Here is a link to the RPI article that talks about this. Credit where credit is due. Not credit for an article by "news.au". Honestly, this *is* interesting... but is it too much to ask the Slashdot editors to check for original links for stories? And here I am, unable to write the link code properly.
Here is a link to the RPI article that talks about this. Credit where credit is due. Not credit for an article by "news.au". Honestly, this *is* interesting... but is it too much to ask the Slashdot editors to check for original links for stories?
Calling Sony's victory with Blu-Ray over HD-DVD a "monopoly" is like saying Sirius' proposed merger with XMSR is a monopoly.
No sir, I don't buy it. With as many entertainment and content distribution options completing in the Audio and Visual domains... no one company can ever establish a monopoly. The only thing that can happen is the companies become entrenched with technology that isn't adopted, supported, or interoperated with and that leads to business failure.
And yes, Sony bought the format war with hundreds of millions of potentially well-spend bribes, but their is no way for them to bribe there way to some kind of vertically-integrated "entertainment" monopoly. It would cost too much. I am not worried, unless they make a play at merging with Comcast or something.
Banning services that let people browse through an anonymous/encrypted proxy server that is harder (impossible?) to trace would be a different fight. I think the focus of the litigation is to require people to post there real information whenever they slander other people's MySpaces. I doubt those people are using the advanced techniques to truly make themselves anonymous.
Also, as somebody who doesn't think of internet browsing as something that I should go out of my way to protect, I don't use TOR.
Next, they will attempt to ban attempts to disguise your identity in public by wearing masks.
Posting disparaging comments online is analogous to meeting in a library and making disparaging comments. The latter is protected by the Bill of Rights under the Freedom of Assembly. The former should be protected by the same bill.
And besides... anonymous posts online can technically be traced back to an IP address and that can be traced to a specific computer with a specific location and knowing the time can aid you to determine a specific person. Thus, the notion that anonymous cowards are truly anonymous is flawed. So if somebody posts something truly, then the coward can be traced and identified so criminal charges can be pressed.
You got modded Funny, but I thought it worth noting a paper on male/female disparity in higher education (within Computer Science) that was written by a women about ten years ago. Apparently, men make it sucky for women to go through a higher education and they are allegedly not treated fairly.
Sorry Larry, but politicians are professional promise-skirters, and I see no reason to believe that them making yet another promise is going to significantly change how the government works at all levels.
You might as well say "Americans are notorious morons, and I see no reason why they wouldn't start voting for principled and uncorrupted politicians." If a Senator takes the Change Congress pledge and then turns his back on it, Larry is introduced a level of accountability for the American public to say "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice. Umm. You can't fool me again." If the Change Congress movement gains critical mass such that only uncorrupted politicians can get elected and the elected politicians can be held accountable to stay uncorrupted... then Larry will have succeeded.
This isn't as much of a political battleground that Lessig has laid out... and is more one where the support of the majority of Americans can pragmatically reform Congress. I, for one, welcome the opportunity to gauge a person's corruptibility in the formula decide whether he is worthy of my vote. As a tried and true open-minded citizen who happens to vote Democrat, I would willingly send votes to Republicans or other parties who offer candidates who take the Change Congress pledge... just because I think it is important that government and business policies should not be as interwined as they are within the current Administration.
the FSF can be expected to kick up a fuss before the final release of applications.
You are correct to state that Apple's software policies are not Free/Open. This is a strategic move on the part of Apple to attempt to assure a certain level of quality on the phones. You'd get pissed if some cool, but free application caused you iPhone not to work.
That said, if the Operating System has real DRM that enforces some lame policies... break their DRM and use the phone how you want (at your own risk). However, the FSF has bigger fish to fry then a cellular telephone manufacturer. And besides... there are Open Source cell phone projects in the pipeline, so if you need the freedom to tinker, you should be playing with those.
That was my point. My link points to a real project that NASA is developing and your link points to a project that (after a cursory review) seems to have been pushed to the back of the drawing table over the last few decades. I was wondering if you knew anything about the nuclear Orion coming back, or if you were just speculating from the realm of science fiction.
My link has nothing to do with your link.
They are both names after the same constellation.:)
The trick would be finding extractable water and containing it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction
There are other tricks, but sending a machine up which can turn the CO2 atmosphere of Mars into water for plants is step one. Step two is having those plants reproduce enough to feed, and generate enough O2 for a human (see Photosynthesis). Step three is ???. Step four is profit!
But if I went to Mars, even if I died, well then at least what I did and where I ended up would be remembered,
Memory is a funny thing. Can you name the English settlers who died in 1587 attempting to settle in what is modern day Virginia? Can you even named the original settlement, aside from its name "The Lost Colony"?
My bigger gripe is people who say the 9/11 will always be remembered... and then can't name the day Pearl Harbor occurred (December 7, 1941). Yeah... memories are very generational.
