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Solar and Wind wont fill every power requirements, no.
It will fill the gaps however.

Thorium has lots of potential yes, but its kinda nonsense to start jawing about building thorium plants at this stage, its still experimental mostly.

But you in the states should be happy to know that thorium research is getting funding, http://newsblaze.com/story/20100530110958zzzz.nb/topstory.html

At least some of your military expenditures are put to productive use.

Not to mention that I'm sure that the technology/knowledge can be readily bought/distributed amongs the many other thorim projects on the globe.

They didn't attack the money-collecting parts of Visa and Mastercard. They attacked the corporate sites. They didn't disrupt commerce. - Seems they were letting them know they didn't appreciate what the financial companies did. Zombie DOS Attacks Support WikiLeaks

I wonder what your odds of dying from TSA-induced cancer vs. an airline crash are?

• You are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist
• You are 9 times more likely to choke to death on your own vomit than die in a terrorist attack
• You are 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack
• You are 11,000 times more likely to die in an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane

More. So really, can we just end the security theater?

Except they don't come up, until now. In November Californians will vote on a referendum to legalize marijuana. According to the Wastington Post, who suggests Washington DC watch CA, the referendum is close to winning with about half in support and half opposed to it.

I don't think any one of 51 states or district have made anything legal to make/grow and sell.

Again you're wrong. In Alaska small amounts are legal. "The sale and distribution of marijuana, however, is still illegal".

On J Edgar Hoover:

Politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, didn't like him. The only reason he kept his position as director of the FBI is because of his extensive collection of private files.

If that's the case, then we get what we deserve.

Well J Edgar Hoover is long dead, good riddance. But as I said before most people didn't know what he was doing. Information found it hard to get around, and that's how politicians want it. After-all they even included a muzzle clause, where librarians and others who had information requests issued by law enforcement couldn't say anything about it, in the Patriot Act. How many people even have an idea what's happening? Obama ran saying his admin would be open, well his admin has refused to release the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ACTA, a favorite topic here. Just as with a number of other things it's "classified in the interest of national security pursuant to Executive Order 12958." What does copyrights have to do with national security? While businesses can see it the people can't.

Which brings up relevant questions. One is, why aren't the people demanding it be released? Another though, is how many people even know or have heard about the ACTA? I just searched CNN, "acta" returned 40 results but none I looked at said anything about it and "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" returned 3 results, but none of them say anything about it either. Two were about counterfeit money, one about counterfeit drugs, and so on.

Falcon

What, you mean the fine publication responsible for journalism like this?

I think they're just upset at not having a wikipedia page of their own.

But hey! They're hiring! And their help wanted page mentions Slashdot--how can you go wrong?

What, you mean the fine publication responsible for journalism like this?

I think they're just upset at not having a wikipedia page of their own.

But hey! They're hiring! And their help wanted page mentions Slashdot--how can you go wrong?

There was more disruption than to the servers in H1. NewsBlaze.com is in another datacenter, but it seems both NS1 and NS2 are in the same place, in H1. So even though our webserver equipment wasn't involved, we were down too. Depending on DNS cache times, traffic slowly dropped off to just a trickle and then eventually nothing. And it took them a long time to get that fixed, a lot longer than it should have. They never apeared to listen to what I told them when I called - and I tried hard to get the support staff to pass the message along. This is one of the problems with big companies - they don't listen to their customers at the times they most need to. We couldn't have been the only ones in that situation. It would be interesting to know how many servers outside H1 were affected. Thank you to the few slashdotters who visited the NewsBlaze story before the server became inaccessible. I'll be writing more about this. The Planet Houston Data Center Goes Up in a Puff of Smoke

Yeah, because there's no way the Church's position might have done some good, right?

http://newsblaze.com/ - of course! and always checking on Google News.

Some of the 'lakes' are huge, possibly the size of Lake Ontario:
Joint NASA Study Reveals Leaks in Antarctic `Plumbing System`

It says - The research team combined images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite and data from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) on NASA's Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) to unveil a multi-dimensional view.

And his so-called friends don't even say a word. http://newsblaze.com/cartoon/newsblaze/gv0828cd.ht ml

In your comment about the "cut list" I think you must be referring to the 'cleaned DVDs' topic of a few days ago, and I think you're misunderstanding that ruling.

