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  1. Re:How about the safety on Kenya Seeks Nuclear Power Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    What you need are the new micro reactors. These are designed to be built somewhere in the west and then transported to various places. However, a number of these are designed as a battery. Just pull it and ship it back home to the west, with the waste fuel. The advantage is, that these are not just small, but have no purpose for nuke weaons, and 3 of them on a site would provide 200 MW of power from 2, with the 3rd as up/down, and allowing it to come on-line, when a new one is installed.

  2. Re:It will increase unemployment on Printing a Home: The Case For Contour Crafting · · Score: 1

    In America, more than 3/4 of the workers are illegals who do not pay taxes, but make heavy use of resources. Sending them on their way is NOT a bad thing.

  3. Several thoughts.... on Printing a Home: The Case For Contour Crafting · · Score: 1

    1) Can this be modified to work on the moon and mars?
    2) What about all of the illegals that are in the US? Will he then give them citizenship and have them collect welfare?

  4. Re:aThis gets SO old on Mutant Flu Researchers Declare a Time Out · · Score: 1

    Agreed. That is my whole point. reagan was just the start of the anti-science. But look at Clinton allowing IFR to be killed. That was a PISS POUR CHOICE. While I agree with him that compromise was needed, even he said that he thought it was a mistake. However, there is little doubt that reagan and the neo-cons were the start of anti-science.

  5. aThis gets SO old on Mutant Flu Researchers Declare a Time Out · · Score: 2

    It seems like both right and left want to stop research in science depending on RELIGIOUS POVs. The evangelicals, want to stop genetic research, deny evolution as well as Global Warming. The left, with their own brand of religion, want to stop nuclear research and now this.

    it is hard to believe that America was at one time, the leading nation in science. Since the likes of reagan onwards, we have suffered over and over by both extremist on right and left wings.

  6. The question is .... on Walmart Holds Invention Contest · · Score: 1

    where will it be produced at? If China, then it does not help out.

  7. Anybody surprised? on Former Dell Execs Involved In Massive Insider Trading Probe · · Score: 1

    Not in the least here. The markets are obviously being manipulated.

  8. Re:China thanks you on Man Charged With Stealing Code From Federal Reserve Bank · · Score: 1

    oh, the guy was not an employee. He was attempting to invest into our company. Basically, he claimed to be from Taiwain years ago. He made his money in multiple chinese restaurants. One of the conditions buried in it was that our equipment became his if he decided that the company was not worth anything. When he turned down the offer, then he wanted to 'rent' the equipment for a time to take to China. Promised 10 million. Then 50 million. Said that he had ways to get it out there. The FBI is looking into the case.

    There was a another individual, but it was hard to tell if she was a spy or not.

  9. Re:Citizenship not required? on Man Charged With Stealing Code From Federal Reserve Bank · · Score: 1

    Not for much longer, unless we change things.

  10. Re:China thanks you on Man Charged With Stealing Code From Federal Reserve Bank · · Score: 1

    While I do not know about other nation's spies, I KNOW that they exists. That is a given. However, with the chinese, they are pressing like there is no tomorrow. Upwards of 10% or more of Chinese are either outright spies, or are fronts for spy operations and will gladly send tech out of the nation. That includes those that have been naturalized esp. over the last 20 years.

    But, I fully agree with you about CONgress. So many are on the take from China, Foreign nations, Groups representing illegals, unions, businesses, etc.. Everybody EXCEPT for the citizens (except for the wealthy ones). SO many ppl scream that it is the other party, when in fact, it is BOTH parties.

    That is why I back rootstrikers. Even as a Libertarian, I have to say, that It is obvious that we need massive controls back on CONgress. Then perhaps, CONgress will represent America, and not all of the others outside of here.

  11. Re:China thanks you on Man Charged With Stealing Code From Federal Reserve Bank · · Score: 1

    Actually, I took it to the FBI. And we need a massive change in our employee security policies, as well as how sub-contracts are handled.

    No, we have been stopping AQ. They continue to make attempts. Constantly. I can tell you about this. My little sister works for an airline at an airport. She knows a number of TSA folks. She has been there when they pull ppl aside of weird things. Regularly, it is muslims that have oddly shaped items such as plastic toy knives, hidden in weird areas. Basically, they are trying to figure out what can be gotten through security. In addition, do you recall that situation in which 4 muslims were taken off an airline? The one where the muslims said that they did knot know each other? Well, some info did not make it out to the general press but was known by the airlines. All 4 tickets were purchased by the same person and all 4 had same address. IOW, they lied. These men were mapping security, which is why TSA is constantly changing to deal with issues.

    There is little doubt that AQ is VERY active in the west. And it is not just USA. They are making constant attempts in EU and UK. The reason why Obama has not changed a number of policies is because they are keeping America safe.

    Now as a person who has worked on PATRIOT act, I can tell you, that I have issues with it. There need to be more safeguards put into place. In particular, it is being grossly misapplied. Right now, the vast majority of 'terrorists' are not terrorists, but drug criminals. The fact that we have to use PATRIOT act to catch them, and still not making a dent actually shows how badly the republican-created and pushed drug war is going. So, the PATRIOT act can also be used against the politicians (mostly pubs) that push this insane war. IOW, if we had some bright politicians, they would be able to point that out. They seem to miss that point. They also miss the point that it is being misapplied.

