Incandescent bulbs have a few toxic byproducts in their manufacture but nothing like the CFL which have several types of heavy metals, use all sorts of nasty hydro carbons and aren't easily recyclable..
What I want to know is what is the real power factor of the typical CFL and what is the efficiency of the inverter. While googling around I find power factor claims of.4 to.7 and inverter efficiencies of 65 to 85% Those numbers means the coal plant down the road will need to burn more coal to light up my 18W CFL than it took to light up my 60 W incandescent. It also appears that a dead CFL may take more power than one making light.
Has anyone put a meter on these cheap CFL? The last ones I measured was a long time ago.
Some coal has large amount of mercury in it and burning that for the power is where this theory comes from (along with numbers to back it up). Of course that doesn't account for the fact that most new bulbs are made in China and have far more mercury in them than they did a decade ago. If your in an area that doesn't burn dirty coal, or has decent filter or uses oil or nuke or hydro to geo thermal or solar or wind or tidal then this rumor isn't true.
How did you come to the conclusion that the large banks don't have your SSN already? Just because you didn't give it to them doesn't mean they didn't get it from some place else.
Certs these days are trivial to get. The records for my cert aren't much better than what the domain name company has. All the cert says is that a company exists and its trivial to set up a untraceable company in most countries including all the ones where most of the spam comes from.
Have you ever used a x.400 gateway? It is not a reasonable alternative to anything other an over weight budget. Isode was great compared to some of the other x.400 options and its the poorest bit of software I ever tried to patch.
Because then Joe Spammer will change his clients an extra $500 and go out and register a company and get a cert for that company before sending out billions of authenticated messages.
X.400 can confirm who the senders are. Thats pointless for most spam today. Check out the messages who happen to have links to https sites and you will see that many spamers are happy to set up a real company and get a cert just to sucker a few more people. Its just a tiny cost of doing business that they are more than happy to pay for.
I on the other hand am not happy to pay the thousands of dollars every year to run an x.400 like certificate chain and email system.
That old guy was so wrong. Doesn't he know with modern virtual memory based disk access we can write have programs that opens a huge text file and reads through the entire thing faster than we can set up the connection to the sql server to ask it to look in an index?
That is why I'm disappointed that it didn't focus on the "go talk to your local elected official about making this illegal"
Spamers have stolen the usefulness of email away and if its not fixed real soon, it will be completely worthless to more and more people. I'm hearing from more and more people "oh, I don't check email much anymore, its all junk"
When the base package includes a word processor, why not throw in telnetd along with the kitchen sink?
Sun seems to have dropped the ball with security and Sol 10 is just too complex to secure. I mean when telnetd has a problem, what else slipped by? Too bad their new hardware won't run Solairs 9.
Yes a state could in theory trample over the rights of its citizens... except for the problem that every state has a constitution that protects more rights than the US constitution. They only way you get to be a state is for the US congress to approve your states constitution and they have a long history of telling states to try again.
As far as heavy handed tactics, the prime examples show up in the drug war which is a federal issue and fema mess which the federal gov't decided it was in charge and couldn't manage its way out of a bag.
There are states that appear to be clueless but they are rare and tend to be clueless in just one area such as education or roads and rarely everything.
The new requirements don't prove your id either, they just prove you have the paperwork. Its trivial to get a copy of a birth certificate and holding such a document doesn't prove its you. It only proves a person was born with that name. My original one is a bad print job on cheap paper with my foot prints but that's not even considered a proper birth certificate by anyone any more and they prefer the fancy one that came out of the color laser printer with a raised seal. All this will do is increase id fraud over time since now people can't get fake documents in their own name so they will have to pick someone else's.
Keep in mind that all US citizens are a citizen of a state as well. This concept seems to have been lost over the last few decades even in Texas.
I'm sure these new laws violate several state constitutions... including Missouri's and I've pointed out the issue to the State's attorney generals department and they happen to be one of the states that is pushing this.
