You are quite correct, but only if the country/group in question is refining it's own fissile material. It took the USSR about two years to get to plutonium bombs even with their total disregard for safe working practices.
However, given an appropriate quantity of fissile material, workable nukes can be made in any machine shop. All of the other materials are commodity items these days.
The explosive lens design is not that difficult; there is lots of design data in the open literature. Someone with access to enough decent quality explosives would not find their construction difficult. The electronics are also not the obstacle they once were. Remember that 'Fat Man' and its immediate successors were constructed with pre-semiconductor technology. High quality thyrotrons and similar are now available for a few dollars on ebay; these will reliably switch at the required speeds. The high speed detonators that the los alamos group had to invent and build from scratch are inferior to todays standard demolition detonators in terms of speed and repeatability. A 'modern' bomb would be difficult. An old style bomb, with larger packaging, is fairly simple.
A bomb is not a reactor. The trick is getting enough together quickly enough that you get a big bang rather than a moderate one that just scatters your fissile material. This is still, for uranium at least, a relatively trivial problem but not as trivial as you imply.
What you need is this, with a canopy of some kind;
http://reversetrike.com/indycycle.html
You do have to build it yourself. I'm seriously considering one.
Fucking leslock. I curse it to this day. Amstrad CPC with a greenscreen + lenslock was an exercise in futility.
First example I remember of being prevented from using software I had actually paid for.
It annoys the hell out of me trying to use it as a 'real' office suite. The excel and powerpoint clones just aren't up to the task. It's ok for quick, casual tasks but so is Google docs. I don't see the advantage for google in adopting it.
No, it's totally winnable. Now I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more then ten to twenty million killed, tops. Depending on the breaks.
I know that this story gets touted around every year but I think there's some truth in it. I tutor some 1st year physics students and their math skills are shocking. They can follow 'recipes' well enough to solve questions they're used to. However, present them with a problem where they have to actually think and they're stumped.
Facebook is not a good site for the privacy concious. My friend always maintained that the one thing that orwell didn't forsee is that people would pay for and maintain their own cameras.
One of these days' has been here for a while. Buy one 2nd hand, 6 grand:
http://www.labx.com/v2/adsearch/detail3.cfm?adnumb=356848
That one's possibly broken but you can get a fully functional one for ~20 grand, second hand, these days.
I was withdrawing some money from an online gambling site. They phoned me for some reason and I had to give the answer to my 'secret question' to validate who I was. Problem was I had no idea what it was. It was like a game of 20 questions... "I have no idea...is it a name?" "No" "A place?" "Yes" "A city?" "Yes" and so on...
I really, really want a decent e-ink ebook reader which can handle wikipedia and pdfs.
£400 ($800) is just far too much though. I'm amazed that anyone is buying them at that price. They need to get down to ~£100.
I quite liked doom3 but it never felt like the originals. The best bits of the first two were where you have enormous numbers of bad guys attacking you en masse. That basically never happened in 3.
I agree. I occasionally use open wireless (thank you linksys) when I'm out and about with my Nokia 770 to check email and similar. I see no problem with this - I'm not impacting anyones internet use and I'm not pulling down enough to fuck with their monthly cap. People raping their neighbors pipe with aggressive bittorrent use are in a different category. Even if their neighbor should lock down their damn connection.
I worked at AWE for a while. They have an internal network that's air gapped from the 'net. All email is handled via tape transfer between an inside and an outside server. Everyone runs thin clients apart from people who absolutely can't (CAD guys mainly); they run off desktops with removable drives which are locked in a safe overnight. Is actually much less of a pain in the ass than you'd think; you adjust pretty quickly to a 2 hour delay on your email.
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You are quite correct, but only if the country/group in question is refining it's own fissile material. It took the USSR about two years to get to plutonium bombs even with their total disregard for safe working practices. However, given an appropriate quantity of fissile material, workable nukes can be made in any machine shop. All of the other materials are commodity items these days.
