It's almost certain lifespans will be reduced significantly, though we won't necessarily be told how many and by how much.
When asked why these results haven't been widely reported, Calidcott noted that Japanese officials are not sharing ultrasound results with foremost experts of thyroid nodules in children and accused the media of "practicing psychic numbing," saying that she doesn't understand why media outlets are choosing to ignore the nuclear fallout.
When the above four studies are tallied in one table, it becomes obvious that the result of the thyroid examinations of children in the “Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey” is astonishing. This is because one-third of the children had developed “ cysts.” A “cyst” is a fluid-filled sac. Cysts don’t mean there is an immediate chance of developing thyroid cancer. However, it is apparent that something extraordinary is happening inside the thyroid gland, such as inflammation or changes in cellular properties.
Summarizing the thyroid ultrasound examination results from Japan and overseas, prevalence of “cysts” detected in children around the age of 10 is approximately 0.5-1.0%.
The fact that 35% of Fukushima children (average age around 10) have thyroid cysts strongly suggests that these children’s thyroid glands are negatively affected by undesirable environmental factors.
In June [2012], 56 percent of Japanese fish catches tested by the Japanese government were contaminated with cesium-137 and -134. (Both are human-made radioactive isotopes—produced through nuclear fission—of the element cesium.)
And 9.3 percent of the catches exceeded Japan’s official ceiling for cesium, which is 100 becquerels per kilogram (Bq/kg). (A becquerel is a unit of radioactivity equal to one nuclear disintegration per second.)
The numbers show that far from dissipating with time, as government officials and scientists in Canada and elsewhere claimed they would, levels of radiation from Fukushima have stayed stubbornly high in fish. In June 2012, the average contaminated fish catch had 65 becquerels of cesium per kilo. That’s much higher than the average of five Bq/kg found in the days after the accident back in March 2011, before cesium from Fukushima had spread widely through the region’s food chain.
In some species, radiation levels are actually higher this year than last.
Sevendsen et al, from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina, demonstrated in 2010 that children who had been living in areas heavily contaminated with radioactive cesium have decreased pulmonary function.
The talings are mobile, permeable and contain high levels of residual chemical leachants that were chosen specifically to extract the radioactive materials, and remain highly corrosive. The probability radioactive toxins would enter groundwaters also used by humans would be ridiculously high.
Most uranium mines historically range between 0.1 to 0.5% U3O8, or 1 t0 5 grams of Uranium oxide per tonne of dirt. If you chose vitrification, you would need to turn more than 300 tonnes of ground up rock into glass for every kilogram of yellowcake produced. Tailings also have a high volume of water which is hard to evaporate completely (tailings dams form a crust quickly, the slurry left behind remains semi-liquid for years). Heating so many tonnes of damp tailings would generate immense amounts of toxic, corrosive, radioactive steam, which would need to be contained and managed separately. You would also need to transport the tailings to a vitrification plant, increasing costs, probability of contamination and adding pollution.
Having said that, it would be a cheap solution, so I'd be surprised the nuclear industry isn't already lobbying for licenses to do it.
The contaminated material at the Gore site is 20 million metric tons of source materials in the form of uranium, uranium oxides, uranium fluorides, thorium, radium, and decay-chain products in process equipment and buildings, soil, sludge, and groundwater.
Uranium processing plant sprays radioactive waste as fertilizer
The shutdown Sequoyah Fuels uranium conversion plant is disposing of low-level radioactive waste by spraying it on 9,000 acres of company-owned grazing land.
Of course, they have good reason to spray it around.
"The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering issuance of a license amendment to materials license SUB-1010 to authorize decommissioning of the Sequoyah Fuels Corp. (SFC) site near Gore, Oklahoma. This license is issued to SFC to possess contaminated material at its Gore site. NRC licenses these facilities under 10 CFR part 40. Specifically, the license authorizes SFC to possess up to 20 million metric tons of source material in any form. The contaminated material at the Gore site is in the form of uranium, uranium oxides, uranium fluorides, thorium, radium, and decay-chain products in process equipment and buildings, soil, sludge, and groundwater."
OSI has offered them a license. Being a community-driven organisation, they've asked their users if they'd prefer licensing the logo or developing a new one.
The open source hardware logo was chosen by the community and has become a de facto standard over the past year and a half. As the founding board members of OSHWA, we feel that it is not our right nor our place to decide this issue for the community without further input.
The current leadership of the Open Source Initiative (OSI, opensource.org) has brought to our attention that they feel the Open Source Hardware ‘gear’ logo infringes on their trademark.
