You didn't get it because you didn't read the secondary article.
You don't sell the electricity ALL the time.
Only in extreme peak demand conditions.
Like when a blackout is about to occure. So instead of turning on the old, horrible polluting but instant-on generator for 10 minutes, they drain a couple million car batteries for those ten minutes, while a slightly better generator is brought online.
Another person that comments without reading the article or understanding anything about it.
The idea actually expressed in the article is to use the power in the battery (without activating the vehicle), making sure to not drop it below a charge sufficient for 50 miles.
As the generator would not be in use while the car was not in motion, no EPA permit would be neccesary. The EPA has already issued regulations allowing the vehicle to generate power from the gasoline/etc. while in use.
You totally misunderstood the entire purpose of that idea. It is not a standard generator, but a peak emergency generator. Go and read the article, not just the summary.
Basically, you plug your car into the grid and they ONLY use your car's battery power (not actually turning on the engine) and then they ONLY use it when the peak demand is so high that they have to use the WORST possible generators. I.E. when the gasoline ->electricity is a BETTER deal than the alternative.
It's main purpose would be to stop Blackouts from happening, not to be a real source of power.
I was more interested in the second article, which theorized using electric cars's batteries as emergency "Peek hour" generators, which would help the grid prevent Blackouts.
This would require a redesign of the vehicles as they are not capable of acting as such now, but it seemed very logical to me, and worth the relatively minimal additional cost of a better out-plug and some software to charge the utility money for using your electiricity and to prevent them from draining your battery do nothing.
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Find out what he likes on line.
Pay for him to take classes in a related field.
Best possible things he could try is some kind of Dance (NOT Ballet, but partner dance).
Tell him you'll pay for any of the following:
Salsa/Mambo Class, Swing Class
, Tango Class
Lots of people get hooked on these dances, and they go from total geeks -> social people in less than two months.
My personal view is Salsa/Mambo = "look at me", Swing = "look at us", Tango = "Stop looking at us so we can have sex."
He's figuring out some interesting new networking ides that will allow the cluster to become a Top 1 computer instead of a top 5.
Your arguement fails hideously.
Basically you are stating something along the line of:
"No one is researching nuclear powered subway systems because so many people are using those cheap Automobiles."
And denigrating the "Automobile" research as "lesser advancements".
We have proven that the large scale stuff is NOT a good idea for most things. Yes we should do a little more research in them, but it is not a high priority, it will NEVER help us as much as the quick gains we can make by furthering the lesser advancements that you so dislike.
Eventaully we will make all the "easy" discoveries, and be forced to do a huge Paradigm shift. But I will bet you one thing. The new Paradigm will be a NEWParadigm, and therefore will NOT involve classic supercomputers.
Let me get this straight, you tell google to ONLY search slashdot and claim it is "One awesome search that returns nothing but wisomd"???
At the very least you should tell people that to get this search result you restricted it to ONLY Slashdot.com
I think you misunderstood my argument. I am agreeing with you that security through obscurity is NOT good.
I am saying that obscurity does however have two advantages: 1) They can't use our own stuff and 2) They don't know if our stuff is 95% accurate or 99% accurate.
1) Adventure is itself worth the cost. He belittles it without even attempting to explain why. Anyone that is NOT a History Teacher/Student now ANYTHING about Queen Isabella of Spain besides the fact that she funded Columbus? No. Adventure is a worthwhile human endeavor, even at the expense.
2) He also totally ignores the long term gains. He seems to think that short term gains are more important. There are many jobs that we can not have machines do. That is why we keep losing machines (50% of mars bound machines are destroyed, usually by simple mistakes that a human on board could have solved). Yes, right now we don't have huge advantages for putting men into space, but only by repeatedly trying and figuring out how to do a BETTER job of getting men into space will we eventually conquer the high obstacles that make it not cost effecient to do it.
A lot of people are trying to defend him saying "The code could be modified by evil people who put an Evil Easter Egg in it."
STUPID ARGUEMENT
The code does not have to be modified by evil people. ALL CODE HAS BUGS So all code should be checked, and not just by the people that write the code. The entire point of Open Source is that LOTS of people check the code for bugs. The difference between an "Evil Easter Egg" and a "bug" is just the intent of the programmer. Open source is MORE likely to catch an "evil Easter Egg/bug" than a closed source technique. Having a Spy try to sneak one is ridiculous because the the same bug detection routine will also detect the evil easter eggs.
