I think you have it a bit off. First of all I have to wonder if it is 1 GB up and down. If so this would so rock. Keeping the kids off the street and getting them on the internet? I doubt it. What this will do is get businesses to move there. If they keep the cost low imagine how great this would be. Your people want to work from home? No problem they have access to your network and VOIP at full speed over a VPN. You want to start a company? VOIP is now super cheap and you have bandwidth to spare. Got an internet idea? Dude on GB up from your office? No need to pay for hosting! Just put up a server at your office. Want to do podcasts? Live video streaming? Where I work we are stuck with two crappy DSL lines and we are a software dev firm. No Business class cable in our area. We could do so much with a GB connection. Some other benefits. Imagine clinics that can be on Hospital networks over a VPN? A local chain with all their stores connected over VPN and all their phone systems connected over VIOP. Easy video streaming between schools. All schools being on one centralized managed network over VPNs? Yes this could do a lot but the "entertainment" value is really a small part of the benefit if any. BTW the best way to decrease crime is to have jobs. If at anytime you can have a place with a low cost of living, jobs, and a good average wage you will see low crime. It really is that simple. High speed internet really is a great resource for companies and small businesses.
Actually a better paralle was Digital Equipment Corp. When micro computers started to become popular DEC just didn't see the point. The would rather make real profits selling minicomputers. People where still paying big bucks for PDP-11s DEC System 20s and the hot new VAX. By the time DEC produced the Rainbow it was too little too late. Microsoft looks to be in the same mindset. I wounder how Microsoft will feel when RIM buys them and then HP buys RIM?
oh foolish one. I will just cut up a news paper and randomly pull them out of a bag and then glue them on paper using paste made from flour and water all the while wearing a clean suite. Then I will put rub dirt on it from a trip to an another state.
WOOSH this reactor failed because it was hit by a disaster outside of what was expected. Take a look around at the other structures around that failed as well.
Your probably correct but just a note to myself. If I ever kill someone I need to leave a message that is nothing but the output of a random number generator. That will keep them busy for decades:)
Really? Massive earthquake plus tsunami did this much damage. Chernobyl did it all on it's own. Of course the containment building and Chernobyl didn't leak because it didn't have one.
Funny thing is that IBM is still selling mainframes and making a mint out of it. They have even stopped making PCs. Oh and giant cluster computers like Google runs on are also big large installations. Plus things you depend on like your bank, power company, telephone network, insurance companies all tend to run on bit mainframes. BTW those big mainframes have uptime's measured in years and decades and really don't fail.
So you want a power grid with the reliability of twitter?
Distributed systems for power is what we already have. You may think the nodes are too big but the simple truth is that when dealing with any systems like this there is an ideal node size. The cost, efficiency, and reliability all tend to go up as the node size goes up to a point. To go with a computer example take a look at modern super computers. They do not use clusters of Atoms they cluster the biggest CPUs that are available as COTS parts. In any distributed system you want to use the largest possible node and the fewest possible nodes that you can and still have a comfortable level of redundancy.
Plus renewables are expensive and not reliable. Im again if instead of one nuclear plant the tsunami wrecked 100,000 solar plants, and 10,000 large wind turbines. The replacement costs and times would be just as bad if not worse than with this power plant. Some of the reactors where cold when the tsunami hit once this event is over they can hopefully be brought back on line and restore a good amount of the power deficit that they are having.
Tsunami killed 10,000 Reactor so far 0 My local natural gas power plant killed 3 workers when they fell from the smoke stacks while hanging giant snowflakes for Christmas.
Too bad there is no -1 for I don't get it. It could be applied to your post.
"Actually, the absurdity is that these are fairly complex undertakings. These types of hobbies - or at least those that do it successfully - are generally for pretty smart folk, and there are precious few of those in these terrorist organizations (they do exist, but in very, very small numbers). " Really? That seems to be a very optimistic or arrogant attitude. I am not for limiting RC and or Model rocket enthusiasts since I doubt that it would actually make anybody safer. Thing is that now that you can buy a cell phone with gyros, accelerometers, GPS, cameras, and broad band connections the cat is really mostly out of the bag. I am just waiting for the a cellphone based guidance system. Even without that you can buy a GPS and a Wiimote plus and nun-chuck and then combine that with something like the Gumstix, beagle board, or even one of the small cheap micros to put together a guidance system for very little money. That cat is really out of the bag now that we have GPS, cheap gyros, accelerometers, and cheap powerful computers.
That will depend in large part if they keep the jigs and fixtures. There are still spares available The will have a short time frame in which to do it but it may be possible for a year or so but you are correct after that time frame. I wonder how much it would cost to build a new Shuttle today. If you used the same requirements but with modern production methods and materials.
