Not really. He just used the machine as a dumb terminal to a modern Linux machine.

I know! There's no way I'm mirroring that, Michael Grunwald might launch an airstrike at me!

Would there really be a market for manipulating an opinion poll? Having the measure of people's voting rigged won't change the election.

If there is a market for this then maybe there's a market for selling rigged weighing scales to fat people so that the scales say they've lost a pound every time they weigh themselves.

I dunno, in a cafe you usually pay after you've eaten. I'd assume the time it takes to drink a coffee would be ample time to have a bitcoin transaction approved.

To be fair, aren't random numbers genuinely hard to produce with a computer?

I'd have thought that a mobile phone would be a great source of genuinely random data though. Surely tapping into a compass, an accelerometer or a camera could produce genuinely random input?

As long as temperatures don't exceed 451 degrees, they should be fine

Let me draw you a picture...

Me <---- (SSL) ----> Google ---- (SSL) ----> NSA

I'm in the middle of reading it and the OP is right, they removed the phosphorus from cremated bodies for fertilizer in Brave New World.

Maybe the Ministry of Truth got to your copy and put that part of the book in a memory hole?

This is exactly my experience!

So much so I'm worried this Anonymous Coward may have stolen my identity! :-O

I have visions of Clippy turning up shouting "I see you're printing a gun!"

It's not working can you fix it. kthxby

Aww man, thanks so much for mentioning that FAQ. That brings back memories. I remember using it back when it was "Doctor Bob's Guide to Offline Internet Access". It helped me out loads when my college blocked port 80 because "people were abusing it"

Parent is spot on. You need to find organisations that are "military-friendly".

Generally speaking, the private sector don't like to employ ex-public sector workers (and vice-versa). You need to find a public sector engineering job or a private sector company that mainly does work for the public sector.

The fact you've been out there fighting a war that many people don't agree with isn't going to help matters much outside of the military, even if it is public sector. For example, I think you'll struggle to find work in the health sector; they're not going to take kidnly to the idea that you've spent years of your life maiming people even if you might be a perfect fit to engineer an advanced artificial limb!

I love th3e term "crop dusting". Whoever invented it deserves their spin-doctoring millions. When I think of "dusting". I think of my grandma using a mild feather duster to remove a bit of dust from her ornaments. I would never think of soaking a field with a few tons cancer-causing chemicals. Hooray for semantics!

Of course he's guilty. Why else would the police have arrested him? :p