In the event of a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other large-scale emergency, the Department of Homeland Security will assume primary responsibility on March 1st for ensuring that emergency response professionals are prepared for any situation. This will entail providing a coordinated, comprehensive federal response to any large-scale crisis and mounting a swift and effective recovery effort. The new Department will also prioritize the important issue of citizen preparedness. Educating America's families on how best to prepare their homes for a disaster and tips for citizens on how to respond in a crisis will be given special attention at DHS.
In other words this is a matter of national security. New Orleans is the largest port in the United States. Without it oil doesn't flow to much of the country and international trade is disrupted. Avoidance of chaos in the face of disaster requires coordinated planning and resources, one of those important reasons governments exist.
> Tell me why the idiotic democrat mayor of NOAL did not use the city's buses to evacuate his people?
Do you know if they had fuel to put in those buses? Electricity to power the fuel pumps? People to drive the buses? Perhaps the answer is a bit more involved.
Highlights:
1) Excellent Recharge Performance
The thin battery recharges to 80% of full capacity in only a minute. Total recharge takes only a few more minutes.
2) High Energy Density
Small and light, the new battery offers a high level of storage efficiency. The prototype battery is only 3.8mm thick, 62mm high and 35mm deep and has a capacity of 600mAh.
3) Long Life Cycle
A prototype of new battery (a laminated lithium ion battery with 600mAh capacity) was discharged and fully recharged 1,000 times at a temperature of 25 degrees centigrade and lost only 1% of capacity during the test.
4) Temperature
The new battery operates well in extremes of temperature. It discharges 80% of its capacity at minus 40 degrees centigrade, against 100% at an ambient temperature of 25 degrees centigrade, and loses only 5% of capacity at temperatures as high as 45 degrees centigrade after 1,000 cycles. These characteristics assure the wide applicability of the battery as a power source for products as diverse as hybrid vehicles and mobile phones.
5) Eco-friendly Battery
The new battery can quickly store energy produced by locomotives and automobiles. This speedy and highly effective recharge characteristic of the battery will support CO2 reduction, as the battery can save and re-use energy that was simply wasted before.
1. It only identified one website that supposedly was shut down.
2. I'm pretty sure they got the name of that website WRONG (www.mojihedun.com isn't registered...but the Google-suggested alternative www.mojahedun.com is, and a quick whois suggests that it is the site they really meant to name).
3. DNS requests to the authoritative DNS servers for www.mojahedun.com show they are having problems, which may have convinced the writer of the article that the website has been shut down.
4. The article has no byline, so nobody gets the blame for any mistakes or inaccuracies.
I saw this article earlier today and immediately noted the lack of hard facts and named sources. It's hardly worth the space it occupies. I'll pay more attention when it names names and isn't just fluff and regurgitated B.S.
> It's not Cisco's prerogative to try and tell ANY government how to draw up policy... all they need to do is keep selling hardware... at a profit.
You mean Cisco doesn't have lobbyists that try to tell OUR government how to draw up policy? Really?
> If a couple shareholders don't like it, buy them out and tell them to move on. Seriously.
Look, the shareholders own the company and they have the right AND responsibility to tell them how they want it run. If you don't like it, tough. If they don't want to support totalitarian regimes don't blame them for having a conscience.
Nikita Khrushchev famously claimed that the Americans would one day sell them the rope by which they would hang us. But they didn't embrace Capitalism as has China, so perhaps it will be China that fulfills his prophesy.
> It's not about the turntable. It's about MAKING the turntable
Baloney...it's about both. The guy's business is all about fixing and improving high-end turntables--heck, he has an entire page devoted to tone arm rewires with stuff like Clear Teflon coated SOLID SILVER wire) and gold plating parts. The motor isn't a singularly important part of the turntable...the engineering of the base, platter, tonearm, cartridge, stylus, and other parts all contribute enormously to the final unit. And I wasn't whining, I was pointing out that the exercise had performance issues, so don't lump me in with the whiners.
> Doing something productive with something that really isn't useful anymore, that is the theme here.
It's cute as a proof of concept, but as a person who has a long history of working with turntables I would simply state that if you actually want to LISTEN TO RECORDS with good fidelity you can get better results by buying a used turntable that has been engineered from the start for optimal performance. Heck, their turntable has a resonant wood base. That means loud music will cause mechanical feedback and distortion. So why not choose a cheap, less resonant material for the base?
Correct. My bad, should have said "drive motor". They didn't use the floppy's stepper motor, the one that drives the read/write head. Reminder to self: don't use technical terms at 3 a.m.
