What you say is valid in general, but the biggest flaws at Fukushima were known of ahead of the disaster. Specifically: the gas generators were in a flood-prone location, which frankly was 99% of the problem. The Wikipedia article links to various nuclear regulatory experts who pointed this out on several occasions.
I keep trying to find a good quote showing how well-known the issue was, but frankly that whole section of the Wikipedia entry makes it so clear (And it is very well-cited) so I can't summarize it any better. They knew about this, and they ignored it, many times.
To top it all off, we also have to make multiple builds so that the data can be stored efficiently on each type of platform.
Can you point me to some info on this? I haven't developed for Android yet and I hear this a lot but I don't understand the issue. Does this have to do with storing data on the internal flash -vs- the SD card? Or is there no standard file system layout?
Pesticides harm the environment around the crops. They kill insects and microorganisms that are needed to sustain the soil. It isn't about taste.
Additionally, "organic" food is more harmful to the environment because it requires a more acres to produce the same amount of food.
Someone else posted the same thing so i'll re-use the same reply: Land use isn't the issue. It is sustainability.
You can produce more fertilizer, on less land, using inorganic techniques. It is based on on mining nutrients from the ground elsewhere and transporting it to where you are growing food. The problem is that eventually those places run out, and you are left with stripped soil. Plus it uses lots of energy (fossil fuels) instead of sunlight. That "doubled land use" just means that you are constantly recirculating the nutrients from plants, to animals, and back.
Using a more efficient technique is no good if it relies on a store of material that runs out, and if the process of creating it contributes negatively to the environment.
You can produce more fertilizer using inorganic techniques, since it is based on on mining nutrients from the ground elsewhere and transporting it to where you are growing food. The problem is that eventually those places run out, and you are left with stripped soil. Plus it uses lots of energy (fossil fuels) instead of sunlight. That "doubled land use" just means that you are constantly recirculating the nutrients from plants, to animals, and back.
Using a more efficient technique is no good if it relies on a store of material that runs out, and contributes negatively to the environment.
And that digital analogue should also limit password attempts. Unfortunately this is not always the case. Most systems put these types of limitations in the UI layers but not the lower layers.
At this point you can either do a really dangerous left turn, or remain blocking the traffic, or try to back up (assuming people havent filled in behind you.
I've driven in a dozen states, all on the east coast of the US. In those states, this is not only permitted, it is the correct thing to do. It is taught that way in driver's education and a traffic cop will direct you to do this as well. When the light turns red, the driver in the intersection completes the left turn. It is not dangerous because there are a few seconds where the light remains red specifically as a time to clear the intersection. The only problem I've ever seen is when bad drivers either stay in the intersection and block it, or back-up - both of which are illegal.
This is somewhat a consequence of the education system.
Lawyers today are taught the letter of the law, and the historical interpretations and precedents. That is good practical knowledge. But there is little focus on philosophy: Blackstone's commentaries, the writings of the founding fathers, epistemology, etc. As a result, the actual writing of the laws has suffered. It's like a badly written set of instructions (or bad code to a programmer). They are written very narrow and specific, like rules and regulations, and contain nothing that can be used to distill the intent of the law. So when there is a slight technological shift, or the interpretation of a word can be twisted, or a loophole is found, the entire law falls apart. The courts can't interpret them well because the law contains no philosophical basis that they can interpret.
For home use, the much better option is to use the second drive for frequent backups
Agreed! RAID is complex, and doesn't provide what most home users need. But the rest of what you say about RAID is not true.
Uh, RAID is a very bad idea, unless you need 100% uptime (like on a server with hot swap).
Servers are generally the intended use but 100% uptime isn't the only reason to use it. RAID can provide increased reliability against hardware failures, increased storage space, or increased speed - depending on how it is configured.
Broken drives can introduce data errors into the stream, which are eventually duplicated onto the other drive(s) as well.
That is not true. If there is a CRC error on a RAID then the data from another drive is used. The only limitation here is that if the user deletes a file, the file is deleted on all drives. That is because RAID is not a backup system. Even if it did this, avoiding RAID would not help!
When the file system breaks due to this or some software bug, the file system on all disks is broken
Yes, just like without RAID. If the software destroys the file system then you are screwed. RAID only helps against hardware failures.
That should be modded funny, not informative. Hopefully your wife doesn't read Slashdot.
A friend of mine did this with his wife over parties. Year 1: "Can we have a fog machine for our New Years party?" Response: No. Year 2: "Okay, so the small fog machine will be in the basement with the music and laser lighting, and the big one will be upstairs so it rolls down the steps which would look awesome!" Response: You can have just one fog machine.
