Unacceptable in concept and practice. Mod parent up!
On a slightly different subject: I heard about a system which detects email spams, rejects them,but ask for something like a re-send from the spamming server but.... 1 char by 1 char accepted only at the rate of 1 per second ! This is the same concept (so not acceptable), but at least you overburden the server and not the network.
... the ability to talk to real human. Though I don't trust ebay/PayPal to solve my problems for me. That is why... I don't use PayPale. I have got just a few transactions, but some with rather big money + international shipment & payment. No way I go for that if I don't have individual bank account details. It does not solve the problem. But if something goes wrong I know where to start. Ebay is out of the loop. And the end seller (thieve) knows I'll be able to track things down.
This is a hassely solution in order to initiate a payment, but it's more peaceful. Your choice: less hassle in general => big hassle when it goes wrong or a bit of hassle every time and less chance of the big shite to come up. (Oops also: no credit card number in the wild... That's a big peace of mind.)
Well, so it looks I am more than late. Tells you how often I focus on... advertisement and Google.:-) Just I did not see clever-ish adv system before today. Z.
Well, I went through a bit of basic digging. See the google adsense quick quick tour
My first move was obviously again some highly intrusive, content distortion, un-fair adv system. Well... it does not not look like that at all. I am surprised. I believe their system could be fair, and provide adv while not ruining pages showing up adv. A while ago I read about systems adding links into web content on the client side. Just imagine an email from your best friend, viewed through an internet browser, polluted with random links! I mean in the text of the email not around. Maddening. So I was concerned about this AdSense being similar.
It looks like eventually some advertisers get the point that web adv can be not more than a text link. No pics, no flash, no pop up... At least AdSense looks like that from snapshot: only text. From an end user point of view I say: well if it's clearly identified as ad, and indeed non obtrusive (i.e. on the side not flashy) I could think about accepting the idea.
Summary: for the first time I have the feeling this could respect all users, be fair, be efficient... Wow !
Personally, first thing I de-activated, carefully, thoroughly. We have got enough proof that too "good" integration by a single producer is the shortest way to doom.
Interesting posts. They confirmed what first thing which came to my mind: Oh! One more pest!
Seriously. No later than yesterday I ran VNC viewer (without install) on a win box. The "pest patrol" software reported VNC as a pest. The machine was slow to death, crimped with soooo many anti-anti-plus-plus-ad-on-little-nice tools.
I don't use pest removers. I look at what starts up, which services, use safe-ish Internet browser, use my brain and I have no pests. Zijus.
That's it : Apple is doing in low prices now Liberation article (french). 499 Euros.
As predicted. Am pretty impressed.
Re:Is it any coincidence. No.
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I read a lot of : is this needed?, let's be clever and ask oneself what we are doing...
Frankly, it is hilarious from folks who probably jumped on GMail, IPods, stupid phone which does all but work when needed, and other devices which are arguably the most un-needed space on the planet. (No you won't get me to believe your 200MB emails are worth keeping...)
Ciao
As a reminder, the ALICE experiment at CERN will produce per year 1 PB ( Peta Byte ) of _raw_ data. This is only _one_ experiment out of _four_. Add DB overhead and you start getting the picture. And no: there won't be backups: too big.
The nature of particle physics is to be statistics. The search is for slight deviations from what is predicted. So the amount of raw data is huge. It is also that the amount of (raw) data per second produced will be in some case magnitude of order bigger.
It is thought that some data will not be stored at all at CERN, but sent straight to remote storage farm. Too much data to be stored localy.
The people analysing those data will be scattered over the planet, involving indeed the need of big transfers.
Ha ha ha: is this needed ? Hi hi let's think about it... Please dump all the crap data you pretend to need and ask again the question.
FYI. This quote is often misinterpreted as something like "be as violent to your enemy as he was with you." The saying actually aims at expressing right the opposite view which is 'be measured enough to get only an eye or a teeth, if that's all what your enemy "got" from you'.
