Re:This can't be for real....me too
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Read up. Orwell, as in Mr. 1984, publically decried it as giving too much to the Russians *before* the critical value of Project Urchin was known.
I just thank deity they didn't know for certain till 1957, when the first Little Boy went live in Siberia.
Re:This can't be for real
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Yes, I've seen it.. And the story is real. I live less then 50 miles from the scene, so to speak. It's real.
And there are several designs that don't involve implosion of subcritical material to reach activation, nor the impolsive mirrors that design entails. That's right kiddies, no more adding 200kg of machined trinitrotoluene mirrors to your 10kg of wepons grade uranium!
Fat Man, the first nuclear device? Using plutonium, in the stead of the low-grade uranium, is plausible to fit in a suitcase with a little know-how.
Re:You only need 10lbs of Plutonium
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No way.. Are you familiar with Project Urchin? A single neutron activator likelike that, as used in Little Boy, in a projectile Plutonium device? No critical margin, cuz if you ain't fried when you put it together you're safe..
Yeah.. Half the soup recipes I've seen will explode as the nitrating bath does its magic.
Me, I did it right, from a 1930's Department of War publication, and I still lost 30 square feet of carpet when my dry ice gave early..
[soapbox] NOTE TO SLASHDOT: If you want to make explosives, start with something simple. Gunpowder will probably do what you need. If it won't, for God's sake don't go beyond that! It's too easy to social engineer nitrogel or purchase nitrocellulose at any gun shop.
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Oh, and by the way, I think I know how nasty it is. I had to have my face reconstructed after a flask containing it and a petrolatum surfacant hyperboiled. I still have to deal with massive nerve damage, even though my beautiful girlfriend assures me that you can't tell I had to have my chin stretched to my forehead.
Yes, you can. 'Liquid Fire' brand drain cleaner, available from a local company (based in Lansing, MI) at the ACO in Clinton Township nearest his house.
I checked. I have a half gallon under the sink in the kitchen. Because, as well as being a good source of concentrated nitric acid, is also a very, very good drain cleaner.
Glycerine, and a nitrating bath of roughly 60/40 nitric/sulfuric. Plus a couple others, for sake of some idiot trying, that are omitted. The recipe in the Anarchist's Cookbook is rather, well, rather more likely to have you going up then walking away with a usable quantity.
And yes, you can detect radium at a decent distance with a consumer Geiger tube. That didn't bother me so much.
Sorry, but you can find nitric acid at a hardware store less than a mile from the place named in the Harper's article..
This poor kid undoubtably had to go there for the nitrates needed to make it himself (in gardening, in a quart sized silver can), so why the hell didn't he walk four aisles down into plumbing and buy one of the red half-gallon bottles of drain cleaner?
Re:An atomic bomb in a toolbox?
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The Army used to make and stockpile so-called 'nuclear munitions', sub-Hiroshima class nuclear bombs that would fit nicely in a small suitcase.
I know at least the guys in Microsoft's Legal department read/., so I'm going to give this a shot.
Why are you letting him spout off like this? He looks like an idiot, and makes the rest of Microsoft look the same.
How is this good for your stock price? Let alone when he gets going about Sun again, and Scott has to call in the sharks again. How is increasing your expenditure because of Ballmer good for the shareholders?
electricity comes from a generator that may have a Windows machine controlling it!
And they'd be idiots if there were one.. MS has said, at one time or another, that one of their operating systems was capable of anything.
Now look at your license for Windows. NT, NE, WfW, 386, doesn't matter.. See down there near the bottom, where they specifically tell you not to do exactly this?
Geez, you'd think even a 90lb Oracle weenie with white socks, wingtips and a nose-picking turn-on could get a hooker.. But no, he has to start in on the inanimate objects....
Could be worse.. Could have walked into Smith and found out you were scheduled for a Airlink puddle jumper out of G12..:)
The last half-dozen times I've departed Metro, it's been from a low F or a low E.. Last trip departed from F2, and thank Deity, I cleared check-in at 8:57 for a flight departing at 9:10.
Nope.. all but the biggest name musicians make nearly all their revenue from ticket sales.. Releasing albums simply fuels the fire for the performances..
By the way, if the toaster was sold "As-is, no warranty"
But it isn't. Why? Implied warrant of merchantability. If I sell you a toaster, it has to work as a toaster, or you must fix it, or replace it, or give my money back. You can't sell me a toaster that doesn't plug into my outlet, only takes one kind of bread, or any of the other shenanigans software companies pull before refusing to give you your money back.
Too many people were sold too many bad products with 'as-is' liability, got pissed, and now we have further consumer protection laws. Wait till shit hits the wall when Congress realized that shitty software and no accountability is hurting consumers and business alike. We'll have a change..
What money is being lost by licensing some of your IP openly? Especially for a big companies like HP and IBM, they have portfolios that cover thousands and thousands of things they will never exploit commercially.
