Because the Senator Stevens from Alaska is the head of some powerful committees. He has been working on the Kodiak launch site for years. Its current reason for being is for missile defense tests. They have to shoot a few rockets off before the range can be opened. This is one of them. In reality it is just a bunch of pork.
Correct, In a hundred thousand years the stuff will still be radioactive...
However, in 600-1000 years nuclear waste decays to the same radiation level as uranium ore. Just have to keep the stuff 1000 years and then bury it again.
They use them as lasers because they make very powerful lasers. Multi-Megawatt lasers are hard to make without going to using the chemical energy in atoms. Just pumping with electricity is very efficient but not that powerfull.
The reaction is combustion rather that detonation. The lasers are designed like small rocket engines. Deuterium is used because the wavelength produced is at a point where air is transparent to IR radiation. Hydrogen Fluride lasers run at a wavelength where air is rather opaque.
I actually run these things all the time for my graduate research. Much fun. The small 100 watt HF laser in our lab can burn bricks causing the formation of glass on the surface. Quite cool.
I'd agree with that. If you aren't handy yourself go find a handyman/ custom cabinetry type guy and have him build it. Luckily my father is one of these and my desk is the buchered recombination of 2-3 desks he ripped from a church office. 3 feet deep, 5 feet long, a single set of drawers on the right and open on the left. Perfect.
a) the student phonebook is not printed until the end of october, middle of november. Yet any company can purchase a complete list of my phone number, major, years in school, where i'm from, my family, and any other information I have had to fork over that wasn't explicity exempted. Not only this but they (the university) will pre order and filter it so you can better target your core markets.
Thank God I went to school in missouri. Very strong privacy rights. You had to specifically ask to have finger turned on for your user account (otherwise someone could discover that you were a student). Parents would call to find thier son/daughters phone number and be told that they can't even confirm that the person goes to the school.
Just went through a long export control law briefing at work. There is an exeption for public domain information. Someone should publish a book and get into a bunch of libraries4. It should be ok to export then. Watch out though, talking about crypto (or any controlled technology) with or letting yourself be overheard by a foriegner can be considered exporting... Damn export laws are more annoying than actual security laws.
Yes. The old shotgun approach is very unrealiable. With nukes one getting through is not enough, all must be destroyed. Imagine the volume of space a radar can pinpoint an incoming RV as being in. It is very very large. Then look at the size of an RV , small actually. Then calculate the number of submunisions that you would need to fill the volume with in order to ensure a hit on the RV. And a good hit not one that mearly injures the RV. You would need a very large number of submunisions which would need a large booster. And what have you saved?
If you put guidance on the interceptor to reduce the volume the RV is in. It becomes more effective to just use the interceptor itself as the kill mechanism.
Lastly, the US deployed a nuclear armed interceptor fleet. For six months. We then decommisioned it. All back in the late '70s. You try selling to congress large fleets of nukes that we blow up over our own country to fend off other nukes. It just doesnt work.
1) The threat of nuclear war sucks. I think we both agree on this.
Yes
2) Russia doesn't look too fondly on this since we have a treaty that prohibits us from developing an anti-ballistic missile program. They like the freedoms their retaliatory capability provides them. Russia, however, has a limited ABM system using nuclear warheads to protect Moscow (their command and control?). The ABM treaty says that
a. US and Russia may have one ABM system.
b. It must protect missile silos
c. Dictates where it can be placed and tested
d. Dictates how it can be tested.
Current negotiations are going on to allow the US to place the system (interceptors) in Alaska and not Grand Forks as the treaty states.
The Russian ABM system is how you state it Anti-Nuke Nukes and protects Moscow and the very small missile field near it.
I am not commenting on #3
4) This system won't prevent an all-out nuclear strike (or at least that's what we are being told). This may be the spin to avoid pissing off the Russians while we bring the system online. Regardless, this system only protects us against intercontinental exoatmospheric missiles. "Backpack" nukes and missiles designed to stay in the atmosphere (nuclear cruise missiles?) won't be affected by this system. Maybe the thinking is that third-world "rogue" nations aren't quite there wrt cruise missiles and even if they are, these missiles are vulnerable to conventional munitions.
That is exactly correct. Not that this is not a mobile system. They put the interceptors in silos. You are right in thinking that the conventional wisdon is that rogue nations do not have the ability to moke cruise missiles. Although I have heard rumors on National Cruise Missile Defense being worked on. As for backpack nukes... thats terrorism and not war. Ask the FBI what they are doing.
My estimate would be that very little debris will come raining down. What would come down will be in very very small particles. Should see from the next test on October 2nd.
