That is just 358800 possible 8 character passwords, which is in the realms of being brute forced. Better than having the password actually written down but not secure by any means.
There are literally dozens of proper film scanners supported under Linux. Admittedly this is not through free software but that does not mean they are not supported. Apart from anything else the SANE protocol does not have sufficient support for film scanner type options to make it anything but a bit of a toy. What you need is Vuescan.
The real reason is that Heisenberg got his theory/sums wrong. He thought that the size of the lump of Uranium 235 that you would need to get a chain reaction going would need to be a ball equal in diameter to the mean free path of a neutron in Uranium 235. This leads to needing huge quantities of U235 to start the chain reaction. In reality it only needs to be half this which leads to a much smaller lump of U235, which is practical to drop from a plane. From memory he calculated you needed something like 100000kg of U235 to make a bomb, which ment there was no delivery system for a bomb even on the horizon.
After the war he claimed this was a deliberate mistake to stop the Nazi's making a bomb. My opinion is that this is a convenitent excuse to cover up his embarising mistake.
Except when the processor is linked via a heatpipe to the case heatsink. Go look up the details on a Hush case. The reason for the polished inside of the case is to minimize the heat that it will radiate back into the case. While having a matt black exteria for maximum radiation to the surrounding atmosphere.
Thermodynamics 101: the case mostly looses it's heat by radiating it into the surrounding atmosphere. For maximum effect you want the inside nice and polished, and the outside matt black.
25% of what? You could have a room full of certified genius, but there would still be a bottom 25%.
Imagine a 100m race with four people, the first comes in at say 9.8 seconds and each following one comming in 0.01 seconds later. By Intel's alledged reasoning you dump the fourth guy because he is not up to the grade. Yet 9.83 seconds would probably put you in the top ten 100m times of all time.
The interesting thing is that if it is going to rely on a "tiny security interpreter (VM)" then it is going to be easier to hack than before for playback under Linux. All one now has to do is replicate the interpreter, where with DVD/CSS you had to crack an encryption system.
Except Turkey will never get membership of the E.U. while they make it illegal to claim ownership in a terrirtory of the country, which is known and acknowledged by the world.
I can think of several current E.U. member states that have groups within them that make such claims, including but not limited to the United Kingdom, Spain and France. Yes it is illegal to persue those claims through violence, but it is distinctly *NOT* illegal to persue those claims full stop.
Personally I find the notion of Turkey becoming a member state of the E.U. quite distrubing. They are just so far from being ready on the issue of human rights that it is a joke.
No he was a convicted murder, in a free an open fair trial. He was jailed for killing people, after being jailed he continued to expound the notion of killing innocent civilians for his politcal cause. He could have been released years earlier under South African law, if he had renounced violence. Pretty standard requirement for parol in any civilized country. His cause was noble, his methods where not, and he was not a political prisoner either. This is the reason why Amesty International never took up his case.
I was being conservative, it is significantly more than 1kW/m2. I am not sure I understand the division by root two, but I would point out that the panels can be angled.
The Sahara which is the size of the USA only has a population the same as the county of Norfolk in England, if need be the population can move. If the wildlife is disrupted so be it (better than the potential problems of global warming). I don't care about the cost of 25%, because I am sure the price would drop dramatically if I order several million square kilometers. There are other options besides photovoltaics and as I pointed out there is 50% efficient panels in the lab.
What's wrong is that the money is not being invested in say solar to overcome the minor obsticals to a potentially clean power source. Compared to the costs of building *one* nuclear power station, that is shear lunacy.
It would not matter if the hydrogen electrolysis is not teribbly efficient, or needing four times the amount of solar power. If you looked at the calculations 3% coverage of the Sahara desert is all you need for the total *WORLD* electricity supply. There are many other deserts, the total potential world supply from solar from just sub tropical deserts at 25% efficiency is over 100 times current world electricity consumption.
The point you missed is that renewable is perfectly capable of supply the demand, with ample left over to provide sufficient hydrogen for us all to drive in electric vehicles.
The area of the Sahara alone is 9,000,000 square km or 9e12 square metres. The average energy per square metre on the earths surface is around 1kW. If we allow our solar panel to be 25% efficient that makes for 2250 Terawatts of electricity. That means we only need to cover 3% of the Sahara to meet total world electricity requirements today. This is forgetting deserts in the Middle East, Austrialia, North and South America and Asia.
All these figures where Googled in 5 minutes. That also turned up a link that suggests that researches at MIT have a multiband gap material in the lab that would be 50% efficient!
