Bring the cost down to near nothing, make them self replicating, then foist them off to agriculture. Since they use nice clean energy, they can replace tractors in planting and harvesting. In between those activities, they can tend the crop. Enough of these little dudes can monitor individual plants for disease, then treat or remove affected plants. Monitor and regulate moisture for maximum effect at each plant. Heck, they could even pollinate plants since the honeybee population has been devastated in recent years.
If I had a zillion little microbots or nanobots, I could find a LOT of better uses than spying on my neighbor. My neighbors are pretty damned homely anyway, I don't WANT to watch them doing whatever they do when I can't see them!
WTF do golf and geeks have in common? Thinking here...
Alright, maybe I've got it. Golfers have this inadequacy thing, which they try to compensate for by hammering their balls as far across a field as possible.
Geeks don't worry about their inadequacies to much - they just reach in their pockets and fondle their balls.
Balls. Cherishyou is a golfing geek? hmmmmmmmm Female? Hmmmmmmm Maybe she should hang with a different crowd. Bikers come to mind.
"A lot of P2P users out there aren't aware that they're sharing their whole drive"
Sorry, that's not a P2P program. That's a trojan. Doesn't matter if the trojan is named eMule, Bearshare, and that the firewall/AV/malware filter accepts it - it's still a trojan.
We've read about Skype's hidden "features" of recording and forwarding conversations. When configured to do so, that's a trojan.
By definition, anything that forwards information without the user's informed consent is a trojan.
"There is no reason to expect that their clinostat successfully captures the essence of the problem"
I looked at the image of that clinostat. The researchers are probably pretty smart people, but there is just no way that a centrifuge on steroids can duplicate zero-G. The embryos have to be subjected for changing gravitational forces. Said forces may cumulatively add up to zero, in theory, but those embryos aren't experiencing theory.
Lung cancer. I watched my Grandpa die of it. Try to imagine that I cut open your chest, and put a pair of perfectly healthy rats inside your chest, then sewed you back up. Imagine those rats clawing and gnawing their way back out. Not a pretty picture, huh? The comparison isn't accurate - those rats would kill you within an hour. Cancer lasts, and lasts, and lasts.......
Maybe "noble" isn't the right word. But, face it - we've all got to go. Why not write your own ticket? Call it fear, but I sure as hell don't want to spend months wasting away on a hospital bed. I've seen it. There are, literally, dozens of better ways to go. Having your ass shot off by a jealous husband would be better than eating your own gun barrel, but hey - it works.
"Does it drown dolphins and club baby seals to death?"
Actually, I've been thinking of a little getaway. Someplace a guy can just be himself, let his guard down, and relax. Are you selling vacations? I could enjoy clubbing a few baby seals, and roasting their little carcasses over a nice propane fire. Liberal supplies of alcohol antifreeze, maybe some Valkyrie waitresses and chambermaids . . . . .
Well, I'm no physicist, but the months may be shorter and/or follow a different sequence "down under". It is unsafe to assume that your understanding of the space/time continuum applies everywhere......
You should see your therapist. I'm reading a PDF. If you are hearing voices from a PDF, you MAY just have a problem. Or not, as the case may be. Jean D'Arc did well with hearing voices, until the very end.....
From the book: "Even though I recently retired from McAfee, I still believe it is doing far better than the rest of the security industry for a few core reasons."
Google "Who is John Viega" I get this: John Viega is CTO of the SaaS Business Unit at McAfee and the author of many security books, including Building Secure Software
Sorry folks, but I don't believe that McAfee is the end-all and be-all authority on security. I'll read the book, and see what I can learn, but McAfee and I go back a long way. It's been one crummy relationship.
I suspect that you might draw to many conclusions from your game playing - but you certainly make one very good point. Television and movies are total bullshit. There have been precious few movies that portrayed the use of cover and concealment in a combat situation. The heroes always strut around the battlefield like a bunch of banty roosters, the enemy can't hit the heroes with anything, and the heroes can't miss the most difficult shot. Oh yeah, no one ever runs out of ammo either - each soldier must have a pickup truck keeping up with him to shoot up as much ammo as our heroes do.
Anyway - addressing the more important part of your post: I think there will always be manned fighter and attack craft, for the same reasons that there will always be grunts on the ground. The machines and the technology are cool, but they can't occupy a territory, they can't impose their will on the occupants of a territory, and in fact, they lack any will to be imposed.
No matter how advanced warfare gets, the grunts, the sailors, and the pilots will still be out there.
