Washington, D.C., attorney Doug Rosinski, who represents Toshiba, calls the reactor a "nuclear battery," although it has nothing in common with the typical AA cell. The power comes from a core of non-weapons-grade uranium about 30 inches in diameter and 6 feet tall. It would put out a steady stream of 932-degree heat for three decades but can be removed and replaced like a flashlight battery when the power is depleted, he said.
So, no, you don't just leave the dead fuel in the reactor--you remove it and dispose of it in a relatively safe manner. Considering that this device produces waste once every thirty years, I don't think that it will be that big of a problem.
From what I understand, the Concorde cruises at ~60,000 feet. At such a high altitude, I cannot imagine the sonic boom being that bad for two reasons: 1) The atmosphere is extremely thin up there, so a sound wave won't travel very fast at all, and 2) The "boom" will be quite attenuated after traveling >10 miles down.
So, the problem areas are probably the takeoff and landing as you stated...
The thing that killed the aircraft was purely and simply American sour grapes when Boeing finally admitted that their own late entry into supersonic air travel was over budget, overdue and over weight and would never fly. There were plenty of American airline with options to buy, but they all pulled out when the American government then decided to ban overland commercial supersonic flight, making the aircraft practically useless to American airlines. Of course, many military aircraft continue to fly supersonic over the American mainland, and cows still give uncurdled milk, children are not thrown from their beds by the sonic shock-wave, and there are not hoards of angry sleep-deprived and shell-shocked American citizens beating at the doors of congress to limit this evil.
While I agree that it is a shame to loose the Concorde, it boggles my comprehension that you could blame it on the US government. I know that USA bashing is common sport on Slashdot, but WTF? The USA has nothing to do with this.
There were plenty of other viable land-routes in Europe and Asia that were nixed by people with the same naive worries.
If you can prove your claim then I beg you to do so. If you are just trying to look for yet another bogus reason to hate the USA then shut up.
I'm sorry, but (from what I understand) you are both misinformed.
When an email is sent, the first thing that is looked for is an MX record. If it doesn't find one, it will attempt to use the A record instead, if it exists.
So yes, mail is indeed ending up at the front door of verisign's sitefinder server. However, they have a very simple autoreject daemon running on the SMTP port. That way, mail still bounces.
I guess it COULD be possible that they are logging the bad emails, but there would be little use in doing so.
The USA does not want replace Taiwan's Democracy with China's Dictatorship. The USA saying that they support a "One China" policy is only diplomacy. From what I understand, Taiwan was founded with the full intention of one day re-unifying with the mainland, once it looses the Dictatorship and adopts a Democracy. In this sense, the "Official" US stance is only restating what both countries have already stated. The only problem is with the terms.
I remember hearing a while back about the USA selling ships and submarines to Taiwan, and China bitching about it.
<speculation>I am quite confident that one of the (many) reasons that China has not already attempted to take Taiwan by force is a fear of US intervention. The day that China invades Taiwan will be the precursor to a war between the US and China.</speculation>
The point that I'm trying to make is this: While the USA may in other cases have a bad record for fully supporting Democracies around the world, the case of Taiwan is not one of them.
I am not aware of the case where the USA has stated that they will "allow China to invade them" if they officially rename the country. If you have some references on this, I would be interested in reading up on it. From what I understood, China made it quite clear that they would invade Taiwan if Taiwan declared its independence(Which is what a name change would be).
I think you misunderstand the term ADHD. The word "Hyperactive" is not in reference to a "hyper" person, it is in reference to attention. They changed the name from ADD to ADHD to recognize "hyper-focusing", which is most certainly NOT a deficit of attention.
Hyper-focusing is when a person with ADHD is completely engrossed in something to the point where doing or thinking about anything else is EXTREMELY difficult, even "painful".
Sometimes my girlfriend will walk in and want to tell me something and I will be working (and "hyper-focusing"), and she will ask me a basic question (or tell a joke) and all I can offer her is a blank stare. It is like she is speaking a different language--it just doesn't make sense. It's really weird. (And it gets me in trouble sometimes!)
