You may have but I certainly didn't. I watched my beloved radio shack get more and more useless as time went on. Today, they have a single small draw of resistors of varying values, all 1 watt. totally useless. If they want to get back to their roots they are going to need to renovate their stores and bring back all the bins.
The size of the solar system? Lets do away with unrealistic measurements... Compare it to something we can all understand like the library of congress.
Meltdown proof = Pebble reactor. It is IMPOSSIBLE for a pebble reactor to meltdown. Period.
I dunno wtf you are talking about with your garbage about the UK, France and Germany. All of their Fast breeder reactors were successful. The reason they are not using them more extensively is cost. The fast breeder reactors are expensive and Uranium is currently cheap.
Because employees per megawatt is the best way to measure the efficiency of a power plant right? You're also comparing the theoretical operating capacity of a brand new system that hasn't even been built yet to the actual operating capacity of a 40 year old system with one of the worst track records in the country. The one thing most likely to ensure our dependence on fossil fuels for years to come is the political agenda of people like you. You should be fighting for new nuclear power plants to replace coal. You should be demanding the upgrade of 40 year old plants to modern, meltdown proof, designs. You should be demanding we build plants that USE spent fuel rather than dispose of it and you should submit to a 5% fuel/electricity tax that will be used to fund research in orbital solar arrays, the only real solar option that will work. Instead, your one track minded hatred of anything "nuclear" is likely to doom us all.
Imagine a power plant that takes little to no intervention throughout the year. At most the engineer(s) only need to make adjustments when changing out fuel rods or during an emergancy. Now imagine the engineers that make these changes make $200k+ a year and your company has 10 such reactors. Introduce the internet and... profit!!!
I wonder if there's somewhere else to download and watch the movie? Some place that doesn't care how I've configured my OS or my hardware. If there were such a place, one would think the content owners almost want me to go there to get their movie by making it impossible to get the movie directly from them. Ah... if only there were such a place...
I don't have to worry about Apple Malware because I have never, and will never own an apple. There is absolutely no reason to own an apple, they've always been more expensive with less features... although I'm sure someone will pop in here to tell me that it's the better system for "Artists" or some other garbage.
The idea is silly at it's face. Provided you are properly equipping your staff there's no benefit in allowing people to bring their silly phone into the building. But the negatives are many fold.
If you aren't properly equipping their staff, you likely don't have the talent, equipment or software to integrate such devices safely. What I fear happening is that businesses that ARE highly qualified to pull something like this off, Google for example, will do so... and will have great results... there will be an article in Money magazine... and then all the idiots that run all the businesses that do not have the proper infrastructure to handle such a move will read about it and implement it to disastrous results which will lead to a backlash in security like "NO PHONES IN THE BUILDING PERIOD"
As someone that creates test servers all day long as part of my job I have to wonder what they mean by this. For us to create a true and proper test server it is a MIRROR of our production server. Then we make the changes we need... TEST it.. if everything works we make the changes on production. "Just a test server" really?
Do you seriously want to get your internet service from the government? If the local government provides the broadband, I guarantee no telco is going to bring in their own service and compete with something not under the same market controls they are. So by allowing this you are basically ensuring that your only choice is government supplied internet. If you're ok with that, then fine... I certainly agree that ISPs are pretty much shit nowadays... but replacing them with the government? I just dunno.
Why would anyone want an account on linked in? More importantly, how on earth is Linked in going to make any money? Ever? Who are the idiots investing in this garbage?
You guys are way over thinking this. There is no connection to the outside world by the control equipment. The fiber that came in terminated in buildings outside what would be considered the power plant. I'm not sure what they used it for... likely they could measure data there or something. What the fiber was supposed to prevent was local staff getting bored and running their own bootleg connection into the building so they could watch porn on their critical workstations inside. Anyone on slashdot could pick up a pool of wire at the hardware store and drag that connection anywhere we wanted inside the facility with nothing more than a pocketknife. Fiber on the other hand, would take a whole new level of sophistication. Just getting the cable would require a specialty dealer, and the equipment used to splice it is prohibitively expensive.
