Yep, it does. Other sources quote from (officially) 166,000 gallons per treatment (GAO) to one or two MILLION gallons per treatment (EPA estimates). This over nearly thirty thousand wells across the United States, that's a fuckload of water being taken and pumped five miles into the ground. In the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, 86% of fresh water extracted is used in hydraulic fracturing [citation: Fry et. al].
no, because security theatre hasn't made the demand. Yet.
I'm not saying it won't happen, it would kill the network though pretty fast without some major gate rework to deal with the inevitable bottlenecks. Think four hour checkpoint to take a six minute train journey.
In some situations, a six minute train journey would be preferable to a two to three hour traipse.
Though if the check gates come in, I'll be taking up endurance walking.
who're they going to buy it from? Norway? Their book is full.
There is a European pipeline from Russia for a reason, and that reason is that Russia supplies a significant chunk of Eastern Europe with oil and gas. If Putin wanted to be the bastard Western media are making him out to be, he could divert the flow to China (who would gladly pay in gold) and let Eastern Europe fucking freeze to death next winter.
remember not so long ago when Russia deported a student because they suspected her of spying, and the ensuing diplomatic ruckus that caused? Sure, you do. She was supposedly researching early 20th Century history, but I can see that being turned into 21st Century military deployments and other locally-gathered coffeeshop intelligence...
"Water is not a human right, and should be privatised"
- Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, former CEO and chairman, Nestlé, April 2013.
The entire UK freshwater supply and treatment industry is shareholder-owned and purely profit driven. [Potable*] tap water is more expensive than bottled.
*For various measures of "potable". In my opinion, water that tastes like bleach isn't potable. Yet, that's what you get unless and until you boil the shit (literally!) out of it. You'll get most of the chlorine out by boiling, but only a little of the fluoride - you need a solar still for that.
human rights are ALWAYS trumped by commercial rights. You need to make the claim on the basis of INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, to FORCE whoever to abide by whatever Constitution prevails in the jurisdiction - constitutions are there to LIMIT the powers of Government and to GUARANTEE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS OVER THOSE OF THE STATE OR COMMERCIAL INTERESTS. Human Rights per the UN Conventions are a waste of ink, they ONLY apply in commerce. Money rules all in commerce. Fuck "human rights".
Hydraulic fracturing requires freshwater. This is apparently because the salt content of sea water corrodes the plumbing that's designed to withstand as yet unnamed chemical cocktails but which are known to contain hydrochloric acid. And if you believe that, I have a bridge you might be interested in. Now, we're not talking a few thousand gallons of freshwater here, we're talking SEVERAL HUNDRED TONS - PER TREATMENT. What spoil is "recovered" does not come near the spoil that went in, so it has to go somewhere, right? Where does it go? Nobody's telling us (it's a fucking trade secret!), so we can only make the assumption that it eventually seeps back into the water table to contaminate it - which is why it'd be nice to know what's going on down there.
Fracking consumes more fresh water per surface area than any suburb, even the 20mm-high-lawn lot.
a suite I helped develop way back in 2000 called Phonecian, it's a complete CMS written in ASP. I sold the whole caboodle on, I don't know where it's at now.
...is basically what they're saying. And they're right, they're not cops, they're not investigators. They're a software company.
THAT SAID:
From what I can gather, the "hack" was in the form of a highly complex payload which used multiple vectors. This isn't script kiddy stuff, this is planned and executed with a LOT of money behind it. Less likely to be a disgruntled employee or a pissed off customer, more likely to be a state player or rival with knowledge of the network. They might start by discussing with the police, the identities of those outside the company that the employees from the Directors to the janitors talk to about work, then run backgrounds on those people. I would not be too surprised (though the evidence is currently lacking to back up my position) if this were the work of British or American foreign intelligence - DoD, CIA or MI6. I don't think the FSB would be up for this since it's a Russian company with clear access to computers all over the world by simple virtue of the ubiquitous nature of its software. It wouldn't make the GRU very happy to suddenly find a potential backdoor to millions of computers suddenly slammed shut by a sister agency. Who else? Israel? I doubt it, what motive would they have? Besides, they're too busy killing Palestinians. Though looking at the Wired article, it would appear that suspicion is heavily on Israel with the toolkit being identified - and sharing a lot of common code - as a Duqu derivative with some Stuxnet code in there as well, which they're calling Duqu 2.0. This article does not agree with the one referenced in TFS, in that Kaspersky is reported to not actually know how much data has been stolen but they do know it's a significant amount and specific in nature.
