Why not trying millions of 2-meter tall mini-turbines? Sure, wind speed at ground level isn't great, but it exists, multiply by millions... And ruin the scenery less, easier to maintain? What happens when a giant turbine breaks?
You want to maintain millions of small, electrical things in the middle of the ocean? Either you are looking to start an off shore maintenance company or you're just bat shit insane.
Actually, it would be pretty easy to defend these things. Sonar installations surrounding the submerged parts, a radar on top. Torpedoes on the bottom, air to air on the top.
But, moving back to reality, this sort of thing doesn't seem to happen. There are hundreds of very expensive platforms scattered all around the world just chock full of things that don't do well with explosives (or, depending on your point of view, work just fine with them). We don't see too many terrorist attacks on oil platforms.
To difficult, to far away, not enough people to make a splash about. If the 'terrorists' were really serious, they would blow up a few security lines in a major airport. There is too much low hanging fruit to worry about off shore platforms.
HDMI is a horrid format; it was badly thought out and badly designed, and the failures of its design are so apparent that they could have been addressed and resolved with very little fuss. Why they weren't, exactly, is really anyone's guess, but the key has to be that the standard was not intended to provide a benefit to the consumer, but to such content providers as movie studios and the like. It would have been in the consumer's best interests to develop a standard that was robust and reliable over distance, that could be switched, amplified, and distributed economically, and that connects securely to devices; but the consumer's interests were, sadly, not really a priority for the developers of the HDMI standard.... HDMI has presented a few problems. Unlike analog component video, the signal is not robust over distance because it was designed to run balanced when it should have been run unbalanced (SDI, the commercial digital video standard, can be run hundreds of feet over a single coax without any performance issues); the HDMI cable is a complicated rat's-nest arrangement involving nineteen conductors; switches, repeaters and distribution amplifiers for use with HDMI cable, by virtue of this complicated scheme, are made unnecessarily complicated and troublesome; and the HDMI cable plug is prone to falling out of the jack with the slightest tug. On the plus side, in the great majority of simple installations,
Why? I use iTunes much more frequently than VMware. In fact, even amongst the Slashdot elite here, there are many more iTunes users (sucks to be us, I suppose) than VMware.
Really? I have never felt scared in a Wal-mart parking lot. I don't even hear about much crime there either, they have cameras everywhere in their lots.
Asteroids. Lots of cheap rock out there (except for the delta V, of course). Patience and planning can substitute for big badda boom in most cases.
However, planning more than two years out is clearly beyond the US government at these cost levels. Maybe the mother of all Kickstarters (so to speak). Kick your own asteroid into orbit! Perhaps start out when your kid is born, keep contributing and by the time she's ready to be an astronaut you could... Well, you could, you could... get her a picture of the asteroid.
I'd rather that they spend tax money on US Congressional Districts than hand it to a corporation that passes it to the Chinese.
At least government pork is local, benefits Americans and keeps American jobs alive.
You're gonna love this one then.
"Congress has officially mandated the creation of such a module."
Really - this needs to stop. Congress should mandate broad projects with goals that support the nation as a whole (e.g., the Interstate Highway system). They should stay away from legislating where overpasses go.
Yes, really. This guy (probably will be male) will be from a technology / engineering background and vetted six ways from Sunday. He won't be there to antagonize anyone despite the junior high mentality here. It is entirely symbolic, but humans love symbolism.
Might even do some good. The only real risk will be to the Iranian astronaut as he would irrevocably be branded as someone working with the Western powers. That might be an issue, depending on how things go. But the only real chance of getting some stability in the Middle East is if Iran is brought out of the 17th Century.
I'm always impressed with thinking like that. If they're so smart, how come they've made so many intel mistakes over the years? At this point, it should be more like 'no sparrow shall fall'... excuse me, there is someone at the door.
It does sound surprising like the DJI Phantom's propensity to fall out of the sky. I thought the military stuff would be better than Chinese toys but perhaps not.
Slashdot Mirror
Everybody knows rockets are cylinders, not spheres (unless, of course, you are a rocket physicist).
Huh, wut?
Why does Trump get a privilege (in fact a right enshrined in the constitution) that I don't just because he's a candidate?
Why not trying millions of 2-meter tall mini-turbines? Sure, wind speed at ground level isn't great, but it exists, multiply by millions... And ruin the scenery less, easier to maintain? What happens when a giant turbine breaks?
You want to maintain millions of small, electrical things in the middle of the ocean? Either you are looking to start an off shore maintenance company or you're just bat shit insane.
