So what would it take to actually build an HDCP re-recording device? Does it require custom silicon from a fab, or can it be built using a FPGA and a bread board?
So what you are saying is that instead of investing in space technology so that we can see spin-offs in other areas, we could be investing in bike technology that spins-off to space technology.
That's not how it's suppose to work. It's suppose to be only space that has spin-off technologies./sarcasm
We really need to realize that any tech that pushes the envelope will have spin-off technologies.
No, the headline is "Microsoft bullies FOSS with patents and conspiratorial coersion."
When Microsoft patents obvious things, then uses those patents to threaten law suits, that is a threat.
If Microsoft was competing by building great software, we would be having a different conversation. This conversation is about Microsoft competing without building software.
It is designed and built for show, not for real testing. The Ares 1X is just a Potemkin rocket to make a good impression on congress and the American public. Any test data is just incidental.
There are so many things that need to be tested, but this launch tests almost nothing. Unfortunately this is what I have come to expect of NASA: good PR, solid engineering, poor vision.
Please let the president and NASA administrators choose the Augustine flexible path using EELV rockets so that we can get something accomplished in addition to burning money.
Humboldt County, California has an innovative program to put on the Internet scanned images of all the optical-scan ballots cast in the county. In the online archive, citizens found 197 ballots that were not included in the official results of the November election. Investigation revealed that the ballots disappeared from the official count due to a programming error in central tabulation software
Now, of course, they did patent the RIAA equalization curve so that others would have to pay money to make their records sound good, but it was a significant innovation.
Finally some sanity. There are places in the tooling and gaging where the tolerances are tight and a change over to metric requires a complete re-engineering of the tolerance stackup.
Even still, there is no reason why the project should be driven by US customary units for every thing.
Re-state the external interfaces in Metric.
Build everything that is new in Metric.
Retain US customary units in unchanged assemblies.
The problem here is that utilities are currently trying to build new "Clean Coal" generating plants that have no carbon capture at all.
The "Clean Coal" phrase as Chu used it in the article is very different than the "Clean Coal" phrase used by my local utility trying to build a new plant. I would not mind Chu's "Clean Coal", but I do not want what the utilities are currently calling "Clean Coal".
The DIRECT team has written quite a bit about what is needed to change over from the Ares I/V architecture to the Jupiter architecture. While we would be throwing away all of the design work on the Ares I upper stage, making the change at this point still has a quicker return to flight. Having better rockets is a side benefit.
The J2 rocket work and 5 segment SRB work will come in handy for building the Jupiter 232.
There is no reason to 'stay the course' of the AresI/V. It is time to choose the rocket that is faster, better, and cheaper.
A space elevator is a great idea. We should build one as soon as we can produce enough unobtainium to make the tether.
We should be doing the materials research needed for a space elevator, but the question now is about how to get to space for the next ten years. A space elevator will (almost certainly) not be build-able in that time, but we can launch rockets.
Right now we need rockets, the question is which rocket. Space elevators, fusion drives, and other fanciful stuffs are things we should think about and research, but they are not the things we can build today.
Are you talking about this Sky Ramp
or this Magnetic Launch System
There was a site that had done some work on a maglev track to launch directly to orbit. www.maglev2000.com (the site seems to be down now.) The maglev track for a manned launch to orbit (4g max acceleration) is over 500 miles long!
Unless NASA releases money for COTS-D very soon, we will still have a manned launch gap. The Falcon 9 and Dragon are man rated, but to launch people into using the Falcon 9 and Dragon, you need much more. You need a Launch Escape System and a Emergency Egress System. Neither of these is currently in development at SpaceX and both have a long lead time to develop.
Without the additional COTS-D money to start development on these systems, SpaceX will not carry people until they find the money from other sources to fund these development efforts.
Is that one more shuttle mission to launch the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer? Please? Pretty Please?
It would be nice to have experiments for astronauts to work on. (Sex in space experiments can only fill in a portion of the total experiment time allocated.)
So to avoid a state forced abortion, each pregnant couple needs show that they have cash on hand to support the child?
Wow. This kind of policy would definitely change the very social fabric of any country.
I don't think I'm ready to have you as president.
We already have a health care system that requires each person to have cash-in-hand for good health care. It is this very system that makes me want a single payer system that treats people, not pocket books.
