Please sign the petition over at Whitehouse.gov to get the US to act in getting the Japanese government to allow US/UN assistance in cleaning up the spent fuel pools. This is an urgent need.
Is anyone else a bit frightened that the Guangdong plant picture shows what looks to be simple trusses and corrugated aluminum siding over the turbine section, where others use poured concrete and I-beams?
"SEOUL, South Korea -
Cyber attacks that caused a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea
used 86 IP addresses in 16 countries, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers
Friday, amid suspicions North Korea was behind the effort."
Now, I'm a little skeptical that they didn't mean ISP instead of IP, but if it is true that there are only 86 hosts generating this much fanfare, then the network admins should be strung up with cat6 for not just blackholing these punks at the edge router. I guess we get the best govt. IT we can afford, right?
This is unfortunately par for our fine DA. Kamala Harris has proven herself to be an incompetent tool more often that I'd like to hear.
She has angered many San Franciscans by refusing to prosecute violent criminals, and lately, found to have been lax towards the city's worst crime of the year...the murder of a father and his two sons in the Mission by a suspected illegal alien due to the city's stupid sanctuary law.
She should be dragged out, tarred, whipped and ejected from the city, never to return.
I routinely have to compile static versions of my company's web stores in order to archive them and they are about 1GB each of HTML once compiled.
Each store, however is about 100 megs of assets and then the data in the DB makes up another 50M or so. All of this is then generated dynamically and sent to client browsers that will just cache them temporarily. So, the data transmitted may be huge, but what people are storing would appear to be less.
I'm glad that they are at least offering a server in this class with 3.5" disks. The 2.5" 10K RPM SAS disks that are on the x4100 and x4200 are just junk pure and simple.
The base car may be under 30k, but the supercharged honda engine and the performance or race package will likely set you back 65-85K. That's quoted from the UK site, and you would have to lump homolagation charges in there too, and still might have a hard time driving it on the street.
Brammo motors is the licensed manufacturer of the Atom for the US. They are supposedly going to be cheaper, but they haven't found a Honda powerplant for the 300HP version that they can source reliably or sell as of yet.
The problem with any sovereign nation, especially one at sea is the dependence on external resources. Just ask Japan how it goes.
I do think this is a cool idea, there is plenty of water given desalinization, and if you have a small nuclear reactor on board, you can generate heat and electricity for 15 years per refit. But food? Granted you can grow your own hydroponics, but for the number of people they are talking about, the infrastructure would be quite large.
And then there is the issue of defense. Would you devise your own weapons, or buy from the USA or the Chinese? Choose your alliances well, because they might just end up costing you your country.
No, thanks, starting a new country on this planet is quite impossible. Even at it's face, Iraq's reconstruction is fraught with problems. I say lets just kick the bums out who are in control and have some France-style awakening.
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I wonder what Captain Archer would say about this?
Splat-Tilde (splat-backtick) cycles through existing windows in an open app.
That being said, my big gripe is that there are no keyboard shortcuts by default for things like sizing windows and restoring them from the dock. I'm sure somewhere there is a shortcut to activate the dock and use the arrow keys to navigate the the app and hit enter or space to restore it.
I just gave up with the dock anyway. I use a virtual desktop manager (Desktop Manager) and just stick one or two open apps that I need on each desktop where they are only a hotkey away. This app is also nice since it has a "Run Dialog" equivalent whereby you can type the name of the app to start it as long as it is in the Application folder.
Now I use the trackpad/mouse a good deal less. Granted I'm administering routers and unix boxen via console most of the time, but for email and firefox, things are good.
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It would be the truth to realize that the people who have no clue that are using the stock market today would not be there if we still had a functional pension system, and if people could remember how to save their money.
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One of the things that you need to be very afraid of, is when someone is claiming that there is not a bubble, when there is overvalued speculation and rampant turnover. Case in point is the current housing bubble, which I do believe is a bubble.
