What are you talking about with 'most of the gulf'?
The plumes of oil contaminated water are huge on their own, but in the context of the gulf they really aren't that big. There are 660 quadrillion gallons of water there. There is 'only' a few million tonnes of oil. If the oil goes everywhere, there is plenty of oxygen to react with it. If it doesn't go everywhere, then everywhere can't be completely depleted of oxygen.
Considering that something like 1/2 of the oil spilled is already mostly gone, the long term effects are probably going to be fairly manageable. It is the short term effects and the local effects that are going to be really bad.
But the overall refining capacity has increased (or if that goes too far for you, it is at least fair to say that it has stayed the same for 30 years):
This well was going to produce at something like 0.1% of U.S. consumption, that is enough to impact prices some, but it isn't enough to send futures into a shitstorm, it is certainly less of an issue than increasing Chinese consumption.
The more refined question is whether it is worth distinguishing between incidental interception of such signals while doing other activities and the intentional systematic sampling of such information.
Personally, I'm not that worried about it (WPA makes it fairly easy to at least advertise that you desire privacy), but I see why people have some concerns.
They are entirely unapologetic about capturing SSIDs and such (the subtext being that they can use it to build a location service).
They are sad that they stored a few unencrypted packets of captured data, as they had no idea of the shitstorm they were in for (I sort of doubt they spent a significant amount of time connected to each router, so really they probably only found out about 1 kinky fetish of someone near each open router, not all of the kinky fetishes. Or something.).
That's such a lazy answer; there is nothing stopping us from responding to brand new technologies by adjusting social mores and laws.
Privacy might not be the the right word to talk about it, but that doesn't mean we can't have some rules about respecting others while in public (I don't think that police are a particularly interesting example, if you want to put on the uniform of authority, you damn well better be willing to let the public watch what you do with it).
Far more money goes to stock dividends than goes to CEO salaries.
I'm not trying to defend their pay packages, I'm just pointing out that you haven't even begun to capture the situation.
As an example, the highest paid CEO in 2009 (at least in the U.S., didn't check for a higher world figure) was Larry Ellison, at $85 million. Meanwhile, Oracle paid about $300 million in dividends. If you jump down to number 20, the CEO made about $20 million, while the company paid more than $1 billion in dividends.
So the CEO compensation is probably outsize, but by no means is it where the majority of the money is ending up.
We just onshore everything. I just spent some time trying to come up with some steel production numbers for the U.S. (one of our vaunted 'dead' industries). The best numbers I came up with come from the the USGS:
Raw steel production in 2008, in the U.S., was greater than most of the last 30 years and greater than any year prior to 1950. At about 92 million metric tons, it is only about 40% lower than the 1973 peak of 137 million metric tons (such percentages are a pain in the ass, production in 2008 represented a 33% drop from 1973, or alternatively, 1973 production was 149% of 2008 production, so a lot more, but the industry didn't exactly disappear).
I didn't look at those figures for a long time, so I may be interpreting them incorrectly, but I don't think so. Basically, Western labor is not problematically expensive (at least when combined with automation), it just isn't as profitable as cheap Chinese labor.
It explains why it has a separate install process, and the separate install process makes it more plausible that the update would mistakenly installed in browsers that do not have the toolbar installed, because of some error in the roll out process.
The outcry-backlash for stuff like this is way too loud for Microsoft to bother trying to 'get away with something', it seems pretty likely that it was a mistake.
You have out-obtused me, I have little idea what your localities share in common.
Do you mean to insist that they lack the money or stability to operate nuclear plants? That isn't exactly entirely attributable to fission itself. And Toshiba wants to sell them safe, small scale, self contained nuclear generation. The U.S. could be tasked with providing the islands with power, the U.S. Navy has long experience safely operating floating reactors (money is an issue there, but if we want to 'continue living in a civilization', we might have to stop worrying about it so much).
I'm about evenly split on governments spending $20 billion on new fission generation vs fusion research, but I'm not very optimistic about fusion, mostly based on the numbers in a recent Scientific American article:
The engineering requirements for the jacket on a tritium consuming fusion reactor are 'hilarious'. There is no better word. The targets for laser ignition also present 'interesting' production challenges. Meanwhile, uranium reactors 'fucking work', with political problems preventing them from being built, not fundamental technical challenges.
Not really. Energy unity is a big challenge, but fuel-in fuel-out is a bigger one.
If we wanted to, we could start operating a bunch more of those fission reactors; they don't necessarily make economic sense given current market prices, but those markets probably don't accurately capture the consequences of other forms of energy production, and fission is certainly still energy positive (and it is probably energy positive to pull uranium out the sea).
We have millions of hours of operational experience on fail-crazy plant designs resulting in 2 major safety incidents, 1 of which was a medium sized disaster and 1 of which was successfully contained, and we can move on to building actual fail-safe designs.
