As part of the pseudo-environmentalist lead scare campaign against nuclear power you always hear about things that will supposedly be radioactive for ONE MILLION years (thank you Dr. Evil).
Well, those ONE MILLION year radioactive elements won't power an RTG because they decay so slowly that the rate of heat production would hardly be measurable even with sensitive test equipment. You could use a lump of that stuff as a paper weight and as long as you didn't eat/drink/breath it then you would never have any negative health effects from it.
The real issue with radioactive material is from materials like cesium and strontium that are pretty radioactive and have mid-range half-lives of ~30 years or so. Not a real issue for long-term storage since they will be pretty much gone in 1000 years, but not something you want spread around the environment ala Chernobyl, which, BTW, is coming up on its first half-life anniversary for the nastier elements.
Hey Chairman Mao may have intentionally starved 20 million of his own people to death in China BUT: 1. He didn't like America. 2. He didn't like capitalists. 3. The CIA did something bad once so therefore Chairman Mao is the good guy and all Americans and Kasparov (that dirty Jew but fredprado uses the term "CIA" to cover over his bigotry) are EVIL!
Now lets talk about how great Pol Pot was because he made 100% sure that 2 million Cambodians were never forced to see evil Capitalist Marketing from Evil US Corporations!
You see... Julian Assange writes for Russia Today (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/arts/television/julian-assange-starts-talk-show-on-russian-tv.html?_r=1) the well-known Putin mouthpiece.
Since Julian Assange is the Messiah, Kasperov was obviously part of an evil US-led conspiracy to kidnap Assange. Therefore, Kasparov should be shot in the name of freedom and we should not only give the Nobel Peace Prize to Assange, Putin, and Correa, but the Nobel Peace Prize should be abolished after they win because nobody else is possibly worthy compared to them!
The valve explanation in the summary is a gross oversimplification. The valve - in isolation - was just fine. The combination of the valve, anti-chem warfare filters, the vest, and potentially other components in the *entire system* were causing the issues in seemingly random ways that were hard to fully pin down. If you took any of these components and tested it individually, you'd never spot the issue.
The moral of the story is that, just like complex software, complex aircraft can exhibit emergent bug behaviour that you won't catch with unit tests.
That strategy might work in the media to get people angry at Apple, but it's a bad idea in a court. You are basically admitting that Apple is right, but then saying it doesn't matter because it "oughta be" a standard. At that point the judge will say: thanks for admitting Apple is right to save me the bother of the trial. Not a smart move.
Considering what Apple's patents tend to be about (swip to unlock anyone?) they may be annoying but they aren't what I would call "standards" in the way that 802.11 is a standard.
Sorry for the self-response, but I just realized that it might mean Europeans are *dumber* than those redneck Americans. The reason is that in America there's no legal requirement for some browser selection screen, but Firefox and Chrome have huge marketshares that are comparable to Europe anyway and there was no need for some ridiculous "selection screen" to do it.
Since apparently the 10 remaining people on Slashdot now all have Aspergers, you should note that my first post was meant to be sarcastic and facetious.
To any Apple Security Service (A.S.S.) personnel, I would like to note that I do not own an i/Phone/Pad/whatever and therefore have no interest in stealing your precious apps. Oh wait.. I just realized that not owning an iWhatever makes me an even bigger criminal than that Russian dude! Time to flee the country (again)!
Before even the first 50 apple flame posts are up for this story, the loophole will be closed. The first rule of the free app hack is that YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE FREE APP HACK.
I live in what the Europeans like to call the backwater redneck racist Christian "fly-over" part of America. I guess we are so stupid here that our voting system isn't worthy of being audited. We are so stupid that the state actually has a balanced budget.. what a bunch of inbred hicks we are.
All we have here are simple to fill out scantron ballots that are anonymous, simple to scan in, and trivially easy to recount in an offline manner if needed. We get our election results within hours of the polls closing on election day. Oh and as for software, the software in the system is so simple that Windows vs. Linux doesn't even enter into the equation because you don't need either.
Frankly, even if the voting software is "open source" on some website, you have zero guarantees that the voting machine you are using actually runs the wonderful open source software you spent months auditing in the first place.
We are so backwards here. I feel so inadequate compared to those places that blew tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money on systems that don't work. You can tell they are *so* much superior to us.
Actually, there are more mainframes in use today than at any earlier point in history... and IBM keeps making sales for new ones (and not just to replace old ones either).