Actually, it would be pretty easy to defend these things. Sonar installations surrounding the submerged parts, a radar on top. Torpedoes on the bottom, air to air on the top.
But, moving back to reality, this sort of thing doesn't seem to happen. There are hundreds of very expensive platforms scattered all around the world just chock full of things that don't do well with explosives (or, depending on your point of view, work just fine with them). We don't see too many terrorist attacks on oil platforms.
To difficult, to far away, not enough people to make a splash about. If the 'terrorists' were really serious, they would blow up a few security lines in a major airport. There is too much low hanging fruit to worry about off shore platforms.
HDMI sucks:
HDMI is a horrid format; it was badly thought out and badly designed, and the failures of its design are so apparent that they could have been addressed and resolved with very little fuss. Why they weren't, exactly, is really anyone's guess, but the key has to be that the standard was not intended to provide a benefit to the consumer, but to such content providers as movie studios and the like. It would have been in the consumer's best interests to develop a standard that was robust and reliable over distance, that could be switched, amplified, and distributed economically, and that connects securely to devices; but the consumer's interests were, sadly, not really a priority for the developers of the HDMI standard. ... HDMI has presented a few problems. Unlike analog component video, the signal is not robust over distance because it was designed to run balanced when it should have been run unbalanced (SDI, the commercial digital video standard, can be run hundreds of feet over a single coax without any performance issues); the HDMI cable is a complicated rat's-nest arrangement involving nineteen conductors; switches, repeaters and distribution amplifiers for use with HDMI cable, by virtue of this complicated scheme, are made unnecessarily complicated and troublesome; and the HDMI cable plug is prone to falling out of the jack with the slightest tug. On the plus side, in the great majority of simple installations,
Careful what you ask for, you might get it.
Bad Boy! No biscuit!
Why? I use iTunes much more frequently than VMware. In fact, even amongst the Slashdot elite here, there are many more iTunes users (sucks to be us, I suppose) than VMware.
It's just the way the world rolls.
You know, the logic behind your post sounds vaguely familiar.
I wonder if Hanlon's Razor is fundamentally wrong. Incompetence is the new malice.
I guess they figure that all your private information already belongs to Google so they'll give you a pass.
That just shivers me timbers.
In classic Slashdot style, the headline says a hardware failure and TFA says a software bug temporarily mitigated by an operational procedures change.
Just dreaming, but it might be nice if the poster read TFA so the rest of us don't have to?
This is really a test. You just passed it.
Not sure where it gets you, but this is Slashdot, after all.
Really? I have never felt scared in a Wal-mart parking lot. I don't even hear about much crime there either, they have cameras everywhere in their lots.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
You looser ....
Asteroids. Lots of cheap rock out there (except for the delta V, of course). Patience and planning can substitute for big badda boom in most cases.
However, planning more than two years out is clearly beyond the US government at these cost levels. Maybe the mother of all Kickstarters (so to speak). Kick your own asteroid into orbit! Perhaps start out when your kid is born, keep contributing and by the time she's ready to be an astronaut you could. .. Well, you could, you could ... get her a picture of the asteroid.
I'd rather that they spend tax money on US Congressional Districts than hand it to a corporation that passes it to the Chinese.
At least government pork is local, benefits Americans and keeps American jobs alive.
You're gonna love this one then.
"Congress has officially mandated the creation of such a module."
Really - this needs to stop. Congress should mandate broad projects with goals that support the nation as a whole (e.g., the Interstate Highway system). They should stay away from legislating where overpasses go.
And like we care what you care?
Even I am at a loss to explain this one...
Dice is just channeling "Men In Black".
Yo Dog! I heard you liked pre rolls on your pre roll.
All wars are resource wars.
Cool story, bro.
Yes, really. This guy (probably will be male) will be from a technology / engineering background and vetted six ways from Sunday. He won't be there to antagonize anyone despite the junior high mentality here. It is entirely symbolic, but humans love symbolism.
Might even do some good. The only real risk will be to the Iranian astronaut as he would irrevocably be branded as someone working with the Western powers. That might be an issue, depending on how things go. But the only real chance of getting some stability in the Middle East is if Iran is brought out of the 17th Century.
Elon does not think this is funny ....
I'm always impressed with thinking like that. If they're so smart, how come they've made so many intel mistakes over the years? At this point, it should be more like ... excuse me, there is someone at the door.
'no sparrow shall fall'
Sounds like they're manufactured in China.
It does sound surprising like the DJI Phantom's propensity to fall out of the sky. I thought the military stuff would be better than Chinese toys but perhaps not.
Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.
We have met the enemy, and he is us.