Now congress needs to get off its ass and fund more nuclear weapons research, specifically, the neutron bomb, theater nukes, and the earth penetrating.
I've reached a point where I don't think NASA should be in manned space flight or commercial launches.
I think that it should either be shut down or just focus on unmanned scientific missions and some basic materials and propulsion research.
Let the commercial sector do what it does best, take risks in money making ventures. Though we do need to keep the tort lawyers out.
Fold manned space flight and other such ventures back into the DOD where they make sense to pursue in national defense. They will take the risks that NASA can't stomach.
One experiment, ICECAM, relied entirely on a 5 kg pack of lithium thionyl chloride batteries. The batteries had to provide power for a year, so minimized the power consumption of the computer. The experiment only needed to take data every two hours, so we built a CMOS oscillator to power-up the computer for 30 seconds every two hours. We used MS-DOS 6.22 for the PC/104 computer since it boots quickly and was able to average 10 frames from the CCD camera and store them to CompactFlash disk.
Richard Feynman was a Stell Bold Hacker
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Pick up a copy of "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
It's a good quick ready and talks about his lock picking and safe cracking while working on the Manhattan projcet at Los Alamos.
Has the revolution finally occurred at Slashdot or is this an attempt to be a cheap click whore?
I like a heated political debate with the un-informed-and-ignorant-left as well as the next bright-well-informed person...;)
But Slashdot is not really the place for this.
Slashdot is turning me off more and more these days. I find myself drifting towards fewer and fewer articles and it seems the quality and usefulness or postings is dropping.
Don't encourage this departure from Slashdot's original focus. There are plenty of forums for the uninformed to blather at each other... please don't make this one.
This article should be pulled and someone should start rethinking the editorial policies.
For those of you that think this is a slippery slope censorship issue, think again.
What you are trying to do is link the relationship between free speech and censorship to BT's actions.
What do you think free speech is? Your right to say whatever you want whenever you want wherever you want and make someone else pay to distribute it for you? If so, you have no idea what free speech is.
Free speech is your right to have an hold unpopular ideas and convey them (at your own trouble and expense) to others if you wish.
You cannot use this right to abrogate the rights of others. So you can't libel or extol the use of violence against your fellow citizens. You also can't steal from others by forcing them to pay for the distribution of your ideas.
BT has every right in the world to engage in these actions.
This article is not about the government suppressing ideas that it does not like. That's the only censorship that is truly dangerous.
This is a private company. They can block what ever they and their shareholders wish. They are in the marketplace of ideas and goods.
If it really bothers you, then compete with them.
But don't try to tar and feather them with the misuse of poorly held ideas.
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Life and conflict are not static. There will always be evil men that will steal and kill. Life will always be a struggle because value is created through effort and a proper philosophy of life is not innate. It must be developed and nurtured.
And if you don't think Philosophy matters, just look at the difference between societies dominated by the gift of the Greeks, Reason. And those societies that have forsaken reason for knowledge via faith/religion.
It will always be necessary to fight to protect the good from evil. You may want to roll over and take what comes and hope that you survive it... but that just makes you mentally weak and a coward. There are those of us that will fight/kill/die to protect reason and the fruits of our labors. And there will always be the parasites that will benefit from our efforts and work to undermine it because they are stupid, cowards, or worse.
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Five is right out!
Sadly there is no visual component to this. It's simply the framework. I'm still using Argo. http://argouml.tigris.org/
And DRM causes Shrinkage.
I think this is a good idea.
Now congress needs to get off its ass and fund more nuclear weapons research, specifically, the neutron bomb, theater nukes, and the earth penetrating.
I've reached a point where I don't think NASA should be in manned space flight or commercial launches.
I think that it should either be shut down or just focus on unmanned scientific missions and some basic materials and propulsion research.
Let the commercial sector do what it does best, take risks in money making ventures. Though we do need to keep the tort lawyers out.
