State powers to not trump the right's of the People. The 14th Amendment gives the Federal government the power to defend the rights of the People against the States.

The 14th Amendment gives the Federal government the right to defend the People against the States. Nowhere are the States given the right to oppress the People, despite the fact that is almost the only circumstance where the phrase "States' Rights" are invoked.

The states are not sovereign under the US Constitution, the PEOPLE are sovereign. The states do not have the right to oppress the people, but is almost the only reason "State's rights" are invoked. Pot legalization is pretty much the only case I can think of where State's rights have been invoked in favor of the liberty of the People rather than against it.

"Somehow I doubt this actually happened. While I can believe that in theory it might be possible."

Note this is not an indictment, it is a search warrant application.

The FBI alleges that Chris Roberts claims to have committed a crime. That would be the probable cause for a search warrant for the investigation into whether he did in fact commit the crime that he claims. An alternative explanation for Roberts's claim is that he was just bullshiting the proles.

Those crying that the lack of action thus far on the part of the FAA is evidence that no crime was committed are missing the point that this is the *beginning* of the investigation, not the end. It is not rational to expect all of the parties have already reached their conclusions.

Or maybe use use of "compromised" comes from a responsible adult to mean that "a copy of the salted and encrypted db has been made which they could possibly brute-force before the heat-death of the universe so we should go ahead and replace all entries now".

Kids these days don't remember when you could actually get coffee worse than Starbucks.

"I fail to understand how that's any different than walking into the store, buying coffee, and then selling it in the local flea market."

It is easier to convey the gift card than the equivalent amount of coffee.

" as with all gift cards, there's absolutely zero benefit to doing so in the first place."

To give them to other people as gifts. That's why they are a called gift cards.

"His situation was not under oath. The bottom line, though, is he still lied. He lied under a different oath, and that is the oath to his wife. So it’s got to be taken very, very seriously.” Mark Sanford, Congressman from SC1 at the time.

(This is the same Mark Sanford who as Governor of SC was censured by the General Assembly for using public funds for travel to conduct an extramartial affair.)

"One million people walk through the main hall at grand central terminal, twice a day. "

None of whom are there to get on a train toward Philadelphia and Washington.

You have assumed

a) 1,000 passengers per hour is an unrealistically large service when that isn't even large for a single train. Even in the US, the Northeast Corridor runs at least 1 regional (~700 passengers) and one Acela Express (~300 passengers) an hour, and there is other long distance service and the commuters trains on top of that. Back when Amtrak had the Clockers those trains alone would have about 900 seats.

b) that the only stations would be at the endpoints at Los Angeles and San Francisco (the so-called "end-point mentality") when there would be non-zero turnover at the intermediate stations, thereby allowing a train to service more passengers over its run that its instantaneous capacity.

" all the climate models used so far are wrong"

" Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful" -George E. P. Box, _Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces_

Tiversa's claim to LabMD was not that LabMD had vulnerabilities, but that LabMD had been breached. Tiversa then claimed to the FTC that LabMD had failed to disclose a breach but did not disclose that the breach was by Tiversa themselves.

LabMD may have needed the services of a security consulting company. No one needs the services of a lying security consulting company.

"But I know several people that work as programmers at banks, and none of them use COBOL or are aware of it being used at all."

Probably they're only average programmers, so they are assigned to safe areas like user interfaces and web sites.. You don't need software engineering for *every* problem.

"Much the same could be said of fascist Italy."

But not by Benito Mussolini: "Fascism [is] the complete opposite ofMarxian Socialism...Fascism, now and always, believes in holiness and in heroism; that is to say, in actions influenced by no economic motive, direct or indirect. " So only did Mussolini say fascism was not socialism, he also says it is not capitalism.

If there was a patent on the diagnostic port we could just look up what it does.