The story is by an organization created to promote "Global Warming". Of course those in favor of the idea that humans affect the climate are attracted to the organization. There's also this BBC story "Global warming 'not clear cut'".
And why do you want to scrap carbon credits? If vegetation removes carbon, why ignore that? Remember that the Central Prairies had six feet of black dirt under the prairie grass? That's carbon rich soil -- how do you think it got there? Well, we have stopped letting the prairie burn every year and instead have megatons of crops and timber every year...
Oh, yeah...and why not cut down trees? They're a renewable resource and the new ones grow also. If your issue is favorite old growth, mention it.
I don't want to analyze the weather of a nuclear blast. I have the weather patterns from Europe on June 5, 1944 and just want to find out what the weather will be like on June 6, 1944.
You can bet that of people who hear of this project, those who are the equivalent of CB burpers will be waving laser pointers at the Moon and random satellites. If we had megawatt lasers easily available, by now someone would have etched "Hi Mom" across the Moon.
Well, it's no more a waste than using CPU time to animate an aquarium screensaver.
RF searches are most likely to find someone who went through the same logic as us and have broadcast the same type of signal which we're looking for. Detecting leakage is less likely -- look at our broadcasting antenna farms, sending megawatts along horizontal planes to cover the Earth's surface; the Earth's surface is rotating, creating rotating beams which would flicker weakly across receivers every 12/24 Earth hours (plus 3 minutes).
We are most likely to hear dead ETIs. Anyone broadcasting will attract the script kiddies of the Milky Way -- assorted easy-to-create hardware with assorted purposes which is attracted to modulated signals. Any civilization with all its eggs still on its home planet won't survive any space-based intruders.
My cable company says Dynamic Feedback Arrangement Scrambling Technique (DFAST) came from Congress and to talk to them. In FCC info it looks like DFAST came from the cable industries' Cable Labs (FCC PDF doc 6512258522). Where did DFAST come from and what is its status?
I see question marks in odd places in the/. posting. Either the syntax and grammar are worse than usual, or those are non-displayable characters. I guess it's time to build the demoronizer into the slashsubmissions scripts.
Can I sell them my Toshiba laptop MS-Windows license, or are they only interested in a more generic version? (Yes, mine was never used -- I unpacked the new laptop and loaded Linux on it)
Maybe he saw a partial plot of the first chart here, but one which started 10,000 years ago because there was an ice age 15,000 years ago. Global cooling kind of messes up global warming charts, as things warmed up without humans. Right now we're as warm as 120,000 years ago.
Note that previous page of that site mentions that weathering of silicate rocks uses carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Also, the geological carbon cycle has 1,800 times more carbon than the atmosphere. Our climate has a lot more variation than our last thousand years. Well, maybe you'd rather just look at the last 300 years, if the Little Ice Age messes up your statistics. Or the last 30 years, as some have used, because the 1960s had an unusually cold winter and so makes "warmer" easier to show. And please do ignore that we've stopped the prairie fires that used to cover the central plains of North America.
Actually, there are at least two companies. Dieceland Tech Corp is promising a $10 phone, and this Register story says a $20 laptop also. The DTC "future" page has an image of a laptop but no details.
If you're working only from lists of people who gave you their addresses, be polite in the use of them.
Mention how you got their address, to remind them that they gave you their address and to help them remember what was interesting about your company's products. Maybe they'll remember they only wanted the T-shirt (OK, so at least that's good for name recognition), or maybe they'll remember one of the six products at the booth was a nice four-port controller card for their industrial interface. This probably means inserting a mailing-list-descriptive paragraph in each message; include a proper paragraph in each of your mailing list databases so your text-processing software can insert it whenever the list is used. Make sure descriptions are ageless, such as "Fall Comdex 2000" rather than "a recent trade show".
Reference a web page and non-Web means for removal from the mailing list. On the Web page, have removal/inclusion options for ALL and for individual product categories. Some people won't want to hear about your data line drivers, but will want to hear about every POTS amplifier. You'll lose some, and you'll gain some. Include that web page in your normal web site for people who want to add themselves to your lists.
