NiMH is utterly unsuitable for electric car use and many others. Its energy density is good, but it self-discharges at roughly 5%/day, meaning you'd have to recharge every 10 days or so or leave it constantly plugged in. This is one of the maiin reasons it's no longer used for laptops.
The fairy Tinkerbell wafting around and sprinkling pixie dust to make everyone unhappy and thus magically heavier is another "working theory". It's when you have a testable hypothesis and the test agrees with your theory that you have something you can prove or disprove.
Dark Energy has about as much experimental proof as the Tinkerbell theory I just mentioned. It solves some mathematical models based on rather scant data, but lacks experimental or other observational foundation.
Or perhaps subtle flaws in the local measurements which are so wildly extrapolated into asumptions about the size of the universe, its age, its distribution of galaxies, etc.? We just saw, here on Slashdot, an announcement that commonly available data show the thickness of the Milky Way is twice the published value. When you extrapolate the limited astonomical data we have, all the way out to the edges of the universe and our ability to measure, you can't take the numbers too seriously and try to make too many concrete assertions from such limited data.
My god. You are obviously not old enough to remember the use of LSD for interrogation by the CIA and DEA in the 1960's, and the results on innocent people questioned this way or of the college student testing subjects they used while experimenting with the techniques. Nor apparently old enough to remember the reports of torture and its mishandling by US military in Vietname and Korea. And when you leave torture victims behind, or slaughter them to hide your wrong-doing, you alienate the locals and give them even more incentive to hate, mistrust, or attack your personnel.
They may have gotten a few guilty people to confess to important information, but they destroyed the lives of innocent people as well, and then tried to cover up their involvement to the lifelong costs of the innocent who had incredible difficulty even establishing the mistreatment, due to "national security".
This reasoning seems unclear. Theh torturer, of course, knows what they are looking for. The victim responds with anything they can think of to fulfill the desire of the torturer, and between them they come up with a sory that fills the needs of the torturer to report something and the victim to escape immediate punishment. The victim may well leak some relevant information if they have it, but their desire becomes one of escaping the torture, so even valid information may not fulfill the desires of the torturer. For a lesser example, think of how you cooperated with your parents in making up stories to explain your absence from school one day, or where you really were last night. The victim will make up other stories to hide the truth which they care about, stories which fulfill the questioner's goals and needs.
I don't see how the torturer can *not* have an agenda and an expectation that many victims will try to fulfill for them after they are broken down enough. Obtaining specific types of information is what pays the torturer's salary.
Ebay wasn't where you had to worry about high-level Scientologists. Scientology sued the Cult Awareness Network into bankruptcy with roughly 1500 individual lawsuits, and took over their name, phone numbers, and trademarks.
Calling Cult Awareness Network for help with a relative being sucked into a cult now leads you straight to a trained Scientologist who will help you with that with Hubbard's "tech". That is frightening indeed.
Really? I find that they're "beta geeks" at best, local users, but they go to particular IT people or generalists if they need real technical answers. This is not to insult their skill sets, which are very real and valuable. It's just that for "alpha geek", I expect them to be the person the other geeks go to.
Perhaps I expect too much from an alpha geek in a small environment? You seem to be in more of an alpha geek, or perhaps a "lieutent to the alpha geek" position, one I can sympathize with.
Someone with moderator points please mod kmac06's post up. You can often find exceptionally good directions for addressing Linux issues, but they tend to be scattered and buried in huge numbers of badly written and poorly organized directions that involve unnecessary steps and sacrificing a goat.
If any laptop is going to affect this, it's likely to be the OLPC. Linux BIOS, Linux OS, it just works out of the box, and it can capture the minds of young people all over the world as their first computer and their first serious exposure to the world of the Internet.
Please believe me when I say that they are not the alpha geeks. They're graphics designers. Influential, but hardly the technical experts I'd expect for an alpha geek.
