I'd suggest you petition that a 15-20' high dirt berm be built around the facility. That way if an disaster happens that causes an explosion it will be directed above mostly above the area around it.
This is a very common method of city growth in Texas. Build something annoying/dangerous way out of city limits. People build close to it for jobs,cheap land, and since it's not incorporated, easier building rules. This happened around our local airport, now the people who knowingly built by the airport are bitching that airport wants to expand because 'it will be to noisy'. WTF people.
How long does it take for an official to write up an EBS statement and get it pushed in to the proper channels.
How long from the realization that a serious fire had broken out till the explosion occurred.
The EBS works very well for weather events because of the National Weather Service coordinates with them almost daily, especially in spring. You must remember this is a *tiny* town of a few thousand people at most, not a large city with full time staff. In a small town a person with the responsibility of managing the EBS would probably be at the scene dealing with other issues.
I wouldn't worry about nuclear. By the time it becomes easy for a home user to build it, it's just as likely our cell phones will be decent radiological detectors. BEEP BEEP: Your neighbor is building a nuke, should I organize the neighbors to prevent a holocaust?
I don't see a fully automatic weapon inconceivably more powerful then a cannon loaded with grape-shot. Either one fired in to a crowd is going to make a mess. It would probably be more of a surprise that people could go on rampages without some other armed citizen shooting them quickly.
Only the rich should be allowed this technology. We cannot have the plebs uncovering crime, uncovering environmental disasters, showing the world how it truly is. Only large corporations and police, who are unduly influenced by large corporations should have this kind of power. Allowing this technology may result in the upset of current power structures.
And you never have a program that needs to use fsync to reliably save files. You never use databases. You never write lots of small files. You never open different programs that aren't cached in memory. You don't have a larger dataset then memory size.
>which rarely fail so badly and suddenly that there isn't at least a chance to move data off I only wish that were true. Then again I make a good living installiing new disks and reinstalling operating systems.
> probably also recommend a traditional external hard drive as a backup device
If you have data I recommend a backup plan, unless of course you don't like your data that much and you don't care if it disappears randomly.
If a thief thought he was getting a storage container full of SSDs, that could be enough motivation. Even used they go for big bucks, especially the enterprise ones.
My step-mom had her checking account put on hold once after a spurious transaction showed up on it. Come to find out a computer system from the electronic check processing company that Walmart uses was stolen by an employee and sold to some nefarious group.
Let Microsoft waste their money releasing some overly expensive paperweight.
Let the market decide if it was acceptable.
It would be great if it worked. Whenever the small developer comes in with a good idea they get bought by EA or M$ and all the online DRM DLC gets added.
I can add a gas generator/solar panels/slaves in a large wheel to a house to make power. Running fibre because I want to play the X720 at grandmas house in bum-fuck texas over the holidays simply because MS thought it was a good idea to make it always online is a little harder to deal with.
>And firefox is empty except for the Orange firefox button.
Go to options and make sure menu bar is turned off. Your tabs are beside the orange button. Firefox does a good job of optimizing vertical space in this case.
The coal based molecular toxin is the most is the most dangerous directly after release. It will pretty quickly find something in the environment to bond too. If we're lucky it bonds to something where it is not easily dislocated from and pretty much goes away. If we are unlucky it gets in the food chain and bio-accumulates.
Did you search the news where Germany's government is currently panicking because there reelection chance is almost zero if they can't stop power costs from increasing year over year? Oh yea you forgot that people have to afford the power too.
In a thousand years the most dangerous nuclear waste cleans itself up too (gotta love half-lives). The nuclear waste that has longer half-lives then that is not very hot and therefore doesn't cause a huge amount of damage. Your what-if scenero is really full of crap because for nuclear to kill people faster then our breeding rate we'd have to pretty much attempt to poison everybody on earth with it on purpose.
tl;dr Most of the waste that isn't going anywhere for a long time isn't killing people.
"WASHINGTON, DC, November 21, 2008 (ENS) - The top 50 most-polluting coal-burning power plants in the United States emitted 20 tons of toxic mercury into the air in 2007, finds a new report from the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project. Of the top 10 mercury emitting power plants, all but one reported an increase as compared to 2006. "
Chernobyl was a terrible disaster. Then again the design of the plant and how it was ran was a f'ing joke, but even at that point the 'biggest' part of the disaster was the government cover up. If most of the people had been quickly evacuated a huge portion of the premature cancer would be lessened. I may have to go back and read again, but I'm pretty sure Japan did a pretty good job of getting people away from the reactor in the middle of an EPIC disaster. The number of long term deaths caused by nuclear pollution, from current evidence, will be much lower then the effects of burning coal instead.
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I'd suggest you petition that a 15-20' high dirt berm be built around the facility. That way if an disaster happens that causes an explosion it will be directed above mostly above the area around it.
This is a very common method of city growth in Texas. Build something annoying/dangerous way out of city limits. People build close to it for jobs,cheap land, and since it's not incorporated, easier building rules. This happened around our local airport, now the people who knowingly built by the airport are bitching that airport wants to expand because 'it will be to noisy'. WTF people.
Two questions...
How long does it take for an official to write up an EBS statement and get it pushed in to the proper channels.
How long from the realization that a serious fire had broken out till the explosion occurred.
