Might want to change that to SDHC ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card#SDHC ). SD is great, except it is slow as molasses and maxes out at 2GB. SDHC allows >2GB and defines several classes with improved speeds. Most newer hardware with a SD-slot already supports SDHC.
Radiation does not only have thermal effects. I'm not saying that the other effects are significant, but if there is one thing that p*sses me off about the whole is-radiation-really-bad-or-not debate, is that always about thermal effects.
If we are going to hand out tips, here are a few:
- Stay away from bright lightsources one or two hours before going to bed; e.g. dim the lights and don't sit behind a computer.
- Try a herb like Valerian. It can help, but for some it also has the opposite effect. Start out slow and see if it works for you.
- Do some physical workout an hour or half hour before going to bed. I don't get tired mentally (at least not on a 24 hour rotation), but physical tiredness can help you sleep.
- Figure out your biological clock. Not everyone can live on a 24 hour rotation, in fact, there are some known sleep-disorders caused by having a biological clock running at 26 or even 30 hours. Mine isn't working at 24 hours either. Not easy to adjust your life to, but depending on your job, it might be doable.
- Make sure you wake up properly. Alarm clocks do more harm than good, something like a wake-up light helps people wake up better and go to bed more easily.
- If it becomes are serious problem, seek help of a professional, but be careful with meds. Some have serious side-effects in the long run.
They used to sell such a product here (Netherlands) in normal shops (e.g. not Smart Shops or alike) until about 3 years ago (not legal anymore). I tried it for quite a while and it did work, but for my taste, a bit too good. Couldn't sit back or take a stroll down the block without thinking just about everything, instead of just clearing my mind and relaxing. Even getting to sleep became difficult. The label stated that the product shouldn't used longer than 30 consecutive days, followed by a 30 days off period, which made me wonder how safe it actually was.
I've been trying various Linux and *BSD desktop environments for the last 8 years and every year they seem to get closer to the point why I would consider them sufficient. Hardware support is steadily improving (though not perfect, especially when it comes to videocard performance and functionality), installing has improved a whole lot (quite to the point where it is easy enough), usability and functionality of applications that people will daily use (surfing, emailing, IM, media-playback, office-applications) is close to where it should be and KDE4 should provide people with enough eye-candy and widgets. Wine is also making steady progress (my favorite games run under WINE) and with NTFS-3G I can now use NTFS-volumes in both FreeBSD and my Windows XP install without a hitch.
Sure, there is plenty of work to do to make Linux (or *BSD) a more competitive alternative to Windows or OS X, but AFAIAC, the groundwork is nearly finished.
Most likely, yes. But I think it is awkward to talk about the Linux desktop as the article does, only mentioning:
With open-source software maturing fast, Linux, OpenOffice, Firefox, MySQL, Evolution, Pidgin and some 23,000 other Linux applications available for free seem more than ready to fill that gap.
They should have at least mentioned KDE and Gnome. And Wine of course.
2) using PCs or notebooks where you'll invalidate any warranties by breaking the case seal.
Not sure how it is in the US, but in the Netherlands, such practices are not allowed by law. Opening up a PC to replace parts or add extra memory is a normal and expectable practice during the lifetime of a PC. Hence, manufacturers are not allowed to place warranty voiding seals which prevent you from opening the case to replace or add parts.
Sames basically goes for laptops. Replacing the drive or adding memory is normal practice and cannot void your warranty.
Here is another quote that seems ignorant and crazy, or deliberately dishonest, to me:
"Over the next 10 years, both studio and consumer HD products will multiply by 10 times the current resolution."
Depends on how you look at it. UltraHD has 16 times the resolution as HDTV and seeing how consumers have been jumping on the Flatscreen/Widescreen/HDTV/HDReady bandwagon, is quite likely that in 10 years it will be the next big thing. If you happen to have $12.500, you can already get a UltraHD monitor.
However, even the present NTSC resolution is enough for most TV watching. It seems doubtful that displays with more resolution than HD DVD will become common.
Depends on the show, but HDTV does give a better viewing experience overall (though it probably also stems from the fact that most digital HDTV broadcasts uses H264 instead of MPEG2). Though UltraHD might not improve on the viewing experience much compared to HDTV, if you have a serious Home Theater setup which a huge screen (70inch+) I'm pretty sure you'll notice the difference.
