What I've heard is that hobos often slice open your garbage bags and dump out your trash cans in search of plastic bottles. That could lead to more trash entering the watershed instead of the landfill, exacerbating the problem.
Island countries like the Philippines and Indonesia also tend to have issues with a lot of waste getting into the ocean quickly. In a landlocked country the odds of your properly disposed of plastic waste reaching the ocean are pretty slim.
The real answer for plastic disposal is "Waste to Energy". Plastic burns very well, you just need to burn it hot enough that it doesn't emit dioxins. What we need is a technological solution that can be mass produced and distributed across the developing world so people can collect and incinerate their plastic safely.
This is why I no longer recycle paper, plastic, or glass. All they hydrocarbons in the trash get turned into syngas and burned. All the useful elements are highly concentrated in the slag, which can then be processed. We just need to build a lot of these and mine our way through old landfills, shoveling the ancient trash into the gaping maw of the plasma gasifier.
I got the chance to see this monitor today and it looks great. Awesome colors, very black blacks. All made possible by an array of LED backlights. Complete overkill for your average desktop but if I were a photographer or video editor I would want a couple of these for sure. It comes factory calibrated but you can recalibrate it and upload the calibration data into the monitor. You can also press buttons on the monitor and change it between several industry standard color spaces.
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Well, Slashdot, I am ok with seeing this on the front page, because it is so nerdy that it makes up for being irrelevant. I mean, Ask Slashdot isn't news, but its ok to have occasionally on the main page. As a regular reader of Fark, I know that most of what passes for "news" isn't. So to the haters: Relax. Simmer down a bit. Some of us enjoy a little nerdy goofiness.
I can speak as someone fairly experienced as a world traveler here. In the last year I've been to the Philippines, Australia, Taiwan, and backpacked/motorcycled in the Dominican Republic. Your need to transfer photos home is best served by internet cafes. They are everywhere which has internet. Bring multiple flash cards for your camera, as many and as large a capacity as you can. Bring a usb reader for them. At a cafe upload them to flickr or something similar. If the network is too slow (often the case in crowded cafes), burn them to CD (nobody has dvd burners in the 3rd world), 2 copies. Mail one home and carry the other one. Write your thoughts on paper, xerox the pages in any settlement and mail them home, or if you must type, type in an internet cafe somewhere. These are truly everywhere in the 3rd world. This will run you from 50 cents an hour in the philippines up to $6 an hour in australia.
In the dominican republic I actually lost my camera with my memory card still in it and lost all my photos. I had found an internet cafe the day before and was going to back up my photos but they did not have an SD reader, only USB. If I had a laptop, the extra 5lbs in my backpack would have made my trip much less enjoyable and I would have taken less risks carrying $1500 in gear instead of $300. If you do get a laptop, try to find one that will fit in a 1 gallon ziplock.
Just throw it away, i.e. put it a properly sealed landfill. Someday someone will come along with a Plasma Gasification rig (google it) and distill it into its component materials safely and efficiently. Recycling is just a waste of time and money, whether its your time and money or someone else's.
If you want to keep a secret, keep it in your head. Writing it down is a mistake. The law against self incrimination only applies to whats in your head, not what you write down. Even in code. Even better than keeping a secret is never letting anyone know you are keeping it.
Yeah you're right, but using a QRN as the key removes that possible weakness. Also if you use one time pads, its theoretically impossible to break, no matter how much processing power and time you devote to it.
The nice thing about quantum random numbers is that they are future-proof. If someone cracks your PRNG in the future, all your old data is vulnerable, but if you used a QRNG, its encrypted for all time unless someone steals your key.
This is neat but there have been other quantum random number generators online for years. This one by id Quantique springs to mind... I'm not sure what this new service provides that others don't. If you REALLY want secure random numbers you should buy a QRNG PCI card and make them yourself so you're the only one with a copy.