US Trademark law requires OSI to protect their mark and to notify potential infringers when they become aware of them. OSI has indicated that they would grant a trademark license to OSHWA. This would give OSI the means to protect their trademark.
I sincerely hope that there are still some adults left in the OSI and it's time for the adults to lead the movement
Certainly more than there are in Slashdot.
If you made the effort to check the OSHWA site instead of the clickbait NetworkWorld beatup, you'd see there's no headbutting, just two teams working together to solve a mutual problem.
The OSHWA team have been offered a license to use the trademark, which would allow OSI to continue defending its mark as needed. Instead of the aggression implied by our sensationalist, error-ridden TFA, the reality is two groups of sensible people negotiating the best paths forward for both their communities.
This is truly ugly journalism. We should be discussing how crap like this is promoted to the frontpage of Slashdot, not pretending outrage at OSI and OSHWA.
Facebook Inc. hired public relations firm Burson-Marsteller to enlist reporters to write stories that would portray its rival Google Inc. (GOOG) in an unfavorable light, according to the firm and a journalist whom it approached.
the os choice is just the biggest, simplest way to determine a "platform", at least, it was,
That's because software "engineering" is still really software crafting. Real engineering is about standardising parts, materials, tolerances, design and construction processes.
Current OSs are all just iterative prototypes.
Someday, when computers outgrow their model T Ford "Any color as long as it's teal blue" phase and are genuinely engineered products, OS components will be compartmentalised for interchangeability, have standard interfaces and APIs so suppliers can provide drop-in replacement modules to OEMs, differentiated by quality and/or price.
the satellite that controls the minds of a significant portion of the population.
I can set your mind to rest there.
After having extensive conversations with many US citizens recently, I've found minimal evidence their minds are controlled, by themselves or externally.
In addition. the walled garden approach means a single point of failure (in this case, social engineering) will cost you everything. Apple should have recognised that and provided better internal security.
If you take that as criteria, there aren't a lot companies that 'innovate' anymore.
So why are we discussing Apple and Microsoft's "tablet with detachable keyboard" instead of Asus Padfone or Ubuntu for Android, both of which are genuinely innovative?
You need to do more with a computer than just smile smugly and say "i'm runng xyz cool thing".... Okay.. maybe *you* don't...
Ah, my little troll is back! Nice to see you again.
And you're right. Computers are tools, they are at their best when they're used to create cool (and mundane) things, and that's the subtle difference between smartphones and desktop computers that I think Ubuntu got right this time.
You see my little pet, despite what many people say, phones and tablets aren't for passive consumption, that's the role of TV, books, and maybe e-readers. What Android, iOS et al excel at is to communicate and share cool things (and mundane things, but who wants to talk about those).
The thing is, computing as a field is all about thresholds. There were text and math thresholds as CPUs/memory etc became large enough and powerful enough to run text editors, then a little faster for word processors, spreadsheets and simulators. Graphical display thresholds gave us GUIs, sound subsystem thresholds and video playback thresholds got us music and movies. There are people here who looked in awe at early Amiga/Atari demos playing two or three simultaneous animations. Desktop computer hardware stopped being a limitation to creating images, video, text, music etc in the late '90s. Phone hardware now is far past that threshold and is about to pass the capabilities of desktop computers from less than a decade ago.
Coincidentally, a decade ago was when mainstream OS development stagnated. XP was released about then, and continues to be used in business today largely because its successors do little or nothing to improve productivity. You see where I'm going with this, cherub? We have hardware with enough power to run the content creation software and fit in our pockets. That limitation is gone. The remaining limitations are the OS and software stacks, and the peripherals - big screens, digitisers, scanners etc etc, and guess what? Ubuntu has an answer.
We're seeing enough hints in the market from the likes of Asus, Samsung, Lenovo and even Microsoft that this is something the world's looking for. I'd say Canonical/Ubuntu is in a very good place right now.
Mobile devices are where a majority of computing dollars are going (in the consumer world).
I think it may be where it's going soon in the corporate world too, especially with BYOD. If so, Ubuntu may be on to something with their Ububtu for Android kit.
It lets you run your phone/tablet as a portable device, then as a full desktop OS once it's docked with a monitor, mouse and other external peripherals. In the video, they're even showing it running Citrix for some legacy applications.
Apple sold 26 million iPhones and 17 million iPads. They sold 8.6 million iPods. Supposedly, the iPod touch is the most popular, so we'll give it 50%, or 4.3 million for a grand total of 47.3 million iOS devices sold. Samsung sold 50 million smartphones, but only about 2.4 million tablets to bump them up to 52.4 million Android devices.
Noobs...
