If you are sending unsolicited "Auction notifications" then you are indeed a spammer and I hope this will keep your email from getting to my inbox. On the other hand, registration confirmations sound solicitted to me... I doubt people would mark you as a spammer. This brings up an important point, some of what you are sending may be spam and some may be legit buisness info. Simply blocking your IP is not a solution,... however, the solution presented in the article sounds like exactly what is needed for these gray areas.
yes, I did read the article, and I too agree that he had no buisness doing anything other than going out and buying a Tivo. I was merely pointing out that you suggested he visit a certain link for help... a link that he had mentioned visiting in the article.
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If you had RTFA, he tried that... he even mentions trying the exact "step-by-step" instructions you link to. Just because it worked for you, doesn't mean it works for everyone.
...but what if you run a government office, and leave the door open with official government documents strewn about. Is it "trespassing" if another government official comes in and looks at unclassified government documents? That seems to be the defense that the Republicans are suggesting they will use. If the documents in question can be construed as official documents, then the Republicans actually have a case,...
IANAP(politician) but I do know a little about how congressional staffs work. Committees have permanent staffs, whose workers are indeed government employees. The committee supports both the Republicans and the Democrats by providing advice and administrative assistance. If these "stolen" documents were Judiciary committee documents associated with the minority party, they would most certainly be "official government documents" and the Republicans are probably LEGALLY in the right. On the other hand, if these were memos internal to Senator Kennedy's personal office staff, then it would clearly be illegal. I couldn't really tell from the article if this was the case or not.
Absolutely... in perfect conditions. However, the Norden's phenominal accuracy was severly degraded due to its use at night (tactics driven by German AAA), extremely poor weather and the use of smoke screens to obscure target areas. Sure, under perfect test conditions, it was the bomb (pun intended) but in actual combat use, the accuracy was far less.
Eloquently put... but seriously, for the last few years, every space post on slashdot has been dominated with posts more-or-less demanding that the US abandon the shuttle fleet and the ISS and get back into the exploration of space buisness. They want moon bases and missions to Mars, as well as a more effective launch vehicle. It sounds to me that Bush has been reading slashdot. Is it the shock that you have received all that you have asked, or is it just your hate for the man that is causing this current most peculiar of backlashes?
The ABM treaty wasn't "thrown away". The US unilateraly exited the treaty under the provisions for withdrawl as specified in the treaty itself. You make it sound as if the treaty was violated and was not respected... on the contrary, the US followed the treaty to the letter. Of course, we can all disagree as to if it was a wise political to exercise the withdrawl right. IMHO, the treaty was useless, as it was only protecting the US from Russia, who wasn't a threat, and preventing the US from defending itself against other nations (who themselves were not bound by ABM treaty).
Personally, I think that it would have been better to at least try to get the "theat nations" to sign the treaty as well. Of course some will argue that that the "rogue nations" are no threat at all, and this is entirely true at the moment. However, space technology is a lumbering beast with a lot of inertia. Most experts suggest that it will be 10-20 years before the "rogue nations" will pose a credible ballistic missile threat... what a coincidence... it takes about 10 years or more to stand up a space based defense. And what if the experts are wrong?
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what the hell are you talking about? The X-33 was disassembled and useful pieces of technology scavanged.
more revisionist drivel... you can not judge past war events by modern standards. If Dresden, Stalingrad or the Battle of Britain were to occur today, they would of course be atrocities. However, the further you go back in history, the more "acceptable" civilian casualties have been. This has been driven in large part by the accuracy of weapon technology. For instance, WW2 bombers had accuracies on the order of hundreds or even thousands of yards, wheras modern weapons have accuracies in the 1-100 yard range (worst case). It was not feasible to target specific buildings within a city; instead complexes or areas of a city were targeted. If these could not be taken out, the workforce and infrastructure were.
Geez, perhaps they are "US centric" because the series is about a US airbone unit. Not much place in such a story for say... a Russian tank battalion is there? Besides, unlike today, joint operations between nations (like the Normandy ivasion or the action in Sicily) were extremely rare due in large part to differences in command structure, hardware (radios and the like), supply systems (read:ammuntion), and of course tactics. Nowadays, our militaries routinely exercise with other nations and adhere to the "NATO playbook" which mitigates these issues.
