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Comment Re:So...much ado about not much (Score 1) 239

a) this is a fission reactor, the natural decay chain is of minimal consequence to the composition
b) but even if it mattered, look at the thorium 232 decay chain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_chain#Thorium_series - you will notice that the radon isotope in that chain has a short half-life time of less than a minute - too short to diffuse out of a solid and accumulate at appreciable rates
c) the radon the op was worried about is part of the uranium 238 chain

Comment Re:is it shipping to customers ? (Score 1) 394

You had to start the car analogies ... If BMW GPLs their engine management code, and you write a software that modifies that GPLed code to make your BMW go faster, do you need to GPL it if you want to distribute it? The code is clearly yours, but it only works because of the GPL allowing you to modify BMWs code.

Comment Re:This is photoshop 101 kind of stuff... (Score 1) 284

The submitter leaves out the implied priority; all of this has to happen without causing the teacher extra work. The teacher doesn't want to have to check for plagiarism by hand. The teacher also doesn't want to have to prepare 20 + individual assignments. The teacher also doesn't want to hand out a flat jpg - that means the teacher has to explain what's supposed to be done in each layer. Of course, the students learn more about photoshop if there's some control - not about the image manipulations, but how to cheat the metadata, add a distortion layer and whatnot to defeat any kind of comparison software. Useful skill later on in college.

Comment Re:Smart Guy (Score 1) 379

Some employees, especially if they're volunteers and not bound by any contract, might be irreplaceable. The web domain and the server hosting might be in Bob's name (because ten years ago that was so much easier to set up), and he's under no obligation to turn over access information. If you really piss him off, he might just delete the whole caboodle. Even if he just drops out and doesn't answer you calls and emails, you're now pulling all documents one by one for the server and start over, and hope that the hosting company lets you take over the domain when Bob's payment runs out and he doesn't renew. If you now add that the submitter is clearly not up to date on how to run a large document system (Google doc's, really?) the potential for stepping on toes and causing huge damage to the organization is there.

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