>I bought a few packs of 100W-equivalent CFLs about three years ago, and they had a _horrible_ burnout rate -- more than half of them burned out within two years.
Did any of them start smoking? I can make a really good guess what brand it was. The same brand has also had trouble meeting its advertised brightness specs.
I've been having good results with CFs every place that they'll fit, including some places you'd expect to be problematic like heat-retaining cans in track lighting. They do have electronics in them, which is a vulnerability.
>Planning to commissioning of a nuclear powerplant takes about 15 years,
That depends on where you live and how the government handles nuclear power. France or Japan will get a job like that done faster than anyone could in the US.
>Ok, lets say the world is warming up. Is that bad? Seriously, is that really bad? Who has determined this?
Depends on how far it goes. As near as the GCMs can tell, areas that depend on winter snowpack for their water supply are going to run short, and despite increased overall precipitation there will be more frequent droughts.
>there is a well established correlation between CO2 levels and temperature.
It's a superb correlation, the curves track each other amazingly.
By itself that doesn't prove anything. Given only the correlation, you couldn't rule out that temperature increases cause increased CO2 levels. Which is plausible, since organic decay releases CO2 and goes faster when it's warmer (if you doubt that, unplug your refrigerator and see what happens).
Given only the correlation, you couldn't rule out that some other factor causes both warming and CO2 increases.
The reason to think it's causal is that there's a well-demonstrated mechanism and that the details match up.
>Florida may be the first state in the union to give fish the right to vote.
The term "global warming" conceals several completely different ideas with completely different levels of evidence and likelihood.
Only some of the following statements are true or even supported by evidence: 1. The average temperature of the Earth is going up. 2. It is likely to continue doing so. 3. The largest cause is CO2. 4. The rise in CO2 levels is human-caused. 5. The results will be catastropic. 6. The result will be a mass extinction event. 7. The result will wipe out the human race. 8. This is proof that our economic system is evil. 9. We must destroy or replace the foundation of our economic system. 10. The planet is in jeopardy. 11. The Kyoto accord should be ratified.
It's logically consistent to snort with contempt at 8 and 10 while accepting 1-4 pending further data.
What frosts me (sorry) is that the policy implications don't have to be this politicized. We need a malaria vaccine anyway, regardless of whether the mosquito habitat moves north. We benefit a zillion ways from replacing coal burning by almost anything else. Fuel efficient vehicles are great just in terms of national security alone. Bangladesh is in trouble no matter what we do about future CO2 emissions and we need to make decisions about that (seawall? Resettle? (WHERE?!)).
>I don't really have the understanding of all the parameters to make an intelligent decision.
No one person does, but judicious application of "How do you know?" will cut through a lot of garbage and allow intelligent decision though not certainty.
Hmm. The rate of synthesis of 14C is known to be variable depending on cosmic ray flux. There are known correction factors for radiocarbon dating based on those changes, so something must be known.
>You can make a movie called White Guys can't Jump but you can't make a movie called Black Guys can't swim (fill in swim with whatever).
>You can make "logical arguments" against Christianity. You can even make jokes about the religion and it's Members.
There might be more twitchiness if white people had been enslaved for a few hundred years and if five or six million Christians had been sent to chimney camps.
was that the concept was taken seriously at all levels he saw and that proposals died quickly in meetings if someone questioned the ethical implications.
That's "former employee", so it's not like he's defending the source of his paycheck.
>You might also think about talking to a tort lawyer.
The parent, being an attorney, may be taking for granted that everyone knows about coordinating with insurance companies.
Read your policy, and look for fine print about attempting to recover damages on your own. You could seriously alienate your insurance carrier if you made a misstep in the legal system that blocked their chance of recovering money using their own lawyers.
One of the issues the appeals court raised is that Internet security is so bad that, in their view, emailing a picture is legally close to publishing it. That's a nerd issue. Unless you're a nerd whose friends all have public keys.
