I seem to recall something about a home-brew semi-vertical garden design. "MyGrowPonics" or something similar. Basically a wallmount of long plastic flowerpots, rockwool growth matrix, and a small fish-pond pump, pumping fertilizer/water mix up to the top level, and letting it drain through the stack at alternate ends, until it ended up in the bottom reservoir with the pump. . . Site is apparently long gone, it's a Chinese site now. But basically, vertical hydroponics on a home budget...
. ..which means FEWER full-time employees pushed harder, if you mandate FTE and Benefits.
Hint: your pay is what you get in trade for your labor. If the employer has to pay you more, he or she is going to try to get at least that much more labor out of you; And when it gets to the point, where the mandated wages and benefits outweigh the cost of automation over a reasonable period of time. . . . poof. ..the job goes away. Permanently. You don't have to be a nuclear rocket brain surgeon to figure this out. . .
No clue. . . but as MUMPS is now 50 years old, it's entirely possible that it was built without multi-user systems in mind. Looking at the basic description in Wikipedia, and perusing the Annotated MUMPS standard, I don't even see provisions for accounts, much less security. . .
. . . . year or two back, my oldest daughter entered a program to learn the "EPIC" medical records system. Now, admittedly, we're a geekhaus, my daughters were doing computers at age 5, and my youngest managed to hack the oldest by examining her browser cache at age 8.
But she came back from the first day or two of training, shaking HER head. Not only was there no folder security, but, at least as configured there, every user was an admin.. Each of which could mess with another's files and account settings.
Worse still, they were being trained at the site where the system was being hosted for production. No physical security. No backup power: in fact, zero redundancy whatsoever. And data backup ? "What's that ?"
She wrote up a 2-page summary of problems SHE saw (and her training was in Medical Administration, although she DID learn Security from me. ..). She sends it to the POC at the Hospital the system was in the process of being installed for. . ..and the EPIC people dropped her from the course.
There's a cherry on the top of this Sundae of Fail: she was eventually hired by the Hospital as, surprisingly enough, a Ward Medical Admin. And the IT Department comes to HER for help and suggestions. . . .
When the post-mortem finally comes in, I'd be more than willing to bet that it was due to (1) lack of formalized baseline requirements to hang an initial design on, and the real program-killer, (2) constant requirements creep. Because contractors are unwilling to tell a Federal Customer "no" (because it usually results in decreases in funding in the next task order, or re-allocation of slots to another contractor. ..), there's a constant "just add this one little thing". Over and over again, until you have an unworkable mess and a design that looks nothing like the initial requirement.
Muggers on Metro are a relatively recent phenomena. However, the Metro system seems to be suffering from imminent cascade failure. During the one day total shutdown of Metro, 26 separate badly-worn cable connections were found, of the sort that caused a local shutdown on March 14th, and similar to the short that caused the L'Enfant Plaza incident in 2015 that killed one rider, and hospitalized 80 more. .
The REAL question, at least in my eyes, for Metro, is given the damage shown during the March 17th shutdown, how did these cables POSSIBLY have passed the inspection that was claimed to have been done after the L'Enfant Plaza incident. . .
I've found, purely by instinct, a way to deal with passive-aggressive Vegans. I threw a party several years ago, and had no idea that the date of a guy I had known from a previous job, was a hard-core vegan. Things had already gone wrong (kitchen set off the smoke alarm, and a neighbor's dog had gotten into the yard. ..), when she loudly complained that there were no Vegan Entrees.
I opened the back door, pointed to the lawn, and told her to graze to her heart's content. . .
When she stomped out, I got a small ovation from the other attendees. . . (grin)
. . . . he may be tele-operating a squad of Infantry-bots or a Robo-tank or three, but the age of the manned Airborne Assault was over 50+ years ago. . .
I disagree: ***selling price*** of PV panels is coming down. However, the energy cost of creating solar panels isn't. The rare earths are, not surprisingly, rare, and both mining and refining them have not changed much. So the breakeven point is not QUITE as good as it sounds, it's just that labor in China costs less than it does elsewhere. And that is changing as well.
