I, for one, welcome Iran in the club of the space-faring countries. Maybe will it make it possible for western nation to finally see this country as the industrial nation they really are ? I hope that this window to space will open to international cooperation. I am a bit sad that this achievement was not announced before its success but I am sure that IRan will recognize the necessity of international collaboration once it will need to use stable orbits.
Launch capabilities are a scarce resource. More of them is welcomed.
I understand your request for mobilization, I understand that the Western world is in great peril. Please be assured of my everlasting support to your cause against these 1500 years (or 3000 years or something...) old enemies. I would be glad to help but I am currently too busy digging some trenches to protect me from our neighbors. See, my nation is fighting since 1000 years (or 2000 or whatever) against the Germanic people. Our feud is so old that I think reconciliation may prove impossible. All we can do is arm for war.
Please be assured of my deepest sympathy
A French guy.
Your estimations are way off, and even if they were, why limit the universe to our own galaxy ? If humans add a FTL technology that allowed intergalactic travel, it would not take longer than a few millenniums to colonize the entire universe and make sure that every intelligent lifeform heard about us.
When police filters people who enter a building or who attend a political meeting, it is visible. The control, abnormal, is made in public for everyone to see. A RFID control, however, can be a single box the size of a case hidden behind the door. That is a huge difference in practice. A thing that we often overlook when discussing privacy issues.
The interesting part of the Fermi's paradox, IMHO, is that it gives us only two possibilities :
- Either there are no intelligent species in the universe wanting to communicate with us
- Or FTL travel is not achievable even given enough technological advancement.
Does anyone here really think you could run a large company without being able to monitor emails sent by company representatives, using company resources? Does this really seem right to you?
Well, yes. It can be done, it is being done. If an employee can steal IPs from the company via email, he can do so more effectively through USB keys.
And I have a scoop for the Finnish government : Nokia won't leave your country over such a minor issue. It would cost them far too much.
The idea behind the expression "world's first democracy" is that the only democratic way to rank democracies is by population. Age, wealth, military power are (or should be) irrelevant.
Using cheap local labor in order to strengthen the local education is a very good move, both industrially and PR-wise. If they manage to mass-produce it, they will probably be able to sell the same machines for 20$ or 30$ abroad. It could give them a foot in a field that is China's stronghold. And I, for one, would prefer to see India (World's first democracy) to be labeled the World Factory than the People's Republic of China.
I prefer the Swiss system : everyone makes military service, are allowed to buy their military riffle at the end. They keep it at home. They are forbidden to use it or take it out unless they receive a military order. That prevents the cowboy spirit you see in US and lets the police do its job. In case of massive upbringings, however, everyone will bypass the interdiction.
Dwarf Fortress uses ASCII characters to display the actors and their various states. It is incredible how effective it is. IT is not about the graphical feedback, it is about the behavior : once you see someone moving erratically and throwing everything around, you know that something is wrong with him. When you see two ASCII character sleeping side by side in the same room, you suspect that something is going on. It is not about attitudes, but behaviors.
This is basically what happens in this non-paper. It is published by a faculty of philosophy. The institute is called "Future of Humanity" (http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/)
Their argument is ridiculous. We have proved that you can't create black holes by lighting up a barbecue but we could be wrong as well. These people have no qualification whatsoever to talk about physics issues.
By making the soap available in the bathroom, they entitled you to use it, possibly completely. They can not arrest you for taking the soap.
The big problem about Internet users and the music industry, is the difference of expectations they have about music made available in a digital form.
"You are not allowed to download this song !"
"But you just put it online !"
We see a lot of AI/robots characters in SF. A too under-represented character is the post-human : trying to match AIs intelligence by addons and boosts to the 'wetware' of human intelligence.
But this happened so many time that it became prevalent and finally, someone with more insight got his hands on one. The performance of a security officer is not measured by the number of leaks he prevented, but by the number of leaks he let go...
"I don't agree with what you are saying, but I'll keep fighting for your right to say so."
-- Voltaire
Majority can be wrong, leaders can be wrong. The fact that free speech, somewhere, is counter-productive to peace is only the symptom of a deeper problem. Don't bury the symptom, treat it.
Slashdot Mirror
We don't need a new distro. We need Windows 7 to fail miserably.
I, for one, welcome Iran in the club of the space-faring countries. Maybe will it make it possible for western nation to finally see this country as the industrial nation they really are ? I hope that this window to space will open to international cooperation. I am a bit sad that this achievement was not announced before its success but I am sure that IRan will recognize the necessity of international collaboration once it will need to use stable orbits.
