That site doesn't give any numbers. This one does, and while it's much less toxic than some substances, a cup of coffee has ~200mg of caffeine in it...
Ingestion of plutonium
For acute radiation poisoning, the lethal dose is estimated to be 500 milligrams (mg), i.e. about 1/2 gram. A common poison, cyanide, requires a dose 5 times smaller to cause death: 100 mg. Thus for ingestion, plutonium is very toxic, but five times less toxic than cyanide. There is also a risk of cancer from ingestion, with a lethal doze (1 cancer) for 480 mg.
Inhalation of plutonium dust
For inhalation, the plutonium can cause death within a month (from pulmonary fibrosis or pulmonary edema); that requires 20 mg inhaled. To cause cancer with high probability, the amount that must be inhaled is 0.08 mg = 80 micrograms. The lethal dose for botulism toxin is estimated to be about 0.070 micrograms = 70 nanograms. [1] Thus botulism toxin is over a thousand times more toxic. The statement that plutonium is the most dangerous material known to man is false. But it is very dangerous, at least in dust form.
How easy is it to breathe in 0.08 mg = 80 micrograms? To get to the critical part of the lungs, the particle must be no larger than about 3 microns. A particle of that size has a mass of about 0.140 micrograms. To get to a dose of 80 micrograms requires 80/0.14 = 560 particles. In contrast, the lethal dose for anthrax is estimated to be 10,000 particles of a similar size. Thus plutonium dust, if spread in the air, is more dangerous than anthrax - although the effects are not as immediate.
Or they could, you know, go fishing. Read - or maybe write - a book. Take a walk. Play with their kids instead of drinking or drugging themselves to oblivion. The thought of drugs as the only other way to achieve satisfaction besides being a mindless consumer worker ant is repulsive.
But routinely vaccinating children in such a way seems insane. Even if it were completely safe, people would quickly find another drug. Especially since I find it unlikely that they'd make one for alcohol.
No kidding... I've seen people with shingles who have come in for antivirals, and well... I wish that vaccine had been around when I was a kid. Vesicles, crusts, scarring, pain. Here's to hoping that it doesn't happen to me. And while the more severe cases are rare, about 10-20% of people get it at some point in their lives.
Well, yeah, that's even in the submitted post - "GPS Coke can looks a little bit like an IED (improvised explosive device)" - the question was whether people who actually work in demolition/weapons/forensics use this acronym, or whether it's just been made up (recently, in the current war) for people to use to sound important.
I bought a SharkPort USB link shortly after I got my PS2 (for backing up savegames - those 8 meg cards were ridiculously expensive at the time). While it worked at the beginning, a year later the disk became finicky and eventually stopped loading entirely (just displaying the "Insert a Playstation or Playstation 2 Format Disk" message. After getting a mod chip, it works fine. I also backup my games now, too.
Yup. I had a 1 GHz C3 in my quiet system, but it was annoyingly slow (slower than a 500mhz Pentium III, and though it was one of the Nehemiah ones with a "full speed" fpu, it was appallingly slow with 296 Whetstone mflops in SiSoft Sandra - slower than a PII), so I replaced it with a 1.3Ghz Celeron (a newer one with 256k cache) which has six times the FPU speed and still stays at less than 40C with the fan speed set to minimum.
While the C3 cpus are nice for ultra-low power situations, a Centrino is probably a better (if more expensive) choice for most uses. I'm pretty sure the clock speed can be set low enough to use a comparable wattage - I just wish they were available in desktop socket 478. While there are desktop motherboards that take the notebook chips, they are ridiculously expensive. The mobile Athlons can be used in desktop motherboards, though...
The universities bear no more responsibility than ISPs - so if they cave, that'll be a nice precedent for the RIAA. And hey, if they manage to ruin the internet, people might actually listen to their crappy media.
I've got a Pentium 90mhz laptop I used on a daily basis (before I graduated and got enough money to buy a new one), that worked perfectly well for browsing the web and using Word. (Though the battery was long dead, of course.)
