25-year supply if nuclear provided all electricity on Earth -- If we continue the once-through throw most of the fuel away non-cycle. Simply adding fuel reprocessing multiplies that number by a few times. Going to breeder reactors multiplies that by several more times.
Then there's the seawater extraction mentioned elsewhere.
Beyond that, there's thorium. According to my CRC Handbook, thorium is "about as common as lead", and "there is probably more available energy in the earth's crust from thorium than from uranium and all fossil fuels combined."
Sometimes I ^U to view the Received headers and see if it really came from where it claims to have come from, because yes, I really am that paranoid.
Yeah, if it's an email that in response to something you sent, or an attachment you asked for, sure. But don't trust "Just because I know $person". There's a whole class of spam (and worse) that has the name of someone you know on the From address. (But generally not their real address.)
And most of all do not click on ANY link you get in email. Do not open ANY attachment you get in email. Ever.
(A friend is of the Mad Clickker persuasion, and I've had to nuke and pave his PC several times. It's been a while; I think he may have learned his lesson. Or maybe he just doesn't want to admit he's done it again.)
For the past 8 years, I've been using a Universal Remotes MX-350 that I got "free" from the bank when I re-financed. It's annoying to program (all via the remote's buttons) but it works; one-button startup of all the parts that make the TV work (TV, Stereo, TiVo) and it can even learn IR signals from random stuff, like the 4x2 HDMI switcher. And it remembers settings across a battery change, so I haven't even had to consider programming in ages. Since I added the HDMI switcher to my setup, I think.
I have no reason to move to something else, but... it's 8 years old, and could go toes up at any time.
Logitech was one of the ones I was looking at as a possible replacement, if/when. No more. Stricken off the list.
Augh! Not time travel! I'd already decided from the first episode that it probably wasn't worth watching, certainly not worth buying the CBS package to watch just Trek. The soap opera stuff really puts me off, too. Jar-Jar Abrams involved, very evil omen.
But time travel? Dang. I am so sick of "Let's Do the Time Plot Again" that I could puke. I wouldn't watch it if it were on free TV at this point.
Besides, I've got a few unwatched episodes of The Expanse on the Tivo that are way more SF goodness than Trek has managed to produce since Wrath of Khan, at least.
Antifa, however, just asserts that anyone who disagrees with them is a Nazi, and that assertion is sufficient to justify any sort of violence they want to perpetrate. Their definition of "Nazi" seems to be anyone to the right of an ever-leftward-rushing line. Barbara Boxer recently ran afoul of them. Lately, they seem to be including the ACLU in their list of Nazi organizations.
Did everyone forget Pol Pot? That's where they seem to be heading.
It seems awfully suspicious that when unions are trying to unionize Tesla, all of a sudden there's a bunch of barely credible lawsuits happening...
Yeah, this. A lot of unions have a record of playing the "Nice company you've got there. It'd be a shame if it got slandered in the media non-stop until you give in to our demands" game. I remember a grocery store chain a while back, where the union types were claiming that the store was soaking rotten fish in chlorine bleach to kill the smell and putting it back in the cooler. No such fish were ever submitted in evidence, of course.
At a company ages ago, my boss desperately wanted to hire someone for IT network security who in the past had rather famously gotten in some legal hot water about being in possession of some AT&T Unix code.
He fought HR over that for weeks. The HR drone finally said "You can keep fighting this, and you will probably win in the end. However, we can drag this process out for at least a year, maybe two. And we absolutely will drag it out for as long as we possibly can. Your call."
So, my boss had to give up on hiring the guy. Too bad; he'd have been a great fit for the position.
My last layoff was at age 57 from a pretty large tech company. The severance package was reasonably generous. Then, in addition, there was the "Promise not to sue us for age discrimination" add-on severance package, which was... pretty dang good. And, it came with about an inch thick stack of statistics about the ages of those laid off, which kind of established they were more than ready to defend themselves against any age discrimination suits.
I signed. It was a pretty good chunk of change (three months' pay, I think I recall) paid extension of benefits... and there was an email from recruiting from another company in pretty much the same business in my inbox when I got home, which is where I'm working now.
After tying up the groups in investigations and red tape through the first week of November, 2012. Gee, what might have they wanted to do before the first week of November 2012 that became irrelevant afterwards? I do wonder.
What "liberal" groups did the Obama IRS do this to that weren't enough to his left that they were criticizing him for not being far enough left?
I'm baffled that Alan Nourse is refered to as "a mysterious writer by the name of Alan E. Nourse"-- mysterious? Nourse?
There's nothing mysterious about Alan Nourse, who is pretty well documented. He was a quite popular writer mostly of juveniles (*) back in the 50s and 60s.
Ah, I'd forgotten that he wrote "A Tiger by the Tail"... Cool story, that.
