I've got a pile of Seagate and Samsung drives on my desk that were in servers for less than a year and now they are only worth ripping open for magnets. The reliability of Seagate drives now doesn't seem to be anywhere close to what it was a few years ago.
Would be nice but nukes are dead unless we get something based on military tech (eg. from sub reactor research, small reactors have a lot of advantages) or based on German, Indian or even Russian technology (liquid metal cooled reactor under development). The Westinghouse thing based partly on Japanese technology (because US R&D has almost halted in that area for decades so Westinghouse bought a bunch of Japanese who had done R&D, took the results, then sacked everyone) is pretty well a 1970s reactor painted green and isn't going to win people over. That's my opinion anyway. I'd like to be proved wrong about the US civilian nuclear industry being something other than a pack of useless parasites since the 1980s. It could happen.
I'd agree, but since some of my paycheck comes from coal seam gas it's probably best to take it with a bucket of salt. However my power generation background screams at me that a monoculture of anything in electricity generation is bad, and solar plus even wind have real niches in a few places. Personally I think anything at all which reduces reliance on getting energy supplies from other countries is a good thing because that reduces their political influence - the strong Saudi influence on US foreign affairs since at least 1981 (reversal of the move towards energy independance) has done a lot of damage to the USA in my opinion.
When nat gas hurts things it's being done wrong. There's a bit of that about since there's very much a gold rush mentality in the sector.
They control it all right. They can, and frequently do, legislate for what the carriers can and can't do.
hint unless they are also going to ban SSL sites there is NO WAY to prevent VPN's
Exactly. Take one guess as to what Australian Intelligence organisations want done with SSL traffic in and out of the country. Yes it's bull in a china shop territory but the major donors to the ruling party do not care.
It appears I've attracted the ire of an aspiring English teacher, well take this then: Lat every felawe telle his tale aboute, And lat se now who shal the soper wynne;- And ther I lefte, I wol ayeyn bigynne. Still perfectly understandable by aspiring English teachers, or just about anyone with the language, even after all this time. What's an apostrophe out of place to that? Surely you can still read it.
So I suggest comment on content instead of despair that this is a casual site where many posters do minimal or no proofreading after typing out whatever they think of on the spur of the moment.
The US nuclear lobby ate it's own children. Pushing to scrap the Clinton era thorium project because success would conflict with existing investment in Uranium is one of many examples. Lobbying to halt research into waste management because that reflected poorly on the fantasy that it's "clean" is another. Putting trust fund children and horse judges into management positions and just using nuclear energy as a vector to milk the taxpayer and electricity consumers, without having to deal with any competition, is another reason why you can't have your shiny and wonderful nuke that does what is promised. Give it a few years and you may be able to buy one from overseas, but the US nuclear industry is a couple of decades into the long coast down with no chance of revival, only a chance of replacement with completely new players.
Actually the really far right wants to keep on buying oil from those Saudis since that boosts their personal profits. That makes local shale oil/gas just as bad in their eyes as windmills. Let's hope they keep on losing influence or at least invest in their own country.
Who thought it would? Come on guys, if you thought it would stop carbon dioxide emissions your life up until now has failed to give you a bullshit detector good enough to avoid getting scammed by the next used car salesman or similar you meet.
First rule of a government leaning towards authoritarionism is making exceptions for those that they like. It's often about putting some people above the law, and they frequently find a group to demonise to put below the law as well. It's against the entire idea of western civilisation of justice for all. However they don't care, they just don't get this civilisation thing. Fucking barbarians in suits.
I only ever got to go near single screen SGI systems, so what sort of details do you mean? One thing that I did notice with SGI was the "switch users" thing that kept your desktop, something that MS and others eventually copied.
But that would ruin the "look" pushed by marketing! They won't even let you shrink the ribbon so forget about anything else for a while until a new player shows up.
True in many cases. I pulled a ten year old machine out of storage a year or so ago as a temporary replacement for an office worker doing simple tasks but they think it's good enough so it's still there. It does have a video card half it's age and two LCD screens, but it is still a single core 32 bit beast with only a couple of GB of memory. Of course it's not running anything from MS, you need something quick to run even a recent web browser in such an environment.
Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Because the Commodore is keeping up with you. Who would have thought we'd be back to 30Hz refresh displays after all this time.
I do not have a problem. Your declarations about treating fantasy as reality just to give an "out" for those practising lazy policing however is something you should consider in an adult manner instead of just acting like a child that has to believe any lie adults tell them. You keep on going on about what about if the fantasy is real. It's not real. That is the problem. This isn't fucking minority report, this is the fucking FBI and they should be expected to act like professionals and not like cartoon characters. Am I getting through yet? How clear do I have to make it?
What this guy did is a crime
He was led by the nose into a fucking fantasy world peopled by FBI agents playing roles to a very unlikely script. What the guy did was what he was told to do. There was no crime until he was given instructions and followed them.
Don't take this personally, but this may illustrate the situation better if empathy is the problem. It appears a sting on you would work if someone told you they were working for the FBI or similar agency and wanted you to take something from your workplace for them. If you do it you are proved "untrustworthy" to your workplace, but it's an entirely pointless exercise unless someone has a quota of people to catch. That sort of stupid loyalty test was very frequent in the early Soviet Union.
