Talk about having your finger over the button. Has there ever been a time in history when politicians were more afraid of 'F9'?

They only took this half-way to completion! If they would have only pulled the sites IP log to see who was looking at what particular video's then I'm sure we would have had a much more interesting reaction...

Really, how many of these kids STILL don't use a proxy when going to Anon's sites after so many of their friends have been busted?

With the what's been in the news in the past few years about Chinese manufactoring I would personally like to see some kind of oversight comittee on this project if they're going to be allowed to put a thousand pounds of "Grade A Chinese Steel" a few hundred miles above my head. I don't know why we're worried about regulating nuclear power, this is the kind of stuff that needs to be monitored.

DOWN WITH THE MOUSE! Say NO! to the oppresive GUI hegemoney! Long live CLI!

I've seen this term thrown around this thread a lot: MITM. This stands for Man In The Middle, a MITM attack is when an entity, a person or group of people, takes your connection to what ever host and forwards it through their machine. As the service provider MediaCom IS ALREADY THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE. Wikipedia doesn't have an informative article on them but they appear to be a Tier 1 provider so you require their infrastructure to use the internet, that means their systems, their cables and most importantly their DNS tables.

They see your IP connecting to some website, they also see the traffic to and from your machine. They don't need to break any kind of code and read every packet they only need to filter out the legit packets and insert their own. You and a hundred other posts on this thread are over thinking this.

You're right about something like CFC's, this may have been a poor example or the author trying to be too specific. But what if we found trans-uranic elements in the atmosphere of a system that has a stable star? Wouldn't that mean it's at least worth taking a second look at that planet?

The idea here is to narrow down our search field by identifying traits of a planet that we can look for with our current technology. Then to focus our effort from every planet in existence to maybe ten thoursand or so.

What I don't understand about this is how you build a simulator for a craft that only a handful of people have flown, is in limited production and for which there is no combat data in existence. I know that test pilots take their jobs pretty seriously but can they really have tried all of the stupid things that ALL of the multinational end-users are going to try?

But then they will need maintenance workers for those robots. Installers to put in the other robots that build those robots. Instructors and exam writers to train those who use the robots. People to install new batteries and trouble shoot the 'hiccups' etc. ad infinum. There is plenty of room still for those who aren't too stubborn to learn, as long as our educational institutions can keep up with demand, which is why we all cry out for more support toward education.

Yeah it kind of is, It's called the Nuremburg Defense. It's still illegal but what this guy is saying is that it was is (CO? Handler? I'm not sure of the terminology in this instance) commiting the crime based on the Command Responsibility doctorine.