Good catch; I did the calculation earlier and forgot which way I had rounded. It's a 30-m cube.
But it doesn't matter, because 5MG is not a hell of a lot of water from a utility-scale water management perspective (the field I work in, incidentally). This plant (http://www.srpnet.com/about/stations/kyrene.aspx), which is a 520 MW power plant, uses more than 3 MG daily in make-up water. Others use more or less.
The GP was musing about impact on declining aquifers, and my point was that the communities buying power in those declining aquifers would not notice the blip from filling this tank in the demand that they already place on their resources, whether that is sustainable or not. Any community that can afford to build this plant could afford this water many times over.
Five million gallons is absolutely nothing for a power station, even for a desert community. It's a cube less than 20 m on each side.
Much, much, much more water is already blown into the atmosphere by the cooling towers which are a necessary part of any nuclear, coal, gas, solar-thermal, or other steam turbine-driving technology.
Also how are companies supposed to effectively web filter if everything is HTTPS.
They shouldn't. They should cut off web access for the grunts that don't need it (e.g. telecenter people who are using managed applications) and blow it wide open for those that do (engineers, creative professionals, managers). Hell, the managers are already opting out of the filtering and infecting their networks with porn viruses, so what would this change?
We may not like our web filtered, but companies have a legal duty that employees shouldn't be see questionable material, even if on someone else's computer. Companies have been sued for allowing this to happen.
Citation needed. Speaking of too broad a brush; this comment paints with a roller. I've only worked for one company that used WebSense, and that was a school. Is my anecdote more valid than yours?
Filtering is not practical for a lot of jobs, and is certainly not the gold-standard for covering-your-ass against harassment; effective management is. Let's put it this way: if a coworker creates a hostile workplace for you and the boss does everything in their power to deal with it (reprimanding and ultimately firing the offender), you can't sue the boss. If your boss doesn't do anything about it, they're gonna get sued.
That's a great argument for fixing those problems, not a great argument for introducing new ones in order to fix the supposed-problem of long boot times.
Because in the end, that's what it is: a supposed problem. Boot times aren't something you should see very often, and when you do, they really aren't that bad these days (at least on Debian). And if you're absolutely forced to deal with cold boots, a difference 10 (or even a few 10s) of seconds probably isn't going to mean the difference between using Debian and using Brand X.
Modern (read: post 2005) laptops, tablets, mobiles and desktops DO NOT NEED TO BE TURNED OFF. They can sleep with almost no power draw almost indefinitely. If you are really concerned about the fraction of a watt that they use while asleep, you should also be unplugging them completely when they are not in use. The pain in the ass of plugging in your desktop every time you want to use it cannot possibly be less frustrating than a 10 s boot time difference.
"Taking over during emergency" is one of the stupidest platitudes ever requested by a regulator. The only time a driver would take over an actual, consumer-ready autonomous car would be if the computer detected a fault of some kind and asked them to. In any other case, the computer would guide the car through the emergency, and probably to a stop before turning to the driver for help.
It would make absolutely no sense to expect an autonomous car driver to see a deer bounding into the road and suddenly grab the wheel and brakes. That would do nothing but create a more dangerous situation.
Well, maybe you just haven't seen that much, then. I've got a mixture of CFLs, LEDs, and incandescents in my house, and they all work just fine, with lifespans that are long enough that I can't remember when I changed any particular bulb. While lighting is an insignificant cost compared to running my air conditioner, I appreciate that the modern bulbs use significantly less juice, and they don't heat the place up as much.
I spent a few hours trying to get that to work on Debian, and I couldn't. I'm a rank amateur, but usually I can get stuff working, given enough time and Google. Part of the problem was that I wasn't starting from scratch; I tried using the Netflix app that some guy rolled together with WineSkin, targetting Ubuntu. Still...
And his point stands: if they can get Netflix working on Android, there's really no good reason they couldn't put something together for Linux in general.
Yep, and it migrated to the Mac, too. At some point they added open apple + option + escape to bring up a task manager that let you kill unresponsive programs.
You must have read different articles than I did, because 10 years ago it was "Micro$oft $hills," "Apple Fanboys," etc. You do know that this was the origin of "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame," right? And that was 2001.
They speak Flemish, but it's often called Dutch because everybody has heard of Dutch and nobody wants to explain how it's basically the same but a little different.
