RTFA, please. Or, if you're too lazy, I'll post the excerpt here:
"Providing the wireless download service had proven a sticking point in the company's attempt to launch the Kindle outside America, after the retailer failed to come to an agreement with various mobile phone networks around the world. To push through the launch, the company instead chose to partner with American phone company AT&T, which already has its own international roaming deals around the world - including with British networks O2, Vodafone, Orange and 3.
The cost of receiving data over these roaming connections is notoriously high, however, with AT&T's ordinary mobile phone customers who use the service outside the United States paying just over a penny for each kilobyte of data they download. That means that an average book download would cost the equivalent of £14.39 if sent to a mobile phone."
So make cellular data services cheaper in the EU if you want cheaper eBooks. Yeah, cell phone service prices affect the price of reading material... remember that the next time someone asks you "what's that got to do with the price of tea in China?"...
Here's what I want, folks: A 5.25 inch device with 5 double-sided platters running at 5400 RPM. Basically the same size as a desktop CD/DVD drive, ala Quantum Bigfoot. I want 8 sides of the platters dedicated to data, and the other two sides dedicated to parity (or one parity and the other servo), essentially a self-contained RAID on a single disk. I want all data heads to write and read simultaneously, in Parallel. The idea is to have 64 byte sectors on each platter which are recombined into a 512-byte result. 8 heads writing and reading in paralell means HUGE throughput for sequential operations.
It's RAID 5 or 6 on a single disk, although without spindle redundancy.
And I also want a high-performance option: 2 sets of read/write heads 180 degrees apart, which effectively would cut seek times in half, making the drive perform more like a 10k RPM drive. With current densities, that's 12 TB in the volume of a DVD drive. It solves speed, sector error recovery and capacity issues. The only thing missing is a data bus that can handle the throughput.
I worked on a PIME/MEDUSA system back in the late 80's. At the time, having experience on that system was the #1 way to secure a job at Ford. In the same lab, there were IBMs running running AutoCAD doing raytraces. Looking back, it's easy to see why PRIME failed: They weren't quick enough to adapt to the changing computing market, and the paradigm shift (eek, I used paradigm!) to the personal computer.
one that saves 23$ a year, which lasts a whopping 19 years ? yup, some people are stupid.
Not just ONE. Unless you think Joe Average has only 100 watt light bulbs which each burn 8 hours a day.
How many kWh do you think the average home uses for lighting? Even at 2 kWh per day, and 10 cents per kWh, that's only $73 per year. And that lighting is spread over many bulbs. So the ROI calculation is more like $400 to replace the 10 most used bulbs, which will save $23 per year (of a $32 average lighting bill)[citation needed].
Don't forget, your waste heat is what's necessary to condense the steam on the other side of the turbines. You *must* have some waste heat, otherwise there's no heat differential, thus no mechanical work can be extracted.
I'd think it'd be faster to scoop up biomass and use the carbon from that, instead of extracting it from seawater. Or, use coal (not green, but green isn't the intent). Coal stored on board as a feedstock for carbon would take up less room than the jet fuel, be less hazardous, and not require splitting the O2 from the CO2, potentially making the manufacturing process simpler. Plus resupplying coal would likely be simpler, just bags and cargo netting...attach line, toss it overboard and winch it aboard, no need for ship-to-ship plumbing.
90 milligrams of CO2 per kilo of seawater, amounts to 28 parts per million of carbon. 1000 kilos of carbon would require about 36 million liters of seawater to be processed. Or just a cubic meter or two of coal.
I'd wager they'd have some sort of burner unit to incinerate ship waste and sewage to recover carbon.
