Maybe it was their use of poor oppressed Chinese children, forced to work long hours singing sound-alike versions of so many songs. And those poor people exposed to toxins will removing recyclable bits from old hard drives just to make bandwidth cheaper. And maybe the players getting poor battery life were a problem too. If you stick various 9 volt batteries on your tongue, it's easy to taste the ones with recycled or stale electrons.
Communications problems today. Increased incidents of skin cancer next year.
As low-frequency F-layer skip is disturbed, some may enjoy sporadic E-layer skip activity. That sometimes allows people to pick up VHF television (especially channels 2-6) and FM radio stations (lower end of band) from 1000 miles or so away away. Those in less congested areas have a better chance of hearing something. Although signals sometimes get pretty strong, it is helpful to use a directional antenna pointed away from the local signals. It's a daytime thing.
Maybe they should study some people in Chula Vista California. For about two years they drank some not so completely treated wastewater (meant for grass at golf courses etc).
Just as the Japanese government is buying up beef that grew from rice straw with a little something extra sprinkled on it? Prodding those cows may trigger an unexpected reaction...
Could solar flares generate a new isotope of cesium? Can tablets be used to allow the masses to produce modern versions of those 50's B movies? Giant ants, crabs, mantis, possessed bulldozers, the blob... solar storms and an atomic mishap, the stuff classic B movie sci-fi can be made of. Will it all trigger something new in genetically engineered crops? Will the pads become self aware? Haven't you noticed the pad-people are taking over? The days of high powered A.M. radio had some people receiving signals in their teeth... and that was before Bluetooth and the amplifying effect of solar storms! Will the men aboard the International Space Station come back with unusual powers?
The crew of a Japanese fishing boat was highly irradiated during the era of atomic testing in the Pacific, sparking the creation of the classic Japanese monster movies. Why not have some of this years' events lead to some sci-fi too??
Japanese researchers have been able to produce sperm and perhaps eggs too from stem cells in mice. Is this merely a way to help couples of any gender combination or even a lone individual reproduce (to make Mars a planet of all women, or men perhaps?), or is it a conspiracy of irradiated scientists to produce monster mice from a single mutant?
Actually what they're talking about is ONE base station covering a radius of 62 miles (pi r squared = 12,000 sq miles). The 22 MB/S is based on use of one 6 Mhz tv channel and that's a TOTAL for all user traffic and overhead on the channel. Some channel hopping is possible but it is doubtful that people would want antenna covering the whole tv spectrum (great big UHF/VHF antenna). Antennas made for a portion of the spectrum could provide better gain and in some cases much smaller size. Clients would have an outdoor directional antenna and GPS. Range would usually be best at the lowest frequencies (channel 2 is 54-60 MHz) But the antenna for that would be pretty large. The upper UHF frequencies can do pretty well if line of sight. Coverage at a distance would be spotty otherwise.
Let's hope the signals occasionally getting reflected off of airplanes doesn't cause too much grief for tv reception.
I'm surprised the cask was that cool. I read a report from Japan that listed the estimated thermal output of a cask that had been in remote intermediate storage for about 7 years at 10 kW. That is spread over a pretty large surface area though, those things look huge. The report didn't say how much time the fuel had been in a cooling pond before that.
If the casks are shielded adequately, equip them with heat exchangers and use them to heat government buildings, maybe give the guys recreation areas with hot tubs.
Perhaps the WSJ (and other Muchdoch properties?) should be required to use them for heat regardless, as thanks for running the pseudo-science article "There is no such thing as nuclear waste". The author, also seen on the BBC, didn't even know what boric acid was, claiming it was sent to Japan to clean out pipes. Perhaps giving ignorance and lies equal time qualifies as "balanced" reporting? Disinformation is even worse than coverage lacking depth. I hope those behind deliberate misinformation online and elsewhere realize it to be counterproductive as it just breeds deeper mistrust. Skip the pseudo-experts and bring us the truth, editing only for clarity and focus without distorting intent or context.
