Of course, we've known this for years. Anyone who tells you otherwise is an environmentalist who refuses to accept the facts. The amount of money it costs to take a piece of plastic, paper, glass or whatever and recycle it into another one is more than the cost to create that item from unrecycled material.
In Bridgeport, CT there is a plant called the RESCO, I toured it when I was in elementary/middle school (I forget). They take trash and burn it in a giant furnace, which in turn generates electricity. And the only thing you see coming out of their "smoke" stacks is steam. Very environmentally friendly, profitable and it works on almost anything that burns.
Recycling is a waste of time effort and money. The benefits to the environment from using a trash power plant vs. a fossil fuel or nuclear power plant are far greater than the benefits of say recycling paper vs. trashing paper.
Wow, this is really hilarious. Windows, is a very secure operating system, but not out of the box. It requires an amount of time and effort setting permissions and enabling/disabling services and the like. However, Windows users are generally the people who don't know how to do anything and need everything built in and done for them.
On the other hand we've got linux, the do it yourself operating system. You've got to set up, tweak, fiddle, configure, code and compile everything. Nothing is done for you. But of course, it's secure out of the box.
Now we get a worm that is/isn't Microsoft's fault. It doesn't take advantage of a hole in the windows software, like an unchecked buffer or anything. It just takes advantage of the fact that windows isn't secure by default. So who comes out to complain that something isn't automatic and built in? Oh, of course, the linux users who love the operating system where nothing is done for you and you have to write code to make software work.
linux guy: "You're operating system isn't secure by default!" windows guy: "You're operating system isn't anything by default!"
And dont' get me wrong, I'm a dual boot win2k/mdk9 man, but this typical slashdot hypocrisy cracks me up.
I'm a gamecube guy all the way. I just don't see the other systems as having any games that are "must own" that I can't get for the PC or the cube. Except Kingdom Hearts, so far. But, if a PS3 comes out, it will definitely be ahead of everyone elses game, by a lot. And I'll need to have it, in a bad way. Especially if it comes this soon. I can't afford one, but I've had this Sony Credit card for awhile, and this is the reason I got it. Free PS3 for me! I really like this cell technology idea too. Anything that can potentiall increase the connectivity between the different electronics in my home is good. Even if it has lots of problems, or isn't particularly useful, it will at least be fun.
If you notice in many compilers have an option to optimize for size or speed. Optimizing for size results in a smaller executable while speed results in more fps.
I'm sure you can see that nearly every program today is optimized for speed. Since hard drives in pcs are so big, people wont be pissed off because something takes up 1 gig of space, they'll be pissed because its taking too much time to do stuff. And programmers, like me, who want to be able to creat things easier are using tools like Visual Studio and Object Oriented langauges that result in programs that work fine, but have very large footprints.
Yeah, it's really neat that when we had shit hardware we were able to write such sweet machine code that we could make it do really cool stuff. Stuff like Descent, and Descent 2, which ran under DOS. The same platform and the same 486 DX4 that ran the 2D dos games like raptor:call of the shadows, which was also pretty awesome.
If you have the time and effort you can make pretty much any hardware do incredibly cool stuff. There will almost always be a way to use less memory and get more out of it. But, it's easier to go buy a 100$ hard drive, stick it in, and install your giant game. I remember in Descent 2 when you chose how much HD space you wanted to give to the game, during install. The last option was labeled something like CRAZY!!! - 200MB!!! Yeah, crazy then, when my disk was 720MB. Now? I've got more mp3s than that. More than 10 times as many. Stuff like this is cool but not practical in a real world money making situation. It took long enough for them to get MOO3 out there, you don't want them spending an extra 5 years so they can squish it small enough to run on the Atari 800XL.
Ah, I did not realize this was the case. So in theory, I am correct in that a T1 should have a set price and that is that, however the provider of that line wants to decrease my costs and his by assuming that nobody will use 100% of their connection. And that the provider doesn't have the capacity to provide 100% of their consumers 100% of their capacity. Solution? Providers should not give out 3000 T1s if they can only accomodate 1000. If someone gets a T1 and they don't use all of it, they should get a smaller connection.
If an OC 128 costs X$ to install and X to maintain, and it can support Y T3 connections under it, then each T3 should cost X/Y$ period. Regardless of how much is used. And if the guy with the OC 128 decides to give out 101 T3s and service starts to degrade, its all his fault.
