Nitric Oxide is a vasodilator (causes your blood vessels to expand). Thus if you get a blood transfusions and you have a potential of getting a heart attack or stroke from blocked arteries before the transplant (atherosclerosis for example), your blood vessels will constrict and you may crap out. As always, karma link to wikipedia on this
Blood doping works. But problem is that viscosity increases and you can crap out. Essentially, blood doping is putting a huge strain on your circulatory system so that there is a little more gas in the tank. Really bad idea. Just like taking steroids. You can crap out anytime.
And how about explaining the Crusades? Oh, I guess they were not humans at the time.
The support for military? The support for the death penalty? The support for these two comes directly from the so called religious crowd. Oh, but as long as they protest the abortion thing, I guess that makes it all better. They are not much different from the jihadists or other religious fanatics.
"Thou shalt not kill except for enemies of God and you can choose who is my enemy" - that seems to be how things are these days in both "devout christian" and "devout muslim" crowds while both proclaiming "peaceful religion". More people died in religious wars as percentage of population than any other wars in the history of this planet.
I guess the mod points here will depend who gets to read the message. I hope they don't declare some holy war or send a sniper my way. Sorry about the rant, but churches and religions are as much about "Thou shalt not kill" as much as it suits their goals. If their goals have any conflict with it, they have a very easy way around the so called "god's rules".
then on ubuntu, go to terminal and use a very similar command (netstat in Ubuntu is much more flexible),
netstat -nutlp
Hint: run as superuser to see all listening program names
Now, see all the services in Windows that are running and are listening? (UTP services are running, but all of them are listening in a way, unline TCP which may not be). Then compare the list to Ubuntu's. All the services that are listening on localhost (typically 127.0.0.1 or::1) are not a problem. The services that listen on 0.0.0.0 or:: may be a problem. In Ubuntu, or Linux it is possible to turn these services off. In Windows, I could not find a way to disable all non-localhost services or make them into localhost only without crippling windows.
Second way to secure the system is via a firewall. Now, that is not really a preferred way, but good for cases when you cannot secure your services. XP SP2 onwards has an ok firewall. Linux has a good firewall called iptables (look for iptables HOWTO via google for information on that).
The bottom line, Linux and Windows have very similar problems when it comes to security. But I find Linux security much more transparent and easy to configure.
Or instead of that, just disable password authentication and allow only RSA/DSA keys auth
AND
Have a static IP on your side and only allow that IP to connect to your server?
Or limit the IP range somewhat for sshd connection (you need to connect from China or Budapest if you live in Toronto?)
Or only allow IPSec traffic for services that result in your box AND limit the IP range to minimum AND use telnet (IPsec so don't need ssh, but you can if you want)?
Moving sshd to a different port is better than nothing, but almost nothing.
I'm still waiting for people to explain how taxing carbon dioxide will actually remove it from the atmosphere
Very easily. Carbon is removed ALL the time from the atmosphere. It is also continuously added. Currently, we (the humans, for emphasis) are adding LOTS of carbon. The rate of new carbon addition has increased significantly. The rate at which carbon has been removed from the atmosphere has also increased. The problem is that the + rate is > than the - rate. So, we need to just stop adding new carbon to the atmosphere and the levels will start to decline. Not by much, but eventually, over few decades it will get down to somewhat the same as in the mid-1900s. Then few centuries later, maybe to levels in mid-1800s (almost pre-industrial)
Now, the answer as to how taxing CO2 removes it from the atmosphere should be self-evident. You stop adding it, the natural processes will eventually remove what is there until a new equilibrium is reached. Think rates of change not absolute volumes.
It is the same as if gov't taxed lead paint more than non-leaded paint. The result is that lead paint will be more expensive than non-lead paint even if lead-paint is cheaper to make. This will drive lead-paint from the marketplace. Similarly with carbon technologies. If you have to pay 50% more for gas to heat your house, then maybe electrical power can be used to heat your house (eg. geothermal heat pump, 300% efficiency -- cheaper than gas without carbon tax, higher up-front cost)
The bottom line, a carbon tax is nothing more than a customer-side subsidy towards alternatives. And it works because it is a free market economy.
