RTFA. Nobody is suggesting anarchy, as you seem to believe. There are already existing laws against the sorts of things you're talking about. The concern of this article is that the FCC oversteps what should be its bounds, and that it would be safer to regulate things using the courts instead of a big bureaucratic agency that seems to be tripping over itself trying to get more power.
If the BB gun could pierce the skin of the blimp, and if this used hydrogen, and if the hydrogen ignited, then you could have a flaming leak on your hands! In other words, emergency landing time. Worst case: burning all over the landing pad.
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The OO system in 6K isn't hardcore. It's cool, sure. Lots of things are cool. But it's just slightly mind-bending, since Scheme (the language used) really was designed for that sort of thing. It just takes messages in the form of symbols passed to a closure (a function with state) and looks up the corresponding member function, and does some various things for inheritance and such. I applaud the author of the OO system for making such a neat hack, but there's really nothing hardcore about using closures to make an object system. It doesn't even define any macros to make the OO system feel like a natural part of the language (deliberate, to keep the size down and make it more concise).
Or, as the author of the OO system said, "It is actually rather easy to implement an OO system in a functional language."
I volunteer my back yard. And I'd say the only economically viable way to get such a big satellite into orbit would be with---wait for it---a nuclear rocket. Probably not even then.
Most nuclear plants have containment structures that were designed to take a military jet crashing into them. A jet liner might be able to break through, but then it would have to contend with the steel and concrete around the reactor itself, and the fact that reactors are designed in such a way that if the rest of the plant goes to hell, they will quietly shut down. The same goes for bombs detonated inside the plant, but they would have less power to break through the containment structure (so everything will be contained), and the security is good enough to overwhelm your typical Martyr Squad.
Worst case scenario: a power plant is destroyed, and others take up the slack. Big whoop. You'd get more bang for the buck by throwing Molotov cocktails at random pedestrians on a New York City street.
Or, as many people are talking about, have cars with hydrogen fuel cells. You have to use energy to make the hydrogen, but with nuclear power, we could have the best of both worlds!
Why was this modded Funny? It's the truth. A fusion reaction is hard to keep going, and if just about anything goes wrong, the reaction will die. Somebody detonates a bomb next to the reactor? Fine, so the thing gets jolted. The worst that could happen is that the reaction is disrupted slightly---and it stops. There is not much excess reactivity in a fusion reactor. Just because something uses a process used in bombs doesn't mean it is a bomb. Gunpowder contains sulfur; does this mean that rotten eggs are an explosion just waiting to happen?
Which actually makes stuff, instead of producing expensive steam - and couldn't blow up unless someone packs it full of explosives.
Don't think of it as producing expensive steam, think of it as not producing tons of toxic chemicals which are randomly spewed out into the atmosphere. And the power from it does things, you know?
And what is the fascination with nuclear plants blowing up? You do know that nuclear plants only have as much reactivity as they need (so a nuclear blast is out of the question), and they generally employ a bunch of redundant active and passive safety systems, making a meltdown unlikely except in the possible result of extreme mismanagement and poor design?
We'd better make that SMIL paper, so that it's harder for SCO to read. Or, better yet, they should just take all the gigabytes of stuff they have lying around and send it over to SCO---in a PDF file of a hex dump of a great big tarball of all the stuff.
They already tried something like that, and you know what they got? Spy Kids 3-D, which has got to be the shittiest movie this side of the Blair Witch Project. In other words, it won't be cool. DON'T DO IT, GEORGE!
Of course, Star Wars has an actual plot, so it'll have a leg up on Spy Kids 3-times-shittier-than-anything-you-ever-imagined-D .
Don't underestimate Google. Did you know that Gmail works with (officially) IE, Netscape, Mozilla, and Firefox? They could have just done a bunch of nasty IE-only stuff and forgotten about a whopping 1-5% of the market, and it might have been less work---but they didn't. It also seems to work with Safari (minus the keyboard shortcuts), and I bet Konqueror isn't far behind.
They might be windows only, but there is a chance they'll decide to please the rest of us, too.
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This is the sort of thing that really makes metric seem worthwhile, aside from the really easy unit conversions. The metric system is generally well thought out, rather than being an ad-hoc, poorly specified, bug-ridden collection of old units that nobody wanted to give up. Metric pen sizes are also set up to scale with paper sizes in a sane way. In the article, there is the example of reduction of a magazine article with a copy machine onto smaller paper which just worked. That sort of thing is designed, and designed very well. Metric units fit together. Do acres and square inches fit together in any simple way? No! I rest my case.
It's good to see that the army is using creative money-saving measures, rather than blowing a few million on a big special-effects-filled movie on the same subject. Now maybe they can buy more guns!
You should look at some of the robotics projects. For example, there is one contest (I think DARPA is sponsoring it) which IIRC requires robots to find their way through a course at high speed---autonomously. There's AI right there, although it isn't quite yet of the "not opening the pod bay doors" caliber.
Nuns. Stern ones, with rulers that only have measurements in inches. With steely gaze and ruler-slapping action, the nuns will ensure that evildoers are put to justice, and discourage filesharers.
Or, if you want a less scary answer, you could accept that the packet priority method is naturally not going to be perfect or foolproof. No "solution" to this is. I still think it's a better idea than letting research bandwidth be clogged with DivX rips of The Matrix Reloaded or dishing out lawsuits en masse to college students too poor to defend against them (or other disciplinary crackdown methods).
