It's the elemental things that would drive us out into the solar system and we simply aren't advanced enough to make use of the things it has to provide.
See Gerard O'Neill's The High Frontier, written about 1977. he outlined a plan for colonising space that seems to make sense still. The economics were based on huge solar arrays in orbit generating power to beam back to earth via microwave. Lunar colonies would supply the satellite colonies (giant cylinders ultimately, as in Babylon 5) using mass drivers to launch material to orbit and down to earth. Once you reached that point, which he pegged at about $50 billion in 1977, they would be self-sustainable and be able to expand indefinitely, in earth/lunar space and out to the asteroids. Mars would just be a sidetrip by then. This all could work even with rockets. If space elevators work, it'd be at a tenth of the price.
Billions of dollars of debt, poor schools, students who can't even read or write. 50% of the working public in LA is illiterate. space is great and all, but we have bigger fish to fry here on earth
Exactly. All these problems are much bigger than the comparatively piddling amount spent on space. Cutting the space budget wouldn't help them at all. The problems you mention are problems because your government gives them a low priority. NASA is barely a rounding error in the national budget.
xbitlabs.com says: "NanoCoolers insist that the fluid it uses is non-toxic, non-flammable and environmentally safe. The company says boiling point of the substance is over 2000C in a low vapor pressure environment (for the most substances, except water, the rule is that the boiling point gets lower as the pressure gets lower), which is very high: for instance, iron becomes a liquid when it is heat a temperature of 1535C at normal atmospheric pressure. NanoCoolers does not disclose a type of the fluid it uses."
Boiling point over 2000C, so it must really be metallic, not a solution as I was thinking. Hopefully someone will crack one open and find out what it really is soon.
Most of us saw the 4,5,6 through the eyes of childhood and years of rewatching. It is not possible for these movies to have the same impact as others did on us as children
I saw The first Star Wars (before it was "Episode IV") in 1977, when I was 19. It was great, and seeing it recently, still great. The sequels I didn't like so much; the prequels are dross (I & II, haven't seen III).
The dialoge is done in the style of 30's serials, and is intentionally over the top.
If Hormel is able to prove that the Monty Python skit actually did lead to UCE becoming known as 'spam'
Well, the Jargon File says "from Monty Python's Flying Circus". The American Heritage Dictionary says "probably inspired by a comedy routine on the British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which the word is repeated incessantly."
So this seems pretty accepted; perhaps not legally proven though.
Ahh, watch out for the session saver - there needs to be a way to disable it when needed. I had an issue with a particular web page that crashed FF on OS X, and the damn session saver would open directly to the crasher!
Couldn't you just disconnect the network/modem, and possibly delete the cache? Then it'd fail to load and you could open a local page, then plug back in and continue.
Aside from correcting your correction above, I've just heard that there's another Hannibal Lecter movie and book upcoming. The story last time was that Thomas Harris had written an ending to kill any idea of a sequel (though the movie version wimped out on Clarice and Hannibal sailing off into the sunset as in the book); so this is a prequel, about his childhood and how he became a cannibal. They must have paid Harris a lot for that. Too bad, I was hoping he'd get out of the rut. Pretty much the same thing happened to Arthur Conan Doyle when he tried to kill off Sherlock Holmes. Eventually he was persuaded to do some prequels; then he brought him back from the dead (Holmes had fallen into a waterfall in a struggle with Moriarty).
Maybe the industry will want more, but Lucas has publicly stated he's done with Star Wars
Then he said he's making two Star Wars TV series, one animated, one live action. Anyway, the world is full of principled artists who said they'd never do sequels, then did, rock bands that broke up and reofrmed to retread their hits. Lucas has already done 5 sequels. If he needs the money in a few years, he can just let someone else do it and collect 50 million for his signature.
Popular with the people? Popular with the Slashdot crowd perhaps, but I assure you that the populace at large could easily be convinced that this is akin to accessory to commit a crime.
I think a larger proportion of the "populace at large" uses P2P.
Basically, if you look at the way they're running things, and the way they're headed, all the grunt work will be done offshore, including programming, but the IP will be owned here in the US.
For a few years. Then some of the more resourceful grunt workers will set up shop for themselves, hire away the best of the rest, and start producing, and patenting, their own IO, and licensing it back to you. Or more likely, licensing it to the manufacturers in East Asia. In 20 years the US's IP exports will be sitcoms and action movies, though these are being offshored too. The 20th Century was the American Cnetury, it's over.
