Misguided? I wonder who the misguided one really is.
Take away all the subsidiaries and suddenly nuclear energy is one of the most expensive ways to generate electricity. Let the companies pay for disposal handling and no one will build any plants anymore. Force them to get an insurance in case one of those beasts blow up and no one will be able to build one anymore - because no insurance company is crazy enough to do such a deal, no matter how high the premium would be. Are they also misguided? Hardly!
It's utterly stupid those days to still think that investing anything in none-renewable energy is useful. Keep the old plants running if you are not capable to cut down your energy consumption but make sure that you invest everything you can effort into real clean energy, stuff that isn't capable of blowing up suddenly. It takes years to even build such a power plant. In those years (and it's a shame that it hasn't been done already) you can easily pump your universities with tons of money that you would use to subsidize the new nuclear plants to get some proper results for "green" energy.
So we replace an extremely dirty, outdated and/or dangerous technology (coal plants, old nuclear power plants) that uses none-renewable resources with a slightly less outdated, less dangerous and still dirty technology that still uses none-renewable resources. Yes, that makes a hell lot of sense!
How much Uranium do we have on earth? How long will that last us? There are guess ranging between 50 (Greenpeace) and 200 (nuclear lobby). Either way it's not endless and the more plants we build the shorter it will last.
Does that sound logical to anyone here except those earning billions running the plants?
Great idea! And what if no solution pops up? What's with the unavoidable rest that cannot be reused? Then you have the stuff in a "hole". And we are talking about significant amounts here, not just a handful. Those plants produce tons of stuff that has to be disposed safely for an eternity. Some of those things emit a lot of radiation for the next few thousand years.
"I would argue that it's abjectly stupid to put critical infrastructure into the hands of a for-profit institution"
Ah, so the companies are allowed to make the big profit by running those plants (how is it safer to run a plant privately eludes me though) but the society has to pay for the costs attached.
"With modern reactor designs, you pretty much have to set out to cause a meltdown, and you'll be fighting safety features every step of the way."
Yupp, and since reactors are so simple constructions that you can easily foresee any possible malfunction there is no possible way that those things ever blow up, ever. Harrisburg rings a bell? Was probably also an outdated, old reactor. But guess what? - I'm sure the people at that time were convince that it's safe too.
"Modern plants"
How old are your modern plants? How many cracks does the concrete layers already have? Yes, you can shoot down a passenger plane if you notice that it deviates from the route. But how far is it from a standard route to any of the many (and soon probably even more) plants all over the country? Do you even have the chance to get a plane down in time?
"if I were to make a semi-educated guess, you come from France"
Oh, I should feel insulted.;) I'm a German (from a country that is about to shut down it's last nuclear power plants and doesn't license any new) living in Norway (a country without any nuclear power plants, creating 99% of its electricity from renewable sources).
"signature links to a game produced by a company in Bordeaux"
Just because I play a game doesn't mean I live there.
Yes, cheap it is if you don't calculate the follow up costs which probably account for the vast majority of the total costs. Where do you leave the garbage for the next few thousand years? Who pays for that?
You Americans are funny. On the one hand you turn al pale if someone just mentions the word "socialism" but on the other hand stuff like that has to be handled by the society. Or do you seriously expect ANY company to be able to guarantee the safe disposal of nuclear waste for thousands of years? No company will even exist long enough. Try to find any insurance company that is willing to insure a nuclear power plant! They can calculate and know that this would be a risk that could run anyone out of business in an instant. So they don't insure nuclear power plant accidents. But the government does, it has to. So whenever something blows up it's the tax payer that has to cough up the money to fix whatever is left to be fixed.
Already forgotten Chernobyl? Yes, I know it was a faulty russian power plant and personell made mistakes. Gladly the American nuclear power plants run flawlessly and Americans never make mistakes... You guys were just lucky so far!
Clean? What happens if one of those things blows up? It's not exactly unlikely that a terrorist snatches an air plane and this time maybe decides that "landing" on a reactor near New York might be a good idea. What then? suddenly it's not all that clean anymore but the most dirty way to produce energy. Yes, I know, nuclear power plants are shielded against air plane crashes. Ever tested that? What happens of one of the huge Airbus 380 crash into it? Is the shielding prepared for that too? Forgotten 9/11 as well? I doubt that anyone expected those towers to collapse either - still it happened.
It could be funny if it wouldn't be so sad. On the one hand especially the U.S. is turning crazy on the airport security and running all kind of possible and more or less useful checks but in other sectors a blind eye is all that watches.
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Rock solid, thought through and very conservative.
They have their niche and do their best to serve it as good as they can. I'm very glad that this project exists even though I don't use OpenBSD but various of its offsprings (OpenSSH/SSL, etc.) only. Theo is a very controversial person but at least he keeps the project on focus and going. Congratulations for that and best of luck for the future. I don't see myself using OpenBSD anytime soon but I know a few people that do and they are happy with it. So keep going, the community needs you!
