First, what is wrong with a provider charging on both sides?
Because Netflix isn't the one generating the request for traffic? The provider's OWN CUSTOMERS initiate the transaction and are ALREADY PAYING THE PROVIDER FOR FULFILLMENT while the providers are leaving their peering points to the public Internet under-provisioned DELIBERATELY to damage service to these content providers unless the content providers agree to be extorted.
Because content providers like Netflix already pay for the bandwidth they use from their own provider(s).
Because such fees are an anti-competitive tool from providers who are trying to lock their customers into their own, competing streaming video solutions.
But the concept of suddenly (and surprisingly) being "eaten" by something (even accidentally) you can't really fight or escape from is a fairly horrifying one for most people.
Go to all the trouble of "a chip of their own without american backdoors" just to run an american OS with american backdoors?
You talk as if every Russian were behind this nationalistic push. A laughable notion at best. Such a platform swap requires its own OS. And sure, some people would swap over to it, and probably some form of Linux. But there's a history of a culture of piracy over there. And not everyone is going to want (or can afford) to swap over to a new, unproven platform.
Nobody needs windows.
I never said anything about NEED.
Expensive to start, but a very good long-term move.
Maybe... But, at least in the short term, it leaves them scrambling to build compatible software and providing their own support infrastructure for it. That, more than the hardware, can is the TRUE expense.
In short, you engineer it to be as safe as possible.
And, with LFTR, that's pretty damn safe, since you don't normally have to worry about gravity reversing itself or a supercooled plug NOT eventually melting once the cooling on it shuts down.
Also, with LFTR, you're working with NO WATER and no high pressure gasses in the containment vessel. So blowing it apart pretty much JUST CANNOT HAPPEN.
How much environmental damage from Wind, natural gas, oil and Hydro is acceptable?
Hmm?
The problem all the anti-nukers have is they keep looking at nuclear power in a vacuum.
There is NO SUCH THING as 100% safe. Not with ANY power source. And continuing to insist that one of these conform to zero tolerance and not the rest? Well, it carries the distinct effervescent scent of bovine feces.
The only part that needs to be "actively cooled" is the plug to the dump tank. Usually by a small fan.
And even if that pipe to the dump tank somehow breaks, the fuel and coolant (which are in solution together), simply spills into the bottom of the reactor vessel, which has a drain that dumps into the dump tank.
Guess what? A lot of that stuff CAN be used as seed fuel for next-gen reactors. So drop it in, cook it down, and let's get rid of it!
We wouldn't have this problem had the US government NOT played favorites and handed virtual monopolies to companies in the solid nuclear fuel arena. This is also why we have regulations against doing something INTELLIGENT with spent fuel (like reprocessing). Well, it's not that you CAN'T. But the regulations penalize you so badly that the cost of doing so isn't worth the returns. Not because it's technically unfeasible or even hard to do.
This is why companies like GE don't BUILD new nuclear reactors. They just sit on top of fat, compulsory contracts with nuclear power providers to supply fuel for their reactors. And these power providers can't negotiate price. Why? Because they simply can't put another provider's fuel into their reactor. It doesn't work like that. And pretty much EVERY fuel provider locks their customers in this way.
One mistake! ONE MISTAKE! AUUUGH! ONE MISTAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!11111ELEVENTY!!!
So you're OKAY with coal plants just chucking tons of radioactive crap into the air ON A DAILY BASIS. Stuff that's going to KEEP on being radioactive in the environment for thousands of years.
But because there's some infinitesimally off chance that in a planet-shattering catastrophe, a little bit of material that'll decay in a few years gets into the environment that we just SHOULD NEVER?
So, you live in a cave right? These huts and house things are just frickin' unproven technology and they'll never catch on. Right?
And we should just revert to a hunter-gatherer society because this centralized food production thing just is SO iffy!
And cars, planes and trains man! We need to WALK everywhere! Better exercise! We could crash in one! We could crash someplace and spill a bit of gas/oil/etc on the ground and have NO WAY to EVER clean it up!
