Yes of course. Just like the Easter islanders could've sustained their food production on the island by using sea based inputs for food and fertializer, forest gardening, population control. You know, the simple easy stuff...

...rather than cut down the island of all trees, fight wars and starve while build hundreds of identical stone images of their gods. But we could never be that silly?

Also while you're at it, can you suggest how to build a bigger spout for crude oil production - you know - extraction of hydrocarbons from the earth which are the main liquid fuel source that runs the global economy. Cause, you know, the petrolium engineers have been having an awful time lately, since 2005 to be precise when their production number peaked at 73 mbpd and has been declining ever since. You know. Something in the order of magnitude better than the Enhanced Recovery techniques that have been applied on all the declining oil fields of the world for the past 20 years... You see, we might still need cheap plentiful oil for a while in order to build all those space ships that will take us to your Star Trek universe or Sugarcandy Mountain or what was it?

I'm sure something will happen in 2013...

However meanwhile US crude production peaked in '71

North sea (Brent) peaked for UK in '99 and for Norway in 2001

The world production of crude oil peaked in 2005 at 73mbpd.

We haven't been able to produce more since despite prices peaking at 140USD, Enhanced Oil Recovery and Drill Baby Drill!

Since then we have seen the whole globe slide into recession, the first drop in vehicle miles driven since the invention of the automobile... etc.

But I blame those pesky enviros. How dare they disturb my slumber with their 'facts'!

Wrong. You are confusing jet engine components which are cooled with the fuel. Avionics racks are sometimes cooled with bleed air from the engine (no, not the exhaust, the other side).

Actually you are only right about the moms basement ;P (as we live together with our extended families)

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(and that's not just a /. cliché. Douglas Adams was an advocate of conservation and made many humorous references in H2G2 to a human downfall through ecological negligence - so there!)

Quick, someone say "we're using the resources at a larger rate than the earth can provide" ! before the cornucopians come out of their caves to declare infinite growth through infinite resources.

The bottle maybe big but the spout is killing us.

Not only that but the system restricts writing data to a file in the first place and compartmentalizes what you can access according need-to-know.

But nobody is suggesting Manning was any smarter than though. He merely had broader access to the system than we assume a normal user would.

If you look at the data and see it as just a flat-life database its quite easy to see a reason for its initial creation and many applications for it; you can draw time lines with it, categorize events according to action, unit, geographic location, then play with graphs and maps. It doesn't take long for someone to find it difficult to work with it on a restricted system. So they find a way, even authorization, to bring the file to a more open system. After that the data is free to go anywhere. What do you think? Is that what happened?

The video shows a full size rack with 36 standard 1U rack servers installed on it.

On each server they have installed milled metal blocks on all the components to bring them in contact with the upper cover of the server which has a metal foil interface to complete the fit for maximum heat conduction.

The actual coolant is circulated in the rack in cold plates or shelves installed between the servers. Coolant is exchanged from the top of the racks into the piping that takes it to the heat exchanger outside.

Comment: with this kind of system cooling is a function of the coolant temperature and flow. With the metal blocks, interfaces and surface areas that I could see it is nothing special to be able to cool down the components to very low temperatures. The engineer talks of 450 W dissipation per server with 150W previously going to the fans alone. So getting 300W of heat out of there isn't a problem with a cold plate that size. Military avionics use these a lot: Conduction Cooled cPCI and other standard cards. No need for liquid flow even. Just use aircraft structure as a cold plate. Those custom milled metal interfaces are expensive to make but its still a lot cheaper than anything really MILSPEC and there is no issues with vibration on this one. This would be called modified COTS.

Perhaps as a 'veteran' you could talk about what you think about the actual intel. You know its all online still. Just waiting for people like for your opinion on it ...

I'd rather than listen to such than endless irrelevant ad hominem comments about Assange.

