Of course, the deterioration of some pieces of infrastructure are a little more dangerous than others.
And this, not waste disposal, not nuclear proliferation, not anything else, will be the functional death of nuclear power.
FTFA:
Commercial nuclear reactors in the United States were designed and licensed for 40 years. When the first ones were being built in the 1960s and 1970s, it was expected that they would be replaced with improved models long before those licenses expired.
But that never happened. The 1979 accident at Three Mile Island, massive cost overruns, crushing debt and high interest rates ended new construction proposals for several decades.
Instead, 66 of the 104 operating units have been relicensed for 20 more years, mostly with scant public attention. Renewal applications are under review for 16 other reactors.
No engineer in their right mind would have suggested keeping generation 1 nuclear plants running 'forever'. Perhaps they could be run for long times with strict attention to detail and risk and significant monetary expense, but that's not happening. This is not going to end well. Not at all.
Is there something, some strange neurological disease that you are afflicted with, that forces you to click on Bitcoin threads? Or is it just some morbid fascination, like staring at a particularly gruesome car wreck?
Slashdot does this from time to time. Just take a couple of deep breaths and go over to the Huffington Post or similar for a while.
Bitcoin probably won't last past the end of the year and maybe then we can go back to having the daily iPad killer article. Google will probably have mangled Android a bit more by then and certainly we should be able to disprove both Climate Change and Evolution by December. Lots to do. Keep your chin up.
And I like the iPad. I gave one to my mom. My stepdaughter keeps telling us to get one and I keep thinking about it, I just can't figure out what I would do with it and I'm trying to avoid putting a computer on every flat surface in the house just on general principles.
Jesus H. Christ folks. I'm trying to make a half assed amusing comment using Venn Diagrams and you guys go all extraterrestrial. Sometimes I wish we could draw in stick figures like XKCD - ASCII obviously isn't working here (and Unicode apparently never will). Relax all, have a nice dose of your favorite mind altering substance.
If you want to go all pedantic and confusing, I would suggest the current Bitcoin thread. It has everything you need.
Sounds very, very odd. But for someone that young with such a panoply of symptoms, having someone else review the case carefully can (occasionally) find something useful or point to a diagnostic or treatment direction that isn't apparent. Obviously hard for me to say anything specific. The trick is figuring out who to send her to. That's where University Medical centers with their tendency towards sub sub specialization can be helpful. Her primary doc hopefully is plugged into the local system (or at least knows somebody who is). A good psychiatric evaluation (if not already done) might help as well. There is an uneasy overlap between psychiatry and neurology - they both evaluate brain function but they do so from very different viewpoints. There are many 'neurological' symptoms that have a psychiatric origin (with the understanding that all psychiatric issues are at some level neurological problems - one can get into useless semantical arguments).
Possibly because the intersection of the set of "People who use an iPad and browse dumb sites like the NY Post" and "People who understand what a User-Agent String is" is pretty much a null set.
The current headline for the NY Post is "Prolific sperm donors find they have fathered dozens of children". This isn't a walled garden, it's a hydroponics setup for Zombies.
There are a number of other things in the differential of a rapidly declining mental status in a middle aged woman. But if Hairyfeet's mom hasn't seen a neurologist (or perhaps several including a visit to the academic neurologists at the local University) then that is certainly a good step. Unfortunately, we are reasonably good at telling you what disease you have and much worse at telling you anything useful on how to treat it.
The Central Nervous System is hard to understand. But there ARE a few disease processes that can be helped to some degree and having a diagnosis often helps caregivers (and the patient) understand what is happening a bit better.
Uterine contractions supposedly form part of the female orgasm...
You're thinking of oxytocin, the hormone that stimulates uterine contractions, not so much the uterine muscle itself. Women who have had their uterus removed can have orgasms.
Oh, and leased lines are still vulnerable. Not as easily as something directly on the Internet, but you still have to secure them and keep thinking about them. Then the argument of leased line vs. Internet gets even fuzzier. And the PHB is nodding off....
Or maybe spend a couple bucks and keep it all on leased lines. That way you control all the endpoints. It is not like site to site leased lines are anything new.
But. Site-to-site leased lines can be very expensive. And money talks. Give a PHB the choice between saving hard cash and the soft, squishy concept of hacking ("Oh, we have security systems in place, yessir"), which will they pick 9 times out of 10?
I can't think of any reason to have an industrial controls network directly connected to the internet. Maybe there are valid reasons; I'd love to hear them. This is not necessarily a failure of SCADA, but a failure by the engineers to properly consider security.
