What about a user downloadable "Definition Update" for the Antiphishing engine similar to what scanning engines in Norton, McAfee, AVG, Ad-Aware, SS&D, etc.. do?
ABSOLUTELY! I formatted Vista from my newish Dell Inspiron 6400 Notebook and promptly installed one of these babies from Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Windows-XP-Professional-Dell-Reinstallation-CD_W0QQitemZ300153643573
HINT: Just get any Dell 25-Digit COA key (for your particular Dell XP OEM version) from another Dell PC COA sticker,...Uh, I Mean, Ahem.... ""which YOU DO OWN and are not using while running *nix"".
It also works nicely when you can find Dell bulk motherboards to build Frankenstein boxes out of as the Dell XP OEM reinstallation disks only work with Dell BIOS motherboards. (Uh, Yah... Using COA Stickers form other Boxes which you ALSO OWN...) As if Microsoft Genuine Advantage would make Dell OEM COA Keys invalid!
Strange, I just posted this earlier today! : http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=305523&cid=20712265
As an Oklahoma resident, feel lucky if you even get DSL. Until Real Competition occurs, there will be no decent high-speed Internet in most areas outside medium cities. If a small town/rural Oklahoma region has even slow DSL, it is probably because the Law States they must have it order to be the telco monopoly in that area, etc... Though the phone company may claim service is available in my RURAL area, bridge-taps galore and 1970's equipment/wiring make this a non-reality. So.... I got a HAM Radio license, Bought 2 towers and 2 TR-6000 radios (http://www.tranzeo.com/products/radios/TR-6000-Series) with 2 high-gain directional dish antennas and 2 bi-directional amplifiers. Thanks to a strategically purchased rental property IN TOWN ON A HILL, I bridge the connection from its DSL to my home. Normally, the Amps are extreme overkill, but I live in the middle of the Greenbelt of Oklahoma (think dense 30-40ft. Oak Trees) and the Fresnel Zones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_zone) are a real bitch with tree leaves. Works like a champ. Why not Satellite, AWFUL Latency and VERY HIGH Prices!
As an Oklahoma resident, feel lucky if you even get DSL. Until Real Competition occurs, there will be no decent high-speed Internet in most areas outside medium cities. If a small town/rural Oklahoma region has even slow DSL, it is probably because the Law States they must have it order to be the telco monopoly in that area, etc...
Though the phone company may claim service is available in my RURAL area, bridge-taps galore and 1970's equipment/wiring make this a non-reality.
So.... I got a HAM Radio license, Bought 2 towers and 2 TR-6000 radios (http://www.tranzeo.com/products/radios/TR-6000-Series) with 2 high-gain directional dish antennas and 2 bi-directional amplifiers. Thanks to a strategically purchased rental property IN TOWN ON A HILL, I bridge the connection from its DSL to my home. Normally, the Amps are extreme overkill, but I live in the middle of the Greenbelt of Oklahoma (think dense 30-40ft. Oak Trees) and the Fresnel Zones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_zone) are a real bitch with tree leaves. Works like a champ.
Why not Satellite, AWFUL Latency and VERY HIGH Prices!
It would be interesting to compare the actual power usage between two sets of IDENTICAL test systems, one set running Linux and the Intel Optimizations described in the site, and the second set running the equivalent commercial MICROSOFT software (Server 2003, Vista, XP, etc..) running equivalent real-world workloads.... (And I suppose some sort of Linux Anti-Virus software would need to be procured and added to the Linux test systems to make it fair...)
Actually, it was more in protest concerning NEVER having to sign receipts at gas pumps from his check/credit card for some $40 tank of gas but having to sign a receipt or electronic sig to buy a $5 case of Raman Noodles at the grodery store... Signatures were meaningless. Clerks don't check them, and often they are not required to anyway (of if they are, they don't). So what's the point of your ID and signature anyway if they are not always used and verified?
My roommate in college signed everything from his check card for over a year: "Check My ID", or "Bill Gates", or "Bill Clinton" and/or "Jack Meoff" or something funny along those lines. Only got caught at it a few times. LOL
Actually, feathers are made of KERATIN not CHITIN, CHITIN is what exoskeletons of Arthropods like Insects and crustations are made of.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather
"Feathers are among the most complex structural organs found in vertebrates: integumentary appendages, formed by controlled proliferation of cells in the epidermis, or outer skin layer, that produce keratin proteins. The -keratins in feathers, beaks and claws -- and the claws, scales and shells of reptiles -- are composed of protein strands hydrogen-bonded into -pleated sheets, which are then further twisted and crosslinked by disulfide bridges into structures even tougher than the -keratins of mammalian hair, horns and hoof...."
