Organisation should never overplay their hand, otherwise people know who is really holding the cards an what is actually in their hands. There is real value in the idea that the truth will set you free. Free from the fears of those who wish to drive your choices via the fear the attempt to create and free from the lies that others would seek to trap you in. Oh look who is having a security conference, uh huh.
No, encrytion does not secure the contents it merely makes them useless, so do not be fooled. There is nothing in the world than can stop encrypted data from being encrypted and thus made useless to the original encrypted. It is no real security solution, it is merely a scrambler into uselessness through obscurity, that obscurity being the lack of the password to decrypt the data and make it useful again. The more they want that information the more the holder of the password is at risk. So parallel networks, operating applications on appliances that can only carry out functions they are required to carry out, all flexibility stripped out of hardware, no unnecessary data connections. The normal computer hardware/software design is extraordinarily bad for security it is entirely too flexible, a more fixed and locked in design is required for security.
Actually your response proves the whole system is broken. The Presidential position is really meant to be nothing more than administering the applicable laws provided by the congress and senate. There should be a whole lot less focus on the President and far more focus on the places where laws are actually considered, written and brought into force. What really needs to happen is the congress and senate should work hard on stripping all powers away from the President beyond administrative roles, no more memo laws, no more made up letters pretending they are laws, a President tied down by the laws written by the congress and the senate. In fact all senior roles within the administration should really go to congressmen and senators as selected by the congress and the senate, those senior administrative roles should be directly answerable to the public. Having a US president with all those powers has proven to be very socially and economically destructive not only upon a US basis but upon a global basis. It seems high time for a change, for a President with far, far fewer powers. The autocrats might thing they are electing 'Leaders' but as far as progressives are concerned they are only ever representatives and the electorate remains the 'Commander in Chief' not only during elections but between them as well. You can not have a government of the people, by the people and for the people unless the people can maintain their voice throughout the electoral cycle and not just one day every four years, that is just plain nucking futs. Do you not realise countries like Australia would toss out a political leader that started to call themselves the 'Commander In Chief', that electorate does not ever accept the idea of surrendering power to someone who is just meant to be representing them. I don't get it, it seems America is no longer electing a President they are electing a King, WTF?
The people's opinions should always be sought when legislative decisions are made, not just a minority of corporate campaign donors and offshore tax haven holiday funders but the people. American seem to have forgotten who the boss is, in a democracy, they are not called representatives, basically employees for no reason, don't let them ever get away with the delusion that your politicians are you bosses, deciding for you, that is just plain wrong.
It is about easy access to everything you need. Work, play, food, leisure activities and people are not sardines, even for me an introvert they are still fun. So it really just represents the ultimate in walk ability and as I said an essential in space colonisation. Don't want to be part of it, simply don't more into one, I really don't understand your problem. They will not be cheap and it's very unlikely they will ever fit into the welfare accommodation category or low income either accommodation or employment.
Ponzi schemes start easy and become hard, for late comer a delusion for early starters very profitable, basically selling nothing but pretending it will have a huge future value that others will pay for ie exactly like bitcoin schemes and I am surprised why they are not prosecuted as such. Seriously money for nothing https://www.youtube.com/watch?... here cheer up and listen to your theme song.
Windows are grossly inefficient, poor insulators and not enough light. What was needed to make it work was very large screen high definition displays in every main room, so you get a view of your choice. Realistically the external skin would be used for solar panels and air-conditioning heat exchangers and the lowest levels for waste treatment and methane recovery and combustion and energy generation. Add in aquaponics for fresh locally produced food and you are part way there. Then you add in the correct mix of light industry, commercial, retail, entertainment and residential accommodation. Tourism is mostly out as it really does not mix in all that well with residential accommodation, so really only limited to guest accommodation related to visiting staff and potential residents and guests of residents.
Of course maybe it is just a lie built around a truth, there was more than one Dread Pirate Roberts, in fact there was a whole family of them. With any digital ponzi currency that is easy to produce at first and then gets harder, all you want is a high price because of course those that kick off the ponzi currency scheme create a huge hoard for themselves prior to attempting to launch the currency. So rising and falling prices does them no good at all because they have a huge hoard to get rid of. Of course as with all scams greed driven stupidity sets in and they go nuts in their rush for real cash.
