Oh please, 45F is not far from the freezing point of water which is 32F, and 45K is a temperature you would have a hard time getting to with most cryogents if you even could. It's undoubtedly 45C, which is a pretty normal temperature for a chip.
Really? 'Cos I could have sworn it was just around 2001/2002 when even the best video cards still cost less than $400 and I could crank Deus Ex or ST:Voyager Elite Force up to max settings on a GeForce 4 and get playable framerates. Now I have an ATI X1600 Pro and BF2 runs at a crawl on all but the lowest settings, and it doesn't even look that pretty.
I have an athlon 64 3800+ with SLI 7800GT's, XFi etc etc
And just doing a quick back-of-the-envelope, that rig probably cost you well over $3000. That's a heck of a lot of money to spend and still have Oblivion 'grind to a halt' at max settings. Today's gaming market has just gotten ridiculous. What ever happened to the days when you could get good performance from the latest games on only $1000-$2000 worth of hardware?
Not the first terrible analogy I've seen reading all this, but it's still pretty ridiculous. First off, the analogy fails because the girl is in no way her father's property, and she is fully within her right to consent to 'second base' activities taking place on her own boobs.
However it fails even more because it's not a proper comparison. In the case of login credentials issued by an employer, the employee is obligated, at least ethically but also likely legally and possibly contractually, to safeguard that information and not give it to unauthorized third parties.
I realize you're probably at least in part groping (pun intended) to make an analogy involving boobies. While in general I applaud this, I still have to point out how it's flawed.
Yeah, it's possible they could do that, the reason they likely won't is because it's under their political radar. Music downloading is not one of the big issues here in Canada at the moment. They'll be more interested in getting their tax cuts through and trying to reverse the gay marriage bill (regressive idiots). Whatsmore, politicians aren't quite as suceptible to influence by corporate interests here as they are in the U.S. I'm not saying they're totally resistant to it, but they're certainly less of corporate panderers.
Lastly is the whole problem that they're a minority government. For those that don't know what this means, basically the collective numbers of the opposition party members in Parliament are greater than those of the government. If the opposition parties defeat the government on any major piece of legislation, it leads to a vote of non-confidence in the government and subsequently an election. The last Liberal government was a minority too, and this is why we had an election after only two years with them in power. As a minority, the Conservatives have to tiptoe around all the opposition parties and basically not do anything that would piss anyone off.
And it's not a weapon provided you aren't allowed to carry the ammo to school along with it (i.e. it's stored somewhere else and taken out only when it's going to be used for the proper purposes).
Well, my question was more hypothetical than anything. I was talking about kernel updates, though, which I know for a fact always require reboots on Linux. The way I see it, Windows is under constant security siege, and I was posing the question that if Linux's security were under that same siege, so that monthly kernel updates were necessary for safe operation, would it not then need reboots that frequently as well?
But then the question is do they have legitimate reasons for doing things like browsing Google Groups? A friend of mine works for RBC Royal Bank as a personal banking manager. Their network is so restricted, he can't access Hotmail.
Yet why does he need to access Hotmail from his work computer? Besides, he can just access it from his Treo, on which he has an unlimited data plan. I don't see that as onerous security, and neither does he. They're a bank for goodness sake! They have very good reasons for locking their network down tight as a drum and restricting both what goes out and comes in. Good reasons like keeping their customers' financial information safe.
Oddly enough, I'm going to be replying to your sig, but in this case it's actually rather on topic.
If enough virus writers made viruses for Linux security vulnerabilities frequently enough that it necessitated monthly or even bi-weekly kernel updates, would not the statement about Windows in your sig then apply to Linux?
I'll do one better. The best rough estimate I could find of the power transferred from the Sun to the Earth was here (link). According to that we receive about 1.7x10^17 W from the Sun. Since Watts are Joules per second, we can do a little math and find that the energy total for a year comes to around 5.4x10^24 J/year. Now, the best estimate I could find for total worldwide energy consumption (link) puts us at around 5.418x10^20 J/year.
What does this mean? It means the Earth receives each year from the sun, approximately ten-thousand (10000) times the energy that we consume. What this in turn means is that the sum of our methods for capturing this energy and putting it to use needs only to achieve 0.1% efficiency.
