Bcrypt is a wonderful tool but it is not strong encryption. PGP now yields to decoding. It could be really interesting to search old transmissions and decode them. Statutes of Limitation may not hold as the evidence of crimes was hidden until now. So the guy that put up a lot of kiddie porn years ago or downloaded such material could be in for a real shock. Politicians and lawyers and the like might also need to squirm a bit. If I got it right PGP can now be decoded in real time. Yesterdays munitions (yes they called PGP a munition) are today's toys.
I rode motorcycles for over 45 years. The dangers of motorcycles are many and only a fool would argue that motorcycles are not dangerous.
So what, you may say. Well I have seen more drug addicts in life and death emergencies on the streets and sidewalks than I ever seen seen motorcyclists in critical condition. In other words even forgetting disease and subtle losses it is obvious that the use of drugs is far more dangerous that riding motorcycles. I may add that I live in a climate in which we can ride every day of the year normally.
The carnage of drug use is not trivial at all. And some jump sitting behind bars for a few years is trivial to what i have seen dope do to people. And it is not just the users either. It is their kids, their families and the entire town that suffers. And I can tell you that I would eagerly throw away the key and keep a person in a cell for life rather than suffer the risk of having them drive near me in traffic and I do include drunks in that as well. I can tell you flat out that addicts will look at a judge and plead innocence claiming the dope made them do it. You know the drill. "I just had a relapse and fell of the wagon for a couple of days. You can't blame me for being sick.".
In concert bands and orchestras frankly the director is not in control. The tubas and Sousaphones have enough tube length that the player must lead the beat by a fraction of a second. The reality is that the director's baton is actually following the big brass in timing. Since a chorus is often without the deep brass sections you need a device that will send you an audio cue slightly ahead of the choral director. I suspect that a portable or hand held PC like device could be programmed to measure the tempo and report the beat slightly ahead. It also would need to vary the intensity of the cue so that you would no when to play forte or pianissimo.
You can get what I am describing by looking at marching bands. The last row in the band will be the Sousaphones. The Drum Major is pretty much invisible to most of the band members so it really is not the drum major controlling either the pace of the march nor the pace of the music. It is the sousaphones and they are pointed right over the heads of the band members. And it is most likely feeling the sound and not hearing the sound that cues in the players. Think about all the noise in a stadium and the cheering etc.. If you are playing a clarinet or other instrument you won't be aware of the Sousaphones much or at all. But they are controlling the pace at all times. The drum major blows his whistle when the piece is finished and when a piece is to be started and puts on quite a show. The low brass knows what pace to set from rehearsals. And the bulk and weight of the Sousaphones comes into play as it is obvious that if the pace were too quick the Sousaphones could not keep up with the marches at all. Very few conductors want to admit that the low brass is running the show. Large drums can also do the same sort of function at times.
We have no ability at all to predict whether a person will strike out or not. The notion that we can watch, predict, or stop bad actors is a fantasy.
First we have no way to determine if an individual is acting on his own impulses or is being coerced. A family member could be held by terrorists for example. We also have big problems spotting people with abnormal levels of greed who might be bribed. Follow that up with the fact that we have found no way to determine whether a person simply is the type to want to commit mass murder.
Yet somehow our rather limp response is to pass laws, form panels, hire some people, and waste tax dollars trying to prevent things which will surely happen from time to time.
This mentality is rather like the chumps who walk into a casino and just keep gambling. The more you participate in the gambling the more certain your failure. The more money we toss down the rat hole of predicting anti-social acts the more we will lose until some technology is born that will aid us.
The funny thing is that when law makers create a sack of new laws they never consider the effects. We have had people nailed to the cross for rather innocent computer activity. So why not make a point. Any laws that apply to individuals should also apply to large organizations. Sue them into the weeds. If your employer will not then try suing them yourself. They are making your life a living hell as you are are forced to keep ahead of their hacking to keep your job. What suits the goose should certainly suit the gander. With a bit of luck you might be able to retire from the proceeds of the suits. Make no mistake. They would have you for lunch if you hacked them.
