Annual German carbon dioxide emission per capita went from 12.93 tonnes in 1995 to 8.88 in 2016. That is a reduction of 32% (Wikipedia)
Population increased from 77.619 million to 82.5 million during that time, so the relative total reduction is a bit less.
Still I wouldn't call that "hasn't made nearly any dent". Still, in the face of global warming, more effort is required; and keeping some nuclear reactors running a bit longer to shut down lignite power plants a bit earlier would have helped. But doing so would probably have been hard given the political climate - there seems to be a strong anti-nuclear sentiment among the population; on the other hand opposition to open-pit mining of lignite is counterbalanced by the jobs it creates, and thus support from unions and local politicians.
Mexico is not a CERN member state, which pay most of the CERN budget.
While Mexico has a co-operation agreement with CERN, it (like most countries with observer status or co-operation agreements, which also includes the US, Russia and China) has apparently not contributed to the 2019 budget: https://fap-dep.web.cern.ch/rp...
The lidar beam sweeps the area (after all the lidar is meant to give an image of the surroundings, not just a distance measure to a single point). I don't think a human could move quickly enough to keep the beam on their eye.
I hope lidar systems are designed fail-safe enough to not keep emitting the beam when the mirror rotation fails.
Sterilization sufficient to kill / destroy usual pathogens like bacteria or viruses is not sufficient for prions.
Prions are much tougher. They can easily withstand a few hundred degrees Celsius, prolonged immersion in formaldehyde or high doses of ionizing radiation.
Clicking the link proved in the post you replied to, you'll find some more details, such as energy generated from waste incinerators, to account for most of those 4.4%. Though even there some 2% are listed as just "other sources".
Deforestation was a big problem in Europe. The wood were cut down to provide wood for building ships, and as well as for use in other industries. After a while few old forests remained.
But the problem was noticed, and starting in Germany there was a shift to a sustainable wood economy. "Sustainability" became a big trend (initiated by Hans Carl von Carlowitz, "Silvicultura oeconomica" in 1713). Today 32% of Germany are wood, the EU average is 40%.
Though there are exceptions. It seems sustainability never caught on in Ireland, where today only 11% of the are are woods (with their old woods cut down hundreds of years ago to build the British fleet).
According to the FCC a phone receviing a Galileo signal is a ground station in contact with foreign satellites, which is only allowed with after a lengthy FCC approval process
Apparently in October 2013, the EU applied to the FCC to allow reception of Galileo signals in the US. Apparently, the FCC has now partially granted (bands E1 and E5), partially denied (band E6) this request (http://insidegnss.com/fcc-poised-to-approve-broad-use-of-galileo-in-u-s/).
Yes, the FCC is aware that people in the US are already receiving signals from foreign satellites without asking the FCC first: "it becomes clear that many devices in the United States are already operating with foreign signals. But nowhere in our record is there a good picture of how many devices in this country are interacting with these foreign satellite systems, what it means for compliance with our rules, and what it means for the security of our systems." (Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel)
These positioning systems work well, when you receive a good signal from enough satellites. Accuracy can also be improved by differential systems such as EGNOS (again broadcast by satellites). In the air, on plains or on mountains there is no problem.
The situation is different in valleys. With just GPS one can easily get a position that is off by 100 meters, and also get no signal from the satellites broadcasting the correction information for differential GPS.
To solve the first issue, you need signals from more satellites, so using Galileo, GLONASS, etc in addition to GPS helps.
But I also have two OpenBSB systems, and my experience is quite different between the two. I use them for various tasks (though they also sometimes sit unused for weeks), and for easy interaction use a graphical environment. One of the tasks I use them for is to check if the Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) works well on OpenBSD.
One is an old amd64 Dell laptop with German keyboard. Basically, it just works. XFCE as desktop, Firefox as browser, LLVM for the compiler.
The other is a Mac mini (the fastest of the PPC versions, RAM upgraded to max, with SSD - still slow compared to modern systems) with German keyboard. Well, X works. I never could get the German keyboard layout to work though, so I have to do quite some trial-and error when typing. There is no Firefox or LLVM for it. netsurf for the browser works kind of okayish for many websites. The compiler that comes with OpenBSD is an ancient GCC, that does not support current language standards, such as C++11, so it won't compile current software. Fortunately, one can install GCC 4.9, which already is an important improvement (at least it supports C++11, so a bit more software compiles, but C++14 support is incomplete).
Well, learning languages has always been hard for me. At school, for a while English always was my worst grade. That only changed when I had to take a second foreign language.
My grades finally improved when I was reading Unix Network Programming, Volume 2, Interprocess communications. It seems I learned English from that book. I still couldn't really speak it, but reading and writing finally was okayish.
Even today, I write a mixture of British and American English, there is a heavy German accent in my pronunciation and I have trouble understanding some spoken English (in particular the Dublin and Yorkshire accents).
The only languages I really feel comfortable with are German and C. But I noticed that my German no longer is a good as it once was. I guess I should go back to reading German books more often.