If you're going to be proclaiming something as grandiose as the statement that the sun cannot possibly deliver enough energy to earth to meet our needs, then you really should have something better to back it up. Furthermore if you're talking about something at a global scale, you should analyze it at a global scale, not a unit scale.
I'm sorry for this, I just can't resist.
Does your flame retardant suit also make you look like a bigger retard?
Did you ever stop to consider why the various types of insect wings look like derivative works of one another? Even if you did, I'll bet you just assumed God was trying to shake things up a bit and introduce some variety. That's all well and good, for you perhaps.
However the well observed, testable, and reproducible process of natural selection tells us that a myriad of different types of insect wings could have appeared over the course of history, but the various types of wings we see in insects living today were the ones that were the most successful in helping their owners to survive and reproduce. Failures in this evolutionary 'wing engineering' process would have a tendency to die out since the inability to fly well or at all can have a pretty negative impact on an insect's chances.
In parting, I'd like to ask, what's a steal bird? Is it a bird that steals things or a trained bird used by thieves to conduct heists? I suppose it's possible you meant 'steel birds', as in an airplane made of steel. Even if that was what you meant I can't imagine a 'steel bird' flying very well as it would be pretty damn heavy. Too bad you're too dumb to know that practically all airplanes are made of aluminum.
Do your worst, mods, you can't possibly ruin the fun I've had writing this.
Well, you see, evolution by natural selection is driven by just that - natural selection. 'New features' in living things are understood to come from genetic mutations, which in turn are understood to be caused by various environmental factors.
It therefore stands to reason that some traits may spring up from mutations but will in no way be selected for as they will not give a creature any advantage or disadvantage in its ability to survive and reproduce. A great example of this would be eye colour, which as far as we know is entirely cosmetic and doesn't affect our vision whatsoever.
What I'm getting at here is that science states that the process of change in evolution is driven by mutation, and can explain what causes these mutations. The idea that changes in organisms are made by a God of some sort rejects these scientific explanations for those changes and this places it squarely in the 'faith' department.
The thing is the sun dumps a lot (and I mean a LOT) of energy on the earth, and a huge chunk of that solar energy shines right onto the oceans since they cover ~70% of the earth's surface. So in this way the oceans act as massive solar collectors. It's well understood that there are massive amounts of untapped energy going to and churning around in the oceans, possibly more energy than we could ever conceivably need. What's very much worth considering, however, is how to tap that energy on an industrial scale with little or no environmental and ecological damage.
On the plus side at least nowadays we consider the environmental impact of large scale use of an energy source before wide implementation of it. We didn't always do that first.
You're right, this does have zero emissions in terms of greenhouse gasses, and the production of clean, fresh water as a result of condensation is quite useful.
However, as an article that's linked to by the original article notes, there may be consequences that would arise from dumping heat into cold water over the long term. The environmental impacts that can cause some real problems are often the unexpected ones. After all, climate change as a result of global warming wasn't really forseen at the start of the industrial revolution when we started burning a lot of fossil fuels. At that time it would have been basically assumed that the atmosphere was vast enough to hold a virtually unlimited amount of emissions, just as with this process it is being assumed that the deep water can hold a virtually unlimited amount of additional heat.
Not to nitpick too much, but you missed the fact that chemosynthetic lifeforms are in fact living on geothermal energy. Extremophiles are generally found around undersea volcanic vents or similar geothermally active sites and are living off hot chemicals present there.
PA's readership is large enough that they are able to themselves wield something of a/. effect. It would appear that only being hit by massive traffic from two large tech news sites will make their server start to sweat, and even then only just.
I can't pass judgement without knowing how you did your calculations, but there seem to be some issues with the orders of magnitude you're dealing with. Perhaps you should check them.
Contrary to whatever you may believe, Canada and the UK are not one and the same. That law in the UK does not apply here in Canada.
Yes, it would really suck if we had both laws on the books, but there is nothing even on the horizon that would similarly compel people to give up their passphrases like that here in Canada.
You're missing the point entirely. Conservation is not about maintaining the health of the planet it is about maintaining biodiversity.
