Seriously guys - it's people living in a fantasy world like the above poster that cause things like the waste being left in ponds instead of reprocessed and the remainder stored safely.
No, you learn some science.
I was speaking specifically of fast burner, or fast neutron reactors which are fuel reprocessing. The result of this reprocessing is short half-life isotopes that are far less of a long-term problem than existing waste.
Exactly. Thanks to the tireless efforts of NIMBYs and anti-nuke environmental activists, we are storing spent waste in absolutely the most dangerous possible way. The only silver lining to not having this stuff buried in Yucca Mountain is that we might finally get off our asses and start building fast burner reactors, and we can burn all the waste for power. We would get rid of all that nasty waste and replace it with far smaller amounts of waste with a much shorter half-life, and we would reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the same time.
Nah. Who am I kidding? We'll just let it sit there until there's a huge accident, and then blame science.
Humans, by and large, are terrible at operating motor vehicles, and can't be removed from the road soon enoug. Unfortunately, I think it's pretty much a given that the Dunning Kruger effect is going to dominate here and the last people to have the steering wheels pried from their hands will be the worst drivers.
You liberals need to learn you can't regulate stupid and selfish people out of existence
In this particular circumstance, I'll be perfectly happy if we regulate them out of driving around in cities with large quantities of highly flammable liquids in their vehicles. Just sayin'.
Granted, I can see startups trying to put a plastic water tank on the back of a pickup and call it the same thing
Ding! From TFA:
Purple has a fleet of about 80 cars driving around Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County and Seattle with up to a half-dozen five-gallon gas canisters in the trunk.
I've also been a card-carrying member of the largest free-standing militia in the United States; that alone is verified as getting you on an FBI watchlist.
The data are scrubbed of direct personal identifiers, which are replaced by an ID code. The database does include things times, diagnoses, and prescriptions, which could be used to de-anonymize the data with enough ancillary information, but without which the data would be mostly useless for any kind of analysis. My point is that there are already publicly available databases in the U.S., such as SPARCS which contain similar information for hospital visits, and are similarly de-anonymizable. If you know what hospital you went to on what date, it's pretty easy to find yourself in the SPARCS dataset.
Maybe it's more about the overreaching of Google in it's ambitions to spy on people more and more so they have more data to sell to their 'partners' so they can make more and more money. You'd think they're Microsoft or something, with the all the ways they're forcing spyware on everyone. Then with their fucking 'self driving cars' they'll be able to control where and when people travel and track their every movement. Fuck Google, fuck Microsoft, and fuck YOU for being a paid troll for all the above.
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I'm trying to figure out how could possibly serve as a more ironically unwitting example of precisely the thing he's criticizing.
The point to having a balanced, happy life isn't to be a better programmer. It's to have a balanced, happy life.
you didn't need to qualify this idiot with a response.
Good point.
Seriously guys - it's people living in a fantasy world like the above poster that cause things like the waste being left in ponds instead of reprocessed and the remainder stored safely.
No, you learn some science.
I was speaking specifically of fast burner, or fast neutron reactors which are fuel reprocessing. The result of this reprocessing is short half-life isotopes that are far less of a long-term problem than existing waste.
But you still need spent fuel pools. You can't just dump fresh waste into a mountain.
Nobody is contending otherwise. The issue is using them for long-term fuel storage in close proximity to heavily populated areas.
Exactly. Thanks to the tireless efforts of NIMBYs and anti-nuke environmental activists, we are storing spent waste in absolutely the most dangerous possible way. The only silver lining to not having this stuff buried in Yucca Mountain is that we might finally get off our asses and start building fast burner reactors, and we can burn all the waste for power. We would get rid of all that nasty waste and replace it with far smaller amounts of waste with a much shorter half-life, and we would reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the same time.
Nah. Who am I kidding? We'll just let it sit there until there's a huge accident, and then blame science.
Slashdotters have been experimenting with this fate for a decade. Now get me some more Cheetos, Mom.
OB xkcd.
the IRS would consider their award as $20,000 of taxable income
Yet another reason to sell exploits on the black market instead of disclosing them responsibly.
Or the scumbags at United could pay them in actual money.
Humans, by and large, are terrible at operating motor vehicles, and can't be removed from the road soon enoug. Unfortunately, I think it's pretty much a given that the Dunning Kruger effect is going to dominate here and the last people to have the steering wheels pried from their hands will be the worst drivers.
Because the GOP is all about keeping Big Government out of the choices of Free Citizens.
So it is a competitor to CNN and Fox News?
Oh, for some mod points....
Backups, Dude. Backups.
Some of Dr. McCoy's surgical instruments in Star Trek were salt and pepper shakers. I have a set.
... we are likely to be the only civilization in the universe dumb enough to even consider Donald Trump for the most powerful position on our planet.
"to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from a traumatic brain injury"
I'm really interested to hear how you can recruit someone who is clinically dead. Or is it just the editors who are brain-dead?
You liberals need to learn you can't regulate stupid and selfish people out of existence
In this particular circumstance, I'll be perfectly happy if we regulate them out of driving around in cities with large quantities of highly flammable liquids in their vehicles. Just sayin'.
I agree completely, if what you mean by "isn't neatly pigeon holed" is "mind-numbingly stupid".
Granted, I can see startups trying to put a plastic water tank on the back of a pickup and call it the same thing
Ding! From TFA:
Purple has a fleet of about 80 cars driving around Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County and Seattle with up to a half-dozen five-gallon gas canisters in the trunk.
Are they fucking insane?
"You can never ask for permission because no one will give it"
Translation:
"We are fully aware that our business model violates multiple safety and environmental laws. But we're an app, so fuck you."
I've also been a card-carrying member of the largest free-standing militia in the United States; that alone is verified as getting you on an FBI watchlist.
Fortunately.
I mean available on the open internet.
Neither the writeup nor TFA mention "anonymized". Could you explain, where you got the information from?
Um, you know, by doing research. By reading other things. By using teh interwebs.
https://theconversation.com/your-nhs-data-is-completely-anonymous-until-it-isnt-22924
The data are scrubbed of direct personal identifiers, which are replaced by an ID code. The database does include things times, diagnoses, and prescriptions, which could be used to de-anonymize the data with enough ancillary information, but without which the data would be mostly useless for any kind of analysis. My point is that there are already publicly available databases in the U.S., such as SPARCS which contain similar information for hospital visits, and are similarly de-anonymizable. If you know what hospital you went to on what date, it's pretty easy to find yourself in the SPARCS dataset.
Again. Yawn.
This is a non-story about longstanding practice.
Maybe it's more about the overreaching of Google in it's ambitions to spy on people more and more so they have more data to sell to their 'partners' so they can make more and more money. You'd think they're Microsoft or something, with the all the ways they're forcing spyware on everyone. Then with their fucking 'self driving cars' they'll be able to control where and when people travel and track their every movement. Fuck Google, fuck Microsoft, and fuck YOU for being a paid troll for all the above.
And chemtrails. You forgot chemtrails.
For example, SPARCS in New York.
Anonymized hospital and health care data are widely available to researchers inside the U.S. as well, and have been for a long time.
This is a non-story about longstanding practice.