Getting FCC approval isn't hard. You send in a bunch of documents from your trusted RF lab and they rubber stamp them and put the ones not marked confidential on their web site. To even make a call on the stage, it would have had to pass all the hard tests already. 6 Months for the FCC approval doesn't look like the truth. I'm guessing its a long estimate to throw off other big phone manufactures. I expect to see the phone inside a few months.
I think as people age, they pick up more complex projects and maybe they get to a point where they get over loaded. To be a good programmer, you must be able to cope with complex problems and as people age, they are involved with more and more projects. Right now I've got a few complex but unrelated work projects, several for my own consulting company. Then there are other complex problems like home and retirement financing, managing home and family projects and hobbies. Even simple stuff like keeping track of all the stuff is getting to be a complex problem. This week I started sorting out the tool boxes. I've got at tools spread out in at least 9 different locations so just keeping track of all that is an extra complexity when doing a simple project. I didn't have that problem a decade ago.
Years ago when I was turning out far more code per day than I now do per month, I could concentrate on one project and the other issues weren't nearly as complicated. For example long term finical security then would mean attempting to get enough cash to cover rent and the bills. Now it involves things like global currency rates and picking stocks that aren't going to repeat the dot bomb nonsense. After my new years purge of my todo list, its now down to just 5 pages.
Is it desperation? I think so. There are lots of Solaris shops that looked at Solaris 10 and told sun to come back when its done. Solaris 9 wasn't impressive as a development environment but for a production system you could rip out all the bloat and have a very lean system that was rock solid. The core system rarely needed patches and if you kept careful track of what modules where needed and checked what got patched, you would find that most patches were for things that wouldn't even be loaded on a secured production machine. You could get trusted solaris for earlier versions but not Solaris 10. Sun's attitude is simple that Solaris 10 is the most secure Solaris ever (which is total BS-- you can't even audit what its starting up)
I've been running Sun hardware and operating systems for 2 decades because I could lock it down and make sure it was locked down. I like the hardware stack on sparc which means off by one errors aren't going to end up in the execution engine and that alone is worth buying sun hardware for things that must be secure. Too bad they broke Solaris 10 so bad. For examples, if you poke data into the smf databases you can get the system to run commands at shutdown (with no way to detect it other than the full audit log). Every time someone fixes the very broken xml shared library you have to reboot the system since init is linked to it (why? init should not be dynamically linked). Init opens shared libs and then starts programs that mount things over the top. I'm not sure you can even properly patch a Solaris 10 system now and I know it can't be secured.
Your right about the litre (and I mistyped quart). The quarts just happening to average to a liter was an odd accident and its not true if you take the commonly used quarts. There is a great book called "units" that is full of odd facts about different measuring systems.
I don't know. I have a house in Melbourne Australia (that was built when feet were used) and a majority of the people I rent to are students from Europe. They are pathetic at guessing the room size. I've had two Austrians get it with in a 1/2 meter but Americans tend to get it within 2 feet every time. I've got over 50 data points as well.
Fahrenheit was based on better science in the day than Celsius. The original scale by Celsius had 100 as freezing and 0 as boiling but he did nothing to take into account pressure changes so there is about a 3 to 4% error on the top end of the scale and a 1% change on the bottom. That means the original deg C scale would nearly always be off by at least 1%. The deg F scale was based on a reproducible zero point that didn't change by more than.25 deg F and the top end was calibrated to the body temp of a dog and if you have a healthy dog in normal condition that is with in about.25 degrees as well. Its still easier to create 0 deg F in a lab than 0 deg C. The top end is still tricky but I've gotten water to boil below 80 def C in a lab but I'm not going to pick on any dogs to calibrate my thermometers.
Had they gotten one of their many errors right, a nano-light second would have been.3000000 m. Another set of errors would have resulted in.3000 m being extremely close to a foot.
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Incandescent bulbs have a few toxic byproducts in their manufacture but nothing like the CFL which have several types of heavy metals, use all sorts of nasty hydro carbons and aren't easily recyclable..
.4 to .7 and inverter efficiencies of 65 to 85% Those numbers means the coal plant down the road will need to burn more coal to light up my 18W CFL than it took to light up my 60 W incandescent. It also appears that a dead CFL may take more power than one making light.
