Does this sort of über-large wind power machine generate more energy than it takes to create, install, and maintain it? I remember reading that the smaller machines required more energy over their lifetimes than they were able to generate.
Sounds like typical anti-wind propaganda. Its funny, every time this argument is brought forth for wind or solar, someone says 'I just read it somewhere' - I have never seen hard figures to support such a critique of the economics of alternative energy. I am sure it could be done for a specific installation that was poorly design, or used outdated techniques (like those horrible inefficient copper photovoltaic cells).
If that's becoming less true, I think this is a great thing. I worry a little about the environmental effects of "taking energy out of the wind", but I haven't read about anyone important who shares my worry, so it's probably unfounded.
If only we could slow down some of those winds, I am sure a lot of people who just suffered from hurricanes would be rushing to install wind turbines! But no, the amount of wind taken by even the largest turbines is so infinitesmal as to not matter. It would be like fretting about contributing to global warming each time you farted, to worry about these machines causing environmental damage by calming a windy area.
.. that this warrants further investigation, really, can we work on a scientific way to end homelessness or something as opposed to using Spinach to power your cell phone.
What an incredibly lame P.C. response to progress. Homelessness is a socio-economic problem, not a scientific one. This same sort of complaint against sciencse/technology has often been heard before, as arguments against the Internet and space exploration. But I never thought I'd hear it on Slashdot. I guess the invasion of the load and clueless is continuing on schedule.
Yeah, maybe I'll loose some karma points here, but I just can't let this sort of whiney idiocy go by without yelling.
Here in coastal massachusetts, we are cursed/blessed with a lot of wind. The cost of electric production here is quite high. Some clever and industrious entepreneurs with ecological and energy dependence concerns started a project Cape Wind, to take advantage of a steady supply of wind in a good location. Unfortunately, some assholes decided that windmills, even though they are miles offshore, would somehow 'blight' the view from their mansions and hired a lot of lawyers and publicisists to create an astroturf campaign against Cape Wind. Walter Cronkite had originally been co-opted by those forces of Evil, but later saw reason. The Kennedy political clan is still firmly Evil.
I don't have the figures ready to quote, but I heard that a majority of the costs of installing this wind farm have been legal bills. This of course will result in less economic efficiency, further fuelling (excuse the pun) the propaganda of the naysayers that wind is a losing proposition.
We need to have legislative support to block these types of lawsuits before they can harm alternative energy. We need to have a voice to shut down the NIMBY evil groups and shame them.
An MIT professor who has the guts to tell us that common sense transcends politically incorrect dogma spewed out of Democrat and Republican administrations alike.
Too bad we can't depend on the labor movement to actually be useful and preserve U.S. jobs as a whole.
The number of idiotic posts here is just another example of the declining clue of slashdot users. SPF is an attempt to prevent email forgery. Lots of spam is forged, in an attempt to get by filters. More serious trouble is caused by various 'fishing' schemes, trying to get your bank account/credit card numbers by appearing to be from paypal,etc. SPF will address the forgery of host &domain names. It does not address the problem of forged user IDs (though this is less of a problem than you may think, if the domain is legit). It does not address the idea of unwanted mail.
Anyone with clue can see this is another tool in the toolbox. Each piece of incoming mail is ranked with a score indicating its probability of being spam. SPF, whitelists, bayesian filters, being in html, coming from china, etc affect the score. There's no magic bullet to stop spam.
Anyone who has spent time as a systems admin of a mail server, should know this.
Was she hired because she is a woman? was she hired because she fit the qualifications for the job, but given a leg up over the competition because of her gender? It sounds like the latter. Which is in direct opposition to MIT's stated non-discrimination in employment based upon race, gender, sexual orientation, race, and national origin. Iin other words, the whole policy of EEOC stuff is a lie, and that it is just a way to stomp down the white men that people like Michael Moore hate.
This is just another example of MIT's long slow decline. Soon, it will be as much of a social disaster area as UC Berkeley.
