I recently switched from a 4G EVO (Wimax) to a 3G Vibrant (HSDPA) and here in Chicago the speeds are almost identical. With Sprint I got 3-6mbps with good reception on Wimax and with the Vibrant I get more like 2-5mbps with T-mobile's 3G HSDPA network. The Vibrant doesn't do HSDPA+ btw, just vanilla.
The difference is with the EVO I had to manually turn 4G on and off because its such an incredible battery drainer. I usually stayed on Sprint's 3G network which is CDMA and terrible, you'd be lucky to get 1 mbps and in my neighborhood I got around 80-100k. Not to mention switching from 3G to 4G on Sprint takes 30-60 seconds but syncing to HSDPA on Tmobile takes 2 seconds.
Don't dismiss T-mobile's HSDPA rollout, it may not technically be 4G but its just as fast and there's no $10 a month 4G fee like Sprint charges. The HSDPA+ devices are doing over 10-15mbps in real world scenarios, which is incredible. I have a feeling that Wimax is doomed on the cell side of things. Its too power thirsty and doesn't penetrate well through buildings using Clear's frequencies. The future is most likely LTE and HSDPA+ with Wimax focusing on laptop and stationary installs.
Fry: Do you take Visa? Clerk: Visa hasn't existed for 500 years. Fry: American Express? Clerk: 600 years. Fry: Discover Card? Clerk: Sorry, we don't take Discover.
Make a hash or unique identifier in your head. Say your password for amazon is "dogstar" and you use that password everywhere. Well, for amazon it can be "amdogstar" for slashdot "sldogstar" etc. If you feel thats too obvious for an attacker then instead of just appending sl for slashdot, use the keys above sl, so you get "wodogstar." Once you get a system going it'll be easy to do in your head. No need for any third-party utilities, keys, etc.
I wouldn't do this for banking sites or anything especially sensitive. I have memorized a unique password for my bank and for paypal on top of my day to day scheme.
I also use a junk gmail address for registering for forums and such. It saves me spam and also doesn't let an attacker know my real address, so they have a hard time correlating the two.
When we give people something of economic value they tend to monetize it. You don't need to become an altruistic weirdo or psychopathic criminal. Its just like talent. Some people have all sorts of talents and find a way to monetize them. Good singers try to get recording contracts, clever people go to college, etc. If you gave me super strength I would be performing feats for money. If I had super-smarts I would be cracking the stock market or starting a revolutionary tech company.
This doesn't happen in comics because its boring to read about guys putting on shows or starting business. Most superhero comics are nothing more than a sci-fi version of cops and robbers.
>I have done a fair bit of flying lately - and always needing at least one connection each time because my closest airport sucks - and haven't seen it at the airports I've been to.
If we're comparing anecdotes, I once saw it on a plane during the flight. I pretty much see it anytime I use my laptop or phone in a business setting too. Assuming Vista/7 doesn't do this, then I'm sure its going to become increasingly rare.
Except prior art of on internal antenna is at least 40 years. Its not an innovation. Its an EXISTING AND KNOWN feature but crammed in legalese and put in conditions like "cell based receivers" so that the patent passes without adding any innovation to the world. Its your typical "narrow enough to pass but broad enough to do damage" patent that these companies specialize in for the sake of litigious action against competitors.
The USPO's take on this is that the courts will work it out. Thanks guys for letting any patent go through and letting me, the end user of these phones, pay extra for all the laywering.
Yeah, I'd love to see MS put Reader and Flash into protected mode and let us push out updates via WSUS. Adobe has dropped the ball on security so many times any buyout with new management will be good for end users.
Silverlight isn't Windows only. There's an OSX port and Moonlight on Linux. Flash would remain cross platform. More likely they would just merge the two into one product and be done with it.
Considering that the biggest exploits right now are flash and adobe reader based*, I would think this would increase security as users would get updates to flash and reader via MS updates and not the broken adobe updater.
Secondly, IE7,8 and 9 all run in protected mode in Vista/7. Running flash and reader in protected mode would be trivial for MS to do, but is taking Adobe a couple years to do. MS has a huge incentive to keep plugins secure as infections via flash or reader are blamed on Windows and not on Adobe. Adobe has no such incentive.
Yes, this is a slashdot and MS bashing is the name of the game, but Adobe is so much worse than MS that this merger can only be a net gain for end users.