[quote]That doesn't diminish the fact that Hubbert's "peak oil" is real, and will occur on a global scale in a matter of decades if not already.[/quote]
Last I've read/seen, oil production is peaking about now (+/- 6 months). The fact that oil-production is peaking is not so much the problem, but combined with the rapid growth of oil consumption (due to China and other emerging economies) it is.
For the US the problem is even bigger; behind the scenes there are already talks about dropping the petro-dollar for the Euro, which would make oil a whole lot more expensive in the US.
I've installed a dressed down XP on a P233MMX notebook with 96MB RAM, and it used about 30MB. It does require disabling some services , but it worked pretty well and once everything was up and running, fast enough to be usuable. Installed FreeBSD 4.10 + KDE 3.4 next, but it was hardly usuable. KDE used 30% processor time continously:-( Guess I'll dust it off and try FreeBSD 7 + KDE 4 in February:-)
Nope, not all patches are available through Windows Update. Some (fixing very specific or rare issues) are only available on request and some "just aren't" available through Windows Update (but are though the Knowledge Base / MS Download site). Plus SP3 will add some new minor features and improvements here and there which won't be available for SP2 users.
Sounds like he was not anonymous in the first place.
But doesn't this violate Google Privacy policy, giving up address/personal information without a court order? And what about not being evil? Giving up anyones address/identity if some authority asks for it, without going through appropriate legal channels, doesn't sound good to me.
In accordance with article 1, the international concept of torture comprises five elements:
a) severe pain and suffering, whether physical or mental;
b) intentional infliction;
c) for such purposes as obtaining information or a confession, punishing, intimidating or
coercing, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind;
d) inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent of a public official and other
person acting in an official capacity;
e) exclusion of torture related to pain arising from lawful sanctions.
So yes, what happened/happens in Abu Grahib is/was torture.
I agree that the UN is a politically corrupt organization, but I do agree that Tasers are a form of Torture. Supplying 50kV to someone causes serious (unnecessary) pain. Just because some does not do what you want them to do does not mean you can just Taser him or her. Seen the footage in which Canadian Security Officers tasered a polish immigrant (to death)? Completely unnecessary in the given circumstances. And what about those students being tasered (which made in on/.)? Completely unneccessary.
Perhaps the US has a different definition of torture than most other countries, e.g. I (and most people in the Netherlands and large parts of Europe) think things like sensory deprivation, sensory overload, sleep deprivation, waterboarding, prolonged forced stress, forced trauma, etc. are all forms of (psychological) torture.
As for the UN bashing the US. I don't think bashing is the good word, highly critical would be a better one. And the UN is not just an organization, it is an organization of 192 countries. If the UN is highly critical towards the US, it means many of its member states are highly critical.
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First of all, thanks for working on TOR!
Second, to answer your question, no (PEBKAC). You could force the user to read a document with all warnings upon install, but even that won't really work.
Last, it would be nice to see some improvements in TOR itself to protect the network from rogue exit-nodes:
1) setup a (auto-updating) blacklist of rogue nodes.
2) use honey-pots to expose rogue nodes.
3) blacklist exit-nodes which use MITM-SSL attacks or alike client-sided (should bedoable in combination with an echanced TOR-button plugin)
4) allow users to setup certain rules/criteria for their routes and exit-nodes (e.g. I wouldn't want an exit-node in the US, Nigeria and a bunch of other countries)
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Automatically detecting them won't happen but you can setup honeypots to detect bad exit-node.
Blocklists are slowly adapting to this with temporary blocklists.
But NEVER EVER accept a new IP-address/block without checking its history. I went through the same ordeal once, finding it really was next to impossible to convince blocklists that ownership had really changed and I wasn't a bad guy (the previous owner had moved ip-addresses, but remained with the same colocation provider which didn't help my case). Worst of all, the colocation provider wasn't helpful at all.
RTFA. It is in the first paragraph.
Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking fifth planet around the nearby star 55 Cancri, making it the only star aside from the sun known to have five planets. Still a bit awkward though to use a headline like that. I'm pretty sure that statistically speaking, there are at least millions of stars with five or more planets around them.
Python? Weren't they planning to use Torrent as the basis for newer BitTorrent versions?
