He's exactly right. Let's say you plug your car into your outlet at home and charge it over night. You have a "zero emmissions" car to drive around during the day -- Hooray! You're a Hero!
Except not quite. You charged it from your house. Your house is getting its electricity from where? A power grid that, all things blended together, is DIRTIER than a modern internal combustion engine.
But wait, it gets worse. The grid powering your home is powered by a variety of sources from solar (a small fraction) to dirty coal (a whole lot more than solar) but then you have the inefficencies of having to transport it to your house and store/discharge it to/from the batteries in your car. Factor in these inefficiencies and you're no hero, you're now a villain.
Want back to hero status? Put solar on your house, take it off the grid (at least during peak hours). Plug a car into it too, if you want, but much more of our carbon emissions, pollution, and other bad things come from our buildings than from our vehicles.
The only problem is that people's images are so tied up in their cars that suddenly driving a Prius is the image that people want to project... while they park it in front of a McMansion that does more to negatively impact the environment than an Escalade could dream of.
I mean, I really wouldn't mind paying for a full version of Windows Vista if it did what I wanted it to do. Windows XP Ultimate, however, does everything I want it to do. It appears to be the best version of Windows at any price... so I don't feel guilty for using it.
Maybe MS should put a "click to donate" button on their website for guys like me who don't mind paying for pirated Windows XP. I'd gladly pop in the same price Dell pays for a copy of Vista.
The use of the Olympic rings trade mark was clearly a parody and therefore should be covered by fair use. No reasonable person would get the impression that the people with the video were the owners of the trade mark.
It shouldn't take 3 days to figure that out, the whole clip is only a few minutes.
I'm not sure I see the problem. It looks like business class seating for what would typically be a business class passenger. When Air Force "brass" have to travel, should we stick them in the cargo hold of a C-130 and tell them to hold on until the flight is over, or should we sit them at a desk and tell them to earn their paychecks and keep working?
We could buy them business class tickets instead, I suppose, but can they then really do their jobs in such a public environment? I'd rather not have our military leaders discussing strategy in seats E4 and E5 on United.
Oh, and hey, for the record, if there is a war I want to be sure that the top of the command chain can travel AND command at the same time. Call me old fashioned...
No, no they wont. They will be monkeys. Our descendants will blow up the world and then monkeys will evolve to ride horses and throw spears and use nets and tal... GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY APE!
The contents of my wallet are private, the color of my underwear is private, the contacts stored on MY cell phone are private (perhaps not if the company bought it for me, but if it's MY cell phone then it's private; same thing if it's MY notebook computer), the contents of my car are private...
That blimps have crappy aerodynamics, unlike a plane, and (especially when fully loaded) are going to get crap MPG.
In fact, a blimp with a 20knot maximum speed will get 0MPG in a 20knot headwind.
But, you're right, an SUV gets a 200mile range no problem. I too am underwhelmed.
I don't want to hear little pings and murmurs from a PDA next to my bed because some VP couldn't find a file for tomorrow's presentation, or a fscking file server is down and Julie in accounting can't get to it. All that can wait until the morning.
uhm, then just turn off the e-mail alert function. People could still call you if there's an emergency, and if there's an emergency e-mail might be helpful (e.g. you can read the exact error messages that your monitoring SW is sending out rather than having "Chip from Sales" tell you that the website is down: http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com./ If you're out at dinner, or similar, you might appreciate being able to not have to run home to get to a computer just because someone calls you with what they think is an emergency.
You can have my crackberry when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
In which the hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, acquainting himself with the customs and dialects of the exotic Manhole Villagers of Thailand, the U-Turn Tunnelers of the Nile Delta, the Cable Nomads of Lan tao Island, the Slack Control Wizards of Chelmsford, the Subterranean Ex-Telegraphers of Cornwall, and other previously unknown and unchronicled folk; also, biographical sketches of the two long-dead Supreme Ninja Hacker Mage Lords of global telecommunications, and other material pertaining to the business and technology of Undersea Fiber-Optic Cables, as well as an account of the laying of the longest wire on Earth
Why would china be concerned with Antitrust probes with software companies when China needs them in order to impose there laws on citizens. where laws?
