Without positrons (anti-electrons) orbiting the nucleus, these are just high energy anti-particles. Technically anti-matter, but not really available for interesting study. What would be much more interesting would be molecular anti-hydrogen, complete with positron bonding.
But at least the nuclei stand a chance of magnetic confinement. Neutral atoms not so much.
Between the big 3 and the tier 1 suppliers, Detroit is in a similar situation. Particularly in power electronics for EV and hybrid applications. The number of vehicle applications is exploding, and the number of people with the right background is already spread thin. If you do embedded software or controls or power electronics, there is demand for you - and we have cheap housing:-) The city is an economic crater, but the suburbs are a fine place to live.
Is Qualcomm. Every other company has an arrow or a red face in their row. So the takeaway is that you must be ready to be in court if you want to play. I think that's the point of all the anti-patent folks - it's just too hard to do anything in this climate. I'm sure Qualcomm has been there too, their lawyers are just on vacation right now.
You do not need to carry any information along, just record that the transfer happened or not, that is 1 or 0.
That was my first thought - someone at one end of an entangled particle stream does either does measurements (collapses the wave function) or does not. The person at the other end then checks their particle stream for collapsed-ness and uses that as data. This gets to the real crux of the problem - physicists have to way to tell the difference between particles whose wave function has collapsed and those that have not, so this can't be used to transmit information. Not only can they not tell the difference between collapsed and un-collapsed, they can't tell you what it means. Understanding definitively stops right there.
The phrase "spooky action at a distance" was coined by Einstein for the ability of one particle to instantaneously affect another.
Einstein used that phrase because he didn't believe in the "spooky action at a distance", but rather thought each particle contained the information since their departure. IMHO, he was right. Just because physicists haven't figured out how that information is carried doesn't mean it isn't there - though the experiments that show there is no information seem convincing.
If they airburst one to minimize fallout it wouldn't "push the whole plant into the ocean.", it'd just mess up the structures and containment structures worse than the earthquake and tsunami did.
Hiroshima looks like it got wiped rather completely - and that was an air burst. See the before and after shots. As for fallout from the nuke itself, we've exposed the world to plenty of those back before the test bans - it's not that bad, and then we could put this all behind us. Besides, I was actually half joking about this solution. Half...
I'd prefer they just use a tactical nuclear weapon to push the whole plant into the ocean. The fuel rods will then have adequate cooling. Also, since the tsunami destroyed the surrounding area already, there should be no collateral damage if not an actual clean-up.;-)
Doing our jobs and complying with Federal regulations does not make us dickwads, it makes us professionals.
Complying with regulations is half of your responsibility. I'm going to guess that supporting the staff with useful applications is the other part. Had the IT folks found a solution to these guys productivity improvement, this would not have happened. OTOH, I don't see his hesitation to letting them in - I'd prefer they take over maintaining the system altogether.
Here's the deal, tinkerers: we will respect your mad skillz only after you have demonstrated them several times and jumped through all the proper hoops. Until then, you are just like any other Little User. No insult intended, but this is our job, and our butts on the line, not yours.
So if it's YOUR job, then start doing it.
Seriously, I'm tired of IT departments that only support Windows and Office and anything else is not their problem. These guys are just trying to increase productivity and came up with a potential solution on their own - given that IT didn't currently support anything that met their goals. If it were me, I'd want to let IT take over support and move the software to their server - as you say, it's their job.
Me too. After 9/11, there were robots on scene in under 2 days. The iRobot unit being used here is a standard PackBot [irobot.com], of which about 20,000 have been manufactured for the US military.
And there you have the answer. Japans military was largely dismantled after World War II. They are not spending the money on rugged robots for military purposes, so they don't have this type of thing lying around for use in disasters. I also suspect that if it were in the US and we didn't have robots, someone would have rigged something adequate by now to at least go in and look around - so yeah, robotics in Japan isn't all it's painted to be.
Sure, no arguments there. But people act as if a big, evil monster was lurking there and to go there was certain death.