Of course this results in getting a real connection being very expensive. Well, damn if that's what it costs that's what it costs. Quality fiber is lots of dough, and if you want it you have to pay for it. Of course, real world things like greed and cheapness prevent this from being a reality, it's the way I say it should be.
Well, there are a bunch of reasons for this. First, slashdot receives all of its reviews from same place it gets its stories. People write them because they feel like it. People are not likely to spend the time and effort to write a review of a book that sucked. Likely if a book sucked they aren't going to even finish reading it.
The second thing is that Slashdot needs money. If they post a negative review, not so many people are going to click that "buy the book" link at the bottom of the review. If they post a positive review they are likely to score some green.
Lastly, writing quality. These aren't pulitzer prize winning people writing the reviews. They are pulitzer prize winning books. Which means the quality of writing, while it may be quite good at times, it isn't super amazing besto. I myself am an ok writer. I tend to get As in my liberal arts classes, and I'm a CS major. And occasionally I'll write a review of something, usually software. And I know that if I didn't like what I'm reviewing the quality of my writing is far less than the quality when I write a positive review. I don't know why. It might have something to do with all the insults, like "This piece of crap was a totally shitty piece of crap." So assuming that people of average writing ability submit an equal number of positive and negative reviews, and that slashdot posted the ones of highest literary quality, chances are that more positive reviews would get posted than negative.
With all these factors combined you are (captain planet) bound to get very few negative reviews on front page slashdot.
I don't know what I'm going to do after I leave college. No more Internet 2?!?! I'm going to actually have to wait to download linux iso files? And VNC and X forwarding will be slow? Man, I should stay and get my masters.
CD sales around cornell will skyrocked. Blank CD-R sales. If its going to cost me to send some mp3z to my friends or stream them to a lab on the academic side I'll buy a USB keychain and some CD-Rs. Remember, a 747 full of burned CDs has more bandwith than any fiber optic connection there is. And if you use DVDs, or 3.5" drives? ph33r that. I mean, 10 CDRs and a car has more bandwith than most of the world has. Depending on how far and such.
I don't understand why people charge for bandwidth. It's not like electricity where there is a limited resource that is consumed in order to create the current which goes down the wire.
Lets say I get a T1 to my house. If its full or empty it still costs the guy providing it to me the same amount of money. It should be a solid monthly fee, or an appropriate one time only fee. Its like the phone bill, it doesn't cost the phone company more money when you make 1000 local calls or 2 local calls, so you have a flat rate for unlimited local calling. Same with bandwith.
Since the top provider doesn't need to charge for bandwith, nobody down the line should have to either. If I pay a flat monthly fee, everyone I host can also pay a flat monthly fee. And so on and so forth. Lets say someone happens to use excessive bandwith and it causes a service disruption (they get slashdotted). If this doesn't cause a service disruption for anyone else, who cares? If it does cause a disruption, the person who was slashdotted is responsible to pay for that loss of service. And the people who lost service end up paying less, because they didn't get what they paid for. In the end though, whether I use 100GB in a month or 2GB in a month, if it doesn't make anyone else's connection slower it doesn't cost the guy providing it to me more money.
If it does, I'd sure like someone to explain how. Sounds to me like someone at the top has an evil pricing scheme and is just trying to make extra dough.
Here's the real question, I'm surpised nobody asked it. Slashdot is already turning into "discuss google news hours afterwards". Does this mean that non-subscribers will get the news even later, or that slashdot will get the news on-time for the subscribers? If slashdot gets the news any slower, that's just one more reason NOT to come here. So there will be more subscribers but less free readers. In the short term that's good in terms of revenue. In the long term that's very bad.
I hope the people who make stuff like, KDE/Gnome/Windows pay attention to stuff like this. Especially the busy cursor, pointer obscuring, and the heirarchial menus. If there was some way to configure KDE or Windows to follow these behaviors that would be very awesome. Does such a thing currently exist?
Wow, I live in CT, this could be sweet. I've been thinking about hacking the lottery for awhile. I mean ever look at those lottery machines that convenience stores have? They are pretty much big dial up network appliances. They connect to the lottery database and keep track of everything. That's how they know which store sold which winning ticket at what time. It is a computer network, and is therefore not 100% secure. If there was some way to root it you could counterfeit a ticket. Then trick the lottery database into thinking that that ticket was actually sold at a particular store at a particular time and date. And if you go to the store and actually buy a ticket, and just change the numbers in the database, the security camera in the store will verify the validity. Now they've got a game where you can win 25 gs online! I gotta find a way to win, just once.