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You might, given the fact that you only need to carry a "matchbox" into a low orbit. But it will still be a hell of a job and lots of trail and error.
The bigger problem you will have is that you will have to do it without hitting anything (civilian jets, satellite's, etc), as it might set you back a few hundred million dollars if you manage to do so.
More channels, more features (EPG, automatic installation of channels, DVB Subs, Multiple Audiotracks), better quality, more competition in the market (now people can choose between Satellite, Cable or Terrestrial for Television).
The only downside is, at least here in the Netherlands where we made the switch last year, low quality and reception problems. The infrastructure for Terrestrial is still being rolled out, but even in urban areas where there already should be good reception, it is not working flawless. And most channels are streamed in low bitrates, causing visible artifacts.
That is what the article implies but it is not necessarily what happened.
Besides, the article points many design flaws on both sides:
1) The connector shouldn't have corroded and they box should have been protected against humidity, but was that in the design specifications? If not, why not?
2) While designing a triple redundant system with a single point of failure, they reason they give is actually pretty good. If there is a certain situation that neither of the three systems can handle (extremely polluted power supply), then the design flaw is not that you power off all three systems, it is that the systems are not hardened enough against such an event and that the such an event can happen in the first place.
3) The dehumidifier shouldn't have malfunctioned. But is also odd that they relied on assumptions such as moving air and power usage to keep condensate from forming. What would happen during a temporary power failure? Air would stop moving and the wires would cool, allowing condensate to form. And where did the cool air came from and why was it not detected?
4) The most important design flaw (which is not mentioned at all). There shouldn't have been a system that warned of the malfunctioning dehumidifier. In such a fragile and hospitable environment, high humidity/wator vapor can lead to serious problems. The fact that the dehumidifier could malfunction without notice is rather serious.
The bad thing about spam filtering in Hotmail is that they do it silently. I've had complaints in the past about mails being lost, so I checked my server logs: 250's for all messages to hotmail. Wrote an email to postmaster@hotmail.com which bounced back (sigh).
Then I gave up and adviced to make sure recipients had the sending email-address in their addressbooks before sending them anything, which seems to do the trick most of the times.
Also, no ads and with a bit of luck, the show is available in HDTV.
Here in the Netherland, most populair (US) series are broadcasted 6 to 12 months (!) later. We have a few HDTV channels, but none of them with any populair content (NG and Discovery are ok though) and you pay extra for them.
Personally, I wouldn't mind paying 1 (SDTV) or 2 (HDTV) euro for a premium show, as long as there are no ads or DRM involved and I wouldn't need to wait 6 to 12 months to see.
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Might want to change that to SDHC ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card#SDHC ). SD is great, except it is slow as molasses and maxes out at 2GB. SDHC allows >2GB and defines several classes with improved speeds. Most newer hardware with a SD-slot already supports SDHC.
Radiation does not only have thermal effects. I'm not saying that the other effects are significant, but if there is one thing that p*sses me off about the whole is-radiation-really-bad-or-not debate, is that always about thermal effects.
If we are going to hand out tips, here are a few: - Stay away from bright lightsources one or two hours before going to bed; e.g. dim the lights and don't sit behind a computer. - Try a herb like Valerian. It can help, but for some it also has the opposite effect. Start out slow and see if it works for you. - Do some physical workout an hour or half hour before going to bed. I don't get tired mentally (at least not on a 24 hour rotation), but physical tiredness can help you sleep. - Figure out your biological clock. Not everyone can live on a 24 hour rotation, in fact, there are some known sleep-disorders caused by having a biological clock running at 26 or even 30 hours. Mine isn't working at 24 hours either. Not easy to adjust your life to, but depending on your job, it might be doable. - Make sure you wake up properly. Alarm clocks do more harm than good, something like a wake-up light helps people wake up better and go to bed more easily. - If it becomes are serious problem, seek help of a professional, but be careful with meds. Some have serious side-effects in the long run.
They used to sell such a product here (Netherlands) in normal shops (e.g. not Smart Shops or alike) until about 3 years ago (not legal anymore). I tried it for quite a while and it did work, but for my taste, a bit too good. Couldn't sit back or take a stroll down the block without thinking just about everything, instead of just clearing my mind and relaxing. Even getting to sleep became difficult. The label stated that the product shouldn't used longer than 30 consecutive days, followed by a 30 days off period, which made me wonder how safe it actually was.