And that man should be genetically engineered to live on Mars all by himself! And have a backpack computer that talks to another computer in Mars orbit!
Dear Slashdot
What kind of computer gear would you bring if you were the single member of the species going on a one way trip to Mars? I am planning on doing some backpacking in areas that might not even get cellular reception, and I am curious on what others who have gone on similar trips have done to help them explore the landscape, but stay in touch with their loved ones back home.
Blu-Ray Discs?
If price is still a consideration, DVD is still king. $0.10 for GB compared to 4-6x that on the HD formats.
By the time the cost of Blu-Ray makes it cheap enough compared to DVD, I think you will see it to make more financial sense to buy one of these and get content delivery through the internet.
Similarly, a human can do much more than Spirit, but you can probably send 10000 rovers like that for the same amount it costs to send one human.
In 30 years, there have been 130 Shuttle flights. Two of these flights have been disasters. Granted, it is *easier* to send one rocket with a Rover on it per month... but saying "10,000" is a bit obtuse.
What I would like to see is research aimed at sending robots that can build a habitable structure so the astronauts can survive for 6 months once they eventually make it to Mars.
Here is the thought that sums up my meanderings...
But with life on the Moon or Mars, I think we can't afford to assume that resupply missions will always be possible. I believe in providing the astronauts with a system to produce their own resources.
I think that the hardest question for celestial colonization is how to design that system.
they do have millions upon millions of videos that they need to do.
Really? I would argue that of the millions of videos on the net that I think need to be at a higher quality, very few of them are on YouTube.
I have uploaded to Google Video and seen noticeable quality degradation. My original filming was done with a Sony HDR-HD3, and my movies are in 3 formats. (a) HD, (b) DVD, and (c) GoogleVideo. But I can't complain because Google does me a wonderful service by letting me post streaming videos on their services for free. But in terms of quality... some of the scene that I filmed are qualitatively better with HD. I wish this was around 2 years ago. I would have had no reason to burn DVDs for my friends and I.
Quick! Using Google Images, find me a picture of a sheep facing left at sunset.
In about 2 minutes, I found this image, which could easily be mirrored to make it appear as if the sheep is facing left. I would challenge you to find the same thing in a library...
free (or atleast cheap) public access to information
Libraries are funded by tax dollars.
public internet cafes
If this means Free internet AND Free coffee, I am in. And they should have a comfortable place to sit. And a comfortable place to discuss ideas with others.
As silly as it sounds, the greatest thing about public libraries during my college years was the chance to privacy for my studies and meeting with course project groups.
So, while libraries won't need to be a place to store books/information, they SHOULD be preserved as a public place to (a) find peace and quiet or (b) gather and discuss interesting issues.
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Here is a link to the RPI article that talks about this. Credit where credit is due. Not credit for an article by "news.au". Honestly, this *is* interesting... but is it too much to ask the Slashdot editors to check for original links for stories?
Calling Sony's victory with Blu-Ray over HD-DVD a "monopoly" is like saying Sirius' proposed merger with XMSR is a monopoly.
No sir, I don't buy it. With as many entertainment and content distribution options completing in the Audio and Visual domains... no one company can ever establish a monopoly. The only thing that can happen is the companies become entrenched with technology that isn't adopted, supported, or interoperated with and that leads to business failure.
And yes, Sony bought the format war with hundreds of millions of potentially well-spend bribes, but their is no way for them to bribe there way to some kind of vertically-integrated "entertainment" monopoly. It would cost too much. I am not worried, unless they make a play at merging with Comcast or something.
Also, as somebody who doesn't think of internet browsing as something that I should go out of my way to protect, I don't use TOR.
Next, they will attempt to ban attempts to disguise your identity in public by wearing masks.
Posting disparaging comments online is analogous to meeting in a library and making disparaging comments. The latter is protected by the Bill of Rights under the Freedom of Assembly. The former should be protected by the same bill.
And besides... anonymous posts online can technically be traced back to an IP address and that can be traced to a specific computer with a specific location and knowing the time can aid you to determine a specific person. Thus, the notion that anonymous cowards are truly anonymous is flawed. So if somebody posts something truly, then the coward can be traced and identified so criminal charges can be pressed.
You got modded Funny, but I thought it worth noting a paper on male/female disparity in higher education (within Computer Science) that was written by a women about ten years ago. Apparently, men make it sucky for women to go through a higher education and they are allegedly not treated fairly.
I wish I had the editor of the astrology section of his local newspaper.
You might as well say "Americans are notorious morons, and I see no reason why they wouldn't start voting for principled and uncorrupted politicians." If a Senator takes the Change Congress pledge and then turns his back on it, Larry is introduced a level of accountability for the American public to say "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice. Umm. You can't fool me again." If the Change Congress movement gains critical mass such that only uncorrupted politicians can get elected and the elected politicians can be held accountable to stay uncorrupted... then Larry will have succeeded.
