Yes, methane is the most practical source of hydrogen. While biomass can provide methane, the bulk of methane still has to come from gas wells.
This means that you're still talking about liberating additional CO2, which the sky is falling greenhouse effect backers hate. So the solution that's been proposed is to sequester the CO2 by injecting it back into oil and gas wells.
Looking at the production cycle from well to your tank (i.e. not the energy produced when burned), diesel is 90% efficient, gasoline 80%, methanol 70%, and H2 60%. Methanol has fewer BTUs per gallon anyway, so you have to burn more of it to release the same amount of energy.
Definitely use MRTG to get an idea of your usage. There are also a number of utilities that can make estimates of pipe size between routers: pathchar, bing, etc. These so happen to be covered in a sample chapter on O'Reilly's site:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/nettroubletools/c ha pter/ch04.html
Most contracts have a severability clause in them that states that if any part of the contract is found to be invalid or illegal, it doesn't invalidate the rest of the contract.
The only problem is that the Outlook security updates aren't very flexible. They prevent any access to any potentially dangerous attachments. Making it so you can't just blindly double-click on an attachment is fine, but the security update prevents you from even getting the attachment. There are plenty of legitimate reasons why I might be sending or receiving attachments of these types, and the wholesale blocking of them creates a real PITA.
No, removing a gall bladder isn't cutting-edge, but when you're testing technology such as this, you want to keep the procedure itself relatively simple...that way, any mistakes aren't life threatening, and if there are suddenly problems with the communications link, a local surgeon can take over.
Hahahahaha! Tell me you're not serious. Radio stations make their money by packaging nice demographic groups to sell to advertisers. Advertisers are the consumers in radio, and the listeners are the product.
Even if those who support legislation like this don't have bad intentions, we end up getting hurt. The problem is that once something is available to the government without any checks in place, it becomes very easy to abuse.
This sort of thing has happened repeatedly throughout history, and it's one reason why the founders insisted on a Bill of Rights to explicitly protect citizens from the government.
True, the Supreme Court is intended to kill off unconstitutional legislation. But that takes time and money for a case or cases to work through the process of getting the Supreme Court involved.
Remember that we're still waiting for a DMCA-related case to make its way to the Supreme Court. The whole time, our actions are being limited by the DMCA.
I thought the equipment request a little strange when I saw it yesterday. But a discussion on a list I'm on raised some questions about the Red Cross. A couple of people on that list said they had done volunteer work for the Red Cross, and had witnessed all sorts of bad things during disaster operations...Red Cross people staying in nice hotels, charging people for bottles of water, etc. I have no reason to believe that these people were lying.
My take on this is that the Red Cross is a big organization, and there will no doubt be problems here and there, and that if it was widespread throughout the organization, it would have come to the public's attention. Just curious if anyone else has seen problems like this with the Red Cross.
I remember when the Nintendo Entertainment System was all the rage in the late 80's...someone wrote a book that said Nintendo was using the NES to get themselves into lots of homes, and would then start using it to control all the family entertainment...it did, after all, have an expansion port that they could use to add new devices. The whole thing sounded a little far-fetched and paranoid then, but MS is certainly making it seem more and more possible.
How about something to detect water on the seats? Too many times in our dorms people would go into the stalls to take a leak and never lift the ring (I guess they were shy about using the more exposed urinals). Even worse was this Turkish guy who didn't use toilet paper...he carried a watering can in with him. Only problem was that he'd end up leaving water all over the seat and the floor, and never wiped it up.
Another thing would be a TP detector...if you knew you were going to take a particularly nasty dump, you could know which stalls didn't have enough TP to take care of you.
Now, for wired bathroom humor:
*Gives a whole new meaning to "core dump".
*Makes you glad you don't have to manually rotate logs.
*The fact that they implemented finger on this is just so wrong.
*Gives new meaning to "computer whiz".
*Is there anything to prevent buffer overflow?
*Is this application sold with "per seat" licensing?
*Hope their pipes can handle the load...
ASCAP and BMI are the two big licensing concerns for radio. These companies deal with performance licenses, which provide performance royalties to the composer. Performance, as used in this sense, is rather broad, as it includes radio broadcast, public playing of recordings, and live performances. The bar that has cover bands playing every night is supposed to have paid fees to ASCAP and BMI.