Feeling pissy today, are we, Mr. Freeman? Maybe you should read the REST of the posts? One doesn't need to truly understand a technology to see it, after someone has pointed out some of it's features. Please, read the posts branching from my original post. You may learn that I vaguely know what I'm talking about, and I'm learning from other people who are contributing to the conversation.
If YOU know what you're talking about, please, contribute.
I didn't realize those were photoshopped - guess I saw what I wanted to see?
Anyway, that photo you link to - A7 Corsair? I'm not sure, but when I look at it, it says "Navy" and "carrier landing" to me. Looks like attack, not a real bomber. And, that tail with the little fins mounted up high. The A7 is the nearest match I can find.
Overall silouette looks pretty similar, yes. Look at the tails - the mig has vertical tails, the FGFA tails are slanted. Then, the jets. The mig's nozzles extend back past the rear wings, FGFA do not. Part of the vectoring thing, as well as stealth. Looking forward from the jet nozzles, the Mig's jet engines form big round bulges in the fuselage, both top and bottom, where the FGFA has a clean swept surface. The mig has all those mounting pylons, FGFA lacks them - weapons are inside of the "stealth" skin of the aircraft, making them invisible to radar.
I see all the features that previous articles I've read pointed out as "stealthy". I don't have any idea how it stacks up against our aircraft, but the obvious features are there.
Not an aviator, by any stretch of the imagination, BUT, the pictures don't look like "stealth" to me. Starting with two tails standing vertically, and on to what appears to be a traditionally rounded fuselage, cockpit, and nose. I don't see those features that were touted by the US Air Force as being "stealthy". Do they rely more on electronics than the US counterparts, or is the word "stealth" just a buzzword here?
You've got one part right. The constitution is amendable. What chafes my ass, is when people try to sidestep the constitution. Worse, is when they try to make that constitution say something that it never intended to say.
An voter shows up at some meeting, and he happens to be toting a weapon. What's the problem? Are you afraid of him? Why? What is the problem, exactly? He might shoot you?
Why not leave the pansy pastel rainbow party, and join the party that allows you to carry weapons? That way, you can have your own weapon, and you need not fear. Problem solved, right?
*sigh*
I'm glad I don't live in fear.
Arms are no more vicious than they were in the day the Romans ruled all of the known world. In fact, weapons are comparatively less deadly than back then. A nasty cut with a spear or sword was very likely to get infected and kill you. Today? You can take a bullet or three, get carted off to a hospital, and be saved from death. Besides which, weapons aren't vicious - people are.
As for my immutable gospel - there are no vague statements in it. Every sentence, every phrase, every word in that document was carefully considered. There is nothing vague about it. The only time it may seem vague is when people start parsing words like ole Billy Clinton. "Depends on what you mean by "Sex"" Clinton. And, "What do you mean by "is"" Clinton.
If you don't like the Constitution, why don't you stand up on two legs like a man, and say that you don't like the Constitution. Don't blather meaningless bullshit about how those nutcases 200 years ago couldn't have foreseen where technology would go, or how society would change, or that they didn't comprehend the English language. Just come right out and say that you don't like the United States, or it's government, and that you want to change it. That sounds honest at least, and some people might respect you for it.
And, you need not fear speaking out, either. You'll have a lot of company. There are millions of babbling fools who think that this country could be better if it were run their way. You'll have to stand in line, though. Some of those babbling fools have money, and they are already in Washington trying to buy up a congressman or six to do their bidding. Kinda like Bill Gates and Microsoft in this article: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/29/030223/Microsoft-Holding-Screw-Google-Meetings-In-DC?art_pos=27
As usual, I see no Linux support at all. I've almost made up my mind to format and install Windows again. Damn those rat bastard virus writers! Always forgetting us lusers!
Ruthless, no. Lackwit, I've gone to some extremes in my life to help people who need help. Bloodthirsty, no. I do what needs to be done, and if that means putting a dog down, I do it. Doesn't mean I enjoy it.
Grow up stupid ass. The bastard who stole that little girl for his own deviant pleasure deserves nothing more than a bullet in the ear. If you imagine anything else, you are one sick shit.
Now, every bleeding heart liberal in the world needs to shut the fuck up, sit down, and watch. Give the man a trial. Make it fair. Let some fucktard try to convince reasonable men and women that he's not at fault. Listen to the guilty verdict come back. Then watch him be marched into a tiny cell where he gets his injections.
And, I'll laugh at all you morons who worry about his humane execution. He DESERVES a bullet in the ear. He deserves as much compassion as you would display as you stomped on a roach.
