No, no it is NOT substantially more radioactive than enriched or natural uranium. Uranium is NOT a hot substance - people keep missing that simple point. It gets more radioactive when you put a lot of it together, but that is not the point.
The problem with Uranium is that it is a very toxic heavy metal (MUCH worse than either mercury or lead), in addition to being radioactive. Look at the half-life - over a billion years! That is not a highly radioactive substance.
The greatest health risk from large intakes of uranium is toxic damage to the kidneys, because, in addition to being weakly radioactive, uranium is a toxic metal. Uranium is a reproductive toxicant.
You don't need much to screw your kidneys and other vital organs. And as you probably know, you will not live long when you can't filter the crap from your blood properly.
Of course depleted uranium and "regular" uranium have the same effect on the body - they are the SAME thing. It would be like saying that there is this regular Oxygen that is different from the special Oxygen-16 and Oxygen-18. Chemically, they are identical, just like Uranium vs. U-235 vs. U-238.
Furthermore, "regular" Uranium and "depleted" Uranium and "enriched" Uranium have nothing to do with it being Uranium or not. It only has to do with Uranium-235 abundance. Regular just has under 1% of the U-235 and the depleted has "less". But it is still Uranium!!! Heck, the two types have virtually identical radioactivity (depleted vs. natural)
And chemically, they pose the same problems because they have identical chemical properties (because both are Uranium!)
Anyone saying that DU is safe is full of *shit*. We all know that Uranium mining and smelting can be hazardous tasks. Spreading it around in dust form and saying the opposite in light of the truth and past experiences is criminal.
As TFA says (or the one I read says), the spacecraft that are in the elliptic plane are not affected. The further from the plane the spacecraft diverges, the greater the effect. That is very interesting if true.
He is wrong or maybe inarticulate in the presentation. The usage of NAT will increase *only for the IPv4*. That will happen regardless of IPv6!
He says IPv4 NAT will be used to route IPv4 traffic to IPv6 only sites. So? How is that different from having a few IPv4s and having to route traffic to your private space servers??
IPv6 fixes the problems. No more *necessity* for stupid NAT for IPv6-IPv6 connections. Just because Ipv4 run out of space and needs more NATing, too bad. Has nothing to do with IPv6.
Anyway, most problems he lists are not really problems. Stale code is not really a problem - did we stop the calendar because of year 2000? IPv6 transition may be the next "dot-com bubble" - more free money! Regardless, it will happen and is happening now.
Making hydrogen inside a vehicle is *stupid* and wasteful. I'm sure that is what they'd want, but it would make your vehicle much more complicated. More useless weight and less efficient.
Most efficient H2 generation would still be right next to power plants as then you do not have line losses. Line losses are *huge* which means having an hydrogen distribution system pays for itself in the long run.
Women are still considered "items" *owned* by men in many countries of the world. Most of these countries tend to have some sort of "fundamentalist religious system". For example, Pakistan, Nigeria, Sudan. India and Bangladesh is another example where corruption and the cast system allow people (especially women and children) to be treated as property. Child labour?
Slavery exists *today*. It only almost disappeared in the developed world, but it still exists even there. Underground. See the sex trade trafficking of women.
Religious dogma and irrationality will take even longer. Let's hope we have enough time before that dogma kills all of us - see nuclear weapons in hands of these fanatics, be it 'christian', 'islamic' or 'jewish'.
So, you want to create an SMP type cluster where each CPU is connected with another access a 100Gbps switched network? And your application sounds like it needs SMP to work but you want to go "on the cheap" and instead of getting a SMP supercomputer or even renting space in you, you just want to have a rack of playstations instead with 100Gbps network adapters?
I suggest you fix your algorithm or get/rent a machine that can handle your data instead of guessing playstation will ship with 100Gbps ports for you anytime soon.
No, you force the companies to sell the access to lines *for the same price* to everyone. Does that make sense??? Has nothing to do with the actual price or anything else. It requires that,
1. Telcos charge the same for the last-mile connection to company X as they do to themselves. This means, they can't charge $40 for DSL access line rental and then offer DSL for $35 themselves. They need to offer their own DSL *if* they paid that $40 to another company. Anything else is anti-competitive.
