"If a better battery were to arrive that allowed you to get 300 miles range between charges driving a Lincoln Navigator at 80 MPH, you probably wouldn't be saving too much on overall pollution (at least with today's electric power generating mix)."
So if you apply that logic, to save the world, we must:
1. Be willing to drive a vehicle that is inconveniently small so as to allow current electric motor technology to even be feasable. and 2. Be willing to get there slower.
(Anyone done time studies on the economic impact of being late a percentage of the time?) and 3. Be willing to maybe not be able to get there in the first place should the destination be a little too far between charges...
I don't know. I like the idea of electric vehicles, but I think the econimics are not there yet.
To me this just illustrates that the music industry was enjoying higher sales numbers due to increased product visibility through napster and gnutella etc.
It just took an economic recession, severe terroristic attacks, and a war to make people put their wallets a little farther into their pockets.
"When Mary gets home from work and goes to her PC to check e-mail, the PC isn't just sitting there. It's working for a hacker in Norway who just figured out how to crack DVD encryption and he loosely encrypts his data.
Along comes the MPAA scanner bot and sees this data on Mary's HD and automails her a subpoena.
Meanwhile, a malicous script kiddie that Mary dumped last month decides to plant data on Mary's PC and deliberately leaves the data as plain text. He plants such data as false dates that Mary went in for an HIV test, false and made up bad credit letters from credit agencies, false data of Mary having to show in court, fake emails of her corresponding with terrorists, and false chat room data of her hanging out online with young boys and stating she wants to meet them.
Along comes the NSA Carnivore type scanner bot and DING DING DING...
Mary is now having to answer to the Feds.
Lets think about this a little more before we toss our clock cycles and storage space to the wind eh?
It is my opinion that hardware is going to continue it's downward spiral of price dropping, and therefore the average home user will be able to continually afford sufficient personal hardware to meet his needs without having to join in on this "Borg Collective" type of server farm.
I do admit though, that this could be entertaining to watch if it did get implemented because it would most definitely end the concept of copyright.
So someone created a metered capacitive discharge "backup" unit and threw in a motor to make noise for effect.
The stupid reporter could have used a simple equation to figure out how long the bulbs should have burned. (Way more than the ten minutes they watched them burm)
(watts of battery draw x number of minutes charged) / (4 bulbs * 100 watts per bulb) = number of minutes the friggin bulbs will burn.
Just remember, these are the very same "reporters" that make the news about politics and the environment and the economy.
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Anonymous Coward missed the point.
The whole point of my scribbling ramble was to offer people a logical alternative to the snap decision of deciding that supporting Israel was the reason for the WTC/Pentagon murders.
Also I was attempting to show that terrorism is not merely done in retaliation for political stances, but is also used to commence war when you have no other means.
People seem to think we need to analyze the situation and decide on a reason as to why we were attacked before we can justify striking out against world terrorism. That is not true. There is such a thing as right and wrong. Therefore if terrorism is wrong, and the U.S. is right to fight it, it should not require any more justification than that to fight terrorism in any nation. To assume any other option is ludicrous. Do police officers ask themselves if they can morally arrest a proven criminal if he's sleeping in his warm bed? I think not.
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Israel is partaking in the problem with terrorism, and know it better than the US will ever, but the US support of Israel is not why thousands of innocent people were murdered in this struggle between civility and savagery.
Israel is simply a democratic and technologically advanced nation similar to the USA in a hostile region they were rightfully given to live in.
Savages and civility historically don't live well together.
(BTW, savage is not a bigotted term. Remember anything about the Barbary Pirates? They were NOT PIRATES AT ALL! They were sailors of ships in commisioned navies of north African nations of what is now Libya and Egypt etc. sent to overtake commerce ships and steal their loot and anything else they could because the nations and people refused to participate in any form of trade or production of goods to achieve the goods morally. Savages fits quite nicely considering they are only two generations out of the Barbary Pirate era.)
