If anything happened to Musk as of right now, Tesla would be divided and absorbed into the old model. He is a visionary and visionaries have to be protected like you protect the King in a game of chess. Look at what's happening to Apple.
While we're at it let's make patents illegal and force everyone to compete based on customer experience rather than who thought of something. Information wants to be free!
Data teleportation is the first type of teleportation and we're probably 200yrs away from any remote possible physical teleportation... at least the kind that doesn't risk the safety of our multiversal instance the entire universe.
The big vile ISPs are notorious for not listening. Rules will exist meant to ensure that everyone has a fair business model for ISPs and then the big guys will keep looking at the model to squeeze more and more money out of it because fair business isn't enough for those guys... they have to squeeze every last nickel out.
What we need is a global competitor to big ISPs that can deploy anywhere. Google could be that new hope, but so could a DIY off-grid group. Google's baloon experiment could be what we need but it doesn't have to stop there and also it is important to note that Google's closeness to NSA is problematic.
There are other better answers to big ISP. Teleporation could destroy the ISP business model and place the power directly in the hands of each individual. No more government spying. No more ISP bullshit.
When I first started posting from this acct I acquired about 25-40 new cyber stalkers, and each loooooved the ad hominem attack because it is a cheap way to smear someone and try to ruin someone's day. They would reply after everything I said that I bought the acct on Ebay... just to warn everyone that I was not special. They would say that anything I said was false because I said it. I could say the sky is blue and they would argue that the deflection of blue light meant the sky was not actually blue that it was in fact REPULSING BLUE. You get me?
They aren't wrong... they are just assholes. You can join them if you like. That's your choice.
But I think I finally frustrated them all enough that they stopped caring at the time. They realized that what I'm saying is what matters, not who I am. I was one of the people in World of Warcraft to receive the Insane title pre-nerf, so you know I'm not easily deterred from something. Of course you'll think of all kinds of negative things to hook into about this reply to you but you'll be wasting your time.
The fellow you used to post from this acct wasn't particularly special. He sold it for beer money.
The fact that he sold it at all says something about him. I would never have sold it. He gave up the one cool thing about him on the internet... for beer money.
He wasn't some rocket scientist... he was a college student who accidentally got into Slashdot's beta just because he was hanging around the place it was being developed and he was one of the earliest adopters if memory serves. He stopped caring about the site and actually never really liked it. Too many trolls.
I've done beta testing and system design. Arguably I am of a higher technical systems background than the previous owner of UID#56 if memory serves correctly.
I certainly value(d) it more than him. The new beta design appears to be eliminating the UID altogether. Think about that for a sec... still want to attack?
So you have no life, and you want to make sure others don't enjoy theirs. Enjoy your meaningless journey. I don't care if you cyber stalk every thread I post in. I will hold my opinions as long as they make sense to me, and offer them freely to others. Don't like it? Cry about it in a reply. Stalk me if you must do so...
He bought / stole the account, and he's been spouting a lot of bullshit lately.
And you're spouting a little right now!;-)
Suggesting this acct was stolen is just a patent falsehood. The original owner of this acct sold it for $100 in a very well publicized Ebay auction. I happened to win the auction and I felt at the time that a piece of Slashdot history (a beta account -- 2digit already) was well worth the money out of sheer novelty. A 3digit acct later sold for around $700 and another for $200-300, from what I could tell.
Love or hate the low-uid, you have to admire any piece of Slashdot history. CmdrTaco is probably the only person posting with a lower UID than me and he's not posted here in a long time (2011). I donated quite a bit of time to helping CmdrTaco on a revamp of the moderation system over several emails back and forth, and he was appreciative of my feedback. I'm a programmer and system designer so he didn't just outright reject what was said. There was a small think-tank of us working on it. But shortly after that Slashdot was sold and the changes were never implemented.
Come on man. I enjoy Slashdot. I've posted my wacky opinion here for quite a long time. My other acct was 6 digit. The one before that was a 4-digit low to mid 2000s uid. I've since lost access to both of those. A good friend was very involved with this site early on and tried to get us all into it back on the TWCTF mailing list back in the day.
Wireless space elevator technology is the answer and it isn't that far off. We can convert the gravitational forces exerted upon the space vehicle into energy stored by the space vehicle. Like a vampire!:-)
It can be done. That's the first big step into space because then we have a very mobile system of getting things off the planets we visit and because they are wireless it reduces the problem of a big giant space elevator cable falling on top of a whole city, crushing people in its path.
But after that's mastered the next step is even stranger. This is way far off in the distant future of technology but to get from one place to another in space is going to require field technology that converts energy into matter-like fields. It doesn't have to be perfect. Far from it. It could reshape itself if there was any kind of damage to the integrity. Field research is doing very well but we have to cure cancer before we could approach the use of this type of technology and that's what is the next big thing stopping us.
