It's not entirely clear if you're referring to the OP or Mr. Suck It Up (coffee hasn't kicked-in.
Without getting into a self-righteous tit-for-tat comparison of who's had it "tougher" in the workplace, i will start by... tit-for-tit self aggrandizing disclosure and mention that i spent four years on the oldest, most materially f*cked up submarine in the navy, the Seaw*lf (575) and have spent the last 20 years working at a large atom smasher on a three shift rotating schedule that cycles completely through days->eve->mids every 5 weeks. I used to fix copiers in the Chicago Loop.
I am confident the OP would derive great benefit from time management skills away from work. "Chores" on the weekend sounds like code for bad time management during the week. He would probably benefit from a structured excercise schedule and from shitcanning his DVD/gaming/TV etc. Ok, not shitcanning, but reduce the time spent with these things. Maybe cyclecommuting to work. Maybe walking? Howabout learning how to run/jog? Howabout quantifying the amount of alcohol consumed -- too much?
Free time spent sitting on one's fat ass is NOT the way to decompress from a stressful job. Your body-brain/mind system _needs_ physicality to reset the runtime meter.
"Chores" to be done shouldn't consist of more than laundry (MAYBE), getting dry cleaning (maybe) and mayyybe going to the grocery. That's 4 hours, tops.
To recap: Time Management skills, don't sit on your ass.
what i wrote was ambiguous: they can find hidden, secret code keywords. If you use ham sammich to mean nuclear bomb, they can find it and figure it out -- or at least that you're not really talking about ham sammiches, in principle.
If a buncha guys in pakistan start talking about G and Ham Sammiches with people in Syria and one of them starts talking to you... well, i'd opt for the chicago style hot dog for a while.
You DO understand that stochastic/cladistic nets can find keywords, right?.max
it _could_ be argued, but you'd then have to argue that the analysts looking for treasure are stupid fucking morons too dumb to understand the trivial concept elucidated above. And conversely, people using the word Jihad etc. in meaningless convo aren't going to slow down the system at all, they'll be nulled out as uncoupled blither.
Do you really think they're THAT MUCH STUPIDER THAN YOU? Or are you just that clever?.max
Is the article title correct or should it be
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...fucken moron discovers how online "recommendations" work. HOLY CRAP!
Someone distract him during the next rainstorm or he might drown..max other artists you might enjoy include Pavarotti, Meat Loaf and on of the Wilson Philips chix.
Soldiers who felt the need to use one of these things would be far less likely to go into a room baited dog and a lot more likely to pop a thermobaric munition through a window.
The only thing really interesting in foofahs like this one is that anyone is actually surprised that it's going on. Here's the deal:
A: if it doesn't violate thermodynamics it's possible. If it's possible it's mostly a matter of money. If it's only a matter of money, you would do well to consider the financial resources of the United States Government, the greatest economic and military power in history/
B: if the president says it's legal, it's legal until proved otherwise. If the president want it to BE legal he will fire counsels until he gets to one who issues a finding he likes.
C: ergo if the president wants to do something and it's physically possible and won't bankrupt too many generations, he's gonna do it.
d: as has been mentioned, the "national security" clause gives the president the power to do almost anything w/o direct oversight. It's one of the reasons we have a friggin president, already, so we have an executive with the power to do things. Whether we like it or not, that's the way it's set up, deal with it or defenestrate the Executive branch. whinging is puerile.
The robot looks like your standard ANDROS brand rov, pretty capable. ANDROS type robots are typically designed to blow up suitcases or (these days) IEDs with a water blaster or other single shot thing.
They are _not_ designed for fiddly little twiddling work, like unscrewing screws. And they also don't typ. have stereoscopic vision.
So why couldn't they use lead shielding at the site: probably NO ROOM in the pipe-switching installation. And, remember the robot would have to build the wall itself, brick by brick, picking up dose with each step.
Since these things aren't designed for operation in a nuclear holocaust, their elex are typ not all that rad hard; they're expensive enuf as it is, it's typ. not worth it to outfit rad hardness to them. Just yank it out with a rope and replace the driver boards.
The manpulator arm camera would probably be the first casualty as the CCD gates deterioriated under the rad blizzard.