1. Saying "I love you" immediately before, during, or following sex doesn't count. 2. Real men drive stick shift. 3. I will leave if you lie. 4. You are cute in raglan-sleeved T-shirts (two-toned baseball undershirts). 5. I'm convinced I'm pregnant and obsess about it for a minimum of 24 to 48 hours before my period, even when I have no rational reason to think so. 6.I love it when you hug me from behind and whisper in my ear. 7. "Fine" is never an appropriate response when I ask you how I look. 8. Most of the time when I fantasize, it's about you. 9. I'm terrified of becoming my mother, even though I admire her. 10. I get turned on simply seeing that I have an e-mail from you. 11. I expect you to call me. 12. Only rock stars are allowed to wear leather pants. 13. I'm scared of losing my independence. 14. I'm more forgiving of you than I really should be. 15. Oral sex is your get-out-of-the-doghouse-free card. Manolo Blahnik shoes also do the trick. 16. You did something bad. I seem cool with it. I'm not. (See directly above.) 17. If I'm not having sex with you, I'm: a). having a fat day. b). not feeling "connected" to you. c). blackmailing you to get something I want. 18. Shoes determine whether you're fashionable or not. 19. I own a Debbie Gibson CD, and I'm not afraid to use it. 20. When I compare my flabby tummy to a kangaroo pouch, say nothing. 21. A man I love plans the occasional fancy-schmancy dress-up date and impromptu weekend getaways, and he buys my favorite candy in advance when we're just going to the movies. 22. You look hot in hooded clothing items. 23. You should never tell me what to do. 24. If I slept over, you owe me breakfast. 25. My breasts love much licking and sucking. 26. If you ask me out directly, I will say yes. 27. I'm very impressed when you ask for my advice. 28. I'm unimpressed with a man who doesn't take the lead. 29. When in doubt, go with the shirt that matches your eye color. 30. I want to be Madonna. 31. Women get urinary-tract infections easily, so watch (and wash) your fingers. 32. I'm in heaven when you hold my hand. 33. You're sexy when you're shaving, fixing things, wearing a white T-shirt and jeans, driving, eating a peach, holding a baby. 34. I need to hear how you feel about me. Often. Tell me now. 35. Surprises, especially gifts for moi = more loving. 36. I want to be the best thing that ever happened to you--and for you to recognize this. 37. If I'm not feeling loved, I will start looking.... 38. Discussion of ex-gf's and ex-bf's should be avoided at all times. 39. I like it when you tell me what you're thinking, even if you don't know yourself. 40. Celebrating our anniversary, even if it's only been a few months, earns major bonus points. 41. I love it when you're sweaty. 42. It's best to consult your gal pals for gift ideas. 43. A lady should always be greeted with kisses. 44. I like porn. 45. I love holding your bum in the palms of my hands. 46. Even nice girls like hushed dirty talk in public. 47. It's cheating as soon as you're doing something with her that you wouldn't want me to see, hear, read... 48. For the record: I'd rather you break up with me than cheat. 49. I remember everything about our relationship. 50. You should know all this and more with-out my telling you.
Moving air will eventually encounter resistance, and stop. This resistance generates heat. Low level, widespread heat, but heat nonetheless.
Windmill captures the motion, generates electricity. Consumers turn the electricity into heat, with a small fraction of the energy escaping the planet as visible light.
The apathetic minority can't be bothered to upgrade/change, much less vote on a survey. Thus their numbers, if accurately represented, would probably push the percentages even higher.
Perhaps people who browse the web at work are _more comfortable with_ and _more knowledgeable about_ computers in general, than people who don't browse the internet at work. I've seen many users who are clueless about computers wasting time by using their computers badly, unproductively, or not at all.
If you can't use a spreadsheet, chances are you don't 'get' the internet. I'm wondering if perhaps the study is drawing the wrong conclusion. Perhaps internet browsing isn't the 'cure', but a healthy symptom indicating a better affinity to computers.
OK, my bad. Pennel *did* say in the last line that it'd be expensive to fix, although I'm unsure how well a security researcher can estimate retrofit or update costs, especially since I can guess the manufacturers will recover some significant part of the costs from the manufacturers of the devices.
Um, citation please? Nowhere in the linked article (sorry, I know I wasn't supposed to read it, but I was curious), does it say anything about being expensive to fix. In fact, it says nothing at all about repair cost, which may merely involve a firmware update which could be deployed remotely.
From TFA: "Many of these devices are already deployed and it would be too dangerous to make the bugs known"
And I agree. I think the last thing anyone needs is some 14-year-old scriptiddie tuning downtown Los Angeles into the world's biggest blinkenlights display.
It's not just about the route down, or the method of supplying potential energy to the payload. It's also about redundancy. If a tether breaks, you're out one counterweight and a lot of tether.
If a looped tether breaks, you simply put the brakes on at all four pulleys and you've still got a plain single tether. Send one bot up and one bot down the tether with the other 'half' of the tether looped over them, they clamp hard to the ends of the tether when reached, attach themselves together, and the looped tether is then spun until the break is at ground level and can be repaired more permanently.
It'd save a lot of downtime in the event of a failure or accident and save a rocket with a replacement tether and counterweight.
The only thing I'm unsure of is if Coriolis forces would make the whole looped tether proposition unfeasible, but then again I know that it's something that has had to have been worked out for the current single tether plans, too.
