they didn't say which IP address. if you could post the result of "tracert cnn.com" or "traceroute cnn.com" pretty good idea someone will have you down to the city or company your at.
I don't think it is much different, in the "test the heck out of it", etc. It is more can your company afford to internalize the risk, and does your contract with the vendor reduce that. And can you afford the extra time required to DIY. Regardless the solution, you better test the heck out of it if you can't afford the downtime. In times like these it is often more of a, if you can't afford the big iron, then do what you can afford. for example, that is why I went to a (unrelated to the discussion at hand) linux based system 8 years ago over a big iron system. But you know what, that allowed us to learn to support/test our own system, and look through the FUD that any "Big Iron" sales person will fling your way. Now that this updates to the linux system are more "supported" than the big Iron servers (Home office bought the big iron system, it now has less features, and in order to catch up they have to keep buying upgraded software, hardware, and licenses...) So if you hold onto your employees, your company will likely be better off with any system they are allowed to use/touch/change, than one they pay for and forget about until something changes, and don't be surprised if you scramble to get a response like "we don't support that on the box you have anymore, here buy the new more expensive one".
exactly what DRM is, IE if I want to give out encryted data, to a computer/user that I don't trust, yet I want them/that to do useful stuff with my encrypted data, but never give full read access to my encrypted data.
So a VM could be deployed on the remote server that would only allow your signed app to perform only the acts you allow on the data, and only allow your client to connect securely. This would provide the desired functionality. Same as DRM, the security is through obscurity at some point, since you must give the key to your data out in some fashion, but it can be hidden deep in a big program. So a true open source solution likely can't exist...
Yes, he can use the content he has already purchased,
FYI, he couldn't use all of the content he had bought. According to one of his posts he apparently had some content he purchased that was "archived", and thus couldn't be un-archived without accessing his account. Also sounds like he couldn't request files to be converted for the kindle any longer, which would be legal content that he had purchased the right to (a right purchased with the device.) Their are tools to get around that, but apparently Amazon claims those tools are illegal to use.
It didn't say if his access to wikipedia, etc was also taken away.
At the airport I was chatting with a guy clearly running winXP, I see the Vista registration sticker and say something about like "oh you were downgraded from Vista." His response (clearly talking about current XP OS) no, I haven't had any problems, I really like Vista its much better. (I should have noticed it was a corporate laptop, same scenario as my corporate laptop, the sticker says Vista, but its not...)
So US citizens living or working in mexico can no longer get a cell phone in Mexico? In AZ prepaid long distance cards covering "international" calls to Mexico are cheap and insanely popular. Mexico will not prevent US phones from roaming, so I am guessing pre-paid "International" cell phones will be here too.
So next time I update the bios on my laptop I should ignore the advice of full batterys and plugged into wall power, and choose just one? Is it just asking for a higher failure rate to have a second power source because of course the laptop can run for 30 minutes on good batterys, so that is the "simplist" method, thus the most reliable? Just like the hybrid car, my Li-ion laptop batterys will last longer and have fuller capacity if I never use them, although the wall power is much more complicated system than the "just run from the batterys" inside the laptop it would be more reliable to run from AC power converted to DC as much as possible.
The problem is batterys, especially li-ion are a insanely complicated set of chemical interactions, that few can model at all, none have successfully made a functional model of all the interactions that occur at more than a most trivial power level. So although a battery looks like, and feels like a very simple device. But like a fine swiss time piece what you see on the outside is no indication of what cant be seen under the skin. IE we can see why they fail, sometimes we can even repair the battery failure, but despite our bet efforts we cant stop the undesired reactions that happen to destroy every battery.
