I mean, if the guy already had 550 tonnes of the stuff, why should the right make it a big deal that he's looking for more? I'm certain you can get enough fissionable material from 550 tonnes of yellowcake to make a good bomb or two.
Nuclear bombs aren't like gunpowder. You can't build them by mixing uranium with charcoal in your backyard.
And that assumes you have uranium at all. The yellowcake would have to be heavily refined ("enriched") first, by spinning it in a centrifuge an unbelievable number of times to separate the heavier isotopes from the lighter ones. It takes years to produce any appreciable amount of weapons-grade uranium. So Yellowcake is about as easy to turn into nuclear weapons as raw iron ore can be turned into fighter airplanes: You need knowledge, manpower, technology and years of work.
That's why the claim that Saddam was trying to buy yellowcake was not so much a big deal but rather ridiculous - whether or not it was true, he couldn't have done anything useful with that stuff for many years, during which he could not have kept his intentions hidden.
Locking content into closed formats is the antithesis of the Web, and we are lucky we have Google. As long as your web page popularity is dominated by what the bot, the lowest common denominator of client technologies, can find on your site, we have some hope of cutting the Flash/JS-required/no-right-click crap out of existence.
He said that if the problem worsens, publishers may have to take other steps to prevent piracy, such as releasing a new version of most textbooks every semester. The versions could include slight modifications that could be changed easilyâ"such as altering the numbers in math problems.
"They may compelled to," he said, "in order to stay one step ahead of the pirates."
That whooshing sound was your moral high ground evaporating. All that this scam does is hurt people who still buy and sell their used books without copying them - which is not a crime - and drive them to actual copyright infringement in order to afford their education.
Of course, if you're in the business of content publishing, you see no difference between legal second-hand trading and illegal copying, since neither makes you money. And the illegal way might in fact be preferable, since you can get money out of litigation.
Remember how long it took to add protocol-based icons to contacts, and how EVEN NOW we still only get them hidden out of the way in the sub-contact list, rather than on the main contact? Something about "the protocol is the medium, not the contact". I've accustomed to it, but I absolutely hate having no say in the matter.
If the people who are forking this will extend their ideal beyond simply resizing text boxes, and actually listen to the users instead of trying to teach them to think in different concepts, there is no question in my mind which I'll be using. When you give me an API, I'll learn to use it the way you want; when you give me a GUI I bloody well want to use it the way I'm used to.
GAH. It's been more than a year since I saw that discussion in the bug tracker, and I'm still pissed.
Nobody spoke of self-replicating repair agents; that would constitute a worm in its own right. This particular issue is about infiltrating the existing worm network and shutting it down if the clients have a safe "self-destruct" command that uninstalls the client...
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Nuclear bombs aren't like gunpowder. You can't build them by mixing uranium with charcoal in your backyard.
And that assumes you have uranium at all. The yellowcake would have to be heavily refined ("enriched") first, by spinning it in a centrifuge an unbelievable number of times to separate the heavier isotopes from the lighter ones. It takes years to produce any appreciable amount of weapons-grade uranium. So Yellowcake is about as easy to turn into nuclear weapons as raw iron ore can be turned into fighter airplanes: You need knowledge, manpower, technology and years of work.
That's why the claim that Saddam was trying to buy yellowcake was not so much a big deal but rather ridiculous - whether or not it was true, he couldn't have done anything useful with that stuff for many years, during which he could not have kept his intentions hidden.
Locking content into closed formats is the antithesis of the Web, and we are lucky we have Google. As long as your web page popularity is dominated by what the bot, the lowest common denominator of client technologies, can find on your site, we have some hope of cutting the Flash/JS-required/no-right-click crap out of existence.
They're going to hang us all! O_O
But the consumers decided they wanted to keep them.
That whooshing sound was your moral high ground evaporating. All that this scam does is hurt people who still buy and sell their used books without copying them - which is not a crime - and drive them to actual copyright infringement in order to afford their education.
Of course, if you're in the business of content publishing, you see no difference between legal second-hand trading and illegal copying, since neither makes you money. And the illegal way might in fact be preferable, since you can get money out of litigation.
It's never helped me before, but then I don't think I could get away with torturing people without trial either.
Excuse me, but is Twitter not raw, undiluted background noise itself?
> would not renew it to get it to the next generation
Where "renew" is presumably defined as "add flashy graphics".
Also, Internet Explorer.
Sounds like it would pierce an SEP field quite neatly!
We have no bananas today!
Damn, I'm out of tinfoil. Off to the store!
List of organizations who wanted to censor WikiLeaks:
- US Department of Defense
- Swiss Bank Julius Baer
- Church of Scientology
- Church of Latter-Day Saints
- China
List of organizations that have succeeded:
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No thanks, I don't have a virus scanner.
If they have brains, they'll fill it with helium, not hydrogen.
Nearly as much lift, without the bang!
Next headline on Slashdot: "Microsoft blocks Gmail!"
First Youtube and then that. Indeed.
Side note: "MS Defibrillator" brings new definitions to Blue Screns of Death, I suppose.
Hey! It looks like you are trying to reactivate your heart! Would you like to:
- activate the MS Defibrillator?
- scream for a doctor?
- clutch your chest and fall to the floor in spasms?
- die?
If prior performance is any indication, then they won't be able to do that in 20 years either!
Remember when vertical integration and vendor lock-in could be excused by laziness or incompetence rather than maliciousness?
Good times.
Of course, vertical integration always ran the risk of losing the market share you leveraged rather than gaining the market share you tried to win.
I remember using it some time in 2004. It's been in development for quite a while...
In all honesty, that one isn't surprising. In Australia, if it doesn't have big serrated teeth, it can probably paralyze you with a single bite.
Yes, it was called Anniversary. A sequel to Marooned off Vesta.
> So you're advocating a sliding scale based on how much of him they found?
We found him, ma'm; that will be 500,000.
Or, for 400,000, we could cut off a leg.
Remember how long it took to add protocol-based icons to contacts, and how EVEN NOW we still only get them hidden out of the way in the sub-contact list, rather than on the main contact? Something about "the protocol is the medium, not the contact". I've accustomed to it, but I absolutely hate having no say in the matter.
If the people who are forking this will extend their ideal beyond simply resizing text boxes, and actually listen to the users instead of trying to teach them to think in different concepts, there is no question in my mind which I'll be using. When you give me an API, I'll learn to use it the way you want; when you give me a GUI I bloody well want to use it the way I'm used to.
GAH. It's been more than a year since I saw that discussion in the bug tracker, and I'm still pissed.
Nobody spoke of self-replicating repair agents; that would constitute a worm in its own right. This particular issue is about infiltrating the existing worm network and shutting it down if the clients have a safe "self-destruct" command that uninstalls the client...