Right. A proper solution is that they take the 600,000 cars back and provide something that respects environmental norms, while providing at least the performance/quality/durability/confort/safety of the original product, and then also pay for the environmental impact.
Seriously? Slightly hypocritical considering the average american car pollutes more than the average VW diesel car.
I'm good with VW paying the fine, just as I had to do when I broke the speeding & stop light laws.
... Of course VW could turn this to their advantage and into a win - making me think of how the record companies instance on DRM helped make iTunes a dominant player in the downloadable music market (maybe this is not the right analogy, but this is the thought that pops into my mind).
You must be new here. We explain computer issues with car analogies, not the other way round.
Well if your school was using enterprise version of windows, as you should be, and a WSUS, you wouldn't ever see the upgrade to win10 nag. So... you are likely violating your license already.
But, I suspect, you are buying bulk laptops and using the OEM version of windows on there. No excuse for that my friend, that's just a lazy IT department.
Sorry, are you saying the OEM version of Windows is NOT licensed for use in schools?
For reactors being torn down, yes it takes energy. But given that we should know how to make plants last 50 years at this point, minimum, it's not actually that big of a proportion. Hell, after 50 years you'll probably be replacing the solar panels as well.
The energy expenditure for *one* reactor decommissioning is around the 30-70TWh range [citing Vattenfal *and* Storm for lower and upper ranges] so with 400 odd reactors around the world we have a roughly 2800TWh energy *debt* pending from existing nuclear reactors in the nuclear industry a decade or two after they are decommissioned. An energy debt that will have to be paid by the great grand children of the baby boomers.
Why would you think new plants have the same energy debt as old plants? New plants are designed with decommissioning in mind, whereas old plants were not and are a bugger to decommission. Dounreay in the UK has had loads of contamination problems, including masses of asbestos contamination, as well as discharges to the local beach (now closed). But all these old reactor problems are lessons learnt for the newer generation of reactors and designs.
Are you serious? Yes, NoX is affected by sunlight - it creates ozone. Very unhealthy.
The OP's point is not that NOx isn't noxious, it's that it isn't persistent. The ozone created by sunlight on NOX is unstable and breaks down quickly. If we stopped pumping NOx into the atmosphere, it and its byproducts would all be gone in a matter of weeks. The same can't be said of CO2.
As well as the fact that all of humanity pays for the problems of CO2, whereas NOx just affects the rich nations pumping out all the crap in the first place.
Personally, I think there should be more emphasis on plug-in hybrids with Diesel based range extenders. Then the battery can be used around town (where the NOx is a problem), and the Diesel can be used on longer journeys where country roads don't have a NOx problem.
In London, bicycles effectively use about 2MPG of diesel by slowing large numbers of buses and trucks to the position where they are unable to get out of low gear. They are one of the biggest causes of pollution from diesel.
If you got the damn bikes of the road, the diesel vehicles would pollute far less.
Yeah. Damn those bikes. We'll ignore the effect of the pedestrians, lights, junctions, general congestion and all the other factors that contribute to stop/start traffic.
And, as for public transport - sure, take your desktop computer, server or laser printer (or even your weekly supermarket shopping) under your arm on London transport in the rush hour. You can post the video on Youtube afterwards.
You know, the number of times I've taken my desktop computer to work, along with my weekly shopping, makes me glad my town barely has public transport. It would be a daily grind for me to lug all that around.
And I can testify that most of the single occupancy cars blocking the roads have a similarly burdensome commuter load.
The altitude profile reminded me of TWA 800. The sudden climb then fall looks like the plane might have overbalanced towards the tail, which might be indicative of losing a forward section of the fuselage, whether by bomb or technical fault.
Isn't it more like finding the door of your home open and getting in
And you have permission to be inside?
It's more like finding a house with an open door, and smelling gas coming from inside, a potential hazard for the house and everyone else around.
Or, an even better analogy, finding a car that is open, or already with thieves inside, and closing the door having previously chased the thieves away.
Oh, and leaving a note about what you did and that you should get your locks checked or changed.
Why not just divert all the money and resources in the "war on drugs" into the "war on guns", and it'd be won inside a decade, I reckon.
Just what we need: another war on a noun. Won inside a decade, you say?
Seems to have worked in Australia. Gun massacres since the Port Arthur Massacre have been almost none existent because the government clamped down on gun ownership. Similar results in the UK, which enacted tough gun controls after the Dunblane Massacre.
