Among the residents of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, there had been up to the year 2005 more than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer reported in children and adolescents who were exposed at the time of the accident, and more cases can be expected during the next decades.
Notwithstanding the influence of enhanced screening regimes, many of those cancers were most likely caused by radiation exposures shortly after the accident.
Apart from this increase, there is no evidence of a major public health impact attributable to radiation exposure two decades after the accident. There is no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality rates or in rates of non-malignant disorders that could be related to radiation exposure.
The incidence of leukaemia in the general population, one of the main concerns owing to the shorter time expected between exposure and its occurrence compared with solid cancers, does not appear to be elevated. Although those most highly exposed individuals are at an increased risk of radiation-associated effects, the great majority of the population is not likely to experience serious health consequences as a result of radiation from the Chernobyl accident.
Many other health problems have been noted in the populations that are not related to radiation exposure.
thyroid cancer is generally treatable. With proper treatment, the five-year survival rate of thyroid cancer is 96%, and 92% after 30 years, suggesting there may be up to 500 early deaths from this cause.
That's the worst known nuclear accident we have. Compare that to hydro:
The Banqiao Dam was designed to survive a once-in-1000-years flood (300 mm of rainfall per day). In August 1975, however, a once-in-2000-years flood occurred, and poured more than a year's rainfall in 24 hours (new records were set, at 189.5 mm rainfall per hour and 1060 mm per day, exceeding the average annual precipitation of about 800 mm), which weather forecasts failed to predict....
The resulting flood waters caused a large wave, which was 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) wide and 3â"7 meters (9.8â"23 ft) high in Suiping, to rush downwards into the plains below at nearly 50 kilometers per hour (31 mph), almost wiping out an area 55 kilometers (34 mi) long and 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) wide, and creating temporary lakes as large as 12,000 square kilometers (4,600 sq mi).....
According to the Hydrology Department of Henan Province, in the province, approximately 26,000 people died from flooding and another 145,000 died during subsequent epidemics and famine. In addition, about 5,960,000 buildings collapsed, and 11 million residents were affected.
At the end of the day, the fact is that by producting large amounts of electricity, we need to handle large amounts of energy. If we fail to handle them properly, Shit Go Crazy(TM). Even with "safe" stuff like water. The trick is in engineering things properly, as mentioned several times before.
However, after waiting a year... How many of those IP adresses can still be traced to a specific user? How many ISP's don't have logs that far back?
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Heh, let me tell you a small tale..
Some time ago, I bought a new TV for my mom (she had an old, horrible 32" tube TV that was headache-inducing to watch, at least for me), and also got her a new HD decoder for her satelite, mainly for HDMI out (old one had SCART) and recording possibiliy.
When configuring it, I put the channels she watched the most at the lowest numbers (8 of them), and the others she usually didn't watch I put at the end (5 more). They also had some HD versions of some channels, but they didn't send the local news shows, so I just put them in at the end, mostly for easily compare picture quality HD vs SD. I didn't really tell her about them much, just mentioned there was some extra channels further past the 8 normal ones.
Now, my mom is very techno illiterate. She never use the channel up and down buttons, or channel menus or program guides or things like that.. Only way she change channel is by typing in the number. Going from channel 12 to channel 13? Click in 1 3. Browse all channels? Click 1. wait. Click 2. Wait.. You get the idea. I think she only use the volume and number buttons on the control, and sometimes the pause button when she feels extra sophisticated.
She also use glasses, and have cataract on one eye. And, she's never been used to better image quality than that old 32" blurry SCART-travelling signal, so I figured out that explaining the HD vs SD difference would only be confusing and pointless. SD would impress her enough, and the LCD screen would hopefully give her less eye strain than the old one..
So, imagine my suprise (and amusement) when I visited her some weeks later, and she was watching one of the HD versions. She'd found them all on her own, managed to see the difference, and found out the HD ones were "better and clearer", as she said when I asked her.
And, if she managed to find that out on her own, with both the technical and eye handicaps.... Well... I was impressed at least:) And so HD might have something in it after all.
Why thank you for pointing this out! This is so completely unlike HDD's which I've used for over 20 years now! You should write an article and post it to Slashdot [/sarcasm]
Sorry, was too big a temptation:) Anyway, what you point out is true, and is exactly the same for harddisks. Which is why I have a server with 6tb in raid5 for storing anything important (and, I'll admit, a truckload of unimportant stuff).
Plus dropbox also works as a secondary backup system for some of my data (mostly code snippets and projects, savegames, text documents.. Generally data that's small and is survivable if US govt looks at it:) ) - dropbox also have the bonus of mirroring the data over several seperate computers, making it a good backup even if my house burned down and dropbox went tits-up at the same moment.
