Deep in a mountain somewhere where nobody would go anyway.
> Isn't it true that "cleaner" energy in this case, really means that the problem of who it's dirty for is so far down the road that you couldn't care less?
Right, because spewing out waste gasses from burning coal, oil, etc is being very considerate of future generations. And I'm quite sure future generations will want to live deep in some cave.
> What happens when a real terrorist, you know those same people that blew up the WTC on 9/11, blows up your "clean" nuclear waste?
Again, put it deep in some mountain with the military guarding it.
> Nuclear energy isn't clean at all and if you think that's the cleanest, what do you think of solar, wind and hydroelectric? Perhaps natural gas?
How many toxic biproducts are generated when you make an (electric) solar panel? What do you do with all the old batteries that are used to store the generated electricity?
How much energy is used to create wind turbines and how many energy and resources go into maintaining wind turbines?
What type of ecological impact does hydroelectric energy have?
How much natural gas is available? Is it enough to supply eletrical demands?
I ride a motorcycle myself and wondered the same thing when I read this article;). My *stock* street bike can do 0-60 in 2.7 seconds. It cost only about $12k a few years ago. (It can't do 250mph though - but who want's to?) I don't know how it would compare handling wise, but I would guess quite a few sport bikes could keep up with it and pass it in the turns.
I have seen a video of a turbochaged Suzuki Hayabusa that had 499 hp. The didn't show the top speed of the bike on the video, but they did show it doing wheelies at 170mph+. This means the bike still had quite a bit of power to spare.
There is also the Y2K bike, which is a little more exotic. It is powered by a helicopter turbine engine and has about 320 HP (@ 52,000 RPM!). You can check it out here: http://www.marineturbine.com/.
I like the fact that there is only one "branch" of java. I can write a program once and compile it anywhere. I hate C++ because I need #ifdef's everywhere in my code just so I can build it on other platforms/compilers. If someone feels that it is lacking, they should get involved in Sun's community.
This is not a good sign for the Linux community. If they were going to publicly state what code has been infringed on, then it would be easier for everyone to go through it. But, SCO only has to disclose the code that they think has been stolen in a private court, then only the people who are involved with the trial will have the opportunity to go through the evidence. It just puts more work on Linus and co.
It's called capitalism. If some communications company were to lay the infrastructure for high speed networking, it would have to be paid for some way or another. The company would either have to charge the rural customers much more for Internet service, or increase the rates of everyone that they provide service to. If they increase everybodies rates they will be less competitive in big cities and will lose large amounts of business (and revenue) because of it. You made the choice to live out in the country and as a consequence you will either not have access to certain things or will have to pay a greater cost to access them.
I've been waiting for the cell phone portability stuff to take effect for quite some time now. I've wanted to switch providers for awhile, but didn't want to go through the hassle of telling everyone about my new phone number. So, I went to talk the TMobile and they said I they could support my phone number. I was thrilled to say they least, so I started the process and signed the contracts and everything. A week later, they give me a call and tell me they can't switch my phone number because it is not in on of the governments top 100 markets - I will have to wait until May 2004 to switch my number.
I can cancel my new contract within 14 days, so that's not a problem. But, it is a hassle and it just a little shady on TMobile's part. So no I have to make the decision to go through the hassle of canceling my new contract and wait 6 more months or just go ahead and make the switch.
802.11a/b/g on board would be nice.. but, I would really like to see more motherboards coming with bluetooth onboard. This would seem to make sense with things like keyboard, mice, headsets, and cellphones that are bluetooth enabled coming to market.
Didn't they just get in quite a bit of legal trouble for "borrowing" somebody else's technology? Seems like a pretty bold move to introduce new products at a time like this.
The problem is that it may not be possible to match the computation of a cluster with specialized interconnects using just commodity hardware no matter how many machines you throw at it. If a simulation has a low computation to communication ratio it's scalability is bound by the perfomance of the interconnects. In this case throwing more commodity machines at the problem will actually increase the total time required to run the experiment.
I swear, Slashdot is home to the largest group of hypocrites in the world. Here is someone that is arguing that some technology is bad because people can do bad things with it. I suppose we should get rid of all the p2p networks because people can do bad things with them (pirating IS stealing, don't you know?).
