I want a future therefore I can only wish the USoA have kept their corporation in their yard! (good for the US businesses doesn't necessarily mean good for everybody)
So we are supposed to cheer from seizing property from someone who has been accused but not yet convicted?
TFA:
and applied to be released on bail...
[...]
The judge then ordered him to give the XBOX to the authorities, saying it would be returned to him when the charges were disposed of.
Not a seizure, but a bail. As the kid wouldn't have had enough money, punishing the parents to pay the bail would be worse. Putting the kid in jail for not paying the bail... even worse.
Well, the difference would be, if you self-host in the UK, and an FBI agent knocks on your door and hands you an NSL, you can give him the finger and slam the door in his face.
You give 'im a finger and he'll grab your whole arm. (hint: immigrate outside US)
"Why does the court treat violent images and sexual images so differently?"
a possible answer is: violence tends to lower the demographic pressure, sex to increase it. With limited Earth resources, this is still "think of the children" but on a longer run.
</sarcasm>
IBM has it's own JVM implementation, which is fully compliant to the Sun Java specs, so it's safe from patent lawsuits. I don't see how much more they could "love" Java.
Owning the Java specs and stewarding the JCP. If not IBM, maybe Google (even Larry will make Google pay through the nose for them).
Oracle are pushing sun customers onto their upgrade treadmill. The smart ones will see this coming and jump ship right away, the stupid ones will be bled dry.
Actual security is ridiculously expensive and there is not a willingness to put up with that level of expense
The cost of risk prevention: if the cost if risk mitigation is lower (no matter if people are burnt) there you have it.
Far easier to them to externalize the cost and lobby for DCMA and anti-hacking laws - it's the populace that pays for the jail time.
The point of thrusters is to increase the kinetic energy of what they are attached to. The formula for kinetic energy is.5mv^2
Note the exponent attached to the v term. Who cares what the ejection mass is if v is large enough?
My apologies for being blunt, but you need to go back to school. The delta V comes from momentum conservation - which is a linear dependency with both the term and variation of velocity.
10^18 Watts/cm^2 with a 20cm disk for 1 picosec == 87.2 KWH ?
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10 cm radius. Area=PI*10*10~=314 sq cm.
That means 314e+18 W x 1e-12s =314e+6 Joules. Mind you, that's per pulse!
Now, multiply it with 75 MHz (the frequency of pulse) and you'll get 23550e+12 Joules per second:
the output of the laser should be a whooping 23e+15 W.
To put the things in perspective, the world electrical energy produced in in the whole year of 2008 is 20.261e+15 Wh - which means an world average power generation of 2.3129e+12 W - slightly short of being enough to power the laser.
2.9 MeV per alpha particle * 100,000 ~= 0.00000047 joules
To be fair, keep into account that the particles are produced per-pulse. So that you would need to multiply it again with the pulse frequency 75 MHz. Doing so will only make justice to the (kinetic) power developed by the engine: a strong 0.0047 horse-power.
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You don't give him the finger. The correct equivalent English gesture requires 2 fingers.
To be politically-correct when you live in US (even if not an American), you don't make obscene gestures with two fingers... when one is just enough.
You forget that the kid is Irish.
anyone that wants a future
I want a future therefore I can only wish the USoA have kept their corporation in their yard! (good for the US businesses doesn't necessarily mean good for everybody)
You call the police and report a suspicious fellow pretending to be law enforcement.
For this to happen, you have to self-host (your files) and host yourself outside US. This is why my hint of "immigrate outside US".
So we are supposed to cheer from seizing property from someone who has been accused but not yet convicted?
TFA:
and applied to be released on bail...
[...]
The judge then ordered him to give the XBOX to the authorities, saying it would be returned to him when the charges were disposed of.
Not a seizure, but a bail. As the kid wouldn't have had enough money, punishing the parents to pay the bail would be worse. Putting the kid in jail for not paying the bail... even worse.
Presumably he goes on his way. Or does something stupid and gets arrested by UK police....
And what happens is you host files in UK (cloud or not), the FBI agent shows on your US door, you open it and you give him the finger?
Makes me sad the parent is rated Funny.
Hint: UK is not in the US....
(Somehow I doubt it).
But assuming you are right, what happens when an FBI agent knock at your door in UK and you give him the finger?
the businesses had the right idea going overseas
Right for who?
