"This is the kind of thing that is only useful in the short-term, as criminals will quickly learn to easily and cheaply swap-out the time-keeping devices (quartz crystal) on notebooks. Or just by changing the date/time, or running NTPD on the machine..."
Yep because criminals and pawnshop owners are smart enough to do those things. In a world where people still use crystal meth, I think it's safe to assume jackasses that steal the random laptop or car aren't going to swap hardware on a motherboard or run utilities on a machine.
However, objects and frequencies may be owned and regulated by the Government that those objects are registered in, or produced in, or the companies operate in and the freq or band can be regulated.
Look at what the Administration is doing now, then compare it to the 1860s, 1960s, 1940s, 1910s, 1950s.
You'll find that the Bush Administration is acting like the model of restrant when compared to the Americans, Germans, Japanese, Chinese, British, French or Russians during any of those decades.
For example, 1861-1865 - 600,000 dead in US, civil liberties restrained much more openly and much more harshly than now.
They consider themselves as some sacred order of information keepers, to be doled out to those who follow thier rules and are worthy.
At least from the Librarians I've met. Now Mister Gorman reenforces my stereotype of Librarians.
"A blog is a species of interactive electronic diary by means of which the unpublishable, untrammeled by editors or the rules of grammar, can communicate their thoughts via the web."
Alright, what about those who blog who do publish? Be it at a magazine like the New Republic or National Review or literary authors?
"My piece had the temerity to question the usefulness of Google digitizing millions of books and making bits of them available via its notoriously inefficient search engine."
Google is a bit easier to use than the Library of Congress or Dewey Decimal system, but that comment again shows that Mister Gorman thinks the Library is the holy church of knowledge and something like a Google digitalization effort takes you from the true path.
"The Luddite label is because my mild remarks have been portrayed as those of someone worried about the job security of librarians (I am not) rather than one who has a different point of view on the usefulness of this latest expression of Google hubris and vast expenditure of money involved. If a fraction of the latter were devoted to buying books and providing librarians for the library-starved children of California, the effort would be of far more use to humanity and society."
Yea. Well, the library-starved children of California will likely get a bigger bang for thier parent's tax dollar by getting a dedicated search terminal than a staff member with a Masters.
It's XO. eXecutive Officer. Second in command of a unit or ship.
Chief of the Boat is the senior enlisted, a Non-Commissioned Officer in charge of all the enlisted folk, on a ship like an Nimitz-class Aircraft Carrier thats about 5,500 folks.
CAG is Commander Air Group, which they pronounce on BSG, but never seemed to explain. In 1938 the first Carrier Air Wing was formed and designated as Air Group. That was also the first time that the embarked aircraft had its own commanding officer. He was called Commander Air Group. Today the Air Group is named Air Wing but the commander is still called Commander Air Group (CAG).
Yea, what is the point of the torches in AH? For people to cook in there?
Also, I'd like to see anyone who cooks off a spell in AH, the Bank or in IF between AH and Bank be set Horde and PVP and let the Guards attack them, then camp the body.
If one cherry-picks thier data, Global Warming is happening fast-ish. But alot of places have not gotten warming since 1850. As for the sea-level rising, it's been rising little by little since the end of the ice age.
I don't buy the sky-is-falling school of thought on this. The system is too complicated and we can not predict the future. All of your Global Warming Doom could go away in a gnat's fart if the Circum-Pacific System decided to kick off really hard for a couple years
"The largest eruption of the 20th century, Mt Pinatubo is tiny compared to the Siberian Traps but caused a 0.5 degree drop in global temps the year after it erupted. The largest eruption in historic memory occured on Iceland in 1783-84 spewing out 12 cubic km of lava onto the island. The poisonous gases given out are recorded as killing most of the islands crops and foliage and lowering global temps by about 1 degree. If events this size can affect temperatures and large areas then the effects of a large scale flood basalt are incomprehensible."
In your ten or one hundred years of Kyoto, we have no earthly idea what is going to be developed technologically nor what is going to happen geologically. If a Siberian or Deccan Traps event occured again, we'd be turning around trying to warm the planet, and an event like that could happen at any time. So could massive eruptions from anyone of hundreds of volcanos around the World.
