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  1. Re:I saw a great series of pictures from there... on Ukraine To Open Chernobyl Area To Tourists · · Score: 1

    No it does not. There are tours that go there most days out of Kyiv. A little over $100 US and off you go. For around $400 USD,IIRC, you can have a private tour. It is all in english, other languages are available.
    Check out www.tourkiev.com

  2. Re:Interesting preservation question on Ukraine To Open Chernobyl Area To Tourists · · Score: 1

    In it's current state is part memorial part tourist site and part educational site.
    By wrecking it I would probably mean cleaning it up, proping items up and making it safe for a 3 year olds to run around.
    the place is interesting because of the way nature has been destroying it. Places are collapsing and in the Pripyay hotel you even have a tree growing in the floor the top level old bar.
    As for what will happen as the building fall and become unsafe they will no longer be visited, and marked as unsafe. It is already happening. Previously they use to bulldoze them and then cover them in dirt but that has been stopped since it just allows the radiation to collect, they are now just allowing them to fall and do as they want.

  3. Re:It's already been open to tourists for years on Ukraine To Open Chernobyl Area To Tourists · · Score: 3, Informative

    I went with Tour Kiev and it was great.
    The way it works is that all those companies funnel you to the same location and same tour. You are picked up in Kyiv and watch movies for the drive. Once there you pick up some local government people who are your tour guides.
    After your 5 hours there they leave and you are driven back to Kyiv.
    Do it quickly, with this action the tours are going to probably going to become more disneyfied. Also some european football tournament is taking place there next year or 2012 and that will bring lots of people.
    I stayed at Hotel Ukraine(in independece square) get a junior suite and facing the square. One of the most interesting trips I have ever done. The place is not tourist friendly, lack of signs pointing to major sites, lack of "tourist" events, etc.

  4. Re:Wait... on Ukraine To Open Chernobyl Area To Tourists · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There is alot of background radiation, above normal levels, there. At reator #4, the one that blew, as soon as the doors to the vans opened the gieger counters went off. At that place it was around 5x normal levels. Most places were only 2x-3x unless you got near metal structure or some buildings.
    When we got to the ferris wheel the guides stired up places where dust had collected due to rain water and that gave alarms of around 18x normal levels.
    If you go by what we were told the amount of extra radiation we got from the day there was less then the amount of extra radiation a flight from NYC to Paris would of given.

  5. Re:I hope the tourists don't wreck it. on Ukraine To Open Chernobyl Area To Tourists · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I was there in July, part of the "illegal"(yea sure since the government gets a portion of the fee) tours.
    Most places are in ruins and falling apart, anything of value has been stripped from inside the building. You do have large soviet items that are to big to haul away, that are left. What you get in the building are books, bottles, desks ,etc.
    You have to worry about nails, broken glass, etc. So I am afraid the government will clean up the area put down carpeting and ropes and make it museum instead of place you have wander around. However as it is I would guess the government is going to close down the private tours and control the whole thing, they will advertise it more and take bus loads of people instead of the smaller vans currently used.
    that said it was one of the best tours I have ever been on, and will probably go again, would like to do one of the overnight tours so I can get farther into the city.
    One other thing about them doing this is that Kyiv is the location of some upcoming European football tournament so they are having lots of people coming and doing lots of upgrades and contructions, new airport, new hotels etc. As it is Kyiv is not that tourist friendly but is a great place to go to now.

  6. Re:Surprise move? on Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    It is only those that want to drive on public streets. If you want to stay on private roads and areas no license is needed.

  7. Re:The final step. on Venezuelan Gov't Seeks Internet Content Bill · · Score: 1

    Could not agree more, but you are missing the new definition of fascism.
    From what I have been told from various people who use the term fascism to describe people they hate you are a fascist if you
    1) Love your country and 2) Have a problem with communism.

  8. Re:can strawberries ripen in transit? on Japanese Robot Picks Only the Ripest Strawberries · · Score: 1

    Strawberries and other soft berries will not ripen after they pick. they will start rotting and become soft after picked.

  9. Re:Ok, a question or two on Ransomware Making a Comeback · · Score: 1

    Since they are not asking for a cash drop there are plenty of ways. For simple ways Western Union or just a standard bank transfer or wire. They are ususally in a different country and for low amounts of money so you have problems getting police involved. Then if you look at the email scammers and see how many of them make money you see that alot of people will just send in the money and not call the police about it.

  10. Re:One change I'd like on RAGE On iOS Shows Promise · · Score: 1

    Got it when it was released and played some on a plane(itouch 4) and it takes a little while to get to us to the control, and you look like you are have some problems while playing.
    Part of learning the controls is the accuracy, since the aim point says in the center of the screen you have to move around to kill the target. I would not switch my Keyboard/mouse for this but for a handheld solo player game it works alot better then some FPS on the iOS that have seperate move controls.

  11. Re:bigger than seagate on Seagate To Pay Former Worker $1.9M For Phantom Job · · Score: 1

    That sounds like standard practice for L-3 Communications, all other companies I have worked or interviewed with have always been up front with contracts ending. L-3 is the one company I and others have been told to come over and not had everything in place or said they had a contract while it is was still not awarded.

