Is there any environmentalist out there who can enlighten me on why the water "consumption" of a data center (or any other major plant) is an issue?
Water shortages are becoming an issue in the US. Water costs money, shortage increases the cost. This is a simple case of planning for the future (and save money in the present).
Becides is there any particular reason that data centers need to use drinking water? There is an environmental cost (chemicals to purify it, energy to pump it etc) to bringing water up to drinking standard. Every gallon of greywater they use is a gallon that does not have to be treated and transported from a distant aquifer/reservoir
(1) putting a impact shield around spacecraft - but the kind of impact speeds we are talking about probably makes this uneconomical as the shield would need to be massive.
It may be possible to make a lightweight space armour There is string vest plate and Spaced armour which both rely on breaking up the impactor. Send up the armour flat packed erect it on site and perhaps fill the gaps between the plates with some sort of cavity wall insulating foam.
I'd guess the plates could be spaced much further apart giving the debris more time to spread out
Granted it would not stop an incoming tool kit, but that it big enough to be spotted and dodged
Anything you use in conversation, we had a server called paper (named for us)
so every time I said 'is on paper' everyone looked at the printer. Its now called
pace (our theme is collective nouns)
The fact that the Cylons didn't manage to wipe them out in the first season is purely an artifact of it being fiction.
The reason they were not wiped out in the first season is because, the Cylons as a race are, Mad as a Herring. Which is a pity because any motivations they do display are convincing as 'A wizard did it'
This may be kind of what your looking for.... It monitors one plug and cuts power to the others if it stops drawing power or (after a delay) if the main socket is put on standby....
Personally, I am sick of spammers attempting to add comment spam to sites that I run,
signing up for bogus accounts, sending massive amounts of spam, continuously trying
ssh connections, running exploits etc the list goes on. The police need to do something to help us.
Rich.
I think you should be careful what you wish for. The Police could do something, they could turn the Internet into a Police State.
Amen to that. If I was creating a family archive (which I am) I'm not going to put a years worth of browser history in it, which would arguably tell a decendent more about me than I really want them to know. (sorry descendant but I need some privacy:-)
Its a weird feeling that one day I may be the subject of a school project,
in which case I may as well try and help out....
Dear descendant
You have probably already found this out, but all my
USENET posts had the sig "NPC rights activist | Nameless Abominations are people too!"
you can find a lot about where I worked what I was interested in from that
I rather liked the say my (CRT) screen flicked three times when I was about to get an
incomming call, (then again only a very few knew the number:-) don't get that now its all LCD
I'm kind of surprised a 486 survives in space, I was under the impression that consumer grade hardware did not last well when exposed to the 'radiation of space'. (dimply recalls a ham radio satellite that died the death over these issues)
There is also a potential for the crafty sex offender to possibly cause false positives by just registering an address that does not belong to them, thereby drawing in innocent bystanders.
1. Cui bono? Why would they bother to do this, except just to be a dick?
We all know how accurate and reliable the government databases of naughty people are
Actually, the dust blows itself. It gets charged up by ultraviolet light during the day and the solar wind at night. Because there's no air to help neutralize the dust particles, they jump around like House of Pain. From the fount of all knowledge:
<SNIP> See the article for more information and drawings of the phenomenon recorded by Apollo astronauts.
Interesting.... I wonder how high the dust jumps, I note that the illustration has ~60ft walls
round the telescope. If the deposition rate was high, I wonder if the Walls/aperture could be charged so as to act as a anti-dust forcefield.
The back of an envelope indicates meteoric dust is a trivial problem, earth gets ~1000 tons of meteors per day, say the moon geta
about 1/6 of that 166 tons spread over 37 million Km2 thats about 5g/Km2, say the mirror 100m2 thats about 0.5 mg/day
The "liquids" to be used are less dense than water, and being placed on the lunar surface, which is covered in dust several times finer than baking powder.
I'd give it about 3-5 days (depending on the size) before the "revolving liquid mirrors" become revolving lunar mud pies.
How? Is the wind is going to blow the dust onto the mirror??
"were talking 'military spec' pencils"
I know you're joking, but I was thinking something similar. Could it be ex-military spec junk hardware?. It could just be junk hardware that's getting thrown out (over a 10 year period), but is not officially signed off as allowed to be taken home as junk. From the paper trail it would look like the junk was still owned.
Could be, its very easy to get into the Magpie mindset when you see stacks of perfectly good hardware go to waste. and there is always a constant supply of/better stuff/ dropping down towards the wastebin
Best way to sneak small things out of work is to (1) sell it on ebay and then (2) mail it while (3) pocketing the money. (Like that guy on MASH who mailed a jeep piece-by-piece.) Nobody examines packages closely.
There's the old joke about the guy who takes a wheel barrow of straw out of the
yard every day, the security guard knows he's stealing something and searches it every day,
but find only straw! Years later they bump into each other and the guard asks now its too late to do anything about it... what were you stealing? and the guy grins and says 'wheelbarrows'.
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Is there any environmentalist out there who can enlighten me on why the water "consumption" of a data center (or any other major plant) is an issue?
Water shortages are becoming an issue in the US. Water costs money, shortage increases the cost. This is a simple case of planning for the future (and save money in the present).
Becides is there any particular reason that data centers need to use drinking water? There is an environmental cost (chemicals to purify it, energy to pump it etc) to bringing water up to drinking standard. Every gallon of greywater they use is a gallon that does not have to be treated and transported from a distant aquifer/reservoir
How about just publishing to Wikipedia?
