Google.org changed its domain name one before, to google.com. Why can't it officially redirect traffic to google.co.uk? Are european companies bound to respect silly US patents?
The regulation is designed to enforce the "Children's Internet Protection Act", which was signed by President Clinton 21 Dec 2000. Although the FCC could have declined to issue regulations implementing this rather draconian legislation, they have not. (They could have been sued by Congress for failing to do so). Besides, I really don't think that Shrub is all that more receptive to free speech and privacy claims.
The CHIP act requires that Internet connections be filtered for both adults and children, in both schools and libraries that recieve discounts on Internet connections & equipment. (Mind you, I'm not falling for the "we paid for it, so we get to reulate it" fallacy. After all, I paid for some of it, and I support uncensored, full access at public libraries.)
Additionally, it requires that Internet connections at schools (but not libraries), be monitored. And it requires both institutions to certify the existence of a "internet safety" policy. In the spirit of France's "Commitee for public safety" thsi apprently means that librarians are required to evesdrop on electronic mail.
Most HDTV sets are actually "HDTV ready". In other words, they have an analog RGB input that can be hooked up to a HDTV Tuner. If DirectTV were to disable this analog RGB input, they would deny access to the vast majority of "early adopters".
I have a feeling that an enterprising service providers will eventually use this technology to charge for the right to make copies.
"Want a copy of the "The Sopranos" in High-def? We'll turn off the copy-protection for $29.95."
I don't subscribe to a cable of sattelite service, but I have heard that some decoders use macrovison on selected programs-- mostly movies.
Most DVD players have no 75-Ohm attenna output. It would be possible to hook up an old TV using a VCR as a RF-Modulator, were it not for Macrovision. Most people have TV's that accept Composite, SVHS or Component Video (all considerably better than RF-Modulation), so macrovision is less irksome than requiring "encrypted HDTV" inputs-- inputs that arerare indeed.
Apparently, naturally occuring carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide gases are causing more harm than artificial hydrofluorocarbons (HFC), perfluorocarbons (PFC), and sulfurhexafluorides (SF6). I'd say they need more sinks.
From the EPA's page " Most of these emissions, about 82%, are from burning fossil fuels to generate electricity and power our cars. The remaining emissions are from methane from wastes in our landfills, raising livestock, natural gas pipelines, and coal, as well as from industrial chemicals and other sources."
If the Carbon Dioxide is synthesized in an internal combustion engine, or in a coal burning powerplant, it is not "naturally" occurring. Don't blame a decaying swamp for the emmisions from your SUV.
Besides, Carbon sinks are overrated. Rapidly growing forests absorb the most Carbon Dioxide, but many forests in the United States are essentially stable. Natural decay processes may also eventually rerelease CO2 into the atmosphere.
As for myself, I don't support censorship. The "back button problem" is not in itself an argument for censorship.
I do find it troubling, however, that purveyers of commercial porn on the net have no ethical problems with:
1) writing their sites to disable the back browser.
2) Using dictionaries to fool search engines.
3) Placing viruses on computers that redirect modem calls to a pay sex line somewhere in the Cayman Islands.
4) Placing a shitload of cookies on your computer, and advertising software that claims to "clean up" the cookies "so that wife/boss/husband won't know"
5) Generally abusing aesthetic discretion in the worst possible manner.
All of these problems can be eliminated through browser plugin. I, for one, would be most interested in a browser feature that accepts cookies only from named sites (e.g slashdot, nytimes, userfriendly, linuxvideo) and rejects the rest. Internet Explorer does this-- but only by rejecting cookies from all but trusted sites. This does cause a problem, because I really don't trust slashdot with my registry, etc, but certain other sites may need high level access to Windows.
(Netscape has similar issues...)
Damn it! I want fine grain control over my "browsing experience"
Just out of interest, why would anyone view porn in a Library anyway... It's not like you could do anything
with it.
The existing laws against public indecency should surely suffice.
"Sir, you've been hogging the color laser printer all day. We appreciate the revenue, but others are waiting"
You can't always use the back button-- some adult sites (particularly the ones that try to fool search engines with dictionaries) fiddle with the "back" button, so that any "This is definately not what I'm looking for" reaction, is met with about 20 windows extolling their services. Some of the sites have Internet Explorer code that modifies the "home page" entry, so that upon returning, a user is greeted not with slashdot.org, but with a site extolling "Goat Sex, as brought to you by the Russian Mafia, in cooperation with UUNET."
