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  1. Re:Fukushima was older than Chernobyl on Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Its Reactors' Melted Uranium Fuel (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    design IS terrible, billed as not needing containment building which is the real issue. sure another reactor facility could have failed if put in same place, but would have proper containment. that stupid design was the problem

  2. Re:Fukushima was older than Chernobyl on Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Its Reactors' Melted Uranium Fuel (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I like to remind people that 23 of the same stupid GE Mark I reactor design are in use in the USA

  3. Re:wrong diet on 46% of Americans Now Have High Blood Pressure (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    the "wheat" in most U.S. products is not that, not even the same species

  4. different products? on Cringely: Amazon Is Starting To Act Like 'Bad Microsoft' (cringely.com) · · Score: 0

    I thought running Microsoft software was the main purpose of Microsoft's cloud.

    Thought Amazon's cloud was more a generic compute thing for whatever software

  5. Re:try eating less salt on 46% of Americans Now Have High Blood Pressure (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    less hostile working environment == not I.T. in these United States

    okay, got it

  6. Re:wrong diet on 46% of Americans Now Have High Blood Pressure (nbcnews.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh, you are saying celiac diseases and wheat allergies are not soaring (ten times the rate of europe) in the USA? Diabetes is not?

    you are doing fine as a shill for the food megacorporations with lawmakers in their pockets.

  7. wrong diet on 46% of Americans Now Have High Blood Pressure (nbcnews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    diet high in proper fat and protein needs to be added to those veggies and fruit. If you're in the USA better to skip the whole grains altogether except as occassional treat, monsanto and company's franken-wheat causes many digestive disorders and elevated blood sugar levels.

  8. targeted assassinations are a surgical way to shape the future, while mass murder is just a news item.

  9. Re:Management will decide "they are not needed" on Scientists Develop Kill Switches In Case Bioengineered Microbes Go Rogue (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    if civilization comes apart the notion of "guilt" and venues for prosecution disappear along with law and borders. A bunch of savages in L.A. can know nothing and do nothing about the former biotech employees on the east coast.

  10. Re:The real question: do you care about privacy? on Is Firefox 57 Faster Than Chrome? (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    nonsense, all that can be rendered useless by the savvy user. Maybe *your* browser reaches to a facebook web beacon landing site, mine does not.

  11. you make a bunch of assertions without proof or reasons.

    Grape sized drones exist, that's why I specified the size. Neurotoxin that are lethal in microgram quantities exist. Ramming a person with a needle the width of a human hair or less mounted on a grape sized drone is a trivial feat to accomplish. Having a swarm of these attacking a crowd is just an engineering challenge of moderate difficulty.

  12. Re:Management will decide "they are not needed" on Scientists Develop Kill Switches In Case Bioengineered Microbes Go Rogue (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    the existence of "a guilty party" assumes two kinds of survivors of a bad bio accident.

  13. Re:Renewable source of helium? on Could a Helium-Resistant Material Usher In an Age of Nuclear Fusion? (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    eh, U.S. would just import it. There is probably 50 - 100 years worth of easily recoverable helium left in the world from natural gas wells. After that, if it's really needed for an application, would have to taken from atmosphere. That costs thousands of times as much as the current production method, but is an already solved problem.

  14. why not a grape sized one that injects a neurotoxin?

  15. Re:Yeah. And? on All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They got through that but now they're waiting for them to shut down, the 2011 batch of windows supercomputers is currently displaying "Installing patching 354 out of 1023 Do Not Power Off"

  16. Re:kilograms as a unit of force... on A Stable Plasma Ring Has Been Created In Open Air For the First Time Ever (futurism.com) · · Score: 2

    they meant kilogram-equivalents of force, which is valid, you can even buy pressure gauges using those.

  17. Re:older versions still patched on Even New Phones Are No Longer Guaranteed To Have the Latest Version of Android (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    yes my Moto X pure has patches from Republic Wireless for its Android 7

    I note some major manufacturers have downgraded some phones back to 7 from 8, maybe some common sense and good practice is starting to prevail

  18. Re:New licensing principles needed on Proprietary Software is the Driver of Unprecedented Surveillance: Richard Stallman (factor-tech.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, neither the GPL nor BSD nor MIT license deny commercial development use.

  19. older versions still patched on Even New Phones Are No Longer Guaranteed To Have the Latest Version of Android (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    not a problem if older version is getting regular patches, reliability with security is the best, not "the bleeding edge".

    That kind of thinking is not "infecting" anything, it's proper.

    why did the summary use loaded words like "unfortunate"?

  20. Re:English as a second languarge on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    Almost always? That's a stereotype of decades past, but how true is it today? Looked it up with U.S. Census, and 1 in 4 Americans report they can speak another language. . 1 in 5 speak a foreign language in the home yet most of those people also speak English.

    Of course, being from Chicago area I'm used to ethnic families also speaking the language of "the old country"

  21. Re:English as a second languarge on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    We're a nation of immigrants, what do you mean "it is our only lanuage"? We have phrases and loanwords from all over the world. Also, I can tell you to fuck off in the four other languages of my extended family.

  22. Re:Yeah. And? on All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    five years ago, 3 of the top 500 did run windows, and in 2011 4 did.

  23. Re: systemd? on Fedora 27 Released (fedoramagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    Some people are into scat; Poettering has been squatting and shitting into the open source pool for decades.

  24. Re: Systemd, DBUS, Pulseaudio, and Gnome3 on Fedora 27 Released (fedoramagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    I've read your systemd shilling, you are the ignorant one. Wise admins are running long term stable versions of distros that aren't yet poisoned by systemd, or they are running BSD.

  25. Re:USA on Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No, natural gas has half the CO2 emission as does coal to produce same energy.