But closed source DOES have one advantage over Open Source: secrecy.The problems with Open Source Defense programs are 1) "They" know exactly how good our programs are and 2) "They" can use them themselves.
Because of these two things it is not a good idea for most Defense purposes. We want the bad guy to NOT know how good our stuff is and we do NOT want them to have the same quality stuff.
The very article itself is a slight example of religious people not respecting games.
But best example of religious people not respecting games is D&D. It started when a detective hired to find a missing person thought his "victim" might have killed himself in a live action D&D game. He started a whole anti-D&D movement, mainly using religious groups. Eventually the public outcry resulted in the missing person annoucing to the worl he was alive and had run away from college because he was depressed about his life in general (nothing to do with the D&D game.)
And then there were the Chick comics that made up really ridiculous christian fears to warn parents about D&D.
Click here to read one of the lying comics. That comic is NOT a "Joe-Job", it was a real comic put out by religious fanatics.
Suppose you are a CPA. Would you not respect artists because they are not mathematical? That is stupid. Variety should exist. The artist should not be judged on the same standard as the CPA, that is WHY they are called an Artist instead of "bad CPA that likes to draw".
Yes, your answer might be accurate, but it is both shamefull and insulting to the religions. It implies that religious people are so closed minded that they can not perceive of any pursuit that is not similar to religion.
Any worthwhile religion should recognize that it is not neccearily a sin to engage in non-religious activities.
The cameras can also track your movement, and provide video of legal activities that the government takes an illegal interest in.
"If you're a law abiding citien what difference should it make"? What planet do you live on? Did you sleep through History Class? Have you ever READ anything about the past?
Here are a list of reasons why I would not want the government to have a constant set of pictures of my travels. All of them presume I have NEVER commited any evil act.
1) I am gay and go to gay clubs.
2) I am straight, but like to go to Transvestite clubs.
3) I am a member of the communist party who detests the all currently existing communist countries as "fake", and am loyal to America.
4) I am a doctor that provides abortions.
5) My name is Bob Woodward and the year is 1973.
6) I am a stripper whose father is a cop.
7) I am a black man by the name of Martin Luther King, who is contacting some other black men in Alabama about a law suit against the local Sherrif.
8) I am a russian programmer that has never set foot in US area before, but while in Russia I wrote programers that were legal in Russia.
9) My name is Alfred Dreyfus , a jewish military man that lives in France.
10) I am a straight man that likes to tie woamn up and spank them, if they enjoy doing that.
11) I am a woman in the middle of a vicous custody suit, whose husband is a cop.
12) I am a man in the middle of a vicous custody suit, whose wife has falsely accused me of molesting my daughter. I miss her teriibly and am concerned my wife is planning on kidnapping her before the trial, so I follow them around.
13) I work for Diebold and am about to reveal the fact that the owner of the company that makes the electronic machines (an acknowledge Bush supporter) has secretly put a bug in the program so that 1/100 Kerry votes will be randomly lost.
14) Last year I testified about how the MOb has bribed certain FBI agents. I am now in the Witness Protection Program.
15) I am a prostitute in Nevada (where it is legal.
...
This ignores the "questionable" crimes such as selling marijuana, providing pornography, prostition outside of Nevada, downloading music whose copyright was scheduled to expire 5 years ago but that got "extended". No need to bring that kind of argument in, but I do acknowledge it exists.
Government often make things illegal not because they are wrong, but because the government wants them to be illegal. See Hitler, Stalin, WWII japanese interment camps in the US, etc. etc. etc.
The question is as follows: Is the good of increased arrests of guilty going to be outweighted by the CLEAR additional invasion of privacy. The answer is up to debate, it is CERTAINLY not only the "guilty" that have anything to be worried about.
First all they DID call him the inventor. Specifically they said "Another tale gives credit to John Shepherd-Barron". The words "gives credit" mean they called him the inventor.
Yes they concentrated on the guy from dallas, but that was reasonable. The last bit of functionality is important. It was only after they made the card instantly returnable that they started to spread and become
That is what Paypal/Credit cards do, it offers a way to get the money back.