In other words, applying the 'eye for an eye' would lead to what you suggest: not jailing a man for 9 years for a few (feekin #*%$! aaaarg I hate them) millions spam, when a killer could be jailed for 5 years only.
When you put a current through a piezoelectric material (e.g. Quartz), it vibrates.
As far as I remember a detail is: when you apply _variable_ current, piezoelectric material will vibrate.
I worked during a training period with accelerometers. Basically those are a bit of piezoelectric material connected to an oscilloscope (to make it simple). The sensitivity of those devices is quite simply mind blowing. Put 10 m between you and your experiment table, just move you arm and observe the plot on the oscilloscope !
Applications of piezo accelerometers can be vibration-signature analysis. Any engine (motor, heater...) vibrate. So you can benchmark "normal" vibrating and pre-failure signature... Provides ways of forecasting failures on planes, factories...
I developed a bench with LabView at CEN-SCK in Belgium. Was interesting.
Actually acronym CERN shouldnt be read...
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Happy 50th Cern!
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No one should try to read the acronym.
Indeed. Any name including the word "nuclear" in it, will systematically scare off the mass audience. "Nuclear" is too much linked to Chernobyl, nuclear power plant, nuclear bomb. A detail you think? Not at all, see CERN home page... And the result is "The world's largest particle physics laboratory". See the CERN in seven questions. Emphasis is put on "particle physic" not on "nuclear"
Research performed at CERN is so abstract that no common mortal can imagine what is done there. The name of the institution is the only thing one can hang on. Actually "CERN" is still in use because it is in too many places to be replaced. But officially the lab should be referred to as something like "particle physics laboratory".
External image is actually pretty important to CERN. Because CERN always have to answer the tax payer's question "why the heck am I giving money for some dark fundamental whatever?" If the answer contains a "nuclear" somewhere, that's already a bad feeling passed on. I worked there a short while. One of my guru told me: "computer science there is 50% tech, 50% psychology". I guess CERN public advertisement is 95% psychology. Not to be underestimated.
Cold Fusion Back From the Dead. U.S. Energy Department gives true believers a new hearing
Later this month, the U.S. Department of Energy will receive a report from a panel of experts on the prospects for cold fusion--
Mind yourself. For now this annouce is actually void. I can annouce that I have by the end of the month a vaccin against AIDS. What good does that do ? What value does that bring ?
This cold fusion subject is so senstive that, we shouldn't regard any void annouce.
Don't get me wrong. I don't discuss it is possible or impossible. I just underline the fact that there is a need of 1) reprocductible 2) proved stuff.
Critics say that the extravagant claims behind cold fusion need to be backed with exceptionally strong evidence, and that such evidence simply has not
Wafle. There is no such a thing as a strong evidence or "exceptionnaly". An evidence is or is not. Period. This vocabulary shows we are chatting rather emotionnaly. The idea that "pioneres" were "silenced" is just wrong. Pioneres had and have to repoduce something. Period.(Now for a bit of subbjective point of view: I am thriled at the idea it could come this way.)
Hum... Not really "back-up" though. The kind of data which are gonna be produced at CERN in LHC won't be backed up : just too big.
The point of those super fast transfer rates is that probably experiment data will _not_ be stored at CERN at all, just produced and sent straight to storage farmes. Hopefully organisation will be clean enough to avoid more transfere after first storage. The goal beeing : stored where it's gonna be analysed.
I worked a while within the ALICE experiment off-line software section at CERN in 1999-2000. The proportion of problemes are just mind blowing. Some experiment generates so much data at each run that a single extra bit used to store a raw data, immediatly translates into 10th of extra disks required. One run is at max a few seconds. As fare as I remember, ALICE ( A Large Ion Colider Experiment) will generate on it's own 1PB a year. The why of it is: as opposed to colide e-/e+, this experiment will colide nucleus. We could see it as: colide two car side mirors and you get X by-products. But now, colide not the miror only but the whole cars: you get magnitude of order more by-products to observe. The goal , as fare as I rember is to observe some Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP), a gas of quark and gluon. It's the fifth state of mater we know about.
