...is to put them in bridge mode and use your own router (no matter who your provider is). Same with DSL modems. Even when they aren't misconfigured (deliberately or due to sheer incompetence) the firmware is usually buggy and limited.
Those frequencies are largely unaffected by foliage and the walls of buildings, unlike the microwave frequencies used by WiFi. They also propagate over the horizon somewhat.
> I know you're going for "informative" or whatever, but seriously - even > Amazon acknowledged that they fucked up big time by remote-nuking 1984, > and reversed it.
But the fact remains that they thought that the ability to do so was desireable and deliberately designed it in.
First, government is responsible: the CDC is in charge of this operation.
Second, A deliberate decision was made to ship the stuff as fast as it was made rather than stockpiling it and coordinating distribution in order to get it out as fast as possible. It was expected that this would result in "shortages and lines". Better that than everybody waiting another month.
Third, given the leadtime they had (controlled by the virus, not the humans) they have done a remarkable job getting a significant amount of vaccine out this early at all.
I say this despite being a definite non-fan of government. I'm sure a truly free society (there are none) could do as well or better, but we have to work with what we have.
> Maybe a nuclear fisson power supply? But that would add a huge amount of mass > and volume to the spacecraft.
Fission reactors can have extremely high power to mass ratios: so high that, except for the political problems, a thermal rocket using hydrogen for reaction mass and a fission reactor for power would be one of the most cost-effective routes to LEO. The designs are quite straightforward and were done (and partially tested) in the seventies. The Soviets actually launched some spy satellites that contained small fission reactors for power: they worked fine and provided more power per kg than solar cells would have. The US designed several reactors intended for satellites and interplanetary spacecraft (that's reactors, not passive thermal generators) but never deployed any due to political pressure.
The ISS is seriously deficient in not having a reactor.
> The problem is getting the reactor into orbit in the first place. If you have > a Challenger-style problem with the launch, then you can end up distributing > fissile materials over a rather large area.
There are no dangerously radioactive materials in a reactor until it has run for a while. The reactor would not be started until it was safely in orbit. In any case, the reactor cores can be and are designed to survive rentry unbreached.
> And follow what the people you elect have done and then support and advocate > those that have the true intrests of the people at heart rather then just > voting for the guy giving you 300 dollars or makes you feel good for a bit > like Santa Claus but has no real plan.
Yeah, yeah, but I'm still going to carry a tennis racket. Just in case.
> Now if I could only learn how to get that damn make-kpkg to work right in > Debian so the modules get included in the.dep file... What is a.dep file > anyhow?
".dep"? Never heard of it. Nothing to do with Debian, certainly.
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...is to put them in bridge mode and use your own router (no matter who your provider is). Same with DSL modems. Even when they aren't misconfigured (deliberately or due to sheer incompetence) the firmware is usually buggy and limited.
Those frequencies are largely unaffected by foliage and the walls of buildings, unlike the microwave frequencies used by WiFi. They also propagate over the horizon somewhat.
The school system is using them for "distance learning". They aren't really relevant to the story.
...the Holy Grail of the "content" industry.
...where one could "pick up a leech near a safe". Australians keep their money in swamps?
> I know you're going for "informative" or whatever, but seriously - even
> Amazon acknowledged that they fucked up big time by remote-nuking 1984,
> and reversed it.
But the fact remains that they thought that the ability to do so was desireable and deliberately designed it in.
> ...Windows 7 on IBM hardware...
What hardware would that be?
> ...there's no low to mid range POS software that runs on *nix.
True. "Piece Of Shit" software is a Microsoft specialty.
"Anymore"?
Uhm, there is some history there...
First, government is responsible: the CDC is in charge of this operation.
Second, A deliberate decision was made to ship the stuff as fast as it was made rather than stockpiling it and coordinating distribution in order to get it out as fast as possible. It was expected that this would result in "shortages and lines". Better that than everybody waiting another month.
Third, given the leadtime they had (controlled by the virus, not the humans) they have done a remarkable job getting a significant amount of vaccine out this early at all.
I say this despite being a definite non-fan of government. I'm sure a truly free society (there are none) could do as well or better, but we have to work with what we have.
> They have voice-mails on-line now...
Only ones whose owners put them there.
No. It's the screens that have it wrong.
The dish is, I assume, named "Donovan"? Or was that the name of the cell donor?
This is many orders of magnitude away from near-light-speed capability.
> Maybe a nuclear fisson power supply? But that would add a huge amount of mass > and volume to the spacecraft.
Fission reactors can have extremely high power to mass ratios: so high that, except for the political problems, a thermal rocket using hydrogen for reaction mass and a fission reactor for power would be one of the most cost-effective routes to LEO. The designs are quite straightforward and were done (and partially tested) in the seventies. The Soviets actually launched some spy satellites that contained small fission reactors for power: they worked fine and provided more power per kg than solar cells would have. The US designed several reactors intended for satellites and interplanetary spacecraft (that's reactors, not passive thermal generators) but never deployed any due to political pressure.
The ISS is seriously deficient in not having a reactor.
> The problem is getting the reactor into orbit in the first place. If you have
> a Challenger-style problem with the launch, then you can end up distributing > fissile materials over a rather large area.
There are no dangerously radioactive materials in a reactor until it has run for a while. The reactor would not be started until it was safely in orbit. In any case, the reactor cores can be and are designed to survive rentry unbreached.
> Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but ain't VASIMIR developed private company,
> not by NASA?
Who is paying for it? Who is going to buy it?
All rockets are "impulse engines".
> Million times easier and more stable. And less fragile or dangerous.
And large. And slow.
I notice that the person who handled it wore gloves...
A robot D11 that can squeeze through small openings? Not autonomous, I hope. Or at least obedient to the Three Laws.
> I still think that the iphone looks ubsurd...
No. It's from Apple. No need to look at it to know that it looks cool. It's cool by definition.
It may not work but I wouldn't classify it as crackpot.
> And follow what the people you elect have done and then support and advocate
> those that have the true intrests of the people at heart rather then just
> voting for the guy giving you 300 dollars or makes you feel good for a bit
> like Santa Claus but has no real plan.
Yeah, yeah, but I'm still going to carry a tennis racket. Just in case.
> Now if I could only learn how to get that damn make-kpkg to work right in .dep file... What is a .dep file
> Debian so the modules get included in the
> anyhow?
".dep"? Never heard of it. Nothing to do with Debian, certainly.