if you have DHCP, it should take care of this... if you dont have it, zeroconf/bonjour/avahi or any other service discovery should take care of it, any modern OS have this, most of then enable by default
if you have neither, how would you do with ipv4? remember the IP? fine, you just have to remember the network address in ipv6, the rest is the MAC address you can check anytime or setup a static local part, like maybe (network address)::1
not having the computers connect to the network is also, totally and definitely a security advantage.
ohh, you need network? then connect and protect the damn thing...
you want to use private IPs in ipv6? fine, use the local-link IPs and enable the IPV6 NAT in the router... YES, you still have ipv6 NAT, but its almost useless in ipv6, but if you want it, fine, use it...
probably its easier and simpler to enable the stateful filtering in the ipv6 router to get the same, but hey, its your call
Exhibit A: DHCP do helps workstations, but how about print servers, servers and apps? yep, "static" is easy to fix, finding the apps that refer to the old static IPs is hell... yes, apps should use ALWAYS DNS, but some devs and admin are plain dump and breaking the service and finding this corner cases will take 90% of the time of the merge changes
Exhibit B: some VPN helps managing this NATs, but start having more VPNs and more network colisions and again you have hell managing all those NATs and endpoint addresses
NAT is a useful patch for ipv4, but the more you use it, the more problems you will have... many stupid apps (from big companies) like to include the real IP in their internal protocol, breaking all the NAT config. filtering and logging on the apps side in NAT environments is again pure evil, you can only use the router/NAT filter or higher level (like username/pass, but you lose the possibility to limit a user/pass to a certain IP)
IPV6 dont need NAT, people that want it dont really understand IPV6, they just want another easy patch to extend ipv4 so they dont have to learn something new
What purpose is served in releasing the fact that Hilary Clinton worries about the mental health of other world leaders? How does that aid in our international relations?
1-If true (the mental health problem), shows how bad things are and is a alert to all over the 2-If false, shows what the US leaders thinks about other people and how they fake they are best friends! 3-either way, show the US paranoia and over-control and how much done hidden behind doors
USA is not the center of the world and somethings are not USA business... if all this makes the USA look bad, it's the USA fault, not wikileaks
1- get tinyca2... 2- install, start the tinyca2 GUI (yes, not command line!!) and generate *your own* CA 3- create the certs you need, sign then with your CA 4- import the your CA to the browsers, put it on a webpage, so people can easily install by just clicking on a link 5- profit!!!
tinyca2 is just one, there are more PKI packages out there, both more simple (easy-rsa) to more complex (openCA), to different license (bsd based - XCA)
have been playing nethack for about 15 years and still didnt finish it... not even close!!:) ok, i'm just play a few weeks then stop for some months/years, but those are fun and HARD games, finishing then is a real challenge and that is what make then still alive after all this years
agree... if a child finds that is being spied, they usually get a workaround to still do what they want. this will make then further away from the parents. even if they dont do that, when they finally get out of parental control, they usually do worst things than those that actually talk with the parents
2-most of those problems are memory leaks for extensions or plugins (did someone said flash!!)
3-what loaded pages they had? each page have their own requirement... having 1 google image search, some flirk pages and a grooveshark page might eat more RAM than hundred of text only wikipedia pages
not that FF4 is problem free, but most people dont compare memory usage in a fair way... they must use the latest version, without extensions and open (and click, scroll, mouse over, etc) the same pages on both browsers
so the problem might be probably that many images are bigger than they should be and uses more animations than they should.
the the sad true is that most webpages are too bloat and heavy, if one have too many open tabs, that bloat will slowly end eating your ram (no matter what browser you have)
As a sysadmin, you first obligation is to your employer, not your principles.
Wrong, before being a sysadmin, one is a person, and as a person, the principles should be above what the employer demand. Of course, one of the basic principles is also not harm the company you work for:)
example: i would never send spam or do false advertising, even if that would help the company, but of course, i would not force OpenOffice.org to the accounting guy and all his (excel) scripted spreadsheet files. On the other hand, most of the people would be forced to use OpenOffice.org, because they don't really need MS Office, the same way i would not give a Ferrari, unless someone really needs it or the boss order it.
