That's a bit of a misleading statistic. Although 59 people died directly from overexposure to radiation and thyroid cancer, many more, infact an estimated 4000 more will or have died as a result of the accident.
Source: http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Focus/Chernobyl/pdfs/pr.pdf
Comments from the torrent for the leaked emails make for an interesting read also:
MediaDefender-Defenders proudly presents 9 months worth of
internal MediaDefender emails
By releasing these emails we hope to secure the privacy and
personal integrity of all peer-to-peer users. The emails
contains information about the various tactics and technical
solutions for tracking p2p users, and disrupt p2p services.
A special thanks to Jay Maris, for circumventing there entire
email-security by forwarding all your emails to your gmail
account, and using the really highly secure password: blahbob
So here it is, we hope this is enough to create a viable
defense to the tactics used by these companies, also there
should be enough fuel to keep the p2p bloggers busy for
quite some time.
How about thinking about it in terms of how much energy is being wasted globally by these leaks?
At the moment (according to Wikipedia) 103 million PS2s have been sold worldwide. That's an annual leak of 1.8 terawatts. And what's the impact on the environment of generating that energy?
Great article! It's not just the web that gets misrepresented in movies, though. Most computers in film are generally similar in that they're always generating some sort of sound. Anything happening on screen, in some cases just scrolling down a window, is accompanied by a click or a beep or some noise, assumedly, to make sure you didn't miss it. Besides being completely unrealistic, the thought of having to actually work at a computer that noisy, or even a room of computers that noise would drive anyone insane.
Is it just me or are these "commentators" making more frequent and more unfounded predictions?
Their shotgun approach at making these predictions means that the odd time these guys are right, they claim enough credit for their apparent claivoyance to make their constant misguesses not such a big deal.
It'd be nice if there was something solid behind all of this but it's all rumour and it's barely news.
I can clearly see the blue nose in the opera screen shot, and it's meant to be black in the reference diagram.
The nose changes color when you mouseover it. Even in the mess that is Firefox's rendering of the page hovering your mouse over the face causes the nose to change colour from black to blue.
I guess that's something they really should specify in the reference diagram, but it's still a pass for Opera 9.
While I see the reasoning behind the name change, I'm not sure I like it.
"Aftermath" was a title that gave direction. It's the story after the events of Half Life 2. For the majority who haven't been following the development of the expansion, and knew nothing of the original title, the new moniker "Episode 1" seems to beg the question "Of what?".
Exactly. Unless you're some sort of mutant chammois man, employing a touch screen on a video playback device is going to result in smudgey viewing. Even the cleanest hands leave fingerprints.
If you asked those Swedish guys over at thepiratebay.org (a search engine for.torrent files), I'm sure their data would show higher than 30% abuse.
Their legal threats page is a hoot.
On a more serious note, laws like the DMCA that put (arguably) too much power at the hands of copyright holders were always going to be susceptible to abuse. Remaining on the subject of torrent search engines, lokitorrent.com pulled its site down after threats from the MPAA who cited the DMCA, without even going to court. (They later went to court, where it was ruled that the domain owner release all visitor data to the MPAA.) With power like that, where's the incentive not to abuse it?
I highly doubt this is going to effect sales to any degree Microsoft should be concerned with.
This is exactly the same type of thing that happened after both the PSP launch and in particular the iPod Nano launch with the faulty screens/susceptible to scratching fiasco. A few months on and it's still a more desirable item than ever.
I wonder if I'm alone in just wishing that consoles looked like stereo components and fit in my rack without scary balancing acts and lopsided aesthetics.
I've often wished the same thing, and it turns out that Sony actually made something to cater to that market.
The PSX is a DVD Recorder/Tivo-Like device (that uses an interface similar to the XMB type used in the PSP) that's also a PlayStation 2. If you look at the image on the first link, you'll see it wouldn't be at all out of place in a home theatre set-up. It looks like they're still making them, but you can't get them outside of Japan.
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When RSA-200 (a number similar in size to RSA-640) was cracked it was reported (and is noted on this wikipedia page that:
The CPU time spent on finding these factors by a collection of parallel computers amounted very approximately to the equivalent of 55 years work for a single 2.2 GHz Opteron-based computer.
Although that's a rough approximation, it certainly puts the magnitude of effort cracking these numbers involves.
After reading the linked blog, I don't think Yahoo are claiming to have "beat" GMail, as the summary claims (what sort of goals have they set to do this?), rather they're congratulating the Yahoo Mail Team for the effort they've invested thus far in their quest to defeat Google.
I'm sure a handshake and a smile would have been more fitting but hey, it is a nice statue.
...why the reluctance to release it with Vista? Surely something like this would be a 'value adding' feature to an OS which is turning out to be XP with a new face.
Not only that, but wouldn't releasing it with the OS would result in more people being able to actually use it? I can't see many people reformatting their machines because MS released a new file system. Especially for the masses that don't know what a file system is.
Because we all know "High-resolution photographs of the 16-page manuscript are posted on the institute's web site" usually means said website is about to become very uncooperative.
