If I understand correctly, this car claims to burn hydrogen to power itself. So, since burning hydrogen = producing water, you can just take the water from the exhaust and put it back in the little thingy that separates hydrogen. So, they were being modest, you don't even need to add water (or tea)!
Seriously now, I see serious posts here about things that "we don't know / don't yet comprehend" like "zero point energy" etc. Guys, perhaps if you take a couple of physics courses you will both "know" and "comprehend" and in addition you will be able to discern obvious scams.
Unless they are using a nice tiny fusion generator here. In that case when you pour water, it would be taking the deuterium out of it. Then I imagine they will tell you to throw in some old lithium batteries you have lying around, so that tritium can be generated. So, with your deuterium-tritium fuel you can power up Mr Fusion and have all the power you need!
Wow, I never realized the acronym SCOTUS was used to refer to the Supreme Court. So, I read the title and started imagining a secret "shadow" organization that although sounds evil did something good for Human Rights etc. This is, of course, because "scotus" (or "") is the ancient Greek (with some use in modern Greek) for the word "darkness". Therefore "SCOTUS" sounded like a great name for a secret organization (preferably an evil one), although not as amusing as "KAOS" (from Greek "chaos" which is the opposite of "organization").
However, no, we don't have any routers, just switches. It was obviously my first guess, but if I connect a vista laptop (not mine - honest!) it does not work if left to dhcp - but of course it is a Vista laptop so that does not say much. Plus, how would a router know our internal DNS? As a post above said, I know it *could* be done (besides, our gateway is a "classic" 192.168.1.1), but I have never seen such a "zealous autoconfig" (even without the kidnapping) and so I am asking the savvy crowd.
hoewever I have to say that I am more than impressed at what ASUS has done with Xandros on the Eee PC. Ok, it was set up for novice users so I had to switch to advanced mode, get devel packages from debian, but it has been an amazingly smooth experience and everything works exactly as it should (the sd, the usb, the wifi, the camera, the LAN...). So might give Ubuntu Eee a try, but I will definatelly be pleasantly surprised if it can be even better.
I might get moded off topic, but I do have a question for the default Xandros OS of the Eee PC that somebody might know to answer. At work, we have set up a linux gateway that has NO DHCP, so both linux and windows clients that we connect have to be setup with a static IP, plus the internal DNS and gateway IP. However, I just hooked on the Eee pc for the first time and it found the gateway and got an IP, PLUS it found the INTERNAL DNS and could access internal machines by name. How is that possible, it is exactly what DHCP is supposed to do, however we don't have DHCP.
Which explains why it is still a respectable #30 in the list after all these years. For reference, the oldest entries on the 2007/11 list are from 2002, and the Earth Simulator is one of them (by far the fastest). Also, when the Earth Simulator was installed it was an astonishing 5 times faster than the second entry.
I am not sure, from the pics they look much more alien than most races I have seen on Star Trek (esp. TOS). I could definately see a couple of Orion girls coming out of the forest to throw their spears...
Even if it is an alien though, it could still be a legal alien. Now if we had illegal aliens flying around without Visas, I guess that would be bad and would warrant further analysis.
You are not mistaken in geography class, however you obviously have not idea about graph theory, networks etc.
First of all, your claim that there is a serious lack of backbone bandwidth is unsubstantiated. If you wish to make such a claim at least provide your sources. I am under the impression that the problem in the US is a "last mile" problem.
Secondly, even if there was such a problem, why do you think it is harder to address for the US than any other country? Do you think that a strongly connected graph is required to cover all cities/nodes?
It is easier to understand what I am saying if you think of US as being comprised of parts (let's call them "states" - we'll go with 50 of them for our example). Think of each state as the equivalent of a "little country". Get the picture? Accessing LA from NY is not different than accessing Paris from Stockholm. You might have a direct connection, or you might not and have to hop a little more. So, when we say the Swedish have XXMbits, we don't mean they only have that INSIDE Sweden, otherwise the Swedish would be the ones complaining.
