So their website makes them look deceptively un-savvy. The Bad Guys see their website, and may make this assumption. You're saying this is A Bad Thing?
Is it even possible to live free and untracked anymore? Is this just the price we pay for living in a civilized society?
This's a good question. After all, when 14 Syrian musicians do a bombing dry-run on a Northwest Airlines flight, how could it happen? Because NWA can only legally detain 2 young Arab males, else face fines for being discriminatory. Just have a large enough group, and you can do what you want. I guess it's just a coincidence that so many terrorists are Muslim, eh?* Sure would be horrible to use that piece of info to our advantage.
I concur fully, but that is the nature of politics and NASA is inherently a political body. A political body with no actual political power to boot. They can be yanked around by virtually anybody with actual power and that affects the way they approach issuses, which, yes, has already cost lives.
So while NASA has a potentially simple source of large funding (i.e. politicians with the taxpayer revenues to spend--and yes, I know "simple" doesn't fit at all), it would seem a grossly imperfect body with which to do such activities. What I keep asking myself, then, is what would be better? Private lab with tons of donations? Eccentric billionaire with a vision?
What the hell happened to this country's can-do spirit?
I don't know, but I'm sure it has nothing to do with the introduction of welfare & handout programs, and billion$ in aid to foreign countries that still hate us anyway.
Personally I wonder if it is even worth spending $300m+ just for a "safe deorbit" - its the old argument - ie: that money spent AIDS drugs for Africa would save many more lifes than are threatened by Hubble reentry..
Yeah. Think of all the African dictators/generals that don't have swimming pools in all their palaces yet. We'd be a lot better off sending this money over there to "help with AIDS"...
Talk about a deceptive article title. I see it, and I think of people hacking an RFID network to find ways to mess with it (which would be good if the network becomes too intrusive). Instead, it's about ways of using the technology, that aren't what we're all thinking about right now.
Good to see someone else saying this. True, Rutan's probably got plans to design an orbital craft, but that will be long after 2005, 2008.
Would it be feasable to have an inflatable hotel in geostationary orbit? I don't know much about what's needed, clearly. At what altitude to geostationary birds fly?
The one attraction [Bigelow] doesn't like to talk about is the chance for his guests to get a little "space nookie." Since humans are inherently horny, there is no question that some space tourists would take the trip just so they could join the 62-Mile-High Club. Bigelow acknowledges this likelihood, but worries that salacious visions of space sex will detract attention from the more serious applications of his technology.
I wonder if this's the first time the phrase "space nookie" has been used in print (assuming this site has a dead-tree version)...
With better resolution, designer memes and logos might become the hot intellectual property being shared by the young hipsters. Then again, maybe it will just be another place for advertisers to exploit."
Um... isn't this just two ways of saying the exact same thing? Especially when the viral-marketing word "meme" is used.
I'd like to see this kind of (near) real-time information appear in my own car when I want it, so I can make an instant decision, as opposed to deciding to avoid a certain area in 15 minutes when I'd be getting there. Take the onboard DVD/nav in modern cars, and get it to retrieve info from this system in realtime, and I'll be happy.
Houston appears to be the same story. The traffic reports on the radio appear to be based on hour-old information, when they do reflect reality (and that itself is rather rare).
It's no coincidence that the Left tends to have so much animosity for Halliburton. Consider the industry.
What does Halliburton do? They provide technology & manpower for getting oil out of the earth, and to the pipelines, tankers, refineries, etc. In this industry, there are really only 2 competitors to Halliburton, which has something like 5% of the market. The other company is ITEC or something like that, with around 1%, based elsewhere. So the one company with ~94% of the market is who? Schlumberger. And where are they based? France.
Yes, the one American company (Houston, to be exact--oh, those evil conservative Texans!) in this industry is Halliburton.
There frequent flyers carried their biometric identifiers (fingerprint & iris) with them between airports on a smart card. Actually, we carried our biometric identifiers on our FINGERS and our EYES. That's the whole point, you see?
That's what I'm wondering about. Since we carry our fingers and eyes with us, why is a card necessary? A card can be manipulated, probably more easily than someone can fool a fingerprint/iris scanning machine with an airport agent watching.
Aside from creating a fast-track for a few people, how does this help things?
As for number of homes, -- and please note I'm not talking sarcastically here, I'm attempting to make no points with this request, I mean it earnestly -- tell me your source, I am curious. The number of homes Moore owns is in no way an indicating factor of the truth or untruth of anything he says, that's a logical fallacy called "attacking the person." But I am honestly interested in the details of that statement.
