Potentially just about every technology hardware company out there should be paying them for the technology they have developed. The hardware only exists because the CSIRO helped invent it!
She was not the "original uploader"... I would imagine the original uploaders just put 5 copies out there then disappear, and are thus very hard to find.
Unless you are planning on buying high school science, you can't remove the threat of someone creating shrapnel by mixing a bunch of volatile chemicals..... Where did the anarchists cookbook come from? Just because the anarchist cookbook is a convenient source of the same information doesn't make it any more dangerous than the science text books it was built out of.
Dixie Lee Ray was wrong due to political issues not technical issues.
You stack 70,000 tons of plutonium dispersed amongst enough non-reactive glass to prevent a critical mass occurring, thus preventing a run away chain reaction.
Isn't plutonium a fuel for nuclear reactors anyway? Why would you be storing it as waste?
Surely unless society collapses (perhaps due to global nuclear war/nuclear winter in which case the stored waste matters little) we could update the signage every few hundred years, and perhaps post new guards on occasion. In fact, they might even work in rotating 8 hour shifts (or 6 hours if boredom is that big of a problem).
If it has a half life of 100s of millions of years, it probably isn't particularly radioactive. So it would take little dispersion to bring it down to natural background radiation levels. Dumping it in the ocean achieves this. Where do you think all the radioactive material the reactors are fueled by comes from? certainly isn't shipped in from outer space.
THE solution to pollution is dilution!
But seriously, there is radioactive material on the earth now, it's just widely enough dispersed to not cause anyone problems. I just remember reading of an encounter between the ecological officer of a uranium mine, and an anti-nuclear environmentalist, where the environmentalist was busy telling the ecological officer how bad radiation was etc etc, where upon the ecological whipped out his Geiger counter, and worked out the background radiation at the place of the discussion (some 1500+kms from the mine he worked at) was higher than the radiation recordings at the mine site.
The good thing about nuclear waste, is we know enough about it to make reasonably good predictions about what effects it will have in the future. In the same way we know enough about heavy metals to know how they should be treated. I firmly believe that the waste problem is an engineering solution that could be solved adequately, but it really doesn't matter how good the waste disposal is, people will still complain about anything nuclear. Nevermind that a coal power station subjects the surrounding area to higher radioactive particle output than nearly all nuclear power stations combined (except some of the extreme cases).
I really need to investigate this further, but I imagine if you looked at coal power related deaths compared to nuclear related deaths in somewhere like France where they use a lot of it, but my understanding is that nuclear would come out far ahead.
Considering the Asymmetrical bandwidth deals we get on our internet (we pay for traffic coming to us, as well as traffic going from us - basically assuming the US provides all our internet content, and we provide nothing to US internet users), I think you guys already gits paid for teh interwebs....
The difference here is, that the guy who developed TCP/IP got paid for it, however most of the companies selling equipment based on this technology probably aren't paying royalties on it, but they aren't mostly from outside the US either.
Maybe under US law, the people who used it are from Australia, and I'm not sure how "model release" works here, but I'm also pretty sure it's a formality from a litigation happy country, and not actually specified in legislation as a requirement (IANAL).
This kind of "pre-emptive" security is like pre-emptive war. Pointless.
BTW any intelligent bomber knows what a dead mans switch is, and what it's for, shooting the "tarist" in the head is a good way to get blown the fuck up.
I don't have much sympathy for a society that dictates you can't build your own LED name tag, I mean, it's not technically illegal, but enough "wiggle room" has been put in these laws that *everyone is breaking at least one law*. Think about that. Effectively, they can arrest *anybody* on some pretext. Here in Australia under the new "terrorism" laws, that means you can be held incommunicado, your not allowed to tell your Family, your workplace, anybody. Better hope grandma doesn't really need you to come back from the shots with her insulin.
"we are to blame for giving them this power."
Well, sort of. I didn't give police any power. I've never had the candidate I've voted for get voted in, nor anything except the lower half of my preferences (preferences are a joy of Aussie voting!). And I've watched the world get worse as I voted to move it the other way.
I don't think a reasonable person (is that legal jargon?) would believe that the student posed a real legitimate threat to anyones well being. Obnoxious, loud, perhaps he was, but I think they could have dealt with him more diplomatically than that. I'm not even really sure on whose decision the officers approached him?
Yeah, sure, the outspoken loud guy who fights with words is likely to grab the gun of a law enforcement officer..... If a law enforcement officer can't keep control of his/her weapon they should not be a law enforcement officer.
