She in understandably upset, but what she really wants to do is lash out at somebody. There has to be someone to blame, and there is no way for her to get at the real perps, so she (and her lawyers) go after a big name that everyone knows.
The magical landscape of the internet is a perfect place to project all that rage. The public has no clue about how it works or how it is controlled, so any claim about responsibility can seem credible. If she had sued Toyota because they seem to be the official truck of ISIS, everyone would know she was off base and acting irrationally. But you go after the likes of Twitter and it makes good headlines.
In some ways Twitter has set themselves up for this. Twitter, Facebook, and other such services want all the power and money that goes with being a de facto public utility like a phone company. Then want to avoid the rules that apply to common carriers because it would limit their behavior. If they had common carrier status it would protect them from this kind of law suit. They want it both ways: the reach of a public utility without any of the responsibility. The only good part of this whole mess is that they will have to deal with a publicity nightmare because of their greed and arrogance.
That's because the Dream Catcher is an evolution of the NASA family of lifting bodies that includes the Dyna Soar. It is not a new design from scratch, it's the most recent spin on a concept that was developed by both the US and the USSR. Yes, design elements pioneered by in the USSR were copied by NASA for spaceplane use.
Sexy is meaningless for real space work. The lunar landing module was not sexy, it was practical. You want sexy, go and look at fantasy rocket designs for 1930 pulp science fiction magazine covers. Since space access is really important, dump the sexy and appreciate the practical. It gets you further.
As noted in many posts on Slashdot and other places, Microsoft is pushing updates that are extremely intrusive into Windows 7 on up. These updates have two things in common: they send a lot of information back to Microsoft and they are difficult or impossible to block.
So if Microsoft has a browser running on Linux, the only reasonable expectation is that it will do the same thing. We know that other browsers enable this kind of behavior (Google, I'm looking at you), but given the Microsoft track record for bad behavior, it is bound to be completely horrible.
For example, I expect that it will install software without informing the user in any way. Also, you can bet that they will keep changing the default search engine to Bing, no matter what you set up. Expecting Microsoft to follow the rules in the open source world is like expecting a rattle snake to become a vegetarian. Not going to happen.
Don't think of Edge on Linux as a browser, think of it as a piece of spyware that will be sending every keystroke to Redmond while it uploads your private data and downloads even more malicious code to you machine.
This isn't new, it goes back to before the Viet Nam war.
It's dead simple: communist/terrorist/anti-American scum are anyone you've already killed. Women, children, infants, farm animals, trees, it makes no difference. As soon as a victim joins the corpse club they are automatically guilty. It's what's happening in the Middle East right now. It never went away.
This will work the same way. That whole constitutional bullshit about "innocent until found guilty" is obsolete. Based on the "certainty" of the infallible computer, the authorities will use "parallel investigation" to find (i.e. fabricate) evidence to charge you with a crime. Then they lay on criminal counts so severe a conviction means your dead body will still be doing hard time in solitary into the next century. If you plead guilty then you will only do 5 or 10 years, so you will have some life on the outside before you die. Everyone rolls over because the courts are a joke, and innocence will not save you. The game is rigged.
Any questions? There better not be, or you will end up in a Super Max prison under a different name and Social Security number.
Hey dumbshit, evil corporations can, and do, take everything that people own. They do it with the full co-operation of the government, and the laws are written so that the corporations always win and usually make a profit.That's because the law is for sale.
I know you were probably living in your parents basement at the time (like you are right now), but way back in 2008 there was a huge world wide financial meltdown. You might not have been aware of it because of your troglodyte lifestyle, but for anyone who saw daylight and knew the current date when this happened it was a real big deal.
It was due to spiraling housing prices, which were the result of Wall Street banks making loans to anyone who had a pulse. All the laws and regulations that were supposed keep the financial system stable were essentially suspended. The Bush administration and Alan Greenspan basically shut down all financial oversight. They were living the Libertarian masturbatory fantasy of laissze faire capitalism.
Now like any wet dream, when the party was over there was an ugly sticky mess that needed to be cleaned up. The people who got screwed the worst were the schmucks who bought into the lies that Wall Street was pumping out. At any point in US history between 1929 and 2000 this could not have occurred because there were meaningful lending standards. The vast numbers of unqualified borrowers were the result of criminally irresponsible lending by the big Wall Street bank.
So what happened to the home owners when they couldn't pay up? Bankruptcy! That means they lost everything they owned except maybe their car and some personal items. All their saving and anything material with a salable value were confiscated and given to the banks to cover the unpaid debt. That would pretty much be your definition of "take EVERYTHING you have away". And it all goes to the "evil corporations", to use your phrase.