Some press-release style postings and videos claim thorium reactors can run on mostly un-enriched or spent fuel along with the thorium. Tons of material going in would still produce tons coming out, but apparently there'd be less dangerous waste per megawatt/year. For an idea that old to not have caught on yet, there must be some significant difficulties. Proponents should be forthcoming with the issues and present any new developments that address them. The claims of instant shutdown with no risk of overheating or excessive pressure on loss of all power-lines and cooling are hard to believe. Proponents should provide technical data detailing the fission products involved and decay heat generation after a shut-down from sustained full power. It's the decay heat that has been the serious problem when cooling has been lost at otherwise successful shutdowns of existing reactors. It starts at about 7.5% of the full operating thermal energy and decays from there. 7.5% of roughly a gigawatt is a tremendous amount of heat energy to cope with.
It would be great if the spent fuel that's piled up could be sent somewhere and used. If they could use it, perhaps some other countries would take the waste for free. Just get them to agree that they're stuck with maintaining their own nuclear graveyard for the leftovers.
And respect your elders, ya peppy little spit-f*ck. (paraphrasing line to Zuckerberg-like character in Zombieland)
Revised title: "MS-DOS would have been 30 if it were still alive today".
A recent load of FreeDOS in a VM worked great. The larger download came with tons of cool software too, but so far Tetris is about the only thing easy to identify from the DOS filename. Sigh... (everything was identified with descriptions when installed, but we old fossils can't remember much stuff like that an hour later) If there was supposed to be a launcher or menu I screwed up that part of the install.
With all the effort that has gone into building it up, it would be a shame not to get a much longer lifetime out of it. We've given many power plants life extensions, why not this? Is there some bigger threat from extending the life of the space station or is it just about money? I bet many around the world would be willing to make donations to keep it going. Learning how to produce things that last for extended periods and that approach or become self-sustaining, seems like an important mission in itself. Sure they've managed to recycle some pee, but what about things like producing food in space? Can the biomass be recycled efficiently enough to be self-sustaining. How well can plants and people do longer term with the elevated radiation? Much attention has been paid to locating frozen water on the moon (some was found in an always cold area), Mars maybe even an asteroid. A colony on the moon or elsewhere would have to cope with occasional things that might poke holes. Maybe we should be experts on coping with that. They've got quite a bit of electrical power from the solar panels at the station. Couldn't there be enough energy for recycling and manufacturing of other (non-organic) goods? As time goes on, people of Earth will increasingly need to recycle more and more do it from sustainable energy sources. Maybe practice in space where supplies are little or limited is good practice? I doubt anyone will suggest that they grow corn for fuel...
The world needs things that excite young people to learn and become highly skilled scientists. If they rarely hear of activity in the space program, what will they get interested in? I'm not sure if an interest in games and robots is a good combination... what usually happens in those games?
Setting aside for the moment the issue of whether or not any hidden influence is currently at play, some of this hints at being an effort to discredit the legitimate concerns of those being vocal with concerns over nuclear power. (Obviously people range from clueless or misinformed to well informed, and it is a complex issue with pros and cons).
Over 1500 people were arrested in a September 1981 Diablo Canyon blockade, including over 40 professors from the university at Cal Poly Can Luis Obispo and the entire San Luis Obispo city council. The rally/concert by Camp San Luis in 1979 drew about 40,000 people and included California Governor Brown (the same one that is again governor now) They weren't ignorant sheep led by some foreign government.
Whatever is going on now, it would likely be foolish to assume that everything going on involves a fixed set of people and that all reporting is true. Some things may be an excuse to push through various legislation, or accomplish something while someone else gets the blame. I think the term is "false flag". The world has been an unstable place with many changes. Hopefully whatever people do, they will not forget core values and will only act in ways supporting positive changes with no harm to anyone. Democracy needs a caring informed engaged public in order to function effectively. Pushing for responsible policies and combating corruption requires that people be informed. We should push for better media reporting in all forms, and real investigative reporting.
