Turning off scripts, plugins, and cookies is NON OPTIONAL. That its not including by default in firefox really shows a lack of concern for encouraging people to follow good security practices. Plus as I said, you need to block not only scripts, but plugins and cookies too! Its better to do this with a security profiles feature, and to allow websites to be added to one of many security profiles. i mean, IE of all things had these features. 10 years ago. And firefox doesnt. Thats defective by design. Its really appalling that IE manages to outdo firefox on this.
Actually you can at least when i used IE years ago, turn off the scripts. In fact, you can tell it to allow just scripts to run on certain pages but not others. On firefox? Cant do it without the plugin! Furthermore, IEs feature is a part of a security profiles feature which included a huge number of site features you could turn off, including many others like cookies. You would create a series of profiles, and then establish certain settings in that profile, then add websites to the profile. You could therefore control multiple things through the profiles. Cant do it with firefox. The noscript only covers js, so if you wanted to block cookies as well, youd have to create a completely seperate database of sites.
Broadband is a landline. Landlines in reality are not going away. A nice thing about landlines is unlimited calling, and huge bandwidth potential. I think seeing cell phones as a replacement for that is very naive.
If this had happened under the USSR, "Communism" i am sure would have been blamed on "Communism" (even though the USSR was never communist but state capitalist). However, when private corporations have a massive screw up, we dont hear people blaming capitalism and the self regulation mentality.
Well, the ease of adding is probably due to place value. Not the base. The greeks didnt have a base 60 system. as far as i can tell it was base 10. base 60 systems may even better, since 60 is a highly composite number.
It seems like we live a universe where the knowledge and secrets of reality are kept well hidden and very difficult to access, like it is trying to keep us as ignorant fools who dont know what anything is or why its here. We have a better grasp in recent years, but we are still a long way to knowing what this is all about on a scientific level (thought religions propose their own speculative/intuitive ideas about this).
I believe some features that might help C++ is automatic memory allocation (where objects are automatically resized and freed when they go out of scope), and dynamic types (which automatically convert according to some rules based on the context they are used in), basically to give it the same effects as Ruby. This would be optional and avialable alongside present manual systems. It would be an interesting concept rather than just hardcoding this, instead allow it to be implemented on top of some API, sort of the tie() interface on Perl, that whenever an object goes out of scope or something is stored into it, a callback is triggered where a plugin can handle the desired features. This would allow greater flexibility. These objects would be aware of the data type of the data stored in them, like ASCII or binary integer. If it were used in an arithmatic operation, a certain callback could be triggered provided by the objects controller object, which could convert the value from ASCII into binary required by arithmatic operator. Perhaps even a seperate set of string operators should be considered as well.
I recommend that we, instead of investing billions in messy, dangerous, volumnous, explosive and bulky rocket combustion based technologies, instead power our moon and mars missions with an efficient drive based on Heim theories. This would allow just a fraction of the energy of a rocket system and allow the craft to glide into and lift off from the planet nearly effortlessly without explosions with simply superconductor magnet driven systems. Heim theory could make space travel ever more cost effective and easy and with its propulsion and antigravity levitation capabilities would make our craft much more versatile than they are now. It could also shorten the time needed to reach mars, quite significantly, down to a few days. Furthermore, it would put distance star systems reachable within just a year or two of space flight through its superluminal travel capability.
Far fetched you say? Heim theory so far has predicted the masses of 20 subatomic particles and force interactions, so it is well on the way to being scientifically verified. It manages to unify all of the forces of nature into a single cohesive theory of everything, and introduce two additional forces.
Really its sick that you would mention such a thing. Family planning and educational programs are completely humane and ethical and simply provide information so people can make better, more sustainable reproductive choices. Why, if we cant already feed the people we have, do we want to encourage rapid population growth which will result in millions more starving children. Every 5 seconds another child starves to death. Those who resist family planning and educational programs which simply educate people to plan the number of children they have and provide contraceptives, seem almost intent on assuring that we will have an unending tragedy of starvation and death of children. Population growth continues to outpace efforts to solve the famine crisis , with ever increasing demand and finite resources famine is inevitable. The earth is not expanding.
I never said that the vaccine program would be conditional on contraceptive program but they should be provided simultaneously. They are educational programs and family planning services. If we ever wish to help these people and get poverty under control, we need to provide these services so that they are better informed to make better reproductive choices. We have limited land and water resources. The fact that millions die of starvation every yer and this planet is teetering on ecological collapse with massive rainforest loss and wars and fighting over remaining water supplies is testament to that. You do care about saving lives don't you? At the rate things are gong poverty will never be solved as we are outstripping resources with unsustainable growth. To wish to have societal trends which will cause children to suffer and die and to resist the efforts of family planning that would prevent such deaths is to wish for suffering of children.
