If they are using your laptop, chances are they are reading your e-mail.
Just set up a catchy gmail account or some such and send yourself a similarly catchy named attachment. Britney-Spears-does-the-nasty.whatever. Embed your script or suitable binary in that.
Having solar panels on your roof that can power your stuff -and- refuel your car is a better investment than a solar plant for each.
It depends on all sorts of things. How much do solar panels cost and how much hydrogen can they generate for each unit area exposed to the sun? And how much would assemblies that use antimony/gallium nitride system cost and how much hydrogen can they generate per unit area exposed to the sun? How much energy is required to run parasitic stuff needed to make the Sb/GaN work? Pumps, etc?
Right now the best solar panels are still around or less than 20% efficient. Efficiency of this other process would need to be considered as well as the rate of generation.
Fuel cells (which some types can run on hydrogen) can go from near 100% efficient when running at very low current density to 40% efficiency (or probably less) when running at high current densities.
In short, it could be that it is cheapest and most efficient to have a specialized system for each end product - electricity or hydrogen. Kind of the same thing as how much more efficient it is to do direct heating of air and water than it is to use solar cells to run resistive heating for the same purpose.
In other words, there probably isn't enough information to make that kind of statement.
He did what he wanted and he had good ideas. He didn't compromise. He was kind of a dick at times but he was generally right and he knew it, and stuck to his ideals.
He had the luxury of being in a position to do that. It was only when he lost that ability that he got fired. He left. Apple sank. When he went back it was on his terms.
I think he was in the right place at the right time with some damn good ideas about how to build computers and products. But without the initial products to launch everything, courtesy of Steve Wozniak, Jobs would have been all dressed up with nowhere to go without getting even luckier.
I would think the crucial information would be if there had been a significant change in the cosmic ray flux over the last century and how that correlates with a change in cloud coverage or density.
I just read the article - this is a scam. A hoax. They say one gram = 7500 gallons of gasoline but at the end claim no nuclear reactions are taking place. They say you have to "superheat" the thorium for that to happen.
Without nuclear reactions, there is no way to have one gram of thorium release the same energy as 7500 gallons of gasoline. It's simply impossible.
And there is no way to have a laser cause a nuclear reaction unless you are using it to implode targets.
Thorium is being looked at as reactor fuel but it's not the kind of reactor that would fit under an automobile hood.
I hope nobody invests any money in this. It isn't real.
This is covered in the plot and does it nicely. I won't spoil it though.
I agree with the reviewer - they used really thick lines with the bad people in the movie. Storytelling for the people who can't get subtlety. But all in all a pretty good movie.
The CGI is excellent and the facial expressions and body language of the apes is amazing. I was in awe with regards to that. They did a great job.
And in comparison, way better than the Mark Wahlberg remake of Planet.
No. It doesn't mean a network is overcommitted. It may be overcommitted if everyone goes as fast as they possibly can with no throttling, but if you have tiered service then you need to make sure that people who don't pay for the bandwidth don't take away from the people who do.
You can't hang your argument on saying because it is badly implemented by some, it is bad by default.
Neutral throttling is definitely NOT bad. It's a way to guarantee service levels to your subscribers by not allowing one person to saturate your bandwidth.
If you limit everyone to some max speed (as long as that is disclosed as their service level) then nobody can basically take over the network or at least load it to the point that others suffer.
In practice it takes a number of people all maxing out their connections to soak it all up, but that's the idea. Some throttling, as long as it is not used to the benefit or detriment of some kinds of traffic, is perfectly fine and necessary.
Actually, humans can target certain mutations specifically and accomplish things nature might or might not have a mutation path to.
Things like making certain parts fluorescent and such. In nature there is an implied improvement in survival and/or reproduction that preserves a mutation and propagates it onward. Humans can create mutations that provide no such advantages.
But the difference is that as human pursue these various mutations, there can be unintended side effects and consequences. Things like bacteria that excrete alcohol for biofuels that happen to like to live in the soil and feed off plant matter. Their alcohol excretions can kill living foliage. If those bugs manage to get out of their scientific/industrial homes and escape into the wild - and survive - then we have created a path to wipe out vegetation.
