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Electricity Apocalypse Soon?
mindriot writes "Heise's awarded online magazine Telepolis has published a nice article (English / German) discussing the ongoing series of power blackouts (after the U.S. blackout, London, Scandinavia, and other incidents, the most recent victim being Italy). 'The blackouts bare the Achilles Heel of our "information society" ,' the article states, and sees the recent events as a precursor to a possible massive on-line blackout. As society becomes more and more dependent on information and power networks, the failure of a single wire or the interruption of a satellite uplink can become a major issue and form a great vulnerability. As the article explains, market liberalization, globalization and plain ignorance could endanger our infrastructure to a very discomforting extent." Free markets cause power blackouts?
We use Morse Code by candle light. What's your problem?
The Mothership
The blackouts bare the Achilles Heel of our our "information society"
You better believe it! As soon as the power goes out and I can't post on slashdot or update my blog my social life is over!
Just like everywhere else...
The Mothership
Damn, blackout, what can I do? I know I'll play some games, oh no wait, hrmm, I'll work on that code, oh, hrmmm, hrmmm, I'll read my mail, doh .. holy crap there is nothing to do :O
Analytic & algebraic topology of locally Euclidean meterization of infinitely differentiable Riemmanian manifold
'Cuz I can download pr0n on my bongos!
and once we solve the overdependence on electricity, we can solve our overdependence on clean water, and air, and food, manufactured goods, raw materials, cheap labor, children in sweatshops, working poor, janitors, cars, fossil fuels, shoes, houses, silicon, land, ozone, the sun, and all that other stuff we are so dependent on.
because god knows, dying in the electricity apocalypse would suck, but i'd rather go there than in the sewage apocolypse.
thank you, good night.
... my co-worker at the opposite table sais "Pah, blackouts can't happen in germany. We have a very narrow and redundant power grid." [translated]
Now imagine his face ten seconds later, when all monitores became black, all lights went off, and the UPS switched to battery supply. The local power company needed 2.5 hours to get the power back ...
(This is real life, not a joke.)
Tux2000
Denken hilft.
If we reduce our power consumption, the terrorists will have won.
Or something to that effect.
So, you stop paying for maintenance, and get to raise prices. Isn't that precious?
;-)
But this way, at least one person can live out the American Dream and become a billionaire. Who are you to kill the American Dream??!
Yes, that was sarcasm folks..
http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/
The Book of the Subgenius teaches that in the face of impending emergency, the only things that need to be stockpiled are firearms, ammunition and cocaine. With this, you can build a loyal army of followers who will provide ( one way or another ) the other necessities of life. This is black-box abstraction at its best.
Anyway, I'm not concerned. All these power outages seem like a distinctly northern hemisphere prob
%% NO CARRIEROne god, one market, one truth, one consumer.
But that aside, the shark attack rates were definately higher -- I know because I spent the summer SCUBA diving in Kailua-Kona. The exceptionally low rate of shark attacks overall means that it wasn't very statistically significant, but.. 01 was definately a bumper year for these...
I want a new world. I think this one is broken.
Thank you! There's WAY too little Thatcher bashing on /.
Pulling them out of the vampire does that.
i gotta build myself a hand powered webserver for redunduncy purposes!
A pr0n server that can be powered with one hand? Excellent! :)