Hmm, I think MS was completely behaving badly at the time (and probably still are, I won't buy any Nokia stock), but I can remember a nice demo of WP on Windows that took down the whole machine (this *was* the pre-NT time we're talking about) during a large presentation. I don't know what they were trying to pull, but they were late to the party and the initial implementation was rather crap.
I never really liked WP - I especially loathed it's menu structure, but I don't hate it as much as I loathe Word right now. I've got 8 A4 (~letter) pages of defects and counting. I am totally accustomed to not scroll fast or it will crash.
Personally, I don't think we handle hazardous waste that well at all. Nice of you to make a comparison, and maybe we do "over-weigh" nuclear waste, but I'm not really reassured.
"A part (half?) of the sphere will have to be removed to allow people/things in and out (unlike "ecospheres") it can't be seamlessly sealed. Isn't that the most likely place of failure?"
Well, *technically* you could make the person part of a mould and then seal them in, breaking the glass when the adventurer returns (or keep them as a souvenir), but I presume they've thought of another solution.
Last time they were a good enough reason for me to get a new motherboard and nVidia graphics card. Boy, I really wish their drivers did not suck so much, since they've got the more interesting hardware. I had good 3D, good video, but they would just not work at the same time. Then you start to try and before you know it you got an X configuration that even I could not fix (and I've got some 17 years experience). Their multi-monitor support wasn't up to par either, and that's stuff I *NEED* and expect to work to perfection by now.
According to most it was shut down because of large overruns caused in turn by technical problems. Which is in some ways sad, because I'm certainly not against research regarding newer reactor technology, even with regard to breeder reactors (which - according to my research so far - are technically more complicated, not safer than the latest regular reactors and don't solve the waste problem, just reduce it).
"we have solved the waste problem technically, we just can't get funding for it as anti-nuclear crowd blocks all good research, and development."
We have solved it but we need money for research? The anti nuclear crowd is blocking funding for decommissioning stuff and managing nuclear waste? Seriously?
"Seriously the last nuclear plant built in the USA was started in 1977. I was born in 1978."
Don't worry, you've still got the most nuclear power stations to manage of all the countries in the world.
"We literally have 30 years of additional knowledge but are unable to capitalise on it to help solve the problems of nuclear waste because of the anti-nuclear crowd."
I guess we don't need wars as long as there are apologists like you around.
Interesting none the less. I saw some pictures of legs of helicopter pilots of that time (basically having 2nd to 3rd degree burns all over) and I am amazed that anyone would go through that for his fellow citizens, even at gun point. Fortunately, they did not know back then what was going to happen to them. The burns only manifest themselves at a later stage - once you're already done for to be precise. I think some Japanese fire-fighters were also taken in with those burns, and I'm wondering what their current condition is. Probably not good.
Absolutely true, but I think there would have been a problem with a larger steam explosion if the melting core would have reached water under the reactor. And nuclear blasts aren't that dangerous regarding radiation levels (if anyone within a reach of 50 km is injured, they don't need to be either). Nuclear reactors definitely are, they are basically huge dirty bombs.
You forgot about the waste and the decommissioning of nuclear power stations. The former we haven't solved, and the second, well, lets just say that I don't trust the nuclear industry and the economy enough to be responsible for decommissioning. Then there are things like wars, which tend to alter stuff. Anyone here that wants to decommission a nuclear power plant that is in the middle of a conflict? Or 5m deep in a flood? Hell, even Chernobyl is more than 500 million short for the next concrete sarcophagus, which should last some 100 years.
Here we have this great service from Albert Heijn (AH). I'm living in an apartment building with a lot of people, and ordering just the toilet paper online is totally worth it. But there was a consumer program called "Radar" and they had a show on the "fresh produce" problem. AH guarantees that you will have at least 2 days until the expiry date, but that makes it hard to buy for a whole week. In the shop you can - eh - shop around for the latest expiry date, but that trick does not work with an online shop. Personally, I would like to *see* my fresh produce before I would buy it (but I'm luckily able to get my fresh produce myself).
