I wouldn't be too surprised if various intelligence services already did this. A service that puts moles in deep cover for decades would certainly be patient enough to put code in silicon and wait years for the right moment to execute it.
We cannot predict the course of asteroids over 200 years to within an Earth diameter. I have worked on this area, and the masses and positions of bodies (particularly all of the other asteroids) are simply not well enough known. So, it will come near the Earth, but we won't know if it is a true threat for at least a century.
A really intelligent shower would remember how you like your showers, and repeat it. Really, why should I spend time to get the temperature and pressure just right, when I always want the same thing. There could bather 1, bather 2, etc., for shared use.
Now, there's an innovation I would expect to see in Japan first.
Really. Any shopping area in Japan that I have been to is loud, bright and flashing. I see no reasons why commercial web sites should be any different.
Note that there is an interesting history here concerning the H.264 baseline. According to the JVT that created this baseline there was consensus to have this be "patent free" (or, more exactly, royalty free) :
Regarding Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for the JVT codec, JVT has agreed to the following basic principles:
The JVT codec should have a simple royalty free “baseline” profile (both on the encoder and decoder) in order to promote the wide implementation and use of the JVT codec. All implementations should have such a common baseline profile core, in order to allow minimal interoperability among all JVT codecs. The above requirement means that all technology applied in the baseline profile shall have no IPR, expired IPR, or valid but royalty-fee-free IPR (according to Box 2.1 or 2.2.1 of the JVT Patent Disclosure form, as shown below).
Special, more advanced profiles of the JVT standard may contain patents per Box 2.2 of the JVT Patent Disclosure form (reasonable terms and conditions).
So, how (besides chutzpah) does MPEG-LA assert licensing rights for the H.264 baseline ? I don't know, but I have heard rumors that the San Diego Qualcomm case had something to do with it :
Qualcomm's Patents Rendered Unenforceable and Qualcomm Ordered to Pay Broadcom's Attorneys Fees, Expenses and Costs
IRVINE, Calif., Aug 07, 2007 -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that a San Diego federal court ruled yesterday that Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) engaged in aggravated litigation misconduct and standards abuse with respect to two Qualcomm patents that relate to digital video technology. The court ruled that Qualcomm has thereby waived its rights to enforce all claims of the two patents and any continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, reissues, or any other derivatives of those patents. The court also ordered Qualcomm to pay all of Broadcom's reasonable attorneys' fees, court costs, expert witness fees, travel expenses and any other litigation costs reasonably incurred by Broadcom in defending the patent infringement case that led to the rulings.
Citing the misconduct of Qualcomm's employees, witnesses, and counsel before, during and after trial, the court found that "Broadcom proved this to be an exceptional case by clear and convincing evidence based on (1) Qualcomm's bad faith participation in the H.264 standard-setting body, the Joint Video Team (JVT); and (2) the litigation misconduct of Qualcomm through its employees, hired outside witnesses, and trial counsel during discovery, motions practice, trial and post-trial proceedings." According to the court, "Qualcomm closely monitored and participated in the development of the H.264 standard, all the while concealing the existence of at least two patents it believed were likely to be essential to the practice of the standard, until after the development was completed and the standard was published internationally. Then, without any prior letter, email, telephone call, or even a smoke signal, let alone attempt to license Broadcom, Qualcomm filed the instant lawsuit against Broadcom for infringement of the '104 and '767 patents."
This experience seems to have left a bad taste in the mouth of the video standards industry concerning royalty free patents. This is shear speculation, but I also have to wonder if this has something to do with MPEG-LA's reluctance to date to charge royalties for the H.264 baseline.
You use a track on the GBT, but the 70 meters use a large horizontal bearing. These are Apollo era antennae, old enough that they were originally pointed with a internal ha-dec antenna model as an analogue computer (as was the old 140 foot at Greenbank). They really need to be replaced.
This is not the first time that they have replaced the bearing on the 70 meter antennae. I believe that for DSS 14 (AKA Goldstone Mars) this would be the 3rd bearing change.
These 70 meters are reaching their end of life, and almost certainly will be replaced with arrays of smaller (but still large) antenna within the decade.
See if you can get access to the site again, and screen scrape it. That should not be too hard (search for all articles beginning with "A", then "B", etc.). Then, it should be straightforward to enter it into MySQL or your database of choice.
(It is just possible the search functionality is still there, with just the HTML being taken down. The WayBack Machine could be your friend here...)
(note to Americans: please use metric for anything involving science. Stuff goes badly wrong if you need to stuff your equations full of fudge factors)
It's worse than that. If you don't know what's the difference between a slug and a poundal, use metric. If you do, you already realize why you should use metric.
