it was done on this notebook because it just looks so much cooler on the off-white powerbook. Didn't see any mention of cost. What are the chances of Squid Labs offering it as a commerical service for Apple/laptop owners in general? If I had a powerbook, I sure would be interested in getting this done.
Read about this topic on the The OilDrum a few days back. Seriously, oil shale is not really a solution at all. Why? The cost of extracting this stuff is phenomenal. You use up 1 barrel for every 3 that you extract(30 %).
I worked with a major oil company for 2 years trying to develop a way to commercialize oil shale. Trust me on this, it ain't going to happen. Most oil companies know this. The few (one??) that don't are totally deluded. Oil shale is not oil. Oil shale is rock that has a relatively high concentration of organic carbon compounds in it. Geologists call this a source rock. If you heat this shale to 700 degrees F you will turn this organic carbon (kerogen) into the nastiest, stinkiest, gooiest, pile of oil-like crap that you can imagine. Then if you send it through the gnarliest oil refinery on the planet you can make this shit into transportation fuel. In the mean time you have created all kinds of nasty by products, have polluted the air and groundwater of where ever you have extracted it. You have also created an enormous pile of superheated rock that will take hundreds to thousands of years to cool off.
The biggest deposits of oil shale in the world are in northwestern Colorado. No other deposit anywhere else in the world (China, Jordan, Australia, etc.) even comes close in terms of size and richness. There are approximately 1.3 trillion barrels of POTENTIAL oil in this deposit of oil shale. However, even those in their wildest hallucinations have never proposed that more than about 300 billion of these barrels were POSSIBLY extractable.
Of course 300 billion barrels is a very large number. Assuming $50/bbl, these $300 billion would be worth $15 trillion. Quite an enticement to go after. HOWEVER, - I still haven't seen a good analysis that shows you end up with more energy at the end of the cycle than what you put in. Moreover, it takes about 3-5 barrels of water for about every barrel of oil you get. Last time anyone seriously looked at where all this water would come from was Exxon back in the late 70's and early '80's. Their solution was to RE-ROUTE THE MISSOURI RIVER to bring water to this very arid area. I am not shitting you. Lastly, you will be leaving the biggest superfund site you could ever imagine.
Will we eventually extract oil from oil shale - maybe, but it has always been a last resort, and for good reason. In the meantime, DON'T EVEN THINK about investing in this, even if the offer seems really good. You can't imagine how much money has been poured into trying to commercialize this resource without any success.
There was a experimental oil shale extraction project running in Australia but it shut down a while ago(don't have exact links atm). If it were me, I would be thinking about conserving oil than messing with oil shale.
but I think it would be too weird for many public places that employ automatic doors. There are two sensors on each panel. When the engineer was demonstrating it, part of his head was still being obstructed by one panel.
Maybe the sensors on the panel should be at a 45 degree angle to leave some margin of safety. I'm guessing the speed of the panels will probably to be improved to bring them in line with automatic doors.
as flamebait and troll. No other way to describe it. You must be a mindless sympathizer of al-qaeda and its objectives. If the british govt can't shut down al-qaeda related sites because it is infringing on your so called "rights", you shouldn't be in britain in the first place. The british govt is too damn lax on terror. Idiots. They should be even more firm on these terrorists than the french or cia.
A 2002 BBC correspondent program on japanese otaku
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Tokyo's Geek Ghetto
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· Score: 4, Informative
I saw this program more than 2 years back. It deals in detail with the phenomenon- hikikimori, mentioned briefly in the washpost article. Japan: The Missing Million. Here's the program transcript. It apparently is a big problem in Japan.
and it has gotten the step motherly treatment since then. Before Goldman expired, Mailblocks was updated regularly every 4-5 months.
AIM mail is based on mailblocks. Around the beginning of 2004, Mailblocks was gaining a lot of customers. Once AOL acquired it, mailblocks went into a time wrap. Even now the mail quota is a paltry 15MB. I sent 2-3 mails to mailblocks support asking whether they plan to allow mail quotas higher than 100MB. They gave no definite answer.
