If everybody hadn't got all of their panties in a bunch, they would have filtered your spam, backed up your hard drive, kept permanent records of your phone calls, your tax returns and every text you've ever made.
All for free (well, not exactly free but at least 'No Extra Cost').
I swear, Americans are just so jumpy these days. No good deed goes unpunished.
You're supposed to say "Allah Akbar". Your keywords flag you as a paranoid schizophrenic or Slashdot aficionado. Either one mostly harmless to the Three Letter Agencies.
Yes, but they're talking about detectability of a time marker in Earth history. Post-1945 or so it is easy to detect radioisotopes in sediments being deposited world-wide.
As opposed to giant cities, garbage dumps, plastic in ocean sediments, weird chemicals in land and ocean sediments, carbon dioxide, aircraft carriers, AOL disks?
This. This (or shortly thereafter) was when homo sapiens started significantly altering the ecology of the planet.
Now the nuclear age may introduce a specific inflection in the Anthropocene but so did the widespread burning of coal (the 'Industrial Revolution'). Just starting at ground zero, so to speak, seems really arbitrary.
Perhaps millions of years from now when the Anthropocene layers are a few meters thick it might make sense to start dating from the beginning of widespread man man isotopes, but if there are anything resembling archeologists around at that time they will have found plenty of other bits of 'civilization' in that rubble.
Take an empty refrigerator, cool it down for, say 24 hours. Watch the temp stabilize. For bonus points, put a recorder on the temp probe and watch it go up and down (the deadband that DamonHD is talking about).
Now, turn the power off for 5minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, several hours.
You will notice that at short time frames there will be very little temperature excursion, basically within the deadband. Certainly, longer times of no power are going to affect the temperature but no one is talking about hours of power delay - more like minutes.
Even small, 'dorm sized' refrigerators that we use for storing vaccines (and likewise have to be kept within a +/- 3C temp band and monitored to prove it) can handle 30 minute cycles (if you don't open the door). I would imagine a larger fridge would hold for at least 15 minutes even with occasional door opening. But you could certainly check it out, look at potential power savings and decide if the system did what you want.
FWIW a typical home refrigerator will hold temps within the safety range of most foods for AT LEAST 4 hours, a deep freezer for 24 to 48 hours.
Convince stores in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? At night? In foggy weather? I'm sue we will see other camera views but this isn't capturing pics of some twerp stealing potato chips.
Further, I don't recall Musk saying anything along the lines that this was about you.
That is a good point however, consider the following:
- Tight oil fields (ie, the Baaken) need many more wells drilled than 'conventional' oil. Each well increases the risk of bore failure. - The states where much of the frakking is currently happening (remember we've been frakking stuff for 50 years or so) have a history of poor regulatory supervision of the process. Texas and Louisiana have been bitten bad in the past and have tightened up drilling regulations such that they have very few bad wellbores. The other states, not so much. Why those states didn't just borrow the time tested regulations is an interesting question.
So, you're point that the actually hydraulic fracturing of a given well is unlikely to cause aquifer damage is a good one. It's a bit pedantic since most people consider the entire process as 'frakking'. It's pretty clear that frakking in tight oil plays does increase the risk for aquifer damage. Again, it's really annoying that the bad actors screw things up for everybody. In a way, there are parallels to nuclear power. If done correctly risks are low and manageable. However, doing things correctly yields an economic penalty. Some folks will try to take advantage of that, usually for minimal short term gain. So the entire industry gets pilloried.
Fracking takes place thousands of feet down, below impermeable rock, well below any water supply. What gets pumped down there is not coming back up except though the well head it went down.
The devil is always in the details. Yes, the fluids go through the wellbore. Which is a steel pipe thousands of feet long sealed with a cement liner. Now, this liner is a complicated thing - it's deep in the ground and hard to see. The well bore / liner also has a number of seals and fail safes. If done correctly, there is very little chance of damage to the rocks from the fracture site to the surface. If done incorrectly, there is quite a bit of chance that liquids will push out and some chance that this liquid will interfere with the aquifer. Or worse (ie, Deepwater Horizon)
Not everyone in the oil patch is competent and compulsive enough to do everything right all of the time. We CAN enforce bore testing and make these sorts of issues very, very unusual. AFAIK, only Texas and Louisiana have strong enough oversight to drastically limit wellbore 'excursions' (obviously, nothing is perfect). The Dakotas, Pennsylvania, NY have very little regulatory control over the wellbore quality.