Where are you getting the claim that the fraudsters are mostly American? There's plenty of market for such frauds. The Americans are the logical victims of such fraud?
I agree that the American prosecution efforts are pitiful, and would help reduce the problem massively. But have you ever tried to track a spammer or fraudster overseas to their hosting website and get anything done about it? The US ISP's are at least somewhat responsive to outright fraud accusations with proof provided.
And unfortunately, the Americans have tried to do "anything at all". What they've tried has been mis-aimed, such as the CAN-SPAM act.
China remains one of the largest providers of email spam and fraudulent miracle cures and scams worldwide. As such a contributing host, and with Chinese legal authority poorly educated and frankly uninterested in punishing web and email fraud, it remains an email and webhost fraud hotspot. So you've left out this:
3) The sites in question are hosted in China, by Chinese crackers and fraudsters, to defraud anyone with money or computer resources tricked into visiting the site, no matter where it is hosted.
This works because Chinese law enforcement is even more behind the times dealing with computer fraud than the USA.
If Google were willing to lose China as a market, they'd have refused to cooperate with Chinese censorship of Google results.
The China sites doubtless includes lots of rootkitted servers, and an active market in rootkitting people's computers and selling their time for spamming and other illegal activities.
It's also encouraging other criminal acts, such as trespass into someone's security systems, and a violation of your employee confidentiality contractual statements.
Nevertheless, insider trading is very, very common. Despite the claims at corporate seminars by policy watchdogs, by simply watching the actions of the vice presidents and board members, it's very easy to see where their knowledge of other companies from non-disclosure bound meetings is used to their personal advantage. And it's far, far too common for middle management and service staff such as secretaries to do a bit of stock meddling themselves, not realizing or admitting that it is in fact illegal.
Too many stock brokers live for this information, for the tidbits that help them sell a stock for their commission benefit and to their own personal or corporate stock advantage. Like gossiping about a girl you like, too many seem frankly unable to shut up about their insider knowledge.
I expect these to be popular for virtualization systems as well, where a spare CPU for the spare OS can do wonders for your performance, and a vastly cheaper set of triple cores can easily satisfy the needs of a few very expensive quad-cores, with an option for upgrades as needed.
Some of those guerrilla troops are certainly doing many things that are wrong. Armed theft is supporting them, as are blackmail, kidnapping, and drug running. Civilian terrorism, especially against your own countrymen for being religious or political opponents instead of military ones, and the harsh treatment of women and children including murder is "wrong".
I agree we have to keep a sense of scale, that many of the things the US does in Iraq are also "wrong" or even more wrong. But be clear, the guerrillas are for the most part desperate and nasty people, not the ones you want actually running the country if they succeed in getting us out.
The big pattern is that the guerrillas fight dirty. They look for and use any openings: if you close one opening, they'll use the next, least defended one, and it takes them very little time to shift targets because they have little command structure, just enough to keep isolated cells in munitions and shelter.
The second big pattern is "why do they keep attacking"? If the US instigators of this war had listened to their more competent staff, who told them it's a huge mess and they needed 3 times the number of troops and not to use so many mercenaries (who are a massive problem in Iraq as they've been in other "peacekeeping" operatons), we'd have had a much cleaner recovery after the invasion and wouldn't have these issues.
But that's an even bigger picture pattern, and these research studies can do nothing about it.
Indifferennt old fart isn't bad. You can amuse yourself at the adventures of the youngsters. "Thank you, yes, I tried writing my own source control system, too. Now go install git."
Such an RFID key is like a password. It requires storage of the valid keys' information on the lock itself, and such control is built into RFID based locks and other devices. I agree that such devices are not yet stable: the field is evolving too fast to have consistent and reliable tools for long-term use.
The trick with your future spouse is to get an RFID lock implanted for your partner's sexual organs, for a real geek chastity belt. Of course, being this much of a geek is a bit of a chastity belt in itself.
