Yes, we in the USA are in fallout zone and got hit fairly hard. Expect many more years of declining lifespan, unless you took steps to prevent inhaling and ingestion of various radio-isotopes from those meltdowns. That's all for now, I don't want to start a flame war.
The exact opposite occurs, RF absorption in this case is based on physical dimensions.. A larger mass==worse, especially more than 40mm or more per dimensional vector. This also applies to hard radiation, smaller animals can tolerate higher radiation exposures, because much of radiation passes through tiny animals without impacting DNA, and other critical cellular functions.
As for 9 hours day for a 2 year old rat verses 1 hour a day fora human who has a lot more than 9x the lifespan.
As for low signal, that's a function fo the experimental animal's small mass in general, and a similar issue for brain size..
Perhaps males had larger physical bodies?. Thus the males would have absorbed more energy. (i.e. ~40mm cross section or larger,note: adj absorption for 1/2 wavelength, and velocity factor)..
I should point out a couple of factors that you missed.. First, 3E+8m/s is the speed of light/radio waves while traveling in a vacuum, traveling through flesh is somewhat slower, velocity factor 0.6 to 0.7, (shorter actual wavelength).. Second item, peak exposure across tissue is 1/2 wave length(peak to peak), thus peak exposure is down to 40mm range. which is way larger than an average 2 gram rat brain(reduced occurrence), no so for humans.
As we bring the cell phone in closer to our bodies, the received S/N ratio drops, (our body blocks the received signal), which in turn causes the phone to ramp up it's transmit power.
As for physical effects, I 've got a pair of slowly healing rf burns on my right inner thigh(10 years+). They are located where the two ends of my old moto cell phone antenna used to sit in my right pants pocket. That's more than enough evidence for me..
Procedure to reduce RF exposure, distance is your friend, keep your cell phone as far away from your body as possible. My cell phone resides in a outer pocked of a backpack, while I'm driving/biking/etc. At home it's a minimum of several meters away being charged up, bluetooth'd to my low power DECT cordless phones. P.S. The higher cell phone frequencies are some what more dangerous, and they have been in widespread use for the last 10 to 15 years.
Their would be wayy more than one train, hopefully dozens, if not hundreds. I imagine a triple track leading up a steep grade with a large flat switch yard at either end. Enough for doxens/hundreds of trians at either end..
At any one time they could have ten or more mile long trains on two of the tracks generating electricity. One only needs enouigh specialised three phase motor/generator 20-50MW locomotoves for the trains on graded tracks.(third track woud be used to return locomotives to the top/bottom of grade) as needed They could regulate their speed to sync with the grid, thus incurrng minimal losses..Here is a link for more details
Yes sir, a unique email alias I created for linkedln exclusively started receiving spam in July 2014.
I reported this breach to linkedln, they never responded. I guess it took them a couple of years to get a clue. I immediately changed email alias address, so far no more spam, thus it appears to be a one time(so far) event.
Fortunately I use linkedln sparingly, just some friends and family, thusly had very little information stolen. I always assume that these high profile services, like linkedln, are going to be hacked at one point or another, thus I limit posting personal information accordingly.
"Hard to say. Nuclear war doesn't necessarily mean "extinction"." with 400+ large scale NPPs in operation around the world. Their inventory of stored fission byproducts dwarfs any release if we detonated all the worlds nuclear weapons by 100 fold. I would say we are closer than ever to an extinction event.
All it takes to start the extinction event, is the workers operating each plant don't show up for work. Note: The world add's to this deadly/mutating Isotope inventory at the rate of ~6,500 megatons fission bomb equilivents each year.
Hinkley Point C is planned to be 3,200MWe nuclear reactor complex/waste storage faqcility. One needs to build a lot more of them before you get even close to powering the UK, let alone keeping up with reactors being retired. All it takes is one major incident, Loss of (Electricity,Coolant,Skilled People), to render a size-able portion of the UK unfit for human habitation.