The TSG link is my source, mentioning a condo in NYC and a house in Michigan. I'd agree it makes no difference to his truth/untruth; I stand by my statement, however, that it distances his image from that of working class. Insomuchas that doesn't go after his arguments, sure, it's an ad-hominem attack. I can't deny that. It is, nonetheless, true.
But I wouldn't be angry at you, except you made that damnable "limousine liberal" crack. If you think it's possible to get rich off of producing documentaries than you are a schmuck, pardon my Yiddish.
Hmm... I've got $24M reasons, in one weekend, to almost disagree. Why almost? Because a real documentary provides real facts, not distortions, and tries to promote debate between both sides, and not serve as mere propaganda for only one side. F9/11 is many things; one-sided is absolutely one of them.
He had to sell his home to get Roger & Me made.
And now he owns two, and is even registered to vote in both places. This does not make him appear in touch with the working class & everyman.
Um, so Spain and Morocco are connected. This doens't mean Europe is connected to Africa.
This sounds silly, but if you ask anyone native to Morocco where their country is, they'll claim it's a "southern European" country. NOT Africa. At a gas station showing the African continent in the logo, I asked one local what the symbol was. He looked angry, and mumbled something about being in "extreme southern Europe" in reply.
Funny story. Moroccans tend to be Arab / Bedouin in ethnicity, and REFUSE to be associated with Africa / African-ness.
Yahoo is partnered with SBC in the southwest, so that dialup/DSL users have no choice but to have a useless Yahoo account (unless they do want it... point is, no choice).
Yahoo mail a good service? Yeah, if you like huge billboards all over your email. Very little raises my ire like emptying my trash folder, and going to a new page with nothing but the message "Your trash is empty, now." and the rest of the space filled with large Flash ads. This makes me have to go and do another click to get where I want - back to the inbox.
This lowers usability, for the sake of large advertisements. A good service would try to improve usability (and therefore its reputation), instead of worsen it to sell ad space.
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So their website makes them look deceptively un-savvy. The Bad Guys see their website, and may make this assumption. You're saying this is A Bad Thing?
What's amusing is her belief that we have "freedom of speech, free of reprisal" -- that free speech has no consequences.
Is it even possible to live free and untracked anymore? Is this just the price we pay for living in a civilized society?
This's a good question. After all, when 14 Syrian musicians do a bombing dry-run on a Northwest Airlines flight, how could it happen? Because NWA can only legally detain 2 young Arab males, else face fines for being discriminatory. Just have a large enough group, and you can do what you want. I guess it's just a coincidence that so many terrorists are Muslim, eh?* Sure would be horrible to use that piece of info to our advantage.
* I did not say Muslims are terrorists. Shut up.
I know this is picking nits of a nitpick, but wouldn't it be "Oceania comes to Boston"?
Yes, but that would hurt the administration's ego ...
I concur fully, but that is the nature of politics and NASA is inherently a political body. A political body with no actual political power to boot. They can be yanked around by virtually anybody with actual power and that affects the way they approach issuses, which, yes, has already cost lives.
So while NASA has a potentially simple source of large funding (i.e. politicians with the taxpayer revenues to spend--and yes, I know "simple" doesn't fit at all), it would seem a grossly imperfect body with which to do such activities. What I keep asking myself, then, is what would be better? Private lab with tons of donations? Eccentric billionaire with a vision?
What the hell happened to this country's can-do spirit?
I don't know, but I'm sure it has nothing to do with the introduction of welfare & handout programs, and billion$ in aid to foreign countries that still hate us anyway.
Personally I wonder if it is even worth spending $300m+ just for a "safe deorbit" - its the old argument - ie: that money spent AIDS drugs for Africa would save many more lifes than are threatened by Hubble reentry..
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Yeah. Think of all the African dictators/generals that don't have swimming pools in all their palaces yet. We'd be a lot better off sending this money over there to "help with AIDS"
Well, it's possible that Japanese schoolgirls' used underwear has been RFID tagged during its product cycle already, so this is just getting closer to the source, right?
Talk about a deceptive article title. I see it, and I think of people hacking an RFID network to find ways to mess with it (which would be good if the network becomes too intrusive). Instead, it's about ways of using the technology, that aren't what we're all thinking about right now.
Good to see someone else saying this. True, Rutan's probably got plans to design an orbital craft, but that will be long after 2005, 2008.
Would it be feasable to have an inflatable hotel in geostationary orbit? I don't know much about what's needed, clearly. At what altitude to geostationary birds fly?
The article mentions this:
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The one attraction [Bigelow] doesn't like to talk about is the chance for his guests to get a little "space nookie." Since humans are inherently horny, there is no question that some space tourists would take the trip just so they could join the 62-Mile-High Club. Bigelow acknowledges this likelihood, but worries that salacious visions of space sex will detract attention from the more serious applications of his technology.
