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If you're a citizen, you can have access to it.
Export control information usually involves technology that can be used to create missiles or others armaments. NASA works with rockets, so some of that material may have information involving missiles. It's a good idea to have some control over where that information goes so it doesn't help a hostile entity and come back to us.
Here I am working, when I could be playing. Thanks Slashdot, now I'm going to have to kill my productivity and go home and kill some zerg!
In addition, she published a review a few years earlier claiming that the flame retardant should be banned. She had a strong opinion before being appointed to the committee, thus she was biased, and so should have never been appointed. In this case the industry was right. She didn't have an open mind coming in.
There's always malware on any operating system, including IOS. While Apple does a good job at preventing it, they can't prevent it 100% of the time. Here are a few articles talking about malware on iOS for those who think it doesn't exist.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2012/07/06/first-ios-malware-hits-app-store/
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/08/29/finfisher-malware-goes-mobile-infects-android-iphone-blackberry/
http://www.redmondpie.com/another-malware-app-sneaks-into-ios-app-store/
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/238101/scitech/hacker-reveals-ios-malware-vulnerability-gets-punished
http://www.techpluto.com/ios-malware/
Inviting lots of opinions to a complicated issues is an excellent idea and creates additional insight into the implementation and practical problems that may occur with the laws. There's no reason to ignore an opinion just because it's an opposing opinion. Rather, opposing opinions can bring the most insight information from people that think differently. Europe doesn't have to agree with the US, but the opinions and insight of the US can be very useful.
Just cut his internet connection
As an engineer, I use math for field work all the time. I usually have a laptop with me that I use matlab on. Though I wouldn't use a graphing calculator now, it was a good middle point in building up to using matlab when I was in school.
Perhaps rather than make powerful calculators, TI and HP should make powerful apps for tablets. Much more useful for buyers, and cheaper to make for TI and HP. It should make everyone happy.
which has exceeded 3 trillion dollars. I'd gladly trade the money spent on war for a stable power grid that doesn't go down at the drop of a leaf
... and you'd have a lot more bombs going off at home, which would probably exceed the cost of fighting it. When someone is shooting at you, sitting and taking it isn't an option. You may not like the war on terror, but ignoring it isn't an option. There isn't a single politician who claims that ignoring it is a good idea.
As far as energy goes, the cost of defending myself from getting blown up by someone that hates me isn't comparable to energy costs.
Research data should be made available to the public for the sake of peer review. Emails and other communication should not be because that would that create a biased opinion for those that read the emails, and emails need freedom to make conjecture without being held to those conjectures for final theories.
There's always someone on Slashdot that wants to ignore the facts
It is completely inappropriate to WANT a hurricane to devastate a state just to delay a few people you don't like. Grow up.
Even more common than fact checking on web is "incorrectly" fact checking. I don't know how many times I've read one fact on an article just to read another article that claims the opposite is true. Think about reading forums on Slashdot, how many times is a statement corrected, to then be corrected by someone else, to then be corrected, and so on
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