The ones the gov't will claim are going to happen due to the excess emissions from VW Diesels. That'll be one of their justifications for nailing VW to a cross.
What incentive would someone have to make the effort and take the risk to hack these machines?
Don't you think X-ray machine maker A would love to show how horrible X-ray machines made by company B are? They could trigger a new Therac-25 scare by twiddling the firmware.
I think he meant "non-leaking to space RF" signals (i.e. fiber optic cables). In other words, communication power is not 'lost' to space, therefore detectable by aliens.
I was going to comment on the site about this very issue, but of course there was no 'report problems' link.
For tubes that follow the RETMA naming scheme, the filament voltage is the first set of numerical digits in the name. As you said, 12AX7 has a 12 volt filament.
It's subconscious and there's nothing to be done about it - it's an instantaneous judgement.
Only if you believe that the object in question is actually "better". For example, when I see someone with "Beats" headphones on, I instantly judge them to be trend-following sheeple, not somehow superior. Others may consider Beats to be good headphones, but I'm not one of them.
Part of it is us oldsters take the 'long view' - we've seen flash-in-the-pan technologies come and go, and see bleeding edge for the sake of coolness as a dalliance, not a proper business decision.
For example, most of us see javascript as a kludge to begin with, and javascript on the server as a massive failure, not a solution.
I've seen the client/server pendulum swing a few times - mainframe-centric TTYs, fat clients, thin clients/web-based apps, apps back out on devices, etc. Few of the 'new' paradigms are actually new - many are rehashed ideas from the heyday of computing when it was actually a science.
You may be right. My thinking was this: The windspeeds may be high, but that doesn't preclude the probe's nuclear fuel from surviving relatively intact. First, the RTG is hardened against damage, including that of re-entry. Second, absolute windspeed isn't the issue, it's the windshear over the size of the RTG. I didn't take into account the creamy liquid center, so that's an issue. I assumed that the core was far enough down that the probe would 'float' in the dense gas.
Being Plutonium-powered, the remnants of the probe (even if reduced to its atoms) will leave an indelible* mark on Saturn that someone with nuclear technology was here.
*The half-life of Pu-238 is 75k years and doesn't occur naturally. Its daughter product, U-234, is only 55ppm in naturally-occurring Uranium (at least here on Earth) and has a half-life of 246k years. U-234 decays to Th-230, and its half-life is another 75k years.
Clear your nose to the point that you can breathe through both nostrils.
Doesn't work when your nasal membranes are swollen shut. Plus, you could blow out an eardrum if you try to clear your nose too strenuously. I know this personally.
What I see as the big threat is that Putin makes the first move, and the West does not react.
You mean like The Crimea? We sat by and watched Russia annex a sovereign nation's territory and didn't even whimper. We even promised to defend them and failed to do that.
No, but she can dial a $50/min phone number and run your bill up pretty quickly. Even innocuous-looking area codes can be costly - the Cayman Islands can be called from the US just like any other area code; in this case, 345. A call to 1-345-555-1212 looks like it would be covered under free 'long distance', right? Not. All of the entries of the form '1-xxx' in this table are lurking as costly international calls form the US.
Why is this even a thing? It's in no way ingenious, just destructive. Voltage doublers/transformers are old school - how do you think camera flashes work? This is just another case of $OLD_INVENTION "... in a USB stick!" syndrome.
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The ones the gov't will claim are going to happen due to the excess emissions from VW Diesels. That'll be one of their justifications for nailing VW to a cross.
Kinda like all those extra deaths from VW's over-spewing Diesel engines?
What incentive would someone have to make the effort and take the risk to hack these machines?
Don't you think X-ray machine maker A would love to show how horrible X-ray machines made by company B are? They could trigger a new Therac-25 scare by twiddling the firmware.
Digital Radio Mondiale as well.
I think he meant "non-leaking to space RF" signals (i.e. fiber optic cables). In other words, communication power is not 'lost' to space, therefore detectable by aliens.
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I was going to comment on the site about this very issue, but of course there was no 'report problems' link.
