The US consumes 20.73 million oil bbl/day, of which 13.15 million are imported. Global consumption of oil is 82.59 million bbl/day. After a quick calculation you will see that the US consumes almost 25%, while it represents 6% of world's land surface area.
I have a 10/10mb link here in Helsinki, Finland. It's great for example BitTorrent, which is able to utilise the bandwidth very well. And the huge upstream link guarantees a nice dl ratio. =)
Here in finland the bank I use (Nordea) uses one time pads to authenticate sessions. The onetime pad is snailmailed to you and contains two set of keys. The first set is a true one time pad, and these keyes are used with your PIN when you start your session. There's also keys (A-Z) which are used midsession when you confirm certain actions (money transfers etc).
When you have used most of the keys one the pad, they simply snailmail you a new one. This system seems relatively secure and easy to use and implement: Even if the attacker gets the next OTP key, he won't actually be able to steal your money unless he has sniffed your previous sessions.
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You're right. And our descendants will refer to this as the oil age. Petroleum is our only god.
Saudi proverb. "My father rode a camel. I drive a car. My son flies a jet airplane. His son will ride a camel."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Oil
The US consumes 20.73 million oil bbl/day, of which 13.15 million are imported. Global consumption of oil is 82.59 million bbl/day. After a quick calculation you will see that the US consumes almost 25%, while it represents 6% of world's land surface area.
I have a 10/10mb link here in Helsinki, Finland. It's great for example BitTorrent, which is able to utilise the bandwidth very well. And the huge upstream link guarantees a nice dl ratio. =)
Here in finland the bank I use (Nordea) uses one time pads to authenticate sessions. The onetime pad is snailmailed to you and contains two set of keys. The first set is a true one time pad, and these keyes are used with your PIN when you start your session. There's also keys (A-Z) which are used midsession when you confirm certain actions (money transfers etc).
When you have used most of the keys one the pad, they simply snailmail you a new one. This system seems relatively secure and easy to use and implement: Even if the attacker gets the next OTP key, he won't actually be able to steal your money unless he has sniffed your previous sessions.