There's no replacement for fossil fuels specifically, but there are energy systems that can replace those that rely on fossil fuels. The only type of vehicle that can't accept an electric or nuclear power system *today* is large aircraft, and they could run on bio-butanol.
Some will say we could run aircraft on nuclear, but let's be safe and only put nuclear power plants in things that can accept enough armor to protect them so that nuclear material won't be scattered in a crash, mmkay?
Huh, site worked fine in stock IE8 (OS installed from a Dell image), in a heavily modded Firefox 6 it was untrusted. Half the Perspectives notaries showed consistent results, the other half returned nothing.
I'm a Space Nutter now because I'm pro-space-exploration? Even though I've made arguments in the past for unmanned rather than manned space travel and made demonstrations that it wouldn't be economically viable to collect watermelon-sized diamonds from the surface of Mars? Wow, doesn't take much to get that label I guess.
Well, I think Grishnakh said everything I would have had to say down here:
And as with the Wright Brothers who hadn't reached the limit of what fossil fuels were capable of, we haven't reached the limits of what electrons are capable of. We're just using the equivalent of their fragile inefficient old engine. Wait until we have the equivalent of a Rotax.
Meh, he should just get hookers and cut out the red Italian middleman, and save some cash on his dates. I don't see how it could be any worse for his self-confidence than knowing he's just attracting gold-diggers with his wealth.
Yeah men with well-shaped heads shouldn't worry about baldness. Guys like you and me...should have a mortal fear of it.
But baldness is said to be caused by excess testosterone, and I have a physique so un-manly that if I said it was Zach Braff-like I'd be lying to make myself look better, so I don't think I have anything to worry about.
That's why companies are now registering nonsense names like Kijiji and Kudzu (that would have been a good name for Facebook, named after a fast-growing destructive weed) and Kayak (surprised that was available, but that's a travel booking site - nothing to do with kayaks). Even things like Craigslist and Angie's List probably won't be available for long, now that the format has become accepted some parasitic shitsack out there is probably registering [name][s?]list for every common English name (and reasonably pronounceable foreign name) out there.
Remember when there was a big stir that someone had registered the domain name for a flight that crashed? Just some greedhead who registered everything from flight001.com to flight999.com. Hope he dies in debt.
Futurama's joke about Popplers and Zitzzers being the only two available names left is almost reality.
To be fair, somehow all those PETA promotions that involve nude actresses don't affect my opinions on eating meat at all. In fact I often forget that I'm looking at a PETA ad.
Seriously. Have you never stepped on a cat's tail? Not only will it react in pain - much as a human would if you stepped on them - it will likely hold it against you.
I give kitteh cuddles to say sorry, then there's no hard feelings ^_^
I'm no animal rights activist. Cats eat mice (one of my cats eats them whole 8-| ) and I eat fish and chicken and cows. I'm not dumb or fucked up enough to say that something's inherently wrong with the fact that we're omnivores. But people who think that animals don't feel pain or have emotions, or that all non-human animals are non-sentient...that's fucked up.
Oh can we let go of such antiquated uses of language? When airships move by floating on the surface of the ocean then you can say they sail. While they're floating through the skies it's going to be called "flying." Don't like it? Too bad. Ask anyone if what airships do looks like sailing or flying and everybody except you and your history buff club is going to say "flying."
You're thinking of the theoretical subatomic particle known as the Bachmann Neuron. The scientists at the LHC are going to investigate its existence once they've finished their work on the Higgs Boson - that's much more important, and most research suggest that the Bachmann Neuron is very unlikely to exist anyways.
Hah you probably would have said all the same things if you were alive in the age of the Wright Brothers, and you would have been equally wrong for all the same reasons.
Haha I was following Sikorsky's efforts, they put bleeding-edge batteries into a proper helicopter airframe, spent who knows how much to have the first electric helicopter.
And this guys beats them to it with his little hacked-up whirlygig that looks like it was made of old government school chair frames and tracing paper.
