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How am I suppose to start my own social network when this can happen?

https://www.knoxnews.com/story...

Hardly seems fair. Hosting companies shouldn't be able to discriminate but clearly they are allowed to do so.

Since the hosting company is a private company, that must be okay, right?

Solved, my ass

Funny you should mention coal.

Do you believe droughts are visited on states that vote Democrat?

Doubtful. But the AC's post is still kinda funny.

Which is? Consider a KKK rally where the speaker is shouted down by protesters.

That's the fundamental problem. If you don't protect despicable speech sooner or later someone will decide to silence yours because they don't like what you are saying. where the line is drawn is tricky. Counter protesters have the right to speak as well; which, IMHO, is different than preventing the others from speaking by knocking the site out via DOS attack or say pulling the plug on their power supply for a live rally.

Which is? Consider a KKK rally where the speaker is shouted down by protesters.

Actually, titanium puts off some nice hot sparks when it is struck against rocks at high speed....

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2...

These drivers would arrive in a folding electric bike, fold their bike and put it in the trunk, take the sensible drunk home and return on the electrified bike.

It's already being done... "Zingo"

I agree with the other part. If it's $5 for a standard bike rental or $10 for the electric, if I'm going far enough the electric might make sense. Heck, going on a bike ride with an elder relative might be more realistic.

The same could be said about the USA, where money equals law and justice is make-believe for kids stories.

Yea, we should put government in charge of it from start to finish, That will take all of the incentive to cheat out of it. TVA never does anything like this. No, never at all.

It is South Korea. If you have a culture that will fuck up safety certificates at nuclear plants, do you think they are suddenly going to be better with natural gas plants?

Fix the fucking culture and kill the corruption. The technology was never the problem.

Do you think they have a monopoly on that culture? Witness our very own government owned and operated Tennessee Valley Authority and they falsified readings of wells around the coal slurry dam. Oh, they do it with nuclear too.

It is South Korea. If you have a culture that will fuck up safety certificates at nuclear plants, do you think they are suddenly going to be better with natural gas plants?

Fix the fucking culture and kill the corruption. The technology was never the problem.

Do you think they have a monopoly on that culture? Witness our very own government owned and operated Tennessee Valley Authority and they falsified readings of wells around the coal slurry dam. Oh, they do it with nuclear too.

If you knew anything about the American government's historic propensity for secretly testing dangerous chemicals and weapons on their own populace, I wager you'd spend less time worrying about what imaginary brown boogeymen might do with the technology, and far more time concerning yourself with what the government will do with it.

This time thankfully only soda cans bought it.

This timeit was a support column.

This time a cop accidentally shot a Bologna, so I guess it's not a CCW, and maybe the Bologna was resisting arrest.

This time it was in a starbucks, some kind of lead extra latte.

This one was in a school.

This Guy apparently hit himself in the leg when he dropped the gun at a Grocery store.

Again, This one is not a concealed carry, but as the guy was DEA and actually demonstrating gun safety to a group of children at the time he accidentally shot himself I think it merits inclusion on the grounds that accidents can clearly happen to even the most highly trained.

We people are the ones that could be shot at any time without warning because someone felt that the risk to others of their carrying a weapon was worth it. In this litigious society I would have though the insurance costs of packing heat would be prohibitive. Around 2% of gun deaths are from accidental discharges.

The ways in which one atmosphere plasmas modify material properties, such as with this plastic bag, aren't new at all. My college professor in a graduate course on nuclear fusion (an elective while I was an undergrad) discussed them more than a decade ago. The only thing I see that is remotely new is creating the plasma after the bag is sealed, rather than creating the plasma externally and then piping it into the bag.

Unfortunately the technology got all tangled up with the government, and then a number of people (including my former professor) were arrested for sharing "secrets" about this technology with "foreign nationals". So of course now all the public scientific advances in this field have to come from some other country.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jun/24/atmospheric-glow-to-sell/

How easy is it for a government official to get away with erasing documents of this nature?

