For example, today I get to tell a History teacher that he cannot show MLK's 'I have a dream' speech in a lesson because it's under copyright still, and the copyright holder (A relative of King's who inherited the rights) enforces it quite strictly.
You just described Freenet. But it isn't suited for highly dynamic sites like TBP - once an update is submitted, it take hours before the whole network is aware of it.
TPB has moved from torrent files to magnet links now. Magnet links are even smaller.
The treaties for antartica are respected because there is nothing there of commercial interest. Just a load of oil that is impractical to get up. Once that becomes profitable, all bets are of... Argentena is already trying to reassert it's claim over the Falklands because whoever controls the islands controls what promise to become very profitable oilfields.
Those are *OUR* islands. Argentina can't have them.
For everyone to use encryption, it needs to be made so easy that they don't even need to know what encryption is. Like with SSL - all people need to know is that if their banking site doesn't show a padlock icon, something is suspicious. That probably means accepting 'good enough' encryption for a lot of things - encryption that could be broken by a fairly advanced MITM attack, but which is sufficiently annoying to the evesdropper so as to render mass-monitoring impractical.
I don't trust private owners, and I don't trust the government. I'm undecided which one I trust least. Cooperatives don't really scale well. The best option I see is to make it technologically difficult for whoever controls the tubes to abuse their power: If all the data is encrypted, and they can't decrypt it, what can they do? Worst they might achieve would be blocking by address, but that's a modest level of evil compared to what they could do if the data were not encrypted.
Courts are rather slow, and not very secretive - the suspect will know about the efforts against him. You can't use mass-monitoring if you have to ask everyone to decrypt their data for you.
That depends how accurately you can position them. Spy purposes don't need low-light sensitivity, the earth is nice and bright. Just use interferometry and two sats a few KM apart. I don't know if it's ever been done for that purpose, because if it has been then we wouldn't know about it, but I imagine it'd be within the realm of possibility if you have a sufficiently huge budget.
You can do the trains with current technology too. Most of Europe has them. I've got a station for a highspeed line just half an hour away on foot, though it doesn't go as fast as the bullet trains do. The problem is cultural. In the US, a car isn't just a means of transport - it's a symbol of freedom and self-determination. The power to go where you want, unshackled to any schedule.
I would guess that the best resolving powers available are the ones we aren't allowed to know about: Spy sats. It sounds very plausible that they could resolve details ten times smaller than the Hubble - actually, I'd be surprised if this were not true. The only problem with those is that they are all orbiting the earth, mostly in low orbits - even with their optics, too far from the moon. Besides, it wouldn't matter to the conspiracy theorists: They'd just claim the photos were photoshopped.
Planting a flag somewhere has no real legal standing - it doesn't claim the moon for America, any more than the British claimed antartica for getting our flag to the pole first. There really is no reason for it other than national pride.
Oh, you can *claim* it matters... but you'd better have the military to back it up. Land goes to whoever can hold it.
I think you're onto something there. I've still not quite got it - I found the equasion for osmotic pressure on wikipedia, and there seems to be no dependance upon absolute pressure... but I'm not confident I properly understand the math involved here, and that does look like a promissing place to look for the fatal flaw in the design that will seperate me from that shiny noble prize I would so like to hang on my wall.
Just use freshly-dead, seedless flowers. That way they get to celebrate for a week, and all the flowers turn into harmless compost. You'd still have things like algal blooms to deal with, but it shouldn't be a planet-killer.
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Is to enforce it.
For example, today I get to tell a History teacher that he cannot show MLK's 'I have a dream' speech in a lesson because it's under copyright still, and the copyright holder (A relative of King's who inherited the rights) enforces it quite strictly.
You assume the outcome hasn't already been determined.
Since data is stored in The Coud. Once it is deleted, the constant shuffling around will overwrite it in short order.
This is for what the 'epic' in 'epic fail' was invented.
Block size. dd defaults to 512 bytes, which is a bit small - adding bs=16k usually makes it faster.
You just described Freenet. But it isn't suited for highly dynamic sites like TBP - once an update is submitted, it take hours before the whole network is aware of it.