The EBS works very well for weather events because of the National Weather Service coordinates with them almost daily, especially in spring. You must remember this is a *tiny* town of a few thousand people at most, not a large city with full time staff. In a small town a person with the responsibility of managing the EBS would probably be at the scene dealing with other issues.
I wouldn't worry about nuclear. By the time it becomes easy for a home user to build it, it's just as likely our cell phones will be decent radiological detectors. BEEP BEEP: Your neighbor is building a nuke, should I organize the neighbors to prevent a holocaust?
I don't see a fully automatic weapon inconceivably more powerful then a cannon loaded with grape-shot. Either one fired in to a crowd is going to make a mess. It would probably be more of a surprise that people could go on rampages without some other armed citizen shooting them quickly.
Only the rich should be allowed this technology. We cannot have the plebs uncovering crime, uncovering environmental disasters, showing the world how it truly is. Only large corporations and police, who are unduly influenced by large corporations should have this kind of power. Allowing this technology may result in the upset of current power structures.
--Schmidt
Anyone that wants to save power.
And you never have a program that needs to use fsync to reliably save files. You never use databases. You never write lots of small files. You never open different programs that aren't cached in memory. You don't have a larger dataset then memory size.
For the rest of us, SSDs are amazing.
>which rarely fail so badly and suddenly that there isn't at least a chance to move data off
I only wish that were true. Then again I make a good living installiing new disks and reinstalling operating systems.
> probably also recommend a traditional external hard drive as a backup device
If you have data I recommend a backup plan, unless of course you don't like your data that much and you don't care if it disappears randomly.
But Soylent Green can!
If a thief thought he was getting a storage container full of SSDs, that could be enough motivation. Even used they go for big bucks, especially the enterprise ones.
My step-mom had her checking account put on hold once after a spurious transaction showed up on it. Come to find out a computer system from the electronic check processing company that Walmart uses was stolen by an employee and sold to some nefarious group.
THIS.
Let Microsoft waste their money releasing some overly expensive paperweight.
Let the market decide if it was acceptable.
It would be great if it worked. Whenever the small developer comes in with a good idea they get bought by EA or M$ and all the online DRM DLC gets added.
I can add a gas generator/solar panels/slaves in a large wheel to a house to make power. Running fibre because I want to play the X720 at grandmas house in bum-fuck texas over the holidays simply because MS thought it was a good idea to make it always online is a little harder to deal with.
>And firefox is empty except for the Orange firefox button.
Go to options and make sure menu bar is turned off. Your tabs are beside the orange button. Firefox does a good job of optimizing vertical space in this case.
Bio-availability.
The coal based molecular toxin is the most is the most dangerous directly after release. It will pretty quickly find something in the environment to bond too. If we're lucky it bonds to something where it is not easily dislocated from and pretty much goes away. If we are unlucky it gets in the food chain and bio-accumulates.
Did you search the news where Germany's government is currently panicking because there reelection chance is almost zero if they can't stop power costs from increasing year over year? Oh yea you forgot that people have to afford the power too.
In a thousand years the most dangerous nuclear waste cleans itself up too (gotta love half-lives). The nuclear waste that has longer half-lives then that is not very hot and therefore doesn't cause a huge amount of damage. Your what-if scenero is really full of crap because for nuclear to kill people faster then our breeding rate we'd have to pretty much attempt to poison everybody on earth with it on purpose.
tl;dr Most of the waste that isn't going anywhere for a long time isn't killing people.
Ha, Germany the country with spiraling electricity prices.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324103504578375561493463652.html
#2 is the right answer, be responsible for the traffic on your network.
#1 is the wrong answer. Too many ISPs fuck with DNS by returning IP addresses to advertizing domains instead of NXDOMAIN.
To reply myself... no it can't, it's non..recursive..
Um, not exactly... You an have an authoritative non-recursive DNS server that gives large responses to questions used in an amplification attack...
'dig a www.authoritative.domain @authortative.domain.ip'
RESPONSE = 1000+ bytes follows...
>Have the SWAT team bust down their door and hall their asses to jail.
Cannot tell if serious...
If you read the cyberbunkers website, that happened once. Dutch swat showed up.. Looked at gigantic steel doors for a nuclear bunker... Left.
>Nuclear power makes Coal look like a clean air filtration system.
Yep, sure does, doesn't, does, uh
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2008/2008-11-21-092.asp
"WASHINGTON, DC, November 21, 2008 (ENS) - The top 50 most-polluting coal-burning power plants in the United States emitted 20 tons of toxic mercury into the air in 2007, finds a new report from the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project. Of the top 10 mercury emitting power plants, all but one reported an increase as compared to 2006. "
Here, want worst case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_war
Not only that, once it did finally fail they didn't tell anybody!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Evacuation_developments
A huge amount of the human aftermath could have been avoid by an immediate evacuation.
I think you misunderstand worse case. Someone dropping a multi-megaton nuke on you is the worst case nuclear disaster.
Chernobyl was a terrible disaster. Then again the design of the plant and how it was ran was a f'ing joke, but even at that point the 'biggest' part of the disaster was the government cover up. If most of the people had been quickly evacuated a huge portion of the premature cancer would be lessened. I may have to go back and read again, but I'm pretty sure Japan did a pretty good job of getting people away from the reactor in the middle of an EPIC disaster. The number of long term deaths caused by nuclear pollution, from current evidence, will be much lower then the effects of burning coal instead.