Almost, but not quite. If your car is stolen and used to commit a crime, it could have been stolen, locked or not.
Your net connection can be reasonably securely locked down. Keeping the criminal out.
And here in the states, you CAN be held liable if your in-ground pool has no fence, and the neighborhood kid drowns in it. Yes, even though he's trespassing.
And in a grander sense, do you want to purposely help facilitate criminal activities online, by virtue of proving a wide open, unlogged access point, when you, having the knowledge and skill to do so, made the active choice not to lock it down? I wouldn't
Here's $100B to spend over the next 10 years. You can either: A) Explore space, maybe get a toehold on going back to the moon, and all the jobs, knowledge, and tech that goes with that, B) Give everybody in the country two pizza's ($35) a year for the next 10 years C) Give the bottom 40% of wage earners $70 per family member a year for the next 10 years, D) Hire 1 teacher for every 300 schoolkids, E) Something else
It really, really depends on what that 'else' is
Note that Bush is initially asking for 1% of that figure I used above. Adjust accordingly.
True, but think a level or two up. Convince North Korea not to make such nasty noises about invading the South. Not such big armies will be needed, and no mine barrier needed.
Pie in the sky, yes...but eventually we will get there.
Ironically, as I read this, Opera's rotating banner ad is displaying....that little purple asshat, Bonzi. Is there a non-crapware alternative? Doubtful. Add in WebShots, screensaver viruses, Real, mix in a gullible user, simmer for a few weeks, and no matter what the OS, unless they have *no* install rights, they will get it screwed up.
And with no install rights on their own PC, they'll get pissed off in short order.
Assuming you lay fiber/Cat6 underground, what provisions will be made for future digs?
Here in the states, before you dig anything, generally you can call a central number, and they will contact *all* the utilities to mark any underground lines. Water, cable, power, phone. Basically, anything buried on your property.
One way or another, you'd have to be hooked into whatever similar system exists in NL. Some guy, 10 years from now, 2 owners from now, will want to install a pond, or other such excavation, and cut right through your cable.
No, I'm speaking of the overall running and maintenance of the thing.
It appears they have a good community of people who all get along with each other. In such a case, it could be run on a private, local basis. Until some assholes move in, and demand the world.
You've never been in an HOA with a couple of asshole control freaks? Not pleasant. No mater what you do, they will be pissed off at something.
Unless this is a brand new construction, TV, radio, and phone are already laid. Cable/sat/broadcast for TV, on air radio, current phone lines...
If this is a new construction, partner with the phone and cable companies. They can do it cheaper, better, longer than a one off by you.
If all you're doing is building in internet access (and possibly some of those other services (on top of), wireless or powerline delivery would seem to be your best options, Unless you personally want to support the hassles of underground fiber cables for xx years.
Sure, it lifts off the ground. It even goes up about 20 feet or so. Transition to forward flight? Nope. Controlled, autonav flight from Point A to B? Nope. Affordable? You tell me.
And this doesn't address the question of how this thing will be used. I can't see it (if it ever works) as being flown from anywhere other than an airport. For the depicted use (A Flying Car), it would need sub 1 meter control and nav. Would you trust Bill from marketing, after a 3 martoonie lunch with a client, to land this thing in the parking lot next to your Boxster? With a 20mph crosswind? I wouldn't. So, you are tied to an airport type facility. With a runway or large landing pad. Why not just use a Cessna?
As a car, it makes for crappy driving. Limited to 30-35mph. As a plane, well...it's a plane. The two realms are different enough as to make this concept a non-starter.
A vehicle made out of vapor should get damned impressive gas mileage.
So it gets 20mpg on the ground. How is that significant? The damn thing doesn't exist yet What's it's gas mileage in the air? After all....that the point of this thing.
Moller has been shilling people for years over this thing.
It would be damn expensive It would still require a pilots license It would still require an airport and runway to land. Unless of course he has the navigation and control system down to sub-1 meter accuracy. hahaha Did I mention its vaporware?
"It as a milestone of sorts when Shanghai, China's biggest city, banned bicycles on its largest avenues last month, but also a belated acknowledgment of a change that has already transformed many large cities in China."
"Automobile sales in China, which reached two million last year, are growing at an annual rate of more than 50 percent. The growth of private car ownership has brought with it a car culture that increasingly resembles the American one, but with even worse traffic jams, especially in Beijing. Downtown parking spaces have become precious."
How did YOU get to work yesterday, my little AC troll?
Shanghai is (as of Dec 2003) restricting bikes on its major streets.
"Bicycles have gone from carrying more than 70 percent of travelers in Shanghai as recently as 1990 to from 15 to 17 percent now, according to the Shanghai Urban Planning Bureau."
No. It's not jut the US, and it's not just 'foreign policy'.
