1. The solution isn't more energy usage. The solution is less energy usage, period.
Less energy usage...forget that.
Mass interstellar travel, holodecks and replicators all require large amounts of energy. The rest of you can live like 20th century Hutterites, but I'll take technological advancement any day. We need to continue moving ahead on the Kardashev scale until we have holodeck porn... after that we can stop learning for all I care.
Most of the 'clean' energy projects are not for replacing oil (as a transport fuel) but are for replacing fossil fuels like coal and natural gas in electricity production. Until we get a big breakthrough in battery technology we are not going to be able to run our cars on wind and solar power.
Transportation only accounts for 27% of US energy consumption. You can still make a large impact even if you left cars to run on fossil fuels.
... domestic oil. We have lots of it. It's being produced in North Dakota in increasing quantities. It's available under the Alaskan wasteland... and in Canada, the oil from tar sands will be available to use in mass quantities...
Stand up and start kicking as hard as you can... you might be able to free yourself from your box if you try hard enough.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, of the British Telegraph daily, suggests that "Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium," and could put "an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years."[14]
The Thorium Energy Alliance (TEA), an educational advocacy organization, emphasizes that "there is enough thorium in the United States alone to power the country at its current energy level for over 1,000 years."
Why is the west still concentrating on solar and wind power while the Chinese are already into Thorium reactors?
The US oil companies can stall all they want while they squeeze as much profit as they can out of fossil fuels.. but the Chinese aren't going to wait around.
A) Did these people not scan there computer reasonably enough to detect the malware. B) Did these people run a completely insecure OS allowing them to be infected C) DId these people have enough common sense to run firewall software to prevent the infection D) Did they not notice there modems dial out to a number they didn't authorize
That's why I never leave the house without wearing a bullet-proof vest, a lead helmet and a condom... too many crazies out there.
How do people this stupid have $200,000 to begin with?
I guess you've never been to northern Canada.
Any smart person would refuse to work: outdoors in -30C weather, in the middle of nowhere, where you can lose an arm because someone forgot to properly chain a pipe down, and the only thing to do during your time off is drink and do drugs in an all male labor camp.
If you're willing to endure all that, then you can make $120k+ per year all while still being just smart enough not to wet yourself.
(All the guys dumb enough to wet themselves in -30C weather died of hypothermia)
When I worked about a decade ago at a place where people with dubious intentions could access the work area, I ended up making a switch embedded in a seat cushion that was connected to the serial port of my workstation. When I got up, the program sitting and monitoring that port would automatically xlock the machine.
It was an ugly hack, but I never had unattended terminal issues unlike some cow-orkers.
In 90% of office scenarios the general public doesn't have access to the office computers. I can see guarding against the public in a hospital setting for example, but for most people the office should be secured against outsiders only.
My computer is like the "pocket watch" in "Gangs of New York". I leave it out in the open and invite people to mess with it. Yet they don't... because they know, if they do, there will be repercussions... and they will be horrific.
That's because you're under the illusion that making money in the stock market involves the company you're investing in doing well. It's quite possible to make boatloads of money on stocks for companies with no futures.
Ding Ding Ding... You are absolutely correct.
This is what is wrong with the stock market. It's no longer about investing in ideas and products people want. It's now about gaming people in a large game of casino chicken.
"Ride the housing ponzi scheme until it blows. What's that? You pulled out when the number didn't make sense anymore... too bad... you lost out on more sucker money that your less sensible competitors banked."
I don't know what you people are talking about. There is considerable innovation in America today. The US is the leader in CDOs, derivatives, tax avoidance, and is always coming up with new and innovative schemes to part working people from their money.
No lack of innovation there, it's just misdirected.
The hunger issue has been solved at least 4 times throughout history. In all cases as soon as hunger was no longer a limiting factor the population grew until it was again.
1) There were enough resources in North America to feed all of Europe, until North Americans started populating 2) Agricultural revolution brought about by "chemically synthesized inorganic fertilizers" 3) The ability to increase farming due to "cheap oil", corn is often referred to as edible oil 4) Norman Borlaug pioneered genetically modified crops allowing hardy wheat strains to grow in otherwise unusable land in Mexico, etc.
In all those cases, had the population stabilized, there would have been enough food from those advancements to feed the world. In fact, those advancements are what allowed the populations to grow, proving there will always be hunger issues. It's one of the few limiting factors to our growth.
OEMs who don't ship stock windows media with windows-licenced PCs deserve to burn in hell.
If they shipped actual stock CD's users would still complain. I remember all the problems with Windows XP and SATA controllers. Unless you slip-streamed in the drivers there was no way you were able to install a fresh copy of XP.
