Actually most earth approaching asteroids are carboncious, rich with megatons of heavy metals. I doubt it will fly apart from a gradual push from a sustained nuclear rocket.
Uhm, smaller debris that follows an asteroid? You must be thinking of the Bruce Willis movies. First of all the odds are highly in favor of asteroid being in the 1-2 mile diameter or less. Secondly, any debris following such an asteroid would be so small that it would be of no danger at all, and finally the acceleration of the asteroid from the nuclear rocket would be so gradual relatively speaking that any debris would pick up the ride from its meager gravitational force.
Uh Dude, I am NOT talking about nuclear bombs! Thats an entirely differnt thing. Nuclear Rockets are controlled reactions - where the thrust is highly focused and controlled. The exact opposite of a nuclear blast. A nuclear blast would obliterate the asteroid, a nuclear rocket would keep it entact and gently alter its trajectory.
The Solution to preventing an asteroidal impact, assuming time is scarce, is a nuclear rocket. The technology for this was already developed way back in the 1960's, and was shut down for obvious reasons. If an asteroid was going to hit us in less than a year without any prior warning, a massive campaign could get a nuclear rocket launched and into space within 6 months. I haven't done the precise astrodynamic calculations, but the factors are - mass of asteroid, time to left to impact, and specific impulse of nuclear rocket. The higher the specific impulse the less time or large the asteroid can be.
Keep in mind that even if the asteroid was only a month away from impact and it was heading our way at 7 miles per second, that means that the asteroid would be 18.1 Millions miles away, which means that the angle of its trajectory would only have to be diverted by less than 1/1000th of a degree. A moderately size nuclear rocket could easily divert an asteroid of 1-2 miles in diameter in plenty of time to divert the disaster.
This new department, headed up by ex-felon Admiral Poindexter should have everyone wake up to the nightmare that we are in for, if we don't stop this now. Write your congress person, spread this story around. please!!
Well, you don't HAVE to pay, the music is entirely free, same as a street performer, but that doesn't stop generous and appreciative listeners from tipping the performer. I think it would nice if I could tip performers I like to listen too, and with a global audience such tips could be enough for the artist to continue making a full-time living doing it without any middle men at all.
This could be a change for file-sharing developers to enhance existing p2p networks, by not only integrating p2p radio, but also links to these bands websites. The end result would be a p2p file sharing network, decentralized streaming radio, and a fully integrated system for people to pay, read "tip" the artists they enjoy listening too.
When I was 4 yeras old I watched on TV as Neil armstrong uttered those famous words. This even more than any other changed my life. I have since been obsessed with all things space, and have never doubted for a second that we went to the Moon with Apollo.
HOWEVER, I have seen the evidence that the moon landing skeptics have provided and some of it is damn compelling and yet to be answered by NASA. Some of the evidence is so compelling even I doubted it for a bit.
$15,000 is a small price to pay if thet actually answer convincingly the questions and compelling "wholes" presented by the moon hoax crowd.
Increasing wi-fi range of this magnitude changes everything. It now makes wi-fi directly competitive with existing "auctioned" spectrum, and enables the creatipm of a bottom-up, P2P, ad-hoc wirless mesh-network that requires no centralized server, provider or carrier. The combination of long-range wi-fi and mesh-network software is totally disruptive to the entire communications economy. I personally see this as a very good thing, as it means that promise of the "internet" of decentralized and anonymous communications is finally dawning.
Ok, this is good to hear. This gives me a hope and a sense of optimism. If the RIAA continue to clamp down on their own content, it only makes sense that an underground music scene is likely to flourish.
But wait, the three webcasters who are afraid of being shut down are two TALK radio stations and a CLASSICAL station. The first two are by definition their own content, and the last one is music that entered the public domain years ago.
A question that I still haven't been able to get answered, is do all these fees apply for streaming your own content - like you talking, your friends garage band music, etc?
If they do, is this not a complete violation of free speech? What justification could their possibly be for paying fees for distributing content an metaphorically unlimited bandwidth? Even if this is a clearly greedy move on the part of the RIAA, there are always at least rhetorically sane reasons for it. I can understand if was THEIR content you have to pay to stream, but what about your own??
This plan would work if the 10th Ammendment actually meant something. Anything the new 'liberated' state tries to do will be summarily shut down and/or harrassed by the feds - from witholding highway funds to them simply coming in on federal level and enforcing whatever draconian BS they feel like.
The idea is great in theory, but I can't imagine how it could work in todays less ideal world.
Would I still have to pay fees for music I created myself? Is this bill saying that I have to pay to stream my own music that I created on my own keyboard to a net audience? If that is the case, that is totall insane!!
