The RF exposure is far higher with closer distances, so this will be different than cell towers, etc.
If there is nothing to fear, then why would people oppose testing for safety?
There is precedence in going ahead with ignorant assumptions about safety and learning that is wrong later, so that's why people are asking for testing. In the 50s X-rays for shoe sizing started to be a thing, until they learned of the risks. There were also proposals to warm the people, not the air, by microwaves inside the buildings, until they learned of the risks. Similar for exposure to chemicals these days, etc. We learn of the risks, we put out material data handling documents, advise people of the lethality of substances. It should be no different for things you cannot see.
I went to see what the hype was about. It was just as boring as the recent Star Wars. Really, I couldn't tell this character apart from Rey. The main character is not invested in any relationship, but stuck in figuring out their identity. There are no points in the movie where it feels there is risk. There are no points in the movie where I feel for someone. The super seems to have no limits to powers - it is simply will power converted to megatons nuclear equivalent. There is nothing to engage me while I sit in my seat looking at good special effects.
I enjoyed the 90's references to Internet and computing in the day.
I see that the maintainer is now very busy. They are contrasting Debian development to what they do in their day job. I don't see anything about bringing up suggestions within the Debian organization. Pointing this resignation letter towards everyone is something that should be the last used effort to invoke changes. Maybe if there were concrete suggestions rather than whining about not liking the results it could get some traction.
Solar power as a hobby doesn't scale. You probably don't understand.
Look at a typical suburban lot, or even a one acre plot of land. Can people plant enough wheat on their land for the amount of cereal, pasta and bread consumed in a household? We don't even try. We leave this to commercial efforts that can pump it out efficiently and most cost effectively. Same for baking bread - you can make a few loaves in a household oven, but it is not efficient compared to commercial efforts to make thousands of loaves per day.
The same is true of solar panels. Unless one is along the equator in a sunny region like a desert, solar power is a waste of resources and effort. All it does it make people feel good. As long as a person is addicted to the feeling they are helping, they will never understand what they are doing is child's play.
You also need to remember we need to not only replace the current production of electricity, but also the future demand for electricity after oil and coal are finished being used. So, roughly twice the current electricity production, to power cargo ships, home heating, vehicles, airplanes, etc..
In the early days of airplanes and automobiles, people also made their own. Today we understand it doesn't scale and it is a waste of effort and resources.
He's right. Researchers over 10 years ago believed they had a chemical that would chelate with these proteins. Same idea. The experiment worked, and the symptoms were not touched. They found the proteins are tags that tell them there is presence of the disease, the protein is not the cause.
Strange there are repeatedly massively funded research projects targeting the same solution that is known to not work. One wonders what is the real goal of the researchers? Possibly just job security.
If you read the linked article carefully, it says the method works on mice brain models, not actual mice. What do you know, the theory backs the theory. Using the same model oriented methods, the moon model is made of cheese.
If you have only one vehicle, the topic of charging time compared to fueling up is like the question of average frame rates in a game compared to the worst frame rates. If you get 10 FPS at a critical point in a game, the system is no good to you.
Similarly when you get that call out of the ordinary that you need to go somewhere now, when you need to charge first, or you need to go further than on a typical day, you have a car that is no good to you. When you think about it a bit, a car is used for more than a commute, unless your life is very boring. If you have a second vehicle running on gas, this is covered. In the future this will be different, but today, the value of electric cars is limited.
Installed capacity has meaning for hydro power, coal and nuclear. For solar and wind, it is like the relationship between the maximum speed on your car's speedometer vs what the roads and traffic allow.
Here is what all of the wind power in UK is generating in this live grid display:
If you look at the tiny graphs under the dials it displays wind power as a blue line in the second column.
It peaked at about 5 GW wind production on Sunday Sept 2, and then was nearly zero Monday morning. The concept that the wind is always blowing somewhere is not true for a place as small as the U.K.
Pick a plant. They all convert light and CO2 to sugar. In terms of efficiency it depends on what is being measured. If it is the object's size vs their output over time, that it one way to look at efficiency. If it is a huge forest of maple trees, a field of sugar cane, or beet plants, they don't need much maintenance. Entire forests exist without any human effort, electricity, chemical additive, etc.
Anyway, the research seems kinda pointless after NASA just announced Terra-forming Mars won't be possible for many reasons. I will let NASA explain why...
http://www.zverovich.net/2016/...
Like most of the comments here, not impressed...
See the comments under the article for rebuttals. They have some good points, but I think this will only suit a niche user if it survives in the longer run.
The only reason to run Windows is for device support. It doesn't really need to be how I use the Internet. It works well with Garmin GPS, camera, SD cards with DJI footage, bass guitar., etc. My long term support involves air gapping Windows 8.1 from my network.
