That would depend. For instance saying "I know you have good stuff so come on man" is okay. Telling them where they can get a supply and what a good way to make money dealing is then probably not. Proving entrapment is really hard so never bet on it.
It is not. Entrapment would be if the police went to someone and said," I really want you to sell me some drugs and then convinced them to do so". Just saying "hey do you have any drugs to buy" is not. Trapping people is perfectly legal. Convincing them to break the law is not.
Maybe not. If the wind farm is in deep water and floating it might have been just fine. The landing for the undersea power cables would be IMHO the most likely failure point.
And what was the output of the first wind turbine? Wind turbines are not new at all. The largest wind turbine is the http://www.vestas.com/en/media/news/news-display.aspx?action=3&NewsID=3163 at 8MWs. So you would need 587 of these to match the nuclear power plant. Scaling them up much bigger is really not going to be practical as the blades are already 80 meters long. The idea of churning these puppies out is extremely optimistic Let's say they can make and install one of these monsters a month. To match the nuclear plants output would only take 48 years. Even if it takes 10 years for a reactor you could have 5 plants in operation in that time. Now think about world wide production. Factories that can make something like this will be limited in number. Just shipping the blades will be a huge task. Then the infrastructure of floating wind farms and the under sea power cables and maintaing the wind turbines in a marine environment. This is not as easy you may think and it is not because it is "new" but because of well known problems that intrinsic to the system.
True and do the math as well. New Wind farm 2 mega watts with 7 more coming soon. And someday it maybe on gigawatt.... Someday. The Fukushima Nuclear Plant when working. 4,696 MWs Installed and over 7000 MW planned... So the windfarm is making less than 1/500th the power of the nuclear plant.
No in your home you have what is called an expectation of privacy. You do not have that expectation of privacy at a party, on the street, while driving, on an airplane, at a bar, club, or party. Email may have an expectation of privacy but it is a foolish one to expect since it is almost always stored in clear text on someone's servers. It is foolish to depend on it with anything important since it takes only a sysadmin to break that trust and Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo all scan your mail for ads and to get ride of spam.
"Email can be secured with current technology and protocols. Easily." "Include SPF in the mix and the only clear text version of the mail is sitting on my server hard drives and the client machines." So only when it is on your server. And even then it is not secure for your other users since you can read it. Most sys admins are too ethical to do such a thing but I have run into at least one that read everyone's email. Again I say no more secure than a postcard. Anyone in the postal service can read it.
That is why cars have fuse boxes but even then electrical fires do happen and Teslas are electric cars. Kind of makes the point that they meed more safety systems doesn't it? As to your other odd happening that was an old car that was not properly maintained. Again take the surface area of the battery and compare it to the surface area of the oil pan, fuel lines, transmission pan, and the wiring at the bottom of the car. It will still be a lot more surface area for the battery pack. That means a lot more is exposed to an impact when running over an object. I am leaving out the fuel tank because when running over an object I suspect that the front suspension, drive train, and rear axle will provide some protection for the fuel tank. Thanks for proving my main point which is even the mildest suggestion of criticism of the Tesla will result in a people defending the Tesla on Slashdot. I even allowed for it to be a fluke. I even said that I would still like one but yet people feel the need to defend. Elon Musk is a darling of the Slashdot crowd and any criticism will be attacked.
Email is trivial for anyone to monitor. It is sent in freaking clear text and has been since day one. It is like handing a folded piece of paper to a courier at best. The idea that something that you post to a bunch of your "friends" on a social networking site is private is pure insanity. You need to get a grip on simple reality public is public.
I really want to help all of the people on slashdot to get it once and for all. Private is what happens in your own home. And once you let in many other people say for a party... Well that is pretty public as well. What happens on the internet, at a bar, at a party, or anywhere else is in public. That cell phone conversation you had while waiting in line at the store? Public. That party where you got drunk and naked? Public. Email? As private as a postcard. What do you people don't get about this. If you want something private you have to keep it private. If you facebook like the International Society of Furry Loving Child Molesting Doms it is not private and people will find out.
I said likely. Flammable yes but they are not volatile and where is the source of ignition? Take some motor oil and throw a lit match into it. As to the increased friction well that will be caused by the lack of the oil! AKA the oil will be separated from the source of heat. Fires started by motor oil are very rare. Those that do happen usually involve it somehow getting onto the exhaust manifold. I have never heard of a car catching fire from transmission fluid. Do you know of any documented cases? The key to both is that they have high flash points well above that you will see in a car engine. Oils used for home heating must be atomized to burn again something not likely to happen in a car accident. You need learn what the the term likely means. It is not an absolute term of never but implies a low risk of the event happening. So my statement is true. Your statement is in error because you failed to take into account the world likely.
