These guys Leon and Joseph working at their fancy 'university' are clearly on an ego trip, revealing such secret information through their 'research', and publishing it through their rogue 'scientific journal'. They should put a warrant out for these guys, or better yet, an assassination drone.
The real cost of this 'free information'! Will nobody think of the innocent TSA agents this will embarrass? How can the security industry survive if you keep downing their products with such facts. Security and survaillance systems, voting machines - all information on such vital systems to our democracy and freedom must remain a secret to protect our innocent pretty little heads.
And Soulskill! how dare you post 'a story' here with and actual link to the original document in PDF format! you are not helping anybody. How will the link farm owners buy new shoes for their kids now? Will nobody think of the kids! They could've at least included some x-rays of kids on their paper - to demonstrate how effective the machine are at showing every part and crevice of their bodies.
I don't trust the BBC. They got flying circuses and time-traveling phone booths over there...
It's not a phone booth you insensitive clod.
Its a Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space or TARDIS time machine, with a chameleon circuit stuck as a 1950's London Police Box left behind by the Time Lords.
Be more careful next time. Some of us haven't got endless tea to spill.
Ha! shudder, and expect to be modded into oblivion for speaking against our beloved open-whatever icons (any non-Apple thing will do these days)...
The Holy Narrative is clear. Thou shall not mention any good deed or though associated with OSX nor their hardware - for that would amount to heresy. Steve's sheeple should forever be cursed in their locked walled (BSD UNIX actually) gardens.
I'm writing this on my MacBook Pro, my other work machines are Windows PC's. I administer a UNIX server at the laboratory. I do most of my work on LabView and AutoCAD. I edit my photos with Photoshop and I drive my Ford to the local supermarket at the mall and buy the biggest brand cereal. And in the evening I sooth myself with a bottle of JD.
I use stuff so I can be productive and happy. I dislike smug people who announce their dislike of stuff so they can feel superior to me. They're not. They are just voicing their own failure at being happy.
Oh, and TFA: Nokia should stick with Meeguu - its the only chance they have in the face of technically superior handsets from HTC and superior user experience/cool-factor from Apple. Otherwise they're just a redundant manufacturer of slightly better quality handsets that cost more and don't look cool. A virtual death sentence in the mobile market. As for/.... nobody gives a thing what you think - the mobile market is even more brainless-consumer oriented then Apple's if you know what I mean.
Yes of course. Just like the Easter islanders could've sustained their food production on the island by using sea based inputs for food and fertializer, forest gardening, population control. You know, the simple easy stuff...
...rather than cut down the island of all trees, fight wars and starve while build hundreds of identical stone images of their gods. But we could never be that silly?
Also while you're at it, can you suggest how to build a bigger spout for crude oil production - you know - extraction of hydrocarbons from the earth which are the main liquid fuel source that runs the global economy. Cause, you know, the petrolium engineers have been having an awful time lately, since 2005 to be precise when their production number peaked at 73 mbpd and has been declining ever since. You know. Something in the order of magnitude better than the Enhanced Recovery techniques that have been applied on all the declining oil fields of the world for the past 20 years... You see, we might still need cheap plentiful oil for a while in order to build all those space ships that will take us to your Star Trek universe or Sugarcandy Mountain or what was it?
actually most of them on modern aircraft are cooled with jet fuel.
Wrong. You are confusing jet engine components which are cooled with the fuel. Avionics racks are sometimes cooled with bleed air from the engine (no, not the exhaust, the other side).
What is the purpose of this post? What does it even mean? What is the purpose of posting a link to a nebulous summary of a highly suggestive report on an extremely politically charged subject on a site that bills itself "News for Nerds"?
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(and that's not just a/. cliché. Douglas Adams was an advocate of conservation and made many humorous references in H2G2 to a human downfall through ecological negligence - so there!)
Quick, someone say "we're using the resources at a larger rate than the earth can provide" ! before the cornucopians come out of their caves to declare infinite growth through infinite resources.
Not only that but the system restricts writing data to a file in the first place and compartmentalizes what you can access according need-to-know.
But nobody is suggesting Manning was any smarter than though. He merely had broader access to the system than we assume a normal user would.
If you look at the data and see it as just a flat-life database its quite easy to see a reason for its initial creation and many applications for it; you can draw time lines with it, categorize events according to action, unit, geographic location, then play with graphs and maps. It doesn't take long for someone to find it difficult to work with it on a restricted system. So they find a way, even authorization, to bring the file to a more open system. After that the data is free to go anywhere. What do you think? Is that what happened?
