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I came across this not too long ago: on Reuters, Felix Salmon outlining some opinion that Bitcoin embraces anarchy a little _too_ well, and is too volatile to serve as an adequate store of value as a consequence.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/04/03/why-bitcoins-rise-is-nothing-to-celebrate/

With the value of Bitcoin jumping around the way it does, I'd be leery about keeping any amount of my money in Bitcoins.

Furthermore, if the value (or for the clever City boys, the volatility) of Bitcoin can be so easily gamed, then how am I expected to trust it?

Besides violating over a dozen international treaties...

Untrue. There are exceptions to WTO treaty obligations, one of which includes national security.

...an unsubstantiated claim that there may be espionage/surveillance capability built into some devices.And let me be clear: No government or private agency has come forward with conclusive proof that any product made in China for commercial resale has these capabilities built into it at the direction of the Government.

There were many claims from many different parties that the Chinese government engaged in active spying/covert intelligence gathering on New York Times, Google, RSA. And those are just the ones we know. Lets also not forget the Mandiant Report that caused such a reaction online not too long ago. None of this is conclusive proof but it sure is a great cause for concern.

The economic and political rammifications of this are being glossed over -- this action doesn't just affect our relationship with China, but with any country we do business with, because they signed the same treaties, and now they're looking at our unilateral action and thinking: What makes us think the US won't renege on their deal with us?

The consequences you paint may well be overblown. There is evidence that the US is not the only country worried about China's activities. Australia, for example, has blocked Huawei from bidding for work on its $38 billion national broadband network, for the same security fears. Germany has sent representatives to the Chinese Government to ask them to stop, unofficially. Even the UK is so worried about the China spying problem that Jonathan Evans, director general of MI5 publicly warned that the West now faces an "astonishing" cyber espionage threat on an "industrial scale" from specific nation states.

Given that China itself uses national security as a reason for imposing restrictions on foreign commercial activities on its shores, I really don't think there is any basis to complain about the present measures introduced by the US.

In mid April [2012], after a series of high-level meetings, the Japanese government approved the restart of Kansai Electric's Ohi 3 & 4 reactors, and urged the Fukui governor and the Ohi mayor to endorse this decision. They restarted in July. Without the twin 1180 MWe units, significant electricity shortages would have been likely in summer peak periods.

(source)

Moreover:

Japan's idled nuclear reactors will gradually be restarted under the newly-elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as the units receive the all-clear from the country's Nuclear Regulation Authority, the Nikkei reported.

(source)

Japanese LNG prices went up from ~$13/MBTU just before the Fukushima event to ~$18/MBTU in July 2012 (source) just before the 2 reactors restarted, and is at $16.66 today

Or Kim Jong-Il
e.g.: http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/02/16/us-korea-kim-feats-sb-idUSTRE51E04N20090216

A little googling gets you the following links:

http://www.worldsalaries.org/china.shtml
An engineer or a programmer makes $252/month on average. Are you shitting me that a factory worker making $275/month AT ENTRY LEVEL is worse off?! Entry Level. Starts at $275/month. Makes *more* money than a programmer or an engineer.

Please stop it with your assumptions and "$700 is the median wage" bullshit.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/30/apple-foxconn-workers-idUSL3E8EU4I820120330
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/apple-economy/reporters-notebook-both-sides-gates-foxconn

Better articles with wage information.

An interesting note - in addition to being able to send US$250/month back home (equivalent to a programmer's monthly pay), the worker had also saved enough in 3 years there to start his own construction company once he leaves. The average American has 10% to 30% credit card debt alone, much less think about doing anything other than continuing to work day in day out.

Who is actually worse off?

IOW, I'm a lot more scared of Goldman Sachs than I am scared of China.

That is because you haven't the slightest clue what the Communist Chinese has done in the past sixty years, and still take extreme steps to keep their citizens ignorant, repressing those who do not stay quiet. Oh, and did I mention rampant kleptocracy, and Big Business choking the country to death in a very literal sense?

If that scares you less than Goldman Sachs, well, by all means go ahead and move to China.