Most stations have what's called a blanket license with ASCAP and BMI, which allows them to do pretty much anything with the music....play it on the air, set up PA systems at events and play music over them, etc.
As more stations started streaming their audio on the net, ASCAP and BMI got bitchy and greedy, and thought they should get more money, even though this stream didn't differ from the terrestrial broadcast. At the time this was coming to a head, our attorney told us to stream away - we had a blanket license, and it did not specifically exclude any uses. Until such time as the licenses were up for renewal, and those terms changed, ASCAP and BMI couldn't do a thing about it.
Now, as far as many "large" radio stations stopping their streams, this isn't such a bad thing. Given the rush to consolidate the radio industry by the major players like Emmis and Clear Channel, you'll always be able to hear pretty much the same thing in every market. I always found it amusing that the homogenized stations used to announce their streaming audio on the air...like I really want to listen to a crackly audio stream instead of the radio.... As long as the smaller, independent stations can get their streams out, things will be good. These stations still have an individual character and personality that is lost in the corporate stations.
Well, I was beaten to the comment about the Simpson's episode...
I assume that the subjects in this experiment were heterosexual. As research on this continues, it would be interesting to include homosexual subjects. Of course, the people who claim to be able to "cure" homosexuality would then add noseplugs to their list of tools...:)
As the article mentions, humans are a bit more complicated than some of the animals that have immediate responses to pheremones. The physical appearance usually plays a role for us, and things like perfume can certainly have an influence (and if they're wearing too much of it, can drive you away). But it does make you wonder if some people are cranking out large quantities of pheremones - these are the people who arouse desires in everyone they meet, regardless of whether or not they match that person's physical ideals.
This article points out one of the important aspects of scientific research: peer review. Claims made by one group of researchers are tested by others. This either validates the original results, raises questions about them, or shows them to be fraudulent.
God has given us a clear set of rules with which to live by Ok...maybe. The only clear set of rules in the Bible is the Ten Commandments. Everything else is someone's interpretation/translation over the years. How do we know that the Bible is God's word? Because it says so? That's circular...you can't use the contents of the Bible to "prove" that the Bible is the word of God.
Anything and anyone who acts against these instructions is also acting against the God. Sounds reasonable. Of course, we don't know that these instructions are from God...
Since God is Good, acting against him is Evil Another jump of logic here....how do we know that God is good? Because of the Bible? If the Bible is the word of God, we're basically taking his word for it: "I'm God, I'm good. Worship me." How do we know that God isn't really an evil entity waging a massive PR campaign to keep us from knowing the truth?
It's too bad that the irrational fears of the general public will probably keep this sort of thing from being put to use for quite some time. And since most people are scientifically ignorant, it's nearly impossible to educate them...
Maybe the nuclear industry should just pay MTV to tout reactors on TRL....it worked for Limp Bizkit...
Actually, MCA wasn't all that horrific as far as the concept went. Don't forget that the PC was IBM's first "open" system, and that was only for expediency to get it to market in a year. IBM was still very much a big iron company, and thought that way. You could always be sure that IBM components would play well together, and MCA continued this concept into the PC world.
However, the fact that patenting MCA didn't improve IBM's share of the PC market should be a lesson in the advantages of truly open technologies over proprietary ones.
(And yes, my first Linux install was Slackware on a MCA PS/2)
Can we (as a community) reverse engineer the 2K 'net send' protocol and create a (probably java-based) popup generator for 95/98/NT/Linux?
How about smbclient -M in samba? The only problem I see with this is that you're going to need RPC connectivity to the infected system. If the system is behind any kind of firewall, chances are the appropriate ports aren't going to be available....hence the CRV solution of using the 0wn3d box to send itself a popup...
Yep. Linux Journal just did a cover story on the rendering for Shrek. Went into pretty good detail on the custom tools that Dreamworks is using.
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Sure, other web servers have potential security holes. But it was Microsoft that decided the index server ISAPI should be installed and accessible by default.
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Yes, methane is the most practical source of hydrogen. While biomass can provide methane, the bulk of methane still has to come from gas wells.
This means that you're still talking about liberating additional CO2, which the sky is falling greenhouse effect backers hate. So the solution that's been proposed is to sequester the CO2 by injecting it back into oil and gas wells.
