Admiral Janeway claims to be from 26 years in the future, not 16. I stopped reading the article there.
Listen, I watched Voyager for 3 years and then gave up on it. Nelix was un-watchable, as was his "girlfriend" Kess, who departed soon enough. Not as soon as the annoying Seska, IMO. Nobody found her completely nauseating?
Then there were the Kazon. They were able to manufacture tony starships; artificial gravity and all. We were expected to believe they couldn't synthesize water. HELLO???
Nonetheless I thought the series finale of Star Trek Voyager was excellent. Maybe I was just away from the show too long to feel betrayed by a bullshit plot line. Sorry.
P.S. Berman, Piller and Bragga did to Star Trek what Gappa did to the Japanese monster movie genre. They killed it. Gene Roddenberry is rolling over in his grave.
Who really needs to post to usenet through google? If that's the only way you can manage to post to usenet, then perhaps you should look into a more user-friendly service; like AOL. This is NOT a big deal. Sheesh.
Use x-no-archive if it bothers you that much.
A couple of years ago there was a pub in town that I absolutely hated. Hated it! I went there occasionally only because I had some friends who frequented it since they lived nearby. The owner was an idiot and the bartenders were rude and obnoxious. After a few pints I'd tell my friends, each and every time I found myself in that hellhole:
When I hit the lottery I'm going to buy this place and close it down.
Vivendi is now doing exactly that! They hate mp3 trading. In order to impose some sort of proprietary licensed digital music distribution system, they will have to use a format other than mp3.
A couple of years ago there was a pub in town that I absolutely hated. Hated it! I went there occasionally only because I had some friends who frequented it since they lived nearby. The owner was an idiot and the bartenders were rude and obnoxious. After a few pints I'd tell my friends, each and every time I found myself in that hellhole:
<B>When I hit the lottery I'm going to buy this place and close it down.<B><BR><BR>
Vivendi is now doing <em>exactly that</em>! They <em>hate</em> mp3 trading. In order to impose some sort of proprietary licensed digital music distribution system, they will have to use a format other than mp3.<BR><BR>
mp3 is dead.
Long live mp3!
Spacetime curvature, in Einstein's theory, is not described as being the cause or the effect of gravity. Rather, the theory postulates that spacetime curvature IS gravity!
This Bible prophecy site reported the same thing in 1998. They referenced a Washington Times report. This Space.com story reported the same thing in November last year.
Well, I guess the final JPL report is newsworthy.
Note: I don't frequent the online Bible sites, but I knew I had heard this years ago and the referenced site turned up near the top of my Google search!
All three command-and-control computers in NASA's Destiny laboratory shut down during space shuttle Endeavour's visit in late April, temporarily crippling the space station. It took hundreds of flight controllers working round the clock to bring the computers back up to a minimum level.
Didn't NASA spin that story as a problem with one of the servers as it was happening last month? The reports at the time were like "A small glitch. Not much of a problem." but according to this it was a BIG problem. Well, it's CNN after all and as far as I'm concerned neither they nor NASA can be counted on for accurate information.
Most of the comments I see thus far relate to the alleged supply and demand of CD-Rs. The real reason the prices are going up is the royalty tax that RIAA and others paid American politicians to levy! Wake up, people, we've been through this before. Stock up now and avoid this tax!
Hell, yes! This PDF paper was written by some Russian scientists. It's maybe too technical but it serves as an example as to the types of studies that have been carried out. There are probably more examples but this one popped up first on the Google search.
It is worthy to note that virtually all the work done up until now has happened in the United States.
I saw that too somewhere. This page is a NASA site that lists the various projects currently going on to detect and catalog NEOs (Near Earth Objects). I'm fairly certain that one or more of the links from that page will find the exact quote. It's like a few dozen people at the most IIRC.
For a pretty good wow factor, this site has an online calculator that gives you the destructive force for impacts of different sizes and compositions of asteroids/comets/other BNRs (Big Nasty Rocks).
Ralph Kramden had a LOT more on the ball than this guy. I would sacrifice all my karma whoring points to make this clear. I already un-slashed Jon Katz from my front/. page. Please don't dis the Honeymooners! It was and is the BEST show on television. Thank you.
Any relation to Trolls or their heirs is totally unintentional!
There was some talk of trying to detect the heliopause. That's the purported "boundary" of our solar system, past which the sun has no measurable bearing or effect on anything that lies beyond. The bit rate when communication does take place is in the single-digit range, I believe. There's probably no data worth anything it will ever send back again.
