Fukushima was a disaster waiting to happen.... just like Chernobyl. Neither plant had any indication of learning from previous experiences in the nuclear power industry and were plain cruddy designs that any newly graduated nuclear engineering student could have designed better. Both plants also required electrical power being supplied to those plants simply to operate.
Yeah, but the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in the article uses the same GE BWR reactor/Mark I containment design as the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. So by your argument, wasn't this plant also "a disaster waiting to happen"?
Same thing happened on ESPN.com recently when they went to requiring a facebook log in. Where before you frequently got hundreds or thousands of comments on stories, now you rarely see more than a dozen.
Oh my god, people are doing things I wouldn't do! I demand men in uniforms be sent to make them stop, through the use of physical violence if necessary! I'm just not prepared to live in a world where everyone isn't forced to be exactly like me.
The only entity who's defintion of Treason matters here is the USDOJ. When they jail you, you can scream "this is unjust! what I did isn't really treason!" all you like, but you're still in jail for treason.
Groucho wasn't being self deprecating, he was mocking the anti-semitism of the time and how once he became famous, all these organizations that normally would never have considered letting someone Jewish join suddenly wanted him to become a member.
Drat, and up until now I had been being careful of using subjunctive properly. Now I only have my mastery of the past perfect progressive tense to console me.
If I was independently wealthy too, it would be easy to post under my real name and damn the consequences.
Most of us have to work though, and are at the mercy of the Arianna Huffington's of the world for employment. As long as my future employment is contingent on what people like her think about whatever comes up when my name is googled, I'm not free to speak under my real name.
Steve Jobs was one of the most ruthless buiness men in recent history. His company was basically a throw back to a 1920s style robber baron, yet all the people who normally go on and on about worker rights and corporate social responsibility have made him into some sort of iconic hero.
Apparently there's no sin that can't be overlooked if you're cool enough.
customers by virtue of payment, are entitled to any and all kind of abuse directed at these corporations. When abuse spills on unsuspecting employees of these corporations
You do realize that corporations don't physically exist independently of the employees that comprise them, right? There's not some physical avatar of EA running about that people can curse out. Any abuse directed at EA is necessarily going to be directed at one or more of the employees.
When the companies do actually have meaningful interactions with the player base, I don't generally see them getting angry at the developers. If I may give an example, I play Guild Wars 2 alot, and the relationship between the players and the developers has generally been civil. People complain about things, but they don't go after the developers.
The exception has been a couple of occasions where the company released an obviously broken patch and, for some reason, decided to respond that was obviously not true and then went completely silent for days until the event ended and it became a moot point. THAT'S the kind of behavior that sends the player base into a seething rage, and quiet understandbly.
Looks like the ultra-rich are stuck on Earth for the time being.
If each of the 1226 billionaires in the world chipped in $675 million, you could build that $828 billion dollar space station, and they'd each still have at least $300 million to be super wealthy on the station.
Instead of a CAPTCHA, show them two posts and indicate if none of them, one of them, or both of them are spam posts. Behind the scenes, one if a post you know for sure is good or not and one you don't know about.
You can use the responses to rate users (how effective is this user at rating posts, based on how well they do identifying spam?) and posts (how likely is this post to be spam based on what users say about it?). Bad users and bad posts get booted from the system.
Rowan Atkinson. I actually thought he did a good enough job in the "Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death" parody that I've wanted to see what he'd be like as the real Dr. Who.
'Fantec is a reminder that companies should adopt a formal FOSS use policy which should be integrated into the software development process,' he writes. 'These standards should include an understanding of the FOSS management processes of such third-party suppliers. The development of a network of trusted third-party suppliers is critical part of any FOSS compliance strategy.'
Or, they could just say "that's too much hassle, let's stop being involved in FOSS development".
There seems to be an assumption that just because they didn't pass the class, they failed to anything at all. I'm sure the people who didn't pass knew long before the end that they weren't doing well. The fact most of them stuck with it anyways suggests they still found value in the experience.
Not really. If I go to a public library, school, etc. there's all kinds of filters in place because busybody groups vote for laws requiring them "for the childrenz". There's no similar filters on the commercial ISP access I buy at home.
The problem with making the government your ISP is that eventually pressure groups are going to begin using the political process to limit what you can and can't do on it.
They are putting the information out there so you will know a child is missing.
A child is abducted somewhere in the US an average of every 40 seconds. There's ALWAYS a child missing. Should an alarm go off every 40 seconds 24/7 just to "put the information out there"?
