While the majority of the concept presented here is on actual copyright claims,there is also a growing trend of inclusive scientific papers on research results in search engine (High Rankings)being sold without disclosing that what they charge 39.95 for is free and in the public domain elsewhere.These are documents that are listed in related results after clicking on a main search,highly ranked,without any claim of copyright,and yet are being sold to those dumb enough to not realize it is in the public domain.This must be legal as no claims are being made,but seems restrictive on scientific research as it slows the process in finding what is in the public domain without blind alleys and padding research bills with replicated copies of payments of purchases of public domain "purchases".Science in all fields can do without additional fraud opportunities.
Actually I just tried opening a new Hotmail and the download was not required as far as I could tell. It was when the changeover to live was started that the download was required and so I closed my Hotmail, but since you questioned this , I felt I should double check. It seems you were right and they did not need a download now, so I apologize for any confusion in that matter. I was wrong on that point, but am still happy that Gmail allows chats without any downloads.
Well, for one thing Gmail does not require you to download a program in order to use their email service like Hotmail does so they can track all your movements within their system. Also Yahoo does not require a program for just email. Gmail also does not require a download to use the Chat (text) feature in the Gmail service itself. But both Msn and Yahoo do. The less a product uses my computer to run it's service , the faster and more secure I feel it is. I do question this report...
Diesel does contain less sulphur than it used to, but the sulphur actually acted as a lubricant within the engine, now engines are wearing out faster than before, *(80% faster), rebuilding or replacing the engines in itself is very costly and fuel consuming and potentially polluting; (You can't win). Diesel in any form is polluting, yes! Also as with internal combustion engines most energy used is converted into heat and wasted. ( You can't even break even.)
Alcohol added to fuel today in gasohol form is being used in Gasoline engines of all types, many older vehicles were not designed for alcohol use, and the pollution control systems from older engines were not designed for alcohol use. This leaves much fuel being used in systems that do indeed cause some exotic pollution. Also the cost added to gasoline by alcohol is increasing the price of a product already high. Alcohol evaporates at a much lower temperature than gasoline, and in older vehicles that do not have a sealed system this can cause an accelerated evaporation of the fuel from the tank, and these unburned petroalcohol fumes are then added as is to the atmosphere, to combine in varried forms with other molecules from other sources, and the consumer wonders if he has a fuel leak or are his neighbors stealing his gas...Much of the corn grown "Not for Human consumption" is genetically altered to produce it's own insect free biochemicals. This corn is mainly used in the Alcohol production arena. But it does use up lands taken away from food production. Also at this point in history, there is another major problem caused by Bee colony disorder, that has caused a major decrease in bee populations. The disorder has not been linked to genetically altered crops, but if the Bees are dying then expect an incredible increase in food costs! Ten dollars a gallon for gas? How about ten dollars for a small bag of almonds? If all things in agriculture will effect the prices over the board then food will skyrocket at the same time alcohol goes up as well. Lose/lose. Also if these genetically altered corn crops are used as a base for alcohol production, there has to be considered the possibility of adding exotic pesticides to the gasohol blends to be burned and dispersed by vehicles. How many chemicals are being tested for in specific alcohols that will be introduced into the air that we all breathe?All in all, these alcohol blends may be reducing our supply of fuel instead of increasing it when considered as it is actually being used, and adding to the complexity of air pollution compounds.{This is an old answer, but it is right; Electric Motors are the answer! Also Silica is the most common element in the Earths Crust,no heavy mining is needed. Silicon Cells are made of two layers of Silicon, one doped with Boron, and the other Phosphorous. We are not talking exotic elements, or expensive. Solar cells should have dropped in price long ago.}
I'd like to state at the beginning , that this post is not for points , a zero is fine by me , just want you to know I really mean the next sentence . I thank Slashdot for going ahead and publishing this story ; you had to know it would generate some heat, also for keeping it up when it seemed there were those that would rather it not remain. A big thumbs up for integrity. As for the story, there were many important parts that are being missed; the lives of the Astronauts, granted they signed on for the job, but space is a cold unforgiving mistress, and there is so little room for error, we should give them every chance they can have.Also note that in the slightest chance that something could go wrong, this is an International Space Station. International means that Nations would be pointing fingers at Nations, the World situation does not need further problems right now. There have been many cuts in recent years in R&D budgets, if there was a spectacular failure in space, then expect science cuts everywhere ! There were some comments about; just fix the gyro problem, there is no emergency . My point exactly , but changing is not at the top of the list at NASA, I felt I had to report this as I have been on this story for over 2 weeks. You may think this all happened on the 11th, but I have read and posted on mission reports of this gyro problem for weeks and asked why was this story not going public ? By the way I was sent an url from a local TV station near the Space Center about the need for changes on the upcoming mission here it is; http://www.wesh.com/news/10057885/detail.html
From this story it would seem a change was in the works, but as another mentioned in the comments, on the other hand , they are proceeding with the mission as scheduled. Smoke and mirrors, there are more politics running this than the scientists. I wish the Rocket Scientists WERE allowed to do their jobs. They have pointed out the problems!
