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  1. Re:Ignorance on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    Actually nuclear waste in about as hazardous as waste from coal, it just has a lot more regulations, which require that it be stored in facilities, rather than just scattering and burying it.

  2. Re:Well, this is a good place to start on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    The exact same thing has been done in the US before too, can't remember the name, some early reactor out in navada I believe, after the accident people were taking turns going in to
    1. take out the dead bodies of the original workers who all got killed.
    2. slowly disasemble the reactor and put the parts in containers.
    Wish I could remember the name of said reactor, but it was back in the days when the control rods were manually adjusted, with so safty stops and one of the control rods got pulled out too far.

  3. Re:NetSol on Who is the Best Registrar? (take 2) · · Score: 1

    I think he is saying that he is registering for other people, he gets the miles and the other people get the bill. He could potentially charge directly say 60 dollars for the 5 years pay 30 out of that is pocket the other 30, but he would need to be clear about the fact he is charging.

  4. Re:OK... on Microsoft's Take on iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    All the music from iTunes store allows you to burn the downloaded music to cd, using the iTunes software. This isn't exactly circumvention, unless you use the feature to distribute the music to others. But it is definatly legal (as long as you don't distribute the cds or rips of the cds).
    Oh yea you wanted a link.. ok.
    http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/
    "the iTunes Music Store lets you quickly find, purchase and download the music you want for just 99 per song. You can burn songs onto an unlimited number of CDs for your personal use, listen to songs on an unlimited number of iPods and play songs on up to three Macintosh computers or Windows PCs"

  5. Re:Way back in the day... on How Not To Install Computer Hardware · · Score: 1

    I'm guilty of breaking and returning only once, still feel kinda guilty about it, but I was completly honest about how it broke and they took it back anyways, so I guess I shouldn't care. Here's what happend.
    I bought one of the first dual AMD tyan board, actually I bought the second revision (didn't quite know this though) The first revision required a special power supply, the second didn't. But when ordering online I didn't realize this and bought the special power supply. I also bought really big heatsinks. And didn't buy registered memory, which it required. Well when I went to install the big heatsinks I accidently bent the capacitors, which were placed way to close to the cpu slot. And being not so smart I tried booting up the machine (with a regular power supply). So now I not only had a expensive ruined motherboard I also had 2 ruined expensive Athlon MPs. Anyways I called the place I ordered them from (mwave.com) and expaned my situations. They actually replaced the processors and motherboard for me for free (I had to pay shipping to them that was it). And exchanged the power supply for a much cheaper regular power supply and gave me the difference in cost (the special power supply was like 300 dollars). And also allowed me to exchange the memory I purchased for registered memory only costing me the difference in price. I personally was amazed by this and to this day am very loyal towards buying from mwave whenever possible (they are generally cheaper anyways)

  6. Re:Toxic Waste on Is Recycling Really Worth It? · · Score: 1

    Only one problem, recyling plants arn't very well regulated. And many of them improperly dump the the bleach and ink. Heck there was a recycling plant (concrete recycling though) close to our town that was found to be dumping chemicals and concrete into a nature reserve water supply.

  7. Re:Compression - WOW! wait, I mean HOW? on University Chooses Apple RAID for Linux Cluster · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm sure they meant 3GB as I know most non-normalized data generally can be compressed 10:1.

  8. Re:Does this really make sense? on Michigan To Purchase Record 130,000 Laptops · · Score: 1

    If you had read the article you'd realize they are going to lease them for 275 a year. Could be a good deal or not depending upon how many years they have to keep them.

  9. Re:..And the others? on Microsoft Confirms IE Changes in Wake of Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They didn't and probably arn't suing mozilla, etc.
    So mozilla doesn't have to make any changes.
    Unlike trademark you only have to enforcement patents if you want to.

  10. Re:Didn't see it on MPAA Ruins Own Films As Anti-Piracy Measure · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For those too lazy to read, the snopes article states that in truth subliminal advertising has adsolutly no effect on people. But congress did try twice unsucessfully to pass a law against it. And the FCC does have a rule against it (you will immediently lose your license). But I gather movie theaters are not covered under the FCC.

  11. Re:What to ask them? on SCO's Roadshow Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Best way to place this wager is to short the stock. Sadly its hard to find a bookie (stockbroker) right now to take this wager.

  12. Re:Forget the Segway. Better wheelchairs! on Build Your Own Segway · · Score: 1

    No I do look at it that way actually. It personally sickens me to see my motherinlaw take approx 1000 dollars a month in medicine that medicare and medicade pays for most of which she doesn't need. And shes not really disabled

  13. Re:Forget the Segway. Better wheelchairs! on Build Your Own Segway · · Score: 1

    So that medicare will pay for it for people it deems needs them.

  14. Re:Pay-for-play radio plan. on Lawrence Lessig To Debate Hilary Rosen At USC · · Score: 1

    Actually I think radio does have to pay composer royalties.

  15. Re:Step in Right Direction on It's a Laptop - It's a Desktop · · Score: 1

    Did you read the whole article, there are 2 new laptops, one with just the special screen, and the other also has a detachable keyboard. Now detachable mouse would be nice too, but would be very difficult to achieve properly.

  16. Re:Stock on SCO Volleys to Red Hat · · Score: 1

    Whats sick is that the stock is still going up, meaning that the family keeps buying TVs and bringing them in the front door, while the robbers and picking them up and walking out the back door.

  17. Stock on SCO Volleys to Red Hat · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wow! SCO's stock is at 19.17 WTF!!!

  18. Re:Benefits? on Space Elevator Conference Wraps Up · · Score: 1

    Sorry people are being born in the hundreds of thousands a day, its simply not possible to move people of this planet fast enough to slow down population growth.

  19. Re:Real? on Mandrake Linux 9.2, Adware Version · · Score: 1, Informative

    Nevermind it is real.
    http://www.mandrakesoft.com/partners/advert ising

  20. Real? on Mandrake Linux 9.2, Adware Version · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why are we all assuming this announcement is real. This was simply a posting by an anonymous coward in a discussion group.

  21. Re:What I get out of file sharing on What The RIAA Gets Out Of File Sharing · · Score: 2, Funny

    No... By artist the poster meant "con artist" at the Label.

  22. Re:The fight of the century! on RIAA Settles With 12-Year-Old Downloader · · Score: 1

    Dude, it comes with the housing package didn't you know! Anyways I'm being silly, but in some places its really cheap. I know in Thomasville, GA (where my sister lives) She gets one bill that covers electric, cable, and internet over the cable. For around $150/month. Not bad at all.

  23. Re:Er...Dude... on MIT Releases Subpoenaed Student's Info · · Score: 1

    No apparently at MIT when you bring in a new MAC address when you try to use the web you are automatically redirected to a registration page.
    Apparently the ip address of the infinger was the MAC address that got registered as this guy. He says he may have borrowed someones computer but doesn't remember (He probably does but is trying to cover I bet if stuck with being sued he'll probably tell).

  24. Re:Is This Wise? on Separate Cargo and Personnel Missions for NASA? · · Score: 1

    He is saying the whole system consist of everything that is NASA, the shuttle, the crew, and the ground crew. This system did fail, in that it let specifications get ignored.

  25. Re:Inflexibility means brittle. on UK to Put Monitors in Every Car? · · Score: 1

    No get off the road, does trying to pass a swerving drunk guy sound safe either?