*Java webstart in close second
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>they have a fascinating culture, and one thats very different from our own in many ways.
Finding a death penalty for homosexuality fascinating? It should be horrifying. Same thing for atheism or denying Islam.
>Thats pretty much what he said.
Err, transsexualism and homosexuality are two very different things. Iran has a lot of social pressures to force homosexuals into subsidized transsexual treatment, which does nothing but victimize and humiliate homosexuals who have no problem with their gender, its what they want to have sex with that has the theocracts running scared. Theocracy is not a valid form of government. Stop defending it as fascinating. Its victimizing and horrible.
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>It's interesting because Iran actually allows and pays for sex-change surgeries.
News flash, transsexualism and homosexuality are two very different things. Please note we are talking about a country with a FUCKING DEATH PENALTY for homosexual acts. This makes Turing's treatment by the UK authorities sound like a walk in the park.
Hmm, just guessing, but are you checking your wifi interface MAC and not your wired interface wifi? Also, hows the reception outside your home? If the streetview car can't see your SSID's then its not going to get that MAC. I'm not certain if google's sniffer was able to sniff pre-encrypted headers with the MAC if SSID broadcast is disabled.
>I'd freak out if my heart were powered by something strapped around my waist.
Instead its a muscle powered by a complex metabolic process that requires you to eat food, get proper nutrition, etc. Oh, if you eat the wrong foods it fails early and painfully. Enjoy!
>Hobbits are also insignificant to the powerful to the point of near invisibility. Give the Ring to an Eagle, and he'd be spotted and intercepted, probably before he crossed the border into Mordor
I think the ring's effect on an animal went unanswered. The only reason in the LOTR universe I can think of rejecting an eagle dropping it is that wizards seem to have almost complete power over animals. If Gandalf sent an eagle to drop it off in the middle of the ocean then Sauron could order it to come to him. Of course we have the scenario of Frodo riding an eagle but we have the same problem.
We can also build a powerful catapult, attach the ring to a rock, and launch it into the sea from a boat, but in a world of magic even then the bottom of the ocean isn't exactly safe. In the LOTR universe there may be creatures able to go that low and grab the ring and when they hit their maximum elevation in the ocean they hand it off to another species until there's a dolphin handing the ring off to Sauron. Actually, now that I think about it, that would make a great visual scene. Cthulu-like thing handing it to a blind octopus, octopus handing it to a lobster, lobster handing it to a catfish, etc. In other words, an excuse based on magic could dispel any obvious approaches.
Potentially, but I think the wording in the law is there for things like protecting business trademarks and fighting scammers. Names just don't fall into the same category.
I would think Tiger Woods, LLC would have a better chance at removing fake reviews of his products than just Tiger Woods, the man trying to get all those stories about him cheating on his wife off the internet.
It began with the forging of the Great Rings. Three were given to the artists and writers; wisest and most creative of all beings. Seven, to the union actors, great visionaries and craftsmen of the stage. And nine, nine rings were gifted to the studio execs, who above all else desire power. For within these rings was bound the strength and the will to govern over each group. But they were all of them deceived, for a new ring was made. In the land of New Zealand, in the fires of Mount Cook, the Dark Lord Peter Jackson forged in secret, a master ring, to control all others.
Canada doesn't have an ultra-conservative supreme court majority that rules against campaign finance reform laws to defend the "free speech of corporations."
On the plus side its always a 5-4 vote for things like this and hopefully one of those 5 will retire or die soon so Obama can put in a non-conservative judge in. Real campaign in the US reform is decades away in the best case scenario.
Your post is more or less the wired article linked to a last week. Nataz was certainly targeted by Stuxnet. That said, the news article isn't BS. The news article is reflecting what the Iranians are doing: using Stuxnet to arrest and jail undesirables and furthering their "us vs them" ideology that keeps them in power. Any accident at any plant going forward will not be a sign of incompetence but a sign that western powers are targeting Iranians.
Anyone that pissed off someone in power at Bushehr is now a spy and will be executed. They'll also probably arrest some foreigners and use them to trade for real spies of their own caught overseas. That's how these oppressive regimes work. Theocracy isnt a valid form of government.
>But he's too tired, so he'll just play the old tape. Over and over again.
