I would tend to agree. If it's 30kW at full power, and assuming $0.10 per kWh, then it's at least $3.00. Probably more like $5.00, when you take various overhead and losses into account.
Why let them get that far inland? Wouldn't it be better if you had some of them stationed off the coastline, patrolling? Ideally, something relatively small (compared to a ship), fully autonomous, self-sustaining, and that blends in with the ocean? Sharks, for instance..
According to what I just read the power output is scalable all the way down to non-lethal to a human being, so I see no reason why you couldn't use it to re-enact that one scene from Real Genius.
'Fidget spinners' are basically toys that would captivate someone who is stoned, so what do you expect? It's right up there with things like Candy Crush.
What sort of idiot do you have to be to believe such nonsense as this? So-called 'self driving cars' have NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with 'net neutrality' or anything Comcast has anything to do with!
Sure. There's also 'zero commercial advantage' to not jacking up the price of Epi pens by a gazillion percent, and just look how well-received that was!
Then you have two choices: Either some obscure 3rd-tier company, probably Chinese, who at best is hiding their backdoors, or expensive FPGAs, and you learn to 'roll your own' microprocessor that way. Or, used equipment wherever you can find it.
I suppose you could also set up your firewalls to prevent any 'phone home' from occurring, but like Windows 10, it might have so many different ways to do that, that you'd be playing an endless game of Whack-a-Mole trying to lock it out.
There's two reasons I can think of offhand why they wouldn't want to release the sourcecode:
1. They don't want to make it any easier than necessary for hackers to find a way to exploit this
2. They don't want the general public to know exactly how much any system using this hardware compromises their privacy and personal security
As-is, I'd say that any computer using this technology is about as compromised as it can get, nothing you'd ever do on it would even be remotely secure, not unless it was never, ever connected to any network that has any route to the public Internet. The only way they could make something like this worse would be to somehow prevent any OS other than Windows to run on it, ensuring that you never, ever have any control over anything that isn't trivial.
In the past I've said "computers aren't fun anymore", but when I said that previously I meant it in a totally different way than I do when I say it now; between hardware manufacturers, designing in hardware that allows for outside surveillance and control of a computer you ostensibly own, and shithead companies like Microsoft, who produce entire operating systems with surveillance-and-control completely integrated into every piece of code, computers are now worse than "no fun anymore", they're spiritually cancerous. As if that isn't all bad enough, now Microsoft is attempting to annex and subvert Linux, too, trying to bring it's further development under their control, and running half-assed versions of it under Windows, effectively removing all the advantages, security, and privacy.
If I even cared anymore I guess I'd go play with microcontrollers. Until, that is, they manage to ruin that for everyone, too.
They're not citizens or will become citizens, they're keeping American citizens from getting jobs and sending the money they earn overseas; your point is invalid. Next?
Never mind worrying about so-called, over-hyped, mostly fake 'AI' nonsense 'taking over the world', or 'robots shooting us dead in the streets', or whatever the hell it was that Musk was on about yesterday, what we really need to worry about is so-called 'smart buildings', absolutely saturated with poorly designed and poorly secured 'IoT' nonsense getting hacked into, turning whole buildings against their occupants. It'll be the new 'ransomware': 'Pay us X amount of bitcoins, or we don't allow the building to let people leave/breathe/out of the elevators/(insert whatever mischief they can accomplish, here)'.
We don't have ONE pumped storage plant, or ONE nuclear reactor, or ONE of any such things, we have MANY of them, and we don't have ONE power generation facility for the entire country. TRY to understand what I'm talking about, okay?
The 'trick' is in Windows filesystem access settings. You set DENY read/execute for SYSTEM for any files you don't want to ever run. You may have to take Ownership of the files/folders you want to do this to first, though. There are other ways you can do this, but it would involve things like removing the boot drive, connecting it to another computer, then deleting the Cortana files you don't ever want run, and also hunting down the backups of those that Windows System Protection maintains, and deleting those, too. That's the 'nuclear' solution, though, you can't come back from that one without reinstalling Windows. So tweaking Secuirty settings on files and folders is the best bang for the buck.
You're talking about 'having a sense of purpose', and too many people just plain don't -- or they have chosen the wrong purpose, or their 'purpose' has been twisted and subverted into something bad.