They do it wrongly, they should have waited until the limit was reached, so all alarms would run off and force corps and ISP to implement IPV6... then after a few days/weeks they would give this block back, to easy the life late players and broken implementations
those ipv4 company blocks are the last safeguard we have, after that, the late players are cut off until they setup proper ipv6
Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
-- Hermann Goering, Nazi and war criminal, 1883-1946
i had a AMD 486 DX5 at 133MHz on a 386 case, after some upgrades...
i connected the turbo button to the Bus speed jumpers, so when i pressed, the bus jumped from 33Mhz to 40Mhz, overclocking the cpu to 160Mhz... i run at "full" speed when i was at home and put the normal speed when i left it idle
To my surprise, it worked really well, the PCI bus accepted that speed, the network and SCSI card never gave any error until i disconnect the computer about 6 years ago
i also tried to up the bus to 50Mhz and the CPU, RAM, the vesa local bus (for the graphic card) and the ISA bus (sound card) worked fine, but it was too much for the PCI bus and the network and scsi cards didnt work so gave up from having a 200MHz 486 CPU and fall back to the already "good" 160Mhz... relative power of the setup was about a Pentium 90-100Mhz... running at normal 133Mhz, the performance was a little lower than a Pentium 75Mhz
A lot of people are exactly the same with anything about torture; *they* don't want anyone tortured because *they* feel it's unacceptable for for people to use it and that it will have a negative effect on innocent persons because it goes against what they believe in. It never occurs to them that *other* people might be quite happy to apply torture without any issues at all and just see it as their duty to protect everyone.
see... it also sound bad... unless you are ok with torture or if you are Jorge Bush
The problem with closed drivers and apps is that they don't affect just you, they affect everyone, just like the torture.
If fully permitted we will get a mess of closed drivers, full of bugs and incompatibilities (see windows drivers) and no incentive whatsoever for hardware builders to release open drivers, propagating bug and problems that anyone can fix. Every driver would need to be reverse engineering, taking too much resources and time... Linux would still be in 2.0 probably, not even talking about *bsd, BeOS, OpenSolaris, etc... those would be without any driver unless those reserve engineered
Your freedom stop where the other people freedom start, you CAN use whatever close source drivers you want, do whatever you like in your machines. Other choose otherwise.we lose games? its sad, but i prefer having a stable and fast platform, games will came sooner or later.
ps: there are already many native, funny linux games, you just dont have the main, blockbuster ones. ps2: the main problem today for linux games isnt the hardware support, but the lack of standard in window managers, sound and others... check http://www.hemispheregames.com/2010/05/18/porting-osmos-to-linux-a-post-mortem-part-23/ for one example (there are others)... LSB specially need to work better and not just think in server, but also for user. Create something like directx package, where several standard tools and libs for video, network, sound, input, etc exist and check all the requirements for games to use then... it helped a lot the games in windows (before directx, windows games also had to battle each one with all the apps and libs)
ati closed drivers arent crap... sure, nvidia drivers are better, but both have many stupid bugs and limitations,
nvidia replaces most Xorg features, where ati ones tries to play support then... but that creates problems too, example: xrandr have its own limitations, where a alternative method (nvidia) can fix then
performance wise, nvidia have closer performance in linux as it have in windows, ati there is a drop in performance, where some can be pointed to ati fault, other to the Xorg layout and support libs
so you have this:
closed, re-implements everything to get better performance and bug fixed, even if that cost new features -> nvidia closed, tried to reuse Xorg features and layers, and so have its own bug and performances caps -> ati fglrx open, uses all kernel and Xorg features and layers, needs to mature to get better performance -> radeon driver open, uses all kernel and Xorg features and layers, needs to evolve and mature a lot more -> nouveau
so the top is higher performance, the bottom is lower performance and features... for me, ATI is perfect, if you need performance, go for the fglrx driver, if you need features and open (like me), the radeon is good enough.
on ATI you have the choice, in nvidia, the choice is made for you
better resume: games -> nvidia then fglrx desktop usage -> radeon, then intel, then the closed drivers
i think that the major problem with the fglrx drivers is that they take too long to be developed/test/released... i guess they are missing man power and that limits the bug fixing performance tuning effort.
As for storage location, well, nuclear waste is at least incredibly dense. You can store like 60 years worth of 'waste' in what amounts to a extra deep Olympic swimming pool.
this is the problem with nuke waste... how about the remaining 9 940 years? what you will do with that water? what to do to the broken containers?