If you've never heard of lupin before head to www.lupinofficial.com to catch a glimpse. It's the official website pioneer set up to advertise the tv/dvd showings of the original lupin tv series on CN. You should be able to watch it Monday through Thursday nights at midnight + 1/2 on cartoon network. Before it starting rerunning episodes (because it takes awhile to dub new ones) me and my friends watched it religiously. We also watch every movie we can get our hands on. Lupin is absolutely hilarious. A great party anime.
And I quote
Ahhhh, the old exploding bear trap on the ass trick!
There's an awesome dude called Master Zap. He's got some of the best techno tracks I've ever heard. I listen to his stuff all the time, and he gives it away for free at www.z4p.com and www.mp3.com. He also has CDs. He's looking for a job too. He's the kind of guy who can probably hook you up. There are also tonss of college kids who make music with keyboards and PCs in their dorm rooms. I know of about 5 just in one or two colleges, I'm sure there are tons more elsewhere. Just find one of them and have them help you out. Even better, just head to a local dance club and talk to the DJ after he's done, if you like his stuff. If you want rock, find a place with a live band. Or find one of those shitty cover bands and have them play shit for you. They'll do anything for a little bit of green.
I've had a lot of free time lately, and I began writing a short paper related to just this topic. The gist is that people are designing video games from a software engineering standpoint or a movie standpoint. And that many video games aren't "games" at all (according to definition 4a in the Oxford English Dictionary, which is the important definition). Many of them are interactive movies or multimedia puzzles. Which, is fine, but because they aren't designed from the correct standpoint they come out crappy. I later go on to discuss how games need to be designed as games, just like sports (which are games) and board games, and card games, etc. Doing this results in higher quality, better selling product.
Spam is the issue here. E-mail addresses, house addresses, and phone numbers should all be treated the same way. I wouldn't unlist my phone number if there weren't telemarketers. And I wouldn't mind having the whole world know my e-mail address if it wouldn't get spammed.
That there is a database somewhere that matches their eyeballs with their personal information. Sorry, but I'd rather not have another database with my info in it.
Yes, the trueness. I think we should use the Team Fortress 2 joke for a little bit instead, because it's slightly fresher. Then after that we can start making jokes about missile command 2.
Stop the water works, call the electric company (oh, the pain of the lame joke!) Seriously, just call up UI or whoever does the electricity in your location. Tell them you need better, and more power. And get a single backup generator, rather than many UPS'. Sell all the UPS and just have the electricians install many power outlets where necessary. You'll have a few minutes of downtime will you unplug/replug, but that's about it.
Um, there is no way to do that. Unless you make it entirely web based, and that's not going to be fun, practical, or easy. Your best bet would to get them all to install a real JVM, like Sun's newest JRE. Make it very easy and automatic for them to do so. Have the application check to see if they are using a new enough jvm, then provide them with an upgrade now button. As long as they are all modern desktop/laptop computers with windows/mac/*nix this should be fine. If anyone is using something weird like a small device with an embedded jvm, then it might be trouble.
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What probably will happen is that our government will waste a lot more of our tax money and make a bunch of stupid decisions that nobody really cares about.
What I say is we should do the following
1. Sell the space shuttles to someone else, China? 2. Make NASA a regulator agency, like the FCC of FDA. 3. Privatize the space industry.
This will result in money being spent to do useful things with space travel. People will be able to put up sattelites, space tourism will begin and eventually flourish. Someone might set up a hotel type space station. Or a moon base, or go to mars. All in all it should boost the economy by creating a new industry for people to work in and new companies to work for, as well as making life a hell of a lot more interesting.
Of course there are reasons not to do this, but this is what I want, not necessarily the best idea in the world, or the most realistic one.
This is something I don't understand. Do people not get the concept of being a non-profit organization? I mean, you can make a company that makes software, and gets enough revenue to give employess wages and get hardware. And just, don't profit. Don't get more money than it costs. Don't try to get bigger and better. Just make software, and continue to make a living off it. These open source companies are trying to profit by giving stuff away for free. It seems like they have no common sense.
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Of course, we've known this for years. Anyone who tells you otherwise is an environmentalist who refuses to accept the facts. The amount of money it costs to take a piece of plastic, paper, glass or whatever and recycle it into another one is more than the cost to create that item from unrecycled material.
