But remember that Berners-Lee is American. As most inventions and discoveries are actually international, there's usually someone from America or an American institution involved. Of course, the later is also true for Europe, Japan,...
"Put that up against a mob of 5-10 thousand armed civilians and there won't even be a fire fight. Our governments don't have nearly enough military power to fight against the gun owners in this country if they get pissed."
But each of the 5 to 10 thousand people will never learn that there are so many others. Just look at past and present totalitarian regimes: Although most of the people are against it (and then it does even matter if you're armed or not) they usually don't manage to gather enough poeple to form a critical mass. Of course, you're right by saying that there might be a military uprising. But they just suffer from the same problem - and are trained to obey commands without questioning.
"In case you hadn't noticed, we seem to have an awful lot of oxygen around."
Nearly every fuel and even many substances you normally consider non-burnable (such as flour) can explode when mixed with the right amount of O_2. Oxygen leaking out of a tank will have a much too high concentration to explode in the first place and will diffuse too quickly. It might catch fire and burn but this is true for just any fuel.
The main problem with a leaking tank will be the loss of valueable energy, not an explosion risk.
Actually, some scientist recently produced petrol from other materials. So you probably could use petrol as an intermediate energy source as well.
On the other hand, Diesel engines can be adjusted to run with some types of vegetable oil. For example, here in Germany, rape-oil is sold as "Biodiesel" to fuel modified Diesel engines. Certain old (and roboust) engines even don't have to be modified: some people even succeeded to run a stock Mercedes 190D with plain salad oil (you'll lose your warrenty if you try this, however)!
For airplanes, using H2 would probably make more sense, however.
This would also make the whole structure much more heavy. So you'd probably not win anything.
A different approach could be not to use steel, but a material with a much higher melting temperature. Unfortunatly, these metals tend to be much heavier than ferrum.
So it's easier to build a nuclear power plant into cars? Or some square acres of solar cells?
However, there's another way: Use biological solar collectors that produce fuel. For example, rape-oil can be used by slightly modified Diesel engines (called "Biodiesel" here in Germany).
It's not the atomic weight that's important but the weight of one molecule. Hydrogen comes in H2 molecules, which have a weight of ~ 2g/mol, Helium gas consists of single atoms which have ~ 4g/mol.
So one litre of Helium has only double the weight of Hydrogen.
(For ideal gases, a certain amount of molecules/atoms always has the same volume.)
Further, remember that the difference to the weight of air is relevant for the buoyant lift. Air, consisting of ~ 20% oxygen (O2) and ~ 80% nitrogen (N2), has a weight of about 30.4g/mol, which makes a differnce of 28.4 for Hydrogen and 26.4 - 9% less - for Helium.
As you said, from the EU, not to. Unfortunatly, most of the spam comes I get comes from non-EU countries such as the US or Far East countries.
In Germany, email spam has ever been illegal (at least in the opinion of the vast majority of courts). Does this mean I don't get spam from German companies? Of course not, for spammers don't care if it's asocial and illegal.
"You may be thinking "This is only a couple of header files, what's the big deal?". As Søren says "The problem here is that the structures in the headers is the whole story. That info tells how you read the proprietary struct off the disks, and was reverse engineered and documented by me after a lot of effort." Søren's intellectual property is tied up in those files."
This is not what copyright laws protect. Copyright laws protect "works of authorship", i.e. some kind of individual creation. Facts, such as the information how some information is organized on disk or even algorithms are not protected (hence the whole patent issue), at least not by copyright law. (See e.g. Copyright FAQ - What is copyrightable?.)
If someone would create a header file from the same information, it would probably look extremly similar. This is a good indication that the header file is not a "work of authorship".
On the other hand, if the author used something - be it code or only information - from Søren, it would at least be fair to give proper credit.
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Which wire? In your cost calculation, there is no wire.
Actually, bandwith alone is cheap. It's bandwith over long, expensive wires that makes up the price.
But remember that Berners-Lee is American. ...
As most inventions and discoveries are actually international, there's usually someone from America or an American institution involved. Of course, the later is also true for Europe, Japan,
The more DAUs (Dümmster anzunehmender User, roughly equivalent to Joe Agerage User) you have the easier the switch is.
Most users won't notice if you switch the system as long as you keep the nice icons on the desktop and in the start (uh, K) menu at the same position.
Yes, and remember that the com, net and org TLDs are actually international, so they also include non-US citizens.
US companies would probably just start to sell OSS OS-compatible products. Watch out for "Microsoft Office for Linux (not available in the US)".
As long as there are enough stupid users that buy it at that price and as long as there are enough users that pirate their software...
None of these work with systems like Freenet.
But each of the 5 to 10 thousand people will never learn that there are so many others. Just look at past and present totalitarian regimes: Although most of the people are against it (and then it does even matter if you're armed or not) they usually don't manage to gather enough poeple to form a critical mass.
Of course, you're right by saying that there might be a military uprising. But they just suffer from the same problem - and are trained to obey commands without questioning.
This is true for nearly any oxidiseable substance. It usually does not mean that a package of flour in your kitchen cabinet is dangerous.
Nearly every fuel and even many substances you normally consider non-burnable (such as flour) can explode when mixed with the right amount of O_2.
Oxygen leaking out of a tank will have a much too high concentration to explode in the first place and will diffuse too quickly. It might catch fire and burn but this is true for just any fuel.
The main problem with a leaking tank will be the loss of valueable energy, not an explosion risk.
A half-empty hydrogen tank is filled with 100% hydrogen, just that half of it is liquid and half of it is gaseous.
On the other hand, Diesel engines can be adjusted to run with some types of vegetable oil. For example, here in Germany, rape-oil is sold as "Biodiesel" to fuel modified Diesel engines. Certain old (and roboust) engines even don't have to be modified: some people even succeeded to run a stock Mercedes 190D with plain salad oil (you'll lose your warrenty if you try this, however)!
For airplanes, using H2 would probably make more sense, however.
A different approach could be not to use steel, but a material with a much higher melting temperature. Unfortunatly, these metals tend to be much heavier than ferrum.
However, there's another way: Use biological solar collectors that produce fuel. For example, rape-oil can be used by slightly modified Diesel engines (called "Biodiesel" here in Germany).
H2 is not really explosive. It's a certain mix of H2 and O2 that explodes.
So one litre of Helium has only double the weight of Hydrogen.
(For ideal gases, a certain amount of molecules/atoms always has the same volume.)
Further, remember that the difference to the weight of air is relevant for the buoyant lift. Air, consisting of ~ 20% oxygen (O2) and ~ 80% nitrogen (N2), has a weight of about 30.4g/mol, which makes a differnce of 28.4 for Hydrogen and 26.4 - 9% less - for Helium.
Just in case you haven't noticed: The European Union is not America.
Which of these words - all taken from the original story - is it you don't understand?
No, no popups please! Popup windows are nasty and one of the top usability problems on the web.
This is not what copyright laws protect. Copyright laws protect "works of authorship", i.e. some kind of individual creation. Facts, such as the information how some information is organized on disk or even algorithms are not protected (hence the whole patent issue), at least not by copyright law. (See e.g. Copyright FAQ - What is copyrightable?.)
If someone would create a header file from the same information, it would probably look extremly similar. This is a good indication that the header file is not a "work of authorship".
On the other hand, if the author used something - be it code or only information - from Søren, it would at least be fair to give proper credit.
So to protect ourselves from terrorists we introduce a single point of failure for all our "secret" communication.
This would mean that you'd have to decrypt all legally encrypted email to see if it contains illegally encrypted mail.
No.
Well, you forgot the interesting part: