I'm pretty sure that NORAD can tell the difference between an asteroid and a missle.
You'd be surprised. Afaik (no links, too late) - it can be difficult to tell the difference between a nuke and an asteroid. The problem is automated detection systems - rather than analysis of impact and affects. There was some campaign recently to get more money for better detection equipment or some such, so that a small asteroid strike doesn't accidentally start WW3.
They have this already. Its called "red diesel". Its tax free so its something like 20p a litre. Its coloured with a red die, so if you use it on the road the police can easily tell from the plume of red smoke behind you.
Finally. someone with something intelligent to say about this.
Information may want to be free. But information is expensive. You can't freely share information, against the creator's wishes (mostly, i accept some artists couldn't give a toss if their music is traded on napster). And then complain in the same breath that YOUR information is being used in a way you object to. By the usual arguments heard here, once you released that informational genie into the world, you lost control of it.
So quit your bitching and realise that if you live by the sword you will die by the sword.
I can appreciate people's anger that the CDDB was a community effort and now its being used against the very community which created it. A quite incredible irony I hope is not lost on some of the people here.
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Oh wait, this is real?
You'd be surprised. Afaik (no links, too late) - it can be difficult to tell the difference between a nuke and an asteroid. The problem is automated detection systems - rather than analysis of impact and affects. There was some campaign recently to get more money for better detection equipment or some such, so that a small asteroid strike doesn't accidentally start WW3.
They have this already. Its called "red diesel". Its tax free so its something like 20p a litre. Its coloured with a red die, so if you use it on the road the police can easily tell from the plume of red smoke behind you.
Finally. someone with something intelligent to say about this.
Information may want to be free. But information is expensive. You can't freely share information, against the creator's wishes (mostly, i accept some artists couldn't give a toss if their music is traded on napster). And then complain in the same breath that YOUR information is being used in a way you object to. By the usual arguments heard here, once you released that informational genie into the world, you lost control of it.
So quit your bitching and realise that if you live by the sword you will die by the sword.
I can appreciate people's anger that the CDDB was a community effort and now its being used against the very community which created it. A quite incredible irony I hope is not lost on some of the people here.