Probably not but it is a threat to radio communications, esp HAM radio
It's been proven over the past decade of BPL deployment that the threat is at least partially in the opposite direction... BPL works great as long as you are a minimum of a half mile away from all transmitters including AM, FM, TV, ham radio, CB, cellphone, any land mobile including cop cars, airport, aircraft, coast guard station/harbormaster yard, railroad... Yet the deployment equipment is quite expensive so you need a high population density, urban city, etc.
So, just find a neighborhood in Manhatten or Hong Kong that has a zillion people per sq km, and has electricity, but somehow has no radio services whatsoever anywhere near by and BPL will totally shine!
But folks have been talking about IPv6 for years now.
And many of those folks such as myself have been quietly deploying... I strongly urge my competitors to take your stance and bury their heads in the sand. I love it. Please make more/. posts encouraging my competitors to not innovate. The more people left behind, the further ahead I'll be.
Or if you're sceptical of power grids also carrying data?
He actually got that right, perhaps accidentally, he just didn't post any sources or reasoning. BPL has been nothing but a miserable failure. The idea is eternally seductive, but the outside plant and the electromagnetic interference environment makes it an economic non-starter. It's kind of like smell -o- vision or 3d tv, wouldn't that be nifty, but it just doesn't fit the market.
For God's sake man, which is it: carrying, or waving?
More fun to ask if its a particle or a wave carrying the energy... Or is that, carrying the mass... And can you tell both the location and momentum of an electric company service truck simultaneously...
All this is, is, hey, we carry a powerful 60Hz signal,
Don't forget high voltage DC, HVDC.
The power companies have vast fiber networks. A piece of glass solves a lot of lightning, grounding, and electromagnetic interference problems. However, you have to be careful with the conductive steel leader line.
With 100% hot backups, doesn't matter, I'll never be called.
I've done both strategies in the past. Realize that the labor cost of "support" can be astronomical. Fighting with a script reader in India about why you're not going to even try to reinstall windows on a machine with a broken power supply that doesn't even light up, then waiting days for parts to arrive, dealing with UPS or FEDEX to ship the dead supply back, fighting to get access to the web support interface, oh I guess we need to do the password reset procedure no problem just find your original invoice ha ha, its a freaking nightmare which burns expensive labor hours like a candle held in a flamethrower. Alternately, 5 minute drive to local PC parts dealer, install new supply, toss out old one, even faster and cheaper if I have a generic spare sitting on the shelf in the stockroom. Dell support is arguably the most expensive possible way to get something fixed. This is even before we factor in the downtime costs to the company of fixing it at "dell speed" vs "my speed".
When you factor in the huge costs of corporate downtime, the best repair policy is a line of credit to buy a new machine at your local independent PC vendor.
So when did this change? At one time it was pretty universal that 'learn computing at university' meant 'learn *NIX'.
Educational institutions are *NIX. Easily identified as the kind of place where you have to learn at least some advanced math, a foreign language, and learn to read and write English.
Training institutions are pure 100% MS (FOSS? Whats that?) and have been for at least a decade or two. Easily identified as the kind of place that offers degrees in video game testing and web development, and has radio/TV commercials claiming theres a shortage of IT personnel and you could be making six figures in mere months if you sign up.
And for snow, that's actually a half-way legitimate complaint against cars.
A couple hundred miles north, us car drivers know to slow down when we see the ditches filled with tipped over SUVs. The belief that cars are worse in the snow is simply not true, its the opposite, pure marketing.
I first drove the car on the wide Z-rated summer tires that it came with
My fathers strategy was two sets of rims. Actually not very expensive. One with wide tires for summer (incidentally, need to worry about hydroplaning in the rain) that ran around 20 psi and one with ultra skinny narrow high pressure tires that must have been upwards of 35 psi. It takes a lot of suspension work to put wide wheels on a car designed for narrow, but the opposite is quite simple. It was like being on railroad rails in the snow, incredible control. You might want to look into this, and might want to run it by a mechanical engineer or two and a mechanic or two, which given my fathers employer was quite easy.
