There is a company that knows how to include thorium into existing power plants and they have contracts to experiment in Russia and India: Thorium Power.
Their technology couuld quickly be included in existing plants refueling cycles.
Oh bomb making from Thorium is tricky as U233 has less than a 2 year half life. It is very radioactive.
NASA s latest report (March 2009) on sunspots is that there will be a massive ramp up of activity in 2010. It does not look that way to me nor the above author. Still another year or so is required to truly show the statistical trend.
The reason no one upgrades is that the new "standard" is not simply interoperable with the old. When color TV came out you could still watch the same programming on you B/W. It is not the case with IPv6. You need new routers, new software, new DNS and to train your people. Sure Apache 2.0 and Vista work but an Apache configured just with IPv6 can not serve people on the "internet" (yea yea build a bridge yada yada yada)
Please, the spec is bad just for this reason. The simple basic requirement for new addressing scheme is that it works with existing equipment.
1) The simplest solution is to up your refresh rate on your CRT. If its a LCD maybe changing the brightness will help. No doubt most Slashdot readers have already done this.
2) The background lighting in the room can NOT be overlooked. Any florescent light in the room will cause problems, remove them and environmentally dispose of them. Send them to Al gore and company. Anyways the vibration frequency does affect humans.
3) Have something else to focus the eyes on and actively look away from the terminal.
The OLPC, if marketed better, might make a perfect video phone. Many of these other smaller machines are REAL CLOSE to the features required for a portable carry anywhere video phone.
I was a contractor in Atlanta -- living in a hotel. We were kicked out for the Olympics too. Sure we found a hotel 20 miles away. It was only a minor inconvenience.
Webserver user should only have read access to only the tables required. Writes should always go through stored procedures. The SP has write access but not the user. The SP must also do a second (or third) scrubbing of the data.
It can also make sense to have to databases. One that serves the web pages and another that handles updates.
Actually Revelations/Ezekial talks about a poison raining down on the earth presumably from a comet. That assumes of course we are talking about the END TIMES.
Nuclear power plants are run on Radio Shack TRS-80's. don't you remember the Jerry Pournell arcticle? He has getting the "core temperature overload error"...
I see no mention of war anywhere in this document yet it is clearly aimed at Iranian support of the active terrorists in Iraq. It is proven fact by the defense department that Iran has been suppling "roadside bombs" and other devices. Many of these seem to have been even made in Iran and not supplied from China. The media is buying into it too and not able to refute it. Congress? They too have bought into it.
So by seizing Iranian assets "in our possession" the consequences will be... 1) Iran retaliates in force 2) bomb bomb bomb Iran -- sung to the beach boys hit Barbaranne.
Of course the first thing I would have done in Iraq is seal the borders. First to make sure Saddam and his wealth/WMD didn't leave and now to shut down the supply lines of the war. But even now they are now fixing this mistake.
With both a host and client USB port would not this device work as a bridge between two USB hosts? How about a Quick and dirty USB network?
The other thought is to attach it to a portable (cheap) picture viewer that reads a usb flash drive, and download "newspaper" like material... I need something to read PDF's on the go.
1) Corn stover dumped into the ocean. I have seen real proposals on this; cost: $10 billion. 2) convert sewage plants from aerobic digester (releasing co2) to anaerobic methane producers, burn methane (in O2), use mineral waste to grow duckweed, use duckweed in bio-diesel production. Net effect should be zero CO2 emissions and More food and human usable energy. 3) Burn hydrocarbons in pure O2, pump the gas into certain kinds on minerals that absorb it -- actually bond it to its structure. There are many hundreds of years worth of these minerals close to coal deposits. -- Much like creating gypsum boards from the fly ash from coal fired plants. 4) Eat the environmentalists; less SUV use, less air travel, less hot air, less sewage. Yuck! 5) Spray small quantities of iron in the oceans. It will promote plant growth, which will feed animals (sequestered briefly), when they die they fall to the bottom (maybe). Empty oil tankers would seem to be prime possibilities. It might also reduce the problems of iron laiden acid mine drainage. 6) End Socialism. Economic prosperity will allow people to adjust to the changing climate better. More socialism is more death and misery. 7) "repeal" Kyoto protocols. They don't work, they are counter productive, they will cause more global warming. 8) Cut down all the old growth forests and plant corn. Corn sequesters 5 times the carbon as an old growth forest. Sequester the corn stover (roots and stem) 9) Cut off china's oil. War/famine will then wipe out half a billion people or more. 10) Reclaim the Sahara. via wind mills pump huge quantities of salt water to the desert, grow mangos and salt tolerant algae. Evaporation might cause it to rain there once again. It might also reduce hurricanes. 11) Worry more about methane. Our technology has sired huge quantities of animals that produce huge quantities of methane. Either put bags/hoses on the cows or switch to eating kangaroo.