The point is not moot. Organized omnipresent government surveillance cannot be matched by ad hoc surveillance by "non-certified" individuals. The balance of power is not evened out simply by having some people watching back
There must still be openness and review of the watchers or abuse will occur.
A small market specialty phone is OK by me, but does one exist with the capability to automatically encrypt conversations between parties without an external key exchange? I see the link to the OpenMoko phone here, but once again, is there a general encryption mechanism that I can load that will simply and automatically protect my privacy?
It is not off-topic to discuss budget priorities. When the general public believes that NASA is 24% of the Federal budget when in fact it is 0.6%, there is a real need to discuss the budget. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/17/0549234
As a nation and as a world we need to step back and consider: for the good of our country and for the good of human kind, how should we spend our time and our treasures? Will we fight and kill, or will we build and explore?
This has always been one of the defining questions of society. We need to consider the costs more often, not less often.
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'' He said, "Can we have another option to fly? We'll call it Fly At Your Own Risk Airlines. We won't screen for anything and you can pay for your tickets five minutes before your flight just like in the old days-1997." '' I would actually prefer this. There really is very little reason for the federal government to perform the security checks. The cost of losing an aircraft and passengers is enough that the airlines themselves should care about security.
Imagine this: Airlines advertising that they are safer than the competition because they perform more background checks, more screening tests, and have a better record of finding threating materials. I would pay an extra $20 per ticket to have measurably better security. And the extra bonus is that this screening would not infringe any 4th amendment rights.
Let the airlines handle security. They have the motivation to make the process both safe and sane. The federal government does not have the ability to do either.
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So what would it take to actually build an HDCP re-recording device? Does it require custom silicon from a fab, or can it be built using a FPGA and a bread board?
the tool kit dropped by astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper during a spacewalk in 2008
That tool kit re-entered the atmosphere in August of 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidemarie_Stefanyshyn-Piper#Lost_tool_bag_during_spacewalk Come on guys. Do some fact checking.
No bucks, no Buck Rogers.
This will go nowhere unless additional cash is added to NASA's budget.
So what you are saying is that instead of investing in space technology so that we can see spin-offs in other areas, we could be investing in bike technology that spins-off to space technology.
/sarcasm
That's not how it's suppose to work. It's suppose to be only space that has spin-off technologies.
We really need to realize that any tech that pushes the envelope will have spin-off technologies.
“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.” - Wernher von Braun
No, the headline is "Microsoft bullies FOSS with patents and conspiratorial coersion."
When Microsoft patents obvious things, then uses those patents to threaten law suits, that is a threat.
If Microsoft was competing by building great software, we would be having a different conversation. This conversation is about Microsoft competing without building software.
Too late. That tool bag is already back to earth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidemarie_Stefanyshyn-Piper#Lost_tool_bag_during_spacewalk
It is designed and built for show, not for real testing. The Ares 1X is just a Potemkin rocket to make a good impression on congress and the American public. Any test data is just incidental.
There are so many things that need to be tested, but this launch tests almost nothing. Unfortunately this is what I have come to expect of NASA: good PR, solid engineering, poor vision.
Please let the president and NASA administrators choose the Augustine flexible path using EELV rockets so that we can get something accomplished in addition to burning money.
Humboldt County, California has an innovative program to put on the Internet scanned images of all the optical-scan ballots cast in the county. In the online archive, citizens found 197 ballots that were not included in the official results of the November election. Investigation revealed that the ballots disappeared from the official count due to a programming error in central tabulation software
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/election-transparency-project-finds-ballot-counting-bug
A single significant innovation: The RIAA Curve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization for correct playback of vinyl records.
Now, of course, they did patent the RIAA equalization curve so that others would have to pay money to make their records sound good, but it was a significant innovation.
Finally some sanity. There are places in the tooling and gaging where the tolerances are tight and a change over to metric requires a complete re-engineering of the tolerance stackup.
Even still, there is no reason why the project should be driven by US customary units for every thing.
Re-state the external interfaces in Metric.
Build everything that is new in Metric.
Retain US customary units in unchanged assemblies.
DO THE PROGRAM LEVEL WORK IN METRIC.
