Bruce is the original author of BusyBox, all code is a derivative of his original work even if every line of code he wrote is gone (which AFAIK it isn't). The only way andersen could own the entire copyright is if he clean room reverse engineered all the code Bruce wrote, otherwise it's all a derivative and ultimately is controlled by Bruce's original copyright grant. SFLC appears to be making all the settlements closed and refusing to provide Bruce and Dave the terms. There are monetary awards involved that may be in excess of the actual costs. In addition it appears Bruce's consulting business was harmed by this action which was taken independently of him and Dave. Andersen has claimed in court documents that he owns the entire code base which as I said without "clean" reverse engineering is patently false. Bruce and Dave have a legitimate claim here, SFLC should be talking to them directly and trying to solve this otherwise it appears that they aren't respecting the copyright, something they claim to trying to enforce.
Bruce was right to make this public IMO, if only to reduce the damage to his own business as a result of a suit taken on code he originated, which spooks clients BTW. I will personally lose a LOT of respect for SFLC if they don't negotiate a solution to Bruce and Dave's concerns (although it appears Dave will be happy if Bruce is happy so maybe they only need to talk to Bruce). It's entirely disingenuous of them to negotiate settlements without Bruce being a party or at least aware of the terms as he originated the entire program and holds the original copyright grant from which the entire program derives.
C4 or Plastic Explosive is a clay like material that can be formed into ANY shape. Most 17" laptops these days have two drive bays and lots of extra space around the components that could be filled with Plastic Explosive. The computer would still be functional although it would probably overheat after a little while. A few ounces of C4 would be all it took to kill a significant number of people using the laptop itself as a fragmentary weapon. A grenade weighs less than a laptop and is simply explosive and frangible iron. As I said, properly placed C4 in a laptop would fragment the laptop into thousands of projectiles. Pick the right laptop, particularly one made of aluminum or magnesium and you have an even better weapon as the entire case would be sheared into separate projectiles.
A bomb isn't just explosive. A bomb made of just explosive won't kill anyone that's not touching it. Real Bombs are made by taking explosive and surrounding it with material that will fragment and become projectiles. Suicide bombers have vests with a little bit of explosive and 50lbs of ball bearings in them which become the projectiles that kill people. It's highly likely that on X-Ray the IDF believed that the laptop could contain explosive in it's nooks and crannies or the extra hard drive bay or anywhere else and as a result wanted to be safe so threw the thing in a bomb safe area (very easy to make, two to three layers of sandbags with a port to stick a gun through) and shot it to set off any explosives. The IDF or border guards aren't going to waste their time shooting items they aren't suspicious of, but with the problem they have had in the past with bombings, ANYTHING they suspect is going to get destroyed immediately. They would probably get in very serious trouble themselves is they didn't shoot every item that looked even remotely like a bomb. They see enough X-ray'd laptops every day that I have no doubt that there was something suspicious about the x-ray that gave them cause. Maybe she was trying to smuggle something harmless through the border by hiding it in the laptop, or maybe it was just an unusual laptop, we will never know.
No one is gong to try to open a suspected bomb, SOP is to shoot any suspected bomb in a safe area. If it goes off you have an attempted bomber, if it doesn't you give the now destroyed item back to the person and tell them it looked like a bomb.
You are assuming the contract is the only one the company has. Any reasonable company should have enough customers that that 700k per year is split over several hundred accounts. You might say they aren't offering enough $, he might say the business isn't taking the risk and spending the money up front with fixed pricing to establish a client base. It's quite possible that there aren't enough customers to support such a venture, it's also possible no one has bothered to spend the initial capital to build the business. It's rare that any customer is going to be willing to pay 100% of the costs of a venture so that the business owner has no risk or investment in the business, it's also quite unreasonable to expect such. It is reasonable that there might not be enough customers demanding such services to make a sustainable business but obtaining a small business loan to setup a support service with the 24/7/365 15min SLA if there are customers demanding that level of support isn't going to be difficult.
The OP was quite clear he looked for a business that would offer such an SLA and didn't mention price even being a factor. Maybe it was, maybe there aren't businesses even offering such services. I can say one thing, it's not reasonable to expect one customer to pay for an entire businesses fixed costs unless you know nothing about business.
It would be far far worse. Cooling the mass of magma would release massive quantities of gas. That gas release would be so massive it would trigger an eruption. Only a fool would try to drill directly into a magma pocket.
If Monty wants it back I'm sure the 1Billion he got paid can be used to pay to redevelop the code.
