What'r the chances of getting stuck in ice in Antarctica during the summer months of 2013-2014, when global warming is at it's peak (tongue in cheek) - not once, but TWICE?
Pretty good apparently.
The Captain (?? or someone) from the Aurora Australis (the Australian Ice breaker that the passengers actually transferred to), mentioned the other night on the news that the issue is caused by the B9B iceberg (~ 100 km / 60 miles long) that totally blocked Commonwealth bay a couple of years ago. Apparently it's still causing havoc with the normal flows down there and as a consequence it has currently blocked a bunch of ice inside the bay.
Another issue was there is a whole bunch of "sticky" snow that is binding the ice in the bay together into a large "lump", so the ice breakers couldn't easily bash through it. It wasn't that the ice itself was particularly thick or anything.
Imagine having to be carried by a helicopter over all that ice, just to set down on another ship that's stuck in the same ice.
As mentioned above, the passenger actually went to a different ship and weren't stuck twice.
I've got one on my desk right now proving it certainly isn't domesticated. She's trying to eat everything in sight. Our other one has previously chewed right through my phone charging cable.
The difference between cats and dogs:
A dog thinks: You feed me, you house me, you look after me. You must be a god.
A cat thinks: You feed me, you house me, you look after me. I must be a god.
For those of you who've ever dealt with SuSE of any flavor, the "YaST" tool is the biggist millstone chained to the neck of hte users. It does a dozen vital tasks, and gets *very single one of them wrong* by conflicting with, and ignoring, features of the underlying tools it tries to weld into a giant crutch. DNS,SMTP, disk partitioning, package management, display configuration, and network configuration, it does *every single one* of those taks in fundamentally wrong ways. It can't read settings from the configuration files, and it overrides settings that can only be set by direct configuration file editing.
Don't get me *started* on the firewall and web server configuration component. B-r-r-r-r-r-r.
WTF are you on about...
Have you actually ever used YaST? You can't have, well not within say the last 5 years or so, probably longer. Well, I've been using it since early 9.x days. If it ever was like you describe, it *must* have been before then.
YaST is very well behaved. It definitely knows how to read and write the appropriate conf file entries without borking anything. It doesn't mind if you use it this time, edit by hand next time, or another conf tool another time. It plays nicely with everyone.
In all the years I've been using it, I've only ever seen it miss reading an existing setting once, and that was over 5 years ago. I've never had to go and fix a conf file up afterwards because it had done bad things to it.
I remember waaaaay back when I used to monitor petrol tanker discharges (ships), the evaporation losses could be in the single digit percentages in a day or two. That was our catch all excuse for why the ships figures didn't match the receiving depots figures. We "dipped" the tanks at both ends, before and after, but the receiving end always had less than the ship discharged (NB. We dipped the receiving tank a day or so before the ship started discharging for logistical reasons).
At that time I was working in a laboratory. We used Hydrogen for various things within the lab. It certainly had "evaporation losses", which I also monitored, but I don't remember it being an order of magnitude higher than what I saw with fuel.
Sorry, not getting the logic here, why do they lock on contract phones over there?
In Australia, in general, if you're on contract, they don't bother locking the device. They don't need to, you're on a contract. Who cares if you use another provider, they are still getting there money every month.
Pre-paid devices are nearly always locked though, as they don't have any hold over you.
The pictures of "Evidence" shown on the ticket are likely not showing evidence of the speed infraction, but of the car that committed the speed infraction. A radar or lidar gun was pointed down the street, observed a car speeding, then took pictures of the offending vehicle as it moved up to the stop light (pictures from the rear of vehicle more likely to show plates, some people don't like to put plates on front of their car).
Analogy: a shooting is committed, when the officers arrive they take picture of the suspect. The suspect presents these pictures in court and says, "Look, your honor, this "Evidence" doesn't show me with the guns in my hand, therefore they prove I didn't do it."
Ummmm, no.
That's not how these things work. They are supposed to take a photo of you *while* you are committing the offense, not some indeterminate time later. That's the whole point of these things.
So in this case, during the timeframe of the 3 photos, the person should have been doing the alleged speed. They obviously weren't in this case.
By your analogy, the photo needs to be of you firing the actual shot (that way you can't claim that someone else shot the person and handed the gun to you later)
The owners of the land, silly. That would mainly be Big Agriculture. Giant conglomerates that often also own the associated food processing industry.
??? Just because they are corporations doesn't mean it isn't real money. They've shelled out $$ for land that is now worthless, or at least worth a lot less than they paid for it. It doesn't matter at all who's money it is / was, it's still real money. Those costs are going to get passed on in some way, shape or form to the end users (us).
You mean like irrigation? Pave a road or two? We are constantly developing that sort of infrastructure already. No new expenses next year? Great.
I mean a LOT of infrastructure, not just a road or two and a bit of irrigation piping. I mean things like:
Proper access and distribution infrastructure.