2. The rules don't actually determine the price set. The Telcos can charge $500 for last mile if they want, BUT they can't offer cheaper services themselves.
This either keeps the telco renting bandwidth and owning the lines, or they either get problems with regulators or other companies start to build their own last mile if telco's ones are too expensive.
Wrong regarding houses. There is a 200A 115V supply to this house. But the max peak power used is about 5kW for geo-thermal heat pump, another 60A for oven,hot water tank and clothes dryer (well, maybe 6kW peak from that). Aside from that, there can be 500W for other stuff.
Of course, this is not running 24/7 but peak peak is clearly above 10kW. Monthly power usage can be 2-3MWh or so (2-4kW load - 4-8x your guesstimate). At 5c per kWh, it is about $1000-$150/mo. Or maybe 50-75 pounds/mo. Now, this is purely electric (hydroelectic) supplied house and it is very energy efficient. No gas/oil here. Temperatures go down to -30C in winter.
Also, 1GW is not exceptionally large. I think the power conversion ratio from heat produced in thermal electric plants to electricity generated is something like 35%. This means 65% of the heat has to be dumped. So, to produce 1GW electrical power, you need 3GW thermal power. Now, the florida reactors (AFAIK) are on the coast. They can dump more heat into the ocean if there is a need. Shutdown is just more prudent as you don't know the cause of the low-load is.
Aside: Cooling towers don't work so well hence they are not used by any modern reactor.
*Maybe* looking at something more than a few months is more valid when looking at long term trends like Global Warming trend???????? You know, a few weeks or months of cold doesn't mean "global cooling".
Also, the sun just started a new 11-year cycle this year. The solar output was marginally dropping for few years now and now it will increase. Cheers and enjoy more denying in spite of reality.
Exercise (high-output endurance especially) produces lots of nice serration in your brain. Makes you happy. And then eating all the carbs helps too as you need carbs to exercise.
From my experience, I start slipping into some sort of depressed state about a week without exercise. Then an hour of 180bpm exercise, and I'm happy again. Essentially, you need *regular* exercise to feel well. At least 3 times a week for at least 2 hours in total. Preferably, it is at least 4 hours per week.
This is also the reason why some long distance runners get addicted to their sport. Cycling may be easier on their knees.:)
Anyway, I have *NOT* found a depressed active person yet. I have seen (and first hand experience myself in past) that lots of sedentary people are depressed. But then most people prefer magic pills over exercise. Heck, they'd rather die from obesity than exercise either, so I'm not exactly optimistic that they will exercise to feel better either.
Useful fact: Most people popping anti-depressants are women. More women are sedentary compared to men. Maybe some connection here???
The problems listed have nothing to do with computers. They have everything to do with inadequate local laws, regulations and enforcement. Then there is corruption of all of this as well.
So, computing has nothing to do with environmental laws. Greed (of the *developing* country politicians/police/etc.) is the problem.
Most copper comes from Chilean mines. So, not sure what the rain forest has to do with that. If you want to raise deforestations here are *some* the culprits,
1. "bio-fuels"
2. cattle ranching
3. "bush meat" (see Congo area)
4. char coal
5. iron ore (see #4)
6. farming (tropical oils like coconut)
7. Global Warming (causes more droughts in Amazon now which is burning at even faster rate now - mostly gone by 2025 for sure!)
there is probably a number of other so called "industries" that are inflicting much greater damage to rain forests than copper mines ever will. Heck, AFAIK copper is from Chile and some in Kazakhstan. Not exactly prime jungle lands.
Smelters can be made environmentally safe. *But* it is all about greed of local politicians. They are corrupt and will not enact legislations to force smelters to upgrade. And it has nothing to do with the miners either - these pay the lowest price they can to have their concentrate smelted. That means *minimum* needed to comply with environmental legislations. So, if the legislations were more strict, smelters would produce less pollution! wow! All it takes is non-greedy, non-corrupt politicians to do that.
