http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_exemption
"very narrow and strictly limited experimental use defense" for "amusement, to satisfy idle curiosity, or for strictly philosophical inquiry."
sounds like this is fine, not selling a product, not useful, not competing... Is the patent held by a private entity? Because if this is patent held by a US government institution, as far as I can recall their is no recourse for a government body to sue in civil court an individual, which is what would be required for a patent infringement case.
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exactly, so anyone standing within hearing range I don't know, waiting to see if your payment was processed so he can take his item home, now has your last 4 in addition to your account, name, bank name... If you had just setup twitter it was a few key pushes,and they would have to steal your phone, and then couldn't really use that to convince your bank to reverse the transfer.
To be fair pretty much every US households incoming power supply is 220 Volt, and they should all work with that just fine without change. Just because the Europeans don't make their transformers keep the rms voltage at 110 from ground, so you can't always find a 110 Volt tap to use isn't the reps fault is it;) But since it seams less than 5% of Americans know that one leg of our 220V at home is at the same peak voltage to ground as the 110V wiring, I doubt that's what they were describing.
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I guess the bank check with the receiver getting it direct from the bank (both have to go to the payers bank, during bank hours.) I know BankOfAmerica wouldn't make any promises on wire transfer. All they can confirm is that the money was their, and they will start it, completed within something like 4-48 hours (needs to be done 4 hours before closing.) I guess if someone had mulitple people authorized and bought stuff at different banks at the same time, only one gets paid. My bad is I never transferred accounts from a internet bank with branches where I used to live. And the local banks won't let me use money I transferred into my local savings account in the last 48 hours (somewhere around that anyway.) So impulse deals over the daily ATM limit are out for me (from non dealers anyway.)
sounds like their is a secure solution Cryttr mostly does that. although I am not sure this would really accomplish what you wanted unless the bank was willing to exchange keys with you as well.
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Didn't add, the phone call to the bank needs to be private as well. Caller-id is too easy to spoof, so then you give out enough details to confirm your ID that whoever is within ear shot to know how to access your account as well. So you have to get privacy from the person your doing business with, but neither side can trust mid transaction for the other to leave to verify transfer...
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Right now what is missing on craigslist is the ability to safely do confirmed transfer of large purchases. With fake bank checks the norm now, their is no way, even face to face, to say you got my $5000 I got your car, transaction complete (that I know of, short of $5000 in bills, then your both ripe for robbery.) Paypal was close at one point, but you give a single piece of info your email, and you get back a single piece of info email confirmation to that email (just a spoofed paypal email, skip the middle man.) Granted you can then login, so then you each need a trustworthy internet connected computer (no key logger...) This sounds like a path, you give a account number for deposit, you get a twitter response. If the bank sent it direct, you would be back to the: you had my bank routing number, you spoofed a email/text message from that source. If you are both calling banks, good luck getting through consistently to a person...
Not sure this is a solution, but it seams like a path to a solution. IE if all banks allowed you to setup temporary accounts for transfer. I can currently setup a new savings account, and close it in 5 minutes with my bank online. So I would have no problem if they had twitter, give them my account number, tweet a message to transfer the agreed amount from the main account, they start the transfer to their account, we each get tweets saying its done, I close my new savings account later. although the new accounts are too similar to my regular checking account, all but the last 3 match, I wouldn't want that info to get to Nigeria scammers... Also out of branch transfers are still a pain to initiate they make small deposits, you confirm the amount, then you can make a larger amount... sounds like a good job for a third party to be involved for me.
Is it like Spain, where you can transfer in a out of country license? While their I was told it was cheaper to fly to the US for a week, get your license and transfer it home (since many USA places give spanish tests as a option also.) Although the real cause appeared (to me) that none of them (spanish kids) could drive, so thats the real reason they failed the tests so often. With no large parking lots, and a lack of automatic cars as a easy starter car, and dense narrow roads, likely makes places like the US a good place to learn anyway.
studies have been shown (see links in this thread) interactions with passengers as often equal to or greater risk than cell phones. I guess a low key conversation with a adult front seat passenger would be good (keep you both alert.) But I am sure we have all seen more heated conversations causing cars to wonder the whole road. And the kids in the back seat being the worst. I have ridden with many people who look at me when talking, I shut-up and pretend to look out the side window to try and end those (if they are driving.) I guess my only point is, we can't legislate people into doing the right thing. Drinking is a easy one, because it is a longer process (usually takes hours to get into a bad condition, always takes hours to get back to normal) thus lots of evidence, and many other options to avoid. The others: eating, reading, grooming, road head, talking, changing music, etc, etc. just need to be controlled on a personal responsibility.