As a longer-term issue, is the declining performance of PV panels over time. This, too, is slowly being overcome, but in the long term, will require PV panels to be recycled and re-manufactured as they drop below viable generation levels. There isn't much data at all on these costs, simply because the vast majority of installed PV panels have yet to reach that state.
I suspect that "transition" will not fully occur. PV may work for many residential applications, but lacks both the energy density and constant load delivered that many industrial applications require.
Simply, there's a sevenfold decrease in radiation over every tenfold increase in time. A basic rule-of-thumb for estimating radioactive decay and dose rates. Yes, there are still radiation hell areas around the Chernobyl reactor core, but the place was designed to produce weapons-grade plutonium. But typical dose rates in the area are well under a millisievert per hour. While several thousand times higher than the average dose received by the average resident of the planet, it's still well below the dose required to cause even mild radiation sickness. There is, of course, an increased cancer risk, but the increase is also small, if measureable.
So the question becomes: what's the better risk: let it self-decontaminate via decay, or dump waste there. And if so, how will it be stored ? Surface Storage of hazardous waste materials, be they radioactive or chemically active/poisonous (or, like plutonium, both. ..) is FAR less than optimal. Ideally, storage of waste should be in engineered long-duration containers stored out of the weather in a geologically stable area, well insulated from both the atmosphere and the local water table.
Actually, more and more, America is done with Europe. And it could be said that a lot of European nationals are ALSO just about done with "Europe". Perhaps you've heard of the Brexit Vote ? Or the Alternativ fur Deutschland movement ?
I'll also note that this conversation is occurring in English. Not German. Or Russian.
On behalf of my late grandfather, who flew 17 missions in a B-25 over Germany, you're welcome.
On behalf of my father, who served as a tank driver in the 1950s in Germany, you're welcome.
And on my behalf, flying bombers in support of NATO, you're welcome.
Perhaps. Perhaps not. I'm sure Pepco's senior management negotiated deals as well. And economies of scale can also mean more room for feather-bedding. Ask any "member" of the Rappahannock Electric Cooperative. Technically non-profit, but electricity prices have doubled since they bought my area from for-profit Appalachian Power. But I get a pretty-but-utterly-useless magazine from them, every month, that they won't stop sending, even if requested, and send you an automated, animated presentation explaining why your power bill is so much more than the previous month. Because, apparently, they don't think that people understand that, when it gets hot and you turn the air conditioner on, you use more power, and thus have a higher bill./boggle.
Looks interesting. A bit late as well, but one expects that from Kickstarters. I should know, first Kickstarter I was in on, was Star Citizen. Now 2 1/2 years late. . .
. . ..of a 2013 (which still hasn't shipped). The only real innovation here seems to be the feed system (pedestal-pull rather than float the resin on salt-water) and a wider variety of resins. . .
. . . . because for months, after the initial and second disapproval, you constantly heard commercials with paid shills, excuse me, Local Concerned Citizens extolling the virtues of the merger.
I'd be curious to know just how large the advertising budget was for the PR effort. Likely, in the millions of dollars. Which makes you wonder, just how much will Excelon be making, that they can shell out all this coin JUST to be the local electric utility. . .
. . ..can we assume that these panels are being deployed in the less-developed hinterlands ? Between sunlight being blocked, and the need to clean particulates off the panels for best efficiency, one would reasonably guess that urban applications of solar in China are minimal. . . .
And the net WAS that way. Once. Before the AOLiszation of the Net. Before the Green Card Spam.
On the other hand, ANY message can get spread on the internet, no matter HOW stupid. "Facepalming" wasn't a verb until the Age of Internet Crap. . .
We're not talking admin-level users, with sufficient clue to google and use that data to create a solution.
We're talking Generic-users. The sort that, 20 years ago, were calling into Help Desk to report that they had broken their computer's cup holder, or that they couldn't insert disk 3 of 7, as no more disks would fit into the slot...
3. Configure the appropriate Local Security Policy
If Micro$loth were to release a one-click fix, MAYBE. But expecting the average Joe out there to correctly configure sysadmin tools is a bit of a stretch. . .