And armed with snow tires, my low-slung RWD BMW does just fine on fresh snow up to about 6 or 7 inches deep -- deeper than that, and the car tends to float on its floor pan and the going gets slow.(Which is fine: For the past decade or so, the local sheriff has consistently closed the roads when snow gets to those depths,
Oh my, in the frozen tundra up north, that is what we call "flurries". Our plows fail the logistical task when it gets over a foot in 24 hours. Up to that we're OK. Human nature that everyone thinks where they live is OK, but 100 miles north would be unsurvivable, all the from deep south to Alaska.
Do you think gasoline extracts, refines, and transports itself?
Google for "EROEI energy returned on energy invested". For petroleum, its been in a constant descent from around a hundred to what, like 10 or so now? So thats around ten percent, no big deal, almost a rounding error. "Green Technologies" vary around an EROEI of 1. As a complete system, corn ethanol is well below 1, sunflower oil maybe slightly above 1, etc.
Leaked Letter -- BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards
I LOLed at that. I saw the Penn and Teller B.S. expose of the boy scouts of america and my first reaction was now those same goofs have messed up the BSA "Computers" badge, heckuva job guys...
When you add the oil to fry the donut, and the mechanized farming fuel, fertilizers and insecticides made from crude oil, its probably more like 0.1 miles per donut. May as well take the car.
Because sometimes its nice to go out for a drive on the weekends..... So if you live in Silicon Valley
There's no car rentals in all of Silicon Valley?
I'll make an embarrassing public admission... I live in a house and... gasp... I drive a sporty little car. You should hear my older coworkers whine about my decision... OMG what if you needed to get sheets of plywood from home depot? OMG what if a rugged dirt road mountain sprung forth from the earth in the middle of my commute and you don't have 4wd? OMG OMG!
Well, I've found thru experience I can rent a giant truck in scarce minutes for practically nothing and I'm in the burbs. I would imagine city dwellers have it even easier. I would guess every other year I need to rent a truck for an afternoon. Its not an issue.
99% of the time, I drive the car I WANT to drive, and the 1% of the time I NEED something else, I just rent the perfect vehicle for the job.
The best part is my car payment and insurance bills are about half of my coworkers giant SUV payments. One months savings pays for a lifetime of truck rentals, the rest, every month, is pure gravy... which pays for those weekend getaways the SUV drivers can't afford...
I would imagine the electric car situation is very similar. The fact that its not a road trip wanna be RV is a very rare and easily solved problem, anywhere you can rent a REAL RV.
A turbocharger is tiny compared to a turbine engine so the energy
Depends how you define tiny. Lots of power flows thru a turbocharger... The whole point of using a turbo to compress your air instead of a supercharger, is the supercharger takes about a fifth of engine crankshaft horsepower at full speed, which a turbo instead extracts from the exhaust. Compressing air takes a lot of power!
So, its about as dangerous as installing a turbo that is about five times bigger than normal. A scalable and predictable "danger". The scaling factor is about the same ratio as car vs semi-tractor truck engine size... So, a turbojet car engine should be almost exactly as powerful/dangerous as a conventional semi-tractor diesel truck turbocharger. In other words, pretty much harmless, right up there with being struck by a meteor.
some of it could end up dissipating into your skull.
Well that's just moronic FUD. Could just as well claim my cars piston could spontaneously leap out of the cylinder directly into my skull, as every first responder knows, that happens every time in every car crash...
A an electric car could have a removable ~30kW microturbine + fuel tank unit for long journeys and use it for storage space or extra batteries for the rest of the time.
Where do you put it, the passenger seat?
This is probably justification number one zillion for making an electric conversion of a pickup truck rather than a passenger car, you can toss in your homemade generator unit much like one of those pickup truck toolboxes, or maybe just strap down in the bed. I have heard anecdotal stories of converted pickup trucks where the owner literally straps down a genny in the bed and carries the charger along with him... Stop at restaurant every 4 to 6 hours and let the generator putt putt away topping off the battery.
