The US probably does a good job limiting the loss of the latest stealth technology. The stealth UAVs flying around Pakistan do not have the latest stealth to minimize the risk of inadvertent technology transfers. I'm sure that the stealth technology on the chopper was intentionally a generation old as well.
In any event, the largest innovations in aircraft stealth is not in materials science but rather minimizing the radar cross section of jet exhaust intakes and vents. Intakes can be modified with sharktooth patterns but exhaust pipes are just big gaping holes that act as echo chambers, strengthening any radar signal that enters. Ionizing the stuff in the exhaust pipe reduces radar returns because ionized gases suck up radar signals. Imagine that.
Anyway, designing a vehicle that has stealth shapes and FLIES WELL is the trick. I don't think that materials are that important at this stage of the game anymore.
I think (hope) that the poster was trying to say that cops who abuse their power should die a painful death. I agree with the concept though not the exact phrasing. When cops break the law, we should throw the book at them. Every time a cop kills an unarmed man and is punished with a suspension, the concept of justice and law enforcement dies a little.
How much money and resources are spent mining coal, extracting natural gas through fracking, building the giant oil rigs and drills to suck the oil out, the refineries to process all of that stuff for our cars, and to ship all of that stuff around the world?
Thorium would be much easier to ship, and it sounds like it's already an industrial byproduct.
That's bullshit, and a common urban legend told about everyone. The main reason: the courts in China suck. Rich people get away with murder and everything else. There's an exception made if there's a tragedy that requires a scapegoat, such as poisoned milk killing a bunch of suckling infants. But generally, to a degree much more severe than our own, the Chinese court system is skewed to the rich.
"A few are inconvenienced." I don't think people understand how much information companies like Google have on its users. Unless you are completely off the grind living in a shack in Montana, credit card companies know what you're spending your money on, as does PayPal, eBay, Google Checkout, and Amazon. So does all the tracking websites with the persistent cookies. Your email, your most intimate thoughts and angriest words along with your buying habits are all in there. Google Voice is fucking ridiculous in terms of getting information. It knows who you call and text, and its learning what you're saying. (Voicemail transcription, anyone?)
If I went to your Google.com/Dashboard, I'd know a great more about you than you thought you were giving up. And that's only one aspect of the web. You are giving up more than you think.
It probably has to do with cloud computing. Encrypted data can be sent to remote data centers for processing with the encrypted results sent back to the client.
Microsoft gets a lot of crap but many of their products recently have been great, especially with regard to the GUI. Windows 7 is the best version of Windows ever. It has been very stable (on proper hardware) and runs pretty quickly. Windows Home Server 2011 allows a home operator to backup the computers of his entire network onto his servers without much of a hassle.
You don't understand why it's a never-ending pain while you're detailing how you have to do all of that stuff, which sounds like a full-time job? Look, if you're a sys admin, then it's not a never-ending pain; it's your job. But if it's not your job, it's a never-ending pain.
For many other people, email is mission critical. If you lose your email or lose connectivity for a bit, you're fucked. So yes, you can go through all that effort to run your server on a Dell and risk losing all your data, but it's not as easy as you're saying.
The countermeasure would be to have Reapers escorting the robo-car convoy. Robots would be able to maintain perfect spacing to minimize the damage from daisy-chained IEDs. Shooting out the front and back only works if you have a way to destroy the vehicles trapped in the middle, which might be difficult to do when there's a Reaper firing Hellfires up your ass.
Even if they succeed in blowing up some supplies, at the end of the day, they're paying human lives while we're just burning money. They'll run out of people before we run out of money, especially we aren't spending human lives, which cost a lot in terms of benefits to survivors and medical care for the injured and disabled.
Look at it another way. Pretend we can maintain the war without putting humans at risk. We are going to spend at least a trillion dollars on this war. Even if we spend a million dollars to kill a bad guy, that's still a million dead bad guys.
A snide little, fuzzy-haired, self-styled intellectual who hasn't touch a boobie yet: not even human. Waging war? Someone has to do it. It isn't going to be you, so shut up when someone else does it.
I know that they're targeting robot makers but, if they built a version with two quality NICs, this would make a great competitor to the high-end prosumer routers such as the ASUS RT-N16, which costs about $65. Getting Moonwall on there would be great.
The kid broke into a baseball field concession stand and stole a bunch of candy. Cops found a lot of candy and soda at their treehouse. Two other kids face felony charges for their role in stealing candy.
