The verity and verifiability of the accusations is immaterial; the "I want to believe" factor is just too good to pass up!

But you'll just have to trust me on that. Hence the "furtive."

Absolutely. A terrible reputation is still a reputation.

See, we have learned something valuable from the Chinese!

Military grade refinement capable centrifuges failed (hardware damage) due to stuxnet. I'd call that effective.

Addition of a diagonal cross bar to the red circle should suffice and matches accepted international symbology.

I prefer my input devices to be as _______ as possible.

Coffee/Soda/Food Resistant

The great majority of children are already able to learn better and faster individually, with technology, than in classrooms. The question has now become "Under what circumstances, conditions, and at what levels should classroom education be maintained?"

Autonymous collectives are the way to go!

You sir, are an optimist!

JSTARS is not built on the C-135 airframe, exactly, but they share a common ancestor. JSTARS aircraft were built on a number of different commercially available used Boeing 707 variants. Essentially, each one was a custom installation. Air Mobility Command could not spare any viable KC-135 airframes for JSTARS, as they needed every refueler they could manage to maintain the fleet to meet unified command requirements. The other special purpose EC/RC/OC-135s were not available either, as their missions took precedence over the JSTARS effort.

The JSTARS program likely will not receive adequate funds to purchase another airframe and integrate the equipment. It's more likely that the JSTARS equipment and viable airframe parts form this aircraft will be salvaged for spares to extend the lives of the remaining JSTARS aircraft. Other platforms are more likely to be funded to absorb portions of the JSTARS capability. This decision will be driven by high and growing supportability costs for JSTARS.

Spectrum in the US is allocated through an arcane, bureaucratic process that takes years to balance the needs of the government (NTIA) and the needs of individuals and businesses (FCC). Broadband For America, which aims to reallocate 500 MHz of "wireless" spectrum for commercial use will likely cost the DoD alone high tens to hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to implement. It will also take several years, due to the necessity of re-engineering of fielded equipment and software.

That spectrum which appears to be "unused" may be reserved for equipment in development, experimentation, or wartime uses. It may also be reserved for scenarios where all hell breaks loose here at home (e.g., 9-11) and the goverment can't afford to be competing with Twitter and Facebook for bandwidth.

Apparently they were mistakenly providing mobile numbers to sites that had not paid for them!

I need VGA or DVI support until my current LCD monitors fail or are surpassed by glasses free, no headache, uber 3D capability (yeah right). I imagine that many businesses and the government are in the same boat. If that support has to come via an external HDMI to DVI/VGA adapter, well, we've been there before (DVI to VGA).

If it is welcomed with alcohol and/or food, I will celebrate it!