There is no way that the US can police or get involved in every cause in the world or even every cause in the mid-east. As far as who exactly has ancestral rights to Israel it is obvious that the land was occupied well before Judaism and well before Islam were created.
As one of the ignorant outsiders it is my belief that all people must be treated equally. One set of laws must govern all people in the region. Obviously that would be a nightmare notion for many Jews and many Muslims as well. But until both sides realize that neither side may have their way then there will be war and lousy conditions across the region. From what we can see here in the US the Arab nations do not seem at all capable of self government. There is just too much corruption and really sick behavior for me to believe that Arabs have the ability to have any sane form of government in the near future. I also do not believe that the formation of Israel was good for the survival of the Jewish people. Concentrating Jews into boundaries that can not be perpetually defended means that a huge slaughter will eventually take place. Yes, Israel can defend now. But now is not long term. In essence Israel is surrounded about like Custer at the Little Big Horn.
The ATF wanting such a database is like terror turned inward. Are we really in such danger that we need all kinds of agencies studying the public? I think it is a bit much. And I am very aware that such information has been compiled, one way or another, since at least the 1950s..
Laser shots to the brain for addicts are a case of applying too much technology. Even a Colt 45 is a waste of effort. It is my thought that a guillotine can repair a lot of jerks and do so with almost no investment or maintenance at all.. It doesn't even need to be sharp if the blade is heavy enough. Then again a sledge hammer is even simpler. It is a cure. It is inexpensive. It solves a social nightmare. It is an object that inspires others to reform. And if we ever get smart enough we could compost these addicts for some kind of fuel. Or at least start large alligator farms so that we could grow some nice leather by making use of the corpses. And as far as chilling out there is nothing chiller than a corpse at room temperature. Never heard one moan about stress or bad memories even a tiny bit.
Let them run Puppy and if they get confused lend them a hand. Usually most people seem to want to check email or some other trivial task. You do want to be certain that your email account does not allow auto sign in while you have company.
Do they intend to give employees the same powers to search the employers files? Is an employer supposedly more established or somehow in a higher social position than an employee? No way in hell! Equality of demands is something people need to think about. Frankly being an employer in America is an indicator that one is likely a criminal. Those that doubt that simply haven't been around the block enough times. I can take the help wanted section of a local newspaper and round up hundreds of businesses that commit ongoing fraud with ease. Watch how many try to hire people as independent contractors when in fact they are not independent contractors at all. Agencies and tax payers are robbed blind by that gimmick. For example these businesses do not pay Workman's Compensation claiming that they have no employees but only use independent contractors.
I myself once machined and built a small safe designed to hide in a vehicle as I frequently transported gold at the time. Unless there was proof that this guy was trying to do something illegal it sounds absolutely insane that he would be punished. The area that I traveled through was known to be quite dangerous and window smashing and grabbing at valuables was common. Matter of fact many gun owners need some sort of safe in their vehicles as there is a plague of people leaving guns under the car seats or between the seats or sometimes just under a newspaper on the seat which is dangerous in many ways including stopping to get gasoline or a cup of coffee. Criminals often get their guns by feeling around under car seats. Friday and Saturday nights are usually the good nights for that nonsense as people get drunk and leave their cars wide open with guns, wallets and all kinds of things in easy reach. Usually the only way these thieves get caught is by accident.
We are talking really high altitudes for these peaks. If the earth suffered a five degree temperature increase and the normal for those peaks was -35F and it is now -30F there would be no melting ice despite a huge temperature rise. This does not sound like much of a scientific measurement system to me. We all know global warming is hitting us hard already and it should be frightening to all of us.
Although in a better world the protections against self incrimination would hold up they do not hold up in American courts at this time. Keep in mind that judges are ordering the revelation of pass words.
What we are really seeing is the fact that governments can not live with the free exchange of ideas and information. Frankly most business people and most people in government would be under the jail if information flowed freely.
