There is a reason it is illegal to use aluminum wiring in homes in the US... it is dangerous. It oxidizes, creates an impedance, and catches fire. Most insurance companies won't even insure a home that has aluminum wiring in it (it was used for a few years in the 70's, which is why we know it is unsafe).
Not copper. There is just a thin copper plating on them. I penny weighs 2.5g, 2.5% of which is copper, or 0.0625 grams. $1M in US pennies contains approximately 2/3 cubic meter of copper, 6250kg.
Pennies aren't the problem.
However, nickels are 75% copper and weigh 5 grams, so each coin has 3.75g of copper in it. $1M in nickels has 75000kg of copper, or approximately 8.3 cubic meters of copper.
So, nickels aren't really the problem either.
1 km of AWG-14 copper wiring for a house (14/2) has 3 km of copper wire with a cross section of 2.08mm, for a total volume of 6.24E6 cubic mm, or 0.00624 cubic meters.
1 km of three-phase high tension wire, AWG-000000, has 0.51 cubic meters of copper. String a high tension wireset over 1000km, and you have 500 cubic meters of copper.
What the hell, Taco? Why are you trying to make it okay to let spelling and grammar errors slide by? If you look at any journalism outlet, the summary job of the editor is to make sure these mistakes do not get through, and that there are ZERO spelling and grammar errors. NONE. If you are letting errors through, then you are not doing what they are paying you to do, end of story. It would be one thing if this were some guy's blog, but slashdot asks for money, and sells advertising, and claims to be a journalism outlet, although simply cutting and pasting from original news sites and calling it original work is plagiarism, not journalism. How many times have we followed a link just to read the slashdot summary as the first paragraph of the cited work?
If slashdot weren't such an entertaining moderation war all the time, I wouldn't even bother to read it.
"Of course some users like to email me to tell me how much Slashdot sucks, how fat and lazy I am, and how the most terrible thing in the history of Slashdot is the fact that the 4th story down contains the word 'to' when it ought to contain the word 'too'."
I know what you mean. Here is a prime example:
"Many submissions are to long or to short. So I get out the scissors and start looking for sentences to cut."
to is a preposition too is an adverb two is a noun
"Everyone call BellSouth's tech support EVERY time a download is slow (below the speed they paid for). They will be so mired in support calls that they will have to re-consider the policy."
I dunno, there are three people in India for each man, woman, and child in the US. I think they can handle as many calls as we throw at them...
Look, people are already paying for their bandwidth. Providers buy a DS3 or something with an SLA, which guarantees them a certain bitrate and uptime. They may be billed at 95th pct, or whatever, but the point is they already pay for their bandwidth. And, if they use more, they pay more, to their provider.
Consumers also pay for their bandwidth. BellSouth already does not guarantee service to residential customers. Is BellSouth going to start the Residential SLA? I don't think so. They are fishing for another junk fee to add to their residential DSL service.
Also, how are they going to know how to make a certain provider's content "unreliable?" Do DSL providers have the right to look inside your packets to see what you're doing? The answer is, yes, if you agree to it.
In general, the reason things like this happen is because consumers, especially in the US, have absolutely no spine to speak of. They refuse to tell a provider, "no," and then shop the competition. In some places, there is no competition.
Internet access is not a prerequisite to breathing. You do not need the Internet to survive, but the providers would have you believe otherwise. Of course, there are those who would be fine with this and pay 2x or 3x more for their iTunes, and there are those who won't like it, but will do it anyway because, as I said, they have no spine and can't fathom going 5 minutes without IMing their friends or surfing pr0n.
The real play here, however, is going to have to come from the content providers. Consumers won't say no, so it will have to be the content providers who do. The news outlets, google, yahoo, apple, and the p2p networks will have to immediately blacklist any ISP that pulls this stunt. By the rules of economic darwinism, the ISPs that don't do it will benefit, and those that do will perish, or at the very least suffer.
I have two redundant servers on the home LAN... one with 960GB and the other with 840GB of space - all raid-5. rsyncs every 12 hours keep all of the data together. Each server is on a separate circuit in the house, with UPSes, just in case. I also make good use of redundant power supplies... Every 6 months or so, I make an incremental tape backup to keep in my safe deposit box.
Since I still have every mp3, movie, video, soundfile, game, email, document, paper, and everything else, dating all the way back to 1990, I certainly don't want to risk losing any of it.
Now that macs are just another Intel whitebox, the only place they can make money is on software. Also, now that they are intel-based, all you really need to have a mac is the s/w.
Seriously, if I wanted an Intel box than ran BSD, I'd put it together myself and install FreeBSD on it. Why should I pay a premium for the same commodity hardware and software I can get for next to free on ebay?