As a percentage of total installed computing power the mainframe has dropped substantially from the '60s, but they are not "dying" and the whole "cloud" thing is mostly a buzzword ridden version of mainframe computing that just isn't as reliable as a real mainframe.. nothing is new under the sun.
HP's track record with tablets is not all that impressive, but this is a big blow to Windows 8... which frankly *only* makes sense on a tablet unless there is a de-metrofication project going on in the skunkworks.
Having said that.. HP could jump onto Android or even attempt to bring some zombified version of WebOS back from the dead using the ARM platform.
Fascinating that you distort 1984 there, but let me tell you what this is really about: For liberals: "Higher Order Thinking Skills" is "Democrats Good! Republicans Bad! The Federal Government is our new God and our very survival depends solely on handouts we receive for being compliant tools! Independent thought is the racist war on women!"
I just said that terms like "Higher order thinking skills" are a bunch of linguistic BULLSHIT attached to what is effectively a policy of teaching children to have a pavlovian "yessum massa!" response to politically correct buzzwords.
That is the anthithesis of logic and the antithesis of critical thinking. But, because a left-wing pseudo-intellectual slaps an intentionally inaccurate label like "higher order thinking skills" to a tax payer funded propaganda campaign, now anyone who dares voice dissent to what is literally institutionalized child abuse is some sort of marginal whackjob. My allusion to 1984 was dead on all the way down to the state's intentional undermining of the family by having kids spy on their parents for the fucking state.
I'm pretty much convinced that 99.9% of morons on this website who constantly cite 1984 simply assumed that the book just said "Republicans bad! Bush evil!" for 200 pages. If you had ever bothered to read the damn thing you'd see the twisiting of language to make it literally impossible to even express ideas that go against the ruling elite and the state taking over as God and Parent to a bunch of brainwashed zombies were central ideas too.
As usual Slashdot puts up any and all propaganda that makes anyone but radical leftists look like lunatics.
The liberals did take a good page out of 1984 by learning how to warp and manipulate language to fit their own agenda. For example, relabel the same old provably ineffective (or intentionally worse than ineffective) teaching techniques as "logic" or "critical thinking". Now all of the sudden anyone who opposes the twisted and mangled brainwashing that is labeled "logic" or "critical thinking" is instantly a right-wing extremist Nazi who needs to be "volunteered" for a good liberal "reeducation sensitivity training course".
Apparently Orbitz is helping to contribute to the bloated self-esteem and sense of self-worth that Mac users crave. They should be applauded for reinforcing the RDF in the name of Saint Jobs.
Ooh you made a typo there: Just like Germany in 2012. There fixed that for you.
Oh but you were making a Nazi refernce to sound deep! Well guess what: They also drank beer and taught math in Germany in 1938 too! Therefore, we should outlaw beer and math or else it's Hitler all over again!
Not just Japan.. I was in good left-wing Germany for 3 months and my passport went everywhere I did. I'm tired of this crap that enforcing the law is somehow "racist" or tripe like that.
You want to see real racism? Go down to supposedly wonderful Mexico sometime and see how they treat illegal aliens from *other countries*. Of course, according to the pseudo-intelligenstia it can only be racist if a white person does it* so there you go.
*Exception: The supposedly repressed "Latino" undergoes a quantum leap to instantaneously become the world leader of both the KKK and the Aryan Nation if he commits a crime against a minority who is higher up the repression totem pole. See George Zimmerman (who would just be poor repressed "Jorje" the Latino if the person he had shot wasn't black).
Remember that at no time does the individual count for shit, and the content of your character has nothing do with how you choose to live your life, but only with whatver tribal racial group some white liberals have decided you belong to.
P.S. don't you love how Obama panders by pronouncing "Latinos" differently than any other word? Imagine how the liberal hypo would piss themselves if Romney had a shout out to the "Afro Americans" sounding like Ludacris. If I was "Latino" I'd be pretty pissed at being pandered to, but apparently the promise of welfare checks and scare tactics that big mean Republicans are out to get you is enough to keep the sheeple dependent and in line.
The title makes it sound like this guy is a legitimate academic who just wants to cure cancer for the benefit of all WomynKind is being harrassed by whatever evil megacorp is at the top of the 2 minutes of hate list today on Slashdot. Then you figure out that this guy is just another scumbag fraudster and he doesn't sound like such an innocent "researcher" at all.
How about a "bank security researcher" who does vital Nobel prize winning research about the response time of police and ambulances when he shoots up a bank during a robbery? I'm sure everyone on this site wants there to be more "research" to make things interesting.
