Soon after, an explosion ruptured the reaction vessel.
It should also be noted that Chernobyl did not have any containment vessels like American designed reactors did. This exposed the core to the air when the reaction vessel ruptured, allowing the graphite material to catch fire. The fire is what spewed radioactive material all over the surrounding land.
(OT: Outstanding discussion on nuclear power, this is why I love/.)
Similar stories, yes. Always the same message: Spammer says they're doing nothing wrong, they always honor opt-out requests, they frown on searching for emails on websites (they're explicitly opt-in, through affiliates) or send out dictionary attacks trying to find new addresses.
We say "yeah right" and proceed to find out where he lives and lynch him. We know that the "remove" link (or even viewing images in the html messages) can confirm a valid address. They remove you from that list, but add you to the others they run.
Personally, I'm getting sick of email. I'm starting to get spam to my main email address that I don't use on any sites that ask, only give to people personally, and I've even obfusticated it on my website. I guess I'll have to remove it totally. No trace.
But the $100 question is: If you send the data and they find that you speed alot (like me... having a fast car doesn't help), will they increase your rates because you're a higher risk? Will they go up higher if you go, say, 15 over instead of 10?
Yes, the article said they give a +5 differential (to 75 based on Minnasota's 70mph limit). But if you go 75 instead of 70 you think they might notice it and raise rates?
Yeah, it you could get an OBD-II scanner that hooks into a GBA that would be awesome. Most people aren't concerned with hardcore tuning anyways (That's why I bought an Accessport) and would just like to read the engine codes or look at some telemetry that the ECU is monitoring.
Or even some open source OBD-II software would be cool. Then somebody could port it or something.
If I need a general password for a service to share with others, I typically take a word and l33t-ize it in a simple manner so it's not a dictionary word.
#3 - Try some liquid nitrogen. Or, some spray dusters turned upside down.
Actually they do make stuff specifically for freezing stuff. We use it at work, although I forget what it's called, here's an example. About -45C when you spray really close to the nozzle. It's even anti-static!
Did you even look around the site? On their front page it even says, right at the top:
Is it possible to create ethical AI based on the Three Laws? Is it ethical to create ethical AI based on the Three Laws? What other solutions have been proposed for the problem? These questions are explored in our Articles Section. The articles give perspective on why the field of AI ethics is crucial, and why Asimov's Laws are simply its beginning.
He should take the site down in compliance with their notice. Then he should report their site as a violation of that disability act, and offer to sell his compliant site layout to them at a "discount". That way they can pay out a small sum, have their rights, and a compliant site.
Or they can just be bastards about the whole thing. IE on Windows only? Why the hell? Ohhh... I see... their shitty DHTML menus! OK. So, an experienced person can duplicate that in Flash in probably 10 minutes. Or, somebody experienced in cross-browser DHTML can make it work with Mozilla or Opera, or even the Mac IE. Whatever.
Laziness at it's best. Why fix the site when we can pay lawyers more then it would cost fix it?
175. IBM is the lawful owner, by assignment, of the entire right, title and interest in United States Patent No. 4814746 ("the '746 Patent"), duly and legally issued on March 21, 1989 to Miller et aI., entitled "Data Compression Method". A copy of the ' 746 Patent is attached hereto as Exhibit X.
176. Upon information and belief, SCO has infringed, contributorily infringed and/or actively induced others to infringe the '746 Patent within this judicial district and elsewhere in violation of35 U. C. 9271 by, without authority or license from IBM, (a) making, using, selling and/or offering to sell products, including Unix Ware and Open Server, that practice one or more claims of the '746 Patent and (b) actively, knowingly and intentionally causing and assisting others to infringe one or more claims of the' 746 Patent.
While it would be nice for IBM to release the patent to the public domain, they would have to drop this particular claim from the SCO lawsuit if they did.
Factual error: Considering the brightness of the fusion process, Dr. Octavius has to wear special goggles to be able to see it. Yet no one else in the room is wearing such goggles or seem hurt by watching the whole process, just as at the end of the movie. When welding something, no one can look at the arc that's created, as it would hurt his eyes and burn his retina; presumably, the fusion process would be brighter and more powerful than that, and so should have some kind of damaging effect on everyone's eyesight (except Spider Man's, maybe). Submitted by Sereenie
Now, this is IIRC, as I did some Google research for about 15 minutes and couldn't find a definitive answer to this. I did find a site that said recommended lense darkness for viewing a solar eclipse (or transit of Venus in this case) are #14 arc welder's lenses. However there are other astronomy sites that say at least a #9 will do.
I then found some welding forums that recommend a #10 darkness for MIG welding, so it would be assumed that some arc welding methods (there are at least 2 by my knowledge, MIG and TIG) can be brighter than looking at the sun.
Now, on Monster Garage they had a welding instructor as one of the build team members. She (yes, she) was recommending to one of the other team members to get a darker lense on their helmet. She said that some welding can be up to 10 times brighter than looking at the sun.
