Its rather amusing that you list the U.S. governments failure to properly regulate the banking sector as a reason why we should move to a currency that is completely unregulated.
It comes down to a fundamental problem with the representative democracy system itself. While ethanol from corn provides little benefits to the nation and it costs quite a bit, it has been quite a boon for the Midwest Corn Belt which encompasses a good chunk of the nation. The elected representatives have the very difficult job of trying to strike a balance between the best interests of the nation as a whole and the best interest of the people they were elected to represent. When a program grows to a size where it affects a great number of people, making changes to it becomes extremely difficult because it risks pissing off a great number of voters who could ultimately elect representatives they feel would weigh heavier on their side of the scale.
And again, inefficiency is not an issue if you are heating your house anyway..
If you live in the lower 48, then there will be no need for heating for at least a few months out of the year and most likely you will be running the air conditioning during the summer.
If your house happens to be somewhere in the arctic circle, then my apologies.
Nuclear is one of the safest ways of generating electricity. My belief is that people have a irrational fear of radiation mostly because it increases the risk of cancer, a deases that most of us will face either personally or in a loved one, and one that we are terrified of due to it being seen as a slow and painfull death. If radiation exposure increased the risk of cradiovascular deases (the number one killer but nonthless much less feared than cancer), I doubt Nuclear Energy would be as terrifying to most people.
The point of it is to be able to launch it without giving away your location to an enemy by surfacing. Once its mission is concluded you can land it in water and pick it up once the area is secure or the threat has passed.
I all comes down to money! The monetary cost of the war on terror, including the 2 wars fought in its name, would be a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of making meaningful reductions in the worlds overwhelming reliance on fossil fuels in general and cheap coal power in particular. Considering the spending must be done within a decade or two and that developing countries, a list that includes most of the world and the number 1 producer of greenhouse gases, want developed nations to pay for most if not all of it and you can see why it seems like a overwhelming problem to tackle.
Can we stop comparing everything to the price of such and such war. No country in the world will decide not to go to war so they could get a better bargain for their money by spending it on such and such project. The price to the U.S for WW2 was $288 trillion, imagine the accelerator we could have build with that.
Unfortunately I have yet to a windows installation that doesn't have all browsers encumbered by at least 3 adware/spyware addons.
This even happened on my own computer after letting my niece play with it for a few hours. Only discovered after noticing "ads not from this page" poppons.
Unfortunately this is probably a step in the right direction for most users. To the knowledgeable this is only a annoyance.
You forgot a very important number, the GDP. At 14,991,300 its twice as big as the next country on the list with a quarter of the population.
As per average test scores, they are completely irrelevant. You do not advance sciences and engineering with the average, you do it with the best and the U.S still attracts more of the best than anyone else.
Recently my Canon pixma 5220 printer-head failed just about a month after the warranty expired so I found myself in need of a replacement. My primary criteria were a compact size, the ability to print tabloid size prints, and because I don't use the printer very often, the use of as little ink as possible for printer-head cleaning. Its really annoying to try and print something after a few weeks of non-use only to be told that a cartridge that was running low, is now completely empty. I settled on the Brother MFC-J4410dw which i picked up for $110 as Brother was running a $40 promotion on it. PC Mag gave it a editors choice. The only drawback is that graphics quality is not great but personally I find that when it comes to photos no printer can match the quality of online print stores for the money per print.
China and many other nations would love to see another currency supplant the U.S dollar or at the very least have a credible alternative, but the truth is that currently there is no currency that could do that.
The Chinese renminbi is not free floating, the euro is not even guaranteed to survive, Japan is too leaden with debt which puts into question the future stability of the yen, and finally the British sterling, Canadian or Australian dollars etc are simply backed by too small of a economy to be considered serious contenders.
Forcing people to use official cables doesn't fix the issue of a knock-off charger, though. It's just smoke and mirrors, luddites won't understand the fact that even official cables can electrocute you just as well as non-official ones if the charger is faulty.
