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  1. Re:NO NO! you dont know Akhuthota like i do.went t on Student Used 'USB Killer' Device To Destroy $58,000 Worth of College Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    in 10 years he would have Statute of limitations to remove the college damages bill.

    Except he made the news, so anyone searching for his name online can find the news articles.

    I remember some other case mentioned here a few years ago, where two wall street traders, or investors (not sure) were convicted of some type of financial fraud.
    After the statute of limitations, they tried to get Google to delete all mention of them, but Google refused.
    As their crime had also made the news back then, it came down to them essentially being part of history for it.

  2. Re:Petty fiefdoms are always going to be a problem on Debian Package Maintainer Steps Down, Complaining About 'Old Infrastructure' (stapelberg.ch) · · Score: 1

    Do you have a link to your patch?

  3. Re: Maybe he should be paid on Debian Package Maintainer Steps Down, Complaining About 'Old Infrastructure' (stapelberg.ch) · · Score: 1

    Currently, if the Debian project somehow fell apart, you'd be right.

    Down the road, if people keep migrating to Devuan, it will simply become what Debian was, without systemd.

  4. Donation? on Tufts Expelled a Student For Grade Hacking. She Claims Innocence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd like her to sue Tufts, and I'd donate $50 towards that.

  5. Re:Assumption on Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy Theories Thrive on Amazon (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    and what food might that be? (I don't eat seafood or meat or eggs)

  6. Re:Assumption... is wrong. on Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy Theories Thrive on Amazon (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Check again.

    Thiomersal was used in Pandemrix.

    Also, I don't eat fish.

  7. Re:The right to be wrong on Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy Theories Thrive on Amazon (cnn.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    The health of children is at stake.

    355 children in Sweden who got the H1N1 vaccine (Pandemrix), have since been diagnosed with narcolepsy.
    (the number may be higher now)
    This has been judged to be a direct result of the vaccine.
    Those 355 individuals can now never have a driver's license, or a normal job.

    Sweden had to formulate a special law to give each up to 10 million SEK (1.1 million USD or so) in restitution.

    There's a reason why some people are against vaccines.

  8. Assumption on Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy Theories Thrive on Amazon (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Author of TFA assumes all vaccinations are 100% safe.
    This is not the case.

    It's always worth it to look at what the possible side effects are, and decide whether it's an acceptable risk (for you or your child).

    Also, I will certainly never get a vaccine shot with aluminium or mercury in it.

  9. Re:Contract in mom's name on Frontier Demands $4,300 Cancellation Fee Despite Horribly Slow Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As she says, the termination fee could put her out of business.

    So shut down the business (on paper), move all assets to a new business.
    What does the contract specify in that case?

  10. Damage control.

  11. Anyone want to run a book on just how long JPMCoin is a thing?

    As long as it's used internally only, it could theoretically be used indefinitely.

    My guess is, it's going to be used as a more hack-proof bank account system.

    This way, even in the most corrupt branch office, all account balances and transactions are registered in a tamper-proof blockchain.
    I wonder how banks kept all that straight before, without it.

  12. Obviously some of the more important ones with actual volume and merchant acceptance and even privacy options are, among others:
    Bitcoin Cash BCH, Bitcoin BTC, Ethereum ETH, Zcash ZEC, Monero XMR.

    You should read up on the history of Bitcoin Cash / BCH. It's clearly an attempt to capitalize on the Bitcoin name, with very little relevance to the original Bitcoin.
    Avoiding it would be wise.

  13. Energy on Bitcoin is Worth Less Than the Cost To Mine It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So, currently it's only economically feasible to mine bitcoin if energy(electricity) is very cheap at your location.
    That would be Iceland, Norway, and other places with very cheap hydro/thermal power.

    Cheap electricity in China is a bit of an oddity:
    China has built huge aluminum smelting capacity.
    Most aluminum smelting plants in China are powered by coal, heating steam to then heat the aluminum. (steam is my guess)

    The heat of the aluminum after smelting can be used to power a steam turbine which spins a generator, but since the heat is not constant, batteries and circuitry are needed to smoothe out the output.

