You can't keep a secret in this country. Not for months. Certainly not for years. Not from other countries..
If there was any truth to the Mayan End of the World, other governments, or Wikileaks would be all over it. The same would be true of faked moon landings. There are lots of countries which would love to catch the US in a big lie.
I fail to see how there is any particular adaptive advantage in preparing for "the end of the world". Seems like a gene not likely to be passed on to one's offspring.
Unforgettably, NASA is wasting our tax dollars trying. If 6 to 12 years of public school education couldn't give them enough reasoning power, why would they believe anything NASA had to say? We've spent enough money on these idiots.
Personally I have no problem with the incredibly gullible running for the hills, committing suicide, or what ever it is that one does in preparation for the end of the world. As long as they do it to themselves. I see no upside of trying to convince them of their folly.
This change only affects those people who configure Gmail to pop mail off of small company (or personal) Linux box which has a self signed certs so that the traffic is encrypted. It then puts this mail in your Gmail inbox. I fail to see any big security hole here. Who is going to run super secret mail on a self signed certificate?
The work around is to have the Linux box forward a copy to Gmail. At least they would then be using Googl's cert. I'm not seeing this as that much better for over all security.
They won't get anywhere with that. The cops are almost as gullible as drudge. Soon the adults from the FBI and the NSA will tell them the sorry truth of the matter.
Given that 2/3rds of these alleged 100 fire arm deaths per day are intentional, its easy to see the futility of attacking the tools. Intent has a way of finding means.
In China the tool of choice for these so called "Black Swans" is the kitchen knife.
We might just as well start banning Men, because these mass murders are almost entirely Male, 17 to 30.
The fact that he tried to physically destroy things means he isn't nearly as smart as they want us to believe. They'll get quite a bit of it back. And more than likely will be able to get a pretty good profile of him by sequestering logs from various services, be it ISP, Xbox Live, etc.
Ah, no, they will get nothing back.
There is a huge myth around data recovery from physically damaged hard disk drives that all stems from an article written by Peter Gutmann as a research paper. In the real world (Even the NSA's real world) this can not be done.
They have a much better chance of getting something back from the nvram in a cell phone uses as a clay pigeon.
Indeed, if there were any signs to be gleaned from his computer, it doesn't matter since they'll be ignored anyway
One would hope so.
The alternative is even more government intrusion into your computers and communications.
The fact that he did destroy them suggests he knew there was stuff on them which might be of use to the police. Since he obviously intended to take his own life, none of this could be used against him personally. One has to wonder if he had fellow travelers in his journey to insanity that he thought he could protect via destruction.
I would imagine his ISP is surrendering logs at this very moment.
Exactly. Not to mention this is one of Japan's only real options. They have one of the highest domestic consumptions of energy per capita in the world, and have no real domestic resources. Their options are nuclear power, with Uranium imported from Australia, or coal imported from either China or the US, or natural gas imported from the Middle East. Their oil is mostly imported from the Middle East (about 90%). As the world's third biggest economy and with a huge electricity and energy demand, between those options nuclear energy with Australian imports is the safest economically and politically.
At the end of the day this is exactly why Japan will be forced back to Nuclear power.
They simply don't have the land mass for solar solar generation, and until every roof can be economically covered with solar panels its not going to fly. Wind power totaling over 2300 MW is currently installed, out of the national total of 282 GW of total installed electricity generating capacity.
Still, Japan produces most of its power from Thermal/Fossil plants. Since virtually every bit of this is imported, it represents a huge drain on the economy.
I doubt Japan can afford to do anything but return to nuclear power, perhaps after significant re-engineering.
First thing I notices is the claustrophobia. I actually couldn't watch the whole thing. Cub Scout pup tent has more room than that sleeping hole. I'm glad there are people who can do that type of work. I'm not one of them.
wrong. Push email still requires a constant connection to the server to create the network link; it's just that it doesn't need to go through the pull protocol handshake every time, but your antenna is still turned on for push - how else do you expect data to reach you?
Antenna turned on? Antennas are just a chunk of wire.
Imap IDLED support works exactly like ActiveSync. They both open a socket to the mail server, try to read that socket, and when nothing arrives, put the radio receiver in an extremely low power listening state. (You can even shut the receiver off for fairly long periods of time without notifying the TCP Stack.) It uses almost zero power this way.
When the read succeeds either because the server sent something, or the socket times out (anywhere from 12 to 18 minutes later) the TCP stack briefly wakes up and re-establishes the socket and tries to read it again, acts on what it received, or puts the radio in low power state(sleep) again.
Nothing is traveling across that link while the radio is "sleeping". Only upon the transmission of data from the server, or the closing of the socket does the radio ever become active.