The real issue here is not figuring out why innocent Americans and other nation's people were murdered in the WTC and the Pentagon. But since most people seem to think there needs to be a reason for evils perfomed against us, and many believe it is because of the US's support of Israel, or possibly some retaliation against our missile attacks that were retaliations for embassy bombings etc., I'll tell you what the real reason for the murder and burning bodies of American and other nation's people in the WTC and Pentagon was.
It was to create a precedent of complacency and naivety toward small, short, but deadly attacks on innocent people around the world but especially on Americans.
Terrorism is not a separate entity from war. It is the prime effective weapon of an underdeveloped foe. It is the only effective weapon that a population with no production of goods and services has. It is the cheapest form of warfare known to man.
It is the warfare of cowards who allow themselves to remain simple minded and oppressed and indoctrinated to the point of allowing generations go by with no education so as to never have the collective intelligence as a nation to rise above the deceit and murder and feelings of hatred and jealousy toward other nations for things you don't have. These feelings can be easily planted in the fertile minds of people that are suffering in a failed sociopolitical system who are hungry for a better life by crazy power hungry men with notions of turning back the clock to a century where Islamic Fundamentalism ruled much of the world.
If the Afghan refugees trying to club and stone their way into Pakistan were to turn their clubs and stones around and go after the very "government" that failed to provide for them what they need, they might be on the right foot, stepping ever closer toward a beautiful thing called liberty.
I won't excuse him for being a part of the Nazi war machine, but he simply was the designer of the V2 and V1 rocket/buzz bomb.
If you were an engineer in the aerospace industry and your country was at war you might be asked to design weapons of mass destruction as well.
Provided you believed that the position your country's leaders held was honest and true and moral you may do it or you may not.
That was his mistake. It doesn't change the meaning of the quote.
I chose his quote simply because he is the reason we are at the current level we are for space travel (at least rocket based) Also, he is an acknowledged genius in the scientific world that has a belief in God. That is quite different for many scientific types.
Too bad he didn't use his acknowledgement of God to instill fear in himself for creating part of the means for Hitler's reign of terror.
Put the name Bob Smith behind it instead and how does the quote look then?
To create (or link to) a FAQ of patent/trademark/Copyright law type questions and answers actually isn't a bad idea. Look at it as re-educating the masses. Then maybe with a little help the Slashdot generation, when they become CEO's, won't hire bored lawyers with nothing better to do than to hunt for ways to mess with a system no matter how outdated or full of holes it might be.
Contribute to the system rather than leach from it.
Everyone has at least one good idea in a lifetime.
What makes you think that pressure in an airplane or space shuttle that is autonomous is easier that regulating pressure in something that is tethered to the earth?
This is in fact an easier feat than attempting to regulate pressure for a human to travel to the bottom of say the marianas trench for instance.
Would it not seem likely that the Feds would prefer DSL have very few players in the game?
That would allow Carnivore or whatever else they decide to use to infringe on our rights a big advantage of only having to monitor a few dozen pipes of data in each metro area and then they could feel relatively sure they were capturing most of the pertinent data they are after.
I believe the IoR they are referring to is the one in traditional fiberoptic glass versus the lack of need for any material.
That tosses anything to do with IoR out the window since it is dealing entirely with reflection and wave propagation origination in the initial direction.
For those of you that were talking about a total vacuum in this cable, that's impossible. There will always be some particulates in the cable and desorption of gasses due to lack of pressure in most all materials. Even space has pressure. Although small.
It would help some to pump out the tube and it is not that tough to build a tube that withstands 14.7 psi.
Lets say at.375 in. diameter. you're only seeing about 17 pounds of force per inch. Not too hard at all to design.
True memories are unnecessary. That's what the congressional record and history books are for.
Besides, the likes of Strom Thurmond aren't going to remember that crap anyway.
Copyright law changes are entirely constitutional. If you don't like them then vote in new people who feel the same.(Which would be easier with term limits)
The length of time that is involved in copyright is nearly moot.
