Clarkson cultivates (at least on-screen) a hatred for electric cars and the entire eco movement as a whole. Never mind RVs and campers (or, in the UK, caravans). His entire media persona is a cranky outspoken old fart. Sort of like a militant, half-senile Ron Paul if you moved him out of politics and into entertainment-based car shows.
Whether or not Tesla is entitled to damages or other concessions from Top Gear/the BBC, I don't know why on Earth they expected a fair review from the show. They obviously didn't watch many episodes before deciding to lend Top Gear a car to trial.
The exact details of how operations would be conducted might vary, but North Korea would suffer quite a lot of retaliation if they pulled a stunt like that. Missile tests are one thing, but this proposed scenario requires mad Hollywood banana republic despot levels of crazy to initiate. That being said, I could see NK propaganda claiming that Kimmy caused the whole quake/tsunami/meltdown situation just by being That Awesome, and Japan had better watch out next time he decides to pass gas.
I have a friend who has access to confidential SCADA mailing lists (being involved in that industry), and they're watching the situation with interest since some members of the list work for companies involved in the situation in one way or another. Around day 3, when it started to look positive again, they were flooding the crap out of the plants (as much as possible) with boric acid in solution to achieve cold shutdown. At least that was the story being given to the industry. TEPCO's got a history of coverups and incomplete disclosures and so on, so I think it'll be a long time before all the details come out.
Not to get off-topic, but I think even North Korea isn't crazy enough to do that, because the response from Japan and its Western allies would be to bomb North Korea back into the Mesozoic Era. Shelling a disabled nuclear power plant to expressly turn it into a dirty bomb when the country's already suffering a three-hit combo of quake-tsunami-reactor isn't just an act of war, it's being a dick on a massive scale.
Google's various departments do generally act with a certain level of autonomy, AFAIK, but the problem is, at the end of the day, a 20% project or some other innovative thing some engineers down in building XYZ come up with still have to be approved by someone who is not an engineer, and even Google is not immune to management bungling.
* AC claims TEPCO acted in the public interest and went for the most efficient method of cooling. * AC is wrong, TEPCO did everything they could to avoid losing the reactor, even at the risk of catastrophic failure. * TEPCO is more concerned with profits than irradiated citizens.
Here's the thing: The reactors at Fukushima are ~40 years old and contain a design flaw that essentially caused this to happen. Newer designs for water boiler reactors have the water flow in via gravity feed instead of requiring manual pumps running on external power. While it's certainly possible that other problems might've caused a newer reactor to suffer potential meltdown, it's very likely that we would've never seen this occur if Fukushima Daiichi had a gravity-feed water cooling system. The takeaway should be that nuclear power plants need to be upgraded to keep up with the times, but unfortunately I think you're right, and the takeaway will be "OMG NUCLEAR BAD."
Except that they weren't quick to pump seawater. They held onto that as a last resort for a couple days while they tried to get the internal pumps going again. When that didn't work out and it was clear that they had absolutely no other option, TEPCO began pumping seawater in. They did everything they could to avoid writing the reactors off.
TEPCO has a history of coverups and other shenanigans that the cynical jaded type would come to expect from a large corporate-type organization. However, this is just coming back to bite them in the ass on the international stage, so I get the feeling they won't be so lucky this time.
This is part of the planned failure mode of the reactor. To be sure, it's fairly far on the "stuff is breaking" scale, and there are definite consequences (such as fears of leakage into groundwater). But this is not going to be a Chernobyl-level catastrophe.
However, fingers crossed that nobody else dies. Japan's already had enough fatalities this month.
You can't do risky, daring expensive experiments without the capital to float it. Look at Google Wave. Blisteringly 'new' but too bleeding-edge and future-looking to make sense to your average Internet user, because it solves a problem most people don't have. However, lessons learned from Wave are finding themselves being implemented into general-market apps like Docs. Look at YouTube. It would've been crushed under the weight of its own bandwidth bill if it'd gone on for another six to nine months on its own without being taken under Google's wing, to say nothing about potential litigation from VIACOM and friends (justified or otherwise).
