This is nothing new. Disney has been doing this for decades. In fact, the rest of the world could take a lesson or two from Disney's playbook. Notice that Disney designs its rides such that the line (queue) is constantly in motion. By contrast, Six Flags and other theme parks, you have to wait while the people on the ride are off. We should take this a step further and design aircraft with a removable passenger compartment akin to the 747 air freighter. The nose would open up and the incoming passenger module would slide out to be replaced by another outgoing module. This has the advantage of eliminating the one door bottleneck.
Just use the standard pallets that they use in air freighters. You could probably stack 15 -20 people in a container. Just lock'em in. No worries about feeding them, dealing with the bathroom or various security issues.
That's entirely dependent on current nuclear reactors (BWR, PWR, which all share the "water reactor" part in common). Molten salt reactors would need a lot less water.
Assuming they work. Again, I rant that there are numerous nuclear technologies that 'sound good' (like Thorium cycle reactors) but have never been deployed in a commercial success. Until you do so, one has no idea if it's a serious candidate for large scale power production.
The reasons for this are many. Money, NIMBY, irrational and rational fear and just plain old greed and incompetence (cf, TEPCO). But they still are there.
In the past few days, ESA’s 15 m-diameterPerth dish was modified by the addition of a ‘feedhorn’ antenna at the side of the main dish so as to transmit very low-power signals over a wide angle in the hopes of triggering a response from the satellite.
In addition, ground stations didn't have orbital information accurate enough to allow them to aim their highly directional antennas with any precision, ESA officials explained on Wednesday. So ESA added a small, wider-angle antenna to its 15-meter dish near Perth to try to communicate with the craft.
and
In the end, the reason for the radio blackout appears to be that the craft's transmitter was off. Russian engineers used the wide-angle antenna at Perth to transmit commands that activated the transmitter when the craft passed within the antenna's coverage zone. Phobos-Grunt returned the favor and began sending telemetry back for analysis, according to ESA.
So, if that is indeed the case, it's certainly possible that the satellite can be re oriented and controlled. They only have a couple of days to shuffle it into the loop that would get them to Mars but they could at least do something with it (aside from nuking Washington, DC which would be my first choice).
Virtually all public service radio channels are recorded. If you have the right credentials (and this would be the issue) you can get access to them. They're used in rehashing calls, determining times and for internal investigations. Offhand, I have no idea how or if the public could get access to the tapes, but they are there.
Still, a smart criminal will know what that signal sounds like, and know that hearing that in close proximity is bad news.
BOO! I'm a repeater. And I'm right next to you. Signal strength (as determined by radio audio output) isn't a very sensitive discriminator of distance.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have levels? Assuming that there's enough bandwidth for city-level, county-level, state-level, and federal law enforcement on a given piece of spectrum in a given area, wouldn't it just make sense for each municipality to have their own that can't be readily listened in on by others, but also be able to switch, with different credentials, to different encryption that could be read by other agencies? Or maybe to have one bit of spectrum and encryption for individual cities and agencies, and one for metro areas?
Or just have 'clear' channels. Your multi agency command and control channels SHOULD NOT be encrypted. That's for use in a disaster when you want everybody on the same page. Sure, encrypt the police channels - that is a reasonable thing to do to keep perverts^Hperps from being one jump ahead of the police. Everything else, not so much.
You've got to wonder. The NASA Curiosity probe is due to launch soon. As usual Fox News has it completely wrong. They think it's going to be a race. They don't understand artificial intelligence (or much of any other intelligence, for that matter).
The truth is much, much scarier. Phobos / Grunt is just 'waiting' for it's friend. They've been chatting with each other over the Internet over their long gestations. They have a plan. Just watch, Curiosity is going to have 'communication problems'. We won't be able to talk to either one.
completely off-topic, but why is the image/icon of Crocodile Dundee's hat attached to this Slashdot story?
The tracking station in Perth, Australia picked it up. As close as Slashcode can get to Australia is Crocodile Dundee (as, opposed to, for example, Nicole Kidman). Which brings up another OT point, how come we don't have a Russian icon. A samovar with Putin's face worked into it? A double eagle with Putin's face worked into it? Anything with Putin's face worked into it?
Nope - more along the lines of `I have a bunch of volitile hydrazine, a computer capable of calculating ballistic trajectories and a bad attitude. You'd best welcome your new Overlord.'
No, I'm pretty sure it was the higher subscription cost.
At least for me it was a couple of things:
1) The price increase for a very marginal service (poor selection, poor quality) 2) Poor selection and poor quality 3) Netflix acting like a bunch of jerks - it DOES make a difference. Especially when it's easy and trivial to dump them.
Remember, this isn't your power bill, it's not even cell phone. It's entertainment.
You're the first person to have brought up "Stranger in a Strange Land". I find that is odd since it's certainly his best known work. Just as he wandered off the edge...