You could have developed an irregular heartbeat and not even know it, there are many people who walk around their entire lives with conditions like that and never know it unless someone hooks them up to an ECG and looks at it -- or it develops into a much worse problem and they end up in the hospital. Or you could just manage your overall stress levels well enough that you've got no such problems. No way to tell without some sort of diagnostics.
I can't see Li+ cells being practical for an application of this magnitude. Too expensive.
Flow battery technology on the other hand is designed to be cheaply and easily scalable, if I'm not totally mistaken. The energy density isn't anywhere near as high, true, so maybe it's a few square miles (of land nobody wants anyway, right?) instead of just one square mile, so what?
Of course as I stated elsewhere, I'd be uncomfortable with having 'all our (energy) eggs in one basket' like this. Spread out over, say, half a dozen sites? Yes.
Regardless it would take decades to implement a plan of this size, and in the meantime there'd still be 'traditional' power generation plants. The switchover could be done gracefully on a schedule.
I'd be surprised if the U.S. government would even consider something as radical as this, though.
Why wouldn't a career politician want a shot at being VP? Granted, it's kind of the 1st Runner Up Consolation Prize in the political beauty pageant, but if that's as close as you think you'll ever get, then I guess you take it. There's also the possibility that the GOP knew a populist Trump was their only way in, knew he'd probably get ousted at some point, maybe even planned on throwing him under the bus when the time was right, so they'd get Dominionist ultra-conservative Pence in the Big Chair. It's a bit Machiavellian but it's plausible.
Uh, I'm not even characterizing UBI proponents as 'right' or 'left', rather as 'lazy' and 'dumb'. I'm sure there are just as many 'right wing' types that want free money to live on so they can party and be lazy as 'left wing' types. All it takes is being bad at math and not having anything resembling a work ethic.
Dude that doesn't actually 'disable' it, just it's user interface, it still runs in the background listening in and watching what you're doing. I completely killed it.
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I would tend to agree. If it's 30kW at full power, and assuming $0.10 per kWh, then it's at least $3.00. Probably more like $5.00, when you take various overhead and losses into account.
Why let them get that far inland? Wouldn't it be better if you had some of them stationed off the coastline, patrolling? Ideally, something relatively small (compared to a ship), fully autonomous, self-sustaining, and that blends in with the ocean? Sharks, for instance..
Damn you to Hell, sir, you beat me to it by 12 minutes. :p
According to what I just read the power output is scalable all the way down to non-lethal to a human being, so I see no reason why you couldn't use it to re-enact that one scene from Real Genius .
Spoiler: The technology really isn't ready regardless. Keep your drivers license in order, you'll need it for a good long time to come.
'Fidget spinners' are basically toys that would captivate someone who is stoned, so what do you expect? It's right up there with things like Candy Crush.
So-called 'AI' is media hype and VC bait and has NOTHING to do with actual Artificial Intelligence. This is just the nail in the coffin.
What sort of idiot do you have to be to believe such nonsense as this? So-called 'self driving cars' have NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with 'net neutrality' or anything Comcast has anything to do with!
That's pretty much a given, anymore.
Sure. There's also 'zero commercial advantage' to not jacking up the price of Epi pens by a gazillion percent, and just look how well-received that was!
Then you have two choices: Either some obscure 3rd-tier company, probably Chinese, who at best is hiding their backdoors, or expensive FPGAs, and you learn to 'roll your own' microprocessor that way. Or, used equipment wherever you can find it.
I suppose you could also set up your firewalls to prevent any 'phone home' from occurring, but like Windows 10, it might have so many different ways to do that, that you'd be playing an endless game of Whack-a-Mole trying to lock it out.
There's two reasons I can think of offhand why they wouldn't want to release the sourcecode:
1. They don't want to make it any easier than necessary for hackers to find a way to exploit this
2. They don't want the general public to know exactly how much any system using this hardware compromises their privacy and personal security
As-is, I'd say that any computer using this technology is about as compromised as it can get, nothing you'd ever do on it would even be remotely secure, not unless it was never, ever connected to any network that has any route to the public Internet. The only way they could make something like this worse would be to somehow prevent any OS other than Windows to run on it, ensuring that you never, ever have any control over anything that isn't trivial.