Except that for the people that have Glass guess what their favorite feature is. The camera. They love the fact that they can take pictures quickly and that they can catch pictures they could not if they had to get their camera out of their pocket. As to the heads up display with GPS just how often do you use GPS? How often does the average person use GPS? I know my city pretty well and never have to use GPS at home unless I am going to someone's home for the first time. I do live a city that has a terrible street naming system and a very large geographical area so that is why I need it for that. Think of the potential benefits to you. You see a coming soon poster for a movie that you might like to see. Snap a picture and make a note to check the reviews when it is in theaters. You see a bird while your out hiking. Google the pic and see what it is. The issues with camera already exist with cell cameras. The idea that google would record everything is currently silly. It would blow through your data so fast your head would spin. The voice rec for the keywords is local not server based for that reason. Someday it may be practical but not today. As far as consumers go the problem is not with the camera it is the cost and limited functionality. Dropping the camera will make it less useful. I see Glass as something you where when you are going out to do something not something you would wear everyday.
Nothing has only one side. Imagine a city with a good number of Google Glass users.
Say you have a special needs person that is lost. Upload a picture of his face and every set of Glass starts looking for him. When spotted the location is sent to the police and he is reunited with his family.
The downsides are there are well but most are in the category of "Google could do this". I guess it depends if your an optimist or a pessimist.That and I think it has become "fashionable" to talk about how Google is big brother. It is almost like how people talk about bands that become too popular and how they where so much cooler before they "sold out" and went mainstream. The difference is that people still use Google search, YouTube, GMail, and Docs and are not going to stop anytime soon.
"Home control. Tried over and over since the 1950s, first with 24VDC relay systems, then X10 ("X10! X10! X10!...") in the 1980s, and now being re-hyped again. Works fine. Solves a non-problem." It is not a none problem. It is one of those techs that is creeping up soon. In many ways it reminds of LANs. They went from rare and expensive to cheap and everywhere. WiFI was a big help as it drove the cost down and flexibility up. Home automation is much the same. Remotes for TV, Stereos, and even fans are now common. Smart thermostats first with times and now things like NEST. Again like the LAN back in the day it is common in big businesses and no is showing up in homes. "Short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft. Not quite a flying car, but workable aircraft with very low stall speeds and very short runway requirements have been built for decades. Just taxi out of your driveway and take off on the street, right? No." I think you are confusing STOLs with VTOLs like helicopters. The hype with STOLs was that people would start to build airports in the middle of cities and use STOL airliners for point to point. That failed for a number of reasons including land was still too expensive, STOLs are not as fuel efficient as standard airliners, and no matter how little noise and how short it can land an airliners in the middle of a city freaks people out. And that was before 9/11. The others are accurate.
I find it funny how things like this prove peoples bias. I have been driving for a long time. I have only known two people that have had a car fire. One was a TR-7 in the 90s and the other an old Caddy in the 80s. Both cars where olds and the TR-7 was well, British from the bad old days. The TeslaS is brand new and this is happening a bit too often but because it is a cool high tech electric car from the guy that is also building rockets everyone on Slashdot is giving him a pass. If it was the Chevy Volt people would want the president of GM arrested.
This could just be a random cluster. However looking at a Tesla vs your average car I can see how it could more vulnerable. On a gas car the engine is in the front so a damaging impact might hit the oil pan, transmission pan, or fuel line, Only the fuel line is likely to start a fire. Also those three parts have a very small surface area compared to the batter pack of a Tesla. The fuel tank of a typical car is at the rear so it is more or less protected by rest of the car. The "armor" might just be sheet aluminum. Kevlar might need to replace that or for durability steel. Of course it could just be a series of freak accidents. As to the owners saying they would by another? Tesla's are an enthusiast brand. No one get's sold a Tesla so owners will be more forgiving. What this says about people is more interesting than what it says about the car. Now watch how people will attack me for not praising the Tesla. BTW I would still like a Tesla S they seem like good cars as long as you do not run over big metal objects.
And you would bet your life that Brazil does not listen into any IP traffic in it's borders? Want to bet that they also have listening posts to pick up any OTA em they can. Best of all the line that leaks like this are illegal and the leakers will be prosecuted.
Sources? I would say that you are massively incorrect on that. Do you have sources outside of CO2 and of course I am talking about the US and per capita.
That was in 1961.... Back when people tested hydrogen bombs on the surface of the earth, in space, and under water, drove cars that had no real emission controls, and dumped chemicals into the water without restriction. AKA we have learned better since then....
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That would depend.
For instance saying "I know you have good stuff so come on man" is okay.
Telling them where they can get a supply and what a good way to make money dealing is then probably not. Proving entrapment is really hard so never bet on it.
Movie execs need their private jets, blow, and hookers to relax after a hard day of not paying taxes and buying congress people.