modern jet engines are little different mechanically from that which pushed the Gloster E28 to 350mph in 1941. They were entirely manual, from the control surfaces to the fuel flow. Computers back then were the size of houses. Complications set in when you overtake the plumbing. And when all you need to do to disable a jet engine is pop a ten cent fuse, well, that twelve million Dollar Trent is just so much scrap metal, now, isn't it?
well, good for you. The A400m isn't generally available for civilian use anyway (unless you have 200 million Dollars cash just lying around), it's a ramp heavylifter.
having a computer between the pilot of any system and the mechanical components is just bending over and begging for it. Humans are mechanical. Engines are mechanical. Keep the fucking interfaces mechanical and the transport later the same way, the only thing that's coming of all this so-called automation and computer controlled engine management is butthurt and dead people. I come off as a bit of a luddite? Good. I'd sooner fucking walk anyway, the only thing I have to worry about is blisters. You go fly, the only thing you have to worry about is:
"NOT READY READING DRIVE A. (A)BORT, (R)ETRY, (F)AIL?>
six vertical miles away from your nearest Apple Genius.
cat systems are expensive. It's not just a case of a boiler and a ram, there's all sorts of control and failovers to deal with, not to mention miles of hot pipes that all but double the displacement with no corresponding increase in deck area and certainly double the price of the boat - which is why it was decided not to have a cat but to have a far cheaper and maintenance-free ramp instead. The American carrier fleet is heavy on cat use because when they were built, money was no obstacle to having an effective weapon system which the Nimitz carrier fleets most certainly are. Thanks in no small part to having a cat system that didn't require much in the way of structural adjustment on existing traditionally land-based fixed wing aircraft (strengthened landing gear and arrestor hooks, that's about it). Hell, they even landed a C130 on a carrier in 1963 (more than once IIRC) with no modifications, not even an arrestor hook!*
As for the deck area, it's about as big as it's going to get without some radical hull redesign and some major breakthroughs in materials technology, not to mention the propulsion system needed for moving such a beast at thirty knots.
*From wikipedia:
In 1963, a Hercules achieved and still holds the record for the largest and heaviest aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier. During October and November that year, a USMC KC-130F (BuNo 149798), loaned to the U.S. Naval Air Test Center, made 29 touch-and-go landings, 21 unarrested full-stop landings and 21 unassisted take-offs on Forrestal at a number of different weights. The pilot, LT (later RADM) James H. Flatley III, USN, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his role in this test series. The tests were highly successful, but the idea was considered too risky for routine "Carrier Onboard Delivery" (COD) operations. Instead, the Grumman C-2 Greyhound was developed as a dedicated COD aircraft. The Hercules used in the test, most recently in service with Marine Aerial Refueler Squadron 352 (VMGR-352) until 2005, is now part of the collection of the National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola, Florida.
PS: the TV series JAG paid tribute to this feat by repeating it as a plot point in the episode "Touchdown", #187 (Season 9 Episode 5)
my first Pentium was a Dell Dimension XPS P60. Lasted me about ten years with 48MB RAM and a 4MB video card (later upgraded to 8MB with the addition of laptop memory - remember when you could do that to a video card??)
does a VIA Epia M (with the fan/heatsink replaced by a Zalman Flower and a Peltier thermoelectric heat pump), running Windows XP on a Compact Flash, all crammed in a Shuttle XPC case count? It's totally silent, by the way. Had that puppy since 2007.
baffling and airguides are the two most neglected considerations for case design. I'm building my own case, I don't know what the outside's going to be made of yet (probably a light wood like beech or pine) but I've long since decided what the internal structure's going to be made from: twinwall fibre and a little LDPE for the drive mounts (already done the cutting and gluing for the hard drives, I've gone with 2.5" drives for the simple reason that they use far less power than their larger kin and I've got several pieces of preform that are perfect for the job - taken from an old CD cabinet. Might use some for the optical drives as well, providing I can snip out the dividers without shattering the moulds). Everything's getting grounded via bare copper through all the seams, connected to the power supply groundplane.
tried to count everything but it's just too much to list. Suffice it to say, my main machine is a head box for a home cluster consisting of something like 35TB of storage, 30GB RAM across 18 processors (total 23 cores)
So, are we talking about one screen and what's connected to it? Or what's in one box?
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Yep, it does. Other sources quote from (officially) 166,000 gallons per treatment (GAO) to one or two MILLION gallons per treatment (EPA estimates). This over nearly thirty thousand wells across the United States, that's a fuckload of water being taken and pumped five miles into the ground. In the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, 86% of fresh water extracted is used in hydraulic fracturing [citation: Fry et. al].