I used to work in provisioning in a telco and it entirely depends on who's managing the plant. We'd install circuits in some power plants that were so strict that they insisted on fiber use only. We'd run copper to an access point outside their security perimeter then have a mux convert it to fiber to run across the perimeter into the facility where it would terminate in an outer building. Their security plan did not allow ANY outside network connections to the plant itself. They had networked equipment but it was all housed in an outer building with no connection to the main plant or control systems. They refused to allow copper on the premises because it's relatively easy to splice into and carry elsewhere. Fiber would be much more difficult to splice and bring in.
Other facilities were less secure. I remember getting a panicked call from someone shouting "The Damns gonna bust!!!" They had a single "Circuit" they paid about $20 a month for that was nothing more that a single copper that ran from some building to the local damn. They'd apply +5 volts to the line to open the damn, and -5volts and it would close. They'd reacted too slowly to rising waters and it had flooded the copper pair they used to control the damn. They wanted us to send a phone tech into their overflowing damn to repair the circuit so they could open it from the safety of their administrative building. They had a hard time understanding my near hysterical laughter.
I bet Ford and GM feel the same way. Perhaps they should stick something in the contract when you buy a car that requires you to destroy it when your done with it and to never sell it second hand to anyone. Then they should install software in the vehicle that allows them to remotely disable it if someone other than you trys to drive it. And if you think this comparison is ridiculous, let me assure you that I've seen purchases for software in the corporate environment that BY FAR exceed the value of any car you could buy and had these very restrictions on it.
Last time I checked, the majority of the criminal activity on the internet was perpetrated by Governments... what good would creating an international agency to patrol criminal activity when it would have to report to the criminals themselves?
I'm sure they'll have a real easy time finding a talented individual to replace him. There's nothing like the threat of imprisonment, humiliation and millions in fines to attract IT staff.
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If you're good at it, really there isn't.
You may have but I certainly didn't. I watched my beloved radio shack get more and more useless as time went on. Today, they have a single small draw of resistors of varying values, all 1 watt. totally useless. If they want to get back to their roots they are going to need to renovate their stores and bring back all the bins.
The size of the solar system? Lets do away with unrealistic measurements... Compare it to something we can all understand like the library of congress.
Meltdown proof = Pebble reactor. It is IMPOSSIBLE for a pebble reactor to meltdown. Period.
I dunno wtf you are talking about with your garbage about the UK, France and Germany. All of their Fast breeder reactors were successful. The reason they are not using them more extensively is cost. The fast breeder reactors are expensive and Uranium is currently cheap.
US telecoms can't be sued in the US, what makes you think Egyptian ones can?
Because employees per megawatt is the best way to measure the efficiency of a power plant right? You're also comparing the theoretical operating capacity of a brand new system that hasn't even been built yet to the actual operating capacity of a 40 year old system with one of the worst track records in the country. The one thing most likely to ensure our dependence on fossil fuels for years to come is the political agenda of people like you. You should be fighting for new nuclear power plants to replace coal. You should be demanding the upgrade of 40 year old plants to modern, meltdown proof, designs. You should be demanding we build plants that USE spent fuel rather than dispose of it and you should submit to a 5% fuel/electricity tax that will be used to fund research in orbital solar arrays, the only real solar option that will work. Instead, your one track minded hatred of anything "nuclear" is likely to doom us all.
Imagine a power plant that takes little to no intervention throughout the year. At most the engineer(s) only need to make adjustments when changing out fuel rods or during an emergancy. Now imagine the engineers that make these changes make $200k+ a year and your company has 10 such reactors. Introduce the internet and... profit!!!
Which is equivalent of saying you can own a gun but bullets are illegal.
It's "Up to 1Gb!"(tm)
Sorry if I messed with your religious experience.
I wonder if there's somewhere else to download and watch the movie? Some place that doesn't care how I've configured my OS or my hardware. If there were such a place, one would think the content owners almost want me to go there to get their movie by making it impossible to get the movie directly from them. Ah... if only there were such a place...
I don't have to worry about Apple Malware because I have never, and will never own an apple. There is absolutely no reason to own an apple, they've always been more expensive with less features... although I'm sure someone will pop in here to tell me that it's the better system for "Artists" or some other garbage.
