It is a simple numbers game, thanks to the explosive method of distribution, the spread becomes quite large affecting all possible orbits, even large ellipse orbits, a straight up random distribution. A large percentage falling back to earth who cares, a typical artillery shell can pack 15,000 flechettes in there, a single large ballistic rocket and your talking millions, then ramp up the number of rockets and space is locked out for quite some time. Keep in mind it's not about missing once, it's about missing every time for years possibly tens of thousands of orbits, times by tens of millions of projectiles. You can bet your bottom dollar dollar satellite launch insurance would go right through the roof.
Still oddly enough when it comes to a WMD stand off threat still better than a nuke, because threat to life is absolutely minimal, yet major corporations profits are threatened and, countries space satellite superiority is eliminated. This versus say trying to block a water way for an extended period in the face of a military threat, the effort needed to maintain that blockade versus the one time saturation effort to block off access for decades even centuries.
Gossip on the web had it that Kodak's demise is largely due to inflated executive salaries and nepotism in executive placement as their only real business strategy going forward or was that backward and down the drain.
Does M$ have the right to brick someones computer because that person wants to load a different operating system? Does M$ have the right to enforce breaking someone's computer completely because a root kit of any description has been installed by any means? Does M$ have the right to force the majority of non-computer technical skill to spend hundreds of dollars on 'repairs' because M$ has secretly embedded the ability to brick their computer. Does M$ have the right to permanently break hardware because of looping secure boot errors? Does M$ have the right to prevent consumers from turning retail machines into budget Linux file servers?
The question here is whether government based consumer protection organisation will allow M$ to dictate what is down to the hardware the consumer has paid for and has very limited range of choice in purchasing. How much will M$ be about to force onto consumer's with get consumer organisations to strike back in order to protect consumer rights.
Of course Yahoo is a complete portal unlike Google which lacks many features so not really in that running. Yahoo might do well to run up it's 'hit count' by the simple act of making all menu selections simultaneously routing via the web while it provides the internal link. Of course MSN and AOL , the other major portal sites, could also do that. It would be a realistic measure of their stickiness and their true measure end user desirability versus say, google search, bing search, or even social web sites like facebook or stumbleupon.
There are also the custom home page portal features. Even if AOL recently dropped theirs, MSN is still running theirs. For the majority market those customised portal pages are still desirable.
Perhaps you don't really understand licensing. The copy you had is a public domain copy and you are legally entitled to copy it. No one can retroactively steal your right to access your public domain copy as you see fit, deploy it upon multiple devices, share it with friends, make backups and sell it to the public. So they enacted laws that stole your saleable product, the product being a reproducible version of that content, any costs you had in initially obtaining it, any costs associated with storing and preserving it and any enhancements you made to the quality of it.
So as the owner of that particular licensed saleable product you can sue to recover your investment. Where they failed was in assigned value to the copy, it's intrinsic storage medium, the measurable qualities of the copy and all costs associated with maintaining it.
Not that I would call the store a bunch of deceiving ass hats but never in my life have I seen a store accept a product return without opening the box.
C'mon seriously, a labelled box. When I buy stuff from the store of this kind, I always get them to open the box at the check out, always.
Inside job, likely the transport company delivering to the retailer, no ones looking and they know the store will just count boxes.
The best anti-satellite weapon, a non-targeted rocket carrying high explosive and ten of thousands of titanium flechettes. Can't afford a high tech satellite weapons program, simply deny anyone else access to space. Fire off rocket after rocket until earth orbits are flooded with tens of millions flechettes all randomly orbiting until they take out 'all' available targets.
This weapon is readily accessible to the most primitive space program, once deployed it can not currently be removed and is the ultimate leveller, as all countries space programs will be levelled at zero. Only way past it anti-gravity drive and heavily armoured space craft, quite the technology leap. Quite a few countries could already threaten all the worlds access in this manner, space blackmail a veritable earth orbit doomsday weapon.
Reality is the might be realising one of the greatest consequences of weaponise earth orbits, forget space.