"News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity..." - Bill Moyers, recently a guest on The Daily Show
Presumably, there should have been some kind of safety system in place to deal with a relatively common natural phenomenon...
That's for sure. The Japanese have done well with a much more complex safety issue, rapidly shutting down their high speed trains upon notice from their Earthquake Early Warning system.
One would hope that something for government agencies would avoid the usual security problems (like Flash issues), but that doesn't seem to be the case unless they're getting a special configuration.
And in other news, plans to blow up the recently surveyed miscreant asteroid are moving forward. Since right-hand circularly polarized signals become left hand circularly polarized when reflected, the unauthorized infringing signals sent back to Earth were considered distinct copies. The asteroid has been getting away with this for more than fifty years. Dealing with this has been a long term combined effort of NASA (National Asteriod Surveillance Agency) and MPAA (Mars Punishes Aberrant Asteroids). Some fear that one of the surviving asteroids may someday retaliate and attempt to destroy the Earth.
Although NASA astronauts were very helpful in the installation of additional solar panels on the international space station which would allow more powerful signals to find terrestrial "unauthorized copies in any information retrieval system" (even if organic and encased in a tin-foil hat), the U.S. astronauts mission was ended after it was found they were smuggling copies of recordings in iPods. Those recordings clearly being taken outside the region of license (if there even was a license). An official was quoted as saying that eventually machine probes alone will be able to do all needed monitoring and enforcement. They also hope to someday nip coping in the bud by traveling back in time.
You can still boot other OSes or run them in a VM, and there's no requirement to use the App Store to get your apps. We're talking Macs, not iOS devices.
..I discovered that the "THX Certified" sticker had fallen off..
Depending on the programming, I think some television sets might be better shipped with stickers removed from medication packaging; "may cause drowsiness", "do not use while driving or operating machinery", "call for emergency assistance if erections last more than four hours", or "continued use combined with food consumption may be harmfull".
He's pretty smart, give him credit. He's certainly already been more successful than those that preceded him. He also did an excellent job when he was a representative for California. Who knows what secrets he has up his sleeves? Wish him luck.
And a surprising observation, re-arrange "a Patent" and you may find "Panetta"! If only all patents could be turned into Panettas!
Somehow I get the feeling a full release of the source code still wouldn't be enough to satiate the nerdy masses.
Satiate?? Really?? Does anything even suggest that we find the phone relevant enough to care? If one had to pick a group most likely to avoid the phone, wouldn't "the nerdy masses" be a good first pick? The phone seems to be targeted at people that perceive Apple and other offerings as too scary and complicated... That's the opposite of the "nerdy" demographic.
In a future OS built by vast numbers of developers each chipping in 10 lines of code without knowing what the others wrote, having the code of each in its own node should keep more of it running? Reserve 100,000 or so nodes for guest processes.
To use the distributed GPU, each node will output to a rooftop display, viewed by satellite cam zoomed in to encompass the required number of nodes. Reliability will be ensured by RAIN (redundant array of inexpensive neighborhoods).
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Maybe it was their use of poor oppressed Chinese children, forced to work long hours singing sound-alike versions of so many songs. And those poor people exposed to toxins will removing recyclable bits from old hard drives just to make bandwidth cheaper. And maybe the players getting poor battery life were a problem too. If you stick various 9 volt batteries on your tongue, it's easy to taste the ones with recycled or stale electrons.
He may have meant fraking. Safe near a water bed but not a water table.
It's a perfectly cromulent term.
Communications problems today. Increased incidents of skin cancer next year.
As low-frequency F-layer skip is disturbed, some may enjoy sporadic E-layer skip activity. That sometimes allows people to pick up VHF television (especially channels 2-6) and FM radio stations (lower end of band) from 1000 miles or so away away. Those in less congested areas have a better chance of hearing something. Although signals sometimes get pretty strong, it is helpful to use a directional antenna pointed away from the local signals. It's a daytime thing.
