Recall when we caught a number of Russian spies here in America? We sent them back.
During an open cold war, we would have kept them. But, the cold war with China is NOT open.
Gone to the press in USA, where they would print about the metadata on Americans, but not touch the rest of the story. And the rest of the story is what turned it into treason. The other issue is that they would have required real proof about real spying, rather than simply making accusations.
Ok, first off, I do not even bother to follow the snowden saga. It is a joke. The guy did ALL the wrong things.
I HAVE worked on US PATRIOT act. As such, I have a little different prospective then do others. PAT act has a number of things that were done under it. This is just one of them. My understanding is that the system dominately looks at what is PUBLIC, for example, our emails, our http, heck, even this stuff here.
Now, the issue is the metadata. I could tell you that the courts already approved this back in 2005, but, that really does not solve the issue. The questions is why does the gov. need this data? Simply to find out who is connecting to terrorists/spies. Of course, you and others will say that the 4th prevents the gov. from seeing this data without a warrant, which is likely correct. The problem is that it takes weeks to get that data from the phone companies. So, instead, the gov requires that the phone companies give up the data upfront, and it is then put into a black box (computer with a DB). The idea being is that it is in one location that can be quickly accessed. Now, who has access to it? Nobody, UNLESS THEY HAVE A WARRANT for a particular number (or show a connection i.e. spy A => B who then => C, D, J; so J could be looked at ). So, would you object if they access this data without a warrant? You should. However, safeguards should be on this to prevent just that situation (I have no idea on this, but would be surprised if there was not). All the metadata going to NSA does, is give a leg up on speed, nothing more.
Now, lets talk about the 4th. In General, the 4th says that your property is YOUR property and can not be looked at or taken by the gov. without a warrant. Now a police CAN frisk you (with cause), but that is because the outside is PUBLIC. They can not have you open your shirt or anything else. So, what does this have to do with this? The question is, who does the metadata and call belong to? The metadata belongs to the phone company, which is why the warrant went to them. It does NOT belong to you. For example, if you drive a car and fill up at a gas station, does the gas station have the right to tell police that you stopped there? Sure they do. And if given a warrant, they will do so. And that is what the courts already said back in 2005 (you WERE paying attention back then. yes?). So, the whole issue of metadata is total BS.
Now, what about your actual conversation? Does the 4th protect it? Yup. BUT, is the NSA saving calls? I would guess so, but only some. I suspect that once they have a warrant on a number, then anybody that calls that number, can be watched as well. In addition, with the megaflops available to NSA, I would guess that all of the saved calls are scanned by the NSA computers, looking for words/phrase. Do you think that they are monitoring ALL of our calls? Nope. Boston proved that they are not. Otherwise, it would have picked that up. BTW, if the NSA is listening in on calls and do not have a warrant to do so, then we have an abuse issue.
Now, as to traitor vs. whistleblower. When he first came out talking about spying on Americans, though nothing that he shown has proved that any abuse of the system was occurring. Assuming that he will be showing that some ppl of NSA is either listening into calls, or the blackbox is being searched for personal use, then he is a whistlebower, HAD HE STOPPED. But, he did not. He kept talking about our listening in on other nation's calls. He has described a great deal of things that help China, Iran, North Korea, and AQ. Was any of that illegal? Nope. However, some of it might be unethical WRT to our allies. BUT, as a rule, nations spy on each other constantly. Germany, France, Israel, etc have been caught spying on our gov. (and sometimes business) ppl. To the best of my knowledge, the only ones that we do NOT spy on, are the partners of the 5 eyes. But even there, we probably keep tabs on each other.
Regardless, when Snowden went well beyond talking about NSA's interactions with cit
First off, the Government is NOT watching you. They are watching for attacks. In fact, the reason why Boston got through is because they have a cleaner separation on what is allowed to be listened to. In a nut shell, it appears to be that if you have a connection with a known terrorists, only then will you be picked up. However, if you talk terrorism, then it will not be picked up.
Secondly, Snowden has made some accusations and sadly, others, mostly neo-cons, have taken those and blown them up much further than what he said. And of all the accusations that he came up with, he has presented some proof, but nothing substantial.
Wealthy elite are enslaving you? Politiicans are oppressing you? When did Snowden say that? He did not. BUT, others wrap all sorts of wild things in his statements, which makes him lose his statements.
BUT then to discredit him, he ran to nations that are generally regarded as NOT friendly towards USA, while telling them how NSA may/may not be spying on them. IOW, he is not seen as a whistleblower, but a traitor. And BTW, in any other nation, that is exactly what he would be considered if he did this to them.