So I abandoned mailblocks, moved all my mail to a hosting server, soon after that I tried gmail but webmail and pop3 just doesn't cut it once you're used to IMAP. So the only alternative was fastmail and I'm happy with it now.
Many mailblocks customers have abandoned their accounts but if mailblocks does get 2GB quotas, I'm sure many former users might give it a try again. AIM mail may provide a lot of space but it is not compelling compared to gmail. Eweek says that IMAP support will be provided but will it be free? If it is, then it might be interesting.
Frankly, this isn't a novel thing. Other than the 2m resolution, the corona spy satellite had stereophonic cameras in 1960. Wow, India is late to the party by 45 years and the article submitter makes it sound as if its _the_ innovation of the year. Bah.
3.5 inch hard drives get bigger capacities and are cheaper within a short period of time(6-8 months.) But why isn't this carried over to laptop hard drives(2.5inch?) Anything over a 40GB still cost a pretty penny and 5400/7200rpm disks are still the exception rather than the norm in laptops. And good luck finding laptop hard drives above 100GB.
Is AOL going to succeed in becoming a free webmail service? Not if it offers only 100 MB.
On the other hand, the mailblocks interface is quite user-friendly. I received only 15 spams in 18 or so months. The only reason I stopped using it was the storage limit of 15MB. Too small for my needs. Mailblocks uses Microsoft's IMAP implementation. But gmail trumps all in space and spam filtering. Just waiting for gmail to implement IMAP.
Agents of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations have raided the offices of internet service provider Infocom in Dallas, Texas. The raid came as a result of information that the company was cooperating with the Holy Land Fund for Relief and Development, suspected of being a Hamas fundraising front. The FBI agents confiscated servers, computers and financial records of Infocom. Several websites came down as a result of the raid, including that of the Holy Land Fund.
superstitious propoganda- church. christianity. cults- falun gong etc
Religious freedom is very heavily monitored. Read the article from the nytimes below.
THE GREAT DIVIDE | COMPETING FOR SOULS Violence Taints Religion's Solace for China's Poor By JOSEPH KAHN
Published: November 25, 2004
UAIDE, China - Kuang Yuexia and her husband, Cai Defu, considered themselves good Christians. They read the Bible every night before bed. When their children misbehaved, they dealt with them calmly. They did not curse or tell lies.
But when Zhang Chengli, a neighbor, began hounding them last year to leave their underground religious sect and join his, it seemed like a test of satanic intensity. He scaled the wall of their garden, ambushed them in the fields and roused them after midnight with frantic calls to convert before Jesus arrived for his Second Coming and sent them to hell.
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Ms. Kuang poured dirty water on Mr. Zhang's head. Mr. Cai punched him. Yet Mr. Zhang persisted for months until the couple's sect intervened and stopped his proselytizing for good.
Mr. Zhang's body - eyes, ears and nose ripped from his face - was found by a roadside 300 miles from this rural town in Jilin Province, in northeastern China. The police arrested Mr. Cai and fellow sect members. One of them died in police custody during what fellow inmates described as a torture session.
China's growing material wealth has eluded the countryside, home to two-thirds of its population. But there is a bull market in sects and cults competing for souls. That has alarmed the authorities, who seem uncertain whether the spread of religion or its systematic repression does more to turn peasants against Communist rule.
The demise of Communist ideology has left a void, and it is being filled by religion. The country today has more church-going Protestants than Europe, according to several foreign estimates. Buddhism has become popular among the social elite. Beijing college students wait hours for a pew during Christmas services in the capital's 100 packed churches.
But it is the rural underclass that is most desperate for salvation. The rural economy has grown relatively slowly. Corruption and a collapse in state-sponsored medical care and social services are felt acutely. But government-sanctioned churches operate mainly in cities, where they can be closely monitored, and priests and ministers by law can preach only to those who come to them.
The authorities do not ban religious activity in the countryside. But they have made it so difficult for established churches to operate there that many rural Chinese have turned to underground, often heterodox religious movements.
Charismatic sect leaders denounce state-sanctioned churches. They promise healing in a part of the country where the state has all but abandoned responsibility for public health. They also promise deliverance from the coming apocalypse, and demand money, loyalty and strict secrecy from their members.