The only bit of substance this article has is the quote from Eric Schmidt which is a partial quote which leaves out a very important bit. The fuller quote is: "Chrome and Android operating systems will remain separate products but could have more overlap ". When the article discusses Chrome it seems to be focused on Chrome the browser, not Chrome OS, which the linked Reuter's article properly does. The original article discusses the differences between Chrome and Android, but none of these differences preclude merging or otherwise combining the OSes. In particular, it is very possible that Google at some time will support running Android apps on Chrome OS or running Chrome OS apps on Android.

Try Reuters http://reuters.com/

"green" energy is too expensive to compete with proven yet "dirty" tech? well instead of developing the green tech to compete we must artificially increase the cost of the dirty fuel!

Wrong. In some places, unsubsized solar is already cheaper than coal. And fossil fuels are already heavily subsidized. Why is the parent marked insightful?!

Your best results would probably be using graphene, but good luck pirnting that :)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/usa-desalination-idUSL1N0C0DG520130313

...no, no -- that's not how it's going to be "picked up".

Let's take a look:

NBC News: Particle confirmed as Higgs boson

Associated Press: Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson

Reuters: Strong signs Higgs boson has been found: CERN

Wall Street Journal: New Data Boosts Case for Higgs Boson Find

FOX News: Physicists say they have found long-sought Higgs boson

Washington Post: A closer look at the Higgs boson particle that helps explain what gives matter size and shape

Chicago Tribune: Strong signs Higgs boson has been found: CERN

Sky News: Higgs Boson: Experts Sure Of 'God Particle'

New York Daily News: Physicists say they have discovered crucial subatomic particle known as Higgs boson

Boston Globe: Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson

BBC (UK): LHC cements Higgs boson identification

BusinessWeek: Case for Higgs Boson Strengthened by New CERN Analysis

The Daily Mail (UK): Scientists say they HAVE found the 'God particle' - but admit they still aren't sure what type of Higgs boson it is

The Independent (UK): Have they found the Higgs boson at last? Cern physicists say they're confident of 'God particle' breakthrough

Telegraph (UK): Higgs boson: scientists confident they have discovered the 'God particle'

News Limited (AU): Higgs boson, the God particle, discovered by CERN

US News and World Report: Physicists Observe Higgs Boson, the Elusive 'God Particle'

None of these articles make any links to "God" other than a few -- mostly UK, not US -- sources referring to it as the so-called "God particle", but even those explain exactly what this particle is theorized to be, not anything supernatural, "proving God exists", or having anything whatever to do with God.

Of course Mars supported life... until capitalism killed it.

Haha as a Venezuelan, I thank you for bringing up Chavez and show the world how crazy he was...

Of course Mars supported life... until capitalism killed it.

"In operation just three months, the database already holds files on millions of children identified by name, address and sometimes social security number. Learning disabilities are documented, test scores recorded, attendance noted. In some cases, the database tracks student hobbies, career goals, attitudes toward school â" even homework completion".... link

LOL, WTF. You have no idea what Microsoft is up to here.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/03/us-education-database-idUSBRE92204W20130303
Linked from
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/03/04/135248/100-million-student-database-worries-parents

"The database is a joint project of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which provided most of the funding, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and school officials from several states. Amplify Education, a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, built the infrastructure over the past 18 months. When it was ready, the Gates Foundation turned the database over to a newly created nonprofit, inBloom Inc, which will run it."

Yes, total garbage science.

What do Cameroon, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, Swaziland, and Tanzania have in common? These are countries where the HIV rate is higher among circumcised men than among intact ones. So much for a protection that does not appear in real life numbers.

Science does confirm that circumcision is related to reduced sexual pleasure and other sexual difficulties. Hell, it's been known for centuries!

Also, why no mention of circumcision-related deaths?

How long before North Korea decides to do a space-based EMP burst to take out the IT industry on the Pacific coast? Ever hear of Starfish Prime? It doesn't have to be able to reach the US - 1000 miles away is sufficient (~4200 miles). It's 4700miles for Syria -> Washington.

