The lead concentrations are roughly equivalent to what you’d get if you dissolved a small spoonful of frozen orange juice in 200 Olympic-sized swimming pools
The "small spoonful of frozen orange juice" is too ambiguous to use directly, so I'll just fill a teaspoon with solid lead. Given 5.014×10^34 atoms of water in 200x 2.5E6 L Olympic pools (Wikipedia) and 1.62E23 atoms of lead in a teaspoon, you have 3 atoms of lead per trillion molecules of water.
Sure to panic homeopaths everywhere. The EPA actionable drinking water limit for lead is 15 parts per billion; three orders of magnitude higher.
Weapons from Holders anti-gun gambit have turned up as recently as 10 weeks ago in major shoots-outs with Mexican authorities. The gift that keeps on giving has the ATF issuing another statement accepting responsibility for their "mistakes" and "errors" funneling rifles into Mexico to create a gigantic stink over US firearms.
The Model S has electrically pumped hydraulic brakes. Regenerative brakes can't apply enough force in all cases.
No cooling water... oil... grease
There are other fluids as well. The sealed gear box has gear oil (both 1.0 and 1.5 versions.) The batteries, motor/PEM/inverter and cabin are all cooled/heated using antifreeze with the requisite pumps, lines and heat exchangers in three fluid loops. The AC system also has fluid to exchange heat.
Your point is valid and very appealing; electric vehicles have fewer failure modes and maintenance issues. But these are still a complex machines.
Because wellhead fires, explosions and dead workers are entirely unique to fracking. Nothing like that has ever happened in the oil/gas recovery business ever.
In my case Netflix performance problems (via Comcast) were certainly happening before the ruling. 18 months ago Netflix was responsive; video started quickly and never stalled during play. During the last year there is usually at least one interruption during any given hour when the steam runs dry. It hasn't gotten noticeably worse since the ruling. Claims that the ruling created these problems seem like hysteria to me.
As for the "Super HD" and 3D video theory; that seems plausible. It seems like it's Netflix servers that struggle, as opposed to network congestion; streams stall and then suddenly recover and work fine as if their system is overloaded and shifts clients to usable capacity.
If high definition video is a contributor then this is self inflicted and deeply stupid. Cord cutters aren't trying to improve their media fidelity. Why compromise the performance of your service by overloading your system with HD content when your customer has already proven to be largely indifferent to HD? In all likelyhood the typical Netflix subscriber is the same person that still hasn't bothered to get a Blu-ray player.
That's certainly true in my case. A name-brand blu-ray is what? $50-100? It's not like I can't afford it. I could have a tower of the things if I wanted. I just don't care.
There is history here. History teaches us that scrutiny and criticism from other nations does, in fact, make an important difference.
Many Soviet dissidents survived because killing them would have made maintaining the fig leaf of Soviet respectability impossible for the western Left. The Soviets did not wish to be a pariah state; they had to tolerate a degree of dissent and eventually this allowed satellite nations like Poland to develop a genuine resistance.
N. Korea appears to be directly immune to this sort of pressure, but China isn't. N. Korea needs a cadre of internationally recognized dissidents to destabilize the regime and the only thing that might allow them to survive is international pressure. Could a dissident survive in N. Korea in the near future? Not likely. But international pressure could permit a high profile N. Korean dissident to survive in China and create problems for the Chinese.
You have to start somewhere. The rest of the planet has be copping out on N. Korea since the 50's. Couldn't hurt to change that. Their farcical nuclear capability not withstanding.
The guy is a gigantic fraud / propagandist for the power establishment, he has nothing to do with economics, he is a justifier in chief for the money printing elite... Krugman is a huge part of the propaganda that justified destruction of the value of the US dollar and US bonds. To listen to Krugman on any matters at all is insanity.
Dude, you're messing with the Grand Poobah of libtardery writing that stuff. Years of karma, killed with fire.
I sure am. I mean these browsers are so expensive you'd think they'd optimize them for something other than making 8-10 levels of recursive <iframes> work so well for advertiser CDNs. I pay a lot of money for my Chrome license, just like you, and I expect more for my money than just a banner ad pump.
At least they appear to get it with regard to the UN; the US will never submit control of ICANN's many responsibilities to ITU or any other UN snuggery and deserves the eternal gratitude of the entire species for that profound wisdom.