The MPEG-4 standard contains technology copyrighted by an assortment
of companies, and so anyone who uses the Open DivX code for business purposes could be
walking into a patent minefield.
Silly Cnet: don't they know that copyright and patents are two different things? If other companies have copyrighted their encoders (and they have), OpenDivX does not infringe on their copyrights (unless source code was "borrowed" from non-open source projects. But if other companies have patented a encoding algorithm (and quite few have)-- OpenDivX could concievably infringe on patents. (IANALNALS)
I've read all four, and I much prefered the original. I'm probably being far too generousto Clarke when I say this, but much of the weak characterizations in the second seemed to show all the signs of an ineffective collaboration. I never did like the gratuitous "Eleonor of Aquitaine" stuff. The plot was interesting, though.
I have heard the following defense of the electoral college.
In the early days of the republic, it was felt that there would be a plurality of qualified, semi popular candidates for president, many being local ones. Obviously, if plurality of the popular vote elected the person who got 4 perscent of the vote, rather than one of the other 50 candidates, such a system would inevitibly be attacked as unfair.
So, the solution, would be to allow the people to appoint agents, who might rationally turn a convuluted "local popular feeling" into some sort of solid choice.
Obviously, though, to give such a power to regular legislators-- as in a parlimentary system, would destabilize the "balance of powers" and further elevate the legislature in this contest. So the solution was the electoral college-- a quasi legislature with one role-- to elect a president and vice.
However, a simple prefernce sytem, whereby a voter could give a "first class" vote to Ralph Nader-- indicating a strong preference, and a 'second-class" vote to, say, Al Gore, indicating "If I can't have Nader, Gore is better than Buchanan, Bush or McReynolds." This is called a Borda Count system, and if properly implemented, could achieve the same theoretical purposes as the Electoral College as originally concieved.
Am241 (the isotope used in smoke detectors) still emits some gamma radiation. In gram quantities, this can pose a health risk.
Although Am241 is used as a alpha source in smoke detectors, most detector contain less than 5 miligrams (1 microcurie.) Most of the radiation is shielded by the smoke detector housing.
Of course, the radition risks posed by Am-242m, the isotope used by this particular space probe, will almost certainly be different.
(For instance, Am241 has a halflife of 432 years, Am 242 has a halflife of 141 years. Both emit alpha particles, though)
If you don't think RC5 is worth the effort, you can always work on distributed net's Optimal Golomb Ruler project. Solving an OGR does have some practical benefits related to cystallography and astronomy.
The political motives of any news source should be taken into consideration.
The article was a "WorldNetDaily exclusive", and therefore has not been yet been corroberated by any other news source. The article informs us that it was based on a "classified" report. All of the sources declined to be identified. The article contains numerous technical errors.
The playstation is designed to play back large numbers of polygons to a televison screen. I'm really not sure why this would be very useful in "control[ling] an Iraqi unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV -- a pilotless aircraft."
Clustering PC's running Linux is a a well known technique-- Beowolf. Clustering PS2's is quite a bit more difficult.
For all I know, the "secret Defense Intelligence Agency report" could have been an internal joke email list. I'm skeptical.
Dynamite may not have been used directly in war, but Nobel's inventions were elaborated upon by arms dealers.
I do apologize for the various spelling and grammatical errors. I should have used "Preview". Ah well.
Persons using the GPL should be aware that later programmers may change the code in ways that the original donor may not approve of.
If I gift a free word processor to the community, it's not my responsibility if someone alters it to assist in the commmission of human rights violations. It is not Microsoft's responsbility if their software was used in an indecent fashion-- why should the onus fall on "free software" developers?
On the other hand, I might donate any proceeds realized from distribution fees to Amnesty International (a la Alfred Nobel).
If, on the other hand, I provided active support to the putative war criminal, who I knew was intent on such modifications, my assistance would be damning.
(Note that I do not write word processing software, and I don't really want to know what "modifications" would create complicity).
I can understand your reluctance to write code that might be used for military purposes. It is common for a creator of technology to express horror at the ends to which his invention has been put--Robert Openheimer and Alfred Nobel were notable examples.
