The long term effects of this to the population: Nothing. The levels are so low for the population that they're laughably small.
Don't pretend like 0 is the number of people affected by this meltdown. Nobody has been "laughing" since they got kicked out of homes they lost millions of yen for. It's not like someone's going to give that house back to them, nor their cash. School closings smack in the middle of the Japanese school year also mean lots of disrupted youths.
With Japan's prior issues with unemployment, fukushima was the straw breaking the camel's back for many souls now banned from living somewhere safe and known to them. But nobody is talking about the local lives in the cone of influence of the actual meltdown.
Because, you know, all gunshot wounds only hurt locally and we can just ignore the pain if we concentrate on the body parts not hurting. Right?
Thanks for the Java reminder --I got a this new PC the other day and had meant to ensure the OEM had NOT bundled it. I had a recent Java-initiated spyware on the Vista laptop earlier in the week.
I'd forgotten to dump the Java runtime since I used to play with the SDK. Because enterprise Java has grown ever complex and acronym-ridden, I simply stopped minding it about 2 years ago and forgot to remove its inconvenient attack vector even though I've been hit through it more than once.
On the color schemes, I used to have Teal (aquamarine colors) immediately highlight the one white and gray "standard-colored" window popups as fake. Fake popups also stand out when all you have is MacOS 8 --the problem goes back to more than a decade ago. It's a shame that after Windows 2000, MS has hidden and then removed the fancy pre-named color themes (not Luna or glass, but the CLASSIC ones) and left only the default AND green-on-black ones.
I'm pretty sure they want to establish a non-fragmented look to compete against the pretty iconic MacOS X brushed metal and Gnome's brown desktop motifs.
Current users are geeks and more likely to switch back to a closed browser as soon as free [as in beer] ones start "doing it wrong!" Firefox's been alienating us since version 3.
That is the a reason Chrome grew so quickly, regardless of whether you personally hated the awesomebar or not. For a shamelessly well-known profit motive, Chrome starts alienating everyone, in turn. Is it a wonder that people will just return to FF? Oh, wait, there are MANY other choices, like Safari / Opera (beer free).
Most non-geek Chromers will just damn the torpedoes and take the IE bullet already sitting like every patient drug dealer who knows former "clients" eventually return regardless of the circumstance. IE-based corporations like it because it doesn't sport trendy GUIs.
I have a bank that sends ONLINE keys only via snailmail --that is costly and inefficient in comparison to e-mail standards, but sends a nice statement. It would be an effective idea for SONY to copy, but since the PSN is free to play, they don't have a pre-crisis cash pile already budgeted for letters.
Thus unable to copy the rampant fees we pay banks for every single feature and "user flaw" charges, they'll never volunteer the same high-class letter services. That can be fixed: someone WILL slap them with a class action lawsuit. THAT kind of "apology letter" is expected and unavoidable, with budgets always set aside in corporate coffers in the USA.
You, sir, are a genious! Now I know where HOW slashdotters keep making that WHOOOSH noise --they catapult into clouds at every bad joke. If I tried to shoot you here, I'd just hear the noise again!
Every relatively new science will have proponents claim that it was not implemented correctly, and never that it was a design issue. When the stakes are high enough, the problem is that nobody is regulating the science formally because it is still young.
Worse, there is not as much worldwide research furthering and controlling nuclear power as there is in the similarly teething computer science field. Guess which one of the fields can cause catastrophe-level evacuations when there are problems (Y2K was pretty benign death-wise, and is the worst collective catastrophe from the CS field)
If by no harm you mean Fukushima and TMI caused no disturbance then you are wrong. Public unrest, cleanup crews and Japan's need to FOREVER evacuate families from their homes and businesses, is in fact extremely harmful. Why does someone have to start dying for this to be news for nerds?
And judging from Youtube's default video resolutions, we are nowhere near REQUIRING 1080p resolutions for daily use yet, to justify the diminished 1080p that they all got US stuck with.
This whole Widescreen res fiasco should be optional, just like that fingerprint reader that you're [very likely] NOT yet seeing near your desktop keyboard nor 99% of laptops --where it would actually be of some use.