I agree completely.
This is all about selling "property" that is "owned".
How does mankind originally describe "Ownership", that's right, we are talking about LAND.
I work in the Land Business as Professional Landman In Oklahoma, USA (laws vary state-to-state), notably in the Oil and Gas Mineral Ownership portion of the Landman business.
In my line of work, we have tried and true legal documents called "Deeds".
Typically these deeds convey what we affectionately refer to "ARTI" or "All Rights Title and Interest" to whatever is being Deeded, Transferred, Sold, Conveyed, Forever, To all future Heirs, forever and ever and ever and ever, etc... between 2 or more Parties.
Surface Ownership, AKA "REAL Estate" and Mineral Ownership AKA "Land Mineral Rights" are vastly different things.
Surface ownership is described in real world Physical dimensions that a person, as the owner, could take a real string and tie it all around their land plot corner survey markers and have a real geometric shape around their actual land.
Mineral Ownership is described as "undivided" interest that started out as a physical surface land description but has since become split into fractions among many owners bearing the same physical legal land description of the initial whole.
For example, Joe Sr. owns 160 acres of Surface Land and 160 acres of undivided of mineral interest. These would bear the same exact legal description Such as the NW/4 of SectionXX-TownshipXX-RangeXX, where "XX" represents numbers in the Jefferson Land System effectively describing a "Square Mile" or a 640 Acre Square.
Joe Sr. owns 160 acres described as the Northwest Quarter of SectionXX-TownshipXX-RangeXX (640/4=160).
If, He "Deeds" his Son, Joe Jr., 1/2 of his total undivided mineral interest.
Now things are described in NET MINERAL ACRES for the Mineral interest with the same Surface Legal description.
So, Joe Jr. AND Joe Sr. Now both own 80 Acres each of Undivided NET Mineral Interest for a 160 Acre plot described legally as NW/4 of SectionXX-TownshipXX-RangeXX for which Joe Sr. owns 160 Acres of surface ownership.
My point?
For well over a hundred years we here in the USA have had a well-established system for describing actual real property (land surface) and virtual property (mineral interest).
"Ownership" of this virtual and real property is kept track of through legal documents we call "Deeds".
Why cannot Software be "Deeded" to another person for an exchange of Capital or other good considerations just like land or mineral interest?
IT CAN, BUT:
The fact is, SOFTWARE CAN ONLY BE SOLD, IF AND ONLY IF, IT HAS A LEGAL OWNER WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO SELL IT.
We are taking about someone selling a single licensed copy of software.
The Word License gives the whole thing away.
You never hear about Someone selling a "Licensed copy of their House" DuH! You want the DEED to the house.
Here's WHY:
Software is no longer being SOLD to the users... it is being LEASED.
Hence, in my so-succinct analogy, 100% of the Surface and Mineral ownership (Software Physical Media its software Content) is retained by Party A (Software Vendor/Author).
And Anyone using it default agrees to the terms of their LEASE to be using it.
And there are NO SALES Rights granted under the terms of the Lease.
I fully agree with "Neanderthal Ninny (1153369)", however, those rights to sell convey or otherwise were waived as part of the initial EULA.
This is the same as if you Lease/buy a plot of land surface and want to drill an oil well on it...
You do not own the rights to do that.
You must first purchase those mineral rights OR enter into an Oil and Gas Lease with the mineral rights Owner/s thus granting you those rights with plain terms.
Finding out who owns "stuff" keeps food on my table.
The crux of this argument, is that most of us do not "own" ANY of our software, we are LEASING it under the terms of the EULAs.
The same is true for Linux, free use under a license, NOT AN OWNERSHIP DEED of the said software.
This entire argument would be moot if there were not EULAs or Licenses for software because it woul
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Wasn't this the plot to "The Blob"?.... Wait, No, No, that one's still frozen in the Antarctic as a solution... Right?
No, No.. that was "The Thing" that thawed out... Someone should Call Kurt Russell...
IMHO, they may use AUDIO Ads, but that of a different sort could be used... SUBLIMINAL!
What's to keep Google from putting in a SUBLIMINAL audio layer on one or both channels of a Duplex phone call?
You could have perceptually undisturbed digital calling (without having delays in usage in order to listen to the Ads before and/or after useable call time).
