US Government contracting is insane paperwork wise, and bureaucrats have thrown every roadblock they can at SpaceX. When it looked like they couldn't stop them from competing with ULA they then went ahead and signed a huge multi-year sole source contract with ULA. The timing is pretty suspicious in and of itself. It reeks of corruption and kickbacks.

If SpaceX wins the lawsuit, then the bureaucrats will have to justify going with the more expensive option that uses Russian made engines. They'll probably say something about how age and reliability make it the better choice, but when they're proven wrong it will just help show how corrupt they are.

Uhm, not sure what exactly you're focusing on. Are you saying that lots of people are mentally ill, and shouldn't be allowed to do something like work anywhere dangerous, which is just about everywhere?

I would argue that one of the big problems is the stigmatization of mental illness. Here in the states the idea of even seeing a psychiatrist is met with scorn. Employers won't hire those people, and many people will treat them as though they were infectious. If it's something that may lead to violence then they're just locked up. Not exactly an environment that encourages treatment. Instead people tend to suffer through it, or just snap.

It's the same problem the US has with illegal drugs. If someone wants to get clean they can't just check themselves into a halfway house. Not only would it show up on any background check, including ones by apartments, but they would also end up arrested and thrown in jail.

I'm not saying the website isn't a big deal, but how many of those websites had the kind of advertising push that this one did? Plus, there's the whole fine if you don't have health insurance thing, and old insurance plans being canceled.

Half of the original problem with the website was the overuse of "Web 3.0" and not showing customers what they wanted to see without them creating an account beforehand. A few static pages on a high volume server could have prevented most of the embarrassing problems the original site had.

Actually my largest gripe is the site has a login E-Mail, and a separate E-mail for something else. The problem is the separate E-mail rejects anything that's not yahoo, google, hotmail, etc... It's really frustrating since they don't restrict the login E-mail.

Yeah, I mean think about the security of the oil infrastructure. Sure it's not "radiation," but an oil spill is a big deal. Oil is already shipped in takner cars which have a nasty habit of exploding on their own, much less with a little help. Then you have all those huge pipelines, and oil tankers. Not to mention offshore rigs, or messing with a fracking operation.

When it comes to energy or environmental security, nuclear plants are not where I would start.

This isn't even getting into the radiation deaths caused by, unguarded, stolen medical equipment.

Per the US constitution the Federal Government has the power to regulate interstate commerce. If they said that laws preventing direct marketing of interstate goods were unenforceable because it falls within the Fed's purview then many more laws would probably be affected. If they don't then it looks like the FTC is favoring Tesla. The only thing it wouldn't apply to is Alcohol, because the 21st amendment specifically gave the states the right to stop it from coming in.

Yeah, Ukraine agreed to disarmament and look what happened. I'm willing to bet that if that country exists in two years we'll see them performing at least one nuclear test.

They should have tried this after Fukushima, now it looks like any country that does disarm is just asking to be conquered.

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Yes, but that's only a good thing if you subscribe to the notion of "all publicity is good publicity." In many cases the ad can do the opposite of what you want. Ex. People who remember Dr Pepper because "not for women."

I was sitting on Kubuntu for years before I jumped to Debian Testing with KDE. Those upgrades were anything but painless. Circular dependencies, broken audio, etc... Basically it was hell. Debian is much better.

As a bonus with Ubuntu deciding to switch to systemd with Debian there isn't really much of a difference between Kubuntu and Debian KDE Testing.

That's the joy of HTTP based stenography. You can firewall everything but port 80 and it still isn't enough.

Even if your using an ip ban hammer you're still playing whack a mole.

You can always use a honey pot and just ban people from the network, but then you'll get more stories like this one. Unless you like your workplace to be known as a penal institution that's not a good thing.

Either is quite possible, though default password issues require that a PC on the LAN already be infected.

Newer routers, especially the router/modem combo units, seem to have a randomly generated password that's printed on the device label. They also tend to come with WPA2 turned on with another randomly generated password that's also on the label. Proof that you can make devices more secure by default.

If that's the law, then yes they are. Just because police ignore a law or even choose to break it doesn't make it any less illegal for you or I to break the law. They could even use this as an excuse to jail someone they don't like even while they're riding around on their own Segways. This is why people think that selective enforcement is basically handing police a ridiculous amount of power.

That's the marketing pitch, but the reality is really much more sinister. The true goal is to replace AOSP with proprietary Google components.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...

Nope, most states say it's too much of a pain, and don't do any of that. In most of the US, if the car runs and you don't get pulled over it's good to go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I always point to this video when people ask what my big deal with Huawei is. The takeaway, they found early 1990s bugs and security everywhere, including all memory being world accessible and mapped read, write, execute. That means you just need an exploit, no privilege escalation necessary. Also, not only are these exploits easy to find, Huawei doesn't publish CVEs or changelogs for their new firmware. Combine that with most debugging features only being available in Chinese.... Yeah, I'll pass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...