Although the Nuremberg trials imprisoned and condemned many persons whoseroles were obfuscated and nebulized by layers of bureacracy, these persons were both aware of the ends to which their efforts were put. Companies that supplied mass crematorium ovens to the various death camps were aware of the purpose of this equipment, and cooperated in installation, design, and production.
I so not mean to accuse the US military of war crimes-- but it is possible that any (para)military force deploying Linux software will use them in manner that it is morally repugnent to any number of Linux contributors.
It is certainly possible to use GPG (or like crytography software) in the commission of morally indefensible acts. Indeed, cryptographic software is regarded as a dual use device, that could be used as a munition.
MAny of the philosphers of free software would argue against moral restrictions on use. Stallman, and the Gnu project argue that one cannot morally impose restrictions on the use of software-- but only on the distribution and modification of it. And Bruce Perens has argues that the APSL munitiobns clause is difficult to justify.
If you wantto maorraly restrict use, don't use GPL.
The Macintosh GUI, AFAIK, was not covered by any Apple patents. Apple did have number of patents on its redesign of the mouse, on various pieces of hardware, and numerous design patents. But in 1983, the uspto granted few[er] software patents.
The "look and feel" lawsuits (circa 1989) were based on copyright law.
Of course, if software patentabilty had been established in 1983, and if the uspto operated under today's lax standard, Apple probably would have patented all it could. It might even have won its lawsuits against Microsoft.
Today, of course, a search for "(an/apple)" on the USPTO web site reveals numerous software patents (trivial and otherwise).
For the plaintiff to succeed in the dangerous article case, the internet must be recognized as "inherently dangerous." This is a very different standard than your meatspace analogy. The article mentioned "blasting caps."
If a blasting cap is used properly, it will trigger an explosion, and if used by a child, has the potential to cause death or serious injury.
Simply walking through the "Red Light district" does not expose anyone to an iminent risk of death or serious injury. It may simply be a way to get from point A to point B.
If, however, this "Red light district" was home to live antipersonal land mines or snipers, the yes, entering the area might very well result in death and serious injury...
Nace takes exception to being called a spammer, a term he associates with pornographers. UUNet's reaction, he said,
was unwarranted. "This is a clear-cut case of the big corporations telling the small operator, 'screw you.' "
Lots of pornograhic content providers use Spam or other obnoxious marketing techniques, but most of the spam I recieve does not hawk pornographic content.
I noticed that Ti Kan's name is on the patent. Kan wrote xmcd, the GPLed Motif/Lesstif based CD player. CDDB grew out of the xmcd database.
The patent is on a system that matches CD tracks inexactly. (Inexact matches are nothing new, but the inexact match of a cd's timing record may be novel). The proponents of CDDB claim that this sytem (called CDDB2) enables them to aggregate multiple pressings of the same album, even if the new pressings are slightly different.
Is this capability substantially different from the algorithms in FreeDB enabled players? More to the point, is it substantially different from the original xmcd code-- which was released under the GPL.
Gracenote, the company that controls the CDDB patent has already used the CDDB algorithm to authenticate owners of David Bowies "Bowie at the Beeb" album. Owners of that album were able toa ccess an extra track (Ziggy Stardust remix). To what extent does this conflict with similar "authentication" algorims used by my.mp3.com?
Basicly the patent claims a centralised database, accessible over phone lines, of information pertaining to audio recordings, accessible through the generation of a unique key based on the lengths of tracks on that recording medium. While the patent article explains in great detail how this could be synchronized with a web browser or IRC client, the claims describe a far more generic patent that could concievably conflict with FreeDB.
The New Jersey Transit Page provides a very strong example of what not to do. Half the time, the links don't work. The travel advisory page is almost completely in bold face, negating the very purpose of bold facing. The "Virtual Terminal" is an inapropriate metaphor, and besides, the image maps are broken. I'm not sure why the web designer thinks audio and video files of trains, buses, and airports are so important. Maybe the GAO could highlight it site with sounds of people typing or shuffling papers..
Actually, most individuals can only store a limited number of digits in short term memory. So, if someone shouted that their telephone number was 4252603763, would you be able to memorize that information without the aid of pencil/paper/palm?
Twelve digit dialing is 382929392939.
Hubble's great-- but there's really no substitute for a flyby. The Voyager probes produced better pictures than Hubble, (as did, I suspect, some of the Pioneer probes). And then there was Galileo...
