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  1. We talked about MBPs, where the data is on the hard drive. Assuming it is a HD failure and not a water damage ...

    What kind of moron are you? I can construct any case where it is either impossible or out of the "we do it for free out of fair dealing".

    On the other hand, if you have $200 bucks over for data recovery fro a phone with water damage, I can do that for you ... facepalm. However not with a "free apple service" but a payed $50 per unit service ... hope you don't mind?

  2. Re:Security. on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Job For This Recent CS Grad? · · Score: 1

    Regarding your blocking ICMP you might be right.
    But your post implied you meant that as a general rule of action for a high trained professional :D

    actually criminally negligent
    Which is likely defined in the USA by a jury.
    So probably it is best to be on the safe side?

  3. Re:Misleading Article Title: FTFY on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 1

    Answered to the wrong comment?

    Or which bubble do you mean?

    It is quite difficult to judge where global warming will be beneficial and it is equally difficult to judge where it is not.

    The claim that warming in the moderate regions is out weighting the losses in other regions is just idiotic. E.g. plant growth cycles in the north or south are mainly dependent on sunshine aka season, not heat. Plenty of plants and environments need a somewhat harsh winter ...

    heat preferentially to space the hotter it is locally as a function of the fourth power of the absolute temperature (293K = 20C = 68F).
    That is btw. wrong. Typical application from text book formulas without knowing about what you are talking. Simply speaking: it is more complicated than that. The temperature loss is via radiation ... and the problem we are talking about is: trapped radiation by CO2 and CH4 water vapour etc. Most water vapour is in the hottest zones on earth ... not in the arctics or tempered zones.

  4. Re:Threshold on Half the Work People Do Can Be Automated, Says McKinsey (techinasia.com) · · Score: 1

    But it took advances in metallurgy to make the engines practical.
    Not really. The ancient greeks simply had no idea what to do with them, so the most famous known use are for magically opening temple portals.

  5. Re:you mean capitalism works? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The "drug" is only a phancy name for Adrenalin.

    Well known and isolated first time 1901 ... there is no "drug entrance barrier" for a 120 year old "medical".

    Furthermore, the "pen" costs perhaps $1 to manufacture and the drug itself costs so close to nothing it is hard to say.

  6. In the terms of warheads aka bombs nuclear and atomic means the exact same thing.
    None of the words either implies fission (n)or fusion. That is true for languages like english, german etc.

    If you want to talk about fission bombs you use the word fission.
    If you want to talk about fusion bombs you use the word fusion, however in this case you can also call it a hydrogen bomb (again: common in languages like english and german).

    But thank you, Padawan, that you you are concerned about language hygiene, that is important, too!

  7. In turn that means, though, that if everyone but me is working hard, we'll all be living comfortably, so I don't really have to pull that hard, do I? And if it fails, we're all to blame. In other words, when that fails, "the system" is to blame because, well, what can a single person do?
    Against popular believe: most working people enjoy their job. And working in communist environments has the same ethics as in capitalists: the one who show worthy and work hard get promoted, the others not so much.

    The capitalist promise is "work hard today and one day YOU will be living in paradise where YOU can be living like a king".
    Never heard about that promise. Are you sure you are not somehow brainwashed?

  8. just like we've used gas lighting before in the Western nations they can use it too in these developing nations
    But you are aware that those developing nations do no longer exist? Right? They are developed meanwhile. It is 2017 right now, not 1957.

    The technology to mine and refine uranium and thorium is not all that different than mining most any other element.
    Sorry to sy it os bluntly (but why do I say sorry anyway?): you are an idiot.

    produce "town gas" (synthetic gaseous fuels) for heating and lights
    Town gas is made from coal .... just in case you missed that, too.

  9. Wars of resources would no longer be necessary unless we later overpopulate again.

    Wars over resources only in very rare cases happened out of necessity. They usually happened because the winner, the one who attacked and wanted the resources: could! And the loser the one who had them, could not go to war.

    In other words: most wars were tun by purely monetary interests by one of both parties.

  10. The difference in solar radiation during "solar minimum" (few or no sunspots) and a maximum is less than 1%. And right now we are in a minimum ... just for your interest.

  11. Re:Misleading Article Title: FTFY on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 1

    honestly warmer temperatures have been historically good for life in general and humans in particular).
    In northern europe, perhaps. However I can iterate plenty of places on earth where it is not that case. Likely in 5 seconds more places than you have fingers ...

  12. Error bars have nothing to do with being scientific or not. I think that idea about error bars is an american thing anyway.
    You add error bars if you KNOW the error potential and if it is important for something.
    Why you want an error bar when no scientiest can quantify the potetial error range is beyond me.