As for the comments about the author, I accept any blame for errors that I may have made. But from the number of detractors on such a worthless and undeserving story, I am reminded of a quote from Shakespeare's play Hamlet ; "The lady doth protest too much". And there was one particular comment framed as sarcastic reply : "Mysterystevenson to the rescue!" Ok aside from the intent, I had to laugh, it really was funny. I mean I loved it. LOL , LOL,LOL... I actually now have that posted on my wall in multicolored letters.A friend dropped by and cracked up too.LOL. Anyhow I did get some emails, and a confidential thankyou, and was asked why don't I respond ? I said I will, and I am now , but I like to let a pot cook and taste before I season. That is not to take away from the importance of this issue , but it can be reviewed now as a whole and hence a summary is in order. I am not a detractor of the space program, in fact I wish it would speed up considerably in a safe manner, or as safe as is reasonable and marked by sound judgement. Problem is they have not been given the funds to do the job, and are being ordered to go ahead despite any situation.
String Theory didn't come first the conclusions did. Anything can be worked backwards in math to say anything. Coming up with new conclusions or even a real direction would be something. Something completely missing from String. It's like a mad mathematician has taken all the known theoretical formulas and tossed em in a mixer and hoped for the best. Hey no one can argue against something that can't be argued against , right? Sounds like a prime breeding ground for falsification and outright fraud ! String has had so many funds misdirected from other theories that actually had some potential to do some real predictions and in fact were abandoned after some success. This isn't even as close to potential practicle predictions as "Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory" and as for connecting Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, have you never heard of ALPHA ? String is a tangled up mess !
I sailed the waters of the Bahamas, and swam with sharks, and the closest to pirate talk was "Yah Mon You know You got that right MON" in Jamaica. The pirates all were hijacking cigarette boats and floating square groupers when the Coast Guard narrowed in on the blood thirsty thieves. There are still real pirates today in traditional pirate waters, But I hear they now fly a red flag. Reality.
This is about a stopped attack, very true. The UK did it, not the US. This is a very complicated issue. As to the potential of explosives on board, there is no need to bring your own, Alcohol is available and could easily used. Intelligence is the only way to get a grip on this.
The terrorists are using foolish tactics, anytime an attacking agent is going to die with every encounter, they guarantee a reduction in their own forces instantly. Yes in wars, there are the pawns, and at critical points they are lost as a military requirement. This dying for terror is not working, it does not scare people as the terrorists think, in fact they look stupid, and obviously have very poor strategists. It will not take too much longer for the followers to walk away. Stupidity is what it is and will not take long to fail. On the political front; they behave as cowards in attacking civilians and not directing attacks at military targets only. This is cowardice, and no military or religious organization would support a cowardly war plan.On the other hand the US is also taking the low road which is also not too wise !
The US should capitalize on the flaws in the terrorist's political behavior, instead they are punishing US citizens and taking away liberties and rights. There are so many weak points in any nation, that the real security would come from an empowered civilian population.
I am reminded of an article that came out quite a while ago, whereby it was demonstrated that 50,000 people die every year in the US from car accidents, see;
http://www.cdi.org/polling/34-swatting-fly.cfm/
The fact that more people die from car accidents every year, than have died from all the terrorist attacks, and all of our war dead combined, in the last TEN years helps put the terrorist actions in a perspective. If we reacted to car accidents as we are to terrorists, then in an anology we would have strict speed limits of about 25 mph on highways. Random police road blocks would examine the mechanical condition of vehicles with strict enforcement of worn parts,brake pads, tires, and so on. Prison sentences would be stiff for such attempted murder by car. There would be a need to monitor phone conversations in case someone admitted having any fault in the vehicle they own. Car parts stores would need very special attention, special papers would be required on all transactions of parts for these horrible death machines that everyone would need to fear, and the greatest killer of Americans would need to be the Headline of all newspapers. An at fault accident could bring the death sentence or at very least life imprisonment without possibility of communication with normal road fearing, patriotic Americans ! The greatest Killer of Americans would need to be controlled completely, and discussion of risky driving behavior would possibly entail conspiracy charges. WE LOSE more Americans by far by accident than through all the moronic attempts by these terrorists, The Terrorists are not effective and we should not give up our rights because of paranoid politicians that may have other agendas anyhow. All the terrorists are accomplishing is pushing more and more of our tax dollars to go to Israel, because these genetic brothers can't get along with each other. The terrorists have done more to support Israel than all the special interests groups combined.