I can tell you from my home solar setup, I had one solar panel and battery. solar panel not large enough to drive my pump directly, so charge the battery, run motor. Battery failure every 6 months. added more panels, charge controller, capacitors for day use a smart switch for battery at low power, system has 0 failures for 2 years.
good post, I will expand on "you have to have rules to keep greed in check. " and just say those don't have to be government enacted and enforced (except when also government backed). IE Japan is relatively un-regulated banking in comparison, but if a CEO/CFO/manager screws up big time they are essentially dog shit for life (or literally dead, if self enforced.) With the more Muslim countries, earning interest is a sin. It is obvious without some central control lending has always become a huge pyramid scheme. So (I assume) rather than try to balance hundreds of rules, they just about ban it (oh and some death/disfiguring enforcements exist also.)
you are correct, using your math for 600 lbs you get 5* the range from a hybrid as a all electric. Or you can cut the battery weight in half, and still get 4* the distance from the same weight. Weight is very important because the claim of 95% efficient electric motor is bunk at any high torque, more like a 65% efficient (torque=current, high current causes more loss in every component.) Weight is also very important because you have to add structure, bigger sized tires to keep the same handling, and you now have to use your brakes to stop, throwing away more energy (assuming same motor/battery), it all adds up. Of course suspension losses become important in the real world and bigger tires is more wind drag as well when we start talking this high of economy. So yes if your building a train that drives on perfect road/track, and you only care about efficiency, not performance, comfort, and rarely have unplanned stops, more weight is not a bother.
Since any decent performance battery is still way less reliable than any ICE system, that argument of complexity of gen set = higher failure is currently so crazy to be laughable. A hybrid car will have lower maintenance and life time cost than any all electric car built today, unless you only do short trips between charges, then the hybrid would be equal (engine not needed.)
So sure, you can make up for weight with exotic materials, but using those on hybrids just throws even more advantage to them.
you of course left out a few steps in the electric, IE electric power plant 40% efficient, power grid 95% efficient, (not to mention the costly endeavor in land and materials of maintaining the growing need for more grid) and of course the wasted effort of carrying a 800 pound battery instead of a 16 pounds of gas+ 40 pound generator. I am sure you would say something about charging by night or solar, that works as long as only a few cars and eventually... currently renewable energy is taxed over 100% with natural gas/coal needing burned 24/7 Also of course my current ICE is at 200,000 miles with only maintenance being oil changes and spark plugs (expecting to double that with some added maint soon.) The batterys of the Tesla are hoping for 100,000 miles, but no one really expects that to be more than a best case for many years. The hybrids avoid the expected battery life of 800 deep discharges, by avoiding having to do deep discharges.
one kilogram of uranium-235 can theoretically produce about 20 trillion joules of energy (2 × 1013 joules); as much energy as 1500 tonnes of coal.
so 2 pounds / 1500 tonnes =.6 ppm basically if their is no energy gain by using uranium to blast oilsands, per unit of energy. We still have a factor of 5 in-efficiency before we are worse than coal as far as worst-case uranium contamination per watt of energy.
Also you use up most uranium, but whats left is heavy, easily separated from oil on-site. Things like radon that are radioactive, and created by uranium have a shelf life of 2 days. So basically if you separate out leftover uranium, in 2 days I would expect your extracted oil would be radiation free.
now plenty of hazards at the site to be avoided. So it would be a bad place to be, but the end product should be OK.
The end of free speech on the web? (IE single/shared logins across the web.) maybe require excellent Karma on slashdot before you can get a digg/youtube/reddit/myspace/craigslist login.
it is deadly, just not anymore of a WMD than conventional weapons. for instance that Halabja gas attack killed 5000 and wounded 10,000. was accomplished by "14 sorties of 7-8 planes each" so sure 100 planes loads of gas kills 5000 (50 people killed per plane load of ammo is a WMD?). Is that more deadly than the 2 days of conventional bombing over Dresden in WWII that was estimated to kill 50,000? They are more in-humane, but not more deadly. Also considerably cheaper to manufacture, but not as reliable.
checkout Ground Zero BTW, Japan had a little help rebuilding. Also destroying a city or country doesn't require killing ever single person. Just checkout New Orleans, very few were killed and it hasn't recovered from partial infrastructure destruction in how many years?
Nerve agents would be extremely lethal if released by terrorists in a large building, mall or airport but, again, they are weapons of localized destruction, not mass destruction.
these nerve agents create a horrifying scary death. So while being weapons of creating mass hysteria they have never had higher kill rates/area than conventional bombs. They are a statement of the evils of the administration, but not a WMD.
