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  1. The Horses Mouth on US Alarmed Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis · · Score: 2

    http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/index-e.html

    Just read the Fukushima updates. How come nobody links to this?

    If the #4 pool is NOT dry, then that NRC official should be fired...

    That said, I can't understand why the spend fuel pool is not inside any containment structure and not at ground level.
    This is not a "First generation product" issue. This is a cost savings issue.

  2. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 3, Informative

    no.. Watson didn't understand that HAVING a leg is not peculiar. Watson missed the negative, not the "phrasing in the form of a question"

  3. Re:Some notes From The Creator on Video Showing Half a Million Asteroid Discoveries · · Score: 1

    Oh blessed be Thou who is THE CREATOR. I am not worthy of your NOTES. What are those CCDs you speak of?

  4. I'm from the middle east too.. on Building a Traffic Radar System To Catch Reckless Drivers? · · Score: 1

    So you live in the middle east and want to build and operate your own radar system. Are you sure you're not just visiting there?

  5. Busted! on 'u' — the First Authentic Klingon Opera On Earth · · Score: 1

    Totally alien language, yet a question ("When will it happen?") is indicated by intonation, and one identical to English at that? What are the odds?

    Instead, how about if a question is indicated by a gentle squeezing of the inner butt muscles, followed by rapid blinking, a slight tilt of the head in the direction of the sun, and an excretion of Corduroy smelling gel from the small pores of the middle armpit?

    Yeeesh.

  6. Re:In other news on RIAA Paid $16M+ In Legal Fees To Collect $391K · · Score: 1

    I agree the analogy is not perfect, but your differentiation goes into the argument of whether file sharing should be illegal, which is an open question.

    What the RIAA is doing is enforcing the law as it currently (and maybe wrongly) stands, and the money they're spending is reasonable even if it is more than was "stolen". This is especially true since the practice of file sharing is in fact sometimes being abused and so the RIAA is clearly in this for the war, not for the battle with the individual downloader.

  7. In other news on RIAA Paid $16M+ In Legal Fees To Collect $391K · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Police spends more money protecting your home than the value of merchandise in it.

    Irrespective of whether music pirating is theft or not, the observation is question is irrelevant, and the "we can get away with it since it's too expensive to stop us" does not help the argument that copying music without restrictions should be legal.

  8. Re:What a mistake on Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power · · Score: 0

    Abengoa IS solar thermal.

  9. can't resist on Khan Academy Delivers 100,000 Lectures Daily · · Score: 5, Funny

    KAHHHHHHN !!!!!1!

  10. here's a counter example on Inertial Mass Separate From Gravitational Mass? · · Score: 1

    Two bouncyballs with equal inertial masses, but different charges. (and insulated). Same thing, but can be easily accomplished, and does not result a perpetual motion machine.

    Also, I see why you said "bouncyballs". I started typing this with just the word "balls" and yeah, it does not read as intended...

  11. not largest by any stretch of the imagination on Airship Inflated To Create Monster "Stratellite" · · Score: 1

    It's a large inflatable ship, but not compared with other lighter-than-air ships - here's one example

    Additionally, carrying one ton at 20,000 feet is pathetic, since the propulsion (and power storage) requirements weigh many times that, and if you try to go higher (to reduce the power requirements) than the payload capacity drops as well.

    Nothing to see here.

  12. Re:Fun things to watch - you forgot Fault Creep on Hundred-Ton Dome To Collect Oil Spill · · Score: 5, Funny

    0) "It's not leaking"
    1) "It wasn't us"
    2) "It's just one mistake"
    3) "The media is making it all worse"

    4) (still pending) "It's because the liberals hate nukes"

    I'm glad you are concentrating on what's important.

  13. Simple... on In Israel, Potential Organ Donors Could Jump the Queue · · Score: 1

    Religious law may allow it, but religious people won't donate - it's a cultural thing. They still want the organs when they need them though.