I am willing to give someone on the street my credit card number (not the expire date or the confirm code on the back), with the promise to bring me the laptop tomorrow.
So these people are surprised that a form of AMUSEMENT makes fun of something? DUH. The games are attempts to have fun, they should NOT take things seriously. How many jokes "respect" religion?
A far better question is:
Why don't religions respect the games? The religions are supposed to be serious, truthfull and relevant. As such they should be respectfull of something that brings enjoyment to so many people.
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What is relevant, the ONLY thing that is relevant is what the employer wants.
If I want to hire you to do a piece of great art that can turn ugly Aunt Joan with two moles and a hump into a thing of desire, then you should keep the copyrights.
If on the other hand, I just want you to take some photos, that I expect to be of at least good quality, then I should be able to get that done.
Yes, photographs CAN be artisticly meritous. But not everyone wants to get that high end quality stuff. Most people just want a resonable set of photographers and if they had the guts they would demand the copyright. The problem is that most wedding photographers have an inflated sense of there worth.
Lets be honest here. Wedding photographers are NOT the high end photographers. Yes most photographers forced to make there living as a Wedding Photographer likes to believe that they have huge talent,are destined for greatness, and are just biding their time till they are discovered. But most of them will not become the next Ansel Adams. So they get on their high horse, demanging Great Artist rights to copy-rights, when they and there work is merely above average stuff.
We are the clients. We decide what we want. We don't want the next masterpiece. We just want a photograph of Grandma Ida before she dies. We want reasonable quality stuff, and for the Great Artist prices you guys insist on charging, we should get the copy rights.
You think it is ODD that a business treats it's customers with less trust than the general public?
The problem is you are acting as if the students are EMPLOYEES of the universtity. They are rarely if ever employees. They are customers, who often have a vested interested in editing the busineses records - the relationship is most similar to a stock brokerage.
Ask any Brokerage firm if they give their clients the same kinds of accounts they give their stock brokers. The answer is NO.
OF COURSE the university can not trust their students - they are not paying the students.
Students are NOT employees, and should not be treated like they are.
If the network administrator is at ALL competent he will treat the student accounts with extreme suspiciion.
There should be at least two entirely different systems, connected to each other only through the internet. One system for employees, the other for students. Teachers engaged in regular work should work on the students system. Those doing work that requires real security get an employee account, and only trusted students that are being PAID by the university should get any employee account.
What a load of garbage. If you don't actually break in, the university ignores you, thinking, those idiot students don't know what they are talking about.
If you do break in, then and only then will they admit it can be done.
U.S. constantly ranks last.... if you don't examine the numbers closely.
Here is a sample.
The United States has one of the WORST infant mortality rates... if you include infants born to teenage mothers.
Planned Parenthood did two studies. They found out that if you ignored infants born to teenage mothers, for both the US and all other countries, the US ranked as one of the 5 BEST infant mortality rates. But our infant mortality rates for teenage mothers are so bad it drops us down to the bottom of the rankings.
Basically, what happens in the U.S. is we get both the best and the worst. It works out to be average, but ONLY if you include the poorest people in the U.S., some of whom are releatively recent immigrants, others are illegal immigrants.
If you just employ standard statsitical techniques (Just like the olympics, ignore the lowest and the highest scores), then the US is far superior in it's rankings.
I, and most of the people on Slashdot, are not in the bottom 5%.Those statistics are not that helpfull to us, and I would not use them.
But you probably forgot to include transportation costs.
I live in NYC. Costs per month for a 950 sqft apt could be around $1,200 in a nice neighborhood.
But that neighborhood comes with a subway and bus system that is reliable and works 24 hours.
I pay $70 a month for subways+bus, and maybe another $30 for taxis.
Total cost for transportation + apartement = $1,300.
How much do you pay for your car? Include everything - car payments, parking, maintance, gasoline, insurance. I bet your transportation + apartment costs are pretty close to mine.
As I said earlier, others may not want the same things I want. But despite what certain arrogant Canadians think, there ARE certain advantages to living in NYC. If it was hellhole, then the population would be dropping, as people moved to the cheaper Canadian places.