Other reasons to convert a pickup truck instead of a passenger car include:
1) Frame and suspension built to haul immense loads. The suspension doesn't know the difference between a thousand pounds of manure or a thousand pounds of batteries.
2) No one expects great acceleration or cornering performance out of a pickup truck, so no deep seated desire to outperform a Tesla roadster, so the conversion is immensely cheaper / more economical.
3) Before they got yuppified, PU trucks used to be pretty cheap, tough, and non-customized resulting in great parts availability, only on TV does everything work perfect the first time.
4) No one (used to) expect fancy coachwork in a PU truck, ugly dashboard modifications are not the greatest sin in a vehicle that has steel floor and vinyl seats (great idea for a work truck, but not exactly luxurious). No one cares if the A/C doesn't work when the stock vehicle doesn't have A/C anyway. etc. Also makes the conversion cheaper, much like the performance reasoning above. Now, most new PU trucks are yuppie luxury grocery-getters as opposed to work trucks, so I don't know if this theory applies anymore.
Trains don't need rapid acceleration, but they do need efficient cruising speeds...
Only works over flat land with no (slow) cities. I have three male generations of railroad employees in my ancestry... I had some pretty interesting experiences when I was younger, most of which, even back then, probably violated dozens of regulations. Trust me, a railroad engineer out on the mainline works the throttle and brakes at least as much as a car driver in roughly the same terrain. Their arms get tired... "Why does the throttle only have 8 stops?" "Well, you're adjusting it constantly anyway, so why put in more stops?"
It would make your sedan's fuel consumption put an HMMWV to shame.
Depends where you live. People are used to city/hwy MPG numbers where hwy is about 10 to 20 percent higher than city. With a turbine, and its remarkably poor idle performance, city would end up small fraction of hwy. Of course turbines are more efficient than reciprocating engines and dramatically lighter... but it would still overall be a loss.
Turbines have the ability (and requirement) to run at crazy fuel/air ratios... The cat converter industry would freak out, not sure if the technology could survive.
I'm estimating you'd go from city/hwy numbers like my current car 25/30 to something like 4/40... My trip home from work could be very stressful because depending on traffic stop-n-go I would either burn half a gallon, or perhaps half the tank.
But for some reason, the political playground pushed for a total ban of the product, regardless of its handling, usage or type (because, yes, there are different types of asbestos having different effects when exposed to it).
Impractical, for example, unless you magically train and regulate all illegal alien construction workers and demolition workers...
Sure, this is cool, but why do I want to pay $130 for a color model when I can get a standard monochrome one for $50ish?
In the desperate attempt at making complicated things simpler, if you graph y=2x+3 and y=3x+1 you'll probably get one line in red, the other in green, and the calculator will probably highlight the intersection in blinking yellow.
Basically nothing that helps the kids understand, but "they're trying to do SOMETHING" and so thats just great.
Oh, and the games will be better on the color one.
Are you claiming that people should do without cell phones instead?
I think he's trying to say that the government that created the ogliopoly should not regulate it in any way. Remember, privatize the gains and socialize the losses!
From TFA: "The process defined a data center as any room larger than 500 square feet dedicated to data processing..."
Yeah but thats just an article. I mean, what really is a data center, the article can't possibly be correct.
I believe by the article definition we had two psuedo-datacenters, the btos machines and their terminals fit in a room with about eight desks (hmm, 8 keyboards and 8 crts, I sense a pattern here) plus the usual storage cabinets for backup tapes, a couple printer stands and stuff. And a "station" for barcode readers and printers. Well over 25x25 feet. But lets face it, it was just an office that happened to have computers.
The other "data center" was basically a govt issue mobile home with slide outs. Painted army green of course. Probably 500 sq feet, that's only 50 ft long (sounds about right) by 10 wide (easily with the slideouts). The desks, as I recall (almost 20 years ago) went lengthwise up against each wall with a narrow walkway in the middle. In fact if the slideouts were not slid out, it was almost impossible to walk the length of the trailer / home / RV / whatever you call it. The air conditioning was nice when we were in the field in the summer, making it an annoyingly popular place for the officers to hang out (otherwise we never saw them).