They'll just find another French shell company to source from. Piece of piss.
no, because security theatre hasn't made the demand. Yet.
I'm not saying it won't happen, it would kill the network though pretty fast without some major gate rework to deal with the inevitable bottlenecks. Think four hour checkpoint to take a six minute train journey.
In some situations, a six minute train journey would be preferable to a two to three hour traipse.
Though if the check gates come in, I'll be taking up endurance walking.
who're they going to buy it from? Norway? Their book is full.
There is a European pipeline from Russia for a reason, and that reason is that Russia supplies a significant chunk of Eastern Europe with oil and gas. If Putin wanted to be the bastard Western media are making him out to be, he could divert the flow to China (who would gladly pay in gold) and let Eastern Europe fucking freeze to death next winter.
remember not so long ago when Russia deported a student because they suspected her of spying, and the ensuing diplomatic ruckus that caused? Sure, you do. She was supposedly researching early 20th Century history, but I can see that being turned into 21st Century military deployments and other locally-gathered coffeeshop intelligence...
almonds have mammary glands??
Who knew?
because it grows bloody fast and all year round. It'll also thrive in soils most other plants would die in.
better: Nestlé.
"Water is not a human right, and should be privatised"
- Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, former CEO and chairman, Nestlé, April 2013.
The entire UK freshwater supply and treatment industry is shareholder-owned and purely profit driven. [Potable*] tap water is more expensive than bottled.
*For various measures of "potable". In my opinion, water that tastes like bleach isn't potable. Yet, that's what you get unless and until you boil the shit (literally!) out of it. You'll get most of the chlorine out by boiling, but only a little of the fluoride - you need a solar still for that.
human rights are ALWAYS trumped by commercial rights. You need to make the claim on the basis of INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, to FORCE whoever to abide by whatever Constitution prevails in the jurisdiction - constitutions are there to LIMIT the powers of Government and to GUARANTEE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS OVER THOSE OF THE STATE OR COMMERCIAL INTERESTS. Human Rights per the UN Conventions are a waste of ink, they ONLY apply in commerce. Money rules all in commerce. Fuck "human rights".
...planes likely being preferable to many...
Sure, I'll put up with a four hour check-in and being prodded and poked and felt up by a fucking Rent-A-Cop.
On second thought, when's the next train?
(in England, we don't have x-ray machines at railway stations).
Hydraulic fracturing requires freshwater. This is apparently because the salt content of sea water corrodes the plumbing that's designed to withstand as yet unnamed chemical cocktails but which are known to contain hydrochloric acid. And if you believe that, I have a bridge you might be interested in. Now, we're not talking a few thousand gallons of freshwater here, we're talking SEVERAL HUNDRED TONS - PER TREATMENT. What spoil is "recovered" does not come near the spoil that went in, so it has to go somewhere, right? Where does it go? Nobody's telling us (it's a fucking trade secret!), so we can only make the assumption that it eventually seeps back into the water table to contaminate it - which is why it'd be nice to know what's going on down there.
Fracking consumes more fresh water per surface area than any suburb, even the 20mm-high-lawn lot.
a suite I helped develop way back in 2000 called Phonecian, it's a complete CMS written in ASP. I sold the whole caboodle on, I don't know where it's at now.
...is basically what they're saying. And they're right, they're not cops, they're not investigators. They're a software company.
THAT SAID:
From what I can gather, the "hack" was in the form of a highly complex payload which used multiple vectors. This isn't script kiddy stuff, this is planned and executed with a LOT of money behind it. Less likely to be a disgruntled employee or a pissed off customer, more likely to be a state player or rival with knowledge of the network. They might start by discussing with the police, the identities of those outside the company that the employees from the Directors to the janitors talk to about work, then run backgrounds on those people. I would not be too surprised (though the evidence is currently lacking to back up my position) if this were the work of British or American foreign intelligence - DoD, CIA or MI6. I don't think the FSB would be up for this since it's a Russian company with clear access to computers all over the world by simple virtue of the ubiquitous nature of its software. It wouldn't make the GRU very happy to suddenly find a potential backdoor to millions of computers suddenly slammed shut by a sister agency. Who else? Israel? I doubt it, what motive would they have? Besides, they're too busy killing Palestinians. Though looking at the Wired article, it would appear that suspicion is heavily on Israel with the toolkit being identified - and sharing a lot of common code - as a Duqu derivative with some Stuxnet code in there as well, which they're calling Duqu 2.0. This article does not agree with the one referenced in TFS, in that Kaspersky is reported to not actually know how much data has been stolen but they do know it's a significant amount and specific in nature.
