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Comment Re: Only one way for him to save himself (Score 1) 147

Manning was convicted under the UCMJ. Manning technically faced the death penalty, but that hasn't been sentenced under the UCMJ, much less carried out, in decades. The US military hasn't executed anyone since 1948. The last people executed on even remotely similar terms were the Rosenbergs in 1953. Everyone else executed by the federal government since then has been on conviction of kidnapping, rape, and/or murder.

Comment Re: Progress is small steps (Score 2) 61

The primary US source of tritium is, as I mentioned, specialized rods called tritium-producing burnable absorber rods (TPBARs) that are inserted into one of the reactors of the Watts Bar plant in Tennessee. Each rod can produce 1.2 grams of tritium over a lifespan of 600 full-power days. They have run up to 1792 rods at one time, allowing for just under 1.8 kg every 1.65 years. Cooling ponds may produce some tiny amount of tritium, but it is not recovered.

Comment Re: Progress is small steps (Score 3, Informative) 61

To expand on the tritium point, only a small amount of tritium (a few dozen kilos) exists on the planet at any given time because it has a half-life of only about 12 years. In North America, the primary civilian source is a byproduct of the CANDU reactors in Canada, and that's only a few kilograms per year. The other major source, used for supplying tritium for US nuclear warheads, is a fission reactor in Tennessee where special rods are irradiated over the course of months to produce a few hundred grams of tritium.

To have enough tritium for fusion, effective lithium blankets need to be developed that capture neutrons and produce tritium (Li-6 + n = He-4 + T) to be fed back into the plasma. To my knowledge, this has not yet been demonstrated, though work has been ongoing.

Comment Re:Ignorant people sucks at names. (Score 1) 258

Each of those locale's are named after something relevant to them. They have a form of government given to them in large part due to Washington.

The Constitutional Convention was very much a consensus project, with Madison doing most of the work of assembling the agreed ideas into a single document. Washington's primary role was to keep order and enforce secrecy; he deliberately chose to provide little input into the actual ideas, as he knew that anything he said would hold undue sway over the participants.

Comment Re: Whoa what are the odds (Score 3, Informative) 147

TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt both have published source code, and third-party security audits have been published for both. Neither was found to have any significant flaws and there have been no serious indications of backdoors found in almost 20 years of their availability (first TrueCrypt and later VeraCrypt when it followed TrueCrypt's cancellation).

Comment Re: Whoa what are the odds (Score 2) 147

It was stored in the blockchain, which isn't part of a wallet, and the actual CSAM was limited to at most a handful of small images, with most of it being links to CSAM. If you have a wallet, you probably have at most a couple of megs of data, and that's basically the Bitcoin addresses and associated keys. The blockchain itself is currently over 500GB, and there is little need for most people to download significant portions of it, with even that just the most recent parts.

Comment Re: Of course (Score 1) 362

Technically, it's a violation at one mile per hour over the posted speed limit. Few police are that strict, but some are or can be when they're in a bad mood. Many people believe that there is a 10% cushion in the law, but I know of at least one person who was ticketed for going 1-2 MPH over in IIRC a 65 MPH zone (the judge threw it out when the person took it to trial).

It's fairly well known throughout the US that if you're driving through small towns in rural areas, you need to pay close attention to the speed limit signs (which are not always properly maintained), as local cops will often write tickets for out-of-towners for just going a couple of miles over the limit, knowing that the chance of it getting fought in court are limited.

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