I'd say it's pretty easy, considering they can send to jail anybody who reads them

Folks, take a look at the charges he was convicted of. Then think about this sentence.

Mr. Kernell was convicted of two charges. For breaking into Sarah Palin's email account, he was convicted of a misdemeanor for unlawful computer access. But a misdemeanor isn't enough payback for embarrassing one of the political elite. So he was also charged with a felony account of obstruction of justice. The FBI says that he erased data off of his computer. Specifically, he deleted his copies of Palin's emails, and then defragged his disk. He also cleared his browser history.

Well, duh. The kid did something stupid. When he saw what an uproar he had created, he tried to make it all go away. Wow, that really is grounds for a federal felony charge.

This isn't justice folks. This is payback for embarrassing one of our betters.

I don't believe your post is very accurate. It's stated here:

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/apr/23/fbi-kernell-tried-to-destroy-proof-of-e-mail/

That part of the obstruction charge resulted from testimony that:

[Kernell] worried the FBI was on his trail and openly pondered the merits of reformatting his hard drive.

Furthermore, it seems as if material from Palin's account was deleted ("including deleting from the computer material gleaned from Palin's account") and then he took the steps you mentioned. Next, the guy had malware installed on his computer. I I don't think we're talking any computer expert here... it's interesting he even knew that defrag might do something. How many people just happen to delete files, uninstall a browser, delete cookies, and defrag? Coincidence? That plus the testimony that Kernell was trying to figure out how best to destroy evidence, seems to negate your point.

So basically, no, you're completely wrong about what the evidence is as far as I can tell.

There is nothing useless about a supercomputer. Oak Ridge National Lab has over a billion dollar budget each year and huge portions of that budget relies on the availability of high performance computing resources. (Not to mention all the other national labs) HPC supports research in areas like energy conservation, new power sources, bioinformatics, material science, weapons simulations, engineering, and computer science. Applications range from freeing ourselves of fossil fuel reliance to designing materials to be used in [insert next big product]. HPC is the reason we don't need to do nuclear weapon testing anymore. HPC is the reason our grandkids will have a longer average lifespan. I can guarantee that these machines wouldn't be built for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars if they weren't being used. And I can guarantee that when the US regains #1, it won't be for the sake of being #1... it will be for the necessity of furthering science that benefits us all.

Key parts of the reactor construction are being overseen by AREVA subsidiaries, the parent company of which is +90% owned by the French state.
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2010/01/areva_awarded_major_role_for_u.html
http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2010/01/22/areva-awarded-agreement-for-the-iter-project-01221.aspx
The race was tight between Japan and France, and France then became the hosting partner. Most of France's attention to nuclear energy is fission, but they have subsidiaries devoted to renewable and fusion.

and you have the right to face your accuser so you can get out of these tickets pretty easily. If everyone would start to fight them in court the amount of money to run them at a loss would get rid of them pretty quickly.

See the second link in the summary...
The court filing obtained says offenders "are not entitled to a trial by jury, a presumption of innocence or a heightened burden of proof."

Islam - a religion of peace. Are you serious?

This lawyer is most likely an opportunistic political hack, scoring points by throwing some red meat to the fundie crowd in his own community. It's not like we don't have nutballs like that here in the US. And we've got violent religious extremists here, too.

Fundamentalism and extremism -- no matter what the religion -- is the problem. It leads the unbalanced and easily influenced to do crazy things, and it a great way for anyone with political ambition to recruit a loyal following.

But the crux of their obstruction case came from testimony by McFall, a computer expert so skilled he was tapped to help organize the FBI's elite Computer Analysis and Response Team, or CART.
McFall said his probe was stymied by a series of steps authorities allege Kernell took to cover his tracks, including deleting from the computer material gleaned from Palin's account, clearing his Internet history on one Web browser, uninstalling another browser and running a Windows tool designed to speed a computer up by overwriting space occupied by deleted files.