Sometimes I have created partitions that were encrypted and set up for a project or special purpose or even for an experiment. Then, as time passes and the project fails to hold my interest I do tend to forget the passwords. At least once a year i will tend to completely erase a hard drive and repartition and do an updated install. Before doing that i transfer some files to another drive for safety and then remove that drive from the PC until the new install is completed. I have also used a lot of quick change hard drive trays so I may lose track of where a encrypted segment is or on what drive it was on.
It is hard to imagine that any judge could punish simply because you could not recall the drive, the segment or the password that the court wishes to see. In twenty years time I have used hundreds of passwords and currently own about 15 drives. I have never done anything that would vaguely interested police.
So they now complain at the expense of lawyers and courts getting in their way. Funny how the expense of courts and lawyers stops about 90% of all suits for the reat of the citizens of this nation.
Look at the tragedy caused by the auto insurance industry. Allowing policies that only pay $10,000 per injury in a wreck enables the industry to sell junk insurance. But what about the victim that will have to pay millions for ongoing medical care and never be able to work again after being run over? Usually auto insurance in Florida won't even cover an emergency room much less little items like being in a wheel chair for life. Yet if all drivers had to purchase real insurance there would be almost no cars on the road.
I recently saw a 40,000,000 dollar award given to a victim and her lawyer complained that she is so badly injured and in anursing home that her yield from that suit may not cover her expected life long care.
Just think of what the ability to spy on internal dialogues within the brain might do in both civil and crimminal court cases. Talk about self incrimination! We could even know what lawyers are thinking in every conversation with clients. And think about salesmen if their internal dialogues could be studied for the last week or so before you say yes to their offer. I sold vacations at on epoint and when i buyer said yes we would scream dump two in the pit. the pit was the so-called luxury accomodations they were paying for but never getting.
Complex human activities always involve errors. No matter how hard we try or how perfect the effort there will always be screwups. Perhaps there is a more basic error in allowing such bleeding edge technology being deployed in the first place. this wonderful electronic technology can probaly be made more robust, miniturized and produced at very low cost if allowed to mature before military use. Today's electronic miracle tends to be tomorrow's mundane and common product.
These days magazines are challenged to exist regardless of quality. There has been an inability to hold price levels and the readership has gone eslewhere. When the better, more specialized mags were a dollar or two they had an audience. But now we see publications of the better type fro six to sixteen dollars per issue and as a consequence they do not sell enough copies to justify shelf space in a store.
In 1982 when you went into a convenience store the item directly in front of you before all else was the magazine rack. Now those smae stores don't even have a magazine rack.
This is actually a repeat from another era. In 1915 the big item on the front racks of stores was sheet music. As Tin Pan Alley died and people turned to the radio instead of the family to make music sheet music faded into oblivion as a mass merchandise product.
I susuepct we are progressing to the rear.
A pilot willing to go up in a U2 either needs a Medal of Honor or a mental hospital. Wonderful titanium skins that must have gaps due to expansion when heated with fuel dripping from the seams is not the kind of craft that a man should ever be asked to fly. It is a flying coffin waiting to happen. Is the pilot brave or stupid or just brainwashed? Our troops deserve better than a 50 year old design.
While the US is out and about signing treaties and agreements with foreign governments that allow us to seize foreign files and evidence you can bet that we are giving other nations the right to do the same within the US. If that were not true we could never get them to sign those treaties and agreements. One issue where this has come to light in the past is in outrageous and deliderate gouging on international phone calls. You make a call to a nation in Africa for twelve minutes and get a phone bill with $3,000 for that one call. You refuse to pay and your local phone company gets involved and cuts you off as they are forced to honor reciprical arrangements.
No treaty or agreement should have any effect upon US citizens within our own borders.
There was this girl back in high school that excluded me from carnal relations. I know she was having relations with several guys. Can I sue? She discriminated against me.
We are not a nation that operates in the shadows by definition if not by fact. We need to get rid of the idea of classified information completely. Share all truth with all people. As far as national defense concerns go the real answer is to be able to devastate any nation that acts against us. We simply need to make certain that no nation dare to offend us with military actions or other means of attack. Ideas like keeping the M-1 rifle classified for sixty years after every government in the world has one in their hands is absurd. Our secrets are not helping us at all.
