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  1. Re:So.. what? on TEPCO: Nearly All Nuclear Fuel Melted At Fukushima No. 3 Reactor · · Score: 2

    I think you're overly pessimistic. the world has seen two catastrophic nuclear power plant accidents (chernobyl and fukushima). For each we can quantify the total lives lost and health impacts (for chernobyl, lifetime impacts over several decates). We can quantify the number of people displaced and the duration of displacement. we can quantify the total costs of cleanup, costs of costs of health care, economic damage. All of this informs a rational debate on nuclear risks vs. benefits.

    right now, we have the anti-nuclear people saying the sky is falling and the other side is being paid-off, and pro-nuclear people saying that there's no problem and the other side is irrational.

  2. Re:So.. what? on TEPCO: Nearly All Nuclear Fuel Melted At Fukushima No. 3 Reactor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I see this as qualified good news. A power plant had a total meltdown but the world didn't end. There was no China syndrome situation. Maybe we can start to talk about nuclear risk more pragmatically.

  3. Re:They're all evil. Really evil. on Skype Blocks Customers Using OS-X 10.5.x and Earlier · · Score: 1

    tldr: "I paid for something once so I expect updates forever. (tbh I pirated it)."

  4. Re:Chump change on Transatomic Power Receives Seed Funding From Founders Fund Science · · Score: 1

    The sinking of the Titanic must've seemed like a miracle to the lobsters in the kitchen.

    probably not cuz the lobsters were on deck 7a and nobody made to off of the galley deck alive. mostly poor people so no surprise there.

  5. Re:But... but nucular is bad! on Transatomic Power Receives Seed Funding From Founders Fund Science · · Score: 1

    the trick is to magnetize the plastic and make it sodiophilic. then you use opposite polarity magnets to attract the plastic waste as it passes through a grate. The salt in seawater comes with it.

  6. Re:Down to 'idiot like this guy' articles?? on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    Lmgtfy?

  7. Re:Down to 'idiot like this guy' articles?? on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 0

    once I bailed out of a moving car just to see if I could do it. success!

  8. Re:Physical destruction on Ask Slashdot: Datacenter HDD Wipe Policy? · · Score: 1

    as the data center person, I would offer clients the opportunity for an extra $50 to have their disks destroyed when they're done with them.

  9. Re:Soon, a few companies will own all your base on Justin.tv Shuts Down Amid Reports Google Is Acquiring Twitch · · Score: 3, Informative

    Meme mishmash. Should be all your base are belong to five companies.'

  10. Re:Useless, and more useless. on 40% Of People On Terror Watch List Have No Terrorist Ties · · Score: 1

    yikes! I know a whole bunch of people who may or may not be terrorists. I should report them!

  11. Re:What a shocker! on 40% Of People On Terror Watch List Have No Terrorist Ties · · Score: 1

    don't you talk about my sacred cow like that!

  12. Re:Libertarians, discuss! on Hotel Charges Guests $500 For Bad Online Reviews · · Score: 1

    liability for one of your guests writing a bad review! the only bad part of the contract is the undefined length of the contract. otherwise it's like pissing in a bucket then dumping it into the wind. get it?

  13. Re:Libertarians, discuss! on Hotel Charges Guests $500 For Bad Online Reviews · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand how liability works...

  14. Re:Fusion is your FUTURE corporate boondoggle on San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Dismantling Will Cost $4.4 Billion, Take 20 Years · · Score: 1

    +1, would repeat. agreed about arming grandmothers to keep flights safe.

  15. Re:Sensational headline is sensational... on Hotel Charges Guests $500 For Bad Online Reviews · · Score: 2

    it doesn't matter, it's a clause in a contract so I don't see how it's a joke. it's more of a threat. and for that I think they should be forced by the state to only host wedding for barnyard animals.

  16. Re: Libertarians, discuss! on Hotel Charges Guests $500 For Bad Online Reviews · · Score: 2

    if you read more Ts and Cs on their site it says that they have lots of flexibility in when to return your deposit, because they need to wait for any damages to be inspected, any checks to clear, any chargebacks to occur, and all sorts of nonsene. I could see them holding on to people's deposits for years and years and years.

  17. Re:Libertarians, discuss! on Hotel Charges Guests $500 For Bad Online Reviews · · Score: 3, Informative

    you're not signing a contract on someone else's behalf - if a bad review is posted then you (the party to the contract) will be fined, not a third party. The only thing here that's a twist is you could be fined based on the actions of someone else in your group. This makes sense when you hold an event there that may involve urinating etc, but normally, once everybody has gone home the liability stops in the butt.

  18. Re:Speaking of Yelp on Hotel Charges Guests $500 For Bad Online Reviews · · Score: 1

    Odds that Yelp goes under in 2014? 2015?

    considering that all of the internet will self-implode on May 6 2015 I would say it is quite likely that yelp will go under next year. Unless they make good money on selling those little stickers.

  19. Re:Duh! on EFF: US Gov't Bid To Alter Court Record in Jewel v. NSA · · Score: 1

    +1 was their quote intended to be tonge-in-chic?

  20. Re: Gotcha covered... on The Man Who Invented the 26th Dimension · · Score: 1

    "it's *in* the computer"

  21. Re:Contract binding third parties on Hotel Charges Guests $500 For Bad Online Reviews · · Score: 1

    It's an enforceable oral contract.

  22. Re:Port facilities + cheap land on SpaceX Chooses Texas Site For Private Spaceport · · Score: 1

    Hawaii has more free land per resident than any state, so it makes since as a development place. If they built their station in NYC all the launches would be in the city!

  23. Re:Port facilities + cheap land on SpaceX Chooses Texas Site For Private Spaceport · · Score: 1

    Hawaii is typically "assigned" to the American continent. Unless you think it belongs in a different part of the world??? Is the island of manhattan not part of the American continent??? somebody better call the new Yorkers and have them surrender their passports!

  24. Re:Port facilities + cheap land on SpaceX Chooses Texas Site For Private Spaceport · · Score: 1

    have you ever even been to hawaii??

  25. Re:Port facilities + cheap land on SpaceX Chooses Texas Site For Private Spaceport · · Score: 1

    whatever. key facts: 1) hawaii is really far south 2) hawaii is part of the united states 3) hawaii has extensive access to sealanes 4) hawaii has a large population of people in the military 5) buzz aldrin landed in hawaii from the moon.

    so it has all the connections to america, space, and cargo that you could want. nuff said?