"OK, here's a nice example you may have heard of--The Arctic Ice cap. Decreased in thickness by over a third since we started monitoring it (quite carefully, since it was important to our Cold War efforts) with our nuclear missile subs over the last forty years"
Florida is going to be gone? By what? Total Sea Level rise by 2100 is expected to be 31-50 cm. Even if it's a meter or more, that will not destroy Florida.
The World changes, it's had ice ages and then periods with no ice caps at all, for long periods of Earth's history there was no polar ice mass at either the North or South Pole.
We are in both a CO2 driven event and a natural event that started at roughly the same time, 1850. Man and CO2 are part of the problem, but the World has cycles of warming and cooling on it's own that we have nothing to do with. The fact is that we have no freaking idea about how much of this cycle is man-made.
Based on 2000 estimates there are 40 years of oil from current levels of explotation of the fields. Yet when the average field shuts down 63% of the oil remains in the field because at the time of the shutdown and because of the price of oil with current technology that's all that's economicly extractable.
So, that's 40 years of oil based on using 37% of a field.
We have 60 years of natural gas left.
There are 242 times more shale oil in the world than conventional oil reserves. There is more than 8 times more shale oil energy than in oil, gas, coal, peat and tar sands.
There are 550 billion barrels of oil in tar sands and shales that's economically viable at a price point of 30 dollars to a barrel. As the price per barrel goes up, more tar and shale is economic.
Theres alot of carbon out there yet. If shale can be used to say, 37%, that's another 90 years of oil there alone. So add that to the 40 years of oil, at 2000 levels, and there's 130 years more petroleum.
That's without getting into alcohol fuels or biodiesels
There are millions of acres of original vegitation, forests and wildlife in the lower 48, and millions in Alaksa too.
Drive across West Texas, or Kansas, or Colorado, or the Dakotas or Montana and there are thousands of miles where the land wasn't broken, farming didn't happen and no one lives there.
192 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands in the US 83 million acres of National Parks in the US 93 million acres of National Wildlife Refuge System 406 million acres of rangeland in the US, most of that is unbroken, unfarmed and still original grasses, at least in the West.
The Buffalo did get whacked, but they are not all of the original wildlife. There are still thousands of bears, wolves, millions of deer, grouse, and countless other species.
Glaciers have been going away for the last 14,000 years in North America. Glacier National Park 14,000 would have been all the way down to Missoula Montana and into Wyoming. Glaciers shrink and the grow all over the World, the BBC piece with the photos "illustrating the change" are simply "best of show" pictures.
There are 160,000 glaciers in the world, over 65,000 of them have been inventoried and only a handful of those have been studied. They have tracked the mass increase and decrease for only about 100 of the 160,000 glaciers for five or more years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_ga ll ery/05/sci_nat_how_the_world_is_changing/html/1.st m
More evidence, Ross Ice Streams in West Antarctica is increasing at 26.8 gigatons per year, according to Science 295: 476-80
Now people like to throw out that there will be more dangerous storms from GCC, someone from a US Congressman's Office on Monday used that as an arguement in my Geology class, well, for example, Hurricanes are not increasing in thier strikes against the US, nor in thier force. We might be inline for a good decade for 2000-2009, but it needs to pick up to match 1940-1949
This is funny, yesterday in a geology class (mining and energy) we had a spokesmodel from Congressman Blumenauer's staff. I asked her specificly what the Congressman's stance on this was. She hemmed and hawed and finally said - "I think he would be more supportive of higher gas tax than a system like this."
California might want to push this, but I think it's a ICC deal and thus, Federal.
That's because you don't understand what NSA does.
"The National Security Agency (NSA) is a United States government agency responsible for both the collection and analysis of message communications, and for the security of government communications against similar agencies elsewhere. It is a part of the Department of Defense. Its eavesdropping brief includes radio broadcasting, both from organizations and individuals, the Internet, and other intercepted forms of communication, especially confidential communications. Its secure communications brief includes military, diplomatic, and all other sensitive, confidential or secret government communications."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA
"The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a Cabinet department of the federal government of the United States that is concerned with protecting the American homeland and the safety of American citizens. This department was created primarily from a conglomeration of existing federal agencies in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001."
