Well... go to Google Earth and take a look at what's already there in the general area of Yucca Mountain.

Search for "Sedan Crater" and start scanning south. That moonscape of craters? Atom bomb test craters, every one, lined with completely uncontained fission products and whatever plutonium didn't get fissioned. (Which is a substantial fraction of each bomb's load.)

I submit that what is already there is a much bigger hazard than anything that would ever be put in the Yucca Mountain repository.

Not that it should be needed, but you can buy an Thunderbolt to Ethernet adaptor... I bought one just in case as you never know when traveling what networking will be like.

Yeah, I was definitely more impressed with the 802.11 chipsets and gear they used in the PPC PowerBooks and iBooks. My older 2009 Macbook doesn't seem to have as many issues as my newer Air does though.

Good god man, with the protocol fully in the hands of hackers they can reverse the bluetooth polarity flow - either shifting it to red through acceleration to burn your wrist, or even worse with the reversed flow affecting the heart rate monitor the hackers have full control of your heart rate!

Think everyone wearing a FuelBand as now living either a Logan's Run or Running Man scenario...

He wasn't a skeptic, he was always a believer. I've gone back and read his sayings, they were things like, "we need to make sure our data is solid, otherwise people won't believe there is global warming." That's a reasonable scientific thing to say, but because of that, other people labeled him a skeptic and even a denier. He didn't label himself that way until it was useful, to show he had 'reformed'.

Also, his study failed to adequately account for the heat-island effect, and had trouble getting published for that reason.

Wow, let's hope ours never spontaneously does that.

Yep, By allowing our government to get so large and violate or principles of freedom we have forever lost trust, and you can't have an economy without trust.

The "deep state" has just killed our golden goose. Which might be the kind of thing that wakes up the public enough to vote for some heads of state that might actually route out these vipers. In the mean time say bye bye to real economic growth.

If there is any it will be in the industries of yesterday like oil & gas, and basic bread stuffs for export. More and more will turn their backs on American Hi-tech.

That was my first thought too. There is an obvious privacy, implication. Maybe in some really contorted situation you could induce someone to do something dangerous like convince a diabetic they have done a whole ton of walking this morning and therefore should eat more sugar than normal and similar attacks.

I think the big issue is the potential to use this as a vector to introduce malware to the phone or PC the owner interfaces the device with. Not sure how practical that is.

As pointed out by another poster, if those "evil" power companies did what you said they should do then their employees would end up in federal prison because Jimmy Carter decided that he didn't like fuel reprocessing.

They wasted their time on games, social media, and entertainment

When my daughter gets to use computer, her only toys will be:

• vi
• cc
• make

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President Obama Announces Major Initiative to Spur Biofuels Industry and Enhance America's Energy Security

That's Big Government for you. Instead of various people acting as they see fit — some making mistakes and some not — we have a government, that's big enough to make a mistake for all of us at once...

Competing ideas? To each his own? Personal responsibility? No way, no how — citizen, the Science is Settled[TM] and you are blocking our progress towards the Common Good[TM].

Fat is bad for you — all of you! Until it is not. Except it still is...

Biofuels is about to become the latest example of this. As our benevolent and omniscient overlords in Washington jump from one trend to another, the whole country is supposed to rejig, retool, and reorient itself each time: from "low-fat" to "low-sugar", from growing biofuels to drilling oil. Because they "know" better — and they are 100% confident in that settled "knowledge" of theirs. Until it changes to the exact opposite like some kind of quantum particle — and only the confidence remains.

How about we — the subjects — make our own choices, huh? Leaving only the courts, police and military to you, our beloved government class? Yes, we — some of us — will be making the same mistakes. But, at least, they will be neither coercing nor outright forcing the others to repeat them.

Come back when you know the difference between pesticide and herbicide.

So in other words, you complete faith in the scientists working for Phillip Morris, and the scientists working for Monsanto, and Exxon? I have something you might be interested in. It's a toll bridge, scientifically proven to make money for it's owner. Care to buy I

Oh, you think the scientists working for Monsanto are human, and therefore biased, but the guys working for Climate.org are superhuman, with no bias? I have this nice tower available in Paris you might like too.