Well, the difference would be, if you self-host in the UK, and an FBI agent knocks on your door and hands you an NSL, you can give him the finger and slam the door in his face.
You give 'im a finger and he'll grab your whole arm. (hint: immigrate outside US)
This: "GOVERNMENT — If you think the problems we create are bad, just wait until you see our solutions."
Better question: Why does the media and general populous of the United States consider violent images and sexual images to be the same?
I beg to differ: the news are full with/about violence, porn films are scheduled at small hours. What does this teach the kids? War is OK, sex is not?
And not alone: Nanosolar is doing something similar.
"Why does the court treat violent images and sexual images so differently?"
a possible answer is: violence tends to lower the demographic pressure, sex to increase it. With limited Earth resources, this is still "think of the children" but on a longer run. </sarcasm>
and asked lawmakers to stop wasting time with such legislation in the future.
The "with such legislation in the future" part is redundant. Politicians are very much like diapers.
IBM has it's own JVM implementation, which is fully compliant to the Sun Java specs, so it's safe from patent lawsuits. I don't see how much more they could "love" Java.
Owning the Java specs and stewarding the JCP. If not IBM, maybe Google (even Larry will make Google pay through the nose for them).
Oracle are pushing sun customers onto their upgrade treadmill. The smart ones will see this coming and jump ship right away, the stupid ones will be bled dry.
'Tis called insight
IBM is going to love this.
I just hope they'll be going to love Java strong enough to take it before Larry goes busted.
This is called "unparalleled level of service".
But how is just over one third of a kilometer considered a near miss?
Near miss? Good God... TF title says "clobbered" - I thought many pieces of debris battered ISS for long hours.
Actual security is ridiculously expensive and there is not a willingness to put up with that level of expense
The cost of risk prevention: if the cost if risk mitigation is lower (no matter if people are burnt) there you have it.
Far easier to them to externalize the cost and lobby for DCMA and anti-hacking laws - it's the populace that pays for the jail time.
The point of thrusters is to increase the kinetic energy of what they are attached to. The formula for kinetic energy is .5mv^2
Note the exponent attached to the v term. Who cares what the ejection mass is if v is large enough?
My apologies for being blunt, but you need to go back to school. The delta V comes from momentum conservation - which is a linear dependency with both the term and variation of velocity.
10^18 Watts/cm^2 with a 20cm disk for 1 picosec == 87.2 KWH ?
<pedantic_mode>
10 cm radius. Area=PI*10*10~=314 sq cm.
That means 314e+18 W x 1e-12s =314e+6 Joules. Mind you, that's per pulse!
Now, multiply it with 75 MHz (the frequency of pulse) and you'll get 23550e+12 Joules per second:
the output of the laser should be a whooping 23e+15 W.
To put the things in perspective, the world electrical energy produced in in the whole year of 2008 is 20.261e+15 Wh - which means an world average power generation of 2.3129e+12 W - slightly short of being enough to power the laser.
2.9 MeV per alpha particle * 100,000 ~= 0.00000047 joules
To be fair, keep into account that the particles are produced per-pulse. So that you would need to multiply it again with the pulse frequency 75 MHz.
Doing so will only make justice to the (kinetic) power developed by the engine: a strong 0.0047 horse-power.
</pedantic_mode>
Based off the operational design of existing ION thrusters, your power source is irrelevant.
Huh? Efficiency is irrelevant? You mean you can accept a transformation of 450 kW source in 3.5 W in trust?
Assume you have a huge solar array, ...
450 kW of solar array, at 20% efficiency... Hmm... pricewise... why not solar sails?
Higher exhaust velocity means higher total delta V, assuming you don't kill yourself in engine mass.
deltaV comes from the impulse that you can "eject"... the small ejection mass is the problem of ion thrusters.
These things are expensive - on the order of $1000 plus fees for the cell phone connection.
Save 2 weeks*police persons to follow the subject and you paid it back. See now why they are so attracted?
Push hard enough against GPS tracking and we will have optical systems using either LEO satellites (lots of 'em)
LEO satellite orbits are a limited resource, can't be that many.
...or solar-powered [optical tracking] drones.
Night time?
My point: for the present (and in the next 5 years), GPS tracking devices are more effective for them and more invasive for the citizens.