All nuclear fuel is very poisonous as its a heavy metal and is a bio-accumulant. Add even small amounts of radioactivity to the mix and its not a pretty sight. This stuff is far far worse than lead as its more reactive and forms soluble compounds readily. Now who's country is going to get this "safe", so called, fallout? Can you guarantee in the case of failure at near orbital speeds where this is going to land? Does one country have a right to decide that this is ok for another country?
Well I guess the US thinks it has the right to use depleted Uranium for AP rounds in any country it fells like!
Well I have just been configuring my WGR614v6. If you set your network up the way they planed, it works fine. But if you do something different then you are out of luck. For example you can't change/turn of NAT or the firewall and there is no telnet interface, so you have to hack it work with a already present home network. All the hacks out there didn't work for me and so I have a 50 euro piece of junk. I can't see this being enough really.
The problem with nuclear rockets is not what happens if they work. But what happens when they go Challenger on you. The current failure rate for rockets is not so good that this can't be discounted credibly. Thats a lot of fallout.
Just look at all the articles on/. in the last year. Count how had something to do with evolution vrs the War on Drugs. I think you will find that Evolution is the winner on that one. Or perhaps you would prefer that only topics that you veto be included?
I was/am unaware about the Discovery [Institute] fellows history. But from what you posted it sounds dodgy. Ironically all this anti science/religion stuff seems to be restricted to the US. Here (Austria) there really is no problem workings as a Evolutionary biologist with faith. Really, nobody cares.
New scientist is NOT a peer reviewed source. Have you read the sources it references? Is is selective with which references its includes? You can't tell because it itself is not peer reviewed. I don't bother anymore with NS because they often even reference preprints from KNOWN crackpots.
Why would you be so against teaching some critical thinking with AGW as the topic? Don't want to risk the sheepel changing there minds?
IMO AGW is the perfect topic. Its so easy to illustrate that all sides are grinding away on there respective axes as hard as they can.
Lets hope the people implementing this use some critical thinking eh?
Seriously everyone has some axe to grind even if they don't know it. Learning that things are often not what they are represented to mean is something we must all learn. Is./ any better with its bias?
From a scientific standpoint, CUDA is where its at. The PhyX is a very rough Newtonian physics simulator in terms of any true accuracy, with the emphasis on stability of the integration. Contact dynamics are very rough and multiple collision is still expensive. It does not need more for games.
Also its not clear how much of the graphics side takes the hit with some physics sims ruining or if you can get the results back to the CPU efficiently if the physics sims need more than eye candy. And the fact that a lot of these modern cards are on dual core or more CPUs then the total value of the hardware is perhaps questionable. Having a generic cross platform api however is always useful.
BTW we are just starting to use CUDA for some serious science now at work.
All the better to have some critical thinking exercises on the topic.
I work as a evolutionary Biologist in the EU. We are getting lots of money right now and it has nothing to do with the evolution storm you have in the USA. Bio related topics are . . . well topical at this point in time.
Unfortunately, it's remarkably selective in its suggestion of topics that need critical thinking, as it cites scientific subjects 'including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.'"
These are all currently topical subjects. How is suggesting critical thinking/discussion on these a bad idea? In fact its the lack of critical discussion thats the problem. Its all emotion and politics even on./ with these topics. And what part of "including, but not limited to" don't we understand?
The OSS crowd steals from its own. This story and the few comments already ("If they put copy protection on it that annoys me in any way I'll just steal/crack it") makes that very clear. Hang on a minute. What makes all these folk OSS crowd? The fact that they read./ ? Given that M$ windows is/was the more popular OS for viewing this site it should be clear that the link it not there.
Don't pull others into the mud with these very broad, unfair and incorrect assumptions.
The same as they have towards Windows: absolutely none. But they support Windows because 90% of desktops with their graphics cards installed run Windows. These drivers are binary blobs too. We are not just expecting that they support Linux like windows, but that they support Linux better than windows with the expectation of OS.
Personally I don't care all that much if it works. And it works really well. I just got a laptop because it had a nv card, because I knew the nv/nvidia driver would work. And it did work very well (unlike the wireless). If they want to keep there IP/trade secrets via binary blobs, they are free to do so.
Fact is that if it comes to OS or no Linux then they would probably go in the no Linux direction. That would be very bad for Linux in general.
That 10B was for a power plant below 1GW (just above 500MW IIRC). In fact due to the military aspect of nuclear its very hard to come up with realistic figures.
Even after than what about reprocessing infrastructure? Its a long way from clear cut. Oh and there is still waste. Do we build accelerator driven plants to burn waste? More R&D, more costs less return.
Point in fact I think 1000 of tons is a low estimate for solar.... But then again, just like everything else, there are ways to improve on the status quo. Nuclear is *not* out of the box. We are talking next gen nuclear and next gen solar/wind whatever....