In Bridgeport, CT there is a plant called the RESCO, I toured it when I was in elementary/middle school (I forget). They take trash and burn it in a giant furnace, which in turn generates electricity. And the only thing you see coming out of their "smoke" stacks is steam. Very environmentally friendly, profitable and it works on almost anything that burns.
Recycling is a waste of time effort and money. The benefits to the environment from using a trash power plant vs. a fossil fuel or nuclear power plant are far greater than the benefits of say recycling paper vs. trashing paper.
Wow, this is really hilarious. Windows, is a very secure operating system, but not out of the box. It requires an amount of time and effort setting permissions and enabling/disabling services and the like. However, Windows users are generally the people who don't know how to do anything and need everything built in and done for them.
On the other hand we've got linux, the do it yourself operating system. You've got to set up, tweak, fiddle, configure, code and compile everything. Nothing is done for you. But of course, it's secure out of the box.
Now we get a worm that is/isn't Microsoft's fault. It doesn't take advantage of a hole in the windows software, like an unchecked buffer or anything. It just takes advantage of the fact that windows isn't secure by default. So who comes out to complain that something isn't automatic and built in? Oh, of course, the linux users who love the operating system where nothing is done for you and you have to write code to make software work.
linux guy: "You're operating system isn't secure by default!"
windows guy: "You're operating system isn't anything by default!"
And dont' get me wrong, I'm a dual boot win2k/mdk9 man, but this typical slashdot hypocrisy cracks me up.
Internships are generally unpaid. However, co-ops are always paid. They are in fact, paid internships. They are the reason I go to http://www.rit.edu
I'm a gamecube guy all the way. I just don't see the other systems as having any games that are "must own" that I can't get for the PC or the cube. Except Kingdom Hearts, so far. But, if a PS3 comes out, it will definitely be ahead of everyone elses game, by a lot. And I'll need to have it, in a bad way. Especially if it comes this soon. I can't afford one, but I've had this Sony Credit card for awhile, and this is the reason I got it. Free PS3 for me!
I really like this cell technology idea too. Anything that can potentiall increase the connectivity between the different electronics in my home is good. Even if it has lots of problems, or isn't particularly useful, it will at least be fun.
If you notice in many compilers have an option to optimize for size or speed. Optimizing for size results in a smaller executable while speed results in more fps.
I'm sure you can see that nearly every program today is optimized for speed. Since hard drives in pcs are so big, people wont be pissed off because something takes up 1 gig of space, they'll be pissed because its taking too much time to do stuff. And programmers, like me, who want to be able to creat things easier are using tools like Visual Studio and Object Oriented langauges that result in programs that work fine, but have very large footprints.
Yeah, it's really neat that when we had shit hardware we were able to write such sweet machine code that we could make it do really cool stuff. Stuff like Descent, and Descent 2, which ran under DOS. The same platform and the same 486 DX4 that ran the 2D dos games like raptor:call of the shadows, which was also pretty awesome.
If you have the time and effort you can make pretty much any hardware do incredibly cool stuff. There will almost always be a way to use less memory and get more out of it. But, it's easier to go buy a 100$ hard drive, stick it in, and install your giant game. I remember in Descent 2 when you chose how much HD space you wanted to give to the game, during install. The last option was labeled something like CRAZY!!! - 200MB!!! Yeah, crazy then, when my disk was 720MB. Now? I've got more mp3s than that. More than 10 times as many.
Stuff like this is cool but not practical in a real world money making situation. It took long enough for them to get MOO3 out there, you don't want them spending an extra 5 years so they can squish it small enough to run on the Atari 800XL.
Ah, I did not realize this was the case. So in theory, I am correct in that a T1 should have a set price and that is that, however the provider of that line wants to decrease my costs and his by assuming that nobody will use 100% of their connection. And that the provider doesn't have the capacity to provide 100% of their consumers 100% of their capacity. Solution? Providers should not give out 3000 T1s if they can only accomodate 1000. If someone gets a T1 and they don't use all of it, they should get a smaller connection.
If an OC 128 costs X$ to install and X to maintain, and it can support Y T3 connections under it, then each T3 should cost X/Y$ period. Regardless of how much is used. And if the guy with the OC 128 decides to give out 101 T3s and service starts to degrade, its all his fault.