Regardless, GW Bush is right, partially. Technology is the answer and Hydrogen based economy is the future. But to help the transition, CO2 must be taxed as it is a waste product. If it is not taxed, then CO2 emitters get a free ride and everyone on the planet ends up paying the CO2 "tax" in form of changed climate. Tax the CO2 emitters and use the money to subsidize H2 technologies and other alternatives, be it the solar pipe-dream or nuclear. Think of a coal power plant and a nuclear power plant. The former gets subsidized by everyone because it does not have to deal with its waste. Imagine if nuclear power plant operators just set fire to their waste piles to get rid of them - that is what coal plants are doing. You can't even fish in many lakes anymore because of mercury contamination from coal. Heck, tuna in the *oceans* is contaminated from coal power plants. The coal industry is not paying now - we all are. It is time to level the playing field with non-carbon technologies.
Great, the ozone layer is going down, and I can check the measurements, but don't tell me that you can't form a guess as to why, because, you can. There's always enough data to guess and always enough science to check any guess.
Science != pseudoscience. You do not get results by guessing. You get results by reviewing the data. Because the ozone layer fluctuates so much it is NOT possible to determine if the ozone layer is repairing itself or CFCs are slowing down in degrading it. The only thing that is measured is *maximum* extend of the hole each year. Some years it is a lot less than other years. Recent years it was near maximum size or set new records. One year blip of 30% reduction doesn't even mean there is 30% more O3 (ozone). It just means that the "hole" is smaller - why? Because there is more ozone and/or wind shifted and/or ozone moved from somewhere else to antarctic and/or.... IF the holes stops setting records in next decade and starts to shirk every year (or at least is stable) then there is some news. Currently, there is just news "hey, it is not record size this year - maybe that is a good sign". Nothing more.
They did not downplay it. Look at by how much the hole fluctuates on a yearly basis and you'll know why.
Ozone is not static, it moves in the atmosphere. 30% size decrease does not mean 30% ozone increase. We must wait at least a few years and see if there is a trend. It will not be if next year we have another record size hole. Yes, it happened before. One year the news was the hole held steady. Media was predicting that ozone may be saved. But then next year, new record size hole.
Wait for a trend. That's what the scientists try to explain to you with the "somewhat". It is a hint,hint not to overplay one data point.
Scientists do not extrapolate any news if they only have 1 data point. That's why it said the news were not setting a trend - premature to know if it is a sign of healing or something else.
Global warming, on the other hand, has a TREND. Scientists extrapolate from a TREND that they know is valid. While Global Warming or Evolution are accepted scientific facts at the moment, people that know squat will still yell and shout mostly because it affects their *beliefs* how they think the earth *should* work and not how it actually does.
Sun rays create and destroy ozone at a given, constant rates. That results in some constant level of ozone in the upper atmosphere. It is a simple, differential equation here. Now, what CFCs and similar chemicals do is cause the ozone destruction rate to go up which is proportional to their concentration in the upper atmosphere. So, the result is that the constant solution of amount of ozone in the upper atmosphere will decrease.
The ozone hole is NOT created by CFCs, it is created by upper atmosphere dynamics. Ozone gets moved around (it is in the air there). But then without the ozone holes at the poles (ozone moves people), we would have less ozone near the tropics and people would need SFP 1000. Essentially, in a state state, pre-man solution, it is very likely that there was some thinning of ozone at the poles.
Finally, global warming. Ozone hole does not create or add to global warming. BUT, it is thought that global warming may contribute ozone depletion by affecting atmosphere dynamics.
Waters is also a "greenhouse gas". It is not a problem because it is always saturated anyway, like methane on Titan. The problem is always increase of greenhouse gas *concentration* in atmosphere. That's where CO2 on earth and human activity come in.
You forgot one thing - hydrogen does not only form water. It is also part of your DNA and other parts of cells. The dangerous part depends on where the tritium ends up, your urine or somewhere more vital. If in water, the "half-life" of tritium is about 14 days when in your body (ie. half leaves in 14 days). If in fats, well, years? more? Until tritium breaks down and screws up your fat cells?
Finally, tritium is not really a naturally occurring element because it is unstable and because it has such a low half-life. Short half-life elements are also referred to as "hot" elements. For example, Uranium or Plutonium is not hot. Tritium and Iodine-128 are.
In summary, tritium is not really safe for batteries. And no, Strontium is MUCH worse (Strontium-90 tends to gets accumulated in bone, like Calcium and has a nice 27 year half-life, so not good at all)
Tritium is only good for future fusion reactions. For other applications, there are safer materials to be used. More inconvenient, yes, but safer.