It doesn't imply "certainty". It does imply that I'm an idiot who doesn't know what he's doing. Don't be disingenuous, you're insulting me. Also, aside from "taking precautions" I do know the symptoms -- unexplained traffic particularly, from the virus propagating &/or sending out spam, which I would see, regardless of software stealthing, on my DSL modem lights. Yes, ninjas could have installed a hardware keylogger; there could be a logic bomb waiting to go off on Halloween, but most viruses have some noticeable effects.
I just used my numeric IP last time I used FTP, but I did check out DynDNS.org, I'll use that if I need to do it again; simple enough but I prefer not to stay online for hours on end.
Ok smart arse. Just how do you know for certain I've been compromised? Do you use The Force? I've only been online for 10 years (25 years if you count back on Unix command line at university), what would I know? Obviously I should just throw away my computer and get a job breaking rocks.
Do you really want to be the IT guy who takes the call that says: "Hi, I'm with British Army operations in the middle of Iraq, and my soldiers here -- who are getting shot at on your behalf -- are really fucking annoyed that they can't send video messages home
If I was the IT guy, I'd say "I've put it on our webserver. Tell the squaddies to send quote this: 'http://video.mod.uk/Christie.wmv' to their families and everyone can get it without melting down mail servers across the country."
Real anecdote: I occasionally need to send largish (20+ MB) files to a company I do work for. This is too big for my free web space, they have an FTP server but won't give me a login for "security" reasons (seems to me a running FTP server won't be less secure if I have a restricted password, but that argument fell on deaf ears). I can set up my own FTP server, but it's not terribly convenient as I have broadband but not a static IP, so now I just email the damn thing, hoping it won't get interrupted or bounce, taking 50% longer because of MIME encoding than if I could do a binary FTP upload. One day I'll get a hosted domain....
if you wanna play it like that, the US invented almost every major technology this century...
Maybe. (What major technolgy was invented since 2001, BTW?) But they're patented and other companies have to pay to use it. Or do you mean only American companies are allowed to patent, and the rest of us have to hand over anything we invent free?
A government entity should never be allowed to patent its own tech, that tech was paid for by the people and should be available freely to all in every scenario I can possibly think of.
In this scenario, it's an Australian government entity, the research was paid for by Australian taxpayers, and in this case it's foreign (American) companies who are supposed to pay to use it. Seems fair to me.
Begging the question - how many mail clients, when presented with a recognizable (assuming you tack the protocol on the front) URL inside a text-only message make it clickable?
Most of them, I think. The Eudora 3 from 1997 I use does.
In this case, I think that it's the content and not the style that stops people from reading your comment.
Well, for me it was the style -- spelling, capitalisation and grammar. All in a post extolling the quality of writing of the NYT made it a little hard to take seriously. Presentation matters.
Never had a successful penetration or attack
That you KNOW of.
I would know. I've got a firewall, and I can see the traffic passing through my DSL modem. I check the processes running with various tools when something goes wrong; if anything is running it's keeping a very low profile. I don't use IE or OE, basically, the only way somethng could get me is by executing a viral mail attachment, which I haven't been stupid enough to do (yet).
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See Gerard O'Neill's The High Frontier, written about 1977. he outlined a plan for colonising space that seems to make sense still. The economics were based on huge solar arrays in orbit generating power to beam back to earth via microwave. Lunar colonies would supply the satellite colonies (giant cylinders ultimately, as in Babylon 5) using mass drivers to launch material to orbit and down to earth. Once you reached that point, which he pegged at about $50 billion in 1977, they would be self-sustainable and be able to expand indefinitely, in earth/lunar space and out to the asteroids. Mars would just be a sidetrip by then. This all could work even with rockets. If space elevators work, it'd be at a tenth of the price.
Exactly. All these problems are much bigger than the comparatively piddling amount spent on space. Cutting the space budget wouldn't help them at all. The problems you mention are problems because your government gives them a low priority. NASA is barely a rounding error in the national budget.
"NanoCoolers insist that the fluid it uses is non-toxic, non-flammable and environmentally safe. The company says boiling point of the substance is over 2000C in a low vapor pressure environment (for the most substances, except water, the rule is that the boiling point gets lower as the pressure gets lower), which is very high: for instance, iron becomes a liquid when it is heat a temperature of 1535C at normal atmospheric pressure. NanoCoolers does not disclose a type of the fluid it uses."
Boiling point over 2000C, so it must really be metallic, not a solution as I was thinking. Hopefully someone will crack one open and find out what it really is soon.
I saw The first Star Wars (before it was "Episode IV") in 1977, when I was 19. It was great, and seeing it recently, still great. The sequels I didn't like so much; the prequels are dross (I & II, haven't seen III).
The dialoge is done in the style of 30's serials, and is intentionally over the top.
The dialogue in IV was lively, in I & II, wooden.
