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  1. Re:Strength? on The Space Elevator · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine you want to make it a Hoytether, or some equivilant, so that it's self repairing.

  2. Re:What's your point? on Europe Heads for the Moon in July · · Score: 1

    By the time of the space race you were an entire generation after the war. Industry had been rebuilt, and there are many examples of very expensive projects being started at that time. For example, the project which eventually delivered Concorde was started in 1956, and the treaty for it was signed in 1962. The european aircraft industry was in quite good shape at the time, with Aerospatiale, Bristol, De Havilland, Fokker, Hawker Siddeley, Saab and Vickers all producing successful aircraft. I don't think that Europe could have produced a moonshot in the time of the spacerace, but that had nothing to with WW2.

  3. Re: Why not Copyright on Another Garbage Patent · · Score: 1

    Then it should be a trademark. A competor can't use your trademark, or anything confusingly similar.

  4. Re:Well okay... on Canadian Surgeons Perform Telerobotic Surgery · · Score: 1

    It was 400km this time. Canada is a HUGE country. We've got people who are thousands of km from the nearest surgeon. Telesurgery has the capacity to make someone in Inuktitut life much easier.

  5. Re:Develop CHEAP reusables on The Space Shuttle Program: What Next? · · Score: 1

    But if you have expendable vehicles, and they don't meet your claims, then you can redesign, change things. With resuable, you've placed all your bets before the first step.

  6. Re:Develop CHEAP reusables on The Space Shuttle Program: What Next? · · Score: 1
    That's only true if you actually make a cheaper than disposible design, continue using it for the full lifetime you design it for, at the rate you design it for, and it still meets your needs for that period. If you change one (or all) of these assumptions, you loose, and depending on the number of years you need to break even, you could loose big time.

    The shuttle was supposed to be flying once a week, with a very minor rehaul between each flight. It barely manages two flights a year, with a virtual total teardown between flights, and it's horribly adapted to our modern needs, yet in NASA's eye's we are stuck with it for at least another decade. This is why Shuttle is hugely more expensive than big dumb boosters, it didn't just blow one constraint, it blew all of them!

  7. Re:Develop CHEAP reusables on The Space Shuttle Program: What Next? · · Score: 1

    Instead of dictating 'reusable', the goal should be cost minimization. If that's disposible, that's fine. It used to be that we used reusable bottles. Nowadays, it's rare to do so, we use disposible bottles, because it's more economical to do so.

  8. Re:Man-rating on The Space Shuttle Program: What Next? · · Score: 1

    This is only true when you have a vehicle which costs billions of dollars. If NASA had continued with disposible capsules, then the loss of one would be tradgic, but it wouldn't have an effect on the program overall.

  9. Re:battery??? on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. Electricity was first described by ThalesofMiletus around 600 BCE. He polished amber with fur, to produce static electricity, and this is where we get the word 'electricity' from, from the greek word for Amber.

  10. Re:Interesting licensing idea.... on Open Source Code And War · · Score: 1

    And we know that RMS is not a man for pushing his own agenda.

  11. Re:Haha on Examining Microsoft Update · · Score: 1

    It's impossible to say which one would require more bandwidth without specifying how large each update meta information is, the number of updates, how large each application meta information is, and the number of applications.

  12. Re:What happens: RadioShack on NYT on RFID Tags · · Score: 1

    Even when they did demand it, they had no way to tell if you gave an accurate answer or not. Occasionally when a salesclerk asks me for my name, they recognize Vladimir Ulyanov, but even when they do, they're happy to accept it for their computer.

  13. Re:Well, that's encouraging. on Los Alamos Security Infiltrated By Reporter · · Score: 1

    Of course, Wen Ho Lee is an American, and he was born in Taiwan, not China.

  14. Re:Specs on BIND Vs NSD on Root-server switches from BIND to NSD · · Score: 1

    Authoritative servers run at more than just the root servers, every domain would have two or more of them. What NSD isn't used for is client resolutions, so you wouldn't point your desktop machine at a NSD server.

  15. Re:Off Topic, but... on Microsoft At Middle Age · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Gate's net worth is mainly tied up in Microsoft shares. If he was to liquidate his assets all at once, then he wouldn't realize that much, because the act of him liqudating would decrease confidence in Microsoft, and also any flood of shares would reduce the prices.

  16. Re:How does a website spend $80mln? on Salon Asks for Help · · Score: 1

    Trying to get massive growth rates is the mistake. There is no such thing as a quick get rich scheme.

  17. Re:Yeah on Salon Asks for Help · · Score: 1

    Unfortunatly, Salon spent a lot of time (& therefore money) on writing their own CMS, instead of using one of the off-the-shelf ones.

  18. Re:There's always another way... on U of Wyoming Fingerprinting All P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    If it's P2P, then encrypting data shouldn't be a problem. There are problems when you have a website with lots of SSL connections, which is why we have dedicated encryption cards to offload that from the main CPU, but any PC modern enough to run the peer to peer software will have a CPU fast enough to run encryption at full wire speed on cable/DSL etc lines.

  19. Re:There's always another way... on U of Wyoming Fingerprinting All P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it worked so well with drugs, didn't it?

  20. Re:The problem isn't the harsh sentences for hacke on Lawyers Say Hackers Are Sentenced Too Harshly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, drug offenders are also punished far too hard.

  21. Re:Perhaps the hacking penalties are fine... on Lawyers Say Hackers Are Sentenced Too Harshly · · Score: 1

    That's a very easy argument to make. White collar crimes are the least heavily punished. Someone who steals a $10,000 car will be less heavily punished that someone who defrauds $100,000

  22. Re:phrase on How Configurable Should a Desktop User Interface be? · · Score: 1

    As a single language, this is obviously true. However, overall the majority of users of languages are most likely to write left to right. Even Chinese is increasing likely to be written left to right, instead of the traditional top to bottom.

  23. Re:Excuse me... on Mixing the Unmixable · · Score: 1

    Don't knock the stupidity of teenagers, it keeps entire businesses going!

  24. Re:hmmm... on Inside The Development of Windows NT · · Score: 1

    We need Steve Irwin to do a show on penguins then. He can make any animal into a very irate version. Crikey! This one's really cranky!

  25. Re:I just do not get it.... on EU Agrees to Give Passenger Data to U.S. · · Score: 1

    For example, let's sayYou're assuming that the terrorist cannot get two credit cards. This is not a logical assumption.