As a person who has had ADHD for his entire life, I know that I was not a "hyper" kid, but I most certainly did "hyper-focus". My brain constantly switches channels, and sometimes it gets stuck on a channel and just won't move. The times where the channel doesn't change is just as significant a symptom as when the channel keeps changing at random. That is why it is called ADHD instead of ADD.
Small footnote: The second amendment also forms our military. Without it, we would be up shit creek. As for the right to bear arms, *shrugs* I'll refrain from comment.
A good example of something being outdated is the 7th amendment:
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
The person who came up with the 1 cent tax either did not think it through, or is ignorant of how the internet and SMTP works.
You would need some sort of centralized agency to tax all emails. Due to the decentralized nature of SMTP, and the internet in general, this would require a complete overhaul of how email works--there is no reasonable way to patch an email tax onto the existing system.
Good intentions, Bad Idea(tm).
As the world becomes more educated about email and the internet, less people will respond to it. Unfortunately, we have a ways to go before the number of such "gullibles" starts going down. Perhaps even decades.
Until then this is my system:
1) Whitelist. Anyone on it is accepted. Everyone in my address book is on this list. 2) If the sender states that the email is from hotmail or yahoo, then check for the ad at the bottom of the email. If it isn't there, toss the email, no questions asked. 3) Blacklist. Look for words like "pu$$y","v1agra", "barely legal", "form", and any other word/phrase that should NEVER be in legitimate email, as well as email addresses of known spammers. If there is a match, toss the email, no questions asked. 4) Greylist. Look for phrases like "Click Here", "click to remove", "click to unsubscribe", "reply to this email", "sex", etc. If there is a match, hold the email and send a request for response. 5) If the email got to this point, then it should be allowed to pass through.
I have found that this system does a great job of eliminating spam from my mailbox. I just have to remember to keep my whitelist, greylist, and blacklist up to date.
One recent problem is spamers using "From:" addresses like "bleh@ups.com". Since ups.com is on my whitelist, the email goes through.
Regarding the iBook... Apple seems to be phasing out the iBooks, with its successor being the 12 inch PowerBook.
But then again, what would be the advantage to having an x86 Apple iBook/PowerBook anyway? It would (supposedly) run hotter, and you would be unable to run other Macintosh programs. Besides, if most of the tools you use are open source, then it's easy enough just to recompile for the Motorola G4 proc.
The US did not pull out of the Kyoto Treaty because it would hurt out economy. The US pulled out of the Kyoto Treaty because it was so lax on "developing nations", including China. Why should the US have to adhere to such a Treaty when the world's largest polluter doesn't?
It wasn't a fair Treaty, and it was wise to get out of it.
For the record, it was not my intent to bash. My intent was only to explain that the modified photograph appears to be slightly more biased against the war than the other two photographs.
The combined picture seems harsher. The impression that I got from the combined image: An Iraqi father who has concerns for his child being harshly rebuked by an American soldier. The impression is given that the American soldier is asserting his authority over the Iraqi.
As someone who supports our troops and the war effort, I'm disgusted that this crap is going on. It should be about what is best for Iraq, not US companies!
This is the same reason that we are still using the inferior imperial system of measurements instead of the metric system.
GSM would be the obvious choice in Iraq, because it is compatible with GSM that is being used in the surrounding countries. It would be extremely short sighted and irresponsible to push CMDA in the region for no other reason than US convenience.
From what I understand, this is to keep spammers from signing up for that 30 day free trial, and spamming from it.
Also, if someone could compromise (ie: spyware) a few hundred (or a few thousand) dial-up accounts, then they have a pretty effective mass-spamming machine. Blocking port 25 outbound keeps that from happening.
Earthlink, and AT&T Broadband (dialup), and I assume others do the same thing.
