*sigh* I'm tired of people not being informed... but such is life.
Nuclear waste should not last a million years. It can be reused, again and again and again, until it's half life comes down to be about 10 years. The problem? doing that produces plutonium, which is bad because of "terrorism!!!". Nuclear power is not an engineering problem anymore, nor is it an environmental problem, nor a storage problem, it all comes down to politics, and "Not in My Back Yard" policies.
Because this is the real world. And in the real world we have these people, called politicians. It is their job to go out and get reelected every term. Which means that they need two things, money and votes. You get the money from oil companies, and the votes from dumb farmers in the midwest who think that corn ethanol is a great idea and ignoring the whole thing about food prices almost doubling from a year or two ago.
Good thing that this idea doesn't use corn then.
This is really amazing, since corn ethanol is a terrible idea, switchgrass isn't much better, and we can't grow sugarcane in large quantities in the US (although you can use sugar beets).
Even better is that it is not a seasonal crop. With corn ethanol I can see one year we just run out of ethanol and well... have to wait for the next crop!
I just hope that it isn't going to be forgotten or swept under the rug.
So, you're saying that you specifically know that graviton's are produced hours or days ahead of an earthquake, even though they have never been observed, and a purely theoretical?
So what conditions would produce gravitons? things under pressure?
The pressures isn't that much compared to what pressure we put a lot of our materials under, there is just ALOT of mass being moved.
The electric field was of voltage and frequency similar to the ones you'd get if you plugged a device into a socket in your home or office. So what? we have to shock the person for this to work? Yes I know they didn't state the amp requirements, so it could be in the microamp range, but still.
I can see these particles having uses outside of the medical world, such as a motor with no moving parts that can be scaled down. I cannot however see these having use in medicine, since humans are great big electrical conductors who are also very sensitive to electricity being pumped through them.
A much more likely story as to the "gay bomb" is that some hormone researcher ran out of funds, and in desperation went for DoD money saying he could make a "gay bomb". I doubt the researcher would ever actually be able to make one, nor would there be an effective delivery system. If you can land a bomb that close upwind of them, why not just drop a couple, less expensive bombs and actually kill them instead of just disabling them for a little while?
That's why my health coverage is a monthly membership to the local gym for the last six years. That will totally help you when you're hit by a car, get some form of cancer, or rheumatoid arthritis, get shot, stabbed, severely cut, have a strong allergic reaction, ect, ect, ect. These types of things where you can do everything right, but still get screwed over by random chance, are why we have insurance in the first place.
The reality is that Socialized medicine is the real solution. However I predict that if it ever does become reality in the US, it will be full of all these wonderful loopholes, corporate deals, scams, graft, ect, that is such a great product of our Democratic Republic in the wonderful US...
Oddly enough, the people who do the legislation (senators and representatives, along with the president) get socialized medicine! I bet they just don't want to share!
The real thing with this becomes apparent if you look at the date. Even though this bill has passed the house it still needs to go to the senate, then to the president. It has to get through all of this by the time senate adjourns, which is usually this time of year. However they have not adjourned yet as the senate majority is worried about President Bush putting in midnight judges (president nominates people to become federal judges which the senate must confirm/deny, if senate isn't there then they automatically become confirmed). Either way there isn't enough time for this to really become a bill, its a political maneuver to get votes and cash, nothing else.
What this really is is a bill to say "Hey look! We're tough on crime and pirates!" it will not pass the senate before it adjourns which will put it back onto the bottom of the pile of a lot more important bills.
As others have said though the MRI needs a clean environment without a large quantity of ferrous material(Iron, nickel, cobalt, and alloys with those in it) nearby. Inside of a house you have wires (while copper can still mess it up), nails, computers, TV's, bed frames, steel structural support, steel brackets, ect, ect.
If they can reduce the field to be small enough then it might be useful for that, however it might be very inaccurate and could cause problems with ferrous objects being drawn toward it.
The biggest contribution of having a smaller and cheaper device would be that every little doctor's office and clinic could get one (and have it within a relatively controlled environment, you can trust doctors + the technicians to put things in the right place a lot more than you can trust your average population). Major hospitals could easily have two or three, thus reducing the length of the queues and also increasing the number of problems it can be used to diagnose (why put someone in a 5 wk queue for a MRI which might be more accurate if you can put them in a 5 minute queue for an X-ray and get results before the person dies?).
Radios are reserved for platoon and company commanders, in part because of their cost: typically $15,000 to $20,000 each, with vehicle-mounted radios reaching $80,000."