Meanwhile any solar and/or wind power related incident is localised to a few hundred sq meters and can be cleaned(recycled) up in a week.
I suspect this impacts way more than just Tor users. Carrier grade NAT's pretty much do the same job (Anonymize IP address). Wireless devices often end up having Nat'd IP addresses scattered throughout the USA. My laptop&cell phone has used Nat'd using IP addr's for New york, NJ, Oregon, Chicago, Texas, Orlando, Miami, etc. None of which are within 50 miles of my actual location.
That makes my laptop tethered through my cell phone fair game. So this kinda suck's, but it makes sense because of the the nature of the problem. I.E. How does one map a billion(USA only) wireless devices onto the internet.
Not really, initially one uses carbon arc furnace to drive off the o2 from Si02 (sand), that takes 14-16kWh/kg to get to 98% pure MG-Si. The (98%) MG-Si is melted with Alumium (@ lower melting point) which binds with the impurities which is skimmed off the top, leaving (99.99999%)EG-Si(20-30kWh/kg) suitible for for poly panels.
A typical 60 cell , 230watt panel has ~400g of EG-Si silicon, ~20kWh per panel, or about 10-15 days worth electrical output in the sun(@kWh/day) for the PV silicon component. Note: Their are other components, mostly hrydrocarbons and glass, 1/2 Kg for the Aluminum frame, etc.
"NREL forecasts that if we build a modern grid and implement smart metering then we can potentially beat the problems of regional and daily variability in Solar and wind"
Many US based utilities have been using smart meters to prevent several types of low cost solar installations. I.E. If the installation doesn't match their rules they steal your excess generated power, change you for i t(as if you consumed it), and then sell it to another customer at full price.
Etra expense to hire an H1-B's, Counter claim 20K$ is nothing compared to the relocation expenses you might have to pay for a good US employee.
The H1-B & L-1 visa programs are nothing more than a program to premamently undercut US wages.
How high could wages they really go (2x, 3x) without these visa programs torpedoing US tech career opportunities? Hint, look at ~1997, H1-B caused the tech crash, then the follow on real estate bubble & crash, etc. We've paid a very high price, (trillions ecomonic wise), for these disruptive visa programs.
Why?, My 5 yr old andriod phone is still functional with better than avergae voice quality, (replaced the battery naturally.)..
It assumed the duties of handling my old home phone #(~25 years).. I.E. Tracfone's BYOD program, they have plans for Iphones (as low as ~8$/mo).
For addiotional future proofing, I use a bluetooth gateway(Xlink BTTN) to coonect all my cell phones, (while they're at hone recharging), to my home's cordless phones. Reusing my still functioning higher end cell phones sure beats being on the always overpriiced bleeding edge.
Along that line, I bet when the BART system was first built in the 70's they used standard rail lengths ~40-45ft, while each rail car length the was in 70 to 75 ft long. Thus a single rail segment bonding failure was unlikely to cause an issue with multiple pick up brushes per car. Here's the kicker, Modern rail segment lengths are in the 160 to 200ft range, thus subjecting each car to all the electrical vulgarities(loss of redundancy, and current spikes) that entails.
Previously, when a car traversed a bonding fault boundary it might have to take up the 1/2 a load of one additional car due the a rail bonding failure on single 40-45ft segment. But, with longer rail lengths, a BART car crossing a defective bonding point on a 200ft rail segment could be subject to 3 or 4 additional cart loads and/or braking system feedback(huge spikes).
Solution increase the number of redundant flex bonds(both power and ground) on each longer rail segment. Note: Adding additional subber caps won't help.
Looks like none of your precautions would have stopped this particular M$ macro scripting ransom-ware. You may have recovered the lost data using your backups.. but...
What you really need is a good email front end filter.. Like Spamexperts, which just might have quarantine the incoming email fishing attempt before it got to a gullible user.
Oh, and stop using M$ OS's & Office products.. Nothing like having a software monoculture, Pimped by greedy exec's, programmed by inexperienced H-1B's, is just another drive-by waiting to happen.