Ah,...but who is more responsible for the German defeat on the Eastern front... the Russians or mother nature? No slight on the Russians, but it WAS the worst winter since (ironicaly) Napolean invaded in the mid-19th century. I'd wager the outcome would have been different if the weather had been more favorable toward the Germans (considering how "close" Russia was to being defeated as it was).
arrggg...its not a freakin "nuclear device". It is a steam engine with a tiny bit of radioactive material... all of which is encased in an indestructable shell.
The problem here is that there are many different ways that nuclear processes may be used for propulsion and it seems that several of the above posts are confusing them. There are two basic categories (grossly oversimplifying): nuclear thermal propulsion and nuclear electric propulsion. In all types of propulsion, you basically need to accelerate mass out the back end of the rocket, resulting in a change in momentum of the spacecraft and an opposing force (there are also some forces due to pressure differences between ambient and nozzle exit pressure but there are only a fraction of the total propulsive force).
Thermal propulsion accomplishes this by heating a propellant, which expands and goes woosh out the back end. Now there are lots of heat sources, from electrical arcing, chemical reactions (the most common), or even a nuclear reaction. The type of heat source will determine both how much thrust you get and how efficient the process will be. Using a nuclear reaction as that source provides comparable thrust to chemical sources, but much higher efficiencies (read: less propellant required).
On the other hand, electric propulsion uses various techniques to electro-magnetically accelerate ions out the back end. These typically have extremely low thrust levels (1/10ths of Newtons) but outstanding efficiencies (Isp = 1000-5000). Translation: great for interstellar flight; infeasible for launch. Now these drives draw a lot of power; thus far most vehicles have used solar panels to feed the propulsion system, hence the term solar electric propulsion (SEP). Unfortunately, the available solar energy falls off as 1/r^2, so it really is not feasible beyond Mars orbit (1.52 AU) unless all your spacecraft mass is solar panel, and what good would that be? Hence, nuclear electric propulsion (NEP) which uses an RTG (basically uses radioactive material to heat a steam cycle engine) as the source of electric power. Inefficient to use near Earth, but the only way to get an electric propulsion vehicle to provide any thrust out at 30 AU where Nepture is hanging out (thing about it... 1/900 of the solar energy per unit area compared to here at Earth).
Sorry to drag on, here is a link comparing the thrust and specific impulse of various propulsion technologies. Keep in mind that thrust >> weight if you want to escape this gravity well we live in and that high specific impulse means less propellant ==> more payload.
The above is true only if you believe that the US was the only country in the world making technological advances and that Japan was someone stuck in time.
On the contrary, Japan had an active nuclear program of its own, and may have been 6 months to a year from developing its own nuclear weapon. This shipment of nuclear components at the end of the war in Europe could have further accelerated the Japanese atomic bomb project (not to mention giving the Japanese three delivery platforms, a jet aircraft, the V-1 and V-2 technologies).
It isn't a stretch to believe we can build safe nuclear power sources because the US has been building safe RTGs for 40 years. From this link:
The objective of current U.S. RTG design philosophy is for
full fuel containment; that is, in the event of an abort
during the launch or on-orbit phase of a mission, the RTGs
are designed to retain the fuel material. In two subsequent
unplanned incidents involving U.S. RTGs, the new design
philosophy successfully prevented the fuel from being
released. The first involved two SNAP 19 RTGs in a 1968
meteorological satellite while the other involved one SNAP
27 RTG in the Apollo Lunar Scientific Experiment Package
(ALSEP) aboard Apollo XIII in 1970.
Neither of these
incidents caused release of radioactive materials. The two
SNAP 19's were recovered from Santa Barbara Channel five
months after the range destruct of the launch vehicle. The
nuclear fuel was reprocessed and later re-launched in new
RTGs. No release of the fuel was detected. The mission
abort maneuver of Apollo XIII separated the Command Service
Module from the Lunar Module. The Lunar Module containing
the SNAP 27 RTG (as part of the ALSEP) re-entered the
atmosphere and impacted in the South Pacific Ocean in the
region of the Tonga Trench, where it remains today. Air and
water samples taken by the U.S. in the vicinity of the re-
entry found no evidence of fuel release.
That is right, the US self-destructed a rocket right after launch and the RTGs survived intact, were recovered and the material was in good enough condition to be reused.
