Never that simple. There's a good reason plasma weapons don't actually exist: The energy requirements to get any significant range are rediculous.
If you want a plasma rifle, I could probably build one, given enough money. It'd be just small enough for one man to lift - and attached to a power supply the size of a house by cables as thick as hosepipes.
Not entirely true. They also promote rap artists. Not the good ones - just the ones who like to sing about how rich they are, show off their collection of 'bitches' and use certain words I can't even type here at work without setting off the racist content filter.
We've got distribution covered. Small bands can set up a website for a little money making tracks available for download, and if traffic grows there is p2p to turn to.
Still to solve: Promotion and (optionally) monetization.
Music choice is social: People tend to see out the music they see their peers enjoying. On a large scale, this leads to a shifting series of fads.
I have wondered if the increasing importance of the music video was in some way a collective response by the majors to keep costs high. They must have realised that their production advantage would lessen as the cost of making music came down. How better to counter that than to popularise the music video, an extra that serves as powerful promotion and still requires a substantial amount of money to do well?
I got a kerbal stranded in orbit once, without any fuel left. Then I realised there is a simple way down: Jump. I used his MMU to provide the required delta-v to deorbit.
It was an eventful flight down. He made a perfect descent, right up until the point of landing at three hundred meters per second.
There's a fantasy shop somewhere in the UK that is supposed to be named in latin. The owners thought 'too the stars' a good name, so they named it accordingly: "Ad astrae."
Unfortunately they made a critical error: In attempting to pluralise astra, they didn't realise that astra is already a plural. The singular is astrum.
So what they actually called the shop is 'To the starses.' Or possibly 'To the altar.'
Making high-quality music used to require investment. Expensive instruments at a minimum - but if you didn't want to sound like Kenny, you'd also need high quality microphones, sound damped recording studio, mixing desk, specialist technician to operate it and several high-end recorders capable of syncronised operation.
That's all changed now. One person working on consumer, affordable equipment can - on a purely technical level - match that quality with comparative ease. It's down to the level where people can and do make music as a hobby, without any expectation of payment.
Dr Manhattan wasn't exposed to radiation. He was accidentally present in the 'intrinsic field subtractor' device. It didn't expose him to anything, it took something away: The field holding his material form together. A process that should have been fatal - but instead confirmed the duality many philosophers and theologians speculated about. His mind survived, and no longer had a body to hold it back.
Depends on the continuity: - Original hulk: Pure gamma, following accidental presence on atomic test site. - Movie hulk: Gamma, but gamma only activated preexisting genetic condition inherited from his father's self-experimentation. - TV hulk: Gamma, but very targetted gamma administered under laboratory conditions.
I should clarify, probably. So here's how it'd work in principle:
1. You go to Subversive Youtube, or some other site with a embedded video. 2. The site has a reference to a video: 'Type=video/mp4 sha256=xxxxxx' - obviously the hash would be longer than that, I'm just making it readable. 3. Your nodes checks the local cache. Does it have xxxxxx? If so, give it to the browser. If not, continue. 4. Node broadcasts via wifi, ethernet, and whatever else it can: 'Anyone got xxxxxx?' With luck, someone else watched it earlier, and will share it. The network operator may well have a box with a few big hard drives in for just that purpose. 5. They in turn broadcast, until the hop limit is reached or someone finds it. 6. The file goes back to the requester, being cached by every node along the way.
It isn't a replacement for packet-switched networking, but something that can run alongside or on top of it. It's what the earlier poster refered to as 'store and forward' - though in my experience, that term refers to a configuration for frame switching in which each frame is received in entirety for checksum validation before being forwarded.
In much shortened form: Nodes don't have addresses. Content does, almost always in the form of a hash. You give the network a hash, and the corresponding content is retrieved. It doesn't matter where it is physically stored - the network can just grab the most conveniently accessible copy. The content associated with an address is fixed and unchanging, allowing for very good caching and decentralization. Obviously it sucks if you want to have a real-time conversation with someone, but it's ideal for the type of bulk distribution that makes up a lot of internet traffic.
