Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like a lot of the commenters here are missing the point. The interesting part of this guy's feat isn't that he reverse-engineered (if that's even the right term) any two atomic bombs, but Fat Man and Little Boy. Apparently, he's the first person to get all of the details of these bombs' inner workings. The difficulty in this isn't the enriched uranium thing (which is what's traditionally the difficult part in building nuclear weapons), the difficulty was in getting all the inner details just right...
That seems a bit overkill. Couldn't he at least use two coconut halves for the U-235, a little bit of gunpower and a real fuse? Then at least you'd get a bang and a "clop!" when you set it off.
You've got two empty halves of coconuts and you're banging them together!
Maybe PFC Manning is guilty of a crime, maybe he isn't. Either way, this is obviously a big deal to the DoD, among others. Why is no going after the policy-and-decision makers that created an environment such that a lowly PFC could take and leak so much sensitive data?
Maybe they should bring back COMPUTE magazine, too. And the magazine could do really cool things like discuss computers. That's a great idea for the internet, no?
What I want to know is, if one were to measure all the energy released from burning all the books in the Library of Congress, how many Libraries of Congress would it total?
I don't really know chemistry or biology, but perhaps they know this about cocaine and money... and instead of (or in addition to) testing for cocaine itself, perhaps they test for a byproduct of metabolized cocaine? At least that's something along the lines of how I'd probably try to do it in order to reduce incidences of false positives.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like a lot of the commenters here are missing the point. The interesting part of this guy's feat isn't that he reverse-engineered (if that's even the right term) any two atomic bombs, but Fat Man and Little Boy. Apparently, he's the first person to get all of the details of these bombs' inner workings. The difficulty in this isn't the enriched uranium thing (which is what's traditionally the difficult part in building nuclear weapons), the difficulty was in getting all the inner details just right...
That seems a bit overkill. Couldn't he at least use two coconut halves for the U-235, a little bit of gunpower and a real fuse? Then at least you'd get a bang and a "clop!" when you set it off.
You've got two empty halves of coconuts and you're banging them together!
Maybe PFC Manning is guilty of a crime, maybe he isn't. Either way, this is obviously a big deal to the DoD, among others. Why is no going after the policy-and-decision makers that created an environment such that a lowly PFC could take and leak so much sensitive data?
Maybe they should bring back COMPUTE magazine, too. And the magazine could do really cool things like discuss computers. That's a great idea for the internet, no?
"Hey, man. What's Cal-coo-lus?"
Or maybe it will just be Memorial Day: MD31.
When will they launch The Executor? Those dang rebels are at it again.
What I want to know is, if one were to measure all the energy released from burning all the books in the Library of Congress, how many Libraries of Congress would it total?
What are these girls of which you speak? Are they a certain kind of slashdot mod point?
90 months divided by $550 = $6/month.
Wouldn't that actually be 0.1636 months/dollar?
We must preserve them if for no other reason than because they can lead us to rich deposits of Unobtanium.
The expectations of privacy are different when it's security-related.
Right. As long as there's no reasonable expectation of privacy, you can photograph anything you want. At least here in the US of A.
I don't really know chemistry or biology, but perhaps they know this about cocaine and money... and instead of (or in addition to) testing for cocaine itself, perhaps they test for a byproduct of metabolized cocaine? At least that's something along the lines of how I'd probably try to do it in order to reduce incidences of false positives.