That's just not the case. Yeah, in Bavaria you should still be careful about eating mushrooms.
Going there is OK. Living there probably is certain death - an unpleasant cancerous death. The uninhabitable area is hundreds of square miles, and those Bavarian mushrooms are HOW far away?
I thought the first thing one should do in a copyright case (as defendant) is have the plaintiff prove that they have the right to sue. That can not be given to them in a sealed document. If defendant can't see that document, there should be no case since that is the basis for the case. IANAL, but this seem pretty straight forward to me. It also makes sense that assigning the right to sue isn't enough, because that company has nothing to lose should you infringe - they haven't been harmed.
Everyone on slashdot under 30 is having a crisis right now, having never seen such a thing. Many under 20 have probably never even heard of a record player.. OMFG how does it make sound without electricity?!?!?! Ahhhhhh.
The byproducts of that oil fire will be mostly gone in a week. Nuclear accidents leave hundreds of square mile uninhabitable for decades if not thousands of years. That's not to mention the NORMAL byproducts of nuclear power - plutonium - that the industry can't seem to figure out how to get rid of. CO2 on the other hand is good for plant growth which we need to feed people. Not to mention coal is formed from dead bio-mass which used to be an active part of the biosphere anyway.
Details details. My nuclear cluster fuck technically isn't as bad as some other one with the same severity rating... Blah blah. So what you're saying is that the industry can't even create a good rating scale for its accidents. The bottom line is that they need to not have accidents of such magnitude at all, and have been unable to achieve that goal and will probably continue to be unable to achieve it.
Nice strawman there. The Japanese officials have raised the severity to a 7 all on their own. That's not a matter of people making the story worse with each retelling. Face it, your favorite industry is incapable of maintaining safety. Newer designs are less bad, but still not good enough. Keeping plutonium-laced spent fuel in swimming pools all over the country is dumb-as-fuck and sweeping it under the rug (er a mountain) is not even a valid long term solution. Plutonium does not exist naturally on earth, it's extremely toxic, and it lasts for millions of years. And that's just one byproduct.
Wankels have a poor thermal efficiency. They use the same thermodynamic cycle as piston engines, but they have a much worse surface area to volume ratio, which results in more wasted energy. The only one in production vehicles get crap mileage. Mazda has a newer version in development where they try to optimize the area/volume ratio among other things. We'll see how good it does if they ever get it into a car. Rotaries are not required to run fast either - the reason they run them so fast is to get higher power out of a small engine. They CAN go fast because they are perfectly balanced, but it's not required.
GPL protects the freedom of the USERS not the "code". All users of GPLed code have the same rights - even users of derivative works have the same rights as users of the original work with GPL. BSD licenses allow developers to create derivative works and deny any rights to the users of that work (a work that includes some or all of the original work).
Copyright is the default and doesn't allow anything.
GPL offers a set of additional rights - including creating and selling derivative works (on condition of reciprocity).
BSD offers the additional right to deny the freedom of users of the derivative works.
The right to deny others the same rights you have is not a system that promotes freedom.
You talk about someone else being plain ignorant, in a post that is packed to the rafters with hyperbolic attempts to overstate the events so far. No one who knows anything about radiation is worried about radiation levels reaching 10x background. That's 0.05mSv per day, less than what you pick up every fortnight.
I think using an ongoing event like this as a pro- or anti-nuclear is wrong. There will be lessons to learn later, and if it finishes without a disaster, I personally will be more confident in the safety of current and future nuclear plants.
I tried not to overstate anything. It is a disaster - at the very least for the company that owns it and the people who have died SO FAR. the radiation 10x background is 30km from the site - this was meant to illustrate that the effects are already non-local if not severe at that range. The levels on site are already 400mSv per hour in some places outside the buildings.
