You need to understand something. This is the offical geek water cooler of the world.
If your looking for a place to have a deep discussion about the optimization of tokenizing objective C code in realtime in kernel space... this is not the place. Actually attempting to tokenize objective C in kernel space doesn't deserve discussion anywhere, *ergo*, I digress;-)
Yes, we will on occasion speak seriously about things, however; in most case. We're just a bunch of Knuckleheads...
Firstly, I'm suprised it took this long for something like this to happen. Though I suspect it's been happening for a while. Organized crime has always been ready to utilize new technology in the persuit of money / Power.
Secondly, How is this different from some company installing spyware/nagware that's not uninstallable and then sending you email asking you to pay 20 bucks for a utility that'll "remove" their piece of software.
You would think that, but I did a bit of research.
<a href="http://www.state.ma.us/courts/formsandguidel ines/sentencing/grid.html">Massachusetts Sentencing Guidelines Grid</a><p> If I were to accidentally hit someone with my car (involentary manslaughter) I would be looking at 8-12 years (supposidely) where's if I defrauded granny out of (greater than 50k) I'd be looking at between 5-7.5 yrs.
Granted with this bit of "gorsearch" (google research) what I hear on the news doesn't corrolate with what's on the table...
Actually we don't. We just right click on the link and choose "Open link in new tab" and then go back to surfing porn.
However, I'm suprised that someone hasn't setup an experiment with a bunch of memory cells and a genetic algorithm that would just go through all the permintations until it came up with the most efficent way to store a bit.
Actually, Oxygen isn't the problem. Most of the soil on the moon has chemically locked in Oxygen as well as hydrogen.
My thinking would be that we'd send up some robots first and an automated plant that would stockpile hydrogen/oxygen and water.
I think the best solution to the Solar Storms and Medeorites is to dig. You'd make a huge ditch and then bury the habitation module in lunar dirt.
As for the vehicles, yeah. You'd need all kinds of rovers and stuff to get around. As for the escape vehicle, I would think that would be last ditch. Also for the medical stuff, one of the people that you sent up there would have to be a doctor.
As for the shuttle thing. I think if they knew there was a problem with the shuttle, they would have figured out a way to get them back safely.
There are also a few things to consider as well. Going to the moon will spur innovation on several fronts.
I heard this somewhere and I agree with it. When we went to the moon, it was the equivalent of crossing the pacific in a dug out canoe.
So, in order for us to realistically goto the moon and setup a permanent presense were gonna need a few things.
Firstly, we some sorta vechile to get there, obviously. I know people are ultra hung up about it being reusable, I don't think that's so important.
Secondly, we need some sort of light material that can block radiation. There's a company that's created a fabric called "Demron" however, I haven't seen any data to support / debunk their claims. Without this technology, we won't be on the moon long term.
Thirdly, We need to design a light weight robust habitat that we can ship to the moon and setup. Also, we need to develop some sortof heavy machinery that can either be shipped to the moon and assembled or rolled up ala rover style. Granted it can be much more light weight than any earth bound "heavy" equipment but its got to rugid and capable of surviving longterm use in a dirty lunar environment (the apollo astronauts had huge problems with lunar soil gumming things up)
Forthly, we need better space suits. The current ones are nice, but way to heavy to be used on the moon.
That's just the stuff that comes up off the top of my head.
I disagree with several points you made in your post.
Firstly, I don't know why having an "old" government is such a bad thing. What it has shown is that our system of government is dynamic and adaptable. It has faced lots of challenges (a civil war, numerous assassinations, scandals, etc) and has held firm despite it. As for your spider web comment, that's a core design element of our government. The spider web spreads the power out so no single entity will ever have total control.
I do agree with what Thomas Jefferson said. However, when that time comes, I see "replace the government" in the context of all the people in all the districts all rescinding their respective senators and representatives and electing people who actually represent the will of the people. Our newly elected senators and representatives would then impeach the president and we'd elect a new president.
The system isn't broken; it's the people in the system that's the problem.
My insight is to say that your right on the mark. NAT killed IPv6. Also, now with the focus more on security, more people are seeing isolated networks with single points of IDS monitoring as solid solutions to security. Hence people put everything on a non routable blocks of IPs and put a snort NAT box at the head end.