While a 486 is a probably a bit too slow, I'm sure there's a charity out there that'd love any clean, 100% functioning Pentium with a working monitor (either a laptop or a desktop with a monitor). From what I remember of working for a nonprofit during the summer a few years back, that's the hardest part to get. People tend to keep them until the thing burns out.
I guess that would mean black and white. Anyway, looking at the actual ordering information, as others have pointed out, shows this to almost certainly be a scam.
I don't understand either of the parent or the grandparent posts, but elsewhere they say it gets 10 hours on a colour screen off a single AA - which is still pretty surprising. The black and white screen apparently gets "months" of battery life, and I'm not sure what "Bistable (white paper)" means, but it sounds good too. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like this thing would run any of the software I need, so I probably won't be getting one anytime soon.
If such advertising was ever not misleading and actually informed patients about the options available, it might not be so disgusting. For example, the best drug for hypertension costs less than 1 cent (Canadian!) per day - compared to others that cost more than a dollar - but it doesn't get a lot of advertising. Of course, the drug ads (which companies can spend more on in the U.S. than their R&D) aren't legal here anyway...
It'd help if they'd build a dam once in a while to keep up with the demand - maybe every couple decades. It might help. Anything would be better than deciding to build a natural gas pipeline just when prices start to soar.
Personally, I'd consider "Internet blogs,/., WWDN, fark, etc." on par with romance novels, mass-produced franchise sci-fi, and Robert Jordan's neverending monstrosity.
Yeah, I'd say that the plain old AIW 9600 would be a better choice. Slower, but fanless. Or one could replace the heatsink/fan with a Zalman VGA heatsink (I've got one on my 9700), but that probably wouldn't fit in a Shuttle cube.
I've got an old Toshiba laptop that came with the license physically attached to the bottom. I find it hard to believe that they would have any legal basis for saying it isn't transferable at all. Now, maybe if you got an OEM copy with a machine and sell the CD to someone they might have a leg to stand on.
So true. I've mentioned this before, but the fact that mine can store roughly my weight in medical references and still have room on the memory card for a few good novels isn't a "gimmick". It's amazing and useful.
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No, no, it's seconds per 100 letters! ;-)
Or run it at half-resolution, ie: 800x600. That way, each dot on the screen is a square of 4 pixels, rather than some blurry approximation.
Ingestion of plutonium
For acute radiation poisoning, the lethal dose is estimated to be 500 milligrams (mg), i.e. about 1/2 gram. A common poison, cyanide, requires a dose 5 times smaller to cause death: 100 mg. Thus for ingestion, plutonium is very toxic, but five times less toxic than cyanide. There is also a risk of cancer from ingestion, with a lethal doze (1 cancer) for 480 mg.
Inhalation of plutonium dust
For inhalation, the plutonium can cause death within a month (from pulmonary fibrosis or pulmonary edema); that requires 20 mg inhaled. To cause cancer with high probability, the amount that must be inhaled is 0.08 mg = 80 micrograms. The lethal dose for botulism toxin is estimated to be about 0.070 micrograms = 70 nanograms. [1] Thus botulism toxin is over a thousand times more toxic. The statement that plutonium is the most dangerous material known to man is false. But it is very dangerous, at least in dust form.
How easy is it to breathe in 0.08 mg = 80 micrograms? To get to the critical part of the lungs, the particle must be no larger than about 3 microns. A particle of that size has a mass of about 0.140 micrograms. To get to a dose of 80 micrograms requires 80/0.14 = 560 particles. In contrast, the lethal dose for anthrax is estimated to be 10,000 particles of a similar size. Thus plutonium dust, if spread in the air, is more dangerous than anthrax - although the effects are not as immediate.
But routinely vaccinating children in such a way seems insane. Even if it were completely safe, people would quickly find another drug. Especially since I find it unlikely that they'd make one for alcohol.
