IANAH either, but I heard that when the Grand Coulee Dam was finished in the 1941, it produced as much electricity as ALL of Germany. This page says that 6 65,000 HP generators were in use during the war.
http://users.owt.com/chubbard/gcdam/html/history .h tml
I forget my source, but I think it was the Hitler/History Channel.
Btw, the GCD contains enough concrete to build a 4 lane highway 3,000 miles long (from NYC to LA).
This is not a joke. Didn't anyone else see "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" with George Lazenby as J. Bond 007, Diana Rigg as Tracie, and Telly Savalas as the diabolical Ernst Stavro Blofeld?
Blofeld (the evil bald dude with the cat) has a bunch of hotties from all over the world up at his Swiss chalet for "allergy treatment." He's really brainwashing them and equiping them with bio-weapons to use to blackmail the world's food supply.
Hello? An intense 2-day training seminar and cutting-edge, custom-made, CLOSED SOURCE gadgets? This is a recipe for disaster, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to find Paul Allen, Warren Buffett or the Woz behind this. They all want to change (rule) the world.
Word up. I got burned on a $450 purchase and I thought the $175 was pretty insulting. (Yeah, I know using a personal check is dumb, duh)
If I got burned for 3G's, I would be mailing that dude a letter filled with ebola, then polish off my shotgun-pistol to messily-finish him off Bladerunner style.
One of these posses will go too far and lynch the wrong guy soon. If you were a thief and knew about the possibility of retribution from angry geeks, wouldn't you set up a patsy? I know I would.
From the article:
But like vigilante gangs of the American frontier, ad hoc communities seeking justice on the electronic frontier sometimes trample the very laws they seek to enforce, as their quest for justice warps into a plot for revenge.
"You just end up with might makes right," said Jonathan Zittrain, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
Settlement Good? Write the email!
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Yeah, it's whoring and slightly OT, so what?
From the Bork columnist:
If you haven't made your comment in U.S. v. Microsoft, you have three (Now TWO (2)) days to do so. The e- mail address is microsoft.atr@usdoj.gov while the fax numbers are 1-202-307-1454 and 1-202- 616-9937. As Judge Bork noted, your comment's effectiveness is a function of how intelligently it is rendered. I've received copies of many of the comments sent by readers of this column, and I'm truly impressed. Now we need to multiply them by a hundred or so.
A lot of recently built power plants (especially ones fueled by waste or processed waste pellets) do sell off their excess heat as well as their electricity.
Also, most recent landfills are equipped to capture, clean (sometimes), and ship the landfill gas (~50% methane) produced by decomposition. The customer can burn it just like the "regular" natural gas from the pipeline or tank. It doesn't make a lot of money, but it might offset or defray the cost of capping the landfill.
850,000 customers * $46/customer/mo = $39,100,000/mo in subscriber fees
Does "keeping the modems on" cost $6M/wk ($24M/mo) net or gross?
Furthermore, if you look at the value of all the residential service contracts held by excite (3.7M customers * $46/cust./mo * ~6mo remaining on contract = $1.02B), it's roughly the amount of debt held by the bondholders. Hmm.
I am really impressed with him too. He's riding in it himself, not using a pro mtn. or speed biker or a 15 yr old girl(!). That not only takes dedication, but also the cajones to go 80 mph (129.7 km/h) 4 in. (6 cm) above the ground.
I think the "laminar flow" science he is designing with is the same as the Russian Skvall torpedo. They both have laminar envelopes around the skin of the vessel that is supposed to reduce friction by keeping turbulence off the skin. IANAAE, so take this with a grain (1 mg) of salt.
Weaver's website: (scroll down, he describes his encounter with a UFO)
http://www.speed101.com/
quoted from the now.com interview
http://www.now.com/sport/feature.now?javascript= dh tml&fid=1781189&cid=457257
Then there is the question of how it would feel if he was to become the fastest man on earth.
Weaver ponders this at length before saying: "First and foremost, I would feel very alive. Life and existence is all about motion - in a grand scale, and even in the scale of the frenetic little molecules organizing within us.
"Life is movement. Movement is defined by speed.
"If I were to achieve the greatest pure human physical speed ever - to be the fastest human alive - against arguably the world's best and through an unique express-ion of both the ingenuity of my mind and power of my muscles, I would feel very alive.
"That's probably why I'm insatiably drawn to this little-known event. It's a primal sport, a primal race becoming progressively recognized. No rules, just the body and mind and motion.
