Colorado, for instance, has a much higher level of radiation than most other states in the US,........So please, before you continue spewing this FUD, educate yourself about how radiation actually works.
Please ease up on the language I am just expressing my opinion .
While unlike you I can not say confidently I know how radiation actually works. I am not sure I would even if I had a phd in Nuclear Physics however
I know enough to treat something I cannot touch,hear,taste or smell with a healthy dose of fear.
...Believe it or not radiation is a complex and not at all obvious thing. Most people haven't studied it in any significant fashion, in a university or otherwise. In the same way a doctor would never encourage someone to self diagnose, I would never encourage someone to measure radioactive exposure by themseves. It would be irresponsible for me to do so...
I think we have to view the question in the context of this poster is living in Japan and the Japanese government can not be trusted to give out
accurate and trust worthy information.
To put it in your analogy the town doctor is saying everything is fine but the doctor is being payed by the company that
is polluting the town.
So what this poster is really asking is how does he go about protecting his family from radiation exposure from the Fukoshima
disaster ?.
....The point of course, is to make people realize that the notion that "there is no safe dose of radiation" isn't necessarily correct. Your granite countertops have trace particles of uranium in them. The Capital Building in Washington DC has so much granite in it that it wouldn't be qualified as a nuclear facility because it already emits too much radiation. We consume radiation all of the time from a variety of sources and our bodies rid themselves of it naturally.
That has to be the best way to trivialise the argument I have ever seen.:-)
um but we aren't talking about bananas and granite here we are talking about people and are you able to defend your argument better than just talking about and hiding behind the trivial ?
Alpha emitters should be approached with considerable caution:
Because alpha radiation doesn't penetrate well, simple proximity to an alpha source isn't a big deal; but if you manage to absorb an alpha emitter, the alpha radiation no longer has to penetrate well to cause significant damage(just ask the late Mr. Litvinenko).
Effectively, alpha emitters have to be handled as though they possess pretty extreme chemical toxicity. Properly sealed sources are pretty much harmless. Dusts, dissolved compounds, aerosols, etc. are to be avoided.
Yes this the reason why Chernobyl is off limits and if you visit you have to wear a dust mask because if you get one speck of contaminated dust in your lungs
your toast.
u-235 doesn't emit "neutron rays", it decays by alpha emission into Th-231, with a half life of 700 million years. You can even hold a piece of the metal in your hand, wearing just the gloves of a rad suit so you don't have ingestible particles left on your skin. Sure, in a running reactor or exploding old-style fission bomb it can absorb neutron and then fission into many things including neutrons, but there are no exploding reactors or atomic bombs in Tokyo. In general, you need never worry about neutron fields, the situations that would put you in one are generally uniformly fatal.
sure.... I tell you what you demonstrate this to me while i'm behind a thick lead glass window and survive and I will be impressed.
I hope that was a sarcastic post. U-235 has a half-life of 700 million years which is the only reason that there is any left around in nature. As such it is barely radioactive. The only time you have to worry about it is if there is so much that it is near a critical mass (=52kg sphere) or if you are likely to eat it since it is highly toxic.
I dont know about the 700 million years part but I do know that all reactor fuel is made from U-235 and is very toxic and radioactive.
perhaps
you are talking about U-238 which is 99.99 % percent of the form of uranium (apologies to uni lecturers out there but its close enough)
we get on earth the U-235 makes up the other 0.1% which is why you have to enrich the uranium before you can use use it.
Utter fearmongering nonsense. Neutrons occur naturally everywhere as secondary particles from cosmic rays.
yes you are right this "background" radiation does occur naturally and no your are wrong their is reason to fear as their is no known safe level of radiation.
This so called "natural" radiation is thought to be the causes of some cancers.
"...most scientists and regulatory agencies agree that even small doses of ionizing radiation increase cancer risk, although by a very small amount. In general, the risk of cancer from radiation exposure increases as the dose of radiation increases. Likewise, the lower the exposure is, the smaller the increase in risk. But there is no threshold below which ionizing radiation is thought to be totally safe."
I agree , Australia is not like the USA in regards to law suits.
Mass Suing of people to get money out of them is not taken to kindly by justices in Australia.
