It's back btw. We had a butt load of Dell GX270s installed in Oct 2004. 60% have had the power supplies fail with bad caps. 35% have had the motherboards die as well with bad, oozing-brown-crap caps. Yet another sign that the quality of Dell is circling the bowl and ready to go down even further.
If a particular vulnerability affects multiple versions of the program, you generally don't count them all as separate vulnerabilities. eWeek is counting MS07-02 as five separate patches, but really it's the same flaw in five different versions. How many people have multiple versions of Excel on their system anyway?
You hit the nail on the head when you said "unless you want your waveguide to act like an antenna". The purpose of the coax shield (really a misnomer) is to keep all the em inside the cable and channel it. The same thing occurs with light. You normally can't get light down a 300nm hole, but they have demonstrated that they can channel it down this coax-looking setup. It's an interesting demonstration, but has a long way to go if you noticed how short their tube is.
You obviously didn't read the entire article. The whole point is that they are shoving something with a wavelength of 375 nm down a 300 nm pipe. They explained that this is the exact same issue with shoving RF down a coax (ie 1-meter wavelengths down a 1/4" coax).
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So you need to have a licensed copy of WXP or W2K3. Looks a little vaque whether you have to be running under the validly licensed OS, though.
Too bad the gov is convinced that ethanol is viable. The only reason the auto makers are doing flex fuel vehicles is because the get pollution credit for producing the cars. In reality, most of the flex fuel vehicles get filled up with gasoline because it's cheaper per mile.
If you think E85 is a joke for mileage, wait until you see what you get with hydrogen. Even liquefied, the energy density per volume is atrocious. Better to go with natural gas. Incidentally hydrogen is usually produced by cracking natural gas and throwing away 15% of the energy in the process. Plus, you've got the whole lack of infrastructure for hydrogen delivery.
100 miles per gallon , plus how much electrical energy sucked from the wall? They are deliberately misstating the efficiency because they are selling a product. Don't get me wrong, I do like the idea of plug-in, but it still has a number of drawbacks such as limited charging rate and requiring a larger and heavier battery bank. Liquid fuels still have the best energy density. If a relatively cheap method of mass producing butanol (http://www.butanol.com/) can be developed, it's a drop in replacement for gasoline. Don't even get me started on E85 - nothing like paying more for less.
Yes, it is one of four factors to be considered under title 17,Chapter1,107. It seems obvious that his intended purpose is to devalue the works in question. I believe that is probably sufficient to disallow the fair use exception, but ultimately it's up to the courts to decide. I also believe his ISP was in the wrong to drop him and should not have gotten involved, although they probably had the right if his postings and refusal to remove the offending material violated his user agreement.
One of the tests of Fair Use is "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work." Obviously the use was intended to have a negative impact on the market value of the show and therefore fails the fair-use test. In any case, Disney can legally request that the copyrighted material be removed. I see nothing (other than the notoriously bogus slashdot summary) that Disney took any action to shutdown or remove the blog. In all likelihood the Disney lawyers simply send a cease-desist request to remove the infringing material. I wouldn't be surprised if they also mentioned slander or defamation suit.
Looks like you may be a bit off too. Argonne labs tested the Prius engine at a peak 34% conversion efficiency at 13 HP, despite the Toyota literature claiming 60% which I quoted. Besides, the Volt engine will likely be a fixed rpm, very tuned engine. I also looked into the charger too, and 85-90% is a more realistic figure for the currents involved. Still, in some areas with expensive electricity, plugging in will be more expensive. Especially if gas stays the same or keeps declining (It's $2.13/gal here at the moment versus the $2.50 I used).
Gas at $2.50 a gallon is about 7 cents/kWh and if we ballpark the engine efficiency at 60% that's 11.6 cent/kWh. Wall charging is probably 90% efficient so if your live in an area where electricity is 12.8 cent/kWh or higher (Manhattan for example) it would be cheaper and more convenient to simply stop at the gas station.
I do like the simplicity of the design. Going to electric drive only should eliminate a lot of weight. It's not clear if it's a single motor and convention axles or a motor at each wheel. A smaller motor at each wheel or axle allows some flexibility with multi-wheel drive, abs, traction control, etc.
It's also a given that the car will likely be a dog. They claim 236 ft-lbs as some great number, but that doesn't mean much unless you can state an rpm or true HP rating.
