Working the numbers, 1.65MW multiplied by 600 turbines equals 990MW, which is the first phase (~1000MW), so the numbers being tossed around are likely to be the maximum generating capacity, not the averaged production.
I've heard numbers like 1,500 - 1,800 foot radius being a minimum recommended spacing for this size turbine (the GE 1.65MW turbines which my utility is currently constructing 100 or so in my state). That would work out to about 162 acres per turbine. Of this, about a 30 foot circle is all that is taken out of use for the actual turbine. Disclaimer: No hard references on this, just my personal observations.
Linksys, among others make a wirelress router box that will accept one of these cards. Disclaimer: I haven't used one, so I don't know if it fits the characteristic of "easy to use."
Additionally, some PDA smartphones can run the app WMWiFiRouter, which will share its data service through ad-hoc WiFi connections. I once set this up through my HTC Mogul (Sprint) and served up a connection to two laptops simultaneously. Unfortunately, the data connection dropped every time the voice portion of the phone was active.
Yes, every lawyer is on equal footing with the law, but the field of law is so vast and complex that it requires specialization. If you think that a family law lawyer expertly knows what he's (she's) doing with patent law, or tort law, I encourage you to go try it. The smart attorney will refer you to someone who specializes in the repective law. The dumb (or maybe adventurous) one might try to handle it themselves.
You don't have a civil engineer designing cell phones just as you don't have a electrical engineer writing out structural member specifications for a bridge design...yet they're both in the field engineering, just different specializations. Where do you learn these specializations? Probably the place that gave you your sheepskin. I can't say that I've heard of many institutions giving out a degree in just "engineering" lately, either.
Freedom includes the right to screw up. Trying to protect people from themselves is the worst kind of tyranny. I only wish more people would realize this.
If the people concerned in this particular case were adults, I'd agree with you. However, as they haven't reached what is considered the legal age of majority to fully enjoy those rights, I see a number of potential problems.
Aside from that, being subjected to some approved form of compulsory education is almost always the law in the U.S. until you reach that age.
Or horses, which are as green as transportation is going to get.
I seriously question that. Horses, release a fair amount of CO2 and methane from the breakdown and digestion of cellulose materials (grass), despite not being ruminant animals. They also release a fairly steady source of CO2 when not in use. I suppose that one could argue that there's less infrastructure required for horses, but that's questionable as well when taking into consideration their "maintenance".
The only thing green about horses in comparison to electric golf carts is the physical color of the energy input.
Well, I was trying to subtly point out that the GPS constellation is operated by the department of defense, which oversees all of the branches of the U.S. military, not just the army. I guess by substituting the term military force into the original statement would allow it to encompass the air force, marines, and navy (and others) since they are all part of the department of defense and have a vested interest in their GPS.
Worth noting is that while GPS is used both by civilians and the military, and the signals come from the same satellites, the civilian use GPS is a separate set of signals (S-code) than the military signals (P-code). So it's almost like there are two systems operating simultaneously with each other.
Unless I'm missing something, or not comprehending something correctly, in your response, the U.S. Coast Guard is structured under the Department of Homeland Security. Prior to the existence of DHS, it was part of the Department of Transportation. FWIW.
Sure, the original, and perhaps main intent in most installations is still to discourage the behavior of running red lights. But the problem is that the traffic control systems are being tweaked to maximize revenue, and not safety (obviously, the whole point of this story). The system now takes on a whole new purpose for its existence, and consequently works against its original intent.
It's akin to putting a 55MPH (or 90kph) speed limit, followed by a 25MPH (or 40kph) then followed by a 55MPH sign all with a stretch of 100 feet. It doesn't make sense, and it increases the danger of someone who is flagrantly disobeying the traffic controls getting tangled up with someone that is slowing down to anticipate and comply with the traffic controls. Meanwhile the speed camera is set in place, ready to capture as many hapless "speeders" as possible.
I'm just glad that the state I live in has a law that essentially makes any kind of automated traffic violation system unconstitutional. You need to be confronted by your accuser (i.e. cop) to be issued a traffic citation.
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We shall temporarily suspend the moratorium on car analogies for the duration of this story...
