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Nuclear power has always been a lot more popular on K Street than on Wall Street. At least these sort of overruns pale in comparison to some of the ones in Europe - one in the UK has now become the second most expensive thing ever made by man (after the International Space Station). Lots of nuclear plants on that list, too. One in Finland is now a decade overdue and commercial operation still isn't expected until 2018 - assuming there's not even more delays.

One of nuclear's biggest problems is, it doesn't work very well small. There are some "smallish" modular reactor designs, but as a general rule, nuclear plants are very large structures. Which means, you're not making a lot of them. Which means you don't retire the risk (both financial and safety) very quickly. Nuclear inherently contains a lot of both of those. It can take decades to learn what problems are. And when we redesign systems to start over with a new "generation" of nuclear power plants, that "ironing out the financial and safety kinks" process starts over.

It's unfortunate, but the very nature of fission means going through every element on the periodic table except the extremely short-lived/superheavy ones. Which automatically means facing very significant corrosion and containment challenges. The very nature of a high neutron flux means degradation on its own. The very nature of having exceedingly toxic materials means that you can't allow even tiny amounts to escape, and have to go to extreme levels to prevent serious problems like fires - and not only is your fuel source challenging from a chemical and materials standpoint, but it also can't be shut down quickly. Criticality can be, but the daughter product decays keep the core hot for a considerable length of time.

Nuclear is eminently doable from a technological standpoint. But like rocketry, a lot of things conspire to make it very difficult to do affordably and safely.

When these selfdriving cars have accidents because of not having been made good enough for some driving condition, or just because glitch, who's responsible?

That has already been answered presented on every major news page, including Slashdot.
Spam, spam, spam and more spam.

But you're comparing Obama's naivite

It was not just Obama's naivette — Hillary Clinton was running the State Department at the time. More to the point, it was not just the two of them either — the entire Democratic Establishment thought so, dismissing "Republican hawks" as "war-mongers". Whether they did it for personal gain, like Clinton, or out of sheer idiocy, like Biden ( the fount of foreign policy expertise, according to Democrats), they'll keep doing it.

You undercut your case when you link sources like "freebeacon", "powerlineblog", "breitbart"

No, I don't. First of all, my sources also include WSJ, NYTimes, and even Politifact. For someone, who offers no citations at all, it is rather rich to complain about mine.

Second, a fact remains a fact, no matter, who reports it.

the Clinton foundation is one of the highest rated major charities in the US

Yeah, sure. And Obama is a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

what you have against a charity that spends nearly 90% of its funds on stamping out AIDS and other diseases [...]

See? No citation again. Let me help you. Of the $91.3mln spent by the foundation in 2014, according to their own tax-filings, only $5.2 million went to charitable grants.

Your "Podesta story" is about Podesta (not Clinton) [...] he probably divested

You mentioned a number of things about Trump's advisors, including Manafort, who once help Yanukovich. It is perfectly fair for me to bring up Podesta. And I can keep doing it, too.

Versus Trump, who personally has owned and run businesses heavily backed by Russians

Citations are missing again, khmm... Let's see, if I can help. This? No... Sorry, you'll have to do it yourself.

Russians occasionally making investments in companies related to people related to Clinton

Clintons received — both directly and via their Foundation — billions of dollars. A lot of that came from Putin-controlled entities. Just in 2015, for example, when she was already actively engaged in elections, they reported as much $10 million in income. What do you suppose, they sold, other than some more cattle futures?

person who currently, actively, and strongly personally supports Putin

False. Pants on Fire.

has publicly advocated eliminating NATO

False. Pants on Fire.

wants to give Russia Crimea

False. Pants on Fire.

parades around information from Sputnik

Half true — irrelevant.

Because it is irrelevant. First, all space launches, even those ostensibly for civilian use, are related to national security. Second, the real reason for a ban is not the fear, Russia may suddenly take over an ascending rocket and send it into Miami, but a desire to choke — or, at least, stop helping — Russia's rocket industry. Which it is already using to update/increase its collection of ICBMs — mostly pointed at us.