modern jet engines are little different mechanically from that which pushed the Gloster E28 to 350mph in 1941. They were entirely manual, from the control surfaces to the fuel flow. Computers back then were the size of houses. Complications set in when you overtake the plumbing. And when all you need to do to disable a jet engine is pop a ten cent fuse, well, that twelve million Dollar Trent is just so much scrap metal, now, isn't it?
well, good for you. The A400m isn't generally available for civilian use anyway (unless you have 200 million Dollars cash just lying around), it's a ramp heavylifter.
it's a quad turboprop, fool.
having a computer between the pilot of any system and the mechanical components is just bending over and begging for it. Humans are mechanical. Engines are mechanical. Keep the fucking interfaces mechanical and the transport later the same way, the only thing that's coming of all this so-called automation and computer controlled engine management is butthurt and dead people. I come off as a bit of a luddite? Good. I'd sooner fucking walk anyway, the only thing I have to worry about is blisters. You go fly, the only thing you have to worry about is:
"NOT READY READING DRIVE A. (A)BORT, (R)ETRY, (F)AIL?>
six vertical miles away from your nearest Apple Genius.
cat systems are expensive. It's not just a case of a boiler and a ram, there's all sorts of control and failovers to deal with, not to mention miles of hot pipes that all but double the displacement with no corresponding increase in deck area and certainly double the price of the boat - which is why it was decided not to have a cat but to have a far cheaper and maintenance-free ramp instead. The American carrier fleet is heavy on cat use because when they were built, money was no obstacle to having an effective weapon system which the Nimitz carrier fleets most certainly are. Thanks in no small part to having a cat system that didn't require much in the way of structural adjustment on existing traditionally land-based fixed wing aircraft (strengthened landing gear and arrestor hooks, that's about it). Hell, they even landed a C130 on a carrier in 1963 (more than once IIRC) with no modifications, not even an arrestor hook!*
As for the deck area, it's about as big as it's going to get without some radical hull redesign and some major breakthroughs in materials technology, not to mention the propulsion system needed for moving such a beast at thirty knots.
*From wikipedia:
In 1963, a Hercules achieved and still holds the record for the largest and heaviest aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier. During October and November that year, a USMC KC-130F (BuNo 149798), loaned to the U.S. Naval Air Test Center, made 29 touch-and-go landings, 21 unarrested full-stop landings and 21 unassisted take-offs on Forrestal at a number of different weights. The pilot, LT (later RADM) James H. Flatley III, USN, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his role in this test series. The tests were highly successful, but the idea was considered too risky for routine "Carrier Onboard Delivery" (COD) operations. Instead, the Grumman C-2 Greyhound was developed as a dedicated COD aircraft. The Hercules used in the test, most recently in service with Marine Aerial Refueler Squadron 352 (VMGR-352) until 2005, is now part of the collection of the National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola, Florida.
PS: the TV series JAG paid tribute to this feat by repeating it as a plot point in the episode "Touchdown", #187 (Season 9 Episode 5)
good gravy, I have one of those, used to use it with my ATI before I discovered the Matrox G400.
my first Pentium was a Dell Dimension XPS P60. Lasted me about ten years with 48MB RAM and a 4MB video card (later upgraded to 8MB with the addition of laptop memory - remember when you could do that to a video card??)
does a VIA Epia M (with the fan/heatsink replaced by a Zalman Flower and a Peltier thermoelectric heat pump), running Windows XP on a Compact Flash, all crammed in a Shuttle XPC case count? It's totally silent, by the way. Had that puppy since 2007.
baffling and airguides are the two most neglected considerations for case design. I'm building my own case, I don't know what the outside's going to be made of yet (probably a light wood like beech or pine) but I've long since decided what the internal structure's going to be made from: twinwall fibre and a little LDPE for the drive mounts (already done the cutting and gluing for the hard drives, I've gone with 2.5" drives for the simple reason that they use far less power than their larger kin and I've got several pieces of preform that are perfect for the job - taken from an old CD cabinet. Might use some for the optical drives as well, providing I can snip out the dividers without shattering the moulds). Everything's getting grounded via bare copper through all the seams, connected to the power supply groundplane.
tried to count everything but it's just too much to list. Suffice it to say, my main machine is a head box for a home cluster consisting of something like 35TB of storage, 30GB RAM across 18 processors (total 23 cores)
So, are we talking about one screen and what's connected to it? Or what's in one box?
they should go off if two sensors are tripped. Gas & particulates are two sensors that should be making the alarm go nuts.
Explain. And less of the false assumption. It makes you look a fool.