Oxidation, mostly the grunge built up on ppls pc's is due to something in the air be it what they grow in their house, smoke in their house, incense they burn or whatever .
This "stuff" can build up on the connectors .
Some techs I have known simply remove and replace the item repeatedly to remove the material .
The charging port on my cell phone is frequently funked from being in my pocket and makes poor contact when trying to charge .
pocket lint is the culprit .
Like the EE said, try so low/no abrasive cleaner, and use the eraser as last resort for stubborn funk .
In the telecom word for T1 plugs ppl would plug/unplug them in rapid succession to achieve better conductivity .
Edge cards are delicate, and do ground urself while doing this .
Old relays use to be cleaned with nail files, lol .
Thank you for posting this, there are so many psuedo techies in here that think they know better than 20+ years of the best electrical engineering minds of over 150 countries .
ESD dmg is documented, photograhed, and billions of dollars have been lost due to it .
The sheer audactiy and arrogance at times on/. from the self assumed brilliant is fscking staggering .
I know there are things I don't know, I know I will NEVER know it all.
I just have those who have gone before me to light the way .
I have the web, I have the ISO standards, I have brilliant minds that sent devices into space to look to for knowledge.
To those who want to ignore ESD...
Learn from the ones who have walked the road before u .
It might help u avoid some of the mistakes they made .
No I'd say my grey hair precludes me being young anymore .
If u look at my UID you might even get the idea I am former military .
As to wasting money on hurricanes, u interpreted that the worst way possible because u found one of my theories so vile "u" were already on the defensive .
The clean up has to be done, the ppl need help. Take care of them this time, but like california did over many years change the building codes and rezone the land over 2 DECADES .
Like in cobol u can type * or MULTIPLY, I chose * , and when posting to a bunch of nit picking grammar nazi's I just LOVE to get their dander up ANY and EVERY chance I get .
Because it shows how pathetic they are that they have nothing better to do than to police the heiroglyphics of this day .
Because when it comes to ppls lives, the world, and fixing what is broke, using short-hand which is a known 'form' has zero impact on efficiency, and ur just looking for any dig you can feebly grasp for to further ur agenda .
The problem with ppl like u is that u latch onto the phrase in my post that offends u , and immeditely interpret the entire post the worst possible way .
For u that was the relocation near u, which shows u don't want them living near u, and u value ur strawberries over that of the homeless . Perhaps you know that fresh sand makes for some good strawberries and the the river would happily provide that where these ppl were flooded out .
Maybe ur precious fscking strawberries can bring back the dead ???
Then again, maybe this farm raised former nuclear missile radar tech might just be trying to make a point at any cost to a further his own agenda vs trying to illuminate the darker recesses of ur mind.
He meant to say, if you build it right the first time it will not have to be rebuilt everytime a strong wind blows thru, and in the long run that is actually cheaper .
Of course ur a AC so you don't have the backbone to post with a real UID .
Most of the US won't let you build in the 200 yr flood plan.
There is a reason.....
You cannot make execeptions to common sense, just for ur own personal reasons .
You cannot continue to justify bad choices with other ppls money just because you think ppl to deserve to live close to work .
Commuting to work sucks, and it needs to change, but I say spend some money on elevated rail like most of the northeast and let the poor ppl that lived below sea level ride the train to work in the morning like many other ppl do around the world .
In california bay it is BART, in Dallas is it DART, and while not perfect it is a step in the right direction .
The river level continues to rise, and the land there continues to sink, the future says it will get worse not better .
Stopping huricanes is worth some thought, but a city below sea level on land known to be sinking is just begging for disaster .
Add to that the huge lake, and the largest river in the US, and the potential for disaster is unreal .
If that had been hurricane mitch that hit there, it would have been a GREAT deal worse than what we are seeing, or the 1935 labor day hurricane as well .
Make it a 20yr plan, relocate those willing now, and over 20 yrs relocate the rest .
Ban all new construction other than parking garages .
There are areas on the west side of the river where ppl can build .
There are areas north of I-12 could be developed and light rail could bring ppl to the city . The area near Sorrento could be built up and ppl could take the train in from there as well .
I looked via satellite , via google maps and it is mostly farm land in that area, and could be converted to housing .
Major change to the supposed plan, replace the tanks with bag in bag design, ie. a large submerged bladder filled with water, that has another large bladder inside it ready to deploy via pressurized stored air .
The air pressure could be built up over time as the storms do not strike "very" often .
This would reduce cost, but it would still be VERY expensive .
The money would be better spent in stronger, better designed bldg code for coastal areas similar to code for earthquake zones .
ie. if your gonna put your hand in the fire, wear the asbestos glove.
First and foremost let me say this, wasting money on hurricanes is stupid, period .
We know what areas get hit "repeatedly" and we know they cost billion of dollars to clean up from .
Putting a trailer in the death zone just begs for destruction .
This does not account for lost lives, and lost productivity .
I think the cost of all the major modern day hurricanes needs
to be computed, and then all the ppl living in the death zone
need to be moved to higher ground .