PS. I'm starting to think that Slashdot crowd treats hazardous materials like Tritium as people in 1800s treated mercury. Tritium is dangerous. It is safer to have your laptop powered by some cyanide cocktail. Beta radiation is dangerous - just because it doesn't penetrate skin doesn't mean it doesn't wrecks havoc if you ingest it - and you will if it is in any products. Alphas are even more dangerous. Gamma radiation is least dangerous to organic tissue. Remember, it is not when it is on the outside, but inside of you where the damage happens.
Just watch out for Manitoba. The day/month of birth is on the license plates of the vehicle owners. Actually, + 4 months - 1 day. That is the expiry of driver licenses, and Manitoba Public Insurance and the provincial government had a great idea of syncronizing vehicle issurance renewals with the driver licenses (it saves time!). But, they forgot that
birth_date on license plate
which I think they know is wrong, is about that the same as
birth_date + 4 months - 1 day on license plates
first, I was told that "computers would get confused by randomized dates" and that "randomized dates are not even distributions" to later "it is the law to renew then".
The TZ data was never a security fix. But it was part of the update. I would expect similar for the current TZ fix.
From what I can read, the NZ timezone was changed sometime midyear and the politicians think that all the software will automagically change in a few days? The problem is with the NZ politicians, not Debian.
My understanding is just the opposite, actually -- the crime did come down slightly, but -- more importantly -- the number of unsolved crimes plummeted. Putting the criminals behind bars is expected to pay off.
Criminals are not put behind bars. If you get mugged, the criminal, if caught, will not spend years and years in jail. They'll be out quick, if ever caught. Only serious criminals are put behind bars for long periods of time and these were generally solved before any CCTV.
'A report by the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (Nacro) which was based on Home Office research, revealed that of 24 studies carried out in city centres, only 13 showed crime had fallen since CCTV cameras were installed.
Crime rates rose significantly in four other cities.
" It was allegedly going to give us these magnificent benefits of reducing crime " '
Obviously that did not happen. With all the cameras, crime should go down a lot. It barely budged. 80% of crime unsolved - that number speaks for itself.
Now, you are unique here -- you do use it in a virtual environment, which means you pay for every license independently, and you pay for them with the intent to use them.
Actually, not quite. They are part of the MSDN subscription so no per install cost. And I find the KVM environment for Windows more appealing than running Windows natively. You can run 2 or more versions side-by-side and test deployment much faster that way, provided you have the memory. The only hitch is Vista has no networking support because drivers are not there in quemu.
I'm not sure that I am unique here. I find the GNOME environment more productive and KVM the only real way to run Windows when developing apps for it. Much easier than dealing with the "user-friendly" versions like Virtual Server or VMWare or VirtualPC. Also, wine is more useful than Parallels on Mac - at least wine runs the apps I deal with, Parallels does not. Also, most of the apps I use is just a text editor like Emacs or gEdit.
Regardless, Windows is not a tax. I find OS X to be more of a tax than Windows. I'd say one would almost always be able to get a Windows PC or laptop *without* the OS or at least make one from exactly the same parts. You may end up paying a little more, but whatever. You CANNOT get an Apple PC or laptop without Mac OS X. You CANNOT get OS X without Apple hardware. True that Microsoft currently has a near-monopoly, but one may argue exactly the same in retail sector and Walmart. Therefore you pay Walmart tax?
Regarding Dell and HP, they are getting cheaper parts because they do not pay middleman for handling or shipping. They buy huge orders from factories and these volumes make it possible for Dell or HP to get discounts. Someone like Asus when selling to end-user, they know that a percentage of the boards will NEVER sell. The consumer has to pay for these otherwise Asus has loss. So the price is higher. Of course, I still buy in parts and will continue to do so. That is the only way to have 100% control over parts, even if I pay for the parts to be put together (eg. custom order of few boxes at local distributor). That is the only way to know that I can get replacement parts at normal prices after warranty expires.
Anyway, I am not a Windows fanboy. Nor an Apply fanboy. I like Linux because I can do more things easier in Linux than I can with either Mac or Windows. And I have a Mac:)
Why is the above modded funny? Microsoft doesn't have a TAX on anything they do not manufacture. They make software. You buy a license to use the said software. If you do not, you do not have to. You can use Linux or pay for OS X license (and hardware tax because of the lock-in there).
