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  1. Re:It's not even comparable to a single nuclear pl on India To Build World's Largest Solar Plant · · Score: 1

    Like most questions, the answer is in TFA. The plant will produce about "6.4 billion kilowatt-hours per year". This averages out over a year at 730 MW, so tp1024 was actually being generous with 800 MW.

  2. Re:Nuclear dangers... on Megatons To Megawatts Program Comes To a Close · · Score: 0

    No, you're not welcome to go live in Fukushima. First, it's almost impossible to get a residency visa to live in Japan, unless you are being sponsored for a job that nobody in Japan can do. There aren't any of these jobs in Fukushima. Second, even if you do manage to get a visa, the government has forcibly evacuated the area around Fukushima and is not allowing residents to return. The odds of a new resident being allowed to move into the area are zero.

    All up, even well informed people, who are willing to accept the risks (if any) of low level radiation exposure, are not allowed to live in Fukushima. It must really suck for the people who were forced to leave their lives behind.

  3. Re:the androidness of it all on Ask Slashdot: Life After N900? · · Score: 1

    I followed a similar path to you when my n900 died, but one thing that I've never managed to get android to do well is multitasking. I loved that on my n900 I could leave any application actually running in the background for as long as I wanted, but on Android it will be tombstoned after a while if I'm using a different app. For example, I haven't found a way to keep Firefox from reloading all of it's tabs after a long pone call. Have any of your mods to Android made a difference with this?

  4. This isn't teletherapy on A Teletherapy Startup Removes Barriers To Mental Health Care · · Score: 0

    Teletherapy is the name for external beam radiotherapy, not therapy over the phone. If someone has found a way to send a radiation therapy beam over the phone we're all screwed.

  5. Re:Coal on Report Blames NRC For VT Yankee Leak · · Score: 0

    Umm, bullshit. The test was scheduled by the plant crew. It was originally supposed to be held during the day when more experienced operators were on duty but was moved to the night shift because the USSR's persistent electrical shortages would not allow the idling of a reactor during peak demand. The Soviet military had nothing to do with it until the disaster happened nor was anybody held at gunpoint and forced to conduct the test.

    On a side note, I've often wondered why the thought of having the more experienced operators come in and work the night shift didn't cross anyone's mind. I guess communism doesn't encourage standing out from the pack and suggesting such "novel" ideas....

    The experienced operators didn't work during the night as they had just worked a shift during the day. The experiment had been scheduled to run during the day, but because of a power shortage caused by an equipment failure at a different plant (rather than a systemic power shortage) it was delayed by a few hours. This delay was a major cause of Xe-135 build up which increased the instability of the reactor core. This problem should have been identified by the experienced shift who should have cancelled the experiment, so maybe they weren't that experienced after all...

  6. Sony is crap on How Much Are You Paying For Electronics Labels? · · Score: 0

    Wow, this is alot like what happened to me.
    I live in Australia, and recently bought a Sony plasma TV. 4 days after getting it professionally installed, it stopped working. The installers blamed Sony, and actually showed me the broken circuit error messsage. After many phone calls to Sony, it was clear that they didn't care, and were not going to do anything.
    So I sued them. Two days after filling, they contacted my solicitors wanting to "find a solution acceptable to all parties". They paid all of my costs, plus gave me a (working) TV bigger than my last one, as well as a suround sound system.
    Moral of the story: Don't be scared to sue.

  7. Re:Europe on Europan Life In Doubt · · Score: 0

    He thinks that it is the button, but it is actually just a light switch.

  8. Re:What a Post! on The Evolution Of The Cost-Effective TrainCam · · Score: 0

    I don't know, some of those X10 pop-ups were fairly big.

  9. Re:Mirror on "Red is Dead" Optical Mice LED Change · · Score: 0

    thanks.

