Absolutely. You should also take care to wash your hands after handling refined plutonium. =]
Actually, my brother-in-law has equipment for casting lead, so I think I'm going to have him make me a shielded sample container. But honestly, even in the plastic custard cup the sample came in the radiation's negligible at any distance.
As someone pointed out, though, you don't want to have uranium dust floating around.
For what it's worth, you can get your piece of reactor-grade uranium at United Nuclear. The interesting part is that it's slightly LESS radioactive than the natural chunk of uranium ore I've got in my bedroom. That's about 30,000 counts/minute on my Geiger counter in direct contact, but three feet away it's almost undetectable against the background radiation. I keep it in a small tin that blocks a large portion of the radiation, and helps keep it from getting lost in the clutter of my desk.
I don't think I'd want to carry it around as a good luck charm, though.
Amen to that. The one time corporate let us hire our own people, we picked up two guys who were stuck at the local call center. They both met the requirements in your hypothetical listing, but didn't have any real experience. They're still with us, have taken on far more than any reasonable job listing would have asked, and we'd hate to lose them. But since they were hired, we've gone through probably half a dozen 'paper' MCSEs and DBAs that corporate has sent us, sure they'd be able to fit in and help us out, and we've had to send them away as useless.
Don't go trying to pin the blame on Microsoft. I'm not going to get into the "who's software has more bugs" war, but I'd like to point out that I'm a fairly security-savvy user, and the only home system I've ever had cracked remotely was running OpenBSD. I didn't bother locking down SSH with pf, and I got nailed. Fortunately all they did was ping flood some poor sap, which wasn't terribly hard to detect.
If it'd been someone skilled, they could have done whatever they wanted, and when it was traced back to me, who's going to believe the "my computer did it" defense from a guy with a whole garage full of odd computer equipment, who deals with with computer security every day?
If anything, Linux and BSD users are potentially MORE vulnerable to unfair prosecution, because just by virtue of being able to install the damn thing and get it on the network, you've proven yourself more knowledgeable than a vast majority of the computer-using public.
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Is this really a big problem? Obviously you don't want to be looking toward the sun when it's up. But if you're looking away from the sun, what stray light are you getting? You're not getting direct sunlight, and you're not getting reflected light from the surface, right?
And if I hear one more person refer to the far side of the moon as the 'dark' side, I'm going to scream. For crying out loud, you can WATCH the day/night cycle on the moon! EVERYONE who's ever looked up at the night sky has seen it! AAAAARRRRHHHH...
Not good enough for the really paranoid. From the size of the missing spot, you might still infer things like names if you at least suspect what they might be. In other words, SOME information is still retained. The secure way to do it would be to retype the document, omitting the censored information completely.
It sure as hell wasn't for the music that I got one of those solar/crank powered radios for my emergency kit.
Of course, being a ham radio operator, the 'who needs radio' headline kind of got to me. I mean, you guys DO like your 802.11, right? And your cellphones? Geez, there's more to the spectrum than FM broadcast.
Yeah, but if you look at the device, it would appear that it's still your nose that's doing the smelling. From the picture, it looks like just a little fan that concentrates odors to make them easier to smell.
But I guess I'm going to have to go ahead and write my own. As soon as Motorola's HC08 chips support ZigBee networking I'm going to be deploying a paintball tactical network.
Then it's time to build the automated 20-oz paintball mortar. Let's see you wipe THAT off when no one's looking!
The Holdens can't be much worse than the CNG-powered Chevy Luminas the city cops around here drive. The highway patrol is another matter... wouldn't want to try to outrun the CHP on the open road.
I saw some Commodores in New Zealand... not too impressive looking. But come to think of it, I can't remember seeing any cops in the whole two weeks I was there.
Exactly. I know that at least around here, the ambulance company policy REQUIRES that all ambulances come to a complete stop at all red lights.
You know what's REALLY irritating, though? When you pull up to a red light with the lights and siren going, and some idiot sees you stop and decides it's their turn to go.
My old workstation at work, with an Ultra160 drive, outperformed my ATA-100 RAID0 stripeset at home.
I've upgraded since then, and my workstation now runs four 15,000 RPM Ultra320 drives in RAID5 configuration. It's pretty sweet. Not quite as visibly sexy as the dual 20" flatpanels, though.
The easiest way to fix it is to stop putting so much junk up there in the first place. The majority of the junk is in low orbit, and much of it comes from launch vehicles, not satellites. And measures are already being taken to reduce it. In 1997, Orbital Sciences got their FAA license for the Pegasus launch vehicles suspended because they failed to provide a mechanism for venting the upper stage hydrazine tanks, which could cause a buildup of pressure and an eventual explosion. It's this sort of thing that causes far more orbital debris than the actual payloads being launched.
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Ah, thanks. I figured it wasn't 'Access Point', 'Armor Piercing', or 'Anti-Personnel'... and 'Accounts Payable' didn't seem to fit either...
My wardrobe was made by DEC, and fits nicely with the geek decor.
Absolutely. You should also take care to wash your hands after handling refined plutonium. =]
Actually, my brother-in-law has equipment for casting lead, so I think I'm going to have him make me a shielded sample container. But honestly, even in the plastic custard cup the sample came in the radiation's negligible at any distance.
As someone pointed out, though, you don't want to have uranium dust floating around.
I don't think I'd want to carry it around as a good luck charm, though.