It seems that this fellow has some serious defects. One can not be a terrorist and be in touch on the net exchanging radical remarks with your buds back in crazy land. If you start chatting with known terrorists and making remarks about building bombs inside the US you sort of attract a whole bunch of attention.
So the guy has a degree in physics which suggests he is bright and yet seems to have some serious mental voids. He can build a huge model airplane or drone as we might want to call this device, acquire explosives, and formulate a plan. Yet he is so deficient as to occupy himself with strange beliefs, have rage against random individuals or organizations and to top it off whacked enough to put it all on the net. Mental defect leaps to mind. This poor guy needs some serious therapy.
College students have deeper needs and may frequently ask or share some rather profound thoughts. Access to the best professors is a great asset. But that is not true in an eighth grade history class. A security guard to control behavior and machine learning can get the job done and replacing a large sector of teachers should be much easier than at the college level.
Fifty guys used to come with sythes to cut the lawn. Now instead of fifty guys taking all day to cut one lawn we have one guy with a mower and weed eater doing many lawns in a single day. Buy we are learning that certain low paid jobs require quite a few skills while some higher paid positions easily yield to robotics. And robots are not the only path to labor elimination. The common cell phone costs millions of women their jobs. The small contractor either had to marry or have a girl to answer the phones, take messages and keep track of purchasing etc.. Now a cell phone replaces many tasks and hand held units take care of the rest of the tasks they used to do. Over the road and taxi types drivers will soon be eliminated by robots completely. Construction workers that build single family homes will take a huge hit as well. People need to get the message. Technology is all about replacing human effort. Even actors will soon be eliminated as well demonstrated by an animated John Candy finishing a film well after his death. Yes, we can bring Elvis back from the grave so well that the audience won't be able to tell the difference. Cost control is the obstacle and the cost is coming down for these technologies every day.
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Bcrypt is a wonderful tool but it is not strong encryption. PGP now yields to decoding. It could be really interesting to search old transmissions and decode them. Statutes of Limitation may not hold as the evidence of crimes was hidden until now. So the guy that put up a lot of kiddie porn years ago or downloaded such material could be in for a real shock. Politicians and lawyers and the like might also need to squirm a bit. If I got it right PGP can now be decoded in real time. Yesterdays munitions (yes they called PGP a munition) are today's toys.
I rode motorcycles for over 45 years. The dangers of motorcycles are many and only a fool would argue that motorcycles are not dangerous.
So what, you may say. Well I have seen more drug addicts in life and death emergencies on the streets and sidewalks than I ever seen seen motorcyclists in critical condition. In other words even forgetting disease and subtle losses it is obvious that the use of drugs is far more dangerous that riding motorcycles. I may add that I live in a climate in which we can ride every day of the year normally.
The carnage of drug use is not trivial at all. And some jump sitting behind bars for a few years is trivial to what i have seen dope do to people. And it is not just the users either. It is their kids, their families and the entire town that suffers. And I can tell you that I would eagerly throw away the key and keep a person in a cell for life rather than suffer the risk of having them drive near me in traffic and I do include drunks in that as well. I can tell you flat out that addicts will look at a judge and plead innocence claiming the dope made them do it. You know the drill. "I just had a relapse and fell of the wagon for a couple of days. You can't blame me for being sick.".
In concert bands and orchestras frankly the director is not in control. The tubas and Sousaphones have enough tube length that the player must lead the beat by a fraction of a second. The reality is that the director's baton is actually following the big brass in timing. Since a chorus is often without the deep brass sections you need a device that will send you an audio cue slightly ahead of the choral director. I suspect that a portable or hand held PC like device could be programmed to measure the tempo and report the beat slightly ahead. It also would need to vary the intensity of the cue so that you would no when to play forte or pianissimo.