That's a great press release and AMD is better than Nvidia since AMD does publish at least partial documentation.. *but*... support for newer AMD cards in the open source drivers has major issues. As of right now, the 7 series cards that have been out for over 6 months have basically no support under the open source drivers. The 6 series and older cards are improving, but Catalyst is still leagues ahead in OpenGL performance and support. The documentation for the AMD cards is not release until months after the cards ship, and there is basically zero open-source development done prior to launch, so there is a long lead time between the cards being available and the cards being usable in any form under Linux (except through Catalyst, which has its own issues).
One big issue is that the Mesa & open source graphics stack has just recently even gotten support for OpenGL 3.0. The standards support under the proprietary Nvidia & AMD cards is, ironically, far ahead of the open source implementations.
P.S. --> To anyone who saw "DRM" in the previous post and had a heart attack... DRM here means Direct Rendering Manager and is the Linux infrastructure that lets you access the GPU for graphics acceleration.
This is a release of a large and very complete set of formal documents, but open source driver code (GPL'd and part of the mainline Linux kernel) has been released under a public development process since just after Sandy Bridge first came out in preparation for the Ivy Bridge launch. This code is written by paid Intel employees.
Incidentally, large portions of the DRM infrastructure in the kernel *and* the X server *and* the upcoming Wayland project are all being made by paid Intel employees. Note that this development work also has major benefits to the open-source AMD driver development and we would all be better off if AMD (not to mention Nvidia) adopted Intel's approach to paying people for open-source work.
In a similar manner, there is already 100% GPL'd code that is available for the next-generation Haswell graphics engines. Obviously at this stage it isn't complete, but things are not hidden behind closed doors and, just like Ivy Bridge, there should be solid launch-day support for the Haswell IGP. Considering the rumours going around about the extra resources that Haswell will offer for the GPU, this could chip could provide very solid launch-day out-of-the-box graphics support in notebooks and other devices that don't require a dicrete GPU.
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As part of the pseudo-environmentalist lead scare campaign against nuclear power you always hear about things that will supposedly be radioactive for ONE MILLION years (thank you Dr. Evil).
Well, those ONE MILLION year radioactive elements won't power an RTG because they decay so slowly that the rate of heat production would hardly be measurable even with sensitive test equipment. You could use a lump of that stuff as a paper weight and as long as you didn't eat/drink/breath it then you would never have any negative health effects from it.
The real issue with radioactive material is from materials like cesium and strontium that are pretty radioactive and have mid-range half-lives of ~30 years or so. Not a real issue for long-term storage since they will be pretty much gone in 1000 years, but not something you want spread around the environment ala Chernobyl, which, BTW, is coming up on its first half-life anniversary for the nastier elements.
Hey Chairman Mao may have intentionally starved 20 million of his own people to death in China BUT:
1. He didn't like America.
2. He didn't like capitalists.
3. The CIA did something bad once so therefore Chairman Mao is the good guy and all Americans and Kasparov (that dirty Jew but fredprado uses the term "CIA" to cover over his bigotry) are EVIL!
Now lets talk about how great Pol Pot was because he made 100% sure that 2 million Cambodians were never forced to see evil Capitalist Marketing from Evil US Corporations!
I'm sure Julian Assange will be right there with them!
(informing on the dissidents to Putin with his new Czarleaks site: http://crabbygolightly.com/mt/2012/08/julian_assange_the_pussy_riot.html
You see... Julian Assange writes for Russia Today (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/arts/television/julian-assange-starts-talk-show-on-russian-tv.html?_r=1) the well-known Putin mouthpiece.
Since Julian Assange is the Messiah, Kasperov was obviously part of an evil US-led conspiracy to kidnap Assange. Therefore, Kasparov should be shot in the name of freedom and we should not only give the Nobel Peace Prize to Assange, Putin, and Correa, but the Nobel Peace Prize should be abolished after they win because nobody else is possibly worthy compared to them!
The valve explanation in the summary is a gross oversimplification. The valve - in isolation - was just fine. The combination of the valve, anti-chem warfare filters, the vest, and potentially other components in the *entire system* were causing the issues in seemingly random ways that were hard to fully pin down. If you took any of these components and tested it individually, you'd never spot the issue.
The moral of the story is that, just like complex software, complex aircraft can exhibit emergent bug behaviour that you won't catch with unit tests.
Which is not space travel or space science, but making Muslims feel better about themselves (I'm not joking he said it).
With "leadership" like that is it any wonder that China is going to kick our asses?