Probably why their are so many old cars for sale. After a Crash, You can just wash the blood off the metal dash, replace the steering wheel, replace the bumper, and driver./joke I think that is supposed to be the point of this, every new car has been tested in a number of ways to have some consistency to avoid a week spot into the occupants safety. Old cars are were more of a matter of luck (for the occupants) on how you make out. And a single observation, really isn't all that conclusive, every car has week, and strong spots, yours was the classic strong spot vs week spot (of most cars.) IE had you swapped which car got T-boned, you likely would have swapped which car was totaled (probably totaled both, but you would probably gotten hurt worse in the reversed situation.) My mom had a situation in a newer car, where the rear gas tank was protected by a 1/4" thick piece of metal. got rear ended where the other vehicle lifted hers off the ground, and hit that plate square on. Other car was totaled, her car had one 3"x1/8" long scratch in a plate of steel. I also saw a accident where a little car hit (offset like this) head on into a lifted truck. Somehow the little car backed back out and wasn't that bad (drive-able but ugly), the Truck lost it's LF suspension, rear drive shaft, broken leg on driver... Not the result I would expect most of the time.
I guess in my experience, your example doesn't really go anywhere to disprove the article. IE I had a project where we followed all the correct design principles and did 2 years of work * 5 developers for a project that was to be the future of the company. Another division had started before us a similar project with slightly different goals. The sold management on their duct tape software that met some of the spec before ours. So my project got canceled. Their duct tape software had to be completely re-written to add the remaining features (8 years later they still haven't surpassed what we had almost done.) The fact that they were done (with something) first won out. The fact that duct tape allowed them to provide the solution, and buy them the time to re-write it, in my mind showed how it makes them more successful (I did replace a bunch of their code with ours, and the correctly written code spawned other projects to use its base, so not a failure.)
So the fact that your co-worker got the jobs, seamed to show people they needed that solution, and thus seams thats the reason you got the time to re-write them. Shows that duct tape programming "works." Even if it isn't always the most efficient method in the long run. IE this is about how many projects have just been abandoned because they were stuck in doing it the right way, where you slap something together, you got your foot in the door, and may buy the time to do it the right way.
It does still seam workable. With all the disks having smart controllers, maybe someone should come up with a bios spin up timer. IE you power-up all the hard disk controllers, windows/etc can then see the hardware. The bios gives each a spin-up time-slot, the ones with the OS get a immediate boot, the others can be spinning up while the OS boots...
wow, that sounds like some cheap crap bike you bought. Makes sense because a good bike often costs twice that, without batteries...(as you point out) I am not all that great of a bi-cyclist and I average 30 MPH over a 6 mile part of a tri-athlon (with 40 mph sections in step with dozens of other riders), I have no problems getting to 39 mph on flat (for a mile maybe), 45 to 50 mph is not really un-comfortable, except on gravel, I rode at those speeds regularly without any funny movements (was $300 for a older used bike)... Anyway, thats all mostly a mute point, its really just the tires/frame that make the difference, after all my motorcycle is very stable at 170 MPH, it's just having the right tires, rims (and tire balance.) I doubt their is any "stabilization" issue with this unicycle at faster speeds, much like any 1 or 2 wheel bike, the faster it spins the more momentum that is available to stabilize you, the easier it is to balance. It would still be unsafe at faster speeds IMHO, for 1 it would take much greater distance to recover, so couldn't be used in tight spaces. It would be very painful when a mistake is made. Like a bike, it would take riders awhile to learn the limits safely, and thats not likely on something that looks/acts like a toy. And mostly it would take skill (like a unicycle) to bring it down from speed quickly( unicycle just takes a tight turn with proper lean btw, need to leave space still), but no great skill to get to that speed (with electronic stability.) I would still like one of these with a high/low speed switch though.
at 3.5 MPH (a fast walking pace), I would say the risk of death from this is exactly the same (or less) than tripping while walking. Having rode a unicycle a bit, when it gets stuck on something, you tip forward, you naturally step forward and catch your self. Not having feet involved in another action (powering a unicycle, standing on a Segway) Should make this much easier to catch your self. The Segway also has stuff in front of you to trip you up, and you supporting your weight with your feet, so you cant just swing your feet in front on the way down in the same way. Although riding the Segway with bent knees (as with this) would allow you to jump to catch yourself, that would get tiring while supporting your weight for anytime on the Segway.
