The article wasn't trying to be unbiased or nice, however it also wasn't a hatchet piece imho. Sure it speculated however it didn't outright lie or make up facts, and that's probably why IL hated it: they couldn't respond to it. If facts weren't right then you can reply by pointing it out, and even if speculation is way off you can do the same however IL simply threatened to sue (needless to say if you can do the first two then you can probably sue as well, although sending an e-mail first is cheaper)..
There are peaceful ways to try and resolve such things however IL didn't do either, it didn't try to clear up the mess but simply sent a threat (most likely assuming HardOCP would cave in). Hell, you can even ignore the editorial, and in all honesty after 4 months that's probably the best solution. It was simply a horrible PR move on ILs part, and now they're paying for it.
And if anyone is wondering, if I remember correctly around the time the [H] editorial came out there was a lot of speculation about IL. Mostly it wasn't the good kind either, and Kyle, I guess, decided to use it to his advantage and look into IL. Whatever the final story was it would give him readers (hell, finding out the thing is legit may have given him more immediate publicity)..
Yes, HardOCP sued first instead of buckling under the threats and taking the piece of their website. They were being threatened with lawsuits and they sued to have a judgment made, ie: "You're threatening to sue us, well let's see if a judge thinks you have any ground to stand on."
Isn't it odd: someone fighting back when a company threatens to sue them?
A professor of mine mentioned how they tried TRNG back in the day using vacuum tubes however due to the output not having a set distribution (fluctuations caused some numbers to come up more often than others and they couldn't predict which) it wasn't all that useful. I guess that in non-statistical applications this flaw isn't really that damaging, sounds interesting.
Short term solution, sooner or later those blurry letters will be able to be identified by a computer. In other words, the method will be defeated as algorithms and computer processing power increases.
kiddie rape is a bad example, you only want the truly worst crimes to be punished by death. For example, kiddie rape and then killing the kid is probably considered worse than kiddie rape alone however the death penalty is the worst possible punishment so both crimes are now equal. Needless to say, if a criminal realizes that committing the greater crime will result in a smaller chance of apprehension with no extra punishment then he'd probably do it. This of course leads to problems: the death penalty cannot even be uniformly applied to many crimes since that would cause criminals to not care if they commit even worst crimes to try and escape. Granted, probably the more "inhumane" the crime the less this logical argument applies since the criminals will no longer think logically (from our point of view).
Except that:
A terrorist attack would be near a populated area and one of the premises of this house is that it's not near one. So potentially one would have to drive to this house during an attack and that defeats the purpose. As you said yourself, a terrorist attack would be rather small and as such any house outside a populated area would be safe since all the utilities would still be up and running.
This would be useful in a full scale nuclear war since the overall damage would be greater and contrary to Cold War propaganda the world would survive (well at least a decent portion). You spend a few years in such a house and wait for the potential radiation to settle.
The US considers NK to be a potential threat, and due to its past actions and potentially unstable government the possession of nukes (and long range missiles) puts the US and our allies in danger. As such the US is trying to prevent NK from gaining such weapons, its logical use of self-defense.
I don't personally see why that's such a difficult concept to grasp: we do not want our enemies to have nukes because they can then use them against us.
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Creating something new involves an investment of money (you need to build it, sell it, etc.). Without IP laws whatever you make can be reverse engineered and in two months an exact replica (name included) can be sold by anyone (probably for cheaper). So what incentive is there for somone to try and create a new product?
Well nanotubes can theoretically provide the required strenth (and more) however out current methods of making them are still not good enough. At current rates it should take a few more years.
The space elevator also has other hurdles besides the material.
2 minutes? hardly
At dial-up speeds Firefox would take almost 20minutes to download.
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Well the thing is: None of those things exists yet nor are any of them 100% certain to come about. As such there is no point is taking them into account when making policy. Once someone makes a working version we can talk about sending waste to space using it.
There is a VERY BIG difference between a small very well shielded amount of radioactive material (capable of surviving re-entry or some such) and a large amount of only mildly well protected radioactive material. Just the costs of sending radioactive waste with the same shielding as those probes had would probably make nuclear energy a lat more expensive than any other source of energy.
We CAN make nanotubes already, researchers do it all the time. The problem is mass-production and making them strong enough (theoretically possible), however given current trends the later should be done within 10 years.
Money doesn't come from thin air. Without the "exploitation" India would have very little to offer to the rest of the world and so it would get very little money. Without a flow of money it couldn't prosper since it's citizens are still mostly too poor to buy any products created in India. In addition, there would be no incentive to get an education since there were no jobs. And so no.
The problem with the later is that it's still not useful for interstellar travel. It needs to carry fuel to heat up and shoot out the back, and to gain a decent speed it needs A LOT of fuel.
At.5C we can reach nearby starts in a few decades, there are a lot of starts and not all of them are far away. Hell, at.5C you can reach any place in our galaxy in less than a 200,000 years. Althrough you would probably need to go decently faster for reltivistic time to make much difference.
asfaik there isn't even a proposal for a working Bussard RamJet. It's a nice idea but for now it's a fantasy, solar sails are not.
Growing the corn takes 140 but corn is not ethanol last I checked, converting it into Ethanol I assume makes up the remaining portion of the difference.
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The article wasn't trying to be unbiased or nice, however it also wasn't a hatchet piece imho. Sure it speculated however it didn't outright lie or make up facts, and that's probably why IL hated it: they couldn't respond to it. If facts weren't right then you can reply by pointing it out, and even if speculation is way off you can do the same however IL simply threatened to sue (needless to say if you can do the first two then you can probably sue as well, although sending an e-mail first is cheaper)..