I actually agree strongly with your last statements there and made a point of not previously stating my opinion on nuclear power (I'm on the fence). One thing I noticed right away is that these older designs do not have a "passive safe state" where they don't require active pumping and maintenance in order to not have a catastrophe. Just think - during the blackout a few years ago when half the US grid went down, many many nuclear plants had to shut down into that state. They all had to go through emergency shutdown and then sit with the cooling systems on generators with active human maintenance to remain safe. That does not make me feel safe, and it is not what I thought "shut down" meant. OTOH I see that modern designs can actually pump their own coolant using the reactor heat without an external power source - the list of improvements is much longer than that one thing. So I am somewhat hopeful. The issue I had was with slashdot downplaying the severity of what is happening and in one case holding it up as a success story.
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But at least the nuclei stand a chance of magnetic confinement. Neutral atoms not so much.
Between the big 3 and the tier 1 suppliers, Detroit is in a similar situation. Particularly in power electronics for EV and hybrid applications. The number of vehicle applications is exploding, and the number of people with the right background is already spread thin. If you do embedded software or controls or power electronics, there is demand for you - and we have cheap housing :-) The city is an economic crater, but the suburbs are a fine place to live.
Is Qualcomm. Every other company has an arrow or a red face in their row. So the takeaway is that you must be ready to be in court if you want to play. I think that's the point of all the anti-patent folks - it's just too hard to do anything in this climate. I'm sure Qualcomm has been there too, their lawyers are just on vacation right now.
That was my first thought - someone at one end of an entangled particle stream does either does measurements (collapses the wave function) or does not. The person at the other end then checks their particle stream for collapsed-ness and uses that as data. This gets to the real crux of the problem - physicists have to way to tell the difference between particles whose wave function has collapsed and those that have not, so this can't be used to transmit information. Not only can they not tell the difference between collapsed and un-collapsed, they can't tell you what it means. Understanding definitively stops right there.
Einstein used that phrase because he didn't believe in the "spooky action at a distance", but rather thought each particle contained the information since their departure. IMHO, he was right. Just because physicists haven't figured out how that information is carried doesn't mean it isn't there - though the experiments that show there is no information seem convincing.
Hiroshima looks like it got wiped rather completely - and that was an air burst. See the before and after shots. As for fallout from the nuke itself, we've exposed the world to plenty of those back before the test bans - it's not that bad, and then we could put this all behind us. Besides, I was actually half joking about this solution. Half...
Don't worry, no USEFUL information was transferred.
I'd prefer they just use a tactical nuclear weapon to push the whole plant into the ocean. The fuel rods will then have adequate cooling. Also, since the tsunami destroyed the surrounding area already, there should be no collateral damage if not an actual clean-up. ;-)
Complying with regulations is half of your responsibility. I'm going to guess that supporting the staff with useful applications is the other part. Had the IT folks found a solution to these guys productivity improvement, this would not have happened. OTOH, I don't see his hesitation to letting them in - I'd prefer they take over maintaining the system altogether.
So if it's YOUR job, then start doing it.
Seriously, I'm tired of IT departments that only support Windows and Office and anything else is not their problem. These guys are just trying to increase productivity and came up with a potential solution on their own - given that IT didn't currently support anything that met their goals. If it were me, I'd want to let IT take over support and move the software to their server - as you say, it's their job.
And there you have the answer. Japans military was largely dismantled after World War II. They are not spending the money on rugged robots for military purposes, so they don't have this type of thing lying around for use in disasters. I also suspect that if it were in the US and we didn't have robots, someone would have rigged something adequate by now to at least go in and look around - so yeah, robotics in Japan isn't all it's painted to be.
Going there is OK. Living there probably is certain death - an unpleasant cancerous death. The uninhabitable area is hundreds of square miles, and those Bavarian mushrooms are HOW far away?
I thought the first thing one should do in a copyright case (as defendant) is have the plaintiff prove that they have the right to sue. That can not be given to them in a sealed document. If defendant can't see that document, there should be no case since that is the basis for the case. IANAL, but this seem pretty straight forward to me. It also makes sense that assigning the right to sue isn't enough, because that company has nothing to lose should you infringe - they haven't been harmed.
