Didn't face nearly as much opposition. It was up for months and Nintendo never really gave a care. Only when the author wanted to sell a version did Nintendo strongly suggest that he invent his own characters. But you can still play Crossover for free.
Nintendo seems picky and choosy about this stuff. Sort of like Atari!
I want to get one just for that reason. Sitting down and spending hours tweaking the settings of an XPadder setup to get a controller working "hrnnn kinda sorta" with a game meant for mouse and keyboard rarely pays off the way it feels like it should.
can it be coincidence that both "characters" have advanced chemistry backgrounds specializing in the formation of crystals
can it be coincidence that the bust comes right on the heels of the federal government almost seemingly without sanity declaring bitcoin "real currency"
can it be coincidence that all of this comes just as the show "breaking bad" is coming to an end?
will the judge, at sentencing, have to have a computer monitor displaying the current value of bitcoin, and gavel it in and speak the value aloud, JUST at that moment?
or will they press charges on his 3.6 million dollars of bitcoin even after it's worth a wooden nickle?
It seems to me that three counts of conspiracy can be thrown out of court or at worse will not represent a very firm sentencing.
I don't think this guy should get a hard sentence any way. He's just a merchant.
This is more like an experiment for the FBI to see if it's possible to seize this new form of asset, and to see how valuable it is once they've seized it.
Recall, that bitcoin was recently upgraded to the designation "actual money". VERY recently.
It's all basically in tandem. Hard to have pressed charges on him or his friends if they're just wildly playing russian roulette with a bunch of digital thingamabobber whatsits.
Entirely different if it fetched the grand master 3.2 million dollars of actually now-recognized "real currency".
i bet these hornets are more of a worry in canada than in the united states.
no matter where they hide in the united states, unless it's death valley, people are going to run into them and report the fact that bugs the size of their head have been spotted.
if these go into canada and can survive there, they can easily find plenty of space to reproduce for many generations unnoticed and undisturbed. by the time they're encountered they'll be numerous.
i imagine they will move into the giant beaver dam that's up there. and eat all the beavers.
It's total bullshit to blame a handful of relatively anonymous California grade school teachers for the failure of an Apple security feature. You might as well go all the way and blame them for several "immutable laws" of information and security.
Including the costs of a keyboard, a stand, a tiny piece of (potentially unreliable solid state) flash to make up for the "32GB" model really coming with 16GB of remaning capacity, the price point compares to a fairly decent, new, fully featured laptop.
That doesn't include the cost of realistically including a large, cheap flatscreen monitor to view without having to slouch.
I can't understand somebody like yourself who embraces new technological gimmicks without thought. The tablet isn't "the new PC", yet. It has seen barely a year of proving ground and so far hasn't been exactly the major success the uber-geek insists it is. There are, meanwhile, still people who purchase towers. My room mate is steadily convincing a friend to buy a laptop instead of a tower, but the friend still lives in the 90's and doesn't understand that the laptop is about as customizable as, realistically speaking, his beloved tower.
I had mentally excluded microSD from the criteria of "removable media" because when I showed her what a microSD looks like, she said "forget it". So, sorry chum but sometimes size does matter. And I, for one, have to agree with her. I don't think anybody should be reliant on something so important being so small, let alone the profit-minded producers of tablets. There are numerous practical reasons why not to consider microSD for anything but cameras, ipods, and other tiny devices that you don't really intend to remove it from. And a customer's size preferences aside, I would never try to sell somebody a computer meant for serious, daily use where the sole removable media was some sort of chip. As you well know, when you purchase new software in a store, you don't receive it on SD cards.
And you could suggest that software be obtained from online, but not everybody is in "the cloud" at this point in time, especially not certain customers. Especially not people who ask questions about their right to the software. When I told this particular customer (my room mate) that the Office 365 she was so interested in was a 2-year subscription, she abruptly lost interest. Telling her that she could conveniently download it online over her slow, overpriced internet did nothing to bring her back to M$'s weird new idea.