There were 194.913 million handsets shipped in the China market during the first half of 2012, according to statistics published by the China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR) under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
Of the shipment volume, 94.855 million or 48.67% were smartphones in 822 models of which 801 models or 97.44% were based on Android. China-based vendors accounted for 75.16% of the half-year shipment volume, and international vendors 24.84%
For Android, the only device with a digitizer I can think off the bat is Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet.
As well as the Samsung Galaxy Note, Asus Padphone, HTC Flyer and the millions of inexpensive tablets/phones supplied with capacitative foam-tipped styluses.
Yep, we've been loading Novo 7 Tornados with manuals, training PDFs, OHS links, etc and handing them out to trainees and customers.
At $75 each, they're cheaper than printed manuals and far more likely to be carried and used. The have 1GHz processors, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage, and Android 4.03...
By reminding the judge that if he doesn't back apple that nasty video of him and the apple fanbois in the public restroom will be released.
Judge Lucy is probably too feminine for the stereotypical Apple fanboi, even if she did choose to hang around in public restrooms. And as much as it breaks my heart to say it, I suspect iDevices are far too mainstream to be gay icons any more.
It's hard to say what's behind the latest bit of drama, but instead of shrieking and pointing fingers, we should all be asking the obvious question:
Why was such crucial evidence submitted so late as to be barred from the trial?
Slashdot Mirror
It's almost certain lifespans will be reduced significantly, though we won't necessarily be told how many and by how much.
When asked why these results haven't been widely reported, Calidcott noted that Japanese officials are not sharing ultrasound results with foremost experts of thyroid nodules in children and accused the media of "practicing psychic numbing," saying that she doesn't understand why media outlets are choosing to ignore the nuclear fallout.
http://www.businessinsider.com/fukushima-children-have-abnormal-thyroid-growths-2012-7
When the above four studies are tallied in one table, it becomes obvious that the result of the thyroid examinations of children in the “Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey” is astonishing. This is because one-third of the children had developed “ cysts.” A “cyst” is a fluid-filled sac. Cysts don’t mean there is an immediate chance of developing thyroid cancer. However, it is apparent that something extraordinary is happening inside the thyroid gland, such as inflammation or changes in cellular properties.
Summarizing the thyroid ultrasound examination results from Japan and overseas, prevalence of “cysts” detected in children around the age of 10 is approximately 0.5-1.0%.
The fact that 35% of Fukushima children (average age around 10) have thyroid cysts strongly suggests that these children’s thyroid glands are negatively affected by undesirable environmental factors.
http://enenews.com/head-of-internal-medicine-at-japan-hospital-astonished-by-fukushima-thyroid-exams-immediate-evacuation-is-imperative-a-violation-of-human-rights-for-those-exposed-to-radiation
In June [2012], 56 percent of Japanese fish catches tested by the Japanese government were contaminated with cesium-137 and -134. (Both are human-made radioactive isotopes—produced through nuclear fission—of the element cesium.)
And 9.3 percent of the catches exceeded Japan’s official ceiling for cesium, which is 100 becquerels per kilogram (Bq/kg). (A becquerel is a unit of radioactivity equal to one nuclear disintegration per second.)
The numbers show that far from dissipating with time, as government officials and scientists in Canada and elsewhere claimed they would, levels of radiation from Fukushima have stayed stubbornly high in fish. In June 2012, the average contaminated fish catch had 65 becquerels of cesium per kilo. That’s much higher than the average of five Bq/kg found in the days after the accident back in March 2011, before cesium from Fukushima had spread widely through the region’s food chain.
In some species, radiation levels are actually higher this year than last.
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/are-fish-pacific-ocean-and-japanese-coastal-and-inland-waters-safe-eat-16-months-after-fuk
Sevendsen et al, from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina, demonstrated in 2010 that children who had been living in areas heavily contaminated with radioactive cesium have decreased pulmonary function.
http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/position-statement-what-is-currently.html
The talings are mobile, permeable and contain high levels of residual chemical leachants that were chosen specifically to extract the radioactive materials, and remain highly corrosive. The probability radioactive toxins would enter groundwaters also used by humans would be ridiculously high.
Most uranium mines historically range between 0.1 to 0.5% U3O8, or 1 t0 5 grams of Uranium oxide per tonne of dirt. If you chose vitrification, you would need to turn more than 300 tonnes of ground up rock into glass for every kilogram of yellowcake produced. Tailings also have a high volume of water which is hard to evaporate completely (tailings dams form a crust quickly, the slurry left behind remains semi-liquid for years). Heating so many tonnes of damp tailings would generate immense amounts of toxic, corrosive, radioactive steam, which would need to be contained and managed separately. You would also need to transport the tailings to a vitrification plant, increasing costs, probability of contamination and adding pollution.
