Very carefully reading the most alarmist sources, who have mis-read the Japanese news and falsely extrapolated their misunderstadings by several orders of magnitude, and then doing some false extraolation of your own.
This is not the same kind of reactor as at Chernobyl. It's not the same class of failure. Dangerous, yes.
But you getting into a panic doesn't help anyone, least of all, you.
I am not the AC whom you so self-righteously disparage.
I have the age and experience to have had a three digit ID here, if I hadn't been having far too much more fun doing something else when I started sometimes reading slashdot to blow off a little stress. (Age-wise, I'm a wee bit older than, say, cmdr-taco.) I lost a five-digit ID because of a sudden job change. And?
I also happen to have a bit more experience with Japan than you apparently have, and you're point of view is just missing something somewhere. You say so many things that are almost right, but I think your hubris gets in the way of your really understanding what it all means.
I was a bit like that, about the time the guys who founded slashdot were first getting introduced to computers. Come to think of it, I still have issues with hubris.
But you're still missing something in your analysis.
I guess the only reasonable thing would have been to move the plants further away from the sea, but then you don't have the emergency source of cooling water.
Or maybe they could have put multiple rings of sea walls up? Say 4 stories tall and ten meters thick, way out beyond the perimeter, 6 stories tall and five meters wide at the top, in about two hundred meters, and then the 8 story wall, three meters wide, about another two hundred meters in, about two hundred meters from the perimeter of the actual plant compound?
Hind sight is twenty-twenty, as they say. (It isn't really all that accurate, just seems so, which is part of the problem here.) Now that we know how it failed, we could have stopped it. But it's too late.
So, do we do like Greenpeace and others say and shut down all the high-growth industry and let all the current people with power stay in power for ever?
well, I'd say you're an idiot, but if you live in the area, I guess being a bit irrational is excuseable.
Don't panic. They are not covering things up, they just are very busy trying to keep the thing from getting worse, communicating with people who can help more than the press.
And if you're worried, get yourself out. Come on down to Kyoto or head over to Bali to wait it out.
Stupid localization. That's why it takes me to gizmodo.jp, to the front page there, with no indication of Russian photos of the earth. And more ads than I am willing to sort through.
I think the roots have to be self-signed. That's the way it was the last time I checked, and the time before that, as well.
The real solution is to for your bank to have its own browser, self-sign its certificates, and give you the public keys when you go in to get money or something. Nothing works over fiber at all until you've been there in person.
There's a bit more to it than that, but we shouldn't need one certificate to rule all our banks, even, much less one certificate to rule all certificates.
You have to understand, in a non-free society that functions, there are always at least two levels of communication. Truth is to be found in our own synthesis. That's why they don't understand the pre-occupation the Yanks have shown with making freedom a foundation principle in the government.
Until lately, anyway.
I guess the US has got to learn how to deal with that now that the idealogues from both the left and the right are taking over.
Well, you could always go to the Japanese sister site (slashdot.jp), find their version of this article (still front page for them) and link out to a Make! Japan article on how to (probably needlessly) simulate the signal with, say, an arduino, or a common PC running MSWindows and that Microsoft dev environment that always makes me feel uncomfortable.
But the discussion here of why multiple time sync sources are necessary (when they're necessary) isn't exactly un-geekly is it?
Most of the clocks and watches that receive these signals have internal quartz frequency sources and will do just fine until the signal is back up, unless the evacuation situation drags on for months.
Our Japanese sister site has more information, and a link to the information from the guys operating the time base signal, also in English, with slightly less information.
(Although I'm not sure the nict.go.jp site is going to be able to handle a slashdotting, so I'll suggest only going there if you can read Japanese or really need the information.
There's also a link in the article on slashdot.jp to a project on Make! Japan for simulating the signals, which should be more interesting anyway.)
By rules of logic, you can only trust second parties.
That means that third party identification is inherently not valid logic.
To put that in ordinary language:
I barely trust myself.
I can sort of trust people I know, only to the extent I know them.
Trust here does not mean I believe they will do what I think is right, it means I think I know how they will behave.
The kind of blanket trust where you believe someone will always do what you think is right is fool's trust. Not even God is always going to do what you think is right, because God (if he exists) is a lot smarter than you.
Governments are not God. Police are not God. Corporations are not God, no matter how much our bosses think they want us to think so.
No mortal person or entity can assume that level of trust.
There is no sense, absolutely no sense in which a third party can be a medium of transitive trust.
Yeah, that means that Verisign is one major scam. All those certificates in your browser are meaningless, except for the vendors, because you sort-of know the vendor.
Your identity at Google consists of your record of transactions at Google, and nowhere else. Likewise, Yahoo. Likewise Apple or Microsoft.
When Google bought youtube, they watered down the meaning of your identity a bit, but they can connect the records to somewhat counter the diluting effects. Iff the connection activities are pursued correctly. But they can't connect records owned by another organization because those records are established and kept in a different context.