They are not trying to shut down data centers, they are trying to let them be more energy efficient and less dependent on fossils. What's so bad about that?
Former members are almost always directly against the organisation they left, because that is *why* they left in the first place. What's bothering me is all the sarcasm in the comments. I'm pretty sure that most Greenpeace members become members out of interest with the environment. And I don't see anything wrong with pointing to the needless waste in IT, there is certainly a lot of it, and much of it can be reduced all too easily.
Yeah, from a hard disk, preferably. DVD's are much more convenient than VHS, no doubt, but most movies I watch are from my computer or HD-recorder. I just love the 64x ahead. 1 second is almost exactly one minute of commercials. On the horrible commercial stations, that would mean 6, 6, 6, 4, 4 seconds ahead for most movies. Discs are cumbersome, the root menu's are even worse (and I specifically hate the fantastical root menu's, which show you movie spoilers, force a specific mood on you and keep playing the same musak over and over). I really prefer downloads, even if they have horrible quality - double click, watch, 1 second start up time.
Forced trailers? You have just scared me away for a long time to come. Thanks for that. I'll just watch a ripped version instead, thank you very much. It's considered illegal, but I'd rather do something illegal than watch a forced trailer of e.g. black knight or American pie.
High bit-rate MP3 is indistinguishable from the "real thing" in blind tests, where people could even bring their favourite headset. 99% of the time, the audio setup will matter more than the source material, And even then: the brain is very adaptable, so unless you listen specifically to the differences, you won't notice. I even find that I find the TV speakers more enjoyable than my audio set, until I have switched over for some time, then it is the other way around (for TV, not radio of course).
In such huge buildings with electrical wires and equipment all around, and the possibility of lightning and other static discharges, and people trying to fix a nuclear reactor, I don't think it would be a good idea to store a large amount of hydrogen in the buildings. Of course, if you look at the pictures, the good thing is that there are plenty of holes that could be used by the hydrogen to escape (except in the closed loop cooling system, I suppose).
Yeah, and then they rip out the memory, or retrieve it through some DMA hole left by the motherboard/BIOS manufacturer and presto, the master key. Very safe indeed.
I've tried to look into it, but the specs are not very clear on this regard. It says nowhere that you must store your key in a TPM or anything. So I've asked Toshiba directly. In retrospect, I should have asked them about FIPS compliance. They probably claim FIPS only for the algorithm & key size used though. That's different than having your product certified.
By the way, this range of drives goes up to 640 GB, that's not that small. And it is not that expensive to implement AES. Directly lying to your customer is not such a good idea. Using XOR isn't either, since if you use XOR based encryption with a small key, the XOR will manifest itself readily through an easily detected pattern.
Thanks for the link, but the other speculations seem a bit too paranoid. That does not say anything about the actual implementation of course. With cryptography, the devil is in the details. There isn't much on the actual specifications either. Using AES is nice, but it says nothing about the security of the entire system.
I've taken a very good look at each part of the picture, and I'm amazed how much damage was done to the reactor buildings. Each and every building you see on the picture is much larger as it appears to be on previous photo's and video's I saw. Just compare the cars sitting next to the buildings. Then take a good look at each building: every one of them sustained extensive damage. There is a huge pipe that has been broken outside the most damaged building (3 most likely) - some of the pipes seem to have been mended. The power of the second big explosion is pretty clear from the buildings in front and to the back of reactor 3.
The fact that some of the heat is still at 224 degrees or so does not sound good either. How can you cool such a thing well without strong presure is beyond me, it's way above boiling point. And the water will be poluted with all kinds of radioactive elements.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm, I think MS was completely behaving badly at the time (and probably still are, I won't buy any Nokia stock), but I can remember a nice demo of WP on Windows that took down the whole machine (this *was* the pre-NT time we're talking about) during a large presentation. I don't know what they were trying to pull, but they were late to the party and the initial implementation was rather crap.