I thought in the digital age we were meant to be working on less reasons for travel. Tourism, sure fun and nice and an economic bonus when it is not let get out of hand because tourism is really kind of a bad idea. You know, sucks up huge amounts resources and generates large levels of pollution, denies access to locals at the tourist venues and is only seasonal creating an abandoned work force or another immigrant workforce, for 'er' way poorer tourists. Want to invest money in something new, consider the Arcology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A..., a place where many can live, work and play, year round with minimal total impact and where people do not feel the need to escape from a regular intervals. The arcology is really cool because of course it is the needed stepping stone to a space colony. The importance of recycling, conservation of resources, energy balancing, habitability, nutritional sources, safety issues, leisure activities all can be tested in the arcology. Stop looking to tweaking the past and start looking to preparing for the future and virtual digital travel is far more likely the future, rather than trying to pretend you are the idle rich for only two weeks in every year.
Worse than they, they had intended to use the power they control to attempt to force the use of it. The real question is how long before other people discovered the flaw were they aware of it and was it the only reason they supported it in the first place. This makes far more sense when you consider they still pushed it once the flaw was discovered, they were already heavily invested in pushing it onto the public exactly because of that flaw, they wanted that flaw. So who originated the work and thus who can not now be trusted as they are very likely an under cover NSA agent. Which brings to the point how many others are out there, how many others are working to break your security, how many others are out there working on entrapment and extortion plans and how many others can not be trusted to touch your hardware because they will touch it in a very naughty way.
Brings to mind the penalties private corporations have been paying when they have failed to secure the privacy of the public, how many of those were as a direct result of an incursion led by the NSA and basically leaving holes which others have then exploited. Just like the FBI and Lulzsec, most of the damage was done after the FBI took over and were seeking to groom minors into a life of crime, supply the resource, the technology and the targets, so they could what prosecute them or recruit them or as it seems most likely, both.
The NSA and the FBI and all the rest are going to run into the exact same problem, they are going to end up recruiting privacy invasive perverts who get a kick out of invading the private lives of others, creating that perverted delusion of control over others and that will inevitably reflect upon how the agencies carry out their activities. How the individuals within them will get a sexual kick about invading the privacy of others and how given time that kick will demand greater and greater control and express itself as schemes of extortion, whether to break into other secure data stores, whether to profit or whether to extend that sexual perversion into direct personal molestation.
Dude because H1Bs are work cheap and get out visas. Get sick, well, piss off and die overseas, want holidays well, piss off and holiday in your own time, want a pay rise, well, piss off and see if you can get paid more back where you came from. I can't see why you don't realise they screwing up wages in the US will make going there pointless as wages fall and crime rises and remember the future you promise your family is now no future at all. So rather than following a lie make things better where you come from. Make no mistake H1B are all about breaking the back of the work force and turning them to a working in poverty work force than can be ruthlessly exploited.
Free enterprise means control over everyone by the very resources of life, so no, I don't believe your libertarian lies. Want to vouch for a nomadic gypsy lifestyle then do so but don't lie about private ownership of resources and either everyone works for you or starves or you will kill them if they try to 'FREELY' harvest from the bounties provided by nature which you have now claimed as your own.
The difference between private enterprise and government, at least government makes an effort to support it's citizens and of course private enterprise simply sets out to exploit the citizens via the control it has over government and the ability to privatise what once were shared resources. The proper title for capitalism is psychopathic capitalism, that is it's true nature.
So nomad or resource owner hence supporter of privatised government, which are you really?
Government of the people, by the people and for the people, is the democratic principle. Your God is Greed, if it doesn't serve you, you don't want it, lets not hide it behind lies of free enterprise, as that is a fucking lie, there is no such thing as free enterprise, enterprise is always possessive, it possess resources and denies others access through violence and it will also strive to posses people in the same manner. The government is meant to be the people's voice, those that scream the loudest about government are always the ones who want to be the sole controller of government and when they are not they fume against government, all those other people having a say.
One thing to keep in mind about the cost of deleting data versus the cost of keeping data. You only have to delete it once and when it comes to keeping it, you will have to do that an infinite number of times until you finally admit hoarding defeat and delete it. So the comparison deleting once versus keeping once is false, it delete once versus keeping it many times. Deleting on the fly is far easier than trying to shrink massive data bloat much like the human body, keeping slim is far easier than trying work off a huge build up of bloat.