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Google.org changed its domain name one before, to google.com. Why can't it officially redirect traffic to google.co.uk? Are european companies bound to respect silly US patents?
The regulation is designed to enforce the "Children's Internet Protection Act", which was signed by President Clinton 21 Dec 2000. Although the FCC could have declined to issue regulations implementing this rather draconian legislation, they have not. (They could have been sued by Congress for failing to do so). Besides, I really don't think that Shrub is all that more receptive to free speech and privacy claims.
The CHIP act requires that Internet connections be filtered for both adults and children, in both schools and libraries that recieve discounts on Internet connections & equipment. (Mind you, I'm not falling for the "we paid for it, so we get to reulate it" fallacy. After all, I paid for some of it, and I support uncensored, full access at public libraries.)
Additionally, it requires that Internet connections at schools (but not libraries), be monitored. And it requires both institutions to certify the existence of a "internet safety" policy. In the spirit of France's "Commitee for public safety" thsi apprently means that librarians are required to evesdrop on electronic mail.
Most HDTV sets are actually "HDTV ready". In other words, they have an analog RGB input that can be hooked up to a HDTV Tuner. If DirectTV were to disable this analog RGB input, they would deny access to the vast majority of "early adopters".
."
I have a feeling that an enterprising service providers will eventually use this technology to charge for the right to make copies.
"Want a copy of the "The Sopranos" in High-def? We'll turn off the copy-protection for $29.95
I don't subscribe to a cable of sattelite service, but I have heard that some decoders use macrovison on selected programs-- mostly movies.
Most DVD players have no 75-Ohm attenna output. It would be possible to hook up an old TV using a VCR as a RF-Modulator, were it not for Macrovision. Most people have TV's that accept Composite, SVHS or Component Video (all considerably better than RF-Modulation), so macrovision is less irksome than requiring "encrypted HDTV" inputs-- inputs that arerare indeed.
From the EPA's page " Most of these emissions, about 82%, are from burning fossil fuels to generate electricity and power our cars. The remaining emissions are from methane from wastes in our landfills, raising livestock, natural gas pipelines, and coal, as well as from industrial chemicals and other sources."
If the Carbon Dioxide is synthesized in an internal combustion engine, or in a coal burning powerplant, it is not "naturally" occurring. Don't blame a decaying swamp for the emmisions from your SUV. Besides, Carbon sinks are overrated. Rapidly growing forests absorb the most Carbon Dioxide, but many forests in the United States are essentially stable. Natural decay processes may also eventually rerelease CO2 into the atmosphere.
Indeed.
As for myself, I don't support censorship. The "back button problem" is not in itself an argument for censorship.
I do find it troubling, however, that purveyers of commercial porn on the net have no ethical problems with:
1) writing their sites to disable the back browser.
2) Using dictionaries to fool search engines.
3) Placing viruses on computers that redirect modem calls to a pay sex line somewhere in the Cayman Islands.
4) Placing a shitload of cookies on your computer, and advertising software that claims to "clean up" the cookies "so that wife/boss/husband won't know"
5) Generally abusing aesthetic discretion in the worst possible manner.
All of these problems can be eliminated through browser plugin. I, for one, would be most interested in a browser feature that accepts cookies only from named sites (e.g slashdot, nytimes, userfriendly, linuxvideo) and rejects the rest. Internet Explorer does this-- but only by rejecting cookies from all but trusted sites. This does cause a problem, because I really don't trust slashdot with my registry, etc, but certain other sites may need high level access to Windows.
(Netscape has similar issues...)
Damn it! I want fine grain control over my "browsing experience"
"Sir, you've been hogging the color laser printer all day. We appreciate the revenue, but others are waiting"
You can't always use the back button-- some adult sites (particularly the ones that try to fool search engines with dictionaries) fiddle with the "back" button, so that any "This is definately not what I'm looking for" reaction, is met with about 20 windows extolling their services. Some of the sites have Internet Explorer code that modifies the "home page" entry, so that upon returning, a user is greeted not with slashdot.org, but with a site extolling "Goat Sex, as brought to you by the Russian Mafia, in cooperation with UUNET."
