strange laws, completely different than in the US. un-related to the original story though which is about recording your id at entry. No reason to then re-check, like happens to me in the US constantly.
My question is why is the government forcing people to carry their personal data in a manner that is not secure?
You do realize that all the information on the magnetic strip has always been available in written form on the front, correct? Without the magnetic strip the process would likely be slightly more time consuming, and slightly more costly requiring a OCR of the ID first. The magnetic strip would make it slightly more difficult for fake ID makers as well (ok, just means they need to be somewhat hi-tech.)
Not sure whats Illegal in the search? If I consent, the police can legally search anything I own. I assume the only issue is using a state ID to achieve the purpose, and by a private company, and retaining the information without proper disclosure. I sure hope a bar is allowed to retain photos of those arrested/banned from their private property, and use that information to prevent re-entry/trespass. I would further say, expanding this system so that clubs can further protect themselves, and sharing this with other private clubs sure makes sense to me, especially in a area known to have issues. Although I only know US laws and that all Vegas casinos deploy a similar system, legally I assume. The only difference is they have deployed it using only video cameras, and people to do the identifications.
Actually the tesla is fairly comparable acceleration to the camaro. 4.3s 0-60 for the camaro 4.0 for the tesla. camaro has a higher top speed, and higher power to weight ratio. The tesla will burn through it's first $36000 (yes you can pay $14g today for a battery in 5 years) battery in 100k miles, the camaro would need $4 per gallon gas to burn though $18,000 in fuel during the same miles. The V6 camaro would be slightly slower, but @ 30 mpg epa, it is a greener car than the tesla in my book.
>Free speech for absolutely everything means "fighting words" that provoke another to attack. You attacked, you are the one to blame.
So does that go one farther. IE I hire a defense company to train my dog to attack when I yell "kill." Officer pulls me over with the dog in the back of my truck. I yell kill out the window and the officer get taken out. Who is at fault? does my dog simply get put down for being aggressive, and I am free to train a new one? Is the training company negligent because they didn't train the dog to recognize authority, or because they set the trap? Or is the officer at fault for getting close without taking proper care?
not sure why it is any difference in the paper world. IE they built a set of fake records that they planned to swap for the real records, at the time of the election, that has worked with paper ballots many times as well. This would work equally well regardless the medium. It is different threats in either world, but we do know from centuries of paper ballots, that no one has come up with a tamper proof paper ballot system that works on a large scale, after centuries of refinements. The same is also true for e-voting, but after 20 years of any effort level. Paper vs computer balloting would have different strengths, and attack vectors, but saying never e-voting, just because it is not yet implemented correctly is a bit naive.
Sure, it'll take a while to upload your initial 2TB, but
This also means it will take a while to recover your initial 2TB? I would think online backup is a great idea for being able to get that last days or hours worth of changes back with "minimal repetitive manual intervention required for backup". But that would only be after you have used the primary recovery plan to get all but the latest data/applications running. Also since I wouldn't trust any backup system that I don't test occasionally, that initial transfer time seams to rule this out as the only off-site solution.
I was thinking similar, to yours.
1) places that recycle PC's, consider having the kids help repair them to sell for funds (and learn.)
2) Sponsorship! those robotics/LEGO programs are more than $5, but $5 still buys enough PC time to bring in a sponsor. Probably still need fund raisers to cover those little extras.
Nuclear is only a partial solution (currently) also. It is all mostly in your wiki article, but the high points IMHO:
1) shortage of Uranium mining (used at 2* the rate it is mined currently.)
2) shortage of manufacturing capacity (containment vessels)
3) many reactor technologies that can reduce #1 just haven't been proven to be viable yet(breeder reactors, fast reactors, etc)
I agree objections to any nuclear expansion are just wrong. But we can't just drop any options, because their is clearly no one solution to cover our energy addiction, let alone to get us through the next 20 years.
not really a downer or news that they use them in a response manner in the USA. I just hate to see societies wasting billions on 24/7 high tech monitoring "solutions" when it would be much better to all to reward good behavior, and spend that money on actual effective, and productive actions like education, improved lighting, maintaining cleaner healthier city's (not building a better bigger prison where no one can hurt anyone, instead of a city where no one wants to hurt anyone.)