I think that kind of scenario is along the lines of what people fear. Sure, nature could also come up with a bug that feeds off plant matter, excretes alcohol, and loves to live in the soil. But humans have already done it and now it is a liability if it ever gets out.
Wrong. These are fraudulent charges and the phone companies - land and cellular - basically collude. I was slammed by "Celebrity Squares" and started getting text messages sent to my phone that were stupid quiz questions about celebrities. I thought it was just junk text messages and would delete them.
I finally got tired of it and looked them up online to find how to stop the annoyance. That's when a few of the Google hits were about fraudulent charges. I immediately checked my bill and sure enough - buried in a line that I had to expand twice were the charges from Celebrity Squares.
I called Celebrity Squares and they said I had specifically requested the "service". I have a static IP address and they gave me a date, time, and my IP address to say that I had signed up and I had not. My logs don't go back that far or I would have seen what website I gave my call phone number to because they were either corrupt or compromised. Regardless, this was a fraudulent charge and had been happening for a while.
I demanded all money back but they only refunded $30. I called my cell phone company, told them my story, complained about the fraudulent charges, and they also refunded $30. $160 had been taken from my account by Celebrity Squares.
I was fed up so contacted my Senator who took up the case and contacted the cell phone company about the charges, hiding the charges on my bill (I sent them screen grabs since I do online paperless billing), and allowing Celebrity Squares (and others) to add charges to people's bills without the customer's permission. The cell company refunded all of the money taken by Celebrity Squares and was going to back bill them for the amount.
My case was one of the ones presented as evidence during the Senate hearings this week. Companies like Celebrity Squares are dirty and the cell phone companies are more than happy to let them add charges because they get a cut. They make millions off of these scams. I can only guess how much money Celebrity Squares and others make.
If you get monthly stupid celebrity quiz questions, they got you too. Go check your bill and see how much you are being charged and you can see how much money you have had stolen.
This is a huge problem.
As an aside, the cell companies can lock out those kinds of charges but you have to opt out. By default you are opted in and third party companies can add charges to anyone's bill that hasn't said specifically to block them. One of the points I made to my Senator was that that needed to change. People should be opted out by default and have to choose to allow such charges.
Please post a reply if you got slammed by Celebrity Squares. And tell your Senators. Or if you got slammed by anyone. The more who come forward, the better chance of getting legislation passed that blocks these activities and if your evidence is good enough, we might be able to get prosecution for companies like Celebrity Squares.
I thought similar until I saw the numbers. Electric heat is one of the least efficient forms there is. For homes with gas heat, relying on incandescent lamps for their heating is just wasteful. It's much more efficient to minimize electricity use by using CFLs and use more efficient gas for actual heating. When trying to cool your house the savings go way up by not having so much heat load.
Something else is all the people complaining about the cost of CFL bulbs. Even with failures, the electricity savings by using CFLs is huge. I have those light bars in my bathrooms that could either be 360 watts of incandescent lamps or, with CFLs, just 90 watts for more light output. I use CFLs everywhere that I can. The only exceptions are the oven, refrigerator, and the ceiling fans that have candelabra base bulbs and maybe those are available as CFL now.
There was a very easily noticed drop in my electric bill when I switched over - especially in the summer due to the reduced heat load for the air conditioning.
It all adds up, folks. The electric savings due to using CFL lamps is huge. That's a hell of a lot of coal and natural gas that isn't being burned and it cuts the need for nuclear.
There is a bigger picture than just that you had to pay a buck or two for a CFL instead of 50 cents for an incandescent.
I would guess that evidence was presented that they were inside the victim company's computers. A threat can come from anyone. But a threat that says go look here and see that we are indeed inside your system carries a lot more weight.
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I love my /etc/hosts file.
There is no place like 127.0.0.1.
If they are using your laptop, chances are they are reading your e-mail.
Just set up a catchy gmail account or some such and send yourself a similarly catchy named attachment. Britney-Spears-does-the-nasty.whatever. Embed your script or suitable binary in that.
Does a bungee chord have reverb?
Sir, I wish I had mod points!
Well played!
Just don't upgrade and the book stay... ;-)
Sounds like the ingredient list to a Morton cream pie...
Having solar panels on your roof that can power your stuff -and- refuel your car is a better investment than a solar plant for each.
