Even more ridiculous: the waste being stored that could be reprocessed into more reactor fuel is grade-A unsuitable for weapons production because there is far too much Pu-240 and Pu-241 in it. You could never make a working nuclear explosive out of it, but we needed to 'lead by example' even if we were leading the world to a stupider place.
I didn't think it was possible to come up with a more dysfunctional clusterfuck of a government than the United States Congress, but leave it to the Europeans to prove me wrong...
You talk about Three Mile Island in the same sentence as Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Sellafield, but from the Wikipedia article YOU linked:
According to the Rogovin report, the vast majority of the radioisotopes released were the noble gases xenon and krypton. The report stated, "During the course of the accident, approximately 2.5 MCi (93 PBq) of radioactive noble gases and 15 Ci (560 GBq) of radioiodines were released." This resulted in an average dose of 1.4 mrem (14 Sv) to the two million people near the plant. The report compared this with the additional 80 mrem (800 Sv) per year received from living in a high altitude city such as Denver.
The safeties worked. There was fuel meltdown, but it was contained, and the radioactive release amounted to less of a radiation dose then you would receive from a round trip flight from New York to Los Angeles.
Was it a mess? Sure. Was it an expensive mess? Absolutely. Was the public in any danger at all? No.
Whenever someone talks about something being 'radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years' it means they are trying to scare you. It's far worse if something is radioactive for only a couple hundred years, because it's far more radioactive.
There are isotopes of Iron that have a half-life in the tens of thousands of years, but I don't hear anyone clamoring to shut down the steel industry over it.
We, the viewers, hate you. You are sliding down a slight but increasingly steep slope into the deep dark hole of irrelevance and you don't even know it. It shows that you don't know it, because you increasingly devote time on your networks to advertising, at the expense of quality content. You continue with a business model of stretching out fairly mediocre and predictable stories over two or three hours, spread across two or three arbitrary 'ratings' weeks in order to inflate your own numbers, while admonishing Netflix for being dishonest.
You fought tooth and nail against VCRs. You fought against DVRs. You now fight against online streaming. All of these technologies actually make experiencing your content better, yet you still fight them. We see through your bullshit, and we've found a content delivery paradigm we like better: all-you-can-stream for a low monthly charge. No advertising at all. All episodes of a season, and past seasons, available RIGHT NOW.
As soon as someone cracks the hegemony largely preventing the streaming of live sports without having a cable or satellite subscription, you're done. And you still continue on like it's 1983. And what you don't realize, is that we can't wait to fire you for being completely inept in your own business and refusing to innovate in even the slightest ways.
Stop clutching at the past, and embrace the future, before the future holds a pillow over your head and we all rejoice.
Showing NASA's budget as a percentage of the entire Federal budget isn't a very good comparison, as the Federal budget has ballooned into an unmanageable pork buffet with each and every member of Congress swilling at the trough, as well as each and every corporation that can find space to dip their own snouts.
Our elected officials are not nearly the stewards of the country's treasure as they once were.
Perhaps you don't get as much science by sending a human, but humans relate to the experience of another human far better than what can be done remotely via camera and sensor.
When Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in 1969, which was hardly one of the most peaceful years on record, the whole world stopped and watched. An entire generation of aerospace engineers was energized and motivated. It was a seminal moment in a turbulent era that defined what humans are capable of when we try.
The Apollo program was worth 10x what we paid for it, and as a highly taxed citizen of the US, I'd happily pay to see my generation's moment when we step onto another planet for the first time in our species existence.
Your example is nice, except that they can easily state if it is up or down, and what effect that has without going off the fucking deep end and saying that the economy is going to go all 1939 and that it's Obama's fault.
Analysis is fine, but they're giving too much 'perspective' and that's what makes it unwatchable / unlistenable.
I don't want my news to 'agree' or 'disagree' with anything. I want facts. Agreeing or disagreeing is opinion, and there's entirely too much opinion in the 'news' today.
What's to cover? You have the preordained candidate that the DNC is doing their best to rig the primaries in favor of, a grumpy crank independent Senator from New England who is making waves because he actually cares, and some other guy that has zero chance, but is hanging on anyway.
The only way that the Democratic primary race becomes anything other than 'dog bites man' is if Bernie runs the early table and wins Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. I don't blame the news networks for not carrying anything about that - it's not a race, and they refuse to talk about Hillary's dishonesty or flaws of character for fear of upsetting the preordained nominee and getting shut out during the general election.
