If you piss someone off by doing it (eg. with the AT&T vunerability), sadly yes. Doing the right thing and informing people of their security holes also counts as pissing them off and has landed people in jail.
If Kafka was writing today he's probably do a story on one of those insane trials.
Steeleye Span did it for decades by rocking up some out of copyright folk, but the real issue is that "accidental" infringing that makes it as far as a courtroom isn't very accidental. However some stuff where the copyright was never enforced previously (eg. Kookaburra song from the 1930s that was owned by the Australian Girl Guides until recently) has ended up in the hands of music companies using it as a legal blunt instrument.
What's really funny about this is that the climate debate really picked up when people with actual statistics skills showed up and started looking around.
Oh yes, economists with undergraduate degrees and no publications versus applied mathematicians with years of experience. It is really funny that you think newbies are vastly superior.
When the model is wrong
The models (note the "s") have been modified and refined with time as data is collected.
It only takes an honest man to say what everyone can see.
Seriously? A PR company like the Heartland Institute is an honest man?
Fair enough, but how do you react when a trainee accountant who doesn't even know how to do a macro tells you all your coding skills are worthless? That's the level of "climate debate" you are discussing.
The stuff that's almost impossible to get to may as well not exist. That's why peak oil is from peak oil production, as in the stuff extracted in any given year instead of anything else.
Are we seriously expected to believe that 97% of the world's scientists are involved in some sort of massive scheme to... uh... steal grant money?
Apparently the conspiracy is about the UN imposing world government. It's best to avoid listening to the nuts for too long, it's not only moon landing fake level unlikely but also very very boring.
And it isn't as though we're still using ball bearings, where one could reasonably be concerned about a continuously spinning drive not having full lubrication because the lubricant is spun out towards the outside of the bearing or something
Still happens, just over a longer lifetime than it used to. Lubricant is also lost over time whether the drive is spinning or not, so at some point (probably well over ten years now) that old drive in storage is not going to spin up.
Backblaze pack their stuff in tight with very poor airflow so the only conclusions we can draw from them is which drives behave better in hot environments. I'd go more with the google tests from a few years back which give the same sort of answer in general terms, unless of course you plan to pack things in very tight and reduce life by running them hot.
Seriously? The metal is a science fiction prop like "plasteel" in Dune. It's just a vector to illustrate that confident Tsar-era type nobility that dabble in industry are vastly superior to full time experts, and should bully such experts at any such opportunity if they encounter them. The whole thing is about how the will of the people is inferior to the whims of underage nobility using grandpa's legacy to assist in screwing their way to the top. It's a Russian who does not understand the west writing a book about how a Republic is a terrible thing and one with democratically elected representatives even more so.
Layman-readable grid stuff is not easy to find on the Internet these days
Try the second hand technical bookstores. My uncle was doing load balancing from the late 1950s onwards on paper and around the late 1960s managed to get a computer to do the calculations for him, which are still done today with very similar algorithms. The maths hasn't changed.
all available energy alternatives could be scaled up in a political vacuum
Nuclear is best at very large scales that only governments can provide spare capital for, so while politics is avoidable for a windmill or two it collides with nuclear. That is where the combination of a small government with an independent monied nobility of Randism and the large government requirement for nuclear power is so amusing - you have to choose one or the other. It doesn't matter how rich little Dagny's grandpa was she not going to be able to afford to go nuclear and wait a couple of decades to get the money back. Solar and wind can come in small enough chunks that private investors can get involved, but nuclear has a combination of a very slow rate of return and massive capital costs, so your Randy nobility is not going to touch it no matter what the long term benefits are going to be. Even with a capitalist, as distinct from Rand system, the private investors don't touch nuclear. Nuclear has worked very well with subs and despite recent problems it's been effective in Japan as a strategy to buffer against potential energy import problems, but it isn't cheap to set up and is base load power (which is why it's amusing to see the more clueless nuclear fans rail against solar and wind which fill the totally different niche of peak power sources). So I'm not against nuclear, I've worked with a few very knowlegable people in nuclear energy and had one as a student, but the reality is the current view of economics is something that's not going to give a return on investment for a few decades, no matter how good it is, is going to be ignored by the private sector. There are only a few governments that are interested at this point and they are very much the opposite of Randism - China, Russia and India mostly. France may have a revival.
Ten Trillion dollars in transmission grid upgrades might allow us to start integrating some of these renewable power plants
What idiot fed you that bullshit and what was their motivation to lie to you?
Yes, I'm aware of that, but the earlier system could answer your question about udev without all that since it echos "starting udev" to the screen. Less features and unfinished.
With reference to your link to Gardner's thesis, although it is interesting a long document on parameters to monitor on large grids outside of the main interconnections is unlikely to make any sense to anyone who has not been involved with electricity transmission (as I was for part of the 1990s). What was your motivation to link the item? Is it some attempt to add some weight to your criticism of other alternative energy sources by showing off your level of understanding? IMHO alternative energies should stand on their own merits and infighting between fans of differing alternative energies (eg. solar, wind, nuclear) is often a sign of being unable to express those merits.