It's easy to blame the technology when the users are doing things you don't like. But, ultimately it is the end users of the technology who are making the decisions to commit those actions. So, if you believe a technology shouldn't be developed because it might be used for "bad" things then you should apply this same logic to all bits of technology, not just those you don't like.
I think the Linux raidtools can help quite a bit with this problem:
(From the raid howto)
4.7 The Persistent Superblock
Back in ``The Good Old Days'' (TM), the raidtools would read your/etc/raidtab file, and then initialize the array. However, this would require that the filesystem on which/etc/raidtab resided was mounted. This is unfortunate if you want to boot on a RAID.
Also, the old approach led to complications when mounting filesystems on RAID devices. They could not be put in the/etc/fstab file as usual, but would have to be mounted from the init-scripts.
The persistent superblocks solve these problems. When an array is initialized with the persistent-superblock option in the/etc/raidtab file, a special superblock is written in the beginning of all disks participating in the array. This allows the kernel to read the configuration of RAID devices directly from the disks involved, instead of reading from some configuration file that may not be available at all times.
You should however still maintain a consistent/etc/raidtab file, since you may need this file for later reconstruction of the array.
The persistent superblock is mandatory if you want auto-detection of your RAID devices upon system boot. This is described in the Autodetection section.
The attraction is probably not so much that it will allow people to make outgoing calls (which they can already do), but that they can now receive calls on their cell phone. So, if someone is on a plane, you can dial their number and still get ahold of them.
ScHlAuChi OpenGL in UT was much faster on some cards, and what about Linux Gamers?
MarkRein[Epic] That was UT, this is UT2003. UT was designed around software rendering and Glide. We have designed this particular game (and hence the latest versions of the engine) around Direct3D and they work really, really well together. This time around we would have to work really hard to get OpenGL to be as fast as D3D. We are doing OpenGL (needed for Linux client and Mac down the road if we do it) but it is not a priority and probably won't be ready and debugged well enough in time for retail release.
I ran across this company awhile back and have found their tools extremely useful. Primarily they provide a tool that will compile a Schema into a Java object model. It provides built in functions for marshalling/unmarshalling/validate. I have used it in one project so far and it made dealing with XML data very easy.
Many home users never actually upgrade their OS themselves. Many only get a new OS when they get a new computer and it is installed already on it. This is how they have built a userbase. The people that are actually concerned with upgades are 1) businness (at least some) and 2) powerusers.
I am just wondering if this is really a good idea or not. Considering the governments track record of privacy (especially the NSA's), how realistic is it to believe that they will create an encryption standard that they don't know how to break. Granted, they are allowing time for public review, but that time is limited (May 29, 2001 I believe) for the amount of work and testing that should be used. You might also say that they the standard is going to be used for a lot of the government so they have incentive to not put any back doors in it, but it isn't like we've never seen competition or espionage taking place between government organizations.
Maybe a better solution would to have an government-indepedent group that is politically neutral be responsible for the development of encryption standards. I don't know how exactly that could be setup, but it at least might be worth a little thought.
It is rather arrogant to believe that everyone wants the web be "up to date". First of all, it assumes that everyone has capability of being able to run a modern browser. What about schools and other institutions that simply cannot afford to purchase machines capable of running IE5.5 or NN6. One of the main reasons that websites do not require the most bleeding edge browers is because they realize this point.
Second, sometimes it is rather handy just to fire up lynx to do a quick little errand, instead of waiting 30 seconds Netcrap 6.0 to come up.
Third, how is this going to affect accessiblitiy for disabled people. Do the latest standards allow for this group of people to use the web?
I don't know about putting it in a spare drive bay, but I do think that it would be a nice replacement for a car stereo. It already has a display built in to the front if it, just add some more controls and a sound card and you're ready to go.
interesting...
"Its not as though they are censoring useful information anyway. Everything they censor is useless porn"
Right... do you know how reliable filter software is? To the extent of my knowledge, there is no solution available that simply censors "useless porn". Most of the censor software I've seen will not censor all porn (i.e., there are things that will slip by), and will censor useful information. Many companies that produce censor software won't even allow access to the list of sights they ban, or how they work. Will I still be able to look up information on how to prevent getting STDs, or correspond with support groups.