  10. Re:Moz 1.0? What about Netscape 1.0? on Competiton: Mozilla's 200,000th Bug · · Score: 0

    Dude, you NEED a beer (or 5 (or 6))

  11. Re:How does this compare to other apps? on Competiton: Mozilla's 200,000th Bug · · Score: 0

    I heard that 18,000 bugs were reported by beta testers for win2k. (My company was a beta tester, and we discovered about 4,000.
    I think other people would have found more.)

  12. Re:Take the Microsoft Pledge! on Microsoft takes on PDF · · Score: 0

    dude, that is fucking funny.


    speaking as an Australian ...

  13. Re:Not a bad idea? on England Salutes 150 Years of Eccentric Patents · · Score: 0

    Dude, Its funny. Laugh.

  14. Re:can you imagine on Lego Segway · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    me be owning the patnent.......

    SUCKSUCKSUCK

  15. Re:can you imagine on Lego Segway · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    fuck this shit. In 7 years I'll have global UWB connections, and so will everyonelse.

    I OWN THE FUCKING PATENT

    SUCK MY BALLS
    SUCK

    AGAIN> I OWN THE PATEMT(buyakabuaksha)

  16. Re:Peace Corp on Visiting the World, as a Geek? · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am Australian.
    NO-ONE CAN MAKE ME DISCLOSE MY PERSONAL KEYS.
    I WON'T GIVE YOU MY KEYS
    ( YES. I will go to JAIL before that.) I Know what the sniper will do next. Someone will die while going about their life. HE/SHE/IT liked Nirvarna. So do I.
    suck my balls. email me for more info @ apyule@yahoo.com
    PLEASE
    I BEG OF YOU

  17. Re:mercury on Testing Products for Web Applications? · · Score: 1

    mercury are awsome. Here's hoping your boss is paying for the service though. (It's still probably worth it even if he (or she) isn't.) good luck Sub

  18. Re:mom and dad on Microsoft Word Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    about 10-20 times a day. ( My Mom is a layer and my Dad is an Historian. On a bad day he can get 80 - 100 word docs a day.) It sucks the way that word is becoming a document exchange format.

  19. Re:mom and dad on Microsoft Word Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    While it has some _major_ holes, it is far better than any version of MS office

  20. Re:beauty of the BSD license. on Taking MicroBSD for a Test Run · · Score: 1

    as a major contrib. to both linux and *BSD (you don't know who I am(haha)), I can say that BSD is dead. This is bacause of its class, even though it is far better than anything else. Here's hoping that OS X.2 keeps *BSD alive.

  21. mom and dad on Microsoft Word Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    My Mom and Dad are still using MS office '97, even though I keep telling them OpenOffice is better. But if they can't keep up with the thousands of dollars that M$ wants, they will move to OppenOffice.org.

  22. Re:Security on One Glimpse Of The Wireless Future · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I go to a college at a university in Australia, and they have just spent AU $800,000 to secure our network. The efforts they have taken to secure the network this year have cost more than has been spent on the whole computer system in the past 14 years. In my mind this is damn stupid, because it took the IT club (in no way linked to the admin of the College) 13 min to bypass the new security measures, (while we were drunk(!)) This leads to the obvious question of why to bother. Can a system actually be made safe against people who really want to bypass it?

  23. Re:Oh boy:: me not worried, it won't work on CD Copy Stopper · · Score: 1

    see my previous post, but I spent a good couple of hours at the lab craking this, and it wasn't hard, so to all of you people trying to do better freedom protection than this, good luck. I live in a free-ish country, unlike you, and I will take advantage of it. PS. I would have been at the pub if I hadn't been bypassing your protection, so as soon as I know it's leagal for me to publish my info (1-2 days) I will. Down with the american government.

  24. Re:I bet $20... on CD Copy Stopper · · Score: 1

    You owe us $20 'cause its already gone. Once the signal gets to IDE it's unencripeted, so there is nothing that you can do. Thank god I don't live stateside 'cuase your laws suck, and if I did, I'd be on my way down for breach of DMCA. Go Australia.