That's just more security theater. Even using actual armor plate, a determined (read: prepared) terrorist will still get through it. The only possible mitigation is the pilot getting the plane on the ground, and disabled, but they can get in.
No. The problem with 9/11 was simply our collective inability to fathom such actions. NO ONE believed they'd take over a plane and fly it into a building. NO. ONE. So there was no imperative to shoot them down (which easily could have.) And no moral struggle for a pilot to be ordered to fire.
You do understand NASCAR is a STOCK CAR series? All cars are supposed to be identical (and there are entire rule books on it.) While there will be very minor differences, it's driver ability / skill, and more than a dash of luck, that determines the winner. Yes, teams do bend the rules, and out-right cheat, but that's highly self-policed. (somebody will eventually rat your ass out.)
What NASCAR fans are there to see are the really LOUD, fast cars... and the wrecks!
B5's gfx were rather impressive for the era -- and the Amiga used to make them:-)
Renegades makes me think I'm watching someone play a video game. And not a top of the line game. The open part in the mines gave me the impression of an oil rig lit with some walmart desk lamps.
And a word on audio... execute whomever handled sound. I have my speakers turned to max. The sound card turned to max. And youtube turned to max. And most dialog is still too soft.
That was two mostly independent production teams. DS9 started falling apart because they couldn't leave it to it's own cannon; they had to keep lacing it back into TNG, and Voyager. The entire basis of Voyager was lost somewhere around episode 2, it seems... 70 THOUSAND lightyears from the federation, so they have ZERO contact. Yet, not a season went by that didn't string them back to the alpha quadrant somehow.
(That was the downfall of Stargate atlantis AND universe, too.)
It's only protected when there's a reasonable expectation of privacy. Calls to/from jail *ARE NOT* private. And never have been. Lawyers know this -- or they shouldn't be lawyers. When a lawyer wants to have a private conversation, they do it in private -- behind closed doors. The middle of the food court in the mall at noon... NOT private. The hallway outside the courtroom... NOT private. The waiting / reception area one floor down from the courts (or your lawyer's office)... NOT private. The judge's chambers... private (unless all parties and the court reporter are present.) Any of the conference rooms around the courthouse... those are private.
That's just because a full face is easier to present to the device. It can take a picture of your iris just as easily, if you put your face up to the camera. A retina scan can also be done with minimal gear -- to put your eyeball in the correct position and illuminate the retina.
We think we do. History has shown a lot of the things we "know" were, in fact, incorrect. (at best, incomplete) Given our current understanding and technology, entanglement is little more than a novelty. We simply don't know how to use it to transmit information -- at all, at any speed. (then there's the issue of getting the entanglement to last long enough to span a useful distance. A few mm in a lab is just more novelty.)
Much smaller gauge coiled copper most likely -- uses less copper and will be much more flexible. ("telephone handset cord"... tiny nylon core with copper wound around it. strong, and flex will never break it.)
Indeed. Most of the meth in the US isn't made in the US. It comes across the border (mexico mainly, but a fair bit from canada) from factories using raw, pharmaceutical grade pseudoephedrine from India. That used to happen in the US as well, but the FDA finally learned to look at the millions of licenses they'd been granting for purchases of pseudoephedrine.
That said, there are plenty of local cooks that will use off-the-shelf pills to make meth. Drug companies have been putting binders in those pills to make it harder to make meth with them, and of course, there are the idiot reactionary laws that "prevent" cooks from acquiring them.
Freeze dried (to reclaim 99+% of the moisture), vacuum sealed, and then dropped in a box in the open mars "air"... There would be almost ZERO pathogens left in it. So, it's a source of nutrients but nothing else. The problem is nitrogen. It's completely unlikely NASA sent any nitrogen fixing bacteria with them, so the ammonia (urea) from human waste (and his hydrogen generator) would be useless -- actually toxic.
Actually, that 1.2MW was the size of a cargo container. They've improved a lot in 2 decades. But they still are far from silent. Yes, with proper baffling, it can be brought down to a "low roar", but that's still more noise than most want outside their bedroom windows. Stacking 8 of them... yeah, that's a bit much.
Bull. It's rare to find a gas station that doesn't have a least one pump for diesel. There are lots of uses for diesel that aren't "car". (not that their aren't a fair number of cars, and trucks.)
