A recently published study in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity confirms that the radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster reached Europe (Lithuania), and included plutonium. Likewise strontium (89 and 90) levels were elevated globally.
The amounts were tiny, but randomly sized/distributed particulates are notoriously hard to measure and map.
This study would need to be much longer term and need to look for more than obvious DNA damage for me to trust it,
This study will never be trustworthy.
The danger to civilians from a nuclear accident is unlikely to come from background dose. That's more likely to be the exposure mode for workers and people very close to the incident.
found that when mice were exposed to radiation doses about 400 times greater than background levels for five weeks, no DNA damage could be detected.
No surprises there, but they didn't test what would happen when the mice ingested radioactive particulates, or when their entire food chain or water table was contaminated. Those are the real dangers from nuclear accidents.
If Linux gets something Windows or MacOS have had for years, like, day, the ability to play sound from more than one program at a time without special setup or hardware mixing
Huh?
I have a pretty ordinary Debian Mint desktop, and I just tried playing a video in VLC and previewing music files with Nautilus at the same time. It worked fine - both played without missing a beat.
There's almost nothing in that list that hasn't been available on other platforms for more than a decade. One item (Kinect for Windows) has no relevance at all to the new OS, apart from being available at the same time.
Don't waste your time clicking through all the advert-ridden pages of banality. I'm sure even Microsoft will offer more novelty than this semi-article suggests.
I don't own any Apple products, and I normally import hardware directly from factories in China and install my own OS. It costs me a fraction of retail, even by US standards.
This article uses 4G to refer to IMT-Advanced (International Mobile Telecommunications Advanced), as defined by ITU-R. An IMT-Advanced cellular system must fulfill the following requirements:[5]
That is especially true if it relies upon external services that may not be available in a particular region.
4G is available in Australia. Apple writes 4G on the box, but it doesn't work, and never will.
The rules over here are very simple. If your product doesn't do something, you can't pretend that it does. All Apple had to do was change the packaging, but they chose not to and were prosecuted as a result.
Meh, ignore the FUD and try it. The world won't end, your computer won't explode. Like most DEs, Unity does what it's supposed to do and generally works well. Try it, if it's not to your taste then use another one.
It's not like it's a big deal just to use a different DE.
How well would a good set of earplugs or even construction style earmuffs protect against the sound of this.
A few years ago, a neighbor who wanted to buy the duplex half I was living in tried to chase me out. The first I knew about it was coming from deep sleep to full alertness in the early hours of every morning, with my heart pounding as though I'd just been shocked awake. It was devastating to my sleep patterns.
The first few times it happened, I had no idea what was happening. I thought I had some medical or psychiatric condition developing, but then one night I stayed awake but quiet until about 2am, when the wake-up trick happened. While I was awake, the jolt felt weird, but not unbearable, a little like standing near loudspeakers at a rock concert, but silent.
I was lucky, and had a full studio of sound and electronic gear, so over the next couple of nights I identified that the pulse was ultrasonic. A bit of research led me to these things, so I bought one of the quad transducer kits to see if it was the culprit, which it was. I did some experimenting, and found that while earmuffs do attenuate the sensation a little, the "body-throb" is still disturbing. If you don't control your mind, it really does produce a sense of alarm.
Once my neighbor realized she'd been twigged, she switched from the single wake-up pulse to random attacks with the sweep and nausea modes. It was bearable, but wasn't pleasant, so I called the police and tried to explain it to them. They were polite, and spoke to the neighbor, but decided the only laws which might have been contravened were noise limits. I asked the council noise inspectors to check, but their meters aren't capable of detecting ultrasonic.
In the end, the authorities didn't know how to deal with it, but the neighbor stopped using the device anyway, probably because of all the fuss.
TLDR: They'll use ultrasonics which cause a sensation of fear and alarm. It's manageable by individuals, but a mob will almost certainly run.
A consortium of companies including Apple, Microsoft, and RIM grabbed Nortel telephony patents, while Microsoft, Apple, EMC, and Oracle got 882 patents from Novell.
Both Microsoft and Apple have sworn to destroy Google, and they and their partners (ie, Facebook, Nokia) using the patents, amongst other things, to attack Google.
Yeah, though I think this team has gone past simple astroturf. They've decided to openly destroy free discussion.
There's almost no effort to conceal what they're doing any more. Both accounts - Miskaata and Jamestos were created just for this article and are likely to be disposed of afterwards.
I think given the scale and timing it's unlikely to be just trolling. There's a purpose to what they're doing, but whether it's to trash Google or just wreck Slashdot is unclear.
Hard to say who's a shill and who's just trolling these days. Whatever this one's motivation, between shills and trolls, they've just about managed to kill Slashdot as a worthwhile site to discuss interesting topics.
I've obtained a few of these, and they're actually quite usable. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see something similar in blister-packs on supermarket shelves soon.
Handheld computing is VERY rapidly becoming a commodity, with competition driving prices down and features up. Companies who've bet heavily on it remaining a premium/luxury market must hate that.
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The amounts were tiny, but randomly sized/distributed particulates are notoriously hard to measure and map.
This study would need to be much longer term and need to look for more than obvious DNA damage for me to trust it,
This study will never be trustworthy.
The danger to civilians from a nuclear accident is unlikely to come from background dose. That's more likely to be the exposure mode for workers and people very close to the incident.
found that when mice were exposed to radiation doses about 400 times greater than background levels for five weeks, no DNA damage could be detected.
No surprises there, but they didn't test what would happen when the mice ingested radioactive particulates, or when their entire food chain or water table was contaminated. Those are the real dangers from nuclear accidents.
It turns out the Ballmer Peak isn't real, but the Ballmer Droop is.
you really don't get intent do you?