Thus, you can expect a higher number of failed wellbores and thus pollution. Remember, even in unregulated states this doesn't usually happen, but it can be quite expensive to test and re cement a failed well (ie. Deepwater Horizon). Anyone trying to cut costs is going to let a marginal casing job slide.
I'm seriously bad at remembering names and faces, and having a HUD showing people's names would be some help in overcoming this social handicap.
Think about this. You're using it to find the person's name. THEY think you're looking up the name, address, phone number, Facebook page and other personal bits.
So, you've changed from a mildly socially clumsy human to a scary gargoyle. I'm not sure this is going to get you further along the social chain.
Whoa there buddy. Maybe you should see a nice psychiatrist or perhaps a bartender.
This is SLASHDOT (says so right on the top). TFA has only transient and extremely limited interest to the vast majority of people and bots here (Hi Bennett!). It really makes little difference if this was reported in Nature or the National Enquirer. Nobody really believes anything happened remotely as described.
but doctors act a lot more like technicians than scientists or researchers.
Doctors are much more like technicians. You don't want doctors "experimenting" on you unless you really, really need that. Physicians are typically not brought up in a 'science' environment (question assumptions, learning how to research a topic, critical thinking.) Doctors are brought up in 'cram mode'. Dump a lot of into down your throat. You're expected to believe it. They are increasingly taught to 'follow the protocol' which amazingly, is what technicians do.
Yes, there are 'physician scientists' but they aren't treating the majority of patients and you don't want them to be ('hey that looks interesting, what happens when I tug on it?').
This case is interesting as the husband of the patient kicked the docs out of 'technician' mode. And, of course, used a 3D printer.
ALWAYS ask your doc questions about stuff you don't understand.
And the 3D printer will have to be FDA approved and cost well over 22 million dollars.
Not quite... Since it's not actually PART of the imager itself, it needn't be FDA approved. However, if it were.... yes. We had a generic hard drive fail on our CT. Just a typicall 400 GB SATA drive. We had literally dozens of them hanging around but we couldn't use it because they were not special FDA approved generic SATA hard drives. No special firmware needed - the console for the CT runs a GE version of Linux (you can see this as it boots). All the drive did was hold the images temporarily. It couldn't kill the patient unless you threw it at them. But we had to shut the machine down for 48 hours until they could FexEx a drive to Anchorage and commercial jet it in.
So, we'd probably only charge $2000 for the gizmo (the specialist time would be included since they are not a doctor - you can only add special charges for doctors).
Most medical imaging equipment will dump out a DICOM file, which, IIRC, can be translated into the more typical 3D formats. So pretty much everybody that gets a CT or MRI could get the data. Then you just have to set up the printer.
I could see this as a growth industry for hospitals (hey, we need the money) - instead of getting some miserable little CD with your image, you get a plastic skeleton (or plastic squishy part). Coffee table discussion item or new D&D figurine?
Because ammonia works. It handles wide temperature swings. It is very efficient weight wise. The tech is well known. The instrumentation is well known. The only downside is that it's impressively corrosive. That said, the Russians don't use it.
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If everybody hadn't got all of their panties in a bunch, they would have filtered your spam, backed up your hard drive, kept permanent records of your phone calls, your tax returns and every text you've ever made.
All for free (well, not exactly free but at least 'No Extra Cost').
I swear, Americans are just so jumpy these days. No good deed goes unpunished.
You're supposed to say "Allah Akbar". Your keywords flag you as a paranoid schizophrenic or Slashdot aficionado. Either one mostly harmless to the Three Letter Agencies.
Yes, but they're talking about detectability of a time marker in Earth history. Post-1945 or so it is easy to detect radioisotopes in sediments being deposited world-wide.
As opposed to giant cities, garbage dumps, plastic in ocean sediments, weird chemicals in land and ocean sediments, carbon dioxide, aircraft carriers, AOL disks?