As a fedgov employee (US Army) in the early 90s I had two big green unisys btos machines each with three terminals running a database Admittedly no outside world connection except 110V AC but the terminal things did have at least a hundred feet of cable. For the purposes of this report, would by old office be defined as a "datacenter"?
I don't use facebook, but obviously post that you used the service to your wall. Then when your little minions comment on how you "forgot your password this morning"... but you didn't... then you'll get the idea.
It would also be semi amusing to require a cellphone photo of a human as part of the password request.
The business owns the copier. Unless you mean to imply there is something illegal about not photocopying certain documents on a privately owned copier, or even something unethical about it, you're going to have a very hard time making a case for why this is terrible.
Its terrible because many businessmen are dumb, lazy, or cowards. So, to minimize legal risks, lets just ban all documents containing a (C) symbol. No problemo for most of the company, after all its 2010 and most people don't use paper or photocopiers, just like I wouldn't mind if the mimeograph machine or the reel to reel tape player broke. However, marketing now can't photocopy their own copyrighted creations for "creative meetings" or whatever they do. And that's why its terrible, it's like giving kids matches to play with, with the added benefit that the IT dept is going to bear the brunt of the user fury.
The OMS engines optimistically have a total delta-V, stock, of about 1/3 of a KM/s if their tanks are full (which they aren't, after circularizing orbit). You probably could top them off at great effort.
Unfortunately it takes about four times that delta V to get from low earth orbit to low lunar orbit. So you'd be better off shoving tanks into the cargo bay.
Big problem is absolutely everything else from navigation sensors, non-rad hard computers, cooling system, communication system, all of it would have to be gutted and redesigned. May as well start from scratch... which they're doing...
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Probably not but it is a threat to radio communications, esp HAM radio
It's been proven over the past decade of BPL deployment that the threat is at least partially in the opposite direction... BPL works great as long as you are a minimum of a half mile away from all transmitters including AM, FM, TV, ham radio, CB, cellphone, any land mobile including cop cars, airport, aircraft, coast guard station/harbormaster yard, railroad... Yet the deployment equipment is quite expensive so you need a high population density, urban city, etc.
So, just find a neighborhood in Manhatten or Hong Kong that has a zillion people per sq km, and has electricity, but somehow has no radio services whatsoever anywhere near by and BPL will totally shine!
But folks have been talking about IPv6 for years now.
And many of those folks such as myself have been quietly deploying... I strongly urge my competitors to take your stance and bury their heads in the sand. I love it. Please make more /. posts encouraging my competitors to not innovate. The more people left behind, the further ahead I'll be.
Or if you're sceptical of power grids also carrying data?
He actually got that right, perhaps accidentally, he just didn't post any sources or reasoning. BPL has been nothing but a miserable failure. The idea is eternally seductive, but the outside plant and the electromagnetic interference environment makes it an economic non-starter. It's kind of like smell -o- vision or 3d tv, wouldn't that be nifty, but it just doesn't fit the market.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_line_communication#Internet_access_.28broadband_over_powerlines.29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_broadband_over_power_line_deployments
For God's sake man, which is it: carrying, or waving?
More fun to ask if its a particle or a wave carrying the energy... Or is that, carrying the mass... And can you tell both the location and momentum of an electric company service truck simultaneously...
All this is, is, hey, we carry a powerful 60Hz signal,
Don't forget high voltage DC, HVDC.
The power companies have vast fiber networks. A piece of glass solves a lot of lightning, grounding, and electromagnetic interference problems. However, you have to be careful with the conductive steel leader line.
Whats your chargeout rate for weekend work?
the price was cut in a little more than half.
With 100% hot backups, doesn't matter, I'll never be called.