Bluerage: noun Meaning: The act of finding and beating of a person who uses a bluetooth enabled device to send people with bluetooth enabled devices unsolicated messages. Other Notes: Due to local regulations, you may only beat the person with your phone. However, if your phone is integrated into a pair of brass knuckles, all the better.
you've got a valid point. You'd have to find some way to contain the whole mess and then dispose of the whole thing. Or just tie the person up and throw them in. Yeah, they'rd be lots of screaming, but just throw in some Pantera and turn up the volume, nobody will notice.
Hence why you'd probably never see such a thing in your home. OR if you did, it would be cripled in some way so it would be incapable of creating a whole range of bad things.
Here's something to think about... so you murder someone and throw all the evidence into one of these machines and tell "Disassemble and use components to make a clock radio"
That sounds fine and dandy, but I doubt without lots of major changes in goverance and distribution of power.
Lets just say tommorrow some researcher at [insert some amazing research facility] puts out a press release stating that they've found the key. They can assembler/disassemble on the atomic and molecular scale, the whole thing scales and they can control the whole thing reliably.
Firstly, do you think big business or government would ever let this technology get into the hands of Joe Average citizen?
The prospect that a citizen could in their home, with the proper compounds manufacture anything would scare the shit out of them.
Also, think of what it would do the economy.
What if, with my assembler and the plans I downloaded off the internet could assemble myself a Ferrari? The value of owning a Ferrari becomes nothing.
No more shipping, no more massive manufacturing.
I could download the blueprints and manufacture myself a book I wanted to read. Then when I'm done, I just throw the book back in the assembler and have it just disassemble it back into the base compounds. Download another book and use those compounds to manufature a new one.
Personally, I'd want one of these. This thing would be the ultimate recycler. Something like this would eclipse techniques like TDP for taking matter and coverting it back into its root atoms.
So, with that all said, you'd never have one of these in your home, and it's probably not for the reasons stated above. The government would be so scared that radicals of some kind would get their hands on this technology and use it to manufacture guns / explosives / etc.
So, yeah, I see this technolgy existing, I just don't ever see it in our hands. It'll be buried deeply in some manufacturing or recycling plant and it'll be licensed and heavily monitored.
As someone who's lost ~15 pounds on the south beach diet, here's my take on things.
I didn't start the diet as a "I want to lose weight" I started the diet as a "I want to change my eating habits so I don't have to go on some insane drastic diet in the future."
Basically, it's been cutting refined sugars and simple carbohydrates out of my diet and replacing them with unrefined sugars and complex carbohydrates.
Initally, it was hard giving up soda and I craved a few things (like non whole grain bread) but I'm past that. Also my pallet has changed as well. I used to go and just down a pound of chocolate without even flinching. I now find that a little goes a long way.
When we built your Gulf stream 5, we didn't do it "perfectly". In fact we didn't even do it well. We figured these things are over engineered anyway, so we only put in half the rivets. Oh yeah, see that cockpit full of doo dads, well they don't work. We know you asked for all those features, but only got half of them to work margianlly. The others will just cause the plane to plummet of the sky like a brick. In fact, we just wired them to random stuff. In the near future we'll be sending you out some wiring diagrams to make it all work we "promise!"
Also, by taking the plane out of the package, you obsolve us of any damages this plane may cause. Oh yeah, and the use of JAVA on hardware that runs critical applications like life support and nuclear power plants will cause us all to die.
For 3K I can buy a laptop that'll smoke whatever this thing can put up for numbers, and it'll have a DVD writer and a builtin wireless card and all kinds of other fun shit.
One possible solution would be to impliment a verification scheme (much like the jpeg with a combination of letters and numbers) that you have to pass through in order to have your post appended to the comments part of the blog.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually you get the prize.
Firstly, I only used "ergo" because of some comment above complaining about the over use of ergo.
Secondly, I purposely misused it!
Mike,
;-)
You need to understand something. This is the offical geek water cooler of the world.
If your looking for a place to have a deep discussion about the optimization of tokenizing objective C code in realtime in kernel space... this is not the place. Actually attempting to tokenize objective C in kernel space doesn't deserve discussion anywhere, *ergo*, I digress
Yes, we will on occasion speak seriously about things, however; in most case. We're just a bunch of Knuckleheads...
