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  1. Re:Nuclear disaster nearly shut down Tokyo on Japan Restarts Two of Its 50 Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 0

    True.
    Tokyo was saved last year by pure luck and wind direction.

  2. Re:Shortages are a solved problem. on Japan Restarts Two of Its 50 Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    >> In alternative,... the 50 power generators they have just sitting there, that never exhibit a single problem in their entire existence.

    What are you talking about ?

  3. full of oil on Japan Restarts Two of Its 50 Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    No. but we are full of oil. And coal. And plutonium.
    That's bad.

  4. IEEE is evil on IEEE Spectrum Digs Into the Future of Money · · Score: 1

    Before reforming cash, IEEE should open up it's paywalled papers. Seriously, IEEE sucks, they keep doing profit on the work of others, and hamper innovation.

  5. Never on CPU Competition Heating Up In 2012? · · Score: 2

    >> When is the battery problem going to be solved?

    Never. How do you want to "solve" that "problem" ?
    System power is a design issue, but the current state of the art is not really problematic. Of course, if you want turbo-gaming for 12 hours, it's heavy. But else ....

  6. Use GIMP on Adobe Introduces the Paid Security Fix · · Score: 1

    JUG
    Just Use Gimp

  7. Re:Scrap them all on Overheated Voting Machine Cast Its Own Votes · · Score: 1

    Furthermore you actually say that "electronic vote is secure if you do paralell paper voting" :) lol.....

  8. Re:Scrap them all on Overheated Voting Machine Cast Its Own Votes · · Score: 1

    Then you just lost privacy !
    All votes are public if they are tracked. Especially if printed sequentially, you can count the people and just go to the Nth receipt on the roll....

  9. Re:Cheapest and best solution on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection? · · Score: 1

    +1

    It's the only 100% effective solution.

    Other than this, be shure to have a centralizez wiring, also for phone, cableTY, etc...
    Most broken stuff is interface things where two cables come in (modems, TV, etcetc). This is because the isolation barrier holds only some KV.
    With a centralizez and single point grounded wiring, you can minimize that.

  10. Fallback is bullshit on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Out; Unity Gets a Second Chance · · Score: 1

    Fallback mode is total crap. It is mostly static and non-functionnal. Nothing can be adapted easily.
    Really only good enough for a screenshot.

    The way forward is Mint with MATE

  11. Re:~space on Japan's Damaged Reactor Has High Radiation, No Water · · Score: 1

    >>Most of that 68 tons is the non-radioactive cladding and structural metal that makes up the fuel rods.
    Nope. 68 tons are the fuel pellets alone.
    Also, for all non contained fuel (3 reactors + 4 spent fuel pools) is about 1000 tons.
    adding to that is the common SFP and the reactors 5-6, as well as the daini reactors, also badly damaged.

    >>Most of the radioactive part is U-238
    No. Spent fuel is a mix of all kinds of isotopes, filling up almost the complete element table.
    The most radioactive are the ones with the shortest half life.

  12. Re:But... on MIT Solar Towers Beat Solar Panels By Up To 20x · · Score: 0

    The problem of this approach is that it does not scale.
    In real size photoelectric systems, the cells are in series. And this arrangement cannot cope with different angles, and partial panel shadows. The whole output of the string decreases to the weakest in the chain. Fail.

  13. Re:US at it too on Richard Clarke: All Major U.S. Firms Hacked By China · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >> The U.S. government doesn’t hack its way into Airbus and give Airbus the secrets to Boeing

    Total bullshit. The US officially steals corporate information on an industrial scale by examinating the laptop of corporate travellers.

  14. Re:Delicious Pro-Nuclear butthurt tears on NRC Releases Audio of Fukushima Disaster · · Score: 1

    >> The official count is 4 deaths

    No, the official is now 573 deaths.

    http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120204003191.htm

    As you may know, this number is probably underestimated due to the jap gov. lying daily to their citizens.