You don't know what "AD" and "BC" mean, do you?
Well, the Jargon File says "from Monty Python's Flying Circus". The American Heritage Dictionary says "probably inspired by a comedy routine on the British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which the word is repeated incessantly."
So this seems pretty accepted; perhaps not legally proven though.
Couldn't you just disconnect the network/modem, and possibly delete the cache? Then it'd fail to load and you could open a local page, then plug back in and continue.
Aside from correcting your correction above, I've just heard that there's another Hannibal Lecter movie and book upcoming. The story last time was that Thomas Harris had written an ending to kill any idea of a sequel (though the movie version wimped out on Clarice and Hannibal sailing off into the sunset as in the book); so this is a prequel, about his childhood and how he became a cannibal. They must have paid Harris a lot for that. Too bad, I was hoping he'd get out of the rut. Pretty much the same thing happened to Arthur Conan Doyle when he tried to kill off Sherlock Holmes. Eventually he was persuaded to do some prequels; then he brought him back from the dead (Holmes had fallen into a waterfall in a struggle with Moriarty).
Then he said he's making two Star Wars TV series, one animated, one live action. Anyway, the world is full of principled artists who said they'd never do sequels, then did, rock bands that broke up and reofrmed to retread their hits. Lucas has already done 5 sequels. If he needs the money in a few years, he can just let someone else do it and collect 50 million for his signature.
24/7 camera surveillance in your (not "you", specifically) would be another.
I think a larger proportion of the "populace at large" uses P2P.
For a few years. Then some of the more resourceful grunt workers will set up shop for themselves, hire away the best of the rest, and start producing, and patenting, their own IO, and licensing it back to you. Or more likely, licensing it to the manufacturers in East Asia. In 20 years the US's IP exports will be sitcoms and action movies, though these are being offshored too. The 20th Century was the American Cnetury, it's over.
Actually, there must be more to the security than mentioned in TFA. Maybe biometrics.
It doesn't imply "certainty". It does imply that I'm an idiot who doesn't know what he's doing. Don't be disingenuous, you're insulting me. Also, aside from "taking precautions" I do know the symptoms -- unexplained traffic particularly, from the virus propagating &/or sending out spam, which I would see, regardless of software stealthing, on my DSL modem lights. Yes, ninjas could have installed a hardware keylogger; there could be a logic bomb waiting to go off on Halloween, but most viruses have some noticeable effects.
Yeah, I just did. I can just send it to myself via a throwaway address and then forward the http link.
Thanks.
Looks good -- can I trust them not to sell my and the recipient's addresses? Have you used them?
I just used my numeric IP last time I used FTP, but I did check out DynDNS.org, I'll use that if I need to do it again; simple enough but I prefer not to stay online for hours on end.
Ok smart arse. Just how do you know for certain I've been compromised? Do you use The Force? I've only been online for 10 years (25 years if you count back on Unix command line at university), what would I know? Obviously I should just throw away my computer and get a job breaking rocks.
If I was the IT guy, I'd say "I've put it on our webserver. Tell the squaddies to send quote this: 'http://video.mod.uk/Christie.wmv' to their families and everyone can get it without melting down mail servers across the country."
Real anecdote: I occasionally need to send largish (20+ MB) files to a company I do work for. This is too big for my free web space, they have an FTP server but won't give me a login for "security" reasons (seems to me a running FTP server won't be less secure if I have a restricted password, but that argument fell on deaf ears). I can set up my own FTP server, but it's not terribly convenient as I have broadband but not a static IP, so now I just email the damn thing, hoping it won't get interrupted or bounce, taking 50% longer because of MIME encoding than if I could do a binary FTP upload. One day I'll get a hosted domain....
Maybe. (What major technolgy was invented since 2001, BTW?) But they're patented and other companies have to pay to use it. Or do you mean only American companies are allowed to patent, and the rest of us have to hand over anything we invent free?
In this scenario, it's an Australian government entity, the research was paid for by Australian taxpayers, and in this case it's foreign (American) companies who are supposed to pay to use it. Seems fair to me.
Most of them, I think. The Eudora 3 from 1997 I use does.
Well, for me it was the style -- spelling, capitalisation and grammar. All in a post extolling the quality of writing of the NYT made it a little hard to take seriously. Presentation matters.
He can just say it was in his files that he handed over; someone else must have lost them. It's unlikely it would be itemised.
That you KNOW of.
I would know. I've got a firewall, and I can see the traffic passing through my DSL modem. I check the processes running with various tools when something goes wrong; if anything is running it's keeping a very low profile. I don't use IE or OE, basically, the only way somethng could get me is by executing a viral mail attachment, which I haven't been stupid enough to do (yet).