Heh, not bad.Politics is a waste of time... should be minimized, like administrative overhead. At best, it's a form of entertainment.I think I might consider myself a conservative in theory, but a liberal in practice. But as long as both sides are doing what they're good at and not doing what they're bad at, things are fine by me.As for my friends, ironically the conservatives tend to be the nicer people, while the bleeding-heart liberals tend to be 4$$holes. But I love them all the same.
Then comes a deficit commission and Social Security and unemployment insurance is gone and you have a significant population of desperate unemployed people starving to death on the streets.
Seconded on the FedEx element: a business next to mine once lost a 5000$ package because they showed up an hour before the mall opened and gave it to a random loiterer leaning on their counter (from the outside).If I recall correctly, they refused to pay the insurance on it since it was delivered to the correct address and somebody at that address did sign for it.
First the jury has been in for a long time that in terms of Energy per dollar Corn or sugar based ethanol are never going to be a good idea in the US for feedstocks that come from the food chain. However cellolosic ethanol (switch grass, poplar tree, cellulosic waste, etc...) may be quite a good idea. There are strong arguments for them that have yet to be defeated. They need less irrigation and can be grown on lands or seasons otherwise unsuited for crops.The big bug-a-boo with these is that they are waiting for a scientific breaktrhough for a process to change cellulose into simple sugars or directly to ethanol or gasoline. There's lots of ways to approach this but all of them are not at the efficiency needed yet. It's not an easy proposal: if digesting cellulose was super easy then more bugs would do it already. It's actually not the cellulose that's the biggest problem, it's the lignose which is about 30%+ of the plant thats slightly harder to deal with biochemically.It's likely that some breakthroughs will occur. Theres lots of irons in the fire. Some of them may scale. But if you had to do it tommorrow chances are you'd bet on the wrong pony if you went with one particular approach.Thus the primary role that starch and sugar based ethanol plays now is that it seeds the pipeline with ethanol now, so the infrastructure will be in place when cellulosic ethanol comes on line.Now why ethanol and not something else more energy efficient. Butanol for example. Or other liquid fuels. THe problem is that when you ad up the cost of replacing our fleet of existing internal combustion engines and fuel infrastructure it's a huge huge huge sum. You can't just pick the "optimal" fuel purely from an maximal energy standpoint. You have to have a way there that does not start with a non-starter like chucking out all the existing engines. Hence Ethanol looks like the common denominator. It's not bad. It's easier to produce ethanol from grains now than it is butanol or gasoline. and it works in the cars we have up to a point.As long as we are comminting to cellulosic ethanol, some use of food crops to produce grain-based ethanol now is justifiable. It just can't continue in the long run.Another route is commit to bio-diesel from algae. This too has some issues to solve to make it scalable. It can use lower quality water. it can use low grade lands. it is easier to "dry" than ethanol because it is not water soluble so there's less energy waste in turning it into fuels. And you might be able to think of some byproduct for the waste stream from algae (maybe animal feed or fertilizer). SOme of the challenges here are very simple sounding, though no one has entirely solved them yet: how do we quadruple the lipid yield, and how to we get enough CO2 into the water (without burning fuel to create it and pump it.).There is enough bad land to fuel the entire nation if we can solve those scaling products.It has a path forward through the trucking system (diesel) and through aviation fuels and military fuels. The latter can pay premium prices to subsidize the product effectively since those fuels are more expensive than consume fuels.Eventually however that path requires replacing the automobile fleet. But given the path forward in the near term this may not be a non-starter.
From the charts, they range from -0.04 to +0.10 for the classifications given. Now I'm no statistician, but those ranges of values don't seem to be much more than a slight tendency. They certainly don't seem to me to be "dead cert" formulae for getting more comments or likes.
ah it's called blind typing. Touch typing is a subset of blind typing where you use touch instead of sight.Though you can blind type without touch typing.
Of course we wind up having a nice little crime war with these guys. Only one question; can someone send in the Triaad or Yakuzaa to deal with the Mafiaa?