"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government."
But it should be highly compressible, and a terabyte costs $300 retail these days. I'm scared that it would be feasible to store logs of URLs visited (at most a few hundred per customer per hour?).
Traffic analysis can be as valuable as content decryption for some purposes, and Biondi discovered that Skype's nominally encrypted call setup (as opposed to the voice encryption) was reusing an RC4 stream.
The session keys, however, are ephemeral if I'm reading Tom Berson's Skype security analysis correctly. See sections 3.3 and 3.4.1 in particular. The attack vector would be to impersonate one endpoint, which you could do with the Skype network private key.
>Processor serial numbers are about as innocuous as a privacy concern as if you used your grocery store loyalty card. To say that someone is going to target you because you have a certain loyalty to the grocery store is ludicrous.
They make it sound like they mean to occupy a different corner of the design space, optimized for information that is relatively static and where expertise is widely recognized.
Nobody's going to replace Wikipedia unless they do the same thing Wikipedia does, and better. Citizendium is trying to do something different, and something that Wikipedia doesn't even claim to do.
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>I bought a few packs of 100W-equivalent CFLs about three years ago, and they had a _horrible_ burnout rate -- more than half of them burned out within two years.
Did any of them start smoking? I can make a really good guess what brand it was. The same brand has also had trouble meeting its advertised brightness specs.
I've been having good results with CFs every place that they'll fit, including some places you'd expect to be problematic like heat-retaining cans in track lighting. They do have electronics in them, which is a vulnerability.
>Planning to commissioning of a nuclear powerplant takes about 15 years,
That depends on where you live and how the government handles nuclear power. France or Japan will get a job like that done faster than anyone could in the US.
>the difference in efficiency between a hybrid and any other very light car is not all that large.
Regenerative braking is a big win. In stop and go traffic, each stop provides much of the energy needed for the next go.
My Prius is half again as heavy as my Rabbit and gets half again the gas mileage.
>Ok, lets say the world is warming up. Is that bad? Seriously, is that really bad? Who has determined this?
Depends on how far it goes. As near as the GCMs can tell, areas that depend on winter snowpack for their water supply are going to run short, and despite increased overall precipitation there will be more frequent droughts.
>Where do they live?
Bangladesh?
>I don't think the fellow was jailed with "impunity".
... of impunity" makes absolutely no sense.
The government has not suffered any penalties for jailing him.
>Disregarding a subpoena is a gesture of disrespect and impunity.
The phrase "gesture
>there is a well established correlation between CO2 levels and temperature.
It's a superb correlation, the curves track each other amazingly.
By itself that doesn't prove anything. Given only the correlation, you couldn't rule out that temperature increases cause increased CO2 levels. Which is plausible, since organic decay releases CO2 and goes faster when it's warmer (if you doubt that, unplug your refrigerator and see what happens).
Given only the correlation, you couldn't rule out that some other factor causes both warming and CO2 increases.
The reason to think it's causal is that there's a well-demonstrated mechanism and that the details match up.
>Florida may be the first state in the union to give fish the right to vote.
Hey, we already know all about Florida elections.
The term "global warming" conceals several completely different ideas with completely different levels of evidence and likelihood.
Only some of the following statements are true or even supported by evidence:
1. The average temperature of the Earth is going up.
2. It is likely to continue doing so.
3. The largest cause is CO2.
4. The rise in CO2 levels is human-caused.
5. The results will be catastropic.
6. The result will be a mass extinction event.
7. The result will wipe out the human race.
8. This is proof that our economic system is evil.
9. We must destroy or replace the foundation of our economic system.
10. The planet is in jeopardy.
11. The Kyoto accord should be ratified.
It's logically consistent to snort with contempt at 8 and 10 while accepting 1-4 pending further data.