More like, old men watch their past glories while young men plan new ideas old men couldn't conceive, namely privatization of LEO and GEO for a fraction of the cost and a new capsule and rocket system for an asteroid mission in 15 years and an eventual Mars mission, while the old men keep rambling about the moon.
>Tax cuts INCREASED government receipts, not decreased them.
Unpaid tax cuts add to the deficit, period. You can theorize about external forces, but there's no proof that supply-side economics works. In fact, its highly controversial and assuming it does shows your bias.
>So tell me, why are still railing on Bush and not saying a word about the 4x increase in deficit spending AND NASA cuts?
Because they are 100% related. Constellation was never planned in an affordable way. Its a heavy spending Bush-era program that needed to be cut as its 100% unfeasible and the little progress that was made . The stimulus is outside the scope of criticism as I'm discussing Bush era programs and inhereted debt from the Bush years. Bush spent our surplus on a war of lies (no wmd's were found).
Don't think you conservatives can just get rid of the Bush years. You'll forever be wearing them as an albatross around your neck. His choice to enter the Iraq war and give out tax cuts he couldn't afford cost us a lot of nice things, not limited to NASA.
>I pity anyone who will take the ill informed word of The Daily Kos or Democrat Underground
I read neither site. I'm giving facts (deaths of civillians, real dollar cost) and you're giving me Bush-era propaganda "We freed them, dont ask about WMD" and Reagen-era supply-side economics bullshit. Again, I will reiterate my point. The Iraq war cost us 35 years of NASA's budget. We sold out future generations and current programs to pay for it.
>That's $750 billion over eight years, and it's still less than what the government wasted on a single "stimulus" bill.
My point is that a war of lies cost us 750 billion dollars. That's a significant amount of money and the two wars as well as the tax cut have put this country into ruin. The stimulus is icing on the cake. Your Fox News talking points aren't convincing, sorry. Ignoring what was spent on these wars when discussing the federal budget is being disingenuous. It all comes from the same pool. I'm not even going to mention how defense spending, in general, is out of control and is why we can't have nice things.
>Constellation was still being funded through the Iraq war.
BECAUSE WE WERE DEFICIT SPENDING. It was not at all affordable. Can you grok the simple concept of not being able to spend money you don't have? Or what debt is? Constellation was a PR move by the Bush administration. If you can't pay for something without going deeply into debt you can't afford it.
>Let's see, if my leaders had ruined my country and raped my daughters, I think I welcome those 100,000 waltzers.
Because in this scenario you have the luxury of being alive. 100+ THOUSAND people died over Bush's cooked intelligence. This is something to be outraged about, not cavalierly justifying it as some kind of kindly humanitarian mission. I pity you if you believe that.
Cost of Iraq war 750 BILLION dollars. NASA's annual budget floats a bit under 20 billion. That's 30+ years of NASA, genius.
>Strange. All the "brown people" you claim that we are killing were quite happy to see me when I was over there in camouflage.
Loss of life: over 100+k CIVILIANS. Yes, the people there were happy to see you because they're alive and are afraid to piss off the guy with the gun. The angry ones, alas, are dead. If a military from a powerful country which killed all your leaders and 100k of your pals waltzed into your town, you'd grinning ear to ear too.
Pardon me, but from the timestamp on your comment its obvious that you didn't read shit about this bill before posting some inflammatory garbage that only helps bring down the SNR here.
The facts are the NASA was dying under Bush. Constellation was 100% unaffordable and on top of that falling behind with delays and budget overruns. Neither Clinton or Bush properly planned for the post space shuttle era. Obama is now tasked to keep NASA alive via privatization of easy launches to the ISS and building a new capsule and rocket for an asteroid mission 15 years from now. Its not 1967. Private industry can handle lofting meatbags to the ISS. Government should be doing what private industry can't.
This bill is a very interesting look into how our times have changed. Yes, it would be nice if it had more money attached to it, but we kinda spent our cash on tax cuts for the rich and two wars under Bush. You can't have nice things if you keep going into debt over war and cuts for people who don't need them.
That we spend so much of our money killing brown people for no good reason? Seriously, Bush's decision to invade Iraq cost us Constellation. Blame him. At least we have all those WMDs to justify it. Oh wait.
