That's pretty impressive, guys. How big is that PDF anyway? I timed out with 7 replies showing.
Since some people think I'm making this up...
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Here's the text of the first article google pulled up about China's actual progress:
DOMESTIC: World Bank Funded Research Contradicts China's Pollution Claims
SUMMARY: (8/15) - New evidence funded by the World Bank contradicts China's claims that it is significantly lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Nobuhiro Horii, of Japan's Institute of Developing Economies, said coal mines in Hunan province that the Beijing government ordered closed were in fact
kept open. Horii maintained talks he had with people in other provinces indicated the problem was nation-wide. Horii also said improving energy efficiency
takes about a decade, and China's claims to be increasing energy efficiency in carbon dioxide production in much faster time are not credible. "Yes, China is
increasing energy efficiency, but they are doing it slowly, like everyone else," he said.
In April, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California reported that since 1996, China's energy output had fallen 17 percent and its
carbon dioxide emissions had fallen 14 percent even as China's economy grew by 36 percent. That same month the European Union office in Beijing found
that over five years, China had increased energy efficiency by 50 percent and diminished coal use by 30 percent.
However, a report put out by the U.S. embassy in Beijing this month claims China's greenhouse gas emissions have hardly dropped any, if at all. And at a
recent conference in Beijing, a Chinese scientist maintained that China will modify its coal consumption total for 1999, taking away half the reductions it
previously claimed. Other research indicates China has underreported consumption of oil. Vehicle traffic in Chinese cities has approximately doubled every
five years, yet China reported oil consumption increasing just 11.4 percent between 1996 and 1999.
Zhou Dadi, director of the Energy Research Institute of the Chinese government's State Development Planning Commission, said while doubts about
China's energy statistics are understandable, "we are clearly decreasing our coal consumption."
(from uscpf.org)
Here's one example article. A google search will find many more.
http://www.uscpf.org/news/2001/08/081701.html
DOMESTIC: World Bank Funded Research Contradicts China's Pollution Claims
SUMMARY: (8/15) - New evidence funded by the World Bank contradicts China's claims that it is significantly lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Nobuhiro Horii, of Japan's Institute of Developing Economies, said coal mines in Hunan province that the Beijing government ordered closed were in fact
kept open. Horii maintained talks he had with people in other provinces indicated the problem was nation-wide. Horii also said improving energy efficiency
takes about a decade, and China's claims to be increasing energy efficiency in carbon dioxide production in much faster time are not credible. "Yes, China is
increasing energy efficiency, but they are doing it slowly, like everyone else," he said.
In April, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California reported that since 1996, China's energy output had fallen 17 percent and its
carbon dioxide emissions had fallen 14 percent even as China's economy grew by 36 percent. That same month the European Union office in Beijing found
that over five years, China had increased energy efficiency by 50 percent and diminished coal use by 30 percent.
However, a report put out by the U.S. embassy in Beijing this month claims China's greenhouse gas emissions have hardly dropped any, if at all. And at a
recent conference in Beijing, a Chinese scientist maintained that China will modify its coal consumption total for 1999, taking away half the reductions it
previously claimed. Other research indicates China has underreported consumption of oil. Vehicle traffic in Chinese cities has approximately doubled every
five years, yet China reported oil consumption increasing just 11.4 percent between 1996 and 1999.
Zhou Dadi, director of the Energy Research Institute of the Chinese government's State Development Planning Commission, said while doubts about
China's energy statistics are understandable, "we are clearly decreasing our coal consumption.
China got nailed for flooding the U.S. market with brake drums and rotors not too long ago. I know, that's not the same as the raw material, but they have been known to use tactics like this. If the Chinese are willing to sell a product for less than it cost THEM to produce, how is an American company supposed to compete. Oh wait, we could get serious about the war on drugs, bust some more potheads, and use prison labor... build some foundries next door to our federal pens! Of course, the Chinese would never do something like that...
