What the link doesn't explain is that the Pixel Qi doesn't have as good of contrast as eInk, and it's black and white when it's in reflective mode. For an ebook, I'd say that's a poor tradeoff. IMO the Kindle already has the best ebook display with current technology.
MicroSoft: A networked system with no vulnerabilities is inconceivable!
The sad truth: it's actually quite conceivable that with decentralized C&C and proper crypto that there are no central vulnerabilities and the only way to clean up the mess is by hunting down nodes one at a time, or possibly one ISP at a time. I'm eager to hear MS's "legally and technically creative" way to take that on.
USB. 4 x 28AWG can provide a generous helping of both power and bandwidth. You could even go to 30 or 32 AWG depending on the power requirements. I don't know how much a typical webcam uses but I expect it's not much; the LEDs are probably the heavier load. With a thin jacket this kind of cable is very flexible.
If the LEDs are too much of a burden you can switch to 2 x 28AWG + a bundle of very fine fiber optics. Fibers are amazingly flexible and durable - more so than copper in my experience. Use one for the camera data stream and the rest to channel light from LEDs in the base unit.
freezing to death when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere
Right. How much "middle of nowhere" do you think you're going to reach in this car? If you're taking a long trip though a blizzard, you take your other car (or rent one).
This car is for city commuting in temperate climates. Rather than coming up with these silly scenarios, let's discuss it in regards to its actual intended purpose.
I have no problem with using wind and solar for as much as we can, but coverage is spotty both geographically and temporally. Between the two we can probably get 40% of our present need, but it's going to take a long time to build out that kind of capacity. Solar is a fledgling technology and will take some time to experiment with how to build large-scale facilities; wind just needs a ton of manufacturing.
Hydro is great, but it's about tapped out. Not entirely, but it's not the base load of the future. It's a great peaker to fill in between wind and solar, though.
So for the next 40 years while we build out, and after then in areas and times when we need more than the sun and wind are offering - and I must emphasise that this will be optimistically at least 30% of our generation needs - what shall we use?
It would have been obvious that the total cost, including handling the waste stream, is too great to justify any reasonable investment.
I feel this way about burning fossil fuels too. It's really easy to burn things and not bother accounting for the exhaust. That leaves us with renewable energy which isn't currently able to scale to our needs. The technology will improve, but if our demands keep going up, it may not be possible to meet them.
That brings us around to two options that I see: a) reduce our needs, which doesn't look likely to happen soon; b) nuclear, including accepting the cost of waste management.
The reason why is that any serious encryption attempt of IP traffic would make all packets a constant size, significantly below expected MTU size (taking into account tunnels). This attack would not exist in that scenario.
It's actually harder than that. You also have to generate the packets at an even rate as well, or you'll still have some leakage.
Even after you do that, the presence or absence of a stream of packets will at the very least indicate if a call is in progress; to defend against that, you have to *always* transmit the stream.
Even then you're leaking information about the maximum amount of data you could be communicating.
The goalposts keep moving right on down the field when you're talking about side channels. You just have to pick the point where you're comfortable.
Thanks, that's the first I've seen people give reasons for it.
I guess the reason I see it differently is I like finding things by search rather than drilling down. I grew to like it on Win7 and going back to the nested menus on 10.04 wasn't fun. But you're right - it sucks if you want to browse.
Yeah. I'm pretty pro-nuke, but I don't roll my eyes at Fairewinds. You have to keep your critical thinking skills engaged - they have a slant, as you say - but they actually back up most of their assertions with facts and reasoning, so I listen earnestly to what they have to say.
The presence of any core material outside the reactor vessel is a very big deal in my opinion.
The radioactive material scattered by the explosion didn't come from the core - it's from the spent fuel pools. The core leakage is mostly gases which promptly left the site, and contained in leaked coolant from #2 and possibly others, which is mostly still onsite.
Storing the spent fuel in an unreinforced area at the top of the building is a terrible idea, of course.