So remove you head from where it's stuck up you ass and try and get a clue. I know you spout the Libertard line, but out here in the real world that makes as much sense as believing the Harry Potter books are non-fiction. Corporations are not intrinsically noble or honest, and the government is not always your enemy. If you think I'm wrong then I suggest that you go someplace with no working government and see how you like it. I suggest the coastal region of Somalia.
So now the UK and People's Republic of China are on the same page when it comes to surveillance. They both want 24/7 access to all information on anyone or any organization. It makes you wonder how similar they are on other aspects of power and control.
Of course, here in the US it's actually worse. They go to great lengths to spy on everyone and they don't bother with pesky issues like the constitution or the rule of law. They just do what they want to do and get all the money they need to do it without any debate or oversight. And they lie their teeth out over what they do. I bet the PRC is jealous.
Great idea, no possibility that it could turn into a complete clusterfuck.
No possibility that drones will crash into each other and fall from the sky.
No possibility that drones will loose communication with their vehicle due to radio interference from other drones.
No possibility that road rage fools will get in drone fights or interfere with other vehicles.
No possibility that distracted drivers/pilots will get in accidents.
No possibilities that emergency respondents will have problems with a bunch of amateurs cluttering up the situation by remote control.
No possibility that the size of the problem area will expand as drivers try to sneak around congestion.
This idea makes perfect sense for a day dreaming eight year old boy with attention deficit disorder. In the real world it makes about as much sense as encouraging drivers to shoot at each other while driving. What kind of moron comes up with this shit?
He'll build a new yacht, and instead of being automated, it will be manned by the crop of newly created galley slaves that are the inevitable result of his business practice.
A bunch of poor people won't add anything to his bottom line, so they might as die serving to maintain his luxury lifestyle. It's not like they're citizens with "inalienable rights" to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" or any such commie nonsense.
And while you're at it, wash my car, do my dirty dishes and vacuum my house, Mr. Shur.
I can find you and your crap company on the interweb, so you owe me. DO SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT'S BUGGING ME!!!
Conversely Mr. Shur, pull you head out of you ass and enter the 21st century. Other wise shut the fuck up and leave those of us who have consciousnesses and cognitive abilities to get on with things.
This is definitely a breakthrough, but it still might have some problems moving into general use. The fact that 14% of the material is silicon carbide could lead to some real manufacturing headaches. Remember that silicon carbide is the material of choice for grinding wheels and sanding. So what happens when you try to drill a hole in this stuff, or grind or polish it? What does it take to machine?
There is also the question of how to weld it. Does it make a strong weld with the dispersed embedded particles, or is welding a problem?
As for all the speculation about it being a fire hazard, the effect of the silicon carbide on combustion is very unclear. It could make the material less flammable because the silicon carbide will not contribute to combustion.
Still, it seems likely that this material, or something using similar technology, will make it into general use. Stronger and lighter with reasonable cost will always pay off.
The Cray 1, introduced in 1976, used Freon cooling. The Freon circulated in cold bars that the individual circuit boards were mounted in. So liquid water cooling is not exactly exotic technology.
The CRAY-1S cooling system is designed to limit the IC die temperature to a maximum of 65C. This provides a reliability margin from the 150C absolute maximum IC junction temperature. The IC package case is maintained at 54C. Heat generated in the silicon die flows through the IC package to the PC board ground plane and then to the 0.08-in thick copper cold plate. The cold plate conducts the board heat to its edges, which are held to 25C by contact with a cast aluminum cold bar. The aluminum cold bars form the twelve vertical columns in the computer mainframe into which the modules slide horizontally on 0.4-in spacings. A refrigerant, Freon 22, flows through stainless steel tubes embedded in the cold bars. The development of the composite aluminum/stainless steel cold bars represents a solution to one of the more difficult design problems of the CRAY-1. Cast aluminum is actually porous and oil mixed in with the Freon can cause reliability problems if it leaks onto the modules. A method to bond stainless steel tubing into cast aluminum had to be invented in order to make the cold bars practical.
There are other short turn strategy available to cable companies: raise rates on bandwidth and degrade connections for streaming competitors. Note that they can use the same sort of illegal manipulations to achieve both ends. The goal is to force everyone to top tier (overpriced) service contracts. Since the internet is still does not have common carrier status it is much more difficult to prove wrong doing. I expect that this is nothing new, and it's been common practice for a long time already. It's not like the consequences are negative enough to keep them honest.