One thing that you'll get an idea of after a while, is that (especially now), investors are trying to keep the economy afloat by generating another bubble to replace the currently failing one (thank you Greenspan). It's really just musical chairs, and I would seriously look at someone who is saying it's different this time as someone who wants to take my money from me.
Don't be fooled, Wired is part of the media and will further its own agenda and those of its Editors and Shareholders before your interests.
One of the things that you'll want to do right off the bat is talk with a lawyer about startup costs and the type of business that you'll be going into.
It might not seem important now, but the choice between SP, Partnership, DBA, LLC or S-Corp will have a big impact on your tax situation and your liability.
Also try to get a handle on contracts (the legal kind) as you will need to know where you stand when you sign one, and what you will be responsible for. You don't want to have a large company coming after you for damages for mis-work that you never intended to last more than 6 months, but they never decided to take your advice and use it as a temporary fix. Investigate Errors and Omissions insurance and have lots of escape clauses and late payment penalties in your contracts.
Just most of all, keep records and make sure it's on the up-and-up so that no one can claim fault, or if they do, you have the documentation to exonerate yourself.
The parent post is referring to the trouble an employer can get into if they treat a contractor (1099, or otherwise) as an regular employee by defining work hours or requirements other than what the project dictates.
This same situation is what led to the suit against Microsoft by what came to be know as permatemps. As well, an employer has to carry worker's comp insurance for employees and pay some benefits. If you are a contractor treated as an employee, the employer has to do these things.
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Sorry to reply to my own post, but I was also thinking that if they choose a beta-emitter as a power source, you also have to worry about sheilding more due to beta-emission and xray emissions from beta strikes to copper or other metals commonly found in electronics.
That would mean that the whole electronic assembly might have to be shielded.
I am really starting to dislike this idea.
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Here's the rub with this type of technology: you can't guarantee that people will recycle these things and they won't get destroyed and leech into the environment.
I know that I recycle my Ni-Cd and Li-Ion batteries, but there are those that just chuck them in the trash. Most of the time, they are just incinerated, releaseing cadmium and other nasties into the atmosphere. Indeed, most incinerators have radiation detectors to stop the incidental incineration of radioactive material, but I'm not sure that I trust that everything works as planned.
Also, how many times have you seen batteries discarded and run over by cars in the street. Granted, most of these cells would be perminantly affixed to the device that they are powering, but you know corporations, anything to make a buck. I would give it max 10 years before you start seeing universal Po-AA cells that power legacy devices.
The other problem with using a radioactive source for your power is that if it does escape its confines, then it can easily become ingested. The largest potential risk from this exposure comes from alpha-emitters. They may be blocked by microlayers of dead skin, but if you swallow them they uptake and make residence in your soft tissue or bone and continue to irradiate local tissue for as long as they're active.
I personally would veto this technology, it's hard enough to stop smoke detectors from going in landfills already, do we really need to put more nuclear material into the water supply?
As an option, I would still like to see better solid hydrogen encapsulation for fuel cells. We already have capacity enough to generate a significant amount of hydrogen from plants like Solar 2 in the California desert.
I'm probably making myself look very old, but I used to have a handheld mechanical pong game in the early 80's. It wasn't as dynamic as the pong game here, but it was wind up, and used a then-new LED as the ball.
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Please sign the petition over at Whitehouse.gov to get the US to act in getting the Japanese government to allow US/UN assistance in cleaning up the spent fuel pools. This is an urgent need.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/require-united-states-petition-un-and-japan-seek-assistance-removing-spent-fuel-fukushima/LHSB04r0
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If you care, sign the petition:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/require-united-states-petition-un-and-japan-seek-assistance-removing-spent-fuel-fukushima/LHSB04r0
...it will forever be stuck at the level of a retarded 8 year old. Or the level of a normal 4-chan user.
Is anyone else a bit frightened that the Guangdong plant picture shows what looks to be simple trusses and corrugated aluminum siding over the turbine section, where others use poured concrete and I-beams?