I think you missed the context of this story. They are claiming the girls created child porn by taking the photo. In your example it is equivalent to grandma taking, and putting the naked baby photo in the photo album, pervert uncle eddie steals it out of her album she has on display, and adds to his dungeon of disgust. Grandma can now charged with distributing child porn? Context is fine at trial, but first you need to label each picture so the jury doesn't have to look at these type of photos. IE saying Eddie had 300 nude photos of various teens/pre-teen is allowable evidence for trial, no additional labels needed, this is a suspicious circumstances without a child porn label. We should also be able to label child porn regardless it's current circumstance so we don't waste time with a single safe photo, etc.
I actually usually take the highest res least compression JPEG image on the camera, then have a IM script to copy and compress by entire directory into smaller sizes if using in a report, etc. I have played with several RAW image editors, including Canon, paint shop, and gimp. Using them to correct having the wrong settings at the time of the picture is useful (but time consuming.) The point was you will always beat the cameras JPEG compression even using just the defaults. Or even just re-compressing the cameras JPEG output with a lossless JPEG to JPEG compressor will often decrease size by nearly 25% without any loss in quality.
JPEG compression is JPEG compression and RAW data is RAW data.
not really, there is actually lossless compression of jpeg images that will reduce size by 25% (sometimes more) from what a camera produces (not even including the removal of exif, and thumbnail removal) It would depend on how much memory/CPU time/power the camera is willing to use. I find I get a much much better, and similar sized image post processing on my PC, than selecting at the camera. (IE minimal jpeg compression at the camera produces a larger, and noticeably worse image, than doing the downsize with imagemagic, from a full size RAW format on a PC)
The other that gets me worse, is a poorly planned project scope. IE when 100 small changes effectively destroys the original documentation and layout. (however, as the developer half the time that is my fault) I usually can get enough time to document, and design the first implementation, it is only after initial release I get the 100 different "I need this small change tomorrow" then it all degrades.
It appears the "MOBI ID" of the kindle would also allow the stripping of amazons DRM using the same software that strips DRM from mobi books. So while the intended application should be DMCA safe, having the MOBI ID is one step closer to stripping DRM from amazons books. (still not a clear DMCA violation, but I can see some point)
I won't even get into how much people waste in the states watering their lawns, I swear some of my neighbors could fill a pool a week.
Are all plants a waste, or just the fast growing ones? (it is a rhetorical Q, but I don't know a answer) My grass (6' by 50') I planted because without it I would have to funnel all the water from the roof to the sewer (also adding gutters is forbidden by home owners), for treatment. Since the grass filters it, disperses it, and prevent erosion, I just have enough to do that (but still needs watered) Regardless I think the grass provides enough benefit (except in really arid places, or low density population where the pollution cleaning benefits are not so great) to be much better than any open water (IE pools, waste water treatment, fish ponds, etc, etc) Granted agave is popular in Europe and is mostly a better erosion solution, except then my dog cant use that area, and the snakes, scorpions, spiders that I don't want next to my house seam to build into that tighter. I have added a rain barrel, a couple more (back of the house can have gutters, just not the front) and I may be able to not have to pump water from the ground for watering, is that still a waste? (I assume not much difference, less electric to pump it up, but assuming a mostly local water cycle that's about it)
I would say there will be at least be a option 4 within 6 months: get option 3, then download the windows 7 full activation code from hacker site. I seriously doubt MS will care about the hacked netbook-> full version patch. They just want some way to give away a low end windows version and justify (to OEM's) why not to give away all versions.
Advancements in motors has been pushed hard, and is still coming, same with batterys, that was my point. Expecting some huge cost reduction because the tech suddenly becomes used in "volume" because of cars is crazy, it's already a huge volume, electric motors is already a much larger volume than cars, simply putting them in cars to increase volume is crazy talk. I would love to see facts in your post backed by facts/links, lithium is currently $300 / pound, density has increased in batterys. cost/cost per charge hasn't jumped.
actually they probably do. you don't have to move it all at once, good wear leveling will move chunks of the nearly static files into heavy wear areas, and not keep any memory static forever (unless you run the drive at well over 90% capacity.)
So the amount of data on the drive makes little difference, only the rate at which data is changed.
Life ~= K* (capacity of drive/ rate of data change)
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they didn't say which IP address. if you could post the result of "tracert cnn.com" or "traceroute cnn.com" pretty good idea someone will have you down to the city or company your at.
