Comment Re:Hopefully (Score 1) 177
I'd say it was a success, since it survived more than what it was designed to survive.
Engineering success perhaps, but the risk assessment was flawed.
Comment Re:Hopefully (Score 1) 177
Wrong. Units 7 and 8 had not been build. Unit 5 and 6 were offline for refuelling. Unit 6 was the only one having a surviving emergency diesel generator. Which wasn't luck. It was a Mark II containment, the same that was used in all four reactors of Fukushima Daini (all with the same generator surviving the tsunami) and the single reactor in Tokai (dito).
The reactor in Tokai came very close to failing. Only one of three seawater pumps failed, but two out of three diesels generators failed, external power was lost for more than a week. The road outside the plant looked like a a piece of paper all crumpled up.
Comment Re:Here's a better idea. (Score 1) 184
B) Good point; I mean, where the hell would an orbiting nuclear power plant get power from?
From puppies running around on little wheels. Obviously.
In a weightless environment, would those puppies be running on the outside or inside of the wheel?
Comment Re:Here's a better idea. (Score 1) 184
B) Good point; I mean, where the hell would an orbiting nuclear power plant get power from?
Who cares about that? Where is the moon getting it's power from?!?!
It is common knowledge that the moon is stealing it's power from the sun. We shouldn't let the moon get away with this anymore, I suggest a land war....err, on the moon that is.
Submission + - Global Warming Really Just a Statistical Fluke? (statisticsblog.com)
J Story writes: Matt Asher, a statistics wonk, in a blog posting (The surprisingly weak case for global warming) claims that: "Based solely on year-over-year changes in surface temperatures, the net increase since 1881 is fully explainable as a non-independent random walk with no trend."
For the programmer/statistics junkie, R code is provided.
For the programmer/statistics junkie, R code is provided.
Comment Re:Damn... (Score -1, Flamebait) 602
Diseases are not the only thing that can be cured. Ham, for instance.
What about Assburgers?
Anthropologist Spends Three Years Living With Hackers 252
concealment writes "Coleman, an anthropologist who teaches at McGill University, spent three years studying the community that builds the Debian GNU/Linux open source operating system and hackers in the Bay Area. More recently, she's been peeling away the onion that is the Anonymous movement, a group that hacks as a means of protest — and mischief. When she moved to San Francisco, she volunteered with the Electronic Frontier Foundation — she believed, correctly, that having an eff.org address would make people more willing to talk to her — and started making the scene. She talked free software over Chinese food at the Bay Area Linux User Group's monthly meetings upstairs at San Francisco's Four Seas Restaurant. She marched with geeks demanding the release of Adobe eBooks hacker Dmitry Sklyarov. She learned the culture inside-out."
Comment The Excel 97 flight sim. (Score 1) 951
that's it.
Comment Re:Need password (Score 4, Informative) 92
It's a typo. Remove the trailing apostrophe in the URL.
Still not working here.
I need to go to;
https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/facebook-enabling-https-default-north-american-users-111912
Submission + - The world's oldest original digital computer springs back into action at TNMOC (tnmoc.org) 1
prpplague writes: "After a three-year restoration project at The National Museum of Computing, the Harwell Dekatron (aka WITCH) computer will rebooted on 20 November 2012 to become the world's oldest original working digital computer.
Now in its seventh decade and in its fifth home, the computer with its flashing lights and clattering printers and readers provides an awe-inspiring display for visiting school groups and the general public keen to learn about our rich computer heritage."
Now in its seventh decade and in its fifth home, the computer with its flashing lights and clattering printers and readers provides an awe-inspiring display for visiting school groups and the general public keen to learn about our rich computer heritage."
Submission + - Did Anonymous prevent election hijack? (google.com)
Black Parrot writes: The internet is abuzz with a story about Anonymous setting up a "firewall" to prevent a scheme to hijack Ohio's electoral votes, as some claim actually happened in 2004. Reportedly there are similarities this time around, except that the votes didn't suddenly shift to the other candidate, and Karl Rove got a big surprise. Fact, fiction, or conspiracy theory? Only Julian Assange knows for sure.
Submission + - Apes suffer mid-life crisis too (mongabay.com)
Damien1972 writes: Humans are not alone in experiencing a mid-life crisis — great apes suffer the same, according to new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A new study of over 500 great apes found that well-being patterns in primates are similar to those experience by humans. This doesn't mean that middle age apes seek out the sportiest trees or hit-on younger apes inappropriately, but rather that their well-being starts high in youth, dips in middle age, and rises again in old age.
Comment Re:you're posting this question on a forum... (Score 1) 259
Considering there hasn't been a release since 2006 [sourceforge.net] or a commit since 2009 [sourceforge.net] I'd say no, they don't really.
Incidentally 2006 was also the last year the slashdot interface was at all useable according to most hard core slashdotters.
Comment Re:Why Would a Mouse Need To Connect To the Intern (Score 1) 249
I hope you're happy. You slashdotted an entirely unrlated, innocent website.
Schadenfreude, is the best kind joy. And I honestly didn't expect there to be that many people around on slashdot anymore. Also thecheeseshed came up as one of the first hits on a Google search for online cheese, so I didn't expect them to run their website off of Windows server on a pogoplug.
Comment Why Would a Mouse Need To Connect To the Internet? (Score 5, Funny) 249
Why Would a Mouse Need To Connect To the Internet?
It probably wants to use your credit card number to place a giant order at http://www.thecheeseshed.com/