Microsoft doesn't lock-in your computer such that it will not work with other OSes. And you do not pay MS anything if you do not buy their software. Hence, it is NOT a tax.
Finally, before the trolls jump in with Dell and similar, you do not have to buy your computers from manufacturers. Also, I tend to only use Microsoft software in a virtual environment (KVM), yet I do not find the above funny but informative. MS doesn't tax you. You pay them to license the software you use. Period.
Maybe you should get real VoIP phones that follow open protocols? You were more locked-in with Vonage (or Skype, if people us that), than with a standard Telco. The telco phone equipment follows some standards that will make it work with other telcos. Vonage and Skype have proprietary protocols that render their services more closed than the telcos. You have learnt that lesson after the fact with your phones.
Personally, I use SIP phones from grandstream (and their adapters - found them better than something like Zoom. Linksys (not Cisco) has good products too). SIP is an open standard and I will *never* be locked-in by any VoIP provider, ever. There is plenty of SIPPSTN providers out there. Some even allow you to have a free PSTN -> SIP gateway ( http://ipcall.com/ is an example). Others, have very good pay-as-you-go and/or monthly packages ( http://les.net/ is an example).
Vonage and Skype may be nice phone alternatives for the non-techie crowd, but Slashdot crowd should not even be using these *expensive* and inferior solution.:)
Qt license runs for $6600 and Trolltech also does not provide the terms of the license on their website. Not sure, but I think they'll provide them if you want prior to purchasing (ie. licensing) the software. Also, the commercial license prevents you from reselling. Furthermore, prevents you from transferring the license more than once every 6 months (eg. someone quits and new person is hired to take their place).
Autodesk does nothing more evil here than Trolltech.
Furthermore, it is quite common knowledge these days that you do not buy software, you license it. You buy the CD/DVD and box if you wish, but the license may be non-transferable. In this case, Autodesk will argue that the license is not transferable therefore re-selling the CD/DVD for the asked sum of money cannot have a legitimate purpose.
The test in court will be whether non-transferable licenses are valid. If it is anything else, then the lawsuit is irrelevant.
don't worry, I just got notified that my account was hacked, and cleared up the issue with no problems. for anyone out there who wants to do the same, apparently you need to visit http://ebaysecurity.ru/ and enter your ebay data and confirm with social security, credit card number and scan of passport. it only took me about 5 minutes. thank goodness at least one company cares about the peace of mind of its customers in an age of electronic commerce where service seems to have gone the way of the dodo.
Well, the link you provided does not seem to work anymore. Where am I suppose to verify?..
Ah!! Just got that email. I guess they changed the address not to be hacked! Can't post the address here because it says to keep it in confidence. Cheers!
How about using *different* generators? Like hydroelectric? Like geothermal? Like nuclear? Or do you heat your food on a plutonium pile?
Fossil fuels *must* die *now* or they will cause us great hardship real soon.
Many places can have geothermal plants. All you have to do is put pipes deep enough. Oil industry innovations can help here, I'm sure (ie. the oil rig does not only dig straight down or in straight line).
our entire office in downtime Washington DC could be blown up
I sense the little counter at NSA/"homeland security" click up -- Internet chatter about possible attack just increased! Few more like that, and terror alert will go up!! Geez people, watch what you type!
What resource bubble? There is no resource bubble.
There may have been a US housing bubble, but there is no resource bubble. Resource prices have increased in response to the demand from China and India and other nations. US is not the consumer of these resources anymore. Unless you are forecasting that Chineese economy will collapse, resource prices will stay just where they are.
Furthermore, while price for copper has gone up from $0.60 (that is 60 cents, Verizon!) to $3.5, the price of oil has gone up similarly from $20 to $80. I don't think that the prices for resources are overvalues as much as these prices have not yet managed to go through the system and trigger inflation, as they will.
And finally, these prices are in USD. These same prices in EUR are completely different. Copper has been going down in price as well as oil for a number of months now. It is only because USD is depreciating that we are seeing these record highs. It is only a matter of time until inflation will correct the current problem with US prices though.
Anyhow, as one said it, there is no bad fiscal policy. There are just consequences. What USD vs. CND is just an example of an unbalanced budget + trade deficit vs. balanced budget + trade surplus over most of the decade. These are the consequences of the policies. More to come.
The only issue is that CND should not see ANY inflation and USD should be seeing it. Prices are really screwed - NAFTA anyone?
