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  1. glacial tsunamis in Lituya Bay, Alaska on Ancient Tsunami Devastated Lake Geneva Shoreline · · Score: 2

    Every few decades, it gets much worse in Lituya Bay, Alaska.
    Also BBC Nature: Mega Tsunami - Alaskan Super Wave - Amazing Survival

  2. subsidized GIGO on Titan Supercomputer Debuts for Open Scientific Research · · Score: 0

    Giveaway upon giveaway. "Hand tuned" CAGW models have been reality constrained GIGO now for decades because they do not represent a full set of physics. Glad AMD has stuck x86 processors out this far but not so much for this boondoggle.

  3. Also some cheap treatments that could save your life and health, much less wealth, may not be available in the US. I've run into 25+ years late for first class stuff.

  4. 600,000 reasons on Supreme Court To Hear First Sale Doctrine Case · · Score: 1

    Crap like this, no wonder we have angry armed mobs in front of our embassies. This was not only a wrongheaded suit but obnoxious in application. If the publishers want to discriminate regionally, then they should bear the burden of regional versions (less desirable in US, at least for textbooks). Trampling our US first sale rights isn't going to be acceptable. Crucifying some little entrepreneur like that with bogus double dipping "corporate rights", no wonder the US has endless enemies.

  5. Libre O Congress on Feds Continue To Consider Linux Users Criminals For Watching DVDs · · Score: 1

    Wonder what the Librarian thinks of the French library during the French revolution. It got better, and lousy administrators lost their heads.

  6. uber lords on The Long Reach of US Extradition · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Those who have already lived in US sponsored dictatorships may better realize that the US government is already far more dangerous than the Nazis in terms of surveillance capability and raw power. So far, too few US citizens seem to recognize that millions of people suffered, or died, in a blatantly illegal, ruinously expensive war with Iraq that appears to be preparatory for domestic use. At least realize enough to stop it, permanently.

  7. Oct/November surprise on Iran Running Out of Physical Currency, Satellite Broadcasts Dropped in Europe · · Score: 1

    Has Obama and his handlers timed the squeeze right? If Iran collapsed the night before the elections, no telling what kind of vote boost he could get.

  8. Re:Self-stabilizing system on Iran Running Out of Physical Currency, Satellite Broadcasts Dropped in Europe · · Score: 1

    If the density is good (size and weight check out), a good gold coin rings when dropped on a hard surface. A tungsten or DU center will not.

  9. mass mafiaso on Millions of Blogs Knocked Offline By Legal Row · · Score: 1

    It's more like a legbreaker. Now for a million people at a whack.

  10. Europe leading the way.... on Millions of Blogs Knocked Offline By Legal Row · · Score: 1

    to the (in?)voluntary human extinction movement.

    Hundred+ year copyrights on everything is a fubar.

  11. Until there is a guilty verdict, John lists should not be published. Various victims of gold diggers, honey traps and extortion plots are not all the work of fiction and movies. Some comely ho' says he's my rich boyfriend with lots of cash, and later says he's my regular John, with the action videos. Who's to say otherwise if he was discrete?

  12. Biden wrong on U235 to bombs on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    Biden was wrong about the point of threat and Iranian nuclear breakout. With high velocity artillery and high quality, highly enriched U235 (HEU), it means a half industrialized nation can be nuclear arm state, right now. Even in 1942, HEU gun based nukes were considered comparatively trivial, and did not even need testing like plutonium implosion based bombs.

  13. FOAD on Court Finds In Favor of Libraries In Google Books Affair · · Score: 1

    It's clear that the judge came down on the libraries side. He spells out that the libraries have major statutory rights beyond mere fair use and that fair use itself has important implications in transformative uses. On top of that, he makes it clear that Congress implements the Constitution, and that determines only owners may sue. Not quite FOAD ("F- off and die") to the extortion associations, they have been restrained and chastised somewhat.

  14. Apple? on Once Valued at $1.8B, OnLive Was Sold For Only $5M · · Score: 1

    Many companies have their day in the sun. Remember that Apple.

  15. Windows "ate" is past tense... on Replacing Windows 8's Missing Start Menu · · Score: 1

    for eats, or bytes.

  16. automatic fines for automatic mistakes... on Automated DMCA Takedown Notices Request Censorship of Legitimate Sites · · Score: 1

    We need automatic fines for companies that make automatic mistakes.

  17. LFTR on Electric Car Environmental Impact: Power Source Matters · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Check out the thorium based LFTR, a proposed reactor that burns PWR/BWR waste too. It produces much less waste, that last much less time. It does not use high pressure reactors. Thorium is plentiful, easy to mine for fuel. It has anti-proliferation characteristics. It's been tested. If we don't do it, India or China will. It's mantra is "cheaper than coal", usually the cheapest long term utility fuel.

  18. Ellison...cloud religion? Harlan? on Oracle Open World: Ellison Preaches Cloud Religion · · Score: 1

    Larry? Oh, thought maybe Harlan had developed something.

  19. Re:So I suppose Obama on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" · · Score: 1, Informative

    ...is a faux lawyer, he's not currently licensed.

  20. facing down three billion on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" · · Score: 1

    ...and facing down three billion very angry people.
    It's a long swim, en masse.

  21. Asian countries aligned with China... on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" · · Score: 4, Informative

    Perhaps you left out Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, and Philippines with no special love for China in Indonesia either.

  22. American corporate socialism... on Why American Internet Service Is Slow and Expensive · · Score: 0

    American corporations are now largely ripoffs, overpriced with low quality goods and services, protected by their legislative "friends". Brands are advertising phenomona that often bear little correlation to product quality. Prices are built on padded costs, regulatory manipulation, and marketing bs. Overseas service is much, much better, even in some lower rated 3rd world countries. It was once a great, competitive country.

  23. more crackable on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You · · Score: 0

    Presumably someone from the NSA or IRS wants to know...

  24. better late or never on Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security · · Score: 1

    Time to move to a nice "backward" country, where this might be 10-20 years late or completely derailed by other considerations. This serves the system, not the consumer or citizen.

  25. Budget cuts should be imposed on NASA To Face $1.3 Billion Cut Next Year Under Sequestration · · Score: 1

    James Hansen et al aren't contributing much to space exploration much less national well being.