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  1. Re:Long term health tracking on China Detects 10 Cases of Radiation Contamination, 2 In Hospital · · Score: 4, Informative

    France, UK, US and Canada have the right idea - just dont track it. Any issues are in the distant past and shrouded in national security, nation building, export deals, patriotism and commercial secrets.
    If the press still keeps on digging, the patients privacy kicks in to stop any questions about epidemiology. Still having issues? Stop offering/teaching so much about epidemiology.
    Back to simple industrial toxicology, long term old people get sick... any detectors that spike are faulty and get removed for servicing for a few weeks.
    With no hard data its your expert vs nothing.
    If your still interested read and watch http://www.zerohedge.com/article/tellurium-129-presence-proof-inadvertent-recriticality-fukushima
    "Newly released TEPCO data provides evidence of periodic chain reaction at Fukushima Unit 1"
    http://vimeo.com/21881702
    The hard data is been released, the press is just not very good. http://cryptome.org/0003/fukushima-areva.zip
    http://www.zerohedge.com/article/attempt-pour-concrete-fukushima-pit-crack-generating-1-sieverthour-fails-new-unmanned-drone-

  2. Re:*sigh* on Debian, OpenSUSE, Arch, Gentoo and Grml Merge · · Score: 1

    Set up linux from a dvd, watch as it forms to your hardware. Many hours later enjoy Ubuntu working at 3% better speeds.

  3. Re:Possibly Nasa is doctoring their images on Why Russian Space Images Look Different From NASA's · · Score: 1

    Th Germans bought an understanding of style, propaganda and understood US tax payers wanted to see something that looked good in print for their $ over many years.

  4. Re:oh well.. on FBI Wants You To Solve Encrypted Notes From Murder · · Score: 1

    legally permitted to conduct domestic investigations?
    Your local http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center has a wonderful mix of CIA, FBI, Department of Justice, US Military and state and local level government task forces. Mix in a bit of the private sector too. Read about it via Fox news http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,399042,00.html
    Or http://iowaindependent.com/2983/iowas-intelligence-fusion-center-connects-the-dots

  5. Re:WTF? on Can You Really Be Traced From an IP Address? · · Score: 1

    Thats where a phone tap and sneak and peek can be so useful. A "plumber" at 12.03 on the afternoon you expected.
    Just before they touch your tap something sets up a few lines about a mix up at the office.

  6. Re:Translation: on Microsoft To FTC: Don't Tell Us How Long To Retain User Data · · Score: 2

    Australia tried to explain data retention via the European Convention on Cybercrime http://www.zdnet.com.au/data-retention-not-blanket-but-targeted-339311987.htm
    "...under the convention, law enforcement agencies would approach an ISP with a certificate, requiring information pertaining to an individual to be retained until the agency can get a court order or warrant."
    Retention keeps your interesting ip safe and usable until a "court order" can be requested at some point.
    Soon they will just keep it all.
    "[But] more generally the retention of all of the communications on their network is a very different issue and having to retain those and retrieve those would be quite a different scenario. And we're not talking about that at this stage."

  7. Re:CIA vs. FTC: What do they want? on Microsoft To FTC: Don't Tell Us How Long To Retain User Data · · Score: 1

    Dont worry the Office of Naval Research and Air Force Office of Scientific Research have your blogs, web 2.0, twitter ect, covered via the Social Computing Data Repository http://socialcomputing.asu.edu/pages/about

  8. Re:Let's see them explain this one... on Federal Prosecutors Tempt the Streisand Effect · · Score: 2

    nothing to see here?
    Its rare to see the NSA in court. It was historically very rare to see the NSA in the press or books.
    Recall "Computer ills hinder NSA 2 technology programs, weapons for the war on terrorism, have proved duds"
    http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2006-02-26/news/0602260086_1_cryptologic-agency-technology-programs
    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/nsa-executive-charged/

  9. Re:Good for US economy on MS Wants Laws To Block Products Made By Software Pirates · · Score: 1

    I trade IT expert. I shield you.
    Five dollars is all my shareholders allows me to spend.
    Okay! Ten dolla each.
    What do we get for ten dollars?
    Ubuntu you want.
    Everything Ubuntu?
    Everything.
    Well, old buddy, feel like spending ...

