1. Write sourceless article about interesting software labeled by unnamed 'security experts' as 'a serious security threat'
2. Mention that the Department of Homeland Security also thinks about security threats
3. Get article mentioned on Slashdot where people still don't RTFM in any detail, but do like to shit bricks that mention DHS in any context
4. Get traffic to ad-driven site
There's a study out there of using a hydrogen powered fuel cell to drive an electric motor attached to a high bypass jet engine - from memory 80% of the power of a high bypass engine come from the air flow vice the exhaust - recent advances have probably improved that.
The downside is that a slow moving drone, even at very high altitude like that, is pretty easy to shoot down.
Not really that easy. One advantage of being that high is that a surface-to-air missile will have expended much of its energy by the time it gets to you - it takes a smaller adjustment on your part to be outside the kill radius. If any of the modern approaches to stealth are incorporated it could be quite difficult to acquire and maintain track on a high altitude target.
The economy is crippled because growth is greatly hampered by the (ever growing, and recently heavily grown) relative weight of national debt. Debt is what remains when an 'investment' (stuff money is spent on) didn't return a profit - which is damn near everything government spends money on. To reduce debt requires targeted risk taking. The desire to take indidvidual risk is reduced when the loss of others' risk gets forcibly shared. Any organization that has the ability to take risk with someone else's money (i.e., when loss is forced on others) will take excess risk compared to an individual deciding what is worthwhile or an organization that cannot rid itself of loss. As a country we cannot rid ourself of the loss government forces on us - we eventually pay the piper.
It's a shame the Americans don't have some sort of central document that specifies whether their public should be paying for the defense of the nation...
Something is causing the environment to change. It may not be all us but it is very likely that we are contributing in a significant amount.
Since you've already decided that people [especially relatively rich Westerners] are the significant contributors to your already decided 'changes' in environment, you're just the kind of 'scientist' being solicited for the 'independent panel'.
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1. Write sourceless article about interesting software labeled by unnamed 'security experts' as 'a serious security threat'
2. Mention that the Department of Homeland Security also thinks about security threats
3. Get article mentioned on Slashdot where people still don't RTFM in any detail, but do like to shit bricks that mention DHS in any context
4. Get traffic to ad-driven site
with 76% tagging Apple's operating system as the best revenue opportunity
translation: where you can even sell an app that does nothing but make fart sounds
I'd like to argue against this in detail ... oh wait.
I read it on slashdot ...
There's a study out there of using a hydrogen powered fuel cell to drive an electric motor attached to a high bypass jet engine - from memory 80% of the power of a high bypass engine come from the air flow vice the exhaust - recent advances have probably improved that.
The downside is that a slow moving drone, even at very high altitude like that, is pretty easy to shoot down.
Not really that easy. One advantage of being that high is that a surface-to-air missile will have expended much of its energy by the time it gets to you - it takes a smaller adjustment on your part to be outside the kill radius. If any of the modern approaches to stealth are incorporated it could be quite difficult to acquire and maintain track on a high altitude target.
Can you imagine how infuriating it must be to see someone leave their blinker on for 9 days?
You've never driven I-95 the length from NYC to Miami, have you?
Require anyone who wants to go up the mountain to carry insurance sufficient to cover the cost of rescue.
Any other things you think government should *require* people to do in a group pitching itself as a free society?
of a cargo ship full of servers?
You know, as crazy as this may sound to some of you, working in the US intelligence field or the peripheral fields is not akin to being evil.
You must be old here.
Ubuntu provides a package that many people have found they prefer - how does that not fit the definition of value-added?
The economy is crippled because growth is greatly hampered by the (ever growing, and recently heavily grown) relative weight of national debt. Debt is what remains when an 'investment' (stuff money is spent on) didn't return a profit - which is damn near everything government spends money on. To reduce debt requires targeted risk taking. The desire to take indidvidual risk is reduced when the loss of others' risk gets forcibly shared. Any organization that has the ability to take risk with someone else's money (i.e., when loss is forced on others) will take excess risk compared to an individual deciding what is worthwhile or an organization that cannot rid itself of loss. As a country we cannot rid ourself of the loss government forces on us - we eventually pay the piper.
No Verizon - no buy.
American football or Metric football?
It's a shame the Americans don't have some sort of central document that specifies whether their public should be paying for the defense of the nation ...
We'd have to find some aliens before we didn't talk to them.
They're going to get some recently unemployed climate scientists to clean it all up.
Finally, some recognition of my modest awesomeness.
"with sufficient thrust, even a brick can fly" - unknown F-4 pilot
http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df9507/df950713.jpg
when you've become so big that you can viably get the government to forcibly extract money from people to facilitate you keeping your market share
Something is causing the environment to change. It may not be all us but it is very likely that we are contributing in a significant amount.
Since you've already decided that people [especially relatively rich Westerners] are the significant contributors to your already decided 'changes' in environment, you're just the kind of 'scientist' being solicited for the 'independent panel'.
It will be considered as smart as a mule when it turns around and kicks the guy back.
and they start following me, my theories will be vindicated!
who never post anymore ...