I don't think it is much different, in the "test the heck out of it", etc. It is more can your company afford to internalize the risk, and does your contract with the vendor reduce that. And can you afford the extra time required to DIY. Regardless the solution, you better test the heck out of it if you can't afford the downtime. In times like these it is often more of a, if you can't afford the big iron, then do what you can afford. for example, that is why I went to a (unrelated to the discussion at hand) linux based system 8 years ago over a big iron system. But you know what, that allowed us to learn to support/test our own system, and look through the FUD that any "Big Iron" sales person will fling your way. Now that this updates to the linux system are more "supported" than the big Iron servers (Home office bought the big iron system, it now has less features, and in order to catch up they have to keep buying upgraded software, hardware, and licenses...)
So if you hold onto your employees, your company will likely be better off with any system they are allowed to use/touch/change, than one they pay for and forget about until something changes, and don't be surprised if you scramble to get a response like "we don't support that on the box you have anymore, here buy the new more expensive one".
exactly what DRM is, IE if I want to give out encryted data, to a computer/user that I don't trust, yet I want them/that to do useful stuff with my encrypted data, but never give full read access to my encrypted data.
So a VM could be deployed on the remote server that would only allow your signed app to perform only the acts you allow on the data, and only allow your client to connect securely. This would provide the desired functionality. Same as DRM, the security is through obscurity at some point, since you must give the key to your data out in some fashion, but it can be hidden deep in a big program. So a true open source solution likely can't exist...
Yes, he can use the content he has already purchased,
FYI, he couldn't use all of the content he had bought. According to one of his posts he apparently had some content he purchased that was "archived", and thus couldn't be un-archived without accessing his account. Also sounds like he couldn't request files to be converted for the kindle any longer, which would be legal content that he had purchased the right to (a right purchased with the device.) Their are tools to get around that, but apparently Amazon claims those tools are illegal to use.
It didn't say if his access to wikipedia, etc was also taken away.
At the airport I was chatting with a guy clearly running winXP, I see the Vista registration sticker and say something about like "oh you were downgraded from Vista." His response (clearly talking about current XP OS) no, I haven't had any problems, I really like Vista its much better. (I should have noticed it was a corporate laptop, same scenario as my corporate laptop, the sticker says Vista, but its not...)
So US citizens living or working in mexico can no longer get a cell phone in Mexico?
In AZ prepaid long distance cards covering "international" calls to Mexico are cheap and insanely popular. Mexico will not prevent US phones from roaming, so I am guessing pre-paid "International" cell phones will be here too.
So next time I update the bios on my laptop I should ignore the advice of full batterys and plugged into wall power, and choose just one? Is it just asking for a higher failure rate to have a second power source because of course the laptop can run for 30 minutes on good batterys, so that is the "simplist" method, thus the most reliable?
Just like the hybrid car, my Li-ion laptop batterys will last longer and have fuller capacity if I never use them, although the wall power is much more complicated system than the "just run from the batterys" inside the laptop it would be more reliable to run from AC power converted to DC as much as possible.
The problem is batterys, especially li-ion are a insanely complicated set of chemical interactions, that few can model at all, none have successfully made a functional model of all the interactions that occur at more than a most trivial power level. So although a battery looks like, and feels like a very simple device. But like a fine swiss time piece what you see on the outside is no indication of what cant be seen under the skin. IE we can see why they fail, sometimes we can even repair the battery failure, but despite our bet efforts we cant stop the undesired reactions that happen to destroy every battery.
I can tell you from my home solar setup, I had one solar panel and battery. solar panel not large enough to drive my pump directly, so charge the battery, run motor. Battery failure every 6 months. added more panels, charge controller, capacitors for day use a smart switch for battery at low power, system has 0 failures for 2 years.
good post, I will expand on "you have to have rules to keep greed in check. " and just say those don't have to be government enacted and enforced (except when also government backed). IE Japan is relatively un-regulated banking in comparison, but if a CEO/CFO/manager screws up big time they are essentially dog shit for life (or literally dead, if self enforced.)