Use the lists once soon after they're collected, with news relevant to the items featured during the list collection. This will remind them that they provided their address and reminds them of whatever they were interested in. Invite people to opt-in to permanent lists of interest. Let the lists age and use them less as time goes on.
Retire older lists -- re-use them only for significant events, such as a corporate name change. With such a bolt from the blue, again issue the reminder of where the list came from and mention that they won't hear from you again except with similar major events. Mention the opt-in methods for people who want more frequent news.
But the polite PS at the end doesn't work because too many spammers are already doing the same thing. Some spammers are politely sorry, some put it in but have things like fake removal addresses, and some have lies in their apology (ie, references to fake laws).
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Artificial black holes, eh? Would make nice portable garbage disposals, wouldn't they?
Sure, no problem. The first step is converting your garbage to light, then the light can be disposed of in the black hole.
Your "bandwidth is cut in half" is only true if you're buying an Internet link of at least 5Mbps. Most Internet links are much slower than that. A parallel-to-Ethernet adapter is more than fast enough for Internet links.
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system displays on screen "You voted for Roblimo for president, Hemos for Senator and YES on Proposition 51, the
Slashdot Initiative. Is this correct?"
The reason there are a lot of these boxes out on the market is the lack of RAM. The liberate software stores a lot of
information on a central server that would normally be stored locally (such as cookies). This made the browser very slow
on high load systems.
Well, Linux can use NFS for swap and storage, so these could be used on a LAN with a file server. A "network computer" configuration. Or perhaps just an X terminal. For that matter, if the NIC supports a boot PROM it could be booted from the network.
The product looks nice. But the web site is definitely high bandwidth with all that Flash. And I noticed at least one MS proprietary character in the FAQ, which looks ugly on some systems.
You can use it as a router/firewall if you use something other than Ethernet for the second network link -- you can choose from serial, parallel (note the parallelEthernet adapters), IR, or sound card data links; PPP will run through many devices.
Or, if you have another router on the Ethernet, you can use a single NIC as a network translator -- make this device the "gateway" of devices which will use the translations services, and this device would be configured to pass the translated (ie, NAT) packets to the other router. The easiest configuration probably involves aliasing the NIC to have several IP addresses.
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And why do you want to scrap carbon credits? If vegetation removes carbon, why ignore that? Remember that the Central Prairies had six feet of black dirt under the prairie grass? That's carbon rich soil -- how do you think it got there? Well, we have stopped letting the prairie burn every year and instead have megatons of crops and timber every year...
Oh, yeah...and why not cut down trees? They're a renewable resource and the new ones grow also. If your issue is favorite old growth, mention it.
I don't want to analyze the weather of a nuclear blast. I have the weather patterns from Europe on June 5, 1944 and just want to find out what the weather will be like on June 6, 1944.
You can bet that of people who hear of this project, those who are the equivalent of CB burpers will be waving laser pointers at the Moon and random satellites. If we had megawatt lasers easily available, by now someone would have etched "Hi Mom" across the Moon.
RF searches are most likely to find someone who went through the same logic as us and have broadcast the same type of signal which we're looking for. Detecting leakage is less likely -- look at our broadcasting antenna farms, sending megawatts along horizontal planes to cover the Earth's surface; the Earth's surface is rotating, creating rotating beams which would flicker weakly across receivers every 12/24 Earth hours (plus 3 minutes).
We are most likely to hear dead ETIs. Anyone broadcasting will attract the script kiddies of the Milky Way -- assorted easy-to-create hardware with assorted purposes which is attracted to modulated signals. Any civilization with all its eggs still on its home planet won't survive any space-based intruders.
My cable company says Dynamic Feedback Arrangement Scrambling Technique (DFAST) came from Congress and to talk to them. In FCC info it looks like DFAST came from the cable industries' Cable Labs (FCC PDF doc 6512258522). Where did DFAST come from and what is its status?
I see that KSql doesn't yet allow formatting of query results.
