Someone to whom I would give credit if I could remember his/her name suggested that the opposite of free software is enslaved software. In this view, it is the software and not the user or developer whose freedom is guaranteed by the GPL.
Pretty sure that's not what rms meant to say, but an interesting perspective nonetheless.
In general, no. However, if you publish a privacy policy that you don't really follow, that's considered deception and it's possible to get in trouble for it.
The big issue here is that if they have credit card data, they're contractually bound by a private sector standard called PCI DSS, and Visa and Mastercard can impose penalties. They were blatantly out of compliance with rules in the standard requiring firewalls and a program of keeping up with patches.
Before anyone jumps on Animats, this must be a reference to the idea of putting a lithium blanket around the fusion reactor to catch neutrons. The neutrons' reaction with the lithium produces helium and tritium.
That's an annoying claim to make, even if they've done accelerated aging tests. The only human construct that's been proven to stay usable after 10,000 years is stone artifacts, such as blocks and arrowheads. Over a hundred centuries, there's plenty of chances for some unexpected failure mode to pop up.
They should be facing private-sector penalties. They're answerable to their banks for compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, under their merchant account contract. The standard emphatically does not permit sending card numbers over open wireless networks.
I can't remember where I saw it, so can't give you a link, but there's a video of two people in a completely dark room with small light sources at joints and extremities. The instant they start moving, you can tell which one's the man and which one's the woman.
Education is an important thing. Tennessee schoolchildren will grow up to be voters making decisions on genetically modified organism, stem cell research, energy policy, and many other issues which require a basic understanding of science. Their science education should teach them about evidence and reasoning.
Make friends with your neighbors. You can trade what you have in surplus with them for whatever you've forgotten. They are perimeter security. See if you can get them to Community Emergency Response Training.
Buy a little extra food when it's on sale.
Refill your gas tank when it gets down to a half. If there's an orderly evacuation, you won't be in the crowds at the gas station.
Have an out of area contact for your family to coordinate. The phone company will prioritize calls going out of the disaster area.
Your first need will be water. Even a few gallons can make a difference. Read up on how to store it and how often to rotate it.
There's a lot more you can do, but the above cost almost nothing and you can start on them immediately.
If you're in Seattle, you get to worry about the unmapped faults all over the place, and a subduction zone earthquake. At higher frequency, once or twice a decade there's a winter windstorm that knocks out power for days.
Wikipedia gives a sourced number of 0.18 g for the designed peak ground acceleration. That's actually a relatively low number as severe quakes go, though I can't easily find out whether that was known at design time.
Japanese engineers must believe in big safety margins, judging from how intact the reactors were at the end of the quake.
The outside of the rods is an alloy that's almost all zirconium. The Material Safety Data Sheet for zirconium says that powder and shavings are flammable, but the bulk metal isn't (analogous to iron that way). So how does a spent fuel pool fire work? If the zirconium cladding melts, you're left with uranium dioxide, which is already oxidized. You'd get a release of volatile fission products, plenty bad, but not a fire.
Not only that, it causes thousands of cases of cancer per year, and other reactors of the same design have exploded. The experts say this one can't explode, but even they concede that it can expand until the Earth is orbiting inside it.
Oh, and carbon dioxide wouldn't cause climate change if that reactor were turned off.
I've just been reading Richard Francis Burton's translation of the Arabian Nights. He just loved to talk about sex in the footnotes, and mentions that some cultures he encountered used insect bites to treat erectile dysfunction.
It is high voltage that is more efficient for long distance transmission. The difference between AC and DC for that is that AC is relatively simple to step up in voltage with a relatively simple machine, a transformer.
"the real reason for progressivesâ(TM) passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americansâ(TM) individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism."
Not quite calling trains Communism, but in the same league.
The quote is from George Will,http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/27/high-speed-to-insolvency.html
They'd need a reprocessing facility, and some way to handle undesirable concentrations of Pu-240, which decays by spontaneous fission and complicates bomb design.
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At a guess, an embedded URL that's loaded automatically when someone opens the document, for example an IMG tag.
Someone to whom I would give credit if I could remember his/her name suggested that the opposite of free software is enslaved software. In this view, it is the software and not the user or developer whose freedom is guaranteed by the GPL.
Pretty sure that's not what rms meant to say, but an interesting perspective nonetheless.
In general, no. However, if you publish a privacy policy that you don't really follow, that's considered deception and it's possible to get in trouble for it.
The big issue here is that if they have credit card data, they're contractually bound by a private sector standard called PCI DSS, and Visa and Mastercard can impose penalties. They were blatantly out of compliance with rules in the standard requiring firewalls and a program of keeping up with patches.
