Not to mention the person who granted a patent for automatic starting of Flash movies (Does "press SPACEBAR or click to activate" ring a bell?); I want that person in jail, let alone out of a job.
We already send probes into our solar system.
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And they already report back all kinds of data that the scientific community sifts through. I don't think that's the point of this.
In fact, I'm not sure what the point would be of this mission, except that it isn't to send a computer somewhere, since we already do that, and:
1) "To boldly go where no man has gone before" is a POWERFUL sentiment that very, very many people hold, even if it's not worded that way exactly. There have been explorers since the dawn of man's existence on earth.
2) Consider our space program, NASA: they were Elvis during the Apollo missions, now they're Jerry Mathers as the Beaver. If you're an astronaut in this day and age, presuming you don't go stark raving bonkaires along the way, the best you can hope for is to take the shuttle up to ISS and back. So I imagine if somebody at NASA who can, says "Dude! We're sending a giant-ass ark out to Epidermis Eristani, or whatever, that one we think has a terrestrial environment, and we want to start a new civilization!", they'll get takers. I know people who'd sign up just to get away from the fundies.
3) Now Sir Richard Branson, the Chinese, India, Bill Gates, and the European Union all have freaking space programs that can do the orbital stuff, maybe even a moon landing at some point, and Branson's even taking passengers. If you're a NASA fan, you're hoping the agency at LEAST puts People on Mars. Otherwise, it's just the probes, and the shuttles to ISS, and that's just wimpy. NASA's got to get its groove back, and this would do it.
However, when we planted our flag on the Moon before anyone else, it started when JFK called out the entire nation and challenged them to make it happen. You know any American leader nowadays who could issue such a challenge without people laughing at him?
Your larger point is very valid, but the people who actually take the pictures will probably not be undergoing border security. They'll be hired/culled from the surrounding areas to each "Zone."
the aboot page on their site (linked from the top of the article) says that they're commissioning people to "own" a particular "Zone" (the wording, and the arrogance, is theirs - thus the quotes). So probably, the craigslist post was from the guy who "owned" the Little Rock "Zone".
I can't wait for them to come to my town (Naples, FL). Half the houses here are in gated communities. Good luck getting in.
I had to read that twice to figure out if the poster was assigned the job of creating podcasts of college lectures, or the poster had been arrested for doing so.
I thought to myself, "Who gave Lars Ullrich the Presidency of a University?"
Why doesn't CNET just come out and give the Chinese government the IP addresses of every Chinese websurfer using Maxthon? Better yet, the company's in Beijing - why not just throw a street address up there?
Of course, if the web is censored in China, then the censors aren't reading unfiltered CNET in English, are they?
Naaaaaah!
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Sequoia?
Not to mention the person who granted a patent for automatic starting of Flash movies (Does "press SPACEBAR or click to activate" ring a bell?); I want that person in jail, let alone out of a job.
Your larger point is very valid, but the people who actually take the pictures will probably not be undergoing border security. They'll be hired/culled from the surrounding areas to each "Zone."
the aboot page on their site (linked from the top of the article) says that they're commissioning people to "own" a particular "Zone" (the wording, and the arrogance, is theirs - thus the quotes). So probably, the craigslist post was from the guy who "owned" the Little Rock "Zone". I can't wait for them to come to my town (Naples, FL). Half the houses here are in gated communities. Good luck getting in.
Presuming you can't also see the browser, you're probably as frustrated as Paris Hilton at a tent revival.
I had to read that twice to figure out if the poster was assigned the job of creating podcasts of college lectures, or the poster had been arrested for doing so. I thought to myself, "Who gave Lars Ullrich the Presidency of a University?"
Is that a song about golf?
Why doesn't CNET just come out and give the Chinese government the IP addresses of every Chinese websurfer using Maxthon? Better yet, the company's in Beijing - why not just throw a street address up there? Of course, if the web is censored in China, then the censors aren't reading unfiltered CNET in English, are they? Naaaaaah!