The Islamic leaders need to start a peace movement. Israel needs to love their brothers and the Islamic people need to Love their Israel brothers. I note that in some comments the actual use of nuclear weapons is mentioned. That is deplorable, our president claims a Christian faith, and that is his business, but Christians are supposed to love their enemies, and turn the other cheek. Killing over faith without love is an abomination, no matter who does it. The only possible use of a nuclear device would be deep beneath the surface, where no humans would be hurt, but the entire oil fields would become radioactive and worthless. That would
What do you mean not an immediate threat. I've closed 6 websites since the monitoring of electronics communications were reveiled. 4 of the websites were research groups, and confidentiality in research is #1.Some of the data that was public was moved into a data site which is listed as my homepage in my user stats here. But a lot of scientists are taking their work offline, the internet is becoming an anti scientist's venue . That is not what the internet was designed for. Scientists were supposed to use the internet for sharing research with those that they wished, not have it exposed to government and corporate spys.
"A Brief History of Time" was hardly news when it was published either. The majority of the publication was a standard form history of physics that had been written by multiple authors over and over, such as Asimov some 25 years prior. Of course there was the standard "method" of leaning facts so they "may" represent what few kernels of data was new. Some of which Stephen Hawking has backed away from since, indeed if his concepts were given fair hearing instead of a "pass" on most concepts due to his "health concerns", today's physics might not be the mess it is now. Perhaps he for once should have considered the advice given, instead of letting his ego and our misplaced sensibilities gallop off in absurd conclusions. The word Gallop may seem to be a miss placed word in a science based discussion, however exactly as used as an anology, consider the slow motion viewing of a horse at full GALLOP; all four legs of the horse are off the ground simultaneously !
This all falls within what I would term as "scientific morality" and while that term has some scary images, the lack of a well laid out definition to scientists and the public could lead to disaster. Consider current trends in science showing : (a) Political control over science and publication of findings.b) Skewed guidelines involving the morality of scientists and science.(c) Lack of backbone in scientists in general to speak up in
countries that are technically "free", many times just due to regard for a steady income, and intimated threats. In other words; what are the scientist's responsibilities to society ?(d) The potential for experiments to be conducted in Dangerous areas of research that could end up destroying humanity. (this would have been laughed at before the atom bomb)Included but not limited within
this last category would be such things as; Artificial Black Holes,Worm Holes, Vortex theory, Biological Warfare, Nuclear Weapons; (bigger and better), Nano Gray Goo, Global Warming, on and on...Scientific Morality; could be simply defined somewhat as;Having enough wisdom not to destroy our world with knowledge that is beyond our mental ability to use.Responsibility to use said
knowledge within certain guidelines, regardless of political influence.Here is a further link to other nightmare potentials of science;
http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm
Mystery
Sorry Bull, the way it was set up, I thought you were the originator of this Still Boycotting Sony Products. I must retract my agreeing with you and go with Anonymously posted startup of this thread.I've had enough new coding every 5 seconds, filled with flaws and errors and updates, all Emperor's new clothes.Technology needs perfected before it's introduction.This is all money,money,money, and you end up with junk that just doesn't work.
I'm not buying either way.PS3 either. Matter of fact I can't stand Hi-Def TV either. I have the TV on for news in the corner when I'm on the net, I like to be able to look up and see something when the news is important.From this angle I'd see almost nothing but a blur on Hi-Def set. Went to watch a movie with a friend the other day, we had to sit so close together to get a good image it was a joke. Emperor's New clothes all the way. Bull's on the money with this one!
As to propellantless propulsion, I have been working on it since 1980. You can see by my homepage I am not alone in the knowledge that my working designs do work. Others have constructed the designs which I have. Yes they work ! Am now expanding the base of our research group's associations. Have just started the group;
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Antigravity/
in the last week, and while we are compiling and collating a large information base at the moment, we are not a pie in the sky association of groups. True we have our inside jokes, but I am only interested in devices that are either working now and are repeatable prototypes, or are very close to that stage.
