The way I see it, a government's going to be spying on your connection either way, and if anything a government with a language barrier that doesn't care about IP issues seems like a better option:-P
I was wondering what kind of situation could make such a system necessary. When a disaster happens the whole world is watching the news channels and sites within minutes anyways.
I doubt it would be useful for IR cloaking. To conceal your IR signature you want to imitate your surroundings, not stand out as the blackest thing against a relatively moderate background.
Same applies for light and radar too. Don't forget the reason the Lockheed "F-117 boat" concept didn't work is because it showed up on radar as an unnatural void in the radar-noisy ocean.
Hmm. This would be awesomes for people who put solar heat collectors on their roofs in the Great White North. I wonder how soon it can be done affordably.
There are already vacuum-evacuated solar-thermal panels for this. With such a system you can use a solar water heater in the arctic (although you might use it to heat the cold water). Of course these may help improve their efficiency.
Are you serious? Look at the sources of fossil carbon release. Humans are doing most of it. Even a volcanic eruption is the equivalent of only a few days of human activity. Nothing else is putting extra carbon from an external (to the atmosphere) source into the atmosphere. It's not the sun, it's not space radiation. The greenhouse effect is pretty well-established. I don't think there are any mystery gases we don't know about coming from unknown natural sources that are doing this. At the very least you can conclude that we are making a very significant contribution.
Not a good analogy. If the point of no return is really 5 years away it's more like the wolf is in midair with its jaws coming towards the guy's neck. Even if all the world leaders met this afternoon and decided that starting tomorrow we'd throw all defense and space exploration resources at going carbon-neutral, we'd still run over this point of no return and would then have to try to actively sequester carbon to attempt to outpace and reverse the change.
I really hope this tipping point isn't just 5 years away or we are really fucked.
If it's really irreversible in 5 years, he's right:-( In political terms that's hardly enough time to react.
This is what the conservatives have wanted and they may get it: a world where we deal with climate change using AC-suits, dome cities, advanced indoor/underground farming, abandonment of equatorial & coastal regions and low-lying areas, and if there's a conflict over fresh water or usable land, may the best-armed country (or best-funded community) win...
The poor? I guess they'll become the climate refugees we've heard so much about. I hope Canada and Russia won't mind.
PV isn't that bad (it could make sense on a roof, if you have lots of cash and space is tight) but I agree that solar-thermal is much better, and large-scale solar PV is a huge waste.
At least the US' emissions are only on a slight increase and are slowing down. China's have almost gone vertical in the last ~7 years 8-(
On the other hand, consider that the USA is emitting nearly as much as China with less than 1/4 the population 8-(
WTF guys!? You're doing something seriously wrong over there, especially considering that all the heavily polluting industry has been outsourced and people don't commonly ride 2-stroke bikes in the US.
Are you putting WW2 fighter engines in your SUVs now or what?
You're in a world of golden opportunity compared to me. Shop around for a job where you do interesting coding projects like something in robotics instead of boring CRUDware. That's what I wanted to do, but I'm pretty well stuck in the track of mundane IT jobs at this point. You're resume's unimpressive? OH NOES! I don't have a fucking degree, I live in an area with Nebraska-like job prospects and Mexico-like pay AND my resume is now unimpressive. And to add insult to injury, if I said that dating prospects around here were Alaska-like I'd be making it sound better than it really is.
So there's some free perspective. Your options are more open than you think. I hope you read this bigsexyjoe.
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+1 for "Just games." My gaming PC runs Win7, everything else runs some kind of GNU/Linux.
I'd like to get my gaming PC off of Win7, especially with Win8 looking to be another ME-level stinker, but it still doesn't seem practical.
I hear bribery is a common business custom in China, they should fit right in...
The sig's not exactly the same, look at where they link to, and the post dates...
The way I see it, a government's going to be spying on your connection either way, and if anything a government with a language barrier that doesn't care about IP issues seems like a better option :-P
I was wondering what kind of situation could make such a system necessary. When a disaster happens the whole world is watching the news channels and sites within minutes anyways.
