Driving one of this into a hoard would simply shred the zombies. An even better effect would be the same kind of mechanism, but with the shaft horizontal and the weights spinning in the horizontal plane. Guaranteed to crush skulls.

Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

I take exception with you describing Bill Murray's showbiz career as dying. What other SNL cast member has had as many successful movie roles as Bill Murray? Nobody.

Wouldn't shock me to see him do a new start up company in the mobile games space and re-invest himself in Armadillo Aerospace again.

Armadillo Aerospace lost the race for the SpaceX prize. It didn't develop any compelling intellectual property that set it much apart from the other commercial offerings in space travel, so it's become an also-ran. There are no plans for it to do much of anything unless another tycoon comes along and injects vast sums of cash. Carmack is done floating it with his own personal wealth.

His new passion is Oculus Rift. He brings great momentum to that project.

His presence at iD and Oculus probably became strained due to Oculus wanting to be platform & engine independent, while iD would obviously want priority compatibility built into Oculus for their engine.

Trainee-

You are an apologist for an overreach of which you don't seem to fully comprehend or appreciate.

In the early days of these Snowden releases, Senator Nancy Pelosi represented your perspective. She downplayed the NSA programs saying there was full Congressional oversight and she had been aware of them through her briefings and they were ok.

Every week she was asked by reporters, "Did you know about such-and-such, and did you approve of it?" Early on she answered "Yes" to these queries. But somewhere along the way before it was revealed the NSA had tapped Angela Merkel's personal cellphone, Senator Pelosi realized there was a lot she didn't know about. The NSA had played her and her peers for fools. Now Senator Pelosi doesn't field those questions from reporters about oversight and what she had approved.

I predict as you learn more about the activities and programs of the NSA, you'll change your tune as well.

You're absolutely right. He picked a junker of a supercar. According to this article, the AMG CL55 is one of the fastest-depreciating automobiles available. Its starting price tag is $120,000, but with 115,000 miles on the clock, it probably cost less than $10,000 for the initial purchase.

everything he's publicly said and displayed is freely admissible.

It's also all recantable.

There are many crimes for which a person may not be charged unless a police officer witnesses the act. Speeding is probably one of them.

The metal is so much thicker on those old cars, we had to use a sledge hammer instead of a normal body work hammer to take the dent back out

I apologize if I'm stating the obvious here...

Most older products were over-built for durability because there were not methodologies for engineering minimum material for the required applications. Cars and other things were built with thicknesses of material that were tested and known to work. To reduce that thickness risked approaching an unknown threshold for failure. Trial-and-error was used where budgets allowed to reduce material, but this was an expensive process and in most cases the manufacturer chose to overbuild.

In more recent years, computer modeling has enabled engineers to load test structural designs so that the product can be built with the minimum amount of material required to satisfy the desired application. This benefits the producer, the consumer, and the scrap yard, while delivering overall efficiency.

4. Or he has colluded with Icahn to depress the stock price such that the company is valued less than what he can get by chopping it and selling the components off. Between that number and $24.9 billion lies his profit.

Rudy speaks the truth here.

I'll even take it a few steps forward. Michael Dell has probably already collected a whole list of price quotes from entities offering to buy up these assets and that page of numbers adds up to at least a dollar more than $24.9 billion. He's going to slash jobs galore, then sell the valuable parts on Craigslist or Ebay.

Consolidation has killed the hosting business that you describe.

The big players like hostgator and godaddy have snapped up the business that used to be distributed across thousands of web hosting businesses. The cost of providing support has made it impossible for the smaller players to compete with them.

And then there's the cloud. Companies like Digital Ocean and Ram Node are offering complete virtual server packages for the same price as a web host only used to provide (~$5.00 / month). Not only can you host an unlimited number of domains, you can run your own email, ftp, proxy, et. al. You can even host bittorrents or streaming radio stations.

More functionality at the same price. They have no way to compete other than to radically change their service offerings.

I apologize for the weak humor in that comment. I don't have a mySpace account, either, but it seems that all mySpace users would by default be connected with a guy named 'Tom' who was one of the founders of the company. 'Tom' was friends with everyone on the service.

Tom,

Hey, it's been a while. Remember me? We were friends on MySpace a few years back. I've moved on to a new social service. Do you want to join me on Friendster?

Take care,

Seth

The original submarine that Musk bought was a lightweight shell that housed a scuba diver inside. It was not watertight. It was propelled by battery-powered propellers controlled by the diver. This is why the windows were covered with the louvers- so the audience couldn't see that James and his lady weren't just sitting inside the car breathing air.

Musk is going to have to create an entirely separate construction if he wants something that can withstand the torque of the Tesla drivetrain and support passengers, etc. It will be easier starting with a Lotus Esprit and then making it into a watertight submersible than the other way around.

I much rather see billionaires spend their money on pursuits like this than building superyachts to park in Monaco. Kudos to Musk!

So, let's suppose SERPRO has a very generous $50 million available to spare to this kind of stuff. That's 200x less than NSA's budget. In short, whatever SERPRO manages to do the NSA will be able to break in a matter of weeks, if not days.

No disrespect intended, but I suspect you hastily assembled this post from off-the-shelf thoughts.

Crypto and security in general do not have a $1=$1 relationship to the resources required to defeat it. Even in the physical world, most padlocks are cheaper than the bolt crackers or angle grinders required to cut them. In terms of cryptography, a budget of $50 million could EASILY produce a system that would cost the NSA $TRILLIONS to break. I highly doubt an NSA-defeating system would cost $50 million to build from scratch.

Certainly, DNS would be a pretty quick way to abuse all devices on the other side of the router. It might be detected when the owner verifies the settings themselves or watches their own network traffic and observes the DNS lookups hitting the wrong destination. It's likely that this would have set off red flags before now. Many anti-malware packages check for DNS redirections, for example.

Being able to manipulate the router's config interface would allow an external entity the ability to upload a new firmware to the router. The new firmware would offer the attacker switches to flip at will that would enable packet sniffing of all traffic and man-in-the-middle SSL attacks. Organized crime / NSA (redundant to mention both, I know) seek no deeper capabilities than this.

You bring up a great point of smaller establishments running WiFi on D-Link equipment. Perhaps their SSID's should be modified to read, "HACKED BY NSA - DO NOT USE!"