Although I hope no one is riding these at 3.5 mph backwards, or sideways. That would seam dangerous for many reasons.
GMOs are a bad idea because we're assuming we know whats good for us
That argument makes most sense for say GMO corn in Mexico, where one crop makes up a significant portion of their diet(for generations), and is mostly processed by a grinding it up and adding water. In this case were talking about something that is being heavily processed into sugar, and that is then used in things like Twinkies. The GM of the plant seams the least objectionable part of the cycle, pertaining to our "understanding of nutrition". The worry that this will evolve all neighboring plants significantly more than those plants already evolve naturally seams suspect to me. But not studying if that is true does seam reckless... (IE which would result in more genes changed, take a beet plant originally from the Mediterranean and growing it in Iowa, or growing it next to a precisely GMO version.) I suspect natural mutation caused by regional changes is much greater than pollen from a GMO.
agreed, were not even close. But I can dream of becoming a super Hippie. Were probably closer to gathering the methane from the black water tank to get home, than packing the 2 tons of batteries around. Although I just want the pedals on my current camper (trailer) so I can run the AC when it's hot (and maybe hook it up to the house at home). I do think making that trailer a hybrid would be nice first. Be able to even out the hills towing, smart braking around corners, and then charge the batteries down the last hill for camping... I did have a chance to play around with the Zebra batteries, that do meet (barely exceed at times) that 150 Wh/kg, just a bit difficult to overcome that 18% charge loss per day required to keep them at the 300 C they need (and the upfront charge, but I might still be able to get the first set for a 5 finger discount.)
I can put a dollar value on those easily, and they better make financial sense, little else matters. In the US Cars are generally a 2-3 year investment, and a house is a 5-8 year thing, both generally financed. Both (as a guy) require me to grab a calculator and figure out the math (because it won't change my lifestyle/activities.) And given the choice of eliminating a $150 per month utility bill at the cost of a $300 mortgage will be obvious (same with the car.) The same isn't true about lifestyles, hobbies, security, fun. So a luxury item isn't scrutinized to the same degree. That was why the motor-home analogy, it is a luxury item, it is also a lifestyle changing item throw in a hobbies/fun factor (bring out the toys!!!) Now it is only a matter of "can I afford it?", if yes count me in.
The thread was more of a hypothetical 99% efficiency what would the value be... It appears with nano tubes a reflector has a bigger benefit, so we could get 20% over not only the panel area, but the reflector area as well. 10meter x 2.2meter motor home roof, with a full length vertical reflector on each side that could automatically rolled out to say 5 meters while parked, tracking the sun would give me 22 m^3 of panel area + 50 m^3 of reflector area (assuming we can choose the optimal parking direction.) with just one reflector panel up at a time we could be close to the 75kwhr@20% efficiency. I could see a 100 hpHr per day, with enough batterys to store that for the week, I could see moving that large of a motor home 60 MPH @ 100HP * 4Hr = 240 miles a week, and still using 1/2 the power for personal non motoring use (make night runs when no traffic, and maximize reflector use by day.) I think my point is the convenience of not worrying about power (other than a "lets relax another day") in high luxury doesn't need to make the same economic sense to the same degree as a factory just trying to cut costs. The solar panels on the roof couldn't stay flat, but maybe just a single hinge allowing a full 90 degree tilt and if absorbed solar from both sides, could get this well over 75 m^3, even at difficult sun angles.
