From what I've heard, there was a period of time during which CO2 levels were way way higher than they are now -- and that was in the middle of an ice age. Is this a correct claim? If so, how does it square with the current greenhouse gas models? I could easily be on crack here, cannot find reference to it on google.
It doesn't matter their history or their motives. They are advocating a good thing, hurray. Whether a company is "hypocritical" isn't important. Nobody wants a dog-eat-dog system, but if that's the way the system is (like it is now), then to survive you have to do it. Meanwhile, you try to change the system to a better one. Just because you got into the fray when things were dirty doesn't mean you don't honestly want to cliean things up. The problem would arise if they start advocating a system that favors them particularly. Are they?
You've got it exactly backwards. Your friend is the VISA without any ties directly to your bank account. Once a thief has your money, you have to get it back from them. If they abuse a credit card, you just dispute the charges and haven't lost anything but your time.
Well, it's not free power by any means, but free power would also have the effect of saving those starving people, by making it really cheap to transport the water to the villages. I wonder what percentage of the cost of storing energy in hydrogen-based fuels is finding good water, I'm guessing it's not the major cost anyhow, so this won't do much for energy, I'm guessing.
LLNL is a national laboratory. This technology will probably be available more broadly than if it was developed by a private company. This sounds like really good news for the world, especially e.g. African nations where potable water is a huge issue.
I just bought a Treo 700p because it can act like a wireless modem for my new MacBook. Trouble is, the Mac support is (no surprise) subpar compared to Windows. So I cannot tether with USB, only with Bluetooth, which means I will get limited data transfer rates. A wireless inroad by Apple would make such ubiquitous networking for road warriors really cool. I still bought the $500 treo, by the way, because it's so cool to be able to google something up from literally anywhere.
The same point as marijuana laws, I would guess. Whatever that is. I guess to "keep our children safe." More likely it's to keep some idiot congressional twit's seat safe. As if with gerrymandering they aren't safe enough.
In order for it to be effective, blocking emissions is exactly what it SHOULD do. The parent has pointed out that if you block light from entering your space, you will be blind at all blocked frequencies, quite a retarded plan, actually. But if you block emissions, then voila! you are invisible. But I didn't RTFA, so I am too Retarded To Freaking Answer correctly.
Yes, and then they'll patent their one-off "discoveries," built on the backs of our tax dollars, and charge the crap out of us for the energy. Meanwhile, the Republicans will grant them a monopoly, and the Democrats will try to shut it all down because it isn't made out of vegetable oil and is somehow racist.
The problem here is the same problem as in all corporate misdeeds. No one person or small group in the company is accountable. What might actually work is to say, look here, somebody authorized this illegal action. Who was it? Find that person and punish him or her. With jail and a felony rap, like any poor kid from the ghetto who "makes a mistake" and steals a car stereo. "Punishing" a corporation makes very little sense. It all gets abstracted into a spreadsheet and nobody has the fear of reprisal for their misdeeds. Nowadays, the "the buck stops here" has been perverted into "the buck rules here."
In the majority of crimes, the perp gets away with it. Only the unlucky and the really, really stupid end up in prison.
Yes, but the majority of crimes are committed by a small minority of criminals, and the odds that a criminal will get caught doing something is high. Criminals are generally not very bright, which is not a startling claim if you realize the average human is not very smart, and half of them are less smart than average!:-)
I'm sympathetic to your desire to have an open and free society, but just as a hypothetical, what if somebody sneaks into a military facility and steals the plans for a nuclear attack submarine and gives it to Iran? Freedom of speech? No? What if they publish it in a newsletter and send a copy to Iran? What I'm saying, is that revealing government secrets is not necessarily a good thing all the time. I'm not sure how to strike the best balance, but I don't think the 1rst Amendment was ever considered absolute.
At the risk of sounding relevant, what obstacles remain? I mean, don't we have to figure some other details out, like how to get more energy out than in, and how to run the reaction for at least a whole second at a time? This "solution" is only to extend the lifetime of one of the parts in our current fusion reactor technology, which is decades away from being anything near usable commercially or otherwise.
Clearly, what needs to be done is for Congress to pass a "Stop Terrorism NOW" bill that bans cellphones and private email accounts. They are too dangerous if they can be used by terrorists!
