If you spring $30-$50 for an omnidirectional TV antenna you can hang it in a close closet or attic. I had the same problems with the rabbit ears (40 miles from towers.)So I bought a DB4 from Antennas Direct or Channel Master and now get 2x the channels. It is made for roof mount but is hidden away and works well.
Not to worry, you are probably already carrying a "tracking device" in your pocket RIGHT NOW! All recent issue mobile phones have location capabilities by triangulating multiple signals off of towers. In the US it is to help 911 services locate people. In Europe, it helps the bad guys look for Jason Bourne. If you stress about it you may be able to navigate the menus and turn that feature off.
Offsets are not crap but they do transfer wealth. What offsets do is to internalize the cost of emissions and that penalizes those who emit a lot. So if I can get something done without producing emissions, I can sell my offsets to somebody who needs them. They can either continue to buy them OR they can work to reduce their emissions. The power of the market at work.
Should the cost of emissions be internalized? Absolutely.
So when you get home tonight you can try it by calling your cooker mobile from your land line. And, depending on your calling plan, cooking from home may be included! Erik
Check your BIOS if it is a work-related PC. I was please to see (in a Dell Optiplex) that there is a setting to turn the unit on at a set time each day (or weekday). So you can have your system up and ready for you to login and go straight to Slashdot first thing in the AM.
That is the translation of the name of the monk who thought up the calendaring system that we use. He might have looked like that guy in the 80's Xerox ads. Dennis came up with the idea to have a starting date of the birth of Christ. Then Gregory, CEO of the Vatican at the time, tagged the concept with his name. Modern scholars think that Dennis missed it by three or four years, that Christ was born in 3 or 4 AD. Just think if he had gotten it on the nose, we'd have a few more years to stockpile batteries, water and snowshovels!
OK. They are looking for 2,000,000 hits. They start at 20 about 45 minutes ago. They are at ~350 when the slashdot effect starts to take them down. And this is before the day really begins on the west coast! How many signatures will they get? Here are some of the variables-
X - Number of Linux Users (10M according to Wayne above)
x - Number of Linux Users who give a damn about anything other than fraggin
Y - Number who read./ and know about this cause
y - Percentage who know to put the www ahead of the URL
Z - Site capacity factor
z - Percentage who never come back after the first "this account has too many processes running,try again later"
A - Percentage who lurk everywhere and will never "Submit" even when the dreaded button says something else
a - Length of time that story will be an Article on./
B - residence time on "Older Stuff"
b - fudge factor
With all of these variables, I estimate that the petition count will be 75,000 by 1/1/0 when the world's computing infrastructure turns into a tangled, smoking heap. Of course, I am not a coder and just factored all of the variables in my head. I just think of stupid things, I do not make them executable.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you have a source for this info?
If you spring $30-$50 for an omnidirectional TV antenna you can hang it in a close closet or attic. I had the same problems with the rabbit ears (40 miles from towers.)So I bought a DB4 from Antennas Direct or Channel Master and now get 2x the channels. It is made for roof mount but is hidden away and works well.
Not to worry, you are probably already carrying a "tracking device" in your pocket RIGHT NOW! All recent issue mobile phones have location capabilities by triangulating multiple signals off of towers. In the US it is to help 911 services locate people. In Europe, it helps the bad guys look for Jason Bourne. If you stress about it you may be able to navigate the menus and turn that feature off.
Offsets are not crap but they do transfer wealth. What offsets do is to internalize the cost of emissions and that penalizes those who emit a lot. So if I can get something done without producing emissions, I can sell my offsets to somebody who needs them. They can either continue to buy them OR they can work to reduce their emissions. The power of the market at work.
Should the cost of emissions be internalized? Absolutely.
So when you get home tonight you can try it by calling your cooker mobile from your land line. And, depending on your calling plan, cooking from home may be included!
Erik
The site at http://realclimate.org/ is great for keeping somewhat current with the hot stories in the field...
Here a a few stats from a quick Google search or three-
The total area of Greenland is around 2,175,600 km2 (840,000 sq mi), of which about 84 per cent, or some 1,834,000 km2, is ice cap.
The average thickness of the Greenland ice sheet is over 2000 m.
The area of the oceans is what, 360,000,000 km2?
Melt all of Greenland's ice and is that 10 meters?
Ouch. Er, glug...
Or "Whose car is that in my driveway?!?"
Check your BIOS if it is a work-related PC. I was please to see (in a Dell Optiplex) that there is a setting to turn the unit on at a set time each day (or weekday). So you can have your system up and ready for you to login and go straight to Slashdot first thing in the AM.
There is a good procedure to do scheduled network backups onto a Linux box here -
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=436
It has worked well for me.
Erik
slashdot.org = Frat Party, Day After
marthastewart.com = Bread, Freshly Baked
microsoft.com = Decay, Early Stages
apple.com = Blueberry, Lime, Tangerine, Grape or Cherry
intel.com = Oil, Light Machine
robotwisdom.com = Vanilla, Plain
ebay.com = Attic, Musty
nra.org = Cordite, Acrid
nytimes.com = All the smells that fit the bandwidth
victoriasecret.com = Strawberry, Musky
freshmeat.net = (never mind)
espn.com = Socks, Used, Gym
realaudio.com = none needed
sgi.com = Tension, Palpable
amazon.com = Bazaar, Third World
theonion.com = Fart, Silent but Deadly
That is the translation of the name of the monk who thought up the calendaring system that we use. He might have looked like that guy in the 80's Xerox ads. Dennis came up with the idea to have a starting date of the birth of Christ. Then Gregory, CEO of the Vatican at the time, tagged the concept with his name. Modern scholars think that Dennis missed it by three or four years, that Christ was born in 3 or 4 AD. Just think if he had gotten it on the nose, we'd have a few more years to stockpile batteries, water and snowshovels!
X - Number of Linux Users (10M according to Wayne above)
x - Number of Linux Users who give a damn about anything other than fraggin
Y - Number who read ./ and know about this cause
y - Percentage who know to put the www ahead of the URL
Z - Site capacity factor
z - Percentage who never come back after the first "this account has too many processes running,try again later"
A - Percentage who lurk everywhere and will never "Submit" even when the dreaded button says something else
a - Length of time that story will be an Article on ./
B - residence time on "Older Stuff"
b - fudge factor
With all of these variables, I estimate that the petition count will be 75,000 by 1/1/0 when the world's computing infrastructure turns into a tangled, smoking heap. Of course, I am not a coder and just factored all of the variables in my head. I just think of stupid things, I do not make them executable.
OH YEAH, it's starting. Here is what I got in response--- This account has too many processes running. Please try again later. ./ effect, I guess