The design in the MSNBC article looks a long way from even being a true potential theory.We are very close to the time when we will test a full "prototype"-"Gravitational Propulsion Unit"-"Vessel". Yes the quotation marks are there for a reason. This is experimental, and unless something proves itself, there are no guarantees.Everytime I built a prototype that worked, I had doubts.But everytime I built a prototype it did work. Some needed tweaking, but the concepts were sound. NASA may not be ready for prime time, but that's partly because of continued cuts in a wide array of science programs. That's a shame because new propulsion concepts are out there, and are viable. I can't understand why they went public with this concept though. I am well aware of what's out there in this field of research and what they just put out can be nothing more than a smoke screen.
I've waited for what I am about to mention to be considered, I have not seen it so I will bring it up. The request for information by the government is going to be allowed because no private information is being asked for. Actually, the exact wording legalistically speaking (in order to be legal), requires Google to remove all personally identifiable information that may be attached to this info.
That is a major undertaking for Google to review all that data and assure that no where in all that data is there any identfiable information. And one slip up by Google might leave Google open to law suits by those who have their personal info released by complying.
Many may say "oh poor Google"..."They will have to spend a small fortune to comply". But these requests have been sent out to a lot of "data collectors" Technically if organizations with the public good as an agenda begin finding identifiable info in a lot of this info from all these companies; class action lawsuits could cripple a large number of computer tech organizations. Hey; there is even a search function on this site. Despite the best attempts some searches themselves contain identifiable info. Any idea how much finding such data in their files would cost a company ?
Has anyone ever searched yours or my user name here, or on Google, or all the rest of the search engines. Not to mention real names and searches for addresses and phone numbers. This is endless. The first Lawyer that reads this post will have eyes brighter than a laser.
The Apple has already been bitten, can't put "Humpty Dumpty" back together again ! Look at the Logo ! If you cut an Apple in 2, what do you get ? NO, not spare parts ! A real apple... seeds. That's what we have now, seeds of a new horizon. There will be anew,(TREE).
Sub-Orbital as it is being presented, is a near total waste of time and money and is exactly like the above described carnival ride. Maybe they should even call the joke "spaceport" it's launched from "Cape Carnival" When this non-space amusement ride kills people it will hurt the real space programs far more than any popular "boost" there may have been from this publicity gimmick. It's a get rich quick scheme that will either die on the vine, leaving investors in pain, or become the stuff of horror/sci-fi greed flicks that havn't even begun to be conceived yet.
Remember your first Nintendo "Mario's"? Plug em in n out, not enough gold on the contacts, but the chips still play if you blow on the contacts.How many disk games have worn out since? How many Hard drives still work with the old games on em? Maybe optical storage or quantum computers will come along., but I can see what has lasted the longest so far.
Here is a link, to a story;
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/13 65279.cms/
This mentions Google founder Larry Page as saying this service may herald a new strategy to pay for services by Google. WOW- A whole new story hits the back of my mind. And yet I must doubt the information.
In the past Google has offered a lot for free, aside from the ads which are to be expected. As a search engine Google has always been # 1 by me. But now I am a little concerned.
These things creep up on you sometimes. Let me tell you a little story (True) about an old friend of mine. He was an Art Bell fan, and years ago he came over to my house and I showed him my computer and all the wonderfull things it could do. Everything to him was better on TV than what I was showing him on the internet. But then I showed him wwwdotArtBelldotcom and he found out he could download the radio shows he missed for free and listen whenever he wanted. He bought a computer and got on the internet, with a little help from me from time to time. Well all was fine till they shut down that site and started charging from another site for the show's streaming. That was it for my neighbor, he was paying for the internet $19.95 a month as I recall, and he wouldn't pay more for the only thing he used the internet for. He quit using computers and hasn't had one since.
That's all it takes sometimes, I've seen people stop computing over virus and worms, Hackers, cost of internet hookup, poor computer service, rebate fraud, changing programing, options, a lower quality product or service, and money. Money seems to be really up there. I pay pay 39.95 a month for cable internet, and 100 miles away the same service is only 19.95. That aggravates.
I'd like to see someone do a more in depth news research story on what appears to be a possible change in one of the internet's mega movers. Google's always been my favorite search engine. That's all I ever expected from them. I hope a big change isn't beginning. Please Google don't change too much, I already have the programs you list that I want. All these extra bars I don't want. I like my system the way I have it. I don't want to end up paying more in the future because there are fewer people that are using the internet.Think.
Intentional incompatibility between systems and programs causes problems that denies efficiency to all and costs money for everyone that is slowed down. It would be a fortunate change if the "program makers" would really try to provide a service to consumers that improves the digital world instead of conflicting in a useless gambit that has failed in other industries in the past.
