Amen. There is a huge difference in breaking into the internet connected administrative network and accessing customer and vendor records and accessing the operational network (often air gapped from the internet) where you have PLC controllers and digital sensors so the control room accesses plant control without the hundreds of cables used for older analog control rooms.
One of the largest things that has come around in power plants over the last decade is taking cyber security to the operational spaces. The office computers that are connected to the internet are where you can access reports, personnel records, pay records, vendor contracts, operational and maintenance procedures, etc. Yep, those could be hacked. When you go to the operating spaces; the "see something, say something" is emphasized as physical security intersecting with cyber security. If you see a piece of equipment attached to operating machinery that hasn't been there before; ask questions. If you see a wireless router attached to something it shouldn't be; say something immediately. (Attaching a router to an air gapped piece of critical machinery controls is one way to make a power plant hack-able where it isn't in its intrinsic state.)
I'm not surprised a professional journalist would fail to pick up on which of the various intranet systems belonging to a power plant the malicious code was found. More and more I'm convinced that to be a journalism major; you have to have failed middle school science class.
Does the RFID strip used for counterfeiting also include the serial number of the bill? It would be very easy to get an ATM to track what serial numbers are issued to which user if you have a wireless way to record which bill is where. Are ATMS doing that? Possible but not probable.
The male gender is the default generic in English and has been so for a couple of hundred years or so. Unless you are going for fringe edge sociological theory and claiming dozens of gender pronouns; "he" is correct generic singular pronoun in formal English.
"They shutdown torrents and we get Usenet! I love progress."... gotta be humor
As usenet pre-dates even arpanet and tcp/ip; yeah gotta be progress. Yep, usenet is still out there.
There was also the movement by record labels to let contracts for musicians that created melodic music drop while signing more and more cheap to produce rap artists. Yes, cheap to produce was one reason rap got more production in the last two decades; at least according to a couple of recording engineers for major labels. The major labels shot themselves in the foot. You find the creative cutting edge on places like CDBaby and Pledge Music.
Look at the business model for Pledge Music... production costs covered by album pre-orders. The Pledge website does internet advertising with their cut. By the time the album ships; all the production costs are covered and there are no hold backs by a label for mystery expenses. The profit goes to the artist and not label middlemen.
There is a place for production music but the recording industry can't be as greedy as they have for decades and survive.
Wu would do well in congress. Wu talks to hear herself talk, talks over anyone else, and refuses to listen to anything that shows she is wrong. Yep, just like a career politician.
Dual SIM phones are a godsend for traveling. Get a job assignment in another country, go down and pick up a pay as you go SIM, activate, and you are up with local calling at a cheap rate instead of the ungodly charges for international roaming from U.S. carriers.
The phone I use, BLU Studio Energy dual sim, has settings under SIM control for setting either sim to be default for outgoing calls or set to ask which sim each time. You have the same type of options for SMS and MMS as well. This is old hat but a very useful niche market. If you work in a corporate environment; having a single handset for work phone and personal phone is a wonderful feature too.
Before locking a phone to a particular carrier was legislated out; the carriers in the U.S. didn't want to acknowledge dual SIM phones existed. The carriers also want you to buy from their store that only sells phones at an inflated MSRP.
Burning methane does not contribute to climate change. Burning FOSSIL methane contributes to increasing carbon compounds in the atmosphere and climate change. Be careful how you say things as you can be interpreted as clueless as the columnist that wanted people to burn oxygen as the new non polluting fuel.
Methane from renewable sources would not contribute to climate change. i.e. wood gas
Tundra methane is commonly considered sourced by slow decay of organic matter caught in the permafrost layer. Freezing slows but does not stop decay and decay products that outgas. When the permafrost melts; the decay products are released and the rate of decay accelerates. Thus, increases in climate average temperatures cause an increase in methane gas due to decay.
The whole "climate change" issue is that of releasing carbon compounds into the atmosphere that were bound up in the earth eons ago. When released, the carbon compounds make the atmosphere more insulating and the average surface temperature increases causing shifts in the chemical equilibrium in the atmosphere. Peer reviewed papers from the 1970s first proposed the hypothesis. By 2000 the ocean temperature has increased enough to show the hypothesis was spot on.
The real bone of contention is how much will the "livable" conditions change on planet Earth and what to do, if anything, about the trend. I tend to be skeptical about political solutions. Politicians tend to create a crisis that requires them to intervene and increase their control of their constituents and be more able to plunder their wallets. Corporate interests want to jump on the bandwagon of any popular crisis in order to be allocated obscene amounts of public monies. Scientists know to toe the popular line or have their grant funding dry up. A vicious decent into the lower common denominator of money grubbing.