Humans aren't just another species on the planet. If we were just like any other, we'd still be naked apes. What sets us apart is that we have the intellect to find ways to alter our environment to suit us, by say, building cities. However with this comes the fact that when we alter an area to suit us, we essentially destroy whatever that area used to be, and if it was a limited area of habitat in which some isolated species lived, bye bye to that species. The more this happens, the more the biodiversity of the planet suffers, and if it goes on too long, the plethora of species inhabiting our planet has been reduced to a sorry handful.
Whenever a species is wiped out, everything that made it special, unique, and beautiful is gone forever. Whatsmore, the link it formed in the endlessly complex chain that is the ecosystem is broken. There is no question that the extinction of a species at our hands is detrimental to the ecology of the planet.
What we can tell about a system as large as the earth is when our actions are causing problems. Immediate examples of this are pollution, ozone depletion, climate change, and habitat destruction, to name a few. With our ability to alter the environment should come a responsibility not to screw it up.
If Microsoft were to port Windows to Linux in a similar way as Macintosh kinda ported MacOS to BSD, now that would be a very cool "OS"
Do you mean if they actually supported the WINE project, or even more unlikely, created a WINE themselves? That would be fantastic, but I think the entire executive team at Microsoft would have to be hit by lightning before that would happen. As it stands they actually actively try to screw over projects like WINE, as well as Linux support for NTFS and to a lesser degree, Samba.
Of course you can live without one. British statutes grant and protect all the same rights that most constitutions do, they just aren't all formalized into a single fancy document.
One of those rights is the right of silence. If when someone's arrested they don't have to answer any of the questions the police ask them, why the flying fuck should they have to give them their encryption keys?
I think they just level an acre of processors at it and break it like the Hulk breaking a twig, which honestly is what should be done in such situations. After all, if I have physical evidence stored in a vault, are they going to compel me with the threat of jailtime to open it for them? Why bother when they can just open it with explosives. Besides the UK constitution surely must have provisions protecting against forces self-incrimination.
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Oh please, 45F is not far from the freezing point of water which is 32F, and 45K is a temperature you would have a hard time getting to with most cryogents if you even could. It's undoubtedly 45C, which is a pretty normal temperature for a chip.
Really? 'Cos I could have sworn it was just around 2001/2002 when even the best video cards still cost less than $400 and I could crank Deus Ex or ST:Voyager Elite Force up to max settings on a GeForce 4 and get playable framerates. Now I have an ATI X1600 Pro and BF2 runs at a crawl on all but the lowest settings, and it doesn't even look that pretty.
And just doing a quick back-of-the-envelope, that rig probably cost you well over $3000. That's a heck of a lot of money to spend and still have Oblivion 'grind to a halt' at max settings. Today's gaming market has just gotten ridiculous. What ever happened to the days when you could get good performance from the latest games on only $1000-$2000 worth of hardware?
Not the first terrible analogy I've seen reading all this, but it's still pretty ridiculous. First off, the analogy fails because the girl is in no way her father's property, and she is fully within her right to consent to 'second base' activities taking place on her own boobs.
However it fails even more because it's not a proper comparison. In the case of login credentials issued by an employer, the employee is obligated, at least ethically but also likely legally and possibly contractually, to safeguard that information and not give it to unauthorized third parties.
I realize you're probably at least in part groping (pun intended) to make an analogy involving boobies. While in general I applaud this, I still have to point out how it's flawed.
Yeah, it's possible they could do that, the reason they likely won't is because it's under their political radar. Music downloading is not one of the big issues here in Canada at the moment. They'll be more interested in getting their tax cuts through and trying to reverse the gay marriage bill (regressive idiots). Whatsmore, politicians aren't quite as suceptible to influence by corporate interests here as they are in the U.S. I'm not saying they're totally resistant to it, but they're certainly less of corporate panderers.
Lastly is the whole problem that they're a minority government. For those that don't know what this means, basically the collective numbers of the opposition party members in Parliament are greater than those of the government. If the opposition parties defeat the government on any major piece of legislation, it leads to a vote of non-confidence in the government and subsequently an election. The last Liberal government was a minority too, and this is why we had an election after only two years with them in power. As a minority, the Conservatives have to tiptoe around all the opposition parties and basically not do anything that would piss anyone off.
