No one has the right to force me to release my developed code for free.
You're right. Nobody has the right to do that, IF you developed the code from scratch yourself. If you took someone else's work, which was published under the GPL, and ran with it, however, the original developer has every right to bring you to court and have them force you to release, if not the whole thing, at the very least the relevant sections. If you don't want to release your stuff, fine, don't. But don't use GPL-protected material during development either!
GPL is really another word for quid pro quo, or bittorrent: you get, but you have to give back too.
Plus, they're very hard to swallow in microgravity.
No, they're not. Swallowing is not driven by gravity, but by the peristalsis of the smooth muscles in the throat. You can even swallow 'upwards' on Earth, but since you have gravity the muscles need to fight, it's going to feel kinda weird.
Possibly, but I was referring to the novel Snow Crash. In Snow Crash, the mental "programs", me, written in Sumerian could also affect humans through speech (or cyberspace, for that matter), as it affected the entity at a far more basic level than acquired languages, until understanding was destroyed by a viral piece of "code" in response to a dangerous biolinguistic virus. It's comparable to binary code as opposed to high-level programming languages.
How do you think nuclear plants work? The principle is the same, just the heat source differs.
I thought they magically extracted energy from a tiny piece of glowing green rock that gives you suparpowers if you go near it. Of course I know how they work, but think of the scales involved here, both physical and thermal.
You can drive a turbine with steam from a concentrated solar thermal plant, which is the size of several football fields, and the majority of that is mirrors. Mirrors that require constant sunshine to work, cleaning to maintain their reflectivity, delicate and expensive support electronics and servos to keep the sun focused on the tower in one design, and let's emphasize that they will NOT work at night, in a storm (let alone a hailstorm. How many years of bad luck would that work out to...?), work with massively reduced efficiency in overcast weather, etc. On the roof of your house, you can only deploy a solar panel big enough to provide you with hot water, and that's bloody it. Photovoltaic panels are even worse.
So no, renewable energy will never supplant nuclear power entirely. Sure, it'll be a great gimmick to shut Greenpeace and others the hell up by showing them that you care. You may even lower your heating/power bills, but that's it. If we want to solve the energy crisis, we need to boost up ITER fast, maybe get cracking on ironing out the kinks in the thorium reactor concept, such as the fuel cycle, and leave solar/wind power in the role they belong: auxiliaries.
[...]And the "carpet every inch with solar panels"-thing conveniently leaves out solar thermal, [...]
Yes. Yes, it does. Since we're talking about electric energy here, and not hot water/central heating. I said power, not heat the world, if I wanted to heat it, I'd light it.
Renewables will never have the energy density required to completely power our world, and will always depend on fickle things like the wind and the clouds. Either we carpet every available inch with solar panels, and plant every plain full of wind farms, or we move to more exotic power sources, like piezo sidewalks and nano-generator clothing (both of which I consider sci-fi despite working in labs, and piezo flooring has even been deployed in Japan (I guess the earthquake generated at least some power, even if it was intermittent...)). Even if you say "Fission has to go some time...", I'd say to this "... and be followed by fusion or Thorium, not sun and wind.".
If I remember my "Ancient Astronautics History" properly, they were on the Deep Space probes, and one a probe that investigated the asteroid belt.
And just to illustrate the inanity of the article, the above came without looking anything up on the net (with the exception of the name of Project Orion, which almost became NERVA...), from the head of an international relations graduate.
With an elevator, you can slap on some more solid-state shielding without worrying about weight issues. Slap on enough to stop neutral particles, and deflect the rest by generating your own little magnetosphere. Problem solved (provided you have the power generation capacity to sustain the shield).
Despite calling itself a magazine on the "Science of everything", this Cosmos is pretty outdated. Last I remember, nobody bothered about chemical rockets for interplanetary or longer travel: they pack a lot of punch, but they're heavy and can't be used for continuous burns, just short corrections. For which they work fine.
Then there's the ion engine: low specific impulse, but can be used for long periods on end, perfect for shaving time off the free coast phase. Already operated on several spacecrafts.
Fusion rockets: medium specific impulse, though still nowhere near a hypergolic rocket, but still can be fired for months on end as long as you have fuel, and it also takes care of power generation. Requires a leap or two in LASER tech for ignition, otherwise possible (in 10-25 years, at most).
Project Orion: riding on the shockwaves of NUKES. Can you guess at the impulse? Also advances nuclear disarmament, but kinda risky (the astronauts ride in essentially a box over a dampened shield behind thousands of nukes. You really don't want one warhead to have a bad day...). Possible, requires international cooperation and massive balls of steel to try, so let's discount it for now.
Light sails and ion sails: low specific impulse, but carry no propellant, and can accelerate all the way to the edge of Sol, making for some significant velocity when it hits the heliopause. Technically possible with today's technology, but unneccesary.