I'll offer one better: Marine VHF hand-helds. Many today are built to be submersible...and they're just as small as the VX-7R. Icom even has one that has a "rumble" feature which is supposed to detect when there is water on the speaker and will vibrate it to expel the water. If it works, it would be a great feature as I've noticed that the audio output level on my submersible hand-helds drops significantly when the speaker has water on it.
That said, the Yaesus are nice, tough little units.
Here's one point to chew on, regardless of what type of system is between the user interface and the final output:
A steering wheel will allow a driver to more successfully handle a bump in the road versus a joystick. Why? Any bump results in a linear force that eventually acts upon the mass of the driver. Hit a bump, and the driver's body lurches up, down, or sideways as a result. Since the joystick takes linear motion inputs, it is more susceptible to input errors based on these unintentional movements.
The steering wheel, on the other hand, requires a moment (either clockwise or counter-clockwise) for input. While some linear movement can still induce a change in the wheel's position, the effect is much less significant since bumps don't create rotational movement of the driver.
Adding to this is that a wheel can be grasped and used by the driver to steady themselves while negotiating turns. The sideward motion (centripetal force) can be nulled with the proper hand position on a steering wheel, but not with a joystick. "Hanging On" to a joystick would most likely cause an unwanted countersteering input (i.e. hang a hard right and your body weight would end up pulling the stick left, unintentionally widening the turn).
Bottom line, a steering wheel will offer better rejection of unwanted input versus a joystick in a car.
Well, you do have to admit that even humans are born with some very basic instincts, such as the desire to suckle when hungry, closing their hand when something is touching their palm, cry when they're uncomfortable (hungry, wet, tired, in pain) as well as the involuntary actions such as cardiopulminary functions.
That said, I would agree that you shouldn't have to give a machine anything more than basic resources to begin its process of learning, but you do need to give it something a rudimentary kernel to get it kick-started from the state of being an inanimate pile of silicon. From that kernel, it should be able to learn from its surroundings, build its own OS and begin to interact with its surroundings.
This short article seems to do little more than stir the FUD pot.
If you want to talk about having unmanned, remote control vehicles, some of which require little more than occasional supervisory control most of the time, I'm with you. We have them already, and more are in development all over the world. Expect to see lots more of them come about in the near future. As alluded to, this will be the robot arms race.
Terrorists using remote controlled devices to deploy and detonate bombs? Sure. It's not all that hard to believe that someone with some decent technical skills can put together a remote control kit on a full-sized car, then strap explosives to it (for example).
But c'mon. Killbots that can think and function completely on their own?...and be effective enough in its mission to justify the costs of deploying it in lieu of something remote controlled by a human? Such a device is still a ways off for the U.S. Military, let alone some terrorist organization.
Unless your phone gets pwned or otherwise modified, every phone I've encountered shuts down the radio circuit when powered down to conserve battery life. If this weren't the case, your phone wouldn't have to a take a short moment to search for service when first powered up. I don't know of any phones that will "wake themselves up" on a regular basis once powered down, either.
Your phone can be tracked when it is on and you're not using it, since it communicates (transmits/receives) with the network on a regular basis when not in use. The eavesdropping without some software modification is rather questionable as well.
I think someone's been watching too many movies or episodes of 24.
No, no, no. You don't understand. Tracking is free and unlimited during off-peak hours. They're just trying to make it really expensive for the U.S. government to pay for all that tracking during peak daytime hours.
Instead of burning it outright, let's strip the hydrogen off the hydrocarbons and just burn that.
Somehow sequester the leftover carbon from the breakdown (this is the ???? step)
Return the carbon (somehow stored in liquid form) for recycling >>> Profit!
First, let's ignore how much energy we're throwing away in step 2 by not utilizing the full energy potential stored in the hydrocarbon molecules. Second, somehow we'll expend more energy to liberate the hydrogen and capture the carbon, both without oxidizing them. Third, we're going to tote around another 75 - 100 pounds of weight with the stored (and somehow liquefied) carbon that will be returned. Less energy potential that ever reaches the engine/fuel cell, and even more expended to refine something fairly energy dense into something that's a fair amount less energy dense.
