Well, if 90 percent of the Department of Energy budget is for fossil fuel incentives, and their budget is x amount, the math is fairly simple
It's not that simple, because despite it's name, the Department of Energy is not primarily about the production and consumption of energy. Rather, it's primary mission is managing the U.S. nuclear weapons program: the design and manufacture of the weapons, making sure they still work, fundamental nuclear research, etc.
Here is the DoE FY2019 budget request fact sheet. It's a $30.6B department - tiny in the scope of the U.S. federal government. The top line item, fully one half of that budget, is "National Nuclear Security Administration".
Surprised? You're not alone. The present Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, also apparently didn't know that the DoE, ya know, doesn't do much with energy. That is, of course, when he wasn't forgetting about it entirely. Ooops.
And it's here, at the end of what I hope was an informative post, that I'll point out Obama's first DoE secretary was a Nobel laureate in physics.
The key point here is that man-in-the-middle attacks require that the MITM be undiscovered, otherwise you'll know you're being eavesdropped. Quantum key distribution allows for Alice and Bob to share a set of quantum keys without Chuck discovering those keys by MITM attack. Or, Chuck can discover those keys, but not without Alice and Bob knowing that Chuck has done so.
The result may be a denial of service (Alice and Bob can't talk, because they know Chuck will always discover their keys), but a silent MITM attack is not possible.
You can't trust the data as soon as it leaves your computer. If it hasn't been encrypted by that point, it doesn't really matter if AT&T encrypts their transmission lines.
While this is true to a degree, it is an impractical standard for modern communications. How do you propose to have extensive communications between Alice and Bob without having a quick and easy mechanism for sharing and updating encryption keys? This new solution allows for the sharing of keys without (undiscovered) eavesdropping.
How do you propose to send Yelp, for instance, to prison "in its entirety"?
Bad companies are made of bad people.
You are advocating that we hold workers at a company - probably the corporate officers in the C-suite - personally liable for the company's bad behavior. That is not an unreasonable position, and definitely one that I wish prosecutors availed themselves to more often. However, sending members of a company off to prison is hardly the same thing as imprisoning the actual prison, which is the the GP suggested. Even if you throw all the employees into prison, the company still exists as an entity.
I fear some mistake Trump's lack of political sharpness as a mental problem, but it's really not....[C]ontrolling what comes out of your mouth and the substituting the proper focus group tested catch phrases instead. He just says what comes to mind....Also, Trump isn't taking guff off of anybody, politically, personally or otherwise. When he's attacked, he responds.
I disagree. There is a difference for someone spouting unpopular opinions, not taking any guff off of anybody, etc., and the uninformed, incoherent drivel that comes from Trump's mouth. He seems to lack the ability to speak in complete sentences, goes off on rambling tangents, and refuses to accept contrary information.
There are plenty of articulate trolls out there - people who can speak and debate eloquently about contrary positions, and insult the hell out of their opponents to boot. Trump, well, he's just like angry Uncle Joe that no one wants at Thanksgiving. It may not be a (clinical, diagnose-able) mental state problem, but it definitely is a mental fitness problem, and not an attribute I want in a President.
Safe to say Africa's Ebola problems would be solved if they would stop eating bushmeat and doing weird witchcraft stuff to bodies after death.
The weird witchcraft stuff also extends to AIDS.
And safe to say the U.S. could solve its problems with diabetes if we stopped eating junkfood. And our problems with measles, pertussis, etc., if we stop doing weird anti-vax stuff.
Neither simplistic solution appears to extend to AIDS, however.
When will the first marketing company go to prison? In its entirety.
How do you propose to send Yelp, for instance, to prison "in its entirety"? Not to be too pedantic, but you can't send an incorporeal entity like "a company" to prison. I understand the desire (I would even advocate a corporate death penalty in some cases), but it's a physical impossibility. This has both positive and negative effects in our corporation-heavy reality, but there it is.
You have a fair point - Google committing a new feature doesn't obligate Verizon to use it. However, my original question still stands: "Wouldn't, say, Verizon using these carrier restrictions constitute a breach of contract or, at the least, a breach of faith with those requirements?"
The question pre-supposes that a carrier is using these new capabilities, then asks what the ramifications are.
Don't I recall that, in the United States' auction of 700 MHz bandwidth that eventually became LTE, there was a requirement that whoever owns the bandwidth must allow any compatible device to use it? Wouldn't, say, Verizon using these carrier restrictions constitute a breach of contract or, at the least, a breach of faith with those requirements?
Or is my recollection wrong, and what would have been a sound proposal in the initial auction rule-making neutered by lobbying pressure?
As for damages most transformers are filled with mineral oil.
Modern transformers are filled with mineral oil. Historically, they were filled with more exotic chemical brews. There are many still in use that are filled with PCBs, which are definitely not good for the environment.