The interactive aspect is exactly why tablets fail in education. The keyboard is essential in ensuring student input and creativity is the focus and not just becoming a mindless consumer of content. The keyboard also protects the screen and acts as a more effective stand. Now all that is needed is a shift to alphabetic keyboards for the new generation coming out.
Scientist have political opinions too and they are just as entitled to express them as anyone else. I don't see why you would want to limit people's right to politically express themselves. Some are reasonable to limit like police and military in uniform, especially when armed are not entitled to express their political opinions and must first remove the uniform and weapons and express their political opinion as an individual and not as a military or police group.
In fact what we really do need is more scientists expressing their political opinions and backing them up with hard facts and of course working to dismantle the lies put out by professional politicians.
More Importantly when you get hacked by the NSA does that mean you have committed a crime for failing to report whilst simultaneously being barred from reporting it for reasons of national security.
Once it became necessary to manage your facebook profile so that you would appear like what you needed to appear like, facebook became pretty much worthless. Only foolish people don't carefully manage their profile, only foolish people actually use it for personal interaction because not only are you giving your privacy away but you are also giving away the privacy of everyone else you communicate with via that medium. Reality is you might as well call facebook - liebook because that is what it more accurately is, an illusion and relying upon it's data having any real value is pretty silly.
They problem you claim is not quite accurate. Google are updating Android ie 4.1 vs 4.2 vs 3.0 or 2.0. The problem arises when people can not update their version of Android because of purposeful interference in the upgrade cycle by the manufacturer to force hardware upgrades. So the requirement is upon Google to manage an upgradable certification so that consumers know the Android operating system device they buy today can be upgraded to the newer versions of Android. Keeping old versions of software updated when you provide 'FREE' new versions of software doesn't make any sense at all, the protest should be about hardware that can not be updated to newer versions of the software.
The closest we have to that is China and products used internally rather than exported and oh look, now the worlds leading economy. There is a reason I nominated China as the partner, they would not have one qualm about doing it and they would recognise Brazil's right to have the laws it democratically wants within it's own country.
Unfortunately all you have is square or rectangular foundation and none of the tools use to create them. Take a careful thought for social economies though and understand at which stage accuracy starts to count and square is required in large structures rather than just sort of square.
I set out industrial buildings fuckwit and yeah 3,4,5 is exactly how you do it with string or actually braided wire because string stretches to much and that stretch makes a huge difference between varying lengths of string and even wind plays a role in that and after that you check the diagonals and then you go away and before you do anything you check it all again. Tape measure are also a pain because of course sun light will vary the length of your tape, requiring repeated short measures rather than long ones.
You know I often thought that if you did all your transaction via one bank, that bank should throw in tax returns as part of it services. They already have a record of all your transactions, they can pretty much automatically categorise them based upon their nature and only very little review would be required to finalise them. They could even provide that small amount of additional software as part of their fiscal year services.
When it comes to private companies ramping charges for exactly the same thing but greed now defines it as something new because of, oh yeah, data lock it. This is something corporations just normally do, it's all about unlimited profits and screw the customer, which is why 'REGULATIONS'.
You are not just keeping it. You require a protected structure to keep your protected storage. You need to backup and verify backups. You need to renew backup media as it ages and this needs to be regularly checked. So it depends how much unnecessary data you are keeping and that you would have thrown away if it were paper, 10X, 100x, 1,000x, even 10,000x and then of course there is swamping needed data under masses of unneeded data making retrieval harder, say something like informal email versus formal email or variations on development versus the final outcome. Of course there is also a world of difference between deleting types of data versus individual documents, so what types of data is kept and for how long. Mass data hoarding only really suits the profit profiles of company that store other companies data. So evaluating data on the go is in reality cheaper in the long run versus high cost archiving mass useless data. A lot of companies doing it smart could pretty much cut data storage back to one large hard drive in a fire rated safe kept on site, in fact by far the majority. Of course looking at it that way, youch, it would cripple data storage companies profits;).
Yet no 10km long missile trail that should be visible from 25km away to the naked eye, new super stealthy missile uh huh. And all those spy satellites that can read number plates on cars also missed it because 'er' 'um' it was Russia's fault and that's all we need to know.