With most things that are worthwhile monetarily to copyright the company can afford to use the profit from the product in question to renew the copyright and keep up with the latest legalese. That's why so many inventors ideas are rarely copyrighted eventhough they are mass produced and sold. It's simply not cost effective because most likely you can still take a market share without it and with small time products there won't be any competition in the near future anyway simply because of limited visibility and lack of interest in reinventing the wheel.
What you are missing entirely is that presently the staff members and lobbyists ARE more powerful than the Senators and Reps simply because they've transformed from "I work for the people" to "I do what the powerful people who control the masses of sheep voters tell me to so I can stay in this cushy job." Term limits are NOT anti-democratic. Not that we are a democracy anyway. Rome was a democracy when it was ruled by senators. We are a republic of states ruled by a trilateral checks and balances system thought of by geniuses.
If term limits were anti-democratic we'd have a King named Bill and a queen named Hillary.
I fail to see why he even needs to get in on the discussion except for the fact that he was heard on the DECSS issues and the RIAA must think of him as looking golden to Congress.
Therefore he polishes their image in front of all those nice old men and women that sit in the best job they have ever had in their lives and are too scared to leave because they don't even know how they got there and upon leaving they couldn't even write a book report anymore if asked.
It's time for term limits people.
If you had term limits, we as a generation wouldn't have to fight an uphill battle against major corporate power while simultaneously trying to re-educate lawmakers that have been in office since the most hight tech item was canned beer. Term limits would ensure the the progression of the general knowledge base and background of political higher-ups. This would more closely represent the voters.
It is simply shallow to think that one man or woman needs to stay in office simply because they are the only person or the best person for the job.
It was built to serve as a scientific data gatherer and was thought to have failed.
If this can still be somewhat accomplished, then you and me as taxpayers funding this excellent piece of engineering are getting more bang for our buck then we were originally getting. Hooray for that.
How long until someone tries to sue ove the use of 1 similar character?
How long until people will realize that the name of the game is selling an idea of a product to numbers of people and crap like this has little impact on what people are going to choose for low level software like this.
It is purely utilitarian!
If it does the job and people know it works and does it's job well then the story is over.
Wall Street Journal Headline:
McDonalds sues Wendy's for having a name with three of the same letters!
I haven't noticed any green cesspools near the house, nor have I seen black smog over my city... Oil rigs don't seem to be spewing all over the ground, and toxic clouds aren't raining on the fields here.
Where do you live?
The main problem with the movement of the left is them trying to tell us we should believe things we cannot see with our own eyes.
What they had to say about getting slashdotted...
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Leave the firearms talk for the firearms people.
The closest man portable conventional firearm to a quake style rail gun is most likely the Barret 50 cal semi automatic and all it's cousins or possibly a converted Norwegian 20mm anti tank gun retrofitted to be shoulderable but it had to be dragged around on a sled when it was used during WWII times.
Don't you think your generation and mine can come up with a solution to support more people?
Every generation has looked at things that seemed insurmountable and has always far exceeded their own known limits on solving problems.
Granted thinking that bitching about it is going to make people procreate less isn't a bad idea entirely but every generation is handed a set of problems to deal with from the previous. This is one we're going to get as well as pass on.
If you discount extremely poor and disorganized third world countries and their simple problem of starvation (solution: tell them that sex creates babies and spend the $ to give them contraceptives) I can't think of any time that man has struggled against large problems and lost the battle.
Smallpox, the plague, two world wars, President Clinton, whining vote stealing Democrats, the Bay of Pigs, Richard Nixon, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, overreaching British rulers, the list goes on...
Ohhh... I know why you don't want more people... You think prairie grass was here first and deserves free reign over the plains and nobody should get to sled down that hill in the neighborhood because there used to be prairie grass there and that's more important than the good that comes from recreation and comraderie and human well being... Hmm?
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"If a better battery were to arrive that allowed you to get 300 miles range between charges driving a Lincoln Navigator at 80 MPH, you probably wouldn't be saving too much on overall pollution (at least with today's electric power generating mix)."