Well, perhaps you're one of those stodgy types who shakes their fist and insists that the latest, fastest, and smallest devices not only have to be adopted, but will be adopted. But I look around and I still see CDs and DVDs are the de-facto main media in use everywhere and that they obviously will be so for probably another decade.
Meanwhile, the computer she chooses has to be able to burn CDs for the purpose of business presentations at her workplace. Despite anything else, that is a requirement.
God, you look like such an ass, now, telling somebody else not to be so presumptuous when that's exactly what you're doing.
It would be super interesting if Intel came out with a version of Silvermont with beefier graphics (say, HD3000). I suspect that would be enough to support full HD meaningfully and to be a true viable notebook replacement.
As it turned out, the roomie's bad experience with purchasing her first ever brand-new computer online left a sour taste in her mouth about the whole idea of buying a computer online. It's hard to reason with superstition. And, since I'm not somebody she knows very well, I wasn't able to convince her to try any other online avenue. She was firmly set on the brick and mortar route, and was too impatient for me to call around to the almost a dozen local computer stores looking for a deal. So off we went to Best Buy. I was at least put in charge of selecting the computer based on the price window, and for roughly $60 more than the notebook she sent back I managed to nearly triple the purchased processor speed, I believe double the hard drive capacity, increase the screen width by roughly 1.50 times, and add certain amenities like HDMI, USB 3.0, chip reader, the latest multi optical writer standard, etc. She was surprised was you can get by not trying to save the most money in an attempt to obtain something that looks similar to what you already have and assuming that newer means faster. She was quite surprised that there's an entire world of hitherto meaningless statistics and other data to take into consideration. Ah, the bane of computer illiteracy faced with the need to spend money wisely.
Meanwhile, she espied the large tablets, the newborn technology I was warning her about. She is dead set on purchasing basically a large flatscreen to port around with her. I asked her if she intended to affix it to a large CNC, blueprint copy, elevator directory, or other machine that would benefit from having such a console as opposed to physical push-buttons. She didn't get it.
I don't see any purpose in the attempt to market touchscreen tablets, essentially overgrown iPods, to everyone in lieur of productivity. It's just profit-seeking behaviour, much like how you can easily get a thorough response on a forum like Slashdot by mentioning that you have money to spend.
But you don't have to actually use Metro to get things done. The normal desktop is still there, and if you start typing in Metro, then what you are looking for quickly pops up in a search result.
I don't understand peoples' dismissal of Metro, considering it's not even the star of the OS. It's just a weird-looking box house that you can, for all intents and purposes, totally ignore and go on without really using. I only acknowledge its existence because I see it every time I go to start searching for something, like group policies.
And there's another thing: typing for what you want. A lot of people don't do that. There are tons of Windows users who still click through the control panel and then click through admin tools and then yada, yada. Well if you hit the windows key and start typing, what you want shows up pretty quickly.
Metro isn't any different. And I personally hated the Start Menu, it was slow to render and was a cluttered mess. Metro's a cluttered mess but at least it's immediately there when I ask for it.
The roomie I just moved in with was appalled when I discovered for her that her newly purchased notebook was actually a slower and worse-off computer than the laptop she was hoping to "upgrade" from. So we sent it back and now she has the credit and wants me to shop for her.
She kept mentioning the RT and liking it, but I warned her away and told her that tablets are still a developing technology, that it's in its awkward stages and next year she'll have something worth picking up. She said "okay, maybe next year it would be a good idea" but still seemed lost.
I'd like to say she has some good news when she gets home today, but the tablet isn't much better than the notebook. There's no removable media, not even a full-size SD slot?
I see these things as glorified palmtops. They're just slightly larger, but they fit the same niche -- something to pull out of your backpack or Euro-wallet at the airport or cafe and use within serious constraints on time and space. It's a useful gadget to complement a fully functioning PC at home, but IMHO it doesn't really qualify as a principal or "base" PC.
