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  1. Re:put them all over as the power grid is not setu on The Rise of Small Nuclear Plants · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can't imagine investing in a national nuclear infrastructure without also overhauling the distribution grid.

    did no one RTFA?
    Oh yeah this is slashdot.

    The idea is as Coal Plants get decommissioned you can use most of the same equipment, Which I assume means the same generators. Which make the nuke plants cheaper then overhauling the coal plant.

  2. Re:Swing and a miss... on Catching Satnav Errors On Google Street View · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or start an ice cream shop wherever Google says there is one.

    Genius

  3. Re:Licensing on How IT Pros Can Avoid Legal Trouble · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The solution to that is to not buy such software.
    If it is not free or simply licensed, just do not use it.

    ... tell that to my boss.

  4. Re:9/11 ? on Top Secret America · · Score: 3, Informative

    exemplified by no successful terrorist acts on US soil since 9/11?

    So we're the anthrax attacks no terrorist acts?

  5. Re:hmm on DRM vs. Unfinished Games · · Score: 1

    Serial and Registration codes weren't really DRM.

    What was DRM was Requiring you to type in the 5th word from page 27 of the manual.

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

    Dude, we won the war on drugs. You can totally grow plants now in California. You just need a doctor's note.

    I can't wait til november

  7. Re:Good Heavens! on RIAA Paid $16M+ In Legal Fees To Collect $391K · · Score: 1

    That's the whole point of the fucking police... to solve crimes and bring people to justice.

    I thought the point of the police was to write tickets, how else are they supposed to pay for themselves... Tax dollars?

    Srsly if police don't do anything about the theft, next time you won't bother to report the crime, Which means crime stats go down and the chief of police gets a raise... All for doing less.

  8. Re:Antidepressants can make people suicidal on Antidepressants In the Water Are Making Shrimp Suicidal · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    When the shrinks put me on SSRI to alleviate OCD, the reverse happened: I lost *all* motivation. I could not get up in the morning, and could easily lie 48 hours in bed without eating or drinking, on the edge of sleep.

    Unfortunately, the use of antidepressants is still pretty crude. Often it takes multiple tries before the doctor and patient find the right combination.

    But they can still be lifesavers. When I was in cancer treatment over a decade ago, I got so depressed that I was absolutely prepared to kill myself. I'd even put by a stock of heavy tranquilizers with which to do the deed. A doctor's assistant was taking some information from me one day and noticed, alerting my primary care physician and they put me on an antidepressant. Within a few weeks I couldn't believe I had ever even considered suicide. Within a couple of months I was off the antidepressants and that was that. This was the late 90's and the cancer treatment was completely successful and I've never had another depressed day since then. There's a lot of problems with the use and overuse of antidepressants, but I'm pretty sure they saved my life (along with a very alert and dedicated doctor's assistant).

    We've got to get people to stop flushing old drugs down the toilet or tossing them in the garbage though. They're finding so many pharmaceutical substances in drinking water and soil and now the oceans that we're heading for bigger problems than depression. I can't believe there aren't already good methods for disposal of medications widely in use. All the hormones and antibiotics in my pork chops are bad enough, I don't need to get a pharmaceutical cocktail every time I take a drink of water.

    SSRI's Are Drugs like any other....

    Saying you have to find the right combination is like saying: well Coke didn't work for me so lets try Heroin.

  9. Re:Doesn't require Windows "server" software? on PopBox STB To Ship Soon But Without Netflix, Pandora · · Score: 1

    That's sort of my point, Personally I use PlayOn to host netflix and local media to my DLNA machines though. Why is this better then a WD TV? The only difference I can see is it costs $50 more and only works on one TV in the house.

  10. Re:Doesn't require Windows "server" software? on PopBox STB To Ship Soon But Without Netflix, Pandora · · Score: 1

    This appears to be the first inexpensive STB that supports discovery and streaming of media directly from a SAMBA or other protocol server. Most of the set top boxes to date have been dependent on software running on a host OS on a computer elsewhere in your network (I have one of the Kodak ones).

    is dlna that hard?

  11. Re:I say let them cheat on Colleges Stepping Up Anti-Cheating Technology · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but most jobs care if you steal from the till.

    If your job has a till, and you have a college degree... Odds are you screwed up somewhere.

  12. Re:I say let them cheat on Colleges Stepping Up Anti-Cheating Technology · · Score: 1

    Go ahead, let them cheat. They'll be paying for it once they get a job based on their "degree" and suddenly realize they don't know fuckall about what they're doing.

