On the one hand, modern uranium reactors (pebble bed, or even well-made light water reactors) are perfectly safe. Using thorium instead is at best a minor improvement.
Same I was thinking. Saw something, years ago, where solid fuel pellets were assembled into rods and had the same effect as what the article describes in the liquid too. If they heat too much the pellets expand but do not rupture the tube and the reaction slows down.
Isn't there a Someone notes a reactor in India that uses thorium already.
Amazon has found a way to put portions of its business into the tax-haven equivalent of reservations. By creating wholly owned subsidiaries for the parts that are treated separately for tax matters, Amazon is under no obligation to collect sales tax. This legal technique is called “entity isolation,” said Michael Mazerov, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington.
The state and federal governments made complicated tax laws and Amazon is following them in a business efficient manner. What is their problem?
Don't we get a larger circle of trusted insiders with outsourcing? Weakest link in the security chain, IIRC.
Open to correction and education. Please don't flame too bad?
"Too bad those people caved, but that need not cost us the ability to know what they wanted so badly to hide."
Note to potential "cavers":
You can certainly sanitize the information you plan to agree to keep secret, give it to reliable third parties, then take the money.
It isn't honest, but there is no reason to be honest with your enemies. We are past the point of moral obligation to such people.
Doesn't look like they turned it over to anybody. It was mirrored by others and Microsoft made a bad deal. Someone on their team should have known this could happen and advised, like the OP mentions, to ignore it rather than drawing more attention.
I was looking at this as an incremental advance, that will be followed by other incremental advances like the ones you mention will be needed for this to become a viable product.
It could have been ammonium nitrate (common fertilizer) and any combustible liquid (petrol, diesel etc.) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANFO
He would need an igniter for that. A solid/liquid binary would self-combust, like the one I mentioned. Also, petrol products have a distinctive odor that might cause suspicion on an airplane.
It did not sound like a firecracker in the latest reports I have been hearing on the radio.
Latest: it was a powder, plus a liquid from a syringe. My blogger buddy remembered something I forgot, there is a way to ignite thermite with a liquid (potassium permanganate and glycerol? sorry for forgetting), but no idea what this was yet.
My son types whatever he wants into google. He doesn't know how to type URLs. My wife and her sister are the same. If home didn't go to a search engine they would be lost. If home didn't go to google they would search for google first.
I'm surprised at the number of people I have worked with who are the same way and many of them use Yahoo instead of Google. They tend to be the same people who are astonished at my use of keyboard commands.
Happy Boxing Day!
A holiday DDoS attack targeted a west-coast DNS provider, which is known for serving large-scale E-Commerce sites (including amazon.com and walmart.com). 'Neustar, which provides DNS services to high profile website addresses under the UltraDNS brand, said the flood of malicious traffic, just two days before Christmas, was directed at the company's facilities in San Jose and Palo Alto, and that the effects were mostly limited to California users.'
My book and blogger buddy in the Mid-Atlantic didn't notice any issue. I hope they track the source down soon.
The government already looks bad on this, so no worse to prosecute. Shouldn't some fraud charge be appropriate?
At this point we don't know what other agencies were involved. For all we know they could have been using him as a decoy of sorts, or tracking his contacts. We probably won't know for a long time.
I'm not really a fan of perp walks, but they've been present in US society for 100 years haven't yet pushed us into a morality police state.
Same thing I was thinking. Always thought that was a deplorable tradition.
Listening to the Mister Grinch song on the radio right now is not making this topic any prettier either.
And how will they compensate anyone wrongfully put on that feed for the damage to their reputation? The Court of Public Opinion can be brutal about these things, especially when they work in HR somewhere..
They typically ignore their own mistakes and make others pay for them.
Working without music is fine, as long as there isn't any noise to avert your concentration. The easiest way to solve this little issue it just go to work with a pair of earmuffs. Your argument for using them should be obvious.
That is a clever idea! When I read this post I felt a li'l guilty, being one of the prattlers where I work. Our programmers have their own space so it isn't an issue to them and anybody can wear ear buds here unless they have direct contact with clients.
BubbaDoom sounds like he is stuck in a bad place and needs to escape.
You fellows might want to read up on Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia's experience when Microsoft bought Hotmail. I think there was something in Wired about it after it happened.
They learned the hard way that you should not build a reactor so small that it requires *manual* withdrawal of control rods. By manual I mean a guy hunkered over the core with his hands on the rod itself. End result: said man impaled by said rod - to the ceiling.
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On the one hand, modern uranium reactors (pebble bed, or even well-made light water reactors) are perfectly safe. Using thorium instead is at best a minor improvement.