No tattoos? No vaccines? No earrings? No tongue piercing (which I have to admit from experience, has its delightful uses)?
The difference between these and an RFID tag implantation is minor. I just don't like the idea that the sensors at various shipping companies can tell when I walk near them. What's next?
Do you have any creditable reference for this? Because while foreign bodies can cause trouble, the RFID tags are or silicon encased, and those are pretty safe for other surgical implantations. They don't radiate a lot of energy, they do absorb and re-radiate a bit, but the amountn is very slight.
A casual web search show so many casual rants without experimentation or real testing that it's difficult to establish a real one. It's as bad as the "vaccines cause autism" idea, which keeps having serious journals present real studies that show the safety. But it only takes one or two people with blogs and who actually have the problem, whether it is caused by the RFID tag or the vaccine or MSG or artificial sweeteners, to revive such an idea.
It's not a matter of "they make so much money". It's a matter of "why spend hours on wasted employee time when a conviction is nearly impossible, and unlikely ot stem the tide of fraud attempts"? Getting a conviction against the horde of phishing and spamming frauds is very, very difficult, and very expensive in lawyer time. And it's unlikely to do anything noticeable to stem the tide: too many fraudsters are only too happy to fill the gap left by convicting a few. And those few are happy to operate, overseas, in places like Nigeria where conviction is nearly impossible due to corrupt local government.
OK, this belief shows a real lack of experience with complex products. But the concept that even a genius set of programmers, with a solid Q/A process, can write software without security bugs is nonsense. Even a small and secure set of functions have to interact with the rest of your operating system, and that introduces the potential for unexpected flaws.
Legal liability won't fix this. It may shift the balance, but creating new legal liabilities for software is what EULA's are designed to avoid.
Well, getting Real to use the GPL is a pipe dream, but it's one founded in some very real business models. And avoiding this kind of zero day exploit is part of that.
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NiMH is utterly unsuitable for electric car use and many others. Its energy density is good, but it self-discharges at roughly 5%/day, meaning you'd have to recharge every 10 days or so or leave it constantly plugged in. This is one of the maiin reasons it's no longer used for laptops.
Your physics teacher misled you in this case. They certainly have absorption spectra: they're merely colorless in the visible spectrum.
And heat them up to stellar temperatures, and see what colors theyy glow!
The fairy Tinkerbell wafting around and sprinkling pixie dust to make everyone unhappy and thus magically heavier is another "working theory". It's when you have a testable hypothesis and the test agrees with your theory that you have something you can prove or disprove. Dark Energy has about as much experimental proof as the Tinkerbell theory I just mentioned. It solves some mathematical models based on rather scant data, but lacks experimental or other observational foundation.
Or perhaps subtle flaws in the local measurements which are so wildly extrapolated into asumptions about the size of the universe, its age, its distribution of galaxies, etc.? We just saw, here on Slashdot, an announcement that commonly available data show the thickness of the Milky Way is twice the published value. When you extrapolate the limited astonomical data we have, all the way out to the edges of the universe and our ability to measure, you can't take the numbers too seriously and try to make too many concrete assertions from such limited data.
My god. You are obviously not old enough to remember the use of LSD for interrogation by the CIA and DEA in the 1960's, and the results on innocent people questioned this way or of the college student testing subjects they used while experimenting with the techniques. Nor apparently old enough to remember the reports of torture and its mishandling by US military in Vietname and Korea. And when you leave torture victims behind, or slaughter them to hide your wrong-doing, you alienate the locals and give them even more incentive to hate, mistrust, or attack your personnel.
They may have gotten a few guilty people to confess to important information, but they destroyed the lives of innocent people as well, and then tried to cover up their involvement to the lifelong costs of the innocent who had incredible difficulty even establishing the mistreatment, due to "national security".