I really don't think it could be considered being a nazi in this case. As it stands, the post could be read as MS are trying to patent the displaying of products in boxes on shelves. (Stay tuned?)
"Could this bacteria be genetically engineered to eat common metals like steel, or more uncommon ones targeted at destroying military or sabotage foundrys?"
I don't mean to strap on the pedantipants right off the bat, but that's a silly notion.
If you'd read the article, you'd know that it's using the metals not used as an energy source, but as an electron acceptor for respiration. So no, it couldn't "eat" steel, but it might change it into something different. (most metals have many different transition states)
This stigma that bacteria are some sort of hybrid of Pac-Man and the cookie monster must end!
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That's a bit of a misleading statistic. Although 59 people died directly from overexposure to radiation and thyroid cancer, many more, infact an estimated 4000 more will or have died as a result of the accident.
Source: http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Focus/Chernobyl/pdfs/pr.pdf
According to wiki The leak occured in the plant's secondary cooler, so the sodium within was not radioactive.
A list of all Xbox games playable on the 360 can be found here.
At the moment (according to Wikipedia) 103 million PS2s have been sold worldwide. That's an annual leak of 1.8 terawatts. And what's the impact on the environment of generating that energy?
Great article! It's not just the web that gets misrepresented in movies, though. Most computers in film are generally similar in that they're always generating some sort of sound. Anything happening on screen, in some cases just scrolling down a window, is accompanied by a click or a beep or some noise, assumedly, to make sure you didn't miss it. Besides being completely unrealistic, the thought of having to actually work at a computer that noisy, or even a room of computers that noise would drive anyone insane.
Their shotgun approach at making these predictions means that the odd time these guys are right, they claim enough credit for their apparent claivoyance to make their constant misguesses not such a big deal.
It'd be nice if there was something solid behind all of this but it's all rumour and it's barely news.
The nose changes color when you mouseover it. Even in the mess that is Firefox's rendering of the page hovering your mouse over the face causes the nose to change colour from black to blue.
I guess that's something they really should specify in the reference diagram, but it's still a pass for Opera 9.
Duke Nukem: Forever
"Aftermath" was a title that gave direction. It's the story after the events of Half Life 2. For the majority who haven't been following the development of the expansion, and knew nothing of the original title, the new moniker "Episode 1" seems to beg the question "Of what?".
Exactly. Unless you're some sort of mutant chammois man, employing a touch screen on a video playback device is going to result in smudgey viewing. Even the cleanest hands leave fingerprints.
Does anyone here speak broker? I'm very confused and babelfish isn't helping.
Well, that's because a year with Win2k3 seems like 2.5 years normal time ;)
Their legal threats page is a hoot.
On a more serious note, laws like the DMCA that put (arguably) too much power at the hands of copyright holders were always going to be susceptible to abuse. Remaining on the subject of torrent search engines, lokitorrent.com pulled its site down after threats from the MPAA who cited the DMCA, without even going to court. (They later went to court, where it was ruled that the domain owner release all visitor data to the MPAA.) With power like that, where's the incentive not to abuse it?
This is exactly the same type of thing that happened after both the PSP launch and in particular the iPod Nano launch with the faulty screens/susceptible to scratching fiasco. A few months on and it's still a more desirable item than ever.
Yeah, coral cache is fubar'd too now. Try this instead: http://mirrordot.org/stories/bc769158991c5dfeb61d7 05cab151e6c/index.html
But the Coral Cache works fine. http://www.next-gen.biz.nyud.net:8090/index.php?op tion=com_content&task=view&id=1550&Itemid=2
I've often wished the same thing, and it turns out that Sony actually made something to cater to that market.
The PSX is a DVD Recorder/Tivo-Like device (that uses an interface similar to the XMB type used in the PSP) that's also a PlayStation 2. If you look at the image on the first link, you'll see it wouldn't be at all out of place in a home theatre set-up. It looks like they're still making them, but you can't get them outside of Japan.
The CPU time spent on finding these factors by a collection of parallel computers amounted very approximately to the equivalent of 55 years work for a single 2.2 GHz Opteron-based computer. Although that's a rough approximation, it certainly puts the magnitude of effort cracking these numbers involves.
I'm sure a handshake and a smile would have been more fitting but hey, it is a nice statue.
Not only that, but wouldn't releasing it with the OS would result in more people being able to actually use it? I can't see many people reformatting their machines because MS released a new file system. Especially for the masses that don't know what a file system is.
http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl.nyud.net:8090/his tory/Einstein_archive/
Contents of the article aside, such an assumption would be wrong, Steve Jobs didn't invent the iPod - Jeff Robin did.
I really don't think it could be considered being a nazi in this case.
As it stands, the post could be read as MS are trying to patent the displaying of products in boxes on shelves. (Stay tuned?)
I don't mean to strap on the pedantipants right off the bat, but that's a silly notion. If you'd read the article, you'd know that it's using the metals not used as an energy source, but as an electron acceptor for respiration. So no, it couldn't "eat" steel, but it might change it into something different. (most metals have many different transition states)
This stigma that bacteria are some sort of hybrid of Pac-Man and the cookie monster must end!