You're working from the fascist playbook of privatized America, corporate anarchy.
The Bill of Rights specifies the inalienable rights that government must protect. Not just "inalieny" rights that only government must respect.
Shutting down Social Security would destroy the country, returning it to the Great Depression conditions we fixed with SS.
Letting the banks hide their transactions would give rich people and corporations unlimited power.
I bet you voted for Bush, who's attacked every one of the rights protected in the Bill of Rights. And is gunning for Social Security so he can steal it for his banker friends.
I understand the problem: you're so goddamn stupid that you're projecting your major malfunction onto me, when all I'm doing is citing the established research, and looking at continuing gains. While you're spouting bullshit with in unending obnoxious posts.
I'm pulling the plug on this useless waste of free education on your sorry ass.
PS: this time you spelled "there" wrong. Stupid shit. Probably voted for Bush.
NASA shows that of all the attenuation of a laser signal from Mars to Earth, the biggest loss is in the Earth's atmosphere, which even for sunlight is only about 25%. The spreading does not need to be large with sufficient collimation, though it can start out very narrow and have large receivers to compensate for any unavoidable spread, or start out very wide for maximum parallelism. When we spend the Star Wars $BILLIONS on conserving the laser power across the length of its beam for power supply, it'll work a lot better than it even does now.
Shooting down missiles didn't work, as I've posted many times on Slashdot. But the defense corporations will get the money to keep doing it anyway, because they own Congress. That's why applying their tech to energy instead is a double win.
It was easy to find a NASA study showing that a solar satellite in Earth orbit produces power at competitive prices, even when the design's laser produces only 330W:m^2, while the Sun already produce at least that amount averaged over day/night, seasons, and weather through the temperate lattitudes. That price includes launching the entire machine, with current tech, not developing new tech from the Star Wars stuff and building the machine on the Moon from local materials. And without the money and personnel that have been so far wasted on Star Wars weapons.
Turn those resources to inventing an energy platform and we'll get real security.
I knew CORBA was doomed when Netscape announced it would use IIOP as its distributed server protocol, back in 1996. Because I never saw a single simple implementation. I'd be surprised it's taking so long to die, except that's the main purpose of OMG's long list of giant corporations which saw HTTP as "the new EDI".
That's an interesting way to use the enticing Asterisk in a way that meets the request not to keep a PC powered on all the time. But Asterisk is still overkill for the requirements, as the story submitter anticipated.
Another overkill way would be to port the landline to Vonage or another telco that offers "simulring", point simulring at a PalmOS smartphone, install the screener SW, configured to divert unwanted calls after only two rings.
Or they could just get the simple, cheap little HW gadget suggested by another poster that meets every requirement.
"Hey, I'm hungry. I'd prefer not to eat at home. Probably takeout to the park or sitdown. Frankly, sitdown is too much like home, and I don't want to be inside. I'd prefer to go to the park."
If you said "let's go sit down at the burger joint", though the park is open and right next door, you'd be eating alone. I'd go to the park with someone else.
You're a sorry Anonymous retard Coward. You should eat alone for the rest of your life.
The "bright side" is the side getting the sunlight, as well as the "positive aspect" of the plan we're talking about - a little pun.
The demand for lots of energy for mining on the Moon will drive further development of solar power collection beyond its already quite economical use. Note that lots of NASA equipment already uses the pentiful solar energy in space. More innovation will make it even cheaper. Especially if combined with manufacturing the solar collectors on the Moon, from Lunar materials, in vacuum/minigravity, as has already been demonstrated in Earthbound simulations.
I didn't say that solar collectors had to be stationary, or even grounded. There's plenty of room for innovation there, like orbital collectors, if doubling the area isn't sufficient to compensate for the Lunar night.
There's practically zero loss of power in a laser from the Moon to the top of the Earth's atmosphere, and much less than the 25% loss of Sunlight to its coherent beam. Even those losses can be compensated by increasing the power of the beam.
