> But if we do run out of oil here, we'll have to get the raw materials to > make plastics from somewhere. Titan seems as good a choice for that purpose > as any.
Much cheaper to simply use water, air, and any handy source of carbon.
Sail around and observe thousands of miles of shoreline. Study the atmosphere and seabottom at widely separated points. This ship will travel farther in a day than a Mars rover can in a month.
> unless there's some sort of fancy solar-scale engineering you can do to > spruce up the Sun like somehow replenish the hydrogen in the Sun
That would require either a solar-scale source of hydrogen or an equally boggling supply of energy (in which case, why bother to restart the Sun?). More plausible (if solar engineering can be plausible) would be redesigning the Sun to burn helium and/or other fusion byproducts.
>...destined never to venture further than a few light years from the star > that gave us life, lest we condemn ourselves to never seeing our home again.
If you are so timid that you cannot bear the thought of never seeing "home" again you deserve to be so condemned as it will be only your own weakness confining you.
The scientific rights of these Herschel observations are owned by the consortium of the Gould Belt Key Programme
I knew about "moral rights", but "scientific rights"? "Owned"? Is this meant to imply that I can be sued in Europe for studying these observations without the permission of the "Progamme"?
> Since Text Messages and E-Mails are handled by third parties, wouldn't this > also apply to the recent ruling that you don't have a right to privacy?
> So let me ask you this, when Microsoft or Adobe, etc give these governments > the "source code" do they allow compilation of the resulting binary from the > given source... with deployment of that binary as production-level binary?
Why don't you ask the governments? They (nor Microsoft and Adobe) are certainly not about to tell me. I do know that some other software vendors do allow this.
Personally, I use Free Software wherever I can, which is almost everywhere. However, I don't let my support for Free Software blind me to reality.
Slashdot Mirror
Too bad. It would be better to use something closer to humans.
> I think this is somewhat justified. Sure, where do you draw the line but
> this site was registered under a false name
Where do you get that?
> -- that of someone in Parliament.
So what?
> And that all the law they proclaim are only effective inside Vatican...
I wouldn't bet on that. They won't get anywhere in the USA, but there are nations where they may have the power to enforce these "IP" claims.
Simple, but not true.
> But if we do run out of oil here, we'll have to get the raw materials to
> make plastics from somewhere. Titan seems as good a choice for that purpose
> as any.
Much cheaper to simply use water, air, and any handy source of carbon.
...were they to rewrite it all in assembly language!
> Sail around to find more liquid methane?
Sail around and observe thousands of miles of shoreline. Study the atmosphere and seabottom at widely separated points. This ship will travel farther in a day than a Mars rover can in a month.
Consider, for example, the quality and snarkiness of comments on Slashdot.
It agreed to a settlement with some US authors and publishers. Most authors were not involved.
> So what is dark matter then if it isn't anti matter?
WIMPs.
There are two possibilities: either the Earth is flat or it isn't. Therefore the probability is 50%.
No. The name has to do with the fact that it does not interact electromagnetically.
> I watched maybe too many star trek episodes...
You did.
> unless there's some sort of fancy solar-scale engineering you can do to
> spruce up the Sun like somehow replenish the hydrogen in the Sun
That would require either a solar-scale source of hydrogen or an equally boggling supply of energy (in which case, why bother to restart the Sun?). More plausible (if solar engineering can be plausible) would be redesigning the Sun to burn helium and/or other fusion byproducts.
> ...destined never to venture further than a few light years from the star
> that gave us life, lest we condemn ourselves to never seeing our home again.
If you are so timid that you cannot bear the thought of never seeing "home" again you deserve to be so condemned as it will be only your own weakness confining you.
From the article:
I knew about "moral rights", but "scientific rights"? "Owned"? Is this meant to imply that I can be sued in Europe for studying these observations without the permission of the "Progamme"?
> I used to post a fair bit on Usenet and I am fairly sure most of the spam I
> get is from spammers who picked up my email address there.
I still post a fair bit on Usenet. Most of the spam I get is not from spammers who picked up my email address there.
> If two people share a pizza and there is at least one cut that goes directly
> through the center...
From the article:
"So far so good, but what if none of the cuts passes through the centre?"
> Since Text Messages and E-Mails are handled by third parties, wouldn't this
> also apply to the recent ruling that you don't have a right to privacy?
Citation.
This case is going to hinge on a lot of details that we don't have.
> Verbally? Or in writing?
Verbal agreements are binding.
"Under an informal policy adopted by a police lieutenant, those who paid the excess charges themselves would not have their messages inspected."
This case will probably set no clear precedent.
> If only more could see that!
Careful. If it becomes very important to them they may decide they need to control it.
> So let me ask you this, when Microsoft or Adobe, etc give these governments
> the "source code" do they allow compilation of the resulting binary from the
> given source... with deployment of that binary as production-level binary?
Why don't you ask the governments? They (nor Microsoft and Adobe) are certainly not about to tell me. I do know that some other software vendors do allow this.
Personally, I use Free Software wherever I can, which is almost everywhere. However, I don't let my support for Free Software blind me to reality.
> Well, there are other arguments too...
Yes, of course there are.