Over react much? It's a bug. A nasty one if you are running untrusted software on your system. Cloud providers should be very concerned. But it's a little early to be throwing out your Intel hardware and buying a new AMD processor. Yeah, the Intel bug is worse but you still will have a vulnerability. Wait a week, see what the patches are like. In the mean time don't run anything new on your hardware that you don't completely trust. That means turning off JS in your web browser. You should also have a hardware wallet for your crypto. However, I would have recommended both those things to everyone anyway.
If a device has no meaningful security and was never designed to have any you can't call it a vulnerability. An open park with no fence doesn't have a vulnerability to people walk on it. I find a lot of these vulnerabilities are simply some people thinking that such and such a device should be secure against something they think is a threat. I'm vulnerable to every car that passes me as I walk down the street, should we put up a barrier around every road? Sure someone could hack these devices but no one has and so adding security to them adds pretty much no value.
I expect the last copy-right holder of those works to actually make those works available. So if it was a movie or recording the recording must be published in a currently supported format. If it is a book a digital scan or other copy of the work. We, the people of Canada, granted the copy-right holder a limited monopoly on profiting on that work and now we want it available to all Canadians.
We should be able to sue any copy right holder of any significant cultural work that becomes lost. As a geek, I do think things like the lost early Dr. Who episodes are a loss to our society and the BBC, because they didn't make the works available sooner, should be held financially responsible. I guess we just need to figure out who is allowed to sue on behalf of us.
If you do an IP lookup for an address and the lookup provider only knows the IP address is in the USA, you will get the geographic center of Continental USA which is located in Kansas a little north of Wichita. Depending on how you resolve the resolution you might get Andrew Finch's address.
Iran was once a democracy until they elected the "wrong" leader and America and Britain fixed it by putting in the Shah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As long as the rank and file soldiers and police don't feel that the internal turmoil in Iran won't be exploited by outside forces they likely will tolerate peaceful protests. There is a good chance the Iranian leadership won't order any kind of crack down for fear the police won't obey them. If the rest of the worlds leaders can resist opening their mouths there is a good chance Iran can be another success story like Tunisia.
The police just shot a completely innocent person and are trying to blame this on swatting and deflect attention from themselves. The media is happily helping them.
US police officers are very jumpy, with some justification, but I suspect the training and the way the entire situation was handled was done incorrectly. The officer that fired the shot is at fault, but I will bet that the entire chain of communication escalated the threat and down played the fact that it was just a call.
If you have never had a non-friendly interaction with the police and the police suddenly tell you to do something, you aren't going to do it. You are going to wonder what is going on. It's perfectly reasonable for Finch to not raise his hands. It's likely a situation he ever thought he would be in.
In some places in the USA blacks are taught how to interact with the police to avoid being shot. Maybe they need to extend that training to visitors and the general population.
I'm a white Canadian. I've twice had American police officers reach and hold their guns (not point) when interacting with them. Once at a traffic stop when I was looking for something the officer asked for and once when a black friend and I ran up to a police car to ask for directions. My youngest son at 9, also had an ill advised interaction with a SWAT team. As a frequent visitor to the USA, a couple hours learning how to interact with the US police would definitely have been useful.
That took 2 minutes to look up and grade nine math knowledge of scientific notation. If you understand scientific notation you won't become a reporter.
To be given protection under DMCA or even copyright, the copy right holder should have to show how the work will enter the public domain when the copyright expires. Failure to have such a plan should void the copyright. Things like the lost Dr. Who episodes should be in the public domain since the BBC has lost the originals and has no possible way of profiting from them. Create a game that requires a server and shut down the server, the game should immediately be public domain. Copyright isn't a right, it's a privileged society gives the holder, for a short period of time and that privilege comes with the responsibility of the work entering the public domain. We need to have stronger requirements that these requirements are fulfilled.
It wasn't shorting. You would be a fool to short bitcoin. It has no real valuation, it's price is between zero and infinity. Shorting it and not buying something with a strong correlation in value is opening yourself up to unlimited liability. No one will currently let you borrow without a very large margin and your borrowing costs are over 1% per day.
Let's do the math.
You have 50M in BitCoin, you borrow another 50M. You sell all of it for 80M, and later spend 30M to buy back enough to return the 50M you borrowed. You now have 50M in cash. So for unlimited risk you came out even.