Actually, you'll find many industrial zones are "legacy" zones. And there's residential zones surrounding them. Little thought was put into it a century ago when the zoning was first adopted; and the current owners are smart enough to defeat every rezoning attempt.
Few things would withstand a 747 crash. Data centers are near the top of that list -- these aren't armored bunkers; they're brick and concrete buildings. 'tho, their fire suppression systems *may* be up to the challenge.:-) The biggest issue with retrofitting a building is the floor loading. Rows of server racks concentrate a lot of mass over a very small area. That will end up cracking most poured concrete floors. And a battery room would be orders of magnitude worse.
That's why you build your DC outside major areas -- to avoid the stupid of zoning. (Or in Raleigh/Wake Co., find some Industrial-2 property... ZERO usage restrictions. 'tho a permit will be required for hazardous materials.)
Partially correct... TORQUE is the key figure they (and you) missed. HP is, indeed, irrelevant. Speed of the blade and torque of the power source are the key metrics. You're only factoring for "impulse energy". This isn't a perfectly elastic collision -- the blade doesn't stop and the rock fly away. The blade continues to spin, pushing against the rock. That energy comes from torque, not HP.
(Torque creates acceleration. HP is what maintains speed.)
Have you ever seen a MEGA-watt generator? We aren't talking about your Honda inverter generator to power a few appliances. We're talking about large, industrial generators that could power a small city!
(The old Interpath "data center" in RDU had two! 1.2MW generators. 2 decades later (long after the company evaporated), it looks like one of them is still there. At the time, we joked that CP&L was installing backup power for Morrisville -- in 1997, they could've powered most of the city.)
The only benefit to gas is the pipe that provides a continuous feed. But that is easily disrupted, too. And to some extent still requires power to operate (pressure pumps, valves, etc.) Gas lines do tend to fair better than other systems in floods, hurricanes, etc. But you're still banking on a rather fragile distribution system. (A large, on-site tank would still be advised.)
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That's just more security theater. Even using actual armor plate, a determined (read: prepared) terrorist will still get through it. The only possible mitigation is the pilot getting the plane on the ground, and disabled, but they can get in.
No. The problem with 9/11 was simply our collective inability to fathom such actions. NO ONE believed they'd take over a plane and fly it into a building. NO. ONE. So there was no imperative to shoot them down (which easily could have.) And no moral struggle for a pilot to be ordered to fire.
You do understand NASCAR is a STOCK CAR series? All cars are supposed to be identical (and there are entire rule books on it.) While there will be very minor differences, it's driver ability / skill, and more than a dash of luck, that determines the winner. Yes, teams do bend the rules, and out-right cheat, but that's highly self-policed. (somebody will eventually rat your ass out.)
What NASCAR fans are there to see are the really LOUD, fast cars... and the wrecks!
It apparently reinstalls windows. So, YES. I've seen several reports of "apps being uninstalled" by the "update".
Yeah. Parker Lewis doesn't belong on a starship.
B5's gfx were rather impressive for the era -- and the Amiga used to make them :-)
Renegades makes me think I'm watching someone play a video game. And not a top of the line game. The open part in the mines gave me the impression of an oil rig lit with some walmart desk lamps.
And a word on audio... execute whomever handled sound. I have my speakers turned to max. The sound card turned to max. And youtube turned to max. And most dialog is still too soft.
That was two mostly independent production teams. DS9 started falling apart because they couldn't leave it to it's own cannon; they had to keep lacing it back into TNG, and Voyager. The entire basis of Voyager was lost somewhere around episode 2, it seems... 70 THOUSAND lightyears from the federation, so they have ZERO contact. Yet, not a season went by that didn't string them back to the alpha quadrant somehow.
(That was the downfall of Stargate atlantis AND universe, too.)
Yes they do. It's called the license plate. It takes seconds to run the plate to see the registered class of the vehicle.
It's only protected when there's a reasonable expectation of privacy. Calls to/from jail *ARE NOT* private. And never have been. Lawyers know this -- or they shouldn't be lawyers. When a lawyer wants to have a private conversation, they do it in private -- behind closed doors. The middle of the food court in the mall at noon... NOT private. The hallway outside the courtroom... NOT private. The waiting / reception area one floor down from the courts (or your lawyer's office)... NOT private. The judge's chambers... private (unless all parties and the court reporter are present.) Any of the conference rooms around the courthouse... those are private.