I am doubtful about the possibility of an oil based explosion.
I didn't mean that the oil was driving the explosion. I just meant I think the orange fireball (which Fairewinds commented on, though they never explained why it supported their theory of a prompt criticality) could have been some burning oil. The actual driving force of the explosion was certainly something else.
A prompt criticality would easily provide enough energy for the explosion. Based on the effects, it's a good fit. I'm mostly skeptical because I cannot see how it would happen. The fuel is stored in boronated sheathes which keep the reactivity in the pool considerably below critical. It would take some considerable rearrangement to get to a critical configuration.
There were fuel rod pieces found two miles away from the containment structures. This fact has been completely ignored by the media.
OK, I'll blow some mod points. I kept hearing this from Fairewinds and everyone downstream of them, but it was never cited, so I dug into it a few days ago to find the source. The information is from a NRC report that was leaked to the New York Times. They haven't published the report, so all we know is from this article:
The document also suggests that fragments or particles of nuclear fuel from spent fuel pools above the reactors were blown “up to one mile from the units,” and that pieces of highly radioactive material fell between two units and had to be “bulldozed over,” presumably to protect workers at the site. The ejection of nuclear material, which may have occurred during one of the earlier hydrogen explosions, may indicate more extensive damage to the extremely radioactive pools than previously disclosed.
That's all the source we have. Unfortunately, the language is ambiguous, and so we're left to speculate over the details.
Lots of places are spinning it like they're finding chunks of fuel in people's back yards. I interpret this as: large "pieces" fell locally; the "fragments or particles" were dust particles in the plume. It was "blown" up to one mile (not two) by wind, not on a ballistic trajectory from the explosion.
As for the rest of it: I'm still undecided. The orange fire wasn't hydrogen of course. My theory is it was the oil from a pump, atomized by the explosion. The *size* of the explosion was very surprising - there was a hell of a lot of heavy material tossed up, and I can't see how hydrogen alone could have done it. A prompt criticality (causing a steam explosion) could have, and would easily explain the ejected fuel chunks whereas the hydrogen explosion would have been above them.
A 24-port 10/100 with 2 port 10Gb will be a killer product when it emerges, is standardised, and cheap enough. Hell, I could use it NOW.
The future is here! 10GBASE-T was standardized over 5 years ago, and fiber variants before that. Every major manufacturer's midrange fixed-config edge switch lineup has a 24/48 port 10/100/1000 switch with dual 10Gb uplinks.
We scientifically-minded people have had a perfectly reasonable naturalistic explanation for the origin of life for a long time. No sir, the ball is in YOUR court to show that there is evidence for your intelligent design theory.
It's not PR. I'd guess they're after several things: #1, they're hoping some percentage of those people will decide now is a good time to retire. Al-Qaeda's attrition rate is going to be quite high this year. #2, those who aren't quitting are still going to scramble for cover for a bit. They're watching to see who's looking nervous. #3, straightforward psy-ops: With the top level guy out of action the next move is to get all the second-level guys mistrusting each other and infighting rather than unifying behind a new leader. #4, believing all their communications channels are compromised (true or not) will greatly slow them down for years.
I agree that the possibility exists, but historically, the NSA has been on the side of actually improving crypto: In the development of DES they supplied a new set of S-boxes. It wasn't until 25 years later that their purpose became apparent when differential cryptanalysis became public knowledge.
Whether that extends from standards to applications, and whether that's still their attitude today is certainly questionable, but I think it'd be very risky move on their part. Even if they obfuscate the weakness well, there'd be a chance they'd get caught. That would permanently destroy their credibility to the point they could no longer make legitimate suggestions for improvements.
All jest aside, I never expected Sony to care about me, but I have been surprised by how brazenly customer-hostile they are. I have been boycotting Sony and spreading the word about just how crappy they are for the last several years.
Corporate America just wanted your money, they don't give a crap about you, your rights to privacy, or even making an attempt at keeping your data secure.
