Removing stuff that you don't use or ever want to use is not exactly going to screw up your box. In real open source stuff, source code is edited ALL the time.
Or are you a case of bitching about "GPL this and that" for the sake of bitching? Don't like it, don't use it. This is their first supposed release, so what do you expect? Linux 0.1 didn't exactly compile everywhere.
And complaining about "does not compile on Visual C++" is kind of dumb. Visual C++ is not the same compiler as GCC. GCC has different extensions, has better support for lots of C++ crap. The world does not revolve around MSVS.NET 2008.
For starters, all articles, blogs, reviews, etc. can be considered copyrighted unless stated otherwise. Yet, every time an anonymous coward posts the article, they get modded "Insightful".
Every time someone raises issues that copyright is to be respected, there are 100 people posting "fsck copyright" and all are positively modded.
300,000 people can dump all the crap on the planet they can use and there will be absolutely no pollution, no global warming, nothing.
300,000,000 people dumping even modest amount of crap unfiltered into the environment will have profound effect on pollution, global warming, etc.
3,000,000,000 people have a profound effect even if they try not to pollute.
The planet's size is finite. Stuff that can be used by a few doesn't necessarily scale up like you think it does.
Geothermal energy is about 1W/m2. It is not infinite. That means, 10 million km2, which is 10 million x million m2 or 1e13m2 (see how metric works nice, try that in feet in your head!), so, total heating by the earth in the US is about 10TW or 10,000GW. It is not unlimited. Some parts have more, some less.
Good usage of this is for geothermal heating and then using earth as a cooling heatsink in summer. Some places may invest in some geothermal power production, but that will deplete (local cooling over the years/decades and power plant needs to be moved elsewhere)
I just buy what I want to buy. And that means comparing US prices with Canadian prices and if I'm getting screwed, I'm not buying it and letting the supplier/manufacturer know.
If they don't at least match the price, I walk away. At the end of the day, they want my money and if they try to rip me off, they ain't gonna get it!
0. Significant scientific understanding is gained for the purposes of #1 (most advances fall here)
Why is your thinking backwards? Because *we*, the people, *depend* on the environment, NOT the other way around. It is not about "saving the planet", it is about "saving ourselves". The shit we dump is the shit we eat. Therefore something cheap but end up fsking everyone over is not cheap at all.
The Earth doesn't give a flying fsck about us and does not care if we nuke each other or pave the planet over. It has seen A LOT worse. Life will continue almost NO MATTER what. Human life may not though.
Your network driver or even an encryption chip, well, not quite the same as a 3D driver.
Only the ignorant will say that a company will not need to write their own OSS drivers for 3D cards just because they've released the specs. It doesn't work like that.
I'm sorry, but I'm not picking ATI just yet. I want to see results, not just "useless" specs as I will NOT be writing a video driver just because there is some specs for it.
nVidia cards just work with any modern kernel. And they will work for conceivable future.
ATI cards circa 2000 had some dev(s) working on them and ATI was co-operating or so was the word. That was when I chose the ATI card 7200 with 64MB, VIVO etc. And guess what? The drivers sucked and continued to suck. Then ATI discontinued Linux support for the dev(s) "writing" driver and then we had no Linux support AT ALL for few cards.
Today it just looks like a deja-vu for me. I don't see anything that resembles stability of nVidia drivers from any maker, be it open source Intel (crashed trying to get EVE Online running under Wine for example) or from ATI.
For a 2D desktop, I may chose Via, if they have drivers available, or embedded ATI (maybe, if cheap). But for major video cards like the top of the line cards today from BFG Tech (*best* warranty support I've seen from any company so far:), I'm still inclined to use nVidia. nVidia embedded solution (with DVI output) is also what I'm looking for.
This is from a guy that runs Linux as a desktop. That runs XP under KVM and hasn't booted Windows native for almost a year now (Vista installed on another partition on this box, for development testing).
Aside: There are blobs all over the system. For examples, look at,
1. BIOS
2. hard drive
3. network card/chip
4. the CPU itself
Finally, OSS is NOT anymore "secure" from security standpoint (ie. no bad code slipped into distribution) than any binary only blobs like Windows. There are just different methods of putting stuff into them.
When was the last time you installed from source, AND reviewed all the code/changes AND compiled with compiler you trusted? Was it done on a 100% secure machine without any hardware trojans? If you haven't done all that, you may as well be running that binary blob. There is no difference.
