Uh, they do? How? My understanding is that the hybrids still have to burn the gas to generate energy, in the same fashion that a normal automobile does. So how do the hybrids emit less pollution per gallon of gas?
To put it in terms that even an idiot can understand:
1) A car engine can emit five types of pollution: carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, soot, and unburned hydrocarbons. 2) The most benign of these is carbon dioxide. It is also present in the greatest quantities. 3) A properly-tuned car engine, when running at a constant speed, emits only carbon dioxide. 4) A car engine, when changing speeds, emits all five types of pollutant. 5) The engine of a hybrid-electric car runs at a constant speed. 6) The engine of a conventional car changes speed frequently
Therefore, the engine of a hybrid-electric car emits less pollution per gallon of gas than a conventional car.
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You have to type fast to keep up with the conversation, and you have to be accurate or you sound like a doof.
C'mon... the only success stories in schools were where the comps were not in the classroom, and weren't networked (how do you print??) sounds fishy to me,
You print by taking the disk with your document over to the computer with the printer, or by flipping the four-way selector switch so your computer is the one attached to the printer. Not hard at all.
I swear if the school my kid attends ever starts pushing computers in front of him, I'll switch to homeschooling where I can trust he'll be reading actual books.
Do it anyway. He'll get a better education that way.
Err if they burned through x gallons of fuel to go y miles, doesn't that mean that x gallons of damage was done to the environment via CO2 emitting, resource depleting transportation over the y miles between point A and B.
The key point is that all of the emissions of a hybrid are carbon dioxide, since the engine is spinning at one speed, and can be optimized for that speed. A conventional car also spits out carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and soot when it accelerates, which are a lot harder on the environment.
Well, I have a hard time believing we'll be out of 'oil' in a mere 10 years. There are TONS of reserves pretty much un-tapped in Russia, Canada, Mexico, and here in the US. Some of it isn't as easy to get out of the ground as what we're getting now, but, from what I've heard (I think it was a show on the Discovery Channel or something)...there's plenty for quiet a long time to come.
The only untapped reserve in the US is the North Slope Wildlife Preserve in Alaska, and that's only a nine-month supply, at best.
Yes, there's plenty of oil left, but it's in reserves that are hard or expensive to tap, or ones that take more energy to extract the oil than you can get from burning the oil. Yes, there's oil for decades to come, but between rising demand and falling supply, the price is going to start rising fast in the near future.
To the guy below who talks about not caring about mileage, well, it's not putting me in the poor house or anything, but if I can save $5 a week in gas, I'd rather do that. Especially since my car requires premium fuel.
If I could save $5 a week on gas, I'd be wondering who to get the cash from.
As far as the hybrid being the dumbest thing ever because it's more expensive... this is the problem with being ecologically friendly in general, it costs more to do so... if you're buying a hybrid to save money, you're either a moron, or you drive hundreds of highway miles a day. If you're buying it to help the environment, kudos to you... at least based on the original claims.
To me that's pretty much the whole point of this article... the one reason there was to buy a hybrid has now gone out the window.
If you'd read the article, the hybrids really are more environmentally-friendly than conventional cars. The reason the mileage estimates are inflated is that they're based off of emissions, and hybrids have lower emissions per gallon of gas than conventional cars.
Um.....does IPv6 matter in this equation? TCP will just sit on top of IPv6 anyway.
Doesn't matter at all. For a reset attack, you need to match source IP address (known), destination IP address (known), source port (unknown, but guessable), destination port (known), and TCP sequence number (unknown, but guessable). All the unknowns are in the TCP layer.
Join a hiking club. One of the first things they'll do is give you a list called the "10 essentials". This varies from place to place -- the Sierra Club includes a half-gallon of water on the list, while places where you can expect to find a stream usually list less water, and iodine tablets for purifying streamwater -- but generally, it'll keep you alive long enough to be rescued.
euh... shouldn't you have thought of that before? Like, you know, at the time of installing the network? just asking, what do I know about stuff like this...
Since the network includes thicknet and BNC cabling, it's probably a mishmash of systems that's been pieced together over at least 20 years. It's probably been struck by lightning a few times, and only now do they have someone interested in minimizing damage.
If you were to consider it a business, could you deduct a fair hourly wage as loss? That is to say: If you should be earning $30/hr for writing code, and donations received for writing the open source program total only about $5/hr, could you actually claim a $25/hr loss against your real income?
Only if you structure it as a business, and hire yourself as an employee. And that opens up a whole can of worms you don't want. (Think payroll taxes, insurance, social security taxes, income taxes, paperwork to support all this, etc.)