This reasoning seems unclear. Theh torturer, of course, knows what they are looking for. The victim responds with anything they can think of to fulfill the desire of the torturer, and between them they come up with a sory that fills the needs of the torturer to report something and the victim to escape immediate punishment. The victim may well leak some relevant information if they have it, but their desire becomes one of escaping the torture, so even valid information may not fulfill the desires of the torturer. For a lesser example, think of how you cooperated with your parents in making up stories to explain your absence from school one day, or where you really were last night. The victim will make up other stories to hide the truth which they care about, stories which fulfill the questioner's goals and needs.
I don't see how the torturer can *not* have an agenda and an expectation that many victims will try to fulfill for them after they are broken down enough. Obtaining specific types of information is what pays the torturer's salary.
Ebay wasn't where you had to worry about high-level Scientologists. Scientology sued the Cult Awareness Network into bankruptcy with roughly 1500 individual lawsuits, and took over their name, phone numbers, and trademarks.
Calling Cult Awareness Network for help with a relative being sucked into a cult now leads you straight to a trained Scientologist who will help you with that with Hubbard's "tech". That is frightening indeed.
Really? I find that they're "beta geeks" at best, local users, but they go to particular IT people or generalists if they need real technical answers. This is not to insult their skill sets, which are very real and valuable. It's just that for "alpha geek", I expect them to be the person the other geeks go to.
Perhaps I expect too much from an alpha geek in a small environment? You seem to be in more of an alpha geek, or perhaps a "lieutent to the alpha geek" position, one I can sympathize with.
Someone with moderator points please mod kmac06's post up. You can often find exceptionally good directions for addressing Linux issues, but they tend to be scattered and buried in huge numbers of badly written and poorly organized directions that involve unnecessary steps and sacrificing a goat.
If any laptop is going to affect this, it's likely to be the OLPC. Linux BIOS, Linux OS, it just works out of the box, and it can capture the minds of young people all over the world as their first computer and their first serious exposure to the world of the Internet.
Please believe me when I say that they are not the alpha geeks. They're graphics designers. Influential, but hardly the technical experts I'd expect for an alpha geek.
Where are you getting the claim that the fraudsters are mostly American? There's plenty of market for such frauds. The Americans are the logical victims of such fraud?
I agree that the American prosecution efforts are pitiful, and would help reduce the problem massively. But have you ever tried to track a spammer or fraudster overseas to their hosting website and get anything done about it? The US ISP's are at least somewhat responsive to outright fraud accusations with proof provided.
And unfortunately, the Americans have tried to do "anything at all". What they've tried has been mis-aimed, such as the CAN-SPAM act.
China remains one of the largest providers of email spam and fraudulent miracle cures and scams worldwide. As such a contributing host, and with Chinese legal authority poorly educated and frankly uninterested in punishing web and email fraud, it remains an email and webhost fraud hotspot. So you've left out this:
3) The sites in question are hosted in China, by Chinese crackers and fraudsters, to defraud anyone with money or computer resources tricked into visiting the site, no matter where it is hosted.
This works because Chinese law enforcement is even more behind the times dealing with computer fraud than the USA.
If Google were willing to lose China as a market, they'd have refused to cooperate with Chinese censorship of Google results.
The China sites doubtless includes lots of rootkitted servers, and an active market in rootkitting people's computers and selling their time for spamming and other illegal activities.
It's also encouraging other criminal acts, such as trespass into someone's security systems, and a violation of your employee confidentiality contractual statements.
Nevertheless, insider trading is very, very common. Despite the claims at corporate seminars by policy watchdogs, by simply watching the actions of the vice presidents and board members, it's very easy to see where their knowledge of other companies from non-disclosure bound meetings is used to their personal advantage. And it's far, far too common for middle management and service staff such as secretaries to do a bit of stock meddling themselves, not realizing or admitting that it is in fact illegal.
Too many stock brokers live for this information, for the tidbits that help them sell a stock for their commission benefit and to their own personal or corporate stock advantage. Like gossiping about a girl you like, too many seem frankly unable to shut up about their insider knowledge.