Or do you mean the 40% of users that are so clueless about HTML standards that they don't even know you can change the font size of a web page with a keystroke? Ctrl- +/- for the clueless.
If they ban the far right they need to ban the far left as well. Or, you can let the totalitarian bigots fart out the mouth until they sound as ridiculous as they are. Banning someone because you disagree just makes them the victim and garners support for the nimrods with radical beliefs.
It sounds marketable right off the bat as a replacement for deformation based tight clearance measurement. Old school is to use a lead wire and a micrometer. 80s tech is plasti-gage that spreads out based on clearance. Since both are a one shot measurement; the g-putty could be a reusable measurement tool for sure.
The concentration of radio nuclides from Fukushima reaching the Oregon coast is so minuscule as to be indistinguishable from other sources in the area. Scare mongering does a disservice to everyone. If you check the facts; you will find your fears are total hooey.
Ecotest overcharges for their equipment. If you want a silicon dioxide gamma meter, FTLabs makes one that works as a smartphone attachment that is much much cheaper.
And the articles making claims of Fukushima radiation reaching the West Coast have been debunked for years. A few months after the plume release; the levels in the seawater up close to the reactor were down to the background that was there before. Yes there are fruit-loops claiming everything up to the whole west coast being a radioactive wasteland.
If you don't go by regulatory requirements and go by studies in Health Physics, you find that an extra 300 milliRem of exposure a year is shown to have positive health benefits. The term to google is "radiation hormesis" if you want to get into the details.
Please note: NONE of the regulatory limits on exposure to trained and informed workers nor the limits for exposure to the general public in any way consider hormesis in the design basis. The legal limits are based on the doctrine of Bergonie & Tribedeux originating in the 19th century. The theory of Gergonie & Triubedeux is also called the linear no threshold theory. The idea is that even if you show no effects below a certain level; any concentration presents some hazard down to zero concentration. In actual testing; that doesn't hold up but it is the mindset of NIMBY protesters everywhere.
Nope, the KCl binds up in the body. Eat one banana and the level goes up and slowly drops back off over days or weeks as the radiological and biological half lives come into play. Since ALL potassium on the planet has a percentage of radioactive potassium; you will always have a K-40 source in the body..... unless suffering from terminal electrolyte imbalance.
And where Woods Hole was taking samples; you can find Cs-134, Cs-137, Pu-239, and Eu-152 in very low levels as legacy waste from the atomic weapons programs of yesteryear.
Yep, bananas.... If I remember correctly, it is about 0.7% of all potassium on planet Earth is radioactive. If you look at a gamma spectroscopy scan of the human body, you normally see the cosmic background hump at low energy levels then a spike at the energy level corresponding to K-40 decay. Take a reading, go eat two bananas, then scan again and the K-40 spike goes from being five times background to 20 times background. Potassium Chloride, KCL, as found in grocery products such as "Near Salt" has enough radioactive potassium as to make a decent check source for a frisker. (frisker => surface contamination monitor)
Reality check.... Nuclear power plants remain the second cheapest form of electrical power generation. All the figures that show wind or solar being cheaper ignore the maintenance and replacement costs of the equipment. Consider the total system and maintenance costs; the power density of nuclear blows all but hydroelectric power generation out of the water for efficiency as measured by cost per megawatt hour.
Solution is more than a cold boot. Deleting all the remembered network connections and renewing connections (Yes, you have to re enter the wifi codes) solves the problem.
It looks like an update changed the expected data format in the registry for remembered wifi connections. Old data doesn't read correctly into the driver for a reliable connection.
Point of order... skepticism is NOT hate. It has been two years but Apple is the company whose CEO made fun of people that expect to use a computer longer than three years from date of purchase. Expecting a company with Apple's track record to care about a produce they have marketed for more than 30 seconds after the OEM warrantee expires is total fantasy.
There is a huge difference in a MagNOX gas cooled reactor design and a graphite moderated Pu production design. Using Windscale and Chernobyl in the same sentence is a comparison of pomegranate and durien. Not even close enough to say apples and oranges.
I do agree with sentiments about "star in a jar" as that phrase should be reserved for the cheesy adverts for cheap LED lamps that flicker in time to music.
You do realize that any nuclear process for generating power requires neutrons to function? Activation products are controlled by choice of structural materials, corrosion controls, and control of waste and byproducts. And you have the nuclides that are intentionally created by neutron bombardment such as medical radionuclides. Check the facts and leave the FUD for the scary yellow journalism that misinforms the masses. (FUD => Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Commonly used to separate the gullible from the contents of their wallets.)