There are no magnetic monopoles in theory, either. Maxwell's four equations that define all of Electromagnetism, includes Gauss's Law of Magnetism. This law states that magnetic fields don't in net diverge.
Its usually written in differential form as:
del * B = 0 (del dot B = 0).
Note that Physics students from bush-league universities might write the equation in integral form, but that's either a product of their deficient education or maybe some kind of genetic defect.
Yeah, I suppose magnetic monopoles might exist and then we'd re-write the laws, but there's no reason to assume so. There is a natural temptation to look at magnetism the same as electricity (individual charges, like electrons and protons, being analogous to "North" and "South" monopoles), but probably the most useful way to think of magnetism is as a relativistic effect of electrostatics... once you do that, there's no reason to assume any kind of magnetic monopole at all.
The basic idea, it seems to be, is that someone is still controlling these computers and can use them at will in DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service ) attacks... and maybe it can even go on the offensive automatically.
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_botnet) has a nice write-up on Storm, the "Methodology" Section is especially informative:
The Storm botnet was observed to be defending itself, and attacking computer systems that scanned for Storm virus-infected computer systems online.[29] The botnet will defend itself with DDoS counter-attacks, to maintain its own internal integrity At certain points in time, the Storm worm used to spread the botnet has attempted to release hundreds or thousands of versions of itself onto the Internet, in a concentrated attempt to overwhelm the defenses of anti-virus and malware security firms.[30] According to Joshua Corman, an IBM security researcher, "This is the first time that I can remember ever seeing researchers who were actually afraid of investigating an exploit."[31] Researchers are still unsure if the botnet's defenses and counter attacks are a form of automation, or manually executed by the system's operators.[31] "If you try to attach a debugger, or query sites it's reporting into, it knows and punishes you instantaneously. [Over at] SecureWorks, a chunk of it DDoS-ed [directed a distributed-denial-of-service attack] a researcher off the network. Every time I hear of an investigator trying to investigate, they're automatically punished. It knows it's being investigated, and it punishes them. It fights back," Corman said.[32] .
Yes, it's not hard to defend against getting infected, but every year there are a bazillion new computer users who want to "punch the clown to win a free i-pod", or whatever, and they get infected by the dumbest stuff. Then their computer can be used to attack others.
Anyway, most any/. reader can keep from getting infected by Storm, it's the 99.99...% of the rest of the computer owners that literally become part of the problem.
They were checking every now and then to see if the cat in the box was live or dead, in the meanwhile it remained in the superposition of two states...
There are indeed all kinds of license issues attached with the mapping. The underlying mapping data isn't owned by Google, they license it from its respective owners. I think that NAVTEQ is their biggest supplier of street level data, DigitalGlobe supplies most of their satellite imagery, and DeCarta supplies the platform that puts the data in a "geo-spacial database" and supports the queries for things like reverse geo-code (put in a street address and get a location on a map). I assume there are others in the food-chain too, especially for overseas maps.
A typical license agreement with these content/platform providers is some kind of minimum commitment and a "per map draw" cost. If Google fully "opened up" their platform, under their licenses, then they'd have to pay every time someone else's application drew a map (even if Google never got any of the advertising revenue associated with that map draw). That's a little more generous than we can ask anyone to be.
I guess we could ask Google to open the platform to those who wanted to license the map data with each respective party themselves, but just that level of negotiation, minimum commitment, etc., is beyond the run of the mill mashup's budgets and available effort. I do think that you can get so many draws from Google for your application for cheap to free, but when you hit a certain amount they ask you to pony-up -- which is actually a nice business integration effort that they provide to developers.
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Mod parent up.
... while they park it in front of a McMansion that does more to negatively impact the environment than an Escalade could dream of.
He's exactly right. Let's say you plug your car into your outlet at home and charge it over night. You have a "zero emmissions" car to drive around during the day -- Hooray! You're a Hero!
Except not quite. You charged it from your house. Your house is getting its electricity from where? A power grid that, all things blended together, is DIRTIER than a modern internal combustion engine.
But wait, it gets worse. The grid powering your home is powered by a variety of sources from solar (a small fraction) to dirty coal (a whole lot more than solar) but then you have the inefficencies of having to transport it to your house and store/discharge it to/from the batteries in your car. Factor in these inefficiencies and you're no hero, you're now a villain.