Perhaps more importantly, it will lead to use developing new protocols that employ decent security. This is needed. For example, all email should be sent encrypted, not clear text. In addition, email should be re-developed so that it pushes a distributed architecture while removing the spam.
Seriously, NASA needs to get a COTS out there for multiple tug/fuel depot. Considering the number of chemical and electric engines, they should be able to get 4 different ones produced. Perhaps allocate 100M or 250M per winner.
However, to make this useful, they need to use LIDs for the interface. With this approach, it allows docking and berthing. Berthing is a strong connection, which is good for moving things around. Docking is ideal for short term connections, such as to a fuel depot, or a satellite.
Ideally, with this approach, they could even build a multi-engine approach by simply putting in a base.
about 8 years ago on this site. However, I was suggesting it for buoys, as well as road signs. What peltier counts on, is temp differentials. So, if a post is 3' in the ground, then the temp is normally different than air. By simply designing a system to carry heat up and down, then it is possible to get the difference. The buoy is even easier. The air is rarely the same temp as water. As such, it would be possible to charge a battery or even an ultra-cap to provide power during the x-over.
once he spoke about foreign involvement. Prior to that, is was debatable as to his being a whistleblower. But when speaking about what is happening in the foreign context, he became a full blown traitor.
this is probably going to help ESA, ULA's atlas/delta and SpaceX. However, SpaceX needs to make their new F9 V1.1 and FH launch successful. Assuming that it is, then you can bet on it that a number of companies will throw in with SpaceX.
Hmmm. You really should check your history.
NASA was started under Eisenhower, and then massively funded under Kennedy/Johnson.
Nixon did massive cuts to it, and gave us the too expensive shuttle.
Carter was focused on energy crisis, economy, and rebuilding the military (quietly).
reagan spread NASA's mission all over, while not doing jack with funding.
Poppa Bush, a true republican, DID increase NASA's budget, but cut it in 4th year. In addition, he tried to get NASA focused.
Clinton did focus NASA, but in 1995, republican CONgress insisted that massive cuts come to NASA and that they be gutted. Clinton had us locked in with treaties on the ISS, that prevented republicans from gutting NASA more.
Under W, NASA was gutted again, and then had their money devoted to re-starting the shuttle, getting Constellation going, and providing a MINIMUM private space via COTS.
Under O, he has tried to up the money to NASA, and fully fund private space. However, the republican controlled house has actually cut NASA and has fought to kill private space, and have all NASA money devoted to SLS.
Look at those missions on the link and then click on them. You will find missions like voyager were started nearly a decade earlier. Lots of technology had to be developed. The Hubble was a good one. It was started by Carter, but cuts came under reagan and then challenger, delayed it until 1990. BTW, one major exception was clementine. IIRC, it was done in 4 years.
At this moment, the house republicans have continued to gut NASA, and push their money towards SLS. We have actually cut missions that we agreed to pay for. However, W's admin did not use treaties with Europe, so the missions were killed.
And having the launches watched, is not a big deal.
The VASIMIR will not be ready for a couple of years. Worse, because it is so inefficient compared to this. This is a small 7KW system. A couple of solar panels would cover the amount of energy. Note that the efficiency of this unit is over 70%, while the efficiency of the VASIMR is about 60%.
I have worked at jeppesen and they hire pilots every so often. Sadly, most of them are pretty worthless when it comes to the development cycle (yet, they think that Marketing degree combined with 10 years flying puddle jumpers make them suitable for dev). With your degree in EE, you obviously have a decent background.
BTW, at this time, skip any work on human rated aircraft, save commercial. If you are going to work in aviation, then focus on drones, and services. There is little doubt that the feds are going to have to cut back in various areas. And that means that they will cut back on everything except for drones and the 2017 bomber. You MIGHT want to throw your lot in with something like the X-48. That is perfect for many things, such as the 2017 bomber, but also fire fighting, tankers, etc. And firefighting is going to be important with all of this beetle killed pine in the west.
wow. The fact that NASA has more interplanetary probes out there than all of the other nations combined, means nothing to you, eh?
NASA's been stymied by the neo-cons, BUT, that is about to change over the next 2 years. The neo-cons continue to pour money into the SLS, but it will not fly humans until 2022. OTOH, SpaceX will have their Falcon Heavy available at end of this year, or early next year. At that time, Musk is supposed to announce how much longer to develop the Dragon Rider (human rated launch capsule), and is saying that he will introduce information about MCT. MCT is what others of us know as BFR (big fucking rocket), but the new name is Mars Colonial Transport. if the inside info is to be believed, it will be ready by 2020, and will launch 150-200 tonnes, while the neo-con's SLS will take only 70 tonnes and will cost 3-5x the costs to launch.