It was instrumented up for exploration of the outer planets. Unless it passes some large planet or other celestial body it's not going to perform any more meaningful tasks. This link describes the mission and instruments it carries. A quick list:
Helium Vector Magnetometer
Plasma Analyzer
Charged Particle Instrument
Cosmic Ray Telescope
Geiger Tube Telescope
Trapped Radiation Detector
Meteoroid Detector
Asteroid-Meteoroid Experiment
Ultraviolet Photometer
Imaging Photopolarimeter
Infrared Radiometer
Other than the cosmic ray telescope none of these are geared towards anything interesting once you get into interplanetary space. Even the valu of that is questionable today since huge strides have been made since 1975 in cosmic ray science.
ending fears that the robotic probe had gone silent
It's mission is OVER. Yeah, it's way out there, but aside from communicating with the spacecraft just for the sake of communicating with it, who cares if we never hear from it again? I could understand "fear" over losing contact with a craft still carrying out its mission, but this is nonsense. How would you like to be Larry Lasher? The "Project Manager". Hah, that's a good one.
Agree 100%. I currently have a few mod points to use and the last 3 or 4 articles I've read had a lot of over-moderated posts in response. I try to concentrate on modding UP instead of down (as suggested by the guidelines), but I could have easily used 10x what I currently have to bring some of these inappropriate scores back down to earth. So I've chosen not to moderate in those threads where there is already way too much in the way of over-scored posts. I can think of a many posts right now that I would moderate as "Overrated" immediately.
Quite the contrary. If a person ignores prior art or worse - neglecting to mention it or denying its existence - the entire patent can be held invalid. Check out the last paragraph under the section "Prior Art and Barring Events" on this page.
These patently absurd (pun intended) patent grabs are nothing more than people trying to take advantage of the current chaos at the Patent and Trademark Office. Once again we see our tax dollars NOT at work.
Your recollection is faulty. This Gallup poll survey shows the number of Americans who think the Apollo moon landings were faked is about 6%. The number hasn't changed since 1995. I recall another article that I can't find the URL for right now (at least I acknowledge my inability to recall) that basically said the 6% number is lower than it was in the '70s or '80s!
You think it would have been "highly unlikely". Do us all a favor and shut off your computer and never turn it back on again. You can't even research a number that has been widely publicized, often misquoted, or outright lied about (a la Fox) . But you expect us to listen to your opinion. Sheesh.
Damn straight you're gonna get flamed. You're a good citizen. Fine, I like that. I am too. So are most of my friends (I think). You say you've got nothing to hide. That's fine and dandy as well.
Have you ever broken a law? Any law at all? If you say "no" then you're not just a good citizen; you're a fucking Saint and should be praying or doing other good works besides surfing around on the boring ol' Internet.
Here's what I propose: Every automobile in the U.S. should be equipped with a speed recorder. Like a no-frills version of an airplane's "black box". This device simply records the speed of your vehicle every 15 seconds (geek tie-in: a year's worth of this data would need only a little more than 2 MB storage). Every month, owners will have to submit their speed records to "the bureau". Any speeding violations will be caught immediately and a summons/bill will be mailed to the owner.
Every year there are thousands of people in the U.S. that willfully violate speed limits that never get caught. This results in the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines that are rightfully owed to cash-strapped jurisdictions. We should take whatever steps are necessary to make sure these criminals pay up.
Do you really buy into that sort of thinking? The problem I have with your way of thinking is this: In case you haven't noticed, each year more and more laws are enacted that give rise to new "crimes". You haven't been classed in with them, so you feel pretty good about yourself and have no problem with technological innovations being brought to bear on society as a whole in the name of rooting out "criminals". Lawmakers at every level are trying to turn more and more people into "criminals". Every year there are new things that you might have done last year, legally, but are now illegal. Some things *should* be illegal, of course, but it's getting out of hand - again, IMO. At some point there will be a law enacted that will prohibit something or other that you *do* do and then you *will* be a criminal if you violate that law. All of a sudden you'll be pissed off about it and, you know what? It will be too late to do anything about it because of the long tradition of "the people" to not give a shit about what's going on in their towns, states, countries and the world unless it directly affects their own small, limited sphere of existence. The example scenario I used above is something that will be eminently practical in the near future, if it's not already today. IMO, THAT would be going too far, don't you think? With every little increment that diminishes our dignity and freedom, we lose Big Time. It is becoming a trend; a mind-set, if you will. When government decides that it needs to lower the boom on every single lawbreaker, and starts to cast their nets on all sorts of indiscriminate fishing expeditions without exception then that government becomes, basically, a totalitarian state. I don't want to live in a place like that. The best way to stop it is to educate people and remind them (in the "free" world) of how much people have sacrificed over the years to secure and maintain our freedoms. So if this sort of data collection deal between the govt. and a private company doesn't bother you, please do freedom lovers everywhere a favor and think about the broader implications of this kind of mentality.
