The link at the end of the above https://myaccount.google.com/p...">article, has a link to Google's Security Checkup Page, funny when I went there, it said I have one app, that I did give access too, that I might want to consider removing...fyi, that site cannot read my emails, what is funny, is when I go to the link provided above looking for applications that I gave Permission to to read my email, that app is NOT listed...my guess is it is a "3rd Party application with limited (cannot read emails) access to my account.
In fact, per that page, I have NOT given any applications access to my Google gMail account. Of course I know it (Google's Primary checkup page) is NOT checking for 3rd party sites.
Like everything online, the devil is in the details and most people (me included sometimes) do not make time to dig into the details...deep in the bowls of the FREE website. Hey its FREE, we are giving them something, else its not cost effective for them to provide that service for FREE.
And if you do read the Terms of Service (ToS) of every website, there is a very good chance you would miss the sentenance where you gave them access to everything about you as they are rarely straight forward.
I am sure I could find this for every other email service, especially if it is free, online, to be honest I do not want to bother looking.
An important point to consider,
my guess is all the websites work like this, to be sure check your email application's FAQs or better yet other blogs not controlled by the company that put out that email package
, is that if you have given a 3rd party access, even when you later turn it off, it will NOT automatically turn off ALL 3rd Party access, only future 3rd party access.
Why did a true story about a parasitic fungus living on and killing an entire ant colony get modded to zero.
You start looking for weirdness in nature and you find it all the time, the trick is knowing what is truly 'nature' and what is 'man made'.
Anyone else remember reading about the tornadoe that hit a small town in the midwest and multiple people reported to the hospital with black fibers moving and growing out of their bodies?
Evidently these fibers would move toward heat and light sources and work against attempts to remove them.
Real world is always more interesting and weirder than what hollywood can make up and yes would make for a great horror movie.
That is the correct question to ask....what do you think they are going to do with everyone's facial image?
Identity Theft?
NSA, CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement
Profiling (race, culture, color, religious preference, freckles)
not pay us for the use of our likeness, i.e. Looker . ..
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin
Plenty of people have mentioned the Raspberry Pi and Arduino...plenty of options in the $25 - $100 range.
This poster agrees with them, but what about those that do NOT want to build hardware, they just want to explore Linux and software....this post is for you. Read on, and note, while the starting prices of their hardware starts out low, by the time you max it out with memory, disk drives, power supplies, better Graphics cards, multiple other stuff, the price will rise. In other words, do not expect this hardware to be the cheapest, just know that it will work with an distro of Linux out of the box, period! And to be honest, they are often not much more when configured similar to what you have in the big box store...just let them know which Distro of Linux you want on it, and they will configure it for you. You spend your time learning Linux, not messing with hardware and device drivers.
ZaReason has been active in the open source community since their founding days and all of their hardware is built with open source in mind. No UEFI BS chips on any of their hardware. No need to purchase a Windows OS in order to wipe Windows and install a Linux Distro.
UEFI, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface was forced on Vendors by Microsoft a long time ago. Originally they use to say it would make your computer more secure, however when you consider that the exploits it was protecting your computer against required someone to have the keys to your home, be inside, with your Linux password in order to use those exploits, well UEFI is a waste of time and is just more Vendor Lock-In by Microsoft.
First encountered the ZaReason owners at SCaLE in Los Angeles / Pasadena, California, when it was held at the hotels near LAX, now they hold it in Pasadena. If you are into Open source and have not been to SCaLE you should check it out. The things you can learn about, often from the creator is great, especially for the price. Recommend you book a room a head and stay in the hotel where the conference is hosted...but I digress.
Most of ZaReason's hardware starts in the $400 - $600 dollar range, but will quickly go up when you start adding their current maximum memory (32GB RAM) and if you add 6TB hard drives, etc.... When Windows refused to allow their Operating System to address above 16GB of RAM memory, ZaReason was putting laptops together with that amount of RAM and it was all usable. One of their laptop models had the largest screen on the market at the time, 16.3 (Bright, anti-glare 17.3" LED backlit display @ 1920x1080 pixels) versus 15" from other manufacturers.
Want to create a TV wall on a 65" or larger TV in your house, Linux will let you do it, there is software that has to be configured / built in with the kernel that will let you control the processors independently of each other, say let your 2 cores control one screen, another core control another, two other cores control yet another screen, etc... and divide your 65" TV into a TV Wall of say 3 X 3 or 4 X 4 monitors. Let the internet stream music on one screen, news on a couple of others, weather on another, you can program on four of the others and show social media on yet other screens of your TV Wall....I plan to do this in the next couple of years...software was available back in 2010 or before.
Boy will I cut the cord....can't wait and will never look back...if only I had Google Fiber in my area!
Full disclosure, I do not work at the company, but have purchased two laptops, a desktop/ser
Six years of unlimited Oracle software and technical support included in the deal will save the state hundreds of millions of dollars in years to come and ends a bitter legal battle
Oracle wins
So this is how they get their business...they F-up and still win. amazing.
My last job was outsourced for pennies on the dollar, guess Oracle will do the same....profit! Way To Go Oracle, you suck!
Anyone who has had to update, maintain or change a mainframe based system where Oracle is involved understands all too well....pathetic.
Worked in the Telco industry, we had $15,000.00 Network General Sniffers at each end of a T1 to prove beyond doubt, that the line was cut and it was the Telco's fault.
They denied it 100% of the time, until you produced logs from both Network General Sniffers and the problem was them and not you...every single time...without fail.
You are 100% correct that they will do this to prevent, thwart or at least slow down competition.
The smart move is for Sheri Weiner to lose her seat at the table, she is obviously completely controlled by the industry attempting to prevent the citizens of Nashville from getting FTTH.
Pretty typical of every city that attempts to put in Fiber To The Home, the industry sues and loses at least twice if not three times, but if the citizens push through it, they get Fiber and lower Cable rates to boot.
It is the only way Cable companies ever lower their prices, because its the only way they get true competition.
One of my adult sons is alergic, does not currently live with me, but I hope will visit once in a while.
At first I thought I would just keep an epi-pen handy, but the shelf life of the medicine is a serious concern.
My father has passed, he was a working Pharmacist, worked his way through Medical school, he would keep some medicines in the fridge and if needed, administer via a syringe.
What is the minimum training required to administer a syringe of anything effectively....bet it is cheaper than the 'idiot-proof' pin with zero risk of administering the wrong dosage....as long as your eyesight is good enough to read the syringe.
Just seems like a Superior solution in the long run all the way around, though I applaude the Hackers DIY alternative and the actual reality that ones health is ones responsibility and we should all do everything in are power to avoid needing the hospital and pharma industry, period.
Sure hope the industry and politicians never manage to restrict or outlaw vitamins...know big pharma wants them too. We gotta stay healthy or we are screwed, as health care will bankrupt us!
Now my preference is FTTH, true FTTH, where the Fiber line goes back to my home and I OWN IT along with my HOUSE.
FACTS:
FTTH costs from $1,500.00 to $3,000.00 to run to most homes in a community.
FTTH adds $5,000.00 value to the price of the home when you sell, if the FTTH line is owned by the home owner and sold with the home.
With FTTH, it costs providers less than $0.50 cents per GB of bandwidth per month. So for 10 GB, the company's cost is ONLY $5.00 per month. (per NTT Exec, where Japanese consumers have had 100MB/100MB, no throttling, for $55 per month or less since the year 2000) The point is the companies that provide Fiber, FTTH, can still make a hell of a profit without the need for throttling.
When FTTH comes to a community, Cable prices drop...it is the only time that they do drop. They have to, to compete.
Since less than 30 cities have this in the USA, hint Verizon is not true FTTH, just becaue they say 'Fiber' does not make it the way it should be, just the way they did it....
Since less than 30 cities have FTTH in the USA and since 'they' use ALEC to pass anti-competitive legislation to prevent FTTH....to move away from CABLE requires DSL not controlled by a Cable company or TELCO...many locations just DO NOT HAVE even a decent DSL alternative.
DSL's unthrottled 786KBps upstream is better than any CABLE UP TO PROMISE that is throttled back. Always will be, that is why many of us dump cable...they throttle.
If you see a spinning symbol, indicating what you are attempting to watch is 'spooling' your UPSTREAM BANDWIDTH is being throttled to less than 768KBps period. To prove this is simple, purchase a WRT-dd, Tomato or OpenWRT firmware supported firewall/router and you can see your bandwidth in REAL TIME. Every day, every hour, all the time.
Every Cable company that I have had, throtlles bandwidth 99% of the time. The only time they do not throttle is when you run the SPEEDTEST, than that PIPE opens all the way up. The millisecond the speed test ends, you are immediately throttled. This proves a few things:
you are THROTTLED
extra bandwidth exists, thus you DO NOT NEED TO BE THROTTLED...of course than the cable company could not charge you more for less.
Locally owned Cable companies, owned by the town, or by a residential area, might be better, actually allot better than TWC, Comcast, Pioneer, etc..., but you are still throttled.
Thus when I cut cable, and I will in the near future, I WILL NOT WANT TO GO BACK, unless I have no other alternative...this they know, thus they use ALEC to pass anti-FTTH legislation in many states (14 US States and counting have outright bands).
You want freedom, jobs, improvements in your local economy, get FTTH. if you can not, well than your politicians are part of the problem, replace them or watch your area die economically.
Loved how you laid out the statements made and how real they actually are.
These days its more likely to be Conspiracy FACT, than a Conspiracy Theory....especially when it comes to the 1%.
Don't know if they control 50% of the Wealth in the entire world, it would not surprise me. Do know that 9% of Americans control 90% of the wealth in our country. And the fact that they get such a large percentage of Americans to think that they have a shot at getting were they are just proves the fact that marketing works.
I took that Smallest Little Political Quiz a while back, it highlighted a couple of facts:
9% of Americans are truly Conservative, the rest miss-identify themselves.
19% of Americans are truly Liberal, the rest miss-identify themselves
72% the rest of Americans, are very effectively prevented from organizing to upend the status quo.
Before someone chimes in that the Smallest Little Political Quiz has problems, I say to you, it is much more RIGHT than it is WRONG.
The 1% are extremely effective at maintaining control. Should you become successful enough to become a threat, they will either co-opt you or block you from success through new state laws or the courts. They will not let you join the party, you (and I) are useless to them and just consume resources they greedily want for themselves.
The Tea Party was co-opted by the time they had their first convention by the Koch brothers. (Remember there candidate for President was the Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker, Republican whose biggest contributor before the Koch brothers was the largest polluter in the state of Wisconsin, amazingly he held onto his seat)
The Republicans are almost 100% co-opted due to their need to raise money to run for election, the 1% have more than enough money to buy you and they do.
