Sadly what it not sustainable is our rate of population growth. There is a finite amount of arable land and fresh water to go around, I don't we can't go wasting it making biofuels. There's plenty of uramium, plutonium, duterium, tritium, wave, solar and wind to go around without bulldozing everything to make way for biomass crops.
Indeed, but look what wonderful things (almost) came out of the 1973 oil crisis, Salter's Duck! Need is indeed the mother of all invention, we didn't need it so we didn't persue it. We really are always limited by our physical understanding of the world and we've been waiting for theorectical science to give the inventors something new to play with. Nano-tech's really been lighting the world of materiels science up though, roll on the future.
I love Desertec's idea of concentrating solar plants in the deserts of north africa with HVDC lines supplying europe. Wouldn't it be wonderful to see money flood into Africa which doesn't involve digging shiny rocks out the ground. They have a fantastic statistic of how much desert solar would be required to run europe. It looks like a postage stamp on the map!
To be fair, they drive steam turbines, which were made very efficient around the 19th century by another genius inventor. Who I can't remember. German maybe?
Mostly I'm just excited to be living in interesting times where the perfected technologies of old (fossil, steam) look like they are about to be replaced with real game changers. When your power is as near infinite as fusion, efficiency loss in a steam turbine means nothing.
1) We're still burning fossil fuels. Period. Not cracking atoms and persuing renewables. 2) Decades of stagnation in development and deployment 3) Plagued by NIMBYs and doom mongers.
Not to mention the climate sceptics saying coal's fine and the enviromentalits demanding we all run off of a few wind mills and... coal until we build more wind mills?? Eh?
Bunch of idiots. Bulldoze the lot, build nuke plants until fusion is ready. It's the only way to be sure.
Richard Yemm is the British inventor of the Pelamis Wave Energy Converter and director of Pelamis Wave Power, a company he founded in Edinburgh in 1998.
And Salter's duck was invented in 1974 as a result of the 1973 oil crisis. So why aren't island nations now powered by the waves? It is after all 40 years later. Because funding was cut off in the 80s after the oil prices came back down. And becasue the british government employ ACTUAL PSYCHIC WITCHES they knew in the early 80s that there would never again be a shortage of cheap plentiful energy in the UK!!
Congratulations lads (and lass).
And that ladies and gentlemen, is why you don't drive a fission powered hover duck.
But I saw a programme on the BBC called geniuses of invention. It was about the geniuses that gave us the power station, and mighty minds they were, making incredible metal leaps off of the knowledge of the day. So even Watt and Faraday built on the work of others.
Where, in 2013, we BURN COAL TO DRIVE A STEAM ENGINE.
I know I'm being facetious but it seems a shame that nearly 200 years later we haven't really moved on at all. It's probably down to the fact that we've needed a 100 years of work first in chemistry, physics and materials science before we can even consider moving beyond burning stuff.
Our large power generation is still based off of Newton's world, not, erm, Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Born, Jordan, Pauli, Fermi, Schrodinger, Dirac, de Broglie and Bose's.
We tried fission, that's not working out too well. The French have dug a big hole: http://stream.iter.org/cs-webcam1.swf Soon they will shovel some fusion into it.
Sorry, isn't vulnerable to common or garden meta-script engine exploits. Surely you can just keep most of the rabble out? Unless it's being targeted by top n-th percentile persons? You know, then people from films with wonderful hair and bleepy-bloopy animated interfaces.
Good start, the google car probably logged where all their IPs where so that's easy enough.
"How do we route around damage like this?"
Although unless they were actually harassing her in the street and at home, why is this a problem? It says a "professional hacking group" but really? Isn't it just Google's Blogger? Is it really that vulnerable that a bunch of skiddies can deface it? If it really is, why not move to a host that isn't vulnerable.
Does anybody have a link to more information about what was actually going on? I'm genuinely interested.
Fair enough, I was still working under the assumption from when we were told that the 9mm rounds that the police used were used because they *didn't* go through johnny terrorist and hit granny.
Also well done for not answering with, "omg you total fukzor moron you don't understand terminal frangipane cake bullets or anything duuuur"
Which is why you got a response.
Also I much prefer the idea of massive internal hopefully non-lethal damage followed by infinite jail sentences.
Christ, once I was at Southampton Airport and the airport security were carrying assault rifles. Assault Rifles!! Who the hell were they expecting to attack?? The French Army?
I'd prefer them to have the sort of bullets that are designed NOT to go through the target AND the people behind the target.
