If you want base load power, you'd probably want more like 12 hours of storage and it seems strange they wouldn't go for that, since they're half way there.
You can trade peak power for more hours of lesser power generation, but it's not a balanced 1:1 trade off. For every extra hour of heat retention, you lose a lot of your power generation. And it's also more expensive to operate that type of plant.
AFAICT, we didn't, in fact, get any sweetheart deals on oil from Iraq.
The Chinese have gotten most of the oil concessions because they're willing to pay higher prices. Why? Because they don't care about making a profit, they just want the oil.
Perhaps we kept Hussein from cutting us off, but I don't see any evidence he was going to do that.
Iran has also stopped trading oil in USD, after another round of sanctions cut them off from most banking options. Major oil consumers like India are very keen to trade in their native currency, since their currency has been slipping against the dollar.
If you do that then congress has no control over the organization they created.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner.
Congress hates independent government agencies. Without the power of the purse, they have nothing.
Remember the shit show over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Because it was created to be independent of Congress, all the Republicans could do is refuse to vote on the nominee for director.
This is being funded by DARPA. In the military, there is a place for everything. Sometimes you want a horse, sometimes a mule, and sometimes a robot that can be air dropped alongside troops and other equipment.
Have you ever thought about the logistics of getting a large, live animal to a staging point in the middle of [shitty and hostile territory]?
Every once in a while we get an Elizabeth Warren and that individual (or two) usually fixes things for a few decades. Glassâ"Steagall is a great example of that situation.
And of course, Grammâ"Leachâ"Bliley are the example of what inevitably happens when someone finally says "let's roll back these regulations that have worked for decades"
The attack peaked at 100 Gigabits per second The webhost (actually a CDN) had 400 Gigabits of total bandwidth available + various DDOS protections in place.
Anyone who joins one deserves what they get when the HOA decides satellite dishes are bad, your American flag is offensive, HAM antennae are bad
FYI - FCC rules trump HOAs when it comes to the legality of satellite dishes and antennas. Not a lot of people know this, which is why HOAs get away with rules like "no visible antennas"
Free market competition in almost all cases, except for absolutely needed government actions, always results in intense competition and ultimately the lowest cost that a good provider can supply and maintain.
Then please explain all the monopolies that had to be broken up in oil, rail, steel, meat packing, telephones, shipping, sugar, tobacco, grain elevators, and a bunch of other stuff I don't recall off the top of my head.
All of those monopolies were created during the freest of free market times in American history.
Government has no interest in providing the best at the lowest cost if they run a service.
PS: Yes, it sucks for the individual, but maybe we should be axing "non-essential" government positions more often to avoid budget issues in the first place.
I don't think you understand what "non-essential" means.
You can cut off your arms and legs, because they're "non-essential" to your basic ability to live... but fuck man, that's not a very useful long term plan and a rather stupid self-inflicted wound.
Hi everyone, my name is Paul Rockwell, and I head up Trust & Safety here at LinkedIn.
I'd like to start by acknowledging the ongoing demand for a block feature, and I can confirm that weâ(TM)re in the process of building one. We've heard you, and we both recognize and appreciate the need for privacy controls in this digital age, which is why we remain committed to placing the controls in your hands.
nuclear and other power plants should not be allowed construction without adequate consideration of cleanup cost. as it stands, superfund is a joke
Superfund has absofuckinglutely nothing to do with cleaning up nuclear plants. I'm surprised there are so many people who modded up a fundamentally wrong post.
