Dark_Nova - Slashdot User

Comment Re:One has to ask... (Score 1) 636

by Dark_Nova on Monday October 01, 2007 @08:06PM (#20817759) Attached to: Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents

Yeah. With an ID under 50000, you can't have waited more than a few months to create an account.

Originally, there was actually a bit of resistance to creating accounts, so a lower ID is just a sign you "caved in" earlier. ;-)

First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years 838

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 27, 2007 @05:24AM from the let-the-meltdown-begin dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "With backing from the White House and congressional leaders, and subsidies like the $500 million in risk insurance from the Department of Energy, the nuclear industry is experiencing a revival in the US. Scientific American reports that this week NRG Energy filed an application for the first new nuclear power plant in the US in thirty years to build two advanced boiling water reactors (ABWR) at its South Texas nuclear power plant site doubling the 2700 megawatts presently generated at the facility. The ABWR, based on technology already operating in Japan, works by using the heat generated by the controlled splitting of uranium atoms in fuel rods to directly boil water into steam to drive turbines producing electricity. Improvements over previous designs include removing water circulation pipes that could rupture and accidentally drain water from the reactor, exposing the fuel rods to a potential meltdown, and fewer pumps to move the water through the system. NRG projects it will spend $6 billion constructing the two new reactors and hopes to have the first unit online by 2014."

Privatunes Anonymizes iTunes Plus 176

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 27, 2007 @09:39AM from the i-don't-know-if-anonymizes-is-a-word dept.

njondet writes "French-law.net reports that Ratatium.com, a French website specialized in technology news and software downloads, has just launched Privatunes, a free software that anonymizes DRM-free files bought on iTunes Plus. Last month's revelations that the DRM-free files sold by EMI on iTunes Plus came with user's full name and account e-mail embedded in them had raised serious privacy concerns. Ratatium.com explains (in French) that Privatunes is aimed at guaranteeing the privacy of users but also their rights as consumers to freely share and trade the songs they have purchased. However, the claim that this software is perfectly legal will surely be tested."

CBC News Interprets GPL - Poorly 252

Posted by Zonk on Sunday June 24, 2007 @11:31PM from the that's-a-new-one dept.

frankShook writes "The Canadian news service CBC has up an article entitled 'Linux distributors scorn Microsoft partnership'. Primarily, it looks to describe the ongoing licensing saga between Microsoft and Linux distributors. It also includes a highly unique interpretation of the GPL: 'Open-source software such as Linux, on the other hand, encourages individuals to add to or modify software without fear of legal repercussions, so long as they abide by the conditions of the general public license, which stipulates that the program must remain open and sharable.'"

Spacecraft May Surf Magnetic Fields 98

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @02:03AM from the radioactive-space-stocking dept.

Maggie McKee writes "Future spacecraft may surf the magnetic fields of Earth and other planets, taking previously unfeasible routes around the solar system, according to a proposal funded by NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts. The electrically charged craft would not need rockets or propellant of any kind. To get charged up, the spacecraft could either fire a beam of charged particles into space or simply allow a radioactive isotope to emit charged particles. Because long, thin filaments have large surface areas for holding charge, the spacecraft might look like Einstein's head — with wiry filaments sticking out at all angles — or a weird space 'stocking.'"

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