And it's not a weapon provided you aren't allowed to carry the ammo to school along with it (i.e. it's stored somewhere else and taken out only when it's going to be used for the proper purposes).
Well, my question was more hypothetical than anything. I was talking about kernel updates, though, which I know for a fact always require reboots on Linux. The way I see it, Windows is under constant security siege, and I was posing the question that if Linux's security were under that same siege, so that monthly kernel updates were necessary for safe operation, would it not then need reboots that frequently as well?
But then the question is do they have legitimate reasons for doing things like browsing Google Groups? A friend of mine works for RBC Royal Bank as a personal banking manager. Their network is so restricted, he can't access Hotmail.
Yet why does he need to access Hotmail from his work computer? Besides, he can just access it from his Treo, on which he has an unlimited data plan. I don't see that as onerous security, and neither does he. They're a bank for goodness sake! They have very good reasons for locking their network down tight as a drum and restricting both what goes out and comes in. Good reasons like keeping their customers' financial information safe.
Oddly enough, I'm going to be replying to your sig, but in this case it's actually rather on topic.
If enough virus writers made viruses for Linux security vulnerabilities frequently enough that it necessitated monthly or even bi-weekly kernel updates, would not the statement about Windows in your sig then apply to Linux?
I'll do one better. The best rough estimate I could find of the power transferred from the Sun to the Earth was here (link). According to that we receive about 1.7x10^17 W from the Sun. Since Watts are Joules per second, we can do a little math and find that the energy total for a year comes to around 5.4x10^24 J/year. Now, the best estimate I could find for total worldwide energy consumption (link) puts us at around 5.418x10^20 J/year.
What does this mean? It means the Earth receives each year from the sun, approximately ten-thousand (10000) times the energy that we consume. What this in turn means is that the sum of our methods for capturing this energy and putting it to use needs only to achieve 0.1% efficiency.
If you're going to be proclaiming something as grandiose as the statement that the sun cannot possibly deliver enough energy to earth to meet our needs, then you really should have something better to back it up. Furthermore if you're talking about something at a global scale, you should analyze it at a global scale, not a unit scale.
I'm sorry for this, I just can't resist. Does your flame retardant suit also make you look like a bigger retard? Did you ever stop to consider why the various types of insect wings look like derivative works of one another? Even if you did, I'll bet you just assumed God was trying to shake things up a bit and introduce some variety. That's all well and good, for you perhaps. However the well observed, testable, and reproducible process of natural selection tells us that a myriad of different types of insect wings could have appeared over the course of history, but the various types of wings we see in insects living today were the ones that were the most successful in helping their owners to survive and reproduce. Failures in this evolutionary 'wing engineering' process would have a tendency to die out since the inability to fly well or at all can have a pretty negative impact on an insect's chances. In parting, I'd like to ask, what's a steal bird? Is it a bird that steals things or a trained bird used by thieves to conduct heists? I suppose it's possible you meant 'steel birds', as in an airplane made of steel. Even if that was what you meant I can't imagine a 'steel bird' flying very well as it would be pretty damn heavy. Too bad you're too dumb to know that practically all airplanes are made of aluminum. Do your worst, mods, you can't possibly ruin the fun I've had writing this.
Well, you see, evolution by natural selection is driven by just that - natural selection. 'New features' in living things are understood to come from genetic mutations, which in turn are understood to be caused by various environmental factors.
It therefore stands to reason that some traits may spring up from mutations but will in no way be selected for as they will not give a creature any advantage or disadvantage in its ability to survive and reproduce. A great example of this would be eye colour, which as far as we know is entirely cosmetic and doesn't affect our vision whatsoever.
What I'm getting at here is that science states that the process of change in evolution is driven by mutation, and can explain what causes these mutations. The idea that changes in organisms are made by a God of some sort rejects these scientific explanations for those changes and this places it squarely in the 'faith' department.
Actually, I think the Earth is an open system by definition in terms of energy. It has an input (the Sun) and an output (space).
I could be misremembering the definition of open and closed systems, but I think a better example of a closed system is atmospheric gasses.
Would that be Oklahoma where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain?
