One exceptional feature of a microwave is that it will keep heating at full effect no matter how hot the target gets. The only limit how you design your target.
1. "The president can order prisoners to be tortured" is not in conflict with the law against torture (geneva conventions) 2. "The president can not be helt responsible for anything he does" 3. It is not torture unless "injury such as death, organ failure, or serious impairment of body functions" occurred
I think The administration can ask for anything they want, and Mr. Gonsales will find that it is perfectly legal.
This is hundres of times more than polystyrene, but the challeng is still formidable:
A cap with 320Wh/kg or 1GJ/m^3 or 1kJ/cm^3 at 3kV would require:
C/cm^3=0.7Farad
Since C=k*e0*A/d, e0=8.8E-12, k=5000 we get C(BaTiO3)/cm^3=4.4E-8*A/d and with A*d=1cm^3 (not all of the cap can be dielectric so this is a ceiling)we get: A=4m^2 and d=250nm
So with d=250nm, and U=3kV, the voltage across the dielectric is 12GV/m. Breakdown voltage for most ceramics are less than 300MV/m.
This would imply less than 1% the capacity claimed. Still an incredible feat, but the car would only go a few km.
the big concern here is Microsofts relationship with Novell. Now that MSs strategy to support SCO has failed, MS has set their eyes on Novell. Novell, probably rightly, claim ownership of Unix.
MS might not have a clear plan, but a close ralationship with Novell can be a way to keep close control over Linux as well.
Imagine a patent/copyright/licencing/enforcement mutual agreement. Now MS sits on the right to enforce any Unix IP rights violation that might occur. MS might also have rights to Linux code released by Novell. Noticing that MS has a lot of money and Novell almost nothing, this or more like a merger, may be inevitable.
If not a direct threat to Linux, this may make it more difficult for Linux developers in may ways.
Should Novell donate the Unix I.P. rights to the FSF or the Linux community before it is too late?
Somewhat misleading: TFA is not about any new hardware, just that Google is scanning in books to make them avialable online. Great, but hardly anything new here.
Google only buys/own fiberoptic backbone. They have bought this beause it has been for sale really cheap, because there is a *huge* surplus of it.
Also, Google needs this for its long term strategy of delivering search functionality to the world without beeing controlled other fiber providers.
The bandwidht limitation is largely artifical and created by ISPs, as a revenue generating business model.
ISPs could open up the valve on all DSL lines, and not need any more fiber to support it. Maybe some cheap equipment upgrades here and there.
Example: A fiber cable may consists of a few hundred fibers delivering from 10Gb to 10TB for a total of 1-100Tb. A city like San Jose, CA, with 100k households, this gives 10Mb-10Gb per household. (And there are actually more than 1 fiber cable)
would like to just suggest a link to Roland Piquepailles blog somewhere where those who are interested can click. And *no more articles please*
I read/. to get real news and facts, and see discussions from people with insight. Roland Piquepailles submissions has not met this criterium. At least filter away the combination "Piquepailles", "nano" and "quantum".
Take a bottle of nano-beer (yes the water molecules are nano particles), eat some nano-pretzels (the baking soda produced a nano-gas that puffed them up), and run this script.
Here is a half decade old article that describes the process well. It also uses units such as nm and Kelvin instead of thigs like "seven times around the earth" and "about 450 degrees below zero"
From TFA: the cost of the installation was about $500,000, including about $50,000 of lead acid batteries.
I would suggest that the environmental impact of building this house, and recycling the consumables far outweighs the lowered energy consumption.
Just recycling an estimated 1 ton of toxic, heavy metal, lead a year (assuming 10 ton installation with life expectancy of 10 years), has a big environmental impact.
Solar panel manufacturing also consumes a lot of resources, and end up not beeing so clean overall.
A $500,000 investment would probably give a thousand times better ROI if it was spent on pollution reduction in india or china, or to save rainforest.
The diameter of the galaxy is 100,000 lightyears across. Fastest probes today travel 80000km/hr or 0.00007c, so that adds up to 1.3 billion years.
At 0.1c, it would take 1 million years
Not sure where the need for a computer simulation is.