Correction: Judges WERE lawyers. They are required to leave the bar when becoming a judge.
That's just because a full face is easier to present to the device. It can take a picture of your iris just as easily, if you put your face up to the camera. A retina scan can also be done with minimal gear -- to put your eyeball in the correct position and illuminate the retina.
Already there. Ever heard of "face unlock"?
We think we do. History has shown a lot of the things we "know" were, in fact, incorrect. (at best, incomplete) Given our current understanding and technology, entanglement is little more than a novelty. We simply don't know how to use it to transmit information -- at all, at any speed. (then there's the issue of getting the entanglement to last long enough to span a useful distance. A few mm in a lab is just more novelty.)
Much smaller gauge coiled copper most likely -- uses less copper and will be much more flexible. ("telephone handset cord"... tiny nylon core with copper wound around it. strong, and flex will never break it.)
Indeed. Most of the meth in the US isn't made in the US. It comes across the border (mexico mainly, but a fair bit from canada) from factories using raw, pharmaceutical grade pseudoephedrine from India. That used to happen in the US as well, but the FDA finally learned to look at the millions of licenses they'd been granting for purchases of pseudoephedrine.
That said, there are plenty of local cooks that will use off-the-shelf pills to make meth. Drug companies have been putting binders in those pills to make it harder to make meth with them, and of course, there are the idiot reactionary laws that "prevent" cooks from acquiring them.
Freeze dried (to reclaim 99+% of the moisture), vacuum sealed, and then dropped in a box in the open mars "air"... There would be almost ZERO pathogens left in it. So, it's a source of nutrients but nothing else. The problem is nitrogen. It's completely unlikely NASA sent any nitrogen fixing bacteria with them, so the ammonia (urea) from human waste (and his hydrogen generator) would be useless -- actually toxic.
Using a datastore with ZERO recovery logic (innodb) wasn't your first mistake?
Actually, that 1.2MW was the size of a cargo container. They've improved a lot in 2 decades. But they still are far from silent. Yes, with proper baffling, it can be brought down to a "low roar", but that's still more noise than most want outside their bedroom windows. Stacking 8 of them... yeah, that's a bit much.
AC power is NOT precise. Install a logger and you'll see just how much it varies throughout the day.
Bull. It's rare to find a gas station that doesn't have a least one pump for diesel. There are lots of uses for diesel that aren't "car". (not that their aren't a fair number of cars, and trucks.)
Actually, you'll find many industrial zones are "legacy" zones. And there's residential zones surrounding them. Little thought was put into it a century ago when the zoning was first adopted; and the current owners are smart enough to defeat every rezoning attempt.
Few things would withstand a 747 crash. Data centers are near the top of that list -- these aren't armored bunkers; they're brick and concrete buildings. 'tho, their fire suppression systems *may* be up to the challenge. :-) The biggest issue with retrofitting a building is the floor loading. Rows of server racks concentrate a lot of mass over a very small area. That will end up cracking most poured concrete floors. And a battery room would be orders of magnitude worse.
That's why you build your DC outside major areas -- to avoid the stupid of zoning. (Or in Raleigh/Wake Co., find some Industrial-2 property... ZERO usage restrictions. 'tho a permit will be required for hazardous materials.)
Partially correct... TORQUE is the key figure they (and you) missed. HP is, indeed, irrelevant. Speed of the blade and torque of the power source are the key metrics. You're only factoring for "impulse energy". This isn't a perfectly elastic collision -- the blade doesn't stop and the rock fly away. The blade continues to spin, pushing against the rock. That energy comes from torque, not HP.
(Torque creates acceleration. HP is what maintains speed.)
Have you ever seen a MEGA-watt generator? We aren't talking about your Honda inverter generator to power a few appliances. We're talking about large, industrial generators that could power a small city!
(The old Interpath "data center" in RDU had two! 1.2MW generators. 2 decades later (long after the company evaporated), it looks like one of them is still there. At the time, we joked that CP&L was installing backup power for Morrisville -- in 1997, they could've powered most of the city.)
The only benefit to gas is the pipe that provides a continuous feed. But that is easily disrupted, too. And to some extent still requires power to operate (pressure pumps, valves, etc.) Gas lines do tend to fair better than other systems in floods, hurricanes, etc. But you're still banking on a rather fragile distribution system. (A large, on-site tank would still be advised.)