I thought I'd have something cogent to say about Myspace vs. Facebook and sociology, but really all I can come up with is that I like the design of Facebook much better. It seem like someone actually sat down and planned out the user experience. Its an Application. Myspace seems like a pile of crappy HTML mated with a music player and produced a million offspring, each subtly different. Myspace is a glorified homepage, much like the geocities homepages of days gone by. Homeplages Plus spam! That being said, as with Instant Messengers, I have accounts on each because I have friends on each. My friendships respect no class or social netowrking site boundaries.
Start Menu: Vastly improved. I love how you can type into the Search bar to find your program to run.
Suspend/Resume/Hibernate: HORRIBLY BROKEN! This OS does not handle transitions between power states well. I'd say about 50 percent of the time I try to suspend or hibernate, things do not come back correctly. Generally I just want to turn the computer off, but its tricky since the default option when I close the lid or press the power button is suspend to ram.
IE7: Whose bright idea was it to put a tabbable user interface element between the URL bar and the search bar? I'm accustomed to pressing ctrl-l for location, then tabbing to the search bar. Theres probably a hot key for search I just haven't found it yet.
I've always thought the best way to eliminate spam is by default charge a fee for each email, say a penny each. You could whitelist your friends and mailing lists to exempt them, and any time a company wants to advertise to you, you make a little money, even if you choose not to read it. Its P2P e-postage.
Sure, I can code in several languages and fix hardware. I also have a taste for adventure and like the idea of learning languages. You can email me at my slashdot ID without the space at gmail.com
Jiu Jitsu is a martial art where the practitioner yields to the force of his opponent and then uses it against him. The point of the GPL is to bring about the end of copyright by using copyright itself as leverage. This is not prostitution, it is legal Jiu Jitsu.
Area man Greg Norton was sued by multinational corporation PepsiCO for purchasing a competing product, Coca-Cola. Said attorney Mark Wiseguy, "We compete against Coke around the country all the time". "Based on the criteria set out by Mr. Norton, we had a fair degree of confidence we'd come out on top, and nothing we heard during the process dissuaded us of that confidence." Greg Norton is said to have replied, "Dude, where's my country?"
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What I've heard is that hobos often slice open your garbage bags and dump out your trash cans in search of plastic bottles. That could lead to more trash entering the watershed instead of the landfill, exacerbating the problem.
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Island countries like the Philippines and Indonesia also tend to have issues with a lot of waste getting into the ocean quickly. In a landlocked country the odds of your properly disposed of plastic waste reaching the ocean are pretty slim.
The real answer for plastic disposal is "Waste to Energy". Plastic burns very well, you just need to burn it hot enough that it doesn't emit dioxins. What we need is a technological solution that can be mass produced and distributed across the developing world so people can collect and incinerate their plastic safely.
This is why I no longer recycle paper, plastic, or glass. All they hydrocarbons in the trash get turned into syngas and burned. All the useful elements are highly concentrated in the slag, which can then be processed. We just need to build a lot of these and mine our way through old landfills, shoveling the ancient trash into the gaping maw of the plasma gasifier.
I work for HP.
I got the chance to see this monitor today and it looks great. Awesome colors, very black blacks. All made possible by an array of LED backlights. Complete overkill for your average desktop but if I were a photographer or video editor I would want a couple of these for sure. It comes factory calibrated but you can recalibrate it and upload the calibration data into the monitor. You can also press buttons on the monitor and change it between several industry standard color spaces.
Well, Slashdot, I am ok with seeing this on the front page, because it is so nerdy that it makes up for being irrelevant. I mean, Ask Slashdot isn't news, but its ok to have occasionally on the main page. As a regular reader of Fark, I know that most of what passes for "news" isn't. So to the haters: Relax. Simmer down a bit. Some of us enjoy a little nerdy goofiness.
My ex-wife got a ticket once for following too close. She said she wasn't following that close though...
