I've purchased/received three MP3/video players during trips to China, and both of them had viruses on them. China is the next big market for botnets, I suppose.
The first "Dune" movie was camp for nerds. I read the book, and, as much as I liked it, I can't get worked up about David Lynch's (and Frank Herbert's) less-than-faithful adaptation. It was just too great. Sting in a knife fight? A flying, boil-covered fat man as the antagonist?
The renewable energy sources of Iceland certainly don't generate anywhere near that much power per unit area. And the heat rejected from datacenters will be trivial and widely distributed.
However, the primary electrical capacity is based on hydropower, which is rapidly being marketed to heavy industry (Alcoa's aluminium smelters, for instance), so the current power prices won't last forever.
I think two things will stop these datacenters from going to Iceland: restrictive immigration laws and submarine data cable capacity. Iceland has a total population of about 300,000. They simply can't have a diverse enough IT industry to support setting up these data centers without expats. And without the bandwidth, there simply isn't a point.
1. Iceland's immigration will let in, at least in my experience, just about anybody. (including myself twice, even though I could barely read the language when I arrived) It's not too common to have to speak English at the cashier. 2. Iceland has borne so many computer nerds that you'd think it was originally founded by disenfranchised refugees from some Norwegian LARPer club. If Iceland becomes the next big thing in co-location, this might be just the thing to get them to come home from Britain, North America and Scandinavia.
I've just got to tell the world about this, so bear with me:
I'm a university student, and today I was talking with my nuclear power safety professor. It turns out he had a different background than nuclear safety. Apparently he took this job after working for several years in the manufacturing and development of the SS-24.
I heard an interesting anecdote about the picture you occasionally see of its operators (a dozen young women, sitting on stools, in front of analogue instrument panels). Apparently, they were completely in the dark about what this facility was doing, but sat there all shift staring at gauges and what-not with instructions to inform a supervisor if something exceeded a given limit.
Perhaps the title should have been "Nuclear Scanning Catches Cat On I-131"...
Iodine-131 is a stupidly popular isotope if there ever was one, and my money is on this being the culprit. It's used for targeting the thyroid, as it's very aggressively absorbed by it.
I'm seeing a few posts pondering how much money they must be shelling out for these detectors at the borders and on highways. The thing is, it's really not that exotic or even expensive. Firstly, the characteristic lines [from the radiation of these radioisotopes] on the multi-channel analyzers I've used are quite clear and definitive, and even a large number of possible isotopes can usually be narrowed down by hand in a few minutes. Authorities looking for a dirty bomb would probably be looking at a quite limited number of possible radioisotopes, meaning fewer signatures to search for.
One of these happens to be iodine-131, not only because it's so readily and stubbornly absorbed by the body, but also because it's produced in relatively large quantities in the spent fuel of nuclear reactors and isolated for medical use.
It's a bit like the word "feminazi", which draws a completely unfair analogy, as it is deeply insulting to any proud member of the National Socialist party.
While I have no doubt in my mind that Ernst Röhm was a butch, there must have been at least a few femme Nazis too keep him company.
I live in fucking Europe and public transport sucks.
I call bullshit on this. Nobody in Europe says they live in Europe. That term is only used as a geographical term by British and Americans, and in the context of grumbling about the EU on the Continent.
The "my enemy's enemy is my friend" mentality in the Press concerning Falun Dafa has shamefully prevented the story of what Falun Gong actually is from being included in the story. Suppression aside, it has a lot in common which religious groups we in the West would not be so sympathetic, such as spiritual cures for diseases of the body, promises of magic powers, and a leader who claims his own divinity.
Yeah, I know. When I saw it at the newsstand on vacation, I did a double-take and got a copy. The front page says "Scientific American - Nederlandstalig" ('in Dutch').
In the current Dutch issue of "Scientific American," there's an article about body microgeneration.
One proposal is to use microscopic plates separated by orthogonally arranged nanotubes. Connected to one plate and touching small feelers on the other, they would function as a piezoelectric generator for exploiting ambient motion. The idea is to apply this to similar applications as in TFA.
As far as using body heat as an RTG, the idea is of course to use the temperature gradient between the body and the ambient air.
Personally, I'm most interested in this tiny DC-DC converter they've got.
For the purposes of gas-solid diffusion, yes, these terapascal pressures play a large role in the migration of former alpha particles into grain boundaries and other imperfections, where they can produce "bubbles"--or even out of the fuel entirely. Pressure is energy divided by volume, and a particle bouncing around with kinetic energy in a volume as small as a lattice gap is going to get weird. These pressures are vitally important for the lifetime of an individual nuclear fuel element and frustratingly difficult to theoretically model.