The video shows a full size rack with 36 standard 1U rack servers installed on it.
On each server they have installed milled metal blocks on all the components to bring them in contact with the upper cover of the server which has a metal foil interface to complete the fit for maximum heat conduction.
The actual coolant is circulated in the rack in cold plates or shelves installed between the servers. Coolant is exchanged from the top of the racks into the piping that takes it to the heat exchanger outside.
Comment: with this kind of system cooling is a function of the coolant temperature and flow. With the metal blocks, interfaces and surface areas that I could see it is nothing special to be able to cool down the components to very low temperatures. The engineer talks of 450 W dissipation per server with 150W previously going to the fans alone. So getting 300W of heat out of there isn't a problem with a cold plate that size. Military avionics use these a lot: Conduction Cooled cPCI and other standard cards. No need for liquid flow even. Just use aircraft structure as a cold plate. Those custom milled metal interfaces are expensive to make but its still a lot cheaper than anything really MILSPEC and there is no issues with vibration on this one. This would be called modified COTS.
In what way is your blurb insightful? What was your point? Other than that the Afghan War Diary didn't surprise you or that you think Pentagon is incompetent?
Perhaps as a 'veteran' you could talk about what you think about the actual intel. You know its all online still. Just waiting for people like for your opinion on it...
I'd rather than listen to such than endless irrelevant ad hominem comments about Assange.
Surely you know Intelligence management is about compromise. Yes you could have only terminal access and no external data connections and limit them to closely vetted people who sign for each access but that would limit the usefulness of the data too much. You cannot put too much restrictions on data access and distribution if you want to use that data widely and frequently. As a result this kind of low level stuff gets 'leaked' all the time: people working on it have it on their laptops, USB dongles, websites etc. They send it via email attachments to research partners, policy interest groups, friends. It just rarely gets into the news cause no one much cares or gets caught. But if this is news to you...
Wikileaks has yet to admit that the troops in Afghanistan are fighting a decent war.
Wikileaks hasn't claimed any of the conspiracy nut theories you refer to. They just release intel. Nor do they have to admit to anything for this reason: anyone can look at the intel and make up their minds themselves about how well the 'war' is going.
As for own sad delusion about "news crew teaming up with insurgent RPG team" (for which even the military themselves dont believe in)...
" People won't change their thinking even if X turns out to be different. Because they're just using X as an easy rationalisation for their existing bias."
- Khasim (1285)
People wouldn't change their behaviour even if X was different. They're just using X as an easy rationalisation for their existing bias.
Actually, it has gotten a great deal of press, but it is a bit incorrect. Wikileaks did disclose the names of several Afghanistan operatives, potentially putting them at risk of retaliation by the Taliban.
Exactly what part of "there has been no indication' that any Afghans who have collaborated with the NATO occupation have been harmed as a result of the leaks" are you having trouble with?
Wimax isn't real 4G. Its just a crappy extension of Wifi. Hence the spottyness.
Here at Tampere I'm able to get 8Mbps 10km from the city with the good old 3G network using HSPA+. Beats my ADSL over POTS. And the connection degrades gracefully via WDCMA -> EDGE -> GPRS as you reach countryside. See our coverage map. Carriers here are ignoring Wimax and are building LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks already. Check out Oslo or Stockholm for city wide operational networks if you're visiting.
I happen to live over 10km from the City of Tampere and still get 8Mbps download 800k upload of stable stream of data transfer. And soon we'll have a 4G / LTE network that'll able to give about 40 / 5 Mbps. Still slower than my 100MB fiber at home though...
Manufacturing physically larger monitors (up to a point) is more expensive then making the same pixel area wider with less height. Industry thus advertised higher dpi and 'wide-screen' formats as top of the line and encourage consumers to buy 'higher definition' monitors.
Generally for portable use this sense because you get more pixels to carry with you but making the pixels smaller makes has two adverse effects:
Most software and web content still uses fixed-width elements such as bitmap graphics. As software and websites get older the resolution/monitor size they were optimized for (basically what the developed thought nice) look smaller and smaller in higher definition monitors - to a point where it begins to effect usability (text on fixed width or bitmap buttons too small to read).
