Posts by Silly Brit

Re: Lack of mains

Ditto!

The current phone network is reasonably resiliant when it comes to power outages, compared to the typical power redundacy available for the networks of a typical user.

After all, many wireless handsets come with a warning that the handset can't be used in a power cut & you need to furnish yourself with an old-school wired jobbie to make calls in an emergency.

Even some of the mobile networks have been less than great during power cuts.

I can imagine there being lots of confused folks around as this starts to filter out across the country. Really needs what you should do in a power cut clearly communicated & have clear expectations on providers laid out (which it probably already is in a 2,000 page standard buried in a basement somewhere).

As I understand it, the Germans received a couple of hints that codes might have been cracked. At one point they went back and interviewed the polish codebreakers they captured who had cracked Enigma before the war but the poles were able to convince the Germans that changes in procedures meant the same cracking shortcuts they used were no longer possible.

On more than one occasion I think they reviewed the information they had and convinced themselves that it was still uncrackable , rather than erring on the side of caution as the allies often did.

No news?

What, you mean like the details covered in technical briefings on the IAEA website?

http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html

and

http://www.slideshare.net/iaea/summary-of-reactor-unit-status-2-june-2011