It pissed me off when I first ran into this issue, but after sitting down and thinking about it it makes sense. After all, anyone who needs to use a mail server in this way can probably find a way around it, as you (and I) have.
Also, from what I understand, port 24 is reserved for "private mail server use". I use port 250 for mail stuff behind port-25-blocked accounts, but should we be using port 24 for this kind of stuff?
That's probably because someone else downloaded it first, caching it on one of Microsoft's proxys.
I highly doubt that you could actually get that kind of bandwidth to a file that is quite likely high in demand unless you were behind an (invisible?) proxy server.
Off the top of my head... I would imagine that the difference between philosophy and religion is that religion dictates specific guidelines for social interaction.
Also, religions have a tendency to be (on a individual scale) mutually exclusive. ie: someone cannot be both Jewish and a Muslim -- a person claiming to be both would be neither.
Philosophies do not seem to be mutually exclusive.
I generally consider Buddhism to be a religion, but Taoism to be more of a philosophy. (If someone has a different opinion about Taoism, I'd be welcome to hear it)
I think it's worth noting that the DigiPen Institute of Technology was the original video game programming school. They have been around since the mid 90ies.
The school is on the Nintendo of America corporate campus in Redmond, WA.
The best teachers I have ever had were at DigiPen. (Dr. Jahn, Claude Comair, many others...)
If you are interested in a video game programming school, I highly recomend checking out DigiPen.
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Washington, D.C., attorney Doug Rosinski, who represents Toshiba, calls the reactor a "nuclear battery," although it has nothing in common with the typical AA cell. The power comes from a core of non-weapons-grade uranium about 30 inches in diameter and 6 feet tall. It would put out a steady stream of 932-degree heat for three decades but can be removed and replaced like a flashlight battery when the power is depleted, he said.
So, no, you don't just leave the dead fuel in the reactor--you remove it and dispose of it in a relatively safe manner. Considering that this device produces waste once every thirty years, I don't think that it will be that big of a problem.From what I understand, the Concorde cruises at ~60,000 feet. At such a high altitude, I cannot imagine the sonic boom being that bad for two reasons: 1) The atmosphere is extremely thin up there, so a sound wave won't travel very fast at all, and 2) The "boom" will be quite attenuated after traveling >10 miles down.
So, the problem areas are probably the takeoff and landing as you stated...
I'm just thinking out loud...
The thing that killed the aircraft was purely and simply American sour grapes when Boeing finally admitted that their own late entry into supersonic air travel was over budget, overdue and over weight and would never fly. There were plenty of American airline with options to buy, but they all pulled out when the American government then decided to ban overland commercial supersonic flight, making the aircraft practically useless to American airlines. Of course, many military aircraft continue to fly supersonic over the American mainland, and cows still give uncurdled milk, children are not thrown from their beds by the sonic shock-wave, and there are not hoards of angry sleep-deprived and shell-shocked American citizens beating at the doors of congress to limit this evil.
While I agree that it is a shame to loose the Concorde, it boggles my comprehension that you could blame it on the US government. I know that USA bashing is common sport on Slashdot, but WTF? The USA has nothing to do with this.
There were plenty of other viable land-routes in Europe and Asia that were nixed by people with the same naive worries.
If you can prove your claim then I beg you to do so. If you are just trying to look for yet another bogus reason to hate the USA then shut up.
I'm sorry, but (from what I understand) you are both misinformed.
When an email is sent, the first thing that is looked for is an MX record. If it doesn't find one, it will attempt to use the A record instead, if it exists.
So yes, mail is indeed ending up at the front door of verisign's sitefinder server. However, they have a very simple autoreject daemon running on the SMTP port. That way, mail still bounces.
I guess it COULD be possible that they are logging the bad emails, but there would be little use in doing so.
Argh, sorry, must post to kill mod points that I assigned.. I didn't realize this was a redundant post.
