The description of this "new algorithm" is pretty sparse. Any word on if it allows faster solutions to encryption problems so that we now all need longer passwords?
I realize that I'm ignoring lots of physical detail, but like others above I remain unimpressed by the ability to freeze water at 137 degrees below its freezing point. It won't help my radiator on a cold day, unfreeze my pipes or the walk outside, as those environments don't have the purity and perfection required to get away with this.
Can someone offer an example of a useful application of the ability to freeze pure water at -137 degrees? Someone must have taken advantage of this property to do something interesting.
One more point: Having a $1M/day charge for not operating a highly toxic machine is actually an incentive to operate it when it might be hazardous to do so. Not a good thing.
According to the nuclear energy institute, 0.1 cent per kwh goes into a waste disposal fund. Since 1983 that fund has collected about $33 billion, and spent about $11 billion, with several tens of thousands of years left in managing that waste. For the vast majority of the waste's toxic life, there is no income to pay for its management. The US Goverment owns it here in the USA. Includes old cores and facilities that will be decommissioned.
Also, from Wikipedia and the Price-Anderson act: The Act establishes a no fault insurance-type system in which the first $10 billion is industry-funded as described in the Act (any claims above the $10 billion would be covered by the federal government).
So when the core goes supercritical, all the downwind mess after the first $10 Billion is picked up by you and me. It doesn't take much to get to $10 Billion. That was going through my and many other minds back when 3 Mile Island was going soft and many in southern New England were considering a long vacation.
Regarding the sarcasm, if it's so safe, let's put it anywhere!
>>But, the cost of nuclear power all occurs up-front
Not true. Waste storage costs are hidden and ongoing. The government eats it. And liability is capped for owners of plants - they are not liable for the effects of accidents (and don't require full insurance, if that is even possible given the scope of a possible accident and the resulting damages).
Add those 2 items into the cost of nuke electricity, and it's too expensive to meter.
...then he should propose: 1. to store the waste in Chicago 2. to have the owners of the plant fully pay for waste storage costs 3. to have the owners of the plant assume full liability for damages from accidents
While #1 is a bit sarcastic, #2 and #3 are not. We would at times like to believe that there are surmountable technological solutions to every problem. Sometimes there aren't.
It's surprisingly emotionally evocative, with very little in the way of new content. Cameron's movies seem to have that in common - you feel strongly, and it's not done via the plot. I think the 3D adds to that emotional kick, but isn't the main source of it (but may get blamed for it).
It doesn't boost people's immune systems - that's not the significant result here. Not over-administering antibiotics keeps germs from mutating into super germs, and that makes everyone's normal immune systems effective against what they encounter.
And here is another example countering the myth of the free market. The free market, in this case, promotes its antibiotics for use in every possible situation - cheap and easy. In this case it results in a greater evil produced, rather than more control of evil in the environment. People have to strategize against the market and against the "easy out" being pushed by the market, and in the case of Norway, make these products very difficult to obtain and use in order to get the result they seek (maximum elimination of the germs). Regulation and vigilant enforcement solve the problem, not the cheap product.
Just reading the question that you posed makes my skin crawl. From memory, Fox was recently outed for falsifying crowd scenes at teabagger rallies - they substituted crowd scenes from a previous large rally for one that was sparsely attended. I believe they did that twice, two different times in the space of a couple weeks.
10 years? Smugglers have money, can buy talent, and are always willing to accept some risk: I would be VERY surprised if there aren't a bunch of these things in the process of moving wares underwater right now.
Amen. Anyone who attempts to issue definitive, action-taking diagnoses based on snapshots alone should put it in software under a public license and let us all use the WebShrink online doctor.
Yes, I am sarcastic and don't for a second believe this is possible or accurate.
I wholeheartedly and immediately believe that there are bone-headed actions such as this that insurance companies take every day in order to avoid paying for care or claims. And this is why for-profit healthcare is an oxymoron.
Several years ago I was accelerating away from a toll booth, trying to ignore noisy fighting kids in the back seat and fiddling with the air conditioner controls enough to take my eyes off the road and not realize until too late that the car far out in front of me was in fact stopped. I total'ed the car when I hit it, and thankfully we were all ok.
I might have had a different result if there was a law preventing fiddling with dashboard controls. Not that I like the concept.
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It's the protective equivalent of a motorcycle.
I hope it has a big plastic bag in it to collect body parts.
The description of this "new algorithm" is pretty sparse.
Any word on if it allows faster solutions to encryption problems so that we now all need longer passwords?
for 16-pixel animations, twitflash is the only way to go.
I realize that I'm ignoring lots of physical detail, but like others above I remain unimpressed by the ability to freeze water at 137 degrees below its freezing point. It won't help my radiator on a cold day, unfreeze my pipes or the walk outside, as those environments don't have the purity and perfection required to get away with this.
Can someone offer an example of a useful application of the ability to freeze pure water at -137 degrees? Someone must have taken advantage of this property to do something interesting.