Re:Interesting Lecture.
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This sounds very suspiciously like a bastardization of a mechanism IBM has used for years on midrange to control access; Well, save the CPRM functions were done in hardware alone there..
Uh, zico.
Have you been paying attention? The court order says the record company must notify them of infringing song names. 'Dido1-Thank_you2.mp3' doesn't happen to appear on the list at the moment, and will not be blocked.
Additionally, it is perfectly human readable, and an acceptable wildcard fit. It will be returned with the same validity as the actual song name.
So why are you bitching irrationally about scrambled songnames?
And comparing warez kiddies to shoplifters is bogus, and any one with half a brain knows it.
The less secure your media the less software vendors will distribute on it.
Bzzt.. Why? Software companies biggest interest is selling more copies. The more secure the format, the more that can go wrong, and the less satisfied your customers are..
Another reason. I'm just using Microsoft because they're handy..
The skript kiddy that snags unprotected ME off of alt.binaries.whatever isn't gonna magically pay for a legal copy of XP when it's distributed in a secure format that can't be copied. When he can no longer warez it, he'll switch to an unencumbered, warezable, or free OS. That means less sales of the new Windows versions of games and applications, and more demand for other OS and older Windows versions users already have. Less dependance on Windows for the applications and games that you desire means fewer legitimate copies sold. Retail sales of both MS OS and MS apps drop like a rock as the upgrade path is pushed. Retail and channel sales are down dramatically, and Microsoft raises the OEM price to offset the losses. OEMs don't like that, higher prices mean less units shipped, they buy fewer copies and offer alternatives. The alternatives are quickly gaining applications, remember?
JAPAN -- The Associated Press reports: "According to a 1996 survey by the Supreme Court, of the 37,395 marriage arbitration cases filed by women in Japan's family courts, one-third involved complaints of domestic abuse. The majority ended in divorce... According to a study of domestic violence released in May by Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the first-ever done in Japan, one-third of the 1,183 women with partners in the survey said they had been battered by their husbands or boyfriends."
From a NOW blurb:
..concluded in their comprehensive study of domestic violence that nearly 35 percent of women in over 2000 American families had been subjected to one or more attacks by their husbands in the previous year before divorce...
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Read up. Orwell, as in Mr. 1984, publically decried it as giving too much to the Russians *before* the critical value of Project Urchin was known.
I just thank deity they didn't know for certain till 1957, when the first Little Boy went live in Siberia.
Yes, I've seen it.. And the story is real. I live less then 50 miles from the scene, so to speak. It's real.
And there are several designs that don't involve implosion of subcritical material to reach activation, nor the impolsive mirrors that design entails. That's right kiddies, no more adding 200kg of machined trinitrotoluene mirrors to your 10kg of wepons grade uranium!
Fat Man, the first nuclear device? Using plutonium, in the stead of the low-grade uranium, is plausible to fit in a suitcase with a little know-how.
No way.. Are you familiar with Project Urchin? A single neutron activator likelike that, as used in Little Boy, in a projectile Plutonium device? No critical margin, cuz if you ain't fried when you put it together you're safe..
Yeah.. Half the soup recipes I've seen will explode as the nitrating bath does its magic.
Me, I did it right, from a 1930's Department of War publication, and I still lost 30 square feet of carpet when my dry ice gave early..
[soapbox]
NOTE TO SLASHDOT: If you want to make explosives, start with something simple. Gunpowder will probably do what you need. If it won't, for God's sake don't go beyond that! It's too easy to social engineer nitrogel or purchase nitrocellulose at any gun shop.
[/soapbox}
Oh, and by the way, I think I know how nasty it is. I had to have my face reconstructed after a flask containing it and a petrolatum surfacant hyperboiled. I still have to deal with massive nerve damage, even though my beautiful girlfriend assures me that you can't tell I had to have my chin stretched to my forehead.
Yes, you can. 'Liquid Fire' brand drain cleaner, available from a local company (based in Lansing, MI) at the ACO in Clinton Township nearest his house.
I checked. I have a half gallon under the sink in the kitchen. Because, as well as being a good source of concentrated nitric acid, is also a very, very good drain cleaner.
Glycerine, and a nitrating bath of roughly 60/40 nitric/sulfuric. Plus a couple others, for sake of some idiot trying, that are omitted. The recipe in the Anarchist's Cookbook is rather, well, rather more likely to have you going up then walking away with a usable quantity.
And yes, you can detect radium at a decent distance with a consumer Geiger tube. That didn't bother me so much.
Sorry, but you can find nitric acid at a hardware store less than a mile from the place named in the Harper's article.. This poor kid undoubtably had to go there for the nitrates needed to make it himself (in gardening, in a quart sized silver can), so why the hell didn't he walk four aisles down into plumbing and buy one of the red half-gallon bottles of drain cleaner?