The problem with this idea is there's too much fixation on sequestering every last bit of carbon, rather than focusing on a bigger, more important concept called energy efficiency. Work on improving that and the carbon emission reductions usually follow.
Let's work with the concept that a multifunction machine get pwned for a moment. Instead of all the ideas of using it to root around on your servers, or join a botnet, what if the vulnerability did something as innocuous as FTP/SMTP (or even fax) images of scanned/printed documents to a server on the outside world?
Get a machine in a place that does financial or medical records and now you have a steady stream of confidential information going somewhere in the form of soc. security numbers, bank account numbers, etc. all in scanned form.
Since the machine probably already does this on a regular basis under normal use, it's possible that such an exploit could continue for a while before it would ever be discovered.
Maybe everyone who attends Harvard has an eduction ceremony before they leave?? I just hope whoever ends up to educting their scholarly articles uses a better method of spell checking.:-P
I drive a Diesel powered vehicle. Most "fuel thieves" are looking for gasoline, and those that want diesel fuel are more likely going to look for much larger quantities of it (large trucks). (Yes, go ahead and draw your paralleling analogy of "Security through Obscurity")
That aside, the last local outbreak of vehicle fuel thefts were committed by drilling a hole into the bottom of fuel tank and capturing the gas in several low-profile containers rotated out for collection. Unless you have something armoring that blow-molded plastic tank, it's easier (and faster) than siphoning it out through the filler neck.
The lock does, however help deter vandalism whether the introduction of a foreign substance (sugar, soda-pop, water) or ala four-wheeled Molotov cocktail.
I think they'd better have a clear coat of some form or else the finish will turn a brilliant rust-colored orange after experiencing contact with moisture. Stainless steel and aluminum also oxidize, but not to the extent of mild steel. Such oxidation would probably be sufficient to dull the color significantly.
All my co-workers phones aren't ringing off the hook with callers trying to subscribe them to worthless trade publications today (very likely a coincidence, but it sounds good anyway). So, now we know how to really stop all those nagging calls from people with really poor english on a noisy connection. Then again, so goes many of the tech support and customer service lines, too.
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Working the numbers, 1.65MW multiplied by 600 turbines equals 990MW, which is the first phase (~1000MW), so the numbers being tossed around are likely to be the maximum generating capacity, not the averaged production.
I've heard numbers like 1,500 - 1,800 foot radius being a minimum recommended spacing for this size turbine (the GE 1.65MW turbines which my utility is currently constructing 100 or so in my state). That would work out to about 162 acres per turbine. Of this, about a 30 foot circle is all that is taken out of use for the actual turbine. Disclaimer: No hard references on this, just my personal observations.
Linksys, among others make a wirelress router box that will accept one of these cards. Disclaimer: I haven't used one, so I don't know if it fits the characteristic of "easy to use."
Additionally, some PDA smartphones can run the app WMWiFiRouter, which will share its data service through ad-hoc WiFi connections. I once set this up through my HTC Mogul (Sprint) and served up a connection to two laptops simultaneously. Unfortunately, the data connection dropped every time the voice portion of the phone was active.
I hope you're trolling.
Yes, every lawyer is on equal footing with the law, but the field of law is so vast and complex that it requires specialization. If you think that a family law lawyer expertly knows what he's (she's) doing with patent law, or tort law, I encourage you to go try it. The smart attorney will refer you to someone who specializes in the repective law. The dumb (or maybe adventurous) one might try to handle it themselves.
You don't have a civil engineer designing cell phones just as you don't have a electrical engineer writing out structural member specifications for a bridge design...yet they're both in the field engineering, just different specializations. Where do you learn these specializations? Probably the place that gave you your sheepskin. I can't say that I've heard of many institutions giving out a degree in just "engineering" lately, either.
-If the people concerned in this particular case were adults, I'd agree with you. However, as they haven't reached what is considered the legal age of majority to fully enjoy those rights, I see a number of potential problems.
Aside from that, being subjected to some approved form of compulsory education is almost always the law in the U.S. until you reach that age.