The Democrats are not as largely co-opted as the Republicans, not because they are any better, but only because the 1% control the Republicans and Tea Party, they don't need to control more than half the Democrats.
Thanks to their pushing Citizen's United vs FEC, should that BS progress, they will not need either the Republicans or the Tea Party...and thanks to so many 1 issue votes (true evil to any Democracy) they are pretty close to getting their majority on the Supremes. Than it is game over.
The 1% are no different than any other hate group, they love themselves and hate everyone else.
For my kids, I am working hard to set up businesses that will provide them and their descendants lifetime incomes, basically what the 1% have done since the beginning...I can't join them, don't want to join them, but do want my own descendants to have a shot at a decent life where 'Right to Work' for less states, 1H1B Visas and other Anti-America-Job activities will effectively kill any possible career they can try for before they can obtain a salary high enough above poverty levels so that they have a shot at continuing to build what I have started for them....in the long run it is about cash flow (what ever cash the current economy uses) and food independence (so that they do not spend everything they have just to survive.)
Sadly with Agencies that police clean air and clean water getting regulatory captured and their budgets devastated to the point they can not possibly enforce laws that protect are air and water....the chances of our descendants staying healthy enough not to be raped by health care is getting harder and harder.
And speaking of rape, should my daughter get raped, heaven forbid, I would counsel her to abort the baby, why reward the rapist, however should my daughter decide to keep the baby inspite of the horrendus crime done to her, I would support her decision, though IT MUST BE HER DECISION! You A-holes that want to make a raped woman a criminal SUCK! YOU ARE EVIL AND EVERYTHING YOU DO IS EVIL, no matter how you spin it...get off my yard and stay out of my bedroom.
Mr Welch is famous for wanting to put a factory on a barge and anchor it off the cheapest labor source country available, even he did not expect to be able to get away with his low wage crap in the USA!
Tea Party and Republicans want Right to Work for Less, will say its unfair, but secretlly love it. As their Koch Brothers and other Citizen United enriched cauffeurs push for...after all you don't support their anti-labor pro themselves BS you will be primaried.
WOW, $3,500 is all it costs a company to get away with this...that is super cheap. Can you hear the flush of high paying tech jobs increasing to India because of this. A better solution would have been to put the business out of business.
After all the Supreme Court, thanks to Citizen's United, has judicailly stated that corporations are people, time for a few of the bad actors to get the Death Penalty.
So many states, Republican and Tea Party controlled, are failing financially right now, when will people learn, their polices (all of them) do NOT WORK! They never did, they never will. This BS started in the 80s, with President Reagan, and they could get away with it because this country had a huge middle class (huge supply of families with money that could buy goods and services). Both parties, Republicans and Democrats have slowly whittled away at the middle class to the point that the wealthy 1% can no longer maintain the economic viability of the country...thus we get recession, depression and low wage jobs.
Low Wage jobs are not an equitable replacement for Higher wage middle class jobs that have been lost and will never come back thanks primarily to the Republicans and Tea Party's unwillingness to do what is right for this country.
So many countries have lost their vertical markets for their products because this cheap offshort labor steals their products and undercuts them in the market...don't look to most Americans to cry for you....you cheap businesses have done this to yourselves.
Ironically insane as they keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result...idiots.
You can not be pro-family and anti-labor.
You can not be anti-single payer health care and pro family.
You can not be pro religious and care nothing for the least among you.
You can not be pro-family and create an environment where two paychecks (from the mother and the father) will not provide the same standard of living as that parent's grandparents.
You can not be only focused on religion and kill families financially, what do they have left to tithe with?
Heck if two parents have to have three or four jobs to have a standard of living less than that of their parents and grandparents...have you really helped them at all? NOPE. This is what Republicans and Tea Party candidates say they are for based on morality...put up or shut up.
Full Disclosure: I am no Democrat, NAFTA was not good for us, but I recognize the only political party at the national level to balance the budget was the Democrats with President Clinton. Republicans and Tea Party have never done that.
And why every vote Republican and Tea Party, they have nothing new and only come up with any plan after being lambasted for not having one...remember the conservative yahoo standing up holding the blank piece of paper at President Obama yelling, here is our plan....telling, very telling.
Say Balancing the budget is not needed, I understand the financial benefit of a very strong economy, yet Republicans and Tea Party fail to learn the lessons of the past...you can not economically pull yourself up in a climate of Austerity with only lower paying jobs being created and expect that to happen.
Hey politicians, all of you, How many high paying jobs have you created today? Last week? Last Month? Last Year? While you were in office?
Jobs that pay under $14 per hour do not qualify.
If one company can do it, others can, but won't.
In n Out pays (for a decade now) a new high schoole
Your only security is the money in the bank (or investment).
Even if your house is paid off, you still have to pay your property taxes, insurance (home and auto), food, water, power or you will lose that home.
Here is what I wish I knew 10 - 15 years ago...you can learn from my mistake (I am successfully doing this today as you should be.):
Follow Jim Cramer's Homework and Buy method of investing. Watch Mad Money Monday through Friday on CNBC at 6pm EDT. Pay $199 for his Action Alerts and follow along until you learn how. Read two of his many books: 'Sane Investing in an Insane World' and 'Get Rich Carefully' and follow his method of investing and you should be able to retire by year 8, 9 or 10 even with a minimum wage job. (And as a Programmer, you better be making more than minimum wage!)
No more fears of age discrimination by age 35 to 45 any longer as they need you, but you do not need them. That is real power and real stability, how much money you can generate each and every year for the rest of your life. As long as you are dependent on others, you will be at risk to become a laid off programmer that many will not hire. Heaven help you after 45 if you still have to work...our society does not want you to receive a retirement any more. And if that 401K is not managed by YOU...the reason its not growing are the hidden fees sucked out each and every year by whomever manages it for you. Waht a farce.
Here is how I got the $140 per week:
$14,336.00 = ($7 per hour * 2048 hours per year) (takes out vacation, sick, etc...) = $14,336.00 per year in salary.
- $5,160.96 ($14,336.00 *.36 percent tax rate, hopefully you have an accountant and are not paying 36%.)
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$ 9,175.04 ~ (after tax yearly income on a job paying $7 per hour, should you get taxed at the max rate of 36%)
$ 176.44 ~ ($9,175.04 / 52 weeks)
$ -140.00 ~ saved each week to be ready to invest and not touch for at least 8 years....
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$ 36.44 ~ what you have left over to live on, after taxes and saving $140 to be invested.
$ 140.00 ~ If the minimum wage is raised to $11 per hour, you will be able to invest $140 and have $140 per week to live on. Perhaps if your car is paid off and you have no mortgage or rent payment you can do this...good luck if you do not do this while you are programming and making better than a minimum wage. Still would be hard if you have to many monthly revolving expenses above and beyond mortgage or rent...do your self a favor and limit any and all revolving charges.
Assumption: You save $140 per week in an account ready to be invested. When that account reaches between $750 and $2,000 you buy 20 - 25 shares of a stock costing between $30 and $80 per shares (see break out below). If you do this for 8 years, you will be close to $125,000.00 in your stock portfolio and earning more than $20,000 each and every year for the rest of your life.
Here is how it could work for anywone, even with a close ot minimum wage or minimum wage job.:
$140 per week ~ minimum in an investment account, when that account gets up over $750 dollars, buy 20 - 25 shares of a lower priced stock that you have personnally done the homework on.
When you reach the following levels of savings in your stock market investment account you can purchase at least 20 shares of stocks at the following price levels:
Savings ~ The number of shares at what
to Invest ~ dollar amount you can invest:
$750 ~ 20-25 shares in the $30
$1,000 ~ 20-25 shares in the $40s
$1,250 ~ 20-25 shares in the $50s
$1,500 ~ 20-25 shares in the $60s
$1,750 ~ 20-25 shares in the $70s
$2,000 ~ 20-25 shares in the 80s
$125,000.00 ~ Takes 8 - 10 years if only investing $140 per week. Faster if you invest more p
Just wait will 2040, when your job will be outsourced to dozens of 3rd world countries...
Don't have to wait, just had a second job outsourced to India last year. And so many others have had jobs outsoruced since 2005, so no need to wait another 26 years...been there, already happened, can't afford the T-Shirt to prove it.
Still find it funny when one of these outsourcing company's steal a company's trade secrets, code, products and eventually their vertical market thanks to that outsourcing. How about that, you really do get what you pay for! Who would of thunk it.
Back in the 90s, there were a group of middle IT Managers and IT Directors that would be assigned the new shiny 'golden' project initiative that the company was pursuing to increase revenue and theoretically grow. Right before the project would completely 'fail' they would jump off it and wait for the next new golden 'shiney' thing the company wanted to pursue. You see these new golden projects get the budget and they make more money.
It amazed me that Human Resources never reviewed the many golden boys that kept getting assigned the new projects, had heavy turnover and jumped ship before it failed. You have to allow your people to 'fail' and learn, however what is with letting them do it the third, fourth and fifth time again? Have they had any success? Then why are you allowing them to shmooze their way into the company's budgetary coeffurs again? Look specifically at that Manager's 'turn-over' rate (of experienced professional programmers, Engineers and Systems Analysts) and cut them off. There are other roles that do not impact direct reports that they can do for the company, you don't always have to fire them....
So someone is laid off, no surprise there any more. A gap in their resume, means they were smart enough to bank enough money not to have to work for just anyone. That they could pick and choose. After 10 years if you are not doing this, the Universe help you, you will need it.
To avoid being grumpy, program for yourself, release your own product and only pursue IT Specialist, Support, Systems Administration, Engineering Technology, Product Management, Project Management, ScrumMaster, Product owner type of roles with other companies.
Only code for others if you have a great salary, profit sharing and bonuses...the 'great salary' lets you avoid well meaning startups that might have good intentions but fail for other reasons. Unless you are independently wealthy, than stick with startups and do it for the love of doing it, not the salary. It only takes one to hit for you to never need to work again.
Hey HR Departments, check your Manager, Director, VP's personnel turnover rates. Are they higher than industry averages? Great you found your problem, now do something about it.
Many people get into management for the wrong reasons and the power goes to their head. If they can not motivate and keep their people, perhaps they should not be managers. For your company's sake, HR Directors, do your job and put them somewhere productive that they can no longer hurt the company. After all it does cost real dollars, especially in time, to hire good people, stop letting these incompetent Managers ruin it for everyone. How much do they cost the company because of their inability to manage people.
And if your Manager's role, their job description, does not include allot of time to actively working with, coach, mentor and motivating direct employees, stop calling them a Manager, they're not.
If you want to be a great manager, does your company's objectives reward you for working with and actively managing direct reports? If not, take the hint and look for a company where you can be an effective manager, where you are now, they just don't care. This breeds the wrong type of environment and you will constantly lose your best engineers and programmers because of it.
