It might have some toxic oils in the transformers, as well as those used to lubricate the generator bearings. But still less toxic than coal slag and mercury belched into the air by dirty-coal power plants.
The turbine blades weigh as much as a small car and are 50 feet up in the air. Lawsuit waiting to happen. Better to subsidize clean energy and replace the generators with newer, more efficient hardware. Big government is awesome when it actually helps its citizens, instead of helping the coal lobby and coalies whose jobs became obsolete 70 years ago.
End the endless wars (military homicide sprees) which we've been involved in since 9/11/2001. Spend part of the money saved on subsidizing clean energy, whether it be wind, solar, or (yes!) nuclear. Put all the out-of-work coalies to work building and repairing clean-energy infrastructure.
That's the way it works in most countries. In the US, the MCAT is no cakewalk and serves as an entrance exam into med school, with a few other things like undergrad grades. Getting into medical school isn't easy, more difficult than it maybe even should be.
In France, entrance into the first two years of medical school is open-admission, but then the exam required to continue on to the third to sixth year is brutal. Only the top 10% pass and the exam can only be re-taken once in a lifetime.
Say what you will about this, but it's a positive step. It's nice to see US politicos finally acknowledging personal privacy and freedom from intrusive tech as rights. The EU has thought about these kinds of issues for decades, whereas the prevailing attitude in the US is head-in-the-sand. aka "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide."
For all I know, Fecebook will run in the phone just fine. I just choose not to install it due to privacy implications. Fecebook links work just fine in a private browser window without invading my privacy or grabbing my contact list.
I have a $100 phone and it doesn't feel out of date after a year and a half. It runs most apps just fine -- I don't install bloatware like Facebook app, though.
I'm aware of what it is. But the cell phones can receive that info "silently" (out-of-band) and display it on screen. Why do they need to replay the carrier tone? Is it so other sound-activated devices around them can be triggered?
Not really -- $60 in India might be the equivalent of $1000+ in the US due to per-capita income disparity levels. They're testing an EXPENSIVE phone by developing-nation standards.
Test should use a less annoying tone that doesn't scare the hell out of people when driving. So should less-important stuff like weather and Amber alerts. I wonder how many people have been startled into an accident by another Amber or severe weather alert.
If a kid gets lost at 3 am 25 miles from me, I'm unlikely to be able to find them. If a storm is coming, not like I can do much about it.
I apparently can't turn off "Presidential alerts," but my phone is in airplane mode (not receiving data) when I'm asleep. If an ICBM is coming to my home, please don't wake me up -- I'd rather be vaporized in my sleep than have to deal with 15 minutes of panic, waiting wide awake to be blown to smithereens.
Your humanity says you have to help them. You don't have to help them FIRST -- help the other person in the car wreck first, then help them if you have the time. By being junk-touching, privacy-invading garbage, their life just got de-prioritized.
It was stupid to host it with a default FTP password, but the data itself doesn't actually appear all that sensitive. Survival, repair, and operation manuals are officially classified, but a lot of the info is in the public domain as well.
Just because something is officially classified doesn't mean it isn't also an open secret.
I'm 6' and had a "NA" (90-96) Miata. No idea how well it would fit someone even taller. It actually had more legroom than many sedans since there was no need for the front seats not to block the rear footwells.
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One problem at a time. The money saved from not acting like a stupidpower will go a long way to help a lot of people.
It might have some toxic oils in the transformers, as well as those used to lubricate the generator bearings. But still less toxic than coal slag and mercury belched into the air by dirty-coal power plants.
The turbine blades weigh as much as a small car and are 50 feet up in the air. Lawsuit waiting to happen. Better to subsidize clean energy and replace the generators with newer, more efficient hardware. Big government is awesome when it actually helps its citizens, instead of helping the coal lobby and coalies whose jobs became obsolete 70 years ago.
End the endless wars (military homicide sprees) which we've been involved in since 9/11/2001. Spend part of the money saved on subsidizing clean energy, whether it be wind, solar, or (yes!) nuclear. Put all the out-of-work coalies to work building and repairing clean-energy infrastructure.
That's the way it works in most countries. In the US, the MCAT is no cakewalk and serves as an entrance exam into med school, with a few other things like undergrad grades. Getting into medical school isn't easy, more difficult than it maybe even should be.
In France, entrance into the first two years of medical school is open-admission, but then the exam required to continue on to the third to sixth year is brutal. Only the top 10% pass and the exam can only be re-taken once in a lifetime.
Say what you will about this, but it's a positive step. It's nice to see US politicos finally acknowledging personal privacy and freedom from intrusive tech as rights. The EU has thought about these kinds of issues for decades, whereas the prevailing attitude in the US is head-in-the-sand. aka "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide."
I was thinking of the one without the Scamazon junk, but if the crapware is easy to remove, maybe that one isn't a bad option.
For all I know, Fecebook will run in the phone just fine. I just choose not to install it due to privacy implications. Fecebook links work just fine in a private browser window without invading my privacy or grabbing my contact list.
I have a $100 phone and it doesn't feel out of date after a year and a half. It runs most apps just fine -- I don't install bloatware like Facebook app, though.
I'm aware of what it is. But the cell phones can receive that info "silently" (out-of-band) and display it on screen. Why do they need to replay the carrier tone? Is it so other sound-activated devices around them can be triggered?
Not really -- $60 in India might be the equivalent of $1000+ in the US due to per-capita income disparity levels. They're testing an EXPENSIVE phone by developing-nation standards.
Yep. Or a Moto E4 for $125. No dual SIM, but international 4G, SD card, and user-replaceable battery.
Test should use a less annoying tone that doesn't scare the hell out of people when driving. So should less-important stuff like weather and Amber alerts. I wonder how many people have been startled into an accident by another Amber or severe weather alert.
If a kid gets lost at 3 am 25 miles from me, I'm unlikely to be able to find them. If a storm is coming, not like I can do much about it.
I apparently can't turn off "Presidential alerts," but my phone is in airplane mode (not receiving data) when I'm asleep. If an ICBM is coming to my home, please don't wake me up -- I'd rather be vaporized in my sleep than have to deal with 15 minutes of panic, waiting wide awake to be blown to smithereens.
Your humanity says you have to help them. You don't have to help them FIRST -- help the other person in the car wreck first, then help them if you have the time. By being junk-touching, privacy-invading garbage, their life just got de-prioritized.
Easy. Just power the thing with a radioisotope thermal generator.
Or take a small piece of Steve Job's ashes -- the rotation from him rolling over in his grave could spin a small generator for a while.
Exactly.
My point is that "classified" makes for good headlines, but there was likely little to no real damage done.
It was stupid to host it with a default FTP password, but the data itself doesn't actually appear all that sensitive. Survival, repair, and operation manuals are officially classified, but a lot of the info is in the public domain as well.
Just because something is officially classified doesn't mean it isn't also an open secret.
Netgear routers is one thing - using them as NAS servers for sensitive data is a whole other special kind of stupid.
They were using Netgear routers with USB-attached drives as FTP servers instead of ... real server hardware? Something seems missing here.
Sure, if you're talking about being > 70. If you're not obese, the joints don't wear as quickly.
Lose a few pounds and exercise more?
I'm 6' and had a "NA" (90-96) Miata. No idea how well it would fit someone even taller. It actually had more legroom than many sedans since there was no need for the front seats not to block the rear footwells.
Buy a 90s Miata as a toy. We're talking about beer money for one in decent condition, $3000 or so. I drove one daily and it was even fun as that.