Broadband, for allowing people to stream ever bigger resolutions rather than 1990-standard 300x240 clips (horrible at fullscreen, but nobody was complaining) The CRT industry, for keeping people at mid res for so long that we got coiled like a spring waiting for larger sizes... by the time LCD's became cheap enough, it wasn't wether you were ditching that your old screen to get a new 1280x1024 res, but wether you were trading 14-inch CRT for "lots of inches more" The DVD industry, for enabling with the CRT^W LCD makers to widen their screens with the excuse that EVERYONE's main PC use was not vertical browsing, but letterbox (American) entertainment
Scanning for keyframes on other carriers would need multiple tuners, which increases the cost of the cable box.
It's not like defects cause them to toss your current faulty box; those get repaired and put back in another client's hands at the same $n/month rate of a new one until it breaks again. In the PC world, that is unacceptable.
Need more cash? sure, but don't raise my prices. I pay each up several times and if you think the free replacements they offer to turn in your old cablebox to get new models (incorporating the newest invention of the decade, such as cablecard, digital signal, HDTV, HDCP, pay per view, tvguide channel, scrambling) it is only to benefit the cableco: less data transmitted, tighter DRM, 10 minute cold boots. Cable service in New York is not pleasing to use with either one of the two choices. They both license boxes from Scientific Atlanta, so moving to a different area won't solve your problems.
Ugh. yea, I'd like the more expensive box for better quality of life --I'm already paying too much and I might as well enjoy yesteryear's speeds while I'm at it.
Guest features are patchy at best, and seem like an afterthought whose only feature is hiding your local PC's from your guests' --no additional controls nor logging nor guest welcome screens are given --they want you to pay for these features via business hotspot sales. I've found that DD-WRT has potential, but there's no out-of-the-box GUI showing IP addresses and times for guests who have already disconnected. Drive-by hits become a problem if I can't track people down easily, and normal routers are way off with the simbolic gestures router makers are giving the home consumer even at the +$120 end.
I've set up about 10 routers from nearly as many makers in the past few years. Though "Guest access" became common 4 years ago, it has no anti-abuse tools like actual bandwidth throttling. Routers *cannot* throttle guest bandwidth before router makers roll out throttling as a standard feature --they really haven't. They only flaunt basic QoS, and there's no control over total bandwidth even at the global level, let alone allowing you to throttle the one video-hungry PC in your teens' bedroom.
Prior to WiFi, we moved along fine for decades without holding out extension cords to our neighbors. This is an operation akin to demanding that all corporate headquarters blindly put publicly accessible wired wallplates in their parking lots just because they can afford 24/7 internet. We all know the security implications.
Just because we're already leaking our radiation* doesn't mean that preventing other neighbors from misusing it and implicating us in their crimes. We have everything to lose and little to gain. Corps have been doing it right all these years, and even though I like unsecuring the WiFi once in a blue moon,
It's terrifying to see how many blackberries, portable videogames, laptops and recent Wifi-chipped desktops connect when I newly name a network. Savvy neighbors in my building just find and attach themselves to it in a single afternoon. I used to be one of them.
* regardless of WPA usage and hiding / not hiding the APs
After *you* prove that any virus/rootkit/troyan of closed source will NEVER phone home.
1) How many researchers have access to the full disassembled iPhone code? 2) How many seconds does it take to upload a small text file once a year?
Remember those viruses with single-day payloads that activate on April fools or a random date? Bingo. Nobody changes their firmware to start logging data that will server NO PURPOSE whatsoever. Even if our GPS coordinates were stored akin to an airplane blackbox where Apple must sneakernet their way to the wreckage in order to read the logs, I wouldn't want my data stored so effortlessly.
That was the whole point of the angerfest at Google's Wifi collection --nobody wants information THEY control to go to parties beyond their immediate realm of control. Ask your local government what they do about [Wiki]leaks. Can YOU do the same to your local government? to your local vendors? to your local ad company? what about to a global consortium of governments, vendors and ad companies?
Open source has an uphill battle educating the masses as more uneducated people join it with zero expectacions of passing some required level of readiness prior to being let loose online.