Those are some expensive radios! I understand that they have to be durable, encrypted, frequency shifting, long range, long lasting battery, ect, but 15,000$? are they gold plated or something?
how about you give every squad leader a satellite telephone (modded a little) and have a system where each phone number is based on their designation? (fireteam #, squad #, platoon #, company #, regiment #, Battalion #, regiment #, brigade #, corp #) Not necessarily in that order or form, but you get the idea.
Sure its not as secure as their current radio system, but since we are not fighting a technologically advanced opponent like the Russians anymore, that level of security is unnecessary. (atleast for communications between squads, and most things up to regiments)
Either way hurricanes aren't going to cross the Atlantic, too much cold water. So unless someone wants to attack Mexico, the southern coast of the US (and has the resources to do something like that) or maybe a South American country, the hurricane would in no way reach them.
This lady reminds me of Carrie Nation, One of the champions of prohibition. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation
"Alone or accompanied by hymn-singing women, she would march into a bar and sing and pray, while smashing bar fixtures and stock with a hatchet. Between 1900 and 1910, she was arrested some 30 times for "hatchetations," as she came to call them. Nation paid her jail fines from lecture-tour fees and sales of souvenir hatchets."
She was 65 at the time.
But in this case the jurisdiction doesn't work that way. The copyright holders (no idea if its in fact the MPAA or whoever) have copyrights in America, however when they do sue they have to do so according to Canadian law. It's not that they cannot sue, it's that they have to do so in a different fashion.
The most likely reason nobody has gone after these guys is that the guy in charge of figuring out who to go after has never even heard of these guys or for that matter doesn't understand that its these kind of "pirates" (I hate that term) that are the real problem.
I have sympathy for those single mother/grandmother / dead people who get sued by the RI/MPAA. I have no sympathy for these guys what so ever, they are profiting off of someone else's work.
IANAL but the rule in the US is that if the store has suspicion that you shoplifted, they are allowed to detain you until you can either prove them wrong or until the police arrive. They can however get into big trouble if they do this and the person is innocent.
As private property the store is allowed to make conditions of entry (I think there are some rules behind this, they can't ask you to do something illegal). However they cannot make conditions of exit. One of these conditions of entry could be that the store can search you at any time and if you refuse to submit you will be detained on suspicion of shoplifting. (If it was posted properly then it counts as a contract). I am however not too certain of that condition because I know of no court cases pertaining to that or stores that do that.
As was posted earlier, the police are in the wrong about the identification, they can ask you to identify yourself, but they do not need proof of your identification unless there are other circumstances (you're driving a car).
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Systems like this just empower society to cut out the cancer and get on with more productive things like work, socialising, and being able to relax in a home that isn't stripped bare, burned down, or riddled with bullet holes. However the question is, is this system worth the loss of privacy? (not to mention the cost of actually running the thing!) Every thing you do to deter crime knocks some people out of the candidate list for committing that crime. If a crime is immoral (murder, rape, arson, stealing, ect) that knocks a good 90+% of your average educated population off the list. That combined with fear of being caught, punishment, being ostracized from everyone that you know removes another large chunk of the population from that list.
What remains on that list is the portion that doesn't care about any of that, they will stop at nothing to do whatever crime they intend to commit. Sorry to say, but no matter what you do, crime will always happen. (an example of this is crime during Soviet Russia, if the police even thought you might be responsible for a crime you were either killed or sent go a gulag, yet it still occurred)
I doubt that in any major city since the 1800's have people actually been seriously afraid of having their homes stripped bare, burned down, or riddled with bullet holes (there are exceptions however, gang warfare and race warfare, neither of which would be impacted by this system in the slightest)
wow... thats certainly quite a statement you made. I had to read it a couple times to actually understand what you were saying.
As for the missing comments, it is currently 1:30AM on US west coast, 4:30AM on US east coast, somewhere between 9:30AM and 11:30AM for most of Europe. I would expect comments from Japan as it is 5:30 PM there now, however this topic does not directly concern the citizens there (and I doubt slashdot comes in a Japanese version, but I could be wrong)
Perhaps, but the purpose is to be able to test drugs and diseases more effectively on mice because their livers are now using the same cells as a human liver. Besides, the researchers probably specialize in livers, so having them research some other organ would be like telling a programmer to go design a bridge.
Ways to combat salt air: 1: paint 2: don't use a material that is prone to corrosion(examples include aluminum, titanium, and carbon fiber)
Bonus to using those materials are that they are lighter than steel.
If these guys are in this stage of development they already considered everything any slashdotter could come up with in terms of problems and taken care of them.