Well it does not really make the fuel unlimited. It does perhaps pad it out by a factor of 100 and if you include a Th fuel cycle then you are golden.
However its not a given that this is economical compared to things like solar. A power plant costs are on the order of 10B so they are not cheap. And reprocessing is not cheap either.
This sub-thread has confused sexual abuse of teenagers with abuse of children. I don't believe so. My point is that Peados are far far more rare then probably even terrorists. This is with the context of kiddie porn, not underage porn. One is about the ability of the individual to be mentally capable of making a decision to consent to sex, while the other is about the fact that there bodies are not physically ready for sex.
Also the laws in different countries are very different. In some counties kiddie porn and under age porn are not differentiated while in others they are. The definitions are also just as varied. While some countries "illegal" acts in porn movies are ok as long as they are all actors and are old enough. In others if someone looks like they are underage its illegal. Age of consent laws vary just as much (in Austria its 14 years old, unless you are a gay guy in which case its 18).
The point remains however. This law will not change a dam thing. The amount children are abused will not change anymore than the number of young teenagers that are abused. And there will be no increase in the number of pedophiles convicted. Its just another example of the governments using boogie men to justify new laws.
And just for the record. I personally can see some justification for a law like this. But thats not what is being peddled by the peddlers.
Also what ages where they? A 15 year old is not a "kid" anymore. They are, as far as physical characteristics are concerned, normal "woman" with breast and everything us guys like. I would not call this pedophilia.
And:
Q: How many would have been prevented if there was no such thing as kiddie porn?
A: Approximately none. So whats the point?
You can't, however, make a case that religious fundamentalism isn't harmful to science. I would take it one step further. Any "fundamentalism" in the group culture sense is harmful in general. By definition "fundamentalist" can't see the forest from the trees, in fact its more like they can't even see the tree from the branches.
Umm no. p/B needs a much much much larger magnetic field strength than D2 (or even DT). Its all about mass/charge ratio and Bremsstrahlung losses which are very high for p/B plasmas.
Also a lot of "fast" C programs out there also have big asm blocks and/or massive amounts of align hints. That kinda stops it begin C.
IMHO there are just a few areas where a asm/C block will trash any pure java implementation. Thats symmetric crypto and video codecs. Its easy to see why too. Cryto algos are often designed from the ground up with x86 asm in mind. Where MMX etc was introduced really for DCT type calculations.
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All nuclear fuel is very poisonous as its a heavy metal and is a bio-accumulant. Add even small amounts of radioactivity to the mix and its not a pretty sight. This stuff is far far worse than lead as its more reactive and forms soluble compounds readily. Now who's country is going to get this "safe", so called, fallout? Can you guarantee in the case of failure at near orbital speeds where this is going to land? Does one country have a right to decide that this is ok for another country?
Well I guess the US thinks it has the right to use depleted Uranium for AP rounds in any country it fells like!
Well I have just been configuring my WGR614v6. If you set your network up the way they planed, it works fine. But if you do something different then you are out of luck. For example you can't change/turn of NAT or the firewall and there is no telnet interface, so you have to hack it work with a already present home network. All the hacks out there didn't work for me and so I have a 50 euro piece of junk. I can't see this being enough really.
I will never get netgear again.
The problem with nuclear rockets is not what happens if they work. But what happens when they go Challenger on you. The current failure rate for rockets is not so good that this can't be discounted credibly. Thats a lot of fallout.
Just look at all the articles on /. in the last year. Count how had something to do with evolution vrs the War on Drugs. I think you will find that Evolution is the winner on that one. Or perhaps you would prefer that only topics that you veto be included?
I was/am unaware about the Discovery [Institute] fellows history. But from what you posted it sounds dodgy. Ironically all this anti science/religion stuff seems to be restricted to the US. Here (Austria) there really is no problem workings as a Evolutionary biologist with faith. Really, nobody cares.
but on /. you're a dumbass.
Well I guess thats critical. Perhaps not what is meant by critical *thinking* however....
Feeding a OT troll. But anyway...
New scientist is NOT a peer reviewed source. Have you read the sources it references? Is is selective with which references its includes? You can't tell because it itself is not peer reviewed. I don't bother anymore with NS because they often even reference preprints from KNOWN crackpots.
Why would you be so against teaching some critical thinking with AGW as the topic? Don't want to risk the sheepel changing there minds?
IMO AGW is the perfect topic. Its so easy to illustrate that all sides are grinding away on there respective axes as hard as they can.
Lets hope the people implementing this use some critical thinking eh?
./ any better with its bias?
Seriously everyone has some axe to grind even if they don't know it. Learning that things are often not what they are represented to mean is something we must all learn. Is
From a scientific standpoint, CUDA is where its at. The PhyX is a very rough Newtonian physics simulator in terms of any true accuracy, with the emphasis on stability of the integration. Contact dynamics are very rough and multiple collision is still expensive. It does not need more for games.