> maybe that's because there isn't much difference between the two.Especially in the Internet biz. For 99% of customers the choice is between a huge bloated government granted and regulated monopoly telco and the almost as bloated government grated and regulated cable company. Then there is a couple of wireless options here and there most of which are owned and operated by the monopoly telco and will never deliver enough bandwidth to matter.But the bigger problem with the FCC is the newspeak. Whenever
Like Comcast choosing to send false NAK packets to people using particular protocols just to hinder their connection?
Been there, done that, only the Slashdot crowd really cared.
1) Router administrator negotiates an HTTPS or SSH session with a router or other hardware
2) Attacker is either listening passively or is a man in the middle (via ARP poisoning or what have you). Because they have the private key, they can advertise themselves as being the router without raising the alarm with your SSH client or browser
3) You provide credentials to the router (or MITM). The credentials are logged by the attacker
4) You proceed to do whatever you intended to do in the router's configuration, and log out.
5) Some time later, the attacker logs into the router as you, and makes nefarious changes to the router configuration (such as uploading compromised firmware which logs traffic, or has a backdoor, etc). Any changes done look like they've been done by the router administrator.
I don't know how likely this is in a work scenario though; I haven't searched the database for common mid-level to enterprise routers/remotely configurable switches. More than likely, in a work situation, you'd be using hardware which generates a key pair upon initial configuration. The scenario above is more likely to apply to SOHO, or to consumer wireless hardware in the home.
Before leaving China, Google censored search results. Hell, Google's altered their algorithm within days of a NYT article about how a sham business survived because of all the bad press he got. They've blocked certain searches, such as those used to find site vulnerabilities.I'm a big Google fan, but I don't think we need any more tests to see that Google will play ball against certain baddies.
one can imagine the challenge now to educators and students who will have to select a single value out of an interval when doing chemistry calculations," says Dr. Fabienne Meyers, associate director of IUPAC
There's one thing every government in the world can agree to ban from the Internet:Classified government documents.Second most likely to be banned is corporate trade secrets, third most likely is child porn, fourth is unauthorized copyrighted material and cicumvention tools, and fifth is pics of Mohammed.
Australia lost most of its "quasi-professional" activists when it removed compulsory student unionism. Most of them were funded by the student unions, and without similar funding, the (typically jobless and usually student) activists have no money to get to the protests.
This is actually a good question. Through 9/11 Bin Laden started a chain of events that caused more impact on the world over the last decade than any other singular person or event.
...our growth is almost entirely based on the use of oil for transportation, new materials, pesticides, fertilizers, construction equipment, etc, etc, etc. It's going to be messy when it starts to run dry.
Unfortunately the two groups of crazies don't cover the full Venn diagram, it's more like they both challenge 25% of the same stuff, and an additional 25% of the stuff that just gores their own ox, and leave the remainder out there for folk to get screwed over because they both either believe that it's 'good' or that it's too 'dangerous' to attack.See: TSA, Patriot Act, anything that has to do with State Rights, 'protecting the children', or responsible sex education.
lol well then my humor detector needs to be adjusted..
but if you're reading Sergio Bertolucci as Silvio Berlusconi, you're watching too much Italian TV;)
Windows XP/2003 does not support IPv6 in any meaningful way. Yes, it has it in network config page. However, for example, it won't make DNS calls over IPv6 even when querying AAAA records. Forget getting SMB running over IPv6 properly. Finally, some products like Exchange 2003 and ISA 2004 and others have zero IPv6 support.Only Vista/7 and their server counterparts have full IPv6 support.
IPv4 managers: "Hey, guys, first come first served, and there's little left. Start worrying!" IP buyers: "AS IF!!! This affects the suckers coming in last place! My v4 internet won't just go poof! It's like the cockroach, the VGA port, the ball-mouse and the 4:3 TVs people got 10 years ago"When IPv6 legislation worldwide exists to do onto IPv4 what in USA digital TV legislation did to our trusty analog TVs here, we'll see a real deadline. Speaking IPv6 is like speaking Esperanto: cool if you do, but not usef
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At least it wasn't in LOLcat.
