More people have died from cancer that they got from the coal-industry... Death's per kWh for coal is very high... Even kWh for wind-power is quite high.
Energy Source / Death Rate (deaths per TWh) Coal – world average 161 Coal – China 278 Coal – USA 15 Oil 36 Natural Gas 4 Biofuel/Biomass 12 Peat 12 Solar (rooftop) 0.44 Wind 0.15 Hydro 0.10 Hydro - world including Banqiao) 1.4 (about 2500 TWh/yr and 171,000 Banqiao dead) Nuclear 0.04
The REAL problem with nuclear power today is not that it's unsafe... It's the unrest from the population because they have not idea about risks.. This in turn results in no new, safer, reactors being built and the old ones kept since we still need them.
Building Thorium reactors would solve basically all safety issues we have with reactors today since they cannot go critical... The only problem related to this is to make the population understand that they are safe, but i don't think that will ever happen since the majority of the population are idiots and scared of anything 'atomic'... Just hope no one tells them they have about 7 billion billion billion atoms inside them... And a few are probably uranium.
Problem with nuclear power is not it's safety but the craze the media has put all the voters in about anything 'atomic' and then the politicians that then don't try to explain what is happening but just goes straight with the idiot-voters that don't have a clue about what is actually a danger...
Just look at why an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) was named that instead of NMRI (nuclear magnetic resonance imaging).. People are stupid and afraid of anything 'nuclear'... Just hope no one tells them they have about seven billion billion billion atoms inside their person...
Well, just make it so it has a shell of that... the internals can still be commonly available material.. And make them smart enough so they can use more that a few basic elements... No more tungsten? then use the next available and bacteria resistant material for the shell..
Well, if you have a plant and take a seed from it, is not the seed part a part of that plant?... If that part then continues to grow to create new parts that could grow is that not also part of the original plant??
I'm allow to take apart my phone i bought and sell the parts to other people... If the other person then uses that part to repair another phone and then sell it, would he be in violation of a patent?...
The same should go for any type of living organism.. If it can self-replicate you should be allowed to sell the replicas since the replication was in the actual product you bought...
There are already chips that do direct-if conversion for DVB-T.. It's not a generic chip they use but a specialized that will have a high-speed ADC and then have hardware that do the 'tuning' to the wanted frequency...
So... There is stuff already doing this on a large scale...
If you want something that works with any type of protocol then you need some type of generic CPU that can be loaded with software that can be reprogrammed, and this is probable something that don't exist outside some specific circles, but it do exist and is available commercially. This stuff is usually done on FPGA's to reduce the powerusage and get good performance....
Option 2 : Even cheaper, since no pc would be needed, would be to buy a number of openwrt-capable routers, plugin a USB camera of whatever brand you want. Run something like http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome on each of them and store images on USB sticks or have them upload the stuff to a remote server..
Problem with option 1 is that the pc itself would probably be stolen if someone broke in. Option 2 would allow you to hide each router much easier and have images synced between them or uploaded to a remote server.... Also it would not require you to draw network cables for each station but you could just setup a mesh network directly from openwrt. It would also allow for using cheaper USB based cameras instead of expensive network-based cameras..
And there are no cases where people have been innocent but still convicted just because there where a very strong suspicion that the person did it...
Or how about that there are lots of people accepting rulings without a jury because they cannot afford a lawyer and accepting a 2 year probation sentence instead of risking going to jail and loosing everything they have.. Just getting arrested for something can cause havoc on people's lives, even if they are cleared of all wrong-doing..
I could agree to something like this IF you could have something like "We suspect person X, is this person X DNA?" Yes/No... With this you could get the benefits of checking a group of 10 people quite fast, but it would not be allowed to search the entire database when this is known to cause false-positives.. But even if it started this way the politicians would screw it up too.
The quote "Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither" seems fitting here..