I never really liked WP - I especially loathed it's menu structure, but I don't hate it as much as I loathe Word right now. I've got 8 A4 (~letter) pages of defects and counting. I am totally accustomed to not scroll fast or it will crash.
Personally, I don't think we handle hazardous waste that well at all. Nice of you to make a comparison, and maybe we do "over-weigh" nuclear waste, but I'm not really reassured.
"A part (half?) of the sphere will have to be removed to allow people/things in and out (unlike "ecospheres") it can't be seamlessly sealed. Isn't that the most likely place of failure?"
Well, *technically* you could make the person part of a mould and then seal them in, breaking the glass when the adventurer returns (or keep them as a souvenir), but I presume they've thought of another solution.
184.6 LoC's deep, for your convenience :)
Doesn't sound like much really.
I must be an early adopter, I've already got an arm on my desktop.
Last time they were a good enough reason for me to get a new motherboard and nVidia graphics card. Boy, I really wish their drivers did not suck so much, since they've got the more interesting hardware. I had good 3D, good video, but they would just not work at the same time. Then you start to try and before you know it you got an X configuration that even I could not fix (and I've got some 17 years experience). Their multi-monitor support wasn't up to par either, and that's stuff I *NEED* and expect to work to perfection by now.
You do realise that this map is 600 KM wide, don't you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chernobyl_radiation_map_1996.svg
Can you see Kiev in there? Do you know what would have happened if the wind was just blowing in the other direction?
That political process you are talking about, would that be democracy? We need that to keep the technocrats in line.
According to most it was shut down because of large overruns caused in turn by technical problems. Which is in some ways sad, because I'm certainly not against research regarding newer reactor technology, even with regard to breeder reactors (which - according to my research so far - are technically more complicated, not safer than the latest regular reactors and don't solve the waste problem, just reduce it).
"we have solved the waste problem technically, we just can't get funding for it as anti-nuclear crowd blocks all good research, and development."
We have solved it but we need money for research? The anti nuclear crowd is blocking funding for decommissioning stuff and managing nuclear waste? Seriously?
"Seriously the last nuclear plant built in the USA was started in 1977. I was born in 1978."
Don't worry, you've still got the most nuclear power stations to manage of all the countries in the world.
"We literally have 30 years of additional knowledge but are unable to capitalise on it to help solve the problems of nuclear waste because of the anti-nuclear crowd."
I guess we don't need wars as long as there are apologists like you around.
Interesting none the less. I saw some pictures of legs of helicopter pilots of that time (basically having 2nd to 3rd degree burns all over) and I am amazed that anyone would go through that for his fellow citizens, even at gun point. Fortunately, they did not know back then what was going to happen to them. The burns only manifest themselves at a later stage - once you're already done for to be precise. I think some Japanese fire-fighters were also taken in with those burns, and I'm wondering what their current condition is. Probably not good.
Absolutely true, but I think there would have been a problem with a larger steam explosion if the melting core would have reached water under the reactor. And nuclear blasts aren't that dangerous regarding radiation levels (if anyone within a reach of 50 km is injured, they don't need to be either). Nuclear reactors definitely are, they are basically huge dirty bombs.
You forgot about the waste and the decommissioning of nuclear power stations. The former we haven't solved, and the second, well, lets just say that I don't trust the nuclear industry and the economy enough to be responsible for decommissioning. Then there are things like wars, which tend to alter stuff. Anyone here that wants to decommission a nuclear power plant that is in the middle of a conflict? Or 5m deep in a flood? Hell, even Chernobyl is more than 500 million short for the next concrete sarcophagus, which should last some 100 years.
Here we have this great service from Albert Heijn (AH). I'm living in an apartment building with a lot of people, and ordering just the toilet paper online is totally worth it. But there was a consumer program called "Radar" and they had a show on the "fresh produce" problem. AH guarantees that you will have at least 2 days until the expiry date, but that makes it hard to buy for a whole week. In the shop you can - eh - shop around for the latest expiry date, but that trick does not work with an online shop. Personally, I would like to *see* my fresh produce before I would buy it (but I'm luckily able to get my fresh produce myself).