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You are missing an important point about how the law relates to national souvereignity: Murder is unlawful in most contries/states, but the juristicion to prosecute and punish rests solely with the county/state.
If you commit murder in Idaho, a California court can not convict you of that crime. If you commit murder in Denmark, the US can not convict you of that crime.
This is part of international treaties that all memebers of the UN are signatories to.
however, over the last years, the US are in many areas violating this, and treat the entire world as US juristicion.
This includes areas like 1. Actions aganinst people/companies living/based in tax havens 2. Underage sex tourism 3. Online gambling and other
(1) is mostly to get more tax revenue, (2) is beacause local juristicions is lax, and (3) is to protect national casinos that donate a lot of money to candidates.
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What you are suggesting is very dangerous. If I put up a web page, it should sufficethat I comply with all local laws.
If I have to consider the laws of all nations in the world, I pretty much have to hire attorneys from each of the contries to review my website. And I can not: 1. Enjoy fredom of expression (Illegal all over, including china) 2. Critizise leaders (putin, il-jung-sum, most communists and others) 3. Advertize alcoholic beverages (Illegal in many arab countires) 4. Have any sexual material (again illegal in many countires) 5. Have any religious material worshipping any other gods than allah 6. Have any religious material worshipping any other gods than jhave 7. Have any religious material worshipping any other gods than 8. Download music(illegal in USA)
An in many cases illegal means "To be stoned to death"
Is this what you advocate?
US is trying to enforce its law on the whole world
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FBI Arrests Neteller Execs
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· Score: 5, Insightful
It is worrisome how the US is trying to enforce its law on the whole world.
Many companies/people operate fully within the law of the land they live in. If this is breaking a US law, then the US should work with that government to harmonize the laws.
This is similar to how Muslim courts found danish cartoonist guilty of depicting mohammed, and condemned them to death.
..and the probability that the trustee decides to stop throwing money down the legal rathole...
This is not all SCOs money. SCO has an agreement with the attorneys that they not be paid by the hour. They will get a majority of the settlement against IBM instead.
So far they have gotten nothing for years of work. They are probably fairly desperate, and willing to do anything.
Not very competent at setting up web servers apparently. Maybe just impatient.
Did however write an IP stack, file servers, network boot software etc in use in most large router on the net. Did set up a global network for ATT, and some national networks.
1. I find it offensive, and I think it says more about you than me, that you suggest that the copy was pirated. It was not.
2. Of course it is easy to share folders. However, if you have some computers with Windows for workgroups. some with security domains etc, you can *not* just share folders.
3. IIS is easy to set up and run if you dont need any features. Try to set up IIS with multiple domain names, and right security levels for the different parts. Try to do simple load balancing. Try to do simple packet mangling. Or rewrite requested URLs on the fly.
I tried this in good faith, and just gave up on Win. If you know how to do this, I would like to try again.
I have used windows for many years, including setting up networks. I tried to set up Windows server 2003 as a file server and a web server. This is a file server for other Windows boxes only.
I could not get the file server to work. Then I tried the web server. Works, but to access the pages, the users have to use windows user logon. Gave up on this too.
Had basically *no* experience with linux. Installed Mandrake Linux, picked Samba and Apache.
It all worked flawlessly right away.
In addition, windows always become unstable after a few weeks of running. The Linux box has now run for two years, and no issues.
If you pick windows for a server you have to be crazy.
The recipe for the electrolyte in capacitors is kept as a big secret similar to the secret ingredients in the sauce at a restaurant.
Chinese industrial spies stole a fake formula from a Japanese company, and started making capacitors, and the rest is history.
A combination of a smaller solid cap with good HF performance together with a cheap and large electrolyte further away, but with better LF performance will beat the solution in the article.
I use the power supply from a 25 old HP HDD as a lab supply. It has huge electrolytes that still deliver great performance.
You will probably get more performance improvement by adding neon lights to your case.
I would like to just suggest a link to Roland Piquepailles blog somewhere where those who are interested can click. And *no more articles please*
I read/. to get real news and facts, and see discussions from people with insight. Roland Piquepailles submissions has not met this criterium. And again, chromophores has nothing to do with the speed of the internet.
