Um, not opening Excel or Flash files on computers that access the database would be a start. Furthermore sanboxing, and lots of it. Not running the most insecure OS on the planet would help too. The people at RSA really should have known better.
Except for the fact that the Japanese government rubber stamped a proposal to extend the life of the plant by at least 5 years in February. Had it really been planned to be shut down in 15 days I doubt it would have been running at the capacity it was when the quake struck.
Thats a businessman for you I guess. The current CEO of TEPCO, whom pretty much has just hid out in his office ever since the quake, got to the top due to his relentless cost cutting. I guess buying a modern, safe nuclear reactor wasn't really on the top of his to do list, and mothballing the Fukushima reactors before the quake would have been unthinkable, they provided about 20% of the total power used in northern Honshu. It's going to be a rough summer.
Maybe it seems more recent because there has been only one other fatal commercial airliner crash in the "rich world"(Western Europe, the US, and Japan) since then, and even then only 7 people died. In fact, I'm pretty sure(though I don't have any data on it, tried finding it and couldn't), the US is now at a record number of days in a row without a commercial airliner crash. The last fatal commercial airliner crash in the US was in early 2009(Colgan air). There hasn't been one in Japan since 1994*(a freight plane did crash at Narita in 2009). Now granted there are a lot less "commuter" flights in Japan due to the countries small size and excellent high speed rail service, but that is still pretty impressive.
And unfortunately for Japan, the consequences of this will extend far into the future. If other countries start to bring capacity for these parts online, then buyers may not switch back to sourcing them from Japan even after the factories recover. The insanely strong yen only aggravates the situation, it will be much harder for Japan to compete.
And it doesn't help that the boss is essentially hiding out in his pillow fort instead of working to try to coordinate the effort, be a public punching bag, or doing anything better than hiding. Fuck at this point taking the warriors way out and killing himself would be a boon to TEPCO and Japan.....
Thats exactly how the first Copyright law in the United States worked(well the period was 14 years and another 14 years if the author was still alive and wanted it extended). Every other copyright law after that should be repealed.
Exactly. It's the owner's (Mr. Burns aka TEPCO) cavalier attitude towards safety that got them into trouble in the first place. Mr. Burns hides nuclear waste in trees, makes his employees eat the stuff(it's the TEPCO employees, not the managers, that are really going to suffer from this incident), bribes safety inspectors to look the other way etc, sort of like TEPCO did. If anything these episodes are needed more than ever to point out the flaws in the human side of safety management. Namely greed will often trump safety if there isn't real, impartial oversight.
Yup, but with one major difference, a Chinese prof who only accepts Chinese students doesn't have to worry about being called a racist, an American prof(regardless of race) who only accepts American students(regardless of race) will automatically be called a racist.
I didn't say there weren't any, but do you seriously think the whistle-blower was the ONLY person not directly involved with this? There were tons of people who had seen the many, many oversights and said nothing, allowing it to go on for many years.
Couple that with a culture that tends to frown on whistle blowing and reporting your superiors and you have a real problem on your hands. While this is the first major nuke incident in Japan, there is a long record of serious safety violations and technicians and engineers not willing to go behind their bosses back to report them. In 2003 TEPCO was caught forging documents at ALL 17 of it's reactors. This is far from an isolated incident.
Well, part of it certainly is timing, when the US stopped doing nuclear testing in 1992, the internet was at it's infancy and there really was only one 24 hour news network. Now you can get information(even bad information) in an instant whenever you want it and the competition has gotten so cut-throat that nobody wants to miss the "big story" The end result usually is mass panic over the tiniest of problems.
Well, ostensibly the radio was an advertisement for the album. The radio plays one or two songs from the album and people hear it and want to hear more from the album. The problem facing todays music industry is that they seem to be unable to find any artists that can actually put an albums worth of music together, let alone one that has any real staying power. So they are getting desperate and looking anywhere they can for revenue.
Yeah, you should have sold MOT a while ago. They were the ones who thought they could outsource all designing, manufacturing, and support out to the lowest bidder(almost always in the 3rd world), and just have management sit back and collect massive rewards. As a result their phones stagnated while the rest of the industry who was more nimble(and probably had less management overhead) sped ahead. THey have been unable to ever get back into the game of actually designing products people want and as a result I don't think they have a very bright future.
I left Tsukuba for Germany last week and while getting out of Tokyo wasn't too tough(getting to Tokyo is another story), getting out of Japan was quite tricky. All international flights were pretty much booked solid, I eventually rode the Shinkansen down to Fukuoka, took a boat to Busan and then flew out of Seoul. My guess is that if(and it's a big if) the radiation levels worsen significantly it will probably be too late to get out of the country..... but then again, I'm planning to come back in early April, assuming everything will be back to normal by then.
To a certain extent I would believe it would really depend on the value of the target. Anyone can steal dog poop from a yard, so they are obviously vulnerable, but I doubt many people are particularly worried about losing said dog poop.
Yes, this. I think the staggered release dates are more due to retail pressure than publishers delaying shit for the sheer hell of it. Every country has a day of the week where traditionally new music/movies/games etc. are released, however each country has a different date. I don't really think that game publishers have enough clout to force retailers into releasing new media on a different day, so the path of least resistance is just to stagger the game by a few days.
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Um, not opening Excel or Flash files on computers that access the database would be a start. Furthermore sanboxing, and lots of it. Not running the most insecure OS on the planet would help too. The people at RSA really should have known better.
Except for the fact that the Japanese government rubber stamped a proposal to extend the life of the plant by at least 5 years in February. Had it really been planned to be shut down in 15 days I doubt it would have been running at the capacity it was when the quake struck.
