The Barbary pirates were a direct extension of national power using very high value strategic assets. While Cybersecurity attacks may come from nations they can just as easily come from criminal, religious, political groups, or even from a single person. The biggest difference is that the cost of many multiple is very low while military ships is very high. It is hard to make war on fanatics in 3rd world basement or crooks in cybercafes.
In this case hydrogen is not an energy source, it is an energy storage medium. Just a high density "battery". You still need to generate massive energy to make the hydrogen and you've added yet one more step that makes they whole precess a looser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EROEI). Furthermore, no one is sure if carbon sequesteration will really work and if it does work it will generate more green house gases go move the carbon and and ram it into the earth than it will sequester.
The solution is to dump the big fat cars, trucks and SUVs. Redesign our cities where we can enjoy walking to work. Build efficient, fast and luxurious rail transport. Stop air freighting fruit half-way around the world. Wall street is already making bets on oil prices to more than doubling to over $200/barrel in the near term. Our economy is going to restructure itself - plan on how you are going to fit into the new economy.
This is a very detailed patent with more prior art cited than I've seen in any other patent. The way prior art works is if they cite it and the patent office still approves it them they have a good shield against claiming that their invention is not novel. Be very careful about people spouting off that such and such idea was done twenty years ago as that is a bit like non-programmers saying that COBOL had variables, loops and other stuff and therefore there is no difference between C++, Forth, java script and COBOL.
Patents are not really about broad idea, but about very specific inventions/implementations. It is all really about the specifications (what the patent office calls claims). Next time you hear about a wacko patent, sit down and read the claims. And claims tend to be written almost as dense as BNF grammar. This patent has over 100 claims to wade through. There may be prior art for each one, but you can not even guess if there really is prior art or if the invention was obvious from the title.
Given some random losses from cables, connectors, etc in a wired system your 85% is in the range of what I'd expect on a wired system. That is an amazing achievement! COngragulations!
85% is amazing, but that is still 25% to 15% losses over existing losses due to battery charging and power supply conversion. Oh and don't forget over 50% losses due to thermo conversion (assuming burning carbon) and say another 50% loss due to transmission losses (assuming grid power). Once you multiply all of these tings together efficient electricity start looking less efficient.
MS has how many engineers working on IE. The bill might not be separate, but you are paying for it. In the case of the hot tub, perhaps the electric company does not bill you directly, but might just increase their base rate 20%. Rest assured that when the MBAs at MS run their numbers they are making sure you always par for IE and perhaps a little more because of the "value proposition" of it being already installed when you load windows.
The law and the facts here refer to a monopoly. Imagine if your electric company installed a hot tub in your house when you sighed up for electricity. Now having a hot tub can be nice, but maybe you did not want to pay for one, use one or perhaps you just wanted a different model. The trouble is your electric company didn't give you a choice. Even if you buy a different model you get the bill for the electric companies hot tub either way. Well, sure, you can try living off the grid, but if you want to buy electricity then you get a hot tub and in fact you get a brand X model 1234 because that is what the monopolistic electric company decided. Oh and good news I just heard that the electric company is installing new air compressors in every home next month - of course there will be a slight surcharge on your bill. Got a love the free market if you are a monopoly!
Helicopter traveling 100 MPH with dangling electromagnet and passes large metal object, such as a utility transformer, bolted to the ground: DO THE MATH!
The point of stealth is to reduce your RADAR signature to something equivalent of something say the size of a bumble bee. Or more correctly equivalent cross sectional area. The problem with this idea is that bumble bees do not travel at Mach 2 and thus it is hard for a stealth fighter to hide among a swarm of bumble bees. SO you get a weak signal traveling very fast. At that point it is just a matter of amplifiers and DSPs for real-time signal processing.
A great song about finding and selling an FBI tracking device by Darryl Cherney can be found at http://www.darrylcherney.com/realamericanlisten.htm There is even a line just like from the article, "We can neither confirmed nor deny..."
This just points to the short comings of English and the code writers jargonistic attempts at brevity. If they had always written, "he/she and or trans-gendered individuals," or "one or more individuals/partnerships/corporations or other legal entities," every time a simple pronoun or tense would do in normal speech then the code books would be twice as long end even more incomprehensible. Remember lawyers parse the code at the warning level 3 looking for an out. Laws are not written for well indented people, but for those bent on ill-will.
Seriously, consider a good liberal education. It lasts far longer than the current tech fad and with it you should be able to tech yourself from the foundation that you have been given to handle new challenges.
Style, needs and perceived quality change over time, but the only manuals I remember opening and thinking WOW! were the Apple manuals from the//e and GS era.