You should mod this up if you agree or mod away as flamebait/offtopic/troll if you dont agree, but at least mod it.
It does not matter much what path humans take in the years to come. Even the most agressive greenhouse gas emission reduction are a spit in the bucket. The Koyoto treaty calls for reduction in emission down to a 1990 level, and this excludes the developing world like China and India.
The emission in 1990 was already resulting in historical CO2 levels in the air.
The differece will only be wether the global changes happens in a few hundre years or a few thousand years. The big extinctions in the past has taken hundreds of thousands of years, so there is little chance evolution will be up to the task of coping with the changes.
On a geological time scale, it is a flash disaster either way.
At any rate, we will see a human made catastrophy that will easily kill of 90% of all species. Not only due to CO2, but also habitat destruction and resource consumption.
Only way to avoid this would be something like making earth a stoneage zoological garden supporting a few hundred million people tops. The rest must have to build an industrial complex on the moon or mars or something.
Anyone that has fermented grape juice to make wine knows this. The yeast cells multiply to consume all resources, and in the end die of global(vat) pollution(alcohol) of their own making.
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One exceptional feature of a microwave is that it will keep heating at full effect no matter how hot the target gets. The only limit how you design your target.
d omestic-microwave-oven/
You can for example melt and cast most metals:
http://net127.com/2005/01/24/melting-metals-in-a-
With some research, you may even be able to use your kitchen microwave to generate some fusion reactions.
1. "The president can order prisoners to be tortured" is not in conflict with the law against torture (geneva conventions)
2. "The president can not be helt responsible for anything he does"
3. It is not torture unless "injury such as death, organ failure, or serious impairment of body functions" occurred
I think The administration can ask for anything they want, and Mr. Gonsales will find that it is perfectly legal.
barium titanate has an extremely high dielectric constant of around 5000 at room temperature. see http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/selvaduray/page/papers /mate115/hsiaolin.pdf
This is hundres of times more than polystyrene, but the challeng is still formidable:
A cap with 320Wh/kg or 1GJ/m^3 or 1kJ/cm^3 at 3kV would require:
C/cm^3=0.7Farad
Since C=k*e0*A/d, e0=8.8E-12, k=5000
we get C(BaTiO3)/cm^3=4.4E-8*A/d
and with A*d=1cm^3 (not all of the cap can be dielectric so this is a ceiling)we get:
A=4m^2 and d=250nm
So with d=250nm, and U=3kV, the voltage across the dielectric is 12GV/m. Breakdown voltage for most ceramics are less than 300MV/m.
This would imply less than 1% the capacity claimed. Still an incredible feat, but the car would only go a few km.
the big concern here is Microsofts relationship with Novell. Now that MSs strategy to support SCO has failed, MS has set their eyes on Novell. Novell, probably rightly, claim ownership of Unix.
MS might not have a clear plan, but a close ralationship with Novell can be a way to keep close control over Linux as well.
Imagine a patent/copyright/licencing/enforcement mutual agreement. Now MS sits on the right to enforce any Unix IP rights violation that might occur. MS might also have rights to Linux code released by Novell. Noticing that MS has a lot of money and Novell almost nothing, this or more like a merger, may be inevitable.
If not a direct threat to Linux, this may make it more difficult for Linux developers in may ways.
Should Novell donate the Unix I.P. rights to the FSF or the Linux community before it is too late?
The consumer is offered two choices from the utility:
A. peak rate at $0.40/kWh and off-peak at $0.20kWh
or
B. fixed rate at $0.35/kWh
Now two neighbours sign up for the two different rates, and start their own little energy trading:
Off peak, Neighbour A buys at $0.20 from utility and sells to neigbour B for $0.35. B resells to utility.
During peak hours, Neighbour A buys from B at $0.35m and sells to utility for $0.40.
With a 400A service, they can 800,000kWh a year and make a profit of $80k!
Have fun
I notice that they use CPU-Z to monitor this CPU. Seems like a pretty good tool to monitor the CPU. Get a copy here http://www.cpuid.org/
And as a harware engineer: As long as you dont boost the voltage too much (Which these guys prpbably did), you can not damage anything, so go for it.