My idea of a pulley was something about 50 to 100 meters in diameter, much like a ferris wheel. It had less to do with flexibility though, and more to do with reducing wear and tear on the 'tether loop', preferrably bending it through a large radius, and exposing it to a large surface area for traction to drive it.
Actually, it makes the most sense (to me) not to use a powered 'climber' at all.
If the space elevator is ever deployed, instead of dropping a single tether down to Earth, they should drop a LOOP. Run the bottom of the loop around a pulley on Earth, and the top through a pulley on the counterweight in space. Add a motor to the pulley on Earth and you've got one half constantly going up, and the other half constantly going down.
All a 'climber' would then have to do is clamp onto the cable and allow itself to be pulled up, and unclamp at the appropriate time in space. So... no need for motors on the 'climber', no need for an energy receiver on the climber, no need for beam generators anywhere. Essentially turning the "Space Elevator" into the "Space Ski Lift".
The only engineering challenge I can think of would be preventing the up-going side from touching, or coming too near the down-going side. Potentially solved with two pulleys each on the ground and in space, each pair a kilometer or more apart so the 'tether' goes down, across, and then back up.
The only way to tell if your waveform has collapsed is by measuring it. And measuring it collapses it. Thus *every* time you check to see if yours has been collapsed, it will always show as collapsed.
Go look at yourself in a mirror. Now close your eyes. Now, you cannot tell when your reflection has opened its eyes, unless you open yours, and if you open yours, the reflection will have its eyes open.
Same with the waveforms. No matter what, if you look, it'll be collapsed, and you can't tell if it was collapsed before you looked at it, or because you looked at it.
I just entered "chmod 755" on a directory so other users could not modify my data. When can I expect the cease and desist order?
You haven't infringed the patent.
Now, if you want to infringe the patent, you'd have to tell us the command you could issue to allow any program except say, GIMP, from accessing your data. This is 'program access', not 'user access'.
You (and most others) seem to be missing something:
The diameter of the beam.
Go grab a million candlepower spotlight, and aim it at a solar cell across the room. Voila, wattage.
Instead of assuming the kind of lasers you'd expect to see on a shark, assume they're planning on collimating the beam(s) at a larger diameter. If I were to back-of-napkin design such a system, I'd use an array of infrared laser diodes (about 50% efficiency max, these days) in, for a guess, a 7 x 7 array, each laser collimated at about 5-10 millimeters diameter. 49 lasers divided by 5 watts (30% efficiency on an IR cell to get 1.5 watts) is about 100 milliwatts per beam. 100 milliwatts over a 5mm circle won't start anything on fire.
For additional safety, put a low power signaling laser on the receiver, such that if the receiver detects that any of the 49 beams have been interrupted, it stops sending the "all is well, keep beaming" signal, and the transmitter stops transmitting continuously, and reverts to a "one millisecond burst per 10 seconds" mode so the receiver can detect when the beam obstruction has been removed.
In theory, that means that in the time between the side of your head blocking one of the beams, and your pupil entering the beampath, the beam will have stopped.
Don't think 'infrared laser', think 'infrared searchlight' and I'll bet you'll get a more accurate picture of what's being developed.
There's a father, who has apparently moved out. There's a mother, presumably the one paying the bills. Then there's the 19 year-old daughter, who can't work.
Doesn't the RIAA normally go after whoever's name is on the ISP's bill?
Why is a very sick 19 year-old girl's name on the bill, thus on the lawsuit, instead of the mother's?
Sorry folks, but I'm smelling fish on this one. Something's not right. And it sn't just the RIAA.
With a conventional PKI for your SSL certificates, Verisign or the other CA gets a cut for EVERY server.
With DNSSEC, the "CA" only gets a cut per domain. Thus DNSSEC can be used to offer key distribution with far less cost, once the root and the TLDs start signing records
OK, I give up. What's EVERY an acronym for, again?
I like it. Seriously. It's a big "asshats are unwelcome" sign, meaning rational gaming adults that hate the immature antics are going to have an entire company with an "adult swim" gaming experience.
And I'll bet that overall, the modding of forums *will* improve, when the first small claims or civil cases come to trial, or the first class-action suit happens. I think mods will get clued in very quickly that they'd better be able to completely justify a ban under the new system, because suddenly their decisions have financial impact.
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RTFA, please.
Or, if you're too lazy, I'll post the excerpt here:
"Providing the wireless download service had proven a sticking point in the company's attempt to launch the Kindle outside America, after the retailer failed to come to an agreement with various mobile phone networks around the world. To push through the launch, the company instead chose to partner with American phone company AT&T, which already has its own international roaming deals around the world - including with British networks O2, Vodafone, Orange and 3.
