[Trimmed Cc a bit, I'll let Bob decide where it goes beyond this]. Now that Bob coined the neologism "palladiated" (blame Bob -- my "palladiumized" was not in jest, just used in the middle of a tech discussion) it has to be done, so I asked the universal oracle (google.com) about palladium and half-life, and lo the Pd-103 isotope has a 17-day half-life, and Pd-109 of 13.5 hours and are classified as having moderate radiotoxicity. Unfortunately for Bob's neologism not quite up there with fission grade isotopes like like Plutonium which rate as very high toxicity, but still you wouldn't want to ingest to much of the stuff... Pd isotopes are obtained by bombarding Gold with neutrons apparently. http://www.stevequayle.com/Shop/Radiation/Radiotoxicity.appendix.html Anyway, now back to the intersting tech discussion on the balance of of owner vs third party control in the MS Palladium and TCPA platforms... Adam On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 06:37:51PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Evidently, I have permission to pass this along. :-).
Don't try this at home, boys and girls. This is a professional neologist at work...
Cheers, RAH Comedy is not pretty...
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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 22:40:56 +0100 From: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org> To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: wow - palladiated! (Re: Palladium: technical limits and implications)
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:08:08PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 6:54 PM +0100 on 8/7/02, Adam Back wrote:
Palladiumized
Palladiated?
;-).
that's pretty funny, rhymes with irradiated -- nice connotations of radioactive material with radioactive half-lives spewing life-hazardous neutron radiation ;-)
Helps that palladium is in fact a heavy metal. Man, perhaps Pd even _has_ a half-life on the decay path from plutonium down to lead or something. That would be very funny.
Adam