For me, Tango, etc. is important. For others, it could be something else. I listed the few things that I personally use, but NYC is one of the top cities in the world and has lots of things I didn't mention that can not be found in lesser cities like Toronto. Tango for example can only be found in better quantities and qualities in Argentina, a place that has 66% less standard of living, a far better "deal" than canada.
Denigrating the things that I value just shows your stupidity, not your superiority.
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You don't sell the electricity ALL the time.
Only in extreme peak demand conditions.
Like when a blackout is about to occure. So instead of turning on the old, horrible polluting but instant-on generator for 10 minutes, they drain a couple million car batteries for those ten minutes, while a slightly better generator is brought online.
The idea actually expressed in the article is to use the power in the battery (without activating the vehicle), making sure to not drop it below a charge sufficient for 50 miles.
As the generator would not be in use while the car was not in motion, no EPA permit would be neccesary. The EPA has already issued regulations allowing the vehicle to generate power from the gasoline/etc. while in use.
Basically, you plug your car into the grid and they ONLY use your car's battery power (not actually turning on the engine) and then they ONLY use it when the peak demand is so high that they have to use the WORST possible generators. I.E. when the gasoline ->electricity is a BETTER deal than the alternative.
It's main purpose would be to stop Blackouts from happening, not to be a real source of power.
This would require a redesign of the vehicles as they are not capable of acting as such now, but it seemed very logical to me, and worth the relatively minimal additional cost of a better out-plug and some software to charge the utility money for using your electiricity and to prevent them from draining your battery do nothing.
Best possible things he could try is some kind of Dance (NOT Ballet, but partner dance).
Tell him you'll pay for any of the following: Salsa/Mambo Class, Swing Class , Tango Class
Lots of people get hooked on these dances, and they go from total geeks -> social people in less than two months.
My personal view is Salsa/Mambo = "look at me", Swing = "look at us", Tango = "Stop looking at us so we can have sex."
Your arguement fails hideously.
Basically you are stating something along the line of: "No one is researching nuclear powered subway systems because so many people are using those cheap Automobiles."
And denigrating the "Automobile" research as "lesser advancements".
We have proven that the large scale stuff is NOT a good idea for most things. Yes we should do a little more research in them, but it is not a high priority, it will NEVER help us as much as the quick gains we can make by furthering the lesser advancements that you so dislike.
Eventaully we will make all the "easy" discoveries, and be forced to do a huge Paradigm shift. But I will bet you one thing. The new Paradigm will be a NEWParadigm, and therefore will NOT involve classic supercomputers.
Let me get this straight, you tell google to ONLY search slashdot and claim it is "One awesome search that returns nothing but wisomd"??? At the very least you should tell people that to get this search result you restricted it to ONLY Slashdot.com
Buggy code does do SOMETHING. The reason we call it a "Bug" instead of a "Feature" is because it does not do what the client WANTED it to do.
I think you misunderstood my argument. I am agreeing with you that security through obscurity is NOT good. I am saying that obscurity does however have two advantages: 1) They can't use our own stuff and 2) They don't know if our stuff is 95% accurate or 99% accurate.
2) He also totally ignores the long term gains. He seems to think that short term gains are more important. There are many jobs that we can not have machines do. That is why we keep losing machines (50% of mars bound machines are destroyed, usually by simple mistakes that a human on board could have solved). Yes, right now we don't have huge advantages for putting men into space, but only by repeatedly trying and figuring out how to do a BETTER job of getting men into space will we eventually conquer the high obstacles that make it not cost effecient to do it.
STUPID ARGUEMENT
The code does not have to be modified by evil people. ALL CODE HAS BUGS So all code should be checked, and not just by the people that write the code. The entire point of Open Source is that LOTS of people check the code for bugs. The difference between an "Evil Easter Egg" and a "bug" is just the intent of the programmer. Open source is MORE likely to catch an "evil Easter Egg/bug" than a closed source technique. Having a Spy try to sneak one is ridiculous because the the same bug detection routine will also detect the evil easter eggs.
But closed source DOES have one advantage over Open Source: secrecy.The problems with Open Source Defense programs are 1) "They" know exactly how good our programs are and 2) "They" can use them themselves.
