Yousei

Skipped Japanese class today for my first time ever. Probably didn’t miss anything important.

My new replacement iPod is here! Hope I don’t break it again.

Tried out World of Warcraft Beta. It’s crap.

UPDATE: UK military: iPod is security risk

“With USB devices, if you plug it straight into the computer you can bypass passwords and get right on the system,” RAF Wing Commander Peter D’Ardenne told Reuters…

…”That’s why we had to plug that gap,” he said, adding that the policy was put into effect when the MoD switched to the USB-friendly Microsoft XP operating system over the past year.

Heh. So USB devices can bypass their passwords eh? Damn those devious terrorists for inventing such a fiendish contraption! Maybe MoD should get their tech department to handle invterviews like this. Or god forbids if this guy IS their tech department. And why is the MoD using Windows XP? Where’s their gadget guy, Q? Seriously, why are they using Windows? It’s off-the-shelf component yes, but with all that money they could make their own Linux distro. And what if Microsoft planted some backdoors… [insert world domination conspiracy theory]

U.S. deserter ‘in terrible shape’

“If and when he comes to Japan, we’ll ask for custody — exactly when remains to be seen,” Baker told reporters Thursday, according to a transcript available on the U.S. Embassy’s Web site…

…He could provide the United States with valuable information on the reclusive Communist nation, which Washington accuses of having a nuclear weapons program.

Ermm… so some random American defector living in North Korea might have information on the country’s top secret nuclear program? Freedom of information must be pretty well-practiced in the the communist state.

They found out where the fuel rods are, so what’s in the bucket? *insert dramatic music*

MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP) — Two highly radioactive pieces of spent nuclear fuel were found Tuesday where they belong, in the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant’s spent fuel pool, three months after they were reported missing…

After the announcement that the fuel segments were missing, plant officials said they believed the segments were in cylinders welded to a bucket at the bottom of the 40-foot-deep spent fuel pool.

Raymond Shadis of the nuclear watchdog group New England coalition said Tuesday that the discovery of the fuel rods in a separate cylinder raised questions about what had been in the bucket and what had become of it.

Oh fiddlesticks. Smithers, call my lawyer and get them to fend of the IAEA. (a cookie* for anyone who gets the reference. *prize does not actually exist)