It sounds like planting more seeds if we're all really made from cosmic debris.
Frank isn't around any more. I wonder what Moon Unit would say about all this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeQ_S8G16Rw
Maybe they should study some people in Chula Vista California. For about two years they drank some not so completely treated wastewater (meant for grass at golf courses etc).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070823/news_lz1ed23top.html
Just as the Japanese government is buying up beef that grew from rice straw with a little something extra sprinkled on it? Prodding those cows may trigger an unexpected reaction...
Could solar flares generate a new isotope of cesium? Can tablets be used to allow the masses to produce modern versions of those 50's B movies? Giant ants, crabs, mantis, possessed bulldozers, the blob... solar storms and an atomic mishap, the stuff classic B movie sci-fi can be made of. Will it all trigger something new in genetically engineered crops? Will the pads become self aware? Haven't you noticed the pad-people are taking over? The days of high powered A.M. radio had some people receiving signals in their teeth... and that was before Bluetooth and the amplifying effect of solar storms! Will the men aboard the International Space Station come back with unusual powers?
The crew of a Japanese fishing boat was highly irradiated during the era of atomic testing in the Pacific, sparking the creation of the classic Japanese monster movies. Why not have some of this years' events lead to some sci-fi too??
Japanese researchers have been able to produce sperm and perhaps eggs too from stem cells in mice. Is this merely a way to help couples of any gender combination or even a lone individual reproduce (to make Mars a planet of all women, or men perhaps?), or is it a conspiracy of irradiated scientists to produce monster mice from a single mutant?
Actually what they're talking about is ONE base station covering a radius of 62 miles (pi r squared = 12,000 sq miles). The 22 MB/S is based on use of one 6 Mhz tv channel and that's a TOTAL for all user traffic and overhead on the channel. Some channel hopping is possible but it is doubtful that people would want antenna covering the whole tv spectrum (great big UHF/VHF antenna). Antennas made for a portion of the spectrum could provide better gain and in some cases much smaller size. Clients would have an outdoor directional antenna and GPS. Range would usually be best at the lowest frequencies (channel 2 is 54-60 MHz) But the antenna for that would be pretty large. The upper UHF frequencies can do pretty well if line of sight. Coverage at a distance would be spotty otherwise.
Let's hope the signals occasionally getting reflected off of airplanes doesn't cause too much grief for tv reception.
PDF overview of standard
http://www.ieee802.org/22/Technology/22-10-0073-03-0000-802-22-overview-and-core-technologies.pdf
I'm surprised the cask was that cool. I read a report from Japan that listed the estimated thermal output of a cask that had been in remote intermediate storage for about 7 years at 10 kW. That is spread over a pretty large surface area though, those things look huge. The report didn't say how much time the fuel had been in a cooling pond before that.
(page 9 of this presentation)
http://www.denken.or.jp/result/event/seminar/2010/issf/pdf/6-2_powerpoint.pdf
If the casks are shielded adequately, equip them with heat exchangers and use them to heat government buildings, maybe give the guys recreation areas with hot tubs.
Perhaps the WSJ (and other Muchdoch properties?) should be required to use them for heat regardless, as thanks for running the pseudo-science article "There is no such thing as nuclear waste". The author, also seen on the BBC, didn't even know what boric acid was, claiming it was sent to Japan to clean out pipes. Perhaps giving ignorance and lies equal time qualifies as "balanced" reporting?
Disinformation is even worse than coverage lacking depth. I hope those behind deliberate misinformation online and elsewhere realize it to be counterproductive as it just breeds deeper mistrust. Skip the pseudo-experts and bring us the truth, editing only for clarity and focus without distorting intent or context.
