It's estimated that now over 50% of the biomass of the world's oceans is jellyfish, in some cases completely displacing all other biosystems. One other human activity vector that has impacted jellyfish populations is shipping, transporting species globally to locations with no predators. The warming of waters by nuclear power may locally cause phenomenon which encourage jellyfish growth also. If you could avoid destroying other marine life, maybe the answer to the cooling intakes is "will it blend?".

Japan’s nuclear power plants have been under attack by jellyfish since the 1960s, with up to 150 tons per day having to be removed from the cooling system of just one power plant.

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That’s just what happened when the Mnemiopsis jellyfish (a kind of comb jelly) invaded the Black Sea. The creatures arrived from the east coast of the US in seawater ballast (seawater a ship takes into its hold once it has discharged its cargo to retain its stability), and by the 1980s they were taking over. Prior to their arrival, Bulgaria, Romania, and Georgia had robust fisheries, with anchovies and sturgeon being important resources. As the jellyfish increased, the anchovies and other valuable fish vanished, and along with them went the sturgeon, the long-beloved source of blini toppings.

By 2002 the total weight of Mnemiopsis in the Black Sea had grown so prodigiously that it was estimated to be ten times greater than the weight of all fish caught throughout the entire world in a year. The Black Sea had become effectively jellified. Nobody knows precisely how or why the jellyfish replaced the valuable fish species, but four hypotheses have been put forward.

from http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/sep/26/jellyfish-theyre-taking-over/?pagination=false

People say things like this because they like to parrot words that they think make them sound smart. If they just learned "backslash" they'll be sure to pepper their speech with it even when the character is just a slash, just like calling the box with the power switch the "hard drive".

Also just noticed that the "slashdot user" page is useless. I already know what I posted; the new page lists only the contents of my posts, andt is missing links to the post inside the thread so I can see replies or the post score. There are achievement icons, but no text describing what the picture might mean? Do I need a big picture and 250x250px of screen real estate to see "karma: excellent"? ... Not happy.

You mean did they test it on improperly calibrated monitors with blown out whites? Go to this site, and reduce your lcd contrast controls until you can see the various grays, because it looks like one would expect even on my adobeRGB wide gamut calibrated display and with Firefox color management mode turned on.

Now, how does it look on a braille reader or links?

Not necessarily kill the fancy graphics, destroy the useless big pictures. I get very irritated at the wordpress blog sites that have to Google for some barely-related huge picture to stick at the top of a story; do that and you've started down the path of making Slashdot just another blog with comments. On Slashdot, the comments are the content.

There should be something for a 2540px wide browser to do, maybe like another site, use multiple columns to display stories, or at least show "most commented/hottest stories of the day stories" or replies to a user's posts in the sidebar instead of a poll.

Trading firms are always competing for the edge in trading speed, and have their own inter-exchange private microwave networks. Microwave beats fiber, as the speed of light through the atmosphere is nearly c vs high-speed fiber at 60% or copper at 72%. This technology has made obsolete dedicated high speed fiber lines for trading, some of which charted new paths through dense Appalachian rock to achieve the shortest distance.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Globex) already has one of the fastest links that can be constructed between it's colocation and the NASDAQ New Jersey data center.

Unparalleled Speed: Microwave connectivity provides customers the quickest market data delivery option from Carteret to Aurora – under 4.25 milliseconds (one-way) versus 6.65 milliseconds on the fastest fiber route.

What the article doesn't discuss is the exact nature of the electronic dissemination of the news. Chicago may have a time slew in it's time standard, or the release may have technically not been at precisely 2:00:00.0000000 - either could make an apparent time warp in the trade data. We would hope the article's author has done all the technical research before making an allegation that impropriety has taken place.

Star Trek: The Original Series was available on the Atari, as were all the other OS-level APIs? Wow!

Information about the actual course is located on https://www.coursera.org/course/calc1

Notable information is the class start date, August 23, and the result of taking the class, which is that you get a certificate signed by the instructor. The class is currently in progress (you're too late); the class lecture videos are much of the content are are on various instructor's YouTube channels.

What is checked into Github is the website and backend. There is no license that I can see for any content except (c) 2013, mooculus team, at the bottom of the site's non-doctype'd HTML. Math geeks can't nerd.

>>would I want to use compression at all, if my goal is speed?

Compression speeds up SSDs, pretty much universally. The speed of reading and writing to the memory cells is limited, but a 200MB/s data transfer speed becomes 300MB/s after the data is compressed/decompressed on the fly. The current generation of Intel drives do use compression in just this way to speed performance (but not to increase apparent size). I cannot see the advantage to disabling any compression as it is currently used with the present flash controller technology.

This is not "overclocking". Intel has used a very bad word to describe user configurable storage parameters, and many /.ers commenting here obviously couldn't RTFA.

How about "All browsers have had keyboard shortcuts since the days of Mosaic"

That you can restore closed tabs in Firefox is news from 2006: http://lifehacker.com/210111/firefox-2-tip-undo-closed-tab-keyboard-shortcut

I would say a poem should be chosen by astrophysicists or poets, but the whole concept is just to interest the public in something ultimately non-scientific.

make your mars poem choice
using mob intelligence
silly message sent

It might be cheaper than printing a poem sticker, and more interesting also, to simply state that when you view the poem over your WiFi connection, you are sending electromagnetic signals out of the atmosphere, (past triads of listening satellites), and some photons of your WiFi access point's message may reach Mars if it's visible in the sky.

Try the source at http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/05/22/weather-satellite-fails/2351927/

Satellite logs are at http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html, it looks like the satellite failed to return imaging two days ago and is now being put into a storage mode.