This is OK, because it is just a higher quality version of whats happening already. If it gets any higher quality then that's a problem.
Infra red is a obvious requirement since all cameras have done in the past, is move crime around. So this instantly pushes even more crime to night, so they add infra-red. Now they can bust into anyones house with grow bulbs on suspicion of marijuana growing, etc, etc.
I don't have a problem with a camera recording, and definitely like the idea of them chasing down crimes in process with this technology. What I don't want to hear is a power drunk Mayor excited about all the new crimes he can arrest, that weren't causing any harm in the first place. Or about the prospect of wasting this much money improving something already proven to not reduce crime rates.
their are other downsides to nuclear. 1) If we just standardize on the only proven nuclear reactor tech (rules out breeder reactors, etc) then we don't have enough good uranium supply, because we are currently using uranium at twice the rate that it is being mined. 1-b) the worlds largest known supply (Olympic dam mine Australia) could turn this around, but it seams like they have lost the ability to expand this mine to cover the needed supply rate to justify building any new nuclear plants, because of environmentalists and environmental concerns.
2) As you say, the costs and risks of new tech nuclear plant causes issues. The new technology is nearly impossible to calculate these risks (mostly money risk) to know if a single plant is worth it, let alone scaling it up to build 100's of new plants.
It is a shame, that as a world we can't agree to complete a new technology plant (and share the knowledge gained to replicate), unfortunately cost over-runs have shutdown all current attempts that I have heard of.
With the huge push by environmentalists to shutdown all new mines is really hurting nuclear power, since it is always a secondary metal and lack of ability to open new mines makes it too risky to use materials that are already in too high of demand.
No, because most criminals, who get caught, aren't that intelligent or thoughtful. Although I think most career type criminals get caught eventually, but the smarter ones mostly get away with it.
is your new TV Energy star 3.0? if not the only consumption category it passed was its power draw while off. Doesn't change the fact that even the new rating is more of a "relative" to similar products, so your smaller lcd can be estar, even though it likely uses similar power to the bigger samsung 61" dlp led (230 watts)
Seams like a excellent new procedure for any major repair; from now on the lead mechanic that works on a plane, must be on the next flight with their first born, or some equally important family member. That's what happened with a co-worker who repaired hand held mine detectors in Vietnam. The field Sargent asked him if it was fixed, then physically drug his (very unwilling) ass and the detector to a live mine field to prove it. It made him a very through technician, even to this date.
this is what 12 years of working with electric motors, last 10 working as QA engineer on electric drive vehicles. Not sure what part you want proven, but the higher the load, the lower the efficiency of battery powered systems is a simple search. If you can build a high speed + high torque motor that is light and efficient across a wide range, you will be very wealthy person (requires super conductor, and better insulation: simple right?) a google search talks about just the motor, they have a sweet spot, change the rpm or load outside that sweet spot you lose efficiency. http://www.fastelectrics.com/elecmotorbasics.htm
The article did recognize that, and also explained why that didn't work for O'reily (lack of features.) Really it didn't seam the article cared as much about the hardware, as about the publisher side. I also think this open format discussion was also more about letting it be developed and improved by some community, than leaving it locked to being developed by a single group of developers. It seams the only way to meet this definition of open is to make the kindle platform open to developers, it was unclear how amazon was supposed to match that on the publisher side though.
as you post content for free?/sarcasm Basically enough people realize when you create value, and realize they want to contribute $ to it's creation, that as long as you appeal to those people their will be a way to make money with or without copy protection. Their are a bunch of people who will do anything to avoid paying anything, if they can avoid it, sorry they will get your work for free, or some (lower quality?) similar content. Then again freeloaders co mingle with non-free loaders, so avoiding them may not even be helpful to your cause.
A good Hardware SATA raid controller (with hot swap) should be the most effortless way to implement this (never worked for me though) IE running the SATA to a external connection should allow you to hot swap your backup drives. By letting the drive controller do the backup your OS is not occupied with that task, every night you just swap the same drive of the RAID1 with a backup drive, the RAID controller should recognize the broken array with the drive pulled out, then go into a repair mode when it sees the replacement installed. Any live file being accessed may be fragmented on your backup, by just pulling it out hot, so it is not a enterprise solution. Although ZFS, and some other software raid solutions have methods to even avoid that.