Economic efficiency is more important than energy efficiency.
they are both fairly important. As stated above, if your launching this into space for a satellite then the Economics is vastly different than if you putting this next to a nuclear plant. If we could just convert a nuclear plant into a dedicated solar cell manufacturing plant, get rid of all the ugly & terrorist target & high maintenance of the power grid, all the middle men (IE Enron, etc) in favor of wal-mart, that changes overall economics greatly. Adding $50,000 to the cost of a Prius to have a permanent solar charge that fits into the roof, I would have to pass. Adding $70,000 to a high end motor home, that then never needs fuel, grid connection, etc. Even if it just provides say 500 miles of travel a week + complete self sufficiency (ok I still probably need to recycle the waste for clean water) Is well worth considering (would trade my house in as a down payment.)
just to expand on why the 4th amendment doesn't apply, the constitution and amendments spell out the rules for the government, and the bounds for laws that the US government can pass. So while that amendment should stop the US government from asking, or taking the records. It doesn't make it illegal for the Telcos to provide them (or set any penalty for doing so.) Other laws did. Much like Freedom of speech, doesn't stop me from turning up my radio,etc to drown out your right to free speech. It does stop the government from doing so.
hate to suggest it, but aren't retroactive laws mostly unconstitutional? I realize this is simply putting the punishments back into place that were in place when the acts were committed. They can remove the immunity that was inacted to block the EFF's civil lawsuits, but thinking they could be held criminally liable again my just be wishful thinking.
Perhaps he just has ADD, had his mother got him prescribed the proper drugs he would have been able to access all her accounts, stolen her identity and gotten home, but NO it is all her fault that he couldn't hold his concentration on just doing no good for long enough to do a proper job of robbery.
I think what your saying is, don't use software RAID 5 to reduce your chances of a major failure from 10% to under 1%, because you cant use just that one solution to completely eliminate the chance of all failures? It is one thing to just point out that this is not a perfect solution in its self for all problems, it is another to say, give up unless you can cover every possible failure at no additional cost.
You need either at least 3 copies of your data, or 2 copies on different systems, some very good checksums, and a reliable procedure for validating them.
Using Linux software RAID and RSYNC doesn't do that, even with 2 boxes.
hunh? either you are really paranoid, or your not aware of all the features of these tools. Because that can do exactly what you claim to need. IE if you have s/w RAID-5 on the backup server, and do rsync, having it compare CRC and date of each file. Then it does exactly what you say you need. IE the backup raid will compare the stripe each time you calculate the rsync hash, rsync compares CRC as well, you have essentially 3 verified copies of everything (2 on the back RAID, 1 on the main system.) A (very unlikely event of) a strip fail may not know how to recover the file, but rsync will fix it (maybe some manual intervention needed) the next pass. I guess if the very unlikely event of a un-detected write error to a drive, happens on a file, then the unlikely event of a failure of the main system, within the same backup period. This would leave you with a very small window of a single byte screwed up (but detected.) I guess to get to your coverage level, both systems need raid-5, (or at least a better file system, on the main PC) so that the main system doesn't get a undetected corruption that then gets backed up. None of that yet explains why you posted that raid would make it less reliable. I guess unless you got some really crappy disk controllers that fail more than anything else, and also fails into a "disrupting manor" most of the time. I would agree, after that happens, you would have been better off with a different system. That would be the same as telling a lottery winner that playing the lottery is a loosing bet (ie the lotto is only the right solution for players that fall into a 1 in a million situation.)
FYI, the warrant requires them to document they knew before hand enough to justify the warrant (and document that.) If the warrant is rubber stamped the data from that warrant should still be thrown out (if they didn't have just cause) in any criminal case, with a decent defending attorney. So it is still a big difference between no warrant required and warrant required, even if rubber-stamping judges are in place (rubber stamped judge can be second guessed, in court.) It does make civil suits against offending officers, and throwing out derived evidence harder. (ie if the GPS data causes them to find your marijuana farm, with a separate warrant, they would be more likely to get to use anything from the second warrant, but not the first.) They definitely get to keep the contraband regardless. IANL
I guess my post might have just been a grammar troll, but with a post a few levels up claiming raids complexity could increase failures I thought it was worth correcting Lumpys grammar anyway (that was likely his meaning). Most backup servers I have dealt with must store more data (history) than the servers/pc's they backup. And due to that extra volume and data are more difficult to handle, and thus a failure could be even more catastrophic. IE loosing 2 years of history could be worse than loosing this weeks working copies. So using RAID on a backup for a file server could be more valuable than using RAID on the main file server.