The industrial/commercial needs that can be moved, get moved,
those that cannot are not moved, and basically battle hardened .
Make it a 20 year time table, any housing in the area will be like bldg requirements in california for earthquakes .
You get a permit, you build it to code, it is inspected at
many steps along the way . It is built hurricane proof, period .
The first floor of all bldgs is a parking garage , roof access
is secure but can be unlocked by multiple responsible ppl .
Killing a hurricane: If you want "any" chance of stopping a hurricane you first have to
consider it gets its power from the sun in the form of heat .
Doing this would cost many many billions of dollars , and is
not worth it except as a exercise in theory of the possible .
The warm water feeds the hurricane .
Thus your best chance to "kill" a hurricane or weaken it is at night . At night its only heat fuel is the water .
Dragging icebergs 5,000+ miles is not only a bad idea, but
getting "several" slow moving mountains of ice in front of the
hurricane at "just the right time" is ludicrous .
Submarine ploughing was on the right track, but I think it
would need to be deeper colder water brought top side,
and could be done if subs used a scoop to feed lines that were dragged topside .
However, when u introduce this kind of drag into a sub it is going to
slow down a great deal, and were not designed with this in mind .
Look at the screws on a modern aircraft carrier and u start
to understand what is need to counter massive drag .
The best bet is to use what is all ready in place .
In the gulf are many large oil platforms, hundreds in fact .
Some are in VERY deep water, over one mile deep in fact .
The water temperature down there is more than just cooler, it
is "seriously" cold .
Excerpt: No matter how warm the surface layers are, between 300 and 1,000m
beneath the surface the temperature falls to about 5C ****
So just several hundred meters is water 5 Celsius above freezing.
So the issue is how do you move the cold water top side . That is where the oil rigs come into play .
The oil rigs if started a few days before the hurricane hit could "not" pump enough water to "drastically" reduce surface temperature .
This would require a automated , unmanned , computer controlled response to the changes of the storm .
It would require tremendous amounts of cold water to be dispersed
top side at night as it closed in .
So the oil platforms would need cold water storage, and dispersion
lines similar to lateral lines on a septic system .
If the storage was above the water level during daylight it would
be heated by the sun, insulating it would add more expense to what
would already be a massively expensive project .
Thus u temporarily submerge it, I am thinking u might use the new super
barges, or super tankers that are no longer sea worthy .
The ballast would be flotation air bags, with extras in place in case of
failure , and make them independent of each other in case of systemic failure .
The tanks stays on ocean floor and the automated monitoring system waits for the storm to move in .
The tank is not crushed as it is full of water, thus equalized pressure .
I hope this is a sarcastic joke, ARCnet is a relic of the past, and optical protocols are the future, not some dinosaur limited to 10 mega-bit speeds .
Not to mention the issues of the connectors for coaxial networks .
It is time copper died, fiber is the future, and light has zero interference form EMI/RFI noise .
SONet/DWDM already promise Tera-bit speeds in the MAN .
Well americans most likely didn't rate it funny, but as it is quite in vogue to "hate america" u got to remember the size of your audience here on slashdot .
We pay more for education than ANY country in the world, but we are NO WHERE near the top on results per dollar spent .
The US has become the great harlot of the world whoring itself to lowest bidder for any manufacturing and any worker to be imported or work to be exported .
The fall of the US is WELL under way, and the greed of the corporate whores is the foundation of this collapse .
China learned to win u can crush them with simple economics .
Sit back and watch the show, southern hemisphere is sounding nice .
I am not a funamentalist, but the biggest problem with science these days is not the fundies, it is goverment and corporate policy .
The lobbyists have VAST influence over the house and senate, and if that were not true, why is one lobbyist paid more than the president .
Stem cell research is just one of MANY issues, I'd say finding a replacement for oil is more of an issue for the long term survival of every man women and child on the planet in the NEAR future .
We are on the precipice of WWIII and the middle east is gonna take us there if we do not get the hell out of it soon.
Be it for the right reasons or the worng reasons it is just not going to matter when "it hits the fan" .
Fanatics refuse to change their mind, and won't change the subject.
The fact the above poster is Indian and born here and sees it is a tell all situation .
The WTO is not about balancing the world's economies or some noble bullshit, this is about plain old greed .
If you want equal terms, then make equal labor laws to enter the WTO.
Your tax dollars go to the college that trains the ppl that are not citizens to come here and do your job for less money so you can be laid off, lose your house, your car, your wife, your life you built.
You paid to have someone trained to replace you, hahahahaa .
Yes, they pay for their classes, and pay a bit more, but tax money from all citizens goes to pay for the colleges, the salaries of the new ppl to support the larger load of students .
That is the funniest part of all this .
Americans are so wrapped up in sports, games, and BS that they didn't realize the massive colleges with swelling foreign enrollment was being run like a profit center , but the dorm rooms, and professors and infrastructure to build all this was paid for by you and me even if they students pay for their education, we put in tax dollars to pay for those colleges too .
So........
WE paid for what has been done to us, and to be honest it is not even bad yet, but it is starting to become a "bit" more apparent .