Roads
Rail
Ports
Other infrastructure:
Electricity
Gas
Communications
Setting up the farms in the first place. Buildings, fields, fencing, etc etc etc
Maybe you have to drain the land. Isn't half of Canada going to turn into one giant bog once all the permafrost melts?
And it mean *lots* of it.
That's a lot of $$$$. That's also lots of time required. It's highly likely we don't have that much time to work up the new infrastructure.
Also, who said the "new land" will be any where near as productive as the old land, or that there will be enough of it.
Like New York? Miami? The earth could burn up and dry out and still people would live in those places, because cities already are an artificial environment. Even rising oceans wont make cities go away. There might be some rough patches with some flooding, but even New Orleans is still on the coast, below sea level, and heavily populated. Cities just arent going anywhere.
Those cities maybe, but others will have problems. Many cities already face serious infrastructure issues (like enough suitable potable water supplies)
There's a hell of a lot of value / sunk costs in a city of any size. Hell in my city they are talking about building a new convention / entertainment centre. It will hold maybe 7,000 people. They're talking $100,000,000. That's just one dodgy building.
I don't know what homes go for where you live, but around here you are talking $400,000 - $500,000 each.
Don't forget the basic infrastructure to go with all that (water, roads, sanitation, electricity, gas, etc)
Now multiply that out by an entire city, then a number of cities. And remember, you aren't going to be able to sell your old real estate for anything much. So this is all cash you have to find from somewhere.
Most of the world already can't feed itself, and yet you are here telling us that one of the dire consequences of climate change is that most of the world wont be able to feed itself? You are describing the present, not the future.
This is an already solved problem, and proof of that solution are all the metropolises that we have erected. We wont have to follow the herds because we don't have to follow the herds. If Americans can pay China to produce gadgets for them, then the "distance problem" obviously has become a trivial afterthought. Stop pretending that its a problem, OK? Its intellectually dishonest at best.. blatantly willful ignorance at worst.
You're missing the point. The problem is about changing the current "haves" into the new "have nots". That's not going to go down too well.
As I said before the real issues will be around the costs of moving / changing. They are going to be massive. Of course we can engineer solutions to individual issues. It's just going to cost us. The other even bigger thing is the resulting conflicts that will arise from the changes. That is going to be one of the "engineering solutions". Take if from whoever has it now.
In all seriousness, I think the climate is much more resilient than most alarmists are saying. We have had both much hatter times and much cooler times, and nothing tipped over then.
Of course the planet has. But that's got nothing to do with it. No one in their right mind is trying to say that the planet will end. The big thing is that it is going to create instability and conflict and cost a looooooooooooot of money.
The farm belt may move a lot closer to the pools... And with Canada as the new farm belt, the US corn subsidies may be less of an economic drain. (The out of work framers near me are another story) In other words, the change will suck for a lot of people and be a boon for a lot of other people. Just like most major change.
Just think about that for a bit. Those farms near you are now worthless. Who's going to pay for that? More banks go bust?? Who is going to employ the workers. How are you going to pay for the food you now have to import.
What about creating the new infrastructure required to farm these new areas?
What happens when various cities become uninhabitable / less inhabitable because of local climatic changes. How much does it cost to build a city including all of the associated infrastructure?
What happens when your country can no longer feed itself, but the neighbours have new farmland? Conflict is the normal resolution to these issues.
In general humanity gave up being nomads several millennia ago. We can't just follow the herds any more.
Why would the price of food go up? We will have that new Greenland orange crop...
All of the infrastructure changes that are required for that to happen will ensure that prices go up (massively). You may no longer even have access to the food source (eg: a blockade due to conflict)
Our civilisation absolutely requires stability and trust for it to work. The changes you agree are likely to happen mean that we won't have either. This is our greatest risk.
Just think about the grief and cost that the GFC has caused around the world in recent years. That was all because a handful of companies had some liquidity issues. Imagine what will happen if you multiply that by a million or more times.
The end result of climate change is the planet will still be here. There will be a significant number of plant and animal extinctions. The majority of people will probably survive, but that will depend on the level of conflict that ensues. One thing for certain is that virtually everyone's standard of living will go down (massively).
But they do commercialise it. They aren't a "build it"organisation, they're an "invent it" organisation. They commercialise their inventions by licensing them to others who have the ability / desire to build it. That's a valid option.
Just because you've invented something it may only be one piece of the puzzle. The wifi thing they did was a bit like that. It makes the current state of the art much better / useful, but it isn't a stand alone thing.
From a societal point of view, having groups do research like this is a 'Good Thing' (TM). Solve a niggling problem and license it at a reasonable rate.
A troll on the other hand would buy some patents from the real inventor and hunt around for something that looks vaguely similar that had been going on for years and shake them down.