As for wind generation, wind requires towers, and if you put one up next to every house
of course wind isn't one in each house, but each town/location (and of course, if there is enough wind). They must be big enough to produce a decent power... but no need to be as far as dams and most coal power plants In each house, we are talking about solar. instead of brick walls, put solar panels. solar efficient is still low, but every day its efficiency is increasing. Does it work for everyone? no... does it work for most world population? yes
and finally, if talking about energy price, coal win all over the board, yet its a technology that you don't want to use less and less each year... why? because of all its problems.
money invested in nuke is better applied in green energies, not only it allows a faster evolution of those energies, but will save you money in the future. Nuke on the other hand, saves you money in the present, but you will spend it all later on.
Of course there isnt ONE solution, you need several sources of energy to get a stable energy production... even nuke, if needed. but the opposite is also true, read the Portuguese article, at night, when the wind turbines do excess energy, they pump water up in dam, to later produce more energy when needed. You dont have any dams? use the energy to break water in hydrogen to later burn... Energy is hard to store, but hydro and chemical storage are the most efficient ways and must be used.
Is there a need for other ways of energy source? sure! until there are enough and more efficient cleaner energy production, old methods must be used... from the article, 40% of Portuguese energy come from green sources, the other 60% from oil and gas (no coal there), but because of this, no more unclean power plants are being build and some might even close.
Again, there is no perfect solution, even the solar panels in Sahara to power most of Europe have their problems (possible but very expensive to build).
That said, using clean energy is a investment in the future, where nuke is a fast solution for the present, but a big problem for the future.
no nuke plan show good economic values when they take in account the waste. all plans forget about that... sure, they say they take care of then in the initial years, where the waste is little and well contained, but as years pass by, you start to have problems, they give the problem to the government to solve... and we are talking about 10,000 years, not 10 years...
10.000 years is more than most of our "known" history can reach, a lot before the creation of the Egypt and Hebrew civilizations... also a lot before the start of the Chinese civilizations. you have to take care of the wastes for that long...
Drill Baby Drill is a loser's mantra. Oil is too precious a resource to waste on an idiot's whim. The smart man's mantra is Nuke baby Nuke
Nuke is not a smart man's mantra, for sure you dont want to live near one, even less near a nuclear waste storage location. Nuke is very powerful, but too expensive, even before the waste treatment and storage... add that and you see its not really a viable option. The problem is that the pro-nuke never thing about the wastes, its future generations problems, not theirs
the smart man's mantra is renewable energy... big installations are good, but the future is small, local area installations. If all the houses had wind and solar generation, the outside energy needs would be small and a lot easier to manage. Of course, freezing winter can still be a problem, but those could use other energy sources like biomass and biofuel.
what is needed is a merge of all technical advantages in solar research and mass production of solar cell and wind turbines, so the price drop and efficiency rises. Instead of giving government aid to oil production, give it to the green energies and watch things grow. Germany gives big bonus for solar installations (and remember that they have a lot less sun hours than south Europe countries) and now Germany have more solar installations than the south Europe countries and made the solar cell price drop hard and build a new industry.
The problem is always the same, oils is cheap, other ways are more expensive, but without investment the new energies cant drop price and oil prices (and taxes) can only up in the future
i dont use ANY credit card, i just use the MBNet virtual cards below... knowing how many online shops works, i dont trust a real credit card on ANY online service and i recommend everyone to do the same (and all the news about stolen credit cards databases proves that the system cant be trusted)
Agree, i make a my online pays using this services and works great, never failed.
you are required to have a bank account and activate the MBNet service (and set the max limit MBNet usage per month). You can activate onine, on the ATM machines or directly on the bank.
The bank then automatically create the account in the MBNet and you are ready to use.
When you need to pay something, just login on the MBnet, choose the card limit and it creates one operation card with the shorter expiration allowed.
i think it only have Portuguese banks right now (https://www.mbnet.pt/adesao.html), but you can try to ask your bank to join this service and see what happens.
The MB ATM and services are one of the most advanced in the world (if not the most advanced) and free for the final user...and maybe that explain the lack of outside banks... they all like to take money from their clients, not give service for free!:)
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As for the DNS:
if you have DHCP, it should take care of this...
if you dont have it, zeroconf/bonjour/avahi or any other service discovery should take care of it, any modern OS have this, most of then enable by default
if you have neither, how would you do with ipv4? remember the IP? fine, you just have to remember the network address in ipv6, the rest is the MAC address you can check anytime or setup a static local part, like maybe (network address)::1
not having the computers connect to the network is also, totally and definitely a security advantage.
ohh, you need network? then connect and protect the damn thing...