It is not. Entrapment would be if the police went to someone and said," I really want you to sell me some drugs and then convinced them to do so". Just saying "hey do you have any drugs to buy" is not. Trapping people is perfectly legal. Convincing them to break the law is not.
Maybe not. If the wind farm is in deep water and floating it might have been just fine. The landing for the undersea power cables would be IMHO the most likely failure point.
And what was the output of the first wind turbine? Wind turbines are not new at all.
The largest wind turbine is the http://www.vestas.com/en/media/news/news-display.aspx?action=3&NewsID=3163 at 8MWs. So you would need 587 of these to match the nuclear power plant. Scaling them up much bigger is really not going to be practical as the blades are already 80 meters long. The idea of churning these puppies out is extremely optimistic Let's say they can make and install one of these monsters a month. To match the nuclear plants output would only take 48 years. Even if it takes 10 years for a reactor you could have 5 plants in operation in that time. Now think about world wide production. Factories that can make something like this will be limited in number. Just shipping the blades will be a huge task. Then the infrastructure of floating wind farms and the under sea power cables and maintaing the wind turbines in a marine environment. This is not as easy you may think and it is not because it is "new" but because of well known problems that intrinsic to the system.
It's s Honey Pot.
True and do the math as well.
New Wind farm 2 mega watts with 7 more coming soon. And someday it maybe on gigawatt.... Someday.
The Fukushima Nuclear Plant when working. 4,696 MWs Installed and over 7000 MW planned...
So the windfarm is making less than 1/500th the power of the nuclear plant.
No in your home you have what is called an expectation of privacy. You do not have that expectation of privacy at a party, on the street, while driving, on an airplane, at a bar, club, or party. Email may have an expectation of privacy but it is a foolish one to expect since it is almost always stored in clear text on someone's servers. It is foolish to depend on it with anything important since it takes only a sysadmin to break that trust and Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo all scan your mail for ads and to get ride of spam.
"Email can be secured with current technology and protocols. Easily."
"Include SPF in the mix and the only clear text version of the mail is sitting on my server hard drives and the client machines."
So only when it is on your server. And even then it is not secure for your other users since you can read it. Most sys admins are too ethical to do such a thing but I have run into at least one that read everyone's email. Again I say no more secure than a postcard. Anyone in the postal service can read it.
I have no idea what your point is except that you do not any criticism of Teslas.
That is why cars have fuse boxes but even then electrical fires do happen and Teslas are electric cars. Kind of makes the point that they meed more safety systems doesn't it? As to your other odd happening that was an old car that was not properly maintained. Again take the surface area of the battery and compare it to the surface area of the oil pan, fuel lines, transmission pan, and the wiring at the bottom of the car. It will still be a lot more surface area for the battery pack. That means a lot more is exposed to an impact when running over an object. I am leaving out the fuel tank because when running over an object I suspect that the front suspension, drive train, and rear axle will provide some protection for the fuel tank.
Thanks for proving my main point which is even the mildest suggestion of criticism of the Tesla will result in a people defending the Tesla on Slashdot. I even allowed for it to be a fluke. I even said that I would still like one but yet people feel the need to defend. Elon Musk is a darling of the Slashdot crowd and any criticism will be attacked.
Email is trivial for anyone to monitor. It is sent in freaking clear text and has been since day one. It is like handing a folded piece of paper to a courier at best.
The idea that something that you post to a bunch of your "friends" on a social networking site is private is pure insanity. You need to get a grip on simple reality public is public.
I really want to help all of the people on slashdot to get it once and for all.
Private is what happens in your own home. And once you let in many other people say for a party... Well that is pretty public as well.
What happens on the internet, at a bar, at a party, or anywhere else is in public.
That cell phone conversation you had while waiting in line at the store? Public.
That party where you got drunk and naked? Public.
Email? As private as a postcard.
What do you people don't get about this. If you want something private you have to keep it private.
If you facebook like the International Society of Furry Loving Child Molesting Doms it is not private and people will find out.
I said likely. Flammable yes but they are not volatile and where is the source of ignition? Take some motor oil and throw a lit match into it. As to the increased friction well that will be caused by the lack of the oil! AKA the oil will be separated from the source of heat. Fires started by motor oil are very rare. Those that do happen usually involve it somehow getting onto the exhaust manifold. I have never heard of a car catching fire from transmission fluid. Do you know of any documented cases? The key to both is that they have high flash points well above that you will see in a car engine. Oils used for home heating must be atomized to burn again something not likely to happen in a car accident.
You need learn what the the term likely means. It is not an absolute term of never but implies a low risk of the event happening.
So my statement is true. Your statement is in error because you failed to take into account the world likely.
