We are doing next to nothing. We are certainly not doing nearly what is necessary to prevent the problem. It's like bailing flood water with a drinking glass down the kitchen drain and saying you're "doing something" about the flood.
That list is clearly bogus. For example it lists Onagawa. The plant did shut down a couple times due to earthquakes but those shutdowns went by the book and so can't properly be considered nuclear incidents at all.
Of the ones that don't represent things going exactly as expected, or non nuclear incidents at a nuclear plant (a fire in an administrative building, REALLY?), most are industrial accidents that released no radiation into the environment (because the safety systems worked as designed).
For all the FUD, TMI released less radiation than a typical coal plant does in normal operation.
I certainly never said they were in it for the good of the planet. I'm pretty sure they'd pave the last square foot of rain forest if there was money in it.
I didn't say they were nice people, just that there can be no accusations of slant from environmentalists here. It does tend to bring any claims that we can't afford to do anything about global warming into serious question.
Yes, I'm sure there's no chance the study of financial impact could be true given that it was written by a bunch of tree hugging granola munchers like Citibank. Wait, WHAT?
Not really. Grub didn't try to replace su, login, getty, etc etc etc. It confined itself to being a bootloader. It didn't attempt to force changes on the kernel that would prevent LILO from working, so it was also a genuine choice.
If I run a service similar to something Google does, it nearly *IS* inconceivable that more than a small fraction of potential customers will use anything but Google to search for it.
You're using the over-simplified definition of monopoly they teach in grade school. It's a question of market power. Yes, there are other search engines, but there is one that is big enough for long enough that it's name is regularly verbed as a synonym of searching.
And that still makes it not OK to pass around freely, so it's still a charge for a license and not for a distribution. It's should be wquite obvious by now, it's a bright line test and it does make things quite clear if there is a software licensing component to the fee or not.
Simple test: If you don't care if I hand out copies of the software after I buy the disk from you, then you were legitimately charging me a fee for distribution of free software. If you object, you were actually licensing the software to me.
No, because the only warranty applying to the distribution is on the media itself being a faithful and readable copy of the software. Distributing for a fee doesn't make you responsible for that which is distributed.
Actually, the 'magic' in su is in the kernel. Basically, since it's marked suid root, the kernel sets the uid on the new process to root before it even starts running. The program itself just then decides if it is willing to do anything for you.
The proposal for terrestrial fusion (for now) is deuterium and tritium so there will be enough neutrons (not protons) available. In the sun, 4 helium atoms fuse with two of the protons absorbing electrons to become neutrons. The latter requires higher temperatures to accomplish.
For deuterium+tritium, there is an excess neutron, for deuterium only, it's already balanced.
Actually, perfect compression WILL make the output resemble random bits if looked at statistically. What OP was missing is that perfect compression is hard and that most compression features a number of compromises for CPU speed, memory requirements, seekability, resilience, etc.
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I'm a bit surprised the CSI:Cyber episide about the people hacking baby monitors, kidnapping, and selling babies didn't get people thinking.
And yet the average American gets too little sleep routinely.
We are doing next to nothing. We are certainly not doing nearly what is necessary to prevent the problem. It's like bailing flood water with a drinking glass down the kitchen drain and saying you're "doing something" about the flood.
That list is clearly bogus. For example it lists Onagawa. The plant did shut down a couple times due to earthquakes but those shutdowns went by the book and so can't properly be considered nuclear incidents at all.
Of the ones that don't represent things going exactly as expected, or non nuclear incidents at a nuclear plant (a fire in an administrative building, REALLY?), most are industrial accidents that released no radiation into the environment (because the safety systems worked as designed).
For all the FUD, TMI released less radiation than a typical coal plant does in normal operation.
I certainly never said they were in it for the good of the planet. I'm pretty sure they'd pave the last square foot of rain forest if there was money in it.
I didn't say they were nice people, just that there can be no accusations of slant from environmentalists here. It does tend to bring any claims that we can't afford to do anything about global warming into serious question.
Yes, I'm sure there's no chance the study of financial impact could be true given that it was written by a bunch of tree hugging granola munchers like Citibank. Wait, WHAT?
Not really. Grub didn't try to replace su, login, getty, etc etc etc. It confined itself to being a bootloader. It didn't attempt to force changes on the kernel that would prevent LILO from working, so it was also a genuine choice.
Wow, you really have no idea how this monopoly thing works, do you?
You might want to actually read Smith.
If I run a service similar to something Google does, it nearly *IS* inconceivable that more than a small fraction of potential customers will use anything but Google to search for it.
You're using the over-simplified definition of monopoly they teach in grade school. It's a question of market power. Yes, there are other search engines, but there is one that is big enough for long enough that it's name is regularly verbed as a synonym of searching.
And that still makes it not OK to pass around freely, so it's still a charge for a license and not for a distribution. It's should be wquite obvious by now, it's a bright line test and it does make things quite clear if there is a software licensing component to the fee or not.
Simple test: If you don't care if I hand out copies of the software after I buy the disk from you, then you were legitimately charging me a fee for distribution of free software. If you object, you were actually licensing the software to me.
No, because the only warranty applying to the distribution is on the media itself being a faithful and readable copy of the software. Distributing for a fee doesn't make you responsible for that which is distributed.
If the jurisdiction is large enough, I doubt it. For example, Europe or North America.
We are entitled to disallow that disclaimer by law should that be desired.
Because if it's gratis there is no implied warranty of merchantability. If it's proper Free software (not tivoized), anyone can fix the bug.
If it's proprietary, there are implied warranties on it and only the creator has the source needed to fix it.
Sadly, yes.
Because the change happens as the helium nucleus forms. But there's no they there, it's a natural occurrence.
Actually, the 'magic' in su is in the kernel. Basically, since it's marked suid root, the kernel sets the uid on the new process to root before it even starts running. The program itself just then decides if it is willing to do anything for you.
Lennart Cartman certainly does love his systemd trapper keeper.
The proposal for terrestrial fusion (for now) is deuterium and tritium so there will be enough neutrons (not protons) available. In the sun, 4 helium atoms fuse with two of the protons absorbing electrons to become neutrons. The latter requires higher temperatures to accomplish.
For deuterium+tritium, there is an excess neutron, for deuterium only, it's already balanced.
The spent fuel is also known as helium. They could actually sell the spent fuel.
Actually, he did not. He was within 4 years of her age.
Actually, perfect compression WILL make the output resemble random bits if looked at statistically. What OP was missing is that perfect compression is hard and that most compression features a number of compromises for CPU speed, memory requirements, seekability, resilience, etc.