Unless you think you can argue that writing in cursive is an "encryption scheme", I doubt they can say this is an "ecryption scheme" either. I have a passing familiarity with the pronounciation rules of the Greek alphabet, and I can pretty much read it out loud like a 5 year old greek kid.:-)
As well as making money, Mr Ishikawa's vision for BayTSP is to become a hi-tech version of Pinkerton, the legendary detective agency that protected presidents like Abraham Lincoln and hunted outlaws like Jesse James.
I'll leave the more obvious "and look what that got Lincoln" and "How long did Pinkerton take to find the James gang?" lines alone and instead comment on the delusions of adequacy from this guy.
Umm, yeah. You're badass:
Pinkerton: Guarded presidents. BayTSP: busts 13 year olds swapping Busta Rhymes and Bon Jovi songs.
Pinkerton: risked agents' lives and dealt with dangerous, vicious criminals. BayTSP: risks vicious infected paper cuts from laser printer whipping out C&D letters.
You are not betting that bad things will happen to you with insurance. You are converting a risk from an unpredictable variable cost to a more predictable fixed one by sharing your risk with a pool of other risk-takers. I pay $75 a quarter to the fire department (mine is a private company) to cover the remote but possible chance that I would have a $5,000 - $10,000 'put the fire out' bill when it's over. I pay $100 a month to the insurance company to cover the remote but possible chance that I would have a $178,000 mortgage to pay off with no asset securing it.
I guarantee you I don't sit here hoping my house burns down any time soon. You do have a point that there is a fine line between gambling and insurance. I have no problems with either.
First off, Lincoln is not a "Founding Father", and second, whatever else you may think about Lincoln, he was a civil liberties menace. He suspended habeas corpus, arrested and harrassed newspaper editors and politicians who dared to disagree with his policies. His actions almost makes Dubya look like a paragon of Jeffersonian virtue in comparison.
Despite what we're told in grade school history, he also didn't "free the slaves". If one were to actually read the Emancipation Proclamation (only about 600 words), one would find that he freed only the slaves of states in rebellion, excepting those areas where the Union forces already had control.
And therefore it's not an issue of guilt versus innocence. DTV only needs to have a "preponderance of evidence" to win, and they have the right to call you as a witness.
So, yes, you must effectively prove your innocence in civil court.
I appreciate your enthusiasm, and I agree that we need to get people to Mars, and I'm a big fan of Zubrin's work.
With that said, I don't think it's an either/or proposition. We have 6+ billion people on this planet and we still have a lot of good science that is done with orbiters around Earth. The rovers are being sent to two different likely places where we may find evidence of life, past or present. I view these missions as information gathering for what I hope are the inevitable manned missions to Mars. The current missions (MGS, Odyssey, MER, Express) and follow on missions (MRO, LRR, Sample Return, others) will enable us to get more "bang for the buck" when humans do finally arrive there.
And add to that that the ESA is finishing up work on their own tracking station facilities. The DSN and thier European counterparts will be busy (they always are), but they can handle the load.
With that said, the DSN is getting up there in age and many of the antennae need upgrading and/or replacing. Hopefully, there will be budget money in the coming years to deal with this.
I hope you're being funny, because if not, you're woefully misinformed. One rover will be near the Gusev crater and the other will be at the Terra Meridiani hematite site, which are on opposite sides of the planet.
That's certainly a constraint, but there's also a mission ops constraint in that there has to be a highly coordinated mission planning team on duty 24 by 7 for each rover. That's much more expensive than doing mission ops for something like Mars Odyssey's THEMIS that two people, working (more or less) normal working days can handle.
The majority of the data taken by Odyssey would not be terribly useful in true color, since most of the THEMIS data is IR, and therefore is invisible to the human eye.:-)
Yes, I know there's a visible component, too. I look forward to seeing the true color images, especially at up to 17 meters resolution. Whee!
An Anonymous Coward writes "Apparently, Christopher Columbus, an Italian navigator in the employ of the Kingdom of Spain has found a way to navigate west across the Atlantic Ocean to new territories in India." No word yet on we can expect broadband internet access there, but this could be a mighty blow to the RIAA.
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I hate to break it to you, but despite what you see on Star Trek, spaceflight is really, really, REALLY difficult. I agree that there are problems with NASA (like any other federal bureaucracy), and I'd like to see more privatization of space travel and exploration, but I guarantee you that space flight problems are quite a bit more difficult than running a porn web site.
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Much in the same way that North Korea is a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Unless you think you can argue that writing in cursive is an "encryption scheme", I doubt they can say this is an "ecryption scheme" either. I have a passing familiarity with the pronounciation rules of the Greek alphabet, and I can pretty much read it out loud like a 5 year old greek kid. :-)
The president and chief scientist of Malin Space Science Systems.
