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Grid storage has historically been cost prohibitive. However several big energy players are working with the auto industry to re-purpose used batteries from EV's and hybrids which is driving the cost of grid storage down making it more economically feasible.
You are correct that nuclear is the way to go based on existing technology but the NIMBY attitude is so strong getting them built anywhere is a monumental task and even if they get built face continuous resistance and scrutiny on a much larger scale than solar or wind.
If this product can produce a fraction of the claims it makes it will still be seen as a win for MoDOT.

You need to look harder.

Here's something original that you likely never heard: https://youtu.be/AS6AA6Pe2lo?t...

https://youtu.be/Vh0l00Y1760?l...

I don't care if someone in China can flip my light on and off. Some people are excited excited when that happens.

I'd be more concerned about a device on my network creating a persistent connection to a server in China... who knows what packets it's capturing or what it's relaying to that server - maybe it's giving them a full TCP tunnel back into my network?

Once upon a time coders didn't even enter their code into the computer, you had the punch card operator.

*I* was the punch card operator, you ignorant clod!

Actually, I had a typing class in junior high. I was good at it and even got to use our 2 newfangled IBM Selectrics. But I really learned to type in high school when I went to a college class and had to use an IBM 026 keypunch for Fortran (WATFIV) class I even made a special formatting card that would do alpha for column 1, numeric for 2-5, and autoskip 6 and 73-80.

My point is though, that it took an all-night typing session to actually learn how to type. At 6 PM I was typing at my normal speed, sometimes thinking about the code when I typed.

At 6 AM I was only thinking about the code and typing keywords as a single item.

My problem was that we were supposed to produce a 12 month but 4-month wide calendar for a input card-specified year, and I hadn't learned exactly how the FORMAT "T" (tab) command worked. (You can't tab backwards with multiple FORMAT "+" (print but no line feed) commands.. Guess I should have figured that out from the 026.) I failed that assignment but from then on (1975?) typing was easy -- EVEN IF EVERYTHING WAS ALL IN UPPER CASE.

Emacs vs vi? Ha! Learn that if you typo or delete a line it costs you money (1/3 cent, but still.) And if you're unlucky the ribbon has almost faded to nothing and you can't much read the lines -- although if you're lucky you can find a 029 keypunch that will read your cards and print the corresponding character on the card. But if you're unlucky that ribbon will be used up as well. But if you're lucky you'll know know how to swap the ribbon with another machine. But if you're unlucky with frougurt....

Perhaps Tesla or any Auto manufacture can integrate similar product such as Furious S8 - A 8 cam dash cam (shown below), they could have figured out what went wrong (the culprit). There needs to be a way to capture/record the surroundings to ensure any new technology is safe and if an incident does occur it can determine rather caused by human error or the technology. Condolences to the family, and RIP Joshua! https://youtu.be/dTTP5SKc1Fk https://youtu.be/b9K6HmCb3Bg https://youtu.be/JGkQzWfbW3s

Perhaps Tesla or any Auto manufacture can integrate similar product such as Furious S8 - A 8 cam dash cam (shown below), they could have figured out what went wrong (the culprit). There needs to be a way to capture/record the surroundings to ensure any new technology is safe and if an incident does occur it can determine rather caused by human error or the technology. Condolences to the family, and RIP Joshua! https://youtu.be/dTTP5SKc1Fk https://youtu.be/b9K6HmCb3Bg https://youtu.be/JGkQzWfbW3s

Perhaps Tesla or any Auto manufacture can integrate similar product such as Furious S8 - A 8 cam dash cam (shown below), they could have figured out what went wrong (the culprit). There needs to be a way to capture/record the surroundings to ensure any new technology is safe and if an incident does occur it can determine rather caused by human error or the technology. Condolences to the family, and RIP Joshua! https://youtu.be/dTTP5SKc1Fk https://youtu.be/b9K6HmCb3Bg https://youtu.be/JGkQzWfbW3s

Here's a video clip you'll enjoy if you haven't already seen it.

https://youtu.be/Cw6jDrshgEw

Interesting to note that in the US, 'gun crime' overall has dropped steadily over the last 2 decades, even as gun sales have increased...except in those areas with extremely restrictive gun laws that prevent most law abiding citizens from owning & carrying guns.

Strat

Yeah, after all, the NRA and Ronald Reagan were all for the Black Panthers carrying around [scary-looking-guns] to defend their neighborhoods. /s

"Defending their neighborhoods"?

You mean from those dangerous "cracker babies"?

https://youtu.be/2Y3Cd9gnvlw

https://youtu.be/-S2MIqgI-ic

So much hate.

So much cognitive dissonance on the Left.

Strat

Yeah, after all, the NRA and Ronald Reagan were all for the Black Panthers carrying around [scary-looking-guns] to defend their neighborhoods. /s

"Defending their neighborhoods"?

