Cars (internal combustion engine) emit more nasty stuff than greenhouse gases - chemicals such as benzene, adversely affect human health.
In fact, the two most carcinogenic substances known are emitted from trucks. Diesel fumes are generally considered 25 times more carcinogenic than cigarette smoke - we worry about some passive smoking in a bar, but have trucks/buses/generators blasting diesel into the air *WTF*?
The comments of Dr. Paul Davies were even raised in the South Australian parliament - that more people die from exhaust emissions each year than speed and alcohol related road accidents!!!!!! Where is the TV advertising campaign "Drive a diesel engine - and you're a bloody idiot" !!:-)
In terms of health hydrocarbons suck - to me it makes more sense to emit some extra C02 in order to make electricity for cars. Other than it's affect on global warming, C02 is relatively clean - its not unhealthy to breate - certainly compared to car emissions.
Production of materials such as concrete produce obscene greenhouse gases, we could make a few less tons of that per year to compensate for the extra levels from electricity for cars:-)
I dont agree with the arguments for storing CC info. It's not necessary, why not use a bank for financial transactions? Someone commented they need to store the info so they can refund money if needed, banks can do this just as well.
If organisations like the FBI keep their sensitive data totally isolated from the internet, because thats the only way to ensure its safe, then getting Slashdot security advice for storing CC info on your system is seriously asking for trouble, in the order of million $ liabilities:(
you have valid points sorry to be a smart arse:p
but the cited example of invention of the TV is a good one, I cant remember the URL for the article I read, but in the case of TV the inventor wouldn't have succeeded if it wasnt for the significant support of the media company, which almost gave up on him... very interesting.
I just cant wait to be able to camp the rare spawn Neighbour's Dog. I need to collect and hand into the vet 14 rare spawn fleas, and the rare drop turd, to get my new 'baseball cap of uber d3wdness'!
like computer technology, none of these could be considered mature!
engines are really only 120 or so years old, bad polluters (especially diesel - 25 times more carcinogenic than cigarette smoke... but hey thats ok keep on truckin' =)
ill concede, modern bridges are probably pretty advanced down their tech tree:P
This topic really made the moderators wield the redundant, offtopic and troll sticks:p
It's interesting how much data has been processed... equivalent to nearly 18 months worth of full time cycles on the fastest computer in the world!! That's quite an achievement in itself.
Personally I agree distributed computing for (PUBLIC) medical research is probably of more benefit to humanity, at least short to medium term.
Sure we could find aliens who know the cure to all these diseases, but if thats the case they would be beyond using radio communication, thus we couldn't find them with SETI anyway:p
The components that will "benefit" from becoming win-components, by becoming cheaper, are not the costly parts of the system.. $25 for a winmodem or $50 for a real one, this is nothing compared to the cost of the monitor, CPU etc.
Its a 'false economy' - I would need a faster system to support all these components, just to save a few $ on some chips on the component cards.
I have experience with a winmodem - poor CPU performance under heavy graphics/modem load, to the point where the machine reboots once every few hours as the CPU gets hot under these conditions. (p3-933, 256meg ram, geforce2 GTS)
Not to mention lagggggg!:)
there has never been one copy of everquest warezed... in order to play you need to make an account using the cd-key on your CD..
sure the accounts get traded/stolen/given away, but never a copy.. every account has an associated cd purchased at some point...
doesnt this solve the problem?
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From the System Reqs:
Connection to the internet (via Enternet PPPoE software supplied by Telstra, Windows XP PPPoE, Speed Touch Pro PPPoA, or MAC PPPoE)
this requirement only needs to be met in order to get telephone support for self installation, it doesn't explicitly say you can't use anything else.
Just out of interest, from the FAQ on internode.net.au (one of Telstra's competitors):
Internode prides itself on being highly supportive of the use of ADSL on any computer system that you have which runs TCP/IP.
We are pleased to support most flavours of Windows.
