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  1. Re:So it has come to this on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 1

    Posse Comatiatus keeps the Army and Air Force out of that business by law; Navy and Marines stay out by regulation.

  2. Re:So it has come to this on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 1

    I figured somebody crossed the proton-pack streams.

  3. Re:Oh, really? on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 1

    sending your kid to public school won't be great, but if everyone did it would help a lot

    I doubt it, schools* have gotten too in grained into the reducing everyone to the most common denominator mindset. *By schools I mean enough of the teachers and administrators too wear-down the majority that would do their jobs properly.

  4. Re: Uhg, not Cass Sunstein on How Human Psychology Holds Back Climate Change Action · · Score: 1

    Skeptical Science, please lets be serious. The truth is that the data sets shows a definate downtrend, its not statisticaly significant but its there;
        RSS: -0.04K,
      GISS: shows a -0.06 trend,
      HadCRUt4: -0.07K
      NCDC: -0.04K,
      UAH: +0.00K.
      All data sets show the current temperature are below well model predictions. If the climate is going to get back on the predicted warming trend line, its going to take some spectacular temperaure increases.

  5. Re: I never understood the principle. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    We had micro-nuc's like the W48 for the 155mm howitzer had an explosive yield equivalent to 72 tons of TNT (0.072 kiloton). The Tactical Atomic Demolition Munition had a yield of 0.5 KT. All of the sub-KT devices have been removed from service. As far as precision, when a warhead flies halfway around the world and explodes over its target travelling at over 15,000MPH with a Circular Error Probability of 300m, I'd say that was plenty accurate.

  6. Re:article is bullshit on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    Odd it seems the Director of the NSA has the same password as the combination on my luggage,1234, or is it the same 7777 that activated all of the Air Forces Nuclear bombs I can't remember. One would think that the NSA would have a login lockout mechanism that would prevent people from accessing the system at unauthorised times and locations, so that people like Snowden wouldn't be able to use logins of other people without a bunch of visiable hoops to jump through

  7. Re:Amended quote on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    My little brother worked at a place where when he got to work, he got undressed, put his clothes and belongings into a locker, took a shower, exited the shower on the other side, got dressed in company supplied uniform and went to his work station; exiting was the reverse of the proceedure.

  8. Re:Uhg, not Cass Sunstein on How Human Psychology Holds Back Climate Change Action · · Score: 1, Informative

    Except there hasn't been any warming for 200 months.

  9. Re:Uhg, not Cass Sunstein on How Human Psychology Holds Back Climate Change Action · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure banning CFC's have had any effect on the ozone hole, but the sulpher oxide allowance trading pretty much eliminated the acid rain problem in North America; and is the paradigm for the present carbon credit trading boondogles of today.

  10. Re:1st on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    We don't consider WP a chemical weapon, but an obscurant smoke device, the Russians consider it and all smoke chemical weapons. Now I realise that WP has some pretty devistating effect on human flesh as does other flame weapons like napalm. Interestingly the obscurant power of WP is primarily in the visual light spectrum, and it is difficunt to handle because the white phosphure has a low melting point and if the rounds aren't kept upright they will become unballanced and fly erratically. For these reasons WP is being replaced with red phosphorus which is easier to handle and has better obscurant properties in the IR spectrum, WP was only being used on an existing stock basis when I retired back in 1997, I doubt there is any left that hasn't expired.

  11. Re:$20,000 hammer on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not about illegally avoiding taxes, it's about spending earmarked money for an unauthorived purpose and doing it so that accounting is unaware of the transaction that is probably embesselment.

  12. Re:$20,000 hammer on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? · · Score: 1

    Another point people don't realize is that it's expensive to price out each part of an end item, and most contracts have a specification that the total price of all the parts may not exceed a certain percentage of the total cost. This leads to the condition where the public outcry over a $5,000.00 hammer that will never be purchased separately is adjusted back to a more reasonable level is done, the cost of parts that will be purchased rise accordingly.

  13. Re:Backups ? on Wall Street Traders Charged With Copying Code To Start Their Own Company · · Score: 2

    The NSA will always win due to having the lowest ping times.

  14. Re:It's about time... on Wall Street Traders Charged With Copying Code To Start Their Own Company · · Score: 2

    I was thinking these guys are some major idiots because everybody knows that these nests of vampire have to maintian copies of all Emails to prevent insider-trading and all manner of illegal bloodsucking activities, not to be confused with the SEC santioned bloodsucking.

  15. Re: Too little too late on Windows 8.1 RTM Trickling Out, With Start Menu and Boot-to-Desktop · · Score: 2

    Actually windows 8 start screen is a lot like using file manager in windows 3.1

  16. Re: Not to worry, on Wildfire Threatens Water and Power To San Francisco · · Score: 1

    In Michigan I've seen the road lane reflectors used experimentally; they went for the elvated reflectors instead of making the rational choise of recesed reflectors. A lot of highways and expressways are recieving rumble strips which are better than nothing in heavy rain.

  17. Not to worry, on Wildfire Threatens Water and Power To San Francisco · · Score: 3, Informative

    Rain is in the forcast for the area, it should put out the fire just before the mud-slides start.

  18. Re:Stupid comment... on Newest YouTube User To Fight a Takedown: Lawrence Lessig · · Score: 1

    Getting dropped by the lable is usualy a godsend, a disaster is having a multi-record exclusive contract and tje label will not produce your last record.

  19. Re:My 3 least favorite things in one sentence on Workers at Chile's ALMA Telescope Strike Over Working Conditions · · Score: 1

    Only newbie even see the issues he's complaining about.

  20. Re:Rule of thumb on Fukushima Actually "Much Worse" Than So Far Disclosed, Say Experts · · Score: 1

    My understanding is the reactors that are causing the problems were actually scheduled to be decommissioned 3 months after the earthquake happened, more like rotten luck than incompetance.

  21. Re:... grow a pair ? on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 1

    I agree, and the states Governor should nominate the Senators for confirmation by the state legislaters; please not my sig.

  22. Re:Update the constitution on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 1

    That depends on how you define is.

  23. Re:Update the constitution on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 1

    You mean like the constitution of the USA, which president Bush openly condemned as just a piece of paper?

    Yup it's just a piece of paper as long as the people who have sworn to protect and defend it agains all enemies forgien and domestic don't.

  24. Re:... grow a pair ? on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 1

    Bleeding the USG dry by Using up the finacial resources is futile; if you want to grab them by the balls, repeal the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

  25. Re:NSA has cribs? on Wikileaks Releases A Massive "Insurance" File That No One Can Open · · Score: 1

    If they crack the files, they gain the encryption key. Now they can search the traffic and see who recieved the key, after that SEAL team 6 gets lots of excercise.