The whole USC has lets say 5000 statutes that mater to us all, and 50000 that are important to someone someplace. The USC is backed up by 20x the amount of federal regulation. USC will take 20 years to reform with a army of fair arbiters or take 1 year to reform the NSA with the budget process. Cut funding to the NSA to where they cannot pay the support contract with EMC to keep more than a month of global metadata on random access media and the project then has so much less teeth.

The SCOTUS has to make a big point and uphold the US Constitution prohibition against the General Warrants issued by other courts, unfortunately there is no good basic case to be made because who is the party to bring suit if VZ or Google are in bed with the NSA. Doesnt help that the General Warents are in the form of National Security Findings

3. Actually Iraq was more than ready to sign SOFA arranged per the SEC DEF at the time. Yet another failure of the charmed Clinton/Obama state department. The White House dragged its feet through the election because any troop number would have caused a loss of votes in swing states because it would state clearly that US solders bleeding for IRAQ was not over... and as of 2014 it is a fight between the same three factions as it was the day after Bagdad Bob was knocked off the air less the US/UK traffic cops.

I think we have great global coverage from the USGS in the form of seismic networks and the DOD in the form of SONAR and Early Warning from 1970 onwards making it 40 years of coverage that should pretty much cover all but the poles with at least two types 2 instruments. Still wondering why the timeframe is from only 1994... but I can guess the post test moratorium data is near 100% public.

Two tons of ore to produce a commodity worth near $80 per barrel is near nothing compared to metals. Digging that ton and transporting it say 5km, processing and putting the tailings/overburden back in the hole for less than $20 bucks seems to be the economic point where tar sands work. Midwest hasn't relied on heating oil in any significant fraction since the 70s. Natural Gas costs about 30% per BTU compared to home heating oil with a delivery point being Chicago. Also in most Midwest markets one can buy Natural Gas from about 20 different companies in a completive market where you can lock in prices through contracts for up to 3 years. As the fractions of gas vs liquids increases at western US wellheads proven reserves of Natural Gas will be available for another 200 years unless the road transportation sucks it all up in the next 100.

Is the parent comment from a NOTES Admin, Dev or AS OPERATOR? I ask because those are the only folks who ever liked Notes. The bean counters who originally put enterprises on "the notes" are long dead and their 123 spreadsheets no longer rule the world.

Err. Clancys Catapillar drive, Magnetohydrodynamic was built at at several research labs within 12 months of the release of the Book Hunt for Red October and by the time the movie was out the US Navy had something like 10 million dollars in research grants out to labs to do work when the projects got pulled back into the dark in 95.

The construction of a Gadget explains the classical machining of bomb components in exportable detail.

He was best at when giving the motivation why Ryan, Chaves and Clark would work for political hack masters and got pretty tepid and juvenile when he made Ryan a political creature. The non fiction books he wrote about everything from a Air Wing to Marine Division are total rehashes of books written by every post pentagon author except Clancy got a six figure advance.

When it stops is the time to get concerned.

I have just left a full time job for a contract job for getting paid for every hour and sane work schedule. This job fell through to no fault of my own and within a week I had 2 offers on the table with a streamlined interview process. If I didn't have people constantly calling I would have had to actually look for a job in tech and get my name out there. I drop referrals of current and post coworkers to a list of trusted people all the time. I have never been concerned the boss hears me take a call, spend a minute explaining that I am currently indisposed and please send me a email. I get back to the position that look interesting.

Have 2 or 3 professional references of people who answer their phones, can claim they supervised you at some point (umm a peer) and no longer work for the company that you worked with them at. They are free to give you a glowing recommendation. HR departments these days don't even call back on history inquiries any more.

There is a new wave of technical recruiters post the 2008 slowdown who are US born and tech savvy... find one of them and keep them up to date. I also tend to tell anyone who has a strong accent I am not really in their market as I top 10% in years in the industry. The shops who don't have a US voice typically are throwing people at HR departments filters hoping something will stick.... Unless you really want to work for ATT.

Traffic management at more than a half dozen peer points then becomes another huge hassle especially when the load varies over time in a very non regular pattern. Arrested Development hits the NETFLIX servers and the traffic peaks for a weekend as the consumers mainline the content, VZ doesn't move at a pace where they can engineer for that. If its 3 months past last years fiscal year the engineering budget is already dedicated to this FYs projects.

When you get to more than 6 interconnects with another network it is time to go up by a power of ten with a change in the media anyways. The monthly cost of pesky cables between the cages at the peer point may get a bit obscene when a third party like TELEX is running the inter-suite infrastructure at the peer point. This has a cost but these peer points are in places that already have bandwidth overbuild. Love to tell you that the cage/suite providers are smart enough to put in a TELCO row with a fiber infrastructure for distribution that can be fired up to meet daily needs.... they aren't. Its contracts, lawyers, POs, invoices and work orders as far as the eye can see for 4 hours of effort of firing up a 100Gig link over intra-building fiber..

To VZ eye, Netflix is floting in cash... they should pay the freight for the bandwidth. To Netflix, VZ has already collected the cash from the subscriber and should be reacting to their mutual customers demands.. There is the main reason for the standoff. There is one way that will certainly cause a reaction, NETFLIX block 90% of their content to VZ IPs and put a banner saying its because the subscriber is on VZ. The Netflix CEO calls the VZ CEO and says you want our distribution appliances now or do you want your call center lines to keep ringing with? I do see why that isn't what is going on...as What could go wrong with charging more for DVD distribution was just about forgotten wasnt it?.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

None of the warrents said something like

"All emails stored on VZ servers (listed below) that mention pressurecookers as bombs from the 723 people (listed below) who visited terrorist training camps (listed below) in 2010-2013."