Especially for digital books, but to be used on the digital information that a regular book is printed from... a cryptographic hash of the book is the book identifier. Decentralized, unlikely to have a number collision, and the added bonus of a mechanism to make sure that the book you received is the book you wanted. The only thing that needs to be centralized is the decision of which hash to use, how to hash the data, and how to represent the hash as to the user.
While TFA is an interesting approach, the simpler solution to one of the main thrusts in TFA (of having equal EC representation/distribution) is to simply change the EC to where each congressional district (or in this case, electoral district) is autonomous and controls its own vote independent from the rest of the state it's in.
Even if the two extra EC vote afforded each state are kept, I see this as a far better system than a strait popular vote system. Why? Because the EC has a side effect of doing something amazingly positive that few realize. It contains vote fraud to within the state it happens in.
Consider this for example: Imagine a politically corrupt jurisdiction in your state. Imagine that they start cranking out fraudulent votes. The votes they dilute are limited to the vote in their state. But in a popular vote system, they now dilute everyone's vote. By tweaking the EC system to treat congressional districts autonomously, the fraud is contained even further.
And since congressional districts are explicitly drawn to contain apportioned sections of the population (given a few constraints of not crossing state boundaries and the like), the goal towards equal vote weighting is more naturally furthered.
Instead of bothering with punishment in SK, why not just help him emigrate to NK? Maybe after he's lived there, he'll realize what a crap hole it is and try to help the place go Gangnam Style.
But if you hold a particular idea, can you be called a bigot and be summarily dismissed? And those ideas that are generally accepted to be bigoted never get a fair discussion because those that would argue in favor of them are marginalized and dismissed for merely advocating the idea.
Are you sure that the flash drives are actually looking at NTFS datastructures? Due to the proprietary and complex nature of NTFS, this sounds like something drive manufacturers would avoid like the plague.
Linux now has decent NTFS support. That lead me to believe that anyone who wanted to implement these GC routines would have enough (indirect) documentation of NTFS internals to do such.
If the attacker turns out to be a tea party paranoid type, then I honestly believe people like Beck hold indirect responsibility for the attack. Incitement to rioting is a crime; so, in a (non-legal) way, is the winking threats and paranoia that's been on the airwaves for too long.
So what you're saying is... that you don't watch Beck, but you believe what his adversaries say about him. Okay. At least I know how informed you are.
The reality is that Net Neutrality has nothing to do with neutrality and everything to do with carriers wanting to enjoy common carrier protections without having to provide common carrier openess.
I don't have mod points, so I have to post. It's discouraging to see so much lefty-Flavor-Aid blather here at +5, and something like this only sitting at +4 (at the time of me seeing it).
Since you didn't explicitly state this, and for anyone else reading this and curious about it, the clueless senator in this exchange is Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). (As suggested by the phone number included.)
If I'm recalling correctly, the federal 9th circuit struck down the binding arbitration clause of the contract in a suit against Verizon, stating that a cell phone contract is a contract of adhesion, and that one can not sign away their rights to legal recourse. I'm sure read this from a story linked from a/. front page post. I don't have the time to find this, but hopefully my post will jog someone's memory and they'll get a +5 comment for recalling it.
You know what their response to that is? It's very simple: "Right, you're buying a license."
It probably is their response. It may be even more flippant... "Right, you're buying a box". Everyone need to push back and state that such is not the way to convey such in our language. That they need to explicitly state that the price is for the priveledge to enter into a license agreement with them for use of their software, and that a reasonable jury will interpret the language of "buying the product" to mean "buying the product".
Of course, I may still be under the misguided impression that our world still has a good percentage of reasonable people.
Also, I'd like for it to now be legally disallowed to use the term "buy software" in a commercial context as it no longer applies and would falsely advertise what it is that we "purchase".
An absolutely brilliant point. And following up on that point, I went to their website to see how they phrased it, and indeed they are using the language "reasons to buy" and "review and buy" on their product pages.
In TFA, the prop pushes the vehicle. It does not receive power from the airflow, it expends power INTO the airflow. A vertical turbine will only (effectively) receive power from the airflow. If you drive a vertical turbine, you could sit and spin, but you would only really be stirring up the air you're in.
Some companies have terrible "everything you do even outside of work is ours" clauses.
Check your state's laws. Some states have laws protecting workers from this, making such clauses unenforceable. I personally recall a co-worker I had who found our state's (Washington) law WRT this and challenged our employer over the issue (mid 90s). (I wish I had the citation handy for my example, but I don't.)
After reading Cringely's rant on faximile via VoIP (which exposed that he had extremely little knowledge of the underlying technical issues in the subject), I don't bother wasting my time reading anything from him that requires engineering and technical proficiency in a specialized field to intelligently discuss.
[...]The Republican party has cratered so badly, and is teetering so close to Fascism, everyone looks good by comparison, even the Democrats.[...]
