Don't forget the multi-megawatt radiators needed to provide a cold sink for those reactors. Chemical rocket engines dump heat into the exhaust gases but in a vacuum radiators have to be huge and heavy to get rid of significant amounts of heat from something like a nuclear reactor. They also have to be shaded from sunlight to stop them absorbing heat...
They're getting cracked because they're not paying attention to their security.
But start-ups are all about the most buzz you can generate in the shortest time. You need to get that product out the door ASAP because your competitors aren't going to wait for you to build your secure system first. After all, you're not in the business of security, you're in the business of connecting up the most people and building your community./sacasm*
*Added because even I thought I was starting to sound like a lean-startup advocate
If a two-person rule is put into place, also put into place two switches further apart than arm's reach that have to be pressed in-sync or in very close succession.
So the pilot and co-pilot are in the cockpit and the door is locked. Then one of them has a heart attack and is incapacitated. Now no-one can get into the cockpit.
So you are saying: 28 year olds were perfectly fit to pursue risky adventures. Am I missing something from your argument?
Have you ever looked at the average age of air force fighter pilots? People in their mid-twenties get to fly planes packed full of munitions that can ruin your day.
Could someone fill me in on the economics of nuclear power generation? I'd like to know what the usual payback period for a plant is, and how much it costs to operate a plant over that period.
Well in terms of foreign aid and keeping a positive political presence in the area, the payback for Russia is priceless.
Yep, yep, sorry... Apple (as an organization) has consistently delivered hardware that we could count on, met or surpassed our needs (and alternative vendors)
Devils Advocate here, look what Apple did by gutting the hardware specs of the latest release of the Mac Mini. In addition they had slowly been morphing their hardware into something that is pure commodity - no user changeable RAM, Flash etc so you have to pay the full Apple price for those items when you buy the complete system, and you are limited by what they offer on the Apple store. As a result their hardware offerings are becoming less desirable every year to the point that I am considering that my next apple computer will be a hackintosh.
And I say that with 2 Apple computers, an iPad, an iPod touch and an iPod nano on my desk (and a Mac Mini in the other room)
In the U.S. the supreme court allows mandatory checkpoints only because they are pre-published where the driver has the ability to be informed and can take a different route.
There is also the fact that the US government defines the "border" as including 100 mile in from the physical border and can pretty well do what it likes in that zone. This "border" conveniently includes where the majority of the population lives. Are You Living in the Government's "Border" Zone?
If your are carrying your unlocked phone, and you get mugged and hand over your phone, then the mugger now doesn't have to enter a passcode until he/she puts it down.
Q. If your Android phone is unlocked, how easy is it to change the passcode?
Unfortunately, Costa Rica still allows their police to search all cars at a checkpoint in the middle of the country so any feeling of freedom or closeness with nature is quickly soured.
Gee, that sounds familiar, sort of like what the US currently does with its border checkpoints that are in the interior of the country, and not on the border.
Now, they only need to install electric pumps for when it's not raining, and they're 100% renewable forever!
The jokes on you as the US already does this. The Bath County Pumped Storage Station at a capacity of 3GW is the largest pumped storage station in the world.
this is more just for the workers, which to be fair, should be limiting their exposure to it in the first place. It's well known that it can cause health effects if mixed without any respirator coveralls etc..
I was at the dentist the other day, and the tech taking X-rays of my teeth was in the room while the x-rays were taken - and she said to her friend "If I wore a (dosimeter) badge, I'd probably get in trouble for what I do". So she knew the risks, yet still did the work in a manner that exposed her to x-rays. That was a great example of how you can't fix stupid.
Now apply that to workers mixing chemicals who are probably far less educated in what the risks of what they are coin are.
you joked about auto mechanics, but those are skills that cannot be outsourced. you have to be present to do an engine swap. rajiv (I mean 'bob') can't do this over the phone. those will be the safer jobs, going forward. not high paying, but lets be honest: a constant paycheck is way better than being out of work for months at a time, every year or two.
Actually I was thinking about general mechanics and the demise of the manufacturing sector in the US. So yes, in one sense mechanics have been outsourced.