With 4+ officers, they had one person per limb. They could have restrained him with their hands, not weapons, if it came to that. I just don't think I'd really consider that to be resisting arrest, compared with the sort of fight some people put up, and a tazer should not be used so lightly. Here in Australia, the police have to call an ambulance if they use pepper spray, because of potential harmful effects. I imagine a tazer would be the same deal.
I didn't see the police give him a chance not to resist. I didn't notice them ask him to leave, they just started dragging him. I think in that situation I'd feel my rights had been violated, even if I felt I had been an annoying prick. Also, why shouldn't he have his questions answered in the first place? He seemed a little wound up, too much coffee or whatever, but he was in the right place to ask questions of Kerry. I don't see how you can be told your disturbing the peace if you've been invited to ask questions and take up the offer.
I really don't agree that police need to be so forceful up front. While at first he complained (verbally, like as in free speech) that they were taking him away, I don't really see that as grounds for him being arrested or removed. I find it very ironic they originally told him he had been inciting a riot, as I somewhat expected that people would have been jumping on the police to help him by the end of that video.
The way I see it is, you don't get to arrest someone for being a jerk. You can't be resisting if the police tell you to do something they haven't the right to ask you to do. If they have the right to ask you to stop being a jerk, then it really is a police state. I have to say though, with the percentage of the US population that is prison, it isn't really a surprise that law enforcement officers are so quick to arrest someone.
Width of the tyre does not affect grip, only the cooling characteristics of the tyre. I know that is counterintuitive but it appears to be the case
Fr = *N has no component for the size of the area in contact, only the force which is exerted upon it, and the coefficient of friction for that surface.
Very interesting, the motor inertia hadn't occured to me. But obviously this is why one revs a petrol engine up and dumps the clutch to start a burnout.... I would assume (just guessing) the electric motor probably has a smaller rotating mass than a petrol engine, so the motor inertia would be less of a problem...
As I understand it, electric drag racing is less than 5 years old. How many petrol powered drag vehicles broke 7s within ~5 years of drag racing coming into being?
If you put the same amount of development time into electric dragsters as has been put into petrol dragsters, I have no doubt you'd break 7 seconds. If you ran it on electrified rails, or with a quarter mile extension cord, it'd already be breaking that by far.
The 1/3rd rule of thumb is basically about driveability, which has a lot to do with low rpm torque, which is provided much better by an electric motor. It's also because electric motors can be temporarily "overdriven" past their rated continuous capacity (such power levels will overheat the motor with continuous use). This basically means you can get away with an electric motor rated at 1/3 the performance in Kw/HP, and achieve similar driving performance.
He has no means to acquire content, because the schedules on which that content would be provided were no use to him. Hence he did not need any of the TV related hardware normally used to access broadcast, or cable television, which of course includes a PVR.
However, by the power of bittorrent, he has access to the same content, in a way that is convenient for him, and avoids the purchase of a PVR or any TV related hardware, whilst achieving identical functionality for him. You could argue he should pay for Pay-tv, but then they'd come and install useless cables and boxes in his house, so he has the "moral" right to view the content, when it would still be more convenient for him to torrent it. It's just not a very strong value proposition.
Hell, I know I pay more for internet than I would for PAy tv, and I'd be very happy if all my favourite shows were provided from the content provider via a.torrent link. Especially in the case of public content, or other freely broadcast content, where it is currently provided without charge, and it makes no sense for them to charge me to receive it via the internet instead of via a DVB tuner.
WTF!? You go to the site, and says "Click the image to install debian", and the word "INSTALL" is a link to the same thing!! How more self explanatory can that get? You click it, and it downloads a win32 executable that begins the install process..... and thus "installs debian" exactly as it stated. If you don't know what "Installing debian" means, then you can use the "more info" link to dig into details, but this is the same as giving someone more info about "going outside" or "gaining employment".... Some people know they want to go outside or be employed, but if someone doesn't know whether or not they want to, it is a large concept to explain in detail.
Where do you get you software from? My understanding is that any software on windows that has a privilege level this software would require, would be able to do equal damage.
Windows itself certainly can, and you have no way of verifying it won't (except perhaps if you trust microsoft. )
It is supposed to allow for migrating their settings and data (as the process matures). I imagine you'd find equivalents of most windows software on linux these days.
It's not designed to install on loopback. It's designed to repartition your machine to install debian. If you want to run debian from a file on your windows partition, VMWare player is free of charge, and you can get a debian vmware image.
There are no billable minutes, since your not using the cell phone networks infrastructure, in the same way you are not billed for using your walkie-talkie.
It is designed for times when you know you are within range of someone directly from your phone, but one or the other is out of cell phone range. i.e. combining a walkie talkie and a mobile into the same device.