HR you tell us that turn-over costs the company money, put up or shut up...actively monitor and review your 'Managers' and 'Directors'.
...The radiation levels in the Chernobyl exclusion zone are similar to those measured in high elevation cities and sky resorts, yet people live there for centuries and they seem to live longer and have slightly lower cancer rates than those living at sea level.
Thanks for pointing out that those at higher elevations (lower elevations get radiation in precipatation not just wind) get more radiation that the rest of us. In fact radiation that finds its way up into the jetstream in Japan (for instance...pine trees on a mountain with an updraft every spring as the pollens are released) can reach the West Coast of North America in less than 48 hours. And Cesium-137 will continue to be released into the environment around Fukushima for the next 7 years minimum as no one has the technology to stop the leak, much less clean up all the ground water in the region.
Ground water sucked up and found in the Cesium-137 laden pollens in plants and pine cones (already measured and reported on by scientists).
Doctors were reporting an increase of babies born with holes in their hearts in the Ohio valley through to Pennsylvania after the Fukushima disaster. They were told to stop reporting the additional defects which in their expert opinion were significant and could not be explaned by other environmental factors. You will not see any stats as they were surpressed as were the radnet radiation filter readings across the US for weeks after the event. When changing the filters more frequently did not lower the radiation levels, they simply turned them off...stopped reporting anything.
Many of us were monitoring the jet stream data showing the radiation, and were shocked when the data was changed before our very eyes from that evening to the next morning. Much more conspiracy fact than anything else. We saw this with our own eyes. It did not help that people were given permission to see the raw data before it was changed and had copies of it, so there was no doubt that data was modified after the fact.
People can handle the truth...its the industry that is polluting and killing that can not handle the truth. My guess is you are among those that deny reality, without researching for yourself. I guess you would suggest that US nuclear plants do not experience leaks into the rivers they reside near, almost every week. The official reports state otherwise, granted the radioactive isotopes released are often short term in duration. The fact that they were released speaks enough to the 'safety' of the plants. Fortunately for those of us that bother to look, we see the reports, we know better.
All one has to do is open their eyes, search, question the official reports and follow experts who have no reason to lie any longer as they are no longer beholden to that industry for their livelihood.
Most of us are drawing our conclusions from the very official reports the industry is required by law to produce. It (Nuclar Power) is not pretty, safe nor cheap. Reports like the one mentioned above that measure radiation levels and show that those levels have not fallen (around Chernobyl) as expected. And the reports on Fukushima when reviewed by (Nuclear power) experts who understand the presence of one radioactive isotope indicates uncontrolled fusion is still happening (true for weeks after the Fukushima disaster) when the industry is stating fission has stopped. And the reports that indicate a cold reactor in less time than the known radioactive isotopes could have possibly broken down and approached inert in 10 to 20 half lifes. We understood the experts to mean that if its not in the reactor, its been released into the environment. It has to go somewhere. Cesium-137 can not approach inert for at least 300 years. Think about it. Are they still spraying water, I have not bothered to check in over a year. If they are, that too is pretty awful as they can not contain the amount of water needed
Thanks for posting that report. I skimmed it quickly and did not see heart disease, holes in the hearts, genetic defects related to the heart mentioned specifically.
Cesium-137 is absorbed by heart muscle. As the report pointed out, the levels of Cesium-137 had not only NOT dropped but were found to be higher than expected given the 30 year half life of Cesium-137.
While many think it only takes 10 half lifes (10 * 30 years = 300 years) for Cesium-137 to approach typical background levels. I believe 20 half lifes if more accurate. (20 * 30 years = 600 years).
So obviously more Cesium-137 was released in Chernobyl than reported.
Move ahead to Fukushima, where experts have stated that no company or government currently existing on the earth would posess the technology to stop the leak for a minimum of 10 years (a decade) and it boggles the mind that anyone would say that Nuclear power is safe. Wait until the Cesium-137 laden pine cones release Cesium-137 laden pollens each spring for the next 7 years (probably longer) and than lets talk. Better yet lets develop the technology to stop the leak and contain the radiation and than lets talk.... Remember if the reactor is cool, its leaked into the ground....
Haven't most of the Nuclear plants in America reached the end of their 20/30 year lifes already? Yet they are not being mothballed as expected. More accidents waiting to happen.
And don't say we need Nuclear power, we do not. When all the reactors were offline in Japan, they only experienced rolling brown outs for a short duration until they adjusted their usage to the lack of nuclear power. Granted the Nuclear power industry pushed way faster than even the Japanese wanted to get them back online...less we all learn the truth that Nuclear power is a canard, not needed to generate electricity, only needed to generate weapons. Especially dipleted uranium and worse weapons.
Follow the money to find the truth.
Speaking of money, its also true that Nuclear Power is extremely expensive. It can only be seen as cheap when costs are hidden. Lets say you cover the build out costs and the moth ball costs, which rarely are accurately revealed when talking about cheap nuclear power. Lets look just a re-casking of nuclear waste...in fact lets not look at radioactive isotopes that have a half life of 240,000 or more years. Lets look only at Cesium-137 that supposedly has a 30 year half life.
Casking starts to crack within 50 years. They say it has a 100 year cask life, but that too is a wee bit of a stretched lie. Within 50 years they start to crack. How much does it cost to re-cask? How many millions? (And we are not talking about a disaster like Chernobyl where the entire building will need to be re-casked in the very near future at a cost in the multiple Billions ($20B plus)...we are talking about re-casking Cesium-137 for only either 300 or 600 years. Let take the smaller number...300 years.
Cesium-137, 30 year half life, must be maintained casked for 300 years, re-casked every 50 years or 6 times at what cost? And we are not talking about only one re-casking for all the Cesium-137, but a re-cask for each rod that contains Cesium-137....
How much does it cost to re-cask one rod? If you cask more together, the radiation will cause the cask to crack sooner, as it will be concentrated. How many rods at how many millions per casking?
No Nuclear power is not cheap. Its insane to ignore the facts and expect a different result...
I just don't get the people who deny reality. Obviously they have an agenda and it does not help yours or my health at all. Even worse, they are so evil, that they are willing to radiate our children's children for the next 300 years! Pathetic fail.
Most of us gave up on tape for most of our backup needs long ago. ITs just so much cheaper to backup to TB hard disks. Especially if you exchange them with a family member for offsite storage. They are just too cheap today, to bother with tape, would be cost prohibative.
Also lets you avoid additional monthly costs for internet based backup storage and the associated additional bandwidths costs that must happen if the Cable industry is allowed to deny FTTH and consolidate any further. Cable providers are already throttling bandwidth to get people and companies to pay more for bandwidth. That can only get worse without FTTH.
Besides the last time I went down the tape/cartridge route, the Sydos tape units stopped being made and when mine broke the writing was on the wall to find a better home / Small Office Home Office (SOHO) solution. Hard drives attached to a LInux box was the best solution.
An LTO-6 drive costs about $2500, and it stores 2.5TB of data on a $50 tape. That is about half the price of a comparable hard drive. If you have more than 100TB of data to store then tape becomes cheaper (that is, the savings for the tapes exceeds the cost of the drive). Tape is also a bit less fragile during transport/etc, and likely more reliable than optical media unless you buy the expensive stuff (which certainly isn't any cheaper than tape).
Your comment got me to thinking, how much might one of these cost? Granted the article mentioned that there is not a price on the 8TB Seagate drive yet. So I checked on pricegrabber for 6TB drives...
I was surprised that you could get 20 of them for $11,742.61, or $587.23 per 6TB drive, if you were willing to buy them 20 at a time. Pretty cool. As the link shows the price varies from $600 to $1000 depending on who you buy one 6TB drive from.
A small storage case that will hold 4/6 drives can be got for $30 per case...so a easy home backup system using hard disks are easily within reach. Even better get an embedded linux system, the smaller the better, and hook that to it for the best Internet / Cable / TV / DVD - DVR recorder to watch movies and TV shows. Just erase them like we use to do with VHS tape when you are done. Pretty amazing...8TB, WOW.
They are trying to ?uck up unix and linux on purpose...
They try to kill it in a thousand different, little ways. A million little cuts... I couldn't agree more. All the while, those same companies use as much of the so called 'free' stuff, often without giving back in kind, as they can.
...There is very little money in "free" linux, compared to old school commercial Unix that was the other way around, too much money, per seat per click licenses, that made people seek lower cost alternatives, such as Windows.
I would disagree that there is very little money in 'free' linux...using Firefox as one multi-million dollar company. There are a few others. Though to your point, not as many as their should be.
Your per seat per click comment about people seeking lower cost alternatives in Windows got me thinking about how pathetic it is to have a so-called corporate 'IT Manager' come in and cut the good stuff, while saddling the company with bills for the less effective solutions. All the while framing it as if its 'cheaper' when its not. Its only cheaper if they phrase the argument so that their solution is cheaper. But they do try to say its cheaper, don't they.
The cost of just MS Office, which every desktop in a corporate MS environment gets, skews any thoughts of it being a lower cost alternative. I have seen some insane per seat per click, per desktop costs in the recent past. No way is the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) cheaper for Windows... Not for Oracle either...better off with MariaDB...at least they fixed the stuff in MySQL that Oracle would not allowed to be fixed so that they could upsell Oracle. That is another conversation...
Instead they cut labor costs and tech support costs...pathetic.
What I find ironic is that even the push for auto updates/upgrades which was suppose to help everyone so much (what a joke) has fallen flat on its face. One company I recently worked for, fired all their windows tech support / updaters and are not bothering to patch, update or upgrade systems anymore...
Heck I thought Microsoft layed off too many people to have time to provide updates for their products any longer...
How cheap is too cheap? I guess its all fun and grins until you and/or your company gets hit. Viruses are just the tip of the iceberg...offshoring companies stealing your private data, products and customers costs a heck of allot more.
And the people who made these decisions, got profit sharing, bonuses and left the company before the reality of what they did came to light...amazing and ironic.
Loved your post, esp the reality that Version which is just as bad... as the Cable providers....so true. While FIOS is better than Cable, usually, its not Symmetrical and they still throttle / limit bandwidth.
DSL is usually better than throttled Cable internet. (You don't want DSL from AT&T, or affiliates of Cable providers, do your homework to avoid problems) And the price of DSL, $30 or less...often $15 or less, is way better than FIOS. Just move to a true FTTH community. Do not waste your time with Verizon FIOS or anythingG (ie. 3G, 4G, 5G, etc...).
Warning: if you do get service from FIOS...get in writing that FIOS will NOT cut your premise wiring while installing theirs, (if they cut it, they should replace it or do not accept their service). Too many have complained that Verizon does this to cost you $200+ (to run new uncut premise wiring) if you try to switch away from them. There is no other reason for their techs to cut your premise wiring when installing FIOS.