Vista/XP, etc supports stripping, but not a mirror (or raid5) which was what the original article requested. Granted stripping is the lowest form of RAID, so technically true.
everything I see says only stripping drives is available in XP/2000. Only Windows 2000 Server/Adv. Server/Datacenter, and Windows 2003 Server and up feature redundancy through software. So it sounds like the originator was onto the cheapest for home, windows solutions.
(we are comparing a car to truck, but thats the cost I know, haven't owned a car) It is a diesel with a manual transmission, at 40k miles I do a full synthetic oil change out of diff+trans that was $90 of oil for 200k miles. With amsoil synthetic engine oil, its a single oil change per year at $60. No other pre-planed maintaince. When not towing I do get 22-23 mpg, I was figuring the price for fuel, not the cost for taxes to maintain roads, etc. that you are also currently avoiding with electric. Currently no batteries exist that are going to get you maint free. Current plan @Tesla that you get a $30k battery change at 100k miles. But also in 1 year time frame all current batteries lose 40% of capacity, every year of use, your going to be working hard to get the last of the 100k miles in (short trips), before the battery change (60% capacity at 1 year, 36% @ 2 years, 20% at 3.) But at that point most will recycle the car for a few grand and start over, rather than spend 60% of value to revive a old car, at that point the rectifiers and other controls will be at the limit anyway. Since the gear box's are a big deal with Tesla... Maybe in 5 or 10 years we will have a equal cost for electric, maybe.
my bank says 50k loan for 4 years would be $1300/month ($500/month would just cover interest.) Include insurance at $300 a month. It may not be insignificant at $200 for fuel, but if you start to look for places to save money, I wouldn't say this car is part of a economic savings plan.
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strange laws, completely different than in the US.
un-related to the original story though which is about recording your id at entry. No reason to then re-check, like happens to me in the US constantly.
My question is why is the government forcing people to carry their personal data in a manner that is not secure?
You do realize that all the information on the magnetic strip has always been available in written form on the front, correct? Without the magnetic strip the process would likely be slightly more time consuming, and slightly more costly requiring a OCR of the ID first. The magnetic strip would make it slightly more difficult for fake ID makers as well (ok, just means they need to be somewhat hi-tech.)
Not sure whats Illegal in the search? If I consent, the police can legally search anything I own. I assume the only issue is using a state ID to achieve the purpose, and by a private company, and retaining the information without proper disclosure. I sure hope a bar is allowed to retain photos of those arrested/banned from their private property, and use that information to prevent re-entry/trespass. I would further say, expanding this system so that clubs can further protect themselves, and sharing this with other private clubs sure makes sense to me, especially in a area known to have issues. Although I only know US laws and that all Vegas casinos deploy a similar system, legally I assume. The only difference is they have deployed it using only video cameras, and people to do the identifications.
Actually the tesla is fairly comparable acceleration to the camaro. 4.3s 0-60 for the camaro 4.0 for the tesla. camaro has a higher top speed, and higher power to weight ratio. The tesla will burn through it's first $36000 (yes you can pay $14g today for a battery in 5 years) battery in 100k miles, the camaro would need $4 per gallon gas to burn though $18,000 in fuel during the same miles.
The V6 camaro would be slightly slower, but @ 30 mpg epa, it is a greener car than the tesla in my book.
>Free speech for absolutely everything means "fighting words" that provoke another to attack.
You attacked, you are the one to blame.
So does that go one farther. IE I hire a defense company to train my dog to attack when I yell "kill." Officer pulls me over with the dog in the back of my truck. I yell kill out the window and the officer get taken out. Who is at fault? does my dog simply get put down for being aggressive, and I am free to train a new one? Is the training company negligent because they didn't train the dog to recognize authority, or because they set the trap? Or is the officer at fault for getting close without taking proper care?
not sure why it is any difference in the paper world. IE they built a set of fake records that they planned to swap for the real records, at the time of the election, that has worked with paper ballots many times as well. This would work equally well regardless the medium. It is different threats in either world, but we do know from centuries of paper ballots, that no one has come up with a tamper proof paper ballot system that works on a large scale, after centuries of refinements. The same is also true for e-voting, but after 20 years of any effort level.