If you're genuine about your patent you'd try to license it ASAP, not wait till they are painted into a corner and can't change technology.
Aren't alot of the chips in the computers we use fabbed in the USA, atleast? Big ticket items, for sure. How about cars? The united states manufactures crap tons of cars. Harley's are probably made in the USA, too. By necessity, you're house was made in the USA. All Boeing jets are made in the USA, but it's not practical to own them. While probably not 'manufactured' i'm willing to say that a good deal of the food you eat was probably processed in the USA just due to logistical reasons, and packaged here.
I've heard that very little of total spending of the american consumer actually goes to chinese goods manufacturing costs.
Your entire premise is wrong.
You are assuming I'm from the USA...
My car isn't from there. Some of the components in my previous one may have been, but it was locally designed / built. My house certainly isn't from there (logistics would be a nightmare on that one...) The food I eat certainly doesn't come from there (I do very occasionally drink Californian wine though) Some of the electrical components in the things I own may well have come from there. But the item itself invariably comes from somewhere else. I'm pretty sure the fuel here isn't sourced from the US (well very little anyway)
Like I say. *I* don't personally own many if any items produced in the USA.
The US produces very little? It's incredibly obvious to tell you're trolling with statements like that.
Actually from my point of view, I'd have to agree with the GP.
I can't think of a single item I own that was actually made in USA. I own plenty of stuff made by US companies, but as far as I'm aware not on US soil.
At one stage I thought my mountain bike was actually made in the US, but then I found a sticker that disproved that (can't remember where it said now)
A brief survey of most stuff I own indicates that most of it came from China, followed by Taiwan and various other Asian countries.
That's one of the big issues I see with the "first world". We don't actually make the stuff any more that got us to that position in the first place. How long before the rest of the world doesn't need us any more?
The only thing going for it is that you don't know that it's only lower case letters.
I think this is a very important point that lots of people overlook.
By prescribing the use of various character classes, you are actually weakening the password.
A proper password should allow the use of those classes, but not prescribe them.
When I was a kid, we had a game called "Mastermind". One person selected various coloured buttons and hid them behind a screen. The other person had to guess the colours / sequence.
We had various house rules about difficulty levels. One of the easiest ones was if they had to tell you the pattern. eg: * double colour * blank etc
If the seatbelt light was on and the passengers were injured from not wearing their seatbelt, then it's their own fault. The seabelt sign IS A LAWFUL ORDER from the flight crew. They need to STFU.
The seatbelt sign is totally irrelevant to this.
It *wasn't* on "on the off chance we need to take evasive action" It was purely coincidental. The sign may have helped reduce the number of injuries, but that's about it.
Now if they were hurt because of turbulence or something, well that is a different scenario.
PS We flew Air Canada (to Canada of all places) from Australia recently. We spent an inordinate amount of time with the seatbelt sign on. It really wasn't that rough. When you have the sign on too long, well people just *have* to get up and about for various reasons. It is going to happen.
I need two things here: 1) screen sharing with no the fly control / master screen switch (ala Teamviewer) 2) Reliable voice calls (ala Skype). Thanks in advance:)
Well both Teamviewer and Skype work fine under Linux.
I use them both with no issues.
If that's all you want, you should be pretty right.
Well if you are planning to telecommute, it would be expected that your company has systems and procedures in place for this. What are they.
Even within the Windows world, not everyone has all their work professional software at home. So they will have methods for you to obtain / access it as required. In general there are probably two directions they may have gone.
1) It's a generic communication type job. You'll probably need email, calendaring, instant messaging, video conferencing, generic web applications (wiki / CRM etc) 2) Technical job that requires professional software.
In the case of 1. Linux can probably handle most of your needs trivially. Email. There are any number of clients. Your company will probably have IMAP set up, maybe over a VPN. Pretty much all the email clients do IMAP. There are also MS Exchange plugins available for various clients Calendaring Similarly there are various options. Including DavMail / Exchange plugins
IM There are plenty of options here as well. Skype is popular. It works on Linux. I use it on a regular basis. Video conferencing May depend on your company's systems. Again if they allow this type of thing , they will have systems. It it's Skype, well that works. Video conferencing tends to be somewhat vendor specific. So if you need to talk to clients, the company will probably have / use generic / standards compliant software so that it works for everyone.
Web application Should Just Work (TM). Unless they are particularly badly written
In the case of 2. They will either provide copies of the professional software to use at home, or there will be some form of remote access system. Linux can handle RDP, Citrix, Teamviewer, VNC etc
I now work in a Windows shop, but have had a Linux desktop since last Millennium some time. It is a pretty trivial task to work from home.
Actually I can do a bunch of my work from my Android tablet if I desire. That's how trivial this stuff is now days (and has been for quite a while in reality)
Skype is buggy and consumes lots of CPU. I haven't been able to make Teamviewer work. Alternatives to those 2 have been hard to find.