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"very narrow and strictly limited experimental use defense" for "amusement, to satisfy idle curiosity, or for strictly philosophical inquiry."
sounds like this is fine, not selling a product, not useful, not competing...
Is the patent held by a private entity? Because if this is patent held by a US government institution, as far as I can recall their is no recourse for a government body to sue in civil court an individual, which is what would be required for a patent infringement case.
exactly, so anyone standing within hearing range I don't know, waiting to see if your payment was processed so he can take his item home, now has your last 4 in addition to your account, name, bank name...
If you had just setup twitter it was a few key pushes,and they would have to steal your phone, and then couldn't really use that to convince your bank to reverse the transfer.
To be fair pretty much every US households incoming power supply is 220 Volt, and they should all work with that just fine without change. Just because the Europeans don't make their transformers keep the rms voltage at 110 from ground, so you can't always find a 110 Volt tap to use isn't the reps fault is it ;)
But since it seams less than 5% of Americans know that one leg of our 220V at home is at the same peak voltage to ground as the 110V wiring, I doubt that's what they were describing.
I guess the bank check with the receiver getting it direct from the bank (both have to go to the payers bank, during bank hours.)
I know BankOfAmerica wouldn't make any promises on wire transfer. All they can confirm is that the money was their, and they will start it, completed within something like 4-48 hours (needs to be done 4 hours before closing.) I guess if someone had mulitple people authorized and bought stuff at different banks at the same time, only one gets paid. My bad is I never transferred accounts from a internet bank with branches where I used to live. And the local banks won't let me use money I transferred into my local savings account in the last 48 hours (somewhere around that anyway.) So impulse deals over the daily ATM limit are out for me (from non dealers anyway.)
sounds like their is a secure solution Cryttr mostly does that. although I am not sure this would really accomplish what you wanted unless the bank was willing to exchange keys with you as well.
Didn't add, the phone call to the bank needs to be private as well. Caller-id is too easy to spoof, so then you give out enough details to confirm your ID that whoever is within ear shot to know how to access your account as well. So you have to get privacy from the person your doing business with, but neither side can trust mid transaction for the other to leave to verify transfer...
Right now what is missing on craigslist is the ability to safely do confirmed transfer of large purchases. With fake bank checks the norm now, their is no way, even face to face, to say you got my $5000 I got your car, transaction complete (that I know of, short of $5000 in bills, then your both ripe for robbery.) Paypal was close at one point, but you give a single piece of info your email, and you get back a single piece of info email confirmation to that email (just a spoofed paypal email, skip the middle man.) Granted you can then login, so then you each need a trustworthy internet connected computer (no key logger...) This sounds like a path, you give a account number for deposit, you get a twitter response. If the bank sent it direct, you would be back to the: you had my bank routing number, you spoofed a email/text message from that source. If you are both calling banks, good luck getting through consistently to a person...
Not sure this is a solution, but it seams like a path to a solution. IE if all banks allowed you to setup temporary accounts for transfer. I can currently setup a new savings account, and close it in 5 minutes with my bank online. So I would have no problem if they had twitter, give them my account number, tweet a message to transfer the agreed amount from the main account, they start the transfer to their account, we each get tweets saying its done, I close my new savings account later.
although the new accounts are too similar to my regular checking account, all but the last 3 match, I wouldn't want that info to get to Nigeria scammers...
Also out of branch transfers are still a pain to initiate they make small deposits, you confirm the amount, then you can make a larger amount... sounds like a good job for a third party to be involved for me.
Is it like Spain, where you can transfer in a out of country license? While their I was told it was cheaper to fly to the US for a week, get your license and transfer it home (since many USA places give spanish tests as a option also.) Although the real cause appeared (to me) that none of them (spanish kids) could drive, so thats the real reason they failed the tests so often. With no large parking lots, and a lack of automatic cars as a easy starter car, and dense narrow roads, likely makes places like the US a good place to learn anyway.
studies have been shown (see links in this thread) interactions with passengers as often equal to or greater risk than cell phones. I guess a low key conversation with a adult front seat passenger would be good (keep you both alert.) But I am sure we have all seen more heated conversations causing cars to wonder the whole road. And the kids in the back seat being the worst. I have ridden with many people who look at me when talking, I shut-up and pretend to look out the side window to try and end those (if they are driving.)