There are peaceful ways to try and resolve such things however IL didn't do either, it didn't try to clear up the mess but simply sent a threat (most likely assuming HardOCP would cave in). Hell, you can even ignore the editorial, and in all honesty after 4 months that's probably the best solution. It was simply a horrible PR move on ILs part, and now they're paying for it.
And if anyone is wondering, if I remember correctly around the time the [H] editorial came out there was a lot of speculation about IL. Mostly it wasn't the good kind either, and Kyle, I guess, decided to use it to his advantage and look into IL. Whatever the final story was it would give him readers (hell, finding out the thing is legit may have given him more immediate publicity)..
Yes, HardOCP sued first instead of buckling under the threats and taking the piece of their website. They were being threatened with lawsuits and they sued to have a judgment made, ie: "You're threatening to sue us, well let's see if a judge thinks you have any ground to stand on."
Isn't it odd: someone fighting back when a company threatens to sue them?
A professor of mine mentioned how they tried TRNG back in the day using vacuum tubes however due to the output not having a set distribution (fluctuations caused some numbers to come up more often than others and they couldn't predict which) it wasn't all that useful. I guess that in non-statistical applications this flaw isn't really that damaging, sounds interesting.
Short term solution, sooner or later those blurry letters will be able to be identified by a computer. In other words, the method will be defeated as algorithms and computer processing power increases.
kiddie rape is a bad example, you only want the truly worst crimes to be punished by death. For example, kiddie rape and then killing the kid is probably considered worse than kiddie rape alone however the death penalty is the worst possible punishment so both crimes are now equal. Needless to say, if a criminal realizes that committing the greater crime will result in a smaller chance of apprehension with no extra punishment then he'd probably do it. This of course leads to problems: the death penalty cannot even be uniformly applied to many crimes since that would cause criminals to not care if they commit even worst crimes to try and escape. Granted, probably the more "inhumane" the crime the less this logical argument applies since the criminals will no longer think logically (from our point of view).
Except that: A terrorist attack would be near a populated area and one of the premises of this house is that it's not near one. So potentially one would have to drive to this house during an attack and that defeats the purpose. As you said yourself, a terrorist attack would be rather small and as such any house outside a populated area would be safe since all the utilities would still be up and running.
This would be useful in a full scale nuclear war since the overall damage would be greater and contrary to Cold War propaganda the world would survive (well at least a decent portion). You spend a few years in such a house and wait for the potential radiation to settle.
The US considers NK to be a potential threat, and due to its past actions and potentially unstable government the possession of nukes (and long range missiles) puts the US and our allies in danger. As such the US is trying to prevent NK from gaining such weapons, its logical use of self-defense.
I don't personally see why that's such a difficult concept to grasp: we do not want our enemies to have nukes because they can then use them against us.
Creating something new involves an investment of money (you need to build it, sell it, etc.). Without IP laws whatever you make can be reverse engineered and in two months an exact replica (name included) can be sold by anyone (probably for cheaper). So what incentive is there for somone to try and create a new product?
Doom3 does not support SMP.
Well nanotubes can theoretically provide the required strenth (and more) however out current methods of making them are still not good enough. At current rates it should take a few more years.
The space elevator also has other hurdles besides the material.
2 minutes? hardly
At dial-up speeds Firefox would take almost 20minutes to download.
Well the thing is: None of those things exists yet nor are any of them 100% certain to come about. As such there is no point is taking them into account when making policy. Once someone makes a working version we can talk about sending waste to space using it.
Well due to gravity I would assume it's cheaper to send things to the sun than away from it.
There is a VERY BIG difference between a small very well shielded amount of radioactive material (capable of surviving re-entry or some such) and a large amount of only mildly well protected radioactive material. Just the costs of sending radioactive waste with the same shielding as those probes had would probably make nuclear energy a lat more expensive than any other source of energy.
The Shuttle is a waste but a moon base isn't ... right.
I was wondering the same thing. The ISP charges for the pipe, you still use the pipe so nothing changes.
I assume they use a mobile (ie 2.5") hd so that the enclosure can be powered by usb. Those aren't all that cheap compared to normal hds.
We CAN make nanotubes already, researchers do it all the time. The problem is mass-production and making them strong enough (theoretically possible), however given current trends the later should be done within 10 years.
Money doesn't come from thin air. Without the "exploitation" India would have very little to offer to the rest of the world and so it would get very little money. Without a flow of money it couldn't prosper since it's citizens are still mostly too poor to buy any products created in India. In addition, there would be no incentive to get an education since there were no jobs. And so no.
Look at the list, notice all those MICROSOFT products on it? Good, now shut up and go back to your hole.
The problem with the later is that it's still not useful for interstellar travel. It needs to carry fuel to heat up and shoot out the back, and to gain a decent speed it needs A LOT of fuel.
At .5C we can reach nearby starts in a few decades, there are a lot of starts and not all of them are far away. Hell, at .5C you can reach any place in our galaxy in less than a 200,000 years. Althrough you would probably need to go decently faster for reltivistic time to make much difference.
asfaik there isn't even a proposal for a working Bussard RamJet. It's a nice idea but for now it's a fantasy, solar sails are not.
I'm sure they all want the solar sail to fly right past the other star and never slow down to make observations... yeah that sounds like a great plan.
However, yes they would probably need to either retract the sail or disconnect it from it's cargo.
Growing the corn takes 140 but corn is not ethanol last I checked, converting it into Ethanol I assume makes up the remaining portion of the difference.
I "hunt and peck", well I guess it's more like type with two fingers, at 50~60wpm.