Where do you see anything about social security numbers being published? It is names emails, and the contents of the emails. They should have been annonymized, but frankly, do you think he personally did this? It was an IT guy, just like many of us. It was a mistake, hardly a policy decision, and it is a mistake that happens everywhere.

Considering the Democrats aren't all that much better recently, I don't know what you are spouting off about.

Heck, I'm trying to find this $300m deficit, it looks like that didn't exist under Clinton, and was already gone by the time Bush took office:

http://www.usgovernmentspendin...

2001 should be counted under Clinton, and 2009 under Bush as it was their budgets. If you look, Bush had 1 year over a trillion, Obama had 3 years. The GDP is also handily there, and goes up the entire time except in 2009, which was the real estate crash, which was brought on by Clinton and the repeal of Glass Steagall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

It seems that the Democrats have been pretty bad recently, but I just don't see the Republicans doing so bad. Deficit spending is considered a good thing usually, as the growth of the economy causes deflation which means the money is worth more now than later on. However, the national debt growth under Obama has been pretty drastic.

Lowering taxes increases spending too, that is generally how the Republicans see it. Reduce government spending, and let the people spend the money to boost the economy. If you reduce taxes on corporations, they are more likely to hire more people and/or give raises, increasing tax revenue. It all depends on how you look at it. Has the government been known to spend money wisely? Not really, the government throws money at problems, but often the money is wasted on someone's brother's company, rather than what is good for the nation.

RIM? If you don't run your own BES server, the RIM servers (or carrier BES server) have the password stored on them in order to download the mail. If you run your own BES server, it has full control on your domain in order to access mailboxes, and it has internet access to send mail to the RIM servers, where it is cached.

Oh, and RIM is a Canadian company, one of the Five Eyes, so in most respects no different than being American. I would love to see what the EU intends to use for email on phone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

Apple - WA, USA
Google - CA, USA
RIM - Canada

Well, that covers all the major phone OSes.

How do you think that any country is any different anyways. The NSA had some of its programs exposed, do you really think there is a country on this planet that doesn't (or wishes they could) do anything that the NSA was doing? The NSA is chartered to protect the interests of the US, just like any other foreign intelligence organization, they will do what they can to accomplish that goal.

Would China be any better to host this stuff in? How about Russia? Japan (close allies of the US)? Korea (also allies)? Heck, any EU country is about as trustworthy, as most of them work very closely with the US through NATO. Guess we are all going to design, fab, code and run our very own cell phones/cell networks to prevent spying. What happens when someone then sets up their own cell tower to capture the unencrypted data stream? Are you going to then trust SSL or whatever encrypts the mail server conversations (over and above the cell network encryption that is being bypassed)?

https://www.google.com/search?...

I guess they don't use BlackBerry either, as they either store passwords on the carrier BES server, or run a BES server that has full access to the domain, and internet access (and forwards all email to the BES servers run by RIM).

I also thought the period after Controlled looked weird.

When did mocking your principle (in public) become a crime?

I am assuming it was meant as a joke.

Or they delete your bug report and pretend nothing is wrong until the patch/OS update is released.

I was just pointing out that they exist, not that they are useful to the military.

That was grumpy's mistake, you just quoted him.

Rail guns don't use propellant and have significantly more kinetic energy for the size of gun. When you shoot in a parabolic arc, it comes down at near the same speed as it was fired (minus what is lost to atmospheric drag).

That makes me picture the death star, is that wrong?

To be fair, aircraft carriers to carry weapons other than aircraft, they just wouldn't be terribly useful in ship to ship battle.

It would be rather interesting to see a CIWS open up on a ship, I just think it would be pretty much ignored.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

Sure they do, they just aren't in active duty. I stayed a night on the USS New Jersey a couple years ago. The guns appeared from cursory examination to be able to be refitted to fire relatively quickly, though I think the engines would be the bigger problem.