Denmark pays a whopping 41 cents per kilowatt hour.
OUCH !!!!!!!
3.5 times the avg cost in the U.S.
It really doesn't take much for other energy sources to beat that. Going out on a limb here I suspect renewables could be cheaper by just not being subject to whatever it is they do that makes their current energy sources ridiculously expensive.
As with many things i Denmark, most of this is taxes (approx. 75%). The rest is the actual cost of producing the energy. The coal-based plants in Denmark are very efficient and they produce many tons of acid and all sorts of chemicals from the emissions from the plants, before letting it out into the atmosphere.
As a side-story, the government recently cancelled a very popular funding-arrangment that made it very popular to install a local (6KW) solar plan on your roof. The ones who installed it in time, now have free electricity.
What Nintendo is doing is called the Blue Ocean strategy. In books it's illustrated by a surfer on a blue ocean with no other surfers (competitors) around. The alternative is to be in the ocean around other competitors.
This is done by finding other factors to compete on in stead of having the same product as everyone else and basically just competing on the price. This attracts new customers who for some reason don't like Playstation or X-Box. So they have that market to them self...
Ehhh, 1M computers for 1M dollars??? Forget about the factor 1.5x built cost. I guess you forgot some zeroes here and there. On my little calculator 1 million $100 computers is still 100,000,000 dollars.:-)
I believe this ties in with the article from a few days ago about the 34 bug found in the Intel Core Duo. [slashdot.org] In the comments, it was mentioned that a lot of these flaws are corrected in microcode rather than redesigning and refabbing the chip. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't these microcode updates contained in the BIOS updates... You're wrong. The microcode is a rom on the processor that gives bitmasks to the entities in the processor. The microcode can be several lines for a single instruction. This can be altered w/o changing any masks in the processor fabrication...
How many oracle db's are connected directly to the internet? Even within most company's their isnt a direct connection option to the db but only thru an application.
Of course this is an exploit but the impact shouldn't be overrated.
First, it's not an exploit but merely a try-8-default-accounts code. Poor coding style too, I have to say...but someone seems very proud of it???
What's really interesting about this worm is that it's written in PL/SQL, i.e. it runs on an ORACLE server itself. If it was really clever, it would replace a common PL/SQL function with itself...But since it doesn't, is it really a worm??
I dunno about that. I tried to brag to my wife about my gmail account when they were semi-rare and she said "GAY-mail? You have a GAY-mail account? HAHAHA!"*
Well, the suggestion is that they are trying to find out who downloaded the source onto a compromised machine. So - someone has cracked root on an unknown machine, visits insecure.org with the browser on their own machine, pastes the URL for the tarball into the shell on the compromised machine, and makes nmap. What it sounds like they are looking for is the IP address of the browser used to get the URL for the source.
Surely we just have to send a load of bogus reports to root@addlebrain.com and he'll have a fun time trying to find the genuine ones.
Been there, done that: <root@addlebrain.com>: host sitemail.everyone.net[216.200.145.51] said: 554
Recipient Rejected: Not accepting mail for this account : Account
terminated due to violation of user agreement
For fun, give them some paperwork to fill out at the end of the interview and say "I just have to duck out and check on something - back in a tick". Leave and time how long it takes for them to wander out of the office in search of someone... 15 minutes to half an hour's a pretty good baseline.
A similar test is to keep the person waiting in the lobby for a long time and have the secretary observe him...how impatient he gets. A bad temper will easily be revealed if the person has to sit and wait for just 10 minutes.
From the link: "Each of these 3,000- to 4,000-pound solar-powered satellites circles the globe at about 12,000 miles (19,300 km), making two complete rotations every day. The orbits are arranged so that at any time, anywhere on Earth, there are at least four satellites "visible" in the sky."
I think that's the whole POINT. Google is marketing gmail as something where you will NEVER EVER have to delete email, even if you use it for 80 years.
Am I the only one who recall Altavista and Netscape promising "e-mail for life"?? Both e-mail services are gone, now...
Having read it all, here I go with a summary: A guy was selling an Apple Laptop and a scammer offered to buy it. The scam was revealed when the scammer tried to do the payment through a fake escrow site. The seller then shipped the "laptop" in the pictures along with some heavy books so the package would feel like the real deal.
