As far as I can see, it's a consume only device. You can read ebooks, and watch videos, browse web pages, but anything which requires any sort of textual interaction will be a pain in the arse.
it really doesn't doesn't get much simpler. Even shell and batch scripting is more complex.
The base language can be described in a couple pf pages, it works great for functional, oo and imperative programming. It's also trivially simple to learn.
The main problem is a lack of an easy to use code repository & plugin modules.
Left to the market, water, power, waste and communication services thrive in the cities, but don't exist in rural areas.
Home water purification, solar, wind turbines, micro CHP, biomass, dry toilets, satellite, wireless. All exist and most are even more "green" than the conventional system, though they may not meet your standards.
What subsidies do is destroy the market for these products. This is the primary use of subsidy; to make your competitors uneconomic.
Without subsidies, there is no political influence. And without political influence, lobbying wouldn't work and you are exposed to market forces... That's just bad business.
You get methane which can be burned as fuel and the digestate is high in nitrogen, phosphorus and calcium.
Alternatively, lower tech without the gas tight fittings, drop the methane capture idea and use a dry toilet. It's more a matter of education and organisation than anything else.
I'll just point out that by not doing this in the west, we are effectively extracting phosphorus, nitrogen and calcium from our fields and pumping it into rivers and oceans. We then burn a load of fuel to dig up more phosphorus and calcium elsewhere and burn natural gas to produce nitrates to put back on the fields. It's dumb.
Power failures are expected, what you can do is have plans for when they occur - batteries, generators, service migration to other sites, etc, etc
Too small scale, too complex, too much human intervention and too unreliable. Minimum of 2 datacenters on opposite sides of the world and you only send half the traffic to each. When the first vanishes the second picks up the traffic. The exact mechanism depends on the level of service you want to provide.
Psychopaths often go on to bigger and better things... Like people.
memory is only established through repetition.
Unlike humans of course. Who's memory springs into existence in a magical and unexplained manner. Given by god perhaps.
These animals are not people. They are food.
People eat people. People are meat. People are food. It's generally frowned upon in polite society, but people like Jeffrey Dahmer eat people like you. You are food to them.
What a parasitic way to think about the content on the internet...
I pay for the Internet. I can use it as I damned well please. There are literally billions of content providers out there, just because you can't make a profit is your problem, not mine.
I pay for it all, and I don't really care if your site folds (this includes you slashdot), you're just a momentary diversion, don't flatter yourself otherwise. There will be another along in 10 minutes.
So, i'm going to continue to block images, particularly moving ones. Javascript, flash, and pretty much anything else they come up with. I used to leave google ads alone, they were relevant, textual and just sat there inviting a click, but they blew it as well.
That way an attacker has to guess the one user+password, and have a legitimate userid+password to gain access.
Use public key authentication.
Also. The root account should not have a password at all. Passwords are a weakness which should be phased out entirely. It's (long past) time brute forcing passwords was made futile.
People send their kids to particular schools because they've no choice, physical location and economic circumstance pretty much dictate where a child is going to go to school. The parents have no choice over the teachers at those schools, the vast majority have no direct say in the administration of the schools. They take what they're given because they can't afford otherwise. The administration has no incentive to perform well, the teachers have no incentive to perform well, bureaucracy and apathy abound.
By centralising authority and distribution of funding, you produce a system optimised for cost, not quality.
And shutting down infrastructure projects that will last 200 years
It's pretty much irrelevant how long some infrastructure lasts. If you preserve a dead donkey, it's still a dead donkey after 200 years. What matters is how useful it is, and the evidence is that rail projects only ever take a tiny tiny percentage of journeys. Even in countries like France and Germany, rail is a tiny proportion of passenger miles. What these projects are really are massive gifts from those of us who can't make use of the lines to those who happen to live nearby and want to travel along the rail corridor.
You can build a small scale methane digester out of an old barrel & some plumbing supplies. There is bugger all to a digester. a big barrel, maybe an h2s scrubber, co2 scrubber. There are videos on youtube. You don't have to use animal dung. Newspaper, kitchen leftovers, garden waste will all digest. What's left can go on the garden. Think of it as higher tech composting. As to the efficiency, how much useful fuel you get. Pass, never tried it.
Farmers on the other hand have a problem with animal waste. You buy 100 tonnes of animal feed your animals. You're going to get all that and more back as shit and you have to do something with it. Digesting it may be a convenient way of processing/disposing of at least some of that, while producing useful byproducts; methane, plus nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium rich liquid and solid fertilisers.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't get it.
As far as I can see, it's a consume only device. You can read ebooks, and watch videos, browse web pages, but anything which requires any sort of textual interaction will be a pain in the arse.
So it's a mobile media displayer? That's it?
It's a computer with wireless.
For those who managed to wipe out their offspring in bizarre and unusual ways.
Hole in the ground vs 200 tonnes of battery.
it really doesn't doesn't get much simpler. Even shell and batch scripting is more complex.
The base language can be described in a couple pf pages, it works great for functional, oo and imperative programming. It's also trivially simple to learn.