I think the paragraph in Australian copyright law reads "groundless threats of legal action" but I am not a lawyer so I could be wrong.
thankfully Australian judges are usually honest and they are expected to be impartial and not let their political views affect their judgements. Not to say it can not happen it's just a lot harder to do.
ie : catch the judge with little boys etc.
(whoops sorry I made a mistake here sorry Lionel Murphy it was David Yeldham I ment to link to.)
Thankfully Australian judges are usually honest and they are expected to be
impartial and not let their political views affect their judgements.
Not to say it can not happen it's just a lot harder to do.
I would appreciate that you keep quiet if you don't have anything constructive to offer. Your smart ass attitude of "let me think that straight for you" is what makes Slashdot such a painful place to hang out. If you are knowledgeable, you could still make educated assumptions to these supposedly key details and provide helpful answer. You inability to do so should not be blamed on the person asking the question. Besides, I think most of the detail you ask for are irrelevant....
Your ignorance is astounding this has to be a troll oh well here goes.
What the previous poster is trying to do is get a picture of what the install site is like and with this info they can provide some suggestions.
This is not a small setup that you would have for your home.
This really needs to be given some thought or else if you make assumptions the network will not work and the job will have been done all over again.
This being an example of what could go wrong.
No offense... but judging by your wording, the hotel should really hire a professional. Mark my words: this will turn well for neither you nor the hotel.
I agree
this is not something you should attempt without professional advice, you have a nightmare in the making here.
Have you thought of using internet over mains wiring?
There are plug packs that that plug into a power socket and have a network connector on one end .
This would give guests close to the ease of use of a wireless network without the headaches of security concerns and wireless dropouts.
You could then set up a small wireless network for the lobby and common area.
Thank you ,
I knew what I meant just did not know the term.
Habeas corpus Corpus (Taken to mean in modern times) - "no person should be deprived of freedom without Due Process of Law."
Intent can be a crime. Or are you saying it's ok to buy the explosives, mix the bomb materials, rent the U-haul, driver it to Oklahoma, park it in front of a Federal building... and it's all perfectly legal and OK and we shouldn't arrest anybody until they actually set off the bomb? Yes, sometimes you can be found guilty of plotting to commit a crime.
But that has nothing at all to do with the story.
If they were caught with the bomb then making a bomb would be the crime there and there would also be terrorism charges but I take your point.
What I was trying say to the parent poster was that life is not White and Black
there are shades of Grey. To me he came across as arguing for arbitrary arrest.
We still live in a democracy dont we?
............ The sculptor was hired by Lucasfilms...... Lucasfilms bear all the risk in the production of the film and thus should bear all the profits..
No he wasn't hired an agreement was made George Lucas could have walked away without paying.
Which could/would have left the prop maker with thousands of dollars worth of plastic props. That was a lot of money in those days.
The prop maker took a great risk here based only on an agreement. No contract, no paper just a mans word.
......One day soon people will wake up to the fact that government can not provide everything for you and businesses takes risks and therefor must be compensated for it, the good news is that day of economic reckoning is coming much sooner than everyone thinks.
Holy shit dude take a chill pill the courts have made a ruling , the umpire has spoken.
A Lucasfilm spokeswoman said: "We believe the imaginative characters, props, costumes, and other visual assets that go into making a film deserve protection in Britain. The UK should not allow itself to become a safe haven for piracy."
Holly crap Batman. We have to stop these evil feens from doing their dirty deeds.
and how is building a large software product, or installing a new piece of software for use in the enterprise not the same animal?
It's a different animal to other project management because software is complex and always changing. When you start the project and make the plans
you have to take into account that things will change like for example in the previous analogy I used "If you move the railway tracks too much you may have build a whole new train station." - It is not realising that by changing something that you may have to "build a new train station" that is the real killer.
In other projects you may do step 1 , step 2, step 3 then you come back and change a few things at but each step generally follows the other in I.T. you may do step 1, step 2, step 3 then find the client now wants step 1 changed and that means step 2 and step 3 will change with it. Software is totally changeable and a very complex beast. One change may mean a 100 hours of re-work.
It is very easy to make mistakes and if these mistakes are not caught early expensive to fix. There have been some incredibly expensive mistakes made
with multi-million dollar projects having to be abandoned.
If you're not buying that how about buying reading lessons.
