Better to use 100 hours per week, or tenday (some fiction writers have used this term, but I don't recall names offhand). I figure that you meant 100 seconds per minute, 100 minutes per hour, ten hours per day (which makes a metric second equal to 0.864 standard seconds). Otherwise, 100 seconds per hour makes for one metric second every 86.4 standard seconds.
There are two problems with changing to metric time.
1) The year does not fit neatly into a base-10 meter. You can do 36 tendays in a year, but there's still five days left to factor in, aside from the fact that 36 isn't really close to an exponentially-derived value of ten. This is the minor one, since the original 12 months of 30 days each didn't fit neatly into an actual year, either.
2) Redefining the second means redefining a significant number of constants. The speed of light, for example, would go from 299,792.452 km/s to 259,020.684 km/s. That requires redefining the meter, which leads to redefinitions of even more things, and reprogramming vast amounts of software that makes use of these conversions. The short-term chaos probably would not be worth it.
Actually, you want distance from the walking dead, so.22-caliber rifles are considered superb weapons as long as they're in good shape and you're not firing from too far away. They're lightweight, low recoil, you can carry hundreds of rounds without much effort, and the rounds bounce around in the head a couple of times (if they pierce). Baseball bats and axes are last resorts, because if you have to use them, you've let them get too close. It's all spelled out in the Zombie Survival Guide.
Their Windows guides were influential enough that when Microsoft published its own guide for Windows 2003, NSA decided that it was good enough that they didn't have to write their own. It was at its core a rewrite of the NSA's Windows 2000 guide, but introduced more scenarios and was slightly less sleep-inducing.
That police are not required to provide protection is a legal issue (which is cultural to an extent). Courts have ruled, and the Supreme Court has either confirmed or refused to intercede, that the police are not obligated to provide any form of protection ("...a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen." Warren v. District of Columbia).
Most areas actually have crime rates comparable to those of Europe, give or take. Murder rates for Europe average around 2 per 100,000 people, compared to the US's 5 per 100,000 (these are generalized numbers). It is mostly in the denser populations of US cities where the murder rate rises precipitously, often where gang violence and/or drugs have taken hold as a means of protection or escape, respectively, that the murder rate goes as high as it does.
I'd like to get a clearer running picture of the crime rates around the world, as published by official sources. The US makes this easy with the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, which use actual case files. The British Home Office publishes a crime survey with numbers close enough to make a reasonable comparison. I think I once managed to find my way into crime reports published for either the Netherlands or Denmark and was able to extract some useful information. However, since most nations publish in their native language and my foreign language skills are admittedly limited, the many hours it takes to sift through them is more than I can afford. Anyone who wants to volunteer some assistance in the matter would find an appreciative fellow Slashdotter.:)
You need to go to more auto shows. Every major car company kicks out a bunch of concepts every year. They're used to test concepts (hence the moniker) to see how they work together, and to gauge customer reaction. It's an extreme rarity that concept cars make it to the production lines, the Dodge Viper being one of these very rare occurrences.
First of all, you should provide your sources for such an outrageous claim. I've already mentioned that in the US, the losses are around the 7% mark.
Secondly, superconducting power lines would be impractical due to the fact that room temperature superconductors don't exist. You can't do a wide-scale deployment of something that isn't available.
Finally, the electric companies amortize infrastructure over decades. If it was a five-year payback, they'd do it in a heartbeat.
Additional funding for its members studying various pet research programs, including global warming, pollution effects on wildlife, and investigating the effects of chemicals such as perchlorate on human health, among other things. I'm still trying to understand their view on nuclear power.
Standards that come along and re-define terms in common usage decades after their first use should be ignored, and are by everyone except those marketing hard drives.
It's supposed to match up, but I guess I also work with visual cues, and I end up stumbling. I probably should have made that more clear in the original post.
For those like me that are keyboard jockeys, the lack of menus will take some time to get around. However (for better or for worse, considering how people abuse Outlook and PowerPoint functionality), the new strips allow users to see more of the functionality that is available in the various programs, with tab titles that usually make at least as much sense as the old menus did, and often make more sense.
People to whom I've shown the new interface have had a few complaints, but they've been more about how it's different, not how it's bad. The quick access to items that used to be buried in menus (unless you wanted to clutter your toolbar with more buttons) actually made a number of people much happier once they got a chance to play with it. These are not Office experts, either, and the learning curve did not seem to be all that great.
...frankly we should NOT be feeding most children milk in school. The gene for proper digestion of uncooked dairy after infancy came only from some white anglo-saxons and most people simply cannot digest it.