I never said that. I said the vaccine should be delivered along with contraceptives and education to encourage stable, sustainable population levels. Even where malaria is not common, there are still problems with exhaustion of resources due to overexplotation and increasing demand due to population growth, or we are destroying rainforests and killing off whats left of the planets oxygen producers. There are a lot of countries with very high poverty and almost no malaria. So dont try to think hat getting rid of malaria will solve the problems of starvation and poverty. There is desperately needed a sustainable, stable population level so we do not overextend our use of finite resources.
I said that we should administer the vaccine and at the same time, deliver contraceptives and educational programs for sustainable, stable population levels. This would help prevent poverty and suffering by preventing depletion of the finite land and water resources they have to work with. More population growth would lead to increases in starvation and suffering, and this happens in places as well where malaria is not a big problem simply because land and water resources are just so overexploited. I am not against the vaccine. i want many lives to be saved by the vaccine.
I never said that we should not administer the vaccine. I said the vaccine should be administered with a contraceptive and education program to encourage stable and sustainable population trends. This policy would prevent many deaths. Didnt you read what i said? Good grief.
I never said population should becontrolled with disease? Did you even read what I wrote before you sent this rubbish? I believe that the vaccine should be provided and that contraceptives provided and education along with the vaccine program.
I never said vaccines should be stopped. I support a vaccine. I said it was a terrible idea to not administer the vaccine program without some contraceptive programs which would help reduce incidence of aids and children out of wedlock and would encourage stable, sustainable population trends.
I did not say it was a terrible idea. Its a good idea. I said it was a terrible idea to administer a vaccine without a contraceptive program to encourage sustainable, stable population trends.
Do you nthink food shortages which ALREADY exist will get any better with a rapid increases in population growth? The birth rates are already very high in africa so in many cases its likely that malaria brings it just down to replacement level. We know that population growth is unsustainable in the long run as sure as the sun sets in the west, simply because the earth has a limited surface area, arable land is limited and it takes fairly ideal, uncommon conditions to grow a decent diet, so we shouldnt structure things around population growth. The figures you stated, with poverty already being present and the malaria incidence such as it is actually paints a picture that would show that hunger and starvation would balloon out of control perhaps even in such a way that there would be no net lives saved by this vaccine. The solution i said was to encourage contraception to control population growth when the vaccine is administered.
This, if it really worked, would eventually create a million more deaths and vastly increased food shortages, poverty, suffering and children dying of starvation when the malaria population limiting factor is removed. We really must incorporate educational programs into vaccination programs that encourage people to have small families with the goal of stabilising population levels, and make condoms and contraceptives more available.
Also I question the ethics of administering a vaccine in a way that people cannot resist it. It should be a basic right to refuse a vaccine, adn the only people that would effect is those who do not accept the vaccine. Why not just deliver the vaccine in a shot? sure a little more expensive, but, seems to be more ethical. This would allow the dose to be more precisely controlled as well with a mosquito there is no telling how much a person could get, and what if there is a long term adverse health effect? The idea of using mosquitos really is dangerous, seems to to be dicey and invention for crazy things to happen with mutations and so on, that might actually create some sort of disasterous environmental consequence.
Torvalds was probably right. It would be bad to break applications and this creates a huge headache for users and really leads to a nightmare for the OSs users.
I agree that the regression blowing up an application is unacceptable. Who knows what other applications it blew up. Its actually easier, and less problematic for users, to maintain compatibility at the OS level than to change how many apps could have been affected. maybe not for the OS developer, but for the users and app developers. Backwards compatability is a must and its why windows is at 95% market share on desktop.
I definitely know what your talking about. I have had experience with the rude, arrogant developers, and the simply brain dead design on Linux, that causes a simple thing like drag and drop to not work at all.
