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Comment Re:Good use. (Score 2) 60

Not a big fan of this, but I'm pretty certain they need that money to actually replace all the working parts of the reactor. Only the concrete shell will be reused. They could probably use the same amount of money to fix reactor 2 the same way, they are just not touching it because of history.

Comment Re:Knew they were working on it (Score 1) 120

I think your idea of how fast subduction happens is a little off by some orders of magnitude.

However encasing it in something that won't leak (like glass) and dumping it in a very deep and dead part of the ocean is plausible and may be the best idea we have. There is no need to aim for the subduction fault, that makes no difference.

Comment Re:A reminder to prioritise asteroid defence/space (Score 1) 39

The first step to surviving somewhere else is locating a somewhere else that is better than trying to live on Earth after it has been hit by an asteroid. Unfortunately Mars fails this test. In fact we could get hit by an asteroid, have a nuclear war, have the worst possible global warming, and living would still be better on Earth than Mars.

Comment Re:WWIII (Score 2) 61

ICE actually has a ways to go. Some historical US deportations (and remember the population was smaller then):

1930s (Great Depression): A period of mass "repatriations" saw an estimated 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—including many U.S. citizens—rounded up and deported or pressured to leave voluntarily. These were often informal raids and not all were official deportations.

1954: Operation Wetback resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of individuals, though historians estimate the number was closer to 300,000.

Comment Re:Good that UK is building more nuclear power pla (Score 1) 57

You need things that are powered by BATTERIES if nuclear power (or any other type of electricity) is going to fix the climate problems.

You have posted anti-battery propaganda.

Therefore I conclude you actually don't care one bit about nuclear power and are just trying to be a nay-sayer. Good day.

Comment Re:We need to sign the good stuff (Score 2) 33

I do believe "authentic" watermarks would help a lot. They will have to be locked to a lot of details about the file, you will not be able to color correct, resize, crop, or change the compression method. Probably allow cutting movies between frames however. Some one-way writing of the watermark is put into the camera, with the decoding key/result added to a database that does anything it can to insure only actual cameras are registered.

Watermarks people want to be remove can be made much harder by making the test for the watermark much more expensive, slow, and/or locked down so only authorized users can run it. Videos detected with the watermark are remembered so any similar-enough video also acts like it has the watermark, even if it has been manipulated enough to remove it. It also has to be very hard to create the watermark by anybody other than the registered creator so people can't use this to reject real videos.

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