The USA does not want replace Taiwan's Democracy with China's Dictatorship. The USA saying that they support a "One China" policy is only diplomacy. From what I understand, Taiwan was founded with the full intention of one day re-unifying with the mainland, once it looses the Dictatorship and adopts a Democracy. In this sense, the "Official" US stance is only restating what both countries have already stated. The only problem is with the terms.
I remember hearing a while back about the USA selling ships and submarines to Taiwan, and China bitching about it.
<speculation>I am quite confident that one of the (many) reasons that China has not already attempted to take Taiwan by force is a fear of US intervention. The day that China invades Taiwan will be the precursor to a war between the US and China.</speculation>
The point that I'm trying to make is this: While the USA may in other cases have a bad record for fully supporting Democracies around the world, the case of Taiwan is not one of them.
I am not aware of the case where the USA has stated that they will "allow China to invade them" if they officially rename the country. If you have some references on this, I would be interested in reading up on it. From what I understood, China made it quite clear that they would invade Taiwan if Taiwan declared its independence(Which is what a name change would be).
I think you misunderstand the term ADHD. The word "Hyperactive" is not in reference to a "hyper" person, it is in reference to attention. They changed the name from ADD to ADHD to recognize "hyper-focusing", which is most certainly NOT a deficit of attention.
Hyper-focusing is when a person with ADHD is completely engrossed in something to the point where doing or thinking about anything else is EXTREMELY difficult, even "painful".
Sometimes my girlfriend will walk in and want to tell me something and I will be working (and "hyper-focusing"), and she will ask me a basic question (or tell a joke) and all I can offer her is a blank stare. It is like she is speaking a different language--it just doesn't make sense. It's really weird. (And it gets me in trouble sometimes!)
As a person who has had ADHD for his entire life, I know that I was not a "hyper" kid, but I most certainly did "hyper-focus". My brain constantly switches channels, and sometimes it gets stuck on a channel and just won't move. The times where the channel doesn't change is just as significant a symptom as when the channel keeps changing at random. That is why it is called ADHD instead of ADD.
Small footnote: The second amendment also forms our military. Without it, we would be up shit creek. As for the right to bear arms, *shrugs* I'll refrain from comment.
A good example of something being outdated is the 7th amendment:
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Twenty dollars!? hah!
opps, I thought you said that you thought that Israel *should* leave the area. You just gave a hypothetical situation, and I misinterpreted.
My apologies.
The person who came up with the 1 cent tax either did not think it through, or is ignorant of how the internet and SMTP works.
You would need some sort of centralized agency to tax all emails. Due to the decentralized nature of SMTP, and the internet in general, this would require a complete overhaul of how email works--there is no reasonable way to patch an email tax onto the existing system.
Good intentions, Bad Idea(tm).
As the world becomes more educated about email and the internet, less people will respond to it. Unfortunately, we have a ways to go before the number of such "gullibles" starts going down. Perhaps even decades.
Until then this is my system:
1) Whitelist. Anyone on it is accepted. Everyone in my address book is on this list.
2) If the sender states that the email is from hotmail or yahoo, then check for the ad at the bottom of the email. If it isn't there, toss the email, no questions asked.
3) Blacklist. Look for words like "pu$$y","v1agra", "barely legal", "form", and any other word/phrase that should NEVER be in legitimate email, as well as email addresses of known spammers. If there is a match, toss the email, no questions asked.
4) Greylist. Look for phrases like "Click Here", "click to remove", "click to unsubscribe", "reply to this email", "sex", etc. If there is a match, hold the email and send a request for response.
5) If the email got to this point, then it should be allowed to pass through.
I have found that this system does a great job of eliminating spam from my mailbox. I just have to remember to keep my whitelist, greylist, and blacklist up to date.
One recent problem is spamers using "From:" addresses like "bleh@ups.com". Since ups.com is on my whitelist, the email goes through.
Bastards. "Gotta' castrate em' all!"
Regarding the iBook... Apple seems to be phasing out the iBooks, with its successor being the 12 inch PowerBook.
