Richard Smalley may be a pundit on nanotech, and in charge of most of its funding thru the NSF, but he is unreasonably pessimistic for political reasons. He is afraid Gray Goo stories will upset the FunDumbMentalists who control science funding.
See Drexler's attempts to puncture his conservative positioning in their famous debate, starting with The December 1st 2003 issue of Chemical & Engineering News which carried a debate between Drexler and Smalley about the feasibility of molecular manufacturing. "The January 26th 2004 issue devotes a little over two pages to letters on the debate. Of the eight letters published, five supported molecular manufacturing, one was clearly opposed, and two seemed skeptical." http://cyborgdemocracy.net/2004/02/letters-to-edit or-about-smalleydrexler.html
If anyone cared about the cost of electricity, cheap hardware firewalls such as the NetScreen might seem like an advantage over that dusty 1997 Pentuim Pro.
Most computers burn $100/year in power, but fancy shmancy servers can burn $200/year. Add 50% if you have to pay for the air conditioning electric too.
Of course, I'd have to say, a Mac Mini at $500 might be able to do the work of a NetScreen and is only slightly larger, but it has a DVD Burner which would come in handy... However the OS varient would probably drive most admins crazy Choices, Choices...
As for windows, it is a desktop OS. Not using it on a server is the best approach to firewalling it.
AOL is right to assume some hoakey server is a spambot. It is easy to use a free, reliable, well known group remailer that AOL will already have on its white list.
Well, they did donate 1% of GOOG shares to a charity, http://google.org/ , in the form of a foundation. What furthur foundations and charities will be funded by a that is TBD. But 1% of the market cap of Google is a lot. I should tell you exactly how much but I would rather leave the task of dividing by 100 to the reader.
It was all in the IPO paperwork, in case you wererent paying attention.
1% of GOOG is a lot more than donating 1% of their personal stock, by the way.
The prius is not a small or light car, and the emmissions are WAY lower than cheapo econoboxes. It goes 100 MPH quite easily and 0-5mph faster than almost all cars. 0-60 is average.
The only thing that can be said for econoboxes or better yet, recycled cars, is the manufacturing cost in energy is lower.
Muhutma Ghandi described his experience about the same time in England, from a similar Hindu culture. Ghandi nearly starved in England.
England at that time wasn't blessed with good Indian resturants on every block.
The supply of fruits and veggies at that time was pathetic, particularly in winter.
Attempting to be vegetarian in such an environment is dangerous. But wait- there's more.
The English diet depends heavily on milk, and most Indians cannot drink fresh milk. That is why, in Indian cooking the milk is always served as yogurt, clarified butter, cheese or ice-cream. Ghandi had terrible stomach pain when he tried.
Just learning to deal with the stomach pain doesn't help- a person without the lactase enzyme cannot gain nutrition by trying to drink milk.
TB rarely kills a healthy person, but with a poor diet or weak immune system (AIDS) it is lethal.
The important thing about Mars losing its water is the rms speed of a
gas molecule compared to the escape velocity from the planet. When the
former is more than about 1/6 of the latter, the gas will be lost in
less than a billion years. The gas velocity depends on the temperature
(which depends on the distance from the sun, and occassional blasts such
as are being talked about), and the escape velocity depends on the
planet's mass and radius. Even without solar storms, Mars can barely
hold onto its water vapor.
I think Google groups will be great when they complete search.
The ONLY great thing about Usenet is searchability. It is a pain that there is no answer to the question of which of two posts came first, because there is no central server with a timestamp. And no central way to moderate away spam.
Private groups are also useful and not found on Usesnet.
The ZVUE is releasing their inexpensive DivX in mid January. For $99 plus the cost of a big SD card you get a solid state player with good battery life. They are also releasing a bunch of legal licensed video titles that are professionally encoded.
For the reports of Prius owners in the states, check
http://egroups.com/l/toyota-prius/
I've had mine since 2001 and have never had a problem. It is quite fast, though the 0-60 test is deceptive 'cause the batteries run out of juice halfway up to 60. In the real world the driver almost always hesitates instead of flat out accelerating 0-60. There aren't too many stoplights on 60 MPH streets, after all. But the smooth acceleration of the CVT and the Stealth Mode driving at slow speeds are great fun.
W32.Blaster the cause of the blackout?
on
Network Blackout
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Sender: jm To: dave
Hi Dave -- for IP.
There's an article from Heise Security in Germany at [1], which raises some interesting questions about whether W32.Blaster could be to blame for the blackout. Some translated points are at [2] -- quote:... it becomes a bit more likely if one considers what the authors of
that article found out:
- The Niagara Mohawk power grid which seemed to got overloaded first
is owned by National Grid USA.