Oh and 100M would be the very least you could use to start a short. The trading volume in the last 24h was 22 billion.
My last post predicted most coins would jump 15% from this morning (EST morning). With all the sellers gone I have no idea what the gains will be but looking at the charts most are already up over 20%
Four things happened starting on Tuesday. Coinbase added BCH, margin accounts and interest became unsustainable, margin calls, exit strategies.
Coinbase added support for Bitcoin Cash on Tuesday. They also gave everyone 1 BCH for each BTC you had at the time of the split. This should have flooded the market with BCH and driven the price of BCH down. Also the sellers of BCH should have invested in other currencies and pushed those prices up. The opposite happened. News that coinbase was accepting BCH actually pushed BCH's price up and the shift to BCH caused other currencies to fall.
Most of the trading is now automated trading. You can also buy on margin. However the margin has a 1.5% interest per day. Then funny things happen. If someone borrows 1 BTC and shorts it, and then buys an equivalent amount of 10 other more volatile coins using that money they could cover the interest. For the past 2 months this worked really well. Most smaller cap currencies have gone up more than BTC by more than 1.5%. It seemed like low risk investing. People treat crypto like the stock markets treat stocks assuming that having 100 different stocks has less variability than 1. Unfortunately like the stock market, there is a high level of correlation in price change.
Now after Tuesday, people who had margin accounts had to top up their margins. This caused a slow sell but the interest rates made borrowing for more than 3 days difficult so starting late last night a lot of people had no choice but to sell.
Exit strategies - eventually everyone has to actually use their money. I know a lot of people who have made 10x their investment. Their exit has been if it falls 30%, I sell 50%. So if they put in 100K, they had 1M yesterday, 700K this morning and then sold to have 350K in fiat and 350K still in crypto. You can automate that sell.
The weird part. There are no natural sellers in crypto currencies. They aren't backed in any meaningful way anymore. After this crash all the remaining people who own crypto are non-sellers. They are greedy and will hold indefinitely. The margin people who had to sell are gone, my friends with exit strategies are out. The only sellers left are people who are moving money between crypto currencies. The prices of most currencies not in the top 10 market cap are going to jump 15% before the day is done. In a week the money will be poring back in and zero money will be being pulled out.
PopQuiz: How do we hit the FCC with a fine for ruining the internet for the whole world?
I disagree. The USA's new operating policy is to be an example to the rest of the world. If the rest of the world can learn from your mistakes instead of f*#king things up in our own countries I for one am grateful.
I am endlessly frustrated by security companies and banks who's webs don't work without javascript enabled. I want to browse the web with javascript disabled but the companies that should be offering the most security are working against me. Why the hell are dark net sites run by just a few individuals more secure than my multi billion dollar bank?
Which is a lot more than you can say for the tactics of the existing taxi companies. The stats are for reduce cases of drunk driving after Uber arrives in a city are fairly significant. The existing taxi models in almost every jurisdiction were so broken that some one had to break them up. And really, only a fairly slimy egotistical company would do it. Other than a few holders of Taxi medallions the rest of us are much better of because of Uber. We ride in cleaner safer cars, that show up on time, are easy to acquire, have drivers that speak the local language and we do all of this for less money. How many people decided not to buy a car because of Uber, how many people went out just a little bit more because the ride home was cheaper and more pleasant, how many elderly or shut ins now go out because of Uber?
When the laws are as broken as the taxi laws are sometimes you need a crook to fix things.
I don't want to say politicians are stupid. Most of them are very hard working and smart. However they are used to giving instructions to some one else to give some one else to implement. This means when the time comes to implement something and the poor guy doing the job discovers the rules are contradictory he can't push back. The contradictory rules are literally the law.
In Canada the federal government negotiates a pay contract with various unions to come up with the rules for how employees are payed. They don't however negotiate a new contract, they negotiate changes to the existing contract. So they add extra rules, and then the government add more rules, and then yet again more rules are added to conform to labour laws for maternity and overtime etc. So after 150 years we ended up with something that was a total mess and humans basically made judgement calls as to which rules seemed the most relevant to an individual employees case. A few years ago the Canadian government decided to have one automated system handle all of their payrole. It was called the Phoenix pay system. They also got rid of the humans making the decisions before Phoenix was ready and rolled out. It has easily been the biggest IT failure in Canadian history and will take years and hundreds of millions to solve.