Just say no to 20Mb/4Mb, 100Mb/10Mb, 100Mb/5Mb, etc... if the upstream (second value) is not the same as the downstream value, that provider will throttle your service.
Is the upstream bandwidth the same as the downstream bandwidth ie. 10Mb/10Mb, 50Mb/50Mb, 100Mb/100Mb, 1Gb/1Gb, etc... than that fiber might be Symmetrical and Synchronous, meaning the provider will not throttle your bandwidth.
FIOS is not Fiber To The Home (FTTH). FIOS is not Symmetrical. With true FTTH, there is absolutely no business incentive to throttle bandwidth as that one fiber link goes from the switching station (best if owned by the community) to your home. Its not shared, thus no reason to limit it. Remember that FTTN, FTTP share parts, which ultimately end up allowing/causing the provider to limit your bandwidth un-necessarily.
Best of all, it costs a $1,500 - $3,000 to run that one link of fiber to your home and increases the re-sale value of your home by $5,000. In communities where this is successful, that link is owned by the homeowner and sold with the home. The providers compete for your service at the community owned switching station, meaning there is plenty of competition and you fire the bad players when they mess up. Added plus: FTTH communties have cheaper Cable internet rates...no surprise there.
This is way too much effort, unless you happen to enjoy yanking some chains over the phone.
Here's how you quit Comcast:
(1) Disconnect every piece of Comcast equipment in your home.
(2) Load it in a box, and put the box in your car.
(3) Drive to the nearest Comcast customer center.
(4) Dump the box on the counter and tell the rep: "I wish to terminate my service immediately."
No one will argue with you. You have completely bypassed Comcast's customer retention process by doing this. Pay the amount due on your bill, get a receipt with a complete list of the equipment you've turned in, then go home.
Its how you quit any cable provider that plays BS games with you...take the equipment to the office, pay the final bill and churn away from them. No time wasted on the phone at all.
DSL will always be better than throttled Cable Internet and 100% of Internet providers throttle to less than DSL speeds!
Someone mod this back up...the only effective way to combat this insanity is to leave them...cut off the service and churn.
Only one exception, if there is no other service available in your area, than your screwed unless you move!
I have been with DSL (not provided by a Cable company) for a few years and love it. All the Cable operators throttle the upstream bandwith to lower than 40Kbps and the downstream bandwidth to lower than 200Kbps and DSL is way faster than this.
To see it first hand as I did, get dd-WRT on a supported firewall/router and you will see the millisecond the speed test begins the bandwidth pipe opens full speed. The millisecond the speed test ends, the service is throttled back to the less than 200Kbps/40Kbps levels.
Occasionally if you are lucky, if you are able to stream video and/or download a video the pipe will open a little more and the download will happen faster.
Ironically, a dd-WRT enabled firewall router reveals this level of throttling with Cable internet 24 x 7 x 365 days...like the pipe is saturated late at night when people are sleeping and/or when others are working during the day. Ironic and pathetic.
Totally agree with your post. It has never been cheaper or safer as history teaches us.
First time I have heard about storing radioactive waste in steel, would love a link so I can check out the article.
It is my understanding the reason they use cement to encase the radioactive waste is its the only safe way, as steel barrels break down faster than cement.
Of course cement breaks down, starts cracking, in 50 years, even though the offical documents suggest a 100 year life before re-casking is required to keep it safe. How much the cost of recasking, well its hundred of thousands if not millions...every 50 to 100 years.
This is why they want to drop it in the ocean or put it in a mountain vault, they don't really want to keep it safe. If they did, they would never suggest any option where monitoring, re-casking would be impossible.
All radioactive isotopes attack different organs or bones in people. Cesium-137 is specifically absorbed by heart muscle.
How many people reading this are aware of the increase in holes in the hearts of newborns and other heart related pediatric issues reported by doctors and quickly supressed. Doctors weeks and months after Fukushima were pissed about this. The Ohio river vally from Ohio through Pennsylvania are where the reports occurred, for those that care to research it as I did. Don't complain to me if you don't want to even bother to check?
Even Cesium-137, with only a 30 year half life would have to be casked at least 10 half lives (if not 20) to get close to inert (background radiation) which means Cesium-137 (increase in heart problems) would have to be re-casked at least 300 / 50 = 6 times, probably 12.
Re-casking Uranium or plutonium..one of those has a 240,000 year half life, which means multiplying 240,000 by 10 or 20 to get close to inert....
However we might not need to even address that long of a half life as when scientists went back to Chernobyl 27 years later (almost one 30 year half life) the radiation, specifically Cesium-137 had not dropped at all, in fact it was higher in many areas which lead to one of three possibilities:
1) The half-life of Cesium-137 is longer than 30 years. (doubt this one.)
2) Cesium-137 breaks down in nature slower than in the laboratory. (again, similar to 1), doubt this one too)
3) The Russian government lied to everyone about how much Cesium-137 was really released. (probably the truth)
Regardless, we have a very accurate reading on the amount of Cesium-137 radiation, approximately 27 years after Chernobyl, so in another 30 years (a second half life), we will know precisely if number 3 is correct. What if the levels of Cesium-137 have not dropped in half after the second half life (60 years after the event)? What than? Time will tell us precisely.
All bets are off and no amount of planning can accurately predict the costs of storage (which requires re-casking every 50 - 100 years) alone, which will be significantly higher the more half lifes required to approach inert. And the cost of both building and dismantling Nuclear Power plants...is too huge to ever be consider cheap when compared to any other energy source.
Better to dismantle and recask, cost wise, rather than have to re entomb a whole reactor. Will Russia have the money to re-entomb the reactor at Chernobyl? The smart money says no way. How many Billions to re-tomb as the concrete degrades? Yea not cheaper at all if you allow the plants to operate beyond their so called safe limits and a disaster happens.
Now consider Fukushima...
The week it happened, nuclear scientists not beholden to any government or the NRC stated factually that no scientist, government, corporation had the ability to stop the Cesium-137 from leaking, nor would any entity have that technology for the next 10 years. In other words, it can not be made safe, it will continue to leak and no one has a
Here is one of the best articles on the Ebola outbreak that I have found todate, it covers most of the fact points, while focused on the recent outbreak, enjoy. Has a map of the world showing countries involved with current outbreak.
You know its become mainstream when CNBC is talking about Germ zapping robots with a headline of The war against EBOLA
Here is an article with 25 facts that the mainstream media is not always telling you. I found, No 15, interesting, a map showing the 20 CDC Quarantine Centers. They, the CDC, are/have been preparing for a very good reason just in case.
Almost each fact has links, facts number 1 thru 10 most will find disturbing. With links to multiple articles by different health organizations around to world, such as Doctor with out Boarders, who stated on June 21, 2014 EBOLA was out of control, and the World Health Organization (WHO)back in April said the Guinea Ebola outbreak was challenging. The infection killing 50%, the incubation period being as short as 2 days or as long as 21 days is a heck of a warning...imagine someone coming back from a mission trip to help others, walking around for 2-3 weeks before realizing they are infected.
For those falsely reporting that the virus requires physical contact, your wrong as the 2012 study proved (Fact No 11) article about animals in separate cages contracting the virus without physical contact. Worrisome is the doctor treating the two Americans (who quarratined themselves at the onset of symptoms) also became infected and you would have to be a moron to assume he (other 100 health workers Fact No 5) was (were all) exchanging bodily fluids with his (their)patients, other doctors treating patients. Perhaps one or two were exchanging bodily fluids, but all 100, no way, not in those circumstances as they understand the risks.
Full Disclosure:
The site may be a wee bit alarmist, however facts are facts.
The site with the 25 facts also tries to be a little political as if one president, Democrat or Republican, is solely responsible, pleeesse. So just ignore those facts with a political slant. See my political soapbox comment at the end.
The site also suggests military conspiracy, who knows, take those with a grain of salt as well. As a couple of family members who served had said, GI stands for Government Issue. Its not like IF our men and women were being used as guinea pigs that they could say No, they can not. Or as my Flight Surgeon family member agreed, if the study is double blind, the Doctor does not know with 100% certainty what they are injecting the veterans with, in the immunization. So read and take at your own risk, but for GIs, you have no choice, you must partake...your Government Issue as soon as you sign on the dotted line and swear the oath. Just comes with the territory.
(stepping up on my shoebox) Now YOU POLITICIANS....
I just wish those that focus on the political, would stop electing politicians that say they support our veterans, when the opposite is true based on VA funding, medical and phschological budgeting for treatment of our returning veterans. Let us start being as insistant that the people we elect to office budget for all the expenses associated with sending men and women to war. All our men and women who served (our veterans) SHALL get proper medical and mental treatment when they return from war, period, end of discussion.
To me it seems like the height of incompetance that politicans do not budget for the medical and psychological expenses associated with returning servicemen and women. How many wars have we been involved in? What do you mean you can not budget for this? I call BS on that crapola.
So POLITICANS, before sending more men and women to war, darn it, budget
The book Econned
explains how people with a far right economic agenda have been
stacking the US courts for years. The result is what you see,
basically a feudal systems where corporations are treated like
lords and everyone else is a serf.
Not only are they stacking the US Courts, they are also preventing any other party from filling open judgeships when they have a president in office...thus the only candidates to the Supreme Court will be their right wing, ultra conservative, cronies. Pathetic.
This has been in the planning for well over 40 years...thanks for suggesting the book, will check it out.
If a party can not legislate, they need to be removed from office and their presence in the Senate and House of Representatives reduced so that all Americans can be helped with economic activity, jobs and more. They have forgotten that if they are not part of the solution, they most certainly are part of the problem. In this case, they are the problem.
To insure they get elected, given demographics going against them, they put in BS legislation to limit voting. Hey if you can not sway people to vote for you, you do not deserve to be elected. Its simply un-American to not want everyone to vote. And they are on the record stating that they can't win if everyone votes.
Lastly its lame to use the label that the left wants to re-distribute wealth, when the right re-distribute's to their political backers. Or to say you want government out of your individual lives and bedrooms, when you use the Court to legislate morals which legislatively puts government into individual lives and American bedroom, in so many nanny state ways. Pathetic.
Full disclosure: While I am fisically conservative, I am not a conservative or liberal, in fact 70% of Americans are closer to my way of thinking then either political party.
Just another victim of the issues around bandwidth and cost to do perform the updates.
With Net Neutrality no longer being upheld, Microsoft's patching and update process is very expensive. Can it even be done with a server onsite getting patched first and updates to the rest of a businesses client machines coming from it? If so, then even that did not help at the multi-national conglomerate I worked at. A huge Java dev cloud user env, the Administrators performing updates to thousands of machines were told to stop some days when the network experienced problems. Though the network was as much to blame as anything else.
