My Evo Shift is actually superior to the BB for email IMHO, it has better attachment support and the conversation view is great (mass deleting messages from our monitoring systems was a PITA on the BB because delete prior wouldn't delete on the server).
Nope, physically isolated development network. We dealt with this at Cisco where obviously they were developing stuff that could affect other networking equipment, the only way to assure the production network was stable was to have an isolated lab network. They even had its own internet feed so that if they hosed the uplink router they only lost web access from the lab.
Yeah, my little 1,000 employee company has probably spent $4M on Blackberries, ipad's, and cell service over the last 10 years (our AT&T bill alone is ~$25k/month and they only have ~80% of our business). The government has a hell of a lot more than 25k employees so if anything the numbers seem rather small to me.
They aren't cost effective if you have to store your own electricity. The only people doing local storage are those where a grid tie is prohibitively expensive, but using the grid as your storage system doesn't scale well (yet).
Yep, typical values for thermal storage are 18-36 hours of rated generating capacity, which in the southwest should be more than sufficient for anything but a one in a million event.
The second plant is planned for 250MWe which means the nominal electrical output will be 250MW, peak may be higher and maintenance or something like an ash cloud may lower it temporarily but on average the design is for 250MW of base load output 24x7.
Eventually having 250M electric cars will mean the grid will have ~8.4TWhr's (Nissan Leaf batteries, 3x more if they are Tesla S sized) worth of storage capacity which is about one day's worth of electricity usage for the whole country, though obviously daily usage will be higher in that proposed future. That gives you a lot of ability to move peak production output around and store it if you have a capable grid.
We did it de facto instead of de jure but the fact that we haven't built any new plants in 30 years means we have ultimately also given up on nuclear. The politicians caved to public fear and so made the process of permitting a plant to be so expensive as to make it economically impossible to continue to build new facilities. We will ultimately shut down our current plants and shift that generation to something else, it will just take longer.
Verizon was handed an infrastructure paid for by years of taxes and government granted monopolies, if they can't make a profit with that kind of setup then they deserve to lose.
State laws are challenged under the constitution all the time, see Miller vs California and American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression v. Strickland for specific cases involving state and local law and free speech.
The US knew all about that because the CIA trained Al Qaeda to fight against the USSR in Afghanistan. The relevant answer here is "If you play with fire, you might get burnt", or "Live by the sword, die by the sword".
False, the CIA trained the Mujahideen, some of whom joined Al Qaeda decades later, but just as many have fought against Al Qaeda.
Yeah, be embarrassed is so much worse than having ~4,000 of your citizens killed and entering a trillion dollars worth of wars. Remember that one of the primary findings by the 9/11 commission was that a primary cause of us not catching the cell was lack of information sharing.
Was more referring to things like lock em up and throw away the key vs rehabilitation or "all drug crimes get the max, no exceptions" like one local judge who I did vote against.
Given participate rates and the results of elections either one could be true =)
Though I do have to admit that I frequently skip judges when I vote as I often don't have enough time to research their positions and records like I would like to and I won't vote an uninformed ballot.
For something that protects defense networks the only properly secured network is probably an airgapped one, but that would have been too inconvenient...
Uh, the RIAA and MPAA haven't taken any action outside the US (well other than asking Congress and the executive branch to push for more draconian international treaties and for the state department to put countries that don't cave on their naughty list). The multinationals that are the members of those organizations have certainly had their local lobbying arms do similar things to the RIAA and MPAA in other countries but the MPAA and RIAA are US only.
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My Evo Shift is actually superior to the BB for email IMHO, it has better attachment support and the conversation view is great (mass deleting messages from our monitoring systems was a PITA on the BB because delete prior wouldn't delete on the server).
Nope, physically isolated development network. We dealt with this at Cisco where obviously they were developing stuff that could affect other networking equipment, the only way to assure the production network was stable was to have an isolated lab network. They even had its own internet feed so that if they hosed the uplink router they only lost web access from the lab.
Yeah, my little 1,000 employee company has probably spent $4M on Blackberries, ipad's, and cell service over the last 10 years (our AT&T bill alone is ~$25k/month and they only have ~80% of our business). The government has a hell of a lot more than 25k employees so if anything the numbers seem rather small to me.
They aren't cost effective if you have to store your own electricity. The only people doing local storage are those where a grid tie is prohibitively expensive, but using the grid as your storage system doesn't scale well (yet).
Yep, typical values for thermal storage are 18-36 hours of rated generating capacity, which in the southwest should be more than sufficient for anything but a one in a million event.
The second plant is planned for 250MWe which means the nominal electrical output will be 250MW, peak may be higher and maintenance or something like an ash cloud may lower it temporarily but on average the design is for 250MW of base load output 24x7.
Both plants have thermal storage so I'm assuming that's their base load rating.
Eventually having 250M electric cars will mean the grid will have ~8.4TWhr's (Nissan Leaf batteries, 3x more if they are Tesla S sized) worth of storage capacity which is about one day's worth of electricity usage for the whole country, though obviously daily usage will be higher in that proposed future. That gives you a lot of ability to move peak production output around and store it if you have a capable grid.
And very importantly those 600M users probably have a significantly higher wealth profile and thus ability to travel internationally.
We did it de facto instead of de jure but the fact that we haven't built any new plants in 30 years means we have ultimately also given up on nuclear. The politicians caved to public fear and so made the process of permitting a plant to be so expensive as to make it economically impossible to continue to build new facilities. We will ultimately shut down our current plants and shift that generation to something else, it will just take longer.
That's the point *they* didn't pay for it, WE did.
Verizon was handed an infrastructure paid for by years of taxes and government granted monopolies, if they can't make a profit with that kind of setup then they deserve to lose.
State laws are challenged under the constitution all the time, see Miller vs California and American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression v. Strickland for specific cases involving state and local law and free speech.
Duh, this will get slapped down harder than COPA, it has no chance of passing constitutional muster.
The US knew all about that because the CIA trained Al Qaeda to fight against the USSR in Afghanistan. The relevant answer here is "If you play with fire, you might get burnt", or "Live by the sword, die by the sword".
False, the CIA trained the Mujahideen, some of whom joined Al Qaeda decades later, but just as many have fought against Al Qaeda.
Yeah, be embarrassed is so much worse than having ~4,000 of your citizens killed and entering a trillion dollars worth of wars. Remember that one of the primary findings by the 9/11 commission was that a primary cause of us not catching the cell was lack of information sharing.
Was more referring to things like lock em up and throw away the key vs rehabilitation or "all drug crimes get the max, no exceptions" like one local judge who I did vote against.
Given participate rates and the results of elections either one could be true =)
Though I do have to admit that I frequently skip judges when I vote as I often don't have enough time to research their positions and records like I would like to and I won't vote an uninformed ballot.
Federal Justices aren't elected!
Many Supreme Court hearings would probably be viewed fairly widely, just maybe not by Joe Sixpack.
Federal judges aren't elected....
For something that protects defense networks the only properly secured network is probably an airgapped one, but that would have been too inconvenient...
Wow, since when do factual statements get modded down on slashdot?
Uh, the RIAA and MPAA haven't taken any action outside the US (well other than asking Congress and the executive branch to push for more draconian international treaties and for the state department to put countries that don't cave on their naughty list). The multinationals that are the members of those organizations have certainly had their local lobbying arms do similar things to the RIAA and MPAA in other countries but the MPAA and RIAA are US only.