Anyone who heads to the polls and participates in an election has a solemn duty to be informed. That means either four figures worth of periodical subscriptions or an Internet connection. I suspect most of these people are getting their ideas from TV and not from the Atlantic and the Economist.
They may be the first to have crossed 200K miles with a Prius. Taxi service is one of the hardest uses for a car. When Toyota bought it back for a teardown to study extended wear, it still had the factory battery and other drivetrain components.
As more normal service pushes others over 200K, the results have been mostly the same.
The Prius was also designed for (_relatively_) green manufacturing techniques, including a less nasty painting process.
The Prius is also an SULEV, news to me if the Hummer is as well.
OK, you're coming from a background in the sciences, but without ramping up on this particular set of issues:
Whom will you believe, the people who say they predict between 1.4 and 5.8 Celsius of further warming and give a 90% confidence it's human-caused, or the people who talk about being persecuted instead of showing you their fieldwork?
Back on the main topic, there is a risk of a backlash. The IPCC report gives best estimates for sea level rise that are way below what Al Gore was talking about. If we get low sea level increases or a quiet hurricane season, will the masses go back to sleep and assume nothing is wrong?
The thing about space is that small pushes over long times can work better than splashy big short ones.
Why bomb the asteroid when you could keep ion engines running for decades instead? Or maybe find some point in its orbit where it's going between two heavy bodies and a small change will tip it one way or the other and make a big difference?
>How crazy do you have to be to think that an asteroid is a real threat for humankind? *shakes head*
You have to be crazy enough to realize that civilization is more fragile than the species is, and crazy enough to realize that if an explosion the size of Tunguska or even smaller goes off near the India-Pakistan border the world will be breathing radioactive fallout for years.
You also have to be crazy enough to do basic math and work out the odds of intolerable damage on a time scale of hundreds or thousands of years. Doing correct math in front of people is widely considered evidence of craziness, to be sure.
That megatonnage is equivalent to a few thousand Trident submarines. Granted that most of it is wasted making ground zero even more incandescent, but a lot of the ejecta and the smoke from incinerated cities will stay in the atmosphere and create a non-nuclear "nuclear winter". Plus odds are 2-1 that it will hit an ocean, and remember that most of the world's population lives near coastlines. Ocean strikes are also more effective at coupling impact energy into the atmosphere.
At least we'd have spectacular sunsets for a while.
>someone who in 2007 isn't still baffled by setting up a printer.
IPP or LPD? How do I tell? Where's the entry for Samba? What's the queue name? How can I tell?
Why won't my HL-1440 work? What does it mean that it's not "network ready"? Why does the "network readiness" of the driver matter if all it does is take orders from the spooler? If I get another driver, how do I tell if it's network ready"? If this is all so impossible, why does it work from Windows?
Why exactly do I have to edit CUPS configuration files? Why are the entries I'm supposed to edit so poorly related to talking to a printer?
Tell me it's easy to set up a printer hanging straight off my USB port and I'm willing to believe you. Tell me I'm stupid, and, well, I'll draw conclusions you won't like.
So you're satisfied that JAP isn't currently cooperating with another police investigation? Granted, it's been four years since the last one that we know about, but if reputation is all you have to go on...
You're exactly right about the Secret Service. Keep going with that list. What is "currency" these days? Almost all the dollars in the world are computer records. Their anti-counterfeiting mission put them in the lead to deal with computer crime.
Computer forensics has not changed beyond recognition in the last year, probably won't in the next year, and in any event a lot of investigations will on Windows 98 machines and others that are more than a year old. There will have to be continuing education classes to cover things like the new issues raised by mobile phones, but a good theoretical background (hash the media, preserve the evidence, check for malware) will cover most of the new technologies.
It sounds like they'll be teaching what to do with a hard disk image, which goes beyond just "use EnCase".
Besides, you have to seize everything unless you've got some guarantee that there's no evidence concealed on a nerdstick, an iPod, or any of a kajillion things that store more data than a high end hard disk did fifteen years ago.
There's a brilliant essay by conservative history professor Garry Wills about the misuse of the phrase "Commander in Chief". His point is that in a free society the President is _not_ Commander in Chief of anything but the armed forces, the country as a whole is not under military discipline, and military concepts like secrecy and "need to know" don't contaminate politics.