To cure cancer we have to cure political corruption because the final equation is very similar. Bloat anywhere is the same beast.
No doubt that the Space Shuttle was an incredibly complicated machine that could break with a series of bad events, but there is far more to the destruction of the Challenger (or the loss of the Columbia a few years later) than simply hand waving and saying "it is so complicated that it was simply going to have problems."
I did link a specific cause summary in my downmodded comment. My point wasn't that the machine was too complicated... it was that the use of a vehicle to enter and exit the atmosphere as a process was wrong. Of all the flame comments that followed my comment, it bothers me that supposed scientific minds here are missing what I was saying entirely.
I'm talking about potentially technology that builds ships in space, raises and lowers materials safely through the atmosphere. Space flight isn't anywhere near as dangerous and stressful to a vessel as passing the atmospheric threshold is. There is no need to have all these space vessels entering and exiting our atmosphere. Operate completely in space. Become sustainable in space.
That's got to be the goal. That's the only way we'll live past the limited resources ahead on this rock.
Because vehicles that are not stressed so much can be used indefinitely and repaired in space. There are no longer missions... there is the overall mission.
Sociopathic tendency is spectrum based. Just because someone is a sociopath doesn't mean they are inherently evil. Take the new Sherlock series where Sherlock is portrayed as a high functioning sociopath (autistic) person. He is arguably a good man, and a man with axioms developed to protect society as a whole.
I assert that crime is a result of a lack of imagination.
The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded because of one tiny flaw in an otherwise perfect system. Reusing rockets would require proof of perfection each time, taking the whole thing apart each time and spending so much time rechecking it. The wear and tear on the system from entry and reentry is to high in most cases, where you'll see stress cracks places you might not expect. For every one stress crack you can see how many are forming that you can't see?
My feeling is that we need to create sustainable unmanned space flight from within space itself and stop ripping our atmosphere apart every time we want to visit the stars. The biggest problem with space travel now is exiting the planet and reentry and it's such a wasteful process. Wouldn't it be better to mine everything we need from unmanned space? Couldn't we cart back piles of resources to stations along the way for processing?
I feel in order for eventual long term manned space flight to be possible, we will need to first build a kind of space-highway. We're not anywhere near ready to go there yet, but it is what I see as the next step for humanity. We're up against unnatural resistance however.
Oligarchies have no incentive to listen. My question still is how do we take an Oligarchy and transform it into a Technocracy because this is exactly what would solve the problem. How is it possible without all hell breaking loose?
What is the Buddha nature of programming? I see this only as to, with heart, effortlessly spawn systems.
The koan of the pebble as it is tossed into a pool is powerful and yet effortless.
From a programming standpoint, the server is the pond. The pebble is the data that will connect to and be placed into the server. The person tossing the pebble is the user. Each activity will take the shortest path, perhaps to the farthest depth. The pond can reject pebbles (frozen).:-)
Study Zen. Not from a religious standpoint but from a philosophical one. Once you grasp these concepts, you are ready to become a programmer or anything else you want.
The first lesson is that an object falls into a pond directly. The object splashes directly. The object sinks directly. The sequence out of order is unnatural.
Okay so this idea informs you about security, and about data flow. More lessons await!:)
I had a friend and he was one of those friends who would always get me into trouble when I was a kid. He was four years older than me... and this was in grade 9 for me. He was the kind of dude that would just throw something at you and yell your name last second. It got so that I had developed Jedi reflexes around this kid. Something told me exactly what to expect. One day the bastard throws a big knotted wooden log towards my head, and calls it out last second as it's about to hit my face.
Without any hesitation I caught it!! About 45-55lbs, which isn't that much -- but it's a hell of a lot to catch without warning.
My point is that there is probably some kind of zone of effect to this type of thing where in a kitchen for example you could expect that a plate or glass might get knocked off the counter so you would be queued up to catch something whenever you enter the kitchen.
Your point is well taken. The NSA is America. Snooping is not a black & white issue, however. This is the effect of an oligarchy. Democracy is not working nor has it ever worked. Communism never worked.
What is required is a Technocracy and the only way to get there is through nationalization programs of tech and other things related to the eventual abolishment of money.
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If anything happened to Musk as of right now, Tesla would be divided and absorbed into the old model. He is a visionary and visionaries have to be protected like you protect the King in a game of chess. Look at what's happening to Apple.
While we're at it let's make patents illegal and force everyone to compete based on customer experience rather than who thought of something. Information wants to be free!
For another stupid patent beef. Let's burn more money because lawyers need yachts, right?