Each nuclear power plant licensee must report to the NRC every two years the status of its decommissioning funding for each reactor or share of a reactor that it owns. The report must estimate the minimum amount needed for decommissioning by using the formulas found in 10 CFR 50.75(c). Licensees may alternatively determine a site-specific funding estimate, provided that amount is greater than the generic decommissioning estimate. Although there are many factors that affect reactor decommissioning costs, generally they range from $300 million to $400 million. Approximately 70 percent of licensees are authorized to accumulate decommissioning funds over the operating life of their plants. These owners -- generally traditional, rate-regulated electric utilities or indirectly regulated generation companies -- are not required today to have all of the funds needed for decommissioning. The remaining licensees must provide financial assurance through other methods such as prepaid decommissioning funds and/or a surety method or guarantee. The staff performs an independent analysis of each of these reports to determine whether licensees are providing reasonable "decommissioning funding assurance" for radiological decommissioning of the reactor at the permanent termination of operation.
Before a nuclear power plant begins operations, the licensee must establish or obtain a financial mechanism -- such as a trust fund or a guarantee from its parent company -- to ensure that there will be sufficient money to pay for the ultimate decommissioning of the facility.
I'd like to think you have that backwards: fighting over silly things like skin colour and sky fairies is just a cover for fighting over even sillier things like land, fresh water and oil.
If energy is cheap and plentiful, things like clean water and fuel are a lot easier to make. Arable land is also less of a problem when cheap energy can be used to make fertilizer.
Nonsense. Those visas mandate proper salaries (note that the article says nothing about this point)
If we artificially pump up the supply of domestic workers (by importing them with H1-B visas), it drives down salaries for everyone. H1-B workers serve to devalue the "proper salary" that would be paid if they weren't in the country.
So, in the future, terrorists will sacrifice considerable amounts of operational secrecy because they are wannabe-mediagenic attention whores?
1. How much operational security do you really need on a suicide run? 2. Without media attention, terrorism is just random violence. So yes, attention whoring is a key part of terrorism.
And as an aside, I'd rather hear terrorists explaining themselves directly, instead of filtered through government talking heads. FFS, after 9/11 we had the President of the United States saying "they hate our freedoms," which is an incredibly wrong and wildly ignorant explanation for the varied grievances elucidated by Middle Eastern terrorists.
3.2. External: maintaining insurability through promoting risk mitigation
As shown, ocean warming implies that the threat of natural catastrophes is ambiguous. At the same time, it can be shown that the ambiguity aversion of rational individuals may increase self-insurance but decrease self-protection (Alary et al. , 2010). The interplay between the potential of rising risk levels and insurance demand, but decreasing self-protection, could create a risk environment that is uninsurable in some regions (Herweijer et al., 2009). Examples for markets with this potential are U.K. flood or Florida wind storm insurance.
In general, the only way to ensure that ambiguous risks remain insurable is to promote risk mitigation today (Ranger and Surminski, 2012). The insurance industry should play an active role in raising awareness of risk and climate change through risk education and disseminating high-quality risk information (Ward et al., 2008).
They're saying that insurance (and re-insurance) isn't enough anymore. If people aren't mitigating their risks, there will be no insurance. That means taking steps like hurricane straps on your roof or bolting the house to its foundation or not building in a flood plain or the yearly path of a hurricane.
I can't find the article, but I recall reading about a fiasco with one of these DNA tagging companies. They were supposed to be selling high security (unique) DNA tagging solutions, but it turns out they were sourcing their product from a third party (instead of manufacturing it themselves, per their contract).
They took this third party solution and were selling the same exact stuff to multiple companies as unique. TLDR: You don't have to replicate the DNA if you can just buy it from the source.
If I was a multibillion dollar industry I'd very much appreciate the fact of having a product that gets sold to every human being on the planet, every year right about the time for holidays, scoring me a big boost in the Q4.
One would think so. The reality is that seasonal flu vaccines are not very profitable. At one point, in 2004, the USA was down to just 2 manufacturers.
The only thing keeping the vaccine market afloat is large orders from Federal and State governments. Without those Government orders, the vaccine market in the USA would collapse.
In addition to everything I just mentioned, there's almost no spare capacity in the vaccine industry. So if someone shuts down a plant, those dosages are not going to be replaced by a competitor.
The fox is hiring a chicken to advise and consult on the security of the hen house.