Oracle has no incentive to kill the MySQL ecosystem, it's going to be their low end competitor against MS and SAP products. It has more value to them as a working system than a dead one. If that had been their intention to kill MySQL they could have done immense damage when they acquired INNODB, at least temporarily. Yet they continued to develop and improve INNODB just like they will with MySQL.
Oracle's bread and butter is support contracts, not license revenue. MySQL buys them another market to sell support into. Just speculating but they also will have the ability to make it possible for MySQL to use Oracle for it's engine, bringing some heavy advantages to high availability LAMP stacks where customers are already using Oracle on the backend and replicating into mysql for the LAMP application. Monty's big fear is he's built a company (MariaDB AB) doing the same thing with the MySQL code as he had with MySQL AB and he's worried that Oracle will shut him out or kill the ability of commercial forks and force everything GPL. As they have used the GPL as a marketing threat (they told all their customers using the GPL branch would force them to GPL their databases) and now he's scared he will have to operate in the GPL ecosystem knowing he has nothing to offer by reselling the same code anyone else can.
Monty is a liar, Groklaw caught him in the lie and he shouldn't be trusted. Let him use all that money he got paid to redevelop a closed source DB if he wants to have a proprietary product. He's abusing the EU approval process for personal gain.
Unless of course your employer told you that you could use it for personal use if you covered those charges. Then when that employer turns around and changes their mind without telling the employees and then takes action against said employee's for doing exactly what they were told they could do.
It's called lieing, not changing your mind. The supervisor lied to the employees, either that or he got angry at the employee in question and decided to change the policy for this one employee so he could find a reason to retaliate against him. Either way without formal notice that the policy had changed the employee is abrogated of any responsibility for personal use IMO and content is irrelevant unless it was creating a hostile work environment and he had the complaint to prove it. In that case he owed the employee a warning about the change in policy before taking action. The supervisor should be fired IMO.
The original founders of MySQL are using the merger talks in the EU along with SAP and Microsoft to harm competition. The founders goal is to have the code licensed under the BSD so they can take the code they develop private. Monty and Florian have NEVER been friends of the GPL. Don't believe a word they say.
If he's smart, his lawyer has subpoenaed the surveillance camera footage before it's miraculously "lost". If they claim there isn't footage I'd have someone out there photographing the camera that was pointed where he was at when the incident took place cause I guarantee there was a camera recording the incident, they have camera's all over those places and half of them are hidden/non obvious.
The other thing I would do is take out ad's on both sides of the border in the paper asking for witnesses to come forward. If his account is correct he shouldn't have a problem beating the charges provided they can locate a witness or video, and with them he's got a slam dunk civil rights suit against DOHS. I'd also take out a civil suit against the border guards directly that the government will be forced to defend, and if not you get the pleasure of going after their personal assets as well.
Funny comment, but I seriously doubt a 2k slug going.9c could even breach the crust and hit the mantle. The crust is ~50 miles thick. People can't grasp just how big the earth is. Sure at.9c it would likely kill everything within a few thousand miles except for the bacteria and send the earth into a very long ice age, but it's not going to penetrate the core or go through the planet. If something were physically large enough and moving fast enough to penetrate the planet it's not going to punch a hole through the earth, that kind of force would fragment the earth into many smaller bodies (blast it into a million pieces in slang term) moving at enough velocity that the planet might not reform (depending on the size of the object and whether the earth's gravity well could trap it). For example, the object that impacted the earth that created the moon was very large (referenced as a small planetoid, certainly larger than the 2k slugs referenced, and moving at significant speed according to the simulations) and on impact simply combined with the earth and ejected the material that became the moon from the impact.
The earth is big people, if you think the sky is big keep in mind the atmosphere on the earth if compared to the same ratio as an egg is thinner than the shell of the egg. In fact the analogy is that on the same ratio if the earth was the size of an egg the atmosphere would be the thickness of a very thin layer of paint. Nothing short of a substantial comet (large mass, as in several million kg) moving at near C is going to smash through the earth and I'm not even sure it could.
Not quite. JAMA is highly respected journal, but if it carried an article an article on the gusset plate failure that caused the bridge collapse in Illinois I would give it as much weight and authority as an internet posting. It's not quite so simple to say if it's respected that it can do no wrong and all articles are good, you could say it's respected in the field of medicine and therefore it's medical articles have authority. The same applies to Nature, Nature has published articles outside their normal area in the past and will do so in the future, those articles don't have the same weight as the lead trade publication in the field.