And don't forget that the SSD solution uses less electricity. That means you're not only saving on the electricity, but you're also spending less money removing the heat associated with using electricity. Being able to rebuild a server in five minutes as opposed to forty five minutes probably means they can keep more backup servers slack and turn them on only in case of emergency. Since SSD use less electricity on standby, they probably can keep the SSD idling. And if it's so much smaller, you can pack more of them in the same space, which makes your facilities more future-compatible; you don't have to get new space to expand.
Why do people think that Google cannot link an online identity to a fake/anonymous account? The only problem is if the profile is maintained by a spammer who doesn't use any of the other services linked to the Google Account. Otherwise, if the person is a real person using a fake name, Google still knows a shitload about you, and the real name doesn't really matter. As long as the person stays logged in using Google+ while searching or using the email, or browses the web, then Google already knows more about that person (who he interacts with, what interests him, etc.) than he does.
Pretty much this is the right answer. Patents only serve to exclude. The fact that you aren't covered by one patent doesn't give you the right to use the subject matter; it only means that that patent will not be a problem. The OP is considering a freedom to operate study, which is much more intensive and requires a search and review of all relevant patents. That's costly because the team of lawyers doing the paper has to cover their asses.
If you create your own code without looking at anyone else's code, then you might be liable for patent infringement but it won't be willfull infringement, which can unleash all sorts of asskicking such as treble damages and attorneys fees.
If I remember correctly, a lot of the nuclear waste is actually garbage like reactor core components, tools, gloves, and shields that became radioactive from neutron bombardment. That stuff can't be re-refined or treated to become useful again. In fact, a huge aspect of designing new reactors is to reduce the amount of this kind of waste.
Unless you are Google, which is responsible for the Android operating system, which is hated by Apple. If you don't have defensive patents, you are going to get sued into oblivion. Hell, the ITC might even rule that your products cannot be shipped into the United States because of infringement. I mean, Apple currently has HTC over a barrel. Do you think that HTC shareholders wished they had a few defensive patents to use against the iPhone?
The law might suck, but businessmen have to play by the law.
This guy is just an attention whore. And a sick one at that. The image of child pornography Marcheschi was complaining about being deprived of is actually available on Wikipedia. (Yeah, really.) I'm far from a prude but I understand why Google doesn't want to be in a position of hosting (and making available for public display if Marcheschi so chose) an image of a naked ten year old spreading her legs to show her genitalia.
Google makes the information they hold easy to back up. All the information I have on Google, aside from my Google Plus, Chat, and Voice account, is backed up onto systems that I control. My email and calendars are automatically synced onto my local copy of Outlook, and then backed up routinely, and my pictures are on my own file server, which is backed up routinely.
Facebook makes it difficult to get information onto my own systems. I can download everything into one huge blob, but I can't have it in a very arranged way such as IMAP or native JPEG files.
According to the Wikipedia article, the naked girl posing with her genitalia exposed is ten years old. If Marcheschi wanted a copy of the picture, he can simply go to Wikipedia. I was going to say that Google's actions were disturbing, but I can't blame them for taking this action. Right or wrong, they probably don't want their service to be used to host this image, which many people (including me) would find objectionable.
The government pretty much gets to bully around any webhost or registrar that it wants, be it Google or GoDaddy or BlueHost. But if Google refuses to publish your content on their CDN, you can simply redirect your DNS back to your original host, which needs to be maintained anyway because that's how Google would get updates. I wouldn't trust anyone to host my objectionable content without a backup. Look what happened to Wikileaks and the Amazon debacle.
Google is not offering this as a free service once this comes out of beta. The introduction page says that they intend to charge for it once it comes out of limited beta testing. Otherwise, I guess everyone would go with the cheapest possible webhost then have Google pick up the hosting slack.
That's a short-term, relatively low orbit by a very light craft. The Moon does not have a uniform gravitational field, so it can't be treated as a point mass. Furthermore, its gravitational pull is weak so the gravitational forces of the Earth and Sun (and the unfiltered blasts of solar wind on the huge solar cells of the ISS) are all very significant factors that make it a multipoint solution for orbit. And to top it all off, the Moon itself doesn't orbit the Earth nicely. The Moon's orbital motion rotates and does all sorts of funky things.
It's possible to keep something like the ISS in orbit around the Moon but it will require a lot of engineering and station-keeping apparatuses and fuel. I don't think that it's possible to orbit the ISS around the Moon without a ridiculous amount of effort, and the orbit will probably not be that stable because too much station-keeping is necessary.
With a billion people in China, and rampant starvation, who the heck would pay that much (relatively) for a child?! Did they sell to a foreign couple or what?
