Known to work 80% of the time, on above ground wells. And you and I have no idea if the geology surrounding this well is at all similar to the geology around the Russian wells.
It won't kill the krill dude. If 10 billion gallons leak, each gallon of oil will have about 30,000 gallons of seawater to mix with (that is assuming that none of the 10 billion gallons degrades over time).
(I don't mean to imply that it would fully mix or anything, just that by the time it gets to the Pacific, it will have had the opportunity to mix with quite a lot of water; if it breaks up, that means there isn't going to be much of it in any given place, if it doesn't break up, that means it will be surrounded by lots of water with no contamination)
I think you are speaking with an awful lot of certainty about what would have happened without the work that DARPA and the universities did, but I'm not sure that a 1985, with all the things going on then, could have existed without universities experimenting with networking technologies, regardless of whether there was a government agency willing to share technology with them. And I'm not sure anybody could have managed to keep the technology in a bottle (we can use AOL as an example here, look at how successful it became, even as shitty as it was).
And as much as the internet explosion is a story of ubiquitous connectivity, it is also a story of the $1000 computer (I remember buying a decent computer in 1997, for $2400. I bought a great one in 2006, for $800.).
And what percentage of data is transferred over that equipment today?
I'm not trying to diminish the role of government in fostering the internet, I'm pointing out that the "giving it away" is, at best, a hilarious over-simplification.
It's just a little glassy-eyed to imply that the government built the internet. They absolutely created and developed the technology, but they aren't the ones who bought all those routers from Cisco or pulled all the fiber.
Asbestos is nasty and I'm glad it is not being used anymore, but you need to qualify your statement a little bit more, you probably have some small amount in your lungs right now (either from poorly handled cleanups or just from natural sources).
I noted in another reply that I wasn't particularly serious when I made that statement, but our bodies are quite resilient, and if you read the article, you will notice that the researchers are actually concerned about the health implications of small particles (this isn't all that surprising, food companies want you to buy and eat more of their products to a much greater extent than they want you to die, even if they are not particularly concerned about the latter).
Seriously? The vehicles were in a given location for a few minutes. They might have captured a few hundred kilobytes from a given router. The kilobytes are as likely to be some banal story about some skanky celebrity as they are to be anything else, and there is at least some chance that any private information is encrypted.
They absolutely were packet sniffing, but it's just retarded to insist that it is somehow useful information surveillance, they simply didn't capture enough data and there are too many easier ways, they were packet sniffing in order to build a location service.
They aren't denying that the intentionally drove around and monitored for wireless access points and then logged information about the access points.
The part they say is a mistake is that they stored the payload from some of the packets that they captured. The payload might contain some interesting unencrypted data, but the chances of that are pretty slim. There really isn't much a business could use the information for.
The words don't have exact meanings, the U.S. is a republic with democratically elected representatives (but you knew that).
The real tragedy is that we brag about spreading democracy, instead of bragging about standing up for the virtues of freedom and self determination. Democratic elections often help prevent governments from infringing those things, but enforcing the will of the majority on the minority is only slightly preferable to enforcing the will of a dictator. And I'm not sure about that, maybe it is just as bad.
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Drilling operations are by no means a 100% cost component of retail gasoline.
That's where the strong eat the weak, right?
Known to work 80% of the time, on above ground wells. And you and I have no idea if the geology surrounding this well is at all similar to the geology around the Russian wells.
So you think that in the contest between the depth and 30 years of technological advances they lose ground?
They had to drill 10,000 feet of seabed for those wells, so there is some room for optimism.
The fact that they are spending a fortune does not mean that they are responding in every way possible, they have many, many fortunes to spend.
It won't kill the krill dude. If 10 billion gallons leak, each gallon of oil will have about 30,000 gallons of seawater to mix with (that is assuming that none of the 10 billion gallons degrades over time).
(I don't mean to imply that it would fully mix or anything, just that by the time it gets to the Pacific, it will have had the opportunity to mix with quite a lot of water; if it breaks up, that means there isn't going to be much of it in any given place, if it doesn't break up, that means it will be surrounded by lots of water with no contamination)
Why do you think it will take years? They have already drilled 5,000 feet of the first relief well (About 1/2 of what they need to do):
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9033657&contentId=7061734
Yeah, but you have never compared it to the brain you used to have, the one that never made mistakes.
Encomistakesding.
Or maybe truoble.
I think you are speaking with an awful lot of certainty about what would have happened without the work that DARPA and the universities did, but I'm not sure that a 1985, with all the things going on then, could have existed without universities experimenting with networking technologies, regardless of whether there was a government agency willing to share technology with them. And I'm not sure anybody could have managed to keep the technology in a bottle (we can use AOL as an example here, look at how successful it became, even as shitty as it was).
And as much as the internet explosion is a story of ubiquitous connectivity, it is also a story of the $1000 computer (I remember buying a decent computer in 1997, for $2400. I bought a great one in 2006, for $800.).
And what percentage of data is transferred over that equipment today?
I'm not trying to diminish the role of government in fostering the internet, I'm pointing out that the "giving it away" is, at best, a hilarious over-simplification.
I think you might be underestimating Allied Fiber's intent by more than a small amount.
It's just a little glassy-eyed to imply that the government built the internet. They absolutely created and developed the technology, but they aren't the ones who bought all those routers from Cisco or pulled all the fiber.
I was referring to the air. The subtext of my first post was that we are in fact built out of machines that work on a molecular scale.
Asbestos is nasty and I'm glad it is not being used anymore, but you need to qualify your statement a little bit more, you probably have some small amount in your lungs right now (either from poorly handled cleanups or just from natural sources).
I noted in another reply that I wasn't particularly serious when I made that statement, but our bodies are quite resilient, and if you read the article, you will notice that the researchers are actually concerned about the health implications of small particles (this isn't all that surprising, food companies want you to buy and eat more of their products to a much greater extent than they want you to die, even if they are not particularly concerned about the latter).
That wouldn't be transparent to the application server.
To transparently reduce latency and hops.
Seriously? The vehicles were in a given location for a few minutes. They might have captured a few hundred kilobytes from a given router. The kilobytes are as likely to be some banal story about some skanky celebrity as they are to be anything else, and there is at least some chance that any private information is encrypted.
They absolutely were packet sniffing, but it's just retarded to insist that it is somehow useful information surveillance, they simply didn't capture enough data and there are too many easier ways, they were packet sniffing in order to build a location service.
They aren't denying that the intentionally drove around and monitored for wireless access points and then logged information about the access points.
The part they say is a mistake is that they stored the payload from some of the packets that they captured. The payload might contain some interesting unencrypted data, but the chances of that are pretty slim. There really isn't much a business could use the information for.
So why stay so tame?
Well ma'am, the computer-raper that you downloaded is raping your documents and your photos, and it is about to rape your financial accounts.
I'd rather have a secure computer and treat drm as a social problem.
Well, sticking with Microsoft's Vista fonts (which look really nice on Windows XP), Consolas has a slashed zero:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas
But it is monospaced (I expect you will find your slashed zeros much more often in monospaced fonts).
You know, there are places where instead of getting a little chilly outside, it gets downright cold.
DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?
The words don't have exact meanings, the U.S. is a republic with democratically elected representatives (but you knew that).
The real tragedy is that we brag about spreading democracy, instead of bragging about standing up for the virtues of freedom and self determination. Democratic elections often help prevent governments from infringing those things, but enforcing the will of the majority on the minority is only slightly preferable to enforcing the will of a dictator. And I'm not sure about that, maybe it is just as bad.
Try Cambria.