In the "terms of use" or "privacy" section of your web site place a very simple note:
"This company/web site has never been served a national security letter and has never disclosed any information under a national security letter"
While I am sure that they could find a judge to compel you to keep such an announcement up even after you have received such a letter, such a statement can have a powerful viral effect. Also, find those privacy links at the bottom of the page and ask them if they have been served letters. If they say no ask them to place such a public statement on their web site.
As long as nobody is talking to those hit by these letter, the victims are just going to hunker down, keep quite and hope it all blows over. Once we start seeing who and what is hiding in the shadows the real problem may become clear. Turning on a little light can chase the cockroaches away.
So how about it SlashDot? Have you ever been served?
Standardizing the OS is unimportant. Even the web is OS neutral, r.g., HTML, PDF, MP3, etc. The industry just need to define open file/transport protocols and let the handset makers innovate all that they want.
There are "commercial grade" ballast that can be retrofitted into recessed ceiling "cans" that accept replaceable bulbs and are in wide use in non-residential use.
I agree with you that what you find at big box retailers is limited and substandard quality, but what do you expect from *mart, *depot, *co, etc. The cost of making a dimmable electronic ballast is only slightly more than a non-dimmable electronic ballast. See http://www.irf.com/product-info/lighting/fluormain .html There are just so few dimmabel CFLs in the mass market that they fetch a premium. If you really want to just pay 69 cents for a bulb then stick with massive power bills. Similar deal with bulb color/quality.
What you are seeing is the inefficient market created by the wallmart effect - lower quality and smaller selection. If you want something worth paying for go find an industrial bulb supplier and invest in something that will really last 10 years and provide high quality light at 100 ln/W. Check out ballasts that accept replaceable compact fluorescent bulbs. You may not always get what you pay for, but you'll never get what you didn't pay for.
One other reason for shortened life on CFLs is that they are electronic and if the manufacturer skimps on surge suppressors they'll die then they get spiked, but every body on/. already has installed whole house surge suppressors at their breaker box so this is not a problem, right?????
Typical tungsten bulbs are about 15 lumens/Watt. The HEI described get only 30 ln/W. Your old stand-by T12 fluorescent tube in the drop ceiling troffer of a old style cube farm get 50 lm/W. Currently available T5 tubes get 100+ ln/W with improved performance on the way. There are dimmable CFLs out there. Controlling fluorescent brightness is very simple in modern high frequency electronic ballast with PWM. The reason you do not see more dimmable CFLs is due to the small increased cost. In the long run, CFLs are a less optimized solution compared to separating the ballast from the bulb as you might see in many commercial (and some residential) recessed can fixtures. Why replace the ballast every time the bulb goes (hint: CFLs fit into existing sockets)? Also, the old color, flicker and lifespan issure are a tthing of the past with modern electronic fluorescent ballasts. While great tings are promised in LEDs (>150 lm/W), the best LED bulbs that I've seen are only 25 ln/W, but I'm sure there are better out there.
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The Barbary pirates were a direct extension of national power using very high value strategic assets. While Cybersecurity attacks may come from nations they can just as easily come from criminal, religious, political groups, or even from a single person. The biggest difference is that the cost of many multiple is very low while military ships is very high. It is hard to make war on fanatics in 3rd world basement or crooks in cybercafes.
"Community Fiber" could always be shortened to ComFiber or abused to ComFib, bit it indicates the tech and the social mission for the community.
The parent sounds flippant, but in fact that is how it was done for decades. Why not jut go back to the way it was rather than pay $Bs
The solution is to dump the big fat cars, trucks and SUVs. Redesign our cities where we can enjoy walking to work. Build efficient, fast and luxurious rail transport. Stop air freighting fruit half-way around the world. Wall street is already making bets on oil prices to more than doubling to over $200/barrel in the near term. Our economy is going to restructure itself - plan on how you are going to fit into the new economy.
Patents are not really about broad idea, but about very specific inventions/implementations. It is all really about the specifications (what the patent office calls claims). Next time you hear about a wacko patent, sit down and read the claims. And claims tend to be written almost as dense as BNF grammar. This patent has over 100 claims to wade through. There may be prior art for each one, but you can not even guess if there really is prior art or if the invention was obvious from the title.
Chris Knight is that you? Did you build another http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/ megawatt laser ? Seen Jordan Cochran lately?
Given some random losses from cables, connectors, etc in a wired system your 85% is in the range of what I'd expect on a wired system. That is an amazing achievement! COngragulations!
85% is amazing, but that is still 25% to 15% losses over existing losses due to battery charging and power supply conversion. Oh and don't forget over 50% losses due to thermo conversion (assuming burning carbon) and say another 50% loss due to transmission losses (assuming grid power). Once you multiply all of these tings together efficient electricity start looking less efficient.