But, it was a contractor installing software. The OS didn't need to be vulnerable. The infected application had super user rights. Of course no doubt it DID leverage holes in windows and it wasn't there to compromise the power station, just run spam chewing malware. And it was only ON the stick in the first place because of Windows security holes.
But by definition any OS (GNU Linux, OSX, Windows) on which you are installing software if vulnerable by default Of course in a secure environment such as GNU Linux or BSD or whatever, the machines that wrote the stick in the first place would have been astronomically less vulnerable to leaky security and easy compromise such as the box where the contractor spent the morning browsing drive by pr0n sites.
If it was a malicious contractor, no OS is going to save you.
Good idea. Why don't the people who think they're so damn clever bypassing laws with near-ubiquitous technology realise that they're just harming they're own cause? If they can't restrict firearms this way because of 3D printers they'll just place even stricter restrictions on the guns themselves. Such as a ban. If you can't play nice, they will take your toys away!
"4K implies going back to physical media" I don't know about anybody else but I can easily tell the difference between broadcast "HD" with it's hopelessly over-compressed 1080 streams and full-fat blu ray. Although admittedly DVB-S2 and T2 with it's fancy new MPEG4 streams do look miles better than the original DVB-T and S MPEG2 streams. But no way are they going to be able to do anything than kill 4K streams using what they have.
Personally I still like buying bits of plastic. Solves all the problems and they can't take it away from you if they decide your times up!:)
I still don't believe in this streaming gaming thing. Maybe (Probably) it's just a UK thing but 10 seconds of buffering for streaming SD content and sometimes laggy multiplayer gaming even when you're rendering it locally does not fill me with confidence. I suppose maybe the latencies are approaching workable but they can still wander up to 100ms.
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Sadly what it not sustainable is our rate of population growth.
There is a finite amount of arable land and fresh water to go around, I don't we can't go wasting it making biofuels.
There's plenty of uramium, plutonium, duterium, tritium, wave, solar and wind to go around without bulldozing everything to make way for biomass crops.
Indeed, but look what wonderful things (almost) came out of the 1973 oil crisis, Salter's Duck!
Need is indeed the mother of all invention, we didn't need it so we didn't persue it.
We really are always limited by our physical understanding of the world and we've been waiting for theorectical science to give the inventors something new to play with.
Nano-tech's really been lighting the world of materiels science up though, roll on the future.
Indeed, it's so very exciting to watch.
I love Desertec's idea of concentrating solar plants in the deserts of north africa with HVDC lines supplying europe.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to see money flood into Africa which doesn't involve digging shiny rocks out the ground.
They have a fantastic statistic of how much desert solar would be required to run europe. It looks like a postage stamp on the map!
To be fair, they drive steam turbines, which were made very efficient around the 19th century by another genius inventor.
Who I can't remember. German maybe?
Mostly I'm just excited to be living in interesting times where the perfected technologies of old (fossil, steam) look like they are about to be replaced with real game changers. When your power is as near infinite as fusion, efficiency loss in a steam turbine means nothing.
Well, we voted them in!
And a million lemming can't possibly be wrong.
You misunderstand, my bad.
By not doing too well I mean:
1) We're still burning fossil fuels. Period. Not cracking atoms and persuing renewables.
2) Decades of stagnation in development and deployment
3) Plagued by NIMBYs and doom mongers.
Not to mention the climate sceptics saying coal's fine and the enviromentalits demanding we all run off of a few wind mills and... coal until we build more wind mills?? Eh?
Bunch of idiots.
Bulldoze the lot, build nuke plants until fusion is ready.
It's the only way to be sure.
My money for long term sustainability is on:
ITER: http://www.iter.org/
Desertec: http://www.desertec.org/
Pelamis: http://www.pelamiswave.com/#5 (Oh look an inventor!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Yemm)
Richard Yemm is the British inventor of the Pelamis Wave Energy Converter and director of Pelamis Wave Power, a company he founded in Edinburgh in 1998.
He spend years in a small (very big) shed (wave tank) developing a practical spin on the work of another incredible inventor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Salter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salter's_duck
And Salter's duck was invented in 1974 as a result of the 1973 oil crisis.
So why aren't island nations now powered by the waves? It is after all 40 years later.
Because funding was cut off in the 80s after the oil prices came back down.
And becasue the british government employ ACTUAL PSYCHIC WITCHES they knew in the early 80s that there would never again be a shortage of cheap plentiful energy in the UK!!
Congratulations lads (and lass).
And that ladies and gentlemen, is why you don't drive a fission powered hover duck.
Er..
True.
But I saw a programme on the BBC called geniuses of invention.