Athlon 3800x2 with onboard graphics chip (nVidia 6150) and only 2GB ram. Have both 32-bit and 64-bit vista. Don't use them much as I prefer Debian. BUT,
1. Vista boots MUCH faster than XP (almost clean install in both cases - maybe you have too much crap installed on top?)
2. Vista boots faster than any modern Linux kernel. Unless of course you customize your kernel, remove modules and remove most of the useful stuff.
I still use Debian because it is snappier. But Vista is not that much "less snappy" than XP. You can make it less snappy by setting up some bloat features, but out of the box setup is similar.
Installation of Vista is easier than XP.
64-bit is crappier than 32-bit Vista because of the lack of features in the 64-bit mode. "Features" like registry reflection and file system redirections are nasty little devils and I would hang MS for that a lot quicker than some stupid comments about "Vista suckors" and "it boost slower and I'm pissing 2 seconds away of my life waiting for it to boot".
Anyway, you want snappy response, use Linux. Want modern Windows OS, that's Vista. XP to Vista is like 2000 was to XP - people said they'll switch to Linux and were throwing tantrums on Slashdot but guess what? Now NO ONE uses 2000 anymore.
$ dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT z.y.x.w.v.u.t.s.r.q.p.o.n.m.l.k.j.i.h.g.f.e.d.c.b.a.pt.dns-oarc.net. "aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is GOOD: 26 queries in 2.2 seconds from 26 ports with std dev 20143.31"
Clean, without NAT ==================
z.y.x.w.v.u.t.s.r.q.p.o.n.m.l.k.j.i.h.g.f.e.d.c.b.a.pt.dns-oarc.net. "123.123.123.123 is GOOD: 26 queries in 1.3 seconds from 26 ports with std dev 17930.62"
That is why using ANY DNS service is a really, really bad idea. You want to have proper answers, run your own recursive name server and don't use forwards you don't trust, go to root zones directly. Every respective geek should be running that anyway. It is just so much more flexible and *faster* than trying to use ISP's DNS.
And if this creates a problem for the root servers being hit too much, well too bad. Domain owners are paying through the nose for the ICANN fees and the registrar fees and everything else which is suppose to provide some sort of service to the domain's users. And this service is, well, ability to retunr NS records to the domain's DNS server.
If you want to be monitored without need to wiretapping anything, use OpenDSN and related "free" services. If you want to be impacted by some problem with domain servers because your ISP don't care to update them, use your ISP's DNS. If you are a geek, you have your own DNS server anyway that is already updated.
Oh, and I have to add another manufacturer to crapware, Gigabyte. One, brand new one didn't POST, the next one died a week after 1 year warranty was over. So, so far my list of crappy companies is,
1. Gigabyte
2. Abit
3. MSI (semi-crappy - works though, but buggy)
4. Foxxconn thanks to this article! Don't let that fox conn you out of your money!!!
And good companies for mobos,
1. Tyan
2. ASUS
for components, good ones are (for warranty service at least), BFG Tech, Seagate (HD), Kingston (ram)
Almost every time I've used something else than ASUS I tend to have some sort of problems.
1. Abit - died after 2 years. Replaced with Tyan (another good manufacturer) and works great for now.
2. MSI - ACPI support sucks badly, HW sensors almost don't exist
3. Another Abit Intel-chipset board - crappy HW sensors, no ACPI support
ASUS boards have been the only ones that work every time. I've had old ones with the Athlon Slot A 650MHz and that was has a better ACPI support than the modern MSI board.
Anyway, ASUS seems to be one of the manufacturers that doesn't sell crap. Tyan is another that actually supports Linux for a long time.
Recently, saw bunch of Foxconn boards on the market, but I guess I will not buy those anymore.
The original troll in this thread has a "small point" though - the number of cases of mental illness as diagnosed are MUCH higher in developed world than in undeveloped world. Stress plays a role in it, but another is treatment of very *mild* cases with medication.
The article even states that people are not getting enough of them! Vast majority of these cases DO NOT need any medication, but people get the pills prescribed to them.
The "Attention Deficit Disorder" is another case where there is rampant overprescription of medication.