Perhaps Apple is thinking that If people know that only official cables will work with their device, they are very likely to believe that the same is true about the chargers.
Now if the rest of the world have a hint, they just need to use their own words
It has been made 'very clear' (some country) authorities would not allow significant U.S. investment in one cable project and it followed that they would not tolerate the use of U.S. gear in its construction. 'It was made very clear. These are cables connecting whole countries. These are very political things,' one insider said."
Brazil is already doing something of this, and more countries should follow.
Many Brazilians seem to think that the U.S spying is just an excuse to get social media sites to open offices and place their servers in Brazil where they could be pressured or even censored by the government.
I wonder how much all the headlines last month about the Chinese woman being electrocuted by an iphone, while apparently using a cheap unauthorized wall charger, had to do with this decision. Perhaps they decided that getting a bruised eye from the press and the public for being called greedy is the better trade-off in the long run.
Colonizing other worlds with rocket technology would be like trying to colonize another continent with canoes. Could you get a few brave souls there? Sure if you get lucky enough, but forming a colony of any significant size with the aim of it being self sustainable is an impossibility.
In hdd's a mounting number of bit errors or frequent controller resets are red flags pointing to a imminent drive failure. In my experience ssd typically fail catastrophically without any warning signs at all, something which is pretty rare in hdd's.
According to Research from Segate, a hybrid drive needs just 8gb of NAND to achive %95 performance of a a NAND drive in a typical business environment
"During the five days of study, the average amount of data read by machines in a business environment stood at 19.48GB. Out of this amount, just 9.59GB was unique; the rest consisted of duplicate reads" Of course this is not exactly a large scale study, but it was presented in a industry workshop so its not just fabricated marketing material either.
http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/seagate-hybrid-drives-dont-need-more-than-8gb-of-nand-124069
Since benchmarking software is useless for gauging the effect of caching, It would be interesting to see a similar study done on typical usage scenarios for a home machine.
720p is still 1280×720 and 1080i(p) is still 920×1080. While older sets are most likely limited to 720p, in the most widely sold 42"-46" tv's, the difference between the 2 is hardly noticeable. If you want internet connectivity a cheap roku functions better than the hideous, never-updated software on most tv's. Finally that leaves us with gimmicks such as 3D which even the industry is moving away from.
Everyone on this thread is concerned with the possibility of nsa backdoors code but from my understanding the attack is much more insidious and the consequences much more severe than just a backdoor that only the nsa could use.
By hiring most of the wrolds talent in cryptography and then deliberately having them design algortihms and code that is not as secure as it could be, or it should be then are they not only leaving everyone open to attack just by the NSA but from anyone else as well.
Its called a civil war and just as in any war there is no "righteous side", only a wining side a loosing side and the victims caught in the middle of it all.
As a former worker in the hospitality business, where for many the way to resign was simply not to show up, I can tell you that the only ones that got screwed were your ex-coworkers that had to cover your shifts. Not cool!
And it's still not a military coup for which reason?
it’s important to realize that most Egyptians view the U.S. aid as “a kind of payment” for keeping the peace with Israel. Though the aid isn’t part of the peace treaty, it began immediately after the treaty was signed, and for 34 years, the only condition on its continuance has been continuation of the treaty. The army is the main beneficiary of the aid and since the army is not only Egypt’s de facto ruler, but also the treaty’s main supporter in a country where most people would rather scrap it, ending aid would likely be terrible for Egypt-Israeli relations.
Can a knowledgeable party weigh in on what this research means to whole-disk encryption, where an attacker has knowledge of what significant amounts of data, specifically the operating system files, look like un-encrypted? It would seem to me that such knowledge makes the sort of attack described by the article much easier.
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However, telecom and tech firms are still barred from releasing data on national security requests from the FBI and U.S. intelligence services."
How about "leaking it" Snowden style via some "contractor?" Heck, if it hapned to the NSA, it can surely happen to some big corporation. No?