When top level government officials to be appointed are chatised for having illegals working for them in their homes, the extent of the sellout starts to become obvious .
If they can't ship the ppl here, then they ship the work there .
There is an entire alphabet of visa worker designations so they can ship in ppl from all over the world to work for bottom dollar .
This was proven by the professor norman mattloff at UC davis .
The current limit on the L1 visa is unlimited, enough said .
Welcome to the new sellout USA .
This is also the dumbest thing I have ever seen, like a man eating his own arm because he is hungry, and here is why .
If the US population becomes mostly poor , then who will buy all their products that are now designed and built overseas .
The manufacturing sector being shipped overseas was just step one .
The engineering took time because they had to convince us to pay to train our replacements ROFLMAO !!!!!!!!!!!!
I like the idea, but it is not practical for ppl that have careers they have to follow where ever the wind blows them.
I am fortunate enough to own my own business and could simply transplant myself and rebuild my customer base there, or even sell this business here and rebuild one there.
My house, and vehicles are paid for and I have zero debt, so making the move would not be financially hindered.
I applaud their idea, but it won't work for most 9-5 americans that are slaves to the system.
It took half a decade for me to drop my debt , save enough to pay off my house and start my own business, most ppl just don't want it that bad.
I think his reference to aliens refers to ppl not born here.
In reference to lower innovation, the visa workers sign Intellectual Property statements that they lose all right to any good ideas they come up with . So basically unless they are just feeling giving they are better off sending encrypted e-mails of company information back home via anonymous remailers with web-mail.
The funny thing on this is, the dumb local corporations don't understand how their product was "instantly" reverse engineered in a foreign country with no R&D path , ROFL . Essentially their VAST greed just cut their own throats.
Visa workers are having a impact on innovation, because they know they have no right to the idea, and can only hope for a token raise for such work . Some ppl love their work and will innovate anyways , but most ppl work so they can make a living.
In other words, we have alot of corporations that setup Visas, H1-B and L1 are just two common types.
To avoid the laws permitting only certain numbers new ones have been made as well, though the L1 visa is unlimited anyways.
I used to work for a few major corporations during and after the DOT COM boom, and the number of non-citizens is up EXTREMELY in the onshore work force.
When its more beneficial to ship it overseas they take that route. Which should also should be banned, and yes it is protectionism, and yes other countries have protectionistic laws too.
The corporations decry that they have to hire Visa workers because they cannot find ppl locally, but the real truth is that a Visa worker often can be had for ALOT less salary wise, and fear can be used to scare the visa worker to work HUGE amounts of unpaid overtime.
All the places I worked for during the DOT COM boom used these tactics to line their pockets with more cash.
A professor in California at UC berkley wrote a paper concerning the Visa fraud, and how some of his citizen students who had good grades, and good projects could not get jobs, but they students with Visas with even LOWER performance had no trouble getting jobs.
The professor asked his citizen students if they had declined jobs due to pay and 90%+ said they could not even get an interview.
This is the degree of the situation, and it is discrimination . If you need more proof of the farce, I can provide.
The professor at UC berkley is Norman Mattloff, here are some of his sites:
Keep in mind, even after the DOT COM bust that congress passed to double the # of H1-B's allowed per year into the country.
Basically for the purpose of greed , several 100,000 ppl are laid off every year "effectively" to bring in cheap labor that can be pressured with deportation back to a place they were eager to leave in the first place.
Then citizens have their taxes raised so that we can "bribe" the foreign nations with foreign aid dollars instead of spending the money here.
This environment of fear and exploitation was OK'd by congress 98-1 back in 2000, so don't play partisan politics, both sides SUCK on the issue because both sides are bought and paid for with corporate cash.
Soft money from corporations now has more say in the way our government is run than the ppl . The constitution's quote of "For the ppl, by the ppl" is a farce.
The political parties pick their puppets, and the corporations dance their marionettes.
We just get to vote for one puppet or the other, with a facade of concern for the plight of the working man . They should all win oscars...
Total taxation of the internet is coming, they are just seeking market saturation.
They want to reduce cash purchases because it is harder to manage the taxation of it.
The more commerce that goes online , the more they can skim from it is the darker alterior motive, and thus the early tax free incentive . Though mail order has been tax free for a long time the make it out like they were giving us something . Total BS.
I do not think the vast majority of ppl realize the total tax burden placed on them.
Even if you do not work you are paying "more" than sales taxes. The cost of taxes to companies are passed on to consumers.
While at a goodyear tire center, the owner who grew "tired" (pun intended) of ppl complaining about the cost of tires made a list of the taxes from the raw material til it hit the store shelves, it is roughly 80% tax and that was in 1995.
I further extrapolated that the wage inflation of the ppl gathering raw materials and making the tires to finish product then delivering them would make it more like 90%.
Wage inflation due to the higher cost of living to support the tax burden.
Wages are as high as they are now just to keep up with the bloat of the parasitic system.
His figures from what I saw were accurate and detailed.
