Let this serve as a lesson to you; three or four of us rednecks are work more successfully than the entire Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications engineering team. Heck, we've been throwing tons of crap up into space for years, albeit not 10 tons at once.
i think you are refering to nanocoatings (which IS james bond-like), but there is a huge difference between being invisible and camoflauged... I say physics will be tremendosly challenged to make steel (or any ferrous metal) transparent. Nanocoatings will camo tanks, not make them invisible.
At least we don't crash our fighter planes into your recon planes and then blame it on you! AND then keep your crew "as guests"! AND make you take apart your plane and remove it in crates! AND make you apologize for flying over international waters. AND chain members of falun gong onto railroad ties and make a bonfire out of them in Red Square!
ROTFLMAO
which is about 30 miles away from the launch site. I know the gentleman making the rocket engines - he is based in OK, and a second generation engine has already been designed. If you really are interested in asking him about the design, his name is Doug Schones, and his e-mail is "dynaturn@iltnet.net" I am following the developments of this space port very closely ( hopefully I can land a job out there someday), but IMHO this area will never develop the way our legislators would like. This Amarillo guy is so essentric that common sense doesn't speak to him, God Bless Him.
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does he realize how many RPM that engine is gonna have to spin at to move that sucker with dual 10" turbine rotors? It is gonna blow valves and seals out all over the place. You can't have 1 transmission do both jobs. Officially a dumb idea.
and place mini turbines in all the toilets of the world and let the coriolus effect do the work for us? Energy flushes.
Just think, in Australia they'd have the poles reversed!
for not being an a$$ when replying, it makes discussion much easier.
Again, as I said in the parent, If you are not doing anything illegal in the first place, then you have nothing to worry about. Don't pirate other people's stuff. It doesn't matter how much money they already have. Open source is great, but has limited potential for the simple reason that people have to eat sooner or later.
How would you like to be forced to buy certain hardware to be able to view DVDs from around the world or just listen to your plain ol' CD from BestBuy because of stupid CD Copy Protection mechanisms blocking you from playing it otherwise.
If these companies want to acknowledge "fitness of merchantability" (ISO 9002:2002, et. al.) requirements, then they will not render their products trash with unstandardized copy protection. These companies want to sell CD's, not kill the entire industry with specialized player/media matching. Hell yes the industry should be entitled to protect their stuff.
As far as going to jail for life for my pirated Britney Spears.mp3 (ROTFLMAO), lawyers rule this country and nobody will agree with frivoulous sentancing, just as no one spills coffee in their lap and ends up a millionaire. (It gets overturned, eventually...)
First of all, how many of us have been DIRECTLY affected by these laws? Unless we are doing something that might be illegal otherwise (without the internet to hide behind), then the chances are that these laws in no way affect our experience online.
This really made me confused:
1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) flooded American technology with punishing legal action, jailing scientists and destroying companies. The DMCA's "anti-circumvention" provisions have trumped the First Amendment and have given copyright holders a whip hand over every use of the material they sell to their customers.
I thought DMCA works both ways, not just for the "evil" (successful) corporations. Copyright holders are copyright holders, correct?
This is a very far reaching problem, one that I have read quite a bit about out of concern.
Many good points are brought up here, but aside from all the impending doom of the industrial collapse of America (its coming!), we also need to think in terms of defending our homeland: watch ANY show on the History Channell about WWII, and you understand that raw manufacturing capability allowed the US to win the war. The Germans dealt with the reality that "One Panzer is better than 10 Shermans, but there are always 11!" If all of our manufacturing capability resides inside a country that we could potentially go to war with, it means that we've been already beaten, doesn't it?
I dwell on this reality very much, and it is depressing. If greed in America (search of cheapest price/ stockholder appeasement) weren't so prevelant in corporate culture, we probably wouldn't have to worry about such things...
I am a redhead who is dating a redhead, and who has red haired relatives all over my family tree. I can tell you that redhead pain sensitivity is no more or less than anyone else.
You can believe what you want, but just remember: If you tell an irishman he can't handle pain, he'll cut his own balls off to prove it, then he'll shove them down your throat and stomp your ass into a mudhole so you remember. Believe me.
The way I see it:
Assuming all bank accounts, ID's and records are referenced against a chip in the skin or ID no.:
No system ever achieves 100% accuracy. In many industries, an acceptable accuracy is defined as anything within 6 sigmas of deviation. This translates into roughly 2 "mistakes" per million parts, or cycles, whatever.
That being said, there are approx. 6 billion people in the world. If whoever administrates such a DB (a scary thought in itself) accepts "6 sigma" quality, then this means up to 12,000 people get screwed at any one time, because every transaction is subject to variation.
The jist of what I am saying is that I don't want my child denied medical access because of normal, UNAVOIDABLE variation.
In short, "Keep It Simple, Stupid". Sometimes analog is better.
actually, the French probably got so lit from drinking the wine to empty bottle that they lost all desire to win the war and just went back to surrendering.
I remember reading in an OSS history book about crude time bombs that were made using wine bottles filled with water and gelatin coated tablets of Na metal and/or Potassium. The method was simple: Pop a couple of tabs in the bottle, roll it under a truck or other igniteable item, and you have a half-hour to get away before the water dissolves the tablet casing. The USAAF dropped cases to the French resistance, who used them to little or no effectiveness- not entirely unexpected French-like bevaior.
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I disagree. If it goes to trial twice, the plantiff has already heard the defendant's best defense strategy. He will lose this one.
We wanted to announce that we are gonna say this at a later date. Oh wait! Crap!
you are pathetic, and the funny thing is that someday you will die.
my state's (Oklahoma) spaceport project.
Let this serve as a lesson to you; three or four of us rednecks are work more successfully than the entire Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications engineering team. Heck, we've been throwing tons of crap up into space for years, albeit not 10 tons at once.
