If your system needs special tools to see the correlations in errors then your systems is way past its usefulness and should be re-designed with greater modularity in mind.
Just yesterday I was debugging why my syspreped Win 7 images weren't installing properly. So I go to sysprep directory and start reading the text log. It didn't have any useful info. So I grabbed the binary log and tried to import it on the same machine in pre-exec environment. It couldn't do it. So I copied it to different computer and tried to open it there, the system claimed that the file was damaged. After 4 hours of struggle to read, copy or convert the bloody thing I went the "Microsoft recommended way" (seriously, that's the solution they suggest in MSKB) and bisected which program caused the install failure. In "only" 6 reinstalls I finally found the culprit.
If it was a Linux distro, a simple cat or tail would have sufficed and it would have been a 15 minute job, not 2 days. If they want my text logs they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands.
I'm no electrician, I'd guess the low voltage DC is safe because you can grab uninsulated leads in your hands and nothing will happen. Hell, I touched live wires in 48VDC with my tongue without any long-term effects!
...that's one huge market. I assure you that most technicians working with stage equipment don't know that XLR connections are XLR connections, let alone general population.
This is a giant multinational corporation, just because it sells drugs doesn't make it good. Haven't you read Halloween documents? Jobs views on Android? it's all the same, we just don't hear as much about it as most of/. works in IT, not pharma (also pharma was doing it for longer so they're better at it).
Have you ever recruited people for work in programming? No? Then don't answer. The average comp-sci graduate is a moron that wouldn't know what a loop is if you beat him to death with it.
Sorry, but that is bullshit. My mother was teaching German few years back and now she's teaching in "integrated schooling" (maths, biology, language taught in single lecture) in grades 1-3. She has to spend just as much time marking the tests and more time actually preparing the courses.
Only the worst teachers work just the time they are in school, it's normal for a teacher to take his work home isn't this the worst thing people have to do in any other industry?
And one more thing: smuggling fissionable materials is much more problematic than making explosives. The detectors are often triggered by bananas, let alone by amounts of fissionable materials usable in a dirty bomb!
Sorry, but where I live 44TW * 20% = 8.8TW and 8.8TW is considered less than 15TW. Even if we could increase the efficiency to 35% we would still need to capture energy in each and every place on the whole globe, including oceans. It's technically unachievable let alone economically feasible! If we were drawing more than than 44TW (at 35% efficiency) the wells would need to go deeper every year driving the cost ever higher just to compensate for the cooled rock. Then there's the problem of ever increasing demand...
There have been multiple radiation sources used in radio therapy lost (few dozen people lost their lives because of that). And we still haven't seen those "dirty" bombs.
If you have enough explosives to make a bomb, the effect will be much "better" using depleted uranium balls around it than any kind of fissile materials...
It would be like patching rm against usage of -rf. Just because you can cut your finger with a knife doesn't mean that the knife is a badly made tool, it just means you failed as a knife user.
The Apache vulnerability isn't part of normal config, let alone the default one. Non story.
But if you had a regular http server running Apache (don't tell me it's not the norm) and then a single app needed to be put on different server, like the python-tomato mentioned or.NET or JEE site. Do you reconfigure whole server or do you just add proxy to it?
Just because using it in big deployments is stupid doesn't mean it isn't used in small systems (few dozen thousand hits a day) with room to spare.
Total Earth thermal flux (including oceans) = 44TW
Human energy usage = 15TW with doubling every 12 years (6% annual growth rate)
Electricity generation efficiency from geothermal = 20%
Even if it was doable, it isn't sustainable. It also isn't clean, as it releases methane, brings up heavy metals and radioactive materials.
Cardboard boxes with year written on them won't be enough? They will only be needed again if the HDDs fail, just use RAID6 (as you should if you have more than 5 disks) and not only it will become unlikely but you also gain a place to store backups from your regular PC.
My "problem" with renewable is that they don't work. Using energy source that works for only 10-30% of time is crazy, it requires huge investments in power grids, energy storage etc. The only reason why wind "works" in EU and US is because there are massive amounts of gas turbines build to back them up when wind suddenly changes. This won't be an option when gas runs out.
