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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

    The emergency that this particular flaw leads to is a reactor shutdown, which is exactly what happened at Exelon's Byron 2 unit and (according to the linked article) it's happened 12 other times in the past 14 years. And what do you know? No meltdowns.

    For this to become a meltdown, the reactors would have to have other far more serious flaws that prevent them from shutting down properly. That clearly isn't the case here.

  2. Submitter is far too optimistic on Microsoft To Unify PC and Xbox One Platforms (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What this could mean is that the Xbox One becomes more like a PC

    Yes, but it could also mean that the PC becomes more like the Xbox one with advertisements cluttering up a dashboard. In fact, they've already started showing ads in the menu.

    It's more than a little cluelessly optimistic to think that MS will suddenly reverse course and make the Xbox more like the PC. Get ready to have the Xbox dashboard shoved down your throat.

  3. Re:Correction on Feds Say There Isn't A Single Safe 'Hoverboard' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    There is one that really is a hoverboard, although it does require a track with magnets embedded in it to operate.

  4. Re:On the origin of "species" on New Study Shows Mystery 'Hobbits' Not Humans Like Us (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Because you know those crazy humans... if they can breed with something, they WILL.

    Let's be honest... it doesn't matter if they can breed with it. As long as there is a suitably sized hole or protrusion, someone will try to have sex with it.

  5. Re:It's been said before on Cox Stands Pat, Won't Spy On Customers To Appease Copyright Holders (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your analogy doesn't work. Deep packet inspection would be like the highway patrol being allowed to pull over every car on the road without a warrant or reasonable suspicion in order to inspect everything in the trunk on the off chance that they might find something illegal.

  6. "The TPP requires that signatories...." Antiqua is not one of the signatory countries, so TPP is little more than TP to them. They aren't required to do jack shit.

  7. "We invested in this technology before we realized it was the technological equivalent of putting retirement funds into Beanie Babies. Let's talk it up so that we can sell it all off to our technology-illiterate investor and let them take the loss when it all collapses."

  8. I'm surprised you didn't ask for a flying pony as well.

  9. Re:Alzheimers? on Study Finds You Can Grow Brain Cells Through Exercise · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There is some evidence that exercise benefits people with Alzheimer's, but the how and why is not well understood.

  10. Re:Trend towards illegibility on Amazon's Thin Helvetica Syndrome: Font Anorexia vs. Kindle Readability (teleread.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Colour blindness in one form or another is affecting most of the population.

    If by "most of the population", you mean 4.5% of the population, then yes, but I don't think many people will agree with your definition of "most."

  11. Everyday things on Researchers Uncover the Genetic Roots Behind Rare Vibration Allergy (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The triggering vibrations are everyday things: ... jackhammering

    Really?

  12. Re:Since all money is fiat, why have taxes at all? on IRS Computer Problems Shut Down Tax Return E-file System (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1
  13. Who knows what a summary is anyway. on Price Dispute Means 800k Customers Lose TV Channels In Sweden (telecompaper.com) · · Score: 2

    The quote in the summary is literally the entire article. The added text around the quote actually makes the summary quite a bit longer than the linked article.

  14. Re:That's MICROgrams, not grams... on Desktop 3D Printers Shown To Emit Hazardous Gases and Particles (acs.org) · · Score: 1

    I woke up to go post me a quick story and then I thought somebody was barbecuing. I said oh lord Jesus it's a fire! Then I ran out. I didn't hit no preview or nothin'. I posted and ran for my life. And then the smoke got me. I got bronchitis. Ain't nobody got time for previewin'!

  15. Re:Conflicting goals on 1 In 3 Home Routers Will Be Used As Public Wi-Fi Hotspots By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Call me paranoid but 3 NAT routers from 3 different vendors

    Oh, I won't call you paranoid. What I will do is call you "full of shit"

    Every time something like this comes up, there's always some idiot posting his improbably ridiculous daydream of an 'ultimate' system that solves all the problems.

    What's the point? As an AC, you're not even getting imaginary internet points.

    You might impress some other idiots, but anyone with half a clue dismisses these kinds of posts out of hand because we've seen them an endless parade of them.

    What, exactly, do you hope to gain by posting this ridiculous crap?

  16. Re:Radio-controlled racing... on Drone Racing League Wants To Be the Next NASCAR (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So? I didn't say they didn't exist.

    NASCAR accounts for about a billion dollars in profits every year. The people organizing this want to try to replicate that success with drone racing. It's the ever-so-profitable business aspect that they're trying to make happen. Saying that R/C racings exists and some individuals have made money off of it in the past does not change the fact that nobody has made a major spectator sport out of it.

  17. Re:Radio-controlled racing... on Drone Racing League Wants To Be the Next NASCAR (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    They're not trying to reinvent the wheel, nor have they made any claim about inventing R/C racing. They're trying to create a business modeled after NASCAR so that they race drones as a career rather than just as a hobby.

  18. Re: Already here - it feels unfair to some on SaxoBank Predicts Universal Basic Income For Europe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bullets are cheaper than universal income

    They are, but they're also cheap enough that someone who was trying to steal some food might decide to use a few preemptively to make sure you don't get a chance to use yours.

    Personally, I'd rather live in a place where people have access to the basic necessities of life and aren't gunning each other down over whatever scraps are left after the 1% have hoarded everything else for themselves.

  19. Re:And shootings on airplanes are... on TSA: Gun Discoveries In Baggage Up 20% In 2015 Over 2014 (networkworld.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not really a scare article. It's just the TSA issuing press releases trying to make it sound like they're doing a good job despite the fact that they fail 95% of the their own tests of their system.

  20. Bullshit on TSA: Gun Discoveries In Baggage Up 20% In 2015 Over 2014 (networkworld.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Women are the majority of gun owners

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/160...

    Gun ownership among men: 45%
    Gun ownership among women: 12%

  21. Re:Doesn't matter anyway on Game Historian: Gygax Swiped Fantasy Rules From a Forgotten 1970 Wargame (blogspot.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This should be the highest moderated comment here. Sadly, I have no mod points to give today.

  22. Re:How did they get a .edu domain? on Microsoft To Release Educational Version of Minecraft (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They didn't.

    The URL for Minecraft.EDU is https://minecraftedu.com/ which is clearly not a .edu domain name.

    The .EDU is part of the name of the program, much like how Microsoft .NET does not refer to a .net domain name, but rather a software framework.

  23. Re:No new ideas then? on Reusable SpaceX Rocket Has Implications For a Return To the Moon (examiner.com) · · Score: 2

    The article was written by someone who has no connection to NASA and it does not say that NASA has made plans to return to the moon. Here's a list of NASA's future missions. "Moon" is not on the list.

    So still no chance of reading the article before opening your mouth then AC?

  24. Re:The enemy of my enemy on Twitter Sued For Giving Voice To Islamic State (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One of these is true:

    1) Twitter employees read every one of the 500 million tweets per day that get posted and agree with the content of them all.

    2) You're making accusations despite having both a complete lack of evidence and a complete lack of understanding of the subject.

  25. Some countries use a comma instead of a period as the decimal point. 5.3 Gb/s would be the other way to write it.

    The part where they wrote "1000Gb/s on the 2.4GHz channel", on the other hand... that's definitely wrong. That sort of wireless speed has been achieved, but only in labs so far.