May be they have a bag or something that can put it out. Yamato Protec developed a paper product primarily as a passive fire extinguishing system that releases potassium salt aerosols before a fire spreads out of control, that can be embedded into wall panels and the like. Its not in super wide production, but they have shown that used as a lithium battery wrap it has managed to stop battery runaways in puncture tests.

This should be of no surprise. Anyone who has worked with them probably knows they game not only the Visa System but their own clients as well. Any engagement , within 6 months, turns to needing more people. Soon, companies are paying the same amount as hiring one good local worker for the same or lesser amount of work.

Agreed. I also like how 32% opposed to the restart, and 38% with no opinions in public polls (numbers in the the same NHK feed they sourced) is "widespread public opposition".

IIRC, decent dosimeters require re-calibration at least yearly if not more often. (Sounds like they don't respond well to sudden shock and this increases accuracy drift.)

I wonder how SoftBank is going to handle this. I don't think people are going to appreciate a test sample being delivered to their home, and I think employees wouldn't appreciate it in stores/kiosks. I know 7Elevens sell everything in Japan, but not sure this is going to fit in well on the kombini scene.

Similarly, I don't think having the phones sent to the factory will work. It's a tad inconvenient.

The main reason I mentioned it (but never really got into it) was because of a round up of password storage managers from a few weeks ago that all claimed "military grade" encryption, and all were trivial to compromise. I can't seem to locate the article now but KeePass was not included in this round up specifically cause it didn't try to lump itself into this category.

I've been trying to rack my brain to remeber if there was an alternative suggestion section of the roundups, or if KeePass was mentioned. But since I couldn't find the article, Ieft it in there as a toss away comment. Discount my opinion if you like, I fully realize there is no such thing. There are minimum standards set forth by the NSA and the Military, and differ based on sensitivity and roles, but I really haven't bothered to see if KeePass is up to these standards. Assuming you don't leave the database vulnerable with an easy to guess key phrase, I'm not too concerned about someone managing to access my data from such a database. I'm not that big of a target, and the life of usefulness of such information is relatively short compared to the time it would take to compromise the database. (Assuming proper password complexity rules, aging, and policies are enforced or at least practiced on the information stored)

This! KeePass2 on a shared drive is how my team does it. A shared database with generic passwords and shared resources, and some of use keep our own DB's with our more accountable user id's. Because it's got the tabbed feature it's super easy to have both databases available, and with the advanced features available when you dig a little bit deeper into the entries, it's really versatile.

As the previous poster mentioned it can be run on Mono, and works quite well actually. It also has readers for most cellphone OS's so syncing it to our phones is an option. Being able to access our DB even at a colleague's desk, or when ssh'ing in from my phone has proven to be a real convenience at times.

I don't think I've seen them claim military grade encryption anywhere, but it's pretty strong. The system also allows you to increases the encryption rounds to suit your taste and tolerance. Much of this hardening however is only partially supported in the 1.x flavours of KeePass.

Probably should point out the original AP story has had the headline updated to little water. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5izZXHoP17G8R-yOYb9RjczkhL1UQ?docId=dff2ed1434ab430c86596f672dab8414 .

Also, I wonder how money people stop to think that other non-damaged reactors also contain dangerously/lethally high radiation, ya know ... cause they are reactors.

Agreed, but then this is as ibtimes article, so I'm a bit surprised they even mentioned his name in the article, much less the blurb.

Is this good for America at all. A lot of the best of what comes out of Silicon Valley come from people who have cut their teeth elsewhere. New ideas, different ways of doing things often come from outside the Valley and move in. We've already seen a decline in how important business views tech workers. Many stalwarts of the Valley are beginning to show the cracks of age. To some degree, the Valley is already it's own boys club. You are in or you aren't or you know someone. The question is are the people in this club just repeating what those before them have done, or are they coming up with anything new? Separate yourself form the whole too much and you start to loose sight of the people you are building for, and you begin to overspecialize; We've all heard the line, over-specialize and you breed in weakness.