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  1. Re:What would you expect? on Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore · · Score: 1
    There are many more passively safe designs. The reactor at one of the universities I was inscribed had pellets made from vinyl mixed with fissionable material in a certain ratio. Whenever the reactor overheated, the thermal expansion of the hot vinyl pellets made the reactor sub-critical, and it shot itself down.

    Sadly though, this reactor had a designed power output of 3 Watts, while the whole thing was about 30 meters high and had 3.5 meters in diameter.

  2. Re:Nope on Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off · · Score: 1

    I simply doubt that. It's just confirmation bias. You only have things left from several decades ago that were made to last. You only listen to music from decades ago that had a certain musical quality. All the rubbish is long thrown away and long forgotten.

  3. Re:Depends... on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 1

    The problem with rubella is not the actual sickness for an adult. The problem with rubella is when pregnant women get it. Depending on the state of the fetal development, diverse organs can be heavily damaged, including the heart, the brain and the spine. So whatever you think about rubella, make sure that no pregnant woman ever gets rubella. During the first three month of a pregnancy, the probability of the fetus for being damaged by the rubella virus is about 90%.

  4. Re:Nope on Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Boy bands have existed for ages, and while no one expects each of them to last long, they make big business while they are existent. They were never expected to produce music with an everlasting impression, they are expected to land one or two big songs, sell a huge amount of copies and then cease to exist.

    Lets just put "There is no quality music anymore" to the same group of sentences which have accompagned humanity since the first conversation about 1.7 mio years ago, like "They don't make things to last, like they used to" and "Those children of today! When I was young, we never...".

  5. Re:The article is FUD on Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off · · Score: 1

    Some people live in countries with more sensible data plans available. (I don't actually know if there is a cap on my data plan at all, but on the other hand, I don't use the Internet capabilities of my mobile not very often. And no, I don't use any music streaming services either. Never had, and probably never will.)

  6. Re:Worlds biggest shipyards on World's Largest Ship Floated For the First Time · · Score: 1

    If you look at the list, a) it mentions being totally incomplete and b) look at the BP tankers alone, each line consists of several ships in the same class.

  7. Re:three times is enemy action on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    Sorry, it should have been Zobel vs. Williams.

  8. Re:three times is enemy action on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 3, Informative

    U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Zoe vs. Williams (1982).

  9. Re:three times is enemy action on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Coming to the U.S. is a right for an U.S. citizen. And being able to appear in court where you are called as a witness is your duty.

  10. Re:No popcorn yet on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    Why should the airline? It's not their fault that they weren't able to provide the service.

  11. Re:Ah yes... on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 4, Informative

    You could dig through the links and actually find the evidence.

  12. Re:Study is flawed -- compares cities to countries on New Education Performance Data Published: Asia Dominates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Comparing non-countries (or city-states) with countries biases the results by comparing poorer, less educated rural areas with better educated cities.

    And this is bad exactly why?

    If it's true that in the U.S., the rural areas lack education and are less wealthy, when compared with urban areas, then it's a fact studies like this are pointing out. It's not that the results are biased. They just reflect reality. Obviously the U.S. misses a strategy to bring enough education to rural areas and less wealthy people.

  13. Re:Surprised people still use... on AI Reality Check In Online Dating · · Score: 1

    Actually, no. That's not what's missing from those algorithms. At least not from those the PDF is describing. This algorithm doesn't measure physical appearance. It measures responses and tries to classify the responses and the profile of the opposites. If the ones responding on a profile do it because of the physical attractiveness, it makes for the algorithm no difference, because the algorithm just creates response graphs.

  14. Re:Waiver of rights on Woman Fined For Bad Review Striking Back In Court · · Score: 1, Insightful
    You got it reverse. Of course people can grant rights. All your rights are granted by other people. You as yourself don't have any rights. It's just an agreement between people that you have rights. They are not inherent to your being. If you don't believe it go into the next civil war zone and then tell me about your rights to property or free speech or due process. Those rights don't exist in a civil war zone, because there are no people there willing or able to grant you those rights.

    It's that big association of people often referred to as "society" or "state", that is able to keep up the rights you seem to believe are your own. As soon as you move out of that association, you also lose the rights you were granted.

