Wait until your cable co flags everything as copy once. Cables cards issue is it gave them more rights than the VCR ruling of the 80's. If I paid to watch it once I should be able to record it and watch it as much as I want on whatever gear I want.
Well there is an indirect benefit of other all the other hotspots. If you allready using the wifi there is no additional costs or burden. If your not using the wifi why didn't you ask to have it turned off or done the sane thing and bought your own cable modem?
TFA is garbage written by a meteorologist. Sure you can figure out the 99.9% average weather for the US. I would like to not have 3.5 major blackouts a year. There predictions are based on the anticipated future costs of solar and wind generation. Note that anticipated bit. It's only using current production costs while it's idling hydro, nuke, NG they might need to account for massive price spikes to only deliver power when needed, in the case of hydro and fission they have a fixed operating cost regardless of use, lots of cycling will increase maintenance costs so if only used 50% of the time their costs will at least double. In the case of fission you need new plants to be able to respond that quickly to only fill the demand. Hell it fails to account that on a generally windy bright sunny day you will have to idle solar and wind production increasing their base costs.
At the end of the day you need enough hydro/fission/NG/coal/whatever that is not reliant on weather to handle things. You're advocating a very inefficient system to assuage your ecological beliefs. We can get to a 0 emissions power generation today with fission, without a high level waste issue thats stable reliable and safe it's merely a question of building them the rest of the world allready is used the tech in commercial power generation.
The only baseload generator cheap enough to idle now is hydro. You need new plants designed with this as a goal to have solar/wind work well in the mix.
On the purely renewable side things like molten salt solar can act as a buffer. If EV's pick up in a HUGE way their batteries that are a sunk costs can also help a lot.
And you have gotten to this conclusion how? Yes RTG's meant for spaceborne projects are expensive anything in space is expensive. Technically it works fine a ton or so or 241am would power a house for hundreds of years. Still not a good idea the russians found out that scavengers were stripping the copper out of remote RTG's and getting pu everywhere.
Dirty bombs on rails? I assume you just hate any highly enriched fuel moving anywhere. Those factory build units do not need to be fueled in the factory it's an option for sure. I believe a lot of them are looking at barge transport and frankly thats far easier to secure.
In any event we have devolved, you think solar works wonders and seem to have no clue about other energy sources or how an effective grid needs to work. If you want to make solar work on a large scale you need enough base load to handle the worst case, else we turn into a 3rd world nation where the power goes out. That means baseload that can quickly cycle and is cheap enough to idle. We know and effective clean reliable power generation method we have working reactors only this country lacks the will and foresight to build them. Rather we extend the lifespan of existing reactors past their design life.
RTG's are not a replacement for reactors. It scales down small just fine and cheaply, your assertion was nuclear does not scale down well, reactors do not RTG's do. As far as scaling up, our current plants do not cycle well as in they can be turned off but take days to turn back on. Bigger just makes it worse, its far better to have 3 1gw next to each other than one 3gw when it's an on or off binary and days to turn back on. Again this is something that the modern gen III and above can deal with.
SMR's exist and are commercially viable, they are not exactly small in the output sense with the low end at 10's of MWe and the upper at 100's more of the physically small as in can be built in a factory and shipped as modules. Some are even looking at modules that need nothing for 5-10 years and are shipped back to be refueled and refurbished. They use more advanced cooling like gas cooling, meaning it's not radioactive for long and it goes up not into a water table if there is a leak. That's only enough power for a small city on the top end. They also produce a lot of process heat that can be useful for other things, desalination for example.
We do not recycle fuel rods as our current reactors are setup to make pu for weapons, the recycling would extract that pu (it would still need refinement but it's the base for fission weapons). Thus the government does not allow the reprocessing unless it needs pu. This is a problem of using 40+ year old designs that were meant to make weapons as a byproduct. We have working reactors in other countries that are happy to use our spent fuel rods as fuel, hell there are reactors that can use weapons grade pu as a fuel. Lookup the candu reactors and mox fuel, the US is stuck with gen II reactors and we keep refusing to build gen III+ that were designed to cheaply make electricity not as a cover to build nuclear weapons while being far safer.
To the main bit commercial power reactors are not just a pile of radioactive material slowly decaying and giving off energy. They accelerate the process to put out vast amounts of energy in a short period via various methods. An RTG is a very different beast that can be as simple as a wad of radioactive material and wire, it has no moving parts the flow of heat away generates the electricity.
Hate to break it to you but so called spend fuel rods are still quite radioactive. If they were not then they would not be a problem for long term storage. RTG's use natural radioactive decay so in essence anything radioactive can be used, the big differences is in how much shielding is required the best pu fuels only need a few mm of lead but have to be made and how much of a pile you need for the output required. 241am is a byproduct of commercial power generation already used in homes are part of smoke detectors because it's relatively cheap stable and easy to shield.
