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NATO-Commissioned Report Says Killing Hackers Is Basically OK
In an attempt to make some sense of the mess, NATO (basically the Western powers-that-be) commissioned a report from a bunch of legal experts at the ‘NATO Cyber Defense Center of Excellence’ to suggest some rules for cyber-warfare. Well, the report’s i...
Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet– – Has anybody ever tried this...
by Max
I just ran into this article about the search engine Shodan. I've been experimenting with search engines lately, as I try to avoid Google. Anyway, the article is below: By David Goldman NEW YORK (CNNMoney) "When people don't see stuff on Google, t...
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Need proof that human activities can influence the environment? Consider this Facebook update from the National Weather Service office in Pittsburgh Tuesday evening : Check out the band of snow being generated by t...0 opinions2013/01/23 19:27:03
Like child molesters and drug addicts, liberals can’t be cured of their addiction. They want to run our lives in every way possible. New York City’s Mayor Nanny Bloomberg is one such liberal. He won election twelve year...5 opinions2013/03/03 01:32:58
AN accident at a US nuclear power plant has killed one person and injured three others but the reactors were not affected and there is no risk of a radiation leak. The Entergy company, which manages the Arkansas Number On...11 opinions2013/04/01 08:39:25
RT.com: With two decades to go before it can reprocess spent nuclear fuel, the US will have to bury nearly 70,000 tons of it, a research lab reports. It comes after Congress and the Obama administration defunded a planned ...1 vote2013/04/13 07:11:21
Americans across the country are watching Washington bicker and fight. Meanwhile, millions of people are looking for work, and millions more have given up looking. All in all, it’s a pretty sad state of affairs in the worl...3 opinions2012/12/18 20:11:33
Iran has claimed it has "captured" an unmanned US drone over Gulf waters after it entered Iranian airspace. A ScanEagle drone sitting on the catapult prior to launch "The unmanned US drone patrolling Persi...2 opinions2012/12/04 10:38:24
The Obama administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says it should be a federal crime to refuse to hire ex-convicts — and threatens to sue businesses that don’t employ criminals. In April the EEOC unveiled ...42 opinions2013/02/16 01:04:40
2 in Share 2 Democratic New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich founded an environmentalist group with a convicted eco-terrorist in the 1990s. Heinrich, who will meet with President Obama in th...19 opinions2013/03/25 20:45:22-
PRESSTV.com: "The redacted information shows that the NRC is lying to the American public about the safety of U.S. reactors," said David Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer and safety advocate with the Union of Concerned Scientis...1 vote2012/10/20 07:46:18
A manager’s calls for reinforcements to help contain a series of crises at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were ignored, newly released TEPCO teleconference footage has revealed. [...] As th...4 votes2013/01/14 14:56:50
The penetrating James Bovard writes for the Wall Street Journal: Should it be a federal crime for businesses to refuse to hire ex-convicts? Yes, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which recently r...138 opinions2013/02/15 15:13:39
While it is not mandatory for states to comply with the act, the act establishes specific procedures states must follow when issuing driver's licenses in order for the federal government to accept those licenses for "offic...0 opinions2012/10/02 21:21:16
Hundreds of problems have been found at European nuclear plants that would cost 25bn euros ($32bn) to fix, says a leaked draft report. The report, commissioned after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster, aimed to see how ...9 votes2012/10/02 18:42:04
Hackers claim to have seized the information of nearly 200 scientists and officials affiliated with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the world’s chief nuclear watchdog, according to a message posted Sunday on...0 opinions2012/11/27 14:04:58
Two out of three nuclear power plants in Minnesota have been shut down for unscheduled maintenance. An excerpt from the Star Tribune reads; Xcel Energy said Tuesday it has shut down two of Minnesota’s three nuclear r...1 opinion2012/08/18 19:26:06
California braces for power-grid test amid heat wave ReutersBy Rory Carroll SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's electricity grid operator issued a rare statewide alert on Thursday warning residents to curb power usage ...12 opinions2012/08/10 11:08:55
A higher frequency of extreme and unusual weather events is taking a toll on US infrastructure at an alarming rate, according to an new analysis by the New York Times . Across the country extreme heat is melting asphalt...4 opinions2012/07/27 00:39:44-
From highways in Texas to nuclear power plants in Illinois, the concrete, steel and sophisticated engineering that undergird the nation’s infrastructure are being taxed to worrisome degrees by heat, drought and vicious sto...2 opinions2012/07/28 14:41:10