He also points out that by historical standards the US hasn't looked like a peacetime government since 1941.
Nothing? Buy a crypto accelerator from nCipher or any other company that sells them. AES in smart implementations is in the neighborhood of 16 cycles per byte anyway.
Yes, but that cooperation may not be the result of informed consent. It's painfully easy for an untrusted application to stick a new root CA into IE's list, after which it can sign its own certificates and use them to intercept SSL. MarketScore, reportedly, did this.
>and so fear death and destruction that they will throw away their liberty for temporary saftey.
To put it this way is to fall into the rhetorical trap laid by the cynical power seekers. A statement like that one reinforces the idea that we're safer as a result of ignoring the Constitution.
The extra powers, for the stated purposes, are both unnecessary and useless. Unnecessary, because the FBI could have rolled up the 9/11 cells under pre-9/11 law (see the Colleen Rowley memo). Useless, as we see in practise. What real terrorist, as opposed to absurd wannabes, has been caught using the new powers created by USAPATRIOT?
We are not trading freedom for safety. We are giving it away for free.
After the Oklahoma City atrocity, there was enough density of business security camera coverage to reconstruct the route of the Ryder truck.
Making the same sort of thing centralized, and cheap enough to do routinely, is worth worrying about. As Stalin allegedly said, "Quantity has a quality all its own".
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Anyone who heads to the polls and participates in an election has a solemn duty to be informed. That means either four figures worth of periodical subscriptions or an Internet connection. I suspect most of these people are getting their ideas from TV and not from the Atlantic and the Economist.
No, because corneas and lenses block most of the UV spectrum anyway.
I've been known to put my /etc into cvs.
OpenBSD runs Linux binaries under emulation, does OS X? Could it be made available through fink?
They may be the first to have crossed 200K miles with a Prius. Taxi service is one of the hardest uses for a car. When Toyota bought it back for a teardown to study extended wear, it still had the factory battery and other drivetrain components.
As more normal service pushes others over 200K, the results have been mostly the same.
The Prius was also designed for (_relatively_) green manufacturing techniques, including a less nasty painting process.
The Prius is also an SULEV, news to me if the Hummer is as well.
OK, you're coming from a background in the sciences, but without ramping up on this particular set of issues:
Whom will you believe, the people who say they predict between 1.4 and 5.8 Celsius of further warming and give a 90% confidence it's human-caused, or the people who talk about being persecuted instead of showing you their fieldwork?
Back on the main topic, there is a risk of a backlash. The IPCC report gives best estimates for sea level rise that are way below what Al Gore was talking about. If we get low sea level increases or a quiet hurricane season, will the masses go back to sleep and assume nothing is wrong?
The thing about space is that small pushes over long times can work better than splashy big short ones.
Why bomb the asteroid when you could keep ion engines running for decades instead? Or maybe find some point in its orbit where it's going between two heavy bodies and a small change will tip it one way or the other and make a big difference?
>How crazy do you have to be to think that an asteroid is a real threat for humankind? *shakes head*
You have to be crazy enough to realize that civilization is more fragile than the species is, and crazy enough to realize that if an explosion the size of Tunguska or even smaller goes off near the India-Pakistan border the world will be breathing radioactive fallout for years.
You also have to be crazy enough to do basic math and work out the odds of intolerable damage on a time scale of hundreds or thousands of years. Doing correct math in front of people is widely considered evidence of craziness, to be sure.
That megatonnage is equivalent to a few thousand Trident submarines. Granted that most of it is wasted making ground zero even more incandescent, but a lot of the ejecta and the smoke from incinerated cities will stay in the atmosphere and create a non-nuclear "nuclear winter". Plus odds are 2-1 that it will hit an ocean, and remember that most of the world's population lives near coastlines. Ocean strikes are also more effective at coupling impact energy into the atmosphere.
At least we'd have spectacular sunsets for a while.
Warm the planet, evaporate stored CO2. Positive feedback.
Warm the planet, evaporate water. H2O is a greenhouse gas. Positive feedback.
Warm the planet, form low clouds. Nights are warmer. Positive feedback.
Warm the planet, form high clouds. They reflect sunlight. Negative feedback.
If the global circulation models for Mars are right, small forcings should give us relatively large results.