Yeah, doesn't the term "Sunway's ForceControl 6.1 WebServer" (one of the infected items in TFA) send a little electric tingle down your spine?
It appears to be an interesting experimental system because you can correlate structural changes with functional ones non invasively and seemingly relatively inexpensively (from the description in TFA the electronics seemed pretty straightforward). As with the 'other' popular way of looking at brain structure / function (fMRI) we have a long way to go before it is terribly 'useful' but any decent non invasive technology for understanding brain function is good thing.
No problem. We'll lock the computer down to the point where you may only install approved applications from an approved source. Sure, there'll be some exploits, but they'll be closed and you'll be forced to update (you automatically get them pushed onto your machine next time you connect to the internet, before any other connections are allowed). If a problem is detected your machine is shut down to prevent it from damaging other machines, the only connection possible is to the approved source and it will stay that way until a fix has been pushed that ensures your machine is safe again.
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In one novel, they were imagining that so far from Earth, human minds can not hold. Various craziness appearing. The only way to travel would be to be in a form of coma, half dead.
Wow. They had commercial air travel nailed way back then.
The blackberry is still far superior for Exchange email and calendaring than any Android or iPhone device that I've tried..
That's the problem. They're great at that and not much else. iPhones and Androids are good at email and good at a whole bunch of things. I guess the market for really hardcore email / Exchange integration isn't all that big.
If you disallow ICANN's ability to charge people for stupid things, or change the charter so the charges are very nominal, it would go a long way to prevent this sort of behavior. This really benefits ICANN and nobody else (OK, some lawyers, they don't count...)
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I dunno what Oracle's people are smoking, popping, or injecting, but I want some!
From the squirrel-crazy behavior they've been displaying, it appears to be methamphetamine. That's bad stuff and you want to stay away from it.
I mean, just look at Ellison? Does he seem OK to you?
Know anything about Larry Ellison? He thinks he's a Samurai. You have underestimated his determination to bring Google to their knees.
Eating sushi does not make you a Samurai.
Of course, the deterioration of some pieces of infrastructure are a little more dangerous than others.
And this, not waste disposal, not nuclear proliferation, not anything else, will be the functional death of nuclear power.
FTFA:
Commercial nuclear reactors in the United States were designed and licensed for 40 years. When the first ones were being built in the 1960s and 1970s, it was expected that they would be replaced with improved models long before those licenses expired.
But that never happened. The 1979 accident at Three Mile Island, massive cost overruns, crushing debt and high interest rates ended new construction proposals for several decades.
Instead, 66 of the 104 operating units have been relicensed for 20 more years, mostly with scant public attention. Renewal applications are under review for 16 other reactors.
No engineer in their right mind would have suggested keeping generation 1 nuclear plants running 'forever'. Perhaps they could be run for long times with strict attention to detail and risk and significant monetary expense, but that's not happening. This is not going to end well. Not at all.
I suppose that's why we have scientific notation, yes?
Is there something, some strange neurological disease that you are afflicted with, that forces you to click on Bitcoin threads? Or is it just some morbid fascination, like staring at a particularly gruesome car wreck?
Slashdot does this from time to time. Just take a couple of deep breaths and go over to the Huffington Post or similar for a while.
Bitcoin probably won't last past the end of the year and maybe then we can go back to having the daily iPad killer article. Google will probably have mangled Android a bit more by then and certainly we should be able to disprove both Climate Change and Evolution by December. Lots to do. Keep your chin up.
And I like the iPad. I gave one to my mom. My stepdaughter keeps telling us to get one and I keep thinking about it, I just can't figure out what I would do with it and I'm trying to avoid putting a computer on every flat surface in the house just on general principles.
Jesus H. Christ folks. I'm trying to make a half assed amusing comment using Venn Diagrams and you guys go all extraterrestrial. Sometimes I wish we could draw in stick figures like XKCD - ASCII obviously isn't working here (and Unicode apparently never will). Relax all, have a nice dose of your favorite mind altering substance.
If you want to go all pedantic and confusing, I would suggest the current Bitcoin thread. It has everything you need.