SOPA has been mentioned at least once a week on/. for at least a few weeks, if not months, and you still don't know what it is?
What if they mailed the link to their non-techie relatives? What if they just joined Slashdot? What if the person is a writer with a mind for words and phrases not acronyms? Journalistic standard is to use the full name first before using the acronym. The exception is headlines. So Slashdot should have posted:
Headline: Meet the Strange Bedfellows Who Could Stop SOPA jfruhlinger writes "In a political environment that's become very strongly defined by partisan lines, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) debate has offered...
Looking at the picture it is all white, with no seams, corners, or visible battery compartment. Based on this, I think it is a prototype for the next iPad.
That's brilliant: A criminal armed with a knife comes to rob you. So rather than give him money, you offer him a gun in exchange for not harming you. Somehow, your new information turned Apple from sounding evil, to sounding evil and stupid.
Does anyone here know what FAA rules apply to drones? I know people flying RC aircraft have to pay attention to sectionals. How about police helicoptors?
I don't care if you like Verizon or not, we have to stop content carriers from buying content providers. Comcast+NBC, Verizon+Netflix, etc. It is bad enough that one company provides phone lines + service on those lines, now they are going to provide the whole thing?
"No Mr. Senator, VerizonFlix services will not be hindered when traveling over competing networks. Here, ask our friend Benjamin if he sees any problems with it..."
Eventually, ISPs will do this. Networks do this with the advertisements in Times Square during New Years. The ads you see on one network are different from the ones in another network. It also happens when you watch sports - the same model of the stadium that adds the line of scrimmage into a football game is used to change the ads.
Eventually, ISPs will get in on this, if they haven't already.
When the iPad came out all I heard was how overpriced it was. How you could get a netbook that does 10 times as much for less money. Now I see company after company failing to produce a comparable product at the same price, and a bzillion Slashdot posts about how no one can compete with Apple because they sell the iPad at a loss and make money back from the app store.
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In the US, Good Samaritan laws protect health care workers from being sued for performing CPR.
What you say is valid in general, but the biggest flaws at Fukushima were known of ahead of the disaster. Specifically: the gas generators were in a flood-prone location, which frankly was 99% of the problem. The Wikipedia article links to various nuclear regulatory experts who pointed this out on several occasions.
I keep trying to find a good quote showing how well-known the issue was, but frankly that whole section of the Wikipedia entry makes it so clear (And it is very well-cited) so I can't summarize it any better. They knew about this, and they ignored it, many times.
To top it all off, we also have to make multiple builds so that the data can be stored efficiently on each type of platform.
Can you point me to some info on this? I haven't developed for Android yet and I hear this a lot but I don't understand the issue. Does this have to do with storing data on the internal flash -vs- the SD card? Or is there no standard file system layout?
Pesticides harm the environment around the crops. They kill insects and microorganisms that are needed to sustain the soil. It isn't about taste.
Additionally, "organic" food is more harmful to the environment because it requires a more acres to produce the same amount of food.
Someone else posted the same thing so i'll re-use the same reply: Land use isn't the issue. It is sustainability.
You can produce more fertilizer, on less land, using inorganic techniques. It is based on on mining nutrients from the ground elsewhere and transporting it to where you are growing food. The problem is that eventually those places run out, and you are left with stripped soil. Plus it uses lots of energy (fossil fuels) instead of sunlight. That "doubled land use" just means that you are constantly recirculating the nutrients from plants, to animals, and back.
Using a more efficient technique is no good if it relies on a store of material that runs out, and if the process of creating it contributes negatively to the environment.
his doubled land use is a disaster
Only in the short-run.
You can produce more fertilizer using inorganic techniques, since it is based on on mining nutrients from the ground elsewhere and transporting it to where you are growing food. The problem is that eventually those places run out, and you are left with stripped soil. Plus it uses lots of energy (fossil fuels) instead of sunlight. That "doubled land use" just means that you are constantly recirculating the nutrients from plants, to animals, and back.
Using a more efficient technique is no good if it relies on a store of material that runs out, and contributes negatively to the environment.
If I responded that way every time a company did something like this, I would have to join the Amish.
M&T bank as well. I filed a complaint about it but nothing changed.
It is in his Google wallet, which is only accessible with a OTP, which ... :-)
And that digital analogue should also limit password attempts. Unfortunately this is not always the case. Most systems put these types of limitations in the UI layers but not the lower layers.
At this point you can either do a really dangerous left turn, or remain blocking the traffic, or try to back up (assuming people havent filled in behind you.