Attach a hidden horn (120db) that will go off if someone moves the bike without turning it off.. Also build a cheap ass taser and add a few leads to where you usually touch the bike if you are dragging it.
Wire it up so it will go off after one of the wheels has turned 2-3 times to prevent it from going off accidentally...
For GPS tracking... get a cheap-ass phone (http://www.lightinthebox.com/pan-android2-2-smartphone-w-3-2-inch-touchscreen-dual-sim-tv-wifi-gps_p208017.html) that you wire to the internal batteries.. mod the phone and put an external GPS antenna on the bike just below some plastic covering... Then you just use one of the existing apps or write your own that will either send a email to you with the coordinates every 2-3 minutes when moved without being deactivated..
Other simple way to do it is to get a really cheap-ass phone without data-service, get a USB or rs232 GPS module and a cheap router that you run openwrt or similar on, when bike is moved just send a text with the coordinates...
Remember the 'good old times' when i worked for HP when they merged with Compaq... and Compaq brought some big union crap with them...
From average 8% yearly increase (decided by performance) in pay to 2% increase (same increase for everyone good and bad)... Had to basically tell them i would quit if i did not get a better increase, and got about 6% that year... Next year same story, but then it was a bit hard to threaten to quit... Fixed my salary via switching jobs inside the company for a couple of years....
And btw.. work-rules... At least here in Sweden we have laws about those things... 5 weeks paid vacation per year, breaks are 15 min at 10.00, 1h lunch at 12.00, 15 min break at 15.00 and those are required breaks by law, think they can shorten lunch to 30 min but not sure.... 8 hours per day is standard here, but some companies only do 7.5h, like my current company...
I will never again work in a union controlled workplace.. they just bring shit with them...
It's unfortunate but lots of children do not respond to reason and it boils down to fear. With a foundation of fear, you can build up respect, trust and love. Sure, it's nicer if you can avoid it but many children are unbearably disrespectful and unruly starting sometime after age 13 until they can be tossed out at 18.
That's what any religious fanatic would say.... Fear can never be used for good... NEVER! It *might* maybe someone from doing something, but if they want to and can do it without being found out they will do anyway...
If you instead of hitting the child but talking to them about the things that can happen if they do the thing you will get the following benefits. - More open, you will actually know what's going on in their life.. - If they trust you you will get the benefit of being able to trust them...... - If they do something bad they will be self-punishing themselves..
But it all requires trust from both parties... When they are at 15 maybe you should allow them to make mistakes, but be there for them to help them with their mistakes... And by doing this they know that they can always turn to you and you will always back them up no matter what...
The largest problem abusive parents (mental or physical) will get is that their children will never speak openly with their parents.. If they have made a mistake they will try to hide it forever instead of asking for help and guidance from their parents..
as i wrote... "(the above stuff is just for demo purposes... it's not the recommended way to do it. It's just to show the functionality..)"..... ie it's not the optimal way.. it's just for demo-purposes to show how pipes and such are much more powerful to manage output from a command... The good thing about this is that i can write a minimal shell-script that does something and parse the output with whatever command i might want.. Or even pipe the output from a command to a shell-script that does something more advanced with the output...
Please learn how to read...
I didn't say "export to some random text file", I said, "comma separated values" (CSV) file -- something I can double-click and open in Excel without problems.
Ever heard about import data in excel?... you can use comma, tab, spaces or whatever you would like to import data... it does not have to be a cvs file... But if you would like.. You can even right-click on the file and select open with excel and it will go into import-mode... So... the problem is?
But sure.. i'll bite... ps h -o "`hostname`,%p,%y,%x,%c" and the "cryptic" variables here are defined in the man-page.. CODE NORMAL HEADER %C pcpu %CPU %G group GROUP %P ppid PPID %U user USER %a args COMMAND %c comm COMMAND %g rgroup RGROUP %n nice NI %p pid PID %r pgid PGID %t etime ELAPSED %u ruser RUSER %x time TIME %y tty TTY %z vsz VSZ
There's no need for pages of cryptic options for such a basic command as "ps". Take a look at the list of options for Get-Process [microsoft.com]. Not counting common parameters, it has a grand total of just six! In comparison, ps has over 50, and the list depends on the platform.
