Only 3.5 ton of the fuel blew into the air. Now fukedupshima had 50x more fuel blown up.
You reckon that's bad? Wait 'till Oyster Creek goes up. That's the same design reactor as Fukushima, but has triple the waste lying around. Its containment is already corroded and leaking tritium like a sieve.
Microsoft also has a long history of using astroturf to achieve their ends, and of course, they recommend online reputation managers for their clients. Is it so surprising they're dogfooding here?
You can’t afford not to protect yourself. ReputationDefender serves clients with proprietary promotion, optimization, and suppression techniques, as well as its staff of professional writers, to maximize results
Don Canning, Managing Director of the Insurance Worldwide Group at Microsoft Corporation
It's not like there's a culture of honesty and openness in the US nuclear power industry.
More than a quarter of U.S. nuclear plant operators have failed to properly tell regulators about equipment defects that could imperil reactor safety, according to a report by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s inspector general.
I think you should throw your arms out wide when you jump. That way we'll find out if fruits fly, though the result would be more natural selection than Sensory Organ Precursor selection .
Interesting how prophetic Terry Pratchett was with his Discworld Hex computer though, which was also insect-driven. I wonder if this new one will have a GBL as well?
Not necessarily about the 'status' of the reactors, BUT about the design of the reactors -- what they look like -- how the building is laid out, where things are, etc.
You mean they're worried terrorists might blow something up?
Or that competitors might want to build a 40 year old, meltdown-prone reactor design?
Attempted vertical market leverage/lockin, (Olive Office http://www.oliveoffice.com/ is free for personal use on Android)
Vertical market leverage/lockin
Present on every Android I have access to.
Copy/pasted from MS promo material, and not true. There's a few social networking activities that may be marginally easier, but it's more confusing and error-prone.
Apart from the leverage/lockin stuff, which all OSs have some element of (iTunes, Google Apps etc), there's nothing it's bringing to the game.
In downtown tokyo, the radiation level is 3usv above normal background. OH NOES NUCLAR MELTDOWN!!!111! We're all gonna die from radiation poisoning!!!1!
But the only ones saying sensationalist shit like that are the pro-nuclear astroturfers. Most of the media reports I've seen have been reasonably balanced, if not particularly informative.
There's been an enormous astroturf effort by the pro-nuclear brigade.
You'll find it next to impossible to have a sensible discussion without being swamped by godzilla jokes, comments that coal power emits more isotopes, that levels are lower than x,y,z or Chernoble (as though that was a good metric for personal safety).
The simple answer is that the authorities, as evidenced by this article, are not releasing enough information for individuals to make sensible decisions. That's probably resulting in more fear, panic and cost than releasing real data for open analysis would. Likewise, the dismissive astroturf comments and efforts to bury valuable discussion just show how little we can trust the nuclear power industry to manage events without open scrutiny.
what is happening in Japan is exactly why Nuclear Power is SAFE!
You know, you pro-nuke people are starting to creep me out.
No matter what the discussion, anywhere on the web, if radiation is mentioned even in passing, one of you will pop up and trot out the same half a dozen platitudes. It's like Microsoft's Win7 "Have you tried it?" astroturf campaign, but infinitely more ghoulish.
I'd have to say the single biggest reason most of us would oppose nuclear power is just how little we can trust opinions of the people promoting it. It's like this horrible OCD/tourettes thing where all social sensitivity or sense of occasion vanishes and they just have to uncontrollably blurt out this banal and repetitive little spiel. Does anybody else have a vision of the whole world, blackened and burnt, glowing radioactive. With his dying gasp, the last man on earth struggles to sit up, and in a raspy death-rattle croaks "This is an anomaly! Nuclear power is safer than coal - do you know how may people have died as a result of air pollution?"
VMS solved this same problem decades ago with Files 11. If that idea had progressed into mainstream OSs, we could have applications and config tools that didn't need to save files, just record snapshots of changes over time. Reverting to a known good state would be simple. Modern hardware is fast enough that every keystroke and mouse click can be recorded without users noticing, but the only software to use all that potential is malware.
So much wasted time with data loss could have been avoided if we'd had better versioning filesystems..
Yet another example where monopoly has suffocated innovation.
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Only 3.5 ton of the fuel blew into the air. Now fukedupshima had 50x more fuel blown up.
You reckon that's bad? Wait 'till Oyster Creek goes up. That's the same design reactor as Fukushima, but has triple the waste lying around. Its containment is already corroded and leaking tritium like a sieve.
A good choice, as the developer tools are rock solid.
Like an updated Win7 Phone?
Adhomineum is a losing way to debate.
Microsoft is not a person.
Microsoft also has a long history of using astroturf to achieve their ends, and of course, they recommend online reputation managers for their clients. Is it so surprising they're dogfooding here?
You can’t afford not to protect yourself. ReputationDefender serves clients with proprietary promotion, optimization, and suppression techniques, as well as its staff of professional writers, to maximize results
Don Canning, Managing Director of the Insurance Worldwide Group at Microsoft Corporation
The problem here is that GM is not competing with Microsoft.
Actually, the problem here is that the GP is not a sincere individual.
