I recall seeing Belkin "pre-N" routers for sale in late 2004/early 2005. (Not that I'm convinced that the average home user needs more than 54Mbps at that time, especially because most broadband connections are still in the 1.5 to 3.0 range. Actually, I'm doing fine with 802.11b still).
Perfect! Now we have something for Stinger missiles and or controlled guns to home in on. And I don't blame the Iraqis one bit for fighting us tooth and nail. Whether Saddam was right or wrong, we have invaded their country - think how *you* would feel if Chinese troops marched into the US today, toppled the government, and talked about setting up the most democratic government in the world.
NYC is pretty spread, too - remember that NYC isn't *just* Manhattan - there's Bklyn, Queens, Bronx, and Staten Island. And the really urbanized area extends at least 15 miles outside of city borders into NJ, NY, and Long Island. Then another 20 miles of suburbs.
My strategy is to slow down, but subtly, so they don't register that I'm pissed at them.
I drop the transmission into 3rd and slightly let off the gas while watching the mirror. If the tailgater really isn't paying attention, I'm prepared to accelerate of course.
It's not saving any greenhouse gasses.. maybe from YOUR tailpipe.. but more are coming out of the tailpipe in front of you.
Actually, incorrect. The air has already been displaced, and will be displaced anyway by the forward car, regardless of whether someone is drafting or not. The next car is just taking advantage of that fact, so it will have less drag without affecting the front car. To use an extreme case, use a piece of cardboard to fan the air. Then use two pieces touching each other to fan the air. The second example really isn't much harder than the first, is it?
i rememebr reading about how columbian drug lords had been actually purchasing IBM mainframes to run custom software to do things like statistical analysis of transport routes/intercepts etc.
Not to mention that they contracted ex-Russian naval engineers to build them a submarine for trafficking drugs. The hull was something like 50% complete when the police and army raided the construction.
in arab they found that anyone with the name 'Ben' in the center of their name is most likely a killer. And will most likely do it only once because they are all kamikazes. In an unrelated research all those without the name 'ben' in the center are likely to be killed. So if your name is 'Ali ben Abu' you'r a killer and if your name is 'Ben Assfleck' you're gonna be killed
It's 'bin' or 'ibn', first of all, and it means "son of". Usama bin Ladin simply means "Usama, son of Ladin". "Abu" means "father of". So "Ali ben Abu" would basically mean "Little Allah son of father."
On the other hand, if you're generating electricity from hydrocarbons, you're losing energy as heat is transformed into electricity at the power plant, as it travels down the grid, and then even more when it's transformed back into heat again in our homes. Neither the generators nor our home heaters are perfectly efficient.
Actually, home heaters *are* very close to 100% efficient. After all, any energy that they "waste" is ultimately expressed as - you guessed it - heat. A better solution for the fairly mild English climate are heat pumps, which can move more heat than energy put in, since they're basically Carnot engines running in reverse. So using heat pumps instead of direct heating might offset a lot of the losses from remote generation of power with heat engines.
The fact is that killing dissidents is old Soviet SOP, the fact that it is making a come back with an old KGB guy at the helm is no real surprise.
It wouldn't *surprise* me if the hit came from Putin, FSB & Co, I'm just saying that it's not certain. The Russians have a long history of doing rather messy murders of their enemies. (Like Oleg Penskovsky who was a GRU double agent for the Americans - when they caught him, after his trial and death sentence they supposedly burned him alive in an incinerator and showed the film of the execution to all new KGB/GRU recruits to encourage loyalty.)
Best of all: no pilot light to have go out and leave you with a smoking crater to return home to.
I don't know about the UK, but most stoves and ranges (hobs) in the USA don't use pilot lights. They either use a catalytic ignition system where passing a small stream of gas over a catalyst causes the catalyst to heat and ignite the main flame, or they use electric spark ignition.
If push came to shove and people really wanted the benefits of gas flames for cooking, what about building a hydrogen stove that electrolyzes water on the spot? You'll use electric power albeit less efficiently, yet you'll have the fast heat that can be applied to any surface from a flame.
I assume the hair falling out and the leukemia was a screaming pair of clues.
I don't think he had leukaemia - an overproduction of leukocytes by his bone marrow at the expense of other blood components. I'd suspect that his bone marrow was just completely zapped by the alpha particles emitted and wasn't producing much of anything - neither red not white cells.
Why not setup a trust that just spends the interest on the earnings.