Myself, I drank those colored juices and similar crap as an adolescent. I had a trouble concentrating. Never took medications for it or otherwise. Now, I have avoided all that crap for a while now (drinking tap water instead). I no longer have problems concentrating.
Overall, metal illness can be very debilitating. In some cases medication is justified. I am very glad you can function much better with medication than without.
On the other side of the story, big-pharma wants people to take pills and are pushing doctors to over-prescribe them. Most cases of "mental illness" DO NOT require medication as they are not severe. An episode of depression is actually something *normal*. It is only abnormal if it lasts too long (>3 months or so) or is a severe case.
Comparing mental illness to regular illness, we are at a stage in mental illness where you prescribe medication for everything. Like it used to be when you went to a doctor because you had a cold and you were given a round of antibiotics. These days, the doctor may just tell you to go home, and get some rest.
Kids *need* rules, just like a society needs rules. If you don't have rules, you are a bad parent. But, I do agree that the worst thing that can be done is just saying "No" if the rules were not in place ahead of time.
Structure is important. Arbitrary summary judgments are just wrong.
Recycling uses more energy than taking something new. But so called "plantations" are on the same land as there were once forests. They displaced those ecosystems.
But if you want to call plantations forests that were planted by people as replacements for native, old growth, then you are right. There is very little or NO old growth forests in most countries. And what is left is just random spots on the map.
But then what next? Recycling oil or tires uses energy? Just dump it in the local pond. That'll team them kids!
Fusion is SOO much more than just improvement over fission. Fusion technology completely eliminates the following two problems.
1. nuclear weapon tech proliferation - fusion is completely unrelated to any weapon systems
2. short supplies of uranium 235 - fusion essentially uses water to make energy
Long term waste is not really an issue in a *properly* run nuclear cycle as ALL the long term fissionable material is used up. There was a reactor type called "Fast Integral Reactor" that eliminates waste, but it was caned by Mr. Clinton when oil prices went down.
no real reason to think fusion would be cheaper than coal
This is where you are dead wrong. ANY nuclear energy process requires human beings to actually deal with the waste of the energy source and not just dump it for for future generations to deal with. All the mercury advisories for fish, smog and global warming are direct costs of not dealing with the waste.
Each gigawatt coal plant releases more uranium and thorium (both radioactive) into the air in one year than a nuclear plant uses to run for a few years. But no one really cares about real costs anyway - only the next fiscal year matters and the problems that take decades to materialize are just left for our grandchildren.
How about, if they do not figure it out, they die. That's at least the rule of mother earth wrt lava flows and similar. Whatever spews out of a volcano, it is not exactly labeled either.
Finally, did we find our uranium deposits with a warning sign? How about mercury? No. They are just scattered all over the earth. A lot of it is in coal which we burn and end up polluting everything (hence the mercury warning on basically ALL lakes now). We know that yet ignore it.
I don't know what is this fascination with nuclear waste we have here - maybe influence of 1960s sci-fi movies. If we treated it on same danger as other pollutants, we would just wait 20 years for the fast stuff to disappear then probably dump the rest of the pile in some landfill or burn it so it spreads around evenly. At last that's what we are doing with most of the other, more dangerous stuff.
Ignorance is bliss, at least to the public it seems.
A nuclear blast, of any size, is just a small *blip* on the scale of the energy needed to actually dislodge stuff like that. Nuclear weapons only work as atmospheric explosion weapons - they are not "tsunami causing", or "earthquake causing" (much), or "asteroid blasting". Heck, none of these scenarios really work.
MAYBE, if you put ALL the nukes in the world, along the entire fault and try dislodge that thing, MAYBE it may work. With one nuke it is like a mosquito biting you - you most likely it will not cause enough blood loss to kill you. (yes, ignore the diseases - it's just a simple analogy)
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No, your point does NOT stand.
Removing stuff that you don't use or ever want to use is not exactly going to screw up your box. In real open source stuff, source code is edited ALL the time.
Or are you a case of bitching about "GPL this and that" for the sake of bitching? Don't like it, don't use it. This is their first supposed release, so what do you expect? Linux 0.1 didn't exactly compile everywhere.
And complaining about "does not compile on Visual C++" is kind of dumb. Visual C++ is not the same compiler as GCC. GCC has different extensions, has better support for lots of C++ crap. The world does not revolve around MSVS.NET 2008.
