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So who cares about all the stuff happening during the week?

A lot of private and commercial aircraft will be flying in before and after the game. Not all those planes will be parking at San Jose International airport. The early birds will park locally. Everyone else will have to haul ass over the mountains from outlying regional airports.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_29446013/bay-area-airports-brace-an-onslaught-commercial-private

Sure, DexterIsADog.

Some of these are security videos. Some are just videos people shot. They all involve civil cases.

Question answered by lawyers about release of security footage

Texting Woman Who Fell Into Fountain May Sue Mall . The video in the story has been removed, probably as part of a preemptive agreement.

Kanye West suing YouTube co-founder for uploading footage of his proposal

Peninsula card room sues over violent YouTube videos

Couple sues subway over YouTube post

NJTA sues YouTube over the posting of a video that had been shot with an NJTA camera.

And this link may provide you with lots and lots of articles to read on the subject.

Gun nuts could learn a lot from car guys. We know how to keep stuff quiet, not be a bunch of whiny babies, and stay on the good side of the law.

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You should know better than to talk absolutes on slashdot of all places ;}

Because these guys say they are car guys too. It was just a week ago.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22499576/tammerlin-drummond-perhaps-oaklands-reputation-played-role-doughnut

Thou I must admit, in Oakland, pissing off everyone on the freeway, there is something to be said for us gun nuts self control - not a single one of these ass hats got shot!
No I am not condoning doing so, just shocked to hell it didn't happen.

An even bigger solar project based on more traditional photovoltaics is in the works for the eastern edge of Alameda County, California. An article in today's Contra Costa Times states "At 400 megawatts, the Mountain House solar complex could produce more electricity than the 370-megawatt plant that Oakland-based BrightSource Energy aims to construct in the Mojave Desert near the Ivanpah settlement."

I hear the spectre of child prostitution ads being raised many times in this thread. cite one example.

Richmond pair convicted in San Mateo County teen prostitution case

Local youths rescued in prostitution busts

And they go on and on. Just search google for prostitution and craigslist. Of course, nowhere will you find in any post mention of child prostitution. Such posts would be flagged off quickly or reported and removed.

There is a real problem, as there has always been somewhere else. It's not craigslist's fault, but there has never really been a source for prositution as comprehensive as craigslist (here in the U.S). Other sites like ASPD, Eros, Adult Friend FInder, etc are limited in many ways and charge for viewer services. It seems to me that the Cook county sheriff should be grateful to craiglist for collecting so many potential leads to illegal activity.

Mind you, I don't think prostitution in itself should be illegal so long as all participants are willing adults, but that is often not the case and where it's not it should be stopped. The problem is the handful of puritans who want to stop consenting sex and prevent its proper outlet.

You don't get out much, do you?
I was about to say "Only in America" but you guys are merely the world champs of armed stupidity. We aren't nearly as creative.

Housing prices are that way. The US has a huge glut of overpriced homes on the market, priced under the false assumption that the bubble had some validity. So do prices go back down to normal levels? Nope. Instead, a huge inventory of homes sit for months and months. Nobody wants to relinquish their phony inflation "equity."

Housing prices are that way. The US has a huge glut of overpriced homes on the market, priced under the false assumption that the bubble had some validity. So do prices go back down to normal levels? Nope. Instead, a huge inventory of homes sit for months and months. Nobody wants to relinquish their phony inflation "equity."

The LA Time recently ran a story about the possibly troubling investment strategies of the Gates Foundation. You can see more of their coverage here.

There was also, more to the point, this story via the Register: Gates demands better schools as Gates-backed school closes and this much more detailed story.

If this is an example of how the deals are made and how things are managed, it points to another classic example of 'the microsoft touch' screwing things up. It quickly reads as a tremendous gift of technology squandered by poor management, the same management which had delivered on providing poor schools in the first place. Of course, Bill protected his development.

(Pardon me for being cynical)

I recall another story along this line from someplace (done in the human interest vein), but I can't place it just yet.

"Splatters of Nina Reiser's blood were found in the house and car of the missing woman's estranged husband, Hans Reiser, law enforcement sources said Wednesday.

