I think he said that putting stuff in the hosts file is the solution to everything, but he uses too many words. Maybe if I put "Anonymous Coward" in there it will fix that problem.
Yup, it was easy to find how the Time Life introductory offer works. You get a few cheap, and they'll send more CDs/DVDs which you either buy or return, with you having agreed to buy more at the regular price. The Book of the Month works similarly and terms are easy to find, although not splattered across the pretty front page.
That diffuse light source on the left is the Earth. The nose has bright spots where you'd expect reflections of the earthlight. The port engine is most bright where reflection off the open door concentrates light from the Earth's limb off to the left -- probably mostly clouds reflecting light back toward the Sun.
Copyright doesn't expire in 35 years. Granting the copyright is expiring, so the artists get the copyright back for the remainder of the copyright term.
Put mouse on balance scale. See how many coins are required to balance the scale. If the number of coins is different from the number of genuine coins required, at least one fake has been detected.
Use the coin to pry the mouse apart. Look for scratches exposing a different color on the coin.
Put the coin on the mouse. Burn the mouse. See if the coin melts.
Put the coin on the mouse. Pour on the coin an acid which does not affect a genuine coin. Check if the coin survived.
Line up coins the length of the mouse. See if the number of coins matches the number of genuine coins.
Use coins to buy a mouse. See if the cashier rejects any coins.
Use coins to pay for a call to the Secret Service. Report that someone might have used a counterfeit coin to pay for a phone call from this phone booth. Leave the mouse in the phone booth. Repeat until the "mouse counterfeiter" or the "mouse crank caller" is caught.
Ever hear of an estate? Where the assets, such as copyright grants, have value which the deceased's will can direct to benefit the surviving family members? So a hard-working artist who dies too young can still take care of his family?
Their work isn't in the public domain unless they're federal employees or their local laws place their work in the public domain. But it would be better for the educational system if more material were easily available. State legislators should place that work in the public domain so it can be easily reused, but encourage teachers to produce it. Teachers do get paid by the school to create lesson plans, but they should be able to sell or retype it into a marketable package on their own time. If there is a lot of public domain educational material, higher prices will be paid for it being organized or for new material.
Notice, however, that this only applies to material created as part of their job. Work created outside of the job environment still belongs to the teacher. School contracts might have to be more specific about the definition of school work. A teacher can mix their own protected work into a collection and sell the package, just as book authors do now. There is no requirement that the specific public domain material be identified; if buyers prefer that PD work be identified then they'll only buy such material.
He does need to apply a little math there. Dragging a net behind might happen due to (weak) atmospheric friction, but you're not going to sneak up behind debris and gently catch it in the net. Something in a lower orbit is moving faster relative to you, so the debris will come from 'behind'.
Also, you're going to be waving a huge net around and hope to only get close enough to things that are traveling at speeds which are only slightly different. Somehow you have to not catch working equipment, and not get smacked by something in a path at 90 or 180 degrees. That's worse than praying for a magical 18,000 carom path.
When you do catch something, it's not going hit right in the center of gravity so your whole contraption goes spinning. The first time that happens, your net might close around what might be in it. But it won't stop without a lot of fuel. And if you don't stop it yet somehow manage to intercept something else the something else will hit the outside of your net purse and send it spinning in another direction. If you do stop the spinning and reopen the net, the movement of opening will push your catch out and away.
That's assuming you can actually catch anything. It's more likely that you'll blunder into the path of things moving in the wrong direction. Then the debris will be increased by bits of stuff that got hit, followed shortly by whatever is torn off by the stresses of the net trying to head off in another direction (assuming your net got hit and not your garbage trawler).
Go look up the designs which others have done. Nets which are intended to vaporize or slow debris, electromagnetic drives, including deorbiters on new satellites.
That's how a rover which was designed to be cheap and lightweight would have become a multiton semi-mobile laboratory. Adding on accessories and desirable features, then stronger equipment to carry it all, is how much larger and more expensive space probes are created. Problems with such designs caused smaller and simpler designs to be favored.
But... why aren't there six more of these things wandering around by now?
They may have copied it. But it wouldn't be the first time. A dirty, dark secret of Google's is that their main product, a search engine was a copy of AltaVista, which also had the dirty secret of being a copy of Aliweb.