If I'd put in some effort, I should be able to get my French, Scheme and Verilog to a reasonable level. But I don't think I could progress much further than that.
If you count everything as a planet, Pluto is not the ninth, there is a lot more. Wikipedia's list of minor plants has 523584 entries today.
Pluto isn't even the only thing once considered a planet that got "downgraded" to dwarf-plant. It happened to Ceres in the 1850s before. Ceres was discovered on the 1st of January 1801, far earlier than Pluto. Its orbit between those of Mars and Jupiter and it is far bigger than Goblin.
The switch would not provide tamper-evidence: Anyone with physical access to the laptop could make changes to the OS that would not be noticed.
That doesn't mean that such a switch would be useless; it just would protect against a different kind of attack compared to the one the security key protects against.
Well, I don't have a Purism laptop, and haven't followed their work closely enough to judge.
But if the report from twitter is true, it is even more reason to hope that this security key (and software) will become available for use with other laptops.
I intend to get a new laptop in early 2019; it probably won't be a Purism one (I'll probably be looking for a 14'' Ryzen 2700U). Having such a key could be useful. But it would have to work with Debian with little extra effort (even better if it also works with OpenBSD).
But the key still raises the bar significantly. Even if there are bugs in the TPM that can be exploited, far less people would know about them or be able to use them for an attack.
There are far more potential attackers that could do an attack on an unprotected/boot partition.
The key not being tamper-evident doesn't make it "Completely useless". The key is small; it can be put on a key ring or into a wallet, both of which (assuming a normal person's way of handling their keys and wallet) make tampering hard.
The laptop, on the other hand is rather bulky, which makes preventing tampering hard.
When travelling (or just leaving the house), one will often want to leave a laptop behind (in one's own home, in a hotel room, etc). But one would the key.
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Annual German carbon dioxide emission per capita went from 12.93 tonnes in 1995 to 8.88 in 2016. That is a reduction of 32% (Wikipedia)
Population increased from 77.619 million to 82.5 million during that time, so the relative total reduction is a bit less.
Still I wouldn't call that "hasn't made nearly any dent". Still, in the face of global warming, more effort is required; and keeping some nuclear reactors running a bit longer to shut down lignite power plants a bit earlier would have helped. But doing so would probably have been hard given the political climate - there seems to be a strong anti-nuclear sentiment among the population; on the other hand opposition to open-pit mining of lignite is counterbalanced by the jobs it creates, and thus support from unions and local politicians.
Mexico is not a CERN member state, which pay most of the CERN budget.
While Mexico has a co-operation agreement with CERN, it (like most countries with observer status or co-operation agreements, which also includes the US, Russia and China) has apparently not contributed to the 2019 budget: https://fap-dep.web.cern.ch/rp...
I'd assume that it will be paid mostly by CERN member states. Top contributors to CERN's 2019 budget:
See https://fap-dep.web.cern.ch/rp... for details.
According to the article, the current cost estimate is 17 G$.
For comparison: That is 30% more than a Ford-class aircraft carrier, 40% more than the Gotthard Base Tunnel.
The lidar beam sweeps the area (after all the lidar is meant to give an image of the surroundings, not just a distance measure to a single point). I don't think a human could move quickly enough to keep the beam on their eye.
I hope lidar systems are designed fail-safe enough to not keep emitting the beam when the mirror rotation fails.
Sterilization sufficient to kill / destroy usual pathogens like bacteria or viruses is not sufficient for prions.
Prions are much tougher. They can easily withstand a few hundred degrees Celsius, prolonged immersion in formaldehyde or high doses of ionizing radiation.
Low-end boards are not that expensive. The HiFive1 are just 59 $ in single-unit quantitities. Philipp
Yes, already back in 2011 in Canada. News reports can still be easily found.
Clicking the link proved in the post you replied to, you'll find some more details, such as energy generated from waste incinerators, to account for most of those 4.4%. Though even there some 2% are listed as just "other sources".
Expose some of their blood to HIV in a (sealed so no air gets in) petri dish.
Deforestation was a big problem in Europe. The wood were cut down to provide wood for building ships, and as well as for use in other industries. After a while few old forests remained.
But the problem was noticed, and starting in Germany there was a shift to a sustainable wood economy. "Sustainability" became a big trend (initiated by Hans Carl von Carlowitz, "Silvicultura oeconomica" in 1713). Today 32% of Germany are wood, the EU average is 40%.
Though there are exceptions. It seems sustainability never caught on in Ireland, where today only 11% of the are are woods (with their old woods cut down hundreds of years ago to build the British fleet).
According to the FCC a phone receviing a Galileo signal is a ground station in contact with foreign satellites, which is only allowed with after a lengthy FCC approval process
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11...
Apparently in October 2013, the EU applied to the FCC to allow reception of Galileo signals in the US. Apparently, the FCC has now partially granted (bands E1 and E5), partially denied (band E6) this request (http://insidegnss.com/fcc-poised-to-approve-broad-use-of-galileo-in-u-s/).
