Stopping the chain reaction is the easy part. What causes meltdowns is that short-lived fission products keep decaying and generating so much energy that there needs to be continued cooling.
Yes, I got the parody, but the horrible thing is that I've seen the same sentiment for real. A major newspaper editorialized that people who didn't want to go through the TSA porn scanners could just take the bus or the train. The notion that there are places unreachable by bus or train completely escaped them.
So you've got a vulnerable web app that can't be fixed with new vulnerabilities being introduced all the time.
That's what web application firewalls are designed for. Installing one takes less schedule time than doing things right would take, and it might work better than nothing.
Though of course this is not a technical problem, it's easier to paper over a people problem with a technical patch than it is to fix people.
"Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences", Dr. Rebecca Jordon-Young.
The literature, on careful examination, turns out to be full of floating definitions, hidden assumptions, and outright discarding of data.
There are sexually dimorphic places in the hypothalamus, but it's really tough otherwise to tell a male brain from a female brain. The differences are a matter of overlapping bell curves at most.
See the book "Unlocking the Clubhouse" for how high-achieving girls fascinated by computers suffer a death by a thousand cuts and switch fields despite their preference.
If adult entertainment sites accepted it as a way of getting around their endless headaches with credit cards, there'd be a continuous demand for them.
Then on top of that it misses the point, that if you're trying to prevent people from starting WW3 on their own initiative, you don't let them choose the password. You should have the bomb builders set it. Bomb building was always kept carefully separate from the military.
The legal system can't afford to lose any more public confidence and still continue to function. A new hearing shows a willingness to take their jobs seriously.
The system had to coordinate with multiple independently run systems from multiple agencies and wasn't led by anyone with authority to dictate terms or experience in ugly systems integration.
The German man on the bus in the story below may have been a psychopath. He was able to yell abuse at a crying woman. On the spur of the moment, he was able to manipulate the authorities superbly. He saved her life:
If they are really that good as opposed to being experts at looking good, they can o Found their own company and get rich as it grows o Buy stock in the company they lead to success and profit from that. That's "buy", not "be granted options".
The big rewards should go to the producers, or to the providers of risk capital. A CEO is a hired hand and does not deserve entrepreneurial rewards.
CEO pay is no more a free market phenomenon than Congressional pay. Compliant boards and "compensation consultants" (wonder who pays them?) rig the system.
The current system is like paying Michael Jackson minimum wage while his business manager becomes a centimillionaire.
Unless, of course, you think Carly Fiorina made her money with her Randian inventions and "creative contributions".
1. Stored energy is a hazard 2. Humans are fragile 3. Therefore create barriers between humans and stored energy.
Any self-powered vehicle with useful range needs a lot of stored energy. This can be in a form that drips and pours out of any opening in can find, like gasoline, or it can be chemical energy in a solid battery.
Tesla engineers implemented point 3 so well that the guy in Auburn opened the door and walked away from the uncontrolled release of energy happening in front of him.
Complete non-story, until they start catching fire spontaneously on the road like my neighbor's New Beetle.
They were a group in his sf universe who flooded the net with incorrect personal data so that nobody could ever get reliable dirt on someone else with a web search.
They weren't meant for use inside cities anyway. They were for fighting mass tank formations while minimizing the destruction to West Germany. Minimizing, not eliminating: they still had large blast and thermal effects.
No need to pocket a nuclear bomb if you can turn two keys and kill millions.
There are fortunately some other safeguards. For example, I believe any other launch control crew can override a spurious launch, and it would be insane if the keys were live during peacetime.
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Stopping the chain reaction is the easy part. What causes meltdowns is that short-lived fission products keep decaying and generating so much energy that there needs to be continued cooling.
> Show me someone building an airplane
Visit the Experimental Aircraft Association. There's a thriving community doing just that.
Yes, I got the parody, but the horrible thing is that I've seen the same sentiment for real. A major newspaper editorialized that people who didn't want to go through the TSA porn scanners could just take the bus or the train. The notion that there are places unreachable by bus or train completely escaped them.