The MPEG-4 standard contains technology copyrighted by an assortment of companies, and so anyone who uses the Open DivX code for business purposes could be walking into a patent minefield. Silly Cnet: don't they know that copyright and patents are two different things? If other companies have copyrighted their encoders (and they have), OpenDivX does not infringe on their copyrights (unless source code was "borrowed" from non-open source projects. But if other companies have patented a encoding algorithm (and quite few have)-- OpenDivX could concievably infringe on patents. (IANALNALS)
I've read all four, and I much prefered the original. I'm probably being far too generousto Clarke when I say this, but much of the weak characterizations in the second seemed to show all the signs of an ineffective collaboration. I never did like the gratuitous "Eleonor of Aquitaine" stuff. The plot was interesting, though.
I have heard the following defense of the electoral college.
In the early days of the republic, it was felt that there would be a plurality of qualified, semi popular candidates for president, many being local ones. Obviously, if plurality of the popular vote elected the person who got 4 perscent of the vote, rather than one of the other 50 candidates, such a system would inevitibly be attacked as unfair.
So, the solution, would be to allow the people to appoint agents, who might rationally turn a convuluted "local popular feeling" into some sort of solid choice.
Obviously, though, to give such a power to regular legislators-- as in a parlimentary system, would destabilize the "balance of powers" and further elevate the legislature in this contest. So the solution was the electoral college-- a quasi legislature with one role-- to elect a president and vice.
However, a simple prefernce sytem, whereby a voter could give a "first class" vote to Ralph Nader-- indicating a strong preference, and a 'second-class" vote to, say, Al Gore, indicating "If I can't have Nader, Gore is better than Buchanan, Bush or McReynolds." This is called a Borda Count system, and if properly implemented, could achieve the same theoretical purposes as the Electoral College as originally concieved.
Am241 (the isotope used in smoke detectors) still emits some gamma radiation. In gram quantities, this can pose a health risk.
Although Am241 is used as a alpha source in smoke detectors, most detector contain less than 5 miligrams (1 microcurie.) Most of the radiation is shielded by the smoke detector housing.
Of course, the radition risks posed by Am-242m, the isotope used by this particular space probe, will almost certainly be different.
(For instance, Am241 has a halflife of 432 years, Am 242 has a halflife of 141 years. Both emit alpha particles, though)
If you don't think RC5 is worth the effort, you can always work on distributed net's Optimal Golomb Ruler project. Solving an OGR does have some practical benefits related to cystallography and astronomy.
The political motives of any news source should be taken into consideration.
The article was a "WorldNetDaily exclusive", and therefore has not been yet been corroberated by any other news source. The article informs us that it was based on a "classified" report. All of the sources declined to be identified. The article contains numerous technical errors.
The playstation is designed to play back large numbers of polygons to a televison screen. I'm really not sure why this would be very useful in "control[ling] an Iraqi unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV -- a pilotless aircraft."
Clustering PC's running Linux is a a well known technique-- Beowolf. Clustering PS2's is quite a bit more difficult.
For all I know, the "secret Defense Intelligence Agency report" could have been an internal joke email list. I'm skeptical.
Dynamite may not have been used directly in war, but Nobel's inventions were elaborated upon by arms dealers.
I do apologize for the various spelling and grammatical errors. I should have used "Preview". Ah well.
Persons using the GPL should be aware that later programmers may change the code in ways that the original donor may not approve of.
If I gift a free word processor to the community, it's not my responsibility if someone alters it to assist in the commmission of human rights violations. It is not Microsoft's responsbility if their software was used in an indecent fashion-- why should the onus fall on "free software" developers?
On the other hand, I might donate any proceeds realized from distribution fees to Amnesty International (a la Alfred Nobel).
If, on the other hand, I provided active support to the putative war criminal, who I knew was intent on such modifications, my assistance would be damning.
(Note that I do not write word processing software, and I don't really want to know what "modifications" would create complicity).
I can understand your reluctance to write code that might be used for military purposes. It is common for a creator of technology to express horror at the ends to which his invention has been put--Robert Openheimer and Alfred Nobel were notable examples.
Although the Nuremberg trials imprisoned and condemned many persons whoseroles were obfuscated and nebulized by layers of bureacracy, these persons were both aware of the ends to which their efforts were put. Companies that supplied mass crematorium ovens to the various death camps were aware of the purpose of this equipment, and cooperated in installation, design, and production.
I so not mean to accuse the US military of war crimes-- but it is possible that any (para)military force deploying Linux software will use them in manner that it is morally repugnent to any number of Linux contributors.
