I hope they hired a marine engineer to work out the anti-fouling issues. The system may work great now, but in a couple months every single surface exposed to seawater will be covered with barnacles and algae.
The OTEC guys say that biofouling only occurs in their heat exchangers that are exposed to surface water. I don't know if that is because of the temperature of the water or because of a lack of organisms in the deeper water. But since these data center guys only care about cold water which they can get from the deep, they don't have to deal with the most of the problems typically associated with sea water.
Let's all of us dump our excess heat into the ocean and see how if works out better in the long haul.
The article said the warm water is sent to heat pumps to warm up houses in the town. They don't say if they are able to bring the temperature back down to the original levels or not, or even if the water is pumped back into the ocean.
I think that a vacation lifestyle would get boring after a few months, much less a lifetime, but hey, maybe I'm wrong.
I think we will see massive amounts of spectacle chasing - the Paris Hilton / Kardashian sort of stuff will become the dominant form of current events. Sure there will be individuals doing their own thing and being creative and productive, but the vast majority of people will succumb to their inner sloth.
There is a series of SF/Fantasy books, The Dancers at the End of Time that are set in an extreme version of this sort of society - with unlimited manufacturing on demand and unlimited energy. Obviously they made an impression on my young mind.
(B) I fully expected you to say that the biggest problem would be other people figuring out your code and sending it to your phone while you still had it.
It doesn't matter how extensively Google uses user data internally.
I have a friend who is a VC, runs a fund with about $500M in assets. He competes with google ( www.googleventures.com ). Yet he uses google's products as an integral part of his workflow, both "free" for his personal stuff and paid services for work. I've pointed out to him that this leaves him terribly exposed should someone at google be less than scrupulous - and with a company as big as google it is inevitable that there are less than scrupulous people working there. He's got both the risk of google having access to his competitive information as well as their ability to interfere with his business (e.g. calendar app has a "bug" that loses a scheduled meeting with a company that google wants to purchase too).
. Due to wear-leveling and the likes that is not good enough for data that is supposed to be gone forever. The correct way would be for the app to generate a random encryption key in RAM, encrypt the file with that, save the file to the filesystem but keep the key in RAM,
If you are at the level where you have to worry about an attacker who is able to pull data off of a drive's internally managed wear-leveling management buffers then you also have to worry about all kinds of other less complex attack vectors like a daemon process that silently takes a screenshot every time snapchat displays a photo.
Dude you are insane. There is no point in arguing with an insane person, but look at that page you keep posting that you think is evidence...
All the links have [hostname.com] on them. That means JC cut-n-pasted from the post he was responding to. The real spammer has the original text and never doubles up the [hostname.com] stuff. Go and look at all the other posts of that same junk, they are all different.
I'm sure you'll take it as proof of your conspiracies, but I had to give you a chance.
Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. We may ask what is relevant but anything beyond that is dangerous. He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don't listen to him. Remember that - do not listen.
I cast you out, unclean spirit!
It's the power of Christ! The power of Christ compels you!
I'd imagine that, even if the stream is 1080p, a DVD rip would be of superior quality due to the fact that the stream would be of limited bit-rate due to being streamed over the Internet.
Go to the pirate bay and look for the 720p web-rips of Netflix's "Hemlock Grove" - they are of significantly higher quality than even an original, maximum bitrate DVD could ever achieve. As bandwidth increases and codecs improve (h.265 was just finalized) picture quality is only going to improve from here.
As for being a really easy tool for governments to spy on people, maybe you should set your paranoia aside. There is no easy way to sift through the massive quantities of data produced by CCTV cameras, at least at present.
It isn't necessarily about spying on "people" it is about spying on specific persons of interest. You pick somebody of interest and follow them around. Even worse, CCTV enables retroactive spying on someone - so someone becomes a person of interest and now the people in power can go back through months or even years of camera footage and see everything that person did - great for digging up dirt to blackmail them with.
This scenario works even though the footage is not categorized by the names of the people in the recording, all it takes is a known starting point for the person being retroactively stalked and then you can follow them around from that point onward.
Why the hell would I buy form ANY company that can't release tech specs such as S/N ratio, THD, etc. for their products??
You know those numbers are pretty much arbitrary anyway, right?
The test conditions matter more than the actual equipment and basically no manufacturer conforms to any sort of standardized test conditions when taking those measurements. The best you can hope for is that they used the same conditions for different models in their own line-up so that you can at least compare models from the same manufacturer.
But even that is dicey since the test conditions themselves are rarely ever spelled out so you don't even know if conditions changed from one test to the next, much less what the conditions actually were.
It is about balance of power and who makes the rules. Regular joes pretty much never make the rules, they just have to take what they are given. So when there is an error, the benefit of the doubt goes to the little guy, regardless of who the error favors.
I would put their car systems in the "professional" line - it isn't really consumer in that each one is custom-designed for the specific car and sold to the auto manufacturer. You can't buy them as an aftermarket product, only as a factory option.
I heard this phrase while I was in the states, "No highs, no lows, must be Bose". I thought it a little harsh at the time, but in general I haven't been overly impressed with Bose products.