To complete your post's useless, totally wrong criticism, you misspelled "than".
You got everything wrong. Try thinking about the post you're reading before you shoot off your mouth with obnoxious, wrong comments. You might learn something more than the fact that you're obnoxious and wrong about the subject.
Their post was them thinking through their preferences "out loud". It was clear that they want HW, because they said so explicitly. It was also clear that Asterisk, which needs their PC to stay powered on, was overkill and not what they had in mind. They considered less preferable options to reject them with their reasons. Why suggest something that's clearly against their explicit preferences, for the reasons they stated?
Vote for Congressmembers who will amend the Constitution to reiterate our 4th Amendment right to security in our "homes, papers and effects" as our "right to privacy", just as the Bill of Rights reiterated our rights for those who'd pretend the Constitution doesn't require the government to protect them.
Lunar mining would also create a demand for the vastly abundant solar energy at the Lunar surface (1.3KW:m^2). Scaling that production for Earth consumption would also produce a demand for the technologies developed for corporate welfare^W^WStar Wars (SDI) to deliver high energy to Earth's surface. Without having to grow the military applications. While reducing the energy shortage that makes military options so attractive to some Earthlings.
"I am not interested in: subscribing to a service provided by my telephone company. I would prefer the filtering occurred on my side of the phone line, or implementing a software solution on my PC. Frankly, that is overkill, and I don't want my PC turned on permanently. I would prefer something like a small, solid-state hardware device. Is there any such thing available?"
They are not interested in subscribing to a service. They would prefer it happen on their side of the phone line, or SW on their PC to a telco-side service. But the SW is overkill and they don't want to leave their PC on. They would prefer a little dedicated HW.
There's nothing contradictory about those sentences. They're just descriptive.
So, since you also don't use your "real" account to post such drivel, Anonymous incompetent Coward, you don't know how to read or post. Why do you bother doing it at all? People like you are the noise in Slashdot's signal.
"Frankly, that is overkill, and I don't want my PC turned on permanently. I would prefer something like a small, solid-state hardware device. Is there any such thing available?"
Lots of people are dropping static newspapers in favor of Web editions, even of the same content, because then they can google what they see in the news. The Washington Post, along with the New York Times and most every other news outlet, has accelerated that move by publishing more and more material that depends on reader fact checking and cross reference.
CraigsList is the kind of company that offers free lastminute "hookup" ads for/from real people. And instead of slapping ads in the middle of that delicate, if casual, transaction, instead offers a safer sex forum. The kind of company that steadily grows and has no real competition in its niche, because buyers and sellers have enough trust that they operate like a community.
What's so "zen" about running a company you'd prefer to use yourself, even if you're rich? The Wall Street Journal doesn't seem to understand business, and certainly shouldn't be throwing around smarty words like "zen" that they read on an old Mac, years after missing the point of Apple, too.
Microsoft wins when it stick a new generation of kids with its software. The kids will then be on the "Microsoft track", much more likely to use their Microsoft skills to ensure more Microsoft software is bought for them, and the people they communicate with, for the rest of their lives.
With so many colleges, Massachusetts is very influential in forming "software habits", apart from its rank as the 4th most populous state.
If Microsoft can use those "free bags" of smack to lure the state into making Microsoft's brand of junk into law, that's a big bonus. But just getting the kids hooked is worth doing, even if they have to wait for the state to require addiction.
I do post comments about unfair moderations, like TrollMods which are anonymous mods designed to do nothing but anonymously suppress an legitimate post. Because it gives the metamods something to consider, in Slashdot's sketchy meta/moderation system.
Atari invented Pong in 1972, as described in the page linked from the page to which you linked.
But so what? I said Atari invented the console market, not the console. They invented the market in the late 1970s with the 2600. Before that there was a tiny little niche market, then there was a complete market.