Cryptic???? Tell me one option that is cryptic??.. and... a total of 6 things you can output for a process... that is limiting the usefulness of the command... And about that the list depends on the platform... Of course, it has too... They are different platform with different types of information for the processes... The POSIX standard defines a number of "must have" that should be platform independent... And options are not, usually, removed or renamed between versions, like Microsoft does between each version...
Notice how "ps" has like... a bazillion options? What the fuck is "-ef"? I had to look it up. It's "show every process" in "full format".
-f does full-format listing. This option can be combined with many other UNIX-style
options to add additional columns. It also causes the command arguments to be
printed. When used with -L, the NLWP (number of threads) and LWP (thread ID)
columns will be added. See the c option, the format keyword args, and the format
keyword comm.
If you use it you know what it means... It's the same in windows... I would say having to start with $_. is more cryptic...
Also something that is very powerful in a bash shell is the possibility to use regexps for basically all commands.... like: (Yes i know i can specify the process, but to not confuse the windows-user you are i'm clarifying that i just use the ps output here to display the regexp functionality.)
$ ps |grep "bash$"
4629 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
$ ls 10000 10001 12001 13001 14001 15001 16001 $ ls 1[034]*1 10001 13001 14001
List services: # service --status-all List processes for the current user # ps List processes for all users # ps -e List processes for all users (including executing user) # ps -ef
So... how hard was that?... Oh.. you want to store it to a file... add >file.txt to the end... Or if you want to do something more exciting... List processes, sort by user and pid. # ps -ef --sort user,pid List processes, sort by used cpu-time. # ps -ef --sort pcpu Or how about listing processes on another system... # ssh root@192.168.0.254 ps -ef
Or how about doing this... # ps -ef |grep bash |awk '{print "echo process "$2" running, used cputime "$7" using terminal "$6"; echo messing with your terminal >/dev/"$6}' |sh lists all bash-processes, prints a nice list with some information and then writing a message to the user(s) console(s)... This command would generate output like this: echo process 2842 running, used cputime 00:00:00 using terminal pts/0; echo messing with your terminal >/dev/pts/0 echo process 3127 running, used cputime 00:00:00 using terminal pts/0; echo messing with your terminal >/dev/pts/0 and the |sh on the end it to actually execute the commands...
Doing stuff on a *nix system is not hard...
(the above stuff is just for demo purposes... it's not the recommended way to do it. It's just to show the functionality..)
So if i sign up i need to agree to their TOS.... and that enables them to sell my information... If i dont sign up and agree to their TOS they distribute my information in whatever way they seem fit....
Well, lets just put: By having opened this letter you agree that all previous agreements are null and void until a new contract, signed by both parties, has been established between us.
All personal data relating to me on your system shall be deleted within 1 week of reception of this letter if no new agreement has been established. Failure to comply will result in a 500â/day rent-fee for all my personal information.
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And where did you get Hiroshima from?? That's not related to nuclear power... That's related to a nuclear weapon designed to kill people...
Check this page... people killed per TWh for different energy-sources..
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html
(Maybe not so much in China, though.)
Well, that might actually be one of the few benefits of living in a dictatorship.. It does not matter what you think, they do it anyway...
More people have died from cancer that they got from the coal-industry... Death's per kWh for coal is very high... Even kWh for wind-power is quite high.
from http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html
Energy Source / Death Rate (deaths per TWh)
Coal – world average 161
Coal – China 278
Coal – USA 15
Oil 36
Natural Gas 4
Biofuel/Biomass 12
Peat 12
Solar (rooftop) 0.44
Wind 0.15
Hydro 0.10
Hydro - world including Banqiao) 1.4 (about 2500 TWh/yr and 171,000 Banqiao dead)
Nuclear 0.04
The REAL problem with nuclear power today is not that it's unsafe... It's the unrest from the population because they have not idea about risks.. This in turn results in no new, safer, reactors being built and the old ones kept since we still need them.
