What about the PET virus I wrote in 1981? --- "Your computer has been infected by a virus. Please place a blank cassette in tape #1 and press play and record.
When finished, please mail this tape to everyone in your address book who has a PET computer." --- Mind you it never spread very far..
Why not supply a link to the JPL voyager page , it has much more info.
Voyagers 1/2 have to be the most most productive space missions ever - so much of what we know about the outer planets/moons (volcanos on Io, oceans on Europa, storms on Neptune) came from Voyager first..
But Voyager was not primarily designed as an interstellar probe, and will probably run out of steam around 2020, so JPL are proposing various possible new missions - one is a solar sail based Interstellar probe which will travel around 200 AU in 15 years - much faster than Voyager. Because of its speed (14 AU/year) it could be doing science at 400 AU and beyond.. Its instruments will be far more powerful (and smaller) than Voyagers, probably including a modern CCD telescope to look at Kupier belt objects.
There is a saying in England about "teaching your grandmother to suck eggs". Of course its hard to say that global temprature rises are 100% for sure connected to CO2, but the bulk of credible scientific opinion concurs that it is *probably* the case.
And why are we taking the risk, especially when we have good alternatives (wind power, etc) which are starting to offer pollution free cheap energy?
The US position on the Kyoto treaty is appalingly short sighted..
We cant say 100% for sure, but do you then think its OK to keep pouring CO2 into the atmosphere? Why take the risk, if there are emerging alternatives anyway?
Well, you may expect to see temporary short term fluctuations - its the longer term pattern that really matters.. ie..
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-08-01/s_6964.asp
GLACIERS SHRINK
In other areas, global warming seems to be catching up with some of the icy exceptions.
The Briksdal glacier in west Norway, for instance, has receded about 426 feet since a peak in 2000 when it was splintering birch trees on ground that had been free of ice for decades.
"It's shrunk a lot, though in the middle of the 17th century is was 1.5 km (one mile) longer than now," said Frode Briksdal, a glacier guide whose family has long lived in the area.
Climate experts say that recent hotter summers are melting the ice despite more snowfall in winter that is adding to the overall mass of the glaciers.
I visited a Glacier in Norway once (at Olden) and they have actually signposted the glacier boundary at various previous times for the tourists - ie. "Glacier boundary 1850" etc.
I can tell you its a long climb from those points until you get to where the glacier is today..
Just because you can spot the odd anomoly in a bunch of data does not render the whole thing untrue..
Interesting stuff about the film being used for star trek - I had almost forgotten about that episode. Maybe Apollo is overkill for a warhead, but some sort of nuclear platorm/station would require the lift. Impressive film to use anyway..
does it take for a spammer to mail the FBI direct before they take action? Surely they must be aware of the volume of scam emails we *all* get, and be taking action anyway?
Its like waiting for a police station to be burgled before the police take action..
Some of these frauds are pretty blatent (penis enlargement pills etc), you dont need to be sherlock holmes to track them..
We have saved the asses of every other major western country at one time or another (mostly WW II).
If you are referring to Britain in that statement, consider what would have happened if the USA did not support the UK in WW2..
1. Unaided, the UK could have either fallen to the Nazis, or become neutral. 2. The Nazi's may have been free to concentrate their full force on the USSR, and could have beaten them. 3. Later, futher empowered by the slave economies of the east, in collaberation with Japan, they could have beaten and enslaved the USA.
In fact aiding the UK in WW2 was an act needed for mutual survival..
From the article at http://www.democracy.org.hk/EN/aug2000/mainlan d_01.htm
He angered authorities by operating a website, www.6-4tianwang.com, which published information on human rights and corruption in China, including the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen killings in which hundreds of unarmed civilians were shot.
So, check out the guys www site:
http://www.6-4tianwang.com/
Its now a reposity for on-line Viagra, etc. So now Viagra-sellers (who seem to occupy so much of my in-box these days) have taken over a www site from a Chinese democracy protester who could be facing a life sentence.
Are there no depths to which these guys will not stoop?
