Agree, I think it's the exact opposite: lack of paranoia; People who are denouncing it are the ones accused of paranoia not the people who support that kind of law.
(Now that I think about it I am not sure anymore who you where accusing of paranoia: the law makers? Slashdot readers? Are you working for the government?)
So if we fill a container with 500 kilograms we roufly have 19 500 megatons and that is 16 times the complete arsenal of nuclear weapons of the US(1200 megatons).
Now the real question is how much do we need to blow up the whole planet with one single bomb?
No no no, the one who died was finally the evil Kirk from the alternate universe, he was just pretending to be Kirk because he is evil. The real one is still waiting in the bubble until they call him for another movie.
(or something similar that they could pull out of their ass)
And each year the military budget of US is around 500 billions so imagine 10 years of that budget used into space exploration.
Now imagine the world military expenditure (900 billion)used for the same goal of space exploration over 50 years. We colonize the whole fucking solar system in a couple of years and we use the change left to cure cancer, aids, Alzheimer's and a couple of other annoying plagues and we probably have many left to buy some beer.
But forget about this shit, their is to many crazy assholes in this world, in 50 years we will still continue to hit each other in the head claming that our god is the real god.
In any case, as long as you have a shiny nice new building on Bill's dime, who gives a crap what it is called?
In Montreal one of our finest Commerce Universities (HEC), when they built a complete new campus they decided to sponsor each classroom and put the name of the sponsor on the front door of each classroom. Its ok when your finance classroom is named after a bank, but one classroom was named after a chicken fast-food chain and their was a little bit less of glamour in the name of that class.:)
Anyway they had an insanely great new campus for less money and who cares about the names?
I just been informed by my lawyers about this thread going on and want immediately to point out before more damage is done to our intellectual property that we owns free beer and that the open beer movement is violating our IP.
Darl McBride
SCO (Scamers, Crooks and Opportunists)
The funny thing is that your money comes from the pocket of technologically uneducated investors who where acting greedily and stupidly by encouraging this disaster to go on and making the stocks to go rocket high.
Others people misery don't amuse me but in this case, they simply deserved it; they where the one who where betting on the collapse of Linux just to pocket some dollars. They lost, time for the "repo mans" to pay them a visit.:)
"We don't need more temporizing. We need the overwhelming application of military force, right now. That means using strategic nuclear weapons against the PRK to destroy every military installation, followed by a rapid invasion to secure the countryside and assure there can be no belated retaliation."
I don't think China will react very well when they'll see a huge number of nuclear warheads going in their direction. And even if for some miraculous reason they understand and believe that the warheads are not going to China I don't think they will react very well to the fact that part of their population could die from the nuclear fallout coming from their neighbors and I don't think they will see from a very enthusiastic eye the fact that a military force is wiping out north Korea and positioning itself directly on their border. At least last time it happened they didn't stay there just watching.
...the rights of the students to use the unlicensed 2.4GHz spectrum in the privacy of their own apartment are obviously being regulated by a body that is not the FCC...
Like the right of the travelers to use air waves (cel phone) on international areas in the privacy of their own couch in their airplane do obviously being regulated by a body that is not the FCC...
Oh wait its not their couch but the property of the air line and you pay to uses it not to own it and they can decide of the rules onboard. Like for your own apartment on your campus that is not yours and that is not on your property.
I still think it suck to prevent students from using the 2.4GHz but please let use coherent arguments.
Sadly its the same thing in many countries, a 15 percent of uninformed voter who like to swing their vote for frivolous reason are the one who decide of the future of many nations.
In support of that just take a look at this graph and see how people suddenly changed their vote in reaction of political spinning.
Kerry was high then Reagan died and the republicans suddenly become the leading party, then Michael Moore came and the vote changed in favor of Kerry then came the swifboat club and Bush was leading again...
"...One has to wonder whether airing such a controversial movie on the eve of an election helps or hurts the political process by influencing the vote with last-minute emotions rather than thoroughly contemplation."
Well it's how to political process works right now. The swift boat add is not much better and its the major point who turned the pools around. The convention is no what turned the pools around like some people like to pretend. It began with the add.
And just why to send the information on a 100 pound laptop when we can simply send some of our DNA or DNA of many species of earth on much less room. If the aliens are intelligent enough to operate our laptops and then understand the meaning of all that garbage data, they will be able to extract it directly from the frozen DNA that we are sending them.
Well yes Independence day was lame because in that movie alien and earth computers are compatible and because the hero was able to understands their OS almost instantly.
Nevertheless if we receive an alien computer we can use our best scientist for several years to analyze the thing and then we will maybe get to somewhere.
A radio signal using another language, scientific conventions and technological conventions wont be much more easier to decipher.
Anyway to send the famous computer, aliens will have to:
a)Be very lucky.
OR
b)Know where we are.
