How is it censorship? Trading in illegally copied material is not protected speech, in America or anywhere else.
I see, so these sites will be shut down after the legal system duly decides that their availability 1) enables a crime 2) doesn't have a legitimate use
And it certainly won't be on the whim of an ISP to block sites it doesn't consider appropriate or profitable (piratebay, wikipedia, youtube)
They can on a query-by-query basis. What's an extra millisecond?
Assuming SSL needs twice the power as http, you'll need twice as many servers to support https over http. If your site is large enough to be spread over 2+1 boxes, you'll need to increase to at least 3+1.
Certificate costs -- you need a valid signed certificate to avoid mim attacks. There's more computational overhead too, and say goodbyte to virtual hosts (ipv4 addresses don't grow on trees)
Both fairly balanced. To say there are problems with Fukishima is an understatement, however from a brief 5 minutes of watching an ABC program the other night, I can see why a bigger risk to Japan is the American media.
Fox News showed a map of the nuclear power plants in Japan. On that map, there was a suspect nuclear plant named "Shibuya Eggman". Turns out that's the name of a nightclub in the Shibuya area of Tokyo.
Well there's your problem: hidden is not a valid value for the display property. hidden is valid for the visibility property. According to the WebAIM training that I just had, both "display: none" and "visibility: hidden" should hide content from screen readers. I don't know for certain as I have never used one.
Yes, I know that, i was writing display:hiden on a phone on the train, it was supposed to be flippant. The code is actually much more complex and based around jquery, but works fine in IE8/Chrome/Firefox/Safari.
That markup correctly shows one text box on all browsers, but on our version of Jaws it "displays" 2 text boxes. This is a bug in Jaws (or some other tool) that our accessibility team refuse to accept. The reason is that display:none is often used for drop down menus, and it's easier to "display" them to allow the user to select them straight away.
This is in Australia... what are the rules for underage drinking there? Oddly, in the USA they let you drive a car and buy a gun years before you are to be trusted with alcohol, but many European countries allow alcohol at 18 or even 16 (here in NL it's 16 for beers and alcopop, 18 for hard liquor). Then again, we can't get guns. Perhaps it's an either-or thing...
Ahh America, you can get married, you can serve and die in foreign wars for your country, you can buy an assault rifle, but you can't have a beer.
At least gmail have an HTML mode. But I think the problem is that we need better screenreaders more suitable to modern Internet.
Yes, we use Jaws at work. The accessability team came round last week to see how our video editing system was progressing with accessibility. We got critisised for a variety of reasons, the chief ones being:
1) it didn't work with IE7 2) The screen reader software (Jaws), presented hidden divs to the user
If I have a div with "style=display: hidden;", a display device should not display it.
If your Googlefoo isn't up to finding these answers yourself then there's a list of civilian nuclear accidents [wikipedia.org] on Wikipedia which should help answering your question. Looking at the Chernoby [wikipedia.org] article, it seems that the answer to your question ranges from several thousands (IAEA estimate) to tens of thousands (Greenpeace commissioned study estimate) for that one disaster alone.
The article you linked to states 50 immediate fatalities from a combination of all civilian nuclear incidents.
Greenpeace are hardly impartial, however I think we all agree Chernobyl is the worst accident on the list, and lets take their figures that it killed tens of thousands (presumably by shortening lifespans).
Some perspective is needed. Coal power, in China alone, kills 700,000 per year.
Wonkypedia: In 2007 the use of coal and biomass (collectively referred to as solid fuels) for domestic purposes was nearly ubiquitous in rural households but declining in urban homes. At that time, estimates put the number of premature deaths due to indoor air pollution at 420,000 per year, which is even higher than due to outdoor air pollution, estimated at around 300,000 deaths per year.
Just one coal-power incident in 1966 killed 144. That's immediately, ignoring the long term heath impact of radiation.
