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will be as effective as geting MS to show code to competitors.

The ruling here calls for an injunction for the anticompetitive behavior. Even though defendants deny such behavior, if cds stay at the same price for a longish period of time (say, a year), the state ag's will rush in and once again do their thing.

And according to the NV AG ,the music bohemoths donated 5.5 million cds to charities like ibraries, where you can rip away to your heart's content.

Or rip from the radio to your PC. This has got to frighten the RIAA.

Here in Clark County, Nevada, the very same Ms. Ferguson from the article was our elections supervisor at one time. She came in to the job, stayed just long enough to throw out all our old machines that had some kind of an audit trail and bought brand new totally electronic, un-auditable voting machines which violate state law from Sequoia Inc.

She only got the machines approved by the most ridiculous of explanations: A Printout of the memory card is just as good a audit trail as real ballots. Read about it here in our local paper. What did Ms. Ferguson do after leaving Clark County? Why she went to Santa Clara County in CA, where she stayed just long enough to throw out any auditable voting machines and replaced them with fully electronic voting machines from Sequoia.

After that, where did Ms. Ferguson go? Why she accepted a position as a Vice President... of Sequoia systems!

Do I think there is some wild conspiracy here? Nope. It's just a case of a political hack on the take, who doesn't care about the laws of the state that she is supposed to enforce.

Plus, I think the Slashdot crowd understands full well how when you have critical software apps that are closed source, you are essentially outsourcing control of your apps. So any county that has these fully electronic devices has outsourced election security to the low bidder. Egads.

-=FZX

A better place would be the deep granite formations of the northeast. But you gotta be kidding politically. Vermont and New Hampshire delegations even got a law through way back in 1987 prohibiting any consideration of granite for nuclear waste storage. Incredible NIMBY policital shortsightedness.

Don't get me wrong, I beleive Yucca mountain will be fine. The amount of isolation is incredible. And I don't believe it'll be there more than 100 years, I think we'll be pullin it back out and using the isotopes for something by then.

Flying waste into space is such a economically and politically unfeasable solution that I must assume that you are joking. Technical considerations that you mentioned aside, we have enough fears of rouge groups throwing huge rocks back down at the earth, imagine what kind of damage intercepting and redirecting thousands of tons of radioactive material back at the earth would accomplish. Now in some distant future when terrorism and wars aren't a concern, disposing of nuclear waste by launching it into the Sun does sound like the only safe way of truely disposing of the stuff. Until that time though, we are stuck with a closed system that we still called Earth...

Flying waste into space is such a economically and politically unfeasable solution that I must assume that you are joking. Technical considerations that you mentioned aside, we have enough fears of rouge groups throwing huge rocks back down at the earth, imagine what kind of damage intercepting and redirecting thousands of tons of radioactive material back at the earth would accomplish. Now in some distant future when terrorism and wars aren't a concern, disposing of nuclear waste by launching it into the Sun does sound like the only safe way of truely disposing of the stuff. Until that time though, we are stuck with a closed system that we still called Earth...

It's not even so much the storage of nuclear waste in the Yucca mountain are that annoys many - but rather the transportation of the material across the U.S.

The current proposals to move said waste involve using barges across many waterways including the Great Lakes.

Not only that, but a new transportation would be starting every four hours, using trucks that haven't even finished the design stage yet, designed each to move at only an average of 20-30 miles an hour, carrying 75 or 125 tons at a time

Not that storing the material in one central area isn't a good idea - but moving it in this manner may be more dangerous than anything we've ever encountered with nuclear material - especially the responsibility is handed over to the private sector.

Ryan Fenton

I found this page at Nevada's DMV sites. Doesn't have the nuke one, but it has others:

http://nevadadmv.state.nv.us/platesmain.htm

Someone else posted the new nuke one:
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2002/ALLPOLITICS/04/26/atomic . icenseplates.ap/story.nevada.license.ap.jpg

A number of charitable organizations and causes have proposed special license plates which may or may not actually be issued, depending on public demand for them. These are called "Letter of Intent" plates. Motorists interested in seeing the plates produced fill out a Letter of Intent stating they would purchase a set. A given type of plate will be produced if the Department receives more than 250 requests for it before the date listed on the form.

(See Nevada License Plates)

On the other hand, you'd have to get the Legislature's approval...

The Nevada Secretary of State Corporation Search gives us.

• President:MAURICE O'BANNON
• 
  Address: PO BOX 27103
  LAS VEGAS NV 89126

• vx2 (VX52-DOM)
• 
  po box 27103
  Las Vegas, NV 89126
  US

  Domain Name: VX2.CC

  212 255 1008 fax: 123 123 1234

"Maurice O'Bannon" is mentioned in several legal documents related to the J.K. Publications scam. In that case, O'Bannon was on paper an officer or director of several dummy Nevada corporations which were fronting for a multimillion dollar phony credit card billing scam operated by Kenneth Taves of Malibu, CA. (Mr. Taves is currently Inmate #12289-112 at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center). O'Bannon, though, appears to be some guy in Nevada who just signed whatever was put in front of him. In the judge's words [large .PDF] "Maurice O'Bannon had an informal agreement with Nevada Corporate Headquarters, Inc., an incorporator, to act as a nominee for their client-corporations and sign whatever documents Nevada Corp wanted him to sign." The judge was bothered by O'Bannon's actions, but the FTC didn't have enough evidence that he had control of or profited from the scam to put him away.