FYI.
Well, yeah, if you really want to run stuff that old, I suppose.
I've never heard of any of these movies: behnnifku tokhrpiph, nyazcvha pokyh... What the hell are those?
They are also using some kind of broken font where some of the letters are funny and backwards...
And the Federal Reserve...
That's funny: I live in a neighborhood where streetlights are forbidden and we get coyotes all the time.
Plus your Slashdot ID is lower than mine!
I'll leave the more obvious "and look what that got Lincoln" and "How long did Pinkerton take to find the James gang?" lines alone and instead comment on the delusions of adequacy from this guy.
Umm, yeah. You're badass:
Pinkerton: Guarded presidents. BayTSP: busts 13 year olds swapping Busta Rhymes and Bon Jovi songs.
Pinkerton: risked agents' lives and dealt with dangerous, vicious criminals. BayTSP: risks vicious infected paper cuts from laser printer whipping out C&D letters.
Sheesh.
You are not betting that bad things will happen to you with insurance. You are converting a risk from an unpredictable variable cost to a more predictable fixed one by sharing your risk with a pool of other risk-takers. I pay $75 a quarter to the fire department (mine is a private company) to cover the remote but possible chance that I would have a $5,000 - $10,000 'put the fire out' bill when it's over. I pay $100 a month to the insurance company to cover the remote but possible chance that I would have a $178,000 mortgage to pay off with no asset securing it.
I guarantee you I don't sit here hoping my house burns down any time soon. You do have a point that there is a fine line between gambling and insurance. I have no problems with either.
much like Ken Lay, will be a special feature in a level of Duke Nukem Forever.
My half a cubicle kind of sucks, but the door that leads to John Malkovich's brain is kind of fun.
Relying on video cards is a bad idea. Certain segments of the population have a condition called "blindness" and can't see anything at all.
First off, Lincoln is not a "Founding Father", and second, whatever else you may think about Lincoln, he was a civil liberties menace. He suspended habeas corpus, arrested and harrassed newspaper editors and politicians who dared to disagree with his policies. His actions almost makes Dubya look like a paragon of Jeffersonian virtue in comparison.
Despite what we're told in grade school history, he also didn't "free the slaves". If one were to actually read the Emancipation Proclamation (only about 600 words), one would find that he freed only the slaves of states in rebellion, excepting those areas where the Union forces already had control.
And therefore it's not an issue of guilt versus innocence. DTV only needs to have a "preponderance of evidence" to win, and they have the right to call you as a witness.
So, yes, you must effectively prove your innocence in civil court.
by at least one cent.
I appreciate your enthusiasm, and I agree that we need to get people to Mars, and I'm a big fan of Zubrin's work.
With that said, I don't think it's an either/or proposition. We have 6+ billion people on this planet and we still have a lot of good science that is done with orbiters around Earth. The rovers are being sent to two different likely places where we may find evidence of life, past or present. I view these missions as information gathering for what I hope are the inevitable manned missions to Mars. The current missions (MGS, Odyssey, MER, Express) and follow on missions (MRO, LRR, Sample Return, others) will enable us to get more "bang for the buck" when humans do finally arrive there.
And add to that that the ESA is finishing up work on their own tracking station facilities. The DSN and thier European counterparts will be busy (they always are), but they can handle the load.
With that said, the DSN is getting up there in age and many of the antennae need upgrading and/or replacing. Hopefully, there will be budget money in the coming years to deal with this.
I hope you're being funny, because if not, you're woefully misinformed. One rover will be near the Gusev crater and the other will be at the Terra Meridiani hematite site, which are on opposite sides of the planet.
The subject says it all.
That's certainly a constraint, but there's also a mission ops constraint in that there has to be a highly coordinated mission planning team on duty 24 by 7 for each rover. That's much more expensive than doing mission ops for something like Mars Odyssey's THEMIS that two people, working (more or less) normal working days can handle.
The majority of the data taken by Odyssey would not be terribly useful in true color, since most of the THEMIS data is IR, and therefore is invisible to the human eye. :-)
Yes, I know there's a visible component, too. I look forward to seeing the true color images, especially at up to 17 meters resolution. Whee!
An Anonymous Coward writes "Apparently, Christopher Columbus, an Italian navigator in the employ of the Kingdom of Spain has found a way to navigate west across the Atlantic Ocean to new territories in India." No word yet on we can expect broadband internet access there, but this could be a mighty blow to the RIAA.
3,000 applicants. Six openings. You do the math.
I hate to break it to you, but despite what you see on Star Trek, spaceflight is really, really, REALLY difficult. I agree that there are problems with NASA (like any other federal bureaucracy), and I'd like to see more privatization of space travel and exploration, but I guarantee you that space flight problems are quite a bit more difficult than running a porn web site.