I think I'm missing the context here, because 'young males' are not the safest demographic group by far.
The unsafe young males are not taken out of the pool. The young women and the slow-driving young males are, they buy the manufacturer-sponsored insurance.
Older cars tend to be bought by people who don't mind having to do a bit of work on them. Again, not the demographic you really want to insure.
For example, in the UK apparently the actuary tables are messed up enough when it comes to young teens that it's often cheaper to buy a new car where the manufacturer covers the first X years of insurance than it is to buy an equivalent used car and insure it.
The tables are not messed up. The new cars with X years insurance are very small cars that have little appeal to the young males who are likely to be in accidents. The top speed is naturally limited and the cars do not feel safe when cornering at speed, which also helps safety. Worst case, the car is unlikely to do all that much damage to something else (limiting third party liability) and the car manufacturer offering the insurance can make a replacement cheaply.
This takes the safest drivers out of the pool for generic car insurance, which obviously makes that even more expensive.
An airliner is not a spaceship, and movies are not reality.
Even if they really were spaceships, nothing much would change. 10km is about 1/3 atmosphere, the aircraft is likely at least 3/4 atmosphere. Hard vacuum outside would only make the pressure differential twice as large.
5GHz-capable equipment is everywhere. Most of the point of having a 2.5GHz network is to talk to the legacy devices that cannot do 5GHz. Making a wifi network for legacy devices that only supports non-legacy devices seems a bit contradictory to me.
But you can't not prosecute people who undoubtedly did commit crimes because you agree with their stated motives.
True, he should be prosecuted, but his sentence should be no penalty. He committed a crime to stop a much larger crime. Surely no justice system in a democratic country penalises people for doing so.
Don't be ridiculous. Government funded scientists have lots of proper scientific discussions. Practically all of CERN is government funded by various governments, just to pick an example off the top of my head.
It's reads like a marketing hype rather than as a scientific discussion.
I think you are being a bit optimistic if you expect to find actual scientists having proper scientific discussions with each other on a popular web site.
Realclimate.org is primarily for lay people. I do not believe that marketing hype is the right description for it, but neither is scientific discussion.
The only way this can be implemented without causing problems for others is to have it be an option in the browser for those who want it to do the additonal lookup.
That is the proposal. The browser does it. The web server still returns 404, so your code does not have to work around anything. This is not the NXDOMAIN redirection fiasco.
Absolutely, the relativistic effect part is correct. I just wanted to correct the geostationary GPS satellite part because it is a very common assumption.
The speed they are moving at in geostationary orbit is enough to notice relativistic effects. So much so that your satnav wouldn't work without them being "corrected" by some GR mathematics.
Your statements seem to imply that GPS satellites are in geostationary orbit. They are not. The system would not work if they were.
this article is totally ignorant of the fact that even if you could convert 100% of the sunlight delivered to the roof of your house to electricity you still don't have enough energy to run a household and a car.
You must have a very small house and use a lot of energy. Apartment buildings will have trouble doing it, but for regular houses it is no problem at all, even with the typical solar cells that people buy today. Canada and Siberia may be exceptions, but at 100% efficiency they should be OK too in most areas. Storage is a problem.
Look at it another way: we can either grow ethanol maize at 1% efficiency sun-to-wheel (with a lot of luck) or build solar cells with 10-20% efficiency. The area problems are immense when you are stuck at 1% efficiency.
This is an unfortunate policy though. It means that people who e.g. live in a large apartment because they have children stay in that apartment when the children move out. Selling and moving into something more manageable becomes uneconomical because of the reassessed property taxes. This in turn leads to a shortage of larger apartments for newly started families and thereby makes the housing problem worse.
The policy may be necessary due to the massive changes happening at the moment, but it would definitely be worth considering whether there are other options. Ideally something which passes at least some of the value increase on to the renters if they choose to move out, so e.g. some retired people would be motivated to move to less congested areas.
Yes, modern fiber is becoming very DSL-like, with many sub-carriers and advanced encodings for each carrier. Unfortunately the power requirements are fairly high.
I do however continue to drink milk and eat cheese and butter on the pretense that all the milk cows I see seem pretty happy out in their fields
You are lucky to be in an area where cows still get to go out into fields. Modern milk farming keeps the cows inside all year. On the positive side, the cows roam free in the dairy barn, not being tied up all winter as it used to be, and they often get to pick their own milking times.
Organic farming generally demands that the cows get to go outside when weather permits.
A VPN client app works by redirecting traffic away from its normal destination and towards a VPN server. It is obvious that if you allow two VPN apps to run at the same time, they get to fight over who gets to redirect the traffic -- and one of them could be nasty and redirect it to a malicious VPN server, with or without encryption.