At an impact speed of 10+ km/sec. Vaporization is the usual result. Should kill biologicals. Flying missile debris or flying missile... difficult choice..
If you are running a site of the types they list IE Intranet or Billboard then you can get away with a $5000 license. Otherwise you need to negotiate with UniSys for your own license.
My 19" Dell 1200HS can run 1600x1200 @ 75Hz I use this as my standard resolution, I drop to 1152x900 @ >100Hz when my eyes get tired reading too much off of the screen.
I have yet to see a 19" monitor do less than 1600x1200 although most seem to just state optimal resolution of 1280x1024 because that is what they can get at 85Hz.
Being that you are an expert in these things (so it seems). What would the appropriate Linux solution be? How much would that cost? You get roughly $50k to play with over Microsoft. Difference in NT -> Linux pricing, estimated at $500 (Bulk Purchage) x 96 ~= $50k. Use a better figure if you have one.
The point - High volume servers will always be expensive. Witness half million Oracle servers.
>my god >that's the last time he'll write something bad >about the open source community
Or anything at all... Thats the problem, if we want advocacy we need to nice to those who do it (EVEN IF THEY ARE WRONG). Otherwise they go off and talk about other stuff.
> * Maybe sometimes hauling off > and decking someone might be > a Good Thing (okay this is > debatable).
Agreed. One or two good fights can stop a lot of abuse. I survived school by making it known that I do not fight fair. Then you just have to learn to ignore what people say. (If you think a person is without worth why do you put worth in what they say?)
I survived, not without scars but I survived.
My advice - If you ever get to the point that you are able and willing to punch someone - do it. School punishment is minor and the record isnt permanent.
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London to Paris, huh... ~200 miles as the crow flies.
Boston to New York, ~200 miles
Oddly both are popular train routes.
London to Moscow ~1500 miles
Dallas to Boston ~1500 miles
Most people fly between them. How odd.
Because the Senator Stevens from Alaska is the head of some powerful committees. He has been working on the Kodiak launch site for years. Its current reason for being is for missile defense tests. They have to shoot a few rockets off before the range can be opened. This is one of them. In reality it is just a bunch of pork.
I am typing on the new apple USB keyboard. The keyboard nipples are on the F and J keys. Not the D and K keys.
Correct, In a hundred thousand years the stuff will still be radioactive...
However, in 600-1000 years nuclear waste decays to the same radiation level as uranium ore. Just have to keep the stuff 1000 years and then bury it again.
Rob
They use them as lasers because they make very powerful lasers. Multi-Megawatt lasers are hard to make without going to using the chemical energy in atoms. Just pumping with electricity is very efficient but not that powerfull.
The reaction is combustion rather that detonation. The lasers are designed like small rocket engines. Deuterium is used because the wavelength produced is at a point where air is transparent to IR radiation. Hydrogen Fluride lasers run at a wavelength where air is rather opaque.
I actually run these things all the time for my graduate research. Much fun. The small 100 watt HF laser in our lab can burn bricks causing the formation of glass on the surface. Quite cool.
Robert Wright
I'd agree with that. If you aren't handy yourself go find a handyman/ custom cabinetry type guy and have him build it. Luckily my father is one of these and my desk is the buchered recombination of 2-3 desks he ripped from a church office. 3 feet deep, 5 feet long, a single set of drawers on the right and open on the left. Perfect.
Rob
In all the high security places I have seen the keyboards and cases are already secured. Though the keyboards only have stickers over thier seams
Delicon
Thank God I went to school in missouri. Very strong privacy rights. You had to specifically ask to have finger turned on for your user account (otherwise someone could discover that you were a student). Parents would call to find thier son/daughters phone number and be told that they can't even confirm that the person goes to the school.
Rob
Just went through a long export control law briefing at work. There is an exeption for public domain information. Someone should publish a book and get into a bunch of libraries4. It should be ok to export then. Watch out though, talking about crypto (or any controlled technology) with or letting yourself be overheard by a foriegner can be considered exporting... Damn export laws are more annoying than actual security laws.
Good Comment and all but just one point of clarification
t h.
>There's only three major contenders that I can
>think of, Boeing, Airbus and
>McDonnell-Douglas-whomever-else-they-merged-wi
That would be Boeing that bought McDonnel-Douglas. Only two major commercial aircraft builders these days.
Robert Wright
Yes. The old shotgun approach is very unrealiable. With nukes one getting through is not enough, all must be destroyed. Imagine the volume of space a radar can pinpoint an incoming RV as being in. It is very very large. Then look at the size of an RV , small actually. Then calculate the number of submunisions that you would need to fill the volume with in order to ensure a hit on the RV. And a good hit not one that mearly injures the RV. You would need a very large number of submunisions which would need a large booster. And what have you saved?