It's a big mistake to apply respect from one field to respect in another. The WTC conspiracists like to point to articles by supposed fire investigators on the impossibility that the collapse of the towers was from the plane crashes while ignoring the civil engineering trade publication article by real experts that documented, modeled and explained the collapse so that new buildings can be designed (and older buildings retrofitted) to avoid similar failure mechanisms where possible. Even if a publication or person is respected in one field, it's a terrible mistake to say that respect carries to other fields. A Fire investigator might be a great source for the cause of natural or even criminal fires, but that expertise doesn't carry to the investigation of high rise building collapse due to planes crashing into them, in fact it doesn't even carry to plane crashes, fires from plane crashes, or the forensic study of structural collapse.
No. PETA doesn't care about slaughtering animals, they kill thousands of dogs and cats every single year. What they care about in PETA's whacked out world is that humans don't interfere with animals. I don't think most people realize that PETA wants to ban pet ownership (they refer to it as animal slavery). PETA's founder and leader is a complete whacko that doesn't mind killing domesticated animals as long as no human eats them or owns them.
The amusing thing is this would be misdemeanor fraud had they not sold to the military. Now it's a federal felony and a Jury is going to throw the book a them for defrauding the one government agency that the vast amount of American's support and believe is responsible for their safety. Juries will see this as almost as bad as selling inferior fire hose to the fire department and they will absolutely throw the book at the people and I expect they will be soon enjoying long prison sentences at the one prison where you won't get paroled because they have plenty of capacity.
I thought it was understood that when the netbook debuted Microsoft knocked the price down to almost nothing to eliminate Linux in the space. This article is nothing more than official confirmation that Microsoft did knock the price down to $6 a copy for ASUS to keep linux off the netbooks.
There is a difference between cracking encryption and the password used to secure the encryption. The article says they are using the systems to crack passwords, not encryption. The submitter has a reading problem.
Ok, didn't technically invent, but name an industry that was even interested in the IC until NASA came calling with buckets of money and need for a computer that could calculate burn rates and trajectories on the fly while millions of miles from earth when the best calculators in service were called slide rules. Yes the IC was invented before Apollo, but be honest, no one even cared until Apollo demonstrated the capability of IC's and NASA has spent billions creating the IC industry from scratch.
People make such a big deal out of China owning the US debt. They do so to act as a currency reserve because historically (meaning over of the last 50 years) the US has had significantly lower inflation and instability than most other nations. But the primary reason the Chinese have purchased US debt is identical to the reason the Japenesse continue to invest billions of Yen in the Debt, and that's to keep the US dollar artificially elevated.
These governments are intervening and unbalancing currencies to artificially keep the dollar high and cause imports to be cheaper in the US to wipe out US industrial production. Eventually the market will correct, but because of the intervention the correction is going to be much sharper than had it been allowed to happen naturally. Once the dollar drops to reflect the actual real value of the dollar US exports will rise and the system will re-balance but the pain level for the US consumer is going to be very very high. But we can't compete when we allow foreign governments to manipulate the value of currency to keep it high. Currency manipulation is a serious issue with China, it should be the top priority of any negotiations with China.
Just a slight clarification, in todays dollars the Apollo program cost $300 Billion. It also caused the microchip to be invented along with hundreds of other game changing inventions.
It won't happen because Congress passed legislation 30 years ago protecting these organizations from Anti-Trust actions. Until that protection is revoked the behavior will continue.
Don't forget, they want to kill Used Movies sales as well. One purchase, no resale. DRM has always been about killing resale, in games, movies and music the biggest threat the associations see is the resale of used product because they see it as depriving them of a sale. Piracy is a minor issue when compared to resale of used products, but they are beating on the drum of piracy because the politicians are listening and the studio's and producers know they can use it to kill resale.
The problem is that Globalization causes those "wage slaves" incomes to go up. You may not like the way workers in China are treated but without the jobs they would be WORSE off. The real result of Globalization is that the Chinese economy becomes self-sustaining. At that point another major world market fully opens up, wages in China will begin a much steeper climb to western levels and as prosperity increases the Chinese people will demand the same environmental and labor laws present in the developed world. As a side result the people will likely demand and receive democracy as prosperity breeds the desire for public control of government. I would argue that prosperity will be the end result of democracy in China and is in fact inevitable. Many of the Chinese communist party already know this and anticipate a future where that is true. Their goal is to keep the country from breaking up and inter china wars from happening, as they have in the past, until the country reaches the point that they reach western wage levels and prosperity.
