Well, aside from Japan suffering one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded there is a difference of at least 1000 times in density among water and air so the natural disasters of tsunami and tornadoes are almost not comparable in any way; still, always is good to see that emergency procedures work has expected because when they don't, bad things happen like the damage at Fukushima Daiichi.
The problem was that they didn't have roads to transport those generators to the power plant. That is the main reason for the long delay in the arrival of the fire engines at the site. Current emergency procedures that almost all utilities in Japan have implemented now call for having generators and fire engines on standby very close to the NPS.
The tsunami got in from the south side that is closer to the sea. It ripped open the door to the turbine building in front of unit 4. They had a previous study that suggested improved tsunami defenses but it was ignored. The dikes for the port were also built has a tsunami defense, but obviously, they consistently underestimated the risk. In top of that, the whole island sunk 75 cm after the quake, making even more inadequate any tsunami defense they had. Also, Fukushima had in march 12th the only dam failure caused by the quake, so that meant that roads and emergency services had another crippling emergency in top of the quake and tsunami. At the time, Fukushima Daiichi was still a lingering emergency, they were more worried about Fukushima Daini.
TEPCO published details about the improved tsunami defenses that they will build for Kashiwasaki Kariwa NPS; I have almost no doubt that the same method was proposed in their internal investigation for improved tsunami defenses for Fukushima Daiichi. The expense would have been far less than 100 million dollars, a pittance for the budgets that commonly handle utilities.
This is really funny coming from the same camp that accepted the version that Iraq in 2003 had working WMD and strategically significant delivery vehicles even when the military budget of the country barely afforded uniforms for soldiers and they used shocks instead gloves in parades. If they had spread the rumor that Obama was a lizard from Venus they would have believed it too.
I didn't said that what I stated was a good thing, I was just pointing what happened and what is happening. If someone told me 10 years ago that we would be seeing an american president begging for money to the chinese I would have laughed at him and his insane rabid anti-americanism, but that is what happened in 2009. For all his misdeeds, OBL didn't take away by himself USA's prosperity, habeas corpus, due process, respect for human rights and country's Constitution. All of that was self inflicted damage, unless you think that is a good thing that the US Constitution doesn't apply 100 miles from any US border, or that the president by himself can order the killing of an american citizen without intervention from the judiciary branch.
If OBL really masterminded the 9-11 attacks, he achieved with a few men and card board cutters what the whole Wehrmacht, the Japanese Imperial Army, the USSR and the eastern block didn't achieve, to cripple the USA's economy and destroy it from within; and achieved it even when in that (in)famous interview with Robert Fisk he said how he would do so. Current USA is a shadow of its former shelf in economic and freedom terms, entangled in a expensive war in several fronts, and the Chinese busy making the Ocean Pacific a Chinese lake, one bit at a time.
More than marketing, Steve Jobs have long term vision, something that is missing from every CEO today and almost all politicians. Who in his "right" mind in 1976 could have thought that "personal" computers that came prebuilt and output to a TV set instead to 7 segment LED display in hex code could have an use for common people, aside Jobs? About a really easy to use MP3 player, with a fast interface to a PC? About a new all in one computer, tailored to the huge masses that never had a personal computer before? Marketing is a very small part of Apple's huge success.
For all his drawbacks, Bill Gates has an almost sick desire to win, something that seriously lacks Steve Ballmer.
and killed the 92% of people that died after Japan's March 11th earthquake. Is a key component of tsunami waves. I rest my case against this dangerous substance, and request more mines to keep all of us away from their pernicious effects.
As an example of the usefulness of this feature, I lent a friend of me my iPod touch 3rd. generation to use it has a PDA and to make Skype calls during his trip to Japan. Thanks to this cache when he used the (Google) Maps application the iPod immediately pinpointed his current location with a few meters of accuracy.
I think that parent does a very good analysis of this issue:
This log file has been a known issue for at least 6 months. I'll give Apple credit and say that never purging the contents of the file is a bug, but they have know about the problem and did nothing to correct it.
They probably did nothing about it because it didn't seem like a big deal to them. You want an example of a security issue which has real world impact on tens of thousands of users? Insert latest credit card database theft news here. There seems to be at least one every few months, I think the latest was Sony.