You'd think the guy would call it Piece of Shit Jackoff Suicidal Squirrel or Suicidal Squirrels in Your Sorry Excuse For a Programmer's Mother's Anus or something similar.
I only heard about this because Pee-Wee Herman shared the news of it, and of his application, some time ago. I'd like to say I hope he makes it, but then we'd be without Pee-Wee Herman here on Earth.
I forwarded the news to Jane Wiedlin (Guitarist for The Go-Gos) who said she'd be interested in going, but I never saw anything on her FB that said she had filed the paperwork.
I tried to get a couple of other celebs interested but so far all I know is Pee-Wee Herman put in his application. Wouldn't it be interesting if he wins the contest?
How "good" anyone has it in the United States of America, where even those in poverty are living better than 85% of the rest of the planet (yes, I did pass college level Anthropology with a 4.0) is entirely due to the continent's natural wealth. There is plentiful food because there is fertile soil, and there is plentiful water because there are large bodies of fresh water.
Our rights and expectations, however, are very low. And our quality of civilization doesn't match our quality of life. The US consistently ranks very low in educational scoring and simultaneously ranks as among the most physiologically unhealthy populations on the planet. I am pretty sure, despite how you might try to catch these facts aside into some other category of data, that these are things that directly impact "quality of life" and "standard of living".
Meanwhile, all of that is entirely fucking besides the point. All you're trying to do is sideline this into a discussion about what resources the United States has to offer its citizens.
In reality the United States was founded on human rights violations, it has succeeded throughout history by violating human rights, and it is an international embarrassment in terms of human rights to this day. If you really, really think you can handle the argument, go ahead, test me.
I had assumed that I was going to read about an internal system IBM uses to determine which projects to pursue, that operates similar to "Kickstarter" but where the donors offer their professional services as employees of IBM toward projects proposed by various members of various departments.
I think a system like that would work if each user had to spend "priority" in some fashion. For instance, you could be doled out 5 priority tags to attach to a particular skill tag which you will in turn offer toward a project that shares or requests the involvement of that skill tag.
You would whore yourself out, 5-4-3-2-1.
Then if the project you tagged with the top priority (5 we'll say) falls through from lack of support, then you will find yourself fulfilling the duties you pledged with the next priority down. And so on down the line until you're a failure because you didn't pick any winners.
Then the successfully "funded" projects would go into overtime, and the people who haven't "found work" would be able to tag themselves onto the second echelon of support, like a reserve or a bullpen, or even (if the project can find use for them) as active participants.
Instead "well uh they gave them all uhh $100, uhhhh, you can buy a car with that, or uhhhhhh a candy bar even!"
In case anyone on Slashdot isn't already quite aware of this, the history of the United States of America since its foundation is basically one long, continuous freefall deeper into a hole of human rights violations.
It seems like there are many reasons why this won't work. Why are they trying to beat this thing thermally? It seems unsustainable at the outset, in terms of cost and maintenance, let alone whether it will work in terms of mechanics and chemistry. If it's such a grand scheme that it's projected two years out, maybe the assumption should be that it's too complicated for Tepco to handle and/or it's too complicated for the delicate situation on the ground at Fukushima (where what integrity exists seem to be falling apart quickly).
And though it seems like Tepco and Japan have been a bit incompetent in handling things like disclosure, responsibility, approach, and honesty, it probably will never happen that Japan will be elbowed out of the way by any outside agency, including the UN. Japan still has Tepco on the ground at Fukushima because it's Tepco's problem and potentially Tepco's fault. It's much easier to keep the blame-monster fully enclosed in one cheap and effective enclosure than to spread its infection to numerous other parties. If Tepco fails, Japan can blame them because nobody else has had a hand in it. If Tepco moves out of the way and lets the Japanese government handle it, then Tepco can be dispatched for being incompetent, and potentially all of their resources and assets can be liquidated toward the effort. Having a third party involved make it a potentially stickier situation with less decisive consequences and less narrow goals and demands to be met.