The more crowded earth orbits become the greater the reality of a impact chain reaction. One major satellite destroyed and it's orbit correcting reaction fuel source detonated and those very high speed debris could go on to take out more satellites and the idiot monkey chain reaction would go on from there.
Humanity is getting in the position where it could deny itself access for centuries to space simply as a result of the extent of orbiting debris and no realistic way of cleaning them up.
The new rules, it is all about public awareness and votes. Whether the internet by social activism can beat out billions spent on the idiot box.
The corporate crony politicians are under threat and regardless of their bluster know their days are numbered, once public awareness kicks in, no amount of corporate campaign dollars will win that election.
In fact we are seeing the same old, same old, from the far right, don't speak out nobody listens, don't vote it doesn't count, give up corporations always win, get back down their and polishing the shoes of your betters.
So who will get the votes, the internet or the idiot box?
All your predictions fall over unless you do one thing first, solve the energy problem.
So more realistic would things like, the bulk of food being produced by aquaponics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics (uses far less land area, water, uses less energy and can be closer to cities). After an extensive political battle the creative commons takes precedence of prior copyright rules, with copyright being limited to a decade based upon 'production investment' and recovering that investment. All public and private officials especially politicians now undergo full medical, intellectual and psychological, prior to gaining any roles that cover governance, control or influence. There will be a push to shift all people to energy efficient high density housing, that properly fulfils physiological and psychological and limits impacts upon the environment.
Those examples of course count on the spread and use of nuclear weapons is avoided. That genetics experimentation doesn't result in an ecological catastrophe. That the majority of lobbyists are terminated prior to allowing unrestrained pollution of the environment, unlimited chemical experiments on human food sources, the reintroduction of slavery via the private prison system and the public auctioning of legislation.
Proviso, excludes all cosmological, extreme seismic or stellar events. When those happen, depending upon where and when you are, you can just bend over and kiss your ass good bye.
What makes it worthy is, that the only real defence against drones is, tah dah, nucelar weapons. One thing you can guarantee is the high tech murder from afar will trigger a nuclear arms rush like never before. The Shrub and Uncle Tom Obama will have done more to threaten the world with the spread of nuclear weapons than any other politicians in history.
Not to mention that it just doesn't stop there. All the pollen wandering around the biosphere from GMO plants not mixing with non-GMO related species inducing change including herbicide resistance in weed species. At least in other countries non-GMO farmers can sue GMO farmers for infecting their crops with genetically damaged pollen.
It's time for the US to wake up to reality or piss off. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership "The original agreement between the countries of Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore". Four additional countries â" Australia, Peru, United States, Malaysia and Vietnam".
WTF, corrupt US lobbyists are attempt to lay down the law, to all the countries, no discussion you will obey. Everylooks at the US being a corrupt government run by lobbyists at the command of the 1% but what makes those lobbyists think all those other countries will put up with it.
For a start zero campaign contribution are going from US lobbyists to those others countries, so what you think you get those other countries politicians for free. Is the US going to start making military threats along with, what would be empty trade threats, as the TPP is a trade pact, can't very well go shutting down trade within a trade pact as it kind of makes it all redundant.
It is hard to believe that US lobbyists are now ignoring their own bought of politicians and now negotiating treaties direct, what next, starting wars?
The marketdroids pretty much gave up slashdot, they were too noticeable and tended to lose. They have resorted to offtopic postings flooding the first page of any story.
Any government agency that monitors social networks for critical postings about how it functions is obviously hunting down traitors within the ranks. Those that divulge the corrupting affects of political appointees, of criminal collusions with various corporations and, of blatant failures within the organisation.
DHS so far is most well known for the colour of terrorist bullshit scale to drive political polling in favour of then Republican Government. Of some really distorted privatisation contracts to flood the pocket of ex-insider political appointees with pointless security apparatus. It seems to have become the US agency were the worst of the worst for political purposes investigations are dumped, terrorist investigations for publicity, attacks against peace protesters, threats from environmentalists, colluding with corporations in attacks against individuals protesting those corporations, global warming activists and pretty much pro 1% and anti 99%.