Surely you know Intelligence management is about compromise. Yes you could have only terminal access and no external data connections and limit them to closely vetted people who sign for each access but that would limit the usefulness of the data too much. You cannot put too much restrictions on data access and distribution if you want to use that data widely and frequently. As a result this kind of low level stuff gets 'leaked' all the time: people working on it have it on their laptops, USB dongles, websites etc. They send it via email attachments to research partners, policy interest groups, friends. It just rarely gets into the news cause no one much cares or gets caught. But if this is news to you ...

Wikileaks hasn't claimed any of the conspiracy nut theories you refer to. They just release intel. Nor do they have to admit to anything for this reason: anyone can look at the intel and make up their minds themselves about how well the 'war' is going.

As for own sad delusion about "news crew teaming up with insurgent RPG team" (for which even the military themselves dont believe in)...

" People won't change their thinking even if X turns out to be different. Because they're just using X as an easy rationalisation for their existing bias." - Khasim (1285)

Maybe he is just illustrating the principle.

Yes, please. Everyone line-up here:

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to apologize for claiming patriotism and being a tool by shouting on previous threads here that Wikileaks had got people killed in Afghanistan.

Writing a hundred times: "I will not watch FOX anymore" should do it.

Wimax isn't real 4G. Its just a crappy extension of Wifi. Hence the spottyness.

Here at Tampere I'm able to get 8Mbps 10km from the city with the good old 3G network using HSPA+. Beats my ADSL over POTS. And the connection degrades gracefully via WDCMA -> EDGE -> GPRS as you reach countryside. See our coverage map. Carriers here are ignoring Wimax and are building LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks already. Check out Oslo or Stockholm for city wide operational networks if you're visiting.

Ha, you primitive USians. Bow down in front of our superior socialist mobile market.

Even the donkeys in Portugal have higher speeds then you !

Here's a coverage map for one of our local operators in Finland.

I happen to live over 10km from the City of Tampere and still get 8Mbps download 800k upload of stable stream of data transfer. And soon we'll have a 4G / LTE network that'll able to give about 40 / 5 Mbps. Still slower than my 100MB fiber at home though...

Manufacturing physically larger monitors (up to a point) is more expensive then making the same pixel area wider with less height. Industry thus advertised higher dpi and 'wide-screen' formats as top of the line and encourage consumers to buy 'higher definition' monitors.

Generally for portable use this sense because you get more pixels to carry with you but making the pixels smaller makes has two adverse effects:

Most software and web content still uses fixed-width elements such as bitmap graphics. As software and websites get older the resolution/monitor size they were optimized for (basically what the developed thought nice) look smaller and smaller in higher definition monitors - to a point where it begins to effect usability (text on fixed width or bitmap buttons too small to read).

Smaller but not less important are developers and graphic designers who would like work with graphics at a pixel level. For these purposes these people would like to buy lower definition screens where you can still see pixels at a relatively comfortable distance but which have lots of workspace ie. inches.

Using fully vectorized elements and graphics and allowing for smooth scaling of the user interface solves this problem but implementing such is harder because fixed width and static resolutions are easier to optimize (for example in many games 3D graphics have been overlayed with fixed width bitmap elements which accelerate real time frame rate). In web graphics because of immaturity of tools, standards and browsers not all elements scale in unison or at all causing web pages to display not as the designer intended (again depending on the size of the difference between his and your resolution preference). Also most operating systems and their window schemes are optimized for certain resolutions and width to height ratios. You can turn the monitor 90 degrees but some OS and software UI:s look bad or even get broken.

Finding large 'normal' (ie less than 100dpi or heaven forbid 72dpi DTP standard) 4:3 monitors these days is a pain. I use two 19" 4:3 monitors with 1280x1024 native resolution. this allows me to sit back at a comfortable distance while still being able to see most fixed width elements. The 4:3 remains the optimum ratio for most software UI:s in full screen. On my ultrawide laptop their UI:s get squeezed vertically and end up having redundant space in the horizontal.