Three Grades of Servants, a banned Christian sect that claims several million followers, made inroads in Huaide and other northern towns beginning nearly a decade ago. It lured peasants like Yu Xiaoping, as well as her neighbor, Ms. Kuang, away from state-authorized churches. Its underground network provided spiritual and social services to isolated villages.
But it also attracted competition from Eastern Lightning, its archrival, which sought to convert Ms. Yu, Ms. Kuang and others. The two sects clashed violently. Both became targets of a police crackdown.
Xu Shuangfu, the itinerant founder of Three Grades of Servants, who says he has divine powers, was arrested last summer along with scores of associates. Mr. Xu was suspected of having ordered the execution of religious enemies, police officers said.
Yet such efforts rarely stop the spread of underground churches and sects, which derive legitimacy from govern
Seriously, break out of your bubble. Or somebody is going to pop it.
Spamgourmet is open source software. And its free. However, there is NO VENDOR SUPPORT for this software. You get that? Who is going to support it once it is in place?
Secondly, have you ever ever come across corp email id's in the format- bestbuy.5.linda@xyzcorp.com ?
Where do you get the faintest idea that companies will think of using that kind of email addresses? Have you come across one medium sized company using such a solution? NOPE.
You think any company is going to use bestbuy.5.linda@xyzcorp.com?
That sounds and looks like shit. Nobody would like to be caught using such email addresses.
The problem the author of the review stated with spamassasin is ALSO the problem with spamgourmet. Nobody is selling it, so nobody except volunteers are supporting it.
If something goes wrong, then you better not be the one who implemented such a system because your ass is definitely going to be on the line.
Email is sacred to companies. Why the heck do you think anybody is going to use such a system? The author of the review did not EVEN consider
So as I stated in the grandparent, you are a troll. Don't bother replying to this message.
Exactly the same thoughts. Just because it a "google" story, means slashdot editors go ga-ga over it(and expect readers so too.) The article just meanders. The link given to create a account that will not attract spam is ridiculous. As someone stated, who the heck will use such an account? A gmail article would be slashdot worthy IF gmail went public and/or introduced more features.
Argh. Who modded up that comment? Is this some kind of a troll? You want spamgourmet to be included in the test? Are you fscking nuts? Jesus Christ, did you even read the damn review? How can Spamgourmet EVEN be a part of the test?
Spamgourmet is NOT a software. It is a WEB service. You CANNOT install it on your network gateway. So it cannot even be a part of the test! For a company with an enterprise mailing system for 400-1000 employees, you expect them to use spamgourmet?
When companies buy other companies for 30-40 Billion $, you think they make 5 $ out of every human being? That's a stupid argument. Its like saying IBM earned 8.7 Billion $ last year. Therefore it earned 1.45 $ from every human being. You have stated living being. Which also includes mammals, insects..
Peoplesoft is worth so much(atleast to Oracle) is because of the customers Peoplesoft has. It takes time to build a business and earn profits from it. When you take a competitor off the market and acquire most of its customer base, then you have to pay accordingly.
The top 4 out of 5 stories in the wsj.com site an hour back were- Peoplesoft-Oracle. JnJ- Guidant Sprint-Nextel Honeywell-Novar London Stock Exchange- Deutsche Boerse
Lots of mergers/acquistions going on. Good for companies who want less competition. Bad for consumers.
Slashdot Mirror
An article about this was published in may in the nytimes
it was done on this notebook because it just looks so much cooler on the off-white powerbook.
Didn't see any mention of cost. What are the chances of Squid Labs offering it as a commerical service for Apple/laptop owners in general? If I had a powerbook, I sure would be interested in getting this done.
The pages are in japanese but Kansai Electric has a subsidiary- K-Optic ISP. . K-Optic started 1 gigabit shared internet service in september, 05.
For more details on why such high speed access is taking root in japan, read this article from foreignaffairs.org. Broadband nation
for the same hard disk.
Hitachi's 500GB SATA-II Reviewed. An odd dupe.
Read about this topic on the The OilDrum a few days back. Seriously, oil shale is not really a solution at all. Why? The cost of extracting this stuff is phenomenal. You use up 1 barrel for every 3 that you extract(30 %).
