I monitor my power consumption using a Current Cost system (don't necessarily suggest this device, it's a bit wonky, but it works). I get 6 kW running the oven AND the dryer. The hot water heater fires a few minutes every hour during the day. I cannot see a sustained 10 kW load. Ever.
YMMV but if you're really pulling down that many amps, either you have a bunch of very, very clean people in your household.
Geez. My house never hits 10 kW peak. Period. I suppose if my wife were baking something, we had the dryer on AND I was running the welder we might hit that.
I use a 2.5 kW generator for the house - works great except the electric stove and the dryer. If we are on generator because of a power outage, we can avoid baking, use the propane grill and just air dry clothes. That leaves the computers, lights and miscellaneous bits of civilization to work just spiffily.
The longer the journey lasts, the more of these dangerous particles build up. This doesn’t affect the ability of the warp drive to keep bending the laws of the universe — it’s the stopping that’s going to ruin your day.
Oh settle down. You and all of the Paranoid Drama Queens out there. The Secret Service / FBI / NSA / Men In Black isn't going to whisk you away to Guantanamo Bay in the dark of night. Neither the little racist asshole or yourself are so special.
If anything they'll ask you some questions. If they feel like further evaluation is needed, you will be able to get a lawyer. The vast majority of times they'll just stare at you and maybe ask you to grow up a tad.
There are enough issues with government intrusion into personal privacy to keep everyone on their toes. Jumping up and down about this sort of thing just creates noise, not signal.
And then Apple can step in and take over, meaning another generation will fully get the same first-hand experience the last generation got when Microsoft took the Evil Empire crown from IBM! We'll all learn a valuable lesson that we should've been paying attention to last time this happened, namely IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE AND IT IS OUR OWN GODDAMN FAULT FOR BLINDLY SUPPORTING THE NEXT EVIL EMPIRE.
Calm down there. Just because Slashdot can DDOS somebody's 10 year old hobby server doesn't mean anybody else cares what we think. Your not that special, snowflake.
Yep. PS does include a history function that can be written to the metadata. Bonus points for pulling out the metadata stream, running some regex on it and deciding if it was legit.
Extra bonus points for not including the history in the image given to the students. And requiring it for a grade.
If you want to spend more time on it, make sure that the student's copy of Photoshop is set to record history in the metadata.
Then you can go through and look at every step they made. I do this on some images so I can figure out what the hell I did to get that effect three years later. It takes up little space - it's just text.
But a more boring way to spend a day would be hard to create.
However, if you are using a Mac, or Linux, or various other devices, the software install fails right away, gives you a warning telling you that your system doesn't meet our minimum requirements, and then without further ado activates the connection so everything works.
I think Thorium Cycle deserves a chance - as well as many other forms of tech. I just get annoyed when folks parade a demo device and then posit that it can supply a significant fraction of society's power.
Cf, Pebble Bed reactors. This stuff is really, really hard to do. Rocket science even.
Chernobyl was caused by techs not reading the failures correctly and a flawed nuclear reactor system. You can not compare a Chernobyl reactor with any reactor built within the last twenty years.
True enough. Nobody else will be batshit insane enough to pull another Chernobyl.
Fukushima was also caused by a lot of human faults (ie building on a fault line, not putting the generators that cool the rods on the roof) not to mention a storm of the century. Fukushima was also not a current gen reactor.
Also true enough. But those self same human faults (economizing, poor planning, poor execution, willful blindness, hubris, arrogance and just plain incompetence) are also seen in the vast majority of other commercial fission plants. Doesn't really have to be - but it is. Reality is a bitch sometimes and until Homo Industrialis can behave a bit better, fission should remain off the table as a major power source.
Oil from the Alberta Oil Sands mostly goes to the midwest US because there is this nice pipeline that goes - wait for it - between Alberta and the mid US.
