"Apparently former Vice-Presidents or Presidents are worth a great deal to law firms."
The whole process is like horce racing. You don't make too much money off the Derby, but after the race, you put your winner in a green field and make ten million bucks every time he mounts another horse.
To paraphrase someone far smarter than me on the results of the Drake Equation, when it comes to proving whether extraterrestrial life exists or not, either answer will be astounding.
Dude what are you, the Savior of Karma? This is your third post in this thread trying to help out the modded-down guys.
At any rate, as to the grandparent, I think the real issue is fuckin' with your bandwidth. I'm okay with the theory behind lawsuits and what not - they may be poorly done, and the penalties may be unfathomably egregious, but technically it's illegal, so so be it. Let the copyright holders sue you for $20 or $200,000 for each CD you download, but that shouldn't stop you from having the same, unfettered access to the web you paid for. If you steal a pen from an office, you're still allowed to write letters.
The problem is monitoring the communication itself. You can't just pick up the phone and tape record someone without their permission, or pick up a camera and videotape them. By saving the first 150b of each transmission, they were technically doing this.
TFA does a pretty good job of explaining all the varies angles - from participation without permission to individuals under 18 to international issues - but they're coming up against a number of laws, such as the Wiretap Act, which is specifically aimed at this sort of thing.
What I'm wondering though is, and I'm no tor expert, since it was so easy for these folk to set up their exit and entry nodes to log the data, what's stopping the others running tor nodes to do the same? If they can do it, surely the Chinese government could be doing the same, using it to catch all those pro-democracy bloggers. The US could (and would) definitely use this, so what's stopping them, assuming they aren't already doing it?
It's why the Saturn V rocket was the size of a skyscraper, but only carried something the size of a minibus to the moon, and brought only a tiny capsule home to Earth.
As you so correctly state, fuel is the key. Except, the Saturn V only got them to the moon. Getting into orbit, landing, coming back up, and getting back to earth was the job of your minibus and tiny capsule. Clearly, it is quite possible to pull off the whole shebang by throwing a huge rocket at the back of it to get it off the planet (by far the hardest part). Using a system like the Saturn V or current boosters is by no means a far reach for them. It sure as hell wouldn't be easy, but if they're already getting to the moon, orbiting, and back again, I'm quite sure they could find a way to pop down to the surface for scientific rock-and-flag purposes.
You might as well ask what the point of new music is? We've already got tons of it, more than enough to go around for a lifetime, so why don't we just close up shop, and put all that money, which happens to be more than is invested in manned space exploration, into poverty relief?
It's human nature to see something you can't do and then try to do it. Why bother scaling Everest? It served no purpose, but it was there and we did it. There should be no area of human existence where we refuse to advance ourselves - whether poverty relief, musical innovation, or space exploration. Mankind needs to do more, it needs to search higher. Knowing more about the universe is never a bad thing, and while cost-analysis should be taken into consideration, it borders on inhumane to deny our basic instincts for discovery.
The choice of words "towards the moon" is very well done. Article states this is capable of bring six people into Terran orbit, and four into Lunar orbit. I understand the difficulty in getting down to the moon and back up, but if you're capable of getting there and back with four people, odds are you can get down to the surface. Why not just go for broke? At the very least it'd be a huge PR coup.
Except the (i)Phone still has to notify you that you received a voicemail, odds are in exactly the same way it would if you received a text message. And you're much more likely to quickly look at an SMS than whip out your phone and listen to a rambling message, especially if you're trying to be discrete (class, office, date, etc.). Visual voicemail is the same interface for a text message, except it's comparatively cumbersome to access. There are times when voicemail is necessary, but for the vast majority of human non-interactions, texting is just as good, if not better.
It happens all the time, though. One of the best ways to get a software company like MS or Apple to notice a security flaw is to simply let them know, and then use the exploit! Once the general public starts getting abused, they'll make changes real quick. When people start riding for free all the time, they'll figure out how to fix it.
As for Diebold, well... we're in a special situation wherein they're corrupting the one thin we care least about in the US - democratic elections.
A conversation on the nature of literature is a little bit out of scope, but using a just smidgen of science is just glorified fiction/fantasy. True SciFi can weave a fascinating environment, but the science of it is a core facet. I really do care about the science - otherwise I'd read Jane Austen! (jk)
Star Wars, Star Trek - Fantasy Arthur C. Clarke, Red Mars - Science Fiction
I'd beg to differ, and I bet you'll find the majority of folks agree with me. (Disclaimer: I am pro-genetic engineering and pro-stem cells. Also, I'm pro-Devil's Advocate.)
If you're against Stem Cell research, odds are it has something to do with the "Right-to-life," "Life begins at birth," and other such nonsense. That belief will almost never change in a person, it's too strong and central of a belief.