First misconception " Oil Shale Will Save Us"
I worked with a major oil company for 2 years trying to develop a way to commercialize oil shale. Trust me on this, it ain't going to happen. Most oil companies know this. The few (one??) that don't are totally deluded.
Oil shale is not oil. Oil shale is rock that has a relatively high concentration of organic carbon compounds in it. Geologists call this a source rock. If you heat this shale to 700 degrees F you will turn this organic carbon (kerogen) into the nastiest, stinkiest, gooiest, pile of oil-like crap that you can imagine. Then if you send it through the gnarliest oil refinery on the planet you can make this shit into transportation fuel. In the mean time you have created all kinds of nasty by products, have polluted the air and groundwater of where ever you have extracted it. You have also created an enormous pile of superheated rock that will take hundreds to thousands of years to cool off.
The biggest deposits of oil shale in the world are in northwestern Colorado. No other deposit anywhere else in the world (China, Jordan, Australia, etc.) even comes close in terms of size and richness. There are approximately 1.3 trillion barrels of POTENTIAL oil in this deposit of oil shale. However, even those in their wildest hallucinations have never proposed that more than about 300 billion of these barrels were POSSIBLY extractable.
Of course 300 billion barrels is a very large number. Assuming $50/bbl, these $300 billion would be worth $15 trillion. Quite an enticement to go after. HOWEVER, - I still haven't seen a good analysis that shows you end up with more energy at the end of the cycle than what you put in. Moreover, it takes about 3-5 barrels of water for about every barrel of oil you get. Last time anyone seriously looked at where all this water would come from was Exxon back in the late 70's and early '80's. Their solution was to RE-ROUTE THE MISSOURI RIVER to bring water to this very arid area. I am not shitting you.
Lastly, you will be leaving the biggest superfund site you could ever imagine.
Will we eventually extract oil from oil shale - maybe, but it has always been a last resort, and for good reason. In the meantime, DON'T EVEN THINK about investing in this, even if the offer seems really good. You can't imagine how much money has been poured into trying to commercialize this resource without any success.
There was a experimental oil shale extraction project running in Australia but it shut down a while ago(don't have exact links atm). If it were me, I would be thinking about conserving oil than messing with oil shale.
Is something wrong with slashdot's comments posting? This story's been out for 40 min and no comments yet?
but I think it would be too weird for many public places that employ automatic doors. There are two sensors on each panel. When the engineer was demonstrating it, part of his head was still being obstructed by one panel.
Maybe the sensors on the panel should be at a 45 degree angle to leave some margin of safety. I'm guessing the speed of the panels will probably to be improved to bring them in line with automatic doors.
as flamebait and troll. No other way to describe it. You must be a mindless sympathizer of al-qaeda and its objectives. If the british govt can't shut down al-qaeda related sites because it is infringing on your so called "rights", you shouldn't be in britain in the first place.
The british govt is too damn lax on terror. Idiots. They should be even more firm on these terrorists than the french or cia.
I saw this program more than 2 years back. It deals in detail with the phenomenon- hikikimori, mentioned briefly in the washpost article. Japan: The Missing Million. Here's the program transcript. It apparently is a big problem in Japan.
and it has gotten the step motherly treatment since then. Before Goldman expired, Mailblocks was updated regularly every 4-5 months.
AIM mail is based on mailblocks. Around the beginning of 2004, Mailblocks was gaining a lot of customers. Once AOL acquired it, mailblocks went into a time wrap. Even now the mail quota is a paltry 15MB. I sent 2-3 mails to mailblocks support asking whether they plan to allow mail quotas higher than 100MB. They gave no definite answer.
So I abandoned mailblocks, moved all my mail to a hosting server, soon after that I tried gmail but webmail and pop3 just doesn't cut it once you're used to IMAP. So the only alternative was fastmail and I'm happy with it now.
Many mailblocks customers have abandoned their accounts but if mailblocks does get 2GB quotas, I'm sure many former users might give it a try again. AIM mail may provide a lot of space but it is not compelling compared to gmail. Eweek says that IMAP support will be provided but will it be free? If it is, then it might be interesting.