Instead, Google could simulcast (in the background) a Subliminal stream layer of audio ads... (Or store them to the phone's memory for playback later)..Of course one must first agree to the use of such Ads in a contact's fine print before use...)
And they could be somewhat transparent with their content and have audible versions of the exact same Ads posted somewhere.
OR Possibly use text versions... insert 5/256 gray scale Ads.
(An idea of barely perceptible Ad banners on the display) text between your SMS test lines.. etc...
Then again, this would soon be hacked by someone it will be mandatory to then get it working on a Linux Beowulf Cluster....
Next thing you know... someone sneaky and clever would call their "Girlfriend" on their Google and insert subliminal suggestions that she really wants to have wicked HOT SEX tonight, er.. I mean "to make love", whatever... you get the idea...
Just some thoughts...
(NOTE: I posted this idea/concept as an AC earlier about 30 min. ago as I was not going to login at work..., don't flame me for it!...)
"...Is this all vapor and breathless journalism about a world-saving new technology, or is it perhaps a brilliant investment strategy?..." -You have my vote that this IS journalism about a NEW technology, not necessarily one that is world-saving at all. If anything, it is a step toward something that is all electric, but we are far from it without a major crisis. -The agricultural and biochemical processes to produce Ethanol or Ethyl Alcohol (CH3-CH2-OH or C2H5OH) from Maize (you call it Corn) is not too clean nor environmentally perfect. Sure it does not require oil refineries, but there is significant production of Carbon Dioxide (CO2)in ways not immediately apparent. -For example, growing corn produces lots of waste (cornstalks, etc..) that rots and releases CO2 and/or methane. The fermentation of the carbohydrates (sugars) in corm by yeasts produces carbon dioxide as well. Additionally, Corn is a C4 metabolism plant and it requires significant irrigation for maximum yields, and irrigation requires the burning of fuels either at the electric plant or rurally to pump out an aquifer to water the crops. Fuels are also needed for the large tractors, combines, and other equipment used to grow the crop. Another important consideration is the significant government subsidies given to grow corn in the US. The market is artificial and controlled, fluctuating with the weather (crop yields), whether a Democrat or Republican votes to adjust the already high corn subsidies (at taxpayer expense), and there is added manpower, use of significant agricultural land for fuel production, etc.. -With modern Oil/Gas production the COSTS are not as high to yield fuels of sufficient energy density (as in how many BTU a gallon of liquid fuel contains..) After all, we are all burning (oxidation) ~something~ to release energy whether it induces electron flow in a fuel cell or releases high pressure gases pushing a turbine or piston to do work. Think about the point. Alcohol fuel cells are really cool, yes. Bet let's not thing this in any case solves the CO2 or wasted resources issues. If it were Hydrogen (H2) produced from electrolysis (electric current through water yielding Hydrogen (H2) and Oxygen (O2) [2(H2O) + electricity = 2(H2) + 1(02)]), and that electricity was from a solar, nuclear, or hydroelectric generation station, then I would say that the use of that Hydrogen in a fuel cell solves much of the CO2 emissions and reduces dependence on oil. But, the use of ANY alcohol means that there is Carbon present in the fuel and you will either produce CO (carbon monoxide) or CO2. The US Space Shuttle uses a pure Hydrogen - Oxygen Fuel Cell yielding only electricity, heat, and water as by products. ANY fuel cell that uses any Carbon in its FUEL other than Oxygen and pure Hydrogen, will release CO or CO2. -In another example, what original starting material do you think was used to make all of those little plastic keys on your keyboard (and nearly any plastics we use today)... that's right, they are made from hydrocarbons (mainly natural gas)? Imagine the world without fossil fuels realizing that everything plastic is from fossil fuel as well as diesel and gas... They are here to say. Besides, we are getting close to time for another Ice Age onset, some added CO2 may push that back a few centuries. -Zymergy
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Remind me to change the combination to my luggage!
I remember Skylab falling from the sky when I was a kid... http://images.barewalls.com/closeup/j8/j8cov1101790716c.jpg So it is looking like the ISS may have the same fate?...
Women Playing MEN Playing Women? How could you tell? And better yet, what about any Hermaphrodites who want to play? Slippery Slope...
Because of the price of Al and Cu, Thieves would steal the "tracks" if they were made of Al or Cu! I know I shouldn't, but I chuckle secretly inside and mentally award Darwin Awards every time someone electrocutes themselves stealing Al and Cu from live power poles. http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&safe=off&q=stealing+copper+aluminum+%2Belectrocuted&btnG=Search
What about a user downloadable "Definition Update" for the Antiphishing engine similar to what scanning engines in Norton, McAfee, AVG, Ad-Aware, SS&D, etc.. do?
