as close to meltdown conditions as it was possible to safely go.
Unfortunately, they were wrong about how far "as it was possible to SAFELY go" was....
This part here is not quite right. The minimum safe control rod scenario for the reactor design was known up front and they made a conscious decision not only to overstep the minimum safe operating number of control rods (30) but at the time of the accident only 6 rods were inserted.
Additionally during this "test" there was one unexpected problem after another. Any one of them should have been a trigger to abort the test even if the test itself wasn't an attempt at a large scale Darwin award. Yet they powered on anyway.
and not only does it sneak proprietary software onto your machine
Is this like a vegan who found out that mayonnaise is made with eggs?
but it also poses a security risk
Why? I mean you said it yourself: "Any piece of software can be malicious". If they published the source code to your apparent demise will that have made you more secure? Are you under the impression there's a magical fairy out there auditing everything open source and that you are magically safe as a result?
Much of the JavaScript you encounter runs automatically when you load a Web site, which enables it to attack you without you even noticing.
Any code you run on your computer enables it to attack you without even noticing.
There's a lot to be said for open source, but really this retarded hyperbole gives Open Source advocates a bad name.
And exactly HOW many cars are on the road in Chicago EVERY DAMN DAY?
Exactly! We should only ever focus on one cause, even if transportation and power generation have equal shares in the problem. This is just another attack against the clean and healthy power industry at the expense of our ludicrously cheap power.
but currently completely unknown costs for the safe storage of the nuclear waste produced
1. Hyperbole claiming something we've been doing for 40 years is unknown. X. 2. Pointing to a single case to make a general claim rather than a study of industry practice. X. 3. Ignoring that the issue is mostly of political nature and that many better options for waste exist. X 4. Not reading the original links posted and making a claim that something is unknown. X
BINGO! Hey everyone, I got NIMBY Nuclear Bullshit Bingo!
I can live with paying an extra half cent per kWh to cover cleaning up
Something you wouldn't need to do if our reactors weren't 40+ years old and if the greenies hadn't handcuffed development of safer nuclear technologies for the past 50 years.
But the countryside - are you telling me that they have streetlamps just like cities?
Streetlamps? I thought we were talking about bus stops. And yes they did in my state. Had little solar panels on them too and works quite well since they didn't need to run all night.
But hey I'm sure those kids in Finland only get education for half a year too. Won't someone think of those dark children.!
Indeed it's not, It's a name. Depending on the age of the French name it either meant "chosen one" or more recently "winged". Not to dissimilar from the Spanish name whose meaning is "noble" which is not surprising given Romance languages share a lot of similarities.
This is still called poor planning. That it's not your planning isn't relevant. I haven't flown Delta, but certainly every flight option I have ever been offered by various airlines specifically state the layover time, and I apply more thought to it than just blindly accepting the 30min minimum duration applied in a general case.
Fortunately, the gate agent at DCA had booked me a backup reservation on the next ATL-LAX flight.
Now this is good planning. If you had anxiety about your trip, then you did so because you weren't told about this.
I don't see a huge problem in mostly using the same engine if it's open source and being actively developed well. To some extent, you know... the point is to render HTML consistently. I understand the benefit of avoiding a monoculture, but it's better than web developers having to include a bunch of hacks in their sites to get their sites to render properly on each browser.
Why do you assume those are the two choices? There is a 3rd choice: Web developers write standard code and the browsers are left to implement the standards. Just because something is open source does not mean it's good. The monoculture even with open source is still a massive problem as the standards stop driving development of software, and rather the development of software starts driving the standards. This is exactly the shit we had with IE6. Had IE6 been open source the internet wouldn't have been any less of the incompatible non-standard shitstorm that it was either.
We need diversity in browser engines and interfaces
No we don't. We need diversity only in the engines. The interfaces should all approach a standardised single best practice to easily facilitate users moving between devices and software without having to learn everything new.
Did anyone else notice the heroine's name is ATILA spelled backwards?
And? Alita is french for "chosen one". It's also a very common spanish girls name. What do you think about that krauqtpac (which as we all know is just a phrase used to summon dark demons).
