Stop lying. They are no all valuable and hence do not all get removed. Also, quite a bit of nuclear waste gets stored _unprocessed_, because that is cheaper.
Radioactively material does not need to be highly radioactive in order to be extremely deadly. For example, a realistic estimate is that 1 gram of Pu is enough to kill 1 million people via lung-cancer if finely ground and administered directly. Yet on the other hand, it is difficult to measure, as even a piece of paper is enough to shield it. Incidentally, that stuff has a half-life 375.000 years. (Well, the most important isotope has.) Your argument just shows your ignorance.
Are you serious? Maybe look up what "half-life" means? Or what that number is for some things in there _and_ what they then change into that also has a number.
Nuclear power is about some people getting rich. Nothing else. As soon as you accept that, it becomes obvious why stuff that is going to stay dangerous for millions of years gets thrown away.
You are pretty wrong here. First, you forget that people adjust to the conditions they are born into. Second, you forget that social interactions, not material wealth provide the largest part of happiness. An third, you vastly overestimate how well somebody "fully unemployed" (i.e. living on the street, no health-care, etc.) is living today.
Now it is aiming for a mix as average as possible. Next will be that confirmed idiots will get a quota in order to make sure all classes of mental capability are equally represented. This is madness.
People are not fact-oriented in their beliefs. That means they ignore solution that keep staring them in the face if they do not fit their restricted view of the world.
Hence it is quite possible that while capitalism loses most of its ability to sustain the population, it will get practiced to the bitter end nonetheless.
Some cultures 1000 years ago or so needed to work 2-3 days a week and everything was taken care of. Seems to me we have massively regressed from that state. The problem is not that work is getting less. The problem is that work loses what remaining little use it still has as metric on how to distribute wealth.
Indeed. The GCHQ must now be regarded as an enemy, in fact as an "advanced persistent threat", because even if identified, it seems unlikely that one can get rid of them. (I like the idea of suing them, but they will just become more careful against being identified....) In particular, it must be expected that they do industrial espionage and industrial sabotage for political reasons.
Treat the same as any other group of well-funded criminal hackers. Also, the banking industry and IT industry may want to move out of the UK entirely.
This surprises me. Austria is not known for defending individual freedoms and privacy. I do have one possible explanation: Corruption and moonlighting is rampart in Austria, and those only work well with cash.
The fascist mind-set expressed in these things assumes as absolute truth that the "authorities" are always right and do not need oversight by the citizens. A brief look in history shows how very much wrong that idea is and how often it leads to incredible evil.
Governments do not learn as they are not rational. They will try the same thing again and again, the very picture of insanity. Governments needs to be kicked firmly at regular intervals to make them back down on their most stupid ideas.
This may well just be a temporary effect that vanishes and becomes the opposite once people are used to it. Unless they can rule that out reliably, this is a broken analysis.
I can try to simplify things down so that the morons claiming that a 220V protector is perfectly adequate for a wide-input PSU running at 110V may get some glimmer of understanding that things are more complicated. I am well aware they are _much_ more complicated.
Obviously you do not have the EE understanding required. A 220V surge protector is typically designed to clamp at around 500V. From rectified 110V AC that gives you a 350V relative spike into the capacitors. From rectified 220V it is only 190V. A 110V surge protector is typically designed to clamp at around 330V. That is an 180V spike. If you cannot see that a 350V spike may be a bit more destructive than an 190V/180V one, and that in particular, the components in the device may only be dimensioned for a 200V spike or so as that is what to expect with surge protection done correctly, then you have no business being in this discussion. If you have to ask where these numbers come from, the same applies.
Incidentally, this is only one of the problems with a wrongly dimensioned surge protector. And yes, the surge voltage is relevant, as it influences dU/dt and the surge current. In actual fact, there is a surge model behind this and the surge voltage is only one factor. Also, surge protection devices do not do a perfect clamping, and have maximum ratings. If they are exceeded, the surge protector may short out, fail or even start to burn if not fitted with a thermal fuse. Incidentally, there is a maximum of surges a surge protector can clamp, depending on the surges and its ratings. After that, it needs replacement.
Why do incompetent morons always feel they are qualified to comment on advanced engineering they really do not understand? The Dunning-Kruger effect is strong on Slashdot.
We are talking surges here, not regular switch on. A typical surge-test uses 500...15000V. A "surge" from 110V to 240V does not even register even in most 110V equipment.
Ah, yes, these "near-future" predictions, that never quite materialize, but always get shifted and always stay 5-20 years in the future. I predict for the purpose of coding, this shifting will still be going on in 50 years, and possibly much, much longer.
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Any good data-recovery outfit will read those floppies for you.
Stop lying. They are no all valuable and hence do not all get removed. Also, quite a bit of nuclear waste gets stored _unprocessed_, because that is cheaper.
I am one that actually understands the Physics of the matter, quite unlike dumbfucks like you.
