30% in some cities, yes. 30% over the planet, no way. The hyperbole makes me doubt everything.
CO2 is rising because it must with increasing temperature -- ever opened a warm soda can?
Our "civilizations" annually emit approximately 0.07 kg CO2/ m2 Earth surface, compared to 880 kg / m2 annual rainfall. I very much doubt even the total has much effect (beyond algae blooms & other plant growth). Let alone the tiny (yet expensive) changes contemplated by Kyoto.
Hey! A solution even good for last-minute: Just launch a few thousand MIRV warheads fused as groundpounders. Kick up a pile of dust and bring on nuclear winter. Hitting population/asset centers is optional:)
I'm presuming PS2 software compatibility is there. There was _no_ mention of how this is achieved technically or licencing.
I don't know what GPU is in the PS2, but I thought that GPU emulation is an order of magnitude harder than CPU emulation. The primatives are different, particularly around vector operations.
First, why would he give his uid/pw to anyone? Second, why have such a volatile GF? Better rid now than later. Waves or not, she's certainly high mtce.
Reporting to the police is perferctly appropriate. It is unauthorized access, and he has probably invested hundreds of hours worth a fraction million Yen. That he did it for pleasure is not relevant, the damage costs to repair. Like defacing a masterpiece.
OK, this _shouldn't_ apply to a good, reputable datacenter that has structured wiring to TIA/EIA-568 running gigabit.
I most often see autoneg problems with faulty cabling (split pairs from crimps). 98% of newbies cannot get it right, and they aren't to blame because the standards are counter-intuitive unless you've worked for Ma Bell for 40+ years. I beware of all field crimps.
OTOH, I saw one example of a Crisco Crapalyst router not wanting to play with some devices. Of course they blamed the device, but I never had any problem with interconnects or using cheap @$$ switches, so I wonder why the expensive @$$ switch gets huffy.
AFAIK the MS-WinXP click-thru EULA on preinstalls (from HPaq, Dell, etc) prohibits moving the licence to a different machine.
Now I doubt this click-thru is valid since the machine has been long since paid for, and the contract is with a different vendor. But is this term likely to be enforceable as "reasonable"?
MS biggest competition and profit threat is themselves,
people moving licences from old boxes.
Wherever he goes, there he is. He has to live with his miserable, suspicious, nervous self 24/7. Smile and move on. There's nothing that will make his life any more miserable than he already makes it.
Google's innovation is ranking&distributed RAM
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Google doesn't need to know much HTML. Only enough to get the spiders following weblinks. Trivial.
The real Google innovations are ways of ranking pages, and especially their entirely RAM-resident database that returns very quick answers. Neither of these requires much knowledge of HTML, certainly not the more "advanced" features.
You'll get much better hits off Google with "two-party consent recording".
The rationale is simple -- no privacy is being violated by recording, it has been voluntarily surrendered by talking. All note-taking or recording does is better preserve the evidence of the conversation. Courts generally like good evidence and rather enjoy sticking it to wrong-doers who like to cover up.
IANAL, but recording anyone (phone/person) is usually legal if _one_ party consents. Only a few
states (including CA) require two party consent. Interstate calls are governed by US Federal law, which is one party consent. It's not perfectly clear if a Californian can record a call to Texas, but the Texan sure can.
Notifying someone is mostly a courtesy, but can be used to imply consent.
No kidding. I work with high pressure Hydrogen (both making & consuming 100s tons/day). We issue and instruct our operators to wave around corn brooms when checking for leaks (yes, the flames are often invisible torches). You can hear the leaks, and most often we just depressure to flare.
The GPL has always allowed custom or secret software. The ethics
it enforces is that you must deliver source to whomever you deliver binaries. Nothing says you have to publish source on the 'net or back to previous author(s).
I think delivering source is only fair. They paid for it. It would only become unfree if the client couldn't make changes or redistribute it.
I firmly believe that Linux would be nowhere without the GPL.
That alone give RMS some reason to insist upon GNU/Linux.
Had Linus stuck with the "no commercial use" NCU licence
v0.01-0.12, he would have scared off RedHat, IBM and before
that programmers who could justify using/developing Linux
for their employers projects. Had he adopted a BSD licence
he would have little to distinguish Linux, and FreeBSD would
have dominated (BSD had a _huge_ headstart_.
I believe
that many kernel developers were attracted specifically by
the GPL, knowing that their work wouldn't be swallowed up
by Apple. They didn't want to be food, and the GPL gives
that protection.
I'm very sure Yahoo! will be happy to comply with a judge's order from a Probate Court.
They're just being prudent. They do not know who owns those emails now and are understandably leery of allowing access. It isn;'t like it can "take them back".
TLAs don't have the slightest difficulty in listening to your chat. A repeater port & sniffer on some core routers will do it. They have a HUGE problem in deciding what to listen to. The "location" problem gets exacerbated by general innocent use of crypto/stego.
The autorities also have a time problem since their monitoring storage is of finite size (exabyte?) and can hold only a small fraction of traffic.
7 miles up! Aircraft will need repeaters
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37,000 feet is seven miles -- beyond the range of
cell tower & phone antennae, even if they were
pointing straight up. I don't know if the
aluminum pressure hull or floor deck give
significant attenuation. For service at other
than take-off and landing, the aircraft will have
to be equipped with some sort of repeater system.