Slashdot Mirror
Nitric Oxide is a vasodilator (causes your blood vessels to expand). Thus if you get a blood transfusions and you have a potential of getting a heart attack or stroke from blocked arteries before the transplant (atherosclerosis for example), your blood vessels will constrict and you may crap out. As always, karma link to wikipedia on this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endothelium-derived_relaxing_factor
There are ways of going around this, like taking nitroglycerin pills
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyceryl_trinitrate_(pharmacology)
Blood doping works. But problem is that viscosity increases and you can crap out. Essentially, blood doping is putting a huge strain on your circulatory system so that there is a little more gas in the tank. Really bad idea. Just like taking steroids. You can crap out anytime.
And how about explaining the Crusades? Oh, I guess they were not humans at the time.
The support for military? The support for the death penalty? The support for these two comes directly from the so called religious crowd. Oh, but as long as they protest the abortion thing, I guess that makes it all better. They are not much different from the jihadists or other religious fanatics.
"Thou shalt not kill except for enemies of God and you can choose who is my enemy" - that seems to be how things are these days in both "devout christian" and "devout muslim" crowds while both proclaiming "peaceful religion". More people died in religious wars as percentage of population than any other wars in the history of this planet.
I guess the mod points here will depend who gets to read the message. I hope they don't declare some holy war or send a sniper my way. Sorry about the rant, but churches and religions are as much about "Thou shalt not kill" as much as it suits their goals. If their goals have any conflict with it, they have a very easy way around the so called "god's rules".
In Windows, go to commandline and type
::1) are not a problem. The services that listen on 0.0.0.0 or :: may be a problem. In Ubuntu, or Linux it is possible to turn these services off. In Windows, I could not find a way to disable all non-localhost services or make them into localhost only without crippling windows.
netstat -a -n
then on ubuntu, go to terminal and use a very similar command (netstat in Ubuntu is much more flexible),
netstat -nutlp
Hint: run as superuser to see all listening program names
Now, see all the services in Windows that are running and are listening? (UTP services are running, but all of them are listening in a way, unline TCP which may not be). Then compare the list to Ubuntu's. All the services that are listening on localhost (typically 127.0.0.1 or
Second way to secure the system is via a firewall. Now, that is not really a preferred way, but good for cases when you cannot secure your services. XP SP2 onwards has an ok firewall. Linux has a good firewall called iptables (look for iptables HOWTO via google for information on that).
The bottom line, Linux and Windows have very similar problems when it comes to security. But I find Linux security much more transparent and easy to configure.
AND
Have a static IP on your side and only allow that IP to connect to your server?
Or limit the IP range somewhat for sshd connection (you need to connect from China or Budapest if you live in Toronto?)
Or only allow IPSec traffic for services that result in your box AND limit the IP range to minimum AND use telnet (IPsec so don't need ssh, but you can if you want)?
Moving sshd to a different port is better than nothing, but almost nothing.
Very easily. Carbon is removed ALL the time from the atmosphere. It is also continuously added. Currently, we (the humans, for emphasis) are adding LOTS of carbon. The rate of new carbon addition has increased significantly. The rate at which carbon has been removed from the atmosphere has also increased. The problem is that the + rate is > than the - rate. So, we need to just stop adding new carbon to the atmosphere and the levels will start to decline. Not by much, but eventually, over few decades it will get down to somewhat the same as in the mid-1900s. Then few centuries later, maybe to levels in mid-1800s (almost pre-industrial)
Now, the answer as to how taxing CO2 removes it from the atmosphere should be self-evident. You stop adding it, the natural processes will eventually remove what is there until a new equilibrium is reached. Think rates of change not absolute volumes.
It is the same as if gov't taxed lead paint more than non-leaded paint. The result is that lead paint will be more expensive than non-lead paint even if lead-paint is cheaper to make. This will drive lead-paint from the marketplace. Similarly with carbon technologies. If you have to pay 50% more for gas to heat your house, then maybe electrical power can be used to heat your house (eg. geothermal heat pump, 300% efficiency -- cheaper than gas without carbon tax, higher up-front cost)
The bottom line, a carbon tax is nothing more than a customer-side subsidy towards alternatives. And it works because it is a free market economy.
