Comment Re:How about quoting the useful part? (Score 1) 113
The second part of that phrase about what is NOT affected has been removed, interestingly enough.
Submission + - Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Badly Leaking (seattletimes.com)
SchrodingerZ writes: "Recent review of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state (where the bulk of Cold War nuclear material was created) has found that six of its underground storage tanks are badly leaking. Estimations say each tank is leaking 'anywhere from a few gallons to a few hundred gallons of radioactive material a year'. Washington's governor, Jay Inslee said in a statement on Friday that 'Energy officials recently figured out they had been inaccurately measuring the 56 million gallons of waste in Hanford’s tanks.' The Hanford cleanup project has been one of the most expensive American projects for nuclear cleanup. Plans are in place to create a treatment plant to turn the hazardous material into less hazardous glass (proposed to cost $13.4 billion), but for now officials are trying just to stop the leaking from the corroded tanks. Today the leaks do not have an immediate threat on the environment, but 'there is [only] 150 to 200 feet of dry soil between the tanks and the groundwater', and are just five miles from the Colombia River."
Comment Re:Virtualization, Anyone? (Score 1) 205
And deploy it on what? The assumption here is the hardware can't handle the load. Deploying a new VM on the same hardware isn't going to make it faster.. quite the opposite. Virtualization doesn't solve all problems, especially when it's probably running on underpowered hardware.
Remember above when I said "Deploy another host?" That hardware.
Comment We call this... (Score 1) 236
Adobe has another zero-day for their document reader? We call this, "Tuesday."
Comment We call this... (Score 0) 236
Adobe has another zero-day? We call this "Tuesday."
Comment Virtualization, Anyone? (Score 2) 205
Deploy another host, deploy another template VM to distribute load? Surely it's a plug-in, click/drag fix once they add a new host, right? +1 Scalability.
Comment Vague site, no details. (Score 2) 98
The website is extremely vague as to timelines of what system was in place when there were issues. Was
Music Really Is Intoxicating, After All 174
jamie writes "Our reaction to the music that we love stimulates the flow of dopamine into certain sections of the brain, concludes a new study out of McGill University. The findings 'help to explain why music is of such high value across all human societies,' the scientists note."
Comment Yes...but (Score 0) 118
Does it run Linux?
Comment Don't give the RIAA any more ideas (Score 1) 291
Next thing you know, I'll have to pay royalties next time my damn blinker in my car matches the beat of a song on the radio.
German Kindergartens Ordered To Pay Copyright For Songs 291
BBird writes "Deutsche Welle reports: 'Up until this year, preschools could teach and produce any kind of song they wanted. But now they have to pay for a license if they want children to sing certain songs. A tightening of copyright rules means kindergartens now have to pay fees to Germany's music licensing agency, GEMA, to use songs that they reproduce and perform. The organization has begun notifying creches and other daycare facilities that if they reproduce music to be sung or performed, they must pay for a license.'"
Comment Re:Harddrive in the freezer (Score 1) 208
One of the coolest [no pun intended] I did
I accidentally my own comment.
One of the coolest [no pun intended] *HACKS* I did
Comment Harddrive in the freezer (Score 1) 208
One of the coolest [no pun intended] I did was to place a hard-drive in the freezer overnight so that I could recover data from it the next morning. It took about 3 or 4 days to completely recover the data I needed to, but it definitely worked wonders.
Stunts, Idiocy, and Hero Hacks 208
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Paul Venezia serves up six real-world tales of IT stunts and solutions that required a touch of inspired insanity to pull off, proving once again that knowing when to throw out the manual and do something borderline irresponsible is essential to day-to-day IT work. 'It could be server on the brink of shutting down all operations, a hard drive that won't power up vital data, or a disgruntled ex-employee who's hidden vital system passwords on the network. Just when all seems lost, it's time to get creative and don your IT daredevil cap, then fire up the oven, shove the end of a pencil into the motherboard, or route the whole city network through your laptop to get the job done,' Venezia writes."
Comment INFORMATION RAPE (Score 0, Flamebait) 1020
Probably because he's promoting the recent raping of SKRIT information recently released by Wikileaks.
COINCIDENTALLY, these two incidents happen around the same time?
IT MUST BE TRUE GUISE.
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