Sorry, but the whole "Just one mistake" crowd needs to grow the hell up and stop expecting to be coddled. The argument is a childish cop-out that forswears any and all progress in the falacious pursuit of "perfect safety". Dude, you're living on a ball of rock, water and gas with in a 10 minute travel time of a giant fusion reactor. Get your perspective here.
And we're talking about a molten salt reactor. NOT a typical solid fuel reactor. With cooling, there IS no mistake to be made. It's a 100% PASSIVE system, The plug in the reactor melts if the system gets too hot. Gravity then takes over and dumps the molten salt into a dump tank to cool off.
Or are you saying that gravity and precise temperature control of a plug so that it does NOT melt are suddenly going to stop being constants.
Yes. Because STORAGE was the problem at Fukushima.
Sorry son. Shitty MANAGEMENT and lazy engineering practice, plus a metric fuckton of "Mother Nature Always Wins"
The plant actually SURVIVED a magnitude 9.0 earthquake. The reason it finally overheated was because the asshats at TEPCO ignored the calls of real engineers for a MUCH higher sea wall. So the tsunami set off by the TÅhoku quake may as well have had valet parking at the reactor when it hit land.
Right now we have the ability to build reactors that are PASSIVELY safe. It means you don't have to worry about failures in ACTIVE, mechanical cooling systems. When such a reactor is shut down, it dumps its fuel into a dump tank and the entire reactor simply cools off. No need to worry if the generators will kick in. No need to worry if the facility loses power. Natural, powered by a little thing we call GRAVITY. It's about as idiot proof as you're going to get until we figure out how to spot-reverse gravity.
And yes, there's always going to be SOME waste.
The stuff that they're pulling out of reactors today? Mildly radioactive. And will be for hundreds or thousands of years.
The stuff you would pull out of a liquid fuel reactor?
1: Medically useful. 2: Shitty bomb-making material. 3: Scientifically useful (and an element we actually can't get any more of). 4: HIGHLY radioactive. But INCREDIBLY short-lived. Some of it is gone within hours of extraction. The longest lived stuff will be a few years cooking off. As opposed to MILLENNIA with current solid-fuel reactors.
Ideal application for reactors such as these is to take them and bury them in concrete. Let them run their usable lifetime and then decommission them. Once it hits EOL, you drain the device and cap it. Then give it a decade or two to cool off (radiologically speaking).
Maybe we CANNOT guarantee that we can build a facility that'll last thousands of years, through god-knows-what. But storage bunkers intended for product with a 10-50 year shelf-life? Pfft.
And remember, these things can be fairly compact and relatively light (they were initially designed as a power system for a plane). These things could replace diesel generators and even small hydro installations. WORLDWIDE.
Yes. Dropping one into the San Andreas Fault, or Yellowstone National Park, or the New Madrid Fault would probably be a FUCKING DUMB IDEA.
So here's a smarter one. We don't DO that. We drop them in more geologically stable areas instead.
Basically 324.5 mil, divided by 64,000 people comes out to $5070.31. The lawyers involved will probably get at least half. So these tech workers' compensation works out to a measly $2500 or so? These companies made BILLIONS. And these workers were denied opportunities to advance their careers that could have worked out to SIGNIFICANTLY more than $2500. Hell, that's a fricking Christmas bonus.
The auto industry has had pretty much unlimited rein to revolutionize themselves for the last 70+ years (Tucker Preston, ring a bell?). But they, and their predatory salesforce, have turned up their noses and outright torpedoed each and every opportunity to do so. All so they can give us pathetically miniscule changes on a yearly basis and charge us ever greater sums of money to do so.
These kinds of shenanigans are going to continue until the American public puts a stop to it. Note, I said the public. Not the government.
The nation is full of people who cannot even control their own waistlines, let alone something with a will of its own like this.
My point exactly.
I really hope people are waking up and deciding to stop being so passive and unwilling to take a little responsibility. I really do hope so. If that is happening, it's not the sort of thing that would get reported by the mainstream corporate media. After all, that might encourage it.
There's a political monoculture in Washington. Everyone largely agrees about the big stuff. So they wrangle, endlessly, over the small stuff, inflating the appearance of importance in an attempt to differentiate themselves. In the end, the net difference is still zip.