I know exactly what it means, and I'm not saying the RIAA would claim that, but they'll whine about P2P because their margins won't increase at exactly the exponential rate they want.
In other news, the RIAA published a press release today requesting tighter anti-P2P laws because P2P music sharing is on the rise and their profit margins may take an infinitesimal hit next quarter. I'm not even putting a sarcasm tag on this; you watch, it'll happen.
It does if you install DivX Plus on the box that's the Windows Media Center host and then pull it off that way. (This does mean having to install DivX Plus, though.)
Before this gets imposed, how about the blank media levy get straightened out? I've yet to see any evidence that it's been used to properly compensate musicians (and songwriters and etc.) yet, and it's been in place for over a decade. Once THAT gets worked out, start applying it to potentially-infringing bandwidth.
For anyone confused by my use of "potentially-infringing," in Canada recordable media is charged a levy on the assumption that you might use that spindle of CD-Rs to make unauthorized copies of someone's album, regardless of what you're actually going to be doing. Now they're trying to do the same thing with Internet connections before they've even gotten the first effort to do what it says on the tin. (Don't get me wrong: They've collected millions. But there's no evidence it's gone to the artists it's being collected for.)
Anonymous is best thought of as the dim-witted schizophrenic collective consciousness of anyone and everyone on the Internet who enjoys starting shit so much they join a cause to do just that over situation X. It's a chaotic neutral mob that just occasionally packet floods people they've decided they don't like. They're not the Home team, nor are they the Visiting team. They're the Other team.
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Clarkson cultivates (at least on-screen) a hatred for electric cars and the entire eco movement as a whole. Never mind RVs and campers (or, in the UK, caravans). His entire media persona is a cranky outspoken old fart. Sort of like a militant, half-senile Ron Paul if you moved him out of politics and into entertainment-based car shows.
Whether or not Tesla is entitled to damages or other concessions from Top Gear/the BBC, I don't know why on Earth they expected a fair review from the show. They obviously didn't watch many episodes before deciding to lend Top Gear a car to trial.
Tortured analogy. Better drink my own piss.
Shush, you uninformed Luddite. ;)
The exact details of how operations would be conducted might vary, but North Korea would suffer quite a lot of retaliation if they pulled a stunt like that. Missile tests are one thing, but this proposed scenario requires mad Hollywood banana republic despot levels of crazy to initiate. That being said, I could see NK propaganda claiming that Kimmy caused the whole quake/tsunami/meltdown situation just by being That Awesome, and Japan had better watch out next time he decides to pass gas.
Mod parent funny. :D
I have a friend who has access to confidential SCADA mailing lists (being involved in that industry), and they're watching the situation with interest since some members of the list work for companies involved in the situation in one way or another. Around day 3, when it started to look positive again, they were flooding the crap out of the plants (as much as possible) with boric acid in solution to achieve cold shutdown. At least that was the story being given to the industry. TEPCO's got a history of coverups and incomplete disclosures and so on, so I think it'll be a long time before all the details come out.
Not to get off-topic, but I think even North Korea isn't crazy enough to do that, because the response from Japan and its Western allies would be to bomb North Korea back into the Mesozoic Era. Shelling a disabled nuclear power plant to expressly turn it into a dirty bomb when the country's already suffering a three-hit combo of quake-tsunami-reactor isn't just an act of war, it's being a dick on a massive scale.
Um, okay. Whatever you and your army of sockpuppets are smoking, please share with the rest of us. This vodka just isn't cutting it for me anymore.
Google's various departments do generally act with a certain level of autonomy, AFAIK, but the problem is, at the end of the day, a 20% project or some other innovative thing some engineers down in building XYZ come up with still have to be approved by someone who is not an engineer, and even Google is not immune to management bungling.
* AC claims TEPCO acted in the public interest and went for the most efficient method of cooling.
* AC is wrong, TEPCO did everything they could to avoid losing the reactor, even at the risk of catastrophic failure.
* TEPCO is more concerned with profits than irradiated citizens.
If you see that as reasonable, get out.