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Organisation should never overplay their hand, otherwise people know who is really holding the cards an what is actually in their hands. There is real value in the idea that the truth will set you free. Free from the fears of those who wish to drive your choices via the fear the attempt to create and free from the lies that others would seek to trap you in. Oh look who is having a security conference, uh huh.
No, encrytion does not secure the contents it merely makes them useless, so do not be fooled. There is nothing in the world than can stop encrypted data from being encrypted and thus made useless to the original encrypted. It is no real security solution, it is merely a scrambler into uselessness through obscurity, that obscurity being the lack of the password to decrypt the data and make it useful again. The more they want that information the more the holder of the password is at risk. So parallel networks, operating applications on appliances that can only carry out functions they are required to carry out, all flexibility stripped out of hardware, no unnecessary data connections. The normal computer hardware/software design is extraordinarily bad for security it is entirely too flexible, a more fixed and locked in design is required for security.
More poignantly, does than mean we should be treating mass spammers like terrorist, oh my, I am torn between annoyance and justice, arghhh.
Actually your response proves the whole system is broken. The Presidential position is really meant to be nothing more than administering the applicable laws provided by the congress and senate. There should be a whole lot less focus on the President and far more focus on the places where laws are actually considered, written and brought into force. What really needs to happen is the congress and senate should work hard on stripping all powers away from the President beyond administrative roles, no more memo laws, no more made up letters pretending they are laws, a President tied down by the laws written by the congress and the senate. In fact all senior roles within the administration should really go to congressmen and senators as selected by the congress and the senate, those senior administrative roles should be directly answerable to the public. Having a US president with all those powers has proven to be very socially and economically destructive not only upon a US basis but upon a global basis. It seems high time for a change, for a President with far, far fewer powers. The autocrats might thing they are electing 'Leaders' but as far as progressives are concerned they are only ever representatives and the electorate remains the 'Commander in Chief' not only during elections but between them as well. You can not have a government of the people, by the people and for the people unless the people can maintain their voice throughout the electoral cycle and not just one day every four years, that is just plain nucking futs. Do you not realise countries like Australia would toss out a political leader that started to call themselves the 'Commander In Chief', that electorate does not ever accept the idea of surrendering power to someone who is just meant to be representing them. I don't get it, it seems America is no longer electing a President they are electing a King, WTF?
The people's opinions should always be sought when legislative decisions are made, not just a minority of corporate campaign donors and offshore tax haven holiday funders but the people. American seem to have forgotten who the boss is, in a democracy, they are not called representatives, basically employees for no reason, don't let them ever get away with the delusion that your politicians are you bosses, deciding for you, that is just plain wrong.
It is about easy access to everything you need. Work, play, food, leisure activities and people are not sardines, even for me an introvert they are still fun. So it really just represents the ultimate in walk ability and as I said an essential in space colonisation. Don't want to be part of it, simply don't more into one, I really don't understand your problem. They will not be cheap and it's very unlikely they will ever fit into the welfare accommodation category or low income either accommodation or employment.
Ponzi schemes start easy and become hard, for late comer a delusion for early starters very profitable, basically selling nothing but pretending it will have a huge future value that others will pay for ie exactly like bitcoin schemes and I am surprised why they are not prosecuted as such. Seriously money for nothing https://www.youtube.com/watch?... here cheer up and listen to your theme song.
Windows are grossly inefficient, poor insulators and not enough light. What was needed to make it work was very large screen high definition displays in every main room, so you get a view of your choice. Realistically the external skin would be used for solar panels and air-conditioning heat exchangers and the lowest levels for waste treatment and methane recovery and combustion and energy generation. Add in aquaponics for fresh locally produced food and you are part way there. Then you add in the correct mix of light industry, commercial, retail, entertainment and residential accommodation. Tourism is mostly out as it really does not mix in all that well with residential accommodation, so really only limited to guest accommodation related to visiting staff and potential residents and guests of residents.
Of course maybe it is just a lie built around a truth, there was more than one Dread Pirate Roberts, in fact there was a whole family of them. With any digital ponzi currency that is easy to produce at first and then gets harder, all you want is a high price because of course those that kick off the ponzi currency scheme create a huge hoard for themselves prior to attempting to launch the currency. So rising and falling prices does them no good at all because they have a huge hoard to get rid of. Of course as with all scams greed driven stupidity sets in and they go nuts in their rush for real cash.