My issue is Windows 10 is always beta. One day I looked at the updates status of a bunch of laptops in a store. Almost all of them had update 76 (it was Dec 2017) failing. But users don't even know it is failing to update. The intelligence in hiding that is like driving a car with burnt out warning light bulbs and saying you didn't really need them.
This white paper requires registration to obtain. The whole thing is a poorly veiled attempt to sell the identity management solution. This isn't news. This is infomercial.
It is hard to take Slashdot articles seriously these days. Lots of hype and wacky stuff announced as almost ready. Who runs this now? They must have a seat next to the kool aid tank.
I can think of dozens of reasons why the adhesive idea is stupid. Here is where thinking goes bad: one single scenario is considered and then they stop thinking. The scenario is: new car, no hand buffed wax, warm climate, city speeds, honest driver who will stop and help injured people, and a mild hit at a cross walk.
The average all-in-one car polish includes an abrasive, and over the years would likely remove any film, or the car may be impossible to wax and buff.
The climate where I live goes down to -20 C at times, and I'm in the southern zone of Canada. Cars are often covered by several inches of snow or ice. Does the adhesive work at cold temperatures, or does it activate and cling to several pounds of snow and ice?
The adhesive would bind to clothes and any carried objects. It wouldn't necessarily keep the person still and depends on the strength of the clothing. In some cases of loose garments, it could lead to dragging the body on the road if they didn't stop quickly. This can be an important factor because there are hit and runs.
How does it deal with adhering to skin? Sounds like it could be worse than a typical crazy glue accident.
So do these people have a wacky idea, get it posted to slashdot and have people like me do the work of hitting the potential flaws?
Looking at the original article, this isn't an SST. It is a test of an alternative engine, involving high speeds and altitude (278 KM altitude) and it is nowhere near being a system for transporting people. It is a rocket based on a scramjet.
I was just watching this earlier today. The two problems have been: sonic booms over populated areas, and necessity of Titanium to handle the heat at the leading edges. At least when this documentary was made, the metal choice still had no better solution than back in the 70's, and it was too expensive then. The development of an American SST that could do Mach 3 was mandated by Kennedy, and they could not deliver. The Concorde was permitted to do supersonic flight only over the Atlantic.
I don't know if many have experienced the shock wave of breaking the sound barrier. I was in a mobile home in northern Arizona when some fighter jets broke mach. The trailer rocked and I thought it might be an earthquake. It isn't merely like a thunderstorm as some say.
Nobody here cares about technology. What you care about is getting everything for free. Why isn't this site called napsterdot if that is all that matters?
I work in IT administrating such a system. What unbelievable ignorance to mark my comment as a troll. I've seen the traffic coming from sci-hub, I'm not making it up. I've discussed with other University IT admins. Who the hell is scoring this stuff?
It appears the technical knowledge component in this discussion is nil, and this discussion has become about the liberation of data or something.
Now, I am not at all surprised at Trump becoming President. People don't know anything, even if the truth is placed right in front of them. Political aims and emotional state overwhelm all logic.
Wikipedia entry on sci-hub:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Quote: New papers are uploaded daily after accessing them through.edu proxies.
That is via compromised accounts, folks. These are not the good guys.
A big part of the sci-hub access is via Universities which run ezproxy or similar, so their students can access online textbooks, journals, and resource material. The Universities pay significant money to subscribe to these resources. The Sci Hub organization needs credentials at a University to login to the service like ezproxy. At any given time, Sci-Hub have several credentials at several institutions and they can rotate the load so it isn't all put on a few accounts and institutions. Sci-Hub obtain the credentials by phishing the account login data, or in some cases students violate the terms of their agreement with their institution and sell their credentials to Sci-Hub. You can call it "downloading", but it is theft. It is theft of the credentials, theft of the Universities' resources and theft of the online resource material.
The response that they check pastebin regularly indicates a poor level of security. Doesn't that compare to using Kijiji to see if you've been robbed recently?
Oh, and the password complexity... As someone who works in IT and has seen the passwords real people use, the ones I saw in the pastebin are about right for the length, complexity, etc. These are just people listening to music, not IT workers or similar with better practices.
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The RF exposure is far higher with closer distances, so this will be different than cell towers, etc.
If there is nothing to fear, then why would people oppose testing for safety?
There is precedence in going ahead with ignorant assumptions about safety and learning that is wrong later, so that's why people are asking for testing. In the 50s X-rays for shoe sizing started to be a thing, until they learned of the risks. There were also proposals to warm the people, not the air, by microwaves inside the buildings, until they learned of the risks. Similar for exposure to chemicals these days, etc. We learn of the risks, we put out material data handling documents, advise people of the lethality of substances. It should be no different for things you cannot see.
