I doubt the article is even true, BUT in typical corporate speak they *could* revert to all diesel engines which *could* be biodiesel...or not...depending on local availability. That's a pretty huge loophole.
It's unfortunate that about 3/4 of that energy is converted to heat rather than usable energy. Electric and diesel engines are a LOT more efficient than gasoline engines.
And this is coming from a government that can't even catch organized gangs spamming and selling prescription drugs online....presumably where it is a LOT easier to follow the money trail.
I can't imagine that it's THAT hard to create a fairly distributed network of "propaganda" outlets with most of the key people using encryption, small laptops, mobile communications....you know, stuff that most folks on this site do every day. And most of us aren't internationally wanted fugitives.
When I bought a GM vehicle for my wife a couple years ago, the FIRST order of business was to disconnect the antenna to the OnStar box. I don't need big brother being privy to conversations in the car, or tracking my movements. I'm normally not a tin foil fedora kind of guy, but there has already been evidence of police improperly using OnStar to bug vehicles.
The cost to add the technology to a company's device is listed as US$2. The cost for a company to produce their own wall wart in China...probably less than US$2....and no licensing fees to worry about and no worries that the customer might not have a charger. This idea is going nowhere.
In this case, I think the Chinese government actually got it right. They've forced all cell phone manufacturers to provide a USB port for charging the phones. Seems like a reasonable standard to me.
It's always going to be cheaper to use anthill labor on this type of problem. Even relatively powerful 1RU and.5RU servers are dirt cheap these days. Hell, I was able to buy a pile of.5RU machines for one of my projects this week. I can't believe how cheap things have gotten:
quad-core xeon @2.66ghz 4gb RAM 2 x 500gig barracudas (RAID1) dual gigabit ether CentOS 5.1 US$1100 per unit
They are all stashed behind a Foundry ServerIron to load balance the cluster. So far, it seems to scale VERY well and increasing capacity is as simple as tossing another US$1k server on the pile.
Dan Bernstein's public demeanor makes Theo de Raadt look like Miss Manners. I'll stick with bind, thanks. It just plain works and I'm not stuck with an angry maintainer for updates.:D
I'm sitting in my flat in Beijing watching the "goldfish video" on youtube right now. The download was a bit slow, but it's not blocked.
Don't get me wrong, China's censorship is lame and probably won't last much longer as it just becomes too difficult to accomplish, but it's not as all encompassing as people think. The pr0n must flow.
It would be nice if the researchers could find a way to inject a "cure" and disable the malware on the target computer. I wouldn't have any moral/ethical problem with that. Of course, I guess it all depends on who is defining "malware." The RIAA might convince a judge that it is "OK" to innoculate pc's against P2P (pick your favorite client).
I haven't purchased a SCSI part in nearly 10 years. Once SATA became relatively commonplace and 3Ware was shown to be reliable, I just never looked back. On the highest of the high end where budget isn't a constraint I guess it might still be useful. Otherwise, stick a fork in it.
Who is the bonehead who approved that move? It would have taken 5-10 seconds to just refuse connections, but someone has gone out of their way to create difficulty for people "to make a point." And the point was just "don't connect to our servers anymore." Idiots. Granted, any responsible admin probably commented out the ordb entry in their spam blackhole armory, but still....stupid...stupid...stupid.
I spend a lot of time in China. The Chinese media is actually portraying the monks as aggressive "counter-revolutionary" types. The language is similar to what you see western press doling out to Al Qaeda. The typical educated Chinese (I happen to be in Beijing) is buying into it because that is what they see and hear from the "news" on a regular basis. The deaths of civilians is being blamed on them too. Apparently, all the dead civilians "burned to death" even though there is gunfire all over the city. The westerners just roll their eyes.
But I thought the mechanics of such a device were pretty well understood? Don't they just divide a sphere with sufficient critical mass into "pie" pieces and then just use explosives to force all the pieces together at the appropriate time? (I'm sure it's not quite THAT simple.)
The government is indifferent to the problem because the banks lob gobs of money at lobbyists who in turn line the pockets of the politicians in the form of perks and outright "contributions." The banks are indifferent because they simply pass along the cost of fraud to their customer in the form of higher fees and reduced services. You can bet your behind that if the banks suffered actual financial losses as a result of fraud the lobbying sailboat would do an immediate tack into "prevention" mode and the government would then be prodded (led by the nose in the form of lobbying dollars) to be more aggressive about actually catching and prosecuting the criminals. There's very little mystery here.
I never quite understood the "tasting" concept. The vast majority of the people utilizing "tasting" are doing it for unscrupulous reasons. Anyone with a legitimate need for a domain is going to be willing to pay the going rate to actually register one.
Never mind the cost of the players. The cost of bona fide hi-def media is substantially more expensive than their DVD counterparts. I would never replace movies I already own, but spending 50% more on a new title just to get it in some hi-def format that might turn out to be a flash in the pan is what is holding me back. I'll stick with my mid-range upconverting 1080p DVD player for now.
And one would assume that the costs of this device would go down as economies of scale are realized on production runs of more than single digit numbers of units. Combine that with the load removed from the central power grid (because you're generating the electrons MUCH closer to the point where they are being consumed) and I see a winner here.
This unnatural fear of anything with the word nuclear in it is eventually going to be replaced by the stark reality that we really have few other viable alternatives that will scale to fit our power requirements.
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You'll need at least that much when Emacs 22.2 is released. That's supposed to boot you right into the Matrix.
I doubt the article is even true, BUT in typical corporate speak they *could* revert to all diesel engines which *could* be biodiesel...or not...depending on local availability. That's a pretty huge loophole.
Cheers,
It's unfortunate that about 3/4 of that energy is converted to heat rather than usable energy. Electric and diesel engines are a LOT more efficient than gasoline engines.
