Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation: Guardians of the Galaxy, directed by James Gunn

One guy wants something for some poorly explained reason. His boss yells at him. Fight a lot, do stupid things to fight back. Power of friendship wins. The end.

Seriously, this was a Littlest Pony episode with bad in-jokes and worse acting. There wasn't a single other movie or TV show they could choose over this?

Remind me to not read the various winners.

> But if copyrights, patents, and trademarks are not property

Uhhh, correct me if I'm misinterpreting, but I don't believe that it was it means. I believe it means the ISPs do not have legal ownership over the property, so you can't sue them if someone uses an ISP to move stolen property. In the same fashion, the US Postal Service does not have legal ownership of the things you put in envelopes, so you can't sue them for putting drugs in them. In both cases you have to sue the person responsible for the actual illegal action, or sue for negligence or similar.

> not a violation of any part of the Netflix agreement

Go read it again, Article 6C and 6H specifically.

> I fully agree they can sue me.

I don't think they can. The copyright holder perhaps, but not Netflix. Netflix would simply cancel your service:

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Netflix is clamping down on users accessing the service through a VPN, with its updated terms of service threatening to "terminate or restrict your use of our service, without compensation or notice".

Virtual private networks are used for a variety of reasons, but with regards to Netflix usually to combat limited download speeds and access content restricted to other territories.

Here's the key clauses:

Article 6C

You may view a movie or TV show through the Netflix service primarily within the country in which you have established your account and only in geographic locations where we offer our service and have licensed such movie or TV show. The content that may be available to watch will vary by geographic location. Netflix will use technologies to verify your geographic location.

Article 6H

We may terminate or restrict your use of our service, without compensation or notice if you are, or if we suspect that you are (i) in violation of any of these Terms of Use or (ii) engaged in illegal or improper use of the service.

Given the low bar that defines "protections", I guarantee there would be a lawsuit over if if there way any money in it.

But seeing as Netflix is getting paid by these customers, there is no money in it.

> this breakthrough

Improving from one level of uselessness to another level of uselessness is *not* a breakthrough.

Consider NIF, for instance.

> Yet another thing governments are good for is pouring money down a sink hole for basically forever

Yeah, because private companies *never* do that...

Westinghouse
RCA
Kodak
Xerox
Sunbeam
AMC
Curtiss
(list continues for another 5 million entries)

> More passive safety features

Sure.

> Easier to handle fuel

Tritium (which this thread is assuming, not the p-B reaction TriAlpha works with) is pretty dangerous stuff. It replaces hydrogen when meeting water and turns into radioactive water/rain. A fire in a fusion plant where the lithium caught on fire would be a major, major, issue.

> No weapons proliferation issues

Not even remotely true. D-T reactions give off a 14 MeV neutron which can be used to enrich natural uranium to plutonium and then separated chemically. Because of the geometry of the reactors, you can easily hide this, and do small-scale continual extraction.

This is precisely why the UK instantly classified all their fusion research in the 1950s after Klaus Fuchs was discovered passing information on the atomic program to the Soviets.

"has shown a 10-fold improvement in its ability to contain the hot particles needed for fusion over earlier devices at U.S. universities and national labs"

No, that is inaccurately broad.

The correct statement is has shown a 10-fold improvement in its ability to contain the hot particles needed for fusion over earlier **FRC** devices at U.S. universities and national labs"

Earlier FRCs sucked by about four or five orders of magnitude. This sucks by one less.

This is not a breakthrough. T-8 was two orders of magnitude better than Stellarator C, but 45 years later it's still two orders too little to be useful.

"To avoid the 20% to 40% power loss when converting from DC to AC"

The original author, Self, has exactly zero idea what he is talking about.

The power loss in a modern inverter like the one in the PowerWall is about 2%. On the panel side, efficiency of 95% is no longer considered competitive. The numbers he's quoting are decades out of date.

Be glad the Koch brothers didn't own any companies making CFCs.

"and only a slight majority said it would be a net positive."

So the proper headline is actually "Majority of actual AI researchers believe strong AI is good".

And how people on slashdot who soak up new tech are quick to proclaim the problems storing or distributing renewables can't possibly be solved.

And they do that ON THE INTERNET.

> Otherwise most of it is lost.

PFFT. The entire US electrical grid loses 7% of the energy fed into it. Most of those losses are in the last mile.

HVDC lines lose about 2.5% per 800 km and 0.6% in the end-point stations.

Read something before posting next time. Here:

http://www.siemens.com/press/pool/de/events/2012/energy/2012-07-wismar/factsheet-hvdc-e.pdf

> Wind and solar = electricity. 98% of transportation is powered by oil

Today perhaps.

> Since 1kg of oil contains as much energy as 100kg of batteries, don't hold your breath

The differences is that in 5 years the oil will still have the same amount of energy, while the batteries will hold 25% more and cost 50% less.

> Besides, transportation is not just cars

True, but cars are half. If you remove half of that half you've gone an extremely long way to fixing a lot of problems.

Do some math, that's what it's for:

https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/future-grid-energy-in-the-not-so-distance/