Understand that there are two definitions of global warming: 1) The scientific theory that the aggregate temperature of the planet has increased (and decreases) from many complex causes and effects. 2) Global Warming the religion: Claim scientific proof of man's influence on the environment to change ECONOMIC conditions. The effect is to transfer large amounts of my money to unelected officials to spend as they wish "to help the third world". Bunk.
It's a valid idea for places like LA. Perhaps 70% of the local surface area is "paved". It would be realistic to capture this excess rain water (when and if it rains) in the Long Beach Bay. With the use of large amounts of plastic you could create a fresh water lake on top of the bay. The water could at least be used to water golf courses or industrial processes (like beer making).
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There is a company that knows how to include thorium into existing power plants and they have contracts to experiment in Russia and India: Thorium Power.
Their technology couuld quickly be included in existing plants refueling cycles.
Oh bomb making from Thorium is tricky as U233 has less than a 2 year half life. It is very radioactive.
Really, if it is running our lives, is not the IRS manuals poetry? If not why not?
Extremely simple explanation for global warming is *sunspots*:
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/hoye/hoye040909.pdf
NASA s latest report (March 2009) on sunspots is that there will be a massive ramp up of activity in 2010. It does not look that way to me nor the above author. Still another year or so is required to truly show the statistical trend.
Real science will prevail.
This sounds way to similar to the exploit used in the book P1 -- over thirty years ago.
sigh.
a very tiny yellow bikini comes to mind going round and round.
I have some Z80 boxes in my basement...
The simple solution is to let the sun in. 1) Install more sky lights. 2) install sensors to dim lights as needed
Next solar HOT water systems for heating/cooling of their buildings.
This is 30 year old technology with a 6-8 year payback.
Where is my check?
The reason no one upgrades is that the new "standard" is not simply interoperable with the old. When color TV came out you could still watch the same programming on you B/W. It is not the case with IPv6. You need new routers, new software, new DNS and to train your people. Sure Apache 2.0 and Vista work but an Apache configured just with IPv6 can not serve people on the "internet" (yea yea build a bridge yada yada yada)
Please, the spec is bad just for this reason. The simple basic requirement for new addressing scheme is that it works with existing equipment.
Time to start over with a new spec.
1) The simplest solution is to up your refresh rate on your CRT. If its a LCD maybe changing the brightness will help. No doubt most Slashdot readers have already done this.
2) The background lighting in the room can NOT be overlooked. Any florescent light in the room will cause problems, remove them and environmentally dispose of them. Send them to Al gore and company. Anyways the vibration frequency does affect humans.
3) Have something else to focus the eyes on and actively look away from the terminal.
simple sunshine.
The OLPC, if marketed better, might make a perfect video phone. Many of these other smaller machines are REAL CLOSE to the features required for a portable carry anywhere video phone.
Isn't that what we REALLY want?
I was a contractor in Atlanta -- living in a hotel. We were kicked out for the Olympics too. Sure we found a hotel 20 miles away. It was only a minor inconvenience.
So why not use short wave transmissions for data even as a backup?
I am sure stainless steal could be etched too! Thus the rust problem would be lessened.
Not at all impossible to prevent!
Webserver user should only have read access to only the tables required. Writes should always go through stored procedures. The SP has write access but not the user. The SP must also do a second (or third) scrubbing of the data.
It can also make sense to have to databases. One that serves the web pages and another that handles updates.
If the park is still able to get insurance, it will reopen.
Here is another link (on the fringe perhaps) of asian/polnesian migrations.
http://users.on.net/~mkfenn/page5.htm
There is some genetic evidence and cultural evidence a group Japanese 2000 years ago became/interbred with the Zuni...