There are 300,000 Canadian federal employees. If at the end of the day it cost one billion dollars to design a pay system, that would be over $3000 per employee. I think it's safe to say if it costs you $3000 to figure out how to pay each employee your pay system is way way to complicated.
Suddenly North Korea is getting a lot of blame for these cyber crimes. I'm seeing a lot of headlines but almost no citations of actual evidence. I'm currently lacking a new source that I don't treat with a high degree of skepticism and articles like this don't help. The internet should make reporters lives easier but instead it makes it easier for me to fact check reporters. My fact checking is a biased sampling, I'll usually only check articles that are a "little off" but I would say nearly 90% of the time I check the reporter has gotten something significant wrong or missed something that is not only important but is also counter to the opinion the reporter was pushing. I'll pay for good news. I won't pay for someone to just echo back my opinions. That's what facebook is for.
SWIFT is the accounting mechanism used by the banks between each other. The banks don't have physical currency that they move between each other it is all 1s and 0s like a crypto currency. When you do personal banking the receiving bank gets the 1s and 0s almost instantly and based on the nature of the transaction they have rules to stop the recipient from moving the money but as far as SWIFT is concerned the transaction can't be reversed. Now this type of transaction is extremely common for SWIFT and other than some one in Germany noticing* that the word "foundation" was miss spelled there was no reason for the transaction to be suspicious or even to be scrutinized. There might be some rules for the Philippines bank to stop the transfer to a casino but that's not something I would put a lot of faith in.
*I suspect that some group within SWIFT knew the Bangladesh's central bank had terrible security and were looking at all transactions above a certain amount without telling the Bangladesh's central bank. It's just too lucky that someone just happened to notice something fishy. Central banks move hundreds of millions regularly to stabilize currency or to facilitate large state transactions. Their wasn't anything suspicious about these.
In Ontario the Peak price is really $0.28. The $0.18 is a magical generation cost. There is an extra $0.10 per kWh charge that is added on at the end of the month to your bill, it is the debt retirement cost, transmission cost and a bunch of other things. They are the 35% extra on your bill but they are really based on number of kWh you consumed. Worse these numbers are calculated at the end of the month and you don't know what they are before you consume the electricity. Ontario isn't the worst offender in this respect but they may very well be violating there own laws.
In Canada all revenue is general revenue but ignoring that, the tax on gasoline and diesel vehicles don't even come remotely close to paying for the health and local environmental impact they cause so cyclists and electric car owners are actually subsidizing traditional cars.
The US courts have specifically said you can't yell it if a reasonable person would believe you. If you are saying it as a joke and a reasonable person would expect it to be a joke then it is legal. Same with making a joke about a bomb. Fuck you TSA. Unfortunately defending yourself in the USA is now so time consuming and expensive it would be more of a punishment to prove you are innocent than plead guilty.
DNA probabilistic methods like this can do 3 things but can only be use to do one of them at a time. They can eliminate an accused, they can can eliminate all but one person from a predetermined sample of people to find the guilty person, or they can give the police a potential list of suspects. They CANNOT be used to do both of the last two. If I have a small partial DNA sample there will be multiple people in the world that it will match. If the police then just round up the first person that they find who matches and say oh the probability of a match this close is one in 300 million. Well no, if there were 300 million permutations and you looked in a population of 300 million people I would expect you to find a match (well at least 1 -1/e times) .
There are different types of advances in batteries. Sometime someone come up with a new chemistry or design. In this case they were looking at a problem (degradation of the electrodes) that had a known solution (coating the electrodes with graphene) but there wasn't a manufacturing process to do it. So they have come up with a very innovative way to do it that should be "easy" to add to manufacturing. This is probably one of those incremental breakthroughs that is closer to reality than a lot of the others we seen.
