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  1. Export the overcapcity to 3th world countries. on Is an International Nuclear Fuelbank a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    Beside the politics who controls the bank, this sounds like a Idea to use the overcapacity of countries that are stopping with nuclear power. Germany is stopping, Japan is reducing it nuclear power industry. And this might happen to other countries as well.

    So this is just a plot to keep using the expensive nuclear power enrichment running where it was before.

    In other words, export it to third world countries. Is that a good idea? especially since they to not have the expertise to get rid of the nuclear waste?

  2. Re:The disadvantages. on Tata Intends To Sell Air-Powered Car In India · · Score: 1

    Neiter does it tell the cost per mile for The traditional car. Conclusion: wikipedia is utterly useless...

  3. Re:The disadvantages. on Tata Intends To Sell Air-Powered Car In India · · Score: 1

    Well, You do not "need" heat. But the expanding air results in a temperature drop. To keep the engine efficient you need to get that temperature from somewhere.

    A air-oil hybrid solution (tata licensed it from MDI) is an ideal solution.

    Rappid refills, no , you need big refill tanks or loose a lot of power when refilling.

  4. The disadvantages. on Tata Intends To Sell Air-Powered Car In India · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wikipedia already has a nice article about compressed air cars:

    -It is safe.
    -Exhaust from car is zero. Electricity for compressor can be made efficient.

    Disadvantage:
    -compressed air is a low energy storage compared to other.
    -Long storage times, you will need a compressor at home and load it for 4 hours or something like that.
    -Needs heat to expand air. Might run very inefficient in cold climate. (on the plus: free airco!)

    A hybrid compressed air car might be a very good option however. Notice that a traditional combustion engine is a good compressor. Maybe tata is even creating a hybrid, they licensed the tech (see wikipedia again).

  5. Re:Cuts Both Ways on Fathers Pass Along More Mutations As They Age · · Score: 1

    hmm, your summery about the eggs does not make sense. According to this arcticle:
    -Women must choose younger biological fathers.
    -The health risk are not as much a problem of the eggs, but mainly in the pregnancy.

    Also i do not like the summary about autism, schizophrenia in such articles. Autism is not a disease where you have it or not have it, it is a spectrum, where the intelligent ligher cases might never be diagnosed with autism, and the heavy case might always be there.

  6. Re:It's not the DRM that is wrong... on New DRM-Free Label Announced · · Score: 1

    -Your comment is a digital good.(not sold).
    -It is not protected by DRM.
    -your comment lacks details HOW it is abused by media corporation, so i cannot comment what you want to say.

    ============

    By the way, If there is no DRM that is not to say that there is no watermarking. They could watermark all sales, and if they consistently see that the good bought by "proudDemonoidUser" are always finding their way into the torrent community, it will not take them very long to present a bill to proudDemonoidUser for redistributing the digital goods.

  7. Re:Constant? on Advance Warning System For Solar Flares Hinges On Surprising Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    Nothing. Nothing at all.

    The average decay rate is not really affected, since it is periodically. Also this effect is only measured in chlorine 36.

    the effect is larger than i expected, it is +/- 4%

    Carbon dating is NOT affected. It is based on the radioactivity in the athmosphere, which is not a constant over the years anyway. It is calibrated by counting year rings in tree's

  8. Re:Tar already does this on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 5, Informative

    multi volume tarJust mount a new usb disk whenever it is full.

    However to have reasonable retrieve rate (going through 24 TB of data will rake some days over USB2), You better split the dataset in multiple smaller sets. That also has the advantage that if one disk chrashes (AND Consumer grade USB disk will chrash!) not your entire dataset is lost.

    For that reason (diskfailure), do not use some linux spanning disk feature. File systems are lost when one of the disks they write on are lost. Unless you use a feature that can handle lost disks (Raid/ Zraid)

    And last but not least: Test your backup. I have seen myself cheap USB interfaces failing to write the data to disk without a good error messages. All looks ok until you retreive the data and some files are corrupted.

  9. Re:Neat trick... on Time Machines, Computer Memory, and Brute Force Attacks Against Smartcards · · Score: 1

    Thermal fuse means adding components. That costs money. The trick is that this is done without adding componets (well... 50 lines of code need to be stored somewhere...)

    Rising the temperature or putting it in a microwave will increase the decay rate. But it will still hinder a brute force attack.

  10. Just like MS... on Google+ Account Suspended? You Won't Find Out Why · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Same happens at MS.. upload a file that violates their code of conduct policy to MS sky drive, and your windows 7 phone account will be permanently blocked without telling what file caused it or getting any good response.

    Note that that includes files that are not yet shared of, and includes partial nudity

  11. Re:awesome on Indoor Navigation On Your Smartphone, Using the Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    Don't worry,

    Some Chinese people will sell you coated iron-foil as aluminum foil, because steel is a few cent cheaper than alumunium. (they already do so for Utp just test with a magnet if you fail to get gigabit speeds on your network)

  12. Do not learn them to flush. on Cat Parasite May Increase Risk of Suicide In Humans · · Score: 1

    No, you do not want to learn them to flush

    "do not teach your cat to flush. Although it is possible, once they learn, many seem to enjoy it and will do it all the time, even when it's not appropriate to do so as no business has been done. This wastes water."