By contrast, a phone which logs the locations of cell towers that it's been near causes next to no real harm to its users. The uproar has been essentially emotional: "ZOMG I'm being TRACKED!!!!", even though the information stays on your phone (and computer, if backed up) and isn't terribly useful to anybody likely to get hold of it. Maybe law enforcement might want to use it to pinpoint where you were if they suspect you of a crime, but they're going to have problems using it due to the nature of what's stored: it merely locates cell towers you were near, not where you actually were, and as soon as you return to a location near the tower they're interested in, the information they need (the timestamp of when the phone last asked for an update about the position of that tower) is destroyed.
Also, it's hard to make a case that LEOs lucking into a way of finding some information about the whereabouts of suspects greatly harms society as a whole. Yes, there's a privacy argument to be made, but what I'm getting at is that on the whole, leaks of CC databases cause real harm to innocents, while this problem almost certainly did not.
In short, assuming Apple had a Radar bug filed, it was probably treated as a low priority since they had no idea that it would become the subject of a media feeding frenzy and inflated into an issue of vastly more importance than it really is.
I was wrong about the power output of our emergency power plant, is 650 kW not 350 kW. Is for 100kW of computing and comms equipment and 8 HVAC. In one of the previous discussions over Fukushima there was a very good post about a conference in Caltech from an expert in nuclear safety that had a picture of the knocked out generators. Also, you can see in this link the pictures and videos of Fukushima directly from TEPCO: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/news/110311/index-e.html
I think that the last problem could be addressed by a really big public apology by the heads of the tree branches of USA's government, the heads of the Army, Navy an Air Force,a big enough monetary compensation to the inmates and their families and proper punishment to the bastards that jailed and tortured innocent men, along the same punishment that they would have received if they had detained and tortured a beautiful, popular blonde american girl.
Maybe they do a comparison from the current location vs. the recorded location. Still, has you say, is better to avoid creating and storing data that you really don't need. Now, with the lawsuit, I think that it will be harder for Apple to do a press release addressing this issue.
then why Vikram Ajjampur has a profile in Facebook , in Linkedin, in Mylife and in many other places with his real name. It appears that there is only one Vikram Ajjampur in the whole USA. At least the other guy is a lawyer with many homonymous people in the country. This is more of a publicity stunt or money grab than anything else.
But that's the only problem with this file. It never leaves the device except to the encripted -if you choose to- backup file in a computer that you have physical access. Once again, if someone that you don't trust have physical access to your home computer you have more important things to worry than this file.
But you already have the option to enable location services and you have the option to say which applications have access to said location services. More fine grained access becomes increasingly less useful, and, the damn location data never leaves the device; you could say that "but it goes to the backup file!" but then if someone that you don't trust have access to your home/work computer then you have a bigger problem than a location database in a portable device.
6.5 MW are enough to power 3 Shinkansen N700 train sets fully loaded at 270 km/h. You need 2 generators per unit, the static load is not much of a problem since the containment building is designed, has you point out, to bear the load of a pool full of heavy metal, but the huge vibrations from the machines are the main problem. At our datacenter, our puny 350 kW generator is strong enough to shake the windows of the management building 20 m away despite the generator being encased in its own building and you can feel the vibration in the datacenter that uses the super structure used previously to house 3 50 MW power generators that used oil has fuel. Maybe you can guess now that I work for a utility company.
In the last document, you can see that the concentration of volatile radionuclides at Fukushima Daini is almost two magnitudes below the maximum limit set by regulation. I'm not here defending TEPCO, because if their managers had been a little bit less greedy and far more intelligent that power station could be out of service but overall fine; also, I wouldn't have been forced by my death scared family to cancel my spring vacations to Japan and lose around 800-1000 USD in the process. In fact, I should be on board of one of the planes at my returning home flight at this precise time.
