Let me give you an example. We have a speed pass exit near my home for a toll road. If you do not have a speed pass and use a camera takes a shot of your plate and the first two times you have to pay $10 after that it is $100. But I often see a police car sitting there to catch people, why? They get to write a $100 ticket... Does this make anyone safer?
You actually think that a days income will not have an effect on anyone? Let it go up quickly for repeat offenders but give a break to the first time offender.
I do. 15 mph over the speed limit gets you a multiplier of 12
The problem is fines are supposed to be for the encouragement of safe driving. It is not supposed to be a way to generate revenue. Change that multiplier to 1 and you may have something. Also this? "After all, wealthier people have been shown to drive more recklessly than those who make less money. For example Steve Jobs was known to park in handicapped spots and drive around without license plates." Let me explain this to you. Reckless means an action that puts people in danger. Driving without a license plate and or parking in a handicapped spot does not put people into danger. It may be rude or even morally wrong but it is putting anyone in danger so it not reckless. BTW I have not had a speeding ticket in over a decade and I do not park in handicapped spots but the use of law enforcement for generating revenue is a terrible trend and needs to be stopped. If you want to do fines right IMHO the first fine in a year should be 1 day the second 10 days and third 50 days and the fourth 100 days.
I have to add that I never saw a BBC computer for sale in the US at all. Sinclair's where around but the kings where the C64, the Atari, and a few Apples for the people that had the money or where really into the Computers.
1. It is an article about a problem. At no time did he ask for individual donations. 2. NTP is important like SSL is important to the internet in general.
You are not saying anything that helps solve a real problem or contributing to the discourse. So since you commented how would you solve the issue of providing resources for the development of NTP?
'You can get pretty cheap and pretty small computers" != " We have space hardware out there that is in very bad, high-radiation environment, and has lasted for decades. The capacitors aren't a problem if you designed the system to last long."
And none of them have lasted for 100 years yet. But you are correct that you could make a computer that would probably last that long. I am right that a cheap Rpi is not going to b one of them.
When they are measuring the "added" capacity they measure the max output at solar noon. When you measure it over say a year it is going to be less than a 3rd of that number. Of course coal, nuclear, wind, and so on also do not produce max 24/7/365 but it is a much higher percentage than solar.
I think they called it the year of the network... It was a good long time ago but their was a time when networking was going to be the big thing... And they where right but not right then.
That is external. Many Windows Laptops now support 4k without a monitor. Of course using an external monitor with only one port is no problem with a handy dandy dongle that costs $80s and that I will never forget to take with me.... Yea right...
"As far as we know, ONLY Hillary Clinton used her family email server." Yeah because no of her staff would use personal email accounts for government business...
" When you read science fiction, does the character with the smart phone carry two of them so that she can have access to her secure stuff and her regular stuff? Hell no." Wow..... Of course not I just keep the official one in a pocket universe. Really? And yes I know a good number of people that use two phones. One for business and one for personal. It is not all that common. BTW why in the name of heaven would she need to use two phones? My phone supports multiple email accounts. Now if official email "REQUIRED" a device like a Blackberry for security reasons then too bad.
" And of course it's not like security on government servers is better." Are you sure about that? do you have proof?
"So this is kind of obviously a deliberate attempt to create a fuss over something that really isn't as significant as it's being pumped up to be." Really? The Secretary of State conducted government business over email running on her personal server? Really? That is not a big deal? How do you know that she did not send any sensitive information using that email? She did not have a second government run email address so all her government email was sent and received using that. How do you know she turned over all her emails that are not private in nature? What proof. Pretend that it was Bush Jr. saying the same thing and see if you would be as generous? Just a guess but do you want Ms Clinton to run for President? If that is true then you might want to do a self bias check. BTW I do not want her to run but then I do not want Bush too run. It is time for some new blood in both parties.
Just like the year of Networking it will never happen. If it happens it will just keep creeping up until you notice it is everywhere and then look back and wonder when was the year of X.
I would throw in a DVD and maybe a compressed version on another optical disk. Who knows. Add the source code to play the both on another disks and you may be doing them a huge service. BTW use archival quality optical media.
The ports are annoying but the lack of 4k is the real downer. The big question is a the extra thinness and lightness worth the trade offs? I love OSX but Apples hardware is leaving me cold. I Love my Macbook but I do not want to be locked into an SSD or RAM at purchase when both techs are moving forward and getting cheaper all the time.
