Here's a pic: http://www.engr.wisc.edu/cmsimages/ep-nuclear-systems-engineering.jpg
Whomever is taking the picture is leaning over the railing. But basically you walk in, you're on a catwalk with a steel railing right out of some james bond film... and you're overlooking this 1960's looking thing. Last time I was there was before 9/11 so maybe they've added more security, but I doubt it.
I think its rather obvious that it's not secret... since we're talking about it. I'd rather the CIA be investing in new technologies and improving society. At least they didn't spend $30 million starting a war somewhere.
and drug possession. Don't forget that. In fact, you'd get more time for having 10lbs of pot on you than you would for murder. Average time served for murder is less than 7yrs.
I live about 4 miles from a reactor. You can walk in and look down at the reactor during business hours. They commonly take local school children on tours. Unless you're going to dive into the water and start trying to yank fuel rods out by hand I don't really see what you could do with it. I suppose you could drop a pipe bomb in there but I don't really think it would do much.
...and your 16yr old babysitters boyfriend sits down at your computer while you're out to dinner and your premise for security is out the window. The simple fact of the matter is you can NEVER be sure the person on the other end of a computer connection is who they say they are. Once you assume that, the rest of your security procedures become rather simple.
My bank allows me to move money from one of my accounts to another of my accounts. That's it. The worst that can happen is someone hacks in and moves all my money to savings causing my auto-deposits to bounce. But they have protection against that as well.
If I want the ability to transfer money from my account to someone else account, I can turn that on... but I have to show up in person, at the bank, and sign a notarized release form while 2 bank representatives are present. The release expires after a per-determined amount of time that is as little as 3 days and as large as 1 year.
That's security. Computers are not secure devices, get over it.
I've got a 4yr old and he didn't want to wear his helmet. So I told him he didn't have to. My wife didn't like it but I told her "he's still in training wheels, he can't even go 5mph, short of him getting hit by a car, there's no way he can injure himself bad enough to warrant a helmet. She relented. Then some of the neighborhood moms saw him and freaked out. I reasoned with them, but they wouldn't shut up so finally I told them to mind their own god damned business. So they of course, all got together and ganged up on my wife when I wasn't home, who now insists he use the helmet. So... now he doesn't ride his bike anymore because he doesn't want to bother with the helmet. In fact, the majority of the kids in my neighborhood don't. Last week, while NOT riding a bike, he was climbing over a fence and fell on his head. Go figure.
I disagree. Software patents, if allowed to continue, will likely destroy this site, along with many others like it. Is a man in shackles ever unbiased about his right to a trial? Are reporters unbiased when they report on freedom of the press? Should slashdot pretend to be unbiased when it comes to freedom of the internet? When it comes to survival, we are all rightfully biased towards self preservation and there is no shame in it.
Let's be clear... it is, in fact, fraud. It is not, however, illegal. There are plenty of hateful and immoral things, especially when it comes to elections, that are not illegal. Gerrymandering is clearly one of them. If anything proves beyond a doubt that your vote doesn't really count for anything and our elections are rigged, it's Gerrymandering. It's also, ironically, the reason Ron Paul is losing his district.
More like: The air-force decided to make the Nuclear protection codes 50 diget, random ascii character monoliths imprinted on semi-holographic, impossible to put in a photo-copier keycards. After forgetting the card several times while going on vacation, several Generals got fed up, copied all the codes manually to a text file and stored it on their home PC and on their cellphones. Hackers got that text file. So while no classified networks were compromised, they still got the codes.
imo, the best way to safeguard the codes is to throw them away and just not tell anyone. The nukes are a deterrent. By the time we actually need to use them, we're screwed anyway so fuck it. And don't bring up aliens. If aliens show up and want to fuck with us, we're dead. Nukes or no nukes.
Um... no, you're wrong. They are insurance. Producers of commodities often can not afford the ups and downs of the market. Specifically farmers. Futures allow them to sell their crop at a set price, and then if the market crashes they are protected... also, if there's a spike in price they do not profit like they normally would.
Capitalism requires transparency. The problem with overly complicated financial products isn't the products themselves, its the lack of transparency caused by their complexity. When a bank sells you a derivative that's based on mortgages, that's fine. When the bank gets permission from the federal government to give out loans to people that can clearly not afford to pay them back, and fails to disclose that to you... that's when there's a problem. The banks realized what the government was asking them to do was insane, but they didn't want to tick off their benefactors. So they gave out the loans anyway, and then sold the risk off in packages designed to hide them.
Agreed. I'm an argumentative person, and generally like to debate. I basically can't post in regular forums any longer, as forums have devolved into dens of like-minded individuals that do not want to have their view points challenged. Disagree and they're shouting troll and locking your posts in seconds.
Soundproof drywall - 1 sheet is equal to between 8 and 16 sheets of regular drywall. Put it up, 2 sheets thick and no noise will come through your walls at all. Then build yourself a picture frame larger than your window. Back it with the soundproof drywall, put some random picture you like in it, and hang it over the window. If you want to move it to see out the window on occasion, hang it from tracks so it can slide back and forth, or put it on hinges.