Heh, not bad.Politics is a waste of time... should be minimized, like administrative overhead. At best, it's a form of entertainment.I think I might consider myself a conservative in theory, but a liberal in practice. But as long as both sides are doing what they're good at and not doing what they're bad at, things are fine by me.As for my friends, ironically the conservatives tend to be the nicer people, while the bleeding-heart liberals tend to be 4$$holes. But I love them all the same.
"No ISP has ever done that." No, but some mobile ISPs have blocked VoIP, as it competes with their very profitable phone service.
It wasn't hacking. He knew where she wrote down her passwords.
Seconded on the FedEx element: a business next to mine once lost a 5000$ package because they showed up an hour before the mall opened and gave it to a random loiterer leaning on their counter (from the outside).If I recall correctly, they refused to pay the insurance on it since it was delivered to the correct address and somebody at that address did sign for it.
First the jury has been in for a long time that in terms of Energy per dollar Corn or sugar based ethanol are never going to be a good idea in the US for feedstocks that come from the food chain. However cellolosic ethanol (switch grass, poplar tree, cellulosic waste, etc...) may be quite a good idea. There are strong arguments for them that have yet to be defeated. They need less irrigation and can be grown on lands or seasons otherwise unsuited for crops.The big bug-a-boo with these is that they are waiting for a scientific breaktrhough for a process to change cellulose into simple sugars or directly to ethanol or gasoline. There's lots of ways to approach this but all of them are not at the efficiency needed yet. It's not an easy proposal: if digesting cellulose was super easy then more bugs would do it already. It's actually not the cellulose that's the biggest problem, it's the lignose which is about 30%+ of the plant thats slightly harder to deal with biochemically.It's likely that some breakthroughs will occur. Theres lots of irons in the fire. Some of them may scale. But if you had to do it tommorrow chances are you'd bet on the wrong pony if you went with one particular approach.Thus the primary role that starch and sugar based ethanol plays now is that it seeds the pipeline with ethanol now, so the infrastructure will be in place when cellulosic ethanol comes on line.Now why ethanol and not something else more energy efficient. Butanol for example. Or other liquid fuels. THe problem is that when you ad up the cost of replacing our fleet of existing internal combustion engines and fuel infrastructure it's a huge huge huge sum. You can't just pick the "optimal" fuel purely from an maximal energy standpoint. You have to have a way there that does not start with a non-starter like chucking out all the existing engines. Hence Ethanol looks like the common denominator. It's not bad. It's easier to produce ethanol from grains now than it is butanol or gasoline. and it works in the cars we have up to a point.As long as we are comminting to cellulosic ethanol, some use of food crops to produce grain-based ethanol now is justifiable. It just can't continue in the long run.Another route is commit to bio-diesel from algae. This too has some issues to solve to make it scalable. It can use lower quality water. it can use low grade lands. it is easier to "dry" than ethanol because it is not water soluble so there's less energy waste in turning it into fuels. And you might be able to think of some byproduct for the waste stream from algae (maybe animal feed or fertilizer). SOme of the challenges here are very simple sounding, though no one has entirely solved them yet: how do we quadruple the lipid yield, and how to we get enough CO2 into the water (without burning fuel to create it and pump it.).There is enough bad land to fuel the entire nation if we can solve those scaling products.It has a path forward through the trucking system (diesel) and through aviation fuels and military fuels. The latter can pay premium prices to subsidize the product effectively since those fuels are more expensive than consume fuels.Eventually however that path requires replacing the automobile fleet. But given the path forward in the near term this may not be a non-starter.
From the charts, they range from -0.04 to +0.10 for the classifications given. Now I'm no statistician, but those ranges of values don't seem to be much more than a slight tendency. They certainly don't seem to me to be "dead cert" formulae for getting more comments or likes.
ah it's called blind typing. Touch typing is a subset of blind typing where you use touch instead of sight.Though you can blind type without touch typing.