Do you actually think that any organization gives a shit about security? Once a week there is a data breach that shows that upper management cares more about having nice business cards then any security. Security is a cost. It never contributes to the bottom line. Since it isn't profitable this quarter it is never a useful expenditure.
Even after getting burned the corporate attitude doesn't change. Is Sony a three time looser, or a four time looser or a five time looser? I forget. After the PlayStation network got hacked, they still were completely clueless for the Sony Pictures hack. I bet that there are still other divisions at Sony that will get hacked. Or have been hacked and it hasn't come to light yet.
Or the Office of Personal Management hack. That was far worse then the Snowden data dump. There are now intelligence cadres in the People's Republic of China who know more about US intelligence operations then almost any one in the US. In the US, all this was completely compartmentalized, because it was too sensitive. Now the cat is out of the bag.
They know the real names, backgrounds, and organizational positions of everyone who ever got a clearance in the US. That is a complete roadmap of the organizational structure and personal of the entire US industrial-government complex, along with a lot of info about the military, since so many military go directly into classified civilian positions.
That is far more valuable then the meta data and recordings of every phone call made on the entire planet. The NSA compulsion to spy on every human on earth is a horrific mistake. There is too much data to be useful, and all the effort spent on this takes away from the effort to actually find out what the opposition is actually doing. Knowing when and how long you spent talking to you're cousin in Kansas City has absolutely nothing to do with ISIS, or what the heck the Russians or Iran is doing. It's just cruft in the data base.
So telling people that security counts is like saying that Santa is real, except it actively makes things worse. If security counted then things would be really different then they are right now. Suck it up and face the truth. Security is so close to non-existence that it's almost extinct.
It's going to take more then one race to get to the point where there will be an actual winner. Crashes and mishaps will take all the cars off the track before any one crosses the finish line.
The task of racing is very different then the task of driving. It requires aggression, not caution. Current driverless cars are all about not crashing, and that is a very different problem.
It's really different. For example, there needs to be a yellow flag mode where cars hold their relative place. When there is an accident with debris on the track, how do you clear the track? Do all the cars stop?
Can the navigation algorithms execute responsively enough at track speeds? Many of the current automomous vehicles use 3D scanners. Can those keep up at high speeds? How does the common vehicle encompass all the different sensors that various competitors want to use?
Look at the results of the DARPA Grand Challenges. The cross desert race was won by the team that manually added a large number of way points, in some sense defeating the intent of the challenge. The more recent robot challenge showed that humanoid robots are not ready for very much besides walking and cannot traverse uneven terrain. Why should race cars be any different?
Still, I think it would be an entertaining first lap where everything goes to hell and the track is strewn with really expensive gear. You could make book on how many cars make it past the first turn. Zero would be a good bet.
If you want to profit with products that kill people, you had best do it in a different market.
Take Ford. By their own admission, they have killed over 125 (or is it 150 or 200 or ???) people with a bad ignition switch. It's called mass murder. Except that you will never hear that phrase on TV or in the press. Why? Just notice how many car commercials there are on TV and in the press. No connection at all, just ask any ethical journalist. You'll find one riding a unicorn.
You know what happened to Ford? Not much. A few people were fired (the horror), but no one at the top. They paid some fines. Unless a victim is willing to take them to court the compensation was capped at $1 million. They are under three years "suspended prosecution", which is the corporate equivalent of house arrest with no ankle monitor or any other kind of oversight. And their stock is up. And they are really really sorry. Really.
Honestly, it's almost a surprise that the government didn't try and send the victims to jail for conspiracy because they found out that there was a flaw in the switch, and this was covered by the DCMA.
There is no such thing as Software Engineering. Until programmers admit this things will never get any better. Giving up delusional thinking is a prerequisite to making real progress.
If you watch the video in the linked article is is 100% buzzword marketspeak with zero information content. Disruptive technology blah blah integration blah blah innovation blah blah software continuity blah blah...
It is probably a good chip for it's niche, so you would think they would have less bloviation in their intro video. If this was anyone else I would assume they were mostly trying to fleece more investors before they inevitably went belly up. It's so bad that major league sports style animation with yelling pitchman and a pounding beat would be an improvement. That bad.
I was at the Museum on Edwards Air Force Base and I got to see an F-117 that was being processed for eventual display at the museum. It was still being worked on. One of the hardest tasks that they had to complete was removing the anti-radar coating. It was so hard they had to remove it with jackhammers, and it is supposedly extremely toxic. They said that there was a lot of minor damage to the skin, which was aluminum, so they filled it in with bondo which they sanded and painted over.