It made me stop and think about each and every item I use in life, and realize the "chain" of taxation.
It is like a parasite that taxes from the raw material, til the finished product is in the home.
Some states even have an Ad Valorum tax where even though something was "paid for+tax" they will tax you on it 'EVERY' year just because you have the audacity to own it.
Our cost of living is inflated due to the tax monster parasite that has grown out of control over the last 200 years.
The corporations simply shirk the tax burden onto the consumer. Apathy has allowed this to happen and a mind set of entitlement.
I realize that the government needs money to run, don't get me wrong , but make it fair and proportional.
Texas's choice to not tax food to help the poor was a DAMN good step in the right direction.
We need to look at reducing the cost of government, and we need to look at reduction of taxation, and more accountability.
The taxes and what they are used for need to be posted on the web in an easy to find format, NOT buried 25 pages deep in a.gov website in a format that makes it miserable to read or search.
The freedom of information act allows for this to be done.
Secret military projects will have to continue, but some kind of cost over sight OTHER than "paid off" politicians needs to be put in place . Just my taxed 2 cents...
The tax I am waiting for is a tax on another tax, that is when we have truly broken new ground.
Per the Phd working on it:(last sentence in article)
"We are not yet at break-even," Taleyarkhan said. "That would be the ultimate. I don't know if it will ever happen, but we are hopeful that it will and don't see any clear reason why not. In the future we will attempt to scale up this system and see how far we can go."
Slashdot is full of nay sayers , and detractors.
I am optimistic they will make headway with this because it already cost thousands of times less to build, and the materials involved are common, simple, and inexpensive.
Bubble fusion just makes sense monetarily.
Price and availability do have an affect on science.
Ask the dying bucket of bolts called ISS.
ITER is a grand idea, but to scale to power plant abilities it would cost far more then the billions already slated for a so called small reactor.
Size alone of these reactors would border on the super collider that was started in texas then abandoned and now used to urban warfare combat training . *sigh*
A bubble fusion reactor on the other had could end up powering cars, homes, boats , planes, spacecraft, etc etc.
Once they get past break even, something ITER hasn't done yet, then we could see something amazing.
Budget limitations will make bubble fusion more appealing to more scientists due to its low cost to experiment in restrospect to plasma based toriod magnetic monsters costing billions.
Keep in mind Acetone is urine, and we could end up taking a leak to power our world, pretty ironic if u ask me.
They want the digital aspect so they can ad the neilsen monitoring equipment into ur TV and know what ur watching, and can even eventually switch to targetted commercials that u are more likely to be interested in due to ur "choice" of viewing.
Example: you watch alot of football, when the advertising hits, it will be something like beer or sports related even if u are not watching football at the time.
Smart ads , basically.
Also they will know what TV shows were watched, and which ones did, and in what demographics.
They pay ppl to go around and setup these boxes now , with digital TV's they could build it into the TV , and once IP connected it will just phone home like the DSS satellite boxes already do.
reminds of the TIA program the governemnt is rolling out with cameras in all major cities, TIA = Total Information Awareness.
Was federal but caught alot of flack, but now it is still rolling out in certian cities.
Look for pike pass to be on all roads eventually as a "safety" measure, or traffic pattern analysis in areas like california then it will spread . Or it will just be an always on 2 way Onstar system mandated for saftey and montiroed via satellite and cell tower traingulation like they do for cellular 911 calls now.
Orwell lives.....
Digital TV is good, but like all good things it can be abused.
Fortunately ppl will find a way to thwart this as it will not be tolerated by alot of ppl.
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Oxidation, mostly the grunge built up on ppls pc's is due to
something in the air be it what they grow in their house, smoke
in their house, incense they burn or whatever .
This "stuff" can build up on the connectors .
Some techs I have known simply remove and replace the item
repeatedly to remove the material .
The charging port on my cell phone is frequently funked from being
in my pocket and makes poor contact when trying to charge .
pocket lint is the culprit .
Like the EE said, try so low/no abrasive cleaner, and use the eraser
as last resort for stubborn funk .
In the telecom word for T1 plugs ppl would plug/unplug them in
rapid succession to achieve better conductivity .
Edge cards are delicate, and do ground urself while doing this .
Old relays use to be cleaned with nail files, lol .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Thank you for posting this, there are so many psuedo techies in here
/. from the self
...
that think they know better than 20+ years of the best electrical
engineering minds of over 150 countries .
ESD dmg is documented, photograhed, and billions of dollars
have been lost due to it .
The sheer audactiy and arrogance at times on
assumed brilliant is fscking staggering .
I know there are things I don't know, I know I will NEVER know it all.
I just have those who have gone before me to light the way .
I have the web, I have the ISO standards, I have brilliant minds
that sent devices into space to look to for knowledge.
To those who want to ignore ESD
Learn from the ones who have walked the road before u .
It might help u avoid some of the mistakes they made .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Tim,
h tml
You are an arrogant moron, let me show u why .
http://www.semiconfareast.com/fmechs_die.html
http://www.micromagazine.com/archive/00/06/levit.