Smaller but not less important are developers and graphic designers who would like work with graphics at a pixel level. For these purposes these people would like to buy lower definition screens where you can still see pixels at a relatively comfortable distance but which have lots of workspace ie. inches.
Using fully vectorized elements and graphics and allowing for smooth scaling of the user interface solves this problem but implementing such is harder because fixed width and static resolutions are easier to optimize (for example in many games 3D graphics have been overlayed with fixed width bitmap elements which accelerate real time frame rate). In web graphics because of immaturity of tools, standards and browsers not all elements scale in unison or at all causing web pages to display not as the designer intended (again depending on the size of the difference between his and your resolution preference). Also most operating systems and their window schemes are optimized for certain resolutions and width to height ratios. You can turn the monitor 90 degrees but some OS and software UI:s look bad or even get broken.
Finding large 'normal' (ie less than 100dpi or heaven forbid 72dpi DTP standard) 4:3 monitors these days is a pain. I use two 19" 4:3 monitors with 1280x1024 native resolution. this allows me to sit back at a comfortable distance while still being able to see most fixed width elements. The 4:3 remains the optimum ratio for most software UI:s in full screen. On my ultrawide laptop their UI:s get squeezed vertically and end up having redundant space in the horizontal.
And the laws of thermodynamics would like to hit you over the head. Not an energy source, won't scale, etc. etc. been there, argued that...
And aside from that - Peak Oil isn't about alternative energy sources - sure tomorrow we could find new unobtainium deposits to replace oil but Peak Oil would still happen because that is the nature of depletion of resource deposits. And then we would be waiting for the Peak unobtainium next. There is no engineering solution around Peak Oil because there is nothing much left to engineer in terms of improving on crude discovery or rate of extraction. And in fact the more we will 'improve' on rate of extraction the steeper will be the curve when we come down from the peak. Happy days ahead.
Its so simple. 'You' were wrong in 1970 - "haha" - therefore any prediction of oil running out, including the fact that oil is running out right now and has ran out any many places already, will be automatically dismissed and ridiculed by us no matter what. No analysis, no fact checking, onward christian straw men...
Peak Oil is not the same thing as running out of oil.
What these systems analysts working for the military industrial complex are saying is that the rate of production of oil can no longer keep up with our increasing demand for it. And increased demand does not automatically create new oil into the market forever - the same way that the hunger of the economists locked up in my cellar do not create sandwiched for them. At some point the 'laws' of economics meet the laws of physics - one of them wins and its called resource depletion.
Resource depletion is just that: depletion. Initially you discover a resource, you bring it to production at a certain rate. That rate is not arbitrary. The more 'contact area' you have with the resource, the greater the rate can be. Eventually however the resource depletes to a 'level' where your contact area can no longer increase but begins to decrease. From this point on your rate of production will decrease no matter what until the resource is exhausted or the rate of production no longer justifies continuing. The rate of discovery did peak at 1970. Finally now its the turn of production.
This is exactly what you are taught if you're into petroleum engineer. The rigs out there aren't simply sinking their pipes into liquid gold and sucking free money to the surface. Every stake is carefully evaluated, every well is a huge risk to take. Will it produce, at what rate and for how long? And there is no technological fixes left. We have already thrown the kitchen sink into the play for decades: from 3D-seismic modeling, from fracturing to horizontal drilling. All used extensively in all the largest oil fields of the world - most of which are now in decline. The reason is that many of these 'production enhancing technologies' are just 'super straws': they artificially increase your initial rate of production - but they don't increase the amount of oil down there - you are just sucking it dry faster. There is no engineering around Peak Oil.
The many years I have been following theoildrum and I have come to learn a great deal about the capability of people to deny and dismiss the reality around them. With the global warming it was way too easy for them - the science was difficult even for the experts. With Peak Oil it was always only misunderstanding or pure ignorance that worked - because a lot of the facts were out there plain to see with no complex math involved. In fact there was no debate amongst the 'experts' either. Any rig hand you talked to seemed to know exactly what you were talking about and some of the big oil companies like Shell, PB for example are now publicly talking about Peak Oil as well as some governments and the military are starting to publicly use the Peak Oil term.
What is left then for the denilists? Hide in slashdot world? At least have the courtesy of informing yourself and coming up with more then the lame same cliches. There is the mandatory criticism section down there although its been struggling recently. Good luck.