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I seem to recall something about a home-brew semi-vertical garden design. "MyGrowPonics" or something similar. Basically a wallmount of long plastic flowerpots, rockwool growth matrix, and a small fish-pond pump, pumping fertilizer/water mix up to the top level, and letting it drain through the stack at alternate ends, until it ended up in the bottom reservoir with the pump. . . Site is apparently long gone, it's a Chinese site now. But basically, vertical hydroponics on a home budget...
. . .which means FEWER full-time employees pushed harder, if you mandate FTE and Benefits.
Hint: your pay is what you get in trade for your labor. If the employer has to pay you more, he or she is going to try to get at least that much more labor out of you; And when it gets to the point, where the mandated wages and benefits outweigh the cost of automation over a reasonable period of time. . . . poof. . .the job goes away. Permanently. You don't have to be a nuclear rocket brain surgeon to figure this out. . .
. . . it's a Kickstarter without the guarantees of Kickstarter. . .
I see a lot of empty storefronts out there. That would suggest either:
(1) A lot of people have already chosen to take their ball and go home (unlikely), or
(2) A lot of people had that choice made for them by failing to meet expenses. I suspect this is the overwhelming majority of the cases. . .
. . . .that the "finance executive" is no longer employed by Mattel ?? I note that in all the reports, this executive is carefully not named. . .
No clue. . . but as MUMPS is now 50 years old, it's entirely possible that it was built without multi-user systems in mind. Looking at the basic description in Wikipedia, and perusing the Annotated MUMPS standard, I don't even see provisions for accounts, much less security. . .
. . . . year or two back, my oldest daughter entered a program to learn the "EPIC" medical records system. Now, admittedly, we're a geekhaus, my daughters were doing computers at age 5, and my youngest managed to hack the oldest by examining her browser cache at age 8.
But she came back from the first day or two of training, shaking HER head. Not only was there no folder security, but, at least as configured there, every user was an admin.. Each of which could mess with another's files and account settings.
Worse still, they were being trained at the site where the system was being hosted for production. No physical security. No backup power: in fact, zero redundancy whatsoever. And data backup ? "What's that ?"
She wrote up a 2-page summary of problems SHE saw (and her training was in Medical Administration, although she DID learn Security from me. . .). She sends it to the POC at the Hospital the system was in the process of being installed for. . . .and the EPIC people dropped her from the course.
There's a cherry on the top of this Sundae of Fail: she was eventually hired by the Hospital as, surprisingly enough, a Ward Medical Admin. And the IT Department comes to HER for help and suggestions. . . .
. . .otherwise, one could argue that the lack of Pirates causes Global Warming. . . .
. . . .and when the FBI started to develop its' own case manager, the "Virtual Case File", which was one of the more spectacular failures in Government IT Development.
When the post-mortem finally comes in, I'd be more than willing to bet that it was due to (1) lack of formalized baseline requirements to hang an initial design on, and the real program-killer, (2) constant requirements creep. Because contractors are unwilling to tell a Federal Customer "no" (because it usually results in decreases in funding in the next task order, or re-allocation of slots to another contractor. . .), there's a constant "just add this one little thing". Over and over again, until you have an unworkable mess and a design that looks nothing like the initial requirement.
The same kind of pressures destroyed the Navy A-12 "Avenger" attack jet in 1991: constant scope creep, until the aircraft was too heavy to fly off an aircraft carrier. The resulting legal fight lasted 13 years. . .
Muggers on Metro are a relatively recent phenomena. However, the Metro system seems to be suffering from imminent cascade failure. During the one day total shutdown of Metro, 26 separate badly-worn cable connections were found, of the sort that caused a local shutdown on March 14th, and similar to the short that caused the L'Enfant Plaza incident in 2015 that killed one rider, and hospitalized 80 more. .
The REAL question, at least in my eyes, for Metro, is given the damage shown during the March 17th shutdown, how did these cables POSSIBLY have passed the inspection that was claimed to have been done after the L'Enfant Plaza incident. . .
. . . so would that require a "Tremor Warning". And what did you have in mind for the "Safe Space". . .