The Zuni language has several unique traits from other native Americans -- Japanese traits
Yes, I agree several of the SimCity versions I've played lock you into a biased vision of solving societal problems.
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Why not build churches to combat crime?!!! How about forcing people to stay married -- the biggest real world problem with (our) society.
Further SimCity forces a massively socialized --(ie socialism) view point on the world. One controller --You-- but one controller still.
blah rant blah rant
Actually Revelations/Ezekial talks about a poison raining down on the earth presumably from a comet. That assumes of course we are talking about the END TIMES.
Nuclear power plants are run on Radio Shack TRS-80's. don't you remember the Jerry Pournell arcticle? He has getting the "core temperature overload error" ...
Long time ago...
I see no mention of war anywhere in this document yet it is clearly aimed at Iranian support of the active terrorists in Iraq. It is proven fact by the defense department that Iran has been suppling "roadside bombs" and other devices. Many of these seem to have been even made in Iran and not supplied from China. The media is buying into it too and not able to refute it. Congress? They too have bought into it.
So by seizing Iranian assets "in our possession" the consequences will be... 1) Iran retaliates in force 2) bomb bomb bomb Iran -- sung to the beach boys hit Barbaranne.
Of course the first thing I would have done in Iraq is seal the borders. First to make sure Saddam and his wealth/WMD didn't leave and now to shut down the supply lines of the war. But even now they are now fixing this mistake.
With both a host and client USB port would not this device work as a bridge between two USB hosts? How about a Quick and dirty USB network?
The other thought is to attach it to a portable (cheap) picture viewer that reads a usb flash drive, and download "newspaper" like material... I need something to read PDF's on the go.
A link on the same site on the same page has a product that will actualy make it to market this year:
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/110
Bruce Sterling talked about sugar based energy sources 15 years ago in one his books. -- It is not a commercial product yet.
Here are my ideas not in any particular order.
1) Corn stover dumped into the ocean. I have seen real proposals on this; cost: $10 billion.
2) convert sewage plants from aerobic digester (releasing co2) to anaerobic methane producers, burn methane (in O2), use mineral waste to grow duckweed, use duckweed in bio-diesel production. Net effect should be zero CO2 emissions and More food and human usable energy.
3) Burn hydrocarbons in pure O2, pump the gas into certain kinds on minerals that absorb it -- actually bond it to its structure. There are many hundreds of years worth of these minerals close to coal deposits. -- Much like creating gypsum boards from the fly ash from coal fired plants.
4) Eat the environmentalists; less SUV use, less air travel, less hot air, less sewage. Yuck!
5) Spray small quantities of iron in the oceans. It will promote plant growth, which will feed animals (sequestered briefly), when they die they fall to the bottom (maybe). Empty oil tankers would seem to be prime possibilities. It might also reduce the problems of iron laiden acid mine drainage.
6) End Socialism. Economic prosperity will allow people to adjust to the changing climate better. More socialism is more death and misery.
7) "repeal" Kyoto protocols. They don't work, they are counter productive, they will cause more global warming.
8) Cut down all the old growth forests and plant corn. Corn sequesters 5 times the carbon as an old growth forest. Sequester the corn stover (roots and stem)
9) Cut off china's oil. War/famine will then wipe out half a billion people or more.
10) Reclaim the Sahara. via wind mills pump huge quantities of salt water to the desert, grow mangos and salt tolerant algae. Evaporation might cause it to rain there once again. It might also reduce hurricanes.
11) Worry more about methane. Our technology has sired huge quantities of animals that produce huge quantities of methane. Either put bags/hoses on the cows or switch to eating kangaroo.
Understand that there are two definitions of global warming:
1) The scientific theory that the aggregate temperature of the planet has increased (and decreases) from many complex causes and effects.
2) Global Warming the religion: Claim scientific proof of man's influence on the environment to change ECONOMIC conditions. The effect is to transfer large amounts of my money to unelected officials to spend as they wish "to help the third world". Bunk.
It's a valid idea for places like LA. Perhaps 70% of the local surface area is "paved". It would be realistic to capture this excess rain water (when and if it rains) in the Long Beach Bay. With the use of large amounts of plastic you could create a fresh water lake on top of the bay. The water could at least be used to water golf courses or industrial processes (like beer making).