Somewhat misleading: TFA is not about any new hardware, just that Google is scanning in books to make them avialable online. Great, but hardly anything new here.
Google only buys/own fiberoptic backbone. They have bought this beause it has been for sale really cheap, because there is a *huge* surplus of it.
Also, Google needs this for its long term strategy of delivering search functionality to the world without beeing controlled other fiber providers.
The bandwidht limitation is largely artifical and created by ISPs, as a revenue generating business model.
ISPs could open up the valve on all DSL lines, and not need any more fiber to support it. Maybe some cheap equipment upgrades here and there.
Example: A fiber cable may consists of a few hundred fibers delivering from 10Gb to 10TB for a total of 1-100Tb. A city like San Jose, CA, with 100k households, this gives 10Mb-10Gb per household. (And there are actually more than 1 fiber cable)
would like to just suggest a link to Roland Piquepailles blog somewhere where those who are interested can click. And *no more articles please*
/. to get real news and facts, and see discussions from people with insight.
I read
Roland Piquepailles submissions has not met this criterium. At least filter away the combination "Piquepailles", "nano" and "quantum".
Take a bottle of nano-beer (yes the water molecules are nano particles), eat some nano-pretzels (the baking soda produced a nano-gas that puffed them up), and run this script.
Here is one of many greasemonkey script to remove piquepaille stories
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5735/
You should mod this up if you agree or mod away as flamebait/offtopic/troll if you dont agree, but at least mod it.
Here is a half decade old article that describes the process well. It also uses units such as nm and Kelvin instead of thigs like "seven times around the earth" and "about 450 degrees below zero"
f reeze/lightfreeze.html
http://www.physics.hku.hk/~tboyce/sf/topics/light
From TFA: the cost of the installation was about $500,000, including about $50,000 of lead acid batteries.
I would suggest that the environmental impact of building this house, and recycling the consumables far outweighs the lowered energy consumption.
Just recycling an estimated 1 ton of toxic, heavy metal, lead a year (assuming 10 ton installation with life expectancy of 10 years), has a big environmental impact.
Solar panel manufacturing also consumes a lot of resources, and end up not beeing so clean overall.
A $500,000 investment would probably give a thousand times better ROI if it was spent on pollution reduction in india or china, or to save rainforest.
The diameter of the galaxy is 100,000 lightyears across. Fastest probes today travel 80000km/hr or 0.00007c, so that adds up to 1.3 billion years.
At 0.1c, it would take 1 million years
Not sure where the need for a computer simulation is.
You are missing an important point about how the law relates to national souvereignity:
Murder is unlawful in most contries/states, but the juristicion to prosecute and punish rests solely with the county/state.
If you commit murder in Idaho, a California court can not convict you of that crime.
If you commit murder in Denmark, the US can not convict you of that crime.
This is part of international treaties that all memebers of the UN are signatories to.
however, over the last years, the US are in many areas violating this, and treat the entire world as US juristicion.
This includes areas like
1. Actions aganinst people/companies living/based in tax havens
2. Underage sex tourism
3. Online gambling
and other
(1) is mostly to get more tax revenue, (2) is beacause local juristicions is lax, and (3) is to protect national casinos that donate a lot of money to candidates.
What you are suggesting is very dangerous. If I put up a web page, it should sufficethat I comply with all local laws.
If I have to consider the laws of all nations in the world, I pretty much have to hire attorneys from each of the contries to review my website.
And I can not:
1. Enjoy fredom of expression (Illegal all over, including china)
2. Critizise leaders (putin, il-jung-sum, most communists and others)
3. Advertize alcoholic beverages (Illegal in many arab countires)
4. Have any sexual material (again illegal in many countires)
5. Have any religious material worshipping any other gods than allah
6. Have any religious material worshipping any other gods than jhave
7. Have any religious material worshipping any other gods than
8. Download music(illegal in USA)
An in many cases illegal means "To be stoned to death"
Is this what you advocate?
It is worrisome how the US is trying to enforce its law on the whole world.
