It would be simple to pick a few dozen large comets and asteroids, figure out how to change their orbits and slam all of them into the moon. That will probably supply us with enough water/ice etc.. to sustain a viable moon colony.
One irritating thing, is that I did not get any Pr0n spam for years until I signed up for a Microsoft support web site. Seems most of the sites I have been to keep resonable security on their email lists but Microsoft showed their usual lack of due diligence about security.
If discovery were to show that SCO used code actually pulled from Linux. Microsoft and SUN may then have to prove they did not use any of this code which they "licensed" from SCO. If they do not use it they prove that they were just pumping $$$ into SCO to spread FUD. If they used it they will have to adhere to the GPL.
Hmmm, I would not be too surprised if the Canopy group started hiding assets. They already milked some of the SCO FUD with that issuance of stock. I would expect them to funnel it into some other holdings if there is a possibility that SCO going down hard resulting in costs to them.
I wonder what their masters in Redmond will think of this new tactic. If it even looks like it could hold water and that they could invalidate EULA's it would be a major shake up of the software industry.
The email may self destruct. However any company that does not at a minimum back up their mail servers at the daily is probably going to find themselves liable for bad business practices. Any data on those tapes is recoverable, in spite of whatever M$ says.
It's a given that the at US is full of scientifically ignorant bigots. The only reason that the US is still ahead of world in world patents is because we patent things like one click shopping. I would not be too surprised to see most of the real technological patents mostly owned by the Japanese conglomorates. Our eductional system is a hodgepodge of politcally correct nonsense with little hard science. The only reason the technology companies are still in the US are all the H1B visas. No fear there the companies have realized that its cheaper to oursource to where the real technical literates are.(Not the US). Once they clamp down on those visas the US will lose the technical edge and become a 2nd rate technically backward country within 20 years. All the dumbing down of scientific research panels by Mr Bush makes for a great start.
I have spent over US$20K on my entertainment system. Plasma TV, HDTV reciever etc.. Building a HDTV recorder should be about US$1K, I have been thinking about it for a while. This would basically be a PC with a HDTV decoder card in it. The parts you mention are broadcast level, professional quality I think the PC route is a lot cheaper.
And your point is? HDTV is replacing analog TV. I currently watch 3/4 of my shows prerecorded. The only shows I do not watch recorded are the HDTV broadcasts. I am considering building a HDTV recorder so I can watch at my convienience. This kills HDTV recording which means NO Tivo's or VCR's ever, for HDTV. Also if they encrypt the HDTV signals now it means that your HDTV set will no longer work. They want the encryption at the monitor level not the reciever.
Hmmm, 4 floor to ceiling bookshelves filled 2 deep with hardbacks and paperbacks downstairs, 2 bookshelves upstairs filled with the same. Several boxes in the garage full of books. Cleaning? I let the cleaning service handle that.
heh, reading in the darkness. We had a lightning storm that knocked out power for 5-6 hours. I ended up reading e-books on my Clie. I guess I could have read my tree books with a flashlight but it was definately easier reading from my Clie.
I use my clie for reading e-books. I almost exclusively buy my tree books from Baen now. What is great is that they put their entire free web library on CD's in some of their hardbacks. I buy hardbacks primarilly and one CD had mp3's of the book I purchased so I could listen to it. That needs work. Very hard to stop a mp3 and start up from where you left off. What is funny is that Webers books AFTER being put into the free library started selling out. These are the books that were placed for free downloads.
I was reading about an experiment where they figured that at some point where the number of protons in a nucleus would cause electrons spirialing in to lose 2x their mass in energy. You get something out of nothing at that point and our current understanding of physics kind of breaks down. I do not remember the proton count for this to happen tho.
Using solar cells and a ground based laser? I would think the solar powered planes would work out better. Microwave powered plane? Hmmm, I could imagine the lawsuits that from the same group of idiots suing the school for using wi-fi going ape over that. Not that they are too far evolved from apes to begin with. If they had laser powered space launch platform it would be a better sue of goverment funds.
The kids probably get more radiation exposure from their cell phones and from watching TV than from the schools Wi-Fi network! If I remember correctly the wi-fi hubs are one of the biggest sellers in the HOME market! Not business and not schools! I would not be too surprised to find wi-fi networks in the homes of some of these kids. They better shut them down fast before someone smart ass lawyer scans their homes for Wi-Fi broadcasts.