Still the company with more than 10,000 clients simply stopped updating Windows machines. Simply stopped.
The personel that were patching were let go or moved to other duties, their positions were never back filled. Cut labor at what cost long term?
I strongly believe MS sees the writing on the wall and just as they cut other costly support services, they cut this patching / update process for the same reasons...not the reasons they tell us. Cut that labor and bandwidth.
Net Neutrality issue here perhaps? After all if MS starts getting charged for the bandwidth required to do the patching and updating by the ISPs wanting to charge more for bandwidth....
Slashdot Mirror
One important caveat, I do not believe that link (https://myaccount.google.com/permissions) automatically includes all 3rd parties. For others, here is an article about this, that is NOT behind a paywall, from the BBC dated July 3, 2018: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44699263.
Like everything online, the devil is in the details and most people (me included sometimes) do not make time to dig into the details...deep in the bowls of the FREE website. Hey its FREE, we are giving them something, else its not cost effective for them to provide that service for FREE.
And if you do read the Terms of Service (ToS) of every website, there is a very good chance you would miss the sentenance where you gave them access to everything about you as they are rarely straight forward.
For Reference:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-26677607Here is a 2012 article about this same issue with Microsoft
I am sure I could find this for every other email service, especially if it is free, online, to be honest I do not want to bother looking.
An important point to consider,
, is that if you have given a 3rd party access, even when you later turn it off, it will NOT automatically turn off ALL 3rd Party access, only future 3rd party access.
Look for a place where each app is listed and can individually be turned off if you want to later block third party applications!
Why did a true story about a parasitic fungus living on and killing an entire ant colony get modded to zero.
You start looking for weirdness in nature and you find it all the time, the trick is knowing what is truly 'nature' and what is 'man made'.
Anyone else remember reading about the tornadoe that hit a small town in the midwest and multiple people reported to the hospital with black fibers moving and growing out of their bodies?
Evidently these fibers would move toward heat and light sources and work against attempts to remove them.
Real world is always more interesting and weirder than what hollywood can make up and yes would make for a great horror movie.
Let me be the first to welcome our Organoids Overloads!
Or as someone smarter than me said in 1971, "Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss".
Oh snap, we did get fooled again!
That is the correct question to ask....what do you think they are going to do with everyone's facial image?
Identity Theft? .
NSA, CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement
Profiling (race, culture, color, religious preference, freckles)
not pay us for the use of our likeness, i.e. Looker
. .
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin
Plenty of people have mentioned the Raspberry Pi and Arduino...plenty of options in the $25 - $100 range.
This poster agrees with them, but what about those that do NOT want to build hardware, they just want to explore Linux and software....this post is for you. Read on, and note, while the starting prices of their hardware starts out low, by the time you max it out with memory, disk drives, power supplies, better Graphics cards, multiple other stuff, the price will rise. In other words, do not expect this hardware to be the cheapest, just know that it will work with an distro of Linux out of the box, period! And to be honest, they are often not much more when configured similar to what you have in the big box store...just let them know which Distro of Linux you want on it, and they will configure it for you. You spend your time learning Linux, not messing with hardware and device drivers.
ZaReason is your Answer!
ZaReason has been active in the open source community since their founding days and all of their hardware is built with open source in mind. No UEFI BS chips on any of their hardware. No need to purchase a Windows OS in order to wipe Windows and install a Linux Distro.
UEFI, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface was forced on Vendors by Microsoft a long time ago. Originally they use to say it would make your computer more secure, however when you consider that the exploits it was protecting your computer against required someone to have the keys to your home, be inside, with your Linux password in order to use those exploits, well UEFI is a waste of time and is just more Vendor Lock-In by Microsoft.
First encountered the ZaReason owners at SCaLE in Los Angeles / Pasadena, California, when it was held at the hotels near LAX, now they hold it in Pasadena. If you are into Open source and have not been to SCaLE you should check it out. The things you can learn about, often from the creator is great, especially for the price. Recommend you book a room a head and stay in the hotel where the conference is hosted...but I digress.
Most of ZaReason's hardware starts in the $400 - $600 dollar range, but will quickly go up when you start adding their current maximum memory (32GB RAM) and if you add 6TB hard drives, etc.... When Windows refused to allow their Operating System to address above 16GB of RAM memory, ZaReason was putting laptops together with that amount of RAM and it was all usable. One of their laptop models had the largest screen on the market at the time, 16.3 (Bright, anti-glare 17.3" LED backlit display @ 1920x1080 pixels) versus 15" from other manufacturers.
Want to create a TV wall on a 65" or larger TV in your house, Linux will let you do it, there is software that has to be configured / built in with the kernel that will let you control the processors independently of each other, say let your 2 cores control one screen, another core control another, two other cores control yet another screen, etc... and divide your 65" TV into a TV Wall of say 3 X 3 or 4 X 4 monitors. Let the internet stream music on one screen, news on a couple of others, weather on another, you can program on four of the others and show social media on yet other screens of your TV Wall....I plan to do this in the next couple of years...software was available back in 2010 or before.
Boy will I cut the cord....can't wait and will never look back...if only I had Google Fiber in my area!
Full disclosure, I do not work at the company, but have purchased two laptops, a desktop/ser
Guess he will not be coming back yet....oh well.
Six years of unlimited Oracle software and technical support included in the deal will save the state hundreds of millions of dollars in years to come and ends a bitter legal battle
Oracle wins
So this is how they get their business...they F-up and still win. amazing.
My last job was outsourced for pennies on the dollar, guess Oracle will do the same....profit! Way To Go Oracle, you suck!
Anyone who has had to update, maintain or change a mainframe based system where Oracle is involved understands all too well....pathetic.
and they do, do this....
Worked in the Telco industry, we had $15,000.00 Network General Sniffers at each end of a T1 to prove beyond doubt, that the line was cut and it was the Telco's fault.
They denied it 100% of the time, until you produced logs from both Network General Sniffers and the problem was them and not you...every single time...without fail.
You are 100% correct that they will do this to prevent, thwart or at least slow down competition.
The smart move is for Sheri Weiner to lose her seat at the table, she is obviously completely controlled by the industry attempting to prevent the citizens of Nashville from getting FTTH.
Pretty typical of every city that attempts to put in Fiber To The Home, the industry sues and loses at least twice if not three times, but if the citizens push through it, they get Fiber and lower Cable rates to boot.
It is the only way Cable companies ever lower their prices, because its the only way they get true competition.
I plan to keep bees.
One of my adult sons is alergic, does not currently live with me, but I hope will visit once in a while.
At first I thought I would just keep an epi-pen handy, but the shelf life of the medicine is a serious concern.
My father has passed, he was a working Pharmacist, worked his way through Medical school, he would keep some medicines in the fridge and if needed, administer via a syringe.
What is the minimum training required to administer a syringe of anything effectively....bet it is cheaper than the 'idiot-proof' pin with zero risk of administering the wrong dosage....as long as your eyesight is good enough to read the syringe.
Just seems like a Superior solution in the long run all the way around, though I applaude the Hackers DIY alternative and the actual reality that ones health is ones responsibility and we should all do everything in are power to avoid needing the hospital and pharma industry, period.
Sure hope the industry and politicians never manage to restrict or outlaw vitamins...know big pharma wants them too. We gotta stay healthy or we are screwed, as health care will bankrupt us!
Now my preference is FTTH, true FTTH, where the Fiber line goes back to my home and I OWN IT along with my HOUSE.
FACTS:
Since less than 30 cities have this in the USA, hint Verizon is not true FTTH, just becaue they say 'Fiber' does not make it the way it should be, just the way they did it....
Since less than 30 cities have FTTH in the USA and since 'they' use ALEC to pass anti-competitive legislation to prevent FTTH....to move away from CABLE requires DSL not controlled by a Cable company or TELCO...many locations just DO NOT HAVE even a decent DSL alternative.
DSL's unthrottled 786KBps upstream is better than any CABLE UP TO PROMISE that is throttled back. Always will be, that is why many of us dump cable...they throttle.
If you see a spinning symbol, indicating what you are attempting to watch is 'spooling' your UPSTREAM BANDWIDTH is being throttled to less than 768KBps period. To prove this is simple, purchase a WRT-dd, Tomato or OpenWRT firmware supported firewall/router and you can see your bandwidth in REAL TIME. Every day, every hour, all the time.
Every Cable company that I have had, throtlles bandwidth 99% of the time. The only time they do not throttle is when you run the SPEEDTEST, than that PIPE opens all the way up. The millisecond the speed test ends, you are immediately throttled. This proves a few things:
Locally owned Cable companies, owned by the town, or by a residential area, might be better, actually allot better than TWC, Comcast, Pioneer, etc..., but you are still throttled.
Thus when I cut cable, and I will in the near future, I WILL NOT WANT TO GO BACK, unless I have no other alternative...this they know, thus they use ALEC to pass anti-FTTH legislation in many states (14 US States and counting have outright bands).
You want freedom, jobs, improvements in your local economy, get FTTH. if you can not, well than your politicians are part of the problem, replace them or watch your area die economically.
Loved how you laid out the statements made and how real they actually are.
These days its more likely to be Conspiracy FACT, than a Conspiracy Theory....especially when it comes to the 1%.
Don't know if they control 50% of the Wealth in the entire world, it would not surprise me. Do know that 9% of Americans control 90% of the wealth in our country. And the fact that they get such a large percentage of Americans to think that they have a shot at getting were they are just proves the fact that marketing works.
I took that Smallest Little Political Quiz a while back, it highlighted a couple of facts:
Before someone chimes in that the Smallest Little Political Quiz has problems, I say to you, it is much more RIGHT than it is WRONG.
The 1% are extremely effective at maintaining control. Should you become successful enough to become a threat, they will either co-opt you or block you from success through new state laws or the courts. They will not let you join the party, you (and I) are useless to them and just consume resources they greedily want for themselves.
The Tea Party was co-opted by the time they had their first convention by the Koch brothers. (Remember there candidate for President was the Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker, Republican whose biggest contributor before the Koch brothers was the largest polluter in the state of Wisconsin, amazingly he held onto his seat)
The Republicans are almost 100% co-opted due to their need to raise money to run for election, the 1% have more than enough money to buy you and they do.
The Democrats are not as largely co-opted as the Republicans, not because they are any better, but only because the 1% control the Republicans and Tea Party, they don't need to control more than half the Democrats.
Thanks to their pushing Citizen's United vs FEC, should that BS progress, they will not need either the Republicans or the Tea Party...and thanks to so many 1 issue votes (true evil to any Democracy) they are pretty close to getting their majority on the Supremes. Than it is game over.