Their customers are the people buying adds and in Google's case people with advertising space. They are the only players. I can't buy adds anywhere else because it is just to hard to find any other sellers. Likewise no group of sellers are going to actually hire a sales person, will just use Google. There are no patients or intellectual property here. The market has converged to a standard and that standard way of buying and selling ads is now Google. Facebook got in before the door slammed shut. You can't innovate around these two Titans. They have all the advertising money and an entire generation thinks everything on the web should be free. So unless you have another funding model, I don't care how amazing your snap chat is, or how cute your tweets are, you had better get a different revenue model than advertising because that one is owned by Google and Facebook.
Kidding, but it did hit $68 USD, on the 18th. There were at the time of writing almost 80,000 unconfirmed transactions. I sold my bit coin a while ago and I'm sure the price could still go higher but at this point bit coin is useless for any common person's day to day transactions. I'll keep to buying my drugs with Monero and cash out of almost everything else.
Life is dangerous. Not criticizing the study. I love the study but you need to consider how many hours people were playing Pokemon Go. If people in the USA spent 2% of their waking hours playing Pokemon Go then it might be safer than the typical alternative. If they spent 0.0002% then it would be a deadly game. Labrador retrievers send more children to the hospital every year than any other dog but it's because they are by far the most common dog to interact with children. My local school board changed the design of the school playgrounds, saw head injuries reduced by 60% and claimed it was a huge success. The new play grounds are so boring that the kids who were failing off them (age 10+) completely stopped using them. I'm also wondering what the diabetes rates will be like in 30 years.
Risk is hard to get right. Politically it might be impossible but studies like this are at least half the information we need to get.
Assuming you want to keep your CPUs under 45 C then the returning water will be at most 37 - 40 C. I would guess closer to 37C. You then pipe it a couple of km and assuming no loss then you are heating a building to 21 or 22 C. Usually your return water on your home radiator is close 40 C, so warmer than input temperature Amazon will provide. It's do able but you would be pumping so much water that I'm not sure it works. I guess if you add in a heat pump? Still by the time you count the power pumping the water your gain is going to be marginal. Also most of the year Seatle might be damp but it's not really cold. This idea works with other industries that are boiling water but amazon isn't generating anything with a big enough temperature difference to make sense.
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Over react much? It's a bug. A nasty one if you are running untrusted software on your system. Cloud providers should be very concerned. But it's a little early to be throwing out your Intel hardware and buying a new AMD processor. Yeah, the Intel bug is worse but you still will have a vulnerability. Wait a week, see what the patches are like. In the mean time don't run anything new on your hardware that you don't completely trust. That means turning off JS in your web browser. You should also have a hardware wallet for your crypto. However, I would have recommended both those things to everyone anyway.
If a device has no meaningful security and was never designed to have any you can't call it a vulnerability. An open park with no fence doesn't have a vulnerability to people walk on it. I find a lot of these vulnerabilities are simply some people thinking that such and such a device should be secure against something they think is a threat. I'm vulnerable to every car that passes me as I walk down the street, should we put up a barrier around every road? Sure someone could hack these devices but no one has and so adding security to them adds pretty much no value.
I expect the last copy-right holder of those works to actually make those works available. So if it was a movie or recording the recording must be published in a currently supported format. If it is a book a digital scan or other copy of the work. We, the people of Canada, granted the copy-right holder a limited monopoly on profiting on that work and now we want it available to all Canadians.
We should be able to sue any copy right holder of any significant cultural work that becomes lost. As a geek, I do think things like the lost early Dr. Who episodes are a loss to our society and the BBC, because they didn't make the works available sooner, should be held financially responsible. I guess we just need to figure out who is allowed to sue on behalf of us.
If you do an IP lookup for an address and the lookup provider only knows the IP address is in the USA, you will get the geographic center of Continental USA which is located in Kansas a little north of Wichita. Depending on how you resolve the resolution you might get Andrew Finch's address.
Iran was once a democracy until they elected the "wrong" leader and America and Britain fixed it by putting in the Shah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As long as the rank and file soldiers and police don't feel that the internal turmoil in Iran won't be exploited by outside forces they likely will tolerate peaceful protests. There is a good chance the Iranian leadership won't order any kind of crack down for fear the police won't obey them. If the rest of the worlds leaders can resist opening their mouths there is a good chance Iran can be another success story like Tunisia.