All the elves died in the movie? I was a little curious about why all the humans were put in the keep and the elves left to defend the wall. Figured the humans were the weaker element since there were only 300 or so of them and they were mostly too old or too young. They would do more and last a little longer shooting from the keep walls than trying to defend the lower wall. A lot of elves died, but the retreat into the keep shows some of them surviving reach the keep. One was helping Legolas carry Gimli into the keep, and some were running ahead of Aragorn into the keep. Also it looked like elf archers were manning the inside wall of the keep. A small group charged out on horseback, but there must be troops left inside the keep to defend the caves or else charging out would just doom those in the caves faster. Since those scenes were not in the movie I would assume that those would be made up of survivors from both the human and elf contingents.
I got so tired of marketing calls that I no longer answer my phone at all. Only time I use it is to call out. In fact I disconnect my phone line on occasion in the evening. I have an answering machine that automatically picks up on the 1st ring and that I occasionally listen to. More often than not I just erase its entire contents without listening. This has spread to my mail and email. I only look at my mail at 1-3 month intervals now. I pay my bills online so rarely look at snail mail and shred most of it without looking. Similarly with email.
Driving around with a reader would not work too well. The range of the tags is limited by the antenna length for both power pickup and broadcast. Think short range 2-5 ft. Any thing more powerful and you could easily find it by locating the antenna. Anyone snooping with a reader capable of picking up your RFID tag from 50-100 ft away, would be broadcasting a signal to power the RFID tag. Kinda hard to stay annonnymous while acting as a radio beacon. Even if you cannot detect the RFID tag, you can easily detect whoever is using a reader.
Think instead of every store door you walk thru with a RFID detector tied to the store's computer. They can tell right away that you just walked thru their door. What you bought last time you were there, what you would probably buy today etc. If every store RFID DB were tied somehow to a master database, then your movement can be tracked as you go from store to store, gas pump restaurant etc. I would expect the stores to collect this info for marketing reasons and the TLA Feds to subpoena the stores for this info when they feel they have a right to it.
Hmmm, how long do you think till the MPAA figures out a way to bill you or sue you for all that imagery you copied into your memory and replaying in your head?
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It would be simple to pick a few dozen large comets and asteroids, figure out how to change their orbits and slam all of them into the moon. That will probably supply us with enough water/ice etc.. to sustain a viable moon colony.
One irritating thing, is that I did not get any Pr0n spam for years until I signed up for a Microsoft support web site. Seems most of the sites I have been to keep resonable security on their email lists but Microsoft showed their usual lack of due diligence about security.
If discovery were to show that SCO used code actually pulled from Linux. Microsoft and SUN may then have to prove they did not use any of this code which they "licensed" from SCO. If they do not use it they prove that they were just pumping $$$ into SCO to spread FUD. If they used it they will have to adhere to the GPL.
Hmmm, what do you propose to do with all that spent nuclear waste? Condense it and store it on the moon? Hmmm.... That sounds familiar somehow.
Hmmm, I would not be too surprised if the Canopy group started hiding assets. They already milked some of the SCO FUD with that issuance of stock. I would expect them to funnel it into some other holdings if there is a possibility that SCO going down hard resulting in costs to them.
I wonder what their masters in Redmond will think of this new tactic. If it even looks like it could hold water and that they could invalidate EULA's it would be a major shake up of the software industry.
What about the we hate SCO block? Or is that an all encompassing superblock?
The email may self destruct. However any company that does not at a minimum back up their mail servers at the daily is probably going to find themselves liable for bad business practices. Any data on those tapes is recoverable, in spite of whatever M$ says.
It's a given that the at US is full of scientifically ignorant bigots. The only reason that the US is still ahead of world in world patents is because we patent things like one click shopping. I would not be too surprised to see most of the real technological patents mostly owned by the Japanese conglomorates. Our eductional system is a hodgepodge of politcally correct nonsense with little hard science. The only reason the technology companies are still in the US are all the H1B visas. No fear there the companies have realized that its cheaper to oursource to where the real technical literates are.(Not the US). Once they clamp down on those visas the US will lose the technical edge and become a 2nd rate technically backward country within 20 years. All the dumbing down of scientific research panels by Mr Bush makes for a great start.
I have spent over US$20K on my entertainment system. Plasma TV, HDTV reciever etc.. Building a HDTV recorder should be about US$1K, I have been thinking about it for a while. This would basically be a PC with a HDTV decoder card in it. The parts you mention are broadcast level, professional quality I think the PC route is a lot cheaper.