He's saying that getting cheap crappy hardware that failed all the time forced them to write software with a high tolerance for failure..........
I think you miss the point. He is using Business "jargon" against itself to change people's thinking.
What he is saying "reading between the lines"is that by Not outsourcing the hardwareGoogle had full control over the product.
In Business today it is considered dumb to produce the whole product yourself when another company can produce a piece of your product
for a much cheaper price. Your company then just assembles the end product and the costs saved equal more profit.
Here because they "found" the hardware in the trash they had to develop a software product that would work on it and they ended up
working out how to get the most out of the hardware.
Their competitors were unable to do that because the knowledge of the hardware was with another company / companies.
I heard of this same sort of thing happening once to a plane. What happened was that the plane was just painted. During the painted process, they put masking tape over the Pitots (holes/ports used to measure air pressure). They forgot to take the tape off, and when they were in flight, the airspeed, altitude, and stall warnings all went crazy from the erronious pressure readings on the clogged/covered pitot tubes. Result was bizarre instrumentation - overspeed and stall warnings at the same time, etc. They wound up crashing from confusion. Perhaps icing in the pitot tubes were causing a similar thing here.
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Not sure if troll or just an idiot.
Colorado, for instance, has a much higher level of radiation than most other states in the US,..... ...So please, before you continue spewing this FUD, educate yourself about how radiation actually works.
Please ease up on the language I am just expressing my opinion .
While unlike you I can not say confidently I know how radiation actually works. I am not sure I would even if I had a phd in Nuclear Physics however I know enough to treat something I cannot touch,hear,taste or smell with a healthy dose of fear.
...Believe it or not radiation is a complex and not at all obvious thing. Most people haven't studied it in any significant fashion, in a university or otherwise. In the same way a doctor would never encourage someone to self diagnose, I would never encourage someone to measure radioactive exposure by themseves. It would be irresponsible for me to do so ...
I think we have to view the question in the context of this poster is living in Japan and the Japanese government can not be trusted to give out accurate and trust worthy information.
To put it in your analogy the town doctor is saying everything is fine but the doctor is being payed by the company that is polluting the town.
So what this poster is really asking is how does he go about protecting his family from radiation exposure from the Fukoshima disaster ?.
...Slashdot has educated people, with backgrounds in science, who understand the issues involved in nuclear processes...
Wow what at statement I don't think even nuclear experts fully understand all the issues involved in nuclear processes.
Like how to deal with nuclear waste for example has had people working to solve the issue for decades.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-does-the-us-do-with-nuclear-waste
....The point of course, is to make people realize that the notion that "there is no safe dose of radiation" isn't necessarily correct. Your granite countertops have trace particles of uranium in them. The Capital Building in Washington DC has so much granite in it that it wouldn't be qualified as a nuclear facility because it already emits too much radiation. We consume radiation all of the time from a variety of sources and our bodies rid themselves of it naturally.
That has to be the best way to trivialise the argument I have ever seen. :-)
um but we aren't talking about bananas and granite here we are talking about people and are you able to defend
your argument better than just talking about and hiding behind the trivial ?
Alpha emitters should be approached with considerable caution: Because alpha radiation doesn't penetrate well, simple proximity to an alpha source isn't a big deal; but if you manage to absorb an alpha emitter, the alpha radiation no longer has to penetrate well to cause significant damage(just ask the late Mr. Litvinenko). Effectively, alpha emitters have to be handled as though they possess pretty extreme chemical toxicity. Properly sealed sources are pretty much harmless. Dusts, dissolved compounds, aerosols, etc. are to be avoided.
Yes this the reason why Chernobyl is off limits and if you visit you have to wear a dust mask because if you get one speck of contaminated dust in your lungs your toast.
u-235 doesn't emit "neutron rays", it decays by alpha emission into Th-231, with a half life of 700 million years. You can even hold a piece of the metal in your hand, wearing just the gloves of a rad suit so you don't have ingestible particles left on your skin. Sure, in a running reactor or exploding old-style fission bomb it can absorb neutron and then fission into many things including neutrons, but there are no exploding reactors or atomic bombs in Tokyo. In general, you need never worry about neutron fields, the situations that would put you in one are generally uniformly fatal.
sure .... I tell you what you demonstrate this to me while i'm behind a thick lead glass window and survive and I will be impressed.