You don't have to be a "hawk" to realize this...

You didn't leave something out, did you?

The AC who posts doomsday scenarios with absolutely no sources :P.

Seriously man, if you think this crap you are peddling is real, then some sources please. If not then fuck off.

I'd imagine the reason you don't is because, of course, the real story is far less dramatic than you make it out to be. NatWest is closing RT's account why is not known, as they haven't said. There is no "at the behest of the US" reported anywhere. They also aren't doing anything dodgy like seizing funds, they've notified RT "We don't want to do business with you anymore," and they will close the account down next month.

Here's a source, since you can't be bothered: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

You conveniently omitted the part where the "brown shirts" held a fundraiser to help defray repair costs.

the jobs are going away here because people are being replaced by workers in other countries who can work for less.

Bollocks. They're being replaced by robots too.

Its deep in the text of "RT: NatWest to close Russian channel's UK bank accounts"
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
"The UK Treasury said it does not comment on individual cases, but added that no new sanctions or obligations relating to Russia had been imposed on British banks by the government since February 2015."
Very careful wording.
The UK wording gets even more interesting in
"NatWest decision over Russia's RT is matter for bank -UK PM spokeswoman" (Oct 17, 2016)
http://www.reuters.com/article... or http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
"It's a matter for the bank and it's for them to decide who they offer services to based on their own risk appetite," ... spokeswoman told reporters."
The term "risk appetite" is chilling.

This is why he is not prosecuted for espionage, but rather for rape . Of course, "rape" had to be redefined to include "unprotected sex when the woman consented only to condom-protected penetration".

It wasn't "redefined", kiddo, it's a matter of established Swedish law.

But that's even less of a stretch than the feat Anderson Cooper accomplished recently by redefining assault to include unappreciated kiss.

And here we have some more willful intellectual dishonesty. First off, yeah, kissing someone would be sexual assault. More importantly, though, is that the larger problem lies elsewhere in the conversation. You know, the whole "grab them by the pussy" part? I'm sure you didn't forget about that, right? So why leave it out?

This is why he is not prosecuted for espionage, but rather for rape . Of course, "rape" had to be redefined to include "unprotected sex when the woman consented only to condom-protected penetration". But that's even less of a stretch than the feat Anderson Cooper accomplished recently by redefining assault to include unappreciated kiss.

Too bad you can't just turn off her mic, eh.

So can you link me to the proof then, you bloodthirsty warmongering faggot?

There is no proof that would satisfy you because it does not fit your agenda.

http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

"On the basis of what we've looked at, we certainly believe that there's a connection to the Equation Group malware," said David Emm, Kaspersky's principal security researcher, told the BBC.
"I've thought from the very beginning that it was real," added Mikko Hypponen at security company F-Secure.

yeah, because london is such a cheap place to live in, you have to be extra wealthy to be able to afford an iphone. maybe you're also living in a reality distortion field, only of the "i'm such a poor victim, why do you call me racist scum"-variety?

Right. Maybe the statistics are racist as well. 12.4% of London residents are Muslim, with some areas at nearly 50%. 28% of London residents live in poverty.

Dramatically understating the scope of the problem does not make for "safety":

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/te...
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com...
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
http://www.phonearena.com/news...
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/new...

And that's just the citations I could find from a 30-second Google search that didn't even glance beyond the second page of search results. Many (perhaps even most) of those phones were not being charged at the time of the incident.

"15,000 years ago a group of our ancestors were munching on the flesh of other humans. We still do not know exactly why"

"About 15,000 years ago in Gough's Cave, near Bristol in the UK, a group of people ate parts of each other.

They de-fleshed and disarticulated the bones, then chewed and crushed them. They may also have cracked the bones to extract the marrow inside.

It was not only adults that showed signs of being eaten. A three-year-old child and two adolescents all had the tell-tale marks of being nibbled on.

