For example, sketching a picture of a dead president on a napkin and handing it to the nearest bystander doesn't typically appease the magic paper enforcement officers.
Essentially every shop in the UK has a chip and pin reader. Contactless payment (with a home-grown card) is standard on the London underground. I assume it is only a matter of time before contactless payment spreads to the shops.
I suggest that you _not_ spend time thinking deeply about DRM: every minute thinking about DRM is a minute not spent coding up your project. If you can contact a sufficiently large audience then Kickstarter is worth trying. Otherwise you could offer updates. Both are ways of asking for money in advance for product/service later.
"The piece that everyone forgets about this is that while the raw mineral resources themselves have some value, they have another feature that is extremely valuable, which is that they are outside of a deep gravity well."
And so we deduce that the resources, outside of the deep gravity well, are only valuable to communities living outside the deep gravity well. Ie, nobody. There is nothing up there worth something to people _down_here_.
I believe that this is a highly non-trivial bootstrapping problem. You need unimaginable technologies in orbit (power satellites? nano-materials that can only be built in zero-gravity?) to make it worthwhile to go up there and start the process. However, nobody will come up with those technologies until there is a huge industrial base in orbit... So it is impossible to get started.
Sorry to be a downer. (No pun intended.)
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The organization says that the system "consists of an Intranet designed ultimately to replace the international Internet and to discriminate between ordinary citizens and the 'elite' (banks, ministries and big companies), which will continue to have access to the international Internet."
If that is accurate and if I follow your naming scheme correctly, in this case the "bad guys" want continued access to the wider world. It is the "ordinary citizens" who need to be "left alone" by the "good" guys. Did I get all that right?
Unfortunately, within the academic world, the quality of publications on your CV is determined by the perceived quality of the venue (e.g., high-impact journals, low-acceptance conferences, etc.), as opposed to the quality of the actual work getting published.
This is true and unfortunate, but there is a serious lack of more accurate means of measurement. I'm curious - what do you suggest as a better way to compare 400 candidates applying for 4 jobs? Don't forget the most important constraint: you are not an expert in any of their fields.
you publish articles in prestigious journals so that others read your work.
No, no, no. In maths, cs and physics, that is what preprints are for. The journal process can take years -- it is much too slow to be used as a means of communication.
And a big part of how professors are judged for tenure is how many good articles did they publish in prestigious journals.
This part is correct. Classy journals are used by tenure and hiring committees as a way of measuring quality across sub-disciplines of a larger field.
This is a good opportunity to put Occam's razor to use. We know that in sudden, widespread disruptive events people loot.
They loot libraries? After a disaster I might loot a store, or an abandoned police station/military post, I guess, but a library? For books? "Hey, its the end of the world! Let's go snag some calculus textbooks!"
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It seems to me that the only sane response is to look for new/alternative sources of energy and, at the same time, re-engineer society to that it doesn't rely on growth for its stability.
Of course the human race will survive the end of civilization. But that is not very interesting.
One comment I heard in a news article is "people don't have handles." If a cop touches somebody he or she may injure them (or get injured). I'm not a cop but I am quite sure that when a cop arrests somebody, the ideal is that the arrested puts out their hands for the cuffs, stands quietly while being Mirandized, and then walks of their own accord to the squad car. Anything departing from this script is a problem.
Notice that there is still lots of room for non-violent protest and civil disobedience inside of that script. If you and 1,000 others get peacefully arrested at the same time then the cops are going to have to think deeply about what they are doing and for who...
Yes and no. I read comments from a retired police officer saying "People don't have handles." He went on to say if you pick somebody up there is a greater chance of injury than using pepper spray.
China are burning oil to make inefficient PV panels that will never generate the energy required to produce them
I'd love to see a citation on this. Typical panels average construction energy payback in one to two years, have consumer warranties in the 20-25 year range, and useful lifetimes of four or more decades. Are Chinese-made solar panel factories genuinely forty times less efficient than others? I kinda doubt it.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. You got a reference for those figures?
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Soros hasn't funded them in the last decade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... "They are not journalists" - they won a Pulitzer...
If I had mod points then one would be yours. "Wahhhhh!", indeed.
For example, sketching a picture of a dead president on a napkin and handing it to the nearest bystander doesn't typically appease the magic paper enforcement officers.
You are wrong, and you are right. You will find the following of interest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._S._G._Boggs
Essentially every shop in the UK has a chip and pin reader. Contactless payment (with a home-grown card) is standard on the London underground. I assume it is only a matter of time before contactless payment spreads to the shops.