The best example is presented with Brazil and SKorea. SKorea has all but completed the journey and Brazil is about 3/4 of the way there. SKorea was ruled by successive millitary regimes, as wage levels increased by exporting cheap labor products to western markets the people demanded and received environmental regulations (80's), labor laws (80's) and fiscal parity (90's) with the western nations and once those were mostly reached they demanded democracy (1988). Brazil already obtained democracy and has worked to establish their economy and fiscal parity. The fundamental block to free market growth was energy imports that exported most of Brazil's wealth generation. This was recognized 20 years ago and long term plans were concocted to create an internal energy production system. Brazil pioneered the wide scale use of Ethanol production from locally grown crops and it's use in factories and automobiles, combined with off shore oil discoveries Brazil is progressing along the path to full Industrialization. Wages have been increasing rapidly, growth has been consistent and inflation is low. All this is contributing to a rapidly expanding economy. Because Brazil's growth is occurring in a Social Democracy it's going slower than both Korea and China but I would wager in another 20 years Brazil can begin to dismantle their slums through education and higher wage jobs.
Globalization is bad for western nations in the short term because it harms our factory production, but the long term implications are countries that are so codependent there is no chance of war and the eventual elevation of the Chinese population to Western levels of comfort. Once China's wages reach equivalence with Mexico most US imports will shift from China to Mexico. The hope is that by the time that happens the Chinese economy will be self sufficient. All indications are that self sufficiency has already been reached and that growth can be sustained from internal growth alone. Even reaching Mexico's wage levels would restore much of the US factory production because US labor is much more efficient. The belief that short term industry losses will be permanent is IMO a fallacy. The factories will move where it's cheapest to produce with consideration of movement of goods. Keep in mind the continuing increase in energy costs in increasing the cost of exported goods and hurting Chinese exports. At some point in the future factories will move back because local production will be cheaper and the intertwined markets will ensure good relations long term. Globalization is good long term, yes there are short term pains but the Chinese cannot allow the US economy to collapse or flounder for long because it would harm their own economy long term. You need to keep in mind that the Japanese kept the dollar artificially high for almost 15 years single handily before the Chinese began assisting. The one good thing Bush did was allow the dollar to drop, sure it harmed our economy short term but the long term benefits saved a number of industries.
Apparently you don't know how a turbine or windmill works. See there is this thing called a turbine. It's basically a bunch of magnets and a big spool of copper where the spool of copper wire is wrapped around a drive shaft. As the drive shaft spins the copper wire turns within the magnetic field generated by the magnets generating electricity (alternatively you can construct the system with the magnets on the shaft and the wire spools around the shaft). This drive shaft, magnets and spool are all housed in an iron housing to contain the magnetic field. This enclosed system is called a TURBINE. This turbine can be connected to a hydroelectric facility, a coal power plant, a nuclear reactor or any form of power generation that can spin a shaft. In a wind mill the drive shaft of the turbine is then connected to a clutch and gear assembly that can automatically (or by command) adjust the low spin, high torque of the blades to a higher speed lower torque spin that the turbine uses to generate electricity. The Gearbox is then connected to a second drive shaft that is connected to the rotor and blades.
Now don't you feel like an idiot? No turbine ever connects directly to the blades of a commercial wind mill because high winds would tear the turbine apart. Modern wind mills have brakes and clutches they can use to survive high speed winds so that if a tornado goes through (common in west texas) it doesn't rip the windmill in half or burn the turbine and the electric lines up.
(go on, TRY to get a permit for a new nuclear plant...)
Over 30 new permits have been issued by the DOE in the last 3 years, this doesn't include the 60 or so permits that were issued in the 80's that were never built that have notified the DOE of intent to pursue construction. This means we could have over 100 new nuclear plants come online before the end of the next decade (2020) with the permits issued to date. The DOE has said they have had heavy interest from the nuclear industry because the current cost per KW in the US is profitable for nuclear without subsidy.
The wind never blows anywhere constantly, but the point of connecting the grid is that the wind is always blowing somewhere. Build enough wind turbines to supply 20% of the nations power, hook in solar for another 10-20%, hydro for 5-10% and fill in the rest with Nuclear (and maybe someday Geothermal for 10-20% or so) and we eliminate carbon output from power generation and with the lines to move the power about if the wind isn't blowing in west texas it might be blowing in california or the midwest or in the rockies. The beauty of wind power is the US is large enough that we don't ever have to worry about the wind not blowing everywhere as it would require a high pressure over the entire nation which has never happened and I don't believe it's possible because of the sheer size of the atmosphere that would have to be stagnant and free of moisture.