Forgot to post a link with this. A 71 year old professor was sentenced to jail for among other things, allowing foreign nationals to work on a DoD project. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jul/02/prison-for-ex-ut-professor/

Actually, this discussion is over a website listing in a searchable way those who signed a petition to put gay-civil-unions on a ballot.

I think that's the wrong way around; if I'm reading the article correctly, the people in question are those who signed a petition to put Washington's version of Prop. 8 on the ballot, i.e. those who are against civil unions.

This is an important point. If it were pro-equality signatories who were being "exposed", then I'd be a lot more worried about it. Simply put, giving the radical right easy access to a list of people who are pro-equality would be very, very dangerous, much more so than giving "the gays and their allies" easy access to a list of bigots... the reason being that the right-wing reactionaries fighting against gay rights tend to be a whole lot more violent than those fighting for them. Tell me, have you ever heard of a fundamentalist Christian getting brutally beaten, tied to a fencepost, and left to die, just on account of their beliefs? When was the last time a right-wing megachurch got shot up?

Now, granted, there may be instances where right-wingers have felt intimidated because of their stance against equal rights. There may have been threats made. Someone's feelings may, in fact, have been hurt. But I maintain that any intimidation coming from the pro-rights camp doesn't even begin to come close to that perpetrated by the right wing. I'm sure the poster who was wharrgarbling above about pro-gay intimidation will have something to say to this, but I'll nip it in the bud by requesting that any corroborating links in a reply not come from Michelle Malkin or other shrill, obviously biased, right-wing mouthpieces.

What's that? Can't find any examples from actual, reputable sources? Well, that's going to be a problem, then, isn't it?

Common sense prevails. Nuclear is the best option we have right now for clean, cheap, reliable energy

Or maybe not.

Context for the unfamiliar.

Welcome to the future.

The [main hybrid battery] has no user-serviceable parts and can kill you if you're careless.

Do you really think that will stop people trying?

On a side note, the "normal 12V car battery" can kill you just as easily. If not easier (700+A vs 6.5A). Volts don't kill you, amps do.

reserves mean nothing. The cost of digging it up mean a lot.

Take a look here for coal prices. I know that in the UK, we closed all the coal fields because they cost too much to dig the stuff out of the ground (compared to buying it from Australian fields). That's changed now and fields are being reopened.

from the Times in 2007
"Coal prices have soared recently, in common with other fuels. The McCloskey coal consultancy said that last month the price for world coal delivered to the Aire Valley in West Yorkshire - where the majority of Britain's coal-fired power stations are located - was $102 per tonne. This compares with $85 in January and $74 in July 2005."

Not to mention in the USA too:
The company's average selling price for coal in 2007 was $52.15 per ton, and in 2008 the average price is $62.25.

Energy prices are increasing across the range, oil has little to do with energy generation.

Even better is the radioactive duck poop and radioactive trees.

Somewhere, Homer Simpson is saying to himself, "Mmm, radioactive duck poop."

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Sadly enough, this is true.

Other issues, including a radioactive tree:

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jan/06/worst-of-ornl/

The frog bit:

http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/451.html

We even have a web design company named after it (don't know anything about them - nice Google ranking though):

http://www.radfrog.com/

Yes, I live in Oak Ridge, TN.

(Unless, of course, you'd want the house to make Al Gore's home electricity consumption look "moderate")

The linked article is pretty light on content. It does have a link to this article which actually goes into detail about the countersuit.

It's inexcusable to say that murder is ever an appropriate recourse after crime.

by Alzheimers: Seeing your initials at the top justified the hundreds of dollars spent in practice and the pursuit of glory. Unless you were one of those punks that entered A-S-S.

by Arthur Scott Smith: Calling me a punk? Jerk.

Wow. The legendary "A.S.S." It's great meeting you after all these years. You absolutely ROCKED on Galaga. And Dig Dug. And Crystal Castles. Heck, I think I saw you on EVERY game in town! And the crazy thing is, you must have been running from Tulsa to Dallas, because when I'd go visit relatives in Big D, you had already been to the mall there, too!

