you block 'em and direct access to a page explaining why, along with a request to complain to the provider's helpdesk.
Those abusive users tend to find out very quickly that they're not anonymous.
It works. One ISP who got blocked from a popular service due to abusive users ended up taking 9000 complaints per hour, sustained for a couple of weeks before they gave in. Other ISPs started responding in far less time once a willingness to shut them out was demonstrated.
Homeplug tends to work better than wireless for fixed equipment. the 2.45Ghz band is so crowded that it's not really worth bothering with much anymore.
"The number one call out for tow truck companies out here isn't a flat tire but a dead battery"
The number one callout for rescue services _everywhere_ in a cold snap (even when it isn't freezing) is a dead battery. People don't think to maintain/check the things and so they get caught out.
Flywheels are subject to mechanical stresses caused by spinning up/down (this is what happens with the storage ones, the 1MW UPS in front of my buiding supply has them) and must be periodically shutdown for inspection.
Molten salts aren't subject to the same issues and the plant which uses it isn't early so stressed. It's also far easier to scale.
"On top of that, many of these nuclear plants are using first generation nuclear technology. That is, technology developed not long after the second world war. These plants are inherently dangerous, and the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear disaster proved what can happen when something goes wrong"
Yet, those designs are what's being proposed for NEW builds in the UK.
Yes, it would have been a lot easier - and it would have been blocked at every step by republicans.
The current plan was originally proposed by republicans. They're only opposing it because they can't take credit for putting it into law.
The NEXT plan may well do things the sensible way. US healthcare is badly broken and it's one reason why as a non-USA citizen I look askance at any work offers which require relocation into the 50 states (it would have to pay a _very_ hefty premium over any EU job to be worthwhile.)
Driverless trains have been around for years. London's Docklands Llight Railway is a case in point.
Train attendants sit up front mostly because it turned out the public tend to be disconcerted by the things being unmanned, but the only thing they do is push the "go" button. There's no way for them to emergency stop, etc.
At least one other London Underground line is automated to the extent that "drivers" simply push the "close doors" button and then the "go" button and has been for 20 years. The only remaining purpose for drivers is to hit the emergency stop if someone jumps/falls on the tracks - and given the amount of trauma a train driver goes through if this happens (or worse, they actually hit someone), there are good arguments for automating them right out of the cabin (this would also stop the drivers' union holding London to ransom on a regular basis)
I am surprised. Even using the cheapest BRs and assuming bulk discounts, they are still way more expensive than LTO-6 or T10000D tapes (and the drives, when you're factoring in 1000 tapes per drive on average).
They're also a shedload bulkier and nowhere near as robust/long-lived.
Future music consumers arewn't listening to much broadcast radio anymore.
Or that matter a lot of current ones aren't either.
Most of the people who listen to broadcast radio don't buy music - and they never did. The ones who matter to the industry, jumped ship a long time ago.
Case in point: Country music. Outside the USA, stations which play it are few and far between, yet it's still one of the most popular forms of music sold worldwide (sales far outstrip "pop" music as a general rule.)
The ban on using mobile phones was NEVER for safety reasons. It was to prevent widespread co-channel intereference between analog cells.
You CAN use a mobile phone perfectly legally in the air - as long as you are under 5000 feet above ground level. The reasoning for that is that an analog mobile phone is unlikely to cause blocking of the channels in use on adjacent cells (Analog systems reuse their channels every 2-3 cells)
Digital TDM systems are far less prone to such interference, so the issue no longer matters (they don't work at all if phones are travelling faster than ~200mph relative to the base station, which already causes trouble on EU high speed trains).
Whilst I can sympathise with submitters not liking the idea of asshats bellowing on their mobiles, that's not within the remit of the FCC. Given that aircraft have to be fitted with mocrocells in most cases it's simply amatter of cabin staff switching voice service OFF (many do at night/quiet periods in jurisdictions where airborne mobiles are allowed). In any case the useage fees will discourage heavy use. They generally run to about $3/minute for airborne use.
A bucket of liquid nitrogen in an enclosed space would be extremely effective - both cheap and painless.
The issue is that the USA criminal system revolves around retribution, not justice, plus it has provably convicted the wrong person on so many occasions that it has to be cited as unreliable.
You have the highest incareration rate (both percentages and absolute numbers) in the world. Something is fundamentally broken in the american system.
"The conservative's "free market" approach would be to let ISPs decide if they want to charge on a per-site basis and let consumers go to other ISPs who will simply do the same thing."
That'd be fine IF there was a free market. There are a lot of areas in the USA where there are still legislated or de-facto local monopolies, making it impossible for consumers to go to another supplier.
Prevailing westerly winds mean that the west coast will be least affected by a Yellowstone eruption (in the immediate aftermath anyway).