"I sense an opportunity looms uniquely before me and can't help but pursue it."
"You're much better off using a good source of
random data and then distributing CDs..." -- ajs
What are some/.er's favorite ways of generating random noise? I have a few obvious (?) ones in my mind, but the hive mind is far more wise.
-Geiger Counter
-Analog to Digital Converter (like from a mike or a webcam)
-Time between keystrokes or mouse use (maybe use least significant bit here)
Are any of these adequately random, or could some military-grade number crunching find a pattern? What other methods have you guys got, especially those that don't need external hardware?
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First of all, don't send email to quaddafi@intel.mil.lb. That is good advice for anyone, not just spies.
2) Use one-time pads. A DVD full of geiger counter readings will do a better job of fooling the spooks than any method that can be brute forced. If it can be brute forced, they will do it. NSA pays the salaries of more math Ph.D.s than anyone else on the globe. The only problem with the OTP is ridding yourself of the traces of the plaintext and noise (the DVD itself and residual memory on your box)
3) Remailers, public and private. I would have Country B set up clean cover companies in third countries (those Scandinavian countries are good). Send your mail to katrina@fakecompany.fi, let it get bounced around and rehashed with static. This should slow down the spooks a bit.
I hope this would take care of the secure data transmission end.
Remaining problems:
-getting the goods (unless you're the boss like Hanssen, don't get any secrets you wouldn't normally have access to anyway)
-getting paid (diamonds in a ziploc bag are fun to have around, but how are you going to spend them? Hanssen drove around in a beat-up minivan, b/c all his "l3wt" was in jewel form, or in a "secret account" in the SovUnion. If you show up at the office driving a Maserati, eyebrows are sure to raise)
-getting away (eventually they'll catch up to you, so you'll want to leave before they do. Where are you going to go? Libya? Talibanistan? The Sudan?)
In conclusion, let me say that spying is bad. We're the good guys (well, compared to Libya and Iraq). Put 15% of your salary into an IRA, and when you retire, you'll have your pension & a cool mil.
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IANAH either, but I heard that when the Grand Coulee Dam was finished in the 1941, it produced as much electricity as ALL of Germany. This page says that 6 65,000 HP generators were in use during the war.y .h tml
http://users.owt.com/chubbard/gcdam/html/histor
I forget my source, but I think it was the Hitler/History Channel.
Btw, the GCD contains enough concrete to build a 4 lane highway 3,000 miles long (from NYC to LA).
I think that guy's name is Rich Uncle Moneybags.
I saw that on a commercial or something.
It's appropriate for Bill too.
This is not a joke. Didn't anyone else see "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" with George Lazenby as J. Bond 007, Diana Rigg as Tracie, and Telly Savalas as the diabolical Ernst Stavro Blofeld?
Blofeld (the evil bald dude with the cat) has a bunch of hotties from all over the world up at his Swiss chalet for "allergy treatment." He's really brainwashing them and equiping them with bio-weapons to use to blackmail the world's food supply.
Hello? An intense 2-day training seminar and cutting-edge, custom-made, CLOSED SOURCE gadgets? This is a recipe for disaster, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to find Paul Allen, Warren Buffett or the Woz behind this. They all want to change (rule) the world.
Where did I put my tin foil hat?
Word up. I got burned on a $450 purchase and I thought the $175 was pretty insulting. (Yeah, I know using a personal check is dumb, duh)
If I got burned for 3G's, I would be mailing that dude a letter filled with ebola, then polish off my shotgun-pistol to messily-finish him off Bladerunner style.
One of these posses will go too far and lynch the wrong guy soon. If you were a thief and knew about the possibility of retribution from angry geeks, wouldn't you set up a patsy? I know I would.
From the article:
But like vigilante gangs of the American frontier, ad hoc communities seeking justice on the electronic frontier sometimes trample the very laws they seek to enforce, as their quest for justice warps into a plot for revenge.
"You just end up with might makes right," said Jonathan Zittrain, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
Yeah, it's whoring and slightly OT, so what?
From the Bork columnist:
If you haven't made your comment in U.S. v. Microsoft, you have three (Now TWO (2)) days to do so. The e- mail address is microsoft.atr@usdoj.gov while the fax numbers are 1-202-307-1454 and 1-202- 616-9937. As Judge Bork noted, your comment's effectiveness is a function of how intelligently it is rendered. I've received copies of many of the comments sent by readers of this column, and I'm truly impressed. Now we need to multiply them by a hundred or so.
Write the email!
Write the email!
Write the email!
