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  1. Re:Add it all up on Three Mile Island Shuts Down After Pump Failure · · Score: 1

    This is not a Carte-Reagan election. Unlike Carter, Obama did nothing prior, during, and likely after his term, and Mitt Romney is a terrible actor.

  2. Re:No redundancy on Three Mile Island Shuts Down After Pump Failure · · Score: 2

    I believe it was stated that #2 is so polluted that it is on permanent shutdown.

  3. Re:No redundancy on Three Mile Island Shuts Down After Pump Failure · · Score: 2

    That is actually sort of alarming to me since they probably install 4 identical pumps at the same time each with a rated lifetime that is about the same. So when the first fails, the others are surely soon to follow, And that takes us full circle to why if one fails, the system is designed to shut down.

  4. Re:No redundancy on Three Mile Island Shuts Down After Pump Failure · · Score: 2

    The fact that it is a nuclear reactor means that it SHOULD have backups, and backups for those backups, and if that should fail, there is a backup for that. Perhaps NASA should run our nuclear power plants.

  5. Re:No redundancy on Three Mile Island Shuts Down After Pump Failure · · Score: 1

    If the backup fails then the system shuts down. as intended.

  6. Re:No redundancy on Three Mile Island Shuts Down After Pump Failure · · Score: 1

    I would say routing testing and replacement would make this a non issue, but egghead corner cutters tend to think this is the place to cut corners, so I am inclined to agree.

  7. Re:No redundancy on Three Mile Island Shuts Down After Pump Failure · · Score: 1

    That to me implies that the normal situation is that all 4 pumps must be running, and they are not there for redundancy at all. If not, why have the other 3 pumps there at all?

  8. No redundancy on Three Mile Island Shuts Down After Pump Failure · · Score: 1

    Can they not have parallel backup pumps designed to leap into action when needed? Seems like some extra plumbing and monitoring hardware could help avert a costly shutdown.

  9. Grinding wheel on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Remove the plates, use an inexpensive grinding wheel to remove the thin chemical layer from each plate. Shotgun=recoverable sectors.

  10. Re:Political bias on Are Marines Censoring Web Access for Troops in Iraq? · · Score: 1

    Actually, it just offers more proof that /. will run with a rumor if it sounds like it will serve their needs politically. This garbage should never have seen the light of day until they took the time to get ANY kind of confirmation. (considering the source) But I expect no less of people who have an agenda. I have yet to see an article biased in the other direction. Will I? no.

  11. Re:Who cares? on Are Marines Censoring Web Access for Troops in Iraq? · · Score: 1

    It actually makes a hell of alot of sense to me. Corporate networks are a great way of giving away trade secrets. I can only imagine what unfettered interenet would do to our military. Home or Abroad. That does not take care of the occasional traitor going to his house and doing the same, but Al Gore did not solve that problem when he invented the internet.

  12. Re:Not unusual, nor should it be a surprise on Are Marines Censoring Web Access for Troops in Iraq? · · Score: 1

    Something tells me you had a problem with them before. That works out, people like you are not needed. Be a good hippie and read some self serving literature and lecture people on how smart and elite you think you are.

  13. Re:Internet censorship? Damn China! on Are Marines Censoring Web Access for Troops in Iraq? · · Score: 1

    That's it? you forgot to blame Bush for all of this. P.S. Air America is nearly off the air (no one is listening) and Wonkette is more of a self admitted tabloid anyway, so it is not really a big loss.