What I want to know is what is the real power factor of the typical CFL and what is the efficiency of the inverter. While googling around I find power factor claims of
Has anyone put a meter on these cheap CFL? The last ones I measured was a long time ago.
Some coal has large amount of mercury in it and burning that for the power is where this theory comes from (along with numbers to back it up). Of course that doesn't account for the fact that most new bulbs are made in China and have far more mercury in them than they did a decade ago. If your in an area that doesn't burn dirty coal, or has decent filter or uses oil or nuke or hydro to geo thermal or solar or wind or tidal then this rumor isn't true.
How did you come to the conclusion that the large banks don't have your SSN already? Just because you didn't give it to them doesn't mean they didn't get it from some place else.
Certs these days are trivial to get. The records for my cert aren't much better than what the domain name company has. All the cert says is that a company exists and its trivial to set up a untraceable company in most countries including all the ones where most of the spam comes from.
Have you ever used a x.400 gateway? It is not a reasonable alternative to anything other an over weight budget. Isode was great compared to some of the other x.400 options and its the poorest bit of software I ever tried to patch.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean I have to put up with someone in my face 24x7.
It is illegal to push prescription drugs on children yet not a single DA has bused a spamer for drug pushing.
Because then Joe Spammer will change his clients an extra $500 and go out and register a company and get a cert for that company before sending out billions of authenticated messages.
X.400 can confirm who the senders are. Thats pointless for most spam today. Check out the messages who happen to have links to https sites and you will see that many spamers are happy to set up a real company and get a cert just to sucker a few more people. Its just a tiny cost of doing business that they are more than happy to pay for.
I on the other hand am not happy to pay the thousands of dollars every year to run an x.400 like certificate chain and email system.
That old guy was so wrong. Doesn't he know with modern virtual memory based disk access we can write have programs that opens a huge text file and reads through the entire thing faster than we can set up the connection to the sql server to ask it to look in an index?
That is why I'm disappointed that it didn't focus on the "go talk to your local elected official about making this illegal"
Spamers have stolen the usefulness of email away and if its not fixed real soon, it will be completely worthless to more and more people. I'm hearing from more and more people "oh, I don't check email much anymore, its all junk"
I agree with your comments about quality control.
And they look at me funny when I say I would like to run Solaris 8 or 9 on my T1000/T2000.
There have been backdoored versions of netcat floating around the net for at least a decade. Check the source luke!
When the base package includes a word processor, why not throw in telnetd along with the kitchen sink?
Sun seems to have dropped the ball with security and Sol 10 is just too complex to secure. I mean when telnetd has a problem, what else slipped by? Too bad their new hardware won't run Solairs 9.
If SMF is light years ahead, how can I audit it? Say someone uses a binary editor to stuff the database full of a root kit, how do I find it?
Yes a state could in theory trample over the rights of its citizens... except for the problem that every state has a constitution that protects more rights than the US constitution. They only way you get to be a state is for the US congress to approve your states constitution and they have a long history of telling states to try again.
As far as heavy handed tactics, the prime examples show up in the drug war which is a federal issue and fema mess which the federal gov't decided it was in charge and couldn't manage its way out of a bag.
There are states that appear to be clueless but they are rare and tend to be clueless in just one area such as education or roads and rarely everything.
The new requirements don't prove your id either, they just prove you have the paperwork. Its trivial to get a copy of a birth certificate and holding such a document doesn't prove its you. It only proves a person was born with that name. My original one is a bad print job on cheap paper with my foot prints but that's not even considered a proper birth certificate by anyone any more and they prefer the fancy one that came out of the color laser printer with a raised seal. All this will do is increase id fraud over time since now people can't get fake documents in their own name so they will have to pick someone else's.
Keep in mind that all US citizens are a citizen of a state as well. This concept seems to have been lost over the last few decades even in Texas.
I'm sure these new laws violate several state constitutions... including Missouri's and I've pointed out the issue to the State's attorney generals department and they happen to be one of the states that is pushing this.