Except that for the people that have Glass guess what their favorite feature is. The camera. They love the fact that they can take pictures quickly and that they can catch pictures they could not if they had to get their camera out of their pocket. As to the heads up display with GPS just how often do you use GPS? How often does the average person use GPS? I know my city pretty well and never have to use GPS at home unless I am going to someone's home for the first time. I do live a city that has a terrible street naming system and a very large geographical area so that is why I need it for that.
Think of the potential benefits to you. You see a coming soon poster for a movie that you might like to see. Snap a picture and make a note to check the reviews when it is in theaters. You see a bird while your out hiking. Google the pic and see what it is.
The issues with camera already exist with cell cameras. The idea that google would record everything is currently silly. It would blow through your data so fast your head would spin. The voice rec for the keywords is local not server based for that reason. Someday it may be practical but not today.
As far as consumers go the problem is not with the camera it is the cost and limited functionality. Dropping the camera will make it less useful.
I see Glass as something you where when you are going out to do something not something you would wear everyday.
Nothing has only one side. Imagine a city with a good number of Google Glass users.
Say you have a special needs person that is lost. Upload a picture of his face and every set of Glass starts looking for him. When spotted the location is sent to the police and he is reunited with his family.
The downsides are there are well but most are in the category of "Google could do this".
I guess it depends if your an optimist or a pessimist.That and I think it has become "fashionable" to talk about how Google is big brother. It is almost like how people talk about bands that become too popular and how they where so much cooler before they "sold out" and went mainstream. The difference is that people still use Google search, YouTube, GMail, and Docs and are not going to stop anytime soon.
"Home control. Tried over and over since the 1950s, first with 24VDC relay systems, then X10 ("X10! X10! X10!...") in the 1980s, and now being re-hyped again. Works fine. Solves a non-problem."
It is not a none problem. It is one of those techs that is creeping up soon. In many ways it reminds of LANs. They went from rare and expensive to cheap and everywhere. WiFI was a big help as it drove the cost down and flexibility up. Home automation is much the same. Remotes for TV, Stereos, and even fans are now common. Smart thermostats first with times and now things like NEST. Again like the LAN back in the day it is common in big businesses and no is showing up in homes.
"Short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft. Not quite a flying car, but workable aircraft with very low stall speeds and very short runway requirements have been built for decades. Just taxi out of your driveway and take off on the street, right? No."
I think you are confusing STOLs with VTOLs like helicopters. The hype with STOLs was that people would start to build airports in the middle of cities and use STOL airliners for point to point. That failed for a number of reasons including land was still too expensive, STOLs are not as fuel efficient as standard airliners, and no matter how little noise and how short it can land an airliners in the middle of a city freaks people out. And that was before 9/11.
The others are accurate.
I find it funny how things like this prove peoples bias. I have been driving for a long time. I have only known two people that have had a car fire. One was a TR-7 in the 90s and the other an old Caddy in the 80s. Both cars where olds and the TR-7 was well, British from the bad old days.
The TeslaS is brand new and this is happening a bit too often but because it is a cool high tech electric car from the guy that is also building rockets everyone on Slashdot is giving him a pass. If it was the Chevy Volt people would want the president of GM arrested.
This could just be a random cluster. However looking at a Tesla vs your average car I can see how it could more vulnerable.
On a gas car the engine is in the front so a damaging impact might hit the oil pan, transmission pan, or fuel line, Only the fuel line is likely to start a fire. Also those three parts have a very small surface area compared to the batter pack of a Tesla. The fuel tank of a typical car is at the rear so it is more or less protected by rest of the car.
The "armor" might just be sheet aluminum. Kevlar might need to replace that or for durability steel.
Of course it could just be a series of freak accidents.
As to the owners saying they would by another? Tesla's are an enthusiast brand. No one get's sold a Tesla so owners will be more forgiving.
What this says about people is more interesting than what it says about the car. Now watch how people will attack me for not praising the Tesla.
BTW I would still like a Tesla S they seem like good cars as long as you do not run over big metal objects.
And you would bet your life that Brazil does not listen into any IP traffic in it's borders? Want to bet that they also have listening posts to pick up any OTA em they can. Best of all the line that leaks like this are illegal and the leakers will be prosecuted.
Sources? I would say that you are massively incorrect on that.
Do you have sources outside of CO2 and of course I am talking about the US and per capita.
You can but it is a much easer to get it from just straight Uranium and a lot harder than from plutonium.
I have to agree with this. I would rather see nuclear for the US but gas is better than coal.
Good point. I should have said helping them or encouraging them. What I can say? I am not a skilled writer but you get what I mean I hope.
"Do what I say not what I do."
More like don't make the mistakes I did... This was in 1961.
That was in 1961.... Back when people tested hydrogen bombs on the surface of the earth, in space, and under water, drove cars that had no real emission controls, and dumped chemicals into the water without restriction. AKA we have learned better since then....