Merge a good version of a "secure" OS, like Debian, say, Ubuntu with a paranoid version out there where your proposed security is ON by default --no need to know where to get Adblock for grandma's firefox. Test and tweak to ensure the security doesn't cripple the top 50 websites, (youtube, facebook, myspace, hotmail, google services, etc) and call it "Securiva 2012" so that the newbies go "hmm, it *must* be good because it's selling a year in *advance* of 2011, like any good new car model (free discourages people, but good enough things will get pirated anyway). Sell it at the bargain bins next to those 10 dollar games. Next year, do the same battery of tests to remove/add sites, and release "Securiva 2013". Better yet, make it automated by default a la Chrome. Make sure your users understand that their data / programs need to be manually checked between scheduled upgrades, or perhaps charge extra for use of the "the cloud" to keep the data safe and just test the programs.
Speaking of forking, I have marveled how forks of Good(TM) Open Source distros are so obscure to even us IT geeks that even if good, they have no chance of getting the attention they deserve and helping out the common unprotected newb. For every, say, 10000 Windows users there may be 1 user of $TOP_BRAND_LINUX, but why doesn't every $TOP_BRAND_LINUX user know and PREFER $NEWERTOP_BRAND_LINUX_FORK? To illustrate more or less, pretend instead of OSs, we're comparing adoption of Google Chrome among geeks to how many geeks even KNOW about Chromium. Let's ignore informed/. geeks --think about your wife's or grandma's "assisted" choices when all they have is US for security consultation.
March 31, 2011 8:01 pm Well, I guess my comment on the ads is that life continues to be not much more than a crapshoot, no matter how hard you work. My child applied to seven schools, got denied from six so far, even her safety school, and she was a national merit commended student with very good grades, 17 college credits, several foreign languages, extracurriculuars. Nada. She got in nowhere.
What now? She feels completely demoralized. It’s hard to know what to do. Even if she takes a gap year and reaplies to schools next year, what does she do differently? Hard to know, since there’s no way to know why she wasn’t accepted anywhere. And I’ve never been through this process before, because I didn’t go to college after high school, so don’t know what guidance to give her. It feels like the death of her youthful dreams. On to real life I gues. Get a job or something. I feel completely at fault. I misled her to think she could go to a good school, if she just worked hard. It’s what I was always told. I feel horrible. --Stressed
Lets take the benefit of the doubt, and assume the college applicant had no obvious show-stopping flaw (to everyone but the poster and their 6/7 rejected daughter). It's much tougher to get by when everyone in the USA is expected to have a college education for most desk jobs, even if not required. A masters degree is slowly becoming more necessary to increase candidate differentiation when so many unemployed candidates already over-supply college degrees even where none are needed (most non-managers in IT.) In 1869 the article claims that higher-ed was rare enough to require stooping low enough to need paper ads, until WWII somehow allowed colleges to become selective.
At that point a buyer's market similar to today's job market materialized for some strata. Regardless, the poster may not realize that state-funded universities require nearly no proficiency (IIRC.) Selective schools like Harvard have zero ESL assistance (just like MENSA would never allow mentally retarded members.) In contrast, huge numbers of freshly immigrant low-english proficiency students get highschool-equivalency or even diplomas that inflate the numbers when they would never qualify elsewhere language-wise and educationally.
Not like I have a solution to pose, but given that air currents in a hurricane move tons of cloud masses through thousands of kilometers, what's to prevent ocean currents from doing the same and poisoning our fish?
Peeing in the pool does not just affect the pee-er's area. Remember the Big Gulf Oil Spill of 2010?
The Library of Congress is 211 years old, so 30 years is around.14 Library of Congresses.
In comparison, a 2TB hard drive is around.2 Library of Congresses (printed material only).
So, in conclusion, Fukushima's cleanup is less than one 2 TB hard drive.
Each slashdotter needs to start sending one old drive, and let distributed computing solve this problem in parallel 2,000,000 times faster than those poor sods in the protective suits.
Silicon Valley...tech is huge over there and in high spirits with tablets, smartphones and investment in so many startups. Bloomberg TV even opened a studio for a new 1hour spot reporting from California.