One more point:
Having a $1M/day charge for not operating a highly toxic machine is actually an incentive to operate it when it might be hazardous to do so.
Not a good thing.
According to the nuclear energy institute, 0.1 cent per kwh goes into a waste disposal fund.
Since 1983 that fund has collected about $33 billion, and spent about $11 billion, with several tens of thousands of years left in managing that waste. For the vast majority of the waste's toxic life, there is no income to pay for its management. The US Goverment owns it here in the USA. Includes old cores and facilities that will be decommissioned.
Also, from Wikipedia and the Price-Anderson act:
The Act establishes a no fault insurance-type system in which the first $10 billion is industry-funded as described in the Act (any claims above the $10 billion would be covered by the federal government).
So when the core goes supercritical, all the downwind mess after the first $10 Billion is picked up by you and me.
It doesn't take much to get to $10 Billion. That was going through my and many other minds back when 3 Mile Island was going soft and many in southern New England were considering a long vacation.
Regarding the sarcasm, if it's so safe, let's put it anywhere!
>>But, the cost of nuclear power all occurs up-front
Not true. Waste storage costs are hidden and ongoing. The government eats it.
And liability is capped for owners of plants - they are not liable for the effects of accidents (and don't require full insurance, if that is even possible given the scope of a possible accident and the resulting damages).
Add those 2 items into the cost of nuke electricity, and it's too expensive to meter.
...then he should propose:
1. to store the waste in Chicago
2. to have the owners of the plant fully pay for waste storage costs
3. to have the owners of the plant assume full liability for damages from accidents
While #1 is a bit sarcastic, #2 and #3 are not.
We would at times like to believe that there are surmountable technological solutions to every problem. Sometimes there aren't.
drop it on a copier later to save your image.
...the obligatory Soviet Russia line.
I can't wait for dashboard programming.
Has it been determined yet that debugging syntax while driving is dangerous?
You mean the phone with one button that dials a random number in your phonebook?
It's surprisingly emotionally evocative, with very little in the way of new content.
Cameron's movies seem to have that in common - you feel strongly, and it's not done via the plot.
I think the 3D adds to that emotional kick, but isn't the main source of it (but may get blamed for it).
I think the recommendation is to withhold antibiotics where they are not needed, not for all sick people.
It doesn't boost people's immune systems - that's not the significant result here.
Not over-administering antibiotics keeps germs from mutating into super germs, and that makes everyone's normal immune systems effective against what they encounter.
And here is another example countering the myth of the free market.
The free market, in this case, promotes its antibiotics for use in every possible situation - cheap and easy. In this case it results in a greater evil produced, rather than more control of evil in the environment. People have to strategize against the market and against the "easy out" being pushed by the market, and in the case of Norway, make these products very difficult to obtain and use in order to get the result they seek (maximum elimination of the germs). Regulation and vigilant enforcement solve the problem, not the cheap product.
How about an infection? What if they couldn't get the vaccine injected intramuscularly through a bamboo needle?
I call my buddies at RIM and test my mods on their system.
>>When has Fox ever falsified anything?
Just reading the question that you posed makes my skin crawl.
From memory, Fox was recently outed for falsifying crowd scenes at teabagger rallies - they substituted crowd scenes from a previous large rally for one that was sparsely attended. I believe they did that twice, two different times in the space of a couple weeks.
10 years? Smugglers have money, can buy talent, and are always willing to accept some risk: I would be VERY surprised if there aren't a bunch of these things in the process of moving wares underwater right now.
It appears that you don't understand depression as a mental health issue, as opposed to, say, feeling punky today.
I was going to outline the differences, but there are lots of online sources that can do better than I can.
Amen.
Anyone who attempts to issue definitive, action-taking diagnoses based on snapshots alone should put it in software under a public license and let us all use the WebShrink online doctor.
Yes, I am sarcastic and don't for a second believe this is possible or accurate.
I wholeheartedly and immediately believe that there are bone-headed actions such as this that insurance companies take every day in order to avoid paying for care or claims. And this is why for-profit healthcare is an oxymoron.
Several years ago I was accelerating away from a toll booth, trying to ignore noisy fighting kids in the back seat and fiddling with the air conditioner controls enough to take my eyes off the road and not realize until too late that the car far out in front of me was in fact stopped.
I total'ed the car when I hit it, and thankfully we were all ok.
I might have had a different result if there was a law preventing fiddling with dashboard controls.
Not that I like the concept.
Exactly.
Should be easy then to find the 6 brain cells responsible in the previous chief executive.
Yes, Las Vegas is Disneyland for adults who don't know math.
If you can see that betting in the long run = losing, you can't go on with it unless your aim is to hurt yourself.
But the environment is still pretty amazing, the shrines built to - what, the promise of luck? Just fantastic glimmer.
It's "my precious" everywhere.
I'll wait to move there until they establish the right to winters that don't drop below zero.