Comment Re:If your town gets its water from a river... (Score 1) 300
Umm, he lives in texas.
Umm, he lives in texas.
Its probably in case they have another password malfunction and allow just anyone to download your data. With the new terms, they are allowed to.
While I expect they have the flood thing handled, what gives me pause is when I looked up how many nuclear sites there are (440 roughly) and how many major disasters have occurred (chernoble, TMI and now Fukishima). So a quick calculation says if I have a plant within a few miles of me, there is roughly a 1% chance in a typical lifetime that my home will be un-inhabitable for the next 100 years or so. I'm not a big pro or anti nuke guy. Actually I was sort of positive on them until I considered the probabilities. I mean, some people may be NIMBY about turbines, but man, I am definitely NIMBY for a nuke plant now.
Um, no the volt uses exactly what you describe except under some very specific circumstances. In fact one of the complaints people make of the Volt is it uses this "trick" to increase performance of the car under these high speed/hard accel cases. Under normal circumstances it drains the battery to near empty, and then starts the engine and recharges/supplies juice to the electric motors. I think your thinking of the prius which uses the weird transmission that directly connects the small engine to the drive train. I think both are fine methods, with maybe a slight preference for the volt because full electric operation is normal for commuting. The trailer idea for the S is an interesting one. I'd need more info before I could really comment. It might offer an elegant solution if the extra weight doesn't turn the car into a slug.
Um, normally I only have one car that I use for commuting and trips. I typically do around 600 miles/day when I travel. I could rent a car for trips, but I'd rather drive the car I am used to. So I disagree, I think the Volt/Prius models got it right and the Leaf is totally useless. The Tesla at 300 miles is still not useful to me, even at 100K. It still does not have the needed range for that infrequent road trip.
Your assuming the server company will not do a pakistan and tip off the clients. I suspect the FBI did not trust the server company, hence they did a brute force.
You might ask the neighbors of the fukishima plant in japan how having a nuclear plant in their backyard worked out.
I also suspect that because it is neither DVD or BD, then no one will be making copies of the sw disks either. They may be avoiding licensing costs for dvd/bd and at the same time making pirating very difficult unless you have your own stamping facility.
Agree completely, I think he should work at facebook. I hear they roll stuff out all the time for users to test for them. Skype seems to be following that model as well. I am quite satisfied that google operates as they do as I rely on them being there and working for search and so far they have never gone offline. I'm glad he left.
Umm, maybe instead of taking away funding for birth control, we could encourage third world countries to reduce birth rates, even if it means, gasp, GIVING free rubbers and or birth control to people. But the catholics and SoBapt's worship making more babies, so we can't do that. So we can do something to help, but in true political perversity, we do the opposite and exacerbate the problem.
or stop having so many kids. Want to be green, less kids. A very unpopular position, but the world could probably stand population reduction to about 1/10th our current level and then stabilise there. Of course, it won't happen as our current society, with the possible exception of Eskimo society, is predicated on constant population increase.
I plan on building up a horde of gas, food, guns and ammo, hopefully before anarchy takes firm hold. Good luck with the gold.
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