Add on top of that, that a diesel engine lasts longer because unburnt fuel actually lubricates the engine, compared to gasoline (now with ethanol!) that de-lubricates the engine.
It looks like I'm one of the people getting a double screwing from this. I can get the content (because I'm on Verizon, and they have a 'powered by Verizon' badge on the site, so obviously Verizon is paying for this content in some way), but I can't get the content because their player plugin is only for Windoze and Mac. And I don't want the content.
019/8 Ford Motor Company 1995-05 LEGACY
marvin@tribble:~$ host www.ford.com
www.ford.com is an alias for www.ford.com.edgesuite.net.
www.ford.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a1200.g.akamai.net.
a1200.g.akamai.net has address 96.17.109.74
a1200.g.akamai.net has address 96.17.109.18
013/8 Xerox Corporation 1991-09 LEGACY
marvin@tribble:~$ host www.xerox.com
www.xerox.com is an alias for www.xerox.com.edgekey.net.
www.xerox.com.edgekey.net is an alias for e82.c.akamaiedge.net.
e82.c.akamaiedge.net has address 72.246.128.108
009/8 IBM 1992-08 LEGACY
marvin@tribble:~$ host www.ibm.com
www.ibm.com is an alias for www.ibm.com.cs186.net.
www.ibm.com.cs186.net has address 129.42.58.216
003/8 General Electric Company 1994-05 LEGACY
marvin@tribble:~$ host www.ge.com
www.ge.com has address 192.131.227.156
048/8 Prudential Securities Inc. 1995-05 LEGACY
marvin@tribble:~$ host www.prudential.com
www.prudential.com is an alias for web.prudential.com.
web.prudential.com has address 12.34.100.148
Apple (17) and HP (15) have their public website within their allocation. Eli Lil(l)y (40) appears also has their public website within their allocation, but I have a hard time believing that they could ever need that many public IP addresses.
So there... I just found an extra quarter million addresses. (5 x 2^16) Y'all can pay me by giving me my own/24.
The EC should not be abolished in favor of a strait popular vote. There's (at least) one key thing that the EC does for us...
The EC contains voter fraud to only affect the state in which the voter fraud was committed. Imagine, for example, that we elect the President with a popular vote and Richard M Daley of Chicago decides to crank up his fraudulent vote creation machine with the help of the Democrats in King county of Washington state. With the EC, the fraudulent votes can only go as far as affecting the state they're created in. Without the EC, your legitimate vote in a your state is directly watered down by these fraudulent votes outside of your state.
To this extent, I'd like to see the EC amended to assign EC electors on a per congressional district granularity. Doing such would contain such voting malfeasance to even having less of an effect. (Go ahead and give those 2 extra EC electors to the overall winner of the state.)
[...] the only reason she was chosen was BECAUSE she's as ridiculously evil as George W. Bush. [...]
So McCain selected someone just like Bush, even with Bush not being too popular with the Republican base?
The fact that the parent was mod'ded +5 is evidence that Slashdot collectively suffers from BDS(1). Fuck (my) karma, some of you people are seriously fucked in the head.
[...] All our cardmembers, as a provision of the cardmember agreement, must refer to independent Binding Arbitration, and expressly waive their right to participate in a class action.
I believe that a fairly recent ruling against a cell phone company would invalidate this clause of the contract by the precedence it set. I don't fully recall the details (and please, someone post links if you have them), but one of the large cell phone companies got the "binding arbitration" clause of their contract struck down. Their contract was judged to be a "contract of adhesion". Partly because of such, the consumer could not be forced to give up rights to seek legal redress.
Unless there's something actually linking you personally to this site, like a photo or bio, [...]
Yes, that is exactly the original complaint. And it's something I'm now seeing regularly in one corner of the internet.
There's a particular dating website I'm a member of that allows members to vote on deleting other accounts (for fraud or violation of their ToS). Through their user moderation system I'm seeing many profiles that appear to be Nigerian scammers that are creating profiles using pictures and names lifted from other places.