Import the following to registry:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:blahenterrandomlettershere"
It will cause windows to ignore anything inside autorun.inf by replacing the content with non-existing entry ie. null.
Delete this branch from registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2
It will wipe away any cached mountpoints and their autorun information.
Disclaimer: This will disable the USB autorun related vector for malicious code as well as any other mounted media or network resource. 'Autoplay' and all its features will still function the way you set them. This fix will break anything that depends on code inside autorun.inf ie. say goodbye to nice 'automatic installation', drive media renaming or placing nice icons to itself etc. Mostly useless stuff. Some special usb-sticks with software features built on autorun might not work anymore. Sad.
1. piss off the establishment and make yourself a counterculture hero 2. rape anyone you like and claim any accusations are a conspiracy 3. have the internet hail you as a wronged savior and get away with it.
GASP! this is what gets moderated as insightful these days!
So the laser took three seconds to burn a whole in the rather unreflective fuselage of the target drone! but would melt anything but a 'perfect' mirror in microseconds. But let us humor this point one moment further and calculate 32kJ / 3E6 = 0.032J... some of my less intense emotions about this thread have more energy than that!
And further down the thread these brilliant commenteers further apologise how 'perfect' the mirrors inside lasers are and their so special you cant possible coat anything but laser components like that. Narrow bandwidth my rearend!
Try burning a freaking hole onto a polished (90% reflectivity) aircraft grade fuselage with your now 3.2kW laser. Absoption, melting point, mass, heat capacity, heat conductivity... I'll leave it all as an exercise to these enlightened enthusiasts.
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These guys Leon and Joseph working at their fancy 'university' are clearly on an ego trip, revealing such secret information through their 'research', and publishing it through their rogue 'scientific journal'. They should put a warrant out for these guys, or better yet, an assassination drone.
The real cost of this 'free information'! Will nobody think of the innocent TSA agents this will embarrass? How can the security industry survive if you keep downing their products with such facts. Security and survaillance systems, voting machines - all information on such vital systems to our democracy and freedom must remain a secret to protect our innocent pretty little heads.
And Soulskill! how dare you post 'a story' here with and actual link to the original document in PDF format! you are not helping anybody. How will the link farm owners buy new shoes for their kids now? Will nobody think of the kids! They could've at least included some x-rays of kids on their paper - to demonstrate how effective the machine are at showing every part and crevice of their bodies.
Do I need to change my bookmark for slashdot.org to fuddot.org?
No, that would be bashapple.org
I don't trust the BBC. They got flying circuses and time-traveling phone booths over there...
It's not a phone booth you insensitive clod.
Its a Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space or TARDIS time machine, with a chameleon circuit stuck as a 1950's London Police Box left behind by the Time Lords.
Be more careful next time. Some of us haven't got endless tea to spill.
- Auntie
Ha! shudder, and expect to be modded into oblivion for speaking against our beloved open-whatever icons (any non-Apple thing will do these days)...
The Holy Narrative is clear. Thou shall not mention any good deed or though associated with OSX nor their hardware - for that would amount to heresy. Steve's sheeple should forever be cursed in their locked walled (BSD UNIX actually) gardens.
Sincerely /. thought police.
I'm writing this on my MacBook Pro, my other work machines are Windows PC's. I administer a UNIX server at the laboratory. I do most of my work on LabView and AutoCAD. I edit my photos with Photoshop and I drive my Ford to the local supermarket at the mall and buy the biggest brand cereal. And in the evening I sooth myself with a bottle of JD.
I use stuff so I can be productive and happy. I dislike smug people who announce their dislike of stuff so they can feel superior to me. They're not. They are just voicing their own failure at being happy.
Oh, and TFA: Nokia should stick with Meeguu - its the only chance they have in the face of technically superior handsets from HTC and superior user experience/cool-factor from Apple. Otherwise they're just a redundant manufacturer of slightly better quality handsets that cost more and don't look cool. A virtual death sentence in the mobile market. As for /. ... nobody gives a thing what you think - the mobile market is even more brainless-consumer oriented then Apple's if you know what I mean.
Yes of course. Just like the Easter islanders could've sustained their food production on the island by using sea based inputs for food and fertializer, forest gardening, population control. You know, the simple easy stuff...
...rather than cut down the island of all trees, fight wars and starve while build hundreds of identical stone images of their gods. But we could never be that silly?
