More accurately...
They maintain a fairly delicate balance of O2 to Nitrogen, They've done that ever since the Apollo Flash Fire. Also they have scrubbers to remove CO2 therefore it really is the least intrusive gas to work with.
Expecting your unencrypted copper lines to not be tapped is equivalent to undressing in your bathroom with non-frosted windows and expecting nobody to look. Just because the government is required to get warrants to admit the evidence in court doesn't mean that they have gotten a warrant for every tap ever done, typically they can glean info on where to find more evidence.
Also, don't you think that line technicians for phone companies haven't overheard everything from illegal to racy conversations? I'm pretty sure that if in the course of checking lines he overhears a blurb about illegal stuff he can call the police and relay a tip.
So I say again telecom privacy is a flimsy protection at best, only you can ensure your own privacy.
Considering the fact that SpaceShip One was designed for 2 people and not a 11,000lb payload there's quite a difference in cost. Don't get me wrong the shuttle is by no means the best lift vehicle... When NASA first sold the shuttle idea they said it would fly every 2 months at a 1/4 of its current budget. They knew in the first year that the shuttle wasn't an efficient/viable platform, they just ignored it.
I think it's an issue of enforceability. Freedom is relative given what area of the globe you are in. In the U.S for example we have the right to freely speak against our government, in China that is not a guaranteed right. Therefore by the letter of the law there is nothing that a software license can do about it.
Also what's to keep foreign countries from ignoring a U.S. Copyright law or two?
Forget Redhat. Just grab the A series of disks from an old slackware install and install the server components you need. Last time I did an 'A' series plus apache, it took a paltry 100MB of hard drive space and compiled/ran on a 486SX 16MHZ laptop with 12MB of RAM.
Again not the greatest, but good luck running NT on that with any power left to run any useful services.
Because the french and russian built jammers that we found in Iraq turned out to not be that effective.
Oh and if you're not inclined to do the math... GPS came into its own around 1990 ish. Trade sanctions with Iraq began around that time. Most GPS jammers weren't even conceived until a few years later. So how did Iraq manage to get that kind of military technology from France and Russia?
Not to mention the fact that Iraq violated almost every UN sanction leveled at them between 1991 and 2003. Many of which stated the use of force would be used to ensure compliance. That fact alone Obligated EVERY UN member nation to at least back, if not participate in the removal of Saddam's regime.
WOW! At bay from what? Last time I checked the USA wasn't trying to take over the world. They aren't attempting to push everybody into a one world government. There is no design for an American empire. The U.S. just happens to be the tall poppy at the moment. If any other nation were to rise to a higher position they would find the same amount of vitriol and hatred leveled against them.
And if you are referring to a certain action the U.S. and quite a few nations undertook about 2 years ago that a few EU and UN nations opposed. I will remind you that the UN charter obligated every member state to take the same action in the given circumstances. That is why nobody took action to stop the coalition. They just blathered to the media about it and how they opposed it but wouldn't do anything about it.
First off... Yes GPS IS a military program. And as such we will not hand over any kind of control. Thereby giving incentive to every country in the world to attempt to develop their own. Glonass was the Russian attempt and it didn't fare as well as they had hoped but it's still there. The EU wants to build Galileo to the same accuracy as the restricted signal that the US military and allies have access to. Our fear (a very reasonable one) is that our enemies will have the same accuracy against us that we enjoy. You can't denay that any other country wouldn't feel the same.
As for decreasing accuracy/turning off the civil signal altogether, that is a fairly moot issue. Yes we may degrade accuracy in any area in which we are engaged in hostilities. But the US government acknowledges that doing that anywhere else puts lives needlessly at risk.
Now if Galileo comes online and becomes as widely accepted as GPS is then the risk of harm becomes more negligible and you may see the signal degraded or turned off in extreme circumstances.
As for cost, I don't know about the ESA but here in the U.S., space program budgets tend to skyrocket after the contract has been signed and supposedly sealed.
