Plutonium production for weapons is better done in a special-purpose reactor than in a power plant. Power plants need to keep fuel in place for long periods for economic reasons, which eventually produces plutonium isotopes that are undesirable for bombs.
In fact, I can't think of a single example of someone building a bomb with plutonium from a power plant.
Not saying this is what's happening, but there's a tactic of probing an enemy's air defenses to get them to switch on the radars they've been keeping hidden so you won't know to bomb them when the war starts.
Well, not exactly. "Lender of last resort" theory is that the emergency backstop should lend freely to prevent collapses, but should do so at an above-market rate to avoid moral hazard.
That was the story of the financial crisis. A man jumps off a 100-story building, and after a while says "Look, I have 99 floors worth of data proving I'm safe. That's statistically significant!".
Which says "As of November 2007, the United States Department of Defense considers overwriting acceptable for clearing magnetic media within the same security area/zone, but not as a sanitization method. "
Since it's the same vendor on the same contract, there's a strong argument that it's the "same security area/zone".
Didn't someone offer a prize for anyone who could recover data from a zeroed drive?
I don't have mod points and this is at 0 despite being worth reading, so I'll repost it with my karma: ------- With all the pre-built computers out there, why build your own?
Answer: to see how everything works at the lowest level. The internet and cell phones are a pretty-packaged bundle of things that (usually) work right out of the box. Ham radio equipment is like getting the tools to learn how all of that stuff works with an opportunity to put it all together yourself. Educating yourself in something you're interested in is always worth it.
>And what stops a compromised site from lifting your keys while it's about encrypting or signing a message for you?
A remote site wouldn't be signing something for you given appropriate design. A remote site encrypting something for you would use your public key, which is not a secret.
>The only person with direct access to it was the phone owner
The other people with access would be the pickpocket who stole the phone, the author of the malware stealthy enough to pass Apple's App Store vetting, the phone owner's abusive spouse, and the police department that claims the right to examine phones at traffic stops.
Even if they couldn't have crooked cops demand info from the ISP, there would still be the options of targeted malware and of routine investigative work.
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Make it like jury duty. Select leaders at random. Maybe have a test for specialized positions, or a general civics exam.
I'm not sure I believe in this myself, but it would have advantages over the current system.
Plutonium production for weapons is better done in a special-purpose reactor than in a power plant. Power plants need to keep fuel in place for long periods for economic reasons, which eventually produces plutonium isotopes that are undesirable for bombs.
In fact, I can't think of a single example of someone building a bomb with plutonium from a power plant.
If it only sells to a small percentage, it won't benefit from the economies of scale that make it affordable.
If it only sells to a small percentage, software developers will be less interested in it, making it less useful.
Not saying this is what's happening, but there's a tactic of probing an enemy's air defenses to get them to switch on the radars they've been keeping hidden so you won't know to bomb them when the war starts.
Long Si-O-Si-O chains are all through the mineral kingdom, forming chains, linked chains, sheets, 3-D cages, and I don't know what else.
Worried that the bonds are too stable? Evolve it in a hotter environment.
>they did exactly what they were supposed to do,
Well, not exactly. "Lender of last resort" theory is that the emergency backstop should lend freely to prevent collapses, but should do so at an above-market rate to avoid moral hazard.
Does anyone think the black market cost of a stolen, forged, or corruptly issued trusted traveler ID will be outside the budget of a terrorist group?
That was the story of the financial crisis. A man jumps off a 100-story building, and after a while says "Look, I have 99 floors worth of data proving I'm safe. That's statistically significant!".
"Repealed", not "repeated". Sorry.
>The only problem is, a high-voltage cathode (-) requires a very low-voltage anode (+)
I know technology has been moving fast, but have they repeated Kirchhoff's laws now?
Which says "As of November 2007, the United States Department of Defense considers overwriting acceptable for clearing magnetic media within the same security area/zone, but not as a sanitization method. "
Since it's the same vendor on the same contract, there's a strong argument that it's the "same security area/zone".
Didn't someone offer a prize for anyone who could recover data from a zeroed drive?
>Not to mention nobody wants to spend the incredible amount of money it would take to fix broken people,
While still being willing or even eager to spend the incredible amount of money it takes to leave them broken.
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With all the pre-built computers out there, why build your own?
Answer: to see how everything works at the lowest level. The internet and cell phones are a pretty-packaged bundle of things that (usually) work right out of the box. Ham radio equipment is like getting the tools to learn how all of that stuff works with an opportunity to put it all together yourself. Educating yourself in something you're interested in is always worth it.
>And what stops a compromised site from lifting your keys while it's about encrypting or signing a message for you?
A remote site wouldn't be signing something for you given appropriate design. A remote site encrypting something for you would use your public key, which is not a secret.
$443 million will buy a lot of time for budget examination.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism
Building a bomb that will fit on a missile is a harder problem, though certainly you could do plenty of damage with a simpler design.
The other ingredient in a risk assessment is comparing the expectation value of deaths from terrorism with and without the scanners.
Is there any reason to believe that scanners reduce the risk of terrorism? Israeli aviation security expert Rafi Sela called them "useless".
If the objective were to save lives then the TSA would offer free blood pressure tests at the checkpoint.
>The only person with direct access to it was the phone owner
The other people with access would be the pickpocket who stole the phone, the author of the malware stealthy enough to pass Apple's App Store vetting, the phone owner's abusive spouse, and the police department that claims the right to examine phones at traffic stops.
>your to ignorant
My irony meter just exploded.
It comes from European privacy laws which the US doesn't have, allowing people to demand to see what information is being stored about them.
It seems probable that most users underestimate what information Facebook is collecting about them.
http://lifehacker.com/5843969/facebook-is-tracking-your-every-move-on-the-web-heres-how-to-stop-it
>very few racist individuals
They're not hard to find. A significant fraction of my relatives, several classmates, and so on.
Wouldn't Apple have gone for exclusive deals?
Doesn't launching the product without licenses in place put Google in a terrible negotiating position with the labels?
Even if they couldn't have crooked cops demand info from the ISP, there would still be the options of targeted malware and of routine investigative work.