Slashdot Mirror
While the majority of the concept presented here is on actual copyright claims,there is also a growing trend of inclusive scientific papers on research results in search engine (High Rankings)being sold without disclosing that what they charge 39.95 for is free and in the public domain elsewhere.These are documents that are listed in related results after clicking on a main search,highly ranked,without any claim of copyright,and yet are being sold to those dumb enough to not realize it is in the public domain.This must be legal as no claims are being made,but seems restrictive on scientific research as it slows the process in finding what is in the public domain without blind alleys and padding research bills with replicated copies of payments of purchases of public domain "purchases".Science in all fields can do without additional fraud opportunities.
Actually I just tried opening a new Hotmail and the download was not required as far as I could tell. It was when the changeover to live was started that the download was required and so I closed my Hotmail, but since you questioned this , I felt I should double check. It seems you were right and they did not need a download now, so I apologize for any confusion in that matter. I was wrong on that point, but am still happy that Gmail allows chats without any downloads.
Just try to open a NEW Hotmail account and you will find out what download they now need. This also ties in with their Passport system...
Well, for one thing Gmail does not require you to download a program in order to use their email service like Hotmail does so they can track all your movements within their system. Also Yahoo does not require a program for just email. Gmail also does not require a download to use the Chat (text) feature in the Gmail service itself. But both Msn and Yahoo do. The less a product uses my computer to run it's service , the faster and more secure I feel it is. I do question this report...
Diesel does contain less sulphur than it used to, but the sulphur actually acted as a lubricant within the engine, now engines are wearing out faster than before, *(80% faster), rebuilding or replacing the engines in itself is very costly and fuel consuming and potentially polluting; (You can't win). Diesel in any form is polluting, yes! Also as with internal combustion engines most energy used is converted into heat and wasted. ( You can't even break even.) Alcohol added to fuel today in gasohol form is being used in Gasoline engines of all types, many older vehicles were not designed for alcohol use, and the pollution control systems from older engines were not designed for alcohol use. This leaves much fuel being used in systems that do indeed cause some exotic pollution. Also the cost added to gasoline by alcohol is increasing the price of a product already high. Alcohol evaporates at a much lower temperature than gasoline, and in older vehicles that do not have a sealed system this can cause an accelerated evaporation of the fuel from the tank, and these unburned petroalcohol fumes are then added as is to the atmosphere, to combine in varried forms with other molecules from other sources, and the consumer wonders if he has a fuel leak or are his neighbors stealing his gas...Much of the corn grown "Not for Human consumption" is genetically altered to produce it's own insect free biochemicals. This corn is mainly used in the Alcohol production arena. But it does use up lands taken away from food production. Also at this point in history, there is another major problem caused by Bee colony disorder, that has caused a major decrease in bee populations. The disorder has not been linked to genetically altered crops, but if the Bees are dying then expect an incredible increase in food costs! Ten dollars a gallon for gas? How about ten dollars for a small bag of almonds? If all things in agriculture will effect the prices over the board then food will skyrocket at the same time alcohol goes up as well. Lose/lose. Also if these genetically altered corn crops are used as a base for alcohol production, there has to be considered the possibility of adding exotic pesticides to the gasohol blends to be burned and dispersed by vehicles. How many chemicals are being tested for in specific alcohols that will be introduced into the air that we all breathe?All in all, these alcohol blends may be reducing our supply of fuel instead of increasing it when considered as it is actually being used, and adding to the complexity of air pollution compounds.{This is an old answer, but it is right; Electric Motors are the answer! Also Silica is the most common element in the Earths Crust,no heavy mining is needed. Silicon Cells are made of two layers of Silicon, one doped with Boron, and the other Phosphorous. We are not talking exotic elements, or expensive. Solar cells should have dropped in price long ago.}
I'd like to state at the beginning , that this post is not for points , a zero is fine by me , just want you to know I really mean the next sentence . I thank Slashdot for going ahead and publishing this story ; you had to know it would generate some heat, also for keeping it up when it seemed there were those that would rather it not remain. A big thumbs up for integrity.