This is a solar sail. They produce a very small thrust, and will never be used to get into orbit, but they require no fuel. If you want more thrust, build a bigger sail (i.e., raise the area to mass ratio). With a big enough sail (and some time) you could go anywhere in the inner solar system.
It's space flight. All will be fine, or people will be dead.
I think that the point is that they shut down the pipeline. There will be things that they need that won't be in the maintenance depot, so they will have to be made special purpose. That can certainly be done, but it will be slow and expensive.
We're about to rely on a foreign country as our sole source supplier for manned access to the ISS for at least several years
No, we are about to rely on a private company, Space X, to ferry astronauts to the ISS. That seems reasonable to me, with the Russians as a backup / lifeboat.
I was told by people who work on the Shuttle that a decision to run another shuttle flight should have been made 1-2 years ago, that there are not enough spare parts to do this, and that this is basically throwing good money after bad.
In a discussion with one of the authors, he makes it clear that they are not advocating a Levy, just considering its implications. Read the paper, and draw your own conclusions.
The experience of the last century shows that fanatics can remain hermetically sealed from the truth until the fabric of their society collapses around them, and there is literally rubble in the streets.
I think that education is the only hope to fix this, but that means that this will be a problem for the rest of our lives, if not a lot longer.
Tapes are not archival storage either. In either case, archival storage is a system, not a medium.
I hope you are reading all of those tapes on a 5 year cycle, and writing new ones with the recovered data. I also hope you are making sure that the humidity and temperature are strictly controlled at all times in the tape storage room.
I could believe the 90% number. There is plenty of data sitting around in case it is needed. Some of it will be needed. Much of won't be. How do you predict which is which ?
If I were in charge of this give away, some fake back door honey-pots would be put into Windows. That way, if they found and exploited back doors and security holes, Microsoft would know about it.
How to provide a hole that is not a hole at a deeper level would be an interesting exercise in computer science. Of course, if a hole is planned, a patch can be sitting ready to go as soon as it is exploited, which would help some.
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I wouldn't be too surprised if various intelligence services already did this. A service that puts moles in deep cover for decades would certainly be patient enough to put code in silicon and wait years for the right moment to execute it.
We cannot predict the course of asteroids over 200 years to within an Earth diameter. I have worked on this area, and the masses and positions of bodies (particularly all of the other asteroids) are simply not well enough known. So, it will come near the Earth, but we won't know if it is a true threat for at least a century.
This is not about public safety, it's about raising money for the municipality. Period.
Don't share your bath much, I guess.
A really intelligent shower would remember how you like your showers, and repeat it. Really, why should I spend time to get the temperature and pressure just right, when I always want the same thing. There could bather 1, bather 2, etc., for shared use.
Now, there's an innovation I would expect to see in Japan first.
Really. Any shopping area in Japan that I have been to is loud, bright and flashing. I see no reasons why commercial web sites should be any different.
This is a repeat.
Note that there is an interesting history here concerning the H.264 baseline. According to the JVT that created this baseline there was consensus to have this be "patent free" (or, more exactly, royalty free) :
Regarding Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for the JVT codec, JVT has agreed to the following basic
principles:
The JVT codec should have a simple royalty free “baseline” profile (both on the encoder and
decoder) in order to promote the wide implementation and use of the JVT codec. All implementations
should have such a common baseline profile core, in order to allow minimal interoperability among all
JVT codecs. The above requirement means that all technology applied in the baseline profile shall
have no IPR, expired IPR, or valid but royalty-fee-free IPR (according to Box 2.1 or 2.2.1 of the JVT
Patent Disclosure form, as shown below).
Special, more advanced profiles of the JVT standard may contain patents per Box 2.2 of the JVT
Patent Disclosure form (reasonable terms and conditions).
So, how (besides chutzpah) does MPEG-LA assert licensing rights for the H.264 baseline ? I don't know, but I have heard rumors that the San Diego Qualcomm case had something to do with it :
Qualcomm's Patents Rendered Unenforceable and Qualcomm Ordered to Pay Broadcom's Attorneys Fees, Expenses and Costs
IRVINE, Calif., Aug 07, 2007 -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that a San Diego federal court ruled yesterday that Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) engaged in aggravated litigation misconduct and standards abuse with respect to two Qualcomm patents that relate to digital video technology. The court ruled that Qualcomm has thereby waived its rights to enforce all claims of the two patents and any continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, reissues, or any other derivatives of those patents. The court also ordered Qualcomm to pay all of Broadcom's reasonable attorneys' fees, court costs, expert witness fees, travel expenses and any other litigation costs reasonably incurred by Broadcom in defending the patent infringement case that led to the rulings.