Thats a businessman for you I guess. The current CEO of TEPCO, whom pretty much has just hid out in his office ever since the quake, got to the top due to his relentless cost cutting. I guess buying a modern, safe nuclear reactor wasn't really on the top of his to do list, and mothballing the Fukushima reactors before the quake would have been unthinkable, they provided about 20% of the total power used in northern Honshu. It's going to be a rough summer.
Many encryption algorithms/protocols were invented by Jews, which obviously would be an anathema to the jihadists.
Maybe it seems more recent because there has been only one other fatal commercial airliner crash in the "rich world"(Western Europe, the US, and Japan) since then, and even then only 7 people died. In fact, I'm pretty sure(though I don't have any data on it, tried finding it and couldn't), the US is now at a record number of days in a row without a commercial airliner crash. The last fatal commercial airliner crash in the US was in early 2009(Colgan air). There hasn't been one in Japan since 1994*(a freight plane did crash at Narita in 2009). Now granted there are a lot less "commuter" flights in Japan due to the countries small size and excellent high speed rail service, but that is still pretty impressive.
And unfortunately for Japan, the consequences of this will extend far into the future. If other countries start to bring capacity for these parts online, then buyers may not switch back to sourcing them from Japan even after the factories recover. The insanely strong yen only aggravates the situation, it will be much harder for Japan to compete.
Actually no, in February they got the go ahead(after the most cursory of proposals and inspections) to keep the plant running another 10 years.
And it doesn't help that the boss is essentially hiding out in his pillow fort instead of working to try to coordinate the effort, be a public punching bag, or doing anything better than hiding. Fuck at this point taking the warriors way out and killing himself would be a boon to TEPCO and Japan.....
The shuttle was overheard to be saying, "Damn kids! Get off my launchpad you lazy bums!"
Thats exactly how the first Copyright law in the United States worked(well the period was 14 years and another 14 years if the author was still alive and wanted it extended). Every other copyright law after that should be repealed.
I hear if you do something like that they give you this cool award named after that evolution dude. Go for it man!
Exactly. It's the owner's (Mr. Burns aka TEPCO) cavalier attitude towards safety that got them into trouble in the first place. Mr. Burns hides nuclear waste in trees, makes his employees eat the stuff(it's the TEPCO employees, not the managers, that are really going to suffer from this incident), bribes safety inspectors to look the other way etc, sort of like TEPCO did. If anything these episodes are needed more than ever to point out the flaws in the human side of safety management. Namely greed will often trump safety if there isn't real, impartial oversight.
Yup, but with one major difference, a Chinese prof who only accepts Chinese students doesn't have to worry about being called a racist, an American prof(regardless of race) who only accepts American students(regardless of race) will automatically be called a racist.
I didn't say there weren't any, but do you seriously think the whistle-blower was the ONLY person not directly involved with this? There were tons of people who had seen the many, many oversights and said nothing, allowing it to go on for many years.
Couple that with a culture that tends to frown on whistle blowing and reporting your superiors and you have a real problem on your hands. While this is the first major nuke incident in Japan, there is a long record of serious safety violations and technicians and engineers not willing to go behind their bosses back to report them. In 2003 TEPCO was caught forging documents at ALL 17 of it's reactors. This is far from an isolated incident.
Well, part of it certainly is timing, when the US stopped doing nuclear testing in 1992, the internet was at it's infancy and there really was only one 24 hour news network. Now you can get information(even bad information) in an instant whenever you want it and the competition has gotten so cut-throat that nobody wants to miss the "big story" The end result usually is mass panic over the tiniest of problems.
Seriously? I mean we have people like Homer Simpson working to keep OUR nuclear panner plants safe, how could anything go wrong?
Well, ostensibly the radio was an advertisement for the album. The radio plays one or two songs from the album and people hear it and want to hear more from the album. The problem facing todays music industry is that they seem to be unable to find any artists that can actually put an albums worth of music together, let alone one that has any real staying power. So they are getting desperate and looking anywhere they can for revenue.
Yeah, you should have sold MOT a while ago. They were the ones who thought they could outsource all designing, manufacturing, and support out to the lowest bidder(almost always in the 3rd world), and just have management sit back and collect massive rewards. As a result their phones stagnated while the rest of the industry who was more nimble(and probably had less management overhead) sped ahead. THey have been unable to ever get back into the game of actually designing products people want and as a result I don't think they have a very bright future.
I left Tsukuba for Germany last week and while getting out of Tokyo wasn't too tough(getting to Tokyo is another story), getting out of Japan was quite tricky. All international flights were pretty much booked solid, I eventually rode the Shinkansen down to Fukuoka, took a boat to Busan and then flew out of Seoul. My guess is that if(and it's a big if) the radiation levels worsen significantly it will probably be too late to get out of the country..... but then again, I'm planning to come back in early April, assuming everything will be back to normal by then.
Like all other moments in life, there is a Simpsons quote that sums it up:
"turning a possible Chernobyl into a mere Three Mile Island"
"and what sort of gear do these ghost hunters use to detect said spirits?"
My guess is that other spirits are heavily involved, those of the distilled variety....
To a certain extent I would believe it would really depend on the value of the target. Anyone can steal dog poop from a yard, so they are obviously vulnerable, but I doubt many people are particularly worried about losing said dog poop.
After two coffees I would be most worried about your bladder overflow vulnerability.
Yes, this. I think the staggered release dates are more due to retail pressure than publishers delaying shit for the sheer hell of it. Every country has a day of the week where traditionally new music/movies/games etc. are released, however each country has a different date. I don't really think that game publishers have enough clout to force retailers into releasing new media on a different day, so the path of least resistance is just to stagger the game by a few days.