BTW, recreational scuba divers use materials whose bulk properties are two orders of magnitude from STP, and put their own personal materials under conditions of nearly one order of magnitude away, so that's not actually all that impressive.
I don't see how we disagree; that was exactly my point.
In the nuclear fuels field, we deal with really exotic temperatures and pressures in materials whose bulk properties might be only two or less orders of magnitude from standard temperature and pressure. Did you know that there are people sitting around, calculating the pressure of an individual helium atom in a crystal lattice? The pressures that arise put planetary cores to shame.
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grrrr "All three," that is.
Their Chinese suppliers outsourced the malware the US.
I've purchased/received three MP3/video players during trips to China, and both of them had viruses on them. China is the next big market for botnets, I suppose.
Democracy is like everything else: good in moderation.
The first "Dune" movie was camp for nerds. I read the book, and, as much as I liked it, I can't get worked up about David Lynch's ( and Frank Herbert's) less-than-faithful adaptation. It was just too great. Sting in a knife fight? A flying, boil-covered fat man as the antagonist?
That movie had everything but the Log Lady.
Well, I don't know if you're a terrorist or not, but you could definitely warrant some questions...
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Poppycock! You couldn't get a Norwegian to smalltalk under duress.
2. Iceland has borne so many computer nerds that you'd think it was originally founded by disenfranchised refugees from some Norwegian LARPer club. If Iceland becomes the next big thing in co-location, this might be just the thing to get them to come home from Britain, North America and Scandinavia.
I've just got to tell the world about this, so bear with me:
I'm a university student, and today I was talking with my nuclear power safety professor. It turns out he had a different background than nuclear safety. Apparently he took this job after working for several years in the manufacturing and development of the SS-24.
Thanks!
I heard an interesting anecdote about the picture you occasionally see of its operators (a dozen young women, sitting on stools, in front of analogue instrument panels). Apparently, they were completely in the dark about what this facility was doing, but sat there all shift staring at gauges and what-not with instructions to inform a supervisor if something exceeded a given limit.
Could one consider those early devices for electromagnetic enrichment of uranium to be cyclotrons? Is this one of them?
Perhaps the title should have been "Nuclear Scanning Catches Cat On I-131"...
Iodine-131 is a stupidly popular isotope if there ever was one, and my money is on this being the culprit. It's used for targeting the thyroid, as it's very aggressively absorbed by it.
I'm seeing a few posts pondering how much money they must be shelling out for these detectors at the borders and on highways. The thing is, it's really not that exotic or even expensive. Firstly, the characteristic lines [from the radiation of these radioisotopes] on the multi-channel analyzers I've used are quite clear and definitive, and even a large number of possible isotopes can usually be narrowed down by hand in a few minutes. Authorities looking for a dirty bomb would probably be looking at a quite limited number of possible radioisotopes, meaning fewer signatures to search for.
One of these happens to be iodine-131, not only because it's so readily and stubbornly absorbed by the body, but also because it's produced in relatively large quantities in the spent fuel of nuclear reactors and isolated for medical use.
Mod parent up!
The "my enemy's enemy is my friend" mentality in the Press concerning Falun Dafa has shamefully prevented the story of what Falun Gong actually is from being included in the story. Suppression aside, it has a lot in common which religious groups we in the West would not be so sympathetic, such as spiritual cures for diseases of the body, promises of magic powers, and a leader who claims his own divinity.
Yeah, I know. When I saw it at the newsstand on vacation, I did a double-take and got a copy. The front page says "Scientific American - Nederlandstalig" ('in Dutch').
In the current Dutch issue of "Scientific American," there's an article about body microgeneration.
One proposal is to use microscopic plates separated by orthogonally arranged nanotubes. Connected to one plate and touching small feelers on the other, they would function as a piezoelectric generator for exploiting ambient motion. The idea is to apply this to similar applications as in TFA.
As far as using body heat as an RTG, the idea is of course to use the temperature gradient between the body and the ambient air.
Personally, I'm most interested in this tiny DC-DC converter they've got.
The inevitable and predictable jokes people make when the word "dwarf" comes up in some neutral context are sophomoric and insensitive.
We shouldn't belittle people for how they were born.
If you have a source on this, I'd love to pass it around.
Don't take any pictures.
In the nuclear fuels field, we deal with really exotic temperatures and pressures in materials whose bulk properties might be only two or less orders of magnitude from standard temperature and pressure. Did you know that there are people sitting around, calculating the pressure of an individual helium atom in a crystal lattice? The pressures that arise put planetary cores to shame.