There's also the fact that these agencies are USED to lying to and misleading anyone with authority over them. Heads will nod, and people will scurry around, appearing to "do something". In the end, nothing will actually change. Or the people giving the orders will have a "sudden change of heart".
These kinds of shenanigans are going to continue until the American public puts a stop to it. Note, I said the public. Not the government. The government, and it's various tentacles, simply don't WANT it to stop. Even if diverse individuals composing said tentacles do. It is simply one more way of maintaining some form of leverage against an increasingly interconnected population that can make it's own decisions and plans without a bunch of stuffed shirts and their ridiculous budgets. It will continue until they are physically restricted from doing these things.
While I agree with longer sentences for repeat offenders, I can't really condone LIFE sentences for hacking/cracking.
You have people out there knifing, stabbing, shooting and strangling people when they're not just straight out beating them to death or killing them with a car.
You have people committing all sorts of frauds that cost people their life savings and endanger their health and well-being.
All of these people get slaps on the wrist. But a hacker/cracker should get life?
Uh. WHAT?
Basically this is yet another idiotic extension of "zero tolerance".
Prescribe a needlessly harsh punishment on the off chance you actually catch them (which isn't a deterrent), so you don't even have to think about it if they DO get caught.
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Peak demand?
Okay, maybe Mom&Pop-ISP.com sure.
But perennial offenders like AT&T and Comcast basically run with their peering points clogged at five nines for five nines.
That's NOT peak demand we're talking about.
First, what is wrong with a provider charging on both sides?
Because Netflix isn't the one generating the request for traffic? The provider's OWN CUSTOMERS initiate the transaction and are ALREADY PAYING THE PROVIDER FOR FULFILLMENT while the providers are leaving their peering points to the public Internet under-provisioned DELIBERATELY to damage service to these content providers unless the content providers agree to be extorted.
Because content providers like Netflix already pay for the bandwidth they use from their own provider(s).
Because such fees are an anti-competitive tool from providers who are trying to lock their customers into their own, competing streaming video solutions.
True.
Dying is one thing. Everyone does it.
But the concept of suddenly (and surprisingly) being "eaten" by something (even accidentally) you can't really fight or escape from is a fairly horrifying one for most people.
Dun dun dun dun dun dun!
Why would they pirate windows?
Money? Compatibility? Wide application selection? Gaming?
Need I go on?
Go to all the trouble of "a chip of their own without american backdoors" just to run an american OS with american backdoors?
You talk as if every Russian were behind this nationalistic push. A laughable notion at best. Such a platform swap requires its own OS. And sure, some people would swap over to it, and probably some form of Linux. But there's a history of a culture of piracy over there. And not everyone is going to want (or can afford) to swap over to a new, unproven platform.
Nobody needs windows.
I never said anything about NEED.
Expensive to start, but a very good long-term move.
Maybe... But, at least in the short term, it leaves them scrambling to build compatible software and providing their own support infrastructure for it. That, more than the hardware, can is the TRUE expense.
Theo says lots of stuff.
It doesn't mean that everything that pops from his gob is "correct".
But then they won't be able to pirate Windows for these systems.
Oops! Was I not supposed to point out the elephant in the room?
In short, you engineer it to be as safe as possible.
And, with LFTR, that's pretty damn safe, since you don't normally have to worry about gravity reversing itself or a supercooled plug NOT eventually melting once the cooling on it shuts down.
Also, with LFTR, you're working with NO WATER and no high pressure gasses in the containment vessel. So blowing it apart pretty much JUST CANNOT HAPPEN.
How much nuclear waste from coal is acceptable?
How much environmental damage from Wind, natural gas, oil and Hydro is acceptable?
Hmm?
The problem all the anti-nukers have is they keep looking at nuclear power in a vacuum.
There is NO SUCH THING as 100% safe. Not with ANY power source. And continuing to insist that one of these conform to zero tolerance and not the rest? Well, it carries the distinct effervescent scent of bovine feces.
This is what happens when you have a single point of failure like a stupid, technically illiterate secretary added to the mix.
Okay I missed this bit of "Did Not Read The Fine Manual" on the first pass.
