Installing it on someone's pc without their knowledge or permission is malicious. So is blocking access to antivirus sites. So is using said pc to attack other machines.
> Despite knowing the position of the wreck, and that his ship is on a course which will > pass directly over it, the captain takes no action.
He doesn't know the exact location. He knows only that it is somewhere in a fairly wide channel that he must pass through to get to port. He (and hundreds of other ships) have made this same passage thousands of times before without hitting the wreck (which moves around unpredictably with weather and currents). The thing shows up on the charts the government publishes but the location shown is only the most probable: you can't trust it to be correct.
> Where does the blame for this accident lie? If you think it's with the captain of the > tanker, why is your conclusion any different than it was in the case of the Iridium and > Cosmos satellites that we are discussing?
Where did I state any conclusion at all?
In fact I think both Iridium and the Russian government bear some responsibility.
> For you number crunchers how much energy is there in one gram of material traveling 6 > miles per second.
6 miles/sec means about 50,000,000 joules/kg.
> I would guess the collision would release some of the debris at that speed as well.
The total momentum of the fragments will equal the total momentum of the two satellites before the collision. Most (but not all) of the fragments will leave the point of collision with velocities between those of two satellites.
> I would expect it would be equivalent to a small explosion?
I would expect it would be equivalent to a large explosion.
> I looked it up and a typical rifle bullet travels about 1.5 miles per second. I suspect > they couldn't track something that small.
They admit to tracking objects down to three or four inches.
> Typically, when it comes to right of way, the less maneuverable vehicle has the right of > way...
The Cosmos was not maneuverable vehicle at all. It was an abandoned hulk. What is your liability when you leave wreckage drifting in the shipping lanes?
You wouldn't need to vaporize the bits of junk: just boil a bit off one side so that the reaction force changes the orbit into one that intersects the atmosphere. ou would also use a ground-based laser. This might actually be feasible and has been proposed as a solution.
> As a result, PCs at schools -- elementary through high school in my school district -- > are so restricted and filtered as to be useless. They essentially have no internet > access, except maybe to National Geography, Discovery Kids and the like.
And your "filtering" would make the entire Net like that.
The Iridium constellation consists of 66 satellites plus spares, one of which will be moved into position to replace this one. They've lost satellites before.
> Depending on what the airlines consider the value of a human life to be would determine > whether this is feasible for them.
How much is it worth to you? Would you ten times as much to fly on a plane with spare engines that could be rotated into place in case of a bird strike? Ten percent more for one with engines able to withstand twice the bird impact of the current ones (and therefor more expensive and less efficient)? Before you answer look up the actual incidence of fatalities traceable to bird strikes. I
It is extremely rare for bird strikes to cause loss of life. However, it is quite common for them to damage aircraft. Thus the statement is completely reasonable.
The GPL is not an End User License Agreement. It is a conditional grant of redistribution rights. End users --people who merely intend to use the software, not distribute it-- need not agree to the terms of the GPL at all as copyright law itself gives them all the rights they need.
Then you'll get bird plus titanium wire in the engine instead of just bird.
There just isn't a material strong enough. Any structure that would reliably keep the birds out would be unaccepetably heavy and would restrict air flow.
There were multiple classes before deregulation, but it is true that they were all much more expensive and the "lower' classes got better service.
The present situation came about gradually. At any given time there have always been airlines that offered slightly more legroom and/or slightly wider seats and/or better service, etc than others. If most passengers had not been willing to give up those things in return for lower prices they would still be offered.
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The laws of the jurisdictions where the infected pcs are located apply no matter where the thing was launched from.
> Has Conficker done anything malicious yet?
Installing it on someone's pc without their knowledge or permission is malicious. So is blocking access to antivirus sites. So is using said pc to attack other machines.
> Despite knowing the position of the wreck, and that his ship is on a course which will
> pass directly over it, the captain takes no action.
He doesn't know the exact location. He knows only that it is somewhere in a fairly wide channel that he must pass through to get to port. He (and hundreds of other ships) have made this same passage thousands of times before without hitting the wreck (which moves around unpredictably with weather and currents). The thing shows up on the charts the government publishes but the location shown is only the most probable: you can't trust it to be correct.