I'm close on that... I've dropped a 17" monitor on my foot before. Moving it out the door the cord caught on the knob, yanked it out of my hands and onto my bare foot. Needless to say, I screamed really loud and hopped around for a bit. No broken toes, but I put a big ass dent in the monitor case.
Here, falsifying your time sheet can land you in jail. If you're pressured to falsify, you are supposed to report it to somebody. Probably HR. As usual there is supposed to be no retribution if this happens, but in that type of case I'd believe there wouldn't be.
While removing the exemption may cost some companies more money, the smart ones will simple hire more workers to lower the overtime load since that would be cheaper than paying someone to work 60+ hours a week every week.
In my case, it's cheaper for us to have our techs work 8 hours a day 7 days a week to push product out than it is to hire another person. Once you factor in benefits, training, paperwork, HR overhead, and all that jazz the cost of a new hire is cheaper.
When I switched from contract to full time employee, I requested a bump in pay to compensate for the fact that I would no longer get time and a half over 40 hours. I was flat out denied. I lose about $800 a month now because of it. I happen to know how much the contract agency was charging the company (I was replacing somebody so they brought me in through a contract agency to train). If they would have given me half the difference per hour extra, it would have actually been more then I was requesting.
Microsoft said that it would sell its anti-virus program as a separate product from Windows, rather than including it in Windows.
They'll keep it seperate alright... until it's been out for a while and they don't gain any market share away from competitors. Then it'll be silently built in. There, but not enabled. Then it will be enabled by default, but with the ability to disable it. Then it will be so "tightly integrated" with the OS that you can't turn it off or your computer "will not operate properly"!
Hey, it could happen... and has with previous products.
Not only is it a cool picture, but this is a pretty interesting thing to witness. In my initial reaction I thought "How can we see this in our lifetimes?" It seems that, as mentioned in the article, "[t]his collapse is extremely fast, and the core collapses into a neutron star in about one second."
The collapse into a black hole in such a short time (also in the article) is somewhat expected, because the gravity will be so strong. This should be a pretty neat and real way to verify if our view on black hole formation and the associated astro-physics that accompany it are mostly correct.
What about having a great idea, not doing jack about it, then 3 years later some company does the same thing and makes a mint from it? What can you do about it then?
That's when you get an overly broad patent based on a generic idea, sit on it for a long time or wait for technology to evolve while filing extensions, then sue the pants off people once it becomes a commidity item!
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Soon after, an explosion ruptured the reaction vessel.
/.)
It should also be noted that Chernobyl did not have any containment vessels like American designed reactors did. This exposed the core to the air when the reaction vessel ruptured, allowing the graphite material to catch fire. The fire is what spewed radioactive material all over the surrounding land.
(OT: Outstanding discussion on nuclear power, this is why I love
Or, in my case:
3. I will be going to a reputable place for a home loan/mortgage, not one advertised through spam*.
* Note that I am implying that mortgage companies advertising through spam are not reputable.
Similar stories, yes. Always the same message: Spammer says they're doing nothing wrong, they always honor opt-out requests, they frown on searching for emails on websites (they're explicitly opt-in, through affiliates) or send out dictionary attacks trying to find new addresses.
We say "yeah right" and proceed to find out where he lives and lynch him. We know that the "remove" link (or even viewing images in the html messages) can confirm a valid address. They remove you from that list, but add you to the others they run.
Personally, I'm getting sick of email. I'm starting to get spam to my main email address that I don't use on any sites that ask, only give to people personally, and I've even obfusticated it on my website. I guess I'll have to remove it totally. No trace.
But the $100 question is: If you send the data and they find that you speed alot (like me... having a fast car doesn't help), will they increase your rates because you're a higher risk? Will they go up higher if you go, say, 15 over instead of 10?
Yes, the article said they give a +5 differential (to 75 based on Minnasota's 70mph limit). But if you go 75 instead of 70 you think they might notice it and raise rates?
Yeah, it you could get an OBD-II scanner that hooks into a GBA that would be awesome. Most people aren't concerned with hardcore tuning anyways (That's why I bought an Accessport) and would just like to read the engine codes or look at some telemetry that the ECU is monitoring.
Or even some open source OBD-II software would be cool. Then somebody could port it or something.
Not only that, but they seem to imply spying on your sexy female neighbors while they lay in suggestive positions on beds or couches.
If I need a general password for a service to share with others, I typically take a word and l33t-ize it in a simple manner so it's not a dictionary word.
For example: wh4t3v3r or w1r3l3ss
For the love of the job? That's why I went into computer science... for the love of the code.
#3 - Try some liquid nitrogen. Or, some spray dusters turned upside down.
Actually they do make stuff specifically for freezing stuff. We use it at work, although I forget what it's called, here's an example. About -45C when you spray really close to the nozzle. It's even anti-static!
Did you even look around the site? On their front page it even says, right at the top:
Is it possible to create ethical AI based on the Three Laws? Is it ethical to create ethical AI based on the Three Laws? What other solutions have been proposed for the problem? These questions are explored in our Articles Section. The articles give perspective on why the field of AI ethics is crucial, and why Asimov's Laws are simply its beginning.