Near the top of this year I was getting these political speech snips in my voicemail, each 5 minutes long (the max length my system will record), and the phone number they were calling to send this shit to me is an 800 number! (I have a VoIP system, but it's only accessible to the outside world by the regular phone system.
It got so bad that I wrote a rule to drop all calls that came from the same area code and prefix. The calls were originating via VoIP out of a provider in the midwest. I sent them an email that I'd null routed the phone number blocks assigned to them, but never heard anything back.
The calls didn't stop until I escalated it with the FCC who originally said they were protected calls because they were political in nature. (Of which they weren't because they were to my toll free number.)
[...]I've been reading Slashdot since about 1998,[...]
Then you shouldn't be posting AC. Posting AC hides your (presumably) lower user id which would substantiate that assertion, and also might give you a little more credibility than just a troll.
I'm just pointing out that there are valid and honest uses for the word "efficiency" where values of 100% or more make sense, without implying any sort of perpetual motion.
That's why heat pumps, and other processes like this, use the term 'coefficient of performance' rather than 'efficiency'.
[...] armature and profession photographers want professional-level tools like Photoshop. They WILL pirate the damn thing if necessary. [...] Finally, the biggest reason of all - why change? [...]
Once the BSA ramps up to RIAA Judicial-Process-Abuse-Levels, then we'll see more uptake in Linux and related F/OSS software.
It's now Jan. 28 - D Day. Heins has modified his test so the effects observed are difficult to deny. He holds a permanent magnet a few centimetres away from the driveshaft of an electric motor, and the magnetic field it creates causes the motor to accelerate. [...]
I will assume that the motor is a common DC motor with field on the stator, armature on the rotor. If the flux from the magnet he's holding near the shaft is canceling some of the flux from the field, then the motor will naturally speed up. The opposite effect is when you increase the flux from the field... the motor slows down.
From a website about jury duty: "It is your duty to accept what the Judge says about the laws to be applied to the case, whether you agree or disagree with the law."
I see your quote from a website, and I raise you: http://fija.org/ The quick take is that the jury gets to judge the law, as well as the defendant.
It's a uranium reactor, using 5% enriched uranium. Runs at 350C to 800C. Uses heat pipes to get the heat out to a working fluid, probably water, used to make steam and drive a turbine.
Instead of bothering with converting the heat into electricity, put one of these in a dense urban neighborhood that's primarily heating with fuel oil. Take out all the fuel oil heaters, and replace them with a connection to steam/hot-water pipes from one of these units.
Let's now compare fuel oil (aka diesel fuel) usage reduction during the heating season to each megawatt one of these things can put out. A gallon of fuel oil contains about 138e3 BTUs of chemical energy. That's about 146e6 joules. A megawatt-hour is 3.6e9 joules. If we assume that all the heat in a fuel oil heater is going into the house(1), each megawatt one of these things would put out would save 24.7 gallons of fuel oil per hour(2).
(1) Much of the heat goes out the flue, but that only makes my numbers worse, thus not giving unfair advantage to my greater point here.
FTFA: "Power consumption of any chip increases according to the frequency squared."
Wrong. The power consumption is proportional to the square of the voltage, not the frequency. If you double the frequency, you only double the current, not quadruple it.
Shorting is simply selling what you don't have. [...]
I think a more accurate description is to say that you're renting stock. You rent some stock, sell it, and then have to buy it in the future when the term of your rent is up.
WTF, your rights by the Constitution are restrictions on government, not on private entities. You can sign all your rights away except your life or liberty (slavery for instance).
(FTFA) The event was in Singapore. Don't assume that any Constitution they may have operates in the same was as the one in the USA does.
Based on M$'s arguments in the anti-trust/monopoly action against them years ago that they were not a monopoly because of Linux, it is quite likely that government regulatory agencies may block such a purchase based on monopoly issues.
This, though, does not preclude M$ from pulling Novell's strings behind the scenes to inhibit growth in the Linux market. And with their business relationship with Novell, it looks to me that they're setup to have a certain amount of control without having to go through the formality of actually owning Novell.