Cheers,
And this is coming from a government that can't even catch organized gangs spamming and selling prescription drugs online....presumably where it is a LOT easier to follow the money trail.
Nothing to see here.
I can't imagine that it's THAT hard to create a fairly distributed network of "propaganda" outlets with most of the key people using encryption, small laptops, mobile communications....you know, stuff that most folks on this site do every day. And most of us aren't internationally wanted fugitives.
They've got to pay for those Superbowl adverts somehow. :)
When I bought a GM vehicle for my wife a couple years ago, the FIRST order of business was to disconnect the antenna to the OnStar box. I don't need big brother being privy to conversations in the car, or tracking my movements. I'm normally not a tin foil fedora kind of guy, but there has already been evidence of police improperly using OnStar to bug vehicles.
This is a great site (you can also subscribe to their paper magazine) for the DIY types that want to use alternative methods to power their homes.
http://www.homepower.com/
Cheers,
Re: Fusion power
Unfortunately, fusion power has been in the "will be ready for commercial use in about 50 years"...oh...for about 50 years now.
The cost to add the technology to a company's device is listed as US$2. The cost for a company to produce their own wall wart in China...probably less than US$2....and no licensing fees to worry about and no worries that the customer might not have a charger. This idea is going nowhere.
In this case, I think the Chinese government actually got it right. They've forced all cell phone manufacturers to provide a USB port for charging the phones. Seems like a reasonable standard to me.
Cheers,
It's always going to be cheaper to use anthill labor on this type of problem. Even relatively powerful 1RU and .5RU servers are dirt cheap these days. Hell, I was able to buy a pile of .5RU machines for one of my projects this week. I can't believe how cheap things have gotten:
quad-core xeon @2.66ghz
4gb RAM
2 x 500gig barracudas (RAID1)
dual gigabit ether
CentOS 5.1
US$1100 per unit
They are all stashed behind a Foundry ServerIron to load balance the cluster. So far, it seems to scale VERY well and increasing capacity is as simple as tossing another US$1k server on the pile.
Cheers,
Dan Bernstein's public demeanor makes Theo de Raadt look like Miss Manners. I'll stick with bind, thanks. It just plain works and I'm not stuck with an angry maintainer for updates. :D
I'm sitting in my flat in Beijing watching the "goldfish video" on youtube right now. The download was a bit slow, but it's not blocked.
Don't get me wrong, China's censorship is lame and probably won't last much longer as it just becomes too difficult to accomplish, but it's not as all encompassing as people think. The pr0n must flow.
Cheers,
It would be nice if the researchers could find a way to inject a "cure" and disable the malware on the target computer. I wouldn't have any moral/ethical problem with that. Of course, I guess it all depends on who is defining "malware." The RIAA might convince a judge that it is "OK" to innoculate pc's against P2P (pick your favorite client).
Cheers,
I haven't purchased a SCSI part in nearly 10 years. Once SATA became relatively commonplace and 3Ware was shown to be reliable, I just never looked back. On the highest of the high end where budget isn't a constraint I guess it might still be useful. Otherwise, stick a fork in it.
Cheers,
Who is the bonehead who approved that move? It would have taken 5-10 seconds to just refuse connections, but someone has gone out of their way to create difficulty for people "to make a point." And the point was just "don't connect to our servers anymore." Idiots. Granted, any responsible admin probably commented out the ordb entry in their spam blackhole armory, but still....stupid...stupid...stupid.
I spend a lot of time in China. The Chinese media is actually portraying the monks as aggressive "counter-revolutionary" types. The language is similar to what you see western press doling out to Al Qaeda. The typical educated Chinese (I happen to be in Beijing) is buying into it because that is what they see and hear from the "news" on a regular basis. The deaths of civilians is being blamed on them too. Apparently, all the dead civilians "burned to death" even though there is gunfire all over the city. The westerners just roll their eyes.
But I thought the mechanics of such a device were pretty well understood? Don't they just divide a sphere with sufficient critical mass into "pie" pieces and then just use explosives to force all the pieces together at the appropriate time? (I'm sure it's not quite THAT simple.)
Cheers,
The government is indifferent to the problem because the banks lob gobs of money at lobbyists who in turn line the pockets of the politicians in the form of perks and outright "contributions." The banks are indifferent because they simply pass along the cost of fraud to their customer in the form of higher fees and reduced services. You can bet your behind that if the banks suffered actual financial losses as a result of fraud the lobbying sailboat would do an immediate tack into "prevention" mode and the government would then be prodded (led by the nose in the form of lobbying dollars) to be more aggressive about actually catching and prosecuting the criminals. There's very little mystery here.
Is the ability to "taste" http://www.brittneyinrehabagainhaha.com/ truly a compelling reason to create a flea market for con artists?
I never quite understood the "tasting" concept. The vast majority of the people utilizing "tasting" are doing it for unscrupulous reasons. Anyone with a legitimate need for a domain is going to be willing to pay the going rate to actually register one.
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Never mind the cost of the players. The cost of bona fide hi-def media is substantially more expensive than their DVD counterparts. I would never replace movies I already own, but spending 50% more on a new title just to get it in some hi-def format that might turn out to be a flash in the pan is what is holding me back. I'll stick with my mid-range upconverting 1080p DVD player for now.
Cheers,
Well, I guess posting something brutally obvious is better than posting another dupe.
*shrug*
And one would assume that the costs of this device would go down as economies of scale are realized on production runs of more than single digit numbers of units. Combine that with the load removed from the central power grid (because you're generating the electrons MUCH closer to the point where they are being consumed) and I see a winner here.
This unnatural fear of anything with the word nuclear in it is eventually going to be replaced by the stark reality that we really have few other viable alternatives that will scale to fit our power requirements.
Cheers,