Some of their skulls were even modified into ornaments called "skull cups", which may have been used to drink out of.

What was going on in Gough's Cave? Was this an example of human violence between rivals, a strange kind of ritual behaviour, or simply a desperate bid for survival?"

Article: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story...
Archived: https://archive.fo/JeZdl
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/*/...

The issue with China is they now want international respect and equal standing for all aspects of Communist rule on the global stage.
A court order to recapture someone who escaped China is to be respected and the person sent back as with any normal "criminal" under international law.
Censorship and account tracking is just part of that legal system and if a US band wants access to the market in China they have to conform.
No more free exchange of ideas, freedom of speech, freedom after speech. No comments on corruption, pollution, local Party leaders, the movement of funds out of China to buy Western homes, luxury goods, educations or enjoy lavish holidays.
How does China want to contain anyone wanting to express such news online?
With "Social Credit". The wrong comments get tracked back to the person and they lose points. So do the friends and other connected people.
Having any bad credit person connected to you will lower you credit.
"China 'social credit': Beijing sets up huge system" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
Loss of credit will remove the ability for some jobs, education, housing, easy access to local government and services.
How to get more credit? Work hard to support the Party line, promote the Party.
Thats Communist social media with life changing results that Western brands who enjoyed the full protections of US law are now rushing to embrace and totally sell out to.
In the West its the NSA, GCHQ, NSL, FISA and help with junk encryption, track all emails.
Its just not the nations laws. The big US brands keep helping the security services and gravitate to the tracking requests of any bureaucracy just to add more users and grow the brand.
Millions of users been tracked is not customer freedom. They are not free to buy, sell or express any thoughts before during or after a purchase. Are fake, really limited consumers really useful for a US brands growth?
Users that have to return to a protected brand in China after been reported trying a Western brand too many times?
They cant buy what they want, rate certain books from Japan or explore the real history of Party leaders without legal issues.
As new customers that lack of freedom is not good long term.

The dead are voting, and surprise, surprise, they're voting Democrat.

Also no surprise that it's a Dem that's now recommending an easily manipulated voting method.

They must've seen the rampant mail vote fraud in Austria and figured they'd like to pull that off too.

You have to start comparing to third-world countries to find the levels of corruption that exist in the DNC.

here's a country where the government tries to give the citizens a good life. They have fixed all of the major problems and are just letting their citizens live in quiet enjoyment.

- ha, I spend time in Switzerland. There is a country where government is not allowed to 'try and help' people too much because the people vote against that type of 'help' quite often, that is the actual reason that country has a very high standard of living, a high savings rate, no debt but savings instead, things like that, you know, things that no government would ever do because that goes directly against every grain of every politician and of every form of government on this planet.

The Swiss government is considering implementing a guaranteed minimum income.

- the Swiss government is the Swiss people and they have overwhelmingly voted against this idiotic concept in the referendum.

And yet you'll vote for someone who's demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that you cannot safely leave him alone with your wife or teenage daughter, *ever*.

Maybe you don't have a wife or a teenage daughter. I have both. So do numerous Republican Senators, Representatives, and Governors, apparently.

Yes its all been done for the "ads", forget PRISM :)
Facebook doesn't listen through your phone's mic -- except when it does (Jun 6, 2016)
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
Is your smartphone listening to you? (2 March 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
Google looks to patent tech that listens to calls to promote ads (23 March 2012)
https://www.cnet.com/au/news/g...
Is nothing off limits? Now Google plans to spy on background noise in your phone calls to bombard you with tailored adverts (23 March 2012)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
The jokes are a way to soften the creepy dystopian live mic feeling as the ads play back and the security services get their daily take?

Because the Republicans haven't collaborated with Putin's efforts to poison the democratic process in the US?

The left is bizarre to me.

Not being on the left, I don't particularly care.

