It may seem a minor point, but these planes are drones not fighters. They're great for surveillance and dropping the occupational bomb. However, maned fighters are light-years ahead of them. In an actual dogfight against a manned plane, they wouldn't stand a chance.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. However, if we consider that a word is 16 bits and therefore has 2^(16) possible states, 1.143*10^796=2^(16*w) => w = 71.8 Apparently, a picture is worth less than a hundred words. Who knew?

I realize that this is of no help now, but this could have been avoided by simply not giving your SSN to people and companies that don't need it. I have found that when someone asks for my SSN, I can simply say that they can't have it with only minimal problems. Sometimes it means that I have to pay some sort of deposit because they can't do a credit check, but that is certainly worth my piece of mind.

I was in the Marine Corps until about a year and a half ago. The network that the article talks about is the official network that military computers are connected to. (Classified stuff is on a totally separate system.) My personal machine was in my barracks room connected to the local cable broadband service. It's no different than the connection you get anywhere else.

The whole thing is simply 'citation needed.'

You mean to tell me that as soon as class is over, you go on believing in things that are unobservable and irrational?

The same is true of the U.S. military.