It's yet another of Microsoft's marketing team attempting to pretend there's grassroots support for Microsoft subverting the legal system again.
It's not like there's a culture of honesty and openness in the US nuclear power industry.
More than a quarter of U.S. nuclear plant operators have failed to properly tell regulators about equipment defects that could imperil reactor safety, according to a report by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s inspector general.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/a-quarter-of-us-nuclear-plants-not-reporting-equipment-defects-report-finds/2011/03/24/ABHYa2RB_story.html?hpid=z2
you don't want to see any Slashdot story about it that's not a glowing endorsement
There's enough glowing endorsements for nuclear power around Fukushima already.
I think I shall jump off a cliff. Thoughts?
I think you should throw your arms out wide when you jump. That way we'll find out if fruits fly, though the result would be more natural selection than Sensory Organ Precursor selection .
Interesting how prophetic Terry Pratchett was with his Discworld Hex computer though, which was also insect-driven. I wonder if this new one will have a GBL as well?
trash of the future?
In Florida, trashy is always in.
Overall I'd have to say their marketing is much better than WP7.
It should be.
They've paid half a billion dollars for it. http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/26/microsoft-half-billion-dollars-windows-phone-7/
Not necessarily about the 'status' of the reactors, BUT about the design of the reactors -- what they look like -- how the building is laid out, where things are, etc.
You mean they're worried terrorists might blow something up?
Or that competitors might want to build a 40 year old, meltdown-prone reactor design?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sakN2hSVxA
Vertical market leverage/lockin
Attempted vertical market leverage/lockin, (Olive Office http://www.oliveoffice.com/ is free for personal use on Android)
Vertical market leverage/lockin
Present on every Android I have access to.
Copy/pasted from MS promo material, and not true. There's a few social networking activities that may be marginally easier, but it's more confusing and error-prone.
Apart from the leverage/lockin stuff, which all OSs have some element of (iTunes, Google Apps etc), there's nothing it's bringing to the game.
Purchase, not be paid to endorse.
but also has some things that are simply better than iPhone or Android,
Such as?
I have found the OS to be fairly well engineered,
So are bricks, which is all your phone'll be useful for after their next update...
In downtown tokyo, the radiation level is 3usv above normal background. OH NOES NUCLAR MELTDOWN!!!111! We're all gonna die from radiation poisoning!!!1!
But the only ones saying sensationalist shit like that are the pro-nuclear astroturfers. Most of the media reports I've seen have been reasonably balanced, if not particularly informative.
What are you, 10-years old. Come on, people...
There's been an enormous astroturf effort by the pro-nuclear brigade.
You'll find it next to impossible to have a sensible discussion without being swamped by godzilla jokes, comments that coal power emits more isotopes, that levels are lower than x,y,z or Chernoble (as though that was a good metric for personal safety).
The simple answer is that the authorities, as evidenced by this article, are not releasing enough information for individuals to make sensible decisions. That's probably resulting in more fear, panic and cost than releasing real data for open analysis would. Likewise, the dismissive astroturf comments and efforts to bury valuable discussion just show how little we can trust the nuclear power industry to manage events without open scrutiny.
Heck I got over 8,000 hits for unethical behaviour by aussie bob
I'll admit to about 7,000 of them, The rest were a frame-up.
http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=unethical+behavior+by+Microsoft
About 45,500 results (0.24 seconds)
You're right - that number does look a bit odd. There may be a few dupes in that list.
These guys have been around since 1940,
And ISO used to be a widely respected standards organisation. What's your point?
what is happening in Japan is exactly why Nuclear Power is SAFE!
You know, you pro-nuke people are starting to creep me out.
No matter what the discussion, anywhere on the web, if radiation is mentioned even in passing, one of you will pop up and trot out the same half a dozen platitudes. It's like Microsoft's Win7 "Have you tried it?" astroturf campaign, but infinitely more ghoulish.
I'd have to say the single biggest reason most of us would oppose nuclear power is just how little we can trust opinions of the people promoting it. It's like this horrible OCD/tourettes thing where all social sensitivity or sense of occasion vanishes and they just have to uncontrollably blurt out this banal and repetitive little spiel. Does anybody else have a vision of the whole world, blackened and burnt, glowing radioactive. With his dying gasp, the last man on earth struggles to sit up, and in a raspy death-rattle croaks "This is an anomaly! Nuclear power is safer than coal - do you know how may people have died as a result of air pollution?"
Which operating system allows this? And why can't we recover the cost of their ineptitude from the manufacturer?
They sell the patents to patent trolls instead.
I've always wanted this feature.
VMS solved this same problem decades ago with Files 11. If that idea had progressed into mainstream OSs, we could have applications and config tools that didn't need to save files, just record snapshots of changes over time. Reverting to a known good state would be simple. Modern hardware is fast enough that every keystroke and mouse click can be recorded without users noticing, but the only software to use all that potential is malware.
So much wasted time with data loss could have been avoided if we'd had better versioning filesystems..
Yet another example where monopoly has suffocated innovation.
Even industrial controls are becoming more and more endangered -- see stuxnet.
Stuxnet required a few things to be in place to work:
There's one of these things that's been implicated in most other exploits as well. See if you can guess which it is...