the good news...
is that the fire is out.
the bad news is that all the disks were wiped by the e-field and everything else was cooked by back emf!
Posts by Naughtyhorse
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Fire-quenching electric forcefield backpack invented
Fukushima scaremongers becoming increasingly desperate
Monday 28th March 2011 09:07 GMT
promise? how exactly
As far as I can tell there has been no significant contaminant leak.
Given japan has some of the tightest 'safe' limits in the world. I am only aware of 2 of these being breached - exposure of staff on site, with the levels raised from 5% of that which is known to cause illness to 10%. and the iodine in the tokyo water supply - which is a yearly limit for babies only (japan only), and for a material which naturally decays in a month or so.
You dont need to be an expert in history to understand why the government of japan is sensitive to the effects of radiation, which adds a significant political dimension to the establishment of the limits in the first place
Not really in the same league as chernobyl spewing great gouts of long lived heavy metals around 1/2 the globe - which still effect the commercial activities of some farmers in the UK 25 years later, but have NOT lead to notable increases in cancer rates.
Digesting the Budget: First-belch reactions
Thursday 24th March 2011 13:11 GMT
Working model
lol
you menan like they have in the states, where the insurance companies all get together and screw the people, and use some of their ill gotten to bribe the govt. to never change things.
meanwhile 50 MILLION people in the worlds richest country have NO medical cover. There people can only get treated at emergeny rooms - A&E - which means all A&E systems are clogged with a continual stream of people who have become 'emergencies' because of the system, rather than the illness.
oh, and those expensive, overworked ER's are payed for....... by the people who DO have insurance.
to summarise:
insured medicine costs more.
insured medicine excludes vast numbers of people
insured medicine guarantees increased waiting times in ER/A&E
insured medicine ends up charing the policy holders (with uplift - and then some) for the inadequate ER anyway.
oh and PS - you got cancer/chronic heart disease/diabetes/MS/any of the major psychiatric labels/downs/haeomphillia - basically anything serious with a more than 5% chance of re-admittal. then you cant get cover - at any price.
i think your master(bater) plan needs a little more work you selfish opinionated moron
Radioactive Tokyo tapwater HARMS BABIES ... if drunk for a year
Apple sues Amazon over 'App Store' name
Tuesday 22nd March 2011 12:57 GMT
methinks
'someone' will be filing a patent application for 'asshat' as we speak.
while thay may not have invented the term 'asshat' they surely have developed the content and scope of asshattery to the extent that when people utter the word asshat in everyday speech the utteree will immediately envision mactard fanbois in general, and the grand master asshat himself mettier in particular.
although the idea that someone would want to infringe this patent would ultimately render the application moot
Will world universities step to cluster challenge?
Monday 21st March 2011 16:28 GMT
i turned a blind eye...
to the toe curling stereotyping, but...
"Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t know if any university can credibly claim a research heritage until they’ve competed at a Student Cluster Competition. "
requires a bit of a challenge
What, pray, do you think farday, newton, maxwell and 1000' of other possible slightly less noteworthy techies did with their lives work if not build a REAL research heritage ?
I'll give you a clue - they did not piss off to seattle in november to take part the 'technical leggo world series' (that other great world event that no one but a merkin gives a fuck about)
please someone open a window!
Osborne urged to end islands VAT-holiday by small-biz group
TV sitcom opens up the world of penetration testing
Download data versus piracy claims: the figures don’t add up
Friday 18th March 2011 15:48 GMT
that old chesnut
To put it another way, and the MU used to:
home taping is skill in music
twas bollocks then and still is today.
When i was a lad, and under the misconception that pimply faced tossers with extravagant hair had something to say that was worth listening to. I and 1000's and 1000's of equally pimply faced tossers like me used to dilligently listen to the top 40 every sunday and tape the living daylights out of it.
piracy on a massive scale.
difference is that that was much harder to count than downloads. (or guestimate)
the music biz today is still awash with cash (it's target audience have disposable income, no finacial commitments and poor judgement, same as always)
the changes to the business model will ultimately squeeze the hell out of the business side and ultimately content providers will come out on top.
MS claims credit for Rustock botnet takedown
Fukushima on Thursday: Prospects starting to look good
Judge mulls 'wasted costs' as ACS:Law cases close
Fukushima update: No chance cooling fuel can breach vessels
Tuesday 15th March 2011 16:03 GMT
you could be...
AFAIK control rods are boron to absorb said neutrons and slow the reaction. tho on a similar note i always thought they sat above the fuel and were lowered in - or dropped in the event of a snafu with the control system - hence fail safe. though al the pretty little graphics universally show these rods being jacked up into place. could just be the graphics dept?
Tuesday 15th March 2011 15:42 GMT
hmmmm
in about 5 years time demand will be oustripping supply in the uk.
a few days in the dark,
no telly,
no net,
no street lights, traffic lights, traffic management CCTV - therefore major accidents on all trunk roads.
no runway lights, no atc, no ils, VOR offline - therefore aircraft dropping from the sky left right and centre
all because the bleeding wind isnt blowing hard enough.
might just make people wonder how likley it is that we are going to see a 9.0 earthquake, AND 100 foot wave rushing 10km inland at a couple of hundred miles an hour.
maybe those people will hold a different view.