Specific Duties: a. Provide advice and guidance to the Director... b. As the senior architect for CL/P, ensure that protections are addressed... c. Represent the Agency on CL/P matters and serve as a liaison... d. Responsible for broadly and, to the greatest extent possible, proactively explaining... e. Manage CL/P policy, and advise... f. Ensure adequate procedures are in place... g. [rehash of point c] h. Provide CL/P reviews and assessments... i. Provide testimony at Congressional hearings and special briefings... j. Ensure that NSA leadership is informed of significant developments or changes in CL/P related... k. Build partnerships with the public and private sectors...
Or in other words, someone with no actual authority. It has to be understood that this privacy officer is under the DNI. You know, the DNI, the individual responsible for all these privacy violations in the first place. There's no point in creating policy if the Director is only going to look at it as "advice and guidance"
The NSA needs to go and the CIA needs to absorb the foreign intelligence functions that the NSA is supposedly mandated to perform.
LoL What makes you think the CIA will be any better of a steward for civil liberties? The CIA undoubtedly engages in all kinds of scandalous, but classified, activities that would piss off the American public too.
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If you want base load power, you'd probably want more like 12 hours of storage and it seems strange they wouldn't go for that, since they're half way there.
You can trade peak power for more hours of lesser power generation, but it's not a balanced 1:1 trade off.
For every extra hour of heat retention, you lose a lot of your power generation.
And it's also more expensive to operate that type of plant.
AFAICT, we didn't, in fact, get any sweetheart deals on oil from Iraq.
The Chinese have gotten most of the oil concessions because they're willing to pay higher prices.
Why? Because they don't care about making a profit, they just want the oil.
Perhaps we kept Hussein from cutting us off, but I don't see any evidence he was going to do that.
The real problem was that Hussein had created an oil bourse that didn't trade in dollars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_warfare#Political_events
Iran has also stopped trading oil in USD, after another round of sanctions cut them off from most banking options.
Major oil consumers like India are very keen to trade in their native currency, since their currency has been slipping against the dollar.
If you do that then congress has no control over the organization they created.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner.
Congress hates independent government agencies.
Without the power of the purse, they have nothing.
Remember the shit show over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
Because it was created to be independent of Congress, all the Republicans could do is refuse to vote on the nominee for director.
The submission had one article, the editors linked to two more.
ALL THREE ARTICLES REFERENCE & LINK TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Is it so hard to include a link to the source of this story? /. does this far too often and I hope to see better in the future
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304441404579119490744478398.html
(Google Cache just in case
This is being funded by DARPA.
In the military, there is a place for everything.
Sometimes you want a horse, sometimes a mule,
and sometimes a robot that can be air dropped alongside troops and other equipment.
Have you ever thought about the logistics of getting a large, live animal to a staging point in the middle of [shitty and hostile territory]?
Every once in a while we get an Elizabeth Warren and that individual (or two) usually fixes things for a few decades.
Glassâ"Steagall is a great example of that situation.
And of course, Grammâ"Leachâ"Bliley are the example of what inevitably happens when someone finally says
"let's roll back these regulations that have worked for decades"
The attack peaked at 100 Gigabits per second
The webhost (actually a CDN) had 400 Gigabits of total bandwidth available + various DDOS protections in place.
RTFA
My opinion? Kill the fancy graphics and the fancy Javascript/CSS/HTML BS.
https://slashdot.org/prefs/d1
Choose your discussion system:
( ) Interactive Discussion System (D2) (x) Classic Discussion System (D1)
Anyone who joins one deserves what they get when the HOA decides satellite dishes are bad, your American flag is offensive, HAM antennae are bad
FYI - FCC rules trump HOAs when it comes to the legality of satellite dishes and antennas.
Not a lot of people know this, which is why HOAs get away with rules like "no visible antennas"
Free market competition in almost all cases, except for absolutely needed government actions, always results in intense competition and ultimately the lowest cost that a good provider can supply and maintain.