He also at one time wrote a medical column for one of the glossy magazines. One of the "Womens' Magazines", I think.
(Paging Doctor Google....) Yep. "Good Housekeeping."
Depending on how meta-moderation is used, it could be a valuable check on abuse of community moderation. Already on slashdot, you don't get moderator points unless you've established sufficient "karma" for yourself somehow, and you don't have moderator points all the time. If "unfair moderation" votes aren't an automatic karma-killer, but are a flag for someone to look at how that individual is moderating, and maybe nuke their karma if they're moderating abusively, or at least set a "This person never gets to moderate" flag, that might help reduce the problem. (Modulo the ever-present "quis custodiet..." problem, of course. I suppose there's no way to avoid that entirely,.)
(Hmmm.. A nony mouse? Eh, it's been over 40 years, I guess the statute of limitations has run out.)
Back in the days of Univac mainframes, I wanted a file that was not accessible to me. It was backed up on tape, but accessing the manually mounted by the uncooperative operator backup tape?
However, this was also the days of disk being expensive per kilobyte. Univac's solution was "Rollout/rollback"; under certain criteria, the Univac would release all the files's storage back to the free disk pool, and mark it "Rolled Out". Any attempt to access the file would create an automatic "Rollback" job, which would ask the operator to mount the specific backup tape to reload that file.
So, I started a batch job, called it "Rollback", that copied the file I wanted from the backup tape.
There were ways the operator could have told that this was not a legitimate rollback run, but fortunately, this operator was not that observant.
Anyway, "safe from hackers because tape" isn't necessarily so. What process accesses the tapes? How secure is it? How secure is the whole system against spoofing of one kind or another? What's the weakest link?
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25-year supply if nuclear provided all electricity on Earth -- If we continue the once-through throw most of the fuel away non-cycle. Simply adding fuel reprocessing multiplies that number by a few times. Going to breeder reactors multiplies that by several more times.
Then there's the seawater extraction mentioned elsewhere.
Beyond that, there's thorium. According to my CRC Handbook, thorium is "about as common as lead", and "there is probably more available energy in the earth's crust from thorium than from uranium and all fossil fuels combined."
What I do:
Copy the link.
Paste it into the navigation bar.
Does it go to where I expect it to go?
Sometimes I ^U to view the Received headers and see if it really came from where it claims to have come from, because yes, I really am that paranoid.
Yeah, if it's an email that in response to something you sent, or an attachment you asked for, sure. But don't trust "Just because I know $person". There's a whole class of spam (and worse) that has the name of someone you know on the From address. (But generally not their real address.)
And most of all do not click on ANY link you get in email. Do not open ANY attachment you get in email. Ever.
(A friend is of the Mad Clickker persuasion, and I've had to nuke and pave his PC several times. It's been a while; I think he may have learned his lesson. Or maybe he just doesn't want to admit he's done it again.)
For the past 8 years, I've been using a Universal Remotes MX-350 that I got "free" from the bank when I re-financed. It's annoying to program (all via the remote's buttons) but it works; one-button startup of all the parts that make the TV work (TV, Stereo, TiVo) and it can even learn IR signals from random stuff, like the 4x2 HDMI switcher. And it remembers settings across a battery change, so I haven't even had to consider programming in ages. Since I added the HDMI switcher to my setup, I think.
I have no reason to move to something else, but ... it's 8 years old, and could go toes up at any time.
Logitech was one of the ones I was looking at as a possible replacement, if/when. No more. Stricken off the list.
And virtually no one in Hollywood *can* do that any more.
The next season of The Walking Dead?
Why is ending this twice-yearly idiocy even remotely controversial?
Kill it. Kill it with fire.
Mark Zuckerburg called Twitter a clown car that fell into a gold mine
So very much this. (Of course, the same thing can be said about Facebook.)
Everything you "know" about conservatives is wrong.
Show me a person who hates Perl, and I'll show you a person who doesn't grok regex.
That's probably a good part of it. Me, I love regex, and I like perl a lot.
When I'm writing a perl program, I do *not* use the fiendish tricks that I use when trying to win a round of "perl golf". Clear code with comments.
When someone talks about The CO2 Apocalypse, and out of the other side of their mouth chants "No Nukes Shut 'em All Down Now"...
I know that they don't believe it. Not really. It's a smokescreen for other agendas.
(Advocating phasing out coal in favor of nuclear for something like 40 years now...)
This comes to mind...
http://cafehayek.com/2014/03/t...
(Don't go off on the web page; it's just a place google found the cartoon that didn't require a login)
Eight six four two
We can blame it all on Q
Oh... I gave up on Voyager long before then.
Bingo. I will not reward this misbehavior even if STD were insanely good. (All indications are that it's ... not.)
