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  1. The logistics of moving hundreds of tons of dangerous materials makes a few weeks seem overly ambitious to me.

  2. 100 MW hrs solds a similar amount of energy to 100 tons of TNT. I really hope they plan on distributing the energy storage across the country, and not just having a few giant plants.

  3. Re:Batteries from Nevada to Australia? on Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days Or It's Free (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Well anyway they do it will requires fleets of vessels. We are talking hundreds of tons batteries.

  4. Password Strength is Meaningless on Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    Either the site restricts the number of incorrect guesses, in which case "123abc" is a safe password, or no password is really safe. If the site allows a botnet to hammer the site with trillions upon trillions of password guesses a second, no password is safe.

  5. Random Password on Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    "123" is also a legitimate result of a random character generator. It is a bad password no matter how you come up with it.

  6. Re:Get rid of it by tomorrow. on How To Close the Gender Pay Gap By 2044 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    People working 9-5 is not arbitrary, In service industries, the main value you add to a company is work during operating hours, offering to come in and stay late as a waiter for restaurant is not really useful. Not being available for your colleges in pretty much any job means you are holding everyone back.

  7. It was here as well. But you are right, it was other staff members who decided that right after her emails were requested for the federal investigation was the best time to clean up her email server and deleted tens of thousands of "personal" emails.

    But you don't typically redact information that is evidence in a criminal case. Releasing emails to the public is different than being involved in a criminal case.

  8. No, I specifically did not say that.
    I am saying the public needs answers, I am saying major crimes were committed and someone needs to be charged and get their day in court.

    I am not disagreeing with the feds judgement, I am disagreeing that there is such a thing as too powerful for the law to apply to you.

  9. Re:Get rid of it by tomorrow. on How To Close the Gender Pay Gap By 2044 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Making everyone work weird crazy hours dependant on when volleyball practice ends for timmy is a reasonable accommodation?

    Also the entire premise seems retarded. They expect women to look after the kids, and then come in after they go in sleep to put in 8 hours of office work? Not because the women are struggling, not because they are poor, but because the people with the spreadsheets think that the statistics would look nicer if women put in an average of 3 more hours of work a day.

  10. Re: Not surprise in the least... on WikiLeaks CIA Files: The 6 Biggest Spying Secrets Revealed By the Release of 'Vault 7' (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That is nonsense. The IT guy that wiped her server, after the investigation began, posted on this very site asking for advice on how to destroy the evidence.

    We know someone ordered evidence be destroyed in an ongoing federal investigation, on her personal server.
    She is on tape lying under oath during this investigation.
    We have records of her saying that she uses the private server to stay out of governmental oversight (criminal intent, not just ignorance).

    You don't need a court decision to add 2 and 2 together, and you when new information comes out proving perjury, proving criminal intent, proving "Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations". Someone ordered evidence be destroyed in an ongoing federal investigation, and no charges were ever leveled on anyone. The IT professional who carried out the destruction was cooperating and given immunity, so we know he told who gave the order.

    Too powerful for the law to apply to you, is not a legitimate legal defense, that does not make you innocent.

    We try court cases all the time when the outcome is obvious. He tried Zimmerman, just because a lot of people wanted him tried/jailed with zero evidence of wrongdoing. Even if the evidence was half of what it was, clearly Hillary needed her day in court.

  11. "Politicians should be exempt from the laws, and this is good for democracy." - Lehk228

  12. It sounds like he took a straightforward and simple solution like, a list of advice and rules, and turned it into a complicated guess the verb adventure.
    I cannot imagine any situation where simply providing a list of advice would not be easier to use.

  13. Re:snopes? on Facebook Begins Marking 'Fake News' As 'Disputed' (wdrb.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Snopes is by far the most unbiased fact checking site. It is clear they attempt to be unbiased. All other fact checking sites in existence were created and are operated simply to disprove people they do not like. I am not saying massive is not correct, but it is still without bounds where it is a useful site. And they do a decent job of collecting and summarizing the data. It is just the Truthiness rating that is sometimes way off. Look at the "Hillary started the Birther movement" article. Sure, it is caped off with a False, but what follows is the single best summary of all the proof that the Hillary campaign did birth the birther movement. They did orders of magnitude better at proving that statement than Breitbart did.

  14. Stereotypes on An 81-Year-Old Woman Just Created Her Own iPhone App (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    I realise a woman coding is such a huge accomplishment because they cannot comprehend basic mathematics, so we have to write a news article about it every time they do. But we have to remember, she is also asian, so we know she is naturally good at coding, and probably had lots of free time after she crashed her car and lost her husband in a crowd of other identicle Asian men.