The thing is the sun dumps a lot (and I mean a LOT) of energy on the earth, and a huge chunk of that solar energy shines right onto the oceans since they cover ~70% of the earth's surface. So in this way the oceans act as massive solar collectors. It's well understood that there are massive amounts of untapped energy going to and churning around in the oceans, possibly more energy than we could ever conceivably need. What's very much worth considering, however, is how to tap that energy on an industrial scale with little or no environmental and ecological damage.
On the plus side at least nowadays we consider the environmental impact of large scale use of an energy source before wide implementation of it. We didn't always do that first.
You're right, this does have zero emissions in terms of greenhouse gasses, and the production of clean, fresh water as a result of condensation is quite useful. However, as an article that's linked to by the original article notes, there may be consequences that would arise from dumping heat into cold water over the long term. The environmental impacts that can cause some real problems are often the unexpected ones. After all, climate change as a result of global warming wasn't really forseen at the start of the industrial revolution when we started burning a lot of fossil fuels. At that time it would have been basically assumed that the atmosphere was vast enough to hold a virtually unlimited amount of emissions, just as with this process it is being assumed that the deep water can hold a virtually unlimited amount of additional heat.
Not to nitpick too much, but you missed the fact that chemosynthetic lifeforms are in fact living on geothermal energy. Extremophiles are generally found around undersea volcanic vents or similar geothermally active sites and are living off hot chemicals present there.
PA's readership is large enough that they are able to themselves wield something of a /. effect. It would appear that only being hit by massive traffic from two large tech news sites will make their server start to sweat, and even then only just.
Oops, guess I should have checked mine too. That should be:
365(days/year) * 0.001(downtime) * 24(hours/day) = 8.76(hours of downtime/year)
Hmm...
365(days/year) * 0.999 * 24(hours/day) = 8.76(hours/year)
I can't pass judgement without knowing how you did your calculations, but there seem to be some issues with the orders of magnitude you're dealing with. Perhaps you should check them.
Oh for pete's sake. Wrong country.
Contrary to whatever you may believe, Canada and the UK are not one and the same. That law in the UK does not apply here in Canada.
Yes, it would really suck if we had both laws on the books, but there is nothing even on the horizon that would similarly compel people to give up their passphrases like that here in Canada.
You're missing the point entirely. Conservation is not about maintaining the health of the planet it is about maintaining biodiversity. Humans aren't just another species on the planet. If we were just like any other, we'd still be naked apes. What sets us apart is that we have the intellect to find ways to alter our environment to suit us, by say, building cities. However with this comes the fact that when we alter an area to suit us, we essentially destroy whatever that area used to be, and if it was a limited area of habitat in which some isolated species lived, bye bye to that species. The more this happens, the more the biodiversity of the planet suffers, and if it goes on too long, the plethora of species inhabiting our planet has been reduced to a sorry handful. Whenever a species is wiped out, everything that made it special, unique, and beautiful is gone forever. Whatsmore, the link it formed in the endlessly complex chain that is the ecosystem is broken. There is no question that the extinction of a species at our hands is detrimental to the ecology of the planet. What we can tell about a system as large as the earth is when our actions are causing problems. Immediate examples of this are pollution, ozone depletion, climate change, and habitat destruction, to name a few. With our ability to alter the environment should come a responsibility not to screw it up.
Do you mean if they actually supported the WINE project, or even more unlikely, created a WINE themselves? That would be fantastic, but I think the entire executive team at Microsoft would have to be hit by lightning before that would happen. As it stands they actually actively try to screw over projects like WINE, as well as Linux support for NTFS and to a lesser degree, Samba.
Of course you can live without one. British statutes grant and protect all the same rights that most constitutions do, they just aren't all formalized into a single fancy document.
One of those rights is the right of silence. If when someone's arrested they don't have to answer any of the questions the police ask them, why the flying fuck should they have to give them their encryption keys?
Standard IANAL disclaimer applies.
I think they just level an acre of processors at it and break it like the Hulk breaking a twig, which honestly is what should be done in such situations. After all, if I have physical evidence stored in a vault, are they going to compel me with the threat of jailtime to open it for them? Why bother when they can just open it with explosives. Besides the UK constitution surely must have provisions protecting against forces self-incrimination.