Yeah, and of course China would never fudge those kind of numbers. Yes, they told their provincial authorities to cut down on coal mining and burning, but since that's what they're dependent on all that happened was that local authorities started faking reports. If they cut down on emissions, what did they do? Build some nuke plants? Don't believe everything you read. At least do a google search and get a few different viewpoints before you fire off a "the first world is evil and hurting all those poor people who still don't have running water" post.
That is a good point... still, anyone remember the arcticles a couple of months back about the dead zones around the area where China recycles PCs? Yeah, the obviously don't give a shit about the environment and would love to see us ratify the Kyoto treaty (it would slow our economy even more, to their benifit) but those old boxen didn't come from China.
Way back when it was uphill both ways...
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Remembering the BBS
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But still cheaper than the long distance call to get on the net. Compuserve, if I remember correctly. So you hung out on and supported your local BBS... it was local, you personally knew at least a few of the guys, and your parents wouldn't yell at you about the phone bill. Now that most of us are gainfully employed and the 'net is a fact of life, you probably won't run across too many people that you know in the meat realm unless you go to cons. And that seems strange, somehow.
ASCAP... you're right, I think that's who it was. Almost killed live music in that bar. The owner let us keep doing it, but made the bartender responsible for letting people know that covers weren't allowed. Big pain in the ass for all concerned.
To see if they are playing music without paying the RIAA. I think they have a name for this sneaky bunch, although I can't remember it at the moment. They nearly put my favorite hangout out of business... apparantly they sent a guy in one night and he heard a local artist doing a cover song. Nyet, said the RIAA. We own that song. Anybody know more about these guys? I'm sure I didn't get the whole story from the guy that owns the bar.
Of course, there's still the time you spend waiting for it to reboot when it crashes... That might add up over time. Or take a typical windows driver install... install some files... reboot... wait while it installs some more stuff... reboot... now windows found your new hardware... reboot... configure hardware manually... reboot. You get the point.
or slashdot? I know, I'm killing karma here, but nothing new here. Big brother is watching, maybe... possibly. If they are that agent's career is fucked. New sig: so it goes
And why is self defense murder? Not good, maybe, but much better than the alternative. Ok, enough troll feeding if the parent wasn't sarcasm. Hard to tell on slashdot sometimes.
OF COURSE guns can kill. But that is not their sole use. NMAP can be used to double-check the security of my server or find a hole in someone else's. Redhat ships with this. Is redhat responsible for hacking? Is Colt responsible because I used my.45 to dispatch the crackhead trying to kill me? No, I am. Personal responsibility is what this country was founded on, even if today's "everyone is a victim and deserves a good whine" culture doesn't recognise that. If I shoot someone who invades my home, it's on me. I take the responsibility, I know that I'll most likely wind up in civil court over it (that happened to my old boss... he missed and only blew the robber's arm off, which happened to be holding a bad that was swinging for his head. The wife sued him for depriving the family of their breadwinners ability to use that bat to put food on the table. It cost him 14 grand in lawyer's fees). But, I'd rather be alive to pay the lawyer. My gun, my call, my finger on the trigger. ME... not Colt. Opinions like yours are why lawyers go after the deepest pockets they can find and not after the guy that pulled the trigger/hacked the server. Think about it.
In every galaxy... how would we find them? Humans would have to survive long enough to still be around when their signals reached us... which could be millions of years from now, assuming that faster that light travel/communications are impossible. On the other hand, if warp drives are possible, we could just take a spin and go look. In which case we wouldn't need SETI.
Comcast has never been reliable. Outages lasting several days or several weeks haven't been uncommon. Maybe their infrastructure really CAN'T support thousounds of people running PtP clients without an upgrade... and that's not cheap.
I've never done much with games on Linux, other than Sirtet and Tuxracer, but it's interesting that Linux game servers are available. I might have to look around and see what I can find. I tried a free server for Starcraft, but it was a pain to get it running behind a firewall and it usually crapped out right as I launched two nukes at my opponents last base...