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Bruce is the original author of BusyBox, all code is a derivative of his original work even if every line of code he wrote is gone (which AFAIK it isn't). The only way andersen could own the entire copyright is if he clean room reverse engineered all the code Bruce wrote, otherwise it's all a derivative and ultimately is controlled by Bruce's original copyright grant. SFLC appears to be making all the settlements closed and refusing to provide Bruce and Dave the terms. There are monetary awards involved that may be in excess of the actual costs. In addition it appears Bruce's consulting business was harmed by this action which was taken independently of him and Dave. Andersen has claimed in court documents that he owns the entire code base which as I said without "clean" reverse engineering is patently false. Bruce and Dave have a legitimate claim here, SFLC should be talking to them directly and trying to solve this otherwise it appears that they aren't respecting the copyright, something they claim to trying to enforce.
Bruce was right to make this public IMO, if only to reduce the damage to his own business as a result of a suit taken on code he originated, which spooks clients BTW. I will personally lose a LOT of respect for SFLC if they don't negotiate a solution to Bruce and Dave's concerns (although it appears Dave will be happy if Bruce is happy so maybe they only need to talk to Bruce). It's entirely disingenuous of them to negotiate settlements without Bruce being a party or at least aware of the terms as he originated the entire program and holds the original copyright grant from which the entire program derives.
C4 or Plastic Explosive is a clay like material that can be formed into ANY shape. Most 17" laptops these days have two drive bays and lots of extra space around the components that could be filled with Plastic Explosive. The computer would still be functional although it would probably overheat after a little while. A few ounces of C4 would be all it took to kill a significant number of people using the laptop itself as a fragmentary weapon. A grenade weighs less than a laptop and is simply explosive and frangible iron. As I said, properly placed C4 in a laptop would fragment the laptop into thousands of projectiles. Pick the right laptop, particularly one made of aluminum or magnesium and you have an even better weapon as the entire case would be sheared into separate projectiles.
A bomb isn't just explosive. A bomb made of just explosive won't kill anyone that's not touching it. Real Bombs are made by taking explosive and surrounding it with material that will fragment and become projectiles. Suicide bombers have vests with a little bit of explosive and 50lbs of ball bearings in them which become the projectiles that kill people. It's highly likely that on X-Ray the IDF believed that the laptop could contain explosive in it's nooks and crannies or the extra hard drive bay or anywhere else and as a result wanted to be safe so threw the thing in a bomb safe area (very easy to make, two to three layers of sandbags with a port to stick a gun through) and shot it to set off any explosives. The IDF or border guards aren't going to waste their time shooting items they aren't suspicious of, but with the problem they have had in the past with bombings, ANYTHING they suspect is going to get destroyed immediately. They would probably get in very serious trouble themselves is they didn't shoot every item that looked even remotely like a bomb. They see enough X-ray'd laptops every day that I have no doubt that there was something suspicious about the x-ray that gave them cause. Maybe she was trying to smuggle something harmless through the border by hiding it in the laptop, or maybe it was just an unusual laptop, we will never know.
No one is gong to try to open a suspected bomb, SOP is to shoot any suspected bomb in a safe area. If it goes off you have an attempted bomber, if it doesn't you give the now destroyed item back to the person and tell them it looked like a bomb.
You are assuming the contract is the only one the company has. Any reasonable company should have enough customers that that 700k per year is split over several hundred accounts. You might say they aren't offering enough $, he might say the business isn't taking the risk and spending the money up front with fixed pricing to establish a client base. It's quite possible that there aren't enough customers to support such a venture, it's also possible no one has bothered to spend the initial capital to build the business. It's rare that any customer is going to be willing to pay 100% of the costs of a venture so that the business owner has no risk or investment in the business, it's also quite unreasonable to expect such. It is reasonable that there might not be enough customers demanding such services to make a sustainable business but obtaining a small business loan to setup a support service with the 24/7/365 15min SLA if there are customers demanding that level of support isn't going to be difficult.
The OP was quite clear he looked for a business that would offer such an SLA and didn't mention price even being a factor. Maybe it was, maybe there aren't businesses even offering such services. I can say one thing, it's not reasonable to expect one customer to pay for an entire businesses fixed costs unless you know nothing about business.
It would be far far worse. Cooling the mass of magma would release massive quantities of gas. That gas release would be so massive it would trigger an eruption. Only a fool would try to drill directly into a magma pocket.
If Monty wants it back I'm sure the 1Billion he got paid can be used to pay to redevelop the code.