> Where does the blame for this accident lie? If you think it's with the captain of the
> tanker, why is your conclusion any different than it was in the case of the Iridium and
> Cosmos satellites that we are discussing?
Where did I state any conclusion at all?
In fact I think both Iridium and the Russian government bear some responsibility.
> For you number crunchers how much energy is there in one gram of material traveling 6
> miles per second.
6 miles/sec means about 50,000,000 joules/kg.
> I would guess the collision would release some of the debris at that speed as well.
The total momentum of the fragments will equal the total momentum of the two satellites before the collision. Most (but not all) of the fragments will leave the point of collision with velocities between those of two satellites.
> I would expect it would be equivalent to a small explosion?
I would expect it would be equivalent to a large explosion.
> I looked it up and a typical rifle bullet travels about 1.5 miles per second. I suspect
> they couldn't track something that small.
They admit to tracking objects down to three or four inches.
> Typically, when it comes to right of way, the less maneuverable vehicle has the right of
> way...
The Cosmos was not maneuverable vehicle at all. It was an abandoned hulk. What is your liability when you leave wreckage drifting in the shipping lanes?
> ...all of those trillions spent for SDI program was for nothing.
You've somehow picked up a few extra zeros.
> If SDI did exist, it would have detected a Russian satellite coming too near a USA
> satellite and shot it down.
Clinton killed the SDI program (not that it would have been used as you suggest). However, the US does have anti-satellite weapons.
You wouldn't need to vaporize the bits of junk: just boil a bit off one side so that the reaction force changes the orbit into one that intersects the atmosphere. ou would also use a ground-based laser. This might actually be feasible and has been proposed as a solution.
> Surely the Russians knew that the cosmos satellite was on it's way out.
That particular satellite had failed years ago. They would have brought it down if they could have but something went wrong.
> As a result, PCs at schools -- elementary through high school in my school district --
> are so restricted and filtered as to be useless. They essentially have no internet
> access, except maybe to National Geography, Discovery Kids and the like.
And your "filtering" would make the entire Net like that.
> ...do they assassinate rupert murdoch...
We can only hope.
The Iridium constellation consists of 66 satellites plus spares, one of which will be moved into position to replace this one. They've lost satellites before.
The Iridium satellites most certainly are operating satellites, and they no longer belong to the original company.
> Isn't this just speculation?
Probably not. The microscopic structure of the hair of a given species is unique.
No problem. Just be prepared to pay five times as much for your tickets.
> Depending on what the airlines consider the value of a human life to be would determine
> whether this is feasible for them.
How much is it worth to you? Would you ten times as much to fly on a plane with spare engines that could be rotated into place in case of a bird strike? Ten percent more for one with engines able to withstand twice the bird impact of the current ones (and therefor more expensive and less efficient)? Before you answer look up the actual incidence of fatalities traceable to bird strikes. I
It is extremely rare for bird strikes to cause loss of life. However, it is quite common for them to damage aircraft. Thus the statement is completely reasonable.
And the people on the ground would get to enjoy the falling shrapnel, including the occasional unexploded round.
The GPL does not apply to and need not be accepted by end users.
The GPL is not an End User License Agreement. It is a conditional grant of redistribution rights. End users --people who merely intend to use the software, not distribute it-- need not agree to the terms of the GPL at all as copyright law itself gives them all the rights they need.
Then you'll get bird plus titanium wire in the engine instead of just bird.
There just isn't a material strong enough. Any structure that would reliably keep the birds out would be unaccepetably heavy and would restrict air flow.
There were multiple classes before deregulation, but it is true that they were all much more expensive and the "lower' classes got better service.
The present situation came about gradually. At any given time there have always been airlines that offered slightly more legroom and/or slightly wider seats and/or better service, etc than others. If most passengers had not been willing to give up those things in return for lower prices they would still be offered.
As long as they clean up after themselves, who cares?
Except that the H-4 still exists.
> And then hate how they treat you like a farm animal on flights.
Nothing is stopping you from flying first class.
Hughes H-4 Hercules