As nice as this discussion is, this is hardly breaking news, Galileo has been in planning/negotiations for at least 5 years.
What is happening is that several countries (not the UN) don't want to live with a situation anymore in which only one nation, the US, controls critical parts of their infrastructure
Then they need to change how their ifrastructure works so they can be self reliant.
If I run a business and I depend on a product another company provides to keep my business alive,
I can't go and expect that company to yield control just because the lack of it would cripple me.
Or another analogy:
The U.S. military developed, built and deployed the GPS constellation. It's freely available without charge, and the U.S would not consider giving it up for a second. WHY? Because like it or not, it's a MILITARY system, despite the fact that billions more use it and are dependent on it. The same applies to the internet, it was developed as a U.S. MILITARY asset and was opened up for free use without charge or royalty.
So my point is if you are that dependent on it YOU are the problem, and not ICANN control.
./ agree...
As much as I dislike M$ methods of doing things, Bill is anything but an idiot. He will continue to make moves that keep M$ on top of the game and threading their fingers into every part of our lives from our PCs to our Video game consoles, to our appliances and home management.
The only thing I see toppling M$ et al, is a massive awakening in the populace about our Rights and freedoms all of which are being slowly eroded by thing susch as anti-competitive practices, software patents, DMCA...
So If I build a pool in my backyard, I finance it, I pay for maintenance and upkeep. And allow everybody in my neighborhood free unrestricted access I shouldn't have total control over it? That is the same as your statement above.
We share the internet of our own free will with no restrictions. We built it, We financed it and maintained it. Tell me why it no longer should belong to us?
Why should the rest of the world have a warm fuzzy about the US. Just because the entire world agrees with something doesn't make it right. Likewise if the US makes an unpopular move, that doesn't make us wrong.
The UN is NOT the place to run something as dynamic and ubiquitous as the internet. If they were running it, IPv6 would still be at least a decade away. So far, the commercial entities that have taken over since DARPA have managed fairly well.
Of course I'm just a selfish American, maybe we should hand over the keys to DNS, while I'm at it maybe we should include GPS, MilSatCom, NASA, and every other thing that we share willingly and ask nothing in return for. So we built it and because everybody uses it, we can't keep it? Well thats Communism at its best.
The original Block II and IIA satellites were manufactured by Boeing with multiple subcontractors making components such as the L-Band Transmitters (the circular antenna array). When Lockheed won the contract for IIR They built it around the same chassis that they used for DSCS communication satellites, with the same contractors making many of the subsystems. Ironically the circular antenna array was a design necessity. the IIR-M satellites were originally IIR vehicles that were pulled off the shelf to be modernised in anticipation of Block IIF and III. So no the design hasn't changed much in the last 50 years.
I am also on the launch crew that is putting the new IIR-M vehicle into orbit.:)
Woops lets try again: <.HEAD>RIAA<./HEAD> <.BODY>Empty cavity waiting to be filled with Money<./BODY> <.FOOT>Target for bullet<./FOOT> <.UNDERFOOT>The consumer<./UNDERFOOT>
Where's the linux removal--auto-billing Windows restoring app? Not only do I want rid of my P2P apps, but linux is an os of evil hackers and degenerate low-lives who make life harder for all of us by forcing bill gates to increase seurity, DRM etc...
I will take my place by his side, and after we have killed piracy in all of its forms he will restore peace to the internet....
If it weren't for the fact that I found this post amusing, I would have already shot myself for typing such blasphemous remarks.
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More accurately... They maintain a fairly delicate balance of O2 to Nitrogen, They've done that ever since the Apollo Flash Fire. Also they have scrubbers to remove CO2 therefore it really is the least intrusive gas to work with.
Expecting your unencrypted copper lines to not be tapped is equivalent to undressing in your bathroom with non-frosted windows and expecting nobody to look. Just because the government is required to get warrants to admit the evidence in court doesn't mean that they have gotten a warrant for every tap ever done, typically they can glean info on where to find more evidence.