So you've got a vulnerable web app that can't be fixed with new vulnerabilities being introduced all the time.
That's what web application firewalls are designed for. Installing one takes less schedule time than doing things right would take, and it might work better than nothing.
Though of course this is not a technical problem, it's easier to paper over a people problem with a technical patch than it is to fix people.
"Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences", Dr. Rebecca Jordon-Young.
The literature, on careful examination, turns out to be full of floating definitions, hidden assumptions, and outright discarding of data.
There are sexually dimorphic places in the hypothalamus, but it's really tough otherwise to tell a male brain from a female brain. The differences are a matter of overlapping bell curves at most.
See the book "Unlocking the Clubhouse" for how high-achieving girls fascinated by computers suffer a death by a thousand cuts and switch fields despite their preference.
Tesla purchases are interstate commerce. Constitutionally and practically that's a matter of Federal jurisdiction.
How do you spend it over the Internet?
Someone in $REPRESSIVECOUNTRY with a stack of unmarked bills can't use it to order the Kindle edition of $BANNEDBOOK. Or to donate to Wikileaks.
If adult entertainment sites accepted it as a way of getting around their endless headaches with credit cards, there'd be a continuous demand for them.
Then on top of that it misses the point, that if you're trying to prevent people from starting WW3 on their own initiative, you don't let them choose the password. You should have the bomb builders set it. Bomb building was always kept carefully separate from the military.
Someone might pay to attain that sort of pseudo-immortality.
The legal system can't afford to lose any more public confidence and still continue to function. A new hearing shows a willingness to take their jobs seriously.
The system had to coordinate with multiple independently run systems from multiple agencies and wasn't led by anyone with authority to dictate terms or experience in ugly systems integration.
It's a useful trait for good and for evil.
The German man on the bus in the story below may have been a psychopath. He was able to yell abuse at a crying woman. On the spur of the moment, he was able to manipulate the authorities superbly. He saved her life:
http://wordhavering.blogspot.com/2010/07/stranger-on-bus.html
The NSA was conducting a military operation against an ally.
If they are really that good as opposed to being experts at looking good, they can
o Found their own company and get rich as it grows
o Buy stock in the company they lead to success and profit from that. That's "buy", not "be granted options".
The big rewards should go to the producers, or to the providers of risk capital. A CEO is a hired hand and does not deserve entrepreneurial rewards.
CEO pay is no more a free market phenomenon than Congressional pay. Compliant boards and "compensation consultants" (wonder who pays them?) rig the system.
The current system is like paying Michael Jackson minimum wage while his business manager becomes a centimillionaire.
Unless, of course, you think Carly Fiorina made her money with her Randian inventions and "creative contributions".
1. Stored energy is a hazard
2. Humans are fragile
3. Therefore create barriers between humans and stored energy.
Any self-powered vehicle with useful range needs a lot of stored energy. This can be in a form that drips and pours out of any opening in can find, like gasoline, or it can be chemical energy in a solid battery.
Tesla engineers implemented point 3 so well that the guy in Auburn opened the door and walked away from the uncontrolled release of energy happening in front of him.
Complete non-story, until they start catching fire spontaneously on the road like my neighbor's New Beetle.
They were a group in his sf universe who flooded the net with incorrect personal data so that nobody could ever get reliable dirt on someone else with a web search.
They weren't meant for use inside cities anyway. They were for fighting mass tank formations while minimizing the destruction to West Germany. Minimizing, not eliminating: they still had large blast and thermal effects.
You used the word "loosing" correctly. May I bear your children?
A business that makes money by turning customers away does not lend itself to "free market solutions".
So Obamacare prevents companies from refusing coverage or dropping it when the customer gets sick.
They keep old classic minis in working order. Want to see a DEC 20 in operation?
No need to pocket a nuclear bomb if you can turn two keys and kill millions.
There are fortunately some other safeguards. For example, I believe any other launch control crew can override a spurious launch, and it would be insane if the keys were live during peacetime.
"Keep the troops busy". There are drills and so on of course but it's just plain mismanagement to let people get bored.