Office of the Secretary Directorate of Border and Transportation Security Transportation Security Administration U.S. Customs and Border Protection U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Directorate of Emergency Preparedness and Resonse Federal Emergency Management Agency Directorate of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection National Cyber Security Division Directorate of Science and Technology U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services U.S. Coast Guard U.S. Secret Service
The artist who created the Portlandia structure for the City of Portland said he'd sue the city if they wanted to move it to the waterfront. Can't find links to that bit, but remeber it from listening to the radio when they talked about it in 2000. City bought it, artist claims rights to it even after he got paid.
Yep. If we get over our unjustified fears about nuclear in the form of RTGs a Mars rover like the current MERs could go for years without the concerns about the cold or dust on the panels or decay of the panels over time.
"But, in fact, the user experience of performance hasn't improved much over the past 15 years."
Oh, to hell with that. 11 years ago I had a Performa 550 with a 2x CD-ROM, compared to me user experanced performance with my G5 today it's obvious the G5 i much fasster, completes tasks faster and can do more.
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"This is the kind of thing that is only useful in the short-term, as criminals will quickly learn to easily and cheaply swap-out the time-keeping devices (quartz crystal) on notebooks. Or just by changing the date/time, or running NTPD on the machine..."
Yep because criminals and pawnshop owners are smart enough to do those things. In a world where people still use crystal meth, I think it's safe to assume jackasses that steal the random laptop or car aren't going to swap hardware on a motherboard or run utilities on a machine.
I think it stems from the back that ABC doesn't show those little commericals anymore, like how a Bill goes to Captial Hill to become a law.
However, objects and frequencies may be owned and regulated by the Government that those objects are registered in, or produced in, or the companies operate in and the freq or band can be regulated.
Ms. Pacman.
Oh hell, I'll bite.
Look at what the Administration is doing now, then compare it to the 1860s, 1960s, 1940s, 1910s, 1950s.
You'll find that the Bush Administration is acting like the model of restrant when compared to the Americans, Germans, Japanese, Chinese, British, French or Russians during any of those decades.
For example, 1861-1865 - 600,000 dead in US, civil liberties restrained much more openly and much more harshly than now.
Well, the Republicans don't control all three branches "exclusively". the Republicans don't have super majorities in either the House or the Senate.
At BASF we don't make the kilogram, we make the kilogram better.
They consider themselves as some sacred order of information keepers, to be doled out to those who follow thier rules and are worthy.
At least from the Librarians I've met. Now Mister Gorman reenforces my stereotype of Librarians.
"A blog is a species of interactive electronic diary by means of which the unpublishable, untrammeled by editors or the rules of grammar, can communicate their thoughts via the web."
Alright, what about those who blog who do publish? Be it at a magazine like the New Republic or National Review or literary authors?
"My piece had the temerity to question the usefulness of Google digitizing millions of books and making bits of them available via its notoriously inefficient search engine."
Google is a bit easier to use than the Library of Congress or Dewey Decimal system, but that comment again shows that Mister Gorman thinks the Library is the holy church of knowledge and something like a Google digitalization effort takes you from the true path.
"The Luddite label is because my mild remarks have been portrayed as those of someone worried about the job security of librarians (I am not) rather than one who has a different point of view on the usefulness of this latest expression of Google hubris and vast expenditure of money involved. If a fraction of the latter were devoted to buying books and providing librarians for the library-starved children of California, the effort would be of far more use to humanity and society."
Yea. Well, the library-starved children of California will likely get a bigger bang for thier parent's tax dollar by getting a dedicated search terminal than a staff member with a Masters.
It's XO. eXecutive Officer. Second in command of a unit or ship.
Chief of the Boat is the senior enlisted, a Non-Commissioned Officer in charge of all the enlisted folk, on a ship like an Nimitz-class Aircraft Carrier thats about 5,500 folks.