    Also, you may know that many cancers take much time to develop, and that the large scale food contamination is ongoing. an example of future cancers :
    http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/01/1117-children-over-30-of-3739-tested.html

  15. Re:Matlab has strong points ... on Best Language For Experimental GUI Demo Projects? · · Score: 1

    >> but any recipient will need Matlab to run it (Octave won't do the full GUI stuff).

    No, you can use the "matlab compiler", every user then has to install the runtime.

  16. depends on civilization on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    >>how likely do you think it would be for me to still find that $1000 after a few hours?

    That depends if you do this in a civilized country or not. Where i live, you can count 5-6 days at least before it will disappear

  17. Fucking up a perfectly good hammer on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1

    >> GNOME 3 is extensible and there are already extensions that turn it into an experience that resemble GNOME 2

    That is true. Gnome 3 has a mode which "looks like" GNOME 2.

    The problem is it does not work. It's just nice to take a screenshot and say "look, we even have something, blablabla". The problem is it is non functionnal. You cannot configure the menus, you cannot right click, you cannot switch windows, you cannot add the applets that are available in GNOME2, you cannot even move the bar! etcetcetc. Are you kidding me ?

    GNOME 3 may have a nicer internal architecture as claimed, i can't tell, i'm not a PC programmer. But the UI is crap, and it's pissing off a big portion of users who don't want to waste time on a learning curve. As many people, i will revert to useable alternatives, there are some :
    - LXDE, XFCE
    - KDE
    - GNOME 2 forks, or combinations

  18. security by obscurity ?? on Best Practice: Travel Light To China · · Score: 1

    >> I trust it enough that when I teleconference I insist that Skype is used

    Skype ? are you kidding ?

    Single point of failure for huge corporate insight.
    Proprietary crypto, whatever.
    P2P protocol means the attacker can (and will) control the relays
    Security by obscurity : shown to always have failed

    Must be bugged long ago. By USA agencies, who else.

  19. US is worse on Best Practice: Travel Light To China · · Score: 1

    As an employee of an EU corp, making buisness trips in US and china, I can tell that government spying industrials happens much more at the USA border.

  20. Re:They should have worked out... on NRC Emails Reveal Confusion In Aftermath of Fukushima · · Score: 1

    >> Fukushima was designed to withstand earthquakes of greater magnitude than had been recorded in that area
    Every Engineer knows this is bullshit. data on such a short span as 100 years (max) does not give nearly enough statistic data.

  21. And caulerpa on Australian Scientists Discover 'Oldest Living Thing On Earth' · · Score: 1

    "The seagrass in the Mediterranean is already in clear decline due to shoreline construction and declining water quality ... climate change"

    TFA is just lacking to count in the devastating effect of the accidental introduction of the caulerpa which is colonizing more and more of the mediterranean sea

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caulerpa_taxifolia

    The most ancient thing living will just disappear in some years or decades due to this.

  22. Not exactly on Satellite Phone Encryption Cracked · · Score: 3, Informative

    As sat spectrum is severely limited, GMR transmits nearly no frames with (unused) fixed plain text.
    So deciphering it using known plaintext is more difficult than for GSM.

    So Yeah, it took them one month since that :
    http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4688.en.html

    video :
    http://28c3.mirror.speedpartner.de/CCC/28C3/mp4-h264-LQ/28c3-4688-en-introducing_osmo_gmr_h264-iprod.mp4
    http://28c3.mirror.speedpartner.de/CCC/28C3/mp4-h264-LQ/28c3-4688-en-introducing_osmo_gmr_h264-iprod.mp4.torrent

  23. classic and 3G ipod on Rockbox Developers Talk Open Source Firmware · · Score: 1

    3G and classic ipods are actually quite usable with rockbox. It's not perfect, but these two ports exist as unofficial.
    Try them !! Hack them !! Devs are needed...

  24. Waterproof? Potting ! on Nanocoating Waterproofs Any Gadget · · Score: 1

    Simply pot it. Now that's efficient.

  25. Re:Why can't anyone get this right? on 7000 e-Voting Machines Now Deemed Worthless By Irish Government · · Score: 1

    >> It should not be hard or costly.
    It is impossible.

    You cannot make shure the SW is not tampered on the actual machine