>Perhaps the smart idea is to cut back Maybe but only if all other powers are cutting back, currently they are not

A lot of people don't realize that the average age of US nuclear weapons is a lot higher than some other powers. All are older than 20 years and the last new U.S. design was from 1991. So an unknown and likely significant fraction of our nukes would probably dud if used. We at least need to rotate old nukes to make new ones into the arsenal so the ones we have are at least reliable. Plus some work needs to be going on to keep the skill pool of the nuclear engineers up, the engineers with experience of actually building a weapon are getting pretty up there in age and lots have retired.

Smart interceptors (like Iron Dome, today) are always going to be way more expensive (like $90k) than the incoming warhead (Palestinian Shahab, like $300).

One thing the Israeli's do is only expend an Iron Dome if and only if the incoming Kasam or Shahab is heading to a populated area. When the adversary is going as cheap as these Hamas rockets are, they have pretty poor accuracy and frequently land in empty areas.

I was reading that the vulnerability is not in general standalone Java but only in the Java plugin in your browser, that is, you can secure from the issue by disabling the Java plugin in your web browsers but it's not that big of a risk to a standalone Java app. Is that true?

Another interesting point about red dwarfs, along with the extremely long life time they have (ten trillions years), is that the universe locks away some material as brown dwarf pairs. In the extreme future after star formation is all done, a few of these pairs will spiral together from gravitational radiation forming new red dwarf stars if the total mass of the two objects is more than the minimum red dwarf mass.

The deal here in Maryland that makes the voting lines slow is the ballots are getting a bit long. The one here in 2012 had 30 selections to make. I got in line at 3:30pm and was done at 4:13 only because I had pre-filled out a sample ballot all my selections. A lot of people I saw there seem to go in cold and look over the all the ballot language in the booth, taking a lot more time.

Yeah, although more expensive, synthetic sapphire might be better

I bet if you actually fused enough H to He to account for the current world usage of helium the required fusion energy would be WAY huge (as in dead, glowing earth huge)

Apparently in the speech he referred to the Military in general and not troops in particular.

Your UPS wasn't set up correctly, it's supposed to signal the server to gracefully shutdown before the battery goes dry.

The Chrome way is actually pretty clever and sneaky. That way the web site can't tell you're not seeing the ads, the firefox way makes it possible for them to detect that there's a user ip that viewing content but not pulling the ads. At that point on Firefox you usually get a nag page telling you to turn off adblock and/or kicked off the web site.

Or don't take it to the dumpster, BestBuy takes old hardware off your hands for free and that way it gets properly recycled instead of leaking toxic metals in a dump somwhere

Yes, I would think they'd notice something was odd, in the lower parts of the dig the walls would be unusually warm from the waste heat from the waste casks. Any civilization advanced enough to dig up a centuries old waste dump thousands of feet underground would make the connection that the only thing that would make heat like that for all those centuries would have to be nuclear related.

That would just result in his being dropped to when he shows up for the interview and they see he's older. I'd prefer to get circular binned right away so I could move on to someone that doesn't think that's a problem.

Do you mean faces look blue? Try going into the flash settings and disable the hardware acceleration. But I saw there was a release of flash 11.2.202.236 recently so maybe that's fixed now.