CAG is Commander Air Group, which they pronounce on BSG, but never seemed to explain. In 1938 the first Carrier Air Wing was formed and designated as Air Group. That was also the first time that the embarked aircraft had its own commanding officer. He was called Commander Air Group. Today the Air Group is named Air Wing but the commander is still called Commander Air Group (CAG).
I think it's active...ish.
They came out with a Carbon installer and applications for OS X recently.
Yea, what is the point of the torches in AH? For people to cook in there?
Also, I'd like to see anyone who cooks off a spell in AH, the Bank or in IF between AH and Bank be set Horde and PVP and let the Guards attack them, then camp the body.
Yep me too.
Like 60 bucks a month for 1.5/1 DSL with 6 static IPs, no metering, can host whatever I want on it.
Again, I'm calling shenanigans.
If one cherry-picks thier data, Global Warming is happening fast-ish. But alot of places have not gotten warming since 1850. As for the sea-level rising, it's been rising little by little since the end of the ice age.
I don't buy the sky-is-falling school of thought on this. The system is too complicated and we can not predict the future. All of your Global Warming Doom could go away in a gnat's fart if the Circum-Pacific System decided to kick off really hard for a couple years
"The largest eruption of the 20th century, Mt Pinatubo is tiny compared to the Siberian Traps but caused a 0.5 degree drop in global temps the year after it erupted. The largest eruption in historic memory occured on Iceland in 1783-84 spewing out 12 cubic km of lava onto the island. The poisonous gases given out are recorded as killing most of the islands crops and foliage and lowering global temps by about 1 degree. If events this size can affect temperatures and large areas then the effects of a large scale flood basalt are incomprehensible."
In your ten or one hundred years of Kyoto, we have no earthly idea what is going to be developed technologically nor what is going to happen geologically. If a Siberian or Deccan Traps event occured again, we'd be turning around trying to warm the planet, and an event like that could happen at any time. So could massive eruptions from anyone of hundreds of volcanos around the World.
"OK, here's a nice example you may have heard of--The Arctic Ice cap. Decreased in thickness by over a third since we started monitoring it (quite carefully, since it was important to our Cold War efforts) with our nuclear missile subs over the last forty years"
Florida is going to be gone? By what? Total Sea Level rise by 2100 is expected to be 31-50 cm. Even if it's a meter or more, that will not destroy Florida.
The World changes, it's had ice ages and then periods with no ice caps at all, for long periods of Earth's history there was no polar ice mass at either the North or South Pole.
We are in both a CO2 driven event and a natural event that started at roughly the same time, 1850. Man and CO2 are part of the problem, but the World has cycles of warming and cooling on it's own that we have nothing to do with. The fact is that we have no freaking idea about how much of this cycle is man-made.
I love when people start talking about oil.
Based on 2000 estimates there are 40 years of oil from current levels of explotation of the fields. Yet when the average field shuts down 63% of the oil remains in the field because at the time of the shutdown and because of the price of oil with current technology that's all that's economicly extractable.
So, that's 40 years of oil based on using 37% of a field.
We have 60 years of natural gas left.
There are 242 times more shale oil in the world than conventional oil reserves. There is more than 8 times more shale oil energy than in oil, gas, coal, peat and tar sands.
There are 550 billion barrels of oil in tar sands and shales that's economically viable at a price point of 30 dollars to a barrel. As the price per barrel goes up, more tar and shale is economic.
Theres alot of carbon out there yet. If shale can be used to say, 37%, that's another 90 years of oil there alone. So add that to the 40 years of oil, at 2000 levels, and there's 130 years more petroleum.
That's without getting into alcohol fuels or biodiesels
Oh, I call shenagans on you.
There are millions of acres of original vegitation, forests and wildlife in the lower 48, and millions in Alaksa too.
Drive across West Texas, or Kansas, or Colorado, or the Dakotas or Montana and there are thousands of miles where the land wasn't broken, farming didn't happen and no one lives there.
192 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands in the US
83 million acres of National Parks in the US
93 million acres of National Wildlife Refuge System
406 million acres of rangeland in the US, most of that is unbroken, unfarmed and still original grasses, at least in the West.