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Add on top of that, that a diesel engine lasts longer because unburnt fuel actually lubricates the engine, compared to gasoline (now with ethanol!) that de-lubricates the engine.
It looks like I'm one of the people getting a double screwing from this. I can get the content (because I'm on Verizon, and they have a 'powered by Verizon' badge on the site, so obviously Verizon is paying for this content in some way), but I can't get the content because their player plugin is only for Windoze and Mac. And I don't want the content.
Your data is more secure if you keep the computer powered off, in the first place.
Welcome to 10 years ago: http://ronja.twibright.com/
Reporters, in general, are in a much better position to connect the dots than is the general public.
Too bad there are so few REAL reporters. I get my news by combining feeds from different commentators.
Just more evidence of my primary credo... The whores get mad when the sluts give it away for free.
See http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/
019/8 Ford Motor Company 1995-05 LEGACY
marvin@tribble:~$ host www.ford.com
www.ford.com is an alias for
www.ford.com.edgesuite.net.
www.ford.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a1200.g.akamai.net.
a1200.g.akamai.net has address 96.17.109.74
a1200.g.akamai.net has address 96.17.109.18
013/8 Xerox Corporation 1991-09 LEGACY
marvin@tribble:~$ host www.xerox.com
www.xerox.com is an alias for www.xerox.com.edgekey.net.
www.xerox.com.edgekey.net is an alias for
e82.c.akamaiedge.net.
e82.c.akamaiedge.net has address 72.246.128.108
009/8 IBM 1992-08 LEGACY
marvin@tribble:~$ host www.ibm.com
www.ibm.com is an alias for www.ibm.com.cs186.net.
www.ibm.com.cs186.net has address 129.42.58.216
003/8 General Electric Company 1994-05 LEGACY
marvin@tribble:~$ host www.ge.com
www.ge.com has address 192.131.227.156
048/8 Prudential Securities Inc. 1995-05 LEGACY
marvin@tribble:~$ host www.prudential.com
www.prudential.com is an alias for web.prudential.com.
web.prudential.com has address 12.34.100.148
Apple (17) and HP (15) have their public website within their allocation. Eli Lil(l)y (40) appears also has their public website within their allocation, but I have a hard time believing that they could ever need that many public IP addresses.
So there... I just found an extra quarter million addresses. (5 x 2^16) Y'all can pay me by giving me my own /24.
The EC should not be abolished in favor of a strait popular vote. There's (at least) one key thing that the EC does for us...
The EC contains voter fraud to only affect the state in which the voter fraud was committed. Imagine, for example, that we elect the President with a popular vote and Richard M Daley of Chicago decides to crank up his fraudulent vote creation machine with the help of the Democrats in King county of Washington state. With the EC, the fraudulent votes can only go as far as affecting the state they're created in. Without the EC, your legitimate vote in a your state is directly watered down by these fraudulent votes outside of your state.
To this extent, I'd like to see the EC amended to assign EC electors on a per congressional district granularity. Doing such would contain such voting malfeasance to even having less of an effect. (Go ahead and give those 2 extra EC electors to the overall winner of the state.)
Operating systems need to stop being argued like a religion, I'm getting tired of it.
Yeah, it's taking the focus away from the KDE vs. Gnome and vi vs. emacs arguments.
Even worse, it's distracting from the Pirates vs. Ninjas debate.
[...] the only reason she was chosen was BECAUSE she's as ridiculously evil as George W. Bush. [...]
So McCain selected someone just like Bush, even with Bush not being too popular with the Republican base?
The fact that the parent was mod'ded +5 is evidence that Slashdot collectively suffers from BDS(1). Fuck (my) karma, some of you people are seriously fucked in the head.
(1) Bush Derangement Syndrome
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/31/1225252
I believe that a fairly recent ruling against a cell phone company would invalidate this clause of the contract by the precedence it set. I don't fully recall the details (and please, someone post links if you have them), but one of the large cell phone companies got the "binding arbitration" clause of their contract struck down. Their contract was judged to be a "contract of adhesion". Partly because of such, the consumer could not be forced to give up rights to seek legal redress.
