Posts don't get deleted.

Slashdot didn't publish it. The NY Times did.

Boats have been stored this way for a long time. Huge warehouse spaces with racks.

Our billionaires mostly do things like wearing clown noses in space or union-busting convenience stores.

Not all our billionaires do things. We have a pair from Kansas who thinks they can buy themselves a government. So far they're winning.

Backups in a stainless steel cylinder welded shut dropped in 50 feet of water and the GPS coordinates memorized.

Citizen! When Comcast is ready, they will terminate that fiber with high quality coaxial cable and make available to you a quality entertainment bundle with hundreds of television channels and the opportunity to purchase many more. You will also gain a generous, metered Internet connection at only a small additional expense and Comcast will do its best to make sure you have just enough bandwidth to watch your Netflix in 240P with only a minimum of buffering.

Until then, Citizen, do not talk of this dark fiber until Comcast has prepared the entertainment package for you. Such technologies are not for you to understand and your idle ramblings only raise false ideas in other Citizens.

I think the fact that those kinds of attacks haven't happened is a very good argument that terrorism is highly overstated.

Despite all our collective disgust with cameras, eavesdropping, and so on, America remains a very easy society to move about freely and there is very little security over the kinds of targets terrorists would have a field day with, like shopping malls, power substations, oil refineries, and so on.

What effect on the economy would a series of coordinated attacks on malls have on the day after Thanksgiving? Even if you could get people to go out and shop, sales would be off disastrously. What kind of economic impact would even a half-intelligent and coordinated attack on electric transmission of a given region?

None of it seems very hard to pull off, especially if you consider the impact of the involvement of a state actor who could provide funding and basic training in tactics.

This just reminds me of the tedious work social events designed to promote social interaction.

I guess they're tolerable if they're on work time -- I have to be around these people during work hours anyway, I guess interacting in a non-work mode on someone else's dime isn't a problem.

But when the activity is off the clock and on my time, I'd really rather not.

Sure, they should require it but the usual desk-pounding by management that something be done is usually tempered by the costs associated with implementing it.

You need an enterprise-wide key management system to issue and manage the encryption keys, software to actually use the encryption in the various places and ways people may share the files (email, web document systems, ftp, etc). You have to take into account the ability of vendors and customers might decrypt the content if they aren't using your system.

And then there's the training and transaction costs involved in using it -- extra steps employees have to take, dealing with lost keys or passphrases,

None of this says it's not valuable and there are products that make it easier, but it's also not free.

Mostly for the same reason most people don't encrypt email. Key management and trust are beyond many people conceptually and practically difficult if you email people not using your encryption system or using other platforms.

There are gateway products though that greatly reduce these burdens, but in many cases might not solve this problem because they're primarily designed to limit eavesdropping not misaddressing messages, although I'm sure someone has thought of them (ie, encrypting attachments but requiring approval of the sender for unknown recipients to decrypt them).

What I wonder is what email would look like had Microsoft decided to integrate a PGP-like encryption system and key management into Outlook and Exchange so that encrypting a message would be as simple as (un-) ticking a box when sending a message.

Create an account in Exchange, generate an exportable keypair to go with the account. The keypair could then be imported into other applications to decrypt/encrypt email.

When has the Facebook newsfeed ever NOT been manipulated and been merely a list of posts in chronological order from people you are friends with and/or follow?

It strikes me as constantly being manipulated in multiple ways and in a manner noticeable to many people. Most obvious was the "top stories" filter which purported to filter the newsfeed in some manner designed to suppress some comments and promote others.

But we don't know about the criteria for this or the motivation of other, less obvious manipulations designed to enhance or suppress comments. Presumably most motivations are commercially driven to promote advertisers products or increase Facebook usage.

There are more than a few email filtering products, some designed specifically to prevent sensitive data from being emailed at will via heuristics designed to detect sensitive information.

You would think as heavily regulated as Goldman is they would have these kinds of systems in place to prevent this kind of thing from happening.

Not only did Harold get a dose that was way beyond the LD50 for humans, he lived for 11 more years and died of unrelated causes. His pastor had to convince people he was safe to be around.

Harold was far from the only Tri-Cities nuclear celebrity. There were also stories about guys who would drop their pants and squat over reactor vents until their balls got a little burned. Think of it like a nuclear vasectomy. I never documented any of those stories but there were a lot of them and worse.

One thing I did personally document was that, adjusted for age, the cancer rate for people who worked at Hanford was not statistically higher than that of the general population.

I achieved my own personal notoriety there by accidentally leaving my dosimeter in my shaving kit and leaving that on an orange Fiestaware platter that was so hot it would light up a pancake meter on three scales. A few weeks later I get a panic call from Rad Services asking if I'm okay. Hehe. God, I hated that place.

Maybe we should just breed more ants.

Those structures are bigger and sturdier than a tiny house with the added advantage of being made from recycled building materials.

The real question is structural strength and integrity and what agents are they using to make the mix dry fast. The Chinese could be using some nasty chemicals that wouldn't fly in building materials over here (Chinese drywall anyone?).

Still, if the units end up being even roughly equivalent to poured concrete, I could see living in a printed house, no problem.