"In most, if not all of these incidents, no laws were broken and no arrests were made. The people involved either had legal permits to carry concealed weapons or were demonstrating in a state that allows people to carry firearms out in the open."
Gun permits are a shady deal to start with. Violation of a gun permit law may or may not mean anything at all. I don't believe the state has any right or authority to limit the possession of firearms, except in the cases of felons and/or mentally incompetent.
Your original post lead me to believe that those people in possession of firearms were acting in a threatening or belligerent manner. It seems that is not the case.
I'm sorry that you feel that I sound condescending. All the same, I invite you again to read the constitution, and it's amendments. As an able bodied adult, I am part of the nation's militia, and therefor entitled to keep, maintain, and be responsible for firearms.
Because I am literate, I do not depend on some politician to "interpret" the clear meaning of some relatively plain spoken men. There is nothing in the consititution that is difficult to understand. If there is something that you don't understand, there are plenty of supporting documents, such as letters written between the men who wrote and signed the constitution. No one need be confused, no one need rely on some modern day liberal interpretation.
"NT 6 is the most secure desktop operating system,"
So, what you seem to be saying is, you have faith that over the next several months, as NT6 is adopted by more and more people, we will see an end to Windows exploits.
Ohhhh-kay. Good luck with that. I remember similar expectations when Win9.x was finally dropped in favor of NT.
I will grant that the security model seems to be improved over NT5.x I'll readily admit that security defaults are much improved over NT5.x But, I honestly believe that NT6.x will be exploited soon. Am I the only person to notice that MS strongly encourages you to find and install an antivirus immediately after installation? Could that warning be prompted by MS knowledge that some, or many, or even all of the old viruses and trojans can be modified to use the same old exploits on NT6 that they have taken advantage of on NT5?
Give it 12 to 24 months, then come back and tell me that NT6 security is superior to Linux, or Mac, or whatever.
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Bring the cost down to near nothing, make them self replicating, then foist them off to agriculture. Since they use nice clean energy, they can replace tractors in planting and harvesting. In between those activities, they can tend the crop. Enough of these little dudes can monitor individual plants for disease, then treat or remove affected plants. Monitor and regulate moisture for maximum effect at each plant. Heck, they could even pollinate plants since the honeybee population has been devastated in recent years.
If I had a zillion little microbots or nanobots, I could find a LOT of better uses than spying on my neighbor. My neighbors are pretty damned homely anyway, I don't WANT to watch them doing whatever they do when I can't see them!
WTF do golf and geeks have in common? Thinking here...
Alright, maybe I've got it. Golfers have this inadequacy thing, which they try to compensate for by hammering their balls as far across a field as possible.
Geeks don't worry about their inadequacies to much - they just reach in their pockets and fondle their balls.
Balls. Cherishyou is a golfing geek? hmmmmmmmm Female? Hmmmmmmm Maybe she should hang with a different crowd. Bikers come to mind.
15 Euros for cFoss? I'll stick to http://lartc.org/wondershaper/
Linux gateways make sense because the firewall, the AV, the traffic shaper, everything runs at no monetary cost.
As someone above pointed out - it's ironic to pay for services and software that enable you to download stuff you aren't willing to pay for......
"A lot of P2P users out there aren't aware that they're sharing their whole drive"
Sorry, that's not a P2P program. That's a trojan. Doesn't matter if the trojan is named eMule, Bearshare, and that the firewall/AV/malware filter accepts it - it's still a trojan.
We've read about Skype's hidden "features" of recording and forwarding conversations. When configured to do so, that's a trojan.
By definition, anything that forwards information without the user's informed consent is a trojan.
"There is no reason to expect that their clinostat successfully captures the essence of the problem"
I looked at the image of that clinostat. The researchers are probably pretty smart people, but there is just no way that a centrifuge on steroids can duplicate zero-G. The embryos have to be subjected for changing gravitational forces. Said forces may cumulatively add up to zero, in theory, but those embryos aren't experiencing theory.
Lung cancer. I watched my Grandpa die of it. Try to imagine that I cut open your chest, and put a pair of perfectly healthy rats inside your chest, then sewed you back up. Imagine those rats clawing and gnawing their way back out. Not a pretty picture, huh? The comparison isn't accurate - those rats would kill you within an hour. Cancer lasts, and lasts, and lasts.......
Maybe "noble" isn't the right word. But, face it - we've all got to go. Why not write your own ticket? Call it fear, but I sure as hell don't want to spend months wasting away on a hospital bed. I've seen it. There are, literally, dozens of better ways to go. Having your ass shot off by a jealous husband would be better than eating your own gun barrel, but hey - it works.