  15. Re:very understandable on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No. It's the law.

  16. Re:very understandable on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    It's very prevalent, and it happens easily. It's like a cancerogen, if you live longer and longer with a handgun in your vincinity, the probability to die from a handgun inflicted wound increases more and more, either by suicide or by homicide by an acquintance or family member. (At least that's what the data from the CDC seem to suggest.)

  17. Re:very understandable on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Neither does the DHS, or have you ever seen a public anouncement of the DHS to refrain from violence during their next march?

  18. Re:U.S.A. is the only contestant of this "race"... on Japan Aims To Win Exascale Race · · Score: 1
    You forget the Earth Simulator, based on NECs SX-6 processor architecture and the fastest super computer in the world from 2002 to 2004.

    Japan surely is able to build those systems from scratch.

  19. Re:Fucking rednecks on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They are the same thing.

  20. Re:Really? on Hammerhead System Offers a Better Way To Navigate While Cycling · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Cyclists around here love to pick the busiest, curviest, narrowest roads they can find and they JUST LOVE the morning and afternoon rush hours. That's when and where I see them the most. Did I mention they overwhelmingly pick roads with no real bike lanes or even decent shoulders?

    Congratulations! You just found out that there are people who cycle to work. And they do that despite the bad infrastructure.

  21. Re:Oh really? on Review: Puppet Vs. Chef Vs. Ansible Vs. Salt · · Score: 1
    In English, you can also have sentences where a double negative puts more weight on the negation. ("I haven't seen no negation.")

    Standard-German for instance always interprets a double negative as positive, quite different from some German dialects.

  22. Re:Good luck on Ask Slashdot: How Reproducible Is Arithmetic In the Cloud? · · Score: 1
    And with anybody else than you. Every company is an entity you don't control. Every person is an entity you don't control. You don't even control yourself completely (and depending on which neuroscientist you ask, it's questionable if you control anything about you anyway).

    People always find smug sentences how not to trust the government, and then easily forget that the same sentence is valid for any organisation. The government at least is a little bit controllable by you. A company you don't own is not. A state you are not a citizen of is not. A private association of people you are not a member of is not.

    You are surrounded by entities you don't control, and all you find to whack on is the government? Ah! The freedom of expression that allows you to whack the government all you want without fear of retaliation! Try that with a company or a big orivate organisation, and you might find yourself on the wrong end of a lawsuit that will ruin you and anyone even loosely associated with you...

  23. Re:Tomorrow in the news: on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    Sweden had annexed Norway several times in history, and Norway was part of Sweden until 1905. I guess, both nations know better now.

  24. Re: Human Relatives on Mystery Humans Spiced Up Ancients' Sex Lives · · Score: 1
    It is better for you too. If you just think about the next move, it might look as if you can come out ahead by not acting compassionately. But thinking like this always forgets about the reaction of others. If you don't act compassionate often enough, you get shunned and thrown out of the group, making you more vulnerable and less likely to survive. Yes, there are Machiavellian societies, where everyone tries to come out ahead, and will do everything to top their opponents, but those societies tend to have ruthless rulers with a very short livespan.

    German tribes used to have a very pragmatic approach to rulership: A ruler stays at the top if he b) organizes enough booty for everyone and b) doesn't get toppled by an opponent promising even more booty. No one was talking about unquestioning loyality (quite different from the Middle Age myths about the time). But because of this, virtually no ruler stayed on top very long, a huge portion of them were assassinated. Actually so many of them, that the French today still say about an assassinated ruler, that he "died from the Gothic illness".

  25. Re:those numbers seem unsustainable on Glut In Stolen Identities Forces Price Cut · · Score: 3, Informative
    That's where the real valuable asset comes in: the money mule.

    Money mules are people tricked into agreeing to whitewash the stolen money by accepting the money withdrawn from the stolen account and then transferring it via wire transfer to the plunderer.

    When the original owner of the account sees the transfer, he will call the bank and reverse it. At this time, the money mule will already have withdrawn the money from their account and transferred it. This leaves the money mule with the debt incurred, because they now lose the money from the stolen account, and are thus effectively paying the plunderer from their own money.

    This puts the value of a stolen account to about the amount of money the money mule will be able to cough up until their own bank takes action.