The small little thing you overlook (convenient, as you are obviously do not have effective intelligence) is that a single, average-sized nuclear fuel dump that leaks its contents into the atmosphere is quite enough to sterilize the planet with regards to higher life-forms. If you compare normal operations contamination, of course nuclear looks clean. But a coal power plant that blows up is not more toxic than one that works and the same goes for the resulting waste. Not so at all with nuclear.
Not at these levels in free air. You really think the Japanese are stupid or incompetent or inexperienced with radiation? What they used is the best tech available, and what they could do was estimate levels from interference in the video-pickup. That is what we have. So, no, we have now 2 hours experience with measuring these levels under real-world conditions and that is it. Your argument "if we just knew everything except the radiation levels..." is beyond stupid and shows that you have no experience with measuring things in the real world.
Probably not even then, because all the nuclear fuel critically needed for space exploration will have stupidly been burned to make electricity. The sheer level of stupidity is staggering.
Something that is not economical when insured is not economical when uninsured either, except if it falls exactly into a small range. The thing is just that in the uninsured case the cost is put on society and society does not understand risk-management at all. That is why any technology that can do a lot of damage run uninsured is just complete madness.
Never. This quite obviously does not work. So wannabes will put a lot of secret data on it and then the FBI can read that at their leisure with minimal problems.
I have destroyed flash chips with a hammer as additional security-measure for critical data from a customer. Turns out you need a _lot_ of force and you need to hit just right. Think anvil on one side and hammer on the other. This thing will not work.
All valid points. But the killer is that the designers of this thing are obviously completely clueless on how to securely erase data from flash. They just went for "spectacular" and completely overlooked "effective".
When you look at it, as soon as you have some power, the simple, clean and effective way is this: Erase a crypto-key from RAM that was used to encrypt anything important. Nothing more is needed. Noting is more secure. And yet, you cannot buy phones with that. Why? Because the whole idea does not work.
I don't think so. Unless you hammer flash-memory into a fine powder, no deletion is taking place with purely mechanical approaches. And unless you have a very sturdy shell around the phone, a flash-chip may not even suffer any damage at all as it requires a _lot_ of force to crack the casing.
He did not plan to enter Russia at all and was stuck in international territory for quite a while as a result. Russia (unlike the US) accepts international law, so you can change planes at an international airport in Russia without entering the country.
And fail. You protect a source at all cost as long as it does not turn on you or does something obviously stupid. Because if you do not, you will lose all your other sources and will not get any new ones. Spycraft 101. There is no advantage great enough to outweigh that.
Very much this. And, unlike the US, the Russians know how to handle human intelligence sources and make good use of them. It is unlikely though that they got anything from Snowden, and they may not even have tried. Snowden copied far too much data to know even a tiny fraction of it himself and he did not have it with him when he stranded in Russia.
Of course, the "alternate facts" crowd will create any amount of "fake news" to obscure these rather obvious facts as they do not fit their fantasy-world.
You would think very wrong. This was, incidentally, already discovered at Chernobyl at much, much lower radiation levels. All the robots sent from the west failed pretty soon. The whole nuclear power industry is built on the assumption that such accidents do not happen and hence it is not at all prepared for them. That makes it exceptionally unprofessional from an engineering point of view.
Do dangerous technology carefully. And here is a hint: If you cannot get an "unlimited" insurance, it is probably not a sane idea to do in the first place. Insurers are smart, very experienced with disasters and want to earn money. If they do not offer, that means the rate they would have to charge would be so outrageously high that it could not be paid.
No, they are not. Well, maybe, considering that they are likely to be at that cleanup for 1000 years or so. A lot can happen in that time. And no, if you have radiation levels this high, you are not starting any space colonies either.
At those intensities, measuring things becomes very hard. Geiger counters only work up to pretty low radiation rates. Dosimeters need exceptionally heavy shielding to not immediately go black in the conditions there. Actually seeing how long the camera lives may be the best currently available method that fits on a robot.
Humanity has basically no experience with radiation levels this high.
Or rather, excessively more expensive once reality demonstrates the inadequacy of ElCheapo risk management and risk avoidance. Interestingly, cost comparisons never include these factors. If humanity were not so stupid as a group, the refusal of all insurers to ever cover nuclear reactors should have been a really large hint. And we have not even started to tackle the problem of dismantling non-melted down reactors and storing spend fuel. Fun for the next few 1'000 or so generations to come!
Hey, everybody with that kind of experience has this. But it is not only the speed. It is also the willingness to invest a lot of time to help a junior person improve his game.
Indeed. If anything, writing software is getting harder, not easier. Part of that is the increasingly complex tasks, but part of that is also one too complex tool or language after another, because most of the tool-makers simply are incompetent and to not understand KISS at all. It will take a long, long time to sort this out.
I would go so far to say that these people are not "coders" either, because to me a "coder" is not a technician, but an engineer. An engineer is somebody that solves problems using technology by really understanding both the problem and the technology. The IT field suffers terribly from a large number of people sporting titles that imply competence, when no such thing is true for them. That needs to change before things get better.
Hahahahahaha, good one. I heard this first for the 5GL language project. That one started about 30 years ago and failed miserably more than 20 years ago. This time will not be any different.
Indeed. Trying to come up with metrics that people whose primary skill is analytic and secondary main skill is coming up with procedures cannot game is about the most stupid thing possible.
