Have you been to Yucca? Do you honestly think that the billions that were spent on scientists and geologists were thrown away and weren't used to make the most precise and well-calculated decision on which area to use in the US?

I've been there. I know the people who lost there jobs there. I work with the handful that are left.

Jobs aside, this place is in the area that nuclear testing was done. Underground, above ground... you name it... for YEARS. Do you not think they took in to consideration "water tables"?

Again, have you been out there? The closest hint of civilization is Creech and Vegas, which gets their water from areas far north of that. Where is this "water table" that you've seen, and where is it going? What could it possibly do that hasn't already been done by years of nuclear bomb testing which wasn't protecting ANY environment at all. There are billions wrapped up in making sure that under any type of scenario there's protection and fall-backs for any type of spill or anomaly.

The humorous part is, there are sites ALL over the United states that NOBODY knows about, which are storing contaminants or have been contaminated since the cold war. Right NOW, we have barrels stored outside of major cities, waiting to be transported to places that are surrounded in dense wildlife and snow-capped mountains. BUT, we want to fight against one of the driest, and most secluded places in the US because of politics and speculation.

What do you think would happen if a current storage facility broke free? I'm betting you'd wish that crap was in Yucca.

I could tell you more than you ever wish to know about storage facilities and cold war plants that are buried under hundreds feet of gravel across the US, being filtered and more than likely leaking into water tables IN highly populated areas. YOU DON'T even know they're in your back yard. It can't even be MOVED because there's so much contaminated material. BUT, let's focus on the SAFEST place in the United States, and how to shut it down because it blocks "tourism" in Vegas.

THEN, after we shut it down and kill thousands of jobs, we'll complain that Vegas is one of the worst places to find a job in the US.... AFTER you killed them off. This isn't a "JERBS" post, it's common sense and nobody's using their brains because they know NOTHING about this stuff. People hate things they know NOTHING about, whether it be guns, race, or nuclear storage.

This isn't a stab at you, so please don't take it that way. I work with these people and sites and it's a pain having to listen to people think that everything that deals with any of this material is some type of conspiracy or it was just thrown out in the wilderness with no thought in place. Thousands of good people lost their jobs because of speculation and "what if?" situations that are no worse than things we're currently doing. They need to think more about what the BEST solution is, and look at it from 30,000 feet.

They're shooting with Shotguns, I'm sure. And unless it's a straight shot within 100 yards and no cover... they're not going to harm anything.

No doubt. My brother shut down Andrews while working on an EA6B when he dropped a bolt into the wing....somewhere. That was a year before he told a pilot to check the drop release when the safety pin wasn't in place... which dropped the entire fuel tank and its contents throughout the hangar. Maybe it's just because of it being a newly 'scrutinized' aircraft, that made this news.

Yeah... I can pretty much confirm that. Though there are quite a few 'odd-balls' that are strange individuals, who have been doing it for years and don't think it'll hurt them (we've got a few of those where I work)... they all still have to comply to regulations. I think that's the government's CYA as far as things go with lawsuits. Someone has to do it, though.. unfortunately. I work for a department which cleans up after these guys clean up. We put remote monitors in and create reserves out of older nuclear sites. Even with the low level of contact that quite a few of us have, they still have pretty heavy rules when in contact. After it's all said and done, we collect all of the health (and contact level) records to save and be made available for FOIA after redaction. Again.. there are nuts out there who think they're superman and just go on with it... but for the most part, they have a very high bar for safety.

Not necessarily. Considering sites with their ads will be removed from the equation, you'll probably have sites using their ad system more often.

I agree with you... but you have to admit that it does benefit them when most searches through them, and their algorithm would possibly drop hits on other marketing firms. It's good that they're doing it, and I'm for it... but it does make sense from their standpoint. If they can do this, why can't they stop fake sites who datamine and post fake results on pages with no real content?

It must be a pretty impressive algorithm if it's going to sort out good from bad sites... and it'd be interesting to see if it counts its own ads on pages if they're bundled in a bunch of others. I think they need to work on data mining sites which duplicate searches and put them on their sites to pull in clicks when no significant subject matter is really contained within the site itself. That would be better than ad sites.. and this pretty much wreaks of sneakiness.

You're absolutely right. They did nothing to react to the rest of the smartphone devices when they were pulling in money. It seemed as if years went by and their devices were exactly the same, as well as the same interface and services... all while the rest of the world was changing on a daily basis. That money should have been tossed in R&D while they had it, and now it's too late. With the interaction you can get from other solutions (exchange/web/etc) and better phones, they're way too late on switching out leaders. I don't believe they have enough revenue coming in to catch up. I'm guessing when stock drops more, a company such as Microsoft will gobble them up, considering MS is looking for a business platform for Windows Phone and has enough money to turn it around.

What books did you publish?

"Already years ahead of everything else"? I'm guessing that's why they're adding features that catch up to Android and even some from WP7. But, hey.. if you're a fan, it doesn't mean you need to know about other devices around you, as long as it's shiny and made by Apple, it will suffice.. and if it doesn't, they'll make sure that you think it does.

This is true. I think they're leaving quite a bit of info out of the post, though. I'm not certain where the information was obtained and how personnel didn't exactly know about it, but there are standards across the board for DoD, DoE and other Government agencies that their networks have to adhere to. For specific sites such as Creech, they are under their own 'honor system' of cyber rules, but all traffic from each site is part of a government leased backbone (or fraction thereof) which is somewhat of a DoDNet connection. Like the DoE, it 'should' be keeping track with netflow analyzers and heavy packet logging/sniffing with a series of IPS/IDS devices at each site. Even the DoE does this with smaller sites (and by small, I mean 10-20 employees). That said, they may have it monitoring as a SPAN, but probably only have notification and visibility from 50,000 feet in DC, where they really can't do anything about it because the DoD HQ only has access to their OWN ASAs, and not their internal network. Basically, they know where it's at, but can't get to it. It's convoluted, but the communication part is where the issue comes in to play. I seriously can't see how this happens in such a horrible scale, considering all Federal requirements for network infrastructure. It's unacceptable.

As long as both linux and Microsoft exist, there will never be a complete yin/yang understanding. Even if Microsoft made their own flavor of linux, they would still be under fire.