I find Jim Jefferies sums it up best (on home security):
You have guns because you like guns! That's why you go to gun conventions; that's why you read gun magazines! None of you give a shit about home security. None of you go to home security conventions. None of you read Padlock Monthly. None of you have a Facebook picture of you behind a secure door.
Violent crime has been reducing in many western nations over the last few decades. Much of this reduction is probably due to the removal of lead from petrol/gasoline, and the subsequent reduction in neurotoxic effects that can cause violence.
All we're left with now is the true nutters, who shouldn't be near a gun. And with your lax gun controls, guns and ammo are easy and cheap to get hold of.
You'd be a complete fool to try and return fire against a target that you have not identified in a crowd. You're just as likely to add to the problem as to solve it, and even might end up being mistaken for the active shooter yourself.
I have many guns, I sometimes carry a gun (I have a CHL in Texas). I would never, ever, ever draw my gun and fire at someone unless I had a clear and open line of fire, I was 100% sure of my target, and I was directly saving lives by stopping someone who was clearly intent on killing innocent people.
If there are other people either in front of or behind him, around him, or I'm unsure of the situation, I would not draw and fire.
I'm both legally and morally responsible for every round I put downrange, I would never wish to place an innocent in harms way.
I own and carry guns responsibly, I am not "Rambo", and real life is NOT a movie.
So what you're saying is, there's basically zero chance of you ever being able to use your gun in the defense of anyone/anything. So why bother?
If carrying guns was illegal, people would be arrested and banged up just for possession. Push guns underground, and they become much more expensive and risky to buy. Why not just divert all the money and resources in the "war on drugs" into the "war on guns", and it'd be won inside a decade, I reckon.
I find some of the current file systems to be adequately reliable. Even their performance is acceptable. But, the Linux systems are lacking.
Is there a reliable Linux file system such as EXT4 that has an easy to use copy on write(CoW) feature to allow instant recovery of any file changed at any time?
NILFS2 provides continuous point in time snapshots, which can be selectively mounted and data recovered. Not quite as instant recovery as your use case examples, but it's only a few commands/wrapper scripts away.
Massachusetts ban on private ownership of stun-guns being considered by the Supreme Court, and it's unclear whether such ownership has constitutional protection.
Although logic rarely gets involved in discussions around the 2nd Amendment,
Why are you assuming we are all using Windows? If Windows is too stupid to make full use of available memory, that's too bad for Windows users.
I'm with Windows on this one. You don't want to much outstanding dirty data in RAM, as you lose it on an unexpected power loss.
Disk write speeds are not that critical unless you're doing synchronous output anyway (think database transaction commit) or swapping to disk when under memory pressure, but in the latter case you're clearly using all the RAM already anyway.
Yes, I had a couple of Sparc Stations in the 90's and admined SunOS and Solaris on those and some enterprise server systems, but
Fuck Sun, they favored proprietary server systems that lined their sales-reps' pockets with cash while the world changed around them and then sold all of their knowledge lock stock and barrel to Oracle, simply because Oracle users were their largest remaining customer base
Eh? While SUN's machine were proprietary, in that they designed and sold their own machines, they were far from locked in platforms.
SPARC was covered by independent standards, and available from multiple sources. IO buses were all standard (VME, then SBUS, then PCI.)
They even produced open specs for their firmware. What more could a proprietary vendor do to be open?
Also there was that time the US shot down Iran Air Flight 655, and then decided not to apologize or accept liability.
Don't worry - Pan Am cashed the check on that one over Scotland. Too soon?
Too wrong. Pan Am 103 was destroyed by Libyan terrorists, possibly in reprisal of the US bombings of Tripoli, which were reprisals for the Libyan bombing of a Berlin disco frequented by US service men, which were reprisals for hostilities off the Libyan coast etc.
Simple fact is, the US government are bullies, and their posturing and actions make them despised, a bit like the British Empire was a century before.
This, or a whole rack of short stroked mechanical HDD to achieve the same IOPS performance, and a dedicated runner to keep replacing the failed HDD as you go along, along with the extra power and cooling requirements to boot. Seems like a bargain to me.
Current ransomware will just destroy your data. But wait until the crimeware authors switch to "pay us X btc, or we'll make make your online activitiy look like that of a terrorist."