Good thing the missiles we know about are limited to 800 miles which means a land-based launch on DC would have to come from Bermuda. DC is 1200 miles from Havana, but 750 miles from Atlanta. I'd be securing the Caribbean and Atlantic as well as the exercises around Korea. Mexico is ill-equipped to prevent illegal arms transport while fighting a drug war.

Who's to say they're not already working with Syria on an ICBM with a 5000 mile range? On the other hand, why announce it if you're going to do a pre-emptive strike? That just removed the element of surprise.

Man, I've seen some distorted submissions, but this one takes the cake. Paul was filibustering Obama's nominee to head the CIA, not drones, though he repeatedly hit on themes of the overreach of executive power. It was grandstanding by Paul, period. Its purpose was to get him some exposure in the news cycle, and that was it -- mission accomplished. For what it is worth, *was* is the proper tense; it's been over since 1am EST today)

Yeah, and while we knew there were a bunch before, I think we're def. seeing Dice's hand in all this.

The other posters are right about the shift to video, and Roblimo, who really was off the radar until last month. Here is a Reuters article describing specifically how this company is a spinoff of some other one a couple years ago. So yes, it's absolutely a Slash-vertisement. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/20/idUS120683+20-Mar-2012+BW20120320

Besides your heuristics, let's go even farther. It's these companies that seem to specialize in "protecting/training", with unclear extra motives buried in there. To paraphrase xkcd: "My hobby: watching Anonymous bust open these companies purporting to specialize in providing privacy/security services." Because they're in a position where they can't have ANY incident on their record with the services they sell. Yeah, I sorta don't care if Walmart hoses their data records in some random location branch because that store manager was an idiot. It's Walmart. These security companies are in a different league. Remember HBGary?

And these Slashverts are coming *fast*. No subtle sneak-in. Fast. The question is whether the rest of what used to be slashdot is worth reading anymore if these aggressive slashverts keep barreling at us. It's like a game of Ad-DonkeyKong. Jump over the barrels!

New York City is the headquarters of the United Nations. And the United Nations denied that they have plans to invade Texas: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/24/us-un-texas-duel-idUSBRE87N14A20120824

So if they are denying it, that means that it has already started.

Black invasion helicopters seen flying out of the UN headquarters in New York City in the direction of Texas?

Probably.

Refuse to pay for their own defence? Now that was funny. Next thing you'll tell me is that I'd speak German or Russian now if not you Americans.

Most European nations that are part of NATO are failing to spend anywhere near as much on defense as required by their commitments under the NATO agreements.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/10/us-usa-nato-idUSTRE7591JK20110610

European governments keep calling for help from the US when they have problems in their own backyard because they can't handle it themselves.

Given your nick, I assume you speak German already, and the rest of Europe has been sleeping much more soundly because US troops have been stationed on German soil. And all European nations behind the iron curtain did, in fact, have to learn Russian, including parts of Germany; the iron curtain came down, in large part, because of US defense spending.

Why Not? It's already being tried in Egypt.

spring time... flu season, isn't it? Comes summer with increased risk of food poisoning?

This just hit the news here in Europe:

Britain, France and Germany back multinational tax clampdown
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/02/16/uk-g20-russia-tax-idUKBRE91F00V20130216

(Reuters) - The British, French and German governments launched a joint initiative on Saturday to crack down on tax avoidance by multinational companies that will be presented to a G20 finance leaders meeting in July.

I hope it's not all talk....

Not yet, but if they do, they can win.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/02/27/us-monsanto-lawsuit-idUKTRE81Q1PN20120227

You can buy a Nook and put arch on it.

or perhaps Debian on a kindle fire HD.

I guess I would settle for Bodhi on the Nexus 7

But I have little to no interest in Android (rooted or not) on any of my devices.

I don't quite understand your idealism...Amazon and B&N aren't going to open up their systems because their bottom line depends on DRM content. Samsung can afford to be open with their bootloader because they sell hardware, not content. Amazon doesn't even make any money from kindle sales.

Nearly impossible in academia. I had an engineering class where a group (all non-Indians) handed in a paper they had lifted from a previous year's group. The TA recognized it, because it was his paper.

