All of our current storage will last less then a hour.
That caught my eye, so I looked up data about a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant that is ~300km from me. The flow is ~188m^3/s and the capacity of the reservoir is 3 700 000 m^3. Which means that it could go for 5.4 hours delivering 735 MW.
Long time ago I've read a short sci-fi novel about such machine. On the day of first public demo, they fed the machine with the research paper about the machine itself. The machine spitted out only the title.
So... they can say that they accept payments only in beans, pebbles or pine cones and nothing else? And that would be legal? The more I learn about US the harder it is to believe.
There used to be "Labs" button that opened a window where you could - add a lattitude/longitude tooltip to the curosr - drop a lattitude/longitude markers on the map
The reasons for Kaspersky Labs removal from consideration is pretty clear.
1. the reason should be "you are security threat, you act maliciously, you represent interests of a foreign power,..." it should not be "you are Kaspersky".
2. apparently the reasons are not clear to everyone - and so the court will have to decide whether they are valid or not. I find that reasonable.
Can I now sue the Federal Government if they refuse to use *my* software product?
If the government is shopping for a product and your product does meet the criteria, then IMHO: yes, you should be able to sue them for excluding you specifically from the bidding process. It works like that over here (on the other side of the pond). There are some limits such as no unpaid taxes, etc. But in general anyone can compete.
For these thrusters (which I think are Aerojet 0.2-lb monoprop, MR-103 series),
I'm curious (and know nothing about the subject). How do the thrusters work? Is there a fuel and a valve that has to open to release the fuel? Is the valve moved electrically? Is there some kind of spark plug that has to ignite the fuel? For thrust lasting a millisecond - isn't it enough just have a compressed gas container and release a bit of the gas without actually igniting it?
OMG will someone stop him from this suicide attempt?
See, this is what we call "a hypothesis". It says: Mike Hughes dies as result of his experiment. It's a fine hypothesis. Testable. I suggest to perform the experiment and then test whether the hypothesis matches the observed result.
Several years ago I created an account just to see what's the fuss about. Not real name, not real birth date nor location, did not log in for years etc. Your post made me curious so I logged in and looked at the list of suggested friends. Several dozen names showed up. May be ~50. I recognized at about 2. One could be (based on the name) a son of my cousin. I did not talk to the cousin for 30 years except "Hi" on random encounters. His son must be ~20 years younger than me and does not probably know that I exist. The other name I recognized is a teenager who has (in my country) an unusual name and who won several international competitions and thus was mentioned in a news site I follow. So I count both as statistical noise. What do you say to that?
No, people decry the level of authority (the God mode) that is granted to Intel along with the difficulty or inability to disable it. Although to that end, it's absurd precisely because Intel is the creator of the CPU and hence already has a lot of supreme power over the system.
Yes, Intel has supreme power over the system. And we trusted Intel to not abuse that power. Those that did not trust it were ridiculed for the tinfoil hat. And now we have found (*) out that they did abuse the power. Or prepared the ground to abuse it - by themselves, TLA or any other bad actors.
*) I mean - as far as I understand, IME was not exactly closely guarded secret that nobody knew about. It is just that the scope was not known and more of general public is becoming aware of the it.
Since the 1990s, we've heavily moved to hotpluggable hardware thanks to USB, networking has gone from "Basic and optional" to "Ubiquitous and complex" thanks to high speed Internet, wireless mobile Internet (be it cellular or multiple WiFi hotspots), software firewalls, etc
Number of USB devices I've plugged in during last 10 years that are not HID keyboard, HID mouse or mass storage: 0
Number of wifi networks in range at home: 13
Number of wifi networks in range at work: 2
Number of wifi networks to which my linux machines connects wirelessly: 0
Number of problems systemd solves for me: 0
Am I alone?
Any ill effects from the pesticide or fungicide in low doses? No? No chronic effects at low doses, either?
You sound like an expert in the area. I'd like to hear your explanation for growing pollen allergies, food allergies, food intolerance, etc. Also - are there any long term (i.e. tens of years) studies confirming that there are no ill nor chronic effects? If no, then at best you can claim: "we don't know".
What have I created that will be used and enjoyed by others even after I'm gone?
In early 2016 my company sent a group of my colleagues and myself to a manufacturing plant just to see how our SW is used IRL. To borrow a metaphor: "in the closet with the sign 'beware of leopard' " there was a PC running the first complete program I ever wrote for money. Sometime around 1997. I don't know whether it will be there after I'm gone. But even ~20 years looks pretty impressive to me.