It's more powerful than several government agencies
That may be a true statement. It's a naive view of "power," but you can argue the point if you'd like.
Even it what you assert is true, that doesn't mean there's a constitutional or government argument to be made about YouTube banning Alex Jones.. It's simply out of scope. Kind of like asking Sundar Pichai why your iPhone doesn't work.
I predict that when the coming resource crunch comes, if ever, the rising price of such-and-such raw material will rise enough that an alternative will emerge. Neodymium too costly? You can make a perfectly good electric generator using other magnets or inductance. Indium too expensive? Well, perhaps we won't use as many CIGS solar panels, and instead stick with silicon.
And, who knows, we'll probably be prospecting asteroids by 2050. If the cost for certain materials on earth is high enough, there may be a business case for it. Indium costs about $5/gram presently, or $5M/tonne. If there's a resource crunch and the cost goes up, say, 5-fold, perhaps someone will have enough incentive to mine asteroid indium for $25M/tonne.
Unless certificates are issued to all staff in the form of Class III cards, same as the US military use, and all emails are encrypted using certified correct chips (software is too easily infected as heartbleed showed) then you provide only the illusion of assurance.
I do not disagree. But practically speaking this seems like an impossible goal.
Given the fractured nature of healthcare in the U.S., getting everyone on the same page regarding encryption and certificates is more or less impossible. And as soon as one medical provider faces the least bit of inconvenience in getting information through encrypted channels, they will immediately (and probably forevermore) fall back on unencrypted channels.
Stupid human nature.
The only saving grace is that, if such encrypted procedures are mandated in most places most of the time, the attack surface is dramatically reduced compared to the present time.
At least in the UK's NHS they have a bit more control over the infrastructure and procedures - both in specifying them and in ensuring uniformity. I'm not saying that it is then easy or guaranteed to work, but it is at least in the realm of practical feasibility.
Why wouldn't it be? The fun of a motorcycle is the open road, feeling the wind, the speed and the power. What tech the bike uses to go forward doesn't matter so long as it goes.
Ever been to Sturgis? Laconia Bike Week? Any beach in the summer? Apparently, the fun of a motorcycle is heavily linked to its ability to make a shit-ton of noise. It's the ability to announce to everyone for half a mile that YOU ARE ENJOYING THE OPEN ROAD, BITCHES!
I'm not sure when someone's individual freedom to feel the wind and enjoy the open road gave them license to annoy the hell out of everyone in earshot, but apparently that is gospel in a significant portion of the bike set (and a subset of car and truck owners, too.)
Would motorcycles' popularity be as great if they were nearly silent?
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It's not that simple, because despite it's name, the Department of Energy is not primarily about the production and consumption of energy. Rather, it's primary mission is managing the U.S. nuclear weapons program: the design and manufacture of the weapons, making sure they still work, fundamental nuclear research, etc.
Here is the DoE FY2019 budget request fact sheet. It's a $30.6B department - tiny in the scope of the U.S. federal government. The top line item, fully one half of that budget, is "National Nuclear Security Administration".
Surprised? You're not alone. The present Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, also apparently didn't know that the DoE, ya know, doesn't do much with energy. That is, of course, when he wasn't forgetting about it entirely. Ooops.
And it's here, at the end of what I hope was an informative post, that I'll point out Obama's first DoE secretary was a Nobel laureate in physics.
Brings to mind this Penny Arcade classic: gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuude. That is deep.
The key point here is that man-in-the-middle attacks require that the MITM be undiscovered, otherwise you'll know you're being eavesdropped. Quantum key distribution allows for Alice and Bob to share a set of quantum keys without Chuck discovering those keys by MITM attack. Or, Chuck can discover those keys, but not without Alice and Bob knowing that Chuck has done so.
The result may be a denial of service (Alice and Bob can't talk, because they know Chuck will always discover their keys), but a silent MITM attack is not possible.
While this is true to a degree, it is an impractical standard for modern communications. How do you propose to have extensive communications between Alice and Bob without having a quick and easy mechanism for sharing and updating encryption keys? This new solution allows for the sharing of keys without (undiscovered) eavesdropping.
All the slashes removed. Some weird leading 'c' character. Editors?
Even when the things he says are obviously, demonstrably, and repeatedly incorrect? Don't you expect more from your leaders? I sure as hell do.
You are advocating that we hold workers at a company - probably the corporate officers in the C-suite - personally liable for the company's bad behavior. That is not an unreasonable position, and definitely one that I wish prosecutors availed themselves to more often. However, sending members of a company off to prison is hardly the same thing as imprisoning the actual prison, which is the the GP suggested. Even if you throw all the employees into prison, the company still exists as an entity.
I disagree. There is a difference for someone spouting unpopular opinions, not taking any guff off of anybody, etc., and the uninformed, incoherent drivel that comes from Trump's mouth. He seems to lack the ability to speak in complete sentences, goes off on rambling tangents, and refuses to accept contrary information.