Of course the whole thing could be running on cattle fertiliser. It is not about selling anything than, advertising space, interviews and stores. All one big yarn, keeping ticking over by a steady stream of fantasy. An energy version of alien visitation and communication, of spiritual meetings with those that have passed, of hunting big foot and various other critters. Being able to 'sell' the story at a profit seems to be the driver, from things that are just around the corner and hidden secrets.
To be fair, none of it occurs in isolation. People don't go through life just having a a single xray.
They have ct scans, numerous dental xrays, xrays for other fractures, exposed to radar from airports, own microwaves, exposed to emr from high voltage lines, fluorescent lights, background radiation and, radiation from the sun.
So you asshats that like to point to your new additional radiation device as safe, as is in some fantasy world in operates on it's own and a person is not subject to other risks, well, bugger you.
Lets see all new 'addtional' loads treated as additional loads not as isolated radiations risks.
Unless your Rumpelstiltskin your always doing everything on some else's dime until, you, like they, earn it. Unless of course your a leprechaun with your own pot of gold.
Prove it. There in lies the problem. Prove you own it and prove it isn't fair use ie. innocent until proven guilty. Rather than my work disappears from the web until I prove you don't own it or that it was fair use ie guilty until proven innocent.
So false charge after false charge, every month or so and your web site is dead, buried by legal fees and no income. You don't think for a second that this is exactly what the corporate psychopath companies planned in the first place when they got lobbyists to write that foul and corrupt piece of legislation.
Big money versus the little guy and your finished, they will kill one blog after another, until they are all that is left (and then they will reform the mass media cartel, and not pick on protected companies or subjects and share common lies and deceits), that is their insane plan.
Of course one of the biggest markets the EU will simply stomp all over this requirement, it will then be up to the US to challenge anti-competitive practices or show how corrupt it has become.
Basically everyone with half a brain will order non-arm PCs because of course you have the whole server market where Linux dominates.
So M$ under the Uncle Fester is taking a shot at it anyhow, his last bit of idiotic defiance before walking (with a bit of shoving and pushing) out the door. It seems like he is trying to make M$ look bad on purpose so that he can blame lost sales on the person taking over after him, that has to deal with this mess.
Don't forget the Irish Governement are cheating scum, stealing taxes from other countries by basically charging half taxes on licensing revenues ie income generating from selling coypright content is only taxed at at half the rate income earned from other sources is.
This allows tax cheats to shift the pretend location of ownership of copyright content to Ireland from other countries to they can cheat on their taxes.
So basically dog squabling amongst themselves and screw the Irish Government.
65" LCD LED TV, with high spec computer built in. Expansions slot on the back to add 'another' hard disk and extra ram, at least 2 network ports and 4 usb ports, and through in a pad or smart phone as the remote.
Don't need a router built in as that is best served as the internet connection with firewall and wireless.
I think you missed the point. If Foxconn does not get contracts to build what ever companies want them to build, they will not shut the doors, they will start building for the customers direct.
Does that mean that all those innocent until found guilty people at GITMO are also hostages. I always thought the majority were simply quick cash bounty stooges. Intelligence contractors for the US seeking to fatten their wallets basically just grabbed anyone and everyone they felt they could get away with. So maybe some asshat in Iran is doing what the Asshats in the US are doing nailing who ever they can to a cross, all to get that next promotion of contractors cheque.
Didn't the US chuck out a bunch of Russians after imprisoning them for basically doing what any US lobbyist is legally able to do.
I am starting to lose track of this whole espionage thing. Does it exist when countries are not at war. Is it spying when the spy doesn't actually break any local laws. Is spreading propaganda spying. I know that bribery and corruption to break local laws should be treated as espionage, so what happens when countries publicly fund those activities in other countries and seemingly brag about it.
