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  1. Better than organ harvesting? on Feds: TVA Executive Traded Nuclear Information For Cash In Chinese Espionage Case (knoxnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Chinese medicine seems to rely on harvesting organs from political prisoners. Maybe stealing is better? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

  2. TVA incompetence in nuclear safety on Feds: TVA Executive Traded Nuclear Information For Cash In Chinese Espionage Case (knoxnews.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    TVA incompetence in nuclear safety has led to some lessons learned. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t...

  3. I almost always quote. Spelling nazis are annoying. Even if reporters are long-winded like in the Post, at least they have spelling editors. But it does bug me when their work is attributed to me with a "mdsolar writes" lead in here. BeauHD got it right.

    Spelling nazis: you may target my journal, I may even that you there since I can make corrections.

  4. Angel east of Eden on Free Lightsaber Event Now Battling Lucasfilm's Lawyers (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Has a light sword to guard against reentry into paradise. Seems strange to grant a trademark for that.

  5. I remember those days. Used to crash into the suface all the time playing lem.bas on a teletype. Glad she was better than me.

  6. Re:Nuclear subsidies on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 1

    Loan guarantees. They are subsidies. What do you mean by private utilities? Not publicly traded?

  7. Re:Nuclear subsidies on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 0

    Here's one. http://www.energy.gov/articles... That project is over budget a late. And, it will be suplanted by Oklahoma wind energy as transmission is built faster than the plant can come on line. Expect loan defaults.

  8. Re:In solidarity with our fellow addicts on Some Bees Are Addicted to Caffeine (albanydailystar.com) · · Score: 1

    A controlled study is described here: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ne...

  9. Re:In solidarity with our fellow addicts on Some Bees Are Addicted to Caffeine (albanydailystar.com) · · Score: 1

    The EPA found use on citrus and cotton was harmful.

  10. Re:In solidarity with our fellow addicts on Some Bees Are Addicted to Caffeine (albanydailystar.com) · · Score: 1

    There have been several studies.

  11. Re:In solidarity with our fellow addicts on Some Bees Are Addicted to Caffeine (albanydailystar.com) · · Score: 1

    Addiction may play a role in CCD. http://cen.acs.org/articles/93...

  12. In solidarity with our fellow addicts on Some Bees Are Addicted to Caffeine (albanydailystar.com) · · Score: 1

    Maryland has passed the first restrictions on neonicotinoids to help avert Colony Collapse Disorder. http://mdcoastdispatch.com/201...

  13. Re:Doesn't help to have fertile ground on The Spread of Ignorance (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Anti-nanny-staters are often stooges of the peddlers of ignorance. Is it fertile ground or just a dung pile left by the BS artists to begin with?

  14. Liability on The Spread of Ignorance (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the confusion spreading amounts to fraud, these things end up going to court. The trick is to have the liability match the damage. For the tobacco settlement, that probably didn't get there. For the investigation of Exxon and others going on now, it is possible the net worth of the companies involved won't be sufficient to cover the damage.

  15. Good thing HRC kept email pivate on Security Gaps Found in Massive Visa Database (go.com) · · Score: 2

    Wrong to do official work with a private account, but better than getting hacked.

  16. So what does that say on Study Says People Who Continually Point Out Typos Are 'Jerks' · · Score: 1

    Abuot the New Yorker?

  17. Re:Around 45,000 excess deaths from Chernobyl on Area Around Chernobyl Plant To Become a Nuclear Dump (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 1

    There is some work on using accelerators but on the basic feasibility, you can use them to reduce everything to protons.... Very frustrated that I can't find SCOTUS opinion. I've linked to it before but now the closest I come is Steven Chu referencing it in congressional testimony.

  18. Re:Nuclear subsidies on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 0

    Typically, half of nuclear builds are scrubbed. Those scrubbed in the middle now get a free taxpayer bailout for investors. You seem not to understand this.

  19. Re: Regardless of the reasons... on The World's Largest Renewable Energy Developer Could Go Broke (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it is useful as a geological stratum.

  20. Re: Regardless of the reasons... on The World's Largest Renewable Energy Developer Could Go Broke (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Price of coal may be permanently low now.

  21. Stillbirth rate higher on Preterm Births Linked To Air Pollution Cost Billions In The US (time.com) · · Score: 1

    The stillbirth rate is higher in China. http://chartsbin.com/view/1445 Perhaps there is a different way of counting owing to different neonatal procedures.

  22. Re:Regardless of the reasons... on The World's Largest Renewable Energy Developer Could Go Broke (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I've met some Sun Edison folks. They liked to concentrate on larger projects. They were doing the roof of Kohls at the time. There is a lot of demand for what they do so I doubt it is lack of an order book that is putting them at risk.

  23. Cheaper to go large then.

  24. Re:Most research money for energy goes to nuclear on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 1

    Red Book estimates account for undiscovered reserves. So, the 80 year estimate is pretty solid. Reprocessing poses a weapons proliferation risk so we don't do it.

  25. Re:LFTR mythbusted on /. on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't see anything that wasn't shill drool. You did not comment today on Google showing up in China briefly I think.