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RE: The Radioactive Boy Scout
Topic: Miscellaneous 9:48 am EDT, Jul 25, 2005

Decius wrote:

The mantle in gas lanterns, the small cloth pouch over the flame, is coated with a compound containing thorium-232. When bombarded with neutrons it produces uranium-233, which is fissionable. David bought thousands of lantern mantles from surplus stores and blowtorched them into a pile of ash.

To isolate the thorium from the ash, he purchased $1000 worth of lithium batteries and cut them in half with wire cutters. He placed the lithium and thorium ash together in a ball of aluminum foil and heated the ball with a Bunsen burner. This purified the thorium to at least 9000 times the level found in nature, and up to 170 times the level that requires NRC licensing.

Teenager builds fission reactor in Mom's shed out of household parts. Seriously.

One of my colleagues at the PDL -- John Griffin -- (now at IBM) was "the" guy for the Boy Scouts Atomic Energy Merit Badge and was interviewed for the UK documentary for this.

RE: The Radioactive Boy Scout


RE: Penny Arcade on GTA fluff
Topic: Technology 11:44 am EDT, Jul 22, 2005

Acidus wrote:
teh h4x0rs R 3vi1!

It sounds like what's going to happen is the existing copies
are going to be re-rated "adults only" and pulled from shelves in
most places and Rockstar is going to cut a new release sans the "hot coffee" minigame which ESRB said would get the old "M" rating back.

I can't feel much sympathy for Rockstar ... if it was dead code
that you had to patch to get into, that would be one thing, but apparently its also accessible on the PS2 version via a cheat code. For once, I can't really blame the folks that got outraged over this when it was rated without consideration of this submarine content.

RE: Penny Arcade on GTA fluff


No Vaccine-Autism Link, Parents Are Told
Topic: Health and Wellness 11:39 am EDT, Jul 22, 2005

Top officials from three of the nation's premier public health agencies held an unusual news conference on Tuesday to say that childhood vaccines are life-saving medicines with no proven link to autism.

My impression is that the link between thimerosal and autism is a conspiracy theory ... but by the same token, it seems pretty idiotic to be injecting people with mercury.

No Vaccine-Autism Link, Parents Are Told


House Beats Back Challenges to Patriot Act
Topic: Politics and Law 11:16 am EDT, Jul 22, 2005

The House voted Thursday to extend permanently virtually all the major antiterrorism provisions of the USA Patriot Act after beating back efforts by Democrats and some Republicans to impose new restrictions on the government's power to eavesdrop, conduct secret searches and demand library records.

Ugh ...

House Beats Back Challenges to Patriot Act


Japan to test video over IP
Topic: Technology 9:08 am EDT, Jul 22, 2005

Japan may allow terrestrial digital TV programmes to be broadcast on fibre-optic networks via the Internet to help speed the transition from analog services, a government source said on Thursday.

Japan to test video over IP


Beethoven vs Bono: the classic mistake
Topic: Music 9:06 am EDT, Jul 22, 2005

As part of BBC Radio 3's recent homage to Beethoven, the corporation made all the composer's symphonies freely available to downloaders. You could go and stick the man's complete works (as played by the BBC Philharmonic) onto your iPod and it wouldn't cost you a penny, writes Bobbie Johnson.

Beethoven vs Bono: the classic mistake


HP drops 4 research groups in downsizing
Topic: Business 9:03 am EDT, Jul 22, 2005

The technology giant has shelved a team based in Palo Alto focused on advanced software research led by Alan Kay, a respected computing pioneer, according to HP Labs spokesman Dave Berman.

I'm not sure I knew that Alan Kay was at HPL ... last I'd heard -- probably a number of years stale, now -- he was at Disney Imagineering.

HP drops 4 research groups in downsizing


Stanford project mixes Darwin with hydrogen
Topic: Science 3:27 pm EDT, Jul 21, 2005

Researchers at the Stanford, led by chemical engineering professor James Swartz, have discovered a soil microorganism that absorbs photons and subsequently metabolize the energy to split water, a chemical reaction that produces hydrogen, said Jim Plummer, Stanford's dean of engineering, during a presentation at the AlwaysOn conference taking place at the university this week.

!!!

Stanford project mixes Darwin with hydrogen


NASA Plans to Launch Space Shuttle on Tuesday - New York Times
Topic: Space 12:10 pm EDT, Jul 21, 2005

NASA will try to launch the space shuttle Discovery on Tuesday after having narrowed down the most likely cause of the fuel tank sensor problem that delayed last week's effort to fly for the first time since the Columbia disaster in 2003, space agency officials said Wednesday.

NASA Plans to Launch Space Shuttle on Tuesday - New York Times


Unsealed Declaration of Brian W. Kernighan, SCO v. IBM
Topic: Politics and Law 5:28 pm EDT, Jul 20, 2005

Here's the Unsealed Declaration of Brian W. Kernighan [PDF], as text, thanks once again to Scott David Daniels. We've discussed this in the previous article and earlier, and really it speaks for itself. You can get the exhibits mentioned on that last page linked.

I hadn't been paying much attention to SCO for awhile... their
case has totally fallen apart. But the shouting will probably persist for some years...

Unsealed Declaration of Brian W. Kernighan, SCO v. IBM


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