I guess my only point is, we can't legislate people into doing the right thing. Drinking is a easy one, because it is a longer process (usually takes hours to get into a bad condition, always takes hours to get back to normal) thus lots of evidence, and many other options to avoid. The others: eating, reading, grooming, road head, talking, changing music, etc, etc. just need to be controlled on a personal responsibility.
Probably why their are so many old cars for sale. After a Crash, You can just wash the blood off the metal dash, replace the steering wheel, replace the bumper, and driver. /joke
I think that is supposed to be the point of this, every new car has been tested in a number of ways to have some consistency to avoid a week spot into the occupants safety. Old cars are were more of a matter of luck (for the occupants) on how you make out.
And a single observation, really isn't all that conclusive, every car has week, and strong spots, yours was the classic strong spot vs week spot (of most cars.) IE had you swapped which car got T-boned, you likely would have swapped which car was totaled (probably totaled both, but you would probably gotten hurt worse in the reversed situation.)
My mom had a situation in a newer car, where the rear gas tank was protected by a 1/4" thick piece of metal. got rear ended where the other vehicle lifted hers off the ground, and hit that plate square on. Other car was totaled, her car had one 3"x1/8" long scratch in a plate of steel. I also saw a accident where a little car hit (offset like this) head on into a lifted truck. Somehow the little car backed back out and wasn't that bad (drive-able but ugly), the Truck lost it's LF suspension, rear drive shaft, broken leg on driver... Not the result I would expect most of the time.
I guess in my experience, your example doesn't really go anywhere to disprove the article. IE I had a project where we followed all the correct design principles and did 2 years of work * 5 developers for a project that was to be the future of the company. Another division had started before us a similar project with slightly different goals. The sold management on their duct tape software that met some of the spec before ours. So my project got canceled. Their duct tape software had to be completely re-written to add the remaining features (8 years later they still haven't surpassed what we had almost done.) The fact that they were done (with something) first won out. The fact that duct tape allowed them to provide the solution, and buy them the time to re-write it, in my mind showed how it makes them more successful (I did replace a bunch of their code with ours, and the correctly written code spawned other projects to use its base, so not a failure.)
So the fact that your co-worker got the jobs, seamed to show people they needed that solution, and thus seams thats the reason you got the time to re-write them. Shows that duct tape programming "works." Even if it isn't always the most efficient method in the long run. IE this is about how many projects have just been abandoned because they were stuck in doing it the right way, where you slap something together, you got your foot in the door, and may buy the time to do it the right way.
It does still seam workable. With all the disks having smart controllers, maybe someone should come up with a bios spin up timer. IE you power-up all the hard disk controllers, windows/etc can then see the hardware. The bios gives each a spin-up time-slot, the ones with the OS get a immediate boot, the others can be spinning up while the OS boots...
wow, that sounds like some cheap crap bike you bought. Makes sense because a good bike often costs twice that, without batteries...(as you point out) I am not all that great of a bi-cyclist and I average 30 MPH over a 6 mile part of a tri-athlon (with 40 mph sections in step with dozens of other riders), I have no problems getting to 39 mph on flat (for a mile maybe), 45 to 50 mph is not really un-comfortable, except on gravel, I rode at those speeds regularly without any funny movements (was $300 for a older used bike)...
Anyway, thats all mostly a mute point, its really just the tires/frame that make the difference, after all my motorcycle is very stable at 170 MPH, it's just having the right tires, rims (and tire balance.) I doubt their is any "stabilization" issue with this unicycle at faster speeds, much like any 1 or 2 wheel bike, the faster it spins the more momentum that is available to stabilize you, the easier it is to balance. It would still be unsafe at faster speeds IMHO, for 1 it would take much greater distance to recover, so couldn't be used in tight spaces. It would be very painful when a mistake is made. Like a bike, it would take riders awhile to learn the limits safely, and thats not likely on something that looks/acts like a toy. And mostly it would take skill (like a unicycle) to bring it down from speed quickly( unicycle just takes a tight turn with proper lean btw, need to leave space still), but no great skill to get to that speed (with electronic stability.)