According to Wikipedia, most people in the United States are not lactose intolerant, due to the European heritage. This differs by ethnic group, with many of Asian, African, and native descent having moderate to high levels of lactose intolerance. These should be dealt with on a smaller case basis.
Other areas with low intolerance levels include Europe, Australia (excluding natives), and parts of Africa. If it can be consumed at large without digestive issues, it should be allowed. Those that can't drink it can usually avoid it, similar to those with shellfish or peanut allergies. When there are higher intolerance levels, something else can be served -- just as has happened for millennia.
In addition, milk contains lactose, which is a sugar, and most people get too much sugar as it is.
Fruits contain sugar, too (sometimes high levels of them), but there aren't any calls for slowing consumption of them, and its due to their nutrient values. It has to be balanced. Milk contains calcium, vitamins, and proteins that are useful to the body, and for those that can digest it, can be a healthy beverage.
Some are lower, some are higher. I cringe whenever I hear the statement, "If this saves just one life, it will all be worth it." The trouble with those statements is that it often deals with numbers large enough that it's difficult, if not impossible, to determine if the program did save just one life.
There are plenty of ways to go about inexpensively dealing with many problems. Kidnapping used to be considered an expensive, manpower-intensive investigation. However, the advent of the Amber Alert has resulted in an inexpensive way of getting critical information to the public, allowing thousands more eyes on the roads looking for the vehicle and limiting the avenues of escape for the kidnapper. It doesn't work in all cases, of course, but I expect that when studies are done, it will be shown to be one of the more cost-effective methods of reducing at least the harm from kidnapping as well as the interception time, if not the kidnapping crime rate itself.
Similarly, there are ways in hospitals that (when carefully done to protect patient privacy) can allow barcode readers and wireless devices to help ensure patients are prescribed and treated with the correct medications. These are becoming more common and have been shown to help save lives at a per-patient cost of only a few dollars over the life of the equipment.
However, there are ways that look inexpensive and effective at first, and yet end up costing far more than expected. I don't think most people (even the skeptics) thought that the TSA would turn out to be such a bureaucratic nightmare draining off billions for security theater. However, it turns out that the least-expensive and most effective security measure thus far is simply passengers not wanting to be idle participants in another disaster.
Even the simple solutions need to be examined carefully, because they can easily balloon into something unexpected.
As one who is broadly (though not completely) supportive of the various efforts against terrorism and both current wars overseas, I actually recommend that you follow through with this, because the economic pressures brought to bear could be one of the few things that can reverse policies like this.
We got through the Cold War not only maintaining but enhancing our rights as individuals and groups, knowing the KGB agents were in the country and planning (and perhaps even executing subtle forms of) sabotage. I'm fairly certain that the Soviets posed a significantly greater threat to the people of the US and Europe than do any set of terrorist groups.
This is true from a practical sense for the moment, but it's still a good idea to erase the drive anyway. The reason is that you don't know what encryption technologies you now use are going to still be secure in five, ten, or even twenty years. It's possible that the hard drive encrypted with AES-256 that was lost last week will be subject to a key derivation attack within the usable lifetime of the data stored thereon. Remember, some data does need to be secured for decades, such as certain personal information about people who might be particularly long-lived. My SSN, for example, may still be valuable to me in 70 years. I'll be past the 100-year mark then, but I may still be alive and the SSN may still be in use.
Among the requirements is "For FDE, allows multiple users of same laptop or device using DoD CAC for boot authentication by each user," "Allows administrators to provide remote assistance to users who are locked out, and "Allows for decryption and uninstallation of encryption solution by a system administrator only." This means that every device will have multiple keys protecting the data (a user key and an administrative key at the very least) to allow the data to be retrieved. Otherwise, the government could not pursue its own employees in the situation where it needs to develop a case such as espionage.
The economics are vastly different from what they expected them to be (big surprise). They have to buy the feedstock in this case, whereas in most other developed countries, they would be paid to take the feedstock (the US allows turkey offal to be fed back to turkeys, whereas most developed nations have banned cannibalistic feeding), and until the beginning of this year, they didn't get any form of tax break for biodiesel. A follow-up article suggests multiple plants could be operational in Europe in the next few years, including one optimistic viewpoint of a $70 per barrel profit margin (significantly higher than I think it will be, but even a third of that would be respectable).
The efficiency comes from the fact that the feedstock contains significant quantities of water, which of course have to be removed from the final oil product, lowering the apparent efficiency (in this case by perhaps half) yet still realizing a profit, according to recent articles, of a few dollars per barrel. The final output may differ significantly from what was expected and have it still be a viable process.