Some lads in slashdot thread mentionne p0rn... But just a single peta byte is equivalent of what has been said and written ever by humanity. We'd have to generate a lot of pOrn/mp3s/... to have that much data. Or maybe set up ALIPE ( A Large Intricate P0rn Experiment.)...
here's a Python script that will automatically kill the new "Windows Firewall" in to XP Service Pack 2.
I probably use XP first version (no SPs). I disabled Firewall by using the tool "msconfig" ( start from the command line ). Works pretty fine : no need to play with registry, or scripts, or...
Interview (fr) of Joel Reidenberg (internet legal issues expert, law teacher at Fordham university.)
... La cour d'appel le dit clairement: ce n'est pas parce que le site est heberge aux Etats-Unis qu'il est exonere de respecter les lois dans les pays ou il diffuse un contenu qui vise les utilisateurs locaux. En precisant ce point, le juge effleure en effet une question de fond. Il laisse sous entendre qu'un site americain ne peut pas faire n'importe quoi a l'etranger. ...
=~
... Court said plainly: An american hosted internet site can not do anything abroad. It has to respect the law, where the targeted business users are. ...
I imagine a 1 cm thick holographic hard disk, on a PC, with only 10 Tb capacity... My god I'd have to rip 0.1 Mega CD to fill that up ! Or I could miror 10 K times my super-duper Gmail account. It's gonna be supra-cool.
Our audience is relatively advanced when it comes to technology and can easily differentiate between content and ads.
So cute : You folks are so dam stupid, you are not able to see the good info between the add, go to school!
Mignon tout plein!
Just to make it plain. You are putting your name at stake, and anoying your users. And yes, the purpose of your poste is likely to add for your site. Sad.
It looks like it's the way to present Int3eliT3xt into something nice : "But we are adding value to the article!".
Isn't it the job of the author ? I mean, deciding what is in his article ?
The value of an information lies precisely in the point of view of the author. He'll deliberately highlight some aspect and not some other. That is named "information": a critical look onto something + an interpretation within a context + a selection of elements. That is why the job journalist does (still) exist. Ad arbitrary content to it and it becomes noise.
Practicaly. I hit that Int3eliT3xt stuff. I was reading my very private emails. It turned me rather furious. Just immagine: you get a post from your best trusted friend, a man you consider as an excellent source of higly refined information and you end up sorting add from the content... Furious. The same apply to news article.
I will stop using things if I can't get them to work clean. And yes: I have no TV for the last 10 years. Am fine thanks.
Z.
(Now I use all the blocks from FireFox, I block images, I generalised the shock-wave-filters from the user.css. Today I added this host file list I saw mentionned in this thread.)
Excellent point, and one that is often overlooked. I would add that the most effective way to manage energy demand, environmental impact, and resource sharing on a global scale is to reduce the "demand side". In other words, reduce our population by an order of magnitude.
Moded as troll
I want to beleive your man made a mistake. "Troll" ? Hugh ? Post was very much at the hart of the problem. T'can only be a mistake.
Now on topic. Suggesting reducing population is a way. Would require a good dictatorship I'd say. How about reducing the consumption per head ?
Question relates to : owning a private care? owning a supper dupper frige producing ice 24 hours a day? going for short holiday brake by plane? travelling mad fare for futiles reason ? All those things are insanely energy-greedy. Maybe we want to review what we use ?
Now fusion and ITER. Well it looks like a way to controle green-house gas production. I worked at SCK-CEN in Belgium and CERN Switzerland. (Am not a physicist). In terms of conventional fission we indeed still are facing a major problem: waists. To my opinions, anyone claiming this is sorted is juts plain ignorant or lying. Waists are dormant bombs on the long term.