In the past I've said "computers aren't fun anymore", but when I said that previously I meant it in a totally different way than I do when I say it now; between hardware manufacturers, designing in hardware that allows for outside surveillance and control of a computer you ostensibly own, and shithead companies like Microsoft, who produce entire operating systems with surveillance-and-control completely integrated into every piece of code, computers are now worse than "no fun anymore", they're spiritually cancerous. As if that isn't all bad enough, now Microsoft is attempting to annex and subvert Linux, too, trying to bring it's further development under their control, and running half-assed versions of it under Windows, effectively removing all the advantages, security, and privacy.
If I even cared anymore I guess I'd go play with microcontrollers. Until, that is, they manage to ruin that for everyone, too.
They're not citizens or will become citizens, they're keeping American citizens from getting jobs and sending the money they earn overseas; your point is invalid. Next?
Tell me how importing 15,000 more foreign workers in any way shape or form helps "Make America Great Again"???
Never mind worrying about so-called, over-hyped, mostly fake 'AI' nonsense 'taking over the world', or 'robots shooting us dead in the streets', or whatever the hell it was that Musk was on about yesterday, what we really need to worry about is so-called 'smart buildings', absolutely saturated with poorly designed and poorly secured 'IoT' nonsense getting hacked into, turning whole buildings against their occupants. It'll be the new 'ransomware': 'Pay us X amount of bitcoins, or we don't allow the building to let people leave/breathe/out of the elevators/(insert whatever mischief they can accomplish, here)'.
That would make much more sense.
Seriously, Elon Musk really can be the smartest dumb guy in the room sometimes.
We don't have ONE pumped storage plant, or ONE nuclear reactor, or ONE of any such things, we have MANY of them, and we don't have ONE power generation facility for the entire country. TRY to understand what I'm talking about, okay?
The 'trick' is in Windows filesystem access settings. You set DENY read/execute for SYSTEM for any files you don't want to ever run. You may have to take Ownership of the files/folders you want to do this to first, though. There are other ways you can do this, but it would involve things like removing the boot drive, connecting it to another computer, then deleting the Cortana files you don't ever want run, and also hunting down the backups of those that Windows System Protection maintains, and deleting those, too. That's the 'nuclear' solution, though, you can't come back from that one without reinstalling Windows. So tweaking Secuirty settings on files and folders is the best bang for the buck.
You're talking about 'having a sense of purpose', and too many people just plain don't -- or they have chosen the wrong purpose, or their 'purpose' has been twisted and subverted into something bad.
You could have developed an irregular heartbeat and not even know it, there are many people who walk around their entire lives with conditions like that and never know it unless someone hooks them up to an ECG and looks at it -- or it develops into a much worse problem and they end up in the hospital. Or you could just manage your overall stress levels well enough that you've got no such problems. No way to tell without some sort of diagnostics.
I can't see Li+ cells being practical for an application of this magnitude. Too expensive.
Flow battery technology on the other hand is designed to be cheaply and easily scalable, if I'm not totally mistaken. The energy density isn't anywhere near as high, true, so maybe it's a few square miles (of land nobody wants anyway, right?) instead of just one square mile, so what?
Of course as I stated elsewhere, I'd be uncomfortable with having 'all our (energy) eggs in one basket' like this. Spread out over, say, half a dozen sites? Yes.
Regardless it would take decades to implement a plan of this size, and in the meantime there'd still be 'traditional' power generation plants. The switchover could be done gracefully on a schedule.
I'd be surprised if the U.S. government would even consider something as radical as this, though.
Why wouldn't a career politician want a shot at being VP? Granted, it's kind of the 1st Runner Up Consolation Prize in the political beauty pageant, but if that's as close as you think you'll ever get, then I guess you take it. There's also the possibility that the GOP knew a populist Trump was their only way in, knew he'd probably get ousted at some point, maybe even planned on throwing him under the bus when the time was right, so they'd get Dominionist ultra-conservative Pence in the Big Chair. It's a bit Machiavellian but it's plausible.
Uh, I'm not even characterizing UBI proponents as 'right' or 'left', rather as 'lazy' and 'dumb'. I'm sure there are just as many 'right wing' types that want free money to live on so they can party and be lazy as 'left wing' types. All it takes is being bad at math and not having anything resembling a work ethic.
Dude that doesn't actually 'disable' it, just it's user interface, it still runs in the background listening in and watching what you're doing. I completely killed it.
What is "sneak attack", Alex?
What is "cyber attack", Alex?
It's not smart to have only one of something vitally important.