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I recently switched from a 4G EVO (Wimax) to a 3G Vibrant (HSDPA) and here in Chicago the speeds are almost identical. With Sprint I got 3-6mbps with good reception on Wimax and with the Vibrant I get more like 2-5mbps with T-mobile's 3G HSDPA network. The Vibrant doesn't do HSDPA+ btw, just vanilla.
The difference is with the EVO I had to manually turn 4G on and off because its such an incredible battery drainer. I usually stayed on Sprint's 3G network which is CDMA and terrible, you'd be lucky to get 1 mbps and in my neighborhood I got around 80-100k. Not to mention switching from 3G to 4G on Sprint takes 30-60 seconds but syncing to HSDPA on Tmobile takes 2 seconds.
Don't dismiss T-mobile's HSDPA rollout, it may not technically be 4G but its just as fast and there's no $10 a month 4G fee like Sprint charges. The HSDPA+ devices are doing over 10-15mbps in real world scenarios, which is incredible. I have a feeling that Wimax is doomed on the cell side of things. Its too power thirsty and doesn't penetrate well through buildings using Clear's frequencies. The future is most likely LTE and HSDPA+ with Wimax focusing on laptop and stationary installs.
Fry: Do you take Visa?
Clerk: Visa hasn't existed for 500 years.
Fry: American Express?
Clerk: 600 years.
Fry: Discover Card?
Clerk: Sorry, we don't take Discover.
Make a hash or unique identifier in your head. Say your password for amazon is "dogstar" and you use that password everywhere. Well, for amazon it can be "amdogstar" for slashdot "sldogstar" etc. If you feel thats too obvious for an attacker then instead of just appending sl for slashdot, use the keys above sl, so you get "wodogstar." Once you get a system going it'll be easy to do in your head. No need for any third-party utilities, keys, etc.
I wouldn't do this for banking sites or anything especially sensitive. I have memorized a unique password for my bank and for paypal on top of my day to day scheme.
I also use a junk gmail address for registering for forums and such. It saves me spam and also doesn't let an attacker know my real address, so they have a hard time correlating the two.
When we give people something of economic value they tend to monetize it. You don't need to become an altruistic weirdo or psychopathic criminal. Its just like talent. Some people have all sorts of talents and find a way to monetize them. Good singers try to get recording contracts, clever people go to college, etc. If you gave me super strength I would be performing feats for money. If I had super-smarts I would be cracking the stock market or starting a revolutionary tech company.
This doesn't happen in comics because its boring to read about guys putting on shows or starting business. Most superhero comics are nothing more than a sci-fi version of cops and robbers.
>I have done a fair bit of flying lately - and always needing at least one connection each time because my closest airport sucks - and haven't seen it at the airports I've been to.
If we're comparing anecdotes, I once saw it on a plane during the flight. I pretty much see it anytime I use my laptop or phone in a business setting too. Assuming Vista/7 doesn't do this, then I'm sure its going to become increasingly rare.
Except prior art of on internal antenna is at least 40 years. Its not an innovation. Its an EXISTING AND KNOWN feature but crammed in legalese and put in conditions like "cell based receivers" so that the patent passes without adding any innovation to the world. Its your typical "narrow enough to pass but broad enough to do damage" patent that these companies specialize in for the sake of litigious action against competitors.
The USPO's take on this is that the courts will work it out. Thanks guys for letting any patent go through and letting me, the end user of these phones, pay extra for all the laywering.
Yeah, I'd love to see MS put Reader and Flash into protected mode and let us push out updates via WSUS. Adobe has dropped the ball on security so many times any buyout with new management will be good for end users.
Silverlight isn't Windows only. There's an OSX port and Moonlight on Linux. Flash would remain cross platform. More likely they would just merge the two into one product and be done with it.
Considering that the biggest exploits right now are flash and adobe reader based*, I would think this would increase security as users would get updates to flash and reader via MS updates and not the broken adobe updater.
Secondly, IE7,8 and 9 all run in protected mode in Vista/7. Running flash and reader in protected mode would be trivial for MS to do, but is taking Adobe a couple years to do. MS has a huge incentive to keep plugins secure as infections via flash or reader are blamed on Windows and not on Adobe. Adobe has no such incentive.
Yes, this is a slashdot and MS bashing is the name of the game, but Adobe is so much worse than MS that this merger can only be a net gain for end users.
*Java webstart in close second
>they have a fascinating culture, and one thats very different from our own in many ways.