I've never had any issues with either.
I use Teamviewer all the time. It Just Works (TM) Both version 6 and 7. I can't imagine what you're doing wrong. It really was a trivial exercise to download / install and run.
Similarly Skype Just Works (TM) I've never noticed any issues with CPU usage.
They never needed a warrant to "tail" a guy driving round in his car, or "shadow" him walking down the street, so why need one to tail/shadow a cellphone? I don't think any of these events is unreasonable.
My biggest problem with this oft-cited logic is that: a) It takes considerable effort to "tail a guy". You really want to know what "he's" up to. vs the electronic version that is virtually "free".
b) You can't retrospectively "tail a guy" in real life.
c) The real life situation has boundaries. You can't follow them in private settings, not so the electronic version.
d) The "target" of the surveillance has the opportunity to observe the "observation". Remember, they are innocent till proven guilty in most parts of the world. I'm really concerned that that is / has changing.
Just because there are *some* similarities between two situations, doesn't make them the same.
So how come it is humans warming up the planet when the planet not only has been warmer in the past without humans, but has done so in the last 10,000 years before humans even had domesticated animals.
I can believe our burning CO2 into the atmosphere is bad. the smog is a great example of that. However that doesn't mean that this isn't part of a normal warming and cool trend the planet goes through. In fact not a single person who supports Global warming will even look at such data.
Of course the planet has been hotter / colder than now, but that's not really relevant. The climate scientists have been able to link / model the changes this time and a significant factor is the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere. Also, from my personal point of view, the rate of change is very significant. "Natural" climate change tends to be very slow, what we are experiencing now isn't.
So water levels increase? It will be disastrous, but the majority will survive.
Yes the majority will survive the (direct) effects of climate change. But that's not the point. It will cost us a "shed load" of money to adapt, move our cities / agricultural locations etc. from where they are now to wherever they need to go. That is the main point
There will also be conflicts over land / resources. You used to be sitting on a great bit of agricultural land, now it's a desert, or under water. Or your major city no longer has a water supply. That's the problem we face.
Why are you so gullible to believe that this story is factual or the Iran Engineer even works for the government and is not making it up? The loss of GPS is already anticipated in American aircraft and weaponry since the cold war. The Soviet Union routinely jammed GPS in areas like North Korea. Hell LightSquared jams GPS with a WiFI broadcast, its nothing new. That's why since the 80s missiles use terrain mapping to either continue to the target or leave the jamming area. Once GPS is lost planes and missiles can use TERCOM or INS how did the Iranians get by that? The tomahawk missile has been around since the 80s and has this tech.
According to TFS they *didn't* jam the GPS signal. Otherwise it may well have switched over to another method.
The TFS says they SPOOFED the GPS signal to say what they wanted it to say. Big difference...
Now I *thought* that GPS (at least the military version) was encrypted. If so, this would have significant implications as it would mean that they have the encryption key. And if it *isn't* encrypted, why the hell isn't it. That's just the first rule, never trust your inputs.
the pattern is usually a low starting price to lock you in and then the price floats up at the end of the contract period, either 6 months or a year later. NBN promises a roughly equal service to most people in Oz, some of us won't see much speed difference, others will. The downside is that rural customers will only get the service they have now, that is, poor ADSL, or 3G wireless, sat doesn't really count as it's usually subsidised and services so few few people. NBN isn't planning on going into towns smaller than 1000 people.
You are the second person in this thread to try and claim that rural people won't see any benefit. The NBN is to provide AT LEAST 12/1 speeds to 100% of the country (at the same (wholesale) price for all). Those in towns of less than 1,000 may not get fibre, but they will get high speed fixed wireless or satellite. Those who are on the dodgy ADSL / 3G will definitely see a benefit, possibly by an order of magnitude.
As the average Australian download speed is ~8.5Mb/sec down and 1.28Mb/sec up (according to Netindex), even the SLOWEST NBN speed of 12/1 will be a 25% improvement for most people. Don't forget that there are speeds up to 100/40 for now and those speeds will be increased over time.
There will be very few people in Australia who won't get an improvement in download speed and virtually everyone will be able to get massively higher UPLOAD speeds.
I'm not sure what you mean by the "price float". In Australia, virtually all of the price movements in ADSL (or even 3G) over the past 5 or more years have been downwards. There have been new plans with larger quotas from time to time that do cost more, but noone is forcing you to move to them. (I've always been able to stay on my current plan if the new ones didn't suit for whatever reason)
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Around here (Australia) there is bugger all new "real TV" coming out now days.
What'r the chances of getting stuck in ice in Antarctica during the summer months of 2013-2014, when global warming is at it's peak (tongue in cheek) - not once, but TWICE?
Pretty good apparently.
