Okay, so the sun explodes in 4.5 billion years. North Korea's nukes will explode on the US sometime in the near future. Hence, manned missions = necessary. The sooner we have a way to get the hell off this rock, that we're constnatly ruining with fossil fuels being burned in cars and stuff, 24/7, the sooner we turn the Earth into the next Venus. Way to go Greenhouse Effect.
On the bright side, maybe if we turn around and have settlements on Mars, for example, to terraform it, maybe we'll develop the technology to not ruin our world? Or maybe the sence of unity to unite the world under either one government, or a group of governments not bent on self-interest and fighting everything besides themselves? Yes, the ISS is not really a good use of manned missions, in my opinion. But, manned missions to Mars, a planet that could possibly have an Earth-like climate, shouldn't be lumped under this category. Actually, I think they might be quite important, to us as a species. But what do I know? Robots are cheap...so maybe we should just clone people(read: cheap), develop accelerated growth treatments(read: manufacturing plant for people), and just use "Manbots" to do the exploring! We could genetically engineer them to be able to survive more readily in harsh conditions..even to do whatever we want! Let's make organic robots! WOO!!.. -.- Some people need to n ot have such close-minded views..
This sounds like a really simple version of the Universal Translator..so when do I get mine in my combadge so I can understand spoken Klingon and Romulan?
I love this. All the flippin' geniouses out there insisting its the same as stealing. When you steal, one party has the item(the "thief"), and another does not(the "store", "person"(If you steal their candy, or car, or right shoe...), etc.) At most this is copyright infringement, but dear god, who wants to go to jail over those WONDERFUL movies that in total may have brought in 100 million dollars? I mean, come on. Hell, I've downloaded more music than you can shake a stick at. Makes me guilty of copyright infringement, right? Well, After hearing X amount of music, provided I have the money(or I might have to be a "thief" and steal it), I go to the store, and guess what? I BUY THE F@#$ING CD!! PEople forget that there have been statistical studies done, and since P2P has been "the thing", music and movie sales have actually gone up! Why don't people see this connection? This is like saying you're going to throw the guy who speeds in jail for some made up charge, like "thoughtcrime"(from Orwell's 1984), because by speeding he was endangering the lives of others and unless stopped would have had a 100% chance to kill people when he lost control of his car.
I mean, come on. Am I going to get arrested because I am not the entity of "Polytechnic University", to which my copy of Microsoft Visual Studio.NET is licensed to? I think not.
If microsoft stopped empoying dumbshits, then maybe these problems wouldn't exist. supposedly in Vista they're removing a majority of the legacy code, though I highly doubt any computer system running windows could ever be called "secure", unless the user isn't an "average" user.
Let's put it this way. I run an anti-virus program, three forms of spyware/adware removal, and a firewall, yet I still get problems from shit getting installed on my system that I didn't specifically click the "yes" button, because stuff hijacks its way in when I install other programs. I'm not talkin' bout the "click yes to install bonzai buddy and lose all your personal information!!!11one!" things, either. I mean stuff that literally appeared without my knowledge. At this rate, when Vista comes out, I'm dropping money on something else. I could save 300 dollars, buy better hardware, and make a linux box and pray my games will run in the whatever windows emulators are out there.
Anyway, the rootkit problem isn't getting solved.
I forget who said it, but this axiom remains true: "The only safe computer is one not connected to the internet."
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Okay, so the sun explodes in 4.5 billion years. North Korea's nukes will explode on the US sometime in the near future. Hence, manned missions = necessary. The sooner we have a way to get the hell off this rock, that we're constnatly ruining with fossil fuels being burned in cars and stuff, 24/7, the sooner we turn the Earth into the next Venus. Way to go Greenhouse Effect. On the bright side, maybe if we turn around and have settlements on Mars, for example, to terraform it, maybe we'll develop the technology to not ruin our world? Or maybe the sence of unity to unite the world under either one government, or a group of governments not bent on self-interest and fighting everything besides themselves? Yes, the ISS is not really a good use of manned missions, in my opinion. But, manned missions to Mars, a planet that could possibly have an Earth-like climate, shouldn't be lumped under this category. Actually, I think they might be quite important, to us as a species. But what do I know? Robots are cheap...so maybe we should just clone people(read: cheap), develop accelerated growth treatments(read: manufacturing plant for people), and just use "Manbots" to do the exploring! We could genetically engineer them to be able to survive more readily in harsh conditions..even to do whatever we want! Let's make organic robots! WOO!! .. -.- Some people need to n ot have such close-minded views..
This sounds like a really simple version of the Universal Translator..so when do I get mine in my combadge so I can understand spoken Klingon and Romulan?
I love this. All the flippin' geniouses out there insisting its the same as stealing. When you steal, one party has the item(the "thief"), and another does not(the "store", "person"(If you steal their candy, or car, or right shoe...), etc.) At most this is copyright infringement, but dear god, who wants to go to jail over those WONDERFUL movies that in total may have brought in 100 million dollars? I mean, come on. Hell, I've downloaded more music than you can shake a stick at. Makes me guilty of copyright infringement, right? Well, After hearing X amount of music, provided I have the money(or I might have to be a "thief" and steal it), I go to the store, and guess what? I BUY THE F@#$ING CD!! PEople forget that there have been statistical studies done, and since P2P has been "the thing", music and movie sales have actually gone up! Why don't people see this connection? This is like saying you're going to throw the guy who speeds in jail for some made up charge, like "thoughtcrime"(from Orwell's 1984), because by speeding he was endangering the lives of others and unless stopped would have had a 100% chance to kill people when he lost control of his car. I mean, come on. Am I going to get arrested because I am not the entity of "Polytechnic University", to which my copy of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET is licensed to? I think not.
If microsoft stopped empoying dumbshits, then maybe these problems wouldn't exist. supposedly in Vista they're removing a majority of the legacy code, though I highly doubt any computer system running windows could ever be called "secure", unless the user isn't an "average" user.
Let's put it this way. I run an anti-virus program, three forms of spyware/adware removal, and a firewall, yet I still get problems from shit getting installed on my system that I didn't specifically click the "yes" button, because stuff hijacks its way in when I install other programs. I'm not talkin' bout the "click yes to install bonzai buddy and lose all your personal information!!!11one!" things, either. I mean stuff that literally appeared without my knowledge. At this rate, when Vista comes out, I'm dropping money on something else. I could save 300 dollars, buy better hardware, and make a linux box and pray my games will run in the whatever windows emulators are out there.
Anyway, the rootkit problem isn't getting solved.
I forget who said it, but this axiom remains true: "The only safe computer is one not connected to the internet."