So, I fully expect that NASA WILL get back on track, assuming that we can keep neo-con's dirty stinking paws off NASA for about 1 year or so.
Actually, the Model S is cheaper to buy than all of its gas competitor, and MUCH cheaper to run, as well as outperforming them.
The Model S does NOT compete against a porsche or lambo (though interestingly, the performance version can take them on). It competes against full size Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Lexus, Mercedes, etc.
This was an opportunity for O to really shine. He speaks of what he will stop, but does not speak of what will replace it. That is as stupid as 'drill, baby, drill' mantra chant of the neo-cons. I had hopes that he would have enough backbone to say that the US needs nukes and then push for thorium as well as IFR.
And as to Keystone, by allowing it to go through, he helps to lower the price of oil which helps the global economy, which makes it possible to build A.E. cheaper.
I think that he is allowing the neo-con's accusations to get to him.
Also, the new reactors designs were proven in the 60s and 70s. Heck, we had one here in Colorado that was awesome, except for the back-end. I will take thorium plants anyday.
Instead, what is needed is for us to produce new reactors such as thorium or the IFR, so that these can replace what is on-site and then burn the 'spent' fuel that is there. By doing this, we can cut our 70,000 tonnes of waste down to 5,000 tonnes of waste, while making a tidy profit and preventing any future accident.
Actually, per studies, there will still be excess energy. However, the daytime energy costs will drop to match the night rates (technically anyways), I doubt it though.
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That is the best that you have? Really? just a simple ad hominem? Sigh. Scurry back into the dark.
Under Article III, Section 3, of the Constitution, any person who levies war against the United States or adheres to its enemies by giving them Aid and Comfort has committed treason within the meaning of the Constitution. The term aid and comfort refers to any act that manifests a betrayal of allegiance to the United States, such as furnishing enemies with arms, troops, transportation, shelter, or classified information. If a subversive act has any tendency to weaken the power of the United States to attack or resist its enemies, aid and comfort has been given.
You really need a better university.
As for the rest of us, we DO know better and increasingly, more and more ppl will put Snowden on the traitor side.
Recall when we caught a number of Russian spies here in America? We sent them back.
During an open cold war, we would have kept them. But, the cold war with China is NOT open.
Gone to the press in USA, where they would print about the metadata on Americans, but not touch the rest of the story. And the rest of the story is what turned it into treason. The other issue is that they would have required real proof about real spying, rather than simply making accusations.
Ok, first off, I do not even bother to follow the snowden saga. It is a joke. The guy did ALL the wrong things.
I HAVE worked on US PATRIOT act. As such, I have a little different prospective then do others. PAT act has a number of things that were done under it. This is just one of them. My understanding is that the system dominately looks at what is PUBLIC, for example, our emails, our http, heck, even this stuff here.
Now, the issue is the metadata. I could tell you that the courts already approved this back in 2005, but, that really does not solve the issue. The questions is why does the gov. need this data? Simply to find out who is connecting to terrorists/spies. Of course, you and others will say that the 4th prevents the gov. from seeing this data without a warrant, which is likely correct. The problem is that it takes weeks to get that data from the phone companies. So, instead, the gov requires that the phone companies give up the data upfront, and it is then put into a black box (computer with a DB). The idea being is that it is in one location that can be quickly accessed. Now, who has access to it? Nobody, UNLESS THEY HAVE A WARRANT for a particular number (or show a connection i.e. spy A => B who then => C, D, J; so J could be looked at ). So, would you object if they access this data without a warrant? You should. However, safeguards should be on this to prevent just that situation (I have no idea on this, but would be surprised if there was not). All the metadata going to NSA does, is give a leg up on speed, nothing more.
Now, lets talk about the 4th. In General, the 4th says that your property is YOUR property and can not be looked at or taken by the gov. without a warrant. Now a police CAN frisk you (with cause), but that is because the outside is PUBLIC. They can not have you open your shirt or anything else. So, what does this have to do with this? The question is, who does the metadata and call belong to? The metadata belongs to the phone company, which is why the warrant went to them. It does NOT belong to you. For example, if you drive a car and fill up at a gas station, does the gas station have the right to tell police that you stopped there? Sure they do. And if given a warrant, they will do so. And that is what the courts already said back in 2005 (you WERE paying attention back then. yes?). So, the whole issue of metadata is total BS.