Or fund projects that might be profitable as well as beneficial in the long term, but that no other corporation wants to fund because the profits might only show a century later.
People who go through six tollbooths a day on their commute (which are quite a few people) rack up tons of failed reads.
Maybe good/bad read ratio.
It's not their fault they accumulated so many misreads, it's yours, so you can't very well expect to hit them with a hundred dollar fine.
If you can prove that you had a valid tag at the time, you should just be able to pay the toll by mail. Registration of tags could also be optional for those who don't care about their privacy.
Still, the whole "Putin did it because he's bad" line of reasoning
I'm not convinced that Putin did it. In fact, we're unlikely to know for certain *who* did it. Ever. The guy made a lot of enemies, and there are also a lot of people who'd be glad to sacrifice one ex-spy to make Putin look like a villain.
the gas - oil, thermonuclear or coal stations are not as easily or quickly turned up or turned down, whereas with gas you can literally turn a dial.
What about electrolyzing water to form hydrogen during times of low demand and burning the hydrogen in gas-turbine type power plants during times of high demand?
Properly-designed electric heat is as good as any other form of heat. It's used a lot in Washington, DC, which has colder winters than most of Southern England and it works fine. Don't confuse the cheap "radiator" heaters with a properly designed home heat system!
electric cookers are beyond worthless
They take getting used to, and aren't as fast as gas, but they do work. The problem is that there's often not perfect contact between the pot bottom and the heating coil. This can actually be fixed with induction heaters that heat by inducing eddy currents in a non-ferrous pot bottom.
The thing with tying a particular tag to a particular car is that, should the reader fail to read the tag (and, in my experience, that's about 5% of the time or so), they can still charge your account by looking up your license plate number.
Simple solution: just collect the toll amount by mail with no fine if the tag misreads once or twice. If the plate proves to be a repeat offender (say, more than 5 unread tags in a 3 mo. period, but don't publicize the exact number) than slap it with a $100 fine, which should cover the revenue loss from collecting just the tolls by mail in case of misread.
Seems to me there are quite a lot smattering hobby historicans here on slashdot.
If you're going to criticize someone posting in a blog in a certain language, learn to speak the language first. Stones. Glass houses. Me no speeka Engrish.
All the nuclear power stations in the world won't help when you need gas to heat your house and cook your food.
Last time I checked, electrical resistance heaters for cooking and heating homes had been around for the best part of a century. In the British climate, which is moderate year round, you could probably even get away with using heat pumps for climate control since the winter temperatures (at least in Southern England) seldom stay below freezing for long.
The neocons prematurely declared victory when the soviets imploded from within with their socialist disaster.
Nah, the Cold War "victory" was of the same type as the "victory" over Germany after WW 1. The Allies beat the Germans, but they left an impoverished, dispirited people who were educated and in possession of fairly advanced technology. The time was ripe for a charismatic leader to come in with promises of wealth and victory and rebuild their war machine. Same goes for Russia ca. 2006.
Why would you use a hard to handle radioactive material to kill someone.
Hard to handle? Nah - remember that it's not lethal unless you basically ingest it in sufficient quantity. You could put an eyedropper full of a polonium salt solution in his food when he was taking a leak and absorb maybe 1/10000 of the quantity that he got.
Toll transponders are another very convenient use of technology. Sure, there are some privacy issues, but they're convenient.
If cash payments ro refill an anonymous smartcard were allowed and license plates weren't photoed unless the car was missing a tag, then the privacy issues would be very small assuming that the people running the toll system were honest.
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NYC is pretty spread, too - remember that NYC isn't *just* Manhattan - there's Bklyn, Queens, Bronx, and Staten Island. And the really urbanized area extends at least 15 miles outside of city borders into NJ, NY, and Long Island. Then another 20 miles of suburbs.
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I drop the transmission into 3rd and slightly let off the gas while watching the mirror. If the tailgater really isn't paying attention, I'm prepared to accelerate of course.
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Actually, incorrect. The air has already been displaced, and will be displaced anyway by the forward car, regardless of whether someone is drafting or not. The next car is just taking advantage of that fact, so it will have less drag without affecting the front car. To use an extreme case, use a piece of cardboard to fan the air. Then use two pieces touching each other to fan the air. The second example really isn't much harder than the first, is it?
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Not to mention that they contracted ex-Russian naval engineers to build them a submarine for trafficking drugs. The hull was something like 50% complete when the police and army raided the construction.
