The exact opposite holds true and I really wish people would first look at the data before spouting out something. Developed nations with long life expectancies have a lower population growth rate than other nations. In fact the world's population growth rate is going down as more nations become developed. It's expected that the world's population will reach an equilibrium of 12 billion or so in under 40 years.
If there is life on those moons then it's under a kilometer+ of ice and probably under another many kilometers of water (I think there is over 50km of ice and water covering that moon). If there is life on mars then it's either dead (ie: used to be life), well hidden or very scarce. Sending a probe out randomly will simply say that whatever desolate spot it hit doesn't have life. Probes are expensive to make, expensive t send places and slow in getting there so you have to aim them well. Thus you get into the lovely game of trying to look for indirect signs of life and then debating if it actually points to life.
One idea is that they had nukes it them so it's likely they had some sort of protection system. The designers just didn't bother to consider how well such a system would survive when left to rot for 200 years.
The easiest way is probably to drink the water next to the nuke. If you hold down the drink button you will drink continuously. Can get 600 rads in under 30 seconds that way.
God forbid people show some personal responsibility and not work for companies that force such agreements. Of course since it seems people will put it with anything as long as those numbers next to the $ are slightly bigger than at another company I'm not surprised.
There is also the problem of weight, time and limited launch windows. If you take 25 years to build a probe it's really not as useful even if it can survive a whole ten times longer. The costs may also be a lot more than 10 times higher. Worst problem is that any components that can survive would increase the mass of the probe quite a bit which increases costs a lot. another post also mentioned that CO2 will condense around the probe which is likely going to cause all sorts of odd problems (which against would increase build time, cost and mass to compensate for).
I don't know, where I live there are something like 15 access points near me. All of them are encrypted. Doesn't matter how many there are near you if you can't use any of them.
No it's not, tic-tac-toe is a trivially solved game and anyone can tie (or win) if they following something like nine rules. It'd actually be sad if you couldn't write an AI to play it perfectly given that.
The rest of the game wasn't exactly complex either since it didn't have to actually compute much (ie: a bunch of if loops were all it really needed). Computing the physics, edge cases, etc. for something akin to pong is on the other hand can be a major pain in the ass (if done in hardware, for example).
You're assuming that those who went somehow represented the view of he majority of people and that their idea of "fixing" the government was what most people wanted. One modern day example may be a hard core communist who wouldn't be happy with anything but communism. To him the government is horrible and should be torn down then rebuild among glorious marxist views. To almost everyone else he's an insane nut case who should be locked away. Even those who don't like the government wouldn't want his ideal put into place since to them it's much worse than the status-quo.
Most likely you'll get to experience all new forms of corruption which aren't bound by centuries of safety measures. Except you'll never be able to get away from any of the idiots and politicians (ie: dictators likely) who now control your very life.
Amazingly enough just because something lands in one place doesn't mean it has to stay in that place. That applies a lot more to any supplies you get later on since those generally aren't useful if left a km from those who need them. Also practically speaking, connected or not, you will probably want your modules close to each other (and away from any future things that may be dropped).
The researchers have already been paid to discover this result in their salaries.
And those salaries are lower than they would be had these researchers not had the option to make extra money from their research. So no, these researchers weren't already paid since part of their payment is the ability to patent things. So how do you feel about having your taxes go up?
Why should they be paid again on the backs of those who actually develop practical uses for this discovery?
Because they did the research to get these results and probably will work on the practical applications. The alternative is them publishing their results in an some journal and then forcing someone else to start from scratch to get any applications out of them.
Of what benefit is it to society for this technology to be hoarded by a small few?
What benefit is it so society that you are paid more than minimum wage for your work, wouldn't society be better off if they could invest those resources somewhere else?
The benefit is in multiple forms, it's on one hand an incentive to develop practical applications of research and to research in practical areas. It provides a larger potential profit for those who go into academic research which encourages more people to go into that field. It provides extra funding for universities which can then be reinvested into other research.
Welfare? Go look up the concepts of "savings" and "FDIC." I can go two years or so without earning a penny right now if I cut back somewhat, and I haven't been working that long.
Yes but too many people benefit from tax breaks of one kind or another for that to ever happen. It's really a general problem of bureaucracy and laws growing without bounds. Taxes are just of of the more convenient areas for politicians to shove things into to acquire votes, donations and so on. Isn't institutionalized and legal bribery fun?
Probably un-fixable short of a government reinstall and those are general a pain themselves.
Yup the US can be idiotic sometimes, I'm guessing they got complaints about how those gate id checks were slowing things down. A normal security line I'm guessing just costs passengers time and money. However keeping a plane at the gate longer costs the airport and airlines money (and decreases capacity). I guess someone got a good return on their lobbying/bribe money.
They used to check you ID both before you enter security and at the gate (and when checking in bags). A couple years back they dropped the gate check and now they only check it before the security line. They mark the boarding pass at security but it's not like a retarded five year couldn't copy that.