The fact that every design which produces any substantive amount of power will always require active cooling.
Sorry, but you're pretty much WRONG.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Look at the entry "Fail Safe Core".
The only part that needs to be "actively cooled" is the plug to the dump tank. Usually by a small fan.
And even if that pipe to the dump tank somehow breaks, the fuel and coolant (which are in solution together), simply spills into the bottom of the reactor vessel, which has a drain that dumps into the dump tank.
Guess what? A lot of that stuff CAN be used as seed fuel for next-gen reactors. So drop it in, cook it down, and let's get rid of it!
We wouldn't have this problem had the US government NOT played favorites and handed virtual monopolies to companies in the solid nuclear fuel arena.
This is also why we have regulations against doing something INTELLIGENT with spent fuel (like reprocessing). Well, it's not that you CAN'T. But the regulations penalize you so badly that the cost of doing so isn't worth the returns. Not because it's technically unfeasible or even hard to do.
This is why companies like GE don't BUILD new nuclear reactors. They just sit on top of fat, compulsory contracts with nuclear power providers to supply fuel for their reactors. And these power providers can't negotiate price. Why? Because they simply can't put another provider's fuel into their reactor. It doesn't work like that. And pretty much EVERY fuel provider locks their customers in this way.
One mistake! ONE MISTAKE! AUUUGH! ONE MISTAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!11111ELEVENTY!!!
So you're OKAY with coal plants just chucking tons of radioactive crap into the air ON A DAILY BASIS. Stuff that's going to KEEP on being radioactive in the environment for thousands of years.
But because there's some infinitesimally off chance that in a planet-shattering catastrophe, a little bit of material that'll decay in a few years gets into the environment that we just SHOULD NEVER?
So, you live in a cave right? These huts and house things are just frickin' unproven technology and they'll never catch on. Right?
And we should just revert to a hunter-gatherer society because this centralized food production thing just is SO iffy!
And cars, planes and trains man! We need to WALK everywhere! Better exercise! We could crash in one! We could crash someplace and spill a bit of gas/oil/etc on the ground and have NO WAY to EVER clean it up!
Sorry, but the whole "Just one mistake" crowd needs to grow the hell up and stop expecting to be coddled. The argument is a childish cop-out that forswears any and all progress in the falacious pursuit of "perfect safety". Dude, you're living on a ball of rock, water and gas with in a 10 minute travel time of a giant fusion reactor. Get your perspective here.
And we're talking about a molten salt reactor. NOT a typical solid fuel reactor. With cooling, there IS no mistake to be made. It's a 100% PASSIVE system, The plug in the reactor melts if the system gets too hot. Gravity then takes over and dumps the molten salt into a dump tank to cool off.
Or are you saying that gravity and precise temperature control of a plug so that it does NOT melt are suddenly going to stop being constants.
Guess the only way I'm going downtown is with a backpack full of jamming equipment.
Yes. Because STORAGE was the problem at Fukushima.
Sorry son. Shitty MANAGEMENT and lazy engineering practice, plus a metric fuckton of "Mother Nature Always Wins"
The plant actually SURVIVED a magnitude 9.0 earthquake.
The reason it finally overheated was because the asshats at TEPCO ignored the calls of real engineers for a MUCH higher sea wall. So the tsunami set off by the TÅhoku quake may as well have had valet parking at the reactor when it hit land.
Right now we have the ability to build reactors that are PASSIVELY safe. It means you don't have to worry about failures in ACTIVE, mechanical cooling systems. When such a reactor is shut down, it dumps its fuel into a dump tank and the entire reactor simply cools off. No need to worry if the generators will kick in. No need to worry if the facility loses power. Natural, powered by a little thing we call GRAVITY. It's about as idiot proof as you're going to get until we figure out how to spot-reverse gravity.
And yes, there's always going to be SOME waste.
The stuff that they're pulling out of reactors today? Mildly radioactive. And will be for hundreds or thousands of years.
The stuff you would pull out of a liquid fuel reactor?
1: Medically useful.
2: Shitty bomb-making material.
3: Scientifically useful (and an element we actually can't get any more of).
