July 26, 1945 - Allied heads of state issue Potsdam Declaration
July 28, 1945 - Premier Suzuki rejects Potsdam declaration.
Looks like communication between the two wasn't a problem.

There is a window period where a person will test negative to HIV yet still be infectious. Thus testing alone is not enough to keep HIV tainted blood from the blood supply.

In 1999, California passed a law that makes it illegal not to report a witness crime if the victim is 14 and under. This law got attention recently when a bunch of people stood by when a high school girl was gang raped in Richmond, California. Because she was over 14, the onlookers could not be charged.

It is the most prestigious award in Computer Science. Here is what it is given for:

It isn't as famous as a Peace Prize, but it does recognize real accomplishment.

The remarkable thing is that any 2000 year old bridges survive at all. The city of Pripyat in the Ukraine is falling apart and its been only been abandoned for twenty years.

If it's caused by malware there's no mens rea.

I'm going to have to do a little research on this issue, to find out why the *EFF* funded this prize. As an EFF donor, I donate money to them so that they can use it to advance the causes of liberty and privacy. I'm a little puzzled at how them spending $100k of (I presume) *donor money* is advancing the cause of liberty or privacy? Here I thought my money was going to precedent-setting lawsuits and criminal trials, and to lobby congress and educate the press about technology and liberty/privacy issues?

I suppose *maybe* this is somehow tied into the last part (government/public education about the issues) sort of "crypto awareness", since most cryptography is based on large prime numbers, but I'm a bit skeptical at them moment that my donations are being used wisely.

Apple has been running a very creepy campaign recently where they get people in berets to sit in corner shops with Macs and sneer at potential customers.

Oh, sorry, I've just been informed that that wasn't a marketing effort at all, those were just regular Mac users.

Obviously you've yet to interact with the mysterious beings known as "women" or you'd realize that the typical woman has fragile emotions. Imagine that they did this to your mother, or grandmother, and how they would react. I honestly can't even continue because frankly, it's making me mad that people like you are out there convincing any possible alien observers that we're still to stupid to handle a formal greeting.

If tritium were so terrible and dangerous, then why is used in things like gun sights that are sold to members of the public? Also, primary coolant water is inside a closed loop - that is why you need at least one other coolant system to move the heat out to the generators. Thus, your figure of 4000 gallons per day of waste primary coolant water makes no sense.

The California legislature passed a revised budget a couple of weeks ago that solved the money problem (they claim). That means they are now once again free to propose new laws, no matter how dumb they are.

They are going to use biodiesal because ships usually use bunker fuel which is a very dirty fuel (50 to 100 times dirtier than diesel). There are effots to get shipping companies to use cleaner fuel, and/or use grid power when tied up in port. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5438620.