I've got to go to bed, so the rant ends here, but we are definitely working at authentication backwards and upside down.
I mean, ultimately, the only person who knows an individual's identity is the individual him- or herself.
Thus, the only entity truly capable of certifying an identity is the self.
That's the first thing that's wrong with all of our current attempts at identity and authorization. Or, if you think about it, the closest we are to correct at this stage is the confirm-by-e-mail trick.
Universal login, federated authentication, whatever you want to call it, it's just plain wrong.
Okay, when I re-read his post, it is apparent that he is also new to the Mac, and has likely been to busy to discover that many of the tools he wants are available.
Here's a thought -- the artist community and the programming community for the Mac are disjoint enough that it's easy for a member of one to be aware of what's available in the other, especially coming in from outside and seeing only the one.
Never assume malice when there's a high probability of just being too busy? (Although being too busy is sort of a sin in and of itself.)
I'll agree that the Red Hat and Debian core repositories are huge, including, if you intended, the implication of too huge.
I don't think I agree with the idea that the core libraries in Mac OS X are rich enough to avoid the necessity of dependencies. Rich, yes. But the attitude that the distro provides everything necessary is a bit stifling, and cannot be realistic.
Sure, there are lots of little gadgets and widgets that have not yet been milked out of the current core libraries, but the life of the OS is the next version, and this one of many places where we see that Apple is not willing to let the outside world influence the direction they're heading.
Theoretically, that's Apple's choice of business model, but that attitude was what made it difficult for me to ever come up to speed on the Classic Mac, and on Mac OS X. It's really hard to trust them with my future when they are so closed, and the time/money investment is not trivial from where I am now, or have ever been. (And part of the problem is that I have been trying to develop a run-time architecture that would end up competing with theirs.)
Oh, yeah, I guess MacPorts has become the official repository now. It wasn't the last time I looked. So part of Ted's woes is that he is that he is jumping in right in the middle of a major transition.
Slashdot Mirror
Very carefully reading the most alarmist sources, who have mis-read the Japanese news and falsely extrapolated their misunderstadings by several orders of magnitude, and then doing some false extraolation of your own.
This is not the same kind of reactor as at Chernobyl. It's not the same class of failure. Dangerous, yes.
But you getting into a panic doesn't help anyone, least of all, you.
I am not the AC whom you so self-righteously disparage.
I have the age and experience to have had a three digit ID here, if I hadn't been having far too much more fun doing something else when I started sometimes reading slashdot to blow off a little stress. (Age-wise, I'm a wee bit older than, say, cmdr-taco.) I lost a five-digit ID because of a sudden job change. And?
I also happen to have a bit more experience with Japan than you apparently have, and you're point of view is just missing something somewhere. You say so many things that are almost right, but I think your hubris gets in the way of your really understanding what it all means.
I was a bit like that, about the time the guys who founded slashdot were first getting introduced to computers. Come to think of it, I still have issues with hubris.
But you're still missing something in your analysis.
So, you admit you are still a student.
21 meters is about seven or eight stories.
I guess the only reasonable thing would have been to move the plants further away from the sea, but then you don't have the emergency source of cooling water.
Or maybe they could have put multiple rings of sea walls up? Say 4 stories tall and ten meters thick, way out beyond the perimeter, 6 stories tall and five meters wide at the top, in about two hundred meters, and then the 8 story wall, three meters wide, about another two hundred meters in, about two hundred meters from the perimeter of the actual plant compound?
Hind sight is twenty-twenty, as they say. (It isn't really all that accurate, just seems so, which is part of the problem here.) Now that we know how it failed, we could have stopped it. But it's too late.
So, do we do like Greenpeace and others say and shut down all the high-growth industry and let all the current people with power stay in power for ever?
I speak and read Japanese, and I say you're
well, I'd say you're an idiot, but if you live in the area, I guess being a bit irrational is excuseable.
Don't panic. They are not covering things up, they just are very busy trying to keep the thing from getting worse, communicating with people who can help more than the press.
And if you're worried, get yourself out. Come on down to Kyoto or head over to Bali to wait it out.
This has been hashed out many times.
There were also problems with the frequency and phase of the current.
Stupid localization. That's why it takes me to gizmodo.jp, to the front page there, with no indication of Russian photos of the earth. And more ads than I am willing to sort through.
I think that's what they are doing.
Or has that changed?
I think the roots have to be self-signed. That's the way it was the last time I checked, and the time before that, as well.
The real solution is to for your bank to have its own browser, self-sign its certificates, and give you the public keys when you go in to get money or something. Nothing works over fiber at all until you've been there in person.
There's a bit more to it than that, but we shouldn't need one certificate to rule all our banks, even, much less one certificate to rule all certificates.
Too bad everyone has to make some grand business plan out of the simplest stuff.
And you're welcome!
