Honestly, for example if someone wanted to demonstrate a new confinement method for hot fusion I could imagine it might cost more than $10 to get a working prototype together.
Well, of course it would: it's going from "a new confinement method for hot fusion (pat. pending)" to something that works that's the difficult part, and one that patents are supposed to reward.
I'm not sure how this works on Linux, but it definitely doesn't work the way you describe on Windows (Vista/7). If your process does not have sufficient privileges for a system call, then you'll just get an error result without any popups nagging the user etc. All the UAC stuff is there because the application explicitly issues a special system call that pops up the elevation dialog.
Yes, so once the plugin gets back "permission denied" or whatever when trying to store a cookie, it uses those calls to get those privileges. It'll also ask for (and receive) any privileges required to give them itself permanently, without needing to ask again.
But unless the plug-in is run in a process with sufficient privileges, its system calls will fail with "Permission denied".
And then it nags the user and demands higher privileges, which he will of course grant, since he wants the plugin to work.
What's needed is a mechanism for "transient success": allow a creation of an execution context where all changes made within the context are not visible outside of it and will be discarded completely as soon as the context exits. In other words, make it easy for the user to lie to programs.
A web site doesn't have any particular latency requirements, other than 1 second or so.
Browsing the web on a geostationary satellite connection is OK. A phone call on one is pretty crappy.
Gesynchronous orbit is about 30,000 kilometers from Earth. Speed of light is about 300,000 kilometers/second. I can live with a half second latency on a round-trip to the other person and back if that means I don't have to pay long distance charges.
I don't understand, however, why you need geosynchronous satellites for a phone connection? A few LEO satellites are cheaper and, at 200-300 kilometers, we are talking about a few milliseconds of latency. All you need is a cheap tracking antennae to make use of them.
The nice thing about being in the atmosphere is that you just need to carry fuel - you can use the medium as reaction mass just by scooping it up from the front and pushing it out of the back at a higher speed. In space, you have to bring your own reaction mass, meaning that you have to lift it 100Km.
Air also gives you oxidizer for free. That aside, the obvious solution is to go for a ballistic orbit: aim up at an angle and accelerate to a high enough speed in the atmosphere so that you don't need to hit the thrusters again until you re-enter near your destination. This is possible because lack of reaction mass also means lack of friction, however we need to further develop our air-breathing rocketry to make it an efficient solution, not to mention hull shapes and materials. Mach 40 is not easy to achieve or tolerate.
I don't really see why this is a particularly surprising statistic.
That dependes: are the responses also counted amongst "twitter posts"? Because if they are, and every one was answered just once, then Twitter would go on forever with a single post and its reply and its reply's reply and so on.
Most posts must go unreplied, otherwise you get a runaway chain reaction.
Except trains and planes took people from where they were to where they wanted to go, for traveling between two earth-based locations space is mostly a big detour.
Actually, a ballistic arc (sub-orbital spaceflight) is the fastest way to travel between two points of the globe. You'll get from anywhere in the world to anywhere else in about half an hour or so. You'll also avoid the need to worry about weather anywhere except the start- and endpoints, and last but not least, the view is fantastic.
I have always been puzzled by the practice of demonizing your enemy, especially by people who seem to appreciate intellectual honest.
Demonizing your enemy is a lot easier than becoming a saint yourself. And saying you appreciate intellectual honesty is not the same as actually being intellectually honest.
I really wonder if any line exists that the Chinese government can cross that will result in action taken against them by other countries and their own citizens.
No, because other countries are busy outsourcing to China and Chinese citizens are - to put it bluntly - slaves and have always been. The place went from an Imperial dictatorship to a Communist dictatorship and is now a Capitalist dictatorship. They missed the period of history where it's possible to achieve democracy, and are now shit out of luck.
What the rest of us should do is barricade China away from the rest of the world. Cease all trade with them, forbid any travel to and from the place, cease all diplomatic relations with them; basically leave them rot. Failure to do this will help make China more powerful, which is bad for us because they are a dictatorship. We must take action immediately to prevent China from rising any closer to world power status.
Cut welfare. And cut fire fighting/police protection. I'll buy a gun and up my renters/home insurance.
Well, assuming that the shopkeeper won't simply shoot you and take your money, and that the forgers won't cause hyperinflation first, and that the home insurance will actually pay you anything when contracts are no longer enforced, and that the company even exists anymore when nothing will stop the employees from looting it...