You can take that relationship and expand on it to see why it is almost a bad idea to step in from outside of Japan. If radioactive plumes reach California and nobody has been involved but Japan and Tepco, then who can be blamed? Only Japan and only Tepco. If it has become an international effort involving Russians... no, bad idea... involving some engineers from somewhere (?) then that at worst leaves us with even more parties to blame and, potentially, even more duplicity along the way while at best it leaves us with a sort of muddied water where feel-good "we're all in this together" has completely erased the instinct to place blame. Without the prospect of blame and consequences, you get foot-dragging and indecisiveness which all the bleeding hearts in the world won't drag out of lethargy.
You can say that the real-world, radio and chemical consequences should be enough to push us all to shove those competitive instincts out of the way but I personally don't think that will ever happen.
As some have pointed out, Fukushima isn't even a talking point. Grand standing and chest-beating over an obviously snafu situation where major news reporting more closely resembles yellow journalism than actual information and where the politically accused party is being accused by those with vested interests in that party's failure who've made this accusation and failed before, is the call of the day.
I'm sure the level of sardonic "irony" so prevalent in global culture today is enough that most people can understand why Japan will be left to figure this out on their own until they ask for help, and why at which point any countries expected to help will have to be dragged out of bed kicking and screaming by citizens "blowing whistles" about irradiation before any semblance of effort is really shown.
You don't need to be paid now for what you expect to give tomorrow.
Though I suspect the correct term for you wouldn't be "shill", it would be "patsy". Although that also carries connotations that you'd probably disavow.
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Didn't face nearly as much opposition. It was up for months and Nintendo never really gave a care. Only when the author wanted to sell a version did Nintendo strongly suggest that he invent his own characters. But you can still play Crossover for free.
Nintendo seems picky and choosy about this stuff. Sort of like Atari!
I want to get one just for that reason. Sitting down and spending hours tweaking the settings of an XPadder setup to get a controller working "hrnnn kinda sorta" with a game meant for mouse and keyboard rarely pays off the way it feels like it should.
A controller like this takes care of all that.
Whoever that guy is, he should be laughed down by the serious IT and security world for his stupid "input".
If your security solution requires that you pass a law making it illegal to break your security, then it's not a solution.
lol
the comments on this are outrageously hilarious.
yours almost makes me feel like i'm in irc right now
i now wish i hadn't joined in with what little i have to say based on what little i know or care about silk road or any of this
otherwise these mod points would be modding parent up
can it be coincidence that both "characters" have advanced chemistry backgrounds specializing in the formation of crystals
can it be coincidence that the bust comes right on the heels of the federal government almost seemingly without sanity declaring bitcoin "real currency"
can it be coincidence that all of this comes just as the show "breaking bad" is coming to an end?
there's coincidence, then there's synchronicity.
(this)
hilarious, lmao in fact
where did my ass go! whoops!
Dem Darn Feds! *rioutous laughter*
will the judge, at sentencing, have to have a computer monitor displaying the current value of bitcoin, and gavel it in and speak the value aloud, JUST at that moment?
or will they press charges on his 3.6 million dollars of bitcoin even after it's worth a wooden nickle?
It seems to me that three counts of conspiracy can be thrown out of court or at worse will not represent a very firm sentencing.
I don't think this guy should get a hard sentence any way. He's just a merchant.
This is more like an experiment for the FBI to see if it's possible to seize this new form of asset, and to see how valuable it is once they've seized it.
Recall, that bitcoin was recently upgraded to the designation "actual money". VERY recently.
It's all basically in tandem. Hard to have pressed charges on him or his friends if they're just wildly playing russian roulette with a bunch of digital thingamabobber whatsits.
Entirely different if it fetched the grand master 3.2 million dollars of actually now-recognized "real currency".
i bet these hornets are more of a worry in canada than in the united states.
no matter where they hide in the united states, unless it's death valley, people are going to run into them and report the fact that bugs the size of their head have been spotted.
if these go into canada and can survive there, they can easily find plenty of space to reproduce for many generations unnoticed and undisturbed. by the time they're encountered they'll be numerous.
i imagine they will move into the giant beaver dam that's up there. and eat all the beavers.