"...better not to send radio transmission, when physical media like DNA on an asteroid can declare a terrestrial presence......like the entire information equivalent for our global genome fitting on a 100 pound laptop"
They just forgot one little detail:
If we want to cover as much space as with a radio signal we have to sent several billions times the amount of matter available on earth to multiple directions at the same time. Its similar as with radio signals. The farther you send, bigger is the amount of space to cover and bigger is the number of probes you have to send to cover it.
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If I was called a "cracker" I would be kind of worried about what you just said!
6) Roughly what percent of their non GPL software is installed without license? (including Windows)
Now Balmer should say that Windows user are also a bunch of thief's.
He surpassed the life expectancy of USA for males and arrived right on target for both sexes.
USA Life expectancy at birth:
male: 74.63 years
total population: 77.43 years
From CIA The World Factbook
Agree, I think it's the exact opposite: lack of paranoia; People who are denouncing it are the ones accused of paranoia not the people who support that kind of law.
(Now that I think about it I am not sure anymore who you where accusing of paranoia: the law makers? Slashdot readers? Are you working for the government?)
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NO CARRIER
Now if they can just ban access to that nasty election and recount data, the terrorist will really be screwed.
Now the real question is how much do we need to blow up the whole planet with one single bomb?
Or how much for a "Novabomb?"
it clearly proves that "grand parent" is either wrong either trolling.
(or something similar that they could pull out of their ass)
Admiral Ackbar: Zoidberg I am your father! Dr. Zoidberg: Blb dlb blb blb blb blblbllb!!!
Now imagine the world military expenditure (900 billion)used for the same goal of space exploration over 50 years. We colonize the whole fucking solar system in a couple of years and we use the change left to cure cancer, aids, Alzheimer's and a couple of other annoying plagues and we probably have many left to buy some beer.
But forget about this shit, their is to many crazy assholes in this world, in 50 years we will still continue to hit each other in the head claming that our god is the real god.
In Montreal one of our finest Commerce Universities (HEC), when they built a complete new campus they decided to sponsor each classroom and put the name of the sponsor on the front door of each classroom. Its ok when your finance classroom is named after a bank, but one classroom was named after a chicken fast-food chain and their was a little bit less of glamour in the name of that class. :)
Anyway they had an insanely great new campus for less money and who cares about the names?
Darl McBride SCO (Scamers, Crooks and Opportunists)
The funny thing is that your money comes from the pocket of technologically uneducated investors who where acting greedily and stupidly by encouraging this disaster to go on and making the stocks to go rocket high.
:)
Others people misery don't amuse me but in this case, they simply deserved it; they where the one who where betting on the collapse of Linux just to pocket some dollars. They lost, time for the "repo mans" to pay them a visit.
I don't think China will react very well when they'll see a huge number of nuclear warheads going in their direction. And even if for some miraculous reason they understand and believe that the warheads are not going to China I don't think they will react very well to the fact that part of their population could die from the nuclear fallout coming from their neighbors and I don't think they will see from a very enthusiastic eye the fact that a military force is wiping out north Korea and positioning itself directly on their border. At least last time it happened they didn't stay there just watching.
Can the FAA regulate on non USA territories, when you are over the ocean?
...the rights of the students to use the unlicensed 2.4GHz spectrum in the privacy of their own apartment are obviously being regulated by a body that is not the FCC...
Like the right of the travelers to use air waves (cel phone) on international areas in the privacy of their own couch in their airplane do obviously being regulated by a body that is not the FCC...
Oh wait its not their couch but the property of the air line and you pay to uses it not to own it and they can decide of the rules onboard. Like for your own apartment on your campus that is not yours and that is not on your property.
I still think it suck to prevent students from using the 2.4GHz but please let use coherent arguments.
Kerry was high then Reagan died and the republicans suddenly become the leading party, then Michael Moore came and the vote changed in favor of Kerry then came the swifboat club and Bush was leading again...
Mmm.... humans!
Well it's how to political process works right now. The swift boat add is not much better and its the major point who turned the pools around. The convention is no what turned the pools around like some people like to pretend. It began with the add.
I'll go get my asbestos suit... :)
DrudgeDoted
Choose yours. :)
And just why to send the information on a 100 pound laptop when we can simply send some of our DNA or DNA of many species of earth on much less room. If the aliens are intelligent enough to operate our laptops and then understand the meaning of all that garbage data, they will be able to extract it directly from the frozen DNA that we are sending them.
Mmm.... interesting signal...
Ho, sorry, false alarm, it was just bit of Ellen Feiss commercial who bounced back on an asteroid.
Nevertheless if we receive an alien computer we can use our best scientist for several years to analyze the thing and then we will maybe get to somewhere.
A radio signal using another language, scientific conventions and technological conventions wont be much more easier to decipher.
Anyway to send the famous computer, aliens will have to:
a)Be very lucky.
OR
b)Know where we are.
They just forgot one little detail:
If we want to cover as much space as with a radio signal we have to sent several billions times the amount of matter available on earth to multiple directions at the same time. Its similar as with radio signals. The farther you send, bigger is the amount of space to cover and bigger is the number of probes you have to send to cover it.
Just a little detail. :)