Getting FCC approval isn't hard. You send in a bunch of documents from your trusted RF lab and they rubber stamp them and put the ones not marked confidential on their web site. To even make a call on the stage, it would have had to pass all the hard tests already. 6 Months for the FCC approval doesn't look like the truth. I'm guessing its a long estimate to throw off other big phone manufactures. I expect to see the phone inside a few months.
I think as people age, they pick up more complex projects and maybe they get to a point where they get over loaded. To be a good programmer, you must be able to cope with complex problems and as people age, they are involved with more and more projects. Right now I've got a few complex but unrelated work projects, several for my own consulting company. Then there are other complex problems like home and retirement financing, managing home and family projects and hobbies. Even simple stuff like keeping track of all the stuff is getting to be a complex problem. This week I started sorting out the tool boxes. I've got at tools spread out in at least 9 different locations so just keeping track of all that is an extra complexity when doing a simple project. I didn't have that problem a decade ago.
Years ago when I was turning out far more code per day than I now do per month, I could concentrate on one project and the other issues weren't nearly as complicated. For example long term finical security then would mean attempting to get enough cash to cover rent and the bills. Now it involves things like global currency rates and picking stocks that aren't going to repeat the dot bomb nonsense. After my new years purge of my todo list, its now down to just 5 pages.
A power book 165c and my sparcbook both use 2.5" scsi drives.
I am hunting to a cable to hook that size drive to something else.
Is it desperation? I think so.
There are lots of Solaris shops that looked at Solaris 10 and told sun to come back when its done.
Solaris 9 wasn't impressive as a development environment but for a production system you could rip out all the bloat and have a very lean system that was rock solid. The core system rarely needed patches and if you kept careful track of what modules where needed and checked what got patched, you would find that most patches were for things that wouldn't even be loaded on a secured production machine.
You could get trusted solaris for earlier versions but not Solaris 10. Sun's attitude is simple that Solaris 10 is the most secure Solaris ever (which is total BS-- you can't even audit what its starting up)
I've been running Sun hardware and operating systems for 2 decades because I could lock it down and make sure it was locked down. I like the hardware stack on sparc which means off by one errors aren't going to end up in the execution engine and that alone is worth buying sun hardware for things that must be secure. Too bad they broke Solaris 10 so bad. For examples, if you poke data into the smf databases you can get the system to run commands at shutdown (with no way to detect it other than the full audit log). Every time someone fixes the very broken xml shared library you have to reboot the system since init is linked to it (why? init should not be dynamically linked). Init opens shared libs and then starts programs that mount things over the top. I'm not sure you can even properly patch a Solaris 10 system now and I know it can't be secured.
Your right about the litre (and I mistyped quart). The quarts just happening to average to a liter was an odd accident and its not true if you take the commonly used quarts. There is a great book called "units" that is full of odd facts about different measuring systems.
even then when you start talking about 1.000 it all goes out the window.
I don't know. I have a house in Melbourne Australia (that was built when feet were used) and a majority of the people I rent to are students from Europe. They are pathetic at guessing the room size. I've had two Austrians get it with in a 1/2 meter but Americans tend to get it within 2 feet every time. I've got over 50 data points as well.
Fahrenheit was based on better science in the day than Celsius. The original scale by Celsius had 100 as freezing and 0 as boiling but he did nothing to take into account pressure changes so there is about a 3 to 4% error on the top end of the scale and a 1% change on the bottom. That means the original deg C scale would nearly always be off by at least 1%. The deg F scale was based on a reproducible zero point that didn't change by more than .25 deg F and the top end was calibrated to the body temp of a dog and if you have a healthy dog in normal condition that is with in about .25 degrees as well.
Its still easier to create 0 deg F in a lab than 0 deg C. The top end is still tricky but I've gotten water to boil below 80 def C in a lab but I'm not going to pick on any dogs to calibrate my thermometers.
Had they gotten one of their many errors right, a nano-light second would have been .3000000 m. Another set of errors would have resulted in .3000 m being extremely close to a foot.