And there is oil enough to last centuries.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Not centuries, but 150 years at current extraction rates and 40 years if current growth rate continues (as it did in past 60 years). Even if we did suddenly discover another source of oil so large as to double the current estimate for total oil that ever was and will be extracted, it will last 50, not 40 years, only 10 years longer. This is the way exponential growth works. Also, if a barrel starts costing $1000 oil is as good as gone, it will be cheaper to make it from CO2 in air. There isn't enough thermal flux to support human civilisation now so it will only keep on getting less important as energy source, both solar and wind are too variable to be usable without energy storage (ever bigger energy storage). Biomass is pennies compared to the amount of energy we need. Those backups are not enough. It's not uncommon for wind to not blow at all for a week. What are we supposed to do in such situation? Stop businesses and stay in (cold) homes? Or start again fossil fuel power plants like they suggest in the report (oops, our 100% renewable has just been thrown out of the window and we have huge additional maintenance costs of power plants that have only a fraction of usage they could get)? Hydro kills more people than nuclear, destroys local environments and wastes arable land for low efficiency energy production, there are also highly limited number of sites where hydro is actually viable.
Nuclear was unproven 40 years ago, not now. Tell me why you claim otherwise, cause for me, technology that has regularly over 80% load capacity (including maintenance) and lowest accidents rates in any industry (that includes office workers), let alone power sector, is proven technology. Renewables are unproven now and they may prove itself in 40 years (which I highly doubt looking at their current rate of development, but I wouldn't go as far as to stop research). You can actually buy and store enough uranium to last 10 years. It's completely impossible to buy, let alone store, similar amount of coal, oil or gas. We buy uranium because outside sources are cheaper, not because we don't have sources in EU (or can't breed more in breeder reactors). If suddenly Kazakhstan stopped uranium extraction there would be mines opening all around the world (and even that not quickly as we have few month's worth of supplies in regular operation, unlike with fossil fuels where the stockpiles don't usually equate to 2 months worth of usage). So yes, we are independent of uranium suppliers. HVDC may predate nuclear, but the idea to use it for transport of huge amounts of power over large distances is new. Even if it won't cause new problems you still have to fix a dozen other problems before renewables are actually usable.
As for Howard Hayden, just because he made a simple mistake doesn't make all his work invalid, stop going after the messenger, and start disproving his claims (I'm sure if he's so stupid as you claim he is it will be trivial to do so).
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If your system needs special tools to see the correlations in errors then your systems is way past its usefulness and should be re-designed with greater modularity in mind.
As for windows logging, sorry to burst your bubble, but it fails when it's most needed, read my previous post: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2553896&cid=38231092
Just yesterday I was debugging why my syspreped Win 7 images weren't installing properly. So I go to sysprep directory and start reading the text log. It didn't have any useful info. So I grabbed the binary log and tried to import it on the same machine in pre-exec environment. It couldn't do it. So I copied it to different computer and tried to open it there, the system claimed that the file was damaged. After 4 hours of struggle to read, copy or convert the bloody thing I went the "Microsoft recommended way" (seriously, that's the solution they suggest in MSKB) and bisected which program caused the install failure. In "only" 6 reinstalls I finally found the culprit.
If it was a Linux distro, a simple cat or tail would have sufficed and it would have been a 15 minute job, not 2 days. If they want my text logs they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands.
I'm no electrician, I'd guess the low voltage DC is safe because you can grab uninsulated leads in your hands and nothing will happen. Hell, I touched live wires in 48VDC with my tongue without any long-term effects!
...that's one huge market. I assure you that most technicians working with stage equipment don't know that XLR connections are XLR connections, let alone general population.
This is a giant multinational corporation, just because it sells drugs doesn't make it good. Haven't you read Halloween documents? Jobs views on Android? it's all the same, we just don't hear as much about it as most of /. works in IT, not pharma (also pharma was doing it for longer so they're better at it).
And with enough studies they can even claim that it works better! (by 4% in 3 of 400 studies conducted).
If one is able to bribe people using a chocolate bars, perhaps his misdemeanour's aren't so serious...
Have you ever recruited people for work in programming? No? Then don't answer. The average comp-sci graduate is a moron that wouldn't know what a loop is if you beat him to death with it.
primary teachers would tend to work 8:30am - 4pm
Sorry, but that is bullshit. My mother was teaching German few years back and now she's teaching in "integrated schooling" (maths, biology, language taught in single lecture) in grades 1-3. She has to spend just as much time marking the tests and more time actually preparing the courses.
Only the worst teachers work just the time they are in school, it's normal for a teacher to take his work home isn't this the worst thing people have to do in any other industry?
And one more thing: smuggling fissionable materials is much more problematic than making explosives. The detectors are often triggered by bananas, let alone by amounts of fissionable materials usable in a dirty bomb!