So at least their "new policy" hasn't automatically obviated itself.
I'm finding it difficult to tie this to US policy somehow. Does anyone know how the US caused this? Was there some sort of US IP in the documents that were exposed?
My father didn't fear death at 76 from lung cancer, and he didn't assign blame to others for his smoking. If I have the good fortune to live so long with the better part of my mental faculties in working order I will not wallow in excuses and blame when whichever of my many vices and faults catch up with me.
Not everyone clings to life with claws and teeth, ready to squander every last shred of dignity to catch the next episode of Jeopardy.
Why would Apple downgrade from iOS to Android? Android works, but iOS is superior, and I say that as a loyal Nexus S/4/5 buyer. I don't even own an iPhone/whatever, but I know Objective-C/iOS/Xcode is an inherently better platform than Android's development stack; it's faster, more stable and easier to target.
Apple doesn't make a lot of bonehead maneuvers and, unlike Dice's attitude towards their CONTRIBUTORS, I expect they value their customers too much to inflict an obvious fail like that.
Sorry Woz, but I think Apple will, and probably should, remain the semi-boutique alternative that it has always been.
As for Slashdot Beta... well, they better take a few steps back and start listening to their contributors; forums are really easy to make. This crufty little corner of the Internets still punches above its weight with genuine nerds, but they're a fickle bunch and they're pissed off something fierce. Mea culpa time; suck it up, find a grown-up on the payroll that knows how to be sincere and has the authority to un-fuck this deal and get him in front of this.
it's earth from the seabed that they are... returning to seabed at another location?
If you can believe the linked story, yes. They are dredging material from a port to increase the clearance for freighters. From the story:
It will see Adani dredge 3 million cubic meters of material from the seabed to allow freighters to dock at the port in Abbot Point
The material will moved to another point on the sea bed.
The dredging will stir up the sea bed and there will be measurable effects. However, dredging is not some new phenomenon we just started doing last week on behalf off Big Oil, or whichever boogeyman to which this will be attributed. Dredging takes place in all sorts of places, some very sensitive to contamination, a we know how to mitigate the effects. Modern dredging equipment need not create thick clouds of particulate, and given the level of scrutiny that will be involved here you can bet it won't.
The only consequence will be a temporary and small increase in the level of particulate in the area. The coral is entirely capable of dealing with this; shedding dust and particulates is something Coral must deal with naturally and have evolved mechanisms to do so. All the dredgers must do is keep the diffusion of particulate to a reasonably low level and there won't be a problem.
This is hysteria, deliberately fomented with words like "waste" and "dump" to incite our burgeoning class of ignorant malcontents to outrage.
The word dredging usually denotes removal of sea bed, as opposed to mining. Indeed this story is about dredging to make a port deep enough for larger freighters.
Other than that you're right; this isn't chemical waste or radio-active waste or something. It's rock and sand. Pipe it to a new location and it will settle and have little to no impact. The title, transcribed right from the Discovery story, `...Dumping Dredge Waste In Barrier Reef...' contains at least two lies ("waste" and "in") and probably a third with the "dump" characterization. This operation will be closely observed and the rock and sand will be settled carefully wherever it ends up.
I just (five days ago) spent two days huddled with a half dozen other developers in the corner of a large conference room filled with IT people in Chicago. We were testing our various implementations of a new protocol that we expect to see in wide use during the next two years.
I had brought a brand new laptop, for various unfortunate reasons, on which I had just installed the complete stack of software I needed night before in the hotel room. I put Ubuntu 13.1 on it because I happened to have that particular distro on a flash drive that was at hand just then and I was in a hurry.
Things worked out. The laptop worked well and I got my part done. Thing is, I spent that rather intense period of time using Unity. For development and testing of software. Really.
I get it. Unity is fast and effective, particularly on the limited real-estate of a laptop screen where you end up switching rapidly among full screen applications.
I've avoided Unity like the plague on desktop hardware were I have multiple, large displays, and I think I'll continue doing that. However on a laptop that is not running external displays Unity works pretty well. You can navigate quickly with mouse or keyboard and avoid fussing with things. The fixed position of the large icons (although too large by default) on the sidebar is particularly useful.
So, bust out the fangs and hate me down with your mod points; I found a use for Unity and said so on Slashdot.
