you are right, innocent untill proven guilty. i'll give you that.
"There's only one way to prove stuff; investigation."
i would have no problem with that, IF THEY WERE INVESTIGATING AN ACTIVE CASE. Tell me, what are they investigating? investigating if you're a terrorist because you want to know information? there should not even BE investigations into someone for matters like this unless there is probable cause that they are linked with organizations of terrorists. Otherwise we are ALL potentially suspects.
Perhaps in 10 years, we'll have automated systems look up our financial background (for terrorist links) because we bought a 5 lb bang of fertilizer for our lawns (and we all know terrorists use fertilizer to make bombs!)
I have, for perhaps the last 8 months almost begun to wonder if by chance this company knew it was failing, and with its finaly resources perhaps SCO is trying to do the linux comunity a (covert) favor by actually 1.) getting linux in the news so people know hear and talk about it, and 2.) Getting the GPL tested and legitimised in court, so that people who never knew about linux before hand will then think about actually implementing it in the future... in all seriousness a non-tech savy buisnessman would probably be VERY leery of using a product that was completely free, with zero strings attached.
But hey, maybe SCO really is as stupid as they appear./shrug
I live in Northern MN, so my winters will be very similar to yours. I am no scietist, but with many of the new insulating technologies coming out, it may yet be 'feasable' to have a house completely off 'the grid.' at least in the summer it would be totally possible.
Winter would be interesting for one of these systems. I imagine one would need to get a compressor of some sort to compress the hyrogen/liquify it? (perhaps someone with knowledge could clarify if its possible/safe to store liquid hydrogen) once the hydrogen 'reserve' for winter is solved, you also have to worry about your elecrolosis water tanks freezing. (perhaps those can be stored in the basement/shrug)
Its been my dream to have a self sufficent house using this very method. Perhaps i will be able to do this one day as well, however, in northern MN it may prove to be a big challenge....
anyone have info on how much of a solar power reduction can be expected during the winter in the northern climates?
i wonder what something like this would cost in USia
i could see how many people (when factoring in the exorbitant price of broadband) would be perfectly happy with dial-up...especially if they are only casual users (as most are).
getting a 'base' broadband/dsl package is often around 3x (or more) dialup's cost.
now if they had a "basic" package which gave speeds around 4x dialup, and cost were to come down to say within 20% of basic dialup cost, then i could see a huge surge in broadband subscribers.
ok, i dont know what setup you have, but the hard drives i have purchased have continually gotten quieter over the years, while rpm's have actually gone up.
i dont know about the 10k rpm drives, as i have not owned one of those yet, but the two 7200 rpm drives i (coincidentally) just got today are indeed quieter than the two 5400 rpm drives i bought about 3-4 years ago. Likewise i have about 4 more drives that (are still working) and all are continually louder as they are older. both in idle noise and in access noise.
mmm so the project is basically limited by how much dust collects on these panels?
sheesh, i doubt it would have been that hard to implement a rail along each solar panel, with a brush that could clean them every now and then.
it just seems a little wasteful to spend as much money sending the damn thing up there, and then let it die because some dust collected. talk about narrow sighted.
p.s. i am 100% for space exploration, and feel funding for nasa should be more in line with what the military gets, and the military more in line with what nasa gets.
seriously,i can understand students with no jobs shying away from donating to fbsd.
For everyone else out there, if peeps donated just a bit (either to this guy or the FBSD foundation) then perhaps projects like this could be funded more frequently.
just a couple bucks from most people is all it takes.
i dont know about you, but i would LOVE to have no street lights at night--and i live in a ~15k population down in the middle of BFE.
the difference of a night sky in the middle of absolutely nowhere, and my town is insane...then you have some city slicker come up here, and they say the same thing only comparing thier city to my town.
perhaps one day, we'll have enough people needing juice at night to recharge their electric cars, or to perform electrolysis that the cities will deem it more important to collect the revenue than trying to illuminate the skies.
as for the taste problem with the water--perhaps they just had sucky pipes....even a short distance of sucky piping can place an awful taste into water.... the location i work at recently added onto their building, and this addition isnt big, but if you try to drink fountain water from any of the fountains there--you nearly end up hurling.