That's the ultimate Frosty Piss right there. You hear that trolls? None of you will ever be as good as this guy.
And how is this web of trust better than a distributed verification system like Perspectives / Convergence? I think asking Average Joe users to attend key signing parties is a bit much
Self-signed certs are an improvement because they're harder to forge or steal. In case you haven't been paying attention over the last few years, we have this thing called Distributed Verification AKA an SSL Notary system to prevent MITM attacks.
The centrally controlled system of CAs relies on perfect security at the CA (which as we've seen, they don't have) and a constant game of whack-a-mole to revoke certs. Long story short we have to stop using certs for authentication, it was a stupid idea but we all crossed our fingers and hoped it could work, but as we can see now, it can't. It's better to just use a self-signed cert that can't be stolen or forged at your choice of a few convenient locations and use distributed verification to prevent MITM attacks. That way you know you have an encrypted connection between your PC and the web host using the same cert other people around the world are seeing, and that's the most you can hope for without sending out-of-channel information (which isn't the worst idea in the world, BTW) or relying on some idiotic system of "trust dealers" like CAs which are just a disaster waiting to happen.
The big question is how do I have 100% trust that the cert I have in my possession is really from mybank.com?
A CA cert doesn't offer authentication either, when black hats and governments can issue themselves fraudulent certificates to impersonate those websites.
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There's no replacement for fossil fuels specifically, but there are energy systems that can replace those that rely on fossil fuels. The only type of vehicle that can't accept an electric or nuclear power system *today* is large aircraft, and they could run on bio-butanol.
Some will say we could run aircraft on nuclear, but let's be safe and only put nuclear power plants in things that can accept enough armor to protect them so that nuclear material won't be scattered in a crash, mmkay?
Your 6.0.1 doesn't throw an untrusted cert error? Mine does.
Also I can confirm the CA is trusted, you can see it in IE8's cert manager.
Huh, site worked fine in stock IE8 (OS installed from a Dell image), in a heavily modded Firefox 6 it was untrusted. Half the Perspectives notaries showed consistent results, the other half returned nothing.
Self-signed certs, distributed verification system. Try it out now:
http://www.networknotary.org/firefox.html
http://www.convergence.io/
Have you been living in a cave?
The hacker is Ichsun again, better known as "skill of 1000 hackers."
I'm a Space Nutter now because I'm pro-space-exploration? Even though I've made arguments in the past for unmanned rather than manned space travel and made demonstrations that it wouldn't be economically viable to collect watermelon-sized diamonds from the surface of Mars? Wow, doesn't take much to get that label I guess.
Well, I think Grishnakh said everything I would have had to say down here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2413768&cid=37311778
And as with the Wright Brothers who hadn't reached the limit of what fossil fuels were capable of, we haven't reached the limits of what electrons are capable of. We're just using the equivalent of their fragile inefficient old engine. Wait until we have the equivalent of a Rotax.
Uh, dude you can buy Disney Porn at their themeparks.
Whoa are you serious? I must have missed the red light district.
Yeah that's weird. If anything I would assume by default that a person watches porn, unless they seem like a prude.
Meh, he should just get hookers and cut out the red Italian middleman, and save some cash on his dates. I don't see how it could be any worse for his self-confidence than knowing he's just attracting gold-diggers with his wealth.
Yeah men with well-shaped heads shouldn't worry about baldness. Guys like you and me...should have a mortal fear of it.
But baldness is said to be caused by excess testosterone, and I have a physique so un-manly that if I said it was Zach Braff-like I'd be lying to make myself look better, so I don't think I have anything to worry about.
That's why companies are now registering nonsense names like Kijiji and Kudzu (that would have been a good name for Facebook, named after a fast-growing destructive weed) and Kayak (surprised that was available, but that's a travel booking site - nothing to do with kayaks). Even things like Craigslist and Angie's List probably won't be available for long, now that the format has become accepted some parasitic shitsack out there is probably registering [name][s?]list for every common English name (and reasonably pronounceable foreign name) out there.
