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  1. Nuclear waste trains in other countries on Feds Want Nuclear Waste Train, But Don't Know Where It Would Go · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nuclear waste is regularly and safely carried by train in other countries.

    Here's a video from 1984 of a crash test done in the UK on a train waste container:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  2. Re:Sugar isn't that bad on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 2

    Sucrose is a glucose and a fructose molecule joined together, which are split by an digestive enzyme. The body will metabolise the fructose part of sucrose directly into fat - it's the only way it can metabolise it. Insulin isn't involved in fructose metabolization although is, of course, used in the glucose part of the process.

  3. Re:SUGAR is POISON on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 1

    Really? The mitochondria in the body's cells can only directly process glucose into adenosine triphospate - the chemical the body uses to carry energy. The acetate is just going to be metabolised into fatty acids pretty quickly without being used by the body's cells.

  4. Re:HFCS is POISON (FTFY) on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 1

    Your body generates and enzyme called sucrase which splits the sucrose into its two halves, glucose and fructose, with high efficiency. Afterwards, your body processes the glucose and fructose in sucrose exactly the same as the glucose and fructose in HFCS.

  5. Re:Fruit is the problem on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 2

    Fruit is also full of soluble fiber. The fiber prevents the digestive system from absorbing the sugar as effectively. Our current western diets contain nowhere near enough fiber.

  6. "Leverage" Seriously? on Introducing SlashBI · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ddd someone just use the word 'leverage' in a article title? Surely not! http://slashdot.org/topic/bi/shortage-of-b-i-talent-a-critical-hurdle-in-quest-to-leverage-big-data/ And what are those silly stock photos all about? I'm not sure I recognise the model of computer in the linked article.

  7. Re:I have it on Brits Rejecting Superfast Broadband · · Score: 1

    You do know that PlusNet are owned by BT, right?

  8. Re:Anonymous Coward on Software To Flatten a Photographed Book? · · Score: 1

    Many zoom lenses curve the field the opposite way when zoomed all the way in. Most lenses have barrel distortion when zoomed out and pincushion distortion when zoomed in. There'll probably be somewhere between where the field is flat. A few experimental shots of a grid will quickly find this out. Here's some examples from SLR lens reviews: http://www.photozone.de/canon_eos_ff/426-canon_28300_3556is_5d?start=1 http://www.photozone.de/canon-eos/295-tamron-af-24-135mm-f35-56-ad-aspherical-if-sp-lab-test-report--review?start=1 (there's many more on that site) Smaller compact cameras lenses often show hugely higher field distortion than decent SLR lenses.

  9. Re:Maybe the UK can tax these on Why Text Messages Are Limited To 160 Characters · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You jest but the UK used to have a mobile tax - at least for business accounts. It was introduced in 1991 by the then Conservative Chancellor of the exchequer Norman Lamont. This tax was repealed in 1999 by then Labour Chancellor (and now of course prime minister) Gordon Brown. One of his better decisions to cut taxes on an enabling technology.

  10. Can be used as a bridge too on Using Linux To Make a Slow, Awful WAN Connection · · Score: 1

    One of the great features of netem is that it isn't restricted to being used on a router. If you bridge two network interfaces together you can essentially use netem to make a device which looks like a faulty link. This can be plugged and unplugged [or routed using a VLAN infrastructure] into anywhere in your network without reconfiguration of any IP details on the machines under test.

  11. Re:Maybe do a google search... on Using Linux To Make a Slow, Awful WAN Connection · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, NISTnet can only delay IP traffic, netem works at the ethernet layer and can delay everything. One of the great things about netem is that it can be set up to act as a bridge. Think of it as an ethernet cable with 100ms delay. NISTnet is great but it can't do that.

  12. Software radio on Passport Required To Buy Mobile Phones In the UK · · Score: 1

    I wonder how the legislation will impact of software radio mobile phone clients? After all the same device that 5 minutes ago was a mobile can, at the flick of a switch, be a radio-control car controller.

  13. Problems with email address parsers on ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs · · Score: 1

    I imagine this will create a problem with common email address parsers. Many email parsers at the moment look for an @ symbol and [incorrectly] at least one dot in the domain name. If this becomes widespread I would imagine that: steve@apple bill@microsoft john@smith type email addresses will become popular, as MX records start to become attached to top-level-domains much more frequently than they are now.

  14. Re:Space company? on Jeff Bezos's Space Company Reveals Some Secrets · · Score: 1

    > The only real bonus is that H2O2 is not cryogenic.

    That's quite a big bonus. Cryogenic oxidizers are not terribly cheap to handle.

    It's quite interesting that this fuel+oxidizer combination has been used successfully before. The British Black Arrow rocket which did a good launch in 1971 used it. [It was then cancelled by a short-sighted government]

  15. Re:Perfect copy on Was the New Dr. Who Leaked on Purpose? · · Score: 1

    No it worked fine for me. I watched it with xine/mythtv on a linux machine.

  16. Perfect copy on Was the New Dr. Who Leaked on Purpose? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It was the best looking AVI I've ever seen. All the credits were there and all the introduction with no slight cut-off near the end. It was leaked.

  17. Re:The sounds of Mars on Spirit Rover is One Year Old · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Beagle 2 [rest in peace] included a microphone.

  18. Re:What about Cox? on SCO Fires back, Subpoenas Stallman, Torvalds et al · · Score: 1

    I think you'd have a bit of difficulty getting him out of Wales and onto the other side of the Atlantic.