Many people who are against this kind of thing aren't breaking any laws either. But there are larger issues at stake even when a curtailment of privacy doesn't affect you (or me) per se. To everyone who says they aren't bothered by big brother tactics and survellance and data collection, because they've got nothing to hide, I suggest you all save some money by not using envelopes for mail anymore. Write all your correspondence on postcards. So what if everybody in the world can read your correspondence? You've got nothing to hide, right? Not yet, anyway.
Check this out. I don't claim to have a direct line to what the Founding Fathers of America were thinking when they shaped this nation. I don't care what over 200 years' worth of lawyers and scholars have for interpretations. I do know that the Constitution of the U.S. wasn't going to be accepted unless a hotly-debated Bill of Rights was immediately enacted along with it. The Fourth Amendmant to the Constitution (and Bill of Rights) of the U.S. reads:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
As an educated person, I read that and I KNOW what it means and the overall thrust of what this sentence says is profound. Sadly, not everybody cares that much or realizes how important it truly is.
Actually, I'm surprised it's not more common. I attended a trial a few years ago - a civil case - where one of the key witnesses had already plea bargained a criminal charge a couple of years before that. I think he got 6 months in return for testimony. Now, a couple of years later, there's a related civil trial going on and the guy doesn't have immunity. So to protect himself against potential further criminal charges for actions not involved in his plea bargain, he took the 5th on a multitude of questions from both the plaintiff and the defendant's attorneys.
I know, it's a little confusing, but the bottom line is no matter what sort of trial it is, you don't generally want to admit to certain things that can land you behind bars.
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Admiral Janeway claims to be from 26 years in the future, not 16. I stopped reading the article there.
Listen, I watched Voyager for 3 years and then gave up on it. Nelix was un-watchable, as was his "girlfriend" Kess, who departed soon enough. Not as soon as the annoying Seska, IMO. Nobody found her completely nauseating?
Then there were the Kazon. They were able to manufacture tony starships; artificial gravity and all. We were expected to believe they couldn't synthesize water. HELLO???
Nonetheless I thought the series finale of Star Trek Voyager was excellent. Maybe I was just away from the show too long to feel betrayed by a bullshit plot line. Sorry.
P.S. Berman, Piller and Bragga did to Star Trek what Gappa did to the Japanese monster movie genre. They killed it. Gene Roddenberry is rolling over in his grave.
Who really needs to post to usenet through google? If that's the only way you can manage to post to usenet, then perhaps you should look into a more user-friendly service; like AOL. This is NOT a big deal. Sheesh. Use x-no-archive if it bothers you that much.
A couple of years ago there was a pub in town that I absolutely hated. Hated it! I went there occasionally only because I had some friends who frequented it since they lived nearby. The owner was an idiot and the bartenders were rude and obnoxious. After a few pints I'd tell my friends, each and every time I found myself in that hellhole:
When I hit the lottery I'm going to buy this place and close it down.
Vivendi is now doing exactly that! They hate mp3 trading. In order to impose some sort of proprietary licensed digital music distribution system, they will have to use a format other than mp3.
mp3 is dead. Long live mp3!
A couple of years ago there was a pub in town that I absolutely hated. Hated it! I went there occasionally only because I had some friends who frequented it since they lived nearby. The owner was an idiot and the bartenders were rude and obnoxious. After a few pints I'd tell my friends, each and every time I found myself in that hellhole:
<B>When I hit the lottery I'm going to buy this place and close it down.<B><BR><BR>
Vivendi is now doing <em>exactly that</em>! They <em>hate</em> mp3 trading. In order to impose some sort of proprietary licensed digital music distribution system, they will have to use a format other than mp3.<BR><BR>
mp3 is dead.
Long live mp3!
Spacetime curvature, in Einstein's theory, is not described as being the cause or the effect of gravity. Rather, the theory postulates that spacetime curvature IS gravity!
You are the weakest link.
ROTFLMAO! Those damn pussy gnomes. Could this be the same force that has caused my underpants to expand over the last few years?
This Bible prophecy site reported the same thing in 1998. They referenced a Washington Times report. This Space.com story reported the same thing in November last year.
Well, I guess the final JPL report is newsworthy.