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Potentially just about every technology hardware company out there should be paying them for the technology they have developed. The hardware only exists because the CSIRO helped invent it!
She was not the "original uploader"... I would imagine the original uploaders just put 5 copies out there then disappear, and are thus very hard to find.
Unless you are planning on buying high school science, you can't remove the threat of someone creating shrapnel by mixing a bunch of volatile chemicals..... Where did the anarchists cookbook come from? Just because the anarchist cookbook is a convenient source of the same information doesn't make it any more dangerous than the science text books it was built out of.
Dixie Lee Ray was wrong due to political issues not technical issues. You stack 70,000 tons of plutonium dispersed amongst enough non-reactive glass to prevent a critical mass occurring, thus preventing a run away chain reaction. Isn't plutonium a fuel for nuclear reactors anyway? Why would you be storing it as waste? Surely unless society collapses (perhaps due to global nuclear war/nuclear winter in which case the stored waste matters little) we could update the signage every few hundred years, and perhaps post new guards on occasion. In fact, they might even work in rotating 8 hour shifts (or 6 hours if boredom is that big of a problem).
If it has a half life of 100s of millions of years, it probably isn't particularly radioactive. So it would take little dispersion to bring it down to natural background radiation levels. Dumping it in the ocean achieves this. Where do you think all the radioactive material the reactors are fueled by comes from? certainly isn't shipped in from outer space.
THE solution to pollution is dilution!
But seriously, there is radioactive material on the earth now, it's just widely enough dispersed to not cause anyone problems. I just remember reading of an encounter between the ecological officer of a uranium mine, and an anti-nuclear environmentalist, where the environmentalist was busy telling the ecological officer how bad radiation was etc etc, where upon the ecological whipped out his Geiger counter, and worked out the background radiation at the place of the discussion (some 1500+kms from the mine he worked at) was higher than the radiation recordings at the mine site.
The good thing about nuclear waste, is we know enough about it to make reasonably good predictions about what effects it will have in the future. In the same way we know enough about heavy metals to know how they should be treated. I firmly believe that the waste problem is an engineering solution that could be solved adequately, but it really doesn't matter how good the waste disposal is, people will still complain about anything nuclear. Nevermind that a coal power station subjects the surrounding area to higher radioactive particle output than nearly all nuclear power stations combined (except some of the extreme cases). I really need to investigate this further, but I imagine if you looked at coal power related deaths compared to nuclear related deaths in somewhere like France where they use a lot of it, but my understanding is that nuclear would come out far ahead.
Considering the Asymmetrical bandwidth deals we get on our internet (we pay for traffic coming to us, as well as traffic going from us - basically assuming the US provides all our internet content, and we provide nothing to US internet users), I think you guys already gits paid for teh interwebs.... The difference here is, that the guy who developed TCP/IP got paid for it, however most of the companies selling equipment based on this technology probably aren't paying royalties on it, but they aren't mostly from outside the US either.
Maybe under US law, the people who used it are from Australia, and I'm not sure how "model release" works here, but I'm also pretty sure it's a formality from a litigation happy country, and not actually specified in legislation as a requirement (IANAL).
This kind of "pre-emptive" security is like pre-emptive war. Pointless. BTW any intelligent bomber knows what a dead mans switch is, and what it's for, shooting the "tarist" in the head is a good way to get blown the fuck up. I don't have much sympathy for a society that dictates you can't build your own LED name tag, I mean, it's not technically illegal, but enough "wiggle room" has been put in these laws that *everyone is breaking at least one law*. Think about that. Effectively, they can arrest *anybody* on some pretext. Here in Australia under the new "terrorism" laws, that means you can be held incommunicado, your not allowed to tell your Family, your workplace, anybody. Better hope grandma doesn't really need you to come back from the shots with her insulin.
"we are to blame for giving them this power."
Well, sort of. I didn't give police any power. I've never had the candidate I've voted for get voted in, nor anything except the lower half of my preferences (preferences are a joy of Aussie voting!). And I've watched the world get worse as I voted to move it the other way.
I don't think a reasonable person (is that legal jargon?) would believe that the student posed a real legitimate threat to anyones well being. Obnoxious, loud, perhaps he was, but I think they could have dealt with him more diplomatically than that. I'm not even really sure on whose decision the officers approached him?
Yeah, sure, the outspoken loud guy who fights with words is likely to grab the gun of a law enforcement officer..... If a law enforcement officer can't keep control of his/her weapon they should not be a law enforcement officer. With 4+ officers, they had one person per limb. They could have restrained him with their hands, not weapons, if it came to that. I just don't think I'd really consider that to be resisting arrest, compared with the sort of fight some people put up, and a tazer should not be used so lightly. Here in Australia, the police have to call an ambulance if they use pepper spray, because of potential harmful effects. I imagine a tazer would be the same deal.