I've done both strategies in the past. Realize that the labor cost of "support" can be astronomical. Fighting with a script reader in India about why you're not going to even try to reinstall windows on a machine with a broken power supply that doesn't even light up, then waiting days for parts to arrive, dealing with UPS or FEDEX to ship the dead supply back, fighting to get access to the web support interface, oh I guess we need to do the password reset procedure no problem just find your original invoice ha ha, its a freaking nightmare which burns expensive labor hours like a candle held in a flamethrower. Alternately, 5 minute drive to local PC parts dealer, install new supply, toss out old one, even faster and cheaper if I have a generic spare sitting on the shelf in the stockroom. Dell support is arguably the most expensive possible way to get something fixed. This is even before we factor in the downtime costs to the company of fixing it at "dell speed" vs "my speed".
When you factor in the huge costs of corporate downtime, the best repair policy is a line of credit to buy a new machine at your local independent PC vendor.
So when did this change? At one time it was pretty universal that 'learn computing at university' meant 'learn *NIX'.
Educational institutions are *NIX. Easily identified as the kind of place where you have to learn at least some advanced math, a foreign language, and learn to read and write English.
Training institutions are pure 100% MS (FOSS? Whats that?) and have been for at least a decade or two. Easily identified as the kind of place that offers degrees in video game testing and web development, and has radio/TV commercials claiming theres a shortage of IT personnel and you could be making six figures in mere months if you sign up.
And for snow, that's actually a half-way legitimate complaint against cars.
A couple hundred miles north, us car drivers know to slow down when we see the ditches filled with tipped over SUVs. The belief that cars are worse in the snow is simply not true, its the opposite, pure marketing.
I first drove the car on the wide Z-rated summer tires that it came with
My fathers strategy was two sets of rims. Actually not very expensive. One with wide tires for summer (incidentally, need to worry about hydroplaning in the rain) that ran around 20 psi and one with ultra skinny narrow high pressure tires that must have been upwards of 35 psi. It takes a lot of suspension work to put wide wheels on a car designed for narrow, but the opposite is quite simple. It was like being on railroad rails in the snow, incredible control. You might want to look into this, and might want to run it by a mechanical engineer or two and a mechanic or two, which given my fathers employer was quite easy.
And armed with snow tires, my low-slung RWD BMW does just fine on fresh snow up to about 6 or 7 inches deep -- deeper than that, and the car tends to float on its floor pan and the going gets slow.(Which is fine: For the past decade or so, the local sheriff has consistently closed the roads when snow gets to those depths,
Oh my, in the frozen tundra up north, that is what we call "flurries". Our plows fail the logistical task when it gets over a foot in 24 hours. Up to that we're OK. Human nature that everyone thinks where they live is OK, but 100 miles north would be unsurvivable, all the from deep south to Alaska.
Do you think gasoline extracts, refines, and transports itself?
Google for "EROEI energy returned on energy invested". For petroleum, its been in a constant descent from around a hundred to what, like 10 or so now? So thats around ten percent, no big deal, almost a rounding error. "Green Technologies" vary around an EROEI of 1. As a complete system, corn ethanol is well below 1, sunflower oil maybe slightly above 1, etc.
Leaked Letter -- BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards
I LOLed at that. I saw the Penn and Teller B.S. expose of the boy scouts of america and my first reaction was now those same goofs have messed up the BSA "Computers" badge, heckuva job guys...
almost-exactly-right design
That is a critical part.
If Tesla gets it right, no problemo for Toyota because they've got a piece of the action.
If Tesla screws it all up, no problemo for Toyota because "thats the Tesla stuff, ours will work better".
Seems like a no risk scenario?
When you add the oil to fry the donut, and the mechanized farming fuel, fertilizers and insecticides made from crude oil, its probably more like 0.1 miles per donut. May as well take the car.
Because sometimes its nice to go out for a drive on the weekends. .... So if you live in Silicon Valley
There's no car rentals in all of Silicon Valley?
I'll make an embarrassing public admission... I live in a house and ... gasp ... I drive a sporty little car. You should hear my older coworkers whine about my decision ... OMG what if you needed to get sheets of plywood from home depot? OMG what if a rugged dirt road mountain sprung forth from the earth in the middle of my commute and you don't have 4wd? OMG OMG!
Well, I've found thru experience I can rent a giant truck in scarce minutes for practically nothing and I'm in the burbs. I would imagine city dwellers have it even easier. I would guess every other year I need to rent a truck for an afternoon. Its not an issue.