Sorry, but where I live 44TW * 20% = 8.8TW and 8.8TW is considered less than 15TW. Even if we could increase the efficiency to 35% we would still need to capture energy in each and every place on the whole globe, including oceans. It's technically unachievable let alone economically feasible! If we were drawing more than than 44TW (at 35% efficiency) the wells would need to go deeper every year driving the cost ever higher just to compensate for the cooled rock. Then there's the problem of ever increasing demand...
It's impossible, plain and simple.
But the amount of people killed would be much lower
That really says more than the whole article!
The easy answer is to drown the internals of the devices to be used at depth.
I'd call that "specifically designed for"... He didn't say "impossible".
There have been multiple radiation sources used in radio therapy lost (few dozen people lost their lives because of that). And we still haven't seen those "dirty" bombs.
If you have enough explosives to make a bomb, the effect will be much "better" using depleted uranium balls around it than any kind of fissile materials...
Watch Neon Genesis Evangelion, you're lacking in Popculture references.
You mean deep fried mars bars aren't the stuff nightmares are made of anywhere else?
No, no, he tastes like pork. True story.
It would be like patching rm against usage of -rf. Just because you can cut your finger with a knife doesn't mean that the knife is a badly made tool, it just means you failed as a knife user.
The Apache vulnerability isn't part of normal config, let alone the default one. Non story.
But if you had a regular http server running Apache (don't tell me it's not the norm) and then a single app needed to be put on different server, like the python-tomato mentioned or .NET or JEE site. Do you reconfigure whole server or do you just add proxy to it?
Just because using it in big deployments is stupid doesn't mean it isn't used in small systems (few dozen thousand hits a day) with room to spare.
but you just had to copy the stuff from old RAID, not re-create it
Total Earth thermal flux (including oceans) = 44TW
Human energy usage = 15TW with doubling every 12 years (6% annual growth rate)
Electricity generation efficiency from geothermal = 20%
Even if it was doable, it isn't sustainable. It also isn't clean, as it releases methane, brings up heavy metals and radioactive materials.
Cardboard boxes with year written on them won't be enough? They will only be needed again if the HDDs fail, just use RAID6 (as you should if you have more than 5 disks) and not only it will become unlikely but you also gain a place to store backups from your regular PC.
It wasn't until the middle of second line that I noticed that the poster was suggesting optical disks.
People actually use optical storage for anything but backups?
And there is oil enough to last centuries.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Not centuries, but 150 years at current extraction rates and 40 years if current growth rate continues (as it did in past 60 years). Even if we did suddenly discover another source of oil so large as to double the current estimate for total oil that ever was and will be extracted, it will last 50, not 40 years, only 10 years longer. This is the way exponential growth works. Also, if a barrel starts costing $1000 oil is as good as gone, it will be cheaper to make it from CO2 in air. There isn't enough thermal flux to support human civilisation now so it will only keep on getting less important as energy source, both solar and wind are too variable to be usable without energy storage (ever bigger energy storage). Biomass is pennies compared to the amount of energy we need. Those backups are not enough. It's not uncommon for wind to not blow at all for a week. What are we supposed to do in such situation? Stop businesses and stay in (cold) homes? Or start again fossil fuel power plants like they suggest in the report (oops, our 100% renewable has just been thrown out of the window and we have huge additional maintenance costs of power plants that have only a fraction of usage they could get)? Hydro kills more people than nuclear, destroys local environments and wastes arable land for low efficiency energy production, there are also highly limited number of sites where hydro is actually viable.
Nuclear was unproven 40 years ago, not now. Tell me why you claim otherwise, cause for me, technology that has regularly over 80% load capacity (including maintenance) and lowest accidents rates in any industry (that includes office workers), let alone power sector, is proven technology. Renewables are unproven now and they may prove itself in 40 years (which I highly doubt looking at their current rate of development, but I wouldn't go as far as to stop research). You can actually buy and store enough uranium to last 10 years. It's completely impossible to buy, let alone store, similar amount of coal, oil or gas. We buy uranium because outside sources are cheaper, not because we don't have sources in EU (or can't breed more in breeder reactors). If suddenly Kazakhstan stopped uranium extraction there would be mines opening all around the world (and even that not quickly as we have few month's worth of supplies in regular operation, unlike with fossil fuels where the stockpiles don't usually equate to 2 months worth of usage). So yes, we are independent of uranium suppliers. HVDC may predate nuclear, but the idea to use it for transport of huge amounts of power over large distances is new. Even if it won't cause new problems you still have to fix a dozen other problems before renewables are actually usable.
As for Howard Hayden, just because he made a simple mistake doesn't make all his work invalid, stop going after the messenger, and start disproving his claims (I'm sure if he's so stupid as you claim he is it will be trivial to do so).