Note that the claimed total only includes iodine-131 and cesium-137, while they forget about radioactive noble gases and other isotopes. Besides, there are no public images where one could clearly see the cap of reactor 3. If reactor 3 or it's fuel pool has thrown significant amounts of plutonium in the air, the situation is much more dramatic than admitted.

Well in this particular case it was the Nazi government that was farsighted. The allies found giant presses when they occupied Germany at the end of WW2. So Germans had such presses running during WW2, and USA started heavy press program in 1950.

My telco offers IPTV box with a load of features but a really lousy interface. There's also a tablet app available that will show most of the channels but the interface is basically select one channel from a list and watch it. With so many people having tablets around it makes so much sense to integrate with TVs and make a tablet somewhat like a secondary screen and a much better remote. Apple has everything in place to make such a TV and a lot of space to innovate. Ipads and Iphones can become personal touch interfaces for the apps running on TV. I can think of dozens of functions that can be made easier and more intuitive with such a setup. Plus they can afford to use a higher-powered CPU/GPU in the TV making it more suitable for console-like software.

Even if there is an antisocial factor and the parents are to blame, it's not the kids fault and there are ways to help them without drugs.

It just so happens that I'm aware of a case of autism. My friend's kid was kept at home for the first 5 years with essentially no contact to any kids or any people outside the closer family circle. Sure enough she was diagnosed with a kind of autistic disorder in the kindergarten. They sought professional help and got it. If you look at the methods involved you will find there are surprisingly many things that you need to do counterintuitively with these children. Even if you know something about psychology you will be surprised at what works (talking to the animals...). Anyways, there were no drugs involved, the parents got instructed how to handle the kid in certain situations, the school teachers got a few instructions (and had to do some special handling during the first day of school) and in a few years the kid got to normal.

Imagine a low frequency high amplitude sine wave added to a lower amplitude high frequency sine wave. There you have a reason to sample linearly if you want to preserve high frequency fidelity. Of course, you can then store the samples using a delta/logarithmic scheme like any ADPCM variant that have been used in wavetable synthesizers since like forever. However, any audio mixing/transcoding math involved will work best with raw linear data. So it makes sense to keep audio data linear when you process it and convert to something space saving only when you are storing or streaming.

Proponents of low-energy nuclear reaction research seem to believe Widom-Larsen Theory describes what might be going on in some of the so called "cold fusion" test devices like the one claimed by Rossi.

It shouldn't be too difficult to check the isotopes going in and out, and measure radiation (gamma, neutrons...) with sufficient accuracy to determine if there was any nuclear reaction and compute whether the result is above statistical noise. But I can't find any papers doing rigorous testing.

There is a huge opportunity for Microsoft to provide a tablet that could act either as an independent iPad like item or a thin-client (similar to the Wii U controller) that could act as an extension or detachable component of Xbox360 and Win8 applications.

Given the track record with previous Microsoft tablet efforts (I was playing with their transmeta containing tablet a long time ago) I'd say the problem is the software. The hardware is all there.

I have seen it coming. Nokia have been living in their comfortable telco-friendly niche for too long.

1. They have a ton of low-end models, each one seems to have different menus and a lot of missing features, as if telcos got to choose what features to remove so that they can try to sell a new phone contract every year.

2. Their middle-range models also lack in features and the quality does not always reflect the price. I paid 240 EUR and the side keys fell apart in one year.

3. Their high-end phones were basically show off pieces without a proper or at least not developed enough eco-system.

4. Their PC software has become a bit too bloated and it has some basic bugs (some MP3s not showing on the phone list, disk crawler locking up files...).

The combination of these drive many low-end users to experiment with other companies phones and most high-end users to try iPhone or Android.

The sad part of the story is that TEPCO crew apparently knew enough to figure out what was going on (whiteboard photos prove this), but officially they pretended they didn't know and simply omitted strongly suggestive datapoints from public releases. Only now, when enough isotopes have been blown around northern hemisphere that any interested scientist can sample the isotope ratio in the air and work back the numbers they slowly admit some truth, while still covering up what really exploded in reactor number 3.