Although it was hard to see from where we stood, I think that the exhaust structure had been removed. Compared to some of the pictures I have seen, I also think that they removed features like the bomb bay doors.
Even so, it was a fantastic experience to see one up close. If you ever git the chance to visit the museum, take it. There is a long waiting list, you can't just go there and get in. Planning is required.
You don't know what the word "traitor" means. It's a person who commits treason:
In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's sovereign or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife or that of a master by his servant. Treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a lesser superior was petty treason. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor.
Outside legal spheres, the word "traitor" may also be used to describe a person who betrays (or is accused of betraying) his own political party, nation, family, friends, ethnic group, team, religion, social class, or other group to which he may belong.
In this case there is no person or organization for whom the judge is committing treason. You could say that he is betraying his trust, but that is not treason.
In law, sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws. Seditious words in writing are seditious libel. A seditionist is one who engages in or promotes the interests of sedition.
This is overtly "subversion of a constitution", in this case on behalf of the covert police state in the US.
As for the punishment, I would think that someone like this would rather die then have to live with the shame of loosing their position of power and authority, so removing them from the bench would be the right thing to do.
If you want public execution of the powerful and corrupt in a violent fashion, I think the right targets are the Wall Street types that wrecked the world economy out of greed and incompetence. I'm sure that they would rather give up their fortunes rather then suffer humiliation, pain and death, so personal violence is appropriate. For those who aren't slaughtered, I think that they would take the lesson to heart and stop stealing vast sums of money and start acting more responsibly. (Note that hanging from a lamp post with a slip knot is more traditional for economic criminals. Being drawn and quartered is really old fashioned, and it's not always easy to get horses.)
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The magical landscape of the internet is a perfect place to project all that rage. The public has no clue about how it works or how it is controlled, so any claim about responsibility can seem credible. If she had sued Toyota because they seem to be the official truck of ISIS, everyone would know she was off base and acting irrationally. But you go after the likes of Twitter and it makes good headlines.
In some ways Twitter has set themselves up for this. Twitter, Facebook, and other such services want all the power and money that goes with being a de facto public utility like a phone company. Then want to avoid the rules that apply to common carriers because it would limit their behavior. If they had common carrier status it would protect them from this kind of law suit. They want it both ways: the reach of a public utility without any of the responsibility. The only good part of this whole mess is that they will have to deal with a publicity nightmare because of their greed and arrogance.
Sexy is meaningless for real space work. The lunar landing module was not sexy, it was practical. You want sexy, go and look at fantasy rocket designs for 1930 pulp science fiction magazine covers. Since space access is really important, dump the sexy and appreciate the practical. It gets you further.
Most of them are currently breathing. I think this way they would be much more useful.
So if Microsoft has a browser running on Linux, the only reasonable expectation is that it will do the same thing. We know that other browsers enable this kind of behavior (Google, I'm looking at you), but given the Microsoft track record for bad behavior, it is bound to be completely horrible.
For example, I expect that it will install software without informing the user in any way. Also, you can bet that they will keep changing the default search engine to Bing, no matter what you set up. Expecting Microsoft to follow the rules in the open source world is like expecting a rattle snake to become a vegetarian. Not going to happen.
Don't think of Edge on Linux as a browser, think of it as a piece of spyware that will be sending every keystroke to Redmond while it uploads your private data and downloads even more malicious code to you machine.
It's dead simple: communist/terrorist/anti-American scum are anyone you've already killed. Women, children, infants, farm animals, trees, it makes no difference. As soon as a victim joins the corpse club they are automatically guilty. It's what's happening in the Middle East right now. It never went away.
This will work the same way. That whole constitutional bullshit about "innocent until found guilty" is obsolete. Based on the "certainty" of the infallible computer, the authorities will use "parallel investigation" to find (i.e. fabricate) evidence to charge you with a crime. Then they lay on criminal counts so severe a conviction means your dead body will still be doing hard time in solitary into the next century. If you plead guilty then you will only do 5 or 10 years, so you will have some life on the outside before you die. Everyone rolls over because the courts are a joke, and innocence will not save you. The game is rigged.
Any questions? There better not be, or you will end up in a Super Max prison under a different name and Social Security number.