The Buffalo did get whacked, but they are not all of the original wildlife. There are still thousands of bears, wolves, millions of deer, grouse, and countless other species.
Saying practically nothing remains is nonsense.
Glaciers have been going away for the last 14,000 years in North America. Glacier National Park 14,000 would have been all the way down to Missoula Montana and into Wyoming. Glaciers shrink and the grow all over the World, the BBC piece with the photos "illustrating the change" are simply "best of show" pictures.
a ll ery/05/sci_nat_how_the_world_is_changing/html/1.st m
There are 160,000 glaciers in the world, over 65,000 of them have been inventoried and only a handful of those have been studied. They have tracked the mass increase and decrease for only about 100 of the 160,000 glaciers for five or more years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_g
More evidence, Ross Ice Streams in West Antarctica is increasing at 26.8 gigatons per year, according to Science 295: 476-80
Now people like to throw out that there will be more dangerous storms from GCC, someone from a US Congressman's Office on Monday used that as an arguement in my Geology class, well, for example, Hurricanes are not increasing in thier strikes against the US, nor in thier force. We might be inline for a good decade for 2000-2009, but it needs to pick up to match 1940-1949
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml
This is funny, yesterday in a geology class (mining and energy) we had a spokesmodel from Congressman Blumenauer's staff. I asked her specificly what the Congressman's stance on this was. She hemmed and hawed and finally said - "I think he would be more supportive of higher gas tax than a system like this."
California might want to push this, but I think it's a ICC deal and thus, Federal.
That's because you don't understand what NSA does.
r tm ent_of_Homeland_Security
"The National Security Agency (NSA) is a United States government agency responsible for both the collection and analysis of message communications, and for the security of government communications against similar agencies elsewhere. It is a part of the Department of Defense. Its eavesdropping brief includes radio broadcasting, both from organizations and individuals, the Internet, and other intercepted forms of communication, especially confidential communications. Its secure communications brief includes military, diplomatic, and all other sensitive, confidential or secret government communications."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA
"The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a Cabinet department of the federal government of the United States that is concerned with protecting the American homeland and the safety of American citizens. This department was created primarily from a conglomeration of existing federal agencies in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Depa
Office of the Secretary
Directorate of Border and Transportation Security
Transportation Security Administration
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
Directorate of Emergency Preparedness and Resonse
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Directorate of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection
National Cyber Security Division
Directorate of Science and Technology
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Secret Service
The artist who created the Portlandia structure for the City of Portland said he'd sue the city if they wanted to move it to the waterfront. Can't find links to that bit, but remeber it from listening to the radio when they talked about it in 2000. City bought it, artist claims rights to it even after he got paid.
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http://www.heritagepreservation.org/PROGRAMS/SO
http://www.pbase.com/pr
It would suck and here, I hope, is why Apple stays away.
Signal. Satellite radio doesn't get a signal everywhere and if Apple sells the hardware, they'll have to deal with the annoyed customers.
Yep. If we get over our unjustified fears about nuclear in the form of RTGs a Mars rover like the current MERs could go for years without the concerns about the cold or dust on the panels or decay of the panels over time.
"Many states require two area codes just because of their population."
Hell, in the US many cities have more than 2 area codes. I like in Oregon which has 3 codes - 303, 541, 971, we have 3.42 million people in the state.
http://www.lincmad.com/areacodemap.html
There are only 9 states in the US with 1 area code now. New Mexico, South Dakota, North Dakota, Idaho, West Virgina, Wyoming, Montana, Hawaii, Alaska.
"But, in fact, the user experience of performance hasn't improved much over the past 15 years."
Oh, to hell with that. 11 years ago I had a Performa 550 with a 2x CD-ROM, compared to me user experanced performance with my G5 today it's obvious the G5 i much fasster, completes tasks faster and can do more.
I'm down with that.
.com that can survive a slashdoting, it shouldn't be on /.
/. like the laws for Robots.
If it's up on a website with a
We should have the Laws of