Hey.. I have Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX and it actually was an informative book. I seriously learnt a lot about Active X and the Windows Registry when I first read it.
Let's force everyone to learn how to code! We need more bad programmers!
You just don't get it do you? This is something that they have to do. They'd be the laughing stock of the country if they don't progress their unemployed masses to the modern economy!
How can Arkansas hold its head up high when all the popular states have bucket loads of unemployed programmers and they only have unemployed mechanics?
If you require accurate local times, then you know that and know the error terms on your clocks.
And that was the issue pointed out in the second FA - that the error terms are so badly defined that it affects "correctness" of operation.
“For example,” he writes “for a driverless car to decide whether what it senses ahead is a plastic bag blowing in the wind or a child running, its decision-making program needs to execute within a tight deadline. Yet modern computer programs only have probabilities on execution times, rather than the strong certainties that safety-critical systems require,”
While I can't argue the merits of timekeeping one way or another, I'm wondering if the reporting of this report has actually gotten the way of the what the report is actually about, because I would want my safety systems running on a hard real-time OS and this quote implies that they aren't.
What it does have is mandatory attendance. What you do in the voting booth is your own business. And all of which is done on a Saturday.
If anything I think the USA would be better off with moving the election day from Tuesday. See Why Tuesday? for info about the slow push to make this change.
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Nobody would be working on methane-fueled rocket engines if they didn't have a long-term goal of colonizing Mars.
Or they might have invested heavily in cattle ranches a la Thunderdome in order to leverage a source of Methane that is currently going to waste.
Don't forget the multi-megawatt radiators needed to provide a cold sink for those reactors. Chemical rocket engines dump heat into the exhaust gases but in a vacuum radiators have to be huge and heavy to get rid of significant amounts of heat from something like a nuclear reactor. They also have to be shaded from sunlight to stop them absorbing heat...
There is always Nuclear Thermal Rockets which pour the reactors heat into the propellant.
They're getting cracked because they're not paying attention to their security.
But start-ups are all about the most buzz you can generate in the shortest time. You need to get that product out the door ASAP because your competitors aren't going to wait for you to build your secure system first. After all, you're not in the business of security, you're in the business of connecting up the most people and building your community. /sacasm*
*Added because even I thought I was starting to sound like a lean-startup advocate
If a two-person rule is put into place, also put into place two switches further apart than arm's reach that have to be pressed in-sync or in very close succession.
So the pilot and co-pilot are in the cockpit and the door is locked. Then one of them has a heart attack and is incapacitated. Now no-one can get into the cockpit.
Like TFS says we don't have enough info
As that's going to stop people bringing on the torches, pitchforks and pop-corn. This is FB we are talking about after all.
I know it is a long shot. But couldn't he have fainted and fallen - changing many button positions - including this.
The chances of that are about the same as those people who committed suicide by shooting themselves in the head - twice.
So you are saying: 28 year olds were perfectly fit to pursue risky adventures. Am I missing something from your argument?
Have you ever looked at the average age of air force fighter pilots? People in their mid-twenties get to fly planes packed full of munitions that can ruin your day.
Regardless, was 16 schoolkids (amongst others) on that flight. You wanna hari kari? Go ahead, but keep it on your own dime.
Invoking "Think of the children" is just as bad here as anywhere else. None of the people on that plane deserved what happened to them*
* with perhaps the exception of the co-pilot
Could someone fill me in on the economics of nuclear power generation? I'd like to know what the usual payback period for a plant is, and how much it costs to operate a plant over that period.
Well in terms of foreign aid and keeping a positive political presence in the area, the payback for Russia is priceless.
For a moment I thought that Larry was back in a new "Dream chaser" game.
Yep, yep, sorry... Apple (as an organization) has consistently delivered hardware that we could count on, met or surpassed our needs (and alternative vendors)
Devils Advocate here, look what Apple did by gutting the hardware specs of the latest release of the Mac Mini. In addition they had slowly been morphing their hardware into something that is pure commodity - no user changeable RAM, Flash etc so you have to pay the full Apple price for those items when you buy the complete system, and you are limited by what they offer on the Apple store. As a result their hardware offerings are becoming less desirable every year to the point that I am considering that my next apple computer will be a hackintosh.