98.862% of drivers out there will never even know this is happeneing, and if they do not know that their speeding is the cause of these red lights, then how will they be 'conditioned' into driving the speed limit.
"shit i'm late for work, i'll speed a little... aww shit a red light..just my luck, now i'll have to go faster!, aww crap another! some luck i have today! i cant believe this"
additionally, you're essentially disrupting the traffic flow of eVERYONE over the actions of one. just one more reason i disagree with it.
while i would generally agree with yor opinion of being adequate for now, perhaps the user just wants to be able to set something up now and not have to worry about having to replace anything 5 years from now due to speed.
right now, if i were networking a new house, or building, it would be with cat6. of course, i would wait a little while longer before getting a switch that could handle 1000-TX.
i am a little fuzzy on this--does this yeild the session key (and decrypt only this session) or will it yeild the private keys? (and allow decryption of all further communications?)
either way..this was only what, 17 months for only 2k people on a 109 bit key?... just think.. each bit doubles a key's strength. and with 64 bit keys still being fairly commonly used, think how fast the govt (NSA) will be (probably, has been) blowing through lower bit (possibly higher bit) crypto communications--and i can almost guarentee you that the govt has very specialized decryping hardware which would OWN the fastest of 'general use' cpu's on the market today.
of course, tracking every access to those records would may also help to curb the abusers of that system. for electronic medical records, i believe (not 100% certain) that is a requirement for HIPAA complaiance.
1.) expect to be evesdropped on for EVERYTHING that is not encrypted, wether you're IN the US or outside of it. Use STRONG encryption whereever possible.
2.) expect weak encryption to be easily broken--it's prettymuch a given that the NSA has hardware *specifically designed* to break or brute force crypto. they employ many of the worlds greatest mathmatic savants out there, do not underestimate their capabilities.
as much as i hate taxes, imo, if we were not taxed 1) as much as we are, and 2) they were more simple and straightforward to understand, then people would be more willing to pay them.
on the flip side, i think that right now we need to be taxed MORE (while DRASTICALLY reducing spending). My reasoning is that we need to try and pay off our national debt NOW while the BASTARDLY generations that GOT ME AN EVERYONE ELSE this crazy debt (24k+/person) are still (somewhat) in the workforce.
sorry, but it just irks me a LOT knowing that a couple previous generations spend money that was not theirs, and expect someone else to pay off their glamarous spending habits.
lately, i've been of the opinion that the net should be prettymuch left alone by govt, aside from possibly flooding, faud (fake 'stores', etc), and petahphonelia distribution.
hackers? imo, let them hack with no legal reprecussions. companies will build a reputation through their quality. If you choose to put something on the net, one should not be able to put someone in jail, just because their 0's and 1's that got sent were in some order different than another persons.
my main reasoning for this ideal is that currently, software says "pay us big bucks, but if our software does anything averse, tough" (meaning the software CO's depend on the law/govt to enforce THEIR SLACK SECURITY) meanwhile, people who do dare to test the lazy long arm of the law can quite frequently break the security of the software--because it isnt made that well. Additionally, often, if something 'illegal' happens to your home box, the govt wont get involved, they only will if you have some kind of money.
so i say--make it all legal on the net! reduce our taxpayers money being spent on the net law enforcement (which is only spent on the rich!), and we will see, quite fast, an ABSOLUTE DEMAND for better software.
i forsee (well, hope) for a rebirth of railways. They are much more efficent than flying, and some can be be nearly as fast. right now the only factor in keeping them from being more widely deployed is that people just dont care enough about the environment/cost to fly just isnt that much of a difference...when gas prices become a lot higher (as they will in th near future) perhaps we will see a new affinity for the rails.