This. This (or shortly thereafter) was when homo sapiens started significantly altering the ecology of the planet.
Now the nuclear age may introduce a specific inflection in the Anthropocene but so did the widespread burning of coal (the 'Industrial Revolution'). Just starting at ground zero, so to speak, seems really arbitrary.
Perhaps millions of years from now when the Anthropocene layers are a few meters thick it might make sense to start dating from the beginning of widespread man man isotopes, but if there are anything resembling archeologists around at that time they will have found plenty of other bits of 'civilization' in that rubble.
Unf. NN grrr mgrgrlrgl. Snarf? Brrrp. Fapfapfap. Queeeeg! Ook.
You sound like my niece.
Simple experiment:
Take an empty refrigerator, cool it down for, say 24 hours. Watch the temp stabilize. For bonus points, put a recorder on the temp probe and watch it go up and down (the deadband that DamonHD is talking about).
Now, turn the power off for 5minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, several hours.
You will notice that at short time frames there will be very little temperature excursion, basically within the deadband. Certainly, longer times of no power are going to affect the temperature but no one is talking about hours of power delay - more like minutes.
Even small, 'dorm sized' refrigerators that we use for storing vaccines (and likewise have to be kept within a +/- 3C temp band and monitored to prove it) can handle 30 minute cycles (if you don't open the door). I would imagine a larger fridge would hold for at least 15 minutes even with occasional door opening. But you could certainly check it out, look at potential power savings and decide if the system did what you want.
FWIW a typical home refrigerator will hold temps within the safety range of most foods for AT LEAST 4 hours, a deep freezer for 24 to 48 hours.
I don't want my fridge to turn off and all my food to go bad. How would that save me money?
I'm always impressed that so many professional engineers hate ACs so much that they would create a system just to upset them.
Convince stores in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? At night? In foggy weather? I'm sue we will see other camera views but this isn't capturing pics of some twerp stealing potato chips.
Further, I don't recall Musk saying anything along the lines that this was about you.
No, it is K'Breel holding the Staff of Power that he won by stabbing the Evil Earthling Intruder before it could attack the hive.
That is a good point however, consider the following:
- Tight oil fields (ie, the Baaken) need many more wells drilled than 'conventional' oil. Each well increases the risk of bore failure.
- The states where much of the frakking is currently happening (remember we've been frakking stuff for 50 years or so) have a history of poor regulatory supervision of the process. Texas and Louisiana have been bitten bad in the past and have tightened up drilling regulations such that they have very few bad wellbores. The other states, not so much. Why those states didn't just borrow the time tested regulations is an interesting question.
So, you're point that the actually hydraulic fracturing of a given well is unlikely to cause aquifer damage is a good one. It's a bit pedantic since most people consider the entire process as 'frakking'. It's pretty clear that frakking in tight oil plays does increase the risk for aquifer damage. Again, it's really annoying that the bad actors screw things up for everybody. In a way, there are parallels to nuclear power. If done correctly risks are low and manageable. However, doing things correctly yields an economic penalty. Some folks will try to take advantage of that, usually for minimal short term gain. So the entire industry gets pilloried.
Fracking takes place thousands of feet down, below impermeable rock, well below any water supply. What gets pumped down there is not coming back up except though the well head it went down.
The devil is always in the details. Yes, the fluids go through the wellbore. Which is a steel pipe thousands of feet long sealed with a cement liner. Now, this liner is a complicated thing - it's deep in the ground and hard to see. The well bore / liner also has a number of seals and fail safes. If done correctly, there is very little chance of damage to the rocks from the fracture site to the surface. If done incorrectly, there is quite a bit of chance that liquids will push out and some chance that this liquid will interfere with the aquifer. Or worse (ie, Deepwater Horizon)
Not everyone in the oil patch is competent and compulsive enough to do everything right all of the time. We CAN enforce bore testing and make these sorts of issues very, very unusual. AFAIK, only Texas and Louisiana have strong enough oversight to drastically limit wellbore 'excursions' (obviously, nothing is perfect). The Dakotas, Pennsylvania, NY have very little regulatory control over the wellbore quality.