Finally, a faraday cage for gamma rays is just nonesense, and a misconception unworthy of slashdot. Everyone who thinks they should have used one, please go back to high school physics class, ask Doktor Professer for remediation and apologize for graduating. Faraday cages work for photons generated by the electron shell; gamma rays come from proton and neutron decay, and are of staggeringly higher energy and staggeringly lower (smaller) wavelengths.
The purpose (from the article) of the C0-60 was to test radiation resistance/hardness of materials and elex. Nothing to do with dirty bombs, we use such sources all over the country all the time.
FWIW, i've measured a (wrongly) unmasked Co-60 sourse with a survey meter from almost a half mile away, through two buildings. These suckers put out the zoomies. V. Scary. When they say: kill anyone who got close to it, they're not exaggerating..max
You are not multitasking, you are task switching. You cannot possibly be reading an IM and, at the same instant, _watching_ television, even if you're doing it on the same screen. Not Possible, Not even in principle.
Your recitation of half-lives is a very good argument for siting this cyclotron in the basement of a hospital.
To expand: if the guy is making short-lived radioisotopes, then he has to get them from the production facility to the hospital FAST.
Do you really want someone rocketing through town with a vial full of radiocarbon/flourine whatever? far better to do it in the basement of a hospital (or, FTM, in a bermed-over structure in the parking lot) where transport time+distance is reduced.
I'm also thinking there are probably some significant liscensine and permitting issues assoc. with transporting nuclear meds on public roads. And i'm betting this guy hasn't done jack about securing the necess. permits.
These things are not toys. They make prompt and residual radiation. It's made to transmute elements into radioactive forms. Concern is not unreasonable.
Again: this machine will be used to make radioisotopes. Short half lives or not, the proximal homowners have a legitamite reason to be concerned about a radioisotope factory next to their homes. What about contamination issues?
2: It is reasonable to have some concern about shielding. Anything energetic enough to make radionuclides can also make X-rays by the assload. Given that we're talking nuclear transmutation, a concern about neutron radiation (fairly long ranged and not stopped by standard rad shielding).
ASS-U-Ming the installation will be industry standard, there shouldn't be a problem. If this guy doesn't know what he's doing, he could cause problems. Given that nobody seems to know what his specific shielding and radcon/exposure control plan is... he screwed up by not getting preapproved in advance.
FWIW, i have run a re-tasked SDI helium-3 RFQ PET accelerator, and currently run the Tevatron, have manufactured antiprotons for the last 7 years send the Giant NuMI Neutrino beam from Fermilab to Minnesota, so i have a clue.
Let us rise above our usu. cynical smirking condescencion and allow as how the loi polloi have a legit concern in this instance..max
1. the time since we became "visible" dates to the formation of a terrestrial oxygen-nitrogen atmoshpere, not Marconi. Look up nulling interferometric spectrometry and bounce it against extrasolar planetology.
2. We have, in fact been sending out not-so-subtle clues as to how our computers work for decades, along variosly narrow volumes of space. huh? wha? How do you think we communicate with our space probes? How did we REPROGRAM the mars landers? It's not quite a blueprint to the internet or a microprocessor or a language, but it's infinitely more information about how things work than "nothing". Again: some information about how our computers work is travelling at the speed of light along the plane of the eccliptic.
Now, assuming a civilization of, oh, say, an avg. IQ about the same as ours, but with 1e5 years of industrial age+ technology under their belts, recalculate your limbaughesque smirkings taking into account 1) and 2) above.
I can't see where a SETI attack is forbidden by thermodynamics.
Which makes it possible.
gosh, that Carrigan guy is pretty smart, isn't he..max
This is the second time in as many days we've been treated to recycled bullshit from sci.energy, the infinite energy crowd and the established science oppressing us crowd. WTF? "News for dopes, stuff that's bullshit"
It's been my experience that working with the false, obsolete, oppressive and illusory rules of "establisment science has been more useful than trying to apply raving website drivel.
But what do i know, [barney fife] i'm just the only person on earth making antiprotons, 16E10/hr of them, for about 130E10 so far today. ayep... [/barney fife]
ob.geek: and i ate pizza while i was doing it..max
This is a stupid question.
If you're using this acoustic thingy, then A TORPEDO HAS ALREADY BEEN FIRED AT YOU.