I know you were probably living in your parents basement at the time (like you are right now), but way back in 2008 there was a huge world wide financial meltdown. You might not have been aware of it because of your troglodyte lifestyle, but for anyone who saw daylight and knew the current date when this happened it was a real big deal.
It was due to spiraling housing prices, which were the result of Wall Street banks making loans to anyone who had a pulse. All the laws and regulations that were supposed keep the financial system stable were essentially suspended. The Bush administration and Alan Greenspan basically shut down all financial oversight. They were living the Libertarian masturbatory fantasy of laissze faire capitalism.
Now like any wet dream, when the party was over there was an ugly sticky mess that needed to be cleaned up. The people who got screwed the worst were the schmucks who bought into the lies that Wall Street was pumping out. At any point in US history between 1929 and 2000 this could not have occurred because there were meaningful lending standards. The vast numbers of unqualified borrowers were the result of criminally irresponsible lending by the big Wall Street bank.
So what happened to the home owners when they couldn't pay up? Bankruptcy! That means they lost everything they owned except maybe their car and some personal items. All their saving and anything material with a salable value were confiscated and given to the banks to cover the unpaid debt. That would pretty much be your definition of "take EVERYTHING you have away". And it all goes to the "evil corporations", to use your phrase.
So remove you head from where it's stuck up you ass and try and get a clue. I know you spout the Libertard line, but out here in the real world that makes as much sense as believing the Harry Potter books are non-fiction. Corporations are not intrinsically noble or honest, and the government is not always your enemy. If you think I'm wrong then I suggest that you go someplace with no working government and see how you like it. I suggest the coastal region of Somalia.
Of course, here in the US it's actually worse. They go to great lengths to spy on everyone and they don't bother with pesky issues like the constitution or the rule of law. They just do what they want to do and get all the money they need to do it without any debate or oversight. And they lie their teeth out over what they do. I bet the PRC is jealous.
No possibility that drones will crash into each other and fall from the sky.
No possibility that drones will loose communication with their vehicle due to radio interference from other drones.
No possibility that road rage fools will get in drone fights or interfere with other vehicles.
No possibility that distracted drivers/pilots will get in accidents.
No possibilities that emergency respondents will have problems with a bunch of amateurs cluttering up the situation by remote control.
No possibility that the size of the problem area will expand as drivers try to sneak around congestion.
This idea makes perfect sense for a day dreaming eight year old boy with attention deficit disorder. In the real world it makes about as much sense as encouraging drivers to shoot at each other while driving. What kind of moron comes up with this shit?
A bunch of poor people won't add anything to his bottom line, so they might as die serving to maintain his luxury lifestyle. It's not like they're citizens with "inalienable rights" to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" or any such commie nonsense.
I can find you and your crap company on the interweb, so you owe me. DO SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT'S BUGGING ME!!!
Conversely Mr. Shur, pull you head out of you ass and enter the 21st century. Other wise shut the fuck up and leave those of us who have consciousnesses and cognitive abilities to get on with things.
There is also the question of how to weld it. Does it make a strong weld with the dispersed embedded particles, or is welding a problem?
As for all the speculation about it being a fire hazard, the effect of the silicon carbide on combustion is very unclear. It could make the material less flammable because the silicon carbide will not contribute to combustion.
Still, it seems likely that this material, or something using similar technology, will make it into general use. Stronger and lighter with reasonable cost will always pay off.
There are other short turn strategy available to cable companies: raise rates on bandwidth and degrade connections for streaming competitors. Note that they can use the same sort of illegal manipulations to achieve both ends. The goal is to force everyone to top tier (overpriced) service contracts. Since the internet is still does not have common carrier status it is much more difficult to prove wrong doing. I expect that this is nothing new, and it's been common practice for a long time already. It's not like the consequences are negative enough to keep them honest.
Donald Trump.
Even after getting burned the corporate attitude doesn't change. Is Sony a three time looser, or a four time looser or a five time looser? I forget. After the PlayStation network got hacked, they still were completely clueless for the Sony Pictures hack. I bet that there are still other divisions at Sony that will get hacked. Or have been hacked and it hasn't come to light yet.
Or the Office of Personal Management hack. That was far worse then the Snowden data dump. There are now intelligence cadres in the People's Republic of China who know more about US intelligence operations then almost any one in the US. In the US, all this was completely compartmentalized, because it was too sensitive. Now the cat is out of the bag.
They know the real names, backgrounds, and organizational positions of everyone who ever got a clearance in the US. That is a complete roadmap of the organizational structure and personal of the entire US industrial-government complex, along with a lot of info about the military, since so many military go directly into classified civilian positions.