Time travel devices on Klingon shuttles
Augh! Not time travel! I'd already decided from the first episode that it probably wasn't worth watching, certainly not worth buying the CBS package to watch just Trek. The soap opera stuff really puts me off, too. Jar-Jar Abrams involved, very evil omen.
But time travel? Dang. I am so sick of "Let's Do the Time Plot Again" that I could puke. I wouldn't watch it if it were on free TV at this point.
Besides, I've got a few unwatched episodes of The Expanse on the Tivo that are way more SF goodness than Trek has managed to produce since Wrath of Khan, at least.
Opposition to *actual* Nazis is a good thing.
Antifa, however, just asserts that anyone who disagrees with them is a Nazi, and that assertion is sufficient to justify any sort of violence they want to perpetrate. Their definition of "Nazi" seems to be anyone to the right of an ever-leftward-rushing line. Barbara Boxer recently ran afoul of them. Lately, they seem to be including the ACLU in their list of Nazi organizations.
Did everyone forget Pol Pot? That's where they seem to be heading.
It seems awfully suspicious that when unions are trying to unionize Tesla, all of a sudden there's a bunch of barely credible lawsuits happening...
Yeah, this. A lot of unions have a record of playing the "Nice company you've got there. It'd be a shame if it got slandered in the media non-stop until you give in to our demands" game. I remember a grocery store chain a while back, where the union types were claiming that the store was soaking rotten fish in chlorine bleach to kill the smell and putting it back in the cooler. No such fish were ever submitted in evidence, of course.
And sometimes it is HR...
At a company ages ago, my boss desperately wanted to hire someone for IT network security who in the past had rather famously gotten in some legal hot water about being in possession of some AT&T Unix code.
He fought HR over that for weeks. The HR drone finally said "You can keep fighting this, and you will probably win in the end. However, we can drag this process out for at least a year, maybe two. And we absolutely will drag it out for as long as we possibly can. Your call."
So, my boss had to give up on hiring the guy. Too bad; he'd have been a great fit for the position.
My last layoff was at age 57 from a pretty large tech company. The severance package was reasonably generous. Then, in addition, there was the "Promise not to sue us for age discrimination" add-on severance package, which was... pretty dang good. And, it came with about an inch thick stack of statistics about the ages of those laid off, which kind of established they were more than ready to defend themselves against any age discrimination suits.
I signed. It was a pretty good chunk of change (three months' pay, I think I recall) paid extension of benefits ... and there was an email from recruiting from another company in pretty much the same business in my inbox when I got home, which is where I'm working now.
I'll take "Things that make my brain hurt" for $2000, Alex.
After tying up the groups in investigations and red tape through the first week of November, 2012. Gee, what might have they wanted to do before the first week of November 2012 that became irrelevant afterwards? I do wonder.
What "liberal" groups did the Obama IRS do this to that weren't enough to his left that they were criticizing him for not being far enough left?
I'm baffled that Alan Nourse is refered to as "a mysterious writer by the name of Alan E. Nourse"-- mysterious? Nourse?
There's nothing mysterious about Alan Nourse, who is pretty well documented. He was a quite popular writer mostly of juveniles (*) back in the 50s and 60s.
Ah, I'd forgotten that he wrote "A Tiger by the Tail"... Cool story, that.
He also at one time wrote a medical column for one of the glossy magazines. One of the "Womens' Magazines", I think.
(Paging Doctor Google....) Yep. "Good Housekeeping."
Depending on how meta-moderation is used, it could be a valuable check on abuse of community moderation. Already on slashdot, you don't get moderator points unless you've established sufficient "karma" for yourself somehow, and you don't have moderator points all the time. If "unfair moderation" votes aren't an automatic karma-killer, but are a flag for someone to look at how that individual is moderating, and maybe nuke their karma if they're moderating abusively, or at least set a "This person never gets to moderate" flag, that might help reduce the problem. (Modulo the ever-present "quis custodiet..." problem, of course. I suppose there's no way to avoid that entirely,.)
(Hmmm.. A nony mouse? Eh, it's been over 40 years, I guess the statute of limitations has run out.)
Back in the days of Univac mainframes, I wanted a file that was not accessible to me. It was backed up on tape, but accessing the manually mounted by the uncooperative operator backup tape?
However, this was also the days of disk being expensive per kilobyte. Univac's solution was "Rollout/rollback"; under certain criteria, the Univac would release all the files's storage back to the free disk pool, and mark it "Rolled Out". Any attempt to access the file would create an automatic "Rollback" job, which would ask the operator to mount the specific backup tape to reload that file.
So, I started a batch job, called it "Rollback", that copied the file I wanted from the backup tape.
There were ways the operator could have told that this was not a legitimate rollback run, but fortunately, this operator was not that observant.
Anyway, "safe from hackers because tape" isn't necessarily so. What process accesses the tapes? How secure is it? How secure is the whole system against spoofing of one kind or another? What's the weakest link?