The J.K. publications scam involved obtaining a database of 3.6 million valid credit card numbers and charging them small amounts each, supposedly for use of a porno site. The mess involved offshore bank accounts in the Cayman Islands and Vanatu, but much of the money has been recovered. Company names involved were JK Publications, Inc., MJD Service Corp., Netfill, N-Bill, Webtel, Billing On Line, Fun On Line, and Discreet Bill.

We're not at the bottom of this yet, but it looks very suspicious.

The link for the state-records does not work. Should have been: http://sos.state.nv.us/corpsrch.asp

Looking up "Maurice O'Bannon" in Google, we find that name associated with a major Internet fraud case in Nevada and California involving $37 million of phony credit card charges which resulted in jail time for some of the participants.

Uh oh. Spyware from people involved with credit card fraud is big trouble. This needs to be followed up with law enforcement.

-S

He was NOT prosecuted for his speech (officially - the speech could very well have provoked Adobe/FBI). He was charged with a DMCA violation for selling, FROM RUSSIA a product which violated the DMCA. He was in RUSSIA at the time of activity which the US is officially prosecuting him for. It was legal there.

It would be like me, here in beautiful Nevada, driving 75 in a 75 mph zone and travelling to Connecticut and getting a speeding ticket for having driven 75 because the maximum speed limit in Connecticut is only 55.

As an example, let's look at the massive NIMBY effect, as it pertains to nuclear storage in Nevada. The near-violent opposition to building Yucca Mountain is a result of how the public perceives risk. A few factors play into risk. Whether or not the individual has control over risk is an important factor - e.g., cigarettes and driving are dangerous but we can elect to do them or not, but air pollution is out of our control and therefore more scary. How well the mechanism is understood, how simple the danger is can change our perception. The toxic effects of nuclear materials are exotic and subtle, while, say, getting hit by a foul ball at a baseball game is fairly straightforward.

The problem with anything nuclear is that it is exotic and high-tech, not wholly under control, the effects are unknown, and the public must place most of its trust in officials who have been duplicitous in the past.

Now my point: nuclear storage must be accomplished. I suggest that, before you condemn the 'green freaks' for lowering the profit margins of a few energy companies, you consider what it is they were 'howling' about. Lobbyists who were salivating over the prospect of a country run on 'clean' nuclear fuel all these years never revealed the massive challenges of waste storage, and this generation must live with their legacy: hundreds of temporary storage pools dotting the countryside, each nearing the end of their design life.

Now, even though NASA has much more credibility (even though it's eroding) with the public, the public is not about to take the risk of launching nuclear payloads and/or stages.

Besides, even if the probability of nuclear debris being scattered over the Eastern seaboard is e-6, isn't that sufficient to not embark on such a foolhardy venture, which in fact it would be under that statistical estimate, due to the fact that the dangers are so great?

Ya know, it kind of irks me when people trash environmentally-sensitive citizens. We are not all Druids, but we expect to be able to put our trust in our leaders that such matters will be managed with some of the same concerns for the country and our health that we have. We generally have no position of advocacy (i.e., we don't profit directly from these projects), and I doubt that the threat of rolling blackouts is enough to make us roll over and cry 'Uncle'. It's just more important than that. I would rather freeze in the dark than glow in it (both analogies are extreme, heh).

Likewise (to stay On-Topic), taking the risk of sending nuclear materials on a trajectory whose Instantaneous Impact Point (IPP) crosses the entire right coast, or even anywhere on this planet does not seem to weigh in enough to tip the scales. Now if we needed nuclear rockets to save some of the inhabitants of the planet due to the fact that this planet is so crapped up that it can no longer sustain life, then sure, do whatever it takes to send the telephone sanitizers skyward.

Nevada has no state lottery. It is forbidden by the Nevada state constitution, Article 4, Section 24, Subsection 1 and 2. We know how stupid they are. The nearest place to play the lottery is a small convience store on I-15 just on the other side of the california border.

It's difficult, but all you need to practice law legally is to have passed that Bar exam

The requirements for practicing law vary by state (in the United States). In the state of Nevada, for example,

"Each applicant is required to have completed all requirements for graduation with a J.D. or LL.B. degree from a law school approved by the American Bar Association. Neither private study, correspondence study or law office training, nor age or experience may be substituted for law school education."

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There is one industry (and its regulators) that must deal with RNGs on a nearly daily basis: the Gambling (excuse me, "gaming") Industry. The question is, what sort of hardware or software RNGs do they use, and how do the various regulators (e.g. the Electronic Services Division of the Nevada State Gaming Board) verify that the RNGs are random enough?

It was mentioned in the original "Ask Slashdot" question how to start a non-profit. I am not a lawyer, however I have recently incorporated my own non-profit in the state of Nevada. It is relatively easy and relatively inexpensive(I think I paid the Secretary of State $45 for everything). Now this does not get you 501(c)(3) non-profit status, but it is the first step. You can check out the State of Nevada's Secretary of State page at: this URL.
Stuart Eichert
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