Nuclear power is dangerous, but so's all power generation. Any debate, including yours, about nuclear power always overstates the nuclear risk. More people die per year in china alone from coal power and it's effects, than died in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Greenpeace need to put as much effort into that as well.
Perhaps... The thing is, he's quite correct. A "dirty bomb" need not be loaded with just something like weapons grade Plutonium or Uranium for effect- and loading it up with some of the left-overs from a fast breeder would actually be worse.
The total number of deaths in the last 15 years from US terrorism is fewar than the number of deaths per year on the road.
You don't get the kind of scare stories the media are concerned with. Dirty bombs, suitcase nukes, bio warfare. It just doesn't happen. Terrorist cells just aren't that educated or organised to pull that kind of caper off. Although CNN and Fox may tell you otherwise, the bogeyman isn't hiding in the cupboard. If there were, a shooting spree at malls up and down the country would cause more havoc to the economy then all the above incidents (including 9/11) combined. I don't see you having to go through metal detectors to get into WalMart -- you do in Jerusalem.
For example, after Chernobyl we were told "there are no such dangerous reactors allowed in first world countries"; then we suddenly hear that the Japanese reactors are older than Chernobyl.
During this crisis, almost immediately people came out to say "a melt down of these reactors is impossible", yet these reactors have melted down.
Have they? Really? If you're such a Nuclear whizz, why are you on slashdot rather than trying to work out what's happened.
We heard that the leak was only radioactive steam from the cooling system; that the core wasn't compromised. Now we suddenly learn again that that was a lie. We repeatedly hear that wind power is more expensive than nuclear and then find out that the numbers are complete lies. All of the cost estimates for nuclear plants seem to turn out to have been done ignoring the cost of nuclear waste.
So you move from safety onto cost?
To stick on your original point. Japan has suffered a terrible earthquake and Tsunami. Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, are dead. Can you tell me how many people have died from any incident at Fukushima?
I don't know if there are some safe nuclear plants. I don't know if we can reliably make safe nuclear plants. What I do know is that the same people keep repeatedly telling us that "nuclear power is safe" and then we keep having major failures which prove it isn't.
Keep implies there have been previous major failures. When was the last one? How many people have died from nuclear plants, including uranium mining, in the last 60 years? How many people have died from coal plants and mining?
Perhaps some perspective. 3,500 people die every day from lung cancer. If you want to save lives, put your energy into banning smoking.
So has anime, but if I'm on the ISS and the theme from Astro Boy comes out of the speakers, I'm unlikely to recognize its cultural significance.
That's because is has no cultural significance beyond a few nerdy fanboys. Star Trek is a massive, multinational, franchise. The last film brought in $125 million internationally, and indeed it was shown on the space station when it came out. Kirk and Spock are internationally known by anyone with the slightest interest in space.
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Then they come for anyone who expresses a non-approved opinion and we are all buggered.
Apart from young boys, after all the pedos were dealt with earlier.
First they come for the pedos and no-one defends them.
How is it censorship? Trading in illegally copied material is not protected speech, in America or anywhere else.
I see, so these sites will be shut down after the legal system duly decides that their availability
1) enables a crime
2) doesn't have a legitimate use
And it certainly won't be on the whim of an ISP to block sites it doesn't consider appropriate or profitable (piratebay, wikipedia, youtube)
Computers now can handle a lot more load.
They can on a query-by-query basis. What's an extra millisecond?
Assuming SSL needs twice the power as http, you'll need twice as many servers to support https over http. If your site is large enough to be spread over 2+1 boxes, you'll need to increase to at least 3+1.
Certificate costs -- you need a valid signed certificate to avoid mim attacks. There's more computational overhead too, and say goodbyte to virtual hosts (ipv4 addresses don't grow on trees)
in the same sense that getting xrays for no reason is unwise
Yet being exposed to ionising radiation with airport body scanners is fine?
and wonder if he read the recent research on how neurons can use weak rf like signals to communicate with nearby but not directly connected neurons.
