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	<title>Comments on: Manhattan Problem</title>
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		<title>By: thacker</title>
		<link>http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/02/14/manhattan-problem/#comment-320428</link>
		<dc:creator>thacker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meyer--

You will get no disagreement from me in what you have qualified as &quot;high-yield nuclear device[s]&quot; nor from your comment regarding the traditional concept of a &#039;dirty&#039; weapon, e.g. effective dispersion.

Back to the main point of your thread and objections to theft of copyrighted material or intellectual property published on the Web, if it is that valuable, do not publish it on the Web. Right or wrong, that is the nature of that beast.  However, I can understand and appreciate the objections.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Meyer&#8211;</p>
<p>You will get no disagreement from me in what you have qualified as &#8220;high-yield nuclear device[s]&#8221; nor from your comment regarding the traditional concept of a &#8216;dirty&#8217; weapon, e.g. effective dispersion.</p>
<p>Back to the main point of your thread and objections to theft of copyrighted material or intellectual property published on the Web, if it is that valuable, do not publish it on the Web. Right or wrong, that is the nature of that beast.  However, I can understand and appreciate the objections.</p>
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		<title>By: Eric Meyer</title>
		<link>http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/02/14/manhattan-problem/#comment-320358</link>
		<dc:creator>Eric Meyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s not as easy to manufacture a high-yield nuclear device as most people tend to assume-- otherwise, a lot more countries would have done it by now.  The North Koreans didn&#039;t botch their first device because they&#039;re idiots, they botched it because it&#039;s hard.  Now, if you want to talk about theft of pre-made warheads, I share your concern.  As for &quot;dirty bombs&quot;, those are easy to make but aren&#039;t really damaging in this sort of fashion.  (One study suggested that in a &quot;dirty bomb&quot; attack, more people would die of panic-induced heart attacks than from direct bomb effect like radiation poisoning.)

But I&#039;m not going to back down on content theft just because the subject matter is so dire.  Otherwise it would be permissible to steal any movie that dealt with the end of humanity or the world.

As for the post showing up in the technical feed, Greg&#039;s right, I referenced HYDEsim and so I clicked the &quot;Tools&quot; category (as it&#039;s a tool I built) and that landed it in the technical feed.  Possibly that was inappropriate, but that&#039;s what happens when your taxonomy isn&#039;t as robust as perhaps it could be.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s not as easy to manufacture a high-yield nuclear device as most people tend to assume&#8211; otherwise, a lot more countries would have done it by now.  The North Koreans didn&#8217;t botch their first device because they&#8217;re idiots, they botched it because it&#8217;s hard.  Now, if you want to talk about theft of pre-made warheads, I share your concern.  As for &#8220;dirty bombs&#8221;, those are easy to make but aren&#8217;t really damaging in this sort of fashion.  (One study suggested that in a &#8220;dirty bomb&#8221; attack, more people would die of panic-induced heart attacks than from direct bomb effect like radiation poisoning.)</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m not going to back down on content theft just because the subject matter is so dire.  Otherwise it would be permissible to steal any movie that dealt with the end of humanity or the world.</p>
<p>As for the post showing up in the technical feed, Greg&#8217;s right, I referenced HYDEsim and so I clicked the &#8220;Tools&#8221; category (as it&#8217;s a tool I built) and that landed it in the technical feed.  Possibly that was inappropriate, but that&#8217;s what happens when your taxonomy isn&#8217;t as robust as perhaps it could be.</p>
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		<title>By: thacker</title>
		<link>http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/02/14/manhattan-problem/#comment-320345</link>
		<dc:creator>thacker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hacke--

Good point and understood.

The greatest threat to any in-country operative is an educated and aware indigenous population. That said, a highly motivated, well trained, well financed and properly equipped lone individual is damn near impossible to stop.

Intellectual property to terrorism ... all on a site dedicated to CSS. Gotta love the Web, huh.  Oh, and Meyer&#039;s tolerance.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hacke&#8211;</p>
<p>Good point and understood.</p>
<p>The greatest threat to any in-country operative is an educated and aware indigenous population. That said, a highly motivated, well trained, well financed and properly equipped lone individual is damn near impossible to stop.</p>
<p>Intellectual property to terrorism &#8230; all on a site dedicated to CSS. Gotta love the Web, huh.  Oh, and Meyer&#8217;s tolerance.</p>
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		<title>By: Greg Hacke</title>
		<link>http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/02/14/manhattan-problem/#comment-320335</link>
		<dc:creator>Greg Hacke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank -
As Eric wrote HYDEsim - the tool using google maps to plot explosive yields on real maps - It&#039;s technical as it&#039;s in relation to an application right up there in the toolbox.

thacker -
I&#039;m worried about both.  Sure, nuclear terrorism worries me but when the media drastically under-represents the dangers of the situation it creates a sense of reduced concern.  That worries me - a lot.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Frank -<br />
As Eric wrote HYDEsim &#8211; the tool using google maps to plot explosive yields on real maps &#8211; It&#8217;s technical as it&#8217;s in relation to an application right up there in the toolbox.</p>
<p>thacker -<br />
I&#8217;m worried about both.  Sure, nuclear terrorism worries me but when the media drastically under-represents the dangers of the situation it creates a sense of reduced concern.  That worries me &#8211; a lot.</p>
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		<title>By: Frank</title>
		<link>http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/02/14/manhattan-problem/#comment-320287</link>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why was this in the &lt;b&gt;Technical feed&lt;/b&gt;?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why was this in the <b>Technical feed</b>?</p>
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		<title>By: thacker</title>
		<link>http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/02/14/manhattan-problem/#comment-320221</link>
		<dc:creator>thacker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am not so concerned about theft of Web content as I am about &quot;theft&quot; of nuclear fuel, the zeal of a few dedicated individuals, the ease of building a crude but highly effective weapon and the culmination of the scenario described by either one of the cited Web sites.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Am not so concerned about theft of Web content as I am about &#8220;theft&#8221; of nuclear fuel, the zeal of a few dedicated individuals, the ease of building a crude but highly effective weapon and the culmination of the scenario described by either one of the cited Web sites.</p>
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