The predicted size (and liklihood) of a Yellowstone super eruption is and has been a matter of intense debate for years (the general concensus is that it's been cooling for the last 2 milion years, further eruptions will be well semaphored and smaller than past ones) - and there are 2 other supervolcanoes which are far more likely to cause trouble to civilisation in the near future.
On the more immediate scale, north americans should be more worried about the New Madrid fault zone under the Mississipi river, which is more-or-less due for another sequence of richter 7-8 quakes. (Again, this has a history of being fairly regular and is close to "due date". The last quakes had church bells ringing as far away as Boston)
"Here's not really all that much demand for megawatts or gigawatts worth of relatively low-temperature heat energy, short of building a nuclear reactor in your basement and using the waste heat to for home heating."
Once you get away from high pressure systems (LWR, etc) then there's nothing stopping you putting the plant near civilisation and creating district heating schemes - which can then be leveraged to produce cooling systems as well, using a 21st century version of the 19th century Ammonia bubble pump freezer - http://solarfrost.com/en/en.html
Being able to directly leverage the otherwise wasted heat means slightly lowered electricity demand for heating _and_ cooling (bear in mind that current LWR plants dump 2/3 of the energy extracted from the fission process as waste heat)
Once you get away from low temperature systems (LWR, etc) then you don't have to use huge heatsinks to reject heat (rivers/oceans) and you can vastly increase the efficiency of your thermal plant, plus sell higher temp waste heat (for district cooling systems or provide process heat for industrial systems).
Having the "cold" side substantially above ambient and the "hot" side a lot higher than that means that you don't need to derate your plants quite much during a heatwave (The french LWRs have particular problems with this as they dump their waste heat into rivers and have to derate in order to prevent driving the water temperature up to ecologically damaging levels)
Of course there's nothing stopping "us" having multiple energy extraction methods - if economic. A high temperature system would allow thermocouples to be cost-effective, as a f'instance (the old "RTG in the basement" argument).
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you block 'em and direct access to a page explaining why, along with a request to complain to the provider's helpdesk.
Those abusive users tend to find out very quickly that they're not anonymous.
It works. One ISP who got blocked from a popular service due to abusive users ended up taking 9000 complaints per hour, sustained for a couple of weeks before they gave in. Other ISPs started responding in far less time once a willingness to shut them out was demonstrated.
Which is why phones are ideal candidates for MobileIP deployment
Funnily enough I _have_ a IPv6 router which filters incoming traffic. AVM Fritz!box
You may think it defeats the purpose but leaving machines fully exposed isn't a good idea.. The thing does open ports on demand.
"As soon as the artists decide to go direct to Google and iTunes the Labels are done, and good riddance to them."
Which is a large part of what Kim Dotcom's "Mega" thing was about and why it had the labels cacking in their pants.
"SI is better, but ease of unit conversions is at best a minor advantage"
Which is why countries using imperial units still make such extensive use of rods, chains, gills, furlongs and perches.
Homeplug tends to work better than wireless for fixed equipment. the 2.45Ghz band is so crowded that it's not really worth bothering with much anymore.
It's kinda surprising that there aren't EV equivalents of block heaters to keep the batteries warm and not waste charge warming up the cabin.
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"The number one call out for tow truck companies out here isn't a flat tire but a dead battery"
The number one callout for rescue services _everywhere_ in a cold snap (even when it isn't freezing) is a dead battery. People don't think to maintain/check the things and so they get caught out.
It's worth noting that these rulings have influence right across the EU.
I would not be surprised if they're cited by UK ISPs to get the blocks there removed.
(UK media has been very quiet on reporting this)
reactors can throttle. It's not economic to do so, which is why they run base load.
GenIV technology can throttle a LOT faster than even the current French ones.
Flywheels are subject to mechanical stresses caused by spinning up/down (this is what happens with the storage ones, the 1MW UPS in front of my buiding supply has them) and must be periodically shutdown for inspection.
Molten salts aren't subject to the same issues and the plant which uses it isn't early so stressed. It's also far easier to scale.
"On top of that, many of these nuclear plants are using first generation nuclear technology. That is, technology developed not long after the second world war. These plants are inherently dangerous, and the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear disaster proved what can happen when something goes wrong"
Yet, those designs are what's being proposed for NEW builds in the UK.
Madness.
In my younger days it often meant "1500 Sheep on the road around the next bend"
Yes, it would have been a lot easier - and it would have been blocked at every step by republicans.
The current plan was originally proposed by republicans. They're only opposing it because they can't take credit for putting it into law.
The NEXT plan may well do things the sensible way. US healthcare is badly broken and it's one reason why as a non-USA citizen I look askance at any work offers which require relocation into the 50 states (it would have to pay a _very_ hefty premium over any EU job to be worthwhile.)
Driverless trains have been around for years. London's Docklands Llight Railway is a case in point.
Train attendants sit up front mostly because it turned out the public tend to be disconcerted by the things being unmanned, but the only thing they do is push the "go" button. There's no way for them to emergency stop, etc.