I've driven in a dozen states, all on the east coast of the US. In those states, this is not only permitted, it is the correct thing to do. It is taught that way in driver's education and a traffic cop will direct you to do this as well. When the light turns red, the driver in the intersection completes the left turn. It is not dangerous because there are a few seconds where the light remains red specifically as a time to clear the intersection. The only problem I've ever seen is when bad drivers either stay in the intersection and block it, or back-up - both of which are illegal.
This is somewhat a consequence of the education system.
Lawyers today are taught the letter of the law, and the historical interpretations and precedents. That is good practical knowledge. But there is little focus on philosophy: Blackstone's commentaries, the writings of the founding fathers, epistemology, etc. As a result, the actual writing of the laws has suffered. It's like a badly written set of instructions (or bad code to a programmer). They are written very narrow and specific, like rules and regulations, and contain nothing that can be used to distill the intent of the law. So when there is a slight technological shift, or the interpretation of a word can be twisted, or a loophole is found, the entire law falls apart. The courts can't interpret them well because the law contains no philosophical basis that they can interpret.
For home use, the much better option is to use the second drive for frequent backups
Agreed! RAID is complex, and doesn't provide what most home users need. But the rest of what you say about RAID is not true.
Uh, RAID is a very bad idea, unless you need 100% uptime (like on a server with hot swap).
Servers are generally the intended use but 100% uptime isn't the only reason to use it. RAID can provide increased reliability against hardware failures, increased storage space, or increased speed - depending on how it is configured.
Broken drives can introduce data errors into the stream, which are eventually duplicated onto the other drive(s) as well.
That is not true. If there is a CRC error on a RAID then the data from another drive is used. The only limitation here is that if the user deletes a file, the file is deleted on all drives. That is because RAID is not a backup system. Even if it did this, avoiding RAID would not help!
When the file system breaks due to this or some software bug, the file system on all disks is broken
Yes, just like without RAID. If the software destroys the file system then you are screwed. RAID only helps against hardware failures.
That should be modded funny, not informative. Hopefully your wife doesn't read Slashdot.
A friend of mine did this with his wife over parties.
Year 1: "Can we have a fog machine for our New Years party?"
Response: No.
Year 2: "Okay, so the small fog machine will be in the basement with the music and laser lighting, and the big one will be upstairs so it rolls down the steps which would look awesome!"
Response: You can have just one fog machine.
And yes, the parties rocked. :-)
SOPA has been mentioned at least once a week on /. for at least a few weeks, if not months, and you still don't know what it is?
What if they mailed the link to their non-techie relatives? What if they just joined Slashdot? What if the person is a writer with a mind for words and phrases not acronyms? Journalistic standard is to use the full name first before using the acronym. The exception is headlines. So Slashdot should have posted:
Headline: Meet the Strange Bedfellows Who Could Stop SOPA ...
jfruhlinger writes
"In a political environment that's become very strongly defined by partisan lines, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) debate has offered
I've been saying the same thing for years. Unfortunately, as of September 10th, in the US, EULAs are now legally binding contracts.
Start here
ahh yes, I see it now.
It was right there in your contract,
Hence, why the lawsuit was thrown out.
You say this other nations haven't been doing the exact same thing for YEARS
Where did he say that?
Looking at the picture it is all white, with no seams, corners, or visible battery compartment. Based on this, I think it is a prototype for the next iPad.
That's brilliant: A criminal armed with a knife comes to rob you. So rather than give him money, you offer him a gun in exchange for not harming you. Somehow, your new information turned Apple from sounding evil, to sounding evil and stupid.
Does anyone here know what FAA rules apply to drones? I know people flying RC aircraft have to pay attention to sectionals. How about police helicoptors?
I don't care if you like Verizon or not, we have to stop content carriers from buying content providers. Comcast+NBC, Verizon+Netflix, etc. It is bad enough that one company provides phone lines + service on those lines, now they are going to provide the whole thing?
"No Mr. Senator, VerizonFlix services will not be hindered when traveling over competing networks. Here, ask our friend Benjamin if he sees any problems with it..."
Eventually, ISPs will do this. Networks do this with the advertisements in Times Square during New Years. The ads you see on one network are different from the ones in another network. It also happens when you watch sports - the same model of the stadium that adds the line of scrimmage into a football game is used to change the ads.
Eventually, ISPs will get in on this, if they haven't already.
When the iPad came out all I heard was how overpriced it was. How you could get a netbook that does 10 times as much for less money. Now I see company after company failing to produce a comparable product at the same price, and a bzillion Slashdot posts about how no one can compete with Apple because they sell the iPad at a loss and make money back from the app store.
Oops. "invalid" == "invade"