As for the story, there were many important parts that are being missed; the lives of the Astronauts, granted they signed on for the job, but space is a cold unforgiving mistress, and there is so little room for error, we should give them every chance they can have.Also note that in the slightest chance that something could go wrong, this is an International Space Station. International means that Nations would be pointing fingers at Nations, the World situation does not need further problems right now. There have been many cuts in recent years in R&D budgets, if there was a spectacular failure in space, then expect science cuts everywhere ! There were some comments about; just fix the gyro problem, there is no emergency . My point exactly , but changing is not at the top of the list at NASA, I felt I had to report this as I have been on this story for over 2 weeks. You may think this all happened on the 11th, but I have read and posted on mission reports of this gyro problem for weeks and asked why was this story not going public ? By the way I was sent an url from a local TV station near the Space Center about the need for changes on the upcoming mission here it is;
http://www.wesh.com/news/10057885/detail.html
From this story it would seem a change was in the works, but as another mentioned in the comments, on the other hand , they are proceeding with the mission as scheduled. Smoke and mirrors, there are more politics running this than the scientists. I wish the Rocket Scientists WERE allowed to do their jobs. They have pointed out the problems!
As for the comments about the author, I accept any blame for errors that I may have made. But from the number of detractors on such a worthless and undeserving story, I am reminded of a quote from Shakespeare's play Hamlet ; "The lady doth protest too much". And there was one particular comment framed as sarcastic reply : "Mysterystevenson to the rescue!" Ok aside from the intent, I had to laugh, it really was funny. I mean I loved it. LOL , LOL
String Theory didn't come first the conclusions did. Anything can be worked backwards in math to say anything. Coming up with new conclusions or even a real direction would be something. Something completely missing from String. It's like a mad mathematician has taken all the known theoretical formulas and tossed em in a mixer and hoped for the best. Hey no one can argue against something that can't be argued against , right? Sounds like a prime breeding ground for falsification and outright fraud ! String has had so many funds misdirected from other theories that actually had some potential to do some real predictions and in fact were abandoned after some success. This isn't even as close to potential practicle predictions as "Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory" and as for connecting Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, have you never heard of ALPHA ? String is a tangled up mess !
I sailed the waters of the Bahamas, and swam with sharks, and the closest to pirate talk was "Yah Mon You know You got that right MON" in Jamaica. The pirates all were hijacking cigarette boats and floating square groupers when the Coast Guard narrowed in on the blood thirsty thieves. There are still real pirates today in traditional pirate waters, But I hear they now fly a red flag. Reality.
This is about a stopped attack, very true. The UK did it, not the US. This is a very complicated issue. As to the potential of explosives on board, there is no need to bring your own, Alcohol is available and could easily used. Intelligence is the only way to get a grip on this. The terrorists are using foolish tactics, anytime an attacking agent is going to die with every encounter, they guarantee a reduction in their own forces instantly. Yes in wars, there are the pawns, and at critical points they are lost as a military requirement. This dying for terror is not working, it does not scare people as the terrorists think, in fact they look stupid, and obviously have very poor strategists. It will not take too much longer for the followers to walk away. Stupidity is what it is and will not take long to fail. On the political front; they behave as cowards in attacking civilians and not directing attacks at military targets only. This is cowardice, and no military or religious organization would support a cowardly war plan.On the other hand the US is also taking the low road which is also not too wise ! The US should capitalize on the flaws in the terrorist's political behavior, instead they are punishing US citizens and taking away liberties and rights. There are so many weak points in any nation, that the real security would come from an empowered civilian population. I am reminded of an article that came out quite a while ago, whereby it was demonstrated that 50,000 people die every year in the US from car accidents, see; http://www.cdi.org/polling/34-swatting-fly.cfm/ The fact that more people die from car accidents every year, than have died from all the terrorist attacks, and all of our war dead combined, in the last TEN years helps put the terrorist actions in a perspective. If we reacted to car accidents as we are to terrorists, then in an anology we would have strict speed limits of about 25 mph on highways. Random police road blocks would examine the mechanical condition of vehicles with strict enforcement of worn parts,brake pads, tires, and so on. Prison sentences would be stiff for such attempted murder by car. There would be a need to monitor phone conversations in case someone admitted having any fault in the vehicle they own. Car parts stores would need very special attention, special papers would be required on all transactions of parts for these horrible death machines that everyone would need to fear, and the greatest killer of Americans would need to be the Headline of all newspapers. An at fault accident could bring the death sentence or at very least life imprisonment without possibility of communication with normal road fearing, patriotic Americans ! The greatest Killer of Americans would need to be controlled completely, and discussion of risky driving behavior would possibly entail conspiracy charges. WE LOSE more Americans by far by accident than through all the moronic attempts by these terrorists, The Terrorists are not effective and we should not give up our rights because of paranoid politicians that may have other agendas anyhow. All the terrorists are accomplishing is pushing more and more of our tax dollars to go to Israel, because these genetic brothers can't get along with each other. The terrorists have done more to support Israel than all the special interests groups combined. The Islamic leaders need to start a peace movement. Israel needs to love their brothers and the Islamic people need to Love their Israel brothers. I note that in some comments the actual use of nuclear weapons is mentioned. That is deplorable, our president claims a Christian faith, and that is his business, but Christians are supposed to love their enemies, and turn the other cheek. Killing over faith without love is an abomination, no matter who does it. The only possible use of a nuclear device would be deep beneath the surface, where no humans would be hurt, but the entire oil fields would become radioactive and worthless. That would
What do you mean not an immediate threat. I've closed 6 websites since the monitoring of electronics communications were reveiled. 4 of the websites were research groups, and confidentiality in research is #1.Some of the data that was public was moved into a data site which is listed as my homepage in my user stats here. But a lot of scientists are taking their work offline, the internet is becoming an anti scientist's venue . That is not what the internet was designed for. Scientists were supposed to use the internet for sharing research with those that they wished, not have it exposed to government and corporate spys.