Bombs found on a railroad track in France. US foreign policy? No Explosion near a police station in Athens. US foreign policy? No. OBL stated he wanted the US military out of Saudi Arabia. We were there at the behest of the Saudi govt. They want to reverse 500-800 years of history, and restore Moslem rule in Spain. If not, hey...let's blow something up. Blow up a hotel in Bali. Gas a train in Japan. Fertilizer bombs in London.
It's far more than the current US foreign policy.
We can't do nothing, because these fools will continue.
And there are a lot of comments about: destruction of civil liberties won't work swiss cheese borders invasion of privacy blahblahblah
Ok...maybe all those are valid comments. But what will work, short term (20 years or so)? The obvious long term solution is to elevate the human condition so that these guys won't want to blow things up. But that will take decades/centuries, if ever.
Face it...there are large groups around the world that wish to blow things and civilians up for various political, religious, and just plain power reasons. Do you want to be one of those targets? I don't.
This is an intelligent group. Can the negativity and come up with something!
(Oh, and stamping your feet and yelling "Get rid of Bush!" isn't the answer.This has been going on far, far longer than Bush has been president, and will continue long after he's gone.)
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Interesting, but a couple of problems in driver behavior:
Situation A) Speed limit of 70. Cars cannot exceed. Most drivers want to exceed. Many drivers pissed off. Situation B) Speed limit of 70. Enough drivers complain, and the limit is raised to 80. Not all drivers will go 80, leaving a disparity of speeds. Quite similar to what we have now.
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...it wasn't you, unless there is a possibility that it IS you?
Almost, but not quite. If your car is stolen and used to commit a crime, it could have been stolen, locked or not.
Your net connection can be reasonably securely locked down. Keeping the criminal out.
And here in the states, you CAN be held liable if your in-ground pool has no fence, and the neighborhood kid drowns in it. Yes, even though he's trespassing.
And in a grander sense, do you want to purposely help facilitate criminal activities online, by virtue of proving a wide open, unlogged access point, when you, having the knowledge and skill to do so, made the active choice not to lock it down? I wouldn't
Depends on what that "something else" is.
Here's $100B to spend over the next 10 years. You can either:
A) Explore space, maybe get a toehold on going back to the moon, and all the jobs, knowledge, and tech that goes with that,
B) Give everybody in the country two pizza's ($35) a year for the next 10 years
C) Give the bottom 40% of wage earners $70 per family member a year for the next 10 years,
D) Hire 1 teacher for every 300 schoolkids,
E) Something else
It really, really depends on what that 'else' is
Note that Bush is initially asking for 1% of that figure I used above. Adjust accordingly.
True, but think a level or two up.
Convince North Korea not to make such nasty noises about invading the South. Not such big armies will be needed, and no mine barrier needed.
Pie in the sky, yes...but eventually we will get there.
I had a friend who was a staunch PETAphile. I made it a point to have wings and ribs whenever we went out to dinner.
Sure - Find the equivalent that isn't crap-ware.
Ironically, as I read this, Opera's rotating banner ad is displaying....that little purple asshat, Bonzi.
Is there a non-crapware alternative? Doubtful. Add in WebShots, screensaver viruses, Real, mix in a gullible user, simmer for a few weeks, and no matter what the OS, unless they have *no* install rights, they will get it screwed up.
And with no install rights on their own PC, they'll get pissed off in short order.
I got mine about 2 weeks after i ordered it. Pleasantly surprised at the speed in delivery.
Well said, sir!
That's the problem...Unless I boot linux and pull the internet from the back of the machine, her pc will never be secure...
Why would booting to Linux be any more secure, for that user?
She appears to be the problem, not the OS.
Wow...what a concept! I never would have thought of that.
You can get the same from MS, free.
Why would you put *any* unpatched box online, whatever the OS?
Assuming you lay fiber/Cat6 underground, what provisions will be made for future digs?
Here in the states, before you dig anything, generally you can call a central number, and they will contact *all* the utilities to mark any underground lines.
Water, cable, power, phone. Basically, anything buried on your property.
One way or another, you'd have to be hooked into whatever similar system exists in NL. Some guy, 10 years from now, 2 owners from now, will want to install a pond, or other such excavation, and cut right through your cable.
No, I'm speaking of the overall running and maintenance of the thing.
It appears they have a good community of people who all get along with each other. In such a case, it could be run on a private, local basis.
Until some assholes move in, and demand the world.
You've never been in an HOA with a couple of asshole control freaks? Not pleasant. No mater what you do, they will be pissed off at something.
Until a year from now, when 2 of those families move, and a couple of asshats move in.
If I were doing this, I wouldn't want to be the phone/cable/internet company.
Unless this is a brand new construction, TV, radio, and phone are already laid.