And here's a direct link right to the articles! Wow! Reading is fun!
He should take the site down in compliance with their notice. Then he should report their site as a violation of that disability act, and offer to sell his compliant site layout to them at a "discount". That way they can pay out a small sum, have their rights, and a compliant site.
Or they can just be bastards about the whole thing. IE on Windows only? Why the hell? Ohhh... I see... their shitty DHTML menus! OK. So, an experienced person can duplicate that in Flash in probably 10 minutes. Or, somebody experienced in cross-browser DHTML can make it work with Mozilla or Opera, or even the Mac IE. Whatever.
Laziness at it's best. Why fix the site when we can pay lawyers more then it would cost fix it?
Even my semi-new Tyan K8S gave me no keyboard errors. It required a BIOS update to add a "don't care" option to the keyboard setting.
Or "Over 1 billion infected!"
Or "Over 1 billion spam zombies!"
But by then, all spammers may have been killed in fits of rage.
It has been for a while then. Unless nobody seem to notice that the video card market has been in a 6 month product cycle for a long time now.
While it would be nice for IBM to release the patent to the public domain, they would have to drop this particular claim from the SCO lawsuit if they did.
Factual error: Considering the brightness of the fusion process, Dr. Octavius has to wear special goggles to be able to see it. Yet no one else in the room is wearing such goggles or seem hurt by watching the whole process, just as at the end of the movie. When welding something, no one can look at the arc that's created, as it would hurt his eyes and burn his retina; presumably, the fusion process would be brighter and more powerful than that, and so should have some kind of damaging effect on everyone's eyesight (except Spider Man's, maybe). Submitted by Sereenie
Now, this is IIRC, as I did some Google research for about 15 minutes and couldn't find a definitive answer to this. I did find a site that said recommended lense darkness for viewing a solar eclipse (or transit of Venus in this case) are #14 arc welder's lenses. However there are other astronomy sites that say at least a #9 will do.
I then found some welding forums that recommend a #10 darkness for MIG welding, so it would be assumed that some arc welding methods (there are at least 2 by my knowledge, MIG and TIG) can be brighter than looking at the sun.
Now, on Monster Garage they had a welding instructor as one of the build team members. She (yes, she) was recommending to one of the other team members to get a darker lense on their helmet. She said that some welding can be up to 10 times brighter than looking at the sun.
So after you shot him, did you say "Think of it as installing a cap in your ass"?
5. Dropping a monitor down the stairs
I'm close on that... I've dropped a 17" monitor on my foot before. Moving it out the door the cord caught on the knob, yanked it out of my hands and onto my bare foot. Needless to say, I screamed really loud and hopped around for a bit. No broken toes, but I put a big ass dent in the monitor case.
Here, falsifying your time sheet can land you in jail. If you're pressured to falsify, you are supposed to report it to somebody. Probably HR. As usual there is supposed to be no retribution if this happens, but in that type of case I'd believe there wouldn't be.
While removing the exemption may cost some companies more money, the smart ones will simple hire more workers to lower the overtime load since that would be cheaper than paying someone to work 60+ hours a week every week.
In my case, it's cheaper for us to have our techs work 8 hours a day 7 days a week to push product out than it is to hire another person. Once you factor in benefits, training, paperwork, HR overhead, and all that jazz the cost of a new hire is cheaper.
When I switched from contract to full time employee, I requested a bump in pay to compensate for the fact that I would no longer get time and a half over 40 hours. I was flat out denied. I lose about $800 a month now because of it. I happen to know how much the contract agency was charging the company (I was replacing somebody so they brought me in through a contract agency to train). If they would have given me half the difference per hour extra, it would have actually been more then I was requesting.
Microsoft said that it would sell its anti-virus program as a separate product from Windows, rather than including it in Windows.
They'll keep it seperate alright... until it's been out for a while and they don't gain any market share away from competitors. Then it'll be silently built in. There, but not enabled. Then it will be enabled by default, but with the ability to disable it. Then it will be so "tightly integrated" with the OS that you can't turn it off or your computer "will not operate properly"!
Hey, it could happen... and has with previous products.
Not only is it a cool picture, but this is a pretty interesting thing to witness. In my initial reaction I thought "How can we see this in our lifetimes?" It seems that, as mentioned in the article, "[t]his collapse is extremely fast, and the core collapses into a neutron star in about one second."
The collapse into a black hole in such a short time (also in the article) is somewhat expected, because the gravity will be so strong. This should be a pretty neat and real way to verify if our view on black hole formation and the associated astro-physics that accompany it are mostly correct.
I stand somewhat corrected ;-) Mod this guy up informative!
...Until they see the picture and realise that Dino is a purple dinosaur.
What about having a great idea, not doing jack about it, then 3 years later some company does the same thing and makes a mint from it? What can you do about it then?
That's when you get an overly broad patent based on a generic idea, sit on it for a long time or wait for technology to evolve while filing extensions, then sue the pants off people once it becomes a commidity item!