Batteries can be use for grid stability.Batteries can switch on very fast.
A few weeks ago coal generators tripped, which would normally cause problems for the grid due to power spikes, a frequency drops (or something), anyway, this Telsa battery was able to active while the spike was in progress, its that fast. Link about the cause of the spike http://reneweconomy.com.au/coa...
They have a nice page to show Aus electricity generation sources as well, its a good site. (this one might have problems with noscript+ad-blockers) http://reneweconomy.com.au/nem...
Free Software was created to disrupt corporate greed that lead to software becoming locked up and secret.
Free software is being used to make business more efficient, but that doesnt change the original problem that lead to closed source in the first place, greed.
Software isnt being used to lock people out anymore, the information it processes is, nothing changes for the 99%
I feel we need a whole new category of licences, ones that do discriminate against different types of usage.
It should not be permitted to USE free software to take away the freedom gained from free software.
Also, there should be a licence that doesn't permit distribution alongside proprietary software, linking or no, but thats a different story.
In the bigger picture the free and open software movement is rotting, any system can be gamed, and thats what has happened, we havent evolved and we need to.
Town i live had a fire at the telco exchange, which was also doing backhaul for 2 of the 3 mobile providers. It took almost a month to rebuild it.
ATM's, EFT stopped working so people could pay for things, like petrol, food etc... The town became a 'dead zone' for a few hours, you stop here you cant get going again.
Once everyone worked out one of the mobile providers was still working they sold out of 'starter packs' pretty much instantly and more had to delivered by courier.
But retails where prioritised and most where able to switch and accept payments within a day AFAIK.
Police flew some sort of emergency communications system down by helicopter.
A mobile ATM was also bought down (normally used for disaster zones) to take pressure of ATM's, might have been satellite based i dont know.
Banks where allowing people to withdraw money without checking their balance, some people abused it and got in big trouble later.
We all know copyright is a government granted monopoly, so there is no legal competition for any specific work, there is only competition for categories of works.
So "piracy" has emerged as price driver for content, its $15 because if they put the price up more people will pirating it.
In a productive environment more (legal) participants should lead to a lower price. But if they use the courts and social pressure to stop people pirating they can put the price up and sell it to more people.
"A crystal radio receiver, also called a crystal set or cat's whisker receiver, is a very simple radio receiver, popular in the early days of radio. It needs no other power source but that received solely from the power of radio waves received by a wire antenna."
It does have profound influences on society, especially when you consider our 'extended mind' can also be a 'shared mind'. e.g. the Internet, and thats where all the drama is about 'fake news', and increasing efforts to control our extended mind through censorship, eavesdropping etc.
Its always been there though, through mainstream media, i think the difference is that as we become more empowered through accessible information we are becoming more aware of it.
We are still waking up, but once awake our democratic systems will correct the flaws that exist in current institutions.
I really should have rtfa, but there is a difference between mass surveillance and targeted surveillance.
The old school surveillance was targeted, because it just didnt make sense to waste all that manpower. Now that its cheaper to do mass-surveillance.
As a society we have to accept target surveillance (unfortunetly), but software cant be back-doored with any guarantee that it will be only used in targeted surveillance.
Mass surveillance will always be immoral, because its punishing the innocent to try and protect them from the guilty. Principles like that are very human, they dont change with technology.
You still only have the same amount of movies per year. They are just talking about reducing the lag.
So in the month they introduce it, you might catch up and get another half dozen movies for $50 each, but after that its just more expensive video rental.
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Batteries can be use for grid stability.Batteries can switch on very fast.
A few weeks ago coal generators tripped, which would normally cause problems for the grid due to power spikes, a frequency drops (or something), anyway, this Telsa battery was able to active while the spike was in progress, its that fast.
Link about the cause of the spike
http://reneweconomy.com.au/coa...
I suspect the original story in the article is this one;
http://reneweconomy.com.au/tes...
Another story on Batteries setting prices
http://reneweconomy.com.au/tes...
They have a nice page to show Aus electricity generation sources as well, its a good site. (this one might have problems with noscript+ad-blockers)
http://reneweconomy.com.au/nem...
Free Software was created to disrupt corporate greed that lead to software becoming locked up and secret.
Free software is being used to make business more efficient, but that doesnt change the original problem that lead to closed source in the first place, greed.
Software isnt being used to lock people out anymore, the information it processes is, nothing changes for the 99%
I feel we need a whole new category of licences, ones that do discriminate against different types of usage.
It should not be permitted to USE free software to take away the freedom gained from free software.
Also, there should be a licence that doesn't permit distribution alongside proprietary software, linking or no, but thats a different story.