I know recently Chilean gov't introduced some new standard reducing concentration of molybdenum that can be discharged from retention ponds of miners. What happened? Miners upgraded their installations (aka. adding thickeners).
So, fix corruption and you fix all your problems. Nothing to do with computers.
PS. Greenest PC is the cheapest PC - on-board graphics. No expansion slots. etc. I get 120W idle and about 160W full throttle on a 2 year old setup. Very happy with it. No need to upgrade any time soon. "Green computing" has essentially arrived because speed advances have essentially stalled:)
The problem has nothing to do with "so-so" devices or other bull. The problem is clearly with the town.
1. They added the gate
2. Their maps do not list the road as dead end
3. Trucks go there - dead end
4. WTF??!?
So what should have been done to avoid the trucks? They should have made the road as a "no truck" route. Problem solved. They want a gated community? Make the road a dead-end on maps so there is no car traffic except for cases when people know what is going on.
It is sad that people make devices responsible for a fsck-up by the local town. The town is responsible for making sure that roads are clearly depicted on their maps, including any blockades. Yes, including electronic maps (these are the vector maps for roads)
The issue is not some super high-tech gadgets. It is basic intelligence. It is the informants! The informants in the Afghan population are reporting Taliban movements to their local police or military units. That's it. When you turn off the cell towers, then Taliban can move much more freely as no one will be reporting them.
Taliban is not supported by majority, or even a sizable minority in Afghanistan. People are tired of war. Hell, 25+ years of it in one way or another.
Furthermore, do you think the women like Taliban? Even if only 1 in 100 women is brave enough to report Taliban movements, that's 1 in 200 people. And I would guess that most med do not want their women bound to their houses either (hey, men don't like the extra work;).
Kabul is now thriving compared to when Taliban were in power. Kandahar is even much better off now. People see the change. There are more informants every day. And cellphones are what is enabling them to provide the military/police with intelligence they would never be able to gather alone.
No. It will cost 0. Yes, 0. Just like always-on lights we have in Canada cost, yes, 0.
The gas engine wastes so much power anyway and never runs at optimal that the so called loses are meaningless. 100HP engine can generate 100W of power without any additional fuel costs. Heck, on a bike you generate 100W of power without too much effort. You can only speak of loses with some *efficient* hybrids or electric cars. But then the windshield doesn't need to be powered all the time anyway.
Regardless, this technology may be most helpful in places where wipers are currently not used. For example, motorcycle helmets. Or cycling glasses.
Screw the HTTP servers. You want to host a game for you and your buddies and you CAN'T because of NAT! You want to have a SIP phone on the network, and you CAN'T. Simple, real world usage is curtailed because of NAT.
Public IP addresses make it simple to have *proper* routing tables.
There is also the ability to track users easily. Imagine you have one of your computers compromised. The computer is then used to control another box that controls another one that drives some botnet. If you have a NAT, the 3rd party that discovered their box compromised will trace it back to... your NAT! And the NAT is not tracked 99% of the time. So, the compromised box on your site cannot be easily discovered without packet sniffing.
Or an employee is involved in something illegal. The 3rd party produces their logs that list your NAT as the source of the problem. Which computer was used in that activity? You are stuck with tracing the stuff though screen loggers and other invasive BS just because NAT has to exist.
NAT is the wrong solution because of liability. NAT is wrong solution from routing point of view. NAT is wrong solution from technical point of view. IPv4 would have been replaced years ago if it wasn't or stupid NAT gateways everyone has now. Yeah, these will be obsolete with IPv6.
When I left school I thought NAT was the greatest thing in the world aside from sliced bread. Then real world experience forces you to realize that maybe the university usage of public IP on its internal network wasn't such a stupid thing after all. Public IP should be assigned to ALL devices, and then you can use a statefull firewall to protect these assets. Private IP networks should NEVER be connected to public IP networks - let's hope that dies with IPv4. The sooner the better.
You are correct, copyright law prevents modifying of content. The only way to do this is to have another Window or "frame" display the adds. Adding adds into the website is copyright infringement.