They're incensed about the leaks, about something naughty Trump said,

But they I assume you mean Trumps wife correct?

but read Hillary's emails that she funded the moderate beheaders in Syria so Israel would be happy with a nuclear Iran and now we've got 400k dead, ISIS, and the migrant crisis threatening to destabalize Europe and they're totally cool with that. I do not get it. I mean, I get why the media and the political classes do it: money. But I have no idea what your average left-leaning voter gets out of this.

Of course, al of those 450K were killed by the rebel group that Clinton supported, not by your mate Assad, who Putin and his gay lover Trump supports, who barrelled bombed whole cities of innocent people, but you are now saying, nobody was killed in those strikes? Sounds plausible. And your friends in ISIS, created by Republican allies in the War on Terror which was started by Republicans who also started the war in Iraq (I forgot, exactly, why again now, but I'm sure it was for a good reason). But reports that ISIS beheads people and that the war in Iraq killed a million or so, or that Trump promised to launch Trident missiles at Allepo and kill a million people in a nuclear holocaust are all just a vast conspiracy, right? None of that ever happen, ISIS and Assad are our friends.

Well, that statement, at least, is correct.

The Donald and his jokes... Haha. Idiot.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Yes but only for a fee, and only once:

Martin Shkreli raffles off a chance to punch him in the face - BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Posting AC to preserve downvotes of any polite or serious questions.

It took a while to figure out where you'd gotten to, but the TFA you found yourself on is not the TFA.

Your TFA is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme... - It's a podcast linked to from the first actual TFA at http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi....

On the page for that podcast, one of the guest speakers is

> Nemone Metaxas is the presenter of BBC 6 Music's ‘Nemone's Electric Ladyland’

Not the engineer on the original recording.

I was in my teens for Reagan and the start of the first Bush administration, so my memory of what was said about them is pretty fuzzy. But i don't recall a big deal being made about nuclear war being made, and that certainly wasn't my biggest concern during either the election for Bush 1's 2nd term or either of Bush 2's terms.

But Trump has said that he's okay with using nuclear weapons offensively:
https://thinkprogress.org/9-te...

Trump has also said that he won't guarantee defending our allies, which is potentially a very destabilizing action:
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

He said during the first debate that attacking an Iranian ship would not start a war. (To be fair, doing so wouldn't _definitely_ start a war, but almost identical actions have been considered acts of war in the past and could easily be considered so again, so saying that it definitely wouldn't is 100% wrong.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

And i can find any number of references for the off the wall stuff Trump has posted on twitter at 3am, in fact there has been analysis presented here on slashdot about the emotional tones of his tweets then vs when his staff is in charge:
https://politics.slashdot.org/...

Now normally i wouldn't say "this person acts unhinged on twitter, therefore they'll end civilization." However he has stated himself that he's willing to cause turmoil among our allies, which will lead to politically unstable situations, he's said himself that he's willing to preemptively use nuclear weapons, and he's said things that seem to indicate he doesn't know what is and is not an act of war.

If you combine that with the kind of temper and tendency to get unhinged when he feels he's been attacked or insulted that he's demonstrated both in real life and in his late night twitter sessions, i feel that it's reasonable to be very concerned.

The little problem with spelling out "NULL" :

When Jennifer Null tries to buy a plane ticket, she gets an error message on most websites. The site will say she has left the surname field blank and ask her to try again.
(...)

http://www.bbc.com/future/stor...

Microsoft is the only company that will never read your email, unlike EVIL GOOGLE who reads everyone's emails to steal personal information!