In years past, rumors have abounded that in the 1970s the White House or Congress had the Saturn 5 plans destroyed "to prevent the technology from falling into the wrong hands".
That seems doubtful -- it would be a formidable terrorist group that decided to build a Saturn 5 to wreak havoc on the world, or build a lunar base..
There is only one such group. Picture Blofelt sitting in a chair stroking a cat. "Ah, Mr Bond, we've been expecting you.."
Ok, but thats different to saying "for free". Actually the landlord-tenant analogy is not too wonderful, because there are special considerations made for the tenant in law, regardless of the contract.
As someone else has said, there is a clause in the GPL that specifically says that the user must accept the whole license, or not at all. There is no middle way..
Actually the tenency-landlord analogy I used isnt too wonderful, there is special protection built into UK law (perhaps US too) that give the tenant a fair bit of protection, whatever the contact says, and courts tend to sympathise with the tenant.
I think in a more straight ltd-co vs ltd-co battle, the court is more inclined to stick to the word of the contract- exculding special considerations like monopoly/fair trade laws, etc..
As I understand it, it is at the discretion of the copyright holder as to whom they sue. This may only get modified if "fair trade" or monopoly legislation is envoked.. Not that I want to give SCO ideas..
But of course that makes no sense.
eg.
I am a programmer, I release my code under a set of conditions called GPL.
If GPL holds water, then you may only redistribute under the terms of the GPL.
If the GPL doesnt hold water, then I keep copyright.
At what stage did I state that my code is in the public domain?
Its like a tenant saying to a landlord - "there is a technical mistake which makes the tenancy agreement void - so I can now live in your house rent-free forever.."
If the GPL *is* invalid, as SCO claim, then the code reverts back to being the copyright of the individual contributers, who can then sue them for breach. Either way they are stuffed..
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What about the PET virus I wrote in 1981?
---
"Your computer has been infected by a virus.
Please place a blank cassette in tape #1 and press play and record.
When finished, please mail this tape to everyone in your address book who has a PET computer."
---
Mind you it never spread very far..
to get hold of when they win their lawsuit against Apple for stealing their name..
to get hold of when they win their lawsuit against Apple for stealing their name..
a tinfoil hat, so you can look *really* cool when using it?
Why not supply a link to the JPL voyager page , it has much more info.
Voyagers 1/2 have to be the most most productive space missions ever - so much of what we know about the outer planets/moons (volcanos on Io, oceans on Europa, storms on Neptune) came from Voyager first..
But Voyager was not primarily designed as an interstellar probe, and will probably run out of steam around 2020, so JPL are proposing various possible new missions - one is a solar sail based Interstellar probe which will travel around 200 AU in 15 years - much faster than Voyager. Because of its speed (14 AU/year) it could be doing science at 400 AU and beyond.. Its instruments will be far more powerful (and smaller) than Voyagers, probably including a modern CCD telescope to look at Kupier belt objects.
I say make a few of these and let them rip..
It looks like they think they can keep going until 2020 now, at which point they may not have ebough power for the instruments..
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http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstella
There is a saying in England about "teaching your grandmother to suck eggs". Of course its hard to say that global temprature rises are 100% for sure connected to CO2, but the bulk of credible scientific opinion concurs that it is *probably* the case.
..
And why are we taking the risk, especially when we have good alternatives (wind power, etc) which are starting to offer pollution free cheap energy?
The US position on the Kyoto treaty is appalingly short sighted
We cant say 100% for sure, but do you then think its OK to keep pouring CO2 into the atmosphere? Why take the risk, if there are emerging alternatives anyway?
Well, you may expect to see temporary short term fluctuations - its the longer term pattern that really matters.. ie..
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-08-01/s_6964.asp
GLACIERS SHRINK
In other areas, global warming seems to be catching up with some of the icy exceptions.
The Briksdal glacier in west Norway, for instance, has receded about 426 feet since a peak in 2000 when it was splintering birch trees on ground that had been free of ice for decades.
"It's shrunk a lot, though in the middle of the 17th century is was 1.5 km (one mile) longer than now," said Frode Briksdal, a glacier guide whose family has long lived in the area.