Data teleportation is the first type of teleportation and we're probably 200yrs away from any remote possible physical teleportation... at least the kind that doesn't risk the safety of our multiversal instance the entire universe.
The big vile ISPs are notorious for not listening. Rules will exist meant to ensure that everyone has a fair business model for ISPs and then the big guys will keep looking at the model to squeeze more and more money out of it because fair business isn't enough for those guys... they have to squeeze every last nickel out.
What we need is a global competitor to big ISPs that can deploy anywhere. Google could be that new hope, but so could a DIY off-grid group. Google's baloon experiment could be what we need but it doesn't have to stop there and also it is important to note that Google's closeness to NSA is problematic.
There are other better answers to big ISP. Teleporation could destroy the ISP business model and place the power directly in the hands of each individual. No more government spying. No more ISP bullshit.
You're joking but a geospecialist could easily hold a government for randsom if they had an earthquake machine.
After this comment to you, I've said all I am going to say to you about this. You can live in denial if you prefer.
Don't like what I have to say? Tackle the issues. Stop attacking the person presenting them.
When I first started posting from this acct I acquired about 25-40 new cyber stalkers, and each loooooved the ad hominem attack because it is a cheap way to smear someone and try to ruin someone's day. They would reply after everything I said that I bought the acct on Ebay... just to warn everyone that I was not special. They would say that anything I said was false because I said it. I could say the sky is blue and they would argue that the deflection of blue light meant the sky was not actually blue that it was in fact REPULSING BLUE. You get me?
They aren't wrong... they are just assholes. You can join them if you like. That's your choice.
But I think I finally frustrated them all enough that they stopped caring at the time. They realized that what I'm saying is what matters, not who I am. I was one of the people in World of Warcraft to receive the Insane title pre-nerf, so you know I'm not easily deterred from something. Of course you'll think of all kinds of negative things to hook into about this reply to you but you'll be wasting your time.
The fellow you used to post from this acct wasn't particularly special. He sold it for beer money.
The fact that he sold it at all says something about him. I would never have sold it. He gave up the one cool thing about him on the internet... for beer money.
He wasn't some rocket scientist... he was a college student who accidentally got into Slashdot's beta just because he was hanging around the place it was being developed and he was one of the earliest adopters if memory serves. He stopped caring about the site and actually never really liked it. Too many trolls.
I've done beta testing and system design. Arguably I am of a higher technical systems background than the previous owner of UID#56 if memory serves correctly.
I certainly value(d) it more than him. The new beta design appears to be eliminating the UID altogether. Think about that for a sec... still want to attack?
So you have no life, and you want to make sure others don't enjoy theirs. Enjoy your meaningless journey. I don't care if you cyber stalk every thread I post in. I will hold my opinions as long as they make sense to me, and offer them freely to others. Don't like it? Cry about it in a reply. Stalk me if you must do so...
Is your life that meaningless?
I was thinking I'll do the Quake1 maps but now that I think about it, Spill the Blood would be awesome to update for the new UT, with TWCTF.
The only one who would is CmdrTaco but he hasn't since 2011. I haven't seen anyone post lower than 56.
And you're spouting a little right now! ;-)
Suggesting this acct was stolen is just a patent falsehood. The original owner of this acct sold it for $100 in a very well publicized Ebay auction. I happened to win the auction and I felt at the time that a piece of Slashdot history (a beta account -- 2digit already) was well worth the money out of sheer novelty. A 3digit acct later sold for around $700 and another for $200-300, from what I could tell.
Love or hate the low-uid, you have to admire any piece of Slashdot history. CmdrTaco is probably the only person posting with a lower UID than me and he's not posted here in a long time (2011). I donated quite a bit of time to helping CmdrTaco on a revamp of the moderation system over several emails back and forth, and he was appreciative of my feedback. I'm a programmer and system designer so he didn't just outright reject what was said. There was a small think-tank of us working on it. But shortly after that Slashdot was sold and the changes were never implemented.
Come on man. I enjoy Slashdot. I've posted my wacky opinion here for quite a long time. My other acct was 6 digit. The one before that was a 4-digit low to mid 2000s uid. I've since lost access to both of those. A good friend was very involved with this site early on and tried to get us all into it back on the TWCTF mailing list back in the day.
So you're not wrong... except you are wrong about the stealing thing.
The way I breathe air and take it into my body is unique. You all have to stop breathing, okay? Or pony up.
Former RealCTF level designer here.
This is a really good idea, and I welcome this as great news! :-)
If anyone needs some level design, hit me up!!