I didn't see the police give him a chance not to resist. I didn't notice them ask him to leave, they just started dragging him. I think in that situation I'd feel my rights had been violated, even if I felt I had been an annoying prick. Also, why shouldn't he have his questions answered in the first place? He seemed a little wound up, too much coffee or whatever, but he was in the right place to ask questions of Kerry. I don't see how you can be told your disturbing the peace if you've been invited to ask questions and take up the offer. I really don't agree that police need to be so forceful up front. While at first he complained (verbally, like as in free speech) that they were taking him away, I don't really see that as grounds for him being arrested or removed. I find it very ironic they originally told him he had been inciting a riot, as I somewhat expected that people would have been jumping on the police to help him by the end of that video. The way I see it is, you don't get to arrest someone for being a jerk. You can't be resisting if the police tell you to do something they haven't the right to ask you to do. If they have the right to ask you to stop being a jerk, then it really is a police state. I have to say though, with the percentage of the US population that is prison, it isn't really a surprise that law enforcement officers are so quick to arrest someone.
Width of the tyre does not affect grip, only the cooling characteristics of the tyre. I know that is counterintuitive but it appears to be the case Fr = *N has no component for the size of the area in contact, only the force which is exerted upon it, and the coefficient of friction for that surface.
Very interesting, the motor inertia hadn't occured to me. But obviously this is why one revs a petrol engine up and dumps the clutch to start a burnout.... I would assume (just guessing) the electric motor probably has a smaller rotating mass than a petrol engine, so the motor inertia would be less of a problem...
As I understand it, electric drag racing is less than 5 years old. How many petrol powered drag vehicles broke 7s within ~5 years of drag racing coming into being? If you put the same amount of development time into electric dragsters as has been put into petrol dragsters, I have no doubt you'd break 7 seconds. If you ran it on electrified rails, or with a quarter mile extension cord, it'd already be breaking that by far.
The 1/3rd rule of thumb is basically about driveability, which has a lot to do with low rpm torque, which is provided much better by an electric motor. It's also because electric motors can be temporarily "overdriven" past their rated continuous capacity (such power levels will overheat the motor with continuous use). This basically means you can get away with an electric motor rated at 1/3 the performance in Kw/HP, and achieve similar driving performance.
He has no means to acquire content, because the schedules on which that content would be provided were no use to him. Hence he did not need any of the TV related hardware normally used to access broadcast, or cable television, which of course includes a PVR. However, by the power of bittorrent, he has access to the same content, in a way that is convenient for him, and avoids the purchase of a PVR or any TV related hardware, whilst achieving identical functionality for him. You could argue he should pay for Pay-tv, but then they'd come and install useless cables and boxes in his house, so he has the "moral" right to view the content, when it would still be more convenient for him to torrent it. It's just not a very strong value proposition. Hell, I know I pay more for internet than I would for PAy tv, and I'd be very happy if all my favourite shows were provided from the content provider via a .torrent link. Especially in the case of public content, or other freely broadcast content, where it is currently provided without charge, and it makes no sense for them to charge me to receive it via the internet instead of via a DVB tuner.
WTF!? You go to the site, and says "Click the image to install debian", and the word "INSTALL" is a link to the same thing!! How more self explanatory can that get? You click it, and it downloads a win32 executable that begins the install process..... and thus "installs debian" exactly as it stated. If you don't know what "Installing debian" means, then you can use the "more info" link to dig into details, but this is the same as giving someone more info about "going outside" or "gaining employment".... Some people know they want to go outside or be employed, but if someone doesn't know whether or not they want to, it is a large concept to explain in detail.
Where do you get you software from? My understanding is that any software on windows that has a privilege level this software would require, would be able to do equal damage. Windows itself certainly can, and you have no way of verifying it won't (except perhaps if you trust microsoft. )
It is supposed to allow for migrating their settings and data (as the process matures). I imagine you'd find equivalents of most windows software on linux these days.
It's not designed to install on loopback. It's designed to repartition your machine to install debian. If you want to run debian from a file on your windows partition, VMWare player is free of charge, and you can get a debian vmware image.
damn, this whole thread is too funny.
Although you can perhaps subtract the power usage of the mobile cell tower ;-)
There are no billable minutes, since your not using the cell phone networks infrastructure, in the same way you are not billed for using your walkie-talkie.
It is designed for times when you know you are within range of someone directly from your phone, but one or the other is out of cell phone range. i.e. combining a walkie talkie and a mobile into the same device.