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Comment South Korean Reactors (Score 2) 360

If the US an Ally, South Korea perhaps, are responsible this is more likely to be a result of the North started targeting Nuclear reactors in the South yesterday, than anything to do with Sony.

The irony here, is that it that it looks like hacktivists were responsible for the initial Sony attacks, not the DPRK.

Comment Wrong (Score 1) 130

The Mash is boiled to produce Wort which is fermented to produce Beer. It is at that stage that pasteurised beer is boiled to kill the yeast and kegged. Whilst live ale is casked and undergoes a secondary fermentation.

Despite outwardly similar appearances a keg and a cask are not the same thing. A Keg has a single opening on top into a throat or spear (a tube from top to bottom). While a Cast has two openings and no throat.

Comment Guinness (Score 1) 130

Unfortunately most Guinness is pasteurised, the unpasteurised Guinness is said to not 'travel well' however if you can get it is vastly superior.

This is a pity because with modern logistics it should be possible to distribute it to most of the UK while it is still fresh.

Comment Pasteurisation is the problem (Score 2) 130

Pasteurisation denatures the proteins in the keg Beer which why the head on keg beer don't last and that allows the C02 escape in the glass and that is why Keg beer has the metallic smell. The gas added to keg is also a mix of nitrogen and C02 to try and minimise that metallic smell.

The naturally produced C02 of cask is retained by the head and also includes aromas from the Beer particularly the hops.

Comment Gini Coefficient well proven (Score 1) 545

I find it surprising that many ardent self identified capitalist have such a poor grasp of economics. They object to economic equality despite the fact the Gini Coefficient is well proven and demonstrates that increasing economic equality promotes increased economic growth and supports a larger over all GDP.

Comment Land Rover (Score 1) 195

Land Rovers are like Meccano for grown men.

Chassis come in 90,110,127 inchs. Engines in V8 Petrol, TDI, Drive/Transmission in 4x4, 6x6 and even tracked varients.

Bodies include Utility, Pickup, Van, Station Wagon, Double Cab, Hicap, Light Weights and Forward Control, Trybacks.

Special Vehicle varients as Ambulances, Fire Tenders and Pumps, Armoured, Recovery Truck, Fire Tenders, amphibious and breaching vehicles to name a few.

Submission + - Our Sinking World

Maddie Kahn writes: If you want to preserve a fish you've caught on Kulinus, a tiny island in the Tigak region of Papua New Guinea, your best bet is to smoke it. Ice, available from the store an hour and a half away if you’re lucky enough to own a boat with a motor, is a foreign concept here. But when Brooke Jarvis meet Ramis Thomas, an elder in the village, ice is on his mind. The night before, most of the island was swamped by high tides, with residents staying up most of the night to keep their belongings from floating away. Thomas says that Kulenus now has perhaps a quarter of the land area he remembers from childhood, and though his concept of natural ice is from a vaguely remembered movie scene (you’re thinking of Titanic, another man offers), he’s heard that melting ice far away is the reason his island is disappearing. He wants to know how much ice has yet to melt—if it’s all already gone, perhaps his people can stay here, holding onto the edge of a tenuous situation. I tell him there’s a lot more. “Then we will have to move,” he says. “I’m sorry about our island, but life is important.”

Submission + - Systemd: Harbinger of the Linux Apocalypse (infoworld.com)

An anonymous reader writes: It might not be the end of the world, but the design of systemd and the attitudes of its developers have been counterproductive

Now that Red Hat has released RHEL 7 with systemd in place of the erstwhile SysVinit, it appears that the end of the world is indeed approaching. A schism and war of egos is unfolding within the Linux community right now, and it is drawing blood on both sides. Ultimately, no matter who "wins," Linux looks to lose this one

Submission + - Why Chinese Hackers Would Want US Hospital Patient Data (itworld.com)

itwbennett writes: In a follow-up to yesterday's story about the Chinese hackers who stole hospital data of 4.5 million patients, IDG News Service's Martyn Williams set out to learn why the data, which didn't include credit card information was so valuable. The answer is depressingly simple: people without health insurance can potentially get treatment by using medical data of one of the hacking victims. John Halamka, chief information officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network, said a medical record can be worth between $50 and $250 to the right customer — many times more than the amount typically paid for a credit card number, or the cents paid for a user name and password. 'If I am one of the 50 million Americans who are uninsured ... and I need a million-dollar heart transplant, for $250 I can get a complete medical record including insurance company details,' he said.

Submission + - German Intelligence Spying On Allies, Recorded Kerry, Clinton, And Kofi Annan (foreignpolicy.com)

cold fjord writes: Foreign Policy reports, "The revelation that Germany spies on Turkey, a NATO member, should dispel any notion that spying on allies violates the unwritten rules of international espionage ... For nearly a year, the extent of NSA surveillance on German leaders ... has drawn stern rebuke from the German political and media establishment. ... Merkel went so far as to publicly oust the CIA station chief in Berlin. "Spying among friends is not at all acceptable," Merkel said ... However, Germany's sanctimony toward "friendly" espionage is now a huge embarrassment ... Over the weekend, Der Spiegel reported ... Germany's foreign intelligence collection agency, was spying on Turkey. It also reported ... calls made by Secretary of State John Kerry and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were accidentally recorded. ..... Turkey's Foreign Ministry said that if the allegations are true, they are "totally unacceptable." Turkey also summoned German Ambassador ... Pohl ... demanding an explanation. ... Lindsay Moran, a former CIA ... officer, doesn't believe that the German spying on American officials was an accident. "I find the notion that [Clinton and Kerry] were accidentally overheard preposterous," ... "It's a kind of delightful revelation given the fact that the Germans have been on their high horse." Christian Whiton, a former ... State Department senior advisor, added that the report on German spying is a perfect example of why rifts over intelligence among allies should be handled quietly and privately." — The Wall Street Journal reports, "Cem Özdemir, the head of the Green party and a leading German politician of Turkish descent, told Spiegel Online it would be "irresponsible" for German spies not to target Turkey given its location as a transit country for Islamic State militants from Europe." More at Spiegel Online and The Wall Street Journal.

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