It depends on all sorts of things. How much do solar panels cost and how much hydrogen can they generate for each unit area exposed to the sun? And how much would assemblies that use antimony/gallium nitride system cost and how much hydrogen can they generate per unit area exposed to the sun? How much energy is required to run parasitic stuff needed to make the Sb/GaN work? Pumps, etc?
Right now the best solar panels are still around or less than 20% efficient. Efficiency of this other process would need to be considered as well as the rate of generation.
Fuel cells (which some types can run on hydrogen) can go from near 100% efficient when running at very low current density to 40% efficiency (or probably less) when running at high current densities.
In short, it could be that it is cheapest and most efficient to have a specialized system for each end product - electricity or hydrogen. Kind of the same thing as how much more efficient it is to do direct heating of air and water than it is to use solar cells to run resistive heating for the same purpose.
In other words, there probably isn't enough information to make that kind of statement.
He did what he wanted and he had good ideas. He didn't compromise. He was kind of a dick at times but he was generally right and he knew it, and stuck to his ideals.
He had the luxury of being in a position to do that. It was only when he lost that ability that he got fired. He left. Apple sank. When he went back it was on his terms.
I think he was in the right place at the right time with some damn good ideas about how to build computers and products. But without the initial products to launch everything, courtesy of Steve Wozniak, Jobs would have been all dressed up with nowhere to go without getting even luckier.
I would think the crucial information would be if there had been a significant change in the cosmic ray flux over the last century and how that correlates with a change in cloud coverage or density.
Just watch it. When it melts and catches on fire - quickly - odds are good that it detected a nuclear explosion.
"Orbital insertion is really not that hard, once you get the hang of it."
/. I'm guessing that jokes on insertion not being hard would be a waste of time... ;-)
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I just read the article - this is a scam. A hoax. They say one gram = 7500 gallons of gasoline but at the end claim no nuclear reactions are taking place. They say you have to "superheat" the thorium for that to happen.
Without nuclear reactions, there is no way to have one gram of thorium release the same energy as 7500 gallons of gasoline. It's simply impossible.
And there is no way to have a laser cause a nuclear reaction unless you are using it to implode targets.
Thorium is being looked at as reactor fuel but it's not the kind of reactor that would fit under an automobile hood.
I hope nobody invests any money in this. It isn't real.
You just need a Mr. Fusion.
You only need 20-50 kW (per hour) to power a car/truck down the highway...
kW is a rate of energy use/release. If you say kWH, you are specifying a quantity of energy.
50 kWH would power your car/truck for an hour if it uses 50 kW to drive down the highway. Two hours if it runs on 25 kW, etc.
This is covered in the plot and does it nicely. I won't spoil it though.
I agree with the reviewer - they used really thick lines with the bad people in the movie. Storytelling for the people who can't get subtlety. But all in all a pretty good movie.
The CGI is excellent and the facial expressions and body language of the apes is amazing. I was in awe with regards to that. They did a great job.
And in comparison, way better than the Mark Wahlberg remake of Planet.
No. It doesn't mean a network is overcommitted. It may be overcommitted if everyone goes as fast as they possibly can with no throttling, but if you have tiered service then you need to make sure that people who don't pay for the bandwidth don't take away from the people who do.
You can't hang your argument on saying because it is badly implemented by some, it is bad by default.
Neutral throttling is definitely NOT bad. It's a way to guarantee service levels to your subscribers by not allowing one person to saturate your bandwidth.
If you limit everyone to some max speed (as long as that is disclosed as their service level) then nobody can basically take over the network or at least load it to the point that others suffer.
In practice it takes a number of people all maxing out their connections to soak it all up, but that's the idea. Some throttling, as long as it is not used to the benefit or detriment of some kinds of traffic, is perfectly fine and necessary.
Well, I don't want to pay for any of the roads you drive on, or for the police and firemen that protect you.
So there.
(See how that works?)
Or, that he/she is aware of...
Wouldn't those keys possibly repeat?
Actually, humans can target certain mutations specifically and accomplish things nature might or might not have a mutation path to.
Things like making certain parts fluorescent and such. In nature there is an implied improvement in survival and/or reproduction that preserves a mutation and propagates it onward. Humans can create mutations that provide no such advantages.
