"weighs 106 tons and takes up two basketball courts' worth of floor space."
With the way things are going, in the future, Apple will package it in a convenient eight-inch cube, complete with cosmetic cracks and a toaster-style dvd drive that will finally run hot enough to toast things.
Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to get around it. All you would really need to do is put some chicken wire (unless you feel like weaving copper wire yourself) around the bag you're carrying it in, making the bag a Faraday cage.
Since Faraday cages block RF, voila, problem solved.
While it's true that there are few to no corporate buyers, piracy of music CDs is a booming business in Russia and China / Hong Kong. However, the USA is trying to remain on "good terms" with these countries, and so the RIAA has to look for enemies at home. They're just taking "at home" too literally.
Let's not forget that the SPA encourages people to turn anyone who pirates software in. They've only shifted the burden of finding pirates to honest users.
Will we still have to worry about stuck pixels?
What about refresh rates of the pixels? I know LCDs today don't recycle quickly enough to view high-contrast high-motion movie clips, but how will the organic polymers fare?
It's not so much the encryption. They don't care about being able to read it, so long as they detect it. But as we move to frequency-hopping more and more, it will be harder to single out a civilization. That, and the space aliens don't care about us. We're not as advanced as we think we are. (to make this on-topic) Scientists still can't agree on when Sol will die. Most say 5 billion, but I've heard estimates of between 3 and 8 billion.
People, please, no more jokes about SOL.exe. We all know it will run for at least another 5 billion years, at least it would if it were on a linux box.
"Hubble astronomers believe the object is actually two aging stars masquerading as a single youngster."
Last time I checked, we weren't living in a binary star system with a white dwarf compainion. I'd trust Hubble astronomers over ABCNews any day. Just another troll post, it seems.
The rule against vehicles with sparkplugs doesn't bother me, because they gave us a phat old Checker Marathon to ride around in when my group stayed there.:) The sheer size of the thing is a sight to behold, and I strongly recommend stopping by if you're in the area.
A local ski resort, the next mountain over (i think) tried to install a wireless network, but NRAO was up in arms about it, and rightfully so, as Green Bank is in the National Radio Quiet Zone.
And you do indeed recall fairly correctly, those are the only four *sites*. But there are also random scopes scattered across the country (even one in St. Croix), for the VLBA.
except when was the last asteroid that killed a billion people?:) it hasn't, and until it did, we should be more afraid of those things that fly in the sky, rather than fall from them. wait, i guess they both fall when you die. ugh, nevermind.
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"weighs 106 tons and takes up two basketball courts' worth of floor space."
With the way things are going, in the future, Apple will package it in a convenient eight-inch cube, complete with cosmetic cracks and a toaster-style dvd drive that will finally run hot enough to toast things.
Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to get around it. All you would really need to do is put some chicken wire (unless you feel like weaving copper wire yourself) around the bag you're carrying it in, making the bag a Faraday cage.
Since Faraday cages block RF, voila, problem solved.
Anybody else remember that movie, Seven Half-Lifes in Tibet? :)
While it's true that there are few to no corporate buyers, piracy of music CDs is a booming business in Russia and China / Hong Kong. However, the USA is trying to remain on "good terms" with these countries, and so the RIAA has to look for enemies at home. They're just taking "at home" too literally.
Let's not forget that the SPA encourages people to turn anyone who pirates software in. They've only shifted the burden of finding pirates to honest users.
Deep Thought? Where's a good Jack Handey quip when you need it?
Will we still have to worry about stuck pixels? What about refresh rates of the pixels? I know LCDs today don't recycle quickly enough to view high-contrast high-motion movie clips, but how will the organic polymers fare?
I hope there aren't any barcodes on the moon, because we wouldn't want the feds impinging on D:C's business model.
"You must be 18 months of age or older,"
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we've found the youngest poster here, at an early age of no more than 17 months!
i guess it won't be available on napster. is the RIAA behind this too?
It's not so much the encryption. They don't care about being able to read it, so long as they detect it. But as we move to frequency-hopping more and more, it will be harder to single out a civilization. That, and the space aliens don't care about us. We're not as advanced as we think we are. (to make this on-topic) Scientists still can't agree on when Sol will die. Most say 5 billion, but I've heard estimates of between 3 and 8 billion.
People, please, no more jokes about SOL.exe. We all know it will run for at least another 5 billion years, at least it would if it were on a linux box.
"Hubble astronomers believe the object is actually two aging stars masquerading as a single youngster."
Last time I checked, we weren't living in a binary star system with a white dwarf compainion. I'd trust Hubble astronomers over ABCNews any day. Just another troll post, it seems.
The rule against vehicles with sparkplugs doesn't bother me, because they gave us a phat old Checker Marathon to ride around in when my group stayed there. :) The sheer size of the thing is a sight to behold, and I strongly recommend stopping by if you're in the area.
A local ski resort, the next mountain over (i think) tried to install a wireless network, but NRAO was up in arms about it, and rightfully so, as Green Bank is in the National Radio Quiet Zone.
And you do indeed recall fairly correctly, those are the only four *sites*. But there are also random scopes scattered across the country (even one in St. Croix), for the VLBA.
i believe the RIAA is trying to get an amendment tacked on to the Copyright Act of 1979 stating that they, not the artists, own the copyrights.
except when was the last asteroid that killed a billion people? :) it hasn't, and until it did, we should be more afraid of those things that fly in the sky, rather than fall from them. wait, i guess they both fall when you die. ugh, nevermind.