the other thing i would like to see are cars that drive themselves. THAT (at least in temperate cities) would make traffic much much more efficent/fast. you woulnt have morons changing from lane to lane trying to get to their location faster (while statistically slowing everyone else down in the process)... i forsee this being possible (but not widely adopted) in the near future (25 years).......in areas with freezing temperatures or in the freezing months i could see people being less willing to adopt a technology like this, unless it could handle slides better than people (i.e. how antilock brakes beat out even racecar drivers ability to bake)
this should go into effect! (and i thought i read something on./ a couple years back how it was supposed to by law, but somehow *all* of the cable companies just forgot)
honestly, the only channles i would be remotely interested in having are cartoon network, history channel, maybe a couple news channles, fox, and probably discovery channel. maybe food channel too.
if this gets implemented, imo they should HAVE to charge equally for EVERY channel. that sounds fair to me, since we right now, HAVE to pay equally for ALL of the channles yet, we only want ONE.
if we find microbes on the planet--i say we still do it.
to those who say "why even talk about it now, we're generations away from having the ability to do so" i will say that it will take not just generations, but probably eons to complete such a process. the bulk of the time will be spent just waiting for some home grown genetically altered microbes to do their work.
thinking long term, we have nowhere to go but space; and, unless we get some impressive propulsion technology soon, we will NEED the ability to teraform planets (versus just roaming from galaxy to galaxy hoping to find a prime planet that will happen to support our species). Generally speaking, we will probably need someplace to try it out on before we want to even attempt test it on another solar system.
i can not wait till they release a version of these with 2x nic's, and preferably a real PCI slot.
i want to make an uber NAS/Firewall/Gateway which will be more friendly toward power consumption (and ears) vs my p2 system.
i am half tempted to just get the mini-itx CL, and buy a hardware crypto card, and take my chances and see if one of the PCI riser cards with 2 slots will work, so i can throw in a wi-fi connection as well... or sped half as much and get the original mini-itx board, and due w/o hardware crypto.
i would move out of that state...or if i were financially unable to, i would just let the car beep and honk while i drive it. perhaps i'd get the horn modified to be one of those "ouuuga" type sounds.
yea, if gold were that prevalent--to use in wiring, and in bullets, i dont think a coin valued at 20$ would be small enough for even california's governor to carry it.
Good, bad, imho, NASA, i have though, has needed a bigger budget for a long ass time--more than a measely 1B budget too... its sad imho that these projects will probably deplete resources from other projects of NASA.
I do also STRONGLY feel this county needs to try and zero its deficit within the next 25 years (it'll never happen, i know). the amount that is WASTED just to PAY DOWN THE INTEREST is just plain ugly.
while i'm on the subject of our country's problems, more cash needs to be allocated to school spending, out children/next generations are our future---i dont know about you, but i think societies goals should always be to help make the nex generation better than our own... and w/o proper education to the MASSES that just wont happen.
I know, i say we should eliminate our debt, yet i'm saying these two programs need more spending..... the places to cut spending are our military, and the war on drugs... those are the two huge ones i think need to be curtailed ASAP. there's no need to spend 400 bil. for DEFENSE! (hi, also no need to spend more than #2 through #24 world military budgets combined), we also need to drop the war on drugs. legalise it, tax the HELL out of it, REGULATE it, and goddamn, get (not sure on the exact number here but its something like 50%) of the people in our prisons out of jail on the goddamn drug charges. Goddamn, so much money would be freed up through prison costs, court costs, and all that bullshit if drugs were legalised... arg, i'll stop, i'm straying from the topic..
go nasa! big goals! woot? (still i have mixed views about bushes proposal)
2,200,000 taps? good god that is sickly a sickly number.
i just get a giddy feeling in my stomach to know my tax dollars are being wasted on drug related bullshit like this. "The war on drugs".... such a complete waste.
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you are right, innocent untill proven guilty. i'll give you that.
