I don't work at Los Alamos, but I do work with sensitive government items, and it's bit more than that actually. Government accountability of sensitive* stuff like this isn't a one-and-done. Inventories of sensitive items are done at regular intervals to make sure that what we said was there last week is actually still here this week. If it ain't, we backtrack to find out where the heck it went off to and whose soul to obliterate for not keep track of their stuff.
*Stuff the US government doesn't want falling into the hands of anyone other than the US government
Off-topic tangent: Perhaps we should be asking ourselves why we need to rely on the government to create conditions of prosperity for us. I thought the American Dream was that individuals create prosperity for themselves.
Yes, actually. Many of the new Republicans that got elected in 2010 feel Afghanistan and Iraq are the limits of what we can do and that the US is spending too much blood and treasure on foreign matters when we can't get our own house in order. I'm willing to bet they could get a non-negligible number of Democrats to agree with them.
No disrespect intended towards rape victims, but why is a company responsible for one of its employees raping another employee? The scum-sucking shitbag who committed the rape is responsible for his actions, not his employer Is it because it happens overseas?
I'm not aware of any other crime which I'm allowed to sue my employer for if a coworker victimizes me with.
It depends on what you mean by "weaponize". Getting a living bio-agent to aerosolize or delivering it effectively via munitions is difficult at best, but contaminating water or food supplies is fairly straight-forward. The insidious thing about biological weapons (and here I'm talking about living organisms, not biologically-derived toxins) is that they propagate on their own.
I'll agree with you on botulism toxin and anthrax, but the extraction of ricin from castor beans is pretty simple for anyone with a semester's worth of lab experience.
I am not a political theorist by any means, but I'll take a swing at this
The US concept of "inherent rights" derives from the philosophies of Enlightenment-era philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Thomas Paine. Wikipedia has a pretty good article natural rights vs legal rights here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_and_legal_rights
In US political theory, the Declaration of Independence carries a significant amount of weight, because it publicly stated on what philosophical and moral grounds the North American colonies felt justified in breaking away from the British Empire. From the second paragraph:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed....
After the US colonies gained independence, they tried something called the Article of Confederation, which was an absolute disaster. So all the Founding Fathers got together to figure out a way to create a system of governance that held true to the principles they had laid out in the Declaration of Independence When they sat down to write the Constitution was written, they intended it to be lens through which the law was viewed (except for Jefferson, who thought it should be rewritten every few years to reflect the prevailing attitudes of the times). However when they got done writing the thing, they realized that, while they do indeed have "certain unalienable Rights", without clarification governments on down the lines could easily say "show me where free speech is a right". Thus, they added the Bill of Rights to clearly define what they felt these natural, inalienable rights were.
For further education, start with the Wikipedia pages on the US Bill of Rights, the US Declaration of Independence, and the above-posted link on natural vs legal rights
Nuclear died because it was uneconomical, costs were greater than just deaths (such as massive economic costs and long term illnesses)...It's not that the majority is irrational, it's that you guys are as emotionally tied to dead nuclear...
The economic costs for solar-base grids, both centralized and decentralized, are roughly equivalent to to nuclear. Other alternative energy methods such as wind, wave, or geothermal power are only feasible for a small amount of population centers in certain geographic locations. Unless you think we should just keep using fossil fuels, I don't see many other options.
Do you have some magic fairy dust you'd to share with the rest of the class?
The GP didn't claim Sony was some shining beacon of goodness. In fact, I've yet to see someone on/. claim Sony is innocent. It is perfectly acceptable for both Sony and the hacking group to be ass-hats. Heck, criminals have fight amongst themselves. Ever heard of gang wars?
They should undergo safety testing as rigorous as pharmaceuticals.
I believe that's what the scientists in the article were attempting to do when these "peaceful protesters" (the article's words, not mine) decided it was okay to just rip everything up.