>D-T fusion also produces tritium
Before anyone jumps on Animats, this must be a reference to the idea of putting a lithium blanket around the fusion reactor to catch neutrons. The neutrons' reaction with the lithium produces helium and tritium.
That's an annoying claim to make, even if they've done accelerated aging tests. The only human construct that's been proven to stay usable after 10,000 years is stone artifacts, such as blocks and arrowheads. Over a hundred centuries, there's plenty of chances for some unexpected failure mode to pop up.
They should be facing private-sector penalties. They're answerable to their banks for compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, under their merchant account contract. The standard emphatically does not permit sending card numbers over open wireless networks.
>Earth's core is heated by thermonuclear activity
No, it's radioactive decay.
People who know more about statistics than I do severely criticize Excel, e.g. http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~jcryer/JSMTalk2001.pdf
I can't remember where I saw it, so can't give you a link, but there's a video of two people in a completely dark room with small light sources at joints and extremities. The instant they start moving, you can tell which one's the man and which one's the woman.
Education is an important thing. Tennessee schoolchildren will grow up to be voters making decisions on genetically modified organism, stem cell research, energy policy, and many other issues which require a basic understanding of science. Their science education should teach them about evidence and reasoning.
Citation needed? Google and Google News aren't turning up anything like that, or even an indication that he's dead.
Why do people keep treating freedom and security as being in conflict?
This is America. Security is the defense of freedom.
There have been many governments in history, and still are today, where liberty has been extinguished. They were and are not safe to live under.
Make friends with your neighbors. You can trade what you have in surplus with them for whatever you've forgotten. They are perimeter security. See if you can get them to Community Emergency Response Training.
Buy a little extra food when it's on sale.
Refill your gas tank when it gets down to a half. If there's an orderly evacuation, you won't be in the crowds at the gas station.
Have an out of area contact for your family to coordinate. The phone company will prioritize calls going out of the disaster area.
Your first need will be water. Even a few gallons can make a difference. Read up on how to store it and how often to rotate it.
There's a lot more you can do, but the above cost almost nothing and you can start on them immediately.
If you're in Seattle, you get to worry about the unmapped faults all over the place, and a subduction zone earthquake. At higher frequency, once or twice a decade there's a winter windstorm that knocks out power for days.
Wikipedia gives a sourced number of 0.18 g for the designed peak ground acceleration. That's actually a relatively low number as severe quakes go, though I can't easily find out whether that was known at design time.
Japanese engineers must believe in big safety margins, judging from how intact the reactors were at the end of the quake.
The outside of the rods is an alloy that's almost all zirconium. The Material Safety Data Sheet for zirconium says that powder and shavings are flammable, but the bulk metal isn't (analogous to iron that way). So how does a spent fuel pool fire work? If the zirconium cladding melts, you're left with uranium dioxide, which is already oxidized. You'd get a release of volatile fission products, plenty bad, but not a fire.
Indeed.
Ethisphere selected the companies for having "leading ethics and compliance programs".
Having a program has as much to do with being ethical as being in a program has to do with being sober.
What I'd been reading about was damage to the buildings that keep the rain off the containment structure, not to the containment structure itself.
Which of course may have changed by now, and the press coverage is execrable.
Has anyone found a news source covering the incidents that even makes sense?
Not only that, it causes thousands of cases of cancer per year, and other reactors of the same design have exploded. The experts say this one can't explode, but even they concede that it can expand until the Earth is orbiting inside it.
Oh, and carbon dioxide wouldn't cause climate change if that reactor were turned off.
I've just been reading Richard Francis Burton's translation of the Arabian Nights. He just loved to talk about sex in the footnotes, and mentions that some cultures he encountered used insect bites to treat erectile dysfunction.
It is high voltage that is more efficient for long distance transmission. The difference between AC and DC for that is that AC is relatively simple to step up in voltage with a relatively simple machine, a transformer.
Dr. Zhai's faculty web page mentions conductivity and chemical sensitivity but not battery applications.
Battery electrolytes need more properties than just being conductive.
"the real reason for progressivesâ(TM) passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americansâ(TM) individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism."
Not quite calling trains Communism, but in the same league.
The quote is from George Will,http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/27/high-speed-to-insolvency.html
http://www.iranwatch.org/privateviews/First%20Watch/perspex-fwi-plutoniumprocessing-0304.htm
They'd need a reprocessing facility, and some way to handle undesirable concentrations of Pu-240, which decays by spontaneous fission and complicates bomb design.
OK, found the links. The chart of CIT-limited speed versus outside temperature is at http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/5/5-10.php. There are envelope curves at http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/5/5-9.php which you could imagine extrapolating past the limits in the manual.