And you'll have the crimeware alibi as well to provide reasonable doubt. Wouldn't get a cent out of me.
I'm no expert, but didn't LibreSSL remove support for some algorithms mandated by FIPS that are known to be insecure? I could be wrong, but I have the impression that it can't be certified because the standard itself is compromised.
As I understand it, FIPS dictates that if encryption is used, the encryption used must be FIPS certified. If they remove cipher X, then clearly you're not using cipher X and it doesn't need to be FIPS certified. I don't think FIPS dictates the list of required available ciphers, just the list of allowed ciphers.
I reserve the right to be wrong and corrected, mind.
My gods. Dude, those things were slow on the very day they CAME OUT.
I don't know why Sun even made the SparcClassic. They were absolute garbage, then you look at how expensive they were and it's even more mind blowing.
It was the low cost SPARCstation LX, which itself was not a screamer, but fast enough.
You have to remember the PCs of the time were mostly i386. This was pre-Pentium, and i486s were still very expensive. All PCs were ISA bus (16-bit at perhaps 20MHz) versus the 32-bit 25MHz SBUS serving the SPARCstations of the time, and it can be seen that anything beyond the CPU was much faster on any SPARCstation. And even CPU wise, SPARC had the legs of even the highest end i486s of the time, especially on FPU performance (though a well cached 486 would probably edge it in integer benchmarks.)
The real SUN competition of the time were HP and the MIPS based vendors, both of whom pummeled SPARC CPU wise, but lagged in areas such as standards and vendor lock in.
TL;DR If you were doing typical workstation type stuff of the 90's (modeling, simulation, anything FPU intensive) a SPARCstation really was cost effective against the actual competition (MIPS, HP.) Intel workstations just weren't in the game at this time.
Slashdot Mirror
Right. A proper solution is that they take the 600,000 cars back and provide something that respects environmental norms, while providing at least the performance/quality/durability/confort/safety of the original product, and then also pay for the environmental impact.
Seriously? Slightly hypocritical considering the average american car pollutes more than the average VW diesel car.
I'm good with VW paying the fine, just as I had to do when I broke the speeding & stop light laws.
... Of course VW could turn this to their advantage and into a win - making me think of how the record companies instance on DRM helped make iTunes a dominant player in the downloadable music market (maybe this is not the right analogy, but this is the thought that pops into my mind).
You must be new here. We explain computer issues with car analogies, not the other way round.
Well if your school was using enterprise version of windows, as you should be, and a WSUS, you wouldn't ever see the upgrade to win10 nag. So... you are likely violating your license already.
But, I suspect, you are buying bulk laptops and using the OEM version of windows on there. No excuse for that my friend, that's just a lazy IT department.
Sorry, are you saying the OEM version of Windows is NOT licensed for use in schools?
For reactors being torn down, yes it takes energy. But given that we should know how to make plants last 50 years at this point, minimum, it's not actually that big of a proportion. Hell, after 50 years you'll probably be replacing the solar panels as well.
The energy expenditure for *one* reactor decommissioning is around the 30-70TWh range [citing Vattenfal *and* Storm for lower and upper ranges] so with 400 odd reactors around the world we have a roughly 2800TWh energy *debt* pending from existing nuclear reactors in the nuclear industry a decade or two after they are decommissioned. An energy debt that will have to be paid by the great grand children of the baby boomers.
Why would you think new plants have the same energy debt as old plants? New plants are designed with decommissioning in mind, whereas old plants were not and are a bugger to decommission. Dounreay in the UK has had loads of contamination problems, including masses of asbestos contamination, as well as discharges to the local beach (now closed). But all these old reactor problems are lessons learnt for the newer generation of reactors and designs.
The OP's point is not that NOx isn't noxious, it's that it isn't persistent. The ozone created by sunlight on NOX is unstable and breaks down quickly. If we stopped pumping NOx into the atmosphere, it and its byproducts would all be gone in a matter of weeks. The same can't be said of CO2.
As well as the fact that all of humanity pays for the problems of CO2, whereas NOx just affects the rich nations pumping out all the crap in the first place.
Personally, I think there should be more emphasis on plug-in hybrids with Diesel based range extenders. Then the battery can be used around town (where the NOx is a problem), and the Diesel can be used on longer journeys where country roads don't have a NOx problem.
In London, bicycles effectively use about 2MPG of diesel by slowing large numbers of buses and trucks to the position where they are unable to get out of low gear. They are one of the biggest causes of pollution from diesel.