In the one instance I've seen of WiFI printers, it was a mobile field-office set-up that ran off one of those celluar WiFi cards that AT&T or Verizon produce. The individual in question traveled a lot and apparently felt the need to be able to print wherever he wanted.
I can't speak for the other devices however.
It amazes me how quickly the politicians jumped on that one. Meanwhile people seem to be forgetting that Fukushima ran 40 years without incident and that it took the combined effects of a tsunami and an earthquake to get to this point. A freakin' 9.0 on the Richter Scale for crying out loud. How many other power plants could withstand the equivalent of 474 megatons of TNT?
Heck, Spiderman comics first got me interested in chemistry (I stumble across some old issues where Parker was actually a scientist). Show kids that their favorite hero likes science too and who know where it could lead.
It's a nice thought, but can we can barely get people to turn out to vote for presidential (every 4 years) or congressional elections (2 years). What makes you think they'll show for an annual election?
Can someone explain to me why Immigration and Customs Enforcement has jurisdiction here? I thought counterfeit goods and online pirating fell into FBI jurisdiction.
Seconded. I picked up a math minor in college so that I could understand what was going on in my quantum mechanics classes. The semester after I graduated, the university created a "Math For Chemists" course that condensed the necessary maths into a single semester. Had that course been created earlier I could have saved a lot in tuition money and still gotten the neccesary information I needed to pass the rest of my courses.
Yes, studying math for math's sake yields useful results, but not everyone has the inclination or the time to do so.
Yeah, I remember. It used to be ungodly expensive to fly, and we actually dressed nice just to get on a plane. It actually felt civilized.
Yeah, because preferring to wear jeans and a t-shirt vs a suit on a four hour non-business flight is a really good indicator of my value as a human being. Get over yourself.
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I don't work at Los Alamos, but I do work with sensitive government items, and it's bit more than that actually. Government accountability of sensitive* stuff like this isn't a one-and-done. Inventories of sensitive items are done at regular intervals to make sure that what we said was there last week is actually still here this week. If it ain't, we backtrack to find out where the heck it went off to and whose soul to obliterate for not keep track of their stuff.
*Stuff the US government doesn't want falling into the hands of anyone other than the US government
Yes, but Texas has more women, thus proving that size isn't everything.
Thanks, I'll be here all week
The only thing I can think of is that someone from the MPAA/RIAA is using Capcom as a test-bed for their new DRM scheme.
Off-topic tangent: Perhaps we should be asking ourselves why we need to rely on the government to create conditions of prosperity for us. I thought the American Dream was that individuals create prosperity for themselves.
Yes, actually. Many of the new Republicans that got elected in 2010 feel Afghanistan and Iraq are the limits of what we can do and that the US is spending too much blood and treasure on foreign matters when we can't get our own house in order. I'm willing to bet they could get a non-negligible number of Democrats to agree with them.
Explain?
No disrespect intended towards rape victims, but why is a company responsible for one of its employees raping another employee? The scum-sucking shitbag who committed the rape is responsible for his actions, not his employer Is it because it happens overseas? I'm not aware of any other crime which I'm allowed to sue my employer for if a coworker victimizes me with.
It depends on what you mean by "weaponize". Getting a living bio-agent to aerosolize or delivering it effectively via munitions is difficult at best, but contaminating water or food supplies is fairly straight-forward. The insidious thing about biological weapons (and here I'm talking about living organisms, not biologically-derived toxins) is that they propagate on their own.
I'll agree with you on botulism toxin and anthrax, but the extraction of ricin from castor beans is pretty simple for anyone with a semester's worth of lab experience.
Odd, this is the only story about Bitcoin I've ever seen on Slashdot. Must be something in the user preferences.
