Comment Re:bbc? (Score 1) 429
But even there, we capture the exhaust and use it to power a steam cycle.
But even there, we capture the exhaust and use it to power a steam cycle.
I am not up on Power plant designs, but I am not aware of another technology that exists to turn power plant levels of heat into electricity, except through a steam cycle. It would be nice if there was some material we could expose to that much heat, and have it generate large amounts of electricity directly, but I don't think it exists.
We even use the waste heat from Gas Turbine generators to power steam cycles, to gain extra efficiency
Because when you are 17 years old, and told they will send you to prison is you talk about secrets, you tend to keep your mouth shut.
The Navy doesn't spend a lot of time telling you which stuff they are teaching you is secret and which is common knowledge. They classify it all as secret, and you keep you mouth shut about what you are learning
The side effect of this behavior has infected our whole nuclear industry in my opinion. Because so much of it was classified for so long, there was a long period of time where the only people talking about nuclear power to the general public, was the anti-nuke people. Led to a lot of Fear Uncertainty and Doubt.
I first heard about Hunt for Red October. I still have my first edition copy.
I had lots of questions from friends and family about how Nuclear Reactors really worked, and until that book came out, I was really scared about what I could and couldn't say without jeopardizing my security clearance.
After I read that book, I would reference people with questions to that book. It answered their questions.
Some legal professors, who know more than I do, think the court was a little insane with their suggestion that the NSA was lying to them
http://www.volokh.com/2013/09/11/fisa-uncanny-valley-article-iii/
Problem with the Court's argument, radar detectors in cars
The legality of radar detectors rests on the radio broadcast exception "if you broadcast it, someone else can listen to it".
If police agencies can argue that radar detectors are "illegal wiretapping" devices because they didn't intend for someone to receive their broadcasts, a lot of people are going to be charged with wiretapping.
I don't have any expectation of privacy when using an unencrypted WiFi connection. Specifically because someone could intercept it.
Because I understand I am broadcasting a radio signal in the clear, and know what that means.
Judge made the mistake of trying to interpret the motive of the person setting up the unencrypted hotspot instead of the intent of the people who designed the WiFi standard. He also doesn't understand how WiFi and networking work.
He decided that in general, someone setting up a hotspot doesn't intend for the traffic to be snooped, therefore it "isn't publically broadcast". The law should be based on the design of the technology, not the intent and misunderstanding, of the person who turns it on.
WiFi doesn't work if every computer listening in on the hotspot doesn't examine every packet, at least as far enough to see if it was intended for it or not. It doesn't take a special $600 adapter for someone to snoop, or packet capture, the network traffic. That may be the easiest way for an untrained person to do it, but it isn't the only way.
We need special judges, who are trained technologists, to rule on technology cases.
Also Why not have lawsuits against NSA and force them to pay the civil damages for spying on american people.
What the NSA was doing was approved via a Warrant by the FISA Courts
This wasn't a case of the NSA going off and doing something unsupervised, they requested and had permission from US Judges for what they were doing.
As such, they would probably be immune from damages
We are a machine company in the Pacific Northwest. We are still English rather than S.I. Our Vendors call it the "Boeing Effect". Most of their customers are metric. Only ones who do a significant amount of aerospace work tend to be english.
I would gladly refuse all Federal Dollars in my State, as soon as they turn over title of all the land in the State they own to the State Government.
Feds own 60% of the land inside my State borders. Much of that Federal "welfare" is just money the Feds are spending maintaining and operating on THEIR land.
Consider the money the Feds pay my State as Rent for operating Wilderness Areas, National Forests, National Research Laboratories and Military Bases for them.
It was a smoke grenade. It might have started a fire, but it wouldn't have brought down the plane.
Part of the reason for the US bias against diesel is the fuel taxes.
The US Government, and the States, have huge fuel taxes on diesel because "those big trucks do more damage to the roads". That could very well be true. But in my region, because of those taxes, diesel has been more expensive than gasoline for a long long time.
Most of our refineries have been modified to produce more gasoline than diesel now. If we were to switch the buying habits, they would have be be changed back.
We don't machine tungsten carbide in our shop, but we do make some pure tungsten parts
We buy it in 2' long rods from China. We have to buy a years worth at a time, lead time is so bad it is the only feasible way we have found to get any kind of price discount.
Cheaper titanium would be useful for us too.
You're an idiot. I am not saying that it should be news because of this person's status. I'm saying that it's being reported on because of it. I dont agree with that, in fact I abhore it. My whole fucking point was that it is wrong to dismiss this bad behavior of govt agents, and the level of wealth of the victim is and should remain wholly irrelevent.
I guarantee you that if Homeland Security took something from some destitute single mom, and the media got wind of it, they'd be all over it. Stop letting your envy get in the way of real life.
And you'd be wrong. This shit happens every day at the border and at airports, and even along roadways. People doing absolutely nothing wrong are pulled over and detained for hours, goods are confiscated, possessions are damaged. I personally know of one person who was pulled over in Colorado for speeding (4MPH over...) and sat on the side of the road with her 2 kids under 10years old for SIX FUCKING HOURS in 90+ degree heat while DEA tore her car apart. She politely pointed out a procedural error of the officer that pulled her over and the next thing you know there's a DEA officer there. Why? Who the fuck knows. He was chatting with my friend being all friendly and said he had a drug dog in training in his vehicle, and would it be ok to just use this as a training excercise and let the dog sniff around the car. Believing she had nothing to fear she agreed. The dog reacted to something, or more likely to nothing, and they treated it like a full on smuggling incident from that point on and had multiple state patrol and DEA vehicles there in minutes.
They never had any reasonable suspicion and never found anything, and you never heard shit about it even though it's been in letters to the editor for 3 major news agencies.
According to the US Supreme Court, an alert from a drug dog is "probable cause" and "reasonable suspicion" exists to pull her over for exceeding the speed limit by any amount
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