He did the smart thing and got free publicity for himself and his business.... Maybe even some work from that lotto company too.(since I'm sure they would want the algorithm to understand how to predict winners....)
Can you tell me his name without scrolling up to the top? I didn't think so. I doubt his will ever be a household name.
I often vote with my wallet, too. I was a NY Giants fan until I witnessed a parking attendant hit a squirrel with his truck. I was appalled by such animal cruelty, and have since switched my allegiance to the Philadelphia Eagles.
This is slashdot god dammit. I don't give a rats ass about baseball.
If this kill switch were ever to be thrown, I would give America ten days before a horde of Facebook starved teenage girls takes the White House.
thanks I need the laugh.
The TMI incedednt was caused by nothing more then incorrect data. Can you imagine the amount of havoc that bad data could cause in the cocpit of a jumbo airliner twice over as we add automated system to the already cumputer-controlled outputs? thosands die ever year because they are given the wrong medication, just more bad data. In combat theaters, quality of intel can mean who lives and who dies.
All of these are systems that should probibly not be attached to the internet, but data drives decisions, many of which can be life-or-death.
The TMI incident was NOT caused by bad data. It was caused by operators who didn't trust their instruments because they were used to seeing high reading on a Temp Indicator that was supposed to tell them the pressurizer relief valves were leaking by. Because it had been leaking by and they were used to seeing high temps there, they ignored it when it really was a problem. The data was correct. grow a fucking clue.
Homer Simpson is an engineer in a nuclear power plant...
NO, he's not. He's an operator
If the fuel was leaving from Areva then you were completely justified in not worrying about it. you could sleep next to it for 10 years and it would have no effect on you. It's not hot until it has been in a reactor. Blue containers, maybe 15 feet long, 3 or 4 feet in diameter right? Those are not waste.
They do have containers for transporting waste fuel, but it isn't that hot (still high level) as it's been sitting in a spent fuel pit for 30+ years. The waste is usually not moved all that far either. maybe a mile or two. It's going into something called dry cask storage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_cask_storage
The containers for moving waste around are robust. We're talking about not cracking if two trains collide or it get's dropped out of a plane.
If you don't like it, there is always the opt out village.
http://www.theonion.com/video/google-opt-out-feature-lets-users-protect-privacy,14358/
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