Stores paying NYC rents 24/7 don't need to pay the more expensive day workers to process deliveries, including peanut butter. They get more out of their rent and salaries by taking deliveries when the stores are closed to customers and empty.
It's obvious you haven't thought your farking criticism all the way through.
Fresh Direct is popular, and apparently successful, in densely populated neighborhoods like mine in NYC. Even though there are grocery stores sync'ed to the local neighborhood within a few walking blocks, all over the city.
Some competition from Amazon might force down the prices, and produce some new innovations for better service. And it will double the number of doubleparked giant delivery trucks clogging previously residential-only streets that rarely took deliveries.
These delivery services should deliver only after 8PM, when people are at home, and traffic congestion is lighter, and the double/parking has settled down. Getting that setup for residential zones would help make it more obviously better in commercial and mixed zones. Eventually we can have deliveries only between 8PM-6AM, and use the full capacity of our roads, even increasing it by lowering wasteful congestion.
A great combination of efficiency and convenience, at every level.
"Modern gaming consoles consume more and more power, dissipate more and more heat and cause a lot more noise"
When Atari invented the console market in the late 1970s, power costs were an issue only because of the recent energy crisis, heat mattered only if you left your cold beverage on the console, and there was no noise. Now that those problems are all cranked up in a more crowded, less plentiful, overbuilt world, we really have to worry about the power and heat. And now we can see the next crisis: overwhelming noise from all these home machines will first drive us completely mad, then churn up the atmosphere into tiny cyclones, combining with the larger ones to scour our homes into livingroom Grand Canyons.
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You're working from the fascist playbook of privatized America, corporate anarchy.
The Bill of Rights specifies the inalienable rights that government must protect. Not just "inalieny" rights that only government must respect.
Shutting down Social Security would destroy the country, returning it to the Great Depression conditions we fixed with SS.
Letting the banks hide their transactions would give rich people and corporations unlimited power.
I bet you voted for Bush, who's attacked every one of the rights protected in the Bill of Rights. And is gunning for Social Security so he can steal it for his banker friends.
Dick Cheney, is that you?
Fuck you, asshole. Here's your last clue about producing solar power from lunar materials.
I understand the problem: you're so goddamn stupid that you're projecting your major malfunction onto me, when all I'm doing is citing the established research, and looking at continuing gains. While you're spouting bullshit with in unending obnoxious posts.
I'm pulling the plug on this useless waste of free education on your sorry ass.
PS: this time you spelled "there" wrong. Stupid shit. Probably voted for Bush.
NASA shows that of all the attenuation of a laser signal from Mars to Earth, the biggest loss is in the Earth's atmosphere, which even for sunlight is only about 25%. The spreading does not need to be large with sufficient collimation, though it can start out very narrow and have large receivers to compensate for any unavoidable spread, or start out very wide for maximum parallelism. When we spend the Star Wars $BILLIONS on conserving the laser power across the length of its beam for power supply, it'll work a lot better than it even does now.
Shooting down missiles didn't work, as I've posted many times on Slashdot. But the defense corporations will get the money to keep doing it anyway, because they own Congress. That's why applying their tech to energy instead is a double win.
It was easy to find a NASA study showing that a solar satellite in Earth orbit produces power at competitive prices, even when the design's laser produces only 330W:m^2, while the Sun already produce at least that amount averaged over day/night, seasons, and weather through the temperate lattitudes. That price includes launching the entire machine, with current tech, not developing new tech from the Star Wars stuff and building the machine on the Moon from local materials. And without the money and personnel that have been so far wasted on Star Wars weapons.
Turn those resources to inventing an energy platform and we'll get real security.
I knew CORBA was doomed when Netscape announced it would use IIOP as its distributed server protocol, back in 1996. Because I never saw a single simple implementation. I'd be surprised it's taking so long to die, except that's the main purpose of OMG's long list of giant corporations which saw HTTP as "the new EDI".