Want back to hero status? Put solar on your house, take it off the grid (at least during peak hours). Plug a car into it too, if you want, but much more of our carbon emissions, pollution, and other bad things come from our buildings than from our vehicles.
The only problem is that people's images are so tied up in their cars that suddenly driving a Prius is the image that people want to project
Does USB 3.0 assist in the more rapid delivery of porn to my PC?
Yes, but if you have Vista then your CPU load will inexplicably go to 100%.
It should have been a pirated copy of windows. "XP Ultimate, by Jonny" seems to install easier, work better, and comes with better default settings than any other legitimate version of Windows I've seen. http://www.noeman.org/gsm/internet-computers/49480-windows-xp-ultimate-edition-johnny.html
... so I don't feel guilty for using it.
I mean, I really wouldn't mind paying for a full version of Windows Vista if it did what I wanted it to do. Windows XP Ultimate, however, does everything I want it to do. It appears to be the best version of Windows at any price
Maybe MS should put a "click to donate" button on their website for guys like me who don't mind paying for pirated Windows XP. I'd gladly pop in the same price Dell pays for a copy of Vista.
The use of the Olympic rings trade mark was clearly a parody and therefore should be covered by fair use. No reasonable person would get the impression that the people with the video were the owners of the trade mark.
It shouldn't take 3 days to figure that out, the whole clip is only a few minutes.
For some reason ignorance of the law is an acceptable accuse for white-collar crimes.
That's a sad accuse.
I'd like to take a course on penetration. I might actually learn something.
My place, 10pm.
I drive, you navigate.
So, you'll hire that teacher caught molesting their students because they say they want to help children?
Dunno ... is she hot?
Man, that was wrong. I'd mod myself down if I could...
You can download the patch from Apple for free, but only from i-tunes, and you can install it on any hardware you want ... for the price of a lawsuit.
[runs, hides, and gets a new slashdot username]
I'm not sure I see the problem. It looks like business class seating for what would typically be a business class passenger. When Air Force "brass" have to travel, should we stick them in the cargo hold of a C-130 and tell them to hold on until the flight is over, or should we sit them at a desk and tell them to earn their paychecks and keep working?
We could buy them business class tickets instead, I suppose, but can they then really do their jobs in such a public environment? I'd rather not have our military leaders discussing strategy in seats E4 and E5 on United.
Oh, and hey, for the record, if there is a war I want to be sure that the top of the command chain can travel AND command at the same time. Call me old fashioned...
No, no they wont. They will be monkeys. Our descendants will blow up the world and then monkeys will evolve to ride horses and throw spears and use nets and tal... GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY APE!
R. Kelly
nothing at workplace is private from employer.
The contents of my wallet are private, the color of my underwear is private, the contacts stored on MY cell phone are private (perhaps not if the company bought it for me, but if it's MY cell phone then it's private; same thing if it's MY notebook computer), the contents of my car are private...
What am I missing?
That blimps have crappy aerodynamics, unlike a plane, and (especially when fully loaded) are going to get crap MPG.
In fact, a blimp with a 20knot maximum speed will get 0MPG in a 20knot headwind.
But, you're right, an SUV gets a 200mile range no problem. I too am underwhelmed.
I don't want to hear little pings and murmurs from a PDA next to my bed because some VP couldn't find a file for tomorrow's presentation, or a fscking file server is down and Julie in accounting can't get to it. All that can wait until the morning.
uhm, then just turn off the e-mail alert function. People could still call you if there's an emergency, and if there's an emergency e-mail might be helpful (e.g. you can read the exact error messages that your monitoring SW is sending out rather than having "Chip from Sales" tell you that the website is down: http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com./ If you're out at dinner, or similar, you might appreciate being able to not have to run home to get to a computer just because someone calls you with what they think is an emergency.