I expect these to be popular for virtualization systems as well, where a spare CPU for the spare OS can do wonders for your performance, and a vastly cheaper set of triple cores can easily satisfy the needs of a few very expensive quad-cores, with an option for upgrades as needed.
Some of those guerrilla troops are certainly doing many things that are wrong. Armed theft is supporting them, as are blackmail, kidnapping, and drug running. Civilian terrorism, especially against your own countrymen for being religious or political opponents instead of military ones, and the harsh treatment of women and children including murder is "wrong".
I agree we have to keep a sense of scale, that many of the things the US does in Iraq are also "wrong" or even more wrong. But be clear, the guerrillas are for the most part desperate and nasty people, not the ones you want actually running the country if they succeed in getting us out.
The big pattern is that the guerrillas fight dirty. They look for and use any openings: if you close one opening, they'll use the next, least defended one, and it takes them very little time to shift targets because they have little command structure, just enough to keep isolated cells in munitions and shelter.
The second big pattern is "why do they keep attacking"? If the US instigators of this war had listened to their more competent staff, who told them it's a huge mess and they needed 3 times the number of troops and not to use so many mercenaries (who are a massive problem in Iraq as they've been in other "peacekeeping" operatons), we'd have had a much cleaner recovery after the invasion and wouldn't have these issues.
But that's an even bigger picture pattern, and these research studies can do nothing about it.
Indifferennt old fart isn't bad. You can amuse yourself at the adventures of the youngsters. "Thank you, yes, I tried writing my own source control system, too. Now go install git."
Such an RFID key is like a password. It requires storage of the valid keys' information on the lock itself, and such control is built into RFID based locks and other devices. I agree that such devices are not yet stable: the field is evolving too fast to have consistent and reliable tools for long-term use.
The trick with your future spouse is to get an RFID lock implanted for your partner's sexual organs, for a real geek chastity belt. Of course, being this much of a geek is a bit of a chastity belt in itself.
No tattoos? No vaccines? No earrings? No tongue piercing (which I have to admit from experience, has its delightful uses)?
The difference between these and an RFID tag implantation is minor. I just don't like the idea that the sensors at various shipping companies can tell when I walk near them. What's next?
Do you have any creditable reference for this? Because while foreign bodies can cause trouble, the RFID tags are or silicon encased, and those are pretty safe for other surgical implantations. They don't radiate a lot of energy, they do absorb and re-radiate a bit, but the amountn is very slight.
A casual web search show so many casual rants without experimentation or real testing that it's difficult to establish a real one. It's as bad as the "vaccines cause autism" idea, which keeps having serious journals present real studies that show the safety. But it only takes one or two people with blogs and who actually have the problem, whether it is caused by the RFID tag or the vaccine or MSG or artificial sweeteners, to revive such an idea.
It's not a matter of "they make so much money". It's a matter of "why spend hours on wasted employee time when a conviction is nearly impossible, and unlikely ot stem the tide of fraud attempts"? Getting a conviction against the horde of phishing and spamming frauds is very, very difficult, and very expensive in lawyer time. And it's unlikely to do anything noticeable to stem the tide: too many fraudsters are only too happy to fill the gap left by convicting a few. And those few are happy to operate, overseas, in places like Nigeria where conviction is nearly impossible due to corrupt local government.
OK, this belief shows a real lack of experience with complex products. But the concept that even a genius set of programmers, with a solid Q/A process, can write software without security bugs is nonsense. Even a small and secure set of functions have to interact with the rest of your operating system, and that introduces the potential for unexpected flaws.
Legal liability won't fix this. It may shift the balance, but creating new legal liabilities for software is what EULA's are designed to avoid.
Well, getting Real to use the GPL is a pipe dream, but it's one founded in some very real business models. And avoiding this kind of zero day exploit is part of that.