They failed the paper, but didn't fail the class. Too much red tape. It's nearly impossible to be flunked out for fraud in academia.

Which is why the Harvard Cheating Scandal is so remarkable. They actually took it seriously. Of course, it was only a freshman class.

I rest my case.

Kareem Serageldin, a 39-year-old U.S. citizen who lives in London, is accused of distorting the value of mortgage securities in 2007. U.S. authorities say actions by Serageldin and two others contributed to a $2.7 billion writedown in Credit Suisse's results for 2007.

In February, a grand jury in New York indicted Serageldin on three charges of conspiracy, false record-keeping and wire fraud. Former colleagues David Higgs and Salmaan Siddiqui each pleaded guilty to a single conspiracy count and agreed to cooperate with investigators.

Bloomberg Business Week

E-mails from former Washington Mutual Inc CEO Kerry Killinger read aloud during a congressional hearing this week illustrated clients' concerns about working with Goldman.

In 2007, Killinger discussed hiring Goldman or another investment bank to help Washington Mutual find ways to reduce its credit risk or raise new capital, according to one of the e-mails, which Michigan Democratic Sen Carl Levin read during the hearing.

"I don't trust Goldie on this," Levin quoted one of Killinger's e-mails as saying. "They are smart, but this is swimming with the sharks. They were shorting mortgages big-time while they were giving (Countrywide Financial Corp) advice."

Reuters

Usually people examine evidence and build a case before they rest it.

You touch on a lot of good stuff ()... ISPs are () datacenters, datacenters handle bandwidth... on a large enough scale bandwidth = power.

And power = control, therefore bandwidth = control.

Apparently the U.N. (World Summit on the Information Society) and the German courts believe that bandwidth has become fundamental to modern life.

However, the U.S. still believes it has the option of doing pretty much as they please, so don't expect a corporation acting with its blessing to feel beholden to a set of ideals which may conflict with expediency in the exercise of governmental power or worse, revenue. After all, Constitutional War Powers, the Geneva Conventions of War, Habeas Corpus, Federal Information Surveillance Act, the reasonable search requirements of the Fourth Amendment, and the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (for persons, not artificial persons) have all been under duress from Congress and the president, for quite some time.

Unequal Protection, for those of you who don't mind the intrigues of history, is a good read on the history of the corporate assault on the individual rights of persons, which the architects of the U.S. government attempted to protect from assault by that very same institution. Not that I mind the notion of self determination and fundamental freedoms or my ability to speak my mind, but the hypocrisies apparent in the distribution of power seem undeniable when the interests of corporations dominate the everyday life of individuals in health care, environmental protection, adjudication of legal priority in the contest between religious freedom and the institution of the Church.

The economy is in chaos because the greedheads don't understand reasonable limits, and the weakness of men has unveiled the institutionalized classicism we inherited from our European predecessors and embedded beneath the facade of equality!

It's feudal!

The actual offer has been made on 26th... http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/29/boeing-tesla-idUSL1N0AY11R20130129

It's a feature!

Apple needs something. They're sliding badly in markets outside the USA.

In Asia's trend-setting cities, iPhone fatigue sets in

In Singapore, Apple's products were so dominant in 2010 that more devices here ran its iOS operating system per capita than anywhere else in the world.

But StatCounter gs.statcounter.com, which measures traffic collected across a network of 3 million websites, calculates that Apple's share of mobile devices in Singapore - iPad and iPhone - declined sharply last year. From a peak of 72 percent in January 2012, its share fell to 50 percent this month, while Android devices now account for 43 percent of the market, up from 20 percent in the same month last year.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/27/us-apple-asia-idUSBRE90Q0IV20130127

The infidels not wanting child labour is their way of doing things and it works in many countries that aren't rich - children go to school and learn to read and write amongst other things. Pakistani 15 year olds not being able to go to school is Pakistan's problem and responsibility to fix[1]. When the technology gets better, you're not going to be able to make better and cheaper footballs by hand. Unless you are really cheap - which is not a good place to be in this world.