Launch capabilities are a scarce resource. More of them is welcomed.
Dear Sir,
I understand your request for mobilization, I understand that the Western world is in great peril. Please be assured of my everlasting support to your cause against these 1500 years (or 3000 years or something...) old enemies. I would be glad to help but I am currently too busy digging some trenches to protect me from our neighbors. See, my nation is fighting since 1000 years (or 2000 or whatever) against the Germanic people. Our feud is so old that I think reconciliation may prove impossible. All we can do is arm for war.
Please be assured of my deepest sympathy
A French guy.
Your estimations are way off, and even if they were, why limit the universe to our own galaxy ? If humans add a FTL technology that allowed intergalactic travel, it would not take longer than a few millenniums to colonize the entire universe and make sure that every intelligent lifeform heard about us.
But it runs Starcraft without asking a thing. We had to tweak stuff in order to get it working correctly under my dad's Vista.
When police filters people who enter a building or who attend a political meeting, it is visible. The control, abnormal, is made in public for everyone to see. A RFID control, however, can be a single box the size of a case hidden behind the door. That is a huge difference in practice. A thing that we often overlook when discussing privacy issues.
The interesting part of the Fermi's paradox, IMHO, is that it gives us only two possibilities :
- Either there are no intelligent species in the universe wanting to communicate with us - Or FTL travel is not achievable even given enough technological advancement.
Yeah, it worked well for the RIAA anyway...
I wholeheartedly agree : don't work as administrator on windows systems.
defectivebydesign, then ?
Because malware usually disable this feature.
Does anyone here really think you could run a large company without being able to monitor emails sent by company representatives, using company resources? Does this really seem right to you?
Well, yes. It can be done, it is being done. If an employee can steal IPs from the company via email, he can do so more effectively through USB keys.
And I have a scoop for the Finnish government : Nokia won't leave your country over such a minor issue. It would cost them far too much.
The idea behind the expression "world's first democracy" is that the only democratic way to rank democracies is by population. Age, wealth, military power are (or should be) irrelevant.
Using cheap local labor in order to strengthen the local education is a very good move, both industrially and PR-wise. If they manage to mass-produce it, they will probably be able to sell the same machines for 20$ or 30$ abroad. It could give them a foot in a field that is China's stronghold. And I, for one, would prefer to see India (World's first democracy) to be labeled the World Factory than the People's Republic of China.
I prefer the Swiss system : everyone makes military service, are allowed to buy their military riffle at the end. They keep it at home. They are forbidden to use it or take it out unless they receive a military order. That prevents the cowboy spirit you see in US and lets the police do its job. In case of massive upbringings, however, everyone will bypass the interdiction.
Dwarf Fortress uses ASCII characters to display the actors and their various states. It is incredible how effective it is. IT is not about the graphical feedback, it is about the behavior : once you see someone moving erratically and throwing everything around, you know that something is wrong with him. When you see two ASCII character sleeping side by side in the same room, you suspect that something is going on. It is not about attitudes, but behaviors.
There was a slashdot story one month ago about this confused woman.
This is basically what happens in this non-paper. It is published by a faculty of philosophy. The institute is called "Future of Humanity" (http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/)
Their argument is ridiculous. We have proved that you can't create black holes by lighting up a barbecue but we could be wrong as well. These people have no qualification whatsoever to talk about physics issues.
By making the soap available in the bathroom, they entitled you to use it, possibly completely. They can not arrest you for taking the soap.
The big problem about Internet users and the music industry, is the difference of expectations they have about music made available in a digital form.
"You are not allowed to download this song !"
"But you just put it online !"
Paradoxically, I think that a good and dedicated developer working one year on the project would be more useful than a team of 10 average programmers.
We see a lot of AI/robots characters in SF. A too under-represented character is the post-human : trying to match AIs intelligence by addons and boosts to the 'wetware' of human intelligence.
According to experts 30 years ago, the was simply no way we could produce enough food for 5 billion people. Now we're doing it for 7
Barely
But this happened so many time that it became prevalent and finally, someone with more insight got his hands on one. The performance of a security officer is not measured by the number of leaks he prevented, but by the number of leaks he let go...
Tor
"I don't agree with what you are saying, but I'll keep fighting for your right to say so."
-- Voltaire
Majority can be wrong, leaders can be wrong. The fact that free speech, somewhere, is counter-productive to peace is only the symptom of a deeper problem. Don't bury the symptom, treat it.