Same I was thinking. Saw something, years ago, where solid fuel pellets were assembled into rods and had the same effect as what the article describes in the liquid too. If they heat too much the pellets expand but do not rupture the tube and the reaction slows down. Isn't there a Someone notes a reactor in India that uses thorium already.
The state and federal governments made complicated tax laws and Amazon is following them in a business efficient manner. What is their problem?
Don't we get a larger circle of trusted insiders with outsourcing? Weakest link in the security chain, IIRC. Open to correction and education. Please don't flame too bad?
Ugly isn't the right word. We need a new word, a new chapter of the dictionary, for that level of ugly. It will make a great illustration.
Thank you for straightening them out. I have a well accomplished friend that may be joining the Kentucky crew soon, if they have openings.
"Too bad those people caved, but that need not cost us the ability to know what they wanted so badly to hide."
Note to potential "cavers": You can certainly sanitize the information you plan to agree to keep secret, give it to reliable third parties, then take the money.
It isn't honest, but there is no reason to be honest with your enemies. We are past the point of moral obligation to such people.
Doesn't look like they turned it over to anybody. It was mirrored by others and Microsoft made a bad deal. Someone on their team should have known this could happen and advised, like the OP mentions, to ignore it rather than drawing more attention.
I was looking at this as an incremental advance, that will be followed by other incremental advances like the ones you mention will be needed for this to become a viable product.
LOL, I just knew someone had beaten me to it as soon as I saw it.
It could have been ammonium nitrate (common fertilizer) and any combustible liquid (petrol, diesel etc.) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANFO
He would need an igniter for that. A solid/liquid binary would self-combust, like the one I mentioned. Also, petrol products have a distinctive odor that might cause suspicion on an airplane.
I love those coats! This is research for the greater good.
It did not sound like a firecracker in the latest reports I have been hearing on the radio. Latest: it was a powder, plus a liquid from a syringe. My blogger buddy remembered something I forgot, there is a way to ignite thermite with a liquid (potassium permanganate and glycerol? sorry for forgetting), but no idea what this was yet.
My son types whatever he wants into google. He doesn't know how to type URLs. My wife and her sister are the same. If home didn't go to a search engine they would be lost. If home didn't go to google they would search for google first.
I'm surprised at the number of people I have worked with who are the same way and many of them use Yahoo instead of Google. They tend to be the same people who are astonished at my use of keyboard commands. Happy Boxing Day!
A holiday DDoS attack targeted a west-coast DNS provider, which is known for serving large-scale E-Commerce sites (including amazon.com and walmart.com). 'Neustar, which provides DNS services to high profile website addresses under the UltraDNS brand, said the flood of malicious traffic, just two days before Christmas, was directed at the company's facilities in San Jose and Palo Alto, and that the effects were mostly limited to California users.'
My book and blogger buddy in the Mid-Atlantic didn't notice any issue. I hope they track the source down soon.
LOL!
Is it less than $2,000?
Will the executive anonymously quoted in the article be leaving soon or have things changed there?
I think that's what he uses to avoid being shot down :)
My Santa is still snoring. We stayed out a bit late :(
The government already looks bad on this, so no worse to prosecute. Shouldn't some fraud charge be appropriate? At this point we don't know what other agencies were involved. For all we know they could have been using him as a decoy of sorts, or tracking his contacts. We probably won't know for a long time.
I *heart* that .sig!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perp_walk
I'm not really a fan of perp walks, but they've been present in US society for 100 years haven't yet pushed us into a morality police state.
Same thing I was thinking. Always thought that was a deplorable tradition. Listening to the Mister Grinch song on the radio right now is not making this topic any prettier either.
And how will they compensate anyone wrongfully put on that feed for the damage to their reputation? The Court of Public Opinion can be brutal about these things, especially when they work in HR somewhere..
They typically ignore their own mistakes and make others pay for them.
Working without music is fine, as long as there isn't any noise to avert your concentration. The easiest way to solve this little issue it just go to work with a pair of earmuffs. Your argument for using them should be obvious.
That is a clever idea! When I read this post I felt a li'l guilty, being one of the prattlers where I work. Our programmers have their own space so it isn't an issue to them and anybody can wear ear buds here unless they have direct contact with clients. BubbaDoom sounds like he is stuck in a bad place and needs to escape.
You fellows might want to read up on Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia's experience when Microsoft bought Hotmail. I think there was something in Wired about it after it happened.
There was SL-1: http://www.radiationworks.com/sl1reactor.htm
They learned the hard way that you should not build a reactor so small that it requires *manual* withdrawal of control rods. By manual I mean a guy hunkered over the core with his hands on the rod itself. End result: said man impaled by said rod - to the ceiling.
Yep, that is the one I was thinking of, bad design and all. You beat my by a few :)