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by dmfdmf 16y ago
How credible is that list? I remember that I stopped using Symantec for my clients when they rolled out automatic virus subscription renewal that charged people's credit cards annually. It was an opt-out system and very difficult to stop.
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
It would be impossible for anyone (but you) to untangle all the mixed emotions, motivations, expectations and desires expressed in this post. I get the sense that you are becoming aware of some facts about your career choices that you are
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
Notice the TSA's rationalization for harassment -- he must have been sent in by terrorists to get them to reduce or interfere with their security measures. Of course the thought that he is a brave citizen protesting the abrogation of one of
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326075
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
I'll step in and defend nuclear power. This crisis looks horrible and might even lead to multiple core melts with containment breach. But let's not forget this was a horrible natural disaster first. We engineers never said a meltdown could
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
I think one major thing is that SV is not exposed to giant tsunamis. Does anyone know for sure if the narrow entrance to the bay would prevent the kind of devastation caused by a tsunami? Could a tsunami be generated inside the bay? It se
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
This article is blatant scare-mongering.
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
I think the main control room and nearby offices are not bunker like but certainly reinforced to withstand damage from accidents. I have been onsite to a couple of reactors and most of the engineers are housed in regular administrative bui
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
To be clear this is Unit 3, not the same reactor that blew up previously (Unit 1). Though dramatic, these are NOT nuclear explosions but hydrogen explosions that result from venting steam from the reactor. The primary containment and the re
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
I thought we ran out of fossil fuel a few years ago?
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
You are just demonstrating your ignorance. The reality is that the only choice to power industrial civilization is fossil fuels or nuclear power. Even if this accident results in a core melt, in the large sweep of history, it will hardly
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
As a junior engineer I worked on Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station: Units 6 and 7 or K6/K7. I assisted in control system designs for the reactor internal pumps (RIPs) including supporting seismic qualification of the RIP motor contro
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
The Chernobyl accident was a power excursion during low power operation (high void coefficient region) that lead to a steam explosion. The core was not melted but was literally blown sky high because there was no containment building.
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
My details may be off (its been over 10 years) but the post scram core needs to be cooled with forced coolant for something like 30-40 hours. After that it can be cooled by boil off (assuming no core damage) but the down side is radiation r
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
When I was in the nuclear business we used to say the best place to be during the proverbial big-one was onsite.
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
Its hard to read at this point... I am assuming the reactor is shutdown (rods all in) and they are dealing with residual heat (still hot enough to melt the core). The cooling systems (primary and backup and emergency core cooling) may be da
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
Please be aware that there is a lot of scare-mongering and "worst-case" scenarios being reported in the press. (Enviros don't want to waste a crisis for their anti-science agenda). It would not be unusual for there to be radiation released
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
Perhaps Intel plans on giving the Mcafee virus scanner away for free. The resulting bogged down and slow computers would lead to increased demand for more powerful Intel CPUs. /sarcasm
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
The question I have is did the business wreck his marriage or did his divorce wreck his business? Typically a divorce is a big deal, emotionally and financially. I'm not making excuses for the guy but there could be all kinds of bizarre ps
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
I always considered it spam. I wish Google allowed me to globally exclude the domain from my searches. Moreover, given what I could read it didn't look anymore promising or valuable that the various sites that come up, discuss a problem t
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
I think it is impossible to get to the "higher orders of thinking" without slogging through some of the grunt work to see what is really going on. Unfortunately there is no magic number of cases or fixed level of calculation work that guar
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
Here is my advice. Review all the planner systems and make a list pro/con and how it fits with how you think/work. Pick one and stick to it for the whole semester. At the end it won't matter as long as you have some kind of system to keep
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
I think there is a huge pent up demand for the iphone on Verizon. People have been putting off getting a smartphone until it was available on Verizon not ATT. Moreover, by the end of this year how many people are going to be at the end of
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
Is this some kind of artificial test or is it a real issue? What I mean is that the article mentions running through about 400,000 passwords per second and the hack took 20 minutes. But wouldn't most servers or routers block the user out af
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
The consumer market (especially for electronic doodads) is segmented into low, medium and high-end products (for a given function, e.g. tv, phone, computer, etc). I find that the best value is in the middle because the low-end is often po
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
Yes, but adding W2 income to your tax forms is pretty easy and insulates you from all the tax and legal implications of running your own blog for a small income. Whereas adding a Schedule C for 1099 income exposes you to all those risks, ta
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
I agree with you, health care is not a right, and did not mean to imply that somehow Medicare could be made to work if proper econ principles were addressed. I was just pointing out the theories and implications behind the example of a seem
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
Perhaps this is a startup idea for the ambitious types on HN. There are literally 1000's of very successful blogs making some marginal amount of money from ads on their site. Most of these bloggers are not in it for the money and would like
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
> One last eye-opener: this only helps plug up the year-to-year budget deficit. The actual national debt is $13.5 trillion... This. The political reality is that people scream bloody murder when even the "small ticket items" are changed
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by dmfdmf 16y ago
My father's saying was "I can work 24 hours a day whether I want to or not". He also used to say "If you go to the bank for a loan and you say you are 'self-employed' they hear 'un-employed'"

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