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Japan

Why Tokai No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant Survived March 193

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the but-that-would-have-cost-money dept.
Kyusaku Natsume writes "In a potentially damning report, the Japanese government panel probing the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown has learned that the nuclear power plant Tokai No.2 avoided station blackout thanks to making a 6.1 m high seawall, but TEPCO failed to do the same in Fukushima. From the article: 'The tsunami that hit the Tokai plant on March 11 were 5.3 to 5.4 meters in height, exceeding the company's earlier estimate but coming in around 30 to 40 cm lower than its revised projection. After the tsunami hit, the Tokai plant lost external power just like Fukushima No. 1 did, because the sea wall was overrun, knocking out one of its three seawater pumps. But its reactors succeeded in achieving cold shutdown because the plant's emergency diesel generator was being cooled by the two seawater pumps that survived intact.'"
The Internet

Satellite Glitch Leaves Northern Canada In the (Internet) Dark 282

Posted by timothy from the back-to-gold-oil-and-moose dept.
zentigger writes "At approximately 06:36 EDT Thursday, October 6, 2011, the Anik F2 satellite experienced an attitude control issue and lost earth lock, affecting C, Ku and Ka services. The satellite went into safety mode and moved from pointing to the earth to pointing to the sun. This has put most of Northern Canada in the dark as all internet and phone services come in over F2."

Comment Re:Um. excuse me? (Score 1) 116

by Ed_Pinkley (#36802148) Attached to: Researchers Debut Proxy-Less Anonymity Service
Facebook

Dozens of Tech Bigwigs Friend Facebook Spambot 81

Posted by timothy from the ooh-baby-let's-meet-again-in-2d-life dept.
jfruhlinger writes "If you've used Facebook or Twitter, you're almost certainly familiar with 'bimbots' — accounts that have profile pics of attractive women, but seem to exist only to send send spam links with varying degrees of subtlety. Henry Copeland, the founder of BlogAds, tracks the social network of one such Facebook bot, and finds that she's friends with a long list of influential tech and media folks. Copeland also tracks down the origin of the photo that accompanies the account."
IBM

IBM Now Officially Worth More Than Microsoft 295

Posted by Soulskill from the cough-i'm-sure-windows-phone-will-fix-that-cough dept.
liqs8143 writes with news that IBM's market cap has surpassed Microsoft's, making it the second most valuable tech company. When the market closed on Friday, IBM was valued at $207.52B, while Microsoft was valued at $206.52B. "At one point during the PC era, Microsoft's value climbed three times higher than IBM's. Apparently, this has been a long two decades in Armonk, N.Y., but Microsoft also is no longer the beast it once was. The guard is changing. Besides Apple, there is also Google. While Google is valued at about $170.59 billion, less than the other three, its $31 billion in annual revenue is half of Microsoft's $69 billion and less than a third of IBM's $101 billion. Waiting in the wings is Facebook, which has been valued in the private market for as much as $50 billion, on negligible revenue."
GNU is Not Unix

Miguel De Icaza Forms New Mono Company: Xamarin 286

Posted by CmdrTaco from the if-at-first-you-don't-succeed dept.
rubycodez writes "After being thrown out on the streets by Attachmate, the purchasers of Novell, Miguel De Icaza has formed a new company Xamarin to make .NET development tools for Android and iOS. The company will also provide commercial international Mono support. There are those who would say Mono poses a risk of drawing Microsoft patent or other IP litigation for its inclusion in some major Linux distributions, and that these recent events might be the beginning of the demise of widespread use of Mono and other .NETiness in open source software, a good thing."

Comment Re:Who will all just plug their ears (Score 1) 361

by Ed_Pinkley (#35585994) Attached to: Sludge In Flask Gives Clues To Origin of Life
Your argument against abiogenesis is the same one used for arguments against evolution. Here is the evolution rebuttal: Blind Watchmaker

It does not refute your argument specifically but one point is valid. Pieces of metal are not individual molecules. Molecules attract and repel each other in certain ways. They do it differently after you heat them. They do it differently in the presence of other chemicals (catalysts).br>
There are theories about how proteins could come to be withour DNA or RNA. Metabolism First
Facebook

Facebook Offers Easy Commenting Alternative 132

Posted by timothy from the disqus-among-yourselves dept.
Spice Consumer writes "Facebook has just unveiled a 'new system (that) lets website owners replace their current commenting system with Facebook's simply by dropping in a few lines of JavaScript.' How widely adopted this new system becomes could greatly affect Facebook's already entrenched position on the web and further compromise individual users' privacy."
Privacy

Cyber War Mass Hysteria Is Hindering Security 75

Posted by CmdrTaco from the hysteria-is-hawesome dept.
jhernik writes "International cyber threat initiatives are in danger of becoming overblown, the US government's security chief told the RSA Conference in San Francisco. 'Cyber war is a terrible metaphor,' said the US government's cybersecurity czar Howard Schmidt. 'Don't make it something it's not.' Internet attacks from hackers, spies and terrorist groups deserves serious attention, he said, but this should not be 'to the extent of mass hysteria.'"

Submission + - Global CIO: FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Scam Is DOA (informationweek.com) 1

Submitted by Ed_Pinkley
Ed_Pinkley writes:

The FCC's brazen power grab aimed at jamming bureaucracy down businesses's throats will be stifled by the new pro-growth Congress.

I'd like two things from the Slashdot crowd. First, post a comment on this guy's page pointing out any flaws, bias or omissions he may have made. Second, what do you think? Did the mid-term election mess up our chance at net-neutrality?

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