Say you install a more secure, multi-user OS like Linux or FreeBSD or (gasp!) Windows 2000. Even if they can't learn your password, they can boot Knoppix or similar, mount your partitions and crack your box that way.
Encrypted loopback filesystem. Assuming they can find the disk image in the first place, they still need to crack the password before they can mount it.
Well then, do a dual boot. I know, I know "reboot to check my mail, hell no."
That's exactly what I do: I've got Linux, with an ext3 partition that Windows doesn't have a clue about, for my "sensitive files", and a Windows partition for when my brothers want to play games on the machine -- after all, it's the only computer in the house fast enough to play modern games.
If you're using Win98, you don't even need to re-partition the hard drive. Use something like LoopLinux to have a Linux system resident in a disk image on the FAT32-formatted disk.
By playing around with the "doctype" menu on the validator, it looks like Slashdot is most likely written using HTML 4.01 transitional (149 errors), and least likely to be written using XHTML 1.0 Basic (2216 errors). Maybe the editors should change the "doctype" declaration for the pages.
The puck doesn't need to be a superconductor. It just needs to be a magnet, and those are cheap. It doesn't matter if you break one every now and then.
Yes, the Long Range Foundation. The actual criteria was that if any potential payoff was at least a century in the future, the project had a chance of being funded.
Of course, they had a slight problem with projects paying off too soon.
I was outraged to hear that funding was given to their wacky pseudo-science projects. Still nothing for my magnetic levitation air-hockey table.
That's because it's already been solved. You take an air-hockey sized piece of superconductor, cool it down to liquid-nitrogen temperatures, and place a puck-shaped magnet on top. Since superconductors are naturally diamagnetic, the magnet will float. By adjusting the strength and weight of the magnet, you can change the float height.
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Uh, they do? How? My understanding is that the hybrids still have to burn the gas to generate energy, in the same fashion that a normal automobile does. So how do the hybrids emit less pollution per gallon of gas?
To put it in terms that even an idiot can understand:
1) A car engine can emit five types of pollution: carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, soot, and unburned hydrocarbons.
2) The most benign of these is carbon dioxide. It is also present in the greatest quantities.
3) A properly-tuned car engine, when running at a constant speed, emits only carbon dioxide.
4) A car engine, when changing speeds, emits all five types of pollutant.
5) The engine of a hybrid-electric car runs at a constant speed.
6) The engine of a conventional car changes speed frequently
Therefore, the engine of a hybrid-electric car emits less pollution per gallon of gas than a conventional car.
You have to type fast to keep up with the conversation, and you have to be accurate or you sound like a doof.
There are a surprising number of doofs out there.
C'mon... the only success stories in schools were where the comps were not in the classroom, and weren't networked (how do you print??) sounds fishy to me,
You print by taking the disk with your document over to the computer with the printer, or by flipping the four-way selector switch so your computer is the one attached to the printer. Not hard at all.
I swear if the school my kid attends ever starts pushing computers in front of him, I'll switch to homeschooling where I can trust he'll be reading actual books.
Do it anyway. He'll get a better education that way.
Err if they burned through x gallons of fuel to go y miles, doesn't that mean that x gallons of damage was done to the environment via CO2 emitting, resource depleting transportation over the y miles between point A and B.
The key point is that all of the emissions of a hybrid are carbon dioxide, since the engine is spinning at one speed, and can be optimized for that speed. A conventional car also spits out carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and soot when it accelerates, which are a lot harder on the environment.
Well, I have a hard time believing we'll be out of 'oil' in a mere 10 years. There are TONS of reserves pretty much un-tapped in Russia, Canada, Mexico, and here in the US. Some of it isn't as easy to get out of the ground as what we're getting now, but, from what I've heard (I think it was a show on the Discovery Channel or something) ...there's plenty for quiet a long time to come.
The only untapped reserve in the US is the North Slope Wildlife Preserve in Alaska, and that's only a nine-month supply, at best.
Yes, there's plenty of oil left, but it's in reserves that are hard or expensive to tap, or ones that take more energy to extract the oil than you can get from burning the oil. Yes, there's oil for decades to come, but between rising demand and falling supply, the price is going to start rising fast in the near future.
Think about it.
To the guy below who talks about not caring about mileage, well, it's not putting me in the poor house or anything, but if I can save $5 a week in gas, I'd rather do that. Especially since my car requires premium fuel.
If I could save $5 a week on gas, I'd be wondering who to get the cash from.