The waste is certainly a significant issue, but it is entirely manageable, at least from a technical perspective.
(To be clear, I mean this hole, I would not be surprised if they come back and put a new hole in the reservoir once people use their desire for cheap gasoline to forget about the carnage)
They had tapped the reservoir and had the well under control. Then they pumped about 1/2 of the mass out of the casing (which, if you do some math, means that they reduced the containment pressure of the man made side by about 1/2).
They knew full well what the pressures were and made a stupid decision, it was a human failure, not a result of unexpected conditions underground.
The pressure under the BOP is closer to 4500 psi (the reservoir is not at 20,000 psi, and the 18,000 foot column of oil contributes a decent pressure drop). The pressure above the BOP is probably less than 3,000 psi (according to figures released by the government, the data is linked from the DoE site).
So you are off by a factor of at least 20x there. Then, your arithmetic is faulty, a 21 inch pipe has a surface area of about 415 square inches, not 1500 (pipe sizes are diameters, it looks like you used the 21" size as a radius). So the cap 'only' needs to hold back about 415,000 pounds.
You need to be more arrogant, taking moral cues from the people that write/. summaries is like trying to stop your eyes burning with a nice gasoline rinse, it just doesn't make any sense.
They care so much about consumers that they refuse to treat them like adults.
A cryptographically controlled app distribution channel is probably a good idea, charging $100 for a very limited opt-out is ridiculous. They could easily have the opt out switch be an app from the app store, giving them an opportunity to warn users about the dangers of non-official apps while tracking the phones that have abandoned Apple's smothering safety. The lack of opt out is not 'for the good of customers', it is control-freakery.
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What are you talking about with 'most of the gulf'?
The plumes of oil contaminated water are huge on their own, but in the context of the gulf they really aren't that big. There are 660 quadrillion gallons of water there. There is 'only' a few million tonnes of oil. If the oil goes everywhere, there is plenty of oxygen to react with it. If it doesn't go everywhere, then everywhere can't be completely depleted of oxygen.
Considering that something like 1/2 of the oil spilled is already mostly gone, the long term effects are probably going to be fairly manageable. It is the short term effects and the local effects that are going to be really bad.
Yes, the number of refineries has decreased over time:
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=8_NA_8O0_NUS_C&f=A
But the overall refining capacity has increased (or if that goes too far for you, it is at least fair to say that it has stayed the same for 30 years):
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=8_NA_8DO_NUS_4&f=A
This well was going to produce at something like 0.1% of U.S. consumption, that is enough to impact prices some, but it isn't enough to send futures into a shitstorm, it is certainly less of an issue than increasing Chinese consumption.
The more refined question is whether it is worth distinguishing between incidental interception of such signals while doing other activities and the intentional systematic sampling of such information.
Personally, I'm not that worried about it (WPA makes it fairly easy to at least advertise that you desire privacy), but I see why people have some concerns.
They are entirely unapologetic about capturing SSIDs and such (the subtext being that they can use it to build a location service).
They are sad that they stored a few unencrypted packets of captured data, as they had no idea of the shitstorm they were in for (I sort of doubt they spent a significant amount of time connected to each router, so really they probably only found out about 1 kinky fetish of someone near each open router, not all of the kinky fetishes. Or something.).
That's such a lazy answer; there is nothing stopping us from responding to brand new technologies by adjusting social mores and laws.
Privacy might not be the the right word to talk about it, but that doesn't mean we can't have some rules about respecting others while in public (I don't think that police are a particularly interesting example, if you want to put on the uniform of authority, you damn well better be willing to let the public watch what you do with it).
Far more money goes to stock dividends than goes to CEO salaries.
I'm not trying to defend their pay packages, I'm just pointing out that you haven't even begun to capture the situation.
As an example, the highest paid CEO in 2009 (at least in the U.S., didn't check for a higher world figure) was Larry Ellison, at $85 million. Meanwhile, Oracle paid about $300 million in dividends. If you jump down to number 20, the CEO made about $20 million, while the company paid more than $1 billion in dividends.
So the CEO compensation is probably outsize, but by no means is it where the majority of the money is ending up.
(Pay numbers from here: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/news/1004/gallery.top_ceo_pay/index.html
Use Cash flow to check the amount of dividends paid: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cf?s=ORCL+Cash+Flow&annual )
If was that guy Stalin. He liked to kill millions, so it isn't particularly shocking that he said that.
He is saying that African slavers are on their way to come take you to work for Foxconn in China.
We just onshore everything. I just spent some time trying to come up with some steel production numbers for the U.S. (one of our vaunted 'dead' industries). The best numbers I came up with come from the the USGS:
http://minerals.usgs.gov/ds/2005/140/
(look for Iron and Steel)
Raw steel production in 2008, in the U.S., was greater than most of the last 30 years and greater than any year prior to 1950. At about 92 million metric tons, it is only about 40% lower than the 1973 peak of 137 million metric tons (such percentages are a pain in the ass, production in 2008 represented a 33% drop from 1973, or alternatively, 1973 production was 149% of 2008 production, so a lot more, but the industry didn't exactly disappear).