99% of the time, I drive the car I WANT to drive, and the 1% of the time I NEED something else, I just rent the perfect vehicle for the job.
The best part is my car payment and insurance bills are about half of my coworkers giant SUV payments. One months savings pays for a lifetime of truck rentals, the rest, every month, is pure gravy... which pays for those weekend getaways the SUV drivers can't afford...
I would imagine the electric car situation is very similar. The fact that its not a road trip wanna be RV is a very rare and easily solved problem, anywhere you can rent a REAL RV.
A turbocharger is tiny compared to a turbine engine so the energy
Depends how you define tiny. Lots of power flows thru a turbocharger... The whole point of using a turbo to compress your air instead of a supercharger, is the supercharger takes about a fifth of engine crankshaft horsepower at full speed, which a turbo instead extracts from the exhaust. Compressing air takes a lot of power!
So, its about as dangerous as installing a turbo that is about five times bigger than normal. A scalable and predictable "danger". The scaling factor is about the same ratio as car vs semi-tractor truck engine size... So, a turbojet car engine should be almost exactly as powerful/dangerous as a conventional semi-tractor diesel truck turbocharger. In other words, pretty much harmless, right up there with being struck by a meteor.
some of it could end up dissipating into your skull.
Well that's just moronic FUD. Could just as well claim my cars piston could spontaneously leap out of the cylinder directly into my skull, as every first responder knows, that happens every time in every car crash...
A an electric car could have a removable ~30kW microturbine + fuel tank unit for long journeys and use it for storage space or extra batteries for the rest of the time.
Where do you put it, the passenger seat?
This is probably justification number one zillion for making an electric conversion of a pickup truck rather than a passenger car, you can toss in your homemade generator unit much like one of those pickup truck toolboxes, or maybe just strap down in the bed. I have heard anecdotal stories of converted pickup trucks where the owner literally straps down a genny in the bed and carries the charger along with him... Stop at restaurant every 4 to 6 hours and let the generator putt putt away topping off the battery.
Other reasons to convert a pickup truck instead of a passenger car include:
1) Frame and suspension built to haul immense loads. The suspension doesn't know the difference between a thousand pounds of manure or a thousand pounds of batteries.
2) No one expects great acceleration or cornering performance out of a pickup truck, so no deep seated desire to outperform a Tesla roadster, so the conversion is immensely cheaper / more economical.
3) Before they got yuppified, PU trucks used to be pretty cheap, tough, and non-customized resulting in great parts availability, only on TV does everything work perfect the first time.
4) No one (used to) expect fancy coachwork in a PU truck, ugly dashboard modifications are not the greatest sin in a vehicle that has steel floor and vinyl seats (great idea for a work truck, but not exactly luxurious). No one cares if the A/C doesn't work when the stock vehicle doesn't have A/C anyway. etc. Also makes the conversion cheaper, much like the performance reasoning above. Now, most new PU trucks are yuppie luxury grocery-getters as opposed to work trucks, so I don't know if this theory applies anymore.
Trains don't need rapid acceleration, but they do need efficient cruising speeds...
Only works over flat land with no (slow) cities. I have three male generations of railroad employees in my ancestry... I had some pretty interesting experiences when I was younger, most of which, even back then, probably violated dozens of regulations. Trust me, a railroad engineer out on the mainline works the throttle and brakes at least as much as a car driver in roughly the same terrain. Their arms get tired... "Why does the throttle only have 8 stops?" "Well, you're adjusting it constantly anyway, so why put in more stops?"
It would make your sedan's fuel consumption put an HMMWV to shame.
Depends where you live. People are used to city/hwy MPG numbers where hwy is about 10 to 20 percent higher than city. With a turbine, and its remarkably poor idle performance, city would end up small fraction of hwy. Of course turbines are more efficient than reciprocating engines and dramatically lighter... but it would still overall be a loss.
Turbines have the ability (and requirement) to run at crazy fuel/air ratios... The cat converter industry would freak out, not sure if the technology could survive.