One of the problems with Linux useability is the lack of backwards compatability which is essential for useability and for Linux to become an OS that can be used by most people and stable application and driver ABIs. This is important since many times users will not want to wait years for a driver to be made for their hardware by an OSS developer. Hardware manufacturers develop anbd test drivers and make sure they are highly reliable. My own expierence is that windows hardware support is many times more reliable and complete than Linux. No hardware vendor wants to support Linux buecause its poorly ddocumented, and there is no stable ABI. They dont want to maintain 20 different binaries for different kernel distro combos. Linux developers pride themselves in making Linux hard on users who just want to use hardware by making it hard to make a binary driver for Linux. Not every driver or application a user wants to use will be in the kernel source tree or the native package installer and thats just a fact we have to accept. Sometimes users will want to install a driver on an older install of Linux, they dont want to do a full blown upgrade of Linux just to install a driver, and they may want to be able to use an older driver with a newer Linux. Its arrogant to assume that every driver the user needs will haev come with their Linux DVD. What happens if they are using a peice of hardware which came out after they installed their Linux?
On Windows, you just throw in the disk, click ok, and your hardware is working. On Linux is just too painful a process to install drivers and third party software and that keeps it from being used in ther mainstream.
Ironically, by allowing for more ease of third party drivers and software, Linux would become more useable and thus the deployment of open source software would be greatly expanded. By puuting up with some binary drivers and proprietary applications we can actually increase the amount of open source software in use in the world greatly.
ABI Backwards compatability is essential for Linux to be useable, both in the kernel and in X. Linux too can be user frtiendly and expert friendly at the same time, by creating a user friendly API on top of the CLI environment you have a choice between either. The key to useable software is not in sparse features, you want software to be as configurable as possible, but in placing lesser used features in expert screens and such, and more commonly used features up front. So useability is in layout, not in having few features.
These claims are smoke and mirrors that pray on those who dont know better. It is ridiculous to rely on cell phones to secure radio towers. One way or another, they will find a way to damage an unsecured radio tower. Furthermore, the only reason Apple and its closed platform was successful is that maybe the pro corporate media helped them hype it up, perhaps because it was a closed platform and the corporate elites, including the media, would rather see a closed platform than an open platform since it fits into their orwellian elitest vision better.
If Apple had opened the platform, they would have probably been ignored by the corporate media, as Linux is.
Stallman makes a good point. One problem with copyright at present and the distribution models is that it actually inhibits the development of knowledge and civilisation by making information more difficult to maintain. I would like to see copyright terms rolled back to what it was originally before it was extended so many times, and also for copyright to expire immediately when the work is no longer being published or being made accessible at the similar cost it was originally offered at. The copyright could be reinstated if the work is offered again by its author for a similar price as it was originally offered. I would like to see an ability to pay scheme introduced that would allow poor/low income persons to access knowledge at a lower cost, and for access to software at reduced cost for hobbyist use. one of the problems with commercial software is it is so often so expensive, the price can sometimes be the same for a revenue producing busienss as a non commercial hobbyist. The development model and source is also closed which retards the improvement of the software, and takes away control of users from being able to understand what the software they paid for and they run on their computer is doing, or offer their own improvements to the software. I would like to see more of a model adopted by companies of an ability to pay price structure, and where they provide source code to those who use the sotware, even if under a proprietary source licence.
This is outrageous, to spend billions on this thing and then deorbit it just a few years after it is complete is just pure insanity. Billions of dollars wasted. I wonder if there will be any useful scientific information to come out of ISS. More likely, it seems that ISS, manned moon and mars programs are nothing but ego trips that drain money away from more effective and productive projects such as Hubble. The idea of manned spaceflight to the moon or mars is ridiculous as most people will never be able to go into space, and you can do most things with cheaper unmanned craft than with these expensive manned systems. With technology which exists in the forseeable future, spaceflight will be little more than a gimmick or something that a few small number of people will do. Its just too expensive and costly.
I think a public space program is vital, and does things that a private company would not do. A private company would likely mainly shuttle extremely wealthy people into orbit, a few per year, and any scientific data they happen to produce would likely be sold at huge cost, instead of being available to all humanity. The public space program should be science oriented to expand knowledge and make data available to all for improvement of our knowledge of the universe.
Ive used X over network connections and I know this to be incorrect, at least over a ethernet. THere are also solutions avialable for the problems you mention, or which can be addressed. There are various products that will compress the X data stream so that it uses less bandwidth and can perform quite acceptably. Such as NX. There was for a while a provide called xmove which was an X proxy to which your X clients would connect, you can send xmove command to redirect the display of the X client between different X servers, allowing your X programs to be moved between X servers. The code is out of date but it would be a useful thing to have that sort of capability and would strengthen X as a remote desktop solution. X is actually a very successful and well performing system and is a very well designed graphics system that actually exceeds windows in capability.
