Granted they're not turning the stuff into fuel, but they are generating electricity from their garbage (and they want yours, they're running out).
It would be interesting to compare the carbon/pollution/energy profiles of the two approaches. Wonder if the Scandinavian way is cleaner?
Martin Hellman at Stanford has made a consistent, logical, and compelling counter-argument to this for many years. Purely from a statistical point of view, the longer one waits, the higher the probability of a (possibly accidental) trigger.
To my mind, the assertion that nukes are in any way useful is short-sighted and likely a result of inexperience. The author (Keck) in the OP was a student a couple of years ago, whereas Hellman has had a long and distinguished career at Stanford and elsewhere.
Agreed; and what most here have totally missed is the fact that there is no "existing password" challenge if you use dscl localhost... as TFA says right at the end, almost as an afterthought.
Jaguar has developed a hybrid car that runs on gas turbines... Cnet UK reports the car can... reach 205 mph while emitting less CO2 than a Toyota Prius.
If you look at the figures in the referenced PDF, and calculate the 10-year savings (assuming most Hybrid owners will keep their cars at least until the batteries need swapped out), surprise surprise, you get different results!
I can't insert a table here, 'cause that's a verboten element:-( but here's the basics. Take the difference between the MSRP and the total 5-year cost, double that, and add it back to the MSRP to get the 10-year cost. Also, calculate the percentage saving as the 10-year savings compared to the MSRP. When you do that, you get:
Merc S450: 10-year cost, $193,244; cost per year, $19,324
Toyota Matrix XR: 10-year cost $55,412; cost per year, $5,541
Toyota Prius Hybrid: 10-year cost $53,148; cost per year, $5,315; Savings $2,264; Percent Savings: 8.23%
While it's all lies, damn lies, and statistics, you get the idea. Your annual expenses are over three times less
with a Prius compared to a Merc Hybrid, and the percentage savings you get after 10 years in terms of the original sticker price is about the same or better.
I live in one of those rural areas. The only internet choices I have are
Dialup Modem
Satellite so-called "broadband", costs for Wildblue when bundled with dish network are:
$49.95/month for 512 Kbits/second downlink (I forget the uplink)
$69.95/month for 1 Mbit/second downlink
$79.95/month for 1.5 Mbit/second downlink
And there's a 7.5 GByte/month "fair access policy" cap on usage for the lowest plan.
I don't live that far out in the booneys; it's a 20-minute commute to the nearest large town, and there's a significant small town about 5 miles north. But the local telecom company has shown no interest in getting any sort of high speed options to this neck of the woods. It's a lowish population density but not that low.
There might be other options on the horizon, so to speak, except the hills around the house block the existing wide area wireless network and wouldn't be kind to any new ones.
Fiber to my house? That would be cool, but unless they're pushed, the local telcos have no interest in doing this because the potential payout for the expenditure would be too long term for them (i.e., more than a fiscal quarter).
If EVs fail, it won't be because of lies about their resale value. EVs are in fact likely to have HIGHER resale value because they eliminate so much that can go wrong with the typical auto.
Indeed.
Also, I don't know why anyone hasn't brought up "Prius Resale Value" yet as a case in point. Or the expected versus actual battery life in'em; they've been around over 10 years now.
The story about the recession and its impact on "Matter of Trust" is dated August 10, 2009. Hardly "news" at this stage nine months later.
I would give far more credence to the charity's own web site, which seems not to indicate a warehouse problem.
So in other words, this isn't a count of how many vulnerabilities there are, it's a count of how many vulnerabilities are found and fixed.
I read the report. It is a marketing document, with one person (Mandeep Khera, Chief Marketing Officer) identified in it as both project lead and executive editor.
Also, despite the fact that the report itself downplays browser vulnerabilities (8% vs. 90% web apps, 2% web servers), they still put in a single token page which just seems out of place. Nowhere does it say what their methodology is for determining what comprises a "vulnerability". Another poster already pointed out the google search results on the CERT site (~367 for IE, ~61 for Firefox; that's over 6 times more vulnerability reports on the CERT site for IE versus those for Firefox; oops, was I shouting?).
I suspect the authors' methodology is simply to count something like the number of patches. Given Microsoft's monthly bundling of their security patches, and the Mozilla Firefox project's immediate release of more frequent version updates in response to vulnerability reports and discoveries, such methodology leads to a systematic undersampling of those for IE. A better approach would be to count verified CVE candidates.
Pure speculation: were they paid by anyone to put that browser breakdown in (it really doesn't seem to belong in my opinion), or was it ignorance or lack of thinking? Without an honest clarification from the company we'll probably never know.
I recently bought one of these (Meerkat Ion dual core NetTop) and overall I'm fairly pleased with it. I have not measured how much power it draws, but in terms of low profile and sound level, it's hugely better than its predecessor (a big hulking gazillion-fan Xeon based full size desktop).
You could save some extra cash by going with the lower end model (Atom based).
In addition to saving money, you get Ubuntu Linux pre-installed, and you support a company that only supplies Linux on its products.