You mean from those dangerous "cracker babies"?

https://youtu.be/2Y3Cd9gnvlw

https://youtu.be/-S2MIqgI-ic

So much hate.

So much cognitive dissonance on the Left.

Strat

You can start by checking out the video here - https://youtu.be/_8punyPP-bs

Because the dealer does this to relocate your car, so you have to trust him like you would trust a valet. A private party reselling a car after only a year probably drove into a lake on it. If a significant share of buyers were sceptical of auto dealers then the dealers would never ever drive them, at the additional cost of having a truck shuttle new cars around.

https://youtu.be/lb8fWUUXeKM?t...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Depends on whether you think its funny when some moron straps rockets to his car to see if he can go fast and spins around out of control like a fire cracker and dies.

People were warned and people are being stupid. People at high levels are playing chicken with a freight train. Consequences are coming down the track for people not taking the issues seriously.

Just ask Zeppelin about that

OK, I asked Zeppelin about global supplies of Helium, and this was the response:

https://youtu.be/DBzuYNK95sM

Or better yet, have a high-tech device from New Zealand...

The normal

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, on their album Dazzle Ships, had this wonderful mashup. They called "time" from many time zones and synced them together. Give it a listen - it's short and sweet, and leaves you wanting more.

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We're all in deep shit unless we get right with God.

https://youtu.be/i_9aTfGgF0c

Link the 11-yr-old breach reporter.

Moxie Marlinspike tells a story about Comodo at BlackHat 2011

The bit at 8m22 is priceless.

Comodo founder:

This [attack] was extremely sophisticated and critically executed. It was a very well orchestrated, very clinical attack, and the attacker knew exactly what they needed to do and how fast they had to operate.

The hacker turns out to be a script-kiddie who got the technique from an introductory hacking video.

Comodo continues to embarrass themselves as the story unfolds, with their CEO finally complaining that all this wouldn't be a problem if man-in-the-middle wasn't possible. Huh? Aren't you in the business of selling the solution to the MITM problem?

What happened to Comodo? Nothing. Their business didn't suffer, they didn't lose customers. In fact, the only thing that happened was that their CEO was named "entrepreneur of the year" at RSA 2011.

So a few months ago, because I could not find the information anywhere on the entire internet, I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation to estimate how much more polluted the air in the U.S. is as a result of the VW emissions cheat. The answer is that the air is about zero percent more polluted because of that cheat.

The reason for that is that baseline emissions of diesel exhaust pollutants in the U.S. is so enormous. Commercial diesel tractor trailers emit pollutants at a much higher rate than do VW cars because the engines are so much larger and consume fuel at higher rates. The trucks run many more miles per years than the cars. There are many more diesel trucks than diesel cars. (There a lot of trucks and VW diesel cars are not huge sellers in the U.S.) So the net percentage increase in pollution because of that cheat calculates out to about zero.

VW is worth a lot of money and has not much political clout in the U.S. so this turned into feeding frenzy for lawyers. Penalties of this size are entirely unjustified by the degree of harm.

There should be a price for polluting, based strictly on the types and volumes of pollutants, and it should be applied to all, regardless of the type of vehicle or its nation of origin, or its owner. The right solution here is to tax vehicle exhaust emissions at a single universal rate and let manufacturers and buyers decide what to make and what to buy.

What we have instead is sanctioned pillaging.

Hear! Hear!

I'm not letting go my diesel car.

I have a great range on a pretty good size car: less trips to refuel, which is nice when you drive a lot. I have plenty of torque to pass slow vehicles.

And any redneck pickup rollin' coal (rollin' coal https://youtu.be/JGYc0wCP7oQ ) or any plain 16-wheeler outputs way more pollution per mile/gallon/vehicle/year than any "bad bad bad dirty VW Diesel".

Dude you want something like This, if you can't pull a water-skier what good is it?

https://youtu.be/j7gZ28Msa8g

You need al-Gorithms and al-Gebra to catch al-Quaeda. Everyone knows that.

Also, al-Cohn.

https://youtu.be/_mZ3UmRbAgY

Personal point:
keeping the secret agencies in check & under control = good/wise

abolishing everything = idiotic

bolstering secret agencies further = equally idiot as abolishing them

Hint:
Never choose an extreme, because you can certainly be sure that you are wrong even when you are right.

Somebody else had some thoughts on similar choices in the past which are to a large extent being faced by the American people again, in this election.

https://youtu.be/qXBswFfh6AY

"Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you and good evening. The sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasn't been provided with a script. As a matter of fact, I have been permitted to choose my own words and discuss my own ideas regarding the choice that we face in the next few weeks.

I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. Now, one side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. The line has been used, "We've never had it so good."