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Turning off scripts, plugins, and cookies is NON OPTIONAL. That its not including by default in firefox really shows a lack of concern for encouraging people to follow good security practices. Plus as I said, you need to block not only scripts, but plugins and cookies too! Its better to do this with a security profiles feature, and to allow websites to be added to one of many security profiles. i mean, IE of all things had these features. 10 years ago. And firefox doesnt. Thats defective by design. Its really appalling that IE manages to outdo firefox on this.
Actually you can at least when i used IE years ago, turn off the scripts. In fact, you can tell it to allow just scripts to run on certain pages but not others. On firefox? Cant do it without the plugin! Furthermore, IEs feature is a part of a security profiles feature which included a huge number of site features you could turn off, including many others like cookies. You would create a series of profiles, and then establish certain settings in that profile, then add websites to the profile. You could therefore control multiple things through the profiles. Cant do it with firefox. The noscript only covers js, so if you wanted to block cookies as well, youd have to create a completely seperate database of sites.
Broadband is a landline. Landlines in reality are not going away. A nice thing about landlines is unlimited calling, and huge bandwidth potential. I think seeing cell phones as a replacement for that is very naive.
If this had happened under the USSR, "Communism" i am sure would have been blamed on "Communism" (even though the USSR was never communist but state capitalist). However, when private corporations have a massive screw up, we dont hear people blaming capitalism and the self regulation mentality.
Well, the ease of adding is probably due to place value. Not the base. The greeks didnt have a base 60 system. as far as i can tell it was base 10. base 60 systems may even better, since 60 is a highly composite number.
It seems like we live a universe where the knowledge and secrets of reality are kept well hidden and very difficult to access, like it is trying to keep us as ignorant fools who dont know what anything is or why its here. We have a better grasp in recent years, but we are still a long way to knowing what this is all about on a scientific level (thought religions propose their own speculative/intuitive ideas about this).
I believe some features that might help C++ is automatic memory allocation (where objects are automatically resized and freed when they go out of scope), and dynamic types (which automatically convert according to some rules based on the context they are used in), basically to give it the same effects as Ruby. This would be optional and avialable alongside present manual systems. It would be an interesting concept rather than just hardcoding this, instead allow it to be implemented on top of some API, sort of the tie() interface on Perl, that whenever an object goes out of scope or something is stored into it, a callback is triggered where a plugin can handle the desired features. This would allow greater flexibility. These objects would be aware of the data type of the data stored in them, like ASCII or binary integer. If it were used in an arithmatic operation, a certain callback could be triggered provided by the objects controller object, which could convert the value from ASCII into binary required by arithmatic operator. Perhaps even a seperate set of string operators should be considered as well.
I recommend that we, instead of investing billions in messy, dangerous, volumnous, explosive and bulky rocket combustion based technologies, instead power our moon and mars missions with an efficient drive based on Heim theories. This would allow just a fraction of the energy of a rocket system and allow the craft to glide into and lift off from the planet nearly effortlessly without explosions with simply superconductor magnet driven systems. Heim theory could make space travel ever more cost effective and easy and with its propulsion and antigravity levitation capabilities would make our craft much more versatile than they are now. It could also shorten the time needed to reach mars, quite significantly, down to a few days. Furthermore, it would put distance star systems reachable within just a year or two of space flight through its superluminal travel capability.
Far fetched you say? Heim theory so far has predicted the masses of 20 subatomic particles and force interactions, so it is well on the way to being scientifically verified. It manages to unify all of the forces of nature into a single cohesive theory of everything, and introduce two additional forces.
Really its sick that you would mention such a thing.
Family planning and educational programs are completely humane and ethical and simply provide information so people can make better, more sustainable reproductive choices. Why, if we cant already feed the people we have, do we want to encourage rapid population growth which will result in millions more starving children. Every 5 seconds another child starves to death. Those who resist family planning and educational programs which simply educate people to plan the number of children they have and provide contraceptives, seem almost intent on assuring that we will have an unending tragedy of starvation and death of children. Population growth continues to outpace efforts to solve the famine crisis , with ever increasing demand and finite resources famine is inevitable. The earth is not expanding.
I never said that the vaccine program would be conditional on contraceptive program but they should be provided simultaneously. They are educational programs and family planning services. If we ever wish to help these people and get poverty under control, we need to provide these services so that they are better informed to make better reproductive choices. We have limited land and water resources. The fact that millions die of starvation every yer and this planet is teetering on ecological collapse with massive rainforest loss and wars and fighting over remaining water supplies is testament to that. You do care about saving lives don't you? At the rate things are gong poverty will never be solved as we are outstripping resources with unsustainable growth. To wish to have societal trends which will cause children to suffer and die and to resist the efforts of family planning that would prevent such deaths is to wish for suffering of children.
