I can read it on your machine before you encrypt it
The "clean machine" never connects to the 'net. It handles the encryption and is the only machine that sees the decrypted data. The machine that touches the net (somewhere remote to your home/office connection) only sees the encrypted file.
When you realize that I have the power to quickly mobilize any police force almost anywhere in the world to get what I want, you will realize by how much you are screwed.
"If you just want to "stay anonymous from the NSA", or whomever good luck with that. My advice? Pick different adversaries."
How is this so different to people who emigrate to a different country? Particularly people who migrate from poor shitty third world countries to rich first world countries. New laws, new culture, new language and customs. Your skills are out of date and you are even poorer and worse educated than you were when you started.
The Obama/Boehner deal was 35% of estates over $5m, which applies to 3600 individual estates in the US. The previous levels (the pre-Bush levels that were supposed to kick back in next year) were 55% of estates over $1m, but for some reason Obama gave that away rather than just let it kick back in.
So if you qualify for the new levels, congratulations on being in the top 0.15% of US wealth and one of the 3600 wealthiest families in the US, and please rest assured that the US government will continue to spread its legs for you and your family like the cheap whore it is.
Parent is saying that if these cryogenic promoters actually had a method of reviving people, then cryogenics could be used on living people. They'd be clinically dead during the freezing, but that would legally be no different to a heart-lung transplant or similar high-end surgery which don't count as legal death.
And if they had such a technique, it would start to be used in medicine and the law would need to be settled. Initially to preserve organs for transplant; allowing proper long-term organ banks. But eventually for emergency preservation of life; such as a soldier wounded in combat, frozen for transport to a facility in the US capable of dealing with their wounds. If such preservation caused legal death, then your life would quickly become a Monty Python sketch: "Cpl. Smith is dead", "No I'm not", "Yes you are", "I'm standing right here!", "Many people saw you die", "But I came back", "Well... that's not really allowed, is it", "Not! really! allowed!?", "Can't have corpses popping back to life all over the place, cause no end of confusion"...
It's worse than that. Using a specially-built one-off single-passenger vehicle on existing infrastructure would meet the proposed 3hr goal. A race car on exisitng (but cleared) roads. A specially built rail vehicle on existing (but cleared) lines. I'm sure someone could come up with a single-use vehicle for a few tens of millions, to claim a $10 billion prize.
Doing either in an affordable (say, $25 000 today's money) vehicle
TFA proposes a $10 billion prize to send a single human from LA to SF in 3 hours.
Posters are saying "$10m to pay to close the road for 4hours from 3am to 7am on a Sunday morning in summer. $2m to hire a suitable driver and navigator. $10m to run the support crew. $2m to buy a car capable of 200mph. Profit $9.976 billion."
People could also, I'm sure, come up with a $10-20m bespoke single-run one-passenger vehicle that uses the existing rail lines with a few million dollars in modification (special fittings to cover switches) and cover the same run inside of 3 hours.
The point being that the proposal is poorly thought out.
Hydrogen electrolysis is a bulky, low-efficiency battery. You've got two major losses of efficiency, electrolysis to produce the hydrogen, and the fact that hydrogen leaks like crazy.
What is there to regulate with IPTV? If you don't like your IPTV provider, you can choose another one instantly.
I think you'll find that this new fee/tax applies to situations where that isn't true. Ie, where your cable provider switches their cable service to digital for their own physically connected cable subscribers. This isn't for services which are just generally available over the internet, like Hulu/Netflix. It's to prevent existing monopoly (or pseudo monopoly) cable providers digitising their exclusive cable service and then saying, "Oh we aren't cable any more, we're internets now. Lol.")
(That said, it's worth complaining about "mission creep" to try to resist this being used as a regulatory wedge to eventually spread into true internet-only services.)
Perhaps we need a new form of Turing Test where the AI must turn a weird novel query (like "can alligators run the 100m hurdles?") into something Google can understand, and then work out which of the returned sites has the information, parse the info and return it as a simple explanatory answer.
The problem is that, once again, Microsoft has a poor marketing vision, i.e. they're selling a product without a real place in the market.
The also failed to leverage it against the areas they already had dominance. (Well, except by further ostracising them with Win8.)