  15. Re:Let's compare Mike to Hillary on Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >scrub his email server hardware after the fact during an investigation
    That's called destroying evidence involved in a federal investigation. It comes with a 20 year sentence for anyone subject to the laws.

    And you missed lying under oath. 15 years ago, in a wholly trifling personal matter, got a president Impeached. Now our elected officials can be caught red handed destroying evidence against themselves in a federal case and be greeted by the press and public with thunderous applause.

  16. Re:As a percentage on New Scientific Test Finds Up To 75 Liters of Urine In Public Pools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not 75 liters, total. It's 25 liters per week. It means that the custodian probably does not ever need to refill the pool. And due to evaporation 100 percent of the water eventually is just bleached pee.

  17. The Walmart CEO makes significantly less than Mayer, only a few dollars an employee. They could not even buy a meal with the money if Walmart distributed their CEO's cash. Meanwhile, it is a very significant raise for every single employee if Mayer does so.

  18. Re:Per Capita Numbers? on Americans Have Fewer TVs On Average Than They Did In 2009 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That depends on if you count your parent's basement as a separate household or not.

  19. Re:Delicious Soy Yum Yum on DNA Test Shows Subway's 'Chicken' Only Contains 50 Percent Chicken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The CBC had a show on this, with taste testers. And everyone on the show could tell how low quality and horrible the 50% chicken was.

  20. London Taxi Drivers? on Uber Says Thousands of London Drivers Threatened By English Language Test (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought I had read somewhere that Taxis drivers in London England were the most heavily skilled, regulated, and trained. Your training was supposed to be equivalent to like a bachelors degree. Someone did brain scans, and the amount of geographical data in them means they are wired significantly differently than the average mans.

    And now the only requirement is that you can speak English?

  21. Re:Its Not If We Could get to the Moon, Its Why? on How To Get Back To the Moon In 4 Years -- This Time To Stay (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really.

    Yes, in empty space, going anywhere is a tradeoff between dV and time. But since in reality we are moving between gravity wells, it is heavily weighted towards dV.
    Your orbital distance is synonymous with your orbital velocity. It is a 1:1 relationship. So to get further from the Earth, you simply add velocity. To ever get to the moon, your dV has to be so big that their is minimal time savings to putting in more. A bigger issue is thrust, how long it takes to speed up, but that is mostly only true for the Moon. Everything else is so far away that it does not matter that much how long it takes to speed up.
    Mass is part of dV, space craft usually are not dodging asteroids, so the only hazard is not manufacturing faulty parts to begin with. And again ISP is factored into dV. Getting a better ISP can mean increasing your dV or reducing the weight of your ship, therefor making it cheaper. And yes timing is important, but it has nothing to do with distance.

  22. Re:Its Not If We Could get to the Moon, Its Why? on How To Get Back To the Moon In 4 Years -- This Time To Stay (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Distance in space is measured in Delta-V.

  23. Re:Not to be a wet blanket... on How To Get Back To the Moon In 4 Years -- This Time To Stay (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't build rockets on planets, you build them in orbit like next to the ISS for example. 90% of the energy to move rocket parts from LEO to the moon is lost, and has to be respent to when you launch the rocket towards for example Mars. So you are launching like a 1/6 more fuel (with loads more fuel to lift this fuel) just so you can build the rocket on the Moon. Then you have to somehow construct a giant clean room over your entire rocket manufacturing base (instead of just using the natural clean room of space). Then you need cranes and shit, because now we have gravity to overcome. Basically, building a rocket on the moon would likely take twice as much money as building one next to the ISS.

  24. Its Not If We Could get to the Moon, Its Why? on How To Get Back To the Moon In 4 Years -- This Time To Stay (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    We already have a space station, the difference between LEO and the moon is small, and would probably take about the same amount of fuel as it burned up in one second during launch.

    But the environment on the moon is hazardous to machines. It takes more to build a station on the moon than floating in space, and it is not really any closer to exploring the rest of the system than LEO.

    Their are really only downsides to stationing men on the moon vs on a space station.

  25. Re:Volentary Expenses. on 'Uber Is Doomed', Argues Transportation Reporter (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber has a tiny percentage of the expense of a regular taxi. Their drivers make jack shit, they don't pay for commercial insurance, and millions are saved per vehicle by not buying medallions. Uber can easily meet the price of any competitor, and can easily beat the price of a taxi ride, by the simple method of their expenses being darn pretty close to the theoretical minimum for a taxi company to operate at.