Paper vs computer balloting would have different strengths, and attack vectors, but saying never e-voting, just because it is not yet implemented correctly is a bit naive.
Sure, it'll take a while to upload your initial 2TB, but
This also means it will take a while to recover your initial 2TB? I would think online backup is a great idea for being able to get that last days or hours worth of changes back with "minimal repetitive manual intervention required for backup". But that would only be after you have used the primary recovery plan to get all but the latest data/applications running. Also since I wouldn't trust any backup system that I don't test occasionally, that initial transfer time seams to rule this out as the only off-site solution.
I was thinking similar, to yours.
1) places that recycle PC's, consider having the kids help repair them to sell for funds (and learn.)
2) Sponsorship! those robotics/LEGO programs are more than $5, but $5 still buys enough PC time to bring in a sponsor. Probably still need fund raisers to cover those little extras.
Nuclear is only a partial solution (currently) also. It is all mostly in your wiki article, but the high points IMHO:
1) shortage of Uranium mining (used at 2* the rate it is mined currently.)
2) shortage of manufacturing capacity (containment vessels)
3) many reactor technologies that can reduce #1 just haven't been proven to be viable yet(breeder reactors, fast reactors, etc)
I agree objections to any nuclear expansion are just wrong. But we can't just drop any options, because their is clearly no one solution to cover our energy addiction, let alone to get us through the next 20 years.
not really a downer or news that they use them in a response manner in the USA. I just hate to see societies wasting billions on 24/7 high tech monitoring "solutions" when it would be much better to all to reward good behavior, and spend that money on actual effective, and productive actions like education, improved lighting, maintaining cleaner healthier city's (not building a better bigger prison where no one can hurt anyone, instead of a city where no one wants to hurt anyone.)
then lastly in plugins and add-ons that don't require changes to the core of the project. Clearly:
The day that I, as a nontechnical software user, can meaningfully participate in an open-source project
is referring to things like: addons.mozilla.org not to things like adding crud to every projects main branch.
This is OK, because it is just a higher quality version of whats happening already. If it gets any higher quality then that's a problem.
Infra red is a obvious requirement since all cameras have done in the past, is move crime around. So this instantly pushes even more crime to night, so they add infra-red. Now they can bust into anyones house with grow bulbs on suspicion of marijuana growing, etc, etc.
I don't have a problem with a camera recording, and definitely like the idea of them chasing down crimes in process with this technology. What I don't want to hear is a power drunk Mayor excited about all the new crimes he can arrest, that weren't causing any harm in the first place. Or about the prospect of wasting this much money improving something already proven to not reduce crime rates.
their are other downsides to nuclear.
1) If we just standardize on the only proven nuclear reactor tech (rules out breeder reactors, etc) then we don't have enough good uranium supply, because we are currently using uranium at twice the rate that it is being mined.
1-b) the worlds largest known supply (Olympic dam mine Australia) could turn this around, but it seams like they have lost the ability to expand this mine to cover the needed supply rate to justify building any new nuclear plants, because of environmentalists and environmental concerns.
2) As you say, the costs and risks of new tech nuclear plant causes issues. The new technology is nearly impossible to calculate these risks (mostly money risk) to know if a single plant is worth it, let alone scaling it up to build 100's of new plants.
It is a shame, that as a world we can't agree to complete a new technology plant (and share the knowledge gained to replicate), unfortunately cost over-runs have shutdown all current attempts that I have heard of.
With the huge push by environmentalists to shutdown all new mines is really hurting nuclear power, since it is always a secondary metal and lack of ability to open new mines makes it too risky to use materials that are already in too high of demand.
No, because most criminals, who get caught, aren't that intelligent or thoughtful. Although I think most career type criminals get caught eventually, but the smarter ones mostly get away with it.
is your new TV Energy star 3.0? if not the only consumption category it passed was its power draw while off. Doesn't change the fact that even the new rating is more of a "relative" to similar products, so your smaller lcd can be estar, even though it likely uses similar power to the bigger samsung 61" dlp led (230 watts)
Seams like a excellent new procedure for any major repair; from now on the lead mechanic that works on a plane, must be on the next flight with their first born, or some equally important family member.