That's all that comes to my mind when I hear the words patent and U.S. in the same sentence. And that doesn't only apply to the IT. The whole patent system should be put where it belongs: into the dustbin
Besides the fact that lots of Windows updates enforce a reboot and don't even leave you a choice to install more, I've learned the painful way that there are situations when a reboot is really needed. Otherwise you might risk to shoot yourself in the knee.
That's not funny at all but the sad truth. Try installing any Windows system and you'll be happy about any second you safe during the many reboots!
1. Windows install - reboot 2. Some driver install - usually at least 1 reboot 3. Windows update - rarely with 1 reboot only 4. Some major application install - often another reboot... that sums up pretty quickly. And if you try to install something older, like XP, the reboots for Windows update alone will costs you an endless amount of time.
I wrote maybe, which clearly means that I have no reference but am assuming.
I have worked with quite a few OpenBSD systems, doing different jobs (file server, mail server, gateway, repository server, etc.) Neither of those systems were performing especially fast. They did their jobs but on the same hardware other BSDs and Linux would have been reasonably faster. Astonishingly even SSH/SCP operations from/to those systems were pretty slow.
Maybe because the OpenBSD implementation is rock solid and really safe - but drags down the performance like a stone?
There are many neat features (usually security related) in OpenBSD. Sadly it's not as simple as "copying" the implementation when the OS of choice has a different aim than being the most secure one on the planet. Don't get me wrong. I like OpenBSD for what it is. But I don't think that you can solve every (possible) security issue by simply following the OpenBSD solution because at the end you run OpenBSD. That's truely safe but very restricted in its usability in certain aspects, especially performance related tasks. It's perfect as a gateway or the like. It sucks on your desktop when you want to run a bit more than lynx and mutt and expect it to spit out some serious 3D stuff.
Chrome is controlled by Google though. Because you are paranoid you think that they are significantly more evil than Mozilla and possibly more evil than Microsoft. Therefore it is possible that Chrome will not suffer from bitrot.
Every single of those "athlets" are there because of their genetic advantages or those of there pharmacists, usually both. A Joe/Joeline Average, no matter how hard he trains, will never stand the slightest chance in such a competition simple because he/she is lacking the little bit of extra juice that decides between being just sportive or being world class.
I stopped watching sports a couple of years ago because it's no fun anymore. I was more busy following who has been caught cheating in various ways than seeing real sports.
I'll probably get moderated troll for that but it's pretty obvious to me: Put your data into a (trusted) cloud and not onto the phone itself, use encryption on the way and you are as safe as you can get. The phone is only useful when connected anyway, so why should I have to carry the data on the phone?
As my former employer (mmo developer) used to say: Why the heck should we invest time and money into encrypting our protocol to protect the client from being run via proxies to cheat, when there is literally no way to enforce it because as soon as you own the end point (in that case the game client, in the case here the mobile phone) you have (fairly easy) access to everything anyway.
I don't know why you think that Norwegian is hard to learn but we have a student from England here and he learnt fluent Norwegian within a few months without any major effort. The language is pretty easy, no fancy grammar or the like.
Try learning Russian or Finnish and then compare it to Norwegian!
1. Opera is based in Oslo. A couple of Oil&Gas oriented IT companies exist. 2. Norwegian is very easy to learn if you actually take a little time and do it. But it's not required, especially not for an IT job. 3. Oslo is one of the most expensive cities in world, but so are the incomes.
Have a look at wikipedia. If you like to live the "American dream" then you will probably be disappointed. If you life without fear to lose your job next day then you might like it here.
no point in enforcing smaller cars instead of those ridiculous SUVs when half of the country simply needs a SUV because they are so fat that they don't fit in a normal car anymore.
definition of "normal car": Volkswagen Golf size - or even smaller I drive a Toyota Yaris with my wife and my 3 months old son and we have no trouble to fit us and quite some luggage into the car while sitting comfortably. The car uses 5-6 liters/100km, depending on where and how I drive. That should be roughly 42 mpg.
So I'm not too impressed by this rule. Expecting the average car in 7 years to use as much gasoline as a pretty standard car uses now doesn't require too much.
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Misguided? I wonder who the misguided one really is.
Take away all the subsidiaries and suddenly nuclear energy is one of the most expensive ways to generate electricity. Let the companies pay for disposal handling and no one will build any plants anymore. Force them to get an insurance in case one of those beasts blow up and no one will be able to build one anymore - because no insurance company is crazy enough to do such a deal, no matter how high the premium would be. Are they also misguided? Hardly!
