Panasonic and SunPower are at 22.x% efficiency and shipping. SolarCity / Silevo have manufactured at small scale a 22% panel, and are building a HUGE factory in New York to mass produce.
You do know that you actually can make laws, right? It's a citizen government, where you can run for office, or even go through the process of getting a ballot measure passed.
Well, the trick (as I understand it) is that the phone uses the CPU's internal UID as part of the AES-256 key, ensuring that all cracking attempts must be done on that phone. There's no way to read the UID out of the CPU without extreme measures.
Fantastic! Yet another high-speed standard that will be completely ignored by the telco oligopoly here in the US. At least Europe and Asia will benefit.
Sometimes weight is more important, especially when you can make big sheets of this that can be unrolled by some mechanical means. For example, when you need to use solar power as part of a package going on the pointy end of a rocket meant to exit the atmosphere.
If encryption is 'designed to oppose law enforcement and help criminals' then stop using HTTPS right now. Go ahead and do your online banking and e-commerce in good ol' HTTP. After all, TLS can be used by terrorists, so therefore using TLS makes you a terrorist, right?
Can't imagine why you posted that nonsense as anonymous...
Lets make your metaphor a little closer to what's going on here:
"It's weird to me that they could compel someone who designed a safety deposit box that has absolutely no other way to open it without destroying the contents inside to open it, against their own business wishes and policies, where they would have to manufacture a tool to do so at their own expense because it doesn't currently exist."
My point is that the money is there already, it's just not being used very wisely. I've got no problems with funding education - education is the silver bullet that makes a whole lot of problems go away - but I do have a problem throwing good money after bad. And without major reform to education that isn't partisan hackery or terrible legislation that causes schools to teach test memorization rather than teach fundamental knowledge and critical thinking skills (No Child Left Behind), I don't think increasing funding will have the effects we're both looking for.
Law enforcement gets court orders for investigatory probes all the time: subpoenas for records, court orders for telephonic surveillance, etc. Those aren't warrants either, and nobody has been indicted, charged, or much else for those. This is how the system works - law enforcement proves to a judge that standard methods of surveillance and information gathering don't work (exhaustion) and that judge then allows law enforcement to commence with further investigatory means that require a legal order.
Right? I'd be pissed if I lived in Florida or Texas. I don't get to run around interviewing for a new job on the clock with my current employer for months on end...
Yeah, because it's absolutely impossible for us to not like her as a candidate based on her past behavior and current positions on issues. It's absolutely because she's a woman, because absolutely no woman could ever be a successful head of state. Except for all the ones that have.
Don't call me a bigot when you don't know a fucking thing about me, because it makes you an idiot.
Misrepresenting people's stances doesn't do anyone any service. Yes, there are some conservative talk radio honks that love to bloviate about Hillary and whatever, but nobody with a working brain actually believes that shit.
What I do believe though, is that Hillary will change her policies and beliefs to match the highest bidder, which is usually behavior reserved for the Republicans that Hillary supporters despise for "being in the pockets of the corporate oligarchy" blah blah blah.
People keep saying that experience will beat Trump, yet he's running a mile ahead of two members of the United States Senate, a sitting Governor who was elected to Congress 9 times, and several other Governors and Senators that have already fallen by the wayside.
Why do you think that Hillary's experience will all of a sudden matter, where none of these other career politicians' experience did? I'm absolutely not a Trump supporter - I'd really like to see him crash and burn *right now* in order to salvage one of the other candidates and have a real election this fall, but the argument just doesn't hold water.
Education is one of those problems that simply throwing money at it, doesn't fix it. The US spends more per student than practically any European nation, and we have less to show for it. Source: http://www.oecd.org/education/... (page 206 for a nice chart). Are you really saying that the 40% more we spend than Germany is working, when I'm pretty sure just about everyone would argue that German primary education is superior?
I don't spend anywhere close to 15-20% of my income on insurance premiums. Even if you add in my pre-tax contribution to my HSA and my employer-paid health benefits, I'm just over 5% of the gross pay on the same payslip. Granted, I don't have dependents, so I'm only covering myself.