Nuclear propulsion is our ticket off this rock. The only thing in our way is ignorance of the technology.
actually... thinking back to it, we went to the toy store after our first ultra-sound which verified we were pregnant. At the time we didn't know we were having a boy or a girl. I suppose I should have said "when we found out we were having a BABY". If I have any girls I am sure that they too will play with Legos. However, I am not going to let political correctness blind me to the scientific fact that there are gender differences despite every child being unique. The fact of the matter is that I won't have to work against society's (and arguably nature's) gender norms to encourage my son to play with Legos or participate in certain sports whereas I believe I will have more to overcome if we have daughters. I personally look forward to this.
Crap! When we found out we were having a boy, we went to Toy's 'R Us so I could see all the cool toys I would get to play with again (in a few years...) The highlight were the Lego Mindstorm robots and the stop-action movie studios. I guess I had better buy some now, eh?
This brings up an excellent question: does anyone know the story behind HOW michael became an editor and, more importantly, why he still is? Did he save Cowboy Neal's life or something? There must be something to this... the truth must be out there...
They add color to wavelengths of light that are outside the visible spectrum. This is considerably more efficient than waiting a few million generations for humans eyes to evolve to see UV and IR.
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If you are sending unsolicited "Auction notifications" then you are indeed a spammer and I hope this will keep your email from getting to my inbox. On the other hand, registration confirmations sound solicitted to me... I doubt people would mark you as a spammer. This brings up an important point, some of what you are sending may be spam and some may be legit buisness info. Simply blocking your IP is not a solution,... however, the solution presented in the article sounds like exactly what is needed for these gray areas.
Does anyone have the URL? I want to make sure I straighten out my account before I loose my money!
yes, I did read the article, and I too agree that he had no buisness doing anything other than going out and buying a Tivo. I was merely pointing out that you suggested he visit a certain link for help... a link that he had mentioned visiting in the article.
If you had RTFA, he tried that... he even mentions trying the exact "step-by-step" instructions you link to. Just because it worked for you, doesn't mean it works for everyone.
IANAP(politician) but I do know a little about how congressional staffs work. Committees have permanent staffs, whose workers are indeed government employees. The committee supports both the Republicans and the Democrats by providing advice and administrative assistance. If these "stolen" documents were Judiciary committee documents associated with the minority party, they would most certainly be "official government documents" and the Republicans are probably LEGALLY in the right. On the other hand, if these were memos internal to Senator Kennedy's personal office staff, then it would clearly be illegal. I couldn't really tell from the article if this was the case or not.
because in this country, the First Amendment still applies to both liberals AND conservatives... even when you disagree with them.
Thats great... but the "skin" of the spacecraft isn't much use with out engines, avionics or fuel tanks.
Absolutely... in perfect conditions. However, the Norden's phenominal accuracy was severly degraded due to its use at night (tactics driven by German AAA), extremely poor weather and the use of smoke screens to obscure target areas. Sure, under perfect test conditions, it was the bomb (pun intended) but in actual combat use, the accuracy was far less.
Leopards.... I'd expect more from a /. user....
Eloquently put... but seriously, for the last few years, every space post on slashdot has been dominated with posts more-or-less demanding that the US abandon the shuttle fleet and the ISS and get back into the exploration of space buisness. They want moon bases and missions to Mars, as well as a more effective launch vehicle. It sounds to me that Bush has been reading slashdot. Is it the shock that you have received all that you have asked, or is it just your hate for the man that is causing this current most peculiar of backlashes?
Personally, I think that it would have been better to at least try to get the "theat nations" to sign the treaty as well. Of course some will argue that that the "rogue nations" are no threat at all, and this is entirely true at the moment. However, space technology is a lumbering beast with a lot of inertia. Most experts suggest that it will be 10-20 years before the "rogue nations" will pose a credible ballistic missile threat... what a coincidence... it takes about 10 years or more to stand up a space based defense. And what if the experts are wrong?
what the hell are you talking about? The X-33 was disassembled and useful pieces of technology scavanged.
more revisionist drivel... you can not judge past war events by modern standards. If Dresden, Stalingrad or the Battle of Britain were to occur today, they would of course be atrocities. However, the further you go back in history, the more "acceptable" civilian casualties have been. This has been driven in large part by the accuracy of weapon technology. For instance, WW2 bombers had accuracies on the order of hundreds or even thousands of yards, wheras modern weapons have accuracies in the 1-100 yard range (worst case). It was not feasible to target specific buildings within a city; instead complexes or areas of a city were targeted. If these could not be taken out, the workforce and infrastructure were.