Regardless, GW Bush is right, partially. Technology is the answer and Hydrogen based economy is the future. But to help the transition, CO2 must be taxed as it is a waste product. If it is not taxed, then CO2 emitters get a free ride and everyone on the planet ends up paying the CO2 "tax" in form of changed climate. Tax the CO2 emitters and use the money to subsidize H2 technologies and other alternatives, be it the solar pipe-dream or nuclear. Think of a coal power plant and a nuclear power plant. The former gets subsidized by everyone because it does not have to deal with its waste. Imagine if nuclear power plant operators just set fire to their waste piles to get rid of them - that is what coal plants are doing. You can't even fish in many lakes anymore because of mercury contamination from coal. Heck, tuna in the *oceans* is contaminated from coal power plants. The coal industry is not paying now - we all are. It is time to level the playing field with non-carbon technologies.
Science != pseudoscience. You do not get results by guessing. You get results by reviewing the data. Because the ozone layer fluctuates so much it is NOT possible to determine if the ozone layer is repairing itself or CFCs are slowing down in degrading it. The only thing that is measured is *maximum* extend of the hole each year. Some years it is a lot less than other years. Recent years it was near maximum size or set new records. One year blip of 30% reduction doesn't even mean there is 30% more O3 (ozone). It just means that the "hole" is smaller - why? Because there is more ozone and/or wind shifted and/or ozone moved from somewhere else to antarctic and/or
Of course, news media wants their headlines.
This isn't a ultrasonic microphone. It locates leaks by structure vibrations, NOT air vibrations. Kinda different.
They did not downplay it. Look at by how much the hole fluctuates on a yearly basis and you'll know why.
Ozone is not static, it moves in the atmosphere. 30% size decrease does not mean 30% ozone increase. We must wait at least a few years and see if there is a trend. It will not be if next year we have another record size hole. Yes, it happened before. One year the news was the hole held steady. Media was predicting that ozone may be saved. But then next year, new record size hole.
Wait for a trend. That's what the scientists try to explain to you with the "somewhat". It is a hint,hint not to overplay one data point.
Scientists do not extrapolate any news if they only have 1 data point. That's why it said the news were not setting a trend - premature to know if it is a sign of healing or something else.
:)
Global warming, on the other hand, has a TREND. Scientists extrapolate from a TREND that they know is valid. While Global Warming or Evolution are accepted scientific facts at the moment, people that know squat will still yell and shout mostly because it affects their *beliefs* how they think the earth *should* work and not how it actually does.
But overall, nice troll. Even modded insightful
Sun rays create and destroy ozone at a given, constant rates. That results in some constant level of ozone in the upper atmosphere. It is a simple, differential equation here. Now, what CFCs and similar chemicals do is cause the ozone destruction rate to go up which is proportional to their concentration in the upper atmosphere. So, the result is that the constant solution of amount of ozone in the upper atmosphere will decrease.
The ozone hole is NOT created by CFCs, it is created by upper atmosphere dynamics. Ozone gets moved around (it is in the air there). But then without the ozone holes at the poles (ozone moves people), we would have less ozone near the tropics and people would need SFP 1000. Essentially, in a state state, pre-man solution, it is very likely that there was some thinning of ozone at the poles.
Finally, global warming. Ozone hole does not create or add to global warming. BUT, it is thought that global warming may contribute ozone depletion by affecting atmosphere dynamics.
Stop trolling.
Waters is also a "greenhouse gas". It is not a problem because it is always saturated anyway, like methane on Titan. The problem is always increase of greenhouse gas *concentration* in atmosphere. That's where CO2 on earth and human activity come in.
You forgot one thing - hydrogen does not only form water. It is also part of your DNA and other parts of cells. The dangerous part depends on where the tritium ends up, your urine or somewhere more vital. If in water, the "half-life" of tritium is about 14 days when in your body (ie. half leaves in 14 days). If in fats, well, years? more? Until tritium breaks down and screws up your fat cells?
Finally, tritium is not really a naturally occurring element because it is unstable and because it has such a low half-life. Short half-life elements are also referred to as "hot" elements. For example, Uranium or Plutonium is not hot. Tritium and Iodine-128 are.
In summary, tritium is not really safe for batteries. And no, Strontium is MUCH worse (Strontium-90 tends to gets accumulated in bone, like Calcium and has a nice 27 year half-life, so not good at all)
Tritium is only good for future fusion reactions. For other applications, there are safer materials to be used. More inconvenient, yes, but safer.