The 1% are no different than any other hate group, they love themselves and hate everyone else.
For my kids, I am working hard to set up businesses that will provide them and their descendants lifetime incomes, basically what the 1% have done since the beginning...I can't join them, don't want to join them, but do want my own descendants to have a shot at a decent life where 'Right to Work' for less states, 1H1B Visas and other Anti-America-Job activities will effectively kill any possible career they can try for before they can obtain a salary high enough above poverty levels so that they have a shot at continuing to build what I have started for them....in the long run it is about cash flow (what ever cash the current economy uses) and food independence (so that they do not spend everything they have just to survive.)
Sadly with Agencies that police clean air and clean water getting regulatory captured and their budgets devastated to the point they can not possibly enforce laws that protect are air and water....the chances of our descendants staying healthy enough not to be raped by health care is getting harder and harder.
And speaking of rape, should my daughter get raped, heaven forbid, I would counsel her to abort the baby, why reward the rapist, however should my daughter decide to keep the baby inspite of the horrendus crime done to her, I would support her decision, though IT MUST BE HER DECISION! You A-holes that want to make a raped woman a criminal SUCK! YOU ARE EVIL AND EVERYTHING YOU DO IS EVIL, no matter how you spin it...get off my yard and stay out of my bedroom.
Tea Party and Republicans want Right to Work for Less, will say its unfair, but secretlly love it. As their Koch Brothers and other Citizen United enriched cauffeurs push for...after all you don't support their anti-labor pro themselves BS you will be primaried.
WOW, $3,500 is all it costs a company to get away with this...that is super cheap. Can you hear the flush of high paying tech jobs increasing to India because of this. A better solution would have been to put the business out of business.
After all the Supreme Court, thanks to Citizen's United, has judicailly stated that corporations are people, time for a few of the bad actors to get the Death Penalty.
So many states, Republican and Tea Party controlled, are failing financially right now, when will people learn, their polices (all of them) do NOT WORK! They never did, they never will. This BS started in the 80s, with President Reagan, and they could get away with it because this country had a huge middle class (huge supply of families with money that could buy goods and services). Both parties, Republicans and Democrats have slowly whittled away at the middle class to the point that the wealthy 1% can no longer maintain the economic viability of the country...thus we get recession, depression and low wage jobs.
Low Wage jobs are not an equitable replacement for Higher wage middle class jobs that have been lost and will never come back thanks primarily to the Republicans and Tea Party's unwillingness to do what is right for this country.
So many countries have lost their vertical markets for their products because this cheap offshort labor steals their products and undercuts them in the market...don't look to most Americans to cry for you....you cheap businesses have done this to yourselves.
Ironically insane as they keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result...idiots.
You can not be pro-family and anti-labor.
You can not be anti-single payer health care and pro family.
You can not be pro religious and care nothing for the least among you.
You can not be pro-family and create an environment where two paychecks (from the mother and the father) will not provide the same standard of living as that parent's grandparents.
You can not be only focused on religion and kill families financially, what do they have left to tithe with?
Heck if two parents have to have three or four jobs to have a standard of living less than that of their parents and grandparents...have you really helped them at all? NOPE. This is what Republicans and Tea Party candidates say they are for based on morality...put up or shut up.
Full Disclosure: I am no Democrat, NAFTA was not good for us, but I recognize the only political party at the national level to balance the budget was the Democrats with President Clinton. Republicans and Tea Party have never done that.
And why every vote Republican and Tea Party, they have nothing new and only come up with any plan after being lambasted for not having one...remember the conservative yahoo standing up holding the blank piece of paper at President Obama yelling, here is our plan....telling, very telling.
Say Balancing the budget is not needed, I understand the financial benefit of a very strong economy, yet Republicans and Tea Party fail to learn the lessons of the past...you can not economically pull yourself up in a climate of Austerity with only lower paying jobs being created and expect that to happen.
Hey politicians, all of you, How many high paying jobs have you created today? Last week? Last Month? Last Year? While you were in office?
Jobs that pay under $14 per hour do not qualify.
If one company can do it, others can, but won't.
In n Out pays (for a decade now) a new high schoole
Your only security is the money in the bank (or investment).
Even if your house is paid off, you still have to pay your property taxes, insurance (home and auto), food, water, power or you will lose that home.
Here is what I wish I knew 10 - 15 years ago...you can learn from my mistake (I am successfully doing this today as you should be.):
Follow Jim Cramer's Homework and Buy method of investing. Watch Mad Money Monday through Friday on CNBC at 6pm EDT. Pay $199 for his Action Alerts and follow along until you learn how. Read two of his many books: 'Sane Investing in an Insane World' and 'Get Rich Carefully' and follow his method of investing and you should be able to retire by year 8, 9 or 10 even with a minimum wage job. (And as a Programmer, you better be making more than minimum wage!)
No more fears of age discrimination by age 35 to 45 any longer as they need you, but you do not need them. That is real power and real stability, how much money you can generate each and every year for the rest of your life. As long as you are dependent on others, you will be at risk to become a laid off programmer that many will not hire. Heaven help you after 45 if you still have to work...our society does not want you to receive a retirement any more. And if that 401K is not managed by YOU...the reason its not growing are the hidden fees sucked out each and every year by whomever manages it for you. Waht a farce.
Here is how I got the $140 per week: .36 percent tax rate, hopefully you have an accountant and are not paying 36%.)
$14,336.00 = ($7 per hour * 2048 hours per year) (takes out vacation, sick, etc...) = $14,336.00 per year in salary.
- $5,160.96 ($14,336.00 *
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$ 9,175.04 ~ (after tax yearly income on a job paying $7 per hour, should you get taxed at the max rate of 36%)
$ 176.44 ~ ($9,175.04 / 52 weeks)
$ -140.00 ~ saved each week to be ready to invest and not touch for at least 8 years....
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$ 36.44 ~ what you have left over to live on, after taxes and saving $140 to be invested.
$ 140.00 ~ If the minimum wage is raised to $11 per hour, you will be able to invest $140 and have $140 per week to live on. Perhaps if your car is paid off and you have no mortgage or rent payment you can do this...good luck if you do not do this while you are programming and making better than a minimum wage. Still would be hard if you have to many monthly revolving expenses above and beyond mortgage or rent...do your self a favor and limit any and all revolving charges.
Assumption: You save $140 per week in an account ready to be invested. When that account reaches between $750 and $2,000 you buy 20 - 25 shares of a stock costing between $30 and $80 per shares (see break out below). If you do this for 8 years, you will be close to $125,000.00 in your stock portfolio and earning more than $20,000 each and every year for the rest of your life.
Here is how it could work for anywone, even with a close ot minimum wage or minimum wage job.:
$140 per week ~ minimum in an investment account, when that account gets up over $750 dollars, buy 20 - 25 shares of a lower priced stock that you have personnally done the homework on.
$125,000.00 ~ Takes 8 - 10 years if only investing $140 per week. Faster if you invest more p
Just wait will 2040, when your job will be outsourced to dozens of 3rd world countries...
Don't have to wait, just had a second job outsourced to India last year. And so many others have had jobs outsoruced since 2005, so no need to wait another 26 years...been there, already happened, can't afford the T-Shirt to prove it.
Still find it funny when one of these outsourcing company's steal a company's trade secrets, code, products and eventually their vertical market thanks to that outsourcing. How about that, you really do get what you pay for! Who would of thunk it.
Back in the 90s, there were a group of middle IT Managers and IT Directors that would be assigned the new shiny 'golden' project initiative that the company was pursuing to increase revenue and theoretically grow. Right before the project would completely 'fail' they would jump off it and wait for the next new golden 'shiney' thing the company wanted to pursue. You see these new golden projects get the budget and they make more money.
It amazed me that Human Resources never reviewed the many golden boys that kept getting assigned the new projects, had heavy turnover and jumped ship before it failed. You have to allow your people to 'fail' and learn, however what is with letting them do it the third, fourth and fifth time again? Have they had any success? Then why are you allowing them to shmooze their way into the company's budgetary coeffurs again? Look specifically at that Manager's 'turn-over' rate (of experienced professional programmers, Engineers and Systems Analysts) and cut them off. There are other roles that do not impact direct reports that they can do for the company, you don't always have to fire them....
So someone is laid off, no surprise there any more. A gap in their resume, means they were smart enough to bank enough money not to have to work for just anyone. That they could pick and choose. After 10 years if you are not doing this, the Universe help you, you will need it.
To avoid being grumpy, program for yourself, release your own product and only pursue IT Specialist, Support, Systems Administration, Engineering Technology, Product Management, Project Management, ScrumMaster, Product owner type of roles with other companies.
Only code for others if you have a great salary, profit sharing and bonuses...the 'great salary' lets you avoid well meaning startups that might have good intentions but fail for other reasons. Unless you are independently wealthy, than stick with startups and do it for the love of doing it, not the salary. It only takes one to hit for you to never need to work again.
Hey HR Departments, check your Manager, Director, VP's personnel turnover rates. Are they higher than industry averages? Great you found your problem, now do something about it.
Many people get into management for the wrong reasons and the power goes to their head. If they can not motivate and keep their people, perhaps they should not be managers. For your company's sake, HR Directors, do your job and put them somewhere productive that they can no longer hurt the company. After all it does cost real dollars, especially in time, to hire good people, stop letting these incompetent Managers ruin it for everyone. How much do they cost the company because of their inability to manage people.
And if your Manager's role, their job description, does not include allot of time to actively working with, coach, mentor and motivating direct employees, stop calling them a Manager, they're not.
If you want to be a great manager, does your company's objectives reward you for working with and actively managing direct reports? If not, take the hint and look for a company where you can be an effective manager, where you are now, they just don't care. This breeds the wrong type of environment and you will constantly lose your best engineers and programmers because of it.
HR you tell us that turn-over costs the company money, put up or shut up...actively monitor and review your 'Managers' and 'Directors'.
It really is simple. Keep it that way!
...The radiation levels in the Chernobyl exclusion zone are similar to those measured in high elevation cities and sky resorts, yet people live there for centuries and they seem to live longer and have slightly lower cancer rates than those living at sea level.
Thanks for pointing out that those at higher elevations (lower elevations get radiation in precipatation not just wind) get more radiation that the rest of us. In fact radiation that finds its way up into the jetstream in Japan (for instance...pine trees on a mountain with an updraft every spring as the pollens are released) can reach the West Coast of North America in less than 48 hours. And Cesium-137 will continue to be released into the environment around Fukushima for the next 7 years minimum as no one has the technology to stop the leak, much less clean up all the ground water in the region.
Ground water sucked up and found in the Cesium-137 laden pollens in plants and pine cones (already measured and reported on by scientists).