I went to see what the hype was about. It was just as boring as the recent Star Wars. Really, I couldn't tell this character apart from Rey. The main character is not invested in any relationship, but stuck in figuring out their identity. There are no points in the movie where it feels there is risk. There are no points in the movie where I feel for someone. The super seems to have no limits to powers - it is simply will power converted to megatons nuclear equivalent. There is nothing to engage me while I sit in my seat looking at good special effects.
I enjoyed the 90's references to Internet and computing in the day.
I see that the maintainer is now very busy. They are contrasting Debian development to what they do in their day job. I don't see anything about bringing up suggestions within the Debian organization. Pointing this resignation letter towards everyone is something that should be the last used effort to invoke changes. Maybe if there were concrete suggestions rather than whining about not liking the results it could get some traction.
This is the same as saying only going back to horses will save us. There is no reason that has to be true. It is really defeatist thinking.
Solar power as a hobby doesn't scale. You probably don't understand.
Look at a typical suburban lot, or even a one acre plot of land. Can people plant enough wheat on their land for the amount of cereal, pasta and bread consumed in a household? We don't even try. We leave this to commercial efforts that can pump it out efficiently and most cost effectively. Same for baking bread - you can make a few loaves in a household oven, but it is not efficient compared to commercial efforts to make thousands of loaves per day.
The same is true of solar panels. Unless one is along the equator in a sunny region like a desert, solar power is a waste of resources and effort. All it does it make people feel good. As long as a person is addicted to the feeling they are helping, they will never understand what they are doing is child's play.
You also need to remember we need to not only replace the current production of electricity, but also the future demand for electricity after oil and coal are finished being used. So, roughly twice the current electricity production, to power cargo ships, home heating, vehicles, airplanes, etc..
In the early days of airplanes and automobiles, people also made their own. Today we understand it doesn't scale and it is a waste of effort and resources.
There are alternative nuclear technologies under development. They need better support and investment.
Traveling Wave Reactor can run on depleted uranium, which already exists in massive quantities. See Terra Power.
Then there is liquid fluoride thorium reactor. See Flib Energy.
Both or either would take us beyond the limitations and problems of the reactors built half a century ago.
Finally someone that understands the problem on the level of scale rather than virtuous gestures. Unfortunate the article is behind a paywall.
Too bad those funding this research don't do their diligence and find these people are just milking the system for more useless results.
He's right. Researchers over 10 years ago believed they had a chemical that would chelate with these proteins. Same idea. The experiment worked, and the symptoms were not touched. They found the proteins are tags that tell them there is presence of the disease, the protein is not the cause.
Strange there are repeatedly massively funded research projects targeting the same solution that is known to not work. One wonders what is the real goal of the researchers? Possibly just job security.
If you read the linked article carefully, it says the method works on mice brain models, not actual mice. What do you know, the theory backs the theory. Using the same model oriented methods, the moon model is made of cheese.
If you have only one vehicle, the topic of charging time compared to fueling up is like the question of average frame rates in a game compared to the worst frame rates. If you get 10 FPS at a critical point in a game, the system is no good to you.
Similarly when you get that call out of the ordinary that you need to go somewhere now, when you need to charge first, or you need to go further than on a typical day, you have a car that is no good to you. When you think about it a bit, a car is used for more than a commute, unless your life is very boring. If you have a second vehicle running on gas, this is covered. In the future this will be different, but today, the value of electric cars is limited.
Installed capacity has meaning for hydro power, coal and nuclear. For solar and wind, it is like the relationship between the maximum speed on your car's speedometer vs what the roads and traffic allow.
Here is what all of the wind power in UK is generating in this live grid display:
https://www.gridwatch.templar....
If you look at the tiny graphs under the dials it displays wind power as a blue line in the second column. It peaked at about 5 GW wind production on Sunday Sept 2, and then was nearly zero Monday morning. The concept that the wind is always blowing somewhere is not true for a place as small as the U.K.
Pick a plant. They all convert light and CO2 to sugar. In terms of efficiency it depends on what is being measured. If it is the object's size vs their output over time, that it one way to look at efficiency. If it is a huge forest of maple trees, a field of sugar cane, or beet plants, they don't need much maintenance. Entire forests exist without any human effort, electricity, chemical additive, etc.
Anyway, the research seems kinda pointless after NASA just announced Terra-forming Mars won't be possible for many reasons. I will let NASA explain why...
https://www.nasa.gov/press-rel...
Mars just happens to look like an Earth desert in pictures. It doesn't mean it just needs oxygen and water and then go.
http://www.zverovich.net/2016/...
Like most of the comments here, not impressed... See the comments under the article for rebuttals. They have some good points, but I think this will only suit a niche user if it survives in the longer run.