It's utterly stupid those days to still think that investing anything in none-renewable energy is useful. Keep the old plants running if you are not capable to cut down your energy consumption but make sure that you invest everything you can effort into real clean energy, stuff that isn't capable of blowing up suddenly. It takes years to even build such a power plant. In those years (and it's a shame that it hasn't been done already) you can easily pump your universities with tons of money that you would use to subsidize the new nuclear plants to get some proper results for "green" energy.
Brilliant idea!
So we replace an extremely dirty, outdated and/or dangerous technology (coal plants, old nuclear power plants) that uses none-renewable resources with a slightly less outdated, less dangerous and still dirty technology that still uses none-renewable resources.
Yes, that makes a hell lot of sense!
How much Uranium do we have on earth? How long will that last us? There are guess ranging between 50 (Greenpeace) and 200 (nuclear lobby). Either way it's not endless and the more plants we build the shorter it will last.
Does that sound logical to anyone here except those earning billions running the plants?
"Stick it in a hole"
Great idea! And what if no solution pops up? What's with the unavoidable rest that cannot be reused?
Then you have the stuff in a "hole". And we are talking about significant amounts here, not just a handful. Those plants produce tons of stuff that has to be disposed safely for an eternity. Some of those things emit a lot of radiation for the next few thousand years.
"I would argue that it's abjectly stupid to put critical infrastructure into the hands of a for-profit institution"
Ah, so the companies are allowed to make the big profit by running those plants (how is it safer to run a plant privately eludes me though) but the society has to pay for the costs attached.
"With modern reactor designs, you pretty much have to set out to cause a meltdown, and you'll be fighting safety features every step of the way."
Yupp, and since reactors are so simple constructions that you can easily foresee any possible malfunction there is no possible way that those things ever blow up, ever. Harrisburg rings a bell? Was probably also an outdated, old reactor. But guess what? - I'm sure the people at that time were convince that it's safe too.
"Modern plants"
How old are your modern plants? How many cracks does the concrete layers already have?
Yes, you can shoot down a passenger plane if you notice that it deviates from the route. But how far is it from a standard route to any of the many (and soon probably even more) plants all over the country? Do you even have the chance to get a plane down in time?
"if I were to make a semi-educated guess, you come from France"
Oh, I should feel insulted. ;)
I'm a German (from a country that is about to shut down it's last nuclear power plants and doesn't license any new) living in Norway (a country without any nuclear power plants, creating 99% of its electricity from renewable sources).
"signature links to a game produced by a company in Bordeaux"
Just because I play a game doesn't mean I live there.
Try again! :P
There ain't no safe, clean way to generate power in the amounts we consume.
Yes, cheap it is if you don't calculate the follow up costs which probably account for the vast majority of the total costs.
Where do you leave the garbage for the next few thousand years? Who pays for that?
You Americans are funny. On the one hand you turn al pale if someone just mentions the word "socialism" but on the other hand stuff like that has to be handled by the society. Or do you seriously expect ANY company to be able to guarantee the safe disposal of nuclear waste for thousands of years? No company will even exist long enough.
Try to find any insurance company that is willing to insure a nuclear power plant! They can calculate and know that this would be a risk that could run anyone out of business in an instant. So they don't insure nuclear power plant accidents. But the government does, it has to. So whenever something blows up it's the tax payer that has to cough up the money to fix whatever is left to be fixed.
Already forgotten Chernobyl? Yes, I know it was a faulty russian power plant and personell made mistakes. Gladly the American nuclear power plants run flawlessly and Americans never make mistakes ... You guys were just lucky so far!
Clean? What happens if one of those things blows up? It's not exactly unlikely that a terrorist snatches an air plane and this time maybe decides that "landing" on a reactor near New York might be a good idea. What then? suddenly it's not all that clean anymore but the most dirty way to produce energy. Yes, I know, nuclear power plants are shielded against air plane crashes. Ever tested that? What happens of one of the huge Airbus 380 crash into it? Is the shielding prepared for that too? Forgotten 9/11 as well? I doubt that anyone expected those towers to collapse either - still it happened.
It could be funny if it wouldn't be so sad. On the one hand especially the U.S. is turning crazy on the airport security and running all kind of possible and more or less useful checks but in other sectors a blind eye is all that watches.
Rock solid, thought through and very conservative.
They have their niche and do their best to serve it as good as they can. I'm very glad that this project exists even though I don't use OpenBSD but various of its offsprings (OpenSSH/SSL, etc.) only.
Theo is a very controversial person but at least he keeps the project on focus and going. Congratulations for that and best of luck for the future.
I don't see myself using OpenBSD anytime soon but I know a few people that do and they are happy with it. So keep going, the community needs you!
more regionally diverse? Have you ever been to Finland?
That's all that comes to my mind when I hear the words patent and U.S. in the same sentence. And that doesn't only apply to the IT.