Do you even know what that word means? It doesn't seem like you do due to how you use it. A comment like this getting +5 is why I think/. suffers from a bad case of group-think, and makes me want to build a new site with a moderation system that works against such.
TFA calls it a "green energy project". The type of people who think this is green energy are the complete f-ing morons that side track the rest of us from real viable energy advancements.
Further more, the TFA claims this will "lower the energy consumption of the market". At the inefficiency of this (which is already limited to being no more efficient than a car is itself), it will actually increase the energy consumption of the market.
I had a similar situation. In my situation I was able to purchase the.net version of the domain name. The squatter with the.com version then contacted me trying to sell it to me. I sent a nasty note back that I would not deal with a fucking squatter. I think I also sent a note to their upstream for UCE.
Soon after that the squatter dropped the name and I picked it up. I'd paid for 'domain name back order' at my registrar, so it cost me a little more than normal, but not much more and the fucking squatter didn't get any of that extra cost.
Oops... I didn't have enough coffee in me when I read the post I was replying to. My post was replying to the notion that you can correct the power factor of a CFL with an inductor/cap, not that you can make it appear to draw no power to the metering device. (Which is also not true.)
It is in fact, you can make a fluro light appear to your meter to use zero power (with the right inductor/cap combo).
No, you can't.
There are two different types of power factor. One is related to the phase of the current being shifted from the phase of the voltage, the other is related to the shape of the wave if you plot the current.
The first type, which is the type that most people are familiar with, can be corrected with inductors or capacitors. This is often done for induction motors.
The second type of bad power factor is often due to rectifiers feeding a capacitor... your basic AC to DC conversion. The current only flows when the voltage on the AC side exceeds the voltage on the DC side. Thus, you get spikes of current centered around the peaks of the AC voltage. The phase is correct, but the current waveform is not sinusoidal. This cannot be simply corrected by inductors or capacitors.
As a side note, this is the bad power factor that many computer power supplies suffer from.
More complex switching supplies can overcome this issue. I've usually seen it referred to as a "power factor corrected" supply. They cost more because there are more parts in it. Thus, you don't see them in cheap CFLs.
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Especially for digital books, but to be used on the digital information that a regular book is printed from... a cryptographic hash of the book is the book identifier. Decentralized, unlikely to have a number collision, and the added bonus of a mechanism to make sure that the book you received is the book you wanted. The only thing that needs to be centralized is the decision of which hash to use, how to hash the data, and how to represent the hash as to the user.
While TFA is an interesting approach, the simpler solution to one of the main thrusts in TFA (of having equal EC representation/distribution) is to simply change the EC to where each congressional district (or in this case, electoral district) is autonomous and controls its own vote independent from the rest of the state it's in.
Even if the two extra EC vote afforded each state are kept, I see this as a far better system than a strait popular vote system. Why? Because the EC has a side effect of doing something amazingly positive that few realize. It contains vote fraud to within the state it happens in.
Consider this for example: Imagine a politically corrupt jurisdiction in your state. Imagine that they start cranking out fraudulent votes. The votes they dilute are limited to the vote in their state. But in a popular vote system, they now dilute everyone's vote. By tweaking the EC system to treat congressional districts autonomously, the fraud is contained even further.
And since congressional districts are explicitly drawn to contain apportioned sections of the population (given a few constraints of not crossing state boundaries and the like), the goal towards equal vote weighting is more naturally furthered.
Instead of bothering with punishment in SK, why not just help him emigrate to NK? Maybe after he's lived there, he'll realize what a crap hole it is and try to help the place go Gangnam Style.
Yet another piece of content going the way of the "Penis Song".
You can't be bigoted against an idea.
But if you hold a particular idea, can you be called a bigot and be summarily dismissed? And those ideas that are generally accepted to be bigoted never get a fair discussion because those that would argue in favor of them are marginalized and dismissed for merely advocating the idea.
Are you sure that the flash drives are actually looking at NTFS datastructures? Due to the proprietary and complex nature of NTFS, this sounds like something drive manufacturers would avoid like the plague.
Linux now has decent NTFS support. That lead me to believe that anyone who wanted to implement these GC routines would have enough (indirect) documentation of NTFS internals to do such.
If the attacker turns out to be a tea party paranoid type, then I honestly believe people like Beck hold indirect responsibility for the attack. Incitement to rioting is a crime; so, in a (non-legal) way, is the winking threats and paranoia that's been on the airwaves for too long.
So what you're saying is... that you don't watch Beck, but you believe what his adversaries say about him. Okay. At least I know how informed you are.
The reality is that Net Neutrality has nothing to do with neutrality and everything to do with carriers wanting to enjoy common carrier protections without having to provide common carrier openess.
I don't have mod points, so I have to post. It's discouraging to see so much lefty-Flavor-Aid blather here at +5, and something like this only sitting at +4 (at the time of me seeing it).