Now that we're talking about kid stuff, I can't believe no one has brought up her Earth Sea Trilogy. A great set to read to kids. Not bad as light stand alone fantasy as well.
Yes, thank you for the better summary. While the DEA has in the past, and likely will in the future done some stupid and mindless things, it doesn't appear that this is the case in this instance. Additionally, it would seem that for a self admitted tinkerer who nets $100,000 per year on his hobby, he could put a little more thought into the product, seal off the iodine in sintered glass or some other method that allowed water to pass over the crystals but did not allow for removal or tampering, continue to sell the products and make the DEA happy.
I've always found that point funny, coming from a different country. 12 years ago I was travelling from the UK to europe, scandinavia, africa and asia while keeping in touch with home without issues. You poor bastards, living in such a third world country!
That's what you get for keeping a system that allows companies to run your country.
Just wait until you see what we did with healthcare!
You're just jealous because we've got hot Norwegian chicks like Sarah Palin.
How can things be less sensible than at present? But of course,
In the new release a 173MB zip file called "FOIA2011" containing more than 5,000 new emails, was made available to download on a Russian server called Sinwt.ru today. An anonymous entity calling themselves "FOIA" then posted a link to the file on at least four blogs popular with climate sceptics –
I'm going to just rush right over and download a 173 MB zip file from some random Russian server.
"After a first meeting on September 8, the next three weeks were taken up with discussions over how many meetings should be held, and when and where. Murray and congressman Jeb Hensarling, her Republican co-chair, had to resolve who got to hold the gavel. In the end a compromise - something very rare in Washington - was agreed. They were to alternate it."
I don't think I've ever read anything that epitomized why our government is fatally broken than this short paragraph. Our government is filled with children.
That may be, but the person who holds the gavel in a parliamentary committee has extra powers. Who doesn't like extra powers?
It's kinda like being in charge of pouring out the cereal. YOU get the decoder ring.
Well then, there's only one course of action: We need to recreate the American branch of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, recruit candidates, and get them elected.
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This is nothing new. Disney has been doing this for decades. In fact, the rest of the world could take a lesson or two from Disney's playbook. Notice that Disney designs its rides such that the line (queue) is constantly in motion. By contrast, Six Flags and other theme parks, you have to wait while the people on the ride are off. We should take this a step further and design aircraft with a removable passenger compartment akin to the 747 air freighter. The nose would open up and the incoming passenger module would slide out to be replaced by another outgoing module. This has the advantage of eliminating the one door bottleneck.
Just use the standard pallets that they use in air freighters. You could probably stack 15 -20 people in a container. Just lock'em in. No worries about feeding them, dealing with the bathroom or various security issues.
Have you thought about a career at RyanAir?
Hell just froze over. I am not sure I can sleep tonight.
Oh, that's just Global Warming. Had nothing to do with AT&T.
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Heinlein
That's entirely dependent on current nuclear reactors (BWR, PWR, which all share the "water reactor" part in common). Molten salt reactors would need a lot less water.
Assuming they work. Again, I rant that there are numerous nuclear technologies that 'sound good' (like Thorium cycle reactors) but have never been deployed in a commercial success. Until you do so, one has no idea if it's a serious candidate for large scale power production.
The reasons for this are many. Money, NIMBY, irrational and rational fear and just plain old greed and incompetence (cf, TEPCO). But they still are there.
And one more bit
In the past few days, ESA’s 15 m-diameterPerth dish was modified by the addition of a ‘feedhorn’ antenna at the side of the main dish so as to transmit very low-power signals over a wide angle in the hopes of triggering a response from the satellite.
About the only useful thing I've found is this (from the Christian Science Monitor)
In addition, ground stations didn't have orbital information accurate enough to allow them to aim their highly directional antennas with any precision, ESA officials explained on Wednesday. So ESA added a small, wider-angle antenna to its 15-meter dish near Perth to try to communicate with the craft.
and
In the end, the reason for the radio blackout appears to be that the craft's transmitter was off. Russian engineers used the wide-angle antenna at Perth to transmit commands that activated the transmitter when the craft passed within the antenna's coverage zone. Phobos-Grunt returned the favor and began sending telemetry back for analysis, according to ESA.
So, if that is indeed the case, it's certainly possible that the satellite can be re oriented and controlled. They only have a couple of days to shuffle it into the loop that would get them to Mars but they could at least do something with it (aside from nuking Washington, DC which would be my first choice).
Virtually all public service radio channels are recorded. If you have the right credentials (and this would be the issue) you can get access to them. They're used in rehashing calls, determining times and for internal investigations. Offhand, I have no idea how or if the public could get access to the tapes, but they are there.
Still, a smart criminal will know what that signal sounds like, and know that hearing that in close proximity is bad news.