It actually looks like they are being very careful with this process. Odds are they are doing it in a way that they could return them to flight if they needed to. But I am just guessing.
Part of me kind of wishes they would launch the last one unmanned and boost it up past Geosync and leave it there. Vent the volitals and park it there for some far distant generation to find. Yes I know the Shuttle lacks the fuel to go into that high of an orbit it would take launching and docking a separate booster and would cost a lot of money and effort but I can dream can't I?
Simple it will have GPS so it will know every road you drive on. Not only that it will know when it was parked at that bar for two hours and when you decide to go 5 MPH over the speed limit. It will then let the police know so you can have take a breathalyzer test. It will also know that you where at the club where some girl over dosed and they will know to question you about it. It will also know that your car was near that G8 conference where those protesters got out of hand. It will even know that you drove down that street with all the drug dealers and hookers and that you stopped in the middle of the street at 1 am. This will solve so many problems. Yea and people worry about Apple iTunes store.
Yea I love the line that the Motorola Droid made the Android OS relevant. Maybe but Android saved Motorola as well. Before the Droid all that Motorola had was variations of the razor all of which where down into the give way phone range. Maybe Motorola is looking at an OS that will work at the low end of the market. A new feature/messaging phone platform for people that do not want to pay for a data plan but want things like twitter, Facebook, web mail and so on. Other wise I just see this as a new way for Motorola to fail. I guess they could always come out with WP7 phones.
Not at all. Truth is that there very well may be zero deaths from the reactor accident Even if their is a thousand it will be far less than the deaths caused by things like the dam that failed, the sea wall that failed buildings that couldn't stop the wall of water that came... But some how this is being used as political tool to show that Nuclear power is super dangerous. Just how many other pieces of technology have failed in this event and killed people? Frankly I would say that people should take learn a far different lesson from this event. The worst has happened to a modern light water reactor. It got hit by an earthquake much stronger than it was designed to take. It then got hit by a tsunami. The backup systems where destroyed and yet the end of the world has not happened. It isn't as terrible as a lot of people have said it would be. Millions are not going to die. Hundreds of thousands are not going to die. And tens of thousands are not going to die. In fact maybe no one is going to die from the reactor problems. Yes we can now learn what works and what has failed and make other reactors safer. Maybe set new standards for sea walls and back up systems. This story is such a clear example of emotional manipulation and fear mongering that it boarders on the absurd if wasn't working so well.
Being pro-gay or anti-gay isn't the point. What is the point is that if there was say an app that shows the best way to hide pot from the cops and it got removed people would have a fit. This is political speech and it is being restricted yet on Slashdot the very people that would be jumping up and down saying that it is wrong to restrict apps are now silent or saying things like, "well at least this time they are doing the right thing!" Really? Frankly I am not too upset one way or the other since I don't have a problem with Apple saying that it is their store and they can carry what they want. Frankly I wouldn't mind it if they took out any app that has any political and or sexual content. Both of those can be found using the safari if you want them. I just find the double standard to be waiver beween amusing and annoying. People that would be ready to burn Jobbs at the stake over them taking down iWobbleBoobs because it is a violation of free speech are just find and dandy with them taking this down because of a petition. Why should someone not be allowed to get this app if they want it? I have the answer but people will not be happy about it. The reason is because it offends someone so much they want to prevent others from downloading it. If you are okay with it then you are okay with censorship of political speech at least in the app store. Over all it doesn't bother me but then I didn't care about iWobbleBoobs or any other app being taken out. I have an Android phone.
Actually Mass can make it worse. Comic rays can cause more radiation when they hit a high mass shield then when there is no shielding. That is unless you have a LOT of mass.
Active shielding will only work for Alpha, Beta, and high energy Protons. It will do nothing for Neutron, Gamma, Xrays, and so on. For Neutron you could us a material with lots of Boron in it but I am not sure if Boron only captures some energies of Neutrons effectively or all of them. If it only captures thermal neutrons then you could combine it with carbon and have pretty efective material. But when you are talking about high energy Photons the only thing that I know works is mass. So pick your radiation and there will be a different way to shield it.
Don't forget that the caps they just put on DSL and their higher speed service. If this gets approved then we know that without a doubt that the Telco now own the government.
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I think you have it a bit off. First of all I have to wonder if it is 1 GB up and down. If so this would so rock. Keeping the kids off the street and getting them on the internet? I doubt it. What this will do is get businesses to move there. If they keep the cost low imagine how great this would be. Your people want to work from home? No problem they have access to your network and VOIP at full speed over a VPN. You want to start a company? VOIP is now super cheap and you have bandwidth to spare. Got an internet idea? Dude on GB up from your office? No need to pay for hosting! Just put up a server at your office.