Because of these two things it is not a good idea for most Defense purposes. We want the bad guy to NOT know how good our stuff is and we do NOT want them to have the same quality stuff.
But best example of religious people not respecting games is D&D. It started when a detective hired to find a missing person thought his "victim" might have killed himself in a live action D&D game. He started a whole anti-D&D movement, mainly using religious groups. Eventually the public outcry resulted in the missing person annoucing to the worl he was alive and had run away from college because he was depressed about his life in general (nothing to do with the D&D game.)
And then there were the Chick comics that made up really ridiculous christian fears to warn parents about D&D. Click here to read one of the lying comics. That comic is NOT a "Joe-Job", it was a real comic put out by religious fanatics.
Yes, your answer might be accurate, but it is both shamefull and insulting to the religions. It implies that religious people are so closed minded that they can not perceive of any pursuit that is not similar to religion.
Any worthwhile religion should recognize that it is not neccearily a sin to engage in non-religious activities.
"If you're a law abiding citien what difference should it make"? What planet do you live on? Did you sleep through History Class? Have you ever READ anything about the past?
Here are a list of reasons why I would not want the government to have a constant set of pictures of my travels. All of them presume I have NEVER commited any evil act.
1) I am gay and go to gay clubs.
2) I am straight, but like to go to Transvestite clubs.
3) I am a member of the communist party who detests the all currently existing communist countries as "fake", and am loyal to America.
4) I am a doctor that provides abortions.
5) My name is Bob Woodward and the year is 1973.
6) I am a stripper whose father is a cop.
7) I am a black man by the name of Martin Luther King, who is contacting some other black men in Alabama about a law suit against the local Sherrif.
8) I am a russian programmer that has never set foot in US area before, but while in Russia I wrote programers that were legal in Russia.
9) My name is Alfred Dreyfus , a jewish military man that lives in France.
10) I am a straight man that likes to tie woamn up and spank them, if they enjoy doing that.
11) I am a woman in the middle of a vicous custody suit, whose husband is a cop.
12) I am a man in the middle of a vicous custody suit, whose wife has falsely accused me of molesting my daughter. I miss her teriibly and am concerned my wife is planning on kidnapping her before the trial, so I follow them around.
13) I work for Diebold and am about to reveal the fact that the owner of the company that makes the electronic machines (an acknowledge Bush supporter) has secretly put a bug in the program so that 1/100 Kerry votes will be randomly lost.
14) Last year I testified about how the MOb has bribed certain FBI agents. I am now in the Witness Protection Program.
15) I am a prostitute in Nevada (where it is legal.
...
This ignores the "questionable" crimes such as selling marijuana, providing pornography, prostition outside of Nevada, downloading music whose copyright was scheduled to expire 5 years ago but that got "extended". No need to bring that kind of argument in, but I do acknowledge it exists. Government often make things illegal not because they are wrong, but because the government wants them to be illegal. See Hitler, Stalin, WWII japanese interment camps in the US, etc. etc. etc.
The question is as follows: Is the good of increased arrests of guilty going to be outweighted by the CLEAR additional invasion of privacy. The answer is up to debate, it is CERTAINLY not only the "guilty" that have anything to be worried about.
Yes they concentrated on the guy from dallas, but that was reasonable. The last bit of functionality is important. It was only after they made the card instantly returnable that they started to spread and become
: 2004-07-22 16:37:16 Monkey discovers how to walk upright! (Index,It's funny. Laugh.) (rejected)
I Put this thing in at 4:37 Yesterday, 5 hours before the Slow Poke Cowboy Neal saw it and they rejected it.
That is what Paypal/Credit cards do, it offers a way to get the money back. I am willing to give someone on the street my credit card number (not the expire date or the confirm code on the back), with the promise to bring me the laptop tomorrow.
A far better question is: Why don't religions respect the games? The religions are supposed to be serious, truthfull and relevant. As such they should be respectfull of something that brings enjoyment to so many people.
I am an experienced 419 scammer, having worked for one of the most famous 419 scammers around, Narob Kulad. I have decided to set up shop on my own and am gathering investors for such a project. Once we have 10 million US dollars, we will begin to send out emails to gullible investors. We only need $34,000 to hit our target of 10 million, and I am selling shares at $1,000 per share to achieve that goal. Our expected return is 400% within one month. We plan on paying back 50% of the profit to our investors at the end of the month and reinvesting the rest for future gains.