What on earth are you talking about? Nobody's asking to push Fiber through the entire land area of the US. No, Alaska is not the problem. NYC and other large cities are the problem. As I have written before, fiber deployment is VERY scarce in NYC. The availability maps might show you some data points in Manhattan, but we are talking for just a few buildings out of thousands! For example, there is no FIOS in the four location I have tried to get it (for my and my boss), and we are talking about common Manhattan locations (near Union Square and near Lincoln Center), one Queens location (Long Island City) and one Brooklyn location (Bay Ridge). None of my friends in NYC can get FIOS either. In all these places until recently the only options were DSL 3/768 for $35 (which I went for in all cases) or Cable 5/384 (yeah, right, 384 upload is "broadband"?). The last few months there is a new option, ADSL 2+ from Speakeasy. It tops to 12/1 (but they quoted me lower speeds depending my distance from their DSLAM) and costs... wait for it... $180/month (+extra for voice)!
My friend who teaches at the University of Miami so lives around that area, ended up with a lousy 3/384 line for more than $50 that cannot hold connections (ssh, vnc etc) for more than a few minutes. He had to pay A LOT to get something just a little better.
So, don't give me the usual crap about the vast land area that is the US and explain to me:
-Why are urban areas still not significantly covered by fiber? The "small countries" you talk about have certainly covered their cities. After the cities are covered, there are ways to address rural areas (obviously fiber is not the most cost effectiv option there). -Why is there no cheap ADSL2+ available everywhere there are phone lines less than 4 miles long (i.e. most parts of most cities)? In most European countries you can get the up to 24Mbit ADSL2+ for something around 30 euros a month (less or more depending the country). I wouldn't really need fiber if my DSL was 10Mbit+
Also, someone who know could tell us if what the "$200 billion broandband scandal" is true (google for the phrase to see what I am talking about). If it is true, then the fiber to the home is already paid for, just not delivered.
Have you missed the fact that there have been fatal accidents and the Space Shuttle has been grounded for extended periods due to that? I wasn't talking about saving cost, but about saving lives. If I remember correctly, the Buran even had ejection seats! Of course, Astronauts are not as cheap as you think, as their cost is not their salary, but the entire training and support system for them. Also, you could have a stripped-down Buran-style shuttle that has no life support (thus less weight) just for unmanned missions, next to the regular one(s).
We are still almost 800k signatures short. Guys, just sign the petition and the nightmare will be over.
(In case you missed it, Uwe said he will stop if 1 Million people ask him to.)
NASA should have just bought the Buran after the fall of the Soviet Union (I imagine the price would be Alaska level) and only use crews for complex missions, satellites should be sent without the need of astronauts. Oh well...
The tax is supposed to be collected where the purchase is made. So, if you are in NY and order something online, you are supposed to pay the NY tax on it. However, if the retailer does not have an actual presence in the state they are not obliged to collect the tax in behalf of the state, and in that case the consumer has to declare it when filing for state taxes. I guess they have noticed that not many people declare their purchases to pay tax on them...
I am not sure what part of my post was not clear. In most parts of NYC you can have 5Mbit Cable, which is almost unusable with just 384kbps upstream, or Verizon DSL up to 3Mbit/768. Fios is available at A FEW BUILDINGS in Manhattan, great for those lucky few. You will not find an area based Fios availability map. The best you can do is some data points, which for NYC are very sparse. I know that they have started digging in parts of Brooklyn and Queens, but - come on - this is 2008 and there are still WAY few homes with Fiber in the largest US city. Then, as I said Speakeasy recently started ADSL2+ which they claim goes up to 10-12Mbit (I don't know why not 24Mbit which is the ADSL2+ norm in Europe), but they want $180/month + extra for voice! It would be a great price for 10 years ago I guess... Since you talked about about Florida, my friend lives in Miami (ZIP 33124), and the best he could do was a lousy 3/384 that has no stability (his ssh connections live for around 10 mins) and he is paying over $50 for it! As for the population density comment, I already explained what I meant on my post here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=517216&cid=23019022 .
:) The nickname is a long story, has nothing to do with the actual country and a lot to do with Sambuca (plus a song called "Ecuador"). I don't even speak Spanish... which is a shame since I always use the nick and get a lot of emails/pms in Spanish...
