I suppose the fastest rocket we have is the shuttle that has to reach a speed of 17400 MPH to achieve escape velocity. Using your numbers, we would have to have a rocket 800 times more powerful than the shuttle to reach the planet in thirty five years. I bet one of those designs that Omni magazine published in the early eighties of rockets using multiple atomic engines could do it. It would be pretty bright though.
If this is true, it might be worth a Nobel prize. Look what it might mean - If it is the size of earth, it could have an atmosphere. If it is going the wrong way, it may have come from another solar system - think of all what that might mean. It could have a history other than our solar system. What sent it adrift? Is it icy or rocky? Is there volcanic activity? Do objects like this acoount for the missing mass? If it does exist, how large (or huge!) of a rocket would it take to get a space probe there in a few years?
Really - any business looks at their competitors to see what they are doing and play around their products. That way they get a feel for what is good/bad and what may be improved upon. Just with Microsoft it means that they are looking for a way to shoe horn themselves into the linux distro business to take it over. Heck, I bet Red Hat has employees that are MS spies that call into Redmond every week....
It seems like that I did not start to receive spam until I started to post on Slashdot. Then it seems that everyday I receive a choice piece of spam from ghuhiursgh@msn.com so I too can receive credit cards or pfo456olbg@aol.com telling me I can quit smoking/lose weight/have infinite sales. I understand transistors and how to solder them to a board, and that's what I do for a living. I do not understand the dynamics of tcp/ip (yet anyway). So my questions are;
The spam I receive is not to any email address I have, but rather to another dumbqwerty@msn.com, how can this be so???
Every spam has a different 'remove email address' meaning that I must be on a million spam lists and me getting off them all is not a tractable possiblity. Why can't there be one list that these 'generic' spammers would have to check before doing my inbox?? Perhaps it could be federal law.
Why can't there be a way to 'triangulate' packets to find a physical location for lawbreakers, and give them hard time so other spammers would be scared?? (is scared spammer an oxymoron??)
Doesn't MSN and AOL have ways to keep track of ip addresses they assign dynamically, and thus trace spam??
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I suppose the fastest rocket we have is the shuttle that has to reach a speed of 17400 MPH to achieve escape velocity. Using your numbers, we would have to have a rocket 800 times more powerful than the shuttle to reach the planet in thirty five years. I bet one of those designs that Omni magazine published in the early eighties of rockets using multiple atomic engines could do it. It would be pretty bright though.
If this is true, it might be worth a Nobel prize. Look what it might mean - If it is the size of earth, it could have an atmosphere. If it is going the wrong way, it may have come from another solar system - think of all what that might mean. It could have a history other than our solar system. What sent it adrift? Is it icy or rocky? Is there volcanic activity? Do objects like this acoount for the missing mass? If it does exist, how large (or huge!) of a rocket would it take to get a space probe there in a few years?
Really - any business looks at their competitors to see what they are doing and play around their products. That way they get a feel for what is good/bad and what may be improved upon. Just with Microsoft it means that they are looking for a way to shoe horn themselves into the linux distro business to take it over. Heck, I bet Red Hat has employees that are MS spies that call into Redmond every week....
The spam I receive is not to any email address I have, but rather to another dumbqwerty@msn.com, how can this be so???
Every spam has a different 'remove email address' meaning that I must be on a million spam lists and me getting off them all is not a tractable possiblity. Why can't there be one list that these 'generic' spammers would have to check before doing my inbox?? Perhaps it could be federal law.
Why can't there be a way to 'triangulate' packets to find a physical location for lawbreakers, and give them hard time so other spammers would be scared?? (is scared spammer an oxymoron??)
Doesn't MSN and AOL have ways to keep track of ip addresses they assign dynamically, and thus trace spam??