The sources also said that Hans Reiser removed the passenger seat of his 1988 Honda hatchback and that he attempted to hide the vehicle from authorities. This is the same car that his wife's blood was found in, sources said. Police are still looking for the missing seat."

http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/ci_44 76687

Well, looks like they arrested two others. Although the police don't really think these other 2 people had anything to do with it. But unless he did have other people helping him, I'm not really sure how he could have murdered her if she had gone shopping after she left his house. Maybe the kids have said something about their father leaving the house for a bit that hasn't been released to the public yet?

http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/local news/ci_4474339

Something tells me that Mr. Phipps is confused about which company is Sun and which is Red Hat.

Red Hat Earnings Rise on Business Sales

Meanwhile, the picture at Sun is not so sunny.

Boy, are you the fucking poster child for this study, or what? Add to that you heaping your own self loathing on the kid, and you just take the cake, buddy.

Diebold recently won approval from California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson to start selling the machines again in California. As long as they make them "secure".

its a bit shit expecting to give your firstborn away just to read an article.

I found an alternative link.

I'm still not convinced by all this quantum connectivity business, but then again you look at a wall of clocks with their pendulums all in sync (because of vibrations in the wall) and you think hmmmm maybe its possible.

Surely a superior intergalactic race would have MUCH larger penises (possibly even using them to pull cars) than us and would laugh, Kang and Kodos-like at our puny demonstrations of testosterone.

Psst: start building up the board-with-a-nail-in-it arsenal.

"One of the old school board members who lost his seat in the election has said he will challenge the result. Voting machines recorded no votes for James Cashman at all in one precinct, but in others he says he polled plenty of votes."

Sounds like grounds for a hand-recount of that precinct. Sadly, unless the race was close there probably won't be one.

Anyone know if these were those new-fangled paperless-you-can't-recount-them-by-hand machines?

If they are, the Pennsylvania may go the way of California and add a paper audit trail.

Yeah, I don't quite know why the question is being asked of /. but anywho, glad it is...

I don't particularly trust anything at all I read on "physorg" unless it is also published somewhere else and this search is not boosting my confidence in the article's validity. Other things which make me doubt the clam VERY VERY MUCH are the fact that lightning has a temperature usually not reported in the literature to be above 40-50,000 Kelvin while virtually all fusion devices (which are in thermal equilibrium, as this would also be the mechanism here presumably unless they are proposing some super exotically weird non-equilibrium mechanism) need to attain temperatures in the MILLIONS of K range to even begin seeing neutrons. The fact that they are also claiming that this explains why they see "100 times the background" levels of neutrons during lightning storms is, I think, bordering on the ridiculous. There is a reason it took us until just 2 years ago to discover that lightning emits x-rays, and that is because uhmmm it involves studying lightning at very close range! Interference effects in sensitive electronic equipment caused by the insanely huge magnetic and electric field pulse very close by are extremely hard to eliminate. Until I read the paper, I'll very highly doubt this neutron/fusion "discovery".

Anyway, I think the following line in the submission needs some factual clarification:
"Perhaps more controversially, and yet to be discussed on Slashdot, the NIF has possible plans for a hybrid fusion approach that uses not only deuterium and tritium, but uranium and plutonium as well in what amounts to a miniaturized version of how thermonuclear weapons achieve fusion. Fears are that this could lead directly to micro-H-bombs."

This is a bit of a convoluted misconception. Firstly when NIF (if they ever finish the damn thing) compresses and ignites its DT capsules, they will theoretically produce a gain of something like a maximum of ~50. That is to say, they will release ~50 times more energy than was delivered to them by the lasers which are used to start the reaction and this will result in the emission of a neutron pulse and other thermal and electromagnetic energy in the 10s of megajoules range. This is exactly a replica of a thermonuclear bomb in the lab (without the primary). They ARE "micro-H-bombs", that's the whole idea of the thing. Secondly NIF want's to use uranium and plutonium as reported recently not because they will increase the fusion yield of the micro-bombs but rather because the megabar, megakelvin conditions achievable with NIF will allow the examination of these metals at the conditions which are found at the cores of imploding primaries (and secondary "sparkplugs"). These are called "subcriticals" and they allow the examination of the equation of state" of these metals at energy regimes pertinent to A-bombs without having an actual chain reaction occur.