[1] The dismal state of Pakistan is mostly due to Pakistanis:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/world/asia/attackers-in-pakistan-kill-anti-polio-workers.html?_r=0
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/09/us-pakistan-schoolgirl-idUSBRE8980EB20121009

And why are Pakistanis getting money, help and jobs from infidels? Why not get money and help from rich muslim brothers in the Middle East?

To drive me last comment home, I did a quick Google search. According to this article, Verizon's profit margin is at over 40%. They could easily offer their customers a better experience and still make a nice profit but they instead choose to line their pockets since they don't have enough competition to justify putting more money towards customer experience.

If the ban remains, Indonesia could impose retaliatory duties on the U.S. exports equal to the amount of trade it has lost, which one analyst estimated at about $16 million per year. The United States could also comply by offering Indonesia new trade concessions, as it has done in some other disputes where Congress was unwilling to change the law.

Maybe Indonesia could get with Antigua and they could pool their resources on this warez site.

Kleptomania is likely an opioid-related disorder (as an opioid antagonist seems to control it).

I would grant you that the social environment has evolved if there was true understanding of the role of the opioid receptor in compulsive behaviors. Alcoholism, abuse of street drugs, problem gambling, and binge eating are all based on opioid receptors, and are significantly impacted by naltrexone.

There is no such understanding. The social order has not evolved significantly. Pretending that we have evolved is not evolution. We are barely beyond apes; we just happen to have iPhones.

Where there is no profit, there is no research (at least in this field).

No!

Former Microsoft executive says CEO Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is not the right leader for the world's largest software company but holds his grip on it by systematically forcing out any rising manager who challenges his authority, claims a former senior executive who has written a book about his time at the company.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/22/us-microsoft-book-idUKBRE90L04320130122 [reuters.com]

Former Microsoft executive says CEO Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is not the right leader for the world's largest software company but holds his grip on it by systematically forcing out any rising manager who challenges his authority, claims a former senior executive who has written a book about his time at the company.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/22/us-microsoft-book-idUKBRE90L04320130122

Drug companies often find that biological science from academia cannot be reproduced (or is much less robust than indicated. Amgen and Bayer have both published on this topic, and when they called the researchers to ask why, they were told that the bettter results had been picked for the publication. Reuters article

The article has inexplicably vanished. Here's the text from the Google cache while it lasts:

Microsoft needed a great Christmas season. After years of product stagnation, and a big market shift toward mobile devices from PCs, Microsoft’s future relied on the company seeing customers demonstrate they were ready to jump in heavily for Windows8 products – including the new Surface tablet.

But that did not happen.

With the data now coming it, it is clear the market movement away from Microsoft products, toward Apple and Android products, has not changed. On Christmas eve, as people turned on their new devices and launched their first tweet, Surface came in dead last – a mere 2% compared to the number of people tweeting from iPads (Kindle was second, Android third.) Looking at more traditional units shipped information, UBS analysts reported Surface sales were 5% of iPads shipped. And usability reviews continue to run highly negative for Surface and Win8.

PC sales declining

This inability to make a big splash, and mount a serious attack on Apple/Android domination, is horrific for Microsoft primarily because we now know that traditional PC sales are well into decline. Despite the big Win8 launch and promotion, holiday PC sales declined over 3% compared to 2011 as journalists reported customers found “no compelling reason to upgrade.” Ouch!

Looking deeper, for the 4th quarter PC sales declined by almost 5% according to Gartner research, and by almost 6.5% according to IDC. Both groups no longer expect a rebound in PC shipments, as they believe homes will no longer have more than 1 PC due to the mobile device penetration – the market where Surface and Win8 phones have failed to make any significant impact or move beyond a tiny market share. Users increasingly see the complexity of shifting to Win8 as not worth the effort; and if a switch is to be made consumer and businesses now favor iOS and Android.

Microsoft’s monopoly over personal computing has evaporated

From 95% market domination in 2005 share has fallen to just 20% in 2012 (IDC, Goldman Sachs.) Comparing devices, in 2005 there were 55 Windows de

Except it's to avoid US tax they are doing this. Reuters article.