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Amen. There is a huge difference in breaking into the internet connected administrative network and accessing customer and vendor records and accessing the operational network (often air gapped from the internet) where you have PLC controllers and digital sensors so the control room accesses plant control without the hundreds of cables used for older analog control rooms.
One of the largest things that has come around in power plants over the last decade is taking cyber security to the operational spaces. The office computers that are connected to the internet are where you can access reports, personnel records, pay records, vendor contracts, operational and maintenance procedures, etc. Yep, those could be hacked. When you go to the operating spaces; the "see something, say something" is emphasized as physical security intersecting with cyber security. If you see a piece of equipment attached to operating machinery that hasn't been there before; ask questions. If you see a wireless router attached to something it shouldn't be; say something immediately. (Attaching a router to an air gapped piece of critical machinery controls is one way to make a power plant hack-able where it isn't in its intrinsic state.)
I'm not surprised a professional journalist would fail to pick up on which of the various intranet systems belonging to a power plant the malicious code was found. More and more I'm convinced that to be a journalism major; you have to have failed middle school science class.
Does the RFID strip used for counterfeiting also include the serial number of the bill? It would be very easy to get an ATM to track what serial numbers are issued to which user if you have a wireless way to record which bill is where. Are ATMS doing that? Possible but not probable.
The male gender is the default generic in English and has been so for a couple of hundred years or so. Unless you are going for fringe edge sociological theory and claiming dozens of gender pronouns; "he" is correct generic singular pronoun in formal English.
"They shutdown torrents and we get Usenet! I love progress." ... gotta be humor
As usenet pre-dates even arpanet and tcp/ip; yeah gotta be progress. Yep, usenet is still out there.
There was also the movement by record labels to let contracts for musicians that created melodic music drop while signing more and more cheap to produce rap artists. Yes, cheap to produce was one reason rap got more production in the last two decades; at least according to a couple of recording engineers for major labels. The major labels shot themselves in the foot. You find the creative cutting edge on places like CDBaby and Pledge Music.
Look at the business model for Pledge Music... production costs covered by album pre-orders. The Pledge website does internet advertising with their cut. By the time the album ships; all the production costs are covered and there are no hold backs by a label for mystery expenses. The profit goes to the artist and not label middlemen.
There is a place for production music but the recording industry can't be as greedy as they have for decades and survive.
I was thinking that a green screen of death was an allusion to Win10 being rotten at the core. .... tongue firmly in cheek.
Wu would do well in congress. Wu talks to hear herself talk, talks over anyone else, and refuses to listen to anything that shows she is wrong. Yep, just like a career politician.
Dual SIM phones are a godsend for traveling. Get a job assignment in another country, go down and pick up a pay as you go SIM, activate, and you are up with local calling at a cheap rate instead of the ungodly charges for international roaming from U.S. carriers.
The phone I use, BLU Studio Energy dual sim, has settings under SIM control for setting either sim to be default for outgoing calls or set to ask which sim each time. You have the same type of options for SMS and MMS as well. This is old hat but a very useful niche market. If you work in a corporate environment; having a single handset for work phone and personal phone is a wonderful feature too.
Before locking a phone to a particular carrier was legislated out; the carriers in the U.S. didn't want to acknowledge dual SIM phones existed. The carriers also want you to buy from their store that only sells phones at an inflated MSRP.
Burning methane does not contribute to climate change. Burning FOSSIL methane contributes to increasing carbon compounds in the atmosphere and climate change. Be careful how you say things as you can be interpreted as clueless as the columnist that wanted people to burn oxygen as the new non polluting fuel.
Methane from renewable sources would not contribute to climate change. i.e. wood gas
Tundra methane is commonly considered sourced by slow decay of organic matter caught in the permafrost layer. Freezing slows but does not stop decay and decay products that outgas. When the permafrost melts; the decay products are released and the rate of decay accelerates. Thus, increases in climate average temperatures cause an increase in methane gas due to decay.
The whole "climate change" issue is that of releasing carbon compounds into the atmosphere that were bound up in the earth eons ago. When released, the carbon compounds make the atmosphere more insulating and the average surface temperature increases causing shifts in the chemical equilibrium in the atmosphere. Peer reviewed papers from the 1970s first proposed the hypothesis. By 2000 the ocean temperature has increased enough to show the hypothesis was spot on.
The real bone of contention is how much will the "livable" conditions change on planet Earth and what to do, if anything, about the trend. I tend to be skeptical about political solutions. Politicians tend to create a crisis that requires them to intervene and increase their control of their constituents and be more able to plunder their wallets. Corporate interests want to jump on the bandwagon of any popular crisis in order to be allocated obscene amounts of public monies. Scientists know to toe the popular line or have their grant funding dry up. A vicious decent into the lower common denominator of money grubbing.