Keep in mind XP only allowed loading third party drivers off a floppy and systems weren't shipping with floppy drives anymore.
I salute your effort in supporting the good senator, but it would have been better had you checked on the definition of the word "corporatism" before sending it.
Meh, it's a moot point. He'll skim over or just read the first sentence, much like I did with your post.
My data center is held at constant temperature and humidity for electronics. I DON'T intend to stay in a data center to use a phone. In Alberta, Canada it routinely gets to -30C (as it did this morning in fact) and I expect the phone to work. Did I say, after it thaws out? No I meant in -30C weather.
You know what's BAD for a car engine? -30C You know what's BAD for plastic? -30C You know what's BAD for plants and animals? -30C
I've just had my xbox stolen. Save games gone. You might be someone who likes starting over instead of continueing your progress, that's fine, fortunately most other people can accept that others have different requirements. In short, cloud game backups would be a definite selling point of a console to me.
Think of the valuable lesson you learned... at the mere age of 12 years.
Luckily this is only a game save and not your companies operational data. Who said video games don't teach youngsters anything worthwhile.
Problem with requiring a company controlled portal to run the game is the industry has proven multiple times that they're all too quick to kill off network infrastructure required to play the game.
It also means that you have to have an operational network connection to run the game.
As if, I can fire up my classic copy of Halo for XBox anytime I want some multiplayer FSP action.
Only pirates play video games offline. No one ever has a good reason not to be online. Off switches are illegal.
Sometimes I'm busy and I like to just have a quick game, but often they require lengthy updates... on a weekly basis. At one point the updates got so bad I had to log out of PSN just to get some play time.
I don't need updates to plat GTA, Red Dead Redemption, etc... just let me play.
Thankfully many of the bomb makers for such groups don't think through the failure modes very thoroughly.
Every time I seen a movie with a cell phone detonated bomb I always thought to myself... what if a wrong number called and detonated it prematurely. People always say I over think things but clearly this wasn't the case:).
I believe the Pirate Bay site has "flags" for trusted content and respected uploaders. Does it not?
Of course, other trackers have them also. And checking the number of seeders/leechers helps, too. As well as having a quick look on the comments to see if someone reported nasty stuff.
What?
Are you saying the copy of "Matrix 4 Leaked - DVDRip", with 1 seeder, 6 negative votes, a comment saying "This is a VIRUS - don't download", a file size of 30MB, a file listing with a single.exe file... that this isn't legit?
I don't believe it, but I guess I'll find out after I download and EXECUTE the video file myself... now good day sir!
Any application developed by one or more Visual Basic developers, given enough time.
How could that possibly be true, MS Access only supports 255 columns.
And now you understand why Cassandra is so important!:-)
In all seriousness I had no idea what Cassandra was or what made it unique as a database. However, I did find this tutorial that others might also find useful:
Wouldn't work. The company would always care about its own security.
Agreed.
1. Security
a. If computers are coming and going without permission how do you know which are from employees and which are rogue systems
b. If computers are coming and going how do you ensure they aren't a threat for Virii or bots
i. At least with company sanctioned computers they should have virus scanners with updated definitions 2. Standardization
a. Whaawhaaa, my xxx isn't working properly; can you fix it: "I NEED IT RIGHT NOW"
i. Troubleshooting some hipsters 3D floating mouse with alpha drivers for Windows 7 is just a waste of time
b. Why can't my Windows 7 Home edition logon the domain, no one told me this when I bought it
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1. The solution isn't more energy usage. The solution is less energy usage, period.
Less energy usage...forget that.
Mass interstellar travel, holodecks and replicators all require large amounts of energy. The rest of you can live like 20th century Hutterites, but I'll take technological advancement any day. We need to continue moving ahead on the Kardashev scale until we have holodeck porn... after that we can stop learning for all I care.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
Most of the 'clean' energy projects are not for replacing oil (as a transport fuel) but are for replacing fossil fuels like coal and natural gas in electricity production.
Until we get a big breakthrough in battery technology we are not going to be able to run our cars on wind and solar power.
Transportation only accounts for 27% of US energy consumption. You can still make a large impact even if you left cars to run on fossil fuels.
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:VQZGOdC8BrMJ:www.need.org/needpdf/infobook_activities/IntInfo/ConsI.pdf+automobiles+percentage+energy&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiuc1DbXndHxR3juwumi8zfv8PraBjI9Q6rRJddCRo2TVVM2d6ar8e-9lofdg138GPS-jCQAA5o0F6wbGk4kC51MYiOK_-rw0y7XWluvhzo-JBVPyZpTJAxeMZYQaAvcMJE3eha&sig=AHIEtbTo2UW2PHXen6_KMZpEnGeuEAj4vQ
... domestic oil. We have lots of it. It's being produced in North Dakota in increasing quantities. It's available under the Alaskan wasteland... and in Canada, the oil from tar sands will be available to use in mass quantities...
