You know, you can put the waste mine on my back yard. There's this nice coal plant that's just on a perfect location.
Seriously, considering huge million-fold rate of difference on the consumption of coal vs uranium to produce same megawattage, I'm surprised everyone flogs dead the nuclear waste horse, but always forgets about the nice layer of coal dust we're saturating our environment (and lungs!) with.
Windows XP SP2 hasn't broken any drivers that I know of, unless they are drivers that for some reason need a hole in the firewall and I suddenly forget how to configure a firewall. Of course I can simply uninstall the service pack if that does ever happen (it doesn't, RTFA please)
I can give you one example.
With SP2, the Wlan on my Aspire 2020 does not come up again after suspend/hibernate. The card reports some kind of error. Funnily enough, reverting back to SP1 fixes the problem!
To date Intel and/or MS have not provided a patch that I'm privy to that would help. Best they've come up so far is that the "repair" function actually repairs dysfunctional wifi after suspend.
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Steam is a different issue; it has nothing to do with "system integrity". Steam is useful from two perspectives:
1. It reduces sofware piracy (online check and all)...
2. It allows pre-loads and _instant purchase_ without the user ever having to leave their computer.
Yeah and
3. It eliminates 2nd hand market ostensibly boosting valve profits!
If you are in a country with membership of the EU, you might be interested* in reading Directive 2001/29 EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society. This has most definitely had an impact on the copyright regime in the UK, although, even before this, unauthorised distribution of copyrighted files was not permitted.
You speak as if the directive was universally written to law in every member country. It isn't. And probably won't ever be as it is with clauses such as making console modchips flat-out illegal and such.
Maybe we'll someday have such directives, but only after we've had a decent civil war about it and start calling it a Federation..
Over here we use Abloy locks which are a lot more tougher nut to crack. In fact by far the easiest method is a brute force approach since (most) doors are a lot more flimsy than the actual lock mechanism. That doesn't mean resorting to an axe, it's enough if you can turn the handle..
Unlike lead and other fun stuff the fossil fuel plants (such as internal combustion engine!) spew around, uranium will eventually turn harmless.
And never forget there's about 1:1000000 difference between amount of uranium vs coal/oil needed to produce same amount of energy.
Such relatively minor amounts can be dealt with. In fact are being dealt with. Get them into glass or ceramic compound and they'll stay put for quite reasonable geological time.
The reason I like kyoto is that it spells out for the layman to see: Nuclear power is a good thing. Get those goddamn coal/oil plants shut *down* and replaced by clean and efficient nuke plants already.
Refusing to use potentially incompatible components is the most user-friendly solution. I'd rather it did that than misbehave and potentially crash! about:config is not meant for the average user, but as a handy direct approach for power users (makes a change from editing config files, like I do in Opera).
Bullpuckies. Most user-friendly solution is to let you enable the extensions manually anyways. after you dismiss the driver-politzei "non-MS-approved-driver" popup, it's on your head.
It's not as if "downloadwith" and "tab browser preferences" has EVER misbehaved when "forced".
How is this diffrent then toxic waste from nuclear plants being stored under ground.... if we continue storring all this wouldn't eventually run out of place to put it?
By the scale of, oh, about 1 to 100000 or so. And I think I'm being generous here.
There's perfectly good technology for producing emission-free power. I do believe it involves atoms.
This one would produce a shitload of liquid CO2. Even the article states it's challenging storing 500x the amount of CO2 oil companies do these days.
I suppose it's just a matter of time until the thetans will land and provide us with free energy. That's why we don't need emission free energy sources.
No kidding... as long as there's an option to purchase a CD sans-bonus-track (or whatever it is), I'll take it if it has no freedom sacrificing protections on it.
Yeah. Right.
You have the option not to buy the DRM-enabled CD. Nobody said anything you having option to buy red book CD without bonus track(s).
And in fact the record company does not have legal obligation to sell un-protected products.
In other words, they were performing an experiment which required safety systems were disabled. And it blew up on their faces the worst kind of way.
Greenies want everyone to think that it "just happened" when the reactor was operating in routine nine-to-five fashion. Whereas the jokers operating the plant directly caused the disaster by performing a deliberate experiment.
Greenies don't object to nuclear power on principle - the problem is safe transport and storage of fuel and waste.
Oh, that's just something they say to sound more rational. Now if you compare risks and accidents with conventional fossile fuel transportation such as oil tankers and gas pipes.. Suddenly carting around rather modest amounts of nuclear fuel/waste isn't such a big problem.
Don't forget that the amount of uranium required to produce equivalent energy as coal is less than 1/1000.