PS. I'm starting to think that Slashdot crowd treats hazardous materials like Tritium as people in 1800s treated mercury. Tritium is dangerous. It is safer to have your laptop powered by some cyanide cocktail. Beta radiation is dangerous - just because it doesn't penetrate skin doesn't mean it doesn't wrecks havoc if you ingest it - and you will if it is in any products. Alphas are even more dangerous. Gamma radiation is least dangerous to organic tissue. Remember, it is not when it is on the outside, but inside of you where the damage happens.
You're a good person. If/when I have kids I hope they treat me as you do your mother if I ever get into shitty area of life.
Just watch out for Manitoba. The day/month of birth is on the license plates of the vehicle owners. Actually, + 4 months - 1 day. That is the expiry of driver licenses, and Manitoba Public Insurance and the provincial government had a great idea of syncronizing vehicle issurance renewals with the driver licenses (it saves time!). But, they forgot that
birth_date on license plate
which I think they know is wrong, is about that the same as
birth_date + 4 months - 1 day on license plates
first, I was told that "computers would get confused by randomized dates" and that "randomized dates are not even distributions" to later "it is the law to renew then".
source: http://mpi.mb.ca/english/insurance/i_faq.html
search for "anniversary day"
That's why the TZ fix will be included in the next stable update release. Like Sarge was updated,
http://www.us.debian.org/News/2007/20070218
The TZ data was never a security fix. But it was part of the update. I would expect similar for the current TZ fix.
From what I can read, the NZ timezone was changed sometime midyear and the politicians think that all the software will automagically change in a few days? The problem is with the NZ politicians, not Debian.
Criminals are not put behind bars. If you get mugged, the criminal, if caught, will not spend years and years in jail. They'll be out quick, if ever caught. Only serious criminals are put behind bars for long periods of time and these were generally solved before any CCTV.
cameras to fight crime, right?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1501533.stm
Well, now,
80% crimes unsolved:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23412867-details/Tens+of+thousands+of+CCTV+cameras,+yet+80%25+of+crime+unsolved/article.do
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/2071496.stm
'A report by the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (Nacro) which was based on Home Office research, revealed that of 24 studies carried out in city centres, only 13 showed crime had fallen since CCTV cameras were installed.
Crime rates rose significantly in four other cities.
" It was allegedly going to give us these magnificent benefits of reducing crime " '
Obviously that did not happen. With all the cameras, crime should go down a lot. It barely budged. 80% of crime unsolved - that number speaks for itself.
Actually, not quite. They are part of the MSDN subscription so no per install cost. And I find the KVM environment for Windows more appealing than running Windows natively. You can run 2 or more versions side-by-side and test deployment much faster that way, provided you have the memory. The only hitch is Vista has no networking support because drivers are not there in quemu.
I'm not sure that I am unique here. I find the GNOME environment more productive and KVM the only real way to run Windows when developing apps for it. Much easier than dealing with the "user-friendly" versions like Virtual Server or VMWare or VirtualPC. Also, wine is more useful than Parallels on Mac - at least wine runs the apps I deal with, Parallels does not. Also, most of the apps I use is just a text editor like Emacs or gEdit.
Regardless, Windows is not a tax. I find OS X to be more of a tax than Windows. I'd say one would almost always be able to get a Windows PC or laptop *without* the OS or at least make one from exactly the same parts. You may end up paying a little more, but whatever. You CANNOT get an Apple PC or laptop without Mac OS X. You CANNOT get OS X without Apple hardware. True that Microsoft currently has a near-monopoly, but one may argue exactly the same in retail sector and Walmart. Therefore you pay Walmart tax?
Regarding Dell and HP, they are getting cheaper parts because they do not pay middleman for handling or shipping. They buy huge orders from factories and these volumes make it possible for Dell or HP to get discounts. Someone like Asus when selling to end-user, they know that a percentage of the boards will NEVER sell. The consumer has to pay for these otherwise Asus has loss. So the price is higher. Of course, I still buy in parts and will continue to do so. That is the only way to have 100% control over parts, even if I pay for the parts to be put together (eg. custom order of few boxes at local distributor). That is the only way to know that I can get replacement parts at normal prices after warranty expires.
Anyway, I am not a Windows fanboy. Nor an Apply fanboy. I like Linux because I can do more things easier in Linux than I can with either Mac or Windows. And I have a Mac
Why is the above modded funny? Microsoft doesn't have a TAX on anything they do not manufacture. They make software. You buy a license to use the said software. If you do not, you do not have to. You can use Linux or pay for OS X license (and hardware tax because of the lock-in there).