With the more Muslim countries, earning interest is a sin. It is obvious without some central control lending has always become a huge pyramid scheme. So (I assume) rather than try to balance hundreds of rules, they just about ban it (oh and some death/disfiguring enforcements exist also.)
you are correct, using your math for 600 lbs you get 5* the range from a hybrid as a all electric. Or you can cut the battery weight in half, and still get 4* the distance from the same weight. Weight is very important because the claim of 95% efficient electric motor is bunk at any high torque, more like a 65% efficient (torque=current, high current causes more loss in every component.) Weight is also very important because you have to add structure, bigger sized tires to keep the same handling, and you now have to use your brakes to stop, throwing away more energy (assuming same motor/battery), it all adds up. Of course suspension losses become important in the real world and bigger tires is more wind drag as well when we start talking this high of economy.
So yes if your building a train that drives on perfect road/track, and you only care about efficiency, not performance, comfort, and rarely have unplanned stops, more weight is not a bother.
Since any decent performance battery is still way less reliable than any ICE system, that argument of complexity of gen set = higher failure is currently so crazy to be laughable. A hybrid car will have lower maintenance and life time cost than any all electric car built today, unless you only do short trips between charges, then the hybrid would be equal (engine not needed.)
So sure, you can make up for weight with exotic materials, but using those on hybrids just throws even more advantage to them.
you of course left out a few steps in the electric, IE electric power plant 40% efficient, power grid 95% efficient, (not to mention the costly endeavor in land and materials of maintaining the growing need for more grid) and of course the wasted effort of carrying a 800 pound battery instead of a 16 pounds of gas+ 40 pound generator. I am sure you would say something about charging by night or solar, that works as long as only a few cars and eventually... currently renewable energy is taxed over 100% with natural gas/coal needing burned 24/7
Also of course my current ICE is at 200,000 miles with only maintenance being oil changes and spark plugs (expecting to double that with some added maint soon.) The batterys of the Tesla are hoping for 100,000 miles, but no one really expects that to be more than a best case for many years. The hybrids avoid the expected battery life of 800 deep discharges, by avoiding having to do deep discharges.
one kilogram of uranium-235 can theoretically produce about 20 trillion joules of energy (2 × 1013 joules); as much energy as 1500 tonnes of coal.
so 2 pounds / 1500 tonnes = .6 ppm basically if their is no energy gain by using uranium to blast oilsands, per unit of energy. We still have a factor of 5 in-efficiency before we are worse than coal as far as worst-case uranium contamination per watt of energy.
Also you use up most uranium, but whats left is heavy, easily separated from oil on-site. Things like radon that are radioactive, and created by uranium have a shelf life of 2 days. So basically if you separate out leftover uranium, in 2 days I would expect your extracted oil would be radiation free.
now plenty of hazards at the site to be avoided. So it would be a bad place to be, but the end product should be OK.
radio active waste hasn't stopped coal power plants, I would think as clean as we are able to burn oil now, sepearte out any heavy metal at the end would be easier than coal. Actually just mixing it into a pipeline seams pretty safe from what the article says about the lack of radioactivity in the low fissionable material bombs should make this a non-issue.
Coal-burning plants are particularly noted for producing large amounts of toxic and mildly radioactive ash due to concentrating naturally occurring metals and radioactive material from the coal.
The end of free speech on the web? (IE single/shared logins across the web.) maybe require excellent Karma on slashdot before you can get a digg/youtube/reddit/myspace/craigslist login.
it is deadly, just not anymore of a WMD than conventional weapons. for instance that Halabja gas attack killed 5000 and wounded 10,000. was accomplished by "14 sorties of 7-8 planes each" so sure 100 planes loads of gas kills 5000 (50 people killed per plane load of ammo is a WMD?). Is that more deadly than the 2 days of conventional bombing over Dresden in WWII that was estimated to kill 50,000?
They are more in-humane, but not more deadly. Also considerably cheaper to manufacture, but not as reliable.
checkout
Ground Zero
BTW, Japan had a little help rebuilding. Also destroying a city or country doesn't require killing ever single person. Just checkout New Orleans, very few were killed and it hasn't recovered from partial infrastructure destruction in how many years?
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0215-01.htm
Nerve agents would be extremely lethal if released by terrorists in a large building, mall or airport but, again, they are weapons of localized destruction, not mass destruction.
these nerve agents create a horrifying scary death. So while being weapons of creating mass hysteria they have never had higher kill rates/area than conventional bombs. They are a statement of the evils of the administration, but not a WMD.
