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Too late.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphone-explosion-las-vegas/
https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/14...
https://www.thestate.com/news/...

I could keep going down the google search results, but I'm sure you get the point.

Really? did you read those articles? The first one looks like a 3rd party fixit shop who may or may not have installed a new battery incorrectly. Here are some of the shinier nuggets from the other two:

In all the weird ways people destroy their phones, O’Neal said, he’s yet to come across someone whose battery blew up in their pocket.

“We’ve definitely seen phones that have been shot with BB guns, phones ran over and ones severely bent,” O’Neal says. “Even in all those cases, the battery did not explode or ignite.”

While phone-battery explosions are rare, they do occur. In January, an Apple store in Zurich, Switzerland, had to be evacuated after a worker at the store attempted to extract a battery from an iPhone, according to a CNN story.

I positively love this one, a classic case of 'replace user':

Also in January, an iPhone battery blew up in a man’s face when he bit into it in an electronics store in China. Newsweek reported on the incident.

Thanks for those links, I laughed my ass off while reading the last one.

Too late.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphone-explosion-las-vegas/ https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/14... https://www.thestate.com/news/...

I could keep going down the google search results, but I'm sure you get the point.

FAKE NEWS!!!!

30 Chinese assets executed. Iranians use Google to break into a classified information system. Covertly funded "Friendly rebels" become ISIS. Obama was one of the worst presidents ever.

If you dig down into the references, you see that the first realization that there was a problem dates back to 2006, two years before Obama was elected:
Reidy asserts that he first detected vulnerabilities in a CIA program in 2006, according to the appeal filing obtained by McClatchy. source: https://www.thestate.com/news/...

So how did Russia get the names of US agents, one former FSB and one current FSB, and one hotel cleaner, six days after Trump got the unredacted piss memo with the names of those agents in?

I'm not sure what your point is. The article here is about one intelligence failure, which was in 2011. You're asking about a different intelligence failure, six years later. The existence of one intelligence failure doesn't say much about the other one.

...There is ONE article by "Zach Dorfman and Jenna McLaughlin" and this is it. Just because you read it, don't assume its true.

Yes, it is one article. Once you read it, however, you see that there were earlier articles on the same leak which just didn't have the actual details.
https://www.pulitzer.org/files/2015/national-reporting/mcclatchy/10mcclatchy2015.pdf. (alternate source: https://www.kentucky.com/news/...) :

John Reidy, a former CIA contractor, recently cited his frustration with the inspector general’s handling of his case in his appeal to the new intelligence community panel. Reidy claimed he was demoted and eventually fired in retaliation after he tried to raise the alarm in 2007 on an “intelligence failure” by the spy agency. His lawyer McClanahan said he understood that “the intelligence failure involved U.S. government activity that was supposed to be covert but was done in such a bungled way that it was virtually guaranteed to be discovered.” CIA inspector general investigators didn’t interview Reidy until two years after he first went to them and then only after being directed to do so by the House Intelligence Committee, McClanahan said.

Or here: https://www.emptywheel.net/201...

he [Reid]described what by 2010 had become a “catastrophic intelligence failure[]” in which “upwards of 70% of our operations had been compromised.” The problem appears to have arisen because “the US communications infrastructure was under siege,” which sounds like CIA may have gotten hacked. At least by 2007, he had warned that several of the CIA’s operations had been compromised, with some sources stopping all communications suddenly and others providing reports that were clearly false, or “atmospherics” submitted as solid reporting to fluff reporting numbers. By 2011 the government had appointed a Task Force to deal with the problem he had identified years earlier, though some on that Task Force didn’t even know how long the problem had existed or that Reidy had tried to alert the CIA and Congress to the problem. All that seems to point to the possibility that tech contractors had set up a reporting system that had been compromised by adversaries

Or here: https://www.thestate.com/news/...

That was actually in the news three years ago, but because of secrecy, the details of exactly what he warned about was left out. Now we know: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/ne... or https://www.thestate.com/news/...

"The CIA case involves former contractor John Reidy, who asserts he was punished after warning of a “catastrophic failure” in the spy agency’s operations. “It was a recipe for disaster,” Reidy wrote in his appeal, which was redacted by intelligence officials. “We had a catastrophic failure on our hands that would ensnare a great many of our sources.” His lawyer, Kel McClanahan, said Reidy was in charge of identifying foreign sources and systems in the telecommunications and computer fields that would be of interest to U.S. intelligence agencies.