Now, what about your actual conversation? Does the 4th protect it? Yup. BUT, is the NSA saving calls? I would guess so, but only some. I suspect that once they have a warrant on a number, then anybody that calls that number, can be watched as well. In addition, with the megaflops available to NSA, I would guess that all of the saved calls are scanned by the NSA computers, looking for words/phrase. Do you think that they are monitoring ALL of our calls? Nope. Boston proved that they are not. Otherwise, it would have picked that up. BTW, if the NSA is listening in on calls and do not have a warrant to do so, then we have an abuse issue.
Now, as to traitor vs. whistleblower. When he first came out talking about spying on Americans, though nothing that he shown has proved that any abuse of the system was occurring. Assuming that he will be showing that some ppl of NSA is either listening into calls, or the blackbox is being searched for personal use, then he is a whistlebower, HAD HE STOPPED. But, he did not. He kept talking about our listening in on other nation's calls. He has described a great deal of things that help China, Iran, North Korea, and AQ. Was any of that illegal? Nope. However, some of it might be unethical WRT to our allies. BUT, as a rule, nations spy on each other constantly. Germany, France, Israel, etc have been caught spying on our gov. (and sometimes business) ppl. To the best of my knowledge, the only ones that we do NOT spy on, are the partners of the 5 eyes. But even there, we probably keep tabs on each other.
Regardless, when Snowden went well beyond talking about NSA's interactions with cit
First off, the Government is NOT watching you. They are watching for attacks. In fact, the reason why Boston got through is because they have a cleaner separation on what is allowed to be listened to. In a nut shell, it appears to be that if you have a connection with a known terrorists, only then will you be picked up. However, if you talk terrorism, then it will not be picked up.
Secondly, Snowden has made some accusations and sadly, others, mostly neo-cons, have taken those and blown them up much further than what he said. And of all the accusations that he came up with, he has presented some proof, but nothing substantial.
Wealthy elite are enslaving you? Politiicans are oppressing you? When did Snowden say that? He did not. BUT, others wrap all sorts of wild things in his statements, which makes him lose his statements.
BUT then to discredit him, he ran to nations that are generally regarded as NOT friendly towards USA, while telling them how NSA may/may not be spying on them. IOW, he is not seen as a whistleblower, but a traitor. And BTW, in any other nation, that is exactly what he would be considered if he did this to them.
Perhaps more importantly, it will lead to use developing new protocols that employ decent security. This is needed. For example, all email should be sent encrypted, not clear text. In addition, email should be re-developed so that it pushes a distributed architecture while removing the spam.
Seriously, NASA needs to get a COTS out there for multiple tug/fuel depot. Considering the number of chemical and electric engines, they should be able to get 4 different ones produced. Perhaps allocate 100M or 250M per winner.
However, to make this useful, they need to use LIDs for the interface. With this approach, it allows docking and berthing. Berthing is a strong connection, which is good for moving things around. Docking is ideal for short term connections, such as to a fuel depot, or a satellite.
Ideally, with this approach, they could even build a multi-engine approach by simply putting in a base.
about 8 years ago on this site. However, I was suggesting it for buoys, as well as road signs. What peltier counts on, is temp differentials. So, if a post is 3' in the ground, then the temp is normally different than air. By simply designing a system to carry heat up and down, then it is possible to get the difference. The buoy is even easier. The air is rarely the same temp as water. As such, it would be possible to charge a battery or even an ultra-cap to provide power during the x-over.
once he spoke about foreign involvement. Prior to that, is was debatable as to his being a whistleblower. But when speaking about what is happening in the foreign context, he became a full blown traitor.
Nothing to do with sabotage. Simple QA are always the issues here.
However, remember that this is rocket science. Things happen.
this is probably going to help ESA, ULA's atlas/delta and SpaceX. However, SpaceX needs to make their new F9 V1.1 and FH launch successful. Assuming that it is, then you can bet on it that a number of companies will throw in with SpaceX.
Hmmm.
You really should check your history.
NASA was started under Eisenhower, and then massively funded under Kennedy/Johnson.
Nixon did massive cuts to it, and gave us the too expensive shuttle.
Carter was focused on energy crisis, economy, and rebuilding the military (quietly).
reagan spread NASA's mission all over, while not doing jack with funding.
Poppa Bush, a true republican, DID increase NASA's budget, but cut it in 4th year. In addition, he tried to get NASA focused.
