[Info-vax] Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

[Wolf K]

On 2018-01-10 00:50, DaveFroble wrote:
> Tim Streater wrote:
>> In article <v96a5dlvf4fhhir13an7fgq7f2fmgad4tf at 4ax.com>, Doomsdrzej
>> <dre at do.om> wrote:
>>
>>>> Solar, thermal, wind, and for consistency, nuclear.
>>>
>>> The first three are worthless ...
>>
>> Right so far.
>>
>>> ...and the last is the most dangerous thing on Earth.
>>
>> Total balls.
>>
>> At TMI and Fukushima, no one killed or injured. At Chernobyl (where
>> they had to work very hard to make even a poorly designed reactor have
>> a meltdown), less than 100 dead. Per terrawatt-hour of energy produced,
>> much the safest way to generate electricity. As you'd know if you refer
>> to the Without-the-hot-air website I referred you to.
>>
> 
> Anything can be dangerous.
> 
> Three Mile Island, if I have my facts straight, was a rather new 
> facility, with fairly new operators.  Inadequately trained operators.
> 
> Water level was dropping in the core.  A particular valve had 600 PSI on 
> one side, and 200 PSI on the otherside.  Closed, right?  WRONG!  If they 
> had closed the valve, no problem would have occurred.  High pressure 
> steam can be funny that way.
> 
> I think better design might have given indications of the status of the 
> valve.
> 
> So, some rabble rouser says some things, and people who don't have a 
> clue believe it, then the mob is off and running.

Within three miles or so (coincidence?), the radio-activity from Three 
Mile Island had dropped into the background radio-activity range. 
Background  radio-activity varies by about one order of magnitude from 
minimum (on the prairies) to the maximum (central ranges of the Rocky 
Mountains, Canadian Shield). the annual dose is less than the dose of 
ionising radiation you receive on a transcontinental or international 
flight.

Most people are unaware that radioactivity is a normal part of their 
environment. People are radioactive, too: in a wood frame house, a human 
is usually the most radioactive object.

Footnote 1: Isaac Asimov once estimated that the maximum time a human 
could spend in suspended animation on a starship would be around 20,000 
years. Over that time, the damage done by K-40, C-14 etc would be enough 
to kill the re-animated person. If, that is, re-animation were still 
possible with such severely damaged cells.

Footnote 2: Scotch is quite a bit more radio-active than background.

Footnoe 3: Geiger counters are available online, prices range from 
around $250 to well over $1,000.

-- 
Wolf K
kirkwood40.blogspot.com
"The next conference for the time travel design team will be held two 
weeks ago."