This is not about being a policeman or not. USA is actually a policeman of the world in many ways, and that's why things are the way they are. I think more stable, but then whatever.
*but* US should say out of Cuban politics for *many* reasons that have nothing to do with policeman of the world.
1. Cold War is over
2. Communism is not a "threat" - it is a political/economic system that doesn't work
3. Cuba's communism is not as bad as many gov'ts that US has put in place because the countries in question had *democratically* *elected* socialist governments. Peru is an example. Panama. Nicaragua. The perpetual war in Colombia largely because of the "no talk with FARC" bullshit (and now FARC is very radicalized because of that policy over the last few decades).
4. China? China's communism and nationalism is a much larger threat than Cuba ever was
5. Don't bring up the "Cuban Missile Crises" - was it OK for US to put missiles in Turkey on USSR border first? Does US really keep grudges for half a century?
6. Batista was a corrupt ass and US in fifties were bunch of racists - Cuba's revolution was the natural outcome of US's corrupt influence there at the time.
7. Castro wasn't a commie from the get go - US stance to support Batista during the revolt and even after it alienated Castro and USSR took the opportunity.
8. Iraq? - lesson to stay out of internal affairs of other countries
9. Priorities?? see Darfur/Sudan, Iran, North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Zionist/Palestine insanity, China, Global Warming, scientific research, space, etc. All more important than Cuba *ever* was.
Net neutrality has everything to do with pay-per-use Internet. You either pay fair $$$ per GB transfer or you cannot have net neutrality. If someone uses 80GB a month, they would have to pay quite a lot for that. Consider the following prices,
$1/GB at highest utilization. The costs to them is actually about that. In the US, the prices are a little less, but not by much. So you see the problem with people using 100GB a month, paying $40 and expecting they can continue to do that without costing someone else. That's why unlimited doesn't work. Imagine if you had "unlimited electrical power" plan. Blackouts everywhere because someone feels they can heat their driveway to melt snow instead of shoveling. Hey, unlimited right?
Current T1, T3 and OC3 prices indicate that bandwidth costs about $1-$2/GB. Hence a fair payment for end users to to pay something like $40/mo, have 30GB/mo available in that price. Then they pay $1.50/GB for the rest. It would mean people using 100GB would end up paying $145/mo. But then at least *everyone* would pay their use of the bandwidth. Telcos would not be able to say that they need to charge more for "youtube" traffic or other BS. Traffic is traffic, whether it is you tube or otherwise.
I want fair per-per-use, neutral to traffic Internet access that is still affordable for normal usage. The unlimited gimmick is just prone to abuse hence no serious provider has it.
Come on guys. The politicians love the entire biofuel train and will disregard the negative consequences for as long as possible. The entire thing was so quickly accepted NOT because it will reduce emissions, but because it is a way to pump agricultural subsidies without actually saying you do.
Agri subsidies have been a major problem between Europe+US vs. rest of the world. Due to subsidies, it is cheaper for people in Nigeria to actually buy corn and wheat from US/Europe than to actually grow it themselves. Agri subsidies are essentially screwing the third world for monetary, political and strategic reasons (ie. country can feed itself without imports - strategic advantage).
The only problem is that all this is anti-WTO. Anti global free-trade. So, how can politicians fix the problem? How can they continue to subsidize agriculture without being contrary to the WTO agreements they want? They subsidize "new technology" called biofuels. Then the agri-subsidies take an extra step to get to farmer, but end result is the same. Subsidies continue while WTO is happy.
The only problem is that this is again at the cost of the environment. More land cleared. More jungles and peat bogs destroyed to make "environmentally friendly" fuel. Subsidies are why bio-fuel from corn, sugar cane, wheat, even grass. But no bio-fuel from oily algae grown on treated sewage lagoons. No, that fertilizer is just dumped to kill lakes instead.
Bio-fuels are just a cover to continue with agri subsidies in US and Europe. That's why politicians love it.
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The problem with Uranium is that it is a very toxic heavy metal (MUCH worse than either mercury or lead), in addition to being radioactive. Look at the half-life - over a billion years! That is not a highly radioactive substance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium#Precautions
You don't need much to screw your kidneys and other vital organs. And as you probably know, you will not live long when you can't filter the crap from your blood properly.