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The US probably does a good job limiting the loss of the latest stealth technology. The stealth UAVs flying around Pakistan do not have the latest stealth to minimize the risk of inadvertent technology transfers.
I'm sure that the stealth technology on the chopper was intentionally a generation old as well.
In any event, the largest innovations in aircraft stealth is not in materials science but rather minimizing the radar cross section of jet exhaust intakes and vents. Intakes can be modified with sharktooth patterns but exhaust pipes are just big gaping holes that act as echo chambers, strengthening any radar signal that enters. Ionizing the stuff in the exhaust pipe reduces radar returns because ionized gases suck up radar signals. Imagine that.
Anyway, designing a vehicle that has stealth shapes and FLIES WELL is the trick. I don't think that materials are that important at this stage of the game anymore.
I think (hope) that the poster was trying to say that cops who abuse their power should die a painful death. I agree with the concept though not the exact phrasing. When cops break the law, we should throw the book at them. Every time a cop kills an unarmed man and is punished with a suspension, the concept of justice and law enforcement dies a little.
I think I'm going to pick up their new Bulldozer when it comes out. Intel makes great processors but these shenanigans have got to stop.
How much money and resources are spent mining coal, extracting natural gas through fracking, building the giant oil rigs and drills to suck the oil out, the refineries to process all of that stuff for our cars, and to ship all of that stuff around the world?
Thorium would be much easier to ship, and it sounds like it's already an industrial byproduct.
That's bullshit, and a common urban legend told about everyone. The main reason: the courts in China suck. Rich people get away with murder and everything else. There's an exception made if there's a tragedy that requires a scapegoat, such as poisoned milk killing a bunch of suckling infants. But generally, to a degree much more severe than our own, the Chinese court system is skewed to the rich.
"A few are inconvenienced."
I don't think people understand how much information companies like Google have on its users. Unless you are completely off the grind living in a shack in Montana, credit card companies know what you're spending your money on, as does PayPal, eBay, Google Checkout, and Amazon. So does all the tracking websites with the persistent cookies. Your email, your most intimate thoughts and angriest words along with your buying habits are all in there. Google Voice is fucking ridiculous in terms of getting information. It knows who you call and text, and its learning what you're saying. (Voicemail transcription, anyone?)
If I went to your Google.com/Dashboard, I'd know a great more about you than you thought you were giving up. And that's only one aspect of the web. You are giving up more than you think.
It probably has to do with cloud computing. Encrypted data can be sent to remote data centers for processing with the encrypted results sent back to the client.
Microsoft gets a lot of crap but many of their products recently have been great, especially with regard to the GUI. Windows 7 is the best version of Windows ever. It has been very stable (on proper hardware) and runs pretty quickly. Windows Home Server 2011 allows a home operator to backup the computers of his entire network onto his servers without much of a hassle.
You don't understand why it's a never-ending pain while you're detailing how you have to do all of that stuff, which sounds like a full-time job? Look, if you're a sys admin, then it's not a never-ending pain; it's your job. But if it's not your job, it's a never-ending pain.
For many other people, email is mission critical. If you lose your email or lose connectivity for a bit, you're fucked. So yes, you can go through all that effort to run your server on a Dell and risk losing all your data, but it's not as easy as you're saying.
The countermeasure would be to have Reapers escorting the robo-car convoy. Robots would be able to maintain perfect spacing to minimize the damage from daisy-chained IEDs. Shooting out the front and back only works if you have a way to destroy the vehicles trapped in the middle, which might be difficult to do when there's a Reaper firing Hellfires up your ass.
Even if they succeed in blowing up some supplies, at the end of the day, they're paying human lives while we're just burning money. They'll run out of people before we run out of money, especially we aren't spending human lives, which cost a lot in terms of benefits to survivors and medical care for the injured and disabled.
Look at it another way. Pretend we can maintain the war without putting humans at risk. We are going to spend at least a trillion dollars on this war. Even if we spend a million dollars to kill a bad guy, that's still a million dead bad guys.
A snide little, fuzzy-haired, self-styled intellectual who hasn't touch a boobie yet: not even human. Waging war? Someone has to do it. It isn't going to be you, so shut up when someone else does it.
I know that they're targeting robot makers but, if they built a version with two quality NICs, this would make a great competitor to the high-end prosumer routers such as the ASUS RT-N16, which costs about $65. Getting Moonwall on there would be great.
The kid broke into a baseball field concession stand and stole a bunch of candy. Cops found a lot of candy and soda at their treehouse. Two other kids face felony charges for their role in stealing candy.