Genetic engineering has shades of gray. Most everyone supports advancing new drugs to fight diseases, but there are precious few of us who look forward to a GATTACA-esque world. Giving humans the ability to survive "naturally" on Venus is quite a few steps beyond Ethan and Uma.
Alternative housing developments are a staple of Science Fiction, but any good piece of SciFi is Science first, Fiction second. Floating balloons, underwater bubbles, and massive archologies are simply a way of getting more people to survive in places they couldn't/shouldn't normally. Landis' idea may be bordering on absurdist for the mainstream world right now, but in 200, 300, and 500 years things will start to look a lot less silly. It may be harder, but it's far better for all parties involved to take advantage of unique environments and our intelligence to minimize impact and maximize living ability instead of brute-forcing our way on to places by nuking everything and then throwing down some bacteria and algae.
Faced with an onslaught of diseases, a fair portion of people aren't willing to even allow stem cells to be harvested from aborted fetuses. Straight-up genetic engineering is basically out of the question. Amusingly, those same people are more likely to be okay with (and blind to) all the vast changes we're making to our current planet right now.
When push comes to shove, I have a feeling public opinion might be slightly more in favor of the terraforming.
The view. The sunsets are better on Venus than on the Moon, so property values will be higher. Corporate interest, then people will want to honeymoon. It basically solves itself!
In all serious, it comes down to two things: the first is an excellent thought exercise. The second is that Landis just increased potentially viable locations in our Solar System by 33%, to a grand total of 4. You have to think up the impossible before you can make it possible.
the most guarded secret of the company: the brick molds themselves
Really?;)
No, seriously, I mean it - REALLY?! Maybe they designed it this way, but I'm pretty sure that the age at which Legos start being an acceptable toy is about the age you can figure out the mold.
Arguably these are all short-term measures, just designed to control air quality for the time when the Olympics are on
Is it obvious to anyone else that that statement should be a sign? If you have to reduce pollution so athletes don't cripple their records, shouldn't you, I don't know, try and stop it forever? I honestly hope no records are broken, and that every athlete in an event outside performs terribly compared to history, so hopefully a few more people might open their damned eyes.
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To quote the late, great Nixon himself,
"Apparently former Vice-Presidents or Presidents are worth a great deal to law firms."
The whole process is like horce racing. You don't make too much money off the Derby, but after the race, you put your winner in a green field and make ten million bucks every time he mounts another horse.
To paraphrase someone far smarter than me on the results of the Drake Equation, when it comes to proving whether extraterrestrial life exists or not, either answer will be astounding.
GTFO my //./
At least you've got your priorities straight.
Dude what are you, the Savior of Karma? This is your third post in this thread trying to help out the modded-down guys.
At any rate, as to the grandparent, I think the real issue is fuckin' with your bandwidth. I'm okay with the theory behind lawsuits and what not - they may be poorly done, and the penalties may be unfathomably egregious, but technically it's illegal, so so be it. Let the copyright holders sue you for $20 or $200,000 for each CD you download, but that shouldn't stop you from having the same, unfettered access to the web you paid for. If you steal a pen from an office, you're still allowed to write letters.
What, crushed by printed copies of every email he ever sent?
That should be the standard for these guys - let the punishment fit the crime.
The problem is monitoring the communication itself. You can't just pick up the phone and tape record someone without their permission, or pick up a camera and videotape them. By saving the first 150b of each transmission, they were technically doing this.
TFA does a pretty good job of explaining all the varies angles - from participation without permission to individuals under 18 to international issues - but they're coming up against a number of laws, such as the Wiretap Act, which is specifically aimed at this sort of thing.
What I'm wondering though is, and I'm no tor expert, since it was so easy for these folk to set up their exit and entry nodes to log the data, what's stopping the others running tor nodes to do the same? If they can do it, surely the Chinese government could be doing the same, using it to catch all those pro-democracy bloggers. The US could (and would) definitely use this, so what's stopping them, assuming they aren't already doing it?
It's why the Saturn V rocket was the size of a skyscraper, but only carried something the size of a minibus to the moon, and brought only a tiny capsule home to Earth.
As you so correctly state, fuel is the key. Except, the Saturn V only got them to the moon. Getting into orbit, landing, coming back up, and getting back to earth was the job of your minibus and tiny capsule. Clearly, it is quite possible to pull off the whole shebang by throwing a huge rocket at the back of it to get it off the planet (by far the hardest part). Using a system like the Saturn V or current boosters is by no means a far reach for them. It sure as hell wouldn't be easy, but if they're already getting to the moon, orbiting, and back again, I'm quite sure they could find a way to pop down to the surface for scientific rock-and-flag purposes.
You might as well ask what the point of new music is? We've already got tons of it, more than enough to go around for a lifetime, so why don't we just close up shop, and put all that money, which happens to be more than is invested in manned space exploration, into poverty relief?