Clinton did focus NASA, but in 1995, republican CONgress insisted that massive cuts come to NASA and that they be gutted. Clinton had us locked in with treaties on the ISS, that prevented republicans from gutting NASA more.
Under W, NASA was gutted again, and then had their money devoted to re-starting the shuttle, getting Constellation going, and providing a MINIMUM private space via COTS.
Under O, he has tried to up the money to NASA, and fully fund private space. However, the republican controlled house has actually cut NASA and has fought to kill private space, and have all NASA money devoted to SLS.
Look at those missions on the link and then click on them. You will find missions like voyager were started nearly a decade earlier. Lots of technology had to be developed. The Hubble was a good one. It was started by Carter, but cuts came under reagan and then challenger, delayed it until 1990. BTW, one major exception was clementine. IIRC, it was done in 4 years.
At this moment, the house republicans have continued to gut NASA, and push their money towards SLS. We have actually cut missions that we agreed to pay for. However, W's admin did not use treaties with Europe, so the missions were killed.
And having the launches watched, is not a big deal.
The VASIMIR will not be ready for a couple of years. Worse, because it is so inefficient compared to this. This is a small 7KW system. A couple of solar panels would cover the amount of energy. Note that the efficiency of this unit is over 70%, while the efficiency of the VASIMR is about 60%.
Just thinking further, throw a resume at SpaceX. They are looking at more than just rockets.
I have worked at jeppesen and they hire pilots every so often. Sadly, most of them are pretty worthless when it comes to the development cycle (yet, they think that Marketing degree combined with 10 years flying puddle jumpers make them suitable for dev). With your degree in EE, you obviously have a decent background.
BTW, at this time, skip any work on human rated aircraft, save commercial. If you are going to work in aviation, then focus on drones, and services. There is little doubt that the feds are going to have to cut back in various areas. And that means that they will cut back on everything except for drones and the 2017 bomber. You MIGHT want to throw your lot in with something like the X-48. That is perfect for many things, such as the 2017 bomber, but also fire fighting, tankers, etc. And firefighting is going to be important with all of this beetle killed pine in the west.
Seriously, we should put this on a small unit with solar cells and then attach this to the ISS. Better to put this to use, than having it sit there.
wow. The fact that NASA has more interplanetary probes out there than all of the other nations combined, means nothing to you, eh?
NASA's been stymied by the neo-cons, BUT, that is about to change over the next 2 years. The neo-cons continue to pour money into the SLS, but it will not fly humans until 2022. OTOH, SpaceX will have their Falcon Heavy available at end of this year, or early next year. At that time, Musk is supposed to announce how much longer to develop the Dragon Rider (human rated launch capsule), and is saying that he will introduce information about MCT. MCT is what others of us know as BFR (big fucking rocket), but the new name is Mars Colonial Transport. if the inside info is to be believed, it will be ready by 2020, and will launch 150-200 tonnes, while the neo-con's SLS will take only 70 tonnes and will cost 3-5x the costs to launch.
So, I fully expect that NASA WILL get back on track, assuming that we can keep neo-con's dirty stinking paws off NASA for about 1 year or so.
Actually, the Model S is cheaper to buy than all of its gas competitor, and MUCH cheaper to run, as well as outperforming them.
The Model S does NOT compete against a porsche or lambo (though interestingly, the performance version can take them on). It competes against full size Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Lexus, Mercedes, etc.
That's not fast. the tgv has already done 574 kph. (360mph) Electric engines are capable of MUCH more.
Yes, but electric motors can do even more.
This was an opportunity for O to really shine. He speaks of what he will stop, but does not speak of what will replace it. That is as stupid as 'drill, baby, drill' mantra chant of the neo-cons. I had hopes that he would have enough backbone to say that the US needs nukes and then push for thorium as well as IFR.
And as to Keystone, by allowing it to go through, he helps to lower the price of oil which helps the global economy, which makes it possible to build A.E. cheaper.
I think that he is allowing the neo-con's accusations to get to him.
Also, the new reactors designs were proven in the 60s and 70s. Heck, we had one here in Colorado that was awesome, except for the back-end. I will take thorium plants anyday.
And it has been shown that the risk from nukes are quite a bit less.
Instead, what is needed is for us to produce new reactors such as thorium or the IFR, so that these can replace what is on-site and then burn the 'spent' fuel that is there. By doing this, we can cut our 70,000 tonnes of waste down to 5,000 tonnes of waste, while making a tidy profit and preventing any future accident.
Actually, per studies, there will still be excess energy. However, the daytime energy costs will drop to match the night rates (technically anyways), I doubt it though.