Nuclear scales down extremely well on the technical side. RTG's can easily put out as much power as household solar and do hot water/general heat as well.
The issue like always is with proliferations as nobody wants their redneck cousin fixing it.
Oh no people might be given information like your more likely to be mugged in this neighborhood than that one. Still seems useful a clueless traveler for example.
Sounds like the maps that overlayed crime stats awhile back. Or the ones that show people on the sex offender list etc etc.
It's still actual facts being used to make a rational decision that they will try to call racial bias. Facts are facts more crime happens in many predominantly minority neighborhoods. You can try and claim it's due to differences in policing but at the end of the day if more violent crime happens in a given area it's not as safe as another. The cause of this may well be related to poverty drug use etc etc but that does not change the cold hard fact that one place is riskier than another. It's hard to dispute numbers like http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub... urban settings are simply more dangerous on average per person. On the good news urban crime had diminished a lot and crime overall has gone down in the last decade or so.
Jesse Jackson has a field day with anything he can try and take advantage off regardless of reality to further his own political agenda.
This is pretty much using risk analysis to raise rates where there is more risk with the data to back up that analysis. Redlining was prejudice masquerading as risk analysis. Mind you the two will overlap. But if you're using more than just that red line on a map also looking at the people as individuals etc etc. This will probably drive gentrification, which tends to be a good thing for the neighborhood overall.
Why would third world countries need lots of IPv4 space? They are rolling out native IPv6 to end users, SNI pretty much means web hosting no longer needs piles of IPv4 Addresses. IPv4 needs to go away.
We allocated IPv4 on first come first served basis, it's a limited resource and redistributing it is not worth the hassle.
Not the cheap as cheap can be use the spare wires in 10/100 but the 1000bt ones like a TL-POE10R. 12/9/5v handles 10w 15 bucks. Getting a 2.1mm barrel jack to usb is easy enough.
Working in the hosting industry you end up for a few standard scenarios.
The rather tasteful pictures often from photographer parents of naked toddlers etc. The crazy anti porn people with flag it and report it and the cops are smart enough to ignore it. Sure some pedo might enjoy it but it's obviously not the intent. The cops do not care unless they have an ax to grind.
The late teen about the same, the actual porn and most photographers people have photo ID showing them to be 18+ at the time. Again the internet porn warriors bitch and the cops do not care.
Actual kiddie porn the cops only seem to care if they take CC and thus give them a huge net of easy warrants. We pull the content down either way.
I've had vendors tell me water/sewage gear in a mid sized city did not support routing. OK sure I can see them sending arp requests for the gw they have set when I inject traffic at them, but who knows maybe they have some funky L2 broadcast component. I'm voting for the vendors looked at old gear and went the answer is no get new stuff for anything it was not currently doing.
I had those same vendors tell me their gear did not support running through a tagged vlan, as in no change but moving their uplink into a vlaned port. They literally came back that only native vlan 1 was supported.
It's ok this is the same town who had dark fiber but the vendor told me it does not support vlans jumbos anything over a 1500mtu or gigabit on point to point glass in the ground. Companies see the government coming and try and BS their way into a payday.
At the end of the day I got some political coverage and setup routing a vlan and some firewalling. Works just fine. You can no longer turn off water pumps from the public library any school or any other government building. You can now control the stuff from someplace else than a 90's PC in a decommissioned maintenance garage. 10ge works just fine over that 100mbs only single mode fiber as well.
Funny newegg has several hundred laptops in the sub 300 range. Were talking about running pfsence at sub 100mbs speeds. As I said usb3 gigabit. Point is he is throwing a lot of $$$ and getting a far from optimal solution. If your serious about running something like this you probably have a box running VM's anyways.
Mind you loading up dd-wrt or similar on a nighthawk or what have you is a better idea.
Get a charge controller and bios thats not brain dead. Pretty much all my corp laptops now got smart and will charge to 60% so the battery does not die when it's plugged in all the time. Getting it to autoboot on power is a simple bios setting. That does mean you need to tell it to charge up to full before getting on plane etc not realy that hard.
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Wait until your cable co flags everything as copy once. Cables cards issue is it gave them more rights than the VCR ruling of the 80's. If I paid to watch it once I should be able to record it and watch it as much as I want on whatever gear I want.
Now now I can get 60's era military surplus with DES only takes a dozen d batteries.
Well there is an indirect benefit of other all the other hotspots. If you allready using the wifi there is no additional costs or burden. If your not using the wifi why didn't you ask to have it turned off or done the sane thing and bought your own cable modem?