TPB has moved from torrent files to magnet links now. Magnet links are even smaller.
The treaties for antartica are respected because there is nothing there of commercial interest. Just a load of oil that is impractical to get up. Once that becomes profitable, all bets are of... Argentena is already trying to reassert it's claim over the Falklands because whoever controls the islands controls what promise to become very profitable oilfields.
Those are *OUR* islands. Argentina can't have them.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
Substitute appropriate drive. A tiny bit may survive in remapped clusters, but that's all.
For everyone to use encryption, it needs to be made so easy that they don't even need to know what encryption is. Like with SSL - all people need to know is that if their banking site doesn't show a padlock icon, something is suspicious. That probably means accepting 'good enough' encryption for a lot of things - encryption that could be broken by a fairly advanced MITM attack, but which is sufficiently annoying to the evesdropper so as to render mass-monitoring impractical.
Use both. Pirates and dissidents may have different goals, but they need the same tools. What one deveops, the other can use.
Soon as you find a way to route between a few million nodes without central management and in a highly dynamic network.
I don't trust private owners, and I don't trust the government. I'm undecided which one I trust least. Cooperatives don't really scale well. The best option I see is to make it technologically difficult for whoever controls the tubes to abuse their power: If all the data is encrypted, and they can't decrypt it, what can they do? Worst they might achieve would be blocking by address, but that's a modest level of evil compared to what they could do if the data were not encrypted.
Courts are rather slow, and not very secretive - the suspect will know about the efforts against him. You can't use mass-monitoring if you have to ask everyone to decrypt their data for you.
That depends how accurately you can position them. Spy purposes don't need low-light sensitivity, the earth is nice and bright. Just use interferometry and two sats a few KM apart. I don't know if it's ever been done for that purpose, because if it has been then we wouldn't know about it, but I imagine it'd be within the realm of possibility if you have a sufficiently huge budget.
I think the idea is that the government pays private industry to go to the moon on its behalf.
Because everyone knows that the miltary doesn't get screwed over by suppliers at all, so why not do the same for space?
You can do the trains with current technology too. Most of Europe has them. I've got a station for a highspeed line just half an hour away on foot, though it doesn't go as fast as the bullet trains do. The problem is cultural. In the US, a car isn't just a means of transport - it's a symbol of freedom and self-determination. The power to go where you want, unshackled to any schedule.
Because they compete with private industry, which makes them dangerously close to communist in the eyes of republicans.
I would guess that the best resolving powers available are the ones we aren't allowed to know about: Spy sats. It sounds very plausible that they could resolve details ten times smaller than the Hubble - actually, I'd be surprised if this were not true. The only problem with those is that they are all orbiting the earth, mostly in low orbits - even with their optics, too far from the moon. Besides, it wouldn't matter to the conspiracy theorists: They'd just claim the photos were photoshopped.
Planting a flag somewhere has no real legal standing - it doesn't claim the moon for America, any more than the British claimed antartica for getting our flag to the pole first. There really is no reason for it other than national pride.
Oh, you can *claim* it matters... but you'd better have the military to back it up. Land goes to whoever can hold it.
But if we get into space, we'll have all the time in the universe to figure out a solution.
To which Thailand replies 'DNS lookups blocked and traffic dropped by IP address! No advertising money for you!'
Android plays Vorbis. iPhone doesn't. Windows phones will play Vorbis when hell freezes over.
Android codec support is actually quite impressive.
I think you're onto something there. I've still not quite got it - I found the equasion for osmotic pressure on wikipedia, and there seems to be no dependance upon absolute pressure... but I'm not confident I properly understand the math involved here, and that does look like a promissing place to look for the fatal flaw in the design that will seperate me from that shiny noble prize I would so like to hang on my wall.
Getting the level of detail from a brain you'd need to simulate it might be less a matter of implants than destructive readout. Slice-and-scan.
Just use freshly-dead, seedless flowers. That way they get to celebrate for a week, and all the flowers turn into harmless compost. You'd still have things like algal blooms to deal with, but it shouldn't be a planet-killer.