If my wife is driving and I am riding then what? When we are driving together the passenger is in charge of all devices. When I am driving I set up my podcasts to play and nav before I start off.
That is impossible. The NFC chip is going to have to get some kind of key to create the one time payment codes for your credit card. It will have to talk to a PKI server someplace and send your cc number to the server so it can get the key to sign transactions. Is the PKI server located at the apple data center or is at the banks? Your cc info will be sent to a server someplace at least once.
" monetizing transaction" Are you sure about that? I do not think that Apple is not taking at least a small cut of the transactions. Also let's be really honest. The stores are already collecting the data as are the credit card companies.
This is really nothing more than Google Wallet but for the iPhone. That is a good thing IMHO since it means more stores will start taking NFC. The folks at the 7/11 where so impressed when I paid with my phone 2 years ago.
Does not take a blockade, just an "accident". You will always want to have enough military force to win any war if possible. The goal is to never have to fight a war. The simple rule is no nation ever starts a war because the opponent is too strong. Nations start wars that they think they can win.
Exactly when cheap NG is cheap enough you can use it to make synth fuels for vehicles like trains, trucks, and aircraft. I do wonder if battery power would work for tractors? Weight is not an issue and range sure is not. The question would be is if they use too much energy for a practical battery. Of course a battery swap might be a simple solution for that.
You would save nothing. Unless the Russia rapidly decreases the size of it's military you still need to have the military power to back it up. After all a natural gas tanker could always just explode in the middle of the Atlantic or in a harbor in Europe.
Actually cheap natural gas and wind go hand in hand. You use Natural gas as a backing fuel for wind. If natural gas gets cheap enough you can turn it into clean burning diesel and jet fuel. Electricity is fine for many things but you will not see an electric airliners or long haul truck anytime soon. I also do not see the US electrifying all of it's railways anytime soon.
As to natural gas as a strategic fuel export might be a requirement strategically. Europe gets a lot of it's gas from Russia and may very well need to import a lot very soon if Russia keeps acting like the USSR under Stalin.
" Some of the first cars were electric, and since then incredibly wealthy auto manufacturers around the world have been telling us it is all but impossible." And it still is. Even Elon Musk can not do it. Maybe someday but today you have to spend as much as many peoples homes cost to buy a Tesla.
"Well, first of all I didn't say the whole area would be waste." Yes you did this is from your post. The entire structure, premesis (sic), and possibly nearby things is the definition of the entire area and then some. " On top of that the entire structure, premesis, possibly nearby things, etc will become waste, and even low level waste is costly to deal with. "
Purex at Handford was built in the 1940s under war time conditions. It was run under war time conditions during the cold war as well. It is not a modern example at all. It would be the same as using a DC-4 as your reference for aircraft safety.
The US has not given the Iraqi military "advanced" weapons. They currently have no air defense at all except what the US provides them. The most advanced weapon system they have is the M1A1 but even that has had a lot of tech and armor stripped from it.
"Or, you know, there's a lot of men who are childish assholes and misogynists." A lot or a small percentage? That is the question. The internet is big and and even 1000 men acting like that is a very small number when you look at the total but if you have a thousand jerks posting that they want to rape and or kill you it seems like the whole world. That does not make it okay but the simple truth is that the internet allows idiots of all genders and orientation to seem like a large group when if fact they are a tiny group. As to threats I have actually gotten death threats and even a rape threat on Slashdot. I am a 49 year old straight male programmer with a beard. Maybe they where into that kind of thing but I am not interested. The simple truth is that bad people will do bad things. If you want to restrict that kind of speech you will have to use legal or social pressure and that will require some identity tied to the posts.
Your statement was the entire structure and possibly the surrounding areas would be waste. Windmills with have a defined max_life based of safety as well because most use aluminum for the blades. It will have a finite life because of metal fatigue. Low level waste is just not nearly as dangerous as you are making out. It is just put in to a landfill. Of course it is more expensive to decommission but this technology will greatly reduce the problems with waste. The simple truth is that to be anti-nuclear is to pro climate change.
" On top of that the entire structure, premesis, possibly nearby things, etc will become waste, and even low level waste is costly to deal with. " Umm no. The reactor and some parts will become low level waste not the entire structure. Everything is costly to deal with the dismantling of a solar plant or wind mill is costly to deal with how costly? This post is full of vague statements and errors designed to instill fear without knowledge.
No Nuclear is bad and dangerous. Actually this is not new. Many reactor designs that do this have been tested over the last few decades. Also fuel reprocessing does much the same thing. You are left with a few highly radioactive elements with short half lives. Some of those elements could be used for research and some could even be used as power sources in RTGs.
I so wish I had posted a few years ago when I first thought that SpaceX should land on a barge or ship instead of land. Boy does this seem to fail the obvious test.
You know I really hate the paranoid, tin foil hat, the sky is falling, libertarian nut cases that tend to post all the time on Slashdot.... But even I have to say "WHAT THE HECK?" to this story. Wow this is just over the top.
". So you're not waiting for the community so much as waiting for intel to publish the drivers, and the distros to upgrade to a sufficiently new kernel to include them.' Ummm. I think you need to look up the word community sometime. Intel and the distros are part of... now get this.... the community.
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If my wife is driving and I am riding then what?
When we are driving together the passenger is in charge of all devices. When I am driving I set up my podcasts to play and nav before I start off.
You must be tiny. I have a GNex and it fits just fine in my front pocket of my jeans.
