Nuclear is the current best option yes, but you shouldn't dump all your eggs into one basket either.
There is a very limited supply of easily accessable fissable material on earth. The more plants we build the more the cost of *THAT* will go up.
People really need to start investing in sustainable renewable energy, things like tidal, wind, solar, and what IMO is the most untapped, geothermal. Seriously, we have all these active volcanos around the planet exerting kilotons of energy spewing gasses into the air and creating massive amounts of heat, why aren't we harnessing that more?
Most people use the MaxMind database for geolocation. You can download the DB for free and check if your IP subnet is incorrectly listed. If it is, wouldn't hurt to drop them an email.
http;//www.maxmind.com
That is where the error probably is. Unfortunately, they only update their database every quarter or so, and even then who knows when customers update their copy, so you will probably be seeing this problem for a long time.
While this is an interesting story, I don't see why it has anything to do with Slashdot. Tim Russard dieing is of very little interest to most geeks, and of especially little interest to people outside the US, since his whole sow was solely based on US politics.
Properly implemented RSA IS NOT volnerable to chosen plaintext, because the way it works is this
- Encryptor generates a NEW symmetric encryption key - Encryptor encrypts document using this key - Encryptor ENCRYPTS symentric key with RSA private key - Document is sent to recipent - Recpient decrypts symmetric key using the public key - Recipient decrypts document using the symmetric key
Therefore a given document is encrypted differently every time. knowing the original structure of the document does nothing to help you discover the RSA key you need to decrypt the symmetric key, because you don't know what the structure of the underlying symmetric key is supposed to be, it could be any random key.
This is my view as well. The state should get out of the marriage business altogether. All laws should be re-drafted to hon hour civil unions wherever required.
Then, you want a religious ceremony, you have one, you just sign your civil union contract at the end instead of your marriage license. Done.
I think you need to re-take your "Encryption 101" course. Knowing the data is no help at all in discovering the private key in a public/private key system.
For example, do you think your SSH password is encrypted the same way every time it crosses the wire? No.
I get better mileage in my 2007 Tucson ( around 27 mpg ) than my wife does in her 2000 Neon ( around 25 mpg) , which is 1/2 the size and weight of a car - the reason being of course better, modern engineering.
I know I can't be the only one who has never heard of this group. It doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry.
This is all I could dig up really - seems to be some cyber-security e-commerce related group?
Whereas work in other areas of shared concern, such as international trade, is conducted in line with some "ground truths and principles," there is little by way of standards, laws, regulations, etc. to guide international cooperation between key partners on cyber security. Mr. Aisenberg argued that such cooperation could be especially fruitful between the so called "U5 Countries" - Canada, Great Britain, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. As countries with a shared history, common language, and similar institutions and values, the U5 countries could work together and "develop a doctrine that they can all believe in," before moving policy, regulation, and legislation in that shared direction. In fact, Mr. Aisenberg emphasized that the democratic, liberal, free-market commitments common across the U5 countries are a logical starting point for cooperation, as they can anchor cooperation in common objectives and principles.
The point he is trying to make is this. Comapre a 200g pringles can to a 200G bag of chips. See the size difference? Now imagine how many of these can fit in a transport truck. Pringles packaging takes about 1/8th the space, so you can transport 8 times as much, and use 1/8 the carbon to transport it. Not to mention the warehouse space, etc.
There is more to the environmental impact of product packaging than the raw materials.
You heard me right. Realtors are going the way of the dinosaur. I am already seeing it happen.
Consider, anyone in my generation (20-30 years old) who is looking for a new home. What is the very *FIRST* thing you do when you are even considering it? Do you call an agent? No. You go to the web. You look on Facebook, on Cragislist, on Google even, and yes, MLS too. but the only reason you go to MLS is because it is on the web to begin with! Consider now, if you are selling a house and aiming for this market. Why would you pay someone 2.5%-5% commission to list on just one of many websites, when all others are free? Why not try it with the other sites first? Also - consider the number of *very heavily targetted* Face book ads one can buy for the price of an agent's commission!
I know personally of three different people who have bought or sold houses in the past month *ALONE* who did not have an agent involved at all in at least one side of the transaction. The trend is already there... it will only accelerate.
The legal side of the transaction is usually handled by an attorney - all an agent really does is bring bodies in the door. If you can get the bodies in the door via your own means there is no reason to pay for an agent.
