yawn, you seem to like a lot of hand waving about 'Statistics dont do that' without much understanding.

There is nothing special here, statistics work just as well here as they do in fusion and fission reactions, in effect very similar things (although there you are trying to create a runway system..). Neutron energy, absorbtion cross-sections, etc, etc.

You still need a bunch of requirements for a 'runaway reaction', and there is not NEARLY enough space junk to cause one, just as all the uranium in the earths crush does not just happen to spontaineously fission..

You should stop treating math as a magical field open to interpretation, and learn that it has real applications.

Yes, you can get a runaway reaction in space junk, no there is not even close to enough up there yet (or likely in the even medium future) for a runaway reaction, and by not even close I mean ORDERS of magnitude too little.

Nice SciFi, but only a little statistics will soon tell you that...
Space is big, really really big (even the prefered orbits).

To sustain the required chain reaction you need a WHOLE lot more junk, and you also need it to be in particular orbits (too much of it is in somewhat similar orbits..)

Its 'bad' right now because of the high cost of a VERY rare event (a significant energy impact), not because impacts are common.

Impacts also tend not NOT produce a cloud of high energy objects, most objects are metalic and tend to be punched through rather than shatter (yes, even at the cool side of orbital temperatures).

Of course plenty of people (governments, etc) realise that there is a fair bit of valuable 'junk' up there, and its value will rise in the future, however we will not see any mandate for collecting it and keeping in orbit for reuse, simply because a LOT of it is far too classified - even the commercial stuff - if China for example started collecting up old US sattelites, I suspect there would be trouble, etc.

The thing to remember is this 'global warming type emergency' is bring proposed by the head of a body who would get funding to work on it - sound at all surprising?

Of course, the moment you actually accept a patch from someone else, you are no longer free to negotiate, as they will hold GPL rights over that section of the code... thats going to be fun in any long running multiple project.
And if you are not going to accept any patches/updates, what again is the value of GPL?

Aha, another partial fallacy the GPL people love to push.

Technically true, however the moment you let someone else contribute to your source code (which, face it, is one of the points of open source software, no? or should every single contributor fork a project), you CANNOT, as they not also hold a GPL license right over the whole base, and unless everyone who contributes can agree, its locked under GPL..

So the GPL simply values the rights of the software to be 'free' over and above the rights of the developers who created and/or contributed to it, to control how they want to use that code.

You seem to be mixing a real (for a few people) and serious health risk, with a preference based on a complete misunderstanding of an issue.

Labeling GMO is like labeling what state/country all the ingredients came from, labeling the surname of the farmer who produced them, labeling what day of the week
they were packaged, etc - it tells you nothing actually useful.

Ah, but you seem to have missed the fact that people who obsess about gluten free are not very rare.
And yet the medical issue requiring that care is..

Do you get it now?

Kind of obvious, dont you think? no? thought not.

Except their range is... not quite enough to get to Seoul.. northern most suburbs wont be happy though.
And the repercussions would be somewhat complete.

You really think the leaders (and by which I mainly mean the military, not the puppet) want to lose their nice comfortable positions?

Quite Agree.

Lets also not forget that the linux kernel (and other projects) have done their share of jerking NVidia around also, in the name of forcing them to work in the way the OSS people want, rather than in the way NVidia is willing to (they make/sell the cards after all).

It pretty much looks to me that NVidia have been waiting for X Server support for the features, and can now support it since that has arrived.

http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q450.html

"Before the discovery of insulin, uranium was used therapeutically for the treatment of diabetes with daily doses in the milligram or even greater range; no poisonings were reported."

Uranium is toxic in pretty much the same way as most other heavy metals, they are not great, but they certain are not _extremely_ toxic, another anti-nucelar lie to add to the list.

You so realise how much radioactivity coal burners spew out in to the atmosphere, and how carcinogenic their ash is, right?

Have a nice day.

Just to prove the point...

http://library.columbia.edu/news/libraries/2008/20080619_jaggars.html

'Damon Jaggars Appointed New Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services at Columbia'

Sounds like a viable day-job to me...

Ah, you mean just like they were before?

Or do you think that those positions were their primary employment?
I think you have a lot to learn about academic journals and positions...

Lets hope the same editorial board is sool working at a 'new' journal, the Open Journal of Library Administration, available only online/free.
Wouldnt that be a somewhat simple solution?

Publishers want to protect 'their' cash cow, but its not theirs to protect. not much of a surprise really.

Oh you stupid Americans make me laugh :)
Put the koolaid aside and learn something ;) many phones cover a wide range of frequencies these days ;)

(of course there are non stupid americans also...)

I am thinking that would be required to become a drone DESIGNER, not a drone PILOT.

Normal pilots dont generally need a degree (although practical degrees do exist).

Sounds much more like universities smell a gravy train, and want to jump on.

Yes, it probably is a good thing, since it means it is a little less like the astroturfing, general interest approach of some articles these days.
If you had much interest in this area, you would find the summary is quite a good, well summary.

Have a nice day.