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If you think nuke energy is "safe", may we deposit the radioactive waste in your backyard?


Sure. Just pay me the several billion dollars earmarked to design, construct and manage secure long term storage facilities and I'll deal with it.


I would love for you do that if you also exempt me from outdated laws that were made in the 70s/80s. The 'waste' isotopes are a $4B+/year business.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690627522614525.html

The fact of the matter is that our outdated laws lead to a lot of waste that really isn't waste. The example of France in the article is very telling.

What remains after all this material has been extracted from spent fuel rods are some isotopes for which no important uses have yet been found, but which can be stored for future retrieval. France, which completely reprocesses its recyclable material, stores all the unused remains -- from 30 years of generating 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy -- beneath the floor of a single room at La Hague.


Yes of course... As soon as you collect all those carbon-dioxides you seem to have misplaced in my atmosphere.


It's not a "flop". Many of the most respected tech bloggers have permanently deleted their Facebook accounts. I did so myself about a month ago when I heard that Zuckerberg called FB users "dumb fcks". Who cares about hooking up with people you went to high school with anyway?


> It's not a "flop".

Agreed. It's a change in direction. Facebook is no longer on an easy, upward, unchallenged trajectory.

A business plan to compete directly with Facebook no longer seems foolish. Regardless of Diaspora's success, the overwhelming support of $200,000 of real money proved that there is a hungry market for a Facebook competitor; someone just has to build it.


Yes Facebook is evil. When I saw that Zuckerberg called users "dumb f*s" for trusting him with their data, and I mused on how criminals could exploit that data via phishing, pw guessing, and social engineering schemes, I joined the Perma-Delete revolution.


Really could have just as easy been a silly joke that is now taken out of context.

I wonder if any of us will ever make it to the level of Zuckerberg, but if you do, are you sure you never made an IM message or an email that might be used against you like this?

I don't even recall most of them.


LOL well said!


Apple doesn't want us to look fat with a bad camera angle? You must be joking. Please tell me this post is a joke. LOL


This looks like spam to me.


No kidding. If you can 'flag' then do so, if more than 10 people I believe flag something it will get killed, but only if that happens before it gets 10 upvotes (not that I'm scared this will get any upvotes).


How do I flag spam here? I'm new to this.


  > Motorbike Leather Suits-Leather Motorbike Jacket-Leather Clothing (padana.com)
  > 1 point by bilalxperts 1 hour ago | 3 comments | unflag
  > -------------------------------------------------^^^^^^
Click on the "flag" link.


How do you know that?


I agree. And why does TechCrunch allow webless trolls to post comments? If you don't have a blog or website, your opinion is irrelevant.


I absolutely love the term "webless trolls".


Is this hack live? Use caution when visiting.


It's completely harmless. Go ahead and curl -v it. Doesn't get any plainer than that.


Or, since no one here was likely to have visited Baird's site otherwise, just don't submit it as a story.


But it is a story, isn't it? It's a significant hack imho.


Making it a self post with the url unlinked in the description, with a warning might have been better. Suppose the site had been hacked and loaded with malware and readers assumed you were just linking a report about the hack, rather than the compromised site itself.


Sorry. I'm new here. I shall study the guidelines some more. Thanks for the scolding. :^)


No harm done. This sort of thing won't be in the HN guidelines. In general, if you want to show others a compromised site, make sure the link is clearly identified as such and won't be clicked on accident. Optimally, make it so it's not really live link and the receiver will have to, say, cut and paste if they decide they want to view it. Just a bit of basic precautionary paranoia.


Thanks for enlightening me. I totally agree with you.


Saying the first hack was not a hack, it was just a "bad file uploaded to comments section" is the funniest joke I've ever heard.


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