As far as space programs go, Oklahoma says:
Hey france, come get some!
(I, of course, know I am wrong.)
i think you are refering to nanocoatings (which IS james bond-like), but there is a huge difference between being invisible and camoflauged... I say physics will be tremendosly challenged to make steel (or any ferrous metal) transparent. Nanocoatings will camo tanks, not make them invisible.
At least we don't crash our fighter planes into your recon planes and then blame it on you! AND then keep your crew "as guests"! AND make you take apart your plane and remove it in crates! AND make you apologize for flying over international waters. AND chain members of falun gong onto railroad ties and make a bonfire out of them in Red Square! ROTFLMAO
"eccentric" - sorry for the okiefication taint of my spelling. :(
which is about 30 miles away from the launch site. I know the gentleman making the rocket engines - he is based in OK, and a second generation engine has already been designed. If you really are interested in asking him about the design, his name is Doug Schones, and his e-mail is "dynaturn@iltnet.net" I am following the developments of this space port very closely ( hopefully I can land a job out there someday), but IMHO this area will never develop the way our legislators would like. This Amarillo guy is so essentric that common sense doesn't speak to him, God Bless Him.
whats the big deal?
does he realize how many RPM that engine is gonna have to spin at to move that sucker with dual 10" turbine rotors? It is gonna blow valves and seals out all over the place. You can't have 1 transmission do both jobs. Officially a dumb idea.
and place mini turbines in all the toilets of the world and let the coriolus effect do the work for us? Energy flushes. Just think, in Australia they'd have the poles reversed!
for not being an a$$ when replying, it makes discussion much easier.
.mp3 (ROTFLMAO), lawyers rule this country and nobody will agree with frivoulous sentancing, just as no one spills coffee in their lap and ends up a millionaire. (It gets overturned, eventually...)
Again, as I said in the parent, If you are not doing anything illegal in the first place, then you have nothing to worry about. Don't pirate other people's stuff. It doesn't matter how much money they already have. Open source is great, but has limited potential for the simple reason that people have to eat sooner or later.
How would you like to be forced to buy certain hardware to be able to view DVDs from around the world or just listen to your plain ol' CD from BestBuy because of stupid CD Copy Protection mechanisms blocking you from playing it otherwise.
If these companies want to acknowledge "fitness of merchantability" (ISO 9002:2002, et. al.) requirements, then they will not render their products trash with unstandardized copy protection. These companies want to sell CD's, not kill the entire industry with specialized player/media matching. Hell yes the industry should be entitled to protect their stuff.
As far as going to jail for life for my pirated Britney Spears
First of all, how many of us have been DIRECTLY affected by these laws? Unless we are doing something that might be illegal otherwise (without the internet to hide behind), then the chances are that these laws in no way affect our experience online.
This really made me confused:
1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) flooded American technology with punishing legal action, jailing scientists and destroying companies. The DMCA's "anti-circumvention" provisions have trumped the First Amendment and have given copyright holders a whip hand over every use of the material they sell to their customers.
I thought DMCA works both ways, not just for the "evil" (successful) corporations. Copyright holders are copyright holders, correct?
If I offend anyone, I dont mean to...
i must have fallen victim to a phantom post phenom.
you said a lot, but why the hell did you say it? methinks brak.slashdot is talking to mr. hippo again, and we see the transcript above.
This is a very far reaching problem, one that I have read quite a bit about out of concern. Many good points are brought up here, but aside from all the impending doom of the industrial collapse of America (its coming!), we also need to think in terms of defending our homeland: watch ANY show on the History Channell about WWII, and you understand that raw manufacturing capability allowed the US to win the war. The Germans dealt with the reality that "One Panzer is better than 10 Shermans, but there are always 11!" If all of our manufacturing capability resides inside a country that we could potentially go to war with, it means that we've been already beaten, doesn't it? I dwell on this reality very much, and it is depressing. If greed in America (search of cheapest price/ stockholder appeasement) weren't so prevelant in corporate culture, we probably wouldn't have to worry about such things...
I am a redhead who is dating a redhead, and who has red haired relatives all over my family tree. I can tell you that redhead pain sensitivity is no more or less than anyone else. You can believe what you want, but just remember: If you tell an irishman he can't handle pain, he'll cut his own balls off to prove it, then he'll shove them down your throat and stomp your ass into a mudhole so you remember. Believe me.
I never would have thought in a million years that Guinness would refuse any further attempts at THAT record because of danger to human life.
The way I see it: Assuming all bank accounts, ID's and records are referenced against a chip in the skin or ID no.: No system ever achieves 100% accuracy. In many industries, an acceptable accuracy is defined as anything within 6 sigmas of deviation. This translates into roughly 2 "mistakes" per million parts, or cycles, whatever. That being said, there are approx. 6 billion people in the world. If whoever administrates such a DB (a scary thought in itself) accepts "6 sigma" quality, then this means up to 12,000 people get screwed at any one time, because every transaction is subject to variation. The jist of what I am saying is that I don't want my child denied medical access because of normal, UNAVOIDABLE variation. In short, "Keep It Simple, Stupid". Sometimes analog is better.
Because you don't use Na metals to build cars, machine tools or skyscrapers.
actually, the French probably got so lit from drinking the wine to empty bottle that they lost all desire to win the war and just went back to surrendering.
I remember reading in an OSS history book about crude time bombs that were made using wine bottles filled with water and gelatin coated tablets of Na metal and/or Potassium. The method was simple: Pop a couple of tabs in the bottle, roll it under a truck or other igniteable item, and you have a half-hour to get away before the water dissolves the tablet casing. The USAAF dropped cases to the French resistance, who used them to little or no effectiveness- not entirely unexpected French-like bevaior.