Doctors were reporting an increase of babies born with holes in their hearts in the Ohio valley through to Pennsylvania after the Fukushima disaster. They were told to stop reporting the additional defects which in their expert opinion were significant and could not be explaned by other environmental factors. You will not see any stats as they were surpressed as were the radnet radiation filter readings across the US for weeks after the event. When changing the filters more frequently did not lower the radiation levels, they simply turned them off...stopped reporting anything.
Many of us were monitoring the jet stream data showing the radiation, and were shocked when the data was changed before our very eyes from that evening to the next morning. Much more conspiracy fact than anything else. We saw this with our own eyes. It did not help that people were given permission to see the raw data before it was changed and had copies of it, so there was no doubt that data was modified after the fact.
People can handle the truth...its the industry that is polluting and killing that can not handle the truth. My guess is you are among those that deny reality, without researching for yourself. I guess you would suggest that US nuclear plants do not experience leaks into the rivers they reside near, almost every week. The official reports state otherwise, granted the radioactive isotopes released are often short term in duration. The fact that they were released speaks enough to the 'safety' of the plants. Fortunately for those of us that bother to look, we see the reports, we know better.
All one has to do is open their eyes, search, question the official reports and follow experts who have no reason to lie any longer as they are no longer beholden to that industry for their livelihood.
Most of us are drawing our conclusions from the very official reports the industry is required by law to produce. It (Nuclar Power) is not pretty, safe nor cheap. Reports like the one mentioned above that measure radiation levels and show that those levels have not fallen (around Chernobyl) as expected. And the reports on Fukushima when reviewed by (Nuclear power) experts who understand the presence of one radioactive isotope indicates uncontrolled fusion is still happening (true for weeks after the Fukushima disaster) when the industry is stating fission has stopped. And the reports that indicate a cold reactor in less time than the known radioactive isotopes could have possibly broken down and approached inert in 10 to 20 half lifes. We understood the experts to mean that if its not in the reactor, its been released into the environment. It has to go somewhere. Cesium-137 can not approach inert for at least 300 years. Think about it. Are they still spraying water, I have not bothered to check in over a year. If they are, that too is pretty awful as they can not contain the amount of water needed
You've been bamboozled. Nuclear power is quite deadly. http://www.chernobylreport.org...
Thanks for posting that report. I skimmed it quickly and did not see heart disease, holes in the hearts, genetic defects related to the heart mentioned specifically.
Cesium-137 is absorbed by heart muscle. As the report pointed out, the levels of Cesium-137 had not only NOT dropped but were found to be higher than expected given the 30 year half life of Cesium-137.
While many think it only takes 10 half lifes (10 * 30 years = 300 years) for Cesium-137 to approach typical background levels. I believe 20 half lifes if more accurate. (20 * 30 years = 600 years).
So obviously more Cesium-137 was released in Chernobyl than reported.
Move ahead to Fukushima, where experts have stated that no company or government currently existing on the earth would posess the technology to stop the leak for a minimum of 10 years (a decade) and it boggles the mind that anyone would say that Nuclear power is safe. Wait until the Cesium-137 laden pine cones release Cesium-137 laden pollens each spring for the next 7 years (probably longer) and than lets talk. Better yet lets develop the technology to stop the leak and contain the radiation and than lets talk.... Remember if the reactor is cool, its leaked into the ground....
Haven't most of the Nuclear plants in America reached the end of their 20/30 year lifes already? Yet they are not being mothballed as expected. More accidents waiting to happen.
And don't say we need Nuclear power, we do not. When all the reactors were offline in Japan, they only experienced rolling brown outs for a short duration until they adjusted their usage to the lack of nuclear power. Granted the Nuclear power industry pushed way faster than even the Japanese wanted to get them back online...less we all learn the truth that Nuclear power is a canard, not needed to generate electricity, only needed to generate weapons. Especially dipleted uranium and worse weapons.
Follow the money to find the truth.
Speaking of money, its also true that Nuclear Power is extremely expensive. It can only be seen as cheap when costs are hidden. Lets say you cover the build out costs and the moth ball costs, which rarely are accurately revealed when talking about cheap nuclear power. Lets look just a re-casking of nuclear waste...in fact lets not look at radioactive isotopes that have a half life of 240,000 or more years. Lets look only at Cesium-137 that supposedly has a 30 year half life.
Casking starts to crack within 50 years. They say it has a 100 year cask life, but that too is a wee bit of a stretched lie. Within 50 years they start to crack. How much does it cost to re-cask? How many millions? (And we are not talking about a disaster like Chernobyl where the entire building will need to be re-casked in the very near future at a cost in the multiple Billions ($20B plus)...we are talking about re-casking Cesium-137 for only either 300 or 600 years. Let take the smaller number...300 years.
Cesium-137, 30 year half life, must be maintained casked for 300 years, re-casked every 50 years or 6 times at what cost? And we are not talking about only one re-casking for all the Cesium-137, but a re-cask for each rod that contains Cesium-137....
How much does it cost to re-cask one rod? If you cask more together, the radiation will cause the cask to crack sooner, as it will be concentrated. How many rods at how many millions per casking?
No Nuclear power is not cheap. Its insane to ignore the facts and expect a different result...
I just don't get the people who deny reality. Obviously they have an agenda and it does not help yours or my health at all. Even worse, they are so evil, that they are willing to radiate our children's children for the next 300 years! Pathetic fail.
There are worse radioactive isoto
Most of us gave up on tape for most of our backup needs long ago. ITs just so much cheaper to backup to TB hard disks. Especially if you exchange them with a family member for offsite storage. They are just too cheap today, to bother with tape, would be cost prohibative.
Also lets you avoid additional monthly costs for internet based backup storage and the associated additional bandwidths costs that must happen if the Cable industry is allowed to deny FTTH and consolidate any further. Cable providers are already throttling bandwidth to get people and companies to pay more for bandwidth. That can only get worse without FTTH.
Besides the last time I went down the tape/cartridge route, the Sydos tape units stopped being made and when mine broke the writing was on the wall to find a better home / Small Office Home Office (SOHO) solution. Hard drives attached to a LInux box was the best solution.
An LTO-6 drive costs about $2500, and it stores 2.5TB of data on a $50 tape. That is about half the price of a comparable hard drive. If you have more than 100TB of data to store then tape becomes cheaper (that is, the savings for the tapes exceeds the cost of the drive). Tape is also a bit less fragile during transport/etc, and likely more reliable than optical media unless you buy the expensive stuff (which certainly isn't any cheaper than tape).
Your comment got me to thinking, how much might one of these cost? Granted the article mentioned that there is not a price on the 8TB Seagate drive yet. So I checked on pricegrabber for 6TB drives...
I was surprised that you could get 20 of them for $11,742.61, or $587.23 per 6TB drive, if you were willing to buy them 20 at a time. Pretty cool. As the link shows the price varies from $600 to $1000 depending on who you buy one 6TB drive from.
A small storage case that will hold 4/6 drives can be got for $30 per case...so a easy home backup system using hard disks are easily within reach. Even better get an embedded linux system, the smaller the better, and hook that to it for the best Internet / Cable / TV / DVD - DVR recorder to watch movies and TV shows. Just erase them like we use to do with VHS tape when you are done. Pretty amazing...8TB, WOW.
They are trying to ?uck up unix and linux on purpose...
They try to kill it in a thousand different, little ways. A million little cuts... I couldn't agree more. All the while, those same companies use as much of the so called 'free' stuff, often without giving back in kind, as they can.
...There is very little money in "free" linux, compared to old school commercial Unix that was the other way around, too much money, per seat per click licenses, that made people seek lower cost alternatives, such as Windows.
I would disagree that there is very little money in 'free' linux...using Firefox as one multi-million dollar company. There are a few others. Though to your point, not as many as their should be.
Your per seat per click comment about people seeking lower cost alternatives in Windows got me thinking about how pathetic it is to have a so-called corporate 'IT Manager' come in and cut the good stuff, while saddling the company with bills for the less effective solutions. All the while framing it as if its 'cheaper' when its not. Its only cheaper if they phrase the argument so that their solution is cheaper. But they do try to say its cheaper, don't they.
The cost of just MS Office, which every desktop in a corporate MS environment gets, skews any thoughts of it being a lower cost alternative. I have seen some insane per seat per click, per desktop costs in the recent past. No way is the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) cheaper for Windows... Not for Oracle either...better off with MariaDB...at least they fixed the stuff in MySQL that Oracle would not allowed to be fixed so that they could upsell Oracle. That is another conversation...
Instead they cut labor costs and tech support costs...pathetic.
What I find ironic is that even the push for auto updates/upgrades which was suppose to help everyone so much (what a joke) has fallen flat on its face. One company I recently worked for, fired all their windows tech support / updaters and are not bothering to patch, update or upgrade systems anymore...
Heck I thought Microsoft layed off too many people to have time to provide updates for their products any longer...
How cheap is too cheap? I guess its all fun and grins until you and/or your company gets hit. Viruses are just the tip of the iceberg...offshoring companies stealing your private data, products and customers costs a heck of allot more.
And the people who made these decisions, got profit sharing, bonuses and left the company before the reality of what they did came to light...amazing and ironic.
Loved your post, esp the reality that Version which is just as bad... as the Cable providers....so true. While FIOS is better than Cable, usually, its not Symmetrical and they still throttle / limit bandwidth.
There are less than 41 communtiies with Symmetrical / Synchronous Fiber To The Home (FTTH).
DSL is usually better than throttled Cable internet. (You don't want DSL from AT&T, or affiliates of Cable providers, do your homework to avoid problems) And the price of DSL, $30 or less...often $15 or less, is way better than FIOS. Just move to a true FTTH community. Do not waste your time with Verizon FIOS or anythingG (ie. 3G, 4G, 5G, etc...).
Warning: if you do get service from FIOS...get in writing that FIOS will NOT cut your premise wiring while installing theirs, (if they cut it, they should replace it or do not accept their service). Too many have complained that Verizon does this to cost you $200+ (to run new uncut premise wiring) if you try to switch away from them. There is no other reason for their techs to cut your premise wiring when installing FIOS.
Just say no to 20Mb/4Mb, 100Mb/10Mb, 100Mb/5Mb, etc... if the upstream (second value) is not the same as the downstream value, that provider will throttle your service.
Is the upstream bandwidth the same as the downstream bandwidth ie. 10Mb/10Mb, 50Mb/50Mb, 100Mb/100Mb, 1Gb/1Gb, etc... than that fiber might be Symmetrical and Synchronous, meaning the provider will not throttle your bandwidth.
FIOS is not Fiber To The Home (FTTH). FIOS is not Symmetrical. With true FTTH, there is absolutely no business incentive to throttle bandwidth as that one fiber link goes from the switching station (best if owned by the community) to your home. Its not shared, thus no reason to limit it. Remember that FTTN, FTTP share parts, which ultimately end up allowing/causing the provider to limit your bandwidth un-necessarily.