You can get what I am describing by looking at marching bands. The last row in the band will be the Sousaphones. The Drum Major is pretty much invisible to most of the band members so it really is not the drum major controlling either the pace of the march nor the pace of the music. It is the sousaphones and they are pointed right over the heads of the band members. And it is most likely feeling the sound and not hearing the sound that cues in the players. Think about all the noise in a stadium and the cheering etc.. If you are playing a clarinet or other instrument you won't be aware of the Sousaphones much or at all. But they are controlling the pace at all times. The drum major blows his whistle when the piece is finished and when a piece is to be started and puts on quite a show. The low brass knows what pace to set from rehearsals. And the bulk and weight of the Sousaphones comes into play as it is obvious that if the pace were too quick the Sousaphones could not keep up with the marches at all. Very few conductors want to admit that the low brass is running the show. Large drums can also do the same sort of function at times.
We have no ability at all to predict whether a person will strike out or not. The notion that we can watch, predict, or stop bad actors is a fantasy.
First we have no way to determine if an individual is acting on his own impulses or is being coerced. A family member could be held by terrorists for example. We also have big problems spotting people with abnormal levels of greed who might be bribed. Follow that up with the fact that we have found no way to determine whether a person simply is the type to want to commit mass murder.
Yet somehow our rather limp response is to pass laws, form panels, hire some people, and waste tax dollars trying to prevent things which will surely happen from time to time.
This mentality is rather like the chumps who walk into a casino and just keep gambling. The more you participate in the gambling the more certain your failure. The more money we toss down the rat hole of predicting anti-social acts the more we will lose until some technology is born that will aid us.
The funny thing is that when law makers create a sack of new laws they never consider the effects. We have had people nailed to the cross for rather innocent computer activity. So why not make a point. Any laws that apply to individuals should also apply to large organizations. Sue them into the weeds. If your employer will not then try suing them yourself. They are making your life a living hell as you are are forced to keep ahead of their hacking to keep your job. What suits the goose should certainly suit the gander. With a bit of luck you might be able to retire from the proceeds of the suits. Make no mistake. They would have you for lunch if you hacked them.
There is no way that the US can police or get involved in every cause in the world or even every cause in the mid-east. As far as who exactly has ancestral rights to Israel it is obvious that the land was occupied well before Judaism and well before Islam were created.
As one of the ignorant outsiders it is my belief that all people must be treated equally. One set of laws must govern all people in the region. Obviously that would be a nightmare notion for many Jews and many Muslims as well. But until both sides realize that neither side may have their way then there will be war and lousy conditions across the region. From what we can see here in the US the Arab nations do not seem at all capable of self government. There is just too much corruption and really sick behavior for me to believe that Arabs have the ability to have any sane form of government in the near future. I also do not believe that the formation of Israel was good for the survival of the Jewish people. Concentrating Jews into boundaries that can not be perpetually defended means that a huge slaughter will eventually take place. Yes, Israel can defend now. But now is not long term. In essence Israel is surrounded about like Custer at the Little Big Horn.
The ATF wanting such a database is like terror turned inward. Are we really in such danger that we need all kinds of agencies studying the public? I think it is a bit much. And I am very aware that such information has been compiled, one way or another, since at least the 1950s..
Laser shots to the brain for addicts are a case of applying too much technology. Even a Colt 45 is a waste of effort. It is my thought that a guillotine can repair a lot of jerks and do so with almost no investment or maintenance at all.. It doesn't even need to be sharp if the blade is heavy enough. Then again a sledge hammer is even simpler. It is a cure. It is inexpensive. It solves a social nightmare. It is an object that inspires others to reform. And if we ever get smart enough we could compost these addicts for some kind of fuel. Or at least start large alligator farms so that we could grow some nice leather by making use of the corpses. And as far as chilling out there is nothing chiller than a corpse at room temperature. Never heard one moan about stress or bad memories even a tiny bit.
Let them run Puppy and if they get confused lend them a hand. Usually most people seem to want to check email or some other trivial task. You do want to be certain that your email account does not allow auto sign in while you have company.