Of course this results in getting a real connection being very expensive. Well, damn if that's what it costs that's what it costs. Quality fiber is lots of dough, and if you want it you have to pay for it. Of course, real world things like greed and cheapness prevent this from being a reality, it's the way I say it should be.
Anyone got a wired treehouse? Imagine sitting in Bart Simpsonesque treehouse surfin' the net. ph33r that.
Well, there are a bunch of reasons for this. First, slashdot receives all of its reviews from same place it gets its stories. People write them because they feel like it. People are not likely to spend the time and effort to write a review of a book that sucked. Likely if a book sucked they aren't going to even finish reading it.
The second thing is that Slashdot needs money. If they post a negative review, not so many people are going to click that "buy the book" link at the bottom of the review. If they post a positive review they are likely to score some green.
Lastly, writing quality. These aren't pulitzer prize winning people writing the reviews. They are pulitzer prize winning books. Which means the quality of writing, while it may be quite good at times, it isn't super amazing besto. I myself am an ok writer. I tend to get As in my liberal arts classes, and I'm a CS major. And occasionally I'll write a review of something, usually software. And I know that if I didn't like what I'm reviewing the quality of my writing is far less than the quality when I write a positive review. I don't know why. It might have something to do with all the insults, like "This piece of crap was a totally shitty piece of crap." So assuming that people of average writing ability submit an equal number of positive and negative reviews, and that slashdot posted the ones of highest literary quality, chances are that more positive reviews would get posted than negative.
With all these factors combined you are (captain planet) bound to get very few negative reviews on front page slashdot.
I don't know what I'm going to do after I leave college. No more Internet 2?!?! I'm going to actually have to wait to download linux iso files? And VNC and X forwarding will be slow? Man, I should stay and get my masters.
CD sales around cornell will skyrocked. Blank CD-R sales. If its going to cost me to send some mp3z to my friends or stream them to a lab on the academic side I'll buy a USB keychain and some CD-Rs. Remember, a 747 full of burned CDs has more bandwith than any fiber optic connection there is. And if you use DVDs, or 3.5" drives? ph33r that. I mean, 10 CDRs and a car has more bandwith than most of the world has. Depending on how far and such.
I don't understand why people charge for bandwidth. It's not like electricity where there is a limited resource that is consumed in order to create the current which goes down the wire.
Lets say I get a T1 to my house. If its full or empty it still costs the guy providing it to me the same amount of money. It should be a solid monthly fee, or an appropriate one time only fee. Its like the phone bill, it doesn't cost the phone company more money when you make 1000 local calls or 2 local calls, so you have a flat rate for unlimited local calling. Same with bandwith.
Since the top provider doesn't need to charge for bandwith, nobody down the line should have to either. If I pay a flat monthly fee, everyone I host can also pay a flat monthly fee. And so on and so forth. Lets say someone happens to use excessive bandwith and it causes a service disruption (they get slashdotted). If this doesn't cause a service disruption for anyone else, who cares? If it does cause a disruption, the person who was slashdotted is responsible to pay for that loss of service. And the people who lost service end up paying less, because they didn't get what they paid for. In the end though, whether I use 100GB in a month or 2GB in a month, if it doesn't make anyone else's connection slower it doesn't cost the guy providing it to me more money.
If it does, I'd sure like someone to explain how. Sounds to me like someone at the top has an evil pricing scheme and is just trying to make extra dough.
Here's the real question, I'm surpised nobody asked it. Slashdot is already turning into "discuss google news hours afterwards". Does this mean that non-subscribers will get the news even later, or that slashdot will get the news on-time for the subscribers? If slashdot gets the news any slower, that's just one more reason NOT to come here.
So there will be more subscribers but less free readers. In the short term that's good in terms of revenue. In the long term that's very bad.
I hope the people who make stuff like, KDE/Gnome/Windows pay attention to stuff like this. Especially the busy cursor, pointer obscuring, and the heirarchial menus. If there was some way to configure KDE or Windows to follow these behaviors that would be very awesome. Does such a thing currently exist?
Wow, I live in CT, this could be sweet. I've been thinking about hacking the lottery for awhile. I mean ever look at those lottery machines that convenience stores have? They are pretty much big dial up network appliances. They connect to the lottery database and keep track of everything. That's how they know which store sold which winning ticket at what time. It is a computer network, and is therefore not 100% secure. If there was some way to root it you could counterfeit a ticket. Then trick the lottery database into thinking that that ticket was actually sold at a particular store at a particular time and date. And if you go to the store and actually buy a ticket, and just change the numbers in the database, the security camera in the store will verify the validity. Now they've got a game where you can win 25 gs online! I gotta find a way to win, just once.
