I know, people bitch and complain, and they should. But USA has a conference like this because it is at least allowed to have a conference like this.
If you doubt this, try to organize this in Russia, or China, or Indonesia and then try to publicity announce some security flaws of that gov't infrastructure.
Energy doesn't "convert" to mass and vice-versa. This is an *equivalence* equation, and not even a complete one because M is not M (as in rest mass) but also includes momentum.
If you can take any energy and magically convert it to mass (without the anti-particle), let me know. You'll get a Nobel prize in Physics.
Yes, all the energy ends up back in space as heat (regular light is almost heat anyway).
Now, if you said that the solar wind gets captured by Earth's magnetic field and sucked down to Earth - that is more believable. Except, the solar wind also strips off the outer layers of the atmosphere. So basically end up with insignificant changes.
1. Go to any site that has the "domain control" "super-duper-express" certificates. Most do. For example, GoDaddy sells them for 19.95 a year if you want.
2. Redirect DNS so you get their mail
3. Create a new certificate for cheap
4. You have a verified-I-control-that-domain certificate that will not cause any problems on any browser.
You see, DNS is THE CENTRAL mechanism around which the entire internet works. Without reliable DNS, it all craps out, no matter what.
1. Queries the certificate over the network to verify certificate chains (eg. GoDaddy SSL certificates with intermediates)
2. Has a copy of the trusted root certificates distributes with the browser/OS.
3. Each website has their own public and private certificate on the server. The public part is transmitted to the browser. It is also that part that is signed by 3rd party known to be reliable (according to the browser).
Each nation to have their public key available or SSL fails from the get go.
It is true that the warranties in UK are crazy. But essentially you end up paying for 2 computers instead of 1.
Your first comment just makes you look either stupid or snobbish though. I would never be willing to pay *more* for exactly the same product just for the privilege of paying more.
Then again, with that attitude why isn't all of UK using a Mac?/joke
If you are willing to pay more and that makes you happier, go for it. But that is kind of dumb. All that happens is companies will just charge more for everything, inflation rises, and suddenly you paying more for stuff just parts your way with money quicker.
There is a good saying that is always true. "A fool and his money are soon parted."
Aside: Rice costs less in India because it is *SUBSIDIZED*, like most basic food. Try that as a word for the day.
"Mostly leaving cut grass where it is leaves you with a lawn choked with decaying grass"
That is only true if you are one of the nuts out there that thinks thick, blue grass with NOTHING else is a healthy environment. Why not just pave your lawn and put down carpet?
If you don't fertilize your lawn, the grass will be less thick, grows slower and be a little paler. At that point the clippings provide enough nutrients provided you don't kill everything with herbicides and pesticides.
even below toxic levels can cause algal and bacterial blooms in water and soil - blooms which can and do crowd out other organisms from the ecosystem.
I have yet to see an algae bloom in the soil!!
Aside from that, the cause of algae blooms is NOT nitrogen. It is phosphate. Phosphate is the limiting factor for aquatic algae. Aquatic environments already have enough nitrogen.
You don't make that much more in the US than in Canada as a doctor. Sure, your gross pay is MUCH higher, but then come all the negatives with it as well. The largest, is the malpractice insurance. No need for such thing in Canada. And if you get sued once or twice by some people, your net pay can end up a lot less than in Canada.
and as we are only two, we don't have much garbage. The smallish grocery store bags are just perfect for daily garbage. Now we have to buy those larger black bags, which we can't fill in one day
Oh, poor you!!
Maybe the comment is normal for people in China to make this ginormous amount of garbage, but I can't believe it. Where I live in North America, some people (families) are *pigs* and throw out 1 one of those black garbage bags out a day. But normal amount tends to be 1-2 black garbage bags a *week*. For people that do recycling, and composting (their own, or through city), there may be half to maybe 1 garbage bag a *month* that is mostly from packaging.
Right now I live outside the city. And in the course of 5 months (winter) we accumulated 3 black garbage bags of stuff that is non-composted, non-recyclable here.
The so-called experts on the panel who decided this policy (in closed door, as all other policies in China) admitted they didn't consider any of the social and cost issues before they passed it.
Social cost??? Maybe people in China haven't learned the social cost of mounds of garbage seeping into ground water. But then again looking at the pollution in China, it seems every nation needs to learn the hard lessons not by looking at mistakes of others, but by their own, exactly the same mistakes.
PS. Don't want to smell your garbage? Two solutions:
1. don't make so much, and/or
2. you know, get a container that you can lock tight? No smell.
1. Password to enter the OS, most likely Windows
2. Password to access the application database
Basically *every* password protected app can be considered to be under "two levels of passwords". Both tend to be meaningless if data is on localhost, unencrypted.
