You should take your own advice methinks. If you did, you'd notice that Vodafone is the company responsible for sending mass texts (since it's their network...) and giving information to the Egyptian "authorities". Whisper Systems has absolutely nothing to do with that, and if you have been paying attention recently you'd know quite clearly that Moxie is the last person who'd be giving info to a government of any sort.
The article doesn't talk about fuel efficiency, it talks about *pollution* efficiency. While they may burn a lot less original volume of fuel, the volume of resulting particulate matter is significantly higher. The lack of pollution controls on the engines could easily be worth a factor of 10 in higher particulate numbers for certain classes, such as SO2.
Combining various numbers both claimed and published, in some simple (and admittedly fuzzy) math, it seems that the Emma Maersk at 171Kt fully loaded with 157Kt cargo weighs 164,000 times the average US vehicle (2t). However, the SO2 emissions are over 50 million times higher. That comes to over 300 times more SO2 emissions per gross ton, and thus 2100 times more per gallon of fuel given the parent post's claim of 7x more "fuel efficient" than a semi.
Proportions matter, but only when you compare the same ones.
Apparently/. missed seeing this episode something like 2 years ago, where they tried this as well as another tech for climbing. The gecko foot was very hard to reproduce and didn't have the cling, while feet made of 100's of jointed fish-hooks successfully took a human a few dozen feet up a wall.
Yay for old news...
If I'm doing my calculations correctly, I get a figure of ~1.436 x 10^57 photons per second coming from the source, assuming a fully spherical distribution...
Even more interesting is that the "hacker" is comparing Microsoft to Adobe and Apple. Adobe is an *applications* vendor, which has no bearing on the OS security discussion. Apple has engineered a far more secure product from the ground up, being based roughly on OpenBSD et al, thus they have far fewer security holes in the first place.
Not to mention he's talking about their internal processes, and not the results or the need for the process in the first place.
Except that the Cubans on average don't actually understand what they're missing. It's not as if they had Internet and cell phones and then suddenly lost them due to embargo. China's been using Google now about as long as the rest of us, and if they *lose* it due to very unmistakable censorship policies their government imposed, they can't possible miss the connection between the two. Try going without Google for a week now that you're used to having it instantly available, and you'll get pretty ticked. Lose it indefinitely due to the government's transparent attempts at censorship (whether you as a Chinese subj^H^H^H^Hcitizen believe in their justifications or not), and you're going to get royally pissed off. This is a good thing, in the large.
I'd have to assume they're smart enough to avoid such trivial workarounds, and are using a sliding window to keep track of *average* bandwidth usage over the last 15min. If you run at 100% for 14.5min and 50% for 30sec, you'll be averaging 98.3% usage and you're hozed.
I'd love to have them get a proper air-traffic control system in place that can safely handle the load of piloted planes we have, first. Only after that would it be prudent to look at bringing UAVs into the mix.
This is ludicrous for a number of reasons:
1) This is not an active attack, there is no practical way to game the collision. (ok, there is: just invent a time machine and get yourself re-named the same as your target, assuming you were born on the same day anyway, and got a SSN collision to boot)
2) The SSN sequence is presumably designed to avoid same-day same-name collisions in the first place.
3) If it's unique enough for the IRS *and* the SSN to be taking and handing out money based on, it damn well better be unique enough to avoid jacking people of their SS checks.
In this case, yes, it is very clearly sufficient to solve the problem. The chances of two people with the same full name and birthdate being given the same social security number are so astronomically low (by design!) that over the course of this program (matching fugitives to recipients), it might happen once. That's plenty unique enough for me.
Let me get this straight: we're talking about the Social Security Administration, who is responsible for assigning every citizen a unique number which is then used to pay out benefits, and is also used by everybody's dog to act as a unique ID, presumably including the criminal justice system. The very same people who *dole out* these numbers can't be bothered to use them to cross-check whether somebody should stop getting benefits because of this law???
"But overweight individuals defined as a body mass index of 25 to 29.9 were 17 percent less likely to die than people of a normal weight defined as a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9."
Man, now that I know dying is optional, I'll have to start eating more...
Seriously, does anybody ever actually pay attention to how they phrase this stuff?
The first rule of a controlling society/religion/cult is "anyone who isn't explicitly one of us, is explicitly not one of us, therefore Bad, and must be dealt with accordingly".
Unfortunately, I see US "patriotism" leaning the same direction;-(
A fundamental difference I see between a cult and a true religion is that members of a cult are not "allowed" to leave. A Christian might decide he no longer is one, but his Christian friends will not (generally) shun him, refuse to associate with him, actively try to harm him, or just plain hold him prisoner somewhere. A cult on the other hand fundamentally is a game of mind control, and some people are too strong to be controlled, either right up front (as in a child growing up) or as a result of new information or other change. Cults can only maintain their internal consistency if people who learn otherwise are treated as "sick" or a "traitor", and dealt with accordingly.