The seller then got donations via paypal to pay the $180 for shipment. The really funny part is that he had to give a value of the package and he said $2000. The scammer then had to pay a tax of the package value to actually recieve the package.
It wasn't all that easy. It almost didn't happend but FedEx trace-system confirms that the scammer actually paid customs to get the package released...that's how it ends! Read the entire story - it's funny!
Not to mention... Google could very easily just kill any auctioned-off account. Hmmm, maybe I'll just open an auction for webmaster@gmail.com and see what happends...
Yes, that's why I wrote "with no Window Media plugin". It's easier to disable a plugin under Mozilla than it is under Internet Explorer, IMO.
Since I don't trust ActiveX at all, my IE is set to promt me for every ActiveX applet. I usually say no, but sometimes they are nessecary. It's not that much bother and easy to set up.
Don't use Microsoft software. Really. It claims to use Windows Media 9 and some "proprietary" background downloading crap, so Mozilla with no Windows Media plugin should be a good start, along with Mozilla's AdBlock plugin just to make sure.
The mplayer mozilla-plugin works just fint with windows media. Mozilla is in no way a "less-capable" browser.
These sites do have the right to show commercials just as much as we have the right to avoid them.
That should be/dev/zero./dev/null is essentially write only.
Actually, you can create blank files with cat by piping/dev/null to a file name, essentially you're reading EOF. Take a look at the examples section in the man page for cat.
I'm not 100% certain whether this is a feature of/dev/null or a feature of cat
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Denmark pays a whopping 41 cents per kilowatt hour.
OUCH !!!!!!!
3.5 times the avg cost in the U.S.
It really doesn't take much for other energy sources to beat that. Going out on a limb here I suspect renewables could be cheaper by just not being subject to whatever it is they do that makes their current energy sources ridiculously expensive.
As with many things i Denmark, most of this is taxes (approx. 75%). The rest is the actual cost of producing the energy.
The coal-based plants in Denmark are very efficient and they produce many tons of acid and all sorts of chemicals from the emissions from the plants, before letting it out into the atmosphere.
As a side-story, the government recently cancelled a very popular funding-arrangment that made it very popular to install a local (6KW) solar plan on your roof. The ones who installed it in time, now have free electricity.
Would it count as jobs if they made money as research chimps? ...oh wait...
Karma police, arrest this man.
Ok!
What Nintendo is doing is called the Blue Ocean strategy. In books it's illustrated by a surfer on a blue ocean with no other surfers (competitors) around. The alternative is to be in the ocean around other competitors.
This is done by finding other factors to compete on in stead of having the same product as everyone else and basically just competing on the price. This attracts new customers who for some reason don't like Playstation or X-Box. So they have that market to them self...
Ehhh, 1M computers for 1M dollars??? Forget about the factor 1.5x built cost. I guess you forgot some zeroes here and there. On my little calculator 1 million $100 computers is still 100,000,000 dollars. :-)
Actually is't oooone huuuundred meeeeeellion dollars!
I believe this ties in with the article from a few days ago about the 34 bug found in the Intel Core Duo. [slashdot.org] In the comments, it was mentioned that a lot of these flaws are corrected in microcode rather than redesigning and refabbing the chip. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't these microcode updates contained in the BIOS updates...
You're wrong. The microcode is a rom on the processor that gives bitmasks to the entities in the processor. The microcode can be several lines for a single instruction. This can be altered w/o changing any masks in the processor fabrication...
How many oracle db's are connected directly to the internet? Even within most company's their isnt a direct connection option to the db but only thru an application.
Of course this is an exploit but the impact shouldn't be overrated.
First, it's not an exploit but merely a try-8-default-accounts code. Poor coding style too, I have to say...but someone seems very proud of it???
What's really interesting about this worm is that it's written in PL/SQL, i.e. it runs on an ORACLE server itself. If it was really clever, it would replace a common PL/SQL function with itself...But since it doesn't, is it really a worm??
Have you held a ROKR and RAZR at the same time? It's like Motorola can make a gadget pretty, or functional, but not both at the same time.
Well, the new RAZR V3i seems to be both, so there goes you argument and TFA straight down the drain!
