Buffalo Wireless is now shipping 802.11n routers with DD-WRT as the stock firmware. It's rather trivial to load the fully open version of DD-WRT (non-tweaked) on these as well. It's typicall just a quick reboot, and tftp put to the device during the boot loader stage. They're VERY DD-WRT friendly, and the 802.11n models now have GigE ports.
Tritium is the common name for hydrogen-3 (3H), which is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. Like ordinary hydrogen (1H or hydrogen-1, called protium) and deuterium (2H or hydrogen-2), tritium has a single proton in its nucleus. Unlike ordinary hydrogen, deuterium and tritium have neutrons in their nucleus. Deuterium has one neutron in its nucleus and is stable, while tritium's nucleus contains two neutrons and is unstable. Tritium decays spontaneously to helium-3 (3He) through ejection of a beta particle (essentially a high-energy electron). The half-life of tritium is about 12.32 years. Since the number of protons determines chemical bonding, tritium behaves like ordinary hydrogen and can replace ordinary hydrogen in water molecules. Thus, tritium readily cycles through the hydrologic and biologic components of the environment. Tritium has three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen due to the two extra neutrons. Because of this extra mass, water containing tritium evaporates at a slightly slower rate than water containing only hydrogen-1.
The unit of measure of tritium in water is the tritium unit (TU). One tritium unit equals 1 tritium atom in 1018 hydrogen atoms. In SI units, one tritium unit is about 0.118 bequerels per liter (Bq/L), where the bequerel is one decay per second. In picocuries per liter, 1 TU is approximately 3.19 pCi/L. Tritium occurs in very small quantities naturally, being produced in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays. Natural (pre-nuclear age) levels of tritium in precipitation are on the order of 1 to 5 TU. Nuclear-weapons testing during the 1950s and 1960s created relatively large amounts of tritium in the atmosphere that can be detected in ground water that was recharged during this period. Greatly elevated levels of tritium can be present in ground water contaminated with radioactive wastes.
It hasn't been until recently that the detection of the very miniscule ammounts of Tritium leakage through several feet of rebar, concrete, steel, and lead have been detectible as the units of measure are so minute to be nearly indetectable. As such, they don't pose much of a threat to humans, or other creatures in general. The half-life of Tritium in the typicaly human is roughly ten days, and is of such a low yield of energy to be about as harmful as living in Colorado being bombarded with a multiple increase of Cosmic rays versus people who live closer to sea level. In fact, when measuring the radioactive levels of Tritium you will notice that the K+ ions in bananas are radioactive as well.
Basically, all of this overreacting to 'radioactive' stuff should result in EVERYTHING being banned that's radioactive. If they were so concerned with such low level contamination, they should do away with Limestone rock on the walls of schools (radioactive), granite countertops (radioactive), bananas (radioactive), and all manner of other things that emit EM and positron/neutron radiation on such low levels.
The irony of all the craziness over 'radioactivity' is that on average, people who work near nuclear reactors, or have 'any' exposure on an ongoing basis at a very low level are typically healthier than the crazy people scared of all this radiation floating around.
If you take all the TLD (thermo-luminescent devices) worn by all Department of Energy employees and Nuclear Sub/Carrier personnel to measure very accurately the radiation exposure over a year, and add up every TLD in the DOE and Navy, it is still less radiation than 1 person receives by living in Denver Colorado for a year.
Thus, by this non-sensical IT'S RADIOACTIVE IT MUST BE BAD FOR US logic, we should quarantine Colorado, because obviously it's going to end up becoming a mutated Zombieland where only those highly paranoid, and well adept at using all manner of sharp, blunt, and dangerous instruments for maiming Zombies will survive.
And people complain that 'physics' is the hardest part of the MCat.
Personally, I'm tired of undereducated, pointlessly dumb doctors getting paid entirely too much. Eliminate all physics requirements, heck even eliminate chemistry. Just make them read a few self-help books like Business majors, and send them on their way. That will surely create TONS of lower wages for the crazy over-payed medical profession.
High energy physicists spend twice as long getting their degrees as doctors, and arguably do more to promote the greater good of humanity than any other educational pursuit, yet the NSF has seen fit to try and push down the PHD salaries for everyone in science.
Lets just help out the entire economy and start handing out med degrees like candy, or just import a ton of them from India and be done with it.
Medical cost problem solved.
'undergrads think they know everything, graduates know they know nothing and PHDs know everyone else knows nothing.'