This is Nvidia being Nvidia. They fucked up in their drivers, AGAIN, and are buying time by pointing blame and spewing nonsense until a new driver comes out next week that randomizes frame buffer addresses for different applications. Then they will crow about how they fixed someone else's problem, because they are such nice people.
This story is 60% bullshit, with 40% slashdot dupe added in, as we already saw this one on Windows earlier in the week.
More than that, Nvidia has a web driver available for OS X for Quadro-series cards, but it works just fine with GeForce series cards (from anyone, and not just Apple) as well. Download it and test - if it still happens, then Nvidia is just as full of shit as always.
What if someone has a vacation cabin in Michigan? I hear it might get a bit cold up there around this time of year, and without a functioning heat system, you can bet there's a damn good chance of a burst pipe.
It took me all of 5 seconds to think of a very likely scenario where a shit firmware update applied (drained battery) to a shit design (not powered by the 24VAC C-wire on the HVAC system itself) could cause real damage. In other words, exactly what this article is about.
Sounds like shitty design if it can't do either of these: 1. work off the 24VAC on the common wire that basically any semi-modern heating system has, or 2. have a replaceable AA battery.
The Honeywell Lyric does #2, the Ecobee3 does #1, and includes a thing in the box to fake a 'C' wire if you don't have one.
It's bad design to have to remove your thermostat from the wall and plug it into a cellphone charger for half an hour when the most predictable thing ever happens: a dead battery.
I've already gotten several calls from Duke Energy here in Ohio where they wanted to first put some kind of 'smart' regulator on my heat pump to limit air conditioning, which I declined. Then I got one where they wanted to 'give' me a 'free' smart thermostat of some kind, which I'm sure isn't encumbered in any way by them to do what they want, instead of what I want.
You forgot about neutron flux and capture. Non-fissionable Uranium doesn't just sit there inert. It captures a neutron to become U-239, decays to Pu-239, which is fissionable. It will also capture more neutrons to become Pu-240 and Pu-241, which are also fissile.
This is why reactor grade Uranium isn't highly enriched - they enrich it just enough to get a controllable sustained reaction, and let physics do it's thing.
Yeah, except the 'dial-a-yield' system is based on how much tritium is injected into the fission core at time of detonation, and how many external neutron generators are in use when it detonates. There is no change to the amount of mass of the weapon at all. It's not like they are taking a chunk of plutonium out of it to reduce yield or something.
The phrase "throwing out the baby with the bath water" comes to mind here. Clearly this technology can't ever be used for non-weapon benefits because one tiny rogue nation went rogue.
That's the kind of mentality that results in permanent technological stagnation. We'd better just stop using electricity of any kind, because someone could get electrocuted, according to your logic. Better establish an outright ban on cars, because someone could have a crash and die - clearly the technology can be used for bad, and should be completely outlawed worldwide.
Look, I can make nonsense completely overblown fearmongering arguments too!
North Korea will do what North Korea wants to do, and there's nothing you or I can say or do to stop that, and I don't even know where that enters into this conversation.
I'm talking about what happens in the part of the world where the vast majority of energy is produced and used, not some dark corner rogue nation ruled by some tyrant who just wants attention. How about we fix the big problems first (carbon output of North America, Europe, China, Russia - you know, where most of the carbon output comes from) and worry about corner cases later?
You know that this is a huge trolling non-sequitur, yet you keep on with it. North Korea isn't even close to being central to this problem, and you know it.
Also, why did the GPU driver assign the exact same start address for the frame buffer? If it randomized this somewhat, I would think you would end up with much less of a chance of this happening without taking a performance hit to clear the buffer whenever launching / cleaning up a thread.
The first step... meaning not turning it off after 3 to 6 months and getting far better output for the resources spent? Yeah, that's a hard one. Letting something run longer when that's exactly what it wants to do anyway.
Let's be clear: In order to make weapons grade material, you have to do it very purposefully, and in a process that defeats the purpose if you built the reactor to create reactor fuel. It's incredibly obvious to anyone paying attention, and one would think that such an installation would have some appropriate oversight to make sure.
That's the dumbest thing I think you've ever said. Geiger counters don't work through hundreds of feet of rock. Uranium exploration isn't done by having some guy walk around waving a Geiger counter around and taking a note with a handheld GPS.
You're clearly a smart person - I don't know why you make these ridiculously simple and vastly inaccurate arguments. They detract from your argument.
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Even more ridiculous: the waste being stored that could be reprocessed into more reactor fuel is grade-A unsuitable for weapons production because there is far too much Pu-240 and Pu-241 in it. You could never make a working nuclear explosive out of it, but we needed to 'lead by example' even if we were leading the world to a stupider place.