No method is perfect, but some are better than others.
It sounds like this is the kind of thing packet priorities are for. Give everybody, by default, a low priority. Give anybody who is actually using I2 for research purposes a higher priority. That way the filesharing students get to suck up any excess bandwidth, the researchers are happy because they get their bandwidth, and the network administrators are happy because they have work to ensure their continued employment.
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RTFA. Nobody is suggesting anarchy, as you seem to believe. There are already existing laws against the sorts of things you're talking about. The concern of this article is that the FCC oversteps what should be its bounds, and that it would be safer to regulate things using the courts instead of a big bureaucratic agency that seems to be tripping over itself trying to get more power.
Perhaps an easter egg for people who bothered to read the manual?
If the BB gun could pierce the skin of the blimp, and if this used hydrogen, and if the hydrogen ignited, then you could have a flaming leak on your hands! In other words, emergency landing time. Worst case: burning all over the landing pad.
Or, as the author of the OO system said, "It is actually rather easy to implement an OO system in a functional language."
If you're going to explain an abbreviation you use only once, is it really worth it?
Yes, thank you. For all that I scold other people about confusing reactors with bombs, I should try to keep things straight myself.
You've been playing Final Fantasy lately, haven't you?
I volunteer my back yard. And I'd say the only economically viable way to get such a big satellite into orbit would be with---wait for it---a nuclear rocket. Probably not even then.
Worst case scenario: a power plant is destroyed, and others take up the slack. Big whoop. You'd get more bang for the buck by throwing Molotov cocktails at random pedestrians on a New York City street.
Or, as many people are talking about, have cars with hydrogen fuel cells. You have to use energy to make the hydrogen, but with nuclear power, we could have the best of both worlds!
Why was this modded Funny? It's the truth. A fusion reaction is hard to keep going, and if just about anything goes wrong, the reaction will die. Somebody detonates a bomb next to the reactor? Fine, so the thing gets jolted. The worst that could happen is that the reaction is disrupted slightly---and it stops. There is not much excess reactivity in a fusion reactor. Just because something uses a process used in bombs doesn't mean it is a bomb. Gunpowder contains sulfur; does this mean that rotten eggs are an explosion just waiting to happen?
Don't think of it as producing expensive steam, think of it as not producing tons of toxic chemicals which are randomly spewed out into the atmosphere. And the power from it does things, you know?
And what is the fascination with nuclear plants blowing up? You do know that nuclear plants only have as much reactivity as they need (so a nuclear blast is out of the question), and they generally employ a bunch of redundant active and passive safety systems, making a meltdown unlikely except in the possible result of extreme mismanagement and poor design?
We'd better make that SMIL paper, so that it's harder for SCO to read. Or, better yet, they should just take all the gigabytes of stuff they have lying around and send it over to SCO---in a PDF file of a hex dump of a great big tarball of all the stuff.
I tell you, CGI may yet save Star Wars.
Of course, Star Wars has an actual plot, so it'll have a leg up on Spy Kids 3-times-shittier-than-anything-you-ever-imagined-D .
They might be windows only, but there is a chance they'll decide to please the rest of us, too.
We're not pushing our advertisements on people against their will! We're offering important opt-in information on such products as H3r84L V149r4. H3r84L V149r4 is a very important product to those unfortunate men who C4N7 GeT 1TUP, and we want to deliver information about H3r84L remedies to people afflicted with these diseases. Ladies and gentlement, that is why we "spam".
This is the sort of thing that really makes metric seem worthwhile, aside from the really easy unit conversions. The metric system is generally well thought out, rather than being an ad-hoc, poorly specified, bug-ridden collection of old units that nobody wanted to give up. Metric pen sizes are also set up to scale with paper sizes in a sane way. In the article, there is the example of reduction of a magazine article with a copy machine onto smaller paper which just worked. That sort of thing is designed, and designed very well. Metric units fit together. Do acres and square inches fit together in any simple way? No! I rest my case.
It's good to see that the army is using creative money-saving measures, rather than blowing a few million on a big special-effects-filled movie on the same subject. Now maybe they can buy more guns!
In this case, there were actually no writeups in the Mark Shuttleworth node, so I don't think we should have seen the question mark. Oh well.
You should look at some of the robotics projects. For example, there is one contest (I think DARPA is sponsoring it) which IIRC requires robots to find their way through a course at high speed---autonomously. There's AI right there, although it isn't quite yet of the "not opening the pod bay doors" caliber.
They're made up. So what? They get the point across, and they fill their niches. What're you complaining about?
Or, if you want a less scary answer, you could accept that the packet priority method is naturally not going to be perfect or foolproof. No "solution" to this is. I still think it's a better idea than letting research bandwidth be clogged with DivX rips of The Matrix Reloaded or dishing out lawsuits en masse to college students too poor to defend against them (or other disciplinary crackdown methods).
No method is perfect, but some are better than others.
It sounds like this is the kind of thing packet priorities are for. Give everybody, by default, a low priority. Give anybody who is actually using I2 for research purposes a higher priority. That way the filesharing students get to suck up any excess bandwidth, the researchers are happy because they get their bandwidth, and the network administrators are happy because they have work to ensure their continued employment.
And the movie companies do have a God or country given right to force us not to?