And post-doc's stopped thinking at all a decade ago and started the yes-man professorial tract in which all thinking ceases and automaton paper printing begins. All in the name of someone's tenure tract.
Any switch worth it's muster has an automatic ACK throttle which can be turned on to control network flooding in the event of NIC failure. Apparently the IT department at LAX hasn't heard of reading the manual and just plugged it in like a linksys router and expected the defaults to be 'good enough'.
That appears to be a very astute observation. Stress does increase 'cortisol' causing an increase in fat storage around the mid-section (survival of the fittest = survival of the fattest in the long long before times). Driving in Houston, TX gives me road rage / stress like no other city on earth because there IS no other option (no mass transportation there at all worth a darned). I'm sure I gain a few pounds from stress and eating drive through because I don't have time to eat anything reasonable due to the excessive commute times there.
So yes, probably stress as well as lack of excercise, poor fast food, and way too much air conditioning inside time. If you've ever attempted to walk somewhere in 105 degree 50+ percent humidity you'd understand why Mississippi was the first state to go all out obese in the 60's/70's when air conditioning came about.
Didn't you know that taxing stupid people was always the most efficient tax in the world? There's billions of stupid people in the world! Thus if a 5 dollar increase in one's insurance bill doesn't motivate a person to 'fix' their behavior, it's simply a stupid person tax. Just like the lottery is a poor AND stupid people tax.
When you walk everywhere, or take a train then walk some more you burn quite a few calories. Look at the average commute time versus obesity numbers. The longer people sit on their bums in the traffic, the larger those bums become. Granted the act of sitting isn't the causal relationship we're looking for here. But not expending calories when you could be outside walking in the park, walking to the next tram/bus stop, or otherwise expending effort to get to and from work and the grocery store or local market is a big factor.
I can squat 420, bench 305, deadlift 500, and I have 7 percent body fat with a BMI of 27.3. I'm tall too.
Does that make me obese? Hrmmm, if you can dead lift the corner of a mini off the ground, then no... you're probably not.
I do believe this is the first positive move to ENCOURAGE people to take care of themselves better ever.
The reason Americans are fat is because it's easier, cheaper, and otherwise less time consuming to be a fat ass.
Capitalism and Ethics are diametrically opposed concepts. Maximization of one is a minimization of the other. Thus, our society is driven to the monetary side of the equation. When it is more profitable to be unethical you end up with all the non-sense of CEO's tanking company's just to take their free Bentley ride out.
Guys, you're all missing the point. The iPhone would have had 3g, but Qualcomm got their 3g chips tied up in court, so what was probably a drop in upgrade for the iPhone, never materialized in time for production. So you have a last generation set of Qualcomm chips in there.
Thank the US justice system and the jacked up patent office for your slow arsed iPhone.
Honestly, if the RIAA was 'forced' by some magical law to prosecute half a dozen politicians and lawyers for miss-using their intellectual property rights, I'm sure there would be all kinds of legislation to 'fix' this little problem.
I think this is the guys point. Get the Bushy twins in suit, then lil'bush warbucks comes in with some water baloons and nullifies some RIAA butt! If he can make up law out of thin air, you sure betcha he can unmake law out of thin air!
I am beginning to have images of the ATT Deathstar and an X-Wing... wait for it.... wait for it.... Well we all know what happens next. If they couldn't possibly decide to be more bone headed about their network, here they are trying to police their network for content. The only way this is going to work is if they put that CIA/NSA installed hardware to use, and analyze EVERYTHING. So instead of respecting their customers privacy, they are going to be watching people's personal IM p0rn and getting high on people's privacy. Yes, just like those pesky Geek Squad guys! Anyone want to ponder what's going to happen to SPeakeasy now that the same company that ruined GSquad owns Speakeasy? I can't wait to hear of the privacy intrusions!
I'm just glad I'm a Verizon FiOS snob (for now...)
Man, blowing holes in my jokes. Come now, we all know WoW is more addictive than the most potently addictive substances on earth. I do know some people that get shakes when they are away from WoW for periods longer than a power nap. Yes, it's scary. And I was hoping to make a funny. Now I'm going to go back to my cubicle and sulk!
And how pray tell do you suppose fileplanet will handle the onslaught of millions of simultaneous ravenous geek downloads? It will be like the slashdot effect amplified 10 fold.
How long after they conquer the internet with their traffic shaping devices until the company starts ransoming P2P media companies? What do you think will happen once they 'shape' a WoW patch and the entire world goes into catalytic convulsions pre-disposing a worldwide geek uprising?