As you don't belive the words maybe pictures for your
fscking speak-n-spell brain will suffice .
Get a clue u Tard !
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Teenage, so ur age biased, lol . very nice .
No I'd say my grey hair precludes me being young anymore .
If u look at my UID you might even get the idea I am
former military .
As to wasting money on hurricanes, u interpreted that the worst way
possible because u found one of my theories so vile "u" were already
on the defensive .
The clean up has to be done, the ppl need help. Take care of them
this time, but like california did over many years change the
building codes and rezone the land over 2 DECADES .
Like in cobol u can type * or MULTIPLY, I chose * , and when posting
to a bunch of nit picking grammar nazi's I just LOVE to get their
dander up ANY and EVERY chance I get .
Because it shows how pathetic they are that they have nothing
better to do than to police the heiroglyphics of this day .
Because when it comes to ppls lives, the world, and fixing what is
broke, using short-hand which is a known 'form' has zero impact
on efficiency, and ur just looking for any dig you can feebly
grasp for to further ur agenda .
The problem with ppl like u is that u latch onto the phrase
in my post that offends u , and immeditely interpret the
entire post the worst possible way .
For u that was the relocation near u, which shows u don't want
them living near u, and u value ur strawberries over that of
the homeless . Perhaps you know that fresh sand makes for some
good strawberries and the the river would happily provide that
where these ppl were flooded out .
Maybe ur precious fscking strawberries can bring back the dead ???
Then again, maybe this farm raised former nuclear missile radar
tech might just be trying to make a point at any cost to a further
his own agenda vs trying to illuminate the darker recesses of ur mind.
Save the strawberries, kill urself now !
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Let me translate for you ...
He meant to say, if you build it right the first time it will
not have to be rebuilt everytime a strong wind blows thru,
and in the long run that is actually cheaper .
Of course ur a AC so you don't have the backbone to post with a
real UID .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Agreed...
.....
California has bldg codes for earthquakes .
Most of the US won't let you build in the 200 yr flood plan.
There is a reason
You cannot make execeptions to common sense, just for ur own
personal reasons .
You cannot continue to justify bad choices with other ppls money just
because you think ppl to deserve to live close to work .
Commuting to work sucks, and it needs to change, but I say spend
some money on elevated rail like most of the northeast and let
the poor ppl that lived below sea level ride the train to work
in the morning like many other ppl do around the world .
In california bay it is BART, in Dallas is it DART, and while
not perfect it is a step in the right direction .
The river level continues to rise, and the land there continues
to sink, the future says it will get worse not better .
Stopping huricanes is worth some thought, but a city below sea level
on land known to be sinking is just begging for disaster .
Add to that the huge lake, and the largest river in the US, and
the potential for disaster is unreal .
If that had been hurricane mitch that hit there, it would have been
a GREAT deal worse than what we are seeing, or the 1935 labor day
hurricane as well .
Make it a 20yr plan, relocate those willing now, and over 20 yrs
relocate the rest .
Ban all new construction other than parking garages .
There are areas on the west side of the river where ppl can build .
There are areas north of I-12 could be developed and light rail
could bring ppl to the city . The area near Sorrento could be
built up and ppl could take the train in from there as well .
I looked via satellite , via google maps and it is mostly farm land
in that area, and could be converted to housing .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Major change to the supposed plan, replace the tanks with bag in bag design, ie. a large submerged bladder filled with water, that has another large bladder inside it ready to deploy via pressurized stored
air .
The air pressure could be built up over time as the storms do not
strike "very" often .
This would reduce cost, but it would still be VERY expensive .
The money would be better spent in stronger, better designed
bldg code for coastal areas similar to code for earthquake zones .
ie. if your gonna put your hand in the fire, wear the asbestos glove.
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
First and foremost let me say this, wasting money on hurricanes is stupid, period .
We know what areas get hit "repeatedly" and we know they cost billion of dollars to clean up from .
Putting a trailer in the death zone just begs for destruction . This does not account for lost lives, and lost productivity .
I think the cost of all the major modern day hurricanes needs to be computed, and then all the ppl living in the death zone need to be moved to higher ground .
The industrial/commercial needs that can be moved, get moved, those that cannot are not moved, and basically battle hardened .
Make it a 20 year time table, any housing in the area will be like bldg requirements in california for earthquakes .
You get a permit, you build it to code, it is inspected at many steps along the way . It is built hurricane proof, period .
The first floor of all bldgs is a parking garage , roof access is secure but can be unlocked by multiple responsible ppl .
Killing a hurricane: If you want "any" chance of stopping a hurricane you first have to consider it gets its power from the sun in the form of heat .
Doing this would cost many many billions of dollars , and is not worth it except as a exercise in theory of the possible . The warm water feeds the hurricane .
Thus your best chance to "kill" a hurricane or weaken it is at night . At night its only heat fuel is the water .
Dragging icebergs 5,000+ miles is not only a bad idea, but getting "several" slow moving mountains of ice in front of the hurricane at "just the right time" is ludicrous .