If TiVo is so customer centered, why don't they improve their interface to make it easier to use? It is really hard to type "Invasion" using the Ouija-board method of text entry. Keyboard, anyone? Faster searches? How about getting rid of that literal 5 minute delay after rearranging your To-Do list? That's just a bad sorting algorithm or something. The user interface has never every changed that I've noticed, and I have been using it for years. The same sucky things that make you roll your eyes are still there. Tivo is like democracy, to paraphrase I think Winston Churchill. It's the absolutely worst system you could think of, except for all the others.:-)
Once you get into that area of undefined behavior the chances are good that the attack can be "tweaked" to execute arbitrary code.
I disagree; the chances are not good at that point. The chances are very small. Only a small percentage of crashing bugs can be exploited into a security vulnerability. I know, I've written my share of such bugs.:-)
Wow, that's news! Last I checked, the serial port on my cable box did nothing, and TiVo was not able to access it. But if I can drive it via a reliable external mechanism, I'd love to use an open, flexible computer-based solution to program my TV.
The problem with solutions that are not integrated into the cable/satellite box with current technology is that they have to use IR (infrared) controller to change channels. This misses sometimes, making you miss some of your shows. For this reason, I would rather have an inferior interface with a higher reliability, integrated into the unit. This is why I use DirecTV, because they integrate TiVo into their box, and it's like $5/month for the service. It's worth it for the fact that I never miss a scheduled show.
You are an asshole, but you make a good point. But how many of those do you have? Pissant people like you have maybe a couple of those, which could damage a city or two. The good new is that our response to that will not be to start worldwide nuclear war, which is the only response now to a sizeable nuclear missile attack. So maybe crazy fanatics cannot destroy the world any more if this technology pans out.
The article tells the truth that there is dissent around whether global warming will cause more storms, which is very debatable. But it implies with that the falsehood that global warming does not pose a significant risk to the future in many ways. Climate change is more than weather. I'm not saying there isn't hype about global warming on both sides, but this article is not really that helpful in understanding the broad issues involved. The discussion needs to be very broad, because that is the scope of the problem. Increased global temperatures have many effects...
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what? The next big breakthrough in search technology is not going to come from a committee?
From what I've heard, there was a period of time during which CO2 levels were way way higher than they are now -- and that was in the middle of an ice age. Is this a correct claim? If so, how does it square with the current greenhouse gas models? I could easily be on crack here, cannot find reference to it on google.
It doesn't matter their history or their motives. They are advocating a good thing, hurray. Whether a company is "hypocritical" isn't important. Nobody wants a dog-eat-dog system, but if that's the way the system is (like it is now), then to survive you have to do it. Meanwhile, you try to change the system to a better one. Just because you got into the fray when things were dirty doesn't mean you don't honestly want to cliean things up. The problem would arise if they start advocating a system that favors them particularly. Are they?
I just think it's cool that there are marketing geeks who know that mass x velocity = momentum.
You've got it exactly backwards. Your friend is the VISA without any ties directly to your bank account. Once a thief has your money, you have to get it back from them. If they abuse a credit card, you just dispute the charges and haven't lost anything but your time.
Well, it's not free power by any means, but free power would also have the effect of saving those starving people, by making it really cheap to transport the water to the villages. I wonder what percentage of the cost of storing energy in hydrogen-based fuels is finding good water, I'm guessing it's not the major cost anyhow, so this won't do much for energy, I'm guessing.
LLNL is a national laboratory. This technology will probably be available more broadly than if it was developed by a private company. This sounds like really good news for the world, especially e.g. African nations where potable water is a huge issue.
I just bought a Treo 700p because it can act like a wireless modem for my new MacBook. Trouble is, the Mac support is (no surprise) subpar compared to Windows. So I cannot tether with USB, only with Bluetooth, which means I will get limited data transfer rates. A wireless inroad by Apple would make such ubiquitous networking for road warriors really cool. I still bought the $500 treo, by the way, because it's so cool to be able to google something up from literally anywhere.
The same point as marijuana laws, I would guess. Whatever that is. I guess to "keep our children safe." More likely it's to keep some idiot congressional twit's seat safe. As if with gerrymandering they aren't safe enough.
In order for it to be effective, blocking emissions is exactly what it SHOULD do. The parent has pointed out that if you block light from entering your space, you will be blind at all blocked frequencies, quite a retarded plan, actually. But if you block emissions, then voila! you are invisible. But I didn't RTFA, so I am too Retarded To Freaking Answer correctly.