Oracle has no incentive to kill the MySQL ecosystem, it's going to be their low end competitor against MS and SAP products. It has more value to them as a working system than a dead one. If that had been their intention to kill MySQL they could have done immense damage when they acquired INNODB, at least temporarily. Yet they continued to develop and improve INNODB just like they will with MySQL.
Oracle's bread and butter is support contracts, not license revenue. MySQL buys them another market to sell support into. Just speculating but they also will have the ability to make it possible for MySQL to use Oracle for it's engine, bringing some heavy advantages to high availability LAMP stacks where customers are already using Oracle on the backend and replicating into mysql for the LAMP application. Monty's big fear is he's built a company (MariaDB AB) doing the same thing with the MySQL code as he had with MySQL AB and he's worried that Oracle will shut him out or kill the ability of commercial forks and force everything GPL. As they have used the GPL as a marketing threat (they told all their customers using the GPL branch would force them to GPL their databases) and now he's scared he will have to operate in the GPL ecosystem knowing he has nothing to offer by reselling the same code anyone else can.
Monty is a liar, Groklaw caught him in the lie and he shouldn't be trusted. Let him use all that money he got paid to redevelop a closed source DB if he wants to have a proprietary product. He's abusing the EU approval process for personal gain.
Unless of course your employer told you that you could use it for personal use if you covered those charges. Then when that employer turns around and changes their mind without telling the employees and then takes action against said employee's for doing exactly what they were told they could do.
It's called lieing, not changing your mind. The supervisor lied to the employees, either that or he got angry at the employee in question and decided to change the policy for this one employee so he could find a reason to retaliate against him. Either way without formal notice that the policy had changed the employee is abrogated of any responsibility for personal use IMO and content is irrelevant unless it was creating a hostile work environment and he had the complaint to prove it. In that case he owed the employee a warning about the change in policy before taking action. The supervisor should be fired IMO.
The original founders of MySQL are using the merger talks in the EU along with SAP and Microsoft to harm competition. The founders goal is to have the code licensed under the BSD so they can take the code they develop private. Monty and Florian have NEVER been friends of the GPL. Don't believe a word they say.
If he's smart, his lawyer has subpoenaed the surveillance camera footage before it's miraculously "lost". If they claim there isn't footage I'd have someone out there photographing the camera that was pointed where he was at when the incident took place cause I guarantee there was a camera recording the incident, they have camera's all over those places and half of them are hidden/non obvious.
The other thing I would do is take out ad's on both sides of the border in the paper asking for witnesses to come forward. If his account is correct he shouldn't have a problem beating the charges provided they can locate a witness or video, and with them he's got a slam dunk civil rights suit against DOHS. I'd also take out a civil suit against the border guards directly that the government will be forced to defend, and if not you get the pleasure of going after their personal assets as well.
Funny comment, but I seriously doubt a 2k slug going .9c could even breach the crust and hit the mantle. The crust is ~50 miles thick. People can't grasp just how big the earth is. Sure at .9c it would likely kill everything within a few thousand miles except for the bacteria and send the earth into a very long ice age, but it's not going to penetrate the core or go through the planet. If something were physically large enough and moving fast enough to penetrate the planet it's not going to punch a hole through the earth, that kind of force would fragment the earth into many smaller bodies (blast it into a million pieces in slang term) moving at enough velocity that the planet might not reform (depending on the size of the object and whether the earth's gravity well could trap it). For example, the object that impacted the earth that created the moon was very large (referenced as a small planetoid, certainly larger than the 2k slugs referenced, and moving at significant speed according to the simulations) and on impact simply combined with the earth and ejected the material that became the moon from the impact.
The earth is big people, if you think the sky is big keep in mind the atmosphere on the earth if compared to the same ratio as an egg is thinner than the shell of the egg. In fact the analogy is that on the same ratio if the earth was the size of an egg the atmosphere would be the thickness of a very thin layer of paint. Nothing short of a substantial comet (large mass, as in several million kg) moving at near C is going to smash through the earth and I'm not even sure it could.
Not quite. JAMA is highly respected journal, but if it carried an article an article on the gusset plate failure that caused the bridge collapse in Illinois I would give it as much weight and authority as an internet posting. It's not quite so simple to say if it's respected that it can do no wrong and all articles are good, you could say it's respected in the field of medicine and therefore it's medical articles have authority. The same applies to Nature, Nature has published articles outside their normal area in the past and will do so in the future, those articles don't have the same weight as the lead trade publication in the field.