The plant has been running for a couple of years now, producing 400+ barrels per day of diesel fuel and heating oil, running through some 300 tons of turkey and egg waste and pig fat daily.
When I plot cross country flights, I have a known fuel burn-rate I can depend on. With my car, I have to drive until the gauge gets low.
That's because your plane is running at the same flow rate virtually the whole time. On long distances, I know that my 2002 Camaro SS has a range of about 350 miles (at 24mpg) before I'm really pushing my luck, though I fill up at about 300 miles. For the vast majority of that trip, my cruise control is set somewhere around 75 to 80 mph. I'm only changing the RPM when I'm passing (or on occasion being passed when I have to duck between vehicles moving more slowly), or when getting back on the highway after either fueling or stopping for a rest break.
However, on short distances such as in city driving, the car drops to about 17mpg. I don't have much of a lead foot, and my shift pattern is usually 1-3-5. However, the LS1 is simply a thirsty engine, and idling and acceleration eat up a fair amount of fuel. Any car is going to be at least similar in the randomness of the fuel efficiency, though, even if it's a hybrid. The use is simply too random to work according to a fixed-flow scenario.
I speak from experience, being one who voted for term limits in California, when I say that term limits lead only to more vicious campaigns and legislators who are eager to make a name for themselves so that they get a bit better name recognition when trying for the next office. They're terrified of turnover because it can lead to change, so they attempt to lock in the districts to the current party representing the area. A few years ago, I never would have thought I'd hear myself say it, but I miss the days when Willie Brown ran the Assembly here in California. Those who remain in office for 10 or 20 years know that others will do the same, and they must learn to compromise. Those who face term limits know that others do, as well, and so they will either bide their time until the obstacle is gone or pass it on to someone who will be around when the obstacle passes.
Most of them have families that remain in their home districts. I'm all for having them work five days a week (and the incoming Congressional leaders seem to be moving in that direction), but I think it's fair to let them see their families on the weekends.
Slashdot Mirror
Better to use 100 hours per week, or tenday (some fiction writers have used this term, but I don't recall names offhand). I figure that you meant 100 seconds per minute, 100 minutes per hour, ten hours per day (which makes a metric second equal to 0.864 standard seconds). Otherwise, 100 seconds per hour makes for one metric second every 86.4 standard seconds.
There are two problems with changing to metric time.
1) The year does not fit neatly into a base-10 meter. You can do 36 tendays in a year, but there's still five days left to factor in, aside from the fact that 36 isn't really close to an exponentially-derived value of ten. This is the minor one, since the original 12 months of 30 days each didn't fit neatly into an actual year, either.
2) Redefining the second means redefining a significant number of constants. The speed of light, for example, would go from 299,792.452 km/s to 259,020.684 km/s. That requires redefining the meter, which leads to redefinitions of even more things, and reprogramming vast amounts of software that makes use of these conversions. The short-term chaos probably would not be worth it.
Actually, you want distance from the walking dead, so .22-caliber rifles are considered superb weapons as long as they're in good shape and you're not firing from too far away. They're lightweight, low recoil, you can carry hundreds of rounds without much effort, and the rounds bounce around in the head a couple of times (if they pierce). Baseball bats and axes are last resorts, because if you have to use them, you've let them get too close. It's all spelled out in the Zombie Survival Guide.
Their Windows guides were influential enough that when Microsoft published its own guide for Windows 2003, NSA decided that it was good enough that they didn't have to write their own. It was at its core a rewrite of the NSA's Windows 2000 guide, but introduced more scenarios and was slightly less sleep-inducing.
That police are not required to provide protection is a legal issue (which is cultural to an extent). Courts have ruled, and the Supreme Court has either confirmed or refused to intercede, that the police are not obligated to provide any form of protection ("...a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen." Warren v. District of Columbia).
:)
Most areas actually have crime rates comparable to those of Europe, give or take. Murder rates for Europe average around 2 per 100,000 people, compared to the US's 5 per 100,000 (these are generalized numbers). It is mostly in the denser populations of US cities where the murder rate rises precipitously, often where gang violence and/or drugs have taken hold as a means of protection or escape, respectively, that the murder rate goes as high as it does.
I'd like to get a clearer running picture of the crime rates around the world, as published by official sources. The US makes this easy with the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, which use actual case files. The British Home Office publishes a crime survey with numbers close enough to make a reasonable comparison. I think I once managed to find my way into crime reports published for either the Netherlands or Denmark and was able to extract some useful information. However, since most nations publish in their native language and my foreign language skills are admittedly limited, the many hours it takes to sift through them is more than I can afford. Anyone who wants to volunteer some assistance in the matter would find an appreciative fellow Slashdotter.