If you've never heard of lupin before head to www.lupinofficial.com to catch a glimpse. It's the official website pioneer set up to advertise the tv/dvd showings of the original lupin tv series on CN. You should be able to watch it Monday through Thursday nights at midnight + 1/2 on cartoon network. Before it starting rerunning episodes (because it takes awhile to dub new ones) me and my friends watched it religiously. We also watch every movie we can get our hands on. Lupin is absolutely hilarious. A great party anime.
And I quote
Ahhhh, the old exploding bear trap on the ass trick!
There's an awesome dude called Master Zap. He's got some of the best techno tracks I've ever heard. I listen to his stuff all the time, and he gives it away for free at www.z4p.com and www.mp3.com. He also has CDs. He's looking for a job too. He's the kind of guy who can probably hook you up.
There are also tonss of college kids who make music with keyboards and PCs in their dorm rooms. I know of about 5 just in one or two colleges, I'm sure there are tons more elsewhere. Just find one of them and have them help you out. Even better, just head to a local dance club and talk to the DJ after he's done, if you like his stuff.
If you want rock, find a place with a live band. Or find one of those shitty cover bands and have them play shit for you. They'll do anything for a little bit of green.
I've had a lot of free time lately, and I began writing a short paper related to just this topic. The gist is that people are designing video games from a software engineering standpoint or a movie standpoint. And that many video games aren't "games" at all (according to definition 4a in the Oxford English Dictionary, which is the important definition). Many of them are interactive movies or multimedia puzzles. Which, is fine, but because they aren't designed from the correct standpoint they come out crappy. I later go on to discuss how games need to be designed as games, just like sports (which are games) and board games, and card games, etc. Doing this results in higher quality, better selling product.
Can't you go into /etc/X11/XF86Config (or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4) and comment out all the lines
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
blah blah blah
EndSection
I think that might do it.
Spam is the issue here. E-mail addresses, house addresses, and phone numbers should all be treated the same way. I wouldn't unlist my phone number if there weren't telemarketers. And I wouldn't mind having the whole world know my e-mail address if it wouldn't get spammed.
That there is a database somewhere that matches their eyeballs with their personal information. Sorry, but I'd rather not have another database with my info in it.
Yes, the trueness. I think we should use the Team Fortress 2 joke for a little bit instead, because it's slightly fresher. Then after that we can start making jokes about missile command 2.
Stop the water works, call the electric company (oh, the pain of the lame joke!)
Seriously, just call up UI or whoever does the electricity in your location. Tell them you need better, and more power. And get a single backup generator, rather than many UPS'. Sell all the UPS and just have the electricians install many power outlets where necessary. You'll have a few minutes of downtime will you unplug/replug, but that's about it.
Um, there is no way to do that. Unless you make it entirely web based, and that's not going to be fun, practical, or easy. Your best bet would to get them all to install a real JVM, like Sun's newest JRE. Make it very easy and automatic for them to do so. Have the application check to see if they are using a new enough jvm, then provide them with an upgrade now button. As long as they are all modern desktop/laptop computers with windows/mac/*nix this should be fine. If anyone is using something weird like a small device with an embedded jvm, then it might be trouble.
What probably will happen is that our government will waste a lot more of our tax money and make a bunch of stupid decisions that nobody really cares about.
What I say is we should do the following
1. Sell the space shuttles to someone else, China?
2. Make NASA a regulator agency, like the FCC of FDA.
3. Privatize the space industry.
This will result in money being spent to do useful things with space travel. People will be able to put up sattelites, space tourism will begin and eventually flourish. Someone might set up a hotel type space station. Or a moon base, or go to mars. All in all it should boost the economy by creating a new industry for people to work in and new companies to work for, as well as making life a hell of a lot more interesting.
Of course there are reasons not to do this, but this is what I want, not necessarily the best idea in the world, or the most realistic one.
This is something I don't understand. Do people not get the concept of being a non-profit organization? I mean, you can make a company that makes software, and gets enough revenue to give employess wages and get hardware. And just, don't profit. Don't get more money than it costs. Don't try to get bigger and better. Just make software, and continue to make a living off it. These open source companies are trying to profit by giving stuff away for free. It seems like they have no common sense.