Here's how end users can avoid being sued. They can buy a license from SCO to use the linux kernel. I hope somebody launches a countersuit or something.
Added URL: Adding insult to injury, SCO is making Linux licenses available for purchase by end users who are using other Linux distributions. It would be beautiful if someone launched a countersuit for this absurd manipulation of legal uncertainty.
Adding insult to injury, SCO is making Linux licenses available for purchase by end users who are using other Linux distributions. It would be beautiful if someone launched a countersuit for this absurd manipulation of legal uncertainty.
Actually, my palm was read last week and I'm told that something terrible will happen to me when I'm about 50. That's in ~25 years, so we've got at least that long.
Good hard science fiction:
Greg Bear
David Brin
Good humanist science fiction:
Theodore Sturgeon
God:
Philip K. Dick
If I could find anybody else as good as those four authors.. I'd... I dunno. Suggestions?
Probably wouldn't have the capacity. That's a good idea though, if you could come up with a catalyst that could handle the output and use it to filter your exhaust. It still doesn't deal with the (admittedly debated) greenhouse gas problem though.
It looks like the paint is a catalyst for the decomposition of nitrogen oxides. I guess it would only get saturated if the products couldn't be washed away, or if the reaction couldn't occur (e.g. in a shady place or something).
They need an energy source. Presumably people working on them would prefer to not make lipid, sugar, and protein-fueled nanobot swarms to tunnel through all living flesh on the planet.
That's an unfair way to brand environmentalists. Caution and restraint doesn't have to translate into technophobic, knee-jerk bans. There's a difference between "heavy resistance" and a vocal minority getting sensationalist media coverage.
Oh, okay. Now that I'm armed with the facts I'm less afraid I might coincidentally do something that matches the pattern of a 'terrorist' - like enroll in physics/chemistry because I like science, take out some library books on conspiracy theories for my own amusement, and participate in some online public discussion about erosion of freedom and the disturbing power of the post-9/11 american state.
This especially doesn't concern me when I combine it with the knowledge that the PATRIOT-Act is working hard to ensure law enforcement is enabled to rifle through anybody's posessions and arrest people without trial or warrant.
We're all such left-wing lunatics for finding this stuff alarming. Why can't we just figure out that they're ONLY GOING TO BE DOING IT TO DAS JUDE--err, TERRORISTS!
Good points. I'm sure NASA has thought of these sorts of things too; I have no idea where to read about them though if they have.
It's sort of an interesting tradeoff to consider though; careful, directed examination of specific features of interest with really complicated instruments, or brute force "random" sampling with simpler ones.
You know, it occurs to me that maybe instead of having an interactive rover with a billion complicated subsystems and spectrometers and cameras... it might be a good idea to launch a package full of smaller autonomous devices carrying different instrumentation... So you'd have a base that lands on mars, opens up (like the rover bases do) and releases 20 or 30 "dumb robots" on treads or big balloon tires(I'm thinking each the size of a big R/C car), some of which would have cameras, the rest instrumentation of whatever sort..
All of the little slaves would move around randomly or according to some simple program (either mechanical or software) and relay collected information to the base, which would transmit it to earth...
Some of the camera bots would be designed to just move as far as possible and take as many pictures as possible... others would just do instrumental analyses of whatever they happen to bump into or land on...
You wouldn't know exactly what the instruments were looking at but you'd probably be able to collect a sizable amount of data on a particular landing region; know what minerals are present, etc. You wouldn't know that pyramid shaped rock 12B contains olivine but you'd know olivine was present.
This is a redundant reply, but uhh... his testing procedures were really crappy. I'd not be at all surprised if there WAS in fact 99% silver in all the pastes but that the goopy stuff in which they were suspended is nitric acid/HCl labile in the ones that tested positive but not those that tested negative.
It seems possible that the silver in some of the thermal compounds might be "shielded" from the test solution by the other goop present. It might be better (if you cared that much) to try to isolate the silver particles before testing for their presence.
There's a good news article on this affair in the journal Nature (no ref handy, sorry). The authors suggest Lomberg was a bit selective in picking his data, but that he appeared to be earnest if nothing else... not an oil company pawn, for example. Still, the potential for abuse of his book in backing up terrible policymaking is a problem, especially when politicians with massive interests in the resource industry are running too much of the show.
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Here's how end users can avoid being sued. They can buy a license from SCO to use the linux kernel. I hope somebody launches a countersuit or something.