That adds weight and sucks power from a very
limited gen system.
At work, we use SmartCards -- something you have, in combination with a weakish passwd (something you know).
But the real thing is the cost of wrong guesses. If you get the hash from a conventional/etc/passwd, the cost of a wrong guess is a few dozen CPU cycles (ie, nothing).
If there is a holeproof 3-wrong lockout, then the cost of wrong guesses is extremely high, and weak passwds can be tolerated.
The word "model" should make anyone uncomfortable, since the modellers themselves are uncomfortable!
My models are much less ambitious than climate modelling which I have very little idea of how anyone would even start other than finite-element, and the rules better be right. My models are simple proven stead-state flow models used to design chemical plants. I pour X amount of rain in with Y amount of air containing Z CO2 at temperature T and watch what comes out.
I haven't tried to model the greenhouse effect, and I'd be very leery of getting the boundary conditions and transfer rules correct.
Thank you for the vitriol. It makes me much less concerned you might be right. Lest you be concerned, I own neither SUV nor McMansion and rather more despise both. Do not confound disagreement with stupidity.
The atmosphere is being continually scrubbed by rain and low-altitude clouds. Once that water hits ocean, soil or river reactions get very complex, but generally pH increases, binding the CO2 tighter in solution.
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If the rain is warmer, less CO2 will dissolve (Henry's Law & disociation constants). This is commenly experienced as fizzy warm soda.
CO2 is rising because it must with increasing temperature -- ever opened a warm soda can?
Our "civilizations" annually emit approximately 0.07 kg CO2/ m2 Earth surface, compared to 880 kg / m2 annual rainfall. I very much doubt even the total has much effect (beyond algae blooms & other plant growth). Let alone the tiny (yet expensive) changes contemplated by Kyoto.
I don't know what GPU is in the PS2, but I thought that GPU emulation is an order of magnitude harder than CPU emulation. The primatives are different, particularly around vector operations.
Nope. Thanks for the warning.
Reporting to the police is perferctly appropriate. It is unauthorized access, and he has probably invested hundreds of hours worth a fraction million Yen. That he did it for pleasure is not relevant, the damage costs to repair. Like defacing a masterpiece.
A worse problem is strong acid gases like SOx. They move pH which takes time to adapt.
I most often see autoneg problems with faulty cabling (split pairs from crimps). 98% of newbies cannot get it right, and they aren't to blame because the standards are counter-intuitive unless you've worked for Ma Bell for 40+ years. I beware of all field crimps.
OTOH, I saw one example of a Crisco Crapalyst router not wanting to play with some devices. Of course they blamed the device, but I never had any problem with interconnects or using cheap @$$ switches, so I wonder why the expensive @$$ switch gets huffy.
Now I doubt this click-thru is valid since the machine has been long since paid for, and the contract is with a different vendor. But is this term likely to be enforceable as "reasonable"?
MS biggest competition and profit threat is themselves, people moving licences from old boxes.
The real Google innovations are ways of ranking pages, and especially their entirely RAM-resident database that returns very quick answers. Neither of these requires much knowledge of HTML, certainly not the more "advanced" features.
The rationale is simple -- no privacy is being violated by recording, it has been voluntarily surrendered by talking. All note-taking or recording does is better preserve the evidence of the conversation. Courts generally like good evidence and rather enjoy sticking it to wrong-doers who like to cover up.
Notifying someone is mostly a courtesy, but can be used to imply consent.
I think delivering source is only fair. They paid for it. It would only become unfree if the client couldn't make changes or redistribute it.
Had Linus stuck with the "no commercial use" NCU licence v0.01-0.12, he would have scared off RedHat, IBM and before that programmers who could justify using/developing Linux for their employers projects. Had he adopted a BSD licence he would have little to distinguish Linux, and FreeBSD would have dominated (BSD had a _huge_ headstart_.
I believe that many kernel developers were attracted specifically by the GPL, knowing that their work wouldn't be swallowed up by Apple. They didn't want to be food, and the GPL gives that protection.
They're just being prudent. They do not know who owns those emails now and are understandably leery of allowing access. It isn;'t like it can "take them back".
The autorities also have a time problem since their monitoring storage is of finite size (exabyte?) and can hold only a small fraction of traffic.
But the real thing is the cost of wrong guesses. If you get the hash from a conventional /etc/passwd, the cost of a wrong guess is a few dozen CPU cycles (ie, nothing).
If there is a holeproof 3-wrong lockout, then the cost of wrong guesses is extremely high, and weak passwds can be tolerated.
My models are much less ambitious than climate modelling which I have very little idea of how anyone would even start other than finite-element, and the rules better be right. My models are simple proven stead-state flow models used to design chemical plants. I pour X amount of rain in with Y amount of air containing Z CO2 at temperature T and watch what comes out.
I haven't tried to model the greenhouse effect, and I'd be very leery of getting the boundary conditions and transfer rules correct.
The atmosphere is being continually scrubbed by rain and low-altitude clouds. Once that water hits ocean, soil or river reactions get very complex, but generally pH increases, binding the CO2 tighter in solution.
What I have done is run dynamic solubility/ionic equilibria models, that these show changes in atmospheric CO2 match the changes in temperature.