But the difference is that as human pursue these various mutations, there can be unintended side effects and consequences. Things like bacteria that excrete alcohol for biofuels that happen to like to live in the soil and feed off plant matter. Their alcohol excretions can kill living foliage. If those bugs manage to get out of their scientific/industrial homes and escape into the wild - and survive - then we have created a path to wipe out vegetation.
I think that kind of scenario is along the lines of what people fear. Sure, nature could also come up with a bug that feeds off plant matter, excretes alcohol, and loves to live in the soil. But humans have already done it and now it is a liability if it ever gets out.
Wrong. These are fraudulent charges and the phone companies - land and cellular - basically collude. I was slammed by "Celebrity Squares" and started getting text messages sent to my phone that were stupid quiz questions about celebrities. I thought it was just junk text messages and would delete them.
I finally got tired of it and looked them up online to find how to stop the annoyance. That's when a few of the Google hits were about fraudulent charges. I immediately checked my bill and sure enough - buried in a line that I had to expand twice were the charges from Celebrity Squares.
I called Celebrity Squares and they said I had specifically requested the "service". I have a static IP address and they gave me a date, time, and my IP address to say that I had signed up and I had not. My logs don't go back that far or I would have seen what website I gave my call phone number to because they were either corrupt or compromised. Regardless, this was a fraudulent charge and had been happening for a while.
I demanded all money back but they only refunded $30. I called my cell phone company, told them my story, complained about the fraudulent charges, and they also refunded $30. $160 had been taken from my account by Celebrity Squares.
I was fed up so contacted my Senator who took up the case and contacted the cell phone company about the charges, hiding the charges on my bill (I sent them screen grabs since I do online paperless billing), and allowing Celebrity Squares (and others) to add charges to people's bills without the customer's permission. The cell company refunded all of the money taken by Celebrity Squares and was going to back bill them for the amount.
My case was one of the ones presented as evidence during the Senate hearings this week. Companies like Celebrity Squares are dirty and the cell phone companies are more than happy to let them add charges because they get a cut. They make millions off of these scams. I can only guess how much money Celebrity Squares and others make.
If you get monthly stupid celebrity quiz questions, they got you too. Go check your bill and see how much you are being charged and you can see how much money you have had stolen.
This is a huge problem.
As an aside, the cell companies can lock out those kinds of charges but you have to opt out. By default you are opted in and third party companies can add charges to anyone's bill that hasn't said specifically to block them. One of the points I made to my Senator was that that needed to change. People should be opted out by default and have to choose to allow such charges.
Please post a reply if you got slammed by Celebrity Squares. And tell your Senators. Or if you got slammed by anyone. The more who come forward, the better chance of getting legislation passed that blocks these activities and if your evidence is good enough, we might be able to get prosecution for companies like Celebrity Squares.
I thought similar until I saw the numbers. Electric heat is one of the least efficient forms there is. For homes with gas heat, relying on incandescent lamps for their heating is just wasteful. It's much more efficient to minimize electricity use by using CFLs and use more efficient gas for actual heating. When trying to cool your house the savings go way up by not having so much heat load.
Something else is all the people complaining about the cost of CFL bulbs. Even with failures, the electricity savings by using CFLs is huge. I have those light bars in my bathrooms that could either be 360 watts of incandescent lamps or, with CFLs, just 90 watts for more light output. I use CFLs everywhere that I can. The only exceptions are the oven, refrigerator, and the ceiling fans that have candelabra base bulbs and maybe those are available as CFL now.
There was a very easily noticed drop in my electric bill when I switched over - especially in the summer due to the reduced heat load for the air conditioning.
It all adds up, folks. The electric savings due to using CFL lamps is huge. That's a hell of a lot of coal and natural gas that isn't being burned and it cuts the need for nuclear.
There is a bigger picture than just that you had to pay a buck or two for a CFL instead of 50 cents for an incandescent.
One thing about prison - he'll probably have a lot more sex than he had been having. ;-)
I would guess that evidence was presented that they were inside the victim company's computers. A threat can come from anyone. But a threat that says go look here and see that we are indeed inside your system carries a lot more weight.