I suggest that you _not_ spend time thinking deeply about DRM: every minute thinking about DRM is a minute not spent coding up your project. If you can contact a sufficiently large audience then Kickstarter is worth trying. Otherwise you could offer updates. Both are ways of asking for money in advance for product/service later.
Orwell - "Weakness is strength".
Awesome. Never saw that before. Thanks!
Hmm. Refueling communications satellites. Interesting idea. "Mighty oaks from little acorns grow."
"The piece that everyone forgets about this is that while the raw mineral resources themselves have some value, they have another feature that is extremely valuable, which is that they are outside of a deep gravity well."
And so we deduce that the resources, outside of the deep gravity well, are only valuable to communities living outside the deep gravity well. Ie, nobody. There is nothing up there worth something to people _down_here_.
I believe that this is a highly non-trivial bootstrapping problem. You need unimaginable technologies in orbit (power satellites? nano-materials that can only be built in zero-gravity?) to make it worthwhile to go up there and start the process. However, nobody will come up with those technologies until there is a huge industrial base in orbit... So it is impossible to get started.
Sorry to be a downer. (No pun intended.)
Pictures, or it didn't happen.
Don't knock having primate ancestors. Some of my best friends are primates.
The organization says that the system "consists of an Intranet designed ultimately to replace the international Internet and to discriminate between ordinary citizens and the 'elite' (banks, ministries and big companies), which will continue to have access to the international Internet."
If that is accurate and if I follow your naming scheme correctly, in this case the "bad guys" want continued access to the wider world. It is the "ordinary citizens" who need to be "left alone" by the "good" guys. Did I get all that right?
Please mod parent up. I'd like to hear an answer to this.
It's a YouTube link. Not exactly going to be some graphically disgusting video. Unless you think Beyond Thunderdome is graphically disgusting.
Yes.
Unfortunately, within the academic world, the quality of publications on your CV is determined by the perceived quality of the venue (e.g., high-impact journals, low-acceptance conferences, etc.), as opposed to the quality of the actual work getting published.
This is true and unfortunate, but there is a serious lack of more accurate means of measurement. I'm curious - what do you suggest as a better way to compare 400 candidates applying for 4 jobs? Don't forget the most important constraint: you are not an expert in any of their fields.
you publish articles in prestigious journals so that others read your work.
No, no, no. In maths, cs and physics, that is what preprints are for. The journal process can take years -- it is much too slow to be used as a means of communication.
And a big part of how professors are judged for tenure is how many good articles did they publish in prestigious journals.
This part is correct. Classy journals are used by tenure and hiring committees as a way of measuring quality across sub-disciplines of a larger field.
PS: And, yes, there is always arXiv.org for pre-prints, where you can get most of the papers anyhow, if you are willing to take the risk.
What risk? What are you talking about? I'll guess: You think think that peer-review is a guarantee of correctness. If so: that is not the case.
Inner-lords, I think.
This is a good opportunity to put Occam's razor to use. We know that in sudden, widespread disruptive events people loot.
They loot libraries? After a disaster I might loot a store, or an abandoned police station/military post, I guess, but a library? For books? "Hey, its the end of the world! Let's go snag some calculus textbooks!"
You have to dry it out first, but yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_dung#Uses
"The western world is in the midst of a catastrophe of demographics caused by insufficient breeding."
Population growth, and its corollary consumption growth, will probably end civilization as we know it within 100 years. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Gas:_The_End_of_the_Age_of_Oil
It seems to me that the only sane response is to look for new/alternative sources of energy and, at the same time, re-engineer society to that it doesn't rely on growth for its stability.
Of course the human race will survive the end of civilization. But that is not very interesting.
Notice that there is still lots of room for non-violent protest and civil disobedience inside of that script. If you and 1,000 others get peacefully arrested at the same time then the cops are going to have to think deeply about what they are doing and for who...
Yes and no. I read comments from a retired police officer saying "People don't have handles." He went on to say if you pick somebody up there is a greater chance of injury than using pepper spray.
China are burning oil to make inefficient PV panels that will never generate the energy required to produce them
I'd love to see a citation on this. Typical panels average construction energy payback in one to two years, have consumer warranties in the 20-25 year range, and useful lifetimes of four or more decades. Are Chinese-made solar panel factories genuinely forty times less efficient than others? I kinda doubt it.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. You got a reference for those figures?
The prize is that you die of old age first.
I'd guess typesetting costs per page and admin overhead. Coordination of author, editor, referee, typesetter is not free.