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Comment Please sign the petition (Score 1) 211

Please sign the petition over at Whitehouse.gov to get the US to act in getting the Japanese government to allow US/UN assistance in cleaning up the spent fuel pools. This is an urgent need.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpetitions.whitehouse.gov%2Fpetition%2Frequire-united-states-petition-un-and-japan-seek-assistance-removing-spent-fuel-fukushima%2FLHSB04r0

~ X

Comment Guangdong plant (Score 3, Interesting) 118

Is anyone else a bit frightened that the Guangdong plant picture shows what looks to be simple trusses and corrugated aluminum siding over the turbine section, where others use poured concrete and I-beams?

Did they skimp on anything else, I wonder?

Comment PET Scan (Score 1) 191

PET scanning uses radioisotope Beta decay to Neutron, Neutrino and Positron, Positron -> Electron annihilation -> Gamma -> detection.

This is using an existing source of positrons, beta radiation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission

The non-trivial stuff is making anti-atoms. That's quite difficult.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter#Artificial_production

Comment What is the source? (Score 3, Insightful) 501

Over at Yahoo ( http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090710/ap_on_hi_te/as_skorea_cyber_attack ) they are reporting that there are only 86 IP addresses causing the outages:

"SEOUL, South Korea -
Cyber attacks that caused a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea
used 86 IP addresses in 16 countries, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers
Friday, amid suspicions North Korea was behind the effort."

Now, I'm a little skeptical that they didn't mean ISP instead of IP, but if it is true that there are only 86 hosts generating this much fanfare, then the network admins should be strung up with cat6 for not just blackholing these punks at the edge router. I guess we get the best govt. IT we can afford, right?

Comment This is the tip of the iceberg (Score 4, Interesting) 333

This is unfortunately par for our fine DA. Kamala Harris has proven herself to be an incompetent tool more often that I'd like to hear.

She has angered many San Franciscans by refusing to prosecute violent criminals, and lately, found to have been lax towards the city's worst crime of the year...the murder of a father and his two sons in the Mission by a suspected illegal alien due to the city's stupid sanctuary law.

She should be dragged out, tarred, whipped and ejected from the city, never to return.

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