And I say that with 2 Apple computers, an iPad, an iPod touch and an iPod nano on my desk (and a Mac Mini in the other room)
But how did the malware get on BOTH of the computers in the first place? TFA totally avoids that question.
In the U.S. the supreme court allows mandatory checkpoints only because they are pre-published where the driver has the ability to be informed and can take a different route.
There is also the fact that the US government defines the "border" as including 100 mile in from the physical border and can pretty well do what it likes in that zone. This "border" conveniently includes where the majority of the population lives. Are You Living in the Government's "Border" Zone?
If your are carrying your unlocked phone, and you get mugged and hand over your phone, then the mugger now doesn't have to enter a passcode until he/she puts it down.
Q. If your Android phone is unlocked, how easy is it to change the passcode?
Unfortunately, Costa Rica still allows their police to search all cars at a checkpoint in the middle of the country so any feeling of freedom or closeness with nature is quickly soured.
Gee, that sounds familiar, sort of like what the US currently does with its border checkpoints that are in the interior of the country, and not on the border.
Now, they only need to install electric pumps for when it's not raining, and they're 100% renewable forever!
The jokes on you as the US already does this. The Bath County Pumped Storage Station at a capacity of 3GW is the largest pumped storage station in the world.
this is more just for the workers, which to be fair, should be limiting their exposure to it in the first place. It's well known that it can cause health effects if mixed without any respirator coveralls etc..
I was at the dentist the other day, and the tech taking X-rays of my teeth was in the room while the x-rays were taken - and she said to her friend "If I wore a (dosimeter) badge, I'd probably get in trouble for what I do". So she knew the risks, yet still did the work in a manner that exposed her to x-rays. That was a great example of how you can't fix stupid.
Now apply that to workers mixing chemicals who are probably far less educated in what the risks of what they are coin are.
The only place where sloth and gluttony are seen as a preferred way of life.
1. Arkansas has more programmers per capita than New York or California.
2. Programmers have less than half the unemployment rate of other workers.
There you go, ruining a cheap joke with facts.
you joked about auto mechanics, but those are skills that cannot be outsourced. you have to be present to do an engine swap. rajiv (I mean 'bob') can't do this over the phone. those will be the safer jobs, going forward. not high paying, but lets be honest: a constant paycheck is way better than being out of work for months at a time, every year or two.
Actually I was thinking about general mechanics and the demise of the manufacturing sector in the US. So yes, in one sense mechanics have been outsourced.
Looking forward to squaredance instructions in public boolean
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/vid...
Hey .. I have Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX and it actually was an informative book. I seriously learnt a lot about Active X and the Windows Registry when I first read it.
Let's force everyone to learn how to code! We need more bad programmers!
You just don't get it do you? This is something that they have to do. They'd be the laughing stock of the country if they don't progress their unemployed masses to the modern economy!
How can Arkansas hold its head up high when all the popular states have bucket loads of unemployed programmers and they only have unemployed mechanics?
If you require accurate local times, then you know that and know the error terms on your clocks.
And that was the issue pointed out in the second FA - that the error terms are so badly defined that it affects "correctness" of operation.
“For example,” he writes “for a driverless car to decide whether what it senses ahead is a plastic bag blowing in the wind or a child running, its decision-making program needs to execute within a tight deadline. Yet modern computer programs only have probabilities on execution times, rather than the strong certainties that safety-critical systems require,”
While I can't argue the merits of timekeeping one way or another, I'm wondering if the reporting of this report has actually gotten the way of the what the report is actually about, because I would want my safety systems running on a hard real-time OS and this quote implies that they aren't.
So, everyone expects to be perfectly anonymous at a Customs Checkpoint, eh?
I think it's more that people are worried how the collected biometric data may be used in places other than the border or for "official" purposes.
What it does have is mandatory attendance . What you do in the voting booth is your own business. And all of which is done on a Saturday.
If anything I think the USA would be better off with moving the election day from Tuesday. See Why Tuesday? for info about the slow push to make this change.