- National Grid is listed as an important customer of Northern
Dynamic who call themselves the "OPC Experts".
- OPC is an acronym for OLE for Process Control and is used for
communications between control systems.
- OPC is based on DCOM, exactly that Windows technology attacked by
W32.Blaster.
- One symptom of a W32.Blaster attack is that a crashing DCOM
service (not only under Windows), often taking down the whole
server.
One usage of OPC is the coupling of so-called SCADA (Supervisory Control
and Data Acquisition) systems. Among other things is SCADA used in power
plants and grids to exchange data between some central instance and
external measuring units. And for some reason did the monitoring system
which should prevent snowball effects like the one on thursday from
happening.
So the questions the authors of the article have are:
- For which processes does National Grid utilise OPC?
- Were there any problems regarding OPC when the power went down?
- If yes, were they related to W32.Blaster?
I was stunned by how OCR went from "impossible" to "Trvial" and all that changed was moores law making high res scans available in memory in a typical PC.
Expect many vision problems to fall by the wayside with new 240 Frames per second 3 megapixel cameras. (Don't save THOSE movies uncompressed!)
See the Sensor Spec.
Slashdot Mirror
Finances matter. It is more reusable than the space shuttle from a cost standpoint. More of the investment is recovered.
Richard Smalley may be a pundit on nanotech,
t or-about-smalleydrexler.html
and in charge of most of its funding thru the NSF,
but he is unreasonably pessimistic for political
reasons. He is afraid Gray Goo stories will
upset the FunDumbMentalists who control science
funding.
See Drexler's attempts to puncture his conservative
positioning in their famous debate, starting with
The December 1st 2003 issue of Chemical & Engineering
News which carried a debate between Drexler and Smalley
about the feasibility of molecular manufacturing.
"The January 26th 2004 issue devotes a little over two pages to letters on the debate. Of the eight letters published, five supported molecular manufacturing, one was clearly opposed, and two seemed skeptical."
http://cyborgdemocracy.net/2004/02/letters-to-edi
The website works fine on Slashdot day, so the $49 is clearly enough of a budget.
If anyone cared about the cost of electricity, cheap hardware firewalls such as the NetScreen might seem like an advantage over that dusty 1997 Pentuim Pro.
Most computers burn $100/year in power, but fancy shmancy servers can burn $200/year. Add 50% if you have to pay for the air conditioning electric too.
Of course, I'd have to say, a Mac Mini at $500 might be able to do the work of a NetScreen and is only slightly larger, but it has a DVD Burner which would come in handy... However the OS varient would probably drive most admins crazy
Choices, Choices...
As for windows, it is a desktop OS. Not using it on a server is the best approach to firewalling it.
AOL is right to assume some hoakey server is a spambot. It is easy to use a free, reliable, well known group remailer that AOL will already have on its white list.
http://groups.google.com/ or http://egroups.com/
are easy and reliable and conveneient.
Well, they did donate 1% of GOOG shares to a charity, http://google.org/ , in the form of a foundation. What furthur foundations and charities will be funded by a that is TBD. But 1% of the market cap of Google is a lot. I should tell you exactly how much but I would rather leave the task of dividing by 100 to the reader.
It was all in the IPO paperwork, in case you wererent paying attention.
1% of GOOG is a lot more than donating 1% of their personal stock, by the way.
The prius is not a small or light car, and the emmissions are WAY lower than cheapo econoboxes.
It goes 100 MPH quite easily and 0-5mph faster than almost all cars. 0-60 is average.
The only thing that can be said for econoboxes or better yet, recycled cars, is the manufacturing cost in energy is lower.
Muhutma Ghandi described his experience about the same time in England, from a similar Hindu culture.
Ghandi nearly starved in England.
England at that time wasn't blessed with good Indian resturants on every block.
The supply of fruits and veggies at that time was pathetic, particularly in winter.
Attempting to be vegetarian in such an environment is dangerous. But wait- there's more.
The English diet depends heavily on milk, and most Indians cannot drink fresh milk. That is why, in Indian cooking the milk is always served as yogurt, clarified butter, cheese or ice-cream.
Ghandi had terrible stomach pain when he tried.
Just learning to deal with the stomach pain doesn't help- a person without the lactase enzyme cannot gain nutrition by trying to drink milk.
TB rarely kills a healthy person, but with a poor diet or weak immune system (AIDS) it is lethal.
The ZVUE
Now that 1 Gig SD cards are $140 who needs a hard disk.
It plays 1.5 MB/minute so a 256 MB SD card holds a movie and a half.