Added URL: Adding insult to injury, SCO is making Linux licenses available for purchase by end users who are using other Linux distributions. It would be beautiful if someone launched a countersuit for this absurd manipulation of legal uncertainty.
Adding insult to injury, SCO is making Linux licenses available for purchase by end users who are using other Linux distributions. It would be beautiful if someone launched a countersuit for this absurd manipulation of legal uncertainty.
Actually, my palm was read last week and I'm told that something terrible will happen to me when I'm about 50. That's in ~25 years, so we've got at least that long.
Bah, military development is mostly an excuse to funnel public money into the private interests of decision makers anyway :)
Nothing fun ever happens when everybody becomes obsessed with protecting themselves from danger. Politically or technologically.
Good hard science fiction: Greg Bear David Brin Good humanist science fiction: Theodore Sturgeon God: Philip K. Dick If I could find anybody else as good as those four authors.. I'd... I dunno. Suggestions?
They could just have a script that checks referrals and puts up graphics-free text of their articles.
Until I read the post article on new registration requirements, I thought I was the only one using 90210 as my fake zip code ;)
Probably wouldn't have the capacity. That's a good idea though, if you could come up with a catalyst that could handle the output and use it to filter your exhaust. It still doesn't deal with the (admittedly debated) greenhouse gas problem though.
It looks like the paint is a catalyst for the decomposition of nitrogen oxides. I guess it would only get saturated if the products couldn't be washed away, or if the reaction couldn't occur (e.g. in a shady place or something).
They need an energy source. Presumably people working on them would prefer to not make lipid, sugar, and protein-fueled nanobot swarms to tunnel through all living flesh on the planet.
That's an unfair way to brand environmentalists. Caution and restraint doesn't have to translate into technophobic, knee-jerk bans. There's a difference between "heavy resistance" and a vocal minority getting sensationalist media coverage.
It's a bit disturbing that it could be done with minimal effort now though, for example as part of a profile matching algorithm.
Oh, okay. Now that I'm armed with the facts I'm less afraid I might coincidentally do something that matches the pattern of a 'terrorist' - like enroll in physics/chemistry because I like science, take out some library books on conspiracy theories for my own amusement, and participate in some online public discussion about erosion of freedom and the disturbing power of the post-9/11 american state. This especially doesn't concern me when I combine it with the knowledge that the PATRIOT-Act is working hard to ensure law enforcement is enabled to rifle through anybody's posessions and arrest people without trial or warrant. We're all such left-wing lunatics for finding this stuff alarming. Why can't we just figure out that they're ONLY GOING TO BE DOING IT TO DAS JUDE--err, TERRORISTS!
Good points. I'm sure NASA has thought of these sorts of things too; I have no idea where to read about them though if they have. It's sort of an interesting tradeoff to consider though; careful, directed examination of specific features of interest with really complicated instruments, or brute force "random" sampling with simpler ones.
You know, it occurs to me that maybe instead of having an interactive rover with a billion complicated subsystems and spectrometers and cameras... it might be a good idea to launch a package full of smaller autonomous devices carrying different instrumentation... So you'd have a base that lands on mars, opens up (like the rover bases do) and releases 20 or 30 "dumb robots" on treads or big balloon tires(I'm thinking each the size of a big R/C car), some of which would have cameras, the rest instrumentation of whatever sort.. All of the little slaves would move around randomly or according to some simple program (either mechanical or software) and relay collected information to the base, which would transmit it to earth... Some of the camera bots would be designed to just move as far as possible and take as many pictures as possible... others would just do instrumental analyses of whatever they happen to bump into or land on... You wouldn't know exactly what the instruments were looking at but you'd probably be able to collect a sizable amount of data on a particular landing region; know what minerals are present, etc. You wouldn't know that pyramid shaped rock 12B contains olivine but you'd know olivine was present.
This is a redundant reply, but uhh... his testing procedures were really crappy. I'd not be at all surprised if there WAS in fact 99% silver in all the pastes but that the goopy stuff in which they were suspended is nitric acid/HCl labile in the ones that tested positive but not those that tested negative.
It seems possible that the silver in some of the thermal compounds might be "shielded" from the test solution by the other goop present. It might be better (if you cared that much) to try to isolate the silver particles before testing for their presence.
There's a good news article on this affair in the journal Nature (no ref handy, sorry). The authors suggest Lomberg was a bit selective in picking his data, but that he appeared to be earnest if nothing else... not an oil company pawn, for example. Still, the potential for abuse of his book in backing up terrible policymaking is a problem, especially when politicians with massive interests in the resource industry are running too much of the show.