The assumption that your cellular radio is ever off is simply wrong. The vast majority of the time your radio is not transmitting anything, but it is always listening to the cell tower. So an open socket across which no data is being transmitted costs exactly zero additional battery power, except for a brief spike once every 12 to 18 minutes while the socket is refreshed.
It seems this ananyo submitter, which resolves to Nature.com (?!!?) submits a story that is "New to Timothy"(tm) who dutifully parrots it back to Slashdot. Neither of them read any other news sources, and apparently listen to NTR on the drive into work, so to them, everything looks fresh and interesting.
Setting that to one side, however, I am not convinced that they have the subtlety required to disguise an ICBM test as an almost-successful satellite launch.
There is not much subtlety required, after all, all early space rockets were merely converted ICBMs.
Further, they demonstrated ample subtlety with this launch. They pulled it off without the US knowing exactly when.
The demonstrated a global reach, they dropped their first and second stages close enough to Korea and the Philippians to send a message, but kept the main vehicle out of unfriendly airspace until it was thought (by them) too high to intercept. Not to mention the difficulty of achieving any kind of an orbit from that latitude.
For a nation stuck in 1958, it was a fairly impressive demonstration.
The thing that worries me about this is they now have a weapon that in reality is more dangerous to civilistation than their ability to make a couple of nuclear bombs; by firing as many of these as they could at once they would have a decent chance of knocking out many satellites and then the resulting debris might knock out even more.
Wait, lets not get ahead of ourselves, ok?
Nobody has shown that they achieved an orbit that could threaten satellites or even the Space Station. It takes more than their simple rocket to reach those orbits.
Or, it was designed to be a simple parabolic missile, but NK test firing a missile is banned by the UN, so they pack in enough fuel to get to orbit, any kind of orbit, and there was never a plan to make it a stable orbit nor were there thursters on board to do so. In other words, a missile test disguised as a orbital launch.
The tax under discussion was supposedly to compensate artists for pirated sonfs movies etc, not just regular taxes.
Since no one could make a rational case that the major use of disk drives was to store and distribute pirates music, the media tax never was applied to hard drives. In fact the case for taxing media for the benefit of copyright holders was rushed thru during a time when most users had very little other use of cd roms, other than to duplicate commercial cd roms. (or so the claim at the time insisted).
So no, the tax under discussion was never paid on hardware.
Given that Google Fiber is not huge leaps and bounds above the top 4 contenders, I suspect in-home infrastructure is the limiting factor here.
Comcast and Fios are close contenders, although we don't know where those were measured. Comcast can be very spotty in some locations and just great in others.
Modern combat rely on increasingly longer distances of detection and engagement so this won't do a damn there. This is more of an armored car/transport that probably won't be used to bust through fortification. And view ports might compromise the design as someone could just stick their gun in there or just shoot through it.
That's exactly my read on it as well. This might be sufficient against small arms fire from small caliber weapons. But the first PRG that hits it or goes under it renders it useless scrap metal.
Props for ingenuity. But against anything other than unmounted under-armed ground troops it is useless.
Don't build them in areas subject to storms, earthquakes, etc., and don't cut corners on the design, construction, maintenance, and inspections in order to save costs.
There exist no such areas on earth. Every place on the planet can have storms and earthquakes. Plus, you need a large quantity of water available. That limits the geographical areas by quite a lot. Almost all nuke plants are near bodies of water. That alone makes for possible flooding issues.
As for cutting corners, that is largely a myth. Design requirements change over time, and older plants don't all meet current standards. But nothing short of a rebuild would change that. We wouldn't build the plants we build 30 years ago today. But that doesn't mean they cut corners back then. If anything, they overbuilt in the face of uncertainty.
This plan sounds good, and might actually be well planned. But only for a few years.
Then, plants will start using the existence of the backup capabilities as excuses not to build their own. And it will all be perfectly legal, as subtle rule changes are introduced with little public knowledge. You can already see the seeds of this in TFA:
The NRC staff said the industry initiative, called FLEX, may satisfy the proposed order to mitigate certain safety challenges.
The fox runs the nuclear hen house in the US, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been captured by industry.
Still, any plan is better than no plan. The length of time power was out and systems were down due to Hurricane Sandy should indicate just how long such emergency systems have to be prepared to operate. Multiple weeks of fuel must be kept on hand. Alternate water supplies must be identified.
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You can't keep a secret in this country. Not for months. Certainly not for years. Not from other countries..
If there was any truth to the Mayan End of the World, other governments, or Wikileaks would be all over it.
The same would be true of faked moon landings.
There are lots of countries which would love to catch the US in a big lie.