I can understand (a little) if these fees are for paying the RIAA when you play THEIR music, but what about my own. Is this not a violation of free speech? Why should I have to pay to play my music? How is it any different then me playing my music to my friends in my living room, except in this case my friends are in another state thru an internet connection?
Hey Saeger, I must know you since you responded to an older post of mine (Oct 1) regarding nanotech and the singulairty. The singularity/transhumanist commmunity is pretty small. If your seeing this post, visit my newly revambed website at http://planetp.cc/
Regardless of the technical achievments that are coming out of Intel - and hyperthreading is indeed an achievment to be applauded.. The bottom line - Intels chips have beecome totally irrelevant to me, regardless of their performance since they will contain DRM restrictions.
I'm pinning my hopes on Apple and maybe even China's new Dragon chip for my future computing needs.
I have no doubt that drastic climate flucuations have occured consistently in the past and will in the future if left on its own. But there is one distinct difference today than in all the Billions of years of climat history - we have the technology. Right now is the first time in Earth's History where we have the capability (but do we have the will?) to change the weather.
There has been tons of research into technologically induced climate change. Keep in mind these climate changes are happening as a result of gas changes in the atmosphere. Changing the mixture of gases is not a big technological hurdle now. Simply adding iron to the oceans could decrease the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Now, coming soon, nanotechnology will enable us to effect the mixture of atmospheric gases substantially. If we do start to get some dramatic cooling effects, procedures could be set into motion to change the gas mixtures to compensate for said cooling. And as the decades go on, our capability in this are will only accelerate. If not, its probably because the humans blew themselves up.
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Will Kernal 3.0 include support for USB 2.0, Serial ATA, and Hard drives above 137GB?
Many of these companies are obviously violating the GPL, but exactly who is going to prosecute them? And if no one can effectively prosecute them, then what strength does the GPL really have? This is something I have never really understood. Anyone care to elaborate?
Yes. I cried on 9-11 deep tears of sorrow - knowing that as people died in the burning/crushing embers, so did our freedom.
Its absolutely sickening how the right-wing christian fundamentalists nuts used this tragedy to push there own agenda, and the Democrats didn't put up any fight at all... instead they asked how high do you want us to jump?
The pace and breath in which this epic power grab is happenening is totally surreal... no questioning of it on ANY of the main media, cover-ups and wagging the dog rule the day, as we watch the greatest criminals in history take over the world and rob us blind (Enron, Worldcom, Halliburton)... And now they are going after $7 Trillion in Oil in Iraq regardless of what the world thinks. The sure proportions of the power grab are enormous and disheartening to the extreme. Personally I don't see ANY serious counter-trends at all, except very bad ones - more real terrorism in our borders, greater world instability, greater hatred for americans. And to think just three years ago, the future looked brighter than ever. Wow, what a turn-around. This New World Order crap obviously has been in deep and secretive planning for years... I suspect ever Sicne George Senior lost the election in 92.
Well, in the original Press release, and because one of its chief architects is an ex-M$ employee, the "secure Computing" initation, TCPA, and Palladium are sprinkled generously throughout the document. This is scary, when the federal goverment is serious consdiering M$ Palladium as the legally protocol for all computing within US borders in the future. Imagine, DRM become a legal mandate to "protect us from terrorism" and in turn Hollywood will get everything they want along the way. We all know full well how dangerous and restricting Palladium can and most likely be if it ever becomes the standard - open and free computing will end. If this happens, time to move out of the US where I can exercise my right to freely compute on the computer of my choice.
I don't know about you all, but I'm completely sic and tired of the "war on terror" being used by big gov/big business to get everythng they ever wanted at the expense of everyone else.
Well, lets not forget the efforts and foresigth of people like David Bowie who is totally hip to the values of Slashdot. He feels that copyright will be obsolete in 10 years, and he thinks its a good idea.
What are you biggest concerns about spending time in a federal penetentiary?
Although this is a technical community, I wanted to say that although you broke the law, I do not agree with the current penalties for computer crimes - they are way too harsh! I wish you the best of luck, my sympathies are with you.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances or the right to freely compute on the machine of their choice.
At some point throwing more money at a legal case brings increasingly diminshed returns, even in a case likey to be this big if it ever gets to court. You can bet the EFF and the ACLU are likely to assist Mr Lucky defend his patents, especially in a case with such profound implications for the freedom to compute. Hey thats a great idea:
The First Ammendment should be updated to say:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances or the right to freely compute on the machine of their choice.
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Actually most earth approaching asteroids are carboncious, rich with megatons of heavy metals. I doubt it will fly apart from a gradual push from a sustained nuclear rocket.