"There's only one way to prove stuff; investigation."
i would have no problem with that, IF THEY WERE INVESTIGATING AN ACTIVE CASE. Tell me, what are they investigating? investigating if you're a terrorist because you want to know information? there should not even BE investigations into someone for matters like this unless there is probable cause that they are linked with organizations of terrorists. Otherwise we are ALL potentially suspects.
Perhaps in 10 years, we'll have automated systems look up our financial background (for terrorist links) because we bought a 5 lb bang of fertilizer for our lawns (and we all know terrorists use fertilizer to make bombs!)
I have, for perhaps the last 8 months almost begun to wonder if by chance this company knew it was failing, and with its finaly resources perhaps SCO is trying to do the linux comunity a (covert) favor by actually
/shrug
1.) getting linux in the news so people know hear and talk about it, and
2.) Getting the GPL tested and legitimised in court, so that people who never knew about linux before hand will then think about actually implementing it in the future... in all seriousness a non-tech savy buisnessman would probably be VERY leery of using a product that was completely free, with zero strings attached.
But hey, maybe SCO really is as stupid as they appear.
I live in Northern MN, so my winters will be very similar to yours. I am no scietist, but with many of the new insulating technologies coming out, it may yet be 'feasable' to have a house completely off 'the grid.' at least in the summer it would be totally possible.
/shrug)
Winter would be interesting for one of these systems. I imagine one would need to get a compressor of some sort to compress the hyrogen/liquify it? (perhaps someone with knowledge could clarify if its possible/safe to store liquid hydrogen) once the hydrogen 'reserve' for winter is solved, you also have to worry about your elecrolosis water tanks freezing. (perhaps those can be stored in the basement
Its been my dream to have a self sufficent house using this very method. Perhaps i will be able to do this one day as well, however, in northern MN it may prove to be a big challenge....
anyone have info on how much of a solar power reduction can be expected during the winter in the northern climates?
i wonder what something like this would cost in USia
i could see how many people (when factoring in the exorbitant price of broadband) would be perfectly happy with dial-up...especially if they are only casual users (as most are).
getting a 'base' broadband/dsl package is often around 3x (or more) dialup's cost.
now if they had a "basic" package which gave speeds around 4x dialup, and cost were to come down to say within 20% of basic dialup cost, then i could see a huge surge in broadband subscribers.
ok, i dont know what setup you have, but the hard drives i have purchased have continually gotten quieter over the years, while rpm's have actually gone up.
i dont know about the 10k rpm drives, as i have not owned one of those yet, but the two 7200 rpm drives i (coincidentally) just got today are indeed quieter than the two 5400 rpm drives i bought about 3-4 years ago. Likewise i have about 4 more drives that (are still working) and all are continually louder as they are older. both in idle noise and in access noise.
mmm so the project is basically limited by how much dust collects on these panels?
sheesh, i doubt it would have been that hard to implement a rail along each solar panel, with a brush that could clean them every now and then.
it just seems a little wasteful to spend as much money sending the damn thing up there, and then let it die because some dust collected. talk about narrow sighted.
p.s. i am 100% for space exploration, and feel funding for nasa should be more in line with what the military gets, and the military more in line with what nasa gets.
but thats is just me.
1.) install on a bunch of machines...
2.) firewall and snort everything off at your gateway
3.) profit!
4.) laugh as you're taking spamers money.
*granted this assumes the program does not report back to home about its successful deliveries...i should RTFA...
PC's get compromised if security patches are not applied!
and in other news...
cheerio's get soggy in milk
seriously,i can understand students with no jobs shying away from donating to fbsd. For everyone else out there, if peeps donated just a bit (either to this guy or the FBSD foundation) then perhaps projects like this could be funded more frequently. just a couple bucks from most people is all it takes.