The cost of receiving data over these roaming connections is notoriously high, however, with AT&T's ordinary mobile phone customers who use the service outside the United States paying just over a penny for each kilobyte of data they download. That means that an average book download would cost the equivalent of £14.39 if sent to a mobile phone."
So make cellular data services cheaper in the EU if you want cheaper eBooks. Yeah, cell phone service prices affect the price of reading material... remember that the next time someone asks you "what's that got to do with the price of tea in China?"...
To hell with netbooks.
The real market for this will be automobile dashboards.
Here's what I want, folks:
A 5.25 inch device with 5 double-sided platters running at 5400 RPM. Basically the same size as a desktop CD/DVD drive, ala Quantum Bigfoot.
I want 8 sides of the platters dedicated to data, and the other two sides dedicated to parity (or one parity and the other servo), essentially a self-contained RAID on a single disk.
I want all data heads to write and read simultaneously, in Parallel. The idea is to have 64 byte sectors on each platter which are recombined into a 512-byte result. 8 heads writing and reading in paralell means HUGE throughput for sequential operations.
It's RAID 5 or 6 on a single disk, although without spindle redundancy.
And I also want a high-performance option: 2 sets of read/write heads 180 degrees apart, which effectively would cut seek times in half, making the drive perform more like a 10k RPM drive. With current densities, that's 12 TB in the volume of a DVD drive. It solves speed, sector error recovery and capacity issues. The only thing missing is a data bus that can handle the throughput.
I worked on a PIME/MEDUSA system back in the late 80's. At the time, having experience on that system was the #1 way to secure a job at Ford. In the same lab, there were IBMs running running AutoCAD doing raytraces. Looking back, it's easy to see why PRIME failed: They weren't quick enough to adapt to the changing computing market, and the paradigm shift (eek, I used paradigm!) to the personal computer.
Not just ONE. Unless you think Joe Average has only 100 watt light bulbs which each burn 8 hours a day.
How many kWh do you think the average home uses for lighting? Even at 2 kWh per day, and 10 cents per kWh, that's only $73 per year. And that lighting is spread over many bulbs. So the ROI calculation is more like $400 to replace the 10 most used bulbs, which will save $23 per year (of a $32 average lighting bill)[citation needed].
A coal plant has scads of waste heat
Let me fix that for you:
A coal plant has scads of low quality waste heat
Don't forget, your waste heat is what's necessary to condense the steam on the other side of the turbines. You *must* have some waste heat, otherwise there's no heat differential, thus no mechanical work can be extracted.
I'd think it'd be faster to scoop up biomass and use the carbon from that, instead of extracting it from seawater. Or, use coal (not green, but green isn't the intent). Coal stored on board as a feedstock for carbon would take up less room than the jet fuel, be less hazardous, and not require splitting the O2 from the CO2, potentially making the manufacturing process simpler. Plus resupplying coal would likely be simpler, just bags and cargo netting...attach line, toss it overboard and winch it aboard, no need for ship-to-ship plumbing.
90 milligrams of CO2 per kilo of seawater, amounts to 28 parts per million of carbon.
1000 kilos of carbon would require about 36 million liters of seawater to be processed. Or just a cubic meter or two of coal.
I'd wager they'd have some sort of burner unit to incinerate ship waste and sewage to recover carbon.
50 things she thinks:
1. Saying "I love you" immediately before, during, or following sex doesn't count.
2. Real men drive stick shift.
3. I will leave if you lie.
4. You are cute in raglan-sleeved T-shirts (two-toned baseball undershirts).
5. I'm convinced I'm pregnant and obsess about it for a minimum of 24 to 48 hours before my period, even when I have no rational reason to think so.
6.I love it when you hug me from behind and whisper in my ear.
7. "Fine" is never an appropriate response when I ask you how I look.
8. Most of the time when I fantasize, it's about you.
9. I'm terrified of becoming my mother, even though I admire her.
10. I get turned on simply seeing that I have an e-mail from you.
11. I expect you to call me.
12. Only rock stars are allowed to wear leather pants.
13. I'm scared of losing my independence.
14. I'm more forgiving of you than I really should be.
15. Oral sex is your get-out-of-the-doghouse-free card. Manolo Blahnik shoes also do the trick.
16. You did something bad. I seem cool with it. I'm not. (See directly above.)
17. If I'm not having sex with you, I'm: a). having a fat day. b). not feeling "connected" to you. c). blackmailing you to get something I want.