Did they skimp on anything else, I wonder?
PET scanning uses radioisotope Beta decay to Neutron, Neutrino and Positron, Positron -> Electron annihilation -> Gamma -> detection.
This is using an existing source of positrons, beta radiation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission
The non-trivial stuff is making anti-atoms. That's quite difficult.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter#Artificial_production
Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOAWq5pXmGg
Over at Yahoo ( http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090710/ap_on_hi_te/as_skorea_cyber_attack ) they are reporting that there are only 86 IP addresses causing the outages:
"SEOUL, South Korea -
Cyber attacks that caused a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea
used 86 IP addresses in 16 countries, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers
Friday, amid suspicions North Korea was behind the effort."
Now, I'm a little skeptical that they didn't mean ISP instead of IP, but if it is true that there are only 86 hosts generating this much fanfare, then the network admins should be strung up with cat6 for not just blackholing these punks at the edge router. I guess we get the best govt. IT we can afford, right?
This is unfortunately par for our fine DA. Kamala Harris has proven herself to be an incompetent tool more often that I'd like to hear.
She has angered many San Franciscans by refusing to prosecute violent criminals, and lately, found to have been lax towards the city's worst crime of the year...the murder of a father and his two sons in the Mission by a suspected illegal alien due to the city's stupid sanctuary law.
She should be dragged out, tarred, whipped and ejected from the city, never to return.
In SF, it really isn't a big stretch to get hit by Muni:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/18/BAGDUH578.DTL&tsp=1
http://www.muniaccidentlawyers.com/
"There are an average of nine injuries every day on the San Francisco Municipal Railway."
Nice
The plot for that episode was taken from the tale of "Hachiko."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachiko
This is of course, not true.
I routinely have to compile static versions of my company's web stores in order to archive them and they are about 1GB each of HTML once compiled.
Each store, however is about 100 megs of assets and then the data in the DB makes up another 50M or so. All of this is then generated dynamically and sent to client browsers that will just cache them temporarily. So, the data transmitted may be huge, but what people are storing would appear to be less.
I'm glad that they are at least offering a server in this class with 3.5" disks. The 2.5" 10K RPM SAS disks that are on the x4100 and x4200 are just junk pure and simple.
This site: http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/e rreurs_en.htm
The base car may be under 30k, but the supercharged honda engine and the performance or race package will likely set you back 65-85K. That's quoted from the UK site, and you would have to lump homolagation charges in there too, and still might have a hard time driving it on the street.
Brammo motors is the licensed manufacturer of the Atom for the US. They are supposedly going to be cheaper, but they haven't found a Honda powerplant for the 300HP version that they can source reliably or sell as of yet.
Brammo: www.brammo.com
I think you mean something like this?
The problem with any sovereign nation, especially one at sea is the dependence on external resources. Just ask Japan how it goes.
I do think this is a cool idea, there is plenty of water given desalinization, and if you have a small nuclear reactor on board, you can generate heat and electricity for 15 years per refit. But food? Granted you can grow your own hydroponics, but for the number of people they are talking about, the infrastructure would be quite large.
And then there is the issue of defense. Would you devise your own weapons, or buy from the USA or the Chinese? Choose your alliances well, because they might just end up costing you your country.
No, thanks, starting a new country on this planet is quite impossible. Even at it's face, Iraq's reconstruction is fraught with problems. I say lets just kick the bums out who are in control and have some France-style awakening.
I wonder what Captain Archer would say about this?
Splat-Tilde (splat-backtick) cycles through existing windows in an open app.
That being said, my big gripe is that there are no keyboard shortcuts by default for things like sizing windows and restoring them from the dock. I'm sure somewhere there is a shortcut to activate the dock and use the arrow keys to navigate the the app and hit enter or space to restore it.
I just gave up with the dock anyway. I use a virtual desktop manager (Desktop Manager) and just stick one or two open apps that I need on each desktop where they are only a hotkey away. This app is also nice since it has a "Run Dialog" equivalent whereby you can type the name of the app to start it as long as it is in the Application folder.