Reidy also was responsible for developing intelligence operations against those targets, his lawyer said. McClanahan said his client is not permitted to discuss the case in more detail even with him because the CIA says the information is classified.

Reidy asserts that he first detected vulnerabilities in a CIA program in 2006, according to the appeal filing obtained by McClatchy. Signs of the problems included “anomalies in our operations and conflicting intelligence reporting that indicated several of our operations had been compromised,” he wrote, adding that he noticed “sources abruptly and without reason ceasing all communications with us.”

What's frightening is that you'd choose a crazy bigoted egomaniac over a fairly unremarkable Democrat who has become the devil incarnate to right-wingers somehow. I never understood the incredible amount of hate that US conservatives have for Hillary. Since she's a huge war-hawk by Dem standards, you'd think they might even find her more tolerable.

hillary was beloved by republicans back when. “I have a sense that she is one of the more competent members of the current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might perform were she to be president,” -Dick Cheney http://dailycaller.com/2011/09... "Look, if we had a Clinton presidency, if we had Erskine Bowles as Chief of Staff of the White House or president of the United States, I think we would have fixed this fiscal mess by now. That's not the kind of presidency we're dealing with right now." - Paul Ryan http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bi... “Having started as a secretary and eventually become a chief-executive officer, I not only have great admiration and respect for Hillary Clinton and her candidacy and her leadership, but I also have great empathy, I must tell you, for what she went through,” -Carly Fiorina http://www.todayszaman.com/wor... “I happen to like Hillary Clinton; I think she’s done a good job for the ... secretary of state’s position, and I have high respect for her and think a great deal of her.” - Orrin Hatch http://www.politico.com/story/... “I think the international star is Secretary Clinton. She has done a really tremendous job.” John McCain http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2... "She's dedicated to her job, she loves her country, I think she is a good role model, one of the most effective Secretary of States, greatest ambassadors for the American people that I've known in my lifetime." -Lindsey Graham http://www.thestate.com/news/p... "I think she's done a fine job. The problem isn't Hilary Clinton, who's great," -Condoleeza Rice http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_...

Getting the facts completely wrong seems to be the main defining feature of nuclear fanbois. These delays are self-inflicted. http://www.thestate.com/2014/0...

"setbacks stem from a delay in fabrication and delivery of modules from Chicago Bridge & Iron out of Lake Charles, La., SCE&G officials said. They said 100 out of 146 project milestones have been completed, but many of them are being delayed because of a large structural module called a CAO1 that has not been delivered by CB&I.

SCE&G officials said as many as half of the construction milestones could fall outside the 18-month construction window allowed by state regulators under the existing Summer guidelines.

The delay revealed last year was estimated by SCE&G to cost about $278 million. In April, the S.C. Energy Users Committee and the Sierra Club took SCE&G to the Supreme Court asking that those cost delays be borne by SCE&G, not ratepayers, after the PSC ruled the charges could be passed off to the public."

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2014/0...

SCE&G, which is building the plants with state-owned utility Santee Cooper and has a 55 percent stake in the project, won regulatory approval to raise rates annually for its current customers to help pay for the construction of the nuclear power plants. SCE&G ratepayers already have ponied up numerous increases for the nuclear project, the latest one approved in May. “We have warned from the start of this risky project that it would face significant delays and cost increases, so there is unfortunately no big surprise in SCE&G’s stunning news,” said Tom Clements, director of Savannah River Site Watch (SRS Watch). “SCE&G ratepayers, already facing seven rate increases to pay in advance for the nuclear project, will likely take it on the chin by the cost increases due to the announced delays.” Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2014/0...

here are links to some articles i found on the first page of google: http://inhabitat.com/nyc/new-york-citys-bureaucracy-slowing-down-construction-of-residential-solar-panels/ http://www.thestate.com/2012/10/14/2480345/why-solar-power-rarely-shines.html http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/solar-at-home/2009/06/04/what-you-really-need-to-install-solar-a-cpa/

from the first page of google : http://inhabitat.com/nyc/new-york-citys-bureaucracy-slowing-down-construction-of-residential-solar-panels/ http://www.thestate.com/2012/10/14/2480345/why-solar-power-rarely-shines.html http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/solar-at-home/2009/06/04/what-you-really-need-to-install-solar-a-cpa/

They do an excellent job down there with this.