Some Canadian politicians and oil companies have proposed a pipeline between central Canada and the west coast to allow for shipments to Asia. That would give the Canadians a better bargaining position for the oil - but cost several billion dollars up front.
What is fungible is the total oil supply. If Canada supplies a whole bunch of crude to US refineries, then Saudi Arabia can sell their crude to China. But local flows of oil are often much more constrained. For example - there are few refineries that can handle the Venezuela Ororco Heavy Crude - has lots of Vanadium in it. So Venezuela has to either build their own refineries or be at the mercy of the two US plants that can handle it.
Yes, Madre Di Dios, what a stupid article. The 'cyberattack' DID NOT affect production. It hammered the office computers that the Saudis use to keep track of Facebook and download whatever passes for porn in that part of the world.
Whatever Saudi Aramco did to air gap their production facilities WORKED. Sure, it could have created a big problem but it didn't. Hell, tommorow the Irainains or whoever did it could lob an Airbus into the plant.
Slashdot Mirror
Yo' space ....
I monitor my power consumption using a Current Cost system (don't necessarily suggest this device, it's a bit wonky, but it works). I get 6 kW running the oven AND the dryer. The hot water heater fires a few minutes every hour during the day. I cannot see a sustained 10 kW load. Ever.
YMMV but if you're really pulling down that many amps, either you have a bunch of very, very clean people in your household.
Or you're doing it wrong.
Geez. My house never hits 10 kW peak. Period. I suppose if my wife were baking something, we had the dryer on AND I was running the welder we might hit that.
I use a 2.5 kW generator for the house - works great except the electric stove and the dryer. If we are on generator because of a power outage, we can avoid baking, use the propane grill and just air dry clothes. That leaves the computers, lights and miscellaneous bits of civilization to work just spiffily.
I can't even imagine what he uses 10 kW for....
The longer the journey lasts, the more of these dangerous particles build up. This doesn’t affect the ability of the warp drive to keep bending the laws of the universe — it’s the stopping that’s going to ruin your day.
Somebody set us up the bomb!
What are they supposed to do? Make free range Twinkies?
I thought you were kidding.... Bimbo Bakeries. Nah, that's just a joke.
Oh settle down. You and all of the Paranoid Drama Queens out there. The Secret Service / FBI / NSA / Men In Black isn't going to whisk you away to Guantanamo Bay in the dark of night. Neither the little racist asshole or yourself are so special.
If anything they'll ask you some questions. If they feel like further evaluation is needed, you will be able to get a lawyer. The vast majority of times they'll just stare at you and maybe ask you to grow up a tad.
There are enough issues with government intrusion into personal privacy to keep everyone on their toes. Jumping up and down about this sort of thing just creates noise, not signal.
Not to worry:
Just buy up your local food store's supply. They'll stay 'fresh' for centuries!
Not to worry, the good 'ol US manufacturers are busily perfecting the Senior Moment Vehicle.
USA! USA! USA!
And then Apple can step in and take over, meaning another generation will fully get the same first-hand experience the last generation got when Microsoft took the Evil Empire crown from IBM! We'll all learn a valuable lesson that we should've been paying attention to last time this happened, namely IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE AND IT IS OUR OWN GODDAMN FAULT FOR BLINDLY SUPPORTING THE NEXT EVIL EMPIRE.
Calm down there. Just because Slashdot can DDOS somebody's 10 year old hobby server doesn't mean anybody else cares what we think. Your not that special, snowflake.
EEGs are just sensitive amplifiers. They aren't hard to make, lots of engineering classes have made them in one form or another.
Data collection and interpretation are other matters entirely.
If you compared the average American to a Greek citizen of 1000 BC, who would appear more physically fit?
Because of technology, humans as a species are not evolving in a favorable direction.
There is no 'favorable direction' for evolution.
It just is. Keep your romantic fantasies hidden behind your romance novel covers.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Lewis Carroll, 1872
I wish someone had taught us Photoshop or any other useful 21th century stuff in high-school.