If you got the damn bikes of the road, the diesel vehicles would pollute far less.
Yeah. Damn those bikes. We'll ignore the effect of the pedestrians, lights, junctions, general congestion and all the other factors that contribute to stop/start traffic.
And, as for public transport - sure, take your desktop computer, server or laser printer (or even your weekly supermarket shopping) under your arm on London transport in the rush hour. You can post the video on Youtube afterwards.
You know, the number of times I've taken my desktop computer to work, along with my weekly shopping, makes me glad my town barely has public transport. It would be a daily grind for me to lug all that around.
And I can testify that most of the single occupancy cars blocking the roads have a similarly burdensome commuter load.
'Nuff said.
The altitude profile reminded me of TWA 800. The sudden climb then fall looks like the plane might have overbalanced towards the tail, which might be indicative of losing a forward section of the fuselage, whether by bomb or technical fault.
But, I am not an aeronautical engineer etc...
Those 2-3 richter scale earthquakes could cause devastation. The security guards' "best Dad" coffee cups might fall onto the floor and break.
The 4.5 scale quake might even set off the alarms!
Isn't it more like finding the door of your home open and getting in
And you have permission to be inside?
It's more like finding a house with an open door, and smelling gas coming from inside, a potential hazard for the house and everyone else around.
Or, an even better analogy, finding a car that is open, or already with thieves inside, and closing the door having previously chased the thieves away.
Oh, and leaving a note about what you did and that you should get your locks checked or changed.
Why not just divert all the money and resources in the "war on drugs" into the "war on guns", and it'd be won inside a decade, I reckon.
Just what we need: another war on a noun. Won inside a decade, you say?
Seems to have worked in Australia. Gun massacres since the Port Arthur Massacre have been almost none existent because the government clamped down on gun ownership. Similar results in the UK, which enacted tough gun controls after the Dunblane Massacre.
I find Jim Jefferies sums it up best (on home security):
You have guns because you like guns! That's why you go to gun conventions; that's why you read gun magazines! None of you give a shit about home security. None of you go to home security conventions. None of you read Padlock Monthly. None of you have a Facebook picture of you behind a secure door.
How about we not have a war on inanimate objects and instead focus on preventing mentally disturbed people from committing random acts of violence?
How about both? Treat the sick people, while at the same time ensuring they don't have access to guns?
Maybe you should rethink your HuffPo talking points and educate yourself: http://www.inquisitr.com/12548...
Violent crime has been reducing in many western nations over the last few decades. Much of this reduction is probably due to the removal of lead from petrol/gasoline, and the subsequent reduction in neurotoxic effects that can cause violence.
All we're left with now is the true nutters, who shouldn't be near a gun. And with your lax gun controls, guns and ammo are easy and cheap to get hold of.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...
Exercised restraint due to the large crowd.
This is a good point that gets overlooked a lot.
You'd be a complete fool to try and return fire against a target that you have not identified in a crowd. You're just as likely to add to the problem as to solve it, and even might end up being mistaken for the active shooter yourself.
I have many guns, I sometimes carry a gun (I have a CHL in Texas). I would never, ever, ever draw my gun and fire at someone unless I had a clear and open line of fire, I was 100% sure of my target, and I was directly saving lives by stopping someone who was clearly intent on killing innocent people.
If there are other people either in front of or behind him, around him, or I'm unsure of the situation, I would not draw and fire.
I'm both legally and morally responsible for every round I put downrange, I would never wish to place an innocent in harms way.
I own and carry guns responsibly, I am not "Rambo", and real life is NOT a movie.
So what you're saying is, there's basically zero chance of you ever being able to use your gun in the defense of anyone/anything. So why bother?
If carrying guns was illegal, people would be arrested and banged up just for possession. Push guns underground, and they become much more expensive and risky to buy. Why not just divert all the money and resources in the "war on drugs" into the "war on guns", and it'd be won inside a decade, I reckon.
I find some of the current file systems to be adequately reliable. Even their performance is acceptable. But, the Linux systems are lacking.
Is there a reliable Linux file system such as EXT4 that has an easy to use copy on write(CoW) feature to allow instant recovery of any file changed at any time?
NILFS2 provides continuous point in time snapshots, which can be selectively mounted and data recovered. Not quite as instant recovery as your use case examples, but it's only a few commands/wrapper scripts away.