Remember when there was a big stir that someone had registered the domain name for a flight that crashed? Just some greedhead who registered everything from flight001.com to flight999.com. Hope he dies in debt.
Futurama's joke about Popplers and Zitzzers being the only two available names left is almost reality.
Maybe Disney could open an online store selling official "disney hentai" XD
Now, Ursula as a tentacle rape monster...that's gonna be some weird shit...
And the site will be loaded with Furry stuff too...
You know what, maybe Disney has a point.
To be fair, somehow all those PETA promotions that involve nude actresses don't affect my opinions on eating meat at all. In fact I often forget that I'm looking at a PETA ad.
I thought it was called speculum porn. Or goatse...
Seriously. Have you never stepped on a cat's tail? Not only will it react in pain - much as a human would if you stepped on them - it will likely hold it against you.
I give kitteh cuddles to say sorry, then there's no hard feelings ^_^
I'm no animal rights activist. Cats eat mice (one of my cats eats them whole 8-| ) and I eat fish and chicken and cows. I'm not dumb or fucked up enough to say that something's inherently wrong with the fact that we're omnivores. But people who think that animals don't feel pain or have emotions, or that all non-human animals are non-sentient...that's fucked up.
Oh can we let go of such antiquated uses of language? When airships move by floating on the surface of the ocean then you can say they sail. While they're floating through the skies it's going to be called "flying." Don't like it? Too bad. Ask anyone if what airships do looks like sailing or flying and everybody except you and your history buff club is going to say "flying."
You're thinking of the theoretical subatomic particle known as the Bachmann Neuron. The scientists at the LHC are going to investigate its existence once they've finished their work on the Higgs Boson - that's much more important, and most research suggest that the Bachmann Neuron is very unlikely to exist anyways.
Hah you probably would have said all the same things if you were alive in the age of the Wright Brothers, and you would have been equally wrong for all the same reasons.
Hot chicks? Oh yeah you bet!...most likely...probably...
Anyways, here's a pic of some of the hot action you might get to be a part of!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FOSDEM_2008_Key_signing_party.jpg
Haha I was following Sikorsky's efforts, they put bleeding-edge batteries into a proper helicopter airframe, spent who knows how much to have the first electric helicopter.
And this guys beats them to it with his little hacked-up whirlygig that looks like it was made of old government school chair frames and tracing paper.
That's the ultimate Frosty Piss right there. You hear that trolls? None of you will ever be as good as this guy.
And how is this web of trust better than a distributed verification system like Perspectives / Convergence? I think asking Average Joe users to attend key signing parties is a bit much
"Proprietary toy? Lock-in pointless! Clusterfuck expensive, patent-trap Microsoft."
Self-signed certs are an improvement because they're harder to forge or steal. In case you haven't been paying attention over the last few years, we have this thing called Distributed Verification AKA an SSL Notary system to prevent MITM attacks.
The centrally controlled system of CAs relies on perfect security at the CA (which as we've seen, they don't have) and a constant game of whack-a-mole to revoke certs. Long story short we have to stop using certs for authentication, it was a stupid idea but we all crossed our fingers and hoped it could work, but as we can see now, it can't. It's better to just use a self-signed cert that can't be stolen or forged at your choice of a few convenient locations and use distributed verification to prevent MITM attacks. That way you know you have an encrypted connection between your PC and the web host using the same cert other people around the world are seeing, and that's the most you can hope for without sending out-of-channel information (which isn't the worst idea in the world, BTW) or relying on some idiotic system of "trust dealers" like CAs which are just a disaster waiting to happen.
The big question is how do I have 100% trust that the cert I have in my possession is really from mybank.com?
A CA cert doesn't offer authentication either, when black hats and governments can issue themselves fraudulent certificates to impersonate those websites.