Comment TTVK: Your dinosaur is double-parked. (Score 3, Insightful) 356
Your business model is dead. Your lawsuit is the wake.
~kulakovich
~kulakovich
Comment Human exploration IS worthwhile IF... (Score 4, Insightful) 309
...you are interested in something other than sports, iPods, and Coach bags.
If your society can't be bothered, you're damned to spend more willingly on the NFL each year than you begrudge the entire space program.
Enjoy your cell phone.
kulakovich
If your society can't be bothered, you're damned to spend more willingly on the NFL each year than you begrudge the entire space program.
Enjoy your cell phone.
kulakovich
Comment Everyone remember phaser test? (Score 3, Insightful) 184
The failure of the first particle beam/laser hybrid was due to the particles deviated from target because of their mass, falling out of the laser's beam.
So that's fixed now?
kulakovich
So that's fixed now?
kulakovich
Comment When all apps are signed, they will return. (Score 1) 571
Hardware cost is nothing compared to the cost and maintenance of Adobe CS4, Avid or Final Cut Suite, Maya, AutoCad, MS Office, a Laser printer, a large format ink jet, or for that matter a community of users.
Once certs are generated to run all software on all hardware*, these kids running around with cracked apps are going to vanish into memories of the Old West.
kulakovich
* anyone else working on developing for the iPhone? Yeah.
Once certs are generated to run all software on all hardware*, these kids running around with cracked apps are going to vanish into memories of the Old West.
kulakovich
* anyone else working on developing for the iPhone? Yeah.
Comment Re:About Time! (Score 1) 193
I would always favor social welfare over a space plane in this decade.
Temporal Penalty: 10 years. Please throw your cell phone in the nearest garbage collection unit, and pick up your Pentium II laptop at the door.
kulakovich
Temporal Penalty: 10 years. Please throw your cell phone in the nearest garbage collection unit, and pick up your Pentium II laptop at the door.
kulakovich
Comment Re:Variation (Score 1) 534
>Presumably the computer can anticipate the inertial effects
Actually the computer core is suspended in its own warp field, putting itself several milliseconds in the future at any given point. Ahem. Pardon.
kulakovich
Actually the computer core is suspended in its own warp field, putting itself several milliseconds in the future at any given point. Ahem. Pardon.
kulakovich
Comment Re:THESE PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE IN DOCTORS... (Score -1, Redundant) 226
bump
Comment Re:Th Information Prohibition 1996-2010 (Score 1) 204
ohai - I was thinking more Atreides/Beast Rabban/Paul especially given the past 20 years, the Fremen, etc.
/tongue-in-cheek-sorta-odd-though
/tongue-in-cheek-sorta-odd-though
Comment Th Information Prohibition 1996-2010 (Score 3, Insightful) 204
Never has there been such a parallel in our history. The Prohibition in the United States, from 1920 to 1933, and the Information Prohibition, 1996-2010.
A close second is the novel Dune and the parallel to the Clinton/Bush/Obama triumvirate.
Enjoy your history humans, you're living it.
~kulakovich
A close second is the novel Dune and the parallel to the Clinton/Bush/Obama triumvirate.
Enjoy your history humans, you're living it.
~kulakovich
Comment All of this has happened before -- (Score 1) 200
-- and all of it will happen again.
Comment I call BS - RTFA - it's about probability, not LHC (Score 5, Informative) 684
LHC is used as an example, misleading headline written by Fox News. -1
~kulakovich
~kulakovich
Comment One trick pony. (Score 1) 209
These guys have a one trick pony. Once we've seen the trick, no one will pay. ~kulakovich
Submission + - NASA Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report
kulakovich writes: "NASA has released the Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report, detailing issues surrounding astronaut safety and procedures, as uncovered from the result of the Columbia disaster.
The result is an incredibly detailed and transparent document going over issues in the cabin environment, occupant protection and other safety issues that can now be addressed in ongoing space efforts; to reduce risk to future astronauts."
The result is an incredibly detailed and transparent document going over issues in the cabin environment, occupant protection and other safety issues that can now be addressed in ongoing space efforts; to reduce risk to future astronauts."
Comment The End of The Information Prohibition (Score 1) 542
...is right around the corner...
kulakovich
kulakovich
Submission + - Keith Henson Jailed after Pickets, Usenet Posts
An anonymous reader writes: Keith Henson was arrested on Friday, Feb. 2 in Prescott, Arizona. He faces extradition to California to serve one year in jail.
Henson was convicted of "interfering with a religion" in 2001 after he picketed Scientology's base in the California desert. The jury was misled into thinking he had posted jokes about "Cruise missiles" (as in Tom Cruise) to the internet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology; the posts in question were not made by him, but even if they had been, that does not constitute a credible threat as required by law. The Electronic Frontier Foundation issued a press release after his conviction expressing grave concern that he had been convicted for exercising his free speech rights.
There were numerous anomalies during his trial (including a summons that was never mailed to him, which would have left him in contempt of court if he hadn't found out about the hearing another way).
Henson has a medical condition requiring regular medication; he has also received death threats and has grave fears for his safety, given Scientology's reach into many prison systems.
Latest news at the Wikipedia entry on Keith Henson; more may appear at Who is Keith Henson?.
Henson was convicted of "interfering with a religion" in 2001 after he picketed Scientology's base in the California desert. The jury was misled into thinking he had posted jokes about "Cruise missiles" (as in Tom Cruise) to the internet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology; the posts in question were not made by him, but even if they had been, that does not constitute a credible threat as required by law. The Electronic Frontier Foundation issued a press release after his conviction expressing grave concern that he had been convicted for exercising his free speech rights.
There were numerous anomalies during his trial (including a summons that was never mailed to him, which would have left him in contempt of court if he hadn't found out about the hearing another way).
Henson has a medical condition requiring regular medication; he has also received death threats and has grave fears for his safety, given Scientology's reach into many prison systems.
Latest news at the Wikipedia entry on Keith Henson; more may appear at Who is Keith Henson?.