Why is it that people like you keep on assuming the society keeps functioning once it's dismantled?
How about we cut the welfare budget? Let people get what they earn, rather than what the govt gives them. That'll save 200bn a year.
Just as long as we remember that property laws are a form of welfare, designed to liberate you from your personal responsibility for the protection of said property. So, if you agree that my taxes shouldn't go towards protecting your house/car/life, I'll agree that yours shouldn't go towards feeding the hungry. After all, this newfound freedom allows them to feed themselves on delicious Objectivist jerky >:).
I live in a village where I know everyone and we can defend ourselves without the police. Do you? Well, do ya, punk?
Actually, the issue that got us into this mess is the one that should be cut, not the only sector of government spending that can pull us out of this mess.
The issue that got Europe (and the rest of the world) into this mess was too much financial freedom in America, allowing the financial sector to get everyone indebted to the point where they took the whole economy with them when the bubble finally burst, and the global commerce which allowed the results to radiate to the rest of the world. I'm all for solving this problem by regulating the Hell out of banks.
Cut war budget first, then health.
Cutting healthcare results in less healthy population, which - apart from forgetting why economy exists in the first place - results in less productive workforce. It is the second-stupidest thing you could possibly do (the most stupid would be to further deregulate the economy, of course).
Those are the only two that can fix the problem.
How could they, when they had nothing to do with the problem in the first place?
And even if they don't do it now, they will have to do it at some point.
Well no, you don't have to cut healthcare at some point. Why would you?
There is no escape.
Sure there is: stop drinking libertarian cool-aid.
I disagree. Sometimes people have to be shot and killed to teach future hippie dippies a lesson.
Don't worry, the hippie movement is dead as a doornail. And you can rest assured that any future Summer of Love will always be followed by a long, cold, dark Winter of Hatred. In the end, Flower Power couldn't overcome the evil in human heart. Nothing can.
At some point, the soldiers selected targets and fired on them. No matter what the "tension" or "provocation," those men placed their cross-hairs on people who were obviously not a threat and executed them.
Protestors are always a threat to those in power, whom the soldiers serve. In the end, the US - or any other country - is no different from China. Fear keeps the people in line. Fear of being killed next.
"As with the iPhone case, there is no such thing as "Finders Keepers" under the law. Any attempt to justify selling, destroying, or 'losing' a found item is on shaky legal ground, and will probably put you in hot water, legally speaking."
So if you attach your iPhone to the underside of my car, I'm responsible when it falls off and is broken? Or if, when doing maintenance on my car, I find a piece of equipment that shouldn't be there, I have some kind of duty to store it in case someone comes asking? Or, extrapolating this a little, if I find an electronic device on my lawn, I am obliged to store it rather than just throw it away, because whoever littered might be coming to ask for it?
This is not about "finder's keepers", this is about my right to dispose of garbage.
In short, if these things are burning up in flight, the cells were defective to begin with, period, and odds are good that they were improperly charged, too. There's just no way the cargo hold of an airplane gets hot enough to be a problem unless one of the cells shorts out internally, at which point the temperature really doesn't matter much anyway.
Do lithium batteries discharge over time on their own? Because if they do, and generate some heat while doing it, then all you have to do is pack enough of them tightly together to make the inside of the pile hot enough to catch fire. It's the same principle as why you can't store wood in too large piles: the heat from decomposition eventually makes the insides ignite.
You nationalize it for the duration of the sentence and pay as much dividends as possible to the state. Also, you replace the current executives with a state-approved bunch.
If I place a GPS tracking device on your car and say, "Now we can see where he goes during the day," then it is not a gift, it is a surveillance tool which has been deployed to support an ongoing investigation. The government still has a very real interest in not losing that property - enough so that it has a fucking GPS hooked up to a transmitter, so that you always know where the device is.
So here's the question: if you plant such a malicious (to me) device on my car, why would I have any obligation whatsoever to support your malice by returning your device intact to you after I've discovered its purpose?
I think you mean "They are already carrying out completely legal operations against you, using the legitimate and constitutional authority granted to them by a court of law," right?
Yup. And when attaching trackers to someone's car becomes legal, it's your cue to go "oh shit". It's also your cure to throw the damn thing off on a highway or other densely trafficked area where it's likely to be run over by a truck and play dumb when they ask you about it.