Probably the biggest threat to these turbines are ice, or one of the anchoring cables snapping or coming unanchored from the sea floor. The first is a common problem and they probably have a solution, the second is more like a freak accident, you can take precautions, but there is no true solution.
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*sigh* I'm tired of people not being informed... but such is life. Nuclear waste should not last a million years. It can be reused, again and again and again, until it's half life comes down to be about 10 years. The problem? doing that produces plutonium, which is bad because of "terrorism!!!". Nuclear power is not an engineering problem anymore, nor is it an environmental problem, nor a storage problem, it all comes down to politics, and "Not in My Back Yard" policies.
Because this is the real world. And in the real world we have these people, called politicians. It is their job to go out and get reelected every term. Which means that they need two things, money and votes. You get the money from oil companies, and the votes from dumb farmers in the midwest who think that corn ethanol is a great idea and ignoring the whole thing about food prices almost doubling from a year or two ago.
Good thing that this idea doesn't use corn then.
This is really amazing, since corn ethanol is a terrible idea, switchgrass isn't much better, and we can't grow sugarcane in large quantities in the US (although you can use sugar beets).
Even better is that it is not a seasonal crop. With corn ethanol I can see one year we just run out of ethanol and well... have to wait for the next crop!
I just hope that it isn't going to be forgotten or swept under the rug.
They will still weigh quite a bit when in orbit.
But the force of gravity pulling down will be countered by the force of it spinning around the earth. Astronauts are in free fall, not in 0g.
So, you're saying that you specifically know that graviton's are produced hours or days ahead of an earthquake, even though they have never been observed, and a purely theoretical? So what conditions would produce gravitons? things under pressure? The pressures isn't that much compared to what pressure we put a lot of our materials under, there is just ALOT of mass being moved.
Well that .1% became hyper violent and started eating people, and the other 99.9% became so apathetic that they just died.
I can see these particles having uses outside of the medical world, such as a motor with no moving parts that can be scaled down. I cannot however see these having use in medicine, since humans are great big electrical conductors who are also very sensitive to electricity being pumped through them.
A much more likely story as to the "gay bomb" is that some hormone researcher ran out of funds, and in desperation went for DoD money saying he could make a "gay bomb". I doubt the researcher would ever actually be able to make one, nor would there be an effective delivery system. If you can land a bomb that close upwind of them, why not just drop a couple, less expensive bombs and actually kill them instead of just disabling them for a little while?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_aluminum I remember a /. article about it a while ago, but couldn't find it
It shines a light on your head in the infrared spectrum... which is basically heat radiation... So it's a head warmer?
I know IR has more things than heat associated with it, but still... its a head warmer!
The reality is that Socialized medicine is the real solution. However I predict that if it ever does become reality in the US, it will be full of all these wonderful loopholes, corporate deals, scams, graft, ect, that is such a great product of our Democratic Republic in the wonderful US...
Oddly enough, the people who do the legislation (senators and representatives, along with the president) get socialized medicine! I bet they just don't want to share!
The real thing with this becomes apparent if you look at the date. Even though this bill has passed the house it still needs to go to the senate, then to the president. It has to get through all of this by the time senate adjourns, which is usually this time of year. However they have not adjourned yet as the senate majority is worried about President Bush putting in midnight judges (president nominates people to become federal judges which the senate must confirm/deny, if senate isn't there then they automatically become confirmed). Either way there isn't enough time for this to really become a bill, its a political maneuver to get votes and cash, nothing else.
What this really is is a bill to say "Hey look! We're tough on crime and pirates!" it will not pass the senate before it adjourns which will put it back onto the bottom of the pile of a lot more important bills.
The name and postal address of the copyright holder is not necessary in the DMCA takedown request, unless a counter notification is sent. IANAL
As others have said though the MRI needs a clean environment without a large quantity of ferrous material(Iron, nickel, cobalt, and alloys with those in it) nearby. Inside of a house you have wires (while copper can still mess it up), nails, computers, TV's, bed frames, steel structural support, steel brackets, ect, ect.
If they can reduce the field to be small enough then it might be useful for that, however it might be very inaccurate and could cause problems with ferrous objects being drawn toward it.
The biggest contribution of having a smaller and cheaper device would be that every little doctor's office and clinic could get one (and have it within a relatively controlled environment, you can trust doctors + the technicians to put things in the right place a lot more than you can trust your average population). Major hospitals could easily have two or three, thus reducing the length of the queues and also increasing the number of problems it can be used to diagnose (why put someone in a 5 wk queue for a MRI which might be more accurate if you can put them in a 5 minute queue for an X-ray and get results before the person dies?).