  10. Re:Becquerels per day??? on Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Nears Chernobyl Levels · · Score: 2

    Might help http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/radiation.html
    "The SI system uses the unit of becquerel (Bq) as its unit of radioactivity. One curie is 37 billion Bq. Since the Bq represents such a small amount, one is likely to see a prefix noting a large multiplier used with the Bq as follows .." see web page for more
    Then think about
    http://www.zerohedge.com/article/summary-key-health-threats-fukushima-radioactive-substances

  11. Re:Bottled water and meltdown on Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Nears Chernobyl Levels · · Score: 1, Informative
  12. Re:How does this compare? on Japan Reluctant To Disclose Drone Footage of Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    "pre-internet-media days" But not pre networking days. When the West German gov was very hesitant to talk about Chernobyl in 1986 , the Chaos Computer Club did help the press.
    Many gaps in what was known at the time where filled via hacking a German government computer.
    Other footage may exist via a networked security system that was installed high up and may not be damaged.
    http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-firm-which-secured-japan-nuclear-plant-says-workers-there-putting-their-lives-on-the-line-1.349897

  13. Re:What about New Nadrid on Geologists Say California May Be Next · · Score: 1

    A interesting RFI for Pre-Packaged Commercial Meals mentioned the New Madrid Fault System
    https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=eaea338540a0aea155a48a650a077352&tab=core&_cview=0 (Jan 20, 2011)
    "...FEMA request for Information is to identify sources of supply for meals in support of disaster relief efforts based on a catastrophic disaster event within the New Madrid Fault System for a survivor population of 7M...."
    36 months of remaining shelf life upon delivery.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/11/20/us-earthquake-study-idUSTRE4AJ9EV20081120 from 2008
    would cause "the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States."
    New Madrid Seismic Zone Catastrophic Earthquake Response Planning Project (Statistics for Eight-State Region on page 28)
    https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/14810/Volume%20II_Part%201.pdf

  14. Re:PROTIP: If you can understand the program name. on US Military Commissions Sock Puppet Program · · Score: 1
  15. Re:This is news? on US Military Blocks Websites To Free Up Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    The US taking about a form of bandwidth in the open in some way was government-owned satellite networks early ~1990's?
    The dream of endless Pentagon’s commercial satellite accounts are dreamy to many in the commercial market.
    News like this gives the world idea that something is different, strange, unique, new, spinning up fast, in play?
    What sucks military operations bandwidth? Would UAV like use be at the top of the list? Why would the ability to many unmanned tools be of such interest over Japan at this time? Boots on the ground going to be replaced by eyes in the sky? Has Measurement and Signature Intelligence "seen" something over the past few days?

  16. Re:It should be noted ... on Richard Stallman: Cell Phones Are 'Stalin's Dream' · · Score: 1

    Off is just software gui candy. You can remove the battery right?

  17. Re:Gone off the deep end on Richard Stallman: Cell Phones Are 'Stalin's Dream' · · Score: 5, Informative

    the 'turned on to eavesdrop" is very real.
    http://www.zdnet.com/news/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool/150467
    "functioned whether the phone was powered on or off." "a cellular telephone can be turned into a microphone and transmitter for the purpose of listening to conversations in the vicinity of the phone."
    "remotely install a piece of software on to any handset, without the owner's knowledge, which will activate the microphone even when its owner is not making a call."
    That was a few years about past cases.

  18. Re:Radioactive releases Could Last Months on Third Blast At Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Just terrible news coverage on Japan Battles Partial Nuclear Meltdown · · Score: 4, Informative
  20. Re:NHK World is reporting serious emissions on Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan · · Score: 1

    6 days to get over Alaska then 10 to the west of the USA if the wind is in that direction?

  21. Re:Pebble bed? on Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan · · Score: 1
  22. Re:How is this possible? on Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan · · Score: 1

    What where the options for a (not the USA with magic cash) country to get out of spending more and more and more on oil/energy imports?
    They did the national cashflow, some projections and hoped a big spend would let them escape the need for so much oil and have a positive national science PR flow on in other areas.

  23. Re:discrepancy on Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes this does not sound positive http://abcnews.go.com/International/dropping-water-levels-nuclear-plant-heighten-fears-meltdown/story?id=13120888
    ie "27,000 liters of water, including water stored for firefighting, was being pumped into the reactor via makeshift pumps and other means in order to raise the water level above the reactor's nuclear fuel," at Fukushima Daiichi.
    Its seems if they can get diesel-powered generators online, it might be ok, if not, the internal damage will add up fast.

  24. Re:First Proposal: on Australia Creates Cyberwarfare Unit · · Score: 1

    Re uniquely malevolent fauna - ASIO did like Australia gardening guru and television and radio presenter Peter Cundall.
    His ideas on racial equality, education for everyone, an end to poverty, an end to war and apartheid protests got ASIO very interested.
    As 'friends' they sat in on his meetings about organic gardening and took lots of notes.
    Legal reforms might have exposed some of this in the 1990's, but I guess they want their powers back.
    Expect many more local sneak and peek options and strange computer issues :)
    http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/cundall-digs-deep-into-his-asio-dirt-file/2086963.aspx

  25. Re:Misrepresentation? on Former MI6 Chief Credits WikiLeaks With Helping Spark Revolutions · · Score: 1

    Watch the last 5 mins. Worth it for the "mis quoted" line just before the end.