It's total bullshit to blame a handful of relatively anonymous California grade school teachers for the failure of an Apple security feature. You might as well go all the way and blame them for several "immutable laws" of information and security.
Including the costs of a keyboard, a stand, a tiny piece of (potentially unreliable solid state) flash to make up for the "32GB" model really coming with 16GB of remaning capacity, the price point compares to a fairly decent, new, fully featured laptop.
That doesn't include the cost of realistically including a large, cheap flatscreen monitor to view without having to slouch.
I can't understand somebody like yourself who embraces new technological gimmicks without thought. The tablet isn't "the new PC", yet. It has seen barely a year of proving ground and so far hasn't been exactly the major success the uber-geek insists it is. There are, meanwhile, still people who purchase towers. My room mate is steadily convincing a friend to buy a laptop instead of a tower, but the friend still lives in the 90's and doesn't understand that the laptop is about as customizable as, realistically speaking, his beloved tower.
I had mentally excluded microSD from the criteria of "removable media" because when I showed her what a microSD looks like, she said "forget it". So, sorry chum but sometimes size does matter. And I, for one, have to agree with her. I don't think anybody should be reliant on something so important being so small, let alone the profit-minded producers of tablets. There are numerous practical reasons why not to consider microSD for anything but cameras, ipods, and other tiny devices that you don't really intend to remove it from. And a customer's size preferences aside, I would never try to sell somebody a computer meant for serious, daily use where the sole removable media was some sort of chip. As you well know, when you purchase new software in a store, you don't receive it on SD cards.
And you could suggest that software be obtained from online, but not everybody is in "the cloud" at this point in time, especially not certain customers. Especially not people who ask questions about their right to the software. When I told this particular customer (my room mate) that the Office 365 she was so interested in was a 2-year subscription, she abruptly lost interest. Telling her that she could conveniently download it online over her slow, overpriced internet did nothing to bring her back to M$'s weird new idea.
Well, perhaps you're one of those stodgy types who shakes their fist and insists that the latest, fastest, and smallest devices not only have to be adopted, but will be adopted. But I look around and I still see CDs and DVDs are the de-facto main media in use everywhere and that they obviously will be so for probably another decade.
Meanwhile, the computer she chooses has to be able to burn CDs for the purpose of business presentations at her workplace. Despite anything else, that is a requirement.
God, you look like such an ass, now, telling somebody else not to be so presumptuous when that's exactly what you're doing.
It would be super interesting if Intel came out with a version of Silvermont with beefier graphics (say, HD3000). I suspect that would be enough to support full HD meaningfully and to be a true viable notebook replacement.
As it turned out, the roomie's bad experience with purchasing her first ever brand-new computer online left a sour taste in her mouth about the whole idea of buying a computer online. It's hard to reason with superstition. And, since I'm not somebody she knows very well, I wasn't able to convince her to try any other online avenue. She was firmly set on the brick and mortar route, and was too impatient for me to call around to the almost a dozen local computer stores looking for a deal. So off we went to Best Buy. I was at least put in charge of selecting the computer based on the price window, and for roughly $60 more than the notebook she sent back I managed to nearly triple the purchased processor speed, I believe double the hard drive capacity, increase the screen width by roughly 1.50 times, and add certain amenities like HDMI, USB 3.0, chip reader, the latest multi optical writer standard, etc. She was surprised was you can get by not trying to save the most money in an attempt to obtain something that looks similar to what you already have and assuming that newer means faster. She was quite surprised that there's an entire world of hitherto meaningless statistics and other data to take into consideration. Ah, the bane of computer illiteracy faced with the need to spend money wisely.
Meanwhile, she espied the large tablets, the newborn technology I was warning her about. She is dead set on purchasing basically a large flatscreen to port around with her. I asked her if she intended to affix it to a large CNC, blueprint copy, elevator directory, or other machine that would benefit from having such a console as opposed to physical push-buttons. She didn't get it.