If someone has launched a supercavitating torpedo at you, you've already been detected in spades.
duh.
spelling flame. how droll. How utterly devoid of content.
You might consider acquainting yourself with a punctuation thesaurus before you take another impotent potshot, Anonymous Coward.
I was, in fact, waiting for my morning coffee to brew when i sent the antecedent, incurring the inevitable the tax imposed by murphy's law: the predictable puerile grammar/spelling flame from a cloaked anomyous lamer. Such is the consequence of placing the submit button next to the preview button.
No, my original contribution didn't come out the way i wanted. Let us try again, and let's see what flacid drivel you can offer to the disinterested masses:
This is what happens when one has too many overeducated people with too much time on their hands, and too little NONacacemic experience, talking to too few people about how brilliant each other's ideas are.
Sounds like it's time for a little professional decapitation in Texas. TEXAS -- aaaHA! "This explains much."
In my little corner of usenet we call this getting trapped in your own bunghole.
A library w/o books is worse than a stupid idea, it's dangerous. I have faith that the enumeration of specific faults is presented elsewhere.
Is there anything else i can do for you? Was that easier to understand? Do you have any questions?
This is what happens when you too many overeducated people with too much time on their hands, and too little NONacacemic experience, talking to too few people about how brilliant each other's ideas are.
Sounds like it's time for a little professional decapitation in Texas. TEXAS -- aaaHA! "This explains much".
In my little corner of usenet we call this getting trapped in your own bunghole.
A library w/o books is worth that a stupid idea, it's dangerous. I have faith that the enumeration of specifics is presented elsewhere.
This proves that evolution is a fraud. If scientists can't get something as simple as the location of a few stars right, how can we trust them to tell the truth about Intelligent Design?
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It's not entirely clear if you're referring to the OP or Mr. Suck It Up (coffee hasn't kicked-in.
... tit-for-tit self aggrandizing disclosure and mention that i spent four years on the oldest, most materially f*cked up submarine in the navy, the Seaw*lf (575) and have spent the last 20 years working at a large atom smasher on a three shift rotating schedule that cycles completely through days->eve->mids every 5 weeks. I used to fix copiers in the Chicago Loop.
Without getting into a self-righteous tit-for-tat comparison of who's had it "tougher" in the workplace, i will start by
I am confident the OP would derive great benefit from time management skills away from work. "Chores" on the weekend sounds like code for bad time management during the week. He would probably benefit from a structured excercise schedule and from shitcanning his DVD/gaming/TV etc. Ok, not shitcanning, but reduce the time spent with these things. Maybe cyclecommuting to work. Maybe walking? Howabout learning how to run/jog? Howabout quantifying the amount of alcohol consumed -- too much?
Free time spent sitting on one's fat ass is NOT the way to decompress from a stressful job. Your body-brain/mind system _needs_ physicality to reset the runtime meter.
"Chores" to be done shouldn't consist of more than laundry (MAYBE), getting dry cleaning (maybe) and mayyybe going to the grocery. That's 4 hours, tops.
To recap: Time Management skills, don't sit on your ass.
Recent College Grad Complains That Work Is Hard -- Film At 11.
life sucking...gmafb.
Try a little Corn Husker's Lotion for those chapped wringing hands.
what i wrote was ambiguous: they can find hidden, secret code keywords. If you use ham sammich to mean nuclear bomb, they can find it and figure it out -- or at least that you're not really talking about ham sammiches, in principle.
If a buncha guys in pakistan start talking about G and Ham Sammiches with people in Syria and one of them starts talking to you... well, i'd opt for the chicago style hot dog for a while. You DO understand that stochastic/cladistic nets can find keywords, right? .max
it _could_ be argued, but you'd then have to argue that the analysts looking for treasure are stupid fucking morons too dumb to understand the trivial concept elucidated above. And conversely, people using the word Jihad etc. in meaningless convo aren't going to slow down the system at all, they'll be nulled out as uncoupled blither.
.max
Do you really think they're THAT MUCH STUPIDER THAN YOU? Or are you just that clever?
...fucken moron discovers how online "recommendations" work. HOLY CRAP!
.max
Someone distract him during the next rainstorm or he might drown.
other artists you might enjoy include Pavarotti, Meat Loaf and on of the Wilson Philips chix.