Building Thorium reactors would solve basically all safety issues we have with reactors today since they cannot go critical... The only problem related to this is to make the population understand that they are safe, but i don't think that will ever happen since the majority of the population are idiots and scared of anything 'atomic'... Just hope no one tells them they have about 7 billion billion billion atoms inside them... And a few are probably uranium.
But the problem is not only the plants that cause pollution..... The majority of 'instant' death's related to coal-power is at the coal-plants...
A few references related to coal-power...
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/coalvswind/c01.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html
Nuclear power is not unsafe... It's just the idiotic laws that are being passed that are blocking the construction of new and safer plants...
Just look at the Chinese... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8393984/Safe-nuclear-does-exist-and-China-is-leading-the-way-with-thorium.html
Problem with nuclear power is not it's safety but the craze the media has put all the voters in about anything 'atomic' and then the politicians that then don't try to explain what is happening but just goes straight with the idiot-voters that don't have a clue about what is actually a danger...
Just look at why an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) was named that instead of NMRI (nuclear magnetic resonance imaging).. People are stupid and afraid of anything 'nuclear'... Just hope no one tells them they have about seven billion billion billion atoms inside their person...
might be 24 port switch for the rooms and then one inbound connection to the firewall maybe....
Andromeda Project.
Well, just make it so it has a shell of that... the internals can still be commonly available material.. And make them smart enough so they can use more that a few basic elements... No more tungsten? then use the next available and bacteria resistant material for the shell..
Well, first you need to figure out that time-dilation device works....
... here it comes...
Well, if you have a plant and take a seed from it, is not the seed part a part of that plant?... If that part then continues to grow to create new parts that could grow is that not also part of the original plant??
I'm allow to take apart my phone i bought and sell the parts to other people... If the other person then uses that part to repair another phone and then sell it, would he be in violation of a patent?...
The same should go for any type of living organism.. If it can self-replicate you should be allowed to sell the replicas since the replication was in the actual product you bought...
You should probably do a bit more fact-checking before saying stuff like that..
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Embedded-Linux-powers-first-handheld-software-radio/
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/17/12/2007/42781/intel-targets-wimax-with-software-radio-device.htm
There are already chips that do direct-if conversion for DVB-T.. It's not a generic chip they use but a specialized that will have a high-speed ADC and then have hardware that do the 'tuning' to the wanted frequency...
So... There is stuff already doing this on a large scale...
If you want something that works with any type of protocol then you need some type of generic CPU that can be loaded with software that can be reprogrammed, and this is probable something that don't exist outside some specific circles, but it do exist and is available commercially. This stuff is usually done on FPGA's to reduce the powerusage and get good performance....
Option 1 : Get a PC and install something like http://www.zoneminder.com/
Option 2 : Even cheaper, since no pc would be needed, would be to buy a number of openwrt-capable routers, plugin a USB camera of whatever brand you want. Run something like http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome on each of them and store images on USB sticks or have them upload the stuff to a remote server..
Problem with option 1 is that the pc itself would probably be stolen if someone broke in.
Option 2 would allow you to hide each router much easier and have images synced between them or uploaded to a remote server.... Also it would not require you to draw network cables for each station but you could just setup a mesh network directly from openwrt. It would also allow for using cheaper USB based cameras instead of expensive network-based cameras..
And there are no cases where people have been innocent but still convicted just because there where a very strong suspicion that the person did it...
Or how about that there are lots of people accepting rulings without a jury because they cannot afford a lawyer and accepting a 2 year probation sentence instead of risking going to jail and loosing everything they have.. Just getting arrested for something can cause havoc on people's lives, even if they are cleared of all wrong-doing..
