combine the money and the political will into orbital solar
Ever played sim city 2000? Ever built a microwave power station? Ever had the beam slice through your airport and into a commericial zone?
OK, a little extreme. In reality the beam would be no more powerful then a cell phone.
I have read that Japan plans to launch one in the next 40 years. It will be capable of producing 1GW (although the article says 1GW per second;) - same as a nuclear plant. Unfortunatly the cost per kWh is arround 2 - 2.5 times that of a nuclear plant, at the moment.
this works until your corporate officers are visiting someone at another company and says "well, just pull up our website. It's on there" and sees that (god forbid) it looks DIFFERENT
Excuse me while I chuckle at images of the other company using lynx
I DON'T think that slashdot should be posting mirrors to the leaked alpha
iD was worried about the leak, so they submitted to slashdot to stop people downloading. If a server cant take a 50kb page being slashdotted, what about an xxxMB file?
OK, we can say that cable ISP's should have better security that stops uncapped modems working, and I agree that uncapping your modem is bad, worse then stealing cable TV. I pay my monthly fee, and make full use of my bandwidth.
I also understand that my cable ISP has xMBPS going into them, and if too many people use the system, I suffer.
If I wanted to double my bandwith, I'd pay the extra $15. The ISP can sue part of this to pay for more bandwidth to the cable network, and no-one loses. I'm happy to share my bandwidth to the rest of my house, and if a neighbour buys me an 802.11b access point, they can use it too.
I wouldnt dream of using bandwidth I didnt pay for. Excusing it as "modifying your own hardware" is the equivelent of "modifying your own jumper to steal goods from a store". This isnt copyright infringment. Thsi isnt stealing cable tv (with a decent box that doesnt effect anyone else) The extra bandwidth you use does have a marginal cost.
Having said that, I think that FBI agents is extreme. Sure arrest them, put them in the cells for a few days, then give them 100 hours community service, and stop them using cable modems for a year. That's an appropiate sentence for a first offence, even that's probably extreme.
Maybe we could have the signals travel in a secure method - maybe down some sort of tube...rendering them safe from nasty hackers that may be listening.
Quick! - patent it as a "secure form of wireless telecommunications"
OK, so how come we can't get a train or bus to arrive in time? It's a much shorter distance and scaled down, we should be able to get millisecond accuracy across town. Do we need rocket engineers designing buses and astronauts driving them?
Sure, now how much is a ride on cassini again? $3.2 billion?
Having said that, saturn is nearly a billion miles away - you wouldnt get millisecond accuracy for $3 a mile.
They always have a big comment post shortly after a server move. Last time I think it was either subscriptions of the "under god" part of the constitution.
Slashdot Mirror
You answered your own question. The effect will be as negligable as the space probe/planet orbit.
combine the money and the political will into orbital solar
;) - same as a nuclear plant. Unfortunatly the cost per kWh is arround 2 - 2.5 times that of a nuclear plant, at the moment.
Ever played sim city 2000? Ever built a microwave power station? Ever had the beam slice through your airport and into a commericial zone?
OK, a little extreme. In reality the beam would be no more powerful then a cell phone.
I have read that Japan plans to launch one in the next 40 years. It will be capable of producing 1GW (although the article says 1GW per second
In 40 years? Who knows.
d) The second coming of Cowboy Neal. /me shudders at the thought of him doing it once....
my main IP address is 127.0.0.1
I dare you all to hack me!
Dude, you're computer is as wide open as the goatse man - and you've got at least 3 trojans installed!
I own a ford, the biggest safety flaw is me!
(Aside from the tree that drove into me, and the minibus that reversed into me, and fell apart, at a red light)
Windows keeps on getting better and better.
After Windows ME, it couldnt really get worse could it?
this works until your corporate officers are visiting someone at another company and says "well, just pull up our website. It's on there" and sees that (god forbid) it looks DIFFERENT
Excuse me while I chuckle at images of the other company using lynx
I can even use KDE instead of GNOME!
Tsshhh, whats wrong with a nice text terminal?
... the tentacled monster sex category?
You can't leave that one out and call yourself an Anime channel.
Hell, you could have an entire channel with tentacle monster sex
I was more impressed with Telemedicine Link With South Pole Allows Remote Knee Surgery.
/me LOL's at the dumbass moderators. Redundant is there fore a reason
what can you vote for then? This sounds a little like the u.s.-britain relationship before the war of independence. Berhaps a D.C. tea party?
have a network of mirrors in high orbit arround the earth with arround 100,000km between each one :)
Does this mean, that now I can just break any rules they stated in that legal jargon :) ?
No. To break them on purpose, you need to understand them.
I DON'T think that slashdot should be posting mirrors to the leaked alpha
iD was worried about the leak, so they submitted to slashdot to stop people downloading. If a server cant take a 50kb page being slashdotted, what about an xxxMB file?
...News for Nerds, 0-Day Warez!
Nah, more like: News for Nerds, 3-Day Warez
OK, we can say that cable ISP's should have better security that stops uncapped modems working, and I agree that uncapping your modem is bad, worse then stealing cable TV. I pay my monthly fee, and make full use of my bandwidth.
I also understand that my cable ISP has xMBPS going into them, and if too many people use the system, I suffer.
If I wanted to double my bandwith, I'd pay the extra $15. The ISP can sue part of this to pay for more bandwidth to the cable network, and no-one loses. I'm happy to share my bandwidth to the rest of my house, and if a neighbour buys me an 802.11b access point, they can use it too.
I wouldnt dream of using bandwidth I didnt pay for. Excusing it as "modifying your own hardware" is the equivelent of "modifying your own jumper to steal goods from a store". This isnt copyright infringment. Thsi isnt stealing cable tv (with a decent box that doesnt effect anyone else) The extra bandwidth you use does have a marginal cost.
Having said that, I think that FBI agents is extreme. Sure arrest them, put them in the cells for a few days, then give them 100 hours community service, and stop them using cable modems for a year. That's an appropiate sentence for a first offence, even that's probably extreme.
Stealing bandwidth IS Terrorism - just think of the children!
Maybe we could have the signals travel in a secure method - maybe down some sort of tube...rendering them safe from nasty hackers that may be listening.
Quick! - patent it as a "secure form of wireless telecommunications"
Ctrl + Alt +Del. Wait a few minutes.
Crtl + Alt + Del. Wait a few minutes.
Crtl + Alt + Del. Wait a few minutes.
And this differes from normal use how?
No, an accident would NOT suck.
An accident would suck - $3.2billion down the drain - for a nice firework in the night sky
OK, so how come we can't get a train or bus to arrive in time? It's a much shorter distance and scaled down, we should be able to get millisecond accuracy across town. Do we need rocket engineers designing buses and astronauts driving them?
Sure, now how much is a ride on cassini again? $3.2 billion?
Having said that, saturn is nearly a billion miles away - you wouldnt get millisecond accuracy for $3 a mile.
They always have a big comment post shortly after a server move. Last time I think it was either subscriptions of the "under god" part of the constitution.
Aww comoe on, thats a +2 funny AT LEAST
The kitchen sink is part of the vital anti-virus activity known as "washing the dishes", and can therefore be kept secret.
;)
But what about everything but the kitchen sink?