The whole area around New England and the state itself are virulently anti-energy. Vermont banned fracking even though they have no recoverable natural gas reserves; they did it just to make a headline. New England might have a deposit in the Hartford Basin, but we'll never know because just like its neighbors New England is also well on its way to banning recovery. New York has managed to inflict record gas prices on itself this month.
So shiver in the dark as far as I'm concerned. Shut off your extravagant kerosene turbines and rely on those offshore windmills you hate so much. Next summer maybe you can dam up a few dozen more Canadian rivers and preclude this little drama next winter.
Should self-driving cars chauffeur shopping 'whales' for free? Well I don't know if they should. However, I am absolutely certain they will. Unless some topples the powers-that-be, discards the Constitution and imposes the necessary rules to prevent it, that is.
When a whale car shows up it "should" have a piping hot meal ready for consumption as well. Also, as the whale car proceeds to and from the mall it "should" be careful to avoid blighted neighborhoods to prevent any whale discouragement or whale hunting.
Now the only question is; "should" the whale car meal include alcohol? Or perhaps marijuana, if it's a Colorado whale car?
So, who wants to fund my new startup; Waylz, Inc.? Our e-business analyzes neighborhood disposition based on property values and crime rates to compute optimal routes; neighborhood navigation for retailers.
Had the same thought... we all know China is "leading the way" in "renewables", "years ahead" of the US. So, yeah, this smog is obviously of domestic origin and our racist government is once again trying to pin its troubles on the yellow man.
Slashdot Mirror
anything really
That's why they put words next to the pictures.
The lead concentrations are roughly equivalent to what you’d get if you dissolved a small spoonful of frozen orange juice in 200 Olympic-sized swimming pools
The "small spoonful of frozen orange juice" is too ambiguous to use directly, so I'll just fill a teaspoon with solid lead. Given 5.014×10^34 atoms of water in 200x 2.5E6 L Olympic pools (Wikipedia) and 1.62E23 atoms of lead in a teaspoon, you have 3 atoms of lead per trillion molecules of water.
Sure to panic homeopaths everywhere. The EPA actionable drinking water limit for lead is 15 parts per billion; three orders of magnitude higher.
Weapons from Holders anti-gun gambit have turned up as recently as 10 weeks ago in major shoots-outs with Mexican authorities. The gift that keeps on giving has the ATF issuing another statement accepting responsibility for their "mistakes" and "errors" funneling rifles into Mexico to create a gigantic stink over US firearms.
No brake fluid
The Model S has electrically pumped hydraulic brakes. Regenerative brakes can't apply enough force in all cases.
No cooling water ... oil ... grease
There are other fluids as well. The sealed gear box has gear oil (both 1.0 and 1.5 versions.) The batteries, motor/PEM/inverter and cabin are all cooled/heated using antifreeze with the requisite pumps, lines and heat exchangers in three fluid loops. The AC system also has fluid to exchange heat.
Your point is valid and very appealing; electric vehicles have fewer failure modes and maintenance issues. But these are still a complex machines.
Because wellhead fires, explosions and dead workers are entirely unique to fracking. Nothing like that has ever happened in the oil/gas recovery business ever.
In my case Netflix performance problems (via Comcast) were certainly happening before the ruling. 18 months ago Netflix was responsive; video started quickly and never stalled during play. During the last year there is usually at least one interruption during any given hour when the steam runs dry. It hasn't gotten noticeably worse since the ruling. Claims that the ruling created these problems seem like hysteria to me.
As for the "Super HD" and 3D video theory; that seems plausible. It seems like it's Netflix servers that struggle, as opposed to network congestion; streams stall and then suddenly recover and work fine as if their system is overloaded and shifts clients to usable capacity.
If high definition video is a contributor then this is self inflicted and deeply stupid. Cord cutters aren't trying to improve their media fidelity. Why compromise the performance of your service by overloading your system with HD content when your customer has already proven to be largely indifferent to HD? In all likelyhood the typical Netflix subscriber is the same person that still hasn't bothered to get a Blu-ray player.
That's certainly true in my case. A name-brand blu-ray is what? $50-100? It's not like I can't afford it. I could have a tower of the things if I wanted. I just don't care.
Gamma rays will obviate most photography. Concentrated radiation will wash out the CCDs in contemporary cameras. It also ruins traditional film.