They'll need to be seriously cheap to overcome the power of Yellow Peril 2.0. Or name themselves Freedom Eagle Bacon Gun-tel.
Some ISPs do this, they'll redirect all webpages to a warning page if mass spammings are detected from your connection.
Sounds better than I thought it would:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA6kG-tOkBs
This doesn't help with one of the most common uses of asymmetric keys, which is secure initial key exchange...
I doubt it would be useful for IR cloaking. To conceal your IR signature you want to imitate your surroundings, not stand out as the blackest thing against a relatively moderate background.
Same applies for light and radar too. Don't forget the reason the Lockheed "F-117 boat" concept didn't work is because it showed up on radar as an unnatural void in the radar-noisy ocean.
Hmm. This would be awesomes for people who put solar heat collectors on their roofs in the Great White North. I wonder how soon it can be done affordably.
There are already vacuum-evacuated solar-thermal panels for this. With such a system you can use a solar water heater in the arctic (although you might use it to heat the cold water). Of course these may help improve their efficiency.
Just wondering, how much crud is left behind after the filtering process?
I can support this punishment.
Turbo cylinder? O_o
Are you serious? Look at the sources of fossil carbon release. Humans are doing most of it. Even a volcanic eruption is the equivalent of only a few days of human activity. Nothing else is putting extra carbon from an external (to the atmosphere) source into the atmosphere. It's not the sun, it's not space radiation. The greenhouse effect is pretty well-established. I don't think there are any mystery gases we don't know about coming from unknown natural sources that are doing this. At the very least you can conclude that we are making a very significant contribution.
Not a good analogy. If the point of no return is really 5 years away it's more like the wolf is in midair with its jaws coming towards the guy's neck. Even if all the world leaders met this afternoon and decided that starting tomorrow we'd throw all defense and space exploration resources at going carbon-neutral, we'd still run over this point of no return and would then have to try to actively sequester carbon to attempt to outpace and reverse the change.
I really hope this tipping point isn't just 5 years away or we are really fucked.
If it's really irreversible in 5 years, he's right :-( In political terms that's hardly enough time to react.
This is what the conservatives have wanted and they may get it: a world where we deal with climate change using AC-suits, dome cities, advanced indoor/underground farming, abandonment of equatorial & coastal regions and low-lying areas, and if there's a conflict over fresh water or usable land, may the best-armed country (or best-funded community) win...
The poor? I guess they'll become the climate refugees we've heard so much about. I hope Canada and Russia won't mind.
PV isn't that bad (it could make sense on a roof, if you have lots of cash and space is tight) but I agree that solar-thermal is much better, and large-scale solar PV is a huge waste.
It's probably not counted in "other countries" at all since there's no data from that period.
But yeah I'm sure it would be a huge scary hump.
At least the US' emissions are only on a slight increase and are slowing down. China's have almost gone vertical in the last ~7 years 8-(
On the other hand, consider that the USA is emitting nearly as much as China with less than 1/4 the population 8-(
WTF guys!? You're doing something seriously wrong over there, especially considering that all the heavily polluting industry has been outsourced and people don't commonly ride 2-stroke bikes in the US.
Are you putting WW2 fighter engines in your SUVs now or what?
You're in a world of golden opportunity compared to me. Shop around for a job where you do interesting coding projects like something in robotics instead of boring CRUDware. That's what I wanted to do, but I'm pretty well stuck in the track of mundane IT jobs at this point. You're resume's unimpressive? OH NOES! I don't have a fucking degree, I live in an area with Nebraska-like job prospects and Mexico-like pay AND my resume is now unimpressive. And to add insult to injury, if I said that dating prospects around here were Alaska-like I'd be making it sound better than it really is.
So there's some free perspective. Your options are more open than you think. I hope you read this bigsexyjoe.
Well there is an other bugmenot...check the smelly vegetable network ;)
Hahahaha ask some N900 users, they can tell you...
NoScript can block the canvas element, works pretty much like Flashblock.
I don't think even an ex-Macromedia employee would be able to stomach what he'd be doing to the web by working for Apple...