You completely fail to understand that you are surrounded by people who will betray trust if they think it is worth it and it's "not too bad" a betrayal. Integrity matters but many people exhibit it only due to social pressures. This sting was crafted in such a way that some social pressures did not apply - the choice of Egypt, Israel, UK or whatever removed the taint of treason and increased the pool of people who could make up the years arrest numbers while in no way resembling a crime that is ever going to happen.
It's a complete waste of fucking time setting up imaginary crimes that are never going to happen and catching people who are never going to do it on their own. That's my point. It annoys me that you are so insulting and like to pretend I have a different point. I suggest you address that point directly instead of childish weirdness about locking up anybody who may someday be a bad person.
When a government that has an almost medieval attitude to rape starts making a big deal of a case overseas that does not involve it's citizens then it is very obvious that it is just being used as an excuse. We are being played and the reality is somewhere under ten levels of highly crafted PR disinformation.
He has a vast amount of influence on the Australian government who control all the links from Australia to the global internet. Is it making sense now?
nothing compared to the real business traffic that relies on VPN's,
So where is you VPN licence citizen? No licence? No hole through the firewall on the undersea cable for you. That bit make sense now?
Yes, all very authoritarian but that's exactly what is being pushed - tight control. Expensive, draconian and stupid certainly, but look at the way refugees are treated by the current government and you'll see that such things do not matter to them on the way to their goals
He hasn't even been charged so your assertion of what you think he's done is a bit of a case of presuming guilty before the police prosecutor has even got something together, let alone the court. On the other hand Polanski was found guilty by the court, yet was left alone for decades due to no political reason to get him.
You've been conned by the unscrupulous aiming directly for your emotions and making you blow up on this issue. Your final paragraph is irrelevant since most of it relies on supposition and the major witness has had a change of heart. That doesn't mean it's not true, it just means that the case has had a vast amount of international effort for something where it is not normally the case. The reason it blew up into such a situation is very obviously political. So since Assange is getting all this unexpected attention is he paranoid to run and hide or saving himself from anal rape by third rate CIA goons? The report that came out last week and all those people in power in the US who have been calling him "traitor" and equating him with terrorists shows us why he is hiding. The CIA have already dragged people out of Sweden with the assistance of Swedish Intelligence, there was, and may still be, a very real risk that Assange could face the same fate.
If it comes to it would those cowards really fight? That, and some training, is the difference between a militia and somebody playing cowboys and indians.
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More QC tests. At least we all hope so for the extra price, and it used to happen at some point.
I've got a pile of Seagate and Samsung drives on my desk that were in servers for less than a year and now they are only worth ripping open for magnets. The reliability of Seagate drives now doesn't seem to be anywhere close to what it was a few years ago.
Would be nice but nukes are dead unless we get something based on military tech (eg. from sub reactor research, small reactors have a lot of advantages) or based on German, Indian or even Russian technology (liquid metal cooled reactor under development). The Westinghouse thing based partly on Japanese technology (because US R&D has almost halted in that area for decades so Westinghouse bought a bunch of Japanese who had done R&D, took the results, then sacked everyone) is pretty well a 1970s reactor painted green and isn't going to win people over. That's my opinion anyway. I'd like to be proved wrong about the US civilian nuclear industry being something other than a pack of useless parasites since the 1980s. It could happen.
I'd agree, but since some of my paycheck comes from coal seam gas it's probably best to take it with a bucket of salt. However my power generation background screams at me that a monoculture of anything in electricity generation is bad, and solar plus even wind have real niches in a few places. Personally I think anything at all which reduces reliance on getting energy supplies from other countries is a good thing because that reduces their political influence - the strong Saudi influence on US foreign affairs since at least 1981 (reversal of the move towards energy independance) has done a lot of damage to the USA in my opinion.
When nat gas hurts things it's being done wrong. There's a bit of that about since there's very much a gold rush mentality in the sector.
Exactly. Take one guess as to what Australian Intelligence organisations want done with SSL traffic in and out of the country. Yes it's bull in a china shop territory but the major donors to the ruling party do not care.
It appears I've attracted the ire of an aspiring English teacher, well take this then:
Lat every felawe telle his tale aboute, And lat se now who shal the soper wynne;- And ther I lefte, I wol ayeyn bigynne.
Still perfectly understandable by aspiring English teachers, or just about anyone with the language, even after all this time. What's an apostrophe out of place to that? Surely you can still read it.
So I suggest comment on content instead of despair that this is a casual site where many posters do minimal or no proofreading after typing out whatever they think of on the spur of the moment.
The US nuclear lobby ate it's own children. Pushing to scrap the Clinton era thorium project because success would conflict with existing investment in Uranium is one of many examples. Lobbying to halt research into waste management because that reflected poorly on the fantasy that it's "clean" is another. Putting trust fund children and horse judges into management positions and just using nuclear energy as a vector to milk the taxpayer and electricity consumers, without having to deal with any competition, is another reason why you can't have your shiny and wonderful nuke that does what is promised.