I would still like one of these with a high/low speed switch though.
at 3.5 MPH (a fast walking pace), I would say the risk of death from this is exactly the same (or less) than tripping while walking. Having rode a unicycle a bit, when it gets stuck on something, you tip forward, you naturally step forward and catch your self. Not having feet involved in another action (powering a unicycle, standing on a Segway) Should make this much easier to catch your self. The Segway also has stuff in front of you to trip you up, and you supporting your weight with your feet, so you cant just swing your feet in front on the way down in the same way. Although riding the Segway with bent knees (as with this) would allow you to jump to catch yourself, that would get tiring while supporting your weight for anytime on the Segway.
Although I hope no one is riding these at 3.5 mph backwards, or sideways. That would seam dangerous for many reasons.
GMOs are a bad idea because we're assuming we know whats good for us
That argument makes most sense for say GMO corn in Mexico, where one crop makes up a significant portion of their diet(for generations), and is mostly processed by a grinding it up and adding water. In this case were talking about something that is being heavily processed into sugar, and that is then used in things like Twinkies. The GM of the plant seams the least objectionable part of the cycle, pertaining to our "understanding of nutrition". The worry that this will evolve all neighboring plants significantly more than those plants already evolve naturally seams suspect to me. But not studying if that is true does seam reckless... (IE which would result in more genes changed, take a beet plant originally from the Mediterranean and growing it in Iowa, or growing it next to a precisely GMO version.) I suspect natural mutation caused by regional changes is much greater than pollen from a GMO.
agreed, were not even close. But I can dream of becoming a super Hippie. Were probably closer to gathering the methane from the black water tank to get home, than packing the 2 tons of batteries around.
Although I just want the pedals on my current camper (trailer) so I can run the AC when it's hot (and maybe hook it up to the house at home). I do think making that trailer a hybrid would be nice first. Be able to even out the hills towing, smart braking around corners, and then charge the batteries down the last hill for camping...
I did have a chance to play around with the Zebra batteries, that do meet (barely exceed at times) that 150 Wh/kg, just a bit difficult to overcome that 18% charge loss per day required to keep them at the 300 C they need (and the upfront charge, but I might still be able to get the first set for a 5 finger discount.)
I can put a dollar value on those easily, and they better make financial sense, little else matters. In the US Cars are generally a 2-3 year investment, and a house is a 5-8 year thing, both generally financed. Both (as a guy) require me to grab a calculator and figure out the math (because it won't change my lifestyle/activities.) And given the choice of eliminating a $150 per month utility bill at the cost of a $300 mortgage will be obvious (same with the car.) The same isn't true about lifestyles, hobbies, security, fun. So a luxury item isn't scrutinized to the same degree. That was why the motor-home analogy, it is a luxury item, it is also a lifestyle changing item throw in a hobbies/fun factor (bring out the toys!!!) Now it is only a matter of "can I afford it?", if yes count me in.
The thread was more of a hypothetical 99% efficiency what would the value be... It appears with nano tubes a reflector has a bigger benefit, so we could get 20% over not only the panel area, but the reflector area as well. 10meter x 2.2meter motor home roof, with a full length vertical reflector on each side that could automatically rolled out to say 5 meters while parked, tracking the sun would give me 22 m^3 of panel area + 50 m^3 of reflector area (assuming we can choose the optimal parking direction.) with just one reflector panel up at a time we could be close to the 75kwhr@20% efficiency. I could see a 100 hpHr per day, with enough batterys to store that for the week, I could see moving that large of a motor home 60 MPH @ 100HP * 4Hr = 240 miles a week, and still using 1/2 the power for personal non motoring use (make night runs when no traffic, and maximize reflector use by day.)
I think my point is the convenience of not worrying about power (other than a "lets relax another day") in high luxury doesn't need to make the same economic sense to the same degree as a factory just trying to cut costs.
The solar panels on the roof couldn't stay flat, but maybe just a single hinge allowing a full 90 degree tilt and if absorbed solar from both sides, could get this well over 75 m^3, even at difficult sun angles.