I didn't think it was possible to come up with a more dysfunctional clusterfuck of a government than the United States Congress, but leave it to the Europeans to prove me wrong...
You talk about Three Mile Island in the same sentence as Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Sellafield, but from the Wikipedia article YOU linked:
According to the Rogovin report, the vast majority of the radioisotopes released were the noble gases xenon and krypton. The report stated, "During the course of the accident, approximately 2.5 MCi (93 PBq) of radioactive noble gases and 15 Ci (560 GBq) of radioiodines were released." This resulted in an average dose of 1.4 mrem (14 Sv) to the two million people near the plant. The report compared this with the additional 80 mrem (800 Sv) per year received from living in a high altitude city such as Denver.
The safeties worked. There was fuel meltdown, but it was contained, and the radioactive release amounted to less of a radiation dose then you would receive from a round trip flight from New York to Los Angeles.
Was it a mess? Sure. Was it an expensive mess? Absolutely. Was the public in any danger at all? No.
Whenever someone talks about something being 'radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years' it means they are trying to scare you. It's far worse if something is radioactive for only a couple hundred years, because it's far more radioactive.
There are isotopes of Iron that have a half-life in the tens of thousands of years, but I don't hear anyone clamoring to shut down the steel industry over it.
We, the viewers, hate you. You are sliding down a slight but increasingly steep slope into the deep dark hole of irrelevance and you don't even know it. It shows that you don't know it, because you increasingly devote time on your networks to advertising, at the expense of quality content. You continue with a business model of stretching out fairly mediocre and predictable stories over two or three hours, spread across two or three arbitrary 'ratings' weeks in order to inflate your own numbers, while admonishing Netflix for being dishonest.
You fought tooth and nail against VCRs. You fought against DVRs. You now fight against online streaming. All of these technologies actually make experiencing your content better, yet you still fight them. We see through your bullshit, and we've found a content delivery paradigm we like better: all-you-can-stream for a low monthly charge. No advertising at all. All episodes of a season, and past seasons, available RIGHT NOW.
As soon as someone cracks the hegemony largely preventing the streaming of live sports without having a cable or satellite subscription, you're done. And you still continue on like it's 1983. And what you don't realize, is that we can't wait to fire you for being completely inept in your own business and refusing to innovate in even the slightest ways.
Stop clutching at the past, and embrace the future, before the future holds a pillow over your head and we all rejoice.
Warm regards,
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Showing NASA's budget as a percentage of the entire Federal budget isn't a very good comparison, as the Federal budget has ballooned into an unmanageable pork buffet with each and every member of Congress swilling at the trough, as well as each and every corporation that can find space to dip their own snouts.
Our elected officials are not nearly the stewards of the country's treasure as they once were.
Perhaps you don't get as much science by sending a human, but humans relate to the experience of another human far better than what can be done remotely via camera and sensor.
When Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in 1969, which was hardly one of the most peaceful years on record, the whole world stopped and watched. An entire generation of aerospace engineers was energized and motivated. It was a seminal moment in a turbulent era that defined what humans are capable of when we try.
The Apollo program was worth 10x what we paid for it, and as a highly taxed citizen of the US, I'd happily pay to see my generation's moment when we step onto another planet for the first time in our species existence.
Your example is nice, except that they can easily state if it is up or down, and what effect that has without going off the fucking deep end and saying that the economy is going to go all 1939 and that it's Obama's fault.
Analysis is fine, but they're giving too much 'perspective' and that's what makes it unwatchable / unlistenable.
I don't want my news to 'agree' or 'disagree' with anything. I want facts. Agreeing or disagreeing is opinion, and there's entirely too much opinion in the 'news' today.
That's the fucking problem.
What's to cover? You have the preordained candidate that the DNC is doing their best to rig the primaries in favor of, a grumpy crank independent Senator from New England who is making waves because he actually cares, and some other guy that has zero chance, but is hanging on anyway.
The only way that the Democratic primary race becomes anything other than 'dog bites man' is if Bernie runs the early table and wins Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. I don't blame the news networks for not carrying anything about that - it's not a race, and they refuse to talk about Hillary's dishonesty or flaws of character for fear of upsetting the preordained nominee and getting shut out during the general election.
This is Nvidia being Nvidia. They fucked up in their drivers, AGAIN, and are buying time by pointing blame and spewing nonsense until a new driver comes out next week that randomizes frame buffer addresses for different applications. Then they will crow about how they fixed someone else's problem, because they are such nice people.