Also its not clear how much of the graphics side takes the hit with some physics sims ruining or if you can get the results back to the CPU efficiently if the physics sims need more than eye candy. And the fact that a lot of these modern cards are on dual core or more CPUs then the total value of the hardware is perhaps questionable. Having a generic cross platform api however is always useful.
BTW we are just starting to use CUDA for some serious science now at work.
All the better to have some critical thinking exercises on the topic.
I work as a evolutionary Biologist in the EU. We are getting lots of money right now and it has nothing to do with the evolution storm you have in the USA. Bio related topics are . . . well topical at this point in time.
Unfortunately, it's remarkably selective in its suggestion of topics that need critical thinking, as it cites scientific subjects 'including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.'"
These are all currently topical subjects. How is suggesting critical thinking/discussion on these a bad idea? In fact its the lack of critical discussion thats the problem. Its all emotion and politics even on ./ with these topics. And what part of "including, but not limited to" don't we understand?
Sounds like a storm in a tea cup.
Everything on the FB site is slow, even logging in. Thats why i don't use it anymore. But my wife still uses it a lot.
Don't pull others into the mud with these very broad, unfair and incorrect assumptions.
Personally I don't care all that much if it works. And it works really well. I just got a laptop because it had a nv card, because I knew the nv/nvidia driver would work. And it did work very well (unlike the wireless). If they want to keep there IP/trade secrets via binary blobs, they are free to do so.
Fact is that if it comes to OS or no Linux then they would probably go in the no Linux direction. That would be very bad for Linux in general.
That 10B was for a power plant below 1GW (just above 500MW IIRC). In fact due to the military aspect of nuclear its very hard to come up with realistic figures.
Even after than what about reprocessing infrastructure? Its a long way from clear cut. Oh and there is still waste. Do we build accelerator driven plants to burn waste? More R&D, more costs less return.
Point in fact I think 1000 of tons is a low estimate for solar.... But then again, just like everything else, there are ways to improve on the status quo. Nuclear is *not* out of the box. We are talking next gen nuclear and next gen solar/wind whatever....
Well it does not really make the fuel unlimited. It does perhaps pad it out by a factor of 100 and if you include a Th fuel cycle then you are golden.
However its not a given that this is economical compared to things like solar. A power plant costs are on the order of 10B so they are not cheap. And reprocessing is not cheap either.
This sub-thread has confused sexual abuse of teenagers with abuse of children. I don't believe so. My point is that Peados are far far more rare then probably even terrorists. This is with the context of kiddie porn, not underage porn. One is about the ability of the individual to be mentally capable of making a decision to consent to sex, while the other is about the fact that there bodies are not physically ready for sex.
Also the laws in different countries are very different. In some counties kiddie porn and under age porn are not differentiated while in others they are. The definitions are also just as varied. While some countries "illegal" acts in porn movies are ok as long as they are all actors and are old enough. In others if someone looks like they are underage its illegal. Age of consent laws vary just as much (in Austria its 14 years old, unless you are a gay guy in which case its 18).
The point remains however. This law will not change a dam thing. The amount children are abused will not change anymore than the number of young teenagers that are abused. And there will be no increase in the number of pedophiles convicted. Its just another example of the governments using boogie men to justify new laws.
And just for the record. I personally can see some justification for a law like this. But thats not what is being peddled by the peddlers.
Citation? Just kidding.
Also what ages where they? A 15 year old is not a "kid" anymore. They are, as far as physical characteristics are concerned, normal "woman" with breast and everything us guys like. I would not call this pedophilia.
And:
Q: How many would have been prevented if there was no such thing as kiddie porn?
A: Approximately none. So whats the point?
It depends on the population size. In fact how long it takes can be used as a direct measure on population size.
For smaller populations that was prevalent at the time, this is not a huge surprise.
If I had mod points. You would get them all.
How many people are convicted of a real pedophile crime every year. I'm guessing its a real small number.
Its just like thinking that terrorists are a threat.
Umm no. p/B needs a much much much larger magnetic field strength than D2 (or even DT). Its all about mass/charge ratio and Bremsstrahlung losses which are very high for p/B plasmas.
And yet there are patents on RSA, EEC and other public key algorithms. If thats not patenting a mathematical result/algo then what is?
Also a lot of "fast" C programs out there also have big asm blocks and/or massive amounts of align hints. That kinda stops it begin C.
IMHO there are just a few areas where a asm/C block will trash any pure java implementation. Thats symmetric crypto and video codecs. Its easy to see why too. Cryto algos are often designed from the ground up with x86 asm in mind. Where MMX etc was introduced really for DCT type calculations.