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It is a simple numbers game, thanks to the explosive method of distribution, the spread becomes quite large affecting all possible orbits, even large ellipse orbits, a straight up random distribution. A large percentage falling back to earth who cares, a typical artillery shell can pack 15,000 flechettes in there, a single large ballistic rocket and your talking millions, then ramp up the number of rockets and space is locked out for quite some time. Keep in mind it's not about missing once, it's about missing every time for years possibly tens of thousands of orbits, times by tens of millions of projectiles. You can bet your bottom dollar dollar satellite launch insurance would go right through the roof.
Still oddly enough when it comes to a WMD stand off threat still better than a nuke, because threat to life is absolutely minimal, yet major corporations profits are threatened and, countries space satellite superiority is eliminated. This versus say trying to block a water way for an extended period in the face of a military threat, the effort needed to maintain that blockade versus the one time saturation effort to block off access for decades even centuries.
Gossip on the web had it that Kodak's demise is largely due to inflated executive salaries and nepotism in executive placement as their only real business strategy going forward or was that backward and down the drain.
Consumer rights versus software company greed.
Does M$ have the right to brick someones computer because that person wants to load a different operating system?
Does M$ have the right to enforce breaking someone's computer completely because a root kit of any description has been installed by any means?
Does M$ have the right to force the majority of non-computer technical skill to spend hundreds of dollars on 'repairs' because M$ has secretly embedded the ability to brick their computer.
Does M$ have the right to permanently break hardware because of looping secure boot errors?
Does M$ have the right to prevent consumers from turning retail machines into budget Linux file servers?
The question here is whether government based consumer protection organisation will allow M$ to dictate what is down to the hardware the consumer has paid for and has very limited range of choice in purchasing. How much will M$ be about to force onto consumer's with get consumer organisations to strike back in order to protect consumer rights.
Of course Yahoo is a complete portal unlike Google which lacks many features so not really in that running. Yahoo might do well to run up it's 'hit count' by the simple act of making all menu selections simultaneously routing via the web while it provides the internal link. Of course MSN and AOL , the other major portal sites, could also do that. It would be a realistic measure of their stickiness and their true measure end user desirability versus say, google search, bing search, or even social web sites like facebook or stumbleupon.
There are also the custom home page portal features. Even if AOL recently dropped theirs, MSN is still running theirs. For the majority market those customised portal pages are still desirable.
Perhaps you don't really understand licensing. The copy you had is a public domain copy and you are legally entitled to copy it. No one can retroactively steal your right to access your public domain copy as you see fit, deploy it upon multiple devices, share it with friends, make backups and sell it to the public. So they enacted laws that stole your saleable product, the product being a reproducible version of that content, any costs you had in initially obtaining it, any costs associated with storing and preserving it and any enhancements you made to the quality of it.
So as the owner of that particular licensed saleable product you can sue to recover your investment. Where they failed was in assigned value to the copy, it's intrinsic storage medium, the measurable qualities of the copy and all costs associated with maintaining it.
Not that I would call the store a bunch of deceiving ass hats but never in my life have I seen a store accept a product return without opening the box.
C'mon seriously, a labelled box. When I buy stuff from the store of this kind, I always get them to open the box at the check out, always.
Inside job, likely the transport company delivering to the retailer, no ones looking and they know the store will just count boxes.
The best anti-satellite weapon, a non-targeted rocket carrying high explosive and ten of thousands of titanium flechettes. Can't afford a high tech satellite weapons program, simply deny anyone else access to space. Fire off rocket after rocket until earth orbits are flooded with tens of millions flechettes all randomly orbiting until they take out 'all' available targets.
This weapon is readily accessible to the most primitive space program, once deployed it can not currently be removed and is the ultimate leveller, as all countries space programs will be levelled at zero. Only way past it anti-gravity drive and heavily armoured space craft, quite the technology leap. Quite a few countries could already threaten all the worlds access in this manner, space blackmail a veritable earth orbit doomsday weapon.
Reality is the might be realising one of the greatest consequences of weaponise earth orbits, forget space.