Or do you mean the 40% of users that are so clueless about HTML standards that they don't even know you can change the font size of a web page with a keystroke? Ctrl- +/- for the clueless.
If they ban the far right they need to ban the far left as well. Or, you can let the totalitarian bigots fart out the mouth until they sound as ridiculous as they are. Banning someone because you disagree just makes them the victim and garners support for the nimrods with radical beliefs.
It sounds marketable right off the bat as a replacement for deformation based tight clearance measurement. Old school is to use a lead wire and a micrometer. 80s tech is plasti-gage that spreads out based on clearance. Since both are a one shot measurement; the g-putty could be a reusable measurement tool for sure.
The concentration of radio nuclides from Fukushima reaching the Oregon coast is so minuscule as to be indistinguishable from other sources in the area. Scare mongering does a disservice to everyone. If you check the facts; you will find your fears are total hooey.
Ecotest overcharges for their equipment. If you want a silicon dioxide gamma meter, FTLabs makes one that works as a smartphone attachment that is much much cheaper.
And the articles making claims of Fukushima radiation reaching the West Coast have been debunked for years. A few months after the plume release; the levels in the seawater up close to the reactor were down to the background that was there before. Yes there are fruit-loops claiming everything up to the whole west coast being a radioactive wasteland.
If you don't go by regulatory requirements and go by studies in Health Physics, you find that an extra 300 milliRem of exposure a year is shown to have positive health benefits. The term to google is "radiation hormesis" if you want to get into the details.
Please note: NONE of the regulatory limits on exposure to trained and informed workers nor the limits for exposure to the general public in any way consider hormesis in the design basis. The legal limits are based on the doctrine of Bergonie & Tribedeux originating in the 19th century. The theory of Gergonie & Triubedeux is also called the linear no threshold theory. The idea is that even if you show no effects below a certain level; any concentration presents some hazard down to zero concentration. In actual testing; that doesn't hold up but it is the mindset of NIMBY protesters everywhere.
The limit of what is considered safe to handle by bare hand would be about a 200 banana equivalent.
Nope, the KCl binds up in the body. Eat one banana and the level goes up and slowly drops back off over days or weeks as the radiological and biological half lives come into play. Since ALL potassium on the planet has a percentage of radioactive potassium; you will always have a K-40 source in the body..... unless suffering from terminal electrolyte imbalance.
And where Woods Hole was taking samples; you can find Cs-134, Cs-137, Pu-239, and Eu-152 in very low levels as legacy waste from the atomic weapons programs of yesteryear.
Yep, bananas.... If I remember correctly, it is about 0.7% of all potassium on planet Earth is radioactive. If you look at a gamma spectroscopy scan of the human body, you normally see the cosmic background hump at low energy levels then a spike at the energy level corresponding to K-40 decay. Take a reading, go eat two bananas, then scan again and the K-40 spike goes from being five times background to 20 times background. Potassium Chloride, KCL, as found in grocery products such as "Near Salt" has enough radioactive potassium as to make a decent check source for a frisker. (frisker => surface contamination monitor)
Reality check.... Nuclear power plants remain the second cheapest form of electrical power generation. All the figures that show wind or solar being cheaper ignore the maintenance and replacement costs of the equipment. Consider the total system and maintenance costs; the power density of nuclear blows all but hydroelectric power generation out of the water for efficiency as measured by cost per megawatt hour.
Solution is more than a cold boot. Deleting all the remembered network connections and renewing connections (Yes, you have to re enter the wifi codes) solves the problem.
It looks like an update changed the expected data format in the registry for remembered wifi connections. Old data doesn't read correctly into the driver for a reliable connection.
Point of order... skepticism is NOT hate. It has been two years but Apple is the company whose CEO made fun of people that expect to use a computer longer than three years from date of purchase. Expecting a company with Apple's track record to care about a produce they have marketed for more than 30 seconds after the OEM warrantee expires is total fantasy.
There is a huge difference in a MagNOX gas cooled reactor design and a graphite moderated Pu production design. Using Windscale and Chernobyl in the same sentence is a comparison of pomegranate and durien. Not even close enough to say apples and oranges.
I do agree with sentiments about "star in a jar" as that phrase should be reserved for the cheesy adverts for cheap LED lamps that flicker in time to music.
You do realize that any nuclear process for generating power requires neutrons to function?
Activation products are controlled by choice of structural materials, corrosion controls, and control of waste and byproducts.
And you have the nuclides that are intentionally created by neutron bombardment such as medical radionuclides.
Check the facts and leave the FUD for the scary yellow journalism that misinforms the masses.
(FUD => Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Commonly used to separate the gullible from the contents of their wallets.)