Some press-release style postings and videos claim thorium reactors can run on mostly un-enriched or spent fuel along with the thorium. Tons of material going in would still produce tons coming out, but apparently there'd be less dangerous waste per megawatt/year. For an idea that old to not have caught on yet, there must be some significant difficulties. Proponents should be forthcoming with the issues and present any new developments that address them. The claims of instant shutdown with no risk of overheating or excessive pressure on loss of all power-lines and cooling are hard to believe. Proponents should provide technical data detailing the fission products involved and decay heat generation after a shut-down from sustained full power. It's the decay heat that has been the serious problem when cooling has been lost at otherwise successful shutdowns of existing reactors. It starts at about 7.5% of the full operating thermal energy and decays from there. 7.5% of roughly a gigawatt is a tremendous amount of heat energy to cope with.
It would be great if the spent fuel that's piled up could be sent somewhere and used. If they could use it, perhaps some other countries would take the waste for free. Just get them to agree that they're stuck with maintaining their own nuclear graveyard for the leftovers.
Hold your tongue, ya young whippersnapper!
And respect your elders, ya peppy little spit-f*ck. (paraphrasing line to Zuckerberg-like character in Zombieland)
Revised title: "MS-DOS would have been 30 if it were still alive today".
A recent load of FreeDOS in a VM worked great. The larger download came with tons of cool software too, but so far Tetris is about the only thing easy to identify from the DOS filename. Sigh... (everything was identified with descriptions when installed, but we old fossils can't remember much stuff like that an hour later)
If there was supposed to be a launcher or menu I screwed up that part of the install.
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/
With all the effort that has gone into building it up, it would be a shame not to get a much longer lifetime out of it. We've given many power plants life extensions, why not this? Is there some bigger threat from extending the life of the space station or is it just about money? I bet many around the world would be willing to make donations to keep it going. Learning how to produce things that last for extended periods and that approach or become self-sustaining, seems like an important mission in itself. Sure they've managed to recycle some pee, but what about things like producing food in space? Can the biomass be recycled efficiently enough to be self-sustaining. How well can plants and people do longer term with the elevated radiation? Much attention has been paid to locating frozen water on the moon (some was found in an always cold area), Mars maybe even an asteroid. A colony on the moon or elsewhere would have to cope with occasional things that might poke holes. Maybe we should be experts on coping with that.
They've got quite a bit of electrical power from the solar panels at the station. Couldn't there be enough energy for recycling and manufacturing of other (non-organic) goods? As time goes on, people of Earth will increasingly need to recycle more and more do it from sustainable energy sources. Maybe practice in space where supplies are little or limited is good practice? I doubt anyone will suggest that they grow corn for fuel...
The world needs things that excite young people to learn and become highly skilled scientists. If they rarely hear of activity in the space program, what will they get interested in?
I'm not sure if an interest in games and robots is a good combination... what usually happens in those games?
Setting aside for the moment the issue of whether or not any hidden influence is currently at play, some of this hints at being an effort to discredit the legitimate concerns of those being vocal with concerns over nuclear power. (Obviously people range from clueless or misinformed to well informed, and it is a complex issue with pros and cons).
Over 1500 people were arrested in a September 1981 Diablo Canyon blockade, including over 40 professors from the university at Cal Poly Can Luis Obispo and the entire San Luis Obispo city council. The rally/concert by Camp San Luis in 1979 drew about 40,000 people and included California Governor Brown (the same one that is again governor now) They weren't ignorant sheep led by some foreign government.
http://www.energy-net.org/01NUKE/DIABLO1.HTM
Whatever is going on now, it would likely be foolish to assume that everything going on involves a fixed set of people and that all reporting is true. Some things may be an excuse to push through various legislation, or accomplish something while someone else gets the blame. I think the term is "false flag". The world has been an unstable place with many changes. Hopefully whatever people do, they will not forget core values and will only act in ways supporting positive changes with no harm to anyone. Democracy needs a caring informed engaged public in order to function effectively. Pushing for responsible policies and combating corruption requires that people be informed. We should push for better media reporting in all forms, and real investigative reporting.