I never said that. I said the vaccine should be delivered along with contraceptives and education to encourage stable, sustainable population levels. Even where malaria is not common, there are still problems with exhaustion of resources due to overexplotation and increasing demand due to population growth, or we are destroying rainforests and killing off whats left of the planets oxygen producers. There are a lot of countries with very high poverty and almost no malaria. So dont try to think hat getting rid of malaria will solve the problems of starvation and poverty. There is desperately needed a sustainable, stable population level so we do not overextend our use of finite resources.
I said that we should administer the vaccine and at the same time, deliver contraceptives and educational programs for sustainable, stable population levels. This would help prevent poverty and suffering by preventing depletion of the finite land and water resources they have to work with. More population growth would lead to increases in starvation and suffering, and this happens in places as well where malaria is not a big problem simply because land and water resources are just so overexploited. I am not against the vaccine. i want many lives to be saved by the vaccine.
I never said that we should not administer the vaccine. I said the vaccine should be administered with a contraceptive and education program to encourage stable and sustainable population trends. This policy would prevent many deaths. Didnt you read what i said? Good grief.
I never said population should becontrolled with disease? Did you even read what I wrote before you sent this rubbish? I believe that the vaccine should be provided and that contraceptives provided and education along with the vaccine program.
I never said vaccines should be stopped. I support a vaccine. I said it was a terrible idea to not administer the vaccine program without some contraceptive programs which would help reduce incidence of aids and children out of wedlock and would encourage stable, sustainable population trends.
I did not say it was a terrible idea. Its a good idea. I said it was a terrible idea to administer a vaccine without a contraceptive program to encourage sustainable, stable population trends.
Do you nthink food shortages which ALREADY exist will get any better with a rapid increases in population growth? The birth rates are already very high in africa so in many cases its likely that malaria brings it just down to replacement level. We know that population growth is unsustainable in the long run as sure as the sun sets in the west, simply because the earth has a limited surface area, arable land is limited and it takes fairly ideal, uncommon conditions to grow a decent diet, so we shouldnt structure things around population growth. The figures you stated, with poverty already being present and the malaria incidence such as it is actually paints a picture that would show that hunger and starvation would balloon out of control perhaps even in such a way that there would be no net lives saved by this vaccine. The solution i said was to encourage contraception to control population growth when the vaccine is administered.
This, if it really worked, would eventually create a million more deaths and vastly increased food shortages, poverty, suffering and children dying of starvation when the malaria population limiting factor is removed. We really must incorporate educational programs into vaccination programs that encourage people to have small families with the goal of stabilising population levels, and make condoms and contraceptives more available.
Also I question the ethics of administering a vaccine in a way that people cannot resist it. It should be a basic right to refuse a vaccine, adn the only people that would effect is those who do not accept the vaccine. Why not just deliver the vaccine in a shot? sure a little more expensive, but, seems to be more ethical. This would allow the dose to be more precisely controlled as well with a mosquito there is no telling how much a person could get, and what if there is a long term adverse health effect? The idea of using mosquitos really is dangerous, seems to to be dicey and invention for crazy things to happen with mutations and so on, that might actually create some sort of disasterous environmental consequence.
Torvalds was probably right. It would be bad to break applications and this creates a huge headache for users and really leads to a nightmare for the OSs users.
I agree that the regression blowing up an application is unacceptable. Who knows what other applications it blew up. Its actually easier, and less problematic for users, to maintain compatibility at the OS level than to change how many apps could have been affected. maybe not for the OS developer, but for the users and app developers. Backwards compatability is a must and its why windows is at 95% market share on desktop.
I definitely know what your talking about. I have had experience with the rude, arrogant developers, and the simply brain dead design on Linux, that causes a simple thing like drag and drop to not work at all.