My advice to Hospital pay the $1600 ransom, recover your files, learn from your mistake, and go forward. (take precautions in the future)..
Couple that with time and mechanical wear.. The bionding between rail segments is wearing out, (and/or being stolen for scrap metal value.) A few intermittant rail to rail connections based on rail movement, (as when a fully loaded train passes over), would inflict a world of hurt on the 1000volt DC electronics.
Nuclear plants periodically dump radioactive Tritium and other isotopes into the atmosphere and water supplies, another is the significant release radioactive isotopes each time the reactor is depressurized to refuel it. This has a known impact on health of the surrounding communities, even the NRC admits to this fact.
And this is just normal reactor operation, when(not if) a reactor melts down, ten's of million's residing downwind will have negative health consequences.
I pointed out that Blackblaze chassis configuration improperly stressed the fragile SATA/Power connectors by implementing a vertical disk drive mounting configuration,. Where the mass of drive(&vibration) is placed upon the fragile SATA data and power connectors.
This type of vertical drive storage/raid cabinet is not conducive for long term/reliable drive lifespan., thus any number of other factors could kick in and cause a premature failure.
Several of my newer Intel XP based laptops have died suddendly, (no bios, no beep), meanwhile nearly all of my AMD based systems, + plus older intel PGA socketed systems still boot up(15-20 years) run older OS's.(WIn 95, Linux) with no issues.
I suspect Intel is well aware of these LGA socket lifespan issues, and that's why they're switching to all BGA soldered in processors(2016).
With distributed Solar, the Power co's. infrastructure is going to have a longer service lifetime, maybe 2x, 3x longer. I.E. The infrastructures peak power disapation periods(&losses) are reduced significantly. Thus everything is going to last longer.
As for GW, and DOD subsidies in the US, each kWh of fossil fuel based generation should be priced @ least 1$ per kWh. That's what future generations will incure (for all non-renewable forms energy generation), if we don't transistion to 100% renewable in the near future.
Future AGW costs, loss of land & infrastructure to sea level increase, 50T$ to 500T$ for just for the USA. Tack on crop losses, wars, insect infestations(bark beatle?), dislocations, refugee compensation, carbon sequestration, etc. Humanity is instore for a very nasty future, if we don't kick our carbon habit real fast.
This post generated using back yard generated solar power.
How about the 20% grid loss(I^2R) the utility doesn't incure when generating power at peak load, compared to locally generated power which incures almost no losses??
It's not just GMO crops, and their known metal deficiencies, it's the ever increasing amounts of glyphostes being applied to crops, and it's various residue products now being found in mothers breast milk.
The fraud is being perpetrated by Monsanto and the various agencies they purchased, bribed, and/or took over. Specifically, using just a 90 day time frame for their food safety studies. This is criminal malfeasance of the worst kind in my book, mass genocide. Longer term studies by 3rd parties, (2 years for rats), show extremely adverse consequences.
Knowing about the grossly inadequate safety studies should automatically trigger some red flags, it does in my book. I suspect these criminal scandals will eventually make the trials at Nuremberg seam hollow.
I try to avoid consuming anything related to GMO's and/or crops exposed to gylphosate (Patented in 1960's as a descaling agent for steam boilers). Note: Roundup is being used in all sorts of crazy, insane methods, even being applied to Non-GMO crops as harvesting(drying) agent ! You've been warned.
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Yes, we in the USA are in fallout zone and got hit fairly hard.
Expect many more years of declining lifespan, unless you took steps to prevent inhaling and ingestion of various radio-isotopes from those meltdowns.
That's all for now, I don't want to start a flame war.
The exact opposite occurs, RF absorption in this case is based on physical dimensions.. A larger mass==worse, especially more than 40mm or more per dimensional vector. This also applies to hard radiation, smaller animals can tolerate higher radiation exposures, because much of radiation passes through tiny animals without impacting DNA, and other critical cellular functions.