The police just shot a completely innocent person and are trying to blame this on swatting and deflect attention from themselves. The media is happily helping them. US police officers are very jumpy, with some justification, but I suspect the training and the way the entire situation was handled was done incorrectly. The officer that fired the shot is at fault, but I will bet that the entire chain of communication escalated the threat and down played the fact that it was just a call.
If you have never had a non-friendly interaction with the police and the police suddenly tell you to do something, you aren't going to do it. You are going to wonder what is going on. It's perfectly reasonable for Finch to not raise his hands. It's likely a situation he ever thought he would be in.
In some places in the USA blacks are taught how to interact with the police to avoid being shot. Maybe they need to extend that training to visitors and the general population.
I'm a white Canadian. I've twice had American police officers reach and hold their guns (not point) when interacting with them. Once at a traffic stop when I was looking for something the officer asked for and once when a black friend and I ran up to a police car to ask for directions. My youngest son at 9, also had an ill advised interaction with a SWAT team. As a frequent visitor to the USA, a couple hours learning how to interact with the US police would definitely have been useful.
Current hash rate 1.2x10^19 Hashes per second (12am EST)- https://blockchain.info/charts...
Best miners - 10^9 Hashes per joule. https://shop.bitmain.com/antmi...
That took 2 minutes to look up and grade nine math knowledge of scientific notation. If you understand scientific notation you won't become a reporter.
To be given protection under DMCA or even copyright, the copy right holder should have to show how the work will enter the public domain when the copyright expires. Failure to have such a plan should void the copyright. Things like the lost Dr. Who episodes should be in the public domain since the BBC has lost the originals and has no possible way of profiting from them. Create a game that requires a server and shut down the server, the game should immediately be public domain. Copyright isn't a right, it's a privileged society gives the holder, for a short period of time and that privilege comes with the responsibility of the work entering the public domain. We need to have stronger requirements that these requirements are fulfilled.
It wasn't shorting. You would be a fool to short bitcoin. It has no real valuation, it's price is between zero and infinity. Shorting it and not buying something with a strong correlation in value is opening yourself up to unlimited liability. No one will currently let you borrow without a very large margin and your borrowing costs are over 1% per day.
Let's do the math.
You have 50M in BitCoin, you borrow another 50M. You sell all of it for 80M, and later spend 30M to buy back enough to return the 50M you borrowed. You now have 50M in cash. So for unlimited risk you came out even.
Oh and 100M would be the very least you could use to start a short. The trading volume in the last 24h was 22 billion.
My last post predicted most coins would jump 15% from this morning (EST morning). With all the sellers gone I have no idea what the gains will be but looking at the charts most are already up over 20%
Four things happened starting on Tuesday. Coinbase added BCH, margin accounts and interest became unsustainable, margin calls, exit strategies.
Coinbase added support for Bitcoin Cash on Tuesday. They also gave everyone 1 BCH for each BTC you had at the time of the split. This should have flooded the market with BCH and driven the price of BCH down. Also the sellers of BCH should have invested in other currencies and pushed those prices up. The opposite happened. News that coinbase was accepting BCH actually pushed BCH's price up and the shift to BCH caused other currencies to fall.
Most of the trading is now automated trading. You can also buy on margin. However the margin has a 1.5% interest per day. Then funny things happen. If someone borrows 1 BTC and shorts it, and then buys an equivalent amount of 10 other more volatile coins using that money they could cover the interest. For the past 2 months this worked really well. Most smaller cap currencies have gone up more than BTC by more than 1.5%. It seemed like low risk investing. People treat crypto like the stock markets treat stocks assuming that having 100 different stocks has less variability than 1. Unfortunately like the stock market, there is a high level of correlation in price change.
Now after Tuesday, people who had margin accounts had to top up their margins. This caused a slow sell but the interest rates made borrowing for more than 3 days difficult so starting late last night a lot of people had no choice but to sell.
Exit strategies - eventually everyone has to actually use their money. I know a lot of people who have made 10x their investment. Their exit has been if it falls 30%, I sell 50%. So if they put in 100K, they had 1M yesterday, 700K this morning and then sold to have 350K in fiat and 350K still in crypto. You can automate that sell.