Also while you're at it, can you suggest how to build a bigger spout for crude oil production - you know - extraction of hydrocarbons from the earth which are the main liquid fuel source that runs the global economy. Cause, you know, the petrolium engineers have been having an awful time lately, since 2005 to be precise when their production number peaked at 73 mbpd and has been declining ever since. You know. Something in the order of magnitude better than the Enhanced Recovery techniques that have been applied on all the declining oil fields of the world for the past 20 years... You see, we might still need cheap plentiful oil for a while in order to build all those space ships that will take us to your Star Trek universe or Sugarcandy Mountain or what was it?
I'm sure something will happen in 2013...
However meanwhile US crude production peaked in '71
North sea (Brent) peaked for UK in '99 and for Norway in 2001
The world production of crude oil peaked in 2005 at 73mbpd.
We haven't been able to produce more since despite prices peaking at 140USD, Enhanced Oil Recovery and Drill Baby Drill!
Since then we have seen the whole globe slide into recession, the first drop in vehicle miles driven since the invention of the automobile... etc.
But I blame those pesky enviros. How dare they disturb my slumber with their 'facts'!
actually most of them on modern aircraft are cooled with jet fuel.
Wrong. You are confusing jet engine components which are cooled with the fuel. Avionics racks are sometimes cooled with bleed air from the engine (no, not the exhaust, the other side).
Get out of your mom's basement. You don't work for the military. In fact, you don't work.
Actually you are only right about the moms basement ;P (as we live together with our extended families)
What is the purpose of this post? What does it even mean? What is the purpose of posting a link to a nebulous summary of a highly suggestive report on an extremely politically charged subject on a site that bills itself "News for Nerds"?
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(and that's not just a /. cliché. Douglas Adams was an advocate of conservation and made many humorous references in H2G2 to a human downfall through ecological negligence - so there!)
Quick, someone say "we're using the resources at a larger rate than the earth can provide" ! before the cornucopians come out of their caves to declare infinite growth through infinite resources.
The bottle maybe big but the spout is killing us.
Not only that but the system restricts writing data to a file in the first place and compartmentalizes what you can access according need-to-know.
But nobody is suggesting Manning was any smarter than though. He merely had broader access to the system than we assume a normal user would.
If you look at the data and see it as just a flat-life database its quite easy to see a reason for its initial creation and many applications for it; you can draw time lines with it, categorize events according to action, unit, geographic location, then play with graphs and maps. It doesn't take long for someone to find it difficult to work with it on a restricted system. So they find a way, even authorization, to bring the file to a more open system. After that the data is free to go anywhere. What do you think? Is that what happened?
The video shows a full size rack with 36 standard 1U rack servers installed on it.
On each server they have installed milled metal blocks on all the components to bring them in contact with the upper cover of the server which has a metal foil interface to complete the fit for maximum heat conduction.
The actual coolant is circulated in the rack in cold plates or shelves installed between the servers. Coolant is exchanged from the top of the racks into the piping that takes it to the heat exchanger outside.
Comment: with this kind of system cooling is a function of the coolant temperature and flow. With the metal blocks, interfaces and surface areas that I could see it is nothing special to be able to cool down the components to very low temperatures. The engineer talks of 450 W dissipation per server with 150W previously going to the fans alone. So getting 300W of heat out of there isn't a problem with a cold plate that size. Military avionics use these a lot: Conduction Cooled cPCI and other standard cards. No need for liquid flow even. Just use aircraft structure as a cold plate. Those custom milled metal interfaces are expensive to make but its still a lot cheaper than anything really MILSPEC and there is no issues with vibration on this one. This would be called modified COTS.
Perhaps as a 'veteran' you could talk about what you think about the actual intel. You know its all online still. Just waiting for people like for your opinion on it ...
I'd rather than listen to such than endless irrelevant ad hominem comments about Assange.
Surely you know Intelligence management is about compromise. Yes you could have only terminal access and no external data connections and limit them to closely vetted people who sign for each access but that would limit the usefulness of the data too much. You cannot put too much restrictions on data access and distribution if you want to use that data widely and frequently. As a result this kind of low level stuff gets 'leaked' all the time: people working on it have it on their laptops, USB dongles, websites etc. They send it via email attachments to research partners, policy interest groups, friends. It just rarely gets into the news cause no one much cares or gets caught. But if this is news to you ...
Wikileaks has yet to admit that the troops in Afghanistan are fighting a decent war.