As for 9 hours day for a 2 year old rat verses 1 hour a day fora human who has a lot more than 9x the lifespan.
As for low signal, that's a function fo the experimental animal's small mass in general, and a similar issue for brain size..
Perhaps males had larger physical bodies?. Thus the males would have absorbed more energy. (i.e. ~40mm cross section or larger,note: adj absorption for 1/2 wavelength, and velocity factor)..
I should point out a couple of factors that you missed.. First, 3E+8m/s is the speed of light/radio waves while traveling in a vacuum, traveling through flesh is somewhat slower, velocity factor 0.6 to 0.7, (shorter actual wavelength).. Second item, peak exposure across tissue is 1/2 wave length(peak to peak), thus peak exposure is down to 40mm range. which is way larger than an average 2 gram rat brain(reduced occurrence), no so for humans.
As we bring the cell phone in closer to our bodies, the received S/N ratio drops, (our body blocks the received signal), which in turn causes the phone to ramp up it's transmit power.
As for physical effects, I 've got a pair of slowly healing rf burns on my right inner thigh(10 years+). They are located where the two ends of my old moto cell phone antenna used to sit in my right pants pocket. That's more than enough evidence for me..
Procedure to reduce RF exposure, distance is your friend, keep your cell phone as far away from your body as possible. My cell phone resides in a outer pocked of a backpack, while I'm driving/biking/etc. At home it's a minimum of several meters away being charged up, bluetooth'd to my low power DECT cordless phones. P.S. The higher cell phone frequencies are some what more dangerous, and they have been in widespread use for the last 10 to 15 years.
Their would be wayy more than one train, hopefully dozens, if not hundreds. I imagine a triple track leading up a steep grade with a large flat switch yard at either end. Enough for doxens/hundreds of trians at either end..
At any one time they could have ten or more mile long trains on two of the tracks generating electricity. One only needs enouigh specialised three phase motor/generator 20-50MW locomotoves for the trains on graded tracks.(third track woud be used to return locomotives to the top/bottom of grade) as needed They could regulate their speed to sync with the grid, thus incurrng minimal losses..Here is a link for more details
Yes sir, a unique email alias I created for linkedln exclusively started receiving spam in July 2014.
I reported this breach to linkedln, they never responded. I guess it took them a couple of years to get a clue. I immediately changed email alias address, so far no more spam, thus it appears to be a one time(so far) event.
Fortunately I use linkedln sparingly, just some friends and family, thusly had very little information stolen. I always assume that these high profile services, like linkedln, are going to be hacked at one point or another, thus I limit posting personal information accordingly.
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"Hard to say. Nuclear war doesn't necessarily mean "extinction"." with 400+ large scale NPPs in operation around the world. Their inventory of stored fission byproducts dwarfs any release if we detonated all the worlds nuclear weapons by 100 fold. I would say we are closer than ever to an extinction event.
All it takes to start the extinction event, is the workers operating each plant don't show up for work.
Note: The world add's to this deadly/mutating Isotope inventory at the rate of ~6,500 megatons fission bomb equilivents each year.
Hinkley Point C is planned to be 3,200MWe nuclear reactor complex/waste storage faqcility. One needs to build a lot more of them before you get even close to powering the UK, let alone keeping up with reactors being retired. All it takes is one major incident, Loss of (Electricity,Coolant,Skilled People), to render a size-able portion of the UK unfit for human habitation.
Meanwhile any solar and/or wind power related incident is localised to a few hundred sq meters and can be cleaned(recycled) up in a week.
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I suspect this impacts way more than just Tor users. Carrier grade NAT's pretty much do the same job (Anonymize IP address). Wireless devices often end up having Nat'd IP addresses scattered throughout the USA. My laptop&cell phone has used Nat'd using IP addr's for New york, NJ, Oregon, Chicago, Texas, Orlando, Miami, etc. None of which are within 50 miles of my actual location.
That makes my laptop tethered through my cell phone fair game. So this kinda suck's, but it makes sense because of the the nature of the problem. I.E. How does one map a billion(USA only) wireless devices onto the internet.