Where in the hell did you come up with that number, though? It seems like either you made it up, or you have some combination of low pay and high premiums.
It depends. Right now, as private purchasers of health insurance and prescription drugs, we spend more money per capita than any nation with socialized health care. That tells me that the rest of the world may have stumbled onto something that works better than what we're doing - the aggregate negotiating power of an entire nation is going to be far better than each individual insurance pool, being either a single company, or a pool of small companies.
So perhaps adopting a single-payer system would, in fact, be far more efficient on a cost perspective, allowing for "cutting waste" and "cutting fraud" to deliver savings. Yes, taxes would go up - but if the tax hike is equal or less than my monthly insurance premium that is deducted from my paycheck anyway... in the end do I care?
I don't think it's that they can't do math - they just don't see the value. Why spend $60 on a smartphone monthly plan if you're never going to use the smartphone for the "smart" bit and just want to make phone calls?
Why pay for more than you're likely to use? If all you do is the occasional Facebook whatever, some email, and some web searching, why would you give a shit about if Netflix gets a better deal to your neighbor?
That's the problem with issues like this - some people (the Slashdot crowd) are affected disproportionately to other people. So we care a great deal, where others couldn't give a rats ass.
More like the donors make the choices - the reason candidates drop is because the funding dries up after the donor class sees which way the wind is blowing in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
It's very interesting that Bernie is continuing on, as he's not dependent on the donor class.
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Update your figures. There are no less than 3 companies manufacturing panels above 20% efficiency, two of which are shipping in volume:
http://www.greentechmedia.com/...
Panasonic and SunPower are at 22.x% efficiency and shipping. SolarCity / Silevo have manufactured at small scale a 22% panel, and are building a HUGE factory in New York to mass produce.
You do know that you actually can make laws, right? It's a citizen government, where you can run for office, or even go through the process of getting a ballot measure passed.
Well, the trick (as I understand it) is that the phone uses the CPU's internal UID as part of the AES-256 key, ensuring that all cracking attempts must be done on that phone. There's no way to read the UID out of the CPU without extreme measures.
7-digit ID talking shit about 6-digit IDs. Now I've seen it all.
No, not on the iPhone 5C it isn't.
The 'Secure Enclave' is 5S, 6, 6+, 6S, and 6S+.
Fantastic! Yet another high-speed standard that will be completely ignored by the telco oligopoly here in the US. At least Europe and Asia will benefit.
Sometimes weight is more important, especially when you can make big sheets of this that can be unrolled by some mechanical means. For example, when you need to use solar power as part of a package going on the pointy end of a rocket meant to exit the atmosphere.
For that kind of thing, weight is everything.
Cloth is pretty flexible, but it still rips when hard things hit it really fast.
Costing the Koch Brothers money should lead to unbelievably harsh sentences.
Does that mean we get to banish (or at least maim) the vast wasteland that is fallen Republican Presidential Candidates?
If encryption is 'designed to oppose law enforcement and help criminals' then stop using HTTPS right now. Go ahead and do your online banking and e-commerce in good ol' HTTP. After all, TLS can be used by terrorists, so therefore using TLS makes you a terrorist, right?
Can't imagine why you posted that nonsense as anonymous...
Lets make your metaphor a little closer to what's going on here:
"It's weird to me that they could compel someone who designed a safety deposit box that has absolutely no other way to open it without destroying the contents inside to open it, against their own business wishes and policies, where they would have to manufacture a tool to do so at their own expense because it doesn't currently exist."
It's a little different than you are portraying.
My point is that the money is there already, it's just not being used very wisely. I've got no problems with funding education - education is the silver bullet that makes a whole lot of problems go away - but I do have a problem throwing good money after bad. And without major reform to education that isn't partisan hackery or terrible legislation that causes schools to teach test memorization rather than teach fundamental knowledge and critical thinking skills (No Child Left Behind), I don't think increasing funding will have the effects we're both looking for.