The weird part. There are no natural sellers in crypto currencies. They aren't backed in any meaningful way anymore. After this crash all the remaining people who own crypto are non-sellers. They are greedy and will hold indefinitely. The margin people who had to sell are gone, my friends with exit strategies are out. The only sellers left are people who are moving money between crypto currencies. The prices of most currencies not in the top 10 market cap are going to jump 15% before the day is done. In a week the money will be poring back in and zero money will be being pulled out.
PopQuiz: How do we hit the FCC with a fine for ruining the internet for the whole world?
I disagree. The USA's new operating policy is to be an example to the rest of the world. If the rest of the world can learn from your mistakes instead of f*#king things up in our own countries I for one am grateful.
I am endlessly frustrated by security companies and banks who's webs don't work without javascript enabled. I want to browse the web with javascript disabled but the companies that should be offering the most security are working against me. Why the hell are dark net sites run by just a few individuals more secure than my multi billion dollar bank?
Which is a lot more than you can say for the tactics of the existing taxi companies. The stats are for reduce cases of drunk driving after Uber arrives in a city are fairly significant. The existing taxi models in almost every jurisdiction were so broken that some one had to break them up. And really, only a fairly slimy egotistical company would do it. Other than a few holders of Taxi medallions the rest of us are much better of because of Uber. We ride in cleaner safer cars, that show up on time, are easy to acquire, have drivers that speak the local language and we do all of this for less money. How many people decided not to buy a car because of Uber, how many people went out just a little bit more because the ride home was cheaper and more pleasant, how many elderly or shut ins now go out because of Uber?
When the laws are as broken as the taxi laws are sometimes you need a crook to fix things.
I don't want to say politicians are stupid. Most of them are very hard working and smart. However they are used to giving instructions to some one else to give some one else to implement. This means when the time comes to implement something and the poor guy doing the job discovers the rules are contradictory he can't push back. The contradictory rules are literally the law.
In Canada the federal government negotiates a pay contract with various unions to come up with the rules for how employees are payed. They don't however negotiate a new contract, they negotiate changes to the existing contract. So they add extra rules, and then the government add more rules, and then yet again more rules are added to conform to labour laws for maternity and overtime etc. So after 150 years we ended up with something that was a total mess and humans basically made judgement calls as to which rules seemed the most relevant to an individual employees case. A few years ago the Canadian government decided to have one automated system handle all of their payrole. It was called the Phoenix pay system. They also got rid of the humans making the decisions before Phoenix was ready and rolled out. It has easily been the biggest IT failure in Canadian history and will take years and hundreds of millions to solve.
There are 300,000 Canadian federal employees. If at the end of the day it cost one billion dollars to design a pay system, that would be over $3000 per employee. I think it's safe to say if it costs you $3000 to figure out how to pay each employee your pay system is way way to complicated.
Suddenly North Korea is getting a lot of blame for these cyber crimes. I'm seeing a lot of headlines but almost no citations of actual evidence. I'm currently lacking a new source that I don't treat with a high degree of skepticism and articles like this don't help. The internet should make reporters lives easier but instead it makes it easier for me to fact check reporters. My fact checking is a biased sampling, I'll usually only check articles that are a "little off" but I would say nearly 90% of the time I check the reporter has gotten something significant wrong or missed something that is not only important but is also counter to the opinion the reporter was pushing. I'll pay for good news. I won't pay for someone to just echo back my opinions. That's what facebook is for.
SWIFT is the accounting mechanism used by the banks between each other. The banks don't have physical currency that they move between each other it is all 1s and 0s like a crypto currency. When you do personal banking the receiving bank gets the 1s and 0s almost instantly and based on the nature of the transaction they have rules to stop the recipient from moving the money but as far as SWIFT is concerned the transaction can't be reversed. Now this type of transaction is extremely common for SWIFT and other than some one in Germany noticing* that the word "foundation" was miss spelled there was no reason for the transaction to be suspicious or even to be scrutinized. There might be some rules for the Philippines bank to stop the transfer to a casino but that's not something I would put a lot of faith in.
*I suspect that some group within SWIFT knew the Bangladesh's central bank had terrible security and were looking at all transactions above a certain amount without telling the Bangladesh's central bank. It's just too lucky that someone just happened to notice something fishy. Central banks move hundreds of millions regularly to stabilize currency or to facilitate large state transactions. Their wasn't anything suspicious about these.