Soldiers who felt the need to use one of these things would be far less likely to go into a room baited dog and a lot more likely to pop a thermobaric munition through a window.
.max
look up thermobaric.
talk about manufacturing controversy! Did you have to try Real Hard to get so offended by a nonexistant hypothetical or does it come naturally.
Particularly striking is that you write about DARPA, whose forebear, ARPA, basically built the internet you're using.
No, they'll let US play with it, but you have to stay outside and scoop the cat poo out of the sandbox.
Here's an experiment...
.max
Show the cited article to the people running the high magnetic field research program at Florida State U down in tallahassle.
See if you can hold your breath longer than they can laugh.
The only thing really interesting in foofahs like this one is that anyone is actually surprised that it's going on. Here's the deal:
.max
A: if it doesn't violate thermodynamics it's possible. If it's possible it's mostly a matter of money. If it's only a matter of money, you would do well to consider the financial resources of the United States Government, the greatest economic and military power in history/
B: if the president says it's legal, it's legal until proved otherwise. If the president want it to BE legal he will fire counsels until he gets to one who issues a finding he likes.
C: ergo if the president wants to do something and it's physically possible and won't bankrupt too many generations, he's gonna do it.
d: as has been mentioned, the "national security" clause gives the president the power to do almost anything w/o direct oversight. It's one of the reasons we have a friggin president, already, so we have an executive with the power to do things. Whether we like it or not, that's the way it's set up, deal with it or defenestrate the Executive branch. whinging is puerile.
Jimmuh did the same thang, you do know.
what a GREAT way to attract the interest of powerful people!
.max
Let us know how it turns out.
Buttercup.
...that there IS a God.
.max
Thank You!
try the veal
The robot looks like your standard ANDROS brand rov, pretty capable. ANDROS type robots are typically designed to blow up suitcases or (these days) IEDs with a water blaster or other single shot thing.
.max
They are _not_ designed for fiddly little twiddling work, like unscrewing screws. And they also don't typ. have stereoscopic vision.
So why couldn't they use lead shielding at the site: probably NO ROOM in the pipe-switching installation. And, remember the robot would have to build the wall itself, brick by brick, picking up dose with each step.
Since these things aren't designed for operation in a nuclear holocaust, their elex are typ not all that rad hard; they're expensive enuf as it is, it's typ. not worth it to outfit rad hardness to them. Just yank it out with a rope and replace the driver boards.
The manpulator arm camera would probably be the first casualty as the CCD gates deterioriated under the rad blizzard.
Finally, a faraday cage for gamma rays is just nonesense, and a misconception unworthy of slashdot. Everyone who thinks they should have used one, please go back to high school physics class, ask Doktor Professer for remediation and apologize for graduating. Faraday cages work for photons generated by the electron shell; gamma rays come from proton and neutron decay, and are of staggeringly higher energy and staggeringly lower (smaller) wavelengths.
The purpose (from the article) of the C0-60 was to test radiation resistance/hardness of materials and elex. Nothing to do with dirty bombs, we use such sources all over the country all the time.
FWIW, i've measured a (wrongly) unmasked Co-60 sourse with a survey meter from almost a half mile away, through two buildings. These suckers put out the zoomies. V. Scary. When they say: kill anyone who got close to it, they're not exaggerating.
You are not multitasking, you are task switching. You cannot possibly be reading an IM and, at the same instant, _watching_ television, even if you're doing it on the same screen. Not Possible, Not even in principle.
.max
Sorry, but you're not specially-abled.
Your recitation of half-lives is a very good argument for siting this cyclotron in the basement of a hospital.
To expand: if the guy is making short-lived radioisotopes, then he has to get them from the production facility to the hospital FAST.
Do you really want someone rocketing through town with a vial full of radiocarbon/flourine whatever? far better to do it in the basement of a hospital (or, FTM, in a bermed-over structure in the parking lot) where transport time+distance is reduced.
I'm also thinking there are probably some significant liscensine and permitting issues assoc. with transporting nuclear meds on public roads. And i'm betting this guy hasn't done jack about securing the necess. permits.
These things are not toys. They make prompt and residual radiation. It's made to transmute elements into radioactive forms. Concern is not unreasonable.
