quite critical and written in correct English, which is actually more worrying, considering the average quality of youtube comments. Something is going on here!
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I'm assuming that the operation of the air traffic control system is not connected to the internet in ANY way at all?
Some questions: 1. Is being offline a guarantee for not being hacked? (How else than through the cable / wifi can you hack into a network)? 2. Is the FAA indeed offline?
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Silverlight? In the age of Youtube, how hard can it be to share a movie? Why do I have to download a program first? Sorry, but that hasn't happened to me since Youtube was invented... oh, yeah, Youtube and google is the big competition isn't it?:D
Using facebook, twitter and all that crap, we practially give away our privacy... so why blame the government for just downloading what is publicly available?
We all notice what is going on. And we all care... for about 5 seconds. And then we're distracted again.
I'm sure I care about my privacy... but I just don't spend enough time on it to really get involved in any revolt against the police state. Unless you can really revolt using twitter or facebook. I fear that a proper revolt is still done with barricades and burning trashcans, not with facebook and blogging.
So, will there be an end to the loss of privacy? Will people care? Yes. Will they do something about it? Not a chance.
Somebody once created a complete level of our faculty building for a 1st person shooter, and we got to play it in the computer room (really play the game, not fire drill, with 30+ people). It was awesome...
But most impressive was that I actually got lost really easily in the game, whereas I never got lost in reality.
Strange times. There was a time when remarks such as above would be called "racism". In 2009, you can claim that over a billion people support "really imperialist expansionist murderous ideology" that causes "constant massacres".
As if the western democracies never drop the odd cluster bomb, or as if Russians don't do any bad.
It's just a matter of propaganda... and the writer above is a scary brainwashed individual... and if there would be a button for it, I'd have reported it as unacceptable language.
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Quite a large population "guesses that the government does an adequate job"... and anyway, it can't be changed.
The government "guesses that the advisors do a good job", and anyway, it can't all be checked, and we're better off with than without them.
I guess that my boss is doing a good job, but anyway, I cannot do his job, and I am clueless what he actually does all day.
I guess that the news agencies are telling the truth, but anyway, I can't go out to check it all myself.
And apparently, the UK government guesses that the IWF's blacklist is a good thing... and anyway, it's already there and its use can't be checked (easily by PM's themselves).
We're all guessing, and the system is easy to hijack. And we're all convinced that it cannot be changed, and therefore we're stuck.
I guess you all knew that already, didn't you?
LOL!!
That's going to be hilarious, if you know my surfing habits. :-)
But more serious, if possible, I'll be blocking this. I don't want anyone to know what I'm reading.
Why is that ironic? Big projects are a direct result from a centralized bureaucracy with a billion people that can do the work. Their space project is nothing compared to other infrastructure projects they have.
Specialist tasks are, pretty much by default, more expensive in our current capitalist system with companies having more power than the governments. The chinese work cheaper and are faster at taking decisions. And their government does have the power to tell a company that "they will do this-and-this task for this budget, with NO option to spend more money" (whereas NASA and ESA always seem to exceed the budget).
Face it, the Chinese will rule space if Western countries don't step it up.
The problem isn't the British politicians. The EU is much too big for them to be threatening us with their paranoid laws.
The problem is that in the EU, you're not sure that they won't listen. There are other idiots, from other countries, who might think the same. The model of the police state might be more wide spread than you think. This is the issue. We do not know what the program of the European Government is.
That's why it's so important to vote in June 2009 for the European Parliament!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_election,_2009
Huh?
I have searched many times for open source games and linux games, and this Freespace doesn't seem to appear in the lists:
http://rangit.com/software/top-8-linux-games-of-2007/
http://www.linuxgames.com/
And many more sites like that...
Some people don't remember, but even more people might never have heard of it.
Why is this cute and interesting when done by a group of European amateurs and a global threat when done in North Korea?
Inexplicably, the European amateurs don't have a nuclear warhead development programme.
That's because European governments already have had nuclear programmes and indeed warheads for the last 50 years.
We DO have *several* nuclear programmes in Europe... who else made those two nuclear submarines carrying ballistic missiles that collided in the Atlantic a couple of weeks ago? (Perhaps the Americans did, I'm not sure).
The reason why this is cute is that the Danish army doesn't need these rockets, since they probably already have decent rockets that can do the job, and if not, then surely the French, English, Italian (etc) allies.
You can bet that the moment that these rockets become better than anything the army has, the "cuteness" is gone, and it will be classified, forbidden and of interest to the generals.
getting 1.8 million for things you can also find on facebook! :D
The issue seems:
1. that the system can possibly be tricked, meaning you'll have conflicting data
2. Possible dangers (you walk into the building, but forget to register - a fire breaks out and nobody comes to search for you because the system says you're not there)
3. that it might not be necessary to have the system in the first place - people are pretty good at face recognition last time I checked
There is no privacy in school anyway, with teachers watching you all the time... so this is no concern at all.
Even with 1000 students, teachers will personally know the pupils soon enough.