Yes, and then they'll patent their one-off "discoveries," built on the backs of our tax dollars, and charge the crap out of us for the energy. Meanwhile, the Republicans will grant them a monopoly, and the Democrats will try to shut it all down because it isn't made out of vegetable oil and is somehow racist.
The problem here is the same problem as in all corporate misdeeds. No one person or small group in the company is accountable. What might actually work is to say, look here, somebody authorized this illegal action. Who was it? Find that person and punish him or her. With jail and a felony rap, like any poor kid from the ghetto who "makes a mistake" and steals a car stereo. "Punishing" a corporation makes very little sense. It all gets abstracted into a spreadsheet and nobody has the fear of reprisal for their misdeeds. Nowadays, the "the buck stops here" has been perverted into "the buck rules here."
Yes, but the majority of crimes are committed by a small minority of criminals, and the odds that a criminal will get caught doing something is high. Criminals are generally not very bright, which is not a startling claim if you realize the average human is not very smart, and half of them are less smart than average! :-)
I'm sympathetic to your desire to have an open and free society, but just as a hypothetical, what if somebody sneaks into a military facility and steals the plans for a nuclear attack submarine and gives it to Iran? Freedom of speech? No? What if they publish it in a newsletter and send a copy to Iran? What I'm saying, is that revealing government secrets is not necessarily a good thing all the time. I'm not sure how to strike the best balance, but I don't think the 1rst Amendment was ever considered absolute.
At the risk of sounding relevant, what obstacles remain? I mean, don't we have to figure some other details out, like how to get more energy out than in, and how to run the reaction for at least a whole second at a time? This "solution" is only to extend the lifetime of one of the parts in our current fusion reactor technology, which is decades away from being anything near usable commercially or otherwise.
Clearly, what needs to be done is for Congress to pass a "Stop Terrorism NOW" bill that bans cellphones and private email accounts. They are too dangerous if they can be used by terrorists!
If TiVo is so customer centered, why don't they improve their interface to make it easier to use? It is really hard to type "Invasion" using the Ouija-board method of text entry. Keyboard, anyone? Faster searches? How about getting rid of that literal 5 minute delay after rearranging your To-Do list? That's just a bad sorting algorithm or something. The user interface has never every changed that I've noticed, and I have been using it for years. The same sucky things that make you roll your eyes are still there. Tivo is like democracy, to paraphrase I think Winston Churchill. It's the absolutely worst system you could think of, except for all the others. :-)
I disagree; the chances are not good at that point. The chances are very small. Only a small percentage of crashing bugs can be exploited into a security vulnerability. I know, I've written my share of such bugs. :-)
Wow, that's news! Last I checked, the serial port on my cable box did nothing, and TiVo was not able to access it. But if I can drive it via a reliable external mechanism, I'd love to use an open, flexible computer-based solution to program my TV.
That's funny, your girlfriend said the same thing to ME last night about YOU. :-)
The problem with solutions that are not integrated into the cable/satellite box with current technology is that they have to use IR (infrared) controller to change channels. This misses sometimes, making you miss some of your shows. For this reason, I would rather have an inferior interface with a higher reliability, integrated into the unit. This is why I use DirecTV, because they integrate TiVo into their box, and it's like $5/month for the service. It's worth it for the fact that I never miss a scheduled show.
Not to mention all the great spyware and malware that supporting ActiveX and the rest of the Windows API will bring! Oh, yes, Nirvana.
"Trains per quarter!" I guess pounds per square inch is too technical for people to grasp with their tiny minds. :-)
You are an asshole, but you make a good point. But how many of those do you have? Pissant people like you have maybe a couple of those, which could damage a city or two. The good new is that our response to that will not be to start worldwide nuclear war, which is the only response now to a sizeable nuclear missile attack. So maybe crazy fanatics cannot destroy the world any more if this technology pans out.
The article tells the truth that there is dissent around whether global warming will cause more storms, which is very debatable. But it implies with that the falsehood that global warming does not pose a significant risk to the future in many ways. Climate change is more than weather. I'm not saying there isn't hype about global warming on both sides, but this article is not really that helpful in understanding the broad issues involved. The discussion needs to be very broad, because that is the scope of the problem. Increased global temperatures have many effects...