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Japan's JT-60 Tokamak Sets New Plasma Record

Dipster writes "The Japan Atomic Energy Agency has announced that its JT-60 Tokamak has almost doubled the previous record for sustained plasma production, which is now sits at 28.6 seconds. It is believed that once 400 seconds can be achieved, a sustained nuclear fusion reaction will be possible. While 28.6 seconds is a long way from 400, it raises hopes for what will be possible from the ITER reactor, expected to be finished in 2016."

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  1. Linux Mandrake - A racist OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Open Source movement such as Linux Mandrake has been a topic of
    considerable debate on the Internet's most controversial site. The
    majority of this debate has centered around the technical merits of
    the software, with the esteemed editors argueing against adopting
    Linux by employing the full depth of their considerable intellects,
    and the other side hurling death threats and similar invective. This
    has allowed many who would not otherwise receive quality information
    about Open Source software to be made aware of many of its
    ramifications, but one issue has been left alone: The overt racism
    that is deeply embedded in the movement.

    Allow me to explain.

    Alan Cox; Richard Stallman; Bruce Perens; Wichert Akkerman; Miguel
    DeIcaza.

    What do you see in this list of names? Are there any African-Americans
    on it? Absolutely not, none of those names sound like one a
    self-respecting black person would have! No Maurice, no Luther, no
    Lil' Kim. There are many other lists such as this, you can see one
    here. Flip through each page, do you see anything other than white
    faces? Of course you don't, because Open Source and its adherents are
    ardent racists and they absolutely forbid access to the sacred
    'kernel' by any person of color.

    Lets look at the list of the companies using Linux. Are there any
    black owned companies on that list? Nooooooo. How about these
    companies? They all have something to do with Open Source software,
    any of them owned by an African-American? No again.

    More racist overtones can be found by examining the language of Open
    Source. They often refer to 'white hat' hackers. These 'white hats'
    scurry about the Internet doing good, but illegal, acts for their
    fellow man. In stark contrast we find the 'black hat' hackers. They
    destroy the good works of others by breaking into systems, stealing
    data, and generally causing havoc. These two terms reflect the mindset
    of most Linux developers. White means good, black means bad. Anywhere
    there is black, there is uncontrollable destruction and lawlessness.
    Looking further we see black lists that inform other users of 'bad'
    hardware, Samba, an obvious play on the much hated Little Black Sambo
    book, Mandrake, which I won't explain except to say that the French
    are notorious racists. This type is linguistic discrimination is
    widespread throughout the Open Source culture, lampooned by many of
    its more popular sites.

    It is also a fact that all Unix 'distros' contain a plethora of racist
    commands with not so hidden symbolism.

    It can hardly be coincidence that the prime operating system of choice
    of the 'open source supremacists' - Linux, features commands which are
    poorly disguised racist acronyms. For example: 'awk' (All White Klan)
    , 'sed' (shoot nEgroes dead), 'ln' (lynch negroes), 'rpm' (raical
    purity mandatory), 'bash' (bring a slave home), 'ps' (persecute
    sambo), 'mount' (murder or unseat nubians today), 'fsck' (favored
    supreme Christian klan). I could go on and on about the latent racist
    symbolism in Linux, but I fear it would take weeks to enumerate every
    incidence.

    Is there a single unix command out there that does not have some
    hidden racist connotation ? Suffice it to say that the racism pervades
    Linux like a particularly bad smell. Can you imagine the effect of
    running such a racist operating system on the impressionable mind ? I
    don't have to remind you that transmitting subliminal messages is
    banned in the USA, and yet here we have an operating system that
    appears to be one enormous submliminal ad for the Klan!

    One of the few selling points of Open Source software is that it is
    available in many different languages. Browsing through the list I see
    that absolutely none are offered in Swahili, nor Ebonics. Obviously
    this is done to prevent black people from having access to the kernel.
    If it weren't for the fact that racism is so blatantly evil I would be

  2. The answer? Transhumanism. by Cybert8 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This stuff is really tricky. Transhumanism can help in much more subtle ways than those suggested by Dock Ock.

  3. LCD by lateralus_1024 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I still think LCD's are the way to go.

    *ducks*

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  4. Re:Almost there... still by iamthatjoseph123 · · Score: 0, Offtopic