I've been trying various Linux and *BSD desktop environments for the last 8 years and every year they seem to get closer to the point why I would consider them sufficient. Hardware support is steadily improving (though not perfect, especially when it comes to videocard performance and functionality), installing has improved a whole lot (quite to the point where it is easy enough), usability and functionality of applications that people will daily use (surfing, emailing, IM, media-playback, office-applications) is close to where it should be and KDE4 should provide people with enough eye-candy and widgets. Wine is also making steady progress (my favorite games run under WINE) and with NTFS-3G I can now use NTFS-volumes in both FreeBSD and my Windows XP install without a hitch. Sure, there is plenty of work to do to make Linux (or *BSD) a more competitive alternative to Windows or OS X, but AFAIAC, the groundwork is nearly finished.
Most likely, yes. But I think it is awkward to talk about the Linux desktop as the article does, only mentioning:
With open-source software maturing fast, Linux, OpenOffice, Firefox, MySQL, Evolution, Pidgin and some 23,000 other Linux applications available for free seem more than ready to fill that gap.They should have at least mentioned KDE and Gnome. And Wine of course.
Not sure how it is in the US, but in the Netherlands, such practices are not allowed by law. Opening up a PC to replace parts or add extra memory is a normal and expectable practice during the lifetime of a PC. Hence, manufacturers are not allowed to place warranty voiding seals which prevent you from opening the case to replace or add parts.
Sames basically goes for laptops. Replacing the drive or adding memory is normal practice and cannot void your warranty.
Depends on how you look at it. UltraHD has 16 times the resolution as HDTV and seeing how consumers have been jumping on the Flatscreen/Widescreen/HDTV/HDReady bandwagon, is quite likely that in 10 years it will be the next big thing. If you happen to have $12.500, you can already get a UltraHD monitor.
However, even the present NTSC resolution is enough for most TV watching. It seems doubtful that displays with more resolution than HD DVD will become common.Depends on the show, but HDTV does give a better viewing experience overall (though it probably also stems from the fact that most digital HDTV broadcasts uses H264 instead of MPEG2). Though UltraHD might not improve on the viewing experience much compared to HDTV, if you have a serious Home Theater setup which a huge screen (70inch+) I'm pretty sure you'll notice the difference.
[quote]That doesn't diminish the fact that Hubbert's "peak oil" is real, and will occur on a global scale in a matter of decades if not already.[/quote] Last I've read/seen, oil production is peaking about now (+/- 6 months). The fact that oil-production is peaking is not so much the problem, but combined with the rapid growth of oil consumption (due to China and other emerging economies) it is. For the US the problem is even bigger; behind the scenes there are already talks about dropping the petro-dollar for the Euro, which would make oil a whole lot more expensive in the US.
I've installed a dressed down XP on a P233MMX notebook with 96MB RAM, and it used about 30MB. It does require disabling some services , but it worked pretty well and once everything was up and running, fast enough to be usuable. Installed FreeBSD 4.10 + KDE 3.4 next, but it was hardly usuable. KDE used 30% processor time continously :-( Guess I'll dust it off and try FreeBSD 7 + KDE 4 in February :-)
Nope, not all patches are available through Windows Update. Some (fixing very specific or rare issues) are only available on request and some "just aren't" available through Windows Update (but are though the Knowledge Base / MS Download site). Plus SP3 will add some new minor features and improvements here and there which won't be available for SP2 users.
Sounds like he was not anonymous in the first place. But doesn't this violate Google Privacy policy, giving up address/personal information without a court order? And what about not being evil? Giving up anyones address/identity if some authority asks for it, without going through appropriate legal channels, doesn't sound good to me.
I agree that the UN is a politically corrupt organization, but I do agree that Tasers are a form of Torture. Supplying 50kV to someone causes serious (unnecessary) pain. Just because some does not do what you want them to do does not mean you can just Taser him or her. Seen the footage in which Canadian Security Officers tasered a polish immigrant (to death)? Completely unnecessary in the given circumstances. And what about those students being tasered (which made in on /.)? Completely unneccessary.
