Well, feels like this
http://xkcd.com/301/

LOL you really believe they counted your vote like you voted?

One ring to rule them all!

Letting the government have access to my master ring ya right! They can snatch you, correct your posts, and bankrupt you in nano seconds!

Over my dead ..carrier anomaly detected ....

Currently working on a display for older tanks, price is somewhere in the 100K range for the first 10 units, the price drops on additional ones. We had to redesign everything to meet the old spec.

We could have done it for half the cost if they would have changed the system feeding the information to the display.

The old display was not near a crisp as the new display, and was made with obsolete parts.

But this is better than buying a new tank, so in the end, repair may be cheaper than a whole new system.

Does sending a page to a printer count as a "fax" as far as the law is concerned?

I agree, we had no servers. And I will tell you the access time to any students records was guaranteed to be less than the time it takes to log in. The gall if it! We actually used folders, and paper! Humm can we sue Microsoft for prior art? I mean folder, and object inside like Pictures and documents! When my kids ask what our generation did, I tell them where do you think the computers and internet came from? You think Al Gore invented it? Pufft

I am here in Dallas, and if you want a reliable collocation or hosted system with people who are reasonable, I can recommend http://www.sprocketdata.com/ . I have had my hardware there for seven years. Have seen it only once, and that is after they moved locations and called me that they broke the front cover moving it and that they will replace it for me. I pay 50$ per month, with 7 ip addresses (probably cost me that much in electricity if I had it at our location not including bandwidth or ip's).

You may have a bit more bandwidth that I use but they are very knowledgeable and extremely helpful. They have never asked for root access, but have been happy to hook up a crash card one time for me, at no additional cost.

Military transports were just not big enough to shovel the money out of the country, now we are using freighters.

I agree in business its ok, but really every intersection in Texas has 4 cameras now. Even ones in small towns, paid for by grants from DHS.

In the Dallas Metroplex, they have also installed networking which is supposed to be used by emergency workers (this makes me laugh as when there is a real disaster they will not have power) but I am sure they are also being used by the cities to read the power and water meters in the future.

Taking even a small failure rate, the cost of maintenance will be beyond what the cities can stand to keep the systems up. The big brother ideal will fail and only leave us with a bill to pay.

Really I am sick and tired of the surveillance realm. If anybody really wants to do something nefarious they will make sure the cameras don't work. Simply pull them down, spray them with paint or whatever. The authorities will not come running. After the fact usage is good, but really it doesn't stop any crime, even the random ones.We are the ones funding this and do not even have a say in it.

Nice thrust vectoring! Congratulations to all at Armadillo Aerospace!

My first thought was it was nice to see some money we spent years ago on Doom and the games built from that engine being put to good use.

I wish I had the math programming skills the he so fluidly can poor out. Truly impressive.

Second thought was John played to much lunar lander (ascii version) back in the day too. (chuckle)

Wiretapping makes the government more secure, not individuals.