Just as an anecdote, some questions were raised as to "How could humanity remember in 3000 years were are radio-active dumps?" Keep in mind that longest civilisation lasted just about 2000 years. Suggestion were made to build pyramid on top of dumps. Silly isn't it? Yet, there are no solution to this simple question. That is why we can't stay on conventional fission. Yes research as to be furthered on fusion. No it's not a waist of money.
ITER. Splitting project in tow, and have one in Japan and one in EU ? Guys, the point of the raw is that no single organisation has the financial ascet to pay for an ITER. If you split the bill, you don't get tow ITER's, you get tow nothing. If you read the article, you understand that FIRE US project would not at all yield the same kind of results as ITER would. That's why US considered again joining ITER.
About solar power. If we want every inhabitant of the planet to avail of the same luxurious way of live as I have (as a westerner): just forget about it. The entire earth surface coverd with 100% efficiant solar pannels wouldn't be enough. That, to my opinion tells us something: problem is more on what we consume not on producing more energy.
All is redundant... This post. The idea of the article. But sory. I have to say it again. I just read article and the first reply. It said it all. But here we are:
How stupid ?!
Then close car companies, pharmaceutical industry, gun producers... Hum. How about stoping human reproduction for it has such a negative impact on the planet. Including many animals who "do not wish to be exposed".
Bon sang de bonsoir, mais c'est pas possible! How fekin stupid ?! foreach $second ( @time ) {
print("How fekin stupid!\n"); } assert("Human is not stupid.");
The very concept of justice should also be bared for it also wrongly impact, from time to time, some people "who do not want to be exposed".
Slashdot Mirror
Oops. I meant to reply to very first post. It read:
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FP by michaelhood (667393) Alter Relationship on Wednesday February 09, @11:03AM (#11616737)
Beware of getting slammed by your ISP with a "friendly" letter, after consuming tons of bandwidth using something like this.
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Unacceptable in concept and practice. Mod parent up!
,but ask for something like a re-send from the spamming server but.... 1 char by 1 char accepted only at the rate of 1 per second ! This is the same concept (so not acceptable), but at least you overburden the server and not the network.
On a slightly different subject: I heard about a system which detects email spams, rejects them
Z.
... the ability to talk to real human. Though I don't trust ebay/PayPal to solve my problems for me. That is why... I don't use PayPale.
I have got just a few transactions, but some with rather big money + international shipment & payment. No way I go for that if I don't have individual bank account details. It does not solve the problem. But if something goes wrong I know where to start. Ebay is out of the loop. And the end seller (thieve) knows I'll be able to track things down.
This is a hassely solution in order to initiate a payment, but it's more peaceful. Your choice: less hassle in general => big hassle when it goes wrong or a bit of hassle every time and less chance of the big shite to come up. (Oops also: no credit card number in the wild... That's a big peace of mind.)
Z.
Maybe not funny, but troll ? A waisted point of moderation. And a shit thing to do for something which is not troll. Z
just asck me.
I think I got them perffectly mastered. For a long tim now.
X.
(Ooops: I mean Z.)
Well, so it looks I am more than late. Tells you how often I focus on... advertisement and Google. :-) Just I did not see clever-ish adv system before today.
Z.
Well, I went through a bit of basic digging. See the google adsense quick quick tour
My first move was obviously again some highly intrusive, content distortion, un-fair adv system. Well... it does not not look like that at all. I am surprised. I believe their system could be fair, and provide adv while not ruining pages showing up adv. A while ago I read about systems adding links into web content on the client side. Just imagine an email from your best friend, viewed through an internet browser, polluted with random links! I mean in the text of the email not around. Maddening. So I was concerned about this AdSense being similar.
It looks like eventually some advertisers get the point that web adv can be not more than a text link. No pics, no flash, no pop up... At least AdSense looks like that from snapshot: only text. From an end user point of view I say: well if it's clearly identified as ad, and indeed non obtrusive (i.e. on the side not flashy) I could think about accepting the idea.
