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  1. Re:Water-cooled reactors are only 5% efficient? on GE To Turn World's Biggest Civilian Plutonium Stockpile Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    Which is why nuclear plants still have a lot of room to grow, unlike alternative sources.

  2. Re:Remember on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    I mean if they did that in a bomb range. What would happen if average joe did it in their back yard.

    It would land in the bomb range, of course.

  3. Re:How they know... on Earth's Core Made In Miniature · · Score: 1

    To see if the models hold up to an actual experiment.

  4. Re:How can this produce accurate results? on Earth's Core Made In Miniature · · Score: 1

    From the article it seems that they aren't building this to be a perfect model of the Earth's core. The question they would like to answer is if it's even possible for heated sodium to generate a magnetic field.

  5. Re:Dimensionless quantities on Physical Models In an Age of Computers · · Score: 1

    They don't necessarily have to be of different scale, wind tunnels are often used to study 1:1 scale models.

  6. Re:All this in the mist of global warming. on Russian Scientists Say They'll Clone a Mammoth Within 5 Years · · Score: 2

    Mammuts became extinct because of human overhunting. Also, the Earth has a great thermal diversity, so you just have to put them north of there original location. And if that's not enough, shaving off their fur will prevent them from overheating. At least the polar bears in the zoo of my city manage to survive each summer this way.

  7. Re:Ice Age Park on Russian Scientists Say They'll Clone a Mammoth Within 5 Years · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It might be possible to crossbreed them with elephants, but even one animal would be a huge success, as it would lead to the development of methodology to revive an extinct animal, and with the global extinction of today, there will be need for such technology.

  8. A better way on Research Data: Share Early, Share Often · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't believe anything that hasn't been verified by an independent group of researchers.

  9. Re:risk to security on Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    The containment is designed to contain radioactivity inside

    Which is exactly why there is no risk that a terrorist attack could get radioactive stuff outside the reactor. Sure, they might stop it from working for a while, but that can be done with any power plant. Yes, there are other critical stuff, like the control facility, pumps or backup generators, but the activists didn't manage to get to any of them.

  10. Re:To say nothing of their own reputation on Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    They are called containement units because they can contain a fucking meltdown. They are strong enough to resist a kamikaze attack from a jet fighter. There is no way small explosives could breach them.

  11. Re:To say nothing of their own reputation on Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    The fossil lobby, of course.

  12. Didn't actually break in on Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant · · Score: 4, Informative

    The only thing these activists managed to get through was the fence, they then hung their banners on the outside of the containment building. No risk to security.

  13. Re:I Blame Michael Bay on Filmmakers Reviving Sci-fi By Going Old School · · Score: 1

    Transformers is about giant robots, how are you supposed to do that without CGI? The problem is not the lack of human actors, but that there is far too many of them, the original cartoon only had like 1 or 2.

  14. Re:Do you really need CGI??? on Filmmakers Reviving Sci-fi By Going Old School · · Score: 1

    For your information, the most realistic Sci-Fi movie ever made, 2001: A Space Odyssey, did not used any CGI nor green screen.

    It did use computer graphics, although it's true that very few managed to stay awake to see that part.

  15. Film is much more than just visuals on Filmmakers Reviving Sci-fi By Going Old School · · Score: 1

    If you want to create a good scifi movie, they should start with creating a good story. Otherwise, they will just end up with another Space Odyssey.

  16. Infinite recursion on Using a Tablet As Your Primary Computer · · Score: 1

    So this guy is using his iPad to blog about how he uses his iPad to blog...

  17. Re:A possible fix on Browser History Sniffing Is Back · · Score: 1

    While it's possible to create a rule for every site you visit, it is impractical. The number of sites they can check is irrelevant, because you don't know which sites they will be testing for. The number of sites in your cache can be limited, but what sites are in it changes constantly.

  18. Re:A possible fix on Browser History Sniffing Is Back · · Score: 1

    Yeah blocking individual sites is possible, but imperfect from a security perspective.

  19. A possible fix on Browser History Sniffing Is Back · · Score: 2

    While this specific implementation is very inaccurate, others using a similar method may work. An obvious workaround to these kind of attacks is to turn off caching, but that would increase loading times. I was wondering if there was a hack in some browser that would allow you to ban a site from using resources from another domain, whether it's by HTML or scripts. Does anyone know such a solution?

  20. Re:without javascript on Browser History Sniffing Is Back · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is already fixed in most browsers, you need to update/reconfigure yours.

  21. Re:convincing implementation on Browser History Sniffing Is Back · · Score: 2

    Convincing to browser developers, obviously, who moved to fix the other problems fairly quickly but have, to date, done nothing about this one.

    Are you kidding me? The CSS visited link vulnerability took ages to get fixed.

    What we have now, though, is a method that is fast, practical, and nondestructive.

    It's too inaccurate to be practical. Try it.

  22. Re:Unreliable on Browser History Sniffing Is Back · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's too inaccurate to be convincing. A random algorithm weighted on popularity could have a similar success rate. Maybe if the number of tested sites were increased it would be more clear whether it works or not.

  23. Re:It did not help on Russian Websites Critical of Elections Targeted In DDoS Attack · · Score: 2

    Indeed, this is the bigger news. Putin lost majority. In a perfect democracy, he would be forced to form a coalition with one of the other parties. Of course, most representative systems are rigged in favor of the big parties, and Russia is no exception (with a 7% limit). He will have much more than 48.5% in the duma.

  24. Growth on Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years · · Score: 4, Insightful

    30 years before IT wasn't big enough for many people to consider working in it, thus there aren't much people from that era.

  25. Re:"micromanagement, not strategy" on How a Computer Game Is Reinventing the Science of Expertise · · Score: 1

    "There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves." - Napoleon

    He was a guy famous for not caring about supply lines.