Hanford is not a power reactor, but a breeder reactor that was designed to produce Plutonium. The 67 tons mentioned in the article were the reactor's product, not its waste.
Breeder reactors have enjoyed a double standard power reactors have not. Because they exist "for reasons of national security", safeguards and limitations were not subject to strict outside review by NRC. This is compounded by the fact that Hanford was an early breeder design, and was built before the danger of waste was made clear. In fact, the plant stands as a brutal lesson: nuclear waste cannot be stored in underground tanks like oil or water can.
As for the mess, the waste from a breeder reactor comes in this liquid form. A power reactor produces its waste in the form of solid fuel pellets, which can be stored more safely. Fuel pellets could also be "recycled" into other isotopes, although reprocessing is not allowed in the United States (it is carried out in France, as I fuzzily recall, where commercial waste is recycled to make nuclear weapons. Could someone else confirm that?).
I'm not a libertarian, but I think you should vote for what you believe in. Voting for a candidate because they're more likely to win is kind of like voting for what everyone else believes in.
It may very well be, but I think the last thing the police in America are looking at is the illegal uses of a Pringles can. If you are using that antenna to "hack" into an open network, the fact that your using an illegal antenna may make things less pleasant in court. But nobody is driving around town checking the antennae on geek equipment, in case it's illegal. There are simply bigger fish to fry.
As heated as the e-mail competition is now, and as frantic as it could get once GMail comes out, Microsoft is not going to be able to strangle things with an off-standard implementation via Hotmail. Hotmail has serious competition from Yahoo and other web-based ilk, particularly since Hotmail still has an inbox size of only 2MB (this despite promises that an upgrade is "coming soon").
One way Microsoft could push this is if they implement it in Outlook, which has a monopoly where desktop e-mail clients are concerned. But implementing it through Hotmail means it has to fight with every other web-based site's methods.
"Well, yeah, I guess letting my brother's cousin's roommate have the access codes to our server was a bad idea. Seriously though, I thought he was just hosting games of Quake III."
Remember, I highly recommend useing only Extra Thick aluminum (aluminium for our British friends) foil for hats. And I double the thickness of the foil, for extra protection. In a world filled with Alien mind probes and government hoaxes, it's a necessary precaution.
From what I've seen of OSS, the solution is not many, many eyes, but a core handful of experienced eyes that have experience and training.
Point needs to be made, however, that these guys who get free access are not here to "fix Windows" as much as they are there to write applications that require close cooperation with the OS (think antivirus or DRM applications). So the chances of them finding a bug and fixing it are slim, because they won't be looking for them.
BTX may take care of that on the desktop end, but only if Intel can convince case and motherboard manufacturers to pick it up and run with it-so far none of them are happy with the idea. AMD has not espressed any interest in BTX, but I wonder if they would pick it up anytime in the future. AMD Athlon 64 chips run much cooler now that they have a heat spreader on the chip.
As for laptops, I guess we may have to start looking at liquid nitrogen;)
Well, he was talking about HP, so you proved his point. I know some of us live under rocks, but a couple years ago Compaq and HP formed a union, with Compaq taking HP's name, and both have tremulously cohabitated together for some time. Many lovers quarrels have resulted, and through it all, HP's printers have remained the primary moneymaker.
Interestingly, Alienware is planning a dual-Xeon gaming system, with two PCI-Express video cards: one rendering the top half of the screen, the other rendering the bottom half.
Check it out here or here. Or from the horses mouth here.
Since they chose a dual-Xeon setup, I would assume such a setup is either a good choice for gaming or just sounds pretty to the marketing department. That said, Intel will soon begin to put out dual-core CPUS, so some of the game programmers out there are probably contemplating games designed around a dual-CPU core setup, rather than mere hyperthreading.
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It's somewhat sad for me though, with my little hobbit fingers and such. I guess us tiny people aren't planned for in the US anymore.
Well, I believe it will be up to the individual game design teams, but leaving maps and ilk open would be one use.
Let me know when they port Nethack.
Yuri Gagarin.
My God, I could have gone my entire life without knowing that DMR uses WNT.
Hanford is not a power reactor, but a breeder reactor that was designed to produce Plutonium. The 67 tons mentioned in the article were the reactor's product, not its waste.