Fukushima reactor core battle continues
Tuesday 15th March 2011 12:04 GMT
Im not taking the piss... but
and no personal slur intended, but from the sowtware industry you do not have even the beginnings of a glimmering of an inkling of the meaning of the word reliability.
you drop a bollock on one of these designs and there aint gonna be a 'patch tuesday' comming around any day soon to dig you out of the hole.
Tuesday 15th March 2011 11:37 GMT
hope for the future....
"That, plus a failed and criminal war against the Afghan people brought down a thoroughly despicable regime."
i cant' quite see how this quake will topple the merkin political system (thats is the corrupt regime to which you refer?) but what the hell, if it brings the merkin people blinking into the light of freedom from tyrany, i am all in favour.
Judge OKs feds' access to WikiLeakers Twitter info
Balanced, neutral journalism is RUBBISH and that's a FACT
Spooks' secret TEMPEST-busting tech reinvented by US student
Illinois scrubs death penalty
Honey I shrunk the chip ... now what?
Wednesday 9th March 2011 18:37 GMT
the reason it's bollocks is...
sometimes its tr count, somtimes it's density, sometimes 'processing power'(whatever the fuck that means), and sometimes it's clock speed - then you get to be super selective about when the 18month period starts.
by definition there is an asymptotic component to tech advances - there used to be all sorts of talk about the die process hitting a wall and chips sat at around 1/2 a GHz for ages,then that hurdle was crossed and a huge step forward was achieved...
now it's lumpy atoms.
this will pass, maybe
then it will be.... the magic blue smoke gets stuck at the corners... or some such.
at some point when (desperately) trying to fit data to an exponential curve you just have to say " you know what, this is not an exponential phenomenon" moores worked ok for a bit in the 60's and 70's (as even the great man himself reckoned) calling it a _law_ always pissed me off. and i cant even begin to imagine how much is must have pissed off the clever techies squeezing the process, getting more and more performance (however you measure it) and having their efforts be made to look - inevetable - like they could have sat round drinking tea all day and the chips would go faster all on their own.
</bah humbug>
Anonymous probed for hack threat against WikiLeaker captors
Wednesday 9th March 2011 13:20 GMT
soundly!
they have god on their side.
people agin them are agin god, and there fore have no rights
hell they dont even have real feelings like us proper people.
y' know what, we need to monitor these types -
make em wear some kind of symbol on the clothes.
make em live in strictly controlled parts of town
take their possesions away
even better, lets build some camps to keep them in, we'll need good rail links, close to a town for guards, but not too close, on account of the smoke from the chimneys.
having been a lifelong athiest im starting to really really hope i'm wrong about that. cos their god is a vengefull bastard, and what they are doing to manning, he'll do worse to them. from now til the end of time.
fuck godwin
Wednesday 9th March 2011 13:17 GMT
what an enlightened view
Not what one expects from a country with serious form when it comes to human rights abuse, violation of international treatise, support of rogue states.
You'll be telling me that they slaughter their own children next... oh hang on a second, i thought that was just places like china and iran??? surely not the land of the free?
'Wrong amount of snow' caused Heathrow chaos
Wednesday 9th March 2011 00:29 GMT
lemmie guess
When BAA go buy a squillion squds worth of snow ploughs to tackle events with a 30 year return, and then increase their charges to cover the cost(they are a business? yes?)
Asshats like you will be at the front of the queue whining about the cost of flying.
the post a couple below this asks the right question:-
What the fuck did people expect after fighting through the snow to get to the fucking airport in the first place? do you _really_ think it's easier to hit a 2 mile strip of sniow covered tarmac in a snow covered field in a jet airliner than find exit 4 of the M4 in a family car?
Museum readies touch-tastic retro comms gear hands-on
How languages can live together without killing each other
Feeling heat from Macs, Microsoft sells PCs sans crapware
Cure for BALDNESS causes IMPOTENCE, says new study
Spaniards bemoan 'joke' speed limit cut
Tuesday 8th March 2011 00:21 GMT
save time.. do the maths
I drive too fast, cos i like it, my car is thirsty as a result, and I accept this, (square law of wind resistance and all ) .
But do not tell me you get there any quicker by doing so! it is simply not the case.
my sat nav smugly estimates my TOA on any journey, and it is always pretty much smack on.
I am often minded to drive like a headcase to beat it, the best i can recall beating it by was about 3 minutes....... in a 5 hour journey.
Tuesday 8th March 2011 00:21 GMT
You want boring...
Try driving round and round and round in tiny circles for hours and hours of a sunday
now THATS boring.
So boring I'd be inclined to have an underling crash into a wall just behind me... to aleviate the boredom you understand.
I'm 100% with jezzas suggestion that they run on TG's test track, its an 8. prolly going to be the least boring race since turbo/ground effect days. (before the playsation generation moved in)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