Shouldn't it be more like Novell buying Sun? Sun is on its way down the tubes, and Novell is rising. But imagine the damage that could be done by McNeally...remember Raq?
I can't say I know a single person that had his DOS boxed hacked into remotely.
Ever heard of PC Anywhere? Several times I have come across these things, hooked up to DOS based PCs. These are typically long-forgotten specialty boxes, such as the one controlling the community events board of a cable TV franchise.
I feel silly responding to my own comment, but I had remembered the name incorrectly - the incident is the Gilmi Glider - Gimli Goose is a wine! But I also found a much better story about this:
Thanks, Slashdot, for this article. One the cat is out of the bag, he won't go back in...so it's important that BPL gets ripped out when it fails (which it will...oh yes we have WAYS of making it fail. For instance, all BPL ISPs will be filtered at my firewall. And I am a licensed amateur, and will file an endless stream of takedown complaints to the FCC, as hams ARE the primary users of the bands in question). So, doing whatever it takes to delay any implementation, on a local level, is appropriate. It would be a good idea for municipalities to ban it.
A dutch friend of mine once remarked that she didn't understand the mentality of the British. "You" she said, "have an amazing tendency to run things into the ground and then get around to fixing them rather than spending money on continually maintaining them so they never fall apart."
Funny, I noticed this about the U.S. system. But I figured it out. It has to do with the fact that civil maintenance is done by civil-service people with a union and a contract, while new equipment and construction contracts with companies are awarded to either the lowest bidder or some politically well connected company. So, the disposable roads/bridges and possibly airports system is a result of trying to contain socialist laborism. And I don't know how I feel about that.
The 4000 is horrible. we're replacing it at work, because it causes us so much pain. What it lacks is features:
1 - sym links aren't portable between CIFS and NFS 2 - No support for GID 3 - No strong authentication of windows users -- only support NTLM not NTLMv2 or Kerberos. Passwords in the clear!
p.s. for some reason my first post of this message did not go through.
that's because of the outsourcing and work visas being issued. I am also from Boston, at the MIT flea market I heard of a guy who got laid off and they hired some guy on a year work visa from india to fill his job (This is HP).
time for a new labor movment, keep jobs here, keep money here (in Boston...all of you in India can fight globalization keeping WalMart and Microsoft out if you want, I have no problem with that)
I own my domains, not some company. My I am not going to publish my phone number, and get more junk calls like the postal spam I get due to the fact I used my legitimate address (at the time) for registering my domain(s) years ago.
What's next, publishing my SSN and birthday in whois data?
I know some other countries (france, for example) are very strict and will only issue domains to a company with a tax ID and right to the name. Well, go right ahead france, but I think the generic domains (com/net/org) should remain open to all without prying eyes.
If we wanted such open access to domain owner data, how how about a.inc TLD, with data linked to corporate registration number and state and country of inc.? and leave the rest of us alone!
It amazes me how much the media and wanna-be reporters are cramming this outsourcing is good thing down our throats. Everywhere I look I see jobs going overseas. It's not good for us.
Call it protectionism if you like, but I'd rather our industry stayed here. because there's no way I'd be let work in India, even if I wanted to. so it's a matter of survival.
I am sick of people coming up with ways to screw small ISPs, community mail servers, personal domains, and the rest with things like email stamps, and this is the worst I've seen so far. I will now boycott spamhaus and everything they touch. This is just another dishonest grasp at cash in the name of public good, just like ARIN.
The technology exists to combat spam without becoming elitist corporate arseholes. First, public key crypto, with certificates distributed via DNS, could indicate which IP servers are authorized to originate mail for a given domain/subdomain. Second, asymmetrical computational puzzles can be used with unknown/suspicious senders.
What we need is credit card processing firms cracking down on their customers who are spammers. Because in the end, it comes down to someone entering their credit card number, and at that point the end-spammer (i.e. the business interest at the head of the spam conspiracy, not the middle men) becomes known.