So if you apply that logic, to save the world, we must:
1. Be willing to drive a vehicle that is inconveniently small so as to allow current electric motor technology to even be feasable.
and
2. Be willing to get there slower.
(Anyone done time studies on the economic impact of being late a percentage of the time?)
and
3. Be willing to maybe not be able to get there in the first place should the destination be a little too far between charges...
I don't know. I like the idea of electric vehicles, but I think the econimics are not there yet.
To me this just illustrates that the music industry was enjoying higher sales numbers due to increased product visibility through napster and gnutella etc.
It just took an economic recession, severe terroristic attacks, and a war to make people put their wallets a little farther into their pockets.
"...and sometimes you can find really awful things on themes.org..."
:o)
Yeah, like themes.org's new "theme" (web layout sucks)
Marbles? Fetch?
**Distinctive pump shotgun sound** KBLAM!!
"When Mary gets home from work and goes to her PC to check e-mail, the PC isn't just sitting there. It's working for a hacker in Norway who just figured out how to crack DVD encryption and he loosely encrypts his data.
Along comes the MPAA scanner bot and sees this data on Mary's HD and automails her a subpoena.
Meanwhile, a malicous script kiddie that Mary dumped last month decides to plant data on Mary's PC and deliberately leaves the data as plain text. He plants such data as false dates that Mary went in for an HIV test, false and made up bad credit letters from credit agencies, false data of Mary having to show in court, fake emails of her corresponding with terrorists, and false chat room data of her hanging out online with young boys and stating she wants to meet them.
Along comes the NSA Carnivore type scanner bot and DING DING DING...
Mary is now having to answer to the Feds.
Lets think about this a little more before we toss our clock cycles and storage space to the wind eh?
It is my opinion that hardware is going to continue it's downward spiral of price dropping, and therefore the average home user will be able to continually afford sufficient personal hardware to meet his needs without having to join in on this "Borg Collective" type of server farm.
I do admit though, that this could be entertaining to watch if it did get implemented because it would most definitely end the concept of copyright.
It's called an APC battery backup...
...and the APC is a lot smaller.
Big friggin deal
So someone created a metered capacitive discharge "backup" unit and threw in a motor to make noise for effect.
The stupid reporter could have used a simple equation to figure out how long the bulbs should have burned. (Way more than the ten minutes they watched them burm)
(watts of battery draw x number of minutes charged) / (4 bulbs * 100 watts per bulb) = number of minutes the friggin bulbs will burn.
Just remember, these are the very same "reporters" that make the news about politics and the environment and the economy.
The whole point of my scribbling ramble was to offer people a logical alternative to the snap decision of deciding that supporting Israel was the reason for the WTC/Pentagon murders.
Also I was attempting to show that terrorism is not merely done in retaliation for political stances, but is also used to commence war when you have no other means.
People seem to think we need to analyze the situation and decide on a reason as to why we were attacked before we can justify striking out against world terrorism. That is not true. There is such a thing as right and wrong. Therefore if terrorism is wrong, and the U.S. is right to fight it, it should not require any more justification than that to fight terrorism in any nation. To assume any other option is ludicrous. Do police officers ask themselves if they can morally arrest a proven criminal if he's sleeping in his warm bed? I think not.
Israel is partaking in the problem with terrorism, and know it better than the US will ever, but the US support of Israel is not why thousands of innocent people were murdered in this struggle between civility and savagery.
Israel is simply a democratic and technologically advanced nation similar to the USA in a hostile region they were rightfully given to live in.
Savages and civility historically don't live well together.
(BTW, savage is not a bigotted term. Remember anything about the Barbary Pirates? They were NOT PIRATES AT ALL! They were sailors of ships in commisioned navies of north African nations of what is now Libya and Egypt etc. sent to overtake commerce ships and steal their loot and anything else they could because the nations and people refused to participate in any form of trade or production of goods to achieve the goods morally. Savages fits quite nicely considering they are only two generations out of the Barbary Pirate era.)