"A Brief History of Time" was hardly news when it was published either. The majority of the publication was a standard form history of physics that had been written by multiple authors over and over, such as Asimov some 25 years prior. Of course there was the standard "method" of leaning facts so they "may" represent what few kernels of data was new. Some of which Stephen Hawking has backed away from since, indeed if his concepts were given fair hearing instead of a "pass" on most concepts due to his "health concerns", today's physics might not be the mess it is now. Perhaps he for once should have considered the advice given, instead of letting his ego and our misplaced sensibilities gallop off in absurd conclusions. The word Gallop may seem to be a miss placed word in a science based discussion, however exactly as used as an anology, consider the slow motion viewing of a horse at full GALLOP; all four legs of the horse are off the ground simultaneously !
This is frightening real. Consider the potential here. BinLaden has won the war against freedom ! Mystery
This all falls within what I would term as "scientific morality" and while that term has some scary images, the lack of a well laid out definition to scientists and the public could lead to disaster. Consider current trends in science showing : (a) Political control over science and publication of findings.b) Skewed guidelines involving the morality of scientists and science.(c) Lack of backbone in scientists in general to speak up in countries that are technically "free", many times just due to regard for a steady income, and intimated threats. In other words; what are the scientist's responsibilities to society ?(d) The potential for experiments to be conducted in Dangerous areas of research that could end up destroying humanity. (this would have been laughed at before the atom bomb)Included but not limited within this last category would be such things as; Artificial Black Holes,Worm Holes, Vortex theory, Biological Warfare, Nuclear Weapons; (bigger and better), Nano Gray Goo, Global Warming, on and on...Scientific Morality; could be simply defined somewhat as;Having enough wisdom not to destroy our world with knowledge that is beyond our mental ability to use.Responsibility to use said knowledge within certain guidelines, regardless of political influence.Here is a further link to other nightmare potentials of science; http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm Mystery
Sorry Bull, the way it was set up, I thought you were the originator of this Still Boycotting Sony Products. I must retract my agreeing with you and go with Anonymously posted startup of this thread.I've had enough new coding every 5 seconds, filled with flaws and errors and updates, all Emperor's new clothes.Technology needs perfected before it's introduction.This is all money,money,money, and you end up with junk that just doesn't work.
IT's Not Written like the Constitution !
I'm not buying either way.PS3 either. Matter of fact I can't stand Hi-Def TV either. I have the TV on for news in the corner when I'm on the net, I like to be able to look up and see something when the news is important.From this angle I'd see almost nothing but a blur on Hi-Def set. Went to watch a movie with a friend the other day, we had to sit so close together to get a good image it was a joke. Emperor's New clothes all the way. Bull's on the money with this one!
As to propellantless propulsion, I have been working on it since 1980. You can see by my homepage I am not alone in the knowledge that my working designs do work. Others have constructed the designs which I have. Yes they work ! Am now expanding the base of our research group's associations. Have just started the group; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Antigravity/ in the last week, and while we are compiling and collating a large information base at the moment, we are not a pie in the sky association of groups. True we have our inside jokes, but I am only interested in devices that are either working now and are repeatable prototypes, or are very close to that stage. The design in the MSNBC article looks a long way from even being a true potential theory.We are very close to the time when we will test a full "prototype"-"Gravitational Propulsion Unit"-"Vessel". Yes the quotation marks are there for a reason. This is experimental, and unless something proves itself, there are no guarantees.Everytime I built a prototype that worked, I had doubts.But everytime I built a prototype it did work. Some needed tweaking, but the concepts were sound. NASA may not be ready for prime time, but that's partly because of continued cuts in a wide array of science programs. That's a shame because new propulsion concepts are out there, and are viable. I can't understand why they went public with this concept though. I am well aware of what's out there in this field of research and what they just put out can be nothing more than a smoke screen.