I think you even made it to the huge arcade at the 1982 World's Fair. Wasn't that AWESOME? Wish I could have seen you play.

Have you seen this?

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/200 7/02/fly_the_crowded_1.shtml

Google news for "School lawsuit" and you find a student suing the school for dress code enforcement (link below).

These lawsuits should be avoided. Absolute freedom of speech does not apply in schools since the school board sets standards of behavior for students and teachers. The school board can require a strict uniform to be worn and many do so now to avoid lawsuits, clearly identify students and non-students, and avoid distruption from perceived offensive clothing.

From Knoxville, Tennessee

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1 406,KNS_347_5161518,00.html
Student sues over rebel clothes suspensions

Anderson County senior wore shirt, buckle bearing flag

By BOB FOWLER
November 22, 2006

An Anderson County student suspended twice this fall for wearing items with the rebel flag on them has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that school officials trampled on his constitutional rights.

The lawsuit on behalf of Tom DeFoe, a senior at Anderson County High School, and his father, Phil DeFoe, was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Knoxville.

The teen's rights of free speech and equal protection have been violated by crackdowns on a vague county school dress code, the complaint states.

Tom DeFoe was suspended from Anderson County High School in late October for wearing a T-shirt with the Confederate flag on it and refusing to either take it off or wear it inside-out, the complaint states.

According to the lawsuit, that shirt was captioned, "If you have a problem with this flag you need a history lesson."

The teen was then suspended from Anderson County Career and Technical School earlier this month because he declined to cover or remove a belt buckle bearing the rebel flag's image, the complaint states.

The complaint says the teenager is simply trying to express pride in his Southern heritage.

"My client has no history of disciplinary problems," said Van R. Irion, a Knoxville attorney affiliated with the Southern Legal Resource Center. "He doesn't like having his school telling him he's a racist because he's displaying the Confederate flag."

The SLRC is a nonprofit legal foundation that says it defends "the rights of Southerners to honor their culture and heritage," according to its Web site.

Irion is the lead attorney in a similar federal case involving students at William Blount High School who wore apparel with Confederate flags on them.

That Blount County school has had several incidents of racial strife that officials said prompted the rebel flag ban. Split into two cases, those complaints await trial.

Irion said the Anderson County case is more straightforward because there have been no allegations of racial unrest possibly sparked by displays of the rebel flag.

The Anderson County lawsuit alleges that school officials have "failed to produce facts that justify their ban."

Students are allowed to wear clothing with "other expressions of political or controversial significance," the complaint states.

The Anderson County school system's dress code policy is vague, overbroad and gives school officials "unbridled discretion" to enforce the guidelines in a discriminatory manner, the lawsuit alleges.

Nowhere in the policy is the rebel flag specifically banned, and the guidelines give school officials the final say-so on whether a students' clothing is "acceptable," according to the code.

The complaint seeks injunctive relief and a declaration that the teen's actions weren't unconstitutional. It also asks that his student records be wiped clean of any disciplinary actions prompted by the flag-wearing episodes.

Defendants are the county school board and its chairman, John Burrell, school system director V.L. Stonecipher, Sid Spiva and Merl Krull, the principal and assistant principal, respectively, of the vocational school, and Anderson County High School Principal Greg Deal.

Its our government that are dumbarses

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1 406,KNS_347_4379932,00.html

Hackers 'phish' $70k from Y-12

By BOB FOWLER, fowlerb@knews.com
January 11, 2006

OAK RIDGE -- Savvy computer hackers siphoned off nearly $70,000 from Y-12 Federal Credit Union members' credit cards in an intricate Internet fraud scheme that lasted only 90 minutes Monday night.

"It was extremely sophisticated,'' Y-12 Credit Union Vice President Chris Smith said of the latest version of online phishing.

