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  1. Re:Never carry lots of Cash on CBC Warns Canadians of "US Law Enforcement Money Extortion Program" · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I'll sue in small claims court so you have to send a representative to get it tossed out,

    Problem is: The lawsuit is against the property, not against you. You can't sue anyone to give the property back; you can only become a third party claimant in the lawsuit against the property.

  2. Re:WIFI-Enabled Vital Organs?!?! on In France, a Second Patient Receives Permanent Artificial Heart · · Score: 2
    You can't remotely exploit a device without a network or public interface.

    Ok, but do want to tell the patients that they'll need to have their chest cavity cut open for a firmware update?

  3. Re:Holy cow ... on Private Police Intelligence Network Shares Data and Targets Cash · · Score: 1
    How about they do the "you are not going anywhere until I let a dog sniff your car" routine.

    You ask if you're free to go. If the answer is "yes", you leave. If the answer is "no", ask if you are under arrest. If the answer is "yes", exercise your right to be silent, do not resist any searches but do not (verbally) consent to them. Do not talk to the cops without your lawyer present in this case. If the answer is "no", start over by asking if you're free to go. When asking these questions, repeat the current question until you get a clear "yes" or "no" answer.

    Trust me when I say cops can find a reason to search,

    The important thing isn't whether the cop thinks he has a reason to do a search, but that you do not consent to it. If you consent to a search, then anything the cop finds can (and will) be legally used against you in a trial with little or no chance of your lawyer making any of it inadmissible. If you did not consent to the search, and your lawyer can convince the court that the search was not legal, he can have the evidence thrown out.

    Also, if you consent to a search and the cop just happens to break your stuff, you have no legal recourse since you consented to the search.

    tl;dr: Do not (verbally) consent to searches. Do not (verbally or physically) resist searches.

  4. Re:Defund on Private Police Intelligence Network Shares Data and Targets Cash · · Score: 1
    Or getting killed for not dropping to the ground within 100ms.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

  5. Re:Scammers recruiting local "payment agents" ... on The Five Nigerian Gangs Behind Most Craigslist Buyer Scams · · Score: 1
    I wonder how much they are duped.

    Quite a bit. Most people haven't memorized money laundering laws.

    And unlike the jobs you mentioned, this kind of "financial courier" job leaves an electronic trail a mile wide to the "payment agent", with little to no chance of escaping arrest, trial and jail time. It's something only really clueless people would sign up for, and yes, they get duped into it.

  6. Scammers recruiting local "payment agents" ... on The Five Nigerian Gangs Behind Most Craigslist Buyer Scams · · Score: 2

    ... is really old news. At least if you look at other parts of the world. These "agents" are duped into thinking they're involved in a legitimate business, and end up going to jail while the scammers laugh.

  7. 20 seconds away? on 3 Decades Later, Finnair Pilots Report Dramatic Close Encounter With a Missile · · Score: 5, Informative

    Even for a very slow (Mach 1) missile, that's several miles flight time. For a missile flying a reasonable speed, it's ten or more miles.

  8. Re:Already commented on this elsewhere on Hitachi Developing Reactor That Burns Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1
    You CAN OTOH burn up Pu 239, Americium, etc much faster than it would decay if you have a good neutron flux

    Unfortunately, "burning" Pu and Am just turns one kind of problem ("radioactive, but chemically relatively inert heavy metal") into multiple problems ("mix of fission products with highly variable chemical properties and half lifes"). And since you can't burn 100% of the initial Pu and Am, you'll still have to deal with the original problem.

    What we need is the "minimum binding energy" reactor that uses any atom (except for iron) as a fuel and produces stable iron isotopes as waste.

  9. Re:Sorry, but anyone who claims that ... on Hitachi Developing Reactor That Burns Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1
    The radioactive iodine that came out of Fukushima is all gone now, not an atom left.

    Oh, the I-129 will stick around, with a half-life of just below 16 million years.

  10. What we need is a a reactor ... on Hitachi Developing Reactor That Burns Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    ... that uses any kind of atom as fuels and produces heat and stable iron isotopes, and does so on an acceptable timescale ( Let's call it "minimum binding energy reactor".

  11. Re:TI calculators are not outdated, just overprice on How the Outdated TI-84 Plus Still Holds a Monopoly On Classrooms · · Score: 1
    Who said the students would keep the calculators? The only situation where you MUST HAVE THIS SPECIFIC CALCULATOR is in the classroom. Keep the calculator there!

    And then no one knows how to use the thing when they actually have to.

  12. Re:Sorry, but anyone who claims that ... on Hitachi Developing Reactor That Burns Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1
    that part actually doesn't sound too bad at all

    It means that the stuff needs to be stored safely and away from the biosphere for about one thousand years. That's still several human lifetimes.