you want to use private IPs in ipv6? fine, use the local-link IPs and enable the IPV6 NAT in the router... YES, you still have ipv6 NAT, but its almost useless in ipv6, but if you want it, fine, use it...
probably its easier and simpler to enable the stateful filtering in the ipv6 router to get the same, but hey, its your call
Exhibit A: DHCP do helps workstations, but how about print servers, servers and apps? yep, "static" is easy to fix, finding the apps that refer to the old static IPs is hell... yes, apps should use ALWAYS DNS, but some devs and admin are plain dump and breaking the service and finding this corner cases will take 90% of the time of the merge changes
Exhibit B: some VPN helps managing this NATs, but start having more VPNs and more network colisions and again you have hell managing all those NATs and endpoint addresses
NAT is a useful patch for ipv4, but the more you use it, the more problems you will have... many stupid apps (from big companies) like to include the real IP in their internal protocol, breaking all the NAT config. filtering and logging on the apps side in NAT environments is again pure evil, you can only use the router/NAT filter or higher level (like username/pass, but you lose the possibility to limit a user/pass to a certain IP)
IPV6 dont need NAT, people that want it dont really understand IPV6, they just want another easy patch to extend ipv4 so they dont have to learn something new
What purpose is served in releasing the fact that Hilary Clinton worries about the mental health of other world leaders? How does that aid in our international relations?
1-If true (the mental health problem), shows how bad things are and is a alert to all over the
2-If false, shows what the US leaders thinks about other people and how they fake they are best friends!
3-either way, show the US paranoia and over-control and how much done hidden behind doors
USA is not the center of the world and somethings are not USA business... if all this makes the USA look bad, it's the USA fault, not wikileaks
1- get tinyca2...
2- install, start the tinyca2 GUI (yes, not command line!!) and generate *your own* CA
3- create the certs you need, sign then with your CA
4- import the your CA to the browsers, put it on a webpage, so people can easily install by just clicking on a link
5- profit!!!
tinyca2 is just one, there are more PKI packages out there, both more simple (easy-rsa) to more complex (openCA), to different license (bsd based - XCA)
have been playing nethack for about 15 years and still didnt finish it... not even close!! :)
ok, i'm just play a few weeks then stop for some months/years, but those are fun and HARD games, finishing then is a real challenge and that is what make then still alive after all this years
this still don't stop a wife/husband from cheating...
and if she/he is stupid for texting from her/his cell phone, she/he will be caught pretty soon (all people make mistakes), no need for this app
agree... if a child finds that is being spied, they usually get a workaround to still do what they want. this will make then further away from the parents.
even if they dont do that, when they finally get out of parental control, they usually do worst things than those that actually talk with the parents
1-most of those screenshots come from FF2
2-most of those problems are memory leaks for extensions or plugins (did someone said flash!!)
3-what loaded pages they had? each page have their own requirement... having 1 google image search, some flirk pages and a grooveshark page might eat more RAM than hundred of text only wikipedia pages
not that FF4 is problem free, but most people dont compare memory usage in a fair way... they must use the latest version, without extensions and open (and click, scroll, mouse over, etc) the same pages on both browsers
how much of those have big or animated images?
IIRC, caches images in ram and specially animated images (gif and apng) can eat many for each frame:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523950
so the problem might be probably that many images are bigger than they should be and uses more animations than they should.
the the sad true is that most webpages are too bloat and heavy, if one have too many open tabs, that bloat will slowly end eating your ram (no matter what browser you have)
As a sysadmin, you first obligation is to your employer, not your principles.
Wrong, before being a sysadmin, one is a person, and as a person, the principles should be above what the employer demand. Of course, one of the basic principles is also not harm the company you work for :)
example: i would never send spam or do false advertising, even if that would help the company, but of course, i would not force OpenOffice.org to the accounting guy and all his (excel) scripted spreadsheet files. On the other hand, most of the people would be forced to use OpenOffice.org, because they don't really need MS Office, the same way i would not give a Ferrari, unless someone really needs it or the boss order it.