Submarine ploughing was on the right track, but I think it would need to be deeper colder water brought top side, and could be done if subs used a scoop to feed lines that were dragged topside .
However, when u introduce this kind of drag into a sub it is going to slow down a great deal, and were not designed with this in mind .
Look at the screws on a modern aircraft carrier and u start to understand what is need to counter massive drag . The best bet is to use what is all ready in place . In the gulf are many large oil platforms, hundreds in fact . Some are in VERY deep water, over one mile deep in fact . The water temperature down there is more than just cooler, it is "seriously" cold .
Excerpt: No matter how warm the surface layers are, between 300 and 1,000m beneath the surface the temperature falls to about 5C ****
**** http://www.fathom.com/course/10701050/session1.htm l (temperature paragraph)
So just several hundred meters is water 5 Celsius above freezing. So the issue is how do you move the cold water top side . That is where the oil rigs come into play .
The oil rigs if started a few days before the hurricane hit could "not" pump enough water to "drastically" reduce surface temperature .
This would require a automated , unmanned , computer controlled response to the changes of the storm .
It would require tremendous amounts of cold water to be dispersed top side at night as it closed in .
So the oil platforms would need cold water storage, and dispersion lines similar to lateral lines on a septic system .
If the storage was above the water level during daylight it would be heated by the sun, insulating it would add more expense to what would already be a massively expensive project .
Thus u temporarily submerge it, I am thinking u might use the new super barges, or super tankers that are no longer sea worthy .
The ballast would be flotation air bags, with extras in place in case of failure , and make them independent of each other in case of systemic failure .
The tanks stays on ocean floor and the automated monitoring system waits for the storm to move in .
The tank is not crushed as it is full of water, thus equalized pressure .
I hope this is a sarcastic joke, ARCnet is a relic of the past,
and optical protocols are the future, not some dinosaur limited
to 10 mega-bit speeds .
Not to mention the issues of the connectors for coaxial networks .
It is time copper died, fiber is the future, and light has zero
interference form EMI/RFI noise .
SONet/DWDM already promise Tera-bit speeds in the MAN .
Peace!
EX-MislTech
Declare and an uninhabited island a sovreign nation like Sealand .
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Host questionable digital inforamtion that is still somewhat
palatible to you and the world .
Make and offshore bank system like the Caymens .
Your good to go
http://www.sealandgov.com/
Peace !
Ex-MislTech
Making rude references to a persons post is just ur attempt to
h tm
lift your insecure ego out of the mud it wallows in .
http://www.mercola.com/2001/jun/27/mobile_phones.
There has been some concern, even by the makers of cell phones .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet
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I think a magnetic field enchanced SCRAMjet engine with the
hinted at oxidized component will come along very soon .
One is already somewhat in use with the replacement for the SR-71 .
AKA Aurora
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_aircraft
The "unclassified" use of this may be blocked by DoD is my fear .
The X-43 already did some public SCRAMjet testing, but either
they cannot make it work, or decide to make it look like they
can't make it work .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-43
Personal opinion is it is military domain only .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
MOD parent up !
Well americans most likely didn't rate it funny, but as
it is quite in vogue to "hate america" u got to remember
the size of your audience here on slashdot .
We pay more for education than ANY country in the world,
but we are NO WHERE near the top on results per dollar spent .
The US has become the great harlot of the world whoring itself
to lowest bidder for any manufacturing and any worker to be
imported or work to be exported .
The fall of the US is WELL under way, and the greed of the
corporate whores is the foundation of this collapse .
China learned to win u can crush them with simple economics .
Sit back and watch the show, southern hemisphere is sounding nice .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Einstein once said ...
God, does not play dice with the universe .
I am not a funamentalist, but the biggest problem
with science these days is not the fundies, it
is goverment and corporate policy .
The lobbyists have VAST influence over the house
and senate, and if that were not true, why is
one lobbyist paid more than the president .
Stem cell research is just one of MANY issues, I'd say
finding a replacement for oil is more of an issue for
the long term survival of every man women and child
on the planet in the NEAR future .
We are on the precipice of WWIII and the middle east is gonna
take us there if we do not get the hell out of it soon.
Be it for the right reasons or the worng reasons it is just
not going to matter when "it hits the fan" .
Fanatics refuse to change their mind, and won't change the subject.
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Hahahhaaa,
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The fact the above poster is Indian and born here and sees it
is a tell all situation .
The WTO is not about balancing the world's economies or some
noble bullshit, this is about plain old greed .
If you want equal terms, then make equal labor laws to enter the WTO.
Your tax dollars go to the college that trains the ppl that are not
citizens to come here and do your job for less money so you can be
laid off, lose your house, your car, your wife, your life you built.
You paid to have someone trained to replace you, hahahahaa .
Yes, they pay for their classes, and pay a bit more, but tax money
from all citizens goes to pay for the colleges, the salaries of
the new ppl to support the larger load of students .
That is the funniest part of all this .