ABSOLUTELY! I formatted Vista from my newish Dell Inspiron 6400 Notebook and promptly installed one of these babies from Ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Windows-XP-Professional-Dell-Reinstallation-CD_W0QQitemZ300153643573 HINT: Just get any Dell 25-Digit COA key (for your particular Dell XP OEM version) from another Dell PC COA sticker, ...Uh, I Mean, Ahem.... ""which YOU DO OWN and are not using while running *nix"".
It also works nicely when you can find Dell bulk motherboards to build Frankenstein boxes out of as the Dell XP OEM reinstallation disks only work with Dell BIOS motherboards. (Uh, Yah... Using COA Stickers form other Boxes which you ALSO OWN...) As if Microsoft Genuine Advantage would make Dell OEM COA Keys invalid!
VIDEO PROFESSOR CONFESSOR - video remix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVSUtX79Og0 Here is the Demographic the products are probably aiming for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8bRdUmxWK8
Strange, I just posted this earlier today! : http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=305523&cid=20712265 As an Oklahoma resident, feel lucky if you even get DSL. Until Real Competition occurs, there will be no decent high-speed Internet in most areas outside medium cities. If a small town/rural Oklahoma region has even slow DSL, it is probably because the Law States they must have it order to be the telco monopoly in that area, etc... Though the phone company may claim service is available in my RURAL area, bridge-taps galore and 1970's equipment/wiring make this a non-reality. So.... I got a HAM Radio license, Bought 2 towers and 2 TR-6000 radios (http://www.tranzeo.com/products/radios/TR-6000-Series) with 2 high-gain directional dish antennas and 2 bi-directional amplifiers. Thanks to a strategically purchased rental property IN TOWN ON A HILL, I bridge the connection from its DSL to my home. Normally, the Amps are extreme overkill, but I live in the middle of the Greenbelt of Oklahoma (think dense 30-40ft. Oak Trees) and the Fresnel Zones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_zone) are a real bitch with tree leaves. Works like a champ. Why not Satellite, AWFUL Latency and VERY HIGH Prices!
...All together now! SING! http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/
As an Oklahoma resident, feel lucky if you even get DSL. Until Real Competition occurs, there will be no decent high-speed Internet in most areas outside medium cities. If a small town/rural Oklahoma region has even slow DSL, it is probably because the Law States they must have it order to be the telco monopoly in that area, etc... Though the phone company may claim service is available in my RURAL area, bridge-taps galore and 1970's equipment/wiring make this a non-reality. So.... I got a HAM Radio license, Bought 2 towers and 2 TR-6000 radios (http://www.tranzeo.com/products/radios/TR-6000-Series) with 2 high-gain directional dish antennas and 2 bi-directional amplifiers. Thanks to a strategically purchased rental property IN TOWN ON A HILL, I bridge the connection from its DSL to my home. Normally, the Amps are extreme overkill, but I live in the middle of the Greenbelt of Oklahoma (think dense 30-40ft. Oak Trees) and the Fresnel Zones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_zone) are a real bitch with tree leaves. Works like a champ. Why not Satellite, AWFUL Latency and VERY HIGH Prices!
It would be interesting to compare the actual power usage between two sets of IDENTICAL test systems, one set running Linux and the Intel Optimizations described in the site, and the second set running the equivalent commercial MICROSOFT software (Server 2003, Vista, XP, etc..) running equivalent real-world workloads.... (And I suppose some sort of Linux Anti-Virus software would need to be procured and added to the Linux test systems to make it fair...)
How about a (user) replaceable battery and a high-capacity memory card slot?
Actually, it was more in protest concerning NEVER having to sign receipts at gas pumps from his check/credit card for some $40 tank of gas but having to sign a receipt or electronic sig to buy a $5 case of Raman Noodles at the grodery store... Signatures were meaningless. Clerks don't check them, and often they are not required to anyway (of if they are, they don't). So what's the point of your ID and signature anyway if they are not always used and verified?