  14. was changed, quietly... on NASA Estimates 600 Million Metric Tons of Water Ice At Moon's North Pole · · Score: 1

    Well they changed it quietly later, it said Million before. now it's compatible, but it is pretty out of whack from a physical point of view.
    Consider - 60 craters, 10 km by 10 km, this is a layer of ice 1 m thick. really?
    in another article, http://www.spaceagepub.com/pdfs/Shevchenko_1.pdf, the area of the craters is estimated as 50 km2.
    I'm waiting to see how this one plays out.
    I've got my money on Million being right.

  15. NOT 600 Million... only 600 on NASA Estimates 600 Million Metric Tons of Water Ice At Moon's North Pole · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1.3 Million lb is not 600 Million tons, only 600.

    There is no usable water on the moon.
    600 tons, over this entire area, is a minuscule amount, in very low concentration, and in an extremely hostile environment.
    From a scientific point of view, it is interesting.
    From an exploration point of view, it is irrelevant. It is cheaper to bring it from Earth.

    For more, see here: Crazy Eddie Blog

  16. Proof there is a god on Meteorite Contains Complex Organic Molecules · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The Murchison meteorite landed near a town of the same name... "

    What are the odds for THAT happening?!

  17. And in other news... on Hollywood Sets $10 Billion Box Office Record · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Growth in retail sales proves that shoplifting is beneficial for shop owners.
    Also,growth in highway fatalities proves that seat belts are dangerous,
    and growth in violent crime clearly fingers video games.

    Seriously, slashdot, this is the weakest argument ever.

  18. Prize Management 101 on The Great Zero Challenge Remains Unaccepted · · Score: 1

    Contests have entry fees.

    For $100, the entry fee will pay for the cost of the drive and shipping, so drive disassembly should not be an issue.

    Nobody plays a game like this for the prize cash, but for the bragging rights.

    The disk should have had on it instructions on how to retreive the money. Like bank account information and access code.

  19. new kind of infinite loop on Army Eyes Anti-Sniper Robot · · Score: 3, Funny

    1. place two auto-firing REDOWLs in the street.
    2. make one of them fire.
    3. sit back and enjoy.

  20. What would have happened on LG CD-ROMs Destroyed by Mandrake 9.2 · · Score: 1

    if a Microsoft service pack caused this kind of effect?

  21. For crying out loud! on Plasma Comes Alive · · Score: 1

    following their logic, so are soap bubbles.

    Great experimenters, bad thinkers.

  22. Re:simple solution to math problem on Segway Riders Get High on Mount Washington · · Score: 1

    I'm ahead of my time, is all.

    One day they'll all look back and be sorry, but by then it will be too late to resurrect civilization.

  23. simple solution to math problem on Segway Riders Get High on Mount Washington · · Score: 2, Funny

    they were 3 people.
    their combined speed was 12.5 MPH.
    Hence about 4.2MPH each.

    2.5 hours, but at least 5*10=50 minutes changing batteries, so 1.6 hours

    so 4.2MPH * 1.6Hrs = 6.7 miles.

    So why 7.6 miles? someone switched the digits!

  24. Re:SETI is pointless(repost) - of course it is!! on SETI@Home Publishes Skymap · · Score: 1

    They couldn't detect earth if it were .25 light years away... I asked them.

    They are looking for a beacon that someone is sending out on purpose.

    I think a race that sits around shouting "I am here" is either very stupid or very confident and mean.
    Or is counting on some other race being very stupid, and hoping the other race is not very confident and mean as well.

    ah, the complexities of intergalactic politics.

  25. I asked them.... on SETI@Home Publishes Skymap · · Score: 1

    They couldn't detect ourselves from .25 light-yesrs away even...
    They're looking for a beacon that's sent out on purpose.

    I'm not sure a race that keeps shouting "I am here" is worthy of being labeled "intelligent"...

    what - they don't listen to the news?