Wikileaks hasn't claimed any of the conspiracy nut theories you refer to. They just release intel. Nor do they have to admit to anything for this reason: anyone can look at the intel and make up their minds themselves about how well the 'war' is going.
As for own sad delusion about "news crew teaming up with insurgent RPG team" (for which even the military themselves dont believe in)...
" People won't change their thinking even if X turns out to be different. Because they're just using X as an easy rationalisation for their existing bias." - Khasim (1285)
People wouldn't change their behaviour even if X was different. They're just using X as an easy rationalisation for their existing bias.
Actually, it has gotten a great deal of press, but it is a bit incorrect. Wikileaks did disclose the names of several Afghanistan operatives, potentially putting them at risk of retaliation by the Taliban.
Exactly what part of "there has been no indication' that any Afghans who have collaborated with the NATO occupation have been harmed as a result of the leaks" are you having trouble with?
Maybe he is just illustrating the principle.
Yes, please. Everyone line-up here:
-
to apologize for claiming patriotism and being a tool by shouting on previous threads here that Wikileaks had got people killed in Afghanistan.
Writing a hundred times: "I will not watch FOX anymore" should do it.
Wimax isn't real 4G. Its just a crappy extension of Wifi. Hence the spottyness.
Here at Tampere I'm able to get 8Mbps 10km from the city with the good old 3G network using HSPA+. Beats my ADSL over POTS. And the connection degrades gracefully via WDCMA -> EDGE -> GPRS as you reach countryside. See our coverage map. Carriers here are ignoring Wimax and are building LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks already. Check out Oslo or Stockholm for city wide operational networks if you're visiting.
Ha, you primitive USians. Bow down in front of our superior socialist mobile market.
Even the donkeys in Portugal have higher speeds then you !
Here's a coverage map for one of our local operators in Finland.
I happen to live over 10km from the City of Tampere and still get 8Mbps download 800k upload of stable stream of data transfer. And soon we'll have a 4G / LTE network that'll able to give about 40 / 5 Mbps. Still slower than my 100MB fiber at home though...
Manufacturing physically larger monitors (up to a point) is more expensive then making the same pixel area wider with less height. Industry thus advertised higher dpi and 'wide-screen' formats as top of the line and encourage consumers to buy 'higher definition' monitors.
Generally for portable use this sense because you get more pixels to carry with you but making the pixels smaller makes has two adverse effects:
Most software and web content still uses fixed-width elements such as bitmap graphics. As software and websites get older the resolution/monitor size they were optimized for (basically what the developed thought nice) look smaller and smaller in higher definition monitors - to a point where it begins to effect usability (text on fixed width or bitmap buttons too small to read).
Smaller but not less important are developers and graphic designers who would like work with graphics at a pixel level. For these purposes these people would like to buy lower definition screens where you can still see pixels at a relatively comfortable distance but which have lots of workspace ie. inches.
Using fully vectorized elements and graphics and allowing for smooth scaling of the user interface solves this problem but implementing such is harder because fixed width and static resolutions are easier to optimize (for example in many games 3D graphics have been overlayed with fixed width bitmap elements which accelerate real time frame rate). In web graphics because of immaturity of tools, standards and browsers not all elements scale in unison or at all causing web pages to display not as the designer intended (again depending on the size of the difference between his and your resolution preference). Also most operating systems and their window schemes are optimized for certain resolutions and width to height ratios. You can turn the monitor 90 degrees but some OS and software UI:s look bad or even get broken.
Finding large 'normal' (ie less than 100dpi or heaven forbid 72dpi DTP standard) 4:3 monitors these days is a pain. I use two 19" 4:3 monitors with 1280x1024 native resolution. this allows me to sit back at a comfortable distance while still being able to see most fixed width elements. The 4:3 remains the optimum ratio for most software UI:s in full screen. On my ultrawide laptop their UI:s get squeezed vertically and end up having redundant space in the horizontal.
The 1920s would like to have a talk with you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process
And the laws of thermodynamics would like to hit you over the head. Not an energy source, won't scale, etc. etc. been there, argued that...
And aside from that - Peak Oil isn't about alternative energy sources - sure tomorrow we could find new unobtainium deposits to replace oil but Peak Oil would still happen because that is the nature of depletion of resource deposits. And then we would be waiting for the Peak unobtainium next. There is no engineering solution around Peak Oil because there is nothing much left to engineer in terms of improving on crude discovery or rate of extraction. And in fact the more we will 'improve' on rate of extraction the steeper will be the curve when we come down from the peak. Happy days ahead.