Note: I don't frequent the online Bible sites, but I knew I had heard this years ago and the referenced site turned up near the top of my Google search!
This quote from the article was very interesting:
All three command-and-control computers in NASA's Destiny laboratory shut down during space shuttle Endeavour's visit in late April, temporarily crippling the space station. It took hundreds of flight controllers working round the clock to bring the computers back up to a minimum level.
Didn't NASA spin that story as a problem with one of the servers as it was happening last month? The reports at the time were like "A small glitch. Not much of a problem." but according to this it was a BIG problem. Well, it's CNN after all and as far as I'm concerned neither they nor NASA can be counted on for accurate information.
I will not hang my head in shame, sir, because once the hyperbole is over we are fully capable of actually learning something from this debacle.
Most of the comments I see thus far relate to the alleged supply and demand of CD-Rs. The real reason the prices are going up is the royalty tax that RIAA and others paid American politicians to levy! Wake up, people, we've been through this before. Stock up now and avoid this tax!
Hell, yes! This PDF paper was written by some Russian scientists. It's maybe too technical but it serves as an example as to the types of studies that have been carried out. There are probably more examples but this one popped up first on the Google search.
It is worthy to note that virtually all the work done up until now has happened in the United States.
I saw that too somewhere. This page is a NASA site that lists the various projects currently going on to detect and catalog NEOs (Near Earth Objects). I'm fairly certain that one or more of the links from that page will find the exact quote. It's like a few dozen people at the most IIRC.
For a pretty good wow factor, this site has an online calculator that gives you the destructive force for impacts of different sizes and compositions of asteroids/comets/other BNRs (Big Nasty Rocks).
Ralph Kramden had a LOT more on the ball than this guy. I would sacrifice all my karma whoring points to make this clear. I already un-slashed Jon Katz from my front /. page. Please don't dis the Honeymooners! It was and is the BEST show on television. Thank you.
Any relation to Trolls or their heirs is totally unintentional!
Get it right for crying out loud!
It's "SET UP US THE BOMB"
Amazing this tired overworn bit of unintended Japanese-to-English humor is misquoted almost everywhere!
Yikes. Natural selection should be allowed to happen naturally. It's not nice to fool with mother nature.
It was instrumented up for exploration of the outer planets. Unless it passes some large planet or other celestial body it's not going to perform any more meaningful tasks. This link describes the mission and instruments it carries. A quick list:
- Helium Vector Magnetometer
- Plasma Analyzer
- Charged Particle Instrument
- Cosmic Ray Telescope
- Geiger Tube Telescope
- Trapped Radiation Detector
- Meteoroid Detector
- Asteroid-Meteoroid Experiment
- Ultraviolet Photometer
- Imaging Photopolarimeter
- Infrared Radiometer
Other than the cosmic ray telescope none of these are geared towards anything interesting once you get into interplanetary space. Even the valu of that is questionable today since huge strides have been made since 1975 in cosmic ray science.ending fears that the robotic probe had gone silent
It's mission is OVER. Yeah, it's way out there, but aside from communicating with the spacecraft just for the sake of communicating with it, who cares if we never hear from it again? I could understand "fear" over losing contact with a craft still carrying out its mission, but this is nonsense. How would you like to be Larry Lasher? The "Project Manager". Hah, that's a good one.
Agree 100%. I currently have a few mod points to use and the last 3 or 4 articles I've read had a lot of over-moderated posts in response. I try to concentrate on modding UP instead of down (as suggested by the guidelines), but I could have easily used 10x what I currently have to bring some of these inappropriate scores back down to earth. So I've chosen not to moderate in those threads where there is already way too much in the way of over-scored posts. I can think of a many posts right now that I would moderate as "Overrated" immediately.
According to CNN,
"The computers were running, but were unable to access data in their memory banks because of the downed server."
Would these be the memory banks that have the spinning thingies against the wall? It does not compute.
Quite the contrary. If a person ignores prior art or worse - neglecting to mention it or denying its existence - the entire patent can be held invalid. Check out the last paragraph under the section "Prior Art and Barring Events" on this page.
These patently absurd (pun intended) patent grabs are nothing more than people trying to take advantage of the current chaos at the Patent and Trademark Office. Once again we see our tax dollars NOT at work.
Maybe on Election Day in the U.S. it could automatically change to Red if you're in a GOP kinda mood or Blue if you're voting for the Dems.
That way the networks could use satellite images to figure out which states are going for which candidates. No more premature victory predictions!
