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  1. Re:"Containment vessel" on Things Get Worse at Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Reactors 1 & 3 had hydrogen explosions in the upper structure that held the refueling crane and covered the spent fuel pool. It has been suspected that reactor 2 had a hydrogen explosion in the torus that is used to cool steam being vented from the reactor pressure vessel, cracking it. This the likely source of the very contaminated water in the trenches around the turbine buildings. The valves from the RPV to the torus were closed after the suspected explosion and crack. This water from the torus would have boiled in the secondary containment and condensed after leaking from the secondary containment.

  2. Re:"Containment vessel" on Things Get Worse at Fukushima · · Score: 1

    According to the latest IAEA Briefing on Fukushima Nuclear Accident (29 March 2011, 16:30 UTC) at http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html

    The RPV has not been breached in any of the reactors and the non empty reactors (1-3) are being cooled with fresh water.

  3. Re:You need to look at what happened to this indus on Is Microprocessor/Controller Design Dead? · · Score: 1

    GrpA, there are still some small co's doing interesting things in niche areas. Interested? Shoot me some email!

  4. Could be good law on WA Law: 5 Years in Prison for Gambling Online · · Score: 1

    Since the state will generally end up having to support the people who gamble themselves into bankruptcy, they should get a cut of what they gamble. If this law is ever ammended to only allow gambling against online casinos that operate out of Washington state, I would find that quite acceptable.

    Not that I'm American or anything. But my 2cents are now worth $1.82 US!

  5. Re:Standard Template Library on SGI Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/whats_new.html

    last entry is "Release 3.3: June 8, 2000"

  6. Re:Larry never got it on No More BitKeeper Linux · · Score: 1

    true enough, but fwiw, the commercial version of BK does not have this clause.

  7. Re:I still don't understand... on Intel Flaunts Mac mini Knock-off · · Score: 1
    Just looked this up and thought I'd share:

    Cappuccino PC specs: www.cappuccinopc.com/cappuccinoez3.asp#specificati ons

    Mini specs: http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html (and scroll to the bottom)

    Cappuccino: Analogue VGA up to 1280x1024
    Mac Mini: DVI up to 1920x1200

  8. Re:So do all of these domains point to one subnet? on 100,000 Domains Sold for $164 Million · · Score: 5, Informative
    careerinfo.com has address 83.138.187.18
    rentguide.com has address 83.138.187.18
    hardware-update.com has address 83.138.187.18

    So, i'd say yes...

  9. Find some folks to start something on your own. on Programming Until Retirement? · · Score: 1

    That is my plan. Right now I'm working for a company to pay the bills while my wife finishes her residency in anesthesia. Once she's making the bucks, there is no way I'm working for anyone else.

    I've worked for a few startups, and have many friends who've also worked for a few each. Only one of us has made their millions.

    Once I don't need to pay the bills, I'll be looking to start a project on my own. I have a few ideas, but I'm only 33. If you have ideas, look around for a few guys to start up something on the side. 8 months of evening and weekend programming, and 3 guys can probably whip something into reasonable shape.

    The only way to get along well is to work for yourself.

    Although that post above with the guy working for the insurance company with 7 weeks vacation seems like a good deal... :)

  10. Re:Great! on Harvard Pres Says Females Naturally Bad at Math · · Score: 1

    In Ontario the 2nd occasional driver is generally free. So if the son was the first occasional driver, then everything makes sense.

  11. Appears to be the 3rd report of this kind. on In the Year 2020 · · Score: 1

    There are links in the article to the reports forecasting 2010 and 2015 as well. Unfortunately, no report forecasting 2005 that we can check.

  12. Re:Widely known on Think Secret's Nick dePlume Revealed · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Ooooh 300 million tons on Giant Iceberg to Collide with Glacier · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to this, b15 was 200 to 350 metres thick at calving time.
    It was estimated to be 70% of the annual 2500 giga-tonne ice output from the Ross shelf. That's 1750000 million tonnes!
    (note that a metric tonne is spelled differently than an imperial ton.)

  14. Re:Helping on Tsunami Satellite Images · · Score: 3, Informative

    And Canadian donations to MSF, Red Cross, Oxfam, Care Canada, and two others I cannot recall are matched 1:1 by the Canadian federal government.

  15. Fedora on Sought for MGM v. Grokster: Non-Infringing P2P Use · · Score: 2, Informative
  16. Re:Cell Phones vs. Landlines on China's Superior Technologies · · Score: 1

    You are aware that this infrastructure includes all the buried conduits, concrete pads for outdoor huts, tunnels under the city streets, getting power to those places, etc.

    A large portion of the money spent on setting up a communications network is not spent on high tech stuff. Digging n thousand km of trenches takes a lot longer than installing the switches.

  17. Defaced already on Microsoft Releases FlexWiki as Open Source · · Score: 1

    And the kiddies rejoice with thier opportunity to deface a microsoft web site without having to hack into it first.

  18. Re:50 WPM! on AlphaGrip's 3D Keyboard Ready For Pre-Orders · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You won't look cool. You will look apparently look like this

  19. Existing stockholder average share price: $0.35 on Google IPO Open for Registration · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Fahrenheit 9/11 on suprnova.org on Moore Approves Fahrenheit 9/11 Downloads · · Score: 1

    Here is the web page from the tracking site: http://demonoid.com/torrents-details.php?id=6731

    Note that this is _not_ a DVD rip, it's a DVD burning-ready version of the CAM'd torrent available elsewhere.

    Don't bother downloading this.

  21. Re:I think you mean France on U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011 · · Score: 1
    So for 6 rounds a minute you'd need 169 MJ every 10 seconds. That's the full output of a 16.9MW genset.

    That's not that ridiculous.

    http://www.google.ca/search?q=diesel+genset+30-MW

  22. Re:Not cool from city's point of view on Montreal Parking Meters Run Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In Toronto they have similar meters that print out paper tickets. They only use their wireless connection to process credit cards though, the meter maids still walk around to inspect the slips of paper on the dash boards and issue tickets.

    The benefit of the Toronto system is there is never any residual time on the meter. If you pay for 2 hours because you only have a $2 coin and then drive away after 20 minutes, the next guy gets no free time.

    I guess the Montreal folks determined that they'll make more money from the increased speed in finding non paying parkers than they would have with the overpayment scheme that Toronto has.

    Bastards.

  23. Re:vtwm on Microsoft Seeks Patent On Virtual Desktop Pager · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was tvtwm. Tom's virtual tab window manager. It was built on top of twm: tab window manager. Although twm was often called tom's window manager because Tom LaStrange wrote it.

  24. Yet another incentive patent on IBM Patents Method For Paying Open Source Workers · · Score: 1

    IBM employees get a bonus for filing and being granted a patent, right? I wonder how many of the garbage patents granted are a result of employees going for the bonuses associated with getting a patent.

  25. And UF students don't know IP tables? on Schools to Avoid: University of Florida · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't take too long to add a rule to drop all packets coming from the admin machines. Now if they start scanning from machines outside the UF network, they'll probably catch a lot more people.

    I guess the windows majority will be prevented from using P2P, but the CS majors with linux boxes will not be stopped.