Maybe that will cause people to think twice before,
1. laying down fertilizer on their lawn, and shipping cut grass to landfills - leaving grass where it is provides the new grass with its own fertilizer.
2. writing that nitrates can be worse than NOx (NO, NO2 and others)
NO3 is completely harmless compared to the more volatile cousins NOx that come out of tail pipes.
Soyuz IS safer than shuttle, there is no questions about it. It is also much cheaper per launch. But Soyuz is not reusable, can only carry 3 people, cannot carry large payload, etc.
NASA learned from the shuttle program that sometimes bigger is not better hence the Orion program.
At the beginning, NASA was doing the quick-and-cheap method of development, hence the failures.
It was quick because of political pressures to catch up to the Russians.
It was cheap because you can only spend so much money an hour on a project where the deadline is days, not years away. While the program received MUCH more funding than today, development processes were ad-hoc to say the least. It was only through failures and errors that current redundant and super-safe methods were implemented.
Comment #24456111 in this thread is VERY insightful about the safety procedures developed by NASA. This kind of stuff definitely did not happen in the 50s!
You know it is quality control. Where I work I have to be NASA certified in ESD(Electro-Static Discharge) and let me tell you, they are crazy about all the little things. For instance when a bit of equipment is in the high bay you have to go through the clean room, you have to be grounded not only on your hands but your feet as well. Before you every plug anything in to a socket you have to run it over a fan that blows ions at it to negate any electrical charge. They have the craziest quality control that you have ever seen and they still have shit go wrong sometimes.
SpaceX definitely does NOT implement these QA procedures to the same degree.
It is not just about the design, but also the process in which you build it.
Get a real one with a REAL warranty like BFG Tech. From experience, they stand behind their warranty and the cooler on the "new" 8800 GTC cards is extremely well done. With Foxxconn you may save $50, buy you end up with no warranty either.
The cooler looks *exactly* the same as on this card,
The world does not revolve about GPL software. It works about *working software*. I don't care if I use GPL to get my work done, $50 software or if I use a $20,000 a seat software. Whatever makes sense is what is used.
If Linux community expects ANY sort of commercial software released for Linux distributions, they need to get the LSB implementation done and ready. LSB is like an SDK towards building apps for ISVs. If you don't have it, you end up with app not for Linux, but for Debian 3.0, RHEL 2.0, Slackware 10, or whatever. With LSB, you end up with software for all Linux.
Why do amateurs, non-traders (in anything) keep thinking that this is all "speculators" or "commies" or some other bullshit that is driving oil prices high?
Commodity traders CANNOT affect long term oil prices if there is no problems with supply. The reason is if you buy oil, you have to take delivery of that oil. If supply outstrips demand all the time, the price will only go up if the traders pile up oil like crazy. But then what?? They have to SELL it on THE SAME market as the suppliers anyway. So, at some point in the future you end up with A LOT of extra supply getting pumped in and commodity traders end up LOSING A LOT OF MONEY!
Fortunately, these people are NOT so stupid to lose hundreds of billions to make oil prices go up for few weeks.
And don't even start to bring out the denier points about "record rentals of oil tankers", "oil tankers 4x price what they used to be" and similar crap that the global warming deniers bring up ("mars is warming" and similar horseshit). Smoke and mirrors, not reality people.
The REAL cause of the high prices is NOT the traders, it is the problems with supply. Supply cannot keep up with the DEMAND. So, prices go up. Prices go up until there is more supply, which will just not going to happen any time soon no matter what, or the demand drops. So far, the demand dropped a LITTLE. So, prices are coming down.
In commodity trading, you never think years in advance, you think days or maybe weeks in advance. The largest ??? regarding supply is still Israel/Iran issue. Then there is the problems with Nigerian supply. And finally, the demand for oil inside a lot of the oil producing countries is INCREASING VERY FAST (thanks to heavily subsidized fossil fuels there), meaning their exports are suffering. See Mexico as one very good example of that.
If Republicans were serious about an energy policy of the country, they would first mandate that ALL new pipelines between urban centers be able to carry both natural gas and hydrogen. And then they would fix the fiscal budgetary issues and start to invest in translating this economy from carbon to hydrogen. That's what they are there for - *strategic* planning, not reactionary shit they dreamed up because they are up for election in few months.
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Because in the US, they can put up a court order to shut you up, or maybe even charge you.
If you tried that in China, you'd be sent to a "re-education by labor" for 7 years, *without* a trial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeducation_through_labor
I know, people bitch and complain, and they should. But USA has a conference like this because it is at least allowed to have a conference like this.
If you doubt this, try to organize this in Russia, or China, or Indonesia and then try to publicity announce some security flaws of that gov't infrastructure.
You even have an *idea* what you wrote??