The don't seem to be hosting any blizzard games. I wonder if that's got anything to do with the latest round of lawsuits. If that is the case, it makes me wonder whose server programs they're using to host the other games... I've seen downloadable servers for a lot of these. Or are the gaming companies supplying the code? If it's not coming from the gaming companies, how are they going to keep from getting sued when people play with warezed copies? Just curious.
Was a tongue-in-cheek parody of a typical slashdot comment. When in Rome... The first two questions I really was curious about. But seriously, any armed pilotless plane had better have all the bugs worked out before it goes up, no matter what it runs on (and yes, I know it will be custom and proprietary; most military stuff is. Have you ever seen one of the diskless, two hundred pound armored dumb terminals painted olive drab they used to use?)
If it has any stealth features? Or if "partially autonomous" means automatic fire avoidance or flying map of the earth? Hopefully that's all it is. If, on the other hand, that means that it can pick it's own targets if it needs to, it had better not run on windows... that would be a blue screen to remember.
To my nephew when he's old enough not to eat them. Mindstorms look cool... now I have a justification to replace the sets I'm going to give away! Hopefully he won't abuse them as badly as I did (carving pieces up for a particular application). Also, did you know that with standard technic legos, some duct tape, and one of those big rubber bands that hold coolers shut you can shoot a lego right through two layers of drywall and leave a welt on your sister in the next room? I don't know who was more surprised; me or them:) Those were the days...
Just wait until Oracle combines all of these separate agency databases into one huge one. I'm sure that centralizing all of that date will fix these abuse problems. Hey, the government needs easy access to your parking ticket history... just think how convenient it will be for them.
Also generally have no passwords. An install technician told me that they don't like to put passwords on them because it makes it harder for tech support to remotly troubleshoot. When I told them that that wasn't acceptable, they used "12345", explaining that it would be easy to remember and that the technician "always used that one when the customer wanted a password". Maybe a combination of a strong password policy and a beating with a clue-by-four would be a good start for people like this.
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That's pretty impressive, guys. How big is that PDF anyway? I timed out with 7 replies showing.
Here's the text of the first article google pulled up about China's actual progress: DOMESTIC: World Bank Funded Research Contradicts China's Pollution Claims SUMMARY: (8/15) - New evidence funded by the World Bank contradicts China's claims that it is significantly lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Nobuhiro Horii, of Japan's Institute of Developing Economies, said coal mines in Hunan province that the Beijing government ordered closed were in fact kept open. Horii maintained talks he had with people in other provinces indicated the problem was nation-wide. Horii also said improving energy efficiency takes about a decade, and China's claims to be increasing energy efficiency in carbon dioxide production in much faster time are not credible. "Yes, China is increasing energy efficiency, but they are doing it slowly, like everyone else," he said. In April, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California reported that since 1996, China's energy output had fallen 17 percent and its carbon dioxide emissions had fallen 14 percent even as China's economy grew by 36 percent. That same month the European Union office in Beijing found that over five years, China had increased energy efficiency by 50 percent and diminished coal use by 30 percent. However, a report put out by the U.S. embassy in Beijing this month claims China's greenhouse gas emissions have hardly dropped any, if at all. And at a recent conference in Beijing, a Chinese scientist maintained that China will modify its coal consumption total for 1999, taking away half the reductions it previously claimed. Other research indicates China has underreported consumption of oil. Vehicle traffic in Chinese cities has approximately doubled every five years, yet China reported oil consumption increasing just 11.4 percent between 1996 and 1999. Zhou Dadi, director of the Energy Research Institute of the Chinese government's State Development Planning Commission, said while doubts about China's energy statistics are understandable, "we are clearly decreasing our coal consumption." (from uscpf.org)