And back in the real world, that happens to be impossible to do. And illegal. And impossible to target. And generally extremely stupid.
Sounds like a rip-off of PC-104, i.e. they are a few decades late.
Radioactively material does not need to be highly radioactive in order to be extremely deadly. For example, a realistic estimate is that 1 gram of Pu is enough to kill 1 million people via lung-cancer if finely ground and administered directly. Yet on the other hand, it is difficult to measure, as even a piece of paper is enough to shield it. Incidentally, that stuff has a half-life 375.000 years. (Well, the most important isotope has.) Your argument just shows your ignorance.
Are you serious? Maybe look up what "half-life" means? Or what that number is for some things in there _and_ what they then change into that also has a number.
Nuclear power is about some people getting rich. Nothing else. As soon as you accept that, it becomes obvious why stuff that is going to stay dangerous for millions of years gets thrown away.
Facts are not welcome in this "discussion". Most people that feel they can contribute do not even understand the basics.
Bah, facts! When did facts come into any good hysterical panic?
You are pretty wrong here. First, you forget that people adjust to the conditions they are born into. Second, you forget that social interactions, not material wealth provide the largest part of happiness. An third, you vastly overestimate how well somebody "fully unemployed" (i.e. living on the street, no health-care, etc.) is living today.
Now it is aiming for a mix as average as possible. Next will be that confirmed idiots will get a quota in order to make sure all classes of mental capability are equally represented. This is madness.
People are not fact-oriented in their beliefs. That means they ignore solution that keep staring them in the face if they do not fit their restricted view of the world.
Hence it is quite possible that while capitalism loses most of its ability to sustain the population, it will get practiced to the bitter end nonetheless.
Ah, so the "sex bot" part was not completely irrelevant, only almost completely.
Some cultures 1000 years ago or so needed to work 2-3 days a week and everything was taken care of. Seems to me we have massively regressed from that state. The problem is not that work is getting less. The problem is that work loses what remaining little use it still has as metric on how to distribute wealth.
Looks like two story titles accidentally merged and nobody noticed before publishing. I am sure AI could at least do that better...
Indeed. The GCHQ must now be regarded as an enemy, in fact as an "advanced persistent threat", because even if identified, it seems unlikely that one can get rid of them. (I like the idea of suing them, but they will just become more careful against being identified....) In particular, it must be expected that they do industrial espionage and industrial sabotage for political reasons.
Treat the same as any other group of well-funded criminal hackers. Also, the banking industry and IT industry may want to move out of the UK entirely.
This surprises me. Austria is not known for defending individual freedoms and privacy. I do have one possible explanation: Corruption and moonlighting is rampart in Austria, and those only work well with cash.
The fascist mind-set expressed in these things assumes as absolute truth that the "authorities" are always right and do not need oversight by the citizens. A brief look in history shows how very much wrong that idea is and how often it leads to incredible evil.
Governments do not learn as they are not rational. They will try the same thing again and again, the very picture of insanity. Governments needs to be kicked firmly at regular intervals to make them back down on their most stupid ideas.
This may well just be a temporary effect that vanishes and becomes the opposite once people are used to it. Unless they can rule that out reliably, this is a broken analysis.
I can try to simplify things down so that the morons claiming that a 220V protector is perfectly adequate for a wide-input PSU running at 110V may get some glimmer of understanding that things are more complicated. I am well aware they are _much_ more complicated.
Obviously you do not have the EE understanding required. A 220V surge protector is typically designed to clamp at around 500V. From rectified 110V AC that gives you a 350V relative spike into the capacitors. From rectified 220V it is only 190V. A 110V surge protector is typically designed to clamp at around 330V. That is an 180V spike. If you cannot see that a 350V spike may be a bit more destructive than an 190V/180V one, and that in particular, the components in the device may only be dimensioned for a 200V spike or so as that is what to expect with surge protection done correctly, then you have no business being in this discussion. If you have to ask where these numbers come from, the same applies.
Incidentally, this is only one of the problems with a wrongly dimensioned surge protector. And yes, the surge voltage is relevant, as it influences dU/dt and the surge current. In actual fact, there is a surge model behind this and the surge voltage is only one factor. Also, surge protection devices do not do a perfect clamping, and have maximum ratings. If they are exceeded, the surge protector may short out, fail or even start to burn if not fitted with a thermal fuse. Incidentally, there is a maximum of surges a surge protector can clamp, depending on the surges and its ratings. After that, it needs replacement.
Why do incompetent morons always feel they are qualified to comment on advanced engineering they really do not understand? The Dunning-Kruger effect is strong on Slashdot.
We are talking surges here, not regular switch on. A typical surge-test uses 500...15000V. A "surge" from 110V to 240V does not even register even in most 110V equipment.
Ah, yes, these "near-future" predictions, that never quite materialize, but always get shifted and always stay 5-20 years in the future. I predict for the purpose of coding, this shifting will still be going on in 50 years, and possibly much, much longer.