I would love to read about this, but you didn't post enough information for me to google it, and you posted as AC, so you're not likely to see this response. If you do, please point me in the right direction, because I'm very interested.
Hypothetically, if everyone in the US came together and smoked a blunt, would there be any way to stop us? Or didn't pay taxes? Or ate horsemeat? Or drove without a license?
I mean, hypothetically, if everybody in the world could just come together, there'd be no more killing, pollution, discrimination, or overpopulation.
Realistically, not everyone will come together, and of those that do, you only need to punish some fraction of them in order to deter a significant proportion of the rest. There will always be some scofflaws, and the authorities will continue to mete out punishment to them. See: every prohibited substance ever.
I'll buy that, and I did agree with that part... the second part was just too crazy to ignore;-) The truth is I've often wondered why any respectable news site would want a comment section.
The readers are much better served by the news on the news site and the discussion on a discussion site--whether it's slashdot or reddit or fark or 4chan. The task of moderating (or creating a culture that moderates itself) is massive, and better offloaded to sites that specialize in that sort of work. Instead, the mainstream news sites seem to still be stuck in the 90s "portal" paradigm, where keeping the viewer on their domain means providing every possible service, no matter how poorly rendered.
Really, I think they should worry more about providing a quality, focused product that will keep bringing in hits from the aggregators.
Insightful?!? Are you fucking kidding me? The whole point of slashdot is that it points you to a longer article and gives you a forum for discussion--a forum that, through its social moderation system, is (for all its warts) far, far superior to the comment sections on any news site.
Why on God's Green Earth would you come to slashdot if you wanted comments disabled? You could just go to to the source (WaPo), or a no-comment aggregator like Google News.
Asking for slashdot without comments is like asking for a hamburger minus the bread, meat, and toppings. All you're left with is the wrapper--if that's all you want, why the fuck did you order a burger?
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Good catch; I did the calculation earlier and forgot which way I had rounded. It's a 30-m cube.
But it doesn't matter, because 5MG is not a hell of a lot of water from a utility-scale water management perspective (the field I work in, incidentally). This plant (http://www.srpnet.com/about/stations/kyrene.aspx), which is a 520 MW power plant, uses more than 3 MG daily in make-up water. Others use more or less.
The GP was musing about impact on declining aquifers, and my point was that the communities buying power in those declining aquifers would not notice the blip from filling this tank in the demand that they already place on their resources, whether that is sustainable or not. Any community that can afford to build this plant could afford this water many times over.
Five million gallons is absolutely nothing for a power station, even for a desert community. It's a cube less than 20 m on each side.
Much, much, much more water is already blown into the atmosphere by the cooling towers which are a necessary part of any nuclear, coal, gas, solar-thermal, or other steam turbine-driving technology.
Everybody is naked under their pants, my friend.
If you're not pouring hot grits down your pants, you're doing it wrong.
Also how are companies supposed to effectively web filter if everything is HTTPS.
They shouldn't. They should cut off web access for the grunts that don't need it (e.g. telecenter people who are using managed applications) and blow it wide open for those that do (engineers, creative professionals, managers). Hell, the managers are already opting out of the filtering and infecting their networks with porn viruses, so what would this change?
We may not like our web filtered, but companies have a legal duty that employees shouldn't be see questionable material, even if on someone else's computer. Companies have been sued for allowing this to happen.
Citation needed. Speaking of too broad a brush; this comment paints with a roller. I've only worked for one company that used WebSense, and that was a school. Is my anecdote more valid than yours?
Filtering is not practical for a lot of jobs, and is certainly not the gold-standard for covering-your-ass against harassment; effective management is. Let's put it this way: if a coworker creates a hostile workplace for you and the boss does everything in their power to deal with it (reprimanding and ultimately firing the offender), you can't sue the boss. If your boss doesn't do anything about it, they're gonna get sued.
You would guess wrong, because Apple computers of the same vintage also came with schematics and source code.
So, you keep your phone in a fireproof fanny pack then?
That's a great argument for fixing those problems, not a great argument for introducing new ones in order to fix the supposed-problem of long boot times.
Because in the end, that's what it is: a supposed problem. Boot times aren't something you should see very often, and when you do, they really aren't that bad these days (at least on Debian). And if you're absolutely forced to deal with cold boots, a difference 10 (or even a few 10s) of seconds probably isn't going to mean the difference between using Debian and using Brand X.
