Or they're idiots and didn't have a backup pen and paper solution that was used for decades before computers and all staff should have been trained on.
I'm betting on that one. We've become dependent on computers for air traffic control and I'll bet the manual system hasn't been trained in years.
How about we just mandate that Facebook (or any other website that keeps personal information) be required to DELETE any and ALL history over a specific age. I figure that anything more than a year old is worthless to just about everybody anyway, but make it something like 7 years. That way, your unfortunate college posts won't haunt you all your life.
The ACA remains and it will not be removed.
I'm not so sure about that. It may take a few more years and a republican president, but I think there is a lot of pressure to repeal. At the very least, the ACA will be fundamentally modified. IMHO, it will be repealed in total, with the more popular parts re-implemented piecemeal.
However, we are stuck with it for the next two years at least, unless the democrat party goes into full revolt and enables a veto proof senate vote and override the presidential veto.
The TSA is about appearances so don't sweat it.
IF they where actually about security, you can bet stuff like this would be not only common, but UNIVERSAL. This and MORE. But it is really complaints like this that turned TSA into a paper tiger. All the stories of cavity searching little girls and naked X-Ray machines has systematically taken ANY pretense of actually being able to provide security away from the TSA and why? For Political Correctness.... Oh no, you can't PROFILE! Oh no, You cannot do secondary pat downs on anybody, epically young girls, good looking women, or Grandma in the wheel chair. Don't get me started about the "naked X-Ray" scanner bit.
No the TSA has been reduced to a joke, somewhere above the level of a mall-cop who looks all official with the badge, but about all he can really do is call the police while they sit on you.
so no this doesn't make airplanes safer.
Neither does the TSA. They really only provide the appearance of security.
REAL security is something they simply cannot do. Partly because we won't let them for political correctness reasons and partly because they do stupid stuff like this.
Are any TSA screenings necessary?
Only in so far as they keep up the appearance of doing something about security.
The real question is "Are any TSA screenings making us safer?"
But the answer doesn't change..
"Are the TSA's New Electronic Device Screenings Necessary?"
Reformat the question: "Is TSA Necessary?"
Why yes they ARE necessary. How else will we manage to keep the appearance of security on airplanes?
Sure TSA is necessary...
It's not that they provide much security but we got to keep up appearances you know.. Makes rubes/sheep (I mean people) feel sooo much safer when they fly.
The coffee doesn't power the maker, your analogy is shit on a stick.
I don't know, they might have something there... I'm pretty sure at 6 AM the coffee at least EMPOWERS the maker (me).
Happens all the time... Because they lost the legal protection of a patent, they had to resort to something else to keep the money flowing in. Too bad it won't work long term. I'd be shorting the holder of the Keurig trademark, if I had any money.
So before Keurig came along, coffee was limited to only a handful of flavors and was difficult to find? And Keurig solved this problem, but no other coffee maker has, so the best solution is to buy a consumer-screwing machine?
No, a simple hot pot and a French press is all you need for great brewed coffee, well that and some beans a grinder and water...
Yes, it is like the inkjet printers. If you can make an inkjet use the Keurig modules for ink, we could save a ton of money...
Wouldn't you need a 3D printer for that?
It's like that electric car thing where you still need to generate power somewhere, and if you're not using clean energy, you're just moving the location of the pollution.
However, overall efficiency is still higher for electric cars even after repeated transformations.
Totally off topic and likely wrong. Storing energy in a battery is wildly inefficient and when you couple the transmission and generation losses along the path from say Natural Gas -> Steam -> AC electricity -> DC Electricity -> battery -> motion there is a lot of energy lost. I'm not sure, but I'd not be surprised if you don't actually burn MORE Natural Gas going the EV route than a standard internal combustion engine would. All that transmission and conversion loss is going to really burn up a lot of energy, as will the losses of the battery which are a lot higher than you might think.
So the previous poster was right... EV's are NOT as clean as they appear to run, and don't get me started on the industrial waste they produce being made and scrapped.
He crossed the event horizon, so now, any useful information he produced is now in the black hole of Political Correctness.
So we are moving to liquid cooling... You didn't have to do all the name dropping to make your point.
Buzz words I read in this story: "High performance Computing", "data-crunching", "Cloud computing", "bitcoin", "big data", 3x "bitcoin"..
BitCoin mining is certainly NOT a good reason to move to liquid cooling and it is not driving innovation in data center construction and design. Anybody building a data center for a mining operation clearly hasn't done the math and *will* loos money, liquid cooled or not. Cloud computing is really nothing more than the data centers of yore with IP connectivity, it might be driving people to BUILD new data centers, but nothing about the cloud drives you to liquid cooling. Big Data" might be driving this, but it's claim to fame is the ability to use lots of low power processors in parallel, much like RAID uses lots of spindles to spread out the data. Big data is not driving us to liquid cooling. HPC is the same. All this stuff MIGHT be adding to demand for data processing, but nothing about it drives one to liquid cooling over forced air.
The only reason we will be seeing a rise in liquid cooling is if it is CHEAPER than forced air cooling. Cheaper by taking up less space, being more power efficient, more reliable or any other way of reducing data center operator's costs. Until then, all the name dropping you can do with current buzz words won't really help get liquid cooling adopted. It's all about cost.
I guess it would have been a snoozer of an article to read without all the buzz words.
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