I'm estimating you'd go from city/hwy numbers like my current car 25/30 to something like 4/40... My trip home from work could be very stressful because depending on traffic stop-n-go I would either burn half a gallon, or perhaps half the tank.
But for some reason, the political playground pushed for a total ban of the product, regardless of its handling, usage or type (because, yes, there are different types of asbestos having different effects when exposed to it).
Impractical, for example, unless you magically train and regulate all illegal alien construction workers and demolition workers...
Sure, this is cool, but why do I want to pay $130 for a color model when I can get a standard monochrome one for $50ish?
In the desperate attempt at making complicated things simpler, if you graph y=2x+3 and y=3x+1 you'll probably get one line in red, the other in green, and the calculator will probably highlight the intersection in blinking yellow.
Basically nothing that helps the kids understand, but "they're trying to do SOMETHING" and so thats just great.
Oh, and the games will be better on the color one.
Are you claiming that people should do without cell phones instead?
I think he's trying to say that the government that created the ogliopoly should not regulate it in any way. Remember, privatize the gains and socialize the losses!
From TFA: "The process defined a data center as any room larger than 500 square feet dedicated to data processing..."
Yeah but thats just an article. I mean, what really is a data center, the article can't possibly be correct.
I believe by the article definition we had two psuedo-datacenters, the btos machines and their terminals fit in a room with about eight desks (hmm, 8 keyboards and 8 crts, I sense a pattern here) plus the usual storage cabinets for backup tapes, a couple printer stands and stuff. And a "station" for barcode readers and printers. Well over 25x25 feet. But lets face it, it was just an office that happened to have computers.
The other "data center" was basically a govt issue mobile home with slide outs. Painted army green of course. Probably 500 sq feet, that's only 50 ft long (sounds about right) by 10 wide (easily with the slideouts). The desks, as I recall (almost 20 years ago) went lengthwise up against each wall with a narrow walkway in the middle. In fact if the slideouts were not slid out, it was almost impossible to walk the length of the trailer / home / RV / whatever you call it. The air conditioning was nice when we were in the field in the summer, making it an annoyingly popular place for the officers to hang out (otherwise we never saw them).
Whats a datacenter?
As a fedgov employee (US Army) in the early 90s I had two big green unisys btos machines each with three terminals running a database Admittedly no outside world connection except 110V AC but the terminal things did have at least a hundred feet of cable. For the purposes of this report, would by old office be defined as a "datacenter"?
I don't use facebook, but obviously post that you used the service to your wall. Then when your little minions comment on how you "forgot your password this morning" ... but you didn't ... then you'll get the idea.
It would also be semi amusing to require a cellphone photo of a human as part of the password request.
For any online store supporting verified by visa/mastercard, I'm sent to my bank's authorization page and required to enter my .... personal password.
Sounds like a great phishing opportunity... Thats why I don't like it. Especially since "most people" use the same password for everything.
The business owns the copier. Unless you mean to imply there is something illegal about not photocopying certain documents on a privately owned copier, or even something unethical about it, you're going to have a very hard time making a case for why this is terrible.
Its terrible because many businessmen are dumb, lazy, or cowards. So, to minimize legal risks, lets just ban all documents containing a (C) symbol. No problemo for most of the company, after all its 2010 and most people don't use paper or photocopiers, just like I wouldn't mind if the mimeograph machine or the reel to reel tape player broke. However, marketing now can't photocopy their own copyrighted creations for "creative meetings" or whatever they do. And that's why its terrible, it's like giving kids matches to play with, with the added benefit that the IT dept is going to bear the brunt of the user fury.
The OMS engines optimistically have a total delta-V, stock, of about 1/3 of a KM/s if their tanks are full (which they aren't, after circularizing orbit). You probably could top them off at great effort.
Unfortunately it takes about four times that delta V to get from low earth orbit to low lunar orbit. So you'd be better off shoving tanks into the cargo bay.
Big problem is absolutely everything else from navigation sensors, non-rad hard computers, cooling system, communication system, all of it would have to be gutted and redesigned. May as well start from scratch... which they're doing...