It may have not been clear in the movie, but the book explained it was more of an electromagnetic jet. Water traveling through a tube was accelerated by magnetic fields, moving the submarine much more quietly than allowed by propellers. Silence is loved by, well, the silent service.
Well, you can get some of it directly from the source. Some government agencies sell their public records on magnetic media or through direct queries -- but they're oriented toward commercial access and you may have to pay tens of thousands of dollars and get one set of records for everyone in the state. That's excessive when you just want one individual.
Some public records are not on line, but private companies wade through them and sell the info. Most of these companies are set up to distribute to the same large companies which deal with the large government collections.
Individuals and companies who need such info then subscribe to those large collectors, or buy individual records through private investigators and credit reporting services. There also is cross linking, such as when you hire a P.I. in your city and they hire one in another city to go look up records in a distant courthouse.
But it's often easier for individuals to just pay one of those services than go get individual copies from the original sources.
"What guarantees do we have that Carnivore will be used only on the "criminals"?"
Because the FBI, as part of the Executive Branch, is under the control of Bill Clinton. We can trust President Clinton, particularly whenever he says "I did not have Carnivore relations with that ISP!".
Indeed, if you go to an auto parts store you'll find various auto diagnostic devices, labeled for various makes of cars. Personally, I'd rather get an interface for a PC so I can have a computer in the car monitoring for faults (among other things it will be doing); if something breaks it would be nice to get an audio/text warning and explanation.
For that matter, I had difficulty a couple of years ago when an alternator failed and the idiot light wasn't visible through my sunglasses...
Actually, they had gross evidence about neuron growth. Wounds to the brain (and the spinal cord) do not repair themselves the way many many other body parts do. Well, now we know there is some repair ability, although there are limits on large-size repairs -- particularly as it's complicated by neuron/axon deaths and scar tissue.
If you want some real pretty Mac pictures, you can see this Des Moines Register MacAquarium story. Note at the end that he's also tinkering with a hamster house of Macs.
Actually, I would have faith getting tech support for Linux -- most tech support groups do have people who are using Linux at home, no matter what they have to support at the office.
Right. As the FSF is the holder of the GPL copyright, you can ask them to create a derivative work (a new license) or for them to accept and publish your changed version. After they did that then you could use the new license.
We may as well sterilize the craft, but Earth life already got there...well, if we started from Mars life then Mars also. Some Earth material gets blown off the top of the atmosphere constantly, and past large impacts have surely blasted an assortment of rocks and dirt around the celestial neighborhood.
"Life as we know it" is already scattered around the neighborhood. But let's not intentionally release cats on the Galapagos Islands.
Minneapolis/St Paul is covered with urban forest. Does this mean it would be a bad idea to restore the prairie that used to be here by cutting down all the trees, let the plants grow six feet tall, and allow natural thunderstorms to ignite the grass and burn a quarter of the state every year?
Oh, yeah. I'm sure that dropping a powder down a tornado which is blowing upwards will work well. Maybe it would work if it's a brick wall heavy enough to hold together while falling down, creating its own downdraft...but you wouldn't want to be near the eight eddies it will spawn around the corners.
If price is the only problem and nobody will bother using rockets, why won't the U.S. government remove its restrictions against non-government launches?
I don't recall if there is a formal organization which assigns geosynchronous slots. But if the cost went down, someone would simply park a big platform in a slot and rent outdoor rack space to those who earlier had to send up entire self-contained satellites. There'd actually be fewer separate birds in that valuable orbit.
Anyway, nobody will just launch birds into destructive orbits. Even low Earth orbit applications will be designed to put the birds in safe places because they still won't be so cheap that they can be wasted.
Of course, if DC-X had been a manned vehicle it still would have been safe for the crew when a leg failed to deploy. They'd have just given themselves a little more altitude over their bit of desert and bailed out. Much better than being in the world's-largest-glider Space Shuttle.
Of course, there are also a lot of industrial and PC/104 boards with LCD controllers -- you could also recycle an LCD panel by finding a system with a compatible controller.
You don't need a rotating drive. If the capabilities of the single-floppy router/firewall configurations will meet your needs, you can get boxes with a few MB of flash disk (some even emulate an IDE drive).