Geez, perhaps they are "US centric" because the series is about a US airbone unit. Not much place in such a story for say... a Russian tank battalion is there? Besides, unlike today, joint operations between nations (like the Normandy ivasion or the action in Sicily) were extremely rare due in large part to differences in command structure, hardware (radios and the like), supply systems (read:ammuntion), and of course tactics. Nowadays, our militaries routinely exercise with other nations and adhere to the "NATO playbook" which mitigates these issues.
Oh crap,... find-replace Russia == Soviet Union.
ahh...only on Slashdot will you see an argument like this... I love this place!
arrggg...its not a freakin "nuclear device". It is a steam engine with a tiny bit of radioactive material... all of which is encased in an indestructable shell.
Thermal propulsion accomplishes this by heating a propellant, which expands and goes woosh out the back end. Now there are lots of heat sources, from electrical arcing, chemical reactions (the most common), or even a nuclear reaction. The type of heat source will determine both how much thrust you get and how efficient the process will be. Using a nuclear reaction as that source provides comparable thrust to chemical sources, but much higher efficiencies (read: less propellant required).
On the other hand, electric propulsion uses various techniques to electro-magnetically accelerate ions out the back end. These typically have extremely low thrust levels (1/10ths of Newtons) but outstanding efficiencies (Isp = 1000-5000). Translation: great for interstellar flight; infeasible for launch. Now these drives draw a lot of power; thus far most vehicles have used solar panels to feed the propulsion system, hence the term solar electric propulsion (SEP). Unfortunately, the available solar energy falls off as 1/r^2, so it really is not feasible beyond Mars orbit (1.52 AU) unless all your spacecraft mass is solar panel, and what good would that be? Hence, nuclear electric propulsion (NEP) which uses an RTG (basically uses radioactive material to heat a steam cycle engine) as the source of electric power. Inefficient to use near Earth, but the only way to get an electric propulsion vehicle to provide any thrust out at 30 AU where Nepture is hanging out (thing about it... 1/900 of the solar energy per unit area compared to here at Earth).
Sorry to drag on, here is a link comparing the thrust and specific impulse of various propulsion technologies. Keep in mind that thrust >> weight if you want to escape this gravity well we live in and that high specific impulse means less propellant ==> more payload.
On the contrary, Japan had an active nuclear program of its own, and may have been 6 months to a year from developing its own nuclear weapon. This shipment of nuclear components at the end of the war in Europe could have further accelerated the Japanese atomic bomb project (not to mention giving the Japanese three delivery platforms, a jet aircraft, the V-1 and V-2 technologies).
That is right, the US self-destructed a rocket right after launch and the RTGs survived intact, were recovered and the material was in good enough condition to be reused.
Nuclear propulsion is our ticket off this rock. The only thing in our way is ignorance of the technology.
Oh, and yes, IAARS.
Thanks! Actually, this was a while back... he is now 1 yr old and a total blast!
actually... thinking back to it, we went to the toy store after our first ultra-sound which verified we were pregnant. At the time we didn't know we were having a boy or a girl. I suppose I should have said "when we found out we were having a BABY". If I have any girls I am sure that they too will play with Legos. However, I am not going to let political correctness blind me to the scientific fact that there are gender differences despite every child being unique. The fact of the matter is that I won't have to work against society's (and arguably nature's) gender norms to encourage my son to play with Legos or participate in certain sports whereas I believe I will have more to overcome if we have daughters. I personally look forward to this.
Crap! When we found out we were having a boy, we went to Toy's 'R Us so I could see all the cool toys I would get to play with again (in a few years...) The highlight were the Lego Mindstorm robots and the stop-action movie studios. I guess I had better buy some now, eh?
This brings up an excellent question: does anyone know the story behind HOW michael became an editor and, more importantly, why he still is? Did he save Cowboy Neal's life or something? There must be something to this... the truth must be out there...
They add color to wavelengths of light that are outside the visible spectrum. This is considerably more efficient than waiting a few million generations for humans eyes to evolve to see UV and IR.