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Windows 10 privacy paranoia leads to ban from private pirate torrent trackers

Fears surrounding Windows 10's online connectivity and data collection are continuing to run rampant. The latest fallout is something that Microsoft probably won't be too upset about: some private BitTorrent trackers that trade entirely in pirated media appear to have banned the use of Microsoft's operating system.

Our entire building suffered some wild power fluctuations early this morning, affecting many projects including SETI@home. This is completely unrelated to power issues from a couple weeks ago. Despite losing some hardware all of our services are recovering.

There was a major power outage on Tuesday evening that affected several buildings here on campus including the entire Space Sciences Laboratory. Power has been restored this morning, and we are slowly getting the project back on line.

Hydrogen seems like less of a viable option due to the sheer volume of it that it would take to get equal distance from the vehicle as a tank of gas.

I heard on a radio show that for a hydrogen powered car to travel 200 miles ( 10 gallons of gasoline just as an example since some cars get far more mileage ) the tank for the Hydrogen would, all by itself, weigh 2000 pounds.

For a service station to have hydrogen available, it would take immense holding tanks.

Corn based ethanol doesn't seem to be a good solution. Unfortunately, everyone got on the corn bandwagon and almost completely dismissed other sources. Sawgrass would be a more efficient source, and wouldn't create the havoc with food prices that we are seeing with corn.

Another source that people aren't paying any attention to is sugar. Brazil uses sugar to make their ethanol. The new Farm Bill ( that President Bush has plans to veto ) has a provision that any sugar being imported into the United States has to go for ethanol production. The main reason for that is because when sugar is imported from Mexico, it has to be re-processed anyway.

We don't have enough ( as far as I know ) sugar growers out there to provide enough to make the needed amount of ethanol to completely remove us from foreign oil dependence, but last year, our company produced over 1 billion pounds of sugar. Seems to me, we could have gotten a lot of ethanol out of that.

Not to mention that, if the sugar is going for ethanol, it doesn't have to go through our entire process, AND it would be pretty doggone easy to store.