Situations like this case are a direct side-effect of the fact that cults cannot take any kind of scrutiny or disagreement, even from outside their ranks. Scientology is really good at silencing any kind of debate.
At the risk of being wildly un-PC, a short list of religions that fit this description would include not only Scientology, but Mormonism and Islam. All three of these fundamentally disallow their members from choosing not to be members, up to and including outright murder. Islam in the US may be more "tolerant", but that's only (IMO) a side-effect of being forced to work within a western set of laws. In the Middle East, a convert away from Islam tends not to live very long, unless they immigrate away as fast as they can, thereby losing their entire family, etc. As well, an ex-Mormon in Salt Lake City is going to have a very hard time buying anything, anywhere.
(disclaimer: I'm Baptist, and mostly on the Democrat side of things with Libertarian leanings)
Where are you getting this idea that Iran's leadership is insane?
Well, let's start with hosting an international symposium on "The Holocaust myth is a vast historical conspiracy perpetrated by Jews who want everybody to feel sorry for them so they can take over the world without anyone noticing".
Plenty of Israeli politicians still want to see the Palestinian Authority wiped out.
And plenty of US politicians want Al-Qaeda wiped out, for precisely the same reason: they kill innocent people to instill terror. Maybe you should read up on Arafat's public declarations of what their goals are: "destroy Israel". Sound familiar?
you never know what those wacky Mormons are going to do next!
I know I'm gonna get modded down for this, and I probably deserve it, but I've always said that those people can't spell. They keep managing to add that second "m" to their name, and nobody seems to notice until they end up in the news like this. I guess they must have banned spell-checkers in Utah a while back.
(They also seem to have lost the trailing "c" of their angel's name)
If you look at the price list, you'll see that this chip is simply not listed at all (yet, I assume). Therefore the notice that the MP3 license is included in the price does not apply to this chip.
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You should take your own advice methinks. If you did, you'd notice that Vodafone is the company responsible for sending mass texts (since it's their network...) and giving information to the Egyptian "authorities". Whisper Systems has absolutely nothing to do with that, and if you have been paying attention recently you'd know quite clearly that Moxie is the last person who'd be giving info to a government of any sort.
The article doesn't talk about fuel efficiency, it talks about *pollution* efficiency. While they may burn a lot less original volume of fuel, the volume of resulting particulate matter is significantly higher. The lack of pollution controls on the engines could easily be worth a factor of 10 in higher particulate numbers for certain classes, such as SO2.
Combining various numbers both claimed and published, in some simple (and admittedly fuzzy) math, it seems that the Emma Maersk at 171Kt fully loaded with 157Kt cargo weighs 164,000 times the average US vehicle (2t). However, the SO2 emissions are over 50 million times higher. That comes to over 300 times more SO2 emissions per gross ton, and thus 2100 times more per gallon of fuel given the parent post's claim of 7x more "fuel efficient" than a semi.
Proportions matter, but only when you compare the same ones.
Apparently /. missed seeing this episode something like 2 years ago, where they tried this as well as another tech for climbing. The gecko foot was very hard to reproduce and didn't have the cling, while feet made of 100's of jointed fish-hooks successfully took a human a few dozen feet up a wall.
Yay for old news...
I think the id10ts who pulled off this stunt are rather DIMM....
Whoops, I managed somehow to screw radius/diameter in my haste, the corrected figure would be ~1.449 x 10^58...
If I'm doing my calculations correctly, I get a figure of ~1.436 x 10^57 photons per second coming from the source, assuming a fully spherical distribution...
OK, so a brand-new 22" $1500 display, and it's only 1680x1050??? That's absolutely pathetic.
> Corporations aren't the uncaring robot beasts you seem to be convinced they are. Corporations are still run by profits.
Fixed.
Even more interesting is that the "hacker" is comparing Microsoft to Adobe and Apple. Adobe is an *applications* vendor, which has no bearing on the OS security discussion. Apple has engineered a far more secure product from the ground up, being based roughly on OpenBSD et al, thus they have far fewer security holes in the first place. Not to mention he's talking about their internal processes, and not the results or the need for the process in the first place.
Except that the Cubans on average don't actually understand what they're missing. It's not as if they had Internet and cell phones and then suddenly lost them due to embargo. China's been using Google now about as long as the rest of us, and if they *lose* it due to very unmistakable censorship policies their government imposed, they can't possible miss the connection between the two. Try going without Google for a week now that you're used to having it instantly available, and you'll get pretty ticked. Lose it indefinitely due to the government's transparent attempts at censorship (whether you as a Chinese subj^H^H^H^Hcitizen believe in their justifications or not), and you're going to get royally pissed off. This is a good thing, in the large.