18. Shoes determine whether you're fashionable or not.
19. I own a Debbie Gibson CD, and I'm not afraid to use it.
20. When I compare my flabby tummy to a kangaroo pouch, say nothing.
21. A man I love plans the occasional fancy-schmancy dress-up date and impromptu weekend getaways, and he buys my favorite candy in advance when we're just going to the movies.
22. You look hot in hooded clothing items.
23. You should never tell me what to do.
24. If I slept over, you owe me breakfast.
25. My breasts love much licking and sucking.
26. If you ask me out directly, I will say yes.
27. I'm very impressed when you ask for my advice.
28. I'm unimpressed with a man who doesn't take the lead.
29. When in doubt, go with the shirt that matches your eye color.
30. I want to be Madonna.
31. Women get urinary-tract infections easily, so watch (and wash) your fingers.
32. I'm in heaven when you hold my hand.
33. You're sexy when you're shaving, fixing things, wearing a white T-shirt and jeans, driving, eating a peach, holding a baby.
34. I need to hear how you feel about me. Often. Tell me now.
35. Surprises, especially gifts for moi = more loving.
36. I want to be the best thing that ever happened to you--and for you to recognize this.
37. If I'm not feeling loved, I will start looking....
38. Discussion of ex-gf's and ex-bf's should be avoided at all times.
39. I like it when you tell me what you're thinking, even if you don't know yourself.
40. Celebrating our anniversary, even if it's only been a few months, earns major bonus points.
41. I love it when you're sweaty.
42. It's best to consult your gal pals for gift ideas.
43. A lady should always be greeted with kisses.
44. I like porn.
45. I love holding your bum in the palms of my hands.
46. Even nice girls like hushed dirty talk in public.
47. It's cheating as soon as you're doing something with her that you wouldn't want me to see, hear, read...
48. For the record: I'd rather you break up with me than cheat.
49. I remember everything about our relationship.
50. You should know all this and more with-out my telling you.
Moving air will eventually encounter resistance, and stop.
This resistance generates heat. Low level, widespread heat, but heat nonetheless.
Windmill captures the motion, generates electricity.
Consumers turn the electricity into heat, with a small fraction of the energy escaping the planet as visible light.
Net affect: ZERO
The news is that they've found a way to grow 'em on silicon, which lends itself well to chip production.
The apathetic minority can't be bothered to upgrade/change, much less vote on a survey. Thus their numbers, if accurately represented, would probably push the percentages even higher.
Perhaps people who browse the web at work are _more comfortable with_ and _more knowledgeable about_ computers in general, than people who don't browse the internet at work. I've seen many users who are clueless about computers wasting time by using their computers badly, unproductively, or not at all.
If you can't use a spreadsheet, chances are you don't 'get' the internet. I'm wondering if perhaps the study is drawing the wrong conclusion. Perhaps internet browsing isn't the 'cure', but a healthy symptom indicating a better affinity to computers.
OK, my bad. Pennel *did* say in the last line that it'd be expensive to fix, although I'm unsure how well a security researcher can estimate retrofit or update costs, especially since I can guess the manufacturers will recover some significant part of the costs from the manufacturers of the devices.
Um, citation please? Nowhere in the linked article (sorry, I know I wasn't supposed to read it, but I was curious), does it say anything about being expensive to fix. In fact, it says nothing at all about repair cost, which may merely involve a firmware update which could be deployed remotely.
From TFA: "Many of these devices are already deployed and it would be too dangerous to make the bugs known"
And I agree. I think the last thing anyone needs is some 14-year-old scriptiddie tuning downtown Los Angeles into the world's biggest blinkenlights display.
Patch for Reader: 103 MB
Fresh download of Reader: 41 MB
Am I the only one who thinks that a bit odd?
It's not just about the route down, or the method of supplying potential energy to the payload. It's also about redundancy. If a tether breaks, you're out one counterweight and a lot of tether.
If a looped tether breaks, you simply put the brakes on at all four pulleys and you've still got a plain single tether. Send one bot up and one bot down the tether with the other 'half' of the tether looped over them, they clamp hard to the ends of the tether when reached, attach themselves together, and the looped tether is then spun until the break is at ground level and can be repaired more permanently.
It'd save a lot of downtime in the event of a failure or accident and save a rocket with a replacement tether and counterweight.
The only thing I'm unsure of is if Coriolis forces would make the whole looped tether proposition unfeasible, but then again I know that it's something that has had to have been worked out for the current single tether plans, too.