No kidding... I've seen people with shingles who have come in for antivirals, and well... I wish that vaccine had been around when I was a kid. Vesicles, crusts, scarring, pain. Here's to hoping that it doesn't happen to me. And while the more severe cases are rare, about 10-20% of people get it at some point in their lives.
Well, yeah, that's even in the submitted post - "GPS Coke can looks a little bit like an IED (improvised explosive device)" - the question was whether people who actually work in demolition/weapons/forensics use this acronym, or whether it's just been made up (recently, in the current war) for people to use to sound important.
That's strange - then how did all that venison get in my freezer?
I bought a SharkPort USB link shortly after I got my PS2 (for backing up savegames - those 8 meg cards were ridiculously expensive at the time). While it worked at the beginning, a year later the disk became finicky and eventually stopped loading entirely (just displaying the "Insert a Playstation or Playstation 2 Format Disk" message. After getting a mod chip, it works fine. I also backup my games now, too.
While the C3 cpus are nice for ultra-low power situations, a Centrino is probably a better (if more expensive) choice for most uses. I'm pretty sure the clock speed can be set low enough to use a comparable wattage - I just wish they were available in desktop socket 478. While there are desktop motherboards that take the notebook chips, they are ridiculously expensive. The mobile Athlons can be used in desktop motherboards, though...
The universities bear no more responsibility than ISPs - so if they cave, that'll be a nice precedent for the RIAA. And hey, if they manage to ruin the internet, people might actually listen to their crappy media.
Why should it have to cost anything? Just make it the term project for a bunch of law students or something. ;-)
And what of autosexual marriage? Why must Bush forbid me from marrying my left hand?
While a 486 is a probably a bit too slow, I'm sure there's a charity out there that'd love any clean, 100% functioning Pentium with a working monitor (either a laptop or a desktop with a monitor). From what I remember of working for a nonprofit during the summer a few years back, that's the hardest part to get. People tend to keep them until the thing burns out.
I guess that would mean black and white. Anyway, looking at the actual ordering information, as others have pointed out, shows this to almost certainly be a scam.
I don't understand either of the parent or the grandparent posts, but elsewhere they say it gets 10 hours on a colour screen off a single AA - which is still pretty surprising. The black and white screen apparently gets "months" of battery life, and I'm not sure what "Bistable (white paper)" means, but it sounds good too. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like this thing would run any of the software I need, so I probably won't be getting one anytime soon.
It's nice to know they can add more capacity to it, but 20 years does equal a couple decades in my book.
If such advertising was ever not misleading and actually informed patients about the options available, it might not be so disgusting. For example, the best drug for hypertension costs less than 1 cent (Canadian!) per day - compared to others that cost more than a dollar - but it doesn't get a lot of advertising. Of course, the drug ads (which companies can spend more on in the U.S. than their R&D) aren't legal here anyway...
It'd help if they'd build a dam once in a while to keep up with the demand - maybe every couple decades. It might help. Anything would be better than deciding to build a natural gas pipeline just when prices start to soar.
Personally, I'd consider "Internet blogs, /., WWDN, fark, etc." on par with romance novels, mass-produced franchise sci-fi, and Robert Jordan's neverending monstrosity.
Yeah, I'd say that the plain old AIW 9600 would be a better choice. Slower, but fanless. Or one could replace the heatsink/fan with a Zalman VGA heatsink (I've got one on my 9700), but that probably wouldn't fit in a Shuttle cube.
A real cookie?
I've got an old Toshiba laptop that came with the license physically attached to the bottom. I find it hard to believe that they would have any legal basis for saying it isn't transferable at all. Now, maybe if you got an OEM copy with a machine and sell the CD to someone they might have a leg to stand on.
Surely the EFF or a similar group could buy a few senators to protect civil liberties...
So true. I've mentioned this before, but the fact that mine can store roughly my weight in medical references and still have room on the memory card for a few good novels isn't a "gimmick". It's amazing and useful.
Sure, he could "just as easily" lug around a tablet PC. Even a relatively small and light one would be useless compared to a good PDA.