Cable/sat/broadcast for TV, on air radio, current phone lines...
If this is a new construction, partner with the phone and cable companies. They can do it cheaper, better, longer than a one off by you.
If all you're doing is building in internet access (and possibly some of those other services (on top of), wireless or powerline delivery would seem to be your best options, Unless you personally want to support the hassles of underground fiber cables for xx years.
Flown?
For a couple hundred G's, I could cobble together a few snowmobile rotary engines, a body, and some hovercraft style fans and 'fly' it on a tether.
"Presently all test flights of the M400 Skycar employ a safety tether from above to protect the vehicle from catastrophic failure."
Sure, it lifts off the ground. It even goes up about 20 feet or so.
Transition to forward flight? Nope.
Controlled, autonav flight from Point A to B? Nope.
Affordable? You tell me.
And this doesn't address the question of how this thing will be used. I can't see it (if it ever works) as being flown from anywhere other than an airport. For the depicted use (A Flying Car), it would need sub 1 meter control and nav.
Would you trust Bill from marketing, after a 3 martoonie lunch with a client, to land this thing in the parking lot next to your Boxster? With a 20mph crosswind? I wouldn't.
So, you are tied to an airport type facility. With a runway or large landing pad. Why not just use a Cessna?
As a car, it makes for crappy driving. Limited to 30-35mph. As a plane, well...it's a plane. The two realms are different enough as to make this concept a non-starter.
A vehicle made out of vapor should get damned impressive gas mileage.
So it gets 20mpg on the ground. How is that significant?
The damn thing doesn't exist yet
What's it's gas mileage in the air? After all....that the point of this thing.
Moller has been shilling people for years over this thing.
It would be damn expensive
It would still require a pilots license
It would still require an airport and runway to land. Unless of course he has the navigation and control system down to sub-1 meter accuracy. hahaha
Did I mention its vaporware?
I don't think Arizona or Nevada will be likely to use hydro as their main source of power in the near future.
Not the main source, but perhaps you heard of a little thing called Hoover Dam
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"It as a milestone of sorts when Shanghai, China's biggest city, banned bicycles on its largest avenues last month, but also a belated acknowledgment of a change that has already transformed many large cities in China."
"Automobile sales in China, which reached two million last year, are growing at an annual rate of more than 50 percent. The growth of private car ownership has brought with it a car culture that increasingly resembles the American one, but with even worse traffic jams, especially in Beijing. Downtown parking spaces have become precious."
How did YOU get to work yesterday, my little AC troll?
Shanghai is (as of Dec 2003) restricting bikes on its major streets.
"Bicycles have gone from carrying more than 70 percent of travelers in Shanghai as recently as 1990 to from 15 to 17 percent now, according to the Shanghai Urban Planning Bureau."
Upward mobility indeed.
Giant LaFree. Does exactly what you want.
I test rode one, and personally, I don't like them, except if you really need it.
They're heavy (80lbs), slow, expensive.
I can go farther, faster on a regular bike.
No. It's not jut the US, and it's not just 'foreign policy'.
Bombs found on a railroad track in France. US foreign policy? No
Explosion near a police station in Athens. US foreign policy? No.
OBL stated he wanted the US military out of Saudi Arabia. We were there at the behest of the Saudi govt.
They want to reverse 500-800 years of history, and restore Moslem rule in Spain. If not, hey...let's blow something up.
Blow up a hotel in Bali.
Gas a train in Japan.
Fertilizer bombs in London.
It's far more than the current US foreign policy.
We can't do nothing, because these fools will continue.
So...what should be done?
And there are a lot of comments about:
destruction of civil liberties
won't work
swiss cheese borders
invasion of privacy
blahblahblah
Ok...maybe all those are valid comments.
But what will work, short term (20 years or so)?
The obvious long term solution is to elevate the human condition so that these guys won't want to blow things up. But that will take decades/centuries, if ever.
Face it...there are large groups around the world that wish to blow things and civilians up for various political, religious, and just plain power reasons. Do you want to be one of those targets? I don't.
This is an intelligent group. Can the negativity and come up with something!
(Oh, and stamping your feet and yelling "Get rid of Bush!" isn't the answer.This has been going on far, far longer than Bush has been president, and will continue long after he's gone.)
Really. So prior to 1975-80 or so, everyone on a bike was an organ donor?
How DID we survive a whole century before bike helmets!
Use your cruise control.
Interesting, but a couple of problems in driver behavior:
Situation A) Speed limit of 70. Cars cannot exceed. Most drivers want to exceed. Many drivers pissed off.
Situation B) Speed limit of 70. Enough drivers complain, and the limit is raised to 80. Not all drivers will go 80, leaving a disparity of speeds. Quite similar to what we have now.
Is there any good side to this idea?