Really glad they scrapped the central email/phone call logging system, there really
was no way they good do that for just 2Billion, and the UK is strapped for cash at
the minute, no put wasting money on surviellance that doesn't work. Getting
commuciation providers to log everything, is quite easy for phone companies with
already track calls, but its going to be huge task for ISP to log where every IP
packet comes and goes to, I hope ISP fight this in the courts.
I'm odd enough that almost all of my lectures were on overhead
projectors. Not exactly the most graphical perfect system, but
it did have that advantage that you can copy by pen easily
what the professor can drawn by pen. Don't underestimate the
power of learning by rewriting, something about have to copy
from eye to hand a viewed text or pictures, seams to load it
into your brain memory very efficiently.
The world isn't exactly running short of uranium, but it aways
going to be cheaper to reuse existing stock than mine and
refining and concentrate any material. Fact is though the
cost of the uranium is not the major fact in the cost of nuclear
reactor, almost all the cost, is in paying back the building cost
and in supervising and maintaining the reactor, to what has
to be a very high safety standard.
Its quite lamentable that an asteroid can get this close to
the earth without us being able to spot it. 15 hours isn't
enough time to get an accurate location on where it
would hit, if it would, and not even time to get an evacuation
order out to the its target location. We really need a deep
space asteroid detection network, that can find these rocks
before they hit us.
There's certainity a long grey scale about the uncertainity of future oil production,
and the world economy gambles billions on this in the futures market. I could
well believe that the situition is worse than major companies and governments
make out as both have an interest in stablishing the market. It wasn't to long
ago that Royal Dutch Shell has court out for doubling its estimates of oil
reserves that it own. The bigest source of oil, Saudi Arabi is not exactly a
democratic contry and might will upperwardly lie its estimates, in order to
prevent discontent in the county.
I agree with you that there more oil to be found, prospectors have are still
finding new source,. but the sources are smaller and smaller on average
is time goes on. Once the price gets to a certain hieght, oil shale becomes a economic
source, and the world economy could start using enormous ammout of shale available.
That would be very bad for global warming, so I hope renewables get phased in
rapidly.
Its a major reversing engineering effect to find out a botnet is controlled.
First you'd need to a get access to a computer running the bot, and
get the code, decompile it, and find out we're its reporting to, then you
have to take down every controlling system. Not easy, and not something
down for fun. ISP should club together and fund more security operations
against botnets. Like the impressive effect in the article.
Will this was the Royal Bank of Scotland, a formally solid institution, but one
that went bust last year and had to be bailed out to the tune of 10 billion.
You wouldn't expect much security out of a bank that managed they financial
affairs that baddly. Actually though RBS where one of the first UK banks, to
provide on-line payments and where very forward looking in providing electronic
money management. So its a shame for the hack, and needing the bailout.
Oil is also running out, and mainly comes from stragetically dubious sources. Its good to
wind technology has come far enough to be a signicant part of a countries energy supply.
Yes is does remain necessary to get wind power economicly efficientive, this only needs
the price of tubines to half or so, of the other energy sources to double, so its very near,
quite a bit nearer than solar power, which is at least double again the current cost of wind.
Japanese nuclear radiation has stirred up Godzilla into an attack on
one of the Cephalopod kings of the Major Arcana. The world is
doomed. The only question is how we will die. Screaming Mad
from Cthulhu, or Alien inversion from Waking Kraken.
Makes me wonder, why there are a lot more cheap electronic microscopes
around, if there that simple to make, everyone should have a USB microscope,
to connect to the computer, complete with a neural network program to detect
know microorganism, and especially pathogens. Every hypochrondic in the
world could then join in a global pathogen detection network.
Its quite cheap to buy wireless headphones, its much harder to find a good long range
remte control. Of course there always the teenages favourite "turn it up to really f***ing
loud" for long range audio. Since your only in one room at a time, not sure why you'd
want a multiroom hifi system. Mp3 are so great for on the move, and don't annoy the
whole street.
Just as AMD started turning back into profit, and gained the graphics card
they had to run out of chip production. Its a pity really the're using TMC,
I believe global foundaries can do 40nm standard silicon either now or soon,
so AMD should perphaps switch to there part owned foundary. Hope AMD
sort out the problem soon, i'd hate to be on a one cpu maker planet.
Great so many more 3d games all with the same technology behind them will
be made. Unfortantantly many will have really cheap artistry and gameplay
design, making the engine look bad. Hopefully a few really good independent
games will come out of this through.
They very different problems, the Cable and the Climbing module. I'm not
sure that using laser power is the best way to power the lift capsule on
a space elevator but it saves carrying a battery or other power sources.