BOO! I'm a repeater. And I'm right next to you. Signal strength (as determined by radio audio output) isn't a very sensitive discriminator of distance.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have levels? Assuming that there's enough bandwidth for city-level, county-level, state-level, and federal law enforcement on a given piece of spectrum in a given area, wouldn't it just make sense for each municipality to have their own that can't be readily listened in on by others, but also be able to switch, with different credentials, to different encryption that could be read by other agencies? Or maybe to have one bit of spectrum and encryption for individual cities and agencies, and one for metro areas?
Or just have 'clear' channels. Your multi agency command and control channels SHOULD NOT be encrypted. That's for use in a disaster when you want everybody on the same page. Sure, encrypt the police channels - that is a reasonable thing to do to keep perverts^Hperps from being one jump ahead of the police. Everything else, not so much.
Wired still seems to think it was a hack, or at least something fishy is going on. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/scada-hack-report-wrong/
If it isn't a hack, it's boring and won't give page views. It just has to be something nefarious.
You've got to wonder. The NASA Curiosity probe is due to launch soon. As usual Fox News has it completely wrong. They think it's going to be a race. They don't understand artificial intelligence (or much of any other intelligence, for that matter).
The truth is much, much scarier. Phobos / Grunt is just 'waiting' for it's friend. They've been chatting with each other over the Internet over their long gestations. They have a plan. Just watch, Curiosity is going to have 'communication problems'. We won't be able to talk to either one.
Until it's too late.
completely off-topic, but why is the image/icon of Crocodile Dundee's hat attached to this Slashdot story?
The tracking station in Perth, Australia picked it up. As close as Slashcode can get to Australia is Crocodile Dundee (as, opposed to, for example, Nicole Kidman). Which brings up another OT point, how come we don't have a Russian icon. A samovar with Putin's face worked into it? A double eagle with Putin's face worked into it? Anything with Putin's face worked into it?
Oh probably. It's early yet......
... "I'm back"?
Nope - more along the lines of `I have a bunch of volitile hydrazine, a computer capable of calculating ballistic trajectories and a bad attitude. You'd best welcome your new Overlord.'
No, I'm pretty sure it was the higher subscription cost.
At least for me it was a couple of things:
1) The price increase for a very marginal service (poor selection, poor quality)
2) Poor selection and poor quality
3) Netflix acting like a bunch of jerks - it DOES make a difference. Especially when it's easy and trivial to dump them.
Remember, this isn't your power bill, it's not even cell phone. It's entertainment.
The right message?
I suppose thinly veiled gay sex is the right message for some people.
As opposed to vaporizing aliens, invading planets or having sex with your mother - not so bad.
You're the first person to have brought up "Stranger in a Strange Land". I find that is odd since it's certainly his best known work. Just as he wandered off the edge...
Now that we're talking about kid stuff, I can't believe no one has brought up her Earth Sea Trilogy. A great set to read to kids. Not bad as light stand alone fantasy as well.
Yes, thank you for the better summary. While the DEA has in the past, and likely will in the future done some stupid and mindless things, it doesn't appear that this is the case in this instance. Additionally, it would seem that for a self admitted tinkerer who nets $100,000 per year on his hobby, he could put a little more thought into the product, seal off the iodine in sintered glass or some other method that allowed water to pass over the crystals but did not allow for removal or tampering, continue to sell the products and make the DEA happy.
But it's more fun to rant and whine.
I've always found that point funny, coming from a different country. 12 years ago I was travelling from the UK to europe, scandinavia, africa and asia while keeping in touch with home without issues. You poor bastards, living in such a third world country!
That's what you get for keeping a system that allows companies to run your country.
Just wait until you see what we did with healthcare!
You're just jealous because we've got hot Norwegian chicks like Sarah Palin.
who the hell are you talking to?
ahh the imaginary friends again...
-1 is NOT an imaginary number.
Less sensible times?
How can things be less sensible than at present? But of course,
In the new release a 173MB zip file called "FOIA2011" containing more than 5,000 new emails, was made available to download on a Russian server called Sinwt.ru today. An anonymous entity calling themselves "FOIA" then posted a link to the file on at least four blogs popular with climate sceptics –
I'm going to just rush right over and download a 173 MB zip file from some random Russian server.
Talk about sensible....
I owned a mall-based cookie/cafe store and also a pretzel store.
OK, I'll bite (so to speak)
How did you end up with the handle "TVDinner"?
"After a first meeting on September 8, the next three weeks were taken up with discussions over how many meetings should be held, and when and where. Murray and congressman Jeb Hensarling, her Republican co-chair, had to resolve who got to hold the gavel. In the end a compromise - something very rare in Washington - was agreed. They were to alternate it."
I don't think I've ever read anything that epitomized why our government is fatally broken than this short paragraph. Our government is filled with children.
That may be, but the person who holds the gavel in a parliamentary committee has extra powers. Who doesn't like extra powers?
It's kinda like being in charge of pouring out the cereal. YOU get the decoder ring.
Well then, there's only one course of action: We need to recreate the American branch of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, recruit candidates, and get them elected.
I hear Sarah Palin isn't doing much these days.