I would suspect that he is now unable to 'get over' anything. He was probably killed by mysterious roundhouse related injuries within seconds of his post being submitted.
Jesus. Do you know how much radioactive material was released at Chernobyl? A damn sight more than could ever be acquired by even the most ambitious dirty bomb maker. Dirty bombs are hopeless as a mass casualty weapon. Their only danger comes as 'panic weapons' enabled by peoples ignorance.
"Any primary "Dirty Bomb" Victims that inhale, eat, drink, or consume into their bodies ANY energetically decaying radioisotopes (especially ones with relatively short half-lives) will have an *almost certain chance* of developing lung and/or bone cancers."
This is nonsense. Cancer risk is dependent on amount of radioactive isotope ingested. Military tests (from the US and UK) found long ago that the area contaminated to significant levels, in a realistically sized radiological bomb, was very small indeed. In fact most, if not all, people in the contaminated area will have been killed by the blast and no time to worry about cancer.
Essentially all catalog images are manipulated. Some are even computer renders rather than real photos. My housemate used to work for a company that imported a lot of the stuff sold in Argos (UK crappy catalog chain). They used to sometimes submit the product photos before the actual items existed, while they were still being manufactured in China.
No, there is much more intermediate from a pebble bed and approximately the same amount of high level. It's a consequence of cycling the moderator along with the fuel. I agree that more research into next gen designs is definitely needed though.
A LOCA in a PWR design is always a concern but TMI at least showed that we can contain a 'worst case' accident. I always felt that a fission-fusion hybrid would be the best use of our current technology. A sub-critical fission assembly wrapped around a tokamak would be intrinsically safe and efficient. Never fly politically though unfortunately.
Chernobyl's failure had nothing to do with material safety issues. It was a poor conceptual design for a reactor coupled with operators who, through no fault of their own, had no real understanding of what they were doing.
There are alternatives. Most of the current running PWR pressure vessels were cast in multiple (2 or 3) pieces and welded together. The Russians cast their own pressure vessels. There are also other reactor designs despite PWR being the overwhelming favourite for new build.
New nuclear build is not going to grind to a halt because this plant can't keep up.
We'll have to agree to disagree. I know Douglas wrote a lot of movie material but they had also been trying and failing to make it for a long time because it didn't get his approval. He died, suddenly it got made.
I didn't want a carbon copy of the books. What annoyed me were the sections taken from the books and changed to make them less funny. Why? The Trillian love interest was badly done too in my opinion.
It wasn't all bad; the Steven Fry voiced guide sections were great. Marvin was quite well done.
The guy seems to miss the point entirely, make vague spiritual overtones and I wonder if has even read the books. Was he one of the scriptwriters for the hitchikers movie?
How many people read HowardForums anyway? If they insist on relying on security through obscurity, then taking legal action that lands the url on the front page of slashdot is probably not their smartest move.
I worked at a site that, for security reasons, had to be air gapped from the 'net. All the email was handled via tape. Worked fine as long as you didn't mind only getting new email twice a day.
Now stage6 has gone, there's no site that provides decent quality streaming content. Youtube should get rid of the 10 min length cap and up their quality to fill the gap in the market.
Obviously, when I say market, I mean enormous money hole...
I hate this shit. Why does it matter if I have long hair? Why should people give a crap what I'm wearing? These things have nothing to do with my competance to perform any given task. Yet I know that people will judge me based on it.
'Control rods' are not graphite; they are made from something which is a neutron absorber. This is most usually a boron or cadmium containing material. Graphite is used as a neutron moderator. I'd be surprised if the shutdown in this case was automated. Automated shutdowns are rare; the operators normally have plenty of time to shut down before the things become potentially dangerous and a automated shutdown is triggered.
All of the 'sex text' lines (i.e. like sex chat lines, only text messages) are run by bot software. Nice way to make cash; some server sending out messages at £1.50 a time!
It's an important message. FPS's teach that, no matter how good you are, there's still a chance you'll get killed stone dead by some noob spraying his AK around. Sometimes the noob is even on your side...