There's also CAN, a specific implementation of CAN. Confusing name, yes. That's the CAN to which the wiki page refers.
There are easier ways. The UK had a very similar situation once - pirate radio ships in the 60s. Stations were broadcasting from international water. This created a problem for the government: They were causing interference to commercial stations, blatantly infringing copyright, and had a tendency to say very offensive things that would get 'legitimate' stations in trouble. Yet they were legally untouchable. The government's solution was simple: Siege. They made it a crime for anyone to provide any service to these boats, including transportation or sale of goods. Thus the pirates couldn't come ashore (They'd be arrested), and their supporters couldn't deliver supplies (they'd be arrested upon return), and eventually the ships would run out of food for the crew and fuel for the transmitter.
The same approach would work against a hypothetical Blueseed-like ship: Simply make it illegal to travel outside the US to work while in the US on a visitor or student visa. The workers can still go out to work, but they can't come back without being arrested. If they start doing anything illegal enough to really upset the powers that be (Counterfeit goods manufacture, drug production, unlicensed radio station operation, etc) then they can be shut down by the siege approach.
It's a movement that aims to escape the reach of existing governments by setting up semi-autonomous permanent settlements at sea. A mixture of libertarian idealists ('A place free from overgrown government, where the right of individuals to live free is valued!') and free market enterprise idealists ('A place where we can locate our call centers and offices free from taxation, minimum wage, health and safety and working hours regulations.').
The only group with a halfway-viable business plan are Blueseed, who hope to use their ship as a legal workaround for US immigration law - station it just in international water, allowing people 'visiting' the country on a tourist visa to commute by ferry and technically not be illegally working in the US. It's not attracted enough investment, because it's a high-risk venture: Even if the ship works and is financially viable, it's likely the government would act quickly to change the law and close this 'loophole.'
China is something of a contradiction, due to the very rapid industralisation. The cities are as modern as any country (if a bit more polluted), but head just a little way outside them and you'll find subsistance farmers still living as their great-great-grandparents did. I'm guessing that not everyone can get broadband.
I gather RFL is largely a bargining ploy with which to negotiate better prices from Microsoft. MS would ideally like people to pay for windows, but failing that they would still rather see pirate windows than linux dominate.
Could you make a 'stealth bomb' instead? Rather than spread by explosive, pose as someone spraying for insects or mix it in with paint. Spray the offices of a target organisation. People don't walk around with giger counters - it could be months before someone realises this new cluster of strange illness is focused on a single workplace, and months more before anyone thinks to try the long-shot theory of radiation poisoning. By which time some of the employees are seriously ill, all of them have an elevated cancer risk, and the building has to be closed for weeks while it is decontaminated. Also gives you plenty of time to cover your tracks.
" Just like wired packet switching networks we will need store and forward -- the bigger the caches the better, so your friend who told you about that youtube vid will be one of the peers pushing it to you instead of ridiculously repeating content from end to end -- Free collocation."
That's the CAN to which I referred. Currently the only networks to operate in that manner are p2ps primarily used for piracy, and not made to smoothly integrate into a browser.
There are technological countermeasures that can be investigated. Encryption, obstucated protocols, decentralisation. Ideally some day truely decentralised mesh networking (I personally think CAN is key to making that workable), but that depends not just upon improving technology but also having a dense enough population of activist-enthusiasts.
Exactly. And thus is more valuable. The punishment in each case is so severe the only way someone would commit the crime is if they were confident they wouldn't be caught - in which case, get the best value you can for your risk and go for something really worth stealing.
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Never that simple. There's a good reason plasma weapons don't actually exist: The energy requirements to get any significant range are rediculous.
If you want a plasma rifle, I could probably build one, given enough money. It'd be just small enough for one man to lift - and attached to a power supply the size of a house by cables as thick as hosepipes.