Best of all, it costs a $1,500 - $3,000 to run that one link of fiber to your home and increases the re-sale value of your home by $5,000. In communities where this is successful, that link is owned by the homeowner and sold with the home. The providers compete for your service at the community owned switching station, meaning there is plenty of competition and you fire the bad players when they mess up. Added plus: FTTH communties have cheaper Cable internet rates...no surprise there.
This is way too much effort, unless you happen to enjoy yanking some chains over the phone. Here's how you quit Comcast: (1) Disconnect every piece of Comcast equipment in your home. (2) Load it in a box, and put the box in your car. (3) Drive to the nearest Comcast customer center. (4) Dump the box on the counter and tell the rep: "I wish to terminate my service immediately." No one will argue with you. You have completely bypassed Comcast's customer retention process by doing this. Pay the amount due on your bill, get a receipt with a complete list of the equipment you've turned in, then go home.
Its how you quit any cable provider that plays BS games with you...take the equipment to the office, pay the final bill and churn away from them. No time wasted on the phone at all.
DSL will always be better than throttled Cable Internet and 100% of Internet providers throttle to less than DSL speeds!
Someone mod this back up...the only effective way to combat this insanity is to leave them...cut off the service and churn.
Only one exception, if there is no other service available in your area, than your screwed unless you move!
I have been with DSL (not provided by a Cable company) for a few years and love it. All the Cable operators throttle the upstream bandwith to lower than 40Kbps and the downstream bandwidth to lower than 200Kbps and DSL is way faster than this.
To see it first hand as I did, get dd-WRT on a supported firewall/router and you will see the millisecond the speed test begins the bandwidth pipe opens full speed. The millisecond the speed test ends, the service is throttled back to the less than 200Kbps/40Kbps levels.
Occasionally if you are lucky, if you are able to stream video and/or download a video the pipe will open a little more and the download will happen faster.
Ironically, a dd-WRT enabled firewall router reveals this level of throttling with Cable internet 24 x 7 x 365 days...like the pipe is saturated late at night when people are sleeping and/or when others are working during the day. Ironic and pathetic.
Totally agree with your post. It has never been cheaper or safer as history teaches us.
First time I have heard about storing radioactive waste in steel, would love a link so I can check out the article.
It is my understanding the reason they use cement to encase the radioactive waste is its the only safe way, as steel barrels break down faster than cement.
Of course cement breaks down, starts cracking, in 50 years, even though the offical documents suggest a 100 year life before re-casking is required to keep it safe. How much the cost of recasking, well its hundred of thousands if not millions...every 50 to 100 years.
This is why they want to drop it in the ocean or put it in a mountain vault, they don't really want to keep it safe. If they did, they would never suggest any option where monitoring, re-casking would be impossible.
All radioactive isotopes attack different organs or bones in people. Cesium-137 is specifically absorbed by heart muscle.
How many people reading this are aware of the increase in holes in the hearts of newborns and other heart related pediatric issues reported by doctors and quickly supressed. Doctors weeks and months after Fukushima were pissed about this. The Ohio river vally from Ohio through Pennsylvania are where the reports occurred, for those that care to research it as I did. Don't complain to me if you don't want to even bother to check?
Even Cesium-137, with only a 30 year half life would have to be casked at least 10 half lives (if not 20) to get close to inert (background radiation) which means Cesium-137 (increase in heart problems) would have to be re-casked at least 300 / 50 = 6 times, probably 12.
Re-casking Uranium or plutonium..one of those has a 240,000 year half life, which means multiplying 240,000 by 10 or 20 to get close to inert....
However we might not need to even address that long of a half life as when scientists went back to Chernobyl 27 years later (almost one 30 year half life) the radiation, specifically Cesium-137 had not dropped at all, in fact it was higher in many areas which lead to one of three possibilities:
1) The half-life of Cesium-137 is longer than 30 years. (doubt this one.)
2) Cesium-137 breaks down in nature slower than in the laboratory. (again, similar to 1), doubt this one too)
3) The Russian government lied to everyone about how much Cesium-137 was really released. (probably the truth)
Regardless, we have a very accurate reading on the amount of Cesium-137 radiation, approximately 27 years after Chernobyl, so in another 30 years (a second half life), we will know precisely if number 3 is correct. What if the levels of Cesium-137 have not dropped in half after the second half life (60 years after the event)? What than? Time will tell us precisely.
All bets are off and no amount of planning can accurately predict the costs of storage (which requires re-casking every 50 - 100 years) alone, which will be significantly higher the more half lifes required to approach inert. And the cost of both building and dismantling Nuclear Power plants...is too huge to ever be consider cheap when compared to any other energy source.
Better to dismantle and recask, cost wise, rather than have to re entomb a whole reactor. Will Russia have the money to re-entomb the reactor at Chernobyl? The smart money says no way. How many Billions to re-tomb as the concrete degrades? Yea not cheaper at all if you allow the plants to operate beyond their so called safe limits and a disaster happens.
Now consider Fukushima...
The week it happened, nuclear scientists not beholden to any government or the NRC stated factually that no scientist, government, corporation had the ability to stop the Cesium-137 from leaking, nor would any entity have that technology for the next 10 years. In other words, it can not be made safe, it will continue to leak and no one has a
Here is one of the best articles on the Ebola outbreak that I have found todate, it covers most of the fact points, while focused on the recent outbreak, enjoy. Has a map of the world showing countries involved with current outbreak.
How deadly Ebola has spread across the globe: Health officials try to trace 30,000 linked to death of American victim - as Nigerian film star sparks outrage by fleeing Africa in a mask on first-class flight
You know its become mainstream when CNBC is talking about Germ zapping robots with a headline of The war against EBOLA
Here is an article with 25 facts that the mainstream media is not always telling you. I found, No 15, interesting, a map showing the 20 CDC Quarantine Centers. They, the CDC, are/have been preparing for a very good reason just in case.
Almost each fact has links, facts number 1 thru 10 most will find disturbing. With links to multiple articles by different health organizations around to world, such as Doctor with out Boarders, who stated on June 21, 2014 EBOLA was out of control, and the World Health Organization (WHO)back in April said the Guinea Ebola outbreak was challenging. The infection killing 50%, the incubation period being as short as 2 days or as long as 21 days is a heck of a warning...imagine someone coming back from a mission trip to help others, walking around for 2-3 weeks before realizing they are infected.
For those falsely reporting that the virus requires physical contact, your wrong as the 2012 study proved (Fact No 11) article about animals in separate cages contracting the virus without physical contact. Worrisome is the doctor treating the two Americans (who quarratined themselves at the onset of symptoms) also became infected and you would have to be a moron to assume he (other 100 health workers Fact No 5) was (were all) exchanging bodily fluids with his (their)patients, other doctors treating patients. Perhaps one or two were exchanging bodily fluids, but all 100, no way, not in those circumstances as they understand the risks.
Full Disclosure:
The site may be a wee bit alarmist, however facts are facts.
The site with the 25 facts also tries to be a little political as if one president, Democrat or Republican, is solely responsible, pleeesse. So just ignore those facts with a political slant. See my political soapbox comment at the end.
The site also suggests military conspiracy, who knows, take those with a grain of salt as well. As a couple of family members who served had said, GI stands for Government Issue. Its not like IF our men and women were being used as guinea pigs that they could say No, they can not. Or as my Flight Surgeon family member agreed, if the study is double blind, the Doctor does not know with 100% certainty what they are injecting the veterans with, in the immunization. So read and take at your own risk, but for GIs, you have no choice, you must partake...your Government Issue as soon as you sign on the dotted line and swear the oath. Just comes with the territory.
(stepping up on my shoebox) Now YOU POLITICIANS....
I just wish those that focus on the political, would stop electing politicians that say they support our veterans, when the opposite is true based on VA funding, medical and phschological budgeting for treatment of our returning veterans. Let us start being as insistant that the people we elect to office budget for all the expenses associated with sending men and women to war. All our men and women who served (our veterans) SHALL get proper medical and mental treatment when they return from war, period, end of discussion.
To me it seems like the height of incompetance that politicans do not budget for the medical and psychological expenses associated with returning servicemen and women. How many wars have we been involved in? What do you mean you can not budget for this? I call BS on that crapola.
So POLITICANS, before sending more men and women to war, darn it, budget
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The book Econned explains how people with a far right economic agenda have been stacking the US courts for years. The result is what you see, basically a feudal systems where corporations are treated like lords and everyone else is a serf.
Not only are they stacking the US Courts, they are also preventing any other party from filling open judgeships when they have a president in office...thus the only candidates to the Supreme Court will be their right wing, ultra conservative, cronies. Pathetic.
This has been in the planning for well over 40 years...thanks for suggesting the book, will check it out.
If a party can not legislate, they need to be removed from office and their presence in the Senate and House of Representatives reduced so that all Americans can be helped with economic activity, jobs and more. They have forgotten that if they are not part of the solution, they most certainly are part of the problem. In this case, they are the problem.
To insure they get elected, given demographics going against them, they put in BS legislation to limit voting. Hey if you can not sway people to vote for you, you do not deserve to be elected. Its simply un-American to not want everyone to vote. And they are on the record stating that they can't win if everyone votes.
Lastly its lame to use the label that the left wants to re-distribute wealth, when the right re-distribute's to their political backers. Or to say you want government out of your individual lives and bedrooms, when you use the Court to legislate morals which legislatively puts government into individual lives and American bedroom, in so many nanny state ways. Pathetic.
Full disclosure: While I am fisically conservative, I am not a conservative or liberal, in fact 70% of Americans are closer to my way of thinking then either political party.
Just another victim of the issues around bandwidth and cost to do perform the updates.
With Net Neutrality no longer being upheld, Microsoft's patching and update process is very expensive. Can it even be done with a server onsite getting patched first and updates to the rest of a businesses client machines coming from it? If so, then even that did not help at the multi-national conglomerate I worked at. A huge Java dev cloud user env, the Administrators performing updates to thousands of machines were told to stop some days when the network experienced problems. Though the network was as much to blame as anything else.
Still the company with more than 10,000 clients simply stopped updating Windows machines. Simply stopped.
The personel that were patching were let go or moved to other duties, their positions were never back filled. Cut labor at what cost long term?
I strongly believe MS sees the writing on the wall and just as they cut other costly support services, they cut this patching / update process for the same reasons...not the reasons they tell us. Cut that labor and bandwidth.
Net Neutrality issue here perhaps? After all if MS starts getting charged for the bandwidth required to do the patching and updating by the ISPs wanting to charge more for bandwidth....