If you purchased an American product in such a way that they've got your credit card number, you're at risk, and it doesn't seem to matter since when; since the beginning of the credit card. Hopefully, those of you using goods and services since the 1960s, only have expired credit cards to worry about, but anyone who has used credit cards recently is at more risk.
Throw out your modern toys. NEVER AGAIN purchase any products, do not buy their records, do not watch their movies, do not buy their headphones, MP3 players, e-book readers, or any of their other trash.
YOU MUST SEND A MESSAGE: I suggest even writing to the President of the United States if you're their customer and TELL THEM that you are boycotting their products and you are advising your family and friends to do the same.
You *can* live without their crap. Surprisingly, there's a world out there. With trees, grass, flowers, and girls. Put down the controller, sir, and step away from the TV.
I have been entirely civil and forthright, but you're too caught up in being adversarial to see it. Or perhaps you're just a troll. Either way, this conversation can serve no purpose any more.
Grant, its possible to have a nuclear explosion without a mushroom but its pretty rare.
This would be one of those cases. 10t, nuclear or chemical, doesn't make a mushroom cloud. There's not enough heat to get it rolling.
That's my point. We have overwhelming evidence as an extremely likely cause - let's go with what's likely.
Your original point was that a nuclear explosion was impossible, full stop, and that the lack of a mushroom cloud is proof that it didn't happen. You are moving the goalposts.
I never said a nuclear explosion was the only explanation - only that it's likely. I concede that a hydrogen explosion is also likely, but I haven't seen "overwhelming evidence" for either theory.
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What the link doesn't explain is that the Pixel Qi doesn't have as good of contrast as eInk, and it's black and white when it's in reflective mode. For an ebook, I'd say that's a poor tradeoff. IMO the Kindle already has the best ebook display with current technology.
MicroSoft: A networked system with no vulnerabilities is inconceivable!
The sad truth: it's actually quite conceivable that with decentralized C&C and proper crypto that there are no central vulnerabilities and the only way to clean up the mess is by hunting down nodes one at a time, or possibly one ISP at a time. I'm eager to hear MS's "legally and technically creative" way to take that on.
USB. 4 x 28AWG can provide a generous helping of both power and bandwidth. You could even go to 30 or 32 AWG depending on the power requirements. I don't know how much a typical webcam uses but I expect it's not much; the LEDs are probably the heavier load. With a thin jacket this kind of cable is very flexible.
If the LEDs are too much of a burden you can switch to 2 x 28AWG + a bundle of very fine fiber optics. Fibers are amazingly flexible and durable - more so than copper in my experience. Use one for the camera data stream and the rest to channel light from LEDs in the base unit.
It depends. Have they paid for the proper "protection"?
freezing to death when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere
Right. How much "middle of nowhere" do you think you're going to reach in this car? If you're taking a long trip though a blizzard, you take your other car (or rent one).
This car is for city commuting in temperate climates. Rather than coming up with these silly scenarios, let's discuss it in regards to its actual intended purpose.
I have no problem with using wind and solar for as much as we can, but coverage is spotty both geographically and temporally. Between the two we can probably get 40% of our present need, but it's going to take a long time to build out that kind of capacity. Solar is a fledgling technology and will take some time to experiment with how to build large-scale facilities; wind just needs a ton of manufacturing.
Hydro is great, but it's about tapped out. Not entirely, but it's not the base load of the future. It's a great peaker to fill in between wind and solar, though.
So for the next 40 years while we build out, and after then in areas and times when we need more than the sun and wind are offering - and I must emphasise that this will be optimistically at least 30% of our generation needs - what shall we use?
It would have been obvious that the total cost, including handling the waste stream, is too great to justify any reasonable investment.
I feel this way about burning fossil fuels too. It's really easy to burn things and not bother accounting for the exhaust. That leaves us with renewable energy which isn't currently able to scale to our needs. The technology will improve, but if our demands keep going up, it may not be possible to meet them.