You don't get a lot of plasma for 40 watt.
Not entirely true. They also promote rap artists. Not the good ones - just the ones who like to sing about how rich they are, show off their collection of 'bitches' and use certain words I can't even type here at work without setting off the racist content filter.
We've got distribution covered. Small bands can set up a website for a little money making tracks available for download, and if traffic grows there is p2p to turn to.
Still to solve: Promotion and (optionally) monetization.
Music choice is social: People tend to see out the music they see their peers enjoying. On a large scale, this leads to a shifting series of fads.
I have wondered if the increasing importance of the music video was in some way a collective response by the majors to keep costs high. They must have realised that their production advantage would lessen as the cost of making music came down. How better to counter that than to popularise the music video, an extra that serves as powerful promotion and still requires a substantial amount of money to do well?
I got a kerbal stranded in orbit once, without any fuel left. Then I realised there is a simple way down: Jump. I used his MMU to provide the required delta-v to deorbit.
It was an eventful flight down. He made a perfect descent, right up until the point of landing at three hundred meters per second.
There's a fantasy shop somewhere in the UK that is supposed to be named in latin. The owners thought 'too the stars' a good name, so they named it accordingly: "Ad astrae."
Unfortunately they made a critical error: In attempting to pluralise astra, they didn't realise that astra is already a plural. The singular is astrum.
So what they actually called the shop is 'To the starses.' Or possibly 'To the altar.'
I know the film to which you allude, but the title escapes me. I saw it many years ago.
Making high-quality music used to require investment. Expensive instruments at a minimum - but if you didn't want to sound like Kenny, you'd also need high quality microphones, sound damped recording studio, mixing desk, specialist technician to operate it and several high-end recorders capable of syncronised operation.
That's all changed now. One person working on consumer, affordable equipment can - on a purely technical level - match that quality with comparative ease. It's down to the level where people can and do make music as a hobby, without any expectation of payment.
The advancements in hardware were used to allow a saving in software development costs.
Dr Manhattan wasn't exposed to radiation. He was accidentally present in the 'intrinsic field subtractor' device. It didn't expose him to anything, it took something away: The field holding his material form together. A process that should have been fatal - but instead confirmed the duality many philosophers and theologians speculated about. His mind survived, and no longer had a body to hold it back.
Depends on the continuity:
- Original hulk: Pure gamma, following accidental presence on atomic test site.
- Movie hulk: Gamma, but gamma only activated preexisting genetic condition inherited from his father's self-experimentation.
- TV hulk: Gamma, but very targetted gamma administered under laboratory conditions.
I should clarify, probably. So here's how it'd work in principle:
1. You go to Subversive Youtube, or some other site with a embedded video.
2. The site has a reference to a video: 'Type=video/mp4 sha256=xxxxxx' - obviously the hash would be longer than that, I'm just making it readable.
3. Your nodes checks the local cache. Does it have xxxxxx? If so, give it to the browser. If not, continue.
4. Node broadcasts via wifi, ethernet, and whatever else it can: 'Anyone got xxxxxx?' With luck, someone else watched it earlier, and will share it. The network operator may well have a box with a few big hard drives in for just that purpose.
5. They in turn broadcast, until the hop limit is reached or someone finds it.
6. The file goes back to the requester, being cached by every node along the way.
It isn't a replacement for packet-switched networking, but something that can run alongside or on top of it. It's what the earlier poster refered to as 'store and forward' - though in my experience, that term refers to a configuration for frame switching in which each frame is received in entirety for checksum validation before being forwarded.
Content-Addressible Networking.
In much shortened form: Nodes don't have addresses. Content does, almost always in the form of a hash. You give the network a hash, and the corresponding content is retrieved. It doesn't matter where it is physically stored - the network can just grab the most conveniently accessible copy. The content associated with an address is fixed and unchanging, allowing for very good caching and decentralization. Obviously it sucks if you want to have a real-time conversation with someone, but it's ideal for the type of bulk distribution that makes up a lot of internet traffic.
