Palladiated? (was re: wow - palladiated! (Re: Palladium: technical limits and implications))
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... --- begin forwarded text
On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Status: RO Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 22:40:56 +0100 From: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org> To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> Cc: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org> Subject: wow - palladiated! (Re: Palladium: technical limits and implications) User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.2i
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
Yeah, well Pd has 46 protons and atomic numbers ranging from 91 to 124. Most are stable, but some have half lives in the micro to millisecond range, a few with hours to days and 1 with 6.5 million years. It's just before silver, so it's most likely to be found in nuclear reactors as a fission product. I'd have to dig some more to find its neutron cross section :-) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
[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
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?
And the antonym? Odyssielded. Rhymes with shielded. http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Odysseus.html Odysseus was the first to learned the Palladium Oracles from the Seer Hellenus. Odysseus neutralised (neutronised?) Palladium's defence for Troy. Odysseus invented the first Trojan Horse. Incidentally public revelation of the Palladium is supposed to be on Seventh Day to the Ides of Jun, i.e. 8th. June. The Newsweek article was a bit late. http://www.clubs.psu.edu/aegsa/rome/jun06.htm David Chia --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com
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