Citing the misconduct of Qualcomm's employees, witnesses, and counsel before, during and after trial, the court found that "Broadcom proved this to be an exceptional case by clear and convincing evidence based on (1) Qualcomm's bad faith participation in the H.264 standard-setting body, the Joint Video Team (JVT); and (2) the litigation misconduct of Qualcomm through its employees, hired outside witnesses, and trial counsel during discovery, motions practice, trial and post-trial proceedings." According to the court, "Qualcomm closely monitored and participated in the development of the H.264 standard, all the while concealing the existence of at least two patents it believed were likely to be essential to the practice of the standard, until after the development was completed and the standard was published internationally. Then, without any prior letter, email, telephone call, or even a smoke signal, let alone attempt to license Broadcom, Qualcomm filed the instant lawsuit against Broadcom for infringement of the '104 and '767 patents."
This experience seems to have left a bad taste in the mouth of the video standards industry concerning royalty free patents. This is shear speculation, but I also have to wonder if this has something to do with MPEG-LA's reluctance to date to charge royalties for the H.264 baseline.
Millions, maybe. Billions to study animal locomotion ? NFW
You use a track on the GBT, but the 70 meters use a large horizontal bearing. These are Apollo era antennae, old enough that they were originally pointed with a internal ha-dec antenna model as an analogue computer (as was the old 140 foot at Greenbank). They really need to be replaced.
This is not the first time that they have replaced the bearing on the 70 meter antennae. I believe that for DSS 14 (AKA Goldstone Mars) this would be the 3rd bearing change.
These 70 meters are reaching their end of life, and almost certainly will be replaced with arrays of smaller (but still large) antenna within the decade.
See if you can get access to the site again, and screen scrape it. That should not be too hard (search for all articles beginning with "A", then "B", etc.). Then, it should be straightforward to enter it into MySQL or your database of choice.
(It is just possible the search functionality is still there, with just the HTML being taken down. The WayBack Machine could be your friend here...)
(note to Americans: please use metric for anything involving science. Stuff goes badly wrong if you need to stuff your equations full of fudge factors)
It's worse than that. If you don't know what's the difference between a slug and a poundal, use metric. If you do, you already realize why you should use metric.
Isn't that a very very small force though?
This is a solar sail. They produce a very small thrust, and will never be used to get into orbit, but they require no fuel. If you want more thrust, build a bigger sail (i.e., raise the area to mass ratio). With a big enough sail (and some time) you could go anywhere in the inner solar system.
It's space flight. All will be fine, or people will be dead.
I think that the point is that they shut down the pipeline. There will be things that they need that won't be in the maintenance depot, so they will have to be made special purpose. That can certainly be done, but it will be slow and expensive.
We're about to rely on a foreign country as our sole source supplier for manned access to the ISS for at least several years
No, we are about to rely on a private company, Space X, to ferry astronauts to the ISS. That seems reasonable to me, with the Russians as a backup / lifeboat.
I was told by people who work on the Shuttle that a decision to run another shuttle flight should have been made 1-2 years ago, that there are not enough spare parts to do this, and that this is basically throwing good money after bad.
You missed :
Aldrin : Strongly supports Obama's space plans.
The original paper is available online.
In a discussion with one of the authors, he makes it clear that they are not advocating a Levy, just considering its implications. Read the paper, and draw your own conclusions.
The experience of the last century shows that fanatics can remain hermetically sealed from the truth until the fabric of their society collapses around them, and there is literally rubble in the streets.
I think that education is the only hope to fix this, but that means that this will be a problem for the rest of our lives, if not a lot longer.
Absolutely nothing new here.
Steve Albini.
Courtney Love.
Both, I believe, 10+ years old.
Expecting sense out of David Vitter is like expecting valid legal advice from Slashdot. Yes, it might happen, but it's not the way to bet.
Well over 99% of all lifeboats are never used.
Tapes are not archival storage either. In either case, archival storage is a system, not a medium.
I hope you are reading all of those tapes on a 5 year cycle, and writing new ones with the recovered data. I also hope you are making sure that the humidity and temperature are strictly controlled at all times in the tape storage room.
I could believe the 90% number. There is plenty of data sitting around in case it is needed. Some of it will be needed. Much of won't be. How do you predict which is which ?
If I were in charge of this give away, some fake back door honey-pots would be put into Windows. That way, if they found and exploited back doors and security holes, Microsoft would know about it.
How to provide a hole that is not a hole at a deeper level would be an interesting exercise in computer science. Of course, if a hole is planned, a patch can be sitting ready to go as soon as it is exploited, which would help some.