Having said that, it would be a cheap solution, so I'd be surprised the nuclear industry isn't already lobbying for licenses to do it.
The contaminated material at the Gore site is 20 million metric tons of source materials in the form of uranium, uranium oxides, uranium fluorides, thorium, radium, and decay-chain products in process equipment and buildings, soil, sludge, and groundwater.
can't we just pump it into the air.
Just use it as fertiliser.
Uranium processing plant sprays radioactive waste as fertilizer
The shutdown Sequoyah Fuels uranium conversion plant is disposing of low-level radioactive waste by spraying it on 9,000 acres of company-owned grazing land.
Of course, they have good reason to spray it around.
"The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering issuance of a license amendment to materials license SUB-1010 to authorize decommissioning of the Sequoyah Fuels Corp. (SFC) site near Gore, Oklahoma. This license is issued to SFC to possess contaminated material at its Gore site. NRC licenses these facilities under 10 CFR part 40. Specifically, the license authorizes SFC to possess up to 20 million metric tons of source material in any form. The contaminated material at the Gore site is in the form of uranium, uranium oxides, uranium fluorides, thorium, radium, and decay-chain products in process equipment and buildings, soil, sludge, and groundwater."
http://www.wise-uranium.org/edusa.html#GORE
Almost.
OSI has offered them a license. Being a community-driven organisation, they've asked their users if they'd prefer licensing the logo or developing a new one.
The open source hardware logo was chosen by the community and has become a de facto standard over the past year and a half. As the founding board members of OSHWA, we feel that it is not our right nor our place to decide this issue for the community without further input.
http://www.oshwa.org/
Oh you want to watch 'em foam like rabid dogs,
Yet more anti-FOSS FUD from Hairyfeet.
Here's the reality"
The current leadership of the Open Source Initiative (OSI, opensource.org) has brought to our attention that they feel the Open Source Hardware ‘gear’ logo infringes on their trademark.
US Trademark law requires OSI to protect their mark and to notify potential infringers when they become aware of them. OSI has indicated that they would grant a trademark license to OSHWA. This would give OSI the means to protect their trademark.
http://www.oshwa.org/
I sincerely hope that there are still some adults left in the OSI and it's time for the adults to lead the movement
Certainly more than there are in Slashdot.
If you made the effort to check the OSHWA site instead of the clickbait NetworkWorld beatup, you'd see there's no headbutting, just two teams working together to solve a mutual problem.
The OSHWA team have been offered a license to use the trademark, which would allow OSI to continue defending its mark as needed. Instead of the aggression implied by our sensationalist, error-ridden TFA, the reality is two groups of sensible people negotiating the best paths forward for both their communities.
This is truly ugly journalism. We should be discussing how crap like this is promoted to the frontpage of Slashdot, not pretending outrage at OSI and OSHWA.
I'm using the Cinnamon fork of Gnome 3, and consider it to be elegant and useful.
Yes they do, and yes they can.
Facebook Inc. hired public relations firm Burson-Marsteller to enlist reporters to write stories that would portray its rival Google Inc. (GOOG) in an unfavorable light, according to the firm and a journalist whom it approached.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-12/facebook-enlists-pr-firm-burson-marsteller-to-pitch-google-privacy-story.html
the os choice is just the biggest, simplest way to determine a "platform", at least, it was,
That's because software "engineering" is still really software crafting. Real engineering is about standardising parts, materials, tolerances, design and construction processes.
Current OSs are all just iterative prototypes.
Someday, when computers outgrow their model T Ford "Any color as long as it's teal blue" phase and are genuinely engineered products, OS components will be compartmentalised for interchangeability, have standard interfaces and APIs so suppliers can provide drop-in replacement modules to OEMs, differentiated by quality and/or price.
Microsoft NEEDS to make their own hardware.
That just shows how badly distorted the PC market is.
The OS is just one component of a computer. Microsoft should be just one parts vendor amongst many, then we'd see real competition and innovation.
the satellite that controls the minds of a significant portion of the population.
I can set your mind to rest there.
After having extensive conversations with many US citizens recently, I've found minimal evidence their minds are controlled, by themselves or externally.
In addition. the walled garden approach means a single point of failure (in this case, social engineering) will cost you everything. Apple should have recognised that and provided better internal security.
There's a few thousand Chinese Android tablet makers who'd like to discuss your idea of Microsoft innovation with you...
If you take that as criteria, there aren't a lot companies that 'innovate' anymore.