Proliferation as in you dont want your redneck cousin with any non trivial amount of PU, a decent quantity of Americium etc etc.
TFA is garbage written by a meteorologist. Sure you can figure out the 99.9% average weather for the US. I would like to not have 3.5 major blackouts a year. There predictions are based on the anticipated future costs of solar and wind generation. Note that anticipated bit. It's only using current production costs while it's idling hydro, nuke, NG they might need to account for massive price spikes to only deliver power when needed, in the case of hydro and fission they have a fixed operating cost regardless of use, lots of cycling will increase maintenance costs so if only used 50% of the time their costs will at least double. In the case of fission you need new plants to be able to respond that quickly to only fill the demand. Hell it fails to account that on a generally windy bright sunny day you will have to idle solar and wind production increasing their base costs.
At the end of the day you need enough hydro/fission/NG/coal/whatever that is not reliant on weather to handle things. You're advocating a very inefficient system to assuage your ecological beliefs. We can get to a 0 emissions power generation today with fission, without a high level waste issue thats stable reliable and safe it's merely a question of building them the rest of the world allready is used the tech in commercial power generation.
The only baseload generator cheap enough to idle now is hydro. You need new plants designed with this as a goal to have solar/wind work well in the mix.
On the purely renewable side things like molten salt solar can act as a buffer. If EV's pick up in a HUGE way their batteries that are a sunk costs can also help a lot.
And you have gotten to this conclusion how? Yes RTG's meant for spaceborne projects are expensive anything in space is expensive. Technically it works fine a ton or so or 241am would power a house for hundreds of years. Still not a good idea the russians found out that scavengers were stripping the copper out of remote RTG's and getting pu everywhere.
Dirty bombs on rails? I assume you just hate any highly enriched fuel moving anywhere. Those factory build units do not need to be fueled in the factory it's an option for sure. I believe a lot of them are looking at barge transport and frankly thats far easier to secure.
In any event we have devolved, you think solar works wonders and seem to have no clue about other energy sources or how an effective grid needs to work. If you want to make solar work on a large scale you need enough base load to handle the worst case, else we turn into a 3rd world nation where the power goes out. That means baseload that can quickly cycle and is cheap enough to idle. We know and effective clean reliable power generation method we have working reactors only this country lacks the will and foresight to build them. Rather we extend the lifespan of existing reactors past their design life.
RTG's are not a replacement for reactors. It scales down small just fine and cheaply, your assertion was nuclear does not scale down well, reactors do not RTG's do. As far as scaling up, our current plants do not cycle well as in they can be turned off but take days to turn back on. Bigger just makes it worse, its far better to have 3 1gw next to each other than one 3gw when it's an on or off binary and days to turn back on. Again this is something that the modern gen III and above can deal with.
SMR's exist and are commercially viable, they are not exactly small in the output sense with the low end at 10's of MWe and the upper at 100's more of the physically small as in can be built in a factory and shipped as modules. Some are even looking at modules that need nothing for 5-10 years and are shipped back to be refueled and refurbished. They use more advanced cooling like gas cooling, meaning it's not radioactive for long and it goes up not into a water table if there is a leak. That's only enough power for a small city on the top end. They also produce a lot of process heat that can be useful for other things, desalination for example.
We do not recycle fuel rods as our current reactors are setup to make pu for weapons, the recycling would extract that pu (it would still need refinement but it's the base for fission weapons). Thus the government does not allow the reprocessing unless it needs pu. This is a problem of using 40+ year old designs that were meant to make weapons as a byproduct. We have working reactors in other countries that are happy to use our spent fuel rods as fuel, hell there are reactors that can use weapons grade pu as a fuel. Lookup the candu reactors and mox fuel, the US is stuck with gen II reactors and we keep refusing to build gen III+ that were designed to cheaply make electricity not as a cover to build nuclear weapons while being far safer.
To the main bit commercial power reactors are not just a pile of radioactive material slowly decaying and giving off energy. They accelerate the process to put out vast amounts of energy in a short period via various methods. An RTG is a very different beast that can be as simple as a wad of radioactive material and wire, it has no moving parts the flow of heat away generates the electricity.
Hate to break it to you but so called spend fuel rods are still quite radioactive. If they were not then they would not be a problem for long term storage. RTG's use natural radioactive decay so in essence anything radioactive can be used, the big differences is in how much shielding is required the best pu fuels only need a few mm of lead but have to be made and how much of a pile you need for the output required. 241am is a byproduct of commercial power generation already used in homes are part of smoke detectors because it's relatively cheap stable and easy to shield.
241am it's allready in our homes in small quantities. It's allready being created by existing reactors as a byproduct.