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That caught my eye, so I looked up data about a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant that is ~300km from me. The flow is ~188m^3/s and the capacity of the reservoir is 3 700 000 m^3. Which means that it could go for 5.4 hours delivering 735 MW.
Was it, by any chance, called a NOC list?
The correct link is apparently here (linked from the page linked from TFA)
So we finally got an easy way to disable automatic updates on Windows 10 ?
Long time ago I've read a short sci-fi novel about such machine. On the day of first public demo, they fed the machine with the research paper about the machine itself. The machine spitted out only the title.
Just disable Windows Update service.
So ... they can say that they accept payments only in beans, pebbles or pine cones and nothing else? And that would be legal? The more I learn about US the harder it is to believe.
(Excuse my ignorance) Does that include programs written using GTK? Qt? SDL? Tkinter? wxWidgets?
There used to be "Labs" button that opened a window where you could
- add a lattitude/longitude tooltip to the curosr
- drop a lattitude/longitude markers on the map
1. the reason should be "you are security threat, you act maliciously, you represent interests of a foreign power, ..." it should not be "you are Kaspersky".
2. apparently the reasons are not clear to everyone - and so the court will have to decide whether they are valid or not. I find that reasonable.
If the government is shopping for a product and your product does meet the criteria, then IMHO: yes, you should be able to sue them for excluding you specifically from the bidding process. It works like that over here (on the other side of the pond). There are some limits such as no unpaid taxes, etc. But in general anyone can compete.
Paraphrasing: If you can't explain to an eight-year-old what you are doing, you are a charlatan.
It would help if the summary actually linked to the .gif. Or if the links in the summary point to pages that actually link to the .gif. GIF!
I'm curious (and know nothing about the subject). How do the thrusters work? Is there a fuel and a valve that has to open to release the fuel? Is the valve moved electrically? Is there some kind of spark plug that has to ignite the fuel? For thrust lasting a millisecond - isn't it enough just have a compressed gas container and release a bit of the gas without actually igniting it?
The previous story was Researchers Identify 44 Trackers in More Than 300 Android Apps Are you saying that there is only 400 Android apps?
See, this is what we call "a hypothesis". It says: Mike Hughes dies as result of his experiment. It's a fine hypothesis. Testable. I suggest to perform the experiment and then test whether the hypothesis matches the observed result.
Several years ago I created an account just to see what's the fuss about. Not real name, not real birth date nor location, did not log in for years etc. Your post made me curious so I logged in and looked at the list of suggested friends. Several dozen names showed up. May be ~50. I recognized at about 2. One could be (based on the name) a son of my cousin. I did not talk to the cousin for 30 years except "Hi" on random encounters. His son must be ~20 years younger than me and does not probably know that I exist. The other name I recognized is a teenager who has (in my country) an unusual name and who won several international competitions and thus was mentioned in a news site I follow. So I count both as statistical noise. What do you say to that?
Isn't that obvious?
Yes, Intel has supreme power over the system. And we trusted Intel to not abuse that power. Those that did not trust it were ridiculed for the tinfoil hat. And now we have found (*) out that they did abuse the power. Or prepared the ground to abuse it - by themselves, TLA or any other bad actors.
*) I mean - as far as I understand, IME was not exactly closely guarded secret that nobody knew about. It is just that the scope was not known and more of general public is becoming aware of the it.
Don't give them ideas!
Set the hay on fire. After it burns down, blow away the ash.
Number of USB devices I've plugged in during last 10 years that are not HID keyboard, HID mouse or mass storage: 0
Number of wifi networks in range at home: 13
Number of wifi networks in range at work: 2
Number of wifi networks to which my linux machines connects wirelessly: 0
Number of problems systemd solves for me: 0
Am I alone?
I did not claim anything. I just posed questions: what is your explanation? Are there any studies?
You sound like an expert in the area. I'd like to hear your explanation for growing pollen allergies, food allergies, food intolerance, etc. Also - are there any long term (i.e. tens of years) studies confirming that there are no ill nor chronic effects? If no, then at best you can claim: "we don't know".
In early 2016 my company sent a group of my colleagues and myself to a manufacturing plant just to see how our SW is used IRL. To borrow a metaphor: "in the closet with the sign 'beware of leopard' " there was a PC running the first complete program I ever wrote for money. Sometime around 1997. I don't know whether it will be there after I'm gone. But even ~20 years looks pretty impressive to me.