(Same here. Keeping up appearances, I mean. :)
Microsoft will be happy to sell you a filter that reads your mind.
Never really was, definitely not now.
You have to understand, in a non-free society that functions, there are always at least two levels of communication. Truth is to be found in our own synthesis. That's why they don't understand the pre-occupation the Yanks have shown with making freedom a foundation principle in the government.
Until lately, anyway.
I guess the US has got to learn how to deal with that now that the idealogues from both the left and the right are taking over.
(Working at home and the wife thinks I'm playing because I link to two seconds of Mr. Bean saying "magic, snort, snort".)
Well, you could always go to the Japanese sister site (slashdot.jp), find their version of this article (still front page for them) and link out to a Make! Japan article on how to (probably needlessly) simulate the signal with, say, an arduino, or a common PC running MSWindows and that Microsoft dev environment that always makes me feel uncomfortable.
But the discussion here of why multiple time sync sources are necessary (when they're necessary) isn't exactly un-geekly is it?
Or (as in this case), prevented from properly maintaining the clock because of an evacuation order.
Most of the clocks and watches that receive these signals have internal quartz frequency sources and will do just fine until the signal is back up, unless the evacuation situation drags on for months.
Our Japanese sister site has more information, and a link to the information from the guys operating the time base signal, also in English, with slightly less information.
(Although I'm not sure the nict.go.jp site is going to be able to handle a slashdotting, so I'll suggest only going there if you can read Japanese or really need the information.
There's also a link in the article on slashdot.jp to a project on Make! Japan for simulating the signals, which should be more interesting anyway.)
(Faced with the dilemma, post the above or just mod parent +1 funny.)
If you don't understand the combinatorial stuff, how do you follow calculating the order of a sort?
I think he thought those were three variable names. Or was joking around like they were.
Or were you pointing that out?
By rules of logic, you can only trust second parties.
That means that third party identification is inherently not valid logic.
To put that in ordinary language:
I barely trust myself.
I can sort of trust people I know, only to the extent I know them.
Trust here does not mean I believe they will do what I think is right, it means I think I know how they will behave.
The kind of blanket trust where you believe someone will always do what you think is right is fool's trust. Not even God is always going to do what you think is right, because God (if he exists) is a lot smarter than you.
Governments are not God. Police are not God. Corporations are not God, no matter how much our bosses think they want us to think so.
No mortal person or entity can assume that level of trust.
There is no sense, absolutely no sense in which a third party can be a medium of transitive trust.
Yeah, that means that Verisign is one major scam. All those certificates in your browser are meaningless, except for the vendors, because you sort-of know the vendor.
Your identity at Google consists of your record of transactions at Google, and nowhere else. Likewise, Yahoo. Likewise Apple or Microsoft.
When Google bought youtube, they watered down the meaning of your identity a bit, but they can connect the records to somewhat counter the diluting effects. Iff the connection activities are pursued correctly. But they can't connect records owned by another organization because those records are established and kept in a different context.
I've got to go to bed, so the rant ends here, but we are definitely working at authentication backwards and upside down.
I mean, ultimately, the only person who knows an individual's identity is the individual him- or herself.
Thus, the only entity truly capable of certifying an identity is the self.
That's the first thing that's wrong with all of our current attempts at identity and authorization. Or, if you think about it, the closest we are to correct at this stage is the confirm-by-e-mail trick.
Universal login, federated authentication, whatever you want to call it, it's just plain wrong.
Okay, when I re-read his post, it is apparent that he is also new to the Mac, and has likely been to busy to discover that many of the tools he wants are available.
Here's a thought -- the artist community and the programming community for the Mac are disjoint enough that it's easy for a member of one to be aware of what's available in the other, especially coming in from outside and seeing only the one.
Never assume malice when there's a high probability of just being too busy? (Although being too busy is sort of a sin in and of itself.)
I'll agree that the Red Hat and Debian core repositories are huge, including, if you intended, the implication of too huge.
I don't think I agree with the idea that the core libraries in Mac OS X are rich enough to avoid the necessity of dependencies. Rich, yes. But the attitude that the distro provides everything necessary is a bit stifling, and cannot be realistic.
Sure, there are lots of little gadgets and widgets that have not yet been milked out of the current core libraries, but the life of the OS is the next version, and this one of many places where we see that Apple is not willing to let the outside world influence the direction they're heading.
Theoretically, that's Apple's choice of business model, but that attitude was what made it difficult for me to ever come up to speed on the Classic Mac, and on Mac OS X. It's really hard to trust them with my future when they are so closed, and the time/money investment is not trivial from where I am now, or have ever been. (And part of the problem is that I have been trying to develop a run-time architecture that would end up competing with theirs.)
Oh, yeah, I guess MacPorts has become the official repository now. It wasn't the last time I looked. So part of Ted's woes is that he is that he is jumping in right in the middle of a major transition.