If you are interested in purchasing shares, please write to me at....
Who provides the equiptment etc. is irrelevant.
What is relevant, the ONLY thing that is relevant is what the employer wants.
If I want to hire you to do a piece of great art that can turn ugly Aunt Joan with two moles and a hump into a thing of desire, then you should keep the copyrights.
If on the other hand, I just want you to take some photos, that I expect to be of at least good quality, then I should be able to get that done.
Yes, photographs CAN be artisticly meritous. But not everyone wants to get that high end quality stuff. Most people just want a resonable set of photographers and if they had the guts they would demand the copyright. The problem is that most wedding photographers have an inflated sense of there worth.
Lets be honest here. Wedding photographers are NOT the high end photographers. Yes most photographers forced to make there living as a Wedding Photographer likes to believe that they have huge talent,are destined for greatness, and are just biding their time till they are discovered. But most of them will not become the next Ansel Adams. So they get on their high horse, demanging Great Artist rights to copy-rights, when they and there work is merely above average stuff.
We are the clients. We decide what we want. We don't want the next masterpiece. We just want a photograph of Grandma Ida before she dies. We want reasonable quality stuff, and for the Great Artist prices you guys insist on charging, we should get the copy rights.
You think it is ODD that a business treats it's customers with less trust than the general public?
The problem is you are acting as if the students are EMPLOYEES of the universtity. They are rarely if ever employees. They are customers, who often have a vested interested in editing the busineses records - the relationship is most similar to a stock brokerage.
Ask any Brokerage firm if they give their clients the same kinds of accounts they give their stock brokers. The answer is NO.
OF COURSE the university can not trust their students - they are not paying the students.
Students are NOT employees, and should not be treated like they are.
If the network administrator is at ALL competent he will treat the student accounts with extreme suspiciion. There should be at least two entirely different systems, connected to each other only through the internet. One system for employees, the other for students. Teachers engaged in regular work should work on the students system. Those doing work that requires real security get an employee account, and only trusted students that are being PAID by the university should get any employee account.
If you do break in, then and only then will they admit it can be done.
U.S. constantly ranks last.... if you don't examine the numbers closely.
Here is a sample.
The United States has one of the WORST infant mortality rates... if you include infants born to teenage mothers.
Planned Parenthood did two studies. They found out that if you ignored infants born to teenage mothers, for both the US and all other countries, the US ranked as one of the 5 BEST infant mortality rates. But our infant mortality rates for teenage mothers are so bad it drops us down to the bottom of the rankings.
Basically, what happens in the U.S. is we get both the best and the worst. It works out to be average, but ONLY if you include the poorest people in the U.S., some of whom are releatively recent immigrants, others are illegal immigrants.
If you just employ standard statsitical techniques (Just like the olympics, ignore the lowest and the highest scores), then the US is far superior in it's rankings.
I, and most of the people on Slashdot, are not in the bottom 5%.Those statistics are not that helpfull to us, and I would not use them.
The US is a land of extremes.
I live in NYC. Costs per month for a 950 sqft apt could be around $1,200 in a nice neighborhood. But that neighborhood comes with a subway and bus system that is reliable and works 24 hours.
I pay $70 a month for subways+bus, and maybe another $30 for taxis.
Total cost for transportation + apartement = $1,300.
How much do you pay for your car? Include everything - car payments, parking, maintance, gasoline, insurance. I bet your transportation + apartment costs are pretty close to mine.
As I said earlier, others may not want the same things I want. But despite what certain arrogant Canadians think, there ARE certain advantages to living in NYC. If it was hellhole, then the population would be dropping, as people moved to the cheaper Canadian places.
For me, Tango, etc. is important. For others, it could be something else. I listed the few things that I personally use, but NYC is one of the top cities in the world and has lots of things I didn't mention that can not be found in lesser cities like Toronto. Tango for example can only be found in better quantities and qualities in Argentina, a place that has 66% less standard of living, a far better "deal" than canada.
Denigrating the things that I value just shows your stupidity, not your superiority.