"Does it drown dolphins and club baby seals to death?"
Actually, I've been thinking of a little getaway. Someplace a guy can just be himself, let his guard down, and relax. Are you selling vacations? I could enjoy clubbing a few baby seals, and roasting their little carcasses over a nice propane fire. Liberal supplies of alcohol antifreeze, maybe some Valkyrie waitresses and chambermaids . . . . .
I'm curious - how does that all work out in Braille?
Well, I'm no physicist, but the months may be shorter and/or follow a different sequence "down under". It is unsafe to assume that your understanding of the space/time continuum applies everywhere......
You should see your therapist. I'm reading a PDF. If you are hearing voices from a PDF, you MAY just have a problem. Or not, as the case may be. Jean D'Arc did well with hearing voices, until the very end.....
From the book: "Even though I recently retired from McAfee, I still believe it is doing far better than the rest of the security industry for a few core reasons."
Google "Who is John Viega" I get this: John Viega is CTO of the SaaS Business Unit at McAfee and the author of many security books, including Building Secure Software
Sorry folks, but I don't believe that McAfee is the end-all and be-all authority on security. I'll read the book, and see what I can learn, but McAfee and I go back a long way. It's been one crummy relationship.
I suspect that you might draw to many conclusions from your game playing - but you certainly make one very good point. Television and movies are total bullshit. There have been precious few movies that portrayed the use of cover and concealment in a combat situation. The heroes always strut around the battlefield like a bunch of banty roosters, the enemy can't hit the heroes with anything, and the heroes can't miss the most difficult shot. Oh yeah, no one ever runs out of ammo either - each soldier must have a pickup truck keeping up with him to shoot up as much ammo as our heroes do.
Anyway - addressing the more important part of your post: I think there will always be manned fighter and attack craft, for the same reasons that there will always be grunts on the ground. The machines and the technology are cool, but they can't occupy a territory, they can't impose their will on the occupants of a territory, and in fact, they lack any will to be imposed.
No matter how advanced warfare gets, the grunts, the sailors, and the pilots will still be out there.
Feeling pissy today, are we, Mr. Freeman? Maybe you should read the REST of the posts? One doesn't need to truly understand a technology to see it, after someone has pointed out some of it's features. Please, read the posts branching from my original post. You may learn that I vaguely know what I'm talking about, and I'm learning from other people who are contributing to the conversation.
If YOU know what you're talking about, please, contribute.
I didn't realize those were photoshopped - guess I saw what I wanted to see?
Anyway, that photo you link to - A7 Corsair? I'm not sure, but when I look at it, it says "Navy" and "carrier landing" to me. Looks like attack, not a real bomber. And, that tail with the little fins mounted up high. The A7 is the nearest match I can find.
Overall silouette looks pretty similar, yes. Look at the tails - the mig has vertical tails, the FGFA tails are slanted. Then, the jets. The mig's nozzles extend back past the rear wings, FGFA do not. Part of the vectoring thing, as well as stealth. Looking forward from the jet nozzles, the Mig's jet engines form big round bulges in the fuselage, both top and bottom, where the FGFA has a clean swept surface. The mig has all those mounting pylons, FGFA lacks them - weapons are inside of the "stealth" skin of the aircraft, making them invisible to radar.
I see all the features that previous articles I've read pointed out as "stealthy". I don't have any idea how it stacks up against our aircraft, but the obvious features are there.
Whoops. Maybe I posted to soon. Another google hit gave me a stealthy looking aircraft:
http://flareout.blogspot.com/2009/05/fifth-generation-fighter-aircraft-fgfa.html
I don't see any pylons here for missiles, or other radar bouncing structures. Definitely not what was shown in the earlier photos.
Not an aviator, by any stretch of the imagination, BUT, the pictures don't look like "stealth" to me. Starting with two tails standing vertically, and on to what appears to be a traditionally rounded fuselage, cockpit, and nose. I don't see those features that were touted by the US Air Force as being "stealthy". Do they rely more on electronics than the US counterparts, or is the word "stealth" just a buzzword here?
You've got one part right. The constitution is amendable. What chafes my ass, is when people try to sidestep the constitution. Worse, is when they try to make that constitution say something that it never intended to say.
An voter shows up at some meeting, and he happens to be toting a weapon. What's the problem? Are you afraid of him? Why? What is the problem, exactly? He might shoot you?
Why not leave the pansy pastel rainbow party, and join the party that allows you to carry weapons? That way, you can have your own weapon, and you need not fear. Problem solved, right?