The only reason to run Windows is for device support. It doesn't really need to be how I use the Internet. It works well with Garmin GPS, camera, SD cards with DJI footage, bass guitar., etc. My long term support involves air gapping Windows 8.1 from my network.
My issue is Windows 10 is always beta. One day I looked at the updates status of a bunch of laptops in a store. Almost all of them had update 76 (it was Dec 2017) failing. But users don't even know it is failing to update. The intelligence in hiding that is like driving a car with burnt out warning light bulbs and saying you didn't really need them.
This white paper requires registration to obtain. The whole thing is a poorly veiled attempt to sell the identity management solution. This isn't news. This is infomercial.
This article is stupid. Who says compromised accounts are gained by password guessing? There are many other ways:
Brute force is uncommon these days, because there is technology to limit password guessing.
It is hard to take Slashdot articles seriously these days. Lots of hype and wacky stuff announced as almost ready. Who runs this now? They must have a seat next to the kool aid tank.
I can think of dozens of reasons why the adhesive idea is stupid. Here is where thinking goes bad: one single scenario is considered and then they stop thinking. The scenario is: new car, no hand buffed wax, warm climate, city speeds, honest driver who will stop and help injured people, and a mild hit at a cross walk.
The average all-in-one car polish includes an abrasive, and over the years would likely remove any film, or the car may be impossible to wax and buff.
The climate where I live goes down to -20 C at times, and I'm in the southern zone of Canada. Cars are often covered by several inches of snow or ice. Does the adhesive work at cold temperatures, or does it activate and cling to several pounds of snow and ice?
The adhesive would bind to clothes and any carried objects. It wouldn't necessarily keep the person still and depends on the strength of the clothing. In some cases of loose garments, it could lead to dragging the body on the road if they didn't stop quickly. This can be an important factor because there are hit and runs.
How does it deal with adhering to skin? Sounds like it could be worse than a typical crazy glue accident.
So do these people have a wacky idea, get it posted to slashdot and have people like me do the work of hitting the potential flaws?
Looking at the original article, this isn't an SST. It is a test of an alternative engine, involving high speeds and altitude (278 KM altitude) and it is nowhere near being a system for transporting people. It is a rocket based on a scramjet.
https://youtu.be/jQM6b9RonXM Planes That Never Flew - The American SST - Boeing 2707
I was just watching this earlier today. The two problems have been: sonic booms over populated areas, and necessity of Titanium to handle the heat at the leading edges. At least when this documentary was made, the metal choice still had no better solution than back in the 70's, and it was too expensive then. The development of an American SST that could do Mach 3 was mandated by Kennedy, and they could not deliver. The Concorde was permitted to do supersonic flight only over the Atlantic.
I don't know if many have experienced the shock wave of breaking the sound barrier. I was in a mobile home in northern Arizona when some fighter jets broke mach. The trailer rocked and I thought it might be an earthquake. It isn't merely like a thunderstorm as some say.
Nobody here cares about technology. What you care about is getting everything for free. Why isn't this site called napsterdot if that is all that matters?
You don't care about accounts being stolen and used by organized crime?
I work in IT administrating such a system. What unbelievable ignorance to mark my comment as a troll. I've seen the traffic coming from sci-hub, I'm not making it up. I've discussed with other University IT admins. Who the hell is scoring this stuff?
It appears the technical knowledge component in this discussion is nil, and this discussion has become about the liberation of data or something.
Now, I am not at all surprised at Trump becoming President. People don't know anything, even if the truth is placed right in front of them. Political aims and emotional state overwhelm all logic.
Wikipedia entry on sci-hub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Quote: New papers are uploaded daily after accessing them through .edu proxies.
That is via compromised accounts, folks. These are not the good guys.
A big part of the sci-hub access is via Universities which run ezproxy or similar, so their students can access online textbooks, journals, and resource material. The Universities pay significant money to subscribe to these resources. The Sci Hub organization needs credentials at a University to login to the service like ezproxy. At any given time, Sci-Hub have several credentials at several institutions and they can rotate the load so it isn't all put on a few accounts and institutions. Sci-Hub obtain the credentials by phishing the account login data, or in some cases students violate the terms of their agreement with their institution and sell their credentials to Sci-Hub. You can call it "downloading", but it is theft. It is theft of the credentials, theft of the Universities' resources and theft of the online resource material.
Hopefully people can tell the difference between the two types of Chinese robots
There was a story here awhile ago about the sperm donor robot:
http://www.examiner.com/articl...
The response that they check pastebin regularly indicates a poor level of security. Doesn't that compare to using Kijiji to see if you've been robbed recently?
Oh, and the password complexity... As someone who works in IT and has seen the passwords real people use, the ones I saw in the pastebin are about right for the length, complexity, etc. These are just people listening to music, not IT workers or similar with better practices.