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It's 'bin' or 'ibn', first of all, and it means "son of". Usama bin Ladin simply means "Usama, son of Ladin". "Abu" means "father of". So "Ali ben Abu" would basically mean "Little Allah son of father."
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Actually, home heaters *are* very close to 100% efficient. After all, any energy that they "waste" is ultimately expressed as - you guessed it - heat. A better solution for the fairly mild English climate are heat pumps, which can move more heat than energy put in, since they're basically Carnot engines running in reverse. So using heat pumps instead of direct heating might offset a lot of the losses from remote generation of power with heat engines.
It wouldn't *surprise* me if the hit came from Putin, FSB & Co, I'm just saying that it's not certain. The Russians have a long history of doing rather messy murders of their enemies. (Like Oleg Penskovsky who was a GRU double agent for the Americans - when they caught him, after his trial and death sentence they supposedly burned him alive in an incinerator and showed the film of the execution to all new KGB/GRU recruits to encourage loyalty.)
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I don't know about the UK, but most stoves and ranges (hobs) in the USA don't use pilot lights. They either use a catalytic ignition system where passing a small stream of gas over a catalyst causes the catalyst to heat and ignite the main flame, or they use electric spark ignition.
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If push came to shove and people really wanted the benefits of gas flames for cooking, what about building a hydrogen stove that electrolyzes water on the spot? You'll use electric power albeit less efficiently, yet you'll have the fast heat that can be applied to any surface from a flame.
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I don't think he had leukaemia - an overproduction of leukocytes by his bone marrow at the expense of other blood components. I'd suspect that his bone marrow was just completely zapped by the alpha particles emitted and wasn't producing much of anything - neither red not white cells.
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Or fund projects that might be profitable as well as beneficial in the long term, but that no other corporation wants to fund because the profits might only show a century later.
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Maybe good/bad read ratio.
It's not their fault they accumulated so many misreads, it's yours, so you can't very well expect to hit them with a hundred dollar fine.
If you can prove that you had a valid tag at the time, you should just be able to pay the toll by mail. Registration of tags could also be optional for those who don't care about their privacy.
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I'm not convinced that Putin did it. In fact, we're unlikely to know for certain *who* did it. Ever. The guy made a lot of enemies, and there are also a lot of people who'd be glad to sacrifice one ex-spy to make Putin look like a villain.
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What about electrolyzing water to form hydrogen during times of low demand and burning the hydrogen in gas-turbine type power plants during times of high demand?
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Properly-designed electric heat is as good as any other form of heat. It's used a lot in Washington, DC, which has colder winters than most of Southern England and it works fine. Don't confuse the cheap "radiator" heaters with a properly designed home heat system!
electric cookers are beyond worthless
They take getting used to, and aren't as fast as gas, but they do work. The problem is that there's often not perfect contact between the pot bottom and the heating coil. This can actually be fixed with induction heaters that heat by inducing eddy currents in a non-ferrous pot bottom.
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Simple solution: just collect the toll amount by mail with no fine if the tag misreads once or twice. If the plate proves to be a repeat offender (say, more than 5 unread tags in a 3 mo. period, but don't publicize the exact number) than slap it with a $100 fine, which should cover the revenue loss from collecting just the tolls by mail in case of misread.
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If you're going to criticize someone posting in a blog in a certain language, learn to speak the language first. Stones. Glass houses. Me no speeka Engrish.
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Last time I checked, electrical resistance heaters for cooking and heating homes had been around for the best part of a century. In the British climate, which is moderate year round, you could probably even get away with using heat pumps for climate control since the winter temperatures (at least in Southern England) seldom stay below freezing for long.
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Nah, the Cold War "victory" was of the same type as the "victory" over Germany after WW 1. The Allies beat the Germans, but they left an impoverished, dispirited people who were educated and in possession of fairly advanced technology. The time was ripe for a charismatic leader to come in with promises of wealth and victory and rebuild their war machine. Same goes for Russia ca. 2006.
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Hard to handle? Nah - remember that it's not lethal unless you basically ingest it in sufficient quantity. You could put an eyedropper full of a polonium salt solution in his food when he was taking a leak and absorb maybe 1/10000 of the quantity that he got.
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If cash payments ro refill an anonymous smartcard were allowed and license plates weren't photoed unless the car was missing a tag, then the privacy issues would be very small assuming that the people running the toll system were honest.
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