This story is 60% bullshit, with 40% slashdot dupe added in, as we already saw this one on Windows earlier in the week.
More than that, Nvidia has a web driver available for OS X for Quadro-series cards, but it works just fine with GeForce series cards (from anyone, and not just Apple) as well. Download it and test - if it still happens, then Nvidia is just as full of shit as always.
Really?
What if someone has a vacation cabin in Michigan? I hear it might get a bit cold up there around this time of year, and without a functioning heat system, you can bet there's a damn good chance of a burst pipe.
It took me all of 5 seconds to think of a very likely scenario where a shit firmware update applied (drained battery) to a shit design (not powered by the 24VAC C-wire on the HVAC system itself) could cause real damage. In other words, exactly what this article is about.
Sounds like shitty design if it can't do either of these:
1. work off the 24VAC on the common wire that basically any semi-modern heating system has, or
2. have a replaceable AA battery.
The Honeywell Lyric does #2, the Ecobee3 does #1, and includes a thing in the box to fake a 'C' wire if you don't have one.
It's bad design to have to remove your thermostat from the wall and plug it into a cellphone charger for half an hour when the most predictable thing ever happens: a dead battery.
I've already gotten several calls from Duke Energy here in Ohio where they wanted to first put some kind of 'smart' regulator on my heat pump to limit air conditioning, which I declined. Then I got one where they wanted to 'give' me a 'free' smart thermostat of some kind, which I'm sure isn't encumbered in any way by them to do what they want, instead of what I want.
You forgot about neutron flux and capture. Non-fissionable Uranium doesn't just sit there inert. It captures a neutron to become U-239, decays to Pu-239, which is fissionable. It will also capture more neutrons to become Pu-240 and Pu-241, which are also fissile.
This is why reactor grade Uranium isn't highly enriched - they enrich it just enough to get a controllable sustained reaction, and let physics do it's thing.
Yeah, except the 'dial-a-yield' system is based on how much tritium is injected into the fission core at time of detonation, and how many external neutron generators are in use when it detonates. There is no change to the amount of mass of the weapon at all. It's not like they are taking a chunk of plutonium out of it to reduce yield or something.
The phrase "throwing out the baby with the bath water" comes to mind here. Clearly this technology can't ever be used for non-weapon benefits because one tiny rogue nation went rogue.
That's the kind of mentality that results in permanent technological stagnation. We'd better just stop using electricity of any kind, because someone could get electrocuted, according to your logic. Better establish an outright ban on cars, because someone could have a crash and die - clearly the technology can be used for bad, and should be completely outlawed worldwide.
Look, I can make nonsense completely overblown fearmongering arguments too!
What the hell are you even talking about?
North Korea will do what North Korea wants to do, and there's nothing you or I can say or do to stop that, and I don't even know where that enters into this conversation.
I'm talking about what happens in the part of the world where the vast majority of energy is produced and used, not some dark corner rogue nation ruled by some tyrant who just wants attention. How about we fix the big problems first (carbon output of North America, Europe, China, Russia - you know, where most of the carbon output comes from) and worry about corner cases later?
You know that this is a huge trolling non-sequitur, yet you keep on with it. North Korea isn't even close to being central to this problem, and you know it.
Wait, a video porn site that uses Flash?
Can't be...
Also, why did the GPU driver assign the exact same start address for the frame buffer? If it randomized this somewhat, I would think you would end up with much less of a chance of this happening without taking a performance hit to clear the buffer whenever launching / cleaning up a thread.
it's unclear that anyone is going to understand why you were at LustyHotBabes.com for any non auto-erotic pursuits
I'm sure they read it for the articles. You know, unlike Slashdot where nobody reads the articles.
Why should Google fix Nvidia's fuck up? Like they even could.
There's plenty to not like about some of Google's recent moves, but you're just being a hater here.
The first step... meaning not turning it off after 3 to 6 months and getting far better output for the resources spent? Yeah, that's a hard one. Letting something run longer when that's exactly what it wants to do anyway.
Let's be clear: In order to make weapons grade material, you have to do it very purposefully, and in a process that defeats the purpose if you built the reactor to create reactor fuel. It's incredibly obvious to anyone paying attention, and one would think that such an installation would have some appropriate oversight to make sure.
That's the dumbest thing I think you've ever said. Geiger counters don't work through hundreds of feet of rock. Uranium exploration isn't done by having some guy walk around waving a Geiger counter around and taking a note with a handheld GPS.
You're clearly a smart person - I don't know why you make these ridiculously simple and vastly inaccurate arguments. They detract from your argument.