The problem here is that utilities are currently trying to build new "Clean Coal" generating plants that have no carbon capture at all.
The "Clean Coal" phrase as Chu used it in the article is very different than the "Clean Coal" phrase used by my local utility trying to build a new plant. I would not mind Chu's "Clean Coal", but I do not want what the utilities are currently calling "Clean Coal".
The DIRECT team has written quite a bit about what is needed to change over from the Ares I/V architecture to the Jupiter architecture. While we would be throwing away all of the design work on the Ares I upper stage, making the change at this point still has a quicker return to flight. Having better rockets is a side benefit.
The J2 rocket work and 5 segment SRB work will come in handy for building the Jupiter 232.
There is no reason to 'stay the course' of the AresI/V. It is time to choose the rocket that is faster, better, and cheaper.
A space elevator is a great idea. We should build one as soon as we can produce enough unobtainium to make the tether.
We should be doing the materials research needed for a space elevator, but the question now is about how to get to space for the next ten years. A space elevator will (almost certainly) not be build-able in that time, but we can launch rockets.
Right now we need rockets, the question is which rocket. Space elevators, fusion drives, and other fanciful stuffs are things we should think about and research, but they are not the things we can build today.
Are you talking about this Sky Ramp
or this Magnetic Launch System
There was a site that had done some work on a maglev track to launch directly to orbit. www.maglev2000.com (the site seems to be down now.) The maglev track for a manned launch to orbit (4g max acceleration) is over 500 miles long!
Unless NASA releases money for COTS-D very soon, we will still have a manned launch gap. The Falcon 9 and Dragon are man rated, but to launch people into using the Falcon 9 and Dragon, you need much more. You need a Launch Escape System and a Emergency Egress System. Neither of these is currently in development at SpaceX and both have a long lead time to develop.
Without the additional COTS-D money to start development on these systems, SpaceX will not carry people until they find the money from other sources to fund these development efforts.
Is that one more shuttle mission to launch the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer? Please? Pretty Please?
It would be nice to have experiments for astronauts to work on. (Sex in space experiments can only fill in a portion of the total experiment time allocated.)
So to avoid a state forced abortion, each pregnant couple needs show that they have cash on hand to support the child?
Wow. This kind of policy would definitely change the very social fabric of any country.
I don't think I'm ready to have you as president.
We already have a health care system that requires each person to have cash-in-hand for good health care. It is this very system that makes me want a single payer system that treats people, not pocket books.
The point is not moot. Organized omnipresent government surveillance cannot be matched by ad hoc surveillance by "non-certified" individuals. The balance of power is not evened out simply by having some people watching back
There must still be openness and review of the watchers or abuse will occur.
A small market specialty phone is OK by me, but does one exist with the capability to automatically encrypt conversations between parties without an external key exchange? I see the link to the OpenMoko phone here, but once again, is there a general encryption mechanism that I can load that will simply and automatically protect my privacy?
It is not off-topic to discuss budget priorities. When the general public believes that NASA is 24% of the Federal budget when in fact it is 0.6%, there is a real need to discuss the budget. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/17/0549234
As a nation and as a world we need to step back and consider: for the good of our country and for the good of human kind, how should we spend our time and our treasures? Will we fight and kill, or will we build and explore?
This has always been one of the defining questions of society. We need to consider the costs more often, not less often.
Thank you. That was a wonderful story.
Don't pour dirt into the radiator. Pour sand into the engine. That cleans all of the valves and manifolds. http://www.audiforums.com/m_693578/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm#693578
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Use FireFox with the PDF Download add-on and Foxit Reader for display. In this configuration PDF files download without seizing the browser.
But do not under any circumstances load Acrobat reader. Acrobat reader will keep trying to override Foxit each time it runs.
This is not a perfect solution, as there are a web sites that link to PDF files without setting a mime type. Then Firefox tries to display the PDF as the web page. That is annoying, but just save the page source to a
Imagine this: Airlines advertising that they are safer than the competition because they perform more background checks, more screening tests, and have a better record of finding threating materials. I would pay an extra $20 per ticket to have measurably better security. And the extra bonus is that this screening would not infringe any 4th amendment rights.
Let the airlines handle security. They have the motivation to make the process both safe and sane. The federal government does not have the ability to do either.