I fail to see how there is any particular adaptive advantage in preparing for "the end of the world".
Seems like a gene not likely to be passed on to one's offspring.
...you can't fix stupid.
At least, not yet.
Unforgettably, NASA is wasting our tax dollars trying. If 6 to 12 years of public school education couldn't give them enough reasoning power, why would they believe anything NASA had to say? We've spent enough money on these idiots.
Personally I have no problem with the incredibly gullible running for the hills, committing suicide, or what ever it is that one does in preparation for the end of the world. As long as they do it to themselves. I see no upside of trying to convince them of their folly.
This move improves security.
How does it do that?
This change only affects those people who configure Gmail to pop mail off of small company (or personal) Linux box which has a self signed certs so that the traffic is encrypted. It then puts this mail in your Gmail inbox. I fail to see any big security hole here. Who is going to run super secret mail on a self signed certificate?
The work around is to have the Linux box forward a copy to Gmail. At least they would then be using Googl's cert. I'm not seeing this as that much better for over all security.
Read the whole story.
It wasn't one incident.
You've been watching way too much CSI.
Please Stay in School.
They won't get anywhere with that. The cops are almost as gullible as drudge.
Soon the adults from the FBI and the NSA will tell them the sorry truth of the matter.
Given that 2/3rds of these alleged 100 fire arm deaths per day are intentional, its easy to see the futility of attacking the tools. Intent has a way of finding means.
In China the tool of choice for these so called "Black Swans" is the kitchen knife.
We might just as well start banning Men, because these mass murders are almost entirely Male, 17 to 30.
The fact that he tried to physically destroy things means he isn't nearly as smart as they want us to believe. They'll get quite a bit of it back. And more than likely will be able to get a pretty good profile of him by sequestering logs from various services, be it ISP, Xbox Live, etc.
Ah, no, they will get nothing back.
There is a huge myth around data recovery from physically damaged hard disk drives that all stems from an article written by Peter Gutmann as a research paper.
In the real world (Even the NSA's real world) this can not be done.
They have a much better chance of getting something back from the nvram in a cell phone uses as a clay pigeon.
And Kitchen Knives.
Indeed, if there were any signs to be gleaned from his computer, it doesn't matter since they'll be ignored anyway
One would hope so.
The alternative is even more government intrusion into your computers and communications.
The fact that he did destroy them suggests he knew there was stuff on them which might be of use to the police. Since he obviously intended to take his own life, none of this could be used against him personally. One has to wonder if he had fellow travelers in his journey to insanity that he thought he could protect via destruction.
I would imagine his ISP is surrendering logs at this very moment.
Exactly. Not to mention this is one of Japan's only real options. They have one of the highest domestic consumptions of energy per capita in the world, and have no real domestic resources. Their options are nuclear power, with Uranium imported from Australia, or coal imported from either China or the US, or natural gas imported from the Middle East. Their oil is mostly imported from the Middle East (about 90%). As the world's third biggest economy and with a huge electricity and energy demand, between those options nuclear energy with Australian imports is the safest economically and politically.
At the end of the day this is exactly why Japan will be forced back to Nuclear power.
They simply don't have the land mass for solar solar generation, and until every roof can be economically covered with solar panels its not going to fly.
Wind power totaling over 2300 MW is currently installed, out of the national total of 282 GW of total installed electricity generating capacity.
Still, Japan produces most of its power from Thermal/Fossil plants.
Since virtually every bit of this is imported, it represents a huge drain on the economy.
I doubt Japan can afford to do anything but return to nuclear power, perhaps after significant re-engineering.
First thing I notices is the claustrophobia. I actually couldn't watch the whole thing.
Cub Scout pup tent has more room than that sleeping hole.
I'm glad there are people who can do that type of work. I'm not one of them.
Shouldn't they send an email warning us about injecting stuff in our web traffic?
wrong. Push email still requires a constant connection to the server to create the network link; it's just that it doesn't need to go through the pull protocol handshake every time, but your antenna is still turned on for push - how else do you expect data to reach you?
Antenna turned on? Antennas are just a chunk of wire.
Imap IDLED support works exactly like ActiveSync. They both open a socket to the mail server, try to read that socket, and when nothing arrives, put the radio receiver in an extremely low power listening state. (You can even shut the receiver off for fairly long periods of time without notifying the TCP Stack.) It uses almost zero power this way.
When the read succeeds either because the server sent something, or the socket times out (anywhere from 12 to 18 minutes later) the TCP stack briefly wakes up and re-establishes the socket and tries to read it again, acts on what it received, or puts the radio in low power state(sleep) again.