Ugh, I am so disgusted by the new TLDs that we have had thrust on us the past couple of years, and now they want to create more? the rationality for.coop and.biz was bad, but.yahoo? no way! TLDs are meant to have legal meanings. If you look back at when they were created, there were different usage policies for arpanet (.arpa) and milnet (.mil), and nato (.nato, now gone) in the military world. Commercial entities and non-commercial, extra-military organizations were also appropriately marked by their domain. Foreign jurisdictions were also appropriately marked. It made sense; you could make network policy decisions based on TLD.
Now, any organization can get com/tld/org, and I see an increating number of things that should be in.gov in.com -- what a mess!
What would be useful is specific information, providid by TLD, telling you what kind of organization you are dealing with..inc,.corp.,.ltd,.gmbh would be most useful. They could be made available only to companies with the specified form, and the specified name. The problem is, there can still be two companies with the name name, but incorporated in different places. I guess geographical descriptions could be used to indicate the legal inforporation domain of the entity, i.e. sikorski.ct.us.inc, but that gets ugly. But it would be useful to at least have sikorski.inc, and know for a fact that is who you are dealing with.
What would also be great is a record other than NS that is in a given TLD's database. Things like public crypto keys, to enable secure email (dnssec?) and a field for legal identification of the entity, such as the specific domain of incorporation, and the secretary of state corporation number and/or federal tax id. Technically, this would be easy to implement, though there is some paperword in verification of the applying entity's entitlement to a domain, but that's what the registration fees are supposed to cover, right?
Other than that, the only new TLD I can see being worth a damn would be.ham. Amateur radio operators already have globally unique identifiers (callsigns) a global organization (IARU) and national organizations (such as ARRL and RSGB) set up to handle the administration. They also have a need, it can be cumbersome to reach a specific ham over the Internet. There is already a whole/8 block of IP space for amateur packet radio use (44.0.0.0/8) and this would complement it as well.
OK, so does someone want to appoint me to ICANN?;) -- oh well how about IANA as well, once you hear by arguments about how to fix that broken system;)
Women and minorities this and that, yadda yadda I am sick of it. I want a printer designed and manufactured in the US by white american males, just like me....where's my affinity group? heh.
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Sounds like typical anti-wind propaganda. Its funny, every time this argument is brought forth for wind or solar, someone says 'I just read it somewhere' - I have never seen hard figures to support such a critique of the economics of alternative energy. I am sure it could be done for a specific installation that was poorly design, or used outdated techniques (like those horrible inefficient copper photovoltaic cells).
If that's becoming less true, I think this is a great thing. I worry a little about the environmental effects of "taking energy out of the wind", but I haven't read about anyone important who shares my worry, so it's probably unfounded.
If only we could slow down some of those winds, I am sure a lot of people who just suffered from hurricanes would be rushing to install wind turbines! But no, the amount of wind taken by even the largest turbines is so infinitesmal as to not matter. It would be like fretting about contributing to global warming each time you farted, to worry about these machines causing environmental damage by calming a windy area.
What an incredibly lame P.C. response to progress. Homelessness is a socio-economic problem, not a scientific one. This same sort of complaint against sciencse/technology has often been heard before, as arguments against the Internet and space exploration. But I never thought I'd hear it on Slashdot. I guess the invasion of the load and clueless is continuing on schedule.
Yeah, maybe I'll loose some karma points here, but I just can't let this sort of whiney idiocy go by without yelling.
I don't have the figures ready to quote, but I heard that a majority of the costs of installing this wind farm have been legal bills. This of course will result in less economic efficiency, further fuelling (excuse the pun) the propaganda of the naysayers that wind is a losing proposition.
We need to have legislative support to block these types of lawsuits before they can harm alternative energy. We need to have a voice to shut down the NIMBY evil groups and shame them.
An MIT professor who has the guts to tell us that common sense transcends politically incorrect dogma spewed out of Democrat and Republican administrations alike.