I'd have to assume they're smart enough to avoid such trivial workarounds, and are using a sliding window to keep track of *average* bandwidth usage over the last 15min. If you run at 100% for 14.5min and 50% for 30sec, you'll be averaging 98.3% usage and you're hozed.
I'd love to have them get a proper air-traffic control system in place that can safely handle the load of piloted planes we have, first. Only after that would it be prudent to look at bringing UAVs into the mix.
This is ludicrous for a number of reasons: 1) This is not an active attack, there is no practical way to game the collision. (ok, there is: just invent a time machine and get yourself re-named the same as your target, assuming you were born on the same day anyway, and got a SSN collision to boot) 2) The SSN sequence is presumably designed to avoid same-day same-name collisions in the first place. 3) If it's unique enough for the IRS *and* the SSN to be taking and handing out money based on, it damn well better be unique enough to avoid jacking people of their SS checks.
In this case, yes, it is very clearly sufficient to solve the problem. The chances of two people with the same full name and birthdate being given the same social security number are so astronomically low (by design!) that over the course of this program (matching fugitives to recipients), it might happen once. That's plenty unique enough for me.
It's unique enough, or everybody's dog wouldn't insist on using them to identify you, regardless of whether they're legally allowed to or not...
Let me get this straight: we're talking about the Social Security Administration, who is responsible for assigning every citizen a unique number which is then used to pay out benefits, and is also used by everybody's dog to act as a unique ID, presumably including the criminal justice system. The very same people who *dole out* these numbers can't be bothered to use them to cross-check whether somebody should stop getting benefits because of this law???
"But overweight individuals defined as a body mass index of 25 to 29.9 were 17 percent less likely to die than people of a normal weight defined as a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9."
Man, now that I know dying is optional, I'll have to start eating more...
Seriously, does anybody ever actually pay attention to how they phrase this stuff?
At the bottom of the page: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." The EU would do well to actually comprehend that concept.
I didn't say it was the only defining factor, but one of several.
So Islam is a cult, then?
That's kinda where I was going, yes...
The first rule of a controlling society/religion/cult is "anyone who isn't explicitly one of us, is explicitly not one of us, therefore Bad, and must be dealt with accordingly".
Unfortunately, I see US "patriotism" leaning the same direction ;-(
A fundamental difference I see between a cult and a true religion is that members of a cult are not "allowed" to leave. A Christian might decide he no longer is one, but his Christian friends will not (generally) shun him, refuse to associate with him, actively try to harm him, or just plain hold him prisoner somewhere. A cult on the other hand fundamentally is a game of mind control, and some people are too strong to be controlled, either right up front (as in a child growing up) or as a result of new information or other change. Cults can only maintain their internal consistency if people who learn otherwise are treated as "sick" or a "traitor", and dealt with accordingly.
Situations like this case are a direct side-effect of the fact that cults cannot take any kind of scrutiny or disagreement, even from outside their ranks. Scientology is really good at silencing any kind of debate.
At the risk of being wildly un-PC, a short list of religions that fit this description would include not only Scientology, but Mormonism and Islam. All three of these fundamentally disallow their members from choosing not to be members, up to and including outright murder. Islam in the US may be more "tolerant", but that's only (IMO) a side-effect of being forced to work within a western set of laws. In the Middle East, a convert away from Islam tends not to live very long, unless they immigrate away as fast as they can, thereby losing their entire family, etc. As well, an ex-Mormon in Salt Lake City is going to have a very hard time buying anything, anywhere.
(disclaimer: I'm Baptist, and mostly on the Democrat side of things with Libertarian leanings)
Where are you getting this idea that Iran's leadership is insane?
Well, let's start with hosting an international symposium on "The Holocaust myth is a vast historical conspiracy perpetrated by Jews who want everybody to feel sorry for them so they can take over the world without anyone noticing".
Plenty of Israeli politicians still want to see the Palestinian Authority wiped out.
And plenty of US politicians want Al-Qaeda wiped out, for precisely the same reason: they kill innocent people to instill terror. Maybe you should read up on Arafat's public declarations of what their goals are: "destroy Israel". Sound familiar?
you never know what those wacky Mormons are going to do next!
I know I'm gonna get modded down for this, and I probably deserve it, but I've always said that those people can't spell. They keep managing to add that second "m" to their name, and nobody seems to notice until they end up in the news like this. I guess they must have banned spell-checkers in Utah a while back.
(They also seem to have lost the trailing "c" of their angel's name)
People who want linux preloaded also want professional grade support.
And they're going to Dell for this?!?!?!?!?
If you look at the price list, you'll see that this chip is simply not listed at all (yet, I assume). Therefore the notice that the MP3 license is included in the price does not apply to this chip.