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  1. Re:Everybody can be an "expert" now? on Was Conficker Stuxnet's Trojan? · · Score: 1

    Conficker did seem like the coming apocalypse until its due date came and went. Then...

    Nvir was probably more disruptive.

  2. Re:Macbook on Was Conficker Stuxnet's Trojan? · · Score: 1

    Nope, nothing to see here. No big industrial equipment runs Mac OS so ruling out those systems means nothing in this case.

  3. Re:Bitcoin on Krugman On Bitcoin and the Gold Standard · · Score: 1

    With that kind of power, I do wonder if bitcoin mining is the most profitable application for it.

  4. Re:Ya right on Intel and AMD May Both Delay Next-Generation CPUs · · Score: 2

    I have to say that so far I'm impressed with the E-350 in my new not quite netbook. For where it sits with price/performance/battery life there weren't any portables with Intel solutions I could consider. I don't have the patience to put up with the Atom anymore and their larger budget processors are assembled in an indecipherable mess of product lines and model numbers.

    Intel's problem that everyone has been sounding the alarm on is that in the coming years being the x86 people with court mandated competition they can beat up on in the form of AMD isn't going to be enough. AMD is actually pushing at them from the top now as they are revealing their higher power fusion chips while ARM is slowly pushing up from the bottom. It is going to be an interesting couple years.

  5. Re:Diesel MPG on CEO Confirms Chevy To Sell Diesel Cruze In US · · Score: 1

    Or court room, neither cost is worth it.

  6. Re:Diesel MPG on CEO Confirms Chevy To Sell Diesel Cruze In US · · Score: 1

    If you are feeling brave in central Missouri/Southern Illinois biodiesel runs about a dollar less per gallon. I'm not going to make any promises on what it will do to your warranty. If any libertarian types want to martyr themselves agricultural fuel (with the red dye) is always an inexpensive option until you get caught. You bitcoin people know who you are. My money's on getting arrested before appreciable saving in fuel prices though.

  7. Re:I'm panicking! on Google+ Already At 10 Million Users · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

  8. Re:I'm panicking! on Google+ Already At 10 Million Users · · Score: 1

    rogier(dot)aaron(at)gmail

  9. Re:Another David Hahn in the making? on Teen Builds Nuclear Bomb Detector · · Score: 1

    We'll find out if he gets enough radiation poisoning to look like a meth addict while he's knocking off people's smoke detectors.

  10. Re:Fukushima on Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Nears Chernobyl Levels · · Score: 1

    True, but the chain of events leading to both disaster are radically different as well. It will probably take at least a year after Fukushima is entombed before it will be completely quantified. The chain of human mistakes applied to the Fukushima may have done jack shit in the way of causing a radioactive release barring the inclusion of the engineering flaws present at Chernobyl. Given everything Fukushima has been hit with a complete panic shouldn't be entered into yet, but a metric fuck-ton of caution wouldn't be unwarranted moving forward.

  11. Re:SSL certs are both over-trusted and under-trust on SSL Cert Weaknesses Exposed By Comodo Breach · · Score: 1

    Also the Certs have too much trust and the protocol itself too little.

  12. Re:SSL certs are both over-trusted and under-trust on SSL Cert Weaknesses Exposed By Comodo Breach · · Score: 2

    If only we weren't beholden to decisions made in the 80's and 90's. IPv4, HTTPS we might as well start over. While we're at it hardware AES extensions on more low power processors, should I really have to choose between a VIA Nano and Core i5 if I want decent SSL encoding speed.

  13. Re:Fukushima on Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Nears Chernobyl Levels · · Score: 1

    Also even with it's weird RMBK acronym Chernobyl is still a boiling water reactor like those at Fukushima, maybe of different model and manufacturer but time will tell.