No Outlook. No deep Skydrive integration. Keyboard as an optional extra instead of standard as a point of differentiation with Android/Apple "toy tablets". No out-of-the-box Enterprise Windows integration for secure and simplified BYOD on the corporate intranet. No core business apps built in, like MS-Office. No new business apps for sales/CRM/warehousing/etc, to lower corporate hardware and support costs and improve staff productivity. No out-of-the-box easily-secured compatibility with horribly-out-of-date-but-vital (IE6) in-house corporate applications. The clumsy tacked on Metro/"Modern" UI alongside the old desktop like an afterthought, signalling that they really didn't know how to integrate it into a desktop, and that it was just something you passed through to reach the real UI (**). No integration between desktops and tablets/phones, where the WinRT device can be fluidly set up as a secondary I/O for your desktop software, and it Just Works. (***) Etc etc etc.
(Likewise, no consumer edition tightly linked with XBox, XBox live and Skydrive. No clever release of a super-easy new SDK for XBox apps a year ago, that turned out to be immediately compatible with Surface and Win8 on PC.)
(** And that MS doesn't have the leadership to say to the devs "Go back and make this work!" It would have been fairly easy to make Metro the actual desktop. That is, underneath the desktop windows manager instead of over the top of it. Vista/Win7 had desktop "widgets" which no one ever used, this would be a better version allowing a mix of apps, widgets, icons, groups, etc. From a desktop users perspective, it would have been a minor upgrade, instead of a "What is this shit? Where the fuck is everything?!" constant reminder of suck.)
(*** Ie, seamlessly drag (and flick) apps, menu-bars, tool-boxes, files, etc, back and forth between the desktop and the tablet or phone. For example, free up screen space on the PC by pulling menu-bars onto the tablet. Or move your desktop email UI onto the tablet screen while you work on something else on the main screen. Note, the software is actually running on the desktop, the tablet is just acting as secondary screen and touch-pad, but without stealing focus from the main desktop. The "it Just Works" cleverness that made the iPhone/iPad such an immediate attention grabber.)
They could do a 'reverse-slingshot' maneuver to bleed off speed using one of Mars's moons.
Mars' moons are way too small to do any kind of gravitational slingshot manoeuvre. You'd probably use an inflatable heatshield and aerobrake into orbit.
a room with 6 inch think lead walls is heavier than you think
Minor point, but lead (or any metal) is not the appropriate shield in space. It produces secondary radiation showers that are worse than the incoming radiation. The shielding of choice is hydrogen. That means high-H plastics or water, the latter is preferred for long duration missions for reasons that should be obvious.
And autoplay video. And scrolling/looping banners and sidebars. And blinky/noisy ads. And floating boxes. And pop-over subscription requests. Yes. Kill them all. I keep throwing matches at the screen, but they won't burn.
No, if Gates' foundation can beat Malaria, he should get a Nobel prize, a sainthood, a world-wide annual holiday in his honour, and his face carved on Mt Rushmore.
I was on the third sentence in the summary before my brain caught up with what I read in the first sentence and I stopped picturing some kind of sneaker-net of racing camels, carrying infected USBs between nomads' camp-site computers.
Are you claiming the opposition wasn't helped by having guns?
Not just "guns", AK-47s plus RPGs to bring the helos down. And a perfect storm of events in their favour. They had the US troops trapped, cut off, and pinned down. The US troops were inexperienced at this kind of firefight, not one of them had any prior experience (the last major firefight was in Vietnam). The opposition had elevation, supply lines, and over an order of magnitude more men, in an area they had total control over, against a US command structure that was caught completely flat footed and crippled by conflicting rules of engagement. So in a perfect storm, with every odd stacked in their favour, the opposition ultimate lost; they failed to overrun the US position and prevent their eventual rescue. In 24 hours of fighting, they killed just 18 Americans, versus hundreds of their own killed (and the US estimates were as high as 1500 deaths plus 3000 casualties.)
[Everyone treats the battle as a disaster for the US, and yes on the command side (and political side) it was, but I've always seen it as the purest example of how US troops really perform in combat, in a way that is rarely seen even in wars like Iraq. And the result is breath-taking. Makes Frank Miller's "300" look like a piece of crap.]