Looking at the production cycle from well to your tank (i.e. not the energy produced when burned), diesel is 90% efficient, gasoline 80%, methanol 70%, and H2 60%. Methanol has fewer BTUs per gallon anyway, so you have to burn more of it to release the same amount of energy.
Definitely use MRTG to get an idea of your usage. There are also a number of utilities that can make estimates of pipe size between routers: pathchar, bing, etc. These so happen to be covered in a sample chapter on O'Reilly's site:
c ha pter/ch04.html
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/nettroubletools/
Most contracts have a severability clause in them that states that if any part of the contract is found to be invalid or illegal, it doesn't invalidate the rest of the contract.
The only problem is that the Outlook security updates aren't very flexible. They prevent any access to any potentially dangerous attachments. Making it so you can't just blindly double-click on an attachment is fine, but the security update prevents you from even getting the attachment. There are plenty of legitimate reasons why I might be sending or receiving attachments of these types, and the wholesale blocking of them creates a real PITA.
Details of what this update does here.
No, removing a gall bladder isn't cutting-edge, but when you're testing technology such as this, you want to keep the procedure itself relatively simple...that way, any mistakes aren't life threatening, and if there are suddenly problems with the communications link, a local surgeon can take over.
You have viable feedback, you're consumers
Hahahahaha! Tell me you're not serious. Radio stations make their money by packaging nice demographic groups to sell to advertisers. Advertisers are the consumers in radio, and the listeners are the product.
Even if those who support legislation like this don't have bad intentions, we end up getting hurt. The problem is that once something is available to the government without any checks in place, it becomes very easy to abuse.
This sort of thing has happened repeatedly throughout history, and it's one reason why the founders insisted on a Bill of Rights to explicitly protect citizens from the government.
True, the Supreme Court is intended to kill off unconstitutional legislation. But that takes time and money for a case or cases to work through the process of getting the Supreme Court involved.
Remember that we're still waiting for a DMCA-related case to make its way to the Supreme Court. The whole time, our actions are being limited by the DMCA.
I thought the equipment request a little strange when I saw it yesterday. But a discussion on a list I'm on raised some questions about the Red Cross. A couple of people on that list said they had done volunteer work for the Red Cross, and had witnessed all sorts of bad things during disaster operations...Red Cross people staying in nice hotels, charging people for bottles of water, etc. I have no reason to believe that these people were lying.
My take on this is that the Red Cross is a big organization, and there will no doubt be problems here and there, and that if it was widespread throughout the organization, it would have come to the public's attention. Just curious if anyone else has seen problems like this with the Red Cross.
I remember when the Nintendo Entertainment System was all the rage in the late 80's...someone wrote a book that said Nintendo was using the NES to get themselves into lots of homes, and would then start using it to control all the family entertainment...it did, after all, have an expansion port that they could use to add new devices. The whole thing sounded a little far-fetched and paranoid then, but MS is certainly making it seem more and more possible.
Why dont they program it to fly around scoop up water and drop it on the fire
:)
Well, they'd probably end up scooping up the robotic SCUBA divers....
How about something to detect water on the seats? Too many times in our dorms people would go into the stalls to take a leak and never lift the ring (I guess they were shy about using the more exposed urinals). Even worse was this Turkish guy who didn't use toilet paper...he carried a watering can in with him. Only problem was that he'd end up leaving water all over the seat and the floor, and never wiped it up.
Another thing would be a TP detector...if you knew you were going to take a particularly nasty dump, you could know which stalls didn't have enough TP to take care of you.
Now, for wired bathroom humor:
*Gives a whole new meaning to "core dump".
*Makes you glad you don't have to manually rotate logs.
*The fact that they implemented finger on this is just so wrong.
*Gives new meaning to "computer whiz".
*Is there anything to prevent buffer overflow?
*Is this application sold with "per seat" licensing?
*Hope their pipes can handle the load...
Sure it can run Linux....it would just have to use a buttery kernel...
...but the cow-handling requirements...
:)
But if we're talking about milking skills, that could be a benefit...
ASCAP and BMI are the two big licensing concerns for radio. These companies deal with performance licenses, which provide performance royalties to the composer. Performance, as used in this sense, is rather broad, as it includes radio broadcast, public playing of recordings, and live performances. The bar that has cover bands playing every night is supposed to have paid fees to ASCAP and BMI.