I do think that what children view should monitored, but not by software. Real living people should step in to raise children.
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> How clean is nuclear waste?
Yup, it's pretty nasty stuff.
> Where do you put the waste?
Deep in a mountain somewhere where nobody would go anyway.
> Isn't it true that "cleaner" energy in this case, really means that the problem of who it's dirty for is so far down the road that you couldn't care less?
Right, because spewing out waste gasses from burning coal, oil, etc is being very considerate of future generations. And I'm quite sure future generations will want to live deep in some cave.
> What happens when a real terrorist, you know those same people that blew up the WTC on 9/11, blows up your "clean" nuclear waste?
Again, put it deep in some mountain with the military guarding it.
> Nuclear energy isn't clean at all and if you think that's the cleanest, what do you think of solar, wind and hydroelectric? Perhaps natural gas?
How many toxic biproducts are generated when you make an (electric) solar panel? What do you do with all the old batteries that are used to store the generated electricity?
How much energy is used to create wind turbines and how many energy and resources go into maintaining wind turbines?
What type of ecological impact does hydroelectric energy have?
How much natural gas is available? Is it enough to supply eletrical demands?
> How about being self sustainable?
That is a good point.
I ride a motorcycle myself and wondered the same thing when I read this article ;). My *stock* street bike can do 0-60 in 2.7 seconds. It cost only about $12k a few years ago. (It can't do 250mph though - but who want's to?) I don't know how it would compare handling wise, but I would guess quite a few sport bikes could keep up with it and pass it in the turns.
I have seen a video of a turbochaged Suzuki Hayabusa that had 499 hp. The didn't show the top speed of the bike on the video, but they did show it doing wheelies at 170mph+. This means the bike still had quite a bit of power to spare.
There is also the Y2K bike, which is a little more exotic. It is powered by a helicopter turbine engine and has about 320 HP (@ 52,000 RPM!). You can check it out here: http://www.marineturbine.com/.
But at least it could be carbon dated to determine if it was from the right time. Carbon dating is a little more difficult to doctor than photographs.
Hopefully that wasn't in reference to Bind. I know a few people who might take issue with that...
I like the fact that there is only one "branch" of java. I can write a program once and compile it anywhere. I hate C++ because I need #ifdef's everywhere in my code just so I can build it on other platforms/compilers. If someone feels that it is lacking, they should get involved in Sun's community.
Just my $.02
This is not a good sign for the Linux community. If they were going to publicly state what code has been infringed on, then it would be easier for everyone to go through it. But, SCO only has to disclose the code that they think has been stolen in a private court, then only the people who are involved with the trial will have the opportunity to go through the evidence. It just puts more work on Linus and co.
It's called capitalism. If some communications company were to lay the infrastructure for high speed networking, it would have to be paid for some way or another. The company would either have to charge the rural customers much more for Internet service, or increase the rates of everyone that they provide service to. If they increase everybodies rates they will be less competitive in big cities and will lose large amounts of business (and revenue) because of it. You made the choice to live out in the country and as a consequence you will either not have access to certain things or will have to pay a greater cost to access them.
I've been waiting for the cell phone portability stuff to take effect for quite some time now. I've wanted to switch providers for awhile, but didn't want to go through the hassle of telling everyone about my new phone number. So, I went to talk the TMobile and they said I they could support my phone number. I was thrilled to say they least, so I started the process and signed the contracts and everything. A week later, they give me a call and tell me they can't switch my phone number because it is not in on of the governments top 100 markets - I will have to wait until May 2004 to switch my number.
I can cancel my new contract within 14 days, so that's not a problem. But, it is a hassle and it just a little shady on TMobile's part. So no I have to make the decision to go through the hassle of canceling my new contract and wait 6 more months or just go ahead and make the switch.
802.11a/b/g on board would be nice.. but, I would really like to see more motherboards coming with bluetooth onboard. This would seem to make sense with things like keyboard, mice, headsets, and cellphones that are bluetooth enabled coming to market.