This isn't as much of a political battleground that Lessig has laid out... and is more one where the support of the majority of Americans can pragmatically reform Congress. I, for one, welcome the opportunity to gauge a person's corruptibility in the formula decide whether he is worthy of my vote. As a tried and true open-minded citizen who happens to vote Democrat, I would willingly send votes to Republicans or other parties who offer candidates who take the Change Congress pledge... just because I think it is important that government and business policies should not be as interwined as they are within the current Administration.
Hardware that locks up when it can't call the mothership? And I though Microsoft Genuine Advantage was bad!
You are correct to state that Apple's software policies are not Free/Open. This is a strategic move on the part of Apple to attempt to assure a certain level of quality on the phones. You'd get pissed if some cool, but free application caused you iPhone not to work.
That said, if the Operating System has real DRM that enforces some lame policies... break their DRM and use the phone how you want (at your own risk). However, the FSF has bigger fish to fry then a cellular telephone manufacturer. And besides... there are Open Source cell phone projects in the pipeline, so if you need the freedom to tinker, you should be playing with those.
The 21st Century is the century for Linux! (that is slightly better than when I heard that 1997 going to be was the year for Linux).
You are correct. Thanks for helping to point out how I unintentionally proved my point.
That was my point. My link points to a real project that NASA is developing and your link points to a project that (after a cursory review) seems to have been pushed to the back of the drawing table over the last few decades. I was wondering if you knew anything about the nuclear Orion coming back, or if you were just speculating from the realm of science fiction.
My link has nothing to do with your link.They are both names after the same constellation. :)
So you mean this? I have never heard of Nuclear Rocketfuel. That seems like a really, really bad idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction
There are other tricks, but sending a machine up which can turn the CO2 atmosphere of Mars into water for plants is step one. Step two is having those plants reproduce enough to feed, and generate enough O2 for a human (see Photosynthesis). Step three is ???. Step four is profit!
Memory is a funny thing. Can you name the English settlers who died in 1587 attempting to settle in what is modern day Virginia? Can you even named the original settlement, aside from its name "The Lost Colony"?
My bigger gripe is people who say the 9/11 will always be remembered... and then can't name the day Pearl Harbor occurred (December 7, 1941). Yeah... memories are very generational.
Dear Slashdot
What kind of computer gear would you bring if you were the single member of the species going on a one way trip to Mars? I am planning on doing some backpacking in areas that might not even get cellular reception, and I am curious on what others who have gone on similar trips have done to help them explore the landscape, but stay in touch with their loved ones back home.
What about W? I can picture him with the "Mission Accomplished" banner staged in front of a Martian landscape. Talk about spreading Democracy!
Juno was good, too. But if I ever consider seeing another Michael Bay movie in theaters, I want you to shoot me.
By the time the cost of Blu-Ray makes it cheap enough compared to DVD, I think you will see it to make more financial sense to buy one of these and get content delivery through the internet.
Thus making Blu-Ray a waste to invest in.
In 30 years, there have been 130 Shuttle flights. Two of these flights have been disasters. Granted, it is *easier* to send one rocket with a Rover on it per month... but saying "10,000" is a bit obtuse.
What I would like to see is research aimed at sending robots that can build a habitable structure so the astronauts can survive for 6 months once they eventually make it to Mars.
I wrote about this the other day. See here.
Here is the thought that sums up my meanderings...
But with life on the Moon or Mars, I think we can't afford to assume that resupply missions will always be possible. I believe in providing the astronauts with a system to produce their own resources.I think that the hardest question for celestial colonization is how to design that system.
Really? I would argue that of the millions of videos on the net that I think need to be at a higher quality, very few of them are on YouTube.
I have uploaded to Google Video and seen noticeable quality degradation. My original filming was done with a Sony HDR-HD3, and my movies are in 3 formats. (a) HD, (b) DVD, and (c) GoogleVideo. But I can't complain because Google does me a wonderful service by letting me post streaming videos on their services for free. But in terms of quality... some of the scene that I filmed are qualitatively better with HD. I wish this was around 2 years ago. I would have had no reason to burn DVDs for my friends and I.
In about 2 minutes, I found this image, which could easily be mirrored to make it appear as if the sheep is facing left. I would challenge you to find the same thing in a library...
Libraries are funded by tax dollars.
public internet cafesIf this means Free internet AND Free coffee, I am in. And they should have a comfortable place to sit. And a comfortable place to discuss ideas with others.
As silly as it sounds, the greatest thing about public libraries during my college years was the chance to privacy for my studies and meeting with course project groups.
So, while libraries won't need to be a place to store books/information, they SHOULD be preserved as a public place to (a) find peace and quiet or (b) gather and discuss interesting issues.