That's because they are making more money on reselling the power they have contracted for than they would make by running the factories and producing their product.
Unfortunately the CA utils continue to sell power when there is a slight surplus, only to repurchase power later in the day at a higher rate.
Well, since you can't generally store power (certainly not in the quantities we're talking about here), the power you sell in the morning is different than the power you purchase in the afternoon. The two aren't really connected.
It's good to hear that the CEA is objecting, at least. That means there's at least one industry organization that's willing to stand up to the MPAA/RIAA/etc.
The permitting process is actually a way to notify the local government that the demonstration is going to take place, so they can arrange for any out-of-the-ordinary requirements of the demonstration (police protection, street closings, etc). It's when the permitting process starts to allow or disallow protests based on the topic that it strays into being anti-constitutional.
Hey, the whole effort is only in prototype stage. They've probably been working on it for a while, and released what they had. You can probably be sure they will integrate their changes into a more current kernel.
Yeah, right. I'll trust a high security version of Linux from the NSA. No fucking way. I wonder how much spyware is in that one, considering the NSA key in Windows story in the past.
Maybe you missed the part of the article where they will be releasing source code?
The only thing I can think of at the moment is how bad this is going to piss off Microsoft. Doesn't Microsoft have a web page someplace dedicated to dissing Linux? Isn't security one of Microsoft's hot buttons?
My real question is what were Senators Steven and Hatch thinking when they did this?
Simple. They get to go back to their voters and say, "See? I voted to enhance your security and put the bad guys away. It's not MY fault it didn't make it into law." Happens all the time.
You need to watch CSPAN more. A "unanimous consent" thing happens all the time. Basically a unanimous consent agreement flies up, and somebody has to object, verbally, within about 5 seconds. If nobody does, it's considered agreed to. Most of the time, it's a harmless little maneuver that allows somebody to 'revise and extend' their remarks for the Congressional Record. Sometimes, it's used in a more nefarious manner.
After all this time you'd think we'd find at least one alien species that is talkative.
Why? There are lots of unknowns, and lots and lots of space to look at, and lots^3 of bandwidth to look in. Seti@home has barely scratched the surface. I think it would be amazing to actually have found something this soon.
The only two email addresses I can find on their site are support@glassbook.com and info@glassbook.com. Their phone number is 781-434-2000. Offended slashdotters might want to ask those addresses what the hell is going on.
Now that IBM seems to be actually doing something...
IBM has been doing something for a long time - you've just not been paying attention. They have one of the premier microelectronics research programs in the world, along with a computer architecture group that is second to none. Example: all IBM mainframe products have been switched over to run on the PowerPC chip, along with the AS/400 and the RS/6000.
It counted towards their ratings. However, the ratings are sorted by location, so the effect was that you influenced the ad rates that your (example) Atlanta station can charge for advertisers in Seattle. In other words, not much impact.
All of those space-based projects require experience that there is only one way to gather - spend a lot of time in space. Right now, that's expensive. MIR helped, this will help more.
No. Smartfilter is priced in the thousands per year range. It gets installed by institutions and corporations in a proxy, then the entire company is forced through the proxy. I know -- I installed it in a previous job. Of course, if I knew what was in this report, I'd have been more hesitant.
The phone companies had a 1Mhz twisted pair of copper strands that they swore up and down couldn't be shared. They were ordered to share it, and now are doing so: local and long-distance competition, shared data/voice over that tiny line, co-location at central offices, etc. Now the cable companies have a 750mhz copper wire that they claim is "impossible" to share.
I do hope the folks from the FCC who were in attendance make special note of this.
Opera is $50 because it doesn't have a big company dumping money into development so that the big company can give it away.
Opera's move is equivalent to treason in the browser world.
Perhaps. That's what killed Netscape originally. But OperaSoftware seems to be getting along, so maybe being lower profile is helping out. That plus being higher quality code.
(This posting was written using Opera 4.02, registered version.)