Sirens and the like, are specifically designed to pierce through background noise. White noise works when blocking out conversations and other ambient noise... but sirens are a whole other animal.
Yes, Microsoft seems to forget that they absolutely destroyed Apple in the 90s... and that's because of the features Windows shared with Linux, not the features it shared with Apple. They are going in the exact wrong direction and will lose out big time. It's funny that it seems like the entire world knows what Microsoft should do, and yet Microsoft seems hell bent on not doing it.
When I was in Ethiopia beer was 32cents a bottle. It was pretty good microbrew stuff to. Sadly the average wage in their capital city was something like $7/month.
And then the wrong person gets elected to office and this vault becomes your living nightmare. The problem with this sort of data collection isn't the benevolent intent of the present, it's the malevolent intent of the future.
Hold on a second... so they just discovered the Galaxy is surrounded by gas that's the same temperature as the surface of the sun, and is 300,000 lightyears across... possibly extending far into other galaxies... I'm going to take a wild stab here and say that, if that's true it probably pervades the entire universe... Isn't this the biggest scientific discovery in the past decade? What effect does this have on Dark Matter, Dark Energy, etc... etc...
No, hate is an integral part of the human psyche. In our tribal days, we feared "otherness" as other tribes could be dangerous. They could carry disease, or wage war upon us. Without fear and hate for strangers we likely would not have survived. It served us well then, but like so many of our instinctual traits from the past, it does not serve us well in the modern word. The key for the modern man is education and learning the ability to distinguish between rational though and instinct based decisions. Rational thought, and the ability to question ones own beliefs is the only true solution here.
Most atheists I know have a dog in every fight. Proclaim "There is no God!" is just as annoying as telling everyone to repent. Your anti-believe in God is just as fervent as any foaming at the mouth preachers belief. I'd think that anyone that truly didn't have a religion, if I asked them about the subject they'd just say "Oh I dunno... never really thought about it." Instead you have your own religion, Atheism, and you believe anyone that doesn't agree with your faith is strange and capable of violence. If only they had the same moral compass as you do... perhaps you should try and convert them? Oh wait...
um... but round corners is.... well... stupid and shouldn't be patentable. Where as, this is a rather blatant, and obvious direct copy of a piece of artwork. Whomever owns that clock design should sue the shit out of apple.
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Here's a pic:
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/cmsimages/ep-nuclear-systems-engineering.jpg
Whomever is taking the picture is leaning over the railing. But basically you walk in, you're on a catwalk with a steel railing right out of some james bond film... and you're overlooking this 1960's looking thing. Last time I was there was before 9/11 so maybe they've added more security, but I doubt it.
I think its rather obvious that it's not secret... since we're talking about it. I'd rather the CIA be investing in new technologies and improving society. At least they didn't spend $30 million starting a war somewhere.
and drug possession. Don't forget that. In fact, you'd get more time for having 10lbs of pot on you than you would for murder. Average time served for murder is less than 7yrs.
Let me fix that for you: All SALESMEN and MARKETING reps are scammers. There are no exceptions. Telemarketers are just slightly more annoying.
I live about 4 miles from a reactor. You can walk in and look down at the reactor during business hours. They commonly take local school children on tours. Unless you're going to dive into the water and start trying to yank fuel rods out by hand I don't really see what you could do with it. I suppose you could drop a pipe bomb in there but I don't really think it would do much.
...and your 16yr old babysitters boyfriend sits down at your computer while you're out to dinner and your premise for security is out the window. The simple fact of the matter is you can NEVER be sure the person on the other end of a computer connection is who they say they are. Once you assume that, the rest of your security procedures become rather simple.
My bank allows me to move money from one of my accounts to another of my accounts. That's it. The worst that can happen is someone hacks in and moves all my money to savings causing my auto-deposits to bounce. But they have protection against that as well.
If I want the ability to transfer money from my account to someone else account, I can turn that on... but I have to show up in person, at the bank, and sign a notarized release form while 2 bank representatives are present. The release expires after a per-determined amount of time that is as little as 3 days and as large as 1 year.
That's security. Computers are not secure devices, get over it.
There is no benefit to teenage sex. There is a benefit to riding a bike... which is the goal here.
I've got a 4yr old and he didn't want to wear his helmet. So I told him he didn't have to. My wife didn't like it but I told her "he's still in training wheels, he can't even go 5mph, short of him getting hit by a car, there's no way he can injure himself bad enough to warrant a helmet. She relented. Then some of the neighborhood moms saw him and freaked out. I reasoned with them, but they wouldn't shut up so finally I told them to mind their own god damned business. So they of course, all got together and ganged up on my wife when I wasn't home, who now insists he use the helmet. So... now he doesn't ride his bike anymore because he doesn't want to bother with the helmet. In fact, the majority of the kids in my neighborhood don't. Last week, while NOT riding a bike, he was climbing over a fence and fell on his head. Go figure.