Didn't they just get in quite a bit of legal trouble for "borrowing" somebody else's technology? Seems like a pretty bold move to introduce new products at a time like this.
The problem is that it may not be possible to match the computation of a cluster with specialized interconnects using just commodity hardware no matter how many machines you throw at it. If a simulation has a low computation to communication ratio it's scalability is bound by the perfomance of the interconnects. In this case throwing more commodity machines at the problem will actually increase the total time required to run the experiment.
I swear, Slashdot is home to the largest group of hypocrites in the world. Here is someone that is arguing that some technology is bad because people can do bad things with it. I suppose we should get rid of all the p2p networks because people can do bad things with them (pirating IS stealing, don't you know?).
It's easy to blame the technology when the users are doing things you don't like. But, ultimately it is the end users of the technology who are making the decisions to commit those actions. So, if you believe a technology shouldn't be developed because it might be used for "bad" things then you should apply this same logic to all bits of technology, not just those you don't like.
(From the raid howto)
4.7 The Persistent Superblock
Back in ``The Good Old Days'' (TM), the raidtools would read your /etc/raidtab file, and then initialize the array. However, this would require that the filesystem on which /etc/raidtab resided was mounted. This is unfortunate if you want to boot on a RAID.
Also, the old approach led to complications when mounting filesystems on RAID devices. They could not be put in the /etc/fstab file as usual, but would have to be mounted from the init-scripts.
The persistent superblocks solve these problems. When an array is initialized with the persistent-superblock option in the /etc/raidtab file, a special superblock is written in the beginning of all disks participating in the array. This allows the kernel to read the configuration of RAID devices directly from the disks involved, instead of reading from some configuration file that may not be available at all times.
You should however still maintain a consistent /etc/raidtab file, since you may need this file for later reconstruction of the array.
The persistent superblock is mandatory if you want auto-detection of your RAID devices upon system boot. This is described in the Autodetection section.
If my Linux box wasn't kept up to date, there would be quite a few remote root exploits similar to this.
The attraction is probably not so much that it will allow people to make outgoing calls (which they can already do), but that they can now receive calls on their cell phone. So, if someone is on a plane, you can dial their number and still get ahold of them.
From the IRC log:
ScHlAuChi OpenGL in UT was much faster on some cards, and what about Linux Gamers?
MarkRein[Epic] That was UT, this is UT2003. UT was designed around software rendering and Glide. We have designed this particular game (and hence the latest versions of the engine) around Direct3D and they work really, really well together. This time around we would have to work really hard to get OpenGL to be as fast as D3D. We are doing OpenGL (needed for Linux client and Mac down the road if we do it) but it is not a priority and probably won't be ready and debugged well enough in time for retail release.
Perhaps one could use this device to 'mask' all the Jar Jar Binks (sp?) scenes from the new Star Wars movies.
http://castor.exolab.org
Many home users never actually upgrade their OS themselves. Many only get a new OS when they get a new computer and it is installed already on it. This is how they have built a userbase. The people that are actually concerned with upgades are 1) businness (at least some) and 2) powerusers.
Maybe a better solution would to have an government-indepedent group that is politically neutral be responsible for the development of encryption standards. I don't know how exactly that could be setup, but it at least might be worth a little thought.
Second, sometimes it is rather handy just to fire up lynx to do a quick little errand, instead of waiting 30 seconds Netcrap 6.0 to come up.
Third, how is this going to affect accessiblitiy for disabled people. Do the latest standards allow for this group of people to use the web?
www.aclu.org
I bet riders could get some pretty get vert on one of those. Assuming they didn't kill themselves in the process.
I don't know about putting it in a spare drive bay, but I do think that it would be a nice replacement for a car stereo. It already has a display built in to the front if it, just add some more controls and a sound card and you're ready to go.
interesting...
Right... do you know how reliable filter software is? To the extent of my knowledge, there is no solution available that simply censors "useless porn". Most of the censor software I've seen will not censor all porn (i.e., there are things that will slip by), and will censor useful information. Many companies that produce censor software won't even allow access to the list of sights they ban, or how they work. Will I still be able to look up information on how to prevent getting STDs, or correspond with support groups.
I do think that what children view should monitored, but not by software. Real living people should step in to raise children.