The Army used to make and stockpile so-called 'nuclear munitions', sub-Hiroshima class nuclear bombs that would fit nicely in a small suitcase.
I know at least the guys in Microsoft's Legal department read /., so I'm going to give this a shot.
Why are you letting him spout off like this? He looks like an idiot, and makes the rest of Microsoft look the same.
How is this good for your stock price? Let alone when he gets going about Sun again, and Scott has to call in the sharks again. How is increasing your expenditure because of Ballmer good for the shareholders?
electricity comes from a generator that may have a Windows machine controlling it!
And they'd be idiots if there were one.. MS has said, at one time or another, that one of their operating systems was capable of anything.
Now look at your license for Windows. NT, NE, WfW, 386, doesn't matter.. See down there near the bottom, where they specifically tell you not to do exactly this?
And they do it with tables..
Geez, you'd think even a 90lb Oracle weenie with white socks, wingtips and a nose-picking turn-on could get a hooker.. But no, he has to start in on the inanimate objects....
Truly depraved..
If I ever have a daughter who's a programmer, she's going into databases
Database geeks are worse..
Could be worse.. Could have walked into Smith and found out you were scheduled for a Airlink puddle jumper out of G12.. :)
The last half-dozen times I've departed Metro, it's been from a low F or a low E.. Last trip departed from F2, and thank Deity, I cleared check-in at 8:57 for a flight departing at 9:10.
-- A dyed-in-the-wool Detroiter
I'm sorry..
Really sorry.
Really, really sorry.
Nope.. all but the biggest name musicians make nearly all their revenue from ticket sales.. Releasing albums simply fuels the fire for the performances..
So pppffftt ack..
(apologies to Mr. Breathed)
There is a size limit.. It's like 5M of text, but I deal with files that size constantly, and am constantly prompted to use Wordpad..
By the way, if the toaster was sold "As-is, no warranty"
But it isn't. Why? Implied warrant of merchantability. If I sell you a toaster, it has to work as a toaster, or you must fix it, or replace it, or give my money back. You can't sell me a toaster that doesn't plug into my outlet, only takes one kind of bread, or any of the other shenanigans software companies pull before refusing to give you your money back.
Too many people were sold too many bad products with 'as-is' liability, got pissed, and now we have further consumer protection laws. Wait till shit hits the wall when Congress realized that shitty software and no accountability is hurting consumers and business alike. We'll have a change..
What money is being lost by licensing some of your IP openly? Especially for a big companies like HP and IBM, they have portfolios that cover thousands and thousands of things they will never exploit commercially.
This sounds very suspiciously like a bastardization of a mechanism IBM has used for years on midrange to control access; Well, save the CPRM functions were done in hardware alone there..
Uh, zico. Have you been paying attention? The court order says the record company must notify them of infringing song names. 'Dido1-Thank_you2.mp3' doesn't happen to appear on the list at the moment, and will not be blocked. Additionally, it is perfectly human readable, and an acceptable wildcard fit. It will be returned with the same validity as the actual song name. So why are you bitching irrationally about scrambled songnames? And comparing warez kiddies to shoplifters is bogus, and any one with half a brain knows it.
The less secure your media the less software vendors will distribute on it.
Bzzt.. Why? Software companies biggest interest is selling more copies. The more secure the format, the more that can go wrong, and the less satisfied your customers are..
Another reason. I'm just using Microsoft because they're handy..
The skript kiddy that snags unprotected ME off of alt.binaries.whatever isn't gonna magically pay for a legal copy of XP when it's distributed in a secure format that can't be copied. When he can no longer warez it, he'll switch to an unencumbered, warezable, or free OS. That means less sales of the new Windows versions of games and applications, and more demand for other OS and older Windows versions users already have. Less dependance on Windows for the applications and games that you desire means fewer legitimate copies sold. Retail sales of both MS OS and MS apps drop like a rock as the upgrade path is pushed. Retail and channel sales are down dramatically, and Microsoft raises the OEM price to offset the losses. OEMs don't like that, higher prices mean less units shipped, they buy fewer copies and offer alternatives. The alternatives are quickly gaining applications, remember?
The big bit of rock orbiting Jupiter doesn't show up until after we find the monolith on the moon. No monolith, no black rock.
Some people, geez.
One, given a sufficiently steep hill.
From the AP:
JAPAN -- The Associated Press reports: "According to a 1996 survey by the Supreme Court, of the 37,395 marriage arbitration cases filed by women in Japan's family courts, one-third involved complaints of domestic abuse. The majority ended in divorce... According to a study of domestic violence released in May by Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the first-ever done in Japan, one-third of the 1,183 women with partners in the survey said they had been battered by their husbands or boyfriends."
From a NOW blurb:
..concluded in their comprehensive study of domestic violence that nearly 35 percent of women in over 2000 American families had been subjected to one or more attacks by their husbands in the previous year before divorce...
Sounds pretty even to me..