Publishing in a media that can be later modified/deleted by more or less anyone seems like a recipe for pain and litigation.
Yes Wikipedia keeps a version history and Yes the old pages are available on the Wayback machine.
However if the prior art is not instantly and trivially visible to the Patent examiner a patent (w|c)ould get granted anyway.
Humphrey Lyttelton jazzman, God of the double entendres, and now Freedom Fighter!
Sorely missed :(
Ob xkcd
(1) putting a impact shield around spacecraft - but the kind of impact speeds we are talking about probably makes this uneconomical as the shield would need to be massive.
It may be possible to make a lightweight space armour There is string vest plate and Spaced armour which both rely on breaking up the impactor. Send up the armour flat packed erect it on site and perhaps fill the gaps between the plates with some sort of cavity wall insulating foam. I'd guess the plates could be spaced much further apart giving the debris more time to spread out
Granted it would not stop an incoming tool kit, but that it big enough to be spotted and dodged
Campus implies lots of people, lots of garbage, and lots of space. God help you if it's a college campus, the promised land of vermin the world over,
Some of which walks on two legs <insert whipping subject here>
Anything you use in conversation, we had a server called paper (named for us) so every time I said 'is on paper' everyone looked at the printer. Its now called pace (our theme is collective nouns)
The fact that the Cylons didn't manage to wipe them out in the first season is purely an artifact of it being fiction.
The reason they were not wiped out in the first season is because, the Cylons as a race are, Mad as a Herring. Which is a pity because any motivations they do display are convincing as 'A wizard did it'
This may be kind of what your looking for.... It monitors one plug and cuts power to the others if it stops drawing power or (after a delay) if the main socket is put on standby....
Personally, I am sick of spammers attempting to add comment spam to sites that I run, signing up for bogus accounts, sending massive amounts of spam, continuously trying ssh connections, running exploits etc the list goes on. The police need to do something to help us.
Rich.
I think you should be careful what you wish for. The Police could do something, they could turn the Internet into a Police State.
(-:
Amen to that. If I was creating a family archive (which I am) I'm not going to put a years worth of browser history in it, which would arguably tell a decendent more about me than I really want them to know. (sorry descendant but I need some privacy :-)
Its a weird feeling that one day I may be the subject of a school project, in which case I may as well try and help out....
Dear descendant
You have probably already found this out, but all my USENET posts had the sig "NPC rights activist | Nameless Abominations are people too!" you can find a lot about where I worked what I was interested in from that
I rather liked the say my (CRT) screen flicked three times when I was about to get an incomming call, (then again only a very few knew the number :-) don't get that now its all LCD
I'm kind of surprised a 486 survives in space, I was under the impression that consumer grade hardware did not last well when exposed to the 'radiation of space'. (dimply recalls a ham radio satellite that died the death over these issues)
Upsidedowndogs.com provides a pretty unique service.
There is also a potential for the crafty sex offender to possibly cause false positives by just registering an address that does not belong to them, thereby drawing in innocent bystanders.
1. Cui bono? Why would they bother to do this, except just to be a dick?
We all know how accurate and reliable the government databases of naughty people are
+1 funny
I've long wanted a GPS to speak to me in Unwinese
Actually, the dust blows itself. It gets charged up by ultraviolet light during the day and the solar wind at night. Because there's no air to help neutralize the dust particles, they jump around like House of Pain. From the fount of all knowledge:
<SNIP>
See the article for more information and drawings of the phenomenon recorded by Apollo astronauts.
Interesting.... I wonder how high the dust jumps, I note that the illustration has ~60ft walls round the telescope. If the deposition rate was high, I wonder if the Walls/aperture could be charged so as to act as a anti-dust forcefield.
The back of an envelope indicates meteoric dust is a trivial problem, earth gets ~1000 tons of meteors per day, say the moon geta about 1/6 of that 166 tons spread over 37 million Km2 thats about 5g/Km2, say the mirror 100m2 thats about 0.5 mg/day
The "liquids" to be used are less dense than water, and being placed on the lunar surface, which is covered in dust several times finer than baking powder.
I'd give it about 3-5 days (depending on the size) before the "revolving liquid mirrors" become revolving lunar mud pies.
How? Is the wind is going to blow the dust onto the mirror??
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"were talking 'military spec' pencils" I know you're joking, but I was thinking something similar. Could it be ex-military spec junk hardware?. It could just be junk hardware that's getting thrown out (over a 10 year period), but is not officially signed off as allowed to be taken home as junk. From the paper trail it would look like the junk was still owned.
Could be, its very easy to get into the Magpie mindset when you see stacks of perfectly good hardware go to waste. and there is always a constant supply of /better stuff/ dropping down towards the wastebin
Best way to sneak small things out of work is to (1) sell it on ebay and then (2) mail it while (3) pocketing the money. (Like that guy on MASH who mailed a jeep piece-by-piece.) Nobody examines packages closely.
There's the old joke about the guy who takes a wheel barrow of straw out of the yard every day, the security guard knows he's stealing something and searches it every day, but find only straw! Years later they bump into each other and the guard asks now its too late to do anything about it... what were you stealing? and the guy grins and says 'wheelbarrows'.
My thoughts exactly. Was this a case of 19,000 pencils and then a few PCs?
Couldn't be, were talking 'military spec' pencils which cost at least $200 each
Conduct unbecoming a member of the Bar.
The scary thing is even lawyers didn't want to be associated with him