*sigh*
I'm glad I don't live in fear.
Arms are no more vicious than they were in the day the Romans ruled all of the known world. In fact, weapons are comparatively less deadly than back then. A nasty cut with a spear or sword was very likely to get infected and kill you. Today? You can take a bullet or three, get carted off to a hospital, and be saved from death. Besides which, weapons aren't vicious - people are.
As for my immutable gospel - there are no vague statements in it. Every sentence, every phrase, every word in that document was carefully considered. There is nothing vague about it. The only time it may seem vague is when people start parsing words like ole Billy Clinton. "Depends on what you mean by "Sex"" Clinton. And, "What do you mean by "is"" Clinton.
If you don't like the Constitution, why don't you stand up on two legs like a man, and say that you don't like the Constitution. Don't blather meaningless bullshit about how those nutcases 200 years ago couldn't have foreseen where technology would go, or how society would change, or that they didn't comprehend the English language. Just come right out and say that you don't like the United States, or it's government, and that you want to change it. That sounds honest at least, and some people might respect you for it.
And, you need not fear speaking out, either. You'll have a lot of company. There are millions of babbling fools who think that this country could be better if it were run their way. You'll have to stand in line, though. Some of those babbling fools have money, and they are already in Washington trying to buy up a congressman or six to do their bidding. Kinda like Bill Gates and Microsoft in this article: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/29/030223/Microsoft-Holding-Screw-Google-Meetings-In-DC?art_pos=27
As usual, I see no Linux support at all. I've almost made up my mind to format and install Windows again. Damn those rat bastard virus writers! Always forgetting us lusers!
Ruthless, no. Lackwit, I've gone to some extremes in my life to help people who need help. Bloodthirsty, no. I do what needs to be done, and if that means putting a dog down, I do it. Doesn't mean I enjoy it.
Grow up stupid ass. The bastard who stole that little girl for his own deviant pleasure deserves nothing more than a bullet in the ear. If you imagine anything else, you are one sick shit.
Now, every bleeding heart liberal in the world needs to shut the fuck up, sit down, and watch. Give the man a trial. Make it fair. Let some fucktard try to convince reasonable men and women that he's not at fault. Listen to the guilty verdict come back. Then watch him be marched into a tiny cell where he gets his injections.
And, I'll laugh at all you morons who worry about his humane execution. He DESERVES a bullet in the ear. He deserves as much compassion as you would display as you stomped on a roach.
"In most, if not all of these incidents, no laws were broken and no arrests were made. The people involved either had legal permits to carry concealed weapons or were demonstrating in a state that allows people to carry firearms out in the open."
Gun permits are a shady deal to start with. Violation of a gun permit law may or may not mean anything at all. I don't believe the state has any right or authority to limit the possession of firearms, except in the cases of felons and/or mentally incompetent.
Your original post lead me to believe that those people in possession of firearms were acting in a threatening or belligerent manner. It seems that is not the case.
I'm sorry that you feel that I sound condescending. All the same, I invite you again to read the constitution, and it's amendments. As an able bodied adult, I am part of the nation's militia, and therefor entitled to keep, maintain, and be responsible for firearms.
Because I am literate, I do not depend on some politician to "interpret" the clear meaning of some relatively plain spoken men. There is nothing in the consititution that is difficult to understand. If there is something that you don't understand, there are plenty of supporting documents, such as letters written between the men who wrote and signed the constitution. No one need be confused, no one need rely on some modern day liberal interpretation.
Fair enough. Food for thought.......
"NT 6 is the most secure desktop operating system,"
So, what you seem to be saying is, you have faith that over the next several months, as NT6 is adopted by more and more people, we will see an end to Windows exploits.
Ohhhh-kay. Good luck with that. I remember similar expectations when Win9.x was finally dropped in favor of NT.
I will grant that the security model seems to be improved over NT5.x I'll readily admit that security defaults are much improved over NT5.x But, I honestly believe that NT6.x will be exploited soon. Am I the only person to notice that MS strongly encourages you to find and install an antivirus immediately after installation? Could that warning be prompted by MS knowledge that some, or many, or even all of the old viruses and trojans can be modified to use the same old exploits on NT6 that they have taken advantage of on NT5?
Give it 12 to 24 months, then come back and tell me that NT6 security is superior to Linux, or Mac, or whatever.
Meanwhile, you might browse these pesky articles.
"There is no public transit here."
Thank you for speaking up. I was beginning to think that I'm the only slashdotter who lives outside of a greater metropolitan area. :^)
Population 2500? There are city blocks with that many people, lol