  13. Re:Java and C duking it out on Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One · · Score: 1

    >But well, how do you again have an object platform independed >serialized from client to server into a DB and back out of it again >in C/C++?

    Did that in 1995 in C already with some help from the RPC implementation of sun. Ok, that was RPC with portable datastructures, not really object oriented.

    But on the other hand, object oriented was a buzzword some decades ago, but still it is not understood very good by a lot of developers/ desingers.

  14. Re:One caveat. on The 'Everyone Gets the Source Code, Donations Get You Binaries' Software Model · · Score: 1

    When i did my open source project, for every source download there were 100 binary downloads. The number of people actually managing to build form source will be even lower. Having a correct toolchain takes a high learning curve. Solving problems in the toolchain needs you to understand it.

    The model would fail to function however if someone who is smarter than you builds a better installer. You than have the option to include that person in your team.

    But anyway, as a developer you have to have thick skin for people who have their own idea's, but lack the background for developing or do have an good idea, but do not see the coding effort.

    Keep doing what you are good at.

  15. Re:Squid + SquidGuard on Ask Slashdot: Good Low Cost Free Software For Protecting Kids Online? · · Score: 1

    Blacklists will always be behind, YOu want to whilelist, with some software to easy add some whitelist sites.

    In the Netherlands we have mybee. Internet explorer in a wrapping, with a whitelist that is customized for each age, At low ages the front page contains icons instead of text. It is better than letting them click, but the "leave the computer in the living room" that is said 100 times here still applies. Even on good sites there can be chat windows, where there are people with less good intentions (bulllies, or worse)

  16. Re:Small Sample? on Coffee Consumption Strongly Linked To Preventing Alzheimer's · · Score: 2

    Agreed, but it can be even worse. The study does not give a cause reason that this happens. It just show 2 factors that correspond. Some other factors might even cause this. e.g. some of the people with Alzheimer do not drink coffee because their health is too bad for if, or the medicins they use do not allow coffee. Or the shakes coffe gives them causes them not to drink coffee. I do not know.

    Without a cause reason this makes great headlines, but is only a very tiny to do with resolving the disease.

    AND EVEN besides this points, the science might by very valid. It describes very well how they came to the conclusions. But the major conclusions should be that there must be investigations with bigger test groups and that the root cause must be found in futher investigations. But that conclusions make bad headlines in the press.

  17. debian. on Microsoft Certificate Was Used To Sign Flame Malware · · Score: 1

    Did you actualy try this, particulary if you ran some 12 year old applications?

  18. Re:Surprised this isn't regulated more closely on Microsoft Certificate Was Used To Sign Flame Malware · · Score: 1

    Well,

    YOu are already thrusting MS to run code (the "OS") on your computer. The boot is then the least of your worries. Unless you want to run an other OS. But as red-hat concluded, buying a 99 dollar certtificate was a better option than to setup your own CA.

  19. Re:Yeah on The Netherlands Rejects ACTA, and Does One Better · · Score: 1

    elections are coming.

    (hard coded subtext: De verkiezingen komen eraan... makkelijk scoren!)

  20. Re:my town on TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    Same experience here in europe. You can send send them correction and use mapshare. However if some wrong (temporary?) map change get approved it is impossible to detect what is wrong. Even after some hours of fiddeling to figure out what is wrong it is impossible to get a response form tom tom. They refer to their mapmaker, and take no responisbilty themselfes.

  21. thanks. on FCC Boss Backs Metering the Internet · · Score: 1

    I will send your helpful comment to my boss who pays my mobile bills. I think he will see the light and give me a plan with more data to prevent being stabbed with a pencil.

    Or maybe a paperless office was part of that plan. no paper -> no pencils.

  22. Re:laser range finder on "Part-Time" Scientists Aim To Build Autonomous Moon Rover · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that cause the moon to blow up? 'shooting the moon with a laser?

  23. Re:Mud! on FCC Boss Backs Metering the Internet · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/how-much-bandwidth-does-world-of-warcraft-use

    As a rough guide, an hour of typical play will result in around 40MB of data being Downloaded, and 4MB being Uploaded.

    Or, in other words this would eat through my mobile data usage limit of 250 MB in under 6 hours.

  24. Re:KeepassX in a Dropbox folder on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Multi-User Password Management? · · Score: 1

    Is it more secure?

    Isn't it the same as a excell sheet with a master password on it?

    (Ok, keepass is way cheaper than a excell sheet)

  25. Re:Great on Apple Security Blunder Exposes Lion Login Passwords In Clear Text · · Score: 1

    Google already has everything about you. There are barely laws that protect you about the gathering google does. why complain about the plain text part?