Then please explain all the monopolies that had to be broken up in oil, rail, steel, meat packing, telephones, shipping, sugar, tobacco, grain elevators, and a bunch of other stuff I don't recall off the top of my head.
All of those monopolies were created during the freest of free market times in American history.
Government has no interest in providing the best at the lowest cost if they run a service.
Yea, the postal service and federal parks suck.
PS: Yes, it sucks for the individual, but maybe we should be axing "non-essential" government positions more often to avoid budget issues in the first place.
I don't think you understand what "non-essential" means.
You can cut off your arms and legs, because they're "non-essential" to your basic ability to live...
but fuck man, that's not a very useful long term plan and a rather stupid self-inflicted wound.
The other link appears to be:
http://community.linkedin.com/questions/23572/stalking-on-linkedin.html?sort=oldest
Paul Rockwell Aug 20 at 04:19 PM
Hi everyone, my name is Paul Rockwell, and I head up Trust & Safety here at LinkedIn.
I'd like to start by acknowledging the ongoing demand for a block feature, and I can confirm that weâ(TM)re in the process of building one. We've heard you, and we both recognize and appreciate the need for privacy controls in this digital age, which is why we remain committed to placing the controls in your hands.
nuclear and other power plants should not be allowed construction without adequate consideration of cleanup cost. as it stands, superfund is a joke
Superfund has absofuckinglutely nothing to do with cleaning up nuclear plants.
I'm surprised there are so many people who modded up a fundamentally wrong post.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/decommissioning.html
Decommissioning Funds
Each nuclear power plant licensee must report to the NRC every two years the status of its decommissioning funding for each reactor or share of a reactor that it owns. The report must estimate the minimum amount needed for decommissioning by using the formulas found in 10 CFR 50.75(c). Licensees may alternatively determine a site-specific funding estimate, provided that amount is greater than the generic decommissioning estimate. Although there are many factors that affect reactor decommissioning costs, generally they range from $300 million to $400 million. Approximately 70 percent of licensees are authorized to accumulate decommissioning funds over the operating life of their plants. These owners -- generally traditional, rate-regulated electric utilities or indirectly regulated generation companies -- are not required today to have all of the funds needed for decommissioning. The remaining licensees must provide financial assurance through other methods such as prepaid decommissioning funds and/or a surety method or guarantee. The staff performs an independent analysis of each of these reports to determine whether licensees are providing reasonable "decommissioning funding assurance" for radiological decommissioning of the reactor at the permanent termination of operation.
Before a nuclear power plant begins operations, the licensee must establish or obtain a financial mechanism -- such as a trust fund or a guarantee from its parent company -- to ensure that there will be sufficient money to pay for the ultimate decommissioning of the facility.
I'd like to think you have that backwards: fighting over silly things like skin colour and sky fairies is just a cover for fighting over even sillier things like land, fresh water and oil.
If energy is cheap and plentiful, things like clean water and fuel are a lot easier to make.
Arable land is also less of a problem when cheap energy can be used to make fertilizer.
Nonsense. Those visas mandate proper salaries (note that the article says nothing about this point)
If we artificially pump up the supply of domestic workers (by importing them with H1-B visas), it drives down salaries for everyone.
H1-B workers serve to devalue the "proper salary" that would be paid if they weren't in the country.
TLDR: Basic supply and demand applies here.
So, in the future, terrorists will sacrifice considerable amounts of operational secrecy because they are wannabe-mediagenic attention whores?
1. How much operational security do you really need on a suicide run?
2. Without media attention, terrorism is just random violence. So yes, attention whoring is a key part of terrorism.
And as an aside, I'd rather hear terrorists explaining themselves directly, instead of filtered through government talking heads.