  12. Re:We can help you, comrades on Russia To Help NATO Build Anti-Missile Network · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except that system is not as rosy as you make it.
    The thing used(may still use them) nuclear warheads and one of the layer was a total saturation of the area where the missile is calculated to be in.
    This is far from what the USA has been attempting to do with small explosion next to the incoming attack.

  13. Re:How much money flows from Feds - Microsoft? on Google Sues US Gov't For Only Considering Microsoft · · Score: 1

    It would be a little hard to figure out. You can figure that most government employees have a Microsoft end user CAL, and then do a check on basic contracts that Microsoft won for services. It would be harder to compute all the contracts won by other companies that then purchase Microsoft software. However the prices the DoD gets are cheap compared to the regular volume price, for instance you can get a MSDN subscription for 3 year at a cheaper price that the regular volume price subscription is for 1 year.
    See http://washingtontechnology.com/toplists/top-100-lists/2009.aspx for 2009 technology companies. Most contracts are public record so you can get the figures if you want to do the searching.
    However the DoD is the largest Microsoft customer and was able to use its weight to force Microsoft to extent support for Windows 2000 when the move to Windows 2k3 was taking to long.

  14. Really overslept on iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in · · Score: 1

    Lets see the time change happened on the night of October 30 to October 31 so if they overslept to the morning on the November 1, then they have more problems then a broken app.

  15. Re:How does it work? on Firefox Extension Makes Social-Network ID Spoofing Trivial · · Score: 3, Informative

    You first need to installWinPcap this is the program that does the actual work. You then log on to the wifi, using password if required, and the program starts looking for know cookies. If it finds them it captures the info and gives you a nice userfriendly way of using them.
    It can capture the wifi since anyone can capture them if you are within range of the transmissions. You if you are not monitoring when the signals go out you cannot capture them.

  16. Re:Headline Is So Very Wrong on How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes · · Score: 1

    You better do some research.
    I am an american who works in europe and have some american friends who are looking to retire and stay over here.
    Theses are the generic rules but change per country.
    You don't get those benefits without paying a yearly fee, and that is required for the right to stay for an extended time. However you are not a citizen so certain senior discount will not apply to you. You cannot do any work, yet have to show enough income to support yourself. You will have to pay VAT for everything, currently around 19%. If the money you are talking about tax deferred accounts you will still have to pay US income taxes. Also those medicare taxes you have been paying, you get no Medicare benefits if you live outside of the USA.

  17. Re:Cumbersome on Huge Shocker — 3D TVs Not Selling · · Score: 1

    What you need are Prescription 3-D Glasses

  18. Re:I seriously doubt... on North Korea Opens .kp Sites On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Heard one recent comparision on NPR from an author doing a book on north korea. It went something like this:
    In the western world a person is middle class if they can afford multiple cars, a nice house, have no problems food or clothing and have the money to spend on other items. In North Korea you are considered middle class if you can afford to eat a single chicken egg by yourself once a week.

  19. Re:Quick Question on Micro-Transactions Coming To Team Fortress 2 Via Steam Wallet · · Score: 1

    No they are advanced weapons, bonus, etc that you can get from playing the game for a while.
    With the age of the game this is a smart idea. It allows new players to spend some money and get items that will keep with equal with older players.

  20. Re:This Is Great News ... on Possible Treatment For Ebola · · Score: 1

    Except the fear, and the reason the money was spend on a low killing virus, was that it would be weaponized and us in North America and Europe.

  21. Re:As if that has not been known. on RIAA Wants 'Net Neutrality' To Include Filtering · · Score: 1

    research at the least

  22. Re:As if that has not been known. on RIAA Wants 'Net Neutrality' To Include Filtering · · Score: 1

    The "Internet Freedom Preservation Act" has been around for a while, or the FCC recommendation from earlier this year or even the Verizon plan from earlier this month. They all contain a statement dealing with "any lawful content, any lawful application, any lawful device, any provider". SPAM, viruses and all those things mentioned are lawful content in situations and for an ISP or network operator to block would be illegal.

  23. Re:As if that has not been known. on RIAA Wants 'Net Neutrality' To Include Filtering · · Score: 1

    Please educate yourself on the issue. The various bills that groups have been pushing provide just as I described.
    Net neutrality has not been about preventing the ISP from making a special deal with company A where they slow down the Company B site for a long time.

  24. As if that has not been known. on RIAA Wants 'Net Neutrality' To Include Filtering · · Score: -1, Troll

    This has been one of the problem with net neutrality since the various groups started pushing for a law.
    It would prevent network operators,ISPs, from blocking spam, setting up firewalls to prevents outside attacks, or even from having an e-mail virus scanner.
    Various groups that are proponents of the various laws have said they are for it because it would prevent prevent libaries and schools from providing filtering; because of how the various past laws have defined network operators alot of them would qualify.

  25. Re:Uh on Intel Buys McAfee · · Score: 2, Informative

    When used in financial situations it means money instead of thing like stock, corporate bonds, land, etc.
    You will usually see thing like company purchased for $1billion in cash and $2billion stock.