The Captain (?? or someone) from the Aurora Australis (the Australian Ice breaker that the passengers actually transferred to), mentioned the other night on the news that the issue is caused by the B9B iceberg (~ 100 km / 60 miles long) that totally blocked Commonwealth bay a couple of years ago. Apparently it's still causing havoc with the normal flows down there and as a consequence it has currently blocked a bunch of ice inside the bay.
Another issue was there is a whole bunch of "sticky" snow that is binding the ice in the bay together into a large "lump", so the ice breakers couldn't easily bash through it. It wasn't that the ice itself was particularly thick or anything.
Imagine having to be carried by a helicopter over all that ice, just to set down on another ship that's stuck in the same ice.
As mentioned above, the passenger actually went to a different ship and weren't stuck twice.
BS.
I've got one on my desk right now proving it certainly isn't domesticated. She's trying to eat everything in sight. Our other one has previously chewed right through my phone charging cable.
The difference between cats and dogs:
A dog thinks: You feed me, you house me, you look after me. You must be a god.
A cat thinks: You feed me, you house me, you look after me. I must be a god.
For those of you who've ever dealt with SuSE of any flavor, the "YaST" tool is the biggist millstone chained to the neck of hte users. It does a dozen vital tasks, and gets *very single one of them wrong* by conflicting with, and ignoring, features of the underlying tools it tries to weld into a giant crutch. DNS,SMTP, disk partitioning, package management, display configuration, and network configuration, it does *every single one* of those taks in fundamentally wrong ways. It can't read settings from the configuration files, and it overrides settings that can only be set by direct configuration file editing.
Don't get me *started* on the firewall and web server configuration component. B-r-r-r-r-r-r.
WTF are you on about ...
Have you actually ever used YaST? You can't have, well not within say the last 5 years or so, probably longer. Well, I've been using it since early 9.x days. If it ever was like you describe, it *must* have been before then.
YaST is very well behaved. It definitely knows how to read and write the appropriate conf file entries without borking anything. It doesn't mind if you use it this time, edit by hand next time, or another conf tool another time. It plays nicely with everyone.
In all the years I've been using it, I've only ever seen it miss reading an existing setting once, and that was over 5 years ago. I've never had to go and fix a conf file up afterwards because it had done bad things to it.
And petrol doesn't evaporate??
I remember waaaaay back when I used to monitor petrol tanker discharges (ships), the evaporation losses could be in the single digit percentages in a day or two. That was our catch all excuse for why the ships figures didn't match the receiving depots figures. We "dipped" the tanks at both ends, before and after, but the receiving end always had less than the ship discharged (NB. We dipped the receiving tank a day or so before the ship started discharging for logistical reasons).
At that time I was working in a laboratory. We used Hydrogen for various things within the lab. It certainly had "evaporation losses", which I also monitored, but I don't remember it being an order of magnitude higher than what I saw with fuel.
Sorry, not getting the logic here, why do they lock on contract phones over there?
In Australia, in general, if you're on contract, they don't bother locking the device. They don't need to, you're on a contract. Who cares if you use another provider, they are still getting there money every month.
Pre-paid devices are nearly always locked though, as they don't have any hold over you.
The pictures of "Evidence" shown on the ticket are likely not showing evidence of the speed infraction, but of the car that committed the speed infraction. A radar or lidar gun was pointed down the street, observed a car speeding, then took pictures of the offending vehicle as it moved up to the stop light (pictures from the rear of vehicle more likely to show plates, some people don't like to put plates on front of their car).
Analogy: a shooting is committed, when the officers arrive they take picture of the suspect. The suspect presents these pictures in court and says, "Look, your honor, this "Evidence" doesn't show me with the guns in my hand, therefore they prove I didn't do it."
Ummmm, no.
That's not how these things work. They are supposed to take a photo of you *while* you are committing the offense, not some indeterminate time later. That's the whole point of these things.
So in this case, during the timeframe of the 3 photos, the person should have been doing the alleged speed. They obviously weren't in this case.
By your analogy, the photo needs to be of you firing the actual shot (that way you can't claim that someone else shot the person and handed the gun to you later)
Sorry at the end of the day isn't the upload ratio 1
Some verifiable facts, examples and explanations, or you're full of shit.
My money's on the latter ...
The owners of the land, silly. That would mainly be Big Agriculture. Giant conglomerates that often also own the associated food processing industry.
???
Just because they are corporations doesn't mean it isn't real money. They've shelled out $$ for land that is now worthless, or at least worth a lot less than they paid for it. It doesn't matter at all who's money it is / was, it's still real money. Those costs are going to get passed on in some way, shape or form to the end users (us).
You mean like irrigation? Pave a road or two? We are constantly developing that sort of infrastructure already. No new expenses next year? Great.
I mean a LOT of infrastructure, not just a road or two and a bit of irrigation piping.
I mean things like:
Proper irrigation infrastructure, probably where none existed before. Dams, pipes / canals / pumps etc
Proper access and distribution infrastructure.