You need to go to more auto shows. Every major car company kicks out a bunch of concepts every year. They're used to test concepts (hence the moniker) to see how they work together, and to gauge customer reaction. It's an extreme rarity that concept cars make it to the production lines, the Dodge Viper being one of these very rare occurrences.
First of all, you should provide your sources for such an outrageous claim. I've already mentioned that in the US, the losses are around the 7% mark.
Secondly, superconducting power lines would be impractical due to the fact that room temperature superconductors don't exist. You can't do a wide-scale deployment of something that isn't available.
Finally, the electric companies amortize infrastructure over decades. If it was a five-year payback, they'd do it in a heartbeat.
Depending on the length of the cable run, up to 50% of the electricity is lost
Not even close.
Transmission and distribution losses in the USA were estimated at 7.2% in 1995 [2], and in the UK at 7.4% in 1998. [3]
Additional funding for its members studying various pet research programs, including global warming, pollution effects on wildlife, and investigating the effects of chemicals such as perchlorate on human health, among other things. I'm still trying to understand their view on nuclear power.
Environmentalist groups lobby to protect their interests!
Standards that come along and re-define terms in common usage decades after their first use should be ignored, and are by everyone except those marketing hard drives.
...and Slashdot pedants.
Tiny squares with letters in them are not the same as the abstract of menus and dialog boxes flying open. Those are the cues that I was using.
It's supposed to match up, but I guess I also work with visual cues, and I end up stumbling. I probably should have made that more clear in the original post.
For those like me that are keyboard jockeys, the lack of menus will take some time to get around. However (for better or for worse, considering how people abuse Outlook and PowerPoint functionality), the new strips allow users to see more of the functionality that is available in the various programs, with tab titles that usually make at least as much sense as the old menus did, and often make more sense.
People to whom I've shown the new interface have had a few complaints, but they've been more about how it's different, not how it's bad. The quick access to items that used to be buried in menus (unless you wanted to clutter your toolbar with more buttons) actually made a number of people much happier once they got a chance to play with it. These are not Office experts, either, and the learning curve did not seem to be all that great.
...frankly we should NOT be feeding most children milk in school. The gene for proper digestion of uncooked dairy after infancy came only from some white anglo-saxons and most people simply cannot digest it.
According to Wikipedia, most people in the United States are not lactose intolerant, due to the European heritage. This differs by ethnic group, with many of Asian, African, and native descent having moderate to high levels of lactose intolerance. These should be dealt with on a smaller case basis.
Other areas with low intolerance levels include Europe, Australia (excluding natives), and parts of Africa. If it can be consumed at large without digestive issues, it should be allowed. Those that can't drink it can usually avoid it, similar to those with shellfish or peanut allergies. When there are higher intolerance levels, something else can be served -- just as has happened for millennia.
In addition, milk contains lactose, which is a sugar, and most people get too much sugar as it is.
Fruits contain sugar, too (sometimes high levels of them), but there aren't any calls for slowing consumption of them, and its due to their nutrient values. It has to be balanced. Milk contains calcium, vitamins, and proteins that are useful to the body, and for those that can digest it, can be a healthy beverage.
Some are lower, some are higher. I cringe whenever I hear the statement, "If this saves just one life, it will all be worth it." The trouble with those statements is that it often deals with numbers large enough that it's difficult, if not impossible, to determine if the program did save just one life.
There are plenty of ways to go about inexpensively dealing with many problems. Kidnapping used to be considered an expensive, manpower-intensive investigation. However, the advent of the Amber Alert has resulted in an inexpensive way of getting critical information to the public, allowing thousands more eyes on the roads looking for the vehicle and limiting the avenues of escape for the kidnapper. It doesn't work in all cases, of course, but I expect that when studies are done, it will be shown to be one of the more cost-effective methods of reducing at least the harm from kidnapping as well as the interception time, if not the kidnapping crime rate itself.
Similarly, there are ways in hospitals that (when carefully done to protect patient privacy) can allow barcode readers and wireless devices to help ensure patients are prescribed and treated with the correct medications. These are becoming more common and have been shown to help save lives at a per-patient cost of only a few dollars over the life of the equipment.
However, there are ways that look inexpensive and effective at first, and yet end up costing far more than expected. I don't think most people (even the skeptics) thought that the TSA would turn out to be such a bureaucratic nightmare draining off billions for security theater. However, it turns out that the least-expensive and most effective security measure thus far is simply passengers not wanting to be idle participants in another disaster.