The more crowded earth orbits become the greater the reality of a impact chain reaction. One major satellite destroyed and it's orbit correcting reaction fuel source detonated and those very high speed debris could go on to take out more satellites and the idiot monkey chain reaction would go on from there.
Humanity is getting in the position where it could deny itself access for centuries to space simply as a result of the extent of orbiting debris and no realistic way of cleaning them up.
Simply rule change to get more voters, Saturday elections.
The new rules, it is all about public awareness and votes. Whether the internet by social activism can beat out billions spent on the idiot box.
The corporate crony politicians are under threat and regardless of their bluster know their days are numbered, once public awareness kicks in, no amount of corporate campaign dollars will win that election.
In fact we are seeing the same old, same old, from the far right, don't speak out nobody listens, don't vote it doesn't count, give up corporations always win, get back down their and polishing the shoes of your betters.
So who will get the votes, the internet or the idiot box?
All your predictions fall over unless you do one thing first, solve the energy problem.
So more realistic would things like, the bulk of food being produced by aquaponics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics (uses far less land area, water, uses less energy and can be closer to cities). After an extensive political battle the creative commons takes precedence of prior copyright rules, with copyright being limited to a decade based upon 'production investment' and recovering that investment. All public and private officials especially politicians now undergo full medical, intellectual and psychological, prior to gaining any roles that cover governance, control or influence. There will be a push to shift all people to energy efficient high density housing, that properly fulfils physiological and psychological and limits impacts upon the environment.
Those examples of course count on the spread and use of nuclear weapons is avoided. That genetics experimentation doesn't result in an ecological catastrophe. That the majority of lobbyists are terminated prior to allowing unrestrained pollution of the environment, unlimited chemical experiments on human food sources, the reintroduction of slavery via the private prison system and the public auctioning of legislation.
Proviso, excludes all cosmological, extreme seismic or stellar events. When those happen, depending upon where and when you are, you can just bend over and kiss your ass good bye.
What makes it worthy is, that the only real defence against drones is, tah dah, nucelar weapons. One thing you can guarantee is the high tech murder from afar will trigger a nuclear arms rush like never before. The Shrub and Uncle Tom Obama will have done more to threaten the world with the spread of nuclear weapons than any other politicians in history.
Not to mention that it just doesn't stop there. All the pollen wandering around the biosphere from GMO plants not mixing with non-GMO related species inducing change including herbicide resistance in weed species. At least in other countries non-GMO farmers can sue GMO farmers for infecting their crops with genetically damaged pollen.
It's time for the US to wake up to reality or piss off. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership "The original agreement between the countries of Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore". Four additional countries â" Australia, Peru, United States, Malaysia and Vietnam".
WTF, corrupt US lobbyists are attempt to lay down the law, to all the countries, no discussion you will obey. Everylooks at the US being a corrupt government run by lobbyists at the command of the 1% but what makes those lobbyists think all those other countries will put up with it.
For a start zero campaign contribution are going from US lobbyists to those others countries, so what you think you get those other countries politicians for free. Is the US going to start making military threats along with, what would be empty trade threats, as the TPP is a trade pact, can't very well go shutting down trade within a trade pact as it kind of makes it all redundant.
It is hard to believe that US lobbyists are now ignoring their own bought of politicians and now negotiating treaties direct, what next, starting wars?
The marketdroids pretty much gave up slashdot, they were too noticeable and tended to lose. They have resorted to offtopic postings flooding the first page of any story.
Any government agency that monitors social networks for critical postings about how it functions is obviously hunting down traitors within the ranks. Those that divulge the corrupting affects of political appointees, of criminal collusions with various corporations and, of blatant failures within the organisation.
DHS so far is most well known for the colour of terrorist bullshit scale to drive political polling in favour of then Republican Government. Of some really distorted privatisation contracts to flood the pocket of ex-insider political appointees with pointless security apparatus. It seems to have become the US agency were the worst of the worst for political purposes investigations are dumped, terrorist investigations for publicity, attacks against peace protesters, threats from environmentalists, colluding with corporations in attacks against individuals protesting those corporations, global warming activists and pretty much pro 1% and anti 99%.