"and we had to shut off the town street lights"
i dont know about you, but i would LOVE to have no street lights at night--and i live in a ~15k population down in the middle of BFE.
the difference of a night sky in the middle of absolutely nowhere, and my town is insane...then you have some city slicker come up here, and they say the same thing only comparing thier city to my town.
perhaps one day, we'll have enough people needing juice at night to recharge their electric cars, or to perform electrolysis that the cities will deem it more important to collect the revenue than trying to illuminate the skies.
as for the taste problem with the water--perhaps they just had sucky pipes....even a short distance of sucky piping can place an awful taste into water.... the location i work at recently added onto their building, and this addition isnt big, but if you try to drink fountain water from any of the fountains there--you nearly end up hurling.
-cheers
98.862% of drivers out there will never even know this is happeneing, and if they do not know that their speeding is the cause of these red lights, then how will they be 'conditioned' into driving the speed limit.
"shit i'm late for work, i'll speed a little... aww shit a red light..just my luck, now i'll have to go faster!, aww crap another! some luck i have today! i cant believe this"
additionally, you're essentially disrupting the traffic flow of eVERYONE over the actions of one. just one more reason i disagree with it.
while i would generally agree with yor opinion of being adequate for now, perhaps the user just wants to be able to set something up now and not have to worry about having to replace anything 5 years from now due to speed.
right now, if i were networking a new house, or building, it would be with cat6. of course, i would wait a little while longer before getting a switch that could handle 1000-TX.
i am a little fuzzy on this--does this yeild the session key (and decrypt only this session) or will it yeild the private keys? (and allow decryption of all further communications?)
either way..this was only what, 17 months for only 2k people on a 109 bit key?... just think.. each bit doubles a key's strength. and with 64 bit keys still being fairly commonly used, think how fast the govt (NSA) will be (probably, has been) blowing through lower bit (possibly higher bit) crypto communications--and i can almost guarentee you that the govt has very specialized decryping hardware which would OWN the fastest of 'general use' cpu's on the market today.
of course, tracking every access to those records would may also help to curb the abusers of that system. for electronic medical records, i believe (not 100% certain) that is a requirement for HIPAA complaiance.
1.) expect to be evesdropped on for EVERYTHING that is not encrypted, wether you're IN the US or outside of it. Use STRONG encryption whereever possible.
2.) expect weak encryption to be easily broken--it's prettymuch a given that the NSA has hardware *specifically designed* to break or brute force crypto. they employ many of the worlds greatest mathmatic savants out there, do not underestimate their capabilities.
3.) All your base ae belong to U.S.
as much as i hate taxes, imo, if we were not taxed 1) as much as we are, and 2) they were more simple and straightforward to understand, then people would be more willing to pay them.
on the flip side, i think that right now we need to be taxed MORE (while DRASTICALLY reducing spending). My reasoning is that we need to try and pay off our national debt NOW while the BASTARDLY generations that GOT ME AN EVERYONE ELSE this crazy debt (24k+/person) are still (somewhat) in the workforce.
sorry, but it just irks me a LOT knowing that a couple previous generations spend money that was not theirs, and expect someone else to pay off their glamarous spending habits.
lately, i've been of the opinion that the net should be prettymuch left alone by govt, aside from possibly flooding, faud (fake 'stores', etc), and petahphonelia distribution.
hackers? imo, let them hack with no legal reprecussions. companies will build a reputation through their quality. If you choose to put something on the net, one should not be able to put someone in jail, just because their 0's and 1's that got sent were in some order different than another persons.
my main reasoning for this ideal is that currently, software says "pay us big bucks, but if our software does anything averse, tough" (meaning the software CO's depend on the law/govt to enforce THEIR SLACK SECURITY) meanwhile, people who do dare to test the lazy long arm of the law can quite frequently break the security of the software--because it isnt made that well. Additionally, often, if something 'illegal' happens to your home box, the govt wont get involved, they only will if you have some kind of money.
so i say--make it all legal on the net! reduce our taxpayers money being spent on the net law enforcement (which is only spent on the rich!), and we will see, quite fast, an ABSOLUTE DEMAND for better software.
i forsee (well, hope) for a rebirth of railways. They are much more efficent than flying, and some can be be nearly as fast. right now the only factor in keeping them from being more widely deployed is that people just dont care enough about the environment/cost to fly just isnt that much of a difference...when gas prices become a lot higher (as they will in th near future) perhaps we will see a new affinity for the rails.