Seriously, if I found a black box on my car I'd analyze it, assume it was planted by some hostile party, and destroy it in a manner I considered most damaging for my newfound enemies.
You may not LIKE the authority they're given, but as the law stands today, they absolutely have every right to do it, and it *is* legal for them to do it.
See, the thing is, court decisions - even those of the supreme court - aren't the law. The Constitution is the law, as are all of the secondary laws, as long as they don't contradict the Constitution. And attaching tracking devides to people's cars seems to be in direct violation of any reasonable reading of the Fourth Amemdnment.
It is not placed "in your custody" any more than somebody losing their iPhone in a bar placed their iPhone in the "custody" of the bar owner.
They didn't "lose" it, they deliberately attached it to a bar counter. The bar has no more moral obligation to keep it around than it would have a piece of bubblegum or any other crap attached to the counter.
Really, if I found a surveillance device in my car, it would be tragically "lost" on a highway somewhere and run over by a truck, after a thorough analysis of course.
If you just find one of these and don't realize that it belongs to the FBI, and think "doesn't belong" and destory it (or just toss it in a dumpster), are you liable to pay for it when the FBI comes to get it back?
I don't know what you mean by "liable". It almost sounds like you had some naive notions like "rule of law". The relevant question to ask is: Do you have more power than the FBI? If they decide they want money from you, can you prevent them from taking it?
Compare with this Slashdot story: might makes right, power is all.
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Well, of course it would: it's going from "a new confinement method for hot fusion (pat. pending)" to something that works that's the difficult part, and one that patents are supposed to reward.
Yes, so once the plugin gets back "permission denied" or whatever when trying to store a cookie, it uses those calls to get those privileges. It'll also ask for (and receive) any privileges required to give them itself permanently, without needing to ask again.
And then it nags the user and demands higher privileges, which he will of course grant, since he wants the plugin to work.
What's needed is a mechanism for "transient success": allow a creation of an execution context where all changes made within the context are not visible outside of it and will be discarded completely as soon as the context exits. In other words, make it easy for the user to lie to programs.
Gesynchronous orbit is about 30,000 kilometers from Earth. Speed of light is about 300,000 kilometers/second. I can live with a half second latency on a round-trip to the other person and back if that means I don't have to pay long distance charges.
I don't understand, however, why you need geosynchronous satellites for a phone connection? A few LEO satellites are cheaper and, at 200-300 kilometers, we are talking about a few milliseconds of latency. All you need is a cheap tracking antennae to make use of them.
Air also gives you oxidizer for free. That aside, the obvious solution is to go for a ballistic orbit: aim up at an angle and accelerate to a high enough speed in the atmosphere so that you don't need to hit the thrusters again until you re-enter near your destination. This is possible because lack of reaction mass also means lack of friction, however we need to further develop our air-breathing rocketry to make it an efficient solution, not to mention hull shapes and materials. Mach 40 is not easy to achieve or tolerate.
That dependes: are the responses also counted amongst "twitter posts"? Because if they are, and every one was answered just once, then Twitter would go on forever with a single post and its reply and its reply's reply and so on.
Most posts must go unreplied, otherwise you get a runaway chain reaction.
Actually, a ballistic arc (sub-orbital spaceflight) is the fastest way to travel between two points of the globe. You'll get from anywhere in the world to anywhere else in about half an hour or so. You'll also avoid the need to worry about weather anywhere except the start- and endpoints, and last but not least, the view is fantastic.
Demonizing your enemy is a lot easier than becoming a saint yourself. And saying you appreciate intellectual honesty is not the same as actually being intellectually honest.
No, because other countries are busy outsourcing to China and Chinese citizens are - to put it bluntly - slaves and have always been. The place went from an Imperial dictatorship to a Communist dictatorship and is now a Capitalist dictatorship. They missed the period of history where it's possible to achieve democracy, and are now shit out of luck.
What the rest of us should do is barricade China away from the rest of the world. Cease all trade with them, forbid any travel to and from the place, cease all diplomatic relations with them; basically leave them rot. Failure to do this will help make China more powerful, which is bad for us because they are a dictatorship. We must take action immediately to prevent China from rising any closer to world power status.