Energy doesn't "convert" to mass and vice-versa. This is an *equivalence* equation, and not even a complete one because M is not M (as in rest mass) but also includes momentum.
If you can take any energy and magically convert it to mass (without the anti-particle), let me know. You'll get a Nobel prize in Physics.
Yes, all the energy ends up back in space as heat (regular light is almost heat anyway).
Now, if you said that the solar wind gets captured by Earth's magnetic field and sucked down to Earth - that is more believable. Except, the solar wind also strips off the outer layers of the atmosphere. So basically end up with insignificant changes.
1 cent for some effort and bold guessing though.
Republicans are NOT flat earthers or even ultra-religious-reborn-again-jebuses. They are just people exploiting the said groups for votes.
In today's world of cloud computing synergies of Web 2.0, who needs backup? Information is there to be free!
Is that enough buzzwords for today?
As long as they don't take your red stapler then they should not be in any danger.
Not to worry. We will soon.
It is very, very easy.
1. Go to any site that has the "domain control" "super-duper-express" certificates. Most do. For example, GoDaddy sells them for 19.95 a year if you want.
2. Redirect DNS so you get their mail
3. Create a new certificate for cheap
4. You have a verified-I-control-that-domain certificate that will not cause any problems on any browser.
You see, DNS is THE CENTRAL mechanism around which the entire internet works. Without reliable DNS, it all craps out, no matter what.
What?
A browser:
1. Queries the certificate over the network to verify certificate chains (eg. GoDaddy SSL certificates with intermediates)
2. Has a copy of the trusted root certificates distributes with the browser/OS.
3. Each website has their own public and private certificate on the server. The public part is transmitted to the browser. It is also that part that is signed by 3rd party known to be reliable (according to the browser).
Each nation to have their public key available or SSL fails from the get go.
I don't think you know how SSL works.
It is true that the warranties in UK are crazy. But essentially you end up paying for 2 computers instead of 1.
Your first comment just makes you look either stupid or snobbish though. I would never be willing to pay *more* for exactly the same product just for the privilege of paying more.
Then again, with that attitude why isn't all of UK using a Mac? /joke
If you are willing to pay more and that makes you happier, go for it. But that is kind of dumb. All that happens is companies will just charge more for everything, inflation rises, and suddenly you paying more for stuff just parts your way with money quicker.
There is a good saying that is always true. "A fool and his money are soon parted."
Aside: Rice costs less in India because it is *SUBSIDIZED*, like most basic food. Try that as a word for the day.
And on slashdot, the insane sometimes get modded Insightful too!!
That's why we need IQ selection!!
I vote for all geeks with math and science aptitude to get their pick in the breeding chambers first! Jocks are to be summarily executed!
"Mostly leaving cut grass where it is leaves you with a lawn choked with decaying grass"
That is only true if you are one of the nuts out there that thinks thick, blue grass with NOTHING else is a healthy environment. Why not just pave your lawn and put down carpet?
If you don't fertilize your lawn, the grass will be less thick, grows slower and be a little paler. At that point the clippings provide enough nutrients provided you don't kill everything with herbicides and pesticides.
I have yet to see an algae bloom in the soil!!
Aside from that, the cause of algae blooms is NOT nitrogen. It is phosphate. Phosphate is the limiting factor for aquatic algae. Aquatic environments already have enough nitrogen.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NTB/is_8_41/ai_94333421
Algae blooms is NOT from nitrogen! It is from phosphate! *Phosphate* runoff from agricultural lands and similar sources is the cause the algae blooms.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NTB/is_8_41/ai_94333421
Get rid of phosphate sources, and you get rid of algae blooms.
You see there is already LOTS of nitrogen in the water. It is the not limiting factor for algae. The limiting factors are phosphate and iron.
You don't make that much more in the US than in Canada as a doctor. Sure, your gross pay is MUCH higher, but then come all the negatives with it as well. The largest, is the malpractice insurance. No need for such thing in Canada. And if you get sued once or twice by some people, your net pay can end up a lot less than in Canada.
Oh, poor you!!
Maybe the comment is normal for people in China to make this ginormous amount of garbage, but I can't believe it. Where I live in North America, some people (families) are *pigs* and throw out 1 one of those black garbage bags out a day. But normal amount tends to be 1-2 black garbage bags a *week*. For people that do recycling, and composting (their own, or through city), there may be half to maybe 1 garbage bag a *month* that is mostly from packaging.
Right now I live outside the city. And in the course of 5 months (winter) we accumulated 3 black garbage bags of stuff that is non-composted, non-recyclable here.
Social cost??? Maybe people in China haven't learned the social cost of mounds of garbage seeping into ground water. But then again looking at the pollution in China, it seems every nation needs to learn the hard lessons not by looking at mistakes of others, but by their own, exactly the same mistakes.