That is in many ways the issue of our times. You can not "make" hate go away. You can make it become invisible. Of course the Internet in general has caused a terrible magnification effect. A few people that act very badly now have center stage.
" They are in use, very small scale now, huge growth is expected as battery tech is dropping in price continuously large percentage every year." They are not in production yet and they are not improving or dropping in costs at that great of a rate. Battery/Storage technology has been the problem for around the last 50 years. The limits on them are based on chemistry. The real issue with batteries replacing peaking plants is a real simple one. A peaking plant can provide peaking for as long as you have fuel. Using Solar or Wind a storm can cause a "peaking" issue lasting days not hours and batteries are practical for those kinds of peaks. Not to mention that if you are really interesting in reducing CO2 it really is not the peaking plants you want to replace but the coal fired baseload plants. If you have a cheap enough source of power you could use that power to create methanol or NH4 for storage and use that for fuel cells. The energy density would be much higher than you can get from batteries and pipelines are more efficient than power lines for transporting energy. The problem is that the conversion is less efficient than a battery.
After dealing with decades of battery tech promises it is hard to not sneer at any "replace x with batteries" comment.
Maybe people will actually keep private things private?... Naw... It is amazing the differences I see see between my friends in their 30s and up vs some of the young people I know. A friend of mine got divorced and I know she got divorced and I know she is sad. I do not know the exact details of why. She is someone I know but was not really close to. Her close friends have all the details but they are not posting them online.
The 20 somethings that I know post everything public. I know that one broke up because of cheating and I know who they cheated with and when. I know when another one is super drunk and hates everyone...... And they say young people "understand" social media and older people don't...
" Seriously, prove them wrong " And you are a Russian spy that is under deep cover planing the overthrow the US government and enslave all of us. Seriously prove me wrong...
See the problem. You can not in any way prove me wrong but the idea is very crazy. If you want change Russian for space alien to push it a little farther into crazy.
When you take a violent action and justify with sci-fi movie you are will into the crazy range.
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don't the shared libs need to be signed.
Of course the problem is that when you make signing mandatory you make everyone pay for a cert.
Let me give you an example.
We have a speed pass exit near my home for a toll road. If you do not have a speed pass and use a camera takes a shot of your plate and the first two times you have to pay $10 after that it is $100.
But I often see a police car sitting there to catch people, why? They get to write a $100 ticket...
Does this make anyone safer?
You actually think that a days income will not have an effect on anyone?
Let it go up quickly for repeat offenders but give a break to the first time offender.
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I do.
15 mph over the speed limit gets you a multiplier of 12
The problem is fines are supposed to be for the encouragement of safe driving. It is not supposed to be a way to generate revenue.
Change that multiplier to 1 and you may have something.
Also this?
"After all, wealthier people have been shown to drive more recklessly than those who make less money. For example Steve Jobs was known to park in handicapped spots and drive around without license plates."
Let me explain this to you. Reckless means an action that puts people in danger.
Driving without a license plate and or parking in a handicapped spot does not put people into danger.
It may be rude or even morally wrong but it is putting anyone in danger so it not reckless.
BTW I have not had a speeding ticket in over a decade and I do not park in handicapped spots but the use of law enforcement for generating revenue is a terrible trend and needs to be stopped.
If you want to do fines right IMHO the first fine in a year should be 1 day the second 10 days and third 50 days and the fourth 100 days.
Yes there was.
The Sinclair/Timex TS1000
Vic 20
Commodore 64.
ZX Spectrum
All where pretty inexpensive by 1984 The BBC micro was not.
It is the replacement of coal with natural gas that is really dropping the CO2 emissions.
I have to add that I never saw a BBC computer for sale in the US at all. Sinclair's where around but the kings where the C64, the Atari, and a few Apples for the people that had the money or where really into the Computers.
1. It is an article about a problem. At no time did he ask for individual donations.
2. NTP is important like SSL is important to the internet in general.
You are not saying anything that helps solve a real problem or contributing to the discourse. So since you commented how would you solve the issue of providing resources for the development of NTP?
And the BBC Micro was not inexpensive.
It was really cool, had lots of IO, and probably was a great system for schools but it was not inexpensive.
'You can get pretty cheap and pretty small computers" != " We have space hardware out there that is in very bad, high-radiation environment, and has lasted for decades. The capacitors aren't a problem if you designed the system to last long."
And none of them have lasted for 100 years yet. But you are correct that you could make a computer that would probably last that long. I am right that a cheap Rpi is not going to b one of them.