Heh. My main computer's SSD, with the current write pattern, is expected to last at least 10 years before it starts to fail (before it hits the limit where manufacturer says the first chips might start to fail).
It's when I see posts like this I'd wish we had "-1, Just Plain damn wrong" mod.
I agree with your first two sentences, but the two paragraphs under are just.. well.. how shall I say it? It's like listening to a crack-smoking environmentalist talking about cars.
And prefetch is nowhere near the same feeling as an SSD. I know. I have 6gb ram, and ran Win7 on a raptor before switching to SSD. The difference really was huge. I have bought a total of 3 SSD's (2 el cheapo's and one proper), and all three still works perfectly.
I've also convinced 2 work colleagues and a friend to try out SSD. All three had Win7 and plenty of RAM. All three was astonished over how much better responsiveness the PC had after the upgrade. One even said it fundamentally changed how he used the PC, from keeping it on all the time, to just turn it on when needed.
With current data write rate and wear leveling the SSD in my gaming rig is expected to have a lifetime of minimum 10 years before the flash bricks will start to wear out.
So their defense is to list crimes that are worse than what they (law enforcement) are doing?
"Your Honor, it's true that I've stolen millions of dollars, and beaten people to within an inch of their lives, but remember that there are people out there who have KILLED hundreds of people!"
"You know, you make a really compelling argument there. You're free to go."
or, does this only work if you're in the government?
In the end, they see the "shiny that they want", and will do want they need to get it. Oh, this website needs to install an Active X control and administrator access? Sure, if I get my video/game/screensaver!
(and I highly doubt that absolute morals exist in the first place)
Reminds of a Terry Pratchett quote, a conversation between Death and his granddaughter (sort of), Susan:
'All right,' said Susan. 'I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."
"REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE"
'Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little- "
"YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES"
'So we can believe the big ones?"
"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING"
'They're not the same at all!"
"YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET-- "
Death waved a hand. "AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME... SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED"
'Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point---"
What if the mass execution has a life-affirming purpose, e.g. to save humans and livestock from malaria?
So if it's about improving the quality of life for humans and animals humans care about, its okay? What if the booth also was about improving the quality of life for some humans?
"You are without doubt the WORST pirate I've ever heard of!" "But you HAVE heard of me"
-- Jack Sparrow
The thing is, how good you are is not always that important. Sometimes, the important part is what other think you can. And the excellent hackers that noone hears of, well.. They got the "problem" that noone knows about them, and thus don't recruit them.
We already have some of that. It's far from perfect, and it authenticates the browser session not the user.
The key ingredient is called "OpenID" - There's been a lot of things said about it, some being nonsense, and some being true. However, it has some very good points:
1. It's secure. I don't know of any successful attacks against openid directly.
2. It allows a web page to check if the user really is that user without actually asking the user.
3. Since it's SSO and only one place to authenticate the user, it can be done properly I mostly use google's openid provider, and have 2 factor auth configured for that account.
It's not perfect, but it's what we got, and it's miles better than the current standards (username + password)
On Android: Internet permission flag, and if rooted, Droidwall (iptables frontend, can filter on a per-app basis)
Note : Root is not the same as jailbreak, root is just enable the "su" binary, and can be done with standard SDK on phones with unlocked bootloaders (and is usually easy to flash a new, unlocked bootloader / kernel on a phone - often with the phone's own flash tools)
function update() {
var res = document.getElementById('resultId');
var seed = document.getElementById('seedId');
var param = document.getElementById('parameterId');
var hashapass =
b64_hmac_sha1
(seed.value,
param.value).substr(0,8);
res.value = hashapass;
seed.value = '';
res.select(); }
As long as you're allowed to make an ascii text document and have access to a web browser, that's available.
And what happens when it takes 10 seconds for one of your users to log in (not to mention what happens when you got multiple logins at the same time), and the attacker still can do a billion tries per second thanks to his GPU farm?
Slashdot Mirror
Listen, that is just plain idiotic. Noone is forcing you to visit Slashdot those days, and .. wait, did you say kdawson?
Hmm..
Do you have a page accepting donations for your cause, or something?
Among the residents of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, there had been up to the year 2005 more than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer reported in children and adolescents who were exposed at the time of the accident, and more cases can be expected during the next decades.
Notwithstanding the influence of enhanced screening regimes, many of those cancers were most likely caused by radiation exposures shortly after the accident.
Apart from this increase, there is no evidence of a major public health impact attributable to radiation exposure two decades after the accident. There is no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality rates or in rates of non-malignant disorders that could be related to radiation exposure.
The incidence of leukaemia in the general population, one of the main concerns owing to the shorter time expected between exposure and its occurrence compared with solid cancers, does not appear to be elevated. Although those most highly exposed individuals are at an increased risk of radiation-associated effects, the great majority of the population is not likely to experience serious health consequences as a result of radiation from the Chernobyl accident.