The real issue here is not figuring out why innocent Americans and other nation's people were murdered in the WTC and the Pentagon. But since most people seem to think there needs to be a reason for evils perfomed against us, and many believe it is because of the US's support of Israel, or possibly some retaliation against our missile attacks that were retaliations for embassy bombings etc., I'll tell you what the real reason for the murder and burning bodies of American and other nation's people in the WTC and Pentagon was.
It was to create a precedent of complacency and naivety toward small, short, but deadly attacks on innocent people around the world but especially on Americans.
Terrorism is not a separate entity from war. It is the prime effective weapon of an underdeveloped foe. It is the only effective weapon that a population with no production of goods and services has. It is the cheapest form of warfare known to man.
It is the warfare of cowards who allow themselves to remain simple minded and oppressed and indoctrinated to the point of allowing generations go by with no education so as to never have the collective intelligence as a nation to rise above the deceit and murder and feelings of hatred and jealousy toward other nations for things you don't have. These feelings can be easily planted in the fertile minds of people that are suffering in a failed sociopolitical system who are hungry for a better life by crazy power hungry men with notions of turning back the clock to a century where Islamic Fundamentalism ruled much of the world.
If the Afghan refugees trying to club and stone their way into Pakistan were to turn their clubs and stones around and go after the very "government" that failed to provide for them what they need, they might be on the right foot, stepping ever closer toward a beautiful thing called liberty.
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/history/VonBr aun/VonBraun.html
He was simply an engineer. Same as I.
I won't excuse him for being a part of the Nazi war machine, but he simply was the designer of the V2 and V1 rocket/buzz bomb.
If you were an engineer in the aerospace industry and your country was at war you might be asked to design weapons of mass destruction as well.
Provided you believed that the position your country's leaders held was honest and true and moral you may do it or you may not.
That was his mistake. It doesn't change the meaning of the quote.
I chose his quote simply because he is the reason we are at the current level we are for space travel (at least rocket based) Also, he is an acknowledged genius in the scientific world that has a belief in God. That is quite different for many scientific types.
Too bad he didn't use his acknowledgement of God to instill fear in himself for creating part of the means for Hitler's reign of terror.
Put the name Bob Smith behind it instead and how does the quote look then?
Contribute to the system rather than leach from it.
Everyone has at least one good idea in a lifetime.
And regulators...
You know, those things that regulate...
What makes you think that pressure in an airplane or space shuttle that is autonomous is easier that regulating pressure in something that is tethered to the earth?
This is in fact an easier feat than attempting to regulate pressure for a human to travel to the bottom of say the marianas trench for instance.
That would allow Carnivore or whatever else they decide to use to infringe on our rights a big advantage of only having to monitor a few dozen pipes of data in each metro area and then they could feel relatively sure they were capturing most of the pertinent data they are after.
That tosses anything to do with IoR out the window since it is dealing entirely with reflection and wave propagation origination in the initial direction.
For those of you that were talking about a total vacuum in this cable, that's impossible. There will always be some particulates in the cable and desorption of gasses due to lack of pressure in most all materials. Even space has pressure. Although small.
It would help some to pump out the tube and it is not that tough to build a tube that withstands 14.7 psi.
Lets say at .375 in. diameter. you're only seeing about 17 pounds of force per inch. Not too hard at all to design.
Besides, the likes of Strom Thurmond aren't going to remember that crap anyway.
Copyright law changes are entirely constitutional. If you don't like them then vote in new people who feel the same.(Which would be easier with term limits)
The length of time that is involved in copyright is nearly moot.
With most things that are worthwhile monetarily to copyright the company can afford to use the profit from the product in question to renew the copyright and keep up with the latest legalese. That's why so many inventors ideas are rarely copyrighted eventhough they are mass produced and sold. It's simply not cost effective because most likely you can still take a market share without it and with small time products there won't be any competition in the near future anyway simply because of limited visibility and lack of interest in reinventing the wheel.