One of the problems with Linux useability is the lack of backwards compatability which is essential for useability and for Linux to become an OS that can be used by most people and stable application and driver ABIs. This is important since many times users will not want to wait years for a driver to be made for their hardware by an OSS developer. Hardware manufacturers develop anbd test drivers and make sure they are highly reliable. My own expierence is that windows hardware support is many times more reliable and complete than Linux. No hardware vendor wants to support Linux buecause its poorly ddocumented, and there is no stable ABI. They dont want to maintain 20 different binaries for different kernel distro combos. Linux developers pride themselves in making Linux hard on users who just want to use hardware by making it hard to make a binary driver for Linux. Not every driver or application a user wants to use will be in the kernel source tree or the native package installer and thats just a fact we have to accept. Sometimes users will want to install a driver on an older install of Linux, they dont want to do a full blown upgrade of Linux just to install a driver, and they may want to be able to use an older driver with a newer Linux. Its arrogant to assume that every driver the user needs will haev come with their Linux DVD. What happens if they are using a peice of hardware which came out after they installed their Linux?
On Windows, you just throw in the disk, click ok, and your hardware is working. On Linux is just too painful a process to install drivers and third party software and that keeps it from being used in ther mainstream.
Ironically, by allowing for more ease of third party drivers and software, Linux would become more useable and thus the deployment of open source software would be greatly expanded. By puuting up with some binary drivers and proprietary applications we can actually increase the amount of open source software in use in the world greatly.
ABI Backwards compatability is essential for Linux to be useable, both in the kernel and in X. Linux too can be user frtiendly and expert friendly at the same time, by creating a user friendly API on top of the CLI environment you have a choice between either. The key to useable software is not in sparse features, you want software to be as configurable as possible, but in placing lesser used features in expert screens and such, and more commonly used features up front. So useability is in layout, not in having few features.
These claims are smoke and mirrors that pray on those who dont know better. It is ridiculous to rely on cell phones to secure radio towers. One way or another, they will find a way to damage an unsecured radio tower. Furthermore, the only reason Apple and its closed platform was successful is that maybe the pro corporate media helped them hype it up, perhaps because it was a closed platform and the corporate elites, including the media, would rather see a closed platform than an open platform since it fits into their orwellian elitest vision better.
If Apple had opened the platform, they would have probably been ignored by the corporate media, as Linux is.
Stallman makes a good point. One problem with copyright at present and the distribution models is that it actually inhibits the development of knowledge and civilisation by making information more difficult to maintain. I would like to see copyright terms rolled back to what it was originally before it was extended so many times, and also for copyright to expire immediately when the work is no longer being published or being made accessible at the similar cost it was originally offered at. The copyright could be reinstated if the work is offered again by its author for a similar price as it was originally offered. I would like to see an ability to pay scheme introduced that would allow poor/low income persons to access knowledge at a lower cost, and for access to software at reduced cost for hobbyist use. one of the problems with commercial software is it is so often so expensive, the price can sometimes be the same for a revenue producing busienss as a non commercial hobbyist. The development model and source is also closed which retards the improvement of the software, and takes away control of users from being able to understand what the software they paid for and they run on their computer is doing, or offer their own improvements to the software. I would like to see more of a model adopted by companies of an ability to pay price structure, and where they provide source code to those who use the sotware, even if under a proprietary source licence.
This is outrageous, to spend billions on this thing and then deorbit it just a few years after it is complete is just pure insanity. Billions of dollars wasted. I wonder if there will be any useful scientific information to come out of ISS. More likely, it seems that ISS, manned moon and mars programs are nothing but ego trips that drain money away from more effective and productive projects such as Hubble. The idea of manned spaceflight to the moon or mars is ridiculous as most people will never be able to go into space, and you can do most things with cheaper unmanned craft than with these expensive manned systems. With technology which exists in the forseeable future, spaceflight will be little more than a gimmick or something that a few small number of people will do. Its just too expensive and costly.
I think a public space program is vital, and does things that a private company would not do. A private company would likely mainly shuttle extremely wealthy people into orbit, a few per year, and any scientific data they happen to produce would likely be sold at huge cost, instead of being available to all humanity. The public space program should be science oriented to expand knowledge and make data available to all for improvement of our knowledge of the universe.
Ive used X over network connections and I know this to be incorrect, at least over a ethernet. THere are also solutions avialable for the problems you mention, or which can be addressed. There are various products that will compress the X data stream so that it uses less bandwidth and can perform quite acceptably. Such as NX. There was for a while a provide called xmove which was an X proxy to which your X clients would connect, you can send xmove command to redirect the display of the X client between different X servers, allowing your X programs to be moved between X servers. The code is out of date but it would be a useful thing to have that sort of capability and would strengthen X as a remote desktop solution. X is actually a very successful and well performing system and is a very well designed graphics system that actually exceeds windows in capability.