Stand up and start kicking as hard as you can... you might be able to free yourself from your box if you try hard enough.
Sorry, forgot to include this:
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, of the British Telegraph daily, suggests that "Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium," and could put "an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years."[14]
The Thorium Energy Alliance (TEA), an educational advocacy organization, emphasizes that "there is enough thorium in the United States alone to power the country at its current energy level for over 1,000 years."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium#Thorium_as_a_nuclear_fuel
Why is the west still concentrating on solar and wind power while the Chinese are already into Thorium reactors?
The US oil companies can stall all they want while they squeeze as much profit as they can out of fossil fuels.. but the Chinese aren't going to wait around.
A war?
Yes, and the last thing freedom fighters need is rampant internet porn distracting them from their work.
"You difficult to fire an M60E with one hand son..."
A) Did these people not scan there computer reasonably enough to detect the malware.
B) Did these people run a completely insecure OS allowing them to be infected
C) DId these people have enough common sense to run firewall software to prevent the infection
D) Did they not notice there modems dial out to a number they didn't authorize
That's why I never leave the house without wearing a bullet-proof vest, a lead helmet and a condom... too many crazies out there.
How do people this stupid have $200,000 to begin with?
I guess you've never been to northern Canada.
Any smart person would refuse to work: outdoors in -30C weather, in the middle of nowhere, where you can lose an arm because someone forgot to properly chain a pipe down, and the only thing to do during your time off is drink and do drugs in an all male labor camp.
If you're willing to endure all that, then you can make $120k+ per year all while still being just smart enough not to wet yourself.
(All the guys dumb enough to wet themselves in -30C weather died of hypothermia)
When I worked about a decade ago at a place where people with dubious intentions could access the work area, I ended up making a switch embedded in a seat cushion that was connected to the serial port of my workstation. When I got up, the program sitting and monitoring that port would automatically xlock the machine.
It was an ugly hack, but I never had unattended terminal issues unlike some cow-orkers.
In 90% of office scenarios the general public doesn't have access to the office computers. I can see guarding against the public in a hospital setting for example, but for most people the office should be secured against outsiders only.
My computer is like the "pocket watch" in "Gangs of New York". I leave it out in the open and invite people to mess with it. Yet they don't... because they know, if they do, there will be repercussions... and they will be horrific.
That's because you're under the illusion that making money in the stock market involves the company you're investing in doing well. It's quite possible to make boatloads of money on stocks for companies with no futures.
Ding Ding Ding... You are absolutely correct.
This is what is wrong with the stock market. It's no longer about investing in ideas and products people want. It's now about gaming people in a large game of casino chicken.
"Ride the housing ponzi scheme until it blows. What's that? You pulled out when the number didn't make sense anymore... too bad... you lost out on more sucker money that your less sensible competitors banked."
No IP was a contributing factor.
I don't know what you people are talking about. There is considerable innovation in America today. The US is the leader in CDOs, derivatives, tax avoidance, and is always coming up with new and innovative schemes to part working people from their money.
No lack of innovation there, it's just misdirected.
Yeah, about that "Food and Water":
It seems, we haven't solved that one yet in the "Richest" nation. What say you, we drop this internet crap and focus first on that basic human need right here in America?
The hunger issue has been solved at least 4 times throughout history. In all cases as soon as hunger was no longer a limiting factor the population grew until it was again.
1) There were enough resources in North America to feed all of Europe, until North Americans started populating
2) Agricultural revolution brought about by "chemically synthesized inorganic fertilizers"
3) The ability to increase farming due to "cheap oil", corn is often referred to as edible oil
4) Norman Borlaug pioneered genetically modified crops allowing hardy wheat strains to grow in otherwise unusable land in Mexico, etc.
In all those cases, had the population stabilized, there would have been enough food from those advancements to feed the world. In fact, those advancements are what allowed the populations to grow, proving there will always be hunger issues. It's one of the few limiting factors to our growth.
OEMs who don't ship stock windows media with windows-licenced PCs deserve to burn in hell.
If they shipped actual stock CD's users would still complain. I remember all the problems with Windows XP and SATA controllers. Unless you slip-streamed in the drivers there was no way you were able to install a fresh copy of XP.
Keep in mind XP only allowed loading third party drivers off a floppy and systems weren't shipping with floppy drives anymore.