The 5Mbit cable that we have in NYC has a 384 upload so it is basically useless. And, again, my example is NYC. I am sure you don't have less people per wire mile than the Scandinavian countries!
The AVERAGE US citizen is not poor (that is why I mentioned GDP per capita, which is in the world's Top-10). Most countries have very poor citizens, what is your point? We can start by giving broadband access to the AVERAGE citizen. Also, I didn't phrase the "low population density" correctly. There are vast sparsely populated areas, however those only account for a small percentage of the overall population. Deploy fiber (or just faster DSL if you want to go cheap) to the 90% of the population (didn't look up the statistic, an example number here) that does not live in rural areas, and then we can take care of the rest. Which is why I mentioned NYC. Not rural, not poor, no bandwidth.
I don't understand your point. A country that is huge, but has few people or a very low GDP per capita would logically have a problem getting everyone on broadband connections. The US does not have a low population density and most certainly its population is not poor. And I did not say it is easy to give broadband to every rural area. We can start from cities. I live in NYC. In the middle of Manhattan the best you can do is 3/768 or 5/384 connections. I mean, really. The same at my previous house in Queens (Long Island City) and Brooklyn. I was excited when I heard speakeasy was finally installing ADSL2+ connections (up to 10Mb/s in my area), only to find out they wanted $180/month without voice (yes, it is static, but I don't need it, and they don't have a dynamic option). At the same time I hear of much poorer countries where 24Mbit ADSL2+ connections are $50 or less. So, who is not getting what? I guess the reason for having nothing done for years is that a lot of people share your mentality. Hey, we are a big country, it is expensive... Like ONE FRIGGIN CITIZEN has to pay for the whole thing???
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If I understand correctly, this car claims to burn hydrogen to power itself. So, since burning hydrogen = producing water, you can just take the water from the exhaust and put it back in the little thingy that separates hydrogen. So, they were being modest, you don't even need to add water (or tea)!
Seriously now, I see serious posts here about things that "we don't know / don't yet comprehend" like "zero point energy" etc. Guys, perhaps if you take a couple of physics courses you will both "know" and "comprehend" and in addition you will be able to discern obvious scams.
Unless they are using a nice tiny fusion generator here. In that case when you pour water, it would be taking the deuterium out of it. Then I imagine they will tell you to throw in some old lithium batteries you have lying around, so that tritium can be generated. So, with your deuterium-tritium fuel you can power up Mr Fusion and have all the power you need!
Seriously people...
Hmm, the empty quotation marks contained Greek characters. I guess the slashdot system eats up unicode chars...
Wow, I never realized the acronym SCOTUS was used to refer to the Supreme Court. So, I read the title and started imagining a secret "shadow" organization that although sounds evil did something good for Human Rights etc. This is, of course, because "scotus" (or "") is the ancient Greek (with some use in modern Greek) for the word "darkness". Therefore "SCOTUS" sounded like a great name for a secret organization (preferably an evil one), although not as amusing as "KAOS" (from Greek "chaos" which is the opposite of "organization").
Hehe, xkcd is always relevant...
However, no, we don't have any routers, just switches. It was obviously my first guess, but if I connect a vista laptop (not mine - honest!) it does not work if left to dhcp - but of course it is a Vista laptop so that does not say much. Plus, how would a router know our internal DNS? As a post above said, I know it *could* be done (besides, our gateway is a "classic" 192.168.1.1), but I have never seen such a "zealous autoconfig" (even without the kidnapping) and so I am asking the savvy crowd.
hoewever I have to say that I am more than impressed at what ASUS has done with Xandros on the Eee PC. Ok, it was set up for novice users so I had to switch to advanced mode, get devel packages from debian, but it has been an amazingly smooth experience and everything works exactly as it should (the sd, the usb, the wifi, the camera, the LAN...). So might give Ubuntu Eee a try, but I will definatelly be pleasantly surprised if it can be even better.