That strategy might work in the media to get people angry at Apple, but it's a bad idea in a court. You are basically admitting that Apple is right, but then saying it doesn't matter because it "oughta be" a standard. At that point the judge will say: thanks for admitting Apple is right to save me the bother of the trial. Not a smart move.
Considering what Apple's patents tend to be about (swip to unlock anyone?) they may be annoying but they aren't what I would call "standards" in the way that 802.11 is a standard.
Sorry for the self-response, but I just realized that it might mean Europeans are *dumber* than those redneck Americans. The reason is that in America there's no legal requirement for some browser selection screen, but Firefox and Chrome have huge marketshares that are comparable to Europe anyway and there was no need for some ridiculous "selection screen" to do it.
proving that, for all their pretensions, Europeans are just as dumb as redneck Americans when it comes to installing software.
Since apparently the 10 remaining people on Slashdot now all have Aspergers, you should note that my first post was meant to be sarcastic and facetious.
To any Apple Security Service (A.S.S.) personnel, I would like to note that I do not own an i/Phone/Pad/whatever and therefore have no interest in stealing your precious apps. Oh wait.. I just realized that not owning an iWhatever makes me an even bigger criminal than that Russian dude! Time to flee the country (again)!
Before even the first 50 apple flame posts are up for this story, the loophole will be closed. The first rule of the free app hack is that YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE FREE APP HACK.
I live in what the Europeans like to call the backwater redneck racist Christian "fly-over" part of America. I guess we are so stupid here that our voting system isn't worthy of being audited. We are so stupid that the state actually has a balanced budget.. what a bunch of inbred hicks we are.
All we have here are simple to fill out scantron ballots that are anonymous, simple to scan in, and trivially easy to recount in an offline manner if needed. We get our election results within hours of the polls closing on election day. Oh and as for software, the software in the system is so simple that Windows vs. Linux doesn't even enter into the equation because you don't need either.
Frankly, even if the voting software is "open source" on some website, you have zero guarantees that the voting machine you are using actually runs the wonderful open source software you spent months auditing in the first place.
We are so backwards here. I feel so inadequate compared to those places that blew tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money on systems that don't work. You can tell they are *so* much superior to us.
Actually, there are more mainframes in use today than at any earlier point in history... and IBM keeps making sales for new ones (and not just to replace old ones either).
As a percentage of total installed computing power the mainframe has dropped substantially from the '60s, but they are not "dying" and the whole "cloud" thing is mostly a buzzword ridden version of mainframe computing that just isn't as reliable as a real mainframe.. nothing is new under the sun.
I know a country where no one like Bill Gates would EVER be allowed to get all that evil money, or live past age 10 for that matter.
Why don't you get a one-way ticket there?
HP's track record with tablets is not all that impressive, but this is a big blow to Windows 8... which frankly *only* makes sense on a tablet unless there is a de-metrofication project going on in the skunkworks.
Having said that.. HP could jump onto Android or even attempt to bring some zombified version of WebOS back from the dead using the ARM platform.
Fascinating that you distort 1984 there, but let me tell you what this is really about:
For liberals: "Higher Order Thinking Skills" is "Democrats Good! Republicans Bad! The Federal Government is our new God and our very survival depends solely on handouts we receive for being compliant tools! Independent thought is the racist war on women!"
READ MY FUCKING POST YOU BRAINWASHED MORON.
I just said that terms like "Higher order thinking skills" are a bunch of linguistic BULLSHIT attached to what is effectively a policy of teaching children to have a pavlovian "yessum massa!" response to politically correct buzzwords.
That is the anthithesis of logic and the antithesis of critical thinking. But, because a left-wing pseudo-intellectual slaps an intentionally inaccurate label like "higher order thinking skills" to a tax payer funded propaganda campaign, now anyone who dares voice dissent to what is literally institutionalized child abuse is some sort of marginal whackjob. My allusion to 1984 was dead on all the way down to the state's intentional undermining of the family by having kids spy on their parents for the fucking state.
I'm pretty much convinced that 99.9% of morons on this website who constantly cite 1984 simply assumed that the book just said "Republicans bad! Bush evil!" for 200 pages. If you had ever bothered to read the damn thing you'd see the twisiting of language to make it literally impossible to even express ideas that go against the ruling elite and the state taking over as God and Parent to a bunch of brainwashed zombies were central ideas too.
As usual Slashdot puts up any and all propaganda that makes anyone but radical leftists look like lunatics.