That's an interesting way to use the enticing Asterisk in a way that meets the request not to keep a PC powered on all the time. But Asterisk is still overkill for the requirements, as the story submitter anticipated.
Another overkill way would be to port the landline to Vonage or another telco that offers "simulring", point simulring at a PalmOS smartphone, install the screener SW, configured to divert unwanted calls after only two rings.
Or they could just get the simple, cheap little HW gadget suggested by another poster that meets every requirement.
Just to beat this dead horse into an ass:
"Hey, I'm hungry. I'd prefer not to eat at home. Probably takeout to the park or sitdown. Frankly, sitdown is too much like home, and I don't want to be inside. I'd prefer to go to the park."
If you said "let's go sit down at the burger joint", though the park is open and right next door, you'd be eating alone. I'd go to the park with someone else.
You're a sorry Anonymous retard Coward. You should eat alone for the rest of your life.
The "bright side" is the side getting the sunlight, as well as the "positive aspect" of the plan we're talking about - a little pun.
The demand for lots of energy for mining on the Moon will drive further development of solar power collection beyond its already quite economical use. Note that lots of NASA equipment already uses the pentiful solar energy in space. More innovation will make it even cheaper. Especially if combined with manufacturing the solar collectors on the Moon, from Lunar materials, in vacuum/minigravity, as has already been demonstrated in Earthbound simulations.
I didn't say that solar collectors had to be stationary, or even grounded. There's plenty of room for innovation there, like orbital collectors, if doubling the area isn't sufficient to compensate for the Lunar night.
There's practically zero loss of power in a laser from the Moon to the top of the Earth's atmosphere, and much less than the 25% loss of Sunlight to its coherent beam. Even those losses can be compensated by increasing the power of the beam.
To complete your post's useless, totally wrong criticism, you misspelled "than".
You got everything wrong. Try thinking about the post you're reading before you shoot off your mouth with obnoxious, wrong comments. You might learn something more than the fact that you're obnoxious and wrong about the subject.
Their post was them thinking through their preferences "out loud". It was clear that they want HW, because they said so explicitly. It was also clear that Asterisk, which needs their PC to stay powered on, was overkill and not what they had in mind. They considered less preferable options to reject them with their reasons. Why suggest something that's clearly against their explicit preferences, for the reasons they stated?
Vote for Congressmembers who will amend the Constitution to reiterate our 4th Amendment right to security in our "homes, papers and effects" as our "right to privacy", just as the Bill of Rights reiterated our rights for those who'd pretend the Constitution doesn't require the government to protect them.
That's jive. If you don't think the preferred HW solution is possible, say so. Who do you think you're fooling?
Learn how to admit you're wrong, Anonymous willfully ignorant Coward.
I'm talking about lasers, like we've paid them to develop for Star Wars SDI. Point to point. What are you talking about, and why?
Lunar mining would also create a demand for the vastly abundant solar energy at the Lunar surface (1.3KW:m^2). Scaling that production for Earth consumption would also produce a demand for the technologies developed for corporate welfare^W^WStar Wars (SDI) to deliver high energy to Earth's surface. Without having to grow the military applications. While reducing the energy shortage that makes military options so attractive to some Earthlings.
No, you just don't know how to read.
"I am not interested in: subscribing to a service provided by my telephone company. I would prefer the filtering occurred on my side of the phone line, or implementing a software solution on my PC. Frankly, that is overkill, and I don't want my PC turned on permanently. I would prefer something like a small, solid-state hardware device. Is there any such thing available?"
They are not interested in subscribing to a service. They would prefer it happen on their side of the phone line, or SW on their PC to a telco-side service. But the SW is overkill and they don't want to leave their PC on. They would prefer a little dedicated HW.
There's nothing contradictory about those sentences. They're just descriptive.
So, since you also don't use your "real" account to post such drivel, Anonymous incompetent Coward, you don't know how to read or post. Why do you bother doing it at all? People like you are the noise in Slashdot's signal.