Frankly, this isn't a novel thing. Other than the 2m resolution, the corona spy satellite had stereophonic cameras in 1960.
Wow, India is late to the party by 45 years and the article submitter makes it sound as if its _the_ innovation of the year. Bah.
why Toyota is building robots in Japan and plans to replicate it elsewhere.
Its a link for non-subscribers(took some digging to find this article but thanks to copernic.)
WSJ.com - As Toyota Closes In on GM, Quality Concerns Also Grow
3.5 inch hard drives get bigger capacities and are cheaper within a short period of time(6-8 months.) But why isn't this carried over to laptop hard drives(2.5inch?)
Anything over a 40GB still cost a pretty penny and 5400/7200rpm disks are still the exception rather than the norm in laptops.
And good luck finding laptop hard drives above 100GB.
FCC Chairman Michael Powell has done everything in his power to restrict American citizens' choice of information and entertainment
Powell is one of the most digusting double talkers. Talks one thing to the public, does exactly the opposite in congress. He should be castrated.
If you did, could you reply to this message? or post it in a torrent file?
Would be an interesting 60 minutes.
Here are 2 mirrors for the photos(incase they are slashdotted.)
tsunami photos
mirrordot
I have the videos from the contemporaryinsanity site and 2-3 more from different sites. Let me know if you want them put up(or their torrents.)
Is AOL going to succeed in becoming a free webmail service? Not if it offers only 100 MB.
On the other hand, the mailblocks interface is quite user-friendly. I received only 15 spams in 18 or so months. The only reason I stopped using it was the storage limit of 15MB. Too small for my needs. Mailblocks uses Microsoft's IMAP implementation.
But gmail trumps all in space and spam filtering. Just waiting for gmail to implement IMAP.
Why did the FBI agents raid that Dallas host?
Agents of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations have raided the offices of internet service provider Infocom in Dallas, Texas. The raid came as a result of information that the company was cooperating with the Holy Land Fund for Relief and Development, suspected of being a Hamas fundraising front. The FBI agents confiscated servers, computers and financial records of Infocom. Several websites came down as a result of the raid, including that of the Holy Land Fund.
Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Maybe this was why that Dallas web host was raided?
Euphemisms the chinese govt uses:
superstitious propoganda- church. christianity.
cults- falun gong etc
Religious freedom is very heavily monitored. Read the article from the nytimes below.
THE GREAT DIVIDE | COMPETING FOR SOULS
Violence Taints Religion's Solace for China's Poor
By JOSEPH KAHN
Published: November 25, 2004
UAIDE, China - Kuang Yuexia and her husband, Cai Defu, considered themselves good Christians. They read the Bible every night before bed. When their children misbehaved, they dealt with them calmly. They did not curse or tell lies.
But when Zhang Chengli, a neighbor, began hounding them last year to leave their underground religious sect and join his, it seemed like a test of satanic intensity. He scaled the wall of their garden, ambushed them in the fields and roused them after midnight with frantic calls to convert before Jesus arrived for his Second Coming and sent them to hell.
Advertisement
Ms. Kuang poured dirty water on Mr. Zhang's head. Mr. Cai punched him. Yet Mr. Zhang persisted for months until the couple's sect intervened and stopped his proselytizing for good.
Mr. Zhang's body - eyes, ears and nose ripped from his face - was found by a roadside 300 miles from this rural town in Jilin Province, in northeastern China. The police arrested Mr. Cai and fellow sect members. One of them died in police custody during what fellow inmates described as a torture session.
China's growing material wealth has eluded the countryside, home to two-thirds of its population. But there is a bull market in sects and cults competing for souls. That has alarmed the authorities, who seem uncertain whether the spread of religion or its systematic repression does more to turn peasants against Communist rule.
The demise of Communist ideology has left a void, and it is being filled by religion. The country today has more church-going Protestants than Europe, according to several foreign estimates. Buddhism has become popular among the social elite. Beijing college students wait hours for a pew during Christmas services in the capital's 100 packed churches.