That is far more valuable then the meta data and recordings of every phone call made on the entire planet. The NSA compulsion to spy on every human on earth is a horrific mistake. There is too much data to be useful, and all the effort spent on this takes away from the effort to actually find out what the opposition is actually doing. Knowing when and how long you spent talking to you're cousin in Kansas City has absolutely nothing to do with ISIS, or what the heck the Russians or Iran is doing. It's just cruft in the data base.
So telling people that security counts is like saying that Santa is real, except it actively makes things worse. If security counted then things would be really different then they are right now. Suck it up and face the truth. Security is so close to non-existence that it's almost extinct.
The task of racing is very different then the task of driving. It requires aggression, not caution. Current driverless cars are all about not crashing, and that is a very different problem.
It's really different. For example, there needs to be a yellow flag mode where cars hold their relative place. When there is an accident with debris on the track, how do you clear the track? Do all the cars stop?
Can the navigation algorithms execute responsively enough at track speeds? Many of the current automomous vehicles use 3D scanners. Can those keep up at high speeds? How does the common vehicle encompass all the different sensors that various competitors want to use?
Look at the results of the DARPA Grand Challenges. The cross desert race was won by the team that manually added a large number of way points, in some sense defeating the intent of the challenge. The more recent robot challenge showed that humanoid robots are not ready for very much besides walking and cannot traverse uneven terrain. Why should race cars be any different?
Still, I think it would be an entertaining first lap where everything goes to hell and the track is strewn with really expensive gear. You could make book on how many cars make it past the first turn. Zero would be a good bet.
Nova never does anything on global warming. He got what he paid for.
My guess is that absent any major change on this planet, no group or combination of groups that has enough money is willing to spend it on the trip.
So the answer is far away.
If you could go back in time and strangle Baby Windows, would you?
Take Ford. By their own admission, they have killed over 125 (or is it 150 or 200 or ???) people with a bad ignition switch. It's called mass murder. Except that you will never hear that phrase on TV or in the press. Why? Just notice how many car commercials there are on TV and in the press. No connection at all, just ask any ethical journalist. You'll find one riding a unicorn.
You know what happened to Ford? Not much. A few people were fired (the horror), but no one at the top. They paid some fines. Unless a victim is willing to take them to court the compensation was capped at $1 million. They are under three years "suspended prosecution", which is the corporate equivalent of house arrest with no ankle monitor or any other kind of oversight. And their stock is up. And they are really really sorry. Really.
Honestly, it's almost a surprise that the government didn't try and send the victims to jail for conspiracy because they found out that there was a flaw in the switch, and this was covered by the DCMA.
So I guess their Security through stupidity model isn't working for them in the long run.
If Scrum is dead (read as iterative, incremental development), then software engineering is a myth.
You're absolutely correct. As this previous Slashdot post revealed programmers should stop calling themselves engineers.
There is no such thing as Software Engineering. Until programmers admit this things will never get any better. Giving up delusional thinking is a prerequisite to making real progress.
It is probably a good chip for it's niche, so you would think they would have less bloviation in their intro video. If this was anyone else I would assume they were mostly trying to fleece more investors before they inevitably went belly up. It's so bad that major league sports style animation with yelling pitchman and a pounding beat would be an improvement. That bad.
Although it was hard to see from where we stood, I think that the exhaust structure had been removed. Compared to some of the pictures I have seen, I also think that they removed features like the bomb bay doors.
Even so, it was a fantastic experience to see one up close. If you ever git the chance to visit the museum, take it. There is a long waiting list, you can't just go there and get in. Planning is required.
In this case there is no person or organization for whom the judge is committing treason. You could say that he is betraying his trust, but that is not treason.
The word you want is sedition:
This is overtly "subversion of a constitution", in this case on behalf of the covert police state in the US.
As for the punishment, I would think that someone like this would rather die then have to live with the shame of loosing their position of power and authority, so removing them from the bench would be the right thing to do.
If you want public execution of the powerful and corrupt in a violent fashion, I think the right targets are the Wall Street types that wrecked the world economy out of greed and incompetence. I'm sure that they would rather give up their fortunes rather then suffer humiliation, pain and death, so personal violence is appropriate. For those who aren't slaughtered, I think that they would take the lesson to heart and stop stealing vast sums of money and start acting more responsibly. (Note that hanging from a lamp post with a slip knot is more traditional for economic criminals. Being drawn and quartered is really old fashioned, and it's not always easy to get horses.)