But then again, what would be the advantage to having an x86 Apple iBook/PowerBook anyway? It would (supposedly) run hotter, and you would be unable to run other Macintosh programs. Besides, if most of the tools you use are open source, then it's easy enough just to recompile for the Motorola G4 proc.
Oh yeah? Well you smell funny!
hah!
The US did not pull out of the Kyoto Treaty because it would hurt out economy. The US pulled out of the Kyoto Treaty because it was so lax on "developing nations", including China. Why should the US have to adhere to such a Treaty when the world's largest polluter doesn't?
It wasn't a fair Treaty, and it was wise to get out of it.
I stand corrected.
For the record, it was not my intent to bash. My intent was only to explain that the modified photograph appears to be slightly more biased against the war than the other two photographs.
I got an entirely different feeling.
The combined picture seems harsher. The impression that I got from the combined image: An Iraqi father who has concerns for his child being harshly rebuked by an American soldier. The impression is given that the American soldier is asserting his authority over the Iraqi.
Neither of the other images depict this conflict.
The difference is subtle, but IMHO significant.
As someone who supports our troops and the war effort, I'm disgusted that this crap is going on. It should be about what is best for Iraq, not US companies!
This is the same reason that we are still using the inferior imperial system of measurements instead of the metric system.
GSM would be the obvious choice in Iraq, because it is compatible with GSM that is being used in the surrounding countries. It would be extremely short sighted and irresponsible to push CMDA in the region for no other reason than US convenience.
Grr.
I would like to hear why you didn't like it, minus being called a moron.
One of my favorite movies that few people know about is "PI". Genius. If you haven't seen it, I highly recomend it.
For the sake of truthfulness... Twinkies have a shelf life of around 30 days, most definately not 200 years.
From what I understand, this is to keep spammers from signing up for that 30 day free trial, and spamming from it.
Also, if someone could compromise (ie: spyware) a few hundred (or a few thousand) dial-up accounts, then they have a pretty effective mass-spamming machine. Blocking port 25 outbound keeps that from happening.
Earthlink, and AT&T Broadband (dialup), and I assume others do the same thing.
It pissed me off when I first ran into this issue, but after sitting down and thinking about it it makes sense. After all, anyone who needs to use a mail server in this way can probably find a way around it, as you (and I) have.
Also, from what I understand, port 24 is reserved for "private mail server use". I use port 250 for mail stuff behind port-25-blocked accounts, but should we be using port 24 for this kind of stuff?
That's probably because someone else downloaded it first, caching it on one of Microsoft's proxys.
I highly doubt that you could actually get that kind of bandwidth to a file that is quite likely high in demand unless you were behind an (invisible?) proxy server.
$50 million!? Surely it must be more than that. You could buy 2 or 3 F-15 fighter jets for that.
I would think it would be several hundred million, at least.
Off the top of my head... I would imagine that the difference between philosophy and religion is that religion dictates specific guidelines for social interaction.
Also, religions have a tendency to be (on a individual scale) mutually exclusive. ie: someone cannot be both Jewish and a Muslim -- a person claiming to be both would be neither.
Philosophies do not seem to be mutually exclusive.
I generally consider Buddhism to be a religion, but Taoism to be more of a philosophy. (If someone has a different opinion about Taoism, I'd be welcome to hear it)
From what I understand, it is relatively easy to patent a mechanism with flaws that prevent it from working as stated.
This is why you should never lend any credence to a product simply because it is patented.
"But of all the requirements for being granted a patent in the U.S., having a working device is not one of them." - Skeptic's Dictionary
I think it's worth noting that the DigiPen Institute of Technology was the original video game programming school. They have been around since the mid 90ies.
The school is on the Nintendo of America corporate campus in Redmond, WA.
The best teachers I have ever had were at DigiPen. (Dr. Jahn, Claude Comair, many others...)
If you are interested in a video game programming school, I highly recomend checking out DigiPen.