Now I use the trackpad/mouse a good deal less. Granted I'm administering routers and unix boxen via console most of the time, but for email and firefox, things are good.
You couldn't possibly mean something like this?
It would be the truth to realize that the people who have no clue that are using the stock market today would not be there if we still had a functional pension system, and if people could remember how to save their money.
One of the things that you need to be very afraid of, is when someone is claiming that there is not a bubble, when there is overvalued speculation and rampant turnover. Case in point is the current housing bubble, which I do believe is a bubble.
One thing that you'll get an idea of after a while, is that (especially now), investors are trying to keep the economy afloat by generating another bubble to replace the currently failing one (thank you Greenspan). It's really just musical chairs, and I would seriously look at someone who is saying it's different this time as someone who wants to take my money from me.
Don't be fooled, Wired is part of the media and will further its own agenda and those of its Editors and Shareholders before your interests.
One of the things that you'll want to do right off the bat is talk with a lawyer about startup costs and the type of business that you'll be going into.
It might not seem important now, but the choice between SP, Partnership, DBA, LLC or S-Corp will have a big impact on your tax situation and your liability.
Also try to get a handle on contracts (the legal kind) as you will need to know where you stand when you sign one, and what you will be responsible for. You don't want to have a large company coming after you for damages for mis-work that you never intended to last more than 6 months, but they never decided to take your advice and use it as a temporary fix. Investigate Errors and Omissions insurance and have lots of escape clauses and late payment penalties in your contracts.
Just most of all, keep records and make sure it's on the up-and-up so that no one can claim fault, or if they do, you have the documentation to exonerate yourself.
The parent post is referring to the trouble an employer can get into if they treat a contractor (1099, or otherwise) as an regular employee by defining work hours or requirements other than what the project dictates.
This same situation is what led to the suit against Microsoft by what came to be know as permatemps. As well, an employer has to carry worker's comp insurance for employees and pay some benefits. If you are a contractor treated as an employee, the employer has to do these things.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I was also thinking that if they choose a beta-emitter as a power source, you also have to worry about sheilding more due to beta-emission and xray emissions from beta strikes to copper or other metals commonly found in electronics.
That would mean that the whole electronic assembly might have to be shielded.
I am really starting to dislike this idea.
Here's the rub with this type of technology: you can't guarantee that people will recycle these things and they won't get destroyed and leech into the environment.
I know that I recycle my Ni-Cd and Li-Ion batteries, but there are those that just chuck them in the trash. Most of the time, they are just incinerated, releaseing cadmium and other nasties into the atmosphere. Indeed, most incinerators have radiation detectors to stop the incidental incineration of radioactive material, but I'm not sure that I trust that everything works as planned.
Also, how many times have you seen batteries discarded and run over by cars in the street. Granted, most of these cells would be perminantly affixed to the device that they are powering, but you know corporations, anything to make a buck. I would give it max 10 years before you start seeing universal Po-AA cells that power legacy devices.
The other problem with using a radioactive source for your power is that if it does escape its confines, then it can easily become ingested. The largest potential risk from this exposure comes from alpha-emitters. They may be blocked by microlayers of dead skin, but if you swallow them they uptake and make residence in your soft tissue or bone and continue to irradiate local tissue for as long as they're active.
I personally would veto this technology, it's hard enough to stop smoke detectors from going in landfills already, do we really need to put more nuclear material into the water supply?
As an option, I would still like to see better solid hydrogen encapsulation for fuel cells. We already have capacity enough to generate a significant amount of hydrogen from plants like Solar 2 in the California desert.
I'm probably making myself look very old, but I used to have a handheld mechanical pong game in the early 80's. It wasn't as dynamic as the pong game here, but it was wind up, and used a then-new LED as the ball.
It was called Blip and made by Tomy.
Here's a pic.
Nostalgia is fun