Of course depleted uranium and "regular" uranium have the same effect on the body - they are the SAME thing. It would be like saying that there is this regular Oxygen that is different from the special Oxygen-16 and Oxygen-18. Chemically, they are identical, just like Uranium vs. U-235 vs. U-238.
Furthermore, "regular" Uranium and "depleted" Uranium and "enriched" Uranium have nothing to do with it being Uranium or not. It only has to do with Uranium-235 abundance. Regular just has under 1% of the U-235 and the depleted has "less". But it is still Uranium!!! Heck, the two types have virtually identical radioactivity (depleted vs. natural)
And chemically, they pose the same problems because they have identical chemical properties (because both are Uranium!)
Anyone saying that DU is safe is full of *shit*. We all know that Uranium mining and smelting can be hazardous tasks. Spreading it around in dust form and saying the opposite in light of the truth and past experiences is criminal.
"Guys, that geyser on Enceladus ... it was just a fart"
As TFA says (or the one I read says), the spacecraft that are in the elliptic plane are not affected. The further from the plane the spacecraft diverges, the greater the effect. That is very interesting if true.
He is wrong or maybe inarticulate in the presentation. The usage of NAT will increase *only for the IPv4*. That will happen regardless of IPv6!
He says IPv4 NAT will be used to route IPv4 traffic to IPv6 only sites. So? How is that different from having a few IPv4s and having to route traffic to your private space servers??
IPv6 fixes the problems. No more *necessity* for stupid NAT for IPv6-IPv6 connections. Just because Ipv4 run out of space and needs more NATing, too bad. Has nothing to do with IPv6.
Anyway, most problems he lists are not really problems. Stale code is not really a problem - did we stop the calendar because of year 2000? IPv6 transition may be the next "dot-com bubble" - more free money! Regardless, it will happen and is happening now.
Making hydrogen inside a vehicle is *stupid* and wasteful. I'm sure that is what they'd want, but it would make your vehicle much more complicated. More useless weight and less efficient.
Most efficient H2 generation would still be right next to power plants as then you do not have line losses. Line losses are *huge* which means having an hydrogen distribution system pays for itself in the long run.
Women are still considered "items" *owned* by men in many countries of the world. Most of these countries tend to have some sort of "fundamentalist religious system". For example, Pakistan, Nigeria, Sudan. India and Bangladesh is another example where corruption and the cast system allow people (especially women and children) to be treated as property. Child labour?
Slavery exists *today*. It only almost disappeared in the developed world, but it still exists even there. Underground. See the sex trade trafficking of women.
Religious dogma and irrationality will take even longer. Let's hope we have enough time before that dogma kills all of us - see nuclear weapons in hands of these fanatics, be it 'christian', 'islamic' or 'jewish'.
Imagine a world where a patent troll patented HTTP or SMTP 15 years ago.
Yes, no Internet.
Maybe the patent system is broken if it does the opposite of what it suppose to do then?
So, you want to create an SMP type cluster where each CPU is connected with another access a 100Gbps switched network? And your application sounds like it needs SMP to work but you want to go "on the cheap" and instead of getting a SMP supercomputer or even renting space in you, you just want to have a rack of playstations instead with 100Gbps network adapters?
I suggest you fix your algorithm or get/rent a machine that can handle your data instead of guessing playstation will ship with 100Gbps ports for you anytime soon.
No, you force the companies to sell the access to lines *for the same price* to everyone. Does that make sense??? Has nothing to do with the actual price or anything else. It requires that,
1. Telcos charge the same for the last-mile connection to company X as they do to themselves. This means, they can't charge $40 for DSL access line rental and then offer DSL for $35 themselves. They need to offer their own DSL *if* they paid that $40 to another company. Anything else is anti-competitive.
2. The rules don't actually determine the price set. The Telcos can charge $500 for last mile if they want, BUT they can't offer cheaper services themselves.