Would hate to see it a Big One destroy maim Silicon Valley even temporarily and bring down the economy yet again. The World Trade Center's destruction in NYC was bad enough that 10 years later we feel the economic effects of firms that were forced to relocate.
You're right. We're as inaccurate as any other forum today, for some reason. Also, I seem to remember that it was never 9.0; rather, it was 8.9; the media should be fined logarithmicly for daring to round up 0.1 units in the Richter scale --it's exponentially more incorrect the larger the disaster.
There's no hour on the post, though. Am I the only one bothered by the tendency of blogs to lack public timestamps so that google ambiguously obsolete posts next to relevant ones ?
Anyways, the ranges show us though science is exact even highly informed geeks using incorrect formulas. On second thought, the media gave me this one a couple weeks ago and now I have no idea which is the approved formula.
10^9.2/10^7.1=126
Note that the earthquake was downgraded to 7.1 in the past hour or so.
Thanks for providing a copy-pastable link without HREF tags. Though Friday's Fool-slashcode was rolled back, it left an STD-like mark permanently: unclickable hyperlinks in Firefox and some other browsers. With yours we can highlight the full text and copy/paste onto a new tab, like old times.
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I see, so it's for the lords and masters of Gnome to decide the the peasants are "in a rut" and make them run about adapting to some new aritrary "order"?
From the time I typed 650MB above till I previewed and ready to submit, FF4 memory usage as increased to 725 MB...
Researchers have determined this is due to a slashdot 3.0 feature codenamed "bloaty-fonts:" Because 1 MB for each word of your comment "outta be enough for everybody." *ducks*
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The long term effects of this to the population: Nothing. The levels are so low for the population that they're laughably small.
Don't pretend like 0 is the number of people affected by this meltdown. Nobody has been "laughing" since they got kicked out of homes they lost millions of yen for. It's not like someone's going to give that house back to them, nor their cash. School closings smack in the middle of the Japanese school year also mean lots of disrupted youths.
With Japan's prior issues with unemployment, fukushima was the straw breaking the camel's back for many souls now banned from living somewhere safe and known to them. But nobody is talking about the local lives in the cone of influence of the actual meltdown.
Because, you know, all gunshot wounds only hurt locally and we can just ignore the pain if we concentrate on the body parts not hurting. Right?
Thanks for the Java reminder --I got a this new PC the other day and had meant to ensure the OEM had NOT bundled it. I had a recent Java-initiated spyware on the Vista laptop earlier in the week.
I'd forgotten to dump the Java runtime since I used to play with the SDK. Because enterprise Java has grown ever complex and acronym-ridden, I simply stopped minding it about 2 years ago and forgot to remove its inconvenient attack vector even though I've been hit through it more than once.
On the color schemes, I used to have Teal (aquamarine colors) immediately highlight the one white and gray "standard-colored" window popups as fake. Fake popups also stand out when all you have is MacOS 8 --the problem goes back to more than a decade ago. It's a shame that after Windows 2000, MS has hidden and then removed the fancy pre-named color themes (not Luna or glass, but the CLASSIC ones) and left only the default AND green-on-black ones.
I'm pretty sure they want to establish a non-fragmented look to compete against the pretty iconic MacOS X brushed metal and Gnome's brown desktop motifs.
Current users are geeks and more likely to switch back to a closed browser as soon as free [as in beer] ones start "doing it wrong!" Firefox's been alienating us since version 3.
That is the a reason Chrome grew so quickly, regardless of whether you personally hated the awesomebar or not. For a shamelessly well-known profit motive, Chrome starts alienating everyone, in turn. Is it a wonder that people will just return to FF? Oh, wait, there are MANY other choices, like Safari / Opera (beer free).
Most non-geek Chromers will just damn the torpedoes and take the IE bullet already sitting like every patient drug dealer who knows former "clients" eventually return regardless of the circumstance. IE-based corporations like it because it doesn't sport trendy GUIs.
Please mod the parent informative.
It's a good review of hardware and software configs for those who prefer to piece things together on real hardware.
