Contrary to bad physics in the press, the problem is not the "release of radiation" (alpha, beta, gamma and other radiation being emmited by the reactor). The real problem is the release of stuff that releases radiation (radioactive material getting into the air), which is apparently one step too complex for the news*.
The number of decays per second in any material is related to the quantities of each radiactive isotope present. Adding more radioactive material increases the number of decays occuring per second. You could measure the rate of this addition in (decays per second) per second.
So, decays per second per second is a valid measure of the rate of release of radioactive substances.
* The other real problem is that a lot of the unstable and stable large atoms evolved in the reactor are toxic, in a conventional way, since they are heavy metals. I don't know if that is relevant in this case.
This seems 100% content-free... First of all, is this about the web or the internet? If they don't know the difference, how did they get on the front page of Slashdot?
I can fairly reliably beat some people. You see, a human's idea of "random" can be pretty predictable. People's reactions can be quite amusing; especially if they "know" it's a random game.
Once they figure it out and start playing by predicting my moves instead of trying to behave randomly, the score tends to even out. Also, it becomes quite an interesting game.
I'd love to see somebody do that, but in practise there would be a risk of the bomb squad flipping out and using a controlled explosion. Bye bye car, and bye bye all evidence to use against the feds.
I'm surprised there are so few yahoo users - after all, the Yahoo Toolbar is bundled with the Java installer for Windows, and with Yahoo Messenger, and at least in Firefox, it automatically hijacks the search bar, which most users don't know how to configure.
People are afraid of that sort of intervention, because of what happened last time: after two US servicemen were killed by a nightclub bomb that was probably connected to Gadaffi, the US conducted widely condemmed airstrikes on some basically random Libyan government targets, killing at least 15 civilians (not counting those working for the government in a non-military capacity), and Gadaffi's 15 month old adopted kid.
The overall result was massive damage to the reputation of the United States in the middle east, internation sympathy for Gadaffi, who had otherwise looked like a nutter, and of course no change in the regime's behaviour, since they were already completely uncooperative.
So, the world is now very nervous about intervening...
This is another tech story which doesn't really involve tech: humans can get paid a lot to tell people what they want to hear too. Feds would really like to believe that Al-Jazeera is somehow connected to terrorism, even though it's a preposterous idea, and they're happy to pay someone for that information so they don't look like frauds themselves.
Don't forget that Flash on mobiles is basically a scam: Flash is only free of charge for "computers" (RTFEULA for definition). Adobe is charging a license fee to mobile device manufacturers who want to include Flash player. AFAIK, that even includes updates, meaning that Flash updates stop for devices that are no longer supported by a manufacturer, like the N900. Of course, Adobe can hold people to ransom over paid updates by making sure that content created with their newest authoring tools won't play on old versions...
Are there any alternatives that feature a tag system, and the ability to search the intersection between two tags (as Last.fm did, briefly, before inexplicably removing the feature)?
(i.e. return everything tagged with both "foo" and "bar")
The idea that KDE was just a desktop environment was causing more and more confusion. Observe the way Slashdot responded to every story about a KDElibs application running on a mobile with snarky comments about how a KDE session would bog down a phone, or the newbies asking "does it work in Gnome?" when recommended a KDE application. And how does KDE for Windows fit in to the picture?
Though I greatly prefer Konqueror, I have to reluctantly agree with the present arrangement. New users get a simple, easy to use file manager, and those who know what they're doing can change the default easily.
This is actually one of the greatest things about KDE: defaults that are both sensible and not too surprising to newbies, and the ability for power-users to easily configure things pretty far from those defaults.
Personally I think it's great. Back when I was in 6th form, they had computers with cheap CRT monitors, all set, out of laziness, at Windows's default mode, which was 1024x786 at 50Hz - OK for some, but a quick way to get a migraine for me. They'd locked them down in various ridiculous ways, including no display settings or running executables from anywhere you can write to, so I used a Microsoft Word macro to change the resolution and refresh rate. Insanity, I know...
OK, so a genuine Microsoft Word document might not hold macros, but a.doc file most certainly can.
I know it's not the intended use, but as you say, a file ending.doc can contain any format recognised by Word and work as expected. This is in semi-common use for communicating with idiots who accept only Word documents, since Word will accept plain-text or RTF, which are both much easier to work with.
These days any sensibly configured email system deletes all email with any forum of executable attachment before it gets anywhere near the end users so email scanning is a bit of a niche market.
Where did you get that from? Remember that.doc is, potentially, an executable format (a Word macro can make arbitrary win32 API calls), not to mention the many exploits that rely on overflows in parsers of non-executable formats.
Any details on what they've done? Is it largely hardware-specific initialisation, or have they made changes that would be useful on a traditional desktop?
If this does provide a way out of the contract, without losing one's N900, where will t-mob customers run? Who is currently providing a decent mobile internet service in the UK?
That makes no sense. It doesn't matter how fat their pipe is because your computer needs to receive and ack those TCP packets. They can't just dump the file and close the connection.
OK, not on the (intentionally ridiculous) scale used in the example, but people are doing something very similar to what you describe, even though they "can't do that".
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/11/26/1729218
Also, nevermind hunting for a decent "ssh app" - it has OpenSSH.
And it is indeed a proper Linux system, with all those little tools you'll eventually need when some server breaks, like dig and nmap and so on.
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Contrary to bad physics in the press, the problem is not the "release of radiation" (alpha, beta, gamma and other radiation being emmited by the reactor). The real problem is the release of stuff that releases radiation (radioactive material getting into the air), which is apparently one step too complex for the news*.