It's a big mistake to apply respect from one field to respect in another. The WTC conspiracists like to point to articles by supposed fire investigators on the impossibility that the collapse of the towers was from the plane crashes while ignoring the civil engineering trade publication article by real experts that documented, modeled and explained the collapse so that new buildings can be designed (and older buildings retrofitted) to avoid similar failure mechanisms where possible. Even if a publication or person is respected in one field, it's a terrible mistake to say that respect carries to other fields. A Fire investigator might be a great source for the cause of natural or even criminal fires, but that expertise doesn't carry to the investigation of high rise building collapse due to planes crashing into them, in fact it doesn't even carry to plane crashes, fires from plane crashes, or the forensic study of structural collapse.
No. PETA doesn't care about slaughtering animals, they kill thousands of dogs and cats every single year. What they care about in PETA's whacked out world is that humans don't interfere with animals. I don't think most people realize that PETA wants to ban pet ownership (they refer to it as animal slavery). PETA's founder and leader is a complete whacko that doesn't mind killing domesticated animals as long as no human eats them or owns them.
The amusing thing is this would be misdemeanor fraud had they not sold to the military. Now it's a federal felony and a Jury is going to throw the book a them for defrauding the one government agency that the vast amount of American's support and believe is responsible for their safety. Juries will see this as almost as bad as selling inferior fire hose to the fire department and they will absolutely throw the book at the people and I expect they will be soon enjoying long prison sentences at the one prison where you won't get paroled because they have plenty of capacity.
Because 40nm is smaller than 45nm.
I thought it was understood that when the netbook debuted Microsoft knocked the price down to almost nothing to eliminate Linux in the space. This article is nothing more than official confirmation that Microsoft did knock the price down to $6 a copy for ASUS to keep linux off the netbooks.
There is a difference between cracking encryption and the password used to secure the encryption. The article says they are using the systems to crack passwords, not encryption. The submitter has a reading problem.
Ok, didn't technically invent, but name an industry that was even interested in the IC until NASA came calling with buckets of money and need for a computer that could calculate burn rates and trajectories on the fly while millions of miles from earth when the best calculators in service were called slide rules. Yes the IC was invented before Apollo, but be honest, no one even cared until Apollo demonstrated the capability of IC's and NASA has spent billions creating the IC industry from scratch.
People make such a big deal out of China owning the US debt. They do so to act as a currency reserve because historically (meaning over of the last 50 years) the US has had significantly lower inflation and instability than most other nations. But the primary reason the Chinese have purchased US debt is identical to the reason the Japenesse continue to invest billions of Yen in the Debt, and that's to keep the US dollar artificially elevated.
These governments are intervening and unbalancing currencies to artificially keep the dollar high and cause imports to be cheaper in the US to wipe out US industrial production. Eventually the market will correct, but because of the intervention the correction is going to be much sharper than had it been allowed to happen naturally. Once the dollar drops to reflect the actual real value of the dollar US exports will rise and the system will re-balance but the pain level for the US consumer is going to be very very high. But we can't compete when we allow foreign governments to manipulate the value of currency to keep it high. Currency manipulation is a serious issue with China, it should be the top priority of any negotiations with China.
Just a slight clarification, in todays dollars the Apollo program cost $300 Billion. It also caused the microchip to be invented along with hundreds of other game changing inventions.
It won't happen because Congress passed legislation 30 years ago protecting these organizations from Anti-Trust actions. Until that protection is revoked the behavior will continue.
Don't forget, they want to kill Used Movies sales as well. One purchase, no resale. DRM has always been about killing resale, in games, movies and music the biggest threat the associations see is the resale of used product because they see it as depriving them of a sale. Piracy is a minor issue when compared to resale of used products, but they are beating on the drum of piracy because the politicians are listening and the studio's and producers know they can use it to kill resale.
The problem is that Globalization causes those "wage slaves" incomes to go up. You may not like the way workers in China are treated but without the jobs they would be WORSE off. The real result of Globalization is that the Chinese economy becomes self-sustaining. At that point another major world market fully opens up, wages in China will begin a much steeper climb to western levels and as prosperity increases the Chinese people will demand the same environmental and labor laws present in the developed world. As a side result the people will likely demand and receive democracy as prosperity breeds the desire for public control of government. I would argue that prosperity will be the end result of democracy in China and is in fact inevitable. Many of the Chinese communist party already know this and anticipate a future where that is true. Their goal is to keep the country from breaking up and inter china wars from happening, as they have in the past, until the country reaches the point that they reach western wage levels and prosperity.