I might get moded off topic, but I do have a question for the default Xandros OS of the Eee PC that somebody might know to answer. At work, we have set up a linux gateway that has NO DHCP, so both linux and windows clients that we connect have to be setup with a static IP, plus the internal DNS and gateway IP. However, I just hooked on the Eee pc for the first time and it found the gateway and got an IP, PLUS it found the INTERNAL DNS and could access internal machines by name. How is that possible, it is exactly what DHCP is supposed to do, however we don't have DHCP.
Of course, a true geek would quote identically, but attribute it to Carl Sagan.
Which explains why it is still a respectable #30 in the list after all these years. For reference, the oldest entries on the 2007/11 list are from 2002, and the Earth Simulator is one of them (by far the fastest). Also, when the Earth Simulator was installed it was an astonishing 5 times faster than the second entry.
Wait, don't fill it up with anything. The model is accurate right now!
I am not sure, from the pics they look much more alien than most races I have seen on Star Trek (esp. TOS). I could definately see a couple of Orion girls coming out of the forest to throw their spears...
Hey, isn't flying over with a helicopter, a blatant violation of the Prime Directive?
Even if it is an alien though, it could still be a legal alien. Now if we had illegal aliens flying around without Visas, I guess that would be bad and would warrant further analysis.
...flushes the free space left on its array.
You are not mistaken in geography class, however you obviously have not idea about graph theory, networks etc.
First of all, your claim that there is a serious lack of backbone bandwidth is unsubstantiated. If you wish to make such a claim at least provide your sources. I am under the impression that the problem in the US is a "last mile" problem.
Secondly, even if there was such a problem, why do you think it is harder to address for the US than any other country? Do you think that a strongly connected graph is required to cover all cities/nodes?
It is easier to understand what I am saying if you think of US as being comprised of parts (let's call them "states" - we'll go with 50 of them for our example). Think of each state as the equivalent of a "little country". Get the picture? Accessing LA from NY is not different than accessing Paris from Stockholm. You might have a direct connection, or you might not and have to hop a little more. So, when we say the Swedish have XXMbits, we don't mean they only have that INSIDE Sweden, otherwise the Swedish would be the ones complaining.
What on earth are you talking about? Nobody's asking to push Fiber through the entire land area of the US. No, Alaska is not the problem. NYC and other large cities are the problem. As I have written before, fiber deployment is VERY scarce in NYC. The availability maps might show you some data points in Manhattan, but we are talking for just a few buildings out of thousands! For example, there is no FIOS in the four location I have tried to get it (for my and my boss), and we are talking about common Manhattan locations (near Union Square and near Lincoln Center), one Queens location (Long Island City) and one Brooklyn location (Bay Ridge). None of my friends in NYC can get FIOS either. In all these places until recently the only options were DSL 3/768 for $35 (which I went for in all cases) or Cable 5/384 (yeah, right, 384 upload is "broadband"?). The last few months there is a new option, ADSL 2+ from Speakeasy. It tops to 12/1 (but they quoted me lower speeds depending my distance from their DSLAM) and costs... wait for it... $180/month (+extra for voice)!
My friend who teaches at the University of Miami so lives around that area, ended up with a lousy 3/384 line for more than $50 that cannot hold connections (ssh, vnc etc) for more than a few minutes. He had to pay A LOT to get something just a little better.
So, don't give me the usual crap about the vast land area that is the US and explain to me:
-Why are urban areas still not significantly covered by fiber? The "small countries" you talk about have certainly covered their cities. After the cities are covered, there are ways to address rural areas (obviously fiber is not the most cost effectiv option there).
-Why is there no cheap ADSL2+ available everywhere there are phone lines less than 4 miles long (i.e. most parts of most cities)? In most European countries you can get the up to 24Mbit ADSL2+ for something around 30 euros a month (less or more depending the country). I wouldn't really need fiber if my DSL was 10Mbit+
Also, someone who know could tell us if what the "$200 billion broandband scandal" is true (google for the phrase to see what I am talking about). If it is true, then the fiber to the home is already paid for, just not delivered.
Eh.. this should be modded funny. Not interesting. It got me to almost... oh, wait...
Hmm I see he automatically redirects only IE, with Firefox I stay on the article page... I guess that's why no other slashdotter noticed the problem!
Can someone mod this clown down (if banning is not possible)? He keeps posting this site of his that redirects you to all sorts of advertisments...