Uhm, smaller debris that follows an asteroid? You must be thinking of the Bruce Willis movies. First of all the odds are highly in favor of asteroid being in the 1-2 mile diameter or less. Secondly, any debris following such an asteroid would be so small that it would be of no danger at all, and finally the acceleration of the asteroid from the nuclear rocket would be so gradual relatively speaking that any debris would pick up the ride from its meager gravitational force.
Planet P - Liberation Through Tehnology.
Uh Dude, I am NOT talking about nuclear bombs! Thats an entirely differnt thing. Nuclear Rockets are controlled reactions - where the thrust is highly focused and controlled. The exact opposite of a nuclear blast. A nuclear blast would obliterate the asteroid, a nuclear rocket would keep it entact and gently alter its trajectory.
Planet P - Liberationg Through Technology.
The Solution to preventing an asteroidal impact, assuming time is scarce, is a nuclear rocket. The technology for this was already developed way back in the 1960's, and was shut down for obvious reasons. If an asteroid was going to hit us in less than a year without any prior warning, a massive campaign could get a nuclear rocket launched and into space within 6 months. I haven't done the precise astrodynamic calculations, but the factors are - mass of asteroid, time to left to impact, and specific impulse of nuclear rocket. The higher the specific impulse the less time or large the asteroid can be.
Keep in mind that even if the asteroid was only a month away from impact and it was heading our way at 7 miles per second, that means that the asteroid would be 18.1 Millions miles away, which means that the angle of its trajectory would only have to be diverted by less than 1/1000th of a degree. A moderately size nuclear rocket could easily divert an asteroid of 1-2 miles in diameter in plenty of time to divert the disaster.
Planet P - Liberation Through Technology.
This is the most scary thing I have read yet:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAF
If this comes to pass, we are all f*#k%d!!!
This new department, headed up by ex-felon Admiral Poindexter should have everyone wake up to the nightmare that we are in for, if we don't stop this now. Write your congress person, spread this story around. please!!
Well, you don't HAVE to pay, the music is entirely free, same as a street performer, but that doesn't stop generous and appreciative listeners from tipping the performer. I think it would nice if I could tip performers I like to listen too, and with a global audience such tips could be enough for the artist to continue making a full-time living doing it without any middle men at all.
This could be a change for file-sharing developers to enhance existing p2p networks, by not only integrating p2p radio, but also links to these bands websites. The end result would be a p2p file sharing network, decentralized streaming radio, and a fully integrated system for people to pay, read "tip" the artists they enjoy listening too.
Planet P - Liberation through technology.
When I was 4 yeras old I watched on TV as Neil armstrong uttered those famous words. This even more than any other changed my life. I have since been obsessed with all things space, and have never doubted for a second that we went to the Moon with Apollo.
HOWEVER, I have seen the evidence that the moon landing skeptics have provided and some of it is damn compelling and yet to be answered by NASA. Some of the evidence is so compelling even I doubted it for a bit.
$15,000 is a small price to pay if thet actually answer convincingly the questions and compelling "wholes" presented by the moon hoax crowd.
Increasing wi-fi range of this magnitude changes everything. It now makes wi-fi directly competitive with existing "auctioned" spectrum, and enables the creatipm of a bottom-up, P2P, ad-hoc wirless mesh-network that requires no centralized server, provider or carrier. The combination of long-range wi-fi and mesh-network software is totally disruptive to the entire communications economy. I personally see this as a very good thing, as it means that promise of the "internet" of decentralized and anonymous communications is finally dawning.
Planet P Weblog
http://planetp.cc/
Ok, this is good to hear. This gives me a hope and a sense of optimism. If the RIAA continue to clamp down on their own content, it only makes sense that an underground music scene is likely to flourish.
But wait, the three webcasters who are afraid of being shut down are two TALK radio stations and a CLASSICAL station. The first two are by definition their own content, and the last one is music that entered the public domain years ago.
A question that I still haven't been able to get answered, is do all these fees apply for streaming your own content - like you talking, your friends garage band music, etc?
If they do, is this not a complete violation of free speech? What justification could their possibly be for paying fees for distributing content an metaphorically unlimited bandwidth? Even if this is a clearly greedy move on the part of the RIAA, there are always at least rhetorically sane reasons for it. I can understand if was THEIR content you have to pay to stream, but what about your own??
This plan would work if the 10th Ammendment actually meant something. Anything the new 'liberated' state tries to do will be summarily shut down and/or harrassed by the feds - from witholding highway funds to them simply coming in on federal level and enforcing whatever draconian BS they feel like.
The idea is great in theory, but I can't imagine how it could work in todays less ideal world.
Would I still have to pay fees for music I created myself? Is this bill saying that I have to pay to stream my own music that I created on my own keyboard to a net audience? If that is the case, that is totall insane!!