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How do we get this into the wider public spaces, where it can draw more attention?
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That's because they are making more money on reselling the power they have contracted for than they would make by running the factories and producing their product.
That's a sure sign of a system out of whack.
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Yeah. Here's a link to a press release. Note that this is a PDF file.
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Well, since you can't generally store power (certainly not in the quantities we're talking about here), the power you sell in the morning is different than the power you purchase in the afternoon. The two aren't really connected.
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Apparently, it's "zimm-eee-ann". Accent on the ZIM.
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Small company in Ann Arbor, amazingly good sound at the price.
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It's good to hear that the CEA is objecting, at least. That means there's at least one industry organization that's willing to stand up to the MPAA/RIAA/etc.
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..and miss Iron Chef? Never!
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The permitting process is actually a way to notify the local government that the demonstration is going to take place, so they can arrange for any out-of-the-ordinary requirements of the demonstration (police protection, street closings, etc). It's when the permitting process starts to allow or disallow protests based on the topic that it strays into being anti-constitutional.
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Hey, the whole effort is only in prototype stage. They've probably been working on it for a while, and released what they had. You can probably be sure they will integrate their changes into a more current kernel.
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Maybe you missed the part of the article where they will be releasing source code?
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The only thing I can think of at the moment is how bad this is going to piss off Microsoft. Doesn't Microsoft have a web page someplace dedicated to dissing Linux? Isn't security one of Microsoft's hot buttons?
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Simple. They get to go back to their voters and say, "See? I voted to enhance your security and put the bad guys away. It's not MY fault it didn't make it into law." Happens all the time.
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You need to watch CSPAN more. A "unanimous consent" thing happens all the time. Basically a unanimous consent agreement flies up, and somebody has to object, verbally, within about 5 seconds. If nobody does, it's considered agreed to. Most of the time, it's a harmless little maneuver that allows somebody to 'revise and extend' their remarks for the Congressional Record. Sometimes, it's used in a more nefarious manner.
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Why? There are lots of unknowns, and lots and lots of space to look at, and lots^3 of bandwidth to look in. Seti@home has barely scratched the surface. I think it would be amazing to actually have found something this soon.
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Oh, pretty much just let it sit there. They tried covering it up, but the cover is cracking.
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Because the country needed the power from the other reactors, which were still running correctly.
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The only two email addresses I can find on their site are support@glassbook.com and info@glassbook.com. Their phone number is 781-434-2000. Offended slashdotters might want to ask those addresses what the hell is going on.
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IBM has been doing something for a long time - you've just not been paying attention. They have one of the premier microelectronics research programs in the world, along with a computer architecture group that is second to none. Example: all IBM mainframe products have been switched over to run on the PowerPC chip, along with the AS/400 and the RS/6000.
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It counted towards their ratings. However, the ratings are sorted by location, so the effect was that you influenced the ad rates that your (example) Atlanta station can charge for advertisers in Seattle. In other words, not much impact.
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All of those space-based projects require experience that there is only one way to gather - spend a lot of time in space. Right now, that's expensive. MIR helped, this will help more.
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No. Smartfilter is priced in the thousands per year range. It gets installed by institutions and corporations in a proxy, then the entire company is forced through the proxy. I know -- I installed it in a previous job. Of course, if I knew what was in this report, I'd have been more hesitant.
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The phone companies had a 1Mhz twisted pair of copper strands that they swore up and down couldn't be shared. They were ordered to share it, and now are doing so: local and long-distance competition, shared data/voice over that tiny line, co-location at central offices, etc. Now the cable companies have a 750mhz copper wire that they claim is "impossible" to share.
I do hope the folks from the FCC who were in attendance make special note of this.
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Opera's move is equivalent to treason in the browser world.
Perhaps. That's what killed Netscape originally. But OperaSoftware seems to be getting along, so maybe being lower profile is helping out. That plus being higher quality code.
(This posting was written using Opera 4.02, registered version.)
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