That's was one Hitler's ideas as well. He put it into practice.
I'd vote to have your support removed so that those elderly that want to have support, have it.
What? This happens on slashot ALL THE TIME!
For starters, all articles, blogs, reviews, etc. can be considered copyrighted unless stated otherwise. Yet, every time an anonymous coward posts the article, they get modded "Insightful".
Every time someone raises issues that copyright is to be respected, there are 100 people posting "fsck copyright" and all are positively modded.
Now suddenly slashdot users believe in copyright?
So, WTF?
It is ALL in the numbers.
300,000 people can dump all the crap on the planet they can use and there will be absolutely no pollution, no global warming, nothing.
300,000,000 people dumping even modest amount of crap unfiltered into the environment will have profound effect on pollution, global warming, etc.
3,000,000,000 people have a profound effect even if they try not to pollute.
The planet's size is finite. Stuff that can be used by a few doesn't necessarily scale up like you think it does.
Geothermal energy is about 1W/m2. It is not infinite. That means, 10 million km2, which is 10 million x million m2 or 1e13m2 (see how metric works nice, try that in feet in your head!), so, total heating by the earth in the US is about 10TW or 10,000GW. It is not unlimited. Some parts have more, some less.
Good usage of this is for geothermal heating and then using earth as a cooling heatsink in summer. Some places may invest in some geothermal power production, but that will deplete (local cooling over the years/decades and power plant needs to be moved elsewhere)
I just buy what I want to buy. And that means comparing US prices with Canadian prices and if I'm getting screwed, I'm not buying it and letting the supplier/manufacturer know.
If they don't at least match the price, I walk away. At the end of the day, they want my money and if they try to rip me off, they ain't gonna get it!
Here's an idea - DO NOT BUY IT. And send them an email or phone them protesting that the price is fsked up!
The more you rollover and pay, the more you'll pay.
You've got your head backwards,
1. Environmentally friendly first
2. Cheap
Then there is #0 that trumps it all,
0. Significant scientific understanding is gained for the purposes of #1 (most advances fall here)
Why is your thinking backwards? Because *we*, the people, *depend* on the environment, NOT the other way around. It is not about "saving the planet", it is about "saving ourselves". The shit we dump is the shit we eat. Therefore something cheap but end up fsking everyone over is not cheap at all.
The Earth doesn't give a flying fsck about us and does not care if we nuke each other or pave the planet over. It has seen A LOT worse. Life will continue almost NO MATTER what. Human life may not though.
Your network driver or even an encryption chip, well, not quite the same as a 3D driver.
Only the ignorant will say that a company will not need to write their own OSS drivers for 3D cards just because they've released the specs. It doesn't work like that.
I'm sorry, but I'm not picking ATI just yet. I want to see results, not just "useless" specs as I will NOT be writing a video driver just because there is some specs for it.
nVidia cards just work with any modern kernel. And they will work for conceivable future.
ATI cards circa 2000 had some dev(s) working on them and ATI was co-operating or so was the word. That was when I chose the ATI card 7200 with 64MB, VIVO etc. And guess what? The drivers sucked and continued to suck. Then ATI discontinued Linux support for the dev(s) "writing" driver and then we had no Linux support AT ALL for few cards.
Today it just looks like a deja-vu for me. I don't see anything that resembles stability of nVidia drivers from any maker, be it open source Intel (crashed trying to get EVE Online running under Wine for example) or from ATI.
For a 2D desktop, I may chose Via, if they have drivers available, or embedded ATI (maybe, if cheap). But for major video cards like the top of the line cards today from BFG Tech (*best* warranty support I've seen from any company so far :), I'm still inclined to use nVidia. nVidia embedded solution (with DVI output) is also what I'm looking for.
This is from a guy that runs Linux as a desktop. That runs XP under KVM and hasn't booted Windows native for almost a year now (Vista installed on another partition on this box, for development testing).
Aside: There are blobs all over the system. For examples, look at,
1. BIOS
2. hard drive
3. network card/chip
4. the CPU itself
Finally, OSS is NOT anymore "secure" from security standpoint (ie. no bad code slipped into distribution) than any binary only blobs like Windows. There are just different methods of putting stuff into them.
When was the last time you installed from source, AND reviewed all the code/changes AND compiled with compiler you trusted? Was it done on a 100% secure machine without any hardware trojans? If you haven't done all that, you may as well be running that binary blob. There is no difference.