Since you didn't explicitly state this, and for anyone else reading this and curious about it, the clueless senator in this exchange is Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). (As suggested by the phone number included.)
If I'm recalling correctly, the federal 9th circuit struck down the binding arbitration clause of the contract in a suit against Verizon, stating that a cell phone contract is a contract of adhesion, and that one can not sign away their rights to legal recourse. I'm sure read this from a story linked from a /. front page post. I don't have the time to find this, but hopefully my post will jog someone's memory and they'll get a +5 comment for recalling it.
It probably is their response. It may be even more flippant... "Right, you're buying a box". Everyone need to push back and state that such is not the way to convey such in our language. That they need to explicitly state that the price is for the priveledge to enter into a license agreement with them for use of their software, and that a reasonable jury will interpret the language of "buying the product" to mean "buying the product".
Of course, I may still be under the misguided impression that our world still has a good percentage of reasonable people.
An absolutely brilliant point. And following up on that point, I went to their website to see how they phrased it, and indeed they are using the language "reasons to buy" and "review and buy" on their product pages.
I would assume the nuclear plants found on submarines and large warships both provide a lot of energy and are not in the category of 'extra large.'
Many of them would also be in the category of running a fuel enriched beyond what is allowed in civilian reactors.
In TFA, the prop pushes the vehicle. It does not receive power from the airflow, it expends power INTO the airflow. A vertical turbine will only (effectively) receive power from the airflow. If you drive a vertical turbine, you could sit and spin, but you would only really be stirring up the air you're in.
(And) Did you have to break the shrink wrap on the manual to use the camera?
Do you have a reference to the fact that the battery needs to run at 350C?
You could start with Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-sulfur_battery
It seems a bit impractical to heat a house-sized building that much, especially when you have lost power.
Good insulation, and you don't heat the building, you heat the guts of the battery. Also, the lost energy is likely heating the battery.
I'm guessing a 4MW generator would take a couple of minutes, maybe 10s of minutes, to spin up to capacity.
Not the ones I've seen. (Hospital and nuke reactor backup.)
Some companies have terrible "everything you do even outside of work is ours" clauses.
Check your state's laws. Some states have laws protecting workers from this, making such clauses unenforceable. I personally recall a co-worker I had who found our state's (Washington) law WRT this and challenged our employer over the issue (mid 90s). (I wish I had the citation handy for my example, but I don't.)
After reading Cringely's rant on faximile via VoIP (which exposed that he had extremely little knowledge of the underlying technical issues in the subject), I don't bother wasting my time reading anything from him that requires engineering and technical proficiency in a specialized field to intelligently discuss.
[...]The Republican party has cratered so badly, and is teetering so close to Fascism, everyone looks good by comparison, even the Democrats.[...]
Do you even know what that word means? It doesn't seem like you do due to how you use it. A comment like this getting +5 is why I think /. suffers from a bad case of group-think, and makes me want to build a new site with a moderation system that works against such.
A small modification to RFC 1149 for using camels. That should do it.
TFA calls it a "green energy project". The type of people who think this is green energy are the complete f-ing morons that side track the rest of us from real viable energy advancements.
Further more, the TFA claims this will "lower the energy consumption of the market". At the inefficiency of this (which is already limited to being no more efficient than a car is itself), it will actually increase the energy consumption of the market.
I had a similar situation. In my situation I was able to purchase the .net version of the domain name. The squatter with the .com version then contacted me trying to sell it to me. I sent a nasty note back that I would not deal with a fucking squatter. I think I also sent a note to their upstream for UCE.
Soon after that the squatter dropped the name and I picked it up. I'd paid for 'domain name back order' at my registrar, so it cost me a little more than normal, but not much more and the fucking squatter didn't get any of that extra cost.
Offsite? The operative word should have been offline , as in an offline-backup.
Oops... I didn't have enough coffee in me when I read the post I was replying to. My post was replying to the notion that you can correct the power factor of a CFL with an inductor/cap, not that you can make it appear to draw no power to the metering device. (Which is also not true.)
It is in fact, you can make a fluro light appear to your meter to use zero power (with the right inductor/cap combo).
No, you can't.
There are two different types of power factor. One is related to the phase of the current being shifted from the phase of the voltage, the other is related to the shape of the wave if you plot the current.
The first type, which is the type that most people are familiar with, can be corrected with inductors or capacitors. This is often done for induction motors.
The second type of bad power factor is often due to rectifiers feeding a capacitor... your basic AC to DC conversion. The current only flows when the voltage on the AC side exceeds the voltage on the DC side. Thus, you get spikes of current centered around the peaks of the AC voltage. The phase is correct, but the current waveform is not sinusoidal. This cannot be simply corrected by inductors or capacitors.
As a side note, this is the bad power factor that many computer power supplies suffer from.
More complex switching supplies can overcome this issue. I've usually seen it referred to as a "power factor corrected" supply. They cost more because there are more parts in it. Thus, you don't see them in cheap CFLs.
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