I could agree to something like this IF you could have something like "We suspect person X, is this person X DNA?" Yes/No... With this you could get the benefits of checking a group of 10 people quite fast, but it would not be allowed to search the entire database when this is known to cause false-positives.. But even if it started this way the politicians would screw it up too.
The quote "Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither" seems fitting here..
So still... One day is more than one month?
Well.. those votes will then belong to China and Russia then ehy? Crap... your debts are contagious..
20 units?? Death to the decimals! or?
So oh... you increment the month, then day then year?
Attach a hidden horn (120db) that will go off if someone moves the bike without turning it off..
Also build a cheap ass taser and add a few leads to where you usually touch the bike if you are dragging it.
Wire it up so it will go off after one of the wheels has turned 2-3 times to prevent it from going off accidentally...
For GPS tracking... get a cheap-ass phone (http://www.lightinthebox.com/pan-android2-2-smartphone-w-3-2-inch-touchscreen-dual-sim-tv-wifi-gps_p208017.html) that you wire to the internal batteries.. mod the phone and put an external GPS antenna on the bike just below some plastic covering...
Then you just use one of the existing apps or write your own that will either send a email to you with the coordinates every 2-3 minutes when moved without being deactivated..
Other simple way to do it is to get a really cheap-ass phone without data-service, get a USB or rs232 GPS module and a cheap router that you run openwrt or similar on, when bike is moved just send a text with the coordinates...
Remember the 'good old times' when i worked for HP when they merged with Compaq... and Compaq brought some big union crap with them...
From average 8% yearly increase (decided by performance) in pay to 2% increase (same increase for everyone good and bad)... Had to basically tell them i would quit if i did not get a better increase, and got about 6% that year... Next year same story, but then it was a bit hard to threaten to quit... Fixed my salary via switching jobs inside the company for a couple of years....
And btw.. work-rules... At least here in Sweden we have laws about those things... 5 weeks paid vacation per year, breaks are 15 min at 10.00, 1h lunch at 12.00, 15 min break at 15.00 and those are required breaks by law, think they can shorten lunch to 30 min but not sure.... 8 hours per day is standard here, but some companies only do 7.5h, like my current company...
I will never again work in a union controlled workplace.. they just bring shit with them...
It's unfortunate but lots of children do not respond to reason and it boils down to fear. With a foundation of fear, you can build up respect, trust and love. Sure, it's nicer if you can avoid it but many children are unbearably disrespectful and unruly starting sometime after age 13 until they can be tossed out at 18.
That's what any religious fanatic would say.... Fear can never be used for good... NEVER! It *might* maybe someone from doing something, but if they want to and can do it without being found out they will do anyway...
If you instead of hitting the child but talking to them about the things that can happen if they do the thing you will get the following benefits.
- More open, you will actually know what's going on in their life..
- If they trust you you will get the benefit of being able to trust them......
- If they do something bad they will be self-punishing themselves..
But it all requires trust from both parties... When they are at 15 maybe you should allow them to make mistakes, but be there for them to help them with their mistakes... And by doing this they know that they can always turn to you and you will always back them up no matter what...
The largest problem abusive parents (mental or physical) will get is that their children will never speak openly with their parents.. If they have made a mistake they will try to hide it forever instead of asking for help and guidance from their parents..
Making mistakes is how we learn stuff as people..
as i wrote... "(the above stuff is just for demo purposes... it's not the recommended way to do it. It's just to show the functionality..)"..... ie it's not the optimal way.. it's just for demo-purposes to show how pipes and such are much more powerful to manage output from a command...
The good thing about this is that i can write a minimal shell-script that does something and parse the output with whatever command i might want.. Or even pipe the output from a command to a shell-script that does something more advanced with the output...
Please learn how to read...
I didn't say "export to some random text file", I said, "comma separated values" (CSV) file -- something I can double-click and open in Excel without problems.
