The situation in Tehran is the result of "a perfect storm of climate change and corruption,"
The current Iranian regime seems pretty "Off with their heads!" for the slightest infraction and they can't punish whatever corruption is at play here? Is it because it's being done by those in religious/political/financial (whatever) power rather than rabble?
Unfortunately, one of the three trustees has irretrievably lost their private key,
The IACR will switch to a two-of-three private key system to prevent this sort of thing from happening again.
Two of the three trustees have irretrievably lost their private keys
Sorry, I didn't get that quite correct, they're Passive Autocatalytic Recombiners. They require no external power.
> from a security, stability or usable prospective
You and me both but most people only score feature count. If they've grown accustomed to some oddball feature for a few months they feel they can never use anything else.
That they went their entire lives without it before isn't relevant.
From a market perspective, rushing more features to market makes more people with money happy than getting a good product to market.
It wasn't just the generators or sea wall. Another one of the problems is that they never installed the hydrogen reformers designed to burn off the hydrogen buildup from an overheating core safely.
As recommended by the reactor manufacturer and installed on US plants.
There would have been a lot less boom with them installed.
There is no such thing as anti-hydrogen. You have the anti-proton, with negative charge; and the positron, with neutral charge. The positron will not orbit the anti-proton. You cannot make molecules out of anti-matter.
Wikipedia says otherwise: Antihydrogen.
Antiprotons have a charge of -1e and positrons have a charge of +1e.
Sounds like they're also recommending people purchase more expensive HW products to get that feature -- or have it enabled. So the answer is - as usual: greed.
"HEVC video playback is available on Dell's premium systems and in select standard models equipped with hardware or software, such as integrated 4K displays, discrete graphics cards, Dolby Vision, or Cyberlink BluRay software.
It sounds like Nokia, once a great company, thought they would just pay up? But I read elsewhere that a patent troll called Avanci was behind the shakedowns?
If HP and Dell begin to make this more common and could encourage Lenovo and Apple to follow suit, then the "default H.anything" crowd might start to think seriously about moving to AV1 to drop the revenue of the trolls to zero over time. Hardware support for decode is mostly complete with more CPU's bringing encode online recently. I remember when Steve Jobs went to bat against the trolls for h.264 decode; Apple should do it in his memory.
Separately, Google seriously needs to flex against patent trolls when required. Heck, Lou Rossman is more aggressive than Google on defending the community against patent trolls.
Speaking of which USPTO intends to stop challenges to patent trolls and maybe you, dear reader, should spend five minutes to fire off an email to help EFF try to head this one off at the pass.
I used to have many magazine subscriptions.
They would each mail me a reminder to renew my subscription.
If I sent them a check my subscription would continue. If I didn't send them a check my subscription would end.
I didn't have auto- anything. I didn't have to call to cancel.
The same went for when I was a paperboy. You pay for your week or you stop getting papers. When you remember to pay you start getting papers again.
I think this is how subscriptions have worked for hundreds of years, with auto-renew on a payment card developing in the past couple decades.
Without a contractual definition the corpus of caselaw would very likely date to throughout the history of the country.
1. You have a point. Current reactors are around 30% efficient because they have to have liquid water to cool the reactor, and there are limits to that even with very high pressures. Thus carnot cycle limitations apply. It basically means that a nuclear reactor has to produce 3GW thermal (GWt), to produce 1GWe, so it has to exhaust 2 GWt as waste. Increase the temperature to the point you get 50%, and suddenly you only need to generate 2GWt to produce 1GWe, cutting waste heat in half. A much easier problem to solve at that point.
2. As you identify, there's a limit to what you can dump into the Earth. It just transfers heat too slowly to be practical in most situations. It's actually a problem I ran into when looking at geothermal heat pumps up north, like North Dakota and Alaska. You can actually end up cooling the earth so much as to lose efficiency or effectiveness over time. You might actually want to run some solar thermal panels and pump heat into the system during the summer. Between it being one of the more expensive options and actually less effective than air cooling, it isn't on my standard list.
3. Salt vats would still be a form of air cooling. Better options might be to list waste heat scavenging for zone heating or other industrial purposes. For example, it could be used to help dry new lumber, paper, fabrics, and food (dehydration). Laundries could use it for hot water for washing. Greenhouse heating, and aquaculture.
4. Micro-reactors still require cooling as per the above, and aren't actually in production right now, sadly.
To be clear, I'm not fixated upon large WCRs. I was just looking at the water-cooling restraint many fixate upon.
Indeed. I'd consider it much more likely if we had a process where we could freeze and revive so much as an otherwise healthy mouse. Much less a technically and realistically already dead human.
The history of the claim that vaccines cause autism is extremely well documented - as a deliberate fraud.
Well aware, but thanks. More people should learn, and believe, this.
The revised webpage says: "The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities."
Breathing can also cause Autism -- and definitely death. Fact: All people with Autism and/or who have died are/were habitual breathers. Claims to the contrary are not evidence based because studies have not ruled out the possibility that breathing can cause Autism and definitely death.
In related news: The inmates are running the asylum.
"In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved." -- Butler