Your recollection is faulty. This Gallup poll survey shows the number of Americans who think the Apollo moon landings were faked is about 6%. The number hasn't changed since 1995. I recall another article that I can't find the URL for right now (at least I acknowledge my inability to recall) that basically said the 6% number is lower than it was in the '70s or '80s!
You think it would have been "highly unlikely". Do us all a favor and shut off your computer and never turn it back on again. You can't even research a number that has been widely publicized, often misquoted, or outright lied about (a la Fox) . But you expect us to listen to your opinion. Sheesh.
Damn straight you're gonna get flamed. You're a good citizen. Fine, I like that. I am too. So are most of my friends (I think). You say you've got nothing to hide. That's fine and dandy as well.
Have you ever broken a law? Any law at all? If you say "no" then you're not just a good citizen; you're a fucking Saint and should be praying or doing other good works besides surfing around on the boring ol' Internet.
Here's what I propose: Every automobile in the U.S. should be equipped with a speed recorder. Like a no-frills version of an airplane's "black box". This device simply records the speed of your vehicle every 15 seconds (geek tie-in: a year's worth of this data would need only a little more than 2 MB storage). Every month, owners will have to submit their speed records to "the bureau". Any speeding violations will be caught immediately and a summons/bill will be mailed to the owner.
Every year there are thousands of people in the U.S. that willfully violate speed limits that never get caught. This results in the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines that are rightfully owed to cash-strapped jurisdictions. We should take whatever steps are necessary to make sure these criminals pay up.
Do you really buy into that sort of thinking? The problem I have with your way of thinking is this: In case you haven't noticed, each year more and more laws are enacted that give rise to new "crimes". You haven't been classed in with them, so you feel pretty good about yourself and have no problem with technological innovations being brought to bear on society as a whole in the name of rooting out "criminals". Lawmakers at every level are trying to turn more and more people into "criminals". Every year there are new things that you might have done last year, legally, but are now illegal. Some things *should* be illegal, of course, but it's getting out of hand - again, IMO. At some point there will be a law enacted that will prohibit something or other that you *do* do and then you *will* be a criminal if you violate that law. All of a sudden you'll be pissed off about it and, you know what? It will be too late to do anything about it because of the long tradition of "the people" to not give a shit about what's going on in their towns, states, countries and the world unless it directly affects their own small, limited sphere of existence. The example scenario I used above is something that will be eminently practical in the near future, if it's not already today. IMO, THAT would be going too far, don't you think? With every little increment that diminishes our dignity and freedom, we lose Big Time. It is becoming a trend; a mind-set, if you will. When government decides that it needs to lower the boom on every single lawbreaker, and starts to cast their nets on all sorts of indiscriminate fishing expeditions without exception then that government becomes, basically, a totalitarian state. I don't want to live in a place like that. The best way to stop it is to educate people and remind them (in the "free" world) of how much people have sacrificed over the years to secure and maintain our freedoms. So if this sort of data collection deal between the govt. and a private company doesn't bother you, please do freedom lovers everywhere a favor and think about the broader implications of this kind of mentality.
Many people who are against this kind of thing aren't breaking any laws either. But there are larger issues at stake even when a curtailment of privacy doesn't affect you (or me) per se. To everyone who says they aren't bothered by big brother tactics and survellance and data collection, because they've got nothing to hide, I suggest you all save some money by not using envelopes for mail anymore. Write all your correspondence on postcards. So what if everybody in the world can read your correspondence? You've got nothing to hide, right? Not yet, anyway.
Check this out. I don't claim to have a direct line to what the Founding Fathers of America were thinking when they shaped this nation. I don't care what over 200 years' worth of lawyers and scholars have for interpretations. I do know that the Constitution of the U.S. wasn't going to be accepted unless a hotly-debated Bill of Rights was immediately enacted along with it. The Fourth Amendmant to the Constitution (and Bill of Rights) of the U.S. reads:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
As an educated person, I read that and I KNOW what it means and the overall thrust of what this sentence says is profound. Sadly, not everybody cares that much or realizes how important it truly is.
Actually, I'm surprised it's not more common. I attended a trial a few years ago - a civil case - where one of the key witnesses had already plea bargained a criminal charge a couple of years before that. I think he got 6 months in return for testimony. Now, a couple of years later, there's a related civil trial going on and the guy doesn't have immunity. So to protect himself against potential further criminal charges for actions not involved in his plea bargain, he took the 5th on a multitude of questions from both the plaintiff and the defendant's attorneys.
I know, it's a little confusing, but the bottom line is no matter what sort of trial it is, you don't generally want to admit to certain things that can land you behind bars.