There are plenty of articulate trolls out there - people who can speak and debate eloquently about contrary positions, and insult the hell out of their opponents to boot. Trump, well, he's just like angry Uncle Joe that no one wants at Thanksgiving. It may not be a (clinical, diagnose-able) mental state problem, but it definitely is a mental fitness problem, and not an attribute I want in a President.
And safe to say the U.S. could solve its problems with diabetes if we stopped eating junkfood. And our problems with measles, pertussis, etc., if we stop doing weird anti-vax stuff.
Neither simplistic solution appears to extend to AIDS, however.
See, I can be a public health expert, too!
How do you propose to send Yelp, for instance, to prison "in its entirety"? Not to be too pedantic, but you can't send an incorporeal entity like "a company" to prison. I understand the desire (I would even advocate a corporate death penalty in some cases), but it's a physical impossibility. This has both positive and negative effects in our corporation-heavy reality, but there it is.
You have a fair point - Google committing a new feature doesn't obligate Verizon to use it. However, my original question still stands: "Wouldn't, say, Verizon using these carrier restrictions constitute a breach of contract or, at the least, a breach of faith with those requirements?"
The question pre-supposes that a carrier is using these new capabilities, then asks what the ramifications are.
Don't I recall that, in the United States' auction of 700 MHz bandwidth that eventually became LTE, there was a requirement that whoever owns the bandwidth must allow any compatible device to use it? Wouldn't, say, Verizon using these carrier restrictions constitute a breach of contract or, at the least, a breach of faith with those requirements?
Or is my recollection wrong, and what would have been a sound proposal in the initial auction rule-making neutered by lobbying pressure?
Modern transformers are filled with mineral oil. Historically, they were filled with more exotic chemical brews. There are many still in use that are filled with PCBs, which are definitely not good for the environment.
Sounds like a job for Sangamon Taylor.
One million dollars! That's, like, 30 minutes' worth of Facebook's $16 billion net income from 2017. What an altruistic sacrifice!
That may be a true statement. It's a naive view of "power," but you can argue the point if you'd like.
Even it what you assert is true, that doesn't mean there's a constitutional or government argument to be made about YouTube banning Alex Jones.. It's simply out of scope. Kind of like asking Sundar Pichai why your iPhone doesn't work.
That's probably because we're supposed to be tired of winning by now. Personally, I'm fairly exhausted, but it doesn't feel like winning.
I predict that when the coming resource crunch comes, if ever, the rising price of such-and-such raw material will rise enough that an alternative will emerge. Neodymium too costly? You can make a perfectly good electric generator using other magnets or inductance. Indium too expensive? Well, perhaps we won't use as many CIGS solar panels, and instead stick with silicon.
And, who knows, we'll probably be prospecting asteroids by 2050. If the cost for certain materials on earth is high enough, there may be a business case for it. Indium costs about $5/gram presently, or $5M/tonne. If there's a resource crunch and the cost goes up, say, 5-fold, perhaps someone will have enough incentive to mine asteroid indium for $25M/tonne.
It means that it's time for Michael Bay to start work on Armageddon 2. [ref]
The scale of the manufacturing is indeed awesome, and the boldness of the 747 program is likewise good to remember.
However,...
How is a description of a 50-year old factory, which doesn't actually make the 747 anymore, qualify as news?
I do not disagree. But practically speaking this seems like an impossible goal.
Given the fractured nature of healthcare in the U.S., getting everyone on the same page regarding encryption and certificates is more or less impossible. And as soon as one medical provider faces the least bit of inconvenience in getting information through encrypted channels, they will immediately (and probably forevermore) fall back on unencrypted channels. Stupid human nature.
The only saving grace is that, if such encrypted procedures are mandated in most places most of the time, the attack surface is dramatically reduced compared to the present time.
At least in the UK's NHS they have a bit more control over the infrastructure and procedures - both in specifying them and in ensuring uniformity. I'm not saying that it is then easy or guaranteed to work, but it is at least in the realm of practical feasibility.
Could be but are not. (Spoken from experience as a former employee of medical facilities and as an observant patient.)
Hell, if they can get the same team that produced Clone High (wiki, youtube, imdb), I'd be all over that.
Ever been to Sturgis? Laconia Bike Week? Any beach in the summer? Apparently, the fun of a motorcycle is heavily linked to its ability to make a shit-ton of noise. It's the ability to announce to everyone for half a mile that YOU ARE ENJOYING THE OPEN ROAD, BITCHES!
I'm not sure when someone's individual freedom to feel the wind and enjoy the open road gave them license to annoy the hell out of everyone in earshot, but apparently that is gospel in a significant portion of the bike set (and a subset of car and truck owners, too.)
Would motorcycles' popularity be as great if they were nearly silent?
I'm sorry but you have a typo there. According to the beautiful people, it's supposed to be spelled 'u', not 'you'.