There was a late-December surge in underground hacking of various Web sites after a hole was discovered in Microsoft software, Smith said.

"These folks figured out how to exploit it (the hole),'' Smith said.

They hacked into the credit union's Web site so when customers hit the account login button, it redirected them to a bogus Web site in Greece, he said.

That Web site featured a picture of the credit union's Web page. But in the login process, members were asked to enter both their credit card number and their personal identification number, or PIN.

"Your credit card is your vault, and your PIN is your key,'' Smith said. "We would never, ever, ever ask for your PIN.''

"Our systems are so secure that they (hackers) know it's much easier for them to trick you into giving them what they need.''

Smith said the hackers apparently used the information they gleaned to generate a magnetic strip for an ATM card, which they then used to plunder customers' credit card accounts from ATM machines.

The elaborate phishing trip lasted only from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday. By then, several credit union members had called "and let us know something wasn't right,'' Smith said.

The credit union promptly shut down its Web site, used the patch only recently made available from Microsoft, and made the necessary repairs, he said.

Initially, 17 credit union members were affected. Others called in Wednesday, Smith said, "and that number could grow.''

Members who lost money will have it refunded by the credit union, Smith said.

Bob Fowler, News Sentinel Anderson County editor, may be reached at 865-481-3625.

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"Robbing"? "Heinous crime"? Are you talking about taking away a child's school education or taking away some minor plot twists in a sci-fi movie?

That's what happens when you post from inside the Hyperbolic Chamber.

I live in TN, so maybe I can shed some light here. Well, Eastern TN anyway.

Firstly, it is a very cheap place to live. You can make a fantastic living for the amount it takes to rent a small apartment in a big city.

However, the cost of living is so low here for a few reasons.

Firstly, it simply hasn't been overrun by corporations yet. That's the most obvious answer. The other is the TVA, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the local utility here. They might be having some problems, but who knows. But according to national average, our electric/water bills are among the lowest in the nation. This is a big help.

However, even with our educational programs here (University of TN, a bunch of tech colleges, etc), we don't have the skilled workforce that a city the size of Atlanta does. With skilled workers you have high paying companies, but it's a catch-22 situation. There's a lot of waiting and seeing around here, with a company 'thinking' about moving in, then finding they can't staff said company sufficiently.

Personally, I live near Oak Ridge, aka the place the atom bomb was built. It's pretty neat to hear the air sirens being tested, blaring out in the middle of the day. I'm very close to ORNL (Oak Ridge National Labs) and the Y-12 nuclear plant, so that's interesting. These plants provide a lot of the high paying jobs, as well as some big corporations around Knoxville.

I can see how Dell would like to move their company here, for reasons stated above. Not that I like people losing their jobs or their high wages, but it makes sense from a business standpoint.

Texas and Tennessee definitely are home to Dell plants. So I've no real chance of getting anything from them tax-free, but that seems to be the case for almost everything for me: eCost/PCMall (Memphis), TiVo (Knoxville), Dell (Nashville/Lebanon). I've grown accustomed to paying sales tax and find it a great treat when the retailer doesn't automatically charge me for it. Of course, technically I'm still supposed to pay up (Knoxville News-Sentinel article).

[Judge] Strand said the school records of Joshua were "atrocious" last year, and the parents did not try to help educators and "that alone shows me probation is not something I would consider." He said parents need to know they can keep their children out of situations such as the one faced by the defendants.

Joshua Buckner sneaked the two guns out of a bedroom closet and hid them in the woods about a week before the June 25 crime

Ummm. CSM is about as good as a balanced source as you will find and, despite the name, they don't do ridiculous things like you are talking about. My local rag will probably run this on the Religion section this week rather than the Science page. You should know better. Kind of like Brit "Goebbels" Hume, questioning the source of an eyewitness account of American soldiers abusing Iraqi citizens, by saying, "What do we know about this paper The Manchester Guardian?" rather than saying, "Secondary sources have yet to confirm or deny the report from the Guardian.

