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How We Know North Korea Didn't Detonate a Hydrogen Bomb
StartsWithABang writes: The news has been aflame with reports that North Korea detonated a hydrogen bomb on January 6th, greatly expanding its nuclear capabilities with their fourth nuclear test and the potential to carry out a devastating strike against either South Korea or, if they're more ambitious, the United States. The physics of what a nuclear explosion actually does and how that signal propagates through the air, oceans and ground, however, can tell us whether this was truly a nuclear detonation at all, and if so, whether it was fusion or fission. From all the data we've collected, this appears to be nothing new: just a run-of-the-mill fission bomb, with the rest being a sensationalized claim.
(Related: Yesterday's post about how seismic data also points to a conventional nuke, rather than an H-bomb.)
There's no doubt that this is all about propaganda, it's just a question of who the story is aimed at.
"Be particularly skeptical when presented with evidence confirming what you already believe." -
OK, over half of the topics you suggest are your personal pet peeves, rather than current news stories. The others have already had their run here. What do you suggest, that they keep rerunning your issues with software development until your satisfied with the end result? Now, that being said, some of the articles here have been pretty bad.
"Be particularly skeptical when presented with evidence confirming what you already believe." -
His list was also what I'd call my list. Perhaps you just don't fit in with us.... I'm with him.
The destruction of the GNOME project thanks to the horribly failed GNOME 3 debacle. * The destruction of the Firefox web browser thanks to numerous fucking idiotic changes being forced on its users by Mozilla.
Nobody cares any more because realize that Mozilla is so f'ed up that it has to get worse before it gets better.
* The destruction of Linux as a viable OS, especially when used on servers, all thanks to systemd being forced by all of the major distros.
FreeBSD FTW. If it's good enough for Sony and Apple, ...
* The fall of the GPL thanks to people wanting to use truly free licenses like the BSD and MIT licenses.
You say that like it's a bad thing to replace a restrictive license like the GPL with a freer license.
* The fall of Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
That was an easy one to figure out pretty much right from the get-go. Only the n00b language-of-the-month people got sucked into that.
* The Rust and Perl 6 programming language disasters.
And? There weren't that many people using Rust, and Perl 5x still works fine.
* The Go and Swift programming language success stories.
Nobody who's not using it cares. Replacing a set of tools with another because "NEW" has been done too many times.
* The rise of FreeBSD and OpenBSD, thanks to systemd ruining Linux.
Again, what's so bad about a system with no licensing restrictions, as opposed to the GPL?
* Microsoft porting .NET to OS X and Linux.
They're free to do whatever they want. That's not suddenly going to make someone who didn't use it before suddenly want to use it.
* Firefox OS failing worse than nearly any software project has failed in a very long time.
How is this not a GOOD thing? Maybe it will force them to concentrate more effort on core products, like fixing the memory leaks and other bugs in Firefox.
See, there's always a silver lining around every cloud.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
According to the Norh Koreans:
"...The Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq and the Gaddafi regime in Libya could not escape the fate of destruction after being deprived of their foundations for nuclear development and giving up nuclear programs of their own accord, yielding to the pressure of the US and the West keen on their regime changes... a bitter lesson should be drawn from those events..."
I wonder why I am inclined to believe them. Am I alone?