It was about the geniuses that gave us the power station, and mighty minds they were, making incredible metal leaps off of the knowledge of the day.
So even Watt and Faraday built on the work of others.
Then it cuts to today, the Drax Power Station. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_power_station
Where, in 2013, we BURN COAL TO DRIVE A STEAM ENGINE.
I know I'm being facetious but it seems a shame that nearly 200 years later we haven't really moved on at all.
It's probably down to the fact that we've needed a 100 years of work first in chemistry, physics and materials science before we can even consider moving beyond burning stuff.
Our large power generation is still based off of Newton's world, not, erm, Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Born, Jordan, Pauli, Fermi, Schrodinger, Dirac, de Broglie and Bose's.
We tried fission, that's not working out too well.
The French have dug a big hole: http://stream.iter.org/cs-webcam1.swf
Soon they will shovel some fusion into it.
Sorry, isn't vulnerable to common or garden meta-script engine exploits.
Surely you can just keep most of the rabble out?
Unless it's being targeted by top n-th percentile persons?
You know, then people from films with wonderful hair and bleepy-bloopy animated interfaces.
Good start, the google car probably logged where all their IPs where so that's easy enough.
"How do we route around damage like this?"
Although unless they were actually harassing her in the street and at home, why is this a problem?
It says a "professional hacking group" but really? Isn't it just Google's Blogger? Is it really that vulnerable that a bunch of skiddies can deface it?
If it really is, why not move to a host that isn't vulnerable.
Does anybody have a link to more information about what was actually going on?
I'm genuinely interested.
Yes, sorry, should have reiterated that Windows is just a bad choice full stop.
(can my story be directed by Michael Bay please?)
Fair enough, I was still working under the assumption from when we were told that the 9mm rounds that the police used were used because they *didn't* go through johnny terrorist and hit granny.
Also well done for not answering with, "omg you total fukzor moron you don't understand terminal frangipane cake bullets or anything duuuur"
Which is why you got a response.
Also I much prefer the idea of massive internal hopefully non-lethal damage followed by infinite jail sentences.
Agreed.
Christ, once I was at Southampton Airport and the airport security were carrying assault rifles.
Assault Rifles!!
Who the hell were they expecting to attack??
The French Army?
I'd prefer them to have the sort of bullets that are designed NOT to go through the target AND the people behind the target.
Since when did they stop carrying MP5s?
No serious!
They're really really deadly weapons... .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Glasgow_International_Airport_attack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_London_car_bombs
Big blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in?
But, it was a contractor installing software.
The OS didn't need to be vulnerable.
The infected application had super user rights.
Of course no doubt it DID leverage holes in windows and it wasn't there to compromise the power station, just run spam chewing malware.
And it was only ON the stick in the first place because of Windows security holes.
But by definition any OS (GNU Linux, OSX, Windows) on which you are installing software if vulnerable by default
Of course in a secure environment such as GNU Linux or BSD or whatever, the machines that wrote the stick in the first place would have been astronomically less vulnerable to leaky security and easy compromise such as the box where the contractor spent the morning browsing drive by pr0n sites.
If it was a malicious contractor, no OS is going to save you.
Next, teach it the dance moves from gangnam style...
Good idea. Why don't the people who think they're so damn clever bypassing laws with near-ubiquitous technology realise that they're just harming they're own cause?
If they can't restrict firearms this way because of 3D printers they'll just place even stricter restrictions on the guns themselves.
Such as a ban.
If you can't play nice, they will take your toys away!
Uh! Uh! Yeah, you freakin' r-tards...
deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerp .....
*sarcasm off*
"4K implies going back to physical media"
I don't know about anybody else but I can easily tell the difference between broadcast "HD" with it's hopelessly over-compressed 1080 streams and full-fat blu ray.
Although admittedly DVB-S2 and T2 with it's fancy new MPEG4 streams do look miles better than the original DVB-T and S MPEG2 streams.
But no way are they going to be able to do anything than kill 4K streams using what they have.
Personally I still like buying bits of plastic. Solves all the problems and they can't take it away from you if they decide your times up! :)
Somebody needs to sit down with these scientists and have, "the chat".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbd3E6tK2U
I still don't believe in this streaming gaming thing.
Maybe (Probably) it's just a UK thing but 10 seconds of buffering for streaming SD content and sometimes laggy multiplayer gaming even when you're rendering it locally does not fill me with confidence.
I suppose maybe the latencies are approaching workable but they can still wander up to 100ms.
Backward compatibility
Woo Hoo!
Welcome back, former British colony of Virginia. :)
Too busy building new vacuum cleaners
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