And you really don't get responsibility, so you're even.
Why don't you kiss and make up?
if i leave a $100 bill on my porch, i'm an idiot
If it was your $100 bill, true.
If it was my $100 bill (X 1,500,000), then you're as evil as the thieves.
I'll just leave this here, shall I?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager
If Linux gets something Windows or MacOS have had for years, like, day, the ability to play sound from more than one program at a time without special setup or hardware mixing
Huh?
I have a pretty ordinary Debian Mint desktop, and I just tried playing a video in VLC and previewing music files with Nautilus at the same time. It worked fine - both played without missing a beat.
Wasn't that supposed to happen?
I should have phrased it as "interesting" features.
There's almost nothing in that list that hasn't been available on other platforms for more than a decade. One item (Kinect for Windows) has no relevance at all to the new OS, apart from being available at the same time.
Don't waste your time clicking through all the advert-ridden pages of banality. I'm sure even Microsoft will offer more novelty than this semi-article suggests.
I don't own any Apple products, and I normally import hardware directly from factories in China and install my own OS. It costs me a fraction of retail, even by US standards.
The discussion was about OS size, not software availability.
Yep. Like Apple, HTC, Samsung, LG are also selling "4G" phones.
In the USA, not Australia.
This prosecution occurred in Australia.
This article uses 4G to refer to IMT-Advanced (International Mobile Telecommunications Advanced), as defined by ITU-R. An IMT-Advanced cellular system must fulfill the following requirements:[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G
Unfortunately, the real meaning cannot be legally enforced, so unscrupulous vendors (like Apple) are trying to redefine it to include 3G variants.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/19/2961199/apple-redefinition-4g-australia-ipad
Linux install = OS + full working set of applications.
Try comparing like with like.
That is especially true if it relies upon external services that may not be available in a particular region.
4G is available in Australia. Apple writes 4G on the box, but it doesn't work, and never will.
The rules over here are very simple. If your product doesn't do something, you can't pretend that it does. All Apple had to do was change the packaging, but they chose not to and were prosecuted as a result.
It's not like it's a big deal just to use a different DE.
How well would a good set of earplugs or even construction style earmuffs protect against the sound of this.
A few years ago, a neighbor who wanted to buy the duplex half I was living in tried to chase me out. The first I knew about it was coming from deep sleep to full alertness in the early hours of every morning, with my heart pounding as though I'd just been shocked awake. It was devastating to my sleep patterns.
The first few times it happened, I had no idea what was happening. I thought I had some medical or psychiatric condition developing, but then one night I stayed awake but quiet until about 2am, when the wake-up trick happened. While I was awake, the jolt felt weird, but not unbearable, a little like standing near loudspeakers at a rock concert, but silent.
I was lucky, and had a full studio of sound and electronic gear, so over the next couple of nights I identified that the pulse was ultrasonic. A bit of research led me to these things, so I bought one of the quad transducer kits to see if it was the culprit, which it was. I did some experimenting, and found that while earmuffs do attenuate the sensation a little, the "body-throb" is still disturbing. If you don't control your mind, it really does produce a sense of alarm.
Once my neighbor realized she'd been twigged, she switched from the single wake-up pulse to random attacks with the sweep and nausea modes. It was bearable, but wasn't pleasant, so I called the police and tried to explain it to them. They were polite, and spoke to the neighbor, but decided the only laws which might have been contravened were noise limits. I asked the council noise inspectors to check, but their meters aren't capable of detecting ultrasonic.
In the end, the authorities didn't know how to deal with it, but the neighbor stopped using the device anyway, probably because of all the fuss.
TLDR: They'll use ultrasonics which cause a sensation of fear and alarm. It's manageable by individuals, but a mob will almost certainly run.
Less efficiency = more room for errors.
Then rip the DVD and watch it later without the garbage.
As part of the larger pattern of US Corp/Gov't actions, it's the only answer that makes sense.
A consortium of companies including Apple, Microsoft, and RIM grabbed Nortel telephony patents, while Microsoft, Apple, EMC, and Oracle got 882 patents from Novell.
Both Microsoft and Apple have sworn to destroy Google, and they and their partners (ie, Facebook, Nokia) using the patents, amongst other things, to attack Google.
There's almost no effort to conceal what they're doing any more. Both accounts - Miskaata and Jamestos were created just for this article and are likely to be disposed of afterwards.
I think given the scale and timing it's unlikely to be just trolling. There's a purpose to what they're doing, but whether it's to trash Google or just wreck Slashdot is unclear.
I'm confident they will find a way
I'd say they already have, which is why they're trashing the DataWind deal.
You can buy similarly specced tablets dropshipped from China for less than $40 (in volumes) now. http://kingpai.en.alibaba.com/productlist.html
Or are you just that MS shill?
Hard to say who's a shill and who's just trolling these days. Whatever this one's motivation, between shills and trolls, they've just about managed to kill Slashdot as a worthwhile site to discuss interesting topics.
In this instance, the shills probably had good motivation to prevent open discussion. Datawind may have succeeded in making a cheap tablet, but they were by no means the only one. Indian (and other buyers) are spoilt for choice at the bottom of the market, with dozens of vendors selling tablets at or below the $45 mark http://www.aliexpress.com/category/100005062/tablet-pcs.html?pvId=48-350286%2C200000563-200002770&SortType=price_asc&SortType=y.
I've obtained a few of these, and they're actually quite usable. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see something similar in blister-packs on supermarket shelves soon.
Handheld computing is VERY rapidly becoming a commodity, with competition driving prices down and features up. Companies who've bet heavily on it remaining a premium/luxury market must hate that.