But we also strongly and explicitly support MacOS (OS-X and OS-9)
And we also support the use of Linux and FreeBSD to access the Internet using ADSL.
;; signal/noise ratio is getting worse; I now read posts at +3 or above
:)
how are posts meant to get to +3 or above in the first place, if they all get ignored?
Cars (internal combustion engine) emit more nasty stuff than greenhouse gases - chemicals such as benzene, adversely affect human health.
In fact, the two most carcinogenic substances known are emitted from trucks. Diesel fumes are generally considered 25 times more carcinogenic than cigarette smoke - we worry about some passive smoking in a bar, but have trucks/buses/generators blasting diesel into the air *WTF*?
The comments of Dr. Paul Davies were even raised in the South Australian parliament - that more people die from exhaust emissions each year than speed and alcohol related road accidents!!!!!! Where is the TV advertising campaign "Drive a diesel engine - and you're a bloody idiot" !!
In terms of health hydrocarbons suck - to me it makes more sense to emit some extra C02 in order to make electricity for cars. Other than it's affect on global warming, C02 is relatively clean - its not unhealthy to breate - certainly compared to car emissions.
Production of materials such as concrete produce obscene greenhouse gases, we could make a few less tons of that per year to compensate for the extra levels from electricity for cars
I dont agree with the arguments for storing CC info. It's not necessary, why not use a bank for financial transactions? Someone commented they need to store the info so they can refund money if needed, banks can do this just as well.
:(
If organisations like the FBI keep their sensitive data totally isolated from the internet, because thats the only way to ensure its safe, then getting Slashdot security advice for storing CC info on your system is seriously asking for trouble, in the order of million $ liabilities
you have valid points sorry to be a smart arse :p
but the cited example of invention of the TV is a good one, I cant remember the URL for the article I read, but in the case of TV the inventor wouldn't have succeeded if it wasnt for the significant support of the media company, which almost gave up on him... very interesting.
Sorry but I really must point out that it's actually spelt "manifest" :P
I just cant wait to be able to camp the rare spawn Neighbour's Dog. I need to collect and hand into the vet 14 rare spawn fleas, and the rare drop turd, to get my new 'baseball cap of uber d3wdness'!
Internal combustion engines, houses, aircraft, ships....
:P
like computer technology, none of these could be considered mature!
engines are really only 120 or so years old, bad polluters (especially diesel - 25 times more carcinogenic than cigarette smoke... but hey thats ok keep on truckin' =)
ill concede, modern bridges are probably pretty advanced down their tech tree
just wait until some kid couldnt get access to his favourite pre-written-essay cheat site, fails his classes and sues you for it :P
This topic really made the moderators wield the redundant, offtopic and troll sticks :p
It's interesting how much data has been processed... equivalent to nearly 18 months worth of full time cycles on the fastest computer in the world!! That's quite an achievement in itself.
Personally I agree distributed computing for (PUBLIC) medical research is probably of more benefit to humanity, at least short to medium term.
Sure we could find aliens who know the cure to all these diseases, but if thats the case they would be beyond using radio communication, thus we couldn't find them with SETI anyway :p
red-hatted stepchild? :p
The components that will "benefit" from becoming win-components, by becoming cheaper, are not the costly parts of the system.. $25 for a winmodem or $50 for a real one, this is nothing compared to the cost of the monitor, CPU etc. Its a 'false economy' - I would need a faster system to support all these components, just to save a few $ on some chips on the component cards. I have experience with a winmodem - poor CPU performance under heavy graphics/modem load, to the point where the machine reboots once every few hours as the CPU gets hot under these conditions. (p3-933, 256meg ram, geforce2 GTS) Not to mention lagggggg! :)
there has never been one copy of everquest warezed... in order to play you need to make an account using the cd-key on your CD.. sure the accounts get traded/stolen/given away, but never a copy.. every account has an associated cd purchased at some point... doesnt this solve the problem?