It's human nature to see something you can't do and then try to do it. Why bother scaling Everest? It served no purpose, but it was there and we did it. There should be no area of human existence where we refuse to advance ourselves - whether poverty relief, musical innovation, or space exploration. Mankind needs to do more, it needs to search higher. Knowing more about the universe is never a bad thing, and while cost-analysis should be taken into consideration, it borders on inhumane to deny our basic instincts for discovery.
And can't do now.
That should read "MySpace's 100 million users" not Facebooks.
Facebook is vastly smaller than Myspace, and isn't the point of the story.
The choice of words "towards the moon" is very well done. Article states this is capable of bring six people into Terran orbit, and four into Lunar orbit. I understand the difficulty in getting down to the moon and back up, but if you're capable of getting there and back with four people, odds are you can get down to the surface. Why not just go for broke? At the very least it'd be a huge PR coup.
Except the (i)Phone still has to notify you that you received a voicemail, odds are in exactly the same way it would if you received a text message. And you're much more likely to quickly look at an SMS than whip out your phone and listen to a rambling message, especially if you're trying to be discrete (class, office, date, etc.). Visual voicemail is the same interface for a text message, except it's comparatively cumbersome to access. There are times when voicemail is necessary, but for the vast majority of human non-interactions, texting is just as good, if not better.
It happens all the time, though. One of the best ways to get a software company like MS or Apple to notice a security flaw is to simply let them know, and then use the exploit! Once the general public starts getting abused, they'll make changes real quick. When people start riding for free all the time, they'll figure out how to fix it.
As for Diebold, well... we're in a special situation wherein they're corrupting the one thin we care least about in the US - democratic elections.
Looking like a nerd
Thankfully none of us have to worry about THAT!
A conversation on the nature of literature is a little bit out of scope, but using a just smidgen of science is just glorified fiction/fantasy. True SciFi can weave a fascinating environment, but the science of it is a core facet. I really do care about the science - otherwise I'd read Jane Austen! (jk)
Star Wars, Star Trek - Fantasy
Arthur C. Clarke, Red Mars - Science Fiction
Distance. Jupiter is 4.2AU away as the crow flies (3.1 if you use a perfectly osculating orbit), while Venus is under 0.3AU away.
That extra fuel is a deal breaker. For now.
I'd beg to differ, and I bet you'll find the majority of folks agree with me. (Disclaimer: I am pro-genetic engineering and pro-stem cells. Also, I'm pro-Devil's Advocate.)
If you're against Stem Cell research, odds are it has something to do with the "Right-to-life," "Life begins at birth," and other such nonsense. That belief will almost never change in a person, it's too strong and central of a belief.
Genetic engineering has shades of gray. Most everyone supports advancing new drugs to fight diseases, but there are precious few of us who look forward to a GATTACA-esque world. Giving humans the ability to survive "naturally" on Venus is quite a few steps beyond Ethan and Uma.
Not to take the bait, but Venus is a lot hotter than Mercury. The all-important albedo can have a much bigger impact on temperature than distance!
Alternative housing developments are a staple of Science Fiction, but any good piece of SciFi is Science first, Fiction second. Floating balloons, underwater bubbles, and massive archologies are simply a way of getting more people to survive in places they couldn't/shouldn't normally. Landis' idea may be bordering on absurdist for the mainstream world right now, but in 200, 300, and 500 years things will start to look a lot less silly. It may be harder, but it's far better for all parties involved to take advantage of unique environments and our intelligence to minimize impact and maximize living ability instead of brute-forcing our way on to places by nuking everything and then throwing down some bacteria and algae.
Faced with an onslaught of diseases, a fair portion of people aren't willing to even allow stem cells to be harvested from aborted fetuses. Straight-up genetic engineering is basically out of the question. Amusingly, those same people are more likely to be okay with (and blind to) all the vast changes we're making to our current planet right now.
When push comes to shove, I have a feeling public opinion might be slightly more in favor of the terraforming.
The view. The sunsets are better on Venus than on the Moon, so property values will be higher. Corporate interest, then people will want to honeymoon. It basically solves itself!
In all serious, it comes down to two things: the first is an excellent thought exercise. The second is that Landis just increased potentially viable locations in our Solar System by 33%, to a grand total of 4. You have to think up the impossible before you can make it possible.
Where else but /. could you accidentally replace a geeky reference with an even geekier reference?
the most guarded secret of the company: the brick molds themselves
Really? ;)
No, seriously, I mean it - REALLY?! Maybe they designed it this way, but I'm pretty sure that the age at which Legos start being an acceptable toy is about the age you can figure out the mold.
Honestly guys, it ain't that hard.
Arguably these are all short-term measures, just designed to control air quality for the time when the Olympics are on
Is it obvious to anyone else that that statement should be a sign? If you have to reduce pollution so athletes don't cripple their records, shouldn't you, I don't know, try and stop it forever? I honestly hope no records are broken, and that every athlete in an event outside performs terribly compared to history, so hopefully a few more people might open their damned eyes.