  13. Re: Stop already with tying every disaster to GW on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 1

    Obviously the current population is sustainable.
    Otherwise people would starve all over instead we throw away 50% of all foid we produce.

    The only areas with starvation are African countries where war lords rule ...

  14. Re:Stop already with tying every disaster to GW on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 0

    There are plenty of cancer cases where you can point the finger at smoking.

  15. Re:Security. on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Job For This Recent CS Grad? · · Score: 1

    It is not very professional for a high skilled and likely high payed professional to simply follow the managers orders without raising his concerns.
    In plenty of countries the high skille professional would be hold responsible and liable for failing to advert the risks comming from such a decission.

    So your advice is pretty idiotic.

  16. Of course they do.
    Free of charge usually.

    In what retarded world do you live?

  17. Re:Surprised they didn't find a way to blame Russi on Chile's Goverment Announces Unexplainable 'UFO' Footage (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The story is in so far accurate as the story made world news aprox. 2 years ago when the incident happened (and I think it also was covered then here on /. )... now thy only disclosed the "internal papers" or what ever.

  18. Re:100 years? on Vast New Tomb Now Covers The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Site (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    No, 200 micro grams would likely be needed to cause cancer. Far more would be needed to kill you
    No it is not far more needed.
    Plutonium travels into the bone marrow, where it causes Leukemia and other blood related illnesses.

    The odds of dying by cancer caused by plutonium are much lower than your odds of dying in a fireball generated by a plutonium bomb (think several orders of magnitude difference).
    That is pretty bollocks. The way how Plutonium "kills" is well researched in animal experiments. A 30kg dog dies from something like 40micrograms, roughly 1microgram per kilogram weight. Considering that a dog barely lives 10 years, I think it is safe to conclude that humans suffer in the same way as dogs.

    Ultimately nuclear materials are no more dangerous than many other industrial chemicals until and unless you get enough of them together in such a configuration as to create a supercriticality that results in significant instantaneous fuel burnup
    Wow, are you really that retarded? please do us a favour and read some books. Or shut up, what ever you think is better.

    For beginners I suggest this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  19. Re:Maybe Slashdot ran out of hot grits... on Chile's Goverment Announces Unexplainable 'UFO' Footage (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    You are bad in reading?

    If that plane was there, they had not claimed there was no authorized plane around.

    If they had figured later they had made an error, and there was an authorized plane around then they had not releases this as "UFO news".

    And regardless what: an unauthorized plane or authorized plane, both would show up on radar! Or respond to radio calls.

    So the question is not rally if LTAM LA330 was the culprit, question is: how can so many things be wrong recorded or wrong reported?

  20. That is easy on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Deal With A 'Gaslighting' Colleague? · · Score: 1

    I wait behind the corner of a hallway, short club and some cloth to stuff into his mouth ready.
    He gets a short smack on the neck. Cloth into the mouth in case the smack was to soft.
    Then I drag him into the basement, along the coworkers who pretend not noticing us.
    There he gets chained to the wall, a tape over his mouth, the cloth stays where it is.
    Obviously he has no need for water and bread ...

    After closing the door I tape the lock and the edges, to avoid his smell getting out to early.

    Perhaps he never gets found ...shit happens!

  21. Re:Surprised they didn't find a way to blame Russi on Chile's Goverment Announces Unexplainable 'UFO' Footage (yahoo.com) · · Score: 0

    Unlikely.

    The story clearly says: it was not on ground radar and not on air borne radar.
    And for everyone hunting an UFO it is plain obvious to check flight plans and airports about ... well, airbuses and such.

    Do you really think Chiles authorities are so dumb that they first find an UFO, then need 2 years to find no explanation, then disclose all information and get debunked by a hobbyists web site?

  22. Re:Maybe Slashdot ran out of hot grits... on Chile's Goverment Announces Unexplainable 'UFO' Footage (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably the fact that there is an airport close buy is the reason: why there was no authorized airplane at that place!.

  23. Re:100 years? on Vast New Tomb Now Covers The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Site (slashdot.org) · · Score: 2, Informative

    The deadly dose of Plutonium for a 80kg human is something like 60 micrograms. I guess to get the exact number you can google for it.

    So much to your idea of safety.

  24. Re:100 years? on Vast New Tomb Now Covers The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Site (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I don't know what you want to say.

    In 100 years you die to the plutonium in the same way you die today.

    Some micrograms inhaled or otherwise get into your system are deadly.

    And FYI: the exact same situation you will have in 10k years. Or 20k or 30k or 90k years.

  25. Re:100 years? on Vast New Tomb Now Covers The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Site (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    So plutonium is not "high level stuff"?