Do they intend to give employees the same powers to search the employers files? Is an employer supposedly more established or somehow in a higher social position than an employee? No way in hell! Equality of demands is something people need to think about. Frankly being an employer in America is an indicator that one is likely a criminal. Those that doubt that simply haven't been around the block enough times. I can take the help wanted section of a local newspaper and round up hundreds of businesses that commit ongoing fraud with ease. Watch how many try to hire people as independent contractors when in fact they are not independent contractors at all. Agencies and tax payers are robbed blind by that gimmick. For example these businesses do not pay Workman's Compensation claiming that they have no employees but only use independent contractors.
I myself once machined and built a small safe designed to hide in a vehicle as I frequently transported gold at the time. Unless there was proof that this guy was trying to do something illegal it sounds absolutely insane that he would be punished. The area that I traveled through was known to be quite dangerous and window smashing and grabbing at valuables was common. Matter of fact many gun owners need some sort of safe in their vehicles as there is a plague of people leaving guns under the car seats or between the seats or sometimes just under a newspaper on the seat which is dangerous in many ways including stopping to get gasoline or a cup of coffee. Criminals often get their guns by feeling around under car seats. Friday and Saturday nights are usually the good nights for that nonsense as people get drunk and leave their cars wide open with guns, wallets and all kinds of things in easy reach. Usually the only way these thieves get caught is by accident.
We are talking really high altitudes for these peaks. If the earth suffered a five degree temperature increase and the normal for those peaks was -35F and it is now -30F there would be no melting ice despite a huge temperature rise. This does not sound like much of a scientific measurement system to me. We all know global warming is hitting us hard already and it should be frightening to all of us.
Although in a better world the protections against self incrimination would hold up they do not hold up in American courts at this time. Keep in mind that judges are ordering the revelation of pass words.
What we are really seeing is the fact that governments can not live with the free exchange of ideas and information. Frankly most business people and most people in government would be under the jail if information flowed freely.
Sometimes I have created partitions that were encrypted and set up for a project or special purpose or even for an experiment. Then, as time passes and the project fails to hold my interest I do tend to forget the passwords. At least once a year i will tend to completely erase a hard drive and repartition and do an updated install. Before doing that i transfer some files to another drive for safety and then remove that drive from the PC until the new install is completed. I have also used a lot of quick change hard drive trays so I may lose track of where a encrypted segment is or on what drive it was on.
It is hard to imagine that any judge could punish simply because you could not recall the drive, the segment or the password that the court wishes to see. In twenty years time I have used hundreds of passwords and currently own about 15 drives. I have never done anything that would vaguely interested police.
So they now complain at the expense of lawyers and courts getting in their way. Funny how the expense of courts and lawyers stops about 90% of all suits for the reat of the citizens of this nation.
Look at the tragedy caused by the auto insurance industry. Allowing policies that only pay $10,000 per injury in a wreck enables the industry to sell junk insurance. But what about the victim that will have to pay millions for ongoing medical care and never be able to work again after being run over? Usually auto insurance in Florida won't even cover an emergency room much less little items like being in a wheel chair for life. Yet if all drivers had to purchase real insurance there would be almost no cars on the road.
I recently saw a 40,000,000 dollar award given to a victim and her lawyer complained that she is so badly injured and in anursing home that her yield from that suit may not cover her expected life long care.
Just think of what the ability to spy on internal dialogues within the brain might do in both civil and crimminal court cases. Talk about self incrimination! We could even know what lawyers are thinking in every conversation with clients. And think about salesmen if their internal dialogues could be studied for the last week or so before you say yes to their offer. I sold vacations at on epoint and when i buyer said yes we would scream dump two in the pit. the pit was the so-called luxury accomodations they were paying for but never getting.
Complex human activities always involve errors. No matter how hard we try or how perfect the effort there will always be screwups. Perhaps there is a more basic error in allowing such bleeding edge technology being deployed in the first place. this wonderful electronic technology can probaly be made more robust, miniturized and produced at very low cost if allowed to mature before military use. Today's electronic miracle tends to be tomorrow's mundane and common product.