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Yeah, but the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in the article uses the same GE BWR reactor/Mark I containment design as the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. So by your argument, wasn't this plant also "a disaster waiting to happen"?
Same thing happened on ESPN.com recently when they went to requiring a facebook log in. Where before you frequently got hundreds or thousands of comments on stories, now you rarely see more than a dozen.
Oh my god, people are doing things I wouldn't do! I demand men in uniforms be sent to make them stop, through the use of physical violence if necessary! I'm just not prepared to live in a world where everyone isn't forced to be exactly like me.
The only entity who's defintion of Treason matters here is the USDOJ. When they jail you, you can scream "this is unjust! what I did isn't really treason!" all you like, but you're still in jail for treason.
Groucho wasn't being self deprecating, he was mocking the anti-semitism of the time and how once he became famous, all these organizations that normally would never have considered letting someone Jewish join suddenly wanted him to become a member.
Drat, and up until now I had been being careful of using subjunctive properly. Now I only have my mastery of the past perfect progressive tense to console me.
If I was independently wealthy too, it would be easy to post under my real name and damn the consequences.
Most of us have to work though, and are at the mercy of the Arianna Huffington's of the world for employment. As long as my future employment is contingent on what people like her think about whatever comes up when my name is googled, I'm not free to speak under my real name.
Even if it is a custom ISA, at 400GHz I'm pretty sure it can just emulate any existing CPU without even breaking a sweat.
Steve Jobs was one of the most ruthless buiness men in recent history. His company was basically a throw back to a 1920s style robber baron, yet all the people who normally go on and on about worker rights and corporate social responsibility have made him into some sort of iconic hero.
Apparently there's no sin that can't be overlooked if you're cool enough.
You do realize that corporations don't physically exist independently of the employees that comprise them, right? There's not some physical avatar of EA running about that people can curse out. Any abuse directed at EA is necessarily going to be directed at one or more of the employees.
When the companies do actually have meaningful interactions with the player base, I don't generally see them getting angry at the developers. If I may give an example, I play Guild Wars 2 alot, and the relationship between the players and the developers has generally been civil. People complain about things, but they don't go after the developers.
The exception has been a couple of occasions where the company released an obviously broken patch and, for some reason, decided to respond that was obviously not true and then went completely silent for days until the event ended and it became a moot point. THAT'S the kind of behavior that sends the player base into a seething rage, and quiet understandbly.
If each of the 1226 billionaires in the world chipped in $675 million, you could build that $828 billion dollar space station, and they'd each still have at least $300 million to be super wealthy on the station.
Instead of a CAPTCHA, show them two posts and indicate if none of them, one of them, or both of them are spam posts. Behind the scenes, one if a post you know for sure is good or not and one you don't know about.
You can use the responses to rate users (how effective is this user at rating posts, based on how well they do identifying spam?) and posts (how likely is this post to be spam based on what users say about it?). Bad users and bad posts get booted from the system.
Rowan Atkinson. I actually thought he did a good enough job in the "Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death" parody that I've wanted to see what he'd be like as the real Dr. Who.
Wow, there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
Or, they could just say "that's too much hassle, let's stop being involved in FOSS development".
This isn't true. If your security is set up right, the password was never even sent to your server:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protocol
The server doesn't need to know the password, it just needs to know the information it needs to verify that the client knows it.
There seems to be an assumption that just because they didn't pass the class, they failed to anything at all. I'm sure the people who didn't pass knew long before the end that they weren't doing well. The fact most of them stuck with it anyways suggests they still found value in the experience.
Yeah, and if you're upset tumblr did that you can go to flickr. Or photobucket. Or DeviantArt. Or imgur. Or...
If the municipal ISP starts filtering, you're pretty much SOL.
Not really. If I go to a public library, school, etc. there's all kinds of filters in place because busybody groups vote for laws requiring them "for the childrenz". There's no similar filters on the commercial ISP access I buy at home.
The problem with making the government your ISP is that eventually pressure groups are going to begin using the political process to limit what you can and can't do on it.
Alberta Residents Complain About Internet Content Filtering Plan
A child is abducted somewhere in the US an average of every 40 seconds. There's ALWAYS a child missing. Should an alarm go off every 40 seconds 24/7 just to "put the information out there"?
Actually yes, the ability of 8.25 million people to sleep IS more important than 1 child's life.
What if they don't want to be in the army?
Secure Remote Password protocol is more than a decade old:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protocol
Why aren't more companies using it?
Hackers can't steal passwords if your server doesn't have the passwords to begin with.