What frosts me (sorry) is that the policy implications don't have to be this politicized. We need a malaria vaccine anyway, regardless of whether the mosquito habitat moves north. We benefit a zillion ways from replacing coal burning by almost anything else. Fuel efficient vehicles are great just in terms of national security alone. Bangladesh is in trouble no matter what we do about future CO2 emissions and we need to make decisions about that (seawall? Resettle? (WHERE?!)).
>I don't really have the understanding of all the parameters to make an intelligent decision.
No one person does, but judicious application of "How do you know?" will cut through a lot of garbage and allow intelligent decision though not certainty.
The CERN results should be interesting, and with luck we'll get enough actual numbers to stir into the global circulation models.
>Logic and temperate thinking is the only way to achieve buy-in by those with power and money
I want to live in a world where that works. Meanwhile, you're right that we need all the data we can get.
Hmm. The rate of synthesis of 14C is known to be variable depending on cosmic ray flux. There are known correction factors for radiocarbon dating based on those changes, so something must be known.
There were reports, haven't checked them first-hand, that Wal-Mart tried not to stock "Outfoxed": http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle13960.ht ml
If you think tolerating criticism is a consistent feature in Christianity's history, perhaps it's time to study more history.
>You can make a movie called White Guys can't Jump but you can't make a movie called Black Guys can't swim (fill in swim with whatever).
>You can make "logical arguments" against Christianity. You can even make jokes about the religion and it's Members.
There might be more twitchiness if white people had been enslaved for a few hundred years and if five or six million Christians had been sent to chimney camps.
was that the concept was taken seriously at all levels he saw and that proposals died quickly in meetings if someone questioned the ethical implications.
That's "former employee", so it's not like he's defending the source of his paycheck.
>You might also think about talking to a tort lawyer.
The parent, being an attorney, may be taking for granted that everyone knows about coordinating with insurance companies.
Read your policy, and look for fine print about attempting to recover damages on your own. You could seriously alienate your insurance carrier if you made a misstep in the legal system that blocked their chance of recovering money using their own lawyers.
One of the issues the appeals court raised is that Internet security is so bad that, in their view, emailing a picture is legally close to publishing it. That's a nerd issue. Unless you're a nerd whose friends all have public keys.
Where else can you get that much awareness for only $2 million?
Before this, I couldn't have told you whether "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" was a famine relief agency, an indie band, or a randomly generated passphrase.
Who's in the best position to harm the company? Who has the most sensitive information about the company's plans?
Who has the most privileges?
Who can be paranoid and argumentative and get rewarded for being "competitive" and "tough"?
What we need is a study telling the Enrons of the world how to recognize and fire the Ken Lays of the world.
President Eisenhower speaking:
"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government."
>If in doubt send a letter.
Aren't those still being held up to be checked for anthrax? If it's time sensitive, try something else.
All it has to do is contribute, decisively or not, to a single sensational child abuse case and everyone will think it's good.
But it should be highly compressible, and a terabyte costs $300 retail these days. I'm scared that it would be feasible to store logs of URLs visited (at most a few hundred per customer per hour?).
Traffic analysis can be as valuable as content decryption for some purposes, and Biondi discovered that Skype's nominally encrypted call setup (as opposed to the voice encryption) was reusing an RC4 stream.
The session keys, however, are ephemeral if I'm reading Tom Berson's Skype security analysis correctly. See sections 3.3 and 3.4.1 in particular. The attack vector would be to impersonate one endpoint, which you could do with the Skype network private key.
>Processor serial numbers are about as innocuous as a privacy concern as if you used your grocery store loyalty card. To say that someone is going to target you because you have a certain loyalty to the grocery store is ludicrous.
The dangers of grocery store loyalty cards include going to jail.
>replacing Wikipedia
Is that the goal?
They make it sound like they mean to occupy a different corner of the design space, optimized for information that is relatively static and where expertise is widely recognized.
Nobody's going to replace Wikipedia unless they do the same thing Wikipedia does, and better. Citizendium is trying to do something different, and something that Wikipedia doesn't even claim to do.