Many companies/people operate fully within the law of the land they live in. If this is breaking a US law, then the US should work with that government to harmonize the laws.
This is similar to how Muslim courts found danish cartoonist guilty of depicting mohammed, and condemned them to death.
..and the probability that the trustee decides to stop throwing money down the legal rathole...
This is not all SCOs money. SCO has an agreement with the attorneys that they not be paid by the hour. They will get a majority of the settlement against IBM instead.
So far they have gotten nothing for years of work. They are probably fairly desperate, and willing to do anything.
Imagine this jet taking off from NYC at 4th of july. the system will run amok and kill a lot of people.
Many other scenarios from software defects to proximity to other aircrafts may cause a "kill".
In combat, 10% friendly fire kill ratio may be acceptable, but this may not be acceptable in commercial aviation.
Not very competent at setting up web servers apparently. Maybe just impatient.
Did however write an IP stack, file servers, network boot software etc in use in most large router on the net.
Did set up a global network for ATT, and some national networks.
1. I find it offensive, and I think it says more about you than me, that you suggest that the copy was pirated. It was not.
2. Of course it is easy to share folders. However, if you have some computers with Windows for workgroups. some with security domains etc, you can *not* just share folders.
3. IIS is easy to set up and run if you dont need any features. Try to set up IIS with multiple domain names, and right security levels for the different parts. Try to do simple load balancing. Try to do simple packet mangling. Or rewrite requested URLs on the fly.
I tried this in good faith, and just gave up on Win. If you know how to do this, I would like to try again.
I have used windows for many years, including setting up networks.
I tried to set up Windows server 2003 as a file server and a web server.
This is a file server for other Windows boxes only.
I could not get the file server to work. Then I tried the web server. Works, but to access the pages, the users have to use windows user logon. Gave up on this too.
Had basically *no* experience with linux. Installed Mandrake Linux, picked Samba and Apache.
It all worked flawlessly right away.
In addition, windows always become unstable after a few weeks of running. The Linux box has now run for two years, and no issues.
If you pick windows for a server you have to be crazy.
The recipe for the electrolyte in capacitors is kept as a big secret similar to the secret ingredients in the sauce at a restaurant.
p df?arnumber=1176509
Chinese industrial spies stole a fake formula from a Japanese company, and started making capacitors, and the rest is history.
A combination of a smaller solid cap with good HF performance together with a cheap and large electrolyte further away, but with better LF performance will beat the solution in the article.
I use the power supply from a 25 old HP HDD as a lab supply. It has huge electrolytes that still deliver great performance.
You will probably get more performance improvement by adding neon lights to your case.
Article in ieee.org members only
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/6/26410/01176509.
http://www.burtonsys.com/bad_BP6/story1.html
Here is one of many scripts:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5735/
I would like to just suggest a link to Roland Piquepailles blog somewhere where those who are interested can click. And *no more articles please*
/. to get real news and facts, and see discussions from people with insight.
I read
Roland Piquepailles submissions has not met this criterium. And again, chromophores has nothing to do with the speed of the internet.
You should mod this up if you agree or mod away as flamebait/offtopic/troll if you dont agree, but at least mod it.
It does not matter much what path humans take in the years to come. Even the most agressive greenhouse gas emission reduction are a spit in the bucket. The Koyoto treaty calls for reduction in emission down to a 1990 level, and this excludes the developing world like China and India.
The emission in 1990 was already resulting in historical CO2 levels in the air.
The differece will only be wether the global changes happens in a few hundre years or a few thousand years. The big extinctions in the past has taken hundreds of thousands of years, so there is little chance evolution will be up to the task of coping with the changes.
On a geological time scale, it is a flash disaster either way.
At any rate, we will see a human made catastrophy that will easily kill of 90% of all species. Not only due to CO2, but also habitat destruction and resource consumption.
Only way to avoid this would be something like making earth a stoneage zoological garden supporting a few hundred million people tops. The rest must have to build an industrial complex on the moon or mars or something.
Anyone that has fermented grape juice to make wine knows this. The yeast cells multiply to consume all resources, and in the end die of global(vat) pollution(alcohol) of their own making.
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