But I have an uncomfortable feeling that this prosperity isn't something on which we can base our hopes for the future. No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. Today, 37 cents out of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collector's share, and yet our government continues to spend 17 million dollars a day more than the government takes in. We haven't balanced our budget 28 out of the last 34 years. We've raised our debt limit three times in the last twelve months, and now our national debt is one and a half times bigger than all the combined debts of all the nations of the world. We have 15 billion dollars in gold in our treasury; we don't own an ounce. Foreign dollar claims are 27.3 billion dollars. And we've just had announced that the dollar of 1939 will now purchase 45 cents in its total value.

As for the peace that we would preserve, I wonder who among us would like to approach the wife or mother whose husband or son has died in South Vietnam and ask them if they think this is a peace that should be maintained indefinitely. Do they mean peace, or do they mean we just want to be left in peace? There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. We're at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it's been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. Well I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers.

Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, "We don't know how lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped and said, "How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to." And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.

This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or

The BSD Now show "ZFS in the trenches" talks about how different developers have different opinions on whether you must use ECC RAM with ZFS but all recommended ECC if possible (so that part is not in debate). Around the 56:30 mark of the episode, Josh Paetzel of FreeNAS explains that if the ZFS spacemaps were corrupted due to memory errors you could be in a worse situation compared to less sophisticated filesystems that have an fsck. This is because with a corrupt spacemap ZFS would refuse to let you access any data whereas the fsck would "just" (irreversibly) decopule or delete chunks of data in an attempt to allow access to the rest. It's not a great situation - inaccessible data versus data loss and/or corruption but it is a difference.

No semi-auto long guns at all for people who don't know how to behave themselves.

So bolt-action weapons are ok? https://youtu.be/iiajgOeKOKU
And he said he's an "inexperienced shooter" (presumably with the bolt-action, not firearms in general).

Here's an idea I had for a firearm. Take the SMLE's action/design, rechamber it in 5.56mm and 7.62x39 (AK-47 round), use a high-speed tacticool stock with Picatinny rails for accessories. If that guy in the video above had a reliable weapon (due to modern machining), a single-point sling at the shoulder, a vertical foregrip, and a lower-powered round......the "terminal effects" would be pretty damn similar to what a typical semi-auto rifle delivers, barring longer reload times.

If properly engineered, a bolt-action weapon isn't going to significantly hinder a malicious shooter.

Another firearm idea I had: US militias lack heavy weapons. "Suppression is the key infantry task". Militias will never pose a serious threat to a tyrannical government if they cannot suppress government forces with direct fire in order to facilitate maneuver. They need a GPMG, but fully automatic weapons are heavily restricted. How about a tri-barrel gatling gun? Chamber it in 5.56mm (if you want a lighter, almost squad support weapon), 7.62 NATO, and 7.62x54 Russian. Maybe even .338 Magnum (expensive but impressive long-range ballistics, general dynamics is experimenting with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ). You could sell these easily because, as a gatling gun, it is hand-cranked aka each shot is "manually operated", hence not covered by full-auto restrictions despite its high volume of fire. It should be cheap and rugged, like a gatling version of a Russian PKM. And come with a tripod....because anyone serious about employing an MG base of fire will need them. And if you are employing 2+ MGs (as you should, to establish "talking guns"), operator fatigue shouldn't be an issue either.

Fire his ass. Preferably, out of a very large cannon, pointed straight at the Moon.

"One of these days, Alice, one of these days!

Bang, zoom!

To the moon, Alice, to the moon!"

https://youtu.be/98qw86DsdZ0

Strat

Well I would rather have the rich waste it than have the grandparent listen to this

A lot of serious academic research went on in the early 70's to prove that taxing the poor was wholly unproductive. See Dennis Moore's work, for a good, easy to digest example.

https://youtu.be/XM0uZ9mfOUI

Prior Art:

https://youtu.be/u1z4vkPWkLQ

Practicing Rapid Un(?)planned Disassembly, about $39.99.
Being so wealthy you can practice with real matter? Priceless

Some things are priceless. For everything else, there's PayPal.

Practicing Rapid Un(?)planned Disassembly, about $39.99.
Being so wealthy you can practice with real matter? Priceless

Some things are priceless. For everything else, there's PayPal.

https://youtu.be/iPis68U7bdo

So this is what they were talking about at the meeting. Trump's hair! I knew it!

First one I could find was 3 years old but yeah iOS ones exist obviously. https://youtu.be/oiYBnw8hKOk

I don't think it'd be a bad idea starting off kids at even first grade level with simple things, then advancing throughout the grades. I'd even go as far to say this is far more beneficial to a child than universal pre-k. Troy Hunt also started off his kid on coding, he has a writeup here: https://www.troyhunt.com/kids-...