Massachusetts ban on private ownership of stun-guns being considered by the Supreme Court, and it's unclear whether such ownership has constitutional protection.
Although logic rarely gets involved in discussions around the 2nd Amendment,
- You can't change the second amendment.
- You can, it's called an amendment
Why are you assuming we are all using Windows? If Windows is too stupid to make full use of available memory, that's too bad for Windows users.
I'm with Windows on this one. You don't want to much outstanding dirty data in RAM, as you lose it on an unexpected power loss.
Disk write speeds are not that critical unless you're doing synchronous output anyway (think database transaction commit) or swapping to disk when under memory pressure, but in the latter case you're clearly using all the RAM already anyway.
Yes, I had a couple of Sparc Stations in the 90's and admined SunOS and Solaris on those and some enterprise server systems, but
Fuck Sun, they favored proprietary server systems that lined their sales-reps' pockets with cash while the world changed around them and then sold all of their knowledge lock stock and barrel to Oracle, simply because Oracle users were their largest remaining customer base
Eh? While SUN's machine were proprietary, in that they designed and sold their own machines, they were far from locked in platforms.
SPARC was covered by independent standards, and available from multiple sources. IO buses were all standard (VME, then SBUS, then PCI.)
They even produced open specs for their firmware. What more could a proprietary vendor do to be open?
Also there was that time the US shot down Iran Air Flight 655, and then decided not to apologize or accept liability.
Don't worry - Pan Am cashed the check on that one over Scotland.
Too soon?
Too wrong. Pan Am 103 was destroyed by Libyan terrorists, possibly in reprisal of the US bombings of Tripoli, which were reprisals for the Libyan bombing of a Berlin disco frequented by US service men, which were reprisals for hostilities off the Libyan coast etc.
Simple fact is, the US government are bullies, and their posturing and actions make them despised, a bit like the British Empire was a century before.
I don't think Cameron understands how this whole "internet" thing works.
He's too busy down the pub watching his team, Aston Villa (aka "The Hammers") play, before going home and leaving his child behind.
The guy is a bona fide moron.
So $ 9,500 for the 3.84TB one? That's insane.
This, or a whole rack of short stroked mechanical HDD to achieve the same IOPS performance, and a dedicated runner to keep replacing the failed HDD as you go along, along with the extra power and cooling requirements to boot. Seems like a bargain to me.
WTF is ransomware compared to that?
Current ransomware will just destroy your data. But wait until the crimeware authors switch to "pay us X btc, or we'll make make your online activitiy look like that of a terrorist."
And you'll have the crimeware alibi as well to provide reasonable doubt. Wouldn't get a cent out of me.
I'm no expert, but didn't LibreSSL remove support for some algorithms mandated by FIPS that are known to be insecure? I could be wrong, but I have the impression that it can't be certified because the standard itself is compromised.
As I understand it, FIPS dictates that if encryption is used, the encryption used must be FIPS certified. If they remove cipher X, then clearly you're not using cipher X and it doesn't need to be FIPS certified. I don't think FIPS dictates the list of required available ciphers, just the list of allowed ciphers.
I reserve the right to be wrong and corrected, mind.
D'oh, incorrect mod!
My gods. Dude, those things were slow on the very day they CAME OUT.
I don't know why Sun even made the SparcClassic. They were absolute garbage, then you look at how expensive they were and it's even more mind blowing.
It was the low cost SPARCstation LX, which itself was not a screamer, but fast enough.
You have to remember the PCs of the time were mostly i386. This was pre-Pentium, and i486s were still very expensive. All PCs were ISA bus (16-bit at perhaps 20MHz) versus the 32-bit 25MHz SBUS serving the SPARCstations of the time, and it can be seen that anything beyond the CPU was much faster on any SPARCstation. And even CPU wise, SPARC had the legs of even the highest end i486s of the time, especially on FPU performance (though a well cached 486 would probably edge it in integer benchmarks.)
The real SUN competition of the time were HP and the MIPS based vendors, both of whom pummeled SPARC CPU wise, but lagged in areas such as standards and vendor lock in.
TL;DR
If you were doing typical workstation type stuff of the 90's (modeling, simulation, anything FPU intensive) a SPARCstation really was cost effective against the actual competition (MIPS, HP.) Intel workstations just weren't in the game at this time.