They are not trying to shut down data centers, they are trying to let them be more energy efficient and less dependent on fossils. What's so bad about that?
Former members are almost always directly against the organisation they left, because that is *why* they left in the first place. What's bothering me is all the sarcasm in the comments. I'm pretty sure that most Greenpeace members become members out of interest with the environment. And I don't see anything wrong with pointing to the needless waste in IT, there is certainly a lot of it, and much of it can be reduced all too easily.
Yeah, from a hard disk, preferably. DVD's are much more convenient than VHS, no doubt, but most movies I watch are from my computer or HD-recorder. I just love the 64x ahead. 1 second is almost exactly one minute of commercials. On the horrible commercial stations, that would mean 6, 6, 6, 4, 4 seconds ahead for most movies. Discs are cumbersome, the root menu's are even worse (and I specifically hate the fantastical root menu's, which show you movie spoilers, force a specific mood on you and keep playing the same musak over and over). I really prefer downloads, even if they have horrible quality - double click, watch, 1 second start up time.
Forced trailers? You have just scared me away for a long time to come. Thanks for that. I'll just watch a ripped version instead, thank you very much. It's considered illegal, but I'd rather do something illegal than watch a forced trailer of e.g. black knight or American pie.
High bit-rate MP3 is indistinguishable from the "real thing" in blind tests, where people could even bring their favourite headset. 99% of the time, the audio setup will matter more than the source material, And even then: the brain is very adaptable, so unless you listen specifically to the differences, you won't notice. I even find that I find the TV speakers more enjoyable than my audio set, until I have switched over for some time, then it is the other way around (for TV, not radio of course).
In such huge buildings with electrical wires and equipment all around, and the possibility of lightning and other static discharges, and people trying to fix a nuclear reactor, I don't think it would be a good idea to store a large amount of hydrogen in the buildings. Of course, if you look at the pictures, the good thing is that there are plenty of holes that could be used by the hydrogen to escape (except in the closed loop cooling system, I suppose).
Yeah, and then they rip out the memory, or retrieve it through some DMA hole left by the motherboard/BIOS manufacturer and presto, the master key. Very safe indeed.
I've tried to look into it, but the specs are not very clear on this regard. It says nowhere that you must store your key in a TPM or anything. So I've asked Toshiba directly. In retrospect, I should have asked them about FIPS compliance. They probably claim FIPS only for the algorithm & key size used though. That's different than having your product certified.
By the way, this range of drives goes up to 640 GB, that's not that small. And it is not that expensive to implement AES. Directly lying to your customer is not such a good idea. Using XOR isn't either, since if you use XOR based encryption with a small key, the XOR will manifest itself readily through an easily detected pattern.
Thanks for the link, but the other speculations seem a bit too paranoid. That does not say anything about the actual implementation of course. With cryptography, the devil is in the details. There isn't much on the actual specifications either. Using AES is nice, but it says nothing about the security of the entire system.
I've taken a very good look at each part of the picture, and I'm amazed how much damage was done to the reactor buildings. Each and every building you see on the picture is much larger as it appears to be on previous photo's and video's I saw. Just compare the cars sitting next to the buildings. Then take a good look at each building: every one of them sustained extensive damage. There is a huge pipe that has been broken outside the most damaged building (3 most likely) - some of the pipes seem to have been mended. The power of the second big explosion is pretty clear from the buildings in front and to the back of reactor 3.
The fact that some of the heat is still at 224 degrees or so does not sound good either. How can you cool such a thing well without strong presure is beyond me, it's way above boiling point. And the water will be poluted with all kinds of radioactive elements.
Ronald of course, typo.
Ah, yes, they've got a fast normal internet connection too, I always get my Eclipse versions there. Give my regards to Ronand Veldema :)