What was prohibited in that case was the reproduction that Clean Flicks was doing in order to produce the edited versions. They were taking a movie, editing it, and then selling the edited version -- yes, they were selling each edited version packaged along with an unedited version, but they were reproducing the film just the same. That's where they ran into copyright problems.

Other companies who took a different tactic towards the problem, and avoided the reproduction step (by delivering to the customer an EDL that would cause the player to fast forward through various 'offensive' parts) were allowed under the ruling.

There's a pretty good analysis of the verdict on FindLaw, which isn't too long and is worth reading. In particular: "The defendants also argued that they were protected by the so-called "first sale" doctrine ... [they] failed to win on this affirmative defense, because they were not just dealing in the hard copy, but rather making copies of it." (Emphasis mine.)

If you're willing to spend some more time reading things actually written by folks who have law degrees, I recommend this substantial article from the Georgetown Law Journal, which was written in 2004 and examines the viability under copyright law of several video-censoring technologies, including old-school razorblade tape splicing, CleanFlicks-type digital editing, and EDL-based 'skip over' systems.

Although CleanFlicks no longer offers the edited copies of DVDs, another company, ClearPlay, still offers an EDL-based product (which IMO is a much more elegant solution to the problem anyway, since it lets you pick what types of smut you personally dislike), as can be seen on their website.

This type of on-the-fly editing is legal, and was clarifed as such by President Bush's passing of the "Family Movie Act of 2005," which specifically allows you to make changes to an authorized copy of a motion picture, as long as you don't create a fixed copy of the edited version. The best part of the law? It's not limited purely to obscenity edits; according to one Forbes article, it could be used just as easily to protect a fan's removal of the more obnoxious parts of Star Wars Episode 1 as it could the removal of Kate Winslet's nudity from Titanic. (Sadly, apparently the technology can't replace Jar Jar Binks with a naked Kate Winslet. Yet.)

So the next time you think that G.W. hasn't done anything for you, it seems that he may have let some good slip through after all.

Good Apples Gone Bad Apples beating each other up for no good reason.

The interesting thing is that previously, they didn't have enough data to show what was going on. Now they have data from the identical twin satellites.

"The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years," said James Hansen, director of NASA GISS. NASA Scientists Say 2005 Was the Warmest Year in a Century

They are "warning" because the politicians never give them any money to clean it up, so now that its getting close to be a problem, they are warning the politicians they can't put it off for too much longer. They want more money!

I remember one year, a large piece of junk landed in Australia. Luckily, it didn't hit anyone. In 2001 after the Mir splashed down in the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Chile said they wanted some rules set up because their area was being used as a junkyard.

This satellite is being shifted in its orbit. They said it was to give better weather reporting. maybe they're moving it away from incoming junk. Satellite Orbit Shift To Improve South America Weather Forecasts Let's hope something doesn't hit it in transit.

Of course, this has to be done. Man is an adventurer. There will always be 1000 reasons to not do something. Nothing would get done otherwise. We wouldn't even be here having this conversation. NASA Stardust Mission Capsule Brings Comet Dust to Earth That little spacecraft was sent out on a 4.6 billion Km round-trip for 7 years, had a rendezvous with a comet, as planned - and it came back to earth and sent the payload exactly where they wanted it to. That alone is worth it. The main parachute opened perfectly after being packed up for 7 years. The money it cost is a drop in the ocean. The movement of the stock market can destroy that much in a few hours. The research that made it do all that is all around us. The good that comes out of such things affects us in ways most of us don't realise. I'm in awe of the minds that did all of this.

I'm working on a continuation story with more information and I'll post it here, probably next week. If I can't get it published here, then please come looking for it on Monday or Tuesday in High Tech and on the front page at http://newsblaze.com/ If you bookmark the story you just read, I'll link to the new story from there, too. Sorry I couldn't get the technical information before I published the first part.

I don't know that its a "quet" release. The news is everywhere. They just didn't make a big announcement. Apple patch fixes sucurity issues

Some new email laws put state residents at risk.
The purge lists in Utah and Michigan look like a great way for spammers to check for valid addresses in those states.
Breaking the privacy of the people they are trying to protect.
That legislation, like most anti-spam legislation is unworkable because the government doesn't understand enough about the subject.

Like the CAN-SPAM law, this could
- do nothing
- stop legal senders
- add to disclaimers on websites
- get legitimate senders into touble with the law

Email broadcasters unknowingly break the law

Top story at NewsBlaze The Summer of Code for students begins.