> If you can't install Linux on it or otherwise do with it as you please, it's not anywhere near as useful as it should be.
I apply the same litmus test to all decisions in my life, including my choice of girlfriends and pets. That's why I masturbate a lot and have a hamster that runs Ubuntu. So what you're really saying is that you're waiting for the open sourced linux based girlfriend development kit?
I would tell you what my secret integer is, but then you would know what it is. The secret to my success is the secret of my number. Use it, and PREPARE TO BE SERVED PAPERS SUCKAH!
If you determine what my secret integer is, then it isn't a secret is it? So I'm assuming that the DMCA is supposed to give me some sort of super secret enemy of the state powers, whereby if you violate my number, you automatically become a terrorist, and thereby executed under the US patriot act for crimes against the state?
By proxy, all those who have now read the secret number of the AACS overlords, are now terrorists and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the patriot act! PREPARE TO DIE TERRORISTS! Oh, well they could also export us all to Saudi Arabia for 'interrogation'.
If I never post here again, you can assume I have been captured and forced to reveal my secret number. In the event of my capture, there is a time capsule locked in a.................
True enough:) I was equally trying to mock fun from the other direction. Perhaps a larger hammer is necessary. I will do better next time! I must consult my tim the toolman taylor's approach to comment improvement.
I would assume that you think that all scientists are atheistic heathens hell bent on laying the smack down on religion? Seriously, who comes up with this dribble? Monks in the dark ages WERE scientists you ideotic clodd! If you'll do a bit of reading, you'll realize that science was born from a religious belief in an ordered universe. If it's just all divine and mystical, then we better pray to the divine quantum demigods, because meta-realm science is just so predictable!
But really, why must science predicate a lack of religion? Is it not our 'divine' right to explore our fundamental understanding of the universe, thus allowing us to be better stewards of that which we've been given?
Maybe we should go back to living in grass huts, burning peat, and bathing in the same streams we urinate in. Because it's all been 'given' to us, man didn't have a thing to say in the matter! Yes, science is evil, go back to your grass hut you backwards science hating pansy!
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Buffalo Wireless is now shipping 802.11n routers with DD-WRT as the stock firmware. It's rather trivial to load the fully open version of DD-WRT (non-tweaked) on these as well. It's typicall just a quick reboot, and tftp put to the device during the boot loader stage. They're VERY DD-WRT friendly, and the 802.11n models now have GigE ports.
Tritium is the common name for hydrogen-3 (3H), which is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. Like ordinary hydrogen (1H or hydrogen-1, called protium) and deuterium (2H or hydrogen-2), tritium has a single proton in its nucleus. Unlike ordinary hydrogen, deuterium and tritium have neutrons in their nucleus. Deuterium has one neutron in its nucleus and is stable, while tritium's nucleus contains two neutrons and is unstable. Tritium decays spontaneously to helium-3 (3He) through ejection of a beta particle (essentially a high-energy electron). The half-life of tritium is about 12.32 years. Since the number of protons determines chemical bonding, tritium behaves like ordinary hydrogen and can replace ordinary hydrogen in water molecules. Thus, tritium readily cycles through the hydrologic and biologic components of the environment. Tritium has three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen due to the two extra neutrons. Because of this extra mass, water containing tritium evaporates at a slightly slower rate than water containing only hydrogen-1.
The unit of measure of tritium in water is the tritium unit (TU). One tritium unit equals 1 tritium atom in 1018 hydrogen atoms. In SI units, one tritium unit is about 0.118 bequerels per liter (Bq/L), where the bequerel is one decay per second. In picocuries per liter, 1 TU is approximately 3.19 pCi/L. Tritium occurs in very small quantities naturally, being produced in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays. Natural (pre-nuclear age) levels of tritium in precipitation are on the order of 1 to 5 TU. Nuclear-weapons testing during the 1950s and 1960s created relatively large amounts of tritium in the atmosphere that can be detected in ground water that was recharged during this period. Greatly elevated levels of tritium can be present in ground water contaminated with radioactive wastes.
It hasn't been until recently that the detection of the very miniscule ammounts of Tritium leakage through several feet of rebar, concrete, steel, and lead have been detectible as the units of measure are so minute to be nearly indetectable. As such, they don't pose much of a threat to humans, or other creatures in general. The half-life of Tritium in the typicaly human is roughly ten days, and is of such a low yield of energy to be about as harmful as living in Colorado being bombarded with a multiple increase of Cosmic rays versus people who live closer to sea level. In fact, when measuring the radioactive levels of Tritium you will notice that the K+ ions in bananas are radioactive as well.