At least one other London Underground line is automated to the extent that "drivers" simply push the "close doors" button and then the "go" button and has been for 20 years. The only remaining purpose for drivers is to hit the emergency stop if someone jumps/falls on the tracks - and given the amount of trauma a train driver goes through if this happens (or worse, they actually hit someone), there are good arguments for automating them right out of the cabin (this would also stop the drivers' union holding London to ransom on a regular basis)
I am surprised. Even using the cheapest BRs and assuming bulk discounts, they are still way more expensive than LTO-6 or T10000D tapes (and the drives, when you're factoring in 1000 tapes per drive on average).
They're also a shedload bulkier and nowhere near as robust/long-lived.
Future music consumers arewn't listening to much broadcast radio anymore.
Or that matter a lot of current ones aren't either.
Most of the people who listen to broadcast radio don't buy music - and they never did. The ones who matter to the industry, jumped ship a long time ago.
Case in point: Country music. Outside the USA, stations which play it are few and far between, yet it's still one of the most popular forms of music sold worldwide (sales far outstrip "pop" music as a general rule.)
The ban on using mobile phones was NEVER for safety reasons. It was to prevent widespread co-channel intereference between analog cells.
You CAN use a mobile phone perfectly legally in the air - as long as you are under 5000 feet above ground level. The reasoning for that is that an analog mobile phone is unlikely to cause blocking of the channels in use on adjacent cells (Analog systems reuse their channels every 2-3 cells)
Digital TDM systems are far less prone to such interference, so the issue no longer matters (they don't work at all if phones are travelling faster than ~200mph relative to the base station, which already causes trouble on EU high speed trains).
Whilst I can sympathise with submitters not liking the idea of asshats bellowing on their mobiles, that's not within the remit of the FCC. Given that aircraft have to be fitted with mocrocells in most cases it's simply amatter of cabin staff switching voice service OFF (many do at night/quiet periods in jurisdictions where airborne mobiles are allowed). In any case the useage fees will discourage heavy use. They generally run to about $3/minute for airborne use.
A bucket of liquid nitrogen in an enclosed space would be extremely effective - both cheap and painless.
The issue is that the USA criminal system revolves around retribution, not justice, plus it has provably convicted the wrong person on so many occasions that it has to be cited as unreliable.
You have the highest incareration rate (both percentages and absolute numbers) in the world. Something is fundamentally broken in the american system.
"The conservative's "free market" approach would be to let ISPs decide if they want to charge on a per-site basis and let consumers go to other ISPs who will simply do the same thing."
That'd be fine IF there was a free market. There are a lot of areas in the USA where there are still legislated or de-facto local monopolies, making it impossible for consumers to go to another supplier.
All assuming that someone else spotted the bugs first.
You don't have "right" and "left" in the USA and haven't had for a number of years.
You have "far right" and "extreme right"
This latest change is sleepwalking into past follies.
Prevailing westerly winds mean that the west coast will be least affected by a Yellowstone eruption (in the immediate aftermath anyway).
The predicted size (and liklihood) of a Yellowstone super eruption is and has been a matter of intense debate for years (the general concensus is that it's been cooling for the last 2 milion years, further eruptions will be well semaphored and smaller than past ones) - and there are 2 other supervolcanoes which are far more likely to cause trouble to civilisation in the near future.
On the more immediate scale, north americans should be more worried about the New Madrid fault zone under the Mississipi river, which is more-or-less due for another sequence of richter 7-8 quakes. (Again, this has a history of being fairly regular and is close to "due date". The last quakes had church bells ringing as far away as Boston)
"Here's not really all that much demand for megawatts or gigawatts worth of relatively low-temperature heat energy, short of building a nuclear reactor in your basement and using the waste heat to for home heating."
Once you get away from high pressure systems (LWR, etc) then there's nothing stopping you putting the plant near civilisation and creating district heating schemes - which can then be leveraged to produce cooling systems as well, using a 21st century version of the 19th century Ammonia bubble pump freezer - http://solarfrost.com/en/en.html
Being able to directly leverage the otherwise wasted heat means slightly lowered electricity demand for heating _and_ cooling (bear in mind that current LWR plants dump 2/3 of the energy extracted from the fission process as waste heat)
Once you get away from low temperature systems (LWR, etc) then you don't have to use huge heatsinks to reject heat (rivers/oceans) and you can vastly increase the efficiency of your thermal plant, plus sell higher temp waste heat (for district cooling systems or provide process heat for industrial systems).
Having the "cold" side substantially above ambient and the "hot" side a lot higher than that means that you don't need to derate your plants quite much during a heatwave (The french LWRs have particular problems with this as they dump their waste heat into rivers and have to derate in order to prevent driving the water temperature up to ecologically damaging levels)
Of course there's nothing stopping "us" having multiple energy extraction methods - if economic. A high temperature system would allow thermocouples to be cost-effective, as a f'instance (the old "RTG in the basement" argument).