Exactly; my business partner once nearly clicked through a Paypal related one, until I noticed what he was doing and gave him a slap round the head. He was very tired and somewhat hungover so can be (slightly) excused. Judgement mistakes happen to everyone and these scum happily capitalise on them.
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I would suspect that he is now unable to 'get over' anything. He was probably killed by mysterious roundhouse related injuries within seconds of his post being submitted.
Well, he registered it in 1994 so I don't think you missed out.
I've got some bits of the Nuffield cyclotron in my lab. Old physics equipment rarely dies; it's recycled into the next generations of experiments.
"Any primary "Dirty Bomb" Victims that inhale, eat, drink, or consume into their bodies ANY energetically decaying radioisotopes (especially ones with relatively short half-lives) will have an *almost certain chance* of developing lung and/or bone cancers."
This is nonsense. Cancer risk is dependent on amount of radioactive isotope ingested. Military tests (from the US and UK) found long ago that the area contaminated to significant levels, in a realistically sized radiological bomb, was very small indeed. In fact most, if not all, people in the contaminated area will have been killed by the blast and no time to worry about cancer.
Essentially all catalog images are manipulated. Some are even computer renders rather than real photos. My housemate used to work for a company that imported a lot of the stuff sold in Argos (UK crappy catalog chain). They used to sometimes submit the product photos before the actual items existed, while they were still being manufactured in China.
A LOCA in a PWR design is always a concern but TMI at least showed that we can contain a 'worst case' accident. I always felt that a fission-fusion hybrid would be the best use of our current technology. A sub-critical fission assembly wrapped around a tokamak would be intrinsically safe and efficient. Never fly politically though unfortunately.
I'm not a huge fan of pebble bed. It's inherent safety comes at the cost of much more intermediate level waste being produced.
Chernobyl's failure had nothing to do with material safety issues. It was a poor conceptual design for a reactor coupled with operators who, through no fault of their own, had no real understanding of what they were doing.
New nuclear build is not going to grind to a halt because this plant can't keep up.
One comment and already the site is down. Maybe he's already buried, along with his server, in a shallow grave out in the desert.
I didn't want a carbon copy of the books. What annoyed me were the sections taken from the books and changed to make them less funny. Why? The Trillian love interest was badly done too in my opinion. It wasn't all bad; the Steven Fry voiced guide sections were great. Marvin was quite well done.
The guy seems to miss the point entirely, make vague spiritual overtones and I wonder if has even read the books. Was he one of the scriptwriters for the hitchikers movie?
Have we ever slashdotted a TV provider before?
I worked at a site that, for security reasons, had to be air gapped from the 'net. All the email was handled via tape. Worked fine as long as you didn't mind only getting new email twice a day.
Obviously, when I say market, I mean enormous money hole...
It is one of the finest pieces of political TV ever.
I hate this shit. Why does it matter if I have long hair? Why should people give a crap what I'm wearing? These things have nothing to do with my competance to perform any given task. Yet I know that people will judge me based on it.
'Control rods' are not graphite; they are made from something which is a neutron absorber. This is most usually a boron or cadmium containing material. Graphite is used as a neutron moderator. I'd be surprised if the shutdown in this case was automated. Automated shutdowns are rare; the operators normally have plenty of time to shut down before the things become potentially dangerous and a automated shutdown is triggered.
All of the 'sex text' lines (i.e. like sex chat lines, only text messages) are run by bot software. Nice way to make cash; some server sending out messages at £1.50 a time!
Is he running his website off it?
Because it's a fun, geeky thing to do. Why do you post on slashdot? It's essentilly a waste of time and (indirectly) money.
It's an important message. FPS's teach that, no matter how good you are, there's still a chance you'll get killed stone dead by some noob spraying his AK around. Sometimes the noob is even on your side...
Exactly; my business partner once nearly clicked through a Paypal related one, until I noticed what he was doing and gave him a slap round the head. He was very tired and somewhat hungover so can be (slightly) excused. Judgement mistakes happen to everyone and these scum happily capitalise on them.
That small, I'm pretty sure, it'll have to be fairly highly enriched uranium metal. Think sub reactor.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/106587008/PDFSTART
It's a 2meg pdf but worth it for the little blue dot picture.