This either keeps the telco renting bandwidth and owning the lines, or they either get problems with regulators or other companies start to build their own last mile if telco's ones are too expensive.
Wrong regarding houses. There is a 200A 115V supply to this house. But the max peak power used is about 5kW for geo-thermal heat pump, another 60A for oven,hot water tank and clothes dryer (well, maybe 6kW peak from that). Aside from that, there can be 500W for other stuff.
Of course, this is not running 24/7 but peak peak is clearly above 10kW. Monthly power usage can be 2-3MWh or so (2-4kW load - 4-8x your guesstimate). At 5c per kWh, it is about $1000-$150/mo. Or maybe 50-75 pounds/mo. Now, this is purely electric (hydroelectic) supplied house and it is very energy efficient. No gas/oil here. Temperatures go down to -30C in winter.
Also, 1GW is not exceptionally large. I think the power conversion ratio from heat produced in thermal electric plants to electricity generated is something like 35%. This means 65% of the heat has to be dumped. So, to produce 1GW electrical power, you need 3GW thermal power. Now, the florida reactors (AFAIK) are on the coast. They can dump more heat into the ocean if there is a need. Shutdown is just more prudent as you don't know the cause of the low-load is.
Aside: Cooling towers don't work so well hence they are not used by any modern reactor.
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/
*Maybe* looking at something more than a few months is more valid when looking at long term trends like Global Warming trend???????? You know, a few weeks or months of cold doesn't mean "global cooling".
Also, the sun just started a new 11-year cycle this year. The solar output was marginally dropping for few years now and now it will increase. Cheers and enjoy more denying in spite of reality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_minimum
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm?list862664
I did. Fix == exercise.
:)
Exercise (high-output endurance especially) produces lots of nice serration in your brain. Makes you happy. And then eating all the carbs helps too as you need carbs to exercise.
From my experience, I start slipping into some sort of depressed state about a week without exercise. Then an hour of 180bpm exercise, and I'm happy again. Essentially, you need *regular* exercise to feel well. At least 3 times a week for at least 2 hours in total. Preferably, it is at least 4 hours per week.
This is also the reason why some long distance runners get addicted to their sport. Cycling may be easier on their knees.
Anyway, I have *NOT* found a depressed active person yet. I have seen (and first hand experience myself in past) that lots of sedentary people are depressed. But then most people prefer magic pills over exercise. Heck, they'd rather die from obesity than exercise either, so I'm not exactly optimistic that they will exercise to feel better either.
Useful fact: Most people popping anti-depressants are women. More women are sedentary compared to men. Maybe some connection here???
The problems listed have nothing to do with computers. They have everything to do with inadequate local laws, regulations and enforcement. Then there is corruption of all of this as well.
:)
So, computing has nothing to do with environmental laws. Greed (of the *developing* country politicians/police/etc.) is the problem.
Most copper comes from Chilean mines. So, not sure what the rain forest has to do with that. If you want to raise deforestations here are *some* the culprits,
1. "bio-fuels"
2. cattle ranching
3. "bush meat" (see Congo area)
4. char coal
5. iron ore (see #4)
6. farming (tropical oils like coconut)
7. Global Warming (causes more droughts in Amazon now which is burning at even faster rate now - mostly gone by 2025 for sure!)
there is probably a number of other so called "industries" that are inflicting much greater damage to rain forests than copper mines ever will. Heck, AFAIK copper is from Chile and some in Kazakhstan. Not exactly prime jungle lands.
Smelters can be made environmentally safe. *But* it is all about greed of local politicians. They are corrupt and will not enact legislations to force smelters to upgrade. And it has nothing to do with the miners either - these pay the lowest price they can to have their concentrate smelted. That means *minimum* needed to comply with environmental legislations. So, if the legislations were more strict, smelters would produce less pollution! wow! All it takes is non-greedy, non-corrupt politicians to do that.
I know recently Chilean gov't introduced some new standard reducing concentration of molybdenum that can be discharged from retention ponds of miners. What happened? Miners upgraded their installations (aka. adding thickeners).
So, fix corruption and you fix all your problems. Nothing to do with computers.