Also, don't you think that line technicians for phone companies haven't overheard everything from illegal to racy conversations? I'm pretty sure that if in the course of checking lines he overhears a blurb about illegal stuff he can call the police and relay a tip.
So I say again telecom privacy is a flimsy protection at best, only you can ensure your own privacy.
no, just 49%
Considering the fact that SpaceShip One was designed for 2 people and not a 11,000lb payload there's quite a difference in cost. Don't get me wrong the shuttle is by no means the best lift vehicle... When NASA first sold the shuttle idea they said it would fly every 2 months at a 1/4 of its current budget. They knew in the first year that the shuttle wasn't an efficient/viable platform, they just ignored it.
I think it's an issue of enforceability. Freedom is relative given what area of the globe you are in. In the U.S for example we have the right to freely speak against our government, in China that is not a guaranteed right. Therefore by the letter of the law there is nothing that a software license can do about it. Also what's to keep foreign countries from ignoring a U.S. Copyright law or two?
Forget Redhat. Just grab the A series of disks from an old slackware install and install the server components you need. Last time I did an 'A' series plus apache, it took a paltry 100MB of hard drive space and compiled/ran on a 486SX 16MHZ laptop with 12MB of RAM.
Again not the greatest, but good luck running NT on that with any power left to run any useful services.
Remeber it has to be 'out of the box' So that rules out embedded or CE. Leaving NT 3.x/4.0 high and dry with multi-platform.
Yeah but they already took care of that by raising the price of the games.
I thought you beleived in torture....?
That seems a very quick and relatively painless end.
Boy, Flamebait If I've ever seen it.
Because the french and russian built jammers that we found in Iraq turned out to not be that effective. Oh and if you're not inclined to do the math... GPS came into its own around 1990 ish. Trade sanctions with Iraq began around that time. Most GPS jammers weren't even conceived until a few years later. So how did Iraq manage to get that kind of military technology from France and Russia?
Not to mention the fact that Iraq violated almost every UN sanction leveled at them between 1991 and 2003. Many of which stated the use of force would be used to ensure compliance. That fact alone Obligated EVERY UN member nation to at least back, if not participate in the removal of Saddam's regime.
ROFL If I had Mod Points I would mod this funny as hell :)
WOW! At bay from what? Last time I checked the USA wasn't trying to take over the world. They aren't attempting to push everybody into a one world government. There is no design for an American empire. The U.S. just happens to be the tall poppy at the moment. If any other nation were to rise to a higher position they would find the same amount of vitriol and hatred leveled against them.
And if you are referring to a certain action the U.S. and quite a few nations undertook about 2 years ago that a few EU and UN nations opposed. I will remind you that the UN charter obligated every member state to take the same action in the given circumstances. That is why nobody took action to stop the coalition. They just blathered to the media about it and how they opposed it but wouldn't do anything about it.
First off... Yes GPS IS a military program. And as such we will not hand over any kind of control. Thereby giving incentive to every country in the world to attempt to develop their own. Glonass was the Russian attempt and it didn't fare as well as they had hoped but it's still there. The EU wants to build Galileo to the same accuracy as the restricted signal that the US military and allies have access to. Our fear (a very reasonable one) is that our enemies will have the same accuracy against us that we enjoy. You can't denay that any other country wouldn't feel the same.
As for decreasing accuracy/turning off the civil signal altogether, that is a fairly moot issue. Yes we may degrade accuracy in any area in which we are engaged in hostilities. But the US government acknowledges that doing that anywhere else puts lives needlessly at risk.
Now if Galileo comes online and becomes as widely accepted as GPS is then the risk of harm becomes more negligible and you may see the signal degraded or turned off in extreme circumstances.
As for cost, I don't know about the ESA but here in the U.S., space program budgets tend to skyrocket after the contract has been signed and supposedly sealed.