Want to do podcasts? Live video streaming? Where I work we are stuck with two crappy DSL lines and we are a software dev firm. No Business class cable in our area. We could do so much with a GB connection.
Some other benefits. Imagine clinics that can be on Hospital networks over a VPN? A local chain with all their stores connected over VPN and all their phone systems connected over VIOP.
Easy video streaming between schools.
All schools being on one centralized managed network over VPNs?
Yes this could do a lot but the "entertainment" value is really a small part of the benefit if any.
BTW the best way to decrease crime is to have jobs. If at anytime you can have a place with a low cost of living, jobs, and a good average wage you will see low crime. It really is that simple. High speed internet really is a great resource for companies and small businesses.
Actually a better paralle was Digital Equipment Corp. When micro computers started to become popular DEC just didn't see the point. The would rather make real profits selling minicomputers. People where still paying big bucks for PDP-11s DEC System 20s and the hot new VAX. By the time DEC produced the Rainbow it was too little too late. Microsoft looks to be in the same mindset.
I wounder how Microsoft will feel when RIM buys them and then HP buys RIM?
oh foolish one. I will just cut up a news paper and randomly pull them out of a bag and then glue them on paper using paste made from flour and water all the while wearing a clean suite. Then I will put rub dirt on it from a trip to an another state.
WOOSH this reactor failed because it was hit by a disaster outside of what was expected. Take a look around at the other structures around that failed as well.
Your probably correct but just a note to myself. If I ever kill someone I need to leave a message that is nothing but the output of a random number generator. That will keep them busy for decades :)
No. Safer than giant snow flakes.
You have to wonder what they where thinking. We are in Florida after all. Giant snow flakes are an insult to nature!
Except that none of those things are going to happen. You are pretty much into the realm of SciFi worries.
Really?
Massive earthquake plus tsunami did this much damage. Chernobyl did it all on it's own. Of course the containment building and Chernobyl didn't leak because it didn't have one.
Funny thing is that IBM is still selling mainframes and making a mint out of it. They have even stopped making PCs. Oh and giant cluster computers like Google runs on are also big large installations. Plus things you depend on like your bank, power company, telephone network, insurance companies all tend to run on bit mainframes. BTW those big mainframes have uptime's measured in years and decades and really don't fail.
So you want a power grid with the reliability of twitter?
Distributed systems for power is what we already have. You may think the nodes are too big but the simple truth is that when dealing with any systems like this there is an ideal node size. The cost, efficiency, and reliability all tend to go up as the node size goes up to a point. To go with a computer example take a look at modern super computers. They do not use clusters of Atoms they cluster the biggest CPUs that are available as COTS parts.
In any distributed system you want to use the largest possible node and the fewest possible nodes that you can and still have a comfortable level of redundancy.
Plus renewables are expensive and not reliable. Im again if instead of one nuclear plant the tsunami wrecked 100,000 solar plants, and 10,000 large wind turbines. The replacement costs and times would be just as bad if not worse than with this power plant. Some of the reactors where cold when the tsunami hit once this event is over they can hopefully be brought back on line and restore a good amount of the power deficit that they are having.
Tsunami killed 10,000
Reactor so far 0
My local natural gas power plant killed 3 workers when they fell from the smoke stacks while hanging giant snowflakes for Christmas.
Too bad there is no -1 for I don't get it. It could be applied to your post.
"Actually, the absurdity is that these are fairly complex undertakings. These types of hobbies - or at least those that do it successfully - are generally for pretty smart folk, and there are precious few of those in these terrorist organizations (they do exist, but in very, very small numbers). "
Really? That seems to be a very optimistic or arrogant attitude. I am not for limiting RC and or Model rocket enthusiasts since I doubt that it would actually make anybody safer. Thing is that now that you can buy a cell phone with gyros, accelerometers, GPS, cameras, and broad band connections the cat is really mostly out of the bag. I am just waiting for the a cellphone based guidance system. Even without that you can buy a GPS and a Wiimote plus and nun-chuck and then combine that with something like the Gumstix, beagle board, or even one of the small cheap micros to put together a guidance system for very little money. That cat is really out of the bag now that we have GPS, cheap gyros, accelerometers, and cheap powerful computers.
That will depend in large part if they keep the jigs and fixtures. There are still spares available The will have a short time frame in which to do it but it may be possible for a year or so but you are correct after that time frame. I wonder how much it would cost to build a new Shuttle today. If you used the same requirements but with modern production methods and materials.