The CFLs last about 8x as long as they provide useable light up to about 6000 hours if left on with minimal restarts. A 100watt incandescent goes 750 hours or a 60watt goes 1100 hours. They cost 10x as much with a cheap CFL going for $5 compared to a typical 50 cent incandescent. Consider that CFLs have a much higher profit percent margin and you really do get Walmart coming out ahead financially.
I use CFLs in fixtures that get left on a lot such as the porch lights. The cold temps mean they take a long time to warm up, but I can live with that. The cheaper brand CFLs and even some of the major brand ones have a nasty habit of running hot and smoking the electronics long before the bulbs are bad. Last three I replaced made it about 6-months before the basede had burn marks,
The trademark and licensing issue isn't about the farmers at all. It's the ethiopian government trying to bilk Starbucks out of some extra money. That money will not go to the farmers, but will fund the ongoing wars. Kinda like blood diamonds....
Nope, Clinton did this because the Govt is spending a crap load of money storing all this stuff. Forcing the agencies to either downgrade (not declassify) or destroy will reduce that burden tremendously. The reality is that most of the stored materials will simply get destroyed or assigned one of the many exceptions to this mandate.
The logic and accuracy testing is a joke. It does not do any testing at all to see if the system is secure or easily manipulated. They simply use it, enter a known set of votes and check that the reported totals are correct. I think blackboxvoting.org has a bunch of info on this as well.
Chumpy? You can certainly put your ssn on a resume, but that's considered FOUO privacy act data. OPSEC covers much more than just operational details. It's primarily about keeping a low profile and not disclosing any information unless you are required to. Consider that 80% of intel gathered against the US is found by searching unclassified sources. Do you honestly think someone isn't out there compiling a list of TS clearance holders from open sources? Especially ones who claim to work on the NIPRNET backbone? As an example of how serious DOD is taking this: they just dishonorably discharged a guy who posted way too much info on myspace. None of it was classifed, but he posted lots of opsec related info such as his clearance, occupation, postings, and future posting.
Either way, is there any valid reason for you to advertise that you have a TS on slashdot, other than your own ego? Do you have any idea who I am? I could be your boss, security manager, or a Chinese spy. Either way, it's none of my business or the general internets business whether you have a clearance. If you're so comfortable with this, ask yourself if you would be upset if I forwarded this whole thread to OPM to have your clearance reviewed.
Wow, another boring Slashdot story. This is nothing new and nothing of any real interest will get declassified. The mandate calls for automatic classification downgrading, not complete declassification. There are so many exceptions that nothing of any real impact will get declassified. As an example, we still have ships afloat that are more than 25 years old.
No, security clearance info is unclassified but considered for-official-use-only which means you don't go announcing it in a public forum. What an idiot. Ever hear of OPSEC?
Congratulations on another BS story. Can I filter out idiot editors who post this crap?
It would be nice if the original poster would actually bother reading the mandate, because it doesn't require full disk encryption. It only sets out requirements for encrypting personally identifiable info, PII category, information when remotely accessible, being transported, or on mobile devices. Basically if there is a chance of it being long it must be encrypted.
Panasonic Toughbooks supposedly meet the milspec. We've got a few at work and they are ruggedly heavy and have that nasty rubberized keyboard. Haven't drop tested any though.
It leaves the upper and lower filter drivers on the CD-ROM in place and causes this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311755/en-us. Early versions of Roxio/EX CD Creator did this as well, which blue screen quite a number of NT4 machines when you tried installed SP4.
Um, iTunes on the PC has a bad reputation for causing problems. iTunes installs a service that constantly watches the CDRom and USB ports regardless of whether iTunes is actually running. These drivers and hooks are left behind when you uninstall iTunes. Having those drivers still in there makes it impossible to do a repair or in-place upgrade from the CD if Windows gets corrupt. I spent a few hours trying to recover a computer last week and finally had to do some registry crawling to get the remaining iTunes drivers and registry changes out of there.
Once again, we have an article and scientists claiming a causal relationship when the only thing they have shown is a correlation. A specific level of drinking may not cause a longer life, but they have shown that of those in their study, those who lived longer happened to drink in moderation.