So you're saying my brain can somehow link with my phone via bluetooth? Sweet. Got a howto?
Do you really believe that the news channels do anything other than bloviate?
Japan nuclear threat: The tsunami is the bigger tragedy
"And we're definitely not in the situation where we're going to see another Chernobyl - that possibility has long gone."
Both fairly balanced. To say there are problems with Fukishima is an understatement, however from a brief 5 minutes of watching an ABC program the other night, I can see why a bigger risk to Japan is the American media.
Fox News showed a map of the nuclear power plants in Japan. On that map, there was a suspect nuclear plant named "Shibuya Eggman". Turns out that's the name of a nightclub in the Shibuya area of Tokyo.
Fox news is hardly known for it's geographical accuracy
May 13th 2011 between 9AM and 3PM PDT. You laugh now, but just wait and see.
You know, you may joke, however sometimes these things have a way of being right.
Your laptop can be used to detect earthquakes
Yes, if it falls off the table, it's probably an earthquake.
Well there's your problem: hidden is not a valid value for the display property. hidden is valid for the visibility property. According to the WebAIM training that I just had, both "display: none" and "visibility: hidden" should hide content from screen readers. I don't know for certain as I have never used one.
Yes, I know that, i was writing display:hiden on a phone on the train, it was supposed to be flippant. The code is actually much more complex and based around jquery, but works fine in IE8/Chrome/Firefox/Safari.
That markup correctly shows one text box on all browsers, but on our version of Jaws it "displays" 2 text boxes. This is a bug in Jaws (or some other tool) that our accessibility team refuse to accept. The reason is that display:none is often used for drop down menus, and it's easier to "display" them to allow the user to select them straight away.
This is in Australia... what are the rules for underage drinking there? Oddly, in the USA they let you drive a car and buy a gun years before you are to be trusted with alcohol, but many European countries allow alcohol at 18 or even 16 (here in NL it's 16 for beers and alcopop, 18 for hard liquor). Then again, we can't get guns. Perhaps it's an either-or thing...
Ahh America, you can get married, you can serve and die in foreign wars for your country, you can buy an assault rifle, but you can't have a beer.
iOS has many features for blind people - apparently it's one of the best machines out there to use.
Yup. From the first "enable" to the last "write", although "show run" gets a bit boring through a text-to-speech device.
At least gmail have an HTML mode. But I think the problem is that we need better screenreaders more suitable to modern Internet.
Yes, we use Jaws at work. The accessability team came round last week to see how our video editing system was progressing with accessibility. We got critisised for a variety of reasons, the chief ones being:
1) it didn't work with IE7
2) The screen reader software (Jaws), presented hidden divs to the user
If I have a div with "style=display: hidden;", a display device should not display it.
Blind people designed Slashdot's look you insensitive clod.
OMG! Ponies!
<tinfoil>Yes... Cameras pointed at the sky... Just make sure there's not a second camera in the opposite end pointing down.</tinfoil>
What, at the ants?
If your Googlefoo isn't up to finding these answers yourself then there's a list of civilian nuclear accidents [wikipedia.org] on Wikipedia which should help answering your question. Looking at the Chernoby [wikipedia.org] article, it seems that the answer to your question ranges from several thousands (IAEA estimate) to tens of thousands (Greenpeace commissioned study estimate) for that one disaster alone.
The article you linked to states 50 immediate fatalities from a combination of all civilian nuclear incidents.
Greenpeace are hardly impartial, however I think we all agree Chernobyl is the worst accident on the list, and lets take their figures that it killed tens of thousands (presumably by shortening lifespans).
Some perspective is needed. Coal power, in China alone, kills 700,000 per year.
Wonkypedia:
In 2007 the use of coal and biomass (collectively referred to as solid fuels) for domestic purposes was nearly ubiquitous in rural households but declining in urban homes. At that time, estimates put the number of premature deaths due to indoor air pollution at 420,000 per year, which is even higher than due to outdoor air pollution, estimated at around 300,000 deaths per year.