Since then, the US has not only changed training and equipment, they've been hardened by a decade and a half of precisely that kind of war; against opposition themselves hardened by years of fighting. You'd be facing veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, with a perfect supply chain, plus whole new classes of weapons from X-25s to drones. And you'd lack things like RPGs which are necessary just to balance the odds, let alone proper anti-air/anti-tank weapons. And you'd be learning your own tactics and training from almost scratch.
The great citizen revolution would be over in hours.
The only way you'd have any hope of winning would be when thousands of unarmed protesters are gunned down by security forces loyal to the government, live on international TV/internet, and amid international condemnation, a major chunk of the US military (such as a full Marine division) comes to the aid of the protesters, putting themselves between the security forces and the civilians (and basically daring the security forces to cross the line). Eventually leading to senior military commanders basically staging a coup, forcing the President-for-life to stand down or flee into exile, and, you hope, holding UN supervised elections with the intention of restoring the constitution and ending martial law.
OTOH, any armed protesters or resistance-groups will be put down and used to justify further loss of liberty, and will reduce the active opposition to the government amongst civilians. And US troops wouldn't support a violent resistance, because the moment the resistance kills its first US soldier, the entire US military and most of the civilian population would unify against you, no matter what they thought of the government.
I was looking at the cost of Bigelow Aerospace's proposed private space stations, and the possible price per launch of SpaceX's Dragon capsule once they'd got a reusable launcher, when I realised that buying your own private space-station to fly your family up to a couple of times a year is around the same cost as owning and running a super-yacht. And a hell of a lot more exclusive.
Don't forget that a classic Stanford torus can house more than 10,000 people in comfort (or 200,000 people in discomfort). So the 50 original investors also have 9,950 additional residences to sell. Plus patents on most of the important technologies for building space habitats, plus the world's biggest/only space construction company...
So it wouldn't be like buying an expensive apartment. It would be like investing in an apartment construction company, and not only getting an expensive apartment, but also getting 1/50th ownership of an entire billionaire resort town.
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I can read it on your machine before you encrypt it
The "clean machine" never connects to the 'net. It handles the encryption and is the only machine that sees the decrypted data. The machine that touches the net (somewhere remote to your home/office connection) only sees the encrypted file.
When you realize that I have the power to quickly mobilize any police force almost anywhere in the world to get what I want, you will realize by how much you are screwed.
"If you just want to "stay anonymous from the NSA", or whomever good luck with that. My advice? Pick different adversaries."
How is this so different to people who emigrate to a different country? Particularly people who migrate from poor shitty third world countries to rich first world countries. New laws, new culture, new language and customs. Your skills are out of date and you are even poorer and worse educated than you were when you started.
And yet...
And third, why would anybody reasonably want to be unfrozen, when the world is massively changed and everybody they knew and cared about is gone?
Because they could meet new people and learn a new world?
And as George Burns replied, when asked what it was like to be 99, "It beats the alternative".
The Obama/Boehner deal was 35% of estates over $5m, which applies to 3600 individual estates in the US. The previous levels (the pre-Bush levels that were supposed to kick back in next year) were 55% of estates over $1m, but for some reason Obama gave that away rather than just let it kick back in.
So if you qualify for the new levels, congratulations on being in the top 0.15% of US wealth and one of the 3600 wealthiest families in the US, and please rest assured that the US government will continue to spread its legs for you and your family like the cheap whore it is.
Parent is saying that if these cryogenic promoters actually had a method of reviving people, then cryogenics could be used on living people. They'd be clinically dead during the freezing, but that would legally be no different to a heart-lung transplant or similar high-end surgery which don't count as legal death.
And if they had such a technique, it would start to be used in medicine and the law would need to be settled. Initially to preserve organs for transplant; allowing proper long-term organ banks. But eventually for emergency preservation of life; such as a soldier wounded in combat, frozen for transport to a facility in the US capable of dealing with their wounds. If such preservation caused legal death, then your life would quickly become a Monty Python sketch: "Cpl. Smith is dead", "No I'm not", "Yes you are", "I'm standing right here!", "Many people saw you die", "But I came back", "Well... that's not really allowed, is it", "Not! really! allowed!?", "Can't have corpses popping back to life all over the place, cause no end of confusion"...
It's worse than that. Using a specially-built one-off single-passenger vehicle on existing infrastructure would meet the proposed 3hr goal. A race car on exisitng (but cleared) roads. A specially built rail vehicle on existing (but cleared) lines. I'm sure someone could come up with a single-use vehicle for a few tens of millions, to claim a $10 billion prize.
