Poul-Henning Kamp

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• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »There's a "Nobels all round!" waiting for some team or researchers who can demonstrate artificial stimulation of radioactive decay[…]« I think it will have to be slim pickins before this work fruits a Nobel, but you never know. Stimulating radioactive...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »speaking from utter ignorance, my reflexive response to "transfer an atomic nucleus into a state of higher energy" is wondering if this technique can be exploited as a battery to store energy...?« The Thorium exitation they experimented with is unique...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »This paves the way for revolutionary high precision technologies, including nuclear clocks.« This is absolutely groundbreaking, but despite their name /nobody/ wants an actually radioactive nuclear frequency normal so…...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  The SCOTUS denied Dilbert Stark's appeal of the SEC-consent agreement limiting his ability to say stupid things about Tesla. https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-626.html I guess now the case goes back down to calculate the fines....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »There is a fairly plausible theory that these dodecahedrons are devices for knitting gloves:« Unless the Romans were very long-fingered, that theory makes absolutely no sense. Using it to knit cord would make a LOT more sense. Knitted cord is...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »Gates doesn't seem to indulge in personal public grudges against people who disagree with him.« ... any more....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »Thing is, the Musk’s hyperloop was[…]« […] scam PR-exercise to derail the californian high-speed-rail project, because he didn't want that kind of socialism… Everbody with half an engineering-degree could do the math and tell that there was no way it...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »Also, OGH earlier suggested the Chinese cannot afford a Kessler situation to develops. They didn't seem to be acting that way when their 2007 interception of Fengyun-1C took place.« The general consensus from the analysts I follow, seem to be...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »Re:the uselessness of windows phones« No, it was simply that people use phones differently from how they use desktop computers, but Microsoft wanted to "retain the same experience" which literally meant that you could have to go through a number...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »that there are no US or international standards for where airspace rules top out.« It's defined in one of the "peaceful use of space" treaties....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »Another shakeout of something like this would be in image processing and graphics; photoshop would remain a bit of a novelty[…]« Sorry, you lost me there ? If the premise is that we rewind to 1995, and all tech-promises magically...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »Every city was a microclimate.« It does not have to be a city to have micro climate, any variation in landscape which affects the low winds create a micro climate. A coastal cliff 8-10m tall will create a very distinct...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »In some ways I wonder if the choice to convert to lithium batteries as energy storage rather than hydrogen and fuel cells was because the cobalt, tantalum, lithium, and rare earths« I can guarantee you that it is not. Hydrogen...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »...finely etched upon goldleaf ribbon tape for indefinitely long storage? not magnetic but etched... will survive anything short of blowtorching...« It's been tried, but it is easily strechable, which why gold-leaf can be "painted" onto pretty much any shape, so...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  You're welcome. Many if my USAnian friends get really uncomfortable about that sketch, when I remind them about it before elections. (File removed)...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  try: http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/SNL-Al-Gore-5-14-06.wmv (I'll delete it again in some hours)...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »what of every New Yorker's nightmare, 11 SEP 2001? « Well, if all the promises of 1995 held, the president would have been Al Gore, so things would have been somewhat different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suv1hcBA3PY...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »NC was Sun trying to colonize the PC landscape[…]« Not quite. NC was an Oracle idea to out-compete IBM mainframes, DB2 and 3270 with Sun servers, Oracle DB and thin graphical clients running a stripped and locked down FreeBSD. Sun...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »I am interested in what that own-goal is. Easy to assume regulatory capture, is that it?« If the public noticed that the PLD was being revised, they would surely ask their politicians to tighten the screws, for instance demanding longer...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »I bet the insane growth of Novo Nordisk is creating a few issues.« Not really ? Our laws already have geographical equalization measures because of companies like MÆRSK, Lego, Danfoss etc. Re: zoning. Yes, nobody can force you to build,...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  PS: Tomorrow the SCOTUS will hear arguments in "23-175 City of Grants Pass, Oregon vs. Gloria Johnson" to decide if banning involuntary homeless from sleeping under a blanket is "Cruel and unjust punishment"....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »Scandinavian housing policies« I can help you as far as Denmark. Building permits in Denmark expire, but it is up to the granting authority to decide how soon. One year to start construction and three years to complete it is...
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  »The Sci-Fi answer would be to run those exhaust vents all the way up to the top of the nearby sky-scrapers like chimneys« Vertial right-of-way in New York is so expensive, that companies buy $75K Cesium clocks with 10 year...
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  »I foresee a rash of preventative bankruptcies of companies that have sold internet-of-things devices within the EU.« If you think EUrocrats are that dense, think again :-)...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »...and testing regarded as the unloved orphan child of software development« That is about to change. EU is revising the 40 year old Product Liability Directive, the text fell into place last month, now awaiting only the council's vote, where...
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  »the idea that a building is sovereign territory of some other country is very recent, historically speaking.« It was gradual, it started with reliable mail delivery and a "consul" who was subject to the host nations laws, but treated as...
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  »COVID19 dropped life expectancy in the developed world by more than 24 months.« I can recommend this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01450-3 The arrow-plot on pdf page 3 makes it very obvious that the really important factor is the health-care system. A well...
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  »About 30-35 years ago I went all in on X-10 remote controls for lights and such in a house.« We built a new house 8 years ago, being in the IT/Security field nothing "smart" was allowed near it. The heatpump...
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  »IBM doesn't seem to have suffered any reputational damage from renting out the machines that ran the camps…« … because they also rented out the machines used to keep track of all the japanese citizens USA put in concentration camps,...
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  »Nation-states don't have immunity« I didn't say "immunity", I said "impunity"....