PS. Greenest PC is the cheapest PC - on-board graphics. No expansion slots. etc. I get 120W idle and about 160W full throttle on a 2 year old setup. Very happy with it. No need to upgrade any time soon. "Green computing" has essentially arrived because speed advances have essentially stalled
The problem has nothing to do with "so-so" devices or other bull. The problem is clearly with the town.
1. They added the gate
2. Their maps do not list the road as dead end
3. Trucks go there - dead end
4. WTF??!?
So what should have been done to avoid the trucks? They should have made the road as a "no truck" route. Problem solved. They want a gated community? Make the road a dead-end on maps so there is no car traffic except for cases when people know what is going on.
It is sad that people make devices responsible for a fsck-up by the local town. The town is responsible for making sure that roads are clearly depicted on their maps, including any blockades. Yes, including electronic maps (these are the vector maps for roads)
The issue is not some super high-tech gadgets. It is basic intelligence. It is the informants! The informants in the Afghan population are reporting Taliban movements to their local police or military units. That's it. When you turn off the cell towers, then Taliban can move much more freely as no one will be reporting them.
;).
Taliban is not supported by majority, or even a sizable minority in Afghanistan. People are tired of war. Hell, 25+ years of it in one way or another.
Furthermore, do you think the women like Taliban? Even if only 1 in 100 women is brave enough to report Taliban movements, that's 1 in 200 people. And I would guess that most med do not want their women bound to their houses either (hey, men don't like the extra work
Kabul is now thriving compared to when Taliban were in power. Kandahar is even much better off now. People see the change. There are more informants every day. And cellphones are what is enabling them to provide the military/police with intelligence they would never be able to gather alone.
Just get two USB keyboards and you can move them independently of each other.
Cost: $40
No. It will cost 0. Yes, 0. Just like always-on lights we have in Canada cost, yes, 0.
The gas engine wastes so much power anyway and never runs at optimal that the so called loses are meaningless. 100HP engine can generate 100W of power without any additional fuel costs. Heck, on a bike you generate 100W of power without too much effort. You can only speak of loses with some *efficient* hybrids or electric cars. But then the windshield doesn't need to be powered all the time anyway.
Regardless, this technology may be most helpful in places where wipers are currently not used. For example, motorcycle helmets. Or cycling glasses.
Screw the HTTP servers. You want to host a game for you and your buddies and you CAN'T because of NAT! You want to have a SIP phone on the network, and you CAN'T. Simple, real world usage is curtailed because of NAT.
NAT is *the* *wrong* solution.
... your NAT! And the NAT is not tracked 99% of the time. So, the compromised box on your site cannot be easily discovered without packet sniffing.
Public IP addresses make it simple to have *proper* routing tables.
There is also the ability to track users easily. Imagine you have one of your computers compromised. The computer is then used to control another box that controls another one that drives some botnet. If you have a NAT, the 3rd party that discovered their box compromised will trace it back to
Or an employee is involved in something illegal. The 3rd party produces their logs that list your NAT as the source of the problem. Which computer was used in that activity? You are stuck with tracing the stuff though screen loggers and other invasive BS just because NAT has to exist.
NAT is the wrong solution because of liability. NAT is wrong solution from routing point of view. NAT is wrong solution from technical point of view. IPv4 would have been replaced years ago if it wasn't or stupid NAT gateways everyone has now. Yeah, these will be obsolete with IPv6.
When I left school I thought NAT was the greatest thing in the world aside from sliced bread. Then real world experience forces you to realize that maybe the university usage of public IP on its internal network wasn't such a stupid thing after all. Public IP should be assigned to ALL devices, and then you can use a statefull firewall to protect these assets. Private IP networks should NEVER be connected to public IP networks - let's hope that dies with IPv4. The sooner the better.
Transform header is for cache control, like changing bmp files to jpeg or png when stored in cache. It is not to insert shit into pages.
http://utility.di.unito.it/CIE/RFC/2068/169.htm
You are correct, copyright law prevents modifying of content. The only way to do this is to have another Window or "frame" display the adds. Adding adds into the website is copyright infringement.