"Growing silicon consumes a ton of energy"
Not really, initially one uses carbon arc furnace to drive off the o2 from Si02 (sand), that takes 14-16kWh/kg to get to 98% pure MG-Si.
The (98%) MG-Si is melted with Alumium (@ lower melting point) which binds with the impurities which is skimmed off the top, leaving (99.99999%)EG-Si(20-30kWh/kg) suitible for for poly panels.
A typical 60 cell , 230watt panel has ~400g of EG-Si silicon, ~20kWh per panel, or about 10-15 days worth electrical output in the sun(@kWh/day) for the PV silicon component. Note: Their are other components, mostly hrydrocarbons and glass, 1/2 Kg for the Aluminum frame, etc.
"NREL forecasts that if we build a modern grid and implement smart metering then we can potentially beat the problems of regional and daily variability in Solar and wind"
Many US based utilities have been using smart meters to prevent several types of low cost solar installations. I.E. If the installation doesn't match their rules they steal your excess generated power, change you for i t(as if you consumed it), and then sell it to another customer at full price.
Etra expense to hire an H1-B's, Counter claim 20K$ is nothing compared to the relocation expenses you might have to pay for a good US employee.
The H1-B & L-1 visa programs are nothing more than a program to premamently undercut US wages.
How high could wages they really go (2x, 3x) without these visa programs torpedoing US tech career opportunities? Hint, look at ~1997, H1-B caused the tech crash, then the follow on real estate bubble & crash, etc. We've paid a very high price, (trillions ecomonic wise), for these disruptive visa programs.
I bet those LGA sockets sprigy wires start wearing out in a couple of years.
Why do you think Intel is going to only BGA (soldered in CPU's ) in near the future?
Thus you may have no choice. Hint, I've been noticing my older Intel LGA based PC's no longer bios post.
Why?, My 5 yr old andriod phone is still functional with better than avergae voice quality, (replaced the battery naturally.)..
It assumed the duties of handling my old home phone #(~25 years).. I.E. Tracfone's BYOD program, they have plans for Iphones (as low as ~8$/mo).
For addiotional future proofing, I use a bluetooth gateway(Xlink BTTN) to coonect all my cell phones, (while they're at hone recharging), to my home's cordless phones. Reusing my still functioning higher end cell phones sure beats being on the always overpriiced bleeding edge.
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It already has, the US voter registration database and attendance record has been sold to each politcal party since it was first digitised.
From that continously updated database, information is broken down my county and distributed to local politico officials (on a CD or DVD).
Funny, but their current problems just might be related to recent upgrades.
Previously I mentioned rail bonding,or lack there of (stolen) as an issue that could send some serious inductive spikes into the 1000VDC motor control systems.
Along that line, I bet when the BART system was first built in the 70's they used standard rail lengths ~40-45ft, while each rail car length the was in 70 to 75 ft long. Thus a single rail segment bonding failure was unlikely to cause an issue with multiple pick up brushes per car. Here's the kicker, Modern rail segment lengths are in the 160 to 200ft range, thus subjecting each car to all the electrical vulgarities(loss of redundancy, and current spikes) that entails.
Previously, when a car traversed a bonding fault boundary it might have to take up the 1/2 a load of one additional car due the a rail bonding failure on single 40-45ft segment. But, with longer rail lengths, a BART car crossing a defective bonding point on a 200ft rail segment could be subject to 3 or 4 additional cart loads and/or braking system feedback(huge spikes).
Solution increase the number of redundant flex bonds(both power and ground) on each longer rail segment. Note: Adding additional subber caps won't help.
Looks like none of your precautions would have stopped this particular M$ macro scripting ransom-ware. You may have recovered the lost data using your backups.. but...
What you really need is a good email front end filter.. Like Spamexperts, which just might have quarantine the incoming email fishing attempt before it got to a gullible user.