FFS, after 9/11 we had the President of the United States saying "they hate our freedoms,"
which is an incredibly wrong and wildly ignorant explanation for the varied grievances elucidated by Middle Eastern terrorists.
https://www.genevaassociation.org/media/616661/ga2013-warming_of_the_oceans.pdf
3.2. External: maintaining insurability through promoting risk mitigation
As shown, ocean warming implies that the threat of natural catastrophes is ambiguous. At the same time, it can be shown that the ambiguity aversion of rational individuals may increase self-insurance but decrease self-protection (Alary et al. , 2010). The interplay between the potential of rising risk levels and insurance demand, but decreasing self-protection, could create a risk environment that is uninsurable in some regions (Herweijer et al ., 2009). Examples for markets with this potential are U.K. flood or Florida wind storm insurance.
In general, the only way to ensure that ambiguous risks remain insurable is to promote risk mitigation today (Ranger and Surminski, 2012). The insurance industry should play an active role in raising awareness of risk and climate change through risk education and disseminating high-quality risk information (Ward et al ., 2008).
They're saying that insurance (and re-insurance) isn't enough anymore.
If people aren't mitigating their risks, there will be no insurance.
That means taking steps like hurricane straps on your roof or bolting the house to its foundation or not building in a flood plain or the yearly path of a hurricane.
I can't find the article, but I recall reading about a fiasco with one of these DNA tagging companies.
They were supposed to be selling high security (unique) DNA tagging solutions,
but it turns out they were sourcing their product from a third party (instead of manufacturing it themselves, per their contract).
They took this third party solution and were selling the same exact stuff to multiple companies as unique.
TLDR: You don't have to replicate the DNA if you can just buy it from the source.
They also seem to be saying that the flagship R9 290X is going to be based on the new technology.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Again Thomas Jefferson.
The problem is when the conversation is driven by groups that are unreasonably fearful of their government.
Still feel exactly the same way about it even if the original quote came from someone crazy like Ron Paul.
My point exactly.
If I was a multibillion dollar industry I'd very much appreciate the fact of having a product that gets sold to every human being on the planet, every year right about the time for holidays, scoring me a big boost in the Q4.
One would think so.
The reality is that seasonal flu vaccines are not very profitable.
At one point, in 2004, the USA was down to just 2 manufacturers.
The only thing keeping the vaccine market afloat is large orders from Federal and State governments.
Without those Government orders, the vaccine market in the USA would collapse.
In addition to everything I just mentioned, there's almost no spare capacity in the vaccine industry.
So if someone shuts down a plant, those dosages are not going to be replaced by a competitor.
This is about as close as Spider Man gets to flying
http://www.heisanevilgenius.com/wackywiki/images/7/7f/Amazing_Spider-man_1_-_parachute.jpg
Now that's what I call an Oracle-friendly site (or two?)
Consider it a testament to corporate PR:
Get journalists to the conference and then pump them full of press releases.
Brett Winterford travelled to OpenWorld as a guest of Oracle.
The fox is hiring a chicken to advise and consult on the security of the hen house.
Specific Duties: ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
a. Provide advice and guidance to the Director
b. As the senior architect for CL/P, ensure that protections are addressed
c. Represent the Agency on CL/P matters and serve as a liaison
d. Responsible for broadly and, to the greatest extent possible, proactively explaining
e. Manage CL/P policy, and advise
f. Ensure adequate procedures are in place
g. [rehash of point c]
h. Provide CL/P reviews and assessments
i. Provide testimony at Congressional hearings and special briefings
j. Ensure that NSA leadership is informed of significant developments or changes in CL/P related
k. Build partnerships with the public and private sectors
Or in other words, someone with no actual authority.
It has to be understood that this privacy officer is under the DNI.
You know, the DNI, the individual responsible for all these privacy violations in the first place.
There's no point in creating policy if the Director is only going to look at it as "advice and guidance"
The NSA needs to go and the CIA needs to absorb the foreign intelligence functions that the NSA is supposedly mandated to perform.
LoL
What makes you think the CIA will be any better of a steward for civil liberties?
The CIA undoubtedly engages in all kinds of scandalous, but classified, activities that would piss off the American public too.