the other thing i would like to see are cars that drive themselves. THAT (at least in temperate cities) would make traffic much much more efficent/fast. you woulnt have morons changing from lane to lane trying to get to their location faster (while statistically slowing everyone else down in the process)... i forsee this being possible (but not widely adopted) in the near future (25 years).......in areas with freezing temperatures or in the freezing months i could see people being less willing to adopt a technology like this, unless it could handle slides better than people (i.e. how antilock brakes beat out even racecar drivers ability to bake)
this should go into effect! (and i thought i read something on ./ a couple years back how it was supposed to by law, but somehow *all* of the cable companies just forgot)
honestly, the only channles i would be remotely interested in having are cartoon network, history channel, maybe a couple news channles, fox, and probably discovery channel. maybe food channel too.
if this gets implemented, imo they should HAVE to charge equally for EVERY channel. that sounds fair to me, since we right now, HAVE to pay equally for ALL of the channles yet, we only want ONE.
if we find microbes on the planet--i say we still do it.
to those who say "why even talk about it now, we're generations away from having the ability to do so" i will say that it will take not just generations, but probably eons to complete such a process. the bulk of the time will be spent just waiting for some home grown genetically altered microbes to do their work.
thinking long term, we have nowhere to go but space; and, unless we get some impressive propulsion technology soon, we will NEED the ability to teraform planets (versus just roaming from galaxy to galaxy hoping to find a prime planet that will happen to support our species). Generally speaking, we will probably need someplace to try it out on before we want to even attempt test it on another solar system.
i can not wait till they release a version of these with 2x nic's, and preferably a real PCI slot.
i want to make an uber NAS/Firewall/Gateway which will be more friendly toward power consumption (and ears) vs my p2 system.
i am half tempted to just get the mini-itx CL, and buy a hardware crypto card, and take my chances and see if one of the PCI riser cards with 2 slots will work, so i can throw in a wi-fi connection as well... or sped half as much and get the original mini-itx board, and due w/o hardware crypto.
i would move out of that state...or if i were financially unable to, i would just let the car beep and honk while i drive it. perhaps i'd get the horn modified to be one of those "ouuuga" type sounds.
yea, if gold were that prevalent--to use in wiring, and in bullets, i dont think a coin valued at 20$ would be small enough for even california's governor to carry it.
Good, bad, imho, NASA, i have though, has needed a bigger budget for a long ass time--more than a measely 1B budget too... its sad imho that these projects will probably deplete resources from other projects of NASA.
I do also STRONGLY feel this county needs to try and zero its deficit within the next 25 years (it'll never happen, i know). the amount that is WASTED just to PAY DOWN THE INTEREST is just plain ugly.
while i'm on the subject of our country's problems, more cash needs to be allocated to school spending, out children/next generations are our future---i dont know about you, but i think societies goals should always be to help make the nex generation better than our own... and w/o proper education to the MASSES that just wont happen.
I know, i say we should eliminate our debt, yet i'm saying these two programs need more spending..... the places to cut spending are our military, and the war on drugs... those are the two huge ones i think need to be curtailed ASAP.
there's no need to spend 400 bil. for DEFENSE! (hi, also no need to spend more than #2 through #24 world military budgets combined), we also need to drop the war on drugs. legalise it, tax the HELL out of it, REGULATE it, and goddamn, get (not sure on the exact number here but its something like 50%) of the people in our prisons out of jail on the goddamn drug charges. Goddamn, so much money would be freed up through prison costs, court costs, and all that bullshit if drugs were legalised... arg, i'll stop, i'm straying from the topic..
go nasa! big goals! woot? (still i have mixed views about bushes proposal)
2,200,000 taps? good god that is sickly a sickly number.
i just get a giddy feeling in my stomach to know my tax dollars are being wasted on drug related bullshit like this. "The war on drugs".... such a complete waste.