They do it wrongly, they should have waited until the limit was reached, so all alarms would run off and force corps and ISP to implement IPV6... then after a few days/weeks they would give this block back, to easy the life late players and broken implementations
those ipv4 company blocks are the last safeguard we have, after that, the late players are cut off until they setup proper ipv6
Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the
leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a
simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or
a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
-- Hermann Goering, Nazi and war criminal, 1883-1946
Actually, AMD is doing that with the AMD Fusion ... Intel have a too weak GPU to make any real difference :)
i had a AMD 486 DX5 at 133MHz on a 386 case, after some upgrades...
i connected the turbo button to the Bus speed jumpers, so when i pressed, the bus jumped from 33Mhz to 40Mhz, overclocking the cpu to 160Mhz... i run at "full" speed when i was at home and put the normal speed when i left it idle
To my surprise, it worked really well, the PCI bus accepted that speed, the network and SCSI card never gave any error until i disconnect the computer about 6 years ago
i also tried to up the bus to 50Mhz and the CPU, RAM, the vesa local bus (for the graphic card) and the ISA bus (sound card) worked fine, but it was too much for the PCI bus and the network and scsi cards didnt work so gave up from having a 200MHz 486 CPU and fall back to the already "good" 160Mhz... relative power of the setup was about a Pentium 90-100Mhz... running at normal 133Mhz, the performance was a little lower than a Pentium 75Mhz
Dont forget that isnt just the CPU that eats power and gets hot...
Intel standalone CPU figures are nice, but add the required external chipset and those will look bad against the AMD CPU+integrated northbridge
its just a matter of oranges and apples, you need to see things as they really are, not marketing figures
humm... lets change some words:
A lot of people are exactly the same with anything about torture; *they* don't want anyone tortured because *they* feel it's unacceptable for for people to use it and that it will have a negative effect on innocent persons because it goes against what they believe in. It never occurs to them that *other* people might be quite happy to apply torture without any issues at all and just see it as their duty to protect everyone.
see... it also sound bad... unless you are ok with torture or if you are Jorge Bush
The problem with closed drivers and apps is that they don't affect just you, they affect everyone, just like the torture.
If fully permitted we will get a mess of closed drivers, full of bugs and incompatibilities (see windows drivers) and no incentive whatsoever for hardware builders to release open drivers, propagating bug and problems that anyone can fix. Every driver would need to be reverse engineering, taking too much resources and time... Linux would still be in 2.0 probably, not even talking about *bsd, BeOS, OpenSolaris, etc... those would be without any driver unless those reserve engineered
Your freedom stop where the other people freedom start, you CAN use whatever close source drivers you want, do whatever you like in your machines. Other choose otherwise.we lose games? its sad, but i prefer having a stable and fast platform, games will came sooner or later.
ps: there are already many native, funny linux games, you just dont have the main, blockbuster ones.
ps2: the main problem today for linux games isnt the hardware support, but the lack of standard in window managers, sound and others... check http://www.hemispheregames.com/2010/05/18/porting-osmos-to-linux-a-post-mortem-part-23/ for one example (there are others)... LSB specially need to work better and not just think in server, but also for user. Create something like directx package, where several standard tools and libs for video, network, sound, input, etc exist and check all the requirements for games to use then... it helped a lot the games in windows (before directx, windows games also had to battle each one with all the apps and libs)
i dont know about you, but i play several fun games in linux... sure, not the blockbuster titles, but they are fun
also, most older games work fine in wine and many new ones too...
and finally, 3D isnt used only in games, you know!!
ati closed drivers arent crap... sure, nvidia drivers are better, but both have many stupid bugs and limitations,
nvidia replaces most Xorg features, where ati ones tries to play support then... but that creates problems too, example: xrandr have its own limitations, where a alternative method (nvidia) can fix then
performance wise, nvidia have closer performance in linux as it have in windows, ati there is a drop in performance, where some can be pointed to ati fault, other to the Xorg layout and support libs
so you have this:
closed, re-implements everything to get better performance and bug fixed, even if that cost new features -> nvidia
closed, tried to reuse Xorg features and layers, and so have its own bug and performances caps -> ati fglrx
open, uses all kernel and Xorg features and layers, needs to mature to get better performance -> radeon driver
open, uses all kernel and Xorg features and layers, needs to evolve and mature a lot more -> nouveau
so the top is higher performance, the bottom is lower performance and features... for me, ATI is perfect, if you need performance, go for the fglrx driver, if you need features and open (like me), the radeon is good enough.
on ATI you have the choice, in nvidia, the choice is made for you
better resume:
games -> nvidia then fglrx
desktop usage -> radeon, then intel, then the closed drivers
i think that the major problem with the fglrx drivers is that they take too long to be developed/test/released ... i guess they are missing man power and that limits the bug fixing performance tuning effort.
ya, right... try using a ancient ati or nvidia card with their proprietary drivers on the latest Xorg server 1.9...
not even new cards you have support for it, you have to wait for their support to be released
with open drivers, it works today, every day!