I thought in the digital age we were meant to be working on less reasons for travel. Tourism, sure fun and nice and an economic bonus when it is not let get out of hand because tourism is really kind of a bad idea. You know, sucks up huge amounts resources and generates large levels of pollution, denies access to locals at the tourist venues and is only seasonal creating an abandoned work force or another immigrant workforce, for 'er' way poorer tourists. Want to invest money in something new, consider the Arcology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A..., a place where many can live, work and play, year round with minimal total impact and where people do not feel the need to escape from a regular intervals. The arcology is really cool because of course it is the needed stepping stone to a space colony. The importance of recycling, conservation of resources, energy balancing, habitability, nutritional sources, safety issues, leisure activities all can be tested in the arcology. Stop looking to tweaking the past and start looking to preparing for the future and virtual digital travel is far more likely the future, rather than trying to pretend you are the idle rich for only two weeks in every year.
Worse than they, they had intended to use the power they control to attempt to force the use of it. The real question is how long before other people discovered the flaw were they aware of it and was it the only reason they supported it in the first place. This makes far more sense when you consider they still pushed it once the flaw was discovered, they were already heavily invested in pushing it onto the public exactly because of that flaw, they wanted that flaw. So who originated the work and thus who can not now be trusted as they are very likely an under cover NSA agent. Which brings to the point how many others are out there, how many others are working to break your security, how many others are out there working on entrapment and extortion plans and how many others can not be trusted to touch your hardware because they will touch it in a very naughty way.
Brings to mind the penalties private corporations have been paying when they have failed to secure the privacy of the public, how many of those were as a direct result of an incursion led by the NSA and basically leaving holes which others have then exploited. Just like the FBI and Lulzsec, most of the damage was done after the FBI took over and were seeking to groom minors into a life of crime, supply the resource, the technology and the targets, so they could what prosecute them or recruit them or as it seems most likely, both.
The NSA and the FBI and all the rest are going to run into the exact same problem, they are going to end up recruiting privacy invasive perverts who get a kick out of invading the private lives of others, creating that perverted delusion of control over others and that will inevitably reflect upon how the agencies carry out their activities. How the individuals within them will get a sexual kick about invading the privacy of others and how given time that kick will demand greater and greater control and express itself as schemes of extortion, whether to break into other secure data stores, whether to profit or whether to extend that sexual perversion into direct personal molestation.
Dude because H1Bs are work cheap and get out visas. Get sick, well, piss off and die overseas, want holidays well, piss off and holiday in your own time, want a pay rise, well, piss off and see if you can get paid more back where you came from. I can't see why you don't realise they screwing up wages in the US will make going there pointless as wages fall and crime rises and remember the future you promise your family is now no future at all. So rather than following a lie make things better where you come from. Make no mistake H1B are all about breaking the back of the work force and turning them to a working in poverty work force than can be ruthlessly exploited.
Free enterprise means control over everyone by the very resources of life, so no, I don't believe your libertarian lies. Want to vouch for a nomadic gypsy lifestyle then do so but don't lie about private ownership of resources and either everyone works for you or starves or you will kill them if they try to 'FREELY' harvest from the bounties provided by nature which you have now claimed as your own.
The difference between private enterprise and government, at least government makes an effort to support it's citizens and of course private enterprise simply sets out to exploit the citizens via the control it has over government and the ability to privatise what once were shared resources. The proper title for capitalism is psychopathic capitalism, that is it's true nature.
So nomad or resource owner hence supporter of privatised government, which are you really?
Government of the people, by the people and for the people, is the democratic principle. Your God is Greed, if it doesn't serve you, you don't want it, lets not hide it behind lies of free enterprise, as that is a fucking lie, there is no such thing as free enterprise, enterprise is always possessive, it possess resources and denies others access through violence and it will also strive to posses people in the same manner. The government is meant to be the people's voice, those that scream the loudest about government are always the ones who want to be the sole controller of government and when they are not they fume against government, all those other people having a say.
One thing to keep in mind about the cost of deleting data versus the cost of keeping data. You only have to delete it once and when it comes to keeping it, you will have to do that an infinite number of times until you finally admit hoarding defeat and delete it. So the comparison deleting once versus keeping once is false, it delete once versus keeping it many times. Deleting on the fly is far easier than trying to shrink massive data bloat much like the human body, keeping slim is far easier than trying work off a huge build up of bloat.
