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  1. Re: Have they thought this through? on NRC Engineers Urge Shutdown of Nuclear Plants If Design Flaw Not Fixed (utilitydive.com) · · Score: 1

    More exactly, the motor will run a bit rougher and will lose some power (a little under 1/3rd).

    They SHOULD detect this condition and take necessary measures, but it's hardly an OMG shut them all down now emergency.

  2. Re:For it to be a meltdown, it has to run a bit on NRC Engineers Urge Shutdown of Nuclear Plants If Design Flaw Not Fixed (utilitydive.com) · · Score: 1

    Please explain to us what an open phase is (don't go look it up). If you don't know, then you're talking from the wrong orifice.

  3. Re:YES!! on EFF On Why FBI Can't Force Apple To Sign Code (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    They don't HAVE to. They could bolt them on ad-hoc later if they wanted.

    Or they could just not make cars.

    What could Apple just not do in order to avoid following the contested order?

  4. Re:And by that he means on Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2

    The report says just under 5000 total. Of those, a significant number were unusable and another significant number of them were already intentionally disabled (likely as part of compliance with their obligation). Another significant number had never contained the actual chemical weapon.

    All were manufactured prior to 1991.

    As for the rest, Iraq had nothing to do with 911. That was the first big lie that got America involved in yet another costly (in money and lives) and unnecessary war.

  5. Re: And by that he means on Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So, compare the ROI of public assistance vs. the war.

  6. Re:And by that he means on Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You'll need to remove social security from that list. It's all paid for by a specific line item in your withholding and is net positive (except for the loans to other government uses SSA was forced to make).

  7. Re:So what? on Aging Indian Point Reactor Shut Down By Bird Droppings (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    It may well have been the substation that was pooped on. Most substations are not enclosed. The shutdown was precautionary.

  8. Re:So what? on Aging Indian Point Reactor Shut Down By Bird Droppings (nypost.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Use the force, Lark.

  9. Re:Same goes for all other skills on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    Only if the exam actually reflects the state of a student's education.

  10. Re:chip 'abuse' !? on Microcasting Color TV By Abusing a Wi-Fi Chip (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure. But since the chip isn't made of wood, we can guess that one of the other shades of meaning it evolved to applies.

    One day, abuse may evolve to lose it's explicitly negative meaning and then you'll be correct. But not today.

  11. Re:chip 'abuse' !? on Microcasting Color TV By Abusing a Wi-Fi Chip (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just an example, there's not a true bright line there since even run within specs, the failure prediction is just an average.

  12. Re:chip 'abuse' !? on Microcasting Color TV By Abusing a Wi-Fi Chip (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry to hear about your failure problem. There are drugs that might help that.

  13. Re:chip 'abuse' !? on Microcasting Color TV By Abusing a Wi-Fi Chip (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Hacking in that context has never meant removal of anything but a problem or task. Though hack in that context can mean solving a problem through using things in a positive but unintended way.

    Drug abuse very much is meant to identify that use as bad. Your values may vary but among those who don't see it as bad I have only heard the word abuse used sarcastically or ironically. Abuse of authority is most certainly meant to indicate that that unintended use is bad.

  14. Re:chip 'abuse' !? on Microcasting Color TV By Abusing a Wi-Fi Chip (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, abuse explicitly includes that the use is bad or harmful.

    If the chip fails in a few minutes of that, it is abuse.

  15. Re:Add a test on Ask Slashdot: Establishing Procurement Policies Regarding Secure Boot? · · Score: 2

    What if IT doesn't want to bother with the purchase at all? What if all major couuriers including USPS up and quit? What if a solar flare wipes out civilization before it arrives?

    I would imagine there would be some sort of requirement listed in the P.O.

  16. Re: pretending that back doors dont exist on Apple Lawyer Ted Olson: Creating Unlock Tool Would Lead To 'Orwellian' Society (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    It does, sophistry notwithstanding. It simply isn't being respected.

  17. Re:They wonder why they get no respect on Anonymous Goes After Miami Police Officer Who Doxed An Innocent Woman (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    It used to be managed by the cop walking a beat. In that setup, most of the non-cops he would meet (and it was always he at that time) would be regular decent citizens.

    Outside of the urban environment, the communities tended to be small enough that he would see the rest of the people in his jurisdiction at church, the store, etc. If he screwed someone over, there was nowhere he could go where people didn't know it and his victim.

  18. Re:No - it wasnt useful on Anonymous Goes After Miami Police Officer Who Doxed An Innocent Woman (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Ideally, we could count on the police department to punish it's own when they break the law, but in this case, it's extremely unlikely without the publicity that can only be created by doxing the cop.

  19. Re:Report + Judgment on Anonymous Goes After Miami Police Officer Who Doxed An Innocent Woman (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    The imperfection of the immunity doesn't negate the general usefulness of the technique any more than the slim possibility that a fair coin can land on it's edge negates it as a source of random boolean decisions.

  20. Re:Report + Judgment on Anonymous Goes After Miami Police Officer Who Doxed An Innocent Woman (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    No, not really. There are plenty of actions that are acceptable in some circumstances and not others. For example, it is not a crime to kill someone who is trying to kill you.

    There is room to debate the ethics of doxing the cop who doxed a citizen. It is not OBVIOUSLY wrong.

  21. Re:Equivalent to 500000 cars over what time period on Damage Report: LA Methane Leak Is One of the Worst Disasters In US History (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    No, we only care about the center points the "ziggy-zaggy" moves around. That shows a clear trend up. Then there's the cheater that the graph starts out below 0. Correct the y offset until it properly starts at 0 and see what happens.

  22. Re: Government knows best! on IRS Taxpayer Data Theft Seven Times Larger Than Originally Thought (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Death panels"? You mean like when private insurance finds any dirty trick it can to not pay for life saving treatment?

  23. Re:Government knows best! on IRS Taxpayer Data Theft Seven Times Larger Than Originally Thought (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, lets. They are far less likely to fail at taxing someone than corporate health care is to let someone remain untreated.

  24. Re:Equivalent to 500000 cars over what time period on Damage Report: LA Methane Leak Is One of the Worst Disasters In US History (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    Same graph, same answer, same clear trend upwards. Even more so if you remove that little cheat at x=0.

  25. Re:I have some predictions of my own. on Bloomberg Predicts EVs Cheaper than IC Engine Cars Within 10 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure second hand electric vehicles will make it to market for those less wealthy to buy, but then isn't this the "trickle down economics" that Reagan was pilloried over?

    No, trickle down economics was the odd idea that if we make the 0.1% twice as rich, they'll spend twice as much on employment. In reality all that trickled down was piss.