What we need is for the election computer to print out a ballot that is both human readable AND machine readable. The machine should not hold election results data. The voter collects their ballot from the machine, verifies it, and puts it in the ballot box - just like a punch card. The chits can be read by an optical scanner and also can be easily hand-counted on a random, scheduled basis or as the result of a call for a recount or any suggestion of an anomalous outcome. This isn't rocket science. What the fuck is wrong with our country?
Actually, exit polling is pretty reliable, but the real issue here is not the sense of surprise, but rather the deep entanglement in the election process of Republicans and plenty of proof of wrong doing. The bottom line is an election system this much in question should never be allowed to exist. But, I haven't seen any major changes.
Well, not just Sysinternals - that was the freeware - there was also the entire product line of Winternals to consider - Recovery Manager, Defrag Manager, Protection Manager, Administrator's Pak,,,,
Not to mention he is a Fellow working on the Azure platform.
I don't know whether he would be a good CEO or not, but it is more than just Systinternals.
what the hell do you base that on? Fukashima with stood 10 times bigger earthquakes, and tsunami, and the island dropping 1 meter.
By "with stood", do you mean it is still visible? Because I don't think that having melt throughs at three reactors, loss of cooling of the spent fool ponds, and huge amounts of radiation leaking into the ocean due to leaks from the external water desperately being applied to be "with stood".
I would just like to point out that 7 feet of flooding is A LOT
But that is the forecast - 5-7 feet rise this summer.
Besides, TFA says that the original state of the plant was only good for 1008 above sea level - it is now at 1007 and rising - that is the thrust of the article. They were not prepared and may still not be.
The fact that the plant is shutdown is irrelevant. The real danger is the spent fool pools which require active cooling - which relies on the constant availability of electricity. The river is at 1007 feet above sea level - expected to rise another 5-7 feet this summer. The NRC approached the plant a year ago and told them their flood contingency measures were not up to snuff. They argued for quite awhile, but finally relented and installed some, IMHO, barely adequate measures that may or may not save the plant from disaster as the water is, literally, lapping at the door of the plant.
How is this article FUD? Did you even read it? Nothing in the article is speculative or untrue. Please, get you head out of your ass.
Actually, you may want to look at the statistics. Apple seems to be winning the desktop war quarter by quarter - and already brings in more in dollar terms.
We are not less savvy. Macs are inherently more secure and there has been a plenty big target to aim for for a long time. Are they invulnerable - of course not. Most exploits are trojan horses - which means they are easily avoided.
To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Police and intelligence agencies are tasked with a mission. Like ever other profession, they want to get better and better at what they do. They will always push for more weapons, more power and more of a role in our society. It seems like they won't be satisfied until we all live in glass houses - everyone, that is, except them. I am a fairly optimistic person about the future, but this is one of the issues I don't see a way out of because the only antidote is an engaged citizenry that peacefully, but persistently pushes back and that demands their rights. Unfortunately, the citizenry is half asleep on their couches watching cop shows.
ARM for MS, in the near future, is for their tablets and smart phones - seems to me. They know Intel's product line won't cut it in the next few years and they know they absolutely have to have an answer to iOS and Android. Most older programs that can't be recompiled are irrelevant to this space anyway. I am assuming that there is a lot of stuff written in.net that can be tweaked for tablets and recompiled.
Backwards compatibilty has held MS back for years. This is a chance for a little platform reinvigoration. I think it's going to work out well for MS. Especially when they have tablets running Office. (not a big fan of Office, but it seems to give corporate folks hard ons ). I am an Apple fanboy, but I am excited to see the competition from MS and Google. I think it is going to help push things forward.
So far, the cost of a Fukushima style cleanup is not too expensive....
So far they haven't cleaned anything up. This is going to cost many billions of dollars, I can assure you. And, what about the cost of permanently relocating everyone within the 30km exclusion zone? This is an intensive farming and fishing area for the whole country - that revenue is lost and food costs will be much higher. This is a big deal and, since it is nuclear, the effects will be the same for decades.
Of course, an accident like the one at the 40 year old Fukushima plant is much less likely to occur in a modern nuclear plant.
Yeah, see the thing is, there aren't a lot of modern nuclear plants - cause they cost so much to build and cause they are uninsurable and people, rightly in my opinion, don't want to live near then.
You are not factoring in the money it cost to mine the uranium, transport the uranium, store the nuclear waste and decommission the facility. Not to mention the costs of all the Fukushimas yet to come.
Well, sorry, but I am tired of people calling people assholes and fucking idiots because they disagree with the idea or sentiment being proposed. Grow up.
I did not misquote the man, I put his words down verbatim and took the trouble to find the video so that people could judge the content for themselves.
The whole point of the debate is, what if you are not doing stupid shit? What if you are doing research on terrorists because you want to know what makes them tick? What if you looking up something that is not stupid or illegal but that you don't want people to know about?
The entire Google business model is predicated on people trusting you with their information. The fact that he knows that and would make such a remark, leads me to distrust him even more. If I were a shareholder, I would have been cringing. The hope is that the information is private and if it is needed for law enforcement reasons, there better damn well be reasonable suspicion and a warrant signed by a judge. His comments don't reflect that sentiment and smack more of the government's 'if you don't have something to hide you shouldn't fear the invasion of your privacy' line. Have you not been paying attention? We are losing rights.
BTW - it is really tempting to call you names back, but I think we all need to be a little more respectful in our public discourse.
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It's only a matter of time until we have Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion power grid.
I use my iPad for Facebook and Slashdot all the time and it is pretty zippy.
What we need is for the election computer to print out a ballot that is both human readable AND machine readable. The machine should not hold election results data. The voter collects their ballot from the machine, verifies it, and puts it in the ballot box - just like a punch card. The chits can be read by an optical scanner and also can be easily hand-counted on a random, scheduled basis or as the result of a call for a recount or any suggestion of an anomalous outcome. This isn't rocket science. What the fuck is wrong with our country?