Ever heard about import data in excel?... you can use comma, tab, spaces or whatever you would like to import data... it does not have to be a cvs file... But if you would like.. You can even right-click on the file and select open with excel and it will go into import-mode... So... the problem is?
But sure.. i'll bite...
ps h -o "`hostname`,%p,%y,%x,%c"
and the "cryptic" variables here are defined in the man-page..
CODE NORMAL HEADER
%C pcpu %CPU
%G group GROUP
%P ppid PPID
%U user USER
%a args COMMAND
%c comm COMMAND
%g rgroup RGROUP
%n nice NI
%p pid PID
%r pgid PGID
%t etime ELAPSED
%u ruser RUSER
%x time TIME
%y tty TTY
%z vsz VSZ
There's no need for pages of cryptic options for such a basic command as "ps". Take a look at the list of options for Get-Process [microsoft.com]. Not counting common parameters, it has a grand total of just six! In comparison, ps has over 50, and the list depends on the platform.
Cryptic???? Tell me one option that is cryptic??.. and... a total of 6 things you can output for a process... that is limiting the usefulness of the command...
And about that the list depends on the platform... Of course, it has too... They are different platform with different types of information for the processes... The POSIX standard defines a number of "must have" that should be platform independent... And options are not, usually, removed or renamed between versions, like Microsoft does between each version...
Notice how "ps" has like... a bazillion options? What the fuck is "-ef"? I had to look it up. It's "show every process" in "full format".
-f does full-format listing. This option can be combined with many other UNIX-style
options to add additional columns. It also causes the command arguments to be
printed. When used with -L, the NLWP (number of threads) and LWP (thread ID)
columns will be added. See the c option, the format keyword args, and the format
keyword comm.
If you use it you know what it means... It's the same in windows... I would say having to start with $_. is more cryptic...
Also something that is very powerful in a bash shell is the possibility to use regexps for basically all commands.... like: (Yes i know i can specify the process, but to not confuse the windows-user you are i'm clarifying that i just use the ps output here to display the regexp functionality.)
$ ps |grep "bash$"
4629 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
$ ls
10000
10001
12001
13001
14001
15001
16001
$ ls 1[034]*1
10001
13001
14001
Everythi
List services:
# service --status-all
List processes for the current user
# ps
List processes for all users
# ps -e
List processes for all users (including executing user)
# ps -ef
So... how hard was that?... Oh.. you want to store it to a file... add >file.txt to the end...
Or if you want to do something more exciting...
List processes, sort by user and pid.
# ps -ef --sort user,pid
List processes, sort by used cpu-time.
# ps -ef --sort pcpu
Or how about listing processes on another system...
# ssh root@192.168.0.254 ps -ef
Or how about doing this...
# ps -ef |grep bash |awk '{print "echo process "$2" running, used cputime "$7" using terminal "$6"; echo messing with your terminal >/dev/"$6}' |sh
lists all bash-processes, prints a nice list with some information and then writing a message to the user(s) console(s)...
This command would generate output like this:
echo process 2842 running, used cputime 00:00:00 using terminal pts/0; echo messing with your terminal >/dev/pts/0
echo process 3127 running, used cputime 00:00:00 using terminal pts/0; echo messing with your terminal >/dev/pts/0
and the |sh on the end it to actually execute the commands...
Doing stuff on a *nix system is not hard...
(the above stuff is just for demo purposes... it's not the recommended way to do it. It's just to show the functionality..)
Pickaxe?
So if i sign up i need to agree to their TOS.... and that enables them to sell my information... If i dont sign up and agree to their TOS they distribute my information in whatever way they seem fit....
Seems fair...
Well, lets just put:
By having opened this letter you agree that all previous agreements are null and void until a new contract, signed by both parties, has been established between us.
All personal data relating to me on your system shall be deleted within 1 week of reception of this letter if no new agreement has been established. Failure to comply will result in a 500â/day rent-fee for all my personal information.