There's also CAN, a specific implementation of CAN. Confusing name, yes. That's the CAN to which the wiki page refers.
There are easier ways. The UK had a very similar situation once - pirate radio ships in the 60s. Stations were broadcasting from international water. This created a problem for the government: They were causing interference to commercial stations, blatantly infringing copyright, and had a tendency to say very offensive things that would get 'legitimate' stations in trouble. Yet they were legally untouchable. The government's solution was simple: Siege. They made it a crime for anyone to provide any service to these boats, including transportation or sale of goods. Thus the pirates couldn't come ashore (They'd be arrested), and their supporters couldn't deliver supplies (they'd be arrested upon return), and eventually the ships would run out of food for the crew and fuel for the transmitter.
The same approach would work against a hypothetical Blueseed-like ship: Simply make it illegal to travel outside the US to work while in the US on a visitor or student visa. The workers can still go out to work, but they can't come back without being arrested. If they start doing anything illegal enough to really upset the powers that be (Counterfeit goods manufacture, drug production, unlicensed radio station operation, etc) then they can be shut down by the siege approach.
It's a movement that aims to escape the reach of existing governments by setting up semi-autonomous permanent settlements at sea. A mixture of libertarian idealists ('A place free from overgrown government, where the right of individuals to live free is valued!') and free market enterprise idealists ('A place where we can locate our call centers and offices free from taxation, minimum wage, health and safety and working hours regulations.').
The only group with a halfway-viable business plan are Blueseed, who hope to use their ship as a legal workaround for US immigration law - station it just in international water, allowing people 'visiting' the country on a tourist visa to commute by ferry and technically not be illegally working in the US. It's not attracted enough investment, because it's a high-risk venture: Even if the ship works and is financially viable, it's likely the government would act quickly to change the law and close this 'loophole.'
They did. Thus Red Flag Linux.
This is what you can build when you have real money, a real business model and a real plan instead of just a fantasy of a libertarian utopia.
China is something of a contradiction, due to the very rapid industralisation. The cities are as modern as any country (if a bit more polluted), but head just a little way outside them and you'll find subsistance farmers still living as their great-great-grandparents did. I'm guessing that not everyone can get broadband.
I gather RFL is largely a bargining ploy with which to negotiate better prices from Microsoft. MS would ideally like people to pay for windows, but failing that they would still rather see pirate windows than linux dominate.
Almost, but you forgot to blame Obama somehow.
Could you make a 'stealth bomb' instead? Rather than spread by explosive, pose as someone spraying for insects or mix it in with paint. Spray the offices of a target organisation. People don't walk around with giger counters - it could be months before someone realises this new cluster of strange illness is focused on a single workplace, and months more before anyone thinks to try the long-shot theory of radiation poisoning. By which time some of the employees are seriously ill, all of them have an elevated cancer risk, and the building has to be closed for weeks while it is decontaminated. Also gives you plenty of time to cover your tracks.
" Just like wired packet switching networks we will need store and forward -- the bigger the caches the better, so your friend who told you about that youtube vid will be one of the peers pushing it to you instead of ridiculously repeating content from end to end -- Free collocation."
That's the CAN to which I referred. Currently the only networks to operate in that manner are p2ps primarily used for piracy, and not made to smoothly integrate into a browser.
There are technological countermeasures that can be investigated. Encryption, obstucated protocols, decentralisation. Ideally some day truely decentralised mesh networking (I personally think CAN is key to making that workable), but that depends not just upon improving technology but also having a dense enough population of activist-enthusiasts.
Exactly. And thus is more valuable. The punishment in each case is so severe the only way someone would commit the crime is if they were confident they wouldn't be caught - in which case, get the best value you can for your risk and go for something really worth stealing.