Of course we wind up having a nice little crime war with these guys. Only one question; can someone send in the Triaad or Yakuzaa to deal with the Mafiaa?
> maybe that's because there isn't much difference between the two.Especially in the Internet biz. For 99% of customers the choice is between a huge bloated government granted and regulated monopoly telco and the almost as bloated government grated and regulated cable company. Then there is a couple of wireless options here and there most of which are owned and operated by the monopoly telco and will never deliver enough bandwidth to matter.But the bigger problem with the FCC is the newspeak. Whenever
Like Comcast choosing to send false NAK packets to people using particular protocols just to hinder their connection? Been there, done that, only the Slashdot crowd really cared.
1) Router administrator negotiates an HTTPS or SSH session with a router or other hardware 2) Attacker is either listening passively or is a man in the middle (via ARP poisoning or what have you). Because they have the private key, they can advertise themselves as being the router without raising the alarm with your SSH client or browser 3) You provide credentials to the router (or MITM). The credentials are logged by the attacker 4) You proceed to do whatever you intended to do in the router's configuration, and log out. 5) Some time later, the attacker logs into the router as you, and makes nefarious changes to the router configuration (such as uploading compromised firmware which logs traffic, or has a backdoor, etc). Any changes done look like they've been done by the router administrator. I don't know how likely this is in a work scenario though; I haven't searched the database for common mid-level to enterprise routers/remotely configurable switches. More than likely, in a work situation, you'd be using hardware which generates a key pair upon initial configuration. The scenario above is more likely to apply to SOHO, or to consumer wireless hardware in the home.
Before leaving China, Google censored search results. Hell, Google's altered their algorithm within days of a NYT article about how a sham business survived because of all the bad press he got. They've blocked certain searches, such as those used to find site vulnerabilities.I'm a big Google fan, but I don't think we need any more tests to see that Google will play ball against certain baddies.
Perhaps that's part of the problem with USPS: a vastly over-the-top type of service
one can imagine the challenge now to educators and students who will have to select a single value out of an interval when doing chemistry calculations," says Dr. Fabienne Meyers, associate director of IUPAC
There's one thing every government in the world can agree to ban from the Internet:Classified government documents.Second most likely to be banned is corporate trade secrets, third most likely is child porn, fourth is unauthorized copyrighted material and cicumvention tools, and fifth is pics of Mohammed.
And you expect Microsoft develop plug-ins to promote competitor OS and browsers? Which commercial company does that?
Australia lost most of its "quasi-professional" activists when it removed compulsory student unionism. Most of them were funded by the student unions, and without similar funding, the (typically jobless and usually student) activists have no money to get to the protests.
This is actually a good question. Through 9/11 Bin Laden started a chain of events that caused more impact on the world over the last decade than any other singular person or event.
...our growth is almost entirely based on the use of oil for transportation, new materials, pesticides, fertilizers, construction equipment, etc, etc, etc. It's going to be messy when it starts to run dry.
lol well then my humor detector needs to be adjusted.. but if you're reading Sergio Bertolucci as Silvio Berlusconi, you're watching too much Italian TV ;)
Windows XP/2003 does not support IPv6 in any meaningful way. Yes, it has it in network config page. However, for example, it won't make DNS calls over IPv6 even when querying AAAA records. Forget getting SMB running over IPv6 properly. Finally, some products like Exchange 2003 and ISA 2004 and others have zero IPv6 support.Only Vista/7 and their server counterparts have full IPv6 support.
IPv4 managers: "Hey, guys, first come first served, and there's little left. Start worrying!" IP buyers: "AS IF!!! This affects the suckers coming in last place! My v4 internet won't just go poof! It's like the cockroach, the VGA port, the ball-mouse and the 4:3 TVs people got 10 years ago"When IPv6 legislation worldwide exists to do onto IPv4 what in USA digital TV legislation did to our trusty analog TVs here, we'll see a real deadline. Speaking IPv6 is like speaking Esperanto: cool if you do, but not usef