--vlueboy
I have a bank that sends ONLINE keys only via snailmail --that is costly and inefficient in comparison to e-mail standards, but sends a nice statement. It would be an effective idea for SONY to copy, but since the PSN is free to play, they don't have a pre-crisis cash pile already budgeted for letters.
Thus unable to copy the rampant fees we pay banks for every single feature and "user flaw" charges, they'll never volunteer the same high-class letter services. That can be fixed: someone WILL slap them with a class action lawsuit. THAT kind of "apology letter" is expected and unavoidable, with budgets always set aside in corporate coffers in the USA.
You, sir, are a genious! Now I know where HOW slashdotters keep making that WHOOOSH noise --they catapult into clouds at every bad joke.
If I tried to shoot you here, I'd just hear the noise again!
Every relatively new science will have proponents claim that it was not implemented correctly, and never that it was a design issue. When the stakes are high enough, the problem is that nobody is regulating the science formally because it is still young.
Worse, there is not as much worldwide research furthering and controlling nuclear power as there is in the similarly teething computer science field. Guess which one of the fields can cause catastrophe-level evacuations when there are problems (Y2K was pretty benign death-wise, and is the worst collective catastrophe from the CS field)
If by no harm you mean Fukushima and TMI caused no disturbance then you are wrong. Public unrest, cleanup crews and Japan's need to FOREVER evacuate families from their homes and businesses, is in fact extremely harmful. Why does someone have to start dying for this to be news for nerds?
And judging from Youtube's default video resolutions, we are nowhere near REQUIRING 1080p resolutions for daily use yet, to justify the diminished 1080p that they all got US stuck with.
This whole Widescreen res fiasco should be optional, just like that fingerprint reader that you're [very likely] NOT yet seeing near your desktop keyboard nor 99% of laptops --where it would actually be of some use.
There are three places to place obvious blame:
Broadband, for allowing people to stream ever bigger resolutions rather than 1990-standard 300x240 clips (horrible at fullscreen, but nobody was complaining)
The CRT industry, for keeping people at mid res for so long that we got coiled like a spring waiting for larger sizes... by the time LCD's became cheap enough, it wasn't wether you were ditching that your old screen to get a new 1280x1024 res, but wether you were trading 14-inch CRT for "lots of inches more"
The DVD industry, for enabling with the CRT^W LCD makers to widen their screens with the excuse that EVERYONE's main PC use was not vertical browsing, but letterbox (American) entertainment
Scanning for keyframes on other carriers would need multiple tuners, which increases the cost of the cable box.
It's not like defects cause them to toss your current faulty box; those get repaired and put back in another client's hands at the same $n/month rate of a new one until it breaks again. In the PC world, that is unacceptable.
Need more cash? sure, but don't raise my prices. I pay each up several times and if you think the free replacements they offer to turn in your old cablebox to get new models (incorporating the newest invention of the decade, such as cablecard, digital signal, HDTV, HDCP, pay per view, tvguide channel, scrambling) it is only to benefit the cableco: less data transmitted, tighter DRM, 10 minute cold boots. Cable service in New York is not pleasing to use with either one of the two choices. They both license boxes from Scientific Atlanta, so moving to a different area won't solve your problems.
Ugh. yea, I'd like the more expensive box for better quality of life --I'm already paying too much and I might as well enjoy yesteryear's speeds while I'm at it.
Guest features are patchy at best, and seem like an afterthought whose only feature is hiding your local PC's from your guests' --no additional controls nor logging nor guest welcome screens are given --they want you to pay for these features via business hotspot sales. I've found that DD-WRT has potential, but there's no out-of-the-box GUI showing IP addresses and times for guests who have already disconnected. Drive-by hits become a problem if I can't track people down easily, and normal routers are way off with the simbolic gestures router makers are giving the home consumer even at the +$120 end.
I've set up about 10 routers from nearly as many makers in the past few years. Though "Guest access" became common 4 years ago, it has no anti-abuse tools like actual bandwidth throttling. Routers *cannot* throttle guest bandwidth before router makers roll out throttling as a standard feature --they really haven't. They only flaunt basic QoS, and there's no control over total bandwidth even at the global level, let alone allowing you to throttle the one video-hungry PC in your teens' bedroom.