The idea is silly at it's face. Provided you are properly equipping your staff there's no benefit in allowing people to bring their silly phone into the building. But the negatives are many fold.
If you aren't properly equipping their staff, you likely don't have the talent, equipment or software to integrate such devices safely. What I fear happening is that businesses that ARE highly qualified to pull something like this off, Google for example, will do so... and will have great results... there will be an article in Money magazine... and then all the idiots that run all the businesses that do not have the proper infrastructure to handle such a move will read about it and implement it to disastrous results which will lead to a backlash in security like "NO PHONES IN THE BUILDING PERIOD"
As someone that creates test servers all day long as part of my job I have to wonder what they mean by this. For us to create a true and proper test server it is a MIRROR of our production server. Then we make the changes we need... TEST it.. if everything works we make the changes on production. "Just a test server" really?
Do you seriously want to get your internet service from the government? If the local government provides the broadband, I guarantee no telco is going to bring in their own service and compete with something not under the same market controls they are. So by allowing this you are basically ensuring that your only choice is government supplied internet. If you're ok with that, then fine... I certainly agree that ISPs are pretty much shit nowadays... but replacing them with the government? I just dunno.
Actually, it's because the alternatives to CFCs were several orders of magnitude more profitable than the CFCs themselves.
Why would anyone want an account on linked in? More importantly, how on earth is Linked in going to make any money? Ever? Who are the idiots investing in this garbage?
You guys are way over thinking this. There is no connection to the outside world by the control equipment. The fiber that came in terminated in buildings outside what would be considered the power plant. I'm not sure what they used it for... likely they could measure data there or something. What the fiber was supposed to prevent was local staff getting bored and running their own bootleg connection into the building so they could watch porn on their critical workstations inside. Anyone on slashdot could pick up a pool of wire at the hardware store and drag that connection anywhere we wanted inside the facility with nothing more than a pocketknife. Fiber on the other hand, would take a whole new level of sophistication. Just getting the cable would require a specialty dealer, and the equipment used to splice it is prohibitively expensive.
Their public denial is on Twitter? Color me confused but I think someone, somewhere isn't being told the whole truth at M$FT.
I used to work in provisioning in a telco and it entirely depends on who's managing the plant. We'd install circuits in some power plants that were so strict that they insisted on fiber use only. We'd run copper to an access point outside their security perimeter then have a mux convert it to fiber to run across the perimeter into the facility where it would terminate in an outer building. Their security plan did not allow ANY outside network connections to the plant itself. They had networked equipment but it was all housed in an outer building with no connection to the main plant or control systems. They refused to allow copper on the premises because it's relatively easy to splice into and carry elsewhere. Fiber would be much more difficult to splice and bring in.
Other facilities were less secure. I remember getting a panicked call from someone shouting "The Damns gonna bust!!!" They had a single "Circuit" they paid about $20 a month for that was nothing more that a single copper that ran from some building to the local damn. They'd apply +5 volts to the line to open the damn, and -5volts and it would close. They'd reacted too slowly to rising waters and it had flooded the copper pair they used to control the damn. They wanted us to send a phone tech into their overflowing damn to repair the circuit so they could open it from the safety of their administrative building. They had a hard time understanding my near hysterical laughter.
But they can't inspect the federal reserve, a private company, even if they DO have a warrant. Explain that one to me.
its a $5000 a night suite... I'm rather surprised there's not video cameras pointed at the door.
I bet Ford and GM feel the same way. Perhaps they should stick something in the contract when you buy a car that requires you to destroy it when your done with it and to never sell it second hand to anyone. Then they should install software in the vehicle that allows them to remotely disable it if someone other than you trys to drive it. And if you think this comparison is ridiculous, let me assure you that I've seen purchases for software in the corporate environment that BY FAR exceed the value of any car you could buy and had these very restrictions on it.
Last time I checked, the majority of the criminal activity on the internet was perpetrated by Governments... what good would creating an international agency to patrol criminal activity when it would have to report to the criminals themselves?
I'm sure they'll have a real easy time finding a talented individual to replace him. There's nothing like the threat of imprisonment, humiliation and millions in fines to attract IT staff.