We just did a 4 bit multiplier using 3 PLDs. And this is in our second year (of 4). AND this is required for all students of computing science at our university (oldenburg/northern germany).
> The spent fuel will burn up in the atmosphere, disintegrating into small particles. It will spread out and deliver a dose probably less than what you get in a doctor's office from an X-ray machine.
RTFP! Nobody says anything about the fuel, but about the *reactor core*!
> Witness events like the brownouts in California and the big power outage last year in the northeast U.S.
The power outage was imho completely unrelated to a lack of energy in the wires. Correct me if im wrong.
Honestly - did anyone read the Club of Rome publications on sustainable deveolpment -- or, ANYTHING on sd?
TMTOWTDI in dealing with a 'lack' of energy: - try to cut down on energy use - provide more energy -...
The very thing about sustainable development is that we are not to go 'back to the cave', but we are to use and develop our technology in a way that will enable future generations to live.
Nuclear power has 3 problems: 1) it generates waste that is toxic for a long period of time, 2) it was over-sold and over-hyped when it was first introduced in the US, which led us to jump into this technology before we were competent with it, and 3) in the minds of average people its hopelessly linked to nuclear weapons, and the fear of mass destruction, even though the technology and goals are completely different between the 2 disciplines.
IANANS, but you are wrong with Numer 3: The spent fuel from german (and french, british) reactors is reprocessed at the factorys in La Hague and Sellafield where plutonium is a by-product of reprocessal. Thil plutonium can then be enhanced to weapon-grade plutonium for use in a nuclear bomb with little to no effort. So much for "no connection".
As far as the waste is concerned, how can you advocate the use of next generation nuclear plants if you do not have a final, "eternal" (read: eternity compliant) disposal site?
And for "the rest of the world": germany has govenrment-imposed plans to get out of nuclear power within the next 25 to 30 years (which is - in my opinion - too long a period to produce waste nobody can dispose of).
A german study found that EVERY german power plant would suffer a meltdown if attacked by a commercial airliner with half a tank of kerosine. Are there similar studies in the US?
> 1) It has a simple text message plus a binary payload attachment. > 2) It uses no M$ exploits (patched or unpatched) to install itself. > 3) It depends on someone opening the attachment to start an infection.
Compared to the real world this would be something like: "Whoa! Theres a black, unmarked bottle on my doorstep that reads 'Returned to sender'. I am quite f*cking sure I did not send this bottle in the first place. So why don't I open and drink it? It can't be dangerous!"
Anybody with some common sense would not act this way IRL, but with computers its all different...
> The green bastards also painted flames on the side and put a tacky neon license plate mount on the front..
yes... and the license plate number will we "OWN3D"
Slashdot Mirror
Serves them right. Wait, theyre probably using the evil technology of Apache, which was bugged by al Quaeda to stop me from viewing this article.
We just did a 4 bit multiplier using 3 PLDs. And this is in our second year (of 4). AND this is required for all students of computing science at our university (oldenburg/northern germany).
> I think I speak for a collective 47.6% of all slashdotters when I say... WHA-PSSSH!!!
The normal rule "A percent sign terminates a lie" applies.
> The spent fuel will burn up in the atmosphere, disintegrating into small particles. It will spread out and deliver a dose probably less than what you get in a doctor's office from an X-ray machine.
RTFP! Nobody says anything about the fuel, but about the *reactor core*!
> Witness events like the brownouts in California and the big power outage last year in the northeast U.S.
...
The power outage was imho completely unrelated to a lack of energy in the wires. Correct me if im wrong.
Honestly - did anyone read the Club of Rome publications on sustainable deveolpment -- or, ANYTHING on sd?
TMTOWTDI in dealing with a 'lack' of energy:
- try to cut down on energy use
- provide more energy
-
The very thing about sustainable development is that we are not to go 'back to the cave', but we are to use and develop our technology in a way that will enable future generations to live.
Nuclear power has 3 problems: 1) it generates waste that is toxic for a long period of time, 2) it was over-sold and over-hyped when it was first introduced in the US, which led us to jump into this technology before we were competent with it, and 3) in the minds of average people its hopelessly linked to nuclear weapons, and the fear of mass destruction, even though the technology and goals are completely different between the 2 disciplines.
IANANS, but you are wrong with Numer 3: The spent fuel from german (and french, british) reactors is reprocessed at the factorys in La Hague and Sellafield where plutonium is a by-product of reprocessal. Thil plutonium can then be enhanced to weapon-grade plutonium for use in a nuclear bomb with little to no effort. So much for "no connection".
As far as the waste is concerned, how can you advocate the use of next generation nuclear plants if you do not have a final, "eternal" (read: eternity compliant) disposal site?
And for "the rest of the world": germany has govenrment-imposed plans to get out of nuclear power within the next 25 to 30 years (which is - in my opinion - too long a period to produce waste nobody can dispose of).
A german study found that EVERY german power plant would suffer a meltdown if attacked by a commercial airliner with half a tank of kerosine. Are there similar studies in the US?
Thwow him to the pfloor.
- Sorry?
Thwow him to the pfloor.
Shut up!
> ...the Net Content Classification Tribunal. The whole exercise could (...) suck up billions of dollars.
I apply for the position of chairman of said comitee. 'Nuff said.
> I just told someone at work about this, and he said ".sex? What would that be for...porn sites?"
Of course not. This is specially for the UK:
middle.sex, es.sex, sus.sex etc.
>>Ok so in the future we will know when a 100km diameter asteroid is gonna hit earth.
>You realize that a 100km asteroid would not be an asteroid, it would be the second largest planet in our solar system (jupiter being around 140km)
There is a slight mistake here (mod parent wrong!):
Jupiter has not 140km diameter but 140k km (142984 km to be exact).
> With a small amount of research I'm sure you can pull up stupid laws and occurences for just about every state in the union.
You dont even need to do the research: http://www.dumblaws.com has it all!
> ... other news, like a 10th planet being found ...
German IT-Site heise has the story.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/45578
But this would not really be the 10th "planet" but the 11th... AFAIK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaoar and Sedna are quite similar.
> 1) It has a simple text message plus a binary payload attachment.
:-/
> 2) It uses no M$ exploits (patched or unpatched) to install itself.
> 3) It depends on someone opening the attachment to start an infection.
Compared to the real world this would be something like:
"Whoa! Theres a black, unmarked bottle on my doorstep that reads 'Returned to sender'. I am quite f*cking sure I did not send this bottle in the first place. So why don't I open and drink it? It can't be dangerous!"
Anybody with some common sense would not act this way IRL, but with computers its all different...
I pity the state of the union
> The green bastards also painted flames on the side and put a tacky neon license plate mount on the front.. yes... and the license plate number will we "OWN3D"