Technically you just described a fraction. :P

Oddly enough all the headlines state carbon dioxide, but the articles body says carbon monoxide.

Kinda makes sense, this would be an awful lot easier with carbon monoxide than dioxide.

You are clearly clueless about how Linux does it, and yes Windows can not do it.

On my servers, the DNS server runs under it's own user. It can't touch anything it isn't supposed to. The mail server runs under it's own. The web server runs under it's own. Hell even the server monitoring software runs under it's own user.

This is by default with nothing further to do - No service can muck with stuff it isn't allowed to, and even if there was autoplay on USB sticks, nothing on that USB stick could touch any of the services.

How does Windows compare again?

Which is not how system services are designed to be invoked at all.

On Linux the attack would have faced a lot more challenges though.
No autoplay (which was the core attack vector) and you'd hope the SCADA software would run as it's own user under Linux which isn't possible with Windows.

This attack doesn't seem to require joining the network in any way.
A simple wifi scan will do it which would still be occurring whilst locked.

What exactly is wrong with anti-caking additives? Generally people don't like their salt as a single solid mass.

It isn't really hard? Big job = lots of people involved.

There is a situation where this sort of this is worth, and the base concept is sound (cheaper premiums to verifiably safer drivers).

You'd need a not for profit organisation to actually collect the data. The insurance industry should fund it but have no direct control over it. The organisation would then set out stringent privacy controls and only give the insurance companies a score and no real data.

1) http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Looks pretty bad to me.

2) Did you look at a photo of the SBX? And did you read that it has about a fifth of the field of view of a regular radar? And they realign it manually?
It should have been shut down quick smart.

I feel offended that some people want it to be illegal to offend.

Checkmate. :)

Which is why SLA's are usually monthly not yearly. Otherwise you could just do a 100 year SLA to get really low numbers.

6 hours would completely smash a 99.9% SLA which should be the minimum emergency services should have.

In Turkey that might constitute non-fictional training.

Hmm I'm starting to see why the South African government is doing this.

'godless' is particularly funny on slashdot.

It was CO2 from the native indian's fires.