Please stop smoking that. Is bad for your health. TEPCO was irresponsible to not upgrade their tsunami defenses in Fukushima Daiichi since they became aware of the risk toward the NPS, but is also irresponsible to repeat the stupid bullshit that many people have been spouting in the web about this disaster. The mayor radiation contamination goes in a plume 45 degrees northwest around 8-10 km wide up to 35-40 km long from Fukushima Daiichi. But, even at MP-1 in the boundaries of the power plant, you will need to spend there several months unprotected to receive any radiation damage. At the main building, around the reactors or around MP 7 and 8 is other history, the levels there go from dangerous to really dangerous. At Fukushima Daini, 9 Km to the south, the radiation is 3-6 times the normal background radiation at the site, similar to the radiation that you will get if you live in a town over 1500 m sea level.
But, since many idiots in the web and in mass media are talking about the radiation in the most scary and sensationalist way possible, people are even afraid to travel to Kyoto, when there wasn't detected anything dangerous at any time after the earthquake. Really, that people would love nothing more to see someone to die from cancer to be happy, smug and say "I told you so!"
For example, they could find the same troubles than the guys at Sandia labs trying to fix a stuck source of radiation with a M2 robot: http://www.physorg.com/news9093.html
Having random plastic parts of your robot melting because they are not good to use inside a gamma ray oven is really bad. That electronics need radiation shielding is a know problem, but the performance of the rest of the pieces of equipment is something that they would know until they test it in the field or in a radiation test chamber.
Well, nobody has followed up the story of the burning refinery of Cosmo Oil at Chiba, very close to Tokyo that burned for a week, or the other 2 refineries washed away by the tsunami in Miyagi prefecture, what stand was left to burn.
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Well, aside from Japan suffering one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded there is a difference of at least 1000 times in density among water and air so the natural disasters of tsunami and tornadoes are almost not comparable in any way; still, always is good to see that emergency procedures work has expected because when they don't, bad things happen like the damage at Fukushima Daiichi.
In their photos for press page:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/news/110311/index-e.html
The air filtering equipment:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/news/110311/images/110505_1.jpg
Air ducts:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/news/110311/images/110506_2.jpg
Radiation dose measurements by worker inside reactor building:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/news/110311/images/110506_1.jpg
If these pictures had been available sooner I would have added them to the submission.
The problem was that they didn't have roads to transport those generators to the power plant. That is the main reason for the long delay in the arrival of the fire engines at the site. Current emergency procedures that almost all utilities in Japan have implemented now call for having generators and fire engines on standby very close to the NPS.
The tsunami got in from the south side that is closer to the sea. It ripped open the door to the turbine building in front of unit 4. They had a previous study that suggested improved tsunami defenses but it was ignored. The dikes for the port were also built has a tsunami defense, but obviously, they consistently underestimated the risk. In top of that, the whole island sunk 75 cm after the quake, making even more inadequate any tsunami defense they had. Also, Fukushima had in march 12th the only dam failure caused by the quake, so that meant that roads and emergency services had another crippling emergency in top of the quake and tsunami. At the time, Fukushima Daiichi was still a lingering emergency, they were more worried about Fukushima Daini.
TEPCO published details about the improved tsunami defenses that they will build for Kashiwasaki Kariwa NPS; I have almost no doubt that the same method was proposed in their internal investigation for improved tsunami defenses for Fukushima Daiichi. The expense would have been far less than 100 million dollars, a pittance for the budgets that commonly handle utilities.
This is really funny coming from the same camp that accepted the version that Iraq in 2003 had working WMD and strategically significant delivery vehicles even when the military budget of the country barely afforded uniforms for soldiers and they used shocks instead gloves in parades. If they had spread the rumor that Obama was a lizard from Venus they would have believed it too.
I didn't said that what I stated was a good thing, I was just pointing what happened and what is happening. If someone told me 10 years ago that we would be seeing an american president begging for money to the chinese I would have laughed at him and his insane rabid anti-americanism, but that is what happened in 2009. For all his misdeeds, OBL didn't take away by himself USA's prosperity, habeas corpus, due process, respect for human rights and country's Constitution. All of that was self inflicted damage, unless you think that is a good thing that the US Constitution doesn't apply 100 miles from any US border, or that the president by himself can order the killing of an american citizen without intervention from the judiciary branch.
in history.