You could restrict it so that only one VPN client app is allowed to run at a time, but it is not clear to me that it would improve security significantly. A malicious app with VPN permissions is going to be able to do really nasty things anyway. Do not install untrusted apps with VPN permissions.
I am a fan of full disclosure and all that, but does it have to be done on a Friday afternoon? Could you not sit on the bug for just one weekend and disclose it on Monday morning, so there is a chance that the right engineers to fix it are available?
Indeed, and consumer organizations are colluding with the industry on this issue, misinforming consumers about the EU laws. They only provide the information that by EU law, after 6 months, the consumer has to prove that the fault was caused by a problem which was there from the time of manufacture. They neglect to mention that the way you prove this is to write a statement "I have handled the equipment with reasonable care and not done anything to it which would be expected to cause the problem" (assuming this is true of course, otherwise you are risking perjury). You do NOT have to send the equipment to an expert and have them certify this.
However, the UK courts are unlikely to rule with the consumer on this issue and there is no way to appeal to an EU court, so the UK can keep its illegal interpretation of EU law going forever.
I can guarantee that a non-working ABS would be detected in very close to 100% of investigations of deadly accidents in Denmark. Whether they would be detected during the stupid mandatory car check done every two years I am not sure.
Alas, practically no fatalities in Denmark are due to faults with the cars, at least not faults which makes the car illegal to drive (like broken ABS), and Denmark is a bit infamous for the average age of its vehicles.
Every native API of a networking OS offers some sort of logging, crash reporting, DNS-lookup, et cetera facility.
There is no decent DNS-lookup and connection establishment C API in standard Unix. You are left to implement e.g. Happy Eyeballs (RFC 6555) on your own. You can of course use the low-level API's to send AAAA and A requests on your own, but there is no way to just say "give me a socket to google.com on port 80" and have it do the right thing.
Cross platform is something else entirely, that would be wonderful, but something platform specific would be OK too.
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I think I'm missing the context here, because 'young males' are not the safest demographic group by far.
The unsafe young males are not taken out of the pool. The young women and the slow-driving young males are, they buy the manufacturer-sponsored insurance.
Older cars tend to be bought by people who don't mind having to do a bit of work on them. Again, not the demographic you really want to insure.
For the majority of cars, you will hear the tires before you hear the engine.
For example, in the UK apparently the actuary tables are messed up enough when it comes to young teens that it's often cheaper to buy a new car where the manufacturer covers the first X years of insurance than it is to buy an equivalent used car and insure it.
The tables are not messed up. The new cars with X years insurance are very small cars that have little appeal to the young males who are likely to be in accidents. The top speed is naturally limited and the cars do not feel safe when cornering at speed, which also helps safety. Worst case, the car is unlikely to do all that much damage to something else (limiting third party liability) and the car manufacturer offering the insurance can make a replacement cheaply.
This takes the safest drivers out of the pool for generic car insurance, which obviously makes that even more expensive.
An airliner is not a spaceship, and movies are not reality.
Even if they really were spaceships, nothing much would change. 10km is about 1/3 atmosphere, the aircraft is likely at least 3/4 atmosphere. Hard vacuum outside would only make the pressure differential twice as large.
5GHz-capable equipment is everywhere. Most of the point of having a 2.5GHz network is to talk to the legacy devices that cannot do 5GHz. Making a wifi network for legacy devices that only supports non-legacy devices seems a bit contradictory to me.
Did you expect the NSA to spy on Siemens so that American companies could beat their sealed offers? Is that really a valid use of government power?
But you can't not prosecute people who undoubtedly did commit crimes because you agree with their stated motives.
True, he should be prosecuted, but his sentence should be no penalty. He committed a crime to stop a much larger crime. Surely no justice system in a democratic country penalises people for doing so.
Don't be ridiculous. Government funded scientists have lots of proper scientific discussions. Practically all of CERN is government funded by various governments, just to pick an example off the top of my head.
It's reads like a marketing hype rather than as a scientific discussion.
I think you are being a bit optimistic if you expect to find actual scientists having proper scientific discussions with each other on a popular web site.
Realclimate.org is primarily for lay people. I do not believe that marketing hype is the right description for it, but neither is scientific discussion.
The only way this can be implemented without causing problems for others is to have it be an option in the browser for those who want it to do the additonal lookup.
That is the proposal. The browser does it. The web server still returns 404, so your code does not have to work around anything. This is not the NXDOMAIN redirection fiasco.
Absolutely, the relativistic effect part is correct. I just wanted to correct the geostationary GPS satellite part because it is a very common assumption.