Yet you quoted from it, and replied only "read it yourself".
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"Frankly, that is overkill, and I don't want my PC turned on permanently. I would prefer something like a small, solid-state hardware device. Is there any such thing available?"
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Lots of people are dropping static newspapers in favor of Web editions, even of the same content, because then they can google what they see in the news. The Washington Post, along with the New York Times and most every other news outlet, has accelerated that move by publishing more and more material that depends on reader fact checking and cross reference.
"'Picture a conversation between Bach, Robert Johnson and John Lennon, in comic book form.' Now *that* would be 'Strange Fruit,' indeed."
I doubt that Bach and Lennon would lynch Johnson, though lynching Black Americans is what "Strange Fruit" is about.
CraigsList is the kind of company that offers free lastminute "hookup" ads for/from real people. And instead of slapping ads in the middle of that delicate, if casual, transaction, instead offers a safer sex forum. The kind of company that steadily grows and has no real competition in its niche, because buyers and sellers have enough trust that they operate like a community.
What's so "zen" about running a company you'd prefer to use yourself, even if you're rich? The Wall Street Journal doesn't seem to understand business, and certainly shouldn't be throwing around smarty words like "zen" that they read on an old Mac, years after missing the point of Apple, too.
Thanks for the correction. Could I have been thinking of Massachusetts, the 4th largest state in New England?
Microsoft wins when it stick a new generation of kids with its software. The kids will then be on the "Microsoft track", much more likely to use their Microsoft skills to ensure more Microsoft software is bought for them, and the people they communicate with, for the rest of their lives.
With so many colleges, Massachusetts is very influential in forming "software habits", apart from its rank as the 4th most populous state.
If Microsoft can use those "free bags" of smack to lure the state into making Microsoft's brand of junk into law, that's a big bonus. But just getting the kids hooked is worth doing, even if they have to wait for the state to require addiction.
I don't post just because you like them.
I do post comments about unfair moderations, like TrollMods which are anonymous mods designed to do nothing but anonymously suppress an legitimate post. Because it gives the metamods something to consider, in Slashdot's sketchy meta/moderation system.
Atari invented Pong in 1972, as described in the page linked from the page to which you linked.
But so what? I said Atari invented the console market, not the console. They invented the market in the late 1970s with the 2600. Before that there was a tiny little niche market, then there was a complete market.
Stores paying NYC rents 24/7 don't need to pay the more expensive day workers to process deliveries, including peanut butter. They get more out of their rent and salaries by taking deliveries when the stores are closed to customers and empty.
It's obvious you haven't thought your farking criticism all the way through.
Fresh Direct is popular, and apparently successful, in densely populated neighborhoods like mine in NYC. Even though there are grocery stores sync'ed to the local neighborhood within a few walking blocks, all over the city.
Some competition from Amazon might force down the prices, and produce some new innovations for better service. And it will double the number of doubleparked giant delivery trucks clogging previously residential-only streets that rarely took deliveries.
These delivery services should deliver only after 8PM, when people are at home, and traffic congestion is lighter, and the double/parking has settled down. Getting that setup for residential zones would help make it more obviously better in commercial and mixed zones. Eventually we can have deliveries only between 8PM-6AM, and use the full capacity of our roads, even increasing it by lowering wasteful congestion.
A great combination of efficiency and convenience, at every level.
"Modern gaming consoles consume more and more power, dissipate more and more heat and cause a lot more noise"
When Atari invented the console market in the late 1970s, power costs were an issue only because of the recent energy crisis, heat mattered only if you left your cold beverage on the console, and there was no noise. Now that those problems are all cranked up in a more crowded, less plentiful, overbuilt world, we really have to worry about the power and heat. And now we can see the next crisis: overwhelming noise from all these home machines will first drive us completely mad, then churn up the atmosphere into tiny cyclones, combining with the larger ones to scour our homes into livingroom Grand Canyons.