Well, assuming that the shopkeeper won't simply shoot you and take your money, and that the forgers won't cause hyperinflation first, and that the home insurance will actually pay you anything when contracts are no longer enforced, and that the company even exists anymore when nothing will stop the employees from looting it...
Why is it that people like you keep on assuming the society keeps functioning once it's dismantled?
Just as long as we remember that property laws are a form of welfare, designed to liberate you from your personal responsibility for the protection of said property. So, if you agree that my taxes shouldn't go towards protecting your house/car/life, I'll agree that yours shouldn't go towards feeding the hungry. After all, this newfound freedom allows them to feed themselves on delicious Objectivist jerky >:).
I live in a village where I know everyone and we can defend ourselves without the police. Do you? Well, do ya, punk?
The issue that got Europe (and the rest of the world) into this mess was too much financial freedom in America, allowing the financial sector to get everyone indebted to the point where they took the whole economy with them when the bubble finally burst, and the global commerce which allowed the results to radiate to the rest of the world. I'm all for solving this problem by regulating the Hell out of banks.
Cutting healthcare results in less healthy population, which - apart from forgetting why economy exists in the first place - results in less productive workforce. It is the second-stupidest thing you could possibly do (the most stupid would be to further deregulate the economy, of course).
How could they, when they had nothing to do with the problem in the first place?
Well no, you don't have to cut healthcare at some point. Why would you?
Sure there is: stop drinking libertarian cool-aid.
Don't worry, the hippie movement is dead as a doornail. And you can rest assured that any future Summer of Love will always be followed by a long, cold, dark Winter of Hatred. In the end, Flower Power couldn't overcome the evil in human heart. Nothing can.
Protestors are always a threat to those in power, whom the soldiers serve. In the end, the US - or any other country - is no different from China. Fear keeps the people in line. Fear of being killed next.
So if you attach your iPhone to the underside of my car, I'm responsible when it falls off and is broken? Or if, when doing maintenance on my car, I find a piece of equipment that shouldn't be there, I have some kind of duty to store it in case someone comes asking? Or, extrapolating this a little, if I find an electronic device on my lawn, I am obliged to store it rather than just throw it away, because whoever littered might be coming to ask for it?
This is not about "finder's keepers", this is about my right to dispose of garbage.
Do lithium batteries discharge over time on their own? Because if they do, and generate some heat while doing it, then all you have to do is pack enough of them tightly together to make the inside of the pile hot enough to catch fire. It's the same principle as why you can't store wood in too large piles: the heat from decomposition eventually makes the insides ignite.
You nationalize it for the duration of the sentence and pay as much dividends as possible to the state. Also, you replace the current executives with a state-approved bunch.
And even more importantly, you won't have Cutey Honey and will be overrun by monsters.
He is, it doesn't, and you posted as an anonymous coward for a reason.
Any metal structure is an antennae.
Good for him. Let's hope the FBi won' try any more East German tactics on him, now that they've caught once.
So here's the question: if you plant such a malicious (to me) device on my car, why would I have any obligation whatsoever to support your malice by returning your device intact to you after I've discovered its purpose?
Yup. And when attaching trackers to someone's car becomes legal, it's your cue to go "oh shit". It's also your cure to throw the damn thing off on a highway or other densely trafficked area where it's likely to be run over by a truck and play dumb when they ask you about it.
Seriously, if I found a black box on my car I'd analyze it, assume it was planted by some hostile party, and destroy it in a manner I considered most damaging for my newfound enemies.
See, the thing is, court decisions - even those of the supreme court - aren't the law. The Constitution is the law, as are all of the secondary laws, as long as they don't contradict the Constitution. And attaching tracking devides to people's cars seems to be in direct violation of any reasonable reading of the Fourth Amemdnment.
They didn't "lose" it, they deliberately attached it to a bar counter. The bar has no more moral obligation to keep it around than it would have a piece of bubblegum or any other crap attached to the counter.
Really, if I found a surveillance device in my car, it would be tragically "lost" on a highway somewhere and run over by a truck, after a thorough analysis of course.
He does not have the might, and therefore he does not have (any) right(s) either.
Welcome to the real world, where your Constitution is just goddamn piece of paper.
I don't know what you mean by "liable". It almost sounds like you had some naive notions like "rule of law". The relevant question to ask is: Do you have more power than the FBI? If they decide they want money from you, can you prevent them from taking it?
Compare with this Slashdot story: might makes right, power is all.