Nothing is traveling across that link while the radio is "sleeping". Only upon the transmission of data from the server, or the closing of the socket does the radio ever become active.
The assumption that your cellular radio is ever off is simply wrong. The vast majority of the time your radio is not transmitting anything, but it is always listening to the cell tower. So an open socket across which no data is being transmitted costs exactly zero additional battery power, except for a brief spike once every 12 to 18 minutes while the socket is refreshed.
Mod parent up.
It seems this ananyo submitter, which resolves to Nature.com (?!!?) submits a story that is "New to Timothy"(tm) who dutifully parrots it back to Slashdot. Neither of them read any other news sources, and apparently listen to NTR on the drive into work, so to them, everything looks fresh and interesting.
Setting that to one side, however, I am not convinced that they have the subtlety required to disguise an ICBM test as an almost-successful satellite launch.
There is not much subtlety required, after all, all early space rockets were merely converted ICBMs.
Further, they demonstrated ample subtlety with this launch. They pulled it off without the US knowing exactly when.
The demonstrated a global reach, they dropped their first and second stages close enough to Korea and the Philippians to send a message, but kept the main vehicle out of unfriendly airspace until it was thought (by them) too high to intercept. Not to mention the difficulty of achieving any kind of an orbit from that latitude.
For a nation stuck in 1958, it was a fairly impressive demonstration.
The thing that worries me about this is they now have a weapon that in reality is more dangerous to civilistation than their ability to make a couple of nuclear bombs; by firing as many of these as they could at once they would have a decent chance of knocking out many satellites and then the resulting debris might knock out even more.
Wait, lets not get ahead of ourselves, ok?
Nobody has shown that they achieved an orbit that could threaten satellites or even the Space Station.
It takes more than their simple rocket to reach those orbits.
Or, it was designed to be a simple parabolic missile, but NK test firing a missile is banned by the UN, so they pack in enough fuel to get to orbit, any kind of orbit, and there was never a plan to make it a stable orbit nor were there thursters on board to do so. In other words, a missile test disguised as a orbital launch.
The tax under discussion was supposedly to compensate artists for pirated sonfs movies etc, not just regular taxes.
Since no one could make a rational case that the major use of disk drives was to store and distribute pirates music, the media tax never was applied to hard drives. In fact the case for taxing media for the benefit of copyright holders was rushed thru during a time when most users had very little other use of cd roms, other than to duplicate commercial cd roms. (or so the claim at the time insisted).
So no, the tax under discussion was never paid on hardware.
Fine, so long as the copyright lobby agrees that "taxed media" means "copyright license for whatever I download." Oh, wait. They don't do that?
Wasn't that the case in Canada for a while?
Given that Google Fiber is not huge leaps and bounds above the top 4 contenders, I suspect in-home infrastructure is the limiting factor here.
Comcast and Fios are close contenders, although we don't know where those were measured. Comcast can be very spotty in some locations and
just great in others.
Modern combat rely on increasingly longer distances of detection and engagement so this won't do a damn there. This is more of an armored car/transport that probably won't be used to bust through fortification. And view ports might compromise the design as someone could just stick their gun in there or just shoot through it.
That's exactly my read on it as well.
This might be sufficient against small arms fire from small caliber weapons. But the first PRG that hits it or goes under it renders it useless scrap metal.
Props for ingenuity. But against anything other than unmounted under-armed ground troops it is useless.
Don't build them in areas subject to storms, earthquakes, etc., and don't cut corners on the design, construction, maintenance, and inspections in order to save costs.
There exist no such areas on earth. Every place on the planet can have storms and earthquakes. Plus, you need a large quantity of water available. That limits the geographical areas by quite a lot. Almost all nuke plants are near bodies of water. That alone makes for possible flooding issues.
As for cutting corners, that is largely a myth. Design requirements change over time, and older plants don't all meet current standards. But nothing short of a rebuild would change that. We wouldn't build the plants we build 30 years ago today. But that doesn't mean they cut corners back then. If anything, they overbuilt in the face of uncertainty.
This plan sounds good, and might actually be well planned. But only for a few years.
Then, plants will start using the existence of the backup capabilities as excuses not to build their own. And it will all be perfectly legal, as subtle rule changes are introduced with little public knowledge. You can already see the seeds of this in TFA:
The NRC staff said the industry initiative, called FLEX, may satisfy the proposed order to mitigate certain safety challenges.
The fox runs the nuclear hen house in the US, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been captured by industry.
Still, any plan is better than no plan. The length of time power was out and systems were down due to Hurricane Sandy should indicate just how long such emergency systems have to be prepared to operate. Multiple weeks of fuel must be kept on hand. Alternate water supplies must be identified.