Summary: for the first time I have the feeling this could respect all users, be fair, be efficient... Wow !
Z.
e) Activate your winxp firewall.
Personally, first thing I de-activated, carefully, thoroughly. We have got enough proof that too "good" integration by a single producer is the shortest way to doom.
Zijus
Interesting posts. They confirmed what first thing which came to my mind: Oh! One more pest!
Seriously. No later than yesterday I ran VNC viewer (without install) on a win box. The "pest patrol" software reported VNC as a pest. The machine was slow to death, crimped with soooo many anti-anti-plus-plus-ad-on-little-nice tools.
I don't use pest removers. I look at what starts up, which services, use safe-ish Internet browser, use my brain and I have no pests.
Zijus.
That's it : Apple is doing in low prices now Liberation article (french). 499 Euros. As predicted. Am pretty impressed.
By default...
SafeSearch Filtering
Google's SafeSearch blocks web pages containing explicit sexual content from appearing in search results.
* Use strict filtering (Filter both explicit text and explicit images)
* Use moderate filtering (Filter explicit images only - default behavior)
* Do not filter my search results.
I read a lot of : is this needed?, let's be clever and ask oneself what we are doing...
Frankly, it is hilarious from folks who probably jumped on GMail, IPods, stupid phone which does all but work when needed, and other devices which are arguably the most un-needed space on the planet. (No you won't get me to believe your 200MB emails are worth keeping...)
Ciao
As a reminder, the ALICE experiment at CERN will produce per year 1 PB ( Peta Byte ) of _raw_ data. This is only _one_ experiment out of _four_. Add DB overhead and you start getting the picture. And no: there won't be backups: too big. The nature of particle physics is to be statistics. The search is for slight deviations from what is predicted. So the amount of raw data is huge. It is also that the amount of (raw) data per second produced will be in some case magnitude of order bigger.
It is thought that some data will not be stored at all at CERN, but sent straight to remote storage farm. Too much data to be stored localy.
The people analysing those data will be scattered over the planet, involving indeed the need of big transfers.
Ha ha ha: is this needed ? Hi hi let's think about it... Please dump all the crap data you pretend to need and ask again the question.
FYI. This quote is often misinterpreted as something like "be as violent to your enemy as he was with you." The saying actually aims at expressing right the opposite view which is 'be measured enough to get only an eye or a teeth, if that's all what your enemy "got" from you'.
In other words, applying the 'eye for an eye' would lead to what you suggest: not jailing a man for 9 years for a few (feekin #*%$! aaaarg I hate them) millions spam, when a killer could be jailed for 5 years only.
Ciao ciao.More of FYI...
When you put a current through a piezoelectric material (e.g. Quartz), it vibrates.
As far as I remember a detail is: when you apply _variable_ current, piezoelectric material will vibrate.
I worked during a training period with accelerometers. Basically those are a bit of piezoelectric material connected to an oscilloscope (to make it simple). The sensitivity of those devices is quite simply mind blowing. Put 10 m between you and your experiment table, just move you arm and observe the plot on the oscilloscope !
Applications of piezo accelerometers can be vibration-signature analysis. Any engine (motor, heater...) vibrate. So you can benchmark "normal" vibrating and pre-failure signature... Provides ways of forecasting failures on planes, factories...
I developed a bench with LabView at CEN-SCK in Belgium. Was interesting.
No one should try to read the acronym.
Indeed. Any name including the word "nuclear" in it, will systematically scare off the mass audience. "Nuclear" is too much linked to Chernobyl, nuclear power plant, nuclear bomb. A detail you think? Not at all, see CERN home page... And the result is "The world's largest particle physics laboratory". See the CERN in seven questions. Emphasis is put on "particle physic" not on "nuclear"
Research performed at CERN is so abstract that no common mortal can imagine what is done there. The name of the institution is the only thing one can hang on. Actually "CERN" is still in use because it is in too many places to be replaced. But officially the lab should be referred to as something like "particle physics laboratory".