Roads
Rail
Ports
Other infrastructure:
Electricity
Gas
Communications
Setting up the farms in the first place. Buildings, fields, fencing, etc etc etc
Maybe you have to drain the land. Isn't half of Canada going to turn into one giant bog once all the permafrost melts?
And it mean *lots* of it.
That's a lot of $$$$. That's also lots of time required. It's highly likely we don't have that much time to work up the new infrastructure.
Also, who said the "new land" will be any where near as productive as the old land, or that there will be enough of it.
Like New York? Miami? The earth could burn up and dry out and still people would live in those places, because cities already are an artificial environment. Even rising oceans wont make cities go away. There might be some rough patches with some flooding, but even New Orleans is still on the coast, below sea level, and heavily populated. Cities just arent going anywhere.
Those cities maybe, but others will have problems. Many cities already face serious infrastructure issues (like enough suitable potable water supplies)
There's a hell of a lot of value / sunk costs in a city of any size. Hell in my city they are talking about building a new convention / entertainment centre. It will hold maybe 7,000 people. They're talking $100,000,000. That's just one dodgy building.
I don't know what homes go for where you live, but around here you are talking $400,000 - $500,000 each.
Don't forget the basic infrastructure to go with all that (water, roads, sanitation, electricity, gas, etc)
Now multiply that out by an entire city, then a number of cities. And remember, you aren't going to be able to sell your old real estate for anything much. So this is all cash you have to find from somewhere.
Most of the world already can't feed itself, and yet you are here telling us that one of the dire consequences of climate change is that most of the world wont be able to feed itself? You are describing the present, not the future.
This is an already solved problem, and proof of that solution are all the metropolises that we have erected. We wont have to follow the herds because we don't have to follow the herds. If Americans can pay China to produce gadgets for them, then the "distance problem" obviously has become a trivial afterthought. Stop pretending that its a problem, OK? Its intellectually dishonest at best.. blatantly willful ignorance at worst.
You're missing the point. The problem is about changing the current "haves" into the new "have nots". That's not going to go down too well.
As I said before the real issues will be around the costs of moving / changing. They are going to be massive. Of course we can engineer solutions to individual issues. It's just going to cost us. The other even bigger thing is the resulting conflicts that will arise from the changes. That is going to be one of the "engineering solutions". Take if from whoever has it now.
In all seriousness, I think the climate is much more resilient than most alarmists are saying. We have had both much hatter times and much cooler times, and nothing tipped over then.
Of course the planet has. But that's got nothing to do with it. No one in their right mind is trying to say that the planet will end. The big thing is that it is going to create instability and conflict and cost a looooooooooooot of money.
The farm belt may move a lot closer to the pools... And with Canada as the new farm belt, the US corn subsidies may be less of an economic drain. (The out of work framers near me are another story) In other words, the change will suck for a lot of people and be a boon for a lot of other people. Just like most major change.
Just think about that for a bit. Those farms near you are now worthless. Who's going to pay for that? More banks go bust?? Who is going to employ the workers. How are you going to pay for the food you now have to import.
What about creating the new infrastructure required to farm these new areas?
What happens when various cities become uninhabitable / less inhabitable because of local climatic changes. How much does it cost to build a city including all of the associated infrastructure?
What happens when your country can no longer feed itself, but the neighbours have new farmland? Conflict is the normal resolution to these issues.
In general humanity gave up being nomads several millennia ago. We can't just follow the herds any more.
Why would the price of food go up? We will have that new Greenland orange crop...
All of the infrastructure changes that are required for that to happen will ensure that prices go up (massively). You may no longer even have access to the food source (eg: a blockade due to conflict)
Our civilisation absolutely requires stability and trust for it to work. The changes you agree are likely to happen mean that we won't have either. This is our greatest risk.
Just think about the grief and cost that the GFC has caused around the world in recent years. That was all because a handful of companies had some liquidity issues. Imagine what will happen if you multiply that by a million or more times.
The end result of climate change is the planet will still be here. There will be a significant number of plant and animal extinctions. The majority of people will probably survive, but that will depend on the level of conflict that ensues. One thing for certain is that virtually everyone's standard of living will go down (massively).
But they do commercialise it. They aren't a "build it"organisation, they're an "invent it" organisation. They commercialise their inventions by licensing them to others who have the ability / desire to build it. That's a valid option.
Just because you've invented something it may only be one piece of the puzzle. The wifi thing they did was a bit like that. It makes the current state of the art much better / useful, but it isn't a stand alone thing.
From a societal point of view, having groups do research like this is a 'Good Thing' (TM). Solve a niggling problem and license it at a reasonable rate.
A troll on the other hand would buy some patents from the real inventor and hunt around for something that looks vaguely similar that had been going on for years and shake them down.