Please cite your long list of examples of these toys being used in such a dangerous way

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-drone-near-miss-lax-20160318-story.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/07/08/two-drones-nearly-collide-with-nypd-helicopter-operators-arrested/#1294615f1db8
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/travel/unmanned-drone-danger/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/23/champion-skier-marcel-hirscher-has-near-miss-as-drone-falls-out-of-sky
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/europe/uk-drone-near-miss/index.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/faa-reports-more-aircraft-drone-near-misses-1417025519
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/29/ny-bound-pilot-swerves-to-avoid-collission-with-drone.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251543/Drone-owners-forced-register-devices-tracking-database-four-near-misses-aircraft-past-month-alone.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12180261/Number-of-near-misses-involving-drones-and-aircraft-quadruples-in-one-year.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-37042796
http://gothamist.com/2016/09/20/man_maybe_arrested_drone_crash.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/us/white-house-drone.html?_r=0
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/05/25/drone-crashes-hits-2-people-during-marblehead-parade/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/world/drug-drone-crashes-us-mexico-border/index.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/drone-crashes-stands-u-s-open-article-1.2348324
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/07/02/drone-crashes-in-brighton-mans-backyard/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/07/drone-crashes-into-yellowstone-hot-spring/13721055/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/drone-crash-university-kentucky-football-game-could-land-student-hot-water/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/drone-crashes-empire-state-building-man-arrested/story?id=36729221

Please cite your long list of examples of these toys being used in such a dangerous way

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-drone-near-miss-lax-20160318-story.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/07/08/two-drones-nearly-collide-with-nypd-helicopter-operators-arrested/#1294615f1db8
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/travel/unmanned-drone-danger/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/23/champion-skier-marcel-hirscher-has-near-miss-as-drone-falls-out-of-sky
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/europe/uk-drone-near-miss/index.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/faa-reports-more-aircraft-drone-near-misses-1417025519
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/29/ny-bound-pilot-swerves-to-avoid-collission-with-drone.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251543/Drone-owners-forced-register-devices-tracking-database-four-near-misses-aircraft-past-month-alone.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12180261/Number-of-near-misses-involving-drones-and-aircraft-quadruples-in-one-year.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-37042796
http://gothamist.com/2016/09/20/man_maybe_arrested_drone_crash.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/us/white-house-drone.html?_r=0
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/05/25/drone-crashes-hits-2-people-during-marblehead-parade/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/world/drug-drone-crashes-us-mexico-border/index.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/drone-crashes-stands-u-s-open-article-1.2348324
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/07/02/drone-crashes-in-brighton-mans-backyard/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/07/drone-crashes-into-yellowstone-hot-spring/13721055/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/drone-crash-university-kentucky-football-game-could-land-student-hot-water/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/drone-crashes-empire-state-building-man-arrested/story?id=36729221

Okay, this may be the world's first baby, but there are apparently 30-50 teenagers with three parents.

The girl with three biological parents

The technique was pioneered in the late 1990s, but then the US FDA said "please cut it out", and as far as we know everyone did.

So, yes, the future looks bright for this new baby, given that several dozen other beneficiaries of this technique seem to be doing quite well in their teenage years...

Different sections of the UK mil and gov want their own skills.
GCHQ wants languages and to shape education to ensure a good career.
GCHQ staff teach 'future spies' in schools (9 March 2011)
http://www.bbc.com/news/educat...
Long term the view is to get the tech sector back to the pre Snowden days of weak crypto and effortless gov/mil/private sector sharing.
GCHQ boss: Tech firms should co-operate over encryption (7 March 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-357...
That will have to start with more charm and winning over smart people.
The other issue is to find staff that won't be caught up in "MI5 staff repeatedly overrode data surveillance rules" (10 Aug 2016 9:00)
http://www.computerweekly.com/...
As for 'Valuable skills" been lost the thinking on that is more interesting. Imagination, smarts, skills and creativity can come with personalty traits that gov/mil have tested for and find difficult to shape.
Army frowns on Dungeons and Dragons (28.02.05)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articl...

Different sections of the UK mil and gov want their own skills.
GCHQ wants languages and to shape education to ensure a good career.
GCHQ staff teach 'future spies' in schools (9 March 2011)
http://www.bbc.com/news/educat...
Long term the view is to get the tech sector back to the pre Snowden days of weak crypto and effortless gov/mil/private sector sharing.
GCHQ boss: Tech firms should co-operate over encryption (7 March 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-357...
That will have to start with more charm and winning over smart people.
The other issue is to find staff that won't be caught up in "MI5 staff repeatedly overrode data surveillance rules" (10 Aug 2016 9:00)
http://www.computerweekly.com/...
As for 'Valuable skills" been lost the thinking on that is more interesting. Imagination, smarts, skills and creativity can come with personalty traits that gov/mil have tested for and find difficult to shape.
Army frowns on Dungeons and Dragons (28.02.05)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articl...