  13. Sorry, but anyone who claims that ... on Hitachi Developing Reactor That Burns Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1
    ... transuranic elements are the only long-term problem in nuclear waste should please stay the hell away from designing nuclear reactors.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

    And that doesn't include "medium-lived" fission products like Cs-137 and its buddy Sr-90, both of which have half-lives of about 30 years.

  14. Re:Wrong Units on Radioactive Wild Boars Still Roaming the Forests of Germany · · Score: 1
    What is the nature of the radiation? What is left in the boar meat?

    It's radiation from the decay of Cs-137, and "what's left" is stated in Bq.

    ANd clearly rem or Sv is more appropriate as what matters is the effect on living tissue (human, that is).

    You can measure the Bq count, but any figure in mSv is eyeballed at best since you need to make lots and lots of assumptions (e.g. how long does the isotope usually stay in the body, etc).

    Should you happen to eat 1kg of pork with 10000 Bq/kg, your estimated radiation dosage is 0.13 mSv. That is quite a bit of radiation and comparable to a thorax x-ray.

    Further, the amounts in these boar are really not large at all.

    The normal amount of Cs-137 in wild boar is, for all intents and purposes, zero. Any amount above that is more than there should be.

  15. Re:you, sir ... on Radioactive Wild Boars Still Roaming the Forests of Germany · · Score: 1
    The world does not owe them a living.

    However, the world owes them keeping its radioactive cesium out of the biosphere (and out of the wild boars), and failed.

    Also, international and German law regulates compensation for damages caused by nuclear .. events.

  16. Re:No natural enemies on Radioactive Wild Boars Still Roaming the Forests of Germany · · Score: 1
    There are no predators - ZERO predators, in German forests

    Yes, there are zero predators in Germanys forests, except for martens, weasels, badgers, foxes, wild cats, birds of prey, etc.

    What you meant was probably "There are no predators that prey on wild boars and larger species of deer."

  17. Re:Reall problem: German radiation phobia on Radioactive Wild Boars Still Roaming the Forests of Germany · · Score: 1
    The radiation is harmful to wildlife but no where near as harmful as plain old human habitation.

    Wild boar absofrickenlutely love human habitation.

    http://www.npr.org/2012/11/06/...

  18. Re:Reall problem: German radiation phobia on Radioactive Wild Boars Still Roaming the Forests of Germany · · Score: 2
    Even one alpha particle in your body can cause cancer.

    That's kinda like advocating playing the lottery because even a single ticket could win millions.

  19. Re:Wrong Units on Radioactive Wild Boars Still Roaming the Forests of Germany · · Score: 1
    Becquerel is a measure of activity and does not tell you anything about the nature of the radiation.

    The "nature" of the radiation is known - it's the decay of Cs-137.

    rem or Sv, on the other hand, are inappropriate units for specifying how radioactive a sample of material is, since rem or Sv numbers can, strictly speaking, only been determined after living tissue was exposed to radiation.

  20. Re:Silver lining on Radioactive Wild Boars Still Roaming the Forests of Germany · · Score: 2
    Since a lot of hog hunts are done at night, the slight glow should make the boars a lot easier to see

    If you shoot a hog that's radioactive enough to give it a visible glow, you will lose your hunting license, face fines and possibly jail time, since using unnatural light sources while hunting is prohibited.

    (This is Germany, what did you expect?)

  21. Re:Interesting line from TFA: on Radioactive Wild Boars Still Roaming the Forests of Germany · · Score: 5, Informative
    Chernobyl was a long time ago.

    It was only about one half-life (Cs-137) ago.

    Also, Cs-137 gets washed to lower soil layers very slowly (a few millimeters per year).

  22. So that's where "follow-you" printing is going. on Robot Printer Brings Documents To Your Desk · · Score: 1

    And here I was joking about printers following you around when follow-you printing was installed in my office...

  23. The MS app store isn't special in this regard. on Microsoft's Windows 8 App Store Is Full of Scamware · · Score: 1

    App stores attract scammers like **** attracts flies. Any app store is an ideal means to get scam- and malware to a gigantic group of, on average, not really tech-savvy people. An app store is basically a mark store for scammers.

  24. So instead of being a reactionless drive ... on Why the "NASA Tested Space Drive" Is Bad Science · · Score: 1

    ... it conjures its reaction mass from thin air, err, vacuum?

  25. Re:Explain this to me on Why Morgan Stanley Is Betting That Tesla Will Kill Your Power Company · · Score: 1
    Yet, they ignore the fact that batteries are NOT ready for semi trucks

    Use electricity to synthesize hydrocarbons, run trucks (and planes, and ships) with those.

    or that Oil is used for more than just energy.

    Oil (and natural gas) is also used as a source of hydrogen. Which can also be produced using electricity.

    Oil is also used for making lubricants ... see "synthesizing hydrocarbons" above.

    Wind can NOT be counted on.

    Wind availability can be determined statistically. And the more turbines you install and the large the area covered, the less likely you are to run into a "no wind at all" situation.