Its so simple. 'You' were wrong in 1970 - "haha" - therefore any prediction of oil running out, including the fact that oil is running out right now and has ran out any many places already, will be automatically dismissed and ridiculed by us no matter what. No analysis, no fact checking, onward christian straw men...
Peak Oil is not the same thing as running out of oil.
What these systems analysts working for the military industrial complex are saying is that the rate of production of oil can no longer keep up with our increasing demand for it. And increased demand does not automatically create new oil into the market forever - the same way that the hunger of the economists locked up in my cellar do not create sandwiched for them. At some point the 'laws' of economics meet the laws of physics - one of them wins and its called resource depletion.
Resource depletion is just that: depletion. Initially you discover a resource, you bring it to production at a certain rate. That rate is not arbitrary. The more 'contact area' you have with the resource, the greater the rate can be. Eventually however the resource depletes to a 'level' where your contact area can no longer increase but begins to decrease. From this point on your rate of production will decrease no matter what until the resource is exhausted or the rate of production no longer justifies continuing. The rate of discovery did peak at 1970. Finally now its the turn of production.
This is exactly what you are taught if you're into petroleum engineer. The rigs out there aren't simply sinking their pipes into liquid gold and sucking free money to the surface. Every stake is carefully evaluated, every well is a huge risk to take. Will it produce, at what rate and for how long? And there is no technological fixes left. We have already thrown the kitchen sink into the play for decades: from 3D-seismic modeling, from fracturing to horizontal drilling. All used extensively in all the largest oil fields of the world - most of which are now in decline. The reason is that many of these 'production enhancing technologies' are just 'super straws': they artificially increase your initial rate of production - but they don't increase the amount of oil down there - you are just sucking it dry faster. There is no engineering around Peak Oil.
The many years I have been following theoildrum and I have come to learn a great deal about the capability of people to deny and dismiss the reality around them. With the global warming it was way too easy for them - the science was difficult even for the experts. With Peak Oil it was always only misunderstanding or pure ignorance that worked - because a lot of the facts were out there plain to see with no complex math involved. In fact there was no debate amongst the 'experts' either. Any rig hand you talked to seemed to know exactly what you were talking about and some of the big oil companies like Shell, PB for example are now publicly talking about Peak Oil as well as some governments and the military are starting to publicly use the Peak Oil term.
What is left then for the denilists? Hide in slashdot world? At least have the courtesy of informing yourself and coming up with more then the lame same cliches. There is the mandatory criticism section down there although its been struggling recently. Good luck.
This is a Windows-only problem. Solution here.
Import the following to registry:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:blahenterrandomlettershere"
It will cause windows to ignore anything inside autorun.inf by replacing the content with non-existing entry ie. null.
Delete this branch from registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2
It will wipe away any cached mountpoints and their autorun information.
Disclaimer: This will disable the USB autorun related vector for malicious code as well as any other mounted media or network resource. 'Autoplay' and all its features will still function the way you set them. This fix will break anything that depends on code inside autorun.inf ie. say goodbye to nice 'automatic installation', drive media renaming or placing nice icons to itself etc. Mostly useless stuff. Some special usb-sticks with software features built on autorun might not work anymore. Sad.
1. piss off the establishment and make yourself a counterculture hero
2. rape anyone you like and claim any accusations are a conspiracy
3. have the internet hail you as a wronged savior and get away with it.
If only we had listened to the CIA...
GASP! this is what gets moderated as insightful these days!
So the laser took three seconds to burn a whole in the rather unreflective fuselage of the target drone! but would melt anything but a 'perfect' mirror in microseconds. But let us humor this point one moment further and calculate 32kJ / 3E6 = 0.032J ... some of my less intense emotions about this thread have more energy than that!
And further down the thread these brilliant commenteers further apologise how 'perfect' the mirrors inside lasers are and their so special you cant possible coat anything but laser components like that. Narrow bandwidth my rearend!
Try burning a freaking hole onto a polished (90% reflectivity) aircraft grade fuselage with your now 3.2kW laser. Absoption, melting point, mass, heat capacity, heat conductivity... I'll leave it all as an exercise to these enlightened enthusiasts.
Humbly Yours
Pissed off physicist