Welcome to the club!
Microsoft will now roll forth it's great marketing machine to convince everybody that open source is dead.
My question is, how do they measure if something is alive or dead?
It could be argued that open source is "undead".
I think you just created the civil equivalent to the insanity defense...
"My client would like to point out that he was not infact robbing a bank, he was merely exercising an 'innovative business model'".
Firstly, I'm suprised it took this long for something like this to happen. Though I suspect it's been happening for a while. Organized crime has always been ready to utilize new technology in the persuit of money / Power.
Secondly, How is this different from some company installing spyware/nagware that's not uninstallable and then sending you email asking you to pay 20 bucks for a utility that'll "remove" their piece of software.
<a href="http://www.state.ma.us/courts/formsandguide
If I were to accidentally hit someone with my car (involentary manslaughter) I would be looking at 8-12 years (supposidely) where's if I defrauded granny out of (greater than 50k) I'd be looking at
between 5-7.5 yrs.
Granted with this bit of "gorsearch" (google research) what I hear on the news doesn't corrolate with what's on the table...
One can only hope ;-)
Actually we don't. We just right click on the link and choose "Open link in new tab" and then go back to surfing porn.
However, I'm suprised that someone hasn't setup an experiment with a bunch of memory cells and a genetic algorithm that would just go through all the permintations until it came up with the most efficent way to store a bit.
trb, You misunderstand.
There are people living the lap of luxury because of all the innovation. The problem is those people aren't us.
We're the Morelocks...
Actually, Oxygen isn't the problem. Most of the soil on the moon has chemically locked in Oxygen as well as hydrogen.
My thinking would be that we'd send up some robots first and an automated plant that would stockpile hydrogen/oxygen and water.
I think the best solution to the Solar Storms and Medeorites is to dig. You'd make a huge ditch and then bury the habitation module in lunar dirt.
As for the vehicles, yeah. You'd need all kinds of rovers and stuff to get around. As for the escape vehicle, I would think that would be last ditch. Also for the medical stuff, one of the people that you sent up there would have to be a doctor.
As for the shuttle thing. I think if they knew there was a problem with the shuttle, they would have figured out a way to get them back safely.
There are also a few things to consider as well. Going to the moon will spur innovation on several fronts.
I heard this somewhere and I agree with it. When we went to the moon, it was the equivalent of crossing the pacific in a dug out canoe.
So, in order for us to realistically goto the moon and setup a permanent presense were gonna need a few things.
Firstly, we some sorta vechile to get there, obviously. I know people are ultra hung up about it being reusable, I don't think that's so important.
Secondly, we need some sort of light material that can block radiation. There's a company that's created a fabric called "Demron" however, I haven't seen any data to support / debunk their claims. Without this technology, we won't be on the moon long term.
Thirdly, We need to design a light weight robust habitat that we can ship to the moon and setup. Also, we need to develop some sortof heavy machinery that can either be shipped to the moon and assembled or rolled up ala rover style. Granted it can be much more light weight than any earth bound "heavy" equipment but its got to rugid and capable of surviving longterm use in a dirty lunar environment (the apollo astronauts had huge problems with lunar soil gumming things up)
Forthly, we need better space suits. The current ones are nice, but way to heavy to be used on the moon.
That's just the stuff that comes up off the top of my head.
So, what would be an improvement to the current system we have?
I disagree with several points you made in your post.
Firstly, I don't know why having an "old" government is such a bad thing. What it has shown is that our system of government is dynamic and adaptable. It has faced lots of challenges (a civil war, numerous assassinations, scandals, etc) and has held firm despite it. As for your spider web comment, that's a core design element of our government. The spider web spreads the power out so no single entity will ever have total control.
I do agree with what Thomas Jefferson said. However, when that time comes, I see "replace the government" in the context of all the people in all the districts all rescinding their respective senators and representatives and electing people who actually represent the will of the people. Our newly elected senators and representatives would then impeach the president and we'd elect a new president.
The system isn't broken; it's the people in the system that's the problem.
