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Reactor Shutdown Darkens South Florida
grassy_knoll asks, "So how fragile is the electrical grid, and just what technical problems could shut down five reactors?" "Five reactors at a nuclear power plant in Florida had gone down on Tuesday and two were now back online amid a massive power outage in the southern state, CNN reported. The report on the Turkey Point nuclear plant came as four million people had lost electricity in Miami and elsewhere in Florida, with traffic signals out and major delays on roads, authorities and media said."
I hear the problem originated with a drone in sector 7-G.
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good thing I backup IP over carrier pigeon.
Oh, wait. This is Florida. Things already look like a Mad Max movie, minus Tina Turner and with a lot more cubans.
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... at least given how much crime shows draw on real life events, albeit massively embellished. Cue Horatio Caine.. 'Looks like someone's been left in the dark.. permanently.' *removes sunglasses*
I demand a recount!
I smell something fivey .... the Pentagon!
Infuriate left and right
Perhaps people should 2 seconds of research before they begin jumping to conclusions about things.
You're obviously new here...
"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." -- Eric Hoffer
I'd love to see the two of them in a debate with each other. That'd be great. Think of the drinking games you could create off that.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I'd be a little scared of the vortex of intense stupidity that would form as these two approached each other. I mean, this would probably rip quarks from each other, rip space time and bring the dinosaurs back. I think, in the interest of galactic peace that these two be kept a minimum of two hundred miles apart.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I'm afraid that can't be correct. He was "imprisoned forever by a force field powered by an eternal battery" and is thus incapable of making visits to Earth, even transiently.
... wait ... xeon transients - never mind
Oh
Alaska
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask where they're goin' and hook up with 'em later.
You know all too often I hear of IP over Carrier Pidgeon as the next generation of internet technology, something even bigger than Web 2.0 and software as a service. I'm sure it's going to actualize our paradigm shifts and all that but seriously lets get some cold hard FACTS into the discussion.
Firstly:
Where are the numbers on latency and bandwidth?
Details like this are frequently brushed aside when making unrealistic promises. Let's stop listening to the marketing department and talk to the engineers working specifically with IP over Carrier Pidgeon and IP over Avian Carrier in general. (From here on referred to as IPoAC) We have no hard numbers on packet size limits.
Secondly:
What is the average delay on DNS resolution?
Another salient fact glossed over is that IPoAC completely depends on DNS caches as name lookups are expensive. As well as how long does it take to train new carriers til they are able to follow the new routes?
These and other questions lead me to believe that IPoAC is entirely VAPOR and has most likely not even been successfully implemented in the real world.
Does anyone have any real stats we can use to examine this? Or is IPoAC just going to be rammed down our throats by another mega-corporation with an agenda? It's time to really open the discussion on IPoAC.
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