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It's back btw. We had a butt load of Dell GX270s installed in Oct 2004. 60% have had the power supplies fail with bad caps. 35% have had the motherboards die as well with bad, oozing-brown-crap caps. Yet another sign that the quality of Dell is circling the bowl and ready to go down even further.
If a particular vulnerability affects multiple versions of the program, you generally don't count them all as separate vulnerabilities. eWeek is counting MS07-02 as five separate patches, but really it's the same flaw in five different versions. How many people have multiple versions of Excel on their system anyway?
Light does act like a traverse wave:
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/
You hit the nail on the head when you said "unless you want your waveguide to act like an antenna". The purpose of the coax shield (really a misnomer) is to keep all the em inside the cable and channel it. The same thing occurs with light. You normally can't get light down a 300nm hole, but they have demonstrated that they can channel it down this coax-looking setup. It's an interesting demonstration, but has a long way to go if you noticed how short their tube is.
You obviously didn't read the entire article. The whole point is that they are shoving something with a wavelength of 375 nm down a 300 nm pipe. They explained that this is the exact same issue with shoving RF down a coax (ie 1-meter wavelengths down a 1/4" coax).
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So you need to have a licensed copy of WXP or W2K3. Looks a little vaque whether you have to be running under the validly licensed OS, though.
Too bad the gov is convinced that ethanol is viable. The only reason the auto makers are doing flex fuel vehicles is because the get pollution credit for producing the cars. In reality, most of the flex fuel vehicles get filled up with gasoline because it's cheaper per mile.
If you think E85 is a joke for mileage, wait until you see what you get with hydrogen. Even liquefied, the energy density per volume is atrocious. Better to go with natural gas. Incidentally hydrogen is usually produced by cracking natural gas and throwing away 15% of the energy in the process. Plus, you've got the whole lack of infrastructure for hydrogen delivery.
100 miles per gallon , plus how much electrical energy sucked from the wall? They are deliberately misstating the efficiency because they are selling a product. Don't get me wrong, I do like the idea of plug-in, but it still has a number of drawbacks such as limited charging rate and requiring a larger and heavier battery bank. Liquid fuels still have the best energy density. If a relatively cheap method of mass producing butanol (http://www.butanol.com/) can be developed, it's a drop in replacement for gasoline. Don't even get me started on E85 - nothing like paying more for less.
Yes, it is one of four factors to be considered under title 17,Chapter1,107. It seems obvious that his intended purpose is to devalue the works in question. I believe that is probably sufficient to disallow the fair use exception, but ultimately it's up to the courts to decide. I also believe his ISP was in the wrong to drop him and should not have gotten involved, although they probably had the right if his postings and refusal to remove the offending material violated his user agreement.
One of the tests of Fair Use is "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work." Obviously the use was intended to have a negative impact on the market value of the show and therefore fails the fair-use test. In any case, Disney can legally request that the copyrighted material be removed. I see nothing (other than the notoriously bogus slashdot summary) that Disney took any action to shutdown or remove the blog. In all likelihood the Disney lawyers simply send a cease-desist request to remove the infringing material. I wouldn't be surprised if they also mentioned slander or defamation suit.
Looks like you may be a bit off too. Argonne labs tested the Prius engine at a peak 34% conversion efficiency at 13 HP, despite the Toyota literature claiming 60% which I quoted. Besides, the Volt engine will likely be a fixed rpm, very tuned engine. I also looked into the charger too, and 85-90% is a more realistic figure for the currents involved. Still, in some areas with expensive electricity, plugging in will be more expensive. Especially if gas stays the same or keeps declining (It's $2.13/gal here at the moment versus the $2.50 I used).
Gas at $2.50 a gallon is about 7 cents/kWh and if we ballpark the engine efficiency at 60% that's 11.6 cent/kWh. Wall charging is probably 90% efficient so if your live in an area where electricity is 12.8 cent/kWh or higher (Manhattan for example) it would be cheaper and more convenient to simply stop at the gas station. I do like the simplicity of the design. Going to electric drive only should eliminate a lot of weight. It's not clear if it's a single motor and convention axles or a motor at each wheel. A smaller motor at each wheel or axle allows some flexibility with multi-wheel drive, abs, traction control, etc. It's also a given that the car will likely be a dog. They claim 236 ft-lbs as some great number, but that doesn't mean much unless you can state an rpm or true HP rating.