In Ontario the Peak price is really $0.28. The $0.18 is a magical generation cost. There is an extra $0.10 per kWh charge that is added on at the end of the month to your bill, it is the debt retirement cost, transmission cost and a bunch of other things. They are the 35% extra on your bill but they are really based on number of kWh you consumed. Worse these numbers are calculated at the end of the month and you don't know what they are before you consume the electricity. Ontario isn't the worst offender in this respect but they may very well be violating there own laws.
In Canada all revenue is general revenue but ignoring that, the tax on gasoline and diesel vehicles don't even come remotely close to paying for the health and local environmental impact they cause so cyclists and electric car owners are actually subsidizing traditional cars.
The US courts have specifically said you can't yell it if a reasonable person would believe you. If you are saying it as a joke and a reasonable person would expect it to be a joke then it is legal. Same with making a joke about a bomb. Fuck you TSA. Unfortunately defending yourself in the USA is now so time consuming and expensive it would be more of a punishment to prove you are innocent than plead guilty.
DNA probabilistic methods like this can do 3 things but can only be use to do one of them at a time. They can eliminate an accused, they can can eliminate all but one person from a predetermined sample of people to find the guilty person, or they can give the police a potential list of suspects. They CANNOT be used to do both of the last two. If I have a small partial DNA sample there will be multiple people in the world that it will match. If the police then just round up the first person that they find who matches and say oh the probability of a match this close is one in 300 million. Well no, if there were 300 million permutations and you looked in a population of 300 million people I would expect you to find a match (well at least 1 -1/e times) .
There are different types of advances in batteries. Sometime someone come up with a new chemistry or design. In this case they were looking at a problem (degradation of the electrodes) that had a known solution (coating the electrodes with graphene) but there wasn't a manufacturing process to do it. So they have come up with a very innovative way to do it that should be "easy" to add to manufacturing. This is probably one of those incremental breakthroughs that is closer to reality than a lot of the others we seen.
Proper link: https://www.nature.com/article...
Their customers are the people buying adds and in Google's case people with advertising space. They are the only players. I can't buy adds anywhere else because it is just to hard to find any other sellers. Likewise no group of sellers are going to actually hire a sales person, will just use Google. There are no patients or intellectual property here. The market has converged to a standard and that standard way of buying and selling ads is now Google. Facebook got in before the door slammed shut. You can't innovate around these two Titans. They have all the advertising money and an entire generation thinks everything on the web should be free. So unless you have another funding model, I don't care how amazing your snap chat is, or how cute your tweets are, you had better get a different revenue model than advertising because that one is owned by Google and Facebook.
Kidding, but it did hit $68 USD, on the 18th. There were at the time of writing almost 80,000 unconfirmed transactions. I sold my bit coin a while ago and I'm sure the price could still go higher but at this point bit coin is useless for any common person's day to day transactions. I'll keep to buying my drugs with Monero and cash out of almost everything else.
Life is dangerous. Not criticizing the study. I love the study but you need to consider how many hours people were playing Pokemon Go. If people in the USA spent 2% of their waking hours playing Pokemon Go then it might be safer than the typical alternative. If they spent 0.0002% then it would be a deadly game. Labrador retrievers send more children to the hospital every year than any other dog but it's because they are by far the most common dog to interact with children. My local school board changed the design of the school playgrounds, saw head injuries reduced by 60% and claimed it was a huge success. The new play grounds are so boring that the kids who were failing off them (age 10+) completely stopped using them. I'm also wondering what the diabetes rates will be like in 30 years. Risk is hard to get right. Politically it might be impossible but studies like this are at least half the information we need to get.
Assuming you want to keep your CPUs under 45 C then the returning water will be at most 37 - 40 C. I would guess closer to 37C. You then pipe it a couple of km and assuming no loss then you are heating a building to 21 or 22 C. Usually your return water on your home radiator is close 40 C, so warmer than input temperature Amazon will provide. It's do able but you would be pumping so much water that I'm not sure it works. I guess if you add in a heat pump? Still by the time you count the power pumping the water your gain is going to be marginal. Also most of the year Seatle might be damp but it's not really cold. This idea works with other industries that are boiling water but amazon isn't generating anything with a big enough temperature difference to make sense.