I've found, purely by instinct, a way to deal with passive-aggressive Vegans. I threw a party several years ago, and had no idea that the date of a guy I had known from a previous job, was a hard-core vegan. Things had already gone wrong (kitchen set off the smoke alarm, and a neighbor's dog had gotten into the yard. . .), when she loudly complained that there were no Vegan Entrees.
I opened the back door, pointed to the lawn, and told her to graze to her heart's content. . .
When she stomped out, I got a small ovation from the other attendees. . . (grin)
. . . . it's Planet Ten, and the Red Lectroids that worry me. . . And no sign of Buckaroo Banzai OR the Hong Kong Cavaliers. . . .
. . . . he may be tele-operating a squad of Infantry-bots or a Robo-tank or three, but the age of the manned Airborne Assault was over 50+ years ago. . .
As a longer-term issue, is the declining performance of PV panels over time. This, too, is slowly being overcome, but in the long term, will require PV panels to be recycled and re-manufactured as they drop below viable generation levels. There isn't much data at all on these costs, simply because the vast majority of installed PV panels have yet to reach that state.
I suspect that "transition" will not fully occur. PV may work for many residential applications, but lacks both the energy density and constant load delivered that many industrial applications require.
So the question becomes: what's the better risk: let it self-decontaminate via decay, or dump waste there. And if so, how will it be stored ? Surface Storage of hazardous waste materials, be they radioactive or chemically active/poisonous (or, like plutonium, both. . .) is FAR less than optimal. Ideally, storage of waste should be in engineered long-duration containers stored out of the weather in a geologically stable area, well insulated from both the atmosphere and the local water table.
I'll also note that this conversation is occurring in English. Not German. Or Russian.
On behalf of my late grandfather, who flew 17 missions in a B-25 over Germany, you're welcome.
On behalf of my father, who served as a tank driver in the 1950s in Germany, you're welcome.
And on my behalf, flying bombers in support of NATO, you're welcome.
Perhaps. Perhaps not. I'm sure Pepco's senior management negotiated deals as well. And economies of scale can also mean more room for feather-bedding. Ask any "member" of the Rappahannock Electric Cooperative. Technically non-profit, but electricity prices have doubled since they bought my area from for-profit Appalachian Power. But I get a pretty-but-utterly-useless magazine from them, every month, that they won't stop sending, even if requested, and send you an automated, animated presentation explaining why your power bill is so much more than the previous month. Because, apparently, they don't think that people understand that, when it gets hot and you turn the air conditioner on, you use more power, and thus have a higher bill. /boggle.
Looks interesting. A bit late as well, but one expects that from Kickstarters. I should know, first Kickstarter I was in on, was Star Citizen. Now 2 1/2 years late. . .
. . . .of a 2013 (which still hasn't shipped). The only real innovation here seems to be the feed system (pedestal-pull rather than float the resin on salt-water) and a wider variety of resins. . .
. . . . because for months, after the initial and second disapproval, you constantly heard commercials with paid shills, excuse me, Local Concerned Citizens extolling the virtues of the merger. I'd be curious to know just how large the advertising budget was for the PR effort. Likely, in the millions of dollars. Which makes you wonder, just how much will Excelon be making, that they can shell out all this coin JUST to be the local electric utility. . .
. . . .can we assume that these panels are being deployed in the less-developed hinterlands ? Between sunlight being blocked, and the need to clean particulates off the panels for best efficiency, one would reasonably guess that urban applications of solar in China are minimal. . . .
And the net WAS that way. Once. Before the AOLiszation of the Net. Before the Green Card Spam. On the other hand, ANY message can get spread on the internet, no matter HOW stupid. "Facepalming" wasn't a verb until the Age of Internet Crap. . .
We're not talking admin-level users, with sufficient clue to google and use that data to create a solution.
We're talking Generic-users. The sort that, 20 years ago, were calling into Help Desk to report that they had broken their computer's cup holder, or that they couldn't insert disk 3 of 7, as no more disks would fit into the slot.. .
You know. . . Trump voters. . .
1. Load MMC.
2. Load up the Local Security Policy Plug-in
3. Configure the appropriate Local Security Policy
If Micro$loth were to release a one-click fix, MAYBE. But expecting the average Joe out there to correctly configure sysadmin tools is a bit of a stretch. . .