In the bigger picture the free and open software movement is rotting, any system can be gamed, and thats what has happened, we havent evolved and we need to.
Its probably too late.
There are no flaws in C that cant be fixed by becoming a better programmer.
Random == An unrecognised pattern
Network outages can cause unexpected problems;
Town i live had a fire at the telco exchange, which was also doing backhaul for 2 of the 3 mobile providers. It took almost a month to rebuild it.
ATM's, EFT stopped working so people could pay for things, like petrol, food etc... The town became a 'dead zone' for a few hours, you stop here you cant get going again.
Once everyone worked out one of the mobile providers was still working they sold out of 'starter packs' pretty much instantly and more had to delivered by courier.
But retails where prioritised and most where able to switch and accept payments within a day AFAIK.
Police flew some sort of emergency communications system down by helicopter.
A mobile ATM was also bought down (normally used for disaster zones) to take pressure of ATM's, might have been satellite based i dont know.
Banks where allowing people to withdraw money without checking their balance, some people abused it and got in big trouble later.
You entirely missed the point about efficiency of the market.
We all know copyright is a government granted monopoly, so there is no legal competition for any specific work, there is only competition for categories of works.
So "piracy" has emerged as price driver for content, its $15 because if they put the price up more people will pirating it.
In a productive environment more (legal) participants should lead to a lower price. But if they use the courts and social pressure to stop people pirating they can put the price up and sell it to more people.
Its a corruption of the market.
And what about messages that go outside of NSA jurisdiction.
The Internet doesnt respect borders.
"A crystal radio receiver, also called a crystal set or cat's whisker receiver, is a very simple radio receiver, popular in the early days of radio. It needs no other power source but that received solely from the power of radio waves received by a wire antenna."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It does have profound influences on society, especially when you consider our 'extended mind' can also be a 'shared mind'.
e.g. the Internet, and thats where all the drama is about 'fake news', and increasing efforts to control our extended mind through censorship, eavesdropping etc.
Its always been there though, through mainstream media, i think the difference is that as we become more empowered through accessible information we are becoming more aware of it.
We are still waking up, but once awake our democratic systems will correct the flaws that exist in current institutions.
Podcast about it the extended mind below;
http://www.abc.net.au/radionat...
You are taking away a piece of them;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Its supposed to be operational for summer, which is 5 and a half months away
I dont see Sharpshooters are the opposite to Architects. Design from the bottom up, simplify from the top down, its the only way to perfection.
Or, maybe that explains why i never finish anything...
or do i ?
I really should have rtfa, but there is a difference between mass surveillance and targeted surveillance.
The old school surveillance was targeted, because it just didnt make sense to waste all that manpower. Now that its cheaper to do mass-surveillance.
As a society we have to accept target surveillance (unfortunetly), but software cant be back-doored with any guarantee that it will be only used in targeted surveillance.
Mass surveillance will always be immoral, because its punishing the innocent to try and protect them from the guilty. Principles like that are very human, they dont change with technology.
What laws would they change if it was revealed 'the terrists' were communicating via snail mail.
Would they require logs of your snail mail metadata, ban envelopes ?
More news is coming in;
Person complains that a small group of freedom fighters arent fighting hard enough to protect their interests, suggests they should try harder.
They further complain about having to get out of bed, suggesting someone else should do it for them.
You still only have the same amount of movies per year. They are just talking about reducing the lag.
So in the month they introduce it, you might catch up and get another half dozen movies for $50 each, but after that its just more expensive video rental.
Cant you just wait ?
If the programmer is willing to compromise on usability and quality because there are better things to do, then how do you maintain quality control ?
Its just a matter of time until that 'better thing' he has to do is add another feature rather the bug check existing features.
If that programmer compromises, he can do more work.
In that case it doesnt matter what language the programmer uses, no language is idiot proof.
Computers (and machines in general) were created to make the life of humans easier. Imho, a real programmer also remembers that fact.
There are no technical reason a programmer cant create code that is good for humans (usable), and for machines (efficient).
The problem is when a programmer decides, or is forced to compromise on quality. That is the lesser programmer.
C was invented as portable assembly IIRC. If you cant sort out a buffer overflow then dont call yourself a programmer.
Real programmers see their job as making the computers job easy, not the other way around.
Australia have always done whatever the US asks of us. He would have a better chance in sweeden than Australia.
Hamas only has power because Israel continues to tolerate it.
Israel can choose to be fascist dictators, or it can choose to be civilised.
Sadly, they have already made there choice obvious.
The intelligent discussions seem to have disappeared
If you only look in convenient places you will never find it.
(grow some skin)