#1: Food, paper, and plastic only please. Other trash cannot be converted in this refinery. As a result, toxic chemicals do not come out because they weren't put in in the first place. #2: As for greenhouse gas emissions - especially carbon dioxide - the article mentions that even though CO2 is produced, it was only removed from the atmosphere by plants recently. Unlike oil or coal, where the CO2 was removed from the atmosphere hundreds of millions of years ago and not put back.
That was the latest spam virus using G and L as their default name servers instead of the ones on the computers they infected, so as to make sure rate-limiting and weak ISP DNS servers wouldn't slow them down.
Next you're going to tell me that I should never run any compiled program as root (and most servers need to start as root even if they run as another user) unless you've checked over every line of that software for backdoors and security vulnerabilities yourself. Because you know, it's just as easy for the developer of said software (or a third party attacker!) to insert a backdoor or exploit into fastlib.c as it is to insert one into Makefile. And while we're at it, you should never run ls, mv, cp, df, du, dd, who, ps, cc, rm, chmod, mkdir, chown, or passwd as root, because the system might have been compromised and they might be trojans. Or better yet, since systems administrators cause 95% of all systems failures, just change the root password to THs7h^%$1LKqD&!, and burn the post-it it was written on before reading it. And then shoot the systems administrator and his entire family, just in case he remembered it and accidentally blurted it out in his sleep.
Or, you can accept a little risk somewhere along the way and actually get some fucking work done.
You underestimate the power of stupidity. This study only proves two things that those in the security biz already knew: 1) users don't give two shits about security, and 2) users are the weakest link in the security chain.
Pooled efforts with your friends to complete assignments, plagarising off each other, and getting away with it until the university introduced automatic plagarism detection software.
Damn, *that's* what I should have done to get through my math classes. Especially considering that it was at least 5 years before they started even thinking about plagiarism detection software.
Unfortunately, no. I flunked out of CS (my programming was great. My math sucked) and went on to a job in systems administration instead. I was one of those that was enough of a dumbass to persevere with my passion instead of persevering with a degree - any degree.
All you have to do is print lots of stories about how people are making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year "just because they can operate this computer". You know, kind of like back when I was a kid. The kind of thing that suckered me into getting into a field that is destroying itself.
because for all the work we do it won't amount to a hill of beans if China doesn't play along
Yes it will, because the US is currently the #1 consumer of fossil fuels and the #1 producer of CO2. Oh sure, if you fix that problem, then you won't be number 1 anymore, but that's kind of the point, eh?
Be Americans for god's sake and show the world how it's done. You know, like we always have.
Oh, it's easy to compete with free. *Especially* on the Internet.
Because downloading something that's free off the internet typically takes 24 hours or more for a variety of reasons. You could be stuck in a queue for a long time. You could be downloading 3 gigabytes at 3.5 Kbps, even (or especially) on bittorrent. And then there's the slushpile.
Provide a fast download for what you want when you want, and people will be willing to pay for that.
And this applies to botnets... how, exactly? If you can infect just a million computers with your spam bot, then you can send a million messages an hour by sending *one* message an hour per host! With a billion plus hosts on the net, you need to infect less than 0.1% of them to make that happen. The number of vulnerable computers at any given moment in time is easily more than 20%.
Really? Athletes have to jam food into their maws as fast as they can. They need protein, carbohydrates, sugars, fats, vitamins, minerals, water, and electrolytes in such quantities that they have to use engineered supplements to meet their requirements.
They also need a *balanced* diet, which is probably the trickiest part. But the point is that when you burn energy faster than you take it in, then that "take it in" part isn't such a problem anymore. Except in reverse of what you're going on about.
All you have to do first, is get Americans to drive electric cars, install low-flow showerheads, change the CBS logo, and stop going to Wal-mart. After that, it's a snap!
I dunno if you've noticed this, but Americans hate change.
I mean really, you practically answered it yourself.
As big as it is, Linux is too small a community and userbase to ever usurp Windows on the desktop. So you ask why even *smaller* projects can't do it either?
The fact of the matter is that any desktop OS is in the unenviable catch-22 of "noone uses our OS because there's not enough software, and there's not enough developers making software because noone uses it."
why the rocky culture of software development continues to exist despite all of the missed deadlines, blown budgets, and broken promises.
You must be new to this world. In my world, every project that builds some non-trivial thing misses deadlines, blows budgets, and breaks promises. See also: Government, Engineering, and Construction.
Example: I just moved into a townhouse that I put a down payment on roughly 18 months ago. I was given at least 4 deadlines by which they were supposed to be finished. Each one blew by with a mighty whooshing sound. The price I paid miraculously did not go up.