This is why I never understood that many here on Slashdot are screaming "Go Stardock! Woo no DRM!" when Stardock technically does the same thing as Steam.
No it doesn't.
Granted, Steam DRM is very unobtrusive. I imagine that if you regularly used Impluse that would be viewed as unobtrusive as well.
I'd disagree since I find Impulse to be a crappy piece of software.
Either way, you require something other than the game to play it and keep it updated.
No, Steam is required to play valve games, install valve games and update valve games. Impulse is only required to update Impulse games. That's the difference.
Oh, and Valve has, since Steam was released, had a contigency plan to unlock the DRM in case they go under. If Stardock ever went under would you still be able to update and play their games?
Of course you can and without any need for contingency plans. You can also install them from CDs, or downloads I'd guess or whatnot. All without any need to search the internet for whatever fix has been released 5 years when the company went belly under. Impulse isn't required to play games and isn't required to install games (Stardock games don't come pre-encrypted with DRM and don't require hours to decrypt).
I gotta agree, I don't mind the concept involved so much as that simply find Impulse to be a particularly bad piece of shit. I find the UI unintuitive, I find the UI ugly, it's slow, it has visual bugs, it has bugs period, it has a lovely random jumble of settings, it doesn't tell me what it's doing (ie: reading all 6gb of game data while saying it's "downloading" an update), etc.
Yet amazingly enough planes crash. They crash quite often in fact. In fact from what I remember the chance to die per hour of travel is roughly the same between airplanes and cars. In other words the chance of dying from some random outside event is probably much higher in an airplane per hour of travel. So yes, a safe driver is much less likely to die in a car than in an airplane.
No problem then, the police can't prove that someone remembers the encryption key thus by your own argument this law is BS. Or do you in fact mean to assume that no one ever forgets a password?
In other words are you actually saying you think it's right to send someone to jail because they honestly forgot the key to some 5 year old encrypted volume they don't even remember exists?
Pilots aren't infallible and make mistakes often enough. In other words a computer system doesn't need to be perfect to be better than what it's "replacing."
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The exact opposite holds true and I really wish people would first look at the data before spouting out something. Developed nations with long life expectancies have a lower population growth rate than other nations. In fact the world's population growth rate is going down as more nations become developed. It's expected that the world's population will reach an equilibrium of 12 billion or so in under 40 years.
Gen Con, LLC should donate the money to some other worthwhile charity and "Get Over Themselves!"
They did, your point was what again?
You know, they are a private charity and are free to any opinion and action they wish as long as they do not infringe on the rights of others.
And others are perfectly free to call them idiots for it. Or does freedom of opinion only go one way?
If there is life on those moons then it's under a kilometer+ of ice and probably under another many kilometers of water (I think there is over 50km of ice and water covering that moon). If there is life on mars then it's either dead (ie: used to be life), well hidden or very scarce. Sending a probe out randomly will simply say that whatever desolate spot it hit doesn't have life. Probes are expensive to make, expensive t send places and slow in getting there so you have to aim them well. Thus you get into the lovely game of trying to look for indirect signs of life and then debating if it actually points to life.
One idea is that they had nukes it them so it's likely they had some sort of protection system. The designers just didn't bother to consider how well such a system would survive when left to rot for 200 years.
The easiest way is probably to drink the water next to the nuke. If you hold down the drink button you will drink continuously. Can get 600 rads in under 30 seconds that way.
God forbid people show some personal responsibility and not work for companies that force such agreements. Of course since it seems people will put it with anything as long as those numbers next to the $ are slightly bigger than at another company I'm not surprised.
There is also the problem of weight, time and limited launch windows. If you take 25 years to build a probe it's really not as useful even if it can survive a whole ten times longer. The costs may also be a lot more than 10 times higher. Worst problem is that any components that can survive would increase the mass of the probe quite a bit which increases costs a lot. another post also mentioned that CO2 will condense around the probe which is likely going to cause all sorts of odd problems (which against would increase build time, cost and mass to compensate for).
I don't know, where I live there are something like 15 access points near me. All of them are encrypted. Doesn't matter how many there are near you if you can't use any of them.
a far more sophisticated effort, actually.
No it's not, tic-tac-toe is a trivially solved game and anyone can tie (or win) if they following something like nine rules. It'd actually be sad if you couldn't write an AI to play it perfectly given that.
The rest of the game wasn't exactly complex either since it didn't have to actually compute much (ie: a bunch of if loops were all it really needed). Computing the physics, edge cases, etc. for something akin to pong is on the other hand can be a major pain in the ass (if done in hardware, for example).
You're assuming that those who went somehow represented the view of he majority of people and that their idea of "fixing" the government was what most people wanted. One modern day example may be a hard core communist who wouldn't be happy with anything but communism. To him the government is horrible and should be torn down then rebuild among glorious marxist views. To almost everyone else he's an insane nut case who should be locked away. Even those who don't like the government wouldn't want his ideal put into place since to them it's much worse than the status-quo.