Except that Google used content searching and information about links, while AltaVista used full-word content searching with many spiders, while Aliweb avoided spiders and used indexed descriptions rather than content. So other than being different, they were copies?
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I think he said that putting stuff in the hosts file is the solution to everything, but he uses too many words. Maybe if I put "Anonymous Coward" in there it will fix that problem.
I also have the "Disable Ads" checkbox. But I like Slashdot so I'm willing to be tempted by ads. I need a "Disable Disable Ads" checkbox.
Yup, it was easy to find how the Time Life introductory offer works. You get a few cheap, and they'll send more CDs/DVDs which you either buy or return, with you having agreed to buy more at the regular price. The Book of the Month works similarly and terms are easy to find, although not splattered across the pretty front page.
For those unfamiliar with it, here is the Archos 5 home page, and the Wikipedia page. Hmm.. what's this about Amazon stopping sales?
That diffuse light source on the left is the Earth. The nose has bright spots where you'd expect reflections of the earthlight. The port engine is most bright where reflection off the open door concentrates light from the Earth's limb off to the left -- probably mostly clouds reflecting light back toward the Sun.
It is now apparent that the gold is in a bucket, not a rounded pot.
Maybe they need to include Pluto so everyone who gets both messages will recognize it's the same spammer that keeps bothering them with infomercials.
This story moves me slightly.
Well, yes, but those are Chicago's cameras in London.
I read that Chicago's camera network is everywhere.
I thought that the Battlezone which Franklin was talking about involved fighting kites.
If the duck is blue,
it's not for you.
No, they created a machine which ignores them. They're getting no response, so they know that they succeeded.
7 pages of comments and Slashdot readers haven't mentioned " Science: "2012" a Miscalculation; Actual Calendar Ends 2220". Yeah, there will be panic.
Build an industrial-scale mass spectrometer. Dump in trash, concrete, and rock. Frequently empty the buckets that the fissionables land in.
Copyright doesn't expire in 35 years. Granting the copyright is expiring, so the artists get the copyright back for the remainder of the copyright term.
Ever hear of an estate? Where the assets, such as copyright grants, have value which the deceased's will can direct to benefit the surviving family members? So a hard-working artist who dies too young can still take care of his family?
Notice, however, that this only applies to material created as part of their job. Work created outside of the job environment still belongs to the teacher. School contracts might have to be more specific about the definition of school work. A teacher can mix their own protected work into a collection and sell the package, just as book authors do now. There is no requirement that the specific public domain material be identified; if buyers prefer that PD work be identified then they'll only buy such material.
Also, you're going to be waving a huge net around and hope to only get close enough to things that are traveling at speeds which are only slightly different. Somehow you have to not catch working equipment, and not get smacked by something in a path at 90 or 180 degrees. That's worse than praying for a magical 18,000 carom path.
When you do catch something, it's not going hit right in the center of gravity so your whole contraption goes spinning. The first time that happens, your net might close around what might be in it. But it won't stop without a lot of fuel. And if you don't stop it yet somehow manage to intercept something else the something else will hit the outside of your net purse and send it spinning in another direction. If you do stop the spinning and reopen the net, the movement of opening will push your catch out and away.
That's assuming you can actually catch anything. It's more likely that you'll blunder into the path of things moving in the wrong direction. Then the debris will be increased by bits of stuff that got hit, followed shortly by whatever is torn off by the stresses of the net trying to head off in another direction (assuming your net got hit and not your garbage trawler).
Go look up the designs which others have done. Nets which are intended to vaporize or slow debris, electromagnetic drives, including deorbiters on new satellites.
And, no, don't think Quark. Think Planetes.
Yes, we should have already seen six more rovers die. Why hasn't it happened?
That's how a rover which was designed to be cheap and lightweight would have become a multiton semi-mobile laboratory. Adding on accessories and desirable features, then stronger equipment to carry it all, is how much larger and more expensive space probes are created. Problems with such designs caused smaller and simpler designs to be favored. But... why aren't there six more of these things wandering around by now?
Well, as long as the Pioneer Anomaly does not involve dysentery... carry on.
The director's commentary is to die for.
But I don't want lightweight protection. I want a lot of steel and guns. And armed drones with packet sniffers. And K-9 units with dowsing rods.
Except that Google used content searching and information about links, while AltaVista used full-word content searching with many spiders, while Aliweb avoided spiders and used indexed descriptions rather than content. So other than being different, they were copies?