Looks to me like we could easily meet current total world energy demand several times over using just solar power alone. We have not started on other renewable sources such as geothermal, hydroelectric, tidal, wave and wind, which would only add to the total power generation capacity.
Looks to me like you have brought into what can only be described as the propoganda that renewable won't and cannot work. Ten minutes ago I had no idea whether this calculation would show solar was viable or not. Clearly it is.
Also on the 25% efficient we can get 336 Terrawatt from the Australian desert, and no need to talk to any politically unstable Arab countries either. You can also get 225 Terrawatt from the subtropical deserts in North America alone. I make the total potential energy output from the worlds subtropical deserts a staggering 3766 Terawatts with 25% efficency. If the guys at MIT can increase that to 50%, then that is 117 times current total world electricity demand. How much power do you think we need?
Admittedly these are back of the envelope calculations using quickly Googled figures. However they would have to be several orders of magnitude out to make to the point invalid. However this does not seem likely to me.
The increase in storage from a DVD to either of these blue laser format optical disks is simply insufficient to make it worth while. From a CD to a DVD was a 10 fold increase in storage. From a DVD to a blue laser based disk is only around three times the capacity.
This is just not worth the effort and cost, especially when there are holographic alternatives in development that have the potential to offer over 100 times the storage capacity of a DVD.
Yeah and I have a LaserJet 5 with over 500,000 pages at work and still going strong. Yep that is right over half a million pages. That said it has been given a very good clean (read dismantled and most of the external plastic washed in a sink) and a maintenance kit fitted. However it is still going strong, and you can still get the spare parts, unlike some other printers.
I would say the ability to drop markers into the audio and then have selections snap to them later is a *BASIC* editing tool that Auditon (and even CoolEdit 2000) has had for a long time. In fact compared to CoolEdit 2000 which is now a defunct product on which no development has taken place in years, CoolEdit 2000 easily surpasses Audacity in all areas apart from not running natively on Linux.
Rubbish, I just did apt-get update today on a Debian Linux server. This lead to my DHCP server being upgraded. The down time was measured in seconds. However any computer trying to do a DHCP request while it was being upgrade would barely have noticed while as the DHCP protocol has retries built in. Same goes for *many* other services. The end result is that you can patch many services live, with an effective downtime of zero.
Nope, there is a type of reactor called an energy amplifier. Basically you blast the thorium with high energy neutrons from a particle accelerator. No chance of a melt down period and no nasty isotopes that can make bombs. The physics looks good, the experiments to confirm the physics work, all we need is someone to build one for electricity production. Google a bit.
Curious thought, perhaps it is the class of Americans that never leave the USA that people outside the USA dislike. Given the percentage of USA citizens that hold a passport compared to the normal for an industrialized first world democracy, those Americans that travel abroad are a distinct minority.
We do have plenty of gas in the North Sea, but only if we are going to use it exclusively for domestic supplies i.e. heating and cooking. However as we now using it for a substantial percentage of our electricity supply we have to import it from Russia.
However if we can import natural gas all the way from Sibera down a pipe and across the sea into Great Britain I fail to see why the USA cannot get it from Alaska! It not like an oil pipe line, where a leak will do long term damage to the enviroment either. In fact leaks are such bad news with a gas pipeline they don't happen often.
Except the problem is that due to the insane policies of the last Consevative goverment we now use large amounts of natural gas to generate electricity in the United Kingdom. Shear utter madness really.
The result is that if there is a cold snap that lasts more than two or three days there will be insufficent gas to provide for both electricity generation and domestic gas, and something is going to have to give. The only reason it has not happened before is that we have had a series of mild winters since the mid 1980's. The likely outcome is that domestic gas will be cut not electricity generation however.
Except if there is an emergency that would threaten the life of your child/children when they are in the care of a babysitter then YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST POINT OF CALL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE.
Here is a clue, when your child/children go to school, if they have an accident they will call the emergency services and deal with your child *BEFORE* calling you on your cellphone. If there is some lifethreating problem the emergency services are *ALWAYS* more appropriate.
Even if it is directing the babysitter to do first aid, the trained professional at the other end of a 911/999 call is a much better bet that an emotionaly attached parent that is likely to panic.
If you honestly think you are improving your childs chances by being contactable by cellphone then you are a self deluded fool.
Funny I bet your parents went out and left you trusted to a baby sitter, without a cellphone contact. I know mine did. As they said you either need a better baby sitter or are being over protective. You don't need to be in 24x7 contact with your baby sitter period.
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That is just 358800 possible 8 character passwords, which is in the realms of being brute forced. Better than having the password actually written down but not secure by any means.