As for storage. those "rational" fears are that the containers buried into bedrock (done here in Europe) may be damaged by geological activity sometime in far future. And the waste might come into contact with water supply or return to surface.
All I can say to that is: Radon. Somehow we can deal with naturally occurring radiation..
Now if I have a choice, I'll take nuke plant on my back yard over a coal plant 5 times out of 5.
At least with a nuke plant there's something like 99,97% chance nothing too serious will ever happen. Or whatever the current ratio of reactors to serious accidents affecting environment is.
With a coal plant I'd probably kiss goodbye to good 5 years of my life due to all the coal dust. Plus having asthma and other fun stuff earlier.
As far as I understand, they were performing a deliberate experinment on a live reactor. That means, they have a 500MW reactor (or whatever it was) going at something like 80% power connected to the grid.
The nature of the experiment was such as they had to disconnect the safety equipment because they would have prevented screwing with the core parameters in unorthodox ways.
Basically, the assholes got what was coming to them. Apparently they made the core "oscillate" which is very bad at those power levels.
Very small output => very high output => very small output => 200% nominal output => KABOOM.
No matter how well it will work. No matter how safe they can make it. No matter how efficient it will be. No matter how clean the process is.
Greenpeace et al will still behave like this is the beast of apocalypse.
Just as they do with nuclear power. Such a horror. Clean energy replacing coal/oil plants spewing hundreds of metric tons of fossil fuel waste into the atmosphere each and every year? Surely it must be evil.
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You know, you can put the waste mine on my back yard. There's this nice coal plant that's just on a perfect location.
Seriously, considering huge million-fold rate of difference on the consumption of coal vs uranium to produce same megawattage, I'm surprised everyone flogs dead the nuclear waste horse, but always forgets about the nice layer of coal dust we're saturating our environment (and lungs!) with.
Windows XP SP2 hasn't broken any drivers that I know of, unless they are drivers that for some reason need a hole in the firewall and I suddenly forget how to configure a firewall. Of course I can simply uninstall the service pack if that does ever happen (it doesn't, RTFA please)
I can give you one example.
With SP2, the Wlan on my Aspire 2020 does not come up again after suspend/hibernate. The card reports some kind of error. Funnily enough, reverting back to SP1 fixes the problem!
To date Intel and/or MS have not provided a patch that I'm privy to that would help. Best they've come up so far is that the "repair" function actually repairs dysfunctional wifi after suspend.
Steam is a different issue; it has nothing to do with "system integrity". Steam is useful from two perspectives:
1. It reduces sofware piracy (online check and all)...
2. It allows pre-loads and _instant purchase_ without the user ever having to leave their computer.
Yeah and
3. It eliminates 2nd hand market ostensibly boosting valve profits!
If you are in a country with membership of the EU, you might be interested* in reading Directive 2001/29 EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society. This has most definitely had an impact on the copyright regime in the UK, although, even before this, unauthorised distribution of copyrighted files was not permitted.
You speak as if the directive was universally written to law in every member country. It isn't. And probably won't ever be as it is with clauses such as making console modchips flat-out illegal and such.
Maybe we'll someday have such directives, but only after we've had a decent civil war about it and start calling it a Federation..
That's what you get for the crappy US locks.
Over here we use Abloy locks which are a lot more tougher nut to crack. In fact by far the easiest method is a brute force approach since (most) doors are a lot more flimsy than the actual lock mechanism. That doesn't mean resorting to an axe, it's enough if you can turn the handle..
And even with the current rate of blowage vs megawattage, it's a shitload cleaner than fossil fuels.
Unlike lead and other fun stuff the fossil fuel plants (such as internal combustion engine!) spew around, uranium will eventually turn harmless.
And never forget there's about 1:1000000 difference between amount of uranium vs coal/oil needed to produce same amount of energy.
Such relatively minor amounts can be dealt with. In fact are being dealt with. Get them into glass or ceramic compound and they'll stay put for quite reasonable geological time.
The reason I like kyoto is that it spells out for the layman to see: Nuclear power is a good thing. Get those goddamn coal/oil plants shut *down* and replaced by clean and efficient nuke plants already.
Refusing to use potentially incompatible components is the most user-friendly solution. I'd rather it did that than misbehave and potentially crash! about:config is not meant for the average user, but as a handy direct approach for power users (makes a change from editing config files, like I do in Opera).
Bullpuckies. Most user-friendly solution is to let you enable the extensions manually anyways. after you dismiss the driver-politzei "non-MS-approved-driver" popup, it's on your head.