My insight is to say that your right on the mark. NAT killed IPv6. Also, now with the focus more on security, more people are seeing isolated networks with single points of IDS monitoring as solid solutions to security. Hence people put everything on a non routable blocks of IPs and put a snort NAT box at the head end.
Bluerage: noun
Meaning: The act of finding and beating of a person who uses a bluetooth enabled device to send people with bluetooth enabled devices unsolicated messages.
Other Notes: Due to local regulations, you may only beat the person with your phone. However, if your phone is integrated into a pair of brass knuckles, all the better.
you've got a valid point. You'd have to find some way to contain the whole mess and then dispose of the whole thing. Or just tie the person up and throw them in. Yeah, they'rd be lots of screaming, but just throw in some Pantera and turn up the volume, nobody will notice.
*shrugs* I'm using Fedora right now and it works great.
Oh well.
Hence why you'd probably never see such a thing in your home. OR if you did, it would be cripled in some way so it would be incapable of creating a whole range of bad things.
Here's something to think about... so you murder someone and throw all the evidence into one of these machines and tell "Disassemble and use components to make a clock radio"
That sounds fine and dandy, but I doubt without lots of major changes in goverance and distribution of power.
Lets just say tommorrow some researcher at [insert some amazing research facility] puts out a press release stating that they've found the key. They can assembler/disassemble on the atomic and molecular scale, the whole thing scales and they can control the whole thing reliably.
Firstly, do you think big business or government would ever let this technology get into the hands of Joe Average citizen?
The prospect that a citizen could in their home, with the proper compounds manufacture anything would scare the shit out of them.
Also, think of what it would do the economy.
What if, with my assembler and the plans I downloaded off the internet could assemble myself a Ferrari? The value of owning a Ferrari becomes nothing.
No more shipping, no more massive manufacturing.
I could download the blueprints and manufacture myself a book I wanted to read. Then when I'm done, I just throw the book back in the assembler and have it just disassemble it back into the base compounds. Download another book and use those compounds to manufature a new one.
Personally, I'd want one of these. This thing would be the ultimate recycler. Something like this would eclipse techniques like TDP for taking matter and coverting it back into its root atoms.
So, with that all said, you'd never have one of these in your home, and it's probably not for the reasons stated above. The government would be so scared that radicals of some kind would get their hands on this technology and use it to manufacture guns / explosives / etc.
So, yeah, I see this technolgy existing, I just don't ever see it in our hands. It'll be buried deeply in some manufacturing or recycling plant and it'll be licensed and heavily monitored.
As someone who's lost ~15 pounds on the south beach diet, here's my take on things.
I didn't start the diet as a "I want to lose weight" I started the diet as a "I want to change my eating habits so I don't have to go on some insane drastic diet in the future."
Basically, it's been cutting refined sugars and simple carbohydrates out of my diet and replacing them with unrefined sugars and complex carbohydrates.
Initally, it was hard giving up soda and I craved a few things (like non whole grain bread) but I'm past that. Also my pallet has changed as well. I used to go and just down a pound of chocolate without even flinching. I now find that a little goes a long way.
Hey Bill!
When we built your Gulf stream 5, we didn't do it "perfectly". In fact we didn't even do it well. We figured these things are over engineered anyway, so we only put in half the rivets. Oh yeah, see that cockpit full of doo dads, well they don't work. We know you asked for all those features, but only got half of them to work margianlly. The others will just cause the plane to plummet of the sky like a brick. In fact, we just wired them to random stuff. In the near future we'll be sending you out some wiring diagrams to make it all work we "promise!"
Also, by taking the plane out of the package, you obsolve us of any damages this plane may cause. Oh yeah, and the use of JAVA on hardware that runs critical applications like life support and nuclear power plants will cause us all to die.
Wouldn't that just be the "black hole of death"???
For 3K I can buy a laptop that'll smoke whatever this thing can put up for numbers, and it'll have a DVD writer and a builtin wireless card and all kinds of other fun shit.
This is merely a stupid toy for a rich VP's.
One possible solution would be to impliment a verification scheme (much like the jpeg with a combination of letters and numbers) that you have to pass through in order to have your post appended to the comments part of the blog.
Well, the mono guys will keep working on their code and keeping up with API changes.
When the signing thing comes, that's were it'll get weird.