Fleeing the country might keep you safe from a government agency but there is nowhere in the world you can hide from a multi-national corporation.
The turbine devices would be great for confusing first-aid people.
"I can't feel a pulse!"
Kinda hard to miss the battery and the wires going into ones chest!
Its rather amusing that you list the U.S. governments failure to properly regulate the banking sector as a reason why we should move to a currency that is completely unregulated.
It comes down to a fundamental problem with the representative democracy system itself. While ethanol from corn provides little benefits to the nation and it costs quite a bit, it has been quite a boon for the Midwest Corn Belt which encompasses a good chunk of the nation. The elected representatives have the very difficult job of trying to strike a balance between the best interests of the nation as a whole and the best interest of the people they were elected to represent. When a program grows to a size where it affects a great number of people, making changes to it becomes extremely difficult because it risks pissing off a great number of voters who could ultimately elect representatives they feel would weigh heavier on their side of the scale.
And again, inefficiency is not an issue if you are heating your house anyway..
If you live in the lower 48, then there will be no need for heating for at least a few months out of the year and most likely you will be running the air conditioning during the summer. If your house happens to be somewhere in the arctic circle, then my apologies.
Nuclear is one of the safest ways of generating electricity. My belief is that people have a irrational fear of radiation mostly because it increases the risk of cancer, a deases that most of us will face either personally or in a loved one, and one that we are terrified of due to it being seen as a slow and painfull death. If radiation exposure increased the risk of cradiovascular deases (the number one killer but nonthless much less feared than cancer), I doubt Nuclear Energy would be as terrifying to most people.
The point of it is to be able to launch it without giving away your location to an enemy by surfacing. Once its mission is concluded you can land it in water and pick it up once the area is secure or the threat has passed.
I all comes down to money! The monetary cost of the war on terror, including the 2 wars fought in its name, would be a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of making meaningful reductions in the worlds overwhelming reliance on fossil fuels in general and cheap coal power in particular. Considering the spending must be done within a decade or two and that developing countries, a list that includes most of the world and the number 1 producer of greenhouse gases, want developed nations to pay for most if not all of it and you can see why it seems like a overwhelming problem to tackle.
Can we stop comparing everything to the price of such and such war. No country in the world will decide not to go to war so they could get a better bargain for their money by spending it on such and such project. The price to the U.S for WW2 was $288 trillion, imagine the accelerator we could have build with that.
Unfortunately I have yet to a windows installation that doesn't have all browsers encumbered by at least 3 adware/spyware addons. This even happened on my own computer after letting my niece play with it for a few hours. Only discovered after noticing "ads not from this page" poppons. Unfortunately this is probably a step in the right direction for most users. To the knowledgeable this is only a annoyance.
You forgot a very important number, the GDP. At 14,991,300 its twice as big as the next country on the list with a quarter of the population. As per average test scores, they are completely irrelevant. You do not advance sciences and engineering with the average, you do it with the best and the U.S still attracts more of the best than anyone else.
Recently my Canon pixma 5220 printer-head failed just about a month after the warranty expired so I found myself in need of a replacement. My primary criteria were a compact size, the ability to print tabloid size prints, and because I don't use the printer very often, the use of as little ink as possible for printer-head cleaning. Its really annoying to try and print something after a few weeks of non-use only to be told that a cartridge that was running low, is now completely empty. I settled on the Brother MFC-J4410dw which i picked up for $110 as Brother was running a $40 promotion on it. PC Mag gave it a editors choice. The only drawback is that graphics quality is not great but personally I find that when it comes to photos no printer can match the quality of online print stores for the money per print.
China and many other nations would love to see another currency supplant the U.S dollar or at the very least have a credible alternative, but the truth is that currently there is no currency that could do that. The Chinese renminbi is not free floating, the euro is not even guaranteed to survive, Japan is too leaden with debt which puts into question the future stability of the yen, and finally the British sterling, Canadian or Australian dollars etc are simply backed by too small of a economy to be considered serious contenders.