    Yes, But unlike Schools, Most Jobs don't care if you cheat.

    In fact copying a successful peers work is likely to get me a raise in the real world.

  13. Re:Not mine. on Study Hints Ambient Radio Waves May Affect Plant Growth · · Score: 1

    The more you know. Evidently too much oxygen can cause cell death, burst alveoli in your lungs, and retinal detachment.

    Yeah, Did you read that right... Perhaps you missed the " at elevated partial pressures"

  14. Re:i don't know about radio, but i find on Study Hints Ambient Radio Waves May Affect Plant Growth · · Score: 1

    Yeah no...

    the power issue is real, But Led's just don't give the PAR you need.

    Also... hold the Train, Are you saying a 400 Watts used for HPS is uses more power then 400 Watts of LED's? I hope you know what a watt is.

    To address your note on cooling, Plants in a closed space need air flow anyway. Also since the light is at the top of the room, And O2 rises; you can get rid of the heat and oxygen at the same time. Therefore cooling costs only come into play at about over 400watts.

    From personal experience a 100 watt led is about the same as 100 watts of HPS, But the LED was 4 times the cost. Granted this was about 2 years back when they were still pretty new. Maybe if you were planning a growroom to be in operation 10 years you might make you money back on bulbs and ballasts, But PAR Freq Optimized LED's haven't exactly been around that long.

  15. Re:i don't know about radio, but i find on Study Hints Ambient Radio Waves May Affect Plant Growth · · Score: 1

    Incandescent lamps... Lawls

    a 250 HPS goes a long way and it's cheaper then thousands of LEDs.

  16. Re:Not mine. on Study Hints Ambient Radio Waves May Affect Plant Growth · · Score: 1

    Did you know that you can die from too much oxygen? Too much water?

    Wait you can die from too much O2???? I mean I know you can die from too much water... It's called drowning.... But your telling me that people on those O2 tanks at old folks homes are going to die?

    How does this work? Well other then exploding.

    I just have a hard time believing an oxygen bar is worse for you then a hookah bar.

  17. Re:Batteries on New Material Can Store Vast Amounts of Energy · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... compact enough.

    funny

  18. First? on Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is bullshit

  19. Re:A honeypot? Or are they for real? on Swedish Pirate Party To Run Pirate Bay From Parliament · · Score: 1

    You'll have a hard time getting 4% of the vote without booty to pay them off and doing it would be illegal before you get into parliament. Also, you missed the point entirely in that they have to move the Servers INSIDE parliament for them to be outside of jurisdiction, so unless you plan on pirating from INSIDE the building, your point is moot.

    How many servers does it take to run a website hosting 4k torrent files?

  20. Re:lol Roy on IEEE Supports Software Patents In Wake of Bilski · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pfft...

    Everyone knows Dupont invented LaTeX... :P

  21. Re:I for one on Doubled Yield For Bio-Fuel From Waste · · Score: 1

    I may be overreaching, But clearly the only answer is to Stop, Drop, and Roll!

  22. Re:I for one on Doubled Yield For Bio-Fuel From Waste · · Score: 1

    I will not fall for your Straw Man argument!

  23. Re:Wow... what a worthless article on Obama To Nearly Double the Available Broadband Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 1

    GP could have old pennies.

    Yes, but what good is a 50 year old idea.

  24. Re:Wow... what a worthless article on Obama To Nearly Double the Available Broadband Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 1

    ...

    Free up what used to be the UHF TV spectrum for peer to peer use, and we can do a lot to fix the last mile problem.

    That's my 2 ZINC cents worth.

    ftfy

  25. Re:is waterboarding next to get the info? on FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing there's laws against it in the U.S. too, that didn't stop them. What makes you think they're beyond it in South America? The fact that you live there, perhaps? Quite narcissistic, but that seems to be the norm for Brazilians.

    It seems that, in your opinion, all south american countries are barbaric lands where no laws are to be taken seriously.

    That's incredibly arrogant of yours. Because of things like that, the rest of the World put all US citizens (including the good ones) in the same basket and call them assholes.

    Even you completely disregard the morality (or immorality) of laws, good/bad/weak/silly laws are to be enforced and there are practical issues:

    If they torture the guy in order to obtain the information, the next day that bastard will make a public scandal, cry his human rights were violated etc, and his lawyers will invoke every conceiveable law and the process will stall, badly.

    Then his lawyers will spread doubt about any other evidence previously collected. They will make a party out of it and, in the end, the guy may be considered innocent.

    So, even if you're willing to torture the guy, it's not practical.

    Which is why it's easier just to have him disappeared.