I hope that was a sarcastic post. U-235 has a half-life of 700 million years which is the only reason that there is any left around in nature. As such it is barely radioactive. The only time you have to worry about it is if there is so much that it is near a critical mass (=52kg sphere) or if you are likely to eat it since it is highly toxic.
I dont know about the 700 million years part but I do know that all reactor fuel is made from U-235 and is very toxic and radioactive.
perhaps you are talking about U-238 which is 99.99 % percent of the form of uranium (apologies to uni lecturers out there but its close enough)
we get on earth the U-235 makes up the other 0.1% which is why you have to enrich the uranium before you can use use it.
http://www.cna.ca/curriculum/cna_nuc_tech/uranium_processing-eng.asp?bc=Uranium%20Processing&pid=Uranium%20Processing
Utter fearmongering nonsense. Neutrons occur naturally everywhere as secondary particles from cosmic rays.
yes you are right this "background" radiation does occur naturally and no your are wrong their is reason to fear as their is no known safe level of radiation.
This so called "natural" radiation is thought to be the causes of some cancers.
"...most scientists and regulatory agencies agree that even small doses of ionizing radiation increase cancer risk, although by a very small amount. In general, the risk of cancer from radiation exposure increases as the dose of radiation increases. Likewise, the lower the exposure is, the smaller the increase in risk. But there is no threshold below which ionizing radiation is thought to be totally safe."
http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerCauses/OtherCarcinogens/MedicalTreatments/radiation-exposure-and-cancer
I agree , Australia is not like the USA in regards to law suits. Mass Suing of people to get money out of them is not taken to kindly by justices in Australia.
I think the paragraph in Australian copyright law reads "groundless threats of legal action" but I am not a lawyer so I could be wrong.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s202.html
thankfully Australian judges are usually honest and they are expected to be impartial and not let their political views affect their judgements. Not to say it can not happen it's just a lot harder to do.
ie : catch the judge with little boys etc.
(whoops sorry I made a mistake here sorry Lionel Murphy it was David Yeldham I ment to link to.)
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/s72790.htm (infamous case in australia)
Thankfully Australian judges are usually honest and they are expected to be impartial and not let their political views affect their judgements. Not to say it can not happen it's just a lot harder to do.
ie : catch the judge with little boys etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Murphy (infamous case in australia)
I would appreciate that you keep quiet if you don't have anything constructive to offer. Your smart ass attitude of "let me think that straight for you" is what makes Slashdot such a painful place to hang out. If you are knowledgeable, you could still make educated assumptions to these supposedly key details and provide helpful answer. You inability to do so should not be blamed on the person asking the question. Besides, I think most of the detail you ask for are irrelevant....
Your ignorance is astounding this has to be a troll oh well here goes.
.
What the previous poster is trying to do is get a picture of what the install site is like and with this info they can provide some suggestions.
This is not a small setup that you would have for your home.
This really needs to be given some thought or else if you make assumptions the network will not work and the job will have been done all over again
This being an example of what could go wrong.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028085/Blind-man-accused-illegally-downloading-porn.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
The problem really is that the story poster is being very vague and has not given enough information.
No offense... but judging by your wording, the hotel should really hire a professional. Mark my words: this will turn well for neither you nor the hotel.
I agree this is not something you should attempt without professional advice, you have a nightmare in the making here.
Have you thought of using internet over mains wiring?
There are plug packs that that plug into a power socket and have a network connector on one end .
http://www.solwise.co.uk/net-powerline.htm
This would give guests close to the ease of use of a wireless network without the headaches of security concerns and wireless dropouts.
You could then set up a small wireless network for the lobby and common area.
Thank you ,
I knew what I meant just did not know the term.
Habeas corpus Corpus (Taken to mean in modern times) - "no person should be deprived of freedom without Due Process of Law."
Intent can be a crime. Or are you saying it's ok to buy the explosives, mix the bomb materials, rent the U-haul, driver it to Oklahoma, park it in front of a Federal building... and it's all perfectly legal and OK and we shouldn't arrest anybody until they actually set off the bomb? Yes, sometimes you can be found guilty of plotting to commit a crime.
But that has nothing at all to do with the story.
If they were caught with the bomb then making a bomb would be the crime there and there would also be terrorism charges but I take your point.