MS has how many engineers working on IE. The bill might not be separate, but you are paying for it. In the case of the hot tub, perhaps the electric company does not bill you directly, but might just increase their base rate 20%. Rest assured that when the MBAs at MS run their numbers they are making sure you always par for IE and perhaps a little more because of the "value proposition" of it being already installed when you load windows.
Inductive charging is way cool, but is not very efficient.
Helicopter traveling 100 MPH with dangling electromagnet and passes large metal object, such as a utility transformer, bolted to the ground: DO THE MATH!
The point of stealth is to reduce your RADAR signature to something equivalent of something say the size of a bumble bee. Or more correctly equivalent cross sectional area. The problem with this idea is that bumble bees do not travel at Mach 2 and thus it is hard for a stealth fighter to hide among a swarm of bumble bees. SO you get a weak signal traveling very fast. At that point it is just a matter of amplifiers and DSPs for real-time signal processing.
A great song about finding and selling an FBI tracking device by Darryl Cherney can be found at http://www.darrylcherney.com/realamericanlisten.htm There is even a line just like from the article, "We can neither confirmed nor deny..."
And Rockhound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Buscemi/) Steve Buscemi was born on Friday the 13th.
This just points to the short comings of English and the code writers jargonistic attempts at brevity. If they had always written, "he/she and or trans-gendered individuals," or "one or more individuals/partnerships/corporations or other legal entities," every time a simple pronoun or tense would do in normal speech then the code books would be twice as long end even more incomprehensible. Remember lawyers parse the code at the warning level 3 looking for an out. Laws are not written for well indented people, but for those bent on ill-will.
Seriously, consider a good liberal education. It lasts far longer than the current tech fad and with it you should be able to tech yourself from the foundation that you have been given to handle new challenges.
Is it just me or is /. feeling more like a PR site for MS products than new news for nerds?
Style, needs and perceived quality change over time, but the only manuals I remember opening and thinking WOW! were the Apple manuals from the //e and GS era.
"This company/web site has never been served a national security letter and has never disclosed any information under a national security letter"
While I am sure that they could find a judge to compel you to keep such an announcement up even after you have received such a letter, such a statement can have a powerful viral effect. Also, find those privacy links at the bottom of the page and ask them if they have been served letters. If they say no ask them to place such a public statement on their web site.
As long as nobody is talking to those hit by these letter, the victims are just going to hunker down, keep quite and hope it all blows over. Once we start seeing who and what is hiding in the shadows the real problem may become clear. Turning on a little light can chase the cockroaches away.
So how about it SlashDot? Have you ever been served?
Google is your friend http://cnwmr.com/ Does this guy, Art Spinella, really live aboard the "chiquita" in Bandon, Oregon? And do we have any questions that this guy works http://cnwmr.com/nss-folder/waveviiisummary/Purcha seProcessExecutiveSummaryWaveIX.pdf for Detroit?
Standardizing the OS is unimportant. Even the web is OS neutral, r.g., HTML, PDF, MP3, etc. The industry just need to define open file/transport protocols and let the handset makers innovate all that they want.
There are "commercial grade" ballast that can be retrofitted into recessed ceiling "cans" that accept replaceable bulbs and are in wide use in non-residential use.
What you are seeing is the inefficient market created by the wallmart effect - lower quality and smaller selection. If you want something worth paying for go find an industrial bulb supplier and invest in something that will really last 10 years and provide high quality light at 100 ln/W. Check out ballasts that accept replaceable compact fluorescent bulbs. You may not always get what you pay for, but you'll never get what you didn't pay for.
One other reason for shortened life on CFLs is that they are electronic and if the manufacturer skimps on surge suppressors they'll die then they get spiked, but every body on /. already has installed whole house surge suppressors at their breaker box so this is not a problem, right?????
Typical tungsten bulbs are about 15 lumens/Watt. The HEI described get only 30 ln/W. Your old stand-by T12 fluorescent tube in the drop ceiling troffer of a old style cube farm get 50 lm/W. Currently available T5 tubes get 100+ ln/W with improved performance on the way. There are dimmable CFLs out there. Controlling fluorescent brightness is very simple in modern high frequency electronic ballast with PWM. The reason you do not see more dimmable CFLs is due to the small increased cost. In the long run, CFLs are a less optimized solution compared to separating the ballast from the bulb as you might see in many commercial (and some residential) recessed can fixtures. Why replace the ballast every time the bulb goes (hint: CFLs fit into existing sockets)? Also, the old color, flicker and lifespan issure are a tthing of the past with modern electronic fluorescent ballasts. While great tings are promised in LEDs (>150 lm/W), the best LED bulbs that I've seen are only 25 ln/W, but I'm sure there are better out there.