"News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity..." - Bill Moyers, recently a guest on The Daily Show
Presumably, there should have been some kind of safety system in place to deal with a relatively common natural phenomenon...
That's for sure. The Japanese have done well with a much more complex safety issue, rapidly shutting down their high speed trains upon notice from their Earthquake Early Warning system.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Earthquake_Early_Warning_(Japan)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen#Safety_record
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/03/earthquake-derail-japan-high-speed-trains.php
One would hope that something for government agencies would avoid the usual security problems (like Flash issues), but that doesn't seem to be the case unless they're getting a special configuration.
http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB27365
And in other news, plans to blow up the recently surveyed miscreant asteroid are moving forward. Since right-hand circularly polarized signals become left hand circularly polarized when reflected, the unauthorized infringing signals sent back to Earth were considered distinct copies. The asteroid has been getting away with this for more than fifty years. Dealing with this has been a long term combined effort of NASA (National Asteriod Surveillance Agency) and MPAA (Mars Punishes Aberrant Asteroids). Some fear that one of the surviving asteroids may someday retaliate and attempt to destroy the Earth.
Although NASA astronauts were very helpful in the installation of additional solar panels on the international space station which would allow more powerful signals to find terrestrial "unauthorized copies in any information retrieval system" (even if organic and encased in a tin-foil hat), the U.S. astronauts mission was ended after it was found they were smuggling copies of recordings in iPods. Those recordings clearly being taken outside the region of license (if there even was a license).
An official was quoted as saying that eventually machine probes alone will be able to do all needed monitoring and enforcement. They also hope to someday nip coping in the bud by traveling back in time.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=22762
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1274
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=22729
Fact is that we've had the technology to make gelatin from human tissue for millennia.
Has NBC been around that long?
You can still boot other OSes or run them in a VM, and there's no requirement to use the App Store to get your apps. We're talking Macs, not iOS devices.
Perhaps this method of counting is an attempt to delay Y3K problems?
..I discovered that the "THX Certified" sticker had fallen off..
Depending on the programming, I think some television sets might be better shipped with stickers removed from medication packaging; "may cause drowsiness", "do not use while driving or operating machinery", "call for emergency assistance if erections last more than four hours", or "continued use combined with food consumption may be harmfull".
And we're also *this close* to winning the war on drugs...
Unless you want to try and make a case for terrorist groups having strength from drug sales, that's an irrelevant conclusion.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Logical_fallacy
He's pretty smart, give him credit. He's certainly already been more successful than those that preceded him. He also did an excellent job when he was a representative for California. Who knows what secrets he has up his sleeves? Wish him luck.
And a surprising observation, re-arrange "a Patent" and you may find "Panetta"! If only all patents could be turned into Panettas!
Well, I can see a problem with sexual activity if my wife's FitBit's numbers aren't equal or a subset or mine.
Don't worry, she's really into you and just reacting in her dreams too :-)
Somehow I get the feeling a full release of the source code still wouldn't be enough to satiate the nerdy masses.
Satiate?? Really?? Does anything even suggest that we find the phone relevant enough to care? If one had to pick a group most likely to avoid the phone, wouldn't "the nerdy masses" be a good first pick? The phone seems to be targeted at people that perceive Apple and other offerings as too scary and complicated... That's the opposite of the "nerdy" demographic.
Just might run win....
In a future OS built by vast numbers of developers each chipping in 10 lines of code without knowing what the others wrote, having the code of each in its own node should keep more of it running? Reserve 100,000 or so nodes for guest processes.
To use the distributed GPU, each node will output to a rooftop display, viewed by satellite cam zoomed in to encompass the required number of nodes.
Reliability will be ensured by RAIN (redundant array of inexpensive neighborhoods).