What you are missing entirely is that presently the staff members and lobbyists ARE more powerful than the Senators and Reps simply because they've transformed from "I work for the people" to "I do what the powerful people who control the masses of sheep voters tell me to so I can stay in this cushy job." Term limits are NOT anti-democratic. Not that we are a democracy anyway. Rome was a democracy when it was ruled by senators. We are a republic of states ruled by a trilateral checks and balances system thought of by geniuses.
If term limits were anti-democratic we'd have a King named Bill and a queen named Hillary.
Man, that guy just won't die.
I fail to see why he even needs to get in on the discussion except for the fact that he was heard on the DECSS issues and the RIAA must think of him as looking golden to Congress.
Therefore he polishes their image in front of all those nice old men and women that sit in the best job they have ever had in their lives and are too scared to leave because they don't even know how they got there and upon leaving they couldn't even write a book report anymore if asked.
It's time for term limits people.
If you had term limits, we as a generation wouldn't have to fight an uphill battle against major corporate power while simultaneously trying to re-educate lawmakers that have been in office since the most hight tech item was canned beer. Term limits would ensure the the progression of the general knowledge base and background of political higher-ups. This would more closely represent the voters.
It is simply shallow to think that one man or woman needs to stay in office simply because they are the only person or the best person for the job.
To think I was messing with the idea of moving to Canada.
Bah! I don't think so.
Not when the gov. thinks they can crawl that far up your a$$ and look around.
Drive down I 94 in North Dakota and you'll see the stuff overgrowing everywhere!
It spreads across ditches, 4 lanes of freeway, it grows in cracks in roads etc.
I'd like to see even the government contain a 4x4 square mile field of it from spreading.
I've got news for you. It's a machine.
It was built to serve as a scientific data gatherer and was thought to have failed.
If this can still be somewhat accomplished, then you and me as taxpayers funding this excellent piece of engineering are getting more bang for our buck then we were originally getting. Hooray for that.
ssh... 3 letters...
MS two letters...
How long until someone tries to sue ove the use of 1 similar character?
How long until people will realize that the name of the game is selling an idea of a product to numbers of people and crap like this has little impact on what people are going to choose for low level software like this.
It is purely utilitarian!
If it does the job and people know it works and does it's job well then the story is over.
Wall Street Journal Headline:
McDonalds sues Wendy's for having a name with three of the same letters!
Where do you live?
The main problem with the movement of the left is them trying to tell us we should believe things we cannot see with our own eyes.
01.02.06 - Railgun.org gets Slashdotted. People post a lot of asinine comments, etc. Mailing list membership triples in an hour.
The closest man portable conventional firearm to a quake style rail gun is most likely the Barret 50 cal semi automatic and all it's cousins or possibly a converted Norwegian 20mm anti tank gun retrofitted to be shoulderable but it had to be dragged around on a sled when it was used during WWII times.
The free beer coupon good at any store 'Tip Jar'
Don't you think your generation and mine can come up with a solution to support more people?
Every generation has looked at things that seemed insurmountable and has always far exceeded their own known limits on solving problems.
Granted thinking that bitching about it is going to make people procreate less isn't a bad idea entirely but every generation is handed a set of problems to deal with from the previous. This is one we're going to get as well as pass on.
If you discount extremely poor and disorganized third world countries and their simple problem of starvation (solution: tell them that sex creates babies and spend the $ to give them contraceptives) I can't think of any time that man has struggled against large problems and lost the battle.
Smallpox, the plague, two world wars, President Clinton, whining vote stealing Democrats, the Bay of Pigs, Richard Nixon, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, overreaching British rulers, the list goes on... Ohhh... I know why you don't want more people... You think prairie grass was here first and deserves free reign over the plains and nobody should get to sled down that hill in the neighborhood because there used to be prairie grass there and that's more important than the good that comes from recreation and comraderie and human well being... Hmm?
"Unfortunately, we have noticed that an error occurred during your registration process..."
They basically legitimized data alteration without permission from the user.
Cracking is also alteration of data without permission from the user so where does the line get drawn?
His fax number listed on whois.net reverse lookup is registered to:
Rose Johnson
105 Linden Ave
Alexandria, MN 56308
Phone: 320-762-9060
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