You may want to start a letter with something other than "I was raised on the philosophy of Ayn Rand" when discussing an engineering issue. The "Reardon Metal" thing where businessmen know so much more than engineers and scientists about materials still has us laughing, so your letters may be disposed of for baggage unrelated to your philosophy or the worth of their contents. A Russian with little understanding of the west telling us all we should run things like under the Tsar is a bit hard to swallow even if some of her points are valid. Also I suggest you consider the current Thorium work in India and other places to get an idea that the state of the art has moved on a bit from a 1950s experiment. While civilian nuclear energy research in the USA effectively halted well over a decade ago it still continues in other places with promising results.
Reality is sort of going that way - HVDC has resulted in incredibly long runs with very low losses so there's been a fair bit rolled out over the last couple of decades.
The national peak is not equal to all the local peaks added together due to the peaks occurring at different times with respect to UTC. So the answer is probably significantly smaller since the California and East coast peaks won't overlap, and there's a lot less consumption in between.
depended on me failing to think of sufficient such devices
From your posts above that appeared to be a safe bet - especially the bit about it not being used for commercial purposes. I took you at your word which of course indicated a bit of a lack of understanding of the subject matter - however I did not anticipate you understanding the subject matter but lying about it to push some sort of agenda. All completely consistent with real examples not mattering. Quite pathetic really. Why can't these losers be evangelical about their pet topics without this sort of bullshit?
I'm not sure why people bother with such long posts without getting up to speed with general knowlege first - most people will remember where the funding for ISIS/daash was coming from and how long it took for the Saudi government to ban donations. As for the second - I did not say OPEC, I was referring to the situation where the market is being flooded to drive down the price as Saudi policy and not OPEC policy. Iran and Venezuela were not a threat to them before - this is about trying to halt new production in the USA.
but so far you have not cited even one of them
I've mentioned two recent developments that do damage to the USA, not the list of things that cause regional problems.
Maybe because it's a yawner of a story if Windows gets infected?
More like it being easier to quantify everything on an open system than one with obfiscated black boxes, a need for researchers to sign NDAs, or a worry that any criticism of security of a closed platform is going to put you into deep shit via the DMCA (eg. Adobe VS Dmitry S. - no bail!). They can follow the thread in linux and know what is going on at every step and tell everyone what is going on at each step. With MS there's at least going to be red tape in the way if not a lot of other things.
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It's the pressure man!
My pet hate now is I live in a suburb on a bend on a river and a pile of trendy people are calling it a "village" on a "peninsula".
If you piss someone off by doing it (eg. with the AT&T vunerability), sadly yes.
Doing the right thing and informing people of their security holes also counts as pissing them off and has landed people in jail.
If Kafka was writing today he's probably do a story on one of those insane trials.
Steeleye Span did it for decades by rocking up some out of copyright folk, but the real issue is that "accidental" infringing that makes it as far as a courtroom isn't very accidental. However some stuff where the copyright was never enforced previously (eg. Kookaburra song from the 1930s that was owned by the Australian Girl Guides until recently) has ended up in the hands of music companies using it as a legal blunt instrument.
Oh yes, economists with undergraduate degrees and no publications versus applied mathematicians with years of experience. It is really funny that you think newbies are vastly superior.
The models (note the "s") have been modified and refined with time as data is collected.
Seriously? A PR company like the Heartland Institute is an honest man?
Spot on - the sort of tools that want to get rid of everything Washington fought for and invite back an English style aristocracy.
Fair enough, but how do you react when a trainee accountant who doesn't even know how to do a macro tells you all your coding skills are worthless? That's the level of "climate debate" you are discussing.
The stuff that's almost impossible to get to may as well not exist. That's why peak oil is from peak oil production, as in the stuff extracted in any given year instead of anything else.
Apparently the conspiracy is about the UN imposing world government. It's best to avoid listening to the nuts for too long, it's not only moon landing fake level unlikely but also very very boring.
Still happens, just over a longer lifetime than it used to. Lubricant is also lost over time whether the drive is spinning or not, so at some point (probably well over ten years now) that old drive in storage is not going to spin up.
Backblaze pack their stuff in tight with very poor airflow so the only conclusions we can draw from them is which drives behave better in hot environments. I'd go more with the google tests from a few years back which give the same sort of answer in general terms, unless of course you plan to pack things in very tight and reduce life by running them hot.
Seriously? The metal is a science fiction prop like "plasteel" in Dune. It's just a vector to illustrate that confident Tsar-era type nobility that dabble in industry are vastly superior to full time experts, and should bully such experts at any such opportunity if they encounter them.
The whole thing is about how the will of the people is inferior to the whims of underage nobility using grandpa's legacy to assist in screwing their way to the top. It's a Russian who does not understand the west writing a book about how a Republic is a terrible thing and one with democratically elected representatives even more so.