I like to know about new products and services. I don't consider myself a brain-dead consumer monkey, so I don't really care if someone wants to spend a bunch of money promoting something to me - if I don't need or care about that product, or don't like the company, I am not going to buy it, period.
However, when a new product comes to market, it is nice to be told about it. There are many times I see an ad for something on TV and think "hey, that looks neat. Wonder if it is any good", then I do some searches online for reviews and more info, and then potentially buy it to try it. Often this product makes my life better in some way. If it wasn't for the ad, odds are much lower I would have heard about it. I know this is true because I have friends who only download TV shows now from the web and never watch TV anymore; I find they are always asking me "where did you see that?" or "where'd you hear about that?". Ads, duh.
But photosynthesis doesn't really count because that process doesn't so that the OP described, break the hydrogen off to use the oxygen. It does the opposite, it breaks the oxygen to create the organic compound, which is fine, because that keeps the hydrogen in the organic cycle.
What biological process breaks water apart to release hydrogen?
Without looking into all your points, I am pretty damn sure that things don't happen as you describe.
You have three points here that don't go together:
- The only hydrogen compounds on earth are in organics and water - Organics got their hydrogen compounds soely through reactions with water - Free hydrogen escapes into space
If all of these were true, the total amount of water on earth would be constantly decreasing, and would have been for billions of years. This is not the case - the amount of water on earth is relatively constant. As far as I remember from my university chemistry and biology classes, organics don't, for the most part, break down water ever.
Now I don't know the **actual** hydrogen sink for life on earth, but I am pretty sure it isn't water as you describe.
If Math is invented, then how can mathematical proofs exist? One can't base a logical proof on a theory or invention - a proof is either true, or it isn't.
He went back to the analogy of pharmaceuticals: 'I think if you invent drugs, you should be able to charge for them,' he said, adding with a shrug: 'That may seem radical."
Sure, so who cares if a few million die as a result. You made your money!
"If you also provided your password on the registration page, then the KYPS server computes your list of one-time codes by bitwise xoring (the appropriate number of bits of) each pad with your password. The codes are returned to you in the form of a nicely formatted PDF file (see this example). In order to make it easy for you to enter the codes using a possibly foreign keyboard, the codes are returned to you in a form that does not contain any special characters (base64 encoding). Note that the server immediately deletes the codes and your password as soon as your list of codes has been sent to you. The list of pads, however, is kept in the server's database. "
If you don't trust the, the above URL gives a good description of how the site works, you could easily duplicate it on your own site with a few lines of PHP or Perl.
The Bussard collectors on Star Trek ships (the red lights at the end of the warp nacelles) function as pseudo ramjets. They collect the material used for the fusion generators that power the impulse engines.
Seagate, which claims to be the first company to ship a billion drives, says all those drives amounted to 79 million terabytes of capacity, enough for 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of MP3 songs."
How many libraries of congress per VW Beetle is that?
Take this USB TV tuner I just bought. Plug it into my Linux desktop, and it "just works". No installing special drivers from a CD, because Linux ships with the drivers for almost very device it supports out of the box. No searching the web for apps to caputre video, I just fire up my application manager, click one, it downloads and installs, nearly instantly. No fuss no muss.
Try this with Windows or even Mac. You have to install drivers, reboot your PC once or twice, then either install the crippleware that comes with it, or hunt around the internet for "Trial Ware" to try out your new device, and then either fork out more money for the software, or illegally pirate it.
The only things IMO that don't "just work" in Linux are twofold: MP3s and printers. MP3s don't work out of the box with most distros due to patent reasons, you have to install MP3 support yourself - but even this is pretty simple.
Printers are a whole other problem, because the only inkjet printer manufacturer I know of that is really committed to supporting their stuff on Linux (and spend money to develop Linux cups drivers) is HP. This isn't a problem with Linux, it is a problem with printer companies.
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Nuclear is the current best option yes, but you shouldn't dump all your eggs into one basket either.
There is a very limited supply of easily accessable fissable material on earth. The more plants we build the more the cost of *THAT* will go up.
People really need to start investing in sustainable renewable energy, things like tidal, wind, solar, and what IMO is the most untapped, geothermal. Seriously, we have all these active volcanos around the planet exerting kilotons of energy spewing gasses into the air and creating massive amounts of heat, why aren't we harnessing that more?
