One of the things pushed through by President Sarkozy, at the beginning of his term, was tax breaks for the French Elites. Four years later those breaks have proven to be an economic failure. Now Sarkozy’s own UMP political party wants to stop it: “This government has a tax policy which benefits only a […] Continue Reading…
Facebook officials are asking the Federal Election Commission to exempt them from U.S. election law. The law Facebook doesn’t like; disclosing who paid for political advertising on their website.
Facebook’s arguments are really weak. In a written explanation, Facebook says by disclosing who paid for the ad, it would make the ad bigger, and they […] Continue Reading…
Computer security firm Symantec, discovered a hole in Facebook’s security system, allowing third parties to access at least 100,000 accounts.
“We estimate that over the years, hundreds of thousands of applications may have inadvertently leaked millions of access tokens to third parties.”-Nishant Doshi, Symantec
Symantec says they contacted Facebook officials about the problem, and Facebook […] Continue Reading…
The agreement has a lot of strong sounding words and phrases, like “comprehensive” and “concrete plans”.
Here’s what the Obama administration said; China and the U.S. need “a cooperative partnership that is comprehensive in scope, cooperative in nature, and yields positive achievements that benefit our people.”
Basically China, and the U.S., spent a lot of […] Continue Reading…
Sony announced they plan to get the PlayStation network up and running by the end of May.
Of course, Sony officials say everything depends on their investigation into who hacked their systems in April. Officials will not talk about the details of their investigation.
The Brown’s Ferry nuke plant in Alabama, is under investigation by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Investigators say a cooling system failure is of “high safety significance”.
Last October the plant had a cooling valve problem, in reactor 1, that cause it to shut down. Operators say the valve is fixed. But there are concerns especially […] Continue Reading…
Toyota has announced they have worked deals to secure, or substitute, 80% of the parts they are missing to build their cars.
The problem is that it’s not 100% of the parts they need. Last month Toyota officials said that it only took one missing part to shut down production.
On 17 April, Tokyo Electric Power Company issued a plan to control the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant. That plan involved 51 steps, so far as of 10 May, only one is being done; the continued pumping of water to try and cool the reactors and fuel pools.
TEPCo admitted they did not expect such high […] Continue Reading…
Schools near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant have found radiation contamination in the top soil of their playgrounds.
Normally you remove the top soil and have it hauled away in sealed containers, as nuke waste. But that’s not what the Japanese government is suggesting.
School officials are being told by the government to simply bury […] Continue Reading…
How could a few shut down nuclear plants have such drastic affects on Japan’s industries? When it’s more than a few, try 60%.
Electrical power shortages will continue thru summer. Japan has 54 commercial nuke plants, right now 32 are shut down. Some, like Fukushima Daiichi, were shut down by the 11 March disasters. Others […] Continue Reading…