If OBL really masterminded the 9-11 attacks, he achieved with a few men and card board cutters what the whole Wehrmacht, the Japanese Imperial Army, the USSR and the eastern block didn't achieve, to cripple the USA's economy and destroy it from within; and achieved it even when in that (in)famous interview with Robert Fisk he said how he would do so. Current USA is a shadow of its former shelf in economic and freedom terms, entangled in a expensive war in several fronts, and the Chinese busy making the Ocean Pacific a Chinese lake, one bit at a time.
More than marketing, Steve Jobs have long term vision, something that is missing from every CEO today and almost all politicians. Who in his "right" mind in 1976 could have thought that "personal" computers that came prebuilt and output to a TV set instead to 7 segment LED display in hex code could have an use for common people, aside Jobs? About a really easy to use MP3 player, with a fast interface to a PC? About a new all in one computer, tailored to the huge masses that never had a personal computer before? Marketing is a very small part of Apple's huge success.
For all his drawbacks, Bill Gates has an almost sick desire to win, something that seriously lacks Steve Ballmer.
and killed the 92% of people that died after Japan's March 11th earthquake. Is a key component of tsunami waves. I rest my case against this dangerous substance, and request more mines to keep all of us away from their pernicious effects.
As an example of the usefulness of this feature, I lent a friend of me my iPod touch 3rd. generation to use it has a PDA and to make Skype calls during his trip to Japan. Thanks to this cache when he used the (Google) Maps application the iPod immediately pinpointed his current location with a few meters of accuracy.
I think that parent does a very good analysis of this issue:
This log file has been a known issue for at least 6 months. I'll give Apple credit and say that never purging the contents of the file is a bug, but they have know about the problem and did nothing to correct it.
They probably did nothing about it because it didn't seem like a big deal to them. You want an example of a security issue which has real world impact on tens of thousands of users? Insert latest credit card database theft news here. There seems to be at least one every few months, I think the latest was Sony.
By contrast, a phone which logs the locations of cell towers that it's been near causes next to no real harm to its users. The uproar has been essentially emotional: "ZOMG I'm being TRACKED!!!!", even though the information stays on your phone (and computer, if backed up) and isn't terribly useful to anybody likely to get hold of it. Maybe law enforcement might want to use it to pinpoint where you were if they suspect you of a crime, but they're going to have problems using it due to the nature of what's stored: it merely locates cell towers you were near, not where you actually were, and as soon as you return to a location near the tower they're interested in, the information they need (the timestamp of when the phone last asked for an update about the position of that tower) is destroyed.
Also, it's hard to make a case that LEOs lucking into a way of finding some information about the whereabouts of suspects greatly harms society as a whole. Yes, there's a privacy argument to be made, but what I'm getting at is that on the whole, leaks of CC databases cause real harm to innocents, while this problem almost certainly did not.
In short, assuming Apple had a Radar bug filed, it was probably treated as a low priority since they had no idea that it would become the subject of a media feeding frenzy and inflated into an issue of vastly more importance than it really is.
I was wrong about the power output of our emergency power plant, is 650 kW not 350 kW. Is for 100kW of computing and comms equipment and 8 HVAC. In one of the previous discussions over Fukushima there was a very good post about a conference in Caltech from an expert in nuclear safety that had a picture of the knocked out generators. Also, you can see in this link the pictures and videos of Fukushima directly from TEPCO:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/news/110311/index-e.html
Best Regards
There is not a single piece of fuel inside of unit 4. So from that picture, you can only say that the screws are not orderly put.
I think that the last problem could be addressed by a really big public apology by the heads of the tree branches of USA's government, the heads of the Army, Navy an Air Force,a big enough monetary compensation to the inmates and their families and proper punishment to the bastards that jailed and tortured innocent men, along the same punishment that they would have received if they had detained and tortured a beautiful, popular blonde american girl.
Maybe they do a comparison from the current location vs. the recorded location. Still, has you say, is better to avoid creating and storing data that you really don't need. Now, with the lawsuit, I think that it will be harder for Apple to do a press release addressing this issue.
then why Vikram Ajjampur has a profile in Facebook , in Linkedin, in Mylife and in many other places with his real name. It appears that there is only one Vikram Ajjampur in the whole USA. At least the other guy is a lawyer with many homonymous people in the country. This is more of a publicity stunt or money grab than anything else.