The main problem is a lack of an easy to use code repository & plugin modules.
I can watch TV... On the Internet!
John Chambers: Man of Vision!
Left to the market, water, power, waste and communication services thrive in the cities, but don't exist in rural areas.
Home water purification, solar, wind turbines, micro CHP, biomass, dry toilets, satellite, wireless. All exist and most are even more "green" than the conventional system, though they may not meet your standards.
What subsidies do is destroy the market for these products. This is the primary use of subsidy; to make your competitors uneconomic.
Without subsidies, there is no political influence. And without political influence, lobbying wouldn't work and you are exposed to market forces... That's just bad business.
e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=methane+digester
You get methane which can be burned as fuel and the digestate is high in nitrogen, phosphorus and calcium.
Alternatively, lower tech without the gas tight fittings, drop the methane capture idea and use a dry toilet. It's more a matter of education and organisation than anything else.
I'll just point out that by not doing this in the west, we are effectively extracting phosphorus, nitrogen and calcium from our fields and pumping it into rivers and oceans. We then burn a load of fuel to dig up more phosphorus and calcium elsewhere and burn natural gas to produce nitrates to put back on the fields. It's dumb.
Power failures are expected, what you can do is have plans for when they occur - batteries, generators, service migration to other sites, etc, etc
Too small scale, too complex, too much human intervention and too unreliable. Minimum of 2 datacenters on opposite sides of the world and you only send half the traffic to each. When the first vanishes the second picks up the traffic. The exact mechanism depends on the level of service you want to provide.
It's called usenet.
The web 2.0 version is RSS feed of a blog (woohoo). And the application is an RSS agregator.
Taken to it's logical end point you get Lotus Notes.
Use Dvorak, and take typing lessons.
If that doesn't work, try voice recognition.
Psychopaths often go on to bigger and better things... Like people.
memory is only established through repetition.
Unlike humans of course. Who's memory springs into existence in a magical and unexplained manner. Given by god perhaps.
These animals are not people. They are food.
People eat people. People are meat. People are food. It's generally frowned upon in polite society, but people like Jeffrey Dahmer eat people like you. You are food to them.
It's the only way to be sure!
What a parasitic way to think about the content on the internet...
I pay for the Internet. I can use it as I damned well please. There are literally billions of content providers out there, just because you can't make a profit is your problem, not mine.
*My* RAM. *My* bandwidth.
I pay for it all, and I don't really care if your site folds (this includes you slashdot), you're just a momentary diversion, don't flatter yourself otherwise. There will be another along in 10 minutes.
So, i'm going to continue to block images, particularly moving ones. Javascript, flash, and pretty much anything else they come up with. I used to leave google ads alone, they were relevant, textual and just sat there inviting a click, but they blew it as well.
That way an attacker has to guess the one user+password, and have a legitimate userid+password to gain access.
Use public key authentication.
Also. The root account should not have a password at all. Passwords are a weakness which should be phased out entirely. It's (long past) time brute forcing passwords was made futile.
It's simple. Ebay paypal. You want to replace paypal you gonna have to use (and persuade everyone else to use) a different auction site.
Some of us are not predictable enough to have things recorded for us by some algorithm
Don't flatter yourself.
If this were a federally-regulated bank they would not be able to do this.
to bring the American Economy to it's knees instead.
This is insightful?
People send their kids to particular schools because they've no choice, physical location and economic circumstance pretty much dictate where a child is going to go to school. The parents have no choice over the teachers at those schools, the vast majority have no direct say in the administration of the schools. They take what they're given because they can't afford otherwise. The administration has no incentive to perform well, the teachers have no incentive to perform well, bureaucracy and apathy abound.
By centralising authority and distribution of funding, you produce a system optimised for cost, not quality.
And shutting down infrastructure projects that will last 200 years
It's pretty much irrelevant how long some infrastructure lasts. If you preserve a dead donkey, it's still a dead donkey after 200 years. What matters is how useful it is, and the evidence is that rail projects only ever take a tiny tiny percentage of journeys. Even in countries like France and Germany, rail is a tiny proportion of passenger miles. What these projects are really are massive gifts from those of us who can't make use of the lines to those who happen to live nearby and want to travel along the rail corridor.
Automatically search the listings and record stuff I might like? It didn't the last time I looked.
I'll just point out that humans as well as animals produce vast amounts of shit. It's expensive and energy consuming to treat.
You can build a small scale methane digester out of an old barrel & some plumbing supplies. There is bugger all to a digester. a big barrel, maybe an h2s scrubber, co2 scrubber. There are videos on youtube. You don't have to use animal dung. Newspaper, kitchen leftovers, garden waste will all digest. What's left can go on the garden. Think of it as higher tech composting. As to the efficiency, how much useful fuel you get. Pass, never tried it.
Farmers on the other hand have a problem with animal waste. You buy 100 tonnes of animal feed your animals. You're going to get all that and more back as shit and you have to do something with it. Digesting it may be a convenient way of processing/disposing of at least some of that, while producing useful byproducts; methane, plus nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium rich liquid and solid fertilisers.