That brings us around to two options that I see: a) reduce our needs, which doesn't look likely to happen soon; b) nuclear, including accepting the cost of waste management.
The reason why is that any serious encryption attempt of IP traffic would make all packets a constant size, significantly below expected MTU size (taking into account tunnels). This attack would not exist in that scenario.
It's actually harder than that. You also have to generate the packets at an even rate as well, or you'll still have some leakage.
Even after you do that, the presence or absence of a stream of packets will at the very least indicate if a call is in progress; to defend against that, you have to *always* transmit the stream.
Even then you're leaking information about the maximum amount of data you could be communicating.
The goalposts keep moving right on down the field when you're talking about side channels. You just have to pick the point where you're comfortable.
Thanks, that's the first I've seen people give reasons for it.
I guess the reason I see it differently is I like finding things by search rather than drilling down. I grew to like it on Win7 and going back to the nested menus on 10.04 wasn't fun. But you're right - it sucks if you want to browse.
I don't know why /. has it in for Unity, but I suspect the only reason this irrelevant piece is being posted is to get in their digs.
A proper usability study would be very interesting to see.
Yeah. I'm pretty pro-nuke, but I don't roll my eyes at Fairewinds. You have to keep your critical thinking skills engaged - they have a slant, as you say - but they actually back up most of their assertions with facts and reasoning, so I listen earnestly to what they have to say.
The presence of any core material outside the reactor vessel is a very big deal in my opinion.
The radioactive material scattered by the explosion didn't come from the core - it's from the spent fuel pools. The core leakage is mostly gases which promptly left the site, and contained in leaked coolant from #2 and possibly others, which is mostly still onsite.
Storing the spent fuel in an unreinforced area at the top of the building is a terrible idea, of course.
I am doubtful about the possibility of an oil based explosion.
I didn't mean that the oil was driving the explosion. I just meant I think the orange fireball (which Fairewinds commented on, though they never explained why it supported their theory of a prompt criticality) could have been some burning oil. The actual driving force of the explosion was certainly something else.
A prompt criticality would easily provide enough energy for the explosion. Based on the effects, it's a good fit. I'm mostly skeptical because I cannot see how it would happen. The fuel is stored in boronated sheathes which keep the reactivity in the pool considerably below critical. It would take some considerable rearrangement to get to a critical configuration.
There were fuel rod pieces found two miles away from the containment structures. This fact has been completely ignored by the media.
OK, I'll blow some mod points. I kept hearing this from Fairewinds and everyone downstream of them, but it was never cited, so I dug into it a few days ago to find the source. The information is from a NRC report that was leaked to the New York Times. They haven't published the report, so all we know is from this article:
The document also suggests that fragments or particles of nuclear fuel from spent fuel pools above the reactors were blown “up to one mile from the units,” and that pieces of highly radioactive material fell between two units and had to be “bulldozed over,” presumably to protect workers at the site. The ejection of nuclear material, which may have occurred during one of the earlier hydrogen explosions, may indicate more extensive damage to the extremely radioactive pools than previously disclosed.
That's all the source we have. Unfortunately, the language is ambiguous, and so we're left to speculate over the details.
Lots of places are spinning it like they're finding chunks of fuel in people's back yards. I interpret this as: large "pieces" fell locally; the "fragments or particles" were dust particles in the plume. It was "blown" up to one mile (not two) by wind, not on a ballistic trajectory from the explosion.
As for the rest of it: I'm still undecided. The orange fire wasn't hydrogen of course. My theory is it was the oil from a pump, atomized by the explosion. The *size* of the explosion was very surprising - there was a hell of a lot of heavy material tossed up, and I can't see how hydrogen alone could have done it. A prompt criticality (causing a steam explosion) could have, and would easily explain the ejected fuel chunks whereas the hydrogen explosion would have been above them.
A 24-port 10/100 with 2 port 10Gb will be a killer product when it emerges, is standardised, and cheap enough. Hell, I could use it NOW.
