I am fine with sharing my network and wi-fi bandwidth, as long as two conditions are met
1. That the open public Wi-Fi is QoS, so it cannot max out my connection, and starve my own private WPA2/AES wi-fi of needed bandwidth (So yes, I will share, but am gonna be a bit frugal on how much I am willing to share. Don't want someone streaming HD movies for free, but email and regular web browsing bandwidth is OK.)
2. That the open Wi-Fi is fully firewalled and separate from my own home network.
I do not think humans will get into expanding our civilization past Earth's atmosphere until there is a single global government. Currently the nation-states divert too many resources against each other (arms, trade wars), that instead could be used into expanding us beyond Earth.
I would rather see more businesses and individuals install PV into their local locations, that are either grid-tied with failover to standalone when there is a grid power outage, or standalone.
No need for solar roads, when most people and businesses have plenty of square meters on their property that could have PV. Over roofs, over driveways, over parking lots, and such.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” -- Joseph Goebbels
'Oil production on Alaska's North Slope, which has been declining since 1988 when average annual production peaked at 2.0 million barrels per day, is transported to market through the TransAlaska Pipeline System (TAPS). Because TAPS needs to maintain throughput above a minimum threshold level to remain operational' http://www.eia.gov/todayinener...
The 1st one ever released in the late 70s was a gem, and in my opinion remains a stand-alone classic. Everything after it became less story and more eye candy, and the frustration of moving audience targets....Seems they are going to milk the franchise dry until it becomes unprofitable, then discard it like an empty milk carton.
I think that cash-only life style might, overall, cost more in terms of time (our time is money, right?), for the extra time spent having to go to the bank, standing in line for a teller, then doing a human/human transaction, and the possible inconvenience of not doing internet shopping.
But, I will be happy to be wrong. Haven't been doing cash-only long enough to really track the savings/cost difference as opposed to the days of plastic, ATM use, and internet purchases.
Stand in line at your bank, have a human hand you cash from a cash register drawer.
Hopefully those bills are not tracked as to which serial numbers are given to which bank customers, as they usually just pull them from the cash register drawer, count them out in front of you, and then you are on your way.
Honestly, just get yourself hands-on, and dive in!
Download a netinst for Debian stable.
Install it.
Install gcc, g++, ddd, vi/emacs, make, git, and play.
Try things. Learn by hands-on, error messages, research, stackoverflow, and time....There are so many good Internet resources out there in terms of tutorials, source code of existing GPLd programs and projects, of all areas of Computer Science. So again, honestly, just get yourself hands-on, and dive in.
Buying things with cash and not using membership/credit/debit cards, is about the best we can hope for, if we do not what our purchases and lives tracked.
Likely this using-cash-only anonymity costs more, as well as the inconvenience(?) of not making any internet purchases.
Really seems a truism, that "anonymity isn't free."
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I am fine with sharing my network and wi-fi bandwidth, as long as two conditions are met
1. That the open public Wi-Fi is QoS, so it cannot max out my connection, and starve my own private WPA2/AES wi-fi of needed bandwidth (So yes, I will share, but am gonna be a bit frugal on how much I am willing to share. Don't want someone streaming HD movies for free, but email and regular web browsing bandwidth is OK.)
2. That the open Wi-Fi is fully firewalled and separate from my own home network.
Software are just instructions that run on a processor.
I do not think any software should be legally patentable, and look forward to the day the rest of the global legislative community realizes it, too.
I worry about the reliability with tinyer and tinyer CPU feature size. ...how will those CPUs be doing, reliability-wise, 10yrs later?
When I buy something 'expensive', I expect it to last at least 10yrs, and CPUs are kinda expensive, to me.
(I still have an Athlon Thunderbird 700MHz Debian workstation that I use, for example, and it's still reliable.)
Read the fine manual, for the win! -- Literally.
BWAH HAHA HA HA HA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I do not think humans will get into expanding our civilization past Earth's atmosphere until there is a single global government. Currently the nation-states divert too many resources against each other (arms, trade wars), that instead could be used into expanding us beyond Earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
I would rather see more businesses and individuals install PV into their local locations, that are either grid-tied with failover to standalone when there is a grid power outage, or standalone.
No need for solar roads, when most people and businesses have plenty of square meters on their property that could have PV. Over roofs, over driveways, over parking lots, and such.
I never knew this style of LEDs were mostly made by hand.
I always assumed it was done by an automated assembly line, like how (mostly) CDs and DVDs are created on automated assembly lines.
Now would enjoy it, if someone could tour a LED light bulb factory, and share how those are made.
I am sure the NSA needed quite the budget to be able to record Everything from Everyone, Everywhere.
Perhaps some of that NSA funding could be reallocated to NASA instead.
It seems Apple is trying to be to phones, what Microsoft was to PCs, right before the DOJ went after Microsoft for antitrust *irritated sigh*
Fantastic!
CAISO utility electricity generation web page. Daily load, generation, and fractional contributions by renewables.
Refer to the middle and bottom graphs.
http://www.caiso.com/outlook/S...
Was a great game.
It would be fantastic if the Descent game engine could be open source, if it isn't already.
This is slashdot
kilo barrels
Mega barrels
Giga barrels
Tera barrels
Please!
; )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
http://mazamascience.com/OilEx...
'Oil production on Alaska's North Slope, which has been declining since 1988 when average annual production peaked at 2.0 million barrels per day, is transported to market through the TransAlaska Pipeline System (TAPS). Because TAPS needs to maintain throughput above a minimum threshold level to remain operational'
http://www.eia.gov/todayinener...
The 1st one ever released in the late 70s was a gem, and in my opinion remains a stand-alone classic. Everything after it became less story and more eye candy, and the frustration of moving audience targets. ...Seems they are going to milk the franchise dry until it becomes unprofitable, then discard it like an empty milk carton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Um, Praxis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Problem solved.
There is a wikipedia entry about it, in case you have interest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
In a world where spy satellites have 1m resolution, the fact that no country says they found anything within a few days, speaks loudest.
I think that cash-only life style might, overall, cost more in terms of time (our time is money, right?), for the extra time spent having to go to the bank, standing in line for a teller, then doing a human/human transaction, and the possible inconvenience of not doing internet shopping.
But, I will be happy to be wrong. Haven't been doing cash-only long enough to really track the savings/cost difference as opposed to the days of plastic, ATM use, and internet purchases.
Stand in line at your bank, have a human hand you cash from a cash register drawer.
Hopefully those bills are not tracked as to which serial numbers are given to which bank customers, as they usually just pull them from the cash register drawer, count them out in front of you, and then you are on your way.
Honestly, just get yourself hands-on, and dive in!
Download a netinst for Debian stable.
Install it.
Install gcc, g++, ddd, vi/emacs, make, git, and play.
Try things. Learn by hands-on, error messages, research, stackoverflow, and time. ...There are so many good Internet resources out there in terms of tutorials, source code of existing GPLd programs and projects, of all areas of Computer Science. So again, honestly, just get yourself hands-on, and dive in.
Buying things with cash and not using membership/credit/debit cards, is about the best we can hope for, if we do not what our purchases and lives tracked.
Likely this using-cash-only anonymity costs more, as well as the inconvenience(?) of not making any internet purchases.
Really seems a truism, that "anonymity isn't free."
I recommend "Design Patterns" by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides
M$ is still around, so I failed on that prediction *rueful sigh*