Overloading the root servers is hard

even overloading just one of them is difficult.

It's actually quite a good system - although DNSSEC and DNSCurve could both claim a place for improvements...

Overnight

Overnight charging is possible - 50 miles to work is longer than the vast majority of people.

If you have parking at work then you might be able to charge during the day as well...

So...

Tell your machine that when it sees this UUID device (For which you can sub a readable name) that is should run a certain program with parameters.

Preferably a program held on the PC, not the device, but it doesn't really matter if you trust your devices.

Such a system can't be that hard (udev?) for a behemoth like Micro$oft to wrap a pretty gui round for your granny to use. Backup drive manufacturers could even interface with it..

So - where do you park during the day?

Why not charge up at work - where spaces are more reliable - 3 phase is probably available as well.

No...

A reset to eliminate software issues before a hardware return.

Not every week - just when a customer is suggesting that their handset is broken.

Read it again

A) Cyanogenmod (other aftermarket firmwares are available)

B) It's a server side fix (refusing the HTTP connection makes handsets try HTTPS)

Missed the point

Your job is still needed. The skills are still needed.

But you can't do much (other than planning) without some actual cable (optical or electrical or other yet to be discovered/invented) in the ground.

Digging a hole does not require networking knowledge, just a spade. Once they have laid conduits you're network hardware colleagues can simply come and blow the cables along...

NP blurring

is automated, so of course it will happen to car transporters...

Only if...

The abort system ignored the obvious method (the shuttle itself).

IIRC the latest theory is that the crew component of the shuttle went off on a graceful arc before a fatal collision with the sea.

"According to the Kerwin Report:

The findings are inconclusive. The impact of the crew compartment with the ocean surface was so violent that evidence of damage occurring in the seconds which followed the disintegration was masked. Our final conclusions are:

the cause of death of the Challenger astronauts cannot be positively determined;

the forces to which the crew were exposed during Orbiter breakup were probably not sufficient to cause death or serious injury; and

the crew possibly, but not certainly, lost consciousness in the seconds following Orbiter breakup due to in-flight loss of crew module pressure.[13]

Some experts, including one of NASA's lead investigators, Robert Overmyer, believed most if not all of the crew were alive and possibly conscious during the entire descent until impact with the ocean.[17]"

Wikipedia

Clarity.

http://xkcd.com/558/

AND

costs against...

Point

The water won't be radioactive (above normal levels) all year.

It's won't have significant levels after a month (assuming that the contamination was a one instance release)

An office worker needs to work 40 hours a week. They may (with flexitime) choose to work more on a Monday and Tuesday, and less on a Thursday and Friday.

That doesn't mean that they've done too much work on Monday, just that they've redistributed their working week.

(Sorry - not a good analogy, but the best I can come up with in zero time)

Safe...

As in didn't collapse (except the crane) or suffer significant structural damage from what we can only describe as an $EXPLETIVE big earthquake followed by an $EXPLETIVE big tsunami.

Following that there have been a couple of explosions, and the occasional evacuation for limited time.

Seriously - that's what's good about this place, you can see and predict the dangers which are happening.

If I was outside the plant at the time of the quake/tsunami then I'd likely not care what was going on - I'd be on a cloud with a harp already...

Because...

irradiating the land you aim to occupy is such a good plan.

I think we can do at least as well as the Egyptians did a few thousand years ago when they buried their kings/gods. That would be a legacy ;)

Think about a couple of reinforced concrete pyramids ;) Of course we could also go for deep, deep sea storage, or (when we finally build a space elevator) we could chuck it back at the greatest local nuclear reactor of all - the sun.

Oh, and the minor point that most fission power stations have some quite significant defences (in the form of concrete and steel).

Looking around the area one of the safest places to be was inside the power plant - new information indicates that the tsunami was twice the height of the defence design specification. There have been a handful of "normal" deaths (i.e not related to ionising radiation sources).

The buildings survived rather well - the shutdown was well in progress when the tsunami took out significant amounts of the infrastructure (but still not the buildings)

We should carry on building nuclear reactors as safely as we know how, we should look at non-weapons tech to build safer reactors still. We should look at mini plants (substation sized).