.max
Again: this machine will be used to make radioisotopes. Short half lives or not, the proximal homowners have a legitamite reason to be concerned about a radioisotope factory next to their homes. What about contamination issues?
2: It is reasonable to have some concern about shielding. Anything energetic enough to make radionuclides can also make X-rays by the assload. Given that we're talking nuclear transmutation, a concern about neutron radiation (fairly long ranged and not stopped by standard rad shielding).
ASS-U-Ming the installation will be industry standard, there shouldn't be a problem. If this guy doesn't know what he's doing, he could cause problems. Given that nobody seems to know what his specific shielding and radcon/exposure control plan is... he screwed up by not getting preapproved in advance.
FWIW, i have run a re-tasked SDI helium-3 RFQ PET accelerator, and currently run the Tevatron, have manufactured antiprotons for the last 7 years send the Giant NuMI Neutrino beam from Fermilab to Minnesota, so i have a clue.
Let us rise above our usu. cynical smirking condescencion and allow as how the loi polloi have a legit concern in this instance.
Let's just take a couple of aimed shots:
.max
1. the time since we became "visible" dates to the formation of a terrestrial oxygen-nitrogen atmoshpere, not Marconi. Look up nulling interferometric spectrometry and bounce it against extrasolar planetology.
2. We have, in fact been sending out not-so-subtle clues as to how our computers work for decades, along variosly narrow volumes of space. huh? wha? How do you think we communicate with our space probes? How did we REPROGRAM the mars landers? It's not quite a blueprint to the internet or a microprocessor or a language, but it's infinitely more information about how things work than "nothing". Again: some information about how our computers work is travelling at the speed of light along the plane of the eccliptic.
Now, assuming a civilization of, oh, say, an avg. IQ about the same as ours, but with 1e5 years of industrial age+ technology under their belts, recalculate your limbaughesque smirkings taking into account 1) and 2) above.
I can't see where a SETI attack is forbidden by thermodynamics.
Which makes it possible.
gosh, that Carrigan guy is pretty smart, isn't he.
This is the second time in as many days we've been treated to recycled bullshit from sci.energy, the infinite energy crowd and the established science oppressing us crowd. WTF? "News for dopes, stuff that's bullshit"
.max
It's been my experience that working with the false, obsolete, oppressive and illusory rules of "establisment science has been more useful than trying to apply raving website drivel.
But what do i know, [barney fife] i'm just the only person on earth making antiprotons, 16E10/hr of them, for about 130E10 so far today. ayep... [/barney fife]
ob.geek: and i ate pizza while i was doing it.
This is a stupid question. If you're using this acoustic thingy, then A TORPEDO HAS ALREADY BEEN FIRED AT YOU. If someone has launched a supercavitating torpedo at you, you've already been detected in spades. duh.
You might consider acquainting yourself with a punctuation thesaurus before you take another impotent potshot, Anonymous Coward.
I was, in fact, waiting for my morning coffee to brew when i sent the antecedent, incurring the inevitable the tax imposed by murphy's law: the predictable puerile grammar/spelling flame from a cloaked anomyous lamer. Such is the consequence of placing the submit button next to the preview button.
No, my original contribution didn't come out the way i wanted. Let us try again, and let's see what flacid drivel you can offer to the disinterested masses:
Is there anything else i can do for you? Was that easier to understand? Do you have any questions?This is what happens when you too many overeducated people with too much time on their hands, and too little NONacacemic experience, talking to too few people about how brilliant each other's ideas are.
Sounds like it's time for a little professional decapitation in Texas. TEXAS -- aaaHA! "This explains much".
In my little corner of usenet we call this getting trapped in your own bunghole.
A library w/o books is worth that a stupid idea, it's dangerous.
I have faith that the enumeration of specifics is presented elsewhere.
This proves that evolution is a fraud. If scientists can't get something as simple as the location of a few stars right, how can we trust them to tell the truth about Intelligent Design?
...for the person who likes to hear himself talk.
.max
uhhhh hellloooo this izz rico suaaaaveeee.....
etc.
umm... i know. In another life i was a reactor operator. The correct answer is: not relevant to commercial american power generating pwrs .max
what the fuck is a heavy water refinery? .max