About 1.5 hours ago I could reproduce the results of this video

And now, mysteriously (even non-google) searches for "hillary clinton ind" are mostly coming up with "indiana" instead of "indictment"... weird.

of course, maybe in the last hour, zillions of sock puppets are searching and clicking thru on indiana...

If you search Black Couple you get black couples.

If you search White Couple you get a bunch of mixed race couples. This is racist bullshit / SJW propaganda.

This is because the elites plan to breed Europeans out of existence. No one is saying that Africa needs to be more diverse. It's only the white countries that need to be "culturally enriched" with hoards of migrants. When Barbara Spectre says crazy shit like this it makes you wonder who is really pushing the policies that caused the migrant crisis?

If you don't think that Google is pushing SJW propaganda and manipulating results for political reasons then you're dumb. Just look at the differences in auto-complete between Bing and Google for Hillary Clinton related searches.

The CEO of Alphabet, Eric Schmidt, is the founder of campaigning organization “The Groundwork,” the sole purpose of which is to put Hillary Clinton in the White House, by putting Silicon Valley’s technological prowess at the campaign’s disposal. Schmidt is also an active adviser to the current administration, serving as the head of the Defence Innovation Advisory Board, which provides tech advice to the Pentagon.

That's not entirely true either. Take a look at this guy: https://youtu.be/anlYz3Mwamc

The problems he has experienced are not that uncommon for owners of early models. The only reason the cars were not written off as lemons was that Tesla was willing to spend ridiculous amounts of money fixing the problems and learning from them. Normally if a car needed the whole drive train and many major parts replacing, it would be scrapped for spares by the manufacturer. Aside from the cost, it's the hassle to the customer.

Maybe it's different in the US, but in Europe a car like that with endless on-going problems would be replaced.

A favorite recording artist shared this explanation he got from an astrophysicist friend: It might be an oversimplification, but it works for me. https://youtu.be/sNGUkdovn_8

We also have a mobile factory that can pave a lane of the highway at about 10 miles per hour. It's actually pretty impressive.

I remember seeing a documentary about it when I was a kid: https://youtu.be/LWcvEB6NYpA?t...

1. The Democrat-founded KKK did NOT endorse Trump.

http://www.politico.com/story/...

Only the sort of stupid people who get their news from Comedy Central and SNL and therefore think Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her house

https://youtu.be/iGSJCDw3ZBw

CGP Gray's "First Past the Post" video...
https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

It's hard to vote someone else into office when the system is so biased and the people currently in office have every incentive to keep it that way.

That is why you need guns, lots of guns... We used them 200+ years ago to get rid of King George, he rather sucked...

You should read the first part of the Deceleration of Independence:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Bold text is the important part for the purposes of this post...

https://youtu.be/lbOtyWTRZ_g

Before modding me down, go watch the video. Jim Carrey is fucking awesome!

Not true. See https://youtu.be/DU-HruI7Q30 as posted by someone else. If the machine was really busy doing other stuff, you'd have trouble, but if the machine is MOSTLY idle, apart from running GPG on your chosen cyphertexts, then occasional network interrupts and short-lived cronjobs and stuff won't be too much of a distraction. He even demonstrates that his machine is running something really short every second, doesn't matter, you can trick GPG into making your machine emit the tell-tale squeals for a decent fraction of a second, telling you about ONE bit of key. Repeat with carefully selected cyphertexts and you can extract 1 bit per second until you're done with a 4096-bit key in about a hour. The example in the video had GPG in Enigmail in Thunderbird decrypting your email on receipt. If you know enough about SSL you could fairly easily do this as a series of negotiations on any TLS port.

I'm just going to link this video from the article as an explanation of what Nest is.

Although maybe don't watch that if you have your volume up that high.

Or to give you a straight answer they make "smart" home appliances, including "smart" smoke detectors that don't work and a "smart" thermostat that fails to turn on your heat and lets your pipes freeze. That type of thing.

It's real and very doable. Here's a link to the presentation, skipping over the introductory material which you probably already know anyway. Different instructions emit a very different signal, and contrary to what is commonly thought, computers usually aren't all that busy, so when you're doing something that taxes the CPU, like encryption, that signal will be the main signal you pick up.
The biggest challenge is that due to physical limitations you cannot really measure fast enough to obtain instruction traces from devices with current clock speeds. However, it turns out that all the operations strung together still produce recognisable patterned signals. In this case, these leak information about the primes and, ultimately (using a chosen cypher text attack) the private key used.
At 16:00 is the actual part of the algorithm that gets exploited. It's a test that's executed inside some loops. The chosen cypher text will make the test predominantly come out one way or the other, depending on the key. The loops serve to ‘stretch’ the signal so it can be measured. At 17:00 is an image of the different situations. This attack is serious and practical enough that the GnuPG folks have decided to put in mitigations.

https://youtu.be/DU-HruI7Q30