The future is here! 10GBASE-T was standardized over 5 years ago, and fiber variants before that. Every major manufacturer's midrange fixed-config edge switch lineup has a 24/48 port 10/100/1000 switch with dual 10Gb uplinks.
Just a few examples:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6406/index.html
http://www.extremenetworks.com/products/summit-x350.aspx
http://www.brocade.com/products/all/switches/product-details/fastiron-gs-series/index.page
http://h30094.www3.hp.com/product.asp?sku=3981100&mfg_part=J9146A&pagemode=ca
You are correct. Thank you for calling me on it. :)
It's not illogical. The logic is simple: God is omnipotent; God made it so; therefore it is.
It's not scientific, because there is no credible evidence for those conjectures.
We scientifically-minded people have had a perfectly reasonable naturalistic explanation for the origin of life for a long time. No sir, the ball is in YOUR court to show that there is evidence for your intelligent design theory.
Um, the buildings were constructed without external vents.
Have you noticed the big chimneys beside the plants? They were put there for a reason.
It's not PR. I'd guess they're after several things: #1, they're hoping some percentage of those people will decide now is a good time to retire. Al-Qaeda's attrition rate is going to be quite high this year. #2, those who aren't quitting are still going to scramble for cover for a bit. They're watching to see who's looking nervous. #3, straightforward psy-ops: With the top level guy out of action the next move is to get all the second-level guys mistrusting each other and infighting rather than unifying behind a new leader. #4, believing all their communications channels are compromised (true or not) will greatly slow them down for years.
I agree that the possibility exists, but historically, the NSA has been on the side of actually improving crypto: In the development of DES they supplied a new set of S-boxes. It wasn't until 25 years later that their purpose became apparent when differential cryptanalysis became public knowledge.
Whether that extends from standards to applications, and whether that's still their attitude today is certainly questionable, but I think it'd be very risky move on their part. Even if they obfuscate the weakness well, there'd be a chance they'd get caught. That would permanently destroy their credibility to the point they could no longer make legitimate suggestions for improvements.
All jest aside, I never expected Sony to care about me, but I have been surprised by how brazenly customer-hostile they are. I have been boycotting Sony and spreading the word about just how crappy they are for the last several years.
So, when are all you losers going to wake up?
Corporate America just wanted your money, they don't give a crap about you, your rights to privacy, or even making an attempt at keeping your data secure.
If you purchased an American product in such a way that they've got your credit card number, you're at risk, and it doesn't seem to matter since when; since the beginning of the credit card. Hopefully, those of you using goods and services since the 1960s, only have expired credit cards to worry about, but anyone who has used credit cards recently is at more risk.
Throw out your modern toys. NEVER AGAIN purchase any products, do not buy their records, do not watch their movies, do not buy their headphones, MP3 players, e-book readers, or any of their other trash.
YOU MUST SEND A MESSAGE: I suggest even writing to the President of the United States if you're their customer and TELL THEM that you are boycotting their products and you are advising your family and friends to do the same.
You *can* live without their crap. Surprisingly, there's a world out there. With trees, grass, flowers, and girls. Put down the controller, sir, and step away from the TV.
lameness filter
I have been entirely civil and forthright, but you're too caught up in being adversarial to see it. Or perhaps you're just a troll. Either way, this conversation can serve no purpose any more.
Good day, sir.
Grant, its possible to have a nuclear explosion without a mushroom but its pretty rare.
This would be one of those cases. 10t, nuclear or chemical, doesn't make a mushroom cloud. There's not enough heat to get it rolling.
That's my point. We have overwhelming evidence as an extremely likely cause - let's go with what's likely.
Your original point was that a nuclear explosion was impossible, full stop, and that the lack of a mushroom cloud is proof that it didn't happen. You are moving the goalposts.
I never said a nuclear explosion was the only explanation - only that it's likely. I concede that a hydrogen explosion is also likely, but I haven't seen "overwhelming evidence" for either theory.
Hence I have a clam shell case with BT keyboard
... also known as a touchscreen netbook.