Oh, and stop using M$ OS's & Office products.. Nothing like having a software monoculture, Pimped by greedy exec's, programmed by inexperienced H-1B's, is just another drive-by waiting to happen.
My advice to Hospital pay the $1600 ransom, recover your files, learn from your mistake, and go forward. (take precautions in the future)..
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Couple that with time and mechanical wear.. The bionding between rail segments is wearing out, (and/or being stolen for scrap metal value.) A few intermittant rail to rail connections based on rail movement, (as when a fully loaded train passes over), would inflict a world of hurt on the 1000volt DC electronics.
When they find out that Comcast static IP address(Houston, Tx) is a VPN node setup by some hacker, and the owner had no idea.
Or, it could be worse, and find out it's a Comcast public wifi IP addr that's been activating all those licenses.
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Nuclear plants periodically dump radioactive Tritium and other isotopes into the atmosphere and water supplies, another is the significant release radioactive isotopes each time the reactor is depressurized to refuel it. This has a known impact on health of the surrounding communities, even the NRC admits to this fact.
Nuclear reactors are toxic to surrounding areas, and Infant mortality rates drop around five US nuclear power reactors after reactors closed . Thus, it appears that the NRC significantly low-balled the numbers.
And this is just normal reactor operation, when(not if) a reactor melts down, ten's of million's residing downwind will have negative health consequences.
""When will your hard drive fail"
I pointed out that Blackblaze chassis configuration improperly stressed the fragile SATA/Power connectors by implementing a vertical disk drive mounting configuration,.
Where the mass of drive(&vibration) is placed upon the fragile SATA data and power connectors.
This type of vertical drive storage/raid cabinet is not conducive for long term/reliable drive lifespan., thus any number of other factors could kick in and cause a premature failure.
Several of my newer Intel XP based laptops have died suddendly, (no bios, no beep), meanwhile nearly all of my AMD based systems, + plus older intel PGA socketed systems still boot up(15-20 years) run older OS's.(WIn 95, Linux) with no issues.
I suspect Intel is well aware of these LGA socket lifespan issues, and that's why they're switching to all BGA soldered in processors(2016).
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With distributed Solar, the Power co's. infrastructure is going to have a longer service lifetime, maybe 2x, 3x longer. I.E. The infrastructures peak power disapation periods(&losses) are reduced significantly. Thus everything is going to last longer.
Same goes for gas turbine peaking units.
As for GW, and DOD subsidies in the US, each kWh of fossil fuel based generation should be priced @ least 1$ per kWh. That's what future generations will incure (for all non-renewable forms energy generation), if we don't transistion to 100% renewable in the near future.
Future AGW costs, loss of land & infrastructure to sea level increase, 50T$ to 500T$ for just for the USA. Tack on crop losses, wars, insect infestations(bark beatle?), dislocations, refugee compensation, carbon sequestration, etc. Humanity is instore for a very nasty future, if we don't kick our carbon habit real fast.
This post generated using back yard generated solar power.
How about the 20% grid loss(I^2R) the utility doesn't incure when generating power at peak load, compared to locally generated power which incures almost no losses??
It's not just GMO crops, and their known metal deficiencies, it's the ever increasing amounts of glyphostes being applied to crops, and it's various residue products now being found in mothers breast milk.
The fraud is being perpetrated by Monsanto and the various agencies they purchased, bribed, and/or took over. Specifically, using just a 90 day time frame for their food safety studies. This is criminal malfeasance of the worst kind in my book, mass genocide. Longer term studies by 3rd parties, (2 years for rats), show extremely adverse consequences.
Knowing about the grossly inadequate safety studies should automatically trigger some red flags, it does in my book. I suspect these criminal scandals will eventually make the trials at Nuremberg seam hollow.
I try to avoid consuming anything related to GMO's and/or crops exposed to gylphosate (Patented in 1960's as a descaling agent for steam boilers). Note: Roundup is being used in all sorts of crazy, insane methods, even being applied to Non-GMO crops as harvesting(drying) agent ! You've been warned.