For tubes that follow the RETMA naming scheme, the filament voltage is the first set of numerical digits in the name. As you said, 12AX7 has a 12 volt filament.
It's subconscious and there's nothing to be done about it - it's an instantaneous judgement.
Only if you believe that the object in question is actually "better". For example, when I see someone with "Beats" headphones on, I instantly judge them to be trend-following sheeple, not somehow superior. Others may consider Beats to be good headphones, but I'm not one of them.
... microservice architectures ...
So RPC's from the 1980's with an HTTP interface?
Part of it is us oldsters take the 'long view' - we've seen flash-in-the-pan technologies come and go, and see bleeding edge for the sake of coolness as a dalliance, not a proper business decision.
For example, most of us see javascript as a kludge to begin with, and javascript on the server as a massive failure, not a solution.
I've seen the client/server pendulum swing a few times - mainframe-centric TTYs, fat clients, thin clients/web-based apps, apps back out on devices, etc. Few of the 'new' paradigms are actually new - many are rehashed ideas from the heyday of computing when it was actually a science.
You may be right. My thinking was this: The windspeeds may be high, but that doesn't preclude the probe's nuclear fuel from surviving relatively intact. First, the RTG is hardened against damage, including that of re-entry. Second, absolute windspeed isn't the issue, it's the windshear over the size of the RTG. I didn't take into account the creamy liquid center, so that's an issue. I assumed that the core was far enough down that the probe would 'float' in the dense gas.
Being Plutonium-powered, the remnants of the probe (even if reduced to its atoms) will leave an indelible* mark on Saturn that someone with nuclear technology was here.
*The half-life of Pu-238 is 75k years and doesn't occur naturally. Its daughter product, U-234, is only 55ppm in naturally-occurring Uranium (at least here on Earth) and has a half-life of 246k years. U-234 decays to Th-230, and its half-life is another 75k years.
A good sandstorm might scour the shine off those fancy mirrors.
These days GPUs are more than fast enough to do some pretty impressive crypto-cracko. No need to get custom FPGA boards/software.
Clear your nose to the point that you can breathe through both nostrils.
Doesn't work when your nasal membranes are swollen shut. Plus, you could blow out an eardrum if you try to clear your nose too strenuously. I know this personally.
... the plant can satisfy 100% of demand until it runs out of heat, 10 hours after the sun goes down.
You'd probably want to keep enough residual heat overnight to supply the morning peak that occurs before the sun comes up.
I have heard it called 're-mesh'.
What I see as the big threat is that Putin makes the first move, and the West does not react.
You mean like The Crimea? We sat by and watched Russia annex a sovereign nation's territory and didn't even whimper. We even promised to defend them and failed to do that.
Potassium has a relatively common naturally occurring isotope (K40) which is radioactive...
It also emits (GASP!) antimatter! Oh the humanity!
"Very rarely (0.001% of the time) it will decay to 40Ar by emitting a positron (beta+) and a neutrino."
In case you're unsure, I'm very pro- modern nuclear power designs:
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My groundhog rifle (.22-250 at 4000fps): 1220 m/s or Mach 3.55
Seriously, have her take a sleep study. I'm betting she has sleep apnea.
No, but she can dial a $50/min phone number and run your bill up pretty quickly. Even innocuous-looking area codes can be costly - the Cayman Islands can be called from the US just like any other area code; in this case, 345. A call to 1-345-555-1212 looks like it would be covered under free 'long distance', right? Not. All of the entries of the form '1-xxx' in this table are lurking as costly international calls form the US.
You might even have a theme song like Beagle 2 did.
That is - you take a hundred people with CFS, a hundred people without CFS, and you can with certainty tell which group is which.
Of course you can! Those with Chicken-Fried Steak will have gravy dripping from their faces.
Why is this even a thing? It's in no way ingenious, just destructive. Voltage doublers/transformers are old school - how do you think camera flashes work? This is just another case of $OLD_INVENTION "... in a USB stick!" syndrome.