Also not a geologist, and not familiar with local geology. Packing so much water in a very small channel really helps water erode anything. If i remember correctly, it's thought Niagara falls moved a few miles in a day. That seems terrifying to me, it's a long drop down. Waterfalls slowly work their way upstream, obviously. Less obviously, a little weakness lets more water though, compounding the abrasive effects. Which allows more water, which cuts away the land faster.

So yeah, i don't think the dryness had anything to do with destabilizing anything. Water is just really good at cutting. The dam created a huge reserve of water, so lots is available to cut.

Alas, despite the title, and my hope that someone could finally help me justify my deep aversion to raw tomatoes, the article provides little enlightenment:

Frankly, the scientific community has been sadly remiss in getting to the bottom of the mystery of why raw tomatoes make some of us gag, despite a few scattered flavor studies.

Oh well. I guess it'll remain a mystery...

And you're also stuck with a $200/month power bill and the full home heater....

Don't get me wrong, I have a bunch of rack pull servers and they're great for the price but I colo mine for less/server than the power bill/server would be at home and have them ona faster connection. I stick with low power options for light in-home usage

From the reddit AMA today with Lisa Su (CEO):

7th) Will all Zen products have all of the instruction sets and platform extensions, or could lower end chips lose features like virtualization?

A7: In the consumer client space we have no plans to turn off virtualization or features.

9th) Does AM4 / consumer ZEN support ECC memory?

A9: ECC is enabled on Ryzen and AM4.

[https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_crea...]

edit: added link

Yeah, that's the exactly rub, as it were, with most "radical transparency" policies like these.

Funny how these things tend to work out in Corporate America.

Seriously? That's a fairly aggressive comment to just throw out there without any backing arguments.

You really can't think of anything valuable about hooking up small devices/sensors to the internet? Do you really believe the potential for stronger security is so low that it's not worth investigating?

I work at an IoT company and we take security far more seriously than some would say is necessary or even reasonable. We're not the only ones out there, you just don't hear about us because our stuff works and therefore doesn't make the news. Just like you don't hear about all the miles an automated car drives safely.

I'd love to see the INTERNET of Things be replaced by the INTRANET of Things.

Remote access can be handled through a VPN, so there's no need for a remote server. I'm assuming that the device in question has computing hardware that's at least on par with a $9 CHIP.

What's really needed is for secure and easy to set up VPNs (to connect back to your home network) to become a thing, then the remote access problems are taken care of. After this, each IoT device's app just needs to look for the device and possibly give the user a gentle VPN reminder if it can't find it.

Of course, a VPN introduces a lot of extra work for the user. Even the steps to connect/disconnect from the VPN add enough friction that some people won't bother.

Donald and Vladimir?