No, that is not American Culture!! I take a stand against that attitude.
Please, take 2 and half minutes from your day and watch Jon Stewarts' speech from the Rally to Restore Sanity from 8:05 through 10:40.
Somehow people have forgotten what used to be a basic assumption - email is not that private:
See the first comment on this article (or ask anyone who was around in the 90's):
http://slashdot.org/story/13/09/29/187252/everything-you-needed-to-know-about-the-internet-in-may-1994
Why do people don't get this more? The NSA/Military are (for the most part) carrying out the policies and directives set by their civilian over-seers.
Michael Hayden actually expressed this very clearly:
Former NSA Director Michael Hayden exemplifies this in a quote from late July: âoeGive me the box you will allow me to operate in. Iâ(TM)m going to play to the very edges of that box.â
Would it hurt to include a few words explaining what the hell Mint even is or why we should care there's a new version?
Completely false. According to http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=financials&symbol=NASDAQ%3AMSFT
Foreign Sales: $34,877mil
Domestic Sales: $38,846mil
Here's an article from 6 years ago, describing an (at-the-time) new feature which makes your technique obsolete:
http://apcmag.com/inside_vistas_new_imagebased_install.htm
Spend some time on:
Story Musgrave. He was in charge of fixing the Hubble, and is a complete bad-ass. He has a "good-old farm boy" attitude, that is exactly what you want for fixing machinery in remote locations.
Sure you don't think thats relevant? If you've got your own transmitter, you are talking directly to it.
Not sure if they still do, but in the 90's, Microsoft self-insured employees (administered by Aetna, though). Makes a lot of sense when you have a young, largely healthy workforce.
This is apparently the logic that actual police use.
I don't think you're getting it. The inputs to the Kalman filter would be an encrypted GPS signal, accelerometer readings, magnetic compass bearing, wind speed and visual odometery. Now which ones are being jammed, and which spoofed?
Voting may have been common 40 years ago, but any modern system would use a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter#Example_application or something similar (and much less naive).
Chuck Schumer is one of the biggest pro-government control-freak assholes in congress. He has no qualms bending logic, twisting and lying to spin whatever propoganda he needs to in order to advance his agenda. He has never met a law he didn't like, and works to restrict freedom with his every move.
This is only latest in a decades long series of moves by him.
See:
Chuck Schumer vs. Free Speech
Schumer Among Biggest Supporters of Anti-Piracy Laws (He was a co-sponsor of SOPA and PIPA)
Schumer's racket: Lobbyists and hedge funds
Schumer proposes new federal regulations on grill brushes
And since the above links are all pretty recent, here's some Schumer history:
On the eve of the first anniversary of the Oklahoma bombing in April, 1996, Congress passed the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. The Democrats were very disappointed, however, because the bill passed without proposed expansions of wiretapping authority. In May 1996, Reps. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and John Conyers (D-MI) introduced H.R. 3409 "to combat domestic terrorism."
The bill, titled the "Effective Anti-Terrorism Tools for Law Enforcement Act of 1996," would expand the powers granted to the FBI to engage in multi- point (roving) wiretaps and emergency wiretaps without court orders, and to access an individual's hotel and vehicle and storage facility rental records. It also relaxed the requirements for obtaining pen register and trap and trace orders in foreign intelligence investigations.
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