What I was trying say to the parent poster was that life is not White and Black there are shades of Grey.
To me he came across as arguing for arbitrary arrest.
We still live in a democracy dont we?
Now all we need is for it to target the criminals
before they commit the crime.
What ever happened to innocent till proven guilty? There not criminals even if they have a "record" until they have committed a crime.
............ The sculptor was hired by Lucasfilms...... Lucasfilms bear all the risk in the production of the film and thus should bear all the profits..
No he wasn't hired an agreement was made George Lucas could have walked away without paying.
Which could/would have left the prop maker with thousands of dollars worth of plastic props. That was a lot of money in those days.
The prop maker took a great risk here based only on an agreement. No contract, no paper just a mans word.
......One day soon people will wake up to the fact that government can not provide everything for you and businesses takes risks and therefor must be compensated for it, the good news is that day of economic reckoning is coming much sooner than everyone thinks.
Holy shit dude take a chill pill the courts have made a ruling , the umpire has spoken.
We pay these wise people to say wise things .
Don't go postal on us dude. chill
But...but...him making these items was piracy!!!!
A Lucasfilm spokeswoman said: "We believe the imaginative characters, props, costumes, and other visual assets that go into making a film deserve protection in Britain. The UK should not allow itself to become a safe haven for piracy."
Holly crap Batman. We have to stop these evil feens from doing their dirty deeds.
turn a few drawings into props for a major film and you lose all rights to use /make those props again ???
How does that work ???
Show me the paperwork that was signed.
Sounds to me like George Lucas was being a cheapskate and ripping someone off.
Is this great Wheel of Karma coming back or is it Luke defeating the Evil Emperor again ??? Use the Force .........
and how is building a large software product, or installing a new piece of software for use in the enterprise not the same animal?
It's a different animal to other project management because software is complex and always changing. When you start the project and make the plans you have to take into account that things will change like for example in the previous analogy I used "If you move the railway tracks too much you may have build a whole new train station." - It is not realising that by changing something that you may have to "build a new train station" that is the real killer.
In other projects you may do step 1 , step 2, step 3 then you come back and change a few things at but each step generally follows the other in I.T. you may do step 1, step 2, step 3 then find the client now wants step 1 changed and that means step 2 and step 3 will change with it. Software is totally changeable and a very complex beast. One change may mean a 100 hours of re-work.
It is very easy to make mistakes and if these mistakes are not caught early expensive to fix. There have been some incredibly expensive mistakes made with multi-million dollar projects having to be abandoned.
http://www.objectwatch.com/whitepapers/ITComplexityWhitePaper.pdf
Project management is an inverted parabola. Too little and you will fail due to lack of direction and budget, too much and you will smother it.
Project management in I.T. is a different animal to Project management in other industries. To give an analogy ...
You have to be careful when moving train tracks to a different location because you may have to build a whole new train station.
sorry about the double post
If you're not buying that how about buying reading lessons.
He's saying that getting cheap crappy hardware that failed all the time forced them to write software with a high tolerance for failure..........
I think you miss the point. He is using Business "jargon" against itself to change people's thinking.
What he is saying "reading between the lines"is that by Not outsourcing the hardware Google had full control over the product.
In Business today it is considered dumb to produce the whole product yourself when another company can produce a piece of your product
for a much cheaper price. Your company then just assembles the end product and the costs saved equal more profit.
Here because they "found" the hardware in the trash they had to develop a software product that would work on it and they ended up
working out how to get the most out of the hardware.
Their competitors were unable to do that because the knowledge of the hardware was with another company / companies.
I heard of this same sort of thing happening once to a plane. What happened was that the plane was just painted. During the painted process, they put masking tape over the Pitots (holes/ports used to measure air pressure). They forgot to take the tape off, and when they were in flight, the airspeed, altitude, and stall warnings all went crazy from the erronious pressure readings on the clogged/covered pitot tubes. Result was bizarre instrumentation - overspeed and stall warnings at the same time, etc. They wound up crashing from confusion. Perhaps icing in the pitot tubes were causing a similar thing here.
The plane crash being referred to is this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XL_Airways_Germany_Flight_888T
Ummm I think it might be this one http://ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroperú_Flight_603 But the plane was being cleaned , not painted and also it was a Boeing plane not an Airbus.
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