Fair enough.
I'm absolutely shocked that someone running for a political office would lie in their own favor.
FBI's boss supports FBI is not a story.
Law enforcement gets court orders for investigatory probes all the time: subpoenas for records, court orders for telephonic surveillance, etc. Those aren't warrants either, and nobody has been indicted, charged, or much else for those. This is how the system works - law enforcement proves to a judge that standard methods of surveillance and information gathering don't work (exhaustion) and that judge then allows law enforcement to commence with further investigatory means that require a legal order.
Right? I'd be pissed if I lived in Florida or Texas. I don't get to run around interviewing for a new job on the clock with my current employer for months on end...
Yeah, because it's absolutely impossible for us to not like her as a candidate based on her past behavior and current positions on issues. It's absolutely because she's a woman, because absolutely no woman could ever be a successful head of state. Except for all the ones that have.
Don't call me a bigot when you don't know a fucking thing about me, because it makes you an idiot.
Misrepresenting people's stances doesn't do anyone any service. Yes, there are some conservative talk radio honks that love to bloviate about Hillary and whatever, but nobody with a working brain actually believes that shit.
What I do believe though, is that Hillary will change her policies and beliefs to match the highest bidder, which is usually behavior reserved for the Republicans that Hillary supporters despise for "being in the pockets of the corporate oligarchy" blah blah blah.
People keep saying that experience will beat Trump, yet he's running a mile ahead of two members of the United States Senate, a sitting Governor who was elected to Congress 9 times, and several other Governors and Senators that have already fallen by the wayside.
Why do you think that Hillary's experience will all of a sudden matter, where none of these other career politicians' experience did? I'm absolutely not a Trump supporter - I'd really like to see him crash and burn *right now* in order to salvage one of the other candidates and have a real election this fall, but the argument just doesn't hold water.
Education is one of those problems that simply throwing money at it, doesn't fix it. The US spends more per student than practically any European nation, and we have less to show for it. Source: http://www.oecd.org/education/... (page 206 for a nice chart). Are you really saying that the 40% more we spend than Germany is working, when I'm pretty sure just about everyone would argue that German primary education is superior?
If you're voting twice on Tuesday, then it sounds like Ted "Voter Violation" Cruz might be the candidate for you! /rimshot
I don't spend anywhere close to 15-20% of my income on insurance premiums. Even if you add in my pre-tax contribution to my HSA and my employer-paid health benefits, I'm just over 5% of the gross pay on the same payslip. Granted, I don't have dependents, so I'm only covering myself.
Where in the hell did you come up with that number, though? It seems like either you made it up, or you have some combination of low pay and high premiums.
It depends. Right now, as private purchasers of health insurance and prescription drugs, we spend more money per capita than any nation with socialized health care. That tells me that the rest of the world may have stumbled onto something that works better than what we're doing - the aggregate negotiating power of an entire nation is going to be far better than each individual insurance pool, being either a single company, or a pool of small companies.
So perhaps adopting a single-payer system would, in fact, be far more efficient on a cost perspective, allowing for "cutting waste" and "cutting fraud" to deliver savings. Yes, taxes would go up - but if the tax hike is equal or less than my monthly insurance premium that is deducted from my paycheck anyway... in the end do I care?
I don't think it's that they can't do math - they just don't see the value. Why spend $60 on a smartphone monthly plan if you're never going to use the smartphone for the "smart" bit and just want to make phone calls?
Why pay for more than you're likely to use? If all you do is the occasional Facebook whatever, some email, and some web searching, why would you give a shit about if Netflix gets a better deal to your neighbor?
That's the problem with issues like this - some people (the Slashdot crowd) are affected disproportionately to other people. So we care a great deal, where others couldn't give a rats ass.
More like the donors make the choices - the reason candidates drop is because the funding dries up after the donor class sees which way the wind is blowing in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
It's very interesting that Bernie is continuing on, as he's not dependent on the donor class.