So why are we discussing Apple and Microsoft's "tablet with detachable keyboard" instead of Asus Padfone or Ubuntu for Android, both of which are genuinely innovative?
You need to do more with a computer than just smile smugly and say "i'm runng xyz cool thing". ... Okay.. maybe *you* don't...
Ah, my little troll is back! Nice to see you again.
And you're right. Computers are tools, they are at their best when they're used to create cool (and mundane) things, and that's the subtle difference between smartphones and desktop computers that I think Ubuntu got right this time.
You see my little pet, despite what many people say, phones and tablets aren't for passive consumption, that's the role of TV, books, and maybe e-readers. What Android, iOS et al excel at is to communicate and share cool things (and mundane things, but who wants to talk about those).
The thing is, computing as a field is all about thresholds. There were text and math thresholds as CPUs/memory etc became large enough and powerful enough to run text editors, then a little faster for word processors, spreadsheets and simulators. Graphical display thresholds gave us GUIs, sound subsystem thresholds and video playback thresholds got us music and movies. There are people here who looked in awe at early Amiga/Atari demos playing two or three simultaneous animations. Desktop computer hardware stopped being a limitation to creating images, video, text, music etc in the late '90s. Phone hardware now is far past that threshold and is about to pass the capabilities of desktop computers from less than a decade ago.
Coincidentally, a decade ago was when mainstream OS development stagnated. XP was released about then, and continues to be used in business today largely because its successors do little or nothing to improve productivity. You see where I'm going with this, cherub? We have hardware with enough power to run the content creation software and fit in our pockets. That limitation is gone. The remaining limitations are the OS and software stacks, and the peripherals - big screens, digitisers, scanners etc etc, and guess what? Ubuntu has an answer.
We're seeing enough hints in the market from the likes of Asus, Samsung, Lenovo and even Microsoft that this is something the world's looking for. I'd say Canonical/Ubuntu is in a very good place right now.
Mobile devices are where a majority of computing dollars are going (in the consumer world).
I think it may be where it's going soon in the corporate world too, especially with BYOD. If so, Ubuntu may be on to something with their Ububtu for Android kit.
It lets you run your phone/tablet as a portable device, then as a full desktop OS once it's docked with a monitor, mouse and other external peripherals. In the video, they're even showing it running Citrix for some legacy applications.
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_for_Android
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzc0uMXGFBY
Just buy an Android one next year. It looks like you'll have the best of both worlds.
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_for_Android
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzc0uMXGFBY
UEFI and Secure Boot aren't the same thing.
Apple sold 26 million iPhones and 17 million iPads. They sold 8.6 million iPods. Supposedly, the iPod touch is the most popular, so we'll give it 50%, or 4.3 million for a grand total of 47.3 million iOS devices sold. Samsung sold 50 million smartphones, but only about 2.4 million tablets to bump them up to 52.4 million Android devices.
Noobs...
There were 194.913 million handsets shipped in the China market during the first half of 2012, according to statistics published by the China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR) under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
Of the shipment volume, 94.855 million or 48.67% were smartphones in 822 models of which 801 models or 97.44% were based on Android. China-based vendors accounted for 75.16% of the half-year shipment volume, and international vendors 24.84%
http://lazure2.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/boosting-the-mediatek-mt6575-success-story-with-the-mt6577-announcement/
For Android, the only device with a digitizer I can think off the bat is Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet.
As well as the Samsung Galaxy Note, Asus Padphone, HTC Flyer and the millions of inexpensive tablets/phones supplied with capacitative foam-tipped styluses.
Yep, we've been loading Novo 7 Tornados with manuals, training PDFs, OHS links, etc and handing them out to trainees and customers.
At $75 each, they're cheaper than printed manuals and far more likely to be carried and used. The have 1GHz processors, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage, and Android 4.03...
I shudder to think what would be involved trying to do it in C++ under Windows with MFC.
That's 'cos you chose the wrong colour.
On Windows, blue is the new black.
The problem is that nobody wants it because it's more expensive and isn't as useful.
Many people here (Australia) have installed solar and sell back to the grid at peak time. ROI is around 4 years.
By reminding the judge that if he doesn't back apple that nasty video of him and the apple fanbois in the public restroom will be released.
Judge Lucy is probably too feminine for the stereotypical Apple fanboi, even if she did choose to hang around in public restrooms. And as much as it breaks my heart to say it, I suspect iDevices are far too mainstream to be gay icons any more.
It's hard to say what's behind the latest bit of drama, but instead of shrieking and pointing fingers, we should all be asking the obvious question:
Why was such crucial evidence submitted so late as to be barred from the trial?