In the dominican republic I actually lost my camera with my memory card still in it and lost all my photos. I had found an internet cafe the day before and was going to back up my photos but they did not have an SD reader, only USB. If I had a laptop, the extra 5lbs in my backpack would have made my trip much less enjoyable and I would have taken less risks carrying $1500 in gear instead of $300. If you do get a laptop, try to find one that will fit in a 1 gallon ziplock.
It's obvious to me that the corporate system rewards short-sighted execs. What can be done to fix this systemic problem?
Its not a future breakthrough, its available today. Its not in wide use yet, but it definitely will be.
Just throw it away, i.e. put it a properly sealed landfill. Someday someone will come along with a Plasma Gasification rig (google it) and distill it into its component materials safely and efficiently. Recycling is just a waste of time and money, whether its your time and money or someone else's.
If you want to keep a secret, keep it in your head. Writing it down is a mistake. The law against self incrimination only applies to whats in your head, not what you write down. Even in code. Even better than keeping a secret is never letting anyone know you are keeping it.
Yeah you're right, but using a QRN as the key removes that possible weakness. Also if you use one time pads, its theoretically impossible to break, no matter how much processing power and time you devote to it.
The nice thing about quantum random numbers is that they are future-proof. If someone cracks your PRNG in the future, all your old data is vulnerable, but if you used a QRNG, its encrypted for all time unless someone steals your key.
This is neat but there have been other quantum random number generators online for years. This one by id Quantique springs to mind... I'm not sure what this new service provides that others don't. If you REALLY want secure random numbers you should buy a QRNG PCI card and make them yourself so you're the only one with a copy.
I thought I'd have something cogent to say about Myspace vs. Facebook and sociology, but really all I can come up with is that I like the design of Facebook much better. It seem like someone actually sat down and planned out the user experience. Its an Application. Myspace seems like a pile of crappy HTML mated with a music player and produced a million offspring, each subtly different. Myspace is a glorified homepage, much like the geocities homepages of days gone by. Homeplages Plus spam! That being said, as with Instant Messengers, I have accounts on each because I have friends on each. My friendships respect no class or social netowrking site boundaries.
Aero: I don't care, mostly.
Start Menu: Vastly improved. I love how you can type into the Search bar to find your program to run.
Suspend/Resume/Hibernate: HORRIBLY BROKEN! This OS does not handle transitions between power states well. I'd say about 50 percent of the time I try to suspend or hibernate, things do not come back correctly. Generally I just want to turn the computer off, but its tricky since the default option when I close the lid or press the power button is suspend to ram.
IE7: Whose bright idea was it to put a tabbable user interface element between the URL bar and the search bar? I'm accustomed to pressing ctrl-l for location, then tabbing to the search bar. Theres probably a hot key for search I just haven't found it yet.
I've always thought the best way to eliminate spam is by default charge a fee for each email, say a penny each. You could whitelist your friends and mailing lists to exempt them, and any time a company wants to advertise to you, you make a little money, even if you choose not to read it. Its P2P e-postage.
I'd love to see a new Commander Keen game. That series was so much fun.
Sure, I can code in several languages and fix hardware. I also have a taste for adventure and like the idea of learning languages. You can email me at my slashdot ID without the space at gmail.com
Jiu Jitsu is a martial art where the practitioner yields to the force of his opponent and then uses it against him. The point of the GPL is to bring about the end of copyright by using copyright itself as leverage. This is not prostitution, it is legal Jiu Jitsu.
Is there any call for linux expertise in Iraq?
I'd have taken that in a heartbeat. Life is too easy here. I probably have the skills for it too.
We liked Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash, thats why.
Area man Greg Norton was sued by multinational corporation PepsiCO for purchasing a competing product, Coca-Cola. Said attorney Mark Wiseguy, "We compete against Coke around the country all the time". "Based on the criteria set out by Mr. Norton, we had a fair degree of confidence we'd come out on top, and nothing we heard during the process dissuaded us of that confidence." Greg Norton is said to have replied, "Dude, where's my country?"