Basically, all of this overreacting to 'radioactive' stuff should result in EVERYTHING being banned that's radioactive. If they were so concerned with such low level contamination, they should do away with Limestone rock on the walls of schools (radioactive), granite countertops (radioactive), bananas (radioactive), and all manner of other things that emit EM and positron/neutron radiation on such low levels.
The irony of all the craziness over 'radioactivity' is that on average, people who work near nuclear reactors, or have 'any' exposure on an ongoing basis at a very low level are typically healthier than the crazy people scared of all this radiation floating around.
If you take all the TLD (thermo-luminescent devices) worn by all Department of Energy employees and Nuclear Sub/Carrier personnel to measure very accurately the radiation exposure over a year, and add up every TLD in the DOE and Navy, it is still less radiation than 1 person receives by living in Denver Colorado for a year.
Thus, by this non-sensical IT'S RADIOACTIVE IT MUST BE BAD FOR US logic, we should quarantine Colorado, because obviously it's going to end up becoming a mutated Zombieland where only those highly paranoid, and well adept at using all manner of sharp, blunt, and dangerous instruments for maiming Zombies will survive.
And people complain that 'physics' is the hardest part of the MCat. Personally, I'm tired of undereducated, pointlessly dumb doctors getting paid entirely too much. Eliminate all physics requirements, heck even eliminate chemistry. Just make them read a few self-help books like Business majors, and send them on their way. That will surely create TONS of lower wages for the crazy over-payed medical profession. High energy physicists spend twice as long getting their degrees as doctors, and arguably do more to promote the greater good of humanity than any other educational pursuit, yet the NSF has seen fit to try and push down the PHD salaries for everyone in science. Lets just help out the entire economy and start handing out med degrees like candy, or just import a ton of them from India and be done with it. Medical cost problem solved.
'undergrads think they know everything, graduates know they know nothing and PHDs know everyone else knows nothing.' And post-doc's stopped thinking at all a decade ago and started the yes-man professorial tract in which all thinking ceases and automaton paper printing begins. All in the name of someone's tenure tract.
Any switch worth it's muster has an automatic ACK throttle which can be turned on to control network flooding in the event of NIC failure. Apparently the IT department at LAX hasn't heard of reading the manual and just plugged it in like a linksys router and expected the defaults to be 'good enough'.
That appears to be a very astute observation. Stress does increase 'cortisol' causing an increase in fat storage around the mid-section (survival of the fittest = survival of the fattest in the long long before times). Driving in Houston, TX gives me road rage / stress like no other city on earth because there IS no other option (no mass transportation there at all worth a darned). I'm sure I gain a few pounds from stress and eating drive through because I don't have time to eat anything reasonable due to the excessive commute times there. So yes, probably stress as well as lack of excercise, poor fast food, and way too much air conditioning inside time. If you've ever attempted to walk somewhere in 105 degree 50+ percent humidity you'd understand why Mississippi was the first state to go all out obese in the 60's/70's when air conditioning came about.
Didn't you know that taxing stupid people was always the most efficient tax in the world? There's billions of stupid people in the world! Thus if a 5 dollar increase in one's insurance bill doesn't motivate a person to 'fix' their behavior, it's simply a stupid person tax. Just like the lottery is a poor AND stupid people tax.
When you walk everywhere, or take a train then walk some more you burn quite a few calories. Look at the average commute time versus obesity numbers. The longer people sit on their bums in the traffic, the larger those bums become. Granted the act of sitting isn't the causal relationship we're looking for here. But not expending calories when you could be outside walking in the park, walking to the next tram/bus stop, or otherwise expending effort to get to and from work and the grocery store or local market is a big factor.
I can squat 420, bench 305, deadlift 500, and I have 7 percent body fat with a BMI of 27.3. I'm tall too. Does that make me obese? Hrmmm, if you can dead lift the corner of a mini off the ground, then no... you're probably not.
I do believe this is the first positive move to ENCOURAGE people to take care of themselves better ever. The reason Americans are fat is because it's easier, cheaper, and otherwise less time consuming to be a fat ass.