This is not about being a policeman or not. USA is actually a policeman of the world in many ways, and that's why things are the way they are. I think more stable, but then whatever.
*but* US should say out of Cuban politics for *many* reasons that have nothing to do with policeman of the world.
1. Cold War is over
2. Communism is not a "threat" - it is a political/economic system that doesn't work
3. Cuba's communism is not as bad as many gov'ts that US has put in place because the countries in question had *democratically* *elected* socialist governments. Peru is an example. Panama. Nicaragua. The perpetual war in Colombia largely because of the "no talk with FARC" bullshit (and now FARC is very radicalized because of that policy over the last few decades).
4. China? China's communism and nationalism is a much larger threat than Cuba ever was
5. Don't bring up the "Cuban Missile Crises" - was it OK for US to put missiles in Turkey on USSR border first? Does US really keep grudges for half a century?
6. Batista was a corrupt ass and US in fifties were bunch of racists - Cuba's revolution was the natural outcome of US's corrupt influence there at the time.
7. Castro wasn't a commie from the get go - US stance to support Batista during the revolt and even after it alienated Castro and USSR took the opportunity.
8. Iraq? - lesson to stay out of internal affairs of other countries
9. Priorities?? see Darfur/Sudan, Iran, North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Zionist/Palestine insanity, China, Global Warming, scientific research, space, etc. All more important than Cuba *ever* was.
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Net neutrality has everything to do with pay-per-use Internet. You either pay fair $$$ per GB transfer or you cannot have net neutrality. If someone uses 80GB a month, they would have to pay quite a lot for that. Consider the following prices,
http://www.tera-byte.com/colocated.php
$1/GB at highest utilization. The costs to them is actually about that. In the US, the prices are a little less, but not by much. So you see the problem with people using 100GB a month, paying $40 and expecting they can continue to do that without costing someone else. That's why unlimited doesn't work. Imagine if you had "unlimited electrical power" plan. Blackouts everywhere because someone feels they can heat their driveway to melt snow instead of shoveling. Hey, unlimited right?
Current T1, T3 and OC3 prices indicate that bandwidth costs about $1-$2/GB. Hence a fair payment for end users to to pay something like $40/mo, have 30GB/mo available in that price. Then they pay $1.50/GB for the rest. It would mean people using 100GB would end up paying $145/mo. But then at least *everyone* would pay their use of the bandwidth. Telcos would not be able to say that they need to charge more for "youtube" traffic or other BS. Traffic is traffic, whether it is you tube or otherwise.
I want fair per-per-use, neutral to traffic Internet access that is still affordable for normal usage. The unlimited gimmick is just prone to abuse hence no serious provider has it.
Come on guys. The politicians love the entire biofuel train and will disregard the negative consequences for as long as possible. The entire thing was so quickly accepted NOT because it will reduce emissions, but because it is a way to pump agricultural subsidies without actually saying you do.
Agri subsidies have been a major problem between Europe+US vs. rest of the world. Due to subsidies, it is cheaper for people in Nigeria to actually buy corn and wheat from US/Europe than to actually grow it themselves. Agri subsidies are essentially screwing the third world for monetary, political and strategic reasons (ie. country can feed itself without imports - strategic advantage).
The only problem is that all this is anti-WTO. Anti global free-trade. So, how can politicians fix the problem? How can they continue to subsidize agriculture without being contrary to the WTO agreements they want? They subsidize "new technology" called biofuels. Then the agri-subsidies take an extra step to get to farmer, but end result is the same. Subsidies continue while WTO is happy.
The only problem is that this is again at the cost of the environment. More land cleared. More jungles and peat bogs destroyed to make "environmentally friendly" fuel. Subsidies are why bio-fuel from corn, sugar cane, wheat, even grass. But no bio-fuel from oily algae grown on treated sewage lagoons. No, that fertilizer is just dumped to kill lakes instead.
Bio-fuels are just a cover to continue with agri subsidies in US and Europe. That's why politicians love it.
Easy to fill up 750GB. Just host all revisions of Linux kernel and Debian source trees. In uncompressed form.