Here's the thing: The reactors at Fukushima are ~40 years old and contain a design flaw that essentially caused this to happen. Newer designs for water boiler reactors have the water flow in via gravity feed instead of requiring manual pumps running on external power. While it's certainly possible that other problems might've caused a newer reactor to suffer potential meltdown, it's very likely that we would've never seen this occur if Fukushima Daiichi had a gravity-feed water cooling system. The takeaway should be that nuclear power plants need to be upgraded to keep up with the times, but unfortunately I think you're right, and the takeaway will be "OMG NUCLEAR BAD."
Except that they weren't quick to pump seawater. They held onto that as a last resort for a couple days while they tried to get the internal pumps going again. When that didn't work out and it was clear that they had absolutely no other option, TEPCO began pumping seawater in. They did everything they could to avoid writing the reactors off.
TEPCO has a history of coverups and other shenanigans that the cynical jaded type would come to expect from a large corporate-type organization. However, this is just coming back to bite them in the ass on the international stage, so I get the feeling they won't be so lucky this time.
This is part of the planned failure mode of the reactor. To be sure, it's fairly far on the "stuff is breaking" scale, and there are definite consequences (such as fears of leakage into groundwater). But this is not going to be a Chernobyl-level catastrophe.
However, fingers crossed that nobody else dies. Japan's already had enough fatalities this month.
You can't do risky, daring expensive experiments without the capital to float it. Look at Google Wave. Blisteringly 'new' but too bleeding-edge and future-looking to make sense to your average Internet user, because it solves a problem most people don't have. However, lessons learned from Wave are finding themselves being implemented into general-market apps like Docs. Look at YouTube. It would've been crushed under the weight of its own bandwidth bill if it'd gone on for another six to nine months on its own without being taken under Google's wing, to say nothing about potential litigation from VIACOM and friends (justified or otherwise).
TFS doesn't actually attribute it to being a quote by Page, just a supposed summary of his intentions/desires for handling Google.
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Vote parent for top office at WIPO! (Already modded up anyway.)
I know exactly what it means, and I'm not saying the RIAA would claim that, but they'll whine about P2P because their margins won't increase at exactly the exponential rate they want.
In other news, the RIAA published a press release today requesting tighter anti-P2P laws because P2P music sharing is on the rise and their profit margins may take an infinitesimal hit next quarter. I'm not even putting a sarcasm tag on this; you watch, it'll happen.
It does if you install DivX Plus on the box that's the Windows Media Center host and then pull it off that way. (This does mean having to install DivX Plus, though.)
Before this gets imposed, how about the blank media levy get straightened out? I've yet to see any evidence that it's been used to properly compensate musicians (and songwriters and etc.) yet, and it's been in place for over a decade. Once THAT gets worked out, start applying it to potentially-infringing bandwidth.
For anyone confused by my use of "potentially-infringing," in Canada recordable media is charged a levy on the assumption that you might use that spindle of CD-Rs to make unauthorized copies of someone's album, regardless of what you're actually going to be doing. Now they're trying to do the same thing with Internet connections before they've even gotten the first effort to do what it says on the tin. (Don't get me wrong: They've collected millions. But there's no evidence it's gone to the artists it's being collected for.)
I can only imagine the punishment you have in mind for a frivolous lawsuit.
Put into a bear suit and be forced to fight armed patent applicants?
If you went to a bar and tried to pick up a chick with the line "I started Wikipedia" - how far do you think you'd actually get?
"Hi, I started Wikileaks" works well in Sweden.
Apparently not. He's being accused of rape.
Psst. That's the joke.
Anonymous is best thought of as the dim-witted schizophrenic collective consciousness of anyone and everyone on the Internet who enjoys starting shit so much they join a cause to do just that over situation X. It's a chaotic neutral mob that just occasionally packet floods people they've decided they don't like. They're not the Home team, nor are they the Visiting team. They're the Other team.
...oh god, no, a naked photo.
Show me where people have been fired or lost their house or something, you pussy. This is the Internet. It's not brought to you by PlayMobil.
Your definition of "ruined" seems to be a little broad.