If you're genuine about your patent you'd try to license it ASAP, not wait till they are painted into a corner and can't change technology.
Aren't alot of the chips in the computers we use fabbed in the USA, atleast? Big ticket items, for sure. How about cars? The united states manufactures crap tons of cars. Harley's are probably made in the USA, too. By necessity, you're house was made in the USA. All Boeing jets are made in the USA, but it's not practical to own them. While probably not 'manufactured' i'm willing to say that a good deal of the food you eat was probably processed in the USA just due to logistical reasons, and packaged here.
I've heard that very little of total spending of the american consumer actually goes to chinese goods manufacturing costs.
Your entire premise is wrong.
You are assuming I'm from the USA ...
My car isn't from there. Some of the components in my previous one may have been, but it was locally designed / built. ...)
My house certainly isn't from there (logistics would be a nightmare on that one
The food I eat certainly doesn't come from there (I do very occasionally drink Californian wine though)
Some of the electrical components in the things I own may well have come from there. But the item itself invariably comes from somewhere else.
I'm pretty sure the fuel here isn't sourced from the US (well very little anyway)
Like I say. *I* don't personally own many if any items produced in the USA.
YMMV
The US produces very little? It's incredibly obvious to tell you're trolling with statements like that.
Actually from my point of view, I'd have to agree with the GP.
I can't think of a single item I own that was actually made in USA. I own plenty of stuff made by US companies, but as far as I'm aware not on US soil.
At one stage I thought my mountain bike was actually made in the US, but then I found a sticker that disproved that (can't remember where it said now)
A brief survey of most stuff I own indicates that most of it came from China, followed by Taiwan and various other Asian countries.
That's one of the big issues I see with the "first world". We don't actually make the stuff any more that got us to that position in the first place. How long before the rest of the world doesn't need us any more?
The only thing going for it is that you don't know that it's only lower case letters.
I think this is a very important point that lots of people overlook.
By prescribing the use of various character classes, you are actually weakening the password.
A proper password should allow the use of those classes, but not prescribe them.
When I was a kid, we had a game called "Mastermind". One person selected various coloured buttons and hid them behind a screen. The other person had to guess the colours / sequence.
We had various house rules about difficulty levels. One of the easiest ones was if they had to tell you the pattern. eg:
* double colour
* blank
etc
Same thing with passwords
Maybe I haven't been paying attention, but wasn't the basis of the BSD ruling that API's weren't copyrightable???
If the seatbelt light was on and the passengers were injured from not wearing their seatbelt, then it's their own fault. The seabelt sign IS A LAWFUL ORDER from the flight crew. They need to STFU.
The seatbelt sign is totally irrelevant to this.
It *wasn't* on "on the off chance we need to take evasive action" It was purely coincidental. The sign may have helped reduce the number of injuries, but that's about it.
Now if they were hurt because of turbulence or something, well that is a different scenario.
PS We flew Air Canada (to Canada of all places) from Australia recently. We spent an inordinate amount of time with the seatbelt sign on. It really wasn't that rough. When you have the sign on too long, well people just *have* to get up and about for various reasons. It is going to happen.
I need two things here: 1) screen sharing with no the fly control / master screen switch (ala Teamviewer) 2) Reliable voice calls (ala Skype). Thanks in advance :)
Well both Teamviewer and Skype work fine under Linux.
I use them both with no issues.
If that's all you want, you should be pretty right.
Well if you are planning to telecommute, it would be expected that your company has systems and procedures in place for this. What are they.
Even within the Windows world, not everyone has all their work professional software at home. So they will have methods for you to obtain /
access it as required.
In general there are probably two directions they may have gone.
1) It's a generic communication type job. You'll probably need email, calendaring, instant messaging, video conferencing, generic web applications (wiki / CRM etc)
2) Technical job that requires professional software.
In the case of 1. Linux can probably handle most of your needs trivially.
Email.
There are any number of clients. Your company will probably have IMAP set up, maybe over a VPN. Pretty much all the email clients do IMAP. There are also MS Exchange plugins available for various clients
Calendaring
Similarly there are various options. Including DavMail / Exchange plugins
IM
There are plenty of options here as well. Skype is popular. It works on Linux. I use it on a regular basis.
Video conferencing
May depend on your company's systems. Again if they allow this type of thing , they will have systems. It it's Skype, well that works. Video conferencing tends to be somewhat vendor specific. So if you need to talk to clients, the company will probably have / use generic / standards compliant software so that it works for everyone.
Web application
Should Just Work (TM). Unless they are particularly badly written
In the case of 2. They will either provide copies of the professional software to use at home, or there will be some form of remote access system.
Linux can handle RDP, Citrix, Teamviewer, VNC etc
I now work in a Windows shop, but have had a Linux desktop since last Millennium some time. It is a pretty trivial task to work from home.