My roommate in college signed everything from his check card for over a year: "Check My ID", or "Bill Gates", or "Bill Clinton" and/or "Jack Meoff" or something funny along those lines. Only got caught at it a few times. LOL
Actually, feathers are made of KERATIN not CHITIN, CHITIN is what exoskeletons of Arthropods like Insects and crustations are made of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather "Feathers are among the most complex structural organs found in vertebrates: integumentary appendages, formed by controlled proliferation of cells in the epidermis, or outer skin layer, that produce keratin proteins. The -keratins in feathers, beaks and claws -- and the claws, scales and shells of reptiles -- are composed of protein strands hydrogen-bonded into -pleated sheets, which are then further twisted and crosslinked by disulfide bridges into structures even tougher than the -keratins of mammalian hair, horns and hoof...."
Australian library may catalogue Internet porn http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2221489.stm You may Need to give them a call....
Someone can install a FULL install of Windows Vista!
I agree completely. This is all about selling "property" that is "owned". How does mankind originally describe "Ownership", that's right, we are talking about LAND. I work in the Land Business as Professional Landman In Oklahoma, USA (laws vary state-to-state), notably in the Oil and Gas Mineral Ownership portion of the Landman business. In my line of work, we have tried and true legal documents called "Deeds". Typically these deeds convey what we affectionately refer to "ARTI" or "All Rights Title and Interest" to whatever is being Deeded, Transferred, Sold, Conveyed, Forever, To all future Heirs, forever and ever and ever and ever, etc... between 2 or more Parties. Surface Ownership, AKA "REAL Estate" and Mineral Ownership AKA "Land Mineral Rights" are vastly different things. Surface ownership is described in real world Physical dimensions that a person, as the owner, could take a real string and tie it all around their land plot corner survey markers and have a real geometric shape around their actual land. Mineral Ownership is described as "undivided" interest that started out as a physical surface land description but has since become split into fractions among many owners bearing the same physical legal land description of the initial whole. For example, Joe Sr. owns 160 acres of Surface Land and 160 acres of undivided of mineral interest. These would bear the same exact legal description Such as the NW/4 of SectionXX-TownshipXX-RangeXX, where "XX" represents numbers in the Jefferson Land System effectively describing a "Square Mile" or a 640 Acre Square. Joe Sr. owns 160 acres described as the Northwest Quarter of SectionXX-TownshipXX-RangeXX (640/4=160). If, He "Deeds" his Son, Joe Jr., 1/2 of his total undivided mineral interest. Now things are described in NET MINERAL ACRES for the Mineral interest with the same Surface Legal description. So, Joe Jr. AND Joe Sr. Now both own 80 Acres each of Undivided NET Mineral Interest for a 160 Acre plot described legally as NW/4 of SectionXX-TownshipXX-RangeXX for which Joe Sr. owns 160 Acres of surface ownership. My point? For well over a hundred years we here in the USA have had a well-established system for describing actual real property (land surface) and virtual property (mineral interest). "Ownership" of this virtual and real property is kept track of through legal documents we call "Deeds". Why cannot Software be "Deeded" to another person for an exchange of Capital or other good considerations just like land or mineral interest? IT CAN, BUT: The fact is, SOFTWARE CAN ONLY BE SOLD, IF AND ONLY IF, IT HAS A LEGAL OWNER WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO SELL IT. We are taking about someone selling a single licensed copy of software. The Word License gives the whole thing away. You never hear about Someone selling a "Licensed copy of their House" DuH! You want the DEED to the house. Here's WHY: Software is no longer being SOLD to the users... it is being LEASED. Hence, in my so-succinct analogy, 100% of the Surface and Mineral ownership (Software Physical Media its software Content) is retained by Party A (Software Vendor/Author). And Anyone using it default agrees to the terms of their LEASE to be using it. And there are NO SALES Rights granted under the terms of the Lease. I fully agree with "Neanderthal Ninny (1153369)", however, those rights to sell convey or otherwise were waived as part of the initial EULA. This is the same as if you Lease/buy a plot of land surface and want to drill an oil well on it... You do not own the rights to do that. You must first purchase those mineral rights OR enter into an Oil and Gas Lease with the mineral rights Owner/s thus granting you those rights with plain terms. Finding out who owns "stuff" keeps food on my table. The crux of this argument, is that most of us do not "own" ANY of our software, we are LEASING it under the terms of the EULAs. The same is true for Linux, free use under a license, NOT AN OWNERSHIP DEED of the said software. This entire argument would be moot if there were not EULAs or Licenses for software because it woul
See previous SLASHDOT article: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/24/213256 Also, Valve's Steam Bio-Shock version also installs SecuROM wich you cannot easily uninstall in EITHER version. Need more info? Go here: http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&safe=off&q=Copy+protection+%2BBioShock&btnG=Search
Wasn't this the plot to "The Blob"? .... Wait, No, No, that one's still frozen in the Antarctic as a solution... Right?