Actually, exit polling is pretty reliable, but the real issue here is not the sense of surprise, but rather the deep entanglement in the election process of Republicans and plenty of proof of wrong doing. The bottom line is an election system this much in question should never be allowed to exist. But, I haven't seen any major changes.
Next thing you know, they will stop killing babies.
Nuclear energy cannot exist without subsidies. The Free market has not and does not support it. The taxpayers do.
Completely agree. The last thing you would want to do is introduce quality and ethics into Microsoft. It'll never fly!
or handle it the way it is handled on the Mac. Overwrites and lack of space are addressed immediately - then the copy proceeds.
I thought this was fixed in 7?
I get the joke but I have no mod points.
Well, not just Sysinternals - that was the freeware - there was also the entire product line of Winternals to consider - Recovery Manager, Defrag Manager, Protection Manager, Administrator's Pak,,,,
Not to mention he is a Fellow working on the Azure platform.
I don't know whether he would be a good CEO or not, but it is more than just Systinternals.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8565020/Nuclear-fuel-has-melted-through-base-of-Fukushima-plant.html
By "with stood", do you mean it is still visible? Because I don't think that having melt throughs at three reactors, loss of cooling of the spent fool ponds, and huge amounts of radiation leaking into the ocean due to leaks from the external water desperately being applied to be "with stood".
"people on the Internets" have said a lot of things. Who cares? I didn't read that the plant had meted down and I have been following this closely.
I am as assured by OPPD's public face as I am by TEPCO.
But that is the forecast - 5-7 feet rise this summer.
Besides, TFA says that the original state of the plant was only good for 1008 above sea level - it is now at 1007 and rising - that is the thrust of the article. They were not prepared and may still not be.
The fact that the plant is shutdown is irrelevant. The real danger is the spent fool pools which require active cooling - which relies on the constant availability of electricity. The river is at 1007 feet above sea level - expected to rise another 5-7 feet this summer. The NRC approached the plant a year ago and told them their flood contingency measures were not up to snuff. They argued for quite awhile, but finally relented and installed some, IMHO, barely adequate measures that may or may not save the plant from disaster as the water is, literally, lapping at the door of the plant.
How is this article FUD? Did you even read it? Nothing in the article is speculative or untrue. Please, get you head out of your ass.
Please. "everything Mac puts out" makes no sense. "Mac" is not a company. Apple is the company. And, we only buy their stuff because it rocks.
Actually, you may want to look at the statistics. Apple seems to be winning the desktop war quarter by quarter - and already brings in more in dollar terms.
We are not less savvy. Macs are inherently more secure and there has been a plenty big target to aim for for a long time. Are they invulnerable - of course not. Most exploits are trojan horses - which means they are easily avoided.
To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Police and intelligence agencies are tasked with a mission. Like ever other profession, they want to get better and better at what they do. They will always push for more weapons, more power and more of a role in our society. It seems like they won't be satisfied until we all live in glass houses - everyone, that is, except them. I am a fairly optimistic person about the future, but this is one of the issues I don't see a way out of because the only antidote is an engaged citizenry that peacefully, but persistently pushes back and that demands their rights. Unfortunately, the citizenry is half asleep on their couches watching cop shows.
ARM for MS, in the near future, is for their tablets and smart phones - seems to me. They know Intel's product line won't cut it in the next few years and they know they absolutely have to have an answer to iOS and Android. Most older programs that can't be recompiled are irrelevant to this space anyway. I am assuming that there is a lot of stuff written in .net that can be tweaked for tablets and recompiled.
Backwards compatibilty has held MS back for years. This is a chance for a little platform reinvigoration. I think it's going to work out well for MS. Especially when they have tablets running Office. (not a big fan of Office, but it seems to give corporate folks hard ons ). I am an Apple fanboy, but I am excited to see the competition from MS and Google. I think it is going to help push things forward.
The "always see the bright side" folks will tell us, "it's ok, the ocean is huge".
So far they haven't cleaned anything up. This is going to cost many billions of dollars, I can assure you. And, what about the cost of permanently relocating everyone within the 30km exclusion zone? This is an intensive farming and fishing area for the whole country - that revenue is lost and food costs will be much higher. This is a big deal and, since it is nuclear, the effects will be the same for decades.
Yeah, see the thing is, there aren't a lot of modern nuclear plants - cause they cost so much to build and cause they are uninsurable and people, rightly in my opinion, don't want to live near then.
You are not factoring in the money it cost to mine the uranium, transport the uranium, store the nuclear waste and decommission the facility. Not to mention the costs of all the Fukushimas yet to come.
18 pictures and not one showing crew accommodations.
Well, sorry, but I am tired of people calling people assholes and fucking idiots because they disagree with the idea or sentiment being proposed. Grow up.
I did not misquote the man, I put his words down verbatim and took the trouble to find the video so that people could judge the content for themselves.
The whole point of the debate is, what if you are not doing stupid shit? What if you are doing research on terrorists because you want to know what makes them tick? What if you looking up something that is not stupid or illegal but that you don't want people to know about?
The entire Google business model is predicated on people trusting you with their information. The fact that he knows that and would make such a remark, leads me to distrust him even more. If I were a shareholder, I would have been cringing. The hope is that the information is private and if it is needed for law enforcement reasons, there better damn well be reasonable suspicion and a warrant signed by a judge. His comments don't reflect that sentiment and smack more of the government's 'if you don't have something to hide you shouldn't fear the invasion of your privacy' line. Have you not been paying attention? We are losing rights.
BTW - it is really tempting to call you names back, but I think we all need to be a little more respectful in our public discourse.