Yes, the FCC is aware that people in the US are already receiving signals from foreign satellites without asking the FCC first:
"it becomes clear that many devices in the United States are already operating with foreign signals. But nowhere in our record is there a good picture of how many devices in this country are interacting with these foreign satellite systems, what it means for compliance with our rules, and what it means for the security of our systems." (Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel)
The developer of the GPStest app elaborates on that in a blog post:
https://galileognss.eu/why-gal...
These positioning systems work well, when you receive a good signal from enough satellites. Accuracy can also be improved by differential systems such as EGNOS (again broadcast by satellites). In the air, on plains or on mountains there is no problem.
The situation is different in valleys. With just GPS one can easily get a position that is off by 100 meters, and also get no signal from the satellites broadcasting the correction information for differential GPS.
To solve the first issue, you need signals from more satellites, so using Galileo, GLONASS, etc in addition to GPS helps.
Vertical axis wind turbines that work with wind coming from any side have been around for a while (though not as large-scale commercial installations.
The new feature here is that this turbine also works with wind coming from below or above.
German magazine c't did some measurements in their current 23rd volume, pages 100 to 102.
Running AVX2 code, the 9900K draws 148 W for up to 28 seconds, 50% over TDP.
The 28 seconds are just enough to complete a run through multithreaded Cinebench.
Previous Intel processors only went 25% over TDP for up to 8 seconds.
My main desktop is Debian GNU/Linux.
But I also have two OpenBSB systems, and my experience is quite different between the two. I use them for various tasks (though they also sometimes sit unused for weeks), and for easy interaction use a graphical environment. One of the tasks I use them for is to check if the Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) works well on OpenBSD.
One is an old amd64 Dell laptop with German keyboard. Basically, it just works. XFCE as desktop, Firefox as browser, LLVM for the compiler.
The other is a Mac mini (the fastest of the PPC versions, RAM upgraded to max, with SSD - still slow compared to modern systems) with German keyboard. Well, X works. I never could get the German keyboard layout to work though, so I have to do quite some trial-and error when typing. There is no Firefox or LLVM for it. netsurf for the browser works kind of okayish for many websites. The compiler that comes with OpenBSD is an ancient GCC, that does not support current language standards, such as C++11, so it won't compile current software. Fortunately, one can install GCC 4.9, which already is an important improvement (at least it supports C++11, so a bit more software compiles, but C++14 support is incomplete).
Are you confusing OpenBSD with Hurd?
Hurd doesn't have USB support yet.
I don't remember when OpenBSD got USB support, but they did a an overhaul of their USB subsystem back in 2003, so there must have been support before.
The shotgun would be moving upward, while the projectile is ejected to the side.
For the launch: The rocket is moving upward, the Soyus with the astronauts is ejected to the side.
Well, learning languages has always been hard for me. At school, for a while English always was my worst grade. That only changed when I had to take a second foreign language.
My grades finally improved when I was reading Unix Network Programming, Volume 2, Interprocess communications. It seems I learned English from that book. I still couldn't really speak it, but reading and writing finally was okayish.
Even today, I write a mixture of British and American English, there is a heavy German accent in my pronunciation and I have trouble understanding some spoken English (in particular the Dublin and Yorkshire accents).
The only languages I really feel comfortable with are German and C. But I noticed that my German no longer is a good as it once was. I guess I should go back to reading German books more often.
If I'd put in some effort, I should be able to get my French, Scheme and Verilog to a reasonable level. But I don't think I could progress much further than that.
If you count everything as a planet, Pluto is not the ninth, there is a lot more. Wikipedia's list of minor plants has 523584 entries today.
Pluto isn't even the only thing once considered a planet that got "downgraded" to dwarf-plant. It happened to Ceres in the 1850s before. Ceres was discovered on the 1st of January 1801, far earlier than Pluto. Its orbit between those of Mars and Jupiter and it is far bigger than Goblin.
The switch would not provide tamper-evidence: Anyone with physical access to the laptop could make changes to the OS that would not be noticed.
That doesn't mean that such a switch would be useless; it just would protect against a different kind of attack compared to the one the security key protects against.
Well, I don't have a Purism laptop, and haven't followed their work closely enough to judge.
But if the report from twitter is true, it is even more reason to hope that this security key (and software) will become available for use with other laptops.
I intend to get a new laptop in early 2019; it probably won't be a Purism one (I'll probably be looking for a 14'' Ryzen 2700U). Having such a key could be useful. But it would have to work with Debian with little extra effort (even better if it also works with OpenBSD).
But the key still raises the bar significantly. Even if there are bugs in the TPM that can be exploited, far less people would know about them or be able to use them for an attack.
There are far more potential attackers that could do an attack on an unprotected /boot partition.
The key not being tamper-evident doesn't make it "Completely useless". The key is small; it can be put on a key ring or into a wallet, both of which (assuming a normal person's way of handling their keys and wallet) make tampering hard.
The laptop, on the other hand is rather bulky, which makes preventing tampering hard.
When travelling (or just leaving the house), one will often want to leave a laptop behind (in one's own home, in a hotel room, etc). But one would the key.