PS. Don't want to smell your garbage? Two solutions:
1. don't make so much, and/or
2. you know, get a container that you can lock tight? No smell.
Two levels of passwords just mean the following:
1. Password to enter the OS, most likely Windows
2. Password to access the application database
Basically *every* password protected app can be considered to be under "two levels of passwords". Both tend to be meaningless if data is on localhost, unencrypted.
Maybe the office looks like this?
http://www.myfax.com/messyofficecontest/winners.asp
AFAIK, also used in sunscreen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_dioxide
And yes, it is white as seen in the above *picture* :)
Nitrate is also known as a fertilizer.
Maybe that will cause people to think twice before,
1. laying down fertilizer on their lawn, and shipping cut grass to landfills - leaving grass where it is provides the new grass with its own fertilizer.
2. writing that nitrates can be worse than NOx (NO, NO2 and others)
NO3 is completely harmless compared to the more volatile cousins NOx that come out of tail pipes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOx
Soyuz IS safer than shuttle, there is no questions about it. It is also much cheaper per launch. But Soyuz is not reusable, can only carry 3 people, cannot carry large payload, etc.
NASA learned from the shuttle program that sometimes bigger is not better hence the Orion program.
At the beginning, NASA was doing the quick-and-cheap method of development, hence the failures.
It was quick because of political pressures to catch up to the Russians.
It was cheap because you can only spend so much money an hour on a project where the deadline is days, not years away. While the program received MUCH more funding than today, development processes were ad-hoc to say the least. It was only through failures and errors that current redundant and super-safe methods were implemented.
Comment #24456111 in this thread is VERY insightful about the safety procedures developed by NASA. This kind of stuff definitely did not happen in the 50s!
SpaceX definitely does NOT implement these QA procedures to the same degree.
It is not just about the design, but also the process in which you build it.
You had a Foxxconn video card? No wander!
Get a real one with a REAL warranty like BFG Tech. From experience, they stand behind their warranty and the cooler on the "new" 8800 GTC cards is extremely well done. With Foxxconn you may save $50, buy you end up with no warranty either.
The cooler looks *exactly* the same as on this card,
http://www.planetmicro.co.uk/upload/product_images/100/M007391.jpg
http://www.educational-software.com/images/products/1010876570-full.jpg
I'm guessing BFT Tech learned from past mistakes w.r.t. cooling.
Exactly!
The world does not revolve about GPL software. It works about *working software*. I don't care if I use GPL to get my work done, $50 software or if I use a $20,000 a seat software. Whatever makes sense is what is used.
If Linux community expects ANY sort of commercial software released for Linux distributions, they need to get the LSB implementation done and ready. LSB is like an SDK towards building apps for ISVs. If you don't have it, you end up with app not for Linux, but for Debian 3.0, RHEL 2.0, Slackware 10, or whatever. With LSB, you end up with software for all Linux.
Why do amateurs, non-traders (in anything) keep thinking that this is all "speculators" or "commies" or some other bullshit that is driving oil prices high?
Commodity traders CANNOT affect long term oil prices if there is no problems with supply. The reason is if you buy oil, you have to take delivery of that oil. If supply outstrips demand all the time, the price will only go up if the traders pile up oil like crazy. But then what?? They have to SELL it on THE SAME market as the suppliers anyway. So, at some point in the future you end up with A LOT of extra supply getting pumped in and commodity traders end up LOSING A LOT OF MONEY!
Fortunately, these people are NOT so stupid to lose hundreds of billions to make oil prices go up for few weeks.
And don't even start to bring out the denier points about "record rentals of oil tankers", "oil tankers 4x price what they used to be" and similar crap that the global warming deniers bring up ("mars is warming" and similar horseshit). Smoke and mirrors, not reality people.
The REAL cause of the high prices is NOT the traders, it is the problems with supply. Supply cannot keep up with the DEMAND. So, prices go up. Prices go up until there is more supply, which will just not going to happen any time soon no matter what, or the demand drops. So far, the demand dropped a LITTLE. So, prices are coming down.
In commodity trading, you never think years in advance, you think days or maybe weeks in advance. The largest ??? regarding supply is still Israel/Iran issue. Then there is the problems with Nigerian supply. And finally, the demand for oil inside a lot of the oil producing countries is INCREASING VERY FAST (thanks to heavily subsidized fossil fuels there), meaning their exports are suffering. See Mexico as one very good example of that.
If Republicans were serious about an energy policy of the country, they would first mandate that ALL new pipelines between urban centers be able to carry both natural gas and hydrogen. And then they would fix the fiscal budgetary issues and start to invest in translating this economy from carbon to hydrogen. That's what they are there for - *strategic* planning, not reactionary shit they dreamed up because they are up for election in few months.