Prior to WiFi, we moved along fine for decades without holding out extension cords to our neighbors. This is an operation akin to demanding that all corporate headquarters blindly put publicly accessible wired wallplates in their parking lots just because they can afford 24/7 internet. We all know the security implications.
Just because we're already leaking our radiation* doesn't mean that preventing other neighbors from misusing it and implicating us in their crimes. We have everything to lose and little to gain. Corps have been doing it right all these years, and even though I like unsecuring the WiFi once in a blue moon,
It's terrifying to see how many blackberries, portable videogames, laptops and recent Wifi-chipped desktops connect when I newly name a network. Savvy neighbors in my building just find and attach themselves to it in a single afternoon. I used to be one of them.
* regardless of WPA usage and hiding / not hiding the APs
So yeah, prove that they are.
After *you* prove that any virus/rootkit/troyan of closed source will NEVER phone home.
1) How many researchers have access to the full disassembled iPhone code?
2) How many seconds does it take to upload a small text file once a year?
Remember those viruses with single-day payloads that activate on April fools or a random date? Bingo. Nobody changes their firmware to start logging data that will server NO PURPOSE whatsoever. Even if our GPS coordinates were stored akin to an airplane blackbox where Apple must sneakernet their way to the wreckage in order to read the logs, I wouldn't want my data stored so effortlessly.
That was the whole point of the angerfest at Google's Wifi collection --nobody wants information THEY control to go to parties beyond their immediate realm of control. Ask your local government what they do about [Wiki]leaks. Can YOU do the same to your local government? to your local vendors? to your local ad company? what about to a global consortium of governments, vendors and ad companies?
Open source has an uphill battle educating the masses as more uneducated people join it with zero expectacions of passing some required level of readiness prior to being let loose online.
Merge a good version of a "secure" OS, like Debian, say, Ubuntu with a paranoid version out there where your proposed security is ON by default --no need to know where to get Adblock for grandma's firefox. Test and tweak to ensure the security doesn't cripple the top 50 websites, (youtube, facebook, myspace, hotmail, google services, etc) and call it "Securiva 2012" so that the newbies go "hmm, it *must* be good because it's selling a year in *advance* of 2011, like any good new car model (free discourages people, but good enough things will get pirated anyway). Sell it at the bargain bins next to those 10 dollar games. Next year, do the same battery of tests to remove/add sites, and release "Securiva 2013". Better yet, make it automated by default a la Chrome. Make sure your users understand that their data / programs need to be manually checked between scheduled upgrades, or perhaps charge extra for use of the "the cloud" to keep the data safe and just test the programs.
Speaking of forking, I have marveled how forks of Good(TM) Open Source distros are so obscure to even us IT geeks that even if good, they have no chance of getting the attention they deserve and helping out the common unprotected newb. For every, say, 10000 Windows users there may be 1 user of $TOP_BRAND_LINUX, but why doesn't every $TOP_BRAND_LINUX user know and PREFER $NEWERTOP_BRAND_LINUX_FORK? To illustrate more or less, pretend instead of OSs, we're comparing adoption of Google Chrome among geeks to how many geeks even KNOW about Chromium. Let's ignore informed /. geeks --think about your wife's or grandma's "assisted" choices when all they have is US for security consultation.
This is the most recent comment on the article's page:
March 31, 2011 8:01 pm
Well, I guess my comment on the ads is that life continues to be not much more than a crapshoot, no matter how hard you work. My child applied to seven schools, got denied from six so far, even her safety school, and she was a national merit commended student with very good grades, 17 college credits, several foreign languages, extracurriculuars. Nada. She got in nowhere.
What now? She feels completely demoralized. It’s hard to know what to do. Even if she takes a gap year and reaplies to schools next year, what does she do differently? Hard to know, since there’s no way to know why she wasn’t accepted anywhere. And I’ve never been through this process before, because I didn’t go to college after high school, so don’t know what guidance to give her. It feels like the death of her youthful dreams. On to real life I gues. Get a job or something. I feel completely at fault. I misled her to think she could go to a good school, if she just worked hard. It’s what I was always told. I feel horrible.
