Ah, a fellow CRT-er. My wife keeps saying we should get a new TV for our (pretty small) living room. Her answer to "Why?" is "Because the new ones are flat". So far, we've kept the CRT. I'm guessing we'll buy a new TV when we move in a year or two, 28" will be too small for a larger living room.
Maybe I should have phrased myself differently. But your answer to the question made it seem that NNEMPs were comparable to nuclear EMPs, which they are clearly not. Car analogy:
OP: "Is it possible to run a car on hot grits?"
You:"Yes."
Me:"In theory, yes, but you would have to convert it to ethanol or something, with a horribly low yield."
It is to no small degree part of the reason the US has moved further and further Left since the beginning of the age of mass media.
You mean to say that the US used to be even more far right than at present? I must say I'm impressed you achieved this without publicly embracing fascism. Then again, yours is the country where Martin Luther King was investigated by the FBI for "being a communist"...
I assume they want to run Apps on their TV. Then plasma is a poor choice, since it can be damaged by showing the same picture for extended amounts of time (think Spotify or other music streaming service).
I asked this question a while ago as well, as my country is running a substantial surplus but we still have national debt. Why don't we reduce, even remove, our debt? I learned that they don't pay it off because that would produce large amounts of inflation. At least according to the prevailing economic theories, of which I am skeptical, but that is the rationale given.
Keywords: "explosively pumped", meaning you need lots of explosives. If there are terrorists in the UK with lots of explosives, I don't think they will use them for making EMPs.
The range of NNEMP weapons (non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse bombs) is severely limited compared to nuclear EMP. This is because nearly all NNEMP devices used as weapons require chemical explosives as their initial energy source, but nuclear explosives have an energy yield on the order of one million times that of a chemical explosive.
In fact, weaponized NNEMPs are only possible for surgical strikes at strategic locations. These are typically hard to access; if terrorists can get to them, EMPs are the least of your worries.
To paraphrase: if terrorists in a western country had 1000 kg of explosives sitting around, they wouldn't use it as an EMP.
Well, if you read the article you linked to, the authors seem to agree that the results of the study does not match the real world. Drews calls the result "surprising", and suggests several reasons why the study gave such results.
After all if driving at the legal maximum did significantly increase the accident rate under normal conditions then clearly it would mean the limit is too high.
Yes, the limit of 0.08 is too high. As the article points out, other studies have found accident rates at 0.08 BAC to be the same as accident rates while talking on a cellphone: 5.36 times higher than for a sober, undistracted driver. Is this not "significantly increased"? Most research on this topic suggests that a legal limit of 0.08 BAC is too high, and indeed, the legal limit is being lowered around the world. In Europe, only the UK and Malta have yet to lower their limit. To quote a British government study:
In February 1998, the Government consulted on whether to lower the drink-drive limit from 80mg alcohol per 100ml blood, to 50mg (which is the limit in most other EU countries). Lowering the limit could save around 50 deaths and 250 serious injuries a year. A report on the consultation is available from the Department.
I have to comment on the study you linked: It says that when people used cellphones they drove slower, and that they reacted slightly slower to changes in the environment. This sounds like people being more careful, compensating for being distracted. When drunk, however, people drove more aggressively, thus making it even harder for themselves.
In addition to this: IMHO, a study that finds no increased accident rates when comparing drunk driving with normal driving has some serious design errors.
I've never understood this need of US/UK people to drink and drive. Here in Norway, there is a zero-tolerance for alcohol when driving (technically, the limit is 0.02 % BAC), and it's been that way since I was about 9 years old. No one complains about this, and there is a pretty big social stigmatization of people who drink even "just one pint" before driving. Our lives are not impaired in any meaningful way, but we have less road accidents, fatalities and injuries per capita.
Seconded. Bought a good photo printer three years ago.
I've printed about 300 pics since then, and last month
it died on me. With the paper, ink, cost of
printer and the hours spent color calibrting,
those are some bloody expensive
pictures.
Are you serious? A kitchen computer interface should be keyboard only. There are keyboards costing $12 that you can get as messy as you want, and then wash in your kitchen sink. Eventually, you are going to end up with pizza dough, tomato sauce, fish juice or cake batter on your fingers, and then you're going to use a touch screen? No way, and then the point of a kitchen computer is moot if you have to wash your fingers to use it.
Seriously, this is how you should do it:
*take an old laptop with a dead battery
*remove the screen and rotate it so that you can see the screen when the laptop is closed, remount the screen
*hang the laptop from under one of the cupboards, flip the lid open and you can see the screen
*use some program to rotate the screen correctly, and said waterproof keyboard
*use a browser with a keyboard-only interface (pentadactyl and Firefox or vimium and Chrome)
It may be low-tech, but it kicks the shit out of having a tablet covered in fish juice.
This. And the environmental organizations have all sold out, it seems, to electric car manufacturers and the like. If you're running a modern, efficient car, it takes 6-8 years for an electric car to become "better" than just keeping your current car. That is if you factor in impact of manufacturing, replacing batteries after 4-6 years, etc. And then we've assumed that all electricity is produced without emitting CO2.