And don't forget that the SSD solution uses less electricity. That means you're not only saving on the electricity, but you're also spending less money removing the heat associated with using electricity. Being able to rebuild a server in five minutes as opposed to forty five minutes probably means they can keep more backup servers slack and turn them on only in case of emergency. Since SSD use less electricity on standby, they probably can keep the SSD idling. And if it's so much smaller, you can pack more of them in the same space, which makes your facilities more future-compatible; you don't have to get new space to expand.
Why do people think that Google cannot link an online identity to a fake/anonymous account? The only problem is if the profile is maintained by a spammer who doesn't use any of the other services linked to the Google Account. Otherwise, if the person is a real person using a fake name, Google still knows a shitload about you, and the real name doesn't really matter. As long as the person stays logged in using Google+ while searching or using the email, or browses the web, then Google already knows more about that person (who he interacts with, what interests him, etc.) than he does.
Pretty much this is the right answer. Patents only serve to exclude. The fact that you aren't covered by one patent doesn't give you the right to use the subject matter; it only means that that patent will not be a problem. The OP is considering a freedom to operate study, which is much more intensive and requires a search and review of all relevant patents. That's costly because the team of lawyers doing the paper has to cover their asses.
If you create your own code without looking at anyone else's code, then you might be liable for patent infringement but it won't be willfull infringement, which can unleash all sorts of asskicking such as treble damages and attorneys fees.
If I remember correctly, a lot of the nuclear waste is actually garbage like reactor core components, tools, gloves, and shields that became radioactive from neutron bombardment. That stuff can't be re-refined or treated to become useful again. In fact, a huge aspect of designing new reactors is to reduce the amount of this kind of waste.
Unless you are Google, which is responsible for the Android operating system, which is hated by Apple. If you don't have defensive patents, you are going to get sued into oblivion. Hell, the ITC might even rule that your products cannot be shipped into the United States because of infringement. I mean, Apple currently has HTC over a barrel. Do you think that HTC shareholders wished they had a few defensive patents to use against the iPhone?
The law might suck, but businessmen have to play by the law.
This guy is just an attention whore. And a sick one at that. The image of child pornography Marcheschi was complaining about being deprived of is actually available on Wikipedia. (Yeah, really.) I'm far from a prude but I understand why Google doesn't want to be in a position of hosting (and making available for public display if Marcheschi so chose) an image of a naked ten year old spreading her legs to show her genitalia.
Google makes the information they hold easy to back up. All the information I have on Google, aside from my Google Plus, Chat, and Voice account, is backed up onto systems that I control. My email and calendars are automatically synced onto my local copy of Outlook, and then backed up routinely, and my pictures are on my own file server, which is backed up routinely.
Facebook makes it difficult to get information onto my own systems. I can download everything into one huge blob, but I can't have it in a very arranged way such as IMAP or native JPEG files.
According to the Wikipedia article, the naked girl posing with her genitalia exposed is ten years old. If Marcheschi wanted a copy of the picture, he can simply go to Wikipedia. I was going to say that Google's actions were disturbing, but I can't blame them for taking this action. Right or wrong, they probably don't want their service to be used to host this image, which many people (including me) would find objectionable.
The government pretty much gets to bully around any webhost or registrar that it wants, be it Google or GoDaddy or BlueHost. But if Google refuses to publish your content on their CDN, you can simply redirect your DNS back to your original host, which needs to be maintained anyway because that's how Google would get updates. I wouldn't trust anyone to host my objectionable content without a backup. Look what happened to Wikileaks and the Amazon debacle.
Google is not offering this as a free service once this comes out of beta. The introduction page says that they intend to charge for it once it comes out of limited beta testing. Otherwise, I guess everyone would go with the cheapest possible webhost then have Google pick up the hosting slack.
That's a short-term, relatively low orbit by a very light craft. The Moon does not have a uniform gravitational field, so it can't be treated as a point mass. Furthermore, its gravitational pull is weak so the gravitational forces of the Earth and Sun (and the unfiltered blasts of solar wind on the huge solar cells of the ISS) are all very significant factors that make it a multipoint solution for orbit. And to top it all off, the Moon itself doesn't orbit the Earth nicely. The Moon's orbital motion rotates and does all sorts of funky things.
It's possible to keep something like the ISS in orbit around the Moon but it will require a lot of engineering and station-keeping apparatuses and fuel. I don't think that it's possible to orbit the ISS around the Moon without a ridiculous amount of effort, and the orbit will probably not be that stable because too much station-keeping is necessary.
With a billion people in China, and rampant starvation, who the heck would pay that much (relatively) for a child?! Did they sell to a foreign couple or what?