I wonder if this's the first time the phrase "space nookie" has been used in print (assuming this site has a dead-tree version)
With better resolution, designer memes and logos might become the hot intellectual property being shared by the young hipsters. Then again, maybe it will just be another place for advertisers to exploit."
... isn't this just two ways of saying the exact same thing? Especially when the viral-marketing word "meme" is used.
Um
I'd like to see this kind of (near) real-time information appear in my own car when I want it, so I can make an instant decision, as opposed to deciding to avoid a certain area in 15 minutes when I'd be getting there. Take the onboard DVD/nav in modern cars, and get it to retrieve info from this system in realtime, and I'll be happy.
Houston appears to be the same story. The traffic reports on the radio appear to be based on hour-old information, when they do reflect reality (and that itself is rather rare).
How 'bout taking an idea from a later post, and making the Antarctic base mobile? It seems these problems could be overcome by this.
Retrospect and introspection has never been painless, but has always been healing.
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That second part is highly debatable
It's no coincidence that the Left tends to have so much animosity for Halliburton. Consider the industry.
What does Halliburton do? They provide technology & manpower for getting oil out of the earth, and to the pipelines, tankers, refineries, etc. In this industry, there are really only 2 competitors to Halliburton, which has something like 5% of the market. The other company is ITEC or something like that, with around 1%, based elsewhere. So the one company with ~94% of the market is who? Schlumberger. And where are they based? France.
Yes, the one American company (Houston, to be exact--oh, those evil conservative Texans!) in this industry is Halliburton.
Now that is food for thought.
There frequent flyers carried their biometric identifiers (fingerprint & iris) with them between airports on a smart card.
Actually, we carried our biometric identifiers on our FINGERS and our EYES. That's the whole point, you see?
That's what I'm wondering about. Since we carry our fingers and eyes with us, why is a card necessary? A card can be manipulated, probably more easily than someone can fool a fingerprint/iris scanning machine with an airport agent watching.
Aside from creating a fast-track for a few people, how does this help things?
As for number of homes, -- and please note I'm not talking sarcastically here, I'm attempting to make no points with this request, I mean it earnestly -- tell me your source, I am curious. The number of homes Moore owns is in no way an indicating factor of the truth or untruth of anything he says, that's a logical fallacy called "attacking the person." But I am honestly interested in the details of that statement.
The TSG link is my source, mentioning a condo in NYC and a house in Michigan. I'd agree it makes no difference to his truth/untruth; I stand by my statement, however, that it distances his image from that of working class. Insomuchas that doesn't go after his arguments, sure, it's an ad-hominem attack. I can't deny that. It is, nonetheless, true.
Before I get modded flamebait, I am not planning to vote for Bush in the fall.
... and here I thought prejudice could be kept at bay without such.
It's pretty sad that one has to say this to be taken seriously in debate here
But I wouldn't be angry at you, except you made that damnable "limousine liberal" crack. If you think it's possible to get rich off of producing documentaries than you are a schmuck, pardon my Yiddish.
... I've got $24M reasons, in one weekend, to almost disagree. Why almost? Because a real documentary provides real facts, not distortions, and tries to promote debate between both sides, and not serve as mere propaganda for only one side. F9/11 is many things; one-sided is absolutely one of them.
Hmm
He had to sell his home to get Roger & Me made.
And now he owns two, and is even registered to vote in both places. This does not make him appear in touch with the working class & everyman.
Funny, I'm not seeing all the "I don't know who SBC is so why should I care? Why does this rate /.?" posts I've seen about past coverage.
Um, so Spain and Morocco are connected. This doens't mean Europe is connected to Africa.
This sounds silly, but if you ask anyone native to Morocco where their country is, they'll claim it's a "southern European" country. NOT Africa. At a gas station showing the African continent in the logo, I asked one local what the symbol was. He looked angry, and mumbled something about being in "extreme southern Europe" in reply.
Funny story. Moroccans tend to be Arab / Bedouin in ethnicity, and REFUSE to be associated with Africa / African-ness.
In other news, water found to be rather wet.
... we'll exclude the recent /. post)
(well, for the most part
Yahoo mail a good service? Yeah, if you like huge billboards all over your email. Very little raises my ire like emptying my trash folder, and going to a new page with nothing but the message "Your trash is empty, now." and the rest of the space filled with large Flash ads. This makes me have to go and do another click to get where I want - back to the inbox.
This lowers usability, for the sake of large advertisements. A good service would try to improve usability (and therefore its reputation), instead of worsen it to sell ad space.