As far as the hybrid being the dumbest thing ever because it's more expensive... this is the problem with being ecologically friendly in general, it costs more to do so... if you're buying a hybrid to save money, you're either a moron, or you drive hundreds of highway miles a day. If you're buying it to help the environment, kudos to you... at least based on the original claims.
To me that's pretty much the whole point of this article... the one reason there was to buy a hybrid has now gone out the window.
If you'd read the article, the hybrids really are more environmentally-friendly than conventional cars. The reason the mileage estimates are inflated is that they're based off of emissions, and hybrids have lower emissions per gallon of gas than conventional cars.
Um.....does IPv6 matter in this equation? TCP will just sit on top of IPv6 anyway.
Doesn't matter at all. For a reset attack, you need to match source IP address (known), destination IP address (known), source port (unknown, but guessable), destination port (known), and TCP sequence number (unknown, but guessable). All the unknowns are in the TCP layer.
Your comment is typical of a troll (attack the person, not the argument).
Join a hiking club. One of the first things they'll do is give you a list called the "10 essentials". This varies from place to place -- the Sierra Club includes a half-gallon of water on the list, while places where you can expect to find a stream usually list less water, and iodine tablets for purifying streamwater -- but generally, it'll keep you alive long enough to be rescued.
In general:
1) Map
2) Compass
3) First-aid kit
4) Signalling device
5) Water
6) Food
+ location-appropriate items (raingear, sunscreen, etc)
I wonder what the best way to get these small doses might be. Perhaps snorting a line of coffee granules every few hours?
IV drip.
euh... shouldn't you have thought of that before?
Like, you know, at the time of installing the network?
just asking, what do I know about stuff like this...
Since the network includes thicknet and BNC cabling, it's probably a mishmash of systems that's been pieced together over at least 20 years. It's probably been struck by lightning a few times, and only now do they have someone interested in minimizing damage.
If you were to consider it a business, could you deduct a fair hourly wage as loss? That is to say: If you should be earning $30/hr for writing code, and donations received for writing the open source program total only about $5/hr, could you actually claim a $25/hr loss against your real income?
Only if you structure it as a business, and hire yourself as an employee. And that opens up a whole can of worms you don't want. (Think payroll taxes, insurance, social security taxes, income taxes, paperwork to support all this, etc.)
Say you install a more secure, multi-user OS like Linux or FreeBSD or (gasp!) Windows 2000. Even if they can't learn your password, they can boot Knoppix or similar, mount your partitions and crack your box that way.
Encrypted loopback filesystem. Assuming they can find the disk image in the first place, they still need to crack the password before they can mount it.
Well then, do a dual boot. I know, I know "reboot to check my mail, hell no."
That's exactly what I do: I've got Linux, with an ext3 partition that Windows doesn't have a clue about, for my "sensitive files", and a Windows partition for when my brothers want to play games on the machine -- after all, it's the only computer in the house fast enough to play modern games.
If you're using Win98, you don't even need to re-partition the hard drive. Use something like LoopLinux to have a Linux system resident in a disk image on the FAT32-formatted disk.
By playing around with the "doctype" menu on the validator, it looks like Slashdot is most likely written using HTML 4.01 transitional (149 errors), and least likely to be written using XHTML 1.0 Basic (2216 errors). Maybe the editors should change the "doctype" declaration for the pages.
hen fax them tons and tons and tons of junk (read: goatse's) faxes through that.
Faxing the Goatse man? Probably not a good idea; I think it's considered international terrorism.
Where did you find the release notes, and where does that TinyURL link of yours point?
No replies, and they already know it's a dupe? However did they manage that?
Add a robotic exoskeleton to the Mark VII, and you'll have a decent set of powered armor.
The puck doesn't need to be a superconductor. It just needs to be a magnet, and those are cheap. It doesn't matter if you break one every now and then.
Yes, the Long Range Foundation. The actual criteria was that if any potential payoff was at least a century in the future, the project had a chance of being funded.
Of course, they had a slight problem with projects paying off too soon.
I was outraged to hear that funding was given to their wacky pseudo-science projects. Still nothing for my magnetic levitation air-hockey table.
That's because it's already been solved. You take an air-hockey sized piece of superconductor, cool it down to liquid-nitrogen temperatures, and place a puck-shaped magnet on top. Since superconductors are naturally diamagnetic, the magnet will float. By adjusting the strength and weight of the magnet, you can change the float height.
Gee. Sounds like Heinlein's "Long Range Foundation".