The people saying this is justified to combat voter fraud seem especially ridiculous here on slashdot, which theoretically is a bastion of scientific skepticism and empiricism, when there is absolutely no evidence at all for it being anything more than a tiny fraction of a percent of votes. It's a scare tactic used by authoritarians to drum up support for antidemocratic measures such as this. It's extremely depressing to see a site like this use anecdotal "well I saw plenty of people spoofing votes, trust me" as somehow equal to actual evidence.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/washington/12fraud.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/23/2164540/state-election-commission-finds.html#.UF4CX1H5DZQ
http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20120524/APC010405/305240040/Recall-Roundup-Numbers-don-t-support-fraud-fears-story-video-?nclick_check=1
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/policy_brief_on_the_truth_about_voter_fraud/
http://www.salon.com/2008/04/28/scotus_2/

They announced the SC National Guard is going to start practicing with UAVs. The National Guard unit is one specifically tasked to civil disorder operations and "homeland security"......

http://www.thestate.com/2011/12/21/2087491/sc-guard-unit-to-fly-small-uav.html

Or click on this link to read the brief in a South Carolina newspaper.

In trying to understand why he seems so adamant to grandstand at this particular time, it might help to know that he's planning to run for governor next year. I'm not saying he's a whore who's only doing it for that reason, mind you. Perish the thought that a politician would be so cynical!

The only site with a decent image.

A little more info

Some more bits of info

As can be seen from the first link, the object is not fractured along natural lines and is definitely axe-shaped. It is not some irregular thing that could have been formed by a boulder smashing down a river.

The material is not flint. I am not certain what it is, but it's not a flint.

It's not so much that, it's that our prison system is severely underfunded. SC spends less per prisoner than any other state and has a higher per capita prison population than most. We just don't have enough guards to properly enforce rules.

It's gotten so bad that the head of the Dept. of Corrections wants to let nonviolent offenders go early to save money and ease the crowding.

In case you get a registration page, here are a few more links to the story:

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/08/04/Tampabay/Dolphin _rescued_from_.shtml
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl -817speedodolphin,0,7853284.story
http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/080506/tp2c h6.htm?date=080506&story=tp2ch6.htm
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/1 5297167.htm

From the San Jose Mercury News article a few days back:

Monday's earnings call ``will provide investors the first opportunity to press both McNealy and Lehman at the same time to see if they are on the same page in terms of the magnitude of any restructuring,'' Sacconaghi wrote. ``A major restructuring move appears to require a shift in CEO McNealy's traditional sentiment regarding head count, which may be difficult to effect or cause a leadership struggle within the company.''

Sacconaghi estimated Sun would need to cut 10,350 to 12,150 jobs -- or 27 percent to 31 percent of its worldwide workforce of about 39,000 -- to reach an acceptable operating margin. But he added, that magnitude ``would be difficult to execute without potentially undermining the business.''

You can find several other articles that say essentially the same thing if you want to hunt for them.

Microsoft Enters The Living Room
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 8, 2004 (AP)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/08/tech/mai n648325.shtml
[about the announcement of Windows Media Center Edition 2005, not the Xbox]

Microsoft Unveils New Xbox 360
REDMOND, Wash., May 13, 2005 (AP)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/13/tech/mai n695041.shtml

Xbox 360 beats PlayStation to Japan stores
HANS GREIMEL
Associated Press (Posted on Thu, Dec. 08, 2005)
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/business/1335 5006.htm

Gates Highlights Windows Vista Program
By MAY WONG, AP Technology Writer Thu Jan 5, 3:53 AM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060105/ap_on_hi_te/ga dget_show_gates

MTV, Microsoft team up for online music
ALEX VEIGA
Associated Press (Thursday, Jan 12, 2006)
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/enterta inment/13398835.htm

That's just from 5 minutes of Googling. Someone with a Lexis account could produce pages and pages of AP stories about Microsoft products.

Sure, the media likes to ooh and ahh over Apple, but the media likes to ooh and ahh over everything. It's ridiculous to suggest that a similar product announcement from Microsoft wouldn't go out over the AP wire.

"... Military action was now seen as inevitable," the MI-6 chief said at the meeting, according to the memo. "Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD," weapons of mass destruction.