It actually looks like they are being very careful with this process. Odds are they are doing it in a way that they could return them to flight if they needed to. But I am just guessing.
Part of me kind of wishes they would launch the last one unmanned and boost it up past Geosync and leave it there. Vent the volitals and park it there for some far distant generation to find.
Yes I know the Shuttle lacks the fuel to go into that high of an orbit it would take launching and docking a separate booster and would cost a lot of money and effort but I can dream can't I?
Simple it will have GPS so it will know every road you drive on. Not only that it will know when it was parked at that bar for two hours and when you decide to go 5 MPH over the speed limit. It will then let the police know so you can have take a breathalyzer test. It will also know that you where at the club where some girl over dosed and they will know to question you about it.
It will also know that your car was near that G8 conference where those protesters got out of hand. It will even know that you drove down that street with all the drug dealers and hookers and that you stopped in the middle of the street at 1 am.
This will solve so many problems. Yea and people worry about Apple iTunes store.
Yea I love the line that the Motorola Droid made the Android OS relevant. Maybe but Android saved Motorola as well. Before the Droid all that Motorola had was variations of the razor all of which where down into the give way phone range. Maybe Motorola is looking at an OS that will work at the low end of the market. A new feature/messaging phone platform for people that do not want to pay for a data plan but want things like twitter, Facebook, web mail and so on. Other wise I just see this as a new way for Motorola to fail. I guess they could always come out with WP7 phones.
Not at all. Truth is that there very well may be zero deaths from the reactor accident Even if their is a thousand it will be far less than the deaths caused by things like the dam that failed, the sea wall that failed buildings that couldn't stop the wall of water that came...
But some how this is being used as political tool to show that Nuclear power is super dangerous. Just how many other pieces of technology have failed in this event and killed people? Frankly I would say that people should take learn a far different lesson from this event. The worst has happened to a modern light water reactor. It got hit by an earthquake much stronger than it was designed to take. It then got hit by a tsunami. The backup systems where destroyed and yet the end of the world has not happened. It isn't as terrible as a lot of people have said it would be. Millions are not going to die. Hundreds of thousands are not going to die. And tens of thousands are not going to die. In fact maybe no one is going to die from the reactor problems. Yes we can now learn what works and what has failed and make other reactors safer. Maybe set new standards for sea walls and back up systems.
This story is such a clear example of emotional manipulation and fear mongering that it boarders on the absurd if wasn't working so well.
Death toll from Earthquake and tsunami 10,000+
Death toll from the reactor accident so far 0.
Being pro-gay or anti-gay isn't the point. What is the point is that if there was say an app that shows the best way to hide pot from the cops and it got removed people would have a fit. This is political speech and it is being restricted yet on Slashdot the very people that would be jumping up and down saying that it is wrong to restrict apps are now silent or saying things like, "well at least this time they are doing the right thing!"
Really? Frankly I am not too upset one way or the other since I don't have a problem with Apple saying that it is their store and they can carry what they want. Frankly I wouldn't mind it if they took out any app that has any political and or sexual content. Both of those can be found using the safari if you want them. I just find the double standard to be waiver beween amusing and annoying. People that would be ready to burn Jobbs at the stake over them taking down iWobbleBoobs because it is a violation of free speech are just find and dandy with them taking this down because of a petition. Why should someone not be allowed to get this app if they want it? I have the answer but people will not be happy about it.
The reason is because it offends someone so much they want to prevent others from downloading it. If you are okay with it then you are okay with censorship of political speech at least in the app store.
Over all it doesn't bother me but then I didn't care about iWobbleBoobs or any other app being taken out. I have an Android phone.
Exactly I am sure that a pro-gay life style app offends somebody as well but if that got removed people would throw a fit.
Well they use high voltage DC for power transmission now. So in the end they where both wrong.
Actually Mass can make it worse. Comic rays can cause more radiation when they hit a high mass shield then when there is no shielding. That is unless you have a LOT of mass.
True the majority are charged particals but you do also have hard X-Ray as well. Some of which could be caused by your own shielding.
Active shielding will only work for Alpha, Beta, and high energy Protons. It will do nothing for Neutron, Gamma, Xrays, and so on. For Neutron you could us a material with lots of Boron in it but I am not sure if Boron only captures some energies of Neutrons effectively or all of them. If it only captures thermal neutrons then you could combine it with carbon and have pretty efective material. But when you are talking about high energy Photons the only thing that I know works is mass.
So pick your radiation and there will be a different way to shield it.
Don't forget that the caps they just put on DSL and their higher speed service. If this gets approved then we know that without a doubt that the Telco now own the government.
So you trust them because the tell you what you want to hear...