I think you missed the context of this story. They are claiming the girls created child porn by taking the photo. In your example it is equivalent to grandma taking, and putting the naked baby photo in the photo album, pervert uncle eddie steals it out of her album she has on display, and adds to his dungeon of disgust. Grandma can now charged with distributing child porn? Context is fine at trial, but first you need to label each picture so the jury doesn't have to look at these type of photos. IE saying Eddie had 300 nude photos of various teens/pre-teen is allowable evidence for trial, no additional labels needed, this is a suspicious circumstances without a child porn label. We should also be able to label child porn regardless it's current circumstance so we don't waste time with a single safe photo, etc.
I actually usually take the highest res least compression JPEG image on the camera, then have a IM script to copy and compress by entire directory into smaller sizes if using in a report, etc.
I have played with several RAW image editors, including Canon, paint shop, and gimp. Using them to correct having the wrong settings at the time of the picture is useful (but time consuming.) The point was you will always beat the cameras JPEG compression even using just the defaults. Or even just re-compressing the cameras JPEG output with a lossless JPEG to JPEG compressor will often decrease size by nearly 25% without any loss in quality.
JPEG compression is JPEG compression and RAW data is RAW data.
not really, there is actually lossless compression of jpeg images that will reduce size by 25% (sometimes more) from what a camera produces (not even including the removal of exif, and thumbnail removal)
It would depend on how much memory/CPU time/power the camera is willing to use. I find I get a much much better, and similar sized image post processing on my PC, than selecting at the camera. (IE minimal jpeg compression at the camera produces a larger, and noticeably worse image, than doing the downsize with imagemagic, from a full size RAW format on a PC)
The other that gets me worse, is a poorly planned project scope.
IE when 100 small changes effectively destroys the original documentation and layout. (however, as the developer half the time that is my fault) I usually can get enough time to document, and design the first implementation, it is only after initial release I get the 100 different "I need this small change tomorrow" then it all degrades.
It appears the "MOBI ID" of the kindle would also allow the stripping of amazons DRM using the same software that strips DRM from mobi books.
So while the intended application should be DMCA safe, having the MOBI ID is one step closer to stripping DRM from amazons books. (still not a clear DMCA violation, but I can see some point)
I won't even get into how much people waste in the states watering their lawns, I swear some of my neighbors could fill a pool a week.
Are all plants a waste, or just the fast growing ones? (it is a rhetorical Q, but I don't know a answer) My grass (6' by 50') I planted because without it I would have to funnel all the water from the roof to the sewer (also adding gutters is forbidden by home owners), for treatment. Since the grass filters it, disperses it, and prevent erosion, I just have enough to do that (but still needs watered) Regardless I think the grass provides enough benefit (except in really arid places, or low density population where the pollution cleaning benefits are not so great) to be much better than any open water (IE pools, waste water treatment, fish ponds, etc, etc)
Granted agave is popular in Europe and is mostly a better erosion solution, except then my dog cant use that area, and the snakes, scorpions, spiders that I don't want next to my house seam to build into that tighter.
I have added a rain barrel, a couple more (back of the house can have gutters, just not the front) and I may be able to not have to pump water from the ground for watering, is that still a waste? (I assume not much difference, less electric to pump it up, but assuming a mostly local water cycle that's about it)
I would say there will be at least be a option 4 within 6 months: get option 3, then download the windows 7 full activation code from hacker site.
I seriously doubt MS will care about the hacked netbook-> full version patch. They just want some way to give away a low end windows version and justify (to OEM's) why not to give away all versions.
Advancements in motors has been pushed hard, and is still coming, same with batterys, that was my point. Expecting some huge cost reduction because the tech suddenly becomes used in "volume" because of cars is crazy, it's already a huge volume, electric motors is already a much larger volume than cars, simply putting them in cars to increase volume is crazy talk.
I would love to see facts in your post backed by facts/links, lithium is currently $300 / pound, density has increased in batterys. cost/cost per charge hasn't jumped.
actually they probably do. you don't have to move it all at once, good wear leveling will move chunks of the nearly static files into heavy wear areas, and not keep any memory static forever (unless you run the drive at well over 90% capacity.)
So the amount of data on the drive makes little difference, only the rate at which data is changed.
Life ~= K* (capacity of drive/ rate of data change)