The important thing about Mars losing its water is the rms speed of a gas molecule compared to the escape velocity from the planet. When the former is more than about 1/6 of the latter, the gas will be lost in less than a billion years. The gas velocity depends on the temperature (which depends on the distance from the sun, and occassional blasts such as are being talked about), and the escape velocity depends on the planet's mass and radius. Even without solar storms, Mars can barely hold onto its water vapor.
I think Google groups will be great when they complete search. The ONLY great thing about Usenet is searchability. It is a pain that there is no answer to the question of which of two posts came first, because there is no central server with a timestamp. And no central way to moderate away spam. Private groups are also useful and not found on Usesnet.
Can fit 3 hours of video on a 256MB SD card. That's 8 Episodes of the Simpsons. (22 mins each.)
6 hours battery life.
Music Videos are fun too- why not watch Britney dance around- beats listening to her music.
If you just want to play MP3 or OGG you can shut off the screen and play it twice as long before a recharge.
Can fit 3 hours of video on a 256MB SD card. That's 8 Episodes of the Simpsons. (22 mins each.)
6 hours battery life.
Music Videos are fun too- why not watch Britney dance around- beats listening to her music.
If you just want to play MP3 or OGG you can shut off the screen and play it twice as long before a recharge.
Same CO2. 90% less smog forming emmissions. In other words- prevent heart attacks and cancer but don't prevent "The Day After Tomorrow".
The MPEG4 version of the ZVUE is $149 from the website. It is DIVX MP3 Handheld profile, or some "Portable" profile files.
MPEG4 DIVX is availalble now for $149 from the website.
Specs: video can be encoded to 176x128 15 Frames/sec 24 bit color with DIVX codec and MP3 audio.
6-8 hours battery life showing video.
200 MHZ ARM9 processor.
Doesnt suck power. It is hard to run a flashlight for 6-8 hours and the backlight is just as bright as one- so it uses an expensive LED backlight.
Specs are 200 MHZ ARM9 with 160x234 screen at 24 bit color. The screen uses fast fluid for video unlike most PDA screens.
It probably runs linux already.
Pretty easy to re-encode videos to the DIVX Handheld or portable profile if they aren't already using VirtualDub and the free version of DIVX.
Chemistry is Smalley's nanotech. He is trying not to fund real nanotech. Read Eric Drexler who coined the term to find out what real nanotech is.
The ZVUE is releasing their inexpensive DivX in mid January. For $99 plus the cost of a big SD card you get a solid state player with good battery life. They are also releasing a bunch of legal licensed video titles that are professionally encoded.
For the reports of Prius owners in the states, check http://egroups.com/l/toyota-prius/ I've had mine since 2001 and have never had a problem. It is quite fast, though the 0-60 test is deceptive 'cause the batteries run out of juice halfway up to 60. In the real world the driver almost always hesitates instead of flat out accelerating 0-60. There aren't too many stoplights on 60 MPH streets, after all. But the smooth acceleration of the CVT and the Stealth Mode driving at slow speeds are great fun.
Sender: jm
... it becomes a bit more likely if one considers what the authors of
0 1/
To: dave
Hi Dave -- for IP.
There's an article from Heise Security in Germany at [1], which raises
some interesting questions about whether W32.Blaster could be to blame for
the blackout. Some translated points are at [2] -- quote:
that article found out:
- The Niagara Mohawk power grid which seemed to got overloaded first
is owned by National Grid USA.
- National Grid is listed as an important customer of Northern
Dynamic who call themselves the "OPC Experts".
- OPC is an acronym for OLE for Process Control and is used for
communications between control systems.
- OPC is based on DCOM, exactly that Windows technology attacked by
W32.Blaster.
- One symptom of a W32.Blaster attack is that a crashing DCOM
service (not only under Windows), often taking down the whole
server.
One usage of OPC is the coupling of so-called SCADA (Supervisory Control
and Data Acquisition) systems. Among other things is SCADA used in power
plants and grids to exchange data between some central instance and
external measuring units. And for some reason did the monitoring system
which should prevent snowball effects like the one on thursday from
happening.
So the questions the authors of the article have are:
- For which processes does National Grid utilise OPC?
- Were there any problems regarding OPC when the power went down?
- If yes, were they related to W32.Blaster?
1. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ju-15.08.03-0
2. http://msquadrat.de/archive/03/08/16/02
--j.
I was stunned by how OCR went from "impossible" to "Trvial" and all that changed was moores law making high res scans available in memory in a typical PC. Expect many vision problems to fall by the wayside with new 240 Frames per second 3 megapixel cameras. (Don't save THOSE movies uncompressed!) See the Sensor Spec.