Perhaps the US has a different definition of torture than most other countries, e.g. I (and most people in the Netherlands and large parts of Europe) think things like sensory deprivation, sensory overload, sleep deprivation, waterboarding, prolonged forced stress, forced trauma, etc. are all forms of (psychological) torture.
As for the UN bashing the US. I don't think bashing is the good word, highly critical would be a better one. And the UN is not just an organization, it is an organization of 192 countries. If the UN is highly critical towards the US, it means many of its member states are highly critical.
First of all, thanks for working on TOR! Second, to answer your question, no (PEBKAC). You could force the user to read a document with all warnings upon install, but even that won't really work. Last, it would be nice to see some improvements in TOR itself to protect the network from rogue exit-nodes: 1) setup a (auto-updating) blacklist of rogue nodes. 2) use honey-pots to expose rogue nodes. 3) blacklist exit-nodes which use MITM-SSL attacks or alike client-sided (should bedoable in combination with an echanced TOR-button plugin) 4) allow users to setup certain rules/criteria for their routes and exit-nodes (e.g. I wouldn't want an exit-node in the US, Nigeria and a bunch of other countries)
Automatically detecting them won't happen but you can setup honeypots to detect bad exit-node.
Blocklists are slowly adapting to this with temporary blocklists. But NEVER EVER accept a new IP-address/block without checking its history. I went through the same ordeal once, finding it really was next to impossible to convince blocklists that ownership had really changed and I wasn't a bad guy (the previous owner had moved ip-addresses, but remained with the same colocation provider which didn't help my case). Worst of all, the colocation provider wasn't helpful at all.
Python? Weren't they planning to use Torrent as the basis for newer BitTorrent versions?
You might, given the fact that you only need to carry a "matchbox" into a low orbit. But it will still be a hell of a job and lots of trail and error. The bigger problem you will have is that you will have to do it without hitting anything (civilian jets, satellite's, etc), as it might set you back a few hundred million dollars if you manage to do so.
More channels, more features (EPG, automatic installation of channels, DVB Subs, Multiple Audiotracks), better quality, more competition in the market (now people can choose between Satellite, Cable or Terrestrial for Television). The only downside is, at least here in the Netherlands where we made the switch last year, low quality and reception problems. The infrastructure for Terrestrial is still being rolled out, but even in urban areas where there already should be good reception, it is not working flawless. And most channels are streamed in low bitrates, causing visible artifacts.
That is what the article implies but it is not necessarily what happened. Besides, the article points many design flaws on both sides: 1) The connector shouldn't have corroded and they box should have been protected against humidity, but was that in the design specifications? If not, why not? 2) While designing a triple redundant system with a single point of failure, they reason they give is actually pretty good. If there is a certain situation that neither of the three systems can handle (extremely polluted power supply), then the design flaw is not that you power off all three systems, it is that the systems are not hardened enough against such an event and that the such an event can happen in the first place. 3) The dehumidifier shouldn't have malfunctioned. But is also odd that they relied on assumptions such as moving air and power usage to keep condensate from forming. What would happen during a temporary power failure? Air would stop moving and the wires would cool, allowing condensate to form. And where did the cool air came from and why was it not detected? 4) The most important design flaw (which is not mentioned at all). There shouldn't have been a system that warned of the malfunctioning dehumidifier. In such a fragile and hospitable environment, high humidity/wator vapor can lead to serious problems. The fact that the dehumidifier could malfunction without notice is rather serious.
The bad thing about spam filtering in Hotmail is that they do it silently. I've had complaints in the past about mails being lost, so I checked my server logs: 250's for all messages to hotmail. Wrote an email to postmaster@hotmail.com which bounced back (sigh). Then I gave up and adviced to make sure recipients had the sending email-address in their addressbooks before sending them anything, which seems to do the trick most of the times.
Also, no ads and with a bit of luck, the show is available in HDTV. Here in the Netherland, most populair (US) series are broadcasted 6 to 12 months (!) later. We have a few HDTV channels, but none of them with any populair content (NG and Discovery are ok though) and you pay extra for them. Personally, I wouldn't mind paying 1 (SDTV) or 2 (HDTV) euro for a premium show, as long as there are no ads or DRM involved and I wouldn't need to wait 6 to 12 months to see.
Make that 2 :-)