4: HIGHLY radioactive. But INCREDIBLY short-lived. Some of it is gone within hours of extraction. The longest lived stuff will be a few years cooking off. As opposed to MILLENNIA with current solid-fuel reactors.
Ideal application for reactors such as these is to take them and bury them in concrete. Let them run their usable lifetime and then decommission them. Once it hits EOL, you drain the device and cap it. Then give it a decade or two to cool off (radiologically speaking).
Maybe we CANNOT guarantee that we can build a facility that'll last thousands of years, through god-knows-what. But storage bunkers intended for product with a 10-50 year shelf-life? Pfft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Half a century (plus) and counting.
And remember, these things can be fairly compact and relatively light (they were initially designed as a power system for a plane). These things could replace diesel generators and even small hydro installations. WORLDWIDE.
Yes. Dropping one into the San Andreas Fault, or Yellowstone National Park, or the New Madrid Fault would probably be a FUCKING DUMB IDEA.
So here's a smarter one. We don't DO that. We drop them in more geologically stable areas instead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Basically 324.5 mil, divided by 64,000 people comes out to $5070.31.
The lawyers involved will probably get at least half. So these tech workers' compensation works out to a measly $2500 or so?
These companies made BILLIONS. And these workers were denied opportunities to advance their careers that could have worked out to SIGNIFICANTLY more than $2500. Hell, that's a fricking Christmas bonus.
Seriously.
The auto industry has had pretty much unlimited rein to revolutionize themselves for the last 70+ years (Tucker Preston, ring a bell?). But they, and their predatory salesforce, have turned up their noses and outright torpedoed each and every opportunity to do so. All so they can give us pathetically miniscule changes on a yearly basis and charge us ever greater sums of money to do so.
Fuck them and the buggy their rode in on.
Talking out both sides of his mouth. Or delegating all the offensive stuff for cronies to pass on so he can pretend his hands are clean...
Not saying anyone else would be any better.
Just making an observation.
Uh. What were we talking about again?
Oh! Hi! What's your name?
NOT NOBODY!
NOT NOHOW!
These kinds of shenanigans are going to continue until the American public puts a stop to it. Note, I said the public. Not the government.
The nation is full of people who cannot even control their own waistlines, let alone something with a will of its own like this.
My point exactly.
I really hope people are waking up and deciding to stop being so passive and unwilling to take a little responsibility. I really do hope so. If that is happening, it's not the sort of thing that would get reported by the mainstream corporate media. After all, that might encourage it.
We can only hope.
Yeah. No.
I'm a Realist.
There's a political monoculture in Washington. Everyone largely agrees about the big stuff. So they wrangle, endlessly, over the small stuff, inflating the appearance of importance in an attempt to differentiate themselves. In the end, the net difference is still zip.
There's also the fact that these agencies are USED to lying to and misleading anyone with authority over them. Heads will nod, and people will scurry around, appearing to "do something". In the end, nothing will actually change. Or the people giving the orders will have a "sudden change of heart".
These kinds of shenanigans are going to continue until the American public puts a stop to it.
Note, I said the public. Not the government.
The government, and it's various tentacles, simply don't WANT it to stop. Even if diverse individuals composing said tentacles do.
It is simply one more way of maintaining some form of leverage against an increasingly interconnected population that can make it's own decisions and plans without a bunch of stuffed shirts and their ridiculous budgets.
It will continue until they are physically restricted from doing these things.
While I agree with longer sentences for repeat offenders, I can't really condone LIFE sentences for hacking/cracking.
You have people out there knifing, stabbing, shooting and strangling people when they're not just straight out beating them to death or killing them with a car.
You have people committing all sorts of frauds that cost people their life savings and endanger their health and well-being.
All of these people get slaps on the wrist. But a hacker/cracker should get life?
Uh. WHAT?
Basically this is yet another idiotic extension of "zero tolerance".
Prescribe a needlessly harsh punishment on the off chance you actually catch them (which isn't a deterrent), so you don't even have to think about it if they DO get caught.
This is ignorance and fear taking the reins.
Fine, I'm tired of trying to lead the blind.