Just be sure not to mention the Cobalt 60 paint you've used everywhere. Radiation sickness will probably not develop until after they've left the bus.
There is history here. History teaches us that scrutiny and criticism from other nations does, in fact, make an important difference.
Many Soviet dissidents survived because killing them would have made maintaining the fig leaf of Soviet respectability impossible for the western Left. The Soviets did not wish to be a pariah state; they had to tolerate a degree of dissent and eventually this allowed satellite nations like Poland to develop a genuine resistance.
N. Korea appears to be directly immune to this sort of pressure, but China isn't. N. Korea needs a cadre of internationally recognized dissidents to destabilize the regime and the only thing that might allow them to survive is international pressure. Could a dissident survive in N. Korea in the near future? Not likely. But international pressure could permit a high profile N. Korean dissident to survive in China and create problems for the Chinese.
You have to start somewhere. The rest of the planet has be copping out on N. Korea since the 50's. Couldn't hurt to change that. Their farcical nuclear capability not withstanding.
The guy is a gigantic fraud / propagandist for the power establishment, he has nothing to do with economics, he is a justifier in chief for the money printing elite ... Krugman is a huge part of the propaganda that justified destruction of the value of the US dollar and US bonds. To listen to Krugman on any matters at all is insanity.
Dude, you're messing with the Grand Poobah of libtardery writing that stuff. Years of karma, killed with fire.
Such courage. Damn.
Is anyone else surprised...?
I sure am. I mean these browsers are so expensive you'd think they'd optimize them for something other than making 8-10 levels of recursive <iframes> work so well for advertiser CDNs. I pay a lot of money for my Chrome license, just like you, and I expect more for my money than just a banner ad pump.
Cue the anti-NIF greentard hate; "...but just use the big fusion reactor in the sky herp derp..."
3... 2... 1...
At least they appear to get it with regard to the UN; the US will never submit control of ICANN's many responsibilities to ITU or any other UN snuggery and deserves the eternal gratitude of the entire species for that profound wisdom.
So at least their "new policy" hasn't automatically obviated itself.
I'm finding it difficult to tie this to US policy somehow. Does anyone know how the US caused this? Was there some sort of US IP in the documents that were exposed?
I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.
My father didn't fear death at 76 from lung cancer, and he didn't assign blame to others for his smoking. If I have the good fortune to live so long with the better part of my mental faculties in working order I will not wallow in excuses and blame when whichever of my many vices and faults catch up with me.
Not everyone clings to life with claws and teeth, ready to squander every last shred of dignity to catch the next episode of Jeopardy.
Sounds like you probably will though.
and Fuck Beta too.
Why would Apple downgrade from iOS to Android? Android works, but iOS is superior, and I say that as a loyal Nexus S/4/5 buyer. I don't even own an iPhone/whatever, but I know Objective-C/iOS/Xcode is an inherently better platform than Android's development stack; it's faster, more stable and easier to target.
Apple doesn't make a lot of bonehead maneuvers and, unlike Dice's attitude towards their CONTRIBUTORS, I expect they value their customers too much to inflict an obvious fail like that.
Sorry Woz, but I think Apple will, and probably should, remain the semi-boutique alternative that it has always been.
As for Slashdot Beta... well, they better take a few steps back and start listening to their contributors; forums are really easy to make. This crufty little corner of the Internets still punches above its weight with genuine nerds, but they're a fickle bunch and they're pissed off something fierce. Mea culpa time; suck it up, find a grown-up on the payroll that knows how to be sincere and has the authority to un-fuck this deal and get him in front of this.
Or not. It's your choice.
It was the Scientologists.
it's earth from the seabed that they are... returning to seabed at another location?
If you can believe the linked story, yes. They are dredging material from a port to increase the clearance for freighters. From the story:
It will see Adani dredge 3 million cubic meters of material from the seabed to allow freighters to dock at the port in Abbot Point
The material will moved to another point on the sea bed.
The dredging will stir up the sea bed and there will be measurable effects. However, dredging is not some new phenomenon we just started doing last week on behalf off Big Oil, or whichever boogeyman to which this will be attributed. Dredging takes place in all sorts of places, some very sensitive to contamination, a we know how to mitigate the effects. Modern dredging equipment need not create thick clouds of particulate, and given the level of scrutiny that will be involved here you can bet it won't.