The explosive lens design is not that difficult; there is lots of design data in the open literature. Someone with access to enough decent quality explosives would not find their construction difficult. The electronics are also not the obstacle they once were. Remember that 'Fat Man' and its immediate successors were constructed with pre-semiconductor technology. High quality thyrotrons and similar are now available for a few dollars on ebay; these will reliably switch at the required speeds. The high speed detonators that the los alamos group had to invent and build from scratch are inferior to todays standard demolition detonators in terms of speed and repeatability. A 'modern' bomb would be difficult. An old style bomb, with larger packaging, is fairly simple.
A bomb is not a reactor. The trick is getting enough together quickly enough that you get a big bang rather than a moderate one that just scatters your fissile material. This is still, for uranium at least, a relatively trivial problem but not as trivial as you imply.
What you need is this, with a canopy of some kind; http://reversetrike.com/indycycle.html You do have to build it yourself. I'm seriously considering one.
Fucking leslock. I curse it to this day. Amstrad CPC with a greenscreen + lenslock was an exercise in futility. First example I remember of being prevented from using software I had actually paid for.
You're lucky. Here in the UK they've banned anything that might LOOK like a weapon. No more paintball guns or BB guns. No pocket knives either.
It annoys the hell out of me trying to use it as a 'real' office suite. The excel and powerpoint clones just aren't up to the task. It's ok for quick, casual tasks but so is Google docs. I don't see the advantage for google in adopting it.
No, it's totally winnable. Now I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more then ten to twenty million killed, tops. Depending on the breaks.
I know that this story gets touted around every year but I think there's some truth in it. I tutor some 1st year physics students and their math skills are shocking. They can follow 'recipes' well enough to solve questions they're used to. However, present them with a problem where they have to actually think and they're stumped.
Facebook is not a good site for the privacy concious. My friend always maintained that the one thing that orwell didn't forsee is that people would pay for and maintain their own cameras.
One of these days' has been here for a while. Buy one 2nd hand, 6 grand: http://www.labx.com/v2/adsearch/detail3.cfm?adnumb=356848 That one's possibly broken but you can get a fully functional one for ~20 grand, second hand, these days.
I'm with Billy Connolly. I'll take 2 dirty slags over 70 virgins ANY day.
I was withdrawing some money from an online gambling site. They phoned me for some reason and I had to give the answer to my 'secret question' to validate who I was. Problem was I had no idea what it was. It was like a game of 20 questions... "I have no idea...is it a name?" "No" "A place?" "Yes" "A city?" "Yes" and so on...
Ok. This paper contains one; http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1989/dehmelt-lecture.pdf It's a single barium atom in a penning trap. They managed to get it to emit enough photons to be naked eye visible.
Here's the excellent video; http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8374792862947777296&q=Joseph+W.+Kittinger+&ei=tK85SI39I5D6jQLmnM3mAw
Try http://tv-links.cc/ (cc is the cocos islands if you were interested). An excellent example of why this kind of action is doomed to failure.
I mean; when people to queue up to buy something when they're not even sure what it IS that's a whole new level of success.
I really, really want a decent e-ink ebook reader which can handle wikipedia and pdfs. £400 ($800) is just far too much though. I'm amazed that anyone is buying them at that price. They need to get down to ~£100.
I was indeed. Insufficient caffeine is what I'll blame...
Get the axe.
I quite liked doom3 but it never felt like the originals. The best bits of the first two were where you have enormous numbers of bad guys attacking you en masse. That basically never happened in 3.
What are they using as their hot backup supply? If they were truly 100% wind they'd have to put up with regular brownouts.
You;re still thinking small. Where's the travel claim? Maybe if you were to hand deliver the to the monks...
I agree. I occasionally use open wireless (thank you linksys) when I'm out and about with my Nokia 770 to check email and similar. I see no problem with this - I'm not impacting anyones internet use and I'm not pulling down enough to fuck with their monthly cap. People raping their neighbors pipe with aggressive bittorrent use are in a different category. Even if their neighbor should lock down their damn connection.
I worked at AWE for a while. They have an internal network that's air gapped from the 'net. All email is handled via tape transfer between an inside and an outside server. Everyone runs thin clients apart from people who absolutely can't (CAD guys mainly); they run off desktops with removable drives which are locked in a safe overnight. Is actually much less of a pain in the ass than you'd think; you adjust pretty quickly to a 2 hour delay on your email.