Actually I can do a bunch of my work from my Android tablet if I desire. That's how trivial this stuff is now days (and has been for quite a while in reality)
Skype is buggy and consumes lots of CPU.
I haven't been able to make Teamviewer work.
Alternatives to those 2 have been hard to find.
I've never had any issues with either.
I use Teamviewer all the time. It Just Works (TM) Both version 6 and 7. I can't imagine what you're doing wrong. It really was a trivial exercise to download / install and run.
Similarly Skype Just Works (TM) I've never noticed any issues with CPU usage.
They never needed a warrant to "tail" a guy driving round in his car, or "shadow" him walking down the street, so why need one to tail/shadow a cellphone? I don't think any of these events is unreasonable.
My biggest problem with this oft-cited logic is that:
a) It takes considerable effort to "tail a guy". You really want to know what "he's" up to. vs the electronic version that is virtually "free".
b) You can't retrospectively "tail a guy" in real life.
c) The real life situation has boundaries. You can't follow them in private settings, not so the electronic version.
d) The "target" of the surveillance has the opportunity to observe the "observation". Remember, they are innocent till proven guilty in most parts of the world. I'm really concerned that that is / has changing.
Just because there are *some* similarities between two situations, doesn't make them the same.
He may have to wait a bit to try for the Senate.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Australian_federal_election it must by held by 30 November 2013. Whilst there is *some* possibility of it being called early, I wouldn't be holding my breath.
So how come it is humans warming up the planet when the planet not only has been warmer in the past without humans, but has done so in the last 10,000 years before humans even had domesticated animals.
I can believe our burning CO2 into the atmosphere is bad. the smog is a great example of that. However that doesn't mean that this isn't part of a normal warming and cool trend the planet goes through. In fact not a single person who supports Global warming will even look at such data.
Of course the planet has been hotter / colder than now, but that's not really relevant. The climate scientists have been able to link / model the changes this time and a significant factor is the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere. Also, from my personal point of view, the rate of change is very significant. "Natural" climate change tends to be very slow, what we are experiencing now isn't.
So water levels increase? It will be disastrous, but the majority will survive.
Yes the majority will survive the (direct) effects of climate change. But that's not the point. It will cost us a "shed load" of money to adapt, move our cities / agricultural locations etc. from where they are now to wherever they need to go. That is the main point
There will also be conflicts over land / resources. You used to be sitting on a great bit of agricultural land, now it's a desert, or under water. Or your major city no longer has a water supply. That's the problem we face.
Why are you so gullible to believe that this story is factual or the Iran Engineer even works for the government and is not making it up? The loss of GPS is already anticipated in American aircraft and weaponry since the cold war. The Soviet Union routinely jammed GPS in areas like North Korea. Hell LightSquared jams GPS with a WiFI broadcast, its nothing new. That's why since the 80s missiles use terrain mapping to either continue to the target or leave the jamming area. Once GPS is lost planes and missiles can use TERCOM or INS how did the Iranians get by that?
The tomahawk missile has been around since the 80s and has this tech.
According to TFS they *didn't* jam the GPS signal. Otherwise it may well have switched over to another method.
The TFS says they SPOOFED the GPS signal to say what they wanted it to say. Big difference ...
Now I *thought* that GPS (at least the military version) was encrypted. If so, this would have significant implications as it would mean that they have the encryption key. And if it *isn't* encrypted, why the hell isn't it. That's just the first rule, never trust your inputs.
the pattern is usually a low starting price to lock you in and then the price floats up at the end of the contract period, either 6 months or a year later. NBN promises a roughly equal service to most people in Oz, some of us won't see much speed difference, others will. The downside is that rural customers will only get the service they have now, that is, poor ADSL, or 3G wireless, sat doesn't really count as it's usually subsidised and services so few few people. NBN isn't planning on going into towns smaller than 1000 people.
You are the second person in this thread to try and claim that rural people won't see any benefit. The NBN is to provide AT LEAST 12/1 speeds to 100% of the country (at the same (wholesale) price for all). Those in towns of less than 1,000 may not get fibre, but they will get high speed fixed wireless or satellite. Those who are on the dodgy ADSL / 3G will definitely see a benefit, possibly by an order of magnitude.
As the average Australian download speed is ~8.5Mb/sec down and 1.28Mb/sec up (according to Netindex), even the SLOWEST NBN speed of 12/1 will be a 25% improvement for most people. Don't forget that there are speeds up to 100/40 for now and those speeds will be increased over time.
There will be very few people in Australia who won't get an improvement in download speed and virtually everyone will be able to get massively higher UPLOAD speeds.
I'm not sure what you mean by the "price float". In Australia, virtually all of the price movements in ADSL (or even 3G) over the past 5 or more years have been downwards. There have been new plans with larger quotas from time to time that do cost more, but noone is forcing you to move to them. (I've always been able to stay on my current plan if the new ones didn't suit for whatever reason)