And your point is? HDTV is replacing analog TV. I currently watch 3/4 of my shows prerecorded. The only shows I do not watch recorded are the HDTV broadcasts. I am considering building a HDTV recorder so I can watch at my convienience. This kills HDTV recording which means NO Tivo's or VCR's ever, for HDTV. Also if they encrypt the HDTV signals now it means that your HDTV set will no longer work. They want the encryption at the monitor level not the reciever.
Hmmm, 4 floor to ceiling bookshelves filled 2 deep with hardbacks and paperbacks downstairs, 2 bookshelves upstairs filled with the same. Several boxes in the garage full of books. Cleaning? I let the cleaning service handle that.
heh, reading in the darkness. We had a lightning storm that knocked out power for 5-6 hours. I ended up reading e-books on my Clie. I guess I could have read my tree books with a flashlight but it was definately easier reading from my Clie.
I use my clie for reading e-books. I almost exclusively buy my tree books from Baen now. What is great is that they put their entire free web library on CD's in some of their hardbacks. I buy hardbacks primarilly and one CD had mp3's of the book I purchased so I could listen to it. That needs work. Very hard to stop a mp3 and start up from where you left off. What is funny is that Webers books AFTER being put into the free library started selling out. These are the books that were placed for free downloads.
http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw17.html http://www.star.bnl.gov/STAR/smd/students/thesis/m orozov.pdf
I was reading about an experiment where they figured that at some point where the number of protons in a nucleus would cause electrons spirialing in to lose 2x their mass in energy. You get something out of nothing at that point and our current understanding of physics kind of breaks down. I do not remember the proton count for this to happen tho.
Using solar cells and a ground based laser? I would think the solar powered planes would work out better. Microwave powered plane? Hmmm, I could imagine the lawsuits that from the same group of idiots suing the school for using wi-fi going ape over that. Not that they are too far evolved from apes to begin with. If they had laser powered space launch platform it would be a better sue of goverment funds.
The kids probably get more radiation exposure from their cell phones and from watching TV than from the schools Wi-Fi network! If I remember correctly the wi-fi hubs are one of the biggest sellers in the HOME market! Not business and not schools! I would not be too surprised to find wi-fi networks in the homes of some of these kids. They better shut them down fast before someone smart ass lawyer scans their homes for Wi-Fi broadcasts.
We use Remedy to post and track all requests, their resolution etc.. Seems to work pretty well.
All the elves died in the movie? I was a little curious about why all the humans were put in the keep and the elves left to defend the wall. Figured the humans were the weaker element since there were only 300 or so of them and they were mostly too old or too young. They would do more and last a little longer shooting from the keep walls than trying to defend the lower wall. A lot of elves died, but the retreat into the keep shows some of them surviving reach the keep. One was helping Legolas carry Gimli into the keep, and some were running ahead of Aragorn into the keep. Also it looked like elf archers were manning the inside wall of the keep. A small group charged out on horseback, but there must be troops left inside the keep to defend the caves or else charging out would just doom those in the caves faster. Since those scenes were not in the movie I would assume that those would be made up of survivors from both the human and elf contingents.
I got so tired of marketing calls that I no longer answer my phone at all. Only time I use it is to call out. In fact I disconnect my phone line on occasion in the evening. I have an answering machine that automatically picks up on the 1st ring and that I occasionally listen to. More often than not I just erase its entire contents without listening. This has spread to my mail and email. I only look at my mail at 1-3 month intervals now. I pay my bills online so rarely look at snail mail and shred most of it without looking. Similarly with email.
Driving around with a reader would not work too well. The range of the tags is limited by the antenna length for both power pickup and broadcast. Think short range 2-5 ft. Any thing more powerful and you could easily find it by locating the antenna. Anyone snooping with a reader capable of picking up your RFID tag from 50-100 ft away, would be broadcasting a signal to power the RFID tag. Kinda hard to stay annonnymous while acting as a radio beacon. Even if you cannot detect the RFID tag, you can easily detect whoever is using a reader.
Think instead of every store door you walk thru with a RFID detector tied to the store's computer. They can tell right away that you just walked thru their door. What you bought last time you were there, what you would probably buy today etc. If every store RFID DB were tied somehow to a master database, then your movement can be tracked as you go from store to store, gas pump restaurant etc. I would expect the stores to collect this info for marketing reasons and the TLA Feds to subpoena the stores for this info when they feel they have a right to it.
Hmmm, how long do you think till the MPAA figures out a way to bill you or sue you for all that imagery you copied into your memory and replaying in your head?
They probably cannot reuse any sounds due to legal issues with copyright.
From what I have been reading about SCO I think I now know where that Iraqui Minister of Information went! He is hiding in the US and working for SCO!