As for the question "With all the recent discoveries and developments in fusion research, my question for Slashdotters - are we on the verge of something big that will make fusion a practical reality in a much shorter time frame than the often quoted '30 years away, and always will be'"...
Don't count on it. There are lots of very promising and very very exciting ideas out there, but fusion on an economic (and laboratory; ie. not H-bombs) scale is just damn hard to do. The 30 year rule, sadly, still applies. T

"As rising floodwaters swamped New Orleans, Louisiana's chief epidemiologist enlisted state police on a mission to break into a high-security government lab and destroy any dangerous germs before they could escape or fall into the wrong hands.

Armed with bolt cutters and bleach, Dr. Raoult Ratard's team entered the state's so-called hot lab and killed all the living samples."

If your a LICENSED Amateur Radio Operator, cantennas and this dish used for the record are legal.

And while hams can use any antenna they want, they can only do this on the ham bands while following ham rules. In the US, this means IDing yourself every 10 minutes, no encryption, no pecuniary interest, third party traffic restrictions, etc.

Only the antenna that comes with your equipment or is designed for use with that equipment (like DESIGNED to work with it)can guarantee that you stay udner the FCC's regulated ERP rules.

Does podunk Police officers have the right to confiscate your equipment? NO.

(Nice use of the word `podunk' in there. It's totally irrelevant (as large police departments don't have the right either), and yet it's a nice jab at Lozito.)

I think he is referring to Lt. Bob Lozito of the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department's Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force comment in this article:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/businessnews/ci_28868 79

""They're unsophisticated but reliable, and it's illegal to possess them," said Lozito of the Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force."

Solar power? Not very effective (yet). Very high initial investment (expensive to create the cells too), huge areas of the country, and times of the year when it's completely ineffective, and you need a LOT of cells for a little power. I assume you'd need a ton of cells to power any signifigant hydrogen production.

Wind power? Same thing. HUGE areas of the country where this will never work, and many trimes of the year when it's not effective. Not to mention, they're big, ugly, and loud, and kill birds as shown in recent articles.

Hydroelecetric? I think you're on to something here, but again, huge areas where there are no options. Sure, if we were Norway we could do it, but Hydroelectric leaves a lot to be desired, and also if you're building dams, has HUGE (and potentially adverse) impact on the environemtn.

Me personally? I favor nuclear. but for whatever reason, the Enviro-nuts don't like nuclear.

Dell will move into any market where it thinks there is money to be made. Dell to offer premium PC brand

You mock how you expect a lie from the AC account about owning an airline, wherein we should all just accept the fact that you are a grown, well-travelled person because you are using the mzwaterski account (with a very high UID, I might add--what, have you had that account for like a week or something?).

I do not recall where I claimed to be a "freedom minded person." I simply pointed out that your trust in the logic that goes behind the TSA prohibited item list is naive, because: there are many complaints about the inconsistencies of the list (such as how you can't carry on a lighter, but you can carry on 4 boxes of matches), how the policies are enforced, the very fact that your gold-standard document you hold up explicitly states that it is up to the TSA screeners whether to abide by the list or not, and you also seem to give yourself such self-importance that if it hasn't happened to you then it just doesn't happen, or happen often.

Yeah, right. I'm just making all this stuff up. I made up all those newspaper articles too. But I forget my place; I am conversing with THE mzwaterski, a barometer of the people, a man with the pulse of the nation. If it hasn't happened to him, or if he doesn't know about it, then it must not exist.

Your comments are based on rumors and I highly doubt you've ever had anything mentioned above confiscated from you.

On the other hand we know what I am (among other things): AN EVIL ANONYMOUS COWARD!!!! Oooooooooohhhhh! I'm gonna corrupt your women and upset your traditional way of life!!!!

Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Rick Causey of Enron won't be going to trial until January of next year. Ex-Enron CEO may follow Ebbers