I will never pay for radio, nor will I ever pay for TV. I listen and watch only what is freely available via over-the-air broadcast. When analog TV gets shut down and you have to pay licensing just to watch a digital broadcast, the TV will go dark. Same for radio. I have a piano and play guitar, so I'll just make my own goddamn music.
It's the RIAA's job to squeeze everything they can out of you. It is YOUR job not to give it to them. Every time you buy a CD, pay for satellite radio, subscribe to Live365, purchase products that are advertised on the radio, or shop at retail stores that play music, you are supporting the RIAA and their crap. The only way they will ever change is if they stop making money doing what they're doing.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of people, including the vast majority of anti-RIAA slashdot zealots, don't have the cojones to actually vote with their wallet. As a person who is capable of entertaining myself, I simply refuse to pay money to be entertained.
I imagine doing so would constitute unlawful reproduction of a copyrighted work. It doesn't matter whether there is anyone around to hear it. If you reproduce it, it's unlawful.
Look, if I go to a baseball game and take notes on everything I see, that information is MINE. Sure, other people can have it, too, but I can do whatever I want to with that information, including sell it. However, at the same time, if I create a compilation of the things that I see, and publish it in book or electronic form, I own the copyright to that publication and I am perfectly within my rights to forbid others from using it. However, there is nothing preventing someone else from making their own compilation.
MLB is perfectly correct in this issue. This is no different than map makers enforcing their rights to their publications. The information itself may be public domain, but their publication of that information belongs to them. This is why both map makers and statistics houses make intentional errors in their data. So, if MapQuest copies Rand McNally, Rand will have solid proof in the form of a copied mistake for the court proceedings.
First of all, I would LOVE to have access from an airplane. Nothing is worse than just sitting there.... for hours... especially on a transcontinental flight. Make no mistake, this is going to be very expensive, but just might be worth it.
The alternative is that if they let you use cell phones and you have tethering capability, those cross-country flights will go oh-so-much faster.
And seriously, listening to other peoples' conversations can't be that bad. It certainly can't be worse than being in any public place listening to people talk. Sure, there are a _few_ obnoxious people who don't understand that you don't have to yell in order to be heard on the other side of a cell phone, but I think in general, it will destress everyone on the flight to be able to have a conversation.
Jet engines are ridiculously loud anyway, so it's either listen to a conversation, or listen to the jet engines... heh..
Yes... My employer wants me to implement some kind of authentication for network security. I have no idea what I am doing, so do you guys think you can tell me what to do? I don't have a budget for consultants, and I'm incompetent at my job, so if you guys could steer me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it...
Am I the only one who is tired of free-work trolling on slashdot? Are the editors really so blind to what these folks are doing? FFS... really...
*scroll*
Oh wait, apparently, I'm not the only one... mod me extremely redundant...
AS a cyclist commuter, I am particularly concerned about being creamed by an unaware driver with an overdependence upon technology...
Overall, i think the human race has developed an over-dependence on technology to survive... Humans who should have removed themselves from the gene pool long ago are still propagating their DNA...
Most NORMAL hurricanes don't have lightning. But, these weren't normal hurricanes. These hurricanes were created by the Bush Administration and their super-secret hurricane-creating weapon of mass destruction! Everyone knows that. They knew that a couple of devastating hurricanes in oil country would boost their profits, especially since Dick Cheney owns a whopping ZERO shares of Halliburton.
Sure, it might cost slightly more, however, if you look at the long-term cost of ownership compared to the Intel, the AMD is far cheaper. Why? ELECTRICITY. If the AMD uses 30 fewer watts than the Intel (didn't feel like digging up an actual number), assuming it's 70% utilized over its lifetime, that's 21W less on average. 24/7 for a year, that's almost 184kWh less per year, which is about $40 worth of electricity at commercial rates (Philadelphia area).
Also, there is a cost associated with cooling the datacenter, which will probably increase those annual electricity savings by about 50%.
I'd pay $30 more to save $60/year. If the lifetime is 5 years, then that's $270 less over the lifetime of the CPU.
Now that they aren't getting cheap/free oil from Iraq in illegal under-the-table dealings that leave millions of innocent Iraqis without food or medicine, they will have to get their energy from somewhere.
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There is a reason it is illegal to use aluminum wiring in homes in the US... it is dangerous. It oxidizes, creates an impedance, and catches fire. Most insurance companies won't even insure a home that has aluminum wiring in it (it was used for a few years in the 70's, which is why we know it is unsafe).
Not copper. There is just a thin copper plating on them. I penny weighs 2.5g, 2.5% of which is copper, or 0.0625 grams. $1M in US pennies contains approximately 2/3 cubic meter of copper, 6250kg.
