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Those of you who know me as a fan of Apple’s Mac computer know that I have been saying for years that Windows is fundamentally flawed. Its design, its architecture is fundamentally insecure. (Mac OS X, by contrast, was built on a base of BSD Unix which has decades of security engineering behind it.) “Microsoft […]

Offered without comment: <http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2007-03-04-1.html> “Here’s a story you haven’t heard, and you should have.” “The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.” — Joseph Schumpeter

<http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4199381.html?page=1> Excellent article on Hydrogen production and use. See the table at the end where they summarize the resources needed to produce enough Hydrogen to displace gasoline as a fuel for passenger cars. Example: 113 million 40-kilowatt solar panel photovoltaic systems, covering 50% of more than 300 million acres – an area three times the […]

Minor glitch. It’d be funny except that I want to install any Windows updates that I need.   Microsoft thinks my Windows 98 is Mac OS. DOH!

As noted previously, the sun is the single greatest factor affecting Earth’s temperature. During one seventy-five year period, now called the Maunder Minimum (from 1645 to 1715), Sunspot activity virtually ceased and temperatures on Earth fell enough to cause a “Little Ice Age” of severely cold weather across Earth’s northern hemisphere. The winters were so […]