The liberals did take a good page out of 1984 by learning how to warp and manipulate language to fit their own agenda. For example, relabel the same old provably ineffective (or intentionally worse than ineffective) teaching techniques as "logic" or "critical thinking". Now all of the sudden anyone who opposes the twisted and mangled brainwashing that is labeled "logic" or "critical thinking" is instantly a right-wing extremist Nazi who needs to be "volunteered" for a good liberal "reeducation sensitivity training course".
Apparently Orbitz is helping to contribute to the bloated self-esteem and sense of self-worth that Mac users crave. They should be applauded for reinforcing the RDF in the name of Saint Jobs.
Ooh you made a typo there:
Just like Germany in 2012. There fixed that for you.
Oh but you were making a Nazi refernce to sound deep! Well guess what: They also drank beer and taught math in Germany in 1938 too! Therefore, we should outlaw beer and math or else it's Hitler all over again!
Not just Japan.. I was in good left-wing Germany for 3 months and my passport went everywhere I did. I'm tired of this crap that enforcing the law is somehow "racist" or tripe like that.
You want to see real racism? Go down to supposedly wonderful Mexico sometime and see how they treat illegal aliens from *other countries*. Of course, according to the pseudo-intelligenstia it can only be racist if a white person does it* so there you go.
*Exception: The supposedly repressed "Latino" undergoes a quantum leap to instantaneously become the world leader of both the KKK and the Aryan Nation if he commits a crime against a minority who is higher up the repression totem pole. See George Zimmerman (who would just be poor repressed "Jorje" the Latino if the person he had shot wasn't black).
Remember that at no time does the individual count for shit, and the content of your character has nothing do with how you choose to live your life, but only with whatver tribal racial group some white liberals have decided you belong to.
P.S. don't you love how Obama panders by pronouncing "Latinos" differently than any other word? Imagine how the liberal hypo would piss themselves if Romney had a shout out to the "Afro Americans" sounding like Ludacris. If I was "Latino" I'd be pretty pissed at being pandered to, but apparently the promise of welfare checks and scare tactics that big mean Republicans are out to get you is enough to keep the sheeple dependent and in line.
The title makes it sound like this guy is a legitimate academic who just wants to cure cancer for the benefit of all WomynKind is being harrassed by whatever evil megacorp is at the top of the 2 minutes of hate list today on Slashdot. Then you figure out that this guy is just another scumbag fraudster and he doesn't sound like such an innocent "researcher" at all.
How about a "bank security researcher" who does vital Nobel prize winning research about the response time of police and ambulances when he shoots up a bank during a robbery? I'm sure everyone on this site wants there to be more "research" to make things interesting.
That's a great press release and AMD is better than Nvidia since AMD does publish at least partial documentation.. *but*... support for newer AMD cards in the open source drivers has major issues. As of right now, the 7 series cards that have been out for over 6 months have basically no support under the open source drivers. The 6 series and older cards are improving, but Catalyst is still leagues ahead in OpenGL performance and support. The documentation for the AMD cards is not release until months after the cards ship, and there is basically zero open-source development done prior to launch, so there is a long lead time between the cards being available and the cards being usable in any form under Linux (except through Catalyst, which has its own issues).
One big issue is that the Mesa & open source graphics stack has just recently even gotten support for OpenGL 3.0. The standards support under the proprietary Nvidia & AMD cards is, ironically, far ahead of the open source implementations.
P.S. --> To anyone who saw "DRM" in the previous post and had a heart attack... DRM here means Direct Rendering Manager and is the Linux infrastructure that lets you access the GPU for graphics acceleration.
This is a release of a large and very complete set of formal documents, but open source driver code (GPL'd and part of the mainline Linux kernel) has been released under a public development process since just after Sandy Bridge first came out in preparation for the Ivy Bridge launch. This code is written by paid Intel employees.
Incidentally, large portions of the DRM infrastructure in the kernel *and* the X server *and* the upcoming Wayland project are all being made by paid Intel employees. Note that this development work also has major benefits to the open-source AMD driver development and we would all be better off if AMD (not to mention Nvidia) adopted Intel's approach to paying people for open-source work.
In a similar manner, there is already 100% GPL'd code that is available for the next-generation Haswell graphics engines. Obviously at this stage it isn't complete, but things are not hidden behind closed doors and, just like Ivy Bridge, there should be solid launch-day support for the Haswell IGP. Considering the rumours going around about the extra resources that Haswell will offer for the GPU, this could chip could provide very solid launch-day out-of-the-box graphics support in notebooks and other devices that don't require a dicrete GPU.