I could only find this danish article, but it's got a perdy picture:
http://comon.dk/index.php/news/show/id=24259
There are 10 types of people...those who understand decimal, those who don't...and 8 other I can't remember!
I dunno about that. I tried to brag to my wife about my gmail account when they were semi-rare and she said "GAY-mail? You have a GAY-mail account? HAHAHA!"*
I believe that would be a hotMALE.com account...
Well, the suggestion is that they are trying to find out who downloaded the source onto a compromised machine. So - someone has cracked root on an unknown machine, visits insecure.org with the browser on their own machine, pastes the URL for the tarball into the shell on the compromised machine, and makes nmap. What it sounds like they are looking for is the IP address of the browser used to get the URL for the source.
Well, now they can visit slashdot instead...
I use Amazons A9 toolbar. It runs on Firefox (Crossplatform .xpi) and IE. It's very nice and installs very quickly.
http://toolbar.a9.com/
Been there, done that:
<root@addlebrain.com>: host sitemail.everyone.net[216.200.145.51] said: 554
Recipient Rejected: Not accepting mail for this account : Account
terminated due to violation of user agreement
If you are going to complain about dupes, why not take a look at the current comments before creating another "Yep, it's a dupe"-comment.
Dupes are bad, but dupe comments about dupes...why, that's just silly!!
For fun, give them some paperwork to fill out at the end of the interview and say "I just have to duck out and check on something - back in a tick".
Leave and time how long it takes for them to wander out of the office in search of someone... 15 minutes to half an hour's a pretty good baseline.
A similar test is to keep the person waiting in the lobby for a long time and have the secretary observe him...how impatient he gets. A bad temper will easily be revealed if the person has to sit and wait for just 10 minutes.
They have Open Source hardware now?
Yes...
And they have the internet on computers, too...
Uh, yes.
From the link: "Each of these 3,000- to 4,000-pound solar-powered satellites circles the globe at about 12,000 miles (19,300 km), making two complete rotations every day. The orbits are arranged so that at any time, anywhere on Earth, there are at least four satellites "visible" in the sky."
Linux hacker : Age 27 : lives with in parents house.
Who'd've thunk it, eh?
Actually, most italian men live with their parents until they get married.
I think that's the whole POINT. Google is marketing gmail as something where you will NEVER EVER have to delete email, even if you use it for 80 years.
Am I the only one who recall Altavista and Netscape promising "e-mail for life"?? Both e-mail services are gone, now...
Having read it all, here I go with a summary:
A guy was selling an Apple Laptop and a scammer offered to buy it. The scam was revealed when the scammer tried to do the payment through a fake escrow site. The seller then shipped the "laptop" in the pictures along with some heavy books so the package would feel like the real deal.
The seller then got donations via paypal to pay the $180 for shipment. The really funny part is that he had to give a value of the package and he said $2000. The scammer then had to pay a tax of the package value to actually recieve the package.
It wasn't all that easy. It almost didn't happend but FedEx trace-system confirms that the scammer actually paid customs to get the package released...that's how it ends! Read the entire story - it's funny!
Some of us saw the comment on /. on friday...
5 4505
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=107613&cid=91
Great laugh!!
Not to mention... Google could very easily just kill any auctioned-off account.
Hmmm, maybe I'll just open an auction for webmaster@gmail.com and see what happends...
Yes, that's why I wrote "with no Window Media plugin". It's easier to disable a plugin under Mozilla than it is under Internet Explorer, IMO.
Since I don't trust ActiveX at all, my IE is set to promt me for every ActiveX applet. I usually say no, but sometimes they are nessecary. It's not that much bother and easy to set up.
Don't use Microsoft software. Really. It claims to use Windows Media 9 and some "proprietary" background downloading crap, so Mozilla with no Windows Media plugin should be a good start, along with Mozilla's AdBlock plugin just to make sure.
The mplayer mozilla-plugin works just fint with windows media. Mozilla is in no way a "less-capable" browser.
These sites do have the right to show commercials just as much as we have the right to avoid them.
That should be /dev/zero. /dev/null is essentially write only.
/dev/null to a file name, essentially you're reading EOF. Take a look at the examples section in the man page for cat.
/dev/null or a feature of cat
Actually, you can create blank files with cat by piping
I'm not 100% certain whether this is a feature of