Too bad we can't depend on the labor movement to actually be useful and preserve U.S. jobs as a whole.
The number of idiotic posts here is just another example of the declining clue of slashdot users. SPF is an attempt to prevent email forgery. Lots of spam is forged, in an attempt to get by filters. More serious trouble is caused by various 'fishing' schemes, trying to get your bank account/credit card numbers by appearing to be from paypal ,etc. SPF will address the forgery of host &domain names. It does not address the problem of forged user IDs (though this is less of a problem than you may think, if the domain is legit). It does not address the idea of unwanted mail.
Anyone with clue can see this is another tool in the toolbox. Each piece of incoming mail is ranked with a score indicating its probability of being spam. SPF, whitelists, bayesian filters, being in html, coming from china, etc affect the score. There's no magic bullet to stop spam.
Anyone who has spent time as a systems admin of a mail server, should know this.
Was she hired because she is a woman? was she hired because she fit the qualifications for the job, but given a leg up over the competition because of her gender? It sounds like the latter. Which is in direct opposition to MIT's stated non-discrimination in employment based upon race, gender, sexual orientation, race, and national origin. Iin other words, the whole policy of EEOC stuff is a lie, and that it is just a way to stomp down the white men that people like Michael Moore hate.
This is just another example of MIT's long slow decline. Soon, it will be as much of a social disaster area as UC Berkeley.
Shouldn't it be more like Novell buying Sun? Sun is on its way down the tubes, and Novell is rising. But imagine the damage that could be done by McNeally...remember Raq?
Are the CAcert folks still handing tese out at usenix in Boston? when/where?
Ever heard of PC Anywhere? Several times I have come across these things, hooked up to DOS based PCs. These are typically long-forgotten specialty boxes, such as the one controlling the community events board of a cable TV franchise.
Gimli Glider
NASA has nothing on airline oopses: Gilmi I wonder how many other disasters of this type don't end up with enough survivors to tell how it happened.
Thanks, Slashdot, for this article. One the cat is out of the bag, he won't go back in...so it's important that BPL gets ripped out when it fails (which it will...oh yes we have WAYS of making it fail. For instance, all BPL ISPs will be filtered at my firewall. And I am a licensed amateur, and will file an endless stream of takedown complaints to the FCC, as hams ARE the primary users of the bands in question). So, doing whatever it takes to delay any implementation, on a local level, is appropriate. It would be a good idea for municipalities to ban it.
Funny, I noticed this about the U.S. system. But I figured it out. It has to do with the fact that civil maintenance is done by civil-service people with a union and a contract, while new equipment and construction contracts with companies are awarded to either the lowest bidder or some politically well connected company. So, the disposable roads/bridges and possibly airports system is a result of trying to contain socialist laborism. And I don't know how I feel about that.
beer is supposed to be kept around 55 degrees fahrenheit. 32-35 mentioned is too cold.
The 4000 is horrible. we're replacing it at work, because it causes us so much pain. What it lacks is features:
1 - sym links aren't portable between CIFS and NFS
2 - No support for GID
3 - No strong authentication of windows users -- only support NTLM not NTLMv2 or Kerberos. Passwords in the clear!
p.s. for some reason my first post of this message did not go through.
I'm tired of waiting for debian. I think I am going to fork my own. Too many things missing from potato, yet I want stability.
that's because of the outsourcing and work visas being issued. I am also from Boston, at the MIT flea market I heard of a guy who got laid off and they hired some guy on a year work visa from india to fill his job (This is HP).
time for a new labor movment, keep jobs here, keep money here (in Boston...all of you in India can fight globalization keeping WalMart and Microsoft out if you want, I have no problem with that)
I own my domains, not some company. My I am not going to publish my phone number, and get more junk calls like the postal spam I get due to the fact I used my legitimate address (at the time) for registering my domain(s) years ago.
.inc TLD, with data linked to corporate registration number and state and country of inc.? and leave the rest of us alone!
What's next, publishing my SSN and birthday in whois data?