Actually, he never says that a customer paid for the work. The way I read it he is doing it as a proof-of-concept and potential "do it yourself" (DIY) project. Specifically, the following text on the third page seems to indicate that the maker made the choice to create the turntable:
Now I have a working floppy motor I decided to make a unit that can have a removable pulley and magnet with 33rpm and 45rpm pulleys...I wanted to make a new turntable to house it in.
Yeah, I read the article, so no need to be condescending. You should NEVER be able to hear ANY turntable motor, ever, so that statement is irrelevant. Rumble on a really good turntable is down around -84 dB unweighted or -99 dB weighted. No turntable motor could produce any audible noise and come anywhere close to that level of performance.
What's more, a good turntable will go to great lengths to isolate motor vibrations from the platter. The prototype in the article could do a *much* better job. It's clever, but I see little reason to make the effort given the number of high quality turntables available used at low cost.
The rumble from that stepper motor would be awful. Good turntables go to great lengths to isolate the platter, needle, and arm from extraneous vibration and to smooth out any slight variations in rotational velocity.
Why not simply buy a decent used turntable from eBay? It isn't as if they are all that expensive.
> Unfortunately for any idiot trying to do so, ChoicePoint now requires a minimum of 2 years for any business that is trying to get in with them. I've tried, because I too am interested in selling these records and they turned me down for being 'too new', or in other words 'somebody wanting to steal data'.
It doesn't take too much effort to find a way around that limitation. I'm not going to say how to do it as I don't want to lower the barrier to entry and make it any easier for those less creative minds among use. I'll just say it doesn't take a criminal mastermind.:)
It happened with the Great Library of Alexandria, with pagan libraries throughout the Christian era, and more recently has happened with antiquities in Afghanistan and Iraq. The only thing that can reliably preserve data is large scale, geographically widespread distribution of copies.
> Given that tapes are cheaper and more reliable then hard drives what are you looking for?
Like many other IT Directors I'm looking and waiting for something that isn't yet available. Tape units are lacking...their capacity/price ratio hasn't kept up with the storage systems and their write speeds are a hinderance when backing up large quantities of data. In addition tapes aren't as reliable as I'd like. What I want doesn't yet exist...otherwise I'd be using it. But once it is practical you can bet I'll get my hands on one as quickly as possible.
> Electric cars may be more efficient and cheaper to build, but you have to plug them in and wait.
Only if the electric cars have batteries. Electric cars with fuel cells would have no such limitation. I'm waiting to see if they can replace the batteries with fuel cells and a suitable fuel.
> I honestly don't get the opposition to nuclear power. Is it Chernobyl? A maldesigned reactor with a significant operational gaffe that occurred over a matter of hours.
The opposition to nuclear power is concerned with much more than Chernobyl. Certainly, early reactor design had serious flaws. But many of those flaws have been resolved with newer designs. Currently the major issues are 1) what to do with the hazardous radioactive waste with extremely long half-lifes, 2) how to protect the radioactive material (active and waste) from terrorists, 3) ensuring reactors are built in secure, isolated areas that are not subject to disasters such as earthquakes and aircraft infiltration, and 4) training, personnel, maintenance and equipment issues that result in the occasional disaster (such as the September 30, 1999 accident at Tokai-mura, Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, Japan).
Just get him a 50 foot long patch cable he can use to connect his computer to an RJ45 jack on his wireless router. Voila--no interference *plus* a faster connection. Most dorm rooms are tiny; a cable 25 feet long would probably work fine in most.
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From the Department of Homeland Security Website:
In the event of a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other large-scale emergency, the Department of Homeland Security will assume primary responsibility on March 1st for ensuring that emergency response professionals are prepared for any situation. This will entail providing a coordinated, comprehensive federal response to any large-scale crisis and mounting a swift and effective recovery effort. The new Department will also prioritize the important issue of citizen preparedness. Educating America's families on how best to prepare their homes for a disaster and tips for citizens on how to respond in a crisis will be given special attention at DHS.
In other words this is a matter of national security. New Orleans is the largest port in the United States. Without it oil doesn't flow to much of the country and international trade is disrupted. Avoidance of chaos in the face of disaster requires coordinated planning and resources, one of those important reasons governments exist.
> Tell me why the idiotic democrat mayor of NOAL did not use the city's buses to evacuate his people?
Do you know if they had fuel to put in those buses? Electricity to power the fuel pumps? People to drive the buses? Perhaps the answer is a bit more involved.
Just read this Toshiba press release entitled "Toshiba's New Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery Recharges in Only One Minute"
Take special note of item #3 .
Highlights:
1) Excellent Recharge Performance
The thin battery recharges to 80% of full capacity in only a minute. Total recharge takes only a few more minutes.
