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Comment Re:I can't wait... (Score 1) 52

With Rossman having announced a bounty on jailbreaking the Echelon equipment, I suspect that the equipment will be de-bricked in a matter of days. With the equipment unlocked, it could be transformed from a useless pile of scrap into a highly sought after piece of hardware, with better software than the original OEM software. Matt Brown will probably have a video showing how to extract and alter the firmware. These machines will soon be showing up at GoodWill store locations across the US.

Comment Re:So many years.... (Score 1) 164

I wish I had mod points to give you. Excellent first post!

When people have questions about tax law, they ask an accountant. They don't ask the clerk at the checkout stand of the local supermarket. Yet when it comes to nuclear power, people will accept the opinions of folks who are totally unqualified to have any sort of opinion other than hearsay. I spent over 10 years as a qualified reactor operator, with thousands of hours of panel time. I've got more time at the controls of a nuclear power plant than most senior commercial pilots have flying. I've been an instructor at a prototype nuclear power plant, teaching trainee operators how to do the job.

So yes, on the topic of nuclear safety I have an opinion. But my opinion is based on operational experience and training rather than hearsay. Unfortunately Mdsolar and his ilk vehemently express their opinions to a wide audience (sort of like the vaccine haters).

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