As for storage location, well, nuclear waste is at least incredibly dense. You can store like 60 years worth of 'waste' in what amounts to a extra deep Olympic swimming pool.
this is the problem with nuke waste... how about the remaining 9 940 years? what you will do with that water? what to do to the broken containers?
As for wind generation, wind requires towers, and if you put one up next to every house
of course wind isn't one in each house, but each town/location (and of course, if there is enough wind). They must be big enough to produce a decent power... but no need to be as far as dams and most coal power plants
In each house, we are talking about solar. instead of brick walls, put solar panels. solar efficient is still low, but every day its efficiency is increasing. Does it work for everyone? no... does it work for most world population? yes
and finally, if talking about energy price, coal win all over the board, yet its a technology that you don't want to use less and less each year... why? because of all its problems.
money invested in nuke is better applied in green energies, not only it allows a faster evolution of those energies, but will save you money in the future. Nuke on the other hand, saves you money in the present, but you will spend it all later on.
Of course there isnt ONE solution, you need several sources of energy to get a stable energy production... even nuke, if needed. but the opposite is also true, read the Portuguese article, at night, when the wind turbines do excess energy, they pump water up in dam, to later produce more energy when needed. You dont have any dams? use the energy to break water in hydrogen to later burn...
Energy is hard to store, but hydro and chemical storage are the most efficient ways and must be used.
Is there a need for other ways of energy source? sure! until there are enough and more efficient cleaner energy production, old methods must be used... from the article, 40% of Portuguese energy come from green sources, the other 60% from oil and gas (no coal there), but because of this, no more unclean power plants are being build and some might even close.
Again, there is no perfect solution, even the solar panels in Sahara to power most of Europe have their problems (possible but very expensive to build).
That said, using clean energy is a investment in the future, where nuke is a fast solution for the present, but a big problem for the future.
no nuke plan show good economic values when they take in account the waste. all plans forget about that... sure, they say they take care of then in the initial years, where the waste is little and well contained, but as years pass by, you start to have problems, they give the problem to the government to solve... and we are talking about 10,000 years, not 10 years...
10.000 years is more than most of our "known" history can reach, a lot before the creation of the Egypt and Hebrew civilizations... also a lot before the start of the Chinese civilizations. you have to take care of the wastes for that long...
Drill Baby Drill is a loser's mantra. Oil is too precious a resource to waste on an idiot's whim. The smart man's mantra is Nuke baby Nuke
Nuke is not a smart man's mantra, for sure you dont want to live near one, even less near a nuclear waste storage location.
Nuke is very powerful, but too expensive, even before the waste treatment and storage... add that and you see its not really a viable option. The problem is that the pro-nuke never thing about the wastes, its future generations problems, not theirs
the smart man's mantra is renewable energy... big installations are good, but the future is small, local area installations. If all the houses had wind and solar generation, the outside energy needs would be small and a lot easier to manage. Of course, freezing winter can still be a problem, but those could use other energy sources like biomass and biofuel.
what is needed is a merge of all technical advantages in solar research and mass production of solar cell and wind turbines, so the price drop and efficiency rises. Instead of giving government aid to oil production, give it to the green energies and watch things grow. Germany gives big bonus for solar installations (and remember that they have a lot less sun hours than south Europe countries) and now Germany have more solar installations than the south Europe countries and made the solar cell price drop hard and build a new industry.
The problem is always the same, oils is cheap, other ways are more expensive, but without investment the new energies cant drop price and oil prices (and taxes) can only up in the future
i dont use ANY credit card, i just use the MBNet virtual cards below... knowing how many online shops works, i dont trust a real credit card on ANY online service and i recommend everyone to do the same (and all the news about stolen credit cards databases proves that the system cant be trusted)
Agree, i make a my online pays using this services and works great, never failed.
you are required to have a bank account and activate the MBNet service (and set the max limit MBNet usage per month). You can activate onine, on the ATM machines or directly on the bank.
The bank then automatically create the account in the MBNet and you are ready to use.
When you need to pay something, just login on the MBnet, choose the card limit and it creates one operation card with the shorter expiration allowed.
i think it only have Portuguese banks right now (https://www.mbnet.pt/adesao.html), but you can try to ask your bank to join this service and see what happens.
The MB ATM and services are one of the most advanced in the world (if not the most advanced) and free for the final user...and maybe that explain the lack of outside banks... they all like to take money from their clients, not give service for free! :)