TFA proposes a $10 billion prize to send a single human from LA to SF in 3 hours.
Posters are saying "$10m to pay to close the road for 4hours from 3am to 7am on a Sunday morning in summer. $2m to hire a suitable driver and navigator. $10m to run the support crew. $2m to buy a car capable of 200mph. Profit $9.976 billion."
People could also, I'm sure, come up with a $10-20m bespoke single-run one-passenger vehicle that uses the existing rail lines with a few million dollars in modification (special fittings to cover switches) and cover the same run inside of 3 hours.
The point being that the proposal is poorly thought out.
Hydrogen electrolysis is a bulky, low-efficiency battery. You've got two major losses of efficiency, electrolysis to produce the hydrogen, and the fact that hydrogen leaks like crazy.
I think you'll find that this new fee/tax applies to situations where that isn't true. Ie, where your cable provider switches their cable service to digital for their own physically connected cable subscribers. This isn't for services which are just generally available over the internet, like Hulu/Netflix. It's to prevent existing monopoly (or pseudo monopoly) cable providers digitising their exclusive cable service and then saying, "Oh we aren't cable any more, we're internets now. Lol.")
(That said, it's worth complaining about "mission creep" to try to resist this being used as a regulatory wedge to eventually spread into true internet-only services.)
Perhaps we need a new form of Turing Test where the AI must turn a weird novel query (like "can alligators run the 100m hurdles?") into something Google can understand, and then work out which of the returned sites has the information, parse the info and return it as a simple explanatory answer.
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The problem is that, once again, Microsoft has a poor marketing vision, i.e. they're selling a product without a real place in the market.
The also failed to leverage it against the areas they already had dominance. (Well, except by further ostracising them with Win8.)
No Outlook. No deep Skydrive integration. Keyboard as an optional extra instead of standard as a point of differentiation with Android/Apple "toy tablets". No out-of-the-box Enterprise Windows integration for secure and simplified BYOD on the corporate intranet. No core business apps built in, like MS-Office. No new business apps for sales/CRM/warehousing/etc, to lower corporate hardware and support costs and improve staff productivity. No out-of-the-box easily-secured compatibility with horribly-out-of-date-but-vital (IE6) in-house corporate applications. The clumsy tacked on Metro/"Modern" UI alongside the old desktop like an afterthought, signalling that they really didn't know how to integrate it into a desktop, and that it was just something you passed through to reach the real UI (**). No integration between desktops and tablets/phones, where the WinRT device can be fluidly set up as a secondary I/O for your desktop software, and it Just Works. (***) Etc etc etc.
(Likewise, no consumer edition tightly linked with XBox, XBox live and Skydrive. No clever release of a super-easy new SDK for XBox apps a year ago, that turned out to be immediately compatible with Surface and Win8 on PC.)
(** And that MS doesn't have the leadership to say to the devs "Go back and make this work!" It would have been fairly easy to make Metro the actual desktop. That is, underneath the desktop windows manager instead of over the top of it. Vista/Win7 had desktop "widgets" which no one ever used, this would be a better version allowing a mix of apps, widgets, icons, groups, etc. From a desktop users perspective, it would have been a minor upgrade, instead of a "What is this shit? Where the fuck is everything?!" constant reminder of suck.)
(*** Ie, seamlessly drag (and flick) apps, menu-bars, tool-boxes, files, etc, back and forth between the desktop and the tablet or phone. For example, free up screen space on the PC by pulling menu-bars onto the tablet. Or move your desktop email UI onto the tablet screen while you work on something else on the main screen. Note, the software is actually running on the desktop, the tablet is just acting as secondary screen and touch-pad, but without stealing focus from the main desktop. The "it Just Works" cleverness that made the iPhone/iPad such an immediate attention grabber.)
Be a fun toy for younger kids.
I assume he wants to gather balls of light with his fingers and fire them at people lost in the ocean.
They could do a 'reverse-slingshot' maneuver to bleed off speed using one of Mars's moons.