You can have my crackberry when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
For all the details read the Neal Stephenson article on cable laying around the world: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html
In which the hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, acquainting himself with the customs and dialects of the exotic Manhole Villagers of Thailand, the U-Turn Tunnelers of the Nile Delta, the Cable Nomads of Lan tao Island, the Slack Control Wizards of Chelmsford, the Subterranean Ex-Telegraphers of Cornwall, and other previously unknown and unchronicled folk; also, biographical sketches of the two long-dead Supreme Ninja Hacker Mage Lords of global telecommunications, and other material pertaining to the business and technology of Undersea Fiber-Optic Cables, as well as an account of the laying of the longest wire on Earth
it's a great read.
Resistance is futile.
Next they'll kidnap Jerry Yang, plant a WinCE device in his head, and make him Locutius of Redmond.
Really? She keeps going down...
as I Brit I have never figured out why settlers chose to live in America
to get away from Brits?
(geek)
There are no magnetic monopoles in theory, either. Maxwell's four equations that define all of Electromagnetism, includes Gauss's Law of Magnetism. This law states that magnetic fields don't in net diverge.
Its usually written in differential form as: del * B = 0 (del dot B = 0). Note that Physics students from bush-league universities might write the equation in integral form, but that's either a product of their deficient education or maybe some kind of genetic defect.
More here (wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss's_law_for_magnetism and here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations
Yeah, I suppose magnetic monopoles might exist and then we'd re-write the laws, but there's no reason to assume so. There is a natural temptation to look at magnetism the same as electricity (individual charges, like electrons and protons, being analogous to "North" and "South" monopoles), but probably the most useful way to think of magnetism is as a relativistic effect of electrostatics... once you do that, there's no reason to assume any kind of magnetic monopole at all.
(/geek)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_botnet) has a nice write-up on Storm, the "Methodology" Section is especially informative: The Storm botnet was observed to be defending itself, and attacking computer systems that scanned for Storm virus-infected computer systems online.[29] The botnet will defend itself with DDoS counter-attacks, to maintain its own internal integrity At certain points in time, the Storm worm used to spread the botnet has attempted to release hundreds or thousands of versions of itself onto the Internet, in a concentrated attempt to overwhelm the defenses of anti-virus and malware security firms.[30] According to Joshua Corman, an IBM security researcher, "This is the first time that I can remember ever seeing researchers who were actually afraid of investigating an exploit."[31] Researchers are still unsure if the botnet's defenses and counter attacks are a form of automation, or manually executed by the system's operators.[31] "If you try to attach a debugger, or query sites it's reporting into, it knows and punishes you instantaneously. [Over at] SecureWorks, a chunk of it DDoS-ed [directed a distributed-denial-of-service attack] a researcher off the network. Every time I hear of an investigator trying to investigate, they're automatically punished. It knows it's being investigated, and it punishes them. It fights back," Corman said.[32] .
Yes, it's not hard to defend against getting infected, but every year there are a bazillion new computer users who want to "punch the clown to win a free i-pod", or whatever, and they get infected by the dumbest stuff. Then their computer can be used to attack others.
Anyway, most any
They were checking every now and then to see if the cat in the box was live or dead, in the meanwhile it remained in the superposition of two states...
Here's the Pilot's Operating Handbook for the SR-71: http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/
It's a very cool read.
It runs in the family. Shortly after Bill Gate's marriage, his new wife learned what MICRO, SOFT really means.
There are indeed all kinds of license issues attached with the mapping. The underlying mapping data isn't owned by Google, they license it from its respective owners. I think that NAVTEQ is their biggest supplier of street level data, DigitalGlobe supplies most of their satellite imagery, and DeCarta supplies the platform that puts the data in a "geo-spacial database" and supports the queries for things like reverse geo-code (put in a street address and get a location on a map). I assume there are others in the food-chain too, especially for overseas maps.
A typical license agreement with these content/platform providers is some kind of minimum commitment and a "per map draw" cost. If Google fully "opened up" their platform, under their licenses, then they'd have to pay every time someone else's application drew a map (even if Google never got any of the advertising revenue associated with that map draw). That's a little more generous than we can ask anyone to be.
I guess we could ask Google to open the platform to those who wanted to license the map data with each respective party themselves, but just that level of negotiation, minimum commitment, etc., is beyond the run of the mill mashup's budgets and available effort. I do think that you can get so many draws from Google for your application for cheap to free, but when you hit a certain amount they ask you to pony-up -- which is actually a nice business integration effort that they provide to developers.