If you put guidance on the interceptor to reduce the volume the RV is in. It becomes more effective to just use the interceptor itself as the kill mechanism.
Lastly, the US deployed a nuclear armed interceptor fleet. For six months. We then decommisioned it. All back in the late '70s. You try selling to congress large fleets of nukes that we blow up over our own country to fend off other nukes. It just doesnt work.
1) The threat of nuclear war sucks. I think we both agree on this.
Yes
2) Russia doesn't look too fondly on this since we have a treaty that prohibits us from developing an anti-ballistic missile program. They like the freedoms their retaliatory capability provides them. Russia, however, has a limited ABM system using nuclear warheads to protect Moscow (their command and control?). The ABM treaty says that
a. US and Russia may have one ABM system.
b. It must protect missile silos
c. Dictates where it can be placed and tested
d. Dictates how it can be tested.
Current negotiations are going on to allow the US to place the system (interceptors) in Alaska and not Grand Forks as the treaty states.
The Russian ABM system is how you state it Anti-Nuke Nukes and protects Moscow and the very small missile field near it.
I am not commenting on #3
4) This system won't prevent an all-out nuclear strike (or at least that's what we are being told). This may be the spin to avoid pissing off the Russians while we bring the system online. Regardless, this system only protects us against intercontinental exoatmospheric missiles. "Backpack" nukes and missiles designed to stay in the atmosphere (nuclear cruise missiles?) won't be affected by this system. Maybe the thinking is that third-world "rogue" nations aren't quite there wrt cruise missiles and even if they are, these missiles are vulnerable to conventional munitions.
That is exactly correct. Not that this is not a mobile system. They put the interceptors in silos. You are right in thinking that the conventional wisdon is that rogue nations do not have the ability to moke cruise missiles. Although I have heard rumors on National Cruise Missile Defense being worked on. As for backpack nukes... thats terrorism and not war. Ask the FBI what they are doing.
Not commenting on #5
Robert Wright
My estimate would be that very little debris will come raining down. What would come down will be in very very small particles. Should see from the next test on October 2nd.
http://www.io.com/~robwrht/bmd.htm
Robert Wright
You actually answered you own question. Missiles are tangible. The ability to threaten and oppose the US needs tangible threats.
Which can cause the US to change foriegn policy, Missiles or Terrorists?
Who do we bargain with every day, missile armed states or state backing terrorists?
Who do we have defenses against right now, terrorists or missiles?
Robert Wright
At an impact speed of 10+ km/sec. Vaporization is the usual result. Should kill biologicals. Flying missile debris or flying missile... difficult choice..
Robert Wright
http://www.plan9.org/
Robert Wright
If you are running a site of the types they list IE Intranet or Billboard then you can get away with a $5000 license. Otherwise you need to negotiate with UniSys for your own license.
All Bullshit
Robert Wright
My 19" Dell 1200HS can run 1600x1200 @ 75Hz I use this as my standard resolution, I drop to 1152x900 @ >100Hz when my eyes get tired reading too much off of the screen.
I have yet to see a 19" monitor do less than 1600x1200 although most seem to just state optimal resolution of 1280x1024 because that is what they can get at 85Hz.
Unfortunately 2 elphants for a nickel is only worth it if you need 2 elphants and have a nickel.
Oracle provides a 99.9% solution for 100% of the price.
Being that you are an expert in these things (so it seems). What would the appropriate Linux solution be? How much would that cost? You get roughly $50k to play with over Microsoft. Difference in NT -> Linux pricing, estimated at $500 (Bulk Purchage) x 96 ~= $50k. Use a better figure if you have one.
The point - High volume servers will always be expensive. Witness half million Oracle servers.
>my god
>that's the last time he'll write something bad >about the open source community
Or anything at all...
Thats the problem, if we want advocacy we need to nice to those who do it (EVEN IF THEY ARE WRONG). Otherwise they go off and talk about other stuff.
> * Maybe sometimes hauling off
> and decking someone might be
> a Good Thing (okay this is
> debatable).
Agreed. One or two good fights can stop a lot of abuse. I survived school by making it known that I do not fight fair. Then you just have to learn to ignore what people say. (If you think a person is without worth why do you put worth in what they say?)
I survived, not without scars but I survived.
My advice - If you ever get to the point that you are able and willing to punch someone - do it. School punishment is minor and the record isnt permanent.