Pennies aren't the problem.
However, nickels are 75% copper and weigh 5 grams, so each coin has 3.75g of copper in it. $1M in nickels has 75000kg of copper, or approximately 8.3 cubic meters of copper.
So, nickels aren't really the problem either.
1 km of AWG-14 copper wiring for a house (14/2) has 3 km of copper wire with a cross section of 2.08mm, for a total volume of 6.24E6 cubic mm, or 0.00624 cubic meters.
1 km of three-phase high tension wire, AWG-000000, has 0.51 cubic meters of copper. String a high tension wireset over 1000km, and you have 500 cubic meters of copper.
What the hell, Taco? Why are you trying to make it okay to let spelling and grammar errors slide by? If you look at any journalism outlet, the summary job of the editor is to make sure these mistakes do not get through, and that there are ZERO spelling and grammar errors. NONE. If you are letting errors through, then you are not doing what they are paying you to do, end of story. It would be one thing if this were some guy's blog, but slashdot asks for money, and sells advertising, and claims to be a journalism outlet, although simply cutting and pasting from original news sites and calling it original work is plagiarism, not journalism. How many times have we followed a link just to read the slashdot summary as the first paragraph of the cited work?
If slashdot weren't such an entertaining moderation war all the time, I wouldn't even bother to read it.
"Of course some users like to email me to tell me how much Slashdot sucks, how fat and lazy I am, and how the most terrible thing in the history of Slashdot is the fact that the 4th story down contains the word 'to' when it ought to contain the word 'too'."
I know what you mean. Here is a prime example:
"Many submissions are to long or to short. So I get out the scissors and start looking for sentences to cut."
to is a preposition
too is an adverb
two is a noun
Does anyone know where I can get a list of all of BellSouth's netblocks?
"Everyone call BellSouth's tech support EVERY time a download is slow (below the speed they paid for). They will be so mired in support calls that they will have to re-consider the policy."
I dunno, there are three people in India for each man, woman, and child in the US. I think they can handle as many calls as we throw at them...
Look, people are already paying for their bandwidth. Providers buy a DS3 or something with an SLA, which guarantees them a certain bitrate and uptime. They may be billed at 95th pct, or whatever, but the point is they already pay for their bandwidth. And, if they use more, they pay more, to their provider.
Consumers also pay for their bandwidth. BellSouth already does not guarantee service to residential customers. Is BellSouth going to start the Residential SLA? I don't think so. They are fishing for another junk fee to add to their residential DSL service.
Also, how are they going to know how to make a certain provider's content "unreliable?" Do DSL providers have the right to look inside your packets to see what you're doing? The answer is, yes, if you agree to it.
In general, the reason things like this happen is because consumers, especially in the US, have absolutely no spine to speak of. They refuse to tell a provider, "no," and then shop the competition. In some places, there is no competition.
Internet access is not a prerequisite to breathing. You do not need the Internet to survive, but the providers would have you believe otherwise. Of course, there are those who would be fine with this and pay 2x or 3x more for their iTunes, and there are those who won't like it, but will do it anyway because, as I said, they have no spine and can't fathom going 5 minutes without IMing their friends or surfing pr0n.
The real play here, however, is going to have to come from the content providers. Consumers won't say no, so it will have to be the content providers who do. The news outlets, google, yahoo, apple, and the p2p networks will have to immediately blacklist any ISP that pulls this stunt. By the rules of economic darwinism, the ISPs that don't do it will benefit, and those that do will perish, or at the very least suffer.
I have two redundant servers on the home LAN... one with 960GB and the other with 840GB of space - all raid-5. rsyncs every 12 hours keep all of the data together. Each server is on a separate circuit in the house, with UPSes, just in case. I also make good use of redundant power supplies... Every 6 months or so, I make an incremental tape backup to keep in my safe deposit box.
Since I still have every mp3, movie, video, soundfile, game, email, document, paper, and everything else, dating all the way back to 1990, I certainly don't want to risk losing any of it.
Now that macs are just another Intel whitebox, the only place they can make money is on software. Also, now that they are intel-based, all you really need to have a mac is the s/w.
Seriously, if I wanted an Intel box than ran BSD, I'd put it together myself and install FreeBSD on it. Why should I pay a premium for the same commodity hardware and software I can get for next to free on ebay?
I will never pay for radio, nor will I ever pay for TV. I listen and watch only what is freely available via over-the-air broadcast. When analog TV gets shut down and you have to pay licensing just to watch a digital broadcast, the TV will go dark. Same for radio. I have a piano and play guitar, so I'll just make my own goddamn music.
