A.) He didn't bring anything down, just told us what we already knew. The only result is that the IT community looks a lot less like tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists.

B.) So, our allies' communications and infrastructure are now considered "behind enemy lines"?

C.) I really do feel slightly safer now, you criminal organization apologist/sympathizer.

And you're doing what, exactly? What's *YOUR* glorious plan for rebuilding the republic and "doing something about it"? Don't have one? Didn't think so.

And I didn't vote for any of these clowns.

Don't want your infrastructure paralyzed? Don't connect it to a global public network.

Afraid the NSA has compromised the infrastructure of your nation? Pull the plug to the rest of the world, isolate your network, reload everything including firmware and have that firmware analyzed byte by byte for potential vulnerabilities. Or buy silent typewriters and use them in soundproof roofs that have been swept for bugs.

These guys have compromised the planet all the way down to the equipment manufacturers. They have themselves endangered national security by injecting such vulnerabilities for the black hat community to discover and enjoy. This has become less about national security and more about manipulation/control of the populace/world. They have overstepped their bounds greatly to the point of being dangerous to the liberty of every man, woman and child on the face of this Earth potentially and very little is being done to put a leash on them.

Seriously, what hasn't the NSA illegally pwned yet? They are conducting organized crime basically and our government has told us to shove it. I'd laugh too. Hell, I might even die laughing. I don't think I'd be able to stop.

4th Amendment

5th Amendment

Obama can f**k off. This is simply intolerable. Civil disobedience must prevail should his drivel actually succeed in becoming law. Not a world I want my kids growing up in. I was born free. So were they. This is unjust and sickening. We used to deride Nazi Germany for the Stasi and Gestapo. What the hell are they doing?

This is not sane. This is not a slippery slope. This is a cliff. Nothing good will come of this.

Actually, that's not true. We've figured out how to make Roman Concrete but it has it's own limitations and is less safe to work with in some ways and much harder to make in vast quantities cheap. Our construction processes and material shipping methods would have to change considerably in order to use it in a widespread fashion.

After it explodes, the "frame" twists and the engine falls out?

I'd also be more willing to pay higher prices for net access when I actually get what I pay for because the ISPs become more heavily regulated and actually have to provide the services they advertise as well as not throttling valuable services I use.

Unlimited means UN-F**KING-LIMITED.

Is this AC really an agent provocateur?

If you want an almost completely uncontrolled firearm this is the wrong way to go about it. A 3D printed gun is a neat idea but not too practical yet.

There's a certain class of rather effective guns that's almost entirely unregulated in the US but in the interest of keeping it that way I'm not disclosing it here.

About as often as you see people being mugged with a black powder firearm..... almost never. Shotguns are popular for convenient store robbery though.

VA has had both open-carry and concealed carry. It's been that way for many years and ya know what.... the world hasn't exploded.

Open-carry is a good way to get harassed by cops though. It's something people know is "legal" and don't give people a hard time about generally but you can easily get the boot from a store or something if they don't want you there.

Here in SC, no permit is required for loaded gun in your glovebox or console. It doesn't have to be locked either. Yet for some reason, we don't have people getting shot on the highway all the time.

Anyway, you are perfectly free not to exercise your rights to bear arms. I support you being unarmed. Last I checked though, both keeping and BEARING arms are a right. Not a privilege. Not something you get to take away from people that you think are weird or it will make people feel comfortable. It's as fundamental as the right to free speech. If they shoot someone by accident or without cause, we already have laws against manslaughter/murder/discharging firearms/etc.

On the flip side.... a lot of what these people are doing is not "Open Carry".... it's brandishing. A pistol in a holster or rifle on a sling behind the back is "Open Carry". waving your gun around with a finger outside the trigger guard is brandishing. As a gun owner that SUPPORTS open carry.... this pisses me off. Do people not teach their kids gun safety anymore?

I guess I'm just a kook then...

I target shoot a lot but the primary reason I have guns is to have a reasonable defensive capability and if necessary for my defense, some offensive capability. Defense from pissed off wild animals and people are important to me. Around here, the cops are 45 minutes out minimum and this area is known for venomous snakes, coyotes, bobcats, etc.

Neither .223 or .40 is that special. They don't suck but they aren't as cool as people think. In the end a black powder Colt 1851 will kill you as dead as anything else.

And for the record, people really do have their homes broken into or their families assaulted/killed in a dark parking lot at 2AM. It does happen. In fact, it's not all that uncommon in this area. While I am slightly paranoid, I don't fantasize about taking someone's life or think the "bad guys" are everywhere but I'm comfortable knowing my wife and I can defend ourselves or at the very least have a non-zero fighting chance in a bad situation.

Umm... computing in general required lots of research mostly developed through taxpayer funding such as defense contracts.

And plenty of those projects failed or were of very limited use but the failures/proof-of-concepts proved more valuable to scientists than the few successes. You don't succeed without ever falling flat on your face a couple times and blowing lots of money.

I find Google's services pretty useful. I find the amount of information they collect about me and archive quite disturbing in many respects. Who needs warrants? Just ask Google for an archive of a gmail account, search history and GPS whereabouts. Whip out an NSL written in Crayon signed by the janitor if necessary.

What I'm saying is a combination of:
- long range SAM
- extremely long range detection through drones, radar and satellites
- interceptors with half decent air-to-air missiles and cannons with a pretty hefty range
- anti-aircraft/missile defense on ships
- Absolutely unreal target tracking capabilities

They all still provide pretty damn good defensive capabilities. Far from obsolete. Some of the tech could use some modernizing but most of it is good gear. Other than bombing already backward people into the stone age we haven't had much use for it as of late.

At the end of the day, if we were to go to war with Russia (or China)..... both countries would be fighting with sopwith camels and whatever rifles could be scraped up by the time the conflict was over with as economic resources evaporated and both countries' production capabilities are bombed out of existence.

Our fleet is far from defenseless against long range threats. The US Navy has some absolutely BADASS surface-to-air and surface-to-surface long range capabilities.