Forcing people to use official cables doesn't fix the issue of a knock-off charger, though. It's just smoke and mirrors, luddites won't understand the fact that even official cables can electrocute you just as well as non-official ones if the charger is faulty.
Perhaps Apple is thinking that If people know that only official cables will work with their device, they are very likely to believe that the same is true about the chargers.
Now if the rest of the world have a hint, they just need to use their own words
It has been made 'very clear' (some country) authorities would not allow significant U.S. investment in one cable project and it followed that they would not tolerate the use of U.S. gear in its construction. 'It was made very clear. These are cables connecting whole countries. These are very political things,' one insider said."
Brazil is already doing something of this, and more countries should follow.
Many Brazilians seem to think that the U.S spying is just an excuse to get social media sites to open offices and place their servers in Brazil where they could be pressured or even censored by the government.
I wonder how much all the headlines last month about the Chinese woman being electrocuted by an iphone, while apparently using a cheap unauthorized wall charger, had to do with this decision. Perhaps they decided that getting a bruised eye from the press and the public for being called greedy is the better trade-off in the long run.
Colonizing other worlds with rocket technology would be like trying to colonize another continent with canoes. Could you get a few brave souls there? Sure if you get lucky enough, but forming a colony of any significant size with the aim of it being self sustainable is an impossibility.
In hdd's a mounting number of bit errors or frequent controller resets are red flags pointing to a imminent drive failure. In my experience ssd typically fail catastrophically without any warning signs at all, something which is pretty rare in hdd's.
According to Research from Segate, a hybrid drive needs just 8gb of NAND to achive %95 performance of a a NAND drive in a typical business environment "During the five days of study, the average amount of data read by machines in a business environment stood at 19.48GB. Out of this amount, just 9.59GB was unique; the rest consisted of duplicate reads" Of course this is not exactly a large scale study, but it was presented in a industry workshop so its not just fabricated marketing material either. http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/seagate-hybrid-drives-dont-need-more-than-8gb-of-nand-124069
Since benchmarking software is useless for gauging the effect of caching, It would be interesting to see a similar study done on typical usage scenarios for a home machine.
720p is still 1280×720 and 1080i(p) is still 920×1080. While older sets are most likely limited to 720p, in the most widely sold 42"-46" tv's, the difference between the 2 is hardly noticeable. If you want internet connectivity a cheap roku functions better than the hideous, never-updated software on most tv's. Finally that leaves us with gimmicks such as 3D which even the industry is moving away from.
Everyone on this thread is concerned with the possibility of nsa backdoors code but from my understanding the attack is much more insidious and the consequences much more severe than just a backdoor that only the nsa could use. By hiring most of the wrolds talent in cryptography and then deliberately having them design algortihms and code that is not as secure as it could be, or it should be then are they not only leaving everyone open to attack just by the NSA but from anyone else as well.
Its called a civil war and just as in any war there is no "righteous side", only a wining side a loosing side and the victims caught in the middle of it all.
As a former worker in the hospitality business, where for many the way to resign was simply not to show up, I can tell you that the only ones that got screwed were your ex-coworkers that had to cover your shifts. Not cool!
And it's still not a military coup for which reason?
it’s important to realize that most Egyptians view the U.S. aid as “a kind of payment” for keeping the peace with Israel. Though the aid isn’t part of the peace treaty, it began immediately after the treaty was signed, and for 34 years, the only condition on its continuance has been continuation of the treaty. The army is the main beneficiary of the aid and since the army is not only Egypt’s de facto ruler, but also the treaty’s main supporter in a country where most people would rather scrap it, ending aid would likely be terrible for Egypt-Israeli relations.
Can a knowledgeable party weigh in on what this research means to whole-disk encryption, where an attacker has knowledge of what significant amounts of data, specifically the operating system files, look like un-encrypted? It would seem to me that such knowledge makes the sort of attack described by the article much easier.