The real thing they should be pushing is "stop buying cars"! If everyone started keeping their cars three years longer than they currently do before getting a new one, the reduced emissions would be greater than if everyone switched to electric cars. But of course, that's bad for the economy.
Agreed on this. In addition to the three CAD systems already mentioned, there's also CATIA (Dassault), NX (Siemens) and BRLCAD (US Army) that are major players (that I can name without googling). So six different suites made by some of the worlds largest corporations/organisations - sure sounds like domination by one company.
Try Archlinux and a tiling WM like Awesome. It takes a weekend of fiddling to get it right the first time, but after that it's pure gold.
I'm writing this on a single-core non-hyperthreading 2.4 GHz Pentium IV with 1 GB RAM. It's been up for 14 days, now using a total of 568 MB RAM with 6 tabs open in Firefox and preload installed, 15 minute load average is 15%.
When I migrated from university webmail to Gmail last year, I used Thunderbird to transfer the gigabytes of sent/received email I had there. First download from "YourOldMail", then upload to "YourNewMail". Painless experience, and I recommend this approach if "YourNewMail" can't import directly from "YourOldMail".
And yes, Gmail is pretty good. The only gripe I have is that I can't set up mail encryption (GPG for message header/body) in Gmail's webmail interface, but this is mainly interesting if your tinfoil hat is frequently used. On the upside, I'm pleasantly impressed by how well it handles "Event Invitations" sent from people using Outlook, you'll appreciate the possibility of two-factor authentication, and of course searching through mail is magic.
(BTW, most subscription services I've seen allow changing your email, but it's often hidden pretty well. Good hunting.)
And the way to defeat this is two-factor authentication. If I log in to my Gmail (or Facebook) from an IP address I haven't used before, I have to provide a code generated by an app on my phone in addition to the password, and this code changes every 15 seconds. Try bruteforcing that, suckers. Does Hotmail offer something similar?
This. Fucking this. The same person had been using the same password on his Gmail account for years without being hacked. No matter how you look at it, that means Hotmail is way worse that Gmail.
You're saying you had a choice between Internet Explorer and another browser, and you chose IE? We regret to inform you that this action will result in the termination of your/. account.
I've always wondered why no sci-fi writers (that I know of) have used this as a plot device. "There are millions of aliens that cloak themselves from us, since we're not mature enough yet" seems to be a kick-ass sci-fi explanation of dark matter.
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Ah, a fellow CRT-er. My wife keeps saying we should get a new TV for our (pretty small) living room. Her answer to "Why?" is "Because the new ones are flat". So far, we've kept the CRT. I'm guessing we'll buy a new TV when we move in a year or two, 28" will be too small for a larger living room.
Maybe I should have phrased myself differently. But your answer to the question made it seem that NNEMPs were comparable to nuclear EMPs, which they are clearly not. Car analogy:
OP: "Is it possible to run a car on hot grits?"
You:"Yes."
Me:"In theory, yes, but you would have to convert it to ethanol or something, with a horribly low yield."
It is to no small degree part of the reason the US has moved further and further Left since the beginning of the age of mass media.
You mean to say that the US used to be even more far right than at present? I must say I'm impressed you achieved this without publicly embracing fascism. Then again, yours is the country where Martin Luther King was investigated by the FBI for "being a communist"...
I assume they want to run Apps on their TV. Then plasma is a poor choice, since it can be damaged by showing the same picture for extended amounts of time (think Spotify or other music streaming service).
I asked this question a while ago as well, as my country is running a substantial surplus but we still have national debt. Why don't we reduce, even remove, our debt? I learned that they don't pay it off because that would produce large amounts of inflation. At least according to the prevailing economic theories, of which I am skeptical, but that is the rationale given.
Keywords: "explosively pumped", meaning you need lots of explosives. If there are terrorists in the UK with lots of explosives, I don't think they will use them for making EMPs.
The range of NNEMP weapons (non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse bombs) is severely limited compared to nuclear EMP. This is because nearly all NNEMP devices used as weapons require chemical explosives as their initial energy source, but nuclear explosives have an energy yield on the order of one million times that of a chemical explosive.
In fact, weaponized NNEMPs are only possible for surgical strikes at strategic locations. These are typically hard to access; if terrorists can get to them, EMPs are the least of your worries.
To paraphrase: if terrorists in a western country had 1000 kg of explosives sitting around, they wouldn't use it as an EMP.
After all if driving at the legal maximum did significantly increase the accident rate under normal conditions then clearly it would mean the limit is too high.
Yes, the limit of 0.08 is too high. As the article points out, other studies have found accident rates at 0.08 BAC to be the same as accident rates while talking on a cellphone: 5.36 times higher than for a sober, undistracted driver. Is this not "significantly increased"? Most research on this topic suggests that a legal limit of 0.08 BAC is too high, and indeed, the legal limit is being lowered around the world. In Europe, only the UK and Malta have yet to lower their limit. To quote a British government study:
In February 1998, the Government consulted on whether to lower the drink-drive limit from 80mg alcohol per 100ml blood, to 50mg (which is the limit in most other EU countries). Lowering the limit could save around 50 deaths and 250 serious injuries a year. A report on the consultation is available from the Department.