These days magazines are challenged to exist regardless of quality. There has been an inability to hold price levels and the readership has gone eslewhere. When the better, more specialized mags were a dollar or two they had an audience. But now we see publications of the better type fro six to sixteen dollars per issue and as a consequence they do not sell enough copies to justify shelf space in a store.
In 1982 when you went into a convenience store the item directly in front of you before all else was the magazine rack. Now those smae stores don't even have a magazine rack.
This is actually a repeat from another era. In 1915 the big item on the front racks of stores was sheet music. As Tin Pan Alley died and people turned to the radio instead of the family to make music sheet music faded into oblivion as a mass merchandise product.
I susuepct we are progressing to the rear.
A pilot willing to go up in a U2 either needs a Medal of Honor or a mental hospital. Wonderful titanium skins that must have gaps due to expansion when heated with fuel dripping from the seams is not the kind of craft that a man should ever be asked to fly. It is a flying coffin waiting to happen. Is the pilot brave or stupid or just brainwashed? Our troops deserve better than a 50 year old design.
While the US is out and about signing treaties and agreements with foreign governments that allow us to seize foreign files and evidence you can bet that we are giving other nations the right to do the same within the US. If that were not true we could never get them to sign those treaties and agreements. One issue where this has come to light in the past is in outrageous and deliderate gouging on international phone calls. You make a call to a nation in Africa for twelve minutes and get a phone bill with $3,000 for that one call. You refuse to pay and your local phone company gets involved and cuts you off as they are forced to honor reciprical arrangements.
No treaty or agreement should have any effect upon US citizens within our own borders.
There was this girl back in high school that excluded me from carnal relations. I know she was having relations with several guys. Can I sue? She discriminated against me.
We are not a nation that operates in the shadows by definition if not by fact. We need to get rid of the idea of classified information completely. Share all truth with all people. As far as national defense concerns go the real answer is to be able to devastate any nation that acts against us. We simply need to make certain that no nation dare to offend us with military actions or other means of attack. Ideas like keeping the M-1 rifle classified for sixty years after every government in the world has one in their hands is absurd. Our secrets are not helping us at all.
It seems that this fellow has some serious defects. One can not be a terrorist and be in touch on the net exchanging radical remarks with your buds back in crazy land. If you start chatting with known terrorists and making remarks about building bombs inside the US you sort of attract a whole bunch of attention.
So the guy has a degree in physics which suggests he is bright and yet seems to have some serious mental voids. He can build a huge model airplane or drone as we might want to call this device, acquire explosives, and formulate a plan. Yet he is so deficient as to occupy himself with strange beliefs, have rage against random individuals or organizations and to top it off whacked enough to put it all on the net. Mental defect leaps to mind. This poor guy needs some serious therapy.
College students have deeper needs and may frequently ask or share some rather profound thoughts. Access to the best professors is a great asset. But that is not true in an eighth grade history class. A security guard to control behavior and machine learning can get the job done and replacing a large sector of teachers should be much easier than at the college level.
Fifty guys used to come with sythes to cut the lawn. Now instead of fifty guys taking all day to cut one lawn we have one guy with a mower and weed eater doing many lawns in a single day. Buy we are learning that certain low paid jobs require quite a few skills while some higher paid positions easily yield to robotics.
And robots are not the only path to labor elimination. The common cell phone costs millions of women their jobs. The small contractor either had to marry or have a girl to answer the phones, take messages and keep track of purchasing etc.. Now a cell phone replaces many tasks and hand held units take care of the rest of the tasks they used to do. Over the road and taxi types drivers will soon be eliminated by robots completely. Construction workers that build single family homes will take a huge hit as well. People need to get the message. Technology is all about replacing human effort. Even actors will soon be eliminated as well demonstrated by an animated John Candy finishing a film well after his death. Yes, we can bring Elvis back from the grave so well that the audience won't be able to tell the difference. Cost control is the obstacle and the cost is coming down for these technologies every day.