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  1. Re:FTL Photons Again? on 'Halo Drive' Would Use Black Holes To Power Spaceships (space.com) · · Score: 2

    A rotating black hole of stellar mass has huge amount of energy. It can be extracted in a variety of ways: https://physics.stackexchange....

    However, this black hole will have a stellar mass, so putting it on a ship makes little sense. Unless you want to move the whole star system, of course.

  2. Re:He would get my vote (fist post?) on Beto O'Rourke's Secret Membership in America's Oldest Hacking Group (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Warren has earned a tenure in 1981 from University of Houston Law Center. She had more than enough qualifications to get into Harvard purely on merit. Compare it to the Cadet Bone Spurs who got into university because of his father's money.

  3. California has just spent more than a billion dollars restoring the spillway in Oroville. There are also several dam repair projects going on. New reservoirs are probably not going to happen, California has plenty of water as it is.

  4. Re:He would get my vote (fist post?) on Beto O'Rourke's Secret Membership in America's Oldest Hacking Group (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Fauxcohontas got into Harvard Law School as a minority hire

    Incorrect. She got into the faculty based on her stellar grades. Neither was her minority status used during her admission.

  5. Re:So, balance it out a little on Salon: Republicans Are Launching Fake Local News Sites To Spread 'Propaganda' (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Anybody who says SJW in a serious context is an idiot. This is an inviolable law of the Universe, it seems.

  6. Re:it's kind of funny, on Salon: Republicans Are Launching Fake Local News Sites To Spread 'Propaganda' (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that 85% a part of 85% of all statistics that is made up?

  7. Re: Now there's an old tradition. on Salon: Republicans Are Launching Fake Local News Sites To Spread 'Propaganda' (salon.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ONLY major news organization that does not actively try to twist every word that comes out of his mouth

    You mean, the only "news" organization that is willing to overlook his constant lies?

  8. Re:TLDR; version - no on Fukushima's Radiation Is Contained By a Mile-Long Wall of Ice (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, robots are also a part of the theater. It's Japan after all, you have to have robots!

    We now have experience with dismantling Chernobyl power plant - build a shelter above the power plant and start to slowly disassemble the building.

  9. Re:TLDR; version - no on Fukushima's Radiation Is Contained By a Mile-Long Wall of Ice (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, most radioisotopes do not bioaccumulate: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1... . So the health-related consequences of the Fukushima reactor meltdown are basically nil. Also the ocean is LARGE - there's plenty of water there to dilute the few hundred kilograms of dangerous isotopes that have leaked so far.

  10. Re:TLDR; version - no on Fukushima's Radiation Is Contained By a Mile-Long Wall of Ice (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know that. It's not working, the amount of radioisotopes that is dumped into the sea was not affected by the wall. It basically matches the model that assumes that the wall is not there.

    Watertable lowering did help a bit though.

  11. TLDR; version - no on Fukushima's Radiation Is Contained By a Mile-Long Wall of Ice (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Nope. The wall does exactly nothing. It's basically a part of Kabuki theater that is the whole Fukushima cleanup operation. The reactor is still leaking, but the amount of released radiation is now below the dangerous levels - the hottest isotopes have decayed by now.

  12. Re:Cold storage does not imply balances are hidden on QuadrigaCX's Crypto Accounts Were Emptied Months Before CEO's Mysterious Death, Putting Fate of $137 Million In Doubt (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The whole blockchain is massive (around 200GB now) and you can obfuscate transfers a lot. Especially if you do bitcoin/ethereum conversions. The theft will not be immediately apparent.

  13. White face is seriously easier to notice. You'd be surprised how much it improves visibility, especially since humans are hard-wired to recognize faces quickly.

  14. Re:Well, duh! on Massive Database Leak Exposes China's 'Digital Surveillance State' (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    To them, Tienanmen square is just a place, because China has been so effective at removing dissent (by removing dissenters)

    Pretty much all Chinese people (except maybe for really young millenials) know about Tiananmen square rebellion. They just think that the government did the right thing and put down the rabble-rouses.

  15. Re:Don't be stupid. Stop being stupid already. on Massive Database Leak Exposes China's 'Digital Surveillance State' (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    China may too big to take on, but the Chinese regime is not. If that were not true, then the regime would not be developing systems like this.

    Have you ever been to China? I've been studying Mandarin and can now speak it somewhat passably. And actual people in China like their government.

    And it's not just propaganda, Westerners grew up with books like "1984" that depict a crumbling bleak society. But that's opposite of what's happening in China - their economy grew by an order of magnitude during the last 30 years.

  16. Re:And In Other News... on Senate Confirms Former Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler To Lead EPA (cnn.com) · · Score: 2
  17. Re:Not necessarily more secure on America's Cities Are Running on Software From the '80s (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    So basically, you're working in an environment that was brain-damaged obsolete even at its time and you're bragging about it? LOL.

  18. Mandatory arbitration has already made it into pretty much all of the contracts. But do keep dreaming that you live in a country governed by laws.

  19. This is very limited, though. The court absolutely upheld that questions about the scope of work and/or quality of provided services are governed by the arbitration clause. And if the contract is a typical telecom contract then there's little she can do with complaints.

  20. Minor details of a contract, such as mandatory arbitration, aren't relevant if there's already a material breach. In this case, it's declaring that the contract is worthless in its entirety.

    Nope. Off to arbitration that can declare the contract void.

    Also, some locations are stating those clauses are unenforceable, whether it interferes with the right to use the court system, whether it's a one-sided clause, or for any other reason.

    Nope. Thanks to conservatives on the Supreme Court the arbitration is binding and mandatory across all of the states. It even overrides the right to a class-action trial (not kidding at all - https://www.lawandtheworkplace... ). "One-sided"? That's the whole idea.

  21. Her only option is costly mandatory arbitration. Small claims are prohibited by pretty much every contract these days.

  22. You can’t sue Google in a small claims. You contract with them has a specific clause prohibiting it. These days there’s also a mandatory arbitration clause.

  23. Re:Ain't tryin' to crush you buddy on The US Cannot Crush Us, Says Huawei Founder (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the next step is to arrest a CFO of an American company during a vacation in (say) Haiti. For anti-government propaganda.

  24. Re:A quarter will be electric cars? on Renewables Will Be World's Main Power Source By 2040, Says BP (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The basics of chemical storage of energy means that no battery can ever be as energy dense as gasoline.

    Li-Air batteries actually have better usable energy storage density than gasoline.

  25. Re: Good government management on Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. Doesn't work like this. A small company won't be able to sponsor redevelopment of the area. And also smaller companies might have a second thought about investing in a city that is business-hostile.