So there, we could pretty much achieve sustainable interplanetary travel today if we put our mind to it. And if we really wanted it, we could have STL generation ships on the way in 50-100 years, at most.
How about a generation ship, there are perfectly workable designs for that. Granted, it's not the most comfortable way to travel, knowing that by the time you get to your destination, only your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren will be alive, and even the tech you use will belong in a museum.
Or even up to 90% of the way, depending on how big a detour you're willing to make to use the Interplanetary Superhighway, since it's all zero-energy trajectories.
Email sent to all my MEPs, but as the FP states: probability of voter wishes taking priority over those of industry is probably less than 1, just a little.
Funny thing, if it's just a little less than one, it has a pretty good chance of succeeding. Or did you mean 1%?:-)
Agreed, this is only a filing of the report, no follow-up. It's customary in every law enforcement organisation to file every report, no matter how stupid. Hell, I've heard about the police filing a report by a guy claiming every evening, after the news ran, the newscasters came out of his TV set, and beat him. No investigation was done, naturally, but the report had to be filed, as the SOP went.
Just another sensationalist samzenpus headline, it would seem...
The writer is probably thinking of the axial jets. Those are emitted from the hole itself, which is at the center of the disc, so it's technically true.
By extension, you should see what every secret service is doing. Ask Georgij Markov, Fidel Castro, or Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Oh wait, you can't: some people were doing their job properly (and with ruthless efficiency).
Pretty much. The header is in plain view, but anything encrypted is just random data, decrypted on-the-fly. If you have a hidden volume, there's no way to prove it exists, unless you specifically affirm its existence.
Truecypt: They may suspect something's there, but a) It's plausibly deniable due to how a Truecrypt volume masks itself b) If you're carrying something important enough to warrant the use of the USAF PS3 cluster to try and bruteforce the encryption, and you're carrying it on your laptop, you deserve to have that encryption broken for being criminally stupid.
Those that hack are incredibly smart, they interpret laws and think things through in every aspect. When they band together, which Anonymous is doing, they can cause some serious damage.
Except Anonymous is not a band of hackers, but a band of script kiddies who like to feel like the great champions of justice, while not being anything more than petty vandals, and who probably don't even understand how the piece of shit they call LOIC works.
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No one has the right to force me to release my developed code for free.
You're right. Nobody has the right to do that, IF you developed the code from scratch yourself. If you took someone else's work, which was published under the GPL, and ran with it, however, the original developer has every right to bring you to court and have them force you to release, if not the whole thing, at the very least the relevant sections.
If you don't want to release your stuff, fine, don't. But don't use GPL-protected material during development either!
GPL is really another word for quid pro quo, or bittorrent: you get, but you have to give back too.
[...] unkil Wong has a pheasant for you ....
How did you prepare it? I like mine with cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes.
Plus, they're very hard to swallow in microgravity.
No, they're not. Swallowing is not driven by gravity, but by the peristalsis of the smooth muscles in the throat. You can even swallow 'upwards' on Earth, but since you have gravity the muscles need to fight, it's going to feel kinda weird.
Possibly, but I was referring to the novel Snow Crash.
In Snow Crash, the mental "programs", me, written in Sumerian could also affect humans through speech (or cyberspace, for that matter), as it affected the entity at a far more basic level than acquired languages, until understanding was destroyed by a viral piece of "code" in response to a dangerous biolinguistic virus. It's comparable to binary code as opposed to high-level programming languages.
I guess he was wrong when he posited Sumerian as the first language...
How do you think nuclear plants work? The principle is the same, just the heat source differs.
I thought they magically extracted energy from a tiny piece of glowing green rock that gives you suparpowers if you go near it. Of course I know how they work, but think of the scales involved here, both physical and thermal.
You can drive a turbine with steam from a concentrated solar thermal plant, which is the size of several football fields, and the majority of that is mirrors. Mirrors that require constant sunshine to work, cleaning to maintain their reflectivity, delicate and expensive support electronics and servos to keep the sun focused on the tower in one design, and let's emphasize that they will NOT work at night, in a storm (let alone a hailstorm. How many years of bad luck would that work out to...?), work with massively reduced efficiency in overcast weather, etc.
On the roof of your house, you can only deploy a solar panel big enough to provide you with hot water, and that's bloody it. Photovoltaic panels are even worse.
So no, renewable energy will never supplant nuclear power entirely. Sure, it'll be a great gimmick to shut Greenpeace and others the hell up by showing them that you care. You may even lower your heating/power bills, but that's it. If we want to solve the energy crisis, we need to boost up ITER fast, maybe get cracking on ironing out the kinks in the thorium reactor concept, such as the fuel cycle, and leave solar/wind power in the role they belong: auxiliaries.
I already download most of my software from one place: The Pirate Bay.
[...]And the "carpet every inch with solar panels"-thing conveniently leaves out solar thermal, [...]
Yes. Yes, it does. Since we're talking about electric energy here, and not hot water/central heating. I said power, not heat the world, if I wanted to heat it, I'd light it.