The memo said "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

It's not the RFIDs. It's not even the ubiquitous readers that Texas will install along roads. It is, as you point out, the Texas police state that will invade our privacy. Just like when Sir Giuliani got the (RFID) EZ-Pass installed in NYC, promising that tollbooth records would be protected by requiring probable cause, court order, etc - but turned out that any lawyer with $50 could get a copy from the cops. The RFID tech is relevant because the RFID industry is lobbying these lying politicians to buy their products, with private promises of easy privacy invasion, and public lies.

Just chiming in to mention that Hollings has retired, our new junior senator from South Carolina is rather significantly more embarrasing to the state

Also many states are required by their own laws to balance their budgets.

South Carolina, where I live now, is one of those states. For a while, we had a governor who didn't care and the state had a huge financial crisis. So we elected a governor with a reputation for being a penny pincher and, two years later, it looks like the budget is getting back on solid ground.

I'm originally from California, so I have some sympathy for the state, especially since most of my family lives there. We'll be done with our governor in 2010, and if things are still bad out there maybe you can borrow him for a few years. Just make sure you keep him well-supplied with grits and cheap khakis. Oh, and he may need a couple of live pigs if the state legislature gets out of hand.

Nuclear rockets on cars? probably not, but, as many people here have pointed out, nuclear powered cars are probably not too far off. Tritium is pretty DARN safe(it won't penetrate human skin) and hopefully it(or something like it) will someday be produced in enough quantity so we can have batteries powered by it. Imagine a car or laptop that would run for years on a "relatively" little amount of this crud. I don't doubt that developing a nuclear engine for space travel would have a seriously postive effect on getting radioactive batteries produced.

Anyhoo, NASA has produced a lot more than new rockets, how about catalytic converters that work when cold and cost 25% less.

Here is another great blurb on Tritium from the guy that made the Wooden Periodic Table Table.

The fact is that Nader remains a viable candidate

Our paper is pretty good for the area where I live. They do report news and perspectives from the surrounding towns, not just the big city. I know when I lived in a more rural area, though, it was harder to find relevant news in the paper.

That being said, there are a lot of people in the Upstate and the Lowcountry who object to the name of the paper being The State because it mostly covers the Midlands, which is only 1/3 of the state. It tends to favor stories about state government because the capitol is here, and plenty of people complain that it's biased in one direction or another. However, I still think it's one of the better local papers I've read.

Actually, your rant is very timely. I read this article on the same subject in the newspaper this morning. Unfortunately, idea that discipline problems disrupt teaching is the sort of problem that doesn't have an easy solution, so often gets overlooked.

Don't think so, but Parma ham must be made in Parma. And Feta cheese must be made in Greece.

Based on new data, the Commerce Department said the GDP -- the country's total output of goods and services -- shrank by 0.5 percent at an annual rate in the July-September quarter of 2000. Previously, the government had said GDP was rising at a weak annual rate of 0.6 percent during that quarter.

The GDP returned to positive territory in the October-December quarter of 2000, rising at an annual rate of 2.1 percent, before slipping back into negative territory in the first quarter of 2001. The first, second and third quarters of 2001 all experienced falling GDP as the country slogged through its first recession since 1990-91.

The National Bureau of Economic Research, the official arbiter of when recessions begin and end, has determined that the recession began in March 2001 and ended in November of that year.

So, Neocon, according to the revised figures the recession did not begin during Clinton's term, contrary to your original false claim as well as your last half-dozen accusations against the accuracy of my conclusions.

No, because theoretically there can be multiple universes.

What function does NASA serve?

Could those functions be served more efficiently by multiple, smaller, privately run organizations?

Why spend so much on manned flights when all of the experiments are simple enough to be automated?

One advantage of a privately run organization is that they can take risks.

When did space travel become something that has to be risk free, with every death being a tragedy?

In the year 2002 42,850 people died in automobile crashes in the US . These deaths accomplished nothing.

What if a fraction of that number, say 500 people, died every year in an attempt to increase humanity's capability to get off this rock. Would that be such a tragedy?

One of the things that has really bothered me during the whole SSSCA debate is the media coverage, or lack thereof. I live in South Carolina, and I've never even ONCE heard any mention of this issue from any SC-based media outlet. A quick search of some newspaper archives (Columbia's The State and Charleston's Post and Courier) confirms this. It seems that most of the state adores Hollings and most news stories present him in glowing fashion. I just find it sad that very few of the people actually responsible for putting and keeping this guy in office even hear about major policy he is spearheading. If that's not a breakdown of democracy, I don't know what is.