Yeah, the something will suddenly be a high temperature gas suitable for boiling water or even blowing itself through a turbine.
Everyone on slashdot under 30 is having a crisis right now, having never seen such a thing. Many under 20 have probably never even heard of a record player.. OMFG how does it make sound without electricity?!?!?! Ahhhhhh.
Is that because the codecs can't reproduce it well enough?
The byproducts of that oil fire will be mostly gone in a week. Nuclear accidents leave hundreds of square mile uninhabitable for decades if not thousands of years. That's not to mention the NORMAL byproducts of nuclear power - plutonium - that the industry can't seem to figure out how to get rid of. CO2 on the other hand is good for plant growth which we need to feed people. Not to mention coal is formed from dead bio-mass which used to be an active part of the biosphere anyway.
Details details. My nuclear cluster fuck technically isn't as bad as some other one with the same severity rating... Blah blah. So what you're saying is that the industry can't even create a good rating scale for its accidents. The bottom line is that they need to not have accidents of such magnitude at all, and have been unable to achieve that goal and will probably continue to be unable to achieve it.
Nice strawman there. The Japanese officials have raised the severity to a 7 all on their own. That's not a matter of people making the story worse with each retelling. Face it, your favorite industry is incapable of maintaining safety. Newer designs are less bad, but still not good enough. Keeping plutonium-laced spent fuel in swimming pools all over the country is dumb-as-fuck and sweeping it under the rug (er a mountain) is not even a valid long term solution. Plutonium does not exist naturally on earth, it's extremely toxic, and it lasts for millions of years. And that's just one byproduct.
Wankels have a poor thermal efficiency. They use the same thermodynamic cycle as piston engines, but they have a much worse surface area to volume ratio, which results in more wasted energy. The only one in production vehicles get crap mileage. Mazda has a newer version in development where they try to optimize the area/volume ratio among other things. We'll see how good it does if they ever get it into a car. Rotaries are not required to run fast either - the reason they run them so fast is to get higher power out of a small engine. They CAN go fast because they are perfectly balanced, but it's not required.
MIcrosoft is not mentioned. Hmmm....
>> You want to put spent nuclear fuel rods into a burning hot ocean of magma in a spot where enormous upward pressure is being exerted?
It's no problem; we'll let British Petroleum handle the whole operation.
I think you just made his point...
GPL protects the freedom of the USERS not the "code". All users of GPLed code have the same rights - even users of derivative works have the same rights as users of the original work with GPL. BSD licenses allow developers to create derivative works and deny any rights to the users of that work (a work that includes some or all of the original work).
Copyright is the default and doesn't allow anything.
GPL offers a set of additional rights - including creating and selling derivative works (on condition of reciprocity).
BSD offers the additional right to deny the freedom of users of the derivative works.
The right to deny others the same rights you have is not a system that promotes freedom.
Can we inject all the spent nuclear fuel into the mantle and let it sink to the center? That's what's probably down there anyway...
I tried not to overstate anything. It is a disaster - at the very least for the company that owns it and the people who have died SO FAR. the radiation 10x background is 30km from the site - this was meant to illustrate that the effects are already non-local if not severe at that range. The levels on site are already 400mSv per hour in some places outside the buildings.
I actually agree strongly with your last statements there and made a point of not previously stating my opinion on nuclear power (I'm on the fence). One thing I noticed right away is that these older designs do not have a "passive safe state" where they don't require active pumping and maintenance in order to not have a catastrophe. Just think - during the blackout a few years ago when half the US grid went down, many many nuclear plants had to shut down into that state. They all had to go through emergency shutdown and then sit with the cooling systems on generators with active human maintenance to remain safe. That does not make me feel safe, and it is not what I thought "shut down" meant. OTOH I see that modern designs can actually pump their own coolant using the reactor heat without an external power source - the list of improvements is much longer than that one thing. So I am somewhat hopeful. The issue I had was with slashdot downplaying the severity of what is happening and in one case holding it up as a success story.