I salute your effort in supporting the good senator, but it would have been better had you checked on the definition of the word "corporatism" before sending it.
Meh, it's a moot point. He'll skim over or just read the first sentence, much like I did with your post.
"I'm a cellphone tech at one of the US Big 4" ---
Guess what -20C is BAD for your electronics.
My data center is held at constant temperature and humidity for electronics. I DON'T intend to stay in a data center to use a phone. In Alberta, Canada it routinely gets to -30C (as it did this morning in fact) and I expect the phone to work. Did I say, after it thaws out? No I meant in -30C weather.
You know what's BAD for a car engine? -30C
You know what's BAD for plastic? -30C
You know what's BAD for plants and animals? -30C
Sure its not good but it should still work.
I've just had my xbox stolen. Save games gone. You might be someone who likes starting over instead of continueing your progress, that's fine, fortunately most other people can accept that others have different requirements.
In short, cloud game backups would be a definite selling point of a console to me.
Think of the valuable lesson you learned... at the mere age of 12 years.
Luckily this is only a game save and not your companies operational data. Who said video games don't teach youngsters anything worthwhile.
Problem with requiring a company controlled portal to run the game is the industry has proven multiple times that they're all too quick to kill off network infrastructure required to play the game.
It also means that you have to have an operational network connection to run the game.
As if, I can fire up my classic copy of Halo for XBox anytime I want some multiplayer FSP action.
-turn on system-
-insert disc-
Only pirates play video games offline. No one ever has a good reason not to be online. Off switches are illegal.
Sometimes I'm busy and I like to just have a quick game, but often they require lengthy updates... on a weekly basis.
At one point the updates got so bad I had to log out of PSN just to get some play time.
I don't need updates to plat GTA, Red Dead Redemption, etc... just let me play.
Thankfully many of the bomb makers for such groups don't think through the failure modes very thoroughly.
Every time I seen a movie with a cell phone detonated bomb I always thought to myself... what if a wrong number called and detonated it prematurely. People always say I over think things but clearly this wasn't the case :).
I think the author(s) of the article are confused... they very well may be confusing "uploading" with "seeding".
Something is confusing here: " about 100 people (called pirates in the article) are responsible for 75 percent of all downloading on BitTorrent"
100 people are responsible for 75% of downloads on BT? My question is, who are these 99 other people?
I believe the Pirate Bay site has "flags" for trusted content and respected uploaders. Does it not?
Of course, other trackers have them also. And checking the number of seeders/leechers helps, too. As well as having a quick look on the comments to see if someone reported nasty stuff.
What?
Are you saying the copy of "Matrix 4 Leaked - DVDRip", with 1 seeder, 6 negative votes, a comment saying "This is a VIRUS - don't download", a file size of 30MB, a file listing with a single .exe file... that this isn't legit?
I don't believe it, but I guess I'll find out after I download and EXECUTE the video file myself... now good day sir!
Or the very large arrays some make to backup their BluRay collection.
Pfft. That's nothing compared to my Peta-byte storage array.
~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 680G 5.8G 640G 1% /
/dev/md0 44P 13P 32P 29% /mnt/sys
How could that possibly be true, MS Access only supports 255 columns.
And now you understand why Cassandra is so important! :-)
In all seriousness I had no idea what Cassandra was or what made it unique as a database. However, I did find this tutorial that others might also find useful:
http://arin.me/blog/wtf-is-a-supercolumn-cassandra-data-model
Wouldn't work. The company would always care about its own security.
Agreed.
1. Security
a. If computers are coming and going without permission how do you know which are from employees and which are rogue systems
b. If computers are coming and going how do you ensure they aren't a threat for Virii
I stopped reading after you made a tard of yourself. Making up words doesn't make you cooler.
Also, it's fucking Assembly, and you use an assembler to assemble it.
I *kept reading* after you criticized someone for using made up words and then flung around "tard". Being a hippo-crite does make you a douche.
P.S. even I think hippo-crite is lame but the trolls are hungry.
Wouldn't work. The company would always care about its own security.
Agreed.
1. Security
a. If computers are coming and going without permission how do you know which are from employees and which are rogue systems
b. If computers are coming and going how do you ensure they aren't a threat for Virii or bots
i. At least with company sanctioned computers they should have virus scanners with updated definitions
2. Standardization
a. Whaawhaaa, my xxx isn't working properly; can you fix it: "I NEED IT RIGHT NOW"
i. Troubleshooting some hipsters 3D floating mouse with alpha drivers for Windows 7 is just a waste of time
b. Why can't my Windows 7 Home edition logon the domain, no one told me this when I bought it