    It isn't very practical to use the (post-smelting) heat to pre-heat some of the (scrap) aluminum going into a plant, and the electricity from the generator would only be enough to power maybe one electrical aluminum smelter at one plant, so instead, most of the electricity is put on the power grid, minus what's used at the plant for non-heating purposes.

  14. Java was an OK language to learn basics.

    Problem is, the first programming language you learn, is what your mind will use as reference to learn other programming languages.

    So, your first choice matters. A lot.

  15. Re:China is making itself an island of technology on Microsoft's Bing Search Engine Goes Offline In China (france24.com) · · Score: 1

    But Google is playing ball with the Chinese government now.

    Source?

    Project Dragonfly seems to have been droppped, due to protests from employees, and from human rights organizations.

  16. This comment was written to remove my moderations in this thread.
    I f*cked up.

  17. Re:Tit for Tat on Nvidia CEO Trashes AMD's New GPU: 'The Performance Is Lousy' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It means she either wasn't up-to-date on the ray-tracing tech situation, or was instructed not to engage in a long discussion about it.

    If you were careful, you could probably get Jensen to admit, that their way of doing ray-tracing ends up degrading visual quality for gamers.

  18. Re:I would like one but I can't afford it: on Nvidia CEO Trashes AMD's New GPU: 'The Performance Is Lousy' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you ever listen to your intuition?

  19. Re:preventative medicine costs are way up on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    For what disease?
    If you haven't heard, most intestinal diseases are due to an imbalance in the gut flora.
    This comes about because of antibiotics killing off certain bacteria in your gut.

    Get a fecal transplant from someone healthy, optimally an athlete, and it goes away.

  20. Re:For the wealthy, or the ones able to identify B on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you've become gluten-intolerant (or very gluten-sensitive), then yeah, would be a good idea to stay away from it.

    Eating gluten with that condition results in inflammation, which you are perpetuating.

    Chronic inflammation has been associated with cancer development, so it's not that far-fetched.

  21. Re:True for all medical conditions on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Just eat some apple seeds.

    The number of seeds to eat per day:
    While you have cancer, divide your weight in kilo by 3.
    After the cancer is gone: divide your weight in kilo by 4.

    A kilo is roughly two pounds, so divide your weight in pounds by 6 while having it, 8 after.

  22. Re:Really? Composting reactors? on Washington Could Become the First State To Compost the Dead (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Then, years later, the tree gets knocked over/uprooted by a tornado, and you'll have the half-discomposed body dangling from the root.
    Are you ready to go clean up that mess?

  23. Re:How does Mozilla survive? on Mozilla Says Ad on Firefox's New Tab Page Was Just Another Experiment (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    No doubt people have had it with ads, but most people won't donate $5 to the cause either. Until people put their money where their mouth is, and the people that own businesses follow along, this is a moot point.

    I actually would have donated to Mozilla, at least before they started making Firefox worse. Now, not so sure about it.
    All they had to do was ask: "We are short on funding. Please donate, to keep Firefox ad-free."

    But, if that had turned out not to be the truth..

  24. Re:Mushroom cloud... on New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks. Looks like the intense light of the arcing was reflected off of a low cloud, or possibly the smoke cloud from the initial explosion.

  25. The power plant spends $25 million to "clean up" mercury, and it means that 13 people do not contract some dread disease or debilitating condition or whatever that would only cost a few hundred thousand dollars to treat?

    Not everything can be treated, or a resulting condition fully, or even partially, reversed.
    Mercury causes a long list of health problems, primarily in the central nervous system.
    Increased risk of cancer is also an issue.
    How would you feel about it, if you were the victim of such poisoning?
    (not that you would be able to tell us in that case; mercury can really mess up your brain)

    Anyway, I'd say $25 mio. is cheap, compared to what the lawsuits could cost.