2) High Energy Density
Small and light, the new battery offers a high level of storage efficiency. The prototype battery is only 3.8mm thick, 62mm high and 35mm deep and has a capacity of 600mAh.
3) Long Life Cycle
A prototype of new battery (a laminated lithium ion battery with 600mAh capacity) was discharged and fully recharged 1,000 times at a temperature of 25 degrees centigrade and lost only 1% of capacity during the test.
4) Temperature
The new battery operates well in extremes of temperature. It discharges 80% of its capacity at minus 40 degrees centigrade, against 100% at an ambient temperature of 25 degrees centigrade, and loses only 5% of capacity at temperatures as high as 45 degrees centigrade after 1,000 cycles. These characteristics assure the wide applicability of the battery as a power source for products as diverse as hybrid vehicles and mobile phones.
5) Eco-friendly Battery
The new battery can quickly store energy produced by locomotives and automobiles. This speedy and highly effective recharge characteristic of the battery will support CO2 reduction, as the battery can save and re-use energy that was simply wasted before.
1. It only identified one website that supposedly was shut down.
2. I'm pretty sure they got the name of that website WRONG (www.mojihedun.com isn't registered...but the Google-suggested alternative www.mojahedun.com is, and a quick whois suggests that it is the site they really meant to name).
3. DNS requests to the authoritative DNS servers for www.mojahedun.com show they are having problems, which may have convinced the writer of the article that the website has been shut down.
4. The article has no byline, so nobody gets the blame for any mistakes or inaccuracies.
I saw this article earlier today and immediately noted the lack of hard facts and named sources. It's hardly worth the space it occupies. I'll pay more attention when it names names and isn't just fluff and regurgitated B.S.
> Can you prove to me that their censorship violates human rights?
:)
Damn, if I hadn't posted this reply I could have modded you into oblivion!
> It's not Cisco's prerogative to try and tell ANY government how to draw up policy... all they need to do is keep selling hardware... at a profit.
You mean Cisco doesn't have lobbyists that try to tell OUR government how to draw up policy? Really?
> If a couple shareholders don't like it, buy them out and tell them to move on. Seriously.
Look, the shareholders own the company and they have the right AND responsibility to tell them how they want it run. If you don't like it, tough. If they don't want to support totalitarian regimes don't blame them for having a conscience.
Nikita Khrushchev famously claimed that the Americans would one day sell them the rope by which they would hang us. But they didn't embrace Capitalism as has China, so perhaps it will be China that fulfills his prophesy.
> If China comes to Cisco and says, we'll trade you these millions of dollars for your routers, they have an obligation to the shareholders to say OK.
Unless, of course, the shareholders tell Cisco it ISN'T ok, which is EXACTLY what is happening. They are saying "Don't support censorship."
So what is wrong about that?
> It's not about the turntable. It's about MAKING the turntable
Baloney...it's about both. The guy's business is all about fixing and improving high-end turntables--heck, he has an entire page devoted to tone arm rewires with stuff like Clear Teflon coated SOLID SILVER wire) and gold plating parts. The motor isn't a singularly important part of the turntable...the engineering of the base, platter, tonearm, cartridge, stylus, and other parts all contribute enormously to the final unit. And I wasn't whining, I was pointing out that the exercise had performance issues, so don't lump me in with the whiners.
> Doing something productive with something that really isn't useful anymore, that is the theme here.
It's cute as a proof of concept, but as a person who has a long history of working with turntables I would simply state that if you actually want to LISTEN TO RECORDS with good fidelity you can get better results by buying a used turntable that has been engineered from the start for optimal performance. Heck, their turntable has a resonant wood base. That means loud music will cause mechanical feedback and distortion. So why not choose a cheap, less resonant material for the base?
Correct. My bad, should have said "drive motor". They didn't use the floppy's stepper motor, the one that drives the read/write head. Reminder to self: don't use technical terms at 3 a.m.
Actually, he never says that a customer paid for the work. The way I read it he is doing it as a proof-of-concept and potential "do it yourself" (DIY) project. Specifically, the following text on the third page seems to indicate that the maker made the choice to create the turntable:
Now I have a working floppy motor I decided to make a unit that can have a removable pulley and magnet with 33rpm and 45rpm pulleys...I wanted to make a new turntable to house it in.
Yeah, I read the article, so no need to be condescending. You should NEVER be able to hear ANY turntable motor, ever, so that statement is irrelevant. Rumble on a really good turntable is down around -84 dB unweighted or -99 dB weighted. No turntable motor could produce any audible noise and come anywhere close to that level of performance.