It's not as if "downloadwith" and "tab browser preferences" has EVER misbehaved when "forced".
A bit like the Soviets were waiting for Capitalist system to collapse under it's own weight..
How is this diffrent then toxic waste from nuclear plants being stored under ground.... if we continue storring all this wouldn't eventually run out of place to put it?
By the scale of, oh, about 1 to 100000 or so. And I think I'm being generous here.
There's perfectly good technology for producing emission-free power. I do believe it involves atoms.
This one would produce a shitload of liquid CO2. Even the article states it's challenging storing 500x the amount of CO2 oil companies do these days.
I suppose it's just a matter of time until the thetans will land and provide us with free energy. That's why we don't need emission free energy sources.
As if there was no way around that.
How about messengers? You could pop up a message every time there's an update in the bulletin board where the mailing list is kept.
$1.57 / 3 meals a day = 52 cents a meal.
You must _really_ like ramen.
Hey, the guy writes to slashdot. What do you expect?
I also bet he gets free meals from home/work/school and doesn't have any idea how much groceries really cost.
No kidding... as long as there's an option to purchase a CD sans-bonus-track (or whatever it is), I'll take it if it has no freedom sacrificing protections on it.
Yeah. Right.
You have the option not to buy the DRM-enabled CD. Nobody said anything you having option to buy red book CD without bonus track(s).
And in fact the record company does not have legal obligation to sell un-protected products.
Umm. No.
Check the facts again. There have not been even that many CANCER cases. And the mortality rate of thyroid cancer is not very high anyways.
WHO report puts the actual fatalities after 10 years to 100-1000 persons.
Sure, the current deposits and mines would be exhausted in 50, but I'm sure that there's plenty more out there.
Especially since increased demand would drive prices up and it'd become profitable to go after less accessible/rich sources.
I've never seen a reasonable study that says the existing uranium mines are anywhere close to being exhausted.
Yup.
In other words, they were performing an experiment which required safety systems were disabled. And it blew up on their faces the worst kind of way.
Greenies want everyone to think that it "just happened" when the reactor was operating in routine nine-to-five fashion. Whereas the jokers operating the plant directly caused the disaster by performing a deliberate experiment.
Greenies don't object to nuclear power on principle - the problem is safe transport and storage of fuel and waste.
Oh, that's just something they say to sound more rational. Now if you compare risks and accidents with conventional fossile fuel transportation such as oil tankers and gas pipes.. Suddenly carting around rather modest amounts of nuclear fuel/waste isn't such a big problem.
Don't forget that the amount of uranium required to produce equivalent energy as coal is less than 1/1000.
As for storage. those "rational" fears are that the containers buried into bedrock (done here in Europe) may be damaged by geological activity sometime in far future. And the waste might come into contact with water supply or return to surface.
All I can say to that is: Radon.
Somehow we can deal with naturally occurring radiation..
You'd have the pleasure of having greenpeace and exxon hitmen after you, if you actually could follow throught with such a plan!
Seriously, hydrogen has some real issues such as the stuff evaporated through solid metals..
Now if I have a choice, I'll take nuke plant on my back yard over a coal plant 5 times out of 5.
At least with a nuke plant there's something like 99,97% chance nothing too serious will ever happen. Or whatever the current ratio of reactors to serious accidents affecting environment is.
With a coal plant I'd probably kiss goodbye to good 5 years of my life due to all the coal dust. Plus having asthma and other fun stuff earlier.
Just piping in here.
As far as I understand, they were performing a deliberate experinment on a live reactor. That means, they have a 500MW reactor (or whatever it was) going at something like 80% power connected to the grid.
The nature of the experiment was such as they had to disconnect the safety equipment because they would have prevented screwing with the core parameters in unorthodox ways.
Basically, the assholes got what was coming to them. Apparently they made the core "oscillate" which is very bad at those power levels.
Very small output => very high output => very small output => 200% nominal output => KABOOM.
In the past 7-10 years, I have not seen one legitimite or viable product advertised by spam. Not one.
Ahem.
There's perfectly respectable spam for pornographic web sites.
OK, high quality sites (such as it is) would not spam. But you still more or less get what you paid for.
No matter how well it will work. No matter how safe they can make it. No matter how efficient it will be. No matter how clean the process is.
Greenpeace et al will still behave like this is the beast of apocalypse.
Just as they do with nuclear power. Such a horror. Clean energy replacing coal/oil plants spewing hundreds of metric tons of fossil fuel waste into the atmosphere each and every year? Surely it must be evil.
Take a leaf from the Brian & Teller's bullshit: Call them "Litigious assholes" and you're pretty safe.