I don't see any purpose in the attempt to market touchscreen tablets, essentially overgrown iPods, to everyone in lieur of productivity. It's just profit-seeking behaviour, much like how you can easily get a thorough response on a forum like Slashdot by mentioning that you have money to spend.
Isn't this what the physicists hoping to "test" whether or not the universe is just a huge simulation, were saying would "prove" that theorem?
You mean the dirty membrane keyboard peasants that could only afford the Sinclair ZX-81? Those Atari people were minor barons at the very least.
But you don't have to actually use Metro to get things done. The normal desktop is still there, and if you start typing in Metro, then what you are looking for quickly pops up in a search result.
I don't understand peoples' dismissal of Metro, considering it's not even the star of the OS. It's just a weird-looking box house that you can, for all intents and purposes, totally ignore and go on without really using. I only acknowledge its existence because I see it every time I go to start searching for something, like group policies.
And there's another thing: typing for what you want. A lot of people don't do that. There are tons of Windows users who still click through the control panel and then click through admin tools and then yada, yada. Well if you hit the windows key and start typing, what you want shows up pretty quickly.
Metro isn't any different. And I personally hated the Start Menu, it was slow to render and was a cluttered mess. Metro's a cluttered mess but at least it's immediately there when I ask for it.
The roomie I just moved in with was appalled when I discovered for her that her newly purchased notebook was actually a slower and worse-off computer than the laptop she was hoping to "upgrade" from. So we sent it back and now she has the credit and wants me to shop for her.
She kept mentioning the RT and liking it, but I warned her away and told her that tablets are still a developing technology, that it's in its awkward stages and next year she'll have something worth picking up. She said "okay, maybe next year it would be a good idea" but still seemed lost.
I'd like to say she has some good news when she gets home today, but the tablet isn't much better than the notebook. There's no removable media, not even a full-size SD slot?
I see these things as glorified palmtops. They're just slightly larger, but they fit the same niche -- something to pull out of your backpack or Euro-wallet at the airport or cafe and use within serious constraints on time and space. It's a useful gadget to complement a fully functioning PC at home, but IMHO it doesn't really qualify as a principal or "base" PC.
But oh, look: it's priced like a PC.
Scratching my head / not catching on.
You'd think the guy would call it Piece of Shit Jackoff Suicidal Squirrel or Suicidal Squirrels in Your Sorry Excuse For a Programmer's Mother's Anus or something similar.
I only heard about this because Pee-Wee Herman shared the news of it, and of his application, some time ago. I'd like to say I hope he makes it, but then we'd be without Pee-Wee Herman here on Earth.
I forwarded the news to Jane Wiedlin (Guitarist for The Go-Gos) who said she'd be interested in going, but I never saw anything on her FB that said she had filed the paperwork.
I tried to get a couple of other celebs interested but so far all I know is Pee-Wee Herman put in his application. Wouldn't it be interesting if he wins the contest?
How "good" anyone has it in the United States of America, where even those in poverty are living better than 85% of the rest of the planet (yes, I did pass college level Anthropology with a 4.0) is entirely due to the continent's natural wealth. There is plentiful food because there is fertile soil, and there is plentiful water because there are large bodies of fresh water.
Our rights and expectations, however, are very low. And our quality of civilization doesn't match our quality of life. The US consistently ranks very low in educational scoring and simultaneously ranks as among the most physiologically unhealthy populations on the planet. I am pretty sure, despite how you might try to catch these facts aside into some other category of data, that these are things that directly impact "quality of life" and "standard of living".
Meanwhile, all of that is entirely fucking besides the point. All you're trying to do is sideline this into a discussion about what resources the United States has to offer its citizens.
In reality the United States was founded on human rights violations, it has succeeded throughout history by violating human rights, and it is an international embarrassment in terms of human rights to this day. If you really, really think you can handle the argument, go ahead, test me.
