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Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All 332

Ars Technica has nothing good to say about the scientific understanding (or at least public understanding) that led Portland to drain 38 million gallons of water after a teenage prankster urinated into the city's water supply. Maybe SCADA systems shouldn't be quite as high on the list of dangers, when major utilities can be quite this brittle even without a high-skill attack.

Comment Ah, (Score 2) 69

one can see those effects on freeways.
Round truck tire carcasses on the roadside.

Mysterious reason:

Rotational forces overcome structural integrity and thing goes bust.

Maybe use Hubble to zoom in on one of those smoking tires and document the event?

Comment US Patriotism (Score 1) 288

Totally missing on those $-addicts.
Seems to come with their genetics.
Not even sure if the word "patriotism" is the right term here. Maybe patriotism is including to cheat in taxes.
Nevertheless, people hate the taxman because they distrust the receivers - government.
So, it's an ingrained fad to reduce tax payments as much as possible.
Stash it away in Grand Cayman, Switzerland and hope you don't get caught. That's the smaller guys.
The larger whales in this game are doing it legally by feeding part of their stash to "friends" who implement "good rules" for them and don't touch their undertakings.
And there we have it... maximize $$ at any price to the top of the pyramid.

Is the school/university system with all the financial burdens on the future of participants and inequality a consequence of this? Maybe, who knows...

Submission + - Dell charges £16 to install Firefox on PCs (theregister.co.uk)

amerello writes: The Mozilla Foundation has begun an investigation after tech juggernaut Dell appeared to be asking customers to pay £16.25 ($27) to install its free web browser Firefox on newly purchased Dell kit.

Comment Re:Free 8.1? (Score 2) 392

Well, my "downgrade" from W 8.1 wasn't smooth at all. I take raw partition images as FS backups and after restore, the W 8 didn't like itself any longer and failed to boot.
The "repair" feature of the W8 install disk was trying all night and in the morning it concluded that it can't fix itself. A W 7 install/repair fixed the W8 boot failure malaise in minutes which got me quite amused.

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