The whole patent system should be put where it belongs: into the dustbin
Besides the fact that lots of Windows updates enforce a reboot and don't even leave you a choice to install more, I've learned the painful way that there are situations when a reboot is really needed. Otherwise you might risk to shoot yourself in the knee.
That's not funny at all but the sad truth.
Try installing any Windows system and you'll be happy about any second you safe during the many reboots!
1. Windows install - reboot ... that sums up pretty quickly. And if you try to install something older, like XP, the reboots for Windows update alone will costs you an endless amount of time.
2. Some driver install - usually at least 1 reboot
3. Windows update - rarely with 1 reboot only
4. Some major application install - often another reboot
I wrote maybe, which clearly means that I have no reference but am assuming.
I have worked with quite a few OpenBSD systems, doing different jobs (file server, mail server, gateway, repository server, etc.) Neither of those systems were performing especially fast. They did their jobs but on the same hardware other BSDs and Linux would have been reasonably faster. Astonishingly even SSH/SCP operations from/to those systems were pretty slow.
Maybe because the OpenBSD implementation is rock solid and really safe - but drags down the performance like a stone?
There are many neat features (usually security related) in OpenBSD. Sadly it's not as simple as "copying" the implementation when the OS of choice has a different aim than being the most secure one on the planet.
Don't get me wrong. I like OpenBSD for what it is. But I don't think that you can solve every (possible) security issue by simply following the OpenBSD solution because at the end you run OpenBSD. That's truely safe but very restricted in its usability in certain aspects, especially performance related tasks. It's perfect as a gateway or the like. It sucks on your desktop when you want to run a bit more than lynx and mutt and expect it to spit out some serious 3D stuff.
Chrome is controlled by Google though. Because you are paranoid you think that they are significantly more evil than Mozilla and possibly more evil than Microsoft. Therefore it is possible that Chrome will not suffer from bitrot.
There, fixed it for you!
Every single of those "athlets" are there because of their genetic advantages or those of there pharmacists, usually both. A Joe/Joeline Average, no matter how hard he trains, will never stand the slightest chance in such a competition simple because he/she is lacking the little bit of extra juice that decides between being just sportive or being world class.
I stopped watching sports a couple of years ago because it's no fun anymore. I was more busy following who has been caught cheating in various ways than seeing real sports.
Last I checked, IE was crappy.
I'll probably get moderated troll for that but it's pretty obvious to me:
Put your data into a (trusted) cloud and not onto the phone itself, use encryption on the way and you are as safe as you can get. The phone is only useful when connected anyway, so why should I have to carry the data on the phone?
Pretty fitting post!
As my former employer (mmo developer) used to say: Why the heck should we invest time and money into encrypting our protocol to protect the client from being run via proxies to cheat, when there is literally no way to enforce it because as soon as you own the end point (in that case the game client, in the case here the mobile phone) you have (fairly easy) access to everything anyway.
Of course they all work in trunk. They still use friggin' cvs. Who really wants to branch in cvs?
Nice summary even though I don't understand how one could think that French would be easier to learn than Norwegian.
Actually 100% of the movies are original language with subtitles, except for children stuff. I have yet to find a single dubbed 12+ movie.
I don't know why you think that Norwegian is hard to learn but we have a student from England here and he learnt fluent Norwegian within a few months without any major effort. The language is pretty easy, no fancy grammar or the like.
Try learning Russian or Finnish and then compare it to Norwegian!
Top-tax is 48% (starts at 450.000kr if I remember it right). Why don't you guys just simply google it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_around_the_world
1. Opera is based in Oslo. A couple of Oil&Gas oriented IT companies exist.
2. Norwegian is very easy to learn if you actually take a little time and do it. But it's not required, especially not for an IT job.
3. Oslo is one of the most expensive cities in world, but so are the incomes.
Plus: a socialist government, 44(54) weeks maternity/paternity leave 100%(80%), amazing countryside
Have a look at wikipedia. If you like to live the "American dream" then you will probably be disappointed. If you life without fear to lose your job next day then you might like it here.
no point in enforcing smaller cars instead of those ridiculous SUVs when half of the country simply needs a SUV because they are so fat that they don't fit in a normal car anymore.
definition of "normal car": Volkswagen Golf size - or even smaller
I drive a Toyota Yaris with my wife and my 3 months old son and we have no trouble to fit us and quite some luggage into the car while sitting comfortably. The car uses 5-6 liters/100km, depending on where and how I drive. That should be roughly 42 mpg.
So I'm not too impressed by this rule.
Expecting the average car in 7 years to use as much gasoline as a pretty standard car uses now doesn't require too much.
And Taco pretty much nailed it. Very good review and astonishingly spoiler-free.
Yes, this is one of the better ST movies, maybe even the strongest ever, very much worth to watch.
What is Audiogalaxy?
(... trying hard to remember)