Even the simple solutions need to be examined carefully, because they can easily balloon into something unexpected.
As one who is broadly (though not completely) supportive of the various efforts against terrorism and both current wars overseas, I actually recommend that you follow through with this, because the economic pressures brought to bear could be one of the few things that can reverse policies like this.
We got through the Cold War not only maintaining but enhancing our rights as individuals and groups, knowing the KGB agents were in the country and planning (and perhaps even executing subtle forms of) sabotage. I'm fairly certain that the Soviets posed a significantly greater threat to the people of the US and Europe than do any set of terrorist groups.
Red Hat has paid programmers, too. But there comes a point when it's time to move to newer versions.
The Hubble repair mission is tentatively scheduled for May 2008, and has been labeled STS-125.
This is true from a practical sense for the moment, but it's still a good idea to erase the drive anyway. The reason is that you don't know what encryption technologies you now use are going to still be secure in five, ten, or even twenty years. It's possible that the hard drive encrypted with AES-256 that was lost last week will be subject to a key derivation attack within the usable lifetime of the data stored thereon. Remember, some data does need to be secured for decades, such as certain personal information about people who might be particularly long-lived. My SSN, for example, may still be valuable to me in 70 years. I'll be past the 100-year mark then, but I may still be alive and the SSN may still be in use.
Among the requirements is "For FDE, allows multiple users of same laptop or device using DoD CAC for boot authentication by each user," "Allows administrators to provide remote assistance to users who are locked out, and "Allows for decryption and uninstallation of encryption solution by a system administrator only." This means that every device will have multiple keys protecting the data (a user key and an administrative key at the very least) to allow the data to be retrieved. Otherwise, the government could not pursue its own employees in the situation where it needs to develop a case such as espionage.
The economics are vastly different from what they expected them to be (big surprise). They have to buy the feedstock in this case, whereas in most other developed countries, they would be paid to take the feedstock (the US allows turkey offal to be fed back to turkeys, whereas most developed nations have banned cannibalistic feeding), and until the beginning of this year, they didn't get any form of tax break for biodiesel. A follow-up article suggests multiple plants could be operational in Europe in the next few years, including one optimistic viewpoint of a $70 per barrel profit margin (significantly higher than I think it will be, but even a third of that would be respectable).
The efficiency comes from the fact that the feedstock contains significant quantities of water, which of course have to be removed from the final oil product, lowering the apparent efficiency (in this case by perhaps half) yet still realizing a profit, according to recent articles, of a few dollars per barrel. The final output may differ significantly from what was expected and have it still be a viable process.
The plant has been running for a couple of years now, producing 400+ barrels per day of diesel fuel and heating oil, running through some 300 tons of turkey and egg waste and pig fat daily.
When I plot cross country flights, I have a known fuel burn-rate I can depend on. With my car, I have to drive until the gauge gets low.
That's because your plane is running at the same flow rate virtually the whole time. On long distances, I know that my 2002 Camaro SS has a range of about 350 miles (at 24mpg) before I'm really pushing my luck, though I fill up at about 300 miles. For the vast majority of that trip, my cruise control is set somewhere around 75 to 80 mph. I'm only changing the RPM when I'm passing (or on occasion being passed when I have to duck between vehicles moving more slowly), or when getting back on the highway after either fueling or stopping for a rest break.
However, on short distances such as in city driving, the car drops to about 17mpg. I don't have much of a lead foot, and my shift pattern is usually 1-3-5. However, the LS1 is simply a thirsty engine, and idling and acceleration eat up a fair amount of fuel. Any car is going to be at least similar in the randomness of the fuel efficiency, though, even if it's a hybrid. The use is simply too random to work according to a fixed-flow scenario.
I speak from experience, being one who voted for term limits in California, when I say that term limits lead only to more vicious campaigns and legislators who are eager to make a name for themselves so that they get a bit better name recognition when trying for the next office. They're terrified of turnover because it can lead to change, so they attempt to lock in the districts to the current party representing the area. A few years ago, I never would have thought I'd hear myself say it, but I miss the days when Willie Brown ran the Assembly here in California. Those who remain in office for 10 or 20 years know that others will do the same, and they must learn to compromise. Those who face term limits know that others do, as well, and so they will either bide their time until the obstacle is gone or pass it on to someone who will be around when the obstacle passes.
Most of them have families that remain in their home districts. I'm all for having them work five days a week (and the incoming Congressional leaders seem to be moving in that direction), but I think it's fair to let them see their families on the weekends.