External image is actually pretty important to CERN. Because CERN always have to answer the tax payer's question "why the heck am I giving money for some dark fundamental whatever?" If the answer contains a "nuclear" somewhere, that's already a bad feeling passed on. I worked there a short while. One of my guru told me: "computer science there is 50% tech, 50% psychology". I guess CERN public advertisement is 95% psychology. Not to be underestimated.
I love CERN. :-)
Cold Fusion Back From the Dead. U.S. Energy Department gives true believers a new hearing Later this month, the U.S. Department of Energy will receive a report from a panel of experts on the prospects for cold fusion--
Mind yourself. For now this annouce is actually void. I can annouce that I have by the end of the month a vaccin against AIDS. What good does that do ? What value does that bring ?
This cold fusion subject is so senstive that, we shouldn't regard any void annouce.
Don't get me wrong. I don't discuss it is possible or impossible. I just underline the fact that there is a need of 1) reprocductible 2) proved stuff.
Critics say that the extravagant claims behind cold fusion need to be backed with exceptionally strong evidence, and that such evidence simply has not
Wafle. There is no such a thing as a strong evidence or "exceptionnaly". An evidence is or is not. Period. This vocabulary shows we are chatting rather emotionnaly. The idea that "pioneres" were "silenced" is just wrong. Pioneres had and have to repoduce something. Period.(Now for a bit of subbjective point of view: I am thriled at the idea it could come this way.)
Z.
Hum... Not really "back-up" though. The kind of data which are gonna be produced at CERN in LHC won't be backed up : just too big.
The point of those super fast transfer rates is that probably experiment data will _not_ be stored at CERN at all, just produced and sent straight to storage farmes. Hopefully organisation will be clean enough to avoid more transfere after first storage. The goal beeing : stored where it's gonna be analysed.
I worked a while within the ALICE experiment off-line software section at CERN in 1999-2000. The proportion of problemes are just mind blowing. Some experiment generates so much data at each run that a single extra bit used to store a raw data, immediatly translates into 10th of extra disks required. One run is at max a few seconds. As fare as I remember, ALICE ( A Large Ion Colider Experiment) will generate on it's own 1PB a year. The why of it is: as opposed to colide e-/e+, this experiment will colide nucleus. We could see it as: colide two car side mirors and you get X by-products. But now, colide not the miror only but the whole cars: you get magnitude of order more by-products to observe. The goal , as fare as I rember is to observe some Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP), a gas of quark and gluon. It's the fifth state of mater we know about.
Some lads in slashdot thread mentionne p0rn... But just a single peta byte is equivalent of what has been said and written ever by humanity. We'd have to generate a lot of pOrn/mp3s/... to have that much data. Or maybe set up ALIPE ( A Large Intricate P0rn Experiment.)...
Z.
Hello,
here's a Python script that will automatically kill the new "Windows Firewall" in to XP Service Pack 2.
I probably use XP first version (no SPs). I disabled Firewall by using the tool "msconfig" ( start from the command line ). Works pretty fine : no need to play with registry, or scripts, or ...
Regards - Z.
The court decision is there.
Interview (fr) of Joel Reidenberg (internet legal issues expert, law teacher at Fordham university.)
=~I imagine a 1 cm thick holographic hard disk, on a PC, with only 10 Tb capacity... My god I'd have to rip 0.1 Mega CD to fill that up ! Or I could miror 10 K times my super-duper Gmail account. It's gonna be supra-cool.
Our audience is relatively advanced when it comes to technology and can easily differentiate between content and ads.
So cute : You folks are so dam stupid, you are not able to see the good info between the add, go to school!
Mignon tout plein!