You haven't known anxiety unless you have been subjected to the experience of running around the airport with your handbag trying to catch the second leg of your flight (after the first leg has been delayed) because the flight after the one you are about to miss is scheduled for tomorrow at 6:30AM.
The fuel economy is incorrect, but the flexibility is quite on point. The A380 certainly has better fuel economy than 2x twin engine aircraft. The sheer size of the A380's engines is one of the things driving this, larger engines (physically with higher air bypass on the turbo fan) are more fuel efficient up to a certain point (which has yet to be reached).
But your flexibility thing is key. The point is not to carry more passengers to the same destination. For that the A380 is the undisputed king in cost and efficiency. The point is that all those passengers rarely want to go to that same destination, and that while shuttling several hundred people from one hub to the other is quite efficient, when a significant number of them don't want to actually go to hubs it becomes quite a problem.
Windows 10 on a PC is not the same as Windows 10 on ARM. For one you don't need to worry about Windows eating up so much of your RAM that Office won't start... because Office for ARM doesn't exist.
How many "average joes" do you know that can properly configure an SD card with an OS to run on a RasPI?
Download a program, download a binary, open program select the only option in the program to open the binary file and click write? All with the aid of well written instructions?
They did nothing of the sort. They only showed that people will do different activities on different devices in different ways. The only people thinking iOS has displaced the PC for PC related activities (other than e.g. Newspaper or Gameboy activities) are the brain damaged diversity hires running Apple's marketing department who genuinely seem to not know what a computer is.
I bet you none of them created that advert on the iPad.
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as close to meltdown conditions as it was possible to safely go.
Unfortunately, they were wrong about how far "as it was possible to SAFELY go" was....
This part here is not quite right. The minimum safe control rod scenario for the reactor design was known up front and they made a conscious decision not only to overstep the minimum safe operating number of control rods (30) but at the time of the accident only 6 rods were inserted.
Additionally during this "test" there was one unexpected problem after another. Any one of them should have been a trigger to abort the test even if the test itself wasn't an attempt at a large scale Darwin award. Yet they powered on anyway.
and not only does it sneak proprietary software onto your machine
Is this like a vegan who found out that mayonnaise is made with eggs?
but it also poses a security risk
Why? I mean you said it yourself: "Any piece of software can be malicious". If they published the source code to your apparent demise will that have made you more secure? Are you under the impression there's a magical fairy out there auditing everything open source and that you are magically safe as a result?
Much of the JavaScript you encounter runs automatically when you load a Web site, which enables it to attack you without you even noticing.
Any code you run on your computer enables it to attack you without even noticing.
There's a lot to be said for open source, but really this retarded hyperbole gives Open Source advocates a bad name.
And exactly HOW many cars are on the road in Chicago EVERY DAMN DAY?
Exactly! We should only ever focus on one cause, even if transportation and power generation have equal shares in the problem. This is just another attack against the clean and healthy power industry at the expense of our ludicrously cheap power.
but currently completely unknown costs for the safe storage of the nuclear waste produced
1. Hyperbole claiming something we've been doing for 40 years is unknown. X.
2. Pointing to a single case to make a general claim rather than a study of industry practice. X.
3. Ignoring that the issue is mostly of political nature and that many better options for waste exist. X
4. Not reading the original links posted and making a claim that something is unknown. X
BINGO! Hey everyone, I got NIMBY Nuclear Bullshit Bingo!
I can live with paying an extra half cent per kWh to cover cleaning up
Something you wouldn't need to do if our reactors weren't 40+ years old and if the greenies hadn't handcuffed development of safer nuclear technologies for the past 50 years.
So the screen size to weight ratio is identical. Yes, it is thinner but no, it is not lighter.
Please stop abusing the English language. Why are you even here on Slashdot? With that level of logic you should make a great politician.
But the countryside - are you telling me that they have streetlamps just like cities?
Streetlamps? I thought we were talking about bus stops. And yes they did in my state. Had little solar panels on them too and works quite well since they didn't need to run all night.
But hey I'm sure those kids in Finland only get education for half a year too. Won't someone think of those dark children.!