  14. Re:Misleading summary on Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Nears Chernobyl Levels · · Score: 1

    Exactly the risk with iodine is the prolonged exposure of it all bundled into the small mass of the thyroid, and the short halflife isn't quite a godsend as it means it releases radiation more rapidly. The difference between that and Caesium is the difference between a chest CT and the radiation from a chest CT concentrated on the mass of your index finger. One provides a useful image of your thoracic cavity while the other will cause burns, toxicity, and maybe cancer/death.

  15. Re:Sensational! on Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Nears Chernobyl Levels · · Score: 1

    This and other isotopes that can be taken up by the body are always the big concerns in a big nuclear incident. Thanks to the inverse square law radiation from whatever hell happens on the site is a low risk by the time you get a short drive away from the site. The danger, especially from the long term is nearly always from particulate matter that gets taken up into the atmosphere. Iodine-131 and Strontium-90 fallout from nuclear testing in Nevada were the bigger health hazard for most of America from above ground nuclear testing than radiation from blasts themselves.

    The initial controlled steam releases were bad. Those and the uncontrolled steam releases from the hydrogen explosions made the situation at Fukushima worse. When the spent fuel ignited that put it in the same category as Chernobyl (As the nuclear incident scale is exponential it doesn't have to be an even match, just close enough). For better or worse the size of the Pacific Ocean should reduce the long term impact of Fukushima provided too much fuel hasn't burnt and doesn't continue to burn.

  16. Re:Kind of a dumb issue on Firefox 4, A Day Later · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure Slackware called out the Version number means jack shit issue a decade ago.

  17. Re:I'm actually suprised... on Firefox 4, A Day Later · · Score: 1

    It's the same thing Linux evangelists deal with when trying to make converts. The core is "leaner" and can gracefully add on things that were missing, but Firefox has been at least more successful in winning people over with this feature/bug (to each their own).

  18. Re:Meltdown? on Third Blast At Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Three Mile Island was nothing compared to decades of open air nuclear weapons testing.

  19. Re:If true... on Chinese Stealth Fighter Jet May Use US Technology · · Score: 1

    No, but being stuck in the Midwest I take what I can get. I have four bottles of the 2004 vintage of Egrivin in reserve. My sole motivation for reproducing is pretty much going to be to share such a divine taste with my offspring on their graduation day.

  20. Re:If true... on Chinese Stealth Fighter Jet May Use US Technology · · Score: 1

    I still only recognize Hungarian superiority in the realm of red wine production. If you get to choose one national product to be proud of, choose Egri Bikaver. That is the good shit.

  21. Re:DoD should not support the Foxconn iPhone on Apple, Google Diss the DoD Over Mobile Security · · Score: 1

    But if you consider what they pay for missile parts... and the fact that missiles only get used once...

  22. Re:DoD should not support the Foxconn iPhone on Apple, Google Diss the DoD Over Mobile Security · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't see why the DoD can't contract Texas Instruments to make them a custom Android phone entirely in the US.

  23. Re:What OS? And how annoying? on Simple Virus For Teaching? · · Score: 1

    What about picking up some old system 7 Macs and nVir? This should hopefully pose a low risk for the rest of the school.

  24. Re:Philosphers? on Stanford's Authoritative Alternative To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    It might work when a number of the philosophers are logicians.

  25. Re:Insurance on National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The $450 came out of my ass. The problem is the holy grail of "Marginal cost = Marginal Revenue" that every student of economics is taught to chase. Unfortunately such equilibrium as well as the cool graphs seldom exist in real markets with the Kantian level of absolutism in which the texts lionize them. The other problem is the aversion generally felt to allowing preventable deaths to occur. As a result agencies have to navigate a fussy middle ground, and market solutions often fail in problems constructed outside of specific market friendly environments.

    The best solution to this problem would involve education, but considering as an American my nation's failings decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King to provide equality of opportunity to primary and secondary education the only reasonable solution to wilderness stupidity is to continue to allow people to dare to be stupid while offering compassionate and occasionally billable solutions to consequences of stupidity..