Nuclear scales down extremely well on the technical side. RTG's can easily put out as much power as household solar and do hot water/general heat as well.
The issue like always is with proliferations as nobody wants their redneck cousin fixing it.
Oh no people might be given information like your more likely to be mugged in this neighborhood than that one. Still seems useful a clueless traveler for example.
Sounds like the maps that overlayed crime stats awhile back. Or the ones that show people on the sex offender list etc etc.
It's still actual facts being used to make a rational decision that they will try to call racial bias. Facts are facts more crime happens in many predominantly minority neighborhoods. You can try and claim it's due to differences in policing but at the end of the day if more violent crime happens in a given area it's not as safe as another. The cause of this may well be related to poverty drug use etc etc but that does not change the cold hard fact that one place is riskier than another. It's hard to dispute numbers like http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub... urban settings are simply more dangerous on average per person. On the good news urban crime had diminished a lot and crime overall has gone down in the last decade or so.
Jesse Jackson has a field day with anything he can try and take advantage off regardless of reality to further his own political agenda.
Because like most of IT it's moved from doing stuff to vendor management. AKA call somebody and make it work.
This is pretty much using risk analysis to raise rates where there is more risk with the data to back up that analysis. Redlining was prejudice masquerading as risk analysis. Mind you the two will overlap. But if you're using more than just that red line on a map also looking at the people as individuals etc etc. This will probably drive gentrification, which tends to be a good thing for the neighborhood overall.
If you do the math life insurance is on average a loss. On average more money has to go in than goes out.
Why would third world countries need lots of IPv4 space? They are rolling out native IPv6 to end users, SNI pretty much means web hosting no longer needs piles of IPv4 Addresses. IPv4 needs to go away.
We allocated IPv4 on first come first served basis, it's a limited resource and redistributing it is not worth the hassle.
Not the cheap as cheap can be use the spare wires in 10/100 but the 1000bt ones like a TL-POE10R. 12/9/5v handles 10w 15 bucks. Getting a 2.1mm barrel jack to usb is easy enough.
Easy enough thinkpads and others have a kernel mod that exposes this it should go something like this:
sudo apt-get install tp-smapi-dkms
sudo modprobe tp_smapi
echo 50 | sudo tee /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh
echo 60 | sudo tee
That would cut off charging at 60% and not start till it's under 50%.
Working in the hosting industry you end up for a few standard scenarios.
The rather tasteful pictures often from photographer parents of naked toddlers etc. The crazy anti porn people with flag it and report it and the cops are smart enough to ignore it. Sure some pedo might enjoy it but it's obviously not the intent. The cops do not care unless they have an ax to grind.
The late teen about the same, the actual porn and most photographers people have photo ID showing them to be 18+ at the time. Again the internet porn warriors bitch and the cops do not care.
Actual kiddie porn the cops only seem to care if they take CC and thus give them a huge net of easy warrants. We pull the content down either way.
I've had vendors tell me water/sewage gear in a mid sized city did not support routing. OK sure I can see them sending arp requests for the gw they have set when I inject traffic at them, but who knows maybe they have some funky L2 broadcast component. I'm voting for the vendors looked at old gear and went the answer is no get new stuff for anything it was not currently doing.
I had those same vendors tell me their gear did not support running through a tagged vlan, as in no change but moving their uplink into a vlaned port. They literally came back that only native vlan 1 was supported.
It's ok this is the same town who had dark fiber but the vendor told me it does not support vlans jumbos anything over a 1500mtu or gigabit on point to point glass in the ground. Companies see the government coming and try and BS their way into a payday.
At the end of the day I got some political coverage and setup routing a vlan and some firewalling. Works just fine. You can no longer turn off water pumps from the public library any school or any other government building. You can now control the stuff from someplace else than a 90's PC in a decommissioned maintenance garage. 10ge works just fine over that 100mbs only single mode fiber as well.
But there is the rub in an effort to do things cheaper they are trying to do things like replace dedicated fiber with DSL and VPN's.
Odd all our recent as in last 4-5 years thinkpads have that as a software feature.
Funny newegg has several hundred laptops in the sub 300 range. Were talking about running pfsence at sub 100mbs speeds. As I said usb3 gigabit. Point is he is throwing a lot of $$$ and getting a far from optimal solution. If your serious about running something like this you probably have a box running VM's anyways.
Mind you loading up dd-wrt or similar on a nighthawk or what have you is a better idea.
Get a charge controller and bios thats not brain dead. Pretty much all my corp laptops now got smart and will charge to 60% so the battery does not die when it's plugged in all the time. Getting it to autoboot on power is a simple bios setting. That does mean you need to tell it to charge up to full before getting on plane etc not realy that hard.