It's the RIAA's job to squeeze everything they can out of you. It is YOUR job not to give it to them. Every time you buy a CD, pay for satellite radio, subscribe to Live365, purchase products that are advertised on the radio, or shop at retail stores that play music, you are supporting the RIAA and their crap. The only way they will ever change is if they stop making money doing what they're doing.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of people, including the vast majority of anti-RIAA slashdot zealots, don't have the cojones to actually vote with their wallet. As a person who is capable of entertaining myself, I simply refuse to pay money to be entertained.
I imagine doing so would constitute unlawful reproduction of a copyrighted work. It doesn't matter whether there is anyone around to hear it. If you reproduce it, it's unlawful.
Look, if I go to a baseball game and take notes on everything I see, that information is MINE. Sure, other people can have it, too, but I can do whatever I want to with that information, including sell it. However, at the same time, if I create a compilation of the things that I see, and publish it in book or electronic form, I own the copyright to that publication and I am perfectly within my rights to forbid others from using it. However, there is nothing preventing someone else from making their own compilation.
MLB is perfectly correct in this issue. This is no different than map makers enforcing their rights to their publications. The information itself may be public domain, but their publication of that information belongs to them. This is why both map makers and statistics houses make intentional errors in their data. So, if MapQuest copies Rand McNally, Rand will have solid proof in the form of a copied mistake for the court proceedings.
First of all, I would LOVE to have access from an airplane. Nothing is worse than just sitting there.... for hours... especially on a transcontinental flight. Make no mistake, this is going to be very expensive, but just might be worth it.
The alternative is that if they let you use cell phones and you have tethering capability, those cross-country flights will go oh-so-much faster.
And seriously, listening to other peoples' conversations can't be that bad. It certainly can't be worse than being in any public place listening to people talk. Sure, there are a _few_ obnoxious people who don't understand that you don't have to yell in order to be heard on the other side of a cell phone, but I think in general, it will destress everyone on the flight to be able to have a conversation.
Jet engines are ridiculously loud anyway, so it's either listen to a conversation, or listen to the jet engines... heh..
Oh so Baggy!!! It's incredible, how baggy they are! Fill 'em with helium and I'll float away! Soooooooo baggy!!!!
Yes... My employer wants me to implement some kind of authentication for network security. I have no idea what I am doing, so do you guys think you can tell me what to do? I don't have a budget for consultants, and I'm incompetent at my job, so if you guys could steer me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it...
Am I the only one who is tired of free-work trolling on slashdot? Are the editors really so blind to what these folks are doing? FFS... really...
*scroll*
Oh wait, apparently, I'm not the only one... mod me extremely redundant...
AS a cyclist commuter, I am particularly concerned about being creamed by an unaware driver with an overdependence upon technology...
Overall, i think the human race has developed an over-dependence on technology to survive... Humans who should have removed themselves from the gene pool long ago are still propagating their DNA...
"Nothing to see here folks--move along..."
Not unless you consider that I saw a 747 doing the breast stroke on my way home from work today...
Most NORMAL hurricanes don't have lightning. But, these weren't normal hurricanes. These hurricanes were created by the Bush Administration and their super-secret hurricane-creating weapon of mass destruction! Everyone knows that. They knew that a couple of devastating hurricanes in oil country would boost their profits, especially since Dick Cheney owns a whopping ZERO shares of Halliburton.
Sure, it might cost slightly more, however, if you look at the long-term cost of ownership compared to the Intel, the AMD is far cheaper. Why? ELECTRICITY. If the AMD uses 30 fewer watts than the Intel (didn't feel like digging up an actual number), assuming it's 70% utilized over its lifetime, that's 21W less on average. 24/7 for a year, that's almost 184kWh less per year, which is about $40 worth of electricity at commercial rates (Philadelphia area).
Also, there is a cost associated with cooling the datacenter, which will probably increase those annual electricity savings by about 50%.
I'd pay $30 more to save $60/year. If the lifetime is 5 years, then that's $270 less over the lifetime of the CPU.
Hey, if everyone followed "common sense," we wouldn't have received the gift of MythBusters!
And I still have 20/13 in both eyes... no problems with monitors. Use a computer 8 hours a day at work and probably another hour or two at home.
Now that they aren't getting cheap/free oil from Iraq in illegal under-the-table dealings that leave millions of innocent Iraqis without food or medicine, they will have to get their energy from somewhere.
The felony is likely for inciting a DoS attack...
Fucking slashdot editors....
Inside the mind of:
Bill Gates: The world will be MINE! And I will use deceitful and unlawful business practices to get it!
Steve Ballmer: The world will be MINE! But, I must destroy my boss, first!
George Bush:
There ya go...
So where are the rest of them? I'm still getting 100 spam emails/day.