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  1. Re:Cash still a good thing on Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Also most banks charge for significant cash deposits. If you deposit $10,000 in a month that is a $75 deposit charge at the first bank I checked.

  2. Re:is an crime to just leave cash at an cashless p on Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    At least in the US, there's no easy way to transfer money from one financial institution to another. It might be easier to transfer between accounts in one institution, but even then it's hit or miss depending on who you're a customer of.

    That's a joke right? Most banking apps let you do ACH transfers easily, especially if both are members of Zelle. I've done several wire transfers online between banks and it went through in minutes. Sounds like you need to find a better bank.

  3. Re:Real question... on More Companies Plan To Implant Microchips Into Their Employees' Hands (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you know of a source that can do it on RFID power? Most of those cards still require a hard DC link to provide enough power to run the crypto engine, the wireless stuff essentially just retransmits a recorded value.

  4. Re:Interesting 'charge' on Man Spoofs GPS To Fake Shop Visits For Profit, Gets Caught (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, easy to just put the apparatus in a faraday cage. Probably needed to anyways since he had multiple devices going next to each other.

  5. The glut in the uranium market doesn't help. Why go to advanced technologies when basic uranium fission is so cheap.

  6. Re:Thorium is where it should be, ignored on A Nuclear Startup Will Fold After Failing To Deliver Reactors That Run on Spent Fuel (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much all the material can be recycled. The biggest waste products are Cs-137 and Sr-90 with their 30 year half life. If you have a secure facility just package the Sr-90 into RTG's to generate electricity. I'm astounded they don't use them in Antartica, built in heat supply and electricity. No moving parts, no issues with contaminated diesel fuel. Just heat and electricity. Plus the South Pole has pretty good security with a huge desert wasteland surrounding it. But even with a 30 year half life its down to 1/1000 after 300 years.

  7. Re:there will be more on Japan Confirms First Radiation-Linked Death Out of Fukushima (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Vote to allow reprocessing. Every other country recycles their fuel. The rationale for not doing it ourselves (the biggest of which is that no one else would do what we decided not to do) is not really valid anymore.

  8. Re:No no no! on Japan Confirms First Radiation-Linked Death Out of Fukushima (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    ROTFL. Give me a few milligrams for saccharin over a few mg of natural cyanide to the bloodstream.

  9. Re:Third, not first on Japan Confirms First Radiation-Linked Death Out of Fukushima (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Seriously? You think they were unaccounted for, trapped and living for three weeks before the radiation killed them? They'd have died from dehydration in a fraction of that time.

  10. The $200 was written in a way to imply it meant $200 million. Just click bait to say they believed the buildings were only worth $200.00. And is that the assessment for the building, the land or both?

  11. Re:To Be on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That article reflects an outdated understanding. Adult neuron growth is known and studied. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. Re:$100 million for 2490 classrooms? on Tesla Deploys Over 300 Powerwalls To Give Hawaiian School Kids AC (electrek.co) · · Score: 4, Informative

    People don't realize that Hawaii doesn't just have one electric grid. It has one for each island with a low capacity level on each one. The issue now, and how valid depends on how much trust you put into the utility, is that there is so much solar currently connected there are serious issues of grid stability. It was built with generators with slow response times and now you have MW of power that flash on and off with a passing cloud. Someone had to put a surge system in, not sure the schools are the best ones though.

  13. Re:Is there a way to do real work? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    You are neglecting efficiency of future processors and increasing of the solution difficulty. Definitely not a linear extrapolation.

  14. Re:Reality of All Billionaires on The Winklevoss Twins Are Now Bitcoin Billionaires (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    1) The guarantee is that they will give you one dollar for a $1 bill. Says right on it.
    2) That's a federal reserve guarantee, not the us government.

  15. Re:Did you really just link to goo.gl? on The Bitcoin Bubble (economist.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope, not fixed at all
    2/1980 - $2,077.93/oz
    2/2001 - $367.67/oz
    2/2011 - $1573.27/oz
    2/2016 - $1,168.00/oz

    Tell the guy that bought in 1980 that the price always goes up.

    These are inflation adjusted dollars.

  16. The iPhone X does have dual front cameras. One is just for IR designed to read the grid projected by the ir dot projector. You get real time depth map of the selfie from that which is probably better than anything you could get from dual cameras placed that close.

  17. I did a calculation several years back based on environmental levels of Plutonium and it came out to a few million atoms of Pu are passed every time you go to the bathroom. It's all in the dosage. Essentially everybody is contaminated from the above ground nuclear bomb testing days.

  18. Re:Level of Exposure? on Tests Show Workers At Hanford Nuclear Facility Inhaled Radioactive Plutonium (king5.com) · · Score: 1

    After 40 years that biological half-life would have removed > 24% of the Pu. Wouldn't be surprised if the life expectancy of the workers was at least 40 years. Losing a quarter of something isn't quite the same as keeping 'pretty much all of' it.

  19. Re:Whole body scan is needed on Tests Show Workers At Hanford Nuclear Facility Inhaled Radioactive Plutonium (king5.com) · · Score: 1

    Not effective with internal alpha contamination. The radiation can't escape the body since alphas interact so strongly with matter and their energy is completely absorbed. At this point you need to do measurements of excreta. Hopefully it'll be at the undetectable levels.

  20. Re:Level of Exposure? on Tests Show Workers At Hanford Nuclear Facility Inhaled Radioactive Plutonium (king5.com) · · Score: 1

    The mucus in the lungs will capture a lot and the cilia will transport it up to the throat where it will be swallowed. Most of that will then transport through the digestive system and excreted. Some will be taken up by the body and at that point you have the various blood filters like the kidneys and liver capturing some and excreting it. The efficiencies of the various mechanisms will vary based on the chemical state of the Pu as inhaled and as its processed in the digestive system.

  21. Re:No on The SEC Just Handed Bitcoin a Huge Setback (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually its great news for Bitcoin. Putting more money into the coin itself rather than a shadow proxy.

  22. Re:It's a function of GTP and billing. on Sleeping iPhones Send Phantom Data · · Score: 1

    Also the bills are time stamped at the start of the call. So if data calls are billed the same way that is why people shutting their phone off at night aren't getting the middle of the night charge. That's when the phone reestablishes it's data connection if it is turned on.

  23. Re:Who wants to update?? on Mac OS X 10.6.2 Will Block Atom Processors · · Score: 1

    You own the physical DVD. You can use it as a frisbee or a coaster or maybe even put it in a computer. But you only have a license for use of the code. Courts have repeatedly enforced this. Best you can get is your money back for the package if you don't agree to the terms.

  24. Re:This article sucks on Snow Leopard Missed a Security Opportunity · · Score: 1

    You let your users have admin privs? And they don't know enough not to enter their password at any prompt?

  25. Re:This article sucks on Snow Leopard Missed a Security Opportunity · · Score: 1

    Like the iPhone OS?