There is no perfect security, especially if the attacker is willing to die. The US use attack-drones in a few countries, how well are they set up to defend against them?
The SS has long been rumored to defend the White House from air attack with Raytheon Stinger missiles from the rooftop, although the first priority is to evacuate the current resident of the Oval Office. Shooting down planes in a densely populated area is one of those lose/lose propositions.
Wrong Video goes viral = that's your ass. What a time we live in! The entire fauxmergency is being created by the press's need to fill a 24 hour news cycle.
The colloquial theory is that a free press is necessary to prevent abuses of governmental power, and it certainly has worked that way in the past.
Nowadays, the constant need for another lead contributes to the fear mongering.
I think it's fair to say the corporations are at least as worried about losing share in foreign markets, as with the preservation of our personal freedoms.
That said, we are mired in a controversy where corporations and citizens find their collective best interest on the same side.
For all their reputed malevolence, corporations are made of 'snips and snails' just like Soylent Green.... they merely operate with reduced personal liability.
"When we hire new talent", Prasad Setty said the company looks for those who are comfortable with ambiguity. It seems clear that's only a hiring credential, as opposed to a mission statement.
We had this conversation on a thread not long ago, but the consensus was the brand of a new product that garners the biggest market share stands the best chance of eventual induction into the Generic Hall of Fame.
It's self-evident your product was marketed FTW if your competitor's customers ask for your product's nickname when they shop. My personal example is when I one and a hundred zeros some random information I need to look up.
You have all been trained to accept this as normal- NCSI (the TV show, among most police procedurals) shows the resident geeks (McGee and Abby) operating dragnets on cellphone metadata, surveillance camera images, internet data and metadata, GPS locations and even breaking into classified networks to fetch this or that file on the suspect that they were not supposed or cleared to have.
You know they are justified because of the foregone conclusion: you have seen the evildoer doing the bad deed and you are rooting for him get caught.
Although real life doesn't work that way people are conditioned to believe if law enforcement bent the rules they did it in order to untangle themselves from the red tape and get the bad guys.
Those rules are there for a reason (look up general warrants and why the U.S. founding fathers specifically banned them in the 4th amendment), to prevent the exact kind of abuse that is happening right how.
But the media is doing the damnedest effort to convince the people that if police accuse someone he is certainly guilty of something and it is a matter of digging deep and broad enough to nail him.
You're spot on.
But like as not, there have been just as many juries use the bar set by the make-believe CSI teams to exonerate defendants, so there's at least the merit of the disinformation working both ways.
One of the better sigs I've ever read here was the quote from Men In Black: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. I enjoyed reading The Hot Zone. Though watching Outbreak was difficult due to its implausible plot line, they got the civil breakdown right.
In the west, we have a difficult time living down a major football contest (win or lose) with no rioting, let alone a natural disaster. What advantage are we afforded by natural selection that makes the anarchy of crowds a sustainable genetic trait?
Yes. Exponential doubling of mortality is a concern, especially since the virus has reached urban areas in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.
For any who are tempted by the comforting thought that this remains an African Problem, remember that the longer the virus replicates inside a host species, the more chances there are for a favorable mutation to take hold.
There are times when you can cool something up with the proper application of a crafty suffix at the end of an alphanumeric description, like the two-eighty zee that Datsun/Nissan used to sell.
That the increase in effectiveness is a factor of 400 is impressive enough by itself.
But 400V times the productivity sounds more imposing.
Knowing as much as Snowden does about the abilities and vulnerabilities of an online presence,
even he is on record as saying, "I'm going to slip up and they (American intelligence) are going to hack me."
Though the public has seemingly grown tired of revelations regarding the misdeeds of government, the government has not tired in its pursuit of of the prosecution of Mr Snowden. Does the government win because of their persistence or due to our short attention span?
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There is no perfect security, especially if the attacker is willing to die. The US use attack-drones in a few countries, how well are they set up to defend against them?
The SS has long been rumored to defend the White House from air attack with Raytheon Stinger missiles from the rooftop, although the first priority is to evacuate the current resident of the Oval Office. Shooting down planes in a densely populated area is one of those lose/lose propositions.
