every wireless router i've seen in the past year is secured by default with at least WEP.
yes, WEP is ludicrously broken, but it serves the practical purpose of a fence with a "no trespassing" sign nailed on it. sure, someone who wants to can discover the key within minutes, just as they could ignore the sign and step over the fence, but at that point, they know i don't want them there, and it becomes straight-forward trespassing IMO.
on my workout, i do 60 minutes at 103W, so 0.1KWhr. that the local rates, that's about 0.6 cents worth of electricity. assuming there's someone who is doing that all day every day, that's about 14 cents per day.
while i agree with promoting linux (i've had my aunt using xubuntu for nearly a year now and she loves it), "ends security patches in the near future" is a bit overboard. security patches will continue though the extended support phase, which will start in 2009 and continue until at least 2014.
not exactly nationalized as it's not national. provincialized.;)
yeah, we've got shaw competing on cable (providing TV, internet, and VOIP phone), access using leased lines (providing IPTV, internet and VOIP phone), a dozen or so mom&pop ISPs leasing lines for just internet, along with wireless ISPs (xplorenet, and some other guys in the cities, along with sasktel's wireless (which i use myself, as i'm far out of reasonable DSL or cable range.)) and satellite for TV.
there's just a fantastic amount of competition for TV, internet, and phone, which is exactly as it should be in a successful free market. just enough regulation to provide for competition.
possibly the fact that a massive amount of cabling, not to mention the labour required to place them, costs a lot of money? not to mention the fact that some of that cabling would have to go through privately owned land, so barring some level of government using eminent domain, it would require them to negotiate right-of-way with all the land owners.
the start up costs of having to create your own infrastructure are immense, and there is no way in hell you would be able to profitably compete with someone who already has an existing infrastructure that they're already paid off.
not nationalized, but Sasktel does a fine job of managing the lines here, and provide good service IMO, though if you don't like them, there are lots of other options available.
at the sibling post, i don't believe sasktel has had a strike since 1996.
The point is, why single out one area of unethical behavior? because it's the area most of us are in and the area most of us are most likely to be able to have an effect on.
unless we're using different definitions of "mile", ADSL should reach that far just fine. 1 1/2 miles is 7920 feet. ADSL has a maximum range of 18,000 feet and a full-service range of 9000 feet. so you shoudln't have any problem with that, barring the phone lines being rusty barbed wire or something.
yes, but the thing is everyone knows what a mile per gallon is (or a kilometer per litre, or whatever equivilant local units of distance and volume.). you can see a 1-gallon bucket and know how much that is. you can walk a mile and know how far that is.
try measuring a pound of CO2 in a similarly practical manner. you're not going to get the point across, as that measurement is completely abstract to most people.
at some future point, education will be able to deabstractize that pounds-of-CO2-per-(time/distance) enough that it will make sense to most people, but in the meantime, let's use a transition unit that makes sense to the general population, as it will very likely be significantly more effective than throwing meaningless numbers at them.
figure out the energy use over distance and ratio it to 216MJ or 60kw-hr (energy in a gallon of gas) over 1 mile and you'll get the equivalent miles per gallon. this works for any non-gasoline vehicle. ethanol, methanol, liquid natural gas, electric cars, bicycles, etc.
i don't really get that. a window air conditioner draws less than 1500W (about the maximum you want to pull from a 15A household circuit, leaving a safety margin). that's just less than 2HP. the system needed in a car could be significantly smaller, given the smaller volume of air that needs cooling (OTOH, some of the newer SUVs might have a larger air volume than some apartments), so it would seem fairly small compared to the load of the rest of the car, unless my thinking for the car load is off by a lot.
a gallon of gas has a fixed amount of energy in it (~60kw-hr or 216MJ), thus miles per gallon equivalent can be calculated for anything, using the distance and energy use. this will work for ethanol, methanol, lng, electric cars, bicycles, etc.
i think he's referring to "industry curve" as the software industry. basically, what software developers are making vs. what software major businesses are using.
i'd say his lead time is a bit off (i'd cut that to maybe 5 or 7 years), but the concept holds that major businesses are slow to change to the new latest-and-greatest software. i'm sure there are still places transitioning to XP still.
What sane entity will actually choose a standard with such a convoluted, incomprehensible definition as OOXML? your prediction rests on the assumption that "governments"="sane entities". i see minimal evidence to support this assumption.
even though my country (canada) voted against it, i'll still remain wary on this front.
likely as pesticide residue is easier to wash off than bacteria, fungi, etc. the e. coli out in organic produce (spinach, IIRC) awhile ago points to this.
partially correct. patents, depending on type, can be 20, 17, or 14 years, with maintenance fees due 3 1/2, 7 1/2, and 11 1/2 years after issue, though if you think monsanto is going to let those patents expire early by not paying the fees (a few thousand collectively), you're out of your mind.
