Agree with P, agree with GP, agree with GGP: This whole thead just won't die starting with this ludicrous entry Taco, save /.!!!

Your valid points are obscured by your citing of 64 confirmed Chernobyl deaths. Even though you clarify yout point, why cite that number?

Did you also know that a second explosion there might have rendered half of Europe uninhabitable? Care to address that?

So nuke operators aren't like those portrayed in the Foundation *logy? :-)

On the 'it depends' vein, for me (since it's all about me), I need to have tethering for my laptop since I need connectivity outside of wifi areas, so my tablet can take advantage of that also. I'm resigned to the hassle of carrying my phone with me constantly, so I always have it when I have my laptop or tablet or whatever...

Yes, I'm a fanboi, so help me out here with my lack of objectivity. IMHO, there's just something wrong with the similarity in phones in this picture in this article and others: http://onlygizmos.com/apple-shoots-a-lawsuit-samsung-promises-response/2011/04/

I mean, even the phone icon is the same color? And favorite grouping look and feel? The only major layout difference I see is the page control is on the top of the Samsung device as opposed to the bottom on the iPhone.

I'm not in agreement with the petty pieces of the suit, but I have a pretty strong reaction to the blatant copying as shown in this example.

>effective corporate compliance and government monitoring

Do you believe that these things exist in your country? Do you think that they ever can given the financial stakes involved? Because I don't.

Mod the parent up!

>Remember, the plant weathered the quake just fine and its backup systems were running UNTIL the tsunami came along.

Yeah, and the fact that the critical parties involved were warned that the infrastructure would not withstand a tsunami that was not out of the realm of real possibility and did nothing about it reinforces the notion that private industry or government that is in the pocket of private industry can't be responsible for making the important decisions here. It's the overall policy that is the problem, not just one frigging tsunami excuse.

Isn't there a Beowulf cluster solution to this problem?

Dude, you're serious? Can't someone make a comment in half-seriousness, half-jest without being lectured? Sheesh...