--Stressed
Lets take the benefit of the doubt, and assume the college applicant had no obvious show-stopping flaw (to everyone but the poster and their 6/7 rejected daughter). It's much tougher to get by when everyone in the USA is expected to have a college education for most desk jobs, even if not required. A masters degree is slowly becoming more necessary to increase candidate differentiation when so many unemployed candidates already over-supply college degrees even where none are needed (most non-managers in IT.) In 1869 the article claims that higher-ed was rare enough to require stooping low enough to need paper ads, until WWII somehow allowed colleges to become selective.
At that point a buyer's market similar to today's job market materialized for some strata. Regardless, the poster may not realize that state-funded universities require nearly no proficiency (IIRC.) Selective schools like Harvard have zero ESL assistance (just like MENSA would never allow mentally retarded members.) In contrast, huge numbers of freshly immigrant low-english proficiency students get highschool-equivalency or even diplomas that inflate the numbers when they would never qualify elsewhere language-wise and educationally.
Not like I have a solution to pose, but given that air currents in a hurricane move tons of cloud masses through thousands of kilometers, what's to prevent ocean currents from doing the same and poisoning our fish?
Peeing in the pool does not just affect the pee-er's area. Remember the Big Gulf Oil Spill of 2010?
The Library of Congress is 211 years old, so 30 years is around .14 Library of Congresses.
In comparison, a 2TB hard drive is around .2 Library of Congresses (printed material only).
So, in conclusion, Fukushima's cleanup is less than one 2 TB hard drive.
Each slashdotter needs to start sending one old drive, and let distributed computing solve this problem in parallel 2,000,000 times faster than those poor sods in the protective suits.
GO GO GO!!!
Silicon Valley ...tech is huge over there and in high spirits with tablets, smartphones and investment in so many startups. Bloomberg TV even opened a studio for a new 1hour spot reporting from California.
Would hate to see it a Big One destroy maim Silicon Valley even temporarily and bring down the economy yet again. The World Trade Center's destruction in NYC was bad enough that 10 years later we feel the economic effects of firms that were forced to relocate.
You're right. We're as inaccurate as any other forum today, for some reason. Also, I seem to remember that it was never 9.0; rather, it was 8.9; the media should be fined logarithmicly for daring to round up 0.1 units in the Richter scale --it's exponentially more incorrect the larger the disaster.
Also note that 7.4 was officially downgraded to 7.1. See the newsspoiler.com result as of 1PM ET:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=7.1+earthquake+downgraded
There's no hour on the post, though. Am I the only one bothered by the tendency of blogs to lack public timestamps so that google ambiguously obsolete posts next to relevant ones ?
I see what you did there.
Anyways, the ranges show us though science is exact even highly informed geeks using incorrect formulas. On second thought, the media gave me this one a couple weeks ago and now I have no idea which is the approved formula.
10^9.2/10^7.1=126
Note that the earthquake was downgraded to 7.1 in the past hour or so.
US stock markets dropped about 60 points within minutes of the news; still very vulnerable in spite of recent rallies to news from Japan. http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/commentary/content/market+update+djia+breaches+12400+as+japan+quake+rattles+stocks/trading_floor_blog.aspx?blogid=105835
Thanks for providing a copy-pastable link without HREF tags. Though Friday's Fool-slashcode was rolled back, it left an STD-like mark permanently: unclickable hyperlinks in Firefox and some other browsers.
With yours we can highlight the full text and copy/paste onto a new tab, like old times.
I see, so it's for the lords and masters of Gnome to decide the the peasants are "in a rut" and make them run about adapting to some new aritrary "order"?
Huh? The "lords and masters" of KDE4 started it!
What I really wanna get is footage of these purportedly *awesome* giant mech fights
Now! In! Camouflage ! 3D!
Thanks, Japan.
From the time I typed 650MB above till I previewed and ready to submit, FF4 memory usage as increased to 725 MB...
Researchers have determined this is due to a slashdot 3.0 feature codenamed "bloaty-fonts:"
Because 1 MB for each word of your comment "outta be enough for everybody."
*ducks*