Economic efficiency is more important than energy efficiency.
they are both fairly important. As stated above, if your launching this into space for a satellite then the Economics is vastly different than if you putting this next to a nuclear plant. If we could just convert a nuclear plant into a dedicated solar cell manufacturing plant, get rid of all the ugly & terrorist target & high maintenance of the power grid, all the middle men (IE Enron, etc) in favor of wal-mart, that changes overall economics greatly. Adding $50,000 to the cost of a Prius to have a permanent solar charge that fits into the roof, I would have to pass. Adding $70,000 to a high end motor home, that then never needs fuel, grid connection, etc. Even if it just provides say 500 miles of travel a week + complete self sufficiency (ok I still probably need to recycle the waste for clean water) Is well worth considering (would trade my house in as a down payment.)
just to expand on why the 4th amendment doesn't apply, the constitution and amendments spell out the rules for the government, and the bounds for laws that the US government can pass. So while that amendment should stop the US government from asking, or taking the records. It doesn't make it illegal for the Telcos to provide them (or set any penalty for doing so.) Other laws did. Much like Freedom of speech, doesn't stop me from turning up my radio,etc to drown out your right to free speech. It does stop the government from doing so.
hate to suggest it, but aren't retroactive laws mostly unconstitutional? I realize this is simply putting the punishments back into place that were in place when the acts were committed. They can remove the immunity that was inacted to block the EFF's civil lawsuits, but thinking they could be held criminally liable again my just be wishful thinking.
Perhaps he just has ADD, had his mother got him prescribed the proper drugs he would have been able to access all her accounts, stolen her identity and gotten home, but NO it is all her fault that he couldn't hold his concentration on just doing no good for long enough to do a proper job of robbery.
I think what your saying is, don't use software RAID 5 to reduce your chances of a major failure from 10% to under 1%, because you cant use just that one solution to completely eliminate the chance of all failures? It is one thing to just point out that this is not a perfect solution in its self for all problems, it is another to say, give up unless you can cover every possible failure at no additional cost.
You need either at least 3 copies of your data, or 2 copies on different systems, some very good checksums, and a reliable procedure for validating them.
Using Linux software RAID and RSYNC doesn't do that, even with 2 boxes.
hunh? either you are really paranoid, or your not aware of all the features of these tools. Because that can do exactly what you claim to need. IE if you have s/w RAID-5 on the backup server, and do rsync, having it compare CRC and date of each file. Then it does exactly what you say you need. IE the backup raid will compare the stripe each time you calculate the rsync hash, rsync compares CRC as well, you have essentially 3 verified copies of everything (2 on the back RAID, 1 on the main system.) A (very unlikely event of) a strip fail may not know how to recover the file, but rsync will fix it (maybe some manual intervention needed) the next pass.
I guess if the very unlikely event of a un-detected write error to a drive, happens on a file, then the unlikely event of a failure of the main system, within the same backup period. This would leave you with a very small window of a single byte screwed up (but detected.)
I guess to get to your coverage level, both systems need raid-5, (or at least a better file system, on the main PC) so that the main system doesn't get a undetected corruption that then gets backed up.
None of that yet explains why you posted that raid would make it less reliable. I guess unless you got some really crappy disk controllers that fail more than anything else, and also fails into a "disrupting manor" most of the time. I would agree, after that happens, you would have been better off with a different system. That would be the same as telling a lottery winner that playing the lottery is a loosing bet (ie the lotto is only the right solution for players that fall into a 1 in a million situation.)
FYI, the warrant requires them to document they knew before hand enough to justify the warrant (and document that.) If the warrant is rubber stamped the data from that warrant should still be thrown out (if they didn't have just cause) in any criminal case, with a decent defending attorney. So it is still a big difference between no warrant required and warrant required, even if rubber-stamping judges are in place (rubber stamped judge can be second guessed, in court.)
It does make civil suits against offending officers, and throwing out derived evidence harder. (ie if the GPS data causes them to find your marijuana farm, with a separate warrant, they would be more likely to get to use anything from the second warrant, but not the first.) They definitely get to keep the contraband regardless.
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I guess my post might have just been a grammar troll, but with a post a few levels up claiming raids complexity could increase failures I thought it was worth correcting Lumpys grammar anyway (that was likely his meaning). Most backup servers I have dealt with must store more data (history) than the servers/pc's they backup. And due to that extra volume and data are more difficult to handle, and thus a failure could be even more catastrophic. IE loosing 2 years of history could be worse than loosing this weeks working copies. So using RAID on a backup for a file server could be more valuable than using RAID on the main file server.