When they are measuring the "added" capacity they measure the max output at solar noon. When you measure it over say a year it is going to be less than a 3rd of that number.
Of course coal, nuclear, wind, and so on also do not produce max 24/7/365 but it is a much higher percentage than solar.
I think they called it the year of the network...
It was a good long time ago but their was a time when networking was going to be the big thing...
And they where right but not right then.
That is external. Many Windows Laptops now support 4k without a monitor.
Of course using an external monitor with only one port is no problem with a handy dandy dongle that costs $80s and that I will never forget to take with me....
Yea right...
"As far as we know, ONLY Hillary Clinton used her family email server."
Yeah because no of her staff would use personal email accounts for government business...
" When you read science fiction, does the character with the smart phone carry two of them so that she can have access to her secure stuff and her regular stuff? Hell no."
Wow..... Of course not I just keep the official one in a pocket universe.
Really?
And yes I know a good number of people that use two phones. One for business and one for personal. It is not all that common.
BTW why in the name of heaven would she need to use two phones? My phone supports multiple email accounts.
Now if official email "REQUIRED" a device like a Blackberry for security reasons then too bad.
" And of course it's not like security on government servers is better."
Are you sure about that? do you have proof?
"So this is kind of obviously a deliberate attempt to create a fuss over something that really isn't as significant as it's being pumped up to be."
Really? The Secretary of State conducted government business over email running on her personal server?
Really? That is not a big deal?
How do you know that she did not send any sensitive information using that email? She did not have a second government run email address so all her government email was sent and received using that. How do you know she turned over all her emails that are not private in nature? What proof.
Pretend that it was Bush Jr. saying the same thing and see if you would be as generous?
Just a guess but do you want Ms Clinton to run for President? If that is true then you might want to do a self bias check.
BTW I do not want her to run but then I do not want Bush too run. It is time for some new blood in both parties.
Just like the year of Networking it will never happen. If it happens it will just keep creeping up until you notice it is everywhere and then look back and wonder when was the year of X.
odds are the caps or some other part of the computer will be dead by then.
I would throw in a DVD and maybe a compressed version on another optical disk.
Who knows. Add the source code to play the both on another disks and you may be doing them a huge service.
BTW use archival quality optical media.
The ports are annoying but the lack of 4k is the real downer.
The big question is a the extra thinness and lightness worth the trade offs? I love OSX but Apples hardware is leaving me cold. I Love my Macbook but I do not want to be locked into an SSD or RAM at purchase when both techs are moving forward and getting cheaper all the time.
That is in many ways the issue of our times.
You can not "make" hate go away. You can make it become invisible.
Of course the Internet in general has caused a terrible magnification effect. A few people that act very badly now have center stage.
" They are in use, very small scale now, huge growth is expected as battery tech is dropping in price continuously large percentage every year."
They are not in production yet and they are not improving or dropping in costs at that great of a rate.
Battery/Storage technology has been the problem for around the last 50 years. The limits on them are based on chemistry.
The real issue with batteries replacing peaking plants is a real simple one. A peaking plant can provide peaking for as long as you have fuel. Using Solar or Wind a storm can cause a "peaking" issue lasting days not hours and batteries are practical for those kinds of peaks.
Not to mention that if you are really interesting in reducing CO2 it really is not the peaking plants you want to replace but the coal fired baseload plants.
If you have a cheap enough source of power you could use that power to create methanol or NH4 for storage and use that for fuel cells. The energy density would be much higher than you can get from batteries and pipelines are more efficient than power lines for transporting energy. The problem is that the conversion is less efficient than a battery.
After dealing with decades of battery tech promises it is hard to not sneer at any "replace x with batteries" comment.
Maybe people will actually keep private things private?...
Naw...
It is amazing the differences I see see between my friends in their 30s and up vs some of the young people I know.
A friend of mine got divorced and I know she got divorced and I know she is sad. I do not know the exact details of why. She is someone I know but was not really close to. Her close friends have all the details but they are not posting them online.
The 20 somethings that I know post everything public. I know that one broke up because of cheating and I know who they cheated with and when. I know when another one is super drunk and hates everyone... ... And they say young people "understand" social media and older people don't...
" Seriously, prove them wrong "
And you are a Russian spy that is under deep cover planing the overthrow the US government and enslave all of us.
Seriously prove me wrong...
See the problem. You can not in any way prove me wrong but the idea is very crazy. If you want change Russian for space alien to push it a little farther into crazy.
When you take a violent action and justify with sci-fi movie you are will into the crazy range.