Mars' moons are way too small to do any kind of gravitational slingshot manoeuvre. You'd probably use an inflatable heatshield and aerobrake into orbit.
a room with 6 inch think lead walls is heavier than you think
Minor point, but lead (or any metal) is not the appropriate shield in space. It produces secondary radiation showers that are worse than the incoming radiation. The shielding of choice is hydrogen. That means high-H plastics or water, the latter is preferred for long duration missions for reasons that should be obvious.
Mostly. Yes.
And autoplay video. And scrolling/looping banners and sidebars. And blinky/noisy ads. And floating boxes. And pop-over subscription requests. Yes. Kill them all. I keep throwing matches at the screen, but they won't burn.
No, if Gates' foundation can beat Malaria, he should get a Nobel prize, a sainthood, a world-wide annual holiday in his honour, and his face carved on Mt Rushmore.
I was on the third sentence in the summary before my brain caught up with what I read in the first sentence and I stopped picturing some kind of sneaker-net of racing camels, carrying infected USBs between nomads' camp-site computers.
Can we agree a thousand armed civilians
Try five thousand. Probably more.
Are you claiming the opposition wasn't helped by having guns?
Not just "guns", AK-47s plus RPGs to bring the helos down. And a perfect storm of events in their favour. They had the US troops trapped, cut off, and pinned down. The US troops were inexperienced at this kind of firefight, not one of them had any prior experience (the last major firefight was in Vietnam). The opposition had elevation, supply lines, and over an order of magnitude more men, in an area they had total control over, against a US command structure that was caught completely flat footed and crippled by conflicting rules of engagement. So in a perfect storm, with every odd stacked in their favour, the opposition ultimate lost; they failed to overrun the US position and prevent their eventual rescue. In 24 hours of fighting, they killed just 18 Americans, versus hundreds of their own killed (and the US estimates were as high as 1500 deaths plus 3000 casualties.)
[Everyone treats the battle as a disaster for the US, and yes on the command side (and political side) it was, but I've always seen it as the purest example of how US troops really perform in combat, in a way that is rarely seen even in wars like Iraq. And the result is breath-taking. Makes Frank Miller's "300" look like a piece of crap.]
Since then, the US has not only changed training and equipment, they've been hardened by a decade and a half of precisely that kind of war; against opposition themselves hardened by years of fighting. You'd be facing veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, with a perfect supply chain, plus whole new classes of weapons from X-25s to drones. And you'd lack things like RPGs which are necessary just to balance the odds, let alone proper anti-air/anti-tank weapons. And you'd be learning your own tactics and training from almost scratch.
The great citizen revolution would be over in hours.
The only way you'd have any hope of winning would be when thousands of unarmed protesters are gunned down by security forces loyal to the government, live on international TV/internet, and amid international condemnation, a major chunk of the US military (such as a full Marine division) comes to the aid of the protesters, putting themselves between the security forces and the civilians (and basically daring the security forces to cross the line). Eventually leading to senior military commanders basically staging a coup, forcing the President-for-life to stand down or flee into exile, and, you hope, holding UN supervised elections with the intention of restoring the constitution and ending martial law.
OTOH, any armed protesters or resistance-groups will be put down and used to justify further loss of liberty, and will reduce the active opposition to the government amongst civilians. And US troops wouldn't support a violent resistance, because the moment the resistance kills its first US soldier, the entire US military and most of the civilian population would unify against you, no matter what they thought of the government.
You and the movie just demonstrated the two different philosophies of "ownership" of prosperity that will decide human fate in the next century...
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Don't touch the moon. Too deep a gravity well. Use [...] Saturn's rings for ice
The moon has too deep a gravity well, but Saturn doesn't?
I think you might need to run your delta-v figures again.
I was looking at the cost of Bigelow Aerospace's proposed private space stations, and the possible price per launch of SpaceX's Dragon capsule once they'd got a reusable launcher, when I realised that buying your own private space-station to fly your family up to a couple of times a year is around the same cost as owning and running a super-yacht. And a hell of a lot more exclusive.
Don't forget that a classic Stanford torus can house more than 10,000 people in comfort (or 200,000 people in discomfort). So the 50 original investors also have 9,950 additional residences to sell. Plus patents on most of the important technologies for building space habitats, plus the world's biggest/only space construction company...
So it wouldn't be like buying an expensive apartment. It would be like investing in an apartment construction company, and not only getting an expensive apartment, but also getting 1/50th ownership of an entire billionaire resort town.