The idea that there's more money to be made shilling against burning petroleum than there is shilling for it is simply farfetched.

Oh, really?

Suppose a climate researcher, let's say Dr. Smith-Jones, is a professor at a university, and he likes his job and he likes his university. Suppose he wants grant money to cover his studies. Do you really think that he will get more money for a study based on the idea that catastrophic climate change isn't real, or more money for a study that will bolster the climate change idea? Keep in mind it is the Obama administration right now.

Now maybe, just maybe, he could make more money by jumping ship and shilling for Evil Big Petroleum company. (a) He doesn't want to; his friends would cut him off cold, he doesn't want to move, etc. (b) He likely doesn't have any idea how to do that. How do you reach out to Evil Big Petroleum company and say "I am willing to shill for you, give me money"?

Any scientist who can conclusively disprove AGW would be able to dine out on that for the rest of his life.

Maybe. Yet here's the thing. I don't understand why we are even talking about this. We believe that human-caused climate change is going to be catastrophic because of some computer models from two decades ago. Those models are outside their 95% confidence interval now. The temperature is nearly flat since two decades yet Carbon Dioxide levels have gone up significantly. We have no reason to think that warming will be catastrophic aside from these models, and these models have been shown to be completely inaccurate at predicting the future.

Yet the climate change believers are not phased in the slightest. I have seen a prediction that 50 millions people would be displaced by 2010 due to climate change. It didn't happen, now the prediction is 200 millions people displaced by 2050.

One might think that the person who proved that stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria would "dine out for life" on that. First he had to convince a sceptical world by giving himself ulcers. This radical step proved his thesis but how can one do the same for climate change? When the dogma is so entrenched how can one fight it?

Corrected link: http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

Everyone should stop using Google because THEY READ YOUR MESSAGES AND EMAIL. Use Skype and Outlook instead, because Microsoft will NEVER read your email!

And today you have unprecedented dieback of essential coral heads and reefs, whales washing up on shore in record numbers, seals and walrus having significant difficulties with their habitats, massive reductions in polar ice, the near complete disappearance of the glacier at glacier national park, severe population reductions of oceanic tuna, and a whole host of other things.

More fear mongering my good sir?

That said, I don't think that justifies attacking the hospital electronically or physically; just through legal channels. But the hospital and courts were complete and utter pieces of shit in this case.

It's an interesting situation.

We've long bemoaned our inability to hold people accountable for their actions. Example after example of big, politically well-connected entities seem to get off scott free, and we the people are powerless to do anything about it, nor can we force the government to action.

(HSBC directors not being charged, Wells Fargo directors not being charged, Oracle paying $95 million in services restitution for wasting $240 million, and so on.)

Note that Justina's parents were issued a gag order that prevented them from talking about their problems, and it was only *after* her father broke the gag order that the situation received public attention.

Do we believe that the father should be prosecuted for breaking the gag order? He was justifiably concerned for his daughter's welfare. The hacker was also concerned, and wanted to send a message and perhaps prevent more abuse and tortures.

We all know very well that the democratic process is lost to us - as anyone who voted for Bernie Sanders found out.

How can we condemn the "last resort" actions of any individual trying to bring about just and proper changes?

Where do we draw the line?

Or something along those lines
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

Digital Homicide said it was now seeking legal representation to help fight Steam's decision.

BBC did a pretty good article.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

But, not knowing what Aleppo is, would indicate that he doesn't keep up with the most basic of news, as it has been all over the news recently.

https://www.google.com/search?...