Try the second hand technical bookstores. My uncle was doing load balancing from the late 1950s onwards on paper and around the late 1960s managed to get a computer to do the calculations for him, which are still done today with very similar algorithms. The maths hasn't changed.
Nuclear is best at very large scales that only governments can provide spare capital for, so while politics is avoidable for a windmill or two it collides with nuclear. That is where the combination of a small government with an independent monied nobility of Randism and the large government requirement for nuclear power is so amusing - you have to choose one or the other. It doesn't matter how rich little Dagny's grandpa was she not going to be able to afford to go nuclear and wait a couple of decades to get the money back. Solar and wind can come in small enough chunks that private investors can get involved, but nuclear has a combination of a very slow rate of return and massive capital costs, so your Randy nobility is not going to touch it no matter what the long term benefits are going to be. Even with a capitalist, as distinct from Rand system, the private investors don't touch nuclear.
Nuclear has worked very well with subs and despite recent problems it's been effective in Japan as a strategy to buffer against potential energy import problems, but it isn't cheap to set up and is base load power (which is why it's amusing to see the more clueless nuclear fans rail against solar and wind which fill the totally different niche of peak power sources). So I'm not against nuclear, I've worked with a few very knowlegable people in nuclear energy and had one as a student, but the reality is the current view of economics is something that's not going to give a return on investment for a few decades, no matter how good it is, is going to be ignored by the private sector. There are only a few governments that are interested at this point and they are very much the opposite of Randism - China, Russia and India mostly. France may have a revival.
What idiot fed you that bullshit and what was their motivation to lie to you?
I suggest you look at it again. A major advantage of the modern method is it can be mixed with expired fuel or high grade waste from other reactors.
Yes, I'm aware of that, but the earlier system could answer your question about udev without all that since it echos "starting udev" to the screen.
Less features and unfinished.
With reference to your link to Gardner's thesis, although it is interesting a long document on parameters to monitor on large grids outside of the main interconnections is unlikely to make any sense to anyone who has not been involved with electricity transmission (as I was for part of the 1990s). What was your motivation to link the item? Is it some attempt to add some weight to your criticism of other alternative energy sources by showing off your level of understanding?
IMHO alternative energies should stand on their own merits and infighting between fans of differing alternative energies (eg. solar, wind, nuclear) is often a sign of being unable to express those merits.
You may want to start a letter with something other than "I was raised on the philosophy of Ayn Rand" when discussing an engineering issue. The "Reardon Metal" thing where businessmen know so much more than engineers and scientists about materials still has us laughing, so your letters may be disposed of for baggage unrelated to your philosophy or the worth of their contents. A Russian with little understanding of the west telling us all we should run things like under the Tsar is a bit hard to swallow even if some of her points are valid.
Also I suggest you consider the current Thorium work in India and other places to get an idea that the state of the art has moved on a bit from a 1950s experiment. While civilian nuclear energy research in the USA effectively halted well over a decade ago it still continues in other places with promising results.
Reality is sort of going that way - HVDC has resulted in incredibly long runs with very low losses so there's been a fair bit rolled out over the last couple of decades.
The national peak is not equal to all the local peaks added together due to the peaks occurring at different times with respect to UTC. So the answer is probably significantly smaller since the California and East coast peaks won't overlap, and there's a lot less consumption in between.
Typically early 1970s cells are used for the calculation - you cheated and used something available now! Shame on you :)
The Chinese have already done that and they'll happily delay their rollout to fill much smaller orders from the USA - at a premium of course.
Someone is not thinking about networks.
Oh - someone thinks there isn't already networks in place or is thinking in terms of water with upstream and downstream pipes.
From your posts above that appeared to be a safe bet - especially the bit about it not being used for commercial purposes. I took you at your word which of course indicated a bit of a lack of understanding of the subject matter - however I did not anticipate you understanding the subject matter but lying about it to push some sort of agenda.
All completely consistent with real examples not mattering. Quite pathetic really. Why can't these losers be evangelical about their pet topics without this sort of bullshit?
As for the second - I did not say OPEC, I was referring to the situation where the market is being flooded to drive down the price as Saudi policy and not OPEC policy. Iran and Venezuela were not a threat to them before - this is about trying to halt new production in the USA.
I've mentioned two recent developments that do damage to the USA, not the list of things that cause regional problems.
It's a pity you did not look up the Alcubierre Drive he refers to before foaming at the mouth on his behalf.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the prick who shut down the tollbridge up to stupid games again?
More like it being easier to quantify everything on an open system than one with obfiscated black boxes, a need for researchers to sign NDAs, or a worry that any criticism of security of a closed platform is going to put you into deep shit via the DMCA (eg. Adobe VS Dmitry S. - no bail!).
They can follow the thread in linux and know what is going on at every step and tell everyone what is going on at each step. With MS there's at least going to be red tape in the way if not a lot of other things.