When I was still in school, and you didn't show up, the teachers found out soon enough. The
system seemed unbeatable.
You might be able to fool a computer, but people (teachers) are very good at finding out who is in class, and who is not. Also, people are better at face recognition than any computer.
Are pupils really just a number in that school?
You cannot give a download as a (Christmas) present.
The trouble is that the chance of actually finding what you want in a shop is very small. It's all filled up with mainstream crap.
Well... if you don't know what ESP stands for, then why do you reply?
I reply because I'm getting tired of people expecting that the whole world knows what their 3-letter-abbreviation stands for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esp
ESP, in my field, is an Electrostatic precipitator. I'm pretty sure that Microsoft isn't working on cleaning up exhaust gases though. I guess it is the "Microsoft ESP - A visual simulation package produced by Microsoft", as found at the bottom of the 3rd (!) list of ESP-abbreviations on wikipedia.
Thanks.
It takes only a few characters to actually spell it out, and explain it, but it takes a minute to google it.
Do you think we can get sued for that?
*starts looking for a lawyer and holds on to his dead skin cells for a while longer*
Though I'm no expert, I do believe that worlds can pollute each other. Life is so incredibly contagious. Only one cell, or one bio molecule needs to survive. All kinds of events might blow some into the atmosphere and higher. Crashing asteroids and volcanoes might blast stuff into orbit.
A source (link to scientific article?) would still be nice though.
And if you're not so awesome, you pay for the game, and also for the popular guys subscription as well. Awesome lol.
The only one getting better from this is the guy owning the big server (and possibly the researchers who might sell this investigation for quite a bit of money, if they ever figure it out).
I'd be more worried about such massive amounts of data being shared for commercial purposes. Hopefully still anonymous, but the word "privacy" or "anonymous" isn't even mentioned in the article.
Sometimes it's nice to go to a store and blow off some steam if their product is bad. It might not solve the problem, but it just feels good.
Of course, you should use polite words, and tell the person "helping" you that it's not personal.
One big satellite has relatively little drag-to-weight ratio. Many small pieces have a much larger drag-to-weight ratio because the surface area has greatly increased, but the total mass is still the same.
therefore, it will come down faster than when there was no crash. In any case, within the foreseeable future.
Well... that's then my question:
Does such a network use the same plugs, and systems so that anyone who actually is able to break into the building can also access the network?
Are such important networks using wifi, or normal utp cable networks, so that anyone who can break in can access the network? (I'm ignoring the whole encryption here, just wondering if it's physically possible to even send one byte of data to such a network without having to use a megaton EMP device)?
I mean, breaking into a building isn't hard, you just have to steal the keys... which is also what hacking comes down to.
The first youtube comment that I saw was: "can she download porn?" ...which seems like a totally normal youtube comment to me (sadly).
And then the next few were quite critical and written in correct English, which is actually more worrying, considering the average quality of youtube comments. Something is going on here!
I'm assuming that the operation of the air traffic control system is not connected to the internet in ANY way at all?
Some questions:
1. Is being offline a guarantee for not being hacked? (How else than through the cable / wifi can you hack into a network)?
2. Is the FAA indeed offline?
Silverlight? :D
In the age of Youtube, how hard can it be to share a movie? Why do I have to download a program first? Sorry, but that hasn't happened to me since Youtube was invented... oh, yeah, Youtube and google is the big competition isn't it?
Maybe the reason is that there are more reporters who specialized in Apple products than actual engineers to develop them?
Using facebook, twitter and all that crap, we practially give away our privacy... so why blame the government for just downloading what is publicly available?
We all notice what is going on. And we all care... for about 5 seconds. And then we're distracted again.
I'm sure I care about my privacy... but I just don't spend enough time on it to really get involved in any revolt against the police state. Unless you can really revolt using twitter or facebook. I fear that a proper revolt is still done with barricades and burning trashcans, not with facebook and blogging.
So, will there be an end to the loss of privacy? Will people care? Yes.
Will they do something about it? Not a chance.
Somebody once created a complete level of our faculty building for a 1st person shooter, and we got to play it in the computer room (really play the game, not fire drill, with 30+ people). It was awesome...
But most impressive was that I actually got lost really easily in the game, whereas I never got lost in reality.
Both the technology to use sewage for bio-methane and methane burning cars are not new.
The bio-methane production is called anaerobic digestion, check wikipedia for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_digestion
Although I applaud every initiative, this is not news.
Strange times.
There was a time when remarks such as above would be called "racism". In 2009, you can claim that over a billion people support "really imperialist expansionist murderous ideology" that causes "constant massacres".
As if the western democracies never drop the odd cluster bomb, or as if Russians don't do any bad.
It's just a matter of propaganda... and the writer above is a scary brainwashed individual... and if there would be a button for it, I'd have reported it as unacceptable language.
I guess it's better to receive one spam than the other? Like it's better to have political advertisement than laundry detergent advertisement?
Spam = spam
If you start fighting spam with spam, you become part of the problem.