Posts by Wzrd1 2268 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Dec 2012
"What could possibly go wrong?"
If they're flying within WIFI range or in orbit in WIFI range, they're welcome to do whatever they want to do.
Seriously, if they are in orbit or flying alongside of a hypersonic rocket headed into orbit, do you honestly think they'll be breaking WPA2 Enterprise encryption?
"secession for the forward thinkers? Not sure which states this would work for though. Washington? Boston?"
Washington is a state, Washington District of Columbia is a federal district that lacks statehood. Boston is a city.
Cutting off D.C. from the rest of the country would strangle the bible belt, as the most conservative states tend to have the highest number of people on welfare, relief for those across the pond.
I see little hope for the US, the republican frontrunners are fascists and dominionists (seeking a theocracy).
Well, it looks like it's time to renew my passport, I might have to get out of this failing nation before it destroys itself.
Originally, the US government was funded from taxation on alcohol. As prohibition was nearing being passed, income tax was created to replace the lost government revenue.
Interestingly, after prohibition was repealed, income tax remained, doubling the amount of money that the federal government received.
"It never ceased to amaze me that the maladies associated with Windows systems continue to grow to astronomical proportions."
Yeah, because no other operating system uses certificates and trusted root certificate authority. Everyone else is on Commodore 64's.
"Knowing Eric S Raymond, if you'd asked me what I thought he'd been developing recently, I'd have assumed it was something like a way to shoot people in the face over the Internet. :-)"
Having been in his house before Y2K, I'd not be surprised if he was also trying to develop that.
The man had an umbrella stand full of 12 gauge shotguns.
"Since all the clocks of all devices run at the same rate, you will never have buffer over- or underruns."
Only if you don't run NTP and don't communicate with other systems cryptologically. Time can and will drift, resulting in things like SSL breaking when other systems have a far different time than the server time is.
No ratified treaties are second in power to the Constitution, the Constitution says so. The Constitution isn't law, it's a Constitution and may only be changed by the amendment process.
As for the moon and space treaty, I suspect that whoever arrives with metric tons of platinum, gold and rare earth metals shan't be turned away.
Well, Mount Rushmore already has a sovereign claim on it, a Native American nation holds the mountain as holy, so a white chap decided to carve white mens faces on the holy mountain.
As for US taxation of income broad, from the Infernal Revenue Service website: "If you are a U.S. citizen or a resident alien of the United States and you live abroad, you are taxed on your worldwide income. However, you may qualify to exclude from income up to an amount of your foreign earnings that is adjusted annually for inflation ($92,900 for 2011, $95,100 for 2012, $97,600 for 2013, $99,200 for 2014 and $100,800 for 2015). In addition, you can exclude or deduct certain foreign housing amounts."
True, it could be that various elements that are gaseous at STP and liquid and just barely at equilibrium under the conditions under the surface of Pluto. Anything that would then add energy would turn the liquid to gas and cause other, lower energy state liquids and solids to erupt from gas pressure.
Well, everything in the article appeared US centric to me.
Let's see, "Police in some states can now access your phone location data without a warrant", I don't recall any Commonwealth nation having states, save Australia. That's in the first paragraph.
In the second paragraph, MetroPCS is mentioned, I don't recall that organization being operated in any Commonwealth nation, perhaps I'm wrong though, they might be operating in Canada.
In the third paragraph, "Police grabbed the records under the 1986 Stored Communications Act", no Commonwealth nation has a "1986 Stored Communications Act".
Someone either has a reading comprehension problem or that someone is phenomenally dense.
"When I contracted at the British MoD it took 6+ months to get your security clearance - if you were lucky that is and your paperwork didn't get lost or have tea spilled on it or get mistaken for a completely different contractors."
The same is true in the US, as well as complimentary PII sharing with the PRC via the OPM breach.
If no great big flags pop up on the initial background check, one is granted an interim clearance. After the interim clearance is granted, the real investigation begins by burial of the forms in a peat bog for six months, quadruplicate copies misfiled, refiled, lost, found, twisted. folded and mutilated before the investigator gets the paperwork.
In my case, the investigator then annoyed all of my friends and neighbors, but thankfully left this BOFH MK 2 alone.
True, although "12 Monkeys, Inception, Looper did that."
Gives pause for the author's capability of complexity. I can name a handful of excellent science fiction books that'd likely turn the critiic's minds into jelly, as it's already apparently nearly so upon this modest experience.
Likely, had this contributor reviewed "Predestination", a stroke that'd damage a cupboard would ensue.
"A Doctor who behaved like a gibbering idiot, a substandard monster with a facemask borrowed from "Predator", crap animations with a reservoir dam that looked like it was made from sheet paper...and an unfathomable storyline".
In other words, you've *never* watched Doctor Who.
Welcome to the majors, kid. You might even manage to work out, however I doubt it.
It's far more likely that you'll be back into the minors, to later wash out next week.
Odd, as I'm a contractor for a corporation providing information security for government agencies, with one branch providing security for some US DoD operations.
One requirement for any of those positions is US citizenship, followed by holding a security clearance.
Odd that you'd speak in such volumes, yet have absolutely no idea what you are speaking about.
Just as El Reg did when it went on about companies "vetting employees", nope, the company will frequently do so, but also the US government also does so. That is especially true when one is speaking of security clearances.
Those are investigated by OPM, then provided to China for backup purposes.
Oh wait, that wasn't a backup, because we can't restore from it.
Personally, I'm a bit mild about those waters.
Or to be more accurate, how excited can one be about the contents of a single raindrop flowing down a gully. That *is* the approximate quantity being spoken of.
Still, considering how many places we find life on this planet, it's conceivable that single celled life could be present.
Inside of The Waters Of Mars.
"Anyway, if we could develop something like scrith in this time and political climate, it would probably be locked down, stay top secret and would be available for military use only."
Well, that means I and my countrymen could still get it. Military use only here is pretty much WMD's. The rest requires a background investigation and a $200 tax stamp.
"(yes, feel free to downvote, peeps. after you've done the actual math, and realise people that believe in the things are applying scalar thinking to a vector problem.)"
Poppycock, one just needs to add one more type of unobtanium to the list.This one would be similar to the unobtanium required for bullet proof vests that would stop a .50 BMG round unnoticed, while weighing less than toilet tissue and breathes as if there is nothing present.
So, we need infinite rigidity, while maintaining some flexibility, with negative mass.
Yep, that describes unobtanium. Something that doesn't exist, but would make engineering easier if it did.
"And how is this any different from any politician or large corporate?"
You're obviously not from the United States. Six of one, half dozen of the other.
Where else do you think those eight billion dollar campaigns funding comes from?
The United States of America has the best government that money can buy.
Something this US citizen noticed decades ago.
Just think, this US citizen has to put up with this idiocy each and every day.
Well, there is one upside, Rush is losing listeners faster than a dying rat loses fleas. The advertisers are pulling out, as they're losing customers because of his phenomenally offensive moonbats.
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