How many cases have you heard of where some random person, on trying to do the right thing, finds himself tasered/sprayed, cuffed, tossed in a cell overnight, and charged with some absurd law simply for making himself available for the police to take their frustrations out on
No I don't expect that would happen to me if I called the police in my home state but I accept that YMMV.
But only if we insist on fast charging at any time of day. And that requirement is a hang over from the way we manage petrol powered cars. Once we get used to plugging the car in when we are home (which is most of the time for most people) and charging slowly, then the load on the network should be less of an issue. Negotiation between the supply and the load will help as well.
In fact I see little use for fast charging, except as an excuse to keep petrol (gas) stations in business. I plug my phone, laptop and music player in at night and I would be fine doing that with a car. The post I responded to discussed fast charging and ways to make that safe for normal people to use. I took that to be discussing charging in the home.
Personally I think we will see most urban commuters charging overnight at home, and some in high rise car parks. For long highway trips petrol stations on highways will evolve into places where people can amuse themselves for an hour or two and the fast charging mode will be supported. They will probably have their own electricity substations to deliver high power.
But how are you going to distribute the power? My house gets 100A at 250V so thats 25000 watts. I doubt the cable in the street can supply that to each house at the same time (car charging time) when the electric stoves are cooking dinner as well. For 100kw we need four times that so at best we need to double the diameter of every cable running along every street and push back higher peak current requirements into the distribution system as well.
I think we are going to need to charge more for high current delivery on top of high energy delivery to encourage slow overnight charging, otherwise the networks and generators won't be able to cope with the demand.
Exactly how it got into the organism, by horizontal gene transfer. If we assume it got in by using a retrovirus as a vector, it can get out the same way. The idea process would be to jump from an older host in poor condition to a younger host in better condition.
With cars being so generic these days I wonder if there is a market for "eccentric" or "different" cars? The problem of course is doing it in sufficent numbers to be economic, but computerized logistics and crowd sourced marketing may make a difference.
This isn't nerdy at all... Have Slashdotters turned into bankers?
Just stick around for a while. Somebody will come up with a good car analogy to explain all of this to you.
Yeah its like if you make a front drive car but with a longitudinal engine so the front overhang is 1/3rd the length of the body and then you sell it to people who like using the brakes....
Agreed so lets narrow the question: could humans who engage in activities which encourage the exchange of viruses be exchanging genes at the same time?
I can't read the article without registering but I wonder if homosexual behavior could be causing horizontal gene transfer in humans, possibly using viruses as a transport mechanism.
[Conrad - "Between Sharp and Halo, on the long run. We were loping across there and, all of a sudden you said, 'Something funny happened to my suit'."]
[Bean - "Sure did. I remember that."]
[Conrad - "Or pressure. You said something. And, you know, I'm looking. I didn't want to see you disappear like a balloon."]
My sympathies are with the dead child. Sorry but thats how I see it. If this woman was locked away for her actions I would be safer as a result. If she is so traumatized that she never leaves her house, then I will be safer. I am just not a fan of "forgive and forget".
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Unwilling to call the cops?
Yes.
How many cases have you heard of where some random person, on trying to do the right thing, finds himself
tasered/sprayed, cuffed, tossed in a cell overnight, and charged with some absurd law simply for making
himself available for the police to take their frustrations out on
No I don't expect that would happen to me if I called the police in my home state but I accept that YMMV.
it's the litigiousness of society that makes people unwilling to get involved.
Unwilling to call the cops?
curiously my laptop started playing "Daisy"
Were you pulling modules out of it at the time? If so why? Did it try to suffocate you?
I see a lot more than that.
And he has a think geek link to encourage /. to run the story.
But how do you securely distribute the pad? Even air transport is not secure these days, unless you have diplomatic immunity against searches.
I don't have any security at all on my wireless network but any traffic I want to protect goes through ssh on all the networks I want to use.
Okay great but why won't my wife's macbook pro mount my ext3 backup disk? There are ext[23] drivers in netbsd and freebsd for the taking.
Another great reason not to use twitter!
How about chess playing software? Doesn't it experiment and explore possibilities?
But only if we insist on fast charging at any time of day. And that requirement is a hang over from the way we manage petrol powered cars. Once we get used to plugging the car in when we are home (which is most of the time for most people) and charging slowly, then the load on the network should be less of an issue. Negotiation between the supply and the load will help as well.
In fact I see little use for fast charging, except as an excuse to keep petrol (gas) stations in business. I plug my phone, laptop and music player in at night and I would be fine doing that with a car. The post I responded to discussed fast charging and ways to make that safe for normal people to use. I took that to be discussing charging in the home.
Personally I think we will see most urban commuters charging overnight at home, and some in high rise car parks. For long highway trips petrol stations on highways will evolve into places where people can amuse themselves for an hour or two and the fast charging mode will be supported. They will probably have their own electricity substations to deliver high power.
But how are you going to distribute the power? My house gets 100A at 250V so thats 25000 watts. I doubt the cable in the street can supply that to each house at the same time (car charging time) when the electric stoves are cooking dinner as well. For 100kw we need four times that so at best we need to double the diameter of every cable running along every street and push back higher peak current requirements into the distribution system as well.
I think we are going to need to charge more for high current delivery on top of high energy delivery to encourage slow overnight charging, otherwise the networks and generators won't be able to cope with the demand.
I rather have Apple kill Flash. Flash is a piece of shit. HTML5 is the future.
For what? Writing games? What happened to write once run anywhere? Or do we want job creation for application developers?
My eeepc 701 plays my "flash movie collection" just fine.
Exactly how it got into the organism, by horizontal gene transfer. If we assume it got in by using a retrovirus as a vector, it can get out the same way. The idea process would be to jump from an older host in poor condition to a younger host in better condition.
With cars being so generic these days I wonder if there is a market for "eccentric" or "different" cars? The problem of course is doing it in sufficent numbers to be economic, but computerized logistics and crowd sourced marketing may make a difference.
Just stick around for a while. Somebody will come up with a good car analogy to explain all of this to you.
Yeah its like if you make a front drive car but with a longitudinal engine so the front overhang is 1/3rd the length of the body and then you sell it to people who like using the brakes....
If the Russian Mafia are upset with them the Antonovs may actually be good guys.
But what if the acquired gene has a later opportunity to jump ship? It may not need a working reproductive system.
Agreed so lets narrow the question: could humans who engage in activities which encourage the exchange of viruses be exchanging genes at the same time?
I can't read the article without registering but I wonder if homosexual behavior could be causing horizontal gene transfer in humans, possibly using viruses as a transport mechanism.
Realistically, with two broken wheels Spirit wasn't going to drive very far even if it wasn't bogged.
Especially when Conrad was involved.
[Conrad - "Between Sharp and Halo, on the long run. We were loping across there and, all of a sudden you said, 'Something funny happened to my suit'."]
[Bean - "Sure did. I remember that."]
[Conrad - "Or pressure. You said something. And, you know, I'm looking. I didn't want to see you disappear like a balloon."]
[Bean - "(Laughing) You wanted to say good-bye."]
My sympathies are with the dead child. Sorry but thats how I see it. If this woman was locked away for her actions I would be safer as a result. If she is so traumatized that she never leaves her house, then I will be safer. I am just not a fan of "forgive and forget".