So do the rest of us who have to look at the awful Photoshop stuff that floats around the Internet these days.
Yep. PS does include a history function that can be written to the metadata. Bonus points for pulling out the metadata stream, running some regex on it and deciding if it was legit.
Extra bonus points for not including the history in the image given to the students. And requiring it for a grade.
This should work and would be trivial to do.
If you want to spend more time on it, make sure that the student's copy of Photoshop is set to record history in the metadata.
Then you can go through and look at every step they made. I do this on some images so I can figure out what the hell I did to get that effect three years later. It takes up little space - it's just text.
But a more boring way to spend a day would be hard to create.
However, if you are using a Mac, or Linux, or various other devices, the software install fails right away, gives you a warning telling you that your system doesn't meet our minimum requirements, and then without further ado activates the connection so everything works.
Words fail me.
I think Thorium Cycle deserves a chance - as well as many other forms of tech. I just get annoyed when folks parade a demo device and then posit that it can supply a significant fraction of society's power.
Cf, Pebble Bed reactors. This stuff is really, really hard to do. Rocket science even.
You have to do the engineering....
The problem with emails, obviously, is that just because YOU deleted them, it doesn't mean anybody else did.
Still and all, having one's long term storage of emails on a server that you control makes the most sense. Don't make it easy on them.
And really, it's just trivial. I've got emails stored since 1997 - including pics - takes up maybe 4 GB. That's 30 minutes of shooting on my DSLRs.
And, kind sir, can you point out a commercial scale Thorium Cycle power plant for us to inspect?
Don't put your eggs in a basket that exists in the minds of a couple of engineers. Build it, run it for a while and then get back to us.
Chernobyl was caused by techs not reading the failures correctly and a flawed nuclear reactor system. You can not compare a Chernobyl reactor with any reactor built within the last twenty years.
True enough. Nobody else will be batshit insane enough to pull another Chernobyl.
Fukushima was also caused by a lot of human faults (ie building on a fault line, not putting the generators that cool the rods on the roof) not to mention a storm of the century. Fukushima was also not a current gen reactor.
Also true enough. But those self same human faults (economizing, poor planning, poor execution, willful blindness, hubris, arrogance and just plain incompetence) are also seen in the vast majority of other commercial fission plants. Doesn't really have to be - but it is. Reality is a bitch sometimes and until Homo Industrialis can behave a bit better, fission should remain off the table as a major power source.
It's ... complicated.
Oil from the Alberta Oil Sands mostly goes to the midwest US because there is this nice pipeline that goes - wait for it - between Alberta and the mid US.
Some Canadian politicians and oil companies have proposed a pipeline between central Canada and the west coast to allow for shipments to Asia. That would give the Canadians a better bargaining position for the oil - but cost several billion dollars up front.
What is fungible is the total oil supply. If Canada supplies a whole bunch of crude to US refineries, then Saudi Arabia can sell their crude to China. But local flows of oil are often much more constrained. For example - there are few refineries that can handle the Venezuela Ororco Heavy Crude - has lots of Vanadium in it. So Venezuela has to either build their own refineries or be at the mercy of the two US plants that can handle it.
Begin ....
Why is it a certain segment of the US population thinks it's still the 1800's or the first 3 quarters of the 1900's?
There is a certain temporal discontinuity when you think the entire friggin Universe is only 6000 years old.
We're not talking about Preparation H here.
Just so we are clear on things.....
Yes, Madre Di Dios, what a stupid article. The 'cyberattack' DID NOT affect production. It hammered the office computers that the Saudis use to keep track of Facebook and download whatever passes for porn in that part of the world.
Whatever Saudi Aramco did to air gap their production facilities WORKED. Sure, it could have created a big problem but it didn't. Hell, tommorow the Irainains or whoever did it could lob an Airbus into the plant.
Everybody run away! Run away!