Finding a death penalty for homosexuality fascinating? It should be horrifying. Same thing for atheism or denying Islam.
>Thats pretty much what he said.
Err, transsexualism and homosexuality are two very different things. Iran has a lot of social pressures to force homosexuals into subsidized transsexual treatment, which does nothing but victimize and humiliate homosexuals who have no problem with their gender, its what they want to have sex with that has the theocracts running scared. Theocracy is not a valid form of government. Stop defending it as fascinating. Its victimizing and horrible.
>It's interesting because Iran actually allows and pays for sex-change surgeries.
News flash, transsexualism and homosexuality are two very different things. Please note we are talking about a country with a FUCKING DEATH PENALTY for homosexual acts. This makes Turing's treatment by the UK authorities sound like a walk in the park.
>Why is it that we as a society feel we need to put warning labels on things for the dumbest of society?
Because civil suit outcomes and damages are determined by jurors, who are the lowest common denominator themselves.
Hmm, just guessing, but are you checking your wifi interface MAC and not your wired interface wifi? Also, hows the reception outside your home? If the streetview car can't see your SSID's then its not going to get that MAC. I'm not certain if google's sniffer was able to sniff pre-encrypted headers with the MAC if SSID broadcast is disabled.
>I'd freak out if my heart were powered by something strapped around my waist.
Instead its a muscle powered by a complex metabolic process that requires you to eat food, get proper nutrition, etc. Oh, if you eat the wrong foods it fails early and painfully. Enjoy!
>Hobbits are also insignificant to the powerful to the point of near invisibility. Give the Ring to an Eagle, and he'd be spotted and intercepted, probably before he crossed the border into Mordor
I think the ring's effect on an animal went unanswered. The only reason in the LOTR universe I can think of rejecting an eagle dropping it is that wizards seem to have almost complete power over animals. If Gandalf sent an eagle to drop it off in the middle of the ocean then Sauron could order it to come to him. Of course we have the scenario of Frodo riding an eagle but we have the same problem.
We can also build a powerful catapult, attach the ring to a rock, and launch it into the sea from a boat, but in a world of magic even then the bottom of the ocean isn't exactly safe. In the LOTR universe there may be creatures able to go that low and grab the ring and when they hit their maximum elevation in the ocean they hand it off to another species until there's a dolphin handing the ring off to Sauron. Actually, now that I think about it, that would make a great visual scene. Cthulu-like thing handing it to a blind octopus, octopus handing it to a lobster, lobster handing it to a catfish, etc. In other words, an excuse based on magic could dispel any obvious approaches.
Potentially, but I think the wording in the law is there for things like protecting business trademarks and fighting scammers. Names just don't fall into the same category.
I would think Tiger Woods, LLC would have a better chance at removing fake reviews of his products than just Tiger Woods, the man trying to get all those stories about him cheating on his wife off the internet.
It began with the forging of the Great Rings. Three were given to the artists and writers; wisest and most creative of all beings. Seven, to the union actors, great visionaries and craftsmen of the stage. And nine, nine rings were gifted to the studio execs, who above all else desire power. For within these rings was bound the strength and the will to govern over each group. But they were all of them deceived, for a new ring was made. In the land of New Zealand, in the fires of Mount Cook, the Dark Lord Peter Jackson forged in secret, a master ring, to control all others.
Canada doesn't have an ultra-conservative supreme court majority that rules against campaign finance reform laws to defend the "free speech of corporations."
President Obama called it "a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans."
On the plus side its always a 5-4 vote for things like this and hopefully one of those 5 will retire or die soon so Obama can put in a non-conservative judge in. Real campaign in the US reform is decades away in the best case scenario.
Your post is more or less the wired article linked to a last week. Nataz was certainly targeted by Stuxnet. That said, the news article isn't BS. The news article is reflecting what the Iranians are doing: using Stuxnet to arrest and jail undesirables and furthering their "us vs them" ideology that keeps them in power. Any accident at any plant going forward will not be a sign of incompetence but a sign that western powers are targeting Iranians.
Anyone that pissed off someone in power at Bushehr is now a spy and will be executed. They'll also probably arrest some foreigners and use them to trade for real spies of their own caught overseas. That's how these oppressive regimes work. Theocracy isnt a valid form of government.
>But he's too tired, so he'll just play the old tape. Over and over again.