My idea of a pulley was something about 50 to 100 meters in diameter, much like a ferris wheel. It had less to do with flexibility though, and more to do with reducing wear and tear on the 'tether loop', preferrably bending it through a large radius, and exposing it to a large surface area for traction to drive it.
Actually, it makes the most sense (to me) not to use a powered 'climber' at all.
If the space elevator is ever deployed, instead of dropping a single tether down to Earth, they should drop a LOOP. Run the bottom of the loop around a pulley on Earth, and the top through a pulley on the counterweight in space. Add a motor to the pulley on Earth and you've got one half constantly going up, and the other half constantly going down.
All a 'climber' would then have to do is clamp onto the cable and allow itself to be pulled up, and unclamp at the appropriate time in space. So... no need for motors on the 'climber', no need for an energy receiver on the climber, no need for beam generators anywhere. Essentially turning the "Space Elevator" into the "Space Ski Lift".
The only engineering challenge I can think of would be preventing the up-going side from touching, or coming too near the down-going side. Potentially solved with two pulleys each on the ground and in space, each pair a kilometer or more apart so the 'tether' goes down, across, and then back up.
Wrong.
The only way to tell if your waveform has collapsed is by measuring it. And measuring it collapses it.
Thus *every* time you check to see if yours has been collapsed, it will always show as collapsed.
Go look at yourself in a mirror.
Now close your eyes.
Now, you cannot tell when your reflection has opened its eyes, unless you open yours, and if you open yours, the reflection will have its eyes open.
Same with the waveforms. No matter what, if you look, it'll be collapsed, and you can't tell if it was collapsed before you looked at it, or because you looked at it.
You haven't infringed the patent.
Now, if you want to infringe the patent, you'd have to tell us the command you could issue to allow any program except say, GIMP, from accessing your data. This is 'program access', not 'user access'.
You (and most others) seem to be missing something:
The diameter of the beam.
Go grab a million candlepower spotlight, and aim it at a solar cell across the room. Voila, wattage.
Instead of assuming the kind of lasers you'd expect to see on a shark, assume they're planning on collimating the beam(s) at a larger diameter. If I were to back-of-napkin design such a system, I'd use an array of infrared laser diodes (about 50% efficiency max, these days) in, for a guess, a 7 x 7 array, each laser collimated at about 5-10 millimeters diameter. 49 lasers divided by 5 watts (30% efficiency on an IR cell to get 1.5 watts) is about 100 milliwatts per beam. 100 milliwatts over a 5mm circle won't start anything on fire.
For additional safety, put a low power signaling laser on the receiver, such that if the receiver detects that any of the 49 beams have been interrupted, it stops sending the "all is well, keep beaming" signal, and the transmitter stops transmitting continuously, and reverts to a "one millisecond burst per 10 seconds" mode so the receiver can detect when the beam obstruction has been removed.
In theory, that means that in the time between the side of your head blocking one of the beams, and your pupil entering the beampath, the beam will have stopped.
Don't think 'infrared laser', think 'infrared searchlight' and I'll bet you'll get a more accurate picture of what's being developed.
I'm surprised no one else seems to have mentioned them.
http://www.whispergen.com/
Burn diesel, kerosene, natural gas, or propane, and generate your own electricity while providing heat and hot water. It'll get you off the grid.
There's a father, who has apparently moved out.
There's a mother, presumably the one paying the bills.
Then there's the 19 year-old daughter, who can't work.
Doesn't the RIAA normally go after whoever's name is on the ISP's bill?
Why is a very sick 19 year-old girl's name on the bill, thus on the lawsuit, instead of the mother's?
Sorry folks, but I'm smelling fish on this one. Something's not right. And it sn't just the RIAA.
With a conventional PKI for your SSL certificates, Verisign or the other CA gets a cut for EVERY server.
With DNSSEC, the "CA" only gets a cut per domain. Thus DNSSEC can be used to offer key distribution with far less cost, once the root and the TLDs start signing records
OK, I give up. What's EVERY an acronym for, again?
I like it. Seriously. It's a big "asshats are unwelcome" sign, meaning rational gaming adults that hate the immature antics are going to have an entire company with an "adult swim" gaming experience.
And I'll bet that overall, the modding of forums *will* improve, when the first small claims or civil cases come to trial, or the first class-action suit happens. I think mods will get clued in very quickly that they'd better be able to completely justify a ban under the new system, because suddenly their decisions have financial impact.