The only consequence will be a temporary and small increase in the level of particulate in the area. The coral is entirely capable of dealing with this; shedding dust and particulates is something Coral must deal with naturally and have evolved mechanisms to do so. All the dredgers must do is keep the diffusion of particulate to a reasonably low level and there won't be a problem.
This is hysteria, deliberately fomented with words like "waste" and "dump" to incite our burgeoning class of ignorant malcontents to outrage.
stuff you dig up so you can mine
The word dredging usually denotes removal of sea bed, as opposed to mining. Indeed this story is about dredging to make a port deep enough for larger freighters.
Other than that you're right; this isn't chemical waste or radio-active waste or something. It's rock and sand. Pipe it to a new location and it will settle and have little to no impact. The title, transcribed right from the Discovery story, `...Dumping Dredge Waste In Barrier Reef...' contains at least two lies ("waste" and "in") and probably a third with the "dump" characterization. This operation will be closely observed and the rock and sand will be settled carefully wherever it ends up.
Note that if Canada really wanted to export their oil overseas, they would have just built a pipeline to one of the Canadian ports.
They will.
I just (five days ago) spent two days huddled with a half dozen other developers in the corner of a large conference room filled with IT people in Chicago. We were testing our various implementations of a new protocol that we expect to see in wide use during the next two years.
I had brought a brand new laptop, for various unfortunate reasons, on which I had just installed the complete stack of software I needed night before in the hotel room. I put Ubuntu 13.1 on it because I happened to have that particular distro on a flash drive that was at hand just then and I was in a hurry.
Things worked out. The laptop worked well and I got my part done. Thing is, I spent that rather intense period of time using Unity. For development and testing of software. Really.
I get it. Unity is fast and effective, particularly on the limited real-estate of a laptop screen where you end up switching rapidly among full screen applications.
I've avoided Unity like the plague on desktop hardware were I have multiple, large displays, and I think I'll continue doing that. However on a laptop that is not running external displays Unity works pretty well. You can navigate quickly with mouse or keyboard and avoid fussing with things. The fixed position of the large icons (although too large by default) on the sidebar is particularly useful.
So, bust out the fangs and hate me down with your mod points; I found a use for Unity and said so on Slashdot.
Right, so regulating banks requires abject surrender of all financial privacy.
I'll keep that in mind the next time someone argues that defending against terrorists doesn't require PRISM and the TSA.
Or maybe I'll just chalk up your silly shit to the double standards you indulge on behalf of your world view.
i believe VY has been shut down for a while
According to NRC status Vermont Yankee was at 100% yesterday. Stop making stuff up and guess working your way through energy issues please. Thanks.
The whole area around New England and the state itself are virulently anti-energy. Vermont banned fracking even though they have no recoverable natural gas reserves; they did it just to make a headline. New England might have a deposit in the Hartford Basin, but we'll never know because just like its neighbors New England is also well on its way to banning recovery. New York has managed to inflict record gas prices on itself this month.
So shiver in the dark as far as I'm concerned. Shut off your extravagant kerosene turbines and rely on those offshore windmills you hate so much. Next summer maybe you can dam up a few dozen more Canadian rivers and preclude this little drama next winter.
Just to preclude about half of the coming threads.
Should self-driving cars chauffeur shopping 'whales' for free? Well I don't know if they should. However, I am absolutely certain they will. Unless some topples the powers-that-be, discards the Constitution and imposes the necessary rules to prevent it, that is.
When a whale car shows up it "should" have a piping hot meal ready for consumption as well. Also, as the whale car proceeds to and from the mall it "should" be careful to avoid blighted neighborhoods to prevent any whale discouragement or whale hunting.
Now the only question is; "should" the whale car meal include alcohol? Or perhaps marijuana, if it's a Colorado whale car?
So, who wants to fund my new startup; Waylz, Inc.? Our e-business analyzes neighborhood disposition based on property values and crime rates to compute optimal routes; neighborhood navigation for retailers.
Had the same thought... we all know China is "leading the way" in "renewables", "years ahead" of the US. So, yeah, this smog is obviously of domestic origin and our racist government is once again trying to pin its troubles on the yellow man.
Whew. Narrative corrected.