Breeder reactors have enjoyed a double standard power reactors have not. Because they exist "for reasons of national security", safeguards and limitations were not subject to strict outside review by NRC. This is compounded by the fact that Hanford was an early breeder design, and was built before the danger of waste was made clear. In fact, the plant stands as a brutal lesson: nuclear waste cannot be stored in underground tanks like oil or water can.
As for the mess, the waste from a breeder reactor comes in this liquid form. A power reactor produces its waste in the form of solid fuel pellets, which can be stored more safely. Fuel pellets could also be "recycled" into other isotopes, although reprocessing is not allowed in the United States (it is carried out in France, as I fuzzily recall, where commercial waste is recycled to make nuclear weapons. Could someone else confirm that?).
Or does the Matrix have YOU?
I'm sorry. I can already feel you guys chewing me out...
The lives of people who die from dysentery aren't cheap either.
The world's greatest military. And the world's shittiest military contracting firms and development weenies.
I'm not a libertarian, but I think you should vote for what you believe in. Voting for a candidate because they're more likely to win is kind of like voting for what everyone else believes in.
It may very well be, but I think the last thing the police in America are looking at is the illegal uses of a Pringles can. If you are using that antenna to "hack" into an open network, the fact that your using an illegal antenna may make things less pleasant in court. But nobody is driving around town checking the antennae on geek equipment, in case it's illegal. There are simply bigger fish to fry.
As heated as the e-mail competition is now, and as frantic as it could get once GMail comes out, Microsoft is not going to be able to strangle things with an off-standard implementation via Hotmail. Hotmail has serious competition from Yahoo and other web-based ilk, particularly since Hotmail still has an inbox size of only 2MB (this despite promises that an upgrade is "coming soon").
One way Microsoft could push this is if they implement it in Outlook, which has a monopoly where desktop e-mail clients are concerned. But implementing it through Hotmail means it has to fight with every other web-based site's methods.
No, but a good game of Pong just might be feasible.
Time like these I wish for a spell checker.
Hang my head in shame...
Well, Ireland produced The Cranberries, but I never thought of Ireland as a musical country. They've made other contributions. So let's face it:
It's all about Guiness.
Note: yes, somewhere in that ethnic stew that is my background, there are a couple of Irish[men|women]. So no, I'm not a trolling bigot.
My printer came with two cables. Just a medium-quality inkjet, but it came with both parallel and USB cables.
;)
And I replaced the tape deck with a CD player well before 1995
Yeah, well, maybe opposable thumbs do!
"Well, yeah, I guess letting my brother's cousin's roommate have the access codes to our server was a bad idea. Seriously though, I thought he was just hosting games of Quake III."
And a Starbucks. The Wal-Mart opens soon.
Remember, I highly recommend useing only Extra Thick aluminum (aluminium for our British friends) foil for hats. And I double the thickness of the foil, for extra protection. In a world filled with Alien mind probes and government hoaxes, it's a necessary precaution.
/sarcasm
Damnit, you forgot the Cowboyneal option!
From what I've seen of OSS, the solution is not many, many eyes, but a core handful of experienced eyes that have experience and training.
Point needs to be made, however, that these guys who get free access are not here to "fix Windows" as much as they are there to write applications that require close cooperation with the OS (think antivirus or DRM applications). So the chances of them finding a bug and fixing it are slim, because they won't be looking for them.
BTX may take care of that on the desktop end, but only if Intel can convince case and motherboard manufacturers to pick it up and run with it-so far none of them are happy with the idea. AMD has not espressed any interest in BTX, but I wonder if they would pick it up anytime in the future. AMD Athlon 64 chips run much cooler now that they have a heat spreader on the chip.
As for laptops, I guess we may have to start looking at liquid nitrogen;)
Well, he was talking about HP, so you proved his point. I know some of us live under rocks, but a couple years ago Compaq and HP formed a union, with Compaq taking HP's name, and both have tremulously cohabitated together for some time. Many lovers quarrels have resulted, and through it all, HP's printers have remained the primary moneymaker.
Hats like this one will be perfectly acceptable.
Interestingly, Alienware is planning a dual-Xeon gaming system, with two PCI-Express video cards: one rendering the top half of the screen, the other rendering the bottom half.
Check it out here or here. Or from the horses mouth here.
Since they chose a dual-Xeon setup, I would assume such a setup is either a good choice for gaming or just sounds pretty to the marketing department. That said, Intel will soon begin to put out dual-core CPUS, so some of the game programmers out there are probably contemplating games designed around a dual-CPU core setup, rather than mere hyperthreading.