I agree that battery replacement is dangerous - I have ordered several replacement batteries for my Note 2 from ebay. They all had Samsung labeling, but exhibited wildly erratic discharge (dropping from 50% to 10% within a few minutes).

I have since replaced them with Anker batteries, which appear to have a good reputation for quality and safety, and are really not much more expensive than the Chinese low-end. People should be encouraged to avoid batteries made in China for safety reasons, unless they are vetted or supplied by an OEM.

The chargers also can be dangerous, and low-end Chinese manufacturers skimp on safety and quality. Look for the "UL" symbol for Underwriters Laboratories on any USB chargers. Also check for spelling and grammar mistakes in the labeling on the device, which are sure signs of a cheap forgery.

Power components must be purchased from reputable suppliers to assure safety.

Maybe instead of being given a Nobel Peace Prize for doing fuck all, that would actually make it worth it.

To bad he doesn't have the balls.

plus one gymnast with an ADHD diagnosis

That's some crafty spinning on your part. That "one gymnast" is no other than Simone Biles. One of the most prominent stars of the Olympics. And, apparently, she was doping her entire life

We have (((neo-nazis or white supremacists))) on Slashdot? Begone, despicable dirtbags of the earth!

Researchers use synchrotron to read ancient, burned scrolls from Rome 3/22/2016
http://arstechnica.com/science...
"But now, a massive X-ray microscope at the European Radiation Synchrotron Facility has allowed researchers to see what was written on these ruined documents."
More at http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc... too.

Where do you get YOUR news at? It certainly isn't from the UK itself...

Recession fears 'fade' as UK's service sector grows

Brexit Britain: What has actually happened so far?

Wow, what a wasteland.

Where do you get YOUR news at? It certainly isn't from the UK itself...

Recession fears 'fade' as UK's service sector grows

Brexit Britain: What has actually happened so far?

Wow, what a wasteland.

Cheating is pretty visible.. Indian students who feel they have a right to cheat.

"It is our democratic right!" a thin, addled-looking man named Pratap Singh once said to me as he stood, chai in hand, outside his university in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. "Cheating is our birthright."

Corruption in the university exam system is common in this part of India. The rich can bribe their way to examination success. There's even a whole subset of the youth population who are brokers between desperate students and avaricious administrators.

Then there's another class of student altogether, who are so well known locally - so renowned for their political links - invigilators dare not touch them. I've heard that these local thugs sometimes leave daggers on their desk in the exam hall. It's a sign to invigilators: "Leave me alone... or else."

Everything I wrote is borne out by a quick search. You can get a degree in India without attending class or knowing shit.

The question is, what's the solution? When pro-cheating rallies were held in Uttar Pradesh in the early 1990s, the state's chief minister gave in to demands and repealed an anti-copying act - he actually allowed students to cheat.

Institutionalized cheating ... and look what happens when they try to stop it

More than 3000 students of 20 law colleges in the eastern Indian state of Orissa have boycotted their final university examination and demonstrated in protest against a ban on copying.

The students turned against teachers when they were stopped from copying inside examination halls this week.

Authorities called in police for help.

"On frisking in the presence of the police, we found almost all students carrying books and photocopied notes hidden on their body," education official Radhanath Mishra, said from the state capital of Bhubaneswar.

"We asked them to hand over all the illegally smuggled study materials. But they did not listen to us."

When authorities seized the smuggled notes and books with the help of police, the students turned violent and left the examination halls in protest.

According to reports, students of almost all law colleges ready to take the same examination around the state protested in a similar way demanding they be allowed to "resort to cheating" during the examination.

Students of the University Law College of Bhubaneswar and Madhusudan Law College of Cuttack blocked the Calcutta-Madras national highway for more than three hours and burnt tyres protesting against the authority's decision to be "strict" during law exams this year.

Blocking traffic by burning tires for the "right to cheat" - only students who can't pass the exams (which is the vast majority of them) have to resort to cheating. And the "best" students are the ones most likely to have cheated or used intimidation, because it's easier to get a perfect score that way.