  12. Re:China thanks you on Man Charged With Stealing Code From Federal Reserve Bank · · Score: 1

    Civil Liberties does NOT require a lack of security. In this case, a foreigner, esp. a Chinese national (and yes, he was chinese national) should not have access to this code. Likewise, I have had 2 jobs where I have dealt with chinese spy. In one case, they OPENLY admitted that they wanted to take our work to China. Even spoke of how to get it out of the nation.

    And what threat is non-existant? AQ? They are very real. I DO think that we have acted overboard to them, and what the neo-cons did was INSANE. However, the threats are real.

  13. Re:Blown out of proportion on Man Charged With Stealing Code From Federal Reserve Bank · · Score: 2

    The same Goldman Sachs and BOA that were cracked after he worked there?

  14. Re:Racists on Man Charged With Stealing Code From Federal Reserve Bank · · Score: 4, Interesting
  15. Re:Citizenship not required? on Man Charged With Stealing Code From Federal Reserve Bank · · Score: 4, Informative

    Zhang is a Chinese citizen, said a person with knowledge of the matter who didn’t want to be identified because the information wasn’t public.
    The software system relates to the “tracking of the billions of dollars that are electronically transferred every day in the U.S.’s general ledger,” prosecutors said.
    Zhang has been in the U.S. on a work visa since 2000, said another person familiar with the matter who also didn’t want to be identified because the information isn’t public.

    Kind of destroys your theory there.

  16. Re:Citizenship not required? on Man Charged With Stealing Code From Federal Reserve Bank · · Score: 1

    Not slipped up. Since 2001, we have allowed Chinese into our vital systems. That is why they quit asking for access to our tech. They are simple stealing it.

  17. China thanks you on Man Charged With Stealing Code From Federal Reserve Bank · · Score: 2, Insightful

    America is LOADED with Chinese spies. China is in a cold war with the west, and the west is disregarding it. Sad.

  18. Re:Then kill offshoring already. on US Losing R&D Dominance To Asia? · · Score: 1

    Will not happen unless root strikers is successful.

  19. Re:Where they go, the US Gov't is ahead of them. on US Losing R&D Dominance To Asia? · · Score: 1

    No. We USED to be able to do that. Not any more. Companies like Dell, IBM and GE are simply soaking America, while gutting it from inside. It would be better for America to quit buying their products, since even in China, they require locally produced goods. And as odd as it sounds, I understand China's position. They are in a cold with the west and are using our laws as well as buying politicians (such as my congressman; Coffman), to destroy us from within. Hell, the manchurian candidate is NOT a president. It is a lot of CONgress. Much easier to get through. And with politicians that push for us to buy from China, or others that push for us to outsource to China, or others that push tax cuts that pretty much drive outsourcing to China, well, China has their rewards.

  20. Re:Engineering, then research, follows manufacturi on US Losing R&D Dominance To Asia? · · Score: 1

    A number of ppl still do. The problem is that tuition is slowly being raised, while stipends are being gutted. China then sends their ppl here, but they take American stipends and add their money to it to make it palatable to their citizens. Our politicians FROM BOTH MAJOR PARTIES are destroying America.

    We need ROOT STRIKERS.

  21. What a tool u are on US Losing R&D Dominance To Asia? · · Score: 0

    First, not a single bit of bravery in you. Must be a neo-con. Most of the companies have been moving to China over the last 30 years because of you GD neo-cons. I am not the least bit surprised. With your tax cuts combined with running deficits during good economic times. No doubt that jobs will go.

    You neo-cons are just as cowardly as ever.

  22. Surprised? on US Losing R&D Dominance To Asia? · · Score: 1

    All of the manufacturing has moved to China because of the numerous cheats that China employs. As such, it is better to have engineering close by manufacturing. Yet, so few in the USA seem to understand this.

  23. Re:And terrorists thank you for running windows on Hackers Steal $6.7M In Bank Cyber Heist · · Score: 2

    I agree that running windows on IIS does not mean that all of their inside processes are on windows. However, as a contractor, I have seen that if a company runs non-windows on their front-end, than their back end is most likely close to 100% non-windows with the possible exception of desktops. But even those will be locked down fairly tightly.

    But, when companies run IIS on the front-end, then their process servers will very likely be heavily into windows. Their DB may actually be oracle on sun, mainframe, or something else. However, what is important, are the desktops or process servers since they are normally the cracked items.

  24. Re:And terrorists thank you for running windows on Hackers Steal $6.7M In Bank Cyber Heist · · Score: 1

    Yes, some companies like walmart do this. but how many do this? Few. Very few. I would be shocked if it was 2% of all reporting as IIS were faked.

  25. Re:And terrorists thank you for running windows on Hackers Steal $6.7M In Bank Cyber Heist · · Score: 3, Informative
    http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.postbank.co.za
    And to back it up

    ....$telnet www.postbank.co.za 80
    Trying 165.8.13.24...
    Connected to www.postbank.co.za.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    GET / HTTP/1.0

    HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
    Content-Length: 1635
    Content-Type: text/html
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
    X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
    Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:35:38 GMT
    Connection: close


    The page cannot be found
    ....

    Anybody running windows on their website is highly likely running it inside.