The best example is presented with Brazil and SKorea. SKorea has all but completed the journey and Brazil is about 3/4 of the way there. SKorea was ruled by successive millitary regimes, as wage levels increased by exporting cheap labor products to western markets the people demanded and received environmental regulations (80's), labor laws (80's) and fiscal parity (90's) with the western nations and once those were mostly reached they demanded democracy (1988). Brazil already obtained democracy and has worked to establish their economy and fiscal parity. The fundamental block to free market growth was energy imports that exported most of Brazil's wealth generation. This was recognized 20 years ago and long term plans were concocted to create an internal energy production system. Brazil pioneered the wide scale use of Ethanol production from locally grown crops and it's use in factories and automobiles, combined with off shore oil discoveries Brazil is progressing along the path to full Industrialization. Wages have been increasing rapidly, growth has been consistent and inflation is low. All this is contributing to a rapidly expanding economy. Because Brazil's growth is occurring in a Social Democracy it's going slower than both Korea and China but I would wager in another 20 years Brazil can begin to dismantle their slums through education and higher wage jobs.
Globalization is bad for western nations in the short term because it harms our factory production, but the long term implications are countries that are so codependent there is no chance of war and the eventual elevation of the Chinese population to Western levels of comfort. Once China's wages reach equivalence with Mexico most US imports will shift from China to Mexico. The hope is that by the time that happens the Chinese economy will be self sufficient. All indications are that self sufficiency has already been reached and that growth can be sustained from internal growth alone. Even reaching Mexico's wage levels would restore much of the US factory production because US labor is much more efficient. The belief that short term industry losses will be permanent is IMO a fallacy. The factories will move where it's cheapest to produce with consideration of movement of goods. Keep in mind the continuing increase in energy costs in increasing the cost of exported goods and hurting Chinese exports. At some point in the future factories will move back because local production will be cheaper and the intertwined markets will ensure good relations long term. Globalization is good long term, yes there are short term pains but the Chinese cannot allow the US economy to collapse or flounder for long because it would harm their own economy long term. You need to keep in mind that the Japanese kept the dollar artificially high for almost 15 years single handily before the Chinese began assisting. The one good thing Bush did was allow the dollar to drop, sure it harmed our economy short term but the long term benefits saved a number of industries.
So setting the bar at 20% and hitting 15% is worse than setting the bar at 5% and hitting 7%? Is this the new math?
Apparently you don't know how a turbine or windmill works. See there is this thing called a turbine. It's basically a bunch of magnets and a big spool of copper where the spool of copper wire is wrapped around a drive shaft. As the drive shaft spins the copper wire turns within the magnetic field generated by the magnets generating electricity (alternatively you can construct the system with the magnets on the shaft and the wire spools around the shaft). This drive shaft, magnets and spool are all housed in an iron housing to contain the magnetic field. This enclosed system is called a TURBINE. This turbine can be connected to a hydroelectric facility, a coal power plant, a nuclear reactor or any form of power generation that can spin a shaft. In a wind mill the drive shaft of the turbine is then connected to a clutch and gear assembly that can automatically (or by command) adjust the low spin, high torque of the blades to a higher speed lower torque spin that the turbine uses to generate electricity. The Gearbox is then connected to a second drive shaft that is connected to the rotor and blades.
Now don't you feel like an idiot? No turbine ever connects directly to the blades of a commercial wind mill because high winds would tear the turbine apart. Modern wind mills have brakes and clutches they can use to survive high speed winds so that if a tornado goes through (common in west texas) it doesn't rip the windmill in half or burn the turbine and the electric lines up.
Over 30 new permits have been issued by the DOE in the last 3 years, this doesn't include the 60 or so permits that were issued in the 80's that were never built that have notified the DOE of intent to pursue construction. This means we could have over 100 new nuclear plants come online before the end of the next decade (2020) with the permits issued to date. The DOE has said they have had heavy interest from the nuclear industry because the current cost per KW in the US is profitable for nuclear without subsidy.
The wind never blows anywhere constantly, but the point of connecting the grid is that the wind is always blowing somewhere. Build enough wind turbines to supply 20% of the nations power, hook in solar for another 10-20%, hydro for 5-10% and fill in the rest with Nuclear (and maybe someday Geothermal for 10-20% or so) and we eliminate carbon output from power generation and with the lines to move the power about if the wind isn't blowing in west texas it might be blowing in california or the midwest or in the rockies. The beauty of wind power is the US is large enough that we don't ever have to worry about the wind not blowing everywhere as it would require a high pressure over the entire nation which has never happened and I don't believe it's possible because of the sheer size of the atmosphere that would have to be stagnant and free of moisture.