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The small little thing you overlook (convenient, as you are obviously do not have effective intelligence) is that a single, average-sized nuclear fuel dump that leaks its contents into the atmosphere is quite enough to sterilize the planet with regards to higher life-forms. If you compare normal operations contamination, of course nuclear looks clean. But a coal power plant that blows up is not more toxic than one that works and the same goes for the resulting waste. Not so at all with nuclear.
Not at these levels in free air. You really think the Japanese are stupid or incompetent or inexperienced with radiation? What they used is the best tech available, and what they could do was estimate levels from interference in the video-pickup. That is what we have. So, no, we have now 2 hours experience with measuring these levels under real-world conditions and that is it. Your argument "if we just knew everything except the radiation levels..." is beyond stupid and shows that you have no experience with measuring things in the real world.
Under water. Which means most of the equipment is never exposed even coming close to these levels. And that is why my statement is accurate.
Probably not even then, because all the nuclear fuel critically needed for space exploration will have stupidly been burned to make electricity. The sheer level of stupidity is staggering.
Something that is not economical when insured is not economical when uninsured either, except if it falls exactly into a small range. The thing is just that in the uninsured case the cost is put on society and society does not understand risk-management at all. That is why any technology that can do a lot of damage run uninsured is just complete madness.
Never. This quite obviously does not work. So wannabes will put a lot of secret data on it and then the FBI can read that at their leisure with minimal problems.
I have destroyed flash chips with a hammer as additional security-measure for critical data from a customer. Turns out you need a _lot_ of force and you need to hit just right. Think anvil on one side and hammer on the other. This thing will not work.
All valid points. But the killer is that the designers of this thing are obviously completely clueless on how to securely erase data from flash. They just went for "spectacular" and completely overlooked "effective".
When you look at it, as soon as you have some power, the simple, clean and effective way is this: Erase a crypto-key from RAM that was used to encrypt anything important. Nothing more is needed. Noting is more secure. And yet, you cannot buy phones with that. Why? Because the whole idea does not work.
I don't think so. Unless you hammer flash-memory into a fine powder, no deletion is taking place with purely mechanical approaches. And unless you have a very sturdy shell around the phone, a flash-chip may not even suffer any damage at all as it requires a _lot_ of force to crack the casing.
This is just another stupid stunt.
He did not plan to enter Russia at all and was stuck in international territory for quite a while as a result. Russia (unlike the US) accepts international law, so you can change planes at an international airport in Russia without entering the country.
And fail. You protect a source at all cost as long as it does not turn on you or does something obviously stupid. Because if you do not, you will lose all your other sources and will not get any new ones. Spycraft 101. There is no advantage great enough to outweigh that.
Very much this. And, unlike the US, the Russians know how to handle human intelligence sources and make good use of them. It is unlikely though that they got anything from Snowden, and they may not even have tried. Snowden copied far too much data to know even a tiny fraction of it himself and he did not have it with him when he stranded in Russia.
Of course, the "alternate facts" crowd will create any amount of "fake news" to obscure these rather obvious facts as they do not fit their fantasy-world.
You would think very wrong. This was, incidentally, already discovered at Chernobyl at much, much lower radiation levels. All the robots sent from the west failed pretty soon. The whole nuclear power industry is built on the assumption that such accidents do not happen and hence it is not at all prepared for them. That makes it exceptionally unprofessional from an engineering point of view.
Do dangerous technology carefully. And here is a hint: If you cannot get an "unlimited" insurance, it is probably not a sane idea to do in the first place. Insurers are smart, very experienced with disasters and want to earn money. If they do not offer, that means the rate they would have to charge would be so outrageously high that it could not be paid.
No, they are not. Well, maybe, considering that they are likely to be at that cleanup for 1000 years or so. A lot can happen in that time. And no, if you have radiation levels this high, you are not starting any space colonies either.
At those intensities, measuring things becomes very hard. Geiger counters only work up to pretty low radiation rates. Dosimeters need exceptionally heavy shielding to not immediately go black in the conditions there. Actually seeing how long the camera lives may be the best currently available method that fits on a robot.
Humanity has basically no experience with radiation levels this high.
Or rather, excessively more expensive once reality demonstrates the inadequacy of ElCheapo risk management and risk avoidance. Interestingly, cost comparisons never include these factors. If humanity were not so stupid as a group, the refusal of all insurers to ever cover nuclear reactors should have been a really large hint. And we have not even started to tackle the problem of dismantling non-melted down reactors and storing spend fuel. Fun for the next few 1'000 or so generations to come!
Hey, everybody with that kind of experience has this. But it is not only the speed. It is also the willingness to invest a lot of time to help a junior person improve his game.
Indeed. If anything, writing software is getting harder, not easier. Part of that is the increasingly complex tasks, but part of that is also one too complex tool or language after another, because most of the tool-makers simply are incompetent and to not understand KISS at all. It will take a long, long time to sort this out.
I would go so far to say that these people are not "coders" either, because to me a "coder" is not a technician, but an engineer. An engineer is somebody that solves problems using technology by really understanding both the problem and the technology. The IT field suffers terribly from a large number of people sporting titles that imply competence, when no such thing is true for them. That needs to change before things get better.
Indeed. And that is what a senior developer looks like.
I am not sure whether they are the originators of that trend, but that trend certainly is the core problem.
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Hahahahahaha, good one. I heard this first for the 5GL language project. That one started about 30 years ago and failed miserably more than 20 years ago. This time will not be any different.
Indeed. Trying to come up with metrics that people whose primary skill is analytic and secondary main skill is coming up with procedures cannot game is about the most stupid thing possible.