I seriously question that. Horses, release a fair amount of CO2 and methane from the breakdown and digestion of cellulose materials (grass), despite not being ruminant animals. They also release a fairly steady source of CO2 when not in use. I suppose that one could argue that there's less infrastructure required for horses, but that's questionable as well when taking into consideration their "maintenance".
The only thing green about horses in comparison to electric golf carts is the physical color of the energy input.
Well, I was trying to subtly point out that the GPS constellation is operated by the department of defense, which oversees all of the branches of the U.S. military, not just the army. I guess by substituting the term military force into the original statement would allow it to encompass the air force, marines, and navy (and others) since they are all part of the department of defense and have a vested interest in their GPS.
Worth noting is that while GPS is used both by civilians and the military, and the signals come from the same satellites, the civilian use GPS is a separate set of signals (S-code) than the military signals (P-code). So it's almost like there are two systems operating simultaneously with each other.
I think that is what you were trying to say, though I probably would have used the term powerful instead of "dangerous."
Unless I'm missing something, or not comprehending something correctly, in your response, the U.S. Coast Guard is structured under the Department of Homeland Security. Prior to the existence of DHS, it was part of the Department of Transportation. FWIW.
Sure, the original, and perhaps main intent in most installations is still to discourage the behavior of running red lights. But the problem is that the traffic control systems are being tweaked to maximize revenue, and not safety (obviously, the whole point of this story). The system now takes on a whole new purpose for its existence, and consequently works against its original intent.
It's akin to putting a 55MPH (or 90kph) speed limit, followed by a 25MPH (or 40kph) then followed by a 55MPH sign all with a stretch of 100 feet. It doesn't make sense, and it increases the danger of someone who is flagrantly disobeying the traffic controls getting tangled up with someone that is slowing down to anticipate and comply with the traffic controls. Meanwhile the speed camera is set in place, ready to capture as many hapless "speeders" as possible.
I'm just glad that the state I live in has a law that essentially makes any kind of automated traffic violation system unconstitutional. You need to be confronted by your accuser (i.e. cop) to be issued a traffic citation.
---We shall temporarily suspend the moratorium on car analogies for the duration of this story...
I'll offer one better: Marine VHF hand-helds. Many today are built to be submersible...and they're just as small as the VX-7R. Icom even has one that has a "rumble" feature which is supposed to detect when there is water on the speaker and will vibrate it to expel the water. If it works, it would be a great feature as I've noticed that the audio output level on my submersible hand-helds drops significantly when the speaker has water on it.
That said, the Yaesus are nice, tough little units.
Here's one point to chew on, regardless of what type of system is between the user interface and the final output:
A steering wheel will allow a driver to more successfully handle a bump in the road versus a joystick. Why? Any bump results in a linear force that eventually acts upon the mass of the driver. Hit a bump, and the driver's body lurches up, down, or sideways as a result. Since the joystick takes linear motion inputs, it is more susceptible to input errors based on these unintentional movements.
The steering wheel, on the other hand, requires a moment (either clockwise or counter-clockwise) for input. While some linear movement can still induce a change in the wheel's position, the effect is much less significant since bumps don't create rotational movement of the driver.
Adding to this is that a wheel can be grasped and used by the driver to steady themselves while negotiating turns. The sideward motion (centripetal force) can be nulled with the proper hand position on a steering wheel, but not with a joystick. "Hanging On" to a joystick would most likely cause an unwanted countersteering input (i.e. hang a hard right and your body weight would end up pulling the stick left, unintentionally widening the turn).
Bottom line, a steering wheel will offer better rejection of unwanted input versus a joystick in a car.
I'd really throw it a curve, after it executes the first turn tell it, "No! Your other right!" and see if it understands the jist.
Well, you do have to admit that even humans are born with some very basic instincts, such as the desire to suckle when hungry, closing their hand when something is touching their palm, cry when they're uncomfortable (hungry, wet, tired, in pain) as well as the involuntary actions such as cardiopulminary functions.
That said, I would agree that you shouldn't have to give a machine anything more than basic resources to begin its process of learning, but you do need to give it something a rudimentary kernel to get it kick-started from the state of being an inanimate pile of silicon. From that kernel, it should be able to learn from its surroundings, build its own OS and begin to interact with its surroundings.