There are literally dozens of proper film scanners supported under Linux. Admittedly this is not through free software but that does not mean they are not supported. Apart from anything else the SANE protocol does not have sufficient support for film scanner type options to make it anything but a bit of a toy. What you need is Vuescan.
The real reason is that Heisenberg got his theory/sums wrong. He thought that the size of the lump of Uranium 235 that you would need to get a chain reaction going would need to be a ball equal in diameter to the mean free path of a neutron in Uranium 235. This leads to needing huge quantities of U235 to start the chain reaction. In reality it only needs to be half this which leads to a much smaller lump of U235, which is practical to drop from a plane. From memory he calculated you needed something like 100000kg of U235 to make a bomb, which ment there was no delivery system for a bomb even on the horizon.
After the war he claimed this was a deliberate mistake to stop the Nazi's making a bomb. My opinion is that this is a convenitent excuse to cover up his embarising mistake.
Except when the processor is linked via a heatpipe to the case heatsink. Go look up the details on a Hush case. The reason for the polished inside of the case is to minimize the heat that it will radiate back into the case. While having a matt black exteria for maximum radiation to the surrounding atmosphere.
Thermodynamics 101: the case mostly looses it's heat by radiating it into the surrounding atmosphere. For maximum effect you want the inside nice and polished, and the outside matt black.
25% of what? You could have a room full of certified genius, but there would still be a bottom 25%.
Imagine a 100m race with four people, the first comes in at say 9.8 seconds and each following one comming in 0.01 seconds later. By Intel's alledged reasoning you dump the fourth guy because he is not up to the grade. Yet 9.83 seconds would probably put you in the top ten 100m times of all time.
The interesting thing is that if it is going to rely on a "tiny security interpreter (VM)" then it is going to be easier to hack than before for playback under Linux. All one now has to do is replicate the interpreter, where with DVD/CSS you had to crack an encryption system.
Except Turkey will never get membership of the E.U. while they make it illegal to claim ownership in a terrirtory of the country, which is known and acknowledged by the world.
I can think of several current E.U. member states that have groups within them that make such claims, including but not limited to the United Kingdom, Spain and France. Yes it is illegal to persue those claims through violence, but it is distinctly *NOT* illegal to persue those claims full stop.
Personally I find the notion of Turkey becoming a member state of the E.U. quite distrubing. They are just so far from being ready on the issue of human rights that it is a joke.
No he was a convicted murder, in a free an open fair trial. He was jailed for killing people, after being jailed he continued to expound the notion of killing innocent civilians for his politcal cause. He could have been released years earlier under South African law, if he had renounced violence. Pretty standard requirement for parol in any civilized country. His cause was noble, his methods where not, and he was not a political prisoner either. This is the reason why Amesty International never took up his case.
Sales of widescreen TV's and DVD players with Dolby 5.1 surround sound are at all time highs.
I was being conservative, it is significantly more than 1kW/m2. I am not sure I understand the division by root two, but I would point out that the panels can be angled.
The Sahara which is the size of the USA only has a population the same as the county of Norfolk in England, if need be the population can move. If the wildlife is disrupted so be it (better than the potential problems of global warming). I don't care about the cost of 25%, because I am sure the price would drop dramatically if I order several million square kilometers. There are other options besides photovoltaics and as I pointed out there is 50% efficient panels in the lab.
What's wrong is that the money is not being invested in say solar to overcome the minor obsticals to a potentially clean power source. Compared to the costs of building *one* nuclear power station, that is shear lunacy.
It would not matter if the hydrogen electrolysis is not teribbly efficient, or needing four times the amount of solar power. If you looked at the calculations 3% coverage of the Sahara desert is all you need for the total *WORLD* electricity supply. There are many other deserts, the total potential world supply from solar from just sub tropical deserts at 25% efficiency is over 100 times current world electricity consumption.
The point you missed is that renewable is perfectly capable of supply the demand, with ample left over to provide sufficient hydrogen for us all to drive in electric vehicles.
The area of the Sahara alone is 9,000,000 square km or 9e12 square metres. The average energy per square metre on the earths surface is around 1kW. If we allow our solar panel to be 25% efficient that makes for 2250 Terawatts of electricity. That means we only need to cover 3% of the Sahara to meet total world electricity requirements today. This is forgetting deserts in the Middle East, Austrialia, North and South America and Asia.
All these figures where Googled in 5 minutes. That also turned up a link that suggests that researches at MIT have a multiband gap material in the lab that would be 50% efficient!
Looks to me like we could easily meet current total world energy demand several times over using just solar power alone. We have not started on other renewable sources such as geothermal, hydroelectric, tidal, wave and wind, which would only add to the total power generation capacity.