No, No.. that was "The Thing" that thawed out... Someone should Call Kurt Russell...
IMHO, they may use AUDIO Ads, but that of a different sort could be used... SUBLIMINAL! What's to keep Google from putting in a SUBLIMINAL audio layer on one or both channels of a Duplex phone call? You could have perceptually undisturbed digital calling (without having delays in usage in order to listen to the Ads before and/or after useable call time). Instead, Google could simulcast (in the background) a Subliminal stream layer of audio ads... (Or store them to the phone's memory for playback later) ..Of course one must first agree to the use of such Ads in a contact's fine print before use...)
And they could be somewhat transparent with their content and have audible versions of the exact same Ads posted somewhere.
OR Possibly use text versions... insert 5/256 gray scale Ads.
(An idea of barely perceptible Ad banners on the display) text between your SMS test lines.. etc...
Then again, this would soon be hacked by someone it will be mandatory to then get it working on a Linux Beowulf Cluster....
Next thing you know... someone sneaky and clever would call their "Girlfriend" on their Google and insert subliminal suggestions that she really wants to have wicked HOT SEX tonight, er.. I mean "to make love", whatever... you get the idea...
Just some thoughts...
(NOTE: I posted this idea/concept as an AC earlier about 30 min. ago as I was not going to login at work..., don't flame me for it!...)
"...Is this all vapor and breathless journalism about a world-saving new technology, or is it perhaps a brilliant investment strategy?..."
-You have my vote that this IS journalism about a NEW technology, not necessarily one that is world-saving at all. If anything, it is a step toward something that is all electric, but we are far from it without a major crisis.
-The agricultural and biochemical processes to produce Ethanol or Ethyl Alcohol (CH3-CH2-OH or C2H5OH) from Maize (you call it Corn) is not too clean nor environmentally perfect. Sure it does not require oil refineries, but there is significant production of Carbon Dioxide (CO2)in ways not immediately apparent.
-For example, growing corn produces lots of waste (cornstalks, etc..) that rots and releases CO2 and/or methane. The fermentation of the carbohydrates (sugars) in corm by yeasts produces carbon dioxide as well. Additionally, Corn is a C4 metabolism plant and it requires significant irrigation for maximum yields, and irrigation requires the burning of fuels either at the electric plant or rurally to pump out an aquifer to water the crops. Fuels are also needed for the large tractors, combines, and other equipment used to grow the crop. Another important consideration is the significant government subsidies given to grow corn in the US. The market is artificial and controlled, fluctuating with the weather (crop yields), whether a Democrat or Republican votes to adjust the already high corn subsidies (at taxpayer expense), and there is added manpower, use of significant agricultural land for fuel production, etc..
-With modern Oil/Gas production the COSTS are not as high to yield fuels of sufficient energy density (as in how many BTU a gallon of liquid fuel contains..) After all, we are all burning (oxidation) ~something~ to release energy whether it induces electron flow in a fuel cell or releases high pressure gases pushing a turbine or piston to do work. Think about the point. Alcohol fuel cells are really cool, yes. Bet let's not thing this in any case solves the CO2 or wasted resources issues. If it were Hydrogen (H2) produced from electrolysis (electric current through water yielding Hydrogen (H2) and Oxygen (O2) [2(H2O) + electricity = 2(H2) + 1(02)]), and that electricity was from a solar, nuclear, or hydroelectric generation station, then I would say that the use of that Hydrogen in a fuel cell solves much of the CO2 emissions and reduces dependence on oil.
But, the use of ANY alcohol means that there is Carbon present in the fuel and you will either produce CO (carbon monoxide) or CO2. The US Space Shuttle uses a pure Hydrogen - Oxygen Fuel Cell yielding only electricity, heat, and water as by products. ANY fuel cell that uses any Carbon in its FUEL other than Oxygen and pure Hydrogen, will release CO or CO2.
-In another example, what original starting material do you think was used to make all of those little plastic keys on your keyboard (and nearly any plastics we use today)... that's right, they are made from hydrocarbons (mainly natural gas)?
Imagine the world without fossil fuels realizing that everything plastic is from fossil fuel as well as diesel and gas... They are here to say.
Besides, we are getting close to time for another Ice Age onset, some added CO2 may push that back a few centuries. -Zymergy