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every wireless router i've seen in the past year is secured by default with at least WEP.
yes, WEP is ludicrously broken, but it serves the practical purpose of a fence with a "no trespassing" sign nailed on it. sure, someone who wants to can discover the key within minutes, just as they could ignore the sign and step over the fence, but at that point, they know i don't want them there, and it becomes straight-forward trespassing IMO.
likely they're modding it insightful as funny doesn't give karma.
it's variable. it's 4GB total minus some other stuff, most prominently video ram, so if you have a 512MB videocard, you'll be able to use about 3.5GB.
i'm sure "JoeBidenHavingSexWithPreteenboys.mpg" would attract more interest. maybe we can get him to resign before people clue in.
tor doesn't work real great for P2P. I2P works significantly better.
yes, but that's making the (unreasonable, IMO) assumption that the machines will be in use at an average power of 103W 24 hours a day.
doing some basic numbers:
on my workout, i do 60 minutes at 103W, so 0.1KWhr. that the local rates, that's about 0.6 cents worth of electricity. assuming there's someone who is doing that all day every day, that's about 14 cents per day.
i do not think that is financially feasible.
while i agree with promoting linux (i've had my aunt using xubuntu for nearly a year now and she loves it), "ends security patches in the near future" is a bit overboard. security patches will continue though the extended support phase, which will start in 2009 and continue until at least 2014.
not exactly nationalized as it's not national. provincialized. ;)
yeah, we've got shaw competing on cable (providing TV, internet, and VOIP phone), access using leased lines (providing IPTV, internet and VOIP phone), a dozen or so mom&pop ISPs leasing lines for just internet, along with wireless ISPs (xplorenet, and some other guys in the cities, along with sasktel's wireless (which i use myself, as i'm far out of reasonable DSL or cable range.)) and satellite for TV.
there's just a fantastic amount of competition for TV, internet, and phone, which is exactly as it should be in a successful free market. just enough regulation to provide for competition.
possibly the fact that a massive amount of cabling, not to mention the labour required to place them, costs a lot of money? not to mention the fact that some of that cabling would have to go through privately owned land, so barring some level of government using eminent domain, it would require them to negotiate right-of-way with all the land owners.
the start up costs of having to create your own infrastructure are immense, and there is no way in hell you would be able to profitably compete with someone who already has an existing infrastructure that they're already paid off.
not nationalized, but Sasktel does a fine job of managing the lines here, and provide good service IMO, though if you don't like them, there are lots of other options available.
at the sibling post, i don't believe sasktel has had a strike since 1996.
unless we're using different definitions of "mile", ADSL should reach that far just fine. 1 1/2 miles is 7920 feet. ADSL has a maximum range of 18,000 feet and a full-service range of 9000 feet. so you shoudln't have any problem with that, barring the phone lines being rusty barbed wire or something.
but grits would jam the gears!
yes, but the thing is everyone knows what a mile per gallon is (or a kilometer per litre, or whatever equivilant local units of distance and volume.). you can see a 1-gallon bucket and know how much that is. you can walk a mile and know how far that is.
try measuring a pound of CO2 in a similarly practical manner. you're not going to get the point across, as that measurement is completely abstract to most people.
at some future point, education will be able to deabstractize that pounds-of-CO2-per-(time/distance) enough that it will make sense to most people, but in the meantime, let's use a transition unit that makes sense to the general population, as it will very likely be significantly more effective than throwing meaningless numbers at them.
figure out the energy use over distance and ratio it to 216MJ or 60kw-hr (energy in a gallon of gas) over 1 mile and you'll get the equivalent miles per gallon. this works for any non-gasoline vehicle. ethanol, methanol, liquid natural gas, electric cars, bicycles, etc.
i don't really get that. a window air conditioner draws less than 1500W (about the maximum you want to pull from a 15A household circuit, leaving a safety margin). that's just less than 2HP. the system needed in a car could be significantly smaller, given the smaller volume of air that needs cooling (OTOH, some of the newer SUVs might have a larger air volume than some apartments), so it would seem fairly small compared to the load of the rest of the car, unless my thinking for the car load is off by a lot.
measure in MPGe.
a gallon of gas has a fixed amount of energy in it (~60kw-hr or 216MJ), thus miles per gallon equivalent can be calculated for anything, using the distance and energy use. this will work for ethanol, methanol, lng, electric cars, bicycles, etc.
i think he's referring to "industry curve" as the software industry. basically, what software developers are making vs. what software major businesses are using.
i'd say his lead time is a bit off (i'd cut that to maybe 5 or 7 years), but the concept holds that major businesses are slow to change to the new latest-and-greatest software. i'm sure there are still places transitioning to XP still.
even though my country (canada) voted against it, i'll still remain wary on this front.
as do i. stupid hyperbole doesn't help anything.
likely as pesticide residue is easier to wash off than bacteria, fungi, etc. the e. coli out in organic produce (spinach, IIRC) awhile ago points to this.
partially correct. patents, depending on type, can be 20, 17, or 14 years, with maintenance fees due 3 1/2, 7 1/2, and 11 1/2 years after issue, though if you think monsanto is going to let those patents expire early by not paying the fees (a few thousand collectively), you're out of your mind.