Here's one example article. A google search will find many more. http://www.uscpf.org/news/2001/08/081701.html DOMESTIC: World Bank Funded Research Contradicts China's Pollution Claims SUMMARY: (8/15) - New evidence funded by the World Bank contradicts China's claims that it is significantly lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Nobuhiro Horii, of Japan's Institute of Developing Economies, said coal mines in Hunan province that the Beijing government ordered closed were in fact kept open. Horii maintained talks he had with people in other provinces indicated the problem was nation-wide. Horii also said improving energy efficiency takes about a decade, and China's claims to be increasing energy efficiency in carbon dioxide production in much faster time are not credible. "Yes, China is increasing energy efficiency, but they are doing it slowly, like everyone else," he said. In April, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California reported that since 1996, China's energy output had fallen 17 percent and its carbon dioxide emissions had fallen 14 percent even as China's economy grew by 36 percent. That same month the European Union office in Beijing found that over five years, China had increased energy efficiency by 50 percent and diminished coal use by 30 percent. However, a report put out by the U.S. embassy in Beijing this month claims China's greenhouse gas emissions have hardly dropped any, if at all. And at a recent conference in Beijing, a Chinese scientist maintained that China will modify its coal consumption total for 1999, taking away half the reductions it previously claimed. Other research indicates China has underreported consumption of oil. Vehicle traffic in Chinese cities has approximately doubled every five years, yet China reported oil consumption increasing just 11.4 percent between 1996 and 1999. Zhou Dadi, director of the Energy Research Institute of the Chinese government's State Development Planning Commission, said while doubts about China's energy statistics are understandable, "we are clearly decreasing our coal consumption.
China got nailed for flooding the U.S. market with brake drums and rotors not too long ago. I know, that's not the same as the raw material, but they have been known to use tactics like this. If the Chinese are willing to sell a product for less than it cost THEM to produce, how is an American company supposed to compete. Oh wait, we could get serious about the war on drugs, bust some more potheads, and use prison labor... build some foundries next door to our federal pens! Of course, the Chinese would never do something like that...
Yeah, and of course China would never fudge those kind of numbers. Yes, they told their provincial authorities to cut down on coal mining and burning, but since that's what they're dependent on all that happened was that local authorities started faking reports. If they cut down on emissions, what did they do? Build some nuke plants? Don't believe everything you read. At least do a google search and get a few different viewpoints before you fire off a "the first world is evil and hurting all those poor people who still don't have running water" post.
That is a good point... still, anyone remember the arcticles a couple of months back about the dead zones around the area where China recycles PCs? Yeah, the obviously don't give a shit about the environment and would love to see us ratify the Kyoto treaty (it would slow our economy even more, to their benifit) but those old boxen didn't come from China.
But still cheaper than the long distance call to get on the net. Compuserve, if I remember correctly. So you hung out on and supported your local BBS... it was local, you personally knew at least a few of the guys, and your parents wouldn't yell at you about the phone bill. Now that most of us are gainfully employed and the 'net is a fact of life, you probably won't run across too many people that you know in the meat realm unless you go to cons. And that seems strange, somehow.
ASCAP... you're right, I think that's who it was. Almost killed live music in that bar. The owner let us keep doing it, but made the bartender responsible for letting people know that covers weren't allowed. Big pain in the ass for all concerned.
To see if they are playing music without paying the RIAA. I think they have a name for this sneaky bunch, although I can't remember it at the moment. They nearly put my favorite hangout out of business... apparantly they sent a guy in one night and he heard a local artist doing a cover song. Nyet, said the RIAA. We own that song. Anybody know more about these guys? I'm sure I didn't get the whole story from the guy that owns the bar.
Of course, there's still the time you spend waiting for it to reboot when it crashes... That might add up over time. Or take a typical windows driver install... install some files... reboot... wait while it installs some more stuff... reboot... now windows found your new hardware... reboot... configure hardware manually... reboot. You get the point.
I agree... Qwest does suck. Anyone get screwed when they had the y2k problems? Bellsouth told me the fucked over a lot of people on that one.
or slashdot? I know, I'm killing karma here, but nothing new here. Big brother is watching, maybe... possibly. If they are that agent's career is fucked. New sig: so it goes
And why is self defense murder? Not good, maybe, but much better than the alternative. Ok, enough troll feeding if the parent wasn't sarcasm. Hard to tell on slashdot sometimes.