ObDisclaimer: I have no connection with System76 other than being a satisfied customer.
While this comes at a cost of a larger binary file
Not to mention the greater ease for potential malware to work. Right now Linux is an extremely unfriendly and hostile environment for such malware. Why do we need to change that?
Because the language has been around for decades (40 years?) it has matured to the point where the libraries and compilers are highly optimised and reliable, and performance on the most significant and "heavy" computational problems has been tweaked to go as fast as possible.
Maybe in another couple of decades, Python, Perl, and other interpreted languages will come close. But not now (IMHO of course).
Most canned foods (soups, beans, etc.) have a BPA-laden liner too. There was one company whose name escapes me right now that used a safer natural* lining. It's for this reason I swore off any canned soup (even the so-called healthy ones) well over a year ago.
* If you like beans, beans and more beans, this was fine, but the company didn't make the chicken soup I wanted:-(
My first thought was that the picture is a reminder of our insignificance relative to the greater universe (and even the quantum universe).
The image is deceptive; one looks at it and immediately concludes (subconsciously) that the sun is _this_ much bigger than the shuttle. Do the math (Shuttle in orbit ~300 miles above camera; Sun 93000000 miles away) and you realise the sun is a good 300,000 times or so larger than what your eye is telling you.
Hey, it only cost them $0.21 for the paper and ink to make that book. It cost them another $0.33 for packaging, storage and shipping.
Umm... only if by them you mean the big New York publishing houses. For small publishers it's a completely different story. The cost for a short run (1k-2k books) will set you back about $3 per book, maybe $2.30 if you shop around. If you do print-on-demand expect the cost per book to be at least $5, maybe $6. And then if you try to sell these on Amazon or elsewhere, there's a 55% discount (you get 45%; note: distributors demand more) so on a $15 book that really doesn't leave much (between 75 cents and $1.75). That has to cover publicity, costs of driving to events, overhead for a small (usually 1-person or LLC) company, and (oh yeah, don't forget them) the royalty payments to the authors.
Yes, I'm biased (my significant other is an author and small publisher), but let me assure all who care to read this that in NO way is the Google property-rights grab or the so-called "settlement" by the Author's Guild going to be beneficial to her. Seems more like a sell-out to me.
Caveat: I haven't read the 300 pages of the settlement and attachments; my significant other has managed to dig through to page 7 so far but it's not easy reading (and she'd rather be writing!).
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Granted they're not turning the stuff into fuel, but they are generating electricity from their garbage (and they want yours, they're running out). It would be interesting to compare the carbon/pollution/energy profiles of the two approaches. Wonder if the Scandinavian way is cleaner?
Rats, I got my authors mixed up. The article in the OP was not Keck, but Waltz; the latter was who he was interviewing. Sorry dudes.
Martin Hellman at Stanford has made a consistent, logical, and compelling counter-argument to this for many years. Purely from a statistical point of view, the longer one waits, the higher the probability of a (possibly accidental) trigger.
To my mind, the assertion that nukes are in any way useful is short-sighted and likely a result of inexperience. The author (Keck) in the OP was a student a couple of years ago, whereas Hellman has had a long and distinguished career at Stanford and elsewhere.
I know who I'm going to listen to first.
Correct. The original two partner institutions were
Later, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan joined the consortium, to provide the ALMA Compact Array and a second correlator, among other things.
It's sometimes a bit bewildering working in this multi-site environment, but it's mostly just amazing :)
Agreed; and what most here have totally missed is the fact that there is no "existing password" challenge if you use dscl localhost... as TFA says right at the end, almost as an afterthought.
... the OK Go Rube Goldberg machine. It will be a long time before anyone beats that.
Facebook got dinged because their android app didn't use SSL even when the account is set up to use it. I wonder if Twitter has the same problem...
I didn't know a Prius could go 205 mph :-P
If you look at the figures in the referenced PDF, and calculate the 10-year savings (assuming most Hybrid owners will keep their cars at least until the batteries need swapped out), surprise surprise, you get different results!
I can't insert a table here, 'cause that's a verboten element :-( but here's the basics. Take the difference between the MSRP and the total 5-year cost, double that, and add it back to the MSRP to get the 10-year cost. Also, calculate the percentage saving as the 10-year savings compared to the MSRP. When you do that, you get:
While it's all lies, damn lies, and statistics, you get the idea. Your annual expenses are over three times less
with a Prius compared to a Merc Hybrid, and the percentage savings you get after 10 years in terms of the original sticker price is about the same or better.
Just to insert a point of information:
I live in one of those rural areas. The only internet choices I have are
And there's a 7.5 GByte/month "fair access policy" cap on usage for the lowest plan.
I don't live that far out in the booneys; it's a 20-minute commute to the nearest large town, and there's a significant small town about 5 miles north. But the local telecom company has shown no interest in getting any sort of high speed options to this neck of the woods. It's a lowish population density but not that low.
