All government agencies are transitioning to Smart Card based two-factor authentication. The Common Access Card (CAC) used by the military is one type of smart card that is supported by many other agencies. It eliminates the need for remembering passwords, can't be used if stolen, locks itself if the incorrect PIN is attempted, supports proximity-based readers like door locks, and contains certificates for encrypting email and digital signatures.

With the number of government agencies purchasing these cards, the per card cost is coming down quickly.

Only if you want to pay that much. I got a 2-pack 500 lumen flashlight set from Costco for $20 with coupon.

Costco also had a 2-pack 1500 lumen set for $69 until they sold out in two days.

http://www.costco.com/Duracell...

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rehash never needs any arguments. Check your man page.

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Very true. Look at how many people slaughter "Linux".

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Uh... NoCSS? If the top and bottom panes move for you then you must have CSS turned off. The two sections are appropriately named "navbar-fixed-top" and "navbar-fixed-bottom" so they should not move by design. I'm not suggesting it is a good design, but to each his own.

I agree the text is way too large for viewing on a monitor, but a few clicks of the scrollwheel with the Ctrl key fixes that. Or if you prefer to keep your hands on the keyboard, Ctrl+- three times brings the font down to an acceptable size. As to why they would pick a 40px font size, that is a mystery.

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Your post was submitted before you finished typing using quantum entanglement.

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No, they are technically competent. They just want to make their jobs easier. Following their logic, every vehicle should have a GPS tracking device to make it easier to find the speeders, drug dealers, kidnappers, bail jumpers, etc. Why let privacy concerns get in the way of making their job easier?

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I guess neither of you have ever looked at the design of the B-1 bomber. It uses a swing wing to change the profile of the plane during the different phases of its mission. Swept back wings make a much smaller radar cross section.

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A group is considered a single entity if all the members of the group are addressed together. You cannot have a group of "United States" be a country without including all 50 of them so they are addressed as a single group. The capitalization of United States of America also indicates you are referring to the collection of all 50 states together.

In contrast, if you said "The Red States are more conservative." then you are referring to the individual states in that group so they are treated as a plural subject.

Other examples: The Pit Crew is efficient, but the pit crew members are tired. The choir is rehearsing, but the choir singers are upset. http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/...

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BCD is the only way to compute!!!

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I'm not sure you have seen the smallest USB drives out there. Some are about the size and thickness of the SIM card in your phone. Imagine something near the thickness of a business card and about the same dimensions as the silver end of a USB cable.

I can think of several places to hide this that won't be searched: Inside a belt, inside a wallet, behind your belt buckle, under your watch, against the inside of wide glasses, behind your ear with long hair, under a bra strap, hollowed-out coin, inside a key fob, inside a neck lanyard, inside any book or paper tablet, inside a pen, cigarette lighter, large fingernail clippers, pocket knife, or inside a spring-wound retrieval on an ID holder. Not to mention shoes, hats, gloves, jackets, scarfs, canes, nor jewelry.

There is no fail-safe way to keep something so small out of a secure area which is why they continue to epoxy USB ports, disable mounting external storage, and implement "no lone zone" procedures.

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I guess Denver is too far west?

The USA is a representative democracy, run by politicians who were voted into office by people who slept through civics class. {/sarcasm}

That question could have been answered faster with a Google search than it took you to type it.

That is a much more open-ended question and you will find all sorts of theories on the inter-tubes that will attempt to sway you to their particular world view. Good luck making sense of the cacophony of opinions you will find.


The short answer: This Executive Order is instructions to the executive branch (people that work for him) to ask for more secure forms of ID before giving them money or personal information.

Well, maybe we can convince some cities like Victoria BC from dumping their raw sewage directly into the mouth of the Puget Sound. http://environment.about.com/o...

They say they screen out the larger pieces of solid waste, but everything else (drugs, detergents, cooking waste, every sick person's waste) goes straight into the ocean.

I just hope they never have a person with HIV, Hepatitis C, Ebola, STDs, Clostridium difficile, Salmonella, or MRSA living or visiting there.

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Try Windows Secrets Patch Watch http://windowssecrets.com/cate...

Windows Secrets is a great site and the Patch Watch is invaluable in tracking patch conflicts and problems.

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Think before swallowing Microsoft's blue pill.