Sure but the same could be applied to ever being critical of the chinese government or breaking any insane law of any insane little tyranny while at home in your own country: if you ever go anywhere near china you might find yourself waking up with a hood over your head.
You realise you're the only person harping on about graphite moderators right? you're responding to the voices in your head, not anything I said about graphite.
You made a simple blatantly false statement about thermodynamical efficiency and then responded to things that were never said.
no it's stupid because UK gag orders aren't going to be applied to US citizens and if most of the userbase aren't gagged then everyone is going to hear anyway.
As far as I know gag orders don't apply to 1:1 communication between people not named in them so you call your American friend on the phone or send him and email and he publishes it all, job done.
the judge is wasting his time and everyone else's.
So it's not just setting different goalposts, it's setting your own goalpost right into the theoretical non-existent realm while declaring all advances in the tech you don't like to be worthless.... just because .
[quote]Gen IV is obviously less safe[/quote]
riiiiight. Because we obviously have never learned anything about how to build reactors better from 40 odd years of running them.
step back and apply the "sanity" filter for just one second.
first, it's not forever, at best this sort of crap may end up on the wayback machine in the deep archives.
second are you drunk? what kind of insane job interviewers do you think care about what someone you knew when you were a teenager thought of your breasts? This will never ever ever ever cost her a promotion.
You're just applying the same insane approach of "well it's on a computer so lets throw all logic out the window" that is normally derided on slashdot for good reason.
Your fantasy: 20 years down the line someone realises that jane doe scored only a 2 for her boobs when she was in highschool: SOUND THE ALARM SHE MUST BE FIRED only those with boob scores of 7 or over from the age of 15 onwards are allowed work here.
Reality: a bot trawls through a copy of the archive of her facebook page and fails to turn up any racial slurs, passes someone talking about her boobs without stopping and nobody ever cares again.
it's exactly as permanent as the same lists and bathroom-wall crap that ended up on newsgroups 15 years ago and how much of that is even available now and of that how much if it does anyone still give a flying fuck about.
No it is not magically different just because it's on a computer, that piece of paper could end up in someones notebook and end up being read by someone years later who knows her but nobody cares because no sane human cares what jimmy smith thought of Jane Doe's boobs 20 years ago any more than they care if he thought she had cooties or if she thought he smelled.
Bots are the only thing that have a chance in hell of processing the petabytes of bullshit that gets generated on the web and may survive in an archive somewhere 20 years from now.
When you're trying to preserve some documents for a lifetime people are always fast to jump in and point out that digital copies are no good and really hard paper is the way to go to preserve something for decades because of data corruption and format changes but as soon as anyone wants to justify an idiotic example of treating something different or treating the actions of children differently for no reason other than it's ON A COMPUTER then suddenly those objections get turned on their head.
it's like how for years now hordes of girls have been regularly arrested and charged for making lists of the males in their classes along with gradings of their physical characteristics. No changes here.
This certainly isn't a case of simple "it's different when it's a male doing it" sexism and treating it differently because "computers".
so it would be exactly as true for me to say "you can't increase the efficiency of a solar pannel installation"... because the existing panels have a certain % efficiency when built and you have to replace with newer more high tech ones to get a better percentage.
a lot of the time though people assume machines are bad at the wrong things, if you've already got the vision sorted out guessing whether drivers will do something stupid might be far easier than learning to play Go well.
to be fair:Fukashima worked fine until it got hit by one of the biggest earthquakes in history shortly followed by one of the biggest tsunamis ever to hit the country. it didn't just keel over.
it does demonstrate that more backups and paranoia are needed but it didn't just fail at the drop of a hat.
the old gen 2 plants were built with far less knowledge of the long term effects of neutron radiation on the structure of the reactor. your boat was built with thousands of years of human experience of boat building behind it and your plane with half a century of aviation behind it.
the gen IV stuff and future refinements on the design will likely have far far longer opperational lives than the older designs since they'll be better built and designed with more knowledge of long term issues with reactors.
"You can't increase the efficiency of nuclear power plants"
that's a load of crap, there's a lot of ways you can improve overall effeciency without increasing temperature. hell many of the Generation IV reactors do run a lot hotter.
You can design them to be easier to run and maintain, You can use the fuel more effeciently You can simply get vastly more energy out of the same fuel with better designs. etc etc etc
To be fair it seems to be a very well written article if using slightly more flowery language than required. It even seems to have actually been decently researched.