I had assumed that I was going to read about an internal system IBM uses to determine which projects to pursue, that operates similar to "Kickstarter" but where the donors offer their professional services as employees of IBM toward projects proposed by various members of various departments.
I think a system like that would work if each user had to spend "priority" in some fashion. For instance, you could be doled out 5 priority tags to attach to a particular skill tag which you will in turn offer toward a project that shares or requests the involvement of that skill tag.
You would whore yourself out, 5-4-3-2-1.
Then if the project you tagged with the top priority (5 we'll say) falls through from lack of support, then you will find yourself fulfilling the duties you pledged with the next priority down. And so on down the line until you're a failure because you didn't pick any winners.
Then the successfully "funded" projects would go into overtime, and the people who haven't "found work" would be able to tag themselves onto the second echelon of support, like a reserve or a bullpen, or even (if the project can find use for them) as active participants.
Instead "well uh they gave them all uhh $100, uhhhh, you can buy a car with that, or uhhhhhh a candy bar even!"
In case anyone on Slashdot isn't already quite aware of this, the history of the United States of America since its foundation is basically one long, continuous freefall deeper into a hole of human rights violations.
"Surprisingly the country with past human right violations"
What a cheap statement. That applies equally well to any first rate country in the world, today. Especially America and China.
It seems like there are many reasons why this won't work. Why are they trying to beat this thing thermally? It seems unsustainable at the outset, in terms of cost and maintenance, let alone whether it will work in terms of mechanics and chemistry. If it's such a grand scheme that it's projected two years out, maybe the assumption should be that it's too complicated for Tepco to handle and/or it's too complicated for the delicate situation on the ground at Fukushima (where what integrity exists seem to be falling apart quickly).
And though it seems like Tepco and Japan have been a bit incompetent in handling things like disclosure, responsibility, approach, and honesty, it probably will never happen that Japan will be elbowed out of the way by any outside agency, including the UN. Japan still has Tepco on the ground at Fukushima because it's Tepco's problem and potentially Tepco's fault. It's much easier to keep the blame-monster fully enclosed in one cheap and effective enclosure than to spread its infection to numerous other parties. If Tepco fails, Japan can blame them because nobody else has had a hand in it. If Tepco moves out of the way and lets the Japanese government handle it, then Tepco can be dispatched for being incompetent, and potentially all of their resources and assets can be liquidated toward the effort. Having a third party involved make it a potentially stickier situation with less decisive consequences and less narrow goals and demands to be met.
You can take that relationship and expand on it to see why it is almost a bad idea to step in from outside of Japan. If radioactive plumes reach California and nobody has been involved but Japan and Tepco, then who can be blamed? Only Japan and only Tepco. If it has become an international effort involving Russians ... no, bad idea ... involving some engineers from somewhere (?) then that at worst leaves us with even more parties to blame and, potentially, even more duplicity along the way while at best it leaves us with a sort of muddied water where feel-good "we're all in this together" has completely erased the instinct to place blame. Without the prospect of blame and consequences, you get foot-dragging and indecisiveness which all the bleeding hearts in the world won't drag out of lethargy.
You can say that the real-world, radio and chemical consequences should be enough to push us all to shove those competitive instincts out of the way but I personally don't think that will ever happen.
As some have pointed out, Fukushima isn't even a talking point. Grand standing and chest-beating over an obviously snafu situation where major news reporting more closely resembles yellow journalism than actual information and where the politically accused party is being accused by those with vested interests in that party's failure who've made this accusation and failed before, is the call of the day.
I'm sure the level of sardonic "irony" so prevalent in global culture today is enough that most people can understand why Japan will be left to figure this out on their own until they ask for help, and why at which point any countries expected to help will have to be dragged out of bed kicking and screaming by citizens "blowing whistles" about irradiation before any semblance of effort is really shown.
You don't need to be paid now for what you expect to give tomorrow.
Though I suspect the correct term for you wouldn't be "shill", it would be "patsy". Although that also carries connotations that you'd probably disavow.