Climate experts say that recent hotter summers are melting the ice despite more snowfall in winter that is adding to the overall mass of the glaciers.
I visited a Glacier in Norway once (at Olden) and they have actually signposted the glacier boundary at various previous times for the tourists - ie. "Glacier boundary 1850" etc.
I can tell you its a long climb from those points until you get to where the glacier is today..
Just because you can spot the odd anomoly in a bunch of data does not render the whole thing untrue..
Its ok, I think I've found a better link for his University..
Interesting stuff about the film being used for star trek - I had almost forgotten about that episode. Maybe Apollo is overkill for a warhead, but some sort of nuclear platorm/station would require the lift. Impressive film to use anyway..
does it take for a spammer to mail the FBI direct before they take action? Surely they must be aware of the volume of scam emails we *all* get, and be taking action anyway?
Its like waiting for a police station to be burgled before the police take action..
Some of these frauds are pretty blatent (penis enlargement pills etc), you dont need to be sherlock holmes to track them..
We have saved the asses of every other major western country at one time or another (mostly WW II).
If you are referring to Britain in that statement, consider what would have happened if the USA did not support the UK in WW2..
1. Unaided, the UK could have either fallen to the Nazis, or become neutral.
2. The Nazi's may have been free to concentrate their full force on the USSR, and could have beaten them.
3. Later, futher empowered by the slave economies of the east, in collaberation with Japan, they could have beaten and enslaved the USA.
In fact aiding the UK in WW2 was an act needed for mutual survival..
From the article atn d_01 .htm
http://www.democracy.org.hk/EN/aug2000/mainla
He angered authorities by operating a website, www.6-4tianwang.com, which published information on human rights and corruption in China, including the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen killings in which hundreds of unarmed civilians were shot.
So, check out the guys www site:
http://www.6-4tianwang.com/
Its now a reposity for on-line Viagra, etc. So now Viagra-sellers (who seem to occupy so much of my in-box these days) have taken over a www site from a Chinese democracy protester who could be facing a life sentence.
Are there no depths to which these guys will not stoop?
..the 1:1 scale version of this?
To quote that article..
In years past, rumors have abounded that in the 1970s the White House or Congress had the Saturn 5 plans destroyed "to prevent the technology from falling into the wrong hands".
That seems doubtful -- it would be a formidable terrorist group that decided to build a Saturn 5 to wreak havoc on the world, or build a lunar base..
There is only one such group. Picture Blofelt sitting in a chair stroking a cat. "Ah, Mr Bond, we've been expecting you.."
Ok, but thats different to saying "for free". Actually the landlord-tenant analogy is not too wonderful, because there are special considerations made for the tenant in law, regardless of the contract.
As someone else has said, there is a clause in the GPL that specifically says that the user must accept the whole license, or not at all. There is no middle way..
Actually the tenency-landlord analogy I used isnt too wonderful, there is special protection built into UK law (perhaps US too) that give the tenant a fair bit of protection, whatever the contact says, and courts tend to sympathise with the tenant. I think in a more straight ltd-co vs ltd-co battle, the court is more inclined to stick to the word of the contract- exculding special considerations like monopoly/fair trade laws, etc..
As I understand it, it is at the discretion of the copyright holder as to whom they sue. This may only get modified if "fair trade" or monopoly legislation is envoked.. Not that I want to give SCO ideas..
But of course that makes no sense. eg. I am a programmer, I release my code under a set of conditions called GPL. If GPL holds water, then you may only redistribute under the terms of the GPL. If the GPL doesnt hold water, then I keep copyright. At what stage did I state that my code is in the public domain? Its like a tenant saying to a landlord - "there is a technical mistake which makes the tenancy agreement void - so I can now live in your house rent-free forever.."
If the GPL *is* invalid, as SCO claim, then the code reverts back to being the copyright of the individual contributers, who can then sue them for breach. Either way they are stuffed..
Microsoft are going to buy up slashdot.org, to put a stop to daft sories like these..
With something called DOS..
the humanity!