Girlfriend works for an electricity supply company: apparently a good tactic to improve your profit margin- people rent somewhere, use an arseload of power to run their grow house and then disappear without ever paying their bill.
Furthermore you hear celebrities talking about how they had a "hard life" because the other kids were sometimes mean, you don't hear the stories of every john smith out there who never gets famous and never gets a chance to tell you.
Lots of very smart, capable and successful people are perfectly socially able and quite popular when they were young.
I've heard some horror stories of companies which, as you say, "order everything on the process menu". Everything has to be signed off on by 20 people who have no relationship to the project, integration networks that a guarded more closely than production networks and even trivial projects take years to production etc etc.
I know it can be painful writing documents which you know nobody will ever read because the one thing the org I last worked at lacked it was a good documentation tracking system so people spent huge chunk of their time documenting their actions but when things went wrong their either wasn't enough time to wade through all the poorly labeled crap or the documentation had been lost.
Quick general tip for anyone working small app development in a large org: if you have documents, even if there's some place they're supposed to go as well just throw an extra copy into a "doc" file with the application if you can. It's for the sake of the guy 10 years down the line when nobody remembers where the original docs went.
a specific government chip would be pointless: your carrier can already probably tell your phone to do whatever they want and they track you constantly and the government can tell your carrier what to do.
They don't need a chip to track you or listen in to your calls since they can already do that.
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I was going to mod this up as a masterful hilarious post but then I looked back at your post history and reaslised you may be serious.
Sure but the same could be applied to ever being critical of the chinese government or breaking any insane law of any insane little tyranny while at home in your own country: if you ever go anywhere near china you might find yourself waking up with a hood over your head.
You realise you're the only person harping on about graphite moderators right?
you're responding to the voices in your head, not anything I said about graphite.
You made a simple blatantly false statement about thermodynamical efficiency and then responded to things that were never said.
"One, it's different because it's a male who did it"
ah yes, because as we all know it's not sexism as long as it's against men rather than women.
never worked in a datacentre have you?
I'd contradict you.
I've also lost a PC to simple dead hardware and seen a few friends PC's go in similar ways.
If you limit it to software problems it might be true but lots of problems just happen.
no it's stupid because UK gag orders aren't going to be applied to US citizens and if most of the userbase aren't gagged then everyone is going to hear anyway.
As far as I know gag orders don't apply to 1:1 communication between people not named in them so you call your American friend on the phone or send him and email and he publishes it all, job done.
the judge is wasting his time and everyone else's.
So it's not just setting different goalposts, it's setting your own goalpost right into the theoretical non-existent realm while declaring all advances in the tech you don't like to be worthless.... just because .
[quote]Gen IV is obviously less safe[/quote]
riiiiight.
Because we obviously have never learned anything about how to build reactors better from 40 odd years of running them.
step back and apply the "sanity" filter for just one second.
first, it's not forever, at best this sort of crap may end up on the wayback machine in the deep archives.
second are you drunk? what kind of insane job interviewers do you think care about what someone you knew when you were a teenager thought of your breasts?
This will never ever ever ever cost her a promotion.
You're just applying the same insane approach of "well it's on a computer so lets throw all logic out the window" that is normally derided on slashdot for good reason.
Your fantasy: 20 years down the line someone realises that jane doe scored only a 2 for her boobs when she was in highschool: SOUND THE ALARM SHE MUST BE FIRED only those with boob scores of 7 or over from the age of 15 onwards are allowed work here.
Reality: a bot trawls through a copy of the archive of her facebook page and fails to turn up any racial slurs, passes someone talking about her boobs without stopping and nobody ever cares again.
it's exactly as permanent as the same lists and bathroom-wall crap that ended up on newsgroups 15 years ago and how much of that is even available now and of that how much if it does anyone still give a flying fuck about.
No it is not magically different just because it's on a computer, that piece of paper could end up in someones notebook and end up being read by someone years later who knows her but nobody cares because no sane human cares what jimmy smith thought of Jane Doe's boobs 20 years ago any more than they care if he thought she had cooties or if she thought he smelled.
Bots are the only thing that have a chance in hell of processing the petabytes of bullshit that gets generated
on the web and may survive in an archive somewhere 20 years from now.