Just one coal-power incident in 1966 killed 144. That's immediately, ignoring the long term heath impact of radiation.
Nuclear power is dangerous, but so's all power generation. Any debate, including yours, about nuclear power always overstates the nuclear risk. More people die per year in china alone from coal power and it's effects, than died in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Greenpeace need to put as much effort into that as well.
Perhaps... The thing is, he's quite correct. A "dirty bomb" need not be loaded with just something like weapons grade Plutonium or Uranium for effect- and loading it up with some of the left-overs from a fast breeder would actually be worse.
The typical U.S. "terrorist" shoots politicians, shoots people at gas stations, blows up buildings, mails anthrax, and once in a blue moon you get some foreigners knock over a couple of buildings.
The total number of deaths in the last 15 years from US terrorism is fewar than the number of deaths per year on the road.
You don't get the kind of scare stories the media are concerned with. Dirty bombs, suitcase nukes, bio warfare. It just doesn't happen. Terrorist cells just aren't that educated or organised to pull that kind of caper off. Although CNN and Fox may tell you otherwise, the bogeyman isn't hiding in the cupboard. If there were, a shooting spree at malls up and down the country would cause more havoc to the economy then all the above incidents (including 9/11) combined. I don't see you having to go through metal detectors to get into WalMart -- you do in Jerusalem.
Peak usage for a small house is very unlikely to be over about 3kW
My kettle draws about 10 Amps at 240V, 2.4kW. The oven pulls about 6kW.
And leave toxic waste as well as hot nuclear material that has to be guarded so terrorist won't get their hands on it.
I think Goodwin's Law needs to be updated
For example, after Chernobyl we were told "there are no such dangerous reactors allowed in first world countries"; then we suddenly hear that the Japanese reactors are older than Chernobyl.
We've always known this.
During this crisis, almost immediately people came out to say "a melt down of these reactors is impossible", yet these reactors have melted down.
Have they? Really? If you're such a Nuclear whizz, why are you on slashdot rather than trying to work out what's happened.
We heard that the leak was only radioactive steam from the cooling system; that the core wasn't compromised. Now we suddenly learn again that that was a lie. We repeatedly hear that wind power is more expensive than nuclear and then find out that the numbers are complete lies. All of the cost estimates for nuclear plants seem to turn out to have been done ignoring the cost of nuclear waste.
So you move from safety onto cost?
To stick on your original point. Japan has suffered a terrible earthquake and Tsunami. Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, are dead. Can you tell me how many people have died from any incident at Fukushima?
I don't know if there are some safe nuclear plants. I don't know if we can reliably make safe nuclear plants. What I do know is that the same people keep repeatedly telling us that "nuclear power is safe" and then we keep having major failures which prove it isn't.
Keep implies there have been previous major failures. When was the last one? How many people have died from nuclear plants, including uranium mining, in the last 60 years? How many people have died from coal plants and mining?
Perhaps some perspective. 3,500 people die every day from lung cancer. If you want to save lives, put your energy into banning smoking.
hypothetical example - Eddie Talbot being accused of sleeping with a 14 year old?
What, is he a Prince or something?
I'm more concerned about the trolling that will result
What about the TrollTeching?
So has anime, but if I'm on the ISS and the theme from Astro Boy comes out of the speakers, I'm unlikely to recognize its cultural significance.
That's because is has no cultural significance beyond a few nerdy fanboys. Star Trek is a massive, multinational, franchise. The last film brought in $125 million internationally, and indeed it was shown on the space station when it came out. Kirk and Spock are internationally known by anyone with the slightest interest in space.
Oh yeah you know what the second surgery would absolutely REQUIRE? The signature of the father.
Too bad if your father was a fireman who died saving kids from an orphanage.