Many other health problems have been noted in the populations that are not related to radiation exposure.
thyroid cancer is generally treatable. With proper treatment, the five-year survival rate of thyroid cancer is 96%, and 92% after 30 years, suggesting there may be up to 500 early deaths from this cause.
Source
That's the worst known nuclear accident we have. Compare that to hydro:
The Banqiao Dam was designed to survive a once-in-1000-years flood (300 mm of rainfall per day). In August 1975, however, a once-in-2000-years flood occurred, and poured more than a year's rainfall in 24 hours (new records were set, at 189.5 mm rainfall per hour and 1060 mm per day, exceeding the average annual precipitation of about 800 mm), which weather forecasts failed to predict ....
The resulting flood waters caused a large wave, which was 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) wide and 3â"7 meters (9.8â"23 ft) high in Suiping, to rush downwards into the plains below at nearly 50 kilometers per hour (31 mph), almost wiping out an area 55 kilometers (34 mi) long and 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) wide, and creating temporary lakes as large as 12,000 square kilometers (4,600 sq mi). ....
According to the Hydrology Department of Henan Province, in the province, approximately 26,000 people died from flooding and another 145,000 died during subsequent epidemics and famine. In addition, about 5,960,000 buildings collapsed, and 11 million residents were affected.
Source
At the end of the day, the fact is that by producting large amounts of electricity, we need to handle large amounts of energy. If we fail to handle them properly, Shit Go Crazy(TM). Even with "safe" stuff like water. The trick is in engineering things properly, as mentioned several times before.
However, after waiting a year... How many of those IP adresses can still be traced to a specific user? How many ISP's don't have logs that far back?
Heh, let me tell you a small tale..
Some time ago, I bought a new TV for my mom (she had an old, horrible 32" tube TV that was headache-inducing to watch, at least for me), and also got her a new HD decoder for her satelite, mainly for HDMI out (old one had SCART) and recording possibiliy.
When configuring it, I put the channels she watched the most at the lowest numbers (8 of them), and the others she usually didn't watch I put at the end (5 more). They also had some HD versions of some channels, but they didn't send the local news shows, so I just put them in at the end, mostly for easily compare picture quality HD vs SD. I didn't really tell her about them much, just mentioned there was some extra channels further past the 8 normal ones.
Now, my mom is very techno illiterate. She never use the channel up and down buttons, or channel menus or program guides or things like that.. Only way she change channel is by typing in the number. Going from channel 12 to channel 13? Click in 1 3. Browse all channels? Click 1. wait. Click 2. Wait.. You get the idea. I think she only use the volume and number buttons on the control, and sometimes the pause button when she feels extra sophisticated.
She also use glasses, and have cataract on one eye. And, she's never been used to better image quality than that old 32" blurry SCART-travelling signal, so I figured out that explaining the HD vs SD difference would only be confusing and pointless. SD would impress her enough, and the LCD screen would hopefully give her less eye strain than the old one..
So, imagine my suprise (and amusement) when I visited her some weeks later, and she was watching one of the HD versions. She'd found them all on her own, managed to see the difference, and found out the HD ones were "better and clearer", as she said when I asked her.
And, if she managed to find that out on her own, with both the technical and eye handicaps.... Well... I was impressed at least :) And so HD might have something in it after all.
I was thinking more of a moon-in-the-middle attack here, but hey.. that could work too.
After seeing one of those companies define a .css file as "hardcore porn" I kinda lost the faith in them a bit.
Why thank you for pointing this out! This is so completely unlike HDD's which I've used for over 20 years now! You should write an article and post it to Slashdot [/sarcasm]
Sorry, was too big a temptation :)
Anyway, what you point out is true, and is exactly the same for harddisks. Which is why I have a server with 6tb in raid5 for storing anything important (and, I'll admit, a truckload of unimportant stuff).
Plus dropbox also works as a secondary backup system for some of my data (mostly code snippets and projects, savegames, text documents.. Generally data that's small and is survivable if US govt looks at it :) ) - dropbox also have the bonus of mirroring the data over several seperate computers, making it a good backup even if my house burned down and dropbox went tits-up at the same moment.
Heh. My main computer's SSD, with the current write pattern, is expected to last at least 10 years before it starts to fail (before it hits the limit where manufacturer says the first chips might start to fail).
(well, according to this program at least)
It's when I see posts like this I'd wish we had "-1, Just Plain damn wrong" mod.
I agree with your first two sentences, but the two paragraphs under are just .. well.. how shall I say it? It's like listening to a crack-smoking environmentalist talking about cars.