Capitalism and Ethics are diametrically opposed concepts. Maximization of one is a minimization of the other. Thus, our society is driven to the monetary side of the equation. When it is more profitable to be unethical you end up with all the non-sense of CEO's tanking company's just to take their free Bentley ride out.
Guys, you're all missing the point. The iPhone would have had 3g, but Qualcomm got their 3g chips tied up in court, so what was probably a drop in upgrade for the iPhone, never materialized in time for production. So you have a last generation set of Qualcomm chips in there. Thank the US justice system and the jacked up patent office for your slow arsed iPhone.
Honestly, if the RIAA was 'forced' by some magical law to prosecute half a dozen politicians and lawyers for miss-using their intellectual property rights, I'm sure there would be all kinds of legislation to 'fix' this little problem. I think this is the guys point. Get the Bushy twins in suit, then lil'bush warbucks comes in with some water baloons and nullifies some RIAA butt! If he can make up law out of thin air, you sure betcha he can unmake law out of thin air!
What is there some other connotation for humming under a desk?
Yes :) It was an honest question you know!
Yes, that's a board, I mean a full on workstation with chassis, hotplug drives, and PS.
Now, when will SuperMicro come out with a workstation based on this platform for me to savor the hum of under my desk?
I am beginning to have images of the ATT Deathstar and an X-Wing... wait for it.... wait for it.... Well we all know what happens next. If they couldn't possibly decide to be more bone headed about their network, here they are trying to police their network for content. The only way this is going to work is if they put that CIA/NSA installed hardware to use, and analyze EVERYTHING. So instead of respecting their customers privacy, they are going to be watching people's personal IM p0rn and getting high on people's privacy. Yes, just like those pesky Geek Squad guys! Anyone want to ponder what's going to happen to SPeakeasy now that the same company that ruined GSquad owns Speakeasy? I can't wait to hear of the privacy intrusions! I'm just glad I'm a Verizon FiOS snob (for now...)
Man, blowing holes in my jokes. Come now, we all know WoW is more addictive than the most potently addictive substances on earth. I do know some people that get shakes when they are away from WoW for periods longer than a power nap. Yes, it's scary. And I was hoping to make a funny. Now I'm going to go back to my cubicle and sulk!
And how pray tell do you suppose fileplanet will handle the onslaught of millions of simultaneous ravenous geek downloads? It will be like the slashdot effect amplified 10 fold.
How long after they conquer the internet with their traffic shaping devices until the company starts ransoming P2P media companies? What do you think will happen once they 'shape' a WoW patch and the entire world goes into catalytic convulsions pre-disposing a worldwide geek uprising?
I apply the same litmus test to all decisions in my life, including my choice of girlfriends and pets. That's why I masturbate a lot and have a hamster that runs Ubuntu. So what you're really saying is that you're waiting for the open sourced linux based girlfriend development kit?
I would tell you what my secret integer is, but then you would know what it is. The secret to my success is the secret of my number. Use it, and PREPARE TO BE SERVED PAPERS SUCKAH! If you determine what my secret integer is, then it isn't a secret is it? So I'm assuming that the DMCA is supposed to give me some sort of super secret enemy of the state powers, whereby if you violate my number, you automatically become a terrorist, and thereby executed under the US patriot act for crimes against the state? By proxy, all those who have now read the secret number of the AACS overlords, are now terrorists and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the patriot act! PREPARE TO DIE TERRORISTS! Oh, well they could also export us all to Saudi Arabia for 'interrogation'. If I never post here again, you can assume I have been captured and forced to reveal my secret number. In the event of my capture, there is a time capsule locked in a.................
True enough :) I was equally trying to mock fun from the other direction. Perhaps a larger hammer is necessary. I will do better next time! I must consult my tim the toolman taylor's approach to comment improvement.
I would assume that you think that all scientists are atheistic heathens hell bent on laying the smack down on religion? Seriously, who comes up with this dribble? Monks in the dark ages WERE scientists you ideotic clodd! If you'll do a bit of reading, you'll realize that science was born from a religious belief in an ordered universe. If it's just all divine and mystical, then we better pray to the divine quantum demigods, because meta-realm science is just so predictable!
But really, why must science predicate a lack of religion? Is it not our 'divine' right to explore our fundamental understanding of the universe, thus allowing us to be better stewards of that which we've been given?
Maybe we should go back to living in grass huts, burning peat, and bathing in the same streams we urinate in. Because it's all been 'given' to us, man didn't have a thing to say in the matter! Yes, science is evil, go back to your grass hut you backwards science hating pansy!