I know some other countries (france, for example) are very strict and will only issue domains to a company with a tax ID and right to the name. Well, go right ahead france, but I think the generic domains (com/net/org) should remain open to all without prying eyes.
If we wanted such open access to domain owner data, how how about a
yes, it was that Einsturzende Neubauten mp3 I sent to them.
It amazes me how much the media and wanna-be reporters are cramming this outsourcing is good thing down our throats. Everywhere I look I see jobs going overseas. It's not good for us.
Call it protectionism if you like, but I'd rather our industry stayed here. because there's no way I'd be let work in India, even if I wanted to. so it's a matter of survival.
I am sick of people coming up with ways to screw small ISPs, community mail servers, personal domains, and the rest with things like email stamps, and this is the worst I've seen so far. I will now boycott spamhaus and everything they touch. This is just another dishonest grasp at cash in the name of public good, just like ARIN.
The technology exists to combat spam without becoming elitist corporate arseholes. First, public key crypto, with certificates distributed via DNS, could indicate which IP servers are authorized to originate mail for a given domain/subdomain. Second, asymmetrical computational puzzles can be used with unknown/suspicious senders.
What we need is credit card processing firms cracking down on their customers who are spammers. Because in the end, it comes down to someone entering their credit card number, and at that point the end-spammer (i.e. the business interest at the head of the spam conspiracy, not the middle men) becomes known.
I am NOT eccentric! What you call eccentric is merely the results of having the viewpoint of several time streams to look at.
Also, look for John Titor in the upcoming series.
useless to me. No PCI, PCMCIA, or ISA slots? Seems like just a toy.
What I'd like is a small board that has at least one slot for $50. It doesn't have to be fast. 300 mhz would be ok.
Ugh, I am so disgusted by the new TLDs that we have .coop and .biz was bad, but .yahoo? no way! TLDs are meant to have legal meanings. If you look back at when
.gov in .com -- what a mess!
.inc, .corp., .ltd, .gmbh would be most useful. They could be made available only to companies with the specified form, and the specified name. The problem is, there can still be two companies with the name name, but incorporated in different places. I guess geographical descriptions could be used to indicate the legal inforporation domain of the entity, i.e. sikorski.ct.us.inc, but that gets
.ham. Amateur radio operators already have globally unique identifiers (callsigns) a global organization (IARU) and national organizations (such as ARRL and RSGB) set up to handle the administration. They also have a need, it can be cumbersome to reach a specific ham over the Internet. There is already a whole /8 block of IP space for amateur packet radio use (44.0.0.0/8) and this would complement it as well.
;) -- oh well how about IANA as well, once you hear by arguments about how to fix that broken system ;)
had thrust on us the past couple of years, and now they want to create more? the rationality for
they were created, there were different usage policies for arpanet (.arpa) and milnet (.mil), and nato (.nato, now gone) in the military world. Commercial entities and non-commercial, extra-military organizations were also appropriately marked by their domain. Foreign jurisdictions were also appropriately marked. It made sense; you could make network policy decisions based on TLD.
Now, any organization can get com/tld/org, and I see an increating number of things that should be in
What would be useful is specific information, providid by TLD, telling you what kind of organization you are dealing with.
ugly. But it would be useful to at least have sikorski.inc, and know for a fact that is who you are dealing with.
What would also be great is a record other than NS that is in a given TLD's database. Things like public crypto keys, to enable secure email (dnssec?) and a field for legal identification of the entity, such as the specific domain of incorporation, and the secretary of state corporation number and/or federal tax id. Technically, this would be easy to implement, though there is some paperword in verification of the applying entity's entitlement to a domain, but that's what the registration fees are supposed to cover, right?
Other than that, the only new TLD I can see being worth a damn would be
OK, so does someone want to appoint me to ICANN?
Women and minorities this and that, yadda yadda I am sick of it. I want a printer designed and manufactured in the US by white american males, just like me....where's my affinity group? heh.