There might be other options on the horizon, so to speak, except the hills around the house block the existing wide area wireless network and wouldn't be kind to any new ones.
Fiber to my house? That would be cool, but unless they're pushed, the local telcos have no interest in doing this because the potential payout for the expenditure would be too long term for them (i.e., more than a fiscal quarter).
If EVs fail, it won't be because of lies about their resale value. EVs are in fact likely to have HIGHER resale value because they eliminate so much that can go wrong with the typical auto.
Indeed.
Also, I don't know why anyone hasn't brought up "Prius Resale Value" yet as a case in point. Or the expected versus actual battery life in'em; they've been around over 10 years now.
The story about the recession and its impact on "Matter of Trust" is dated August 10, 2009. Hardly "news" at this stage nine months later. I would give far more credence to the charity's own web site, which seems not to indicate a warehouse problem.
So in other words, this isn't a count of how many vulnerabilities there are, it's a count of how many vulnerabilities are found and fixed.
I read the report. It is a marketing document, with one person (Mandeep Khera, Chief Marketing Officer) identified in it as both project lead and executive editor.
Also, despite the fact that the report itself downplays browser vulnerabilities (8% vs. 90% web apps, 2% web servers), they still put in a single token page which just seems out of place. Nowhere does it say what their methodology is for determining what comprises a "vulnerability". Another poster already pointed out the google search results on the CERT site (~367 for IE, ~61 for Firefox; that's over 6 times more vulnerability reports on the CERT site for IE versus those for Firefox; oops, was I shouting?).
I suspect the authors' methodology is simply to count something like the number of patches. Given Microsoft's monthly bundling of their security patches, and the Mozilla Firefox project's immediate release of more frequent version updates in response to vulnerability reports and discoveries, such methodology leads to a systematic undersampling of those for IE. A better approach would be to count verified CVE candidates.
Pure speculation: were they paid by anyone to put that browser breakdown in (it really doesn't seem to belong in my opinion), or was it ignorance or lack of thinking? Without an honest clarification from the company we'll probably never know.
I recently bought one of these (Meerkat Ion dual core NetTop) and overall I'm fairly pleased with it. I have not measured how much power it draws, but in terms of low profile and sound level, it's hugely better than its predecessor (a big hulking gazillion-fan Xeon based full size desktop).
You could save some extra cash by going with the lower end model (Atom based).
In addition to saving money, you get Ubuntu Linux pre-installed, and you support a company that only supplies Linux on its products.
ObDisclaimer: I have no connection with System76 other than being a satisfied customer.
Not to mention the greater ease for potential malware to work. Right now Linux is an extremely unfriendly and hostile environment for such malware. Why do we need to change that?
... "apt-get install open-cobol" would actually work. Yegads...
Remember what the name means.
Because the language has been around for decades (40 years?) it has matured to the point where the libraries and compilers are highly optimised and reliable, and performance on the most significant and "heavy" computational problems has been tweaked to go as fast as possible.
Maybe in another couple of decades, Python, Perl, and other interpreted languages will come close. But not now (IMHO of course).
Most canned foods (soups, beans, etc.) have a BPA-laden liner too. There was one company whose name escapes me right now that used a safer natural* lining. It's for this reason I swore off any canned soup (even the so-called healthy ones) well over a year ago.
* If you like beans, beans and more beans, this was fine, but the company didn't make the chicken soup I wanted :-(
My first thought was that the picture is a reminder of our insignificance relative to the greater universe (and even the quantum universe).
The image is deceptive; one looks at it and immediately concludes (subconsciously) that the sun is _this_ much bigger than the shuttle. Do the math (Shuttle in orbit ~300 miles above camera; Sun 93000000 miles away) and you realise the sun is a good 300,000 times or so larger than what your eye is telling you.
Umm... only if by them you mean the big New York publishing houses. For small publishers it's a completely different story. The cost for a short run (1k-2k books) will set you back about $3 per book, maybe $2.30 if you shop around. If you do print-on-demand expect the cost per book to be at least $5, maybe $6. And then if you try to sell these on Amazon or elsewhere, there's a 55% discount (you get 45%; note: distributors demand more) so on a $15 book that really doesn't leave much (between 75 cents and $1.75). That has to cover publicity, costs of driving to events, overhead for a small (usually 1-person or LLC) company, and (oh yeah, don't forget them) the royalty payments to the authors.
Yes, I'm biased (my significant other is an author and small publisher), but let me assure all who care to read this that in NO way is the Google property-rights grab or the so-called "settlement" by the Author's Guild going to be beneficial to her. Seems more like a sell-out to me.
Caveat: I haven't read the 300 pages of the settlement and attachments; my significant other has managed to dig through to page 7 so far but it's not easy reading (and she'd rather be writing!).
Guess I'd choose this page. Not that I'm an expert or anything... I'm probably better at Fortran :-)
I thought you might.
I still miss "reveal codes" :-(
suso wrote:
PLUGH!
Feck off, Censors!
I can't say it more eloquently than Father Jack. :-D