What's more, a good turntable will go to great lengths to isolate motor vibrations from the platter. The prototype in the article could do a *much* better job. It's clever, but I see little reason to make the effort given the number of high quality turntables available used at low cost.
The rumble from that stepper motor would be awful. Good turntables go to great lengths to isolate the platter, needle, and arm from extraneous vibration and to smooth out any slight variations in rotational velocity.
Why not simply buy a decent used turntable from eBay? It isn't as if they are all that expensive.
> Unfortunately for any idiot trying to do so, ChoicePoint now requires a minimum of 2 years for any business that is trying to get in with them. I've tried, because I too am interested in selling these records and they turned me down for being 'too new', or in other words 'somebody wanting to steal data'.
:)
It doesn't take too much effort to find a way around that limitation. I'm not going to say how to do it as I don't want to lower the barrier to entry and make it any easier for those less creative minds among use. I'll just say it doesn't take a criminal mastermind.
The easiest way to buy personal information here in the U.S. is to set up a fake company, then request the desired information from one of the major credit bureaus: Experian, Equifax, TransUnion, or ChoicePoint. Back in February ChoicePoint admitted to releasing the information on at least 145,000 consumers to fake companies.
> Note: I spent like 20 minutes transliterating that to Latin just so I could post it on /. because it hated the Greek charset. I have no life.
Thanks for your selflessness. Or perhaps your Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
It happened with the Great Library of Alexandria, with pagan libraries throughout the Christian era, and more recently has happened with antiquities in Afghanistan and Iraq. The only thing that can reliably preserve data is large scale, geographically widespread distribution of copies.
> I'm sure I'll get modded down for this.
Unfortunately, there is no way to mod you with the appropriate "Insightful -1"....
> An anonymous reader noted that COMDEX has been cancelled for the second year in a row.
More to the point, and paraphrasing Chevy Chase's old Saturday Night Live gag about Generalissimo Francisco Franco:
"This breaking news just in...Comdex is still dead!"
Easy...Monterey.
Here's the full chronology:
- September 9, 1849 - October 13, 1849: Monterey (previously the capitol of Alta California under Spain and Mexico)
- December 15, 1849 - May 1, 1851: Pueblo de San Jose
- January 5, 1852 - January 12, 1852: Vallejo
- January 16, 1852 - November 2, 1852: Sacramento
- January 3, 1853 - February 4, 1853: Vallejo
- February 11, 1853 - February 25, 1854: Benicia
- February 28, 1854 - present day: Sacramento
And for extra bonus points: The only pre-Sacramento capitol that survives is Benicia.> Given that tapes are cheaper and more reliable then hard drives what are you looking for?
Like many other IT Directors I'm looking and waiting for something that isn't yet available. Tape units are lacking...their capacity/price ratio hasn't kept up with the storage systems and their write speeds are a hinderance when backing up large quantities of data. In addition tapes aren't as reliable as I'd like. What I want doesn't yet exist...otherwise I'd be using it. But once it is practical you can bet I'll get my hands on one as quickly as possible.
I'm hoping that tape-based backup units will disappear and be replaced with something faster, cheaper, and more reliable.
> Electric cars may be more efficient and cheaper to build, but you have to plug them in and wait.
Only if the electric cars have batteries. Electric cars with fuel cells would have no such limitation. I'm waiting to see if they can replace the batteries with fuel cells and a suitable fuel.
> I honestly don't get the opposition to nuclear power. Is it Chernobyl? A maldesigned reactor with a significant operational gaffe that occurred over a matter of hours.
The opposition to nuclear power is concerned with much more than Chernobyl. Certainly, early reactor design had serious flaws. But many of those flaws have been resolved with newer designs. Currently the major issues are 1) what to do with the hazardous radioactive waste with extremely long half-lifes, 2) how to protect the radioactive material (active and waste) from terrorists, 3) ensuring reactors are built in secure, isolated areas that are not subject to disasters such as earthquakes and aircraft infiltration, and 4) training, personnel, maintenance and equipment issues that result in the occasional disaster (such as the September 30, 1999 accident at Tokai-mura, Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, Japan).
> They should pay Bill Clinton a royalty. His administration made their recent progress possible.
Hardly. Credit or blame goes to 1) Hughes Electronics Corp. and Boeing Satellite Systems for unlawfully transferring rocket and satellite data to China and 2) Richard Nixon for agreeing to expand political and economic ties with China back in 1972.
Just get him a 50 foot long patch cable he can use to connect his computer to an RJ45 jack on his wireless router. Voila--no interference *plus* a faster connection. Most dorm rooms are tiny; a cable 25 feet long would probably work fine in most.