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Comment Re:880 tons? (Score 1) 42

The containment vessels failed. Units 1 and 2 are confirmed to have failed and the fuel melted down into the concrete below.

The cores can't be removed because they are no longer in the vessel, and are now the shape of a melted lump of slag mixed with concrete and various other parts of the containment building.

Comment Re:Do you really want no plastics? (Score 1) 41

Didn't Johnson & Johnson already try that with talcum powder?

Turns out it causes cancer, so they spun off the talc business into a separate company that was immediately bankrupted by lawsuits. Last I heard they were in court with the plaintiffs arguing that they shouldn't be allowed to do it, and the parent company must pay out.

Comment Re:3 grams in perspective: (Score 1) 42

They will probably just remove the high level waste from around the reactor, and then look at encasing the rest forever. Unless someone invents new technology to break up and remove the hundreds of tons of melted cores safely somehow, only to bury them somewhere else forever, there isn't really any other option.

Comment Re:Why the Milk V Mars? (Score 1) 27

It's the first with the same form factor as a Raspberry Pi, decent performance, and an affordable price tag.

These things can't be all that vendor agnostic because they need a Board Support Package specific to each system. It contains things like drivers and configuration info. They aren't like desktop PC hardware that has generic UEFI interfaces to at least boot and get basic peripherals working without specific support code.

Comment Re:Lesson learned (Score 0) 50

The problem with the paper method is that it only works at your desk, and has no backups.

A password manager is a much better solution. Then you only need one master password, which can be very strong and also include a second or even third factor. You can take the data with you for use on your mobile devices, and back it up easily and automatically.

Use Keepass. The crypto is strong and open source.

Comment Re:IDF pulling head off babies :o (Score 1) 27

Nice attempt to troll. To save everyone else a click, the link goes to a fake recording supposedly of Hamas talking about how the recent massacre in a refugee camp was their fault. Israel always does this after a massacre - blames everyone else, concocts some fake "intercepted phone calls/radio transmissions", and tells the world in English that it is really sorry while telling its own people in Hebrew that it's all part of the plan.

Comment Re:Good time to donate. Link here. (Score 2) 27

As much as I love the Internet Archive, I think Lawful Masses summed it up when he said they were pretty screwed: https://youtu.be/HUx2mbBhjI8

The issue is that there is a lot of copyrighted material on there, and the IA doesn't have any mechanism for users to flag it as being e.g. a book that should be part of the lending system. So when a user uploads music, it instantly goes public and can be downloaded by anyone, an unlimited number of times.

You can send the item to the IA for them to scan/rip, but there is a backlog of several years. And you probably aren't getting your item back.

I don't know why they don't just add a "make this lendable" button to their upload form. It may be because the code is a complete mess - it's closed source and I get the impression a nightmare to work on, because they won't let anyone help with it.

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