But it is the rural underclass that is most desperate for salvation. The rural economy has grown relatively slowly. Corruption and a collapse in state-sponsored medical care and social services are felt acutely. But government-sanctioned churches operate mainly in cities, where they can be closely monitored, and priests and ministers by law can preach only to those who come to them.
The authorities do not ban religious activity in the countryside. But they have made it so difficult for established churches to operate there that many rural Chinese have turned to underground, often heterodox religious movements.
Charismatic sect leaders denounce state-sanctioned churches. They promise healing in a part of the country where the state has all but abandoned responsibility for public health. They also promise deliverance from the coming apocalypse, and demand money, loyalty and strict secrecy from their members.
Three Grades of Servants, a banned Christian sect that claims several million followers, made inroads in Huaide and other northern towns beginning nearly a decade ago. It lured peasants like Yu Xiaoping, as well as her neighbor, Ms. Kuang, away from state-authorized churches. Its underground network provided spiritual and social services to isolated villages.
But it also attracted competition from Eastern Lightning, its archrival, which sought to convert Ms. Yu, Ms. Kuang and others. The two sects clashed violently. Both became targets of a police crackdown.
Xu Shuangfu, the itinerant founder of Three Grades of Servants, who says he has divine powers, was arrested last summer along with scores of associates. Mr. Xu was suspected of having ordered the execution of religious enemies, police officers said.
Yet such efforts rarely stop the spread of underground churches and sects, which derive legitimacy from govern
Seriously, break out of your bubble. Or somebody is going to pop it.
Spamgourmet is open source software. And its free. However, there is NO VENDOR SUPPORT for this software. You get that? Who is going to support it once it is in place?
Secondly, have you ever ever come across corp email id's in the format- bestbuy.5.linda@xyzcorp.com ?
Where do you get the faintest idea that companies will think of using that kind of email addresses?
Have you come across one medium sized company using such a solution? NOPE.
You think any company is going to use bestbuy.5.linda@xyzcorp.com?
That sounds and looks like shit.
Nobody would like to be caught using such email addresses.
The problem the author of the review stated with spamassasin is ALSO the problem with spamgourmet. Nobody is selling it, so nobody except volunteers are supporting it.
If something goes wrong, then you better not be the one who implemented such a system because your ass is definitely going to be on the line.
Email is sacred to companies. Why the heck do you think anybody is going to use such a system? The author of the review did not EVEN consider
So as I stated in the grandparent, you are a troll. Don't bother replying to this message.
I wonder what will will happen to piratebay.org.. If the raids can happen in finland, then sweden cant't a pirate haven.
;)
legal letters
Will they get a taste of their own medicine?
Exactly the same thoughts. Just because it a "google" story, means slashdot editors go ga-ga over it(and expect readers so too.) The article just meanders. The link given to create a account that will not attract spam is ridiculous. As someone stated, who the heck will use such an account?
A gmail article would be slashdot worthy IF gmail went public and/or introduced more features.
Argh. Who modded up that comment? Is this some kind of a troll? You want spamgourmet to be included in the test? Are you fscking nuts? Jesus Christ, did you even read the damn review? How can Spamgourmet EVEN be a part of the test?
Spamgourmet is NOT a software. It is a WEB service. You CANNOT install it on your network gateway. So it cannot even be a part of the test! For a company with an enterprise mailing system for 400-1000 employees, you expect them to use spamgourmet?
When companies buy other companies for 30-40 Billion $, you think they make 5 $ out of every human being? That's a stupid argument.
Its like saying IBM earned 8.7 Billion $ last year. Therefore it earned 1.45 $ from every human being.
You have stated living being. Which also includes mammals, insects..
Peoplesoft is worth so much(atleast to Oracle) is because of the customers Peoplesoft has. It takes time to build a business and earn profits from it.
When you take a competitor off the market and acquire most of its customer base, then you have to pay accordingly.
The top 4 out of 5 stories in the wsj.com site an hour back were-
Peoplesoft-Oracle.
JnJ- Guidant
Sprint-Nextel
Honeywell-Novar
London Stock Exchange- Deutsche Boerse
Lots of mergers/acquistions going on. Good for companies who want less competition. Bad for consumers.