More like, old men watch their past glories while young men plan new ideas old men couldn't conceive, namely privatization of LEO and GEO for a fraction of the cost and a new capsule and rocket system for an asteroid mission in 15 years and an eventual Mars mission, while the old men keep rambling about the moon.
>Tax cuts INCREASED government receipts, not decreased them.
Unpaid tax cuts add to the deficit, period. You can theorize about external forces, but there's no proof that supply-side economics works. In fact, its highly controversial and assuming it does shows your bias.
>So tell me, why are still railing on Bush and not saying a word about the 4x increase in deficit spending AND NASA cuts?
Because they are 100% related. Constellation was never planned in an affordable way. Its a heavy spending Bush-era program that needed to be cut as its 100% unfeasible and the little progress that was made . The stimulus is outside the scope of criticism as I'm discussing Bush era programs and inhereted debt from the Bush years. Bush spent our surplus on a war of lies (no wmd's were found).
Don't think you conservatives can just get rid of the Bush years. You'll forever be wearing them as an albatross around your neck. His choice to enter the Iraq war and give out tax cuts he couldn't afford cost us a lot of nice things, not limited to NASA.
>I pity anyone who will take the ill informed word of The Daily Kos or Democrat Underground
I read neither site. I'm giving facts (deaths of civillians, real dollar cost) and you're giving me Bush-era propaganda "We freed them, dont ask about WMD" and Reagen-era supply-side economics bullshit. Again, I will reiterate my point. The Iraq war cost us 35 years of NASA's budget. We sold out future generations and current programs to pay for it.
>That's $750 billion over eight years, and it's still less than what the government wasted on a single "stimulus" bill.
My point is that a war of lies cost us 750 billion dollars. That's a significant amount of money and the two wars as well as the tax cut have put this country into ruin. The stimulus is icing on the cake. Your Fox News talking points aren't convincing, sorry. Ignoring what was spent on these wars when discussing the federal budget is being disingenuous. It all comes from the same pool. I'm not even going to mention how defense spending, in general, is out of control and is why we can't have nice things.
>Constellation was still being funded through the Iraq war.
BECAUSE WE WERE DEFICIT SPENDING. It was not at all affordable. Can you grok the simple concept of not being able to spend money you don't have? Or what debt is? Constellation was a PR move by the Bush administration. If you can't pay for something without going deeply into debt you can't afford it.
>Let's see, if my leaders had ruined my country and raped my daughters, I think I welcome those 100,000 waltzers.
Because in this scenario you have the luxury of being alive. 100+ THOUSAND people died over Bush's cooked intelligence. This is something to be outraged about, not cavalierly justifying it as some kind of kindly humanitarian mission. I pity you if you believe that.
>I don't think the Iraq invasion was the problem.
Cost of Iraq war 750 BILLION dollars. NASA's annual budget floats a bit under 20 billion. That's 30+ years of NASA, genius.
>Strange. All the "brown people" you claim that we are killing were quite happy to see me when I was over there in camouflage.
Loss of life: over 100+k CIVILIANS. Yes, the people there were happy to see you because they're alive and are afraid to piss off the guy with the gun. The angry ones, alas, are dead. If a military from a powerful country which killed all your leaders and 100k of your pals waltzed into your town, you'd grinning ear to ear too.
Pardon me, but from the timestamp on your comment its obvious that you didn't read shit about this bill before posting some inflammatory garbage that only helps bring down the SNR here.
The facts are the NASA was dying under Bush. Constellation was 100% unaffordable and on top of that falling behind with delays and budget overruns. Neither Clinton or Bush properly planned for the post space shuttle era. Obama is now tasked to keep NASA alive via privatization of easy launches to the ISS and building a new capsule and rocket for an asteroid mission 15 years from now. Its not 1967. Private industry can handle lofting meatbags to the ISS. Government should be doing what private industry can't.
This bill is a very interesting look into how our times have changed. Yes, it would be nice if it had more money attached to it, but we kinda spent our cash on tax cuts for the rich and two wars under Bush. You can't have nice things if you keep going into debt over war and cuts for people who don't need them.
>Do you see the problem here?
That we spend so much of our money killing brown people for no good reason? Seriously, Bush's decision to invade Iraq cost us Constellation. Blame him. At least we have all those WMDs to justify it. Oh wait.