Americans are so wrapped up in sports, games, and BS that they
didn't realize the massive colleges with swelling foreign
enrollment was being run like a profit center , but the dorm rooms,
and professors and infrastructure to build all this was paid for
by you and me even if they students pay for their education, we
put in tax dollars to pay for those colleges too .
So
WE paid for what has been done to us, and to be honest it is not even
bad yet, but it is starting to become a "bit" more apparent .
When top level government officials to be appointed are chatised
for having illegals working for them in their homes, the extent
of the sellout starts to become obvious .
If they can't ship the ppl here, then they ship the work there .
There is an entire alphabet of visa worker designations so they
can ship in ppl from all over the world to work for bottom dollar .
This was proven by the professor norman mattloff at UC davis .
The current limit on the L1 visa is unlimited, enough said .
Welcome to the new sellout USA .
This is also the dumbest thing I have ever seen, like a man eating
his own arm because he is hungry, and here is why .
If the US population becomes mostly poor , then who will buy all
their products that are now designed and built overseas .
The manufacturing sector being shipped overseas was just step one .
The engineering took time because they had to convince us to pay
to train our replacements ROFLMAO !!!!!!!!!!!!
Long Live the Corpocracy !!!
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
I like the idea, but it is not practical for ppl that have careers .
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they have to follow where ever the wind blows them
I am fortunate enough to own my own business and could simply
transplant myself and rebuild my customer base there, or even
sell this business here and rebuild one there
My house, and vehicles are paid for and I have zero debt, so
making the move would not be financially hindered
I applaud their idea, but it won't work for most 9-5 americans
that are slaves to the system
It took half a decade for me to drop my debt , save enough to
pay off my house and start my own business, most ppl just don't
want it that bad
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
I think his reference to aliens refers to ppl not born here .
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In reference to lower innovation, the visa workers sign Intellectual
Property statements that they lose all right to any good ideas
they come up with . So basically unless they are just feeling
giving they are better off sending encrypted e-mails of company
information back home via anonymous remailers with web-mail
The funny thing on this is, the dumb local corporations don't
understand how their product was "instantly" reverse engineered in a foreign country with no R&D path , ROFL . Essentially their VAST greed just cut their own throats
Visa workers are having a impact on innovation, because they
know they have no right to the idea, and can only hope for a
token raise for such work . Some ppl love their work and will
innovate anyways , but most ppl work so they can make a living
In other words, we have alot of corporations that setup Visas, H1-B and L1 are just two common types
To avoid the laws permitting only certain numbers new ones have
been made as well, though the L1 visa is unlimited anyways
I used to work for a few major corporations during and after the
DOT COM boom, and the number of non-citizens is up EXTREMELY in the onshore work force
When its more beneficial to ship it overseas they take that route
Which should also should be banned, and yes it is protectionism, and yes other countries have protectionistic laws too
The corporations decry that they have to hire Visa workers because
they cannot find ppl locally, but the real truth is that a Visa
worker often can be had for ALOT less salary wise, and fear
can be used to scare the visa worker to work HUGE amounts of unpaid overtime
All the places I worked for during the DOT COM boom used these tactics to line their pockets with more cash
A professor in California at UC berkley wrote a paper concerning
the Visa fraud, and how some of his citizen students who had good
grades, and good projects could not get jobs, but they students
with Visas with even LOWER performance had no trouble getting jobs
The professor asked his citizen students if they had declined jobs due to pay and 90%+ said they could not even get an interview.
This is the degree of the situation, and it is discrimination . If you need more proof of the farce, I can provide
The professor at UC berkley is Norman Mattloff, here are some of his sites
http://www.mnforsustain.org/matloff_testimony_myt
http://www.vdare.com/pb/matloff_h1b.htm
Keep in mind, even after the DOT COM bust that congress passed
to double the # of H1-B's allowed per year into the country
Basically for the purpose of greed , several 100,000 ppl are
laid off every year "effectively" to bring in cheap labor that
can be pressured with deportation back to a place they were eager
to leave in the first place
Then citizens have their taxes raised so that we can "bribe" the foreign nations with foreign aid dollars instead of spending the money here
This environment of fear and exploitation was OK'd by congress
98-1 back in 2000, so don't play partisan politics, both sides
SUCK on the issue because both sides are bought and paid for
with corporate cash
Soft money from corporations now has more say in the way our government is run than the ppl . The constitution's quote of "For the ppl, by the ppl" is a farce
The political parties pick their puppets, and the corporations dance their marionettes
We just get to vote for one puppet or the other, with a facade of concern for the plight of the working man . They should all win oscars
Peace, Ex-MislTech
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Total taxation of the internet is coming, they are just seeking market saturation
They want to reduce cash purchases because it is harder to manage the taxation of it
The more commerce that goes online , the more they can skim from it
is the darker alterior motive, and thus the early tax free
incentive . Though mail order has been tax free for a long time
the make it out like they were giving us something . Total BS
I do not think the vast majority of ppl realize the total tax burden placed on them
Even if you do not work you are paying "more" than sales taxes
The cost of taxes to companies are passed on to consumers
While at a goodyear tire center, the owner who grew "tired"