Return rates: HDD & SSD
And prefetch is nowhere near the same feeling as an SSD. I know. I have 6gb ram, and ran Win7 on a raptor before switching to SSD. The difference really was huge. I have bought a total of 3 SSD's (2 el cheapo's and one proper), and all three still works perfectly.
I've also convinced 2 work colleagues and a friend to try out SSD. All three had Win7 and plenty of RAM. All three was astonished over how much better responsiveness the PC had after the upgrade. One even said it fundamentally changed how he used the PC, from keeping it on all the time, to just turn it on when needed.
With current data write rate and wear leveling the SSD in my gaming rig is expected to have a lifetime of minimum 10 years before the flash bricks will start to wear out.
Of course it's a toy. Meant for amusement. For entertainment.
This and this are the non-toy versions.
So their defense is to list crimes that are worse than what they (law enforcement) are doing?
"Your Honor, it's true that I've stolen millions of dollars, and beaten people to within an inch of their lives, but remember that there are people out there who have KILLED hundreds of people!"
"You know, you make a really compelling argument there. You're free to go."
or, does this only work if you're in the government?
Ah, let me get my BizTranslator(TM) up and running:
We picked EA because they have recast their culture around making great digital games,'
Translation: We picked EA because they're giving us large sacks of cash, plus hookers and blow. (Note: damn, I'm high now!!!)
By working with EA, we'll scale our games and services to deliver more social, mobile, casual fun to an even bigger, global audience
Translation: By working with EA we gain large sacks of cash, plus hookers and blow. (Note: woah, I'm flying...)
In the end, they see the "shiny that they want", and will do want they need to get it. Oh, this website needs to install an Active X control and administrator access? Sure, if I get my video/game/screensaver!
Reference : Dancing pigs / Dancing bunnies problem.
Counter-Watson? Sweet little Eliza will be more than enough for that task :)
(and I highly doubt that absolute morals exist in the first place)
Reminds of a Terry Pratchett quote, a conversation between Death and his granddaughter (sort of), Susan:
'All right,' said Susan. 'I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."
"REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE"
'Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little- "
"YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES"
'So we can believe the big ones?"
"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING"
'They're not the same at all!"
"YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET-- "
Death waved a hand. "AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME... SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED"
'Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point---"
"MY POINT EXACTLY"
What if the mass execution has a life-affirming purpose, e.g. to save humans and livestock from malaria?
So if it's about improving the quality of life for humans and animals humans care about, its okay? What if the booth also was about improving the quality of life for some humans?
"You are without doubt the WORST pirate I've ever heard of!"
"But you HAVE heard of me"
-- Jack Sparrow
The thing is, how good you are is not always that important. Sometimes, the important part is what other think you can. And the excellent hackers that noone hears of, well.. They got the "problem" that noone knows about them, and thus don't recruit them.
s/hobos/(industrial spies|professional gangs)/
--- hey, now it actually sounds a bit sensible
"SURVEILLANCE IS PRIVACY"
-Norwegian politicians trying to defend DRD.
We already have some of that. It's far from perfect, and it authenticates the browser session not the user.
The key ingredient is called "OpenID" - There's been a lot of things said about it, some being nonsense, and some being true. However, it has some very good points:
1. It's secure. I don't know of any successful attacks against openid directly.
2. It allows a web page to check if the user really is that user without actually asking the user.
3. Since it's SSO and only one place to authenticate the user, it can be done properly I mostly use google's openid provider, and have 2 factor auth configured for that account.
It's not perfect, but it's what we got, and it's miles better than the current standards (username + password)
On Android: Internet permission flag, and if rooted, Droidwall (iptables frontend, can filter on a per-app basis)
Note : Root is not the same as jailbreak, root is just enable the "su" binary, and can be done with standard SDK on phones with unlocked bootloaders (and is usually easy to flash a new, unlocked bootloader / kernel on a phone - often with the phone's own flash tools)
And another PA one
You could try looking at a solution like http://www.hashapass.com/
The relevant JS code:
function update() .substr(0,8);
{
var res = document.getElementById('resultId');
var seed = document.getElementById('seedId');
var param = document.getElementById('parameterId');
var hashapass =
b64_hmac_sha1
(seed.value,
param.value)
res.value = hashapass;
seed.value = '';
res.select();
}
As long as you're allowed to make an ascii text document and have access to a web browser, that's available.
You're assuming that the cost ratio CPU / GPU will continue to be the same. That's not certain at all.
I can easily see both the per-card cost going down, and see per-gpu calculating power get increasingly ahead of CPU in these things.
And what happens when it takes 10 seconds for one of your users to log in (not to mention what happens when you got multiple logins at the same time), and the attacker still can do a billion tries per second thanks to his GPU farm?