That's what happened with a co-worker who repaired hand held mine detectors in Vietnam. The field Sargent asked him if it was fixed, then physically drug his (very unwilling) ass and the detector to a live mine field to prove it. It made him a very through technician, even to this date.
this is what 12 years of working with electric motors, last 10 working as QA engineer on electric drive vehicles. Not sure what part you want proven, but the higher the load, the lower the efficiency of battery powered systems is a simple search. If you can build a high speed + high torque motor that is light and efficient across a wide range, you will be very wealthy person (requires super conductor, and better insulation: simple right?)
a google search talks about just the motor, they have a sweet spot, change the rpm or load outside that sweet spot you lose efficiency.
http://www.fastelectrics.com/elecmotorbasics.htm
The article did recognize that, and also explained why that didn't work for O'reily (lack of features.) Really it didn't seam the article cared as much about the hardware, as about the publisher side. I also think this open format discussion was also more about letting it be developed and improved by some community, than leaving it locked to being developed by a single group of developers.
It seams the only way to meet this definition of open is to make the kindle platform open to developers, it was unclear how amazon was supposed to match that on the publisher side though.
as you post content for free? /sarcasm
Basically enough people realize when you create value, and realize they want to contribute $ to it's creation, that as long as you appeal to those people their will be a way to make money with or without copy protection. Their are a bunch of people who will do anything to avoid paying anything, if they can avoid it, sorry they will get your work for free, or some (lower quality?) similar content. Then again freeloaders co mingle with non-free loaders, so avoiding them may not even be helpful to your cause.
I didn't finish reading all your post, FYI the battery currently costs $36k, but if you pay $12k now, Tesla will promise (if still in business) that will cover the cost of a battery within 5 years. they only guarantee a battery for a year, and think it will last 5year 200k miles. so really the battery currently costs
$118k for 300k miles, at 2-4* the cost of gas for a car.
A good Hardware SATA raid controller (with hot swap) should be the most effortless way to implement this (never worked for me though) IE running the SATA to a external connection should allow you to hot swap your backup drives. By letting the drive controller do the backup your OS is not occupied with that task, every night you just swap the same drive of the RAID1 with a backup drive, the RAID controller should recognize the broken array with the drive pulled out, then go into a repair mode when it sees the replacement installed.
Any live file being accessed may be fragmented on your backup, by just pulling it out hot, so it is not a enterprise solution. Although ZFS, and some other software raid solutions have methods to even avoid that.
Vista/XP, etc supports stripping, but not a mirror (or raid5) which was what the original article requested. Granted stripping is the lowest form of RAID, so technically true.
everything I see says only stripping drives is available in XP/2000. Only Windows 2000 Server/Adv. Server/Datacenter, and Windows 2003 Server and up feature redundancy through software.
So it sounds like the originator was onto the cheapest for home, windows solutions.
(we are comparing a car to truck, but thats the cost I know, haven't owned a car) It is a diesel with a manual transmission, at 40k miles I do a full synthetic oil change out of diff+trans that was $90 of oil for 200k miles. With amsoil synthetic engine oil, its a single oil change per year at $60. No other pre-planed maintaince. When not towing I do get 22-23 mpg, I was figuring the price for fuel, not the cost for taxes to maintain roads, etc. that you are also currently avoiding with electric. Currently no batteries exist that are going to get you maint free. Current plan @Tesla that you get a $30k battery change at 100k miles. But also in 1 year time frame all current batteries lose 40% of capacity, every year of use, your going to be working hard to get the last of the 100k miles in (short trips), before the battery change (60% capacity at 1 year, 36% @ 2 years, 20% at 3.) But at that point most will recycle the car for a few grand and start over, rather than spend 60% of value to revive a old car, at that point the rectifiers and other controls will be at the limit anyway. Since the gear box's are a big deal with Tesla... Maybe in 5 or 10 years we will have a equal cost for electric, maybe.
my bank says 50k loan for 4 years would be $1300/month ($500/month would just cover interest.) Include insurance at $300 a month. It may not be insignificant at $200 for fuel, but if you start to look for places to save money, I wouldn't say this car is part of a economic savings plan.