Example: The Government of British Columbia built a fleet of fast catamaran ferries about 5 years ago. Except that they weren't fast, they weren't reliable, and they were astoundingly over budget. They were eventually sold for pennies on the dollar.
Clearly, what is needed is a car that can smell its own insides. Every cop knows that as soon as a drunk cracks open his window, the stench of alcohol is immediately apparent. Considering how obvious the effect is, it shouldn't be too hard for a computer to really know.
And by the time the alcohol level in the air of the cabin gets high enough to become obvious, there really is no doubt.
Of course, the real issue at hand here is that drunks will refuse to buy cars so equipped.
In the 60's, the space race was motivated by two things:
#1: There was a very real need to build rockets capable of putting nuclear weapons anywhere in the world. #2: Once the Soviets had accomplished that, the Americans needed to do it better.
In the 00's, the space race is motivated by only one thing:
#1: Make NASA so expensive that the next administration - Democrat *or* Republican - will be forced to kill it entirely or risk bankrupting the country.
Face it, the current administration hates science. They hate it because it erodes religious dogma. They're trying to destroy science in schools by underfunding programs and destroy it in the public sector by overfunding programs that have no chance of success and little impact on science. And considering how the deficit is expanding exponentially, I'd say that the next administration would have to make some astoundingly drastic cuts to keep the government from collapsing. And it's not like they're doing anything about creating more scientists to employ.
Personally, I found HNSky to be extremely helpful for finding the constellations, since it shows the sky as it looks at that exact moment in time, in reference to the horizon. It can also be used by any other level of astronomer, as it's very accurate and can be connected to a computer-guided telescope.
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Nah. We'd just pick them all up on the way, and shorten the ride by a couple centuries.
Put another way, 10% of the energy the plant generates is used to refine its fuel from a much lower grade fuel.
#1: Food, paper, and plastic only please. Other trash cannot be converted in this refinery. As a result, toxic chemicals do not come out because they weren't put in in the first place.
#2: As for greenhouse gas emissions - especially carbon dioxide - the article mentions that even though CO2 is produced, it was only removed from the atmosphere by plants recently. Unlike oil or coal, where the CO2 was removed from the atmosphere hundreds of millions of years ago and not put back.
That was the latest spam virus using G and L as their default name servers instead of the ones on the computers they infected, so as to make sure rate-limiting and weak ISP DNS servers wouldn't slow them down.
Next you're going to tell me that I should never run any compiled program as root (and most servers need to start as root even if they run as another user) unless you've checked over every line of that software for backdoors and security vulnerabilities yourself. Because you know, it's just as easy for the developer of said software (or a third party attacker!) to insert a backdoor or exploit into fastlib.c as it is to insert one into Makefile. And while we're at it, you should never run ls, mv, cp, df, du, dd, who, ps, cc, rm, chmod, mkdir, chown, or passwd as root, because the system might have been compromised and they might be trojans. Or better yet, since systems administrators cause 95% of all systems failures, just change the root password to THs7h^%$1LKqD&!, and burn the post-it it was written on before reading it. And then shoot the systems administrator and his entire family, just in case he remembered it and accidentally blurted it out in his sleep.
Or, you can accept a little risk somewhere along the way and actually get some fucking work done.
You underestimate the power of stupidity. This study only proves two things that those in the security biz already knew: 1) users don't give two shits about security, and 2) users are the weakest link in the security chain.
Pooled efforts with your friends to complete assignments, plagarising off each other, and getting away with it until the university introduced automatic plagarism detection software.
Damn, *that's* what I should have done to get through my math classes. Especially considering that it was at least 5 years before they started even thinking about plagiarism detection software.
Unfortunately, no. I flunked out of CS (my programming was great. My math sucked) and went on to a job in systems administration instead. I was one of those that was enough of a dumbass to persevere with my passion instead of persevering with a degree - any degree.
All you have to do is print lots of stories about how people are making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year "just because they can operate this computer". You know, kind of like back when I was a kid. The kind of thing that suckered me into getting into a field that is destroying itself.
Thompson faces the possibility of disciplinary action up to and including disbarment.
So this is what, the 6th state he'll be disbarred in? I suppose he'll just have to move to Nevada now.
CFL, dimmer at night for the night light - can add to the mercury content for a child if the light blows up.
So use an LED night light. They're much more suited to the task.
Someday, we'll be using LEDs for general house lighting, and thus remove all the problems with CFLs and Incandescents.
because for all the work we do it won't amount to a hill of beans if China doesn't play along
Yes it will, because the US is currently the #1 consumer of fossil fuels and the #1 producer of CO2. Oh sure, if you fix that problem, then you won't be number 1 anymore, but that's kind of the point, eh?