Looks to me like you have brought into what can only be described as the propoganda that renewable won't and cannot work. Ten minutes ago I had no idea whether this calculation would show solar was viable or not. Clearly it is.
Also on the 25% efficient we can get 336 Terrawatt from the Australian desert, and no need to talk to any politically unstable Arab countries either. You can also get 225 Terrawatt from the subtropical deserts in North America alone. I make the total potential energy output from the worlds subtropical deserts a staggering 3766 Terawatts with 25% efficency. If the guys at MIT can increase that to 50%, then that is 117 times current total world electricity demand. How much power do you think we need?
Admittedly these are back of the envelope calculations using quickly Googled figures. However they would have to be several orders of magnitude out to make to the point invalid. However this does not seem likely to me.
The increase in storage from a DVD to either of these blue laser format optical disks is simply insufficient to make it worth while. From a CD to a DVD was a 10 fold increase in storage. From a DVD to a blue laser based disk is only around three times the capacity.
This is just not worth the effort and cost, especially when there are holographic alternatives in development that have the potential to offer over 100 times the storage capacity of a DVD.
You must have a very funny idea about what constitutes red light. Last time I checked the 785nm that is used in a CD is not visible.
Maybe, but last time I used Solaris, the up arrow on my keyboard did nothing in a shell, and the back arrow similarly did nothing.
Yeah and I have a LaserJet 5 with over 500,000 pages at work and still going strong. Yep that is right over half a million pages. That said it has been given a very good clean (read dismantled and most of the external plastic washed in a sink) and a maintenance kit fitted. However it is still going strong, and you can still get the spare parts, unlike some other printers.
I would say the ability to drop markers into the audio and then have selections snap to them later is a *BASIC* editing tool that Auditon (and even CoolEdit 2000) has had for a long time. In fact compared to CoolEdit 2000 which is now a defunct product on which no development has taken place in years, CoolEdit 2000 easily surpasses Audacity in all areas apart from not running natively on Linux.
Rubbish, I just did apt-get update today on a Debian Linux server. This lead to my DHCP server being upgraded. The down time was measured in seconds. However any computer trying to do a DHCP request while it was being upgrade would barely have noticed while as the DHCP protocol has retries built in. Same goes for *many* other services. The end result is that you can patch many services live, with an effective downtime of zero.
Nope, there is a type of reactor called an energy amplifier. Basically you blast the thorium with high energy neutrons from a particle accelerator. No chance of a melt down period and no nasty isotopes that can make bombs. The physics looks good, the experiments to confirm the physics work, all we need is someone to build one for electricity production. Google a bit.
Curious thought, perhaps it is the class of Americans that never leave the USA that people outside the USA dislike. Given the percentage of USA citizens that hold a passport compared to the normal for an industrialized first world democracy, those Americans that travel abroad are a distinct minority.
We do have plenty of gas in the North Sea, but only if we are going to use it exclusively for domestic supplies i.e. heating and cooking. However as we now using it for a substantial percentage of our electricity supply we have to import it from Russia.
However if we can import natural gas all the way from Sibera down a pipe and across the sea into Great Britain I fail to see why the USA cannot get it from Alaska! It not like an oil pipe line, where a leak will do long term damage to the enviroment either. In fact leaks are such bad news with a gas pipeline they don't happen often.
Except the problem is that due to the insane policies of the last Consevative goverment we now use large amounts of natural gas to generate electricity in the United Kingdom. Shear utter madness really.
The result is that if there is a cold snap that lasts more than two or three days there will be insufficent gas to provide for both electricity generation and domestic gas, and something is going to have to give. The only reason it has not happened before is that we have had a series of mild winters since the mid 1980's. The likely outcome is that domestic gas will be cut not electricity generation however.
Except if there is an emergency that would threaten the life of your child/children when they are in the care of a babysitter then YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST POINT OF CALL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE.
Here is a clue, when your child/children go to school, if they have an accident they will call the emergency services and deal with your child *BEFORE* calling you on your cellphone. If there is some lifethreating problem the emergency services are *ALWAYS* more appropriate.
Even if it is directing the babysitter to do first aid, the trained professional at the other end of a 911/999 call is a much better bet that an emotionaly attached parent that is likely to panic.
If you honestly think you are improving your childs chances by being contactable by cellphone then you are a self deluded fool.
Funny I bet your parents went out and left you trusted to a baby sitter, without a cellphone contact. I know mine did. As they said you either need a better baby sitter or are being over protective. You don't need to be in 24x7 contact with your baby sitter period.