Microsoft doesn't lock-in your computer such that it will not work with other OSes. And you do not pay MS anything if you do not buy their software. Hence, it is NOT a tax.
Finally, before the trolls jump in with Dell and similar, you do not have to buy your computers from manufacturers. Also, I tend to only use Microsoft software in a virtual environment (KVM), yet I do not find the above funny but informative. MS doesn't tax you. You pay them to license the software you use. Period.
Maybe you should get real VoIP phones that follow open protocols? You were more locked-in with Vonage (or Skype, if people us that), than with a standard Telco. The telco phone equipment follows some standards that will make it work with other telcos. Vonage and Skype have proprietary protocols that render their services more closed than the telcos. You have learnt that lesson after the fact with your phones.
:)
Personally, I use SIP phones from grandstream (and their adapters - found them better than something like Zoom. Linksys (not Cisco) has good products too). SIP is an open standard and I will *never* be locked-in by any VoIP provider, ever. There is plenty of SIPPSTN providers out there. Some even allow you to have a free PSTN -> SIP gateway ( http://ipcall.com/ is an example). Others, have very good pay-as-you-go and/or monthly packages ( http://les.net/ is an example).
Vonage and Skype may be nice phone alternatives for the non-techie crowd, but Slashdot crowd should not even be using these *expensive* and inferior solution.
Qt license runs for $6600 and Trolltech also does not provide the terms of the license on their website. Not sure, but I think they'll provide them if you want prior to purchasing (ie. licensing) the software. Also, the commercial license prevents you from reselling. Furthermore, prevents you from transferring the license more than once every 6 months (eg. someone quits and new person is hired to take their place).
Autodesk does nothing more evil here than Trolltech.
Furthermore, it is quite common knowledge these days that you do not buy software, you license it. You buy the CD/DVD and box if you wish, but the license may be non-transferable. In this case, Autodesk will argue that the license is not transferable therefore re-selling the CD/DVD for the asked sum of money cannot have a legitimate purpose.
The test in court will be whether non-transferable licenses are valid. If it is anything else, then the lawsuit is irrelevant.
Well, the link you provided does not seem to work anymore. Where am I suppose to verify?
Ah!! Just got that email. I guess they changed the address not to be hacked! Can't post the address here because it says to keep it in confidence. Cheers!
How about using *different* generators? Like hydroelectric? Like geothermal? Like nuclear? Or do you heat your food on a plutonium pile?
Fossil fuels *must* die *now* or they will cause us great hardship real soon.
Many places can have geothermal plants. All you have to do is put pipes deep enough. Oil industry innovations can help here, I'm sure (ie. the oil rig does not only dig straight down or in straight line).
Why not just copy the DVD bit-for-bit? That would not circumvent DeCSS and still in any player. You do not need to de-scramble to copy.
I sense the little counter at NSA/"homeland security" click up -- Internet chatter about possible attack just increased! Few more like that, and terror alert will go up!! Geez people, watch what you type!
What resource bubble? There is no resource bubble.
There may have been a US housing bubble, but there is no resource bubble. Resource prices have increased in response to the demand from China and India and other nations. US is not the consumer of these resources anymore. Unless you are forecasting that Chineese economy will collapse, resource prices will stay just where they are.
Furthermore, while price for copper has gone up from $0.60 (that is 60 cents, Verizon!) to $3.5, the price of oil has gone up similarly from $20 to $80. I don't think that the prices for resources are overvalues as much as these prices have not yet managed to go through the system and trigger inflation, as they will.
And finally, these prices are in USD. These same prices in EUR are completely different. Copper has been going down in price as well as oil for a number of months now. It is only because USD is depreciating that we are seeing these record highs. It is only a matter of time until inflation will correct the current problem with US prices though.
Anyhow, as one said it, there is no bad fiscal policy. There are just consequences. What USD vs. CND is just an example of an unbalanced budget + trade deficit vs. balanced budget + trade surplus over most of the decade. These are the consequences of the policies. More to come.
The only issue is that CND should not see ANY inflation and USD should be seeing it. Prices are really screwed - NAFTA anyone?
The fork shall be called IceOffice or IceBucket.
(people that have no clue, go look for Firefox and Thunderbird and Mozilla in Debian)