Will the morons in charge of public safety cancel the current Grand Guignol farce that is supposed to guarantee that asshats-of-no-particular-philosophical-orientation-whatsoever-and-certainly-not-adherents-of-islam-at-all-no-way-jose do not get the least chance to practice their asshattery. What possible difference is chaining passengers to their seats for the last hour of the flight going to make? Had these same morons profiled this asshat and paid attention to the information that fairly screamed DANGER-WILL-ROBINSON we'd all ( absent those inclined to asshattery and their enablers ) be much happier. One fine day we'll wake up to the news that somebody tried to detonate a suppository bomb and you can guess just what new security measures will result from that.

Welcome to the real world kiddies. Mayhap this'll cause a few budding socialists to reconsider their stance.

As a number of others have pointed out you'll probably learn a lot about high security applications and I don't think there's any sort of black mark associated with such employment going forward. However if you enjoy gambling in Vegas you might want to consider that the gaming regulators take a very dim view of people associated with the technical side of the industry showing up in casinos While I lived in Silicon Valley I took courses at local colleges and universities. Two of my instructors mentioned they weren't allowed to go to Vegas casinos because they had been employed by a gaming machine manufacturer and the Nevada gaming regulators ( decades before ) respectively.

Its entirely possible border issues were a consideration but I would hope that the committee also pondered Chicago's well deserved reputation as the most corrupt large municipal entity (New Orleans is most corrupt of any size) in the US.

shoud one of those fragments turn out to be from the Koran in oh say Aramaic.

Paint over the lens.

Perhaps IBM could be persuaded to step into the fray. In a patent pissing match they could probably shut M$ down until M$ agreed to play nice.

Would I be correct to assume that the usual collection of smelly Socialists won the overall election? If so I can hardly wait til it is their ox that gets gored.

Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that those assigned to work on this task may not be M$ best and brightest.

And of course "The One" can be trusted to keep official communications off his Blackberry. Yeah, sure. Imagine the kerfuffle were it revealed there were no recorded communications between Bush 43 and oh say Karl Rove on any known official e-mail system, the ACLU and the Dhimmicreeps would go berzerk.

There was some commentary yesterday about how this inauguration fulfilled M L King's dream. Were that true and African American voters had split the way the non African American vote went instead of being 95+% for "The One", BHO would not now be President.

Topologically a Smart Car and a generic Monster Urban Assaulrt Vehicle (MUAV) look much the same. Probably takes roughly the same amount of labo(u)r to put them together give or take. Material cost in the first instance will be less than for the MUAV of course but on the whole the larger and more expensive the vehicle the greater the gross profit. Detroit's current cost structure could not support a switch to small vehicles without massive price increases. Non-UAW manufacturer's aren't subject to this yet although it is clear that if the "Card Check" law makes it past COngress the UAW intends to take those companies into a Big 3 style labo(u)r hell.

What's happening is there's a race between oncoming bankruptcy and the Obama administration's ability to pass the so-called "Card Check" legislation. Once that happens UAW goons will unionize the non-UAW car makers by any means necessary with Obamunist connivance and they'll all be in the same boat. Mind you the formerly non-Union operations won't have the 3 or 4 to 1 retiree to worker ratio that Detroit "enjoys". It is also clear that once any bailout money is available to Detroit any UAW noises about wage and benefit consessions will disappear. The UAW isn't even trying to conceal this part of their game plan. Of course if the GOP and Blue Dog Dhimmicraps can prevent Card Check the UAW is screwed.

Math and Physics. All else follows. How in Dazbog's name the Obamunists hope to teach CS to folks whom their NEA allies can't even teach to read at grade level is beyond me.
I once deployed a Green's Function in anger but most of the time trig, algebra, and good old F=Ma do quite nicely. Mind you our tame PhD physicist was consulting me about plasmadynamics about a month ago :)

The EAL6+ rating granted to the configuration represented by the B1B is unique and in order to get a like designation for anything else you'd have to go through the same hoops it passed through in their entirety. The fact that someone has gotten an EAL6+ really doesn't gain the next person to try much of anything beyond some familiarity with the process at Green Hills.