I disagree. Software patents, if allowed to continue, will likely destroy this site, along with many others like it. Is a man in shackles ever unbiased about his right to a trial? Are reporters unbiased when they report on freedom of the press? Should slashdot pretend to be unbiased when it comes to freedom of the internet? When it comes to survival, we are all rightfully biased towards self preservation and there is no shame in it.
Let's be clear... it is, in fact, fraud. It is not, however, illegal. There are plenty of hateful and immoral things, especially when it comes to elections, that are not illegal. Gerrymandering is clearly one of them. If anything proves beyond a doubt that your vote doesn't really count for anything and our elections are rigged, it's Gerrymandering. It's also, ironically, the reason Ron Paul is losing his district.
More like: The air-force decided to make the Nuclear protection codes 50 diget, random ascii character monoliths imprinted on semi-holographic, impossible to put in a photo-copier keycards. After forgetting the card several times while going on vacation, several Generals got fed up, copied all the codes manually to a text file and stored it on their home PC and on their cellphones. Hackers got that text file. So while no classified networks were compromised, they still got the codes.
imo, the best way to safeguard the codes is to throw them away and just not tell anyone. The nukes are a deterrent. By the time we actually need to use them, we're screwed anyway so fuck it. And don't bring up aliens. If aliens show up and want to fuck with us, we're dead. Nukes or no nukes.
Um... no, you're wrong. They are insurance. Producers of commodities often can not afford the ups and downs of the market. Specifically farmers. Futures allow them to sell their crop at a set price, and then if the market crashes they are protected... also, if there's a spike in price they do not profit like they normally would.
Capitalism requires transparency. The problem with overly complicated financial products isn't the products themselves, its the lack of transparency caused by their complexity. When a bank sells you a derivative that's based on mortgages, that's fine. When the bank gets permission from the federal government to give out loans to people that can clearly not afford to pay them back, and fails to disclose that to you... that's when there's a problem. The banks realized what the government was asking them to do was insane, but they didn't want to tick off their benefactors. So they gave out the loans anyway, and then sold the risk off in packages designed to hide them.
Agreed. I'm an argumentative person, and generally like to debate. I basically can't post in regular forums any longer, as forums have devolved into dens of like-minded individuals that do not want to have their view points challenged. Disagree and they're shouting troll and locking your posts in seconds.
Microsoft didn't enter the portable market until the Zune. And it was just stupid on their part to get involved.
Soundproof drywall - 1 sheet is equal to between 8 and 16 sheets of regular drywall. Put it up, 2 sheets thick and no noise will come through your walls at all. Then build yourself a picture frame larger than your window. Back it with the soundproof drywall, put some random picture you like in it, and hang it over the window. If you want to move it to see out the window on occasion, hang it from tracks so it can slide back and forth, or put it on hinges.
Sirens and the like, are specifically designed to pierce through background noise. White noise works when blocking out conversations and other ambient noise... but sirens are a whole other animal.
Yes, Microsoft seems to forget that they absolutely destroyed Apple in the 90s... and that's because of the features Windows shared with Linux, not the features it shared with Apple. They are going in the exact wrong direction and will lose out big time. It's funny that it seems like the entire world knows what Microsoft should do, and yet Microsoft seems hell bent on not doing it.
When I was in Ethiopia beer was 32cents a bottle. It was pretty good microbrew stuff to. Sadly the average wage in their capital city was something like $7/month.
And then the wrong person gets elected to office and this vault becomes your living nightmare. The problem with this sort of data collection isn't the benevolent intent of the present, it's the malevolent intent of the future.
Hold on a second... so they just discovered the Galaxy is surrounded by gas that's the same temperature as the surface of the sun, and is 300,000 lightyears across... possibly extending far into other galaxies... I'm going to take a wild stab here and say that, if that's true it probably pervades the entire universe... Isn't this the biggest scientific discovery in the past decade? What effect does this have on Dark Matter, Dark Energy, etc... etc...
Until the babysitter plugs in her USB stick to play her pirated version of Bejeweled.
adjust your settings.
No, hate is an integral part of the human psyche. In our tribal days, we feared "otherness" as other tribes could be dangerous. They could carry disease, or wage war upon us. Without fear and hate for strangers we likely would not have survived. It served us well then, but like so many of our instinctual traits from the past, it does not serve us well in the modern word. The key for the modern man is education and learning the ability to distinguish between rational though and instinct based decisions. Rational thought, and the ability to question ones own beliefs is the only true solution here.
Yes... that actually sounds perfect.
Most atheists I know have a dog in every fight. Proclaim "There is no God!" is just as annoying as telling everyone to repent. Your anti-believe in God is just as fervent as any foaming at the mouth preachers belief. I'd think that anyone that truly didn't have a religion, if I asked them about the subject they'd just say "Oh I dunno... never really thought about it." Instead you have your own religion, Atheism, and you believe anyone that doesn't agree with your faith is strange and capable of violence. If only they had the same moral compass as you do... perhaps you should try and convert them? Oh wait...
um... but round corners is.... well... stupid and shouldn't be patentable. Where as, this is a rather blatant, and obvious direct copy of a piece of artwork. Whomever owns that clock design should sue the shit out of apple.