Just to make it plain. You are putting your name at stake, and anoying your users. And yes, the purpose of your poste is likely to add for your site. Sad.
Z.
It looks like it's the way to present Int3eliT3xt into something nice : "But we are adding value to the article!".
Isn't it the job of the author ? I mean, deciding what is in his article ?
The value of an information lies precisely in the point of view of the author. He'll deliberately highlight some aspect and not some other. That is named "information": a critical look onto something + an interpretation within a context + a selection of elements. That is why the job journalist does (still) exist. Ad arbitrary content to it and it becomes noise.
Practicaly. I hit that Int3eliT3xt stuff. I was reading my very private emails. It turned me rather furious. Just immagine: you get a post from your best trusted friend, a man you consider as an excellent source of higly refined information and you end up sorting add from the content... Furious. The same apply to news article.
I will stop using things if I can't get them to work clean. And yes: I have no TV for the last 10 years. Am fine thanks.
Z.
(Now I use all the blocks from FireFox, I block images, I generalised the shock-wave-filters from the user.css. Today I added this host file list I saw mentionned in this thread.)
Excellent point, and one that is often overlooked. I would add that the most effective way to manage energy demand, environmental impact, and resource sharing on a global scale is to reduce the "demand side". In other words, reduce our population by an order of magnitude.
Moded as troll
I want to beleive your man made a mistake. "Troll" ? Hugh ? Post was very much at the hart of the problem. T'can only be a mistake.
Now on topic. Suggesting reducing population is a way. Would require a good dictatorship I'd say. How about reducing the consumption per head ?
Question relates to : owning a private care? owning a supper dupper frige producing ice 24 hours a day? going for short holiday brake by plane? travelling mad fare for futiles reason ? All those things are insanely energy-greedy. Maybe we want to review what we use ?
Now fusion and ITER. Well it looks like a way to controle green-house gas production. I worked at SCK-CEN in Belgium and CERN Switzerland. (Am not a physicist). In terms of conventional fission we indeed still are facing a major problem: waists. To my opinions, anyone claiming this is sorted is juts plain ignorant or lying. Waists are dormant bombs on the long term.
Just as an anecdote, some questions were raised as to "How could humanity remember in 3000 years were are radio-active dumps?" Keep in mind that longest civilisation lasted just about 2000 years. Suggestion were made to build pyramid on top of dumps. Silly isn't it? Yet, there are no solution to this simple question. That is why we can't stay on conventional fission. Yes research as to be furthered on fusion. No it's not a waist of money.
ITER. Splitting project in tow, and have one in Japan and one in EU ? Guys, the point of the raw is that no single organisation has the financial ascet to pay for an ITER. If you split the bill, you don't get tow ITER's, you get tow nothing. If you read the article, you understand that FIRE US project would not at all yield the same kind of results as ITER would. That's why US considered again joining ITER.
About solar power. If we want every inhabitant of the planet to avail of the same luxurious way of live as I have (as a westerner): just forget about it. The entire earth surface coverd with 100% efficiant solar pannels wouldn't be enough. That, to my opinion tells us something: problem is more on what we consume not on producing more energy.
All is redundant... This post. The idea of the article. But sory. I have to say it again. I just read article and the first reply. It said it all. But here we are:
How stupid ?!
Then close car companies, pharmaceutical industry, gun producers... Hum. How about stoping human reproduction for it has such a negative impact on the planet. Including many animals who "do not wish to be exposed".
Bon sang de bonsoir, mais c'est pas possible!
How fekin stupid ?!
foreach $second ( @time ) {
print("How fekin stupid!\n");
}
assert("Human is not stupid.");
The very concept of justice should also be bared for it also wrongly impact, from time to time, some people "who do not want to be exposed".
Please confirm I'm gonna wake up. Pleaaaaase.
g, mph, lbs...
Please chose one system. And chose SI. No more mph, lbs. Thats a bit ridiculous.
Bye.