I didn't look at those figures for a long time, so I may be interpreting them incorrectly, but I don't think so. Basically, Western labor is not problematically expensive (at least when combined with automation), it just isn't as profitable as cheap Chinese labor.
The Wall St. banks mostly already paid the government back. AIG, GM, Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac are where the money just disappeared.
I don't think you know what a boycott is.
Also, if you manually applied the updates, it seems a bit tough to argue that they did anything unauthorized on your systems.
It explains why it has a separate install process, and the separate install process makes it more plausible that the update would mistakenly installed in browsers that do not have the toolbar installed, because of some error in the roll out process.
The outcry-backlash for stuff like this is way too loud for Microsoft to bother trying to 'get away with something', it seems pretty likely that it was a mistake.
Lock the door to avoid using a secret?
With what sort of lock?
I want to process most of it into more fuel.
And I'm not sure why you think you need 5,000 years of AC, dry cask storage is sufficient after a few years.
So yeah, if it comes down to having magic holes in my wall or not, I want society to take those risks.
Not if seawater extraction is energy positive, and there is good reason to believe that it is (it has been done at experimental scales...).
You have out-obtused me, I have little idea what your localities share in common.
Do you mean to insist that they lack the money or stability to operate nuclear plants? That isn't exactly entirely attributable to fission itself. And Toshiba wants to sell them safe, small scale, self contained nuclear generation. The U.S. could be tasked with providing the islands with power, the U.S. Navy has long experience safely operating floating reactors (money is an issue there, but if we want to 'continue living in a civilization', we might have to stop worrying about it so much).
I'm about evenly split on governments spending $20 billion on new fission generation vs fusion research, but I'm not very optimistic about fusion, mostly based on the numbers in a recent Scientific American article:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fusions-false-dawn
The engineering requirements for the jacket on a tritium consuming fusion reactor are 'hilarious'. There is no better word. The targets for laser ignition also present 'interesting' production challenges. Meanwhile, uranium reactors 'fucking work', with political problems preventing them from being built, not fundamental technical challenges.
It really doesn't make any sense to claim to care about what happens to people when you have so little respect for them.
The oil is disappearing much faster. The damn sun keeps making more drinkable water, and we can join that parade anytime we feel like it.
Not really. Energy unity is a big challenge, but fuel-in fuel-out is a bigger one.
If we wanted to, we could start operating a bunch more of those fission reactors; they don't necessarily make economic sense given current market prices, but those markets probably don't accurately capture the consequences of other forms of energy production, and fission is certainly still energy positive (and it is probably energy positive to pull uranium out the sea).
We have millions of hours of operational experience on fail-crazy plant designs resulting in 2 major safety incidents, 1 of which was a medium sized disaster and 1 of which was successfully contained, and we can move on to building actual fail-safe designs.
The waste is certainly a significant issue, but it is entirely manageable, at least from a technical perspective.
If they seal the well, will you buy me a turkey?
If they don't, I'll buy you a Russian.
(To be clear, I mean this hole, I would not be surprised if they come back and put a new hole in the reservoir once people use their desire for cheap gasoline to forget about the carnage)
They had tapped the reservoir and had the well under control. Then they pumped about 1/2 of the mass out of the casing (which, if you do some math, means that they reduced the containment pressure of the man made side by about 1/2).
They knew full well what the pressures were and made a stupid decision, it was a human failure, not a result of unexpected conditions underground.
The pressure under the BOP is closer to 4500 psi (the reservoir is not at 20,000 psi, and the 18,000 foot column of oil contributes a decent pressure drop). The pressure above the BOP is probably less than 3,000 psi (according to figures released by the government, the data is linked from the DoE site).
So you are off by a factor of at least 20x there. Then, your arithmetic is faulty, a 21 inch pipe has a surface area of about 415 square inches, not 1500 (pipe sizes are diameters, it looks like you used the 21" size as a radius). So the cap 'only' needs to hold back about 415,000 pounds.
You need to be more arrogant, taking moral cues from the people that write /. summaries is like trying to stop your eyes burning with a nice gasoline rinse, it just doesn't make any sense.
Apple makes significant contributions to the work of the project. For instance, things like the debugger discussed in this here story.
They care so much about consumers that they refuse to treat them like adults.
A cryptographically controlled app distribution channel is probably a good idea, charging $100 for a very limited opt-out is ridiculous. They could easily have the opt out switch be an app from the app store, giving them an opportunity to warn users about the dangers of non-official apps while tracking the phones that have abandoned Apple's smothering safety. The lack of opt out is not 'for the good of customers', it is control-freakery.