Most stations have what's called a blanket license with ASCAP and BMI, which allows them to do pretty much anything with the music....play it on the air, set up PA systems at events and play music over them, etc.
As more stations started streaming their audio on the net, ASCAP and BMI got bitchy and greedy, and thought they should get more money, even though this stream didn't differ from the terrestrial broadcast. At the time this was coming to a head, our attorney told us to stream away - we had a blanket license, and it did not specifically exclude any uses. Until such time as the licenses were up for renewal, and those terms changed, ASCAP and BMI couldn't do a thing about it.
Now, as far as many "large" radio stations stopping their streams, this isn't such a bad thing. Given the rush to consolidate the radio industry by the major players like Emmis and Clear Channel, you'll always be able to hear pretty much the same thing in every market. I always found it amusing that the homogenized stations used to announce their streaming audio on the air...like I really want to listen to a crackly audio stream instead of the radio.... As long as the smaller, independent stations can get their streams out, things will be good. These stations still have an individual character and personality that is lost in the corporate stations.
Well, I was beaten to the comment about the Simpson's episode...
:)
I assume that the subjects in this experiment were heterosexual. As research on this continues, it would be interesting to include homosexual subjects. Of course, the people who claim to be able to "cure" homosexuality would then add noseplugs to their list of tools...
As the article mentions, humans are a bit more complicated than some of the animals that have immediate responses to pheremones. The physical appearance usually plays a role for us, and things like perfume can certainly have an influence (and if they're wearing too much of it, can drive you away). But it does make you wonder if some people are cranking out large quantities of pheremones - these are the people who arouse desires in everyone they meet, regardless of whether or not they match that person's physical ideals.
This article points out one of the important aspects of scientific research: peer review. Claims made by one group of researchers are tested by others. This either validates the original results, raises questions about them, or shows them to be fraudulent.
Let's use a little logic and reasoning here:
God has given us a clear set of rules with which to live by
Ok...maybe. The only clear set of rules in the Bible is the Ten Commandments. Everything else is someone's interpretation/translation over the years. How do we know that the Bible is God's word? Because it says so? That's circular...you can't use the contents of the Bible to "prove" that the Bible is the word of God.
Anything and anyone who acts against these instructions is also acting against the God.
Sounds reasonable. Of course, we don't know that these instructions are from God...
Since God is Good, acting against him is Evil
Another jump of logic here....how do we know that God is good? Because of the Bible? If the Bible is the word of God, we're basically taking his word for it: "I'm God, I'm good. Worship me." How do we know that God isn't really an evil entity waging a massive PR campaign to keep us from knowing the truth?
It's too bad that the irrational fears of the general public will probably keep this sort of thing from being put to use for quite some time. And since most people are scientifically ignorant, it's nearly impossible to educate them...
Maybe the nuclear industry should just pay MTV to tout reactors on TRL....it worked for Limp Bizkit...
Actually, MCA wasn't all that horrific as far as the concept went. Don't forget that the PC was IBM's first "open" system, and that was only for expediency to get it to market in a year. IBM was still very much a big iron company, and thought that way. You could always be sure that IBM components would play well together, and MCA continued this concept into the PC world.
However, the fact that patenting MCA didn't improve IBM's share of the PC market should be a lesson in the advantages of truly open technologies over proprietary ones.
(And yes, my first Linux install was Slackware on a MCA PS/2)
Can we (as a community) reverse engineer the 2K 'net send' protocol and create a (probably java-based) popup generator for 95/98/NT/Linux?
How about smbclient -M in samba? The only problem I see with this is that you're going to need RPC connectivity to the infected system. If the system is behind any kind of firewall, chances are the appropriate ports aren't going to be available....hence the CRV solution of using the 0wn3d box to send itself a popup...
then fires back at the same hole Code Red exploits and causes the pop-up.
Not completely correct. The Java code is not using the hole that Code Red exploits. It's exploiting the hole that Code Red creates.
Yep. Linux Journal just did a cover story on the rendering for Shrek. Went into pretty good detail on the custom tools that Dreamworks is using.
Sure, other web servers have potential security holes. But it was Microsoft that decided the index server ISAPI should be installed and accessible by default.