The number of decays per second in any material is related to the quantities of each radiactive isotope present. Adding more radioactive material increases the number of decays occuring per second. You could measure the rate of this addition in (decays per second) per second.
So, decays per second per second is a valid measure of the rate of release of radioactive substances.
* The other real problem is that a lot of the unstable and stable large atoms evolved in the reactor are toxic, in a conventional way, since they are heavy metals. I don't know if that is relevant in this case.
Wars? Seriously? Traffic accidents kill substantially more americans than current wars.
This seems 100% content-free... First of all, is this about the web or the internet? If they don't know the difference, how did they get on the front page of Slashdot?
I can fairly reliably beat some people. You see, a human's idea of "random" can be pretty predictable. People's reactions can be quite amusing; especially if they "know" it's a random game.
Once they figure it out and start playing by predicting my moves instead of trying to behave randomly, the score tends to even out. Also, it becomes quite an interesting game.
I'd love to see somebody do that, but in practise there would be a risk of the bomb squad flipping out and using a controlled explosion. Bye bye car, and bye bye all evidence to use against the feds.
I'm surprised there are so few yahoo users - after all, the Yahoo Toolbar is bundled with the Java installer for Windows, and with Yahoo Messenger, and at least in Firefox, it automatically hijacks the search bar, which most users don't know how to configure.
People are afraid of that sort of intervention, because of what happened last time: after two US servicemen were killed by a nightclub bomb that was probably connected to Gadaffi, the US conducted widely condemmed airstrikes on some basically random Libyan government targets, killing at least 15 civilians (not counting those working for the government in a non-military capacity), and Gadaffi's 15 month old adopted kid.
The overall result was massive damage to the reputation of the United States in the middle east, internation sympathy for Gadaffi, who had otherwise looked like a nutter, and of course no change in the regime's behaviour, since they were already completely uncooperative.
So, the world is now very nervous about intervening...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_El_Dorado_Canyon
This is another tech story which doesn't really involve tech: humans can get paid a lot to tell people what they want to hear too. Feds would really like to believe that Al-Jazeera is somehow connected to terrorism, even though it's a preposterous idea, and they're happy to pay someone for that information so they don't look like frauds themselves.
Can they be jailbroken? Can one do anything interesting with the very cheap mini-computers that are about to flood the market?
Don't forget that Flash on mobiles is basically a scam: Flash is only free of charge for "computers" (RTFEULA for definition). Adobe is charging a license fee to mobile device manufacturers who want to include Flash player. AFAIK, that even includes updates, meaning that Flash updates stop for devices that are no longer supported by a manufacturer, like the N900. Of course, Adobe can hold people to ransom over paid updates by making sure that content created with their newest authoring tools won't play on old versions...
Are there any alternatives that feature a tag system, and the ability to search the intersection between two tags (as Last.fm did, briefly, before inexplicably removing the feature)?
(i.e. return everything tagged with both "foo" and "bar")
Tiny amounts of mercury. Less than is found in a typical tin of tuna.
The idea that KDE was just a desktop environment was causing more and more confusion. Observe the way Slashdot responded to every story about a KDElibs application running on a mobile with snarky comments about how a KDE session would bog down a phone, or the newbies asking "does it work in Gnome?" when recommended a KDE application. And how does KDE for Windows fit in to the picture?
Though I greatly prefer Konqueror, I have to reluctantly agree with the present arrangement. New users get a simple, easy to use file manager, and those who know what they're doing can change the default easily.
This is actually one of the greatest things about KDE: defaults that are both sensible and not too surprising to newbies, and the ability for power-users to easily configure things pretty far from those defaults.
Bull sharks relatively regularly turn up surprisingly far from the sea, including in fresh, muddy waters.
Personally I think it's great. Back when I was in 6th form, they had computers with cheap CRT monitors, all set, out of laziness, at Windows's default mode, which was 1024x786 at 50Hz - OK for some, but a quick way to get a migraine for me. They'd locked them down in various ridiculous ways, including no display settings or running executables from anywhere you can write to, so I used a Microsoft Word macro to change the resolution and refresh rate. Insanity, I know...
OK, so a genuine Microsoft Word document might not hold macros, but a .doc file most certainly can.
.doc can contain any format recognised by Word and work as expected. This is in semi-common use for communicating with idiots who accept only Word documents, since Word will accept plain-text or RTF, which are both much easier to work with.
I know it's not the intended use, but as you say, a file ending
Where did you get that from? Remember that .doc is, potentially, an executable format (a Word macro can make arbitrary win32 API calls), not to mention the many exploits that rely on overflows in parsers of non-executable formats.
ClamAV is an open-source AV system. The reason a Windows version is news is that it's usually run on Linux systems, especially mail servers.
Any details on what they've done? Is it largely hardware-specific initialisation, or have they made changes that would be useful on a traditional desktop?
If this does provide a way out of the contract, without losing one's N900, where will t-mob customers run? Who is currently providing a decent mobile internet service in the UK?
OK, not on the (intentionally ridiculous) scale used in the example, but people are doing something very similar to what you describe, even though they "can't do that". http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/11/26/1729218
Also, nevermind hunting for a decent "ssh app" - it has OpenSSH. And it is indeed a proper Linux system, with all those little tools you'll eventually need when some server breaks, like dig and nmap and so on.
"Many games are written in C++, but this requires a lot of libraries to store information" is a bullshit justification for any technology.
It seems that whenever MS gets involved in something really awesome, they have to dishonestly push one of their more bullshit technologies with it. (They sponsored the above.)