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Comment Re:who cares, this is nothing (Score 1) 54

Actually so far if you want to do a in-app browser on iOS you are forced into using safari. Even the chrome and firefox apps are just some additional integration on top of the safari engine as you can't use anything else. There are some lawsuits in progress for getting rid of this limitation.

Comment Re:Seawater already has uranium (Score 3, Informative) 94

Burning (oxidizing) hydrogen creates water. Tritium being an isotope of hydrogen is chemically identical. All water on this planet naturally contains tritium. Water also naturally captures neutrons at a small rate turning the hydrogen in the water molecyles into tritium. So there are bound to be elevated levels of tritium in the wastewater. And tritium being chemically identical to normal hydrogen means getting it out of the water is hard as it can't be done with chemical filtering.

Comment Re:Excuses (Score 1) 114

For many parts it actually was the customers fixing their mess, since as the gog version has no DRM it is possible to edit the executables. This has been used to bring support for input assistance programs for people that aren't right handed wasd-players, upped the core utilization count on amd processors and allowing full key remapping in the game to name few of the biggest improvements.

Comment NASA has confirmed that IMAGE is alive (Score 5, Informative) 62

http://www.satobs.org/seesat/J... Engineers at GSFC have acquired the suspect S-band source using the 4m CTA (Compatibility Test Antenna) here at GSFC (.jpg attached and no I’m not in the picture). They acquired the signal while the target was on ascent at about 2RE. Center frequency (CF) was between 2272.478 and 2273.418. The difference between IMAGE documented CF of 2272.5Mhz can be attributed to expected Doppler. Subcarriers are visible as well 1.7Mhz from CF as expected. The signal strength was oscillating. Plots will be forthcoming. The oscillation is not unexpected given IMAGE’s loss of spin balance. All indications so far suggest that this is, in fact, IMAGE. Richard J. Burley

Comment Re:Explain to me (Score 1) 138

2. Why this system doesn't fail safe if the controller is taken down?

Yet another cautionary tale of IoT woe, but also some seemingly bad design...

It is actually failsafe, because the system goes safely to a safe state when the control is lost. The heater running at full blast would certainly not be failsafe...

Submission + - Reddit has deleted its 'warrant canary' (reuters.com)

Arthur Dent '99 writes: Today Reddit deleted wording in its transparency report that would normally indicate that they had not received any "national security letters" or "other classified requests for user information". Such "national security letters" contain penalties for telling anyone about the request, as the government wishes to keep the request secret. However, because Reddit had placed pre-existing wording in their transparency report in the event of such a letter, they were able to simply delete the existing wording to passively inform others that a request had been received, without actually saying anything at all. This usage of pre-existing wording is known as a "warrant canary" to indicate danger, much as real canaries were used in the past to indicate the presence of deadly gases in coal mines.

Comment Nothing to see, move along (Score 1) 137

This is just about how science is supposed to work, even when one model fits the observations its not necessary that its the right one. And as with the Higgs the standard model predictions are quite a dead-end when it comes to dreaming new and exiting physics so pretty much every theoretical physicist is trying to figure out a alternative, less boring, explanation for the LHC observations.

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