The CFLs last about 8x as long as they provide useable light up to about 6000 hours if left on with minimal restarts. A 100watt incandescent goes 750 hours or a 60watt goes 1100 hours. They cost 10x as much with a cheap CFL going for $5 compared to a typical 50 cent incandescent. Consider that CFLs have a much higher profit percent margin and you really do get Walmart coming out ahead financially. I use CFLs in fixtures that get left on a lot such as the porch lights. The cold temps mean they take a long time to warm up, but I can live with that. The cheaper brand CFLs and even some of the major brand ones have a nasty habit of running hot and smoking the electronics long before the bulbs are bad. Last three I replaced made it about 6-months before the basede had burn marks,
The trademark and licensing issue isn't about the farmers at all. It's the ethiopian government trying to bilk Starbucks out of some extra money. That money will not go to the farmers, but will fund the ongoing wars. Kinda like blood diamonds....
Nope, Clinton did this because the Govt is spending a crap load of money storing all this stuff. Forcing the agencies to either downgrade (not declassify) or destroy will reduce that burden tremendously. The reality is that most of the stored materials will simply get destroyed or assigned one of the many exceptions to this mandate.
The logic and accuracy testing is a joke. It does not do any testing at all to see if the system is secure or easily manipulated. They simply use it, enter a known set of votes and check that the reported totals are correct. I think blackboxvoting.org has a bunch of info on this as well.
Why not? 1 million 128-bit keys is only 16 meg of data.
Chumpy? You can certainly put your ssn on a resume, but that's considered FOUO privacy act data. OPSEC covers much more than just operational details. It's primarily about keeping a low profile and not disclosing any information unless you are required to. Consider that 80% of intel gathered against the US is found by searching unclassified sources. Do you honestly think someone isn't out there compiling a list of TS clearance holders from open sources? Especially ones who claim to work on the NIPRNET backbone? As an example of how serious DOD is taking this: they just dishonorably discharged a guy who posted way too much info on myspace. None of it was classifed, but he posted lots of opsec related info such as his clearance, occupation, postings, and future posting.
Either way, is there any valid reason for you to advertise that you have a TS on slashdot, other than your own ego? Do you have any idea who I am? I could be your boss, security manager, or a Chinese spy. Either way, it's none of my business or the general internets business whether you have a clearance. If you're so comfortable with this, ask yourself if you would be upset if I forwarded this whole thread to OPM to have your clearance reviewed.
Wow, another boring Slashdot story. This is nothing new and nothing of any real interest will get declassified. The mandate calls for automatic classification downgrading, not complete declassification. There are so many exceptions that nothing of any real impact will get declassified. As an example, we still have ships afloat that are more than 25 years old.
No, security clearance info is unclassified but considered for-official-use-only which means you don't go announcing it in a public forum. What an idiot. Ever hear of OPSEC?
Congratulations on another BS story. Can I filter out idiot editors who post this crap? It would be nice if the original poster would actually bother reading the mandate, because it doesn't require full disk encryption. It only sets out requirements for encrypting personally identifiable info, PII category, information when remotely accessible, being transported, or on mobile devices. Basically if there is a chance of it being long it must be encrypted.
Panasonic Toughbooks supposedly meet the milspec. We've got a few at work and they are ruggedly heavy and have that nasty rubberized keyboard. Haven't drop tested any though.
Because 10% is not spam?
It leaves the upper and lower filter drivers on the CD-ROM in place and causes this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311755/en-us. Early versions of Roxio/EX CD Creator did this as well, which blue screen quite a number of NT4 machines when you tried installed SP4.
Um, iTunes on the PC has a bad reputation for causing problems. iTunes installs a service that constantly watches the CDRom and USB ports regardless of whether iTunes is actually running. These drivers and hooks are left behind when you uninstall iTunes. Having those drivers still in there makes it impossible to do a repair or in-place upgrade from the CD if Windows gets corrupt. I spent a few hours trying to recover a computer last week and finally had to do some registry crawling to get the remaining iTunes drivers and registry changes out of there.
Once again, we have an article and scientists claiming a causal relationship when the only thing they have shown is a correlation. A specific level of drinking may not cause a longer life, but they have shown that of those in their study, those who lived longer happened to drink in moderation.