The Bose 901 speakers are really quite good. The original 901s are what launched the company back in the late 60s. Most of their other consumer audio equipment is extremely over-priced. Their professional stuff tends to not suck though.
There are probably all kind of factors behind the 5ZB number.
For example - it is probably uncompressed. It also probably includes tape robots. It also would never be bought all up front - they would have a strategy for buying new hardware as the amount of data they've collected grows. So maybe 5ZB after 10 years of operation - and just look at how fast storage density increases, it's faster than Moore's Law.
It might be tempting to dismiss that as a case of missing the forest for the trees, but I'm willing to say that the spoiler effect is a myth. Kind of like the "ticking timebomb" scenario used to justify torture. Makes for a good story, but in the real world it never really happens.
I expect the big parties to do a better job at analysis than you have - it isn't about capturing all of the Green voters, it is about capturing enough of them. As for why we don't see it in the USA - that's because people don't vote their conscience in the first place. The more people who did so, the more effective it would be.
Your mistake was voting for the lesser evil because you wanted to vote for someone who might win. That is the surest way to waste your vote in the american system.
Parties do not change when they get votes, they only change when they do not get votes. So vote your conscience. If you think you are more a Green than any other party, then you should have voted for the Green candidate. They have had a presidential candidate for the last 5 elections.
It does not matter that the Green candidate won't win. What matters is that the other parties see the Green party get votes that they could have if they adopt some of the green party's policies as their own next time.
Voting strategically rather than short-term multiplies the power of your individual vote, you just have to have the patience to accept that things may get worse before they get better. Since Romeny could have reasonably won this last election, it's not like you didn't have to accept that risk with the vote you cast either.
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50 meters? That's not a sea, that's practically a shoal.
I hope they hired a marine engineer to work out the anti-fouling issues. The system may work great now, but in a couple months every single surface exposed to seawater will be covered with barnacles and algae.
The OTEC guys say that biofouling only occurs in their heat exchangers that are exposed to surface water. I don't know if that is because of the temperature of the water or because of a lack of organisms in the deeper water. But since these data center guys only care about cold water which they can get from the deep, they don't have to deal with the most of the problems typically associated with sea water.
http://www.otecnews.org/portal/otec-articles/ocean-thermal-energy-conversion-otec-by-l-a-vega-ph-d/#environment
Let's all of us dump our excess heat into the ocean and see how if works out better in the long haul.
The article said the warm water is sent to heat pumps to warm up houses in the town. They don't say if they are able to bring the temperature back down to the original levels or not, or even if the water is pumped back into the ocean.
I think that a vacation lifestyle would get boring after a few months, much less a lifetime, but hey, maybe I'm wrong.
I think we will see massive amounts of spectacle chasing - the Paris Hilton / Kardashian sort of stuff will become the dominant form of current events. Sure there will be individuals doing their own thing and being creative and productive, but the vast majority of people will succumb to their inner sloth.
There is a series of SF/Fantasy books, The Dancers at the End of Time that are set in an extreme version of this sort of society - with unlimited manufacturing on demand and unlimited energy. Obviously they made an impression on my young mind.
(A) Already there today
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130413/16102322700/san-diego-cop-thinks-you-might-have-turned-your-cell-phone-into-gun-that-officer-safety-trumps-constitutional-rights.shtml
(B) I fully expected you to say that the biggest problem would be other people figuring out your code and sending it to your phone while you still had it.
It doesn't matter how extensively Google uses user data internally.
I have a friend who is a VC, runs a fund with about $500M in assets. He competes with google ( www.googleventures.com ). Yet he uses google's products as an integral part of his workflow, both "free" for his personal stuff and paid services for work. I've pointed out to him that this leaves him terribly exposed should someone at google be less than scrupulous - and with a company as big as google it is inevitable that there are less than scrupulous people working there. He's got both the risk of google having access to his competitive information as well as their ability to interfere with his business (e.g. calendar app has a "bug" that loses a scheduled meeting with a company that google wants to purchase too).
. Due to wear-leveling and the likes that is not good enough for data that is supposed to be gone forever. The correct way would be for the app to generate a random encryption key in RAM, encrypt the file with that, save the file to the filesystem but keep the key in RAM,
If you are at the level where you have to worry about an attacker who is able to pull data off of a drive's internally managed wear-leveling management buffers then you also have to worry about all kinds of other less complex attack vectors like a daemon process that silently takes a screenshot every time snapchat displays a photo.
> Any company that _refuses_ to provide technical specs only cares about thing: Conning potential suckers.
It is weird, I don't know if you are just so focused on your rant that you didn't hear me, or if you just didn't express yourself very well.
By your definition EVERY SINGLE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURER only cares about "conning potential suckers."
Dude you are insane. There is no point in arguing with an insane person, but look at that page you keep posting that you think is evidence...
All the links have [hostname.com] on them. That means JC cut-n-pasted from the post he was responding to. The real spammer has the original text and never doubles up the [hostname.com] stuff. Go and look at all the other posts of that same junk, they are all different.
I'm sure you'll take it as proof of your conspiracies, but I had to give you a chance.
Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. We may ask what is relevant but anything beyond that is dangerous. He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don't listen to him. Remember that - do not listen.
I cast you out, unclean spirit!
It's the power of Christ! The power of Christ compels you!
Wooohooo crazy on the hook now, going to reel you in...
Give it up, Jesus Christ commands you!
Yes, that's right.
JC = Jeremiah Cornelius
JC = Jherek Carnelian
JC = Jesus Christ
You can not win!!!
Lol! You can not defeat all of my incarnations!
I'd imagine that, even if the stream is 1080p, a DVD rip would be of superior quality due to the fact that the stream would be of limited bit-rate due to being streamed over the Internet.
Go to the pirate bay and look for the 720p web-rips of Netflix's "Hemlock Grove" - they are of significantly higher quality than even an original, maximum bitrate DVD could ever achieve. As bandwidth increases and codecs improve (h.265 was just finalized) picture quality is only going to improve from here.
Reddit gets their panties in a bunch over a bus driver in BumfuckEgypt, IL who unsurprisingly is a lukewarm bigot.
Well, UIUC is the birthplace of Mosaic and Netscape, that ought to count for something on slashdot.
As for being a really easy tool for governments to spy on people, maybe you should set your paranoia aside. There is no easy way to sift through the massive quantities of data produced by CCTV cameras, at least at present.
It isn't necessarily about spying on "people" it is about spying on specific persons of interest. You pick somebody of interest and follow them around. Even worse, CCTV enables retroactive spying on someone - so someone becomes a person of interest and now the people in power can go back through months or even years of camera footage and see everything that person did - great for digging up dirt to blackmail them with.
This scenario works even though the footage is not categorized by the names of the people in the recording, all it takes is a known starting point for the person being retroactively stalked and then you can follow them around from that point onward.
Why the hell would I buy form ANY company that can't release tech specs such as S/N ratio, THD, etc. for their products??
You know those numbers are pretty much arbitrary anyway, right?
The test conditions matter more than the actual equipment and basically no manufacturer conforms to any sort of standardized test conditions when taking those measurements. The best you can hope for is that they used the same conditions for different models in their own line-up so that you can at least compare models from the same manufacturer.
But even that is dicey since the test conditions themselves are rarely ever spelled out so you don't even know if conditions changed from one test to the next, much less what the conditions actually were.
It is about balance of power and who makes the rules. Regular joes pretty much never make the rules, they just have to take what they are given. So when there is an error, the benefit of the doubt goes to the little guy, regardless of who the error favors.
I would put their car systems in the "professional" line - it isn't really consumer in that each one is custom-designed for the specific car and sold to the auto manufacturer. You can't buy them as an aftermarket product, only as a factory option.
Bose? Awesome? Really?
I heard this phrase while I was in the states, "No highs, no lows, must be Bose". I thought it a little harsh at the time, but in general I haven't been overly impressed with Bose products.
The Bose 901 speakers are really quite good.
The original 901s are what launched the company back in the late 60s.
Most of their other consumer audio equipment is extremely over-priced. Their professional stuff tends to not suck though.
"No part of the phone purchase contract requires service."
"if you cancel service your loan is immediately due in full"
Both of those can not be simultaneously true.
An honest man admits he was in error, are you an honest man?
There are probably all kind of factors behind the 5ZB number.
For example - it is probably uncompressed. It also probably includes tape robots. It also would never be bought all up front - they would have a strategy for buying new hardware as the amount of data they've collected grows. So maybe 5ZB after 10 years of operation - and just look at how fast storage density increases, it's faster than Moore's Law.
Actually Nader didn't spoil it for the democrats.
http://my.firedoglake.com/jest/2012/08/26/debunking-pathological-myths-of-the-2000-election-part-1-cnn-exit-polls-prove-that-nader-did-not-cost-gore-fl/
It might be tempting to dismiss that as a case of missing the forest for the trees, but I'm willing to say that the spoiler effect is a myth. Kind of like the "ticking timebomb" scenario used to justify torture. Makes for a good story, but in the real world it never really happens.
What's wrong with California is you don't have political machines in CA.
You certainly have them in Chicago and New York City and residential fiber is just as scarce, if not more so, there.
I expect the big parties to do a better job at analysis than you have - it isn't about capturing all of the Green voters, it is about capturing enough of them. As for why we don't see it in the USA - that's because people don't vote their conscience in the first place. The more people who did so, the more effective it would be.
Your mistake was voting for the lesser evil because you wanted to vote for someone who might win. That is the surest way to waste your vote in the american system.
Parties do not change when they get votes, they only change when they do not get votes. So vote your conscience. If you think you are more a Green than any other party, then you should have voted for the Green candidate. They have had a presidential candidate for the last 5 elections.
It does not matter that the Green candidate won't win. What matters is that the other parties see the Green party get votes that they could have if they adopt some of the green party's policies as their own next time.
Voting strategically rather than short-term multiplies the power of your individual vote, you just have to have the patience to accept that things may get worse before they get better. Since Romeny could have reasonably won this last election, it's not like you didn't have to accept that risk with the vote you cast either.