That is impossible. The NFC chip is going to have to get some kind of key to create the one time payment codes for your credit card. It will have to talk to a PKI server someplace and send your cc number to the server so it can get the key to sign transactions. Is the PKI server located at the apple data center or is at the banks?
Your cc info will be sent to a server someplace at least once.
" monetizing transaction"
Are you sure about that? I do not think that Apple is not taking at least a small cut of the transactions.
Also let's be really honest. The stores are already collecting the data as are the credit card companies.
This is really nothing more than Google Wallet but for the iPhone. That is a good thing IMHO since it means more stores will start taking NFC. The folks at the 7/11 where so impressed when I paid with my phone 2 years ago.
Does not take a blockade, just an "accident". You will always want to have enough military force to win any war if possible. The goal is to never have to fight a war. The simple rule is no nation ever starts a war because the opponent is too strong. Nations start wars that they think they can win.
Good point.
Simple, steal one.
Or get one of the free emulators. The problem is finding the OS. You can only run zOS legally on real IBM hardware.
Exactly when cheap NG is cheap enough you can use it to make synth fuels for vehicles like trains, trucks, and aircraft. I do wonder if battery power would work for tractors? Weight is not an issue and range sure is not. The question would be is if they use too much energy for a practical battery. Of course a battery swap might be a simple solution for that.
You would save nothing.
Unless the Russia rapidly decreases the size of it's military you still need to have the military power to back it up.
After all a natural gas tanker could always just explode in the middle of the Atlantic or in a harbor in Europe.
Actually cheap natural gas and wind go hand in hand. You use Natural gas as a backing fuel for wind. If natural gas gets cheap enough you can turn it into clean burning diesel and jet fuel. Electricity is fine for many things but you will not see an electric airliners or long haul truck anytime soon. I also do not see the US electrifying all of it's railways anytime soon.
As to natural gas as a strategic fuel export might be a requirement strategically. Europe gets a lot of it's gas from Russia and may very well need to import a lot very soon if Russia keeps acting like the USSR under Stalin.
" Some of the first cars were electric, and since then incredibly wealthy auto manufacturers around the world have been telling us it is all but impossible."
And it still is. Even Elon Musk can not do it. Maybe someday but today you have to spend as much as many peoples homes cost to buy a Tesla.
Ignored do to being a grammar nazi. Real geeks do not care about grammar.
Those where Humpback whales not Blue whales. Turn in your geek card for making a faulty STOS reference.
"Well, first of all I didn't say the whole area would be waste."
Yes you did this is from your post. The entire structure, premesis (sic), and possibly nearby things is the definition of the entire area and then some.
" On top of that the entire structure, premesis, possibly nearby things, etc will become waste, and even low level waste is costly to deal with. "
Purex at Handford was built in the 1940s under war time conditions. It was run under war time conditions during the cold war as well. It is not a modern example at all. It would be the same as using a DC-4 as your reference for aircraft safety.
The US has not given the Iraqi military "advanced" weapons. They currently have no air defense at all except what the US provides them. The most advanced weapon system they have is the M1A1 but even that has had a lot of tech and armor stripped from it.
"Or, you know, there's a lot of men who are childish assholes and misogynists."
A lot or a small percentage? That is the question. The internet is big and and even 1000 men acting like that is a very small number when you look at the total but if you have a thousand jerks posting that they want to rape and or kill you it seems like the whole world. That does not make it okay but the simple truth is that the internet allows idiots of all genders and orientation to seem like a large group when if fact they are a tiny group.
As to threats I have actually gotten death threats and even a rape threat on Slashdot. I am a 49 year old straight male programmer with a beard. Maybe they where into that kind of thing but I am not interested.
The simple truth is that bad people will do bad things. If you want to restrict that kind of speech you will have to use legal or social pressure and that will require some identity tied to the posts.
Your statement was the entire structure and possibly the surrounding areas would be waste.
Windmills with have a defined max_life based of safety as well because most use aluminum for the blades. It will have a finite life because of metal fatigue.
Low level waste is just not nearly as dangerous as you are making out. It is just put in to a landfill.
Of course it is more expensive to decommission but this technology will greatly reduce the problems with waste. The simple truth is that to be anti-nuclear is to pro climate change.
I tell you what. This is without a doubt a comment that should be modded up.
It is good to see Strickland expanding its line of propane accessories.
" On top of that the entire structure, premesis, possibly nearby things, etc will become waste, and even low level waste is costly to deal with. "
Umm no.
The reactor and some parts will become low level waste not the entire structure.
Everything is costly to deal with the dismantling of a solar plant or wind mill is costly to deal with how costly?
This post is full of vague statements and errors designed to instill fear without knowledge.
No Nuclear is bad and dangerous.
Actually this is not new. Many reactor designs that do this have been tested over the last few decades. Also fuel reprocessing does much the same thing. You are left with a few highly radioactive elements with short half lives. Some of those elements could be used for research and some could even be used as power sources in RTGs.
Tesla has the car factor in CA and Elon has a major SpaceX factory there as well.
Betrayed?
I so wish I had posted a few years ago when I first thought that SpaceX should land on a barge or ship instead of land.
Boy does this seem to fail the obvious test.
You know I really hate the paranoid, tin foil hat, the sky is falling, libertarian nut cases that tend to post all the time on Slashdot....
But even I have to say "WHAT THE HECK?" to this story. Wow this is just over the top.
". So you're not waiting for the community so much as waiting for intel to publish the drivers, and the distros to upgrade to a sufficiently new kernel to include them.'
Ummm. I think you need to look up the word community sometime.
Intel and the distros are part of... now get this.... the community.
They did not with the old Mac Pro.