India's continuing space program is part of nuclear weapons proliferation and an escalation of the local arms race. The United States cannot be helpful to the Indians' space program, and at the same time truly try to reduce the chance of a nuclear exchange.
One of the most important efforts to stop nuclear exchanges has been the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NNPT). In the NNPT the nuclear weapons powers (US, USSR, France, UK, China) made a bargain with the non-weapons states: don't work on nuclear weapons and we will help you out with peaceful nuclear technology; otherwise, you will be isolated in various ways.
Since the more recent Indian nuclear test in 1994 the US has not lived up to its obligations to isolate India (and Pakistan, and Israel). Each such act weakens the NNPT regime and leads to proliferation.
The Indian space program is just a piece of their ballistic missile program, and may contribute to a further arms race in second-tier world military powers (e.g. Pakistan, Brazil, Japan). It might also slow efforts in the UK and France to do away with their nuclear stockpiles. Any help the US gave India would just make it worse by adding directly to India's build-up and indirectly through weakening the ideas behind the NNPT.
Why is such an idea a temporary hack? Such a device would be like a thermostat that could be changed in minutes, instead of CO2 levels which can only be changed over decades. Similar mirrors have been considered with other planets to heat (Mars) or cool (Venus) them.
Another unfortunate fact is that he calls the nanosatellites "fliers" - they don't fly.
An additional factor I don't think was considered is that a substantial portion of the payload would have to be used on a Booster to high/L1 orbit. I suppose that the "fliers" could eventually boost themselves up using the sun, but it would take at least years, or decades. The drag might be too great to get out of low earth orbit.
With such an uncertain launch technology, you might as well consider more monolithic shade designs and other launch methods, such as the oldie-but-goodie space elevator.
The mod does not fit the bill at all - other than the fact there is a lot of violence involved. The mod is only "Defemation of Character", as advertised; it has little do with Thomspon's scenario.
Gaming companies need to seriously address the issues Thompson brings up. I find particularly pursuasive his analogy to cigarette advertisements as well as the real world examples that have been coming up for the last seven years or so.
Can IBM write off this donation for tax purposes? It seems that big companies would be more willing to contribute to OSS if they could count it all as donation for tax purposes. Not just assets, but employee salaries as well.
Seems to me that HBO could get around their whole detection system to make blacklists. Since HBO actually has the torrents, they could make garbage data with the correct checksums. Thus, they could eventually corrupt the other torrents out there.
People would have to put up guaranteed fresh ones to avoid gradual deterioration.
Detection would be much more difficult as it would require reviewing the file, manually finding the garbage, and the correlating that part of the file with a particular server.
HBO could also do other things like keep clients hooked on their servers, but serve the data very slowly.
I imagine most detection systems will be prone to failure. A voluntary system like torrents has limited defenses against active mitigation.
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India's continuing space program is part of nuclear weapons proliferation and an escalation of the local arms race. The United States cannot be helpful to the Indians' space program, and at the same time truly try to reduce the chance of a nuclear exchange.
One of the most important efforts to stop nuclear exchanges has been the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NNPT). In the NNPT the nuclear weapons powers (US, USSR, France, UK, China) made a bargain with the non-weapons states: don't work on nuclear weapons and we will help you out with peaceful nuclear technology; otherwise, you will be isolated in various ways.
Since the more recent Indian nuclear test in 1994 the US has not lived up to its obligations to isolate India (and Pakistan, and Israel). Each such act weakens the NNPT regime and leads to proliferation.
The Indian space program is just a piece of their ballistic missile program, and may contribute to a further arms race in second-tier world military powers (e.g. Pakistan, Brazil, Japan). It might also slow efforts in the UK and France to do away with their nuclear stockpiles. Any help the US gave India would just make it worse by adding directly to India's build-up and indirectly through weakening the ideas behind the NNPT.
Why is such an idea a temporary hack? Such a device would be like a thermostat that could be changed in minutes, instead of CO2 levels which can only be changed over decades. Similar mirrors have been considered with other planets to heat (Mars) or cool (Venus) them.
Another unfortunate fact is that he calls the nanosatellites "fliers" - they don't fly.
An additional factor I don't think was considered is that a substantial portion of the payload would have to be used on a Booster to high/L1 orbit. I suppose that the "fliers" could eventually boost themselves up using the sun, but it would take at least years, or decades. The drag might be too great to get out of low earth orbit.
With such an uncertain launch technology, you might as well consider more monolithic shade designs and other launch methods, such as the oldie-but-goodie space elevator.
Please tell me that White Dust is not a native english speaker, and that his editorial is not a sign of where language is going in the future.
The mod does not fit the bill at all - other than the fact there is a lot of violence involved. The mod is only "Defemation of Character", as advertised; it has little do with Thomspon's scenario.
Gaming companies need to seriously address the issues Thompson brings up. I find particularly pursuasive his analogy to cigarette advertisements as well as the real world examples that have been coming up for the last seven years or so.
Can IBM write off this donation for tax purposes? It seems that big companies would be more willing to contribute to OSS if they could count it all as donation for tax purposes. Not just assets, but employee salaries as well.
Seems to me that HBO could get around their whole detection system to make blacklists. Since HBO actually has the torrents, they could make garbage data with the correct checksums. Thus, they could eventually corrupt the other torrents out there.
People would have to put up guaranteed fresh ones to avoid gradual deterioration.
Detection would be much more difficult as it would require reviewing the file, manually finding the garbage, and the correlating that part of the file with a particular server.
HBO could also do other things like keep clients hooked on their servers, but serve the data very slowly.
I imagine most detection systems will be prone to failure. A voluntary system like torrents has limited defenses against active mitigation.