The colloquial theory is that a free press is necessary to prevent abuses of governmental power, and it certainly has worked that way in the past.
Nowadays, the constant need for another lead contributes to the fear mongering.
Ah.
As it is...
Maybe you don't know I think I am.
The Greek symbol for the abbreviation of 20 microns was likely dropped in the summary.
That said, we are mired in a controversy where corporations and citizens find their collective best interest on the same side.
For all their reputed malevolence, corporations are made of 'snips and snails' just like Soylent Green.... they merely operate with reduced personal liability.
I would have to work (away from home) at something, at least part of the time, even if money was no longer a consideration.
Too many days off in a row and I don't have anything to measure against.
But, it smells like a nationalistic cry for independence above all other considerations.
Be careful what you wish for, as you just might get it.
We had this conversation on a thread not long ago, but the consensus was the brand of a new product that garners the biggest market share stands the best chance of eventual induction into the Generic Hall of Fame.
It's self-evident your product was marketed FTW if your competitor's customers ask for your product's nickname when they shop. My personal example is when I one and a hundred zeros some random information I need to look up.
With any luck, we'll be printing autos overnight before my youngest is eligible for male teenage insurance premiums.
You have all been trained to accept this as normal- NCSI (the TV show, among most police procedurals) shows the resident geeks (McGee and Abby) operating dragnets on cellphone metadata, surveillance camera images, internet data and metadata, GPS locations and even breaking into classified networks to fetch this or that file on the suspect that they were not supposed or cleared to have. You know they are justified because of the foregone conclusion: you have seen the evildoer doing the bad deed and you are rooting for him get caught. Although real life doesn't work that way people are conditioned to believe if law enforcement bent the rules they did it in order to untangle themselves from the red tape and get the bad guys. Those rules are there for a reason (look up general warrants and why the U.S. founding fathers specifically banned them in the 4th amendment), to prevent the exact kind of abuse that is happening right how. But the media is doing the damnedest effort to convince the people that if police accuse someone he is certainly guilty of something and it is a matter of digging deep and broad enough to nail him.
You're spot on.
But like as not, there have been just as many juries use the bar set by the make-believe CSI teams to exonerate defendants, so there's at least the merit of the disinformation working both ways.
In the west, we have a difficult time living down a major football contest (win or lose) with no rioting, let alone a natural disaster. What advantage are we afforded by natural selection that makes the anarchy of crowds a sustainable genetic trait?
This and recent others, including the Sotomayer story, buoy our optimism the system is still occasionally self-correcting.
It's not over doomsayers, not by a long shot.
For any who are tempted by the comforting thought that this remains an African Problem, remember that the longer the virus replicates inside a host species, the more chances there are for a favorable mutation to take hold.
Favorable for the virus.
to overrule legislated abridgments to our constitutionally-protected freedoms.
It's too bad Mademoiselle Sotomayer isn't in a position to help with that.
I'm completely paralyzed by your intractable logic.
but there are enough flaws in the human condition that we pretty much need some rules to protect us from each other.
This may be one of those times.
I could buy the argument if it were 400c or 400b, but I cannot lay a digit on the 400x theory.
That the increase in effectiveness is a factor of 400 is impressive enough by itself.
But 400V times the productivity sounds more imposing.
I immediately discount any claim of peasant-like fealty to Russia as the vernacular of a man with few options.
Beware /. poster, your experience as one who has not tired of revelations of the corruption of government is not indicative of the public at large.
even he is on record as saying, "I'm going to slip up and they (American intelligence) are going to hack me."
Though the public has seemingly grown tired of revelations regarding the misdeeds of government, the government has not tired in its pursuit of of the prosecution of Mr Snowden. Does the government win because of their persistence or due to our short attention span?
We'd only know about an hour in advance whether or not the CME's energy pulse would line up catastrophically with our own magnetic poles.
So even if we know it's coming, catastrophic is only one possibility.
Keep that in mind for perspective when the next beheading video hits the internet.
Your objective argument, coupled with your competent use of the scientific method to problem solve, suggests you meant to post this somewhere else.~
Military/Industrial Complex and show of force in many theatres.
And they're really friggin' hard to build on short notice