But that's the only problem with this file. It never leaves the device except to the encripted -if you choose to- backup file in a computer that you have physical access. Once again, if someone that you don't trust have physical access to your home computer you have more important things to worry than this file.
But you already have the option to enable location services and you have the option to say which applications have access to said location services. More fine grained access becomes increasingly less useful, and, the damn location data never leaves the device; you could say that "but it goes to the backup file!" but then if someone that you don't trust have access to your home/work computer then you have a bigger problem than a location database in a portable device.
And most people reading /. are not dead, yet.
This file will never be sent to Apple now that people knows that the position database exists. Perhaps, it will deleted in the next revision of iOS
6.5 MW are enough to power 3 Shinkansen N700 train sets fully loaded at 270 km/h. You need 2 generators per unit, the static load is not much of a problem since the containment building is designed, has you point out, to bear the load of a pool full of heavy metal, but the huge vibrations from the machines are the main problem. At our datacenter, our puny 350 kW generator is strong enough to shake the windows of the management building 20 m away despite the generator being encased in its own building and you can feel the vibration in the datacenter that uses the super structure used previously to house 3 50 MW power generators that used oil has fuel. Maybe you can guess now that I work for a utility company.
Best Regards.
The concentration of volatile radionuclides in the air from Fukushima Daiichi is below the maximum allowable limit at the moment. See
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11042405-e.html Press Release (Apr 24,2011)
The results of nuclide analyses of radioactive materials in the air at the site of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (30th release)
And the attached documents:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu11_e/images/110424e4.pdf
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu11_e/images/110424e5.pdf
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu11_e/images/110424e6.pdf
In the last document, you can see that the concentration of volatile radionuclides at Fukushima Daini is almost two magnitudes below the maximum limit set by regulation. I'm not here defending TEPCO, because if their managers had been a little bit less greedy and far more intelligent that power station could be out of service but overall fine; also, I wouldn't have been forced by my death scared family to cancel my spring vacations to Japan and lose around 800-1000 USD in the process. In fact, I should be on board of one of the planes at my returning home flight at this precise time.
Best regards
Please stop smoking that. Is bad for your health. TEPCO was irresponsible to not upgrade their tsunami defenses in Fukushima Daiichi since they became aware of the risk toward the NPS, but is also irresponsible to repeat the stupid bullshit that many people have been spouting in the web about this disaster. The mayor radiation contamination goes in a plume 45 degrees northwest around 8-10 km wide up to 35-40 km long from Fukushima Daiichi. But, even at MP-1 in the boundaries of the power plant, you will need to spend there several months unprotected to receive any radiation damage. At the main building, around the reactors or around MP 7 and 8 is other history, the levels there go from dangerous to really dangerous. At Fukushima Daini, 9 Km to the south, the radiation is 3-6 times the normal background radiation at the site, similar to the radiation that you will get if you live in a town over 1500 m sea level.
But, since many idiots in the web and in mass media are talking about the radiation in the most scary and sensationalist way possible, people are even afraid to travel to Kyoto, when there wasn't detected anything dangerous at any time after the earthquake. Really, that people would love nothing more to see someone to die from cancer to be happy, smug and say "I told you so!"
revolutionary and magical new service.
there, fixed that for you. and people will believe it.
Like all of apple's magical products, it will be made with pixie dust, unicorn blood, and leprachaun bones.
And a small piece of organic hobbit skin to keep the device always clean and shiny.
For example, they could find the same troubles than the guys at Sandia labs trying to fix a stuck source of radiation with a M2 robot:
http://www.physorg.com/news9093.html
Having random plastic parts of your robot melting because they are not good to use inside a gamma ray oven is really bad. That electronics need radiation shielding is a know problem, but the performance of the rest of the pieces of equipment is something that they would know until they test it in the field or in a radiation test chamber.
Well, nobody has followed up the story of the burning refinery of Cosmo Oil at Chiba, very close to Tokyo that burned for a week, or the other 2 refineries washed away by the tsunami in Miyagi prefecture, what stand was left to burn.