Oh, yes, I know what the fuss is about. But go look again at the documentaries or web sites with the CO2 Greenhouse Panic ideas and try to find even the percentage of the greenhouse effect which is due to water vapor. Often water vapor is not even mentioned.
Without water vapor we'd be on Ice instead of Earth.
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It may have not been clear in the movie, but the book explained it was more of an electromagnetic jet. Water traveling through a tube was accelerated by magnetic fields, moving the submarine much more quietly than allowed by propellers. Silence is loved by, well, the silent service.
Actually, that's very nice spelling of etymology.
Some public records are not on line, but private companies wade through them and sell the info. Most of these companies are set up to distribute to the same large companies which deal with the large government collections.
Individuals and companies who need such info then subscribe to those large collectors, or buy individual records through private investigators and credit reporting services. There also is cross linking, such as when you hire a P.I. in your city and they hire one in another city to go look up records in a distant courthouse.
But it's often easier for individuals to just pay one of those services than go get individual copies from the original sources.
Because the FBI, as part of the Executive Branch, is under the control of Bill Clinton. We can trust President Clinton, particularly whenever he says "I did not have Carnivore relations with that ISP!".
Gee, is there a User Interface Design Kit? Of course, it should be possible to use it with several user interfaces...
For that matter, I had difficulty a couple of years ago when an alternator failed and the idiot light wasn't visible through my sunglasses...
Oh, if you want Apple Cubism, see the story in Wired about its resemblance to NeXT.
Actually, they had gross evidence about neuron growth. Wounds to the brain (and the spinal cord) do not repair themselves the way many many other body parts do. Well, now we know there is some repair ability, although there are limits on large-size repairs -- particularly as it's complicated by neuron/axon deaths and scar tissue.
My radio station is likely to be transmitting "...on off on on off on off off off on on off on off off off on..."
If you want some real pretty Mac pictures, you can see this Des Moines Register MacAquarium story. Note at the end that he's also tinkering with a hamster house of Macs.
Okay, you got my attention. So you must provide more information. More info, more action, computer! More! Now!
"Hello, my car is making a funny noise..."
Actually, I would have faith getting tech support for Linux -- most tech support groups do have people who are using Linux at home, no matter what they have to support at the office.
Right. As the FSF is the holder of the GPL copyright, you can ask them to create a derivative work (a new license) or for them to accept and publish your changed version. After they did that then you could use the new license.
"Life as we know it" is already scattered around the neighborhood. But let's not intentionally release cats on the Galapagos Islands.
Minneapolis/St Paul is covered with urban forest. Does this mean it would be a bad idea to restore the prairie that used to be here by cutting down all the trees, let the plants grow six feet tall, and allow natural thunderstorms to ignite the grass and burn a quarter of the state every year?
Oh, yeah. I'm sure that dropping a powder down a tornado which is blowing upwards will work well. Maybe it would work if it's a brick wall heavy enough to hold together while falling down, creating its own downdraft...but you wouldn't want to be near the eight eddies it will spawn around the corners.
Yeah, I thought this article surely would have been from the Eureka! department.
Maybe the makers of RIT dye are sponsoring this research of ancient ink stains?
Well, I had the writings of Bill Gates' minions on my new laptop for about 14 hours until I erased it so I could put something useful on it.
If price is the only problem and nobody will bother using rockets, why won't the U.S. government remove its restrictions against non-government launches?
Anyway, nobody will just launch birds into destructive orbits. Even low Earth orbit applications will be designed to put the birds in safe places because they still won't be so cheap that they can be wasted.
Of course, if DC-X had been a manned vehicle it still would have been safe for the crew when a leg failed to deploy. They'd have just given themselves a little more altitude over their bit of desert and bailed out. Much better than being in the world's-largest-glider Space Shuttle.
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Of course, there are also a lot of industrial and PC/104 boards with LCD controllers -- you could also recycle an LCD panel by finding a system with a compatible controller.You don't need a rotating drive. If the capabilities of the single-floppy router/firewall configurations will meet your needs, you can get boxes with a few MB of flash disk (some even emulate an IDE drive).
Without water vapor we'd be on Ice instead of Earth.