Root vs. non-root doesn't matter! Data is king (and it's in a non-root account) and everything else can be re-installed. Additionally, if you back things up, your data is safe -- at least from being lost. In the end, your privacy is all that is at risk -- and that resides in a non-root account.
Yes, it is easy to commit this crime. So is killing babies -- neither is legal.
The RIAA is trying to guard their legal rights. Sure, it will be difficult, but they seem to be having some success -- and when they do, all of the pirates (criminals) seem to whine.
You are incorrect as it applies to this topic. Information dooesn't just "float around." EZTree stole that intellectual property, encoded it for transmission to you, and you downloaded it. EZTree certainly committed a crime.
Oh -- and never confuse legality with morality or illegality with immorality. The two concepts are, at best, weakly related.
Excuse me, but someone out there has the rights to those live shows -- and it isn't EZTree. Moreover, those recordings were made illegally in the first place. If you don't like the law, work to get it changed. If you break the law, get ready to pay the fine and/or do the time.
Very true -- and scary unless you like the type of government espoused by China.
My point is that of all the steps you have to take as a nation to land a human on the moon, getting one to safely to orbit and back is the largest of them all -- it represents a huge leap of capabililty from suborbital flight. That's something even Rutan doesn't seem to get.
No kidding. Building a space program on tech that is at a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 5 is not a good idea. All the Japanese have to do is look at the fine example the US has provided when we have tried.
Very simply, a large fraction of the people paying the bills (the US taxpayers) feel that the human perspective is a key part of space travel. So much so, that that is what they are primarily paying for.
Other viewpoints include the utility of human decision making vs. silicon decision making. Today, and for the foreseeable future, it is superior.
To say we don't have a plan is pretty ignorant. Go look at http://exploration.nasa.gov/ and you'll see it in great detail. I think what you mean to say is that you don't agree with it -- so say that instead. And going to Mars is a very small, far off part of that plan.
Finally, most of your six points are part of that plan -- except for the maglift sci-fi you propose.
Respectfully, it looks like you have some reading to do.
All this Japanese talk of the moon and beyond is great -- and welcome, but I think Japan should concentrate on simply putting a human above 62.5 miles safely first...without cancelling the program.
This is simply not true. The Bush Administration actually gave NASA an increase over last fiscal year's budget -- one of the few agencies that didn't see a cut. Bush threatened to veto the budget when Congress was about to cut NASA's budget. Regardless of what you think about Bush, he is very supportive of the space program.
"Unlimited funds" is simply not reasonable -- but you knew that.
You can't launch many deep space probes when the terrorists are landing planes on your mission control center. DoD dollars spent in Iraq are well spent.
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A valid point, but arguably, none of these things hurt me, and a reinstall fixes the impact on others -- assuming I care.
Throw me a pew? Why not use something more, a, well, ...
Root vs. non-root doesn't matter! Data is king (and it's in a non-root account) and everything else can be re-installed. Additionally, if you back things up, your data is safe -- at least from being lost. In the end, your privacy is all that is at risk -- and that resides in a non-root account.
Silly Linux boys...
Just finished macroeconomics 101 at your local junior college eh?
Trust me, keep your day job...
And what enlightened country are you from?
Fine. Call it copyright infringement -- which is illegal beyond any doubt.
Yes, it is easy to commit this crime. So is killing babies -- neither is legal.
The RIAA is trying to guard their legal rights. Sure, it will be difficult, but they seem to be having some success -- and when they do, all of the pirates (criminals) seem to whine.
Hardly absurd.
almost all. Kind of like being almost pregnant.
You are incorrect as it applies to this topic. Information dooesn't just "float around." EZTree stole that intellectual property, encoded it for transmission to you, and you downloaded it. EZTree certainly committed a crime.
Oh -- and never confuse legality with morality or illegality with immorality. The two concepts are, at best, weakly related.
Excuse me, but someone out there has the rights to those live shows -- and it isn't EZTree. Moreover, those recordings were made illegally in the first place. If you don't like the law, work to get it changed. If you break the law, get ready to pay the fine and/or do the time.
Very true -- and scary unless you like the type of government espoused by China.
My point is that of all the steps you have to take as a nation to land a human on the moon, getting one to safely to orbit and back is the largest of them all -- it represents a huge leap of capabililty from suborbital flight. That's something even Rutan doesn't seem to get.
Point taken.
I do believe that even for cislunar space, joint human/robotic exploration is called for. Reliance on either exclusively is silly.
Huh? The last recession ended in 7/2003 http://www.nber.org/cycles/july2003.html and certainly didn't last six year... Check your facts and get back with us.
50 years ago would be 1955 -- and we did talk about a suborbital program before going to the moon and beyond...
There is a point here somewhere?
Excuse me, I meant less than 5...
No kidding. Building a space program on tech that is at a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 5 is not a good idea. All the Japanese have to do is look at the fine example the US has provided when we have tried.
Very simply, a large fraction of the people paying the bills (the US taxpayers) feel that the human perspective is a key part of space travel. So much so, that that is what they are primarily paying for.
Other viewpoints include the utility of human decision making vs. silicon decision making. Today, and for the foreseeable future, it is superior.
...and you are welcome to go enjoy their 10 year depressions instead of our 1.5 month recessions...
To say we don't have a plan is pretty ignorant. Go look at http://exploration.nasa.gov/ and you'll see it in great detail. I think what you mean to say is that you don't agree with it -- so say that instead. And going to Mars is a very small, far off part of that plan.
Finally, most of your six points are part of that plan -- except for the maglift sci-fi you propose.
Respectfully, it looks like you have some reading to do.
All this Japanese talk of the moon and beyond is great -- and welcome, but I think Japan should concentrate on simply putting a human above 62.5 miles safely first...without cancelling the program.
Huh? The reduction of the budget of a single division says nothing about the agency funding as a whole -- which has increased.
What you really mean is that he isn't supporting your pet projects.
Iraq WAS a country that supported terrorism. Now it is just a country with terrorists.
This is simply not true. The Bush Administration actually gave NASA an increase over last fiscal year's budget -- one of the few agencies that didn't see a cut. Bush threatened to veto the budget when Congress was about to cut NASA's budget. Regardless of what you think about Bush, he is very supportive of the space program.
"Unlimited funds" is simply not reasonable -- but you knew that.
You can't launch many deep space probes when the terrorists are landing planes on your mission control center. DoD dollars spent in Iraq are well spent.