Be Americans for god's sake and show the world how it's done. You know, like we always have.
Oh, it's easy to compete with free. *Especially* on the Internet.
Because downloading something that's free off the internet typically takes 24 hours or more for a variety of reasons. You could be stuck in a queue for a long time. You could be downloading 3 gigabytes at 3.5 Kbps, even (or especially) on bittorrent. And then there's the slushpile.
Provide a fast download for what you want when you want, and people will be willing to pay for that.
And this applies to botnets... how, exactly? If you can infect just a million computers with your spam bot, then you can send a million messages an hour by sending *one* message an hour per host! With a billion plus hosts on the net, you need to infect less than 0.1% of them to make that happen. The number of vulnerable computers at any given moment in time is easily more than 20%.
But hey, for every complex problem...
Really? Athletes have to jam food into their maws as fast as they can. They need protein, carbohydrates, sugars, fats, vitamins, minerals, water, and electrolytes in such quantities that they have to use engineered supplements to meet their requirements.
They also need a *balanced* diet, which is probably the trickiest part. But the point is that when you burn energy faster than you take it in, then that "take it in" part isn't such a problem anymore. Except in reverse of what you're going on about.
To get rid of spam, get rid of the half-witted people. It shouldn't be that hard...
AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh man. If I had karma points right now, I'd mod you +1 funny.
And then, maybe I'd punch you in the face repeatedly until I educate you about how many half-witted people there are in the world.
And if you had read the article carefully, it notes that that was *his* cost.
From TFA: "Now that first-time costs of research and design have been met, the price would be about $100,000, Strizki said."
So you as an early adopter, would pay about $100,000, not $500,000. I would expect *that* cost would go down with larger production too.
Thank you.
I would mod you up, but I can't and I'd rather just reply.
Is that their targets rarely shoot back.
I'd also have to wonder whether the droid gets it first or not.
I suppose, if you're a corporate ladder climber, then yes a lack of promotion means that your career is dead.
But if you're say, a technical engineer like Dilbert (as most Slashdotters are), that's already ensured that you will never be promoted.
I know that's certainly happened to me.
All you have to do first, is get Americans to drive electric cars, install low-flow showerheads, change the CBS logo, and stop going to Wal-mart. After that, it's a snap!
I dunno if you've noticed this, but Americans hate change.
I mean really, you practically answered it yourself.
As big as it is, Linux is too small a community and userbase to ever usurp Windows on the desktop. So you ask why even *smaller* projects can't do it either?
The fact of the matter is that any desktop OS is in the unenviable catch-22 of "noone uses our OS because there's not enough software, and there's not enough developers making software because noone uses it."
why the rocky culture of software development continues to exist despite all of the missed deadlines, blown budgets, and broken promises.
You must be new to this world. In my world, every project that builds some non-trivial thing misses deadlines, blows budgets, and breaks promises. See also: Government, Engineering, and Construction.
Example: I just moved into a townhouse that I put a down payment on roughly 18 months ago. I was given at least 4 deadlines by which they were supposed to be finished. Each one blew by with a mighty whooshing sound. The price I paid miraculously did not go up.
Example: The Government of British Columbia built a fleet of fast catamaran ferries about 5 years ago. Except that they weren't fast, they weren't reliable, and they were astoundingly over budget. They were eventually sold for pennies on the dollar.
Clearly, what is needed is a car that can smell its own insides. Every cop knows that as soon as a drunk cracks open his window, the stench of alcohol is immediately apparent. Considering how obvious the effect is, it shouldn't be too hard for a computer to really know.
And by the time the alcohol level in the air of the cabin gets high enough to become obvious, there really is no doubt.
Of course, the real issue at hand here is that drunks will refuse to buy cars so equipped.
In the 60's, the space race was motivated by two things:
#1: There was a very real need to build rockets capable of putting nuclear weapons anywhere in the world.
#2: Once the Soviets had accomplished that, the Americans needed to do it better.
In the 00's, the space race is motivated by only one thing:
#1: Make NASA so expensive that the next administration - Democrat *or* Republican - will be forced to kill it entirely or risk bankrupting the country.
Face it, the current administration hates science. They hate it because it erodes religious dogma. They're trying to destroy science in schools by underfunding programs and destroy it in the public sector by overfunding programs that have no chance of success and little impact on science. And considering how the deficit is expanding exponentially, I'd say that the next administration would have to make some astoundingly drastic cuts to keep the government from collapsing. And it's not like they're doing anything about creating more scientists to employ.
Personally, I found HNSky to be extremely helpful for finding the constellations, since it shows the sky as it looks at that exact moment in time, in reference to the horizon. It can also be used by any other level of astronomer, as it's very accurate and can be connected to a computer-guided telescope.