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As the ACs have already said: that was Denmark.
I have to comment on the study you linked: It says that when people used cellphones they drove slower, and that they reacted slightly slower to changes in the environment. This sounds like people being more careful, compensating for being distracted. When drunk, however, people drove more aggressively, thus making it even harder for themselves.
In addition to this: IMHO, a study that finds no increased accident rates when comparing drunk driving with normal driving has some serious design errors.
I've never understood this need of US/UK people to drink and drive. Here in Norway, there is a zero-tolerance for alcohol when driving (technically, the limit is 0.02 % BAC), and it's been that way since I was about 9 years old. No one complains about this, and there is a pretty big social stigmatization of people who drink even "just one pint" before driving. Our lives are not impaired in any meaningful way, but we have less road accidents, fatalities and injuries per capita.
Seconded. Bought a good photo printer three years ago. I've printed about 300 pics since then, and last month it died on me. With the paper, ink, cost of printer and the hours spent color calibrting, those are some bloody expensive pictures.
Are you serious? A kitchen computer interface should be keyboard only. There are keyboards costing $12 that you can get as messy as you want, and then wash in your kitchen sink. Eventually, you are going to end up with pizza dough, tomato sauce, fish juice or cake batter on your fingers, and then you're going to use a touch screen? No way, and then the point of a kitchen computer is moot if you have to wash your fingers to use it.
Seriously, this is how you should do it:
*take an old laptop with a dead battery
*remove the screen and rotate it so that you can see the screen when the laptop is closed, remount the screen
*hang the laptop from under one of the cupboards, flip the lid open and you can see the screen
*use some program to rotate the screen correctly, and said waterproof keyboard
*use a browser with a keyboard-only interface (pentadactyl and Firefox or vimium and Chrome)
It may be low-tech, but it kicks the shit out of having a tablet covered in fish juice.
Insert Linux flashdrive and cycle power to the computer, install automation, cycle power again?
Real geeks don't need to use the mouse, so we can happily hack away undeterred by this.
Oblig. http://xkcd.com/1013/
I've never hear "honkey" before. Thanks, do you have any more I should avoid?
This. And the environmental organizations have all sold out, it seems, to electric car manufacturers and the like. If you're running a modern, efficient car, it takes 6-8 years for an electric car to become "better" than just keeping your current car. That is if you factor in impact of manufacturing, replacing batteries after 4-6 years, etc. And then we've assumed that all electricity is produced without emitting CO2.
The real thing they should be pushing is "stop buying cars"! If everyone started keeping their cars three years longer than they currently do before getting a new one, the reduced emissions would be greater than if everyone switched to electric cars. But of course, that's bad for the economy.
Agreed on this. In addition to the three CAD systems already mentioned, there's also CATIA (Dassault), NX (Siemens) and BRLCAD (US Army) that are major players (that I can name without googling). So six different suites made by some of the worlds largest corporations/organisations - sure sounds like domination by one company.
Try Archlinux and a tiling WM like Awesome. It takes a weekend of fiddling to get it right the first time, but after that it's pure gold.
I'm writing this on a single-core non-hyperthreading 2.4 GHz Pentium IV with 1 GB RAM. It's been up for 14 days, now using a total of 568 MB RAM with 6 tabs open in Firefox and preload installed, 15 minute load average is 15%.
When I migrated from university webmail to Gmail last year, I used Thunderbird to transfer the gigabytes of sent/received email I had there. First download from "YourOldMail", then upload to "YourNewMail". Painless experience, and I recommend this approach if "YourNewMail" can't import directly from "YourOldMail".
And yes, Gmail is pretty good. The only gripe I have is that I can't set up mail encryption (GPG for message header/body) in Gmail's webmail interface, but this is mainly interesting if your tinfoil hat is frequently used. On the upside, I'm pleasantly impressed by how well it handles "Event Invitations" sent from people using Outlook, you'll appreciate the possibility of two-factor authentication, and of course searching through mail is magic.
(BTW, most subscription services I've seen allow changing your email, but it's often hidden pretty well. Good hunting.)
And the way to defeat this is two-factor authentication. If I log in to my Gmail (or Facebook) from an IP address I haven't used before, I have to provide a code generated by an app on my phone in addition to the password, and this code changes every 15 seconds. Try bruteforcing that, suckers. Does Hotmail offer something similar?
This. Fucking this. The same person had been using the same password on his Gmail account for years without being hacked. No matter how you look at it, that means Hotmail is way worse that Gmail.
You're saying you had a choice between Internet Explorer and another browser, and you chose IE? We regret to inform you that this action will result in the termination of your /. account.
I've always wondered why no sci-fi writers (that I know of) have used this as a plot device. "There are millions of aliens that cloak themselves from us, since we're not mature enough yet" seems to be a kick-ass sci-fi explanation of dark matter.