The interactive aspect is exactly why tablets fail in education. The keyboard is essential in ensuring student input and creativity is the focus and not just becoming a mindless consumer of content. The keyboard also protects the screen and acts as a more effective stand. Now all that is needed is a shift to alphabetic keyboards for the new generation coming out.
Scientist have political opinions too and they are just as entitled to express them as anyone else. I don't see why you would want to limit people's right to politically express themselves. Some are reasonable to limit like police and military in uniform, especially when armed are not entitled to express their political opinions and must first remove the uniform and weapons and express their political opinion as an individual and not as a military or police group.
In fact what we really do need is more scientists expressing their political opinions and backing them up with hard facts and of course working to dismantle the lies put out by professional politicians.
More Importantly when you get hacked by the NSA does that mean you have committed a crime for failing to report whilst simultaneously being barred from reporting it for reasons of national security.
Once it became necessary to manage your facebook profile so that you would appear like what you needed to appear like, facebook became pretty much worthless. Only foolish people don't carefully manage their profile, only foolish people actually use it for personal interaction because not only are you giving your privacy away but you are also giving away the privacy of everyone else you communicate with via that medium. Reality is you might as well call facebook - liebook because that is what it more accurately is, an illusion and relying upon it's data having any real value is pretty silly.
They problem you claim is not quite accurate. Google are updating Android ie 4.1 vs 4.2 vs 3.0 or 2.0. The problem arises when people can not update their version of Android because of purposeful interference in the upgrade cycle by the manufacturer to force hardware upgrades. So the requirement is upon Google to manage an upgradable certification so that consumers know the Android operating system device they buy today can be upgraded to the newer versions of Android. Keeping old versions of software updated when you provide 'FREE' new versions of software doesn't make any sense at all, the protest should be about hardware that can not be updated to newer versions of the software.
The closest we have to that is China and products used internally rather than exported and oh look, now the worlds leading economy. There is a reason I nominated China as the partner, they would not have one qualm about doing it and they would recognise Brazil's right to have the laws it democratically wants within it's own country.
Unfortunately all you have is square or rectangular foundation and none of the tools use to create them. Take a careful thought for social economies though and understand at which stage accuracy starts to count and square is required in large structures rather than just sort of square.
I set out industrial buildings fuckwit and yeah 3,4,5 is exactly how you do it with string or actually braided wire because string stretches to much and that stretch makes a huge difference between varying lengths of string and even wind plays a role in that and after that you check the diagonals and then you go away and before you do anything you check it all again. Tape measure are also a pain because of course sun light will vary the length of your tape, requiring repeated short measures rather than long ones.
You know I often thought that if you did all your transaction via one bank, that bank should throw in tax returns as part of it services. They already have a record of all your transactions, they can pretty much automatically categorise them based upon their nature and only very little review would be required to finalise them. They could even provide that small amount of additional software as part of their fiscal year services.
When it comes to private companies ramping charges for exactly the same thing but greed now defines it as something new because of, oh yeah, data lock it. This is something corporations just normally do, it's all about unlimited profits and screw the customer, which is why 'REGULATIONS'.
You are not just keeping it. You require a protected structure to keep your protected storage. You need to backup and verify backups. You need to renew backup media as it ages and this needs to be regularly checked. So it depends how much unnecessary data you are keeping and that you would have thrown away if it were paper, 10X, 100x, 1,000x, even 10,000x and then of course there is swamping needed data under masses of unneeded data making retrieval harder, say something like informal email versus formal email or variations on development versus the final outcome. Of course there is also a world of difference between deleting types of data versus individual documents, so what types of data is kept and for how long. Mass data hoarding only really suits the profit profiles of company that store other companies data. So evaluating data on the go is in reality cheaper in the long run versus high cost archiving mass useless data. A lot of companies doing it smart could pretty much cut data storage back to one large hard drive in a fire rated safe kept on site, in fact by far the majority. Of course looking at it that way, youch, it would cripple data storage companies profits ;).
Yet no 10km long missile trail that should be visible from 25km away to the naked eye, new super stealthy missile uh huh. And all those spy satellites that can read number plates on cars also missed it because 'er' 'um' it was Russia's fault and that's all we need to know.