Are you my dad?
Modern (read: post 2005) laptops, tablets, mobiles and desktops DO NOT NEED TO BE TURNED OFF. They can sleep with almost no power draw almost indefinitely. If you are really concerned about the fraction of a watt that they use while asleep, you should also be unplugging them completely when they are not in use. The pain in the ass of plugging in your desktop every time you want to use it cannot possibly be less frustrating than a 10 s boot time difference.
"Taking over during emergency" is one of the stupidest platitudes ever requested by a regulator. The only time a driver would take over an actual, consumer-ready autonomous car would be if the computer detected a fault of some kind and asked them to. In any other case, the computer would guide the car through the emergency, and probably to a stop before turning to the driver for help.
It would make absolutely no sense to expect an autonomous car driver to see a deer bounding into the road and suddenly grab the wheel and brakes. That would do nothing but create a more dangerous situation.
Well, maybe you just haven't seen that much, then. I've got a mixture of CFLs, LEDs, and incandescents in my house, and they all work just fine, with lifespans that are long enough that I can't remember when I changed any particular bulb. While lighting is an insignificant cost compared to running my air conditioner, I appreciate that the modern bulbs use significantly less juice, and they don't heat the place up as much.
So there you go, an anecdote for an anecdote.
I spent a few hours trying to get that to work on Debian, and I couldn't. I'm a rank amateur, but usually I can get stuff working, given enough time and Google. Part of the problem was that I wasn't starting from scratch; I tried using the Netflix app that some guy rolled together with WineSkin, targetting Ubuntu. Still...
And his point stands: if they can get Netflix working on Android, there's really no good reason they couldn't put something together for Linux in general.
Exactly! Free stuff can't possibly be as good as stuff that costs $200.
They made the Nexus S what, over three years ago?
Yep, and it migrated to the Mac, too. At some point they added open apple + option + escape to bring up a task manager that let you kill unresponsive programs.
You must have read different articles than I did, because 10 years ago it was "Micro$oft $hills," "Apple Fanboys," etc. You do know that this was the origin of "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame," right? And that was 2001.
They speak Flemish, but it's often called Dutch because everybody has heard of Dutch and nobody wants to explain how it's basically the same but a little different.
discovered evidence that the NSA has been listening in (Dutch) on the Belgacom network
So French speakers should be fine, right?
Thanks!
I would love to read about this, but you didn't post enough information for me to google it, and you posted as AC, so you're not likely to see this response. If you do, please point me in the right direction, because I'm very interested.
An act of war is not a declaration of war, nor does it imply or require a declaration of war.
Hypothetically, if everyone in the US came together and smoked a blunt, would there be any way to stop us? Or didn't pay taxes? Or ate horsemeat? Or drove without a license?
I mean, hypothetically, if everybody in the world could just come together, there'd be no more killing, pollution, discrimination, or overpopulation.
Realistically, not everyone will come together, and of those that do, you only need to punish some fraction of them in order to deter a significant proportion of the rest. There will always be some scofflaws, and the authorities will continue to mete out punishment to them. See: every prohibited substance ever.
I'll buy that, and I did agree with that part... the second part was just too crazy to ignore ;-) The truth is I've often wondered why any respectable news site would want a comment section.
The readers are much better served by the news on the news site and the discussion on a discussion site--whether it's slashdot or reddit or fark or 4chan. The task of moderating (or creating a culture that moderates itself) is massive, and better offloaded to sites that specialize in that sort of work. Instead, the mainstream news sites seem to still be stuck in the 90s "portal" paradigm, where keeping the viewer on their domain means providing every possible service, no matter how poorly rendered.
Really, I think they should worry more about providing a quality, focused product that will keep bringing in hits from the aggregators.
Insightful?!? Are you fucking kidding me? The whole point of slashdot is that it points you to a longer article and gives you a forum for discussion--a forum that, through its social moderation system, is (for all its warts) far, far superior to the comment sections on any news site.
Why on God's Green Earth would you come to slashdot if you wanted comments disabled? You could just go to to the source (WaPo), or a no-comment aggregator like Google News.
Asking for slashdot without comments is like asking for a hamburger minus the bread, meat, and toppings. All you're left with is the wrapper--if that's all you want, why the fuck did you order a burger?
I think we can safely say that whatever the false positive rate is, nothing of value will be lost.