Have you missed the fact that there have been fatal accidents and the Space Shuttle has been grounded for extended periods due to that?
I wasn't talking about saving cost, but about saving lives. If I remember correctly, the Buran even had ejection seats!
Of course, Astronauts are not as cheap as you think, as their cost is not their salary, but the entire training and support system for them. Also, you could have a stripped-down Buran-style shuttle that has no life support (thus less weight) just for unmanned missions, next to the regular one(s).
We are still almost 800k signatures short. Guys, just sign the petition and the nightmare will be over. (In case you missed it, Uwe said he will stop if 1 Million people ask him to.)
NASA should have just bought the Buran after the fall of the Soviet Union (I imagine the price would be Alaska level) and only use crews for complex missions, satellites should be sent without the need of astronauts. Oh well...
The tax is supposed to be collected where the purchase is made. So, if you are in NY and order something online, you are supposed to pay the NY tax on it. However, if the retailer does not have an actual presence in the state they are not obliged to collect the tax in behalf of the state, and in that case the consumer has to declare it when filing for state taxes. I guess they have noticed that not many people declare their purchases to pay tax on them...
I am not sure what part of my post was not clear. In most parts of NYC you can have 5Mbit Cable, which is almost unusable with just 384kbps upstream, or Verizon DSL up to 3Mbit/768. Fios is available at A FEW BUILDINGS in Manhattan, great for those lucky few. You will not find an area based Fios availability map. The best you can do is some data points, which for NYC are very sparse. I know that they have started digging in parts of Brooklyn and Queens, but - come on - this is 2008 and there are still WAY few homes with Fiber in the largest US city.
Then, as I said Speakeasy recently started ADSL2+ which they claim goes up to 10-12Mbit (I don't know why not 24Mbit which is the ADSL2+ norm in Europe), but they want $180/month + extra for voice! It would be a great price for 10 years ago I guess...
Since you talked about about Florida, my friend lives in Miami (ZIP 33124), and the best he could do was a lousy 3/384 that has no stability (his ssh connections live for around 10 mins) and he is paying over $50 for it!
As for the population density comment, I already explained what I meant on my post here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=517216&cid=23019022 .
:)
The nickname is a long story, has nothing to do with the actual country and a lot to do with Sambuca (plus a song called "Ecuador").
I don't even speak Spanish... which is a shame since I always use the nick and get a lot of emails/pms in Spanish...
The 5Mbit cable that we have in NYC has a 384 upload so it is basically useless. And, again, my example is NYC. I am sure you don't have less people per wire mile than the Scandinavian countries!
The AVERAGE US citizen is not poor (that is why I mentioned GDP per capita, which is in the world's Top-10). Most countries have very poor citizens, what is your point? We can start by giving broadband access to the AVERAGE citizen.
Also, I didn't phrase the "low population density" correctly. There are vast sparsely populated areas, however those only account for a small percentage of the overall population. Deploy fiber (or just faster DSL if you want to go cheap) to the 90% of the population (didn't look up the statistic, an example number here) that does not live in rural areas, and then we can take care of the rest.
Which is why I mentioned NYC. Not rural, not poor, no bandwidth.
I don't understand your point. A country that is huge, but has few people or a very low GDP per capita would logically have a problem getting everyone on broadband connections.
The US does not have a low population density and most certainly its population is not poor.
And I did not say it is easy to give broadband to every rural area. We can start from cities.
I live in NYC. In the middle of Manhattan the best you can do is 3/768 or 5/384 connections. I mean, really.
The same at my previous house in Queens (Long Island City) and Brooklyn. I was excited when I heard speakeasy was finally installing ADSL2+ connections (up to 10Mb/s in my area), only to find out they wanted $180/month without voice (yes, it is static, but I don't need it, and they don't have a dynamic option). At the same time I hear of much poorer countries where 24Mbit ADSL2+ connections are $50 or less.
So, who is not getting what? I guess the reason for having nothing done for years is that a lot of people share your mentality. Hey, we are a big country, it is expensive... Like ONE FRIGGIN CITIZEN has to pay for the whole thing???