I see question marks in odd places in the /. posting. Either the syntax and grammar are worse than usual, or those are non-displayable characters. I guess it's time to build the demoronizer into the slashsubmissions scripts.
This calls for an IR repeater to put in the middle of the table for everyone to point their PDAs toward...
Try Gnupedia.Org. You get Nupedia. What litte there was of Gnupedia seems merged enough.
I prepaid for my PS9, with the direct mind interface, and I'll just wait for delivery of that.
I look forward to "The Final Nupedia"...
Can I sell them my Toshiba laptop MS-Windows license, or are they only interested in a more generic version? (Yes, mine was never used -- I unpacked the new laptop and loaded Linux on it)
No, thanks, I don't smoke.
Note that previous page of that site mentions that weathering of silicate rocks uses carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Also, the geological carbon cycle has 1,800 times more carbon than the atmosphere. Our climate has a lot more variation than our last thousand years. Well, maybe you'd rather just look at the last 300 years, if the Little Ice Age messes up your statistics. Or the last 30 years, as some have used, because the 1960s had an unusually cold winter and so makes "warmer" easier to show. And please do ignore that we've stopped the prairie fires that used to cover the central plains of North America.
Note that the main greenhouse gas is water vapor which is just a wee bit hard to measure and control. And we can only hope that we don't see another Iceball Earth.
Actually, there are at least two companies. Dieceland Tech Corp is promising a $10 phone, and this Register story says a $20 laptop also. The DTC "future" page has an image of a laptop but no details.
Mention how you got their address, to remind them that they gave you their address and to help them remember what was interesting about your company's products. Maybe they'll remember they only wanted the T-shirt (OK, so at least that's good for name recognition), or maybe they'll remember one of the six products at the booth was a nice four-port controller card for their industrial interface. This probably means inserting a mailing-list-descriptive paragraph in each message; include a proper paragraph in each of your mailing list databases so your text-processing software can insert it whenever the list is used. Make sure descriptions are ageless, such as "Fall Comdex 2000" rather than "a recent trade show".
Reference a web page and non-Web means for removal from the mailing list. On the Web page, have removal/inclusion options for ALL and for individual product categories. Some people won't want to hear about your data line drivers, but will want to hear about every POTS amplifier. You'll lose some, and you'll gain some. Include that web page in your normal web site for people who want to add themselves to your lists.
Use the lists once soon after they're collected, with news relevant to the items featured during the list collection. This will remind them that they provided their address and reminds them of whatever they were interested in. Invite people to opt-in to permanent lists of interest. Let the lists age and use them less as time goes on.
Retire older lists -- re-use them only for significant events, such as a corporate name change. With such a bolt from the blue, again issue the reminder of where the list came from and mention that they won't hear from you again except with similar major events. Mention the opt-in methods for people who want more frequent news.
How about "if your finances are limited and steal you must"? You're saying that theft of some form is acceptable if the thief is poor.
But the polite PS at the end doesn't work because too many spammers are already doing the same thing. Some spammers are politely sorry, some put it in but have things like fake removal addresses, and some have lies in their apology (ie, references to fake laws).
Sure, no problem. The first step is converting your garbage to light, then the light can be disposed of in the black hole.
Your "bandwidth is cut in half" is only true if you're buying an Internet link of at least 5Mbps. Most Internet links are much slower than that. A parallel-to-Ethernet adapter is more than fast enough for Internet links.
You're going to require that voters read?
Well, Linux can use NFS for swap and storage, so these could be used on a LAN with a file server. A "network computer" configuration. Or perhaps just an X terminal. For that matter, if the NIC supports a boot PROM it could be booted from the network.
The product looks nice. But the web site is definitely high bandwidth with all that Flash. And I noticed at least one MS proprietary character in the FAQ, which looks ugly on some systems.
Or, if you have another router on the Ethernet, you can use a single NIC as a network translator -- make this device the "gateway" of devices which will use the translations services, and this device would be configured to pass the translated (ie, NAT) packets to the other router. The easiest configuration probably involves aliasing the NIC to have several IP addresses.