Thus, you can expect a higher number of failed wellbores and thus pollution. Remember, even in unregulated states this doesn't usually happen, but it can be quite expensive to test and re cement a failed well (ie. Deepwater Horizon). Anyone trying to cut costs is going to let a marginal casing job slide.
Did you notice the part about the 'two killed'?
Dead men tell .... well, nothing.
If the lawyer was smart, he would pit the DEA against the NSA instead of some bitcoin bozo.
Now that would be entertaining.
I'm seriously bad at remembering names and faces, and having a HUD showing people's names would be some help in overcoming this social handicap.
Think about this. You're using it to find the person's name. THEY think you're looking up the name, address, phone number, Facebook page and other personal bits.
So, you've changed from a mildly socially clumsy human to a scary gargoyle. I'm not sure this is going to get you further along the social chain.
Good Grief.
1. How hard is it to see "Bennett Haselton" in the storyline and ignore it. Does the computer have to do everything for you?
2. Who reads TFA?
3. ????
Because if there's one thing Facebook has done, it's made people productive at work.
I'm sure businesses will be happy to have all of their internal communications, memos, files, and more indexed and stored by Facebook.
No, that's the NSA's job.
Didn't you get the memo?
My God! A good reason to be in one's 60's!
Yipeee! You've made my day!
Obama has always been trying to reduce domestic oil production.
Well that's a good thing, no? He tried to reduce domestic oil production, now it's blowing through the roof.
Maybe he is smarter than you realize. Wheels within wheels.
Whoa there buddy. Maybe you should see a nice psychiatrist or perhaps a bartender.
This is SLASHDOT (says so right on the top). TFA has only transient and extremely limited interest to the vast majority of people and bots here (Hi Bennett!). It really makes little difference if this was reported in Nature or the National Enquirer. Nobody really believes anything happened remotely as described.
You must be new here.
but doctors act a lot more like technicians than scientists or researchers.
Doctors are much more like technicians. You don't want doctors "experimenting" on you unless you really, really need that. Physicians are typically not brought up in a 'science' environment (question assumptions, learning how to research a topic, critical thinking.) Doctors are brought up in 'cram mode'. Dump a lot of into down your throat. You're expected to believe it. They are increasingly taught to 'follow the protocol' which amazingly, is what technicians do.
Yes, there are 'physician scientists' but they aren't treating the majority of patients and you don't want them to be ('hey that looks interesting, what happens when I tug on it?').
This case is interesting as the husband of the patient kicked the docs out of 'technician' mode. And, of course, used a 3D printer.
ALWAYS ask your doc questions about stuff you don't understand.
And the 3D printer will have to be FDA approved and cost well over 22 million dollars.
Not quite... Since it's not actually PART of the imager itself, it needn't be FDA approved. However, if it were .... yes. We had a generic hard drive fail on our CT. Just a typicall 400 GB SATA drive. We had literally dozens of them hanging around but we couldn't use it because they were not special FDA approved generic SATA hard drives. No special firmware needed - the console for the CT runs a GE version of Linux (you can see this as it boots). All the drive did was hold the images temporarily. It couldn't kill the patient unless you threw it at them. But we had to shut the machine down for 48 hours until they could FexEx a drive to Anchorage and commercial jet it in.
So, we'd probably only charge $2000 for the gizmo (the specialist time would be included since they are not a doctor - you can only add special charges for doctors).
See, you feel better already.
Most medical imaging equipment will dump out a DICOM file, which, IIRC, can be translated into the more typical 3D formats. So pretty much everybody that gets a CT or MRI could get the data. Then you just have to set up the printer.
I could see this as a growth industry for hospitals (hey, we need the money) - instead of getting some miserable little CD with your image, you get a plastic skeleton (or plastic squishy part). Coffee table discussion item or new D&D figurine?
Because ammonia works. It handles wide temperature swings. It is very efficient weight wise. The tech is well known. The instrumentation is well known. The only downside is that it's impressively corrosive. That said, the Russians don't use it.
Which, in the end, is likely why we do.
They have bow wow, woof woof, bwahahahaha
What we have?
Justin Beiber and Paris Hilton.
Check.
Looks nice, but no OSX support.
Praise His Noodliness....