Besides the furthering of human knowledge about the origins of our solar system and everything in it (which is worth the $600 million or whatever, easy), the information gained might just come in handy the next time a comet ends up on a collision course with Earth.
Seemed to do almost okay with the Litany Against Fear...
I should not fear. The fear is the mind-murderous one. The fear is the small-death that brings the obliteración total. I will face my fear. I will permit to pass over give me and by me. And when it has gone past, I will rotate the interior eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will not be anything. Only I will remain.
Because heaven-forbid that Joe Sixpack might be required to learn something new to understand a term he's encountered...
That's one of the biggest problems I've noticed in North American culture... the drive to dumb everything down so that everyone can grasp the idea immediately, without thinking. Um... don't we generally learn by encountering something we don't fully understand, and then try to understand it?
Ouch, wow, I got modded off-topic. I guess whoever modded me down doesn't read the GitS manga. It goes into a detailed description of how cyborg skin detects pressure and temperature.:)
DVD is a standard, any normal DVD player can read them.
Should they have used photocopiers, when Xerox was the only company that could make them?
That would be the government purchasing a product; the output of the photocopier is readable to anyone.
Mainframe computers?
Again, that's the government purchasing a product, it's not relavent.
The issue is that the government should not restrict its public-access systems to only be viewable to a particular company's product, when there is a universal standard for such systems that would allow any company's similar product to view it without difficulty.
Using your DVD example, it would be like the government producing DVDs for public release that only work with Sony's DVD players.
That would actually be a useful stop-gap measure. Water vapor and CO2 aren't as efficient at trapping heat as methane is. Of course, this still adds to the problem, only at a slower rate.
Well, they've effectively proven that they can block any identified site on their service, and are willing to do so (at least for their own purposes). Therefore, they can't deny that they have the ability to block sites containing illegal content, once they're identified to them.
I think you've kind of forgotten crimes like 'breaking and entering'. Regardless of whether or not you have permission, I doubt you can legally enter someone's domicile, locked or otherwise, except under very specific circumstances.
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Besides the furthering of human knowledge about the origins of our solar system and everything in it (which is worth the $600 million or whatever, easy), the information gained might just come in handy the next time a comet ends up on a collision course with Earth.
What about Kingdom Come...?
It looks perfectly normal then, of course.
Actually, a lot of stainless steels aren't ferromagnetic. Many alloys of ferromagnetic materials lose this property.
Because heaven-forbid that Joe Sixpack might be required to learn something new to understand a term he's encountered...
That's one of the biggest problems I've noticed in North American culture... the drive to dumb everything down so that everyone can grasp the idea immediately, without thinking. Um... don't we generally learn by encountering something we don't fully understand, and then try to understand it?
The tachikoma are my heroes. :D
:)
Ouch, wow, I got modded off-topic. I guess whoever modded me down doesn't read the GitS manga. It goes into a detailed description of how cyborg skin detects pressure and temperature.
And here I was just reading the Ghost in the Shell manga... keen. :)
Say, what the hell is with this stupid "You're replying too soon" Slashdot crap?
Should the Government ever use DVDs?
DVD is a standard, any normal DVD player can read them.
Should they have used photocopiers, when Xerox was the only company that could make them?
That would be the government purchasing a product; the output of the photocopier is readable to anyone.
Mainframe computers?
Again, that's the government purchasing a product, it's not relavent.
The issue is that the government should not restrict its public-access systems to only be viewable to a particular company's product, when there is a universal standard for such systems that would allow any company's similar product to view it without difficulty.
Using your DVD example, it would be like the government producing DVDs for public release that only work with Sony's DVD players.
'yotta' (10^21), I think...
That would actually be a useful stop-gap measure. Water vapor and CO2 aren't as efficient at trapping heat as methane is. Of course, this still adds to the problem, only at a slower rate.
Not at all. DSL users to violate copyright law would still be culpable, but now, so would their ISP.
Better to err on the side of money... er, caution.
You've obviously never been pregnant.
And... if they decide not to take the risk, and simply kill you first?
Okay, if you want to be pedantic about it. The first commercial mouse had two buttons, belonging to the Xerox Star 8010.
I seriously doubt anybody is going to allow anyone to use a nuclear or anti-matter powered rocket for ground launch operations.
Silly. The only thing security-through-obscurity does is make sure that nobody knows who knows about the vulnerability.
I think he was saying that all Linux documentation in existance completely sucks, from a (Linux) novice's point of view. I agree with him.
Well, they've effectively proven that they can block any identified site on their service, and are willing to do so (at least for their own purposes). Therefore, they can't deny that they have the ability to block sites containing illegal content, once they're identified to them.
Patriot Act. DMCA. Mickey Mouse Copyright Extension. Software and Business-method patents. Gee whiz.
Couldn't they have at least brought over a good series? oO;
Oh no, personal responsibility?? We can't allow something outrageous like that!
I think you've kind of forgotten crimes like 'breaking and entering'. Regardless of whether or not you have permission, I doubt you can legally enter someone's domicile, locked or otherwise, except under very specific circumstances.
IANAL, obviouisly...
Um... I think that's called 'theft', isn't it?