Stop. With. The. Stupid. Catch. Phrases!
RRrrrreally?
Athlon 3800x2 with onboard graphics chip (nVidia 6150) and only 2GB ram. Have both 32-bit and 64-bit vista. Don't use them much as I prefer Debian. BUT,
1. Vista boots MUCH faster than XP (almost clean install in both cases - maybe you have too much crap installed on top?)
2. Vista boots faster than any modern Linux kernel. Unless of course you customize your kernel, remove modules and remove most of the useful stuff.
I still use Debian because it is snappier. But Vista is not that much "less snappy" than XP. You can make it less snappy by setting up some bloat features, but out of the box setup is similar.
Installation of Vista is easier than XP.
64-bit is crappier than 32-bit Vista because of the lack of features in the 64-bit mode. "Features" like registry reflection and file system redirections are nasty little devils and I would hang MS for that a lot quicker than some stupid comments about "Vista suckors" and "it boost slower and I'm pissing 2 seconds away of my life waiting for it to boot".
Anyway, you want snappy response, use Linux. Want modern Windows OS, that's Vista. XP to Vista is like 2000 was to XP - people said they'll switch to Linux and were throwing tantrums on Slashdot but guess what? Now NO ONE uses 2000 anymore.
Behind Linux NAT
===============
$ dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT
z.y.x.w.v.u.t.s.r.q.p.o.n.m.l.k.j.i.h.g.f.e.d.c.b.a.pt.dns-oarc.net.
"aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is GOOD: 26 queries in 2.2 seconds from 26 ports with std dev 20143.31"
Clean, without NAT
==================
z.y.x.w.v.u.t.s.r.q.p.o.n.m.l.k.j.i.h.g.f.e.d.c.b.a.pt.dns-oarc.net.
"123.123.123.123 is GOOD: 26 queries in 1.3 seconds from 26 ports with std dev 17930.62"
Conclusion
==========
So, your comment is not quite correct.
That is why using ANY DNS service is a really, really bad idea. You want to have proper answers, run your own recursive name server and don't use forwards you don't trust, go to root zones directly. Every respective geek should be running that anyway. It is just so much more flexible and *faster* than trying to use ISP's DNS.
And if this creates a problem for the root servers being hit too much, well too bad. Domain owners are paying through the nose for the ICANN fees and the registrar fees and everything else which is suppose to provide some sort of service to the domain's users. And this service is, well, ability to retunr NS records to the domain's DNS server.
If you want to be monitored without need to wiretapping anything, use OpenDSN and related "free" services. If you want to be impacted by some problem with domain servers because your ISP don't care to update them, use your ISP's DNS. If you are a geek, you have your own DNS server anyway that is already updated.
You #2 makes *NO* sense.
Oh, and I have to add another manufacturer to crapware, Gigabyte. One, brand new one didn't POST, the next one died a week after 1 year warranty was over. So, so far my list of crappy companies is,
1. Gigabyte
2. Abit
3. MSI (semi-crappy - works though, but buggy)
4. Foxxconn thanks to this article! Don't let that fox conn you out of your money!!!
And good companies for mobos,
1. Tyan
2. ASUS
for components, good ones are (for warranty service at least), BFG Tech, Seagate (HD), Kingston (ram)
Almost every time I've used something else than ASUS I tend to have some sort of problems.
1. Abit - died after 2 years. Replaced with Tyan (another good manufacturer) and works great for now.
2. MSI - ACPI support sucks badly, HW sensors almost don't exist
3. Another Abit Intel-chipset board - crappy HW sensors, no ACPI support
ASUS boards have been the only ones that work every time. I've had old ones with the Athlon Slot A 650MHz and that was has a better ACPI support than the modern MSI board.
Anyway, ASUS seems to be one of the manufacturers that doesn't sell crap. Tyan is another that actually supports Linux for a long time.
Recently, saw bunch of Foxconn boards on the market, but I guess I will not buy those anymore.
The original troll in this thread has a "small point" though - the number of cases of mental illness as diagnosed are MUCH higher in developed world than in undeveloped world. Stress plays a role in it, but another is treatment of very *mild* cases with medication.
For example, anti-depressants,
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/07/09/antidepressants/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
The article even states that people are not getting enough of them! Vast majority of these cases DO NOT need any medication, but people get the pills prescribed to them.