Wireless space elevator technology is the answer and it isn't that far off. We can convert the gravitational forces exerted upon the space vehicle into energy stored by the space vehicle. Like a vampire! :-)
It can be done. That's the first big step into space because then we have a very mobile system of getting things off the planets we visit and because they are wireless it reduces the problem of a big giant space elevator cable falling on top of a whole city, crushing people in its path.
But after that's mastered the next step is even stranger. This is way far off in the distant future of technology but to get from one place to another in space is going to require field technology that converts energy into matter-like fields. It doesn't have to be perfect. Far from it. It could reshape itself if there was any kind of damage to the integrity. Field research is doing very well but we have to cure cancer before we could approach the use of this type of technology and that's what is the next big thing stopping us.
To cure cancer we have to cure political corruption because the final equation is very similar. Bloat anywhere is the same beast.
I did link a specific cause summary in my downmodded comment. My point wasn't that the machine was too complicated... it was that the use of a vehicle to enter and exit the atmosphere as a process was wrong. Of all the flame comments that followed my comment, it bothers me that supposed scientific minds here are missing what I was saying entirely.
I'm talking about potentially technology that builds ships in space, raises and lowers materials safely through the atmosphere. Space flight isn't anywhere near as dangerous and stressful to a vessel as passing the atmospheric threshold is. There is no need to have all these space vessels entering and exiting our atmosphere. Operate completely in space. Become sustainable in space.
That's got to be the goal. That's the only way we'll live past the limited resources ahead on this rock.
Because vehicles that are not stressed so much can be used indefinitely and repaired in space. There are no longer missions... there is the overall mission.
Sociopathic tendency is spectrum based. Just because someone is a sociopath doesn't mean they are inherently evil. Take the new Sherlock series where Sherlock is portrayed as a high functioning sociopath (autistic) person. He is arguably a good man, and a man with axioms developed to protect society as a whole.
I assert that crime is a result of a lack of imagination.
The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded because of one tiny flaw in an otherwise perfect system. Reusing rockets would require proof of perfection each time, taking the whole thing apart each time and spending so much time rechecking it. The wear and tear on the system from entry and reentry is to high in most cases, where you'll see stress cracks places you might not expect. For every one stress crack you can see how many are forming that you can't see?
My feeling is that we need to create sustainable unmanned space flight from within space itself and stop ripping our atmosphere apart every time we want to visit the stars. The biggest problem with space travel now is exiting the planet and reentry and it's such a wasteful process. Wouldn't it be better to mine everything we need from unmanned space? Couldn't we cart back piles of resources to stations along the way for processing?
I feel in order for eventual long term manned space flight to be possible, we will need to first build a kind of space-highway. We're not anywhere near ready to go there yet, but it is what I see as the next step for humanity. We're up against unnatural resistance however.
I had never considered that the spoon in the film The Matrix could be also representative of the system itself.
Oligarchies have no incentive to listen. My question still is how do we take an Oligarchy and transform it into a Technocracy because this is exactly what would solve the problem. How is it possible without all hell breaking loose?
This is an example of a koan.
What is the Buddha nature of programming? I see this only as to, with heart, effortlessly spawn systems.
The koan of the pebble as it is tossed into a pool is powerful and yet effortless.
From a programming standpoint, the server is the pond. The pebble is the data that will connect to and be placed into the server. The person tossing the pebble is the user. Each activity will take the shortest path, perhaps to the farthest depth. The pond can reject pebbles (frozen). :-)
Systems rely on this koan.
Study Zen. Not from a religious standpoint but from a philosophical one. Once you grasp these concepts, you are ready to become a programmer or anything else you want.
The first lesson is that an object falls into a pond directly. The object splashes directly. The object sinks directly. The sequence out of order is unnatural.
Okay so this idea informs you about security, and about data flow. More lessons await! :)
$2500 hammers.
I had a friend and he was one of those friends who would always get me into trouble when I was a kid. He was four years older than me... and this was in grade 9 for me. He was the kind of dude that would just throw something at you and yell your name last second. It got so that I had developed Jedi reflexes around this kid. Something told me exactly what to expect. One day the bastard throws a big knotted wooden log towards my head, and calls it out last second as it's about to hit my face.
Without any hesitation I caught it!! About 45-55lbs, which isn't that much -- but it's a hell of a lot to catch without warning.
My point is that there is probably some kind of zone of effect to this type of thing where in a kitchen for example you could expect that a plate or glass might get knocked off the counter so you would be queued up to catch something whenever you enter the kitchen.
Doesn't your point prevent itself?
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Your point is well taken. The NSA is America. Snooping is not a black & white issue, however. This is the effect of an oligarchy. Democracy is not working nor has it ever worked. Communism never worked.
What is required is a Technocracy and the only way to get there is through nationalization programs of tech and other things related to the eventual abolishment of money.