It's not even a word
Indeed it's not, It's a name. Depending on the age of the French name it either meant "chosen one" or more recently "winged". Not to dissimilar from the Spanish name whose meaning is "noble" which is not surprising given Romance languages share a lot of similarities.
spend a lot of money on expensive upgrades
If you're spending a lot of money on expensive upgrades you're massively doing it wrong.
This is still called poor planning. That it's not your planning isn't relevant. I haven't flown Delta, but certainly every flight option I have ever been offered by various airlines specifically state the layover time, and I apply more thought to it than just blindly accepting the 30min minimum duration applied in a general case.
Fortunately, the gate agent at DCA had booked me a backup reservation on the next ATL-LAX flight.
Now this is good planning. If you had anxiety about your trip, then you did so because you weren't told about this.
Cities are not the only places that have lightbulbs in them.
Goodluck.
I don't see a huge problem in mostly using the same engine if it's open source and being actively developed well. To some extent, you know... the point is to render HTML consistently. I understand the benefit of avoiding a monoculture, but it's better than web developers having to include a bunch of hacks in their sites to get their sites to render properly on each browser.
Why do you assume those are the two choices? There is a 3rd choice: Web developers write standard code and the browsers are left to implement the standards. Just because something is open source does not mean it's good. The monoculture even with open source is still a massive problem as the standards stop driving development of software, and rather the development of software starts driving the standards. This is exactly the shit we had with IE6. Had IE6 been open source the internet wouldn't have been any less of the incompatible non-standard shitstorm that it was either.
We need diversity in browser engines and interfaces
No we don't. We need diversity only in the engines. The interfaces should all approach a standardised single best practice to easily facilitate users moving between devices and software without having to learn everything new.
And if you don't like fruits: https://products.office.com/en...
In 20 years ICE vehicles will be obsolete... Its a given.
Never underestimate the staying power of obsolete tech.
Did anyone else notice the heroine's name is ATILA spelled backwards?
And? Alita is french for "chosen one". It's also a very common spanish girls name. What do you think about that krauqtpac (which as we all know is just a phrase used to summon dark demons).
and those are more dangerous than someone getting to your ntds.dit file in today's age of gratuitous hard disk encryption anyway.
This I disagree with in a world of prolifant malware happily running on logged in machines where HDD contents are readily accessible.
Some of those faces can be instantly identified as fakes. Some have eyes that are beyond uncanny valley and down right hideous.
Others... well I saw at least 2 images where I couldn't find a fault despite looking for many minutes.
You haven't known anxiety unless you have been subjected to the experience of running around the airport with your handbag trying to catch the second leg of your flight (after the first leg has been delayed) because the flight after the one you are about to miss is scheduled for tomorrow at 6:30AM.
This is called "poor planning".
The fuel economy is incorrect, but the flexibility is quite on point. The A380 certainly has better fuel economy than 2x twin engine aircraft. The sheer size of the A380's engines is one of the things driving this, larger engines (physically with higher air bypass on the turbo fan) are more fuel efficient up to a certain point (which has yet to be reached).
But your flexibility thing is key. The point is not to carry more passengers to the same destination. For that the A380 is the undisputed king in cost and efficiency. The point is that all those passengers rarely want to go to that same destination, and that while shuttling several hundred people from one hub to the other is quite efficient, when a significant number of them don't want to actually go to hubs it becomes quite a problem.
Windows 10 on a PC is not the same as Windows 10 on ARM. For one you don't need to worry about Windows eating up so much of your RAM that Office won't start ... because Office for ARM doesn't exist.
How many "average joes" do you know that can properly configure an SD card with an OS to run on a RasPI?
Download a program, download a binary, open program select the only option in the program to open the binary file and click write? All with the aid of well written instructions?
I'm going to go with ALL of the average joes.
The iPhone proved that wrong and so has Android
They did nothing of the sort. They only showed that people will do different activities on different devices in different ways. The only people thinking iOS has displaced the PC for PC related activities (other than e.g. Newspaper or Gameboy activities) are the brain damaged diversity hires running Apple's marketing department who genuinely seem to not know what a computer is.
I bet you none of them created that advert on the iPad.
Won't someone think of the sand!