Sounds very, very odd. But for someone that young with such a panoply of symptoms, having someone else review the case carefully can (occasionally) find something useful or point to a diagnostic or treatment direction that isn't apparent. Obviously hard for me to say anything specific. The trick is figuring out who to send her to. That's where University Medical centers with their tendency towards sub sub specialization can be helpful. Her primary doc hopefully is plugged into the local system (or at least knows somebody who is). A good psychiatric evaluation (if not already done) might help as well. There is an uneasy overlap between psychiatry and neurology - they both evaluate brain function but they do so from very different viewpoints. There are many 'neurological' symptoms that have a psychiatric origin (with the understanding that all psychiatric issues are at some level neurological problems - one can get into useless semantical arguments).
Good luck.
Congratulations. You passed the test!
Possibly because the intersection of the set of "People who use an iPad and browse dumb sites like the NY Post" and "People who understand what a User-Agent String is" is pretty much a null set.
The current headline for the NY Post is "Prolific sperm donors find they have fathered dozens of children". This isn't a walled garden, it's a hydroponics setup for Zombies.
Just remove the muffler.
There are a number of other things in the differential of a rapidly declining mental status in a middle aged woman. But if Hairyfeet's mom hasn't seen a neurologist (or perhaps several including a visit to the academic neurologists at the local University) then that is certainly a good step. Unfortunately, we are reasonably good at telling you what disease you have and much worse at telling you anything useful on how to treat it.
The Central Nervous System is hard to understand. But there ARE a few disease processes that can be helped to some degree and having a diagnosis often helps caregivers (and the patient) understand what is happening a bit better.
Uterine contractions supposedly form part of the female orgasm...
You're thinking of oxytocin, the hormone that stimulates uterine contractions, not so much the uterine muscle itself. Women who have had their uterus removed can have orgasms.
I'd like to be the first to welcome out new robot overlords.
If there's anything I can do to make this transition easier on you, you need but ask. Oh, and that neighbor I don't like is part of the resistance.
I'll bring the broom and dustpan.
Oh, and leased lines are still vulnerable. Not as easily as something directly on the Internet, but you still have to secure them and keep thinking about them. Then the argument of leased line vs. Internet gets even fuzzier. And the PHB is nodding off ....
Or maybe spend a couple bucks and keep it all on leased lines. That way you control all the endpoints. It is not like site to site leased lines are anything new.
But. Site-to-site leased lines can be very expensive. And money talks. Give a PHB the choice between saving hard cash and the soft, squishy concept of hacking ("Oh, we have security systems in place, yessir"), which will they pick 9 times out of 10?
I can't think of any reason to have an industrial controls network directly connected to the internet. Maybe there are valid reasons; I'd love to hear them. This is not necessarily a failure of SCADA, but a failure by the engineers to properly consider security.
Yeah, doesn't the term "Sunway's ForceControl 6.1 WebServer" (one of the infected items in TFA) send a little electric tingle down your spine?
It appears to be an interesting experimental system because you can correlate structural changes with functional ones non invasively and seemingly relatively inexpensively (from the description in TFA the electronics seemed pretty straightforward). As with the 'other' popular way of looking at brain structure / function (fMRI) we have a long way to go before it is terribly 'useful' but any decent non invasive technology for understanding brain function is good thing.
Mwahahahaha....
Fusion reactor is within reach of a hobbyist. It consumes energy but produces fusion. It is not a power generator.
Johnny! Are you running that damned Farmaninmal or whatever Fusion thing again! I'm trying to dry my hair!
No problem. We'll lock the computer down to the point where you may only install approved applications from an approved source. Sure, there'll be some exploits, but they'll be closed and you'll be forced to update (you automatically get them pushed onto your machine next time you connect to the internet, before any other connections are allowed). If a problem is detected your machine is shut down to prevent it from damaging other machines, the only connection possible is to the approved source and it will stay that way until a fix has been pushed that ensures your machine is safe again.
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter, please sign me up.
Steve
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All your questions and more can be answered by reading the damned article.
Your point being? ...
In one novel, they were imagining that so far from Earth, human minds can not hold. Various craziness appearing. The only way to travel would be to be in a form of coma, half dead.
Wow. They had commercial air travel nailed way back then.
Impressive.
The blackberry is still far superior for Exchange email and calendaring than any Android or iPhone device that I've tried..
That's the problem. They're great at that and not much else. iPhones and Androids are good at email and good at a whole bunch of things. I guess the market for really hardcore email / Exchange integration isn't all that big.
If you disallow ICANN's ability to charge people for stupid things, or change the charter so the charges are very nominal, it would go a long way to prevent this sort of behavior. This really benefits ICANN and nobody else (OK, some lawyers, they don't count...)