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Switching from ATT to Ting

Comment: Re:Challenger and Fukushima (Score 1) 183

by ed1park (#46811345) Attached to: The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper

Bullshit. They will get built, and they will work properly. You do things differently when your ass on the line.

The US no longer has manned spacecraft, etc. because of the Challenger disaster. How many billions was lost? How much confidence was lost? All because they went ahead with the launch to save time and money against the warnings from the engineer who said it would fail. And Boisjoley was blacklisted and destroyed for it.

Let people run things without accountability and cut corners for profit and you will always end up with a Citicorp, Fukushima, Gulf Spill, Challenger, etc. And in the long term, we will be worse off. Especially with nuclear disasters that will ruin large areas for generations to come.

Comment: Re:Challenger and Fukushima (Score 1) 183

by ed1park (#46799187) Attached to: The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper

To the person that moderated my post offtopic, RTFA and make the connection.

To save time and money, management made a disastrous decision. But in the case of the current article, it was narrowly avoided. The title is misleading. It wasn't a design flaw from the architect, but a stupid decision to save money on the implementation. (Which also is the reason why the Gulf spill happened.)


"But welded joints, which are
labor-intensive and therefore expensive, can be needlessly
strong; in most cases, bolted joints are more practical and
equally safe. That was the position taken at the May meeting
to erect the Pittsburgh towers. If welded joints were a
condition, the project might be too expensive and his firm
might not want to take it on"

Comment: Challenger and Fukushima (Score 2, Insightful) 183

by ed1park (#46794863) Attached to: The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper

“How the hell can you ignore this?” - Robert Boisjoly, Thiokol booster rocket engineer for the Challenger

“They completely ignored me in order to save Tepco money,” - Kunihiko Shimazaki, a retired professor of seismology at the University of Tokyo

For things that are too big to fail and would cause major disaster, the corporate shield must be removed and executive management must be held directly responsible. Financially and criminally.

Comment: Re:Did they actually look at the bitcoin rules? (Score 1) 301

by ed1park (#46572967) Attached to: Researchers Find Problems With Rules of Bitcoin

From the article:


What's to stop a government from forcing the top few groups to do a 51% attack under duress? (Via an all out secret or public war on bitcoin.)

Some scenarios: G. Hash group is forced to collude with the Chinese government and their own secret offline cloud of servers to do a 51% attack. US could force Amazon Cloud, MS Cloud, NSA servers, etc. to all run the mining software and do 51% attack with the sole intention of destabilizing and ruining Bitcoin. And US, Russia, China could all work together and force collusion on the top groups in their countries with threat of jail or execution.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.