...on the loss of your mother, when she happened to pull your USB drive out of one of your pockets before she threw your jeans in the wash.
This short article seems to do little more than stir the FUD pot.
If you want to talk about having unmanned, remote control vehicles, some of which require little more than occasional supervisory control most of the time, I'm with you. We have them already, and more are in development all over the world. Expect to see lots more of them come about in the near future. As alluded to, this will be the robot arms race.
Terrorists using remote controlled devices to deploy and detonate bombs? Sure. It's not all that hard to believe that someone with some decent technical skills can put together a remote control kit on a full-sized car, then strap explosives to it (for example).
But c'mon. Killbots that can think and function completely on their own? ...and be effective enough in its mission to justify the costs of deploying it in lieu of something remote controlled by a human? Such a device is still a ways off for the U.S. Military, let alone some terrorist organization.
Unless your phone gets pwned or otherwise modified, every phone I've encountered shuts down the radio circuit when powered down to conserve battery life. If this weren't the case, your phone wouldn't have to a take a short moment to search for service when first powered up. I don't know of any phones that will "wake themselves up" on a regular basis once powered down, either.
Your phone can be tracked when it is on and you're not using it, since it communicates (transmits/receives) with the network on a regular basis when not in use. The eavesdropping without some software modification is rather questionable as well.
I think someone's been watching too many movies or episodes of 24.
No, no, no. You don't understand. Tracking is free and unlimited during off-peak hours. They're just trying to make it really expensive for the U.S. government to pay for all that tracking during peak daytime hours.
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First, let's ignore how much energy we're throwing away in step 2 by not utilizing the full energy potential stored in the hydrocarbon molecules. Second, somehow we'll expend more energy to liberate the hydrogen and capture the carbon, both without oxidizing them. Third, we're going to tote around another 75 - 100 pounds of weight with the stored (and somehow liquefied) carbon that will be returned. Less energy potential that ever reaches the engine/fuel cell, and even more expended to refine something fairly energy dense into something that's a fair amount less energy dense.
The problem with this idea is there's too much fixation on sequestering every last bit of carbon, rather than focusing on a bigger, more important concept called energy efficiency. Work on improving that and the carbon emission reductions usually follow.
Let's work with the concept that a multifunction machine get pwned for a moment. Instead of all the ideas of using it to root around on your servers, or join a botnet, what if the vulnerability did something as innocuous as FTP/SMTP (or even fax) images of scanned/printed documents to a server on the outside world?
Get a machine in a place that does financial or medical records and now you have a steady stream of confidential information going somewhere in the form of soc. security numbers, bank account numbers, etc. all in scanned form.
Since the machine probably already does this on a regular basis under normal use, it's possible that such an exploit could continue for a while before it would ever be discovered.
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Maybe everyone who attends Harvard has an eduction ceremony before they leave?? I just hope whoever ends up to educting their scholarly articles uses a better method of spell checking. :-P
I drive a Diesel powered vehicle. Most "fuel thieves" are looking for gasoline, and those that want diesel fuel are more likely going to look for much larger quantities of it (large trucks). (Yes, go ahead and draw your paralleling analogy of "Security through Obscurity")
That aside, the last local outbreak of vehicle fuel thefts were committed by drilling a hole into the bottom of fuel tank and capturing the gas in several low-profile containers rotated out for collection. Unless you have something armoring that blow-molded plastic tank, it's easier (and faster) than siphoning it out through the filler neck.
The lock does, however help deter vandalism whether the introduction of a foreign substance (sugar, soda-pop, water) or ala four-wheeled Molotov cocktail.
I think they'd better have a clear coat of some form or else the finish will turn a brilliant rust-colored orange after experiencing contact with moisture. Stainless steel and aluminum also oxidize, but not to the extent of mild steel. Such oxidation would probably be sufficient to dull the color significantly.
All my co-workers phones aren't ringing off the hook with callers trying to subscribe them to worthless trade publications today (very likely a coincidence, but it sounds good anyway). So, now we know how to really stop all those nagging calls from people with really poor english on a noisy connection. Then again, so goes many of the tech support and customer service lines, too.