Most people use the MaxMind database for geolocation. You can download the DB for free and check if your IP subnet is incorrectly listed. If it is, wouldn't hurt to drop them an email.
http;//www.maxmind.com
That is where the error probably is. Unfortunately, they only update their database every quarter or so, and even then who knows when customers update their copy, so you will probably be seeing this problem for a long time.
So, by making a shoddy OS, now Microsoft gets to collect royalties on TWO operating systems at once, earning double the profit on a PC sale?
And exactly how do they lose out of this deal?
While this is an interesting story, I don't see why it has anything to do with Slashdot. Tim Russard dieing is of very little interest to most geeks, and of especially little interest to people outside the US, since his whole sow was solely based on US politics.
Properly implemented RSA IS NOT volnerable to chosen plaintext, because the way it works is this
- Encryptor generates a NEW symmetric encryption key
- Encryptor encrypts document using this key
- Encryptor ENCRYPTS symentric key with RSA private key
- Document is sent to recipent
- Recpient decrypts symmetric key using the public key
- Recipient decrypts document using the symmetric key
Therefore a given document is encrypted differently every time. knowing the original structure of the document does nothing to help you discover the RSA key you need to decrypt the symmetric key, because you don't know what the structure of the underlying symmetric key is supposed to be, it could be any random key.
This is my view as well. The state should get out of the marriage business altogether. All laws should be re-drafted to hon hour civil unions wherever required.
Then, you want a religious ceremony, you have one, you just sign your civil union contract at the end instead of your marriage license. Done.
I think you need to re-take your "Encryption 101" course. Knowing the data is no help at all in discovering the private key in a public/private key system.
For example, do you think your SSH password is encrypted the same way every time it crosses the wire? No.
For the record, not all SUVs have bad mileage.
I get better mileage in my 2007 Tucson ( around 27 mpg ) than my wife does in her 2000 Neon ( around 25 mpg) , which is 1/2 the size and weight of a car - the reason being of course better, modern engineering.
This is all I could dig up really - seems to be some cyber-security e-commerce related group?
Whereas work in other areas of shared concern, such as international trade, is conducted in line with some "ground truths and principles," there is little by way of standards, laws, regulations, etc. to guide international cooperation between key partners on cyber security. Mr. Aisenberg argued that such cooperation could be especially fruitful between the so called "U5 Countries" - Canada, Great Britain, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. As countries with a shared history, common language, and similar institutions and values, the U5 countries could work together and "develop a doctrine that they can all believe in," before moving policy, regulation, and legislation in that shared direction. In fact, Mr. Aisenberg emphasized that the democratic, liberal, free-market commitments common across the U5 countries are a logical starting point for cooperation, as they can anchor cooperation in common objectives and principles.
This is what really sucks about BD. The constantly changing profile spec.
What is essentially a "movie appliance" should not need to be firmware-upgraded to play a disc. It is just STUPID.
HDDVD got that right - build all the features into the minimum spec from the get-go.
The point he is trying to make is this. Comapre a 200g pringles can to a 200G bag of chips. See the size difference? Now imagine how many of these can fit in a transport truck. Pringles packaging takes about 1/8th the space, so you can transport 8 times as much, and use 1/8 the carbon to transport it. Not to mention the warehouse space, etc.
There is more to the environmental impact of product packaging than the raw materials.
There is 60 times more mercury in the battery in the watch on your wrist than there is in 1 CFL.
How many people do you think send their watch batteries to the toxic waste disposal centre?
The hazards of mercury in CFLs is vastly overblown by the media looking for a story.
You heard me right. Realtors are going the way of the dinosaur. I am already seeing it happen.
Consider, anyone in my generation (20-30 years old) who is looking for a new home. What is the very *FIRST* thing you do when you are even considering it? Do you call an agent? No. You go to the web. You look on Facebook, on Cragislist, on Google even, and yes, MLS too. but the only reason you go to MLS is because it is on the web to begin with! Consider now, if you are selling a house and aiming for this market. Why would you pay someone 2.5%-5% commission to list on just one of many websites, when all others are free? Why not try it with the other sites first? Also - consider the number of *very heavily targetted* Face book ads one can buy for the price of an agent's commission!
I know personally of three different people who have bought or sold houses in the past month *ALONE* who did not have an agent involved at all in at least one side of the transaction. The trend is already there... it will only accelerate.
The legal side of the transaction is usually handled by an attorney - all an agent really does is bring bodies in the door. If you can get the bodies in the door via your own means there is no reason to pay for an agent.