Amen to that. The one time corporate let us hire our own people, we picked up two guys who were stuck at the local call center. They both met the requirements in your hypothetical listing, but didn't have any real experience. They're still with us, have taken on far more than any reasonable job listing would have asked, and we'd hate to lose them. But since they were hired, we've gone through probably half a dozen 'paper' MCSEs and DBAs that corporate has sent us, sure they'd be able to fit in and help us out, and we've had to send them away as useless.
Hey, move to California and I can get you a job doing that at $14 *US* an hour! =]
Just wait. The warm and fuzzy feeling comes after the flushed and nauseated feeling, and just before the vomiting and burning feeling.
Don't go trying to pin the blame on Microsoft. I'm not going to get into the "who's software has more bugs" war, but I'd like to point out that I'm a fairly security-savvy user, and the only home system I've ever had cracked remotely was running OpenBSD. I didn't bother locking down SSH with pf, and I got nailed. Fortunately all they did was ping flood some poor sap, which wasn't terribly hard to detect.
If it'd been someone skilled, they could have done whatever they wanted, and when it was traced back to me, who's going to believe the "my computer did it" defense from a guy with a whole garage full of odd computer equipment, who deals with with computer security every day?
If anything, Linux and BSD users are potentially MORE vulnerable to unfair prosecution, because just by virtue of being able to install the damn thing and get it on the network, you've proven yourself more knowledgeable than a vast majority of the computer-using public.
Is this really a big problem? Obviously you don't want to be looking toward the sun when it's up. But if you're looking away from the sun, what stray light are you getting? You're not getting direct sunlight, and you're not getting reflected light from the surface, right?
And if I hear one more person refer to the far side of the moon as the 'dark' side, I'm going to scream. For crying out loud, you can WATCH the day/night cycle on the moon! EVERYONE who's ever looked up at the night sky has seen it! AAAAARRRRHHHH...
'Zee joodges 'vere-a incuooregeeng in zee sense-a thet zeey vent tu zee heert ooff zee cese-a,' Rubert Bork, vhu represented zee Cumpooter und Cummooneeceshuns Indoostry Essuceeeshun und zee Sufftvere-a und Inffurmeshun Indoostry Essuceeeshun, seeed fullooeeng zee cuoort ergooments. Bork furmerly ves a joodge-a oon zee eppeels cuoort. Bork Bork Bork.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Karma was getting too high, anyway.
Well, you're halfway there already. Regular slashdot use is shown to completely halt maturity!
Not good enough for the really paranoid. From the size of the missing spot, you might still infer things like names if you at least suspect what they might be. In other words, SOME information is still retained. The secure way to do it would be to retype the document, omitting the censored information completely.
It sure as hell wasn't for the music that I got one of those solar/crank powered radios for my emergency kit.
Of course, being a ham radio operator, the 'who needs radio' headline kind of got to me. I mean, you guys DO like your 802.11, right? And your cellphones? Geez, there's more to the spectrum than FM broadcast.
Yeah, but if you look at the device, it would appear that it's still your nose that's doing the smelling. From the picture, it looks like just a little fan that concentrates odors to make them easier to smell.
And why splice the THC-producing genes into seaweed, when you could splice them into, say, your liver? =]
Yes, but there IS an aircraft carrier Enterprise! I'd like to see that one in a wind tunnel...
But I guess I'm going to have to go ahead and write my own. As soon as Motorola's HC08 chips support ZigBee networking I'm going to be deploying a paintball tactical network.
Then it's time to build the automated 20-oz paintball mortar. Let's see you wipe THAT off when no one's looking!
The Holdens can't be much worse than the CNG-powered Chevy Luminas the city cops around here drive. The highway patrol is another matter... wouldn't want to try to outrun the CHP on the open road.
I saw some Commodores in New Zealand... not too impressive looking. But come to think of it, I can't remember seeing any cops in the whole two weeks I was there.
Exactly. I know that at least around here, the ambulance company policy REQUIRES that all ambulances come to a complete stop at all red lights.
You know what's REALLY irritating, though? When you pull up to a red light with the lights and siren going, and some idiot sees you stop and decides it's their turn to go.
Yes, I'm a nerd AND an EMT...
Aussie cops must not have such great equipment.
Somehow, I always picture them having souped-up V8's with 'INTERCEPTOR' printed on the back...
Russian parts, American parts, they're all made in TAIWAN!
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My old workstation at work, with an Ultra160 drive, outperformed my ATA-100 RAID0 stripeset at home.
I've upgraded since then, and my workstation now runs four 15,000 RPM Ultra320 drives in RAID5 configuration. It's pretty sweet. Not quite as visibly sexy as the dual 20" flatpanels, though.
I'm so spoiled.
"...is ensuring that the Pentagon, inside of a decade, could be armed with a beam weapon"
That'd look kind of cool, actually, with a big ID4-style beam weapon projecting from a huge five-sided building.
Not terribly mobile, though.
The easiest way to fix it is to stop putting so much junk up there in the first place. The majority of the junk is in low orbit, and much of it comes from launch vehicles, not satellites. And measures are already being taken to reduce it. In 1997, Orbital Sciences got their FAA license for the Pegasus launch vehicles suspended because they failed to provide a mechanism for venting the upper stage hydrazine tanks, which could cause a buildup of pressure and an eventual explosion. It's this sort of thing that causes far more orbital debris than the actual payloads being launched.