Those are some expensive radios! I understand that they have to be durable, encrypted, frequency shifting, long range, long lasting battery, ect, but 15,000$? are they gold plated or something?
how about you give every squad leader a satellite telephone (modded a little) and have a system where each phone number is based on their designation? (fireteam #, squad #, platoon #, company #, regiment #, Battalion #, regiment #, brigade #, corp #) Not necessarily in that order or form, but you get the idea.
Sure its not as secure as their current radio system, but since we are not fighting a technologically advanced opponent like the Russians anymore, that level of security is unnecessary. (atleast for communications between squads, and most things up to regiments)
Either way hurricanes aren't going to cross the Atlantic, too much cold water. So unless someone wants to attack Mexico, the southern coast of the US (and has the resources to do something like that) or maybe a South American country, the hurricane would in no way reach them.
This lady reminds me of Carrie Nation, One of the champions of prohibition. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation "Alone or accompanied by hymn-singing women, she would march into a bar and sing and pray, while smashing bar fixtures and stock with a hatchet. Between 1900 and 1910, she was arrested some 30 times for "hatchetations," as she came to call them. Nation paid her jail fines from lecture-tour fees and sales of souvenir hatchets." She was 65 at the time.
But in this case the jurisdiction doesn't work that way. The copyright holders (no idea if its in fact the MPAA or whoever) have copyrights in America, however when they do sue they have to do so according to Canadian law. It's not that they cannot sue, it's that they have to do so in a different fashion.
The most likely reason nobody has gone after these guys is that the guy in charge of figuring out who to go after has never even heard of these guys or for that matter doesn't understand that its these kind of "pirates" (I hate that term) that are the real problem.
I have sympathy for those single mother/grandmother / dead people who get sued by the RI/MPAA. I have no sympathy for these guys what so ever, they are profiting off of someone else's work.
IANAL but the rule in the US is that if the store has suspicion that you shoplifted, they are allowed to detain you until you can either prove them wrong or until the police arrive. They can however get into big trouble if they do this and the person is innocent.
As private property the store is allowed to make conditions of entry (I think there are some rules behind this, they can't ask you to do something illegal). However they cannot make conditions of exit. One of these conditions of entry could be that the store can search you at any time and if you refuse to submit you will be detained on suspicion of shoplifting. (If it was posted properly then it counts as a contract). I am however not too certain of that condition because I know of no court cases pertaining to that or stores that do that.
As was posted earlier, the police are in the wrong about the identification, they can ask you to identify yourself, but they do not need proof of your identification unless there are other circumstances (you're driving a car).
What remains on that list is the portion that doesn't care about any of that, they will stop at nothing to do whatever crime they intend to commit. Sorry to say, but no matter what you do, crime will always happen. (an example of this is crime during Soviet Russia, if the police even thought you might be responsible for a crime you were either killed or sent go a gulag, yet it still occurred)
I doubt that in any major city since the 1800's have people actually been seriously afraid of having their homes stripped bare, burned down, or riddled with bullet holes (there are exceptions however, gang warfare and race warfare, neither of which would be impacted by this system in the slightest)
wow... thats certainly quite a statement you made. I had to read it a couple times to actually understand what you were saying.
As for the missing comments, it is currently 1:30AM on US west coast, 4:30AM on US east coast, somewhere between 9:30AM and 11:30AM for most of Europe. I would expect comments from Japan as it is 5:30 PM there now, however this topic does not directly concern the citizens there (and I doubt slashdot comes in a Japanese version, but I could be wrong)
Perhaps, but the purpose is to be able to test drugs and diseases more effectively on mice because their livers are now using the same cells as a human liver.
Besides, the researchers probably specialize in livers, so having them research some other organ would be like telling a programmer to go design a bridge.
Ways to combat salt air:
1: paint
2: don't use a material that is prone to corrosion(examples include aluminum, titanium, and carbon fiber)
Bonus to using those materials are that they are lighter than steel.
If these guys are in this stage of development they already considered everything any slashdotter could come up with in terms of problems and taken care of them.
Probably the biggest threat to these turbines are ice, or one of the anchoring cables snapping or coming unanchored from the sea floor.
The first is a common problem and they probably have a solution, the second is more like a freak accident, you can take precautions, but there is no true solution.
ya know what, just for that comment, we're gonna leave you at (Score:0). Thats right, you don't even get to be flamebait or a troll.