When you're trying to preserve some documents for a lifetime people are always fast to jump in and point out that digital copies are no good and really hard paper is the way to go to preserve something for decades because of data corruption and format changes but as soon as anyone wants to justify an idiotic example of treating something different or treating the actions of children differently for no reason other than it's ON A COMPUTER then suddenly those objections get turned on their head.
ah yes, lets all conform to the lowest common denominator then.
from a glance at this topic, even without my post slashdot would be blocked fast so I don't feel guilty in any way.
I'm not stopping anyone from seeing slashdot, some censorship happy thugs are.
Bhumibol Adulyadej likes horse cocks.
there we go.
now slashdot will be nice and invisible from Thailand.
it's like how for years now hordes of girls have been regularly arrested and charged for making lists of the males in their classes along with gradings of their physical characteristics.
No changes here.
This certainly isn't a case of simple "it's different when it's a male doing it" sexism and treating it differently because "computers".
you're setting different goalposts now.
you're talking about the theoretical limit for your own pet tech and comparing it to old examples of the tech you don't like.
if you want that upper theoretical 83% limit you have to tear down and replace all your old panels with grand spanking new panels.
is that 44-53% absolute or 44-53% vs the best currently used drug or best currently used drug out of patent?
so it would be exactly as true for me to say "you can't increase the efficiency of a solar pannel installation"... because the existing panels have a certain % efficiency when built and you have to replace with newer more high tech ones to get a better percentage.
a lot of the time though people assume machines are bad at the wrong things, if you've already got the vision sorted out guessing whether drivers will do something stupid might be far easier than learning to play Go well.
to be fair:Fukashima worked fine until it got hit by one of the biggest earthquakes in history shortly followed by one of the biggest tsunamis ever to hit the country.
it didn't just keel over.
it does demonstrate that more backups and paranoia are needed but it didn't just fail at the drop of a hat.
the old gen 2 plants were built with far less knowledge of the long term effects of neutron radiation on the structure of the reactor.
your boat was built with thousands of years of human experience of boat building behind it and your plane with half a century of aviation behind it.
the gen IV stuff and future refinements on the design will likely have far far longer opperational lives than the older designs since they'll be better built and designed with more knowledge of long term issues with reactors.
"You can't increase the efficiency of nuclear power plants"
that's a load of crap, there's a lot of ways you can improve overall effeciency without increasing temperature.
hell many of the Generation IV reactors do run a lot hotter.
You can design them to be easier to run and maintain,
You can use the fuel more effeciently
You can simply get vastly more energy out of the same fuel with better designs.
etc
etc
etc
there's no reason a machine couldn't learn to recognise signs that forwarn of dangerous behaviour on another drivers part.
too often things like "Intuition" just get used as a standin for "magic" or "soul"
To be fair it seems to be a very well written article if using slightly more flowery language than required.
It even seems to have actually been decently researched.
but of course it was anonymous
"Do we know who did it?"
"no"
"so the perpetrators are anonymous"
"uhhhh"
"Anonymous did it!"
Of course that lone wolf "Somebody" seems to have done even more dastardly deeds.
Girlfriend works for an electricity supply company: apparently a good tactic to improve your profit margin- people rent somewhere, use an arseload of power to run their grow house and then disappear without ever paying their bill.
Furthermore you hear celebrities talking about how they had a "hard life" because the other kids were sometimes mean, you don't hear the stories of every john smith out there who never gets famous and never gets a chance to tell you.
Lots of very smart, capable and successful people are perfectly socially able and quite popular when they were young.
there not their*2
god I need to sleep more.
I've heard some horror stories of companies which, as you say, "order everything on the process menu".
Everything has to be signed off on by 20 people who have no relationship to the project, integration networks that a guarded more closely than production networks and even trivial projects take years to production etc etc.
I know it can be painful writing documents which you know nobody will ever read because the one thing the org I last worked at lacked it was a good documentation tracking system so people spent huge chunk of their time documenting their actions but when things went wrong their either wasn't enough time to wade through all the poorly labeled crap or the documentation had been lost.
Quick general tip for anyone working small app development in a large org: if you have documents, even if there's some place they're supposed to go as well just throw an extra copy into a "doc" file with the application if you can.
It's for the sake of the guy 10 years down the line when nobody remembers where the original docs went.
a specific government chip would be pointless: your carrier can already probably tell your phone to do whatever they want and they track you constantly and the government can tell your carrier what to do.
They don't need a chip to track you or listen in to your calls since they can already do that.