Fanboi should read something other than MacNews... Samsung has been outselling Apple for quite a while, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Your unreferenced claim is, in fact, incorrect - Apple has sold more iPhones (all models) than Samsung GALAXY phones. Not all Samsung smartphones. Samsung has led the smartphone sales for over a year and is predicted to continue to do so for the next 5 years.

See http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/15/uk-boeing-dreamliner-ntsb-idUSLNE90E00Y20130115

This looks bad.

I hope Boeing can [manage|subcontract] themselves out of this before they go broke...

Or just pay millions of dollars to get a fat pipe out of the Chicago and New York stock exchange, write a program that bases itself on the Black-Scholes equation, and take advantage of all the traders that aren't operating on the millisecond timescale.

There's always that option too. Oh and if you're too lazy to watch kill switch connected to your billion-dollar monster, just ask that your bogus trades be cancelled when all hell breaks loose.

source = http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/01/us-usa-nyse-tradinghalts-idUSBRE8701BN20120801

Which subsidies are those? Surely you can point out some specific ones.

Surely.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/29/us-obama-energy-idUSBRE82S11P20120329

Wrong. There is excess capacity.

What really happens is that excess refinery capacity is either mothballed or used to manufacture products for export.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/21/valero-klesse-idUSWEN981620110321

With the crappy worldwide economy and high prices of crude demand for gasoline is decreasing.

Balanced information:

U.S. regulators say Boeing 787 is safe but needs review.

FAA Orders Review Of Boeing 787 Dreamliner quote: "... we are confident about the safety of this aircraft, but we are concerned about these incidents."

A bigger issue: When composite burns it releases poisons. I haven't seen any discussion of Boeing's view of that. Here is a PDF file: Postcrash Health Hazards from Burning Aircraft Composites.

There is NO intent in saying that to imply that a 787 might crash. But if there is a runway or other accident, would passengers be less likely to survive?

All of us balance our own checkbook at the end of every single month, and try our best to live within our means.

Consumer debt is at all time high: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/20/us-usa-economy-households-idUSBRE88J0X520120920

Anecdotally, I bought a house recently for ~250k. The seller bitched that he was moving due to high taxes. While going through to the motions, we see there is a 200k debt against the house (covered by our 250k). So at some point, on a house he paid 80k for, the seller had gone deep into debt by borrowing against the house. They added to the house, built a very nice detached workshop, bought a collectable Mustang that sat in the garage and a fancy Harley. But taxes were too damn high.

I can think of a dozen family members that have done the same. Bought up property, fancy cars, all on debt and are now up their ass in problems.

It's an oversimplification to suggest that the US Government just needs to fix it's spending habits. It's an institutional problem that extends well beyond Washington DC.

First off, RoundUp is the most talked about, but far from the only pesticide used

Second, the whole big thing with pesticide resistant crops is that it allows you to use more of the pesticide on your farm. This is leading to increased pesticides in soil.

Manufacturers have a history of toxic pesticides being used than proven dangerous decades later only to be replaced by new products.

We are now getting reports that manure compost is testing at times with high enough levels of herbicides to post a problem.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/02/us-usa-study-pesticides-idUSBRE89100X20121002

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/10/how-gmos-ramped-us-pesticide-use

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/genetically-modified-crops-pesticides_n_1931020.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/pesticides-gmo-monsanto-roundup-resistance_n_1936598.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090817143610.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8308903.stm

http://www.motherearthnews.com/killer-compost-herbicide-contamination-zl0z1211zkin.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Human

GMOs infected non GMO products. Yes, we were originally told this wasn't a risk.

The SCIENCE is there...you just want to be ignorant.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129010499

...Former governor Richardson, Google's Schmidt arrive in North Korea
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/07/us-korea-north-richardson-idUSBRE90600A20130107

I suspect a correlation between Google's move in China and Schmidt's "private, humanitarian" visit to NK. Methinks the almighty dollar may be taking precedence over principle.

Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State ... and judicial Proceedings of every other State.

Arizona would like to argue your point with you.
They have been sued for legally passing a law and attempting to enforce it. But I guess you will ignore cases that don't match your viewpoint while trotting out that statement when it does match your viewpoint.