Yes, that is exactly the original complaint. And it's something I'm now seeing regularly in one corner of the internet.
There's a particular dating website I'm a member of that allows members to vote on deleting other accounts (for fraud or violation of their ToS). Through their user moderation system I'm seeing many profiles that appear to be Nigerian scammers that are creating profiles using pictures and names lifted from other places.
It already happened to me.
Near the top of this year I was getting these political speech snips in my voicemail, each 5 minutes long (the max length my system will record), and the phone number they were calling to send this shit to me is an 800 number! (I have a VoIP system, but it's only accessible to the outside world by the regular phone system.
It got so bad that I wrote a rule to drop all calls that came from the same area code and prefix. The calls were originating via VoIP out of a provider in the midwest. I sent them an email that I'd null routed the phone number blocks assigned to them, but never heard anything back.
The calls didn't stop until I escalated it with the FCC who originally said they were protected calls because they were political in nature. (Of which they weren't because they were to my toll free number.)
Then you shouldn't be posting AC. Posting AC hides your (presumably) lower user id which would substantiate that assertion, and also might give you a little more credibility than just a troll.
That's why heat pumps, and other processes like this, use the term 'coefficient of performance' rather than 'efficiency'.
[...] armature and profession photographers want professional-level tools like Photoshop. They WILL pirate the damn thing if necessary. [...] Finally, the biggest reason of all - why change? [...]
Once the BSA ramps up to RIAA Judicial-Process-Abuse-Levels, then we'll see more uptake in Linux and related F/OSS software.
I will assume that the motor is a common DC motor with field on the stator, armature on the rotor. If the flux from the magnet he's holding near the shaft is canceling some of the flux from the field, then the motor will naturally speed up. The opposite effect is when you increase the flux from the field... the motor slows down.
I see your quote from a website, and I raise you: http://fija.org/ The quick take is that the jury gets to judge the law, as well as the defendant.
Instead of bothering with converting the heat into electricity, put one of these in a dense urban neighborhood that's primarily heating with fuel oil. Take out all the fuel oil heaters, and replace them with a connection to steam/hot-water pipes from one of these units.
Let's now compare fuel oil (aka diesel fuel) usage reduction during the heating season to each megawatt one of these things can put out. A gallon of fuel oil contains about 138e3 BTUs of chemical energy. That's about 146e6 joules. A megawatt-hour is 3.6e9 joules. If we assume that all the heat in a fuel oil heater is going into the house(1), each megawatt one of these things would put out would save 24.7 gallons of fuel oil per hour(2).
(1) Much of the heat goes out the flue, but that only makes my numbers worse, thus not giving unfair advantage to my greater point here.
(2) During the heating season.
FTFA: "Power consumption of any chip increases according to the frequency squared."
Wrong. The power consumption is proportional to the square of the voltage, not the frequency. If you double the frequency, you only double the current, not quadruple it.
Other points in TFA may be correct. I don't know.
IAAEE. (I am an Electrical Engineer.)
Shorting is simply selling what you don't have. [...]
I think a more accurate description is to say that you're renting stock. You rent some stock, sell it, and then have to buy it in the future when the term of your rent is up.
WTF, your rights by the Constitution are restrictions on government, not on private entities. You can sign all your rights away except your life or liberty (slavery for instance).
(FTFA) The event was in Singapore. Don't assume that any Constitution they may have operates in the same was as the one in the USA does.
Based on M$'s arguments in the anti-trust/monopoly action against them years ago that they were not a monopoly because of Linux, it is quite likely that government regulatory agencies may block such a purchase based on monopoly issues.
This, though, does not preclude M$ from pulling Novell's strings behind the scenes to inhibit growth in the Linux market. And with their business relationship with Novell, it looks to me that they're setup to have a certain amount of control without having to go through the formality of actually owning Novell.
So are they the giant douche or the turd sandwich?