> What kind of efficiency can this thing possibly have?
Well according to the article 60 pounds of wood chips is turned into 20 kilowatt-hours of energy, which is enough to run an average home for about a day.
No really, this is for legitemate business. I represent a major supplier of penis enlargment pills, and I just want to offer him my company's services.... ten thousand times per day.
I did RTFA, I am just reading more into the situation. Whether or not what he was convicted for had merit (debatable), he was still on shaky ground having used all those e-mail addresses without permission.
> No crime here, on the face of it. You can't be jailed for breaching a NDA.
Pardon my exageration, you are of course correct. Unauthorized use of the e-mail addresses could (should?) be considered a civil matter, and not a crime.
> So Einstein, what should he have done, other than walk away from it and let someone else get screwed?
If you speak their language, management isn't that hard to get through to. He could have given them more information, explaned the ramifications, try to talk to a different manager or someone he knew personally... or offered to give them a demonstration of the how vulnerable their system was.
Assuming he tried all that first, then I personally do not think it was wrong of him to warn everybody. But it should have been obvious to him from the start that the company and judicial system wouldn't think very highly of it. Its a huge risk to take matters into your own hands like that.
The mass e-mailing was definately a crime. He had no business using them, no matter how good his intent.
Instead, he should have reported the vulnerability through other channels. There ought to be some sort of equivalent to the "Better Buisiness Bureau," but concerning itself with IT companies that falsely advertise themselves as secure...
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So they don't want us to tell others what we think about a movie we've seen?
What are they, insane?
I guess that isn't news...
> Actually, a lot of homeless people use computers at the library.
Yes but I guarantee you they don't read slashdot.
> last time i checked, natural gas burns quite well.
Thats true. And it has "natural" in its name, so the environmentalists ought to love it...
> I will be encouraged to pass gas?
Sure, they could hook your a-hole up to the grid... But I think its H2 they want, not CH4.
I did RTA, just wondering if with this new technology it would be practical and fuel efficient by today's standards...
Since this thing can power an average home for a day with 60 pounds of wood, I wonder if someone could make a practical car engine out of it?
> What kind of efficiency can this thing possibly have?
Well according to the article 60 pounds of wood chips is turned into 20 kilowatt-hours of energy, which is enough to run an average home for about a day.
You are correct, bobbozzo. Isn't it funny how people get modded +4 or 5 insightful for making bogus claims?
> Will there be a kernel patch to support this type of power?
Yes, but you'll want to load it as a module because corncobs aren't allways in season.
> Will it provide enough energy to fuel America, and will we be able to produce enough matter to fuel it?
Nothing so grandiose. Its for people really paranoid about blackouts who just can't survive for more than a day without a microwave and dishwasher.
Post his e-mail address and phone number!
No really, this is for legitemate business. I represent a major supplier of penis enlargment pills, and I just want to offer him my company's services.... ten thousand times per day.
Let me get this straight, our theme song is now:
Then it comes to be that the soothing light
At the end of your skulking
Was just a hulkin' giant comin your way...
Sweetness!
See posts below.. it may just have been a civil matter, and obviously the company wanted him behind bars.
>We have tripled our cash position over the past four months.
We have made multiple spurrious legal claims over the last four months, dramatically raising our stock prices after a steady decline.
>SCO is actually going into business, not out of it
We've hired more lawyers.
> and we have turned the company around.
We think with and speak through our asses now.
> We are proud of that, and the future going forward is bright.
Shhh! I think we are getting a way with this, the SEC hasn't noticed yet...
> We have no long-term debt, cash balances are improved and we have reduced costs
It's cheaper to litigate than actually produce a product
I did RTFA, I am just reading more into the situation. Whether or not what he was convicted for had merit (debatable), he was still on shaky ground having used all those e-mail addresses without permission.
> No crime here, on the face of it. You can't be jailed for breaching a NDA.
Pardon my exageration, you are of course correct. Unauthorized use of the e-mail addresses could (should?) be considered a civil matter, and not a crime.
> So Einstein, what should he have done, other than walk away from it and let someone else get screwed?
If you speak their language, management isn't that hard to get through to. He could have given them more information, explaned the ramifications, try to talk to a different manager or someone he knew personally... or offered to give them a demonstration of the how vulnerable their system was.
Assuming he tried all that first, then I personally do not think it was wrong of him to warn everybody. But it should have been obvious to him from the start that the company and judicial system wouldn't think very highly of it. Its a huge risk to take matters into your own hands like that.
He got those e-mail addresses in one of two ways:
1) Inside information from when he use to work for the company.
2) Hacking into the system.
Either way, it was a wholly unauthorized use of customer information.
> it is still possible to be killed with as little as 5 volts, however unlikely it may seem.
/*me bursts into tears*/
When I was a kid, I stuck my tongue into the thelephone jack once and it really hu...
Thats a gross generalization... who does this Lau guy think he is, some kind of philosopher? ;-)
The mass e-mailing was definately a crime. He had no business using them, no matter how good his intent.
Instead, he should have reported the vulnerability through other channels. There ought to be some sort of equivalent to the "Better Buisiness Bureau," but concerning itself with IT companies that falsely advertise themselves as secure...
> Of course, can you have holes within holes?
No you cannot because a hole is by definition something there is nothing in.
Of course its cheating, but it does get the job done.
:-)
And you are correct about there being more pressing questions, such as prime numbers!
With XP or 2000, I suppose.
But try that with 9x !
Oh, the horrors...
The solution came after 61.40 CPU-days, corresponding to 138.25 days of computation at 1 GHz
I bet the horse was tired after hopping around so much.