It is certainly possible to use GPG (or like crytography software) in the commission of morally indefensible acts. Indeed, cryptographic software is regarded as a dual use device, that could be used as a munition.
MAny of the philosphers of free software would argue against moral restrictions on use. Stallman, and the Gnu project argue that one cannot morally impose restrictions on the use of software-- but only on the distribution and modification of it. And Bruce Perens has argues that the APSL munitiobns clause is difficult to justify.
If you wantto maorraly restrict use, don't use GPL.
The Macintosh GUI, AFAIK, was not covered by any Apple patents. Apple did have number of patents on its redesign of the mouse, on various pieces of hardware, and numerous design patents. But in 1983, the uspto granted few[er] software patents.
The "look and feel" lawsuits (circa 1989) were based on copyright law.
Of course, if software patentabilty had been established in 1983, and if the uspto operated under today's lax standard, Apple probably would have patented all it could. It might even have won its lawsuits against Microsoft.
Today, of course, a search for "(an/apple)" on the USPTO web site reveals numerous software patents (trivial and otherwise).
For the plaintiff to succeed in the dangerous article case, the internet must be recognized as "inherently dangerous." This is a very different standard than your meatspace analogy. The article mentioned "blasting caps."
If a blasting cap is used properly, it will trigger an explosion, and if used by a child, has the potential to cause death or serious injury.
Simply walking through the "Red Light district" does not expose anyone to an iminent risk of death or serious injury. It may simply be a way to get from point A to point B.
If, however, this "Red light district" was home to live antipersonal land mines or snipers, the yes, entering the area might very well result in death and serious injury...
Whats's interesting about this case is that the plaintiff is claiming that the internet is an inherently dangerou article, akin to blasting caps.
If succesful, this suit could also provide ammnition to those who want to mandate censorware.
Nace takes exception to being called a spammer, a term he associates with pornographers. UUNet's reaction, he said, was unwarranted. "This is a clear-cut case of the big corporations telling the small operator, 'screw you.' " Lots of pornograhic content providers use Spam or other obnoxious marketing techniques, but most of the spam I recieve does not hawk pornographic content.
I noticed that Ti Kan's name is on the patent. Kan wrote xmcd, the GPLed Motif/Lesstif based CD player. CDDB grew out of the xmcd database.
The patent is on a system that matches CD tracks inexactly. (Inexact matches are nothing new, but the inexact match of a cd's timing record may be novel). The proponents of CDDB claim that this sytem (called CDDB2) enables them to aggregate multiple pressings of the same album, even if the new pressings are slightly different.
Is this capability substantially different from the algorithms in FreeDB enabled players? More to the point, is it substantially different from the original xmcd code-- which was released under the GPL.
Gracenote, the company that controls the CDDB patent has already used the CDDB algorithm to authenticate owners of David Bowies "Bowie at the Beeb" album. Owners of that album were able toa ccess an extra track (Ziggy Stardust remix). To what extent does this conflict with similar "authentication" algorims used by my.mp3.com?
Don't just read the abstract. CDDB claims 19 components comprise its patent, none of which extend on CDDB.
The USPTO has Full text available at this location.
Basicly the patent claims a centralised database, accessible over phone lines, of information pertaining to audio recordings, accessible through the generation of a unique key based on the lengths of tracks on that recording medium. While the patent article explains in great detail how this could be synchronized with a web browser or IRC client, the claims describe a far more generic patent that could concievably conflict with FreeDB.
The New Jersey Transit Page provides a very strong example of what not to do. Half the time, the links don't work. The travel advisory page is almost completely in bold face, negating the very purpose of bold facing. The "Virtual Terminal" is an inapropriate metaphor, and besides, the image maps are broken. I'm not sure why the web designer thinks audio and video files of trains, buses, and airports are so important. Maybe the GAO could highlight it site with sounds of people typing or shuffling papers..
Actually, most individuals can only store a limited number of digits in short term memory. So, if someone shouted that their telephone number was 4252603763, would you be able to memorize that information without the aid of pencil/paper/palm?
Twelve digit dialing is 382929392939.
I'm going to start weighing my keyboards on a regular basis.
Hubble's great-- but there's really no substitute for a flyby. The Voyager probes produced better pictures than Hubble, (as did, I suspect, some of the Pioneer probes). And then there was Galileo...