The LaserMotive system could just as easierly power an plasma rocket
(needs upgrading to the Mega/Gigawatts though), so they not tied
to a space elevator system. The cable problem isn't easy apparently
carbon nanotech are strong enough but no one can yet make them
long enough. The asteriod counterweight needed for a space elevator
isn't exactly easy either.
Its might not be an inoviative program, but it would work with
sufficient funding, with Ares, or a modern launcher, moon
and mars exploration is most likely finished for the next decade
at least. That is unless the US decides to help fund a international
program for space. But an international program would more than
likely be bogged down in politics.
Life savers indeed, anything that takes the browser variations (and there a zillions of them) out of javascript
and lets you code with just one standard, makes the difference between debugging for each browser and
debugging just the once.
Thanks for the Link, Google doesn't really store that much about you, the dashboard knows
my you tube and blogger accouts, doesn't now my other google account for adsense, and
since I never activate web history, doesn't rembember what i've searched for or what web
pages i've visited. It does now all my email though, so if you privacy would be better served
by using other services for that, but Gmail is just to good not to use. My web browser looks
private from the dashboard, I wonder though if it really is.
Keep learning, an axon is the wiring between the brain cells, its a cord of
tissue that grow out of nerve cells in as many as thousands, each one
transfers nerve signal, by electrochemical gradients of potassium, sodium
and calcium ions. The new enzyme is real breakthrough, by inject it
in the required location in the body, we could reconnect broken nerves
or incourage learning in the brain.
So according to both article, there isn't going to be a signicant delay from the baguette, and the machine will still be switched
on at the end of November. Looks like the "time travelling higg boson" (do we need a new theory for gremlins? and do we really need
to supercede the law of Murphy, i think not), failed to cause any real damage this time.
Absolutely, Fear is the enemy of clear thinking. Fear leads to rash decisions. Fear is an easy way
to manipulate the populas into obeying. The article
shows that the despotic politians, are woried that
the happy middle class can no longer to be controlled by the cheap intimation tatics.
I'm sure you where just writing to be funny. But regenerative breaking
is an incredible energy saving technology. An electric generator with
(important) electromagnets is attached to one of the axles. When
the electromagnets are off the axles can spin freely. When the
car brakes the electromagnetics are turned on, and the generator
starts converting the momentum of the car, back into electrical
energy. In inner city, stop, start, traffic conditions this saves an
enormous amount of power. Regenerative breaking makes the
difference between eletric automobiles being a pipe dream, and
an efficient inner city car.
So that means we can slowly upgrade with normal graphic upgrade, or
aptitude from the command line, on version per run. With that many
versions and data to download, it might be faster to just download
the full install of 9.10. Hope you got all you data on the/home partition
that you don't overwrite.
Surprisingly many respectable physicists talking, about this dumb
nature abores the Higgs theory. You see there all very excited
about the relaunch of the LHC, about finally finding the Higgs,
super-symmetric particles, or maybe something new, that there
hyping it up. They need it to, without a bit of public excitement,
the enormous amounts of money needed for each big generation
of collider, aren't going to get spent.
Hope the LHC finds something, and something mysterious and
exacting. If nothing governments are very unlikely to fund a 100
billion for a 100 TeV collider. (that would be very strange, the Standard model need
some new physics before about 10TeV, to stablise the masses of the W,Z particles).
Most of the transuranic elements, are super unstable nucleii, that decay in
second. According the nuclear shell theory, certain nucleii with magic
numbers of either protons or neutron or both, would be extra stable, maybe
stable enough to be a useful radioisotope. Proton numbers
110,114 and 126 are sure magic numbers. So finding element 114 should
help confirm the theory, unfortunately its very hard to make such an
element with enough neutrons, so the isotopes confirmed today are
neutron short and only last a few second, 288 and 288 Uuq 114, better
than the near by isotopes that only last milliseconds, but to short even
to be chemically analysed. 298 Uuq 114, (ten neutrons more), is the
on that is predicted to be to extra stable.
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I agree with you that there more oil to be found, prospectors have are still finding new source,. but the sources are smaller and smaller on average is time goes on. Once the price gets to a certain hieght, oil shale becomes a economic source, and the world economy could start using enormous ammout of shale available. That would be very bad for global warming, so I hope renewables get phased in rapidly.
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Hope the LHC finds something, and something mysterious and exacting. If nothing governments are very unlikely to fund a 100 billion for a 100 TeV collider. (that would be very strange, the Standard model need some new physics before about 10TeV, to stablise the masses of the W,Z particles).
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