The "Attention Deficit Disorder" is another case where there is rampant overprescription of medication.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_colouring#Criticism_and_health_implications
Myself, I drank those colored juices and similar crap as an adolescent. I had a trouble concentrating. Never took medications for it or otherwise. Now, I have avoided all that crap for a while now (drinking tap water instead). I no longer have problems concentrating.
Overall, metal illness can be very debilitating. In some cases medication is justified. I am very glad you can function much better with medication than without.
On the other side of the story, big-pharma wants people to take pills and are pushing doctors to over-prescribe them. Most cases of "mental illness" DO NOT require medication as they are not severe. An episode of depression is actually something *normal*. It is only abnormal if it lasts too long (>3 months or so) or is a severe case.
Comparing mental illness to regular illness, we are at a stage in mental illness where you prescribe medication for everything. Like it used to be when you went to a doctor because you had a cold and you were given a round of antibiotics. These days, the doctor may just tell you to go home, and get some rest.
Kids *need* rules, just like a society needs rules. If you don't have rules, you are a bad parent. But, I do agree that the worst thing that can be done is just saying "No" if the rules were not in place ahead of time.
Structure is important. Arbitrary summary judgments are just wrong.
LA? London? Please!
Try,
1. Jakarta
2. Bombay
3. Calcutta
4. Beijing
*BULLSHIT*, but believe what you want.
Recycling uses more energy than taking something new. But so called "plantations" are on the same land as there were once forests. They displaced those ecosystems.
But if you want to call plantations forests that were planted by people as replacements for native, old growth, then you are right. There is very little or NO old growth forests in most countries. And what is left is just random spots on the map.
But then what next? Recycling oil or tires uses energy? Just dump it in the local pond. That'll team them kids!
Fusion is SOO much more than just improvement over fission. Fusion technology completely eliminates the following two problems.
1. nuclear weapon tech proliferation - fusion is completely unrelated to any weapon systems
2. short supplies of uranium 235 - fusion essentially uses water to make energy
Long term waste is not really an issue in a *properly* run nuclear cycle as ALL the long term fissionable material is used up. There was a reactor type called "Fast Integral Reactor" that eliminates waste, but it was caned by Mr. Clinton when oil prices went down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor
This is where you are dead wrong. ANY nuclear energy process requires human beings to actually deal with the waste of the energy source and not just dump it for for future generations to deal with. All the mercury advisories for fish, smog and global warming are direct costs of not dealing with the waste.
Each gigawatt coal plant releases more uranium and thorium (both radioactive) into the air in one year than a nuclear plant uses to run for a few years. But no one really cares about real costs anyway - only the next fiscal year matters and the problems that take decades to materialize are just left for our grandchildren.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#Environmental_effects
How about, if they do not figure it out, they die. That's at least the rule of mother earth wrt lava flows and similar. Whatever spews out of a volcano, it is not exactly labeled either.
Finally, did we find our uranium deposits with a warning sign? How about mercury? No. They are just scattered all over the earth. A lot of it is in coal which we burn and end up polluting everything (hence the mercury warning on basically ALL lakes now). We know that yet ignore it.
I don't know what is this fascination with nuclear waste we have here - maybe influence of 1960s sci-fi movies. If we treated it on same danger as other pollutants, we would just wait 20 years for the fast stuff to disappear then probably dump the rest of the pile in some landfill or burn it so it spreads around evenly. At last that's what we are doing with most of the other, more dangerous stuff.
Ignorance is bliss, at least to the public it seems.
Wow! All the glacial flows there, they are DEFINITELY retreating.
Err, no. That would SOOOOO *NOT* work.
A nuclear blast, of any size, is just a small *blip* on the scale of the energy needed to actually dislodge stuff like that. Nuclear weapons only work as atmospheric explosion weapons - they are not "tsunami causing", or "earthquake causing" (much), or "asteroid blasting". Heck, none of these scenarios really work.
MAYBE, if you put ALL the nukes in the world, along the entire fault and try dislodge that thing, MAYBE it may work. With one nuke it is like a mosquito biting you - you most likely it will not cause enough blood loss to kill you. (yes, ignore the diseases - it's just a simple analogy)
1 liter is a volume of 10cm x 10cm x 10cm.