DHS more like Shitheel Inc. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shitheel.
Of course the whole thing could be running on cattle fertiliser. It is not about selling anything than, advertising space, interviews and stores. All one big yarn, keeping ticking over by a steady stream of fantasy. An energy version of alien visitation and communication, of spiritual meetings with those that have passed, of hunting big foot and various other critters. Being able to 'sell' the story at a profit seems to be the driver, from things that are just around the corner and hidden secrets.
To be fair, none of it occurs in isolation. People don't go through life just having a a single xray. They have ct scans, numerous dental xrays, xrays for other fractures, exposed to radar from airports, own microwaves, exposed to emr from high voltage lines, fluorescent lights, background radiation and, radiation from the sun.
So you asshats that like to point to your new additional radiation device as safe, as is in some fantasy world in operates on it's own and a person is not subject to other risks, well, bugger you.
Lets see all new 'addtional' loads treated as additional loads not as isolated radiations risks.
Unless your Rumpelstiltskin your always doing everything on some else's dime until, you, like they, earn it. Unless of course your a leprechaun with your own pot of gold.
Prove it. There in lies the problem. Prove you own it and prove it isn't fair use ie. innocent until proven guilty. Rather than my work disappears from the web until I prove you don't own it or that it was fair use ie guilty until proven innocent.
So false charge after false charge, every month or so and your web site is dead, buried by legal fees and no income. You don't think for a second that this is exactly what the corporate psychopath companies planned in the first place when they got lobbyists to write that foul and corrupt piece of legislation.
Big money versus the little guy and your finished, they will kill one blog after another, until they are all that is left (and then they will reform the mass media cartel, and not pick on protected companies or subjects and share common lies and deceits), that is their insane plan.
Of course one of the biggest markets the EU will simply stomp all over this requirement, it will then be up to the US to challenge anti-competitive practices or show how corrupt it has become.
Basically everyone with half a brain will order non-arm PCs because of course you have the whole server market where Linux dominates.
So M$ under the Uncle Fester is taking a shot at it anyhow, his last bit of idiotic defiance before walking (with a bit of shoving and pushing) out the door. It seems like he is trying to make M$ look bad on purpose so that he can blame lost sales on the person taking over after him, that has to deal with this mess.
Don't forget the Irish Governement are cheating scum, stealing taxes from other countries by basically charging half taxes on licensing revenues ie income generating from selling coypright content is only taxed at at half the rate income earned from other sources is.
This allows tax cheats to shift the pretend location of ownership of copyright content to Ireland from other countries to they can cheat on their taxes.
So basically dog squabling amongst themselves and screw the Irish Government.
65" LCD LED TV, with high spec computer built in. Expansions slot on the back to add 'another' hard disk and extra ram, at least 2 network ports and 4 usb ports, and through in a pad or smart phone as the remote.
Don't need a router built in as that is best served as the internet connection with firewall and wireless.
Huawei is no longer just OEM or infrastructure they are now producing direct for the customer and gaining market share www.huaweimobile.com.au.
I think you missed the point. If Foxconn does not get contracts to build what ever companies want them to build, they will not shut the doors, they will start building for the customers direct.
Does that mean that all those innocent until found guilty people at GITMO are also hostages. I always thought the majority were simply quick cash bounty stooges. Intelligence contractors for the US seeking to fatten their wallets basically just grabbed anyone and everyone they felt they could get away with. So maybe some asshat in Iran is doing what the Asshats in the US are doing nailing who ever they can to a cross, all to get that next promotion of contractors cheque.
Didn't the US chuck out a bunch of Russians after imprisoning them for basically doing what any US lobbyist is legally able to do.
I am starting to lose track of this whole espionage thing. Does it exist when countries are not at war. Is it spying when the spy doesn't actually break any local laws. Is spreading propaganda spying. I know that bribery and corruption to break local laws should be treated as espionage, so what happens when countries publicly fund those activities in other countries and seemingly brag about it.