Since 1978, we've had direct satellite measurements of solar intensity.
Mars is cooler today than it was during the 1970s Viking missions.
A shrinking polar cap is local warming, not global warming, and did you notice what season it is on Mars?
Why do people repeat Fox News instead of looking for themselves?
Exactly. Search on "plant patents".
The glow of a wood fire is from incandescent soot, so the hydrogen flame would be really unsatisfying.
More of what they're doing at the research group's site.
>someone who in 2007 isn't still baffled by setting up a printer.
IPP or LPD? How do I tell? Where's the entry for Samba? What's the queue name? How can I tell?
Why won't my HL-1440 work? What does it mean that it's not "network ready"? Why does the "network readiness" of the driver matter if all it does is take orders from the spooler? If I get another driver, how do I tell if it's network ready"? If this is all so impossible, why does it work from Windows?
Why exactly do I have to edit CUPS configuration files? Why are the entries I'm supposed to edit so poorly related to talking to a printer?
Tell me it's easy to set up a printer hanging straight off my USB port and I'm willing to believe you. Tell me I'm stupid, and, well, I'll draw conclusions you won't like.
Gmail lets you log in and run the whole session over SSL, just start from https://mail.google.com./
So you're satisfied that JAP isn't currently cooperating with another police investigation? Granted, it's been four years since the last one that we know about, but if reputation is all you have to go on...
And then the name of the file is in several places in the registry, and linked to from the \Recent directory.
I've told clients that using Windows is like being stalked by paparazzi.
You're exactly right about the Secret Service. Keep going with that list. What is "currency" these days? Almost all the dollars in the world are computer records. Their anti-counterfeiting mission put them in the lead to deal with computer crime.
Computer forensics has not changed beyond recognition in the last year, probably won't in the next year, and in any event a lot of investigations will on Windows 98 machines and others that are more than a year old. There will have to be continuing education classes to cover things like the new issues raised by mobile phones, but a good theoretical background (hash the media, preserve the evidence, check for malware) will cover most of the new technologies.
It sounds like they'll be teaching what to do with a hard disk image, which goes beyond just "use EnCase".
Besides, you have to seize everything unless you've got some guarantee that there's no evidence concealed on a nerdstick, an iPod, or any of a kajillion things that store more data than a high end hard disk did fifteen years ago.
There's a brilliant essay by conservative history professor Garry Wills about the misuse of the phrase "Commander in Chief". His point is that in a free society the President is _not_ Commander in Chief of anything but the armed forces, the country as a whole is not under military discipline, and military concepts like secrecy and "need to know" don't contaminate politics.
He also points out that by historical standards the US hasn't looked like a peacetime government since 1941.
Probe has a finite design life. Save three years, improve the chance it will work when it's needed.
Nothing? Buy a crypto accelerator from nCipher or any other company that sells them. AES in smart implementations is in the neighborhood of 16 cycles per byte anyway.
Yes, but that cooperation may not be the result of informed consent. It's painfully easy for an untrusted application to stick a new root CA into IE's list, after which it can sign its own certificates and use them to intercept SSL. MarketScore, reportedly, did this.
>and so fear death and destruction that they will throw away their liberty for temporary saftey.
To put it this way is to fall into the rhetorical trap laid by the cynical power seekers. A statement like that one reinforces the idea that we're safer as a result of ignoring the Constitution.
The extra powers, for the stated purposes, are both unnecessary and useless. Unnecessary, because the FBI could have rolled up the 9/11 cells under pre-9/11 law (see the Colleen Rowley memo). Useless, as we see in practise. What real terrorist, as opposed to absurd wannabes, has been caught using the new powers created by USAPATRIOT?
We are not trading freedom for safety. We are giving it away for free.
After the Oklahoma City atrocity, there was enough density of business security camera coverage to reconstruct the route of the Ryder truck.
Making the same sort of thing centralized, and cheap enough to do routinely, is worth worrying about. As Stalin allegedly said, "Quantity has a quality all its own".
Virtually everyone we talk to in the West is from one of the Abrahamic religions, but look at the world as a whole.
Shinto isn't really theistic, Buddishm and Confucianism are about right living and not about the supernatural, and animism is found all over.
What seems to be universal is the ability to have mystical experiences that feel transcendent and change people's lives.