Give it a few years and you may be able to buy one from overseas, but the US nuclear industry is a couple of decades into the long coast down with no chance of revival, only a chance of replacement with completely new players.
Actually the really far right wants to keep on buying oil from those Saudis since that boosts their personal profits. That makes local shale oil/gas just as bad in their eyes as windmills. Let's hope they keep on losing influence or at least invest in their own country.
Who thought it would?
Come on guys, if you thought it would stop carbon dioxide emissions your life up until now has failed to give you a bullshit detector good enough to avoid getting scammed by the next used car salesman or similar you meet.
tmux :)
But then so was Java at the time :)
I'm still facing one Java based application with a GUI that moves at glacial speeds.
First rule of a government leaning towards authoritarionism is making exceptions for those that they like.
It's often about putting some people above the law, and they frequently find a group to demonise to put below the law as well. It's against the entire idea of western civilisation of justice for all. However they don't care, they just don't get this civilisation thing. Fucking barbarians in suits.
I only ever got to go near single screen SGI systems, so what sort of details do you mean?
One thing that I did notice with SGI was the "switch users" thing that kept your desktop, something that MS and others eventually copied.
But that would ruin the "look" pushed by marketing! They won't even let you shrink the ribbon so forget about anything else for a while until a new player shows up.
Who would have thought that MS would bring out a keyboard controlled windowing system that's like a dumbed down version of tmux.
True in many cases. I pulled a ten year old machine out of storage a year or so ago as a temporary replacement for an office worker doing simple tasks but they think it's good enough so it's still there. It does have a video card half it's age and two LCD screens, but it is still a single core 32 bit beast with only a couple of GB of memory.
Of course it's not running anything from MS, you need something quick to run even a recent web browser in such an environment.
Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Because the Commodore is keeping up with you.
Who would have thought we'd be back to 30Hz refresh displays after all this time.
In other places some of the smart cops get law degrees while still working part time on the force and become police prosecutors.
You keep on going on about what about if the fantasy is real. It's not real. That is the problem. This isn't fucking minority report, this is the fucking FBI and they should be expected to act like professionals and not like cartoon characters. Am I getting through yet? How clear do I have to make it?
He was led by the nose into a fucking fantasy world peopled by FBI agents playing roles to a very unlikely script. What the guy did was what he was told to do. There was no crime until he was given instructions and followed them.
Don't take this personally, but this may illustrate the situation better if empathy is the problem. It appears a sting on you would work if someone told you they were working for the FBI or similar agency and wanted you to take something from your workplace for them. If you do it you are proved "untrustworthy" to your workplace, but it's an entirely pointless exercise unless someone has a quota of people to catch. That sort of stupid loyalty test was very frequent in the early Soviet Union.
An Indian sailor.
Slavery is wrong.
You completely fail to understand that you are surrounded by people who will betray trust if they think it is worth it and it's "not too bad" a betrayal.
Integrity matters but many people exhibit it only due to social pressures.
This sting was crafted in such a way that some social pressures did not apply - the choice of Egypt, Israel, UK or whatever removed the taint of treason and increased the pool of people who could make up the years arrest numbers while in no way resembling a crime that is ever going to happen.
It's a complete waste of fucking time setting up imaginary crimes that are never going to happen and catching people who are never going to do it on their own. That's my point. It annoys me that you are so insulting and like to pretend I have a different point.
I suggest you address that point directly instead of childish weirdness about locking up anybody who may someday be a bad person.
When a government that has an almost medieval attitude to rape starts making a big deal of a case overseas that does not involve it's citizens then it is very obvious that it is just being used as an excuse.
We are being played and the reality is somewhere under ten levels of highly crafted PR disinformation.
He has a vast amount of influence on the Australian government who control all the links from Australia to the global internet. Is it making sense now?
So where is you VPN licence citizen? No licence? No hole through the firewall on the undersea cable for you.
That bit make sense now?
Yes, all very authoritarian but that's exactly what is being pushed - tight control. Expensive, draconian and stupid certainly, but look at the way refugees are treated by the current government and you'll see that such things do not matter to them on the way to their goals
He hasn't even been charged so your assertion of what you think he's done is a bit of a case of presuming guilty before the police prosecutor has even got something together, let alone the court.
On the other hand Polanski was found guilty by the court, yet was left alone for decades due to no political reason to get him.
You've been conned by the unscrupulous aiming directly for your emotions and making you blow up on this issue. Your final paragraph is irrelevant since most of it relies on supposition and the major witness has had a change of heart. That doesn't mean it's not true, it just means that the case has had a vast amount of international effort for something where it is not normally the case. The reason it blew up into such a situation is very obviously political.
So since Assange is getting all this unexpected attention is he paranoid to run and hide or saving himself from anal rape by third rate CIA goons? The report that came out last week and all those people in power in the US who have been calling him "traitor" and equating him with terrorists shows us why he is hiding. The CIA have already dragged people out of Sweden with the assistance of Swedish Intelligence, there was, and may still be, a very real risk that Assange could face the same fate.
If it comes to it would those cowards really fight? That, and some training, is the difference between a militia and somebody playing cowboys and indians.