I can understand (a little) if these fees are for paying the RIAA when you play THEIR music, but what about my own. Is this not a violation of free speech? Why should I have to pay to play my music? How is it any different then me playing my music to my friends in my living room, except in this case my friends are in another state thru an internet connection?
Hey Saeger, I must know you since you responded to an older post of mine (Oct 1) regarding nanotech and the singulairty. The singularity/transhumanist commmunity is pretty small. If your seeing this post, visit my newly revambed website at http://planetp.cc/
Regardless of the technical achievments that are coming out of Intel - and hyperthreading is indeed an achievment to be applauded.. The bottom line - Intels chips have beecome totally irrelevant to me, regardless of their performance since they will contain DRM restrictions.
I'm pinning my hopes on Apple and maybe even China's new Dragon chip for my future computing needs.
I have no doubt that drastic climate flucuations have occured consistently in the past and will in the future if left on its own. But there is one distinct difference today than in all the Billions of years of climat history - we have the technology. Right now is the first time in Earth's History where we have the capability (but do we have the will?) to change the weather.
There has been tons of research into technologically induced climate change. Keep in mind these climate changes are happening as a result of gas changes in the atmosphere. Changing the mixture of gases is not a big technological hurdle now. Simply adding iron to the oceans could decrease the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Now, coming soon, nanotechnology will enable us to effect the mixture of atmospheric gases substantially. If we do start to get some dramatic cooling effects, procedures could be set into motion to change the gas mixtures to compensate for said cooling. And as the decades go on, our capability in this are will only accelerate. If not, its probably because the humans blew themselves up.
Will Kernal 3.0 include support for USB 2.0, Serial ATA, and Hard drives above 137GB?
Here is a link to the main Ad Council website and the real player ads:
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http://www.adcouncil.org/campaigns/campaign_for
Many of these companies are obviously violating the GPL, but exactly who is going to prosecute them? And if no one can effectively prosecute them, then what strength does the GPL really have? This is something I have never really understood. Anyone care to elaborate?
Yes. I cried on 9-11 deep tears of sorrow - knowing that as people died in the burning/crushing embers, so did our freedom.
Its absolutely sickening how the right-wing christian fundamentalists nuts used this tragedy to push there own agenda, and the Democrats didn't put up any fight at all... instead they asked how high do you want us to jump?
The pace and breath in which this epic power grab is happenening is totally surreal... no questioning of it on ANY of the main media, cover-ups and wagging the dog rule the day, as we watch the greatest criminals in history take over the world and rob us blind (Enron, Worldcom, Halliburton)... And now they are going after $7 Trillion in Oil in Iraq regardless of what the world thinks. The sure proportions of the power grab are enormous and disheartening to the extreme. Personally I don't see ANY serious counter-trends at all, except very bad ones - more real terrorism in our borders, greater world instability, greater hatred for americans. And to think just three years ago, the future looked brighter than ever. Wow, what a turn-around. This New World Order crap obviously has been in deep and secretive planning for years... I suspect ever Sicne George Senior lost the election in 92.
Well, in the original Press release, and because one of its chief architects is an ex-M$ employee, the "secure Computing" initation, TCPA, and Palladium are sprinkled generously throughout the document. This is scary, when the federal goverment is serious consdiering M$ Palladium as the legally protocol for all computing within US borders in the future. Imagine, DRM become a legal mandate to "protect us from terrorism" and in turn Hollywood will get everything they want along the way. We all know full well how dangerous and restricting Palladium can and most likely be if it ever becomes the standard - open and free computing will end. If this happens, time to move out of the US where I can exercise my right to freely compute on the computer of my choice.
I don't know about you all, but I'm completely sic and tired of the "war on terror" being used by big gov/big business to get everythng they ever wanted at the expense of everyone else.
Well, lets not forget the efforts and foresigth of people like David Bowie who is totally hip to the values of Slashdot. He feels that copyright will be obsolete in 10 years, and he thinks its a good idea.
What are you biggest concerns about spending time in a federal penetentiary?
Although this is a technical community, I wanted to say that although you broke the law, I do not agree with the current penalties for computer crimes - they are way too harsh! I wish you the best of luck, my sympathies are with you.
The First Ammendment should be updated to read:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances or the right to freely compute on the machine of their choice.
At some point throwing more money at a legal case brings increasingly diminshed returns, even in a case likey to be this big if it ever gets to court. You can bet the EFF and the ACLU are likely to assist Mr Lucky defend his patents, especially in a case with such profound implications for the freedom to compute. Hey thats a great idea:
The First Ammendment should be updated to say:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances or the right to freely compute on the machine of their choice.