Fold manned space flight and other such ventures back into the DOD where they make sense to pursue in national defense. They will take the risks that NASA can't stomach.
One experiment, ICECAM, relied entirely on a 5 kg pack of lithium thionyl chloride batteries. The batteries had to provide power for a year, so minimized the power consumption of the computer. The experiment only needed to take data every two hours, so we built a CMOS oscillator to power-up the computer for 30 seconds every two hours. We used MS-DOS 6.22 for the PC/104 computer since it boots quickly and was able to average 10 frames from the CCD camera and store them to CompactFlash disk.
Pick up a copy of "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
It's a good quick ready and talks about his lock picking and safe cracking while working on the Manhattan projcet at Los Alamos.
Or read about it here
I've had loaded guns in my house for the last 40 years. No heads blown off yet. I also operate knives. Still have all my digits.
She pretty much takes care of herself.
We are not arrogant. We are simply better and are proud of that fact.
I'm sorry you are unable to have pride in your countries accomplishments.
Move to the United States of America. Become an American. Have some pride.
We're only ultranationalist because our country is better.
I read it as:
Yes, and I am saying it is funny to think that, since I am the Republican party in Washington state.
I must have slept through that class. Where's the proof?
Hummm.... I was one tick from the right and two ticks down.
That's what I get for trying to unwind their crappy questions.
That or I want a benevolent dictator or something.
Why do you hate profit?
Has the revolution finally occurred at Slashdot or is this an attempt to be a cheap click whore?
;)
I like a heated political debate with the un-informed-and-ignorant-left as well as the next bright-well-informed person...
But Slashdot is not really the place for this.
Slashdot is turning me off more and more these days. I find myself drifting towards fewer and fewer articles and it seems the quality and usefulness or postings is dropping.
Don't encourage this departure from Slashdot's original focus. There are plenty of forums for the uninformed to blather at each other... please don't make this one.
This article should be pulled and someone should start rethinking the editorial policies.
You know what we call almost late?
On time.
First I took an old DeLorean model car...
Then...
For those of you that think this is a slippery slope censorship issue, think again.
What you are trying to do is link the relationship between free speech and censorship to BT's actions.
What do you think free speech is? Your right to say whatever you want whenever you want wherever you want and make someone else pay to distribute it for you? If so, you have no idea what free speech is.
Free speech is your right to have an hold unpopular ideas and convey them (at your own trouble and expense) to others if you wish.
You cannot use this right to abrogate the rights of others. So you can't libel or extol the use of violence against your fellow citizens. You also can't steal from others by forcing them to pay for the distribution of your ideas.
BT has every right in the world to engage in these actions.
This article is not about the government suppressing ideas that it does not like. That's the only censorship that is truly dangerous.
This is a private company. They can block what ever they and their shareholders wish. They are in the marketplace of ideas and goods.
If it really bothers you, then compete with them.
But don't try to tar and feather them with the misuse of poorly held ideas.
I fail to see the humor in this thread.
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Clearly you're not from New York.
These guys are gay and are getting plenty being in Greenwich Village.
In fact, Pac Man is just a metaphor... well I'll let you work it out.
5 character digit buffer?
Tell you dad to stop illegally downloading complete albums of 70's classics, and he won't have to be so damn paranoid about cookies.
Life and conflict are not static. There will always be evil men that will steal and kill. Life will always be a struggle because value is created through effort and a proper philosophy of life is not innate. It must be developed and nurtured.
And if you don't think Philosophy matters, just look at the difference between societies dominated by the gift of the Greeks, Reason. And those societies that have forsaken reason for knowledge via faith/religion.
It will always be necessary to fight to protect the good from evil. You may want to roll over and take what comes and hope that you survive it... but that just makes you mentally weak and a coward. There are those of us that will fight/kill/die to protect reason and the fruits of our labors. And there will always be the parasites that will benefit from our efforts and work to undermine it because they are stupid, cowards, or worse.
Trolls on Ice?