In US political theory, the Declaration of Independence carries a significant amount of weight, because it publicly stated on what philosophical and moral grounds the North American colonies felt justified in breaking away from the British Empire. From the second paragraph:
After the US colonies gained independence, they tried something called the Article of Confederation, which was an absolute disaster. So all the Founding Fathers got together to figure out a way to create a system of governance that held true to the principles they had laid out in the Declaration of Independence When they sat down to write the Constitution was written, they intended it to be lens through which the law was viewed (except for Jefferson, who thought it should be rewritten every few years to reflect the prevailing attitudes of the times). However when they got done writing the thing, they realized that, while they do indeed have "certain unalienable Rights", without clarification governments on down the lines could easily say "show me where free speech is a right". Thus, they added the Bill of Rights to clearly define what they felt these natural, inalienable rights were. For further education, start with the Wikipedia pages on the US Bill of Rights, the US Declaration of Independence, and the above-posted link on natural vs legal rights
Right, because religious groups never disregard the words of their teacher in their zeal to "do the right thing"
Nuclear died because it was uneconomical, costs were greater than just deaths (such as massive economic costs and long term illnesses)...It's not that the majority is irrational, it's that you guys are as emotionally tied to dead nuclear...
The economic costs for solar-base grids, both centralized and decentralized, are roughly equivalent to to nuclear. Other alternative energy methods such as wind, wave, or geothermal power are only feasible for a small amount of population centers in certain geographic locations. Unless you think we should just keep using fossil fuels, I don't see many other options. Do you have some magic fairy dust you'd to share with the rest of the class?
Oh, the FedRes functions buddy boy. it just functions in ways we never intended it to.
While I understand the joke, the husband is being honest, but not open, which is what people seem to want out of the government these days.
The GP didn't claim Sony was some shining beacon of goodness. In fact, I've yet to see someone on /. claim Sony is innocent. It is perfectly acceptable for both Sony and the hacking group to be ass-hats. Heck, criminals have fight amongst themselves. Ever heard of gang wars?
They should undergo safety testing as rigorous as pharmaceuticals.
I believe that's what the scientists in the article were attempting to do when these "peaceful protesters" (the article's words, not mine) decided it was okay to just rip everything up.
In the one instance I've seen of WiFI printers, it was a mobile field-office set-up that ran off one of those celluar WiFi cards that AT&T or Verizon produce. The individual in question traveled a lot and apparently felt the need to be able to print wherever he wanted. I can't speak for the other devices however.
I'll reserve the right to slap the shit out of anyone that asks the question "what does it do?"
Most Army gizmos are named in such a fashion:
IPFU: Improved Physical Fitness Uniform
M295 IEDK: Individual Equipment Decontamination Kit
IFAK: Improved First-Aid Kit
As a member of the military, I can say that for certain individuals, these kinds of names are necessary.
It amazes me how quickly the politicians jumped on that one. Meanwhile people seem to be forgetting that Fukushima ran 40 years without incident and that it took the combined effects of a tsunami and an earthquake to get to this point. A freakin' 9.0 on the Richter Scale for crying out loud. How many other power plants could withstand the equivalent of 474 megatons of TNT?
Heck, Spiderman comics first got me interested in chemistry (I stumble across some old issues where Parker was actually a scientist). Show kids that their favorite hero likes science too and who know where it could lead.
It's a nice thought, but can we can barely get people to turn out to vote for presidential (every 4 years) or congressional elections (2 years). What makes you think they'll show for an annual election?
Can someone explain to me why Immigration and Customs Enforcement has jurisdiction here? I thought counterfeit goods and online pirating fell into FBI jurisdiction.
Seconded. I picked up a math minor in college so that I could understand what was going on in my quantum mechanics classes. The semester after I graduated, the university created a "Math For Chemists" course that condensed the necessary maths into a single semester. Had that course been created earlier I could have saved a lot in tuition money and still gotten the neccesary information I needed to pass the rest of my courses. Yes, studying math for math's sake yields useful results, but not everyone has the inclination or the time to do so.
Yeah, I remember. It used to be ungodly expensive to fly, and we actually dressed nice just to get on a plane. It actually felt civilized.
Yeah, because preferring to wear jeans and a t-shirt vs a suit on a four hour non-business flight is a really good indicator of my value as a human being. Get over yourself.