Man, you guys are lazy.
hehehehehehe
That is the best laugh I've had in a while, thanks.
Cogeneration.
A lot of recently built power plants (especially ones fueled by waste or processed waste pellets) do sell off their excess heat as well as their electricity.
Also, most recent landfills are equipped to capture, clean (sometimes), and ship the landfill gas (~50% methane) produced by decomposition. The customer can burn it just like the "regular" natural gas from the pipeline or tank. It doesn't make a lot of money, but it might offset or defray the cost of capping the landfill.
Hold on.
850,000 customers * $46/customer/mo = $39,100,000/mo in subscriber fees
Does "keeping the modems on" cost $6M/wk ($24M/mo) net or gross?
Furthermore, if you look at the value of all the residential service contracts held by excite (3.7M customers * $46/cust./mo * ~6mo remaining on contract = $1.02B), it's roughly the amount of debt held by the bondholders. Hmm.
I am really impressed with him too. He's riding in it himself, not using a pro mtn. or speed biker or a 15 yr old girl(!). That not only takes dedication, but also the cajones to go 80 mph (129.7 km/h) 4 in. (6 cm) above the ground.
= dh tml&fid=1781189&cid=457257
I think the "laminar flow" science he is designing with is the same as the Russian Skvall torpedo. They both have laminar envelopes around the skin of the vessel that is supposed to reduce friction by keeping turbulence off the skin. IANAAE, so take this with a grain (1 mg) of salt.
Weaver's website: (scroll down, he describes his encounter with a UFO)
http://www.speed101.com/
quoted from the now.com interview
http://www.now.com/sport/feature.now?javascript
Then there is the question of how it would feel if he was to become the fastest man on earth.
Weaver ponders this at length before saying: "First and foremost, I would feel very alive. Life and existence is all about motion - in a grand scale, and even in the scale of the frenetic little molecules organizing within us.
"Life is movement. Movement is defined by speed.
"If I were to achieve the greatest pure human physical speed ever - to be the fastest human alive - against arguably the world's best and through an unique express-ion of both the ingenuity of my mind and power of my muscles, I would feel very alive.
"That's probably why I'm insatiably drawn to this little-known event. It's a primal sport, a primal race becoming progressively recognized. No rules, just the body and mind and motion.
"I sense an opportunity looms uniquely before me and can't help but pursue it."
I was at Funcoland in Brooklyn yesterday.
Dreamcast--
$79.99 new, with no games
100 new, with 3 sports games
59.99 "refurbished" but they were out of refurbished
54.99 used
Slightly off-topic, but...
/.er's favorite ways of generating random noise? I have a few obvious (?) ones in my mind, but the hive mind is far more wise.
"You're much better off using a good source of
random data and then distributing CDs..." -- ajs
What are some
-Geiger Counter
-Analog to Digital Converter (like from a mike or a webcam)
-Time between keystrokes or mouse use (maybe use least significant bit here)
Are any of these adequately random, or could some military-grade number crunching find a pattern? What other methods have you guys got, especially those that don't need external hardware?
First of all, don't send email to quaddafi@intel.mil.lb. That is good advice for anyone, not just spies.
2) Use one-time pads. A DVD full of geiger counter readings will do a better job of fooling the spooks than any method that can be brute forced. If it can be brute forced, they will do it. NSA pays the salaries of more math Ph.D.s than anyone else on the globe. The only problem with the OTP is ridding yourself of the traces of the plaintext and noise (the DVD itself and residual memory on your box)
3) Remailers, public and private. I would have Country B set up clean cover companies in third countries (those Scandinavian countries are good). Send your mail to katrina@fakecompany.fi, let it get bounced around and rehashed with static. This should slow down the spooks a bit.
I hope this would take care of the secure data transmission end.
Remaining problems:
-getting the goods (unless you're the boss like Hanssen, don't get any secrets you wouldn't normally have access to anyway)
-getting paid (diamonds in a ziploc bag are fun to have around, but how are you going to spend them? Hanssen drove around in a beat-up minivan, b/c all his "l3wt" was in jewel form, or in a "secret account" in the SovUnion. If you show up at the office driving a Maserati, eyebrows are sure to raise)
-getting away (eventually they'll catch up to you, so you'll want to leave before they do. Where are you going to go? Libya? Talibanistan? The Sudan?)
In conclusion, let me say that spying is bad. We're the good guys (well, compared to Libya and Iraq). Put 15% of your salary into an IRA, and when you retire, you'll have your pension & a cool mil.