The speed they are moving at in geostationary orbit is enough to notice relativistic effects. So much so that your satnav wouldn't work without them being "corrected" by some GR mathematics.
Your statements seem to imply that GPS satellites are in geostationary orbit. They are not. The system would not work if they were.
this article is totally ignorant of the fact that even if you could convert 100% of the sunlight delivered to the roof of your house to electricity you still don't have enough energy to run a household and a car.
You must have a very small house and use a lot of energy. Apartment buildings will have trouble doing it, but for regular houses it is no problem at all, even with the typical solar cells that people buy today. Canada and Siberia may be exceptions, but at 100% efficiency they should be OK too in most areas. Storage is a problem.
Look at it another way: we can either grow ethanol maize at 1% efficiency sun-to-wheel (with a lot of luck) or build solar cells with 10-20% efficiency. The area problems are immense when you are stuck at 1% efficiency.
You WANT bubbles to affect property taxes. That way the increased property taxes scare away some buyers and that will at least slow down the bubble.
This is an unfortunate policy though. It means that people who e.g. live in a large apartment because they have children stay in that apartment when the children move out. Selling and moving into something more manageable becomes uneconomical because of the reassessed property taxes. This in turn leads to a shortage of larger apartments for newly started families and thereby makes the housing problem worse.
The policy may be necessary due to the massive changes happening at the moment, but it would definitely be worth considering whether there are other options. Ideally something which passes at least some of the value increase on to the renters if they choose to move out, so e.g. some retired people would be motivated to move to less congested areas.
Yes, modern fiber is becoming very DSL-like, with many sub-carriers and advanced encodings for each carrier. Unfortunately the power requirements are fairly high.
I do however continue to drink milk and eat cheese and butter on the pretense that all the milk cows I see seem pretty happy out in their fields
You are lucky to be in an area where cows still get to go out into fields. Modern milk farming keeps the cows inside all year. On the positive side, the cows roam free in the dairy barn, not being tied up all winter as it used to be, and they often get to pick their own milking times.
Organic farming generally demands that the cows get to go outside when weather permits.
Is factoring a prime number such an important problem?
I do that in constant time, actually. Or log(N) if I have to print the result.
Absolutely. The higher-level languages do a much better job of this.
A kernel idle loop is my best guess, but unfortunately some of them will be less than three lines.
Alternatively interrupt handling (the timer interrupt will be the vast majority).
A VPN client app works by redirecting traffic away from its normal destination and towards a VPN server. It is obvious that if you allow two VPN apps to run at the same time, they get to fight over who gets to redirect the traffic -- and one of them could be nasty and redirect it to a malicious VPN server, with or without encryption.
You could restrict it so that only one VPN client app is allowed to run at a time, but it is not clear to me that it would improve security significantly. A malicious app with VPN permissions is going to be able to do really nasty things anyway. Do not install untrusted apps with VPN permissions.
I am a fan of full disclosure and all that, but does it have to be done on a Friday afternoon? Could you not sit on the bug for just one weekend and disclose it on Monday morning, so there is a chance that the right engineers to fix it are available?
UK breaches EU warranty laws.
Indeed, and consumer organizations are colluding with the industry on this issue, misinforming consumers about the EU laws. They only provide the information that by EU law, after 6 months, the consumer has to prove that the fault was caused by a problem which was there from the time of manufacture. They neglect to mention that the way you prove this is to write a statement "I have handled the equipment with reasonable care and not done anything to it which would be expected to cause the problem" (assuming this is true of course, otherwise you are risking perjury). You do NOT have to send the equipment to an expert and have them certify this.
However, the UK courts are unlikely to rule with the consumer on this issue and there is no way to appeal to an EU court, so the UK can keep its illegal interpretation of EU law going forever.
I can guarantee that a non-working ABS would be detected in very close to 100% of investigations of deadly accidents in Denmark. Whether they would be detected during the stupid mandatory car check done every two years I am not sure.
Alas, practically no fatalities in Denmark are due to faults with the cars, at least not faults which makes the car illegal to drive (like broken ABS), and Denmark is a bit infamous for the average age of its vehicles.
Every native API of a networking OS offers some sort of logging, crash reporting, DNS-lookup, et cetera facility.
There is no decent DNS-lookup and connection establishment C API in standard Unix. You are left to implement e.g. Happy Eyeballs (RFC 6555) on your own. You can of course use the low-level API's to send AAAA and A requests on your own, but there is no way to just say "give me a socket to google.com on port 80" and have it do the right thing.
Cross platform is something else entirely, that would be wonderful, but something platform specific would be OK too.