(pun intended) of ppl complaining about the cost of tires
made a list of the taxes from the raw material til it hit the
store shelves, it is roughly 80% tax and that was in 1995
I further extrapolated that the wage inflation of the ppl
gathering raw materials and making the tires to finish product
then delivering them would make it more like 90%
Wage inflation due to the higher cost of living to support the tax burden
Wages are as high as they are now just to keep up with the bloat of the parasitic system
His figures from what I saw were accurate and detailed
It made me stop and think about each and every item I use in life,
and realize the "chain" of taxation
It is like a parasite that taxes from the raw material, til the
finished product is in the home
Some states even have an Ad Valorum tax where even though something
was "paid for+tax" they will tax you on it 'EVERY' year just because
you have the audacity to own it
Our cost of living is inflated due to the tax monster parasite
that has grown out of control over the last 200 years
The corporations simply shirk the tax burden onto the consumer
Apathy has allowed this to happen and a mind set of entitlement
I realize that the government needs money to run, don't get me
wrong , but make it fair and proportional
Texas's choice to not tax food to help the poor was a DAMN good
step in the right direction
We need to look at reducing the cost of government, and we need
to look at reduction of taxation, and more accountability
The taxes and what they are used for need to be posted on the
web in an easy to find format, NOT buried 25 pages deep in a
website in a format that makes it miserable to read or search
The freedom of information act allows for this to be done
Secret military projects will have to continue, but some
kind of cost over sight OTHER than "paid off" politicians needs
to be put in place . Just my taxed 2 cents
The tax I am waiting for is a tax on another tax, that is when we have truly broken new ground
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
http://fwp.state.mt.us/hunting/records/bodysize.as px
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1,102 lb grizzly taken down in montana
In my opinion there are bigger ones out there too
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Dood forget HTTP , go old school use IRC , lean and mean .
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The fast downloads are still there, just not p2p
Servers are who they nail now
Just host all the stuff overseas remotely guys, stop serving
in the 11 nations that jail ppl for this
That or make a VPN based encrypted bit torrent, guess u could
run bit torrent on "Anonet" over "OpenVPN", hehe
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
don't forget these three choices as well :
http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/
http://konspire.sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonet used with OpenVPN or SSH
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/04030 3080222.htm
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Per the Phd working on it:(last sentence in article)
"We are not yet at break-even," Taleyarkhan said. "That would be the ultimate. I don't know if it will ever happen, but we are hopeful that it will and don't see any clear reason why not. In the future we will attempt to scale up this system and see how far we can go."
Slashdot is full of nay sayers , and detractors
I am optimistic they will make headway with this because it already
cost thousands of times less to build, and the materials involved
are common, simple, and inexpensive
Bubble fusion just makes sense monetarily
Price and availability do have an affect on science
Ask the dying bucket of bolts called ISS
ITER is a grand idea, but to scale to power plant abilities
it would cost far more then the billions already slated for
a so called small reactor
Size alone of these reactors would border on the super collider
that was started in texas then abandoned and now used to urban
warfare combat training . *sigh*
A bubble fusion reactor on the other had could end up powering
cars, homes, boats , planes, spacecraft, etc etc
Once they get past break even, something ITER hasn't done yet
then we could see something amazing
Budget limitations will make bubble fusion more appealing to
more scientists due to its low cost to experiment in restrospect
to plasma based toriod magnetic monsters costing billions
Keep in mind Acetone is urine, and we could end up taking a leak
to power our world, pretty ironic if u ask me
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
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They want the digital aspect so they can ad the neilsen monitoring
equipment into ur TV and know what ur watching, and can even
eventually switch to targetted commercials that u are more likely
to be interested in due to ur "choice" of viewing
Example: you watch alot of football, when the advertising hits,
it will be something like beer or sports related even if u are
not watching football at the time
Smart ads , basically
Also they will know what TV shows were watched, and which ones did,
and in what demographics
They pay ppl to go around and setup these boxes now , with digital
TV's they could build it into the TV , and once IP connected
it will just phone home like the DSS satellite boxes already do
reminds of the TIA program the governemnt is rolling out with
cameras in all major cities, TIA = Total Information Awareness
Was federal but caught alot of flack, but now it is still rolling
out in certian cities
Look for pike pass to be on all roads eventually as a "safety"
measure, or traffic pattern analysis in areas like california
then it will spread . Or it will just be an always on 2 way
Onstar system mandated for saftey and montiroed via satellite and
cell tower traingulation like they do for cellular 911 calls now
Orwell lives
Digital TV is good, but like all good things it can be abused
Fortunately ppl will find a way to thwart this as it will not
be tolerated by alot of ppl
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Also in line with your statement, Conco Philips has developed a .
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method to do NGR ( natural gas reclamation ) and make gasoline
from natural gas
Alot of Gas wells are simply capped by ppl like T. Boone Pickens
because he saw the future of energy would use more natural gas
Take all the methane burned off from all the sewer gas from all
the world , and reclaim it as well
Alot of prospects there
Peace,
Ex-MislTech