What those who speak in praise of the city haven't mentioned is that the swan pond that I'm looking at is surrounded by a fence, that you can't fish anywhere downstream of the labs for miles and miles, and that there are still barrels of STUFF that we don't even know exist buried around the countryside. Sure, on the surface things are fine, but that's because the heavy metals have long since sunken into the earth.

It's not like the situation hasn't gotten infinitely better since the initial mismanagement of the lab (alluded to by a previous poster and by Richard Feynmann's 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out'). We built an onsite waste management facility, as part of the cleanup led by Bechtel Jacobs. It was a step in the right direction for the lab, as it allows us not only to repair damage already done, but to prevent causing further harm to the environment as research on radioactive materials continues. (side note: we prefer the term 'rare isotope'... It doesn't scare the populace). The cleanup process was not painless, as this proposal by Bechtel Jacobs (the company leading the multi-billion dollar effort) and article from the Knoxville News-Sentinel indicate. We're nearly done, though. Occasionally something surprises us, but the situation's better than it was.

So, on to the article at last... These microbes don't have a huge utility value here, but they have great potential. Chernobyl, anyone? If there's another uncontained meltdown, these little buggers can be deployed almost immediately (via aerosol spray delivered in an overfly by crop dusters) to begin to counteract the fatal seep of irradiated cadmium and contaminated nickel. It's not of use now, but it's a valuable tool to have in our box.

"Time will tell, but since Funny Cide is a gelding, and can't stud, I predict he'll be cloned"

Based on experiences, clones are often sickly animals; not really tolerable in a race-horse.

How will they take advantage of Funny Cide's winning bloodline? They are selling the stud services of Cide's sire, Distorted Humor.

For those of you using AOL, Funny Cide's father is not a gelding.

Time will tell, but since Funny Cide is a gelding, and can't stud, I predict he'll be cloned.

And just maybe by time this comes to pass the Slashcode search engine will actually be able to find this comment so I can show people. Hmmm, which is more likely? ;)

Hi,

This is not the only case going on right now - check this one out:

Farmer sent to prison over cotton seed

I'm personally not against GM-plants because they can help reducing the enviromental load, but this kind stories are very scary. A typical farmer has similar chances as a snowball in hell in to win a case against a Megacorp like Monsanto...

V.

That's right an Ohio man found a camera behind the mirror in a Marriot bathroom after he killed a small "bug" on the lamp - no bug it was a camera-eye. So, now Marriott can have a wireless video system in their bathrooms instead of X-10 et al., ... connect it to the www and what a $$$ generating engine that could be. Links to this story: Voyer news story And the original one that was pulled from KNS -Hmmmmm...: original story If anyone lives Knoxville and is willing to rent a room for the night could be interesting - extra credit will be given!

Michelson-Morley had to do with the existence of aether. It was complicated, but elegant.

But Michelson had already done an even more historically impressive experiment, I think, that had to do with the most accurate measurements of the speed of light in his day by far. "In 1878 Albert A. Michelson first accurately measures the speed of light with $10 worth of apparatus along the seawall" (scroll toward the middle of the page).

The more accurate measurement he made in the 1920s is described briefly below that quote on the same page. Certainly the $10 experiment is in the grasp of most classrooms, but I think the mountaintop one is also possible for today's students, what with GPS and all, or even a really good topo map (+/- a few feet gets you close-enough-for-proof-of-concept). You have to get 2 teams of kids on 2 different mountains- and with SUVs and the quality of roads nowadays, how hard is that to do in the high sierras with some adult supervision? Maybe hard to do if you live in Kansas, admittedly.

Plus, what school kids want to sit around a stuffy lab? How cool an experiment would it be to the most science-jaded student to get out of the classroom and into the wilderness to do science on an as easily appreciated concept as the speed of light? ;-)

Here's another good article on the history of the speed of light and better details of Michelson's efforts.