I like to know about new products and services. I don't consider myself a brain-dead consumer monkey, so I don't really care if someone wants to spend a bunch of money promoting something to me - if I don't need or care about that product, or don't like the company, I am not going to buy it, period.
However, when a new product comes to market, it is nice to be told about it. There are many times I see an ad for something on TV and think "hey, that looks neat. Wonder if it is any good", then I do some searches online for reviews and more info, and then potentially buy it to try it. Often this product makes my life better in some way. If it wasn't for the ad, odds are much lower I would have heard about it. I know this is true because I have friends who only download TV shows now from the web and never watch TV anymore; I find they are always asking me "where did you see that?" or "where'd you hear about that?". Ads, duh.
Always thought they were a huge waste of money, a solution looking for a problem.
Between my PDA phone and my laptop, I have all the eBook reading devices I need. Not that I read eBooks anyway.
Oh I forgot about plants :P
But photosynthesis doesn't really count because that process doesn't so that the OP described, break the hydrogen off to use the oxygen. It does the opposite, it breaks the oxygen to create the organic compound, which is fine, because that keeps the hydrogen in the organic cycle.
What biological process breaks water apart to release hydrogen?
Without looking into all your points, I am pretty damn sure that things don't happen as you describe.
You have three points here that don't go together:
- The only hydrogen compounds on earth are in organics and water
- Organics got their hydrogen compounds soely through reactions with water
- Free hydrogen escapes into space
If all of these were true, the total amount of water on earth would be constantly decreasing, and would have been for billions of years. This is not the case - the amount of water on earth is relatively constant. As far as I remember from my university chemistry and biology classes, organics don't, for the most part, break down water ever.
Now I don't know the **actual** hydrogen sink for life on earth, but I am pretty sure it isn't water as you describe.
If Math is invented, then how can mathematical proofs exist? One can't base a logical proof on a theory or invention - a proof is either true, or it isn't.
Yes, because no one in history ever did anything good for anyone without the motivation for profit.
He went back to the analogy of pharmaceuticals: 'I think if you invent drugs, you should be able to charge for them,' he said, adding with a shrug: 'That may seem radical."
Sure, so who cares if a few million die as a result. You made your money!
I have never heard of this service, and it seems really cool. They *do* say they do not store your passwords, they just use them to generate the OTP.
From http://www.kyps.net/overview.htm:
"If you also provided your password on the registration page, then the KYPS server computes your list of one-time codes by bitwise xoring (the appropriate number of bits of) each pad with your password. The codes are returned to you in the form of a nicely formatted PDF file (see this example). In order to make it easy for you to enter the codes using a possibly foreign keyboard, the codes are returned to you in a form that does not contain any special characters (base64 encoding). Note that the server immediately deletes the codes and your password as soon as your list of codes has been sent to you. The list of pads, however, is kept in the server's database. "
If you don't trust the, the above URL gives a good description of how the site works, you could easily duplicate it on your own site with a few lines of PHP or Perl.
The Bussard collectors on Star Trek ships (the red lights at the end of the warp nacelles) function as pseudo ramjets. They collect the material used for the fusion generators that power the impulse engines.
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Bussard_collector
Seagate, which claims to be the first company to ship a billion drives, says all those drives amounted to 79 million terabytes of capacity, enough for 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of MP3 songs."
How many libraries of congress per VW Beetle is that?
Only a 0.2 decline in revenues in the mist of what many consider an already begun recession ain't too bad.
Depends on what you mean by "Just Working".
Take this USB TV tuner I just bought. Plug it into my Linux desktop, and it "just works". No installing special drivers from a CD, because Linux ships with the drivers for almost very device it supports out of the box. No searching the web for apps to caputre video, I just fire up my application manager, click one, it downloads and installs, nearly instantly. No fuss no muss.
Try this with Windows or even Mac. You have to install drivers, reboot your PC once or twice, then either install the crippleware that comes with it, or hunt around the internet for "Trial Ware" to try out your new device, and then either fork out more money for the software, or illegally pirate it.
The only things IMO that don't "just work" in Linux are twofold: MP3s and printers. MP3s don't work out of the box with most distros due to patent reasons, you have to install MP3 support yourself - but even this is pretty simple.
Printers are a whole other problem, because the only inkjet printer manufacturer I know of that is really committed to supporting their stuff on Linux (and spend money to develop Linux cups drivers) is HP. This isn't a problem with Linux, it is a problem with printer companies.