As nice as this discussion is, this is hardly breaking news, Galileo has been in planning/negotiations for at least 5 years.
What is happening is that several countries (not the UN) don't want to live with a situation anymore in which only one nation, the US, controls critical parts of their infrastructure
Then they need to change how their ifrastructure works so they can be self reliant.
If I run a business and I depend on a product another company provides to keep my business alive,
I can't go and expect that company to yield control just because the lack of it would cripple me.
Or another analogy:
The U.S. military developed, built and deployed the GPS constellation. It's freely available without charge, and the U.S would not consider giving it up for a second. WHY? Because like it or not, it's a MILITARY system, despite the fact that billions more use it and are dependent on it. The same applies to the internet, it was developed as a U.S. MILITARY asset and was opened up for free use without charge or royalty.
So my point is if you are that dependent on it YOU are the problem, and not ICANN control.
Hmmm...
My guess would be that the Mass. OpenDocument format standard may have contributed to this.
./ agree... As much as I dislike M$ methods of doing things, Bill is anything but an idiot. He will continue to make moves that keep M$ on top of the game and threading their fingers into every part of our lives from our PCs to our Video game consoles, to our appliances and home management. The only thing I see toppling M$ et al, is a massive awakening in the populace about our Rights and freedoms all of which are being slowly eroded by thing susch as anti-competitive practices, software patents, DMCA...
So If I build a pool in my backyard, I finance it, I pay for maintenance and upkeep. And allow everybody in my neighborhood free unrestricted access I shouldn't have total control over it? That is the same as your statement above.
We share the internet of our own free will with no restrictions. We built it, We financed it and maintained it. Tell me why it no longer should belong to us?
Why should the rest of the world have a warm fuzzy about the US. Just because the entire world agrees with something doesn't make it right. Likewise if the US makes an unpopular move, that doesn't make us wrong.
The UN is NOT the place to run something as dynamic and ubiquitous as the internet. If they were running it, IPv6 would still be at least a decade away. So far, the commercial entities that have taken over since DARPA have managed fairly well.
Of course I'm just a selfish American, maybe we should hand over the keys to DNS, while I'm at it maybe we should include GPS, MilSatCom, NASA, and every other thing that we share willingly and ask nothing in return for. So we built it and because everybody uses it, we can't keep it? Well thats Communism at its best.
The original Block II and IIA satellites were manufactured by Boeing with multiple subcontractors making components such as the L-Band Transmitters (the circular antenna array). When Lockheed won the contract for IIR They built it around the same chassis that they used for DSCS communication satellites, with the same contractors making many of the subsystems. Ironically the circular antenna array was a design necessity. the IIR-M satellites were originally IIR vehicles that were pulled off the shelf to be modernised in anticipation of Block IIF and III. So no the design hasn't changed much in the last 50 years.
:)
I am also on the launch crew that is putting the new IIR-M vehicle into orbit.
Woops lets try again:
<.HEAD>RIAA<./HEAD>
<.BODY>Empty cavity waiting to be filled with Money<./BODY>
<.FOOT>Target for bullet<./FOOT>
<.UNDERFOOT>The consumer<./UNDERFOOT>
RIAA
Empty cavity waiting to be filled with Money
Target for bullet
The consumer
Where's the linux removal--auto-billing Windows restoring app? Not only do I want rid of my P2P apps, but linux is an os of evil hackers and degenerate low-lives who make life harder for all of us by forcing bill gates to increase seurity, DRM etc...
I will take my place by his side, and after we have killed piracy in all of its forms he will restore peace to the internet....
If it weren't for the fact that I found this post amusing, I would have already shot myself for typing such blasphemous remarks.
Or even the government to archive part of our society for future generations.
:) hehe
Umm... Library of Congress ?!?!
Seems a perfect entity to do that. And if google wants to host the webspace and call it oh, say google print who's to complain?