Renewables will never have the energy density required to completely power our world, and will always depend on fickle things like the wind and the clouds. Either we carpet every available inch with solar panels, and plant every plain full of wind farms, or we move to more exotic power sources, like piezo sidewalks and nano-generator clothing (both of which I consider sci-fi despite working in labs, and piezo flooring has even been deployed in Japan (I guess the earthquake generated at least some power, even if it was intermittent...)).
Even if you say "Fission has to go some time...", I'd say to this "... and be followed by fusion or Thorium, not sun and wind.".
Well, they better be, if any sort of recovery device is going to be several times the size of the camera itself...
If I remember my "Ancient Astronautics History" properly, they were on the Deep Space probes, and one a probe that investigated the asteroid belt.
And just to illustrate the inanity of the article, the above came without looking anything up on the net (with the exception of the name of Project Orion, which almost became NERVA...), from the head of an international relations graduate.
With an elevator, you can slap on some more solid-state shielding without worrying about weight issues. Slap on enough to stop neutral particles, and deflect the rest by generating your own little magnetosphere. Problem solved (provided you have the power generation capacity to sustain the shield).
Despite calling itself a magazine on the "Science of everything", this Cosmos is pretty outdated. Last I remember, nobody bothered about chemical rockets for interplanetary or longer travel: they pack a lot of punch, but they're heavy and can't be used for continuous burns, just short corrections. For which they work fine.
Then there's the ion engine: low specific impulse, but can be used for long periods on end, perfect for shaving time off the free coast phase. Already operated on several spacecrafts.
Fusion rockets: medium specific impulse, though still nowhere near a hypergolic rocket, but still can be fired for months on end as long as you have fuel, and it also takes care of power generation. Requires a leap or two in LASER tech for ignition, otherwise possible (in 10-25 years, at most).
Project Orion: riding on the shockwaves of NUKES. Can you guess at the impulse? Also advances nuclear disarmament, but kinda risky (the astronauts ride in essentially a box over a dampened shield behind thousands of nukes. You really don't want one warhead to have a bad day...). Possible, requires international cooperation and massive balls of steel to try, so let's discount it for now.
Light sails and ion sails: low specific impulse, but carry no propellant, and can accelerate all the way to the edge of Sol, making for some significant velocity when it hits the heliopause. Technically possible with today's technology, but unneccesary.
So there, we could pretty much achieve sustainable interplanetary travel today if we put our mind to it. And if we really wanted it, we could have STL generation ships on the way in 50-100 years, at most.
I did.
How about a generation ship, there are perfectly workable designs for that. Granted, it's not the most comfortable way to travel, knowing that by the time you get to your destination, only your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren will be alive, and even the tech you use will belong in a museum.
But it's ONE way to do it...
Or even up to 90% of the way, depending on how big a detour you're willing to make to use the Interplanetary Superhighway, since it's all zero-energy trajectories.
Email sent to all my MEPs, but as the FP states: probability of voter wishes taking priority over those of industry is probably less than 1, just a little.
Funny thing, if it's just a little less than one, it has a pretty good chance of succeeding. Or did you mean 1%? :-)
Agreed, this is only a filing of the report, no follow-up. It's customary in every law enforcement organisation to file every report, no matter how stupid. Hell, I've heard about the police filing a report by a guy claiming every evening, after the news ran, the newscasters came out of his TV set, and beat him. No investigation was done, naturally, but the report had to be filed, as the SOP went.
Just another sensationalist samzenpus headline, it would seem...
Does hitting five targets in a row entitle me to growl "IMPRESSIVE!" over the P.A.?
The writer is probably thinking of the axial jets. Those are emitted from the hole itself, which is at the center of the disc, so it's technically true.
Oh wait, you can ask Castro, provided you can reach him. Those ones fizzled...
By extension, you should see what every secret service is doing. Ask Georgij Markov, Fidel Castro, or Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Oh wait, you can't: some people were doing their job properly (and with ruthless efficiency).
Pretty much. The header is in plain view, but anything encrypted is just random data, decrypted on-the-fly. If you have a hidden volume, there's no way to prove it exists, unless you specifically affirm its existence.
Truecypt: They may suspect something's there, but
a) It's plausibly deniable due to how a Truecrypt volume masks itself
b) If you're carrying something important enough to warrant the use of the USAF PS3 cluster to try and bruteforce the encryption, and you're carrying it on your laptop, you deserve to have that encryption broken for being criminally stupid.
Middle mouse click not working in Chrome either.
Those that hack are incredibly smart, they interpret laws and think things through in every aspect. When they band together, which Anonymous is doing, they can cause some serious damage.
Except Anonymous is not a band of hackers, but a band of script kiddies who like to feel like the great champions of justice, while not being anything more than petty vandals, and who probably don't even understand how the piece of shit they call LOIC works.