Most likely you'll get to experience all new forms of corruption which aren't bound by centuries of safety measures. Except you'll never be able to get away from any of the idiots and politicians (ie: dictators likely) who now control your very life.
Amazingly enough just because something lands in one place doesn't mean it has to stay in that place. That applies a lot more to any supplies you get later on since those generally aren't useful if left a km from those who need them. Also practically speaking, connected or not, you will probably want your modules close to each other (and away from any future things that may be dropped).
The researchers have already been paid to discover this result in their salaries.
And those salaries are lower than they would be had these researchers not had the option to make extra money from their research. So no, these researchers weren't already paid since part of their payment is the ability to patent things. So how do you feel about having your taxes go up?
Why should they be paid again on the backs of those who actually develop practical uses for this discovery?
Because they did the research to get these results and probably will work on the practical applications. The alternative is them publishing their results in an some journal and then forcing someone else to start from scratch to get any applications out of them.
Of what benefit is it to society for this technology to be hoarded by a small few?
What benefit is it so society that you are paid more than minimum wage for your work, wouldn't society be better off if they could invest those resources somewhere else?
The benefit is in multiple forms, it's on one hand an incentive to develop practical applications of research and to research in practical areas. It provides a larger potential profit for those who go into academic research which encourages more people to go into that field. It provides extra funding for universities which can then be reinvested into other research.
Welfare? Go look up the concepts of "savings" and "FDIC." I can go two years or so without earning a penny right now if I cut back somewhat, and I haven't been working that long.
Yes but too many people benefit from tax breaks of one kind or another for that to ever happen. It's really a general problem of bureaucracy and laws growing without bounds. Taxes are just of of the more convenient areas for politicians to shove things into to acquire votes, donations and so on. Isn't institutionalized and legal bribery fun?
Probably un-fixable short of a government reinstall and those are general a pain themselves.
Yup the US can be idiotic sometimes, I'm guessing they got complaints about how those gate id checks were slowing things down. A normal security line I'm guessing just costs passengers time and money. However keeping a plane at the gate longer costs the airport and airlines money (and decreases capacity). I guess someone got a good return on their lobbying/bribe money.
They used to check you ID both before you enter security and at the gate (and when checking in bags). A couple years back they dropped the gate check and now they only check it before the security line. They mark the boarding pass at security but it's not like a retarded five year couldn't copy that.
This is why I never understood that many here on Slashdot are screaming "Go Stardock! Woo no DRM!" when Stardock technically does the same thing as Steam.
No it doesn't.
Granted, Steam DRM is very unobtrusive. I imagine that if you regularly used Impluse that would be viewed as unobtrusive as well.
I'd disagree since I find Impulse to be a crappy piece of software.
Either way, you require something other than the game to play it and keep it updated.
No, Steam is required to play valve games, install valve games and update valve games. Impulse is only required to update Impulse games. That's the difference.
Oh, and Valve has, since Steam was released, had a contigency plan to unlock the DRM in case they go under. If Stardock ever went under would you still be able to update and play their games?
Of course you can and without any need for contingency plans. You can also install them from CDs, or downloads I'd guess or whatnot. All without any need to search the internet for whatever fix has been released 5 years when the company went belly under. Impulse isn't required to play games and isn't required to install games (Stardock games don't come pre-encrypted with DRM and don't require hours to decrypt).
I gotta agree, I don't mind the concept involved so much as that simply find Impulse to be a particularly bad piece of shit. I find the UI unintuitive, I find the UI ugly, it's slow, it has visual bugs, it has bugs period, it has a lovely random jumble of settings, it doesn't tell me what it's doing (ie: reading all 6gb of game data while saying it's "downloading" an update), etc.
That's assuming the choices are "go from A to B using method X or Y" instead of "should I stay home or fly from A to B."
Yet amazingly enough planes crash. They crash quite often in fact. In fact from what I remember the chance to die per hour of travel is roughly the same between airplanes and cars. In other words the chance of dying from some random outside event is probably much higher in an airplane per hour of travel. So yes, a safe driver is much less likely to die in a car than in an airplane.
It is perfectly legal for the police to require you to divulge the combination to your locker.
Not true in the US from what I can tell. They can force you to hand over a physical key but not a combination.
No problem then, the police can't prove that someone remembers the encryption key thus by your own argument this law is BS. Or do you in fact mean to assume that no one ever forgets a password?
In other words are you actually saying you think it's right to send someone to jail because they honestly forgot the key to some 5 year old encrypted volume they don't even remember exists?
Why would this matter, it's a worthless measure since the chance of an incident is vastly different between the two.
Pilots aren't infallible and make mistakes often enough. In other words a computer system doesn't need to be perfect to be better than what it's "replacing."
Doubt not being on a cell phone will help me much to avoid a kid when going 75mph down a freeway.