I've waited for what I am about to mention to be considered, I have not seen it so I will bring it up. The request for information by the government is going to be allowed because no private information is being asked for. Actually, the exact wording legalistically speaking (in order to be legal), requires Google to remove all personally identifiable information that may be attached to this info. That is a major undertaking for Google to review all that data and assure that no where in all that data is there any identfiable information. And one slip up by Google might leave Google open to law suits by those who have their personal info released by complying. Many may say "oh poor Google"..."They will have to spend a small fortune to comply". But these requests have been sent out to a lot of "data collectors" Technically if organizations with the public good as an agenda begin finding identifiable info in a lot of this info from all these companies; class action lawsuits could cripple a large number of computer tech organizations. Hey; there is even a search function on this site. Despite the best attempts some searches themselves contain identifiable info. Any idea how much finding such data in their files would cost a company ? Has anyone ever searched yours or my user name here, or on Google, or all the rest of the search engines. Not to mention real names and searches for addresses and phone numbers. This is endless. The first Lawyer that reads this post will have eyes brighter than a laser.
The Apple has already been bitten, can't put "Humpty Dumpty" back together again ! Look at the Logo ! If you cut an Apple in 2, what do you get ? NO, not spare parts ! A real apple... seeds. That's what we have now, seeds of a new horizon. There will be anew,(TREE).
Sub-Orbital as it is being presented, is a near total waste of time and money and is exactly like the above described carnival ride. Maybe they should even call the joke "spaceport" it's launched from "Cape Carnival" When this non-space amusement ride kills people it will hurt the real space programs far more than any popular "boost" there may have been from this publicity gimmick. It's a get rich quick scheme that will either die on the vine, leaving investors in pain, or become the stuff of horror/sci-fi greed flicks that havn't even begun to be conceived yet.
5 Million (might) get you a hammer, but it definitely will not get you a Toilet. Hmm a toilet, just where this cheap proposal belongs.
Remember your first Nintendo "Mario's"? Plug em in n out, not enough gold on the contacts, but the chips still play if you blow on the contacts.How many disk games have worn out since? How many Hard drives still work with the old games on em? Maybe optical storage or quantum computers will come along., but I can see what has lasted the longest so far.
Corrected link from above; http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/13 65279.cms
Here is a link, to a story; http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/13 65279.cms/
This mentions Google founder Larry Page as saying this service may herald a new strategy to pay for services by Google. WOW- A whole new story hits the back of my mind. And yet I must doubt the information.
In the past Google has offered a lot for free, aside from the ads which are to be expected. As a search engine Google has always been # 1 by me. But now I am a little concerned.
These things creep up on you sometimes. Let me tell you a little story (True) about an old friend of mine. He was an Art Bell fan, and years ago he came over to my house and I showed him my computer and all the wonderfull things it could do. Everything to him was better on TV than what I was showing him on the internet. But then I showed him wwwdotArtBelldotcom and he found out he could download the radio shows he missed for free and listen whenever he wanted. He bought a computer and got on the internet, with a little help from me from time to time. Well all was fine till they shut down that site and started charging from another site for the show's streaming. That was it for my neighbor, he was paying for the internet $19.95 a month as I recall, and he wouldn't pay more for the only thing he used the internet for. He quit using computers and hasn't had one since.
That's all it takes sometimes, I've seen people stop computing over virus and worms, Hackers, cost of internet hookup, poor computer service, rebate fraud, changing programing, options, a lower quality product or service, and money. Money seems to be really up there. I pay pay 39.95 a month for cable internet, and 100 miles away the same service is only 19.95. That aggravates.
I'd like to see someone do a more in depth news research story on what appears to be a possible change in one of the internet's mega movers. Google's always been my favorite search engine. That's all I ever expected from them. I hope a big change isn't beginning. Please Google don't change too much, I already have the programs you list that I want. All these extra bars I don't want. I like my system the way I have it. I don't want to end up paying more in the future because there are fewer people that are using the internet.Think.
Intentional incompatibility between systems and programs causes problems that denies efficiency to all and costs money for everyone that is slowed down. It would be a fortunate change if the "program makers" would really try to provide a service to consumers that improves the digital world instead of conflicting in a useless gambit that has failed in other industries in the past.