Why do I think I just fed a troll? Dammit...
OF COURSE guns can kill. But that is not their sole use. NMAP can be used to double-check the security of my server or find a hole in someone else's. Redhat ships with this. Is redhat responsible for hacking? Is Colt responsible because I used my .45 to dispatch the crackhead trying to kill me? No, I am. Personal responsibility is what this country was founded on, even if today's "everyone is a victim and deserves a good whine" culture doesn't recognise that. If I shoot someone who invades my home, it's on me. I take the responsibility, I know that I'll most likely wind up in civil court over it (that happened to my old boss... he missed and only blew the robber's arm off, which happened to be holding a bad that was swinging for his head. The wife sued him for depriving the family of their breadwinners ability to use that bat to put food on the table. It cost him 14 grand in lawyer's fees). But, I'd rather be alive to pay the lawyer. My gun, my call, my finger on the trigger. ME... not Colt. Opinions like yours are why lawyers go after the deepest pockets they can find and not after the guy that pulled the trigger/hacked the server. Think about it.
In every galaxy... how would we find them? Humans would have to survive long enough to still be around when their signals reached us... which could be millions of years from now, assuming that faster that light travel/communications are impossible. On the other hand, if warp drives are possible, we could just take a spin and go look. In which case we wouldn't need SETI.
Comcast has never been reliable. Outages lasting several days or several weeks haven't been uncommon. Maybe their infrastructure really CAN'T support thousounds of people running PtP clients without an upgrade... and that's not cheap.
I've never done much with games on Linux, other than Sirtet and Tuxracer, but it's interesting that Linux game servers are available. I might have to look around and see what I can find. I tried a free server for Starcraft, but it was a pain to get it running behind a firewall and it usually crapped out right as I launched two nukes at my opponents last base...
Who is having a hard time visualizing iron rain?
The don't seem to be hosting any blizzard games. I wonder if that's got anything to do with the latest round of lawsuits. If that is the case, it makes me wonder whose server programs they're using to host the other games... I've seen downloadable servers for a lot of these. Or are the gaming companies supplying the code? If it's not coming from the gaming companies, how are they going to keep from getting sued when people play with warezed copies? Just curious.
Was a tongue-in-cheek parody of a typical slashdot comment. When in Rome... The first two questions I really was curious about. But seriously, any armed pilotless plane had better have all the bugs worked out before it goes up, no matter what it runs on (and yes, I know it will be custom and proprietary; most military stuff is. Have you ever seen one of the diskless, two hundred pound armored dumb terminals painted olive drab they used to use?)
If it has any stealth features? Or if "partially autonomous" means automatic fire avoidance or flying map of the earth? Hopefully that's all it is. If, on the other hand, that means that it can pick it's own targets if it needs to, it had better not run on windows... that would be a blue screen to remember.
To my nephew when he's old enough not to eat them. Mindstorms look cool... now I have a justification to replace the sets I'm going to give away! Hopefully he won't abuse them as badly as I did (carving pieces up for a particular application). Also, did you know that with standard technic legos, some duct tape, and one of those big rubber bands that hold coolers shut you can shoot a lego right